"Each time a person stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others. . .they send forth a ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance."Robert F. Kennedy
Using grade school physics of both Newtonian and Nuclear models, does anyone foresee counter currents of sufficient size to minimize/change direction of the huge 'Tsunami' roaring down on us, taking away not only our Freedom, but our Lives? Regardless if our salaries are dependant on us not knowing the inconvenient truths of reality (global warming, corporate rule, stagnant energy science) portrayed by the rare articles in the news media? I know only one - a free science, our window to Reality - that easily resolves the Foundational Problem of Quantum Physics and takes E=MC2 out of Kindergarten

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Sunday, December 28, 2008

Breakthrough Power

U.S. Oil Addiction Is Here To Stay Due To Lack Of Alternatives (lack of alternatives??????)


BREAKTHROUGH! (late 1940's)
Distance-Time Barrier Dissolving http://fuel2000.net/starsteps.htm

Self-evident, it is a smaller world today because physical size has been substituted by speed. The obstacles of great distances and vast time appear to diminish before our very eyes. More precisely, space-time and position are increasingly being substituted by greater energy differentials of velocity and acceleration. The multidimensional question surfaces, can this same effect be created by factors other than velocity? What role may varying degrees of frequencies and fields play in transmuting space, time? In providing access to available energy capacities through gravitational mass differentials?


Breakthrough Power
Sterling Allan
Pres., New Energy Congress
- November 18, 2008

The Clock is ticking. We need new, clean, safe energy sources NOW!
What can you do? Real Solutions do exist today. Will the People demand their development and release?
http://breakthroughpower.net/Home.html

Welcome to the site for Breakthrough Power: How Quantum-leap New Energy Inventions Can Transform Our World. It's the reader-friendly book for introducing revolutionary clean energy systems, Tesla devices and other zero-pollution prospects for sourcing nearly free energy.

Alternative energy abundance is humankind's birthright, according to scientists interviewed for Breakthrough Power. They point out the rich variety of clean energy inventions that the public usually doesn't hear about. Yet these topics directly relate to both climate change and the world economy and humanitarian projects.

For instance, when the human family realizes that oil wars and polluting nuclear power plants are unnecessary, tremendous financial resources can be freed for planetary cleanup, social justice and local prosperity.

Just in time for gift-giving, this long-awaited book provides hope for the future -- along with realistic reasons why we, the people, must help "free the energy revolution."

With compelling stories of brave innovators and their various breakthroughs that can replace coal and other polluting fuels, it makes the case for open-sourcing clean-energy inventions. The book explains how even "non-techies" can envision and therefore help manifest a higher civilization assisted by energy abundance. It's an easy-to-read wealth of information and illustrative stories.

Manning is the author of the internationally recognized book The Coming Energy Revolution (1996), and co-author of Angels Don't Play This HAARP. Garbon, a science consultant to industry, is president of the New Energy Movement. Breakthrough Power is a profound gift to give to people of all ages who want a more harmonious world.
"Should become the flagship public education tool for the movement"

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"...this book shows what viable solutions exist, and how we can all advocate them in our own circumstances.

"The information is fresh and mostly non-technical."

"It is 'Everything you always wanted to know about how to live on Planet Earth without destroying it, but didn't know who to ask.'"

James A. Robey
Founder, Water Fuel Museum

"Turning the Corner: Energy Solutions for the 21st Century"

Editorial Reviews
Product Description
Alternative Energy Institute, Inc, (AEI) is a nonprofit, educational organization dedicated to informing the public about the upcoming non-renewable fuel crisis. AEI's revolutionary new book, "Turning the Corner: Energy Solutions for the 21st Century" presents the latest information about new energy research, both conventional and exotic, written in clear, straight-forward and compelling text. The energy field changes quickly, and, in order to keep pace with it, AEI has coupled this book with a portion of its website in order to provide the reader with the latest developments. The book covers the possibilities of energy conservation and efficiency, as well as renewable energy resources, but is also focused on potential emerging energy and propulsion technologies that may be developed in the 21st Century. This 385-page book is completely footnoted with Internet links and print media sources for the reader interested in delving deeper into the new energy field or relevant topics. Chapters include: "Cold Fusion: Fact or Fiction?", "Zero-Point Energy: Sailing the Sea of Energy," and "Universal Forces: Blackholes, Electrogravitics, & Deep Space Propulsion." This is a very exciting and well-researched book, one that AEI believes is long overdue. About the AuthorDohn Riley graduated from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1970 with a Bachelor of Science in Earth Sciences. In 1976 he received a Masters from Stanford University in Geophysics. Dohn has worked as a geophysical consultant in a variety of fields and taught college classes in Physical Sciences for 22 years for Sierra College in California. He has been Executive Director of Alternative Energy Institute, Inc. since its inception in 1997. Dohn also currently owns and manages a graphic design business, Riley Works, located in Tahoe City, California.
Mark McLaughlin, a professional researcher and writer with more than 200 published articles, trained as a historian and cultural geographer at the University of Nevada, Reno. McLaughlin's work appears regularly in California and Nevada newspapers; he was awarded the Nevada State Press writing award five times. Author of three books, McLaughlin frequently writes historical articles for such magazines as Sierra Heritage, Nevada, Weatherwise, and his work appears in the Grolier Educational 2002 Science Annual. McLaughlin, is a professional lecture, a frequent guest on regional television and radio programs, and a consultant for The History Channel. Mark owns Mic Mac Publishing, located at Lake Tahoe, California.

Tuesday, December 23, 2008

U.S. Oil Addiction Is Here To Stay Due To Lack Of Alternatives

U.S. Oil Addiction Is Here To Stay Due To Lack Of Alternatives (lack of alternatives??????)

Today, with the science of energy stagnated and petrified, stunting education and wisdom, it is no wonder the masses are 'flag freaking' toward their own self destruction, rather than flag waving toward an unlimited, unbounded, prosperous future for all.Scientific Stagnation bodes an ill wind to evolution, sustainability, and survival as "cycles of humiliation, dumbing us down, violence, and Unrestrained Corporate Greed prompting resource wars with nuclear finality" join hands with global warming and ecological imbalance to precipitate the historical "rise and fall of civilization" - a Tsunami accelerating toward us with a far more spectacular event than the legends and myths of 'Atlantis and Lemuria"........ If more people knew that Energy from Corn (or going backwards to a dimwitted concept of radioactive nuclear power application ) sounded a wee bit kindergartenish and senile for the twenty first century......the Future may have a chance.As common sense in science is lost with the continued stagnation of our energy base and deep troubling theoretical foundational issues in physics, so too, Civilization's Survival Parameters fly out of sight, out of mind, along with the values and morals inherent within new scientific understanding which new energy systems would reveal. The new scientific comprehension would eliminate the caveman 'club/stick' conflict resolution methods still used in the 21st century. Besides, caveman club/stick methods do not work well with nuclear toys, as they threaten all of humanity."In a primitive tooth and claw society you have survival of the fittest. But as technology progresses it makes the Power, Greed, Controller, Killer, instincts so destructive that you eventually have survival of nobody at all, except maybe a few cave men. Either evolution weeds out the Power, Greed, Controller, Killer instincts or everybody ends up dead. Either moral evolution goes hand in hand with technological evolution and connects with scientific survival requirements for evolving, living systems, or we're doomed."The Deadly Dangers of a Mis-informed, Dis-informed & Un-informed Population, Ultimately to Itself, History Provides Ample Evidence.

The Solution:
The Promise of New Energy Systems & Beyond Oil Evaporates the Problem: The ill designed "Corporism: The Systemic Disease that Destroys Civilization." when devoid of a Bill of Rights for Human Life, devoid of scientific parameters necessary for Life's evolution, sustainability, and survival.

U.S. Oil Addiction Is Here To Stay Due To Lack Of Alternatives (lack of alternatives??????)

Saudi Arabia Bullish On Oil's Future
Dec. 7, 2008
(CBS) The good news is that the price of oil is falling - a lot; it's also the bad news if you're determined that the U.S. should kick its addiction to foreign oil. President-elect Barack Obama says now is the time to do that, even with the economy in recession. But Saudi Arabia, the world's largest oil supplier - with the U.S. as its number one customer - is pulling all the levers and spending billions to keep the oil age going. 60 Minutes correspondent Lesley Stahl went to Saudi Arabia a few weeks ago to meet one of the most powerful men in the world, Ali Al-Naimi, the Saudi oil minister and de facto head of the OPEC oil cartel.
"If most Americans had an opportunity to sit down with the oil minister of Saudi Arabia, the thing they would like to know is where you think the price of oil's gonna be, say, in about six months. Is it gonna be up or down?" Stahl asked. "You want my classic answer?" Al-Naimi replied. "No. I want your honest appraisal…and your judgment," Stahl asked. "My honest judgment is if I were to know what the price of oil six months from now, I would be in Las Vegas. Okay?" Al-Naimi said, smiling. He may be smiling, but this is a man with serious heartburn and vertigo. The price of oil has been soaring and sinking up and down uncontrollably. Asked why oil prices spiked to $147 a barrel in July, Al-Naimi told Stahl, "Basically, there was what's called a 'fear premium.'" "And the fear was that Saudi Arabia itself had peaked out. That you'd reached your ceiling of how much available oil is left in your overall reserve. So, what's the truth?" Stahl asked. "The truth is here is the kingdom with more than 260 billion barrels. And I firmly believe that the potential to add another 200 billion barrels of oil are there to be found," Al-Naimi said. If the oil minister of Saudi Arabia had one message, it was that there is no need for those fears. And to make the point, the Saudis let 60 Minutes see facilities that will increase the country's capacity from about 10 million barrels a day to more than 12 million. And they're going to the ends of the Earth to do it. One of those desolate places is Shaybah, a desert wilderness where temperatures can reach 135 degrees. The Saudis say that 18 billion barrels of oil lie beneath the red sand dunes, more than four times the proven reserves of Alaska. To tap into it, the kingdom's national oil company, Saudi Aramco, had to build an oasis there. Awayyid Al-Shammari oversees the mega-project at Shaybah, an area of the kingdom known as the "Empty Quarter." "We're on soft sand. We're not talking about a hard surface here," Stahl remarked. "Yeah," Al-Shammari acknowledged. "The logistics are impossible. The first thing we had to do is build our own road in order to access this field." "Once that was done, we had to remove one hundred million cubic feet of sand just to make the runway that we are currently using," he explained. "We had to remove a sand dune in order to connect two flat areas to do that." Al-Shammari said they also had to build a pipeline 400 miles in length. "And you can imagine the challenge of building that pipeline in a topography like this." But it was nothing compared to accessing the oil at Shaybah itself, which was discovered in 1968. For 30 years, it was considered too hard to extract. "Now with sand dunes this high, it's almost impossible. And the economics just didn't make it at the time until the development of the horizontal drilling," Al-Shammari explained. Horizontal drilling is where you place a derrick on firm ground and then dig down with a drill bit that snakes horizontally under the sand dunes, with branching tentacles like a fish bone. The drill bits can travel out for as much as five miles. The Shaybah facility is now being expanded to extract a total of 750,000 barrels a day of high-grade, Arab extra-light crude. Al-Shammari says the facility is almost done and should go online early next year. On the other side of the kingdom, there's an even bigger mega project at a field known as Khurais. It is also scheduled to go online next year. "This is the biggest oil project in history," project manager Khalid Abdulqader said. He told 60 Minutes 1.2 million barrels a day will be tapped from that field, more than the entire daily production of some OPEC countries like Qatar and Indonesia. The oil will be stored in massive tanks, some seven stories high. One of those large tanks is 300 feet across and the length of a football field. And like just about everything at Khurais, even the tanks have the latest bells and whistles. "This is a floating roof. So, when oil comes in, the whole roof will go up," Abdulqader explained. "And the stair also will rise up with it." There's more oil in the Khurais field than in the entire United States. It's the largest oil facility to come online anywhere in the world in nearly three decades with, the Saudis say, 27 billion barrels of oil. Abdulqader said it will take more than 50 years to deplete the field. Khurais, like the sand dunes, presented a technological challenge. The field has very little natural pressure, which is necessary to bring the oil to the surface. So to force the oil up, they're injecting seawater down deep underground. "We will inject about 84 million gallon per day of seawater," Abdulqader said. They built a pipeline from the sea to the field to deliver the water - a distance of about 150 miles. The complexity and vastness of the project is staggering, with 26 contractors, 106 subcontractors and 22,000 workers from around the world, who have laid thousands of miles of pipeline and cables. These two mega projects, plus three others are costing Saudi Arabia a total of $60 billion over five years and they're not borrowing any of it - it’s all being paid for in cash. Still, Saudi costs for producing oil are the lowest in the world: according to Ali Al-Naimi, the cost to produce one barrel is less than $2. Saudi Arabia reportedly needs to sell oil for at least $55 dollars a barrel to cover the cost of running the country. Fossil fuels finance 75 percent of the country's entire domestic spending budget, but oil is selling for below that breakeven price. Asked if this drop in price worries him, Al-Naimi said, "Oh, I am not a worrier. I get concerned. But I don't worry." "The concern is this: any price must be good for the producer, for the consumer, for the investor, the oil companies," he told Stahl. "So, you're saying if the price goes too low then production will fall. And in the end, we'll be squeezed. We won't have enough oil…to run our country," Stahl remarked. "Price will skyrocket," Al-Naimi predicted. What he wants is an end to the wild swings in price, which is why - to keep the price from further plummeting - he agreed to a cut of 1.5 million barrels a day in the October meeting of OPEC. "The point is that Saudi Arabia wanted the 1.5 [cut of million barrels]. This was not something jammed down your throat?" Stahl asked. "No, no, no. By the way, nothing gets jammed down our throats," Al-Naimi replied. "But Iran wanted more?" Stahl asked. "Well, I mean, different countries want different levels, different cuts. But in the final analysis, reason prevails," Al-Naimi said. "This is Saudi Arabia's influence on OPEC." It's an influence so strong now that he was able to quash Iran's attempt to double the price of oil, which Tehran needs to support its budget, including its nuclear program and the bankrolling of militias like Hezbollah and Hamas. Still, Al-Naimi says oil is no longer used as weapon. "Iran tries to keep the price way up; and Venezuela's trying to keep the price way up. You don't consider that oil as a weapon?" Stahl asked. "If you looked at these countries you just named, every one of them would like to sell every barrel they can," Al-Naimi commented. "At as high a price as they can get away with," Stahl remarked. "Right," Al-Naimi said. "The sense out of the OPEC meeting to a lot of people was by cutting production your purpose was to get the price up again. And that would hurt the world which is suffering an economic crisis. And the world means everywhere," Stahl said. "I can assure you that price was the least on our mind. I say that in all honesty," Al-Naimi replied. "But the sense is you were oblivious to the concerns of the world facing this economic crisis. You didn’t care about the recession, the credit problems or anything like that," Stahl said. "That is really a very unfair criticism. What did governments do when the financial crisis happened? They took measures to bring stability back to the financial market. And we see, because of our responsibility, a future crisis in the oil market. Should we not take preemptive measures to prevent it? And I think the answer is yes, we should. It's incumbent on us not to see the oil market destroyed," Al-Naimi said. The Saudis recently announced the price they would like to see oil selling for, $75 a barrel. That's about 50 percent higher than the current price. Saudi Aramco was originally an American company. It goes way back to the 1930s when two American geologists from Standard Oil of California discovered oil in the Saudi desert. Standard Oil formed a consortium with Texaco, Exxon and Mobil, which became Aramco. It wasn't until the 1980s that Saudi Arabia bought them out and nationalized the company. Today, Saudi Aramco is the custodian of the country's sole source of wealth and power. Over 16,000 people work at the company's massive compound, which is like a little country with its own security force, schools, hospitals, and even its own airline. According to Abdallah Jum’ah, Saudi Aramco's president and CEO, Aramco is the world’s largest oil producing company. And it's the richest company in the world, worth, according to the latest estimate, $781 billion. Jum'ah gave 60 Minutes a tour of the company's command center, where engineers scrutinize and analyze every aspect of the company's operations on a 220-foot digital screen. "Every facility in the kingdom, every drop of oil that comes from the ground is monitored in real time in this room," Jum'ah explained. "And we have control of each and every facility, each and every pipeline, each and every valve on the pipeline. And therefore, we know exactly what is happening in the system from A to Z." A large map shows all the oil fields in Saudi Arabia, including Ghawar, the largest on-shore oil field in the world, and Safaniya, the largest off-shore oil field in the world; green squares on the map monitor supertankers on the high seas in real time. "What you see today is a company that is as professionally sound as any international oil company," Al-Naimi told Stahl. Before he became oil minister, Al-Naimi ran Saudi Aramco for 11 years. He was the first Saudi president and CEO. "You have, as you just said, one of the most efficient, cutting-edge 21st century companies in the world…within one of the most religious conservative countries in the world. It’s almost a paradox. We were surprised by this?" Stahl asked. "I don't think there's any real surprise," Al-Naimi replied. "Many people have images of Saudi Arabia, but they really change their views and images when they come and visit Saudi Arabia." But to western eyes, it is a paradox. Skyscrapers, traffic jams and shopping malls co-exist with ancient tribal customs. The king - and the Koran - reign supreme, and women everywhere are required to cover themselves in black from head to toe; even Stahl had to wear an abaya, a women's garment worn in parts of the Islamic world. The rules apply everywhere it seems, except for the women at Saudi Aramco. When the U.S. oil companies came to Saudi Arabia in the 1940s and 50s, the Americans moved into the area with their families and developed neighborhoods to suit their tastes and their way of life. They created a replica of American suburbia; you could be in the outskirts of Houston or Los Angeles. "It's almost like it's an enclave within Saudi Arabia. It's different from the rest of the country," Stahl remarked. "Very different. It kept a lot of the American ways, right?" "Yes, of course. They are good ways. There is nothing wrong with…these are excellent ways," he replied. "But, I was so surprised to see the culture there. Because for instance, I saw men and women working side by side. I saw women driving cars there, which you don't see," Stahl pointed out. Al-Naimi says it's not strange to him: he's a product of that culture, having risen through the ranks. He started out as a 12-year-old office boy in 1947, when it was said that to get oil all you needed to do was ladle it out of the sand. It was never that easy, according to Aramco CEO Jum’ah. "It takes a lot of effort. The oil is a gift from God. The recovery of oil is really the work of men. And this is part of it here." Aramco engineers are making sure that not one drop of oil is overlooked: computers are receiving data, via satellite, from sensors mounted on drill bits that are burrowing deep into the oil fields all over Saudi Arabia. Engineers are sending instant messages that actually guide the drill bits. "He is now directing that drill bit to go into the best areas of the reservoirs. And suck that oil from it, and not leave any oil behind," Jum'ah explained. He says the drill bit is a bit like a snake, going down and following where the oil is. "And mind you, this is happening 400 to 500 miles from here geographically. And we are sending that drill bit also two or three miles in the ground." Jum'ah says that with this technology, they're able to recover ten times more oil than before. But global demand is dwindling, and even Americans, the world's leading gas guzzlers, are buying less. "In the last ten months American droves 78 billion fewer miles than they did in the 10 months last year, same ten months. This is a quite a dramatic decrease in driving," Stahl remarked. "Well, to put it in better numbers, I think your consumption dropped by a million barrels," Al-Naimi replied. He told Stahl he doesn't think this decrease in demand is permanent. Al-Naimi says the U.S. is Saudi Arabia's number one customer. And the question is: what will Aramco do to keep it that way? One thing is discourage the move toward electric cars by trying to alleviate our concerns about the environment. They showed 60 Minutes their new $4 million experimental combustion engine they hope will increase gas mileage while it lowers CO-2 emissions. "What we want to see is that there is an emphasis on also making this oil greener, and making the fossil fuels in general greener, because they're going to be with us for the long haul," Jum'ah said. "Let me be blunt, okay? And ask you to be candid: is it Aramco’s hope to prevent a switch away from oil? Somebody said, 'The country is the oil business.' You absolutely need to do this for your own survival," Stahl remarked. But Jum'ah asked what was wrong with that. "I didn't say anything’s wrong with it. But it’s a fact. You'd admit it's a fact," Stahl asked. "Yeah, we admit a fact that yes, we depend on the oil industry. We want it to help us, you know, to develop our economy and develop the economy of the world. So what is good for the wellbeing of Saudi Arabia should be good for the wellbeing of the world, too. So there's nothing wrong with that," he said. "So what do you say to people out there, like Al Gore and now Mr. Obama, that say we have to devote ourselves, devote ourselves, to reducing our dependence on oil?" Stahl asked. "My answer to this is we have to be realistic. We don't have the alternatives today," Jum'ah said. "If there are alternatives, be my guest and come and bring them in. They are not there." "You're saying whatever the world does in terms of wind, nuclear, coal, we're still going to need oil, and a lot of it?" Stahl asked. "You're still going to need oil, and…a lot of it," he replied. "Politicians use this all the time that. We're addicted, addicted to foreign oil. And addiction has a dark connotation, because if you’re addicted, there’s a suggestion that there’s a drug dealer who’s trying to keep you hooked. And it’s in the air that you want to keep us hooked," Stahl said to Minister Al-Naimi. "There is nothing addictive about oil. If you look back 100 years, what would the world be without it?" he asked. "Even President Bush, who's an oilman, even he has said we're addicted to this, and we have to get off this oil," Stahl pointed out. "But listen to what the professionals say and what do they advise: it’s not going to happen today. It’s not going to happen ten years from now. It’s probably not going to happen 20 years from now. It’s not going to happen 30 years from now. Okay?" Because you are still going to be using fossil fuels," Al-Naimi predicted. Rather than oil pushers, the Saudis see themselves as good global citizens who are trying to save the world from a catastrophic oil shortage. But, as Al-Naimi told 60 Minutes, the kingdom is hedging its bets. He told Stahl the kingdom is doing research on solar energy, as sunshine is more than abundant in Saudi Arabia. And he says it won't hurt their oil industry, but supplement it. "Our vision is that we will be exporters of gigawatts of electricity. We will be exporting both: barrels of oil and gigawatts of power." And so, he says, the kingdom will still be in the energy business long after the sun sets on the age of oil.
Produced by Richard Bonin and Kathy Liu MMVIII, CBS Interactive Inc.

Sunday, December 21, 2008

The Treasure Chest of Freedom

reprinted with permission from Lifestyles Unlimited 1990-2001 A 1990 article, updated in 2001 with the forecasted events in the process of full blown expression - eerily uncanny



The Treasure Chest of Freedom


MAKE NO MISTAKE
LIFE LIBERTY HEALTH FREEDOM PROSPERITY SUSTAINABILITY
ARE UP FOR GRABS THROUGH THE DANGERS OF SUBLIME CORPORATE DICTATORSHIP

FROM THE PUBLISHER OF THE POST CORPORATE WORLD THERE IS A DEEP CHASM between the promises of the new capitalism and the reality of social breakdown, spiritual emptiness, and environmental destruction this economic system is leaving in its wake. In this important book, David Korten makes a compelling and well-documented case that capitalism is actually delivering a fatal blow not only to life but also to democracy and the market.
Visit the following links and confirm for yourself the almost bare and empty TREASURE CHEST OF FREEDOM

Ralph Nader: Challenging abuses of Corporate Power
Charles Derber: Power In The Highest Degree
Study Power No More!
The ALLIANCE for Democracy

OVERVIEW: Freedom is NOT FREE.
Note: the above list and links do not even begin to address the environmental and ecological consequences threatening the quality of life, resulting from abuse of corporate power and continued use of fossil fuels. If not we, then who is responsible for the Major Events shaping our future, in a Democracy?

Freedom is earned. This simple principle used to be taught in civic lessons in grammar school.


Freedom is not something to be taken for granted. The principles of freedom and democracy were a right that our founding fathers fought for and bestowed in our form of government and Constitution. To assume and take for granted, that these rights will always be there, or that our elected representatives have our interests in heart, is an anal retentive assumption to the Nth degree.

There is a principle in Nature, "Nature abhors a Vacuum", that aptly applies to civic responsibility. Over 50% of American people do not vote, while most of the other 50% are now left with only the freedom to pick between the few choices that big money puts on the big brother screen of media. That presents quite a vacuum in our freedom of choice in "how we shall be governed", as provided for in "of the people, by the people, for the people".

When there is a Vacuum in the majority of the people toward the principles of freedom, that vacuum will be filled. Filled and gladly taken from you, with mocha gracias thanks. Look around you. Review the above links. See the traffic nightmare your tax dollars are providing, for your transportation. See the percentage of your tax dollars going to develop clean energy, life threatening environmental cleanup, or far more importantly, developing the socioeconomic system changes necessary for sustainability and prosperity for all....... that percentage of the total budget is how much your life is worth with the looming threat of environmental and ecological disasters forthcoming.

  • See "Americans Working Together" from the glib phrase of the election debacle conclusion, that even had the supreme courts mystified and confused in the clear cut, ever changing to the highest bidder, uncommon sense Rules Of Law.

  • See "Americans Working Together"..... quick, there is a deadly winter cold and storm coming, jack up the heating prices triple, quadruple!

  • See "Americans Working Together"...... quick, there is a medicine that is in great need to save the lives of the elderly, quick jack up the prices, ten, one hundred times more than a dog pays for the same ingredients.

  • See "Americans Working Together" ....... and this holiday season, we have something new - the warm hearts of the Christmas Love, are donating in a Marathon Fundraiser, to feed the hungry this holiday season. These hungry are special. They only eat on holiday seasons, and the donations go specifically to the people who work, but do not make enough money to buy food.

  • See "Americans Working Together" ........ ten years ago, I stated Mexico's "starvation wages" are coming to America. Well, they are here. And, we are so Christmassy thoughtful, we will let these working Americans eat one season out of the year. How Christianly Christ like.

Have we lost our marbles? Are we afraid to address the CAUSE?


Imagine if every employee in a job that did not support a living wage of both food and rent, including health insurance, quit? Would there be a business left in America?


Freedom is responsibility, won daily, and equates to survival. Ignorance is no excuse for irresponsibility to the Constitution, a decidedly Un-American Activity, and an outright slander to the great men and women who suffered and died to bring us democracy........and last but not least, a shame, a disgrace, a death sentence not only upon our children and their future, but now also, our own near term future is threatened.


When we build, let us remember John Ruskin's words "let us think that we build forever. Let it not be for present delight nor present use alone. Let it be such work that our descendants will thank us for".

For you may never know, in a world of many undiscovered possibilities, who some of those descendants may be.

If our desire is to maintain and evolve a complex, healthy, prosperous, sustainable and free civilization, we must address three issues:
  • our outmoded energy base posing an immediate threat to our environment and a sustainable future, with intensifying & epic ecological disasters looming; along with the secrecy surrounding clean, cheap, unlimited energy systems.
  • the illusion of freedom - the reality: one dollar, one vote. The real threat to survival may well be the non-accountability & power syndrome of Corporations and Government, with a system failure (Constitutional) in "We the People, by the People" - comparatively, all else appears trivial, and may be "look yonder" over-hyped ploys.
  • Revisiting, Redesigning the Systems surrounding: Short term and Long Term Investment and Profitability Standards - Dr. Bockris states it quite clearly:"....... the separation of science and engineering from economics, and then from politics and sociology, is not possible. The questions to which this gives rise are very wide indeed. The International Corporations are the essence and the bastions of capitalism. But they are geared to short-term considerations of profitability. Will it be possible for them to work to develop an energy economy with considerations fifteen, twenty five or fifty years ahead? Is it possible for a corporation to hold back the maximization of yearly profit so that it can exist healthily one to two generations ahead? Would any shareholder ever vote to reduce their income, or even to avoid it, for a future generation? Capital is invested in the present technology. Will its owners bring obsolescence to that technology, and so devalue their capital for the sake of long term environmental considerations? What of the effect of these concepts on the likelihood of the funding of new bases to the energy economy which do not use the machinery in which the capital is invested? Is massive research funding of new energy sources in the U.S. economy, which is so accountable to, and so affected by, corporate thinking, conceivable?
If anyone has walked the Halls of Power, of a multinational Corporation and seen the complex matrix intertwined with Governments, the World Bank, Defense Complex, "legitimate" businesses of the Mafia, to the misty Trilateral Commission and Bilderbergers, you would understand it is not our "prayers" that are shaping how, and under what constrictions, we live.

It is also not our "prayers" that are shaping how, and under what constrictions the direction Science & Technology is being steered through funding at major Universities.

To never know, what is transpiring beneath the Halls of Top Secret, where we have no need to know.

Imagine, a free American, much more, a free Spirit of the Universe, has No Need To Know why he lives!

Except as a restricted, overtaxed, stuck-in-traffic, workaholic, and price gouged consumer, keeping tabs and eyes glued on the modern day Christian Lion scores of the sports Arenas.

A Government Of, By, And For The People.......Not Monied Interests, is a reminder for all the desperately seeking Susans, who are pretending all is well as things fall apart.................... rather than standing up to the principles of freedom and democracy, health, abundance, leisure time, joy, happiness, prosperity and sustainability..... that once were our heritage; principles that the Rules of Law have eroded for the self serving interests of the elite.

Ressurect: A Government Of, By, And For The People.......Not Monied Interests

Editorial: Butterfly's chances in a steel cocoon

reprinted with permission from Lifestyles Unlimited 1990-2001 A 1990 article, updated in 2001 with the forecasted events in the process of full blown expression - eerily uncanny

Editorial: Butterfly's chances in a steel cocoon


As I reflect back at my previous editorial (for the
full version, see "Back Issues"), I come face to face with a term from Physics: Momentum. ".....................Observing world events that consistently touch the sensitive nerve of our outdated energy base, I get the uncanny, yet secure feeling that Nature (Gaia hypothesis) somehow has an inbuilt tendency which implores us to expand our limits. Whether this survival slant is attained by "conscious choice" or by default, each with their unique consequences, appears not to deter in the least, the Gaia "system's" undeviating parameters propelling life forward toward evolutionary (sustainable and balanced) growth.................."

That editorial was actually a reprint of the original LifeStyles Unlimited issue #2, written in early 1990, before the bombing of Iraq.

Well, it has been a trip, and a far cry from 'sustainable and balanced', these last ten years. No need to go into detail here, except to assure you, the Gaia "system's" undeviating parameters propelling life forward toward evolutionary growth is on course, with the default mode in full swing, at full throttle.

For those curious, the default mode is not a growth process an intelligent being would choose voluntarily. However, each individual will determine that for themselves, and there is sufficient evidence in the news science media, for a good 'heads up' stance.

Momentum. The larger the mass, the greater the energy required for course correction. Makes a person wonder, how much mass is in Microsoft, BP Petroleum, the U.S. Government, the World Bank to name just one tip of many huge icebergs?

Not just in terms of centralized power and money, but in all the supporting peripherals - employees, consumers, subcontractors, taxpayers, buyers, government, etc. Top that with the fact that the 'mass/systems ' are now creating their own laws for the last 40 years minimum, course corrections are even harder to come by.

With the Media, Law, Government, even Science and University R&D direction, under Corporate influence, public outcry and media attention no longer have much of an effect.

Public outcry has been demolished. I note that even the more intelligent are bluffed by the mass media corporate campaigns of double speak and forked tongue. For 50 years, each new individual, group, or alliance, consulting corporations on ethics and spirituality, believe, like desperately seeking susans, that progress is being made, and they point to the COMMERCIAL, "I CARE FOR YOU, WORKING FOR YOU! ETCETERA. Not the Real World. In 50 years, there should have been some movement, change in momentum in a large mass. That is not the case. System structure, short term thinking, ME ONLY, does not permit course correction and change..

With the commercial PUSH toward reinforcing pre-kindergarten behavior EVERYWHERE, neither the adults nor the children, under constant bombardment and influence, will achieve the high spiritual breakthroughs required to change the current momentum and direction of modern Rome. (review John Taylor Gotto's "dumbing us down" and Maslov's "survival vs self-actualization needs").

But there is a Route, a Way, that almost cannot fail. A way for the butterfly to transmute the hardened steel cocoon shackles, and Fly.

But there is a Route, a Way, that almost cannot fail. A way for the butterfly to transmute the hardened steel cocoon shackles, and Fly.

The evolution of our Energy Systems is the Key. The key, the link, that will bridge the spectrum from science to metaphysics, change the momentum direction, provide sustainability, and bring about common sense, self aware morals clearly linked both to healthy Survival and the underlying theme running through all religions.

There are always a few daredevils who believe in, using the common trendy contemporary term for change, in the 100th monkey syndrome. This newsletter is for us. Those who will not accept defeat against overwhelming odds. Those that will not accept a lower degree of freedom, that states change will only come through decline, degradation, destruction in the cyclical rise and fall of civilization.

This newsletter is about alternatives to self imposed limits. It will describe where the major barriers lies and explore those barriers, until we break free: This newsletter will expose the misperception that lies in our "flat land" understanding of Space, Time, Mass, Matter, Energy, Gravity and their Relationship to each other along The Radius of Curvature of Natural Law - a concept that will take each point of view to a viewing point, so that all can see the move from flatland, to round world, to human evolution, to movement from one point to another without going through all points in between ( as has been demonstrated in the quantum world of microland).

Flatlanders, it is now time to move forward, the 'flat stage' no longer suffices, and the restrictions are now threatening our survival.

Hopefully, we will stimulate a revisit into the Myth of Creation, buried in the sands of time, with a scientific front free from the shackles of false foundation assumptions, reinterpret the math that has always been correct, and once again Soar as the Eagle, as our spirits are meant to do.

Many are already questioning the Science and Spiritual link and the countless facts that do not fit the mold of contemporary science. Of the more current, Michael Murphy's "Future of the Body" presents a good documentary. Maharaja Krishen Kaw, Education Secretary, Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India, stresses a link to science and spirituality. David Bohm, Brian Swimme, Roger Penrose, Alan Wolf, Dana Zohar, Fritjof Capra, to name just a few questioning the odd results of Quantum Mechanics statistical accuracy and connection to measurement and the onsciousness of the observer. Amit Goswami, Ph.D., professor of Physics, now with Noetic Science, also attempts to join science and consciousness in a revised order, although he does not proceed beyond a statistical interpretation.

Statistics are highly accurate, but they do not tell the whole story.

It is time to clear the overused, oversimplified, trendy, fashionable, misunderstood, quantum phrase, "we, our consciousness collapses the wave function and creates reality". The parameters missing from accepted quantum mechanics, both as a covering theory, and formal correspondence (see Expanding the Window 1), including a "radius of curvature of natural law inclusion, are giving rise to interpretations having no bounds to 'fantasy and uncommon sense'.

Yes, Consciousness does create Reality, but far more profoundly and beautifully than is characterized by a half baked statistical theory that works only statistically.

It is time to provide a handle and a viewing lens to our Science and Engineering that will allow us to break out of the steel cocoon, our self imposed limits of light speed and human dimension, and bring about vast, wonderful improvements in our lives.


We should all experience the feeling that Deepak Chopra described with the words " there is no more beautiful experience than when the world expands beyond its accustomed limits. These are moments when reality takes on splendor".

A brief pictorial view shows evolution's march, the two major scientific criteria resulting from false assumptions with unfounded fundamental bases (light speed barrier, and gravitational disability); the stop signs to further progress in both human evolution, energy evolution (field propulsion), and the backward retreat to trivia clothed in the most sophisticated, tiny,
technological marvels possible.

LEFT WITH GLORIFYING TRIVIA: MAKING DUE WITH WHAT LITTLE THERE IS FOR A GROWING NUMBER ......... slower than a monkey in a swamp without trees on our superhighways; gasping for breath in pollution and spreading diseases worldwide; ethic standards based on # of dollars, ME winning is Everything; our highest offices and courts in the land can no longer determine what is real, what is true, what is law; kids killing for kicks with sticks; while adults work more for less and watch football; and all shop till they drop - steered by the most base, infantile, idiotic Commercials that fuel the primitive anal retentive emotions from pre-kindergarten; while a majority of the world lives in poverty and starvation, raped of their resources.

That last paragraph is not the way some of us want to go folks.


Tuesday, December 2, 2008

Creating a Better Earth: Share Your Vision





What Would REAL FREEDOM be like? Read All About It!













ABOVE - PRIMITIVE USE OF THE AWESOME POWER OF E=MC2

BELOW - SAME POWER, SAME EQUATION, USED WITH INTELLIGENCE, WISDOM - IN THE FIELD/FREQUENCY (ENERGY) DIFFERENTIAL UNITS (denomenator) DEFINITION (of space time mass matter energy gravity)



























Imagine you are living on planet Earth in the year 2100. What will it look like?
Prominent scientists caution that if we continue on our current course, we will certainly see a devastated landscape. Recent reports from groups, like the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, depict a future that is bleak at best, terror-inducing at worst.But not everyone is resigned to a disastrous fate."It's a fascinating time to be alive," marveled Peter Gleick, president of the Pacific Institute. "We have a chance to move from a disconnected, inefficient, badly designed world of fighting populations, to a sustainable planet."

Today, with the science of energy stagnated and petrified, stunting education and wisdom, it is no wonder the masses are 'flag freaking' toward their own self destruction, rather than flag waving toward an unlimited, unbounded, prosperous future for all.

Scientific Stagnation bodes an ill wind to evolution, sustainability, and survival as "cycles of humiliation, dumbing us down, violence, and Unrestrained Corporate Greed prompting resource wars with nuclear finality" join hands with global warming and ecological imbalance to precipitate the historical "rise and fall of civilization" - a Tsunami accelerating toward us with a far more spectacular event than the legends and myths of 'Atlantis and Lemuria"........ If more people knew that Energy from Corn (or going backwards to a dimwitted concept of radioactive nuclear power application ) sounded a wee bit kindergartenish and senile for the twenty first century......the Future may have a chance.

As common sense in science is lost with the continued stagnation of our energy base and deep troubling theoretical foundational issues in physics, so too, Civilization's
Survival Parameters fly out of sight, out of mind, along with the values and morals inherent within new scientific understanding which new energy systems would reveal. The new scientific comprehension would eliminate the caveman 'club/stick' conflict resolution methods still used in the 21st century. Besides, caveman club/stick methods do not work well with nuclear toys, as they threaten all of humanity.

"In a primitive tooth and claw society you have survival of the fittest. But as technology progresses it makes the Power, Greed, Controller, Killer, instincts so destructive that you eventually have survival of nobody at all, except maybe a few cave men. Either evolution weeds out the Power, Greed, Controller, Killer instincts or everybody ends up dead. Either moral evolution goes hand in hand with technological evolution and connects with scientific survival requirements for evolving, living systems, or we're doomed."

The Deadly Dangers of a Mis-informed, Dis-informed & Un-informed Population, Ultimately to Itself, History Provides Ample Evidence.


The Solution: The Promise of New Energy Systems & Beyond Oil Evaporates the Problem: The ill designed "Corporism: The Systemic Disease that Destroys Civilization." when devoid of a Bill of Rights for Human Life, devoid of scientific parameters necessary for Life's evolution, sustainability, and survival. ......................................................................................................................

Creating a Better Earth: Share Your Vision
Despite Damage, Our Planet Can Still Have a Hopeful Future
By LYNN LEVY
Nov. 20, 2008—
Imagine you are living on planet Earth in the year 2100. What will it look like?
Prominent scientists caution that if we continue on our current course, we will certainly see a devastated landscape. Recent reports from groups, like the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, depict a future that is bleak at best, terror-inducing at worst.
But not everyone is resigned to a disastrous fate.
"It's a fascinating time to be alive," marveled Peter Gleick, president of the Pacific Institute. "We have a chance to move from a disconnected, inefficient, badly designed world of fighting populations, to a sustainable planet."
If we take immediate global action to shift our patterns of emission and consumption, Gleick said, we could be looking at a future full of possibilities.
Optimistic experts agree, seeing our current crisis as a pivotal moment in the human narrative.
"It's really hard for us to re-imagine the world," said Heidi Cullen, a senior research scientist with Climate Central. "But by virtue of tackling the climate change problem, you can actually create a world that looks so much better."
"Imagine a city," she added, "where there's no traffic, because the transportation infrastructure is perfect. It's quiet, the air is clean. We can build all of this."
And more.
In order to solve the problems facing our species, we will have to re-imagine the ways we construct our homes, grow our food, use our water. International relations, family structures and our core values all have the potential to shift during the coming century.
There is a new path to imagine -- one to a cleaner, more equitable, more interesting world. That's a future few people have examined in detail.
"Even in the best case, if we make all the right choices, we're still going to be living through difficult times," author Richard Heinberg said. "They will be exciting times because they will be times of enormous change and challenge."
"We have a chance to move in the right direction now," Gleick said, "and I don't think that window of opportunity's going to be open very long."
Earlier this year, using the predictions of climate change experts as background, ABC News viewers submitted videos detailing what it might look like and feel like to live in a society destabilized by global warming, resource shortages and overpopulation.
View the results and submit your own video HERE.
Now, ABC News is calling on you to give us something to look forward to.
Until Dec. 8, 2008, you can upload a short video telling us what changes you think would lead to a better future for our planet.
Will people move to urban centers to live in buildings covered in paper-thin solar cells, topped with green roofs and sporting individual wind turbines? Or will they move to rural areas to explore new, sustainable methods of food production?
How will they move around -- on foot, high-speed train, a method we haven't even imagined yet? Will cars communicate with the road, or will appliances communicate with each other to increase efficiency -- and if so, how? How will people communicate?
If you live in the sustainable future, how did you get there? What sacrifices did you make? What kept you moving in the right direction? What spurred the global community to action?
You can also show us what you are doing right now to make a positive change. You might be growing a vegetable garden, biking around town, using collected rainwater. Your house might get its energy from solar panels or wind turbines. Or maybe you're even in the process of inventing a revolutionary new device.
The videos can be as simple as sitting in front of a camera and explaining what is happening in the world outside your window, or as elaborate as you care to make them. The most compelling videos will be featured alongside expert predictions in an upcoming two-hour ABC News primetime special, "Earth 2100," airing in early 2009.
2008 ABC News Internet Ventures

Thursday, November 20, 2008

Report: U.S. Influence Will Fade By 2025


Freedumb, Freedumb, Read All About It!

"There'll be challenges on all fronts. Climate changes from global warming will lead to shortages of food and water in dozens of countries. That, coupled with a projected population spike of 1.2 billion people worldwide could lead to wars over increasingly scarce resources. Thomas Fingar, Chairman of the National Intelligence Council predicts water shortages, disruptions to delicate agricultural patterns, continued unrest ,,,."

Today, with the science of energy stagnated and petrified, stunting education and wisdom, it is no wonder the masses are 'flag freaking' toward their own self destruction, rather than flag waving toward an unlimited, unbounded, prosperous future for all.

Scientific Stagnation bodes an ill wind to evolution, sustainability, and survival as "cycles of humiliation, dumbing us down, violence, and Unrestrained Corporate Greed prompting resource wars with nuclear finality" join hands with global warming and ecological imbalance to precipitate the historical "rise and fall of civilization" - a Tsunami accelerating toward us with a far more spectacular event than the legends and myths of 'Atlantis and Lemuria"........ If more people knew that Energy from Corn (or going backwards to a dimwitted concept of radioactive nuclear power application ) sounded a wee bit kindergartenish and senile for the twenty first century......the Future may have a chance.

As common sense in science is lost with the continued stagnation of our energy base and deep troubling theoretical foundational issues in physics, so too, Civilization's
Survival Parameters fly out of sight, out of mind, along with the values and morals inherent within new scientific understanding which new energy systems would reveal. The new scientific comprehension would eliminate the caveman 'club/stick' conflict resolution methods still used in the 21st century. Besides, caveman club/stick methods do not work well with nuclear toys, as they threaten all of humanity.

"In a primitive tooth and claw society you have survival of the fittest. But as technology progresses it makes the Power, Greed, Controller, Killer, instincts so destructive that you eventually have survival of nobody at all, except maybe a few cave men. Either evolution weeds out the Power, Greed, Controller, Killer instincts or everybody ends up dead. Either moral evolution goes hand in hand with technological evolution and connects with scientific survival requirements for evolving, living systems, or we're doomed."

The Deadly Dangers of a Mis-informed, Dis-informed & Un-informed Population, Ultimately to Itself, History Provides Ample Evidence.

The Solution:
The Promise of New Energy Systems & Beyond Oil Evaporates the Problem: The ill designed "Corporism: The Systemic Disease that Destroys Civilization." when devoid of a Bill of Rights for Human Life, devoid of scientific parameters necessary for Life's evolution, sustainability, and survival. ......................................................................................................................

Report: U.S. Influence Will Fade By 2025
CBS NEW YORK, Nov. 20, 2008
(CBS/AP) Analysts gazing into what amounts to an intelligence-based crystal ball see a future world marked by dwindling resources, more people and diminished power for the United States, as CBS News correspondent Bob Orr reports. Nuclear weapons will be a growing thereat in the coming decades, and new threats like cyber-terrorism will become more important than conventional military might, according to a new report from the National Intelligence Council. (CBS/AP)
The grim assessment, entitled
"Global Trends 2025: A Transformed World", comes from the National Intelligence Council, an independent government body. The report concludes that by 2025, "The U.S. will remain the single most important actor but will be less dominant." There'll be challenges on all fronts. Climate changes from global warming will lead to shortages of food and water in dozens of countries. That, coupled with a projected population spike of 1.2 billion people worldwide could lead to wars over increasingly scarce resources. Thomas Fingar, Chairman of the National Intelligence Council predicts water shortages, disruptions to delicate agricultural patterns, continued unrest in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan and the continued emergence of China as America's greatest economic rival. "China will have the world's second largest economy," the report says, "and will be a leading military power." But conventional military strength will be less important. The new threats will come from hackers and cyber-terrorists, criminal gangs and other rogue groups. Terrorism will remain. But the report suggests that al Qaeda's influence in the Arab world is in decline and the group may "decay sooner than many people think." "The killing of innocents, the killing of Muslims [by al Qaeda] is turning off more people than it is turning on," Fingar says. Still, other extremist groups may be ready to step in, and analysts warn that an increased availability of nuclear weapons and materials could present an even more lethal threat. The report also suggests that global warming could boost Russia's growing economy by extending growing seasons and allowing easier access to far north oil fields. And it says that the U.S. dollar will continue to weaken and fall from favor as a top world currency. Of course, these projections are hardly certain. Analysts note that most past attempts to look ahead have been turned out to be wrong. But the report is aimed at starting the policy dialogue as a new Administration maps its strategy.
CBS Interactive Inc.


Thursday, November 6, 2008

Science in a Post-Bush World


Freedumb, Freedumb, Read All About It!
"The government's scientific advisory process has been distorted by political considerations. As a result, our once dominant position in the scientific world has been shaken and our prosperity has been placed at risk. We have lost time critical for the development of new ways to provide energy, treat disease, reverse climate change, strengthen our security, and improve our economy," the letter said."
Today, with the science of energy stagnated and petrified, stunting education and wisdom, it is no wonder the masses are 'flag freaking' toward their own self destruction, rather than flag waving toward an unlimited, unbounded, prosperous future for all.
Scientific Stagnation bodes an ill wind to evolution, sustainability, and survival as "cycles of humiliation, dumbing us down, violence, and Unrestrained Corporate Greed prompting resource wars with nuclear finality" join hands with global warming and ecological imbalance to precipitate the historical "rise and fall of civilization" - a Tsunami accelerating toward us with a far more spectacular event than the legends and myths of 'Atlantis and Lemuria"........ If more people knew that Energy from Corn (or going backwards to a dimwitted concept of radioactive nuclear power application ) sounded a wee bit kindergartenish and senile for the twenty first century......the Future may have a chance.
As common sense in science is lost with the continued stagnation of our energy base and deep troubling theoretical foundational issues in physics, so too, Civilization's Survival Parameters fly out of sight, out of mind, along with the values and morals inherent within new scientific understanding which new energy systems would reveal. The new scientific comprehension would eliminate the caveman 'club/stick' conflict resolution methods still used in the 21st century. Besides, caveman club/stick methods do not work well with nuclear toys, as they threaten all of humanity. "In a primitive tooth and claw society you have survival of the fittest. But as technology progresses it makes the Power, Greed, Controller, Killer, instincts so destructive that you eventually have survival of nobody at all, except maybe a few cave men. Either evolution weeds out the Power, Greed, Controller, Killer instincts or everybody ends up dead. Either moral evolution goes hand in hand with technological evolution and connects with scientific survival requirements for evolving, living systems, or we're doomed."

The Deadly Dangers of a Mis-informed, Dis-informed & Un-informed Population, Ultimately to Itself, History Provides Ample Evidence.

The Solution: The Promise of New Energy Systems & Beyond Oil Evaporates the Problem: The ill designed "Corporism: The Systemic Disease that Destroys Civilization." when devoid of a Bill of Rights for Human Life, devoid of scientific parameters necessary for Life's evolution, sustainability, and survival.

Science in a Post-Bush World
Intertwining Ideology and Science Has Compromised Advancement, Scientists Say
By KI MAE HEUSSNER
Nov. 6, 2008—
After eight years of brawls with the Bush administration on issues including climate change, stem cell research and health care, scientists across the country aren't just hungry for change they can believe in, but science they can trust.
While many a scientist has picked apart many a science-based policy of President Bush, the underlying issue that has sparked outrage from across the scientific community is the politicization of the discipline.
"The idea of putting ideology into decisions about science -- that has really denigrated the role of science," said Martin Chalfie, a Columbia University geneticist who was awarded a Nobel Prize in chemistry in early October.
Along with 75 other Nobel Laureates, he endorsed now-President-elect Barack Obama in an open letter that also blasted the Bush administration.
"The government's scientific advisory process has been distorted by political considerations. As a result, our once dominant position in the scientific world has been shaken and our prosperity has been placed at risk. We have lost time critical for the development of new ways to provide energy, treat disease, reverse climate change, strengthen our security, and improve our economy," the letter said.
As Obama the senator becomes Obama the president, these scientists and throngs of others eagerly wait for him to gain the ground lost by his predecessor.
Overcoming Legacies of George W. Bush
"The past eight years of denial and delay are over," Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) President Kevin Knobloch said in a statement the morning after the election.
Particularly when it comes to policies related to global warming, the organization is looking for a fast and clean break from the approach of Bush that did not recognize man-made global warming, and obstructed international cooperation.
But that is hardly the only issue area that needs tending, scientists say.
In science-related agencies all over Washington, such as the Consumer Product Safety Commission and the Federal Drug Administration, "scientists have been so patiently waiting for change. They've hung on and they've kept their heads down," said Francesca Grifo, senior scientist and director of the Scientific Integrity Program at UCS.
In 2006, she led an effort by leading scientists that condemned political interference in science. In 2004, the UCS first issued a petition calling for the restoration of scientific integrity to federal policy making. Today, that document bears the names of more than 15,000 scientists, Grifo said.
On issues from A to Z, federal bureaucrats have undermined the scientific method and changed reports to make them politically or ideologically palatable, she said.
Earlier this year, a survey conducted by the UCS found that nearly two-thirds of the Environmental Protection Agency's scientists complained of recent political interference in their work.
Other examples of political interference, Grifo said, include amending the reports by biologists on endangered species and premature proclamations that the air quality at Ground Zero was safe.
Wanted: A Cabinet-Level Science Advisor
On several hot-button science issues, Obama has offered approaches and policy changes that scientists have applauded.
Recognizing the potential of stem cell research to treat Parkinson's disease, spinal cord injury and other disorders, he has said that he supports expanding such research and would lift the current administration's ban on federal funding of research on human embryonic stem cell lines created after Aug. 9, 2001.
He has also said that there can no longer be any doubt that human activities are influencing the global climate.
To reduce greenhouse gas emissions by the amount scientists have advocated (to 1990 levels by 2050), he has proposed a market-based cap-and-trade system that sets a cap on the amount of a greenhouse gas that can be emitted.
Scientists, like Chalfie, are heartened by these proposals and expect Obama to follow through on them.
But they say that they're also watching out for one key decision: the creation of a cabinet-level science advisor.
"Look at what the [next] president does in terms of appointing a science advisor," said John Porter, chairman of Research! America, a nonprofit medical and health research advocacy alliance, and former Illinois congressman.
The sooner Obama appoints a science advisor, the better, Porter said.
Bush didn't appoint John H. Marburger as his science advisor until five months after taking office. And he didn't give the position a cabinet ranking.
Obama has said that he will appoint a chief technology officer, and the names of Google's Vint Cerf and Amazon's CEO Jeff Bezos have been floated as possible contenders.
However, Porter emphasized, the high-level position should represent all the sciences.
In terms of research, Porter said, the new administration should ensure that the physical sciences keep up with the life sciences and funding levels should increase by 3 percent, above inflation, annually.
Obama's plan to double research funding in 10 years, is a "worthy goal," Porter said, adding that the economic climate could present a challenge.
Regardless, he said, he is hopeful that Obama's victory means the role of science is moving up.
"I think it's a new day for science in America," said Shawn Otto, chief executive officer of Science Debate 2008. "At last we're going to see a return to policy that's crafted on evidence instead of the other way around."
Obama has won supporters from the scientific community, he added, because he not only has demonstrated an ability to synthesize the known facts into policy, he also makes an effort to reach out to those who may disagree with him.
And that, Otto said, "is similar to the best traditions of the scientific process."
2008 ABC News Internet Ventures

Monday, November 3, 2008

Russians With Pumpkins Protest Many U.S. Plots















Every living soul armed to the teeth & we will have PEACE PEACE PEACE. Marching in sync to fulfill Nostradamus's prophesies - resource wars and control and protection of the oil regions, wherever they may be, at all costs..... “This is not about being gunrunners,” said Bruce S. Lemkin, the Air Force deputy under secretary who is helping to coordinate many of the biggest sales. “This is about building a more secure world.” This is what was said in Rome. This is what "repeat the repeater', the mouthpiece for greed and power madness, has said throughout all history. Today, with the science of energy stagnated and petrified, stunting education and wisdom, it is no wonder the masses are 'flag freaking' toward their own self destruction, rather than flag waving toward an unlimited, unbounded, prosperous future for all.
"In a primitive tooth and claw society you have survival of the fittest. But as technology progresses it makes the killer instinct so destructive that you eventually have survival of nobody at all, except maybe a few cave men. Either evolution weeds out the killer instinct or everybody ends up dead. Either moral evolution goes hand in hand with technological evolution and connects with scientific survival requirements for evolving, living systems, or we're doomed."

As common sense in science is lost with the continued stagnation of our energy base and deep troubling theoretical foundational issues in physics, so too, Civilization's Survival Parameters fly out of sight, out of mind, along with the values and morals inherent within new scientific understanding which new energy systems would reveal. The new scientific comprehension would eliminate the caveman 'club/stick' conflict resolution methods still used in the 21st century. Besides, caveman club/stick methods do not work well with nuclear toys, as they threaten all of humanity

Scientific Stagnation bodes an ill wind to evolution, sustainability, and survival as "cycles of humiliation, dumbing us down, violence, and Unrestrained Corporate Greed prompting resource wars with nuclear finality" join hands with global warming and ecological imbalance to precipitate the historical "rise and fall of civilization" - a Tsunami accelerating toward us with a far more spectacular event than the legends and myths of 'Atlantis and Lemuria"........ had more people known that Energy from Corn (or going backwards to a dimwitted concept of radioactive nuclear power application ) sounded a wee bit kindergartenish and senile for the twenty first century......the Future may have had a chance.

The Deadly Dangers of a Mis-informed, Dis-informed & Un-informed Population, Ultimately to Itself, History Provides Ample Evidence.

The Solution: The Promise of New Energy Systems & Beyond Oil Evaporates the Problem: The ill designed "Corporism: The Systemic Disease that Destroys Civilization." when devoid of a Bill of Rights for Human Life, devoid of scientific parameters necessary for Life's evolution, sustainability, and survival.
November 3, 2008
Russians With Pumpkins Protest Many U.S. Plots
By ELLEN BARRY
MOSCOW — Thousands of Russians from the pro-Kremlin youth group Nashi gathered in front of the United States Embassy here on Sunday night carrying jack-o’-lanterns inked with the names of war victims and charging that the war in Georgia was part of an American plot to improve Senator John McCain’s electoral prospects.
As music by Johnny Cash and the Allman Brothers played from loudspeakers, a stream of young people climbed off buses that had carried them to Moscow from far-flung provincial capitals. They held the pumpkins aloft for a moment of silence as a deep bass thumped and carnival-style lights played on the embassy’s facade.
In a film projected on several large screens, an actor playing President Bush (though with a heavy Russian accent) delivered a speech in which he gloated over the United States’ control over world affairs. The film asserted that the United States orchestrated World Wars I and II so that the American economy could overtake Europe’s, carried out the Sept. 11 attacks to broaden government powers and planned to brand every person on the planet with the “mark of the beast,” as referred to in the Bible.
“When that will happen, we will totally control all humanity,” said the actor playing Mr. Bush, swigging a beer, as a picture of the globe in chains glowed behind him.
The opinions in the crowd were far more nuanced. Most of the demonstrators, men and women in their teens and early 20s, said they held the United States responsible for the war in Georgia, saying President Mikheil Saakashvili of Georgia would not have attacked the separatist enclave of South Ossetia without express permission from American officials.
Several demonstrators said they had become disillusioned with the United States during the 1990s, saying the reforms it pushed had led Russia into financial and political chaos.
“We don’t like to be told how to live, and we don’t like it when our peacekeepers are attacked,” said Yura Yakor, 23. “You’re not likely to find any fans of America here.”
As they shivered in the wintry rain, nearly everyone had something to say about the coming United States elections. Many agreed with the theory, espoused by Prime Minister Vladimir V. Putin in a televised interview this fall, that the war in Georgia was planned to increase the chances of Mr. McCain, the Republican presidential candidate. A few said they thought a victory for Senator Barack Obama would greatly improve relations between the United States and Russia.
“If McCain wins, I think everything will get worse,” said Yekaterina Anisimova, 20, who had traveled from Vladimir, about 125 miles east of Moscow, for the rally. “He is categorically against Russia. Obama is the opposite. All this could end.”
Her friend, Yana Vinogradova, agreed.
“We don’t hate America,” she said. “We just have a bad relationship with this administration.”
As the American reporter departed, Ms. Anisimova yelled after her, “Vote for Obama!”

Saturday, November 1, 2008

Science Advice for the Next President



Freedumb, Freedumb, Read All About It! Where were the candidates for the requested science and politics debate?
"scientific and technical advice is needed now more than ever given the importance of the entwined issues of energy security and climate change, mounting issues and opportunities in medicine, and problems in science education and American innovation and competitiveness. The letters reflect broadening concern that the White House has not been sufficiently stressing science."
Today, with the science of energy stagnated and petrified, stunting education and wisdom, it is no wonder the masses are 'flag freaking' toward their own self destruction, rather than flag waving toward an unlimited, unbounded, prosperous future for all.

"In a primitive tooth and claw society you have survival of the fittest. But as technology progresses it makes the Power, Greed, Controller, Killer, instincts so destructive that you eventually have survival of nobody at all, except maybe a few cave men. Either evolution weeds out the Power, Greed, Controller, Killer instincts or everybody ends up dead. Either moral evolution goes hand in hand with technological evolution and connects with scientific survival requirements for evolving, living systems, or we're doomed."
As common sense in science is lost with the continued stagnation of our energy base and deep troubling theoretical foundational issues in physics, so too, Civilization's Survival Parameters fly out of sight, out of mind, along with the values and morals inherent within new scientific understanding which new energy systems would reveal. The new scientific comprehension would eliminate the caveman 'club/stick' conflict resolution methods still used in the 21st century. Besides, caveman club/stick methods do not work well with nuclear toys, as they threaten all of humanity

Scientific Stagnation bodes an ill wind to evolution, sustainability, and survival as "cycles of humiliation, dumbing us down, violence, and Unrestrained Corporate Greed prompting resource wars with nuclear finality" join hands with global warming and ecological imbalance to precipitate the historical "rise and fall of civilization" - a Tsunami accelerating toward us with a far more spectacular event than the legends and myths of 'Atlantis and Lemuria"........ had more people known that Energy from Corn (or going backwards to a dimwitted concept of radioactive nuclear power application ) sounded a wee bit kindergartenish and senile for the twenty first century......the Future may have had a chance.

The Deadly Dangers of a Mis-informed, Dis-informed & Un-informed Population, Ultimately to Itself, History Provides Ample Evidence.

The Solution: The Promise of New Energy Systems & Beyond Oil Evaporates the Problem: The ill designed "Corporism: The Systemic Disease that Destroys Civilization." when devoid of a Bill of Rights for Human Life, devoid of scientific parameters necessary for Life's evolution, sustainability, and survival.

October 31, 2008, 10:41 am
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Science Advice for the Next President
By Andrew C. Revkin
Nearly 180 organizations representing the interdependent arenas of science, academia and business are urging the next president to appoint a White House science adviser by Inauguration Day and give the position cabinet-level rank. In letters sent Thursday to Senator John McCain and Senator Barack Obama, the organizations said scientific and technical advice was needed now more than ever given the importance of the entwined issues of energy security and climate change, mounting issues and opportunities in medicine, and problems in science education and American innovation and competitiveness. The letters reflect broadening concern that the White House has not been sufficiently stressing science.
It is “essential that you be prepared to quickly appoint a science adviser who is a nationally respected leader with the appropriate scientific, management and policy skills necessary for this critically important role,” the letters said.
The groups, including the American Association for the Advancement of Science and Association of American Universities, said the science adviser should have the same status in the cabinet as the director of the Office of Management and Budget, the administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, and the U.S. Trade Representative.
In a news release, the groups criticized the Bush administration for delaying and discounting science advice: “President George W. Bush did not appoint John H. Marburger III as his science adviser until June 25, 2001, five months after taking office, and he did not give cabinet rank to the science post. Dr. Marburger, a physicist and former head of Brookhaven National Laboratory, was not confirmed by the Senate until Oct. 23, 2001, after key policies on climate change and stem cell research already had been announced by the White House.”
Here are links to the letters to Mr. McCain and Mr. Obama, along with the names of 178 organizations that signed them.What science advice would you give the next president?