The Predator and the Terrorist

An Impossible World? Excerpt from The Energy Solution Revolution by Brian O'Leary
http://freedomtimes.blogspot.com/2009/04/impossible-world.html

Appleby's world, "a world where he never had to pay a power bill, where heating and cooling were free of energy costs, where his water was pure and veggies local and fresh, and where a four hour work day allowed him ample spare time to indulge in his writing fantasies. Outside, the air was fresh and the streets clean. Everyone had a job, and in this world-the real world-there were no clandestine powers holding back progress. All received a fair share for their efforts" Credibility provided by Freedom Times & StarSteps The Radius of Curvature of all Natural Law principle buried within the equation E=MC2 unified Physics and Metaphysics. In short, the quantity C was the measure of the radius of curvature of natural law. It was the factor enabling us to determine precisely the degree of change in the curvature of one law which is brought about by a specified change in the application of the others (i.e., using the common denominator equivalents of space, time, mass, matter, energy, gravity). Stating that the quantity C is the radius of the curvature of natural law, simply means that if a differential of energy equal to this quantity exists between the observer and the point which he is observing, the natural laws will be suspended. If the energy differential is in excess of the quantity C, the laws will appear to operate in reverse at that point. In effect, an unlimited, multidimensional universe opened, dissolving the light barrier and single pole gravitational limitation, merging science and spiritual dimensions to a unified, as above so below, foundation of previously unimaginable prosperity, abundance, health and well being, opening the gateway, the steps to the stars.






















Freedom Times Projecting Forward on Appleby's "An Impossible World?", Another Submission, Another Rejection Letter From A Publisher:

The Predator and the Terrorist

Appleby: The Predator and the Terrorist
Infinite War against Terrorism: so long as the Predator exists and steals food from the mouths of children, there will be the stamped label, “Terrorists” or “Freedom Fighters”

Publisher: Mr. Appleby, I clearly do not understand your theme: Corporations, the backbone of the economic system providing all the resources required for life – food, shelter, transportation, medical, jobs - from fuel/oil/energy institutions, to huge multinational financial institutions, all acting as predators? In the financial sector, mortgages selling to the highest bidder worthless, unsecured securities creating worldwide financial collapse? With credit card usury rates and fees causing a $4000.00 credit card debt to metamorphosis into a $40,000 pseudo mortgage look alike? Institutions creating these financial wonders while using OPM’s (other people’s money) with a savings return rate almost equivalent to zero. It puts your Al Capone and other historical monster entities to shame and insignificance in comparison. And then the hedge funds, the hyenas’ hysterical joy and laughter over their immense profits, as old people froze in the winter because they could not afford to pay the $6000 to $10000 per month heating costs created by market manipulation. Then, your creative writing adds gas price fluctuation of 60% claiming market demand causation? A 60% decline in demand? But your traffic jams are worse than before the decline? Absurdity upon absurdity. Maybe you should add “honest Al Capone” was permitted to police/regulate himself” in a free market economy. Utterly absurd and impossible.

Publisher: Furthermore, isn’t a predator that financially strangles, chokes, and destroys life, exactly the same a Terrorist? Just because the destruction takes place over longer time spans, making the suffering, anguish and death even greater in intensity, does not nullify, absolve, and excuse the predator. The billions of deaths just to women and children alone over the last 60 years from poverty, starvation, thirst, malnutrition, disease is enough to make one puke in disgust if such a world as you describe were even possible. And topping it off with your SOP “need to know” secrecy, from corporate boardrooms to government and military installations, is not representative of freedom, specifically if such denial of scientific data threatens the sustainability and evolution of living systems, as in energy stagnation. And then madness upon madness, you say the population is being dumbed down and made hostile to science? Science, the understanding tool which expands a population’s window to Reality necessary to sustain evolution and survival, suppressed? Common sense dictates advanced energy systems required for evolving complex civilizations to survive, also mandates a civilization possess and embrace the critical wisdom tools that are natural to universal life, evolution and survival; wisdom tools that foster profound comprehension and actually become a self deterrent against misuse. Nature itself possesses inherent self preservation tendencies, built in Fail-safes. The understanding required for the development and application of evolutionary advanced energy stages are not possible without integration of the four sciences, Physical, Mental, Social, Spiritual, making advanced energy systems beyond nuclear impossible to misuse with even the barest glimpse of wisdom sciences integrated with the extended principles of E=MC2. Such is the profound effect comprehension brings, as it totally and scientifically, connects all the sciences: Physical, Mental, Social, Spiritual. (http://fadingillusionviarealitycurve.blogspot.com Sunday, December 12, 2004 Blog, "and yet, by secrecy and silence, the death sentence was also sealed")

Publisher: Furthermore, and more precisely, who could be so blind as not to perceive the darkness cloaked behind your flag of freedom? Who could be so blind, in a world of six billion rapidly increasing population, to believe countless numbers of these people no longer need the necessities of food, shelter, transportation, medical, or the extra luxuries that make life more pleasant. How in God’s name could any population with intelligence anywhere in the universe, permit an economic downturn, almost to the edge of collapse, even with such a sick and rotten to the core system as you describe? The survival needs of six billion people would not allow that intense and obscene kind of greed. Who could fail to see the deadly Emperor syndrome of unregulated corporate mergers, one king, the rest serfs, one kingly mistake, all die? Who could believe in your fabled Chinese quote, “the dragon eating its own tail until it was dead” would be acted out? I am sorry; we cannot publish such idiocy for our readers.

"Poverty in all its forms is the greatest single threat to peace, democracy, human rights, and the environment. It is a time bomb against the heart of liberty" World Trade Organization Director Mike Moore.

"Inadequate comprehension and application of Energy, in all its forms, in an increasingly complex and evolving civilization, is the single greatest causal factor of poverty - and the vehicle to self-destruct." Decatalyst

"As systems increase in complexity, their energy intensity and energy requirements to sustain life rise accordingly." Hydrocarbons ceased fitting the energy bill, became obsolete, years ago. Nobel Prize winner , Ilya Progogine Revisiting the Nature of Power: http://www.relaxspa.net/Revisiting_Power.htm

Onward the capitalist machine marches, as it grinds down the vast majority of citizens, plunders our environment, ignores treaty obligations and ignores the problems of the inner cities. Inside the country, economic and social bad news multiply with a joint relentlessness. The public education system is in crisis and health insurance for 50 million Americans simply does not exist. The unemployment rates in the US mount inexorably, as more jobs are lost every day.
Capitalism as an Imperialist 'tool' Neoimperialism: Skimming the Cream Chapter 1 of Against Empire http://www.michaelparenti.org/AgainstEmpire.html by Michael Parenti. Michael Parenti received his Ph.D. in political science from Yale University in 1962

Mild shock and disbelief barely registered in the nation of the most productive, overworked, underpaid, underinsured, vacation deprived, low paid slave/workers in the world, as they watched their bridges fall down along with their retirement savings in equity & stocks, while their taxes, gas, energy and food costs continued skyrocketing to uncharted realms and many continue to lose their homes and go hungry; as the masses stagnated in unmovable traffic, and government departments threatened to close due to lack of funds - On the bright side, the worldwide corporate 2% greedy guts, individually, had aplenty, more wealth than 30 nations combined, apiece.... irrelevant to who is paying for their errors (as in subprime loans).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. 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.

"Corporism: The Systemic Disease that Destroys Civilization."
http://www.countercurrents.org/glo-reiner11503.htm Huge corporations now control America's body politic by reason of their bald-faced purchases of the three branches of the American government and America's major media. by Ken Reiner: kreiner@earthlink.net 05/09/03: I view the continuing growth of corporate power and its despotic control of governments throughout the world, including our own, as a socio-economic disease. While Mussolini and others named it "Fascism," I call it "Corporism" because that name better reveals its underlying institutional structure. I would define Corporism as the domination of government and society by the emergence and power of the giant publicly-traded multinational corporations and financial institutions, organized in totalitarian hierarchies, which singly and in combinations buy or destroy their competitors, corrupt the politics of nations, and seize, hoard, and wield for themselves most of the wealth of the human race.
We must recognize that we do have this cancerous disease, what it is doing to us and the world we live in, how it came about historically, and how and why it continues to be generated and sustained now in our society. Just as computer viruses find their ways into the software of our computers and destroy their operation, Corporism, promulgating itself by financial, legal, and technological means, has infected society in ways that lead to the hoarding of human resources, increasing insecurity and misery for the bulk of the world's population, perhaps even to worldwide holocaust. We must conquer this disease if we are to survive.

Abolish Corporate Personhood Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF)http://www.wilpf.org/corp/cintro.htm Concerned about the rapid escalation of corporate power in the US and around the world, three years ago members of the US section of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF) began studying and researching how corporations became so powerful. We discovered the hidden history of "corporate personhood" - the legal phenomenon that provides constitutional protections to corporations. Not only is corporate personhood a key component of corporate power, it's one of the greatest threats to democracy that we've ever known. Most people, however, have never even heard of it. In September, 2001 WILPF launched a campaign to abolish corporate personhood that has as its goal to delegitimize the institution of the corporation as a political entity.

Ralph Nader, founder of Public Citzen: I am responsible for my actions, but who is responsible for those of General Motors? An individual's capital is basically his integrity. He can lose only once. A corporation can lose many times, and not be affected. This unequal contest between the individual and any complex organization, whether it is a corporation, a union, government, or other group, is something which bears the closest scrutiny in order to try to protect the individual from such invasions."

Corporate Responsibility "The requirement of a just social order is that the responsibility shall lie where the power of decision rests. But the law has never caught up with the development of the large corporate unit. Deliberate acts emanate from the sprawling and indeterminable shelter of the corporate organization. Too often the responsibility for an act is not imputable to those whose decision enable it to be set in motion. People sitting in executive suites can make remote decisions which will someday result in tremendous carnage, and because they are remote in time and space between their decision and the consequences of that decision, there is no accountability."

On Extraordinary Corporate Power "In our country, the large corporations are the dominant institution. They comprise the strongest, consistent, generic power in the land. They share a high degree of coordinated values. Their power is all the more remarkable in its resiliency and ability to accommodate or absorb other challenging power centers such as big government and organized labor in ways that turn an additional profit, erect an additional privilege, or acquire protective mechanisms to ward off new pressures for change or reform."
Corporate Collectivism Leads Toward Ecological Disaster "The absence of political vigilance by the organs of Government toward the onrush of corporate collectivism, with the exception of a few aborted Senate inquiries, is fraught with danger to a democratic society. This is the case, no matter how affluent that society has become in the aggregate, because of the gaping injustices affecting minority groups and majority public services. Indeed, the very productiveness of our economic system, a chief referent for corporate apologists, has led, through incaution and indifference, to vast new problems, centering, for example, on the pell-mell contamination of soil, air, and water that is taking us toward ecological disaster."

Paul Hawken: Natural Capitalism http://www.natcap.org/defaultHTM.php By almost any measure, multinational corporations have failed spectacularly on their promise of fostering global democracy and prosperity. That’s why people all across the planet—from villagers in India to students in North America—are stepping up to challenge the abuses of big business. While corporate power is deeply entrenched, this new economic democracy movement is fueled by a fresh set of strategies about how people can regain power. —The Editors

"All Publicly held corporations live a lie. They believe that we reside in a world where capital has the right to grow and that that right is a higher right than the rights of people to their culture and what we hold in common. There is something incalculably wrong with this view. You can't get to sustainability from an economic model that strives first and foremost to increase the amount of money large corporations have. You can't get there if you're destroying the world's local economies. You can't get there if you are MacDonald's and spend $2 billion a year to get children to eat your junk food. We cannot correct environmental problems if we don't correct the assumptions that cause them. Most of the world's economy and the behavior of the world's government are under the control of corporations. Corporations are striving to increase their control; at the same time, the world is increasingly out of control. There is a direct connection."

LONDON, May 25, 2009 —Obama Condemns North Korea's Actions, Saying Country Poses a 'Grave Threat' President Obama Blasts N. Korea Nuclear Test, Test-Firing Missiles - By JOOHEE CHO

May 15, 2009 In Ecuador, Resentment of an Oil Company Oozes

May 8, 2009 U.S. Drops Research Into Fuel Cells for Cars

LOS ANGELES, April 29, 2009 60% Of Americans Breathing Unhealthy Air
Despite Green Movement, Tougher Laws, Lung Association Says Most Cities Still Have Too Much Air Pollution. Six out of 10 Americans right now as we speak live in areas where the air can be dirty enough to send people to the emergency room, dirty enough to shape how kids' lungs develop and even dirty enough to kill.

April 24, 2009 Industry Ignored Its Scientists on Climate NYT By ANDREW C. REVKIN

4/20/09 Global Warming, Thirsty Energy: 7 Dimensional Chess - As Global Warming Increases, Water Supplies Around the World Are Decreasing By BILL BLAKEMORE
03/04/09 "Sold Out: How Wall Street and Washington Betrayed America,"
WASHINGTON, April 9, 2009 CIA Says It Will Close Secret Prisons
Agency Says Guards Have Been Fired And Prisons Will Be Shuttered Permanently; But Prisoners Still Held

April 8, 2009 Oil Giants Loath to Follow Obama’s Green Lead By JAD MOUAWAD

Published: 2009/02/02 18:48:30 GMT WATERLESS WORLD
Story from BBC NEWS: http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/2/hi/science/nature/7865603.stm Water - another global 'crisis'? By Richard Black -Environment correspondent, BBC News website

September 24, 2008 Upheaval on Wall St. Stirs Anger in the U.N. By NEIL MacFARQUHAR

NYT September 27, 2008 S.E.C. Concedes Oversight Flaws Fueled Collapse By STEPHEN LABATON

NYT August 24, 2008 At Conference on the Risks to Earth, Few Are Optimistic By ANDREW C. REVKIN

HOUSTON, July 22, 2008 Big Oil Profits Go To Investors, Not R&D
(AP) As giant oil companies like Exxon Mobil and ConocoPhillips get set to report what will probably be another round of eye-popping quarterly profits, just where is all that money going?
WASHINGTON, July 15, 2008 Elder Statesmen: U.S. Faces Energy Crisis

July 6, 2008 American Energy Policy, Asleep at the Spigot By NELSON D. SCHWARTZ

WASHINGTON, June 24, 2008 NASA Climate Scientist Says "We're Toast"
(AP) Exactly 20 years after warning America about global warming, a top NASA scientist said the situation has gotten so bad that the world's only hope is drastic action.

Saturday 28th June, 2008 Bush, oil executives, criminally liable for Iraq War,
A U.S. Congressman, who ran for president this year, and in 2004, this week accused the Bush administration of colluding with the nation's oil companies in targeting Iraq's oil reserves.

Saudi Arabia, June 22, 2008— Oil Producers Say Speculation, Not Supply, Is Causing Pain at the Pump By LARA SETRAKIAN and DEAN SCHABNER

CBS NEW YORK, June 16, 2006 CEOs' Pay Climbs While U.S. Economy Sinks
(AP) As the American economy slowed to a crawl and stockholders watched their money evaporate, CEO pay still chugged to yet more dizzying heights last year, an Associated Press analysis shows.

June 17, 2008 Editorial Observer After 75 Years, the Working Poor Still Struggle for a Fair Wage By ADAM COHEN

NYT May 29, 2008 Human Rights Report Assails U.S. By ALAN COWELL

June 4, 2008 U.N. Issues Warning on Food Crisis UN Says Solving Food Crisis Could Cost $30 Billion By ELISABETH ROSENTHAL and ANDREW MARTIN ROME — Resolving the global food crisis could cost as much as $30 billion a year and wealthier nations are doing little to help the developing world face the problem, United Nations officials said Tuesday.

May 29, 2008 Under Fire, White House Releases Report About Global Warming
Overdue Report Reveals Serious Health Consequences By BILL BLAKEMORE

May 3, 2008 Rich/Poor Income Gap Widening To Chasm
(CBS) There have always been "haves" and "have-nots" in the United States, but over the past three decades, the gap between them has gotten a lot wider, statistics from congressional numbers crunchers show. According to the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office, income for the bottom half of American households rose six percent since 1979 but, through 2005, the income of the top one percent skyrocketed - by 228 percent.

NYT April 18, 2008 Across Globe, Empty Bellies Bring Rising Anger By MARC LACEY

February 14, 2008 Dumb and Dumber: Are Americans Hostile to Knowledge?
By PATRICIA COHEN A popular video on YouTube shows Kellie Pickler, the adorable platinum blonde from “American Idol,” appearing on the Fox game show “Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader?” during celebrity week. Selected from a third-grade geography curriculum, the $25,000 question asked: “Budapest is the capital of what European country?” Ms. Pickler threw up both hands and looked at the large blackboard perplexed. “I thought Europe was a country,” she said. Playing it safe, she chose to copy the answer offered by one of the genuine fifth graders: Hungary. “Hungry?” she said, eyes widening in disbelief. “That’s a country? I’ve heard of Turkey. But Hungry? I’ve never heard of it.”

NYT April 23, 2008 Imposing grip on American news media (squashes freedom of speech and public awareness of reality) Murdoch Moving to Buy Newsday for $580 Million By RICHARD PÉREZ-PEÑA and TIM ARANGO Rupert Murdoch is moving to tighten his already-imposing grip on American news media, striking a tentative deal to buy his third New York-based paper, Newsday, and getting his first chance to appoint the top editor of The Wall Street Journal, after the resignation of the editor on Tuesday. His $580 million bid for Newsday and his urgency in remaking The Journal worry his competitors and cause angst in many newsrooms, including his own. And both moves are vintage Rupert Murdoch, a man who operates his sprawling News Corporation like an old-style media mogul, making big bets on old and new media — bankrolling the new Fox Business Network, aggressively pursuing a deal for Yahoo, and buying Dow Jones & Company, publisher of The Journal, for far more than analysts thought it was worth. And that was just in the last year.

Deadly Energy Stagnation - An Impossible World

An Impossible World? Excerpt from The Energy Solution Revolution by Brian O'Leary
http://freedomtimes.blogspot.com/2009/04/impossible-world.html

Appleby's world, "a world where he never had to pay a power bill, where heating and cooling were free of energy costs, where his water was pure and veggies local and fresh, and where a four hour work day allowed him ample spare time to indulge in his writing fantasies. Outside, the air was fresh and the streets clean. Everyone had a job, and in this world-the real world-there were no clandestine powers holding back progress. All received a fair share for their efforts" Credibility provided by Freedom Times & StarSteps The Radius of Curvature of all Natural Law principle buried within the equation E=MC2 unified Physics and Metaphysics. In short, the quantity C was the measure of the radius of curvature of natural law. It was the factor enabling us to determine precisely the degree of change in the curvature of one law which is brought about by a specified change in the application of the others (i.e., using the common denominator equivalents of space, time, mass, matter, energy, gravity). Stating that the quantity C is the radius of the curvature of natural law, simply means that if a differential of energy equal to this quantity exists between the observer and the point which he is observing, the natural laws will be suspended. If the energy differential is in excess of the quantity C, the laws will appear to operate in reverse at that point. In effect, an unlimited, multidimensional universe opened, dissolving the light barrier and single pole gravitational limitation, merging science and spiritual dimensions to a unified, as above so below, foundation of previously unimaginable prosperity, abundance, health and well being, opening the gateway, the steps to the stars.






















Projecting Forward on Appleby's "An Impossible World?", Another Submission, Another Rejection Letter From A Publisher: Unfortunately, we will have to pass on your story. Your energy plot is sooooo implausible that even our loony toons readership segment gave us a blank, confounded stare. Furthermore, the scenario that university PhD's planet wide, for 100 years, stayed uninformed of the fourth grade concept of the radius of curvature of all natural law, defined by the speed of light C in E=MC2, portrays psychological illusional magic of a planet population belief-behavior shaping beyond the scope of believable. More specifically unbelievable in lieu of your referencing the half understood zero point, Tesla, electrogravitics, cold fusion and countless other "over-unity" concepts, all which are far more easily defined, designed, and precisely engineered with the radius of curvature fundamental - light - which also is our ability to see and correctly interpret Reality. Your references that crystal properties, the transformation of one form of energy into another - crystal radios, microphones, ultrasonic drills - were in application without the comprehension that the basic factors of nature -space time mass matter energy gravity - were not absolute, but variable factors, each dependent upon the value of the others is NOT possible (Bermuda Triangle, "beam me aboard Scotty", the quantity C is the measure of the radius of curvature of natural law, the factor which enables us to determine precisely the degree of change in the curvature of one law which will be brought about by a specified change in the application of the others). To date, nowhere in the billions of galaxies, each with their billions of stars where we have explored intelligent life, has something like this in the energy arena been observed - and this is without consideration of the deadly effects 100 years of energy stagnation would have on a planet population causing starvation, poverty, disease, water crisis, resource wars, ecological damage, global warming to name a few.

Cold Fusion: Still Cold, or Is There New Promise?
Navy Researchers Report Tentative Clues; Others Doubtful
By NED POTTER
April 19, 2009 — Two decades ago, B. Stanley Pons left, and Martin Fleischmann, displayed a large-scale model of the...
Two decades ago, B. Stanley Pons left, and Martin Fleischmann, displayed a large-scale model of the flask in which they said they created sustained nuclear fusion reactions at room temperature. But their results later were dismissed by other scientists. Nuclear fusion normally takes place in extremely hot conditions and is the process that powers the sun, photographed, at right, on Monday, April 7, 1997 by the Extreme ultraviolet Imaging Telescope (EIT) on board the joint European Space Agency-NASA Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO).
Cold fusion? Limitless energy on a table top? Wait a minute. Wasn't that discredited 20 years ago?
It was, in fact, 20 years ago last month that two scientists, Martin Fleischmann and Stanley Pons, announced they had created nuclear fusion at room temperature. They created the popular equivalent of an H-bomb explosion -- an explosion that quickly was snuffed out when other scientists said no fusion had taken place.
But a few researchers continue to work on it.
A team of researchers, led by Pamela Boss of the U.S. Navy and Lawrence Forsley of the technology firm JWK International, reported evidence that they have seen high-energy neutrons, a possible side effect of nuclear fusion, in a laboratory experiment.
'Low Energy Nuclear Reactions'
The team published its findings in a German physics journal, and presented them at a meeting of the American Chemical Society -- 20 years to the day after Fleischmann and Pons made their announcement.
"I am confident we are seeing nuclear reactions," said Forsley by telephone from San Diego, where he now does much of his work in collaboration with the Navy. "We're seeing conventional nuclear reactions in an unconventional place."
A small New Jersey firm, Energetics, also has been trying to make cold fusion reactions at its laboratory in Israel. A former surgeon, Irving Dardik, heads the effort, and has generated enough buzz (if not electricity) to be featured this weekend in a "60 Minutes" piece.
Nuclear fusion is a high-energy process -- it's the reaction that powers the sun. The sun is so hot, and there are such pressures beneath its roiling surface, that hydrogen atoms collide, or "fuse," to make helium atoms plus tremendous amounts of heat and light.
Fusion has been replicated on Earth, but only violently -- in the form of a hydrogen bomb. (It is the opposite, by the way, of the fission that happens in an atom bomb or nuclear power plant, where atoms are split to make energy.)
Cold Fusion: Getting Warmer?
If nuclear fusion could be harnessed for peaceful purposes, scientists believe, it would solve many of the world's energy problems.
They have worked at it for decades, without success. They have built large, complex, expensive devices in the laboratory to mimic the reactions that happen inside the sun. They did create tiny reactions for tiny fractions of a second, but nothing remotely practical.
Budget cuts brought much of the work to a stop, and the 1989 debacle scared many researchers away.
'It's Still Cold'
Bob Park, a physicist at the University of Maryland who has spent much of his career warning against junk science, said he was surprised cold fusion got a hearing at the American Chemical Society meeting.
"Twenty years later, it's still cold," he wrote.
But it is not the same as it was when the subject first exploded publicly in 1989.
"These people, at least some of them, look in ever greater detail where others have not bothered to look," wrote Park. "They say they find great mysteries, and perhaps they do. Is it important? I doubt it. But I think it's science."
Forsley, for one, said he's flattered that Park gave him and his colleagues as much credit as he did.
"We've got a mechanism here," he said. "Nobody's been busting us about it.
"The story is just beginning," he added. "Let's put it that way."
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Stay in Traffic Hell - An Impossible World

An Impossible World? Excerpt from The Energy Solution Revolution by Brian O'Leary
http://freedomtimes.blogspot.com/2009/04/impossible-world.html

Appleby's world, "a world where he never had to pay a power bill, where heating and cooling were free of energy costs, where his water was pure and veggies local and fresh, and where a four hour work day allowed him ample spare time to indulge in his writing fantasies. Outside, the air was fresh and the streets clean. Everyone had a job, and in this world-the real world-there were no clandestine powers holding back progress. All received a fair share for their efforts" Credibility provided by Freedom Times & StarSteps The Radius of Curvature of all Natural Law principle buried within the equation E=MC2 unified Physics and Metaphysics. In short, the quantity C was the measure of the radius of curvature of natural law. It was the factor enabling us to determine precisely the degree of change in the curvature of one law which is brought about by a specified change in the application of the others (i.e., using the common denominator equivalents of space, time, mass, matter, energy, gravity). Stating that the quantity C is the radius of the curvature of natural law, simply means that if a differential of energy equal to this quantity exists between the observer and the point which he is observing, the natural laws will be suspended. If the energy differential is in excess of the quantity C, the laws will appear to operate in reverse at that point. In effect, an unlimited, multidimensional universe opened, dissolving the light barrier and single pole gravitational limitation, merging science and spiritual dimensions to a unified, as above so below, foundation of previously unimaginable prosperity, abundance, health and well being, opening the gateway, the steps to the stars.






















Projecting Forward on Appleby's "An Impossible World?", Another Submission, Another Rejection Letter From A Publisher: Unfortunately, we will have to pass on your story. Just looking at your transportation segment smacks of the so impossible, that we cannot even fit it into the "fiction/science fiction/horror category. Common sense dictates to all intelligent life forms that as wholistic systems grow in complexity, they become more energy intensive and must evolve their energy base and expand their energy comprehension. This includes the transportation sector, especially goods distribution to "Point to Point, without going through all points in between" (Bermuda Triangle, "beam me aboard Scotty"). To date, nowhere in the billions of galaxies, each with their billions of stars where we have explored intelligent life, has something like this in the transportation arena been seen:















John Stossel: Billions of Tax Dollars on Roads? That's 'Bull'
A Challenge to the U.S. Government: Consider Private Road-Building Companies
By JOHN STOSSEL March 12, 2009—
It's part of the stimulus plan. The government has announced it's going to spend billions of your dollars on building new roads, and fixing old ones. They say they'll do it efficiently. I say, bull.
Some people call the traffic jam on the way to work & driving into hell.
Tune in March 13 for a special hour with John Stossel: "Bailouts and Bull."
Joseph Woo of Atlanta told us he has the most miserable commute in America.
The Texas Transportation Institute, a research division of Texas A&M, says Atlanta is America's second-most-congested city.
"You plan your day around traffic," Woo said. "Because you never know if there's going to be traffic or not. You have to leave an hour and 15 minutes in advance. This is why I don't drink coffee. If I drank coffee, my head would probably explode!"
Reason TV host Drew Carey went on radio station KFI AM 640 to search for the person with the worst commute in Los Angeles, the most congested city in America.
"Traffic goes all the way back in each direction blocks and blocks. There's no end in sight to it," he said on the radio. "And like a lot of places in America, it's only going to get worse."
In 2007, the Texas Transportation Institute found that traffic jams caused the average commuter to spend an extra 38 hours on the road and, according to the latest data from the U.S. Census Bureau (2003), the average commute takes 25 minutes.
Research by the Reason Foundation suggests that in 20 years, 29 cities will be as bad as Los Angeles.
Frustrated With the Government
We teamed up with Carey because he and Reason TV are frustrated with big government bull and they're searching for other ways to get things done, things like improving our daily commute. Carey and Reason TV eventually decided Los Angeles' most frustrated commuter is graphic artist Josh Lipking.
Every day Lipking checks out Sigalert and Google traffic before kissing his wife good-bye and driving into what Carey calls "hell."
Lipking says he "starts to sweat a little," his heart pumping as he tries to make the most of the time he spends in traffic. He's become proficient at flossing with one hand.
Josh lives only 16 miles from work but it often takes him an hour and a half to get to the office.
But what if his commute (and yours) didn't have to be this bad? What if someone wanted to add some lanes to this road, or build an entirely new road?
Private road builders are doing this kind of work across the world, such as the double-decker underground highway in Paris, complete with 350 cameras watching for traffic delays or accidents. Any incident is detected in less than 10 seconds. Once the camera detects a problem authorities rush to tow the obstacle away so traffic keeps moving.
Private Road-Builders Offer Solutions
They do the same thing in California, too, on at least one road: Highway 91. Instead of building a brand-new road, they added two lanes in the middle of an existing highway. Drivers can choose to use them, or not.
If you want to go this fast, you have to pay. Different amounts depending on the time of day. Sometimes $1.50, sometimes $9. But by paying you save time. Traffic moves. And for some people, time is money.
Were these traffic speeding innovations created by government road-builders? No. They were created and paid for by private road-builders.
Their success has made politicians from other states want to try leasing roads. Mayor Richard Daley did that with the Chicago Skyway. Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels leased the Indiana toll road to a private company. He got back billions for his taxpayers.
"We received $4 billion, free and clear, no taxes, no debt left to our kids," Daniels said during our interview in January about the lease agreement signed in 2006.
It sounds like a good idea to me. But most people can't even imagine the idea of leasing out one of their roads to a private company.
Politicians Who Want to Use Your Tax Money for Roads
When Florida considered leasing one of its roads, protesters complained and politicians ran from the deal. The governor of New Jersey gave up too, and a private highway idea is dying in Pennsylvania and dead in Texas.
Now billions in stimulus spending is supposed to fix-up decrepit, congested roads. Why is Washington rushing in to do something that private companies do better and pay for the privilege?
Rep. Peter Defazio, an Oregon Democrat, is one of many who oppose leasing public roads to private companies. He says what Gov. Daniels did is wrong.
"Privatizing existing taxpayer infrastructure is not a solution for anybody," Defazio told '20/20.' "Money that the people of Indiana could have had in the future is going to go to a private company."
When we later interviewed Daniels, he wanted to know, "What money?"
"The toll road was losing money," he said.
And if you couldn't make money running the toll road, how can this private company do it?
"Your first insurance that they're gonna run a better road than the politicians did is, if they don't, people won't drive on it and they'll lose a lot of money. They have every incentive to make traffic flow swiftly, to make that drive as pleasant and safe as possible," Daniels said. Without that incentive, government bureaucracies often let highways fall into decay.
Defazio disagreed. "If you have toll roads, the [government] toll authority, if properly run, can meet all of those requirements," he argued.
But do they?
'It's a Monopoly'
"I can't account for the crummy government in Indiana or Pennsylvania," Defazio said. "[But] they could run them better. They could run them just as well as the private sector because the private sector runs it well and makes a profit."
Daniels disagrees. "Frankly when government runs things, it's a monopoly and it has no competition and there's no upside to doing a lot better job."
Government road building has created some of the biggest boondoggles of all time. The Big Dig in Boston took more than 10 years to complete and cost more than twice what it was supposed to cost. And the government contractor's work was so sloppy, part of it collapsed and killed a woman.
After part of the West Side Highway in New York collapsed, it took the city 16 years just to dismantle the old highway and another decade to rebuild it.
So why do so many people instinctively just say, you can't sell the public highways? "There are people frankly, in Congress, who can't abide the thought that you might be able to pay for something without going down there and kissing their ring for the money," Daniels explained.
But except for these few exceptions&private roads are mostly dead, because protesters and some politicians don't like it. Get ready to stay in traffic hell.
2009 ABC News Internet Ventures

An Impossible World?

An Impossible World? Excerpt from The Energy Solution Revolution http://www.brianoleary.info/index.html

Credibility for Appleby's world - by Freedom Times & StarSteps
The Radius of Curvature of all Natural Law principle buried within the equation E=MC2 unified Physics and Metaphysics. In short, the quantity C was the measure of the radius of curvature of natural law. It was the factor enabling us to determine precisely the degree of change in the curvature of one law which is brought about by a specified change in the application of the others (i.e., space, time, mass, matter, energy, gravity). Stating that the quantity C is the radius of the curvature of natural law, simply means that if a differential of energy equal to this quantity exists between the observer and the point which he is observing, the natural laws will be suspended. If the energy differential is in excess of the quantity C, the laws will appear to operate in reverse at that point. In effect, an unlimited, multidimensional universe opened, dissolving the light barrier and single pole gravitational limitation, merging science and spiritual dimensions to a unified, as above so below, foundation.






















An Impossible World?

Arriving home from work, Appleby’s heart skipped a beat when he saw the return address on the mail his wife had left on the kitchen table-perhaps this time he’d be offered a sale for his curious brand of fiction.

Excitedly he tore it open:

Dear Mr. Appleby,

Thank you for your recent submission to Altair Space Monkey. Unfortunately, we will have to pass on your story.

For your further development, comments from reviewers are included below:

‘The entire premise of the story is that people could have an underlying predisposition to the pathological; i.e., a natural inclination to both superficialities and what might in more educated circles be politely referred to as a grotesque desire to dominate others. This is more than just a literary sleight of had – it is the crutch of absurdity. I would suggest that if the author’s intent is to merely shock, then the juvenile dime market might be more receptive of such efforts.’

And

‘In times past, before the sciences of evolution, sociology and psychology became as advanced as they are today, your story might have had a chance – a slim one to be sure, but it might have been offered a ‘revise and resubmit’. Nowadays, though, the readership of quality publications such as Altair Space Money has matured alongside scientific progress. Extrapolating from the known to the possible is fine, and indeed is the essence of good science fiction. But stories that leap from the possible to the most highly improbable do not engage our informed readers. Altair Space Monkey is a magazine of science fiction, not fantastic horror. The society described in your story would never progress beyond the Stone Age. Its people would rather spend their time gazing at their own images in rock pools than working together for any collective benefit. And if by some lucky spin of the cosmic roulette wheel they did produce more technology than just fire, such progress in science would surely be used in such adverse ways that the society you invented could never be achieved, let alone sustained. I would suggest that the author take the time to read an introductory test on evolutionary science.’

And finally…

In your poorly conceptualized story, you make reference to a so-called ‘modern,’ ‘technological’ society that features, among other silliness, more weapons, more wars of aggression, more pollution a steadily increasing number of working hours as well as increasing unemployment. Exactly how would that come about? You further suggest the citizens of this fantasy prefer to spend their time chasing rainbows in the form of some sort of never-ending cycle of conspicuous consumption. You even have the protagonist utter that he must continue to do so ‘just to keep up’…but who is it that these wretched souls are trying to keep up with? If everyone is buying the same things, then exactly how are they differentiated by what they own – anyone can just go out and buy more of the same, can’t they?

‘You also presuppose that no one in this society has access to universal power. That is, you seem to posit that none of the zero-point technologies we enjoy ever appeared anywhere-not even in a single garage workshop despite their simplicity-while billions in research dollars are being spent on ever-bigger Tokomaks, cyclotrons, and other preposterously grand curiosities! Why would resources be ploughed first into scientific realms that although arguably worthy of abstract attention, are unlikely to benefit the public on any tangible level? Who would allow such an illogical apportioning of resources? Or are you suggesting that they did develop practical alternative energy sources, but due to some strange hidden agenda, they were suppressed? Who would benefit from that? Again, such a society would very soon reach a ‘boiling point,’ a combined socio-economic-environmental crisis from which it might never recover.

‘Think about it” if this insane world of yours, with over six billion people I might add, all self-chained to the same consumerist treadmill (or aspiring to be!) had to depend upon fossilized hydrocarbons for the majority of their fuel needs, the biosphere they depend upon would be overwhelmed in a matter of decades. And please, in any future submissions, do not attempt to paint nuclear power as even a borderline possibility. The majority of our readership is not scientifically illiterate, and hence is unlikely to present a blind eye to that little problem of half-lives of nuclear waste products (the safe disposal of which you neglected to describe). Given the environmental and economic ludicrousness of such an obvious hazard, why would any ruling powers- secret or otherwise allow it? If this society were to collapse, as the sort you madly envision must, then what would such clandestine groups have left to rule over?

‘Finally, in such a psychologically and economically barren world, what space would there be for art, literature? For a family? The average person-what you call ‘consumers’-would be ground between the stone wheels of work and debt….’’’

Appleby scrunched the rejection letter, tossed it in the trashcan. His face twisted.

“What did those twits know?” he asked himself aloud. Deep down, though, he knew they were right-it was the fourth rejection slip he’d received for this story, and the feedback was always the same.

But his imagination refused to relax its iron grip: what if history had taken a sinister turn instead of a sensible one? What if darker forces drove peoples’ nature? He saw it still-any early world of resource scarcity, where some people-perhaps just one or two here and there-decided that is was better to look out for themselves first and worry about others later, and even then only if it was convenient, with a personal payoff. How might such individuals, who would surely grow in number given the starting conditions, evolve socially and continue to prosper?

Appleby’s mind soared across the millennia, to a society where self-interest and struggle for control of others was the norm, cooperation the deviation, where citizens competed for more baubles, more new shiny things to declare their status over their lesser brethren. Rats in cages, spending their pitiful lives dashing about on exercise wheels going nowhere, the sputtering candles burning low, while from the shadows darker powers watched in amusement.

It had to be possible.

Emboldened by his imagination, Appleby dashed of another submission letter.

Afterwards, as he sat sipping a coffee, his gaze drifted to the toaster-sized ZP inductor in the kitchen, and he thanked his lucky stars that he lived in a world where he never had to pay a power bill, where heating and cooling were free of energy costs, where is water was pure and veggies local and fresh, and where a four hour work day allowed him ample spare time to indulge in his writing fantasies.

Outside, the air was fresh and the streets clean. Everyone had a job, and in this world-the real world-there were no clandestine powers holding back progress. All received a fair share for their efforts.

For a moment, Appleby wondered that the citizens in the gloomy world imagined in his story might make of this one? Would they too consider it impossible? A utopian dream beyond their grasp?

He reached for his pen.

Sold Out: How Wall Street and Washington Betrayed America


(AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)
A group called Wall Street Watch is out with a report that finds that “Wall Street investment firms, commercial banks, hedge funds, real estate companies and insurance conglomerates made $1.7 billion in political contributions and spent another $3.4 billion on lobbyists” between 1998 and 2008. The report, "Sold Out: How Wall Street and Washington Betrayed America," concludes that the contributions were “aimed at undercutting federal regulation” and ultimately “led directly to the current financial collapse.” The two men behind the report are California lawyer Harvey Rosenfield of the nonprofit Consumer Education Foundation and Robert Weissman of Essential Information, a Washington nonprofit “that seeks to curb excessive corporate power.” The report argues that the lobbying and contributions kept financial derivatives from being regulated, led to the repeal of regulatory barriers between commercial banks and investment banks and kept the government from stepping into halt predatory subprime lending. (The authors list “12 Key Policy Decisions Led to Cataclysm” here.) "Depression-era programs that would have prevented the financial meltdown that began last year were dismantled, and the warnings of those who foresaw disaster were drowned in an ocean of political money,” Rosenfield said in a release. The authors don’t blame either political party, noting that roughly 55 percent of the donations went to Republicans and 45 percent to Democrats. In the 2008 election cycle, they note, Democrats received slightly more than half of the financial sector’s contributions. They also say that 142 of the lobbyists employed by 20 “leading financial firms” during this period “were previously high-ranking officials or employees in the Executive Branch or Congress.” The report can be found here.

An Oscar for Activism

Freedom Times Commentary and Preface to the previous post:
“Democracy is not a spectator sport” presents an interesting concept, a bit long reading, but your life and mine, and our children’s lives and their future, make it worth the effort to evaluate.

"Democracy is not a spectator sport!" is a scientist’s open letter to President Obama critiquing “Tweedledee & Tweedledum trivia surface issues “ versus “Life Critical” issues.

In a world of the most quantitative, massive economic requirements we have ever seen needed to supply the ever-growing life needs, wants & desires of an expanding world population seeking to improve their lives and lifestyles, an honest look at current events and the insane economic downturn with their root causes, may assist in restoring democracy.

An Oscar for Activism by Ralph Nader, http://www.commondreams.org/ “What if, permit a flight of fancy, there were the equivalent of the “Academy Awards” for the civic heroism that goes on every day here and abroad. The powerless valiant ones who challenge the powerful and corrupt in ways that throughout history have broken new ground for more justice, economic well-being, health, safety and freedom. They are mostly unsung. They are often marginalized or maligned.”

In Turbulent times, the stress tightrope of psychological coping and escape mechanisms used to bring a semblance of sanity, cheerfulness and balance in our local everyday lives runs paramount. However, caution flags are recommended to prevent a defense mechanism from becoming pathological – “when it prevents the individual from being able to cope with a real threat and obscures his/her ability to perceive reality; when it is used persistently and leads to maladaptive behavior that will eventually threaten the physical and/or mental health of the individual, or group, community, nation when practiced universally by a majority”.

Current events, from bailouts to global warming, from resource wars, ecological imbalance, and ‘weapons of mass donkey’ corporate lies for profit and exclusive rights to third world counties' resources, (look up 50 year span death statistics caused by poverty, starvation, disease and lack of new energy systems); to transportation de-evolution - slower pace on urban highways than a wagon train traveling OVER the Rocky Mountains, with modern day workaholics dreaming of the freedom and leisure time slaves had in comparison, topped with the suppression of advanced energy systems in the late 1940’s that could have prevented the preceding events, and still can prevent the forward movement along this current road to mass destruction, ……..all portray the destructive effects resulting from misinformed/uninformed choices and behavior.

In short, the 2009 Message: Open appeal to Mr. Obama from a fellow achiever who is gravely concerned about our future. http://www.brianoleary.info/index.html
"Democracy is not a spectator sport!" is a highly recommended study and review, specifically list #6. Fearlessly foster (suppressed) innovation such as free energy.
“Mr. President, you must know we all are entering the gravest crisis the world has ever experienced and that the situation can be addressed only by implementing the kinds of systemic changes listed. Many of us are willing to support these efforts in team-work with you. I believe you will have no other choice but to move into these changes briskly. Otherwise, the degree of unrest, fear and repression will be too great to allow us to act without further violence, totalitarian control and ecological and economic collapse. We don’t want that kind of world, we want to have room in which to innovate our way from the very systems that have become so decadent, so destructive, and so tyrannical. Is this an impossible task? Not if we act radically, decisively and quickly. We can only try. Crisis breeds opportunity. It is time to restore the ideals upon which our nation was founded. We have grievously lost our way from practicing those principles.”
Dear President Obama,...... See previous post at http://freedomtimes.blogspot.com/2009/02/democracy-is-not-spectator-sport.html

Published on Saturday, February 28, 2009 by CommonDreams.org
An Oscar for Activism
by CommonDreams.org
by Ralph Nader
As the 2009 Academy Awards swept their way into history, the glitz and the massive global audiences show that across cultures fictional stories, mythologies and money go hand in hand. As the nominees for the awards were briefly showcased for their artistic imagination in one category after another, it occurred to me that the saying “truth is stranger than fiction” has another meaning. Many people would rather see fiction than the real thing. What if, permit a flight of fancy, there were the equivalent of the “Academy Awards” for the civic heroism that goes on every day here and abroad. The powerless valiant ones who challenge the powerful and corrupt in ways that throughout history have broken new ground for more justice, economic well-being, health, safety and freedom. They are mostly unsung. They are often marginalized or maligned. The history books make reference to only a very few—anti slavery abolitionists, women fighting for the vote, workers for the right to organize, farmers for federal regulation of brazen banks and railroads. People take on, for example, corrupt city machines, company towns dominated by a single plant or mine, toxic contamination of drinking water supplies, corporate looters of worker pensions, manufacturers of defective cars and harmful medicines. Recognition before large audiences keeps a highly nourished concept of the heroic before the people. It gives support to those who take the first step and who speak truth to power. Acclaim is protective and encourages more people to follow in the shoes of these citizen-pioneers. Civic heroism changes the culture and the dreams of youth. Movies are meant to be dramatic and can take liberties with reality even when they are describing real-life situations and people. But Hollywood can make almost any story dramatic and interesting. Look at Frost/Nixon. On the other hand, there have been great flops with pure violent action—consider Ishtar. Anything that is important to people in the course of their daily life can be made interesting. Real life narratives of people taking on power and cruelty can be compelling, without losing authenticity.How would the Civic Heroism Awards be organized? The process would start at the community level with nominations and take it up to the state, national, and international level. Unlike game shows and beauty contests, the nominees would not be allowed to promote themselves. What they have already done is why they have been nominated. There is no present or future enhancement at ever higher levels of awards for what they had accomplished and striven for in the past.Consider for a moment the peoples’ infrastructure that such a multi-tiered annual award process would stimulate. Local video producers would see an opportunity to profile potential nominees over the Internet, Cable and local screenings. The digital era assures the widespread egalitarian prevalence of such productions. Thousands of communities would be involved. Discussions, debates and banter would be stimulated over the criteria for nominations which would include awards for “the supporting cast” around the heroes as is done by the Academy Awards. The teaching of civics in the local schools would become more attached to local activities beyond textbook study. Putting a human face on civic action will stir the minds of youngsters presently saturated with often degrading electronic “virtual realities.” The positive repercussions are many. Just the chance to become civic celebrities through this process of recognition increases media exposure and greater attention to the serious conditions and reforms that the nomination processes highlight. The formulaic local television evening news—with its nine minutes of ads, four minutes of sports, four minutes of weather, chitchat, animal stories and miscellaneous fluff leaves very little time for civic news to attract the dwindling number of television reporters. Daily civic efforts to improve community life and justice wither on the vine for lack of any media coverage.Civic heroism awards—done in a professional and exciting manner—can compel news coverage. Even in print form, columnists like Nicholas Kristof of the New York Times roams the continents of Asia, Africa and South America to find the most courageous and besieged people standing up at great risk for human dignity and humane treatment.The drama is in the people. The search is for the civic dramatists to find their calling. Finally, philanthropy needs to come forward to jumpstart what could become the citizen equivalent of the Academy Awards from the local to the global for these stalwart pillars of just and democratic societies.Readers: do you know any likely philanthropists? Have them contact Awards Project at PO Box 19367, Washington, DC, 20036.
Ralph Nader [1] is a consumer advocate, lawyer, and author. His most recent book is The Seventeen Traditions [2].
Article printed from www.CommonDreams.org
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Review: The Seventeen Traditions by Ralph Nader, February 22, 2007
By Alan R. Dicara (Ralph's Hometown) - See all my reviews Ralph writes about my home town, and his, Winsted, Connecticut, and about people we knew and loved, like his Mom and Dad who, like many parents and people, dedicated their lives to their family, their community and their friends. While it seems improbable that many modern families, preoccupied with 2 or more jobs, commuting to work, relying on others to help raise and feed their children, could once again undertake to offer themselves and their children hometown opportunities found in Ralph's book, and life, there are lessons to be learned about listening to one's parents, about debating news of the day, and retreating from the pc's and videogames and tv's to, perhaps, library books and getting to know one's own community. To going for hikes and taking the road less traveled, to being proud of where you come from and where you are going, to appreciating people for what they are, not for what Madison Avenue or Hollywood say the they should be. To taking on City Hall, and winning. Or lobbying Congress, a State Legislature, or a Governor or President, "in the public interest." Ralph has proven that one man can, did, and will continue to make, a difference, for the better. He has also proven the words of the great poet that " It is in the darkest hours of man that the spirit of man burns most bright," and that, finally, we can know what we've always known: anyone can make a difference. You just need a little courage, some important knowledge and a bit of passion for justice, to begin to do what is right. And good parents, good role models, do help. This book, The Seventeen Traditions, by Ralph, and many others he has written, together with his life of dedication, caring and hard work, show us that doing good is a matter of personal choice, a choice we can all make. Read it and get going!

"Democracy is not a spectator sport!"

" You must know that true knowledge, wisdom and compassion are threats to the status quo. George Orwell said, “In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act” and Isaac Asimov wrote, “When stupidity is considered patriotism, it is unsafe to be intelligent.” I believe we now live in such a time to the extreme, and this situation is particularly poignant for us Americans now living under the tyrannies of empire and economic collapse."

"Democracy is not a spectator sport!"

2009 Message: Open appeal to Mr. Obama from a fellow achiever who is gravely concerned about our future.

http://www.brianoleary.info/index.html


Dear President Obama,
I congratulate you on your election. As a former astronaut, Eagle Scout, Ivy League professor, frontier scientist, futurist, advisor to presidential candidates, and an international author and speaker, I can identify with your feeling of significant motivation and achievement. But, in my later years as I now approach the age of seventy, many of those perks of recognition pale before a sense of urgency with which I feel we must approach our task of transforming humanity and nature into an environmentally, socially and morally sustainable future.
I honestly don’t know whether we’ll make it through these times. You’re in the driver’s seat now, and your task is daunting. You will have to stand up to some very powerful interests who do not want to live under those public policies that will become necessary for us to survive these times. You must understand this most basic conflict of interest in your position. But are you aware enough of what is really happening to us all? Do you truly know the depth of the crisis and the breadth of opportunities that lay outside the box of conventional thinking? I must admit that during my days of relative fame, I was largely oblivious of the deeper issues before us. The spotlight itself has a way of distorting our perceptions of reality.
In today’s world, there is so much suffering, ignorance, neglect and corruption. Leaders nowadays prey on this condition. By supporting some of the most criminal actions in human history, the powerful elite have created an atmosphere of mass obedience by a fearful and helpless populace to wanton genocide and ecocide. We are destroying ourselves and each other and nature through the selfishness and greed of the few. As a result, unrest is brewing in response to monumental military, economic and political tyranny.
You must know that true knowledge, wisdom and compassion are threats to the status quo. George Orwell said, “In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act” and Isaac Asimov wrote, “When stupidity is considered patriotism, it is unsafe to be intelligent.” I believe we now live in such a time to the extreme, and this situation is particularly poignant for us Americans now living under the tyrannies of empire and economic collapse. You come into office on the wings of conflict between a private power that has incubated you and a public clamoring for authentic change which so many of us have entrusted in you. You stand in the middle of an enormous gulf of interests, and you must know that at its deepest levels.
Those of us who take the road less traveled towards a greater truth always have been, and still are, martyrs placed on the altar of change. These heroes, often unrecognized in their own time, become the objects of religions and nation-states, which then become self-aggrandizing dogmatic institutions that have nothing to do with the original intentions and spirit of the founders. The founders could only be rolling in their graves about how their contributions have become so distorted.
Continuity and bipartisanship cannot be nearly as important as returning to the basic principles of integrity, civility and public trust. You’ll need to confront the tyranny of our recent past. Sacred myths such as the official stories of the JFK assassination and 9/11, for example, become enshrined in a fog of deception, lies and ignorance that distract us with bread and circuses, which, if perpetuated, can only precede the inevitable fall.
You must know the truth of all this, it’s too obvious for you or any other intelligent and sentient being not to be able to recognize. You must know that we have an imperiled planet and civilization that cannot endure the collective neglect of humanity. You must know that we cannot rely on half-measures such as a slow withdrawal from Iraq, minuscule reductions in the defense budget, insignificant nuclear arms reductions, bank and Wall Street bailouts, or advocating nuclear power, “clean coal” and carbon cap-and-trading as lasting remedies to climate change. You must know that such minutiae cannot solve these problems. You must know, at some level, about Einstein’s dictum that no problem can be solved at the level at which it was created.
Our species has invaded our home planet with such cancerous vengeance and with such little conscious awareness or acknowledgement of the depth of our dilemma, it is hard to imagine how we can get out of this matrix. But get out we must. It is much too late for us to fulfill your mandate to “change” in the way you have embarked on choosing your advisers and cabinet members. You must know that these individuals are throwbacks to prior administrations who are the epitome of an old ideological paradigm of a rule that cannot work in these times. Many of us have become suspicious that you are only paying back those elite individuals and groups that paved and payed your way towards where you sit now. Have they so threatened you to conform-or-else that you can’t act differently?
For you to succeed you’re still going to have to bite the hand that fed you. You will have to feint your way like in a basketball offensive around and through the broken field of defending opponents, who include those who have supported you so well financially. You will have to stand up in your courage and “betray” them (from their point of view).
Are you up to the task? Are you willing to risk life and limb to lead us into taking those actions needed to create a viable system of governance? Are you motivated enough to join the ranks of our brothers Martin Luther King, Mahatma Gandhi and John F. Kennedy to take bold actions toward a peaceful, just and sustainable future for humankind? Are you willing to evict the money-changers and militarists from the temple?
At some level, I think that you’re aware that your definition of “change” in no way resembles the kind of “change” any sensible and knowledgeable person not beholden to vested interests would feel is truly necessary for our own survival.
Mr. President, we’re all in great trouble if you are unwilling or feel unable to address the pleas of the vast majority of the people of our nation and of the world. They cry out for peace, sustainability and justice. You must also address the fact that nature, too, has rights. Reforming the voracious appetites of the moneyed interests and of the military-industrial complex will not be enough. Look all around you at the degraded environment, at the suffering of the peoples of the world longing for food in their mouths and for the kind of leadership that could relieve their pain and give us all a reasonable chance to move forward.
The crisis of America is first and foremost a moral crisis that has moved us away from the fact that we have a physical situation that demands physical solutions to have even the possibility of peace, sustainability and justice. We must now stop the wars, stop the torture, stop the criminal corruption and the lies, stop the theft of the common weal, stop the surveillance of the innocent, stop all the polluting, stop the suppression of true innovation. You must courageously lead us into a state of truth and reconciliation of our culture and stop the acting and pretending that authentic change is what you say you intend to create, because that isn’t what you’re doing—yet anyway.
I suggest to you that we need to define what is meant by “change.” The change you could believe in and you have often expressed is what we might call incremental change. These are the small rhetorical feel-good kinds of changes that separate Democrats from Republicans, the liberals from the conservatives, the Tweedledees from the Tweedledums, all inhabiting a narrow spectrum of ineffective “centrism,” holding onto power for dear life as Rome burns. These are the kinds of changes that got you elected as you navigated through the narrow passage between the special interests and the appearance of a public interest.
Beyond all that, we could consider what one might call a progressive structural change, such as eliminating electoral fraud, serving justice upon past criminality in high places, reregulating Wall Street, restoring the Constitution and the rule of law, re-establishing the “real economy” based on productivity rather than gambling away and squandering the public treasury, controlling the excesses of the Pentagon and an imperial aggressive foreign policy, restoring to Congress the power to print money and declare and fund wars, and allocating more resources to health, the environment, education and infrastructure.
Many progressives are desperate to restore this kind of common sense at the structural level and to create another New Deal for the economic crisis. The liberals would be grateful if all that were to happen, just to get us out from the deep hole we now find ourselves in. They would be satisfied to go back to the Clinton and Roosevelt years, to have just a bit more common sense in a world-gone-mad. Even some degree of neoliberalism, or economic globalization (i.e., exploitation and biocide by other means), might seem sort of OK, in this view. Yet we know these measures are not OK legally or morally; they are only the actions of economic imperialism.
But in today’s world, you must know that even structural changes in and of themselves will produce too little too late, and may be counterproductive in the long run, as we again become lulled into a false sense of security and buy a little more time before the inevitable collapse. Whereas incremental changes address mild corrections that really don’t amount to much, structural changes look at how the current system can be modified to bring things back to where they were in somewhat better times. These approaches can only give us a frame of reference to launch authentic change. What we must have is systemic change to an entirely new paradigm of governance in the public interest that truly addresses the challenges of our times at the level they will need to be met.
Structural change cannot truly answer grievous violations of the public trust nor can they answer today’s deepest issues. Only systemic change can do that. Whereas structural change can relieve the stress of a crisis in the short term, it cannot survive the test of time. Structural change can restore some sort of sanity to our systems, it cannot address the systems themselves. We must now challenge the precepts upon which our political, economic and military systems are based. We must deeply question the “isms” upon which we depend such as capitalism, militarism, neoconservatism, neoliberalism, centrism, monetary socialism, economic globalism, Zionism, terrorism. A new era must dawn, a new set of systems will need to be put into place in the near future for us to survive. Can you in your heart agree with what I suggest here? Or will you deny the gravity of these problems from your high and removed perch? Will you solely rely on probably misinformed and outdated advice coming from your cabinet and your staff? For you to advocate and map out systemic change, you will need all the help you can get from other quarters.
What would a world of positive systemic change look like? Generally, it should have the following features in which you will need to take the lead:
1. Restore the letter and spirit of the Constitution and Bill of Rights. This is the most major structural change we should do immediately.
2. Fearlessly initiate a program of truth and reconciliation, overseen by a jury of citizens without vested interests in the current system. Truth-telling cannot any longer be dismissed as conspiracy theory. The greatest conspirators are now holding all the political and economic cards and they must be exposed, whether it be electoral fraud, excessive private campaign financing, illegal surveillance, torture, illegal war, false flag operations, pollution or the embezzlement of the public treasury. All these things, and many more, will need to come to the light of public scrutiny. The process of reconciliation seeks to return us to the rule of law and to serve justice upon those who have violated it, with fairness and compassion for all.
3. Dissolve or stop funding those influential institutions with agendas that are blocking change toward global peace, justice and sustainability. Start over. Dismiss the leaders of most of our public institutions and build new ones from the ground up. Stop funding those private institutions that dip into the public treasury in ways that are clearly immoral and unproductive. This will require a courageous stand to dissolve the current federal bureaucracy as it is (DOD, CIA, NSA, the current treasury, the FBI, Department of Justice (sic), Department of Energy, etc.). Expose international institutions such as the Illuminati, the Council on Foreign Relations, the Bilderberg Group, the Trilateral Commission, World Bank, International Monetary Fund, World Trade Organization, the Federal Reserve and other central banks, big oil, big pharma, big agriculture, weapons manufacturers, and other groups representing existing elite monied interests. The current priorities of the U.S. federal government and of globalist New World Order organizations directly fly in the face of what we must do to survive the crisis of civilization. We need a clean-up like we’ve never seen before and some heads are likely to roll. So be it. The world can only be thankful for getting out from under this oppression.
4. Start over the entire systems of federal and global governance. Yes, we can still have a Constitutional executive, legislative and judicial system. We can still have a (much smaller) military, a justice department, an energy department, a treasury, publicly funded health care, environmental protection, quality education, infrastructure and all the rest. Yes, we can formulate a transition strategy to convert institutions and manpower toward the public interest, free of vested powers. Yes, we can convert our massive military, dirty energy and aerospace capabilities toward innovation in energy, the environment, food, water, health, education and infrastructure. Yes, we can create an Earth corps to clean up the environment instead of having of an aggressive Army, Navy and Air Force. We can do all this without workers having to lose their jobs. Yes, we can come to peace with the rest of the world through diplomacy and compassion. The world awaits a restoration of good will coming from a rogue nation that has outlived its usefulness as a warmongering and fearmongering empire.
5. Form a global green democracy whose agenda would be almost diametrically opposed to the New World Order agenda. Representatives of all nations must come together to formulate and enforce a system that would ensure peace, sustainability and justice for all peoples, while encouraging local rule wherever possible. In no case should special interests, money or secrecy determine the agendas of these governments. At the root of this should be the principles of life, liberty, equality, justice, peace and sustainability.
6. Fearlessly foster (suppressed) innovation such as free energy. Any systemic change will require the utmost attention to honestly assess those new sciences and technologies that can change the world. Only these systemic changes will be able to open the door to authentic transformation of the culture. We must get beyond the rhetoric of weak policies that would only slightly mitigate the effects of global climate change and pollution. We’ll have to think outside the box and get into the meat of the matter. We should quickly develop those energy sources that are truly cheap, clean, safe and decentralized, such as vacuum energy, cold fusion and advanced hydrogen technologies. No existing technologies such as solar, wind or biofuels are up to most of the task; we will need to innovate and transcend the promotions of the multitude of special interests that become vested in this or that existing technology. Following the latest fad can only cloud our judgment and action. No existing public or private institution wants to support these hidden truths and so it will become necessary to dissolve those institutions vested in old ways and start new ones that can support rather than suppress the deeper truths and opportunities of our times. The unsung heroes of innovation will need all the help they can get to team together in an Apollo program for new energy development, frontier science and consciousness. These research and development projects will become the cornerstones of a whole new civilization that could save us from ourselves and from those of us who insist that change can only be incremental or structural.
Mr. President, you must know we all are entering the gravest crisis the world has ever experienced and that the situation can be addressed only by implementing the kinds of systemic changes listed above. Many of us are willing to support these efforts in team-work with you. I believe you will have no other choice but to move into these changes briskly. Otherwise, the degree of unrest, fear and repression will be too great to allow us to act without further violence, totalitarian control and ecological and economic collapse. We don’t want that kind of world, we want to have room in which to innovate our way from the very systems that have become so decadent, so destructive, so tyrannical.
Is this an impossible task? Not if we act radically, decisively and quickly. We can only try. Crisis breeds opportunity. It is time to restore the ideals upon which our nation was founded. We have grievously lost our way from practicing those principles. We are also rapidly losing a natural environment that can nurture us all on this fragile spaceship we call Earth.
Mr. Obama, I appeal to your intelligence, wisdom and compassion to begin to facilitate the dialogue that will allow us to create those new systems that can foster the kind of future world we really want to enjoy for ourselves, our children and their children. I in no way mean my critique to be personal, I only want to help build a fire under all of us to begin the journey toward an exciting and positive new paradigm. Thank you.
Yours sincerely,Brian O’Leary, Ph.D.February, 2009.
For the Earth, Brian.
P.O.Box 258, Loja, Ecuador.
E-mail : Dr Brian O'Leary

Elevating Science, Elevating Democracy

REPEAT: Two issues dwarfing all others, without whose resolution, nothing will change! Bring freedom back to energy science + redefine Corporism, corporate personhood, the current controller of science direction through university funding $$$$$$$$
Freedumb, Freedumb, Read All About It! "A Free Trade, Free Market, Free Corporate, Unregulated Economy run like Al Capone's Casino Joint, and Policed by Al Capone". Is this the best University MBA/PHD Masters and Government Regulators can provide?

PEOPLES LIVES DEPEND UPON THE ECONOMIC SYSTEM. The economic system is not singularly a tool for profit, and the hell with Life. "We now have to pay for the greed and recklessness of those who should have known better.” It is time, Mr. Schumer said, for the American economy to be revived as the “engine of prosperity,” rather than as a “casino” for high-rollers in the realm of finance.

How, in a world of exploding human population, with unparalleled needs, wants and desires, can the economy keep falling, with more and more working people around the world, poorer, lacking basic needs and going hungry... this can only be termed Freakohnomics: The new 21st Century Supply & Demand Economics - absolute greed, absolute power brings on absolute madness - Turns into Freakohnomics gone berserk. Or mafia economics by deliberate Design - the greater the need, the higher the price for all commodities required to sustain Life. The Outcome, economic strangulation and workaholic enslavement of a people was not designed by the lord thy God, nor (for the non-believer) is it a Natural or Nature's Law, nor a Scientific Law

What factors changed Market Supply & Demand Fundamentals to Freakohnomics gone berserk? From cheaper goods and services available to all through continual advances in science, technology and mass production, to 'Whatever The Market Will Bear' depending on how great the need for sustaining Life?

The answers lie in Power, Greed, and Stagnant Energy Science

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.

Mild shock and disbelief barely registered in the nation of the most productive, overworked, underpaid, underinsured, vacation deprived, low paid slave/workers in the world, as they watched their bridges fall down along with their retirement savings in equity & stocks, while their taxes, gas, energy and food costs continued skyrocketing to uncharted realms and many continue to lose their homes and go hungry; as the masses stagnated in unmovable traffic, and government departments threatened to close due to lack of funds - On the bright side, the worldwide corporate 2% greedy guts, individually, had aplenty, more wealth than 30 nations combined, apiece.... irrelevant to who is paying for their errors (as in subprime loans).

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. 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.




January 27, 2009 Essay
Elevating Science, Elevating Democracy
By DENNIS OVERBYE
All right, I was weeping too.
To be honest, the restoration of science was the least of it, but when Barack Obama proclaimed during his Inaugural Address that he would “restore science to its rightful place,” you could feel a dark cloud lifting like a sigh from the shoulders of the scientific community in this country.
When the new president went on vowing to harness the sun, the wind and the soil, and to “wield technology’s wonders,” I felt the glow of a spring sunrise washing my cheeks, and I could almost imagine I heard the music of swords being hammered into plowshares.
Wow. My first reaction was to worry that scientists were now in the awkward position of being expected to save the world. As they say, be careful what you wish for.
My second reaction was to wonder what the “rightful place” of science in our society really is.
The answer, I would argue, is On a Pedestal — but not for the reasons you might think.
Forget about penicillin, digital computers and even the Big Bang, passing fads all of them.
The knock on science from its cultural and religious critics is that it is arrogant and materialistic. It tells us wondrous things about nature and how to manipulate it, but not what we should do with this knowledge and power. The Big Bang doesn’t tell us how to live, or whether God loves us, or whether there is any God at all. It provides scant counsel on same-sex marriage or eating meat. It is silent on the desirability of mutual assured destruction as a strategy for deterring nuclear war.
Einstein seemed to echo this thought when he said, “I have never obtained any ethical values from my scientific work.” Science teaches facts, not values, the story goes.
Worse, not only does it not provide any values of its own, say its detractors, it also undermines the ones we already have, devaluing anything it can’t measure, reducing sunsets to wavelengths and romance to jiggly hormones. It destroys myths and robs the universe of its magic and mystery.
So the story goes.
But this is balderdash. Science is not a monument of received Truth but something that people do to look for truth.
That endeavor, which has transformed the world in the last few centuries, does indeed teach values. Those values, among others, are honesty, doubt, respect for evidence, openness, accountability and tolerance and indeed hunger for opposing points of view. These are the unabashedly pragmatic working principles that guide the buzzing, testing, poking, probing, argumentative, gossiping, gadgety, joking, dreaming and tendentious cloud of activity — the writer and biologist Lewis Thomas once likened it to an anthill — that is slowly and thoroughly penetrating every nook and cranny of the world.
Nobody appeared in a cloud of smoke and taught scientists these virtues. This behavior simply evolved because it worked.
It requires no metaphysical commitment to a God or any conception of human origin or nature to join in this game, just the hypothesis that nature can be interrogated and that nature is the final arbiter. Jews, Catholics, Muslims, atheists, Buddhists and Hindus have all been working side by side building the Large Hadron Collider and its detectors these last few years.
And indeed there is no leader, no grand plan, for this hive. It is in many ways utopian anarchy, a virtual community that lives as much on the Internet and in airport coffee shops as in any one place or time. Or at least it is as utopian as any community largely dependent on government and corporate financing can be.
Arguably science is the most successful human activity of all time. Which is not to say that life within it is always utopian, as several of my colleagues have pointed out in articles about pharmaceutical industry payments to medical researchers.
But nobody was ever sent to prison for espousing the wrong value for the Hubble constant. There is always room for more data to argue over.
So if you’re going to get gooey about something, that’s not so bad.
It is no coincidence that these are the same qualities that make for democracy and that they arose as a collective behavior about the same time that parliamentary democracies were appearing. If there is anything democracy requires and thrives on, it is the willingness to embrace debate and respect one another and the freedom to shun received wisdom. Science and democracy have always been twins.
Today that dynamic is most clearly and perhaps crucially tested in China. As I pondered Mr. Obama’s words, I thought of Xu Liangying, an elderly Chinese physicist and Einstein scholar I met a couple of years ago, who has spent most of his life under house arrest for upholding Einstein’s maxim that there is no science without freedom of speech.
The converse might also be true. The habit of questioning that you learn in physics is invaluable in the rest of society. As Fang Lizhi, Dr. Xu’s fellow dissident whose writings helped spark the 1989 Tiananmen Square demonstrations and who now teaches at the University of Arizona, said in 1985, “Physics is more than a basis for technology; it is a cornerstone of modern thought.”
If we are not practicing good science, we probably aren’t practicing good democracy. And vice versa.
Science and democracy have been the watchwords of Chinese political aspirations for more than a century. When the Communist Party took power it sought to appropriate at least the scientific side of the equation. Here, for example, is what Hu Yaobang, the party’s general secretary, said in 1980. “Science is what it is simply because it can break down fetishes and superstitions and is bold in explorations and because it opposes following the beaten path and dares to destroy outmoded conventions and bad customs.”
Brave words that have yet to be allowed to come true in China. Mr. Hu was purged, and in fact it was to mourn his death that students first began assembling in Tiananmen Square in 1989.
Dr. Fang got in trouble initially because he favored the Big Bang, but that was against Marxist orthodoxy that the universe was infinitely unfolding. Marxism, it might be remembered, was once promoted as a scientific theory, but some subjects were off-limits.
But once you can’t talk about one subject, the origin of the universe, for example, sooner or later other subjects are going to be off-limits, like global warming, birth control and abortion, or evolution, the subject of yet another dustup in Texas last week.
There is no democracy in China, and some would argue that despite that nation’s vast resources and potential, there will not be vigorous science there either until the Chinese leaders take seriously what Mao proclaimed back in 1955 and then cynically withdrew: Let a hundred flowers bloom, let a hundred schools of thought contend.
In the meantime I look forward to Mr. Obama’s cultivation of our own wild and beautiful garden.