A Year After a Cataclysm, Little Change on Wall St.

What happened to our money (bailout)? An uninformed/misinformed public in energy science and economics is incapable of creating the survival parameters for a sustainable and prosperous future. The horrors a suppressed, broken science will bring are unimaginable: For the greatest living physicist, Stephen Hawking to write (2007) “A Stubbornly Persistent Illusion”, (or delusion), regarding the original, infantile interpretation of E=MC2 still believed today, spells umbrellas for the earth, a global warming solution, and corn for Energy Innovation. When the parameters of freedom and survival disappear, so do people and life. ..........repeating from blog "Traveling at Warp Speed" http://freedomtimes.blogspot.com/2009/05/how-to-travel-at-warp-speed.html - how could any intelligent species sit for 100 years upon such delusional concepts of: "as an object travels faster and faster, its mass increases (time slows, stops, goes backwards – approaching, at, exceeding VC)," or "As an object approaches the speed of light its mass becomes infinite." The obvious subsequent realization of such a short sighted error swiftly corrects to - the 'increasing mass' of the target is only the measure of the kinetic energy differential which exists between them http://fuel2000.net/ This concept completely overhauls the stubbornly persistent delusions, primitive definitions and stranglehold restrictions of E=MC2, opening the doors to the unified field theory.

NYT September 12, 2009
A Year After a Cataclysm, Little Change on Wall St.
By ALEX BERENSON

Wall Street lives on.
One year after the collapse of Lehman Brothers, the surprise is not how much has changed in the financial industry, but how little.
Backstopped by huge federal guarantees, the biggest banks have restructured only around the edges. Employment in the industry has fallen just 8 percent since last September. Only a handful of big hedge funds have closed. Pay is already returning to precrash levels, topped by the 30,000 employees of Goldman Sachs, who are on track to earn an average of $700,000 this year. Nor are major pay cuts likely, according to a report last week from J.P. Morgan Securities. Executives at most big banks have kept their jobs. Financial stocks have soared since their winter lows.
The Obama administration has proposed regulatory changes, but even their backers say they face a difficult road in Congress. For now, banks still sell and trade unregulated derivatives, despite their role in last fall’s chaos. Radical changes like pay caps or restrictions on bank size face overwhelming resistance. Even minor changes, like requiring banks to disclose more about the derivatives they own, are far from certain.
Coming on the same weekend as the 11th-hour bailout of the giant insurer American International Group, and the sale of Merrill Lynch, Lehman’s failure was the climax of a cataclysmic weekend in the financial industry. In the days that followed, nearly everyone seemed to agree that Wall Street was due for fundamental change. Its “heads I win, tails I’m bailed out” model could not continue. Its eight-figure paydays would end.
In fact, though, regulators and lawmakers have spent most of the last year trying to save the financial industry, rather than transform it. In the short run, their efforts have succeeded. Citigroup and other wounded banks have avoided bankruptcy, and the economy has sidestepped a depression. But the same investors and economists who predicted, and in some cases profited from, the collapse last fall say the rescue has come at an extraordinary cost. They warn that if the industry’s systemic risks are not addressed, they could cause an even bigger crisis — in years, not decades. Next time, they say, the credit of the United States government may be at risk.
Simon Johnson, a professor at the Sloan School of Management at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and former chief economist of the International Monetary Fund, said that the seeds of another collapse had already sprouted. If major banks are allowed to keep making bets that are ultimately backed by taxpayer guarantees, they will return to the practices that led them to underwrite trillions of dollars in bad loans, Professor Johnson said.
“They will run up big risks, they will fail again, they will hit us for a big check,” he predicted.
The doomsday view is far from universal.
Wall Street executives say the Lehman bankruptcy opened their eyes to the fragility of their institutions. They note that they have pulled back on risk and reduced leverage, creating a bigger cushion against losses. And they say that regulators were right to support the financial industry over the last year, rather than imposing new rules or allowing weak banks to collapse.
“There is less leverage in the entire financial system,” said David A. Viniar, Goldman’s chief financial officer. At Goldman, $1 in capital now supports about $14 in loans and investments, compared with $24 a year ago.
But even some senior Wall Street executives acknowledge the lack of change surprises them, given how poorly the industry performed last fall and the degree of government support necessary to keep it from collapsing.
“There was a general feeling that an enormous amount of additional regulation should be put in place to prevent what happened that weekend from happening again,” said Byron Wien, vice chairman of Blackstone Advisory Services and the former chief investment strategist for Morgan Stanley and Pequot Capital. “So far, we haven’t seen a lot of action.”
Robert J. Shiller, the Yale University economics professor who predicted the dot-com crash and the housing bust, said the window for change may be closing. “People will accept change at a time of crisis, but we haven’t managed to do much, and maybe complacency is coming back,” Professor Shiller said. “We seem to be losing momentum.”
Kenneth C. Griffin, founder and chief executive of the Citadel Investment Group, a Chicago-based hedge fund that manages $13 billion, said that regulators and lawmakers needed to impose rules so failing banks could be shut, rather than allowed to operate indefinitely with taxpayer support.
“We’ve taken a lot of steps for the worse, and not for the better, in terms of the structural underpinnings of our capital markets,” Mr. Griffin said. “We have to change the rules and correct the fundamental flaws in the financial system.”
To be sure, Wall Street is not exactly as it was before the cataclysm of last year.
Then, a dozen or so big banks formed the top tier. Now Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan Chase are clearly the strongest, with Morgan Stanley struggling to compete. Bank of America and Citigroup are the weakest big banks, heavily reliant on government guarantees to survive.
“We have more separation between the healthiest and the least healthy of the big banks,” said Darrell Duffie, a finance professor at Stanford University.
Banks have collectively raised hundreds of billions in new capital to help cushion losses on bad loans and are taking a more prudent approach to lending and underwriting. The worst excesses of 2006 and 2007, when banks lent hundreds of billions of dollars against all kinds of real estate at terms that even at the time seemed absurd, have ended.
But those changes are not unexpected. Banks typically raise lending standards during recessions. And even if they wanted to keep up underwriting, they would not find much of a market. Many pension and hedge funds have suffered huge losses on mortgage-backed bonds and are hardly rushing to buy more.
Critics of the industry argue that the pullback in risk will be only temporary without deep regulatory changes. Nassim Nicholas Taleb, a statistician, trader, and author, has argued for years that financial firms chronically underestimate their risks and must be managed much more cautiously. Universa Investments, a $5 billion fund in which he is a principal, made more than 100 percent profit last year betting on the possibility of a collapse.
Mr. Taleb warns that the system has grown riskier since last fall. The extensive government support that began after Lehman collapsed will lead investors to assume that governments will always prevent major banks from collapsing, he said.
So investors will lend money to the financial industry on easy terms. In turn, financial institutions will use that cheap money to make risky loans and trades. The banks will keep the profits when their bets pay off, while taxpayers will swallow the losses when the bets go bad and threaten the system.
Economists call the phenomenon moral hazard. Bankers have a different term: I.B.G. The phrase implies that by the time a deal goes sour, “I’ll be gone,” after having received a sizable bonus.
Despite the predictions last year about pay cuts, those bonuses appear secure. Kian Abouhossein, an analyst at J.P. Morgan in London, predicted this week that eight major American and European banks would pay the 141,000 employees in their investment banking units $77 billion in 2011 — about $543,000 per worker, not far from the 2007 peak — even after minor regulatory changes are adopted.
Because the rewards are so rich, the banks will not change unless regulators and lawmakers force them, Mr. Taleb said.
“I don’t know anyone on Wall Street who goes to work every day thinking of anything but how to increase their bonus,” he said.
To prevent a replay of last year’s crisis, investors in financial institutions, especially bondholders, must believe that they will lose money if banks fail, said Sheila C. Bair, the chairwoman of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. “You need to send that very strong, clear signal to restore market discipline,” Ms. Bair said.
But legislation that would allow regulators to close giant institutions in an orderly fashion has been stalled for months. So too have efforts to create a systemic regulator that would focus on the broader risk that might occur from the ripple effects caused by the failure of one major bank.
Another proposed change would require banks to list and trade derivatives through a central clearinghouse, just as stocks and options are traded through exchanges, but it has yet to go anywhere.
The term derivatives encompasses a variety of financial products, including contracts whose value changes as interest rates move and insurance that pays off if a bond defaults. Derivatives drove the boom before 2008 by encouraging banks to make loans without adequate reserves. They also worsened the panic last fall because they inherently tie institutions together. Investors worried that the collapse of one bank would lead to big losses at others.
Requiring that derivatives be traded openly sounds like a relatively small change, but it could have important effects.
Exchange trading would open pricing for derivatives, so banks could not hide money-losing positions. Banks would have to put up money as positions moved against them, since the exchanges would seize and sell derivatives that were not backed by adequate margin. That move would help avoid the situation A.I.G. faced last year, after it wrote hundreds of billions of dollars of credit insurance and had no money to make good on its promises when the bonds defaulted. But critics say that even the proposed changes would not go far enough, because they would exempt some complex derivatives from exchange trading or clearing. Moreover, some banks oppose opening derivatives trading, because it would cut their profits by making pricing more visible and as a consequence competitive. For now, legislation to force derivatives trading onto exchanges has stalled, and banks are still writing contracts with limited regulatory oversight.
“The off-exchange derivatives market is still the Wild West,” Ms. Bair said.

Our Gifts to Our Children and Future Generations

Our Gifts to Our Children and Future Generations

Without a corporate bill of rights and science freedom:

1. Bill of Rights – (not government control) for Corporations and the Economic System (note, we the people have to live by a common sense bill of rights)
2. Science Freedom, specifically the energy sector.

See "Revisiting the Nature of Power" http://www.relaxspa.net/Revisiting_Power.htm

Which Possess the potential, the promise, of a future foretold a half century ago for today: 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" An Impossible World? Excerpt from The Energy Solution Revolution by Brian O'Leary http://freedomtimes.blogspot.com/2009/04/impossible-world.html

Our Gifts to Our Children and Future Generations become:

Progressive Transportation










Full Retirement available at 105 years “may you enjoy your remaining hours of life, and enjoy all the things you have wanted to do after a century plus of ever more productive, cost/benefit-cutting, cubicle/labor slavery that maximized profits for our 2% golden greedy guts masters"

The horrors a suppressed, broken science will bring are unimaginable: For the greatest living physicist, Stephen Hawking to write (2007) “A Stubbornly Persistent Illusion”, (or delusion), regarding the original, infantile interpretation of E=MC2 still believed today, spells umbrellas for the earth, a global warming solution, and corn for Energy Innovation. When the parameters of freedom and survival disappear, so do people and life. ..........repeating from blog "Traveling at Warp Speed" http://freedomtimes.blogspot.com/2009/05/how-to-travel-at-warp-speed.html - how could any intelligent species sit for 100 years upon such delusional concepts of: "as an object travels faster and faster, its mass increases (time slows, stops, goes backwards – approaching, at, exceeding VC)," or "As an object approaches the speed of light its mass becomes infinite." The obvious subsequent realization of such a short sighted error swiftly corrects to - the 'increasing mass' of the target is only the measure of the kinetic energy differential which exists between them

With the “trickle down” economic principle almost dried up, and the “waterfall up” principle at 98%, never in human history, have totalitarian feudal systems been so large and powerful as in “too big to fail” corporations, what NYTimes called 2% greedy guts, owning 98% of the world’s wealth, with total direction of scientific funding, no bill of rights, and only one goal: MAXIMIZE PROFITS


Through continued M&A (mergers & acquisitions), all competition is being destroyed. From milk cartels, to oil cartels, to agribusiness, to pharmaceuticals – all which are economic necessities for Life. With competition gone, price gouging (economic strangulation) to the hilt has become an ongoing standard operating procedure.

In my discussions with countless people, who still claim “capitalism” is the best, I ask “WHERE THE HELL DO YOU SEE ANYTHING RESEMBLING CAPITALISM OR DEMOCRACY OR SCIENTIFIC UNDERSTANDING in the major players causing worldwide economic damage? The only goal these (Ralph Nader’s Term) Frankenstein CORPORATE monsters have is maximization of profits at all costs, including human. 'Capitalist Pig and Proud' seems oblivious to how many Americans are destroyed, lose their homes, their retirement savings, lose their jobs, go hungry, - or those working, continually having to increase productivity in spite of downsizing, while sacrificing benefits, insurance, and salary, as their bridges fall down and local governments run out of money even with DOUBLE TAXATION (selling services for which we continue to pay taxes, to private firms who charge hundreds of times more for the same services). THIS USED TO BE CALLED SURFDOM IN A FEUDAL SYSTEM, NOT FAR FROM ABJECT SLAVERY.

Updates from the News (this is not about surface trivia, twiddledee winks and clothing styles of republicans or democrats all in bed with the same Masters, all pre-selected, chosen by big money, whence the public subsequently plays the extreme hyped-up and staged kindergarten "I choose" game, called Freedumbland Voting by our media controlled masters)



Sept 6, 2009 How Did Economists Get It So Wrong? By PAUL KRUGMAN
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/06/magazine/06Economic-t.html?_r=1&hp=&pagewanted=print
I. MISTAKING BEAUTY FOR TRUTH It’s hard to believe now, but not long ago economists were congratulating themselves over the success of their field. Those successes — or so they believed — were both theoretical and practical, leading to a golden era for the profession. On the theoretical side, they thought that they had resolved their internal disputes. Thus, in a 2008 paper titled “The State of Macro” (that is, macroeconomics, the study of big-picture issues like recessions), Olivier Blanchard of M.I.T., now the chief economist at the International Monetary Fund, declared that “the state of macro is good.” The battles of yesteryear, he said, were over, and there had been a “broad convergence of vision.” And in the real world, economists believed they had things under control: the “central problem of depression-prevention has been solved,” declared Robert Lucas of the University of Chicago in his 2003 presidential address to the American Economic Association. In 2004, Ben Bernanke, a former Princeton professor who is now the chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, celebrated the Great Moderation in economic performance over the previous two decades, which he attributed in part to improved economic policy making.
Last year, everything came apart.
Few economists saw our current crisis coming, but this predictive failure was the least of the field’s problems. More important was the profession’s blindness to the very possibility of catastrophic failures in a market economy.

Sept. 2, 2009 Productivity up 6.6%, Highest in 6 Years. Businesses Produce More with Fewer Workers
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/09/02/business/main5281537.shtml?tag=contentMain;contentBody AP) Worker productivity, the single biggest factor determining living standards, grew at the fastest pace in nearly six years in the spring while labor costs fell by the most in nine years, as companies slashed costs to survive the recession. But economists worry that such aggressive cuts will make it harder to mount a sustainable recovery. That's because the lack of wage growth and shortage of jobs will depress household incomes and make the prospects for a sustained rebound in consumer spending less likely. Consumer spending is critical to the recovery since it accounts for about 70 percent of total economic activity.

Sept 2,, 2009 Pfizer to Pay $2.3 Billion, Agrees to Criminal Plea By REUTERS NEW YORK/WASHINGTON (Reuters) – http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/2009/09/02/business/business-us-pfizer-settlement.html?scp=1&sq=Pfizer%20to%20Pay%20%242.3%20Billion,%20Agrees%20to%20Criminal%20Plea%20&st=cse Pfizer Inc agreed on Wednesday to plead guilty to a U.S. criminal charge relating to promotion of its now-withdrawn Bextra pain medicine and will pay a record $2.3 billion to settle allegations it improperly marketed 13 medicines.
The world's biggest drugmaker was slapped with the huge fines by the U.S. government after being deemed a repeat offender in pitching drugs to patients and doctors for unapproved uses. Pfizer pleaded guilty in 2004 to an earlier criminal charge of improper sales tactics and its practices have been under U.S. supervision since then.

August 20, 2009 Independent Farmers Feel Squeezed By Milk Cartel "We all worship at the altar of the free market — that's what we're taught as good Americans," Goodman said on the air. "But I don't know what is free about a handful of companies destroying competition, controlling the process from beginning to end." http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=112002639&ft=1&f=1006 Behind that pure, wholesome, nourishing glass of milk, there's an insurgency - by John Burnett "That's why we have reached, in my opinion, the point we have reached, where farm prices are so abysmal," Hardin says. "And we know the money is in the marketplace — we see what the consumer's paying for these dairy products. If the farmer would get a fair share of that, we wouldn't be having this discussion." Sen. Bernie Sanders, whose home state of Vermont has lost 32 dairy farms so far this year, has gone on the offensive. "Dean Foods controls about 90 percent of the milk supply in Michigan, 80 percent in Massachusetts, over 80 percent in Tennessee and 70 percent in northern New Jersey. That's not a free market." Sanders says.


Aug. 20, 2009—Oil Speculator: 'Capitalist Pig and Proud' Are Oil Traders to Blame for Your High Price at the Gas Pump? http://abcnews.go.com/Business/blaming-oil-speculators-high-gas-prices/story?id=8366397 By SCOTT MAYEROWITZ
John Wesley McPherson, Jr. is an oil speculator. While most Americans were suffering last summer from an economic double whammy -- $4-a-gallon gas and a plunging stock market -- McPherson was profiting. And in the fall when oil prices plunged, McPherson cashed in again. Betting on oil is a very risky business. But get it right, like McPherson did, and there's a gusher of money to be made. In 2008, McPherson and the other principals of Sequoia Financial Advisory Services turned a 32.4 percent profit, according to International. Members of Congress and the trade group representing the major U.S. airlines have blamed speculators for run-ups in the price of crude.

April 15, 2009 The big business/big government axis of evil
By Chuck Baldwin http://www.renewamerica.com/columns/baldwin/090415
Self-proclaimed "conservatives" love to tout themselves as ardent supporters of the "free enterprise" system. In the name of "capitalism," they support any and every piece of legislation or governmental decision that caters to business — especially Big Business. Favorite policies of these folks include anything and everything that calls itself "free trade." Furthermore, these same "conservatives" will support just about anything and everything that is said to advance the so-called "global economy."
Needless to say, in the name of "free trade" millions of American jobs and thousands of American manufacturing plants have been outsourced to foreign countries and interests. And leading the charge for "free trade," outsourcing, and the "global economy" is the international cabal known as Big Business. But Big Business does not play this game alone. Joining Big Business is its pernicious partner, Big Government.
Together, Big Business and Big Government form a tyrannical tandem that is squeezing the breath out of our once-great republic. In fact, people need to understand that what is passing for "capitalism" in America today is nothing more than "Corporatism."

Aug. 28, 2009 Banks 'Too Big to Fail' Grow Even Bigger
Washington Post: Behemoths Born of the Bailout Reduce Consumer Choice, Tempt Corporate Moral Hazard The pursuit of profit was put ahead of the regard for safety, soundness and human life.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/08/28/politics/washingtonpost/main5271210.shtml (Washingtonpost.com) This story was written by Washington Post Staff Writer David Cho.

The new 21st Century Golden Rule for Advanced Civilizations: maximize profits, delete scientific facts and understanding Sept 7, 2009 U.S. Share of Worldwide Arms Market Grows http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/07/world/07weapons.html?_r=1&hp
By THOM SHANKER WASHINGTON — Despite a recession that knocked down global arms sales last year, the United States expanded its role as the world’s leading weapons supplier, increasing its share to more than two-thirds of all foreign armaments deals, according to a new Congressional study.
The annual report was produced by the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service, a division of the Library of Congress. Regarded as the most detailed collection of unclassified global arms sales data available to the general public, it was delivered to the House and Senate on Friday in time for their return from the Labor Day recess.

August 11, 2009 FINDINGS The Earth Is Warming? Adjust the Thermostat
By JOHN TIERNEY Originally called geoengineering, this approach used to be dismissed as science fiction fantasies: cooling the planet with sun-blocking particles or shades; tinkering with clouds to make them more reflective http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/11/science/11tier.html?scp=1&sq=The%20Earth%20Is%20Warming?%20Adjust%20the%20Thermostat%20&st=cse

Aug 4th, 2009 (IANS) US firms look beyond India, China as offshoring surges
China News.Net - US companies are increasingly turning to offshoring their functions to achieve cost savings with small companies looking for new talent clusters beyond India, China and Eastern Europe, according to a new survey. The number of US companies with a corporate offshoring strategy in place more than doubled from 2005 to 2008, according to the fifth annual report on offshoring trends, published by Duke University in collaboration with the Conference Board, a nonprofit business research organization Monday. http://www.chinanews.net/story/527045

July 20, 2009— $23.7 Trillion to Fix Financial System? In New Report, Neil Barofsky Says It's Possible Government Could Spend $23.7 Trillion to Fix Financial System http://abcnews.go.com/Business/Politics/story?id=8127005&page=1 By MATTHEW JAFFE Sitting down? "The total potential federal government support could reach up to $23.7 trillion," says Neil Barofsky, the special inspector general for the Troubled Asset Relief Program, in a new report obtained Monday by ABC News on the government's efforts to fix the financial system.
Yes, $23.7 trillion. "The potential financial commitment the American taxpayers could be responsible for is of a size and scope that isn't even imaginable," said Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., ranking member on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee. "If you spent a million dollars a day going back to the birth of Christ, that wouldn't even come close to just $1 trillion -- $23.7 trillion is a staggering figure."

July 19, 2009 Why Are Banks Raising Fees? As Citigroup and Bank of America Post Huge Profits, Why Are Bank Fees Going up? By Anthony Mason http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/19/business/19dimon.html?_r=1&hpw

July 19, 2009 In Washington, One Bank Chief Still Holds Sway By JACKIE CALMES and LOUISE STORY http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/19/business/19dimon.html?scp=1&sq=In%20Washington,%20One%20Bank%20Chief%20Still%20Holds%20Sway%20&st=cse

National Ignition Facility, Crystals, Atlantis

National Ignition Facility, Crystals, Atlantis

As the rise and fall of great, legendary civilizations fortell, there are potentially devastating, lethal dangers to their sustainability brought on by the suppression of knowledge, history and the science of Energy.

Today, many scientists, pursuing various paths of scientific inquiry are mutually engaged in the attempt to re-discover and to exploit the advanced art and science of crystalology that was lost to the earthman during the last great collapse of science and civilization many thousands of years ago.

Large KDP crystal grown in two months for NIF. (legend: ...the maximum amount of energy that can be generated or transmitted by a crystal is limited only by its size and by the material of which it is composed. Because of the precise lattice like structure of the crystal its energy output can be controlled and directed in a very precise manner..)

The interior of the National Ignition Facility target chamber, which weighs one million pounds and measures 30 feet in diameter

The National Ignition Facility, a man-made machine designed to recreate the power source of stars. If all goes as planned, the facility’s 192 lasers — made of nearly 60 miles of mirrors and fiber optics, crystals and light amplifiers — will fire as one to smash a fleck of hydrogen fuel smaller than a match head. Compressed and heated to temperatures hotter than those of the Sun, the hydrogen atoms will fuse into helium, releasing bursts of thermonuclear energy.

missing in action, simple simon (4th grade level) science fundamentals of space time mass matter energy gravity
TIME: Many of the difficulties which we encounter in our attempt to understand the operation of the natural laws arise because of our severely restricted concept of the nature of time. Time follows the same curve of natural law which is apparent in the operation of all the basic factors of nature, and again the radius of that curvature is measured by the quantity C. Follow the example in StarSteps which puts us in a unique position from which we can, from a single point in time, observe ourselves occupying three rather widely separated positions in space.
SPACE: The degree of separation which exists between any two bodies is determined by the degree of curvature of the natural laws which exist between them. In making observations, of course, we must remember that, since the natural laws are relative, the mass of the body itself influences the degree of curvature

• StarSteps
• In short, the quantity C is the measure of the radius of curvature of natural law. It is the factor which will enable 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. It is the factor which will eventually tell us how to place our transport vehicles in either the positive or negative portion of the gravitational curve with respect to the earth or any other planet which we may choose to visit.
• When we state that the quantity C is the radius of the curvature of natural law, we mean simply 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.

Crystal Fundamentals and History

"It would seem therefore that the transportation device driven by the huge Atlantean Fire Crystals performs its function equally well whether the object on which it acts is in the air, upon the surface or beneath the sea"

My mentor’s 1970 Lecture that follows, incorporates two subjects, which at first glance, may seem to be far apart both in time and basic nature. However, both subjects have roots in antiquity. And as we shall see, the one becomes the only adequate and logical explanation of the other.
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The science of metaphysics has always had a deep interest in, and respect for, the crystal, because of the many references in ancient language to its unique nature and remarkable properties. It has only been in the past few years, however, that the crystal has begun to find its rightful place in the progress of the more conventional sciences.

The chemist of course, has always had a certain special interest in the crystal because it represents the only completely natural assembly of atoms or molecules, each one of which has settled exactly into its proper spot in the solid crystal from the saturated liquid in which the crystal grows. Thus the finished structure becomes one of great regularity and considerable beauty as most of our precious jewels and gem stones demonstrate.

It was not, however, until the scientist began to apply various forms of energy and forces to the crystal that its true importance began to be realized, although it is as yet far from being completely understood.

Because the crystal is a solid in which each particle is exactly in its natural place, it constitutes a matrix of precisely balanced forces and fields. Any application of force to the crystal will therefore result in the generation of energy, and conversely, any application of energy will result in the generation of force.

Our present day science is making many practical applications of these properties, such as in the crystal microphone in which the force of sound waves impinging upon the crystal cause it to generate an electrical potential; and in ultrasonic drills and vibrators where the application of high frequency electrical potential causes the crystal to generate mechanical displacement or force waves which are then transmitted to some other part of the system or to the surrounding medium.

The maximum amount of energy that can be generated or transmitted by a crystal is limited only by its size and by the material of which it is composed. Because of the precise lattice like structure of the crystal its energy output can be controlled and directed in a very precise manner.

For example, medical science is now producing laser beams so sharply focused that they can be used to cut into and remove portions of individual body cells, which are themselves so tiny as to be invisible except under a strong microscope.

Today, many scientists, pursuing various paths of scientific inquiry are mutually engaged in the attempt to re-discover and to exploit the advanced art and science of crystalology that was lost to the earthman during the last great collapse of science and civilization many thousands of years ago.

There is a possibility that these questing scientists could hasten considerably the achievement of their goal if they knew where to look and if it were possible to look there.

In the dusty archives of our most ancient historical records, it is recorded that beneath the left forepaw of the great Sphinx at Giza in Egypt, there is a sealed compartment in which have been stored whole volumes of the scientific records of the past, together with the samples of scale models of many of its devices and artifacts.

Unfortunately, I can only recount here what has been written because I have not as yet been able to verify these accounts by personal inspection.

During the course of our last investigative tour of Egypt, we were permitted to examine the exterior of the Sphinx as carefully as we wished, but there was no opportunity for digging. I can report, however, that certain definite and repeatable deviations of the needle of the compass which I carried, did indicate strongly that a considerable quantity of magnetic, or at least magnetically permeable material, was indeed located beneath the surface in the immediate vicinity of the left forepaw.

From those records of the lost civilization that are still available, we can learn something of the tremendous powers inherent in the crystal. And in our own laboratories, we are working sometimes almost feverishly to rediscover and to put into operation the same powers and abilities that our ancient ancestors used so widely and so effectively.

Our present laser systems are, as we have pointed out, one of the tangible results of such efforts. The output of the ruby crystal in a laser system is probably quite similar to that of the drillstick of which so much has been written in the ancient records except, of course, that the drillstick employed a somewhat simpler and more compact system than any of those which we have yet been able to produce. Although with our rapid advance in miniaturization, we should soon begin to approach the results obtained by our remote ancestors.

In the hands of a supreme ruler who was the only person permitted to possess or to use the brillstick, it represented total authority since it contained the power of life or death to the laser like beam which it emitted. The crystals produced by present day science are quite limited in size, and their shape is determined almost entirely by the nature of the electrical fields within the molecules of which they are composed.

The Atlanteans, however, had no such limitations. By growing their crystals within an area of precisely controlled exterior electrical and magnetic fields, they could cause a crystal to continue to grow almost indefinitely and to take on any one of a number of predetermined shapes.

These huge crystals they then incorporated into devices and systems, which, while they were relatively simple compared to some of our present technology were still capable of performing functions which would certainly cause our best scientists to stare in awe and wonder, probably mixed with a liberal amount of ego saving skepticism of that which they were seeing.

Tremendous forces acting over great distances could readily be produced. When we bounce our tiny laser beams off the surface of the moon and record the return signal after its 480,000 mile round trip journey, we are taking the first few childlike steps in the redevelopment of the Atlantean art.

Substantial changes could be brought about in the electrical, the magnetic, and even in the gravitational fields over rather large areas, and significant changes in the time field could be created in local areas by the huge crystal controlled systems of the Atlanteans.

In his manuscript, Timaeus, or Theory of the Universe, and again in his brief twenty two page paper Critias, the Greek philosopher Plato, described the history and the culture of this long submerged island continent, its amazing people, and some of the incredible science with which they could control even the heavens at will. http://www.activemind.com/Mysterious/Topics/Atlantis/timaeus_and_critias.html

He named the continent Atlantis, which is simply the plural form of Atlas, the titan of Greek mythology who was said to stand at the western extremity of the earth near the islands of the Hesperides upholding the heavens with his shoulders. There is no evidence however, that even Plato realized that the very mythology of the titans from which he borrowed the name Atlantis was in fact the unwritten history, handed down through the centuries of the race of all powerful titans of the continent of Poseidon who commanded forces so great that they could indeed control the heavens at will.

We cannot fail to note, however, that the western extremity of the known earth was at that time about the center of what we now know as the Atlantic Ocean and from which the continent of Atlantis once rose. We must also remember that Poseidon, the brother of Atlas, and the god of the sea, was said to dwell in the same locality in a huge and magnificent palace at the bottom of the sea from which he occasionally rose to vent his wrath upon those who defied or ignored him.

In the late Edgar Casey’s book on Atlantis mention is made of the all powerful crystal systems. On page 86 we find the following words: “In Posedia the entity dwelt among those that had charge of the ‘motivative’ forces from the great crystals that so condensed the light and the forms of activity as to guide the ships in the sea and in the air”.

Again on page 87 we read: “In Atlantean land, at the time of the development of the electrical forces that dealt with transportation of craft from place to place, overcoming gravity itself, to preparations of the crystal, the terrible, the mighty crystal, much of this later brought destruction” end of quote.

Apparently some of these systems made use of energy accumulators coupled to natural energy sources and were designed to operate automatically when triggered by some specific and predetermined stimulus. They required no human control or maintenance and were practically immune and impervious to time or to the conditions of their environment.

At least two, and probably more of these periodically operating devices are apparently still in operation, and still performing their designed function after some thousands of years of immersion in the Atlantic Ocean.

When the continent of Atlantis or Poseidon descended into these depths, it took with it not only a whole nation of people, but also some of the most remarkable technology ever created upon this planet. Because they worked with the natural laws instead of using one to oppose or overcome another as we have fallen into the habit of doing, their systems were on the whole somewhat simpler and less bulky than ours, and yet they were capable of producing results which we are not yet able to duplicate, or in some cases even to understand.

Not only was this civilization aware of the many huge spaceships which had for countless generation cruised the galaxy, but it had established firm commercial relations with the galactic foundation. And the sale or barter of material and supplies to those ships whose course took them near to the earth had become one of the nation’s most profitable industries.

The transportation of these materials and supplies between the earth and the spaceship, did however, present some problems and difficulties because of the intense resonating fields produced by the propulsion systems of the huge ships and the tremendous degree of ionization that would be created in any atmosphere through which they moved, it was not practical for them to approach closer than a few hundred miles to the earth’s surface. And no matter how the lifting was done, the earth’s gravitational field still exacted a tremendous toll of energy from the transfer operation.

To solve this problem, several crystal driven and controlled systems were developed which were capable of creating the effect of an almost complete warp in the space between the earth and the spaceship when the ship was directly above the system. The electrical and magnetic fields present were not greatly affected, although their direction was changed. But the time and the space factors between the earth and the spacecraft became practically zero. Material and supplies placed within the conveying chamber or area could then immediately be transferred to the hold of the ship.

While this concept may at first glance be somewhat difficult to grasp or accept and while it may appear to be in violation of several of our currently cherished laws of science, it really is not at all. In the change of location, the energy of position offsets the gravitational loss and all laws of conservation are upheld and satisfied.

We have been too much in the habit of assuming that if an object is to change from one location to another, that is, if it is to cease to occupy point A, and instead occupy some other point B, it must in the process occupy, momentarily, all possible points between the two. This idea is not, however, a necessity of thought, nor is it a law of nature. It is in fact, simply a habit of thought which has resulted from the fact that objects which we observe in motion almost always follow this pattern.

For example, if we place a number of sheets of paper at various distances between a rifle and the target at which it is aimed, when the bullet has left the gun and reached the target we will find a hole in each piece of paper indicating that the bullet had occupied that point during some part of its motion. All of our laws of ballistics are based upon this principle and the exceptions to these laws, that is the cases where an object ceases to occupy one point and simultaneously begins to occupy some other point without having occupied any of the points between are so rare and so difficult to observe or demonstrate that it is much simpler for science to ignore or to deny them than to make any effort to explain.

Somewhere off the coast of Florida under many fathoms of water, one of these Atlantean crystal driven systems apparently still exists and still performs at least some of its original functions. Powered by accumulators drawing their energy from natural sources, and unaffected by time or its surroundings it still springs into action when triggered by a specific impulse or signal and still goes through its designed task of transporting any solid state matter within its range from its original location to some unknown to us and probably remote point x.

Since there are no detail descriptions of this device available to us, we can gain more knowledge of it only through a careful and complete study of its performance and its effects upon other objects during those brief but fateful periods when it comes into operation and thereby manifests its properties and its effects to us.

Since there have been many such demonstrations which are well documented, some of them in rather precise detail and since they continued to occur at relatively frequent intervals quite a substantial body of dependable fact and detail exists to furnish a fairly sound basis for such a study.

To describe in detail the many separate events that have occurred in this area and which can only be adequately explained by the operation of the Atlantean device would require several hours. The records fill a number of folders in my own research files and the specific date it continues to accumulate. It covers a period of more than one hundred and fifty years and it involves the area commonly known as the Bermuda Triangle, although it is usually defined geographically as being roughly a square bounded on the north by a line stretching from Bermuda to the Virginia coast and on the south by the islands of Cuba and Espanola.

This stretch of ocean dotted with a few islands which are the only visible remnants of the Atlantean continent has been the scene of more unconventional and inexplicable disappearances than any equivalent area on earth. In the last century alone forty two ships and twenty seven planes for which well documented records exist have sailed into this area and simply vanished without warning and without a trace.

Ships or planes lost to storms, fire or other normal hazards are not counted in this list. They are all cases where no distress call was sounded, the weather was moderate, and in spite of the widest possible search and rescue operations, no wreckage, no debris, no survivors and not even an oil slick was ever found.

A few examples of these ships are: the Swedish owned Lotta, which disappeared in 1866; the Spanish merchantman, Viego, in 1868; the British training ship, Atalanta, in 1880; the Italian schooner, Miramon, in 1884; and the American collier Cyclops, in March of 1918. Similar disappearances have occurred every two or three years since then and will undoubtedly continue to occur in the future unless the exact location of the events can be determined and those spots avoided.

Attempts have been made to explain the loss of these ships as being due to mid-ocean earthquakes, or seaquakes, which might raise sudden waves as high as several hundreds of feet. Such waves might swallow a ship so suddenly and completely that there would be no time for distress calls or the launching of lifeboats.

The Tsunami theory is however, like many other attempted explanations in that it raises other questions even more difficult than those which it attempts to answer. In the first place, a tsunami or tidal wave, once it has been created, rolls on and on with little loss of height or energy until it encounters some land surface. A two hundred foot wave generated anywhere in the Bermuda Triangle would still be at least one hundred to one hundred and fifty feet high when it reached the Florida coast where it would then proceed to roll over about half of the state destroying everything in its path.

Also, we are faced with the necessity of explaining the equally abrupt vanishing of some twenty seven or more airplanes in mid-flight and it is exceedingly difficult to imagine a wave high enough to snatch up an airplane flying at ten thousand feet.

One of the most significant, and by far the best documented cases of plane disappearances is of course that of flight 19 consisting of five TBM avenger bombers, which on December 5th,1945 took off on a routine patrol flight from the US naval air station at Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Most premid reports state that the weather was clear and the flying conditions excellent. My personal perusal of the weather reports for that day as printed in the Fort Lauderdale newspapers indicate that there were a few broken clouds and a small amount of wind. However there were certainly no weather conditions which would endanger a short routine patrol of this kind.

The flight leader’s plane had a crew of two, while the remaining four planes carried three men each. The lead plane’s third man had reported sick that morning and so was not on the flight. All of the fourteen pilots and crewmen had flight and navigation experience ranging from thirteen months to six years. The planes were expected to make a triangular patrol flying east for one hundred and sixty miles, then north for forty miles, and then directly back to base at Fort Lauderdale, a total flight time of about one hour and forty five minutes.

The flight took off at 2:00 PM and by 3:45 PM they were expected to call the tower for landing instructions. But the message actually received at that time was anything but a routine one. “This is an emergency”, this is an emergency” it said in part. And even with radio distortion there was an unnerving fear noticeable in the flight leader’s voice. When asked for his position, he replied, “We’re not sure of our position, we can’t be sure where we are, we don’t know”. When told to assume a bearing of due west, the flight leader replied “we cannot be sure which way is west, we cannot be sure of any direction, everything is wrong, everything is strange, the ocean doesn’t look as it should”. By this time the sun was nearing the western horizon, and when the tower operator, half jokingly, half sarcastically, suggested they head for the setting sun since it usually sets in the west, or had they forgotten that, the flight leader replied that neither clouds nor sun were visible in the strange sky through which they were flying.

For nearly thirty minutes thereafter, the tower could hear the planes talking to each other. It was obvious that none of the five pilots or any of the nine crewmen had any idea of their position, even though all of them were experienced in aerial navigation, and it was completely incredible that all navigation instruments and all compasses could fail on all five of the planes simultaneously. The overheard conversation showed increasing signs of fear and hysteria among the five pilots. Then without prior warning, the flight leader abruptly turned over the flight command to another plane. This in itself was a most unusual act, and one which usually occurs only under the most desperate of emergencies.

At about 4:15 PM the control tower received its last message from the flight. It said, “We are not certain where we are, must be about 225 miles northeast of base, it looks like we are” the message broke off at that point instantly and completely. Immediately thereafter, a Martin flying boat with full rescue equipment and a crew of thirteen men was dispatched to search for the missing flight and to rescue the dazed pilots who with all of the navigation equipment to be found in military bombing planes still couldn’t find west.

The rescue plane gave several routine radio reports and then lapsed into silence. Neither this plane nor any of the original five bombers were ever heard from again nor was any sign of them ever found in spite of one of the largest air and sea rescue searches in American history.

The aircraft carrier Solomons was in the vicinity and by mid afternoon of the next day, many ships and over three hundred planes had joined the search. Not a single item of wreckage or debris from any of the six planes was ever seen, even though the Martin flying boat was designed to land upon the ocean, and because it was used for marine rescue service, had aboard life preservers, rafts, and literally hundreds of items which would rise to the surface of the ocean and continue to float indefinitely no matter how hard the plane had hit the water.

The navy, after an exhaustive investigation of the incident in which a total of twenty seven lives had presumably been lost was unable to come up with any solution. Their report stated simply, we are not even able to make a good guess as to what happened.

A little more than two years later, on January 29th, 1948, a four engine commercial airliner belonging to the British South American Airways Company with thirty four passengers and a crew of six were in route to Kingston, Jamaica.. The weather was clear and mild. At 10:30 PM a routine report was made to the control tower at Bermuda. This was the last message ever received from this airliner. No evidence was ever found that would indicate a crash into the ocean or elsewhere. No wreckage, no oil slick, no debris of any kind was ever located. The big plane with a total of forty persons aboard had simply vanished.

Again on January 7th, 1949, one year later, another four engine airline, also belonging to the British South American Airways with seven crewmen and thirteen passengers took off from Bermuda bound for Jamaica at 7:30 AM in excellent weather. At 8:15 AM there was a routine report and then silence. As in the previous case, no sign of wreckage, plane or passengers was ever found.

As in the previous cases, a thorough investigation of the above cases could only report that the planes had, quote, “ presumably been lost at sea”, unquote, an undeniable premise but not very enlightening.

In January of 1960 a convoy of five planes was in route from Puerto Rico to New York when two of the planes suddenly disappeared in fair weather and without having given any signs of distress. They had been flying at some distance from the remaining three but well within visual range. Again, no sign of planes or their crew was ever found.

These are but four of the documented cases, but the balance of them are so similar as to seem like carbon copies of these. In every case they involve planes flying in mild weather in level flight and with no known problems yet suddenly they were no longer there. The total number of planes that have vanished in this manner can only be guessed at since no genuinely coordinated effort has ever been made to assemble all of even the known cases. And of course the loss of smaller planes could and almost certainly would be attributed to engine failure, lack of fuel, radio malfunction or other more readily understood causes.

It would seem therefore that the transportation device driven by the huge crystals performs its function equally well whether the object on which it acts is in the air, upon the surface or beneath it.

There have been half hearted efforts by several departments of the federal government to probe the mystery of the Bermuda Triangle. In January 1946, a group of naval intelligence officers were ordered by President Truman to form a central intelligence group which became the forerunner of the CIA. In the spring of 1946 this central intelligence group participated in a series of secret hearings in Washington DC in which the wives and relatives of the missing Flight 19 were flown to Washington to attend the meeting.

Since that time, most of those involved have refused to discuss the matter at all. But the mother of one of the missing flyers has said that she thought her son was still alive, perhaps somewhere in space. In 1965 and 1966, the National Bureau of Standards undertook a project in which special microphones capable of picking up sounds above the audible range were installed off the coast of Florida, and while some results were reportedly obtained no conclusions have yet been announced.

In an interview in 1968, a spokesman for the Coastguard’s Search and Rescue branch said, “Quite frankly we don’t know what is happening in this so called Bermuda Triangle. All we can do about these unexplainable disappearances is to speculate”. The navy is trying to get to the bottom of the mystery with a project called Project Magnet, in which they are investigating the electromagnetic, gravitational, and atmospheric disturbances. Some experts think that some such disturbance might have disintegrated those planes in 1945. A ship in the area reported sighting a large ball of fire in the skies which could of course also have meant a midair collision, but that’s exceedingly unlikely among five planes all flying together. The fact is we have no real opinions.

If the Atlantean device is indeed the answer to the endless chains of disappearances the destination to which all of these planes, ships and the submarine were transported can only be a matter of speculation since we have never had a report from any of the crews or passengers of the missing vehicles. It could perhaps be another planet, another dimension, or another frequency. But until some of those who were transported find a way to return through the same gate through which they left we can only guess.

While the total number of vanished ships and planes may be far greater than anyone realizes, it is still fairly obvious that the transporting mechanism is operative only at certain points, at certain times, and under certain conditions. For example, it might be triggered only by a certain minimum size mass passing directly over the sensing device. The system would probably be operative only within a certain area above the device. This would explain why only two of a flight of five planes vanished while the other three which were flying just outside the radius of the area were untouched and unaffected. In the case of the five TBM Bombers, all of them chanced to be within the radius of activity when the system was triggered.

Note that, as I mentioned in the beginning, the electrical and magnetic fields are relatively unchanged by the action of the device therefore the pilots of the five planes were able to continue radio communication with the control tower so long as the device continued to produce and maintain the space warp. The planes were no longer really on earth, nor had they really left it, although the rising degree of panic and hysteria which developed among the normally calm and experienced pilots showed their awareness that something strange and totally inexplicable had happened to them. When the device shut off and no longer produced the warp, the pilots and their planes were instantly and completely at the remote end of the transportation system, wherever that might have been and their communication was instantly cut off.

In most of the other instances it seems that the pilots did not become aware that anything dangerous was happening until it was too late for radio communication. If it were possible to compile a comprehensive list of all such events within the area together with all of the known data surrounding each event, it might be possible with the aid of a computer to derive valid or at least very probable conclusions concerning the location or locations of activity, the nature of the device, its active periods, and the mechanism by which it is triggered.

But since it is very unlikely that the possibility of such advanced systems can or will be accepted even in theory by our present day science, it is improbable that any comprehensive list will ever be made or studied by any official agency, even though the events will probably continue to occur at frequent intervals.

Thus the great mystery of the Bermuda Triangle is likely to remain just a growing mystery until we begin to develop similar systems in our own technology, or until the land upon which the present one is built rises again above the ocean surface.

Angels & Demons, Atlantis & Anti-Matter

Angels & Demons, Atlantis & Anti-Matter

Another point of view: Introducing the space-time helix and the possible destruction of all matter http://www.spacetimehelix.com/ We should be careful not to jump to conclusions with only “bits” of scientific information, nor act on short sighted scientific information which might only be a tangent, offshoot of Reality. Historically, expanding our window of scientific data to reality changed our view of a flat earth to a round one. We are far, far from done with our expanding point of view of reality. In fact, we are far behind and dangerously so. Top Secret, Need to Know philosophies have never favored the continuity of life. (see below Space-Time Helix article end for 'dust ball' analogy and extrapolate the analogy to adults and PhD's possessing only Bits of information with potentially unfathomable deadly consequences. It pays not to destroy the vast richness of human history, human evolutionary potential, and lessons learned from our educational systems by replacing wholesome education with robot, disconnected, specialized, corporate slave sponsored and censored education. The deadly consequences of "dumbed down" go far beyond the trouble with physics and the idling Standard Model).



Fables from Atlantis: ………“so the One Substance responds at 831,000,000,000,000; at, again, the next octave of vibration, and again at the next, where it becomes visible as the fatal Unfed Light, last form of matter below where matter ceases and mind begins, called in Atla the “Maxin,” and again, by the Tchin as the “Vis Mortuus.”


“The Atlanteans used laser rays & crystals to fuel their power plants. There was a huge "Firestone", with power generated by filtering the rays of the sun through ruby prisms, which concentrated energy upon instruments connected in the transportation complex by remote control. Inside a huge dome with a sliding roof, cosmic energy stations transmitted beams that could be turned up so high, they became the famous Death Ray. (according to Ruth Montgomery, and Edgar Cayce in their metaphysical receiving sessions) “ Scientists also perfected Anti-matter. When a beam of anti-matter comes in contact with ordinary matter, it instantaneously converted it into invisible energy. In other words, it vaporized it!

Reality from Cern and ....NIF, National Ignition Facility https://lasers.llnl.gov/: …………” Antimatter is the mirror image of conventional matter with opposite properties. Antimatter is destroyed whenever it collides with matter, turning both into bursts of electromagnetic radiation. Scientists believe this process was crucial to the fiery creation of the universe billions of years ago. Why so little antimatter is made now in nature remains one of physics' great dilemmas. Only modest levels have been detected in cosmic ray showers and the nuclei of distant galaxies. Antimatter is difficult to make in the lab, too. Giant particle accelerators at CERN and Fermilab near Chicago specialize in the quest. In the first antimatter experiments a few years ago, only dozens of short-lived antimatter particles were created.


Hydrogen, the most abundant element, consists of an electron orbiting a proton. Antihydrogen is the exact opposite; a positron -- an electron with a positive charge -- orbiting an antiproton, or a proton with a negative charge. In the latest experiments, ATHENA researchers used the CERN accelerator to create antiprotons and electromagnetically trapped them in a vacuum chamber. A radioactive source, meanwhile, was used to create positrons, which were held in a separate trap. The antiprotons were then fed into the pool of positrons, where the two combined to form antihydrogen. The antimatter was short-lived; Hangst said it was annihilated when it bumped into normal matter. Detectors picked up the unique signatures of antimatter as it was destroyed, he said. Using antimatter to power a starship or create a weapon, meanwhile, is still in the realm of science fiction, he said. Making antiprotons requires 10 billion times more energy than it produces. For example, the antimatter produced each year at CERN could power a 100 watt light bulb for 15 minutes, Hangst said.

NIF The National Ignition Facility https://lasers.llnl.gov/

The National Ignition Facility: Ushering in a New Age for Science The world's largest and highest-energy laser was formally dedicated on May 29, 2009. In 2010, NIF will begin experiments that will focus the intense energy of 192 giant laser beams on a BB-sized target filled with hydrogen fuel. NIF's goal is to fuse the hydrogen atoms' nuclei and produce net energy gain – the same fusion energy process that makes stars shine and provides the life-giving energy of the sun. Scientists have been working to achieve self-sustaining nuclear fusion and energy gain in the laboratory for more than half a century. When the National Ignition Facility (NIF) begins ignition experiments at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) in 2010, that long-sought goal will be much closer to realization.
NIF's 192 giant lasers, housed in a ten-story building the size of three football fields, will deliver at least 60 times more energy than any previous laser system. When all of its beams are fully operational, NIF will focus nearly two million joules of ultraviolet laser energy on a tiny target in the center of its target chamber – creating conditions similar to those that exist only in the cores of stars and giant planets and inside a nuclear weapon. The resulting fusion reaction will release many times more energy than the laser energy required to initiate the reaction.


Another Point of View http://www.spacetimehelix.com/
INTRODUCING THE SPACE-TIME HELIX AND THE POSSIBLE DESTRUCTION OF ALL MATTER
By Roland Weiss Clopton….. For over a century, since Albert Einstein published his first paper on relativity in 1905, physicists have struggled to resolve fundamental differences between quantum theory and the continuum or field theory. The field approach must have no singularities; but the quantum approach has only singularities….. Regardless, whatever final model ultimately emerges will look very much like the Clopton Model, incorporating infinite extension, the speed of light, rotation, proto-mass and proto-charge, which sounds very much like dark energy and dark matter theorized today. Current theories were all built on the paradigm of flat non-reactive space and billiard ball matter. It has been my intent to demonstrate that space is underlaid by a highly reactive matrix comprised of the space-time helix……. If the Clopton Model is true, NIF machinery has the potential to destroy both space and time, and wipe out all record of human existence in a new type of fire
TABLE OF CONTENTS
1. Questions Left Unanswered by Physical Science 2. Introducing the Space-time Helix (STH) 3. The Meaning of E = mc2
4. Relativistic Time Dilation, Relativistic Mass Increase, and Lorentz-Einstein Contraction 5. Space-time and Dark Matter 6. Speed of Light
7. Where Does Mass Come From? 8. Where Does Charge Come From? 9. What Is a Proton and Electron? 10. What Is a Neutron and a Neutrino?
11. What Is a Photon? 12. What Is Electromagnetic Radiation? 13. What Is Electricity? 14. What is a Force? 15. Electrostatic Charge 16. Magnetism
17. Gravity 18. Inertia 19. Right Hand Rule 20. Unlimited Power by STH Coupling 21. Chemical Bonding 22. Power Source for the Universe
23. Conservation Laws 24. What Is Antimatter? 25. What Are Short-lived Particles? 26. Particle Spin 27. High Energy Particles and Cosmic Radiation
28. Avogadro’s Number 29. Brownian Motion 30. Continuum – Quantum Commonality 31. Big Bang and the Shape of the Universe
32. Background Radiation 33. Is the Expansion Rate of the Universe Accelerating? 34. Dark Energy 35. An Imminent Danger 36. Closing Comments



The dangers of “bits” of scientific information, or acting on short sighted scientific information which might be only a tangent, offshoot of Reality.

Dust balls.
Dr. Lloyd E. Cannon once reflected on this story: The child who was informed by his Sunday School teacher, "from dust ye came, and to dust ye shall return," (no doubt referring to Wise King Solomon’s words: "All go unto one place; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again.")
At home the little boy happened to roll a ball under the bed, and came running to his mother, exclaiming excitedly, "Mommy, Mommy, come quick! There is somebody in the bedroom under the bed!:" Showing his mother the rolls of dust underneath the bed, the little boy said, "see, he is either coming or going."
That pile of dust signified to the little lad just one thing, from that "bit of knowledge" he had recently acquired, to him God was in the process of creating another man, or of taking one away.

..........repeating from blog "Traveling at Warp Speed" - how could any intelligent species sit for 100 years upon such delusional concepts of: "as an object travels faster and faster, its mass increases," or "As an object approaches the speed of light its mass becomes infinite." The obvious subsequent realization of such a short sighted error swiftly corrects to - the 'increasing mass' of the target is only the measure of the kinetic energy differential which exists between them (specified reference points between which measurements are made - else measurement is meaningless). The mass approaches infinity only as the energy level approaches that of the accelerating force. In the case of the quantity C, usually called the velocity of light (VC), the differential is equal to 3 x 10(10) centimeters per second, or if we convert this velocity to its equivalent energy we would have 9 x 10(20) ergs per gram of mass - further notating a most significant relationship property of light/energy and mass/matter: the VC energy differential is also exactly equal to the total energy inherent in any gram of matter, resulting in the natural outcome, that the quantity C is the radius of the curvature of natural law, simply meaning, 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. Since the velocity of light energy differential can also manifest as a frequency, polarizing gravity becomes possible at the local, here and now, level. (StarSteps)

Capitalism Highlights: Predator, Bailout, Terrorist - Triumphs Of 21st Century

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

Capitalism Highlights: Predator, Bailout, Terrorist - Triumphs Of 21st Century

Appleby: Bailout Nation: Capitalism Highlights: Predator, Bailout, Terrorist - Triumphs of 21st Century. 'Bailout Nation' Author Rips $14T Rescue'

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Publisher: First and foremost, Mr. Appleby, do you have any comprehension of the significant size which a fourteen trillion currency value represents? ........... Who in this universe would trash this devastating size of accumulated energy and effort, for self-serving, self-centered, obscene profit and greed, precipitating near global economic collapse which the economically strangled people pay for again in bailouts? ............ Do you comprehend that tiny portions of these funds in research and development would wipe out all disease and save countless lives and alleviate untold misery and suffering? ........ Starvation would be non-existent ......... Wholesome education (not robot, disconnected, specialized, corporate slave sponsored education) would eliminate poverty ....... With wholesome education, "plastic band aids" and corn would not be considered as solutions to the stagnant energy crisis, pollution, and ecological imbalance causing global warming with deadly consequences rivaled only by fables and legends ........... What kind of population would support this kind of system and play trivia in their spare time? .......... What kind of population with an awareness of its past, a history ripe with feudal systems, kings, despots and dictators, would permit non-living Entities, devoid of a bill of rights (Corporations) to create systems peoples lives depend upon? ....... And allow these non-living Entities to buy/create their own laws, corrupt the politics of nations, seize, hoard, and wield for themselves most of the wealth of the human race? ........ Freedom and Democracy - for the people, by the people, of the people - does not disconnect from Survival with that gigantic of a gap, a gap so huge it can only be measured in light-year parallel. ............. We must reject your story, as we do not have a readership that could connect with your disconnect. Your world in your story does not fit in the realm of universal possibility, and is impossible.

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

Credibility for Appleby's world 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.






















"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.
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BAILOUT NATION

'Self-Inflicted Damage': Highlights From 'Bailout Nation'
A New Book From Bailout Critic Barry Ritholtz Takes on Citigroup, Chrysler and More
'Bailout Nation' Author Rips $14T Rescue
By ALICE GOMSTYN ABC NEWS Business Unit

May 27, 2009—
How long does it take to explain how the U.S. government has ended up spending billions of dollars in taxpayer funds to bail out some of the country's largest, most well-known corporations?
If you check with bailout critic and Fusion IQ chief executive Barry Ritholtz, the answer is about 300 pages. "Bailout Nation, Ritholtz's new book, "points fingers and lays the blame at a number of places," the author told ABCNews.com.
"Now that the worst of the crisis is over, we need to start thinking about how this happened and how we can prevent it from happening again in the future," Ritholtz said. "It's important not only that we avoid repeating the mistake but we figure out the causes of this and then start setting about repairing the damage that was done."
Below are some of the highlights of the analysis in Ritholtz's book, courtesy of the book's publisher, Wiley.
From 'Bailout Nation'
1. This was not a "perfect storm" -- unforeseeable random events that just happened. In reality, it was a series of conscious decisions made by investment banks, commercial banks, government officials, regulators and central bankers that were simply awful. 2. The bailout has cost more so far than the Marshall Plan, the Louisiana Purchase, the race to the Moon, the S&L crisis, the Korean War, The New Deal, the Gulf War II/Invasion of Iraq, Vietnam War, NASA and War World II COMBINED. (Oh, and that includes adjusting the other expenses for inflation).
3. The CEOs of the biggest 15 investment banks, mortgage firms and commercial banks "retired" from the firms they helped to ruin, and took home more than $1.5 billion in compensation.
4. Warren Buffet offered Lehman Brothers a multi-billion dollar investment that would have saved the firm. Dick Fuld, Lehman's CEO, turned him down, so he invested it in Goldman Sachs instead.
5. No, contrary to popular rumor, AIG was not brought down by the collapse of Lehman Brothers. In fact, AIG's exposure to LEH was balanced. Instead, they were like two swimmers caught in the same riptide. And the same forces that led to Lehman's demise also killed AIG: too much leverage, too much sub-prime mortgage exposure, too little risk management.
Highlights From 'Bailout Nation' (cont.)
6. When the United States bailed out Chrysler in 1980, the UAW had 1.5 million members and the Big 3 had a 75 percent U.S. market share. Since that "successful" bailout, the UAW is down to 400,000 members and falling; the Big Three fell below a 50 percent U.S. market share for the first time in May 2008.
7. Nearly every bailout had followed the same script: similar timeliness, official statements, stock action, politics and, ultimately, taxpayer money.
8. Much of the damage to these companies was self-inflicted: the excess leverage, mortgage exposure, deregulation and lowering of credit standards took place at the behest of these firms. They were not killed by others, they committed suicide.
9. The S&L crisis wasn't a bailout; it was a payout on a federally funded deposit insurance program.
10. The total cost of the bailouts so far, including loans, guarantees, assumption of risk and outright gifts, exceeds $14 trillion.
11. The Troubled Assets Relief Program was an elaborate ruse designed to hide the fact that Citigroup was insolvent.
12. Wells Fargo bought Wachovia for $15 billion, but managed to squeeze a $74 billion tax shelter through the IRS for the purchase. Net profit, $59 billion dollars, pretty nice for one day's work.
13. Citigroup had been lobbying for the repeal of the Glass-Steagall Act since the 1980s. They finally got their wish, and it helped destroy the bank.
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