Oil

Unfortunately, I am forecasting an increase in the price of oil compared to other dollar-value goods. Since the world's oil will no longer be traded exclusively in dollars, we will pay more dollars for oil. This means that oil prices for dollar holders should be rising.

What options does this produce?

Interest rates being high implies that the return on borrowed money should be high, yes? But in this low-return economy, how can that be so? It this rewarding fortunes, megafinance, and saving? Is it reigning in entrepreneurship and lending/borrowing in a poor economy?

Perhaps the rates *should* be lower.

[This is a joint operation with www.ustransitauthority.blogspot.com to educate and reduce commutes.]

I looked back on the jobs I have had, and found that one of the factors making a job most enjoyable was a short commute. The quality, workmates, content, and pay scale of the job were also factors, but the commute played a part of many of these, since commuting is technically part of working, unless your commute is zero.

A long commute will actually *reduce* your effective salary. Assuming you produce 40 hours a week on the job for 50 weeks a year, every half hour of your daily commute will add 250 hours to your work. This reduces your hourly wage by 1/8, if you work 2000 hours a year. An hour long commute reduces your salary by 25%.

Furthermore your commute is not free. Assuming that you drive and get good mileage and fuel prices remain stable, you are also paying ~$5 per half hour of your daily commute. This becomes $1250 per year per half hour of your commute. If you are commuting 2 hours to work every day, you have increased your work year from 2000 hours to 3000 hours [taking a 33% pay cut] and you also will pay $5000 in fuel expenses, add maintenance and wear. Is that job worth your time and money? They would have to pay you substantially above-market rates to make it equally worth your while to commute.

You could take a lower paying job closer to home, or move closer to your job, if it is worth the time commuting. Please consider this when choosing employment, transportation, and residence. You will help improve your quality of life and the freetime you have to enjoy it more, and you will help save the planet and help the community.

College Books and Excessive Profit

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/volusia/orl-collegebooks2506nov25,0,954603.story

College textbooks are the ultimate monopoly market. Often the college bookstore is the only source for the book, which is often 100% required to pass. This can elevate the cost to 'anything not suspicious'.

This is not legitimate. It contains criminal business practices, and at the very least needs to be changed. So here we are at the crossroads.

Anything that is aggressively profitable is, well, unfortunately wrong. If you're making 500% profit on something and it is turning into quite an uneven amount of leftover cash, you are cheating someone. Not maybe cheating, not making a killing, you are doing something wrong.

Unless your customers are not suffering from paying the cost. In that case, it doesn't seem to matter, except for being peculiar. But if you're charging students $400 or $500 per semester for books, and you produce these books for pulp, and could sell them for half their price, and the students are suffering, you are profiting from their suffering, which is bogus.

This practice is anti-community, anti-commerce, and detestable. It should stop.

Dominus Vitae

People vs Nations

If you own 66% of the world's resources, along with it comes the responsibility of those who rely on those resources for survival. Aggressive economics can be lethal otherwise, which is in the jurisdiction of the law.

This is the basis of state formation. If massive investment groups want to form commerce nations, then they will be allowed to, but they must operate in line with UN charters or they will be acted upon.

In the same way, building a national fence is unethical if you place a plurality of vital resources on one side only. In the way governments claim imminent domain, human populations may be able to claim dominus vitae on resources or other controlling elements.

Oil -> work
Drugs -> God
Sex -> love

Do not let the medium get in the way of the message.

If owning that much stuff gets in the way of your duty to others, you should not have it.

When economics and ecology clash, there will be death. This is potentially one of the laws of economics, or one of the consequences of environment.

Who do we represent? We are God's people, here to represent God.

Do not let the medium get in the way of the message.

Money is Also From God

Money represents things. It is the earth, a bushel of wheat, a field of oil. Having money is like having an unsubstantiated or undefined deed. It does not give you tyranny over the item. It gives you responsibility and authority over the item.

Money, too, is from God, as is the water and land and your time and life. It is to be used responsibly. Someone who makes a monopoly using money is a criminal just as someone who makes a monopoly using land or other resources.

If the Federal Reserve commits a monetary monpoly, they will deserve antitrust charges in the name of the people.

Black Gold Beans

Observe this movie about 3rd world - 1st world dominance in trade. If these 3rd world countries had a way to generate energy cheaply, they would not need to trade for such a pittance, and could engineer their economy more 'fruitfully'. This could give the 1st world less beneficial resource deals, though. This is economic terrorism.

Making coffee farming profitable is a good way to get more real trading partners and fewer impoverished slave-nations. The ideal is no impoverished slave-nations, and this is possible with free energy. This cannot condone 1st-3rd slavery. It is a crime that the 1st world enforces. It would be better to pay them reasonable wage for their beans than to break their knees into economic weakness.

Bare Cost of Living and Federal Minimum Wage

The 1968 minimum wage was equal to $9.33 [2006]. The cost of living in 1968 was also lesser in 2006 dollars. This would make even the least able person capable of making a suitable living wage! We did beat the Soviets' communism in that sense, and tenable welfare and other tax-provided public services can fill the gaps inbetween. But we lost to the lowest bidder when our state became unable to do this by allowing megaprivatization, corporatization, lagging out the minimum wage, and unbalancing the economy that is now threatening our Constituional framework and producing a poor lifestyle for millions in America and exploiting those around the world.

http://www.letjusticeroll.org/stateminimumwagechart.html
This chart shows the state minimum wages. The federal government recently did not pass a law that would make the minimum wage $7.50.

Monthly: hi low
Car insurance 78 78
Gasoline 200 100
Car care 150 50
Rents 500 300
Foods 400 300
Repayments 300 200
Stuff 200 22
Savings 200 50
Tax/Junk-15 305 165
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M-Total 2334 1265
Annual 28000 15144

Weekly Pre- Tax Income
538 291

Hourly Wage $14.00 $7.57
[2000hrs]

This is a rough estimation of the basic living needs of the average human being working in America. If they begin debt free, they can work easily and use $2400-3600 less per year, which would turn into $1.20-1.80 less per hour, changing the debtless basic plan to $6.37/hour. Car insurance for many states and drivers is higher than $78 per month. Savings selections may vary. Rent indicates shared inexpensive rented dwelling. Food may cost more than $400 per person per month. The Red Cross affords something like $75 weekly for a person for food. Purchase of 'stuff' assumes no 'major' spending events, like buying a leather jacket or new computer, or only every few months. Assume no health insurance, or job-only payers, or add it on top at ~60 biweekly, turning into +~$.75 hourly. The tax is also somewhat low and does not include state tax.

The state minimum wage in:

Massachusetts is $6.75. In January, 2007 it will become $7.50 FAIRish
Connecticut is $7.40. In 2007 it will become $7.65 FAIR
California has $6.75. In 2007 it will become $7.50 In 2008 it will become $8.00. Okay
New Hampshire: Federal Rate $5.15. POOR.
New York State is $6.75. It will become $7.15 in 2007. NOT-OK
Rhode Island is $7.10, which becomes $7.40 in 2007.
Vermont has $7.25, which is adjusted for inflation annually! KIND OF FAIR
Washingont State had $7.63, which is the highest minimum income state, which is adjusted for inflation annually. Only Washington state truly meets the living minimum figured here.

The Cost of Free Energy

The True Cost of Free Energy

A free energy watercar is extremely probable, due to the massive amount of examination examples have received from the US military, NASA, and by the examination and proliferation of HHO and hydrogen gas water engines, many with nationally registered patents by independent scientists in America, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Europe, the Philipines, and other "100%+" efficiency inventions. For example, in spring 2002, a patent was issued for a motionless electromagnetic generator producing some 100 times the power put into it. Japanese patents for electromagnetic devices and other engines producing 100%+ energy are also 'common'.

These items are not fantasy and do not draw energy from nothing. Examine statements at www.timetravelisforsuckers.blogspot.com for detail on 'zero-point' energy devices. Some draw energy from the universal constant, an ambient energy level that is present everywhere, even in empty vacuums devoid of matter. Some use the entrainment principle of wave synchronization to force vibrational atomics to change chemical structure. This is the most likely explanation for water splitting, and would account for the precise hertz level the electrons must be moving at for the process to work. More inventions and explanations abound at www.byronwine.com.

So many wonder, if these remarkable devices exist, why isn't GM using them? Why isn't the USGOV using them? The answers are the choices of certain key shareholders and officers, but we can speculate their motivations.

Oil experts estimate that there are "100 trillion dollars worth of oil" [$100T] underground right now, with the greatest collection in the hands of Saudi Arabia, followed by Iraq. This is a ridiculously large sum that can drive entire economies, the entire world economy, and change the history of mankind and isolate power at key bottlenecks. If there is an 'oil monopoly', and cars run only [95%+] on oil, then only those who control oil will have substantial automotive power. This plays a massive force in world commerce. More powerful than supply alone, price sets levels of domination, basically a Seringhetti pecking order, and can be used to track money movements and used as currency and payments. For example, the US NAVY was able to track every tanker than left Iraq. >50% of oil smuggled from Iraq during 1991-2003 went to a US company in Texas.

Oil Reserves: $100 Trillion
This does not count coal, uranium, or natural gas, which are also very highly valued.

This also does not include the hundreds of oil refineries found worldwide. Russia has hundreds, America has hundreds, Europe has plenty, the Middle East has hundreds, Asia has probably hundreds of them. A 'refinery' is not a SimCity 16-square sized building. Some of them take up entire SimCity sized maps, encompassing multi-square-kilometer facilities. These facilities could be themselves valued collectively at perhaps $2 trillion dollars.

Oil Refineries: $2 Trillion

Free energy devices, usually producing no immediately meaningful pollution, would also immediately replace all non-free power plant facilities. This means that all nuclear plants, and the world has over 400 operational nuclear reactors, with many plants having up to 4 reactors or more at a plant, with dozens of nations from Uruguay to Malaysia having plants. There are also hundreds of research plants, fuel processing facilities, refining plants, and uranium mines and their industries. China plans to open 2 new plants per year until 2020, according to the 2004 GE symposium. Note that Turkey Point nuclear plant in Florida was hit by Hurricane Andrew and shut down, while Three Mile Island and Chernobyl both had nuclear accidents, and both plants attempted to conceal the news!

A nuclear plant is 1:1.3 efficient, about 23%, and each KW capacity costs around $3200. This would make a 650MW plant cost a hair over 2 billion dollars. The world's collective energy production nuclear power plants probably cost in the vicinity of 800 billion dollars. The average nuclear power plant is not profitable until its 17th year of operation because of energy costs. The majority of nuclear plants are owned by private companies.

Geothermal energy could replace this cost without polluting, and could potentially decrease volcanic and earthquake activity. The majority of earth's caloric heat comes from earth, not from the sun. Geothermal energy is also $~2800/KW capacity, beating nuclear by a fair margin and producing no meaningful pollution.

Add onto this the world's coal plants. According to this site, 54% of American energy comes from coal power. We have 600 coal power plants in America, which produce more radiation from carbon isotopes, than nuclear plants produce in pure radiation, although nuclear waste is highly concentrated, and nuclear plants purposefully release radiation into the environment on a biweekly basis. According to wiki, a 500MW plant costs $650 million, and we have some 600 of them. As of 2004, a coal plant cost $1300/KW capacity. These plants and their background mines and refineries add up to $390 billion. They are all infrastructure, and free energy would turn their value to $0. Assuming that other nations combined have only about equally as many coal plants as America has, plus $20 billion in infrastructure, the total springs to $800 billion.

Alternative energy projects such as wind and solar plants would also likely become illusions. It is more probable, given the assumably probable existance of sufficient alternative energy technology, that wind and solar power are entirely red herrings, and designed to down-market non-oil power sources, and distract those who would search for alternatives with the 'likely competetors'. Yes, solar and wind power suck and cannot meaningfully replace oil or coal or nuclear power at their current production levels and our current demand. They will still be useful for low-draw operations.
World Coal and Nuke power plants: $1.6 Trillion

Then consider our automotive industries and oil companies and their factories and all cars on the road. As of Y2K, 51 of the 100 largest economic entities were corporations, not nations. In 2000 GM had a net worth of $176 billion dollars, ranking #23, just behind the nation of Turkey, and beating out the whole country of Denmark, with a $174 billion economy. Exxon-Mobil was #26 with $163 billion. Ford Motor was #27 also at 163 billion, and Daimler Chrystler was #28 at $160 billion. Poland was #29 at $154 billion. Mitsubishi and Toyota are #38 and #39 with $117 and $116 billion each. Royal Dutch is #43 with $105 billion. Israel is #46 with about $100 billion. BP is #56 at 83 billion, Volkswagen is #58 with 80 billion, and from there it becomes loose change with Honda and Nissan ranking #78 and #80 pulling in ~55 billion each. Also on this list are Boeing, Deutsche Bank, State Farm Insurance, Bangladesh, Fiat -#85, 51 billion, Toshiba, Siemens, and Mexico, which has an economy about as large as America's annual debt of $~500B. America's GDP in 2000 was ~8.7 trillion dollars. Today it is something like $13 trillion, but in American dollars, which is about equal to 8.7 trillion USD2000.

These figures are for the year 2000. Since then these companies have all grown at a rate of perhaps 4% per year, while the average salary has risen 0.3% per year for the past 25 years -NPR interview. Inflation defeats this salary increase. Cost of living has also increased. The collected major oil company annual sales on this list were $350 billion dollars. Numerous smaller companies, such as Venezuela's state oil company, and other traders, were not on this list, and presumably would bring the total oil revenue to ~450 billion dollars, when oil cost about a buck a gallon. Remember gasoline cheaper than bottled water? The total number of car sales in the year 2000 for the major companies listed comes to $973 billion, with total world car sales probably leveling out at $1.1 trillion dollars, that year. The world spent $1.095 trillion on armies and weapons and wars in 2005, I believe. In the years since 2000, with these companies growing at 4% per year would place their total revenue for 2006 at around $1.9 T in 2005-6.

All oil companies and their affiliated gasoline stations would become $0 value in the event of water energy. All automotive companies would need to scrap the majority, let's call it 85%, of their factories and lineup processes. All carburaters and fuel injection systems would need to be retooled, all exhaust systems rendered worthless, and likely new fuel cell and other technology items spliced in their place. Please note that these companies often have subcontractors whom are not listed in their revenue tree.

Actually, it is likely that only about 85% of automotive company sales and efforts would be destroyed per year, until it becomes fiscally impossible to continue production. This would take about 1-2 years. A market for replacement parts could continue for 10-20 years.

Also note that all oil traded in the world comes in Dollars, not Euros, not Yen, not Yuan. This conversion process is very lucrative for Americans and dollar traders everywhere. One of the major concerns of Saddam Hussein's regime was that he wanted to trade in Euros for the first time in 2003, shortly before we invaded him. Other media recently [October 2006] says that he had issued statements that he would cooperate fully with American forces shortly before our invasion, but that George Bush refused to acknowledge these statements.
Automotive and Oil sales: $1.9 Trillion

All passenger and cargo and other jets would need to be refitted, again at 85% of fleets or more per year. Fortunately, we are approaching the era of hypersonic scramjets, which run on hydrogen fuel anyway. Most alternative combustion fuel production methods would just make this process easier. However, the aerospace industry is a multi-billion dollar economy, and Boeing was listed in 2000 asa #74 with $58 billion. It's major competetors, Airbus, and other world companies, and passenger jet companies, would face major losses to the measure of billions-touching-trillions. The American military receives nearly $500 billion annually and has hundreds of petroleum fuelled jets. NASA's rockets and all our ~500 football field sized ICBMs, other missiles, military hardware vehicles, and a majority of our nation's warships are also fuelled with petroleum products. Some of our warships are nuclear powered. They would face special challenges that might make replacing 85% of them or more annually difficult to agree with. I am not counting military expenses apart from the annual budget, only geopolitical tactical considerations.

Aerospace Industry and Jets: ~$2 trillion + military

This brings the grand total of loss of capital and expense for the introduction of alternative fuels to ~$107.5 trillion dollars, not counting accumulated coal, natural gas, and uranium resources. Also on this bill are the 1st world's supremecy, as no one anywhere in the world would ever want for electricity ever again, which could easily produce virtual economic autonomy everywhere. In the event of such economic exuberance, the American Federal Reserve would lose all control over the value of the dollar and all world currencies, companies would no longer be able to maintain their obsoleted patents, factories and industrial magnates would no longer be able to maintain natural monopolies from costs of production, since the cost of production would decrease so rapidly and far from "removing" the energy market basically in its entirety, any person with such a machine and a modest amount of capital could start any production facility they chose.

The value of the commodities that capital could buy would also be deflated preposterously because of the corresponding industrial explosion from eliminating the majority of the cost of energy-intensive production efforts. Heavy industrial efforts, such as producing carbon fiber, would become cheaper than producing steel. Automotive and generating engines using the new technologies would become as expensive as the cost of their natural resources, plus tooling, plus profit of 8-10%, and still cost a fraction of what they do today, in 2006, in terms of manhours of labor and dollars. Natural resource harvesting, of plentiful metals, minerals, lumber, hemp, crops, could all be accomplished using non-polluting, free-to-run-continuously-and-for-years engines that themselves would eventually be made using robots.

Robotics could easily flood the market with any level of goods of any type within years. Maintenance of automated industrial production would become the major time and labor consuming cost of indsutrial production. Entrepreneurship and competition would become pure in almost every field because of the reduction of business expenses and cost of living.

The political and economic upheaval of the process would almost certainly bankrupt Duke Energy, the IMF and World Bank, most automotive production companies who do not embrace the shift, most financial institutions who do not embrace massive currency chaos, deflation and adjustment, and likely some major retailers unless they shift tactics. Any company that stands in the way of this shift will be brushed aside eventually either by the grinding halt of peak oil, or by the amazing tide of free water energy. You have until ~2010 at the very latest.

The Kyoto Treaty will be meaningless, no company will be able to produce a sufficient amount of CO2 to pollute the world substantially. Major polluters will be put out of business by more efficient and cleaner technologies. These new technologies will probably allow us to easily research new ways to clean up wastes and toxins and new medical procedures to treat diseases. Unfortunately, and depending on the level of chaos, returning to this level of infrastructural articulation will probably take 5-10 years after these shifts, which will themselves probably take 5-10 years, beginning as soon as water technology breaks out industrially, or as soon as we invade Iran or another oil entity, or ~2008 when peak oil will otherwise arrive.

This will cost us $107.5 trillion imaginary dollars, which represent potential labor, which will be replaced by an economic and social utopia. Your strength will be meaningless in this economy. Only your skill will be worth rewarding. A dollar will not produce an ear of corn that no one tended to. An existing machine could shovel a ditch for zero net units of energy. You can only trade a dollar for labor. Natural resources all belong to the ground. The ground and we, who came from dust, belong to God.

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Corporations and The Individual

What is good for corporations is good for their investors and CEO/board. Reaganomics did not work, and the money did not 'trickle down'.

Examine the increase in class seperation opening in the 1980's. That is where the money went. Not to the lower or middle class.

The same can be said of corporations, except their pockets are infinitely deep for withholding sums in finance. You could just lower the interest rate on loans a % or two instead.

We've seen corporations get huge deals and tax breaks in the past 6 years. It has widened this gap moreso than any time since the 1920's, and perhaps even to the 1890's, before we used AntiTrust laws on those railroad robber barons and mega-industrialists.

We have also been using an agressive privatization version of capitalism that strips public welfare. Welfare like schools and hospitals, quality of living, cost of living, and median wage. All of these sectors have taken a beating.

Thanks For The App

"What if New York had its own currency? In a sense, it already does. Our dollar looks the same as the better-known U.S. version, but it doesn’t go nearly as far here as anywhere else. How much is it really worth? Based on a few scientifically imprecise calculations, a New York dollar would lag somewhere behind a Canadian buck. Here’s why:"

Thanks. Examine this article in relation to regional economics.

Finance and Labor

I am disappointed with republican and statewide attempts to eliminate medical coverage and pensions for seniors. These things are not only general duties of the state, but they have been sworn to when they took the money from them for insurance and FICA etc in the first place.

If the state removes that compensation, they will need to replace it with some other meaningful support. Perhaps excellent research into proteinology or stem cells, and support to hospitals and medical organizations and provision of statewide healthcare. Installing these procedures can save 16-20% right off the top, which would normally be profit for investors who can likely afford their own healthcare.

In American capitalism that becomes private profit. In European and Canadian capitalism, those services are not private sector, they are provided by the state, and no 'profit' is made. Healthcare costs for all are abated, and taxes rise a few percent to pay for it. Currently [2004-5], healthcare costs the average American family something to the tune of $13,000 annually before work related compensation, which often takes it down to ~$8,500.

Is saving $13K worth even a 10% higher tax rate? Only if you make under $130K.

Furthermore, we have been shoveling much of this medical expense towards pill companies, who openly bribe doctors into prescribing their pills. If we spent money and grants on corrective medicine instead of throwing pills at it, we could do a better job of solving the problem at the root. Research a pill or process to change the way your body makes that chemical reactor, instead of supplementing the chemical reactor.

Companies making huge money on the IMF, oil funds and infrastructure, "big economy", big government, finance, and other fiascos will wreck this country and world within 3-5 years if nothing changes. The Federal Reserve has predicted a 60% likely chance of a major currency crisis in the next 3-5 years. Allen Greenspan has predicted a 70% chance of an American economic crisis in the next 3 years.

I wonder what that 30-40% chance of being saved is? We seem to have the technology to fix these problems, and we have more liquid capital than at most points in history, and the public is more aware than ever, except perhaps the late 1960's, early 1970's. We could change in time, even with disasters in the pipeline, and improve the world for all.


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Another matter, in an environment where oil is not cheaply producable, human labor will probably become less valuable, as it is supported and extended by oil power. We may all face a pay cut in the form of oil and commodity prices increasing rapidly. The solution here is not to scramble to acquire and supply resources, that will only increase global resource pressure and use more resources in the process.

The solution is to work leaner, not grander. We can do more with less, particularly in corporate environments at the top and in profit margin, in cost to consumers of certain services, and in infrastructure. New technology should be examined in energy, industry, medicine, and transportation which will allow us to be more effective with less material and expense.

Environment and Economy

I had come up with the environmental economic macroassociation on about October 28, 2006, but more pressing matters kept me from writing until now. I see economist.com has an October 30 spread on the topic.

They project about a 2/5 increase in greenhouse gas emissions by 2025. I wonder, where will these gasses come from? Oil cannot be sustained to those measures. Coal cannot replace oil to that extent, and nuclear power relies heavily on oil power.

If we do not do something about oil yesterday [in 1995] we will face the decline of industrialized civilization. So it may be an open secret that we're heading for a major economic crisis in about 2007-2008-2009, to be preceeded and overlapped by an eventually global military upswing, if it is achievable politically.

This will also be considerable because the value of fiscal currency will likely become far more attached to commodity than its floating value. Regional value of commodities may become exaggeratedly more prevalent than the normal value of a currency. I would expect a rapid shift from liquid assets to commodity and perhaps real estate during this time, especially during war, multiplied by worldwide oil shortage.

What is my fiscal recommendation for such a situation. Leave your 401(k) and put it into something more solid. The stock market is going to be a massive sinkhole in the event of peak oil or a fiscal crisis, or any serious crisis, for which many are we headed. I would avoid the finance sector, as it is fluff and based on nothing. Precious metals and energy shares seem most viable for the old-world economy.

But a new world market will be born, or "no flesh will survive". Energy technology will advance dramatically and allow clean free energy to be produced anywhere for a low cost per kilowatt capacity. This will allow people to live in very low cost of living environments and likely deflate the economies of the most industrialized areas by ~75%. The resource-heavy reasons people went to war will become obsolete, and new society will be formed around the new mankind-sustaining technology. This should square up in the years of the crisis and after.

Brazil will not be making 700 billion tons of greenhouse gasses by 2025. They will be making about 32 billion tons, primarily from exhalation. If you extrapolate growth figures from 2000-2005 without considering advanced technology or resource shortage then you'll get exactly what you chart for, which will not happen.

I am also surprised that the economist is so politically minded, yet they describe long term economic statements without regard to volitility, peak oil, and the effects of environmentally mandated or publicly mandated industrial or political course-change.

5 Year American Economic Forecast

Is the environment sustainable? I am more concerned that natural resources or other means will run out before the economy 'runs out'. Sustainable is on a 5 year+ or longer term. Is our American economy sustainable on a 5 year term?

*Oil*, *debt*, and *instability* are the three main courses of this fiscal dinner. We're scheduled to hit peak oil still somewhere in 2008, it seems. Or the moment Iran is invaded, or in the event of a serious event somewhere in the oil-world.

Conversely, alternative fuels' breaking of the numerous 'natural' monopolies of the Western superstructure will cost what is estimated to be 'hundreds of trillions' of dollars in expenses and modernizations which are the solitary alternative to oil. We can begin switching to alternative fuels now and stretch out the estimates over the next ~3 years, or we can wait until peak oil and some level of q-100 to q-1000[+] years' crisis that will blank our entire economy and be on the level of the collapse of Rome.

Oil is a worldwide problem. We can handle that as a world. It is far more important than choosing a form of capitalism, which is not a blank check, and this change will dramatically affect the structure of the economy in the next 5 years.

Debt is a serious problem, and along with debt I will group social class fiscal differentiation. Alan Greenspan has placed a figure of 70% at a major fiscal crisis in the next 3 years. Coming into 2.5 years. The Federal Reserve has said a 60% risk of a major American currency crisis in the next 3-5 years. They make the currency.

Social differentiation has also become increasingly profound, and its effects on the *large* American economy have been ravaging. I liken it to termites. This has also been aided at the top by massive outsourcing and shifting industries to foreign countries. This benefits probably 100 people at the top very much, in that they get to rake $ off of Americans and 1st worlders while paying almost none to 3rd worlders.

This makes the elite business owners 1st class citizens, the average American a 2nd class citizen being stolen from [literally] and undersupplied, and the 3rd worlders are still on the bottom. How long can this last? It is and will continue to damage the whole American economy, and the world economy is also being affected.

This contributes greatly to instability, and reduces American ability to produce a high quality of life. When quality of life *reduces* especially, voters become unhappy, and commerce has a tendency to become slightly downcast or saccharine.

...saccharine. That is a good word to describe this administration and recent economic forte.

It is also a profound measure of the success and quality of an empire/country. The breaking of our rights is also a very negative element that is not without fiscal consequences, although political and social and structural consequences are far greater.

So will America last 5 years, economically? The Fed gives that a 40% chance. Alen Greenspan gives it 3 years and 30%. Greenspan being the less interested party, I would use his figure. I would put the official tally at substantially less than 50% chance of moving through the next 5 years in better than 'fair' economic shape.

My personal analysis: we'll get housed by oil in time for the 2008 elections, engineered or no. That can be investigated later. There will be some truth to the problem of oil arriving at that time. But it may also play handily into someone's hands. *Do not* trust them. This will not be a time for trusting men with large plans unless they accord with God's plan very closely.

We may face this debt crisis when American credit runs out. I am not sure when that will be, but China and the world that disapproves of our military moves could choose to simply 'not finance' the war in Iran. In which case American credit would plummet, and American interest rates would shoot up, and we'd dry out. Considering that our plan is to roll over our bonds, we might come to an economic grinding halt if we are unable to meet our debt, and need to take teen% bonds. I don't think a possibly decade-terminal oil crisis is the time for a bond market. That power thing needs to be addressed first. More on that and the total tally soon.

3-5 years. Destabilization, too. Will we find ourselves in another Constitutional crisis when we impeach George W Bush? Will he commit our troops in Iran before we can get him out? Will the 2006 midterms bring this business on in time for 2007? What will China do in this situation? What would happen if the American people recaptured the American media, which is likely post midterms, which is likely in the year before the 2008 elections? We've got this North American Union thing that is seriously unpleasant. We're facing serious threats to our 1st 4th and 8th amendments, we're still at war with 'no nation', oh, and there's the 9/11 scandal. It's now a scandal, and not a conspiracy. When the scandal becomes trials that may be the official boiling point of political capital. Also that will be the latest possible point at which George W Bush will be impeached and tried, along with however many of the others who aided him. This will occur before the end of his term.

Those are the facts! Please pray to God for us.

American vs European Capitalism

We can easily measure this in certain ways. Unfortunately, the American style of stark capitalism has shifted dramatically to the right in recent years, providing 2 models, one established, one new circa 1999.

2006 capitalism has produced dramatically differentiated classes of income, and raised the cost of living bar considerably. At the same time, support for public services of all kinds, including healthcare and education, have been scaled back, sometimes by as much as 25% in one spending year. Profits for corporations and the wealthy have skyrocketed, but employment levels are far down and the average salary is far down and even farther considering inflation of currency and increase in cost of living. This is definately a downward swoop for about 75% of the population, and the general support services for all but the very rich and their elite core are also down in general.

European capitalism has slowed primarily as a result of their steady business cycle and as side effects of American and Asian fluxuation and fuel competition. Their technology is advancing rapidly and at a more evenly supported and installed pace than American technology.

It may also be noted that American corporations and ruling natural monopolies have been suppressing technology that could revolutionize materialism and the social economy as a whole.

For this reason, decency, I must prefer European capitalism over American, although Eurocap is by no means perfection.

Natural Monopolies and Alternative Energy

Why does the government create monopoly power via its patent system, when elsewhere it spends millions trying to prevent the emergence of or regulate monopoly power?

The state wants to foster scientific growth. Although, this may be at odds when a scientific advancement would threaten the basis of a natural monopoly. For example, www.byronwine.com shows that GM, oil producers, and other companies have worked to suppress carburater technologies and alternative fuel technologies. Rudolpf Diesel, inventor of the diesel engine, when he tried to switch back to vegetable oil from crude was killed, likely by industry competetors. His fuel plan would have substantially reduced the natural monopoly of refineries. Today, alternative fuel technologies could/would demolish the accrued arbitrary wealth stored up in those refineries, oil fields, and also in certain elements of the $billions-level auto industry, as well as shift massive oil-centered political power, and the energy production industry and all it subsidiaries, nuclear and coal plants, natural gas plants, commodities shifting systems and infrastructure, and potentially their power lines and permits and contracts, certain elements of jet propulsion and tactical military complex production and threat assessment, as well as certain chemical plants, steel mills, and other cottage industries that would be quickly replaced by a new technology that made superior procedures affordable. As well as the added competition that could potentially be faced in most any monopolistic business by drastically reduced startup costs due to this shift in power production and availability of superior systems. Modernizing itself would probably cost 10-20% of any major firm’s annual revenue, while obsoleting many industries and fundamentally altering many others. However, the cost of this upgrade would be dramatically reduced by the very same measures that caused the need to upgrade. Furthermore, the 10-year return on value of investment and quality of life would be phenomenal. However, an investment in this era and a reutrn in that era would be very difficult to compare due to the corresponding shift in the value and function of money in such a society. This might/would cause massive deflation, which could seem like devaluation to an analyst or investor, but in actuality it is hypervaluation because of the new perfusion of goods and the cheapness of producing and distributing those goods in the new market.

Alternative fuels still face an uphill battle, but they are being aided by Mother Nature, the principle of shortage, and growing human population. All these are God’s ways. Patents do exist for alternative technologies. About 20 patents exist for 100%< efficient special electrolysis water splitting technologies and certain companies make use of them. A patent for a motionless electromagnetic generator was produced in spring of 2002, but it has yet to be meaningfully applied for these reasons.

Capitalism vs Consumerism

Capitalism is pretty harsh, and involves few who are excessively wealthy who make the seemingly real decisions, to provide oten scripted choices for consumers.

In today's world of technology, we experience a considerable level of corporate and economic abuse from capitalism, most of it precipitated upon the outside world away from America and the 1st world by our corporate elites. If Africans had this corporate networking using them as a home base or an 'elite base' to paraphrase George W Bush, they would be rich, well educated, have cities with substantially less crime and full of infrastructure, have their diseases rooted out, etc.

We should focus on a kind of makret consumerism or commercialism overlaid with a level of economic democracy. It is not right that people who inherited all the money [world's resources] make decisions that are undemocratic, and unrepresentative of the needs and wants of the average person or directly honoring God.

I believe that a properly and freely educated public will be able to vote and pay effectively on issues. Capitalism brings us 3rd world debt and Enron, brings us a government owned and deadlocked. We must either enact anti-trust laws and freedom of science laws in this age of environmental and social precipice, we should not allow ubercapitalists to ruin the world and keep us from the ethical utopia we dream of.

Also this marketing to a Muslim religious niche is an offense in itself. Stop. Do you market to Christians?

Frankly, what WOULD Jesus buy? Probably basic needs and then anything else for charity to others.

Internet Mercantilism

Myspace has recently said that it may block Youtube.

This is why capitalism does not work well.

Myspace, if you block youtube, i will block *you*. What do you think this is? Tariffs of the mercantilist era? Myspace, you cannot possibly hope to make more money by blocking internet traffic. You cannot possibly expect to maintain a business or software edge by reducing your usability. Believe me, you will be swallowed like something someone didn't even know they ate.

This is also why internet neutrality is more critical than Myspace's business. If I'm blocked from youtube by my service provider, not only will I refuse to pay them for services not rendered, but I will search for a server that does provide this service flatly. Myspace, for threatening to degrade the internet, your stability has been threatened. Recant.

Consideration

I just recently blogged on this topic. It is actually my October 6, 2006 posting on this very page.

Please employ me as a professional analyst. I would accept the job of living somewhere in Virginia and examining these documents 40 hours a week plus projects for a reasonable salary and some level of immunity.

Let us also celebrate that China has unblocked wikipedia and has decided to not censor it. I have been praying about this. I am quite pleased with this activity and I will pray that it continues.


Now, businesses around America and the globe can likely save approximately 2/5 to 3/5 of Microsoft's annual revenue by switching to an open source OS and potentially open source office works. How much do our businesses spend on this annually? $45 billion? I read somewhere that it would require some $2K-$3K per user to upgrade to Vista. This probably accounts for a few extra sticks of RAM per device as well. Many businesses won't make this switch, and those that do, do not need to.

It would be cheaper for some large businesses to pay their tech sector or commission a free project to build Linux 2, designed to be widely-open compatible and user-structurable, if somewhat skeletonized. Linux 2 could also be pluggable like Mozilla, a framework of supporting code with suitable plugability for running programs that would be User Interface [UI], accessability and translatability, and device communication. I want it to be able to manually decipher USB communications, produce probable meanings based on HD-stored or server hubbed network databases, and for users to be able to customize the functionality of their joystick or printer's buttons in the way they communicate with the CPU.

You know, or whatever works for under 2-3K/head at your institution. Call the Nuremberg Valley of Germany. I bet they can help you. If America doesn't go open source next, let Europe do it and crush all. Bulgaria is already on the train!

Oh, about advertising dollars, Microsoft will need to join them or fight them, and fighting them will not be easy or legal. the real fulcrum rests with business' intelligence. While these stocks may not exist in their perfection, an officelike open source shell that does not rely on the internet is around the corner. When businesses look for a way to spend less on their software, they will find and make open source.

While pay-software will always exist, it is unlikely that it will be a requirement to pay for one drop of software. unless you like video games, which is something like a $30 billion world industry...

3D Printing and Internet

This is indeed what the internet could be like someday.

http://www.greedtube.com/video/28/web_20_thefirstpostcouk

I wouldn't design 3d printers to do this precisely, but printing out a cooked pizza slice and pulling magazines from a screen that also prints objects is a fantastic way to make the world be.

A 3D printer uses nanorobots to construct molecules atom by atom and objects molecule by molecule. A flat LCD-style screen could become a drafting board for printing that object out of the screen itself, or out of a relatively flat panel somewhere else. Documents could also be printed vertically instead of horizontally.

This and its compatriots by 2015. Or bust. Quite frankly, or bust.

Youtube and Money

Why have I heard so much about youtube being bought? I am not interested in allowing youtube to become a massive corporately owned nothing-box. Youtube owner, I saw you on some magazine. Keep your company. Does it not make you money? Do you not already have millions in assets? Diversify your stock portfolio, keep over half of your company if you are able to, and set aside a few mil in something realistic for if youtube suddenly bombs or something unimaginable.

That is my ownership-business strategy for you. You have made a fine product and your service belongs to the people of the world and of the internet, who choose to post videos online to share with others. Thank you for helping us! Please continue to. We will thankfully surf to your website and generate whatever income you manage to get from the site. That's the deal. We like it. Do not cut it.

I want to ask you, what would happen if this internet non-freedom was put into place, with your phone company giving you slower connection to websites owned by companies that compete with them?

Would phone companies even be able to field the complaints from all their existing customers? How many customers do you think would complain? 60-80%? More? how many would leave for a different company? 20-30%. Can you [company] lose 1/3 of your customers to your own greed?

The internet is a flat rate call. The 1st amendment is a clear and straightforward document and the law you must obey.

We need a classical reinterpretation of the 1st amendment, and the 4th for that matter. And regarding torture, the 8th. This should do our country very well. I believe electioneering reform, media freedom, "$/voice" is within the 1st, NSA and wiretapping and secret prisons and detainment are within the 4th, and torture is within the 8th. Note that all men are created equal and therefore we have to obey the interpretation that all humans on earth and all intelligent living beings are 'created equal' and have these rights.

Think about this the next time you consider devoting money to

Tech Sector

This is particularly about Microsoft. I've heard of their difficulties in the modern era, and I realize them. Their products are pretty *sluggish*.

Computing is like the world of economy F1 racing. If you don't make the fastest and best carputer for the cheapest, you will not win. Microsoft's products have become 'bourgeois'. Fluffy. Full of crap. Slowish in the CPU. Microsoft, is this true? If it's not true, show me.

IE is universally worthless. You can legally take many tips from mozilla and other such neat little engines. You could make a suitable technically customizable civilian browser. I have no interest in using your inbred emailing system. DON'T give me a button to do it on. I will just tear it off.

I am looking for a plain cheese pizza browser, ORGANIC, with no crap on it, leaving as much breathing space as possible for the CPU. Then I will browse from the condiments and whatever stuff I have brought with me to decorate it, obviously subject to examination. = how the consumer world works. Expect to make money around or through that system.

You can't make billions selling a giant hulking piece of junk and also have the will of the people. Right now you are struggling to have either. Why does Vista require 750Mb of RAM? That one always tripped me up, and because of the unpleasantly large cache size, I will not ever purchase Vista, and I will warn others of its foulty. If you hope to make $ off of Vista like 95, 98, or XP, you will be sadly mistaken, unless you trick a large number of executives into putting it on all their PC's, which is shameful and rowdy, and will harm the marketplace.

We work hard to slim our older [2003] computers down. Even the new ones get geeky [cool]. Vista is not in that world. Folks want to play Doom3 and have it run quickly, not by purchasing a billion megs of ram and a 4 gig clock and then running Doom3 through Vista, which is like running Doom3 through another instance of Doom3, but by having a reasonable amount of computer power and using it efficiently. Microsoft, your OS XP skips out on a dozen or more speed tweaks that have 0 reason to be off. Is this an offense? Shall we begin to investigate your fiscal and ethical earnestness? Seriously. Get on the stick. I am sure Vista could easily use half as much RAM as current and fix all the untweaked bits from XP.

You could probably make a good deal of money by typing out a small little versatile browser program, and kicking it out online. You'd make money because the program would cost like $10-20,000 to make. How to make money off this, though. Mozilla is free. How do they make money? Ads? Hey, how DO they make money? Are they non-profit? They probably do use ads. Mircosoft, you're a major company. You already have a large software and customer base. You can make more money from ads than from software, if you try. I wouldn't give you the true cred to make a tech zine site with any draw, but how long would it take your team, no, 1/8 of your team, to blast off a single well done browser that is contemporarily spy-free and will run on 30MB of ram? A day? Single digit project. "Inescapable usefulness." is the term that I want Microsoft to use. "Inescapable spaghetti."

I also really dig XPLite, even if it's not yours. I am considering it seriously. Maybe you should too. Once you've recouped your expenses on Vista... well, even beforehand, start slimming it down. Even at the sacrifice of some less useful features. Offer those things as downloadable extras, 'plug-ins'. My OS doesn't need to shave my poodle. It needs to open, have a visual display of my junk, and run my crap. Do it quick, do not leave corners. Do not ever crash, optimize the BIOS for me if you could with a single buttonclick, and run anything I say to. That is all. No lights, no gadgets, no guages. Do not automatically include WMP, QT, whatever. I can get those from the internet. They also slow it down, so I'm a shopper. Maybe sell Vista with those things as clickable extras, and cut the core size of Vista down today to ~550MB? I know you can. And if you work it will be 350 and 250 before you know it. That is 'within range'. TinyVista? Hey, what does Vista do that XP doesn't? I still haven't seen/paid attention to any of that. I say this seriously to you like an editor.

So... if you want to sell a giant Christmas tree without the spirit, go ahead, but know that it's a neon distraction and not a meaningful standby. Give the spirit.

Tech Sector

This is particularly about Microsoft. I've heard of their difficulties in the modern era, and I realize them. They are disliked for numerous reasons. One of the most important ones is their business practices. They face monopoly charges and fines from the EU... [but not from America?]. Their products are pretty *sluggish*.

*Computing is like the world of economy F1 racing. If you don't make the fastest and best carputer for the cheapest, you will not win. Microsoft's products have become 'bourgeois'. Fluffy. Full of crap. Slowish in the CPU. Microsoft, is this true? If it's not true, show me.

Enough browbeating. I'm here to help you. Your IE is universally worthless. It is weak because of its numerous exploits. We do not enjoy having to keep 85 updates on our computers, even from security center. This makes our computers slow and exposes them over and over to faults. No automatic updating system can make this right.

You can legally take many tips from mozilla and other such neat little engines. You could probably make a totally suitable civilian browser which would punch out viruses by not having a slot to be punched by them. I have no interest in using your inbred emailing system in my browser. DON'T give me a button to do it on. I will just tear it off.

I am looking for a plain cheese pizza browser, ORGANIC, with no crap on it, going as fast as possible. Then I will browse from the condiments and whatever stuff I have brought with me to decorate it. Those things too are obviously subject to examination. = how the consumer world works. Expect to make money around or through that system.

You can't make billions selling a giant hulking piece of junk and also have the will of the people. Right now you are struggling to have either. Why does Vista require 750Mb of RAM? That one always tripped me up, and because of that tripping and the unpleasantly large cache size, I will not ever purchase Vista, and I will shame it continually. If you hope to make $ of of Vista like 95, 98, or XP, you will be sadly mistaken, unless you trick a large number of executives into putting it on all their PC's. Which is shameful and rowdy, and will harm the marketplace.

We work hard to slim our older computers down. Even the new ones get geeky. Vista is not in that world. Folks want to play Doom3 and have it run quickly, not by purchasing a billion megs of ram and a 4 gig clock, but by having a reasonable amount of computer power and using it efficiently. Microsoft, your OS skips out on a dozen or more speed tweaks that have 0 reason to be off. Is this an offense? Shall we begin to investigate your fiscal and ethical earnestness? Seriously. Get on the stick.

You could probably make a good deal of money by typing out a small little versatile browser program, and kicking it out online. How to make money off this, though. Mozilla is free. How do they make money? Ads? Hey, how DO they make money? Are they non-profit? They probably do use ads. Mircosoft, you're a major company. You already have a large software base. You can make more money from ads than from software probably, if you try. I wouldn't give you the true cred to make a tech zine site with any draw, but how long would it take your team, no, 1/8 of your team, to blast off a single well done browser that is spy-free and will run on 30MB of ram? A day? Digit.

I also really dig XPLite. I am considering it seriously. Maybe you should too. Once you've recouped your expenses on Vista... well, even beforehand, start slimming it down. Even at the sacrifice of some less useful features. Offer those things as download extras. My OS doesn't need to shave my poodle. It needs to open, have a visual display of my junk, and run my crap. Do it quick, do not leave corners. Do not ever crash, optimize the BIOS for me if you could with a buttonclick, and run anything I say to. That is all. No lights, no gadgets, no guages. They slow it down. If you want to sell a giant Christmas tree without the spirit, go ahead, but know that it's a neon distraction and not a meaningful standby. Give the spirit.

Building a crappy product or making an inefficient system is throwing away labor and its results.

Vehicle Tax and Shift

Inefficient vehicles should be taxed specially and that money go to funding research and development of new fuel vehicles and electric and water splitting vehicles. Or promiting these kinds of vehicles. This kind of legislature and corporate action would very rapidly shift our automotive industry and abilities to moderate our own corporations.

"Tax and Shift" would be a great program. We should keep this one on the books as one of the greatest and most immediate ways to shift from the economy and world we experience to the one that we would wish to live in.

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Material

"The main theme was the same: the efficiency of the justice. It's interesting to fully understand what a cosmic universal economic system is. They explain it as follows: an economic plan, aimed at efficiently satisfying man's needs so that he is released from the tyranny of material things over his daily life."

This can be accomplished in the manner previously described, using 3d nanorobotics for industrial production, Tesla field circuitry for power transmission, and water splitting, motionless electromagnetic generators for power. Raw materials can be harvested and waste can be removed and processed in similar ways made efficient in terms of machinery and manpower by proper engineering. Maintenance should be performed as infrequently as possible by design of products.

The remaining time, which will become a majority of time, can be spent on love, refining social elements, information and communication, kultur, religious study, and building sandcastles.


"In other words, if everyone has everything at his disposal, then the acquisition of material goods is no longer of paramount importance. This can only be achieved by providing "equal shares for everyone"; otherwise envy will always exist. The culture then becomes more or less stable."

>100% efficiency Economics

Economics relies partially on shortage to set price. What do you do if something is abundant? Do you pay for air? No. If energy was as plentiful as air, would you pay for it? No.

We can do this. We are literally swimming in energy right now. It is merely unusable with our current infrastructure, which relies on short supply/labor intensive coal oil and nuclear fuel, even though these things pollute heavily and cause considerable social disturbance.

We can build 8Hz resonators for the Schuman field of earth, or use motionless electromagnetic generators, or water splitting vehicles, to efficiently [w]ring energy from this field into our cars, houses, factories. It would cost as much as the machine required to translate the energy. That cost would be expressed in hours of labor and in pounds of certain materials, and their shipping. But not by their scarcity since no scare resources would be used.

The resultant universal quality of life would be fantastic. The price of all goods would become insubstantial. Your strength would be meaningless in labor. 3D printing nanorobotics could produce all the organized goods we need, leaving us to do computer codework, engineering, or various manual labor, all of which would be equally as free of non-apparent/compensated material value.

Autotrust Companies?

[cont from title link...] Which raises an important point. Can an automaker or a company become a trust by itself, if it is large enough? Can a company of a certain size depending on the market automatically be a trust, regardless of their economic activity, based on the laws of capitalism and standard industry business model?

Whose authority is it to adjudicate international companies guilty of breaking this law? Certainly it must be the World Court, or signatory members of the public World Trade Organization, or a UN Business branch, complete with customer/worker's Bill of Rights.

...or in a world democracy, a referendum jury of the citizens of the countries in which the company does business, weighted by amount of business in $ done in each country, and the level at which the company's entire market share affects business in each country.

This includes companies with a major ownership share in one another. I must call for the analysis of the world investment map. It may become necessary to classify extremely wealthy companies or company-umbrella-conglomerations as individual organizations and determine their ownership of assets to constitute a monopoly or not. As well, a group of companies that own a large enough portion of a market, but which are themselves owned or primarily invested in by an individual or family, or 'investment group' of individuals should be analyzed for breach of contract, classification as 'government' due to the power of their wealth, and counseled or scheduled for legitimacy of owning such a large portion of world power and wealth independent of the laws restraining and defining governments. If these people or companies constitute a 'world government' by wealth and ownership, they shall be subject to the laws defining and organizing any government.

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Political Hotwire

This raises certain questions, if these megacompanies or megainvestors do exist. Because the laws of any single nation cannot rule the entire world, and because of the massive and compelling and frankly *vital* amount of wealth these people or companies control, are they governments? They may control an amount of world resources that are critical assets for the survival of large portions of the human population. If you or your investment group owns some $10 trillion dollars, you are bound by certain responsibilities in the same way that people are bound to the earthen land that you own.

If this corporate bloc decided to stop production, dramatically shift production, or left for Ghana, they could easily replace the majority of West Africa and set up world industry there instead. they would have the power to attract skilled workers from the whole globe and menial workers from anywhere they choose. They would have the money to purchase influence and to work around and through nearly any law they desire.

Do these people exemplify capitalism and the frank right or ability to own enough of the world to excess that it destroys or could destroy others who do not own its money? Tens of millions of people die of lacks in food, medical attention, shelter, and an unimaginable amount of pain and mental anguish result from shortage every year. So long as this corporate bloc has control of this material, they are liable for creating these shortages, as the people in those spaces have *no alternative* but death, as a result of excessive ownership.

I will see you in court.

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RFID Ordering At Bars

"All good reasons to put off fighting your way to the bar if you're a University of Westminster student on a night out. But now the students' union thinks it's found a way for drinkers to escape a busy bar and still get a round in - thanks to RFID tables that deliver orders remotely."

I believe this is a good idea for many crowded locations, but the idea was first thought of by one Stephen Colbert in his speech for President Bush. 'Just speak into the table number, someone from the NSA will be over with your order right away.'

This could be a fine idea if it is bound to the table and secured by a second confirmation button. Maybe a small LED backlit screen. Radio frequency communication by electronics is a fine idea, and I'd like to see RFID phones.

RFID PHONES. My name is William Bunker. <><

Resources

The crunch is over the world's resources. All politics is a filter through which that competition is based. The average citizen is non-competetive for these resources and believes in the power of God, humanity, and technology to adequately supply the world from our stocks of resources feasibly forever.

We need to apportion world resources and study and apply programs for them to be managed properly not most profitably. Money is labor, and resources are finite. An infinite amount of labor is worthless if resources are destroyed. Do not bulldoze crops.

The world is a replenishing breadbasket, but it is also a golden goose. If we cut it open to get everything we will destroy it and ourselves. However, we can cultivate this goose and the universe to last us literally for all time, or until God calls us all home.

A National Sales Tax

"I oppose the Fair Tax (National Sales Tax)

I am deeply dismayed that this kind of tax is being proposed. This is a flat tax, and not only that, but it is an excuse to examine what everyone in America spends their money on. Moreover, it will further seperate the classes and will raise the cost of living without adequately funding the Congress.

If you would establish not-for-profit state run industries instead, they could provide increased employment, decrease the cost of living, instill economic and industrial competition in our national brands, and allow us to modify and lead the market by example directly from the state.

Consider it."


letter to George W Bush and assorted Senators and Congressmen.

Cement Boots

Under Construction:

Report on financial and technological sluggishness due to depth of investment, and willingness to defend this sluggishness up to the depth of investment. Re: Hemp carpets, DuPont chemical, Saudi /world oil.

Democommunism

We've got a unique situation right now. The Cuban government is at a place where they can change their view of communism substantially. Unfortunately, they have never experienced communism.

All demonstrated national communisms have been nothing more than benevolent monarchies. -William Bunker

These are not good enough. Rule by military force is unacceptable. Rule by bloc power is unacceptable. Rule emanates from the people, and the people must be able to democratically interact with their communism. However, the commune must not be affected by corrupting factors. "Elections" and not appointments must happen, and those elections must be state-funded, not privately funded. There is nothing noble in communism about having acquired lots of money. Honor is in what you have done with that money to serve others and what you would do with resource to serve more.

Private business from normal capitalism may interexperience or do business with a communism, but the people buy as a whole, like a massive commune-wide [national] union, credit union, and buyer's coop. The nation gets the best price.

The way resources should be culled and organized in a commune is by state-run business, overlapping a quasi-capitalist free market. The state's resource sector will mine and cultivate the area's natural resources, work up and have and operate factories and even commercial sectors, work with schools to train and gain skilled employees to work with the macroeconomic system, and do everything a business would do except take profit [from the communers] and overcompete, and do nothing extra except provide high personal consumption quotas for those low non-competetive, not-for-profit prices.

95% consumption goods, which 95% of the population uses, will be provided basically free, free, or free-by-assessment [IMF style interview and plans] to everybody alive in the place. State run business can provide basic goods and services for anyone. State run businesses will also give the state much greater and faster response to emergencies, and cement much of their economy into basic goods instead of credit currencies or inflationary itemization. All work and resources [money] that can be had can be shared at a very stable and predictable credit rating without high liklihood of crashing or other economic fiascos and pronounced business cycles.

This does not rule out corporations, though. Private companies can work in competition with the state-run business up to a certain size [income level] before automatically becoming more closely associated with the state, with certain private business reservations and multiple holding limitations. This automatically breaks all trusts and publishes all financial reports publicly, and places them into public hands and handling.

The commune can be 'paid' taxes in labor, in its own resources, or in money. The state, to perform services, does not need to do so much dealing in currency or payroll. It will instead own and provide the resources by organization or any project, such as a dam or a highway or a new factory or neighborhood, and call up citizens to do some of that work by their skill and training and area, and a number of other personal preferences. Do you like to travel?

Curiosity-based education, totally free to the top 75% of students and all those performing above a certain educational threshhold, will be linked to the industry's accreditation, licensing, and degree programs, and also to many state and a sea of private public service, civic, and artistic business operations.

This unique style can allow certain technological advances to be utilized. Vaporizing carburaters have been examined at 171mpg performance. State-run industry would cut their standard fuel consumption to about 10% by using these carburaters. They can also make excellent use of biodiesel fuel resources by making the vehicles run on biodiesel from the factory where they are tuned. Using special electrolysis, welding can make carbon fiber car bodies and alternative possibilities cheap, eliminating the need for a large amount of state-steel. Buildings and neighborhoods can be designed to be earth-friendly, making use of structural ferrocement, natural light earth sheltering, wind farming, and suburban, rural, and urban greenhousing. Air conditioning [and heating] can be run on a neighborhood level using geothermal and geostorage temperature systems. No company stands to make a massive profit from increased fuel or energy consumption. Even the factories can be roboticisized without fear of producing a 'shortage' of labor to be done by humans.

Farming practices can be modernized [de-modernized?] to make efficient and clean use of land and resources to produce delicious and safe foods. Lack of supercompetetive advertising and signage, even on foods, will reduce the need for artificial colorings and flavorings and extra packaging. It will reduce the level of advertising for sugary or addictive soda-waters or snacks. Organic foods with few or no preservatives can be served even in free school lunch programs, also open to the public for a small fee.

Big business franchisee Mcfood chains seen in capitalist markets will not be duplicated and local businesses and restaurants, as well as local state businesses. They can afford to give more of their economic attention to their food and service and less to international advertising and branding.

Communications power will originate with the people and public performance groups will replace the majority of major dramatic/Hollywood stardom. Commune-wide cinema and art can provide the stamina for big-budget productions while local civic dramatic production should be recorded and televised! State-run DSL is a 95% commodity, and phone systems will run through the same network system, or through radio relay via software defined radio.

Certain power plants and types of power plants can be decommissioned and neighborhood-level power facilities can be established, possibly using biofuelcells. This will eliminate a large amount of waste, irradiation, and pollution and place power control in local hands.

High technology laboratories can get busy researching whatever students and scientists want to research, spurred on by the state and public service usefulness, but not by major corporations looking to make money, have an illegal monopoly, or hook people on a product or maintenance-cure. Scholars will be driven on by public service, creativity, curiosity, and a high commune-wide standard of living and confidence.

In dealing with non-commune entities, commune industries will export products and negotiate the outsourcing of production of commune-held products and international licenses. Trade with foreign communes will be on a high usefulness/technology export basis, and on a needs-in basis. Tourism as well can be stimulated by artistic performance, international civility, high technology transportation and production, and major business agreements. If the nation becomes so fantastic that they can support themselves and have extra leftover, education donation and aid programs will be organized to the world by need and effectiveness of aid.

This could be Cuba in 20 years. It could be the world.

Artificial Competition

A company owning numerous individual companies that compete against one another creates an artificial reduction in competition. That is an internal trust. A company must display the name of their parent company on their labeling or signage.

The majority of the world's economic market is controlled by perhaps 5 companies. Many companies [even individual companies] have economies larger than countries such as Denmark or Venezuela.

Ford and Death

Ford invested in larger SUVs in the late 1990's, along with most American automakers. Clearly aware of peak oil as all such professional automakers, financial analysts, geologists, and industry and political leaders should have been, they chose to invest against the math.

Now they face decreased market competivity in an increasingly educated, active, and discerning consumer field, while Asian-corp vehicles are giving [just barely] more efficient and somewhat cheaper and more reliable products, and taking a larger share of the market.

Ford and GM actually own certain extremely efficient patents. Will those patents go on their auction block, or will they break out the Pogue carb and water fracturing and other high efficiency technologies they have been hoarding away from their competition? The choice is not in my hands, and the 10-year results will be the same.

I recommend these automakers become truthful about their patent holdings and make use of them this quarter. For the good of earth and for the good of the market.

Industrial Conditions

Please examine this video on industrial economic conditions in the 3rd world and the solution in response.

I recently wrote to Old Navy and Gap companies about their worker conditions. Their response letters were remarkably similar! I wonder if they have gathered together to help organize their commercial efforts in a way that would artificially affect prices, or if they are actually owned by the same corporation.

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Hello Old Navy representative!

I am interested in knowing more about your manufacturing partners'
working conditions. I represent consumers who care about the economic
and social conditions their human partners experience, and who will
tailor their purchases to help them. Is Old Navy a company that helps
its workers live above the poverty line, or attain a good life as
defined by International and UN standards? I like doing business with
companies that treat their partners fairly.
Thank you for your interest!
William Bunker

On Sat, 19 Aug 2006 10:37:25 -0400, "oldnavy.com Service"
<custserv@oldnavy.com> said:
Dear William,
Thank you for your inquiry about the treatment of workers and the factories that make our clothes. We share your concern, as this is also a very important matter to us. We want our products to be made in a safe and humane environment, and we've devoted significant amounts of time, money and energy toward improving factory conditions and the lives
of garment workers.

We're committed in our efforts. Nearly a decade ago, we created a Code of Vendor Conduct establishing our principles and the expectations we have for factories that produce our clothes. Today we have one of the most comprehensive factory monitoring programs in the apparel industry with more than 90 employees around the world who are devoted to
improving the factories in which our products are made. We make both announced and surprise visits that include interviewing workers, reviewing documents, inspecting health, safety and labor conditions, and more. In addition, we work closely with nonprofit and governmental
organizations, independent monitors and community leaders, striving to promote change through greater collaboration among all concerned stakeholders.

We'd like to share more about our program with you, and we invite you to visit our web site at:
http://www.gapinc.com/public/SocialResponsibility/socialres.shtml
We've also recently published our first Social Responsibility Report which is available online as well. We want our customers, employees and investors to know what we're doing to improve factories, and your feedback about our efforts is greatly appreciated.
Sincerely, Claud
Customer Service Consultant

William Bunker:
"I know that factory workers receive a substantially tiny fraction of garment sales, regardless of the practices made to improve their conditions. I would like you to commit to price as a standing multiple of worker salary, or worker salary as a standing fraction of garment price. This number could be 10% of end price, but currently it ranks in the lowest single digits, with the greatest share of price going to marketing and profit. This effect will substantially improve the lives of many workers in Indonesia and other nations who make about half the poverty level of income.

The current system is unacceptable to consumers. I am pleased that you share our concern. Please publish this worker/price ratio figure on your product labeling.

Thank you for your concern!
<><>Dear Mr. Bunker,

Thank you for your inquiry about the treatment of workers and the factories that make our clothes. We share your concern, as this is also a very important matter to us. We want our products to be made in a safe and humane environment, and we've devoted significant amounts of time, money and energy toward improving factory conditions and the lives of garment workers.

We're committed in our efforts. Nearly a decade ago, we created a Code of Vendor Conduct establishing our principles and the expectations we have for factories that produce our clothes. Today we have one of the most comprehensive factory monitoring programs in the apparel industry with more than 90 employees around the world who are devoted to improving the factories in which our products are made. We make both
announced and surprise visits that include interviewing workers, reviewing documents, inspecting health, safety and labor conditions, and more. In addition, we work closely with nonprofit and governmental organizations, independent monitors and community leaders, striving to promote change through greater collaboration among all concerned stakeholders.

We'd like to share more about our program with you, and we invite you to visit our web site at: http://www.gapinc.com/public/SocialResponsibility/socialres.shtml

We've also recently published our first Social Responsibility Report which is available online as well. We want our customers, employees and investors to know what we're doing to improve factories, and your feedback about our efforts is greatly appreciated.

Sincerely,
Jessica
Customer Service Consultant"

David Rockefeller says this:

"For more than a century ideological extremists at either end of the political spectrum have seized upon well-publicized incidents such as my encounter with Castro to attack the Rockefeller family for the inordinate influence they claim we wield over American political and economic institutions. Some even believe we are part of a secret cabal working against the best interests of the United States, characterizing my family and me as ‘internationalists’ and of conspiring with others around the world to build a more integrated global political and economic structure – one world, if you will. If that’s the charge, I stand guilty, and I am proud of it."

The current system is unacceptable to consumers. I am pleased that you share our concern.

Market Colonialism

The title link is a video of working contracts in Indonesia. Companies set up conduct policies, but Indonesia is run by the International Monetary Fund and World Bank and their sponsor companies such as Gap, Old Navy, and other apparel companies. The factories and warehouses routinely work employees under the projected conduct to make export deadlines. They also tell their employees not to reveal infractions. They have punishments.

Many people step up to the wonder of the world, large beautiful cities and great power and wealth, and they do not look back. They live a comfortable luxurious life and do not look back, they do not look underneath.

It is what is underneath that counts. If you live on injustice, on the backs of the innocent poor, any beauty you produce is tied also to that evil that produced it, even if physical strings draw back to the hand of that child, it is still his or hers. The great cities of the world are built by the blood of the innocent. They are filthy with it. The vast piles of wealth of the world are all stolen with the hands of the impoverished still attached to them.

How filthy is that?

The world belongs to humanity. Dispense it equally. Those who do not contribute their honest portion, that small pittance of real labor required from each to the great task of supporting us all with earth's help by God's grace, they are criminals. The axe is hanging above their heads. It is by God's mercy that their own misdeeds are not against themselves directly. Their justice is delayed momentarily, in mercy, without destroying its justness, until their case can be settled by their mind and their life.

This is a horrible situation to hear for a person who is honestly good. An honest and good person deserves no such judgement. It pains them to see that wrong has been done and because they are good they seek to right it and extend the realm of their own justice and goodness through it. Jesus Christ forgives that injustice at the beat of a repentant heart.

Please, be that repentant heart!! Please, allow God to restore those whom you have wronged, and to restore you if you have wronged. Acts done in greed and wrath and hubris are not the justice of God. As god made Moses' hand leperous for a moment to show Pharoah his power, so has the world been made horrible for a time, to show God's power. But God can heal us instantly as he healed Moses.

Ask for this healing.

This is the ground-floor consequence of IMF/WB contracts and Neo-Conservative policies. I believe we should provide goodness and righteousness and fairness to these people, and to our brothers and sisters in humanity. Love your neighbor as you love yourself. Do, love yourself.

In other situations, we have changed a nation's laws and economic foundations to give us a better market position. Costa Rica was forced to sell of its national lumber at very low rates, and now they have very few trees.

Large established and state-sponsored companies often go into Iraq or Africa with low wide prices from paid-off infrastructure and full credit from states and out-compete local businesses. Then they can raise prices or buy their foreign competetors for stock-bottom prices. This destroys foreign businesses, makes foreigners reliant on American and western companies, and pays us a boussant or a bonus price for our goods out of their pockets. Because of loan repayment, 70% of Pakistan's GDP goes to foreign countries. What they have left does not support a school system, and public fuel prices have risen considerably. This destroys the quality of life of the average Pakistani.

Now, the IMF money stolen by Suharto in Indonesia is being repaid by the Indonesian people. This is continuined sucking and neocolonialism. Financial colonialism is very similar to conventional national slavery. Both should be stopped. The ones 'at the top' answer to God, not to no one.

This is neocolonialism, and it is a largely concealed enterprise from those not in power who benefit from it. Those who do benefit from it while being in power, they help orchestrate the system.

This rift between those who benefit and know, and those who benefit and don't know, it must be fully breached before the situation can be righted.

Retirement

Because of numerous economic factors configuring into an unpleasant picture, I recommend that Americans, all Americans, review their investment and retirement strategies. This weekend. Or today if you have Friday off.

Www.silverandgold2007.blogspot.com details investment potentials and probabilities. Do not shift your retirement into a market-sensitive 401k. The market is not stable and your retirement will be lost. Companies, do not provide this retirement option to employees, your matchings will be lost, and your employees will suffer economically.

Individuals who plan to or are saving to retire, I recommend you shift the majority [60%] of your retirement savings to personal accounts. The remainder I would shift from investment in the general stock market to investing in selected futures and possibly into retirement real estate, after completing a study of the market's in depth 5-year and 10-year forecasts.

Please, do these things and save yourself a lot of money.

Planned Economics and "Free" Economics

Free market produces the illusion of an unplanned economy. It is silly to believe that almost any economy is 'unplanned'. They all are planned, but simply not by the state, directly. The free market economy is comprised of several major companies and the Federal Reserve money printing system. Currently we base our money around credit and oil. We used to center industry and wealth around industrial base to a far greater extent, but in the 1980's and 1990's we began outsourcing the cheap labor to save money at the risk of placing industry overseas. This began and continued a massive international investment, including the IMF, WB, and other 'world-conquering' techniques.

Also, if a country owes you $20 billion, they cannot become communist like the rival Soviet Union, and upon their failure to repay, you get to shift their market and budgets to be both favorable to you [US/Britain] and away from the Soviet-style [non-populist, also frees up money for taking].

Automakers and oil companies and manufacturers all work with the FCC and the state and the boards of industry and elite groups and industry trusts to ensure that they produce a kind of planned economy that they like. They could allow the greatest technology and other economic factors to reign, but they have collected a planned economy. Numerous industry laboratories organize to ensure that their plan is used and not others. That is a planned economy. DuPont worked with the state to ban industrial hemp so their paper treating chemical could become profitable. That is a planned economy. The American and western economies do this extensively. Finance has the entire 3rd world economy and all debt wrapped up in their company's coffers.

Free market economics are well planned. They are planned by the interests of wealthy individuals not held accountable to the people.

Linden Labs

I am really excited about applying for a job to Linden Labs! Wish me luck, world!

Debts

I have come to the conclusion that according to the American economy, debt is profit. Through finance and the central banking industry / Federal Reserve, and our lending institutions, World Bank, International Monetary Fund, and international corporations sponsored through weapons deals and contracts, we are playing ball with ourselves and giving the tab to other countries or to a 'basically imaginary' hole of debt which we never intend to truly repay.

We spend extra money and finance the money from China or another lendor, or the Fed, which is a private company that simply prints 'extra' money, or dillies, or bonds, or I.O.U.'s, which are technically good as cash and have market value and can be traded or bought or sold, and even with interest collected upon them so they not only beat inflation but with floating lending rates, can provide a plausable return rate, which is dictated by the central bank, a private company.

We accumulate this debt, or finance, and we give the real money we print to a company such as Bechtel or Halliburton, which is given work in a foreign land that we mess up or with some other contract organizing resources. That is three forms of income. #1: Debt. #2: the income that the money is paid for, which we borrow. #3: the natural resource or labor that is accumulated through the work. Or possibly a condition we appreciate, such as a weapons platform in the hands of an ally, or a producing oil field, aka capital, which can then be used to make even more money.

Furthermore, all oil sales are made in dollars worldwide, even from Nigeria to Sweden. Dollars. That is money traded, exchanged through American banks, who take a profit. It is highly enriching for Americans that the world remain in a petrodollar situation, and that the world remain reliant on oil through oil-burning automobiles and factories and fuel systems, and even inefficiently, so that more oil can be traded instead of less, and more petrodollars spent, especially when there is a shortage and the price increases considerably.

This is why you get so many offers for credit cards and why the credit limit is so high, and why it has been made difficult to declare bankruptcy, and probably why the American government has such a very high debt level, and why they continue to get away with this growing debt, and how it remains seemingly profitable to spread this money out, and make such extra work for oneself. It is more profitable through this triple economy to make more work than to solve the problem.

I estimate that the US economy is actually, then, only earnestly one third as large as these bankers numbers extrapolate. The real figure is probably 2/5-3/5, as it usually seems to be.

For sources, see Alan Greenspan's currency estimation, the federal reserve's estimation on recession in the coming half decade, investigate peak oil, the WB, IMF, PNAC, see the video by democracynow! about John Perkins, ex-economic hit man for the CIA, Aaron Russo's videos on the Federal Reserve, a blue monkey, and also my left shirt pocket. You may also find Noam Chomsky's economics invigorating, and also data on freeganism.

"This didn't have to be about to happen."

Did it?

You may also note that retired CIA folks have said that 'for 2007' is when 'all parties in the world intend to lay their cards on the table'.

Various Social Commentary

I am dismayed by the process of hiring and beauracracy present in the hiring process of many large businesses. To apply for work at such a place it often requires a 30 minute ordeal of filling out forms, finding paperwork, etc. It should be made abundantly simple for the applicant. Filling out the paperwork correctly is not part of the application process.

Intent to work can be easily specified in person or by electronic media. A consent to a background check, drug screen, etc can all be organized into a 'single checkbox', along with the statement of being aware of rights. Position applied for or general application can me signified in a similar box. Complete work history is a background check, and notable work history should be the only real thing the applicant must assign.

Vital papers need not be produced immediately, and are also likely part of a background checking process, so they can be kept private until consent is given either upon verbal confirmation from the company or background checking agency, or during the interview process, depending on direction of interest.

But filling out a massive form series, checkboxes of are you are of your rights, you chose yes, is this correct, etc, it is degrading and an insulting waste of time for a worker to go through. While we're here let's add the option of joining unions while applying. I would rather see an interview, even in recorded or typewritten format, than a string of radio button questions or touch-tone answers for recorded questions. This can make the process of finding good employees easier for businesses and the process of ffinding a good company to work with easier for a worker.

Let's work on making that happen before fiscal 2007 arrives.