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I am in the middle of this book about President Obama.
If you want to keep track of the polls on a daily basis, here is the best site http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/latest_polls/
9/8/12 Should we be buying gold, go on the gold standard as Ron Paul suggests, allow currency collaspe and start over again, or impeach congress, end fractional banking and wall street gambling on margin, end buying stock on margin-end the Federal Reserve? In this video these ideas are being tossed around and then come back and I will give my suggested solutions. http://rt.com/programs/keiser-report/episode-338-max-keiser/
What will be the triggers for the rest of the year for a possible financial crisis and the consequences in global and US finance?
Well there are several. Lets list a few first and the go back after for the detail.
1. 70% of the trades on Wall Street are by computer. Computer glitches real or manipulated can set off a panic and that can make valuations and pricing difficult if not impossible, including gold, silver and stocks.
2. The Greek default could result in currency debasement. This would have a domino effect in the west. If not Greece then if Spain asks for a postpone of its austerity programs. Both could trigger in a month or two.
3. The rising price of fuel and food is what actually set off the "Arab Spring" riots. Egypt is at that point again. The most dangerous point for a country as far as bloody revolution is concerned is when seeming gains are followed by severe setbacks. It was fuel prices and food price increases which set off the Arab spring and it will be rising food and fuel prices that will do it again. How close are they to more increases? Close. Governments around the world subsidize fuel and food prices already to avoid revolution. These two plus arms purchases are what they spend their money on. 4. April is the deadline when the US government receipts in taxation come in. If lower than anticipated then expect the US credit rating to drop and interest rates to drop below zero etc., and perhaps a run on US securities and perhaps bonds as well.
5. December 31st. This the "fiscal cliff" deadline which I have written about in other places on this site. Up for action are the tax breaks for the rich, taxes on the middle class, tax cuts for the rich and cutbacks in the military, and other bread and butter items.
No telling what will happen. Uncertainty can really trigger ancillary events, most unpleasant.
Five more triggers set to fizzle or ignite in the next six days on wall street, the banks and JP Morgan--one pundits view. http://www.marketwatch.com/story/is-this-a-week-to-remember-or-forget-2012-09-05?link=MW_story_investinginsight
We will throw these into the mix and get back our analysis tomorrow.
But what should the average citizen do about the above situations? Stay tuned.
9/11/12 Well where are we in the never-ending European Debt Crisis and what is likely to happen?
First, there is a clear anti-Merkel trend. Socialists have won elections or gained strength in France, possibilty Holland, in Italy, now it looks Spain is rebelling against austerity as well.
Second, the European Central banks while offering unlimited funds may find that nobody wants those funds with the condtions now attached and the fact of the matter is that more debt cannot cure existing debt.
If that happens what will happen? The possiblilities and outcomes
1. Rolling default. Country after country may opt out of the zone or threaten to do so-getting concessions on the austerity plans-- which it is clear stiffle growth. The Germans would lose. Yes the Germans would lose because they sell many if not most of their products to the PIIGs. Inflation would occur and the creditor nations would lose and take the haircut, even if the zone fell apart. After all the Greeks reason, austerity and default start to look alike except default regains Greek soververgnity and that looks good to Greeks and the other nations right now.
2. Expect a planned default-with reverberations in the United States as well. That is why President Obama is promising an increase in exports. He plans to let the US currency float thereby increasing exports. He has to to put Americans back to work. A cheap dollar helps.
3. Meantime the Chinese and the Russians see this coming as well and are talking now about creating trade and currency aggreements between themselves which would insulate them from the dollar and its collapse.
They are even talking commodity trades not based on currency but a form of barter. And that could work and if it does other nations could start to immulate it--trouble for the west. Now in another blog we look at what the issues for Obama's second term will be at their solutions. Imported below. 11/7/12 After the election what has to be done and in what order?
Now that the election is over more thoughtful citizens want to move beyond the euphoria and/or grief over whether our particular candidates won or lost.
What we in the middle class what to know is what is likely to happen with the issues we care about and even more importantly we want to know who really won and who really lost in this election other than mere politicians.
No, what we want to know is what is the plan to deal with the issues we really cared about in the course of the election; why they did not get even discussed and there is no plan to even address them in the next four years-I would not count on Obama's help. We will discuss these "hidden" issues in the next several weeks one by one (about 21 of them) and offer solutions and more importantly, which of the issues ought to be tackled and, in what order. I know a huge task but the impossible is simply what us Amercans have not yet achieved.
By way of preview of the list of 21:
Who won the election? Wall Street won the elections and invested 5 billion dollars in doing so and won the status quo. No real changes are likely, fiscal cliff or no. The issues cared about were won or were effectively blocked from even being brought up by either of the major parties or their candidates.Now that is winning by preventing. What am I referring to?
...Wall street effectively blocked any discussion of: Climate change even in the face of a devastating hurricane in New England Massive foreclosures among the poor and the middle class were not discussed.(See backrounder below:) http://www.authorsden.com/visit/viewshortstory.asp?AuthorID=121255&id=56607 https://mail.google.com/mail/h/772rpgs1h32c/?&v=c&th=13af78b85654a573 Middle Class Debt Enslavement: What to do? http://money.cnn.com/2012/11/09/pf/occupy-wall-street-strike-debt/ A financial system in meltdown and recesssion heading toward depression and crushing austerity cuts Racism and the New Jim Crow Bank Criminality http://www.authorsden.com/visit/viewshortstory.asp?AuthorID=121255&id=53920 Wall Street criminality-see background article below. http://www.authorsden.com/visit/viewshortstory.asp?AuthorID=121255&id=53920 Increasing poverty Flat and decreasing wages over the last 30 years. An aging population with fewer skills and progressing health care costs Immigration: Is revamping small towns with immigrant and youth labor an answer? I tend to think so and have outlined a plan. Anyway, it is happening away. It is our future. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10000872396390443696604577645500654098514.html http://online.wsj.com/article /SB10000872396390443696604577645500654098514.html Education Reform and investment The short falls of the Capitalist System- See background below: http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/12614-the-democratization-of-wealth-and-the-era-of-deepening-fiscal-crisis Threats to Democracy from the National Security State Serious political reform of a broken Congress and political system The buying and selling of political office by millionaries and billionaries Tax reform: the system now is one where the rich loot middle class assets and get away with it Repatriation of profits and money hidden overseas Wealth ineqality Only 51% of the American people even bothered to vote. The concentration of ownership of the media in a few hands Right wing poliltics Identity politics Physical Infrastructure and Energy policy Military Spending The Fiscal Cliff--It is coming up first so we look at it first. Nov 9, 2012 The 21 Solutions- #1 The Fiscal Cliff and the so-called "deficit crisis." Let's discuss the issue of the Fiscal Cliff. The President is on the television today proclaiming its importance in addressing the deficit. First let's examine the assumptions in his speech to see if they are accurate.
Is there a deficit in American society and is there enough money in the system to deal with our current costs? The politicians say no, therefore, there has to be a massive austerity program, cutbacks and new taxes; but that is not accurate. We see what is happening in Europe with this approach and even the Europeans see that this "austerity" idea has not even worked for them after years of trying. All it will get you is riots and depressed economies. Rather what we have in this country is a mal-distribution and criminal appropriation of wealth by the top 2 percent of the population over the last thirty years--misappropriated from the middle class of this country. The issue now is how to right this mis-appropriation and mal-distribution and get that money back to its rightful owners--the middle class. If we did this would there be enough money to take care of this so-called deficit? Answer: Yes. Here's how: We take our money back from the rich. But will the mechanism of taxing the rich really solve the deficit problem? The rich, the media and the politicians, say no. What a surprise there. But let's have a look at this question for ourselves. In short who has enough money to solve our monetary and budget problems? Let's give the gross figures and then go to the detail and really have a look at things. See the article below which argues there is enough money and no deficit if we tax the rich at reasonable levels. In the Eisenhower administration the tax rate at the top was 91%. Today it is 35% and the rich only really pay 10% not the 35%-this not even counting a trillion in off shore profits which do not get taxed at all. There is enough money. We are not broke as a nation, we are being robbed as a nation. The times when tax rates on the rich have been highest have been the most prosperous in the nations history, because consumers had money to spend and they spent it creating a booming economy. Today they don't have the money, the 2 percent do, and we have a terrible recession. This is not rocket science. The rich took the money and invested it in themselves and China, overseas and in derivative gambling, whereas Amercian consumers would invest at home locally.
Exactly how much do the rich get each year from the national government and taxpayers in detail? See quote below.
"The traditional image of 'welfare' pales in comparison to corporate welfare and millionaire welfare. Whereas over 90% of Temporary Assistance for Needy Families goes to the elderly, the disabled, or working households, most of the annual $1.3 trillion in "tax expenditures" (tax subsidies from special deductions, exemptions, exclusions, credits, and loopholes) goes to the top quintile of taxpayers. One estimate is $250 billion a year just to the richest 1%. Senator Tom Coburn's website reports that mortgage interest and rental expense deductions alone return almost $100 billion a year to millionaires.
The most profitable corporations get the biggest subsidies. The Federal Reserve provided more than $16 trillion in financial assistance to financial institutions and corporations. According to Citizens for Tax Justice, 280 profitable Fortune 500 companies, which together paid only half of the maximum 35 percent corporate tax rate, received $223 billion in tax subsidies." Quotes from a letter to the editor from: Theodore Ziolkowski July 16, 2012 3:10pm
Appeared in: http://www.nationofchange.org/five-reasons-super-rich-need-government-more-rest-us-1342445298
And more: "Here are the facts. Data from Edward Wolff confirms that from 1983 to 2007 the percentages of net worth and financial wealth for the top 1% remained steady. But the percentages for the rest of the richest 5% increased by almost 20%, while the percentages for the lowest 80% of the population DECREASED by almost 20%."
How did this happen and who got rich off of this mal-distribution? Here is a vociferious critic of the Ryan Budget from the Reagan budget director -David Stockman (From the Financial Times.) http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/7d45818a-e608-11e1-bece-00144feab49a.html?ftcamp=traffic/email/content/monthnl//memmkt#axzz253Wfzjlg
Quote from the above article
This pattern is world wide: What is the wealth gap and how much?- Who has the money? http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-16545898
More pointedly world debt has been created by these same American banks and the tax payers world-wide are having to pay when the banks lose money but these banks get to keep all the profits if they win in their gambling. This is crazy. To be clear: the world we live in is a construction of the banks using phony debt as a means of control. How did this debt happen?
First, let's settle the question of who or what caused the deficit in the United States in the first place such that the government had to borrow all that money; and who got rich off the debt we currently have and are continuing to get rich off this debt. First a little history of debt in this country and then we go to the specifics.
http://www.authorsden.com/visit/viewarticle.asp?catid=23&id=62616 Turns out the greatest contributor to the greatest debt in US history was George Bush. Debt increased from 133 billion to 1 trillion during his administration. This was the Republican "starve the beast" strategy--create a debt ridden goverment (this has the added benefit of benefiting the banks who float this debt) and then under the cover of austerity take back middle class assets, ignoring the fact that two wars made Republican defense contractors, the banks, the pentagon, the so-called secuity industry and wall street--rich. There is no justice here. On top of all this is the claim is made that the middle class overspent and now has to tighen it's belt because the monied classes simultaneously reduced wages forcing the middle class to put their wives, children and grannies to work forcing them to use their high interest rate credit cards to survive.
Why can't the American public see this scam is beyond me.
But a chart is worth a thousand words.
It is clear that the Republicans ran up the debt with bailouts for banks, two wars, and tax breaks for the rich--debt which they are now asking the middle class to pay.
I am suggesting this was and is no accident.
And, they are poised to do it again because there are billions in profits in it for their constituents-the banks, the pentagon, the so-called security industry, the prison industrial industry, the war profiteers and the bank foreclosure mills which are owned by the banks. How will this work is to ask the question of how this phony deficit is maintained everyday. Here we start with the role of the banks in this manufactured debt scam. Banks are a major part of this and they maintain this debt scam everyday as they take our deposits and saved money and use it against the middle classs to maintain power for the 2 percent over the middle class. Here is how it works. Bank criminality On a day to day basis the intitutution which has the most daily impact on our lives is our local conglomerate bank. Here are the ways. http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-505145_162-51346188/big-banks-sneaky-new-tricks/?tag=mwuser http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2012/12/201212610293221932.html Wall Street Takes Your Paycheck Each Time You Make A Deposit and Uses It Against You.
Understand that Wall street operates on split seconds. In seconds after you make that deposit the money is made available to wall street traders. Meantime, they make you wait for your money, with a phony "hold" process which means they have just taken your money for one to seven days and have forced you into making them an overnight or one to seven day loan. This amounts to trillions of dollars each year. So Americans loan this money and don't complain.
They gamble with your money right away, and understand your money is no longer there in your account. Most banks keep only one dollar in ten in their vaults, the rest is being gambled or loaned out--in either case gone.
They carefully keep track of how often you withdraw your money (a savings account is even better) and track carefully your average balance and how often you withdraw your funds.
If they guess wrong and spend your money; or too many depositors come for their money at the same time they simply go to the Federal Reserve and get a free (1%) loan overnight-that fast-while they set limits on how much of your money you can get in a single day, giving them time to go borrow if they need to, from other banks, or from the Federal Reserve Bank.
If even 11 percent of Americans go to the bank to get their money they would find that their money is not there and the banks would panic, that is why they always try to reassure the public that things are ok. They mortally fear people coming for their money.
If we pressed to get our money there would be "run on the banks"declared by the President he would declare a "bank holiday" and the banks would simply be closed with a phony promise to open again in a few days or weeks while congress created new laws to govern them.
But the fact of the matter is that all is happening is that the bank is calculating how to get more of your money before they have to re-open and when they do you will find that about half (if you are lucky) will be gone.
The government will promise us the rest at a later date, or simply remind you that FDIC does not cover your money above a certain amount. This closing of the banks happened in 1929 and brought in the great depresion.
That is what happened and can happen again to your money. And it will likely happen in Europe first. Here is what to expect there first and then here in the US. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-18193962
Second: Banks profits come from exorbitant interest rates-usurious interest rates. How? http://truth-out.org/news/item/12605-its-the-interest-stupid-why-bankers-rule-the-world
Even bank insiders recognize the problem that banks now present. "The recent trading losses at JPMorgan Chase & Co. and scandals over money laundering at HSBC Holdings Plc and Standard Chartered Plc have prompted even financial-industry insiders to ask whether these complex global organizations are too big to manage."
"The bigger these subsidized institutions become, the more likely they are to receive government support in times of distress. Implicit subsidies increase as the systemic importance of a bank rises, creating more incentive for management to talk up the social value of their bank becoming even larger.
"All of this is really about privatizing the benefits when things go well and socializing the costs when things go poorly. No one has found measurable economies of scale or scope for banks with more than $100 billion in total assets, yet four of the Big Six have balance sheets exceeding $1 trillion. Global megabanks have become a huge, nontransparent and dangerous government-subsidy program"
See the article below: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-09-02/big-banks-are-hazardous-to-u-s-financial-health.html The insiders are now split on the wisdom of having the big six banks potentially threaten the financial stability of the entire global economy. See details of the so-called deficit. My backgrounders: http://www.authorsden.com/visit/viewshortstory.asp?AuthorID=121255&id=50518 http://www.authorsden.com/visit/viewshortstory.asp?AuthorID=121255&id=49909 http://www.authorsden.com/visit/viewshortstory.asp?AuthorID=121255&id=54195 http://www.authorsden.com/visit/viewshortstory.asp?AuthorID=121255&id=54435 http://www.authorsden.com/visit/viewshortstory.asp?AuthorID=121255&id=53990 http://www.authorsden.com/visit/viewshortstory.asp?AuthorID=121255&id=56541 http://www.authorsden.com/visit/viewshortstory.asp?AuthorID=121255&id=48285
But what to do then? Some say the Fiscal Cliff is simply the banks demanding our tax money and austerity to pay their gambling debts and losses. Haven't we been through this before in 2008? Are we going to let them do it again? They argue: how about just going over the cliff? Is that the best thing to do? http://www.slate.com/articles/business/moneybox/2012/10/the_fiscal_cliff_don_t_believe_the_alarmism_of_bank_ceos.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/09/opinion/krugman-lets-not-make-a-deal.html?src=me&ref=general http://www.authorsden.com/visit/viewshortstory.asp?AuthorID=121255&id=53669 11/12/12 But are there other ideas about reducing debt. Here is an idea of how to get rid of middle class debt and the debt of the poor. This approach says that our problems are institutional and therefore we should be creating alternative institutions, and not count on politicians and corrupt insititutions to go against their own interests and reform themselves. This is context of the "Fiscal Cliff" discussion. Meantime, the idea is to get rid of foreclosure debt and write it off. http://www.forbes.com/sites/timworstall/2012/11/10/links-10-nov-finally-an-occupy-wall-street-idea-we-can-all-get-behind-the-rolling-jubilee/
Now, backgrounders done, what is the best thing to do? Fiscal Cliff--Solutions: My View
1-Do nothing and a trillion dollars (over ten years) in tax subsidies for the rich go away-( more also look at simultaneoulsy closing tax loop holes for the rich and taxing financial tranactions and off shore profits.) http://www.offthechartsblog.org/cbo-ending-high-income-tax-cuts-would-save-almost-1-trillion/ If we do this there would be no deficit-and no need to touch Social Security and only minor tinkering with Medicare. This is an no-brainer and the Democrats could claim victory and the Republicans could claim there was nothing they could do to stop it. That is attractive and a deal and a law could be passed even before the deadline which would insist that taxes for the middle class be extended permanently. This would be law before the Fiscal Cliff deadline. Then a negotiation over the rest of the items could take place over the next year. But note, too, that Congress could simply pass another law to eliminate the Cliff entirely. After all thls is all self-imposed and can be easily reversed or changed by Congress. Besides there is no real deadline at December 31st. That is a myth as well--especially in the context of a lame duck Congress. I may get surprised but the likely outcome is to kick the can down the road and some form of the status quo. A deal can and likely will be struck around some temporary measure on the tax cuts for the rich and the middle class and suspension of the miliary cuts. Social security cuts have a mechanism for cuts already in place and no immediate cuts are even necessary. Social Security is supposed to pegged to the cost of living but Congress can simply each year vote that away and has. There have been no increases in Social Security payments in two years. Cuts in Social Security and Medicare are really only being pushed by Wall Street trying to get their hands on billions in Social Security and Medicare money. Don't be fooled by all the dooms-day talk. That trick worked in 2008. We should not let this trick be used against us again.
Also, note Medicare cuts are built into Obama care already, so no immediate action is required there anyway. So in fact the only real item on the table is the trillion dollar subsidy for millionaries over the next ten years. This, I argue, simply can no longer be afforded and should be simply allowed to expire. This is essentially what Obama is recommending except with one deadly proviso: He is willing to put Medicare, Social Security and other safety net items up for compromise-a carrot for Wall Street. This should not be supported and from my point of view, will be suffcient proof that Obama has not changed and cannot resist the Washington Wall Street overlords. http://www.counterpunch.org/2012/11/16/the-grand-bargain-meets-the-bank-bailouts/ This will be the watershed decision of his second term, if not his entire Presidency. Don't cave Mr. President; after all there was an election.
So the so-called deficit could be tackled with the above measures along with closing just a few of the huge tax loopholes supporting the rich. Math is math. There is a growing consensus around this position: http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/obama-to-open-fiscal-talks-with-plan-to-raise-taxes-on-wealthy/2012/11/13/9984cd78-2dc1-11e2-89d4-040c9330702a_story.html http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/liberal-groups-mobilize-for-fiscal-cliff-fight-over-social-security-medicare/2012/11/12/b2c98f64-2cf7-11e2-89d4-040c9330702a_story.html?tid=pm_business_pop&wp_login_redirect=0 http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2012/11/09/the-fiscal-cliff-is-an-austerity-crisis/
Tommorow: The Second Problem of the 21 I have positied and my proposed solutions-immigration. 11/13/12 Problem #2 Solution #2 To understand immigration is to understand its drivers. Those drivers are:
1-Demographics. Reading above in this blog you realize that the Latino population in this country is and will overwhem other groups in the population, most of whom do not have a birth rate which is self-replicating and sustainable. Moreover, this is true in the entire Western world. Being wealthy always means people don't want the burden of raising children, thereby sealing their demographic fate or war has decimated the breeding population, or as in China, a policy which has more males that females in the population. In any event many countries have native population problems.
So who is falling down the demographic well? All of Western Europe, Japan, Russia, The US, and China. That is why all of these countries need immigrant labor to sustain their life styles. It was, at one time, a race between technology to replace labor and the need for human labor. The need for human labor has won. After all the Apple Iphone is essentially a handmade device using 19 century labor techniques with cheap Chinese labor. Technology ain't going to save us or prevent changes. The YOLO sense among the young and the old is fueled by a sense of one world ending and another beginning. That is true and, historically, happens all the time.
So the United States is likely to become Mexico North. After all Mexico is not the poverty-ridden country of last century, it is an economic powerhouse now, drug cartels or no drug cartels. The second driver is population distribution. The most important aspect of immigration is that the Latino population has distributed itself in many of the small towns of America. They have not congregated in the cities as much of the population has done but have dispersed. They have contact with a strong work ethic and with the land deriving from the small villages from which they came and have precisely the skills needed to rebuild small towns in America-construction, housing, village life and the resourcefulness of the recently poor. That is why they get hired by employers--they work hard.
In my model add to this the urban college-educated and the technologlly sophisticated young technocrats and entreupreners and you have the ingredients needed to rebuild America.
But note most of the above will happen whether we plan for it or not. The only issue will be whether it will be planned for or will it be done in the crisis of collapse of the major institutions of this country.
The new institutions in this scenario will be decentralized with an emphisis on local self-sustaining communities-a blend of technology, green energy and agriculture. It will be, if not prevented, signal the return of cheap labor, cheap energy, and cheap food. This will take 20 years. Massive intitutions have failed us so, like it or not, we have to rebuild from the bottom upon a new kinds of decentralized institutions.
Immigration policy, therefore, will be to facilitate this process and this can be done and is already underway, even as politicians, still fail to understand its import, broad implications and outlines.
By 2050 this new pattern will have been recognized. But note this is the pattern for all countries. New arrivals (and slaves) come in, do the tough jobs and eventually replace older groups and/or intermarry, or sometimes there is war and rampant civil war as a response. This is and has been the pattern in the United States as well, historically-but in end, in wealthy countries, if immigrants become integrated economically and all goes well because intermarriage plus economic intergration equals political power and things settle down into the new paradigm. Immigration, therefore, will solve itself in time-unless the forces of regression try to actively prevent it.
Specifc policy and action recommendations tomorrow.
11/14/12 In a discussion of immigration policy it seems prudent to ask how do other countries handle immigration and what are their policies?
So lets have a look. http://globalpublicsquare.blogs.cnn.com/category/global-lessons/ http://globalpublicsquare.blogs.cnn.com/2012/06/10/immigration-lessons-for-the-u-s-from-around-the-world/ http://blog.washingtonpost.com/thedebate/2006/03/aroundtheworld.html http://www.caps-blog.org/articles/2011/12/18/we-are-not-alone/ http://www.cfr.org/immigration/us-immigration-debate/p11149 11/15/12 So why am I positing a relationship bewtween climate change and immigration policy?
Here is why.
Hurricane Sandy is an argur: the response to the destruction has been just one of how can we be better prepared of the next hurricane.
That is a flawed analysis. The analysis ought to be the following:
1-Climate change is real and all of the East Coast is at risk not only from the weather but also the weather in the context of the 22 nuclear reactors up and down the East Coast which are near water or the Ocean.
2-Millions of people are at risk this state of affairs was made clear-- something which will only get worse in our future namely:
a. Millions of people cannot live near the coast as they currently do. b. These populations are dependent and the lifestyle of having millions live in crowed cities is no longer a sustainable life-style-in the face of climate change.
c. There will have to be re-ruralization and re-location programs to move these folks toward the interior. If we don't many will die in place.
d. Climate change makes clear that our over-technologized society in these kinds of situations collapse easily, no water, no electricity, no mobility, no food, hungry people, disease and the like will beset the population within ten days and the country simply does not have the resources to combat these circumstances in the present climate situation and certainly will not have resources to meet needs in the context of a worsening climate situation.
e. Present populations are remarkably unable to take care of themselves for even five days in the event of more severe events and most do not have the skills for any kind of survival at all. Modernity has produced populations which have virtually no life skills on the sustainable side, don't know how appliances work, or even have tools they might need in diasters; don't know how to repair things they are dependent upon and use everyday, and, ominiously, are totally dependent upon technology to survive. Technology in this situation betrays the population which has no ability to survive without it, or even have a idea of how to live in a low tech environment with little or no electricity for days on end, no TV, no food, no water--well you get the idea.
If you want to get an idea of how it will go look at disaters around the world--weather, earthquake, flood (Katrinia comes to mind) and we quickly see the patterns: law and order breaks down quickly people become desperate seeking food to survive, mass movements away from the cities start as people head out of cities seeking food and safety, or are paralyzed in place and perish.
So what does all this have to do with immigration you ask?
Here is how they are related:
Given climate change we Americans must understand that new skill sets, which are not so technology and electricity dependent will be absolutely necessary--especially in relation to the big three: food, water, energy, and community survival.
How then, do we develop such skills in our population because it is clear that climate change will mean they will become more and more critical. Our massive instituitions will not be adequate to meet the needs of most of us. Simply put what do you do if there is no or only intermitten power and no gas? We will need new skills to cope with a new enviroment.
We now have to look to the 12 million immigrants in this country who recently from village life; have cultures which have memories and skills surrounding living down, living a more sustainable, and a more self-self-sufficient life style.
The issue of immigration is, therefore, how to harness those people skills, those cultural advantages which will be needed in our climate change future.
Those skills, along with some technological supports on a small scale with wind, solar other sustainable energy sources are what is going to be needed for our future and our kids future.
Sadly in that kind of future dependent city dwellers and inefficient cities do not really fit.
So my model is one of moving folks out of harms way, developing a more decentralized social model, more self-sufficient, less energy gouging is inevitable, either planned or arrived at via chaos and collapse We will have to do it whether we plan for it one not. Climate changes will over take us whether we are ready or not.
But how do we get ready? See my blog "What America Must Do to Survive" on this site to get some of the preliminary ideas but here is a quick summary of specific policy steps in addition to those I have already outlined elsewhere.
1-We need to understand that we are in an emergency situation and adopt a 20 year plan--the amount of time before, climate scientists say, we will be overwhelmed by climate change changes.
2-We need to create a "domestic peace corp" where immigrants enroll with other young people in a proposed new National Serivce program. Something like this already exists in the world notably in Israel where with an agricultural Kbutz system transformed an arid region into one which is liveable. 3-National Serivce will involve relocation to safer areas, reivalization and decentralization, and combining low tech, with agriculture and sustainable energy modalities.
Toward those goals and outcomes, we now need immigration politices which:
1-Extend the Dream Act to all eligible immigrants and add the provisio that they provide National Service for two-three years as part of a path to full citizenship. (Locking people up, building border fences, massive privatized detention centers for immigrations won't and do not work anyway.)
2-Pay our young unemployed college graduates to join with this group in the proposed National Service and begin the process to re-organize this country from the bottom up. 3-Enlist the young and entrepeurial in this process to deal with a new low-tech sustainable modalities and all three groups combine in a patnership of the young. They are the only groups working together who can save this country.
Bring in the military to provide structural and infrastructure needs and we have, in my view, a workable model for the future where climate change will dominate much of our thinking and our attention.
Some National Service participants would be paid as part of a massive stimulus package. Money going there will be money well spent.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324595904578119193551470474.html More detail tommorow. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10000872396390443696604577645500654098514.html
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204789304578089363129186472.html 11/19/12 If the rich pay their fair share would there be a deficit?
11/19/12 Debt as a Means of Control. Some say yes http://strikedebt.org/The-Debt-Resistors-Operations-Manual.pdf
11/20/12 Threats to Democracy from the National Security State Perhaps the greatest overall threat to our Democracy is the National Security State.
Here we explore that proposition. First take a look at the following link. After we look at possible solutions. http://www.authorsden.com/visit/viewshortstory.asp?AuthorID=121255&id=56589 What are the issues in the fiscal Cliff? Video
2/25/13 The down-sizing of America has begun. See my devolution comments above http://www.huffingtonpost.com/james-howard-kunstler/chain-stores-economy_b_2720040.html
3/3/13 Obama offering cuts in Social Security and Medicare to republicans? http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/03/03/us-usa-fiscal-idUSBRE91P0W220130303 5/24/13 A History of Scandals in the White House http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/05/white-house-scandal-matrix#13694302880771&action=collapse_widget&id=398459
6/14/13 What is the wealth of members of congress? http://thehill.com/business-a-lobbying/305611-pelosis-wealth-falls-to-244m
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This set of photos were taken on the same tour that I blogged about yesterday (the Burren tour). I fell so in love with the area that I had to go back again. I'll post photos from the second visit soon.
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A method for analyzing the performance aspects of the fault-tolerance mechanisms in FDDI
Moorsel, Aad P.A. van and Haverkort, Boudewijn R. and Niemegeers, Ignas G. (1992) A method for analyzing the performance aspects of the fault-tolerance mechanisms in FDDI. In: IEEE Eleventh Annual Joint Conference of the IEEE Computer and Communications Societies, INFOCOM, 4-8 May 1992, Florence, Italy (pp. pp. 372-381).
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Abstract: | The ability of error recovery mechanisms to make the Fiber Distributed Data Interface (FDDI) satisfy real-time performance constraints in the presence of errors is analyzed. A complicating factor in these analyses is the rarity of the error occurrences, which makes direct simulation unattractive. Therefore, a fast simulation technique, called injection simulation, which makes it possible to analyze the performance of FDDI, including its fault tolerance behavior, was developed. The implementation of injection simulation for polling models of FDDI is discussed, along with simulation results |
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Cape Mendocino
Cape Mendocino, located on the Lost Coast entirely within Humboldt County, California, USA, is the westernmost point on the coast of California.[1]
Named by early Spanish navigators in honor of Antonio de Mendoza, Viceroy of New Spain, Cape Mendocino has been a landmark since the 16th century, when Manila Galleons followed the prevailing westerlies across the Pacific to the Cape, then followed the coast south to Acapulco, Mexico. The Cape Mendocino Light was lit December 1, 1868, standing on eight prefabricated panels sent up from San Francisco; an automated light stood near the original location but was removed in 2013.[2]
The Cape Mendocino region of California's north coast is one of the most seismically active regions in the contiguous United States. Three earthquakes with epicenters nearby at Petrolia and offshore west of Cape Mendocino, 25–26 April 1992, were outstanding, one reaching 7.2 Mw;[3] they demonstrated that the Cascadia subduction zone is both capable of producing large earthquakes and generating tsunamis. Many geologists and seismologists believe that the main shock in the 1992 sequence may be a forerunner of a much more powerful earthquake in the Pacific Northwest.[4]
Offshore of Cape Mendocino lies the Mendocino Triple Junction, a geologic triple junction where three tectonic plates come together. The San Andreas Fault, a transform boundary, runs south from the junction, separating the Pacific Plate and the North American Plate. To the north lies the Cascadia subduction zone, where the Gorda Plate is being subducted under the margin of the North American plate. Running west from the triple junction is the Mendocino Fault, the transform boundary between the Gorda Plate and the Pacific Plate.
Coordinates: 40°26′24″N 124°24′34″W / 40.4401°N 124.4095°W
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- ^ "Cape Mendocino". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey.
- ^ Rowlett, Russ. "Northern California". Lighthouses of the United States. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Retrieved 9 September 2012.
- ^ USGS. "Cape Mendocino, California Earthquakes". Retrieved 2009-10-21.
- ^ Kathy Moley. "Why we have earthquakes: a unique geologic setting". Retrieved 2009-10-21.


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The Department of Agriculture and Food Western Australia (DAFWA) has developed a new breed of apple, dubbed as "black apple" that can rival the Pink Lady as world's most popular apple.
It took DAFWA 20 years of breeding and testing to develop the black apple. The new breed is a dark burgundy-skinned apple and is a cross between Cripps Red and Royal Gala. It has has sweetness and moderate to high crisp and crunch factor that is unique to its kind. It is medium in size with very good flavor and storing quality.
"Color development on the skin is important for consumers and the new apple colors up well in Western Australian growing conditions - better than apples which prefer colder climates," DAFWA said in a statement.
Black apple is a product of the Australian National Apple Breeding Program made possible by investments from both Western Australian Government and Horticulture Australia Ltd.
Black apple trees are now available to Western Australian growers.
"About 75,000 trees are available for sale to growers from the budding in 2013. Small quantities of fruit should become available for sale in 2016.The apple is grower friendly because the tree is productive, the fruit colours easily and the apples stand out from existing varieties on the shop shelves," DAFWA said.
Fruit West Co-operative Ltd. will handle commercial sales of the new apple breed.
Comparing the black apple to Pink Lady, Anne Lister, an apple grower in Manjimup and director of the Fruit West Cooperative, said the latter is still a fabulous variety, but the new apple is more appealing to the eye.
"We still think the Pink lady is a fabulous variety, but this new variety has such appeal to the eye with its really dark colour and it has a lovely sweetness to it, which it gets in part from the Royal Gala. Constantly people are breeding new varieties of apples, but when you get something as distinctive as this, and whether we like it or not, consumers do actually buy with their eyes, but it ticks all the boxes and follows up with a great flavour profile," Lister told ABC.
Terry Martella, an orchadist whose family had been in the apple growing business for 62 years, believed black apple will become a success.
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Society's Formulas For Grieving Don't Apply To Everyone
Our culture has made great strides in encouraging people to face death and dying head-on, and many people find it beneficial to dissect and articulate their feelings. But others still prefer to deal with grief by not talking about it or dwelling on their pain. Yet even when this low-key approach works for them, they often feel pressured to grieve in more demonstrative ways.Given these tensions, some researchers say it's time for a clear-eyed reassessment of grief in America. "Research shows pretty clearly that the more people focus on the loss, the more prolonged their grief will be," says George Bonanno, Associate Professor of Clinical Psychology at Columbia University's Teachers College.
Since 1990 he and colleagues have interviewed hundreds of mourners and used standardized measurements, such as facial expressions, to determine distress over grief. Bonanno has compiled data from his studies and scores of others, and all reach similar conclusions: grief treatments are mostly ineffective, and humans are generally resilient. His research, presented recently at the American Psychiatric Association's annual meeting, finds that about 85 percent of people adequately cope with their grief within a year or two. Most don't need professional help or prolonged "grief work."
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The successor to the highly successful standard-definition NU-700N robotic pan-tilt camera, the new high-definition BU-40H features a Canon HD camera equipped with three 1/3-inch (1,670,000-pixel) CCDs with a Genuine Canon HD zoom lens with 20X optical zoom ratio (4.5 - 90mm). In addition to providing exceptional controllability and smooth pan-tilt motion, the BU-40H also offers such advanced features such as a Canon Autofocus function and Canon's sophisticated Image Stabilizer technology.
"Canon recognized the need for a cost-effective, high-definition robotic camera system in a rugged outdoor housing," noted Gordon Tubbs, director, Broadcast and Communications division, Canon U.S.A. "Our BU-40H Remote-Control Robotic Pan-Tilt Camera combines Canon's sophisticated pan-tilt technologies with its world-renown optical and HD camera technologies to produce an economical, turn-key solution that is completely designed and manufactured by Canon."
The Canon BU-40H also provides genlock input for video system synchronization. Outputs include HD-SDI and SD-SDI with embedded audio or standard-definition composite NTSC. The BU-40H can output HD-SDI and NTSC simultaneously for high-definition recording and standard-definition monitoring at the same time. The BU-40H is capable of panning 340 degrees and tilting 80 degrees (30 degrees up, 50 down). Its outdoor pan-tilt head and weatherproof housing are designed for operation from -15 to +40 degrees Celsius (5 to 104 degrees Fahrenheit). The BU-40H's housing also meets the IP-45 specifications for dust- and water-proof efficiency, and it has a "windshield-wiper" blade to keep its lens port clear. The total weight of the pan-tilt system, camera and housing is 17 kg. (approx. 37 lbs.).
The Canon BU-40H's control protocol is non-proprietary and open; users or system integrators can interface the camera with their own control system or that of third-party providers to create a robotic control system. The BU-40H can be operated in automatic mode or all of its main features can be controlled manually as well. Short and long-distance control systems interface via RS-422 connections. An optional third-party E/O (electrical to optical) converter enables worldwide connectivity via fiber optics or a connection to the Canon Canobeam DT-150 HD wireless data transceiver for transmission at distances of up to one kilometer.
About Canon U.S.A., Inc.
Canon U.S.A., Inc. delivers consumer, business-to-business, and industrial imaging solutions. The Company is listed as one of Fortune's Most Admired Companies in America and is on the 2006 BusinessWeek list of "Top 100 Brands." Its parent company, Canon Inc. (NYSE:CAJ), is a top patent holder of technology, ranking third overall in the U.S. in 2006', with global revenues of $34.9 billion. To keep apprised of the latest news from Canon U.S.A., sign up for the Company's RSS news feed by visiting www.usa.canon.com/pressroom.
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Industry Analysts to Hold Market Conference Raw materials cost increases impact the price of pallets and low grade lumber. Conference addresses future of the market. Experts say it could get worse. By Pallet Enterprise Staff Date Posted: 10/1/2005 Many purchasing agents have faced significant increases in pallet and lumber prices over the last three years. Many are wondering when things will return to normal. That is exactly what a new audio conference by LumberAnswers.com is designed to explore in detail. Dr. Ed Brindley and The audio conference called "Of course, it could get worse. A look into the low grade hardwood and pallet markets!" will answer questions that many pallet and low grade lumber customers and suppliers have. The conference is designed for industry veterans as well as customers who are new to the world of purchasing pallets and wood packaging. "Pallet customers want answers about recent changes in market conditions and pricing. Sometimes suppliers don't know what to say, and some customers won't believe the truth coming from them anyway," said Dr. Ed Brindley, conference speaker and Pallet Profile Publisher. "The LumberAnswers.com conference will provide a knowledgeable third party source for pallet customers and suppliers alike. The entire process is designed to weed out misinformation and create a better understanding of what is really going on in the market." Done entirely over the phone, attendees get the benefit of a live event without the headache and hassle of actually leaving their office. Registered participants will listen to two presentations by the experts and then get a chance to interact with these analysts by asking questions. Speakers will answer questions in a basic Q&A format. The entire conference will last 90 minutes. Conference participants will receive an audio CD of the conference. Thus, participants can share the content with others in their organization even if they can't make the live event. LumberAnswers.com also will host a free online forum for registered attendees to discuss the conference and network with others, including the speakers, after the conference is over. This private forum will last 90 days after the conference ends. The live event will be held at 1:00 p.m. (EST) on Friday, November 4. The audio conference is moderately priced to make the event a real value. If you spend thousands or millions of dollars each year on pallets, lumber or wood packaging, you need to hear what these experts have to say. This could be the single best investment you make all year long to educate you and your customers. Strategies for using the conference include the following:
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Well, TF2 is an exception. All the patches have bloated the game to no end, some people with high-end computers are forced to run it in DX8 because the game won't work properly, the a VERY LARGE percentage of the people running GT2** series cards can't play the game because it crashes the nVidia driver, among many other issues.
I, myself, have managed to get the game running properly after so much time of optimization, and trying experimental configs. But I ran into many issues in the past. Also, since the pyromania update, the game's perfomance has gone down a lot. I used to play the game at 180/200 fps and 50-60 fps on firefights, now it usually tops at 120fps and 30-40 fps on firefights. Certainly not unplayable, I'm quite a decent player if I can say so myself so it's usually not an issue, but high fps helps a fair amount when playing scout or sniper (or against them).


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Arizona State reserve offensive lineman Chip Sarafin announced to a local magazine that he is gay.
In an article published in the August 2014 issue of Compete Magazine, Sarafin admits he started sharing the issue of his lifestyle with teammates.
Of his own coming out, Sarafin began telling his teammates last spring. "It was really personal to me, and it benefited my peace of mind greatly."Sarafin says that he told his teammates mostly for himself and because he wanted them to hear it straight from him instead of the college rumor mill that all players find themselves subjected to at some point.
Sarafin, a redshirt senior from Highland High School in Gilbert, is a biomedical engineering major who has been on the scout team for much of his career. With the announcement, he becomes the first openly gay active college football player.
Arizona State released a statement from Vice President of Athletics Ray Anderson and head coach Todd Graham shortly after the magazine was published.
"The entire athletics department is extremely proud of Chip and is unequivocally supportive of him," Anderson said. "His undergraduate degree in biomedical engineering, his pursuit of a master's in the same field, his research involving football-related concussions, and his heavy involvement in the community with both youth sports in Arizona and the Tillman Scholars embodies all the characteristics that set our student-athletes apart and allows our university to maintain an environment of inclusiveness and progression."
Graham added, "we are a brotherhood that is not defined by cultural and personal differences, but rather an individual's commitment to the Sun Devil Way. Chip is a fifth-year senior and a Scholar Baller, a graduate and a master's student. His commitment to service is unmatched and it is clear he is on his way to leading a successful life after his playing career, a goal that I have for every student-athlete. Diversity and acceptance are two of the pillars of our program, and he has full support from his teammates and the coaching staff."
The last year has seen two prominent athletes -- NBA player Jason Collins and former SEC Defensive Player of the Year Michael Sam -- publicly announce they're gay.
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I'm really sorry to hear about Jim's misfortune.
But I don't think this is about sentimentality, it's about risk management and practicality. There's a certain price/displacement ratio that's always going to have some risk involved. So if he dumps this boat and gets another similar boat, the next one might have similar or worse problems. Only if you alter the ratio by going higher in price and/or lower displacement (i.e., a newer, more reliable but costlier or smaller boat) do you get a little less risk.
It sounds to me like the stuff that failed was destined to fail on a boat this age. It would have been replaced in the next couple of years, but unfortunately has to be done now before he can enjoy the boat. But once it's done, he can be confident that he'll have reliable aux power.
This whole concept of "it'll cost more than the boat is worth" is always a bit misleading. Any low cost boat is going to need greater maintenance and repairs. So you're inviting that when you buy it. The correct comparison is not really between repair cost and current boat value, it's between repair cost (current and anticipated future) and anticipated enjoyment of this particular vessel. In other words, what's this boat worth to YOU? But always keep in mind that dumping this boat and getting another could just be a replay of the same experience, unless you alter your price/displacement ratio in a different way.
My view on these matters is biased. It's easy to waste a lot of money and time on an old boat because you love the boat.
I really meant to express that one should try to take a critical eye when thinking about getting into a moderate project like this. The "what's it worth to you" idea is one I am very familiar with, as I often justified what I did expressing that very sentiment. I no longer subscribe to that notion after trying it though.
Now I believe in the "what's it worth to a sane person/would a sane person do what I am thinking about doing" notion. Things seem to be working out better this way so far...
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Washington: US President Barack Obama will press European leaders this week to resolve their debt crisis but the United States does not expect much progress before the end of the month, a White House adviser said on Sunday.
Obama will participate in a two-day summit of Group of 20 leaders that starts in Mexico on Monday. He has called on European leaders to recapitalise weak banks and to focus on economic growth and not just budget austerity.
"We're going to continue to make the case," David Plouffe, a senior Obama adviser, told US broadcaster ABC's program "This Week".
US President Barack Obama will press European leaders this week to resolve their debt crisis.
"There will be progress made over the next couple days, but no one should expect a firm resolution," he said.
The G20 brings together the leaders of 20 big industrial economies, including euro zone heavyweights Germany, France and Italy.
Europe's financial crisis could easily send the global economy into recession should the region's 17-nation currency block implode. The euro zone is a top trading partner of the United States and several of its members, including Spain, the Netherlands, Italy and Greece are already in recession.
The crisis threatens to boil over after Sunday's election in Greece, which has policymakers around the world scrambling to prepare for a potential Greek exit from the currency block.
The European Union will hold its own leaders' summit from June 28-29 to discuss a timetable for potentially sweeping reforms that could create a fiscal union in Europe. Plouffe said that summit would be the venue for more substantial progress.
"That's really hopefully where we'll see more confidence and progress that they can handle this," Plouffe said.
The crisis is coinciding with Obama's reelection campaign head of November polls.
The president's Republican challenger, Mitt Romney, regularly accuses Obama of using European-style welfare policies to put America on a path to fiscal ruin.
On Sunday, Romney made clear he opposed using any US tax dollars to bail out European countries. "We're not going to send checks to Europe," Romney told the CBS program "Face the Nation."
Obama also has said Europeans must solve their own problems.
Romney said US banks were stronger than they were just a few years ago, and that he would "hope that regardless of what happens in Europe, that our banking sector is able to weather the storm."


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An administrator who has been at Haskell Indian Nations University for nine months is now the school's top administrator.
Clyde Peacock, Haskell's vice president for university services, is also interim president.
Peacock took over the interim job earlier this month for Chris Redmond, who finished his 120-day term and returned to his regular post as an education specialist in a regional office of the Bureau of Indian Education in Oklahoma City.
Peacock — who previously supervised K-12 Indian schools in the Sacramento, Calif., area — is scheduled to lead Haskell until early July, unless a full-time president is appointed before then by Keith Moore, director of the bureau.
A presidential search has been ongoing since the Nov. 1 resignation of Linda Warner, who had been sent to handle other bureau duties off campus since September 2009. Applications were due Dec. 6, and Moore has a list of 10 candidates for review.
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his later ideas seemed to be worse-the whole "evolved, enlightened Humanity" thing, plus the wacky idea that Starfleet wasn't military.
To be more specific, the Galaxy Class concept is something I don't like. We did witness inter-ship romance in Trek, but I never liked the idea of
it and turning starships into the Carnival Cruise line with families and nurseries and all that stuff. The Enterprise-D rarely seemed to be in mortal danger, and if it were, imagine how irresponsible it is to drag your whole family into harms way. The main source of conflict in TNG tended to be about how and when to exercise authority, and that's fine, but sometimes you need a cliffhanger and some "we can't take much more of this!" and TNG, by being pushed farther in the future, presented a world of "perfected" technology where the Enterprise lazily cruised from one diplomatic engagement to the next and all conflict was talked over in hushed tones in the briefing room. It was only the Borg that started to break that up.
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