Namorado_TX's Blog

. . . The human race collectively, with international cooperation, should realize this year the greatest calamity of human existence will occur within our lifetime. The evidence is ample: accelerated warming from excess "greenhouse" gasses carbon dioxide amplified with melting tundras' methane-release (and even the added methane caused by the herds of cattle raised for a worldwide growing appetite for their meat) will exponentially increase melting in Greenland and Antarctica, raising sea levels worldwide. Slowly at first, but more quickly in the middle of this century. If we do nothing, low-lying island nations such as those in the West Indies and the central Pacific will disappear entirely, large areas of places such as the Florida peninsula, heavily populated Bangladesh, the Amazonian lowlands, etc. will be swamped, and most importantly (in terms of combined population and commerce industries) over half the major port cities of nations everywhere that border oceans will find their infrastructure below sea level.
. . . If nothing else is done, a few wealthy industrialized nations will erect Netherlands-like barricades and dikes to hold back the ocean from limited areas, but only at a massive cost. The rising ocean will crowd the rising population onto a shrinking land area, and even less farmland and fresh water will be available. Disease and starvation will become widespread.
. . . But there is an alternative. It will require never-before-achieved international agreement and unity, for the sake of the human race. The Apurim Plan solution will involve construction of huge pipelines, spanning thousands of kilometers, and construction of thousands of windmills to provide either direct mechanical pumping or (through batteries or huge spinning energy storage) electrical pumping of volumes of water. These pipes would be comparable to those spanning Alaska from the North Slope to the south coast to transport heavy crude oil. Some would capture badly needed fresh water directly from the melt areas. Others would pump sea water from the oceans. Where to? That will be the most controversial part, requiring nations to give up large areas of land for the common good.
. . . The Apurim Plan calls for the water to be stored in unpopulated desert basins of the world, the largest being the Caspan-Aral area in western Asia, the Xinjiang basin of western China, areas spanning northern Mali and southern Algeria as well as the Lake Tchad basin in the Saharan Desert of Africa, and smaller basins where available, such as parts of western Egypt. That will probably not be enough; but with massive employment of bulldozers building earthen dams to surround the above-sea-level region, a large part of the Great Sandy Desert of western Australia could be used, even there inland seas could store water. These artificial seas, many spanning hundreds of kilometers, would cause local climate changes, and provide human-controlled environments for fish farming and, with increased humidity and rainfall downwind, new coastal farming areas or even efficient urban cities built with great "green" long-range planning from a clean start. The race is on, will humanity realize the necessity of the Apurim Plan before it is too late?

Silver Bullet for economic restoration: first see http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1YxfbtOyBvs

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. . . In this video, Mr. Braun gives an overview of the essential arguments he has been making since long before the current crises he foresaw several "presidential-cycles" ago.

  . . . Currently the chief arguments the resistance throw before us are about infrastructure and efficiency. In an era when nanotechnology is giving us fiber-reinforced composites lighter and stronger than steel, when new Luxim lights show the promise of making even L.E.D.s obsolete for efficiency, and humans are beginning a new medical revolution in stem-cell organ regeneration and direct brain-computer commands without physical movement (using thought-command interface), we must again turn to inventive minds to overcome the massive logistics and credible proof of the best long-term energy solutions.

. . . Some say hydrogen may make sense for non-ground transport fuels, but argue that breakthroughs in battery storage recharge speeds and capacity will make electric cars (not hybrids or flammable fuels) the way to go.  If an inexpensive way to insulate pipelines can be found, not only can liquid hydrogen be transported long distances by pumping, but the cold fluid could be used as a conduit for electrical transmission with near-zero loss of power.  A recent major TV network aired a program about the difficulties of distribution and the need for massive battery storage hubs for wind-power-generated electricity ... utterly ignoring the possibility of kinetic storage using flywheels! 

 . . . Which goes to show, most energy-solution proposers need to come up with hard comparative facts, dollars-and-cents proofs of their proposals.  One of Harry's proposed Constitutional amendments deals directly with this cost-accountability governmental oversight (review http://PhoenixProjectPac/NewPage.html for more, and link to other pages in the sidebar index). 

. . . While wind power is not constantly reliable, ocean currents are; water turbines in the Gulf Stream could supply steady power constantly to that region.  Tidal and wave-power devices are being perfected (e.g., http://swellfuel.com in Houston).  Longer-term, metals mined on the Moon, used to manufacture solar collectors at its poles (avoiding the high cost of transporting pre-fabbed structures from Earth's gravity into orbit, and by their location getting sun exposure longer than two weeks on and two weeks darkness elsewhere on the Moon) could provide ample electricity microwaved to deserrt target-receptors on Earth (failsafe switches would kill transmission if it strayed off-target).  Read more about this mid-21st-Century solution at http://www.aip.org/isns/reports/2002/040.html and look for updates when Dr. David Criswell develops his website.

It is worth emphasizing that the Republican Vice-Presidential pick, in her acceptance speech at their convention, at one point tried to portray herself and the McCain supporters as being ordinary Americans ... and then proceeded to list everyday attributes of citizens as if those attributes were all equal and desirable. The giveaway clue to the right-wing conservative mindset is that she included "fighting our wars" as one of those everyday items. The military-industrial complex has its champion, Sarah Palin, for keeping our country at war permanently! See http://votetruth08.com for the "imperative" alternative to the corporate-controlled duopoly of the Democratic and Republican Parties. But first, the video below shows the real hopes of America...
Nicole Duncan-Smith about candidate John McCain, for MoveOn.org

. . . The Green Party concluded its 2008 national convention in Chicago with a strong ticket for President and Vice-President. I sincerely hope you will read the words and see the videos of Rosa Clemente - http://RosaClemente.com ... she is running for U.S. Vice President, on the Green Party ticket with Cynthia McKinney. I highly recommend McKinney's second and fourth videos, "Candidate Announcement" (a seven-minute video in which she explains why she left the Democratic Party, and extols the principles of the Green Party) and "American Blackout" in which she gives a fascinating Black perspective on U.S. politics from the Civil War era through the Civil Rights era and her father's involvement in that, up to the modern times in which the Democratic Party, like the Republican Party, has become controlled by Big Business corporations and marginalized her after she had been elected several times as a U.S. Representative from Georgia. See her site at http://runcynthiarun.org . . . Together these two women bring 21st-Century politics into being, to deal with 21st-Century problems or social injustice, job outsourcing, environmental poisoning, and the need to get on with renewable energy, not drilling for more oil! Learn about real grassroots democracy from the Green Party national site at http://www.gp.org/index.php ... a new site featuring both candidates is http://VoteTruth08.com

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. . . The Green Party - http://gp.org - will select its top-of-ticket national candidates come July, and the afore-mentioned Cynthia McKinney is one of the leading candidates for the U.S. President position. Among the things that the GP supports and is working for, is a method of voting that would free voters to vote for whomever they _really_ want without that "third-party" candidate being labled a "spoiler."
. . . In a period of time when maximum federal budget deficit is going to mean cutbacks across the board for social services and basic governmental functions (except paying the military-industrial complex its bloated share), one legitimate cutback should be the unnecessary expense of runoff elections. A runoff after primaries in Texas (where I reside) was reported to be over two million dollars, a waste. With most forms of Instant Runoff Voting, candidates are "ranked." You vote for as many candidates as you could find acceptable for a given position, but rank them according to your preference. If your top preference is not among the leading vote-getters, your second choice might get your vote. I could vote (supposing they were the nominees) 1. McKinney, 2. Obama, 3. Nader ... if that were my preference, knowing full-well McKinney (for lack of media exposure, certainly) would probably be eliminated, as would Nader, but not be a "spoiler" taking votes from Obama versus McCain.
. . . Using IRV, in a slate of candidates, those getting the least votes are eliminated in order, round-by-round, with the second-choices of those voters getting their vote, then the next-lowest is eliminated, and the next-ranked votes from those voters go to other candidates, etc. until only two are left, one of which is highly likely to exceed 50% unless there is an extremely rare exact tie. See http://rangevoting.org for a good explanation.
. . . IRV eliminates the possibility of a "spoiler" candidate, frees the voter to vote for all the candidates they like, (not just one), and even helps eliminate the usual incumbent spending advantage in a runoff (the challenger may exhaust their budget trying to even get into a runoff; while many "name-recognition" incumbents will have leftover funds going into a runoff).
. . . Cynthia McKinney's page http://runcynthiarun.org has a series of videos in a box up front; the first one is a seven-minute introduction outlining reasons for her switch to the Green Party that already does (no corporate sponsors) what other parties can only talk about (while they continue to accept lobbyist and PAC "bribery"). The third video (a two-hour streaming movie, American Blackout) is a look back historically on voting in America since the Civil War right through the Civil Rights era and her father's involvement, and finishing with the marginalization of her by the Democratic Party, that saw her as rocking their boat. It is well worth watching, to get an insider's view what American voters are finally getting wise-to, "politics as usual"!
. . . World history is entering a new era (unless we the voters wake up and take back control, starting with IRV and eliminating the obsolete "electoral college"). From the earliest history as hunter-gatherers and tribes, with warriors we entered a medieval era and king-led empires world-wide 1000-500 years ago. Next evolved nation-states, that were a step towards democracy. Most people still think, and act, as if we are in a world of about 250 nation-states. But in truth, what's running the world now is multinational corporations, whose budgets exceed most smaller nations, whose agenda is tunnel-vision profits for overpaid CEOs and stockholders, and who can dictate to nations what wages they will pay to the citizens in that country (21st-Century slavery). "Hold your workers' wages down, or we'll take our outsourced manufacturing plants to other countries" (Haiti vs. Mexico vs. China, etc. in a race to the bottom).
. . . As long as the USA is the biggest consumer in the world, we could tell those corporations "We will not buy your products, or allow you to store them or transport them through our territory, unless you agree to pay your workers and their sub-contractor workers a comparable wage in their nations to what they would be paid in the United States." That would be a real "change" in American "foreign" policy, Barack Obama, taking on multinational corporations, the real world power! Eliminate the illegal trade embargo with Cuba, eliminate depleted-uranium munitions and land mines and nuclear bombs! We're overdue for _real_ change!