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Aloha, Kauai neighbors...

We only have a few weeks now before KIUC starts installing their untested and uninvited Smart Meters. Its just like the Super Ferry. We have to jump on this. KIUC is not offering an opt-out option up front. They want to start installing meters and only give opt-out to those who request it, at a price! This petition is intended as an alternative to KIUC's opt-out form which is unnecessary and will have fine print. Be careful. You are better off with your present contract.

Just write letter saying you are happy with present contract and present meter and don't want the new Smart Meter. You like the way you are billed now and want to continue with your contract. KIUC has planned deployment without ever discussing the international controversies about Smart Meters. KIUC in fact, denies there are any controversies and suppresses any discussion of lawsuits, protests, and outrage. KIUC program is "Keep the people dumb and then we do whatever we want." We saw this same behaviour with the FERC Hydro controversy.

The mentality at KIUC is elitist, not cooperative. Ask yourself, why is a non-profit Coop paying the "CEO" $330,000 per year. This is Kauai with high unemployment! Is he there for the profit? Why would a big money mind be at a non-profit Coop? Why has KIUC not found a cheaper office building? Members are paying our elitist KIUC a shocking $1.1 million dollars a year for the rent of the KIUC building.

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Are Privacy issues ridiculous?

Keep Reading....

Introduction from Electronic Privacy Information Center http://epic.org/privacy/smartgrid/smartgrid.html

On December 19, 2007, the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 was enacted as Public Law 110-140. The bill, among other things, directed that Smart Grid technology be studied for its potential "to maintain a reliable and secure electricity infrastructure that can meet future demand growth."

"Smart" is often used to describe new features or capabilities found in inanimate applications or technologies. These technologies are not human smart, but innovative in that they often provide multi-directional real-time or near real time communication with the user device and provider(s) of a benefit or service(s).
The term "Smart Grid" encompasses a host of inter-related technologies rapidly moving into public use to reduce or better manage electricity consumption. Smart grid systems may be designed to allow electricity service providers, users, or third party electricity usage management service providers to monitor and control electricity use. The electricity service providers may view a smart grid system as a way to precisely locate power outages or other problems so that technicians can be dispatched to mitigate problems. Pro-environment policymakers may view a smart grid as key to protecting the nation's investment in the future as the world moves toward renewable energy. Another view of smart grid systems is that it would support law enforcement by making it easier to identify, track, and manage information or technology that is associated with people, places, or things involved in an investigations. National security and defense supporters may see the efficient and exacting ability of smart grid systems to manage and redirect the flow of electricity across large areas as critical to assuring resources for their use. Marketers may view smart grid systems as another opportunity to learn more about consumers and how they use the items they purchase. Finally, consumers, if given control over some smart grid features, may see smart grid systems as tools to assist them in making better informed decisions regarding their energy consumption.

Smart meter technology is the first remote communication device designed for smart grid application. These meters have moved into the marketplace and are poised to change how data on home or office consumption of electricity is collected by service providers. Additional changes that smart grid systems may bring are not limited to meters but extend to monitoring other devices, e.g. washing machines, hot water heaters, pool pumps, entertainment centers, lighting fixtures, and heating and cooling systems. Consuming electricity will take on new meaning in the context of privacy rights. A Fayetteville, NC smart grid pilot project in claims that it can manage over 250 devices within a customer's home. The system would be able to selectively reduce demand among its 80,000 customers by turning off devices in homes that are part of the smart grid program.
Smart Grids and Privacy

Privacy implications for smart grid technology deployment centers on the collection, retention, sharing, or reuse of electricity consumption information on individuals, homes, or offices. Fundamentally, smart grid systems will be multi-directional communications and energy transfer networks that enable electricity service providers, consumers, or third party energy management assistance programs to access consumption data. Further, if plans for national or transnational electric utility smart grid systems proceed as currently proposed these far reaching networks will enable data collection and sharing across platforms and great distances.

A list of potential privacy consequences of Smart Grid systems include:
1. Identity Theft
2. Determine Personal Behavior Patterns
3. Determine Specific Appliances Used
4. Perform Real-Time Surveillance
5. Reveal Activities Through Residual Data
6. Targeted Home Invasions (latch key children, elderly, etc.)
7. Provide Accidental Invasions
8. Activity Censorship
9. Decisions and Actions Based Upon Inaccurate Data
10. Profiling
11. Unwanted Publicity and Embarrassment
12. Tracking Behavior Of Renters/Leasers
13. Behavior Tracking (possible combination with Personal Behavior Patterns)
14. Public Aggregated Searches Revealing Individual Behavior

Plans are underway to support smart grid system applications that will monitor any device transmitting a signal, which may include non-energy-consuming end use items that are only fitted with small radio frequency identification devices (RFID) tags may be possible. RFID tags are included in most retail purchases for clothing, household items, packaging for food, and retail items.

The purpose of an RFID system is to enable data to be transmitted by a portable device, called a tag, which is read by an RFID reader and processed according to the needs of a particular application. The data transmitted by the tag may provide identification or location information, or specifics about the product tagged, such as price, color, date of purchase, etc. The use of RFID in tracking and access applications first appeared during the 1980s. RFID quickly gained attention because of its ability to track moving objects. As the technology is refined, more pervasive-and invasive-uses for RFID tags are in the works.
In a typical RFID system, individual objects are equipped with a small, inexpensive tag which contains a transponder with a digital memory chip that is given a unique electronic product code. The interrogator, an antenna packaged with a transceiver and decoder, emits a signal activating the RFID tag so it can read and write data to it. When an RFID tag passes through the electromagnetic zone, it detects the reader's activation signal. The reader decodes the data encoded in the tag's integrated circuit (silicon chip) and the data is passed to the host computer for processing.

RFID tags come in a wide variety of shapes and sizes. Some tags are easy to spot, such as the hard plastic anti-theft tags attached to merchandise in stores. Animal tracking tags which are implanted beneath the skin of family pets or endangered species are no bigger than a small section of pencil lead. Even smaller tags have been developed to be embedded within the fibers of a national currency.

Many of these advances will take years to integrate into the smart grid system as new technologies and applications are developed. The granularity of control of electricity use could be down to the appliances or devices located within a home or office.
Smart grids may also affect consumers who adopt the of use of solar and wind power. The smart grid could make it possible to transfer excess electricity from power-generating users to others during peak periods.

The types of personally identifiable information that may be collected include details on battery charging information, i.e. amount of life remaining, date, time, location of last recharge, etc; type of personal device; a unique item identification number as well as personalized information, i.e. user name, address etc; location where the item was recharged as well as how long the device was connected to the power source. Initially the information collection may be limited to very basic information, but over time these technologies will mature, which may not be apparent to users as they upgrade technology.

Conclusion
Innovation in other technologies, such as cellphones, televisions, computers, personal digital devices, and household appliances will enable smart grid muti-directional communication among service providers for information on products that may be as mobile as individuals or tied to fixed locations within homes or offices. For several decades work on "Smart House" technology has evolved to increase users' ability to monitor, manage, and control use of electricity service. Discussions about smart grid systems include consideration of wireless communication devices and the Internet's use to support communication transmission.
Public electric utility companies are installing new meter technology and offering smart meters to monitor customer consumption of electricity. Some utilities are offering lower utility rates in exchange for customers agreeing to the installation of smart meters. What might not be well known is the capacity of these new data collection systems to monitor electric utility use within a home or office space. This can include consumption of new appliances fitted with technology that would allow the monitoring their use inside homes and businesses. The move from an Internet of people to the "Internet of things" means that many appliances would come with unique Internet protocol addresses and wireless communication applications. How these devices might be used to collect information on their use, and who would have access to that information, and for what purpose is still unknown. The key to privacy protection is to have the user maintain control over the collection, use, reuse, and sharing of personal information including their use of electricity.

Many news articles on privacy issues at

http://epic.org/privacy/smartgrid/smartgrid.html

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Invocation Prayer for KIUC Board Meetings

An open letter to KIUC discussing the invocation prayer, and our relationship with veterans can be seen at this page.

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Would You Buy a Car from KIUC?

Here are my observations on the sales pitch Mike Yamane gave at KIUC on Dec 8, 2011

Smart Meter "Education" a la Dept of Energy.

Mike Yamane tried to sell a car to audience using literature provided by the car manufacturer. He told us it has good gas mileage, but that safety, expense and privacy issues were....

Well, he told us that the meeting was planned because of 'concerns' people had for things they had 'heard' were happening on mainland. What concerns? The concerns weren't mentioned. Shhhhhhhh... don't mention them.

He told us there were no health risks from new car because of low RF activity and sited the report of one corporate researcher, based on frequencies which FCC thinks are relevant, but doctors and scientists think are irrelevant.

Mike forgot to mention that the new car is designed to communicate with all the new 'smart' appliances being rolled out as part of the GLOBAL smart grid plan, and that soon consumers may have no choice as almost all appliances will have the wireless component.

He forgot to mention that all these appliances will be bathing us in wireless frequencies that do not exist in nature. Yes we have lived with RF for millions of years, but not the kind of RF that is showing up as electro-sensitivity in 3% of the population (so far), and destroying the bone tissue on the side of your hip that you wear your cell phone on.

Cell Phone Proximity to Hip Tied to Bone Mineralization

also

http://journals.lww.com/jcraniofacialsurgery/Abstract/2011/03000/ Asymmetries_in_Hip_Mineralization_in_Mobile.75.aspx

He forgot that Smart Grid does not empower local utilities, it puts all electric utilities under the policies and software of the GLOBAL grid.

He forgot that the plan is that a global hub (run by ? ) could actually monitor the usage of appliances in any house any where in world. (This would be so things were 'fair' and "green".) And then employee Brad Rockwell, spoke up, and he forgot that wireless networks can be controlled from space, as are cell phones now, and grid will have proprietary software and capabilities that no local employee will have 'need to know' about.

Mike forgot to tell us that the new cars might send info to base once every 15 minutes, but they also are communicating with other smart meters in the MESH array and with the combined communications they are basically always on. If a base station can hear the new car, we can be sure our body's cells and DNA can also hear it.

He forgot to tell us that the FCC standards for RF are for temporary thermal effects only, not long term, chronic, sub thermal effects documented by Bioinitative Report which has been recognized by European Parliament.

There were many things he didn't tell us about the new car.

Much of the audience however had gone to Consumer Reports Magazine online and knew a lot about the new car and had studied reviews. The reviews were at odds with the positive self promoting company brochure.

I had not met or communicated with these people at meeting before. They had done their own research.

The question I had for Mike never happened due to time constraint, because as usual, KIUC is not interested in member dialogue, so he left room. Well, maybe not. Actually, I think Mike left room because he is a good honest man and the reality that the audience didn't buy his creepy brochure blew him away.

But perhaps I can ask all of you....

"If your wife or sister wanted to buy a car, would you check out the reviews at Consumer Reports or only show her the sales pitch from the manufacturer's brochures?"

Hmmmm......

And then...

"Why is KIUC treating its fellow members as stupid consumers to be tricked with slick advertising, and not brothers and sisters?"

We learned at meeting, that KIUC has no plan to offer a choice of opt out to the members out front, but that KIUC would try to keep their ohana as uninformed as possible, so that only those who had studied
the consumer reports elsewhere, and who go the distance to ask, would find out that an opt out option existed. In other words, keep everyone as stupid as possible.

It appears KIUC learned no lesson from trying to drown the issues of process, brought up by last petitioners in June, (where over $100,000 is said to have been spent in selling a ballot). The whole island learned a lesson about KIUC 'democracy' when the petitioners who demanded a vote, were NOT allowed to present their case in the wording of ballot. Only KIUC leadership, using member and petitioners funds, offered 'ballot guidance'. So much for democracy.

The undiscussed lesson from that was, it is unethical to dumb down your neighbors and keep them ignorant, and Spirit offered the judgment, and FERC spanked the hydro claim-jumpers anyway. So the petitioners won and the unethical behavior of KIUC directors is now egg on their beards (except for Carol) :)

So now, after spending all that energy to deceive community and hide the issues brought up by petitioners, what will KIUC do with the fact that many people on Kauai are computer literate and can quickly see that there are big controversies with the new cars?

"The FCC radio frequency (RF) safety standards are based on short-term heating, not long term chronic exposures.The Bioinitiative Report, which is recognized by the European Parliament, The European Environment agency and the Breast Cancer Fund, scientifically documents evidence of health effects far below the FCC safety standards. The World Health Organization (WHO) and the National Toxicology Program are currently studying RF. The intention of the 13 country, 30 million dollar WHO Interphone Study was to determine whether or not RF was a carcinogen. The updated results of this study found significantly increased risk of a glioma, a deadly brain tumor. Brain cancer is now the leading cancer death in children in the US." http://emfsafetynetwork.org/?page_id=1215

“We have evidence … that exposure to radio-frequency radiation… increases the risk of cancer, increases damage to the nervous system, causes electrosensitivity, has adverse reproductive effects and a variety of other effects on different organ systems.  There is no justification for the statement that Smart Meters have no adverse health effects. “ -

Dr. David Carpenter, MD, 18 years New York Public Health, Professor Environmental Health Sciences, and Director, Institute for Health and the Environment, School of Public Health, University of Albany, Co-Editor, The BioInitiative Report (www.BioInitiative.org ) The Bioinitiative Report, which is recognized by the European Parliament, The European Environment agency and the Breast Cancer Fund

The Kauai Island Utility Coop has unfortunately bought into the lies coming from Department of Energy about the safety and purpose of Smart Meters and the centralized control designs of Smart Grid .

The information in KIUC literature such as "KIUC Currents" or on their website is simply advertising or propaganda. From their propaganda, the people of Kauai would be led to believe there are no controversies with Smart Grid, however, nothing could be further from the truth.

Forty Seven government jurisdictions across California have banned the use of smart meters for both health and privacy issues.

Maine Law firm wins landmark Smart Meter case

California lawsuits

More info on Bakersfield electric bill problems here

Texas Smart Meter backlash lawsuits

'Smart Grid' Is Making Many Households Unhappy - New York Times

Fire the Meter Reader – then Hire for Customer Complaints

Smart Meter Consumers Anger Grows Over Higher Utility Bills ...

Nevada Complaints grow on Smart Meters

Florida, Maine, Connecticut

There is a mountain of expert testimonies and studies which show KIUC to either be uninformed or deceptive. I feel they know for sure that they are not telling all the truth. In talking with the KIUC point person on Smart Meters, Mike Yamane, it was obvious to myself, that he had done no research on the controversies and did not know how to.

If a person wants to read government propaganda, which apparently it is his job to repeat, do a web search for "smart meter health", which is what he recommended. If a person wants to find out the truth, do a search for the discoveries of whistleblowers, such as "smart meter safety", "smart meter dangers", "smart meter risks". It is obvious KIUC had done no such research and thus their information is dis-information and a threat to our health and privacy.

The policy of many mainland power companies is to simply deny that there are any health risks of Smart Meters. KIUC has acted in concert with this criminal stance, which shows KIUC is just hopping to the tune of an unseen maestro. This is sad and shameful. As with many government agencies today, KIUC is acting as if an educated public should be avoided, and we are simply told in KIUC literature, “no problem!” Unfortunately people trust KIUC but if the reader scrolls through the links on this page, it will become impossible to trust KIUC statements.

Our brothers and sisters at KIUC are not fools. Why are they trying to keep us foolish?

The October KIUC 'Currents' states Smart Meter only broadcasts one minute a day. Let us examine this statement with this video...

 

In fact, Smart meters are designed to communicate with 'smart' appliances which will be the standard, unless we stop them. They will communicate all day long, filling your home with wireless frequencies, that are dangerous at very low levels, lower than FCC limits which have been deemed irrelevant by researchers. These signals will be constant all day in your home.

Here's why people, communities and governments around the world are rejecting smart meters:

HEALTH EFFECTS (more links bottom)

READ TOP SCIENTIST TESTIMONY HERE.

Prominent Maine doctor links patient's symptoms to smartmeter installation

World-renowned public health physician urges people to keep their analog meters

Transmitting smart meters pose a public health threat

Smart meters causing symptoms worldwide — read studies, symptoms, testimonials and more

The World Health Organization recently classified this type of wireless radiation as a “carcinogenic hazard,” putting it in the same possibly-cancer-causing category as engine exhaust, chloroform and DDT

more health links below...

Just some of the Organizations working for Public Awareness and limiting EMF pollution.

• Microwave News (New York)
• EMR Policy Institute (Vermont)
• EMF Safety Network (US)
• EM Facts (Australia/Tasmania)
• Collaborative (CHE)
• Powerwatch (UK)
• H-E-S-E (UK)
• Radiation Research Trust (UK)
• Wired Child (UK)
• Healthy Schools (US)
• Omega News (Germany)
• Your Own Health and Fitness (radio-US)

Just some of the many Links to Scientific Documents about EMF. There are many more and this number will only increase until dangerous EMF is outlawed in every land.

• Health Protection Agency (UK)
• International Commission on Non-Ionizing Radiation Protection
• IEEE ICES
• European Commission CSTEE Report (2001)
• SCENIHR
• Report of the Health Council of the Netherlands
• AGNIR (2003). Report of an Advisory Group on Non- ionising
• Radiation. Doc NRPB, 14(29), 1-177
• IEGMP (2000) Mobile Phones and Health. Report of -
• the Independent Expert Group on Mobile Phones, Chairman:
• Sir. William Stewart, Chilton, NRPB
• Human Radiation Effects Group, Bristol University, UK
• SAGE Report, UK
• European Commission Fifth Framework Programme
• European Commission Sixth Framework Programme
• European Information System on EMF
• WHO EMF Project
• European Commission Implementation Report Limiting
• EMF Exposure

Unlike cell phones and Wi-Fi, smart meters and the neighborhood collectors are involuntary exposure, and cannot be turned off. The type of radiation emitted by a smart meter can cause changes in the biology of the body. This radiation promotes degenerative diseases and premature aging even at levels below FCC limits .

Smart meters send and receive wireless RF/MW signals throughout homes and businesses. These smart meter RF/MW levels are far higher than those already reported to cause health risks. Compliance is not safety, since the existing FCC safety limits are under challenge, and have already been called ‘insufficient to protect public health' by some federal agencies.

All devices that emit Electro Magnetic Field (EMF) (EMF Explained Series) cause an incidence of cancer in the population, and therefore none can be considered “no health risk” as KIUC claims. We increase the likelihood of disease with each device in our home. Cell phones, portable phones, wireless modems, as well as other electronic devices, all are impacting our family's health, and children are particularly vulnerable. All schools should be EMF free. In addition, EMF pollution comes from power and communication lines and towers. We should have been educated about this. (good EMF resource site)

In pushing an untested EMF emitting device such as “Smart” Meters on the general population, KIUC is insuring a higher incidence of cancer. Why would they do this?

Why would KIUC trust Dept of Energy when every other Federal agency has a documented history of dishonesty?

As an example. let us take another cancer causing pollution. Can we trust Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)? Right now, we are not being told that the Fukushima Nuclear Reactors meltdown is continuing month after month, and that Hawaii , with high rainfall, is receiving radioactive fallout month after month. What was the response of the Environmental Protection Agency to the Fukushima meltdown?

Believe it or not, the response of EPA to our current radiation emergency was to stop monitoring radiation! They stopped so that they would not have to inform we, the people. We are being kept dumbed down.

ANOTHER EXAMPLE OF HOW WE ARE NOT INFORMED BY GOVERNEMENT

Breaking news click here for full story Sept 29, 11

Thursday, another  strong quake hit Japan's Fukushima   where workers refuse to work  at its crippled nuclear power plant that is releasing more radioactive contamination into the ocean than ever seen, with highest cesium values not closest to Fukushima, amid what an " ultimate insider" told ABC News Australia is a "cover-up"  of a catastrophe so intense, truth has been buried, even by the Prime Minister.

We see in these examples that big government works against us, and not for us.

Will cell phone companies ever educate the public about the cancers caused by cell phone usage? No, because they worship money rather than integrity. They don't want to lose sales, and they don't want to admit any dangers for fear of liability. So in their business model, spending 100s of millions of dollars on fake studies is justified to hide the truth. Telecom industry is multi trillion dollar industry.

Corporations fund phony studies to hide dangers, and KIUC will use these studies in their marketing campaigns. Will Smart Meter manufacturers tell the truth about their products? Of course not. Will KIUC even bother to look at conflicting studies if they can even find any?

We cannot trust any global or federal agency, including Dept of Energy. The reader can do a search online for “Dept of Energy lies” and the now familiar pattern of government disinformation becomes apparent. Hidden behind “green energy” and other programs are lies we need to examine.

There is even a website devoted to Dept of Energy corruption.! KIUC needs to do their homework before they get in bed with scoundrels.

Again and again, we find that only independent research that is not funded by government or corporations finds damaging evidence. Thus, in researching EMF, I always avoid reading any government publication or study. I only read independent studies. I regard all government studies as propaganda. This is not because I am a "conspiracy theorist", it is because, like the scientists studying Fukushima, I have found government and big corporations are not truthful. If a study asks questions, I read it. If it sells answers, I avoid it.

We are told the purpose of the Global Smart Grid program is efficiency, however, other global programs such as International Monetary Fund IMF, World Trade Organization WTO, World Health Organization WHO , and the UN itself are easily shown to be corrupt, and the agenda of UN was never cooperation between respected sovereign communities, but was destruction of local communities in order to create dependency and control from the top.

Smart Grid makes Kauai dependent and weak, not strong and soveriegn.

At this time, the top is the last people we can trust. On the Money Page see movie "Inside Job" with Matt Damon about how the very criminals who organized the housing bubble at Goldman Sachs and the FED are now in the Obama White House

With a little study we see there is a well documented pattern of lies and we can then examine the origins of Smart Grid which are the same as the origin of other corrupt globalist programs.

Smart Grid is an extension of the Technocracy vision that began in 1932 when technology was viewed as a way to control masses. Please see this 30 minute youtube. Read about Smart Grid totalitarian plan here.

One of the present covert social engineering programs to sell technocratic control to gullible young urban people is a the popular Zeitgeist Movement. Founder Jasque Fresco wrote in Designing the Future ...

Smart Grid has roots in the Trilateral Commission, which is a Rockefeller funded think tank. [overview] Along with the privately funded Council of Foreign Relations (CFR), the Trilateral commission dictates policy to the USA government. Michelle Obama is a long standing member of CFR and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton can be heard saying that CFR tells US government what to do in this Youtube .

Smart Grid is rooted in these privately funded globalist agendas that are now 85 years in their secret conspiratorial development. Neither KIUC, Dept of Energy or anyone else will say where Smart Grid came from because they don't know.Conspiracies do exist, that is why there is such a word.

The mafia is not a ‘conspiracy theory', and neither is the Council of Foreign Relations. We just read about the international conspiracy to hide the deaths form Chernobyl, and the many scientists trying to bring attention to EPA and FDA fraud. The intentional Housing Bubble is not a ‘conspiracy theory'. The Link between Chemtrails, the High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program HAARP, alluminum soil toxicity and Monsanto aluminum resisent crop patents, is not a coincidence: it is a covert conspiracy.

(See Rosalind Peterson on The Womens Page) The questions about Obama's birth place and validity of his fake photoshop birth certificate and stolen social security number are not conspiracy theory. The first executive order by Obama on first day in office was to give himself power to stop any government document from being released without his permission. See Obama Page. (continued below)

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Visions for a Morally Clean Kauai

by Ray Songtree Sept 18, 2011

In future campaigns, KauaiTruth.Com will look at the cancer scanners at the airport and the lies and corruption of Homeland Security. Please see the new TSA page.

We will look at Genetically Modified crops (GMO) on Kauai and their danger to the world as well as danger to our own attempts to grow viable pure food for our families. We will examine the lies and corruption of Monsanto and other bio tech firms and who supports these corporations and why. Whose Side Is the USDA Really On? It's supposed to help organic farmers. See GMO Page. Also join the facebook GMO free page.

We will examine the corruption in Bishop Estate.

We will examine the Kauai Police Department and their long history of supporting and profiting from drug trafficking on Kauai. We will ask our brothers and sisters in Law Enforcement to break with Global, Federal, and Corporate corruption and join us in creating a harmonious strong Kauai that can survive the inevitable breakdown of Matson deliveries.

The situation now is the fake "War on Drugs" created a terrorist federal vice squad that is presently beating, raping, and even killing people on Kauai, and Kauai Police Dept has no authority to question them. It is a rogue force right here on Kauai. And Homeland security has claimed jurisdiction for 100 miles inland of all USA coasts, which means, we are owned by Homeland Security. See TSA page on Homeland Security corruption. This corrupt agency now controls all of Hawaii.

Kauai imports 90% of its food and has only 7 days supply of food on hand. Smooth deliveries by Matson forever is a fantasy. We are facing crisis as global economy slips, and we need a police force of good people. There is no excuse for Meth or Heroin to exist on a small island of 65,000 people if the police were doing their job. Policemen reading this know the truth when they read it. We need the good people to stand up.

"Stop the dope Bra!" - Israel Kamakawiwo'ole

We will plan our 'Majors Bay Surf and Music Festival' as the Barking Sands Missile base inevitably is closed down when USA brings home its 1.5 million personnel from 837 world wide terrorist military bases. If this sounds slanted, please see the Veterans Page and watch some of the videos there, the videos you will never see on TV. Also please see my essay, Are We Hearing Our Veterans?

The lies supporting war will be exposed. We don't need a military budget in the coming Golden Age. Truth and goodness will prevail over war for profit. See Ask Obama Page

We will examine the irrigation ditches of Kauai and how this will make the old Ahupua'a system, and the modern system of private ownership of land, both moot, and what our future on Kauai might really look like as the present economy based on cheap oil and affordable tourism comes to a close.

As a note, the Ahupua'a system was a feudal warlord system that benefited the slaveowners and terrorists, otherwise known as the Ali'i. The sugar cane irrigation ditches, in my opinion, changes all that and moves us more towards a Balinese model of community, based on water shares from irrigation projects.

The only people who want to return to slavery on Kauai are a few descendents of the old Ali'I families, however we are on the brink of a Golden Age as all the corporate and government corruption becomes exposed and forever denounced. We are moving toward goodness based on real education, not backwards to worship of kings/warlords/big businessmen.

In order to create a positive future we must end corruption and work hard for local self sufficiency. It will be work. Stock up now on hand tools. The prices are going up and up.

Big pick-up trucks with big tires won't feed keiki (children). Surf buoy forecasts won't mean much when we are unemployed.

Our values must embrace the aina as our mother, and all of us as her children. This may be difficult for the macho culture of Kauai which is often wrapped up in false pride and alcohol as outlined by IZ in speech above. This weak ego "facade" culture will morph, and in future we will practice a humble strong sacred clean life near the Earth. Why? Because nothing else is sustainable.

I use the word sustainable to mean that which survives. The word "Sustainable" has been co-opted by the UN which uses environmental concerns to justify centralized global control. This is being enacted already on the local level in much of the world, but instead of empowering anything local, the opposite is true. The Sustainabiility programs are pushed to organize local groups under an unseen authority. Their sick plan is to have everyone bow to a global elite 'design' which no one ever voted for. Of course the designers will be on top, as the entire design was and is self serving.

Besides technocratic control of energy and Smart Meters monitoring your life for control of you, there are other important legal globalist agendas effecting Hawaii already which you can read here. We can ask why Hawaiian leglislators would buy into this?

We will live to see a breakdown in garbage collection and a conversion of lawns to sweet potato patches. We will live to see most men with beards as razors won't be available and women will come up with new/old ways to diaper babies and care for moon cycle.

This may seem like doomsday negative talk to some, however, our media has not informed us that the easy to mine minerals and resources have already been taken, and all raw materials will now become only deeper and more difficult to extract. This translates to all resources becoming more expensive without ever leveling off. There will be no plateau as the price will only go up on everything until it becomes too expensive to ship.

In this situation where expenses only increase, a growth economy is impossible. As our world economy shrinks, fringe places like isolated islands will simply not able to be serviced and will return to the natural isolation they always had. This is not negative talk, it is very practical reality. It is not an opinion that every mineral will get more expensive now, it is simply how it is.

Guaranteed, supplies to all isolated islands and regions world wide will become irregular. The last bus stop will not be serviced. The sooner the reader starts learning to grow food, (And I don't mean lettuce, I mean carbs like taro, potatoes, beans, squash and corn that can keep your family from getting skinny and sick), the more you will have to offer your ohana (extended family) and neighbors.

We will see big changes, and we can do this positively with responsibility, or we can give away our brains and trust the lies of big "leaders" who will promise to ‘protect' us like they have 'protected' the millions of dead and wounded people of Iraq and Libya . (see Obama page)

On Kauai the military will say anything to keep people trusting them, while we can be sure they will form a fortress for themselves if things get hungry and will take what they need if they get hungry. It is my sincere desire that we will peacefully close down the military before a world police state solidifies.

I don't know if things will get much much worse, or just worse. I do feel that a certain amount of shock is going to be necessary to wake most people up from their "only today" thinking. As you can see on The Womens Page, a rising good will is coming up to meet crisis.

Who do you trust? The real people around you or the spin?

In our times it is very important to read the fine print, to read the labels. We can not trust big government, big business or many non-profit foundations which now exist to spread propaganda.

The only people we can trust are independent researchers who question the official lies. (See the movie "Inside Job" with Matt Dammon on the Money Page). The documentaries by John Pilger are excellent. Global Research and Voltairnet.com are good independent news sources for international news, and Natural News is great for health issues. The purpose of AfterEnlightenment.Net is to inspire a new and honest curriculum of history and science for all schools. We must create an honest world.

Lastly, I love the speech by IZ above. I've listened to it 50 times. Everyone is crying because they all knew Iz wouldn't be here much longer and his spirit was so pure and good. Some may smear me but Brother IZ is standing over my shoulder. So smear away, we can handle it.

thank you and blessings,

Ray Songtree

(When you send in your opt-out form to KIUC please let me know so we have idea of our progress. Also, please send a short note to KIUC with automatic form, in right column and up)

Hawaiian neighbors can contact me here

hapa at afterenlightenment.com

The Moot Ahupua'a system

http://www.hawaiiankingdom.org/land-system.shtml

http://www.hawaiihistory.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=ig.page&CategoryID=299

http://hawaii.gov/dbedt/czm/initiative/wec/html/descrip/management.htm

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• Localization: The Positive Future

  HAWAIIAN ACTIVISTS TAKE BACK MILITARY OCCUPIED LANDS

  Kaho‘olawe: Ka Ha o ko makou Kupuna; The Breath of our Ancestors, a video by Hawai‘i Pacific University, 2002, for the Kaho‘olawe Island Reserve Commission.

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It really is time we wake up.

We must become forensic now in examining what is true and what is not.

We must forget loyalties, assumptions, or theories and look at evidence. We can never accept a statement from KIUC or anyone else without examining it. One KIUC spokesperson says that Smart Meters are not questioned by most people on Kauai. This is not a justification for their use! Most people are kept dumbed down by fake ballots and not included in informed discussion so of course they don't question "the Man". The TV and Newspapers do not inform us with all sides of an issue. We are not practiced in critical thinking, we are practiced in being kept stupid.

Smart Meters collect data. Data is permanent.

Already we see Foodland offering discounts to anyone from mainland with a phone number. Supermarket membership is made meaningless if anyone can get a discount. Therefore Foodland is now in business of personal data collection. Are they selling this data? To who and for what? Facebook, Google, Yahoo, and others collect data on all your email and internet surfing. Your phone usage is data. Everyone is being tracked and we are seen as ants, not as human beings by the technocrats/globalists who want one thing only, centralized control of entire planet and everything on it.

Now Smart Meter will collect data on personal lifestyle in your home, which will be kept permanently in some data base. Collecting data is wiretapping. By accepting a Smart Meter in your home, you are giving “implied consent” to 24/7 surveillance and your personal data will be available to a global agency, which, as outlined, is secretive and corrupt.

How can we stop cancer and wiretapping Smart Meters from entering our homes?

The answer is to act, and not be passive. (SEE OPT OUT FORM LETTER ABOVE TO LEFT, this is updated form from the one printed in October Penny Saver) Please, go to a Notary Public and sign the opt out form provided. Then make a copy for yourself, and send your notarized opt out form, return receipt requested, to KIUC. For extra legal insurance you can have the return receipt come back to the address of the Notary that you used, as absolute legal proof that you opted out of the cancer wiretapping Smart Meter.

A small educated and correctly motivated minority of the people of Kauai stopped the illegal Super Ferry, which was being pushed on Kauai without discussion or consideration.

Kauai must stop "Smart Grid" for exactly the same reason.

It would be wise for KIUC to study all the links presented here and be on the side of Kauai, not the totalitarian globalists.

Ray Songtree, Sept-17-2011

PUC Admits SmartMeter Health Crisis; Opt-Out Plan Falls Short Posted on March 11, 2011 Angry Residents in SF's Richmond District Take Action to Block Installations

Ten-Year INTERPHONE Cell Phone Study Reports Increased Risk for Brain Cancer . Experts call for changes in cell phone design, warnings, ban on use by children.

International Scientists Find Harmful Effects from Wireless Technologies and Urge New Safety Rules for Cell Phones

“ Smart” meters produce spikes of radiation, which are more harmful than continuous radiation:

“ Smart” meters deploy an SMPS – Switching Mode Power Supply – which steps down the alternating current (AC) from the electrical grid to 2-10 volts of direct current (DC), emitting spikes of 50,000 Hz and higher, with the result of dirty electricity in and outside homes, wreaking havoc in biologic systems:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JmBCGSqBTDY

“ Smart” meters can “spy” on a household:

The elderly have been threatened:

GETTING PRACTICAL:

What to do when so-called “smart” meters are about to be installed:

http://www.w4ar.com/Smart-Meters.html

http://www.agriculturedefensecoalition.org/?q=pg-and-e-smart-meters

Some municipalities have halted “smart” meters by means of moratoria:

http://stopsmartmeters.org/wp-content/uploads/

2011/07/SierraClubLetter1.pdf

http://stopsmartmeters.org/how-you-can-stop-smart-meters/

sample-letter-to-local-government/ca-local-governments-on-board/

http://www.mpbn.net/News/MaineHeadlineNews/tabid/

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How to file a medical/security waiver to keep a “smart” meter from your home (see opt-out letter):

Nationwide boycott against “smart” meters

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  Blog Roll AB37 Details Alliance for Human and Environmental Health Ban Smart Meters Arizona Bay Area Anti-Smart Meter Activist Site Beyond Nuclear Big Corporation Blog Burbank Action Against Cell Towers (and smart meters!) CA Sky Watch Cell Phone Task Force Cell Tower Dangers Center for Electrosmog Prevention CLOUT- Coalition for Local Oversight of Utility Technologies CPUC Meeting Videos Ecological Options Network EMF Blog Electric Sense Electrical Pollution Electromagnetic Health Electromagnetic Radiation Group- Western Canada Electrosensitive Society Electrosensitivity.org EMF Safety Network EMF Safety Tips Federal Smart Grid Site GQ on Cell Phone Health Dangers Gubbins Experiment Guide for Whistleblowers wifismartmeters.com/ Japanese EMF Group

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• More videos, articles, books.

  1. TV NEWS VIDEO - Insurance Companies Won't Insure Wireless Device Health Risks (3 minutes, 13 seconds)

  2. WIRELESS SMART METERS

  TRANSMIT RADIATION APPROXIMATELY 25,000 TIMES PER DAY, 24/7, not 45 seconds per day as claimed by PG&E Corporate. VIDEO - Radiation Measured From Smart Meter Mounted On A Home (6 minutes, 21 seconds)

  3. TV NEWS VIDEO - Skyrocketing Utility Bills after WIRELESS smart meter installation (3 minutes, 19 seconds)

  4. Here are some smart meter myths:

  6. WIRELESS SMART METERS – 100 TIMES MORE RADIATION THAN CELL PHONES. Video Interview: Nuclear Scientist, Daniel Hirsch, (5 minutes).

  7. WIRELESS SMART METERS – CANCER, NERVOUS SYSTEM DAMAGE, ADVERSE REPRODUCTION AFFECTS.
  Video Interview: Dr. Carpenter, New York Public Health Department, Dean of Public Health, (2 minutes).

  8. THE KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE IN STOCKHOLM (the University that gives the Nobel Prizes) ISSUES GLOBAL HEALTH WARNING AGAINST WIRELESS SMART METERS. 2-page Press Release:

  9. New research: Electropollution can cause diabetes (type-3)

  10. Jun 10, 2010 – Natural News article on several health risks with EMR
  

  11. Energy Department warns over smart grid privacy -

  12. EMF Safety Network Oct 15, 2010 – The rollout of smart grid technologies into U.S. homes raises several data privacy issues lawmakers need to recognize and address, ...

  13. Brave EHS woman, Annie M. blocks Smart Meter installer truck in Mendocino County-preventing installations for a couple hours. PG&E is installing meters even though Mendocino has banned them by County ordinance.

  14. Florida neighborhood “Do not install Smart Meters in our neighborhood…until we know more about them!!!,” the letter reads in red type.

  15. Neighborhood Opposes Smart Meters LAKELAND | The president of a North Lakeland neighborhood association has written a letter to Lakeland Electric General Manager Jim Stanfield...

  My Healthy Home | Simple Truths to Protect Your Family The Healthy Home is a guidebook of simple solutions that will help your family reduce your toxic burden, circumvent the risks of the modern world...

   

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Alternatives to Hydro?

• California's First Molten Salt Solar Energy Project Gets Green Light ...

  SUMMARY OF THE SOLAR TWO Y.S“ TEST AND EVALUATION ..
  by JE PACHECO - - Related articles PDF utility partners and the U. S. Department of Energy to validate molten - salt power tower technology. The Solar Two plant , located east of Barstow, CA

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What is Wind Turbine Syndrome?... Yes... EMF pollution causing health problems. And like Smart Meters, corporations and government don't care.

Molokai resists becoming a Wind Farm

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OUR FUTURE ON KAUAI?

Living on the last bus stop.

"Both Wall Street and Washington are trying to do something impossible: grow human consumption forever in a world of limited energy, minerals, water, topsoil, and biodiversity, all while protecting and expanding the riches of the top one percent." - Richard Heinberg

Hawaii: Peak Oil Canary in a Coal Mine

Posted by Gail the Actuary on June 22, 2008
Topic: Environment/Sustainability

Hawaii seems to come up often in the thinking of people aware of peak oil. On one hand, it seems like an ideal place to relocate after peak oil - no need to worry about heating a house; clothing is mostly for protection from the sun; and crops can be grown year around. On the other hand, it produces no fossil fuel itself, and it is at the end of the supply line for both food and fuel. Hawaii's biggest industry, tourism, is already declining, and with rising fuel costs, can only decline further...

What are the advantages Hawaii has from a peak-oil perspective?

1. Many are aware of Peak Oil and are concerned about the problem .

One thing I was surprised at was how aware people are of the problems, especially on the Big Island. On the way out, the woman I was sitting next to on the flight from Honolulu to Hilo (on the Big Island) brought up the issue of oil shortages, and said the local paper talked regularly about the Big Island's vulnerability to oil shortages and high proportion (90% plus) of imported food.

I gave talks to two different groups in Hilo--one was an energy forum consisting of about 150 business people and politicians discussing Big Island energy issues; the other was a group of Hawaiian people interested in sustainability. The energy forum got very good local press coverage . I was surprised that so many people were aware of peak oil, and were interested in finding solutions.

2. Fairly large population on the Big Island before fossil fuels .

When Europeans first discovered the Big Island, people lived in self-contained communities of 250 to 500 people. These communities occupied rectangular or triangular strips of land along streams. These strips went all the way from the ocean to the closest mountain top. Because climate changes so rapidly, these strips of land, called ahupua`a , offered a range of climates and soil conditions for growing many different types of foods. They also provided areas for fish ponds for farming fish. According to Robert Oaks "Hawaii: A History of the Big Island", there were about 600 of these ahupua`a, when Europeans first discovered the island.

If we multiply the number of people per community times the number of communities, we get quite a large population. If there were 250 to 500 people per ahupua`a, and 600 of these communities in total, this would suggest a total population of 150,000 to 300,000. I would find the upper end of this range difficult to believe. The current population of the Big Island is only about 135,000.

3. Some still remember pre-fossil fuel approaches.

Knowledge of the history of what was done in the past seems quite a bit better than on the mainland. Europeans first visited the Hawaiian Islands in 1778, which was not all that long ago. Hawaiians continued to rule the island until 1893. This was only a little over a hundred years ago. When I visited the Bishop museum in Honolulu, I discovered one could look at black and white photographs life under Hawaiian rule. While Western illnesses killed quite a few of the native Hawaiian people, many survived and passed down at least some of the traditions to their children.

4. Little need to heat or cool buildings .

Hawaii is known for its mild climate. On the coast, the temperatures are in the 70s and 80s in the daytime, and a little lower at night, year around. It gets cooler at higher elevations, so that one needs a fireplace for warmth.

A mild climate has many other benefits as well. One doesn't need insulation, and in fact, one can get along with just a thatched roof held up by poles for many uses.

Before Europeans came, Hawaiians wore little clothing. Those of us with fair skin would probably need clothing, simply to prevent sun burn.

5. Built in water transportation system .

Moving goods and people by boat is usually a very low energy mode of transportation. WIth ocean all around the islands, boats or barges can easily be used for transport.

6. Year around growing season .

With a very mild climate, it can be possible to grow two or three crops a year.

7. Availability of ocean to supplement food needs .

With the ocean nearby, there is the possibility of catching fish to supplement other food sources. Fish can also be farmed, sometimes even in a netted-off section of the ocean.

Eating sea weed is another possibility, as the Japanese do.

8. High rain fall in parts of the island .

A shortage of water is often a limiting factor for growing food. Parts of the Hawaiian Islands get over 100 inches of rain a year.

9. Geothermal, wind, solar, and water currents as energy sources .

There is currently one geothermal plant generating 30 MW of electricity on the Big Island, and there is the theoretical possibility of more generation, both on the Big Island and on Maui.

Parts of the islands are very windy, so wind generation is a possibility, and, in fact, is currently being used.

The islands are well situated for solar energy of all types (solar thermal, solar PV, and solar concentrating). If methods for using water currents to generate electricity are perfected, Hawaii will have this as an option as well.

What are the disadvantages Hawaii has from a peak-oil perspective?

1. Distance from rest of world .

Hawaii is a long way from any other occupied body of land. It is 2,390 miles from California; 3,850 miles from Japan; 4,900 miles from China; and 5,280 miles from the Philippines according to this source . The one thing this is good for is as a location for refueling aircraft. Apart from this, it means that everything must be transported over very long distances to get to Hawaii.

2. Agriculture is small scale; difficult to scale up .

Because Hawaii is so mountainous, it is difficult to do commercial agriculture. Also, the large amount of volcanic rock in the soil in many areas makes crops more variable than commercial equipment is designed to handle.

The way I read this, Hawaii in 2002 had only 110,000 acres of harvested cropland. Of this, approximately 58,000 acres (.21 x 27.7% x 1000) was irrigated. In 1992, the figures were a little higher than this, with 140,000 acres of harvested crop land and 82,000 irrigated. We know that quite a bit of sugar cane and pineapple (both irrigated) has left Hawaii in recent years, so this probably explains the drop.

There is quite a bit of pasture land, but this is generally very dry and often very steep. Without irrigation, it is unlikely to be productive as farmland.

3. Vulnerability to tsunamis, volcanos, blights, climate change .

Because of its location, Hawaii is vulnerable to tsunamis, particularly along the coast, which is where most of the population is. The Big Island had a railroad at one time, but many of its bridges were destroyed by a tsunami in 1946. It was never rebuilt.

Since Hawaii is small, it is easy for it to be affected by impacts that would tend to average out over a larger area. If Hawaii grows a large amount of a single type of crop, it is possible that a pest or blight will attack the crop, and the whole crop will be lost. If a crop is planted, and the weather suddenly changes, the crop could be lost. This means that if Hawaii cannot depend on trade, it needs to keep some surplus, in case crops do not turn out as planned.

4. Lack of fossil fuels .

All of Hawaii's fossil fuel is imported. Most of this is oil (used for both electricity and transportation). Some coal is also imported for electricity. Hawaii uses very little natural gas. The lack of fossil fuels makes manufacture difficult, and makes the islands very dependent on imports.

5. Lack of metals and clay .

Hawaii was in the stone age until Europeans came and brought metal in 1778. Until I visited the island, it never occurred to me that the problem was a lack of metal ores. Also, without fossil fuels for heating the ores, it is not clear that ores would have been of much use. Early Hawaiians lacked nails, metal knives, metal pots, coins, and many other things we have come to expect.

The island is also without clay, so there is no pottery or bricks. Before Europeans came, food was wrapped in the leaves of the ti plant, and baked underground. Hollowed out gourds were used for transporting water.

6. Excessive population .

If the only island that one had to worry about from a sustainability point of view were the Big Island, the population would probably not be too far out of line with its resources. The total population of Hawaii is currently estimated at 1.28 million. If one compares this to current harvested cropland of 110,000 acres, this would equate to nearly 12 people per harvested acre. A ratio of about 1 to 1 perhaps 2 to 1, considering the long growing season, would be much better.

If Hawaii's problems become clear before those of the rest of the US, it is possible that quite a few people currently living in Hawaii will move to the mainland. This would be helpful, from the point of view of balancing the population with the available resources.

7. Belief in "right" way to do things .

Clearly, one way of attacking the problem is to try to go back to the old (pre-1778) way of doing things. Another is try to use technology to work one's way out of the problem.

Our current set of laws, regulations, and belief systems very much favors the technological approach. There are laws saying how buildings should be built. We have expectations as to how people should be dressed. Property ownership laws are such that the status quo is the most likely outcome--big businesses have large tracts of lands; most individuals have postage stamp size lots. All of these pretty much predetermine what the outcome will be.

What are the current risks?

Hawaii's biggest industry is its tourist industry. It seems likely to me that Hawaii's tourist industry will largely disappear in the next few years, as oil prices rise. Two Hawaiian air lines have already gone out of business, and two cruise lines have stopped serving the Hawaiian Islands, leaving only one cruise line serving the islands. So far, the islands away from Honolulu have been hardest hit by the drop in tourism. It seems like the situation can only get worse.

Another large source of revenue is the US military. On my way to Honolulu, there were about 30 American service men and women on the plane with me. I asked one sitting next to me where he was going. He said the whole group was on its way back to their home base in Hawaii, on leave from tour of duty in Iraq. They had flown from Iraq, through Europe, across the Atlantic to Atalnta, and now were on their way to Honolulu, to be with their wives and families. I asked the serviceman where he had been before he joined the service, and he said the US Northeast.

It is hard for me to believe that it makes economic sense to send service men and women circling the globe, all the way from Hawaii to Iraq (the long way around!), especially when they did not live in Hawaii to begin with. I would think it would make sense to scale back US military operations in Hawaii. Hawaii is needed as a refueling point, and possibly for defense, but it is hard to see how it makes sense to station a large number of service people there, when their ultimate destination is Iraq.

A smaller source of revenue is agricultural products. Hawaii exports some sugar cane, pineapple, macadamia nuts, and coffee. Prices for these goods can be expected to rise, as the price of oil increases. It is possible that these exports may be able to continue, if enough oil can be imported to keep all the necessary infrastructure maintained and the machinery operating, and if demand for the products continues at the new higher prices. One problem with these industries is that they use up most of the Hawaii's cropland, leaving little for other crops.

What are Hawaii's options going forward?

This is really too big an issue to discuss here. Perhaps I can talk about it more in a later post.

I think one of the issues is that Hawaii is currently a state that imports a lot of products, and mostly sells products like tourism and military bases. If it loses its "exports", where does it get the funding to continue buying imported food, gasoline, televisions, and asphalt?

All of our current belief systems would seem to dictate trying to find a high tech way out. Yet I have a difficult time thinking of new products Hawaii could sell to generate revenue to replace the revenue it is likely to lose from tourism and the military. Selling long distant services (computer programming or customer service) would seem to be an option, but it would seem like Hawaii's costs would be higher than those of competitors.

Going back a few years to earlier approaches doesn't seem offer any likely alternatives. Years ago, Hawaii exported salted beef. Fish was also salted, as a low-energy way of preserving it. I don't see a big market at this time for salted exported meat and fish. Before that, Hawaii's big industry was whaling. That doesn't seem to have a big future either.

Manufacturing doesn't seem very likely either. If manufacturing were undertaken, it would need to be done with local resources. Without metals, it seems like it would be hard to do very much. Power would need to be supplied by electricity, generated from an available source, such as wind or geothermal. The products would need to be ones of very high value, because of the high cost of shipping products to customers. I can't think of anything that would work well, but perhaps it is just my lack of imagination.

Another approach might be to look at what worked before Europeans came, and see what could be added to it, that might still be sustainable. Over two hundred years ago, people lived in narrow communities along streams called ahupua`a, and traded with people who lived near them. Would it make sense to go back to a system closer to the very old one? What changes would be needed to make such a system work, and be acceptable to people living there?

Certainly we could make tools from abandoned cars and trucks for a very long time, to supplement the natural resources. Locally generated electricity might be added as well.

Going back this far would require huge changes in belief systems, and probably changes in land ownership rules. I am not sure how one would even contemplate such a major change.

Review of Book "Peak Everything"

from RELOCALIZING VERMONT Submitted by Carl Etnier on Tue, 10/23/2007

Richard Heinberg 's new book, Peak Everything , is subtitled Waking Up to the Century of Declines. The emphasis is on “Waking Up,” rather than the details of the resource peaks and declines. It is a collection of loosely related essays, many previously published, on how basic realities of life will change as fossil fuel supplies dwindle.

One basic reality is that the fossil fuel-powered tools that we use for just about everything we do, from food production to heating to transportation to communication, will become obsolete in a “techno-collapse.” Another is that available fossil fuels will be insufficient to support an industrial food system in which less than 2% of the US population farms. Heinberg even addresses the aesthetics of the post-hydrocarbon age, which he believes are likely to resemble those of the Arts and Crafts movement, characterized by the book and fabric designs of William Morris and the architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright.

Heinberg's introduction is a nod to what I expected from the title Peak Everything, a technical rundown of the availability and projected or historical year of peak for many more resources than oil: e.g., uranium (2035), fresh water availability (1999), grain production per capita (1985), and marine fish catches (1995).* Even in that introduction, however, he stays with our individual and psychological needs. Heinberg notes many “resources” which need not peak and decline in the 21st century: e.g., community, personal autonomy, intergenerational solidarity, leisure time, happiness, and beauty of what we build.

The organizing principle for the book is clearly stated (and italicized) in the introduction: “our central survival task for the decades ahead, as individuals and as a species, must be to make a transition away from the use of fossil fuels—and to do this as peacefully, equitably, and intelligently as possible.” When I interviewed Heinberg for WGDR , he acknowledged that the transition away from fossil fuels will happen regardless of what we do.

I suggested that people who know nothing about energy can teach Nonviolent Communication or work for a more equitable tax code, and he agreed that there are many ways to work to make the transition peaceful, equitable, and intelligent.. “There are so many areas in which this is going to come down to specific behavior change that it would be impossible to even begin listing them all. Of course, a really important one is food production: changing our way of producing and processing and distributing food and eating food from the current industrial model to a post-industrial model that doesn't use fossil fuels. And there are lots of organic farmers, permaculturalists and so on who are already well along the way to doing this and really showing how it can be done. But we're going to need millions more people doing the same thing in order to produce enough food through this more localized, labor-intensive, knowledge-intensive way.”

He means about 48 million more people, in this country alone. One of the essays in Peak Everything that sticks with me the most is “Fifty Million Farmers,” in which Heinberg grapples with the multiple challenges facing US agriculture. (A version of the essay is available on Heinberg's web site .) The coming fossil fuel shortages leave food production especially vulnerable. We can cut out trips to Disney World or Italy with little pain, and we can carpool or take the public transit to work or work from home with (sometimes) improvements in the quality of our lives. But when 350 gallons of oil equivalent is used in feeding each person in the US annually, fuel shortages may also mean food shortages, and food shortages mean pain.

In addition to fuel shortages, other challenges facing US agriculture include the increasing scarcity of fresh water for irrigation and the increased droughts, floods, and storms of a changing climate.

Heinberg turns to Cuba for one example of how a nation has responded to a drop-off in oil supplies. At the collapse of the Soviet Union, Cuba lost its cheap oil imports, and the basis for the fuel- and chemical intensive agriculture practiced on the island disappeared. With a combination of land reform that put more people working their own land, increasing the number of farmers, a more vegetarian diet, and urban farming and gardening, Cuba came through the hardships of what they call the “special period.” True, the average Cuban lost 20 pounds, but overall health actually improved. (Contrary to advice it would have received from the International Monetary Fund or World Bank, Cuba increased rather than decreased its investment in health care facilities during the economic downturn.)

World War II-era Victory Gardens in the US are another source of inspiration for Heinberg. They were also born of a time of fuel shortages; the movement was so successful that for a while, 40% of vegetables eaten in the US were coming from private gardens.

The key to these successes in food production despite adversity, Heinberg argues, was that more people were farming. Smaller farms are more productive per acre than larger farms, and more people working means less need for tractor fuel or chemical inputs. In Cuba, 15-25% of the population now farms. In the US before the age of petro-agriculture, in 1900, 40% of the population farmed. From those numbers, Heinberg estimates that one in six of us in the US, or 50 million people, will need to farm. At Vermont's scale, that's 100,000 farmers.

What it means to be a farmer will change, of course. They will be more like the David Zuckermans and other small farmers you can meet in Vermont farmers' markets every week than the California owners of 10,000 almond trees or 3,000 dairy cows who provide so much of the food today.

Somehow, for me, the vision of a United States with 50 million farmers is a much clearer, more profound example of a successful response to declining oil availability than other potential changes: more trains and bicycles, better insulated buildings, unheated bedrooms, etc. I can see the landscape and people transformed, maybe because I know so many gardeners and small farmers.

In Peak Everything, Richard Heinberg writes about a potentially gloomy future, and he manages to see the possibilities for improvement, or at least survival, where others might only get depressed. Not only that, Heinberg asks what needs to be done to achieve the improvements he envisions, and he lays out both concrete policy steps and guiding principles. He also recommends and even exemplifies habits of thinking that are likely to make it easier to weather a century of declines.

At the beginning of my interview with Heinberg, when I asked him just to talk while I adjusted the sound levels, he said he was looking at a news web page with the story of a woman in New York who found a python in her toilet. We both laughed at the absurdity of editors who thought this was an important story for us to be talking about. Let's hope we see more news coverage of the issues Heinberg raises in Peak Everything and less about toilet-bound snakes.

* The peak years are from graphs and are not precise.

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The complete interview with Richard Heinberg, in which he also talks about why community radio stations are important for a successful transition to peak oil, is available for download in the Audio section of the Vermont Peak Oil Network website.

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The blog Relocalizing Vermont focuses on relocalizing the Vermont economy in a time of energy constraints brought on by peak oil and other factors. To " relocalize " is to return to local production of food, energy, and goods. `

Peak Phosphorus

It's an essential, if underappreciated component of our daily lives, and a key link in the global food chain. And it's running out.

BY JAMES ELSER, STUART WHITE | APRIL 20, 2010

From Kansas to China's Sichuan province, farmers treat their fields with phosphorus-rich fertilizer to increase the yield of their crops. What happens next, however, receives relatively little attention. Large amounts of this resource are lost from farm fields, through soil erosion and runoff, and down swirling toilets, through our urine and feces. Although seemingly mundane, this process cannot continue indefinitely. Our dwindling supply of phosphorus, a primary component underlying the growth of global agricultural production, threatens to disrupt food security across the planet during the coming century. This is the gravest natural resource shortage you've never heard of.

The root of this problem has previously been the subject of presidential concern. In a message to Congress in 1938, U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt warned that the phosphorus content of American agricultural land "has greatly diminished." This shortage, Roosevelt warned, could cause low crop yields and poor-quality produce, detrimentally affecting "the physical health and economic security of the people of the nation."

Phosphorus is used extensively for a variety of key functions in all living things, including the construction of DNA and cell membranes. As it is relatively rare in the Earth's crust, a lack of phosphorus is often the limiting factor in the growth of plants and algae. In humans, it plays an essential role in bone formation. Without a steady supply of this resource, global agricultural production will face a bottleneck, and humankind's growing population will suffer a serious nutrition shortage.

The world's reliance on phosphorus is an unappreciated aspect of the "Green Revolution," a series of agricultural innovations that made it possible to feed the approximately 4.2 billion-person increase in the global population since 1950. This massive expansion of global agricultural production required a simultaneous increase in the supply of key resources, including water and nitrogen. Without an increase in phosphorus, however, crops would still have lacked the resources necessary to fuel a substantial increase in production, and the Green Revolution would not have gotten off the ground.

Roosevelt's warning was prescient and stimulated agricultural engineers to find an effective, albeit temporary, solution. To satisfy the world's growing food demand, they mobilized global mining efforts in ancient, phosphorus-rich marine deposits. By 2008, industrial farmers were applying an annual 17 million metric tons of mined phosphorus on their fields. Demand is expanding at around 3 percent a year -- a rate that is likely to accelerate due to rising prosperity in the developing world (richer people consume more meat) and the burgeoning bioenergy sector, which also requires phosphorus to support crop-based biofuels.

Our supply of mined phosphorus is running out. Many mines used to meet this growing demand are degrading, as they are increasingly forced to access deeper layers and extract a lower quality of phosphate-bearing rock (phosphate is the chemical form in which nearly all phosphorus is found). Some initial analyses from scientists with the Global Phosphorus Research Initiative estimate that there will not be sufficient phosphorus supplies from mining to meet agricultural demand within 30 to 40 years. Although more research is clearly needed, this is not a comforting time scale.

The geographic concentration of phosphate mines also threatens to usher in an era of intense resource competition. Nearly 90 percent of the world's estimated phosphorus reserves are found in five countries: Morocco, China, South Africa, Jordan, and the United States. In comparison, the 12 countries that make up the OPEC cartel control only 75 percent of the world's oil reserves.

This fact could spark international tension and even influence how countries attempt to draw their internal boundaries. Many of Morocco's phosphate mines are in Western Sahara, a disputed independent territory that is occupied by Morocco and the site of growing international human rights concerns. Reflecting these concerns, U.N.-sanctioned export restrictions on phosphate and other resources are now in place, though the efficacy of the bans is incomplete. China, the country with the largest phosphorus reserves after Morocco, imposed a 135 percent tariff on the resource as part of 2008's complex series of events in which rising fuel and fertilizer costs led to rapid increases in food prices. The tariff effectively eliminated exports. Although the tariff was subsequently lifted as the 2008 food crisis faded, the imposition of this sort of trade barrier could become a regular occurrence as supplies dwindle worldwide.

The United States has only 12 phosphorus mines. The supplies from the most productive mine, in Florida, are declining rapidly -- it will be commercially depleted within 20 years. The United States exported phosphorus for decades but now imports about 10 percent of its supply, all from Morocco, with which it signed a free trade agreement in 2004.

The effects of this resource shortage will be felt long before the last phosphorus atom is extracted from the last mine. Increased demand for fertilizer and the decreased supply of phosphorus exports will result in higher prices, significantly affecting millions of farmers in the developing world who live on the brink of bankruptcy and starvation. Rising fertilizer prices could tip this balance.

Already, signs are emerging that our current practices cannot continue for long. Between 2003 and 2008, phosphate fertilizer prices rose approximately 350 percent. In 2008, rising food prices sparked riots in more than 40 countries. Although the spike in fertilizer prices was only partially responsible for the higher food prices, the riots illustrate the social upheaval caused by disruptions to the world's food supply. The 2008 food riots were only stopped by government promises of food subsidies -- a viable strategy only as long as governments can afford the ever-increasing costs of food support.

Establishing a reliable phosphorus supply is essential for assuring long-term, sustainable food security. We need to dramatically reduce the demand for phosphate rock by eliminating our wasteful practices. This will require a combination of low-tech and high-tech solutions, including efforts to prevent soil erosion, development of more-targeted methods of fertilizer application, and the creation of new, phosphorus-efficient crops, which produce a larger yield per phosphorus unit applied. Fortunately, unlike fossil fuels, phosphorus can be used over and over -- this is what occurs in natural ecosystems, where it is recycled innumerable times from its first mobilization from the Earth's crust to its eventual deposition into lake and ocean sediments.

If we fail to meet this challenge, humanity faces a Malthusian trap of widespread famine on a scale that we have not yet experienced. The geopolitical impacts of such disruptions will be severe, as an increasing number of states fail to provide their citizens with a sufficient food supply. This dark scenario need not, however, be our fate. If we are successful in rising to the phosphorus sustainability challenge, as well as other aspects of sustainable agriculture, we can look forward to a future in which families, communities, and countries are healthy and secure in their nutrition and where all live in a world with cleaner rivers, lakes, and oceans.

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how the 1% think... and how they want you to think...

The Elite Agenda for Social Transformation

(as published in New Dawn magazine, Sep 2011)

Richard K. Moore Richard lives now in Ireland and has family who live here on Kauai. rkm@quaylargo.com http://cyberjournal.org

The era of growth –  capitalists vs. aristocracy

When the Industrial Revolution began in Britain, in the late 1700s, there was lots of money to be made by investing in factories and mills, by opening up new markets, and by gaining control of sources of raw materials. The folks who had the most money to invest, however, were not so much in Britain but more in Holland. Holland had been the leading Western power in the 1600s, and its bankers were the leading capitalists. In pursuit of profit, Dutch capital flowed to the British stock market, and thus the Dutch funded the rise of Britain, who subsequently eclipsed Holland both economically and geopolitically.

In this way British industrialism came to be dominated by wealthy investors, and capitalism became the dominant economic system. This led to a major social transformation. Britain had been essentially an aristocratic society, dominated by landholding families. As capitalism became dominant economically, capitalists became dominant politically. Tax structures and import-export policies were gradually changed to favor investors over landowners.

It was no longer economically viable to simply maintain an estate in the countryside: one needed to develop it, turn it to more productive use. Victorian dramas are filled with stories of aristocratic families who fall on hard times, and are forced to sell off their properties. For dramatic purposes, this decline is typically attributed to a failure in some character, a weak eldest son perhaps. But in fact the decline of aristocracy was part of a larger social transformation brought on by the rise of capitalism.

The business of the capitalist is the management of capital, and this management is generally handled through the mediation of banks and brokerage houses. It should not be surprising that investment bankers came to occupy the top of the hierarchy of capitalist wealth and power. And in fact, there are a handful of banking families, including the Rothschilds and the Rockefellers, who have come to dominate economic and political affairs in the Western world.

Unlike aristocrats, capitalists are not tied to a place, or to the maintenance of a place. Capital is disloyal and mobile – it flows to where the most growth can be found, as it flowed from Holland to Britain, then from Britain to the USA, and most recently from everywhere to China. Just as a copper mine might be exploited and then abandoned, so under capitalism a whole nation can be exploited and then abandoned, as we see in the rusting industrial areas of America and Britain. This detachment from place leads to a different kind of geopolitics under capitalism, as compared to aristocracy. A king goes to war when he sees an advantage to his nation in doing so. Historians can ‘explain' the wars of pre-capitalist days, in terms of the aggrandizement of monarchs and nations.

A capitalist stirs up a war in order to make profits, and in fact our elite banking families have financed both sides of most military conflicts since at least World War 1. Hence historians have a hard time ‘explaining' World War 1 in terms of national motivations and objectives. In pre-capitalist days warfare was like chess, each side trying to win. Under capitalism warfare is more like a casino, where the players battle it out as long as they can get credit for more chips, and the real winner always turns out to be the house – the bankers who finance the war and decide who will be the last man standing. Not only are wars the most profitable of all capitalist ventures, but by choosing the winners, and managing the reconstruction, the elite banking families are able, over time, to tune the geopolitical configuration to suit their own interests.

Nations and populations are but pawns in their games. Millions die in wars, infrastructures are destroyed, and while the world mourns, the bankers are counting their winnings and making plans for their postwar reconstruction investments. From their position of power, as the financiers of governments, the banking elite have over time perfected their methods of control. Staying always behind the scenes, they pull the strings controlling the media, the political parties, the intelligence agencies, the stock markets, and the offices of government. And perhaps their greatest lever of power is their control over currencies. By means of their central-bank scam, they engineer boom and bust cycles, and they print money from nothing and then loan it at interest to governments. The power of the elite banking gang (the ‘banksters') is both absolute and subtle...

“Some of the biggest men in the United States are afraid of something. They know there is a power somewhere, so organised, so subtle, so watchful, so interlocked, so complete, so pervasive that they had better not speak above their breath when they speak in condemnation of it.” – President Woodrow Wilson

The end of growth –  banksters vs. capitalism

It was always inevitable, on a finite planet, that there would be a limit to economic growth. Industrialization has enabled us to rush headlong toward that limit over the past two centuries. Production has become ever more efficient, markets have become ever more global, and finally the paradigm of perpetual growth has reached the point of diminishing returns.

Indeed, that point was actually reached by about 1970. Since then capital has not so much sought growth through increased production, but rather by extracting greater returns from relatively flat production levels. Hence globalization, which moved production to low-waged areas, providing greater profit margins. Hence privatization, which transfers revenue streams to investors that formerly went to national treasuries. Hence derivative and currency markets, which create the electronic illusion of economic growth, without actually producing anything in the real world.

For almost forty years, the capitalist system was kept going by these various mechanisms, none of which were productive in any real sense. And then in September 2008 this house of cards collapsed, all of a sudden, bringing the global financial system to its knees.

If one studies the collapse of civilizations, one learns that failure-to-adapt is fatal. Is our civilization falling into that trap? We had two centuries of real growth, where the growth-dynamic of capitalism was in harmony with the reality of industrial growth. Then we had four decades of artificial growth – capitalism being sustained by a house of cards. And now, after the house of cards has collapsed, every effort is apparently being made to bring about ‘a recovery' – of growth! It is very easy to get the impression that our civilization is in the process of collapse, based on the failure-to-adapt principle.

Such an impression would be partly right and partly wrong. In order to understand the real situation we need to make a clear distinction between the capitalist elite and capitalism itself. Capitalism is an economic system driven by growth; the capitalist elite are the folks who have managed to gain control of the Western world while capitalism has operated over the past two centuries. The capitalist system is past its sell-by date, the bankster elite are well aware of that fact – and they are adapting.

Capitalism is a vehicle that helped bring the banksters to absolute power, but they have no more loyalty to that system than they have to place, or to anything or anyone. As mentioned earlier, they think on a global scale, with nations and populations as pawns. They define what money is and they issue it, just like the banker in a game of Monopoly. They can also make up a new game with a new kind of money. They have long outgrown any need to rely on any particular economic system in order to maintain their power. Capitalism was handy in an era of rapid growth. For an era of non-growth, a different game is being prepared.

Thus, capitalism was not allowed to die a natural death. Instead it was brought down by a controlled demolition. First it was put on a life-support system, as mentioned above, with globalization, privatization, currency markets, etc. Then it was injected with a euthanasia death-drug, in the form of real-estate bubbles and toxic derivatives. Finally, the Bank of International Settlements in Basel – the central bank of central banks – pulled the plug on the life-support system: they declared the ‘mark-to-market rule', which made all the risk-holding banks instantly insolvent, although it took a while for this to become apparent. Every step in this process was carefully planned and managed by the central-banking clique.

The end of sovereignty – restoring the  ancien régime

Just as the financial collapse was carefully managed, so was the post-collapse scenario, with its suicidal bailout programs. National budgets were already stretched; they certainly did not have reserves available to salvage the insolvent banks. Thus the bailout commitments amounted to nothing more than the taking on of astronomical new debts by governments. In order to service the bailout commitments, the money would need to be borrowed from the same financial system that was being bailed out!

It's not that the banks were too big to fail, rather the banksters were too powerful to fail: they made politicians an offer they couldn't refuse. In the USA, Congress was told that without bailouts there would be martial law the next morning. In Ireland, the Ministers were told there would be financial chaos and rioting in the streets. In fact, as Iceland demonstrated, the sensible way to deal with the insolvent banks was with an orderly process of receivership.

The effect of the coerced bailouts was to transfer insolvency from the banks to the national treasuries. Banking debts were transformed into sovereign debts and budget deficits. Now, quite predictably, it is the nations that are seeking bailouts, and those bailouts come with conditions attached. Instead of the banks going into receivership, the nations are going into receivership. In his book,  Confessions of an Economic Hit Man , John Perkins explains how the third world has been coerced over the past several decades – through pressure and trickery of various kinds – into perpetual debt bondage. By design, the debts can never be repaid. Instead, the debts must be periodically refinanced, and each round of refinancing buries the nation deeper in debt – and compels the nation to submit to even more drastic IMF diktats. With the orchestrated financial collapse, and the ‘too big to fail' scam, the banksters have now crossed the Rubicon: the hit-man agenda is now operating here in the first world.

In the EU, the first round of nations to go down will be the so-called  PIGS  – Portugal, Ireland, Greece, and Spain. The fiction, that the PIGS can deal with the bailouts, is based on the assumption that the era of limitless growth will resume. As the banksters themselves know full well, that just isn't going to happen. Eventually the PIGS will be forced to default, and then the rest of the EU will go down as well, all part of a controlled-demolition project.

When a nation succumbs to debt bondage, it ceases to be a sovereign nation, governed by some kind of internal political process. Instead it comes under the control of IMF diktats. As we have seen in the third world, and is happening now in Europe, these diktats are all about austerity and privatization. Government functions are eliminated or privatized, and national assets are sold off. Little by little – again a controlled demolition – the nation state is dismantled. In the end, the primary functions left to government are police suppression of its own population, and the collection of taxes to be handed over to the banksters.

In fact, the dismantling of the nation state began long before the financial collapse of 2008. In the USA and Britain, it began in 1980, with Reagan and Thatcher. In Europe, it began in 1988, with the Maastricht Treaty. Globalization accelerated the dismantling process, with the exporting of jobs and industry, privatization programs, ‘free trade' agreements, and the establishment of the regulation-busting World Trade Organization (WTO). Events since 2008 have enabled the rapid acceleration of a process that was already well underway.

With the collapse, the bailouts, and the total failure to pursue any kind of effective recovery program, the signals are very clear: the system will be allowed to collapse totally, thus clearing the ground for a pre-architected ‘solution'. As the nation state is being dismantled, a new regime of global governance is being established to replace it. As we can see with the WTO, IMF, World Bank, and the other pieces of the embryonic world government, the new global system will make no pretensions about popular representation or democratic process. Rule will be by means of autocratic global bureaucracies, which will take their orders, directly or indirectly, from the bankster clique.

In his book,  The Globalization of Poverty , Michel Chossudovsky explains how globalization, and the actions of the IMF, created massive poverty throughout the third world over the past several decades. As we can see, with the dramatic emphasis on austerity following the collapse and bailouts, this poverty-creation project has now crossed the Rubicon. In this new world system there will be no prosperous middle class. Indeed, the new regime will very much resemble the old days of royalty and serfdom (the  ancien régime ). The banksters are the new royal family, with the whole world as their dominion. The technocrats who run the global bureaucracies, and the mandarins who pose as politicians in the residual nations, are the privileged upper class. The rest of us, the overwhelming majority, will find ourselves in the role of impoverished serfs – if we are lucky enough to be one of the survivors of the collapse process.

“Today Americans would be outraged if U.N. troops entered Los Angeles to restore order; tomorrow they will be grateful. This is especially true if they were told there was an outside threat from beyond, whether real or promulgated, that threatened our very existence. It is then that all peoples of the world will plead with world leaders to deliver them from this evil. The one thing every man fears is the unknown. When presented with this scenario, individual rights will be willingly relinquished for the guarantee of their well being granted to them by their world government.” – Henry Kissinger speaking at Evian, France, May 21, 1992 Bilderbergers meeting

The end of liberty –  the global police state

For the past four decades, since about 1970, we've been experiencing a regime-change process, from an old global system to a new global system. In the old system, first world nations were relatively democratic and prosperous, while the third world suffered under police-state tyranny, mass poverty, and imperialism (exploitation by external powers). As discussed above, the transition process has been characterized by ‘crossing the Rubicon' – the introduction of policies and practices into the first world, that were formerly limited, for the most part, to the third world.

Thus debt bondage to the IMF crossed the Rubicon, enabled by the collapse-bailout scam. In turn, mass poverty is crossing that same Rubicon, due to austerity measures imposed by the IMF, with its new bond-holding powers. Imperialism is also crossing the Rubicon, as the first world comes under the exploitive control of banksters and their bureaucracies, a power nexus that is external to all national identities. Unsurprisingly, police-state tyranny is also crossing the Rubicon: the imposition of third-world poverty levels requires third-world methods of repression.

The anti-globalization movement can be taken as the beginning of popular resistance to the process of regime change. Similarly, the police response to the Seattle anti-globalization demonstrations, in November 1999, can be taken as the ‘crossing of the Rubicon' for police-state tyranny. The excessive and arbitrary violence of that response – including such things as holding people's eyes open and spraying pepper into them – was unprecedented against non-violent demonstrators in a first world nation.

Ironically, that police response, particularly as it was so widely publicized, actually strengthened the anti-globalization movement. As demonstrations grew in size and strength, the police response grew still more violent. A climax of sorts was reached in Genoa, in July 2001, when the levels of violence on both sides began to resemble almost a guerilla war.

In those days the anti-globalization movement was dominating the international news pages, and opposition to globalization was reaching massive proportions. The visible movement was only the tip of an anti-systemic iceberg. In a very real sense, general popular sentiment in the first world was beginning to take a radical turn. Movement leaders were now thinking in terms of an anti- capitalist  movement. There was a political volatility in the air, a sense that, just maybe possibly, enlightened popular sentiment  might  succeed in shifting the course of events.

All of that changed on September 11, 2001, the day the towers came down. The anti-globalization movement, along with globalization itself, disappeared almost totally from public consciousness on that fateful day. Suddenly it was a whole new global scenario, a whole new media circus – with a new enemy, and a new kind of war, a war without end, a war against phantoms, a war against ‘terrorism'.

Earlier we saw how the orchestrated financial collapse of September 2008 enabled certain ongoing projects to be rapidly accelerated, such as the dismantlement of sovereignty, and the imposition of austerity. Similarly, the events of September 2001 enabled certain ongoing projects to be greatly accelerated, such as the abandonment of civil liberties and international law.

Before the towers had even come down, the ‘Patriot Act' had already been drafted, proclaiming in no uncertain terms that the police state was here (in the USA) in force and here to stay – the Bill of Rights was null and void. Before long, similar ‘anti-terrorist' legislation had been adopted throughout the first world. If any anti-systemic movement were to again raise its head in the first world (as it did, for example, recently in Greece), arbitrary police powers could be brought to bear – as much as might be necessary – to put the resistance down. No popular movement would be allowed [in the globalist bid for tyranny - Editor] to derail the banksters' regime-change designs. The anti-globalization movement had been shouting, ‘This is what real democracy looks like'. With 9/11, the banksters replied: ‘This is what real oppression looks like'.

The events of 9/11 led directly to the invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan, and in general helped create a climate where invasions of sovereign nations could be readily justified, with one excuse or another. International law was to be as thoroughly abandoned [the recent rape of Libya broke many UN laws- See Obama Page] as was civil liberties Just as all restraint was removed from domestic police interventions, so was all restraint being removed from geopolitical military interventions. Nothing was to stand in the way of the banksters' regime-change agenda.

“The technetronic era involves the gradual appearance of a more controlled society…dominated by an elite, unrestrained by traditional values…this elite would not hesitate to achieve its political ends by using the latest modern techniques for influencing public behavior…Persisting social crisis, the emergence of a charismatic personality, and the exploitation of mass media to obtain public confidence would be the stepping-stones in the piecemeal transformation of the United States into a highly controlled society…In addition, it may be possible – and tempting – to exploit for strategic political purposes the fruits of research on the brain and on human behavior.” – Zbigniew Brzezinski,  Between Two Ages: America's Role in the Technetronic Era , 1970

The post-capitalist era –  new myths for a new culture

2012 might not be the exact year, but it's difficult to see the endgame lasting much beyond that – and the masters of the universe love symbolism, as with 911 (both in Chile and in Manhattan), KLA 007, and others. 2012 is loaded with symbolism, eg. the Mayan Calendar, and the Internet is buzzing with various 2012-related prophecies, survival strategies, anticipated alien interventions, alignments with galactic radiation fields, etc. And then there is the Hollywood film,  2012 , which explicitly portrays the demise of most of humanity, and the pre-planned salvation of a select few. One never knows with Hollywood productions, what is escapist fantasy, and what is aimed at preparing the public mind symbolically for what is to come.

Whatever the exact date, all the threads will come together, geopolitically and domestically, and the world will change. It will be a new era, just as capitalism was a new era after aristocracy, and the Dark Ages followed the era of the Roman Empire. Each era has its own structure, its own economics, its own social forms, and its own mythology. These things must relate to one another coherently, and their nature follows from the fundamental power relationships and economic circumstances of the system.

Whenever there is a change of era, the previous era is always demonized in a new mythology. In the Garden of Eden story the serpent is demonized – a revered symbol in paganism, the predecessor to monotheism. With the rise of European nation states, the Catholic Church was demonized, and Protestantism introduced. When republics came along, the demonization of monarchs was an important part of the process. In the post-2012 world [if the globalists get their tyranny- Editor], democracy and national sovereignty will be demonized. This will be very important, in getting people to accept arbitrary totalitarian rule…

"In those terrible dark days, before the blessed unification of humanity, anarchy reigned in the world. One nation would attack another, no better than predators in the wild. Nations had no long-term coherence; voters would swing from one party to another, keeping governments always in transition and confusion. How did anyone ever think that masses of semi-educated people could govern themselves, and run a complex society? Democracy was an ill-conceived experiment that led only to corruption and chaotic governance. How lucky we are to be in this well-ordered world, where humanity has finally grown up, and those with the best expertise make the decisions for the whole globe."

Capitalism is about growth, progress, and change. Under capitalism the virtues of ambition, initiative, and competitiveness are praised, because those virtues serve the dynamics of capitalism. People are encouraged to always accumulate more, and never be satisfied with what they have. Under capitalism, people need to have a bit of liberty, and a bit of prosperity, so that the dynamics of capitalism can operate. Without some liberty, ambition cannot be pursued; without some prosperity, how could accumulation be pursued? In the post-capitalist world, the capitalist virtues will be demonized. This will be very important, in getting people to accept poverty and regimentation…

"The pursuit of money is the root of all evil, and the capitalist system was inherently corrupt and wasteful. Anarchy reined in the marketplace, as corporations blindly pursued profit, with no concern for human needs or for the Earth. How much more sensible are our production brigades, producing only what is needed, and using only what is sustainable. Capitalism encouraged greed and consumption; people struggled to compete with one another, to ‘get ahead' in the rat race. How much wiser we are now, to live within our ration quotas, and to accept our assigned duties, whatever they might be, in service to humanity".

In this regime change, ushering in the post-capitalist era, we're seeing a conscious orchestration of economics, politics, geopolitics, and mythology – as one coordinated project. A whole new reality is being created, a whole new global culture. When it comes down to it, the ability to transform culture is the ultimate form of power. In only a single generation, a new culture becomes ‘the way things are'.

And what, we might inquire, might stand in the way of any future manipulations of the cultural regime that the bankster royal family might contemplate? Ever since public education was introduced, the state and the family have competed to control childhood conditioning – and it is in childhood that culture is transmitted to the next generation. In the micromanaged post-capitalist future, we'll most likely see the ‘final solution' of social control, which is for the state to monopolize child raising. This would eliminate from society the parent-child bond, and hence family-related bonds in general. No longer is there a concept of relatives, just fellow members of the hive. The family must be demonized. Already, here in Ireland, there are daily TV spots dramatizing the plight of children who are being abused or neglected by their parents…

"How scary were the old days, when unlicensed, untrained couples had total control over vulnerable children, behind closed doors, with whatever neuroses, addictions, or perversions the parents happened to possess. How did this vestige of patriarchal slavery, this safe-house den of child abuse, continue so long to exist, and not be recognized for what it was? How much better off we are now, with children being raised scientifically, by trained staff, where they are taught discipline and healthy values."

Richard K. Moore

rkm@quaylargo.com http://cyberjournal.org

Richard lives now in Ireland and has family he visits who live here on Kauai

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