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1) ModelCiv - OPERATIONAL UNITS
Self-Reliant Family: A family producing more wealth value, on an annual basis, than they expend and ever seeking new and diverse means
of discretionary wealth production. Family members are aided in this creative quest by Free Educational schools and universities in tandem with requisite job creation capacity--often wielded by municipal, regional (Local Regional) and national governments.
Mini-Community as Neighborhood or Village: A neighborhood or village ideally numbering 150 persons or less and semi-autonomous in
social, economic and political functions.
Community as Town or City Section: Grouping of contiguous, semi-autonomous Mini-Communities, a Community can comprise an entire town or a city section either of which would be socially integrated primarily through local wealth exchange markets, local educational facilities and local businesses.
City: Grouping of contiguous Communities fully integrated through travel and communication networks. Road and rail systems converge on Urban Centers featuring Regional Markets, regional corporate offices, government agencies, major universities and cultural facility concentrations.
Local Region: A grouping of independent villages, homesteads, towns and cities with intervening landscape generally comprising a larger area than present, second-level administrative units (counties or parishes) in the USA. Local Regions would be, in size and population, the equivalent of French and Italian Regions, German Lander or the first-level administrative divisions in nearly all medium-sized nation states.
The prime objectives of Local Regions are to delineate administrative territories most efficiently governed by a central, resident authority and to contain sufficiently diverse social and economic assets to produce a largely autonomous, Local Regional Society. Local Regions are eventually interconnected and coordinated within MetaRegional Provinces.
Nation State: The Nation State would acquire and maintain sovereign autonomy while entering into MetaRegional Confederations. Once the Global Green conversion process is largely completed these MRConfederations would morph into formal MetaRegions--where nation states would become actual provinces within their parent MetaRegion and place themselves under a MetaRegional Central Government. Single State MetaRegions would simply convert their NatGovs into MetaRegional Govs--ie. in accordance with the basic principles of GreenCiv herein delineated and afterwards developed.
MetaRegional Province: Within MetaRegional Confederations the MetaRegional Province would provide a direct replacement for present-day nation states. Present nations within our projected MetaRegional Confederations would morph into MetaRegional Provinces. The purpose of these MetaRegional Provinces would be wholly different than the nation state in that such provinces would not be provided representative government but would simply act as technocratic facilitators for MetaRegional policy within an MRProvince's constituent Local Regions. Within Single State MetaRegions many present-day provinces or territories would directly translate into MRProvinces while such Single State MetaRegions as USA, Russian Federation and Mexico would require regional groupings of present, internal administrative units to create newly constituted MetaRegional Provinces.
MetaRegion: An evolving entity, at first a confederation of contiguous nation states or a single, large nation state. In its completed form, the
same collection of contiguous nation states or single, nation state which have become socially-politically-economically integrated and themselves internally divided into MetaRegional Provinces with their constituent Local Regions.
General Philosophy behind Operational Units
Operational Units, within ModelCiv, are social groupings of progressively larger size which inhabit their geographic location. Thusly, the term Social-Geographic Unit might be used interchangeably with Operational Unit. Families are the basic unit of societal cooperation and thusly, the primary Operational Unit. Without harmonious and prosperous families there can be no stability for any of our larger social groupings. Contiguous Families, in the form of neighborhoods (or villages), create Mini-Communities as the next level of O.U. hierarchy. The Mini-Community then forms the essential, organizational unit comprising the Community. Communities become either independent towns or sectors of larger cities. Cities, towns and villages, interconnected and in geographic proximity, then form the basis of Local Regions. Semi-autonomous Local Regions, in cooperative economic and social unions, then form the basis for nations (eventually, MetaRegional Provinces). Nation States, within ModelCiv, are then free to enter into local confederations--MetaRegions. These MetaRegions would form the basis of a Global Confederation based upon business and trade which, eventually, would evolve into an integrated system of Global Governance.
General Philosophy behind Operational Units (Final Form)
NATION STATE TRANSITION + LOCAL REGIONS
The final form for ModelCiv Operational Units is contrasted with its transitional counterpart by the absence of the nation state as a political-economic and socio-cultural entity. Firstly, transition from the nation state takes the form of primary administrative unit evolution within present day nations, into the Local Regional form. Local Regions are simply the most efficient socio-geographic form that locally-based social and geographic organization can take. As example, ModelCiv envisions the US state of California being divided into 5 to 6 Local Regions. Such geographic divisions are largely meant to demarcate the primary travels of Local Region residents as being contained within the Region--on a day to day basis. Residents will, for the most part, find all the facility access they require within their region and each Local Region will primarily be designed to satisfy such essential needs. Herein is the logic of the Local Region--that its residents are able to remain "local" within its sufficiently diverse confines and that ample opportunity for educational and business pursuit is, for the most part, satisfied within its borders. Local Region transport systems would be architectured as per traffic flow within the region with prescient adjustments to transport infrastructure required, from time to time, to maintain ideal resident mobility.
The ebb and flow of business and industry within each region and trends in educational careers could all be taken into account by Local Regional Government in their role as facilitator to the constructive social and economic trends taking place at any time within the region. Local Regional Government would be the primary statistical source for employment in various regional industries and could encourage, through subsidies, citizen educational training to remedy any work force deficiencies in particular industries. It would be known throughout the regional populace which industries were requiring more workers (another Local Region Gov statistical function) and such public consciousness could create public sentiment encouraging interest in schooling and university training to fill said work force gaps. Public service (in the form of cooperation with regional businesses and industries) would become synonymous with personal career progress and increased discretionary wealth productive capacity. It would be a win--win, no-brainer.
Operational Units
SELF-RELIANT FAMILIES
Self-Reliant Families are the foundational unit of any sustainable civilization. Self-reliance is gained, in part, through a family's annual production of wealth value exceeding the cost of their annual basic needs. This net annual wealth is then employed in a discretionary manner for the purchase of goods and services, placed in investments or accumulated as savings. Such employment of discretionary income in tandem with a family's ability to produce basic goods for personal use connotes economic self-reliance. Economic self-reliance is basic to societal self-reliance and relative local autonomy.
Self-Reliant Families must possess their own homes. Such ownership, upon establishment, will be outright as within ModelCiv a family or individual cannot be taxed upon their Basic Wealth requirements. Home ownership will afford great stability and resilience to each family and community. With requisite and intelligently allocated work effort no family or person could go hungry or be deficient in Basic Wealth production. The work activity of family members would ultimately be focussed on the production of Discretionary Wealth and its advantageous use. The beauty of outright home ownership by families and individuals is that a home creates the economic security allowing a free choice of profession toward wealth production.
The production of Discretionary Wealth, by each family unit, will often entail taking jobs outside of a family business or away from the family homesite. Within ModelCiv such employment would mostly be supplied by local and regional businesses although a significant portion of local employment would also be supplied by Public Enterprises (see 10% NatCorps on the "Government Organization" page). Within ModelCiv local and regional business will have marketing and production advantages over larger companies when it comes to production satisfying basic local needs. The province of nationally and metaregionally-operating companies (public as well as private enterprise) would comprise industries requiring complex manufacturing processes or some other level of high technical expertise. So, we see that within ModelCiv the variety of employment will be legion. The efficiency with which personal and family wealth are produced, under this system, will determine
the work hours per week necessary for requisite wealth production.
Being economically and thus physically secure, families will then be able to avail themselves of the opportunities presented within the advanced society projected by ModelCiv. These opportunities include Free Education, access to affordable and efficient transportation, participation in local, earth repair projects, enjoyment of Info Display Centers (future libraries and research centers), running a family business, participating in job training programs directly linked to job opportunities, traveling to other MetaRegions and possibly living there through a Global Home Exchange program.
MINI-COMMUNITIES
ModelCiv seeks to create self-reliant groupings of families and citizens who can, to a large extent, be self-governing. Foundational to this is a neighborhood or village grouping of 150 persons or less. According to social theory as espoused by Malcolm Gladwell in his book "The Tipping Point", villages in traditional societies tend toward a 150 member maximum. The reason for this is that within such an optimally-sized group members are able to maintain a functional knowledge of each personality comprising the group. Such easy and natural recognition of each neighborhood or village member would naturally evolve a self-regulating and largely self-governing group. Members of this group would naturally tend to live by the maxim of do unto others as you yourself desire to be treated since social transactions would take place face-to-face and personal reputation within the group could never be kept from its members. Regional and national laws could
provide a loose framework within which each local group would comply.
Our optimally-sized neighborhood or Mini-Community would be the societal building block of towns and cities. Optimally-sized villages and scattered towns within traditional societies would create regional interconnectedness. Each Mini-Community would be able to maintain its unique identity within the larger social system and centralized governance would be geared to allow maximal freedom and creativity within each Mini-Community. Each community member would enjoy maximal freedom and bear complete social responsibility for their actions as each member would be held to account by those who know them best and who daily interact with them.
Within the Mini-Community business transactions would be carried out face-to-face. The formulation of written contracts, at this local level, would become of almost secondary importance as compared to verbal agreements--a person's word. Anyone seeking other than equitable arrangements or business transactions would quickly be labeled within their community as not worthy of trust. The fate of social deviants within such a face-to-face society would naturally enforce behavioral compliance toward the greater good. Individual success and promoting the greater social good, within this system, would be inseparable.
Face-to-face transactions and the spirit driving them would naturally extrapolate to inter-group transactions. Such co-operation between and amongst members of different Mini-Communities would not only create the foundations of urban, regional and national identities but also a spirit of fairness animating entire nation states. With equitable interaction becoming the norm within nation states, nation state cooperation would be the next logical progression and world peace based upon fair business practice and social equity would be at hand.
The products and services freely created within our Mini-Community would be equitably valued and equitably traded--for their equivalent in wealth or wealth value. The accumulation of discretionary wealth would depend upon the goods or services each family or individual was able to create and the market demand for such. Profit would not have to be gained from each sales transaction as members within each Mini-Community would not be looking to gain from another's requisite loss. Equitably priced goods and services, produced sufficiently, would ensure individual and family production of discretionary wealth. A physically secure home base is key to this excess wealth production which would, in turn, further fuel the demand for goods and services.
The fuctional intelligence required for success within the community-based economic system herein projected would be assured by simple, commonsense improvements to "education" as practiced today.
MUNICIPALITIES + LOCAL REGIONS
Largely self-sustaining Mini-Communities, in their common neighborhood form, are the building blocks of Green Cities and towns. The town or city grouping gives a distinct advantage to these semi-autonomous units in the following ways:
1) Greater choice for regular social and economic interaction with fellow town or city residents.
2) Increased learning opportunities amongst an enlarged citizen body.
3) Access to the municipal road and communications systems.
4) The increased variety of businesses and public facilities available in towns and cities.
5) Access to an increased array of wealth production facilities and activities each allowing increased wealth production capacity for individuals and family units.
Municipalities would function co-operatively within their resident Local Region. Tying together municipalities would be road and rail systems. Roads supporting free energy vehicles would connect all urban concentrations while larger cities would take advantage of the higher volume transport provided by electric railways. Local Region Market Exchanges could take place two or three times a week within the larger cities while smaller towns would take part in daily, local market exchanges for most basic goods and services. Every day, at the community level, a market could be run--excepting, maybe Sunday? Sunday could be everybody's day to rest and socialize and the one day of the week where, to the best of society's ability, no one works.
Local Region GreenTech Infrastructure would be concentrated in cities and towns for easy and efficient access. This infrastructure would include Free Energy Power Plants, Spirulina Greenhouses, greenhouse production of medicinal herbs and vegetables, and Solar Aquatic Fish Production. Located on open land would be Small-Field production of vegetables, Large-Field production of grains and natural fiber, orchards and Solar Aquatic Sewage Processing.
ModelCiv envisions future, urban and regional industries and facilities as including the following:
Natural Fiber Processing--paper production
Natural Fiber Book Production
Natural Fiber Processing--clothe production
Clothing Creation
Spirulina Processing
Organic Food Processing
Orchards--Large
Greenhouse Vegetables--large scale facilities
Sustainable Container Production--bottles and jars
Armoured Glass Production
Greenhouse Construction
Local Recyling--Metals Extraction
Foundry Production
Natural Plastic Production
Natural Plastic--Component Fabrication
Furniture Production
Road and Path Construction
Small Bridge Construction
Small Dam Construction
Hydro-Electric Turbine Installation and Operation
Wind Turbine Construction
Holistic Healing Centers
Twin Dome Spherical-Imaging Centers--as public libraries
Twin Dome Spherical-Imaging Centers--as research centers
Local Region Formation + Evolution
Regarding the formation of Local Regions from present-day, second-level administrative units, ModelCiv envisions, initially, confederations of these smaller, second-level, national administrative units forming functional groupings which would eventuate in political economic unions. Initial confederations of counties or parishes (within the USA + Britain) would retain original political boundaries but would eventually dissolve all such political boundaries internal to a Local Region as political union develops. Upon the creation of a political economic union within a Local Region, MetaRegional Technocracies could arbitrate between and amongst constituent Local Regions to create changes to the final political boundaries of a Local Region with fairness to all parties. Since Local Regions within a MetaRegional Province would be cooperating with each other technically, commercially and economically the question as to which Local Region might maintain jurisdiction over a particular piece of land will not be seen in the same hyper-competitive light as would presently exist.
NATION STATE (Transitional Entity)
The Nation State must be freed from its current straight jacket of debt. Most of this recent debt was contrived and foisted upon nations through fraud--presently legal as well as presently illegal. The following describes what must be done to re-establish Nation State Sovereignty and initiative:
Nations cannot be sovereign and, at the same time, beholden to their debtors. If we really wish to see a community of nations then nation states must possess the sovereignty--legally granted them via equitable, citizen representation--to choose to enter such a confederation. Within ModelCiv, nations only enter into cooperative groupings in order to increase national economic and social viability. Nation State cooperation is natural within a system of resource, finished products and services abundance. Nations would sell their resources, at equitable prices, and the success of one nation and MetaRegion would benefit all nations and MetaRegions--within that global neighborhood and globally. Imagine the creative energy which could be released amongst the world citizenry if all nations and MetaRegions were cooperating and sharing their best organizational ideas.
ModelCiv regards the present Nation State as an ultimately transitional organism which will, eventually, give rise to fully integrated MetaRegions. But, in order for this evolution to occur, truly sovereign nation states must first be established as representative of the best interests of the common citizen within. Representative Democracy, as espoused by ModelCiv, is not strictly tied to majority rule. It is better termed "Consensus Democracy" whereby all opinions and viewpoints regarding any policy decision are equitably considered by citizen representatives organized as government. Public debates amongst citizen representatives could be held, on a regular basis, regarding policy considerations. Resultant policy decisions are then made and detailed explanation provided the public in a point-by-point format considering each and every (sensible) policy suggestion made at the grass roots level. Such written explanation as record of policy decisions
made would only be of secondary import as compared to the results of public debates. If a policy decision were proposed contrary to the sentiment which seemed to prevail within public debate on the subject then either public explanation would be required or a follow-up debate.
METAREGIONAL PROVINCE -
METAREGIONS - (see also ModelCiv Page 6 - MetaRegions)
1) Africa North
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Africa (a larger version of Africa North)
2) Africa West
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Africa
3) Africa Central
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Africa
4) Africa East
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Africa (overlap with Africa North)
5) Africa South
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_Africa
6) Europa
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Union (EU leaves out some Europa nations)
What the current EU crisis requires toward resolution is a differential, domestic investment of freely-created credit to increase the wealth production capacity of net-wealth consuming areas. Those areas of the EU already capable of a net-wealth surplus can be converted to sustainability with less urgency. Said investment must be toward the construction of Local Green Tech Infrastructure in these relatively poor areas. Once local populations are uniformly capable of producing an annual, net-wealth surplus the monetary union portion of the EU can proceed with its constructive development.
7) Russian Federation
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_Federation
This massive MetaRegion has several special advantages within the ModelCiv system. Firstly, the Russian Federation is home to the largest forested area on planet earth. Maintenance of this forest's existence and health is absolutely vital to sequestering significant atmospheric carbon and preventing a climate catastrophe. Within ModelCiv the existence of the Russian Forest would represent active wealth value--recognized as a vital Earth Preserve whose existence must be protected, whatever the cost.
The western portion of Russian Federation still maintains a massive greenhouse agricultural capacity.
Massive potential for Self Sufficient Settlement construction--cold-climate design.
8) Asia Southwest
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southwest_Asia
Currently the toughest area on earth in which to create stability and peace, Asia Southwest will greatly benefit from a new, global emphasis upon Free Energy. Middle East petroleum reserves would still be of high value but this value would be best safeguarded by not wasting petroleum as a combustible fuel but instead, keeping reserves intact for future, non-combustible industrial needs.
9) Asia Central
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Asia
10) Asia South
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Asia
11) Asia East
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Asia
12) Asia Southeast
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southeast_Asia (includes Asia Southeast Maritime)
13) Asia Southeast Maritime
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brunei
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Timor
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indonesia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malaysia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippines
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singapore
14) Australia--New Zealand
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Zealand
15) Melanesia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melanesia
16) Micronesia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micronesia
17) Polynesia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polynesia
18) Canada
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada
19) USA
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States
20) Mexico
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexico
21) Central America
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_America
22) Caribbean
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caribbean
23) South America--North
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_South_America
24) South America--West
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bolivia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecuador
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peru
25) Brazil
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brazil
26) South America--South
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_South_America
B) ACTIVE NEWS ARCHIVE - start: 03-31-2013
12-30-2013
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/dec/29/drones-us-military?CMP=twt_gu
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/12/30/chinese-farmland-polluted_n_4517601.html?ref=topbar (copy + paste)
http://oilprice.com/Geopolitics/Asia/Freed-from-Prison-Russian-Energy-Oligarch-Khodorkovsky-Flies-to-Germany.html
12-24-2013
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-12-24/year-later-bundesbank-has-repatriated-only-37-tons-gold-700-total (c + p)
In response to the US decision to deploy ABM systems in Europe, the Russian Defense Ministry has confirmed its deployment of "short-range Iskander missiles" to Kaliningrad:
http://www.blacklistednews.com/US_to_deploy_ABM_systems_in_Europe_despite_P5%2B1_deal_with_Iran/31266/0/38/38/Y/M.html (c + p)
http://www.fas.org/nuke/guide/russia/theater/ss-26.htm (copy + paste)
12-22-2013
12-21-2013
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-12-21/hidden-motives-behind-federal-reserve-taper (please copy + paste)
12-19-2013
http://www.occupycorporatism.com/pitchfork-protests-italians-demand-gov-resignation/ (c + p)
12-16-2013
http://www.theautomaticearth.com/ragnarok-iceland-doom-gods-2/ (please copy + paste) - An extensive explanation of Iceland's 2008 banking crisis, the requisite response by Iceland's government and people, the EU response and current situation.
12-06-2013
http://news.goldseek.com/GoldenJackass/1386350553.php (please copy + paste)
12-01-2013
http://truth-out.org/video/item/20354-tepco-downplays-huge-risks-involved-in-removing-fukushima-fuel-rods (c + p) - a short interview with Arnie Gunderson regarding the dangers of Tokyo Electric's removal of spent fuel rods from Fukushima Daiichi Unit 4.
11-26-2013
http://kingworldnews.com/kingworldnews/KWN_DailyWeb/Entries/2013/11/25_Another_Terrifying_Black_Swan_Is_Headed_Our_Way.html
(please copy + paste)
11-22-2013 (please cut and paste any article address in NEWS ARCHIVE after 11-01-2013)
http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archives/china-announces-that-it-is-going-to-stop-stockpiling-u-s-dollars
http://www.blacklistednews.com/China_Announces_That_It_Is_Going_To_Stop_Stockpiling_U.S._Dollars/30545/0/0/0/Y/M.html
http://kingworldnews.com/kingworldnews/KWN_DailyWeb/Entries/2013/11/22_Money_Supply_Skyrocketing_As_China_Abandons_US_Dollar.html
08-06-2013
http://intellihub.com/2013/06/13/chipotle-becomes-first-us-restaurant-chain-to-voluntarily-label-gmos/
http://intellihub.com/2013/08/06/31-percent-of-u-s-honey-bees-were-wiped-out-this-year-who-will-pollinate-our-crops/
05-29-2013
Japan’s Big Money Printing Gamble
http://www.marketoracle.co.uk/Article40650.html
05-27-2013
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-05-27/40-frightening-facts-fall-us-economy
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-05-27/russia-greece-turkey-other-central-banks-buy-gold-china%E2%80%99s-pboc-buying
http://www.zerohedge.com/contributed/2013-05-27/war-racket
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-05-27/mapping-bitcoins-global-adoption
05-26-2013
"Europe Can't Beat The Bubble, Past Sins And Future Debts"
http://www.marketoracle.co.uk/Article40610.html
05-25-2013
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-05-25/bill-black-our-system-so-flawed-fraud-mathematically-guaranteed (contains 58 min. interview)
05-23-2013
http://www.safehaven.com/article/29916/gold-and-silver
05-16-2013
"U.S. Dollar Collapse and Japan’s Sham Currency War"
http://www.marketoracle.co.uk/Article40475.html
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-05-16/10-perspectives-slow-agonizing-death-american-worker
05-14-2013
http://www.blacklistednews.com/10_Scenes_From_The_Economic_Collapse_That_Is_Sweeping_Across_The_Planet/25974/0/38/38/Y/M.html
05-13-2013
http://kingworldnews.com/kingworldnews/KWN_DailyWeb/Entries/2013/5/10_Maguire_-_Perfect_Storm_In_Gold_As_LBMA_%26_COMEX_Collapsing.html
05-09-2013
http://bullmarketthinking.com/world-bank-whistle-blower-precious-metals-to-serve-as-an-underpinning-for-paper-currencies/
"Nether-Crumble, Part 2: The Meme Spreads" (re. Netherlands debt levels)
http://www.acting-man.com/?p=23107#more-23107
05-08-2013
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-05-08/chinese-gold-imports-soar-monthly-record-insatiable-demand
05-02-2013
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-05-02/bank-ireland-doubles-mortgage-rates-homeowners-fear-more-come
04-30-2013
"Financial Treachery & Harsh Consequences"
http://news.goldseek.com/GoldenJackass/1367352000.php
04-25-2013
http://dollarcollapse.com/precious-metals/catherine-austin-fitts-another-gold-smackdown-coming/
http://bullmarketthinking.com/major-indian-gold-dealer-there-is-a-clear-fight-going-in-procuring-metal-as-early-as-possible/
http://www.kitco.com/ind/AuthenticMoney/2013-04-25-Better-Safe-Haven-Switzerland-or-Canada.html
"Comex Physical Drain Accelerates--With Over 7.8B Disappearing From All Depositories"
http://bullmarketthinking.com/comex-physical-drain-accelerates-with-over-7-8b-disappearing-from-all-depositories/
04-22-2013
"Japan Steps into the Void" - Peter Schiff, Euro Pacific Capital, Inc.
http://www.321gold.com/editorials/schiff/schiff042213.html
04-15-2013
Former Portuguese Prime Minister Says "Portugal Cannot Pay Its Debts", Calls for "Argentine-Style Default"
http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com/2013/04/former-portuguese-prime-minister-says.html
"The END GAME Has Commenced"
http://www.silverseek.com/article/end-game-has-commenced-10961
"Gold in the Crosshairs"
http://www.kitco.com/ind/Schiff/20130415.html
"Gold Trader: Expect Margin Calls Monday Morning As Big Players Do Whatever It Takes To Get Physical Metal."
http://bullmarketthinking.com/gold-trader-expect-margin-calls-monday-morning-as-big-players-do-whatever-it-takes-to-get-physical-metal/
"Silver Prices, Inflation and Living With the Long Term" Dr. Jeffrey Lewis| April 12, 2013 - 11:39am
http://www.silverseek.com/commentary/silver-prices-inflation-and-living-long-term-10916
04-11-2013
"Carmen Reinhart: 'No Doubt. Our Pensions Are Screwed.' "
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-04-11/carmen-reinhart-no-doubt-our-pensions-are-screwed
04-09-2013
"Bitcoins or Gold? Part I"
http://www.zerohedge.com/contributed/2013-04-09/bitcoins-or-gold-part-i
04-08-2013
"Cypriot Chaos Assists EU Centralization"
http://www.safehaven.com/article/29421/cypriot-chaos-assists-eu-centralization
"Where Do The Rich And Poor Live?"
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-04-08/where-do-rich-and-poor-live
"80% Chance Of 40% Silver Short Squeeze"
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-04-08/80-chance-40-silver-short-squeeze
04-07-2013
"Money Flows In To Gold & Silver Are About To Skyrocket"
http://kingworldnews.com/kingworldnews/KWN_DailyWeb/Entries/2013/4/6_Money_Flows_In_To_Gold_%26_Silver_Are_About_To_Skyrocket.html
"Sinclair - Stunning Shift In US Government & Fed Gold Policy"
http://kingworldnews.com/kingworldnews/KWN_DailyWeb/Entries/2013/4/7_Sinclair_-_Stunning_Shift_In_US_Government_%26_Fed_Gold_Policy.html
04-05-2013
"Art Cashin - Aftermath of Cyprus, Fear, Contagion & Crisis"
http://kingworldnews.com/kingworldnews/KWN_DailyWeb/Entries/2013/4/5_Art_Cashin_-_Aftermath_of_Cyprus,_Fear,_Contagion_%26_Crisis.html
"Sinclair: 'This Will Create The Mother Of All Financial Crises' "
http://kingworldnews.com/kingworldnews/KWN_DailyWeb/Entries/2013/4/5_Sinclair_-_This_Will_Create_The_Mother_Of_All_Financial_Crises.html
"Global Deposit Confiscation Called For By Influential CEO Of Italy's Largest Bank"
http://www.zerohedge.com/contributed/2013-04-05/global-deposit-confiscation-called-influential-ceo-italys-largest-bank
"George Soros Warns 'Central Banks Are Creating Financial Instability' "
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-04-05/george-soros-warns-central-banks-are-creating-financial-instability
"Oh No! Is It Possible? A 3rd Irish Bank With Hidden Charges Not Revealed In Its Annual Reports?"
http://www.zerohedge.com/contributed/2013-04-05/oh-no-it-possible-3rd-irish-bank-hidden-charges-not-revealed-its-annual-repor
"Spark That Will Send The World Into A Hyperinflationary Spiral"
http://kingworldnews.com/kingworldnews/KWN_DailyWeb/Entries/2013/4/5_Spark_That_Will_Send_The_World_Into_A_Hyperinflationary_Spiral.html
04-04-2013
"ZIRP (0%) is Not Stimulus, Rather a Death Knell"
http://news.goldseek.com/GoldenJackass/1365105720.php
"Desperate Countries To Accelerate Private Wealth Destruction"
http://kingworldnews.com/kingworldnews/KWN_DailyWeb/Entries/2013/4/4_Desperate_Countries_To_Accelerate_Private_Wealth_Destruction.html
"Former US Treasury Official - The Fed Is Facing A Wipeout"
http://kingworldnews.com/kingworldnews/KWN_DailyWeb/Entries/2013/4/4_Former_US_Treasury_Official_-_The_Fed_Is_Facing_A_Wipeout.html
"CEO Of Italy's Largest Bank Says Haircuts Of Uninsured Depositors 'Acceptable', Should Become A Template"
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-04-04/ceo-italys-largest-bank-says-haircuts-uninsured-depositors-acceptable-should-become-
"A Ton Of Gold Bricks: What Capital Flight Looks Like In Italy"
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-04-04/ton-gold-bricks-what-capital-flight-looks-italy
"Mapping The Witch-Hunt Of The World's Offshore Bank Account Holders"
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-04-04/mapping-witch-hunt-worlds-offshore-bank-account-holders
"MF Global Trustee Speaks: It Was All Corzine's Fault"
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-04-04/mf-global-trustee-speaks-it-was-all-corzines-fault
"Celente - Powerful, Destructive Big Bank Holiday Coming"
http://kingworldnews.com/kingworldnews/KWN_DailyWeb/Entries/2013/4/4_Celente_-_Powerful_%26_Destructive_Big_Bank_Holiday_Coming.html
04-03-2013
"Former US Treasury Official - Fed Desperate To Save System"
http://kingworldnews.com/kingworldnews/KWN_DailyWeb/Entries/2013/4/3_Former_US_Treasury_Official_-_Fed_Desperate_To_Save_System.html
04-02-2013
"The Untrustworthy and the Trustful"
http://cluborlov.blogspot.com/2013/04/the-untrustworthy-and-trustful.html
"Stockman On Bernanke's Actions: 'The Ultimate Consequence Will Be A Train-Wreck' "
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-04-02/stockman-bernankes-actions-ultimate-consequence-will-be-train-wreck
"One Of Ireland's Biggest Banks Busted Fudging The Books? Nah! Busted Concealing Debt? Nah! Busted.. Cyprus Was Just The Preamble"
http://www.zerohedge.com/contributed/2013-04-02/one-irelands-biggest-banks-busted-fudging-books-nah-busted-concealing-debt-na
"Holland: 'An Economy On The Brink' "
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-04-02/holland-economy-brink
"System Designed To Collapse Ahead Of New World Currency"
http://kingworldnews.com/kingworldnews/KWN_DailyWeb/Entries/2013/4/2_System_Designed_To_Collapse_Ahead_Of_New_World_Currency.html
"West Much Closer To Collapse As Gold War Continues To Rage"
http://kingworldnews.com/kingworldnews/KWN_DailyWeb/Entries/2013/4/2_West_Much_Closer_To_Collapse_As_Gold_War_Continues_To_Rage.html
"Coming Financial Collapse Moved Up A Notch Post Cyprus"
http://kingworldnews.com/kingworldnews/KWN_DailyWeb/Entries/2013/4/2_Coming_Financial_Collapse_Moved_Up_A_Notch_Post_Cyprus.html
04-01-2013
"USDollar: Ring-Fenced & Checkmate"
http://news.goldseek.com/GoldenJackass/1364846400.php
"For Cyprus, The Pain Is Only Just Starting"
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-04-01/cyprus-pain-only-just-starting
"The European Crisis is now accelerating right as Germany becomes increasingly uninterested in funding bailouts"
http://www.zerohedge.com/contributed/2013-04-01/european-crisis-now-accelerating-right-germany-becomes-increasingly-uninteres
"Bitcoin Hits $101 - Doubles Since Cyprus"
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-04-01/bitcoin-hits-101-doubles-cyprus
"Barons of Bitcoin: the Tokyo-based powerhouse that controls the world's virtual money"
http://www.theverge.com/2013/4/1/4154500/mt-gox-barons-of-bitcoin
"Sinclair - Something Has Western Central Banks Terrified"
http://kingworldnews.com/kingworldnews/KWN_DailyWeb/Entries/2013/4/1_Sinclair_-_Something_Has_Western_Central_Banks_Terrified.html
"This Will Signal The Final Collapse & End Game Has Started"
http://kingworldnews.com/kingworldnews/KWN_DailyWeb/Entries/2013/4/1_This_Will_Signal_The_Final_Collapse_%26_End_Game_Has_Started.html
03-31-2013
" ‘Challenging the dollar’: Bitcoin total value tops $1 billion"
http://rt.com/news/bitcoin-challenge-dollar-currency-121/
"How Cyprus Exposed The Fundamental Flaw Of Fractional Reserve Banking"
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-03-31/visualization-modern-fractional-reserve-banking-and-how-cyprus-fits
"David Stockman: 'We've Been Lied To, Robbed, And Misled' "
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-03-31/david-stockman-weve-been-lied-robbed-and-misled
"Tom Hoenig: 'This System Distorts The Market And Turns Appropriate Risk-Taking Into Recklessness' "
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-03-31/tom-hoenig-system-distorts-market-and-turns-appropriate-risk-taking-recklessness
"Guest Post: Debt-Slavery For Dummies"
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-03-31/guest-post-debt-slavery-dummies
"Thanks, World Reserve Currency, But No Thanks: Australia And China To Enable Direct Currency Convertibility"
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-03-31/thanks-world-reserve-currency-no-thanks-australia-and-china-enable-direct-currency-c
"Forget too-big-to-fail Instead Kill the Fractional Reserve Banking System"
http://www.marketoracle.co.uk/Article39727.html
"The Confiscation of Savings in Canada? Cyprus-Style “Bail-Ins” Proposed by Ottawa Government"
http://www.globalresearch.ca/the-confiscation-of-savings-in-canada-cyprus-style-bail-ins-proposed-by-ottawa-government/5329263
MACRO ANALYSIS
"Financial Treachery & Harsh Consequences" 4-30-13
http://news.goldseek.com/GoldenJackass/1367352000.php
"Cypriot Chaos Assists EU Centralization" 4-8-13
http://www.safehaven.com/article/29421/cypriot-chaos-assists-eu-centralization
"ZIRP (0%) is Not Stimulus, Rather a Death Knell" 4-4-13
http://news.goldseek.com/GoldenJackass/1365105720.php
"USDollar: Ring-Fenced & Checkmate" 4-1-13
http://news.goldseek.com/GoldenJackass/1364846400.php
"Revealed – the capitalist network that runs the world" 10-24-11
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21228354.500-revealed--the-capitalist-network-that-runs-the-world.html
C) INACTIVE NEWS ARCHIVES
NEWS ARCHIVE - start: 03-28-2013 end: 03-30-2013
Banking
03-30-2013 "Banks Win Again As Judge Tosses Antitrust Claims In Libor Lawsuit"
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-03-30/banks-win-again-judge-tosses-antitrust-claims-libor-lawsuit
03-29-2013 "The Most Dangerous & Potentially Fatal Gamble In History"
http://kingworldnews.com/kingworldnews/KWN_DailyWeb/Entries/2013/3/29_The_Most_Dangerous_%26_Potentially_Fatal_Gamble_In_History.html
03-29-2013 "It Can Happen Here: The Bank Confiscation Scheme for US and UK Depositors"
http://www.globalresearch.ca/it-can-happen-here-the-bank-confiscation-scheme-for-us-and-uk-depositors/5328954
Cyprus
03-30-2013 "Cyprus Changed Everything, How To Safeguard Your Money"
http://kingworldnews.com/kingworldnews/KWN_DailyWeb/Entries/2013/3/31_Cyprus_Changed_Everything%2C_How_To_Safeguard_Your_Money.html
03-30-2013 "Political Fallout Begins: Former Cyprus President Named In Loan Write-Offs Leading To Banking Insolvency"
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-03-30/political-fallout-begins-former-cyprus-president-named-loan-write-offs-leading-banki
03-29-2013 "Caught In The Cyprus Crossfire: Small Businesses Suddenly With Zero Cash"
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-03-29/caught-cyprus-crossfire-small-businesses-suddenly-zero-cash
03-29-2013 "I Went To Sleep Friday A Rich Man, I Woke Up Poor"
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-03-29/i-went-sleep-friday-rich-man-i-woke-poor
03-28-2013 "10%... 40%... Now An 80% Confiscation Scheme?"
http://www.zerohedge.com/contributed/2013-03-28/10-40-now-80-confiscation-scheme
03-27-2013 "A Comment on Jeroen Dijsselbloem and a few Charts"
http://www.acting-man.com/?p=22383
03-26-2013 "Bangs and Whimpers"
http://cluborlov.blogspot.com/2013/03/bangs-and-whimpers.html#more
European Union
03-26-2013 "The Axe is in Position, Only the Timing of the Swing is in Question"
http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com/2013/03/the-axe-is-in-position-only-timing-of.html
Gold
03-29-2013 "The Chess Game of Capital Controls"
http://www.caseyresearch.com/articles/chess-game-capital-controls
Iceland
03-27-2013 "Iceland offers hard lessons for Cyprus on capital controls"
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/03/27/us-eurozone-cyprus-iceland-idUSBRE92Q0HN20130327
Japan
03-22-2013 "The Government Debt Situation Japan: A Catastrophe Waiting To Happen"
http://goldsilverworlds.com/gold-silver-general/the-government-debt-situation-japan-a-catastrophe-waiting-to-happen/
Slovenia
03-25-2013 "Slovenia Under Pressure; Risk of Next Cyprus Already at Hand"
http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com/2013/03/slovenia-under-pressure-risk-of-next.html
World Economy
03-28-2013 "What We Are Now Seeing Is Unprecedented In World History"
http://kingworldnews.com/kingworldnews/KWN_DailyWeb/Entries/2013/3/28_What_We_Are_Now_Seeing_Is_Unprecedented_In_World_History.html
03-22-2013 "Economic Collape of the Something for Nothing Societies!"
http://www.marketoracle.co.uk/Article39596.html
NEWS ARCHIVE - start: 10-23-2012 end: 03-28-2013
03-28-2013 "If You Don't Own your Bank Deposit, Do you Own your Gold? Is it too, Vulnerable to a 'Cyprus Event.'?"
http://www.safehaven.com/article/29308/if-you-dont-own-your-bank-deposit-do-you-own-your-gold-is-it-too-vulnerable-to-a-cyprus-event
03-27-2013 "Autopsy of a Dead Market"
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-03-27/autopsy-dead-market
03-27-2013 "Santelli On The End Of Paper Gold's Reign"
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-03-27/santelli-end-paper-golds-reign
03-27-2013 "BRICS to form Development Bank"
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/27/world/africa/brics-to-form-development-bank.html
03-27-2013 "New BRICS bank to rival World Bank, IMF"
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2013/03/26/295322/new-brics-bank-to-rival-world-bank-imf/
03-06-2013 "Raging Gold Bull & Disputed Propaganda
http://news.goldseek.com/GoldenJackass/1362603600.php
03-04-2013 "Swiss Voters Approve Limits on ‘Fat Cat’ Executive Pay"
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-03-03/swiss-voters-set-limits-on-ceo-paychecks-sf1-projections.html
03-03-2013 "CURRENCY WARS: Belligerent Bullies"
http://www.gordontlong.com/Articles/art-2013-03-CW-Belligerent_Bullies.htm
03-04-2013 "You Are What You Click: On Microtargeting"
http://www.thenation.com/article/172887/you-are-what-you-click-microtargeting#
02-27-2013 "Gritty Questions on the Historic Collapse"
http://news.goldseek.com/GoldenJackass/1361998800.php
02-07-2013 "Pitched Currency War & USDollar Rejection"
http://news.goldseek.com/GoldenJackass/1360270800.php
02-06-2013 "Billionaires Dumping Stocks, Economist Knows Why"
http://www.moneynews.com/MKTNews/billionaires-dump-economist-stock/2012/08/29/id/450265?PROMO_CODE=110D8-1&utm_source=taboola
10-23-2012 "Eleven EU nations get go-ahead on 'Robin Hood' finance tax"
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5iocqnuwHrXvrOSuNYLt-cgPzjqfw?docId=CNG.f57961c5283e9342673162e0c8492940.4c1
CYPRUS
03-28-2013 "If You Don't Own your Bank Deposit, Do you Own your Gold? Is it too, Vulnerable to a 'Cyprus Event.'?"
http://www.safehaven.com/article/29308/if-you-dont-own-your-bank-deposit-do-you-own-your-gold-is-it-too-vulnerable-to-a-cyprus-event
03-27-2013 "Cypriot EUR Price Parity"
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-03-27/cypriot-eur-price-parity
03-26-2013 "The Axe is in Position, Only the Timing of the Swing is in Question"
http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com/2013/03/the-axe-is-in-position-only-timing-of.html
03-20-2013 Guest Post: "Will The Banking Meltdown In Cyprus Be A “Lehman Brothers Moment” For All Of Europe?"
http://www.blacklistednews.com/Guest_Post%3A_Will_The_Banking_Meltdown_In_Cyprus_Be_A_%E2%809CLehman_Brothers_Moment%E2%80%9D_For_All_Of_Europe%3F/24841/0/38/38/Y/M.html
D) "THE DEATH AND LIFE OF GREAT AMERICAN CITIES" (1961) by JANE JACOBS
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Jacobs
Street and Sidewalk Society
Small Businesses and Pedestrian Travel
Local Diversity and Pedestrian Travel
Selective and Limited Urban Renovation
Conservation of Social Context and Content: City Neighborhoods
Jane Jacobs believes, from extensive observation, that city neighborhoods should be selectively improved and that key to such improvement is keeping intact the families and people living within any particular city neighborhood. Means to neighborhood improvement would consist of selective removal of dilapidated buildings which, in the case of apartments, would be replaced by an apartment building designed to accommodate those former inhabitants of the building being replaced. Ms. Jacobs is, in all instances, against the wholesale destruction of entire neighborhoods - even when designated as ghetto - and in favor of selective, building by building assessments and subsequent replacement of only those buildings incapable of renovation. Ms. Jacobs observed that the construction of large apartment complexes as ghetto replacement only created a great increase of poverty and crime as such complexes were normally devoid of the social policing that takes place on healthy neighborhood sidewalks and streets.
Ms. Jacobs created the science of healthy city operation. The critical element regarding social policing and neighborhood safety was the regular use of city streets and sidewalks. Streets frequented by pedestrians throughout the day and into the night due to people having reason to travel said streets are, in nearly all cases, safe. But pedestrians cannot be forced to frequent streets they have no interest in using due to a lack of interesting and profitable places to go. This is why Jacobs emphasizes the conservation of properly functioning neighborhood streets and sidewalks and is so against the artificial constructs of city planners which do not take into account the aformentioned factors.
The creation of model cities or "garden cities" where inhabitants are simply inserted into artificially-created neighborhoods in order to create communities are, in all cases, failures in Ms. Jacobs' estimation. For any city or neighborhood to function properly it has to develop organically over time. The people living in real cities and neighborhoods enact a complex social and economic interaction within their communities which determines where people live and what businesses they might initiate or become involved with through daily interaction. This organic growth and operation of city districts cannot be pre-planned, pre-packaged or built in isolation from all the social interaction which goes into city functioning and formation.
E) WORLDGREENPLAN.COM (1999-2001) - edited excerpts
Note: The following are excerpts from the author's former website, WORLDGREENPLAN.COM. These articles have been edited from their original form. All excerpt selections attempt to illustrate some of the underlying concepts animating MODELCIV.COM.
WORLDGREENPLAN.COM:
THE NEED FOR CHANGE
Is it realistic to assume that all of our centralized systems will never have major, civilization-threatening breakdowns? Any mathematician, objectively assessing present conditions, would tell you that the odds of such a breakdown increase daily. So long as we do not address the need to convert our world industries and social organization toward sustainability, we tempt fate and mathematical certainty.
Artificially-centralized systems eventually break down. History teaches us this. No amount of technology or centralized power can defeat this principle. Man is not above the Universe. To study the effect of earthquakes on present-day, population centers makes plain the fragility of much of our urban and industrial infrastructure. With populations fully dependent upon the delivery of remote resources for their daily survival the dangers are obvious.
It would be best to dismantle current, centralized systems in orderly fashion so that component parts can be re-incorporated into a new and resilient structural organization (ie. locally-based and biospherically-sustainable). If we do not make the pro-active decisions necessary to effect an orderly change then the physical limits of our Biosphere and the Karmic limits of our Universe will scatter our current constructions in a random manner.
The prime object of human industry and social organization should be to produce species survivability in tandem with exquisite culture. Species survivability cannot presently be separated from environmentally sustainable practice. At this point in the game, with all the degradation of earth's biosphere that has been occurring for decades and centuries we, as a species, would be foolhardy to presuppose the indefinite support of Earth in our misadventures. A time is coming soon when the accumulation of all past deeds becomes manifest. Heaven help our species if we do not make a progressive move soon.
POPULATION STABILIZATION
The traditional village life of indigenous peoples is conducive to population stability. Since local resources are limited any tribe or nationality which has occupied the same area for hundreds of years has, of necessity, developed a working relationship between human numbers and resource availability. Such a relationship would be ingrained in each societal member--as part of their culture.
We must acknowledge that birth control methods have thusly been worked out and utilized by so-called 'Primitive Peoples' as well as the appropriate societal context for sexual relations. Traditional cultures do not sweep this issue under the rug as it is vital to their survival. It would seem that civilized man could well take a lesson from these indigenous cultures (however few may still exist).
Sadly, any culture stuffed into the confines of a low-rent district cannot operate. Traditional cultures were developed within the lands that bore them. Take away a people's land and once living culture becomes a subject for book study.
People stuffed into cities with no hope excepting to prolong their survival are akin to mice in an overpopulation experiment. In attempting to survive, any creature will seek the most basic of methods and so the poor bear children in hopes that some of their offspring will survive them and care for them in their old age. Such a survival strategy is surely more favored by men than women. In hopes of avoiding a world population catastrophe we must free women in poverty from the enslavement of bearing child after child.
The establishment of Community Economies with their requisite, local Green Tech Infrastructures will bring back the spirit and functionality of traditional village life and re-create culture with direct connections to the lands that bear us. Once sufficient wealth is enjoyed within each family unit the focus of parents worldwide would be to put maximum energy, love and intelligence into raising any child they might bring forth. Many couples, realizing the current crisis on our planet, will choose to devote their lives to careers and so will have no children. We must rely on education and human conscience to create a new and practical culture in this regard.
It would be simple for national governments to encourage a voluntary limitation of family size by denying tax credits for any more than two children per family. Such tax law would be enforced with social equity. True and universal education as to the present social and ecologic plight of our planet would transform the public conscience to one focussed upon solving real problems. People can all learn to work together when they are enjoying the total benefits thereof. Co-operation is contagious and it must be the role of NatGovs to create this socially-constructive contagion. Social and economic conditions can be architectured to accomplish exactly this.
RESOURCE CREATION
This term refers to the capacity of Green Technology Devices to create regular or continuous excess wealth. The idea is that once the Green Production Capacity is built that it will produce wealth value in excess of the resources required to produce said wealth value. Once a Green Technology Device is built it produces wealth out of all proportion to the resources required to construct and operate it. Thusly resources are created rather than consumed through Green Industries and our biosphere is enabled to repair itself.
The prime example of Resource Creation, I would say, is Cold Fusion excess heat generation. Within a beaker of hydrogen-enriched seawater palladium-alloyed beads are placed. Next an anode and cathode are inserted into the water medium of our beaker. An electric current is now run into the seawater through anode and cathode and when this current achieves the sufficent threshold value, a truly strange reaction occurs. The electric current evidently frees up molecular hydrogen from the seawater and this begins to concentrate upon the surfaces of the palladium-alloy beads at the bottom of the beaker--palladium possessing the quality of thusly concentrating hydrogen molecules. Once the concentration of hydrogen is sufficient on the surfaces of the palladium alloy neutron to neutron interaction causes the hydrogen molecules to vibrate. With the threshold electrical input maintained the degree of hydrogen molecule vibration reaches such a level that
excess heat energy thousands of times greater than the threshold electical value is produced. With a conversion of this heat into electricity (through boiler or turbine) a feedback loop could be devised to continuously provide the reaction with the threshold electrical input required to sustain it. The tremendous excess energy produced by Cold Fusion (ie. minus the threshold value needed to maintain the reaction) could power towns and cities without a continuous expenditure of resources.
The beauty of Cold Fusion is that the "reaction" is not a chemical reaction at all. It's a reaction within the future realm of physics or electrochemistry that no one can presently find the science to explain. Since no chemical reaction occurs in Cold Fusion and the reaction simply consists of a vibration of hydrogen molecules (nuclei) which have accumulated upon a palladium-alloy surface--there are no chemical byproducts! Not only does this reaction not pollute but one need not even replenish any material in the beaker to maintain the continuous flow of excess heat energy! It's really rather breathtaking in its implications.
Taking Cold Fusion as a technical reality ModelCiv would project the eventual recycling of all usable palladium from now antiquated catalytic converters to be incorporated into Cold Fusion Power Plant construction.
FREE ENERGY ATMOSPHERIC CRAFT
http://discaircraft.greyfalcon.us/Viktor%20Schauberger.htm
Viktor Schauberger, formerly of Austria, purportedly designed and built a "Flying Disk" which used Vortex Engine Technology--a technology which he originated and first used to build a Water Engine in 1930's Austria. Mr. Schauberger's Flying Disk applied the vortex engine principle to atmospheric air rather than water. This craft was built to his specifications by an Austrian firm in 1940.
Vortex Engine Technology, as applied to the Flying Disk, works in this way. The power plant is central to the disk and intakes air through vents on the upper surface of the craft and possibly at 180 degree opposite ends--in the disk's sides. Atmospheric air, now within the power plant, is forced through a series of vortice-producing tubes which cause a requisite drop in the air's temperature with a resultant collapse of air volume. Air volume collapses so precipitously with air temperature drop that a strong vacuum is created in the atmosphere adjacent to the intake ducts. This vacuum then draws the craft upward and/or forward--depending upon which ducts are activated for intake. This is very much as an aircraft wing is drawn upward into the vacuum created by its curved upper surface.
The original Flying Disk was 20 centemeters in diameter and reportedly generated tremendous lift. According to Mr. Schauberger's calculation and with a rotational velocity of 20.000 RPM the 20 cm disk could lift 228 tonnes. Forced to work on a larger version of his aircraft for the German war machine during World War 2, Schauberger was unsuccessful in producing an operational version--largely due to his desire not to create such a war machine but also due to his inability to create a braking device for the craft.
ModelCiv would really have fun with this one. To see national fleets of Free Energy Flying Disks replacing the airliners of today and, being supplemented by aerospace company private production of the same craft, future air travel would not only be more interesting but more safe.
CURRENT LEADERSHIP
Business and political leaders are often fully caught up in trying to maintain their positions under trying and rather chaotic conditions. If I often have to worry about keeping my job then that's a great deal less that I can concentrate on doing my job. What we all need, from business and political leaders all the way to the person on the street, is some stability from which we might presently progress. This whole idea of getting something for nothing and also, accumulation through disappropriation--these are strategies for career furtherance currently receiving the approbation they so richly deserve. Wouldn't it be best for any individual to disassociate themselves from such socially abhorent behavior and seek what they know to be ethical--such as shall be institutionally self-evident in our near future? Wouldn't we all like to be on the correct side of history?
MOVIE MYTHOLOGY
Somehow in motion pictures the good guy always wins--right? No matter what the peril, our hero or heroine not only manages to survive but actually defeats a seemingly overwhelming evil. Although it's only fiction, this repeated exaggeration and our sub-conscious identification
with it must have some personal effect. Can the "Good Guy" ever lose?
In the real world there can also be happy endings but here, evil is a more elusive foe--often of our own creation. Presently there are many problems with the operation of our technical civilization which, left to run their course, would not result in a happy ending for humanity or the biosphere. But somehow everything will work out in the end...right?
Happy endings are possible in the real world only when we make our best efforts in areas possible for accomplishment. When we put forth sincere work and attempt to sense our own internal guidance--our Higher Selves--then the products of our labor come to have permanence in the Universe. When we repeatedly put forth such effort our deeds accumulate and begin to effect the world around us in an ever more powerful way. In this manner, physically separate but in spiritual unison, individuals can bring about a happy ending to the current historical epoch.
WORLDGREENPLAN.COM HOME PAGE - APRIL, 2001:
Welcome to WORLDGREENPLAN.COM
OBJECTIVES OF WORLD GREEN PLAN:
1) To promote world peace through the creation of local prosperity which, in turn, is protected by national and international law.
2) To establish the concept of a Global Transition Plan.
3) To promote the concept of citizen self-sufficiency.
4) To promote bioregional economic and social organization.
5) To explore and expand the implications of economic democracy.
6) To promote the formation of sustainable industries worldwide.
1)VS-A 2)SSF 3)CE 4)HTE 5)GC 6)FS 7)VS-B 8)FI-A 9)FI-B 10)FO 11)HO 12)HP
SOLUTION CATEGORIES 1-12...WGP RESEARCH CENTER...RELATED WEB SITES BY THE AUTHOR
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Introduction:
Green plans are transition tools whose object is the sustainable conversion of current industries. Conventional green plans seek the production of sustainable wealth within particular cities, states, provinces and countries.
World Green Plan has as its ambitious goal the sustainable conversion of all essential earth industries in a co-ordinated and concurrent manner. The creation of local and regional systems of sustainable wealth production in tandem with complimentary economic and governmental organization would see this achieved--but such an achievement would depend upon investment priorities. Should we continue the replication of bio-destructive technologies or might we instead choose to manufacture sustainable technology devices creating wealth for every earth citizen?
The execution of a Global Transition Plan could not take place without the approval of citizens, corporations and governments. Key to consensus would be public discussion groups representing these, at present, varied interests. All would hopefully acknowledge the need for global, sustainable development and subsequently suggest a plan of action.
World Green Plan (WGP) seeks to set forth one version of such a plan. It does not pretend to be infallible, but instead suggests answers to current resource-creation problems in the hope of stimulating discussion. WGP seeks to create prototypes of local, sustainable technology networks which would then produce all essential commodities required by the citizens within a neighborhood or village.
Such integrated systems of industry must sustainably produce energy, food, fiber and housing as well as handle waste conversion. The Green Technologies available to accomplish these tasks are mostly simple and can be explored within this Web site under the following article headings: Free.Energy.Devices, Water.Implosion.Engine, Spirulina.Ponds, Hydroponic.Greenhouses, Organic.Gardens, Hemp.Fiber and Solar.Aquatics. Descriptions of sustainable housing can be found in the 'Future.Settlement' section.
Green technology devices produce wealth well in excess of the resources required to drive them. They produce no polluting by-products and, in the case of Free Energy devices, actually radiate energies that are healing to the biosphere. The social and economic systems we create to feature these technologies must ensure equitable access to the tools of wealth creation by all.
Presently the spending power of nations is tied up in supporting our non-sustainable, consumption-based civilization. The money and natural resources fed into this System are inconsequential to it. Consumption is on-going since no permanent good is being created by the wealth we are thusly expending.
Conversely, if federal spending focussed upon the creation of a nation-wide system of sustainable industries in tandem with citizen self-sufficiency (including family home-ownership), a finite amount of wealth would be needed to create this. Although the initial cost would be great, the benefits would be permanent. We must envision a major shift in current spending.
The only way to solve the myriad dilemmas which presently plague our civilization is to create a New Civilization--one that is not wholly a creature of history. World Green Plan, in its finest segments, aspires to a possible new art--civilization design. Let us bring forth a system of governance and economy which enables each and every citizen to contribute intelligently as truly sound organization need not fear any new idea. Continual improvement and salient adaptation will then be the result of such a dynamic culture and economy.
Thanks for reading,
Anthony Tofanelli
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WGP'S OBJECTIVE #1:
To promote world peace through the creation of local prosperity which, in turn, is protected by national and international law.
Imagine, if you will, a global civilization where plentiful local wealth creates a superb standard of living for each and every person on our planet. Imagine also friendly relations between neighbors, communities and regions due to equal-value trading of goods and services resulting in self-sufficiency for all concerned. Such economic interdependency would eventually reach across national borders and nations would come to rely on each other in achieving self-sufficiency.
If the protection of such a co-operative system was the prime purpose of governments both national and international, then wherein would be a cause for war? National armed forces could be relegated soley to national defense while members of the military, if not defending their borders, could act as a multi-purpose pool of skilled labor helping to build sustainable, wealth-production capacity, providing disaster relief and repairing the environment.
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WORLD GREEN PLAN: SOLUTION CATEGORIES
World Green Plan focuses on solutions and currently divides itself into twelve 'Solution Categories'. Each category is a linked page whose article titles are listed below. The Solution Categories are as follows:
1) Value Shift A
___GLOBAL CHANGE SCIENCE
___NON-SUSTAINABLE CIVILIZATION
___THE NEED FOR CHANGE
___CURRENT LEADERSHIP
___RESOURCE CREATION
___NEW ECONOMY
___POPULATION STABILIZATION
___FUNDING SOURCES
___ODIOUS DEBT
___OWNERSHIP
___ILLUSORY OWNERSHIP
___MOVIE MYTHOLOGY
___12
2) Self-Sufficient Families
___HOME OWNERSHIP
___10 % INCOME TAX
___FAMILY TOGETHERNESS
___ORGANIC GARDENS
___EDUCATION
___NEIGHBORHOOD SCHOOLS
___WATER IMPLOSION ENGINE
___SOLAR AND WIND ENERGIES
___PERSONAL TRANSPORT
___MULTIPLE-UNIT RETROFIT
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3) Community Economy
___SMALL BUSINESS
___LOCAL CURRENCY
___REGIONAL CURRENCY
___REGIONAL BANKS
___COMMUNITY LANDS
___SPIRULINA PONDS
___SOLAR AQUATICS
___HYDROPONIC GREENHOUSES
___FREE ENERGY DEVICES http://www.padrak.com/ine/
___COMMUNITY POWER PLANTS
___10
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4) Heal The Earth
___SMALL-FIELD AGRICULTURE
___RESTORATION ECOLOGY
___SEED BANKS
___HEMP FIBER
___WASTELAND SETTLEMENT
___BIODYNAMIC SOIL CREATION
___REFORESTATION
___GROUNDWATER RECHARGE
___ATMOSPHERIC REMEDIATION
___OCEAN REMEDIATION
___BIOSPHERIC STABILITY
___11
5) Green Cities
___URBAN POWER PLANTS
___URBAN AGRICULTURE
___SUSTAINABLE BUILDINGS
___SEWAGE CONVERSION
___GREENBELT GARDENS
___PEDESTRIAN MALLS
___REGIONAL TRADE CENTER
___REGIONAL LAW CENTER
___URBAN/INTERURBAN TRANSPORT
___URBAN ECOLOGY
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6) Future Settlement
___GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS http://www.geo.ed.ac.uk/home/giswww.html
___SETTLEMENT PATTERNS
___ARID LAND TECH
___EARTHSHIPS
___SELF-SUFFICIENT COLONIES
___STRAW BALE CONSTRUCTION
___MICROLIVESTOCK
___MINI-TOWERS
___MINI-CITY
___WATER SUPPLY
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7) Value Shift B
___MILITARY AFFAIRS
___PEOPLE OR MACHINES?
___CORPORATE CONVERSION
___GREEN TAXES
___DEAD-END TECHNOLOGIES
___TEMPORARY PRODUCTION
___RESOURCE SOVEREIGNTY
___INDIGENOUS INTEGRITY
___LOCAL ACCESS NATIONAL TELEVISION
___MANDATORY POLITICAL DEBATE
___URGENT PLEA
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8) Future Industry A
___MINERAL RECYCLING
___PLEXIGLASS PRODUCTION
___GREENHOUSE CONSTRUCTION
___INDUSTRIAL HEMP PRODUCTS
___LOCAL FISH PRODUCTION
___HUMAN SETTLEMENT CONSTRUCTION
___SOLAR OVENS http://www.sunoven.com
___DESALINIZATION
___OCEAN WATER PURIFICATION
___SOLAR ARCHITECTURE
___SMART WINDOWS
___FULL-SPECTRUM LIGHTING
___PHOTO-CHAT
___GLOBAL HOME EXCHANGE
___HYDROGEN-FUELED AUTOS http://www.monito.com/wankel/hydrogen.html....http://www.clean-air.org/aceproject.htm
___ELECTRIC TRAINS
___AIRSHIPS
___ANTI-GRAVITY + FREE ENERGY ATMOSPHERIC CRAFT http://www.padrak.com/ine/SUBJECTS.html#ANTI_GRAVITY
___NEW ENERGY TECH http://www.padrak.com/ine/SUBJECTS.html...http://www.padrak.com/ine/WEBSITES.html
___COLD FUSION http://www.padrak.com/ine/MALLOVECF.html...
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9) Future Industry B
___SUSTAINABLE SPACE PROGRAM
___CURRENT SPACE INDUSTRY PROJECTS
___MINI SATELLITES
___OCEAN RESEARCH VESSELS
___ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING STATIONS
___SPECIALIZED COMPUTERS
___FIBER OPTIC COMMUNICATIONS
___INFO DISPLAY CENTERS
___SPHERICAL IMAGING SYSTEMS
___FLAT SCREEN DISPLAYS
___PHOTO-TEXT
___HEALING CENTERS
___MEDICINAL PLANT PRODUCTION
___HEALING WATER
___HAZARDOUS WASTE CONTAINMENT/CLEAN-UP
___BIOREMEDIATION
___TELEROBOTICS
___VIRTUAL REALITY SIMULATION
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10) Future Organization
____SELF-RELIANT CITIZENS
____CULTURE-BASED ECONOMY
____FUTURE CORPORATIONS
____ENVIRONMENTAL LAW
____GOVERNMENT'S MANDATE
____BIOREGIONAL ORGANIZATION
____MODEL GOVERNMENT
____GREEN CONSORTIA
____DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL GOVERNMENTS http://lcweb2.loc.gov/glin/x-nation.html
____CITIZEN CONSENSUS COUNCILS http://www.co-intelligence.org/P-citizenCC.html
____CURRENT EXPERTISE
____FEDERAL CORPORATIONS
____NATIONAL INSURANCE
____NATIONAL DEFENSE FORCES
____EARTH PLANS http://www.conservationeconomy.net/
____DEMOCRATIC WORLD GOVERNMENT
____EARTH ISSUES
____DEMOCRATIC WORLD BANK
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11) Healing Ourselves
____ACUPRESSURE
____MICROHYDRIN
____HEALING DIET
____MEANINGFUL JOBS
____MONEY
____ABUNDANT ESSENTIALS
____GENEROSITY
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12) Human Potential
____DAILY NEURONS
____BRAIN ENHANCEMENT
____INTUITION
____BODY BUILDING
____NON-AGING
____SENSITIVITY
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WGP RESEARCH CENTER:
Most of the 100 plus article topics making up the body of this Web page can be further studied within the following 'LINKS' pages. Article titles are listed alphabetically and scattered amongst additional, related subject headings.
LINKS: A-E
LINKS: F-L
LINKS: M-R
LINKS: S-Z
WGP Research Center also contains the following:
VISIT 'FRIENDS OF WGP'
EARTH MANTRA/PRAYER
WGP: ORGANIC FARMING INFO
A PRINTABLE WGP HOME PAGE
WGP TERMS AND ABBREVIATIONS
Links of Interest:
http://www.co-intelligence.org/P-DanishTechPanels.html for Danish Citizen Technology Panels
http://www.padrak.com/ine/ for The Institute for New Energy
http://www.synergyii.com for Synergy International Inc.
http://www.ru.org for Renaissance Universal / New Renaissance
http://www.permaearth.org for Permaculture the Earth
http://www.soc.hawaii.edu/~future/ for Hawaii Research Center for Future Studies
http://www.fas.org for Federation of American Scientists
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RELATED WEB SITES BY THE AUTHOR:
LifeFriendly.Com is the home of LifeFriendly Industries. The focus of LifeFriendly.Com is a further
elaboration of the technologies and methods outlined in World Green Plan with a practical emphasis upon companies and organizations promoting these. LifeFriendly, though still under construction, can be reached at:
http://www.lifefriendly.com
ModelWorldGov.Com is the home of Model World Government or MWG. MWG, using World Green Plan as its basis, seeks to encourage and simulate the formation of a Democratic World Government. MWG, though still under construction, can be reached at:
http://www.modelworldgov.com
Go to World Green Plan's twin site: GLOBALGREENPLAN.COM
http://www.globalgreenplan.com
Go to the original Global Green Plan:
http://www.saber.net/~damatta/
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CONTACT THE AUTHOR: damatta@saber.net (2013 note: this e-mail now defunct)
Author's Note: Lately I've been experiencing difficulties receiving all of my e-mail. If you send a message and receive no reply within 4 days then please re-send. Thanks.
DISCLAIMER: Within WORLD GREEN PLAN the author has attempted to relate facts and ideas as accurately as possible. It is certain that some errors exist in this document. I apologize for any errors and will work on correcting them in subsequent updates of WGP.
Sincerely,
Anthony Tofanelli
All rights reserved by Anthony Tofanelli
F) AUTHOR'S JOURNAL
10-17-2013
In keeping with my note of 10-16-2013, I will continue to discuss possible additions to and further delineations of ModelCiv. Regarding Unit Credits and their initial valuation for countries of below-average worker productivity, ModelCiv envisions this initial valuation as a projection of worker productivity after the injection of EarthBank capital toward Green Production Capacity. After the establishment of significant Green Production Capacity within said countries the use of projections can be replaced by actual estimates of worker productivity being used in the calculation of annual Unit Credit Valuations.
Now, regarding Local Regions and their configuration, let's start with our projected USA MetaRegion and what is a most glaring example, within the lower 48 states, of needed administrative unit reform. The state of Kentucky--though approximately 40,000 square miles of land area--is presently divided into 120 counties! ModelCiv envisions Local Region size within the lower 48 states of USA MetaRegion to be approximately 10,000 square miles each which, in the case of Kentucky, would produce 4 Local Regions as replacement for those 120 counties. Said Local Regions might be designated:
Kentucky West
Kentucky West-Central
Kentucky East- Central
Kentucky East
A possible designation of 5 Local Regions for the state of Kentucky might be as follows:
Kentucky West
Kentucky West-Central
Kentucky East-Central
Kentucky East
Kentucky Northeast
(The exact configuration--ie. political boundaries--for said Local Regions would ultimately be determined, within ModelCiv, by the people of Kentucky themselves and by those more familiar with transport volume, urban and community concentrations, topography, etc. within the present state of Kentucky and within a Kentucky which has been converted to mostly Green Production.)
ModelCiv views the USA MetaRegion as one of the most antiquated on earth regarding the efficient configuration of second-level administrative units. While Local Regions, within the USA MetaRegion, would represent a replacement for both first-level administrative units (present states) and second-level admin. units (present counties) they would ultimately become the first-level administrative units of the USA MetaRegion. With the projected, eventual dissolving of national boundaries within MetaRegional Confederations (groupings of confederated, contiguous countries as opposed to the relatively large, single-country MetaRegions) Local Regions would, once again, become first-level administrative units. ModelCiv views the existence of states or large provinces (as first-level admin. units) within the USA and Canada MetaRegions respectively--as well as the national borders with MetaRegional Confederations--as the geographic birthing places of Local Regions which, after created, will become vestigial and fall away. To contain any confusion or disorder in our projected transition to Local Regional Administrative Units, present-day, first-level administrative units would act as the geographic containers within which Local Regions would be birthed.
Next discussed will be Local Region configurations for the Europa MetaRegion and beyond.
10-16-2013
I would like to use this "journal", at times, to discuss certain features of ModelCiv before formalizing their tenets within a specific subject heading. I would presently like to consider the possibility of a great simplification of the global money system by suggesting the use of one, versatile currency which I will call: Unit Credit. The Unit Credit or UC Currency would represent the value of one man or woman hour of work within the country of said Unit Credit's origin. ModelCiv envisions the global, Unit Credit as having as many possible valuations as there are countries. Valuation would be determined each year by the previous year's productivity divided as per capita.
The Unit Credit represents the work value/buying power of one man-hour or woman-hour of work, on average, within a country. Said buying power would be represented in the valuation of this national version of the global fiat currency. The value of Unit Credits within any one country would be determined by the average work efficiency delivered by the workers within any particular country, over the past year. ModelCiv envisions actual notes of various denominations which would feature the name of the county of ownership upon said bill. Actual coinage and/or virtual "coinage" would represent a percentage of one Unit Credit.
Such a system of annual currency valuation would require each country keeping track of annual wealth production efficiency per capita with a WorldGov or some global authority making parallel calculations. Increase in worker productivity within any country--which would have to be extrapolated toward wealth creation for the national workforce as a whole--would entail an appreciation of said nation's currency for the following year and thusly represent a gain of wealth for all holders of said currency. As a nation becomes wealthier their currency automatically buys more, under this system.
When we consider production and an economy of scale over time---when, say, the design of the Stirling Car or of a Cold Fusion Powerplant Design have been perfected then the manufacture or construction of such, year after year, will lessen cost per unit while the operation of such greentech devices and facilities will help to increase wealth production efficiency and thusly overall national wealth production. So, as the cost per unit for such items decreases over time, individual and national buying power rise.
A progressively increasing currency valuation would dovetail nicely with the projected increase in net wealth production by individuals and businesses within the sustainable, industrial system projected by ModelCiv.
Initial valuations for Unit Credits within various countries--as per ModelCiv--would fall within an acceptable range. Such would, in part, represent initial investment by EarthBank (through WorldGov) within those nations most lacking in per capita wealth production efficiency. So the initiation of this Unit Credit System would see requisite green investment in such countries to bring all national wealth production efficiencies within the afore-mentioned acceptable range.
07-01-2013
There is a fair amount of incongruence within ModelCiv. This is, in part, due to my starting the site before I had figured out all the basics. The system developed as I began to write and, consequently, portions still exist within which do not conform to the overall model. Another problem with the site is that it contains both transitional elements as well as elements of the completed ModelCiv. I am very tempted to delete all transitional systems and to simply outline the workings of ModelCiv after its establishment. This would eliminate a good deal of the inconsistencies but it would also eliminate some ideas essential to a green transition. The reader can trust that I will be attempting, in the near term, to right these deficiencies.
06-24-2013
If there is a technically superior architecture for industrial systems then we must at least consider its utilization. The object of industry is to put end-products into the hands of customers and within ModelCiv this would be done sustainably. The criterion insisted upon within ModelCiv is that industries operate sustainably without any externalization or socialization of production costs. Thusly, if all costs of production must be internalized by manufacturers then, of necessity, the superior, greentech will become most profitable. This new industrial--economic realism would create natural openings in production and market share for GreenTech and Green Production Methods.
In Green Production the qualities of efficiency and sustainability must coincide. Let us take the example of a 10% National Corporation manufacturing Stirling-engined Automobiles. Within the nationwide market for automobiles such a 10% NatCorp would seek to capture 10% of the domestic auto demand with its superior product: a Stirling-engined auto which does not require fuel and whose relatively simple manufacture would allow NatGov Autos to undersell currently much more complex competing models. Eventually, private auto manufacturers would have to produce the superior product--the Stirling Car--so as not to force NatGov Autos to increase their domestic market share.
This same pattern would be repeated across all critical industries--that 10% NatCorps would find the best green methods to put end products into the hands of customers and private companies would then be free to compete. Within ModelCiv, companies insisting on obsolete manufacturing methods would be forced to internalize the cost of their inefficiency. Within every major industry should emerge the most efficient, sustainable method of production.
06-23-2013
Being a parent one wishes, firstly, that their children are able to grow up in a society that is physically safe. This being established, the next vital element of civilized existence would be an opportunity for socio-economic advancement through functional education and the practical application thereof. With these two essentials, I as a parent would then wish to see each of my children choose for themselves a self-affirming group of friends and associates from whom, at some point, they would choose their life partner.
In a nutshell, any child and person should be able to enjoy the aforementioned opportunities and said opportunities would be provided the citizens of any nation state worthy of the concept. Presently, with the scourges of war and domestic insecurity, social equity (not egalitarianism) becomes a back-burner issue. Within ModelCiv's projected future the non-existence of such causes for social instability are created, in part, through equitable international trade and equitable international relations. ModelCiv projects the military personnel of every nation remaining within their national borders as a protective, defensive force which would then be used--primarily--as the Roman Legions were used in times of peace--toward infrastructure construction.
True security will only be achieved on earth when all nations and peoples enjoy sufficient, domestic wealth and each family and individual enjoy the fruits of discretionary wealth. Said discretionary wealth will be the fuel that powers local and regional economies, primarily. A Peace System of social organization is a system whereby populations are fully empowered--through functional education and adequate job opportunities--to produce the wealth required for socio-economic advancement. And there will be plenty of room in the Middle Class Future of each nation to accomodate all individuals and families achieving discretionary wealth. Such excess wealth production will become the norm when NatGov architecture is geared toward achieving such.
06-15-2013
As previously stated herein, ModelCiv does not envision an egalitarian society as either possible or desirable. Some persons are incapable of leadership while others cannot follow. Current leaders without constituencies simply retire from any attempt at formal leadership in hopes that present conditions will change. ModelCiv in its self-proclaimed role as a future projection imagines a time when all potential leadership is free to function within the fabric of society.
An informal definition of "democracy" is simply citizen feedback regarding living conditions. Any fair and well-meaning government will take heed of such information since the ideal of benevolent gov is wealth and happiness for entire citizenries. "Democracy" means giving credence to popular experience and adjusting the machinery of governance to its progressive accomodation.
Back to leadership--it's not possible for some people to follow. The "Urantia Book" states that, on average, there is a true societal leader in one of every hundred persons. If this is true then why are leaders relatively rare? This is due, in part, to the qualities required for leadership. A leader must care more for the welfare of their constituents than they do for their own personal interests. How many people, these days, do this? We are back to the one percent theory. True leaders are a societal treasure who must be enabled if society is to regain progressive equillibrium.
I once saw a movie (title?) about the Soviet Union in the early Stalin years and (within this movie) Stalin was replacing the traditional, local leadership in place prior to the Russian Revolution, with his operatives. The object for Stalin was not a smoothly running country in the best interest of each locality but control, for whatever purpose, as determined by the central gov. Such control can only be morally justified under war or war-like conditions.
War and war-like conditions are presently perpetuated within our world system as this system's means of preservation. Change is painful--akin to giving birth--but life and society do not and cannot remain static--we either grow or regress. As various portions of our planet continue to suffer from damaging practices an enlarging proportion of earth citizens see the necessities of sustainable governance and industries.
A Peace System needs to replace our War System and just as wars are perpetuated so can peace be willfully actualized. Just as War, in its larger sense, is an entire social and economic system--so is Peace. The transition of our War System to its opposite is that which presently disables all the technical genius for progressive, industrial development that humanciv has now accumulated. We seek a political-economic 'green light' to proceed progressively.
Obviously transition presently appears impossible to conventional thought due to entrenched economic and political interests. Money is being made from the present destruction of our planet as ever steadily such destruction proceeds. ModelCiv simply states that this process of wealth derived from destruction cannot indefinitely continue--so why not transition as soon as practicable?
Current capital concentrations could flow into Green Industries and NatGovs and National Corporations would take the lead in said transition.
NatGov and private capital teamwork will be essential to minimizing financial losses and incentivizing this Green Transition. Current captial concentrations flowing into Green Industries must be offset and counter-balanced by direct NatGov participation in indsutrial development through the activities of National Corporations. Through a 10% NatCorp presence in all key Green Industries (with the exception of a 100%NatCorp monopoly on Free Energy Electric, Free Energy Space Heating and Free Energy Desalination) standards of excellence and cost-effectiveness will be set for private industry to emulate--and challenge. Private and NatCorp enterprises would maintain a friendly competition from which neither side could stray into unfair or wasteful practice.
A state monopoly on the FREE ENERGY 3 (electric production, space heating and desalination) would provide our peaceful, NatGovs of the near future with sufficient operating revenues and no subsequent need for taxing their citizenries. Taxes would be levied at the municipal and Local Region levels so that said monies could be applied toward improving and maintaining the various infrastuctures existing within those geographic entities.
06 - 09 - 2013
Human society is continually remaking itself according to the needs and interests of the present. Great works of the past were most often in response to this need for the continual revision and upgrading of society. There is a human mindset--a collective unconscious, if you will--that the sensitive and intelligent are able to discern and contact in order to create such works which meld the best of past with the actuality of now.
04 - 16 - 2013
The Global Economy and banking system are forced to fall back on gold as their prime source of symbolic wealth due to the abuse that fiat currency has undergone. Were fiat currencies, as legal tender, used ethically then national economies and the global economy could run perfectly well on them. After all, gold is ultimately symbolic wealth.
04 - 08 - 2013
How can our present civilization have the audactity to assume itself capable of colonizing space, the Moon or Mars? We can't even govern our own planet properly. We may develop the technical expertise to accomplish such tasks but what sort of culture would we be exporting to these exotic habitats? People living in a space station or in a Lunar colony must live in a face-to-face societal co-operative and much of our present social training and experience is toward zero-sum competitiveness. Such competition is presently the cause, I would argue, of much biospheric, animal and human destruction. We can only hope to be successful off our planet if we are presently successful upon it.
Obviously what is called for is a sensible balance between competition and cooperation. Thusly, we might compete within a strict code of chivalrous behavior. Too many good persons have fallen from responsible positions in our society due to their honesty and inability to play political games on the job. Failure at perfecting the "Organization Man" mentality and ethos should be looked upon, in a progressive society, as an asset rather than liability.
So, to travel to other planets we must, ethically, possess a culture worthy of transmission or, at least, transference. Otherwise we simply expand present societal ills into a larger geographic arena and the Solar System should not have to tolerate such. I imagine it probably won't.
03 - 12 - 2013
Jane Jacobs, in her book "The Death and Life of Great American Cities" (1961), spoke of the impossibility of imposing a model city upon prospective inhabitants. She points to failure after failure of large-scale urban renewal projects in major, eastern US cities throughout the 1940's and 1950's. The reason for the failure of such projects to produce living, urban tissue is largely their top-down imposition upon residents or prospective residents regarding where and how they are to live. Thriving urban neighborhoods are the result of organic growth which comes from individual decisions to buy or rent a home, build a business or to frequent businesses or facilities nearby or afar. The social and economic initiative of persons cannot be given free rein in pre-planned and design-built neighborhoods. Thusly, such social contrivances fail to engender a living, growing community and always tend toward social and economic disintegration.
I feel exactly the same about civilization design. Although basic principles upon which a civilization will run can be delineated, and indeed I attempt this throughout ModelCiv, a top-down impostion of my views could never be used as template for ModelCiv's creation. The prime purpose of ModelCiv is to stimulate discussion amongst an objective and educated citizenry as to possible, progressive change. ModelCiv also seeks to stimulate discussion by those far more experienced in social and economic design than the author.
01 - 23 - 2013
How to improve the world? As has often been said, we must improve ourselves. If we do not and then try to impose our partially ignorant will upon the outside world then our assertion will fall upon fallow ground - it will not become a part of reality since it is not in harmony with the times. These times require the utmost of whom a person is. This is a time when we must all openly decide if we are people who will manipulate and be dishonest with others or -- that we are honest. This doesn't mean that we have had to live perfect lives until now, no...it only means that every day from this forward that we attempt to be honest in all situations that we find ourselves in. For a dishonest social system cannot survive amongst an honest and educated populace.
When people live in those particular social environments which they find most enjoyable and stimulating -- they then develop their own social and economic system based upon the equitable exchange of goods created locally. Now, within ModelCiv each working family group is, when necessary, subsidized by the NatGov to purchase their own home. With a local Socio-Economy incorporating the societal mores of honesty....see, honesty is imbred into people when they live within a community and information transparency is a societal more.
If we must do business in some manner on a regular basis and my progress is dependent upon yours, then I would be a fool not to be honest for this is the only way for me to gain wealth and to be friendly.
One need not be restricted to a local socio-economy. Many will live in large towns and cities and so will maintain an anonimity (sp?) of choice, throughout their city travels but will enjoy close community with whomever they work and will possibly enjoy a slightly less intense social relationship with those in their neighborhood. As Jane Jocobs emphasizes, the ideal neighborhood (ie. small community) is created by the interactions taking place primarily upon street and sidewalk. People must have immediate meeting places -- ie. the sidewalk and possess a street not clogged or overly frequented by cars and trucks. If pedestrians can enjoy the streets and sidewalks in various neighborhoods and each city neighborhood has various biz attractions for people to frequent that neighborhood then, as Ms. Jacobs describes, has a delicate social ballet which takes place constantly, thoughout the day and into the night. Such a vibrant and wealth- circulating neighborhood is Ms. Jacob's ideal.
With Free Energy Production not creating any pollution our city environs could become relatively pristine so that current urban concentrations would be largely detoxified. We could greatly improve our cities by doing nothing other than adopting Free Energy sources for the production of electricity, space heating and mechanical energy. Thusly, New York or Chicago, Paris, Tokyo or Mexico City -- all would become instantly more welcoming of life and living beings. When we add to this the proposal by Ms. Jacobs of gradual and incremental improvement to the towns and cities we already have by individual building renovation, the removal of fully dilapidated structures and an increased diversity of current neighborhoods and city centers the overall improvement in urban life quality would be inestimable.
I will leave the possiblity of designing model towns and communities to a later discussion.
01 - 17 - 2013
Here's the idea. The only way that our present system of world economic and political power can stabilize--or, rather, as it is trying to stabilize under current organization what is necessitated is an ever greater concentration of power and wealth into fewer and fewer hands. This does not create global stability but chaos of varying degrees over large and small geographic areas. Ruthless competition for growth and corporate dominance creates many business casualties all along its path. The best technologies and methods of social organization often do not win out. Is it not then the province of Gov to take control under such circumstances to keep a System of Oligarchic War from consuming its participants and innocent common citizens?
But let us imagine that the membership of earth oligarchies, divided as geo-political forces, are basically cooperative within and amongst their accepted membership? Under this assumption the prime force toward Oligarchic War would be represented through Nation State conflicts involving National Alliances. Any National Alliance would represent the combined interests of resident Economic-Industrial Powers. This must be the final stage of our Global War System upon earth--that of nation state proxies for an Economic Elite. Since business never stops competing throughout most of our present WorldCiv the Nation State Alliances, as they at any time exist, must be in constant competition and conflict with each other.
01 - 17 - 2013
I feel very strongly that the only way a world gov can truly operate as a progressive institution would be that it be accompanied by a benevolent and fair, world civilization. We humans have already made all the mistakes necessary in building civilizations to know that which works and toward what purposes. Only benevolent governance can presently ensure the survival of lands and peoples -- people must be enabled to produce local wealth value and not be precluded from this human right. That level of culture which has been achieved upon a piece of ground throughout decades and centuries cannot be revived once its practitioners are gone. There is much cultural richness available on our earth for social transmission and all that remains, much as the unique genetic wealth of the Amazon Forest, must be preserved.
What should be the purpose of government? --To provide a level playing field for all so that only the best will rise to levels of organizational and administrative import. I would say that only a War System can justify the preservation of an elite for the sake of concentrated control which, in times of real war, is necessary for national survival. But when wars are artificially perpetuated so as to enable antiquated industries and administrative apparatuses to continue to exist past the time of their national utility--what then is to be done in such instance?
12 - 23 - 2012
Some random thoughts on the architecture of ModelCiv.
Home Ownership, that is outright, allows a wealth creation incentive to families. The production of discretionary wealth is then free to flow into any number of transparent investments. Discretionary wealth is the lifeblood of our projected New Economy and society as the directions in which it flows determine success or failure in this true, free enterprise system. Debt, both personal and national are the lifeblood of our current parasitic, world economy and since it's prime means of wealth accumulation is through the disappropriation of wealth presently held it simply concentrates current wealth without creating significant new wealth. Thusly our current world economy creates only the illusion of wealth production since it does not sytematically nor accurately factor in the worldwide destruction and poverty it creates.
12 - 02 - 2012
Every person who is conscious of the planetary struggle, now ensuing, must listen to their heart and act honestly within their present place. Each of us has a certain life situation in which we find ourselves and it's necessary to act with integrity in facing that situation--whatever its nature. But we, at the center of said life situation, are the only factor for progressive change possible in this very position. What this entails is a brave response to former fear. If we can transform ourselves and forget to fear then our actions shall flow from a new rationale of progressive action. Such a rationale, as a collective force, shall flow from the spirit within each of us.
Until now most of us have felt that progressive actions were simply impossible within our present society and that positive action could have no socially-progressive effect. But every sincere and loving action (executed without the thought of self) has an effect--though often not apparent at the time. Think of it as a cosmic bank account where the "deposits" attain a certain collective value and are then enabled to transform society--by the very weight and gravity of their existence--or to kind of cop a line from "Gladiator":
"What we do in the present reverberates into the future."
So, presently we work from a base of all that is good and true which has been lived before. The progressive transformation that we seek is personal in nature and entails each person being able to get back to their real self (the child inside). Upon achieving this, our very presence is socially progressive.
Present concentrated capital should look upon our present as The Opportune Moment to move their concentrations of wealth into Green Production. This is a change which must occur if the planet it to retain biospheric integrity. General Destruction and the creation of Dead Zones on earth entail a random character to property loss which would, in the end, be prohibitive to present property owners. Why not switch to progressive tech at the exact moment in human history when such is mandated? Can we really afford several more Fukushimas around the world? Do we really have another Gulf of Mexico and Pacific Ocean to pollute and destroy? Have some actually resigned themselves to living in an underground facility for the remainder of their days and do they understand the full implication of such supposition?
The answer to some of this, I suggest, is found in the ModelCiv category - Elite Amnesty. We must forgive our current leadership of any social transgressions if we are going to get the movement of concentrated capital into technically-progressive channels. It is of far more value to the planet that current concentrations of capital move into Green Technologies and away from destructive tech while the owners of said capital are given national and international assurances as to their ownership of said capital.
To balance such a concentrated flow of private capital investment into Green Technologies would be National Government investment into GreenTech Production Facilities of its own. As I've suggested before NatGovs should have a state monopoly on Free Energy Electric and Free Energy Space Heating. Otherwise, how could private corps agree to divvy up Free Energy? Besides, the establishment of national systems of Free Energy Production would have to be accomplished by NatGovs in the first place. Private industry would follow a NatGov lead on this. With NatGov monopolies on Free Energy production private companies would have to recognize a counterbalance in the world to their exercise of economic power and a reasonable balance could be struck--all the while, sustainable production would be replacing its earth-destructive counterparts.
While Free Energy exploitation for profit would be closed to private companies under ModelCiv, the production of other vital Green Technologies would not. In fact, all other areas of production would be open. ModelCiv does envision 10% National Corporations which seek the satisfaction of 10% domestic market demand for various, essential Green Products but this leaves 90% of domestic demand to be satisfied by private enterprise.
Private Companies need the counterbalancing effect of equitably representative NatGovs as creators of a predictable, level playing field for business. The alternative is corporate anarchy where many innovative start-ups are wiped from the map and companies of medium and large size can be siezed and dissolved. Let us create a truly free market place--free and equitable where legitimate business enterprises are protected and allowed to ply their trades--within NatLaw.
A balanced world of Business and Government would be a much more interesting and rich place. With self-reliant NatGovs true WorldGov could evolve since the actions of nations would then be governed by an enlightened, self-interest which they could, of their own volition, exercise.
G) PERMACULTURE PRINCIPLES
Following are excerpts from "Permaculture: A Designer's Manual" (1988) by Bill Mollison
Page 21 (Section 2.5) -- "Cultural Impediments to Yield"
"......It is very difficult, almost taboo, to talk of using rabbits, quail, pigs, poultry, or cows in city farms or urban gardens in the United States. They are commonplace city farm animals in England, and are ordinary village animals in Asia. Australians feel no repulsion towards them, and the edible guinea pig lives comfortably in the homes of South Americans. But in the USA, no!
Useful animals are effectively abolished from American cities, leaving the field wide open for a host of others: pigeons forage the streets, thousands of gulls defecate in New York City reservoirs (fresh from the garbage piles); gigantic garbage bins are tipped over by large, flea-ridden dogs in Los Angeles; rats half the size of dogs (and also flea-ridden) are waiting for the garbage left by the dogs, and have tunnelled under the bus stops in their millions in Washington , D.C. (not far from the White House). They in turn are stalked by mangy cats, who also keep a desultory eye on the billions of cockroaches crawling in most houses. Not to mention the flies.
........So much wasted food breeds its own population of pests. A sensible re-routing of edible garbage through a herd of pigs or a legion of guinea-pigs would abolish much of this nuisance.......The gulls would starve if chickens were fed on household wastes, and the besieged American might add a very large range of foods to those now available in cities. I mention this only to show that cultural prejudices can grossly reduce the available food resources, and that if we refuse to take sensible actions, some gross results can follow, with the biomass of useful foragers such as domesticated animals replaced by an equivalent biomass of pests."
Page 147 (Section 6.6) -- "How A Tree Interacts With Rain"
"Rain falls, and many tons of rain may impact on earth in an hour or so. On bare soils and thinly spaced or thinly cultivated crop, the impact of droplets carries away soil, and may typically remove 80 tonnes/hectare, or up to 1000 tonnes in extreme downpours. When we bare the soil, we lose the earth.
Water run-off and pan evaporation, estimated as 80-90% of all rain falling on Australia, carries off nutrients and silt to the sea or to inland basins. As we clear the land, run-off increases and for a while this pleases people, who see their dams fill quickly. But the dams will silt up and the river eventually cease to flow, and the clearing of forests will result in flood and drought, not a long-regulated and steady supply of clean water.
When rain falls on a forest, a complex process begins. Firstly, the tree canopy shelters and nullifies the impact effect of raindrops, reducing the rain to a thin mist below the canopy, even in the most torrential showers. There is a slight measurable silt loss from mature forests, exceeded by the creation of soils by forests.
If the rain is light, little of it penetrates beyond the canopy, but a film of water spreads across the leaves and stems, and is trapped there by surface tension. The cells of the tree absorb what is needed, and the remainder evaporates to air. Where no rain penetrates through the canopy,
this effect is termed 'total interception'. INTERCEPTION is the amount of rainfall caught in the crown. It is the most important primary effect of trees or forests on rain. The degree of interception is most influenced by these factors:
* Crown thickness;
* Crown density;
* Season;
* Intensity of rain; and
* Evaporation after rain.
Broadly speaking, interception commonly falls between 10-15% of total rainfall. Least interception occurs in thinned and deciduous forests, winter rain, heavy showers, and cloudy weather conditions, when it is as little as 10% of rain. Most interception occurs with dense, evergreen trees, light summer rain, and sunny conditions, when it may reach 100% of the total.
However, if more rain falls, or heavy rains impact on the trees, water commences to drift as mist or droplets to earth. This water is called THROUGHFALL. Throughfall depends on the intensity of rain, and there is little interception effect in heavy downpours. As an average figure, the throughfall is 85% of rain in humid climates.
At this point, throughfall is not just rainwater, any more than your bathwater is rainwater; throughfall contains many plant cells and nutrients, and is in fact a much richer brew than rainwater. Dissolved salts, organic content, dust, and plant exudates are included in the water of throughfall. 'The results show that rain washes large amounts of potassium and smaller amounts of nitrogen, phosphorus, calcium, and magnesium from the canopies to the surface soil. Litter adds organic matter, and is a rich source of calcium and nitrogen and a moderately rich source of magnesium and potassium.' (Murray, J. S. and Mitchell, A., 'Red Gum and the Nutrient Balance', Soil Conservation Authority, Victoria, Australia, undated)."
Page 464 (Section 13.3) - "Water Quality"
"All life processes, and decomposition in aerated waters, consume oxygen. A general level of 5 ppm is very satisfactory in ponds. At 1 ppm many fish species may die except for a select adapted group of air-breathers used in stagnant and weedy tropical still-ponds. Augusthy (1979) notes that snakeheads (Ophiocephalus), Singhi (Heteropneustes), the catfish Clarias, Mahi (Notopterus) and Anabas in India all have sacs, labyrinth organs, or special air chambers near the gills from which they can derive oxygen by breathing air. Other fish die in the anaerobic conditions of weedy tropical shallows where the above species, the adapted lungfishes, and many minor species survive. Even derelict swampy ponds can yield 2,400 kg protein /ha/year if a polyculture of air-breathers is stocked, as three or more of the above species, or equally hardy species.
The fish in tropical still ponds combine well with the crop plant Euryhale ferox, a spiny floating plant of the water-lily family whose period of yield and harvest coincide with the maturation of the fish. The ponds used are 1 - 1.5 meters deep, and as the fish help control malarial mosquitoes, there are multiple benefits. Seeds of Euryhale are marketed as a 'popcorn' in India.
The integration of specialized warm-water aquacultures, or the stocking of oxygen-depleted waters is also dealt with by Pullin and Shehadeh (1982). They describe the modification of rice padi to accept specialised species assemblies. Fish refuges are made in padi either as a peripheral canal or as a sump to contain fish between flooding for crop."
H) FAVORITE BOOKS
"The City in History" (1961) by Lewis Mumford
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_Mumford
SITES:
http://www.blacklistednews.com/
http://www.counterpunch.org/
http://wallstreetonparade.com/
http://dollarcollapse.com/
http://www.silverdoctors.com/
IDEOLOGIC SCRAP
Hypothetical Trade: General Amnesty for National Debt forgiveness.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tax
I) Large banks are constantly placing investment bets using their supposed, capital accumulations - artificially insulated from a bank's indebtedness. When an investment pays off the higher ups get a disproportionately large share of the payout and the bank is not requisitely recapitalized. When an investment goes bad the resultant debt is isolated and added to similar liabilities. As these liabilities accumulate bank debt eventually exceeds bank assets.
Such insolvency, upon achievement, is witheld from the public as long as possible. When it's no longer possible to hide a bank's insolvency a privileged few are forewarned to remove their investments. Until recently this has then resulted in general taxpayer bailouts for large, well-connected banks. Now, we see with Cyprus that the great majority of depositors can subsequently have their deposits tapped for bank recapitalization.
Thusly, many large banks have simply become agents of wealth redistribution as they--for the most part--privatize profits and socialize debt.
G) CURRENT SETTLEMENT EMPHASES
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World%27s_largest_cities
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megalopolis_(city_type)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metropolitan_area
F) INTERNATIONAL CREDIT ISSUANCE TOWARD GLOBAL MARSHALL PLAN IMPLEMENTATION
Whatever form a WorldGov takes, within the ModelCiv system said entity will issue credit to each nation, as needed, for the initiation of a Global Marshall Plan (World Green Plan). This credit issuance would serve 2 primary purposes:
1) To provide regular payments to the legitimate creditors of each nation state thusly creating relative, economic stability within nations.
2) To allow the investment of requisite NatGov funding into NatGreenPlans.
Such WorldGov credit issuance can be made with the reasonable prospect of repayment since ModelCiv projects the proper implementation of a WorldGreenPlan - thusly assuring an eventual production of discretionary wealth - year after year - by each national beneficiary of said credit.
E) Each municipality and Local Region would offer itself free credit through legal mandate as do Public Banks. Such funding would be used for the construction of revenue-generating, greentech facilities. ModelCiv envisions the first creation of this funding to be a system of regional Free Energy Powerplants. Thusly, municipalities will borrow the money they themselves create in order to build facilities which will provide a constant, future revenue stream. The wealth value produced by a system of Free Energy Powerplants will be many times the cost to build them. This Resource Creation aspect of Green Technologies will be evidenced in all such future municipal and regional investment.
D) So the ideal Model Town would seek to create, through urban and social design, functional neighborhoods -- changing and growing -- within a Model Town System.
Model Town would consist of arcaded streets and streets open to the air. The interspersal of arcaded streets would be geared to easily accomodate all Model Town users of streets and sidewalks in case of rain or overly-intense sunshine. Although the central portion of Model Town would consist of somewhat stereotypical types of buildings and Town Center functions, the actual design and execution of buidings and their layout within the Town Center would be anything but stereotypical. The layout The prime idea of the Town Center - transportwise - is to provide easy access to all portions of Model Town.
A) It must be a prime mission of National Governments to enable their citizens to work and thusly achieve self-sufficiency--as regards wealth value creation. Educational Systems must be primarily geared to helping all citizens find their productive stations in a complex and changing social economy. If a citizenry is solvent and productive of discretionary wealth then this is foundational to the production of National Discretionary Wealth--which gives value to National Legal Tender. The relative value of a national fiat currency must be, in part, determined by such excess wealth production and by the entire productive potential of a country.
The primary national resource of any country should be the creative capacity of its citizenry. Enable a people to work toward self-enrichment and there is no limit to the wealth they will produce--and within our ModelCiv system--no limit to the sustainable production possible. The limit would be, of course, each person's essential needs and discretionary life enrichment.
End A).
B) Since patent protection on two key FE technologies - Cold Fusion and the Stirling Engine - has expired, power plants based on these technologies could be freely replicated. Imagine Cold Fusion Electricity powering the Green City of our near future while free mechanical energy, provided by Stirling engines, powered cars and trucks.
C) GREEN TECH INFRASTRUCTURE
Finite Resources are the precious components of any Green Tech Infrastructure producing essential goods. The more resources we require to build such production capacity, the more mining and subsequent land and water resource damage we will have to sustain and ameliorate. Would it not make sense to:
A) build only those manufacturing and production facilities delivering essential wealth to the great majority of citizens?
B) construct Green Tech Infrastructure with near permanence being a primary goal of its operational capacity?
Thusly, wealth production would be driven by social utility and resource conservation--two complementary goals. For resource conservation not to prove illusory, the manufactures produced by our Green Tech Infrastructure must prove useful over time (see Durable Design). The social utility of all wealth production (food, durable goods, energy, services) can then be projected over time regarding population requirements (see Population Stabilization)--with any subsequent adjustments to production taking into account local, national or global markets. Such adjustments to production could thusly be made in a timely manner (see Temporary Production).
All Rights Reserved, Anthony N. Tofanelli July, 2012
A) ModelCiv - Operational Units
B) Active News Archive
C) Inactive News Archives
D) "The Death and Life of Great American Cities" (1961) by Jane Jacobs
E) World Green Plan (1999-2001) - edited excerpts
F) Author's Journal
G) Permaculture Principles
H) Favorite Books
1) ModelCiv - OPERATIONAL UNITS
Self-Reliant Family: A family producing more wealth value, on an annual basis, than they expend and ever seeking new and diverse means
of discretionary wealth production. Family members are aided in this creative quest by Free Educational schools and universities in tandem with requisite job creation capacity--often wielded by municipal, regional (Local Regional) and national governments.
Mini-Community as Neighborhood or Village: A neighborhood or village ideally numbering 150 persons or less and semi-autonomous in
social, economic and political functions.
Community as Town or City Section: Grouping of contiguous, semi-autonomous Mini-Communities, a Community can comprise an entire town or a city section either of which would be socially integrated primarily through local wealth exchange markets, local educational facilities and local businesses.
City: Grouping of contiguous Communities fully integrated through travel and communication networks. Road and rail systems converge on Urban Centers featuring Regional Markets, regional corporate offices, government agencies, major universities and cultural facility concentrations.
Local Region: A grouping of independent villages, homesteads, towns and cities with intervening landscape generally comprising a larger area than present, second-level administrative units (counties or parishes) in the USA. Local Regions would be, in size and population, the equivalent of French and Italian Regions, German Lander or the first-level administrative divisions in nearly all medium-sized nation states.
The prime objectives of Local Regions are to delineate administrative territories most efficiently governed by a central, resident authority and to contain sufficiently diverse social and economic assets to produce a largely autonomous, Local Regional Society. Local Regions are eventually interconnected and coordinated within MetaRegional Provinces.
Nation State: The Nation State would acquire and maintain sovereign autonomy while entering into MetaRegional Confederations. Once the Global Green conversion process is largely completed these MRConfederations would morph into formal MetaRegions--where nation states would become actual provinces within their parent MetaRegion and place themselves under a MetaRegional Central Government. Single State MetaRegions would simply convert their NatGovs into MetaRegional Govs--ie. in accordance with the basic principles of GreenCiv herein delineated and afterwards developed.
MetaRegional Province: Within MetaRegional Confederations the MetaRegional Province would provide a direct replacement for present-day nation states. Present nations within our projected MetaRegional Confederations would morph into MetaRegional Provinces. The purpose of these MetaRegional Provinces would be wholly different than the nation state in that such provinces would not be provided representative government but would simply act as technocratic facilitators for MetaRegional policy within an MRProvince's constituent Local Regions. Within Single State MetaRegions many present-day provinces or territories would directly translate into MRProvinces while such Single State MetaRegions as USA, Russian Federation and Mexico would require regional groupings of present, internal administrative units to create newly constituted MetaRegional Provinces.
MetaRegion: An evolving entity, at first a confederation of contiguous nation states or a single, large nation state. In its completed form, the
same collection of contiguous nation states or single, nation state which have become socially-politically-economically integrated and themselves internally divided into MetaRegional Provinces with their constituent Local Regions.
General Philosophy behind Operational Units
Operational Units, within ModelCiv, are social groupings of progressively larger size which inhabit their geographic location. Thusly, the term Social-Geographic Unit might be used interchangeably with Operational Unit. Families are the basic unit of societal cooperation and thusly, the primary Operational Unit. Without harmonious and prosperous families there can be no stability for any of our larger social groupings. Contiguous Families, in the form of neighborhoods (or villages), create Mini-Communities as the next level of O.U. hierarchy. The Mini-Community then forms the essential, organizational unit comprising the Community. Communities become either independent towns or sectors of larger cities. Cities, towns and villages, interconnected and in geographic proximity, then form the basis of Local Regions. Semi-autonomous Local Regions, in cooperative economic and social unions, then form the basis for nations (eventually, MetaRegional Provinces). Nation States, within ModelCiv, are then free to enter into local confederations--MetaRegions. These MetaRegions would form the basis of a Global Confederation based upon business and trade which, eventually, would evolve into an integrated system of Global Governance.
General Philosophy behind Operational Units (Final Form)
NATION STATE TRANSITION + LOCAL REGIONS
The final form for ModelCiv Operational Units is contrasted with its transitional counterpart by the absence of the nation state as a political-economic and socio-cultural entity. Firstly, transition from the nation state takes the form of primary administrative unit evolution within present day nations, into the Local Regional form. Local Regions are simply the most efficient socio-geographic form that locally-based social and geographic organization can take. As example, ModelCiv envisions the US state of California being divided into 5 to 6 Local Regions. Such geographic divisions are largely meant to demarcate the primary travels of Local Region residents as being contained within the Region--on a day to day basis. Residents will, for the most part, find all the facility access they require within their region and each Local Region will primarily be designed to satisfy such essential needs. Herein is the logic of the Local Region--that its residents are able to remain "local" within its sufficiently diverse confines and that ample opportunity for educational and business pursuit is, for the most part, satisfied within its borders. Local Region transport systems would be architectured as per traffic flow within the region with prescient adjustments to transport infrastructure required, from time to time, to maintain ideal resident mobility.
The ebb and flow of business and industry within each region and trends in educational careers could all be taken into account by Local Regional Government in their role as facilitator to the constructive social and economic trends taking place at any time within the region. Local Regional Government would be the primary statistical source for employment in various regional industries and could encourage, through subsidies, citizen educational training to remedy any work force deficiencies in particular industries. It would be known throughout the regional populace which industries were requiring more workers (another Local Region Gov statistical function) and such public consciousness could create public sentiment encouraging interest in schooling and university training to fill said work force gaps. Public service (in the form of cooperation with regional businesses and industries) would become synonymous with personal career progress and increased discretionary wealth productive capacity. It would be a win--win, no-brainer.
Operational Units
SELF-RELIANT FAMILIES
Self-Reliant Families are the foundational unit of any sustainable civilization. Self-reliance is gained, in part, through a family's annual production of wealth value exceeding the cost of their annual basic needs. This net annual wealth is then employed in a discretionary manner for the purchase of goods and services, placed in investments or accumulated as savings. Such employment of discretionary income in tandem with a family's ability to produce basic goods for personal use connotes economic self-reliance. Economic self-reliance is basic to societal self-reliance and relative local autonomy.
Self-Reliant Families must possess their own homes. Such ownership, upon establishment, will be outright as within ModelCiv a family or individual cannot be taxed upon their Basic Wealth requirements. Home ownership will afford great stability and resilience to each family and community. With requisite and intelligently allocated work effort no family or person could go hungry or be deficient in Basic Wealth production. The work activity of family members would ultimately be focussed on the production of Discretionary Wealth and its advantageous use. The beauty of outright home ownership by families and individuals is that a home creates the economic security allowing a free choice of profession toward wealth production.
The production of Discretionary Wealth, by each family unit, will often entail taking jobs outside of a family business or away from the family homesite. Within ModelCiv such employment would mostly be supplied by local and regional businesses although a significant portion of local employment would also be supplied by Public Enterprises (see 10% NatCorps on the "Government Organization" page). Within ModelCiv local and regional business will have marketing and production advantages over larger companies when it comes to production satisfying basic local needs. The province of nationally and metaregionally-operating companies (public as well as private enterprise) would comprise industries requiring complex manufacturing processes or some other level of high technical expertise. So, we see that within ModelCiv the variety of employment will be legion. The efficiency with which personal and family wealth are produced, under this system, will determine
the work hours per week necessary for requisite wealth production.
Being economically and thus physically secure, families will then be able to avail themselves of the opportunities presented within the advanced society projected by ModelCiv. These opportunities include Free Education, access to affordable and efficient transportation, participation in local, earth repair projects, enjoyment of Info Display Centers (future libraries and research centers), running a family business, participating in job training programs directly linked to job opportunities, traveling to other MetaRegions and possibly living there through a Global Home Exchange program.
MINI-COMMUNITIES
ModelCiv seeks to create self-reliant groupings of families and citizens who can, to a large extent, be self-governing. Foundational to this is a neighborhood or village grouping of 150 persons or less. According to social theory as espoused by Malcolm Gladwell in his book "The Tipping Point", villages in traditional societies tend toward a 150 member maximum. The reason for this is that within such an optimally-sized group members are able to maintain a functional knowledge of each personality comprising the group. Such easy and natural recognition of each neighborhood or village member would naturally evolve a self-regulating and largely self-governing group. Members of this group would naturally tend to live by the maxim of do unto others as you yourself desire to be treated since social transactions would take place face-to-face and personal reputation within the group could never be kept from its members. Regional and national laws could
provide a loose framework within which each local group would comply.
Our optimally-sized neighborhood or Mini-Community would be the societal building block of towns and cities. Optimally-sized villages and scattered towns within traditional societies would create regional interconnectedness. Each Mini-Community would be able to maintain its unique identity within the larger social system and centralized governance would be geared to allow maximal freedom and creativity within each Mini-Community. Each community member would enjoy maximal freedom and bear complete social responsibility for their actions as each member would be held to account by those who know them best and who daily interact with them.
Within the Mini-Community business transactions would be carried out face-to-face. The formulation of written contracts, at this local level, would become of almost secondary importance as compared to verbal agreements--a person's word. Anyone seeking other than equitable arrangements or business transactions would quickly be labeled within their community as not worthy of trust. The fate of social deviants within such a face-to-face society would naturally enforce behavioral compliance toward the greater good. Individual success and promoting the greater social good, within this system, would be inseparable.
Face-to-face transactions and the spirit driving them would naturally extrapolate to inter-group transactions. Such co-operation between and amongst members of different Mini-Communities would not only create the foundations of urban, regional and national identities but also a spirit of fairness animating entire nation states. With equitable interaction becoming the norm within nation states, nation state cooperation would be the next logical progression and world peace based upon fair business practice and social equity would be at hand.
The products and services freely created within our Mini-Community would be equitably valued and equitably traded--for their equivalent in wealth or wealth value. The accumulation of discretionary wealth would depend upon the goods or services each family or individual was able to create and the market demand for such. Profit would not have to be gained from each sales transaction as members within each Mini-Community would not be looking to gain from another's requisite loss. Equitably priced goods and services, produced sufficiently, would ensure individual and family production of discretionary wealth. A physically secure home base is key to this excess wealth production which would, in turn, further fuel the demand for goods and services.
The fuctional intelligence required for success within the community-based economic system herein projected would be assured by simple, commonsense improvements to "education" as practiced today.
MUNICIPALITIES + LOCAL REGIONS
Largely self-sustaining Mini-Communities, in their common neighborhood form, are the building blocks of Green Cities and towns. The town or city grouping gives a distinct advantage to these semi-autonomous units in the following ways:
1) Greater choice for regular social and economic interaction with fellow town or city residents.
2) Increased learning opportunities amongst an enlarged citizen body.
3) Access to the municipal road and communications systems.
4) The increased variety of businesses and public facilities available in towns and cities.
5) Access to an increased array of wealth production facilities and activities each allowing increased wealth production capacity for individuals and family units.
Municipalities would function co-operatively within their resident Local Region. Tying together municipalities would be road and rail systems. Roads supporting free energy vehicles would connect all urban concentrations while larger cities would take advantage of the higher volume transport provided by electric railways. Local Region Market Exchanges could take place two or three times a week within the larger cities while smaller towns would take part in daily, local market exchanges for most basic goods and services. Every day, at the community level, a market could be run--excepting, maybe Sunday? Sunday could be everybody's day to rest and socialize and the one day of the week where, to the best of society's ability, no one works.
Local Region GreenTech Infrastructure would be concentrated in cities and towns for easy and efficient access. This infrastructure would include Free Energy Power Plants, Spirulina Greenhouses, greenhouse production of medicinal herbs and vegetables, and Solar Aquatic Fish Production. Located on open land would be Small-Field production of vegetables, Large-Field production of grains and natural fiber, orchards and Solar Aquatic Sewage Processing.
ModelCiv envisions future, urban and regional industries and facilities as including the following:
Natural Fiber Processing--paper production
Natural Fiber Book Production
Natural Fiber Processing--clothe production
Clothing Creation
Spirulina Processing
Organic Food Processing
Orchards--Large
Greenhouse Vegetables--large scale facilities
Sustainable Container Production--bottles and jars
Armoured Glass Production
Greenhouse Construction
Local Recyling--Metals Extraction
Foundry Production
Natural Plastic Production
Natural Plastic--Component Fabrication
Furniture Production
Road and Path Construction
Small Bridge Construction
Small Dam Construction
Hydro-Electric Turbine Installation and Operation
Wind Turbine Construction
Holistic Healing Centers
Twin Dome Spherical-Imaging Centers--as public libraries
Twin Dome Spherical-Imaging Centers--as research centers
Local Region Formation + Evolution
Regarding the formation of Local Regions from present-day, second-level administrative units, ModelCiv envisions, initially, confederations of these smaller, second-level, national administrative units forming functional groupings which would eventuate in political economic unions. Initial confederations of counties or parishes (within the USA + Britain) would retain original political boundaries but would eventually dissolve all such political boundaries internal to a Local Region as political union develops. Upon the creation of a political economic union within a Local Region, MetaRegional Technocracies could arbitrate between and amongst constituent Local Regions to create changes to the final political boundaries of a Local Region with fairness to all parties. Since Local Regions within a MetaRegional Province would be cooperating with each other technically, commercially and economically the question as to which Local Region might maintain jurisdiction over a particular piece of land will not be seen in the same hyper-competitive light as would presently exist.
NATION STATE (Transitional Entity)
The Nation State must be freed from its current straight jacket of debt. Most of this recent debt was contrived and foisted upon nations through fraud--presently legal as well as presently illegal. The following describes what must be done to re-establish Nation State Sovereignty and initiative:
Nations cannot be sovereign and, at the same time, beholden to their debtors. If we really wish to see a community of nations then nation states must possess the sovereignty--legally granted them via equitable, citizen representation--to choose to enter such a confederation. Within ModelCiv, nations only enter into cooperative groupings in order to increase national economic and social viability. Nation State cooperation is natural within a system of resource, finished products and services abundance. Nations would sell their resources, at equitable prices, and the success of one nation and MetaRegion would benefit all nations and MetaRegions--within that global neighborhood and globally. Imagine the creative energy which could be released amongst the world citizenry if all nations and MetaRegions were cooperating and sharing their best organizational ideas.
ModelCiv regards the present Nation State as an ultimately transitional organism which will, eventually, give rise to fully integrated MetaRegions. But, in order for this evolution to occur, truly sovereign nation states must first be established as representative of the best interests of the common citizen within. Representative Democracy, as espoused by ModelCiv, is not strictly tied to majority rule. It is better termed "Consensus Democracy" whereby all opinions and viewpoints regarding any policy decision are equitably considered by citizen representatives organized as government. Public debates amongst citizen representatives could be held, on a regular basis, regarding policy considerations. Resultant policy decisions are then made and detailed explanation provided the public in a point-by-point format considering each and every (sensible) policy suggestion made at the grass roots level. Such written explanation as record of policy decisions
made would only be of secondary import as compared to the results of public debates. If a policy decision were proposed contrary to the sentiment which seemed to prevail within public debate on the subject then either public explanation would be required or a follow-up debate.
METAREGIONAL PROVINCE -
METAREGIONS - (see also ModelCiv Page 6 - MetaRegions)
1) Africa North
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Africa (a larger version of Africa North)
2) Africa West
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Africa
3) Africa Central
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Africa
4) Africa East
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Africa (overlap with Africa North)
5) Africa South
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_Africa
6) Europa
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Union (EU leaves out some Europa nations)
What the current EU crisis requires toward resolution is a differential, domestic investment of freely-created credit to increase the wealth production capacity of net-wealth consuming areas. Those areas of the EU already capable of a net-wealth surplus can be converted to sustainability with less urgency. Said investment must be toward the construction of Local Green Tech Infrastructure in these relatively poor areas. Once local populations are uniformly capable of producing an annual, net-wealth surplus the monetary union portion of the EU can proceed with its constructive development.
7) Russian Federation
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_Federation
This massive MetaRegion has several special advantages within the ModelCiv system. Firstly, the Russian Federation is home to the largest forested area on planet earth. Maintenance of this forest's existence and health is absolutely vital to sequestering significant atmospheric carbon and preventing a climate catastrophe. Within ModelCiv the existence of the Russian Forest would represent active wealth value--recognized as a vital Earth Preserve whose existence must be protected, whatever the cost.
The western portion of Russian Federation still maintains a massive greenhouse agricultural capacity.
Massive potential for Self Sufficient Settlement construction--cold-climate design.
8) Asia Southwest
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southwest_Asia
Currently the toughest area on earth in which to create stability and peace, Asia Southwest will greatly benefit from a new, global emphasis upon Free Energy. Middle East petroleum reserves would still be of high value but this value would be best safeguarded by not wasting petroleum as a combustible fuel but instead, keeping reserves intact for future, non-combustible industrial needs.
9) Asia Central
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Asia
10) Asia South
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Asia
11) Asia East
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Asia
12) Asia Southeast
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southeast_Asia (includes Asia Southeast Maritime)
13) Asia Southeast Maritime
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brunei
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Timor
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indonesia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malaysia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippines
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singapore
14) Australia--New Zealand
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Zealand
15) Melanesia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melanesia
16) Micronesia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micronesia
17) Polynesia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polynesia
18) Canada
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada
19) USA
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States
20) Mexico
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexico
21) Central America
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_America
22) Caribbean
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caribbean
23) South America--North
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_South_America
24) South America--West
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bolivia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecuador
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peru
25) Brazil
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brazil
26) South America--South
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_South_America
B) ACTIVE NEWS ARCHIVE - start: 03-31-2013
12-30-2013
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/dec/29/drones-us-military?CMP=twt_gu
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/12/30/chinese-farmland-polluted_n_4517601.html?ref=topbar (copy + paste)
http://oilprice.com/Geopolitics/Asia/Freed-from-Prison-Russian-Energy-Oligarch-Khodorkovsky-Flies-to-Germany.html
12-24-2013
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-12-24/year-later-bundesbank-has-repatriated-only-37-tons-gold-700-total (c + p)
In response to the US decision to deploy ABM systems in Europe, the Russian Defense Ministry has confirmed its deployment of "short-range Iskander missiles" to Kaliningrad:
http://www.blacklistednews.com/US_to_deploy_ABM_systems_in_Europe_despite_P5%2B1_deal_with_Iran/31266/0/38/38/Y/M.html (c + p)
http://www.fas.org/nuke/guide/russia/theater/ss-26.htm (copy + paste)
12-22-2013
12-21-2013
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-12-21/hidden-motives-behind-federal-reserve-taper (please copy + paste)
12-19-2013
http://www.occupycorporatism.com/pitchfork-protests-italians-demand-gov-resignation/ (c + p)
12-16-2013
http://www.theautomaticearth.com/ragnarok-iceland-doom-gods-2/ (please copy + paste) - An extensive explanation of Iceland's 2008 banking crisis, the requisite response by Iceland's government and people, the EU response and current situation.
12-06-2013
http://news.goldseek.com/GoldenJackass/1386350553.php (please copy + paste)
12-01-2013
http://truth-out.org/video/item/20354-tepco-downplays-huge-risks-involved-in-removing-fukushima-fuel-rods (c + p) - a short interview with Arnie Gunderson regarding the dangers of Tokyo Electric's removal of spent fuel rods from Fukushima Daiichi Unit 4.
11-26-2013
http://kingworldnews.com/kingworldnews/KWN_DailyWeb/Entries/2013/11/25_Another_Terrifying_Black_Swan_Is_Headed_Our_Way.html
(please copy + paste)
11-22-2013 (please cut and paste any article address in NEWS ARCHIVE after 11-01-2013)
http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archives/china-announces-that-it-is-going-to-stop-stockpiling-u-s-dollars
http://www.blacklistednews.com/China_Announces_That_It_Is_Going_To_Stop_Stockpiling_U.S._Dollars/30545/0/0/0/Y/M.html
http://kingworldnews.com/kingworldnews/KWN_DailyWeb/Entries/2013/11/22_Money_Supply_Skyrocketing_As_China_Abandons_US_Dollar.html
08-06-2013
http://intellihub.com/2013/06/13/chipotle-becomes-first-us-restaurant-chain-to-voluntarily-label-gmos/
http://intellihub.com/2013/08/06/31-percent-of-u-s-honey-bees-were-wiped-out-this-year-who-will-pollinate-our-crops/
05-29-2013
Japan’s Big Money Printing Gamble
http://www.marketoracle.co.uk/Article40650.html
05-27-2013
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-05-27/40-frightening-facts-fall-us-economy
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-05-27/russia-greece-turkey-other-central-banks-buy-gold-china%E2%80%99s-pboc-buying
http://www.zerohedge.com/contributed/2013-05-27/war-racket
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-05-27/mapping-bitcoins-global-adoption
05-26-2013
"Europe Can't Beat The Bubble, Past Sins And Future Debts"
http://www.marketoracle.co.uk/Article40610.html
05-25-2013
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-05-25/bill-black-our-system-so-flawed-fraud-mathematically-guaranteed (contains 58 min. interview)
05-23-2013
http://www.safehaven.com/article/29916/gold-and-silver
05-16-2013
"U.S. Dollar Collapse and Japan’s Sham Currency War"
http://www.marketoracle.co.uk/Article40475.html
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-05-16/10-perspectives-slow-agonizing-death-american-worker
05-14-2013
http://www.blacklistednews.com/10_Scenes_From_The_Economic_Collapse_That_Is_Sweeping_Across_The_Planet/25974/0/38/38/Y/M.html
05-13-2013
http://kingworldnews.com/kingworldnews/KWN_DailyWeb/Entries/2013/5/10_Maguire_-_Perfect_Storm_In_Gold_As_LBMA_%26_COMEX_Collapsing.html
05-09-2013
http://bullmarketthinking.com/world-bank-whistle-blower-precious-metals-to-serve-as-an-underpinning-for-paper-currencies/
"Nether-Crumble, Part 2: The Meme Spreads" (re. Netherlands debt levels)
http://www.acting-man.com/?p=23107#more-23107
05-08-2013
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-05-08/chinese-gold-imports-soar-monthly-record-insatiable-demand
05-02-2013
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-05-02/bank-ireland-doubles-mortgage-rates-homeowners-fear-more-come
04-30-2013
"Financial Treachery & Harsh Consequences"
http://news.goldseek.com/GoldenJackass/1367352000.php
04-25-2013
http://dollarcollapse.com/precious-metals/catherine-austin-fitts-another-gold-smackdown-coming/
http://bullmarketthinking.com/major-indian-gold-dealer-there-is-a-clear-fight-going-in-procuring-metal-as-early-as-possible/
http://www.kitco.com/ind/AuthenticMoney/2013-04-25-Better-Safe-Haven-Switzerland-or-Canada.html
"Comex Physical Drain Accelerates--With Over 7.8B Disappearing From All Depositories"
http://bullmarketthinking.com/comex-physical-drain-accelerates-with-over-7-8b-disappearing-from-all-depositories/
04-22-2013
"Japan Steps into the Void" - Peter Schiff, Euro Pacific Capital, Inc.
http://www.321gold.com/editorials/schiff/schiff042213.html
04-15-2013
Former Portuguese Prime Minister Says "Portugal Cannot Pay Its Debts", Calls for "Argentine-Style Default"
http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com/2013/04/former-portuguese-prime-minister-says.html
"The END GAME Has Commenced"
http://www.silverseek.com/article/end-game-has-commenced-10961
"Gold in the Crosshairs"
http://www.kitco.com/ind/Schiff/20130415.html
"Gold Trader: Expect Margin Calls Monday Morning As Big Players Do Whatever It Takes To Get Physical Metal."
http://bullmarketthinking.com/gold-trader-expect-margin-calls-monday-morning-as-big-players-do-whatever-it-takes-to-get-physical-metal/
"Silver Prices, Inflation and Living With the Long Term" Dr. Jeffrey Lewis| April 12, 2013 - 11:39am
http://www.silverseek.com/commentary/silver-prices-inflation-and-living-long-term-10916
04-11-2013
"Carmen Reinhart: 'No Doubt. Our Pensions Are Screwed.' "
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-04-11/carmen-reinhart-no-doubt-our-pensions-are-screwed
04-09-2013
"Bitcoins or Gold? Part I"
http://www.zerohedge.com/contributed/2013-04-09/bitcoins-or-gold-part-i
04-08-2013
"Cypriot Chaos Assists EU Centralization"
http://www.safehaven.com/article/29421/cypriot-chaos-assists-eu-centralization
"Where Do The Rich And Poor Live?"
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-04-08/where-do-rich-and-poor-live
"80% Chance Of 40% Silver Short Squeeze"
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-04-08/80-chance-40-silver-short-squeeze
04-07-2013
"Money Flows In To Gold & Silver Are About To Skyrocket"
http://kingworldnews.com/kingworldnews/KWN_DailyWeb/Entries/2013/4/6_Money_Flows_In_To_Gold_%26_Silver_Are_About_To_Skyrocket.html
"Sinclair - Stunning Shift In US Government & Fed Gold Policy"
http://kingworldnews.com/kingworldnews/KWN_DailyWeb/Entries/2013/4/7_Sinclair_-_Stunning_Shift_In_US_Government_%26_Fed_Gold_Policy.html
04-05-2013
"Art Cashin - Aftermath of Cyprus, Fear, Contagion & Crisis"
http://kingworldnews.com/kingworldnews/KWN_DailyWeb/Entries/2013/4/5_Art_Cashin_-_Aftermath_of_Cyprus,_Fear,_Contagion_%26_Crisis.html
"Sinclair: 'This Will Create The Mother Of All Financial Crises' "
http://kingworldnews.com/kingworldnews/KWN_DailyWeb/Entries/2013/4/5_Sinclair_-_This_Will_Create_The_Mother_Of_All_Financial_Crises.html
"Global Deposit Confiscation Called For By Influential CEO Of Italy's Largest Bank"
http://www.zerohedge.com/contributed/2013-04-05/global-deposit-confiscation-called-influential-ceo-italys-largest-bank
"George Soros Warns 'Central Banks Are Creating Financial Instability' "
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-04-05/george-soros-warns-central-banks-are-creating-financial-instability
"Oh No! Is It Possible? A 3rd Irish Bank With Hidden Charges Not Revealed In Its Annual Reports?"
http://www.zerohedge.com/contributed/2013-04-05/oh-no-it-possible-3rd-irish-bank-hidden-charges-not-revealed-its-annual-repor
"Spark That Will Send The World Into A Hyperinflationary Spiral"
http://kingworldnews.com/kingworldnews/KWN_DailyWeb/Entries/2013/4/5_Spark_That_Will_Send_The_World_Into_A_Hyperinflationary_Spiral.html
04-04-2013
"ZIRP (0%) is Not Stimulus, Rather a Death Knell"
http://news.goldseek.com/GoldenJackass/1365105720.php
"Desperate Countries To Accelerate Private Wealth Destruction"
http://kingworldnews.com/kingworldnews/KWN_DailyWeb/Entries/2013/4/4_Desperate_Countries_To_Accelerate_Private_Wealth_Destruction.html
"Former US Treasury Official - The Fed Is Facing A Wipeout"
http://kingworldnews.com/kingworldnews/KWN_DailyWeb/Entries/2013/4/4_Former_US_Treasury_Official_-_The_Fed_Is_Facing_A_Wipeout.html
"CEO Of Italy's Largest Bank Says Haircuts Of Uninsured Depositors 'Acceptable', Should Become A Template"
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-04-04/ceo-italys-largest-bank-says-haircuts-uninsured-depositors-acceptable-should-become-
"A Ton Of Gold Bricks: What Capital Flight Looks Like In Italy"
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-04-04/ton-gold-bricks-what-capital-flight-looks-italy
"Mapping The Witch-Hunt Of The World's Offshore Bank Account Holders"
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-04-04/mapping-witch-hunt-worlds-offshore-bank-account-holders
"MF Global Trustee Speaks: It Was All Corzine's Fault"
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-04-04/mf-global-trustee-speaks-it-was-all-corzines-fault
"Celente - Powerful, Destructive Big Bank Holiday Coming"
http://kingworldnews.com/kingworldnews/KWN_DailyWeb/Entries/2013/4/4_Celente_-_Powerful_%26_Destructive_Big_Bank_Holiday_Coming.html
04-03-2013
"Former US Treasury Official - Fed Desperate To Save System"
http://kingworldnews.com/kingworldnews/KWN_DailyWeb/Entries/2013/4/3_Former_US_Treasury_Official_-_Fed_Desperate_To_Save_System.html
04-02-2013
"The Untrustworthy and the Trustful"
http://cluborlov.blogspot.com/2013/04/the-untrustworthy-and-trustful.html
"Stockman On Bernanke's Actions: 'The Ultimate Consequence Will Be A Train-Wreck' "
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-04-02/stockman-bernankes-actions-ultimate-consequence-will-be-train-wreck
"One Of Ireland's Biggest Banks Busted Fudging The Books? Nah! Busted Concealing Debt? Nah! Busted.. Cyprus Was Just The Preamble"
http://www.zerohedge.com/contributed/2013-04-02/one-irelands-biggest-banks-busted-fudging-books-nah-busted-concealing-debt-na
"Holland: 'An Economy On The Brink' "
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-04-02/holland-economy-brink
"System Designed To Collapse Ahead Of New World Currency"
http://kingworldnews.com/kingworldnews/KWN_DailyWeb/Entries/2013/4/2_System_Designed_To_Collapse_Ahead_Of_New_World_Currency.html
"West Much Closer To Collapse As Gold War Continues To Rage"
http://kingworldnews.com/kingworldnews/KWN_DailyWeb/Entries/2013/4/2_West_Much_Closer_To_Collapse_As_Gold_War_Continues_To_Rage.html
"Coming Financial Collapse Moved Up A Notch Post Cyprus"
http://kingworldnews.com/kingworldnews/KWN_DailyWeb/Entries/2013/4/2_Coming_Financial_Collapse_Moved_Up_A_Notch_Post_Cyprus.html
04-01-2013
"USDollar: Ring-Fenced & Checkmate"
http://news.goldseek.com/GoldenJackass/1364846400.php
"For Cyprus, The Pain Is Only Just Starting"
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-04-01/cyprus-pain-only-just-starting
"The European Crisis is now accelerating right as Germany becomes increasingly uninterested in funding bailouts"
http://www.zerohedge.com/contributed/2013-04-01/european-crisis-now-accelerating-right-germany-becomes-increasingly-uninteres
"Bitcoin Hits $101 - Doubles Since Cyprus"
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-04-01/bitcoin-hits-101-doubles-cyprus
"Barons of Bitcoin: the Tokyo-based powerhouse that controls the world's virtual money"
http://www.theverge.com/2013/4/1/4154500/mt-gox-barons-of-bitcoin
"Sinclair - Something Has Western Central Banks Terrified"
http://kingworldnews.com/kingworldnews/KWN_DailyWeb/Entries/2013/4/1_Sinclair_-_Something_Has_Western_Central_Banks_Terrified.html
"This Will Signal The Final Collapse & End Game Has Started"
http://kingworldnews.com/kingworldnews/KWN_DailyWeb/Entries/2013/4/1_This_Will_Signal_The_Final_Collapse_%26_End_Game_Has_Started.html
03-31-2013
" ‘Challenging the dollar’: Bitcoin total value tops $1 billion"
http://rt.com/news/bitcoin-challenge-dollar-currency-121/
"How Cyprus Exposed The Fundamental Flaw Of Fractional Reserve Banking"
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-03-31/visualization-modern-fractional-reserve-banking-and-how-cyprus-fits
"David Stockman: 'We've Been Lied To, Robbed, And Misled' "
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-03-31/david-stockman-weve-been-lied-robbed-and-misled
"Tom Hoenig: 'This System Distorts The Market And Turns Appropriate Risk-Taking Into Recklessness' "
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-03-31/tom-hoenig-system-distorts-market-and-turns-appropriate-risk-taking-recklessness
"Guest Post: Debt-Slavery For Dummies"
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-03-31/guest-post-debt-slavery-dummies
"Thanks, World Reserve Currency, But No Thanks: Australia And China To Enable Direct Currency Convertibility"
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-03-31/thanks-world-reserve-currency-no-thanks-australia-and-china-enable-direct-currency-c
"Forget too-big-to-fail Instead Kill the Fractional Reserve Banking System"
http://www.marketoracle.co.uk/Article39727.html
"The Confiscation of Savings in Canada? Cyprus-Style “Bail-Ins” Proposed by Ottawa Government"
http://www.globalresearch.ca/the-confiscation-of-savings-in-canada-cyprus-style-bail-ins-proposed-by-ottawa-government/5329263
MACRO ANALYSIS
"Financial Treachery & Harsh Consequences" 4-30-13
http://news.goldseek.com/GoldenJackass/1367352000.php
"Cypriot Chaos Assists EU Centralization" 4-8-13
http://www.safehaven.com/article/29421/cypriot-chaos-assists-eu-centralization
"ZIRP (0%) is Not Stimulus, Rather a Death Knell" 4-4-13
http://news.goldseek.com/GoldenJackass/1365105720.php
"USDollar: Ring-Fenced & Checkmate" 4-1-13
http://news.goldseek.com/GoldenJackass/1364846400.php
"Revealed – the capitalist network that runs the world" 10-24-11
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21228354.500-revealed--the-capitalist-network-that-runs-the-world.html
C) INACTIVE NEWS ARCHIVES
NEWS ARCHIVE - start: 03-28-2013 end: 03-30-2013
Banking
03-30-2013 "Banks Win Again As Judge Tosses Antitrust Claims In Libor Lawsuit"
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-03-30/banks-win-again-judge-tosses-antitrust-claims-libor-lawsuit
03-29-2013 "The Most Dangerous & Potentially Fatal Gamble In History"
http://kingworldnews.com/kingworldnews/KWN_DailyWeb/Entries/2013/3/29_The_Most_Dangerous_%26_Potentially_Fatal_Gamble_In_History.html
03-29-2013 "It Can Happen Here: The Bank Confiscation Scheme for US and UK Depositors"
http://www.globalresearch.ca/it-can-happen-here-the-bank-confiscation-scheme-for-us-and-uk-depositors/5328954
Cyprus
03-30-2013 "Cyprus Changed Everything, How To Safeguard Your Money"
http://kingworldnews.com/kingworldnews/KWN_DailyWeb/Entries/2013/3/31_Cyprus_Changed_Everything%2C_How_To_Safeguard_Your_Money.html
03-30-2013 "Political Fallout Begins: Former Cyprus President Named In Loan Write-Offs Leading To Banking Insolvency"
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-03-30/political-fallout-begins-former-cyprus-president-named-loan-write-offs-leading-banki
03-29-2013 "Caught In The Cyprus Crossfire: Small Businesses Suddenly With Zero Cash"
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-03-29/caught-cyprus-crossfire-small-businesses-suddenly-zero-cash
03-29-2013 "I Went To Sleep Friday A Rich Man, I Woke Up Poor"
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-03-29/i-went-sleep-friday-rich-man-i-woke-poor
03-28-2013 "10%... 40%... Now An 80% Confiscation Scheme?"
http://www.zerohedge.com/contributed/2013-03-28/10-40-now-80-confiscation-scheme
03-27-2013 "A Comment on Jeroen Dijsselbloem and a few Charts"
http://www.acting-man.com/?p=22383
03-26-2013 "Bangs and Whimpers"
http://cluborlov.blogspot.com/2013/03/bangs-and-whimpers.html#more
European Union
03-26-2013 "The Axe is in Position, Only the Timing of the Swing is in Question"
http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com/2013/03/the-axe-is-in-position-only-timing-of.html
Gold
03-29-2013 "The Chess Game of Capital Controls"
http://www.caseyresearch.com/articles/chess-game-capital-controls
Iceland
03-27-2013 "Iceland offers hard lessons for Cyprus on capital controls"
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/03/27/us-eurozone-cyprus-iceland-idUSBRE92Q0HN20130327
Japan
03-22-2013 "The Government Debt Situation Japan: A Catastrophe Waiting To Happen"
http://goldsilverworlds.com/gold-silver-general/the-government-debt-situation-japan-a-catastrophe-waiting-to-happen/
Slovenia
03-25-2013 "Slovenia Under Pressure; Risk of Next Cyprus Already at Hand"
http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com/2013/03/slovenia-under-pressure-risk-of-next.html
World Economy
03-28-2013 "What We Are Now Seeing Is Unprecedented In World History"
http://kingworldnews.com/kingworldnews/KWN_DailyWeb/Entries/2013/3/28_What_We_Are_Now_Seeing_Is_Unprecedented_In_World_History.html
03-22-2013 "Economic Collape of the Something for Nothing Societies!"
http://www.marketoracle.co.uk/Article39596.html
NEWS ARCHIVE - start: 10-23-2012 end: 03-28-2013
03-28-2013 "If You Don't Own your Bank Deposit, Do you Own your Gold? Is it too, Vulnerable to a 'Cyprus Event.'?"
http://www.safehaven.com/article/29308/if-you-dont-own-your-bank-deposit-do-you-own-your-gold-is-it-too-vulnerable-to-a-cyprus-event
03-27-2013 "Autopsy of a Dead Market"
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-03-27/autopsy-dead-market
03-27-2013 "Santelli On The End Of Paper Gold's Reign"
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-03-27/santelli-end-paper-golds-reign
03-27-2013 "BRICS to form Development Bank"
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/27/world/africa/brics-to-form-development-bank.html
03-27-2013 "New BRICS bank to rival World Bank, IMF"
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2013/03/26/295322/new-brics-bank-to-rival-world-bank-imf/
03-06-2013 "Raging Gold Bull & Disputed Propaganda
http://news.goldseek.com/GoldenJackass/1362603600.php
03-04-2013 "Swiss Voters Approve Limits on ‘Fat Cat’ Executive Pay"
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-03-03/swiss-voters-set-limits-on-ceo-paychecks-sf1-projections.html
03-03-2013 "CURRENCY WARS: Belligerent Bullies"
http://www.gordontlong.com/Articles/art-2013-03-CW-Belligerent_Bullies.htm
03-04-2013 "You Are What You Click: On Microtargeting"
http://www.thenation.com/article/172887/you-are-what-you-click-microtargeting#
02-27-2013 "Gritty Questions on the Historic Collapse"
http://news.goldseek.com/GoldenJackass/1361998800.php
02-07-2013 "Pitched Currency War & USDollar Rejection"
http://news.goldseek.com/GoldenJackass/1360270800.php
02-06-2013 "Billionaires Dumping Stocks, Economist Knows Why"
http://www.moneynews.com/MKTNews/billionaires-dump-economist-stock/2012/08/29/id/450265?PROMO_CODE=110D8-1&utm_source=taboola
10-23-2012 "Eleven EU nations get go-ahead on 'Robin Hood' finance tax"
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5iocqnuwHrXvrOSuNYLt-cgPzjqfw?docId=CNG.f57961c5283e9342673162e0c8492940.4c1
CYPRUS
03-28-2013 "If You Don't Own your Bank Deposit, Do you Own your Gold? Is it too, Vulnerable to a 'Cyprus Event.'?"
http://www.safehaven.com/article/29308/if-you-dont-own-your-bank-deposit-do-you-own-your-gold-is-it-too-vulnerable-to-a-cyprus-event
03-27-2013 "Cypriot EUR Price Parity"
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-03-27/cypriot-eur-price-parity
03-26-2013 "The Axe is in Position, Only the Timing of the Swing is in Question"
http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com/2013/03/the-axe-is-in-position-only-timing-of.html
03-20-2013 Guest Post: "Will The Banking Meltdown In Cyprus Be A “Lehman Brothers Moment” For All Of Europe?"
http://www.blacklistednews.com/Guest_Post%3A_Will_The_Banking_Meltdown_In_Cyprus_Be_A_%E2%809CLehman_Brothers_Moment%E2%80%9D_For_All_Of_Europe%3F/24841/0/38/38/Y/M.html
D) "THE DEATH AND LIFE OF GREAT AMERICAN CITIES" (1961) by JANE JACOBS
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Jacobs
Street and Sidewalk Society
Small Businesses and Pedestrian Travel
Local Diversity and Pedestrian Travel
Selective and Limited Urban Renovation
Conservation of Social Context and Content: City Neighborhoods
Jane Jacobs believes, from extensive observation, that city neighborhoods should be selectively improved and that key to such improvement is keeping intact the families and people living within any particular city neighborhood. Means to neighborhood improvement would consist of selective removal of dilapidated buildings which, in the case of apartments, would be replaced by an apartment building designed to accommodate those former inhabitants of the building being replaced. Ms. Jacobs is, in all instances, against the wholesale destruction of entire neighborhoods - even when designated as ghetto - and in favor of selective, building by building assessments and subsequent replacement of only those buildings incapable of renovation. Ms. Jacobs observed that the construction of large apartment complexes as ghetto replacement only created a great increase of poverty and crime as such complexes were normally devoid of the social policing that takes place on healthy neighborhood sidewalks and streets.
Ms. Jacobs created the science of healthy city operation. The critical element regarding social policing and neighborhood safety was the regular use of city streets and sidewalks. Streets frequented by pedestrians throughout the day and into the night due to people having reason to travel said streets are, in nearly all cases, safe. But pedestrians cannot be forced to frequent streets they have no interest in using due to a lack of interesting and profitable places to go. This is why Jacobs emphasizes the conservation of properly functioning neighborhood streets and sidewalks and is so against the artificial constructs of city planners which do not take into account the aformentioned factors.
The creation of model cities or "garden cities" where inhabitants are simply inserted into artificially-created neighborhoods in order to create communities are, in all cases, failures in Ms. Jacobs' estimation. For any city or neighborhood to function properly it has to develop organically over time. The people living in real cities and neighborhoods enact a complex social and economic interaction within their communities which determines where people live and what businesses they might initiate or become involved with through daily interaction. This organic growth and operation of city districts cannot be pre-planned, pre-packaged or built in isolation from all the social interaction which goes into city functioning and formation.
E) WORLDGREENPLAN.COM (1999-2001) - edited excerpts
Note: The following are excerpts from the author's former website, WORLDGREENPLAN.COM. These articles have been edited from their original form. All excerpt selections attempt to illustrate some of the underlying concepts animating MODELCIV.COM.
WORLDGREENPLAN.COM:
THE NEED FOR CHANGE
Is it realistic to assume that all of our centralized systems will never have major, civilization-threatening breakdowns? Any mathematician, objectively assessing present conditions, would tell you that the odds of such a breakdown increase daily. So long as we do not address the need to convert our world industries and social organization toward sustainability, we tempt fate and mathematical certainty.
Artificially-centralized systems eventually break down. History teaches us this. No amount of technology or centralized power can defeat this principle. Man is not above the Universe. To study the effect of earthquakes on present-day, population centers makes plain the fragility of much of our urban and industrial infrastructure. With populations fully dependent upon the delivery of remote resources for their daily survival the dangers are obvious.
It would be best to dismantle current, centralized systems in orderly fashion so that component parts can be re-incorporated into a new and resilient structural organization (ie. locally-based and biospherically-sustainable). If we do not make the pro-active decisions necessary to effect an orderly change then the physical limits of our Biosphere and the Karmic limits of our Universe will scatter our current constructions in a random manner.
The prime object of human industry and social organization should be to produce species survivability in tandem with exquisite culture. Species survivability cannot presently be separated from environmentally sustainable practice. At this point in the game, with all the degradation of earth's biosphere that has been occurring for decades and centuries we, as a species, would be foolhardy to presuppose the indefinite support of Earth in our misadventures. A time is coming soon when the accumulation of all past deeds becomes manifest. Heaven help our species if we do not make a progressive move soon.
POPULATION STABILIZATION
The traditional village life of indigenous peoples is conducive to population stability. Since local resources are limited any tribe or nationality which has occupied the same area for hundreds of years has, of necessity, developed a working relationship between human numbers and resource availability. Such a relationship would be ingrained in each societal member--as part of their culture.
We must acknowledge that birth control methods have thusly been worked out and utilized by so-called 'Primitive Peoples' as well as the appropriate societal context for sexual relations. Traditional cultures do not sweep this issue under the rug as it is vital to their survival. It would seem that civilized man could well take a lesson from these indigenous cultures (however few may still exist).
Sadly, any culture stuffed into the confines of a low-rent district cannot operate. Traditional cultures were developed within the lands that bore them. Take away a people's land and once living culture becomes a subject for book study.
People stuffed into cities with no hope excepting to prolong their survival are akin to mice in an overpopulation experiment. In attempting to survive, any creature will seek the most basic of methods and so the poor bear children in hopes that some of their offspring will survive them and care for them in their old age. Such a survival strategy is surely more favored by men than women. In hopes of avoiding a world population catastrophe we must free women in poverty from the enslavement of bearing child after child.
The establishment of Community Economies with their requisite, local Green Tech Infrastructures will bring back the spirit and functionality of traditional village life and re-create culture with direct connections to the lands that bear us. Once sufficient wealth is enjoyed within each family unit the focus of parents worldwide would be to put maximum energy, love and intelligence into raising any child they might bring forth. Many couples, realizing the current crisis on our planet, will choose to devote their lives to careers and so will have no children. We must rely on education and human conscience to create a new and practical culture in this regard.
It would be simple for national governments to encourage a voluntary limitation of family size by denying tax credits for any more than two children per family. Such tax law would be enforced with social equity. True and universal education as to the present social and ecologic plight of our planet would transform the public conscience to one focussed upon solving real problems. People can all learn to work together when they are enjoying the total benefits thereof. Co-operation is contagious and it must be the role of NatGovs to create this socially-constructive contagion. Social and economic conditions can be architectured to accomplish exactly this.
RESOURCE CREATION
This term refers to the capacity of Green Technology Devices to create regular or continuous excess wealth. The idea is that once the Green Production Capacity is built that it will produce wealth value in excess of the resources required to produce said wealth value. Once a Green Technology Device is built it produces wealth out of all proportion to the resources required to construct and operate it. Thusly resources are created rather than consumed through Green Industries and our biosphere is enabled to repair itself.
The prime example of Resource Creation, I would say, is Cold Fusion excess heat generation. Within a beaker of hydrogen-enriched seawater palladium-alloyed beads are placed. Next an anode and cathode are inserted into the water medium of our beaker. An electric current is now run into the seawater through anode and cathode and when this current achieves the sufficent threshold value, a truly strange reaction occurs. The electric current evidently frees up molecular hydrogen from the seawater and this begins to concentrate upon the surfaces of the palladium-alloy beads at the bottom of the beaker--palladium possessing the quality of thusly concentrating hydrogen molecules. Once the concentration of hydrogen is sufficient on the surfaces of the palladium alloy neutron to neutron interaction causes the hydrogen molecules to vibrate. With the threshold electrical input maintained the degree of hydrogen molecule vibration reaches such a level that
excess heat energy thousands of times greater than the threshold electical value is produced. With a conversion of this heat into electricity (through boiler or turbine) a feedback loop could be devised to continuously provide the reaction with the threshold electrical input required to sustain it. The tremendous excess energy produced by Cold Fusion (ie. minus the threshold value needed to maintain the reaction) could power towns and cities without a continuous expenditure of resources.
The beauty of Cold Fusion is that the "reaction" is not a chemical reaction at all. It's a reaction within the future realm of physics or electrochemistry that no one can presently find the science to explain. Since no chemical reaction occurs in Cold Fusion and the reaction simply consists of a vibration of hydrogen molecules (nuclei) which have accumulated upon a palladium-alloy surface--there are no chemical byproducts! Not only does this reaction not pollute but one need not even replenish any material in the beaker to maintain the continuous flow of excess heat energy! It's really rather breathtaking in its implications.
Taking Cold Fusion as a technical reality ModelCiv would project the eventual recycling of all usable palladium from now antiquated catalytic converters to be incorporated into Cold Fusion Power Plant construction.
FREE ENERGY ATMOSPHERIC CRAFT
http://discaircraft.greyfalcon.us/Viktor%20Schauberger.htm
Viktor Schauberger, formerly of Austria, purportedly designed and built a "Flying Disk" which used Vortex Engine Technology--a technology which he originated and first used to build a Water Engine in 1930's Austria. Mr. Schauberger's Flying Disk applied the vortex engine principle to atmospheric air rather than water. This craft was built to his specifications by an Austrian firm in 1940.
Vortex Engine Technology, as applied to the Flying Disk, works in this way. The power plant is central to the disk and intakes air through vents on the upper surface of the craft and possibly at 180 degree opposite ends--in the disk's sides. Atmospheric air, now within the power plant, is forced through a series of vortice-producing tubes which cause a requisite drop in the air's temperature with a resultant collapse of air volume. Air volume collapses so precipitously with air temperature drop that a strong vacuum is created in the atmosphere adjacent to the intake ducts. This vacuum then draws the craft upward and/or forward--depending upon which ducts are activated for intake. This is very much as an aircraft wing is drawn upward into the vacuum created by its curved upper surface.
The original Flying Disk was 20 centemeters in diameter and reportedly generated tremendous lift. According to Mr. Schauberger's calculation and with a rotational velocity of 20.000 RPM the 20 cm disk could lift 228 tonnes. Forced to work on a larger version of his aircraft for the German war machine during World War 2, Schauberger was unsuccessful in producing an operational version--largely due to his desire not to create such a war machine but also due to his inability to create a braking device for the craft.
ModelCiv would really have fun with this one. To see national fleets of Free Energy Flying Disks replacing the airliners of today and, being supplemented by aerospace company private production of the same craft, future air travel would not only be more interesting but more safe.
CURRENT LEADERSHIP
Business and political leaders are often fully caught up in trying to maintain their positions under trying and rather chaotic conditions. If I often have to worry about keeping my job then that's a great deal less that I can concentrate on doing my job. What we all need, from business and political leaders all the way to the person on the street, is some stability from which we might presently progress. This whole idea of getting something for nothing and also, accumulation through disappropriation--these are strategies for career furtherance currently receiving the approbation they so richly deserve. Wouldn't it be best for any individual to disassociate themselves from such socially abhorent behavior and seek what they know to be ethical--such as shall be institutionally self-evident in our near future? Wouldn't we all like to be on the correct side of history?
MOVIE MYTHOLOGY
Somehow in motion pictures the good guy always wins--right? No matter what the peril, our hero or heroine not only manages to survive but actually defeats a seemingly overwhelming evil. Although it's only fiction, this repeated exaggeration and our sub-conscious identification
with it must have some personal effect. Can the "Good Guy" ever lose?
In the real world there can also be happy endings but here, evil is a more elusive foe--often of our own creation. Presently there are many problems with the operation of our technical civilization which, left to run their course, would not result in a happy ending for humanity or the biosphere. But somehow everything will work out in the end...right?
Happy endings are possible in the real world only when we make our best efforts in areas possible for accomplishment. When we put forth sincere work and attempt to sense our own internal guidance--our Higher Selves--then the products of our labor come to have permanence in the Universe. When we repeatedly put forth such effort our deeds accumulate and begin to effect the world around us in an ever more powerful way. In this manner, physically separate but in spiritual unison, individuals can bring about a happy ending to the current historical epoch.
WORLDGREENPLAN.COM HOME PAGE - APRIL, 2001:
Welcome to WORLDGREENPLAN.COM
OBJECTIVES OF WORLD GREEN PLAN:
1) To promote world peace through the creation of local prosperity which, in turn, is protected by national and international law.
2) To establish the concept of a Global Transition Plan.
3) To promote the concept of citizen self-sufficiency.
4) To promote bioregional economic and social organization.
5) To explore and expand the implications of economic democracy.
6) To promote the formation of sustainable industries worldwide.
1)VS-A 2)SSF 3)CE 4)HTE 5)GC 6)FS 7)VS-B 8)FI-A 9)FI-B 10)FO 11)HO 12)HP
SOLUTION CATEGORIES 1-12...WGP RESEARCH CENTER...RELATED WEB SITES BY THE AUTHOR
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Introduction:
Green plans are transition tools whose object is the sustainable conversion of current industries. Conventional green plans seek the production of sustainable wealth within particular cities, states, provinces and countries.
World Green Plan has as its ambitious goal the sustainable conversion of all essential earth industries in a co-ordinated and concurrent manner. The creation of local and regional systems of sustainable wealth production in tandem with complimentary economic and governmental organization would see this achieved--but such an achievement would depend upon investment priorities. Should we continue the replication of bio-destructive technologies or might we instead choose to manufacture sustainable technology devices creating wealth for every earth citizen?
The execution of a Global Transition Plan could not take place without the approval of citizens, corporations and governments. Key to consensus would be public discussion groups representing these, at present, varied interests. All would hopefully acknowledge the need for global, sustainable development and subsequently suggest a plan of action.
World Green Plan (WGP) seeks to set forth one version of such a plan. It does not pretend to be infallible, but instead suggests answers to current resource-creation problems in the hope of stimulating discussion. WGP seeks to create prototypes of local, sustainable technology networks which would then produce all essential commodities required by the citizens within a neighborhood or village.
Such integrated systems of industry must sustainably produce energy, food, fiber and housing as well as handle waste conversion. The Green Technologies available to accomplish these tasks are mostly simple and can be explored within this Web site under the following article headings: Free.Energy.Devices, Water.Implosion.Engine, Spirulina.Ponds, Hydroponic.Greenhouses, Organic.Gardens, Hemp.Fiber and Solar.Aquatics. Descriptions of sustainable housing can be found in the 'Future.Settlement' section.
Green technology devices produce wealth well in excess of the resources required to drive them. They produce no polluting by-products and, in the case of Free Energy devices, actually radiate energies that are healing to the biosphere. The social and economic systems we create to feature these technologies must ensure equitable access to the tools of wealth creation by all.
Presently the spending power of nations is tied up in supporting our non-sustainable, consumption-based civilization. The money and natural resources fed into this System are inconsequential to it. Consumption is on-going since no permanent good is being created by the wealth we are thusly expending.
Conversely, if federal spending focussed upon the creation of a nation-wide system of sustainable industries in tandem with citizen self-sufficiency (including family home-ownership), a finite amount of wealth would be needed to create this. Although the initial cost would be great, the benefits would be permanent. We must envision a major shift in current spending.
The only way to solve the myriad dilemmas which presently plague our civilization is to create a New Civilization--one that is not wholly a creature of history. World Green Plan, in its finest segments, aspires to a possible new art--civilization design. Let us bring forth a system of governance and economy which enables each and every citizen to contribute intelligently as truly sound organization need not fear any new idea. Continual improvement and salient adaptation will then be the result of such a dynamic culture and economy.
Thanks for reading,
Anthony Tofanelli
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WGP'S OBJECTIVE #1:
To promote world peace through the creation of local prosperity which, in turn, is protected by national and international law.
Imagine, if you will, a global civilization where plentiful local wealth creates a superb standard of living for each and every person on our planet. Imagine also friendly relations between neighbors, communities and regions due to equal-value trading of goods and services resulting in self-sufficiency for all concerned. Such economic interdependency would eventually reach across national borders and nations would come to rely on each other in achieving self-sufficiency.
If the protection of such a co-operative system was the prime purpose of governments both national and international, then wherein would be a cause for war? National armed forces could be relegated soley to national defense while members of the military, if not defending their borders, could act as a multi-purpose pool of skilled labor helping to build sustainable, wealth-production capacity, providing disaster relief and repairing the environment.
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WORLD GREEN PLAN: SOLUTION CATEGORIES
World Green Plan focuses on solutions and currently divides itself into twelve 'Solution Categories'. Each category is a linked page whose article titles are listed below. The Solution Categories are as follows:
1) Value Shift A
___GLOBAL CHANGE SCIENCE
___NON-SUSTAINABLE CIVILIZATION
___THE NEED FOR CHANGE
___CURRENT LEADERSHIP
___RESOURCE CREATION
___NEW ECONOMY
___POPULATION STABILIZATION
___FUNDING SOURCES
___ODIOUS DEBT
___OWNERSHIP
___ILLUSORY OWNERSHIP
___MOVIE MYTHOLOGY
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2) Self-Sufficient Families
___HOME OWNERSHIP
___10 % INCOME TAX
___FAMILY TOGETHERNESS
___ORGANIC GARDENS
___EDUCATION
___NEIGHBORHOOD SCHOOLS
___WATER IMPLOSION ENGINE
___SOLAR AND WIND ENERGIES
___PERSONAL TRANSPORT
___MULTIPLE-UNIT RETROFIT
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3) Community Economy
___SMALL BUSINESS
___LOCAL CURRENCY
___REGIONAL CURRENCY
___REGIONAL BANKS
___COMMUNITY LANDS
___SPIRULINA PONDS
___SOLAR AQUATICS
___HYDROPONIC GREENHOUSES
___FREE ENERGY DEVICES http://www.padrak.com/ine/
___COMMUNITY POWER PLANTS
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4) Heal The Earth
___SMALL-FIELD AGRICULTURE
___RESTORATION ECOLOGY
___SEED BANKS
___HEMP FIBER
___WASTELAND SETTLEMENT
___BIODYNAMIC SOIL CREATION
___REFORESTATION
___GROUNDWATER RECHARGE
___ATMOSPHERIC REMEDIATION
___OCEAN REMEDIATION
___BIOSPHERIC STABILITY
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5) Green Cities
___URBAN POWER PLANTS
___URBAN AGRICULTURE
___SUSTAINABLE BUILDINGS
___SEWAGE CONVERSION
___GREENBELT GARDENS
___PEDESTRIAN MALLS
___REGIONAL TRADE CENTER
___REGIONAL LAW CENTER
___URBAN/INTERURBAN TRANSPORT
___URBAN ECOLOGY
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6) Future Settlement
___GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS http://www.geo.ed.ac.uk/home/giswww.html
___SETTLEMENT PATTERNS
___ARID LAND TECH
___EARTHSHIPS
___SELF-SUFFICIENT COLONIES
___STRAW BALE CONSTRUCTION
___MICROLIVESTOCK
___MINI-TOWERS
___MINI-CITY
___WATER SUPPLY
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7) Value Shift B
___MILITARY AFFAIRS
___PEOPLE OR MACHINES?
___CORPORATE CONVERSION
___GREEN TAXES
___DEAD-END TECHNOLOGIES
___TEMPORARY PRODUCTION
___RESOURCE SOVEREIGNTY
___INDIGENOUS INTEGRITY
___LOCAL ACCESS NATIONAL TELEVISION
___MANDATORY POLITICAL DEBATE
___URGENT PLEA
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8) Future Industry A
___MINERAL RECYCLING
___PLEXIGLASS PRODUCTION
___GREENHOUSE CONSTRUCTION
___INDUSTRIAL HEMP PRODUCTS
___LOCAL FISH PRODUCTION
___HUMAN SETTLEMENT CONSTRUCTION
___SOLAR OVENS http://www.sunoven.com
___DESALINIZATION
___OCEAN WATER PURIFICATION
___SOLAR ARCHITECTURE
___SMART WINDOWS
___FULL-SPECTRUM LIGHTING
___PHOTO-CHAT
___GLOBAL HOME EXCHANGE
___HYDROGEN-FUELED AUTOS http://www.monito.com/wankel/hydrogen.html....http://www.clean-air.org/aceproject.htm
___ELECTRIC TRAINS
___AIRSHIPS
___ANTI-GRAVITY + FREE ENERGY ATMOSPHERIC CRAFT http://www.padrak.com/ine/SUBJECTS.html#ANTI_GRAVITY
___NEW ENERGY TECH http://www.padrak.com/ine/SUBJECTS.html...http://www.padrak.com/ine/WEBSITES.html
___COLD FUSION http://www.padrak.com/ine/MALLOVECF.html...
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9) Future Industry B
___SUSTAINABLE SPACE PROGRAM
___CURRENT SPACE INDUSTRY PROJECTS
___MINI SATELLITES
___OCEAN RESEARCH VESSELS
___ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING STATIONS
___SPECIALIZED COMPUTERS
___FIBER OPTIC COMMUNICATIONS
___INFO DISPLAY CENTERS
___SPHERICAL IMAGING SYSTEMS
___FLAT SCREEN DISPLAYS
___PHOTO-TEXT
___HEALING CENTERS
___MEDICINAL PLANT PRODUCTION
___HEALING WATER
___HAZARDOUS WASTE CONTAINMENT/CLEAN-UP
___BIOREMEDIATION
___TELEROBOTICS
___VIRTUAL REALITY SIMULATION
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10) Future Organization
____SELF-RELIANT CITIZENS
____CULTURE-BASED ECONOMY
____FUTURE CORPORATIONS
____ENVIRONMENTAL LAW
____GOVERNMENT'S MANDATE
____BIOREGIONAL ORGANIZATION
____MODEL GOVERNMENT
____GREEN CONSORTIA
____DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL GOVERNMENTS http://lcweb2.loc.gov/glin/x-nation.html
____CITIZEN CONSENSUS COUNCILS http://www.co-intelligence.org/P-citizenCC.html
____CURRENT EXPERTISE
____FEDERAL CORPORATIONS
____NATIONAL INSURANCE
____NATIONAL DEFENSE FORCES
____EARTH PLANS http://www.conservationeconomy.net/
____DEMOCRATIC WORLD GOVERNMENT
____EARTH ISSUES
____DEMOCRATIC WORLD BANK
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11) Healing Ourselves
____ACUPRESSURE
____MICROHYDRIN
____HEALING DIET
____MEANINGFUL JOBS
____MONEY
____ABUNDANT ESSENTIALS
____GENEROSITY
____7
12) Human Potential
____DAILY NEURONS
____BRAIN ENHANCEMENT
____INTUITION
____BODY BUILDING
____NON-AGING
____SENSITIVITY
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WGP RESEARCH CENTER:
Most of the 100 plus article topics making up the body of this Web page can be further studied within the following 'LINKS' pages. Article titles are listed alphabetically and scattered amongst additional, related subject headings.
LINKS: A-E
LINKS: F-L
LINKS: M-R
LINKS: S-Z
WGP Research Center also contains the following:
VISIT 'FRIENDS OF WGP'
EARTH MANTRA/PRAYER
WGP: ORGANIC FARMING INFO
A PRINTABLE WGP HOME PAGE
WGP TERMS AND ABBREVIATIONS
Links of Interest:
http://www.co-intelligence.org/P-DanishTechPanels.html for Danish Citizen Technology Panels
http://www.padrak.com/ine/ for The Institute for New Energy
http://www.synergyii.com for Synergy International Inc.
http://www.ru.org for Renaissance Universal / New Renaissance
http://www.permaearth.org for Permaculture the Earth
http://www.soc.hawaii.edu/~future/ for Hawaii Research Center for Future Studies
http://www.fas.org for Federation of American Scientists
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RELATED WEB SITES BY THE AUTHOR:
LifeFriendly.Com is the home of LifeFriendly Industries. The focus of LifeFriendly.Com is a further
elaboration of the technologies and methods outlined in World Green Plan with a practical emphasis upon companies and organizations promoting these. LifeFriendly, though still under construction, can be reached at:
http://www.lifefriendly.com
ModelWorldGov.Com is the home of Model World Government or MWG. MWG, using World Green Plan as its basis, seeks to encourage and simulate the formation of a Democratic World Government. MWG, though still under construction, can be reached at:
http://www.modelworldgov.com
Go to World Green Plan's twin site: GLOBALGREENPLAN.COM
http://www.globalgreenplan.com
Go to the original Global Green Plan:
http://www.saber.net/~damatta/
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CONTACT THE AUTHOR: damatta@saber.net (2013 note: this e-mail now defunct)
Author's Note: Lately I've been experiencing difficulties receiving all of my e-mail. If you send a message and receive no reply within 4 days then please re-send. Thanks.
DISCLAIMER: Within WORLD GREEN PLAN the author has attempted to relate facts and ideas as accurately as possible. It is certain that some errors exist in this document. I apologize for any errors and will work on correcting them in subsequent updates of WGP.
Sincerely,
Anthony Tofanelli
All rights reserved by Anthony Tofanelli
F) AUTHOR'S JOURNAL
10-17-2013
In keeping with my note of 10-16-2013, I will continue to discuss possible additions to and further delineations of ModelCiv. Regarding Unit Credits and their initial valuation for countries of below-average worker productivity, ModelCiv envisions this initial valuation as a projection of worker productivity after the injection of EarthBank capital toward Green Production Capacity. After the establishment of significant Green Production Capacity within said countries the use of projections can be replaced by actual estimates of worker productivity being used in the calculation of annual Unit Credit Valuations.
Now, regarding Local Regions and their configuration, let's start with our projected USA MetaRegion and what is a most glaring example, within the lower 48 states, of needed administrative unit reform. The state of Kentucky--though approximately 40,000 square miles of land area--is presently divided into 120 counties! ModelCiv envisions Local Region size within the lower 48 states of USA MetaRegion to be approximately 10,000 square miles each which, in the case of Kentucky, would produce 4 Local Regions as replacement for those 120 counties. Said Local Regions might be designated:
Kentucky West
Kentucky West-Central
Kentucky East- Central
Kentucky East
A possible designation of 5 Local Regions for the state of Kentucky might be as follows:
Kentucky West
Kentucky West-Central
Kentucky East-Central
Kentucky East
Kentucky Northeast
(The exact configuration--ie. political boundaries--for said Local Regions would ultimately be determined, within ModelCiv, by the people of Kentucky themselves and by those more familiar with transport volume, urban and community concentrations, topography, etc. within the present state of Kentucky and within a Kentucky which has been converted to mostly Green Production.)
ModelCiv views the USA MetaRegion as one of the most antiquated on earth regarding the efficient configuration of second-level administrative units. While Local Regions, within the USA MetaRegion, would represent a replacement for both first-level administrative units (present states) and second-level admin. units (present counties) they would ultimately become the first-level administrative units of the USA MetaRegion. With the projected, eventual dissolving of national boundaries within MetaRegional Confederations (groupings of confederated, contiguous countries as opposed to the relatively large, single-country MetaRegions) Local Regions would, once again, become first-level administrative units. ModelCiv views the existence of states or large provinces (as first-level admin. units) within the USA and Canada MetaRegions respectively--as well as the national borders with MetaRegional Confederations--as the geographic birthing places of Local Regions which, after created, will become vestigial and fall away. To contain any confusion or disorder in our projected transition to Local Regional Administrative Units, present-day, first-level administrative units would act as the geographic containers within which Local Regions would be birthed.
Next discussed will be Local Region configurations for the Europa MetaRegion and beyond.
10-16-2013
I would like to use this "journal", at times, to discuss certain features of ModelCiv before formalizing their tenets within a specific subject heading. I would presently like to consider the possibility of a great simplification of the global money system by suggesting the use of one, versatile currency which I will call: Unit Credit. The Unit Credit or UC Currency would represent the value of one man or woman hour of work within the country of said Unit Credit's origin. ModelCiv envisions the global, Unit Credit as having as many possible valuations as there are countries. Valuation would be determined each year by the previous year's productivity divided as per capita.
The Unit Credit represents the work value/buying power of one man-hour or woman-hour of work, on average, within a country. Said buying power would be represented in the valuation of this national version of the global fiat currency. The value of Unit Credits within any one country would be determined by the average work efficiency delivered by the workers within any particular country, over the past year. ModelCiv envisions actual notes of various denominations which would feature the name of the county of ownership upon said bill. Actual coinage and/or virtual "coinage" would represent a percentage of one Unit Credit.
Such a system of annual currency valuation would require each country keeping track of annual wealth production efficiency per capita with a WorldGov or some global authority making parallel calculations. Increase in worker productivity within any country--which would have to be extrapolated toward wealth creation for the national workforce as a whole--would entail an appreciation of said nation's currency for the following year and thusly represent a gain of wealth for all holders of said currency. As a nation becomes wealthier their currency automatically buys more, under this system.
When we consider production and an economy of scale over time---when, say, the design of the Stirling Car or of a Cold Fusion Powerplant Design have been perfected then the manufacture or construction of such, year after year, will lessen cost per unit while the operation of such greentech devices and facilities will help to increase wealth production efficiency and thusly overall national wealth production. So, as the cost per unit for such items decreases over time, individual and national buying power rise.
A progressively increasing currency valuation would dovetail nicely with the projected increase in net wealth production by individuals and businesses within the sustainable, industrial system projected by ModelCiv.
Initial valuations for Unit Credits within various countries--as per ModelCiv--would fall within an acceptable range. Such would, in part, represent initial investment by EarthBank (through WorldGov) within those nations most lacking in per capita wealth production efficiency. So the initiation of this Unit Credit System would see requisite green investment in such countries to bring all national wealth production efficiencies within the afore-mentioned acceptable range.
07-01-2013
There is a fair amount of incongruence within ModelCiv. This is, in part, due to my starting the site before I had figured out all the basics. The system developed as I began to write and, consequently, portions still exist within which do not conform to the overall model. Another problem with the site is that it contains both transitional elements as well as elements of the completed ModelCiv. I am very tempted to delete all transitional systems and to simply outline the workings of ModelCiv after its establishment. This would eliminate a good deal of the inconsistencies but it would also eliminate some ideas essential to a green transition. The reader can trust that I will be attempting, in the near term, to right these deficiencies.
06-24-2013
If there is a technically superior architecture for industrial systems then we must at least consider its utilization. The object of industry is to put end-products into the hands of customers and within ModelCiv this would be done sustainably. The criterion insisted upon within ModelCiv is that industries operate sustainably without any externalization or socialization of production costs. Thusly, if all costs of production must be internalized by manufacturers then, of necessity, the superior, greentech will become most profitable. This new industrial--economic realism would create natural openings in production and market share for GreenTech and Green Production Methods.
In Green Production the qualities of efficiency and sustainability must coincide. Let us take the example of a 10% National Corporation manufacturing Stirling-engined Automobiles. Within the nationwide market for automobiles such a 10% NatCorp would seek to capture 10% of the domestic auto demand with its superior product: a Stirling-engined auto which does not require fuel and whose relatively simple manufacture would allow NatGov Autos to undersell currently much more complex competing models. Eventually, private auto manufacturers would have to produce the superior product--the Stirling Car--so as not to force NatGov Autos to increase their domestic market share.
This same pattern would be repeated across all critical industries--that 10% NatCorps would find the best green methods to put end products into the hands of customers and private companies would then be free to compete. Within ModelCiv, companies insisting on obsolete manufacturing methods would be forced to internalize the cost of their inefficiency. Within every major industry should emerge the most efficient, sustainable method of production.
06-23-2013
Being a parent one wishes, firstly, that their children are able to grow up in a society that is physically safe. This being established, the next vital element of civilized existence would be an opportunity for socio-economic advancement through functional education and the practical application thereof. With these two essentials, I as a parent would then wish to see each of my children choose for themselves a self-affirming group of friends and associates from whom, at some point, they would choose their life partner.
In a nutshell, any child and person should be able to enjoy the aforementioned opportunities and said opportunities would be provided the citizens of any nation state worthy of the concept. Presently, with the scourges of war and domestic insecurity, social equity (not egalitarianism) becomes a back-burner issue. Within ModelCiv's projected future the non-existence of such causes for social instability are created, in part, through equitable international trade and equitable international relations. ModelCiv projects the military personnel of every nation remaining within their national borders as a protective, defensive force which would then be used--primarily--as the Roman Legions were used in times of peace--toward infrastructure construction.
True security will only be achieved on earth when all nations and peoples enjoy sufficient, domestic wealth and each family and individual enjoy the fruits of discretionary wealth. Said discretionary wealth will be the fuel that powers local and regional economies, primarily. A Peace System of social organization is a system whereby populations are fully empowered--through functional education and adequate job opportunities--to produce the wealth required for socio-economic advancement. And there will be plenty of room in the Middle Class Future of each nation to accomodate all individuals and families achieving discretionary wealth. Such excess wealth production will become the norm when NatGov architecture is geared toward achieving such.
06-15-2013
As previously stated herein, ModelCiv does not envision an egalitarian society as either possible or desirable. Some persons are incapable of leadership while others cannot follow. Current leaders without constituencies simply retire from any attempt at formal leadership in hopes that present conditions will change. ModelCiv in its self-proclaimed role as a future projection imagines a time when all potential leadership is free to function within the fabric of society.
An informal definition of "democracy" is simply citizen feedback regarding living conditions. Any fair and well-meaning government will take heed of such information since the ideal of benevolent gov is wealth and happiness for entire citizenries. "Democracy" means giving credence to popular experience and adjusting the machinery of governance to its progressive accomodation.
Back to leadership--it's not possible for some people to follow. The "Urantia Book" states that, on average, there is a true societal leader in one of every hundred persons. If this is true then why are leaders relatively rare? This is due, in part, to the qualities required for leadership. A leader must care more for the welfare of their constituents than they do for their own personal interests. How many people, these days, do this? We are back to the one percent theory. True leaders are a societal treasure who must be enabled if society is to regain progressive equillibrium.
I once saw a movie (title?) about the Soviet Union in the early Stalin years and (within this movie) Stalin was replacing the traditional, local leadership in place prior to the Russian Revolution, with his operatives. The object for Stalin was not a smoothly running country in the best interest of each locality but control, for whatever purpose, as determined by the central gov. Such control can only be morally justified under war or war-like conditions.
War and war-like conditions are presently perpetuated within our world system as this system's means of preservation. Change is painful--akin to giving birth--but life and society do not and cannot remain static--we either grow or regress. As various portions of our planet continue to suffer from damaging practices an enlarging proportion of earth citizens see the necessities of sustainable governance and industries.
A Peace System needs to replace our War System and just as wars are perpetuated so can peace be willfully actualized. Just as War, in its larger sense, is an entire social and economic system--so is Peace. The transition of our War System to its opposite is that which presently disables all the technical genius for progressive, industrial development that humanciv has now accumulated. We seek a political-economic 'green light' to proceed progressively.
Obviously transition presently appears impossible to conventional thought due to entrenched economic and political interests. Money is being made from the present destruction of our planet as ever steadily such destruction proceeds. ModelCiv simply states that this process of wealth derived from destruction cannot indefinitely continue--so why not transition as soon as practicable?
Current capital concentrations could flow into Green Industries and NatGovs and National Corporations would take the lead in said transition.
NatGov and private capital teamwork will be essential to minimizing financial losses and incentivizing this Green Transition. Current captial concentrations flowing into Green Industries must be offset and counter-balanced by direct NatGov participation in indsutrial development through the activities of National Corporations. Through a 10% NatCorp presence in all key Green Industries (with the exception of a 100%NatCorp monopoly on Free Energy Electric, Free Energy Space Heating and Free Energy Desalination) standards of excellence and cost-effectiveness will be set for private industry to emulate--and challenge. Private and NatCorp enterprises would maintain a friendly competition from which neither side could stray into unfair or wasteful practice.
A state monopoly on the FREE ENERGY 3 (electric production, space heating and desalination) would provide our peaceful, NatGovs of the near future with sufficient operating revenues and no subsequent need for taxing their citizenries. Taxes would be levied at the municipal and Local Region levels so that said monies could be applied toward improving and maintaining the various infrastuctures existing within those geographic entities.
06 - 09 - 2013
Human society is continually remaking itself according to the needs and interests of the present. Great works of the past were most often in response to this need for the continual revision and upgrading of society. There is a human mindset--a collective unconscious, if you will--that the sensitive and intelligent are able to discern and contact in order to create such works which meld the best of past with the actuality of now.
04 - 16 - 2013
The Global Economy and banking system are forced to fall back on gold as their prime source of symbolic wealth due to the abuse that fiat currency has undergone. Were fiat currencies, as legal tender, used ethically then national economies and the global economy could run perfectly well on them. After all, gold is ultimately symbolic wealth.
04 - 08 - 2013
How can our present civilization have the audactity to assume itself capable of colonizing space, the Moon or Mars? We can't even govern our own planet properly. We may develop the technical expertise to accomplish such tasks but what sort of culture would we be exporting to these exotic habitats? People living in a space station or in a Lunar colony must live in a face-to-face societal co-operative and much of our present social training and experience is toward zero-sum competitiveness. Such competition is presently the cause, I would argue, of much biospheric, animal and human destruction. We can only hope to be successful off our planet if we are presently successful upon it.
Obviously what is called for is a sensible balance between competition and cooperation. Thusly, we might compete within a strict code of chivalrous behavior. Too many good persons have fallen from responsible positions in our society due to their honesty and inability to play political games on the job. Failure at perfecting the "Organization Man" mentality and ethos should be looked upon, in a progressive society, as an asset rather than liability.
So, to travel to other planets we must, ethically, possess a culture worthy of transmission or, at least, transference. Otherwise we simply expand present societal ills into a larger geographic arena and the Solar System should not have to tolerate such. I imagine it probably won't.
03 - 12 - 2013
Jane Jacobs, in her book "The Death and Life of Great American Cities" (1961), spoke of the impossibility of imposing a model city upon prospective inhabitants. She points to failure after failure of large-scale urban renewal projects in major, eastern US cities throughout the 1940's and 1950's. The reason for the failure of such projects to produce living, urban tissue is largely their top-down imposition upon residents or prospective residents regarding where and how they are to live. Thriving urban neighborhoods are the result of organic growth which comes from individual decisions to buy or rent a home, build a business or to frequent businesses or facilities nearby or afar. The social and economic initiative of persons cannot be given free rein in pre-planned and design-built neighborhoods. Thusly, such social contrivances fail to engender a living, growing community and always tend toward social and economic disintegration.
I feel exactly the same about civilization design. Although basic principles upon which a civilization will run can be delineated, and indeed I attempt this throughout ModelCiv, a top-down impostion of my views could never be used as template for ModelCiv's creation. The prime purpose of ModelCiv is to stimulate discussion amongst an objective and educated citizenry as to possible, progressive change. ModelCiv also seeks to stimulate discussion by those far more experienced in social and economic design than the author.
01 - 23 - 2013
How to improve the world? As has often been said, we must improve ourselves. If we do not and then try to impose our partially ignorant will upon the outside world then our assertion will fall upon fallow ground - it will not become a part of reality since it is not in harmony with the times. These times require the utmost of whom a person is. This is a time when we must all openly decide if we are people who will manipulate and be dishonest with others or -- that we are honest. This doesn't mean that we have had to live perfect lives until now, no...it only means that every day from this forward that we attempt to be honest in all situations that we find ourselves in. For a dishonest social system cannot survive amongst an honest and educated populace.
When people live in those particular social environments which they find most enjoyable and stimulating -- they then develop their own social and economic system based upon the equitable exchange of goods created locally. Now, within ModelCiv each working family group is, when necessary, subsidized by the NatGov to purchase their own home. With a local Socio-Economy incorporating the societal mores of honesty....see, honesty is imbred into people when they live within a community and information transparency is a societal more.
If we must do business in some manner on a regular basis and my progress is dependent upon yours, then I would be a fool not to be honest for this is the only way for me to gain wealth and to be friendly.
One need not be restricted to a local socio-economy. Many will live in large towns and cities and so will maintain an anonimity (sp?) of choice, throughout their city travels but will enjoy close community with whomever they work and will possibly enjoy a slightly less intense social relationship with those in their neighborhood. As Jane Jocobs emphasizes, the ideal neighborhood (ie. small community) is created by the interactions taking place primarily upon street and sidewalk. People must have immediate meeting places -- ie. the sidewalk and possess a street not clogged or overly frequented by cars and trucks. If pedestrians can enjoy the streets and sidewalks in various neighborhoods and each city neighborhood has various biz attractions for people to frequent that neighborhood then, as Ms. Jacobs describes, has a delicate social ballet which takes place constantly, thoughout the day and into the night. Such a vibrant and wealth- circulating neighborhood is Ms. Jacob's ideal.
With Free Energy Production not creating any pollution our city environs could become relatively pristine so that current urban concentrations would be largely detoxified. We could greatly improve our cities by doing nothing other than adopting Free Energy sources for the production of electricity, space heating and mechanical energy. Thusly, New York or Chicago, Paris, Tokyo or Mexico City -- all would become instantly more welcoming of life and living beings. When we add to this the proposal by Ms. Jacobs of gradual and incremental improvement to the towns and cities we already have by individual building renovation, the removal of fully dilapidated structures and an increased diversity of current neighborhoods and city centers the overall improvement in urban life quality would be inestimable.
I will leave the possiblity of designing model towns and communities to a later discussion.
01 - 17 - 2013
Here's the idea. The only way that our present system of world economic and political power can stabilize--or, rather, as it is trying to stabilize under current organization what is necessitated is an ever greater concentration of power and wealth into fewer and fewer hands. This does not create global stability but chaos of varying degrees over large and small geographic areas. Ruthless competition for growth and corporate dominance creates many business casualties all along its path. The best technologies and methods of social organization often do not win out. Is it not then the province of Gov to take control under such circumstances to keep a System of Oligarchic War from consuming its participants and innocent common citizens?
But let us imagine that the membership of earth oligarchies, divided as geo-political forces, are basically cooperative within and amongst their accepted membership? Under this assumption the prime force toward Oligarchic War would be represented through Nation State conflicts involving National Alliances. Any National Alliance would represent the combined interests of resident Economic-Industrial Powers. This must be the final stage of our Global War System upon earth--that of nation state proxies for an Economic Elite. Since business never stops competing throughout most of our present WorldCiv the Nation State Alliances, as they at any time exist, must be in constant competition and conflict with each other.
01 - 17 - 2013
I feel very strongly that the only way a world gov can truly operate as a progressive institution would be that it be accompanied by a benevolent and fair, world civilization. We humans have already made all the mistakes necessary in building civilizations to know that which works and toward what purposes. Only benevolent governance can presently ensure the survival of lands and peoples -- people must be enabled to produce local wealth value and not be precluded from this human right. That level of culture which has been achieved upon a piece of ground throughout decades and centuries cannot be revived once its practitioners are gone. There is much cultural richness available on our earth for social transmission and all that remains, much as the unique genetic wealth of the Amazon Forest, must be preserved.
What should be the purpose of government? --To provide a level playing field for all so that only the best will rise to levels of organizational and administrative import. I would say that only a War System can justify the preservation of an elite for the sake of concentrated control which, in times of real war, is necessary for national survival. But when wars are artificially perpetuated so as to enable antiquated industries and administrative apparatuses to continue to exist past the time of their national utility--what then is to be done in such instance?
12 - 23 - 2012
Some random thoughts on the architecture of ModelCiv.
Home Ownership, that is outright, allows a wealth creation incentive to families. The production of discretionary wealth is then free to flow into any number of transparent investments. Discretionary wealth is the lifeblood of our projected New Economy and society as the directions in which it flows determine success or failure in this true, free enterprise system. Debt, both personal and national are the lifeblood of our current parasitic, world economy and since it's prime means of wealth accumulation is through the disappropriation of wealth presently held it simply concentrates current wealth without creating significant new wealth. Thusly our current world economy creates only the illusion of wealth production since it does not sytematically nor accurately factor in the worldwide destruction and poverty it creates.
12 - 02 - 2012
Every person who is conscious of the planetary struggle, now ensuing, must listen to their heart and act honestly within their present place. Each of us has a certain life situation in which we find ourselves and it's necessary to act with integrity in facing that situation--whatever its nature. But we, at the center of said life situation, are the only factor for progressive change possible in this very position. What this entails is a brave response to former fear. If we can transform ourselves and forget to fear then our actions shall flow from a new rationale of progressive action. Such a rationale, as a collective force, shall flow from the spirit within each of us.
Until now most of us have felt that progressive actions were simply impossible within our present society and that positive action could have no socially-progressive effect. But every sincere and loving action (executed without the thought of self) has an effect--though often not apparent at the time. Think of it as a cosmic bank account where the "deposits" attain a certain collective value and are then enabled to transform society--by the very weight and gravity of their existence--or to kind of cop a line from "Gladiator":
"What we do in the present reverberates into the future."
So, presently we work from a base of all that is good and true which has been lived before. The progressive transformation that we seek is personal in nature and entails each person being able to get back to their real self (the child inside). Upon achieving this, our very presence is socially progressive.
Present concentrated capital should look upon our present as The Opportune Moment to move their concentrations of wealth into Green Production. This is a change which must occur if the planet it to retain biospheric integrity. General Destruction and the creation of Dead Zones on earth entail a random character to property loss which would, in the end, be prohibitive to present property owners. Why not switch to progressive tech at the exact moment in human history when such is mandated? Can we really afford several more Fukushimas around the world? Do we really have another Gulf of Mexico and Pacific Ocean to pollute and destroy? Have some actually resigned themselves to living in an underground facility for the remainder of their days and do they understand the full implication of such supposition?
The answer to some of this, I suggest, is found in the ModelCiv category - Elite Amnesty. We must forgive our current leadership of any social transgressions if we are going to get the movement of concentrated capital into technically-progressive channels. It is of far more value to the planet that current concentrations of capital move into Green Technologies and away from destructive tech while the owners of said capital are given national and international assurances as to their ownership of said capital.
To balance such a concentrated flow of private capital investment into Green Technologies would be National Government investment into GreenTech Production Facilities of its own. As I've suggested before NatGovs should have a state monopoly on Free Energy Electric and Free Energy Space Heating. Otherwise, how could private corps agree to divvy up Free Energy? Besides, the establishment of national systems of Free Energy Production would have to be accomplished by NatGovs in the first place. Private industry would follow a NatGov lead on this. With NatGov monopolies on Free Energy production private companies would have to recognize a counterbalance in the world to their exercise of economic power and a reasonable balance could be struck--all the while, sustainable production would be replacing its earth-destructive counterparts.
While Free Energy exploitation for profit would be closed to private companies under ModelCiv, the production of other vital Green Technologies would not. In fact, all other areas of production would be open. ModelCiv does envision 10% National Corporations which seek the satisfaction of 10% domestic market demand for various, essential Green Products but this leaves 90% of domestic demand to be satisfied by private enterprise.
Private Companies need the counterbalancing effect of equitably representative NatGovs as creators of a predictable, level playing field for business. The alternative is corporate anarchy where many innovative start-ups are wiped from the map and companies of medium and large size can be siezed and dissolved. Let us create a truly free market place--free and equitable where legitimate business enterprises are protected and allowed to ply their trades--within NatLaw.
A balanced world of Business and Government would be a much more interesting and rich place. With self-reliant NatGovs true WorldGov could evolve since the actions of nations would then be governed by an enlightened, self-interest which they could, of their own volition, exercise.
G) PERMACULTURE PRINCIPLES
Following are excerpts from "Permaculture: A Designer's Manual" (1988) by Bill Mollison
Page 21 (Section 2.5) -- "Cultural Impediments to Yield"
"......It is very difficult, almost taboo, to talk of using rabbits, quail, pigs, poultry, or cows in city farms or urban gardens in the United States. They are commonplace city farm animals in England, and are ordinary village animals in Asia. Australians feel no repulsion towards them, and the edible guinea pig lives comfortably in the homes of South Americans. But in the USA, no!
Useful animals are effectively abolished from American cities, leaving the field wide open for a host of others: pigeons forage the streets, thousands of gulls defecate in New York City reservoirs (fresh from the garbage piles); gigantic garbage bins are tipped over by large, flea-ridden dogs in Los Angeles; rats half the size of dogs (and also flea-ridden) are waiting for the garbage left by the dogs, and have tunnelled under the bus stops in their millions in Washington , D.C. (not far from the White House). They in turn are stalked by mangy cats, who also keep a desultory eye on the billions of cockroaches crawling in most houses. Not to mention the flies.
........So much wasted food breeds its own population of pests. A sensible re-routing of edible garbage through a herd of pigs or a legion of guinea-pigs would abolish much of this nuisance.......The gulls would starve if chickens were fed on household wastes, and the besieged American might add a very large range of foods to those now available in cities. I mention this only to show that cultural prejudices can grossly reduce the available food resources, and that if we refuse to take sensible actions, some gross results can follow, with the biomass of useful foragers such as domesticated animals replaced by an equivalent biomass of pests."
Page 147 (Section 6.6) -- "How A Tree Interacts With Rain"
"Rain falls, and many tons of rain may impact on earth in an hour or so. On bare soils and thinly spaced or thinly cultivated crop, the impact of droplets carries away soil, and may typically remove 80 tonnes/hectare, or up to 1000 tonnes in extreme downpours. When we bare the soil, we lose the earth.
Water run-off and pan evaporation, estimated as 80-90% of all rain falling on Australia, carries off nutrients and silt to the sea or to inland basins. As we clear the land, run-off increases and for a while this pleases people, who see their dams fill quickly. But the dams will silt up and the river eventually cease to flow, and the clearing of forests will result in flood and drought, not a long-regulated and steady supply of clean water.
When rain falls on a forest, a complex process begins. Firstly, the tree canopy shelters and nullifies the impact effect of raindrops, reducing the rain to a thin mist below the canopy, even in the most torrential showers. There is a slight measurable silt loss from mature forests, exceeded by the creation of soils by forests.
If the rain is light, little of it penetrates beyond the canopy, but a film of water spreads across the leaves and stems, and is trapped there by surface tension. The cells of the tree absorb what is needed, and the remainder evaporates to air. Where no rain penetrates through the canopy,
this effect is termed 'total interception'. INTERCEPTION is the amount of rainfall caught in the crown. It is the most important primary effect of trees or forests on rain. The degree of interception is most influenced by these factors:
* Crown thickness;
* Crown density;
* Season;
* Intensity of rain; and
* Evaporation after rain.
Broadly speaking, interception commonly falls between 10-15% of total rainfall. Least interception occurs in thinned and deciduous forests, winter rain, heavy showers, and cloudy weather conditions, when it is as little as 10% of rain. Most interception occurs with dense, evergreen trees, light summer rain, and sunny conditions, when it may reach 100% of the total.
However, if more rain falls, or heavy rains impact on the trees, water commences to drift as mist or droplets to earth. This water is called THROUGHFALL. Throughfall depends on the intensity of rain, and there is little interception effect in heavy downpours. As an average figure, the throughfall is 85% of rain in humid climates.
At this point, throughfall is not just rainwater, any more than your bathwater is rainwater; throughfall contains many plant cells and nutrients, and is in fact a much richer brew than rainwater. Dissolved salts, organic content, dust, and plant exudates are included in the water of throughfall. 'The results show that rain washes large amounts of potassium and smaller amounts of nitrogen, phosphorus, calcium, and magnesium from the canopies to the surface soil. Litter adds organic matter, and is a rich source of calcium and nitrogen and a moderately rich source of magnesium and potassium.' (Murray, J. S. and Mitchell, A., 'Red Gum and the Nutrient Balance', Soil Conservation Authority, Victoria, Australia, undated)."
Page 464 (Section 13.3) - "Water Quality"
"All life processes, and decomposition in aerated waters, consume oxygen. A general level of 5 ppm is very satisfactory in ponds. At 1 ppm many fish species may die except for a select adapted group of air-breathers used in stagnant and weedy tropical still-ponds. Augusthy (1979) notes that snakeheads (Ophiocephalus), Singhi (Heteropneustes), the catfish Clarias, Mahi (Notopterus) and Anabas in India all have sacs, labyrinth organs, or special air chambers near the gills from which they can derive oxygen by breathing air. Other fish die in the anaerobic conditions of weedy tropical shallows where the above species, the adapted lungfishes, and many minor species survive. Even derelict swampy ponds can yield 2,400 kg protein /ha/year if a polyculture of air-breathers is stocked, as three or more of the above species, or equally hardy species.
The fish in tropical still ponds combine well with the crop plant Euryhale ferox, a spiny floating plant of the water-lily family whose period of yield and harvest coincide with the maturation of the fish. The ponds used are 1 - 1.5 meters deep, and as the fish help control malarial mosquitoes, there are multiple benefits. Seeds of Euryhale are marketed as a 'popcorn' in India.
The integration of specialized warm-water aquacultures, or the stocking of oxygen-depleted waters is also dealt with by Pullin and Shehadeh (1982). They describe the modification of rice padi to accept specialised species assemblies. Fish refuges are made in padi either as a peripheral canal or as a sump to contain fish between flooding for crop."
H) FAVORITE BOOKS
"The City in History" (1961) by Lewis Mumford
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_Mumford
SITES:
http://www.blacklistednews.com/
http://www.counterpunch.org/
http://wallstreetonparade.com/
http://dollarcollapse.com/
http://www.silverdoctors.com/
IDEOLOGIC SCRAP
Hypothetical Trade: General Amnesty for National Debt forgiveness.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tax
I) Large banks are constantly placing investment bets using their supposed, capital accumulations - artificially insulated from a bank's indebtedness. When an investment pays off the higher ups get a disproportionately large share of the payout and the bank is not requisitely recapitalized. When an investment goes bad the resultant debt is isolated and added to similar liabilities. As these liabilities accumulate bank debt eventually exceeds bank assets.
Such insolvency, upon achievement, is witheld from the public as long as possible. When it's no longer possible to hide a bank's insolvency a privileged few are forewarned to remove their investments. Until recently this has then resulted in general taxpayer bailouts for large, well-connected banks. Now, we see with Cyprus that the great majority of depositors can subsequently have their deposits tapped for bank recapitalization.
Thusly, many large banks have simply become agents of wealth redistribution as they--for the most part--privatize profits and socialize debt.
G) CURRENT SETTLEMENT EMPHASES
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World%27s_largest_cities
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megalopolis_(city_type)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metropolitan_area
F) INTERNATIONAL CREDIT ISSUANCE TOWARD GLOBAL MARSHALL PLAN IMPLEMENTATION
Whatever form a WorldGov takes, within the ModelCiv system said entity will issue credit to each nation, as needed, for the initiation of a Global Marshall Plan (World Green Plan). This credit issuance would serve 2 primary purposes:
1) To provide regular payments to the legitimate creditors of each nation state thusly creating relative, economic stability within nations.
2) To allow the investment of requisite NatGov funding into NatGreenPlans.
Such WorldGov credit issuance can be made with the reasonable prospect of repayment since ModelCiv projects the proper implementation of a WorldGreenPlan - thusly assuring an eventual production of discretionary wealth - year after year - by each national beneficiary of said credit.
E) Each municipality and Local Region would offer itself free credit through legal mandate as do Public Banks. Such funding would be used for the construction of revenue-generating, greentech facilities. ModelCiv envisions the first creation of this funding to be a system of regional Free Energy Powerplants. Thusly, municipalities will borrow the money they themselves create in order to build facilities which will provide a constant, future revenue stream. The wealth value produced by a system of Free Energy Powerplants will be many times the cost to build them. This Resource Creation aspect of Green Technologies will be evidenced in all such future municipal and regional investment.
D) So the ideal Model Town would seek to create, through urban and social design, functional neighborhoods -- changing and growing -- within a Model Town System.
Model Town would consist of arcaded streets and streets open to the air. The interspersal of arcaded streets would be geared to easily accomodate all Model Town users of streets and sidewalks in case of rain or overly-intense sunshine. Although the central portion of Model Town would consist of somewhat stereotypical types of buildings and Town Center functions, the actual design and execution of buidings and their layout within the Town Center would be anything but stereotypical. The layout The prime idea of the Town Center - transportwise - is to provide easy access to all portions of Model Town.
A) It must be a prime mission of National Governments to enable their citizens to work and thusly achieve self-sufficiency--as regards wealth value creation. Educational Systems must be primarily geared to helping all citizens find their productive stations in a complex and changing social economy. If a citizenry is solvent and productive of discretionary wealth then this is foundational to the production of National Discretionary Wealth--which gives value to National Legal Tender. The relative value of a national fiat currency must be, in part, determined by such excess wealth production and by the entire productive potential of a country.
The primary national resource of any country should be the creative capacity of its citizenry. Enable a people to work toward self-enrichment and there is no limit to the wealth they will produce--and within our ModelCiv system--no limit to the sustainable production possible. The limit would be, of course, each person's essential needs and discretionary life enrichment.
End A).
B) Since patent protection on two key FE technologies - Cold Fusion and the Stirling Engine - has expired, power plants based on these technologies could be freely replicated. Imagine Cold Fusion Electricity powering the Green City of our near future while free mechanical energy, provided by Stirling engines, powered cars and trucks.
C) GREEN TECH INFRASTRUCTURE
Finite Resources are the precious components of any Green Tech Infrastructure producing essential goods. The more resources we require to build such production capacity, the more mining and subsequent land and water resource damage we will have to sustain and ameliorate. Would it not make sense to:
A) build only those manufacturing and production facilities delivering essential wealth to the great majority of citizens?
B) construct Green Tech Infrastructure with near permanence being a primary goal of its operational capacity?
Thusly, wealth production would be driven by social utility and resource conservation--two complementary goals. For resource conservation not to prove illusory, the manufactures produced by our Green Tech Infrastructure must prove useful over time (see Durable Design). The social utility of all wealth production (food, durable goods, energy, services) can then be projected over time regarding population requirements (see Population Stabilization)--with any subsequent adjustments to production taking into account local, national or global markets. Such adjustments to production could thusly be made in a timely manner (see Temporary Production).
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