Future Predictions

Species extinction via a nuclear halocaust or environmental collpase remains a distinct possibility.
I we survive this is what I believe the future will be like.
The global language will be English.The script:
Chinese characters.Urban sprawl will be gone.
Private vehicles will be no more.
Agriculture will go indoors inside glass towers.
Most of the world's natural habitat will be reclaimed
Cities will be vertical, reach 10,000 feet, harness their own energy via atmosphere thermal differentials and their water via condensation.
No city will be located in a natural disaster area.
Mass transit will be by vacuum trains
The global occupational contract will be planet management
Fewer people will have families, but the families will be larger.
Child education will be conducted by parents
Politics will be governed by existential imperatives
All Iron Age religions will be history.
Atomic Consciousness will be a universal religion of spiritual thought and practice
All four of the major plagues of Mankind will be over
Utopia will be seen as the natural end result of our evolutionary purpose
The future of the future will be terra-forming in solar space
The evolutionary cycle of human consciousness will come to an end.
Death will be recognized as our next evolutionary step into a transcendental state of Cosmic Consciousness.

Redistribution of Wealth

Money is barter. It is a promisary note based on your service that you can exchange for goods and other services. The central problem with it is that it original expediency has gradually degenerated to a point where now 1% of the population can accumulate most of it with very little or no service offered in return. That corruption has now brought us to the brink of real chaos..

Using a printed promisary note as barter for services and goods without building into it a precondition that it cannot be issued by a middelman who offers no service of his own, that is what is corruptible. As it is now you can spend your life lying in the sun on the beach at Cannes and simply grow richer by accumulating interest on money your father or grandfather might have worked for by ruthelessly squeezing ever-larger profits out of the labor of the less educated or less gifted others, while decimating the natural resources of the planet in the process without investing in reparation. Or you can simply barter with money itself and charge interest simply for handling it. And most corruptible of all, simply gamble with it on the stock-market. In the meantime most of mankind contunues to toil for your benefit at minimum wages - or worse still ends up unemployed because the money in your bank would be devalued if you printed enough to employ and enrich all the people on the planet.

One should only be able to gain credit for constructive services and then use that registered effort as barter. In an ideal world the remuneration for services would be reversed - the more menial and labor-intensive the service is, the higher the credit should be. Extra individual credit would come via the encouragement of creative input that unquestionably improves the commonwealth - ie ideas that serve to make others and the planet better than they already are..

This is what we are trying to do now, but the unequal distribution and unfair manipulation of money for reasons given, has corrupted its original intent. We need a barnd new economic constitution that better defines constructive social ethics and which ensures a level playing field that cannot be manipulated.

A Cashless Society

All the various forms of western government have had centuries in which to prove they are capable of managing the lives and fortunes of large populations. So far all they have managed to do is lift less than a third of the global population partially out of the mire. In the propcess they enslaved millions to help build their empires and have left in their wake a raped planet and billions of people more destitute than they were before. And now they are screaming for massive bail-outs in order to halt the entire global economic system from complete collapse. Trust in printed promisary notes is now at an all-time low.

The call for a mass change of direction has never been more popular. What is not fully grasped is the depth of change that is needed. The need goes beyond ending the Iraq war, party politics, better health care, better schooling and a better energy policy.

The value of money is based on its scarcity. There is not enough printed money to pay for all that needs to be done to get all the people on this panet employed and eating three squares a day. If we stay locked into any of the existing economic ideologies, Obama will never find the money to pay for half of what is needed. The only real long-term answer lies in ending the practice of using money as the prime medium of exchange. We are ensuring future shock by continuing to support a flawed system that places artificial barriers against investing in the large-scale long-term engineering projects that are needed to stop us from destroying the home planet.

Money will always have endless loopholes for corruption. All games of monopoly eventually end up with only one winner, no matter what social rules are imposed. In the end the only wealth we have lies in our built-in work ethic, our technological genius and our personal sense of honor. Whether we pay for services via money or some form of trade, it is only via our trust in each other that really ensures a fair deal.

A social philosophy based on Custodianship instead of ownership is both Earth-friendly and people friendly. Its natural ethical foundation trancsends the artificial limitations of Capitalism, Communism and Socialism. Nothing ensures a pure state of efficiency like a culture based on ethical restraint. Nor does anything less than an ethical mind-set ensure the highest grades of motivation and creativity. Custodianship does not reduce all of us to the lowest common denominator, it elevates all of us to a an equal level of wealth and well-being.

Bowing before Baal has to end. Now seems an ideal moment to get up off our knees and stand on our own two feet.

The Disasterous End-Game in Iraq

We are looking at a disastrous end-game in Iraq that can have repercussions beyond comprehension. We are seeing the results of a domino effect that began with wrong moves from the very beginning.Everything about staring and ending the war in Iraq was ill-informed.
Re-examine this 20 point exercsise in self-destruct.
1. A preemptive military attack can only be justified if a nation faces eminent invasion itself
2. The claim that Iraq had WMD was false
3. The claim that Iraq aided and abetted Al Queda was false
4. The claim that we were ridding the world of a ruthless dictator was based on a false premise. The bitter ethnic divisions within the country reveal that it could only be held together by a strongman.
5. The claim that Iraq oil would pay for the war was false
6. By bombing major cities in Iraq we destroyed the county's infrastructure and are now paying through the nose to rebuild it.
7. Collateral damage killed thousands of innocent people.
8. By deposing Hussein's dictatorship we destabilize the existing order which led to anarchy and a dangerous insurgency.
9. By disbanding the Iraq army the country was left without the ability to police itself and stop rutheless ethnic cleansing
10. Four million Iraqis have been displaced from their homes and now form the world's largest refugee problem.
Thats the better half of ther news. Now lets get to the after-effects.
11. American world leadership has lost all its former credibility.
12. We can longer take our goodwill to the bank as an asset.
13. The four hundred billion dollar price tag has drained the American economy. Our infrastructure is crumbling and the country is on the verge of recession
14. The Bush administration still has a year to go
15 The rich and powerful inside America are securing their wealth by abandoning the dollar and putting their money in oil - in effect, aiding and abetting the supposed enemy.
16. The bull run on oil has driven the barrel cost up and it will keep rising, driving up the Price at the gas pump - making the oil shareholders richer while sticking it to the man on the street.
17. The on-going cost of the war - three hundred million dollars a day for another three hundred days, added to the desertion of the dollar, heralds the very real possibility of collapsing the entire American economy - leading to a recession that could make the one we experienced in the 1930's look like a picnic.
18. Money for an already over-extended infrastructure will not be forth-coming.
19 The winter of 2009 might be the bleakest in US history.
The answer that could lessen the bitter after-taste.
20. Kick Bush out of office today. Impeach him and his entire cabinet.

The Dogmatic Political Minds-Set

I was watching a Bill Mahler political satyre last night.He had two Repubilcans as his guests.At one point the relevancy of the Kennedy Administration was raised.Both Republicans said he was irrelevant.If Kennedy had been a Republican, it is certain their opinions would have been reversed.
So who or what is controlling Democracy?Are we all still in lock-step with Party dogma? Or is independent opinion ever to surface?
Thank god the latter is gradually being realizedOne can see why Obama is doing so well

Republicism has become Passe

It no longer takes sending a man on horseback to Washington to represent my vote.
Nor do I need a rich lawyer to give me a stump speech in order to inform me on the merits of any national issue.

I can get myself fully educated in domestic affairs and foreign policy over the internet and then put my finger on the computer key and cast my vote instantly.

If we do this nationally it will mean the end of; representative government; party politics; corporate lobbying; pork-barrel spending; congressional grid-lock; millionaire candidates.

In short: A vastly expensive, wasteful and antiquated election and voting system, which once served us reasonably well, is now clearly redundant and can go into history.

All those who say aye to this initiative, vote here.

The Obama Effect

Should Obama make president his affect will go far beyond that of the Arab world.
It will affect all of Africa and the two hunderd million living around the world who originated in Africa generations ago. That in turn will impact directly on the societies they are integrated into.

I believe that his affect will be a healing one in general. Not only will it help heal racial scars, it will also take away much of Osama's power to recruit suicide bombers. It will also help to change world opinion about what America really stands for. A more respectful world image will help Americans feel better about themselves and heal much of the internal divisions the war in Iraq has generated.

For these reasons and more one can only urge voters, especially men and women who might be equivocating about voting for him or Hillary Clinton, to put their mark under Obama's name. Though I will be glad if she makes President, her global effect will not be anywhere near as profound.