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    Hi:

    I was driven out of bed to write this, and then I hope I can let Iraq go for a little while, now that we have “celebrated” the tenth anniversary of our invasion. The invasion itself was perhaps the most emotionally agonizing period of my life, and that is saying something. My media education began as the drums were beating for the first Gulf War, back in 1990, and the New York Times was fabricating “translations” of Arabic script:

    http://www.ahealedplanet.net/lies.htm#loot

    Saddam Hussein was on the CIA’s payroll in the 1950s, and we put him up in Cairo when he failed to assassinate Iraq’s prime minister and had a price on his head:

    http://www.informationclearinghouse....rticle2849.htm

    When our man came to power and invaded Iran, getting vengeance on them by proxy for daring to overthrow the dictator that we installed:

    http://www.ahealedplanet.net/america.htm#iran

    Saddam became the USA’s good buddy. The West, particularly the USA, helped arm Hussein’s military, especially with what he needed to make chemical and biological weapons:

    http://www.ahealedplanet.net/america.htm#chemicals

    When he began using them against Iran, the USA sent Rummy to meet with Hussein on a “goodwill” mission:

    http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB82/

    During the entire war with Iran, which killed about a million people, we were solidly in Hussein’s camp. Of course, we were arming Iran, too, as the Iran-Contra Scandal made clear:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran-Contra_Affair

    and the CIA was backhauling cocaine into the USA, in its noble Central American work:

    http://www.ahealedplanet.net/america.htm#drugs

    But when that was reported in the USA, the reporter had his career destroyed and life wrecked:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Webb#Dark_Alliance

    I am far from convinced that he committed suicide, but even if he did, he is a casualty of our evil system.

    Later, perceptive Iranians and Iraqis said that the USA was arming both sides so that they could destroy each other, and the Iranians and Iraqis stupidly complied.

    After the war was over in 1988, about the same time that the American-sponsored butchery was coming to an end in Central America:

    http://www.ahealedplanet.net/lies.htm#central

    Hussein was still our man in the Middle East. In early 1990, a junket from the Senate toured Iraq, with quite a bit of fanfare. During the junket, Hussein made an offer to help lead an effort to rid the Middle East of non-conventional weapons:

    http://www.ahealedplanet.net/america.htm#sunny

    It was tied to Israel’s nuclear arsenal, which the USA has always illegally turned a blind eye to, so we told Saddam that he was on his own for his disarmament project. A few months later, as Hussein was about to invade Kuwait, partly because not only were they no help against Iran, but they had been sneakily drilling into Iraq’s oil fields, Hussein summoned the U.S. ambassador and frankly told her that he was planning to invade Kuwait, and the ambassador gave him the infamous “green light” to invade:

    http://www.ahealedplanet.net/america.htm#glaspie

    When he proved to be a man of his word, then he became Public Enemy Number One in the USA. The ensuing Gulf War was not a war in any meaningful sense. In the words of U.S. soldiers, it was a “turkey shoot,” where more than a hundred thousand Iraqi soldiers were killed, most while not even in combat situations, while a few dozen American soldiers died (those who were not killed by their buddies in “friendly fire”). American pundits were calling for dropping nuclear weapons on Iraq:

    http://www.ahealedplanet.net/america.htm#thomas

    But that was only the beginning of the USA’s genocide against the Iraqi people. An American study showed that by the summer of 1991, more than 40,000 Iraqi children had already died by the intentional targeting of Iraq’s infrastructure by the USA in its “war”:

    http://www.ahealedplanet.net/america.htm#continuing

    and the holocaust was just beginning. By 1996, an estimated half million children had died, and when asked about it, the USA’s Secretary of State justified it:

    http://www.ahealedplanet.net/america.htm#albright

    It is well-known and not even really disputed that the USA intentionally targeted Iraq’s water supply:

    http://www.progressive.org/mag/nagy0901.html

    http://www.ahealedplanet.net/america.htm#kuwait

    and then denied Iraq the chemicals, such as chlorine, to treat its water. That is biological warfare, plain and simple. That, along with the starvation that we imposed on Iraq, is why all those children died, and the Iraqi people would not have believed it, but the 1990s were going to be looked back at as the “good old days” before long. The carnage was just beginning.

    Several years after George the First lost to Clinton, a bunch of right wingers floated a document that was an announcement of Empire, and it in particular called for an overthrow of Hussein, largely because he had “weapons of mass destruction (WMD)”:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project..._Clinton_years

    Rumsfeld was actually a signatory to that manifesto, for hypocrisy that goes off the scale. One joke in left circles in those days was that we could prove that he had WMD because we kept the receipts of what we sold him. The fact was that by the time of the PNAC manifesto, Iraq was the most disarmed nation on Earth:

    http://www.ahealedplanet.net/america.htm#ritter

    It came out in the wake of our invasion that Hussein got rid of all of his WMD after the first Gulf War, and the USA knew it:

    http://www.david-morrison.org.uk/iraq/simpson-wmd.htm

    When the drumbeat began for an invasion over WMD, it was all based on lies:

    http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011...-lies-iraq-war

    This was all going far beyond what Goebbels could have dreamed of.

    By the time the USA invaded Iraq in 2003, using a raft of lies as its rationale:

    http://www.ratical.org/ratville/CAH/IraqOnRecord.html

    the death toll in Iraq, from just the USA’s actions since 1991, was between one and two million people, with the high end of the range more likely. Since the invasion, the excess death toll has been about another two million people, with about half by violence:

    https://sites.google.com/site/iraqih...e/polya-gideon

    The death toll in Afghanistan is similar:

    https://sites.google.com/site/afghan...fghan-genocide

    As with Hussein, Osama bin Laden was our creation. He was the figurehead that we used to mount the biggest CIA operation in history, as we armed the “rebels” in Afghanistan to fight the Soviet Union:

    http://www.ahealedplanet.net/america.htm#osama

    In the aftermath of the Soviet war in Afghanistan, with the nation destroyed, and the Taliban in power because we essentially put them there, Zbigniew Brzezinski bragged about actually inciting the Soviet Union to invade Afghanistan back when he was Jimmy Carter’s foreign policy advisor, as one of his “global chessboard” maneuvers:

    http://www.ahealedplanet.net/america.htm#brzezinski

    http://dgibbs.faculty.arizona.edu/pu...ns_afghanistan

    http://www.historycommons.org/contex...122679invasion

    The Big Zbig was Obama’s foreign policy advisor when he first ran for president, and is now in the pantheon of American statesmen, an august personage in his golden years.

    George W’s terms were both widely acknowledged to be the result of stolen elections:

    http://www.commondreams.org/views01/0120-04.htm

    http://archives.cnn.com/2001/ALLPOLI...umn/index.html

    http://www.michaelparenti.org/stolenelections.html

    http://www.art-science.com/Bush/b3.html )

    When Bush campaigned in 2000, he literally flew to campaign stops on Enron’s plane, and here is where I am seeing evidence of Internet scrubbing. I have seen at least one picture of Bush coming off of an Enron plane, waving to the crowd, with the Enron logo proudly behind him on the plane’s fuselage. All such pictures have disappeared from the Internet, as have almost all pictures of Bush and his number one financial contributor, “Kenny Boy” Lay. In the interest of preserving some of that class act, I am putting some pics of good ol’ George on this post.

    That one of Bush holding the turkey is one of many phony photo ops that were staged. That “turkey” was not even real. His “Mission Accomplished” photo op was like Hitler’s Nuremberg rallies:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2003_Mi...plished_Speech

    so won’t disappear down the Memory Hole any time soon, and Bush’s photo ops with New Orleans will go down like Nero fiddling while Rome burned:

    http://whatreallyhappened.com/WRHART...ns_photos.html

    But Bush was playing guitar instead:

    http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php...blic_Relations

    http://www.bongonews.com/layout1.php?event=2403

    http://www.texaskaos.net/showDiary.do?diaryId=351

    There are too many stories about Bush riding the Enron plane for that fact to “disappear,” Stalin-style, fortunately:

    http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/...in679706.shtml

    http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php...ron_connection

    http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/story?id=121269&page=1

    although the subsequent “amnesia” by the media was quite Stalinist:

    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ariann..._b_19873.html?

    In early 2001, there was series of meetings between Cheney and pals such as Enron, and the minutes of those meetings will likely be secret for a long time, if they are ever declassified, but legal action got some materials from the meeting coughed up, and the most telling materials were maps of Iraq’s oil fields:

    http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php...rgy_Task_Force

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_...ce#Controversy

    http://www.judicialwatch.org/bulleti...qi-oil-fields/

    http://www.apfn.net/Messageboard/04-...on.cgi.46.html

    http://www.projectcensored.org/top-s...come-to-light/

    But Enron, Bush, and folks like the Taliban go way back:

    http://www.counterpunch.org/2002/01/...d-the-taliban/

    http://www.consortiumnews.com/2006/052506.html

    http://www.chron.com/business/energy...th-2060626.php

    http://www.commondreams.org/views01/1207-08.htm

    Even people in my office doubt that “Kenny Boy” is dead, but got some plastic surgery and is living well in some tropical location:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth...es_about_death

    Nothing in that realm would surprise me. But, I think as I am making clear, whether it is “right” or “left,” the USA’s evil activities in that part of the world continue unabated. Whether Caligula or Claudius was emperor, it was still an empire, and Bush was our Caligula. He is likely a psychopath:

    http://www.salon.com/2004/09/16/tsurumi/

    http://www.all-creatures.org/aip/nl-3nov2000-frogs.html

    http://www.serendipity.li/wot/conover01.htm

    http://www.opednews.com/articles/ope...bush_a_soc.htm

    In the wake of that footage of Iraqis being slaughtered by our “heroes” in their cockpits:

    https://youtube.com/watch?v=KVPcmgE_GCo

    https://youtube.com/watch?v=to3Ymw8L6ZI

    https://youtube.com/watch?v=uvrJzkzaG7E

    https://youtube.com/watch?v=a7YZU4ZXTkE

    when Prince Harry recently admitted that it was just like playing video games,

    http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2013/ja...e-prince-harry

    this is the kind of video game that he meant:

    https://youtube.com/watch?v=pp_KUc3suWE

    OK, I am letting Iraq go for now, and it is on to the rise of Europe and the dynamics behind a story like what the West has done to Iraq.

    Time for chores.

    Best,

    Wade
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    Hi:

    I have a lot to do today, so will likely not get a post done on the rise of Europe. This will be kind of an old hat post, but less than an hour ago, I was in a store where a free energy meeting was coincidentally being held. I have been invited to speak there and locally, but I have no interest in it. Recently, I have been hit from several directions by people trying to enlist my assistance, or who want to cheer me on, but none of them understand what I am trying to do. It is a real test of my patience.

    I am not planning to:

    1. Write a book, and then go on the speaking circuit;

    2. Form a “movement,” play the “grass roots” game - a la Occupy, non-profit foundations, etc. - man booths at New Age expos, recruit the flock at supermarkets, and so on;

    3. Encourage FE tinkerers to go make FE prototypes in their garages;

    4. Mount an effort to research, build, and market FE devices;

    5. Educate the masses in FE physics, or make a list of the numerous FE martyrs;

    6. Approach governmental, corporate, religious, environmental and other NGO institutions for help;

    7. Reach out to friends, family, and professional colleagues to help educate them;

    8. Get on TV or the major media to tell my story, or write a screenplay for Hollywood.

    I have experience in or near all of those activities, and they are all dead-ends, at least as far as FE is concerned. I am trying to do something different, so radically different that almost nobody can even comprehend it, as I am constantly approached on all the approaches above, always by people who really do not have any experience the field, as they try to pour the new wine into old skins. Almost invariably, the efforts that I have been seeing reek of naïveté and a lack of discernment and clear thinking, and those are deadly shortcomings in this field.

    What I am trying to do is:

    A. Help people understand the role of energy in the journey of life on Earth, including the human journey, in both obvious and subtle ways;

    B. Help people develop a comprehensive perspective, which will necessarily be somewhat scientific, but it is going to incorporate economics, politics, spirituality, history, and other disciplines, and the perspective that I hope to help people achieve will see the driving force of our energy practices behind all of them, and how dependent they all are on the energy issue;

    C. From that comprehensive perspective, then they will understand the epochal changes that FE will bring to all of them; they will make all dominant ideologies obsolete (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#dominant ), for starters;

    D. It will be understood that fear and scarcity are related as are love and abundance (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#coming ), which is rooted in the energy issue in very real ways, ways that elude almost everybody who encounters these issues (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/energy.htm#greatest );

    E. Mount a high-level conversation, Internet-based, that I hope several thousand people on Earth can be a part of, and it will inspire ten times that number, and then the real-world problems of making FE happen would be easily overcome.

    While that may seem simple, even easy, it is anything but. People have to relinquish their scarcity-based ideologies in order to glimpse abundance, and in virtually every instance where somebody fails to understand what I am trying to do, it is because they can’t let go of their cherished beliefs. Those ideologies somehow feed and comfort them. The proportion of people who are even willing to do what it will take to achieve the heart-centered sentience that I think is needed is far less than 1% of the general population. After many years in this field, I came to accept those numbers, and I am using this new technology, the Internet, to expand my reach across the planet, so I can reach those needles in haystacks. Almost every FE newbie wants to go solve the problem on their lunch-hour, proselytize with their new gospel under their arm, etc. That is not in alignment with what I am trying to do. The masses are worse than worthless at this time, for an effort like this. It is just what it is. Can a child comprehend romantic love? Can a five-year-old understand what it takes to earn a living? These are the problems that come with the FE effort. People will begin to wake up to FE and abundance when it can be demonstrated to them:

    http://www.ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#machiavelli

    A hazard of attaining those understandings is becoming disgusted with our species, and I have seen more than one activist succumb to it, but those who overcame it did it with love:

    http://www.ahealedplanet.net/journey.htm#disgust

    It is just one of the many hazards that come with this journey. Enough said for now.

    One final thought before it is off to chores is that it is easy to get lost in the games that academics play. For instance, when people think of the energy industry, they usually think of fossil fuels, nuclear power, and the “sustainable” alternatives. The food industry is the energy industry. About 80% of what is called nutrition consists of caloric energy. Housing and clothing are energy industries. Their primary reason for existence is to shelter the human body from energy loss to the environment, either from heat loss, predation, or by preserving energy sources such as food, and whether it is fiber for clothing, or wood, glass, and steel for buildings, energy made them all possible, which was almost always captured sunlight. The transportation industry is all about energy and always has been, whether it was riding a horse, sailing a ship, making a road, driving a car, or going to the moon. Economists tend to parse human productive activities into those categories, and many others, and homogenize it all with money, and produce analyses that are completely divorced from reality. A comprehensive perspective will understand the role of energy, in both the obvious and subtle ways:

    https://projectavalon.net/forum4/show...l=1#post648832

    and it will also glimpse the potential of abundant, clean, essentially “free” energy. Nothing remotely close to it has ever been experienced on this planet before, and that is a show that I would like to see.

    Time for chores.

    Best,

    Wade
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    Default Re: WADE FRAZIER : A Healed Planet

    Wade,

    I do not pretend to be humming along with the nascent choir, but I have had a breakthrough in understanding the reality that the (mundane) human journey is a story of energy acquisition and utilization and of the subsequent 'gaming' of the scarcity meme for control and profit.

    Just wanted you to know that is IS seeping in through the cracks. :~) Repetition, especially with rephrasing, is working.
    Quote "The food industry is the energy industry. About 80% of what is called nutrition consists of caloric energy. Housing and clothing are energy industries. Their primary reason for existence is to shelter the human body from energy loss to the environment, either from heat loss, predation, or by preserving energy sources such as food, and whether it is fiber for clothing, or wood, glass, and steel for buildings, energy made them all possible, which was almost always captured sunlight. The transportation industry is all about energy and always has been, whether it was riding a horse, sailing a ship, making a road, driving a car, or going to the moon. Economists tend to parse human productive activities into those categories, and many others, and homogenize it all with money, and produce analyses that are completely divorced from reality. A comprehensive perspective will understand the role of energy, in both the obvious and subtle ways..."
    Thanks, bro!

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    Hi:

    Dennis, bro, thanks for that. The energy issue works at the molecular level, the cellular level, the organism level, the ecosystem level and even larger (called panarchy http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panarchy#Systems_theory), and for the human animal, it also works at the societal level, and that includes our technologies and how we extract energy from the environment (especially biologically-stored energy, including fossil fuels).

    After humans wiped out the densest energy stores available to them, megafauna (and they could only exploit that energy source when they improved their toolset and social organization so they could invade ecosystems across the planet), they then began to domesticate plants and animals, and that is when humans also became domesticated.

    In evolutionary theory, it is surmised that just like humans bred out the “wildness” in our domestic plants and animals, they also bred those “wild” traits out of humanity. That is a huge subject. Professions, slaves, and elites are the primary new “kinds” of people that arose with civilization, and the people behind keeping the lid on FE and other “disruptive” technologies are the professional descendants of those earliest elites. While there are plenty of tales on how far back and how unbroken that lineage may be, and whether it involves ET blood lines, I am more of the “structuralist” persuasion on that score. Today’s hyper-elites, AKA Godzilla, are merely taking advantage of the opportunities that the human herd is providing to them, and we readily oblige them. On several levels, the energy scarcity game is the big one, and everything else is the small stuff. Overcoming hundreds of thousands of years of scarcity-based conditioning will not be easy, and that, as I see it, is the big hurdle. When I say that it is baked deep, I mean it. That is why this will not be an easy task, not by any means.

    Thanks for keeping your brain to this grindstone. You are one of my test cases for this stuff. I think that what I am going to be doing will be conceptually challenging, but not so much that people have to be geniuses to understand. You have the emotional part down, my friend, which is the most important part (as I keep saying, it all begins in the heart). The conceptual part also will be highly challenging for people, and not just because most will sense, on a primordial level, that all of their scarcity-based oxen will be gored, but there will be “cognitive” challenges to having the paradigm shift from scarcity to abundance. Other than me and a few others out there, nobody on Earth is making the case for practical abundance, which will necessarily be based on energy abundance. It is not easy to wrap one’s head around what has essentially never been seen on Earth before. I am still wrapping my head around it, and I have been doing it for a long time.

    Time for more chores.

    Best,

    Wade

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    Hi:

    Ok, back to Europe. Again, before England industrialized, it was just one of the imperial wannabees, and the 1600s were spent vying with the Dutch for dominance, although much of England’s rise could be traced to innovations that it took from the Dutch, and they both learned lessons from the Portuguese and Spanish maritime efforts, and they did not learn their tricks from whole cloth, either, borrowing plenty from Islamic cultures. None of the advances happened in isolation, although Spain had the New World largely to itself for a century, and when England industrialized, it developed a 50-80 year lead over the second place nations, which were initially Belgium, France, and Switzerland. The Game Laws that kicked the peasants off the land also appeared on Continental Europe. This is an area where I think the structuralist perspective can be used with profit. Kicking the peasants off the land was inspired by greedy landowners who wanted to grow crops for market, as urbanization grew. Urbanization and markets were conjoined, because cities could not grow their food. When slaves were used, it was easier to just take the agricultural surplus and ship it to the city. Rome largely worked that way in its empire days. But an industrialized workforce could not have appeared unless agriculture could provide the surplus that could support people who were not engaged in farming. And some numbers will help make this clear.

    The carrying capacity of Earth is less than ten million people using the hunter-gatherer lifestyle. When agriculture began, it took more work for less calories to feed a person, which is partly why today’s anthropologists think that agriculture was a response to population pressures. Hunter-gatherers would not have chosen agriculture unless it was forced on them. For instance, the natives of the West coast of North America were familiar with agriculture, as it was engaged in only a few hundred miles inland, in today’s Arizona, and the great agricultural civilization of Mesoamerica was not so far away. By the time of Christopher Columbus, maize farming was engaged in from Chile to New England. It diffused to everywhere that the natives needed it to, but the Pacific Northwest culture got half of its calories from salmon:

    http://www.ahealedplanet.net/america.htm#northwest

    The natives of California, below the Salmon Belt, had a diverse food supply that consisted of acorns, fish, and other hunted and gathered foods. They were doing fine, and had no need of agriculture. The natives where I grew up, long ago exterminated, by the Spanish, and then the whites:

    http://www.ahealedplanet.net/lies.htm#serra

    had one of the few truly peaceful cultures on Earth, but it was a response to population pressures. They had hunger and war, but developed a society that overcame it. The Chumash at European contact did not have slaves or warriors, and they had a network of cooperation and economic interdependence that seems to have been rather unique (See Fagan’s Before California for more), particularly for a hunter-gatherer society.

    But when the first cities appeared, only a few percent of the population, for the combined city and its hinterland, could be freed from producing food. Sumeria had a hinterland with about twenty times the population of the cities. With more than 90% of the population engaged in food production and distribution (and material for clothing), there was not much opportunity to learn the skills that attended the development of civilization. Until very recently on the historical scale, the life of a peasant was one of toil, illiteracy, simple pleasures, and a short life.

    1245 in England was the height of the “good times” of the Medieval Warm Period, and in Winchester, in southern England:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winchester

    the average farmworker lived to be 24 years old, and that was for the few that survived childhood. The skeletal deformities of both farmers and fisher-folk of the era are mute testament to their nasty, brutish, and short lives, which only got worse when the Medieval Warm Period ended and the Little Ice Age began.

    Also, wheat was a far inferior crop when compared to rice, maize, and potatoes. The potato was several times more productive than wheat, and the Irish soon came to almost entirely subsist on it, which caused a population explosion:

    http://www.ahealedplanet.net/america.htm#explosion

    and the potato blight that devastated Ireland led to a great deal of immigration to the USA.

    In the quest of profits, the English landowners pursued increased agricultural productivity and efficiency, and by 1700, had probably reached its peak “efficiency,” on the eve of industrialization. Until 1700s England, no people had ever attained the level of agricultural productivity and efficiency that allowed more than 30% of the workforce to be liberated from agricultural duties. But by 1800, 60% of the workforce no longer worked in agriculture. That is one of the primary upshots of the Industrial Revolution.

    In 1825, England produced as much iron as the rest of the world combined. By 1806, 97% of England’s iron production was powered by coal. A worker in an English cotton mill in 1825 could produce 200-300 times as much as a worker in a traditional setting. Canals and railroads were going up at a breakneck pace. In 1840, England had only 22% of its workforce in agriculture, which was a proportion that the USA would not attain until 1930. The population of England and Wales went from 6 million in 1740 to 15.7 million in 1840. The world had never seen anything like it before.

    The Industrial Revolution was an energy revolution above all else, and coal did not immediately take the day. Wind power for ships, and water power for mills, stayed competitive with coal well into the 1800s.

    https://projectavalon.net/forum4/show...ive#post576615

    I will get to the USA soon and don’t want to get too far ahead of myself, but in 1840, there were 60,000 water-powered establishments in the USA, and less than 1,200 steam engine-powered establishments.

    Time for work.

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    Wade
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    Hi:

    Not much time this morning, but the industrialization of England obviously had many downsides, and in ways where I am somewhat sympathetic to Level 5s:

    http://www.ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#level5

    Although freeing people from agricultural duties meant an increase in real wealth, it was a mixed bag for everyone involved, except for the capital class. While the caste system in England became less pronounced with industrialization:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_...nd_stereotypes

    Britain still has its royalty, the Queen still makes knights and dames, with the USA having a more secular version, with the president handing out medals and awards. The treatment of British children became worse in ways with industrialization, with them being forced into the factories:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_l...ial_Revolution

    The USA emulated those practices, well into the 20th century. But industrialization also hastened the end of chattel slavery. Women also began to be liberated in the industrialized world, but it was a long struggle and continues. What industrialization most helped Britain at, however, was conquering the world. It is no accident that the first nation to industrialize had the world’s first global empire, and that its offspring, then rival, then master, has been the world’s imperial kingpin since World War II. I have seen scholars (exclusively white men, of course ) defend British and American hegemony as the most benevolent empires in history. That is like saying that a father does not beat his children as much as he once used to. Don’t ask those suffering under our boot how benevolent our rule is. In some ways, nothing has changed, where energy is the game, and the empire takes it where it finds it. The earliest cities battled over wood and access to the forests that they raped to get their energy-produced materials:

    https://projectavalon.net/forum4/show...l=1#post554340

    Rome waged genocidal wars to control the Mediterranean, and then turned the entire Mediterranean periphery into an energy supply for Rome, as the grain and wood barges disappeared into Rome’s maw:

    https://projectavalon.net/forum4/show...ths#post562534

    Overland in Europe, it was conquest and raping the forests to fuel the glass, iron, and other proto-industrial efforts.

    Britain was able to plunder its coal fields internally for centuries, but liquids are highly superior fuels, especially for powering mobile technology such as ships and cars, and when the British Navy adopted oil as its preferred fuel:

    http://www.epmag.com/archives/digitalOilField/5911.htm

    just as the USA was having a binge on cars:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Ford#Model_T

    the fate of the Middle East was sealed. The USA’s recent genocidal invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq, with Britain carrying our bags for us, are all about the fuel for our industrialized economies. No other justification survives even minimal scrutiny, and even Americans are not stupid enough to really believe that we are there to “liberate” them, fight “terror” and the like, but those make nice cover stories, the kinds of cover stories that have been concocted by every empire for all time. Astute American observers have been dissecting our imperial lies for a long time:

    http://www.ahealedplanet.net/hooked.htm#twain

    but the imperial class keeps churning out the lies, and they become just plausible enough so that everybody does not fall over laughing when they hear them:

    http://www.counterpunch.org/2003/07/...g-the-obvious/

    It is all about the plunder and always has been. So it is, in a world of scarcity.

    And while we slaughter millions to steal their resources and subjugate the survivors so that they can form a pool of cheap labor, Godzilla looks on and laughs. Make no mistake, Godzilla is not very concerned with those imperial games, as he rides at a higher level. As long as we slaughter and exploit each other, or obsess about conspiratorial goings on, Godzilla has the game well in hand, because when we play those games, we act like victims, and victims are easy to control. If enough of us began thinking and acting like creators, it would be game over for Godzilla, and he knows it.

    I want to finish with a rather bizarre series of events that happened in the past few hours. I don’t remember my dreams very often, but when I do, they are often doozies. Last night, I dreamed that I was kind of led into an underground facility by some black ops guys, who kind of befriended me, but there was also a good cop/bad cop thing happening. One guy was challenging me, calling me full of it, while the other one was nodding in recognition. They sat me down, in an underground base setting, and I was not sure what the agenda was. Just then, some woman walked up behind me, and was about to inject me with a kind of injection gun. I turned around and avoided her gun, and asked what the heck was happening, and she said that they just needed to ask me some questions, and the good cop guy tried to assure me that it was OK. At that moment, I was happy as hell that I purposely did not know where my friend got his little underground show:

    http://www.ahealedplanet.net/camelot.htm#underground

    At that moment, the dream drove me out of my sleep, and I did not go back to sleep. I have never had a dream like that before, not even remotely. As I woke up and read my email, I got a couple of emails from a source that everybody at Avalon knows well, and it was about underground bases, exotic technology, and the like. I never received anything like that before from that source, so that is my Twilight Zone moment of the day.

    Time for work.

    Best,

    Wade

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    "It will be understood that fear and scarcity are related as are love and abundance".

    Say's it all really. thank you Wade, Love and light to you.

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    Hi:

    Thanks Sheme. I am glad that you understand, but sometimes I think that I am too close to it all, where things that are obvious to me are invisible to others. That is one of the hazards of what I am doing. I have seen people analyze that statement and misunderstand abundance, love, fear, and scarcity. I saw somebody recently try to make the case that fear is a mental state, not an emotional one. I saw somebody make the case that the windfall fruit pile that Jane Goodall used to bait chimpanzees, so that she could study them, was abundance. When I would see those kinds of reactions, I think that I was seeing an addiction to scarcity, which is rooted in fear. Were they even trying to understand? As I say, it all starts in the heart, and I am truly looking for needles in haystacks.

    I have an early morning meeting, so this will be short, but one thing that I wanted to make clear is that the path to industrialization that humanity has taken so far is the path that it took. It is not the path that it needed to take. It does not necessarily reflect human nature, and even if it did, humans have the ability to rise above their natures and change them. We are the “intelligent,” social animal that can manipulate its environment, and that has created different ways of being. While studying how it is, how it was, and speculating on how it can be, it can be easy to think that how it is is how it is supposed to be, and the past we took to get here was the only path, which can mean that the future is also set, so let’s all go back to watching TV. That is fatalistic, and denies our agency and free will, and I doubt it is accurate.

    To get historical, an ideal of a historian is to keep a sense of historical contingency, which means to avoid being Whiggish:

    http://www.ahealedplanet.net/medicine.htm#whig

    and seeing the human journey as an unending story of progress, similar to how American high school and even college history texts are an unending tale of glory:

    http://www.ahealedplanet.net/intro.htm#paradigms

    Events did not have to turn out how they did. We are left with what happened, not how it had to happen. To call warfare human nature is selling us short. That is like saying that rape is human nature, or slavery, or murder. And even if it was, do we want to do something about it? People have tried to call homosexuality unnatural for a long time, but the discovery of homosexuality in nature – and a lot of it – wrecked that argument.

    In science, the study of the galaxy, this planet, and the journey of life on Earth shows how many dynamics have interacted, and how much of the story on this planet is certainly not the one that had to happen, but it was the one that did. As Einstein said, the best scientists lived in a sort of awe about it all, and knew that there was a lot more than met the eye:

    http://www.ahealedplanet.net/energy.htm#einstein

    To get mystical, Seth talked about probable and parallel realities, where our decisions each day opened the door to new realities. All of my study of what is and what has been has been partly to understand how things work, but it is what we do today that determines our tomorrow. But until we have a better understanding of how things have worked and how they do today, it is easy to get sucked into all manner of unproductive activities, get sucked down the rabbit holes of theories and ideologies that do not really mean much, even if they are valid.

    My goal from all of this is concerted positive action, but until enough of us can learn to row, and row in the same direction, we are not going anywhere, or not anywhere fun.

    Time for work.

    Best,

    Wade
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    Dear Wade,

    There is something that struck a cord within me.

    I have been following and reading your posts, ever since you came to Avalon.



    Have been listening to you since the Camelot days, with your interview with Brian O' as an associate.

    My issue with you is, if I don't put my face and name on my Avator. Then i am not serious about the whole game! My name is Roy Creech and I live in Georgetown, Kentucky. Where do you live?

    Maybe you would be suprised of all the people, you would like to get in your choir.

    I appreciate what you have been through, but please don't throw the baby with the dishwater!

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    Hi Ol’ Roy:

    I am easily found, and Godzilla has had me under surveillance, probably continually, since 1988. I have written plenty on why the choir I have in mind will not be comprised of anonymous members:

    https://projectavalon.net/forum4/show...l=1#post338018

    https://projectavalon.net/forum4/show...ous#post447356

    https://projectavalon.net/forum4/show...l=1#post312837

    https://projectavalon.net/forum4/show...l=1#post568808

    https://projectavalon.net/forum4/show...ous#post554999

    https://projectavalon.net/forum4/show...l=1#post284451

    and I am not going to keep repeating myself on that score. Being in the choir is not going to be like joining an Old Boys’ club, or some wonderful spotlight to bask in. It is going to be hard, thankless work. I am giving up about $200K of income to write my upcoming hymnal, and that just goes on top of the many millions that I passed up on my journey. The “remuneration” for being in the choir will be a bit less onerous, but it will be a lot of hard work for no worldly gain, but it just might help Heaven on Earth manifest.

    For any choir, there are tryouts. Imagine me going to the local choir (Seattle has a bunch of them), and announce that I am going to join. What do you think they might say first? “Tryouts are next week.” I have yet to see you sing, Ol’ Roy, especially not the songs I will be looking for. That post that you just made is anything but singing. The people who I will be recruiting/inviting will already be singing, on the Internet and elsewhere. You or anybody else is welcome to form a choir of the anonymous:

    https://projectavalon.net/forum4/show...l=1#post654381

    but that is not in my plan. I will require at least that much courage. When I hear people giving their reasons for why they need to be anonymous, I always hear in the background, usually unspoken, “I am afraid to! I cannot afford to!” That is OK, but that is not who I am looking for, not for the choir. It is going to be a choir of love, not fear. It is my hope that the choir will reach ten times their number, and people can be one of those, but they will also be the people doing something, and that is where the rubber hits the road. If people want to hide behind their anonymity in the choir, there is no way that they will muster the courage to actually do something, although the people who sing can only sing, and that is fine by me. I am looking for singers, not soldiers. What Sandy and Ilie posted today over here is what I have in mind:

    https://projectavalon.net/forum4/show...l=1#post654142

    Now, that’s singing.

    Best,

    Wade
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    The painful truth. Looks like this cartoonist has discovered some of what you've been telling us, Wade. Note that the gauntlet starts with friends and family.




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    Hi Dennis:

    I am not telling the half of it, I am afraid. In my personal life, I get about zero support for what I am doing. Even people whose lives I subsidize are rarely helpful, but have agendas that are usually at cross-purposes with what I am doing. I have had to send friends and family on their way when they actually began to attack me, and all of them lived off of my largesse, too. My case may seem to be extreme, but everybody that I know who has walked a path like mine reports similar, heartbreaking experiences.

    The people really trying to do good in the world not only have to face society’s enforcers, and the higher the level that you play the game, the bigger the enforcers, but they usually have the deepest daggers plunged in their backs by their families, “friends,” colleagues, and so-called “allies.” Of all the bitter truths encountered on a journey like mine, that might be the most bitter.

    Whistleblowers report the same thing:

    http://www.ahealedplanet.net/cover-u...whistleblower1

    The problem is that we are an egocentric species that rarely sees beyond our immediate self-interest. When people have an egocentric awareness, they can’t see the bigger picture and are not even interested in it. It is all about gratifying their egos, those frightened little entities. And people like that are not only easily manipulated by the social managers, but people operating at a higher level of awareness (call it soul-centric, if you will), are not only incomprehensible to the egocentric thinkers, but if they are close to the egocentric (as in family, friend, co-worker), they become seen as a great threat, somebody who rocks the boat.

    In a world of scarcity, people learn their tricks to survive, and that is what life is all about, to them. They comprise nearly the entirety of humanity at this time. That is just where we are as a species, as we rush toward the abyss. If life was not all about carving out niches in scarcity-based economies, and people experienced true abundance, might their souls come out more? I think so, but that might be my folly, and what I am trying will simply not work, and there is nothing to do but wait for Jeb or George P. Bush to become the next president or two. As Roads’s mentor said, most people are just happy as clams with this life:

    http://www.ahealedplanet.net/visions.htm#suppress

    because this is the existence that they came to explore. It is quite possible that I will go to my grave, doing what I am, in complete futility, and maybe Godzilla will come chew on me some more. In the next life, I will incarnate in that heavenly world, if I even come back at all, while 99.9% of the rest come back, if there is a world to come back to, where George Bush the Eighth comes up with a draconian plan to relocate all the people being displaced by our rising oceans, leading another genocidal invasion of a people who have something we want (Canada will be easy to invade and conquer, as we steal all that land that will become arable with global warming, and while the true motivation will be transparently easy to see by anybody over age 3, most Americans will act like they can’t see it http://www.counterpunch.org/2003/07/...g-the-obvious/ , as they will believe anything that keeps their bellies full and gas in the tank).

    I have not even begun the choir yet, and I am already being badgered about how I plan to go about it.

    That all just comes with this territory, I am sorry to say.

    Best,

    Wade
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    Hi:

    Back to the rise of Europe. To go back to my post on England’s population explosion during the early days of the Industrial Revolution:

    https://projectavalon.net/forum4/show...l=1#post653078

    How could a few million people conquer most of a world of nearly a billion?

    http://www.ahealedplanet.net/timeline.htm#industrial

    Similar questions have been asked about the Conquistadors, and how a few hundred men could conquer empires of millions, first the Aztecs:

    http://www.ahealedplanet.net/america.htm#aztec

    and then the Incas:

    http://www.ahealedplanet.net/america.htm#inca

    Superiority in energy-leveraged violence is the answer. It was also rarely the case that they invaded people living in peace and plenty, but people doing what people do, exploiting each other, living on the ragged edge of scarcity. But Europe brought devastation to those they encountered, wherever they encountered them. There were only a few groups not immediately devastated. One was those who sold themselves to the invaders as useful, such as the Tlaxcalans:

    http://www.ahealedplanet.net/america.htm#tlaxcala

    the Westos:

    http://www.ahealedplanet.net/america.htm#charleston

    the Mohegans:

    http://www.ahealedplanet.net/america.htm#thanksgiving

    and others, at least while they had their utility. The Tlaxcalans can claim that life was good after they sold themselves to the Spanish, but that is very relative. The place is an economic disaster today, compared to the West.

    One common dynamic was for the natives to invite Europeans into their quarrels with their neighbors, usually using the Europeans’ superior weaponry and tactics to subdue their neighbors. Those often enough turned into genocides, and it could rebound onto the initial belligerent, such as the Huron experience:

    http://www.ahealedplanet.net/america.htm#champlain

    When New Zealand’s Maoris got ahold of European weapons, it was not long before they invaded, slaughtered, and enslaved the people of the Chatham Islands:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chatham...t_and_genocide

    Not long after being “discovered” by the British, the Hawaiians' inter-islands’ quarrels became an outright imperial conquest by Kamehameha, using European weapons and tactics, resulting in a huge battle on Oahu:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kameham....CA.BBi_Island

    A century later, Hawaii lost its independence to the new burgeoning empire on the scene, the USA:

    http://www.ahealedplanet.net/america.htm#hawaii

    Other survivors were cultures who knew the game and kept Europeans out for as long as they could, such as the Chinese and Japanese. On the periphery were some natives in the waste lands who harried the invaders and “settlers” for centuries, such as the Apaches and Mapuche ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mapuche#War_of_Arauco ), and some others at the margins, where it was not worth it for the invaders to mount an effort to just wipe the slate clean. And there is an exception or two where the rulers were able to dance well enough with the competing European interests to at least have a semblance of independence, such as Thailand, but again, that is very relative.

    Usually what happened was that the Europeans invaded and conquered, and where they wanted the land, they just wiped out and/or displaced the natives and took the land (North America, South Africa, Rhodesia, southern South America, Australia, New Zealand, Tasmania, and so on), and where there was a large sedentary population that did not immediately die from introduced diseases and slavery, the Europeans set themselves up as the ruling class, milking the civilization. India is a prime example of that dynamic.

    When railroads were invented, which were not possible without coal to smelt the iron and run the trains, the pattern in Europe, the USA, and other white nations was that the imperial capitals were hubs of the railroads, with the railroads all leading to the metropolises, bringing them what they needed to thrive (food, coal, etc.). In the imperial hinterland that was being milked for food and raw materials, the railroads ran from the mines and plantations to ports, to be shipped to the white nations, with India and Africa being two primary examples. There was a conceit among the Europeans, begun by the English, that spoke of the imperial “deal” as being all about “free trade.” That is a big subject that I will cover soon, but it was anything but free, and was intended to exploit the “traded” to Europe’s benefit. It was just another variation on the imperial formula, which arose with industrialization.

    The last peoples to fall to Europe were the closest, the Islamic culture centered in the Ottoman Empire:

    http://www.ahealedplanet.net/america.htm#ottoman

    Which was not carved up en masse until World War I, when all of that oil became coveted by the Europeans. And a century later, they never really left for long, led today by that imperial newcomer, the USA, which does not like to call itself an empire, except in frank moments here and there:

    https://projectavalon.net/forum4/show...l=1#post651262

    And as Ilie noted, how I can stay positive about our future is no easy task:

    https://projectavalon.net/forum4/show...l=1#post654142

    and some days are better than others, but what all of the above has in common is economic scarcity, with people readily sacrificing others in their quest for economic “advancement” and security. On the positive side, early industrialization is when, for the first time, economics was not seen in strictly zero-sum-game terms. It was realized that plundering one’s neighbor was not strictly necessary for economic advancement, at least if a society could obtain and exploit the energy of fossil fuels. I will be exploring that one soon, but for now, it is time for work.

    Best,

    Wade
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    Hey Wade,

    Your response to me was class! Nothing more than I would expect from you.

    I know that I have a squeky voice. And do not expect to get in the choir.

    But I am in the audience and am applauding you and the choir all the way!

    But you know being in the audience has its great perks! If the perforance is great, they tell thier friends about it. Next thing you know it's a HIT!

    I know, I pissed some people off by my post.

    But you have clarifed what you expect!

    I am with you brother all the way!

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    Dear Sandy,

    I respectfully would ask you to remove your thank you from my post.

    It was very irrational, to say the least!

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    Hey Ol'Roy,

    In my abundant world all voices are heard by me, even if I do or don't agree, after all>>>> You are my brother :-)
    Love and Light Always/Sandy

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    Hi:

    When Europe began sailing the high seas and conquering the world, it set many dynamics in motion. Some are called positive feedbacks, in scientific parlance, and others are called negative feedbacks. Positive and negative feedbacks mean if a response to a stimulus ends up making more stimulus, or dampens it.

    The Medieval Warm Period was one of the initial stimuli for the rise of Europe, as Europe enjoyed more solar energy, which meant that it could wrench more energy from the environment, as more land could be farmed. The concomitant spread of watermills and the horse collar were energy innovations that allowed for the rise in Europe’s population and standard of living during the Medieval Warm Period.

    https://projectavalon.net/forum4/show...val#post607647

    Europe’s forests had largely recovered from Rome’s rapacity, to only be deforested again during the Medieval Warm Period. The introduction of the Classic Greek writings via the seizure of Islamic libraries led to humanism and the rise of science:

    https://projectavalon.net/forum4/show...val#post607647

    The Fall of Constantinople to the Turks in 1453 led to more Greek scholarship making it into Europe. The development of ships that could sail the oceans was the technical feat of its age, with a sailing ship generating several hundred horsepower, which was the greatest energy technology in history to that time. Those interacting dynamics led to the rise of Europe, and then Europe set about plundering the planet. It was not just Earth’s peoples that were plundered, but the densest energy “resource” of the oceans, whales, were driven to the brink of extinction:

    http://www.ahealedplanet.net/simon.htm#whaling

    Fishing boats plied the North Atlantic, reaching the fishing grounds off of North America perhaps before Columbus’s fateful journey of 1492:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_B...ndland#History

    Competition amongst the imperial rivals led to advances in social organization and technology, allowing for greater imperial prowess. The English and the Dutch formed the first forerunners of modern corporations:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_India_Company

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_East_India_Company

    Science began its rise at the same time, although it was a fitful process and it arguably went astray in ways from the beginning:

    https://projectavalon.net/forum4/show...ius#post603420

    https://projectavalon.net/forum4/show...l=1#post595255

    Those were all interacting dynamics, but they all road atop the ability to wrest more energy from the environment. That energy boost allowed for more activities to be engaged in that were not only previously unfeasible, many were simply unimaginable. Sailing around the world was unimaginable a hundred years before Magellan’s crew did it:

    https://projectavalon.net/forum4/show...lan#post621451

    The Copernican Revolution was Kuhn’s primary example of a paradigm shift:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Str...can_Revolution

    The competition between England and its rivals, and the rise of people such as Newton, were “positive feedbacks” that further encouraged England’s rise. Newton was an alchemist, and his mercury experiments may have made him crazy:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Later_l...ac_Newton#1693

    but playing with chemicals and metallurgy led to the use of coal to smelt iron:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Darby_I

    while at the same time, the world’s first practical steam engine was invented:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newcomen_steam_engine

    which led to the steam engine that powered the Industrial Revolution:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watt_steam_engine

    and machines were developed that reduced the need for human labor:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cotton-spinning_machinery

    Those all had interacting effects that led to the rise of England above its rivals. England tapped the energy of coal out of necessity, as its forests were gone and it had coal available.

    Coal was being burned on the British Isles as long as five thousand years ago:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coal#Early_uses_as_fuel

    The Chinese used coal to smelt copper three thousand years ago:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coal#Early_uses_as_fuel

    and they baked out the impurities nearly two thousand years ago, to make coke:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coke_(fuel)#China

    The Classic Greeks used coal for metal smelting, and the Romans were mining British coal nearly two thousand years ago:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History...#Early_history

    So, coal and coke were not exactly new to human civilization. The English began to make coke in the 1500s:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coke_(fuel)#England

    But it was not until Darby that the great union of coke and iron was created, and the primary materials of the Industrial Revolution were put into play. The Industrial Revolution was a revolution in those three factors of humanity’s rise:

    1. Energy

    2. Manipulative ability (our hands)

    3. Intelligence (our brains)

    https://projectavalon.net/forum4/show...l=1#post651623

    The machines of the Industrial Revolution not only freed human hands from drudgery, but they can do things that hands and muscles never could. A slave-born palinquin never hit 60 miles per hour or went to the moon. The reproduction of intelligence is behind the high tech revolution, and it is in its infancy. Without tapping ever-greater levels of energy, the Industrial and High Tech revolutions could not have happened. But for people who think about these issues, one incongruity stands out, even if they never even heard of people like Tesla, Moray, O’Leary, or me, and it goes like this:

    “We can put men on the moon, engineer down to the atomic level in making computers, and yet we still burn fossil fuels to get our energy. What is wrong with that picture?”

    The energy industry has been in a state of arrested development for more than a century (and nuclear power is a very mixed bag http://www.ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#level3 ), and is because the hyper-elites have kept it that way. The structuralists and other Level 3s:

    http://www.ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#level3

    dismiss it all as a “conspiracy theory” as their minds are trapped by their ideological assumptions. I am here as living evidence that it is no theory.

    On the geological time scale, the Industrial Revolution is like a spring bloom of algae, living off of a brief nutrient injection, reproducing until it is all gone, and then dying off:

    https://projectavalon.net/forum4/show...oom#post539260

    The Peak Oilers see humanity as just one more algal bloom, to die off soon as we run out of our primary nutrient, fossil fuel energy. It is hard to argue against their perspective, at least from the White Science angle. The entire journey of life on Earth, and the human journey, has been one of developing ways to extract more energy from the environment:

    http://www.ahealedplanet.net/upcoming.htm#revolutions

    and as we reach the bottom of the fossil fuel well, beginning with oil and gas (frakking, mining the Canadian Tar Sands, deep ocean drilling, and the like, is rightly seen as sucking at the dregs, not to mention that they are all environmental catastrophes in the making), the end is in sight for industrial civilization, maybe even complex life, as we fight over the remnants.

    A pal recently made me aware of this book:

    http://www.amazon.com/Infinite-Energ.../dp/1594773807

    and it looked like Brian O may have written something new that I was not aware of, so I obtained it. The book was written by my pals and fellow travelers such as Jeane Manning, Steven Greer, and Tom Valone, but my main reason for buying it was seeing what Brian wrote. Alas, it was only a transcript of his last talk:

    http://www.ahealedplanet.net/upcoming.htm#oleary

    so there was nothing new there for me. What I found interesting, however, was Greer saying that Peak Oil was going to get us before environmental catastrophe would, as the world’s nations fight over the last barrels of oil in something out of Mad Max. The timelines of the decline off of the Peak Oil plateau and the effects of 1000 PPM carbon dioxide on the atmosphere:

    https://projectavalon.net/forum4/show...l=1#post553228

    could turn the human journey into a “race of the catastrophes” situation:

    https://projectavalon.net/forum4/show...l=1#post646907

    where if one does not do us in, another will, or they will conflate into hellish scenarios that would dwarf any nightmare that we can imagine. These are very real possibilities, and as humanity blithely sails along, oblivious, the fright of any scientist with a clue is understandable. But while they are trapped by their own ideological assumptions, they are no help in righting the ship.

    I think that I have adequately covered the development of the dynamics that led to British imperial ascendancy in 1700s, to kind of have the field nearly to itself by 1800. I have long written about the genocidal effects and the environmental impacts of the early days of Europe’s conquest. The Spanish desertified parts of today’s Mexico within a hundred years of conquest, as the British also quickly did to parts of Australia:

    http://www.ahealedplanet.net/america.htm#_edn83

    The English deforested the Eastern Woodlands with as much sentience as a plague of beavers, in what was history’s most spectacular deforestation. The environmental impacts were noted by some observers of the day, but the juggernaut began rolling, which led to the man writing these words. In future posts, while I will not ignore the impact of European imperialism on the world, I will be focusing more on the rise of the USA, and not just the genocide and dispossession of the Indians, the decimation of the passenger pigeon and the bison, but the economic development of the USA. I will also focus on the economic effects of European imperialism on the world, combined with its industrialization. It set in motion dynamics that plague us to this day. The global population explosion is a direct result of the impact of Europe on the world, and here is where I will address the fears of people about FE, those Level 5s:

    http://www.ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#level5

    who can only see the potential downside of FE, without ever acknowledging its upside. That is all coming, and I expect that it is going to take me all of a busy April to cover that territory. It is increasingly looking like I am going to finish that narrative that I begin in July by the end of April:

    https://projectavalon.net/forum4/show...l=1#post516792

    and it will form the outline of my upcoming essay, that I will finish by the end of the year, and then we will just have to see about that choir.

    Hi Ol’ Roy. Yes indeed, those who just listen to the choir and do the work to understand the song, and even hum a few bars in the shower, will be doing important work. The choir will be doing the heavy lifting, believe it or not, but those who just listen to the song will also be doing important work. If the choir can lift somebody like Dennis and carry him along, without him needing to play Atlas anymore, that will all be gravy.

    Best,

    Wade
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    Quote The English deforested the Eastern Woodlands with as much sentience as a plague of beavers, in what was history’s most spectacular deforestation. The environmental impacts were noted by some observers of the day, but the juggernaut began rolling, which led to the man writing these words.
    Rampant deforestation is something that has weighed heavily on me more and more as of late. My experiences in doing Taoist Neikung next to trees has lead me to believe many are sentient, and have higher wisdom. They don't have "linear" thoughts like we do, but the assumption that intellectual linear thinking is a sign of high sentience is one of humanities many errors. It's quite saddening, many of the products we use trees for could be supplied by hemp.

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    Quote Posted by Wade Frazier (here)
    The timelines of the decline off of the Peak Oil plateau and the effects of 1000 PPM carbon dioxide on the atmosphere:

    https://projectavalon.net/forum4/show...l=1#post553228

    could turn the human journey into a “race of the catastrophes” situation:

    https://projectavalon.net/forum4/show...l=1#post646907

    where if one does not do us in, another will, or they will conflate into hellish scenarios that would dwarf any nightmare that we can imagine. These are very real possibilities, and as humanity blithely sails along, oblivious, the fright of any scientist with a clue is understandable. But while they are trapped by their own ideological assumptions, they are no help in righting the ship.
    It is clear that we are presently at a tipping point. And our "way of life" is evidently unsustainable. Tensions inevitable.

    From : http://ec.europa.eu/research/social-...-report_en.pdf

    "According to the UN, between now and 2025, the world population will increase by 20 % to reach 8 billion inhabitants (6.5 today). 97 % of this growth will occur in the developing countries (Asia, Africa).

    In 2025, 61 % of the world population will be in Asia. The population of India will approach the population of China (which will have started to decrease). With a high fertility rate, South Asia will experience a high population growth while this growth will be moderate in South-East Asia and low in East Asia. (...)

    Before 2025 China could become the second world economic power and India the sixth economic power of the world ahead of Italy and behind France. In 2030 the “global middle class” (with an income between 4 000 and 17 000 dollars a year) could account for 1 billion people, of which 90 % will be living in developing countries. (...)

    According to the International Energy Agency in 2025 the world energy demand will have increased by 50 % in relation to 2005 and will reach 15 billion tons oil equivalent. Oil production will have started to stagnate (peak), coal is expected to become the first energy source between now and 2050. But in 2025 oil will still largely be in the lead.

    In the trend scenario of the International Energy Agency, it is envisaged that from now to 2030 coal consumption, in particular for power stations in China and India, will increase by more than 50 %. In this trend scenario the share of carbon-based energy should remain very largely dominant in 2030: Fossil fuels (oil, coal and gas) account for 80 % of the world’s primary energy mix while nuclear (fission) and renewables (hydro, wind, solar, etc.) account for 10 % each.

    In the hypothesis of an accelerated scarcity of oil and gas, with much higher prices, there will be an increased use of other energy sources which present risks or have little interest in combating climate change: oil shales, liquefied coal, first-generation bio-fuels, firewood resulting from deforestation... The security of energy supply will increasingly be called into question in Europe. The EU will be more dependent on external sources than in 2005 (if policy does not change). In 2030, the Union will import almost 70 % of its energy needs."
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    Hi:

    I am hosting a big Easter bash for my family, so I am going to be a house and yard slave for the next few days, so will be pretty quiet here. But briefly, Enishi, I know people who talk to trees and plants, and in that future Earth that Roads visited, the trees talked back:

    http://www.ahealedplanet.net/visions.htm#roads1

    and they were nicer than the ones that Dorothy met in Oz. Seth said that the consciousness of a tree focuses on the spot where the tree will be about fifty years before it is “born,” and for about fifty years after it dies.

    Again, with FE and just White Science materials technology, never mind Godzilla’s Golden Hoard, there is no reason to ever chop down another tree, but there is also no need to grow hemp, cotton, bamboo, etc., either. No plants need to be sacrificed in the service of our lifestyles, except what we eat, and since fruit is our ideal food, and fruit is a symbiosis of plant and animal, eating will not even harm much plant life. Long story, but I will go there in detail one day. In that world that Roads visited, their relationship with nature is something that is hard to even register on our awareness. What I would give to visit that world for a day. I will reproduce the full text of Roads’s visit one day soon.

    The 3-D printing revolution that we see happening today is a baby step toward the replicators that we see on Star Trek. I am sure that Godzilla has something on the replicator-scale, but how far along it may be, I do not know. I doubt that they can “print” life, but they may “print” stuff that comes close. That is speculation on my part, but in light of what I know, harming any complex life to use in our lifestyles will one day be seen as one more primitive practice that we outgrew, if we can turn the corner, and that segues to Cara’s post.

    Peak Oil (production of “conventional” oil) may have been reached back in 2005-2006, and we are already on the plateau that won’t last much longer. So, Mad Max may be closer than any of us want to admit. At the rate we are going, 1,000 PPM carbon dioxide might come in a century, or it could take longer (many variables at play, which we don’t understand well, such as, “Can the oceans keep absorbing carbon dioxide like they do?”). With FE, we could bring it back to 270 PPM pretty quickly. But we are already seeing “storms of the century” happening every few years. Most Westerners have no idea how vulnerable our food supply is to even modest climate change. It is one of several areas where we have our toes over the edge of the abyss. With FE, all of those trends can be reversed almost overnight. That is the upside. And the downside is easily seen as completely insane with even a little sentience, and when abundance beckons, maybe people will keep chasing after the abyss, but are we really that stupid and suicidal? I am betting that we aren’t, and when being sentient means something, people might decide to live in that state, instead of the brain-numbed state that so many seek today. Thinking clearly can be one heck of a lot of fun.

    Time for yard chores, on this nice day, about the first of the year here.

    Best,

    Wade

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