On 'Crude World' by Peter Maass and other topics

Oil and its economic impact upon users and producers (addicts and suppliers) has been a topic of popular analysis by numerous authors over the decades. 'The Seven Sisters' was one such book that detailed the rise of the Rockefeller Standard oil monopoly and its break up. This book published in 2009 by Peter Maass is in the style of new journalism-with much global first person interviews with prominent persons in oil producing nations and other principal persons.

http://www.petermaass.com/books/crude_world/

I have yet to complete reading this book, and perhaps will resume reading later today. Skipping about a bit from Equatorial Guinea and a dictator that may have eaten the balls and brains of a defeated rival (those were the missing parts of the corpse) sent billions through Washington D.C. Rigg's bank, we discover interesting facts about Guinea and the insularity of the Texas oil men working the claim, learn of the corrupting nature of oil development on economics-I guess it produces dictators or Chavez' generally with the U.S. Government preferring the former and move beyond basic Hilbert peak production criteria to information about problems in over-producing oil fields and the effect on reducing oil available from the field.

With world oil supplies having reached peak production and demand increasing, the prospect for long range price increases is apparent, yet even more obvious is the deleterious effect of fossil fuel use on American national economic development through its excessive opportunity costs and pervasive corruption of the social order-making a trophic order relationship to the principal oil controller of fundamental political-economic importance.

Libya has 43 billion barrels of oil reserves, the U.S.A. an inflated 30 billion, Saudi Arabia 264 billion, and Canada, Mexico, Venezuela and Saudi Arabia are our largest suppliers of crude oil. The extent to which U.S. economic development and foreign policy is determined by access to oil is rather remarkable. The political difficulties involved in breaking off reliance on fossil fuels are obvious and fundamental. While Mexico and Canada could perhaps sell their oil to China if the United States were intelligent enough to invent a better way of producing and using energy nationally, the political ability to accomplish such a transition while good for the environment would be locally thwarted by vested interests like as not.

Spring Flooding on Alaska's Kuskokwim River

Reportedly a dozen homes were flooded by the rapidly rising waters. At least most of the homeowners have lots on which they might rebuild a small hut to survive the brutal winter just a few months away.

http://www.adn.com/2011/05/11/1857898/kuskokwim-flood-rose-so-fast-residents.html

Unlike Mississippi River floods that predictably increase vertically instead of horizontally because of extensive trapping of waters within dykes or levies, Alaskan rivers may experience ice jams after break up in unforseen locales.

Maybe the Louisianna delta could recover a little if more levies were removed and new low cost floating dome homes were constructed behind inland breakwaters.

A new industry might manufacture curved plywood dome sections and curved beams in order to allow construction of a very strong, steel reinforced wood chip composite dome on a well-engineered round trimaran hull-base with hurricane anchors and quick release cables set in the ground in order to allow the home to survive 200 m.p.h. winds from tornados. A retirement dome for two should sell for 25,000 dollars or less minus lot.

Probably no political candidates support low-cost floating homes for the delta that would be designed to float upon river flooding.

Roofing the domes would be a two-stage process that would be temporally extended. Stage one is a complete coating and seam taping with three rolled on coatings of fiberglass resin or marine epoxy. As the dome would then be water protected the second roofing material could be accomplished with a variety of aesthetic mediums.

Like the hull of a small boat their should be frame reinforcing around the circular hull at three levels. The dome should be raised off the level of the deck a few iches and thoroughly coated with resin to prevent water damage to the curved planking.

I am not aware of any such simple 4 hour prefab dome home manufacturing plant in the Mississippi Delta region or the Kuskokwim, yet perhaps a market exists for low-cost retirement and enviropnmentally durable, solar panel coated green housing even in a fatuous housing market.

A Website to Process Digital Camaera Data Would be Useful

I believe that one must generally own a computer in order to process digital pictures. There are actually more than a few people that might buy a digital camera around the world and use it on-line if there were a way to upload the data to online picture processing at no cost. That seems like a potential new business opportunity to sell advertising.

For digital photo processing one must install a programming on one's personal computer that interprets the raw picture data and makes it uncoded friendly for general jpg use and so forth. If there was a website that had every digital camera manufacturers software online and processed incoming raw data, or if each manufacture offered free photo processing online, they would be able to sell advertising and far more digital cameras to people that haven't got a computer with them.

If more Africans had digital cameras, a myriad of news photos from current events along with pictures of endangered species from deep in the wild might be taken before such opportunties disappear beneath chain saw, parking lots and conversion of rivers into drainage ditches. It is unreasonable to expect every poor potential photographer in the Ivory Coast to own a web-book computer though to process their pictures. With quick on-line processing maybe they would have access to a public computer for on-line photo processing opportunities however.

Journalism should not be a mob-support activity in support of political elites and special interests running roughshod over individuals. If democracy is to prevail a little with enough social and environmental reason to satisfy even Socrates the people should be their own local journalists fully armed with digital photo processing opportunities.

The pampas of Argentina and pinnacles of Peru may look better from the more realistic digital lens of locals than through the lens of journalist Liberace's on chic safaris. Sure there is a place for elite, international boundry crossing broadcasters employed by powerful poltiical organizations and corporations with extreme concentrated wealth (I suppose allow I am not sure where that is), and there is even more the reason for free on-line digital photo processing for poor 2nd and 3rd world picture takers without a computer or 4G wireless.

General Georege S. Patton's poem 'Peace---Nov. 11, 1918'

Learning that the General was a fairly good poet was a surprise. At poetry hunter there are 16 of his poems published. It provides one with an insight into the thought of a military leader who had to exist within that realm of murder and mayhem as the essential tool of statecraft.

World War one had 8.5 million combat casualties. It provides a little insight into the relationship of human epistemology or mind to body. Body parts strewn liberally about the battlefield inform us that the human mind is a fleeting, ephemeral thing that arises nearly automatically within a human body with D.N.A. designs allowing it to fully form without much intelligent thought involved.

We may experience the social phenomena of political inability to form good contemporary ways of life inclusive of all and oppressive of none. These politically broken or shallow forms of thought are developmental social inabilities within the human inhertited collective political epistemology that may some day be overcome, as improbable as that seems. Even so we may appreciate the perspective of Georeg S. Patton who executed his social role with enthusiasm, though it occurs within a largely dysfuctional social paradigm existentially speaking.

"I stood in the flag-decked cheering crowd
Where all but I were gay,
And gazing on their extesy,
My heart shrank in dismay.

For theirs was the joy of the 'little folk'
The cruel glee of the weak,
Who, banded together, have slain the strong
Which none alone dared seek.

The Bosch we know was a hideous beast
Beyond our era's ban,
But soldiers still must honor the Hun
As a mighty fighting man.

The vice he had was strong and real
Of virtue he had none,
Yet he fought the world remorselessly
And very nearly won…

And looking forward I could see
Like a festering sewer;
Full of the fecal Pacifists
Which peace makes us endure….

None of the hold and blatant sin
The disregard of pain,
The glorious deeds of sacrefice
which follow in wars train.

Instead of these the little lives
Will blossom as before,
Pale bloom of creatures all too weak
To hear the light of war.

While we whose spirits wider range
Can grasp the joys of strife,
Will moulder in the virtuous vice
Of futile peaceful life.

We can but hope that e're we drown
'Neath treacle floods of grace,
The tuneless horns of mighty, Mars
Once more shall rouse the Race

When such times come, Oh! God of War
Grant that we pass midst strife,
Knowing once more the whitehot joy
Of taking human life.

Then pass in peace, blood-glutted Bosch
And when we too shall fall,
We'll clasp in yours our gory hands
In High Valhallas' Hall."

President Obama's Next Link in the Economic Segregation Plan

The official U.S. unemployment rate is 9%, yet the true figure is much higher, perhaps 20%. Forty-three percent of working age U.S. citizens aren't employed. The terrible state of the economy is a result of financial and government corruption the past twenty years that has concentrated wealth through globalism and corporatism building a new structure of economic segregation and subversion of social equality.

President Obama recently suggested that ten million illegal aliens mostly from Mexico become U.S. citizens (a cynic might wonder if that is after paying a fine to his re-election committee) so they can take jobs legally. Naturalizing Mexican and Canadian citizens creates geographically superior super-citizens for whom there are no legal boundaries in North America.

Promoting illegal aliens to citizens during a high unemployment era will increase the number of unemployed, legal job seekers in the U.S.A. Eight million jobs were lost after the 2008 Wall Street/banking/mortgage crisis. Do the math. Besides, the border patrol only catches one of every three illegal worker migrants at the border so if they vacate ten million illegal jobs another ten million will soon arrive to replace them.

Although the founders were of the opinion that an American president should be native born, they neglected to consider the problem of potential Presidents with dual citizenship because of the nature of travel back in the day. Who would have imagined that immigrants could be on the phone back home all the way to America and forever after getting off a plane, bus or under the wire? Dual citizenship is a key factor for building social inequality in the U.S.A.

Immigration to the U.S. today is more of a remote control channel change than an entry to a new world and the rest of one's life with new values. Immigrants may easily keep foreign and or dual allegiance and business contacts better than just plain native born Americans without even a passport to get to Alaska through Canada to be unemployed and freeze in a tent for several months.

Dual citizenship is an avenue of potential treason. Even native born offspring of immigrants are open to a world of dual allegiances, challenges and conflicts of interest, for they too have citizenship in the real foreign political realm of their parent’s home country.

While a Governor Jindal living in Louisiana may not be a relation of an Abu Jindal Pakistani or Kashmiri terrorist organizational cadre, such first generations may have relatives that are. The odds on a politician with dual citizenship being subject to foreign influence is greater than that of the second generation born in the U.S.A. and raised by non-immigrant U.S. parents. It is less likely a second generation will have economic values betraying U.S. economic through politics unless perhaps they attend foreign schools and colleges or Oxford University.

Minimally, dual citizenship creates a plague of conflicts of interests especially when a U.S. Presidential candidate could be running for the same office in another country if they choose. The citizenship of one's parents is generally conferred upon children regardless of where they are born. Socialization of Presidential candidates matters to the voters, or at least should.

President Obama's probable Kenyan citizenship doesn't present too much of a problem since the nation has a fairly small population and hasn't a lot of millionaires or billionaires to peddle influence. Governor Jindal of Louisiana possible Indian citizenship is a problem as India is the most populous nation in the world and the Governor probably has most of his relatives living in that nation.

President Obama has sought to make a path for illegal aliens to become dual citizens of the U.S.A. and whatever nation they escaped or are vacationing from. Making dual citizens of Mexican-Americans or Canadian-Americans without reciprocal conferring of dual citizenship upon all U.S. citizens simultaneously creates a legal segregation of U.S. citizens from enjoying full legal right as peers in Mexico and Canada. Allowing a dual citizen to be an American politician establishes a new legal segregation of legal rights and opportunities threatening to the preservation of social and economic liberty. No new citizenship should be given to anyone that is a citizen of another nation.

Politicians have a tradition of being more than occasionally corrupt. Even Presidents are not immune from bribes, threats, kickbacks to and from foreign nations in which they are citizens and have many relatives living. While private citizens may reasonably pursue international interests to suit their pleasure, public elected officials radically dis-serve the public if doing so, and with such unavoidable conflicts of interests a responsible candidate would recues himself from ever seeking the office of the Presidency. As Groucho Marx once said "I wouldn't belong to any club that was willing to have me."

U.S. politicians cannot serve two masters. They must choose one nation and give up their citizenship in any others. Keeping U.S. sovereignty intact and free of Indian and Chinese influence will be difficult in the years ahead. Those two nations have about two and a half billion souls and the United States just a fraction of that.

Neither the British Oxford Rhodes scholarship selection committee nor the Chinese Communist Party or Indian élites should be enabled to offer any of its nation's citizens for potential U.S. political office. Neither should they be so advantaged as to groom U.S. citizens for political office. Keeping U.S. politicians free from the control of foreign governments will be increasingly difficult in the years ahead. Politicians may be grafted off during or after office and provide compromised information and opportunities of advantage to a foreign nation in political polygamy with the clear conscience of a bin Laden with three wives.

The United States is not yet obsolete as a nation. Increasing the number of dual citizens it has will help to make it so. National interests will move toward decoherence as the nation is torn by political center of effort moving offshore.

It doesn't take that much to rectify some of the problems created by an inflation of dual citizenship Americans. Since migration here may be effortless these days, to prove at least a modicum of actual allegiance a prospective citizen ought to be required to give up his foreign citizenship and denounce his former country at the time of the swearing in proceedings. Becoming a citizen of the United States should not be like adding another supermarket discount card to your wallet or purse.

In days of yore that voyage across the ocean was generally one-way. Now, the prospective dual citizen may be never off the phone back home with Skype or just a cheap disposable phone. He can check his facebook friends in Asia or the Fatherland-or even the arid desert for coded words from the pages of the present prophet with words to sustain resistance amidst those enthralled by the whore of Babylon, while she can also find girlfriend support for building a Lesbian utopia globally with men relegated to zoos in the heart of London kept for occasional rentals for CEO sport. The gender role confused can discuss the Celtic meanings of bussaton intimately to their significant atheist cellular composite evolving to a government approved happiness in nihilistic power with beefeaters and chic mirrors. The question is what government any of these dual citizens are really subject to-the simple just one country people can never really know.

Emerging political changes making international communications instant for nearly all can have devastating effects on democracy and the security of U.S. citizens on the road ahead if all sense is thrown to the wind in the lemming rush to the post popular edge of the minute. Populism controlled by unrepresentative economic elites can be a tool used to concentrate wealth and destroy independence.

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Newt Gingrich MayMake Cannonball Entry into Presidential Race Tomorrow

Hopefully former Speaker Gingrich will abstain from the 2012 Presidential trail and take up sailing beyond the Brunswick Bay Bridge. As the essential architect of the Wall Street-Congress political support in the mid-90's leading to all of the national business bunk's deep inethics, he represents a coelecanth of the political past that should be happily hunting in deep, dark waters offshore doing his best for the good old U.S.A.

Former Penn Senator Rick Santorum may be the best guy to run against President Obama, if the Donald decides to take his winnings and withold running depriving the nation of interesting ideas in the Republican primary debates.

http://www.ajc.com/news/georgia-politics-elections/gingrich-to-seek-presidency-940389.html

Vladimir Putin's Path to Citizenship and 2012 Primary? (something funny in it)

Drawing upon breaking science, federal political think & drunk tanks have discovered how to pay off the national debt with cuts to the poor in addition to making an ex post facto birth certificate for Vladimir Putin-in order that he might be eligible to run in the 2012 Republican presidential primaries.

The nation waits to learn if Vladimir Putin will add some glitz to the glitzless field strolling so far. Republicans want a dynamic leader with good ideas. Some talk about leading the poor to develop their ouvre for-themselves-maybe not as swell as the rich, yet cool enough anyway.

With proven eleven-dimensional math and retro-creation of documents in accord with multiverse cosmological authorities, it might be shown that Vladimir Putin's father was actually born in Massachusetts during the cold war in a special KGB clandestine operation in order to allow Vladimir rightly to claim U.S. citizen and chance for future Presidential candidacy in the United States.

Think tanks trickling up information-sometimes horizontal trickling with planetary spin on it-let the public learn of indigenous corporatism and globalist eliminatism targeting geographical association with civil rights. Corporatism can eliminate the Senate and let the most connected rule everything. Social networking globally can let Chinese and India cell phone users rule the former region known as the United States.

With tough, competent leadership eschewing political malpractice corporate networking has the prospect for eliminating government representation of democratic interests and becoming the unnamed, unrepresentative government itself.

These evolving political products follow on the morphing of free enterprise capitalism into anti-capitalism financial network power.

Capitalism of Adam Smith was purely material, a way for individuals and small groups to make their own prizes, to better their lives directly with work. It was an advocacy for removal of the aristocratic organizational control of economics that is the equivalent of todays global Wall Street networks of business and finance with a finger in every pie temporally. President Vladimir Putin might be the one to lead the U.S.A. back to its senses and historical traditions of support for small scale free enterprise without abstract capital predators moving electronic investments around at the speed of light making a farce of material ownership and rational investment in the process.

When capital transitions away from simple material production facilities and private property into abstract financial values in secondary game theoretical market trading the advantage goes to the corrupt-wealth becomes concentrated incrooked gaming and/or irrational gambling and capitalism is implicitly defeated; replaced by financial rackets. The basic remedy is to limit the number of corporations any individual may invest in annually or at any given time to just three, and to cap the size of any for-profit corporation at 5000 employees.

With non-representational corporate governance it will be possible to create a synthesis with communist China and global control of local U.S. economic development. Already the Chinese have paid U.S. politicians more than a trillion dollars in exchange for ownership of bonds. That purchase of political influence assures the corporate influenced government will not defend the U.S. border with an adequate, ecologically relevant control zone, work for a steady state, zero population growth society or hinder economic-environmental eschatology from leading the planet to calamity for profit of a few. If the United States' Republican party is out of candidates able to find or list intelligent national political ideas, and if the nation doesn't want apartments and condos full of heroin shooting, dope smoking Ron Paul followers, it may just be that Vladmir Putin is the remedy the party will accept in 2012, if they can find his path to citizenship.