A Human Future, Topics of Interest

Going west to make my fortune.

2011-02-04T20:06:00.000-08:00

It's been an interested time writing here and other places. Interesting but certainly not productive. I've an opportunity to move on to more personal affairs, a life to live. Other than a few curious bets on cu I really don't see things turned around on leadership politics being what they are.

Be a shame to let it go to WW3 as the future needs more boots on capable people, not less.

Fakes lakes and failed plans.

2010-11-11T12:56:00.000-08:00

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/g20-agrees-on-new-approach-to-fight-global-poverty/article1795472/

G20 agrees on new approach to fight global poverty
Bill Curry and Kevin Carmichael
Seoul— Globe and Mail Update
Published Thursday, Nov. 11, 2010

The focus of the rich world’s efforts will shift to creating private-sector jobs and away from traditional foreign aid.
The declaration is the pride of the G20’s South Korean hosts, who view themselves as a model for poor countries to follow.
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The new plan is to create an internal economy in undeveloped countries by following Korea in building export industries. Hello, that's what's currently failing, the currency wars are only a symptom.

Financing factories in undeveloped counties smacks of cheaper labor taking an advantage of the growing middle class in developing countries, now the developed countries consumers are tapped out and facing massive public and private debt.

Solve the poverty program by creating multi-national sweat shops in the poorest of countries, how generous of our world leaders moving people from the outhouse to the sweat shops to grow (save) the global economy.
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Of the 3 billion people living on the edge of poverty a billion are hungry. Solving world poverty starts there. We can feed all the hungry by diverting .01% of global digital transactions to a central organization responsible for global food purchases for stockpiling.
Would you really mind an extra 10 cents on a $100 meal or a ten bucks on a two week vacation, to feed all the hungry? As a bonus it would create a 10% in prices based on demand, opening the door to eliminate the $400B in agricultural subsides, ya, out of your tax dollars.

It's really time the G-20 looked in a mag lev system to eliminate poverty globally.

Jobs for generations.

2010-11-02T14:35:00.001-07:00

Some comments released from the G-20 on growth in developing countries along with further discussion seized on currency manipulation has a few worrisome issues about whether the jobs issue can be solved by global growth based on developing growth.

Creating growth global will not come from developing growth as evident by the need for continuing stimulus in developed countries. While the export data out of Germany puts them in an enviable position the larger picture on developed growth is still dismal globally.

Not withstanding any value in commodity hedging the developed world is buckling under the pressure of exports from developing countries. The next global crisis could very well be a number of developing countries marginalized by a very few models flexible enough to stay out of trouble.

Even if there was success after what all call a prolonged period of unemployment this path leads to more than a generational issue.

We need jobs globally, not just developing countries and not just developed countries.

We need jobs that won't compete from country to country meaning every project must be in house. We need jobs that won't require extra consumer spending but less by transferring current expenditures.

We need jobs that will come from the trillions sitting in cash accounts looking for a viable long term investment.

We need jobs in developing countries that switch product demand from their current export development strategy to internal demand.

Peak oil, global warming, negative gridlock productivity and even parking space puts the writing on the wall, the car as we know it is sun setting.

If we were to start now we could create enough jobs in a fraction of the time of the current globalization plan target.

G-20 currency wars

2010-10-19T16:25:00.000-07:00

G-20 looks to be tied up with currency he said she said. Another disappointment, discussing how to balance global currencies to prohibit some countries from standing on top of others while we all sink into the tar pit.
Feeding the worlds hungry, apparently, is considered quixotic. So be it but how about generating an increase in every countries economy to the point where the G-20 can try and balance rising currencies to give purchasing power rather than sinking it for exports.
Perhaps if I mentioned once again creating more jobs than workers with a 0 pollution mag lift individual vehicle transportation system to replace growing paved ways.

Does one have to be a high ranked politician?

The Scoop, the Poop, the Final Word

2010-07-10T13:58:00.000-07:00

Politicians are always focused on the next election, lol, the secret is out.

The solution to overspending is creating new or better consumers through jobs, not debt.

Politicians give us record low extended interest rates to promote growth with debt. Gets more votes than austerity and enough without exposing the flank with an economic plan.

No surprises so far with the exception of the banksters. The current debt levels were created by them under the full view of the politicians and now the people. The surprise is why the banksters avoid atoning for their sins when they too could be heroes without concern for political optics.
Feeding the worlds hungry by showing how easy it would be to redirect .1% of the global economy at the least, the global benefits are enormous, if not at least a mention of a global transportation makeover with an IVML.
Politicians are transparent enough for everyone to see the next election is the goal but the banksters? I would think atoning for their sins rather than ignoring the plight they put the world in seems totally insensitive if not downright nasty and mean.

The final word comes now even though the media seems to think Canada is doing great when we lot another 17,000 manufacturing jobs while we grew government and lawn care specialist by 40,000.

I see not point in repeating what I've been saying, we all know the world needs jobs.

The plan is mag lev or WW3, odd I'm not in a rush to see what the final decision will be>

Happy Camping Canada.

I voted none of the above

The could have been heroes.

2010-06-29T21:20:00.000-07:00

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/g8-g20/economy/g20s-plan-for-deficit-cutting-draws-fire-from-paul-krugman/article1622050/
June 28, 2010
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http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/07/05/bruce-bartlett-misstates-the-problem/#comment-195331
　
July 5, 2009,
Bruce Bartlett misstates the problem
　
The problem is that the Obama administration was much too optimistic about how quickly stimulus spending would affect the economy.
　
Krugman "Um, that’s totally false."
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58. July 6, 2009 11:03 am
　
Spending more to cure an over spending problem has a historical success rate of 0.
The result of more stimulus will have an even more pronounced affect on driving down the dollar.
The adverse affect of a devalued dollar on the core of the US economy, consumer spending, isn`t creating jobs. Time for a new plan.
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12 months later,,,
Spending more to cure an overspending problem is not an economic plan.
Stimulus is spending borrowed money on stuff you wouldn't buy when you had the cash.
12 months later and still no sign of the [promised stimulus created private sector investment, could be its time for a new plan or better late than never.
12 months later and still no plan to spur business confidence and the resulting jobs.
Meanwhile the media high jacked the G-20 with none stop coverage of a handful of "thugs" but are really just vandals.
Well done, no questions as to why it took a billion dollars to carry out a mass arrest.
No coverage on what the peaceful protestors proposed, the Robin Hood Tax.
The G-20 did nothing but admit stimulus was a bad idea and how to pass on "restoring public finances" to future generations.
The could have been heroes with a simple mention of the RHT and given business the direction and rules to start creating wealth.
The could have been heroes.

Mag Lev Individual Vehicle Transportation System

2010-02-06T11:58:00.000-08:00

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/the-great-global-warming-collapse/article1458206/
　
John Beddington, the chief scientific adviser to the British government.
"Science grows and improves in the light of criticism. There is a fundamental uncertainty about climate change prediction that can't be changed." In his view, it's time to stop circling the wagons and throw open the doors.
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Back to the facts. We have increased CO2 emissions which is having serious effects.
The ozone layers.
Methane from natural sources such as termites and the Canadian pine beetle that emits as much GHG as all the cars in Canada will continue to shape our environment.
The higher levels of CO2 precipitate increasing acidity of the oceans which in my opinion should be the focal point of global CO2 emissions.
Pollution.
The damage to our environment and to the general population is predicted through reliable data to add a heavy burden to health care costs. Pollution to should the focal point for individual countries while the global community focuses on our largest natural resource, the worlds oceans.
I refer everyone to previous posts on a gridlock free high speed (300k +) individual vehicle transportation system with a viable long term investment for the trillions sitting in cash accounts. Creating more jobs than workers is what the global economy needs and a global transportation makeover to a 0 pollution system is what the environment needs.
People don`t want to give up their personal transportation for last centuries bulk cargo trains even if the do manage 200mph safely.
There will be no extra burden to tax payers as the business model I have adapted will create secure long term investments for decades/generations to come.
There will be no extra burden on consumers as the energy costs of the current system will simply shift over to an equivalent toll.
There will be no loss to the current energy supplies as only the form of delivery will change.
Mag Lev Individual Vehicle Transportation System.
0 pollution
　
　

out of the gate

2010-02-06T10:12:00.000-08:00

http://poppavox.blogspot.com/2007_10_01_archive.html
　
Saturday, October 20, 2007
　
Feeding The Worlds Hungry
"Current global agriculture subsides run at close to $400b/year"
"If a 10th of 1% of the global economy were diverted to buy food prices for global producers would strengthen to the point where subsidies would no longer be necessary. Most global transactions pass through an institution. Each institution retains and diverts .1% of every transaction"
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Feb. 06, 2010
G-7
　
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/a-tobin-tax-the-outr-is-back-in/article1458027/
　
　
　
Tobin tax
　
as a number of people have noted, it would raise enough money to lift the world's billion poorest people out of absolute poverty

What are the chances...

2009-12-08T17:24:00.001-08:00

Well what are the chances anyone noticing a maglev for cars would provide more jobs than workers and 0 pollution from a long term financially viable investment that the trillions sitting in cash accounts would be interested in.
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Obama offers plans to help US 'spend our way out' of recession, promote creation of new jobs
By Tom Raum, Associated Press Writer
On 7:11 pm EST, Tuesday December 8, 2000
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http://poppavox.blogspot.com/2008/09/individual-vehicle-magnetic-lift.html
　
Individual vehicle magnetic lift, propulsion transportation system.

humbug

2009-09-04T07:40:00.001-07:00

The plan continues to be, spend more to cure an over spending problem.
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You can take the horse to water but,,,
　
　
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/crash-and-recovery/g20-to-pledge-stimulus-until-economic-recovery-certain/article1275641/
　
Friday, Sep. 04
　
G20 to pledge stimulus until economic recovery certain
　
The G20 will promise this weekend to keep economic support packages in place until recovery is certain and seek to reassure financial markets they have credible plans to withdraw the stimulus when appropriate.

G20 show of unity April 02, 2009

2009-04-02T21:37:00.000-07:00

I`m starting to get the feeling the leaders are taking this global economic situation seriously.
The following would have more to do with feeding the worlds population which in an expanding global economy putting more people to work they certainly need to be healthy to adjust to steady employment.
Although the direct implications of the following on the global economy is a little farther in the future than a recovery, I still rate the expressed urgency as very positive.
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http://www.theglobeandmail.com/

G20 show of unity offers $1-trillion in aid, few specifics
April 02, 2009
The leaders, emboldened by the recent progress in prying open tax havens, said sanctions will be slapped on any sponsor country that refuses to sign international agreements to exchange tax information.

"economy of people not of factories."

2009-02-07T08:38:00.000-08:00

Thanks to Linda for supplying the link. It`s a good read, well worth considering the message in its entirely.
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http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21896.htm

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin's speech at the opening ceremony of the World Economic Forum in Davos
Switzerland. Jan. 28, 2009
"The current situation is often compared to the Great Depression of the late 1920s and the early 1930s. True, there are some similarities.However, there are also some basic differences."
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In the 30`s people were out of cash and so couldn`t spend, today we`re out of credit and can`t spend. Similarities and differences all wrapped into one.
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"I believe that the 21st century economy is an economy of people not of factories."

A 25th century global transportation system is for the people, I`ve always read Mr. Putin at face value which is what he is saying nations now need to do.

"Therefore, finding this mutual trust is a key goal we should concentrate on now."

While I certainly agree I`ve put together comprehensive guidelines on financing and revenue of a global individual vehicle maglev.,,, just to enhance not only the trust factor between nations but the people and nations in this time of a global trust deficit.

Not the first time the people have run out of bread

2009-02-03T22:21:00.000-08:00

Let them eat cake has morphed into don`t worry be happy, how far we`ve come.

The old global commerce system of cash and carry has morphed into todays borrow and buy.

The French revolution, the Great Depression and now, have a common thread, a lack of spending ability by the people. The great Depression lacked cash to buy while today lacks the credit to borrow and buy.
Not only has todays consumer over borrowed but global market wealth to the top consumers is evaporating.
It took a tax funded war to pull economies out of the trench in the 30`s so it seems very unreasonable to consider even the Obama $1T stimulus as more than a box of bandaids. Certainly it will slow down decent but unlikely to cause any assent until things turn globally. This is unlikely without WW3 increasing industrial production.

Muhammad Yunus, "We will create a new normalcy which will stay and keep on moving and change the world."

I would hope you try to find flaw in the foregoing then consider what needs to be done to turn the global economy around. Increasing industrial output, putting people back to work while creating new consumers through expanding industries. The current globalism model of expanding industry was based on global consumer consumption, now in retreat. A global maglev would create the demand to restart industry while creating new industry and consumers, on a very long term basis.
What if?
If you`re there try, why not?

Davos

2009-02-01T08:22:00.000-08:00

http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/090201/davos_forum.html

No answer at Davos forum to global meltdownSunday February 1, 8:06 am ET
Cautioning that the G20 wouldn't be able to solve all the issues, Schwab announced that in a few weeks the forum would start a "Global Redesign Initiative" which he said was supported by almost every world leader who attended this year's forum

G-20 Summit

2008-11-16T14:52:00.000-08:00

Although the indices won`t reflect the extent of the positive outcome with all the bad news on the horizon the positive results will push markets to find a higher bottom sooner. We should see the short side exercise a little more caution and play each news piece by issue rather than bulk up.
It`s a good start to a global solution so any info on possibilities will hasten the higher bottom.
Under the circumstances I`m weighing it in as a good news story. I believe a little more hope in a global strategy to ward off future bad news stories is warranted, good on ya.

"the summit attendees must be open to ideas from around the world"

2008-10-18T19:25:00.000-07:00

http://ca.news.finance.yahoo.com/s/18102008/2/biz-finance-bush-says-looks-forward-hosting-summit.html

October 18, 2008

I`ve noticed a lot of interest in a global transportation makeover with an individual vehicle magnetic lift and propulsion transportation system.
President Bush said Saturday he will host an international summit in response to the global financial crisis of which global initiatives will be placed on the table. UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon offered Saturday to host an emergency G-8 summit in New York.
After the financial reforms I`m pretty sure there will be enough space left on the table for a global mag lift to reverse the current economic trend.

We can wait and hope I might have more to post after this one.

Robert

Individual vehicle magnetic lift, propulsion transportation system.

2008-09-24T13:26:00.000-07:00

I`ve sent a similar proposal to Impact your world but as the`ve set a time limit on any project having an effect in the next two years I doubt if it will be considered as I see a time line of four to five years before we see results.

http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/biztech/09/24/google.project/index.html

Individual vehicle magnetic lift, propulsion transportation system.

lol, please don`t shake your head, we have the technology.
The current transportation system has many problems, pollution followed by paving over the country while grid-lock continues to increase. With infrastructure continuing to decay the situation will only get worse even if we manage to eliminate pollution with 100% electric vehicles.
The system needs to be replaced in whole.
We have the basic technology now.
If this seems like a reasonable idea it needs to fund a team of engineers to complete the final prospectus. From this universities from around the world would compete for the best design.
As I`m a fiscally conservative populist the building, management including maintenance or upgrades is put to private tender while the infrastructure is owned by the people.
0 pollution, far fewer paved roads, no grid-lock, initial speeds of 300mph, more jobs globally than workers, with a very good chance the electrical transmission lines in need of about $1T in refurbishing could be replaced by using the maglift system for the transmission of electricity while powering the mag lift system.
Even if we took the crude we convert to gas and burned the crude in a scrubber burner to power a maglift we would not only reduce pollution greatly but increase the efficiency by eliminating the refinery process.
I have spent a few years studying this and have attempted to encourage the Canadian government to kick off a global university design competition with little success as I do not have any engineering degrees. Should you decide to fund this endeavor the money will be used to assemble a team of engineers to finalize the proposal into a format government will understand.
In closing the global economy is faltering, this project will create more jobs than workers and will set the right course for many decades on many fronts.
Should you wish more information of the guidelines for a global university competition or private funding/profit I would be pleased to answer any questions not included in the foregoing.
Thank you
Robert Smith.
British Columbia Canada---
The whole of the global population
Global university competition for the best design. As we have the best and brightest who will be building and using this the most they should also have the final say on all the design components.

-----------DUALMODE TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMAugust 01, 2006Dualmode maglev cars will be physically independent, separately owned, separately powered, and will go their separate ways, just as vehicles on our highways do.----------------Maglev Quicklinks-----------------Professor Peter Peumans of Stanford University, whohas reviewed the U of T team’s research"Our calculations show that, with further improvementsin efficiency, combining infrared and visiblephotovoltaics could allow up to 30 per cent of thesun’s radiant energy to be harnessed, compared to six per cent in today’s best plastic solar cells."The power solutions to a mag lift transportationsystem may be closer than we think.Train magnetic levitation and propulsionPersonal Automated Transport (PAT)-------------------Different designs have been created, each having their own pros and cons.Technical informationhttp://home.wanadoo.nl/lex.molenaar/PAMB/PubliPDF/act96pap.pdf-------------Super conductor maglev experiment------------http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetic_levitation_trainMagnetic levitation transport, or maglev, is a form of transportation that suspends, guides and propels vehicles (especially trains) using electromagnetic force. This method can be faster than wheeled mass transit systems, potentially reaching velocities comparable to turboprop and jet aircraft (900 km/h, 600 mph ). The highest recorded speed of a maglev train is 581 km/h (361 mph), achieved in Japan in 2003, which is 4 mph more than the conventional TGV speed record.

Buckle Up

2008-08-01T21:46:00.000-07:00

Global conflict, very likely, or an economic collapse are the only two options on the table.
Either way buckle up and pull those straps down one more time, make sure your ass is cinched down tight because we`re headed for the big one, all 43 will wreck.
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Posted to Garth Turner, Liberal MP
February 18 2008
http://www.garth.ca/വെബ്ലോഗ്
08/02/18/the-harper-school-of-leadership/#comment-125541

The first path starts with the next generation as they start off on a two decade long entrenchment of retreat for the global economy.The demand for raw resources has reached the bubble stage with little opportunity to maintain current prices. Our economic future is on very thin ice.
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Biggest dive for commodities in 28 years
By Javier Blas in London
Published: July 31 2008 23:35 Last updated: July 31 2008 23:35
Commodities prices suffered their largest monthly drop in 28 years in July as crude oil prices nose-dived more than $20 from an all-time high of $147.27 a barrel.
The Jefferies-Reuters CRB index, a global commodities benchmark, lost 10 per cent, its largest monthly decline since it fell 10.5 per cent in March 1980, amid worries about lower economic growth damping demand for raw materials.

The system needs replacing

2008-07-01T21:43:00.000-07:00

Two years to gear up factories for subcompacts, some experts predict gas going from $4/gal to $7 and the basic cost of living up another 20% by then. Looks like these folks are still going the wrong way on a one way street.
Only $50 mil to kick off a global competition for the best design

http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/080702/auto_sales.html

APJune car sales plummet; more declines expectedWednesday July 2, 12:17 am ET
George Pipas, Ford's top sales analyst
"Our view is that gas prices aren't likely to go down"

Both GM and Ford have announced plans for new subcompacts, but it will take at least two years to gear up factories for the new products.

GW Realities

2008-05-11T19:59:00.000-07:00

The latest release of data clearly and unequivocally shows we are warming globally even though this year the Antarctic ice sheets are at a 30 year high and our cooler La Nina winter.
The list of causes of GHG goes way beyond a Cdn carbon tax or even international carbon credits.
As noted the BC Pine Beetle infestation that is spreading east puts more CO2 in the air than all the cars in Canada.
The tundra has enough trapped methane to equal 10 times the amount of CO2 put out by all the cars on the planet.
Rain forest around the world are shrinking releasing even more CO2.
Developing countries have shown no intention to stop increasing GHG levels with promises of a car in every garage. One suggestion is for developed countries to convert to a green economy which overall will have little effect compared to the list above. Besides no one has answered the question as to who it would be marketed to, consumers are far too far in debt to switch over in any numbers large enough to make any difference in the least.

I think it`s time everyone that`s interested in doing something other than nattering about climate change take a minute to scan my blog and if you have an alternate please give it to us.

You`ll note consumer spending in March was fueled by debt. It appears that the consumer maxed out debt causing a drop in sales for April. These numbers do not suggest a green economy can be built of the backs of the consumer.
A mag lift transportation system will not require increased spending by the consumer, only redirecting the current spending.

http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/080507/consumer_credit.html?.v=11

Consumer borrowing unexpectedly surges in March
Wednesday May 7, 5:09 pm ET
The increase in consumer debt totaled $15.3 billion at an annual rate in March, much bigger than the $6 billion increase that economists had been expecting.

http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/080511/wall_street_week_ahead.html

Wall Street looks to US consumers for directionSunday May 11, 5:18 pm ET
Economists surveyed by Thomson Financial/IFR estimated, on average, that sales dipped by 0.1 percent last month after growing by 0.2 percent in March

http://www.garth.ca/weblog/2008/05/11/local-column-12/#comments

By buddy, spare a dime on 05.11.08 9:14 pm

January 01, 2008

2008-01-01T13:17:00.000-08:00

January 01 2008

What seems to be the problem? If the funds, resources and people that are wasted in war are put towards these programs it wouldn`t be long before greater challenges would be needed.
What was it again that makes humans the dominant species? oh ya, the ability to reason.

February 18 2008

Posted to Garth Turner, Liberal MP

http://www.garth.ca/weblog/2008/02/18/the-harper-school-of-leadership/#comment-125541

It`s time for my election rant, just to help you with your vote. Besides Molly did say she wanted the sans sugar coated version. I will only do the one even if there`s no election till next year as what I`m about to say will be only too painfully clear by next year. There won`t be any need after that because the two paths are clear and the options list to date contains only one item.
The first path starts with the next generation as they start off on a two decade long entrenchment of retreat for the global economy.
The demand for raw resources has reached the bubble stage with little opportunity to maintain current prices. Our economic future is on very thin ice. With todays currency rates China and the US, even with Nafta, will have the global trading advantage over corporate Canada further reducing our manufacturing jobs. To date there is no hard data that suggest the downward trend of US currency has reached its conclusion increasing US global completeness over ours. Russia will need to produce cheaper lumber which puts our forestry industry down for a very long time.
During the slowing economic times health care costs will quadruple. Crime will continue to escalate, and to top it all off they will be outnumbered by seniors. That is the first path and if you don`t believe the world can cope with decades of global economic uncertainty and strife then increasing global conflict is the path you`re on. The $12T in cash accounts desperately looking for an investment will turn to the old standby, war. I said that last year and over the last 12 moths there`s been a noticeable global buildup of arms. You have to wonder why Obama will abandon the position of America as the shield to the free world if it wasn`t to bring the troops home to defend American soil. Even Cdn companies knew reinvestment in Canada is a poor bet long in advance of the current dollar parity, smart money always knows these things. Do you really believe politicians don`t know long in advance that war is inevitable as the global economy slows. Well if they don`t you can bet your bomb shelter the smart money does and bullets are a prime investment.
The only option on the table to avert both a global economic slowdown and ensuing strife is at this blog at which place I`ll be posting it as the last entry. I see no need to go into the details of how we got to this point as the truth that we are here takes precedent.

http://poppavox.blogspot.com/

Be brave.

Methodology

2007-11-05T19:45:00.000-08:00

For those that have been following along my conclusions came by deleting the rhetoric. Setting aside who wants what and what the`re saying to get it. I`ve put everything in the context of the largest and now the most influential force on the planet, globalism.

I`ve left the good and bad that generates the rhetoric by focusing on where will it go now . I`m very concerned that we are entering into a period where all the gains made since the end of the cold war could crumble to dust in a matter of a few months. Sry, that`s reality without the sugar coating.
First I`ll deal with not doing anything or reversing globalism totally.

There is a large number of people advocating trade barriers, import duties and other restrictions that would isolate various interests, kind of like the monopolies of 50 years ago. That system advanced the world a great deal of with seemingly unlimited supply of cheap commodities. With dwindling raw resources and oil on life support even if we wanted to go back, we can`t.
Doing nothing is the perfect template for a fight to the death over the last oil or raw resources and it will be the death of the planet. Complete, utter and total destruction. My thumbs down on doing nothing.

To date the only program that`s on the table for doing something is creating a green economy. I really like the concept and have spent a great deal of time researching photovoltaics, geo-therm and hydrogen cells. Certainly an addition to the global economy of this size would provide considerable short term stability. The concept revolves around one basic factor, consumers. This is also where the biggest problem lays. In order to create a green global economy the consumers must buy the product, spend extra which they would if they were not broke. Even by massive tax cuts and incentives to move consumers green it wouldn`t be enough, probably not even enough to keep consumers buying when tax cuts will create a spike in inflation.
Really, who can go green when finances are tight. Pay a little more to keep that old dishwasher, sure, it works and I can`t afford a new one.

That`s why I`m trying to put a global transportation system on the table. My calculations conclude that most of the investment would be private and users, the commuters, could take their vehicle to work in 25% of the time it takes now with costs at par with todays commuters costs and no danger of rapid change as we always experience with oil. Consumers not spending more, just differently leaving consumers with the funds to replace that old dishwasher, that`s feasible and long term.
Did I mention a massive reduction in pollution?

Hope that simplified my blog for everyone.

We are behind schedule

2007-11-02T19:42:00.000-07:00

I thought I`d share some musings about global economic conditions and the Cdn. connection.

It is a historic day. Not only did oil hit another all time high of $96/barrel but the Cdn dollar also recorded a record at $1.07 against the US dollar. I still don`t believe the global economy can function over $85, for one reason, consumer debt. Regardless of predatory sales in subprime mortgage that started the current global credit crunch the vast majority of consumers are over mortgaged, over spent with 0 savings. Add the run up in commodity prices over the last 5 years guaranteeing inflation and the wallets will stay closed.
The US could actually be cushioned by their falling dollar, imports get more expensive while exporters gain an advantage. Industry could plug along evening up the chances of a mild recession over a deep one. There is a caveat.
The old adage that when the US gets a cold we get the flu has already happened. Central Canada has been shedding jobs (flu) since 2002 with huge pressure on Ottawa to supply the chicken soup.
Here`s where it gets interesting, Canada has second in oil reserves to Saudi Arabia. As long as the global economy chugs along with enough credit and consumption Cdn commodities will continue to supply massive revenue to government. The windfall revenue created almost all the jobs created as reported in the last two statscan reports show they were public sector, not private. The Ontario Liberals campaigned on 30,000 added jobs just before the last election, they were all governmentr hires.

The current tug of war between the factions calling for subsidies, tax cuts and other assorted methods is much the current topic of discussion.
The US is the primary market of 80% of our exports so with the higher dollar what measure could possibly turn this sector around. During the tech boom Us companies reinvested while Cdn companies have done little retooling for decades. The sector is out dated, out moded and out preformed at all levels.
With oil at $96 a barrel the global economy just might make survival guidelines appropriate for the government printers.
How bad could it get, lets look ahead. Most best case has oil running out in 50 years, worse case predicts 20 years. At the rate we`re going I doubt if we`ll have consumer debt under control before oil shortages create more havoc than $100+ oil.

I don`t think my view could be considered negative except by the most overly optimistic. Even if the different sides and their recipe for chicken soup created some relief, even worse coming soon is a very real possibility.

Adding the following article on climate change to economic issues makes me stress again, it`s imperative that Ottawa invest $50m to kick start a global university design competition for a maglev indavidual vehicle transportation system.

Climate Change Choices

2007-10-24T19:12:00.001-07:00

Perhaps a reasonable position on global warming might cement the positive impact of a global mag lift system.There is no doubt that climate change will have a very negative effect. The mean temperature of the Earth has remained relatively the same for almost a decade meaning the climate change we are currently experiencing is a decade old reaction. As more ice melts more heat will be retained so this alone will restart the heating process that has remained dormant while climate change plays catch up.
The progression of GHG has been documented in an assessment of how much methane will be released through a further warming related to polar ice melt.The GHG rating of methane is 20 times higher than carbon dioxide. The magnitude of change under any scenario is so immense that turning out a few lights or even shutting down our coal fired gen station could be compared to removing a bucket of water from Lake Ontario.To be realist, and serious, we would have to shut down the worlds complete economic activity to a point that would as one poster noted, a population adjustment would occur. Dream about Kyoto or Canada organizing Asia Pacific countries to act together, it won`t be near enough to compete with even arctic methane release. All this at a cost of a `population adjustment` (downward) to say nothing of the new harbour called the Fraser Valley.
We have two main choices, do nothing or trade a population adustment to slow climate change down.
Is it just me running out of sugar coating or is it the case we all work together or all go to Hell together?Figuratively speaking of course but I don`t doubt many grand children and on will wish that`s were we went.

I`ve created enough threads for comments on the topics of interest so I`ll end this stream with, it`s only $50m.

The concept. ""Individual Vehicle"" magnetic lift, magnetic propulsion transportation system.

We need to completely replace our current transportation system with an `individual vehicle maglev system`. The first consideration would be the worse case scenario of running out of oil in 20 years, best case 50 years. No fuel, no transportation, no chemicals, no medications.
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http://jama.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/extract/298/14/1688

Journal of American Medical Association.

JAMA. 2007

Peak Petroleum and Public Health
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Mass transit is not versatile enough to replace individual vehicles, even converting over to electric cars won`t solve traffic and transportation problems but will cause an expansion in our already troubled paved road system.
A global mag transportation system has all the checks in the right boxes. It`s time for the two sides to think out of the box and pool the $50m needed to start a global competition with Cdn universities.Yes individual vehicle is still a working concept while the 65t train is a protype (links below) but we need to ramp up the effort with a global design competition. It`s really the only hope for climate change, and likely humanities future.
The current technology can and has been improved. A US company recently announced they had increased the efficiency of solar panels by 50%. Newer versions are flexible and could be a power generating cover.
Universities are the places to put new technology into design features.
It will create more jobs than workers, 0 emissions, far fewer paved roads, no gridlock, high speed, 300+ kph and theoretically could replace our aging electric transmission grids and of course cutting commute times by 75%. At speed a single rail or transportation tube, TT, will move as many vehicles as a 6 lane freeway while reversing urban pollution that`s causing a health care crisis starting with the increasing asthma epidemic.
A basic fee plus distance charges in the form of a toll creates a viable and sustainable driver of the global economy, vs armaments, hmmm, see thread `War as an Investment`

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Starting with, good or bad news?

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/10/science/earth/10geo.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

Experts Discuss Engineering Feats, Like Space Mirrors, to Slow Climate Change
Dr. Keith, an organizer of the conference, said that at one time he thought scientists should not talk in public about "geoengineering" remedies for global warming — like injecting chemicals into the upper atmosphere to cool the poles
"Will there be some consequences you don’t like?" Dr. Keith said in an interview. "Of course."
engineering a cooler earth would do nothing for other climate-related problems, like the way accumulating carbon is making the oceans more acidic.
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Hopeful news
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DUALMODE TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM

http://faculty.washington.edu/jbs/rev/rev9.htm

August 01, 2006

Dualmode maglev cars will be physically independent, separately owned, separately powered, and will go their separate ways, just as vehicles on our highways do.
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Maglev Quicklinks

http://faculty.washington.edu/jbs/itrans/maglevq.htm

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Professor Peter Peumans of Stanford University, whohas reviewed the U of T team’s research"Our calculations show that, with further improvementsin efficiency, combining infrared and visiblephotovoltaics could allow up to 30 per cent of thesun’s radiant energy to be harnessed, compared to six per cent in today’s best plastic solar cells."
The power solutions to a mag lift transportationsystem may be closer than we think.
Train magnetic levitation and propulsion

http://faculty.washington.edu/jbs/itrans/prtquick.htm

Personal Automated Transport (PAT)

http://home.pacifier.com/~winiecki/Higherway/contact.html

http://www.taxi2000.com/aboutus.html

http://www.acroscape.com/
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http://www.unc.edu/~wardma/levandprop.htm

Different designs have been created, each having their own pros and cons.

http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blrailroad3.htm

Technical information

http://home.wanadoo.nl/lex.molenaar/PAMB/PubliPDF/act96pap.pdf
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Super conductor maglev experiment

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4XEQVnIFmQ

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

Magnetic levitation transport, or maglev, is a form of transportation that suspends, guides and propels vehicles (especially trains) using electromagnetic force. This method can be faster than wheeled mass transit systems, potentially reaching velocities comparable to turboprop and jet aircraft (900 km/h, 600 mph ). The highest recorded speed of a maglev train is 581 km/h (361 mph), achieved in Japan in 2003, which is 4 mph more than the conventional TGV speed record.
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http://www.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30200-12928751,00.html

New Train Speed Record
Updated: 13:55, Monday November 17, 2003
A Japanese train broke its own world speed record when engineers sent it hurtling 347mph down a test track west of Tokyo.
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It`s only $50m to put the brightest in the land to work, time is not exactly on humanities side.

2007-10-20T21:39:00.000-07:00

Wernher Von Braun, Mission to Mars

2007-10-20T21:09:00.000-07:00

The Russian attempt seems to be well ahead but some experts doubt if they can do it alone. Most feel it should be a global effort but is that all we want to do, get there?
Wernher Von Braun suggested a large ship carrying a very large crew. Given the conditions on Mars that are even more evident today then his time it would seem a base to work from is very reasonable.
Eventually off world mining and sustainable bases on other worlds will become a necessity even if it`s not essential to just getting to Mars and back.
It would also seem reasonable that if Russia wants to pursue it`s mission it should get the help and support of the rest of the world while at the same time the rest of the world and Russia can focus on what we`ll need next, a large work station. Sustainable life moving farther out into the solar system.
Eventually when we go beyond the solar system in 500 years or more these large work station will be the key over very high speed. It would seem to be more productive to be developing a work station to Mars in conjunction with the first manned mission, together.
First in space, first on the Moon. The number of people that know the answers diminish every year. International law dictates that to annex territory you must occupy it. It hardly seems important who gets there first compared to who occupies it. Certainly Russia is as capable as any to get there, even first, but if all the effort is a race we`ll probably run out of resources and commit to global conflict before we turn the program from a race to occupation.
Participation in a global effort to put large numbers of people and supplies in orbit around Mars should have priority over winning the race.
Perhaps the space elevator (probably to much surface wind) or reliable lifters servicing a surface station might be available by then. Once in place Russian unmanned cargo ships based on their current design would have an even bigger future role than winning the race.

The future of moving freight on and off planet.

http://www.spaceelevator.com/

University of Saskatchewan Makes First Attempt in Spaceward Games Finals

UBC Fails to Win Power Beaming Climbing Prize but Climbs Ribbon

Feeding The Worlds Hungry

2007-10-20T15:23:00.001-07:00

This is such an easy thing to do the only reason I can think it hasn`t been done is the lack of jobs for a healthy global population. If we want to present an option to war as in a mag TT system then we`ll need a lot of healthy workers.

There are roughly 1 billion people that live on a dollar a day or less. Current global agriculture subsides run at close to $400b/year. I am not suggesting using subsidies to buy food for the hungry although it has merit.
If a 10th of 1% of the global economy were diverted to buy food prices for global producers would strengthen to the point where subsidies would no longer be necessary. Most global transactions pass through an institution. Each institution retains and diverts .1% of every transaction without any need to retain any other information and drop it into a global food fund. It will have no impact on inflation and once the alternative to war proceeds up to .5% could be diverted for heath and education. A workforce big enough, healthy enough and trained to put this project on the rail.

War as a Business

2007-10-20T14:59:00.000-07:00

Not a shocking thing to say when you analyze any well documented war from it`s buildup to it`s end.
Common in all wars and particular to the next big one the prominent result of buildup to fighting a war has a common thread. War creates jobs, these jobs create consumers who consume everything from bullets to body bags.

The confluence of forces for the next global conflict are in place and the shear amount of investment money looking for a viable investment will drive it to conclusion.
The alternative is to create enough jobs through a viable investment of a sustainable nature.
We can not only equal the number of jobs a world war would create but as war is inherently unsustainable we only need to apply sustainable to the formula of jobs.

This would entail a global project capable of creating at least as many jobs as workers worldwide and of a sustainable nature. This comes in the form of a 0 emission global transportation system.
The potential to create more jobs than workers means we have to feed the worlds hungry which I`ll get into the how on a later thread.

This thread is about an individual vehicle magnetic lift, magnetic propulsion, transportation system.
It will create more jobs than workers, 0 emissions, fewer paved roads, no gridlock, high speed, 300+ kph and theoretically could replace our aging electric transmission grids and of course cutting commute times by 75%.
At speed a single rail will move as many vehicles as a 6 lane freeway.
Step one is a global university competition for the best design. Canada could start it off with $50m for our universities while that would encourage more and more countries to join in.
These are the kinds of things we expect from government and if I had $50m I`d give it to myself to get this started.

War as an Investment

2007-10-20T14:16:00.000-07:00

There is a phenomenal amount of money globally. The `credit crunch` we`ve been hearing about is actually the consumer drowning in debt. This is not just in the US but affecting EU countries and even Canada with the $40b bailout required by Asset Backed Commercial Paper.

For two decades economic globalism moved along at a reasonably steady pace. The tech boom of the nineties created more capacity to many developing countries while cheaper imports gave developed countries even more purchasing power. The next big event was commodity prices refueling global expansion with a lot of surplus cash, Along with other commodities oil went from $17 barrel to $60 in a couple of years, it`s now over $90. All the surplus cash was put into consumer hands with deep interest rate cuts. Today as the credit crunch has brought to light consumers are broke.

The amount of surplus cash is still on the rise and the name of the game is profit. The options are limited, reduce interest rates to put an already over spent consumer further under, not even much of a short term solution. Massive personal tax reductions which probably can only be just enough to keep most consumers heads above water, not a long term solution.

There has been quite a flight to cash, in the trillions with tens of trillions of global investment money at risk. The obvious and very probable viable investment vehicle as used countless times in history is war. Armaments, lots of profit in war but no one will win the next big one, no solution at all but it seems many would like to challenge history.

Global individual transportation system, short term positive effect and the long term solution. All the boxes have check marks.

War can be avoided by creating a better investment, it is possible. The following threads will tie it together.

Quiet, government sleeping

2005-04-21T09:49:00.000-07:00

I`m not going to wake them as I see little need in a change of ad agencies.