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Version:1.0 StartHTML:0000000168 EndHTML:0000001681 StartFragment:0000000489 EndFragment:0000001664 In 1885, however, when Leland Stanford became a United States Senator and founded Stanford University, worker ownership of industry seemed neither socialistic nor quaint. It was a widely discussed idea for averting the escalating crises between corporations and workers that appeared at that time to be headed toward an ominous denouement. Worker ownership of industry was seen as a good idea which needed to be tried, and America was seen as a society free enough that it could be tried. The Populists hoped therefore that the steady replacement of corporations by worker cooperatives could be achieved. The goal of the “seizure of State power” advocated by the communists in Europe was alien to this movement. Cooperatives were seen not as an end to free-enterprise, but as a freeing of enterprise for common people from domination by the “plutocracy” of wealthy industrialists.| Author, Last name 1st | Title | Abstract | |
| Miller, Jim | NEED FOR RURAL ENTERPRISES | NEED FOR RURAL ENTERPRISES Obama hopes for change and I hope his hopes are fulfilled, especially in the area of rural enterprise. Rural America needs to be ready for the hordes of city folks fleeing the cities as they burn and crumble. Even if I'm half right, not all cities will become Detroit's, but many will do so. Rural America has few votes and generally vote Republican -- so what makes any of us think the Democrats will court rural America with kind of money such as is going to the financial institutions and possibly the auto makers? If any of the Democrat leaders will just listen for a moment to the rural heart beat, they will learn: | |
| Miller, Jim | The LRES/SCSHTLTEBSTPDRSCHP-GHG+COWFLOP System | Dear Folks at the Whitehouse and beyond: We, in the great hinterland of America, sit on our haunches and wonder what really is happening at the Whitehouse and beyond. I think I have finally figured it out, at least, the energy side. What DOE, USDA, -- almost the entire Obama Administration – is trying to do by throwing billions of dollars at the foreign oil problem, is to re-invent the past, make little or no change in the electrical generation capacity infrastructure (production and distribution), in order to live happily ever after. By catering to the oil, coal and biomass industries, the votes in Congress are thus obtained for massive bail-outs of these soon-to-be-obsolete industries. Boy, how that really makes my day – throwing good money after bad, using Las Vegas odds (Jimmy the Greek would be pleased). MORE ... | |
| Miller, Jim | INSTANT JOBS | Expand Americorps to include:
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| Monboit, George | The Triumph of Ignorance Posted: 28 Oct 2008 01:58 AM CDT Why morons succeed in US politics. | Like most people on this side of the Atlantic I have spent my adult life mystified by American politics. The US has the world’s best universities and attracts the world’s finest minds. It dominates discoveries in science and medicine. Its wealth and power depend on the application of knowledge. Yet, uniquely among the developed nations (with the possible exception of Australia), learning is a grave political disadvantage. | |
| Lee Altenberg | BEYOND CAPITALISM: LELAND STANFORD'S FORGOTTEN VISION | ||
| Miller, Jim | ONWARD CHRISTIAN SOLDIERS, MARCHING AS TO WAR... -- The Evangelicos are at their battle stations, winning the hearts and minds of the “enemy” -- along with their votes. | The wars mounted by the Evangelicos, both in the U.S. and in Latin America, follow on the footsteps of the take-over of Latin America countries by the U.S. imperialists – scat from The Travistock Institute. The Imperials first used U.S. military to conquer Latin American countries and install the USA proxies – usually military juntas. Next, using the IMF, the World Bank, CIA and global corporations and banks, the bought elections or through insurrections took power and then proceeded to plunder Latin American countries. Both of these “invasions” only lasted until the “Yankee go home” forces kicked the USA agents out of the LA countries, although some still persist, such as Columbia, Costa Rica and Paraguay. | |
| Miller, Jim | CREATING A NEW APPALACIA | Bob Kincaid lays out the arguments to reinvent Appalachia in his article, Speak Your Piece: Making a 'Sacred Zone', published at: http://www.dailyyonder.com/speak-your-piece-making-sacred-zone/2009/05/04/2094#comment-form Solutions to creating New Appalachia abound. All it takes is some willpower and a little capital to implement many of them. Here they are: MORE .... | |
| Miller, Jim | WHO/WHAT IS THE TRUSTED SOURCE OF BIOSCIENCE IN OREGON? --Oregon Bioscience Institute could bridge the information gaps and provide leadership via the new communication service, the wikiwebsite. | Newsletters are old technology, fashioned after written pamphlets, leaflets, newspapers and other print media. E-newsletters fall into the same trap of trying to be comprehensive and appeal to a wide audience on a large variety of issues. | |
| The Forbidden Knowledge | TRAVISTOCK INSTITUTE OF HUMAN RELATIONS | This group was formed at Oxford University, London, by the Royal Institute of Of International Affairs in 1922. Major John Rawlings Reese, a British Army technician, was instructed to set up the largest brainwashing facility in the world at the Tavistock Institute for Human Relations as a part of Sussex University. This became the core of Britain's Psychological Warfare Bureau. It was Tavistock-designed methods that got the United States into the Second World War and which, under the guidance of Dr. Kurt Lewin, established the OSS, the forerunner of the CIA. Lewin became the director of the Strategic Bombing Survey, which was a plan for the Royal Air Force to concentrate on bombing German worker housing while leaving military targets, such as munition plants, alone. The munition plants on both sides belonged to the international bankers who had no wish to see their assets destroyed. The idea behind saturation bombing of civilian worker housing was to break the morale of the German worker. | |
| The Forbidden Knowledge | WAKE UP AMERICA | "Beware the leader who bangs the drums of war in order to whip the citizenry into a patriotic fervor, for patriotism is indeed a double-edged sword. It both emboldens the blood, just as it narrows the mind. And when the drums of war have reached a fever pitch and the blood boils with hate and the mind has closed, the leader will have no need in seizing the rights of the citizenry. Rather, the citizenry, infused with fear and blinded by patriotism, will offer up all of their rights unto the leader and gladly so. How do I know? For this is what I have done. And I am Caesar." (Julius Caesar) | |
| Miller, Jim | Renewable Energy Sink-Hole -- Federal Renewable Energy Funders keep up the pretense of wanting to find “solutions” | The current Federal Funders and grantees are and have been for many years, “gaming the system” and winning. Congress and the taxpayers are the losers. It's time to change the odds in the Federal Slot Machine, level the playing field among all grant applicants-- large and small – those with and without Ph.D's on their staff – and which involve early stage “risks”. For instance, cut-off or greatly reduce grants to Rand, SRI and SAIC and put those “reserved” funds in the hands of early stage, startups which have promising energy production technology solutions, on the theory: “More Bang for the Buck”. | |
| Anti-Democratic Imperialism of U.S. Capitalism | THE SIMULTANEOUS unfolding of the US presidential campaign and unraveling of the financial markets presents one of those occasions where the political and economic systems starkly reveal their nature. Passion about the campaign may not be universally shared but almost everybody can feel the anxiety from the foreclosure of a million homes, and concerns about jobs, savings and healthcare at risk THE SIMULTANEOUS unfolding of the US presidential campaign and unraveling of the financial markets presents one of those occasions where the political and economic systems starkly reveal their nature. Passion about the campaign may not be universally shared but almost everybody can feel the anxiety from the foreclosure of a million homes, and concerns about jobs, savings and healthcare at risk | ||
| Miller, Jim | LOCAL CURRENCY + LOCAL ECONOMY = LOCAL SUSTAINABILITY -- The formula for local failure is to give your purchasing power over to the Boards of Directors of the Nation's mega-corporate empires. | So....., how do we “localize” our economy, our collective decision making, and our local sustainability? First we plan, then gather the physical and human resources, hit the start button, and get underway. Governments are mired in planning, “paralysis by analysis”. Like the generals, they are are always planning to fight the next war with ideas and tools used to fight the last one. | |
| Miller, Jim | Sustainabililty Corvallis - Energy - cap and trade | The “cap and trade” approach will actually promote greater GHG and general pollution. By monetizing GHG emissions, the producer merely raises its prices and passes the cost onto the consumer who are the ones being damaged by pollution. This approach is doomed to failure by its very design. Most large energy producers control the market and set production to maximize profits. They also set prices because the demand for their product is inelastic. This is the Bush-Cheney-Halliburton and Seven Sisters' offering. No thanks. | |
| Euro Investor | Amazon Defense Coalition: Ecuador Court Report Underestimates Damages for Chevron´s "Amazon Chernobyl" in Ecuador |
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| Monbiot, George | The Self-Justifying Myth - we believe what we want to believe - the truth be damned. | There is just one party which doesn’t seem to care about the controversy created by The Great Global Warming Swindle. That is the company which broadcast it: Channel 4. In fact it seems rather proud of the fuss, and I suspect that Ofcom’s damning verdict won’t cause its executives a moment’s lost sleep. The channel boasts that the programme generated a huge response, and that favourable comments outweighed hostile remarks by six to one(1). Though the programme was 90 minutes of nonsense(2), I find this quite easy to believe. Faced with the overwhelming realities of climate change, people clutch at any reassurance. We want someone to tell us that everything will be alright, that we can carry on enjoying this marvellous feast of fossil fuels without adverse effects. | |
| Monboit,George | Government (UK/Brown now, Bush/Cheney during their years of mis-rule) knows perfectly well that we are heading into a period of sever economic privation due to the future high prices of fossil fuel and the lack of home-grown alternative fuels. Why would they declare a future national disaster? Here are some reasons (I don't say they are good, just their reasons): | ||
| MILLER, JIM | STOP THE GM-CHRYSLER SERIAL ECONOMIC RAPE OF AMERICA | General Motors ate it own child, the very successful electric cars, the EVA-1 and -2. GM also first suppressed a revolutionary battery, then sold the rights to Chevron which killed it. Let's not reward GM's capacity to defraud America on the electric car issue. Kill the proposed Bush Bail out of GM and Chrysler. We have better plans for Chrysler. The sordid and sad tale of GM's best and only electric cars, the EVA's as they came to a tragic death. GM recovered ALL of the EVAs as their leases ran out, then crushed them, then had them chipped into thousands of pieces. GM learned some lessons from the EVA, namely that the plug-in only electric car, equipped with a state-of-the art set of batteries could run 150 miles between charges. The second lesson was that because the cars were cheaper to build and had very little maintenance over a ten year or longer period, the car would obsolete the vehicles powered by internal combustion engines, which needed constant repair and adjustment. These eclectic electric cars would hit the new and used auto dealerships also, since as large portion of their income depended on engine tune-ups, repairs and replacements. | |
| MILLERE, JIM | STOP THE GM-CHYRSLER SERIAL ECONOMIC RAPE OF AMERICA -- PART II | There is a perfectly sensible alternative which will not cost the Feds any net loss and probably gain it a profit. Here it is:
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| Portable Charger Powered by Kinetic Motion Will Be Released Next Year http://cleantechnica.com/2008/08/25/portable-charger-powered-by-kinetic-motion-will-be-released-next-year/ | While the portable charger will be M2E’s only commercially available product in the near future, the company plans has more plans for their kinetic technology in the pipeline, including a centralized battery pack for military units and power for peripheral systems of hybrid cars. On a larger scale, M2E hopes to use kinetic energy to enhance wind, hydropower, and tidal power efficiency. Not bad for a company that came out of stealth mode less than a year ago. | ||
| Popi and Tom | The Capital Market Crisis -- AND NOW THE REAL STORY | Dear Members of Congress: The current “liquidity crisis” is not what it is touted to be. The article below by “Popi and Tom” plays the music for the “crisis” and the “rescue”. However, the real, underlying economic forces are being orchestrated by members of the Travistock Institute, a world-wide organization of the wealthiest tribes in the world, run exclusively by the male members. My comments are in bold blue [half-way down]. I have also included my paper on the Travistock Institute. PLEASE, please, read this letter and the paper before Congress falls into the trap set by the members of the Travistock Institute. | |
| Monboit, George | Hypocrites Unite! | The environment is inseperable from social justice. Climate change, for example, is primarily about food and water. It threatens the freshwater supplies required to support human life. As continental interiors dry out and the glaciers feeding many of the rivers used for irrigation disappear, climate change presents the greatest of all threats to the future prospects of the poor. The rich will survive for a few decades at least, as they can use their money to insulate themselves from the effects. The poor are being hammered already. | |
| The Center for Cooperatives; centerforcoops@ucdavis.edu | Democracy in the Workplace -=- All About Collective -- VIDEO | RAINBOW GROCERY CO-OPERATIVE | |
| Miller, Jim | Who is Soverign? | We have seen the impact over the past 233 years of the abuse of sovereignty which was loaned by the People to our governments. We deposited it on the door steps of the state and national capitals, and allowed our disleaders to pick it up, play with it and do with it as they wished. Their wish was and is self-empowerment and wealth at the expense of the People and the devastation of our Earth. We have paid, and will continue to pay, a serious price for our lack of foresight. We did not and do not now “consider the impact of our and the disleaders' decisions on the seventh generation”. | |
| Miller, Jim | Laissez Failure | Laissez faire, the mantra of the rich, powerful, well-connected, has been used as a drum beat for generations of entrepreneurs who would ride to the realms of riches on the backs of low paid workers. We have witnessed the Enron’s, World Com’s gather in the wealth of stockholders, customers, workers and hand it over to a select few top dogs (some of whom are in jail and other facing prosecution and lawsuits galore). | |
| Miller, Jim | TO THE RIGHT FLANK, MARCH! HUP, TWO, THREE, FOUR ..... -- By Jim Miller FIRST, A REVIEW OF: Intuitive Management --Integrating Left and Right Brain Management Skills by Weston H. Agor, Ph.D. | “What we are talking about here is a change in the consciousness of all world cultures and organizations therein—including our own. What we are arguing for is an awareness of how we each have personal and cultural traits and perspectives which integrated together have the potential for high productivity and more satisfying life for us all. We are arguing for a restructuring of our current management education and training programs across the country (and around the world) so that right brain as well as left brain skills are taught with equal emphasis and integrated into an overall management curriculum appropriate for the organizations and world society of the future. We have tried to show step-by-step in this book how this can be achieved in a practical way.” p. 91 | |
| Miller, Jim | Poverty in America, a review of POVERTY IN AMERICA – a view taken from Social and political forces as determinants of poverty: A spatial analysis By Anil Rupasingha and Stephan J. Goetz Northeast Regional Center for Rural Development at Penn State University. | These and other studies show that the social/economic/political networks of the enterprise owners and their government allies, exercise critical control over the local economy. Governments do little or nothing to empower wage earners to take home a larger share of the available cash flow. Employers hire the most needy folks at the lowest wages, with no benefits, and short hours. A family of four needs 2.5 jobs to break even. If you are in the ownership class – this setting is great; if not, life sucks. | |
| Miller, Jim | Community Solutions to Peak Crises Communities in transition from abundant, cheap energy to scarce, expensive energy should network and exchange solutions. | Buried somewhere in the Oregon energy plan is some mention of networking (not sure, but it should have been mentioned). Villages, towns, cities and counties in the UK and Ireland have networked on the issue of transition from abundant, cheap oil, to scarce, expensivie oil. A transition primer is found at: http://transitionnetwork.org/Primer/TransitionInitiativesPrimer.pdf. The State of Oregon should get off it's duff, join this network and officially kick into high gear the creation of a similar network in the Pacific NW, if not the nation. Who says Oregon could/should/would not become the nation's leader in effectively addessing and ACCOMPLISHING the transition, rather than just spend words on a report, then file and forget it? | |
| Miller, Jim | Community Solutions to Peak Crises Are community transportation planners oblivious to the "Last Mile" issue? | The big issue which seems to escape the attention of our city and county planners is not how to travel the “last mile”, but to reduce to the irreducible minimum the existence of the “last mile”. The obvious solution (obvious to me, at least) is to Work where you live and live where you work! How much simpler can one get? | |
| Parker, Phillip | Planning as if People Mattered | "We let down our children and our communities when we ceded control of the streets to the car. Philip Parker flies the flag for a people-first approach to traffic management." | |
| Miller, Jim | How to Get the Right Answers to the Right Questions | During my Stanford Law School days, it was pounded into my head by the surely professors, to examine each case first to determine what the real issues where – of both fact and law. Since the facts were generally given, the issue of issues was our high focus. Apparently, such rigors education is not the foundation of most governmental functionaries or consultants. I give you the efforts of Corvallis Area Metropolitan Planning Organization [ http://portal.ocwtech.net/campo/Shared%20Documents/Transit/Transit%20Report.pdf] and the Oregon Cascades West Council of Governments (COG) [ http://ocwcog.org/ ] agencies' joint effort to solve the “last mile” mass transportation problem generated by the unexamined edicts of city and county land use planning and zoning: | |
| Miller, Jim | Get Political -- Vote for Yourself | Like most voters, you probably wished for a "None of the Above" choice on your paper ballot. The second best way to express your discontent with the candidates of the Entrenched Parties and the minor ones, is to vote for yourself. You can write-in your name for each office. Be sure to put the initials, "LDR" after your name for League for a Democratic Republic. It's a sure bet you will not be elected. The purpose is to create a "buzz" in the hyper-controlled media that LDR is here to stay, using every means possible to get our word out. | |
| Miller, Jim | Community Action Groups A WORKERS' PARADISE – REVISTED . . . AGAIN and AGAIN -- Well, what went wrong with the workers' paradises we invented a few years ago, only to see them bomb? | We, in the vanguard of the worker cooperative movement, have seen many idealistic worker cooperatives come and go and those which are still with us, endured tremendous struggles to simply form and survive. Most of the Utopian communities of the 18 and 19 hundreds were faith based and bombed because of doctrinal disputes and failed economies. Most of the hippie intentional communities of the 60's bombed when the authorities closed them down for zoning violations and public health issues. The Farm (Tennessee) is a notable exception. That weed-based commune was at 2000 population lead by a guru which, when it reformed into a more democratic society, dropped membership to 200. | |
| Miller, Jim | DIASTER LOOMS -- The good news is we can see it coming. By Jim Miller | The wolf pack is not yet at the door, but we can see it coming. The prediction of looming disaster by Richard Heinberg is based on the U.S. Foreign policy which for decades has funneled taxpayer money, labeled as “foreign aid” to wealth U.S. corporations doing business with foreign regimes supported by the U.S. with money and arms. This form of corporate welfare is not without disastrous consequences. | |
| Miller, Jim | The Eviscertaion of Rural America | Over the past 100 years, the youth of the town have gone to college or moved to the industrial cities in search of “a better life”. This “cheap” labor has been expropriated to build the Industrial Machine. http://www.ruraleship.org/content/pdf/ordeval.pdf “Cheap labor” remains the family members supplemented by legal and illegal migrants from Mexico and other impoverished countries. | |
| Miller, Jim | Re: Michael Albert's Talk Delivered to Venezuela Conference on Crisis of Capitalism http://www.zcommunications.org/znet/viewArticle/18709 | In general, I agree with Michael Albert's assessment of the current “capitalism” which I've labeled, “Top-down Capitalism” to distinguish it from “Bottom-up Capitalism”. His solution is: “More generally, we want no more private ownership of productive assets anywhere in our country. The owners need to be expropriated.”This solution is all wrong for a number of reasons: More .... | |
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| TRAVISTOCK SET TO BUY-UP CHEAP ASSETS | n Illinois, Archer Daniels Midland CFO Steve Mills said Tuesday that global agribusiness will be more profitable in the long term and that ADM may use the economic conditions as an opportunity to buy heavily discounted assets, including corn ethanol plants. Mills said many corn ethanol plants are in a distress condition, but that ADM is bullish on the sector in the long-term. | ||
- Congress authorizes the U. S. Treasury to purchase the controlling interest in Chrysler. Currently, Cerberus owns 80.1% for which it paid 7.1 billion to Daimler which had previously paid 36 billion and retains 19.1% interest. If Cerberus refuses to sell at 7.5 billion or less, then no help is offered the GM-Chrysler deal. Chrysler, even with 9 billion in cash, will continue to hemorrhage cash, shed jobs and close plants. You can count on CEO Bob Nardelli to wreck Chrysler.
- Congress authorizes the U. S. Treasury to change the name to Chrysler Electric Auto Company and loan CEAC up to 100 billion to retool as a manufacturer of both pure plug-in and plug-in hybrid vehicles. CEAC should have only three models: a high-end luxury SUV, a mid-sized sedan and a very small, two passenger local transportation car. The later one would be a plug-in only while the other two are plug-in hybrids.
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