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Tuesday, July 16, 2002
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Barry Carter writes: Imagine a world of six billion liberated, interconnected individuals who are extremely creative, challenged and productive. Teams routinely taps near genius levels of creative potential. These ideas are readily passed on to thousands of other partners, because it helps the individual, all partners, customers and the organization all win. Organizations, therefore, are structured to liberate and propagate knowledge and wealth flow as opposed to controlling or monopolizing those things. Imagine a knowledge era where the premier power and creator of wealth in society is knowledge—an infinite resource, one that can be used by many people at the same time with everyone winning. Thus it is a civilization void of oppression because the means of production is widely dispersed and controlled by the masses of individuals in society. This is because individuals own the brains that produce the knowledge. Imagine a customer driven world where each product or service is tailor-made to fit each customer’s exact, unique needs. It is, therefore, a world where tremendous empathy towards other diverse individuals is the key to meeting customer’s needs and thus thriving financially. In this New World racial division, therefore, has all but disappeared because people thrive economically when they understand, empathize and work with diverse people. The more diversity there is, the more wealth. Imagine that your work puts you in contact with many diverse people from around the world on a daily basis—partners, potential partners, suppliers and customers. Potential partners routinely approach you on various ventures. Likewise, organizations and teams continually seek new partners and ventures because this is how they grow and produce more income for themselves. One works by connecting with others on the Information Superhighway and finding niches where one can add value, for customers and partners, by adding on to what an existing team is already doing. This is done with minimal risk for all. Because everyone has immediate access to unlimited opportunity and income potential we live in a world where poverty and scarcity have all but disappeared. In fact, we live in a world where the vast majority of the world’s population is wealthy, both materially and non-materially. (07/16/02) | |
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Ron Patterson writes: Ladies and Gentlemen, please! Let us step back and clear the air. Let us look at the entire forest and stop getting bogged down by quibbling over the damn individual trees. Here are the questions: Can a given method of producing energy production be made economical and sustainable? Can that method replace a significant amount of the energy now provided by the two fossil fuels soon to be in decline, oil and natural gas? In other words, will this damn scheme work? And ... even if it does work, how much difference will it make in the big picture. ... Okay, can wind energy be economically produced, and ... if so, can this wind energy effectively replace oil in the way it is used today? That is, can we economically produce something from wind energy that we can power our cars, trucks and tractors with? Can we fly an airplane with wind energy? How about solar energy? Can we plow, plant and harvest with solar or wind energy and if so, how much food or fiber will we get out for the amount of money and energy we put into the project? In other words gentlemen, will wind or solar energy save the world from total collapse when petroleum goes into steep decline? Can we feed six or seven billion people from the energy, fertilizer, and pesticides produced by solar or wind energy? (07/16/02) | |
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The Sidney Morning Herald -- The Terrorism Information and Prevention System, or TIPS, means the US will have a higher percentage of citizen informants than the former East Germany through the infamous Stasi secret police. The program would use a minimum of 4 per cent of Americans to report "suspicious activity". ... Highlighting the scope of the surveillance network, TIPS volunteers are being recruited primarily from among those whose work provides access to homes, businesses or transport systems. Letter carriers, utility employees, truck drivers and train conductors are among those named as targeted recruits. ... Historically, informant systems have been the tools of non-democratic states. According to a 1992 report by Harvard University's Project on Justice, the accuracy of informant reports is problematic, with some informants having embellished the truth, and others suspected of having fabricated their reports. Present Justice Department procedures mean that informant reports will enter databases for future reference and/or action. The information will then be broadly available within the department, related agencies and local police forces. The targeted individual will remain unaware of the existence of the report and of its contents. The Patriot Act already provides for a person's home to be searched without that person being informed that a search was ever performed, or of any surveillance devices that were implanted. (07/16/02) | |
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United States Government -- Operation TIPS - the Terrorism Information and Prevention System - will be a nationwide program giving millions of American truckers, letter carriers, train conductors, ship captains, utility employees, and others a formal way to report suspicious terrorist activity. Operation TIPS, a project of the U.S. Department of Justice, will begin as a pilot program in 10 cities that will be selected. Operation TIPS, involving 1 million workers in the pilot stage, will be a national reporting system that allows these workers, whose routines make them well-positioned to recognize unusual events, to report suspicious activity. Every participant in this new program will be given an Operation TIPS information sticker to be affixed to the cab of their vehicle or placed in some other public location so that the toll-free reporting number is readily available. Everywhere in America, a concerned worker can call a toll-free number and be connected directly to a hotline routing calls to the proper law enforcement agency or other responder organizations when appropriate. Operation TIPS is coming in August 2002. Volunteer now! (07/16/02) | |
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New York Times Opinion -- Rick Bass writes: It's estimated that the last remaining roadless areas in our national forests — a total of about 58.5 million acres across 39 states — contain less than two-tenths of 1 percent of the nation's timber. Yet the divisiveness over such an insignificant amount of timber casts a poisonous pall over entire communities. Some powerful elements in the timber and mining industries are trying wherever they can to scare local millworkers and businesses into believing we can't afford to protect these lands. Here in western Montana this can mean warnings of mill closings and labeling environmentalists as terrorists. In my own valley, the Yaak — a gnarly, rank, mosquito-ridden jungle that's been subject to countless clearcuts in the last half-century — there's still not a single acre of roadless land protected as wilderness. Only 15 small roadless areas remain eligible for protection — the largest is only about 35,000 acres, and the smallest, 1,000 acres — little more than gardens, from the perspective of the Western landscape. To date, it's a 30-year war, ever since the United States Forest Service inventoried these last roadless areas for wilderness designation in 1972. Must it be this way for another 30 years? Rural communities of 50 or 100 people fighting over philosophical scraps of land that really belong to every American? (07/16/02) | |
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