Cellulosic fermentation, hydrogen, Iceland, better engines, better materials, better designs, historic patterns; The Car Guys of Public Radio join teams with Nova to make the future of cars fun and easy to understand.
Watching Nova when you want to, one reason Hulu.com rocks. Time to put easy chairs in front of our computers? or time to buy a new one and throw out your TV? Two questions asked about your near future for the price of 53:22.
The American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC) condemns the Israeli naval commandeering of a ship carrying humanitarian supplies to the besieged territory of Gaza. Please sign this online petition @:
Here is the message that we are going to append: On June 30th, 2009, the Israeli navy attacked, boarded, and captured the humanitarian aid ship, the SPIRIT OF HUMANITY while it was in international waters, heading toward the Port of Gaza. The Isreali navy kidnapped the SPIRIT OF HUMANITY's 21 crew and passengers, including former U.S. Congresswoman, Cynthia McKinney and Irish Nobel Peace Laurate, Mairead Maguire. Please take action to call for the release of these brave humanitarian aid workers who were trying to deliver medical supplies, humanitarian aid, and children's toys to the people of Gaza who are still suffering from the consequences of Israel's deadly assault in December 2008/January 2009.
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We just received a report that Cynthia refused to sign a deportation order which contained a statement that she violated the Israeli blockade. The US Embassy said that Israeli law requires that inmates who refuse to sign a deportation must be kept in jail for 3 days before they are sent away.
By this measure, It will be Sunday before we know when and if she will leave Israel.
Don DeBar
July 2, at 1:33am Cynthia McKinney was able to get a call out to a colleague, Don Debar, she sends a message that she is fine, keep calling, faxing and emailing. Keep protesting, too! She is being held at the Ramle Prison in Israel... she has seen an attorney today provided by Free Gaza. She had no information on any of the 21 being released. Mairead Maguire is possibly being held or detained somewhere else. FREE the FREE GAZA 21! Demand that Israel return the ship along with the DANGEROUS CARGO--CRAYONS!
"We were in international waters on a boat delivering humanitarian aid to people in Gaza when the Israeli Navy ships surrounded us and illegally threatened us, dismantled our navigation equipment, boarded and confiscated the ship.
John Judge (Press Secretary during the 2008 campaign) sent this tonight: I just got a call from former Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney from inside an Israeli prison at Ramale where she and 20 other humanitarian aid workers from 9 different countries are still being held by Israeli authorities. US Embassy officials have spoken to Ms. McKinney and are aware of the situation. Four of the group are US citizens. Among them is Mairead Maguire, from Ireland, a Nobel laureate and renowned peace activist. They have named themselves the "Free Gaza 21." They are demanding their release. All those aboard were taken off the ship and into custody, and brought into Israel and imprisoned. Immigration officials in Israel said they did not want to keep them, but they remain imprisoned. State Department and White House Officials have not effected their release or taken a strong public stance to condemn the illegal actions of the Israeli Navy, enforcing a blockade of humanitarian assistance that has been condemned by President Obama.
Green Party: President Obama and the US State Dept. must demand release of Cynthia McKinney and 20 other human rights activists on Free Gaza relief boat seized by Israeli gunboats - 2009-06-30 Washington, DC http://www.gp.org/press/pr-national.php?ID=230
Barghouthi condemns Israeli attack on Free Gaza ship
Cynthia McKinney Demands Immediate Release After Her Gaza-Bound Boat is Seized by Israeli Navy
Former U.S. lawmaker and Green Party leader Cynthia McKinney, a longtime activist for the Palestinians, says her boat, the Spirit of Humanity, was carrying medical supplies, cement, olive trees and children's toys to Gaza when it was seized by an Israeli navy ship.
Cynthia McKinney Aboard Boat Headed for Gaza, Intercepted by Israeli Naval Force The ex-congresswoman and long-time activist for the Palestinians was among a group of individuals turned back after their boat tried to enter Israeli waters in an attempt to land in Gaza to distribute medical supplies. FOXNews.com - Tuesday, December 30, 2008 http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2008/12/30/mckinney-aboard-boat-headed-gaa-intercepted-israeli-naval-force/
Israeli Navy takes control of aid boat headed for Gaza
Small ferry carrying medical supplies that set sail from Cyprus Monday with 21 peace activists, medical supplies intercepted off Strip's shore; passengers say army jammed boat's radio signals Ali Waked, Anat Shalev - 06.30.09, 16:18 / Israel News
Collateral damage? - AlJazeeraEnglish - Inside Story - 30 June 09 Details of the Human Rights Watch Study "Precisely Wrong" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWYkGFuDpOk COMMENTS
Richard Goldstone and UN delegates hear testimonies of Gaza Strip residents as part of UN Human Rights Council's investigation of Operation Cast Lead. According to Goldstone, goal of hearing is to bring story of victims to world -06.30.09, 21:33
Gazan police struggle to operate after the war - 2 Feb 09 "about 120 (police) were killed on the first day of air strikes" "lately we have been targeted" "specifically targeted" "the central jail has been flattened" (Israel blows up jails and police stations first, then holds them responsible for not stopping the rocket attacks) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWYkGFuDpOk http://www.youtube.com/user/AlJazeeraEnglish
A Few Thoughts on the Coup in Honduras - Jeremy Scahill Junne 29, 2009 "Rebel Reports" --
There is a lot of great analysis circulating on the military coup against Manuel Zelaya in Honduras. I do not see a need to re-invent the wheel. (See hereherehere and here). However, a few key things jump out at me. First, we know that the coup was led by Gen. Romeo Vasquez, a graduate of the US Army School of the Americas. As we know very well from history, these “graduates” maintain ties to the US military as they climb the military career ladders in their respective countries. That is a major reason why the US trains these individuals.
Secondly, the US has a fairly significant military presence in Honduras. Joint Task Force-Bravo is located at Soto Cano Air Base, Honduras. The base is home to some 550 US military personnel and more than 650 US and Honduran civilians:
They work in six different areas including the Joint Staff, Air Force Forces (612th Air Base Squadron), Army Forces, Joint Security Forces and the Medical Element. 1st Battalion, 228th Aviation Regiment, a US Army South asset, is a tenant unit also based at Soto Cano. The J-Staff provides command and control for JTF-B. The New York Times reports that “The unit focuses on training Honduran military forces, counternarcotics operations, search and rescue, and disaster relief missions throughout Central America.”
Significantly, according to GlobalSecurity, “Soto Cano is a Honduran military installation and home of the Honduran Air Force.”
This connection to the Air Force is particularly significant given this report in NarcoNews:
The head of the Air Force, Gen. Luis Javier Prince Suazo, studied in the School of the Americas in 1996. The Air Force has been a central protagonist in the Honduran crisis. When the military refused to distribute the ballot boxes for the opinion poll, the ballot boxes were stored on an Air Force base until citizens accompanied by Zelaya rescued them. Zelaya reports that after soldiers kidnapped him, they took him to an Air Force base, where he was put on a plane and sent to Costa Rica. It is impossible to imagine that the US was not aware that the coup was in the works. In fact, this was basically confirmed by The New York Times in Monday’s paper:
As the crisis escalated, American officials began in the last few days to talk with Honduran government and military officials in an effort to head off a possible coup. A senior administration official, who briefed reporters on the condition of anonymity, said the military broke off those discussions on Sunday. While the US has issued heavily-qualified statements critical of the coup —in the aftermath of the events in Honduras—the US could have flexed its tremendous economic muscle before the coup and told the military coup plotters to stand down. The US ties to the Honduran military and political establishment run far too deep for all of this to have gone down without at least tacit support or the turning of a blind eye by some US political or military official(s).
Here are some facts to consider: the US is the top trading partner for Honduras. The coup plotters/supporters in the Honduran Congress are supporters of the “free trade agreements” Washington has imposed on the region. The coup leaders view their actions, in part, as a rejection of Hugo Chavez’s influence in Honduras and with Zelaya and an embrace of the United States and Washington’s “vision” for the region. Obama and the US military could likely have halted this coup with a simple series of phone calls. For an interesting take on all of this, make sure to check out Nikolas Kozloff’s piece on Counterpunch, where he writes:
In November, Zelaya hailed Obama’s election in the U.S. as “a hope for the world,” but just two months later tensions began to emerge. In an audacious letter sent personally to Obama, Zelaya accused the U.S. of “interventionism” and called on the new administration in Washington to respect the principle of non-interference in the political affairs of other nations. Here are some independent news sources on this story: School of the Americas Watch NarcoNews Eva Golinger’s Postcards from the Revolution
ALBA representatives reaffirm support to Hondura`s Legitimate Government http://mathaba.net/news/?x=620928 (the Bolivarian Alliance of the Peoples of Our America)
Much has been going on in Honduras this month leading up to this, from a recent coup attempt (ablove), to an Earthquake, an OAS meeting, and two important futball games.
"bottom line? Democrats are the new republicans" "we don't have a left and a right party in this country anymore, we have a center right party and a crazy party. And over the last thirty odd years, Democrats have moved to the right, and the right has moved into a mental hospital."
"look folks, i like Obama too, I'm just saying, let's not make it a religion. ...
every time Obama tries to take on another on another progressive ccause there's a major political party standing in his way, the Democrats. People talk a lot about a third party in America, we don't need a third party, we need a first party. You go to the polls and your choices are the guy who voted for the first Wall Street bailout, or the guy who voted for the next ten.
This week we're hearing that a public option for health care is unlikely, because it doesn't have the support of enough Democrats. Even Ted Kennedy's plan (Ted Kennedy yeah!), leaves 37 million uninsured.
This is because we don't have a left and a right party in this country anymore, we have a center right party and a crazy party. And over the last thirty odd years, Democrats have moved to the right, and the right has moved into a mental hospital.
So, what we have is one perfectly good party for hedge fund managers, credit card companies, banks, defense contractors, big agriculture, and the pharmaceutical lobby, that's the Democrats, and they sit across the aisle from a small group of religious fanatics, flat earthers, and Civil War reenacters, who mostly communicate by AM radio and call themselves the Republicans. And who actually worry that Obama is a Socialist." http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DtUAHPYYzeM&feature=related 7:51 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 6-19-09 Overtime with Bill Maher; opening ; 6:00 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPd_uqjeYCg&feature=related 6-19-09 Overtime: Paul Begala Schools Meghan McCain!;4:33 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oiVlZo6a5aA&feature=related
April 10, 2009 Ron Howard on Realtime with Bill Maher ; 4:28 "Look, if you're gonna make an endorsement like that, you know, start, start by humiliating your self, a and a um, and then be as modest about it as possible." http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1CgbvIasKUA&feature=related
October 13, 2007 Naomi Klein's "Shock Doctrine" on Maher; from Amsterdam ; 5:39 "now we all know that it's Comunism is when the government takes over private business, but, when Corporations take over the government that is what has been defined as Facism. Do you think that's where we're at? "Yeah, or Corporatism ... you can call it crony capitalism or corporatism, but it's certianly not the free market" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHMuiJwM23M&feature=related
while i'm not a big fan of Move On, they have made it too easy not to pass up this opportunity to send a message. Do them one better and send an email, snail mail, or a phone call to your Rep.
Congress is voting on the big energy bill next week. But the latest version of the energy bill would repeal a key part of the Clean Air Act - arguably the most important environmental law in American history.
Big coal companies want to revoke President Obama's authority to crack down on global warming pollution from their dirty power plants — and they're on the verge of winning.
If they succeed, the oldest and dirtiest coal plants could keep destroying the climate for years to come. And this change could pave the way for 100 new coal plants, which would pollute our communities with smog, soot, mercury, and global warming pollution.
I signed a petition urging Congress not to repeal this Clean Air Act provision. Can you join me at the link above?
Sources:
1. "EPA urged to act on climate, not wait for Congress," Associated Press, May 18, 2009
There is no way to penalize a corporation (or a government) that does not actually hurt people instead.
At least when the paper overlord is a government, we have the illusion of owning it; who owns the
largest conglomerates that actually write the laws and pay for the votes that pass them?
Conglomerates all own each other.
"We are all back seat drivers, & there's nobody at the wheel"
(Timbuk 3 'Reverend Jack and His Roamin' Cadillac Church')
Hence it is our imaginary overlords who actually "govern" our planetary scale decision making.
They originally came about by human authored rules and laws, and existed only on fragile pieces of
paper, but have now transcended paper and even nature's laws, making over humans, and even the
world itself, as the fragile illusions of permanence; for the only laws that matter are the ones they
themselves have written. A human that imagines any humans to have power, or the ability to
conspire with other humans, or even the power not to conspire with corps(es), is simply deluded.
Humans will only return to governance of human affairs when they have collectively made the choice
to stop imagining otherwise.
No matter how one looks at it, there is an ongoing attempt to have immortal 'paper' imaginary
citizens rule the world of living mortal actual beings. How do we stop it? Even more to the point, why did we ever allow it? Occasionally some, such as myself,
will point out that imaginary immortal beings are neither equipped to understand,
nor prioritize, the needs of living mortals, and the fragile planetary
organism our breath and tears are part of.
They cannot even be made care to obey nature's law.
Socialism of, by, and for the corps(es), with the goal of world dominion; Does Fox "News" actually
hate such socialism?
or do they consciously promote it by opposing any advancement of the human cause?How again is it we are not a national socialist governed nation?Does that not apply to massacring Arabs over there instead of Jews here in the homeland?
War always kills and impoverishes human people and it always profits corps(es),
if you try to stop it they will cry out for their 18th amendment rights (which they don't have).
If you want to kill our real enemies, simply stop believing in their imaginary power to compel us
based on an imaginary legal equality with actual citizens.
What's really on my mind? don't have one anymore.
Watched the Fox News channel comedy show called Red Eye tonight,
they cured me. Now i'm right all the time, i know everything, i don't need a mind of my own,
and i finally get the whole concept of buying an Amerikkkan soul for myself.
THEY RULE! WE RULE!! EVERYONE ELSE SUCKS!!! (if the whole world sucks enough then us true believers won't suck at all)
Blind faith, and a belief that things will always remain just as one grew up believing them to be
are the only excuses we have for our stupidity. They are not very good excuses, but when it comes
to a reason to follow the herd of lemmings it appears most of us need only the thinest of veneers.
That's what happens to social mammals,
but it's a cruel twist of the inevitable that brings us to a
place where we don't believe in the need for us to work and play well together
even though we are less equipped than any other animal
to survive au natural alone.
Faith in the imaginary overlords is the only excuse we have
for having such little faith in ourselves.
Two good examples: those who call for war often claim Jesus's Love, just as those who call for
corporate welfare often cry out for a free market.
Let's just make the whole mess much simpler and more honest by evolving a religion based on the
axiom that unexamined selfishness is the only greater good. The only way you get into heaven is
by out pacing the Jones, preferably by stealing from your neighbor.
We can cut the middle man right out and worship the conglomerates who are our actual lords,
those with thoughtful minds can make an analogy to the angels (not the fallen ones of course,
have some faith in blind belief).
Donald Trump can be the prophet, or the sacrificial lamb, and GW Bush can wash his hands of us all,
while the entire Dow family becomes enlightenment itself. Monsanto can be the savior of the world's
threatened monocultures and self replicating organisms can play the role of Judas.
Damn! i think i'm half there already... So who wants to put something in my collection plate to get the ball rolling?
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It is an excellent attempt to explore the sociological impact of rapid militarily significant technological change.
A group of scientists invent, by accident, a device that detonates all nitrate-based explosives in its vicinity.
This provides good protection against most modern conventional weapons.
As the technique becomes more refined, safer, and more widely aplicable, those who are threatened by it, and those who are threatened, the old and the new, military, political, and economic, interests, become more and more entrenched and embattled as benefactor and threat relations change, yet seek to remain the same.
Some will always seek more change, and some will always seek more the same.
"A. Is your password "admin," "root," "password," or some other such simplistic shit? Can you log into it remotely? If so, you're vulnerable.
B. Does SSH still connect? Can you get to your router's web page? If so, it's not infected.
C. It's a router, not something of any great intrinsic value. Nuke the firmware and start over. (Reset, boot_wait, JTAG - lots of ways to nuke a new firmware into these things without having network access to them. Listed previously are some good terms to Google for.)"
well, be careful with that axe Eugene... (it might be <i>alive</i>)
By this point, i'm still feeling like i got the purple pill, and every time i eat it the same thing happens; except that i've been reading a lot of sci-fi lately, and now i'm living in one of the stories.
Sub space travel is a hypothetical ramification, of this new paragdigm but propellant free "graviti-motive" force has already been applied and measured.
So, there it was, in my inbox, with my daily slashdot.com story teaser list. This article simply cited another article, If superconducting sheets reflected gravitational waves... ...wouldn't our most sensitive experiments have spotted this by now? Maybe they have http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/arxiv/23198/
""In the couple of weeks since he introduced the idea that superconducting sheets can reflect gravity waves, Raymond Chiao from the University of California, Merced, has been busy with a couple of buddies working out how big this effect is... Chiao and co. ask how big the effect of a gravitational wave on a thin superconducting sheet is compared to the effect on an ordinary conducting sheet. The answer? 42 orders of magnitude bigger.""...
"One experiment springs to mind that might be capable of seeing this effect. Gravity Probe B is a space-based experiment designed to spot the geodetic effect and frame dragging, two tiny forces predicted by general relativity.
The experiment consists of four perfectly round spheres, each about the the size of a baseball, that spin rapidly and so behave like gyroscopes. Each sphere has a thin superconducting coating which allows its spin and any changes to it to be measured precisely. "
and an experiment called Gravity Probe B http://einstein.stanford.edu/content/final_report/GPB_Final_NASA_Report-020509-web.pdf "The data analysis leading up to this important result proved more subtle than expected. 'Patch-effect'1 anomalies on the gyro rotor and housing have complicated the gyro behavior in two ways, a changing polhode path affecting the determination of the gyro scale factor, and two larger than expected Newtonian torques. Put simply, while mechanically both rotor and housing are exceedingly spherical, electrically they are not. Steadily advancing progress, reported to NASA directly and via successive meetings of the NASA appointed GP-B Science Advisory Committee (SAC) chaired by Professor Clifford Will, has brought a rather complete understanding of these effects. A turning point came in August 2008 with the incorporation of an elegant approach for computing the detailed history of the remarkable "roll-polhode resonance" torques discovered a year earlier by J. Kolodziejczak of NASA MSFC. The result, reported here, was a large reduction in previously unexplained discrepancies between the four gyroscopes."
Of course, the slashdot article is where all the comments are. Some of these softened me up with positing antigrav fields, and reversing measuring effects in interesting ways, and some humor surrounding all that.
So, i read these, and opened all the links cited in the stories and the discussion, SOP for me.
mostly it was about the number 42, at first, i expected no more than jokes about my favorite book, Hitchikers Guide to the Galaxy, but this one comment put me on to some interesting sources, that put me on to some more interesting sources.
It all sounded so fairy tales super normed out; too typic. Too much a based in fact but derived from fiction feel about it.
"Predictions claimed to have been derived from first principles that are experimentally testable are:
* Predictions of the masses of neutrinos * Predictions of new particles * Predictions of excited states of existing particles * Predictions for the conversion of photons into the so-called "gravito-photons" resulting in a measurable force.
Heim predicted in the 1980s that neutrinos would have nonzero mass."
Yea, but i predicted it in the 70's, big deal (i always had a theoretical rejection on mass less neutrinos, no math involved).
"Dröscher is hazy about the details, but he suggests that a spacecraft fitted with a coil and ring could be propelled into a multidimensional hyperspace. Here the constants of nature could be different, and even the speed of light could be several times faster than we experience. If this happens, it would be possible to reach Mars in less than 3 hours and a star 11 light years away in only 80 days, Dröscher and Häuser say."
The proverbial platinum hammer to the head. It was very good.
"Their experiment involves a ring of superconducting material rotating up to 6,500 times a minute. ...
It demonstrates that a superconductive gyroscope is capable of generating a powerful gravitomagnetic field, and is therefore the gravitational counterpart of the magnetic coil."
Today's biggest news, from where i sit, seems to be over two years old, and i suspect that the general idea may have been around for some time.
Whether recent experiments have actually caught several research teams by complete surprise, or they are just confirming and legitimizing the knowledge gained nefariously at "Area 51" over the years, we have an experimental data set almost requiring a coherent theory of hyper drive and/or anti-gravity propulsion.
Over the last decade or more there have been a lot of anomalous effects recorded regarding the precise measurement of gravity and mass. Often lately this has been explained by a "missing" dark matter and/or dark energy.
The fact is there have been some better theories lying around for a very long time, positing that the strength of gravity falls off at a different rate outside a certain distance, and/or positing an anti-gravity repulsive field of some sort or another.
There have almost always been proofs of Einstienian mass and gravity ramifications that seemed to be off the mark in little ways that defied explanation.
These are the basis, to a large part, for the tradition of excluding "facility induced effects".
With the still broadcasting pioneer and viking space probes getting so far away, and the sensitivity of our gravity wave detectors increasing, we are finding some big questions unanswered lately in physics.
The ESA report (http://www.esa.int/SPECIALS/GSP/SEM0L6OVGJE_0.html), makes it quite clear that we have stumbled on a good chunk of what underlies the answers to many of these questions. The negation of gravity is highly implicated in these results, if they are to become replicated without further elucidation of another effect. According to theories based on those of Heim, such is the result of another force in addition to, and similar too, gravity, these are claimed to explained by Hiem's theories.
So, this reading brought me into contact with Heim's theories for what i think is the first time. Apparently the theory seems pretty shaky to the pros, but is supposedly still the only one to explain the masses of particles in any meaningful way.
This is actually where it gets hardest for me to believe right now, as the Wikipedia page (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heim_Quantum_Theory), is currently stamped with "The neutrality of this article is disputed.", since Dec 2007. It seems it should have been resolved by now.
In any case there is plenty more to go on than WIKIpedia, Heim, or his theory, in the ESA article alone:
"This experiment is the gravitational analogue of Faraday's electromagnetic induction experiment in 1831.
It demonstrates that a superconductive gyroscope is capable of generating a powerful gravitomagnetic field, and is therefore the gravitational counterpart of the magnetic coil. Depending on further confirmation, this effect could form the basis for a new technological domain, which would have numerous applications in space and other high-tech sectors" says ESA study manager Clovis de Matos. Although just 100 millionths of the acceleration due to the Earth’s gravitational field, the measured field is a surprising one hundred million trillion times larger than Einstein’s General Relativity predicts. Initially, the researchers were reluctant to believe their own results."...
"We ran more than 250 experiments, improved the facility over 3 years and discussed the validity of the results for 8 months before making this announcement. Now we are confident about the measurement," says Tajmar, who performed the experiments and hopes that other physicists will conduct their own versions of the experiment in order to verify the findings and rule out a facility induced effect."...
"If confirmed, this would be a major breakthrough," says Tajmar, "it opens up a new means of investigating general relativity and it consequences in the quantum world." (http://www.esa.int/SPECIALS/GSP/SEM0L6OVGJE_0.html)
We have engines just like the ones i've heard the more credible Area 51 insider reports describe??
uh huh
Keep your eye peeled one whats going on with "Frame Dragging Signals" in real research labs. Here's one that looks to explore and confirm the parameters of the effect itself: http://arxiv.org/abs/0707.3806 Search for Frame-Dragging-Like Signals Close to Spinning Superconductors Authors: M. Tajmar, F. Plesescu, B. Seifert, R. Schnitzer, I. Vasiljevich (Submitted on 25 Jul 2007 (v1), last revised 22 Apr 2008 (this version, v9)): "High-resolution accelerometer and laser gyroscope measurements were performed in the vicinity of spinning rings at cryogenic temperatures. After passing a critical temperature, which does not coincide with the material's superconducting temperature, the angular acceleration and angular velocity applied to the rotating ring could be seen on the sensors although they are mechanically de-coupled. A parity violation was observed for the laser gyroscope measurements such that the effect was greatly pronounced in the clockwise-direction only. The experiments seem to compare well with recent independent tests obtained by the Canterbury Ring Laser Group and the Gravity-Probe B satellite. All systematic effects analyzed so far are at least 3 orders of magnitude below the observed phenomenon. The available experimental data indicates that the fields scale similar to classical frame-dragging fields. A number of theories that predicted large frame-dragging fields around spinning superconductors can be ruled out by up to 4 orders of magnitude."
Damn they move fast nowadays.
Here's just one of many many examples of what i feel has been the elephant in the room, which apparently has been replaced with the potential for some real answers to the question:
http://arxiv.org/abs/0707.3830?context=gr-qc On Cosmological Implications of Gravitational Trace Anomaly Authors: Neven Bilic, Branko Guberina, Raul Horvat, Hrvoje Nikolic, Hrvoje Stefancic (Submitted on 26 Jul 2007 (v1), last revised 15 Oct 2007 (this version, v3))
HERE'S THE REAL DOPE:
http://www.hpcc-space.de/publications/documents/JPC2008.pdf 44th AIAA/ASME/SAE/ASEE Joint Propulsion Conference and Exhibit, 20-23 July 2008, Hardford, Connecticut Gravity-Like Fields and Space Propulsion Concepts Walter Dröscher1, Jochem Hauser 2 1Institut für Grenzgebiete der Wissenschaft, 6010 Innsbruck, Austria 2Faculty Karl-Scharfenberg, Univ. of Applied Sciences, Salzgitter Campus, 38229 Salzgitter, Germany
"In summary, the present situation is characterized by the fact that a large number of experiments were performed over a period of more than four years, employing very different measurement techniques, but showing highly similar, but totally unexpected results. Measurement techniques in all experiments are clearly state of the art, in particular for the GP-B experiment and the latest experiments by Tajmar et al.16 p . Hence, the conclusion is that substantial experimental evidence for the existence of gravity-like field is available. It remains to be seen, whether in the case of the Gp-B experiment the misalignment of the orientation of the gyro axes and the change in the gyro rotation frequencies can be convincingly explained by classical physics. According to EHT, the misalignment of the orientation of the gyro axes has be attributed to a gravitomagnetic field, and the change in the gyro rotation frequencies needs to be traced back to a gravity-like field. If this were true, a rather solid experimental basis of three highly different experiments seeing the same novel physical phenomenon would exist. This would serve as a comprehensive experimental data set against which theoretical concepts have to be compared. In this regard the GP-B experiment might deliver highly interesting novel physical results. The current theoretical findings from EHT and their comparisons to experimental results are encouraging, though lots of open questions remain.
For the sake of clarity, the current situation (June 2008) is rephrased as follows. There is experimental data from three completely unrelated sources, employing completely different measuring techniques that have seen physical effects that are approximately 18-20 orders of magnitude larger than predicted by GR. In all experiments a phase transition occurred at low temperatures (not necessarily at TC, the critical temperature for superconducting, but possibly two-electron interaction took place?). GR cannot be used to explain these phenomena, even if the full nonlinear Einstein field equations were used, which should make no difference. The Lageos and GP-B experiments have clearly demonstrated that the inertial frame-dragging effect, even from celestial bodies, is extremely small and within GR. These facts provide evidence for novel physics
in the form of additional fundamental forces.
How to proceed? It seems that there is sufficient reliable experimental data to start a comprehensive theoretical and experimental research program in gravity-like fields. There exists a physical model that can partly reproduce experimental facts, and also provide guidelines for an experiment generating a gravity-like field acting along the axis of rotation, while the ring or disk is rotating at constant speed. If such an experiment were successful, the goal of gravity-controlled technology (energy generation) or propulsion without propellant would be much closer. Naturally, a propellantless propulsion system would be far superior to any existing propulsion technology, while its technology might be substantially simpler than present technology of linear momentum conservation employed in chemical, fission or fusion rockets.
Moreover, gravity-like fields most likely would lead to novel technologies in the general field of transportation, and thus should be of major interest to the public and, in particular, to industry.
There is, of course, despite the rather solid experimental basis, insufficient knowledge at present whether these gravity-like fields are technically feasible and how they scale. The next step should therefore be to conduct a comprehensive and detailed study for determining the technical details of how to realize the proposed experiment for a vertical gravity-like field and to clarify the theoretical background. At the same time current experiments should be further refined and re-evaluated.
Needless to say, control of gravity would lead to completely new technologies, comparable to the advent of electricity and magnetism in the 19 th century."
Note, the effect is doesil, as in the choice of clockwise betrays a great deal of prophetic ability of the ancestors, or the odds of a binary choice, but yet again the Allness reveals she has a right hand bias.
Turns out 2008 does mirror 1908, talk about some critical years, they almost give the year the Emperor burned the Chinese fleet (boooooring) a run for it's money, after all, it was the year they drove Islam out of Spain (1492).
This is not even the only new hint of a new type of motor, but this is sooo much more 2009, just as much a surprise out of no where, and means of a similar type effect, in a way.
They placed a thin film of water in a square cell and applied two perpendicular electric fields. One was an external electric field. For the other, they used two copper electrodes to generate a voltage across the cell like an electrolysing cell (although no chemical reaction took place).
So they had a pair of electric fields at right angles acting on this thin film.
The unexpected result is that the film of water begins to rotate. The team has a number of movies of the effect on its website. They call it a liquid film motor and it’s a quite extraordinary effect. At one point they divide their cell into nine smaller ones and the liquid in each cell rotates in exactly the same way."
in this one it is easier to see how this could pump fluids around a bio sensor chip:
your assignment, should it interest you, is to go here and see if you can make sense of what causes this: http://arxivblog.com/?p=1255 Liquid film motors finally explained
Yer modem's under attack!! Hyper-Drive and Anti-Grav accidentally Discovered, in Iran they discover liquid film motors, 'delic vids resulted
Now, what we're going to do is put the government and the structure of the state at the service of the Salvadoran people--the totality of the Salvadoran people- -but fundamentally, of that great majority who are oppressed and excluded from the country's social and economic development. [The people who for] not just the last twenty years but for last 200 years or more have not had the possibility of participating in the formation of public policies. A government like the one I'm going to create will give them the protagonist's role, which, until now, they have not had." Mauricio Funes http://www.thenation.com/doc/20090330/lovato?rel=hp_picks
The Nation magazine is running an interview (following) with Mauricio Funes, elected a few days ago to be the first leftist president of El Salvador. Most leftists in the world question his identifying with "the left," as he appears to be quite conservative. But make no mistake, the progressive community of the world sees this victory as a step up for El Salvador, which has been ruled by extremely brutal right wing fascists for a long time --Jack
A Conversation with Mauricio Funes
By Roberto Lovato & Josue Rojas On March 15, the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (FMLN) became the first leftist party to clinch a presidential election in the history of El Salvador. By 10 pm, it became clear to Salvadorans and to the world that the former guerrillas had ended more than 130 years of oligarchy and military rule over this Central American nation of 7 million. In the streets, thousands of red-shirted sympathizers chanted "¡Si Se Pudo!" (Yes, We Could), while they celebrated the victory of the FMLN's Mauricio Funes. Funes captured 51 percent of the vote, to 49 percent cast for Rodrigo Avila of the Nationalist Republican Alliance party, which had been in power for twenty years. Though Funes, a former journalist, is the best-known Salvadoran on his country's TV networks, he is little known outside the region. Thanks to a collaboration between The Nation and New America Media (NAM), reporters Roberto Lovato and Josue Rojas had the opportunity to interview El Salvador's next president on the night of his election. What follows is an excerpt from this interview with Funes, who addressed numerous issues: the meaning of his presidency, El Salvador's relationship with the United States, immigration and other domestic and foreign policy concerns. Immigration has become one of the defining issues of the US-El Salvador relationship.
How will your administration's approach to this issue differ from that of the outgoing Saca administration?
The fact that we're going to rebuild the democratic institutions- -enforce the constitution and make of El Salvador a democratic state that respects the rule of law- -is the best guarantee to the United States that we will significantly reduce the flows of out-migration.
Salvadorans who leave to go the United States do so because of the institutional abandonment, the lack of employment and dignified ways to make a living. This forces them to leave in search of new possibilities in the US. It's not the same for us to ask the US government to renew TPS [temporary legalization] without a Salvadoran effort to avoid further migration flows, as to do so from a position in which we have undertaken efforts to reduce the migration flows.
What's the first message you'd like to send to President Obama?
The message that I would like to send to President Obama is that I will not seek alliances or accords with other heads of state from the southern part of the continent who will jeopardize my relationship with the government of the United States.
Opinion polls in El Salvador indicate that large majorities of its citizens reject key policies that define, in many ways, the relationship between El Salvador and the United States, specifically CAFTA, dollarization and the Iraq war. What will your approach be to these issues?
We can't get mixed up in repealing CAFTA...nor can we reverse dollarization, because that would send a negative message to foreign investors, and then we'd be facing serious problems because we wouldn't have enough investment to stimulate the national economy.
What do you think the United States government should be concerned about with regard to El Salvador at this time?
To the degree that we do our part, which is to rebuild our productive capacity and to create a coherent social policy that improves the quality of life, there will be fewer reasons to leave for the US and we'll reduce migration flows. And that should be a concern for the US.
Where will the effects of the transition in power be felt most immediately?
We're going to change the way we make policy. And one of the most significant changes is that we will no longer have a government at the service of a privileged few. And we will no longer have a government that creates an economy of privileges for the privileged. Now, we need a government like the one envisioned by [Archbishop of El Salvador] Óscar Arnulfo Romero, who, in his prophetic message, said that the church should have a preferential option for the poor.
Paraphrasing Monseñor Romero, I would say that this government should have preferential option for the poor, for those who need a robust government to get ahead and to be able to compete in this world of disequilibrium under fair conditions.
This government implies a break from traditional policy-making.
Now, what we're going to do is put the government and the structure of the state at the service of the Salvadoran people- -the totality of the Salvadoran people- -but fundamentally, of that great majority who are oppressed and excluded from the country's social and economic development. [The people who for] not just the last twenty years but for last 200 years or more have not had the possibility of participating in the formation of public policies.
A government like the one I'm going to create will give them the protagonist's role, which, until now, they have not had.
Thursday, 19 March 2009 19:21
administrator Politics - US
soon to be up for a vote is a bill that could stop small and local producers;
HR-875 ‘Food Safety Modernization Act of 2009’
There is a U.S House Resolution...HR875...entitled "The Food Safety Modernization Act"...put forth by Rosa Deloro, a Dem. from CT, whose husband is Stanley Greenberg, who works with many corporations, including Monsanto, that wants EVERYONE who grows ANY food to register and report to the Feds.
Failure to do so results in large fines and potential seizure of property.
I've never been poisoned by anything at a farmers market, and it's none of their business if i choose to grow a strawberry plant or a tomato!
feel free to plagiarize my wiseacre comment below left on one of these pages;
better yet, write your congress person!
i'm so scared of organic food that i think the government should arm us with assault weapons and rockets and train us to use such in self defense against rabid tomatoes and broccoli
it would probably also make us a whole lot safer if we spread all our nuclear waste evenly over all lands that might be used to grow food consumed in the US just to make sure that even if organic farming techniques are being used anywhere that i won't have to be attacked by any actually organic food
as to those who would like to give me their extra homegrown zucchinis, i would be happy to entertain the idea of accepting them if you can submit triplicate copies of the paperwork required by this bill to ensure your food facility is safe enough for me and mine
growing vegetables next door without submission of this documentation will require a response from my assault weapons
Should have left the sound track alone, i like to listen to it so you can hear what's happening, which sounds much sweeter to me than the unobtrusive but much too loud, song...
Now hosted on my account here at: http://www.dot5hosting.com/, these sites were done almost entirely in Notepad, and were managed with FileZilla FTP.
There are some broken link errors, and probably other minor PHP scripting issues, caused when i moved them from the root of this directory.
2003; my first commercial site, for my sister's business, now defunct, @ http://montesite.net/os/r2/home.html. This would have been much easier to build in a scripted user managed space like this one, but, unaware, I built it in raw html with well over 100 hand coded pages. The shopping cart worked back when we had a live paypal account.
2004; second commercial site, for local rapper Lil' Dude, @ http://montesite.net/os/lildude/index.php. I started this one in php with a mind towards being able to add more functionality down the line, nonetheless it still remained largely an html based site. Not only has the artist changed his name, but they have since decided to go without a website of their own. In 2008 he set up a more modern page at http://lildude.net/home.html. It has been good for me to see this young man's career progress apace, he has worked with many talented music biz veterans. Some errors result from my header and footer for montesite.net being moved without being adjusted.
2004; school project, and my first venture into really scripting, http://montesite.net/os/epiall/epiall.html. I was very happy with this simple execution of a multiaxis reference system for links, a type of system that i feel is badly in need of wider use to allow people to navigate complexly organized and voluminous sets of data in more meaningful and efficient ways according to their current needs. The assignment was to execute certain scripts within i-frames. The content was never filled out, and I never got around to making the submission forms work in the current environment, but it felt very much like a creative success nonetheless.
2005; school project, and my first screen capture video tutorial, http://montesite.net/os/tutorial/index.php. This is a tutorial about using ftp to access your UWM webspace, it became obsolete the next semester when they migrated to a more user friendly environment, this was quite a disappointment since i'd thought i'd finally done something that would actually help others. Some errors result from my header and footer for montesite.net being moved without links being adjusted.
2005; montesite.net vers 1: @ http://montesite.net/os/, I never really finished it, or fleshed out all the content I had envisioned, but it served as a great place to store content and links.
2007; Southway Bait Sales @ http://southwaybaitsales.com/home.htm. Definitely the pinnacle of my hand coding work, I spent ages getting the look and feel I wanted. Unfortunately it still does not function as intended. The creation of a linked bank and Pay-Pal account, a retail price and shipping cost structure, and the editing of an old VHS vid, took so long that we lost the password and the will to recover it.
Still hoping to whip this into functioning shape with the very minimal work it would take to make the paypal links work and post the best i could do with the vid edits. For now it makes one heck of a catalogue and business card. Like so many of my hand coded commercial sites, I took far too long making the design work for myself. Surely I hope to never belabor the art like this again, despite the fact that I enjoy it.
I take pride in graphic design work, but my efforts with Joomla have yet to obtain such a focus on the details of look and feel. In Joomla and Drupal, like any CMS or web app, the look and feel are controlled by off the rack CSS based templates that I have yet to modify or study in any depth, as i am still busy adding functions and content. I understand CSS, as we had to study it in school, but I never took to it like raw HTML, though it is the simplest of markup coding.
What is the Peace Justice and Environment Project?
The Peace Justice and Environment Project (PJEP) is a network of networks using the Actions Options Tool (AOT) web-publishing software as the backbone of their websites. Use of the AOT makes publishing web content easy and efficient while encouraging the communication and cooperation of member groups on common projects. Designed by activists and then developed and refined in the field by those using the software, the AOT is currently being used by over 1000 justice, peace and environment organizations in 26 networks or coalitions covering 33 states throughout the U.S.
The purpose of the web application, the Actions Options Tool (AOT), is to facilitate human-to-human communication. The AOT is not about replacing person-to-person communication with web, email or digital features, but is about encouraging human communication through web and email applications. The AOT has resulted in more real time meetings, phone and conference calls between the individuals and organizations most needed to accomplish specific organization goals. This web application facilitates finding and organizing allies and then getting things done by reaching out and taking action.
The Actions Options Tool was designed to encourage organizations to support each other forming connections that strengthen the activist movement. Within each network using the AOT software, organizations post their actions. Actions that garner 55% or greater support and a commitment of participation from 5 other organizations through the AOT action grid will have access to the system’s database for an email blast to publicize their action. That database is created from the emails of those who register or support campaigns on the network. In Illinois, the database contains over 4000 email addresses. Other states have the same potential. Additionally, as the network of activists grows, campaigns travel beyond the borders of a single state.
There is a shift in identification as we experience increased contact with those folks that share our experiences. The AOT provides a window and connection to other activists creating an opportunity to experience our self and those around us as very closely allied or tied. Trust and empowerment are experiential and political descriptions of the same human condition. The AOT is a political empowerment tool that enhances an environment of trust by providing guidance and perspective that comes with connection to other individuals and organizations.
Website Organization/Navigation of the 21 State Network Sites of the Peace Justice and Environment Project
Home Page Under the Network banner, the Home page displays New Actions and new member organizations added to the network. Further down the page are Announcements and News Articles generated by and for network members.
Actions is the home of the AOT Action grid. Here all current actions sponsored by Member organizations are shown on the horizontal axis. A click on each action title will link you to full event details. On the vertical axis, active member groups register their degree of support for the posted actions. A legend at the bottom of the page defines what the degrees of support mean.
Calendar events are shown on a single month expanding grid that displays posted actions and has features for recurring vigils, meetings and other events. Place your cursor on each event for the full title, click on the event for full details.
Resources gives access to links, documents, videos, audio files books and pictures relating to news & opinion; 43 issue categories; peace, justice & environment organization and activist tools. The search feature within the resources section allows for the speedy recovery of files with names or descriptions with relevant key words.
Campaigns has details of network initiated actions for members and registered users: Petitions, Boycotts, E-letters and Fundraisers with a summary showing how close (#s of signatures or $ raised) each campaign is to goal
Social Net gives access to the public face of the site’s social networking users along with contact information. Each page has as much or as little information as the social network user desires.
MemberOrgs has a full list of network member groups. Click on any name to access the member group’s page (some used as a group’s web presence). Here are links, logos and contact forms to learn about and get in touch with our participating organizations.
Networks has a full listing and links to PJEP’s 21 network and coalition websites that serve 26 states.
PJEP links to the national website of the Peace Justice and Environment Project.
About has our mission statement and describes the benefits of participation in the PJEP network.
Contact allows for general inquiries as well as a link for groups interested in joining the network.
How Member groups use the Features of PJEP Websites using the AOT
Administrator Control Panel has a menu of interactive features to serve member groups. To get access, the system emails each member representative or administrator (you) a temporary password after the website facilitator enters you into the system. Log in using your email address and password. Here is what you’ll find:
Profile contains your personal contact information. Here you can re-set your password to one you can easily remember. Include your phone number so your fellow admins can contact you.
Organization Information operates as your group’s webpage within the PJEP site. Here you can enter your group’s mission statement, upload your logo and list your group’s website as well as other custom information including links and graphics to appear on the MemberOrg page. Some groups use this space in lieu of their own website.
Edit -- If you need the make a change re your Organizational information, just click on the “Edit“ button and follow the prompts. Each Control Panel function allows you to edit your information to correct or change information.
Message Center (Message Transmission)
In addition to being able to contact your network facilitator or and the committee heads if there is a governing body of the network or coalition, the ‘Message Center’ provides each organization’s representative or “admin” the opportunity to email any other admin within the network or coalition. There is even the option for an admin to email all other network administrators simultaneously.
This is not a substitute for a phone call. By far the best way to communicate or solicit support is by picking up the phone and the phone numbers of your fellow admins are located here in the message center.. But sometimes there is no substitute for a rush urgent email transmission to all member organizations. The message center allows you to do so. Use this feature prudently.
Actions (The Actions Grid)
Each time you add an action, your event is posted on the website’s Action Grid, inserted onto the Calendar, listed on the home page and an email goes out to each administrator in the network. Your action can be a vigil, forum, talk, visit to elected official, petition, boycott, film showing, speak out, press conference, editorial board meeting, tabling, fundraiser, e-letter or letter to the editor campaign, mass-phone-calls to elected officials, or mass protest. It is the most powerful function of the network.
Votes
Each vote you make triggers an email notification to the sponsoring organizations and a vote of support or better becomes a small message of solidarity with those who have worked hard to put on an action. A definition of each vote’s degree of support appears in the legend at the bottom of the Action Grid on the website.
Several activists have noted that the time taken within their organizations to note degrees of support for the actions and events of other organizations has positively influenced the culture of their group. What emerged was an awareness of how closely related actions and activists are across the state.
The ‘Actions Offspring’ section provides the opportunity for several closely related actions to congregate in a single area, under a single Action. This section behaves similarly to MoveOn’s programming for multiple location actions allowing the creator of the Action Offspring to note the number of attendees coming to the event, the number of guests allowed and volunteers required. This section of the website can be useful for large organizations with multi location actions.
Campaigns – Petitions, Boycotts, E-letters and Fundraisers –For the most succesful Campaign, we recommend you also post it as an Action with a link to the PJEP Campaign Page. for example, fundraising for a peace scholarship would have an action asking folks to access the fundraising page and support the effort. As well, all campaigns benefit from a vigorous outreach plan to get as broad support as possible
Petitions
By clicking on ‘Add a petition drive’ note the seven steps to a successful petition drive. Petitions are a great way to make connections to organizations in other states. If you create a petition, call the AOT developers at 800 878 1801 and we’ll guide you to organizations in other states that might be interested in sponsoring your petition for that activist community.
Our most successful petitions were grounded in emerging current events. An Illinois assemblywoman proposed the impeachment of George Bush in a floor bill. A petition to support the bill was posted on four days later. Within eight days 1000 signatures were gathered and delivered to the Assembly Speaker with television and radio present.
Boycotts
By clicking on ‘Add a boycott (located below ‘Boycotts’) note the seven steps to a successful boycott. Although boycotts usually involve strategic long term planning and a multi-state presence, this is not always the case. In July of 2007 it was discovered that British Petroleum had received permission from Indiana EPA to substantially increase its Lake Michigan dumping of ammonia, was already dumping mercury and had applied to increase their atmosphere effluents. Within a week Indiana, Illinois and Michigan AOTs posted boycotts of BP. 700 signatures were gathered in less than a week.
If you have sponsoring partners across several states you can get media attention. Call 800 878-1801 for media consultation.
E-letters
Modeled after the e-letter centers of national organizations, the AOT e-letter functionality offers the admin of any participating organization (you), the ability to compose and post a letter online, except that it can be modified by a visitor and transmitted to the target chosen by the admin.
Stored in the programming are the email addresses of Federal Representatives and Senators or their legislative aides. You can choose the category of target (House members, leaders, etc.) and the AOT software will display that category so a visitor can observe who is being emailed. An upcoming feature will allow you to create a custom target, for example the mayor of a local town, if an e-letter online action requires a localization of the programming.
The e-letter center is perhaps the most complicated to setup of the various features of this site. Call 800 878-1801 if you have any questions or would like guidance to make best use of this feature.
Fundraisers
Organizations can now create online fundraisers. Fundraisers can focus on an event, promote an action, piggyback on an online campaign, or stand alone as an ongoing way to collect funds. The system only allows credit card contributions. Because of Federal election law, we can not manage fundraisers for political parties.
Reporting functionality allows you to analyze your campaign. You can investigate funds collected, obtain specifics on donors and donation amounts, find out when donations came in, etc. Several sorting criteria allow high quality reporting of what works best when using these tools.
PJEP will cut a check for the contributions for your campaign whenever there is over $100 in your account on the 15th of the month for the previous month’s receipts minus the credit card processing fee, estimated at 3%. When people make a donation, they will also be asked if they would like to add a voluntary “tip” to PJEP for providing the service to the network. When the campaign end date arrives, a check will be written for the balance of the funds collected for the fundraiser (minus CC fee).
Calendar
By plugging in a date & time, providing an event name, description and location you can alert users of the website to the events that your organization would like other network activists to be aware of. Actions are automatically posted on the calendar. The system’s calendar allows for recurring events such as regular peace vigils and meetings.
In Pennsylvania, for example, calendar postings were the first text to populate the website. Minnesota’s Coalition uses this feature more than any other section of the site.
Articles and Announcements (Home Page Updates)
Each member administrator may post articles and Announcements on the Home Page of your state network. Don’t like what is currently posted on your network’s Home Page? Here you can keep the home page current by posting text pictures or videos relating to your organization’s actions, events and projects or your favorite analysis of peace, justice or environmental events.
Announcements have a cut of date when the announcement will be removed. An article will move down the page (and eventually into the system archives) as new content is gets posted on top of it. Announcements will have content relating to a timely event, while the information in posted Articles have a lasing effect.
Note the option of using custom formatting, inserting graphics and posting YouTube videos in your Article or Announcement. If you have any questions about this or any other feature of the site call 800 878 1801 and someone will help you.
The Resource section, overseen by a dedicated committee, is meant to be a one-stop-shopping site or online library for those needing information on how to affect change for social justice. Resource content might be a PDF focusing on an upcoming protest or a detailed document offering long-term perspectives on the movement as a whole.
Resources on each network site include general categories available in all states, plus a dedicated section for each site. Admins have the opportunity of adding resources to your state’s resources by following the Control panel prompts. If you wish to submit resources for the general categories, please send an email to laurel [at] pjep [dot] org.
Uploads
Here you can upload pictures and documents for display on your Action announcement (for event flyers), MemberOrg page or in a Home Page Article or Announcement. Select upload and follow the prompts to add a file from your own computer. Once uploaded, the system will provide you with a system url for your link or page display. Again, please call 800.878 1801 and someone will answer questions and help you upload and insert content.
The Social Networking and Political action Page (SNAPAP)
The social networking and political action page (SNAPAP) offers a host of features never before available in any context let alone a nationwide web of social and political change networks to benefit both individuals or groups.
Toaccess these features, register on the site, after which a password will be automatically issued by email. Then users may log in using their email address and system generated password when first logging in to the site. Upon logging in, SNAPAP users who are not also administrators, will be automatically directed to the SNAPAP controls.
Profile Window is where you can update your personal information for other to get to know you. Here you can re-set your password to one you easily remember.
User Created Resource Center/Favorites Allows users to create a personal digital file library. Here you can search their resources noting only their own contributions or every contribution of every resource or digital file in the system, an alternative universe of left/progressive contributions.
Interactive Message Center
A unique feature of SNAPAP is the text message center allowing the storage of multiple phone numbers making possible a transmission of a single text message to numerous activists to drive them to a spontaneous event. Mass text messaging is unique to this form of software.
Multiple-degree-of-separation software tracks the indirect influence that an activist exhibits when she or he brings in friends to an online campaign and those friends bring in additional participants. When a user participates in a petition, boycott, e-letter or fundraiser the AOT offers three ways to trace indirect participants in that campaign: 1) when a user refers a friend while signing up for a campaign, 2) when a user sends an invitation from their SNAPAP messaging center, 3) when a friend clicks on the word “participate” when investigating the public view of their SNAPAP page. An activist will discover that bringing in three friends to an online action indirectly leads to the participation of many more. Lineage charts display the specific interconnections that descend from every user.
Visit the site for guidance on using these powerful new features or call 800 878-1801 or your facilitator if the information provided isn’t clear.
How the Features Work Together
In October 2006, coalitions and networks in Michigan, Illinois and Minnesota all of whom use the AOT programming joined together, to post a petition which called for the Department of Homeland Security to stop live-fire target practice on the Great Lakes using lead ordnance, potentially dumping 7000 lbs of lead into the Lakes annually. Over 1200 signatures and comments were gathered online through the three AOT networks in less than three weeks. In total, almost 400 peace and environmental organizations had been contacted with dozens working in close cooperation as a direct result of the Actions Options Tool programming.
As a direct result of the campaigns initiated by the activities of the three state coalitions, the number of hearings, which the Coast Guard held on the issue, was increased to seven from the original four. At one of the hearings, of the 52 people testifying, 50 testified against the live-fire practice. Most of these people were contacted through the AOT programming. Information for the media advisory was pulled from the three AOTs. Numerous television, radio and print stories emerged from the hearings where activists and citizens congregated to make their feelings known. The tool notified, educated, organized and directed the members of member organizations to the targeted event.
On December 4, petitions were delivered to Senator Durbin’s aids along with a list of the 37 Illinois organizations supporting the petition. On December 13th the organizers met with Senator Durbin himself. By that meeting, the AOT showed that over 1800 citizens had signed the petition with 44 organizations in support. Durbin supported the activists’ position that the practice should be halted. He said he would set up a meeting to discuss this with those members of the Coast Guard that instituted the policy.
On December 18, the Coast Guard announced that they were discontinuing the program with no more live practice on the Great Lakes. Militarization of the Great Lakes was halted. The Dept. of Homeland Security retreat was directly related to the efficiency and ease of use of the Actions Options tool.
Grassroots Empowerment at its Best
The website software behind the PJEP networks seeks to lower the level of authority to the local grassroots organization, empowering those organizations across the country with unique and powerful communication tools and online resources. With the recent addition of social networking, we’ve integrated social networking with political action lowering the level of authority even further providing individual activists with knowledge and online features never before available at any level.
This is software designed to encourage emerging powerful democratizing forces by enhancing horizontal communication, nurturing transparency and facilitating diversity. By empowering the individual and local grassroots organizations, the AOT seeks to foster creativity where creativity can thrive, with the individual that seeks deep and lasting social change.
- Start a national grassroots announcement email list. Advertise it in
Green Pages. Offer code to Green blogs so folks can sign up directly.
- Offer advertising space in Green Pages to blogs.
reciprical links
- Create banner ads to place on blogs so individuals can subscribe to
Green Pages.
- Make an RSS feed of Green Pages articles available.
post a list of links to sites hosting this feed somewhere
- Convince GP leaders, candidates, and elected officials to be
interviewed on Green Party Watch's Internet radio show on a regular
basis. Publicize this. Encourage rotation of interviewers.
- Find aspiring filmmakers who would make short documentaries for us
in return for national exposure. Post these on the national site, and
make a feed available for blogs.
- Find musicians who have written songs about the Greens or about
candidates. Make mp3s available. Link to them directly on the national
announcement list.
- Aggressively promote the Speakers Bureau. Make any talk they give
available as an mp3 or transcription.
or video
audio record or film all national meeting and convention workshops and most committee meetings
archive these and make them available along with any and all other related workshops and supporting materials
- Create a site where Greens can go with computer questions.
general audience computer advice, problem solving flowcharts, and self support advice and techniques are all things that i have been considering ever since an independant study i completed on the best freeware for Windows XP and how to use them and why
i have put a lot of thought into this and have been motivated by wanting to share it not only with freinds and family but aso with the party membership, and with the public as a service from the party
this is a tassk that i could create a basic structure and content that others could contribute to without too much effort, and it would reflect several years effort and thought (Win XP the only OS i'm really competeant to support)
Consider doing the same for other specialized skills: treasurers, campaign
managers, newsletter editors, spokespeople, etc.
this is also an idea i have been promoting for years, especially when directed at supporting candidates and giving them a forum and an archive to share knowledge and materials with each other
how to get involved locally in a campaign (would need some help with this one to do it penultimately)
summary of candidates and their positions
future convergence of corp and machine and the need for a more consensual, human, sustainable governace machine
universal spiritual needs and rights and recognition of them in the context of the needs creating the green movement and being expressed thereby, the question of the party's roles, issues, responsibilities, and limitations, especially as individuals
