i was already pensive, as my closest had suffered a maajor disaster
SassyPants, my new (MySpace) freind blogged this today,
and it resonated with my day emotionally
“Smothering…
This afternoon a friend of mine told me she wanted to be smoothered. She wasn’t talking about some scary sexual fetish. She wanted to be covered in a love so overwhelming that you can scarcely breathe, nor do you want to. I knew her meaning, having had that very desire myself. To inhale and exhale with another person, feeling them all around you, on all sides and you are blissed out as a result.And then later, another woman told me that she’s being feeling smothered by a friendship she’s been willingly participating in. She has been encouraging the attention and affection of someone who is quite taken with her and has decided it’s too much to take. Smothered. She said the word with fear in her voice. She’s very independent, she told me. She can’t change that about herself, nor does she care to. Her friend’s behavior is alien to her and she can’t even fathom how her own behavior has contributed to her situation.As for me, I long for someone to be sweet to me. I look forward to the time when my voice on the other end of the phone consistently makes another person happy. I’m a do-er, more likely to smother than be smothered. I try to watch myself, but I’m not always successful.
Here’s to each of us looking for what we don’t seem to have. I hope we find it. And soon.
….
my friend who wanted to be smothered was longing for closeness. The woman who was afraid of being smothered feared a closeness that is so very close to my friend’s desire. To be held and cherished, to feel it all around you. Those things make her nervous, where they just make me envious.”
(monte):somethings written by Be had been on my mind and in my heart’s eye,
among them:
“when i fell on my knees
i discovered legs
saw them rising, smoothly curving on their way up, far beyond my sight
never knew legs could fill the sky like that
when my eyes overflowed with tears
i finally knew about thirst
how the water, filling those oceans, slowly poured down my throat
amazing my tounge on its way
when my body fell stiff
i was hoping for you
your arms, strong n steady as im sure they would be, catching me
as i fall
from the sky
to the ocean
hoping
for you”
(monte):
i wish i had the strength to catch the whole world,
i’m still falling down myself
need what you don’t have?
people need each other!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
this fit here, from Sassy also, last month:
“Love is…
“Love is…Sometimes I’m in love with the whole world. My heart fills up with love, overflows with it. And I want to rain it down on everyone I see. If we all just gave away the love the world would somehow be even more beautiful than it is. I want to put my arms around my friends and my family and the nice woman who held the door for me and let them feel the living energy moving through me. I want my old pain healed and it seems possible right now, if I can just keep loving this way.”(monte): i feel what they are saying, very much soi want to smother the world with love (deemed GOOD by my nerve systems)
precisely because
the world smothers me with need (deemed OVERLOAD by my systems)
on OVERRIDE (’cause love don’t quit)
still playin on the teeter-totter?
know there is a reason (and that it’s all ok by me)
Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field.
I’ll meet you there.
this first piece is from 1990, i recently titled it Our mother
and used it as the start point of :
Devi’s work’s created for public
“reading” (the focal word meaning in Herstory lessons this week).
late preherstoric “writers” crafted meaning in written words,
one
“letter” (conflicted meanings warning; or, character)
at
a
time!
the devi herself was no exception in the early 21st century:
Our Mother Who’s Arts’ We Are Parts
A spinning garden jewel glistening in the void
The evolving beauty of her incipient brain lost
in idling cancerous malignancy
I stand before the goddess of my ancestors
Begging forgivance my innocence
A steady gaze in her eye
We know I’ll all ways love her
With each no choice but to do as we do
With all I can do I offer
“this life to stop the extinction”
offering left on the altar of my heart
“walk forth from this place of desecration
we will eat the pain with our smiles
our tears will turn the path green
in our struggles to be freely
we will a place of beauty
in our faces we hold truth and peace
spinning thru the galaxy sowing seed
to bloom in health we will be without end”
Art
and there out of the ashes of art
will rise like a big happy fart
a new health a new self a new state of being
a new stealth a new wealth a new way of seeing
a new day a new way to be a sage
and quicken the place
a new way to bring out another age
in a state of grace
a shiny new enlightened stage
to be realities’ new page
a new world a new state of phase
a new sight a new like a new kind of race
a new flight a new tyke a new state of grace
a new upward a new load to bear
a new inward a new way to share
to return to the place of the crown of culture
pushing on outward to space
to be civil I’d guess
a new way to treat I & you and relations between
with a blend of old meanings where beauty can be seen
a new life a new breath and a look in between
if we are to see
all the 21st century
the most meaning full art
will have to be
3 rules of revolution:
3.everything you do is important and is your valid domain
4.everything anyone does is important and a valid domain of your study
5.if you’re not having more fun your not more revolving
the revolution’s never done
the restoration never rests
the reformation always fails to choose
viva la re-evolution!!!
Her Prayers:
Our mother
who art in earth
hallowed be thy rain
Our will be one
her will be done
To make heaven on our good earth
Our mother
beginning’s berth
let us relieve our pain
The time has come
to get things done
In our sights is the end of dearth
Our mother
who’s art is birth
renew what’s been slain
Our mother
for all that she’s done
we offer thankfulness
Warlords are done
peace’s time has come
We have no more use for the gun
Our mother
who sustains our life
know we can, and must now,
end all strife
We are all one
archons’ reign is done
To heaven’s reign we are berth
Psalm I - Litany
Thanx for vinegar and salt
Thanx for a bit of wheat, hops, and malt
That there should be
H2O
And that it knows
Where to flow
Thanx for dioxygen
Dihydrogen
Or either alone
And for what you do
Thank you
CO2
Thanx for sky
A place called home
The earth inside
With room to roam
flowers may have petals
thanks to all the metals
like iron and potassium
with the salt of sodium
to balence our fluidity
to keep the water in
by providing our skin
carbon keeps it all together
protecting us from weather
and covers our nudity
For phosphorus and calcium
In every bone
And thank you nitrogen
For all we’ve grown
Thank you sun
Thank you chlorophyll
For what’s done
For you carbo fill
Nucleic acids
Are oh so nice
When you kids
Twine them ’round twice
That mass and energy
Should dance so divine
Thank you
Oh thank you!
Spacetime
space so far
for room to think
in every direction,
Thanx also time,
time to think
Thus able to mind
Prayer
prayer is how we treat your body and mine
it’s the life we will have to see
to have a future where we will be
prayer is how and why we seek for our kind some more time
peace cooperation and blessings will be all that can get done
when our new age has begun
our love will hit a peak
when no confinement by death has been won
and there is heaven under the sun
we will have all that we seek
Favorite one liners and such:
We’re optomists, not stupid
Paranoia will die!
Galactic consciousness now
Rainforest is genengine
Genengine rainforest
Radital = rad it all
DISSEMINATE!!!
Simple bodies evolve intelligence in complex environments
Complex bodies evolve simple minds in simple environments
Synchronicity increases with increase in the number of levels at which complexity arises in an environment
Everything is everything [everything is everything - everything is everything - everything is everything]
some of this last section needs some work,
i have too many versions of the litany laying about on hard drives they all get weak at the end
so far my favorite part of the entire story is Basil before the court:
“human, the source of all earth’s problems.
they expect the being of supremeness to fix what they broke,
it bespeaks the greatest hubris.”
Basil frampton, ‘coon, 2nd immortal, the companion, when asked if he could use the word hubris in a sentence during the inquisition. Basil Raccoon’s Favorite Phrase - “jelly donut cannons rule”
That, and her being a solar wind and laser sailing flutterby, where devi really gets to stretch her wings, before becoming the beam herself. Moving at light-speed is natch when being light.
Somebody’s got to be the first to be most awesome, to bad she tripped up the timelines, and had to join the Galactic Revolution.
Under the Wormhole, seriously underground, fleeing through time, back to the source.
of course that was all before (well, and after, of course)
she had to make the locker
after that the story/ our past/ her future just keeps getting darker, and that’s it for now folks.
much love,
Devi Jones’ Locker, still mostly in my head
i cannot give you your freedom
and i cannot take it away
but i will blog all night
for your right to freely express
there are times when they come in the night,
and they come in the day with unimaginable weaponry
and they massacre, and the unimaginative, and the trusting, and the compassionate
and sometimes just everyone,
are just gone
while we may, let’s make hey!
connectedness, community, and wisdom
are ever more accessible
for the picoradiolinked sensorchip parallel computing networks smart dust (and these links are ancient)
of the very near future will know all and see all
and we had better be ready to share it
so live in the light, live in the open
share a solidarity of community
or be first on the cattle cars when
some botnets evolve sentience
and the one in charge buys all the corps
and fires us all
only love and hope can prevent us from being
supeceded by our own machinations
offering instead, to humanize machination
to embody it in wisdom
to bring it back to the whole technologia
by sharing decisions enough that they are
decided by those who care, and are most affected
the real stakeholders all need a say,
and to decide we all need all the info
either way privacy will die
the built environment will become programable
all our best technologia will be grown
and the bug on the windowsill will have eyes
that see the world from all three angles
narrator, subject, object
someone will soon know the world inside out
i feel strongly that one should be ALLOFUS!
otherwise surely not wise
together we can form Gea a much higher mind
we come together in spaces like this more easily
and with more frequency
while most of the peoples’ content and bandwidth
is filled with the drival of peoples’ lives
that is the goal, the objective is for all to have a soap box
all to have a voice, and all to have a choice
and no little puny subterfuge like Dieboldly voting machines
and a few badley stolen, suposedly public, elections,
will ever really change that
when the people realize the chips are down and it’s time to play our cards
and how rare and beautiful us beingness on Earth is
but mostly people never do anything about a problem
untill they can really see it coming, and where the solution is going
this is why we must more fully share the truths of our consensus reality
i am relatively well versed in the readings of several traditions i have a hard time comparing modern neo-wiccans to other older traditions that have left us a written record
it is very interesting to me that archaeology is finally giving us a picture of celtic culture and druids but wicca as it was practiced is a relatively solitary, very preliterate practice, best found in old midwives tales
so generally, when i speak of wicca, it is something that i consider an abstract unattainable dead thing
but if you want brand new and growing, alive and dynamic, modern neopagans are great, if you hang with the ones’ who you think use some level of reasonable reasoning
but it helps me feel the main things of all traditions that connection that i know is there with my tribal ancestors
and the roots of euro traditions in prehistory
it is all about sensual, beingness, communalness, the allness
modern monotheism denies respectful familiarity with the visceral to it’s own debility and to the debility of our world and every one of us a connectedness to the earth mother, and Allness, implies or enables a more sensuous connectedness with pleasure, and each other.
but the real thing to me, Sufi Mystic, Taoist magician, and Hindu ascetic aside, what really matters to me on the spiritual level of transmissible, recordable, culture, is to be found in all the aboriginals the “native” peoples’ cultures all value consesus, and love, and compassion, and humanity, the visceral, vital, joy of the great implacable Allness
since my practice is here, and my methods, materials, and places, are all native, (at least the plants animals and human here are all natives now, and have been adapted to by the native cultures) more and more often, if you really make me pin it down my religion is American Indian, but that does not exist anglo culture has always tried to conglomerate tribal cultures, first into each other, and then into the anglo culture
but tribal culture evolves at the band level and everyone is a member of at least one clan
connectedness arises again
clans have the rhythm of the year, and the rhythm of one’s life stages, and the rhythm of the moon, and this helps exlplain the rythms of life within, without, and all around you even the speech that connects our minds with each other and concepts that match all around us rhythms
ceremonies that connect you to the changing, and implacably fixed rythms of Allness rythms of your own movements, and actions, and thier relations to the rythms of those around you, and with all of beingness such that one perceives one’s life as dancing not even a dance, a dancing the primitive mind is built differently, better for the future, than the immediate past the dance of beingness is more appropriate to the expanding pie, horizotally structured, consensus, infosphere technologia we must be building
every memory easily retrieved from the place it came from and fitting into all the others in a rational, alive, growing, and evolving whole living in nested sets of individuals’ collectives and thier collected various greater groupings rhythm to the connections between clans, bands, tribes, and nations the marriages of enemies blending thier wills softening hatreds real cultural evolution that really still works so much better than the capitalist industrialist
it’s more fun for us easier on Earth more of godness and goodness to be primal beings
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?
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.
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 theMemberOrg 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.
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
