If anyone has walked the Halls of Power, of a multinational Corporation and seen the complex matrix intertwined with Governments, the World Bank, Defense Complex, "legitimate" businesses of the Mafia, to the misty Trilateral Commission and Bilderbergers, you would understand it is not our "prayers" that are shaping how, and under what constrictions, we live.

It is also not our "prayers" that are shaping how, and under what constrictions the direction Science & Technology is being steered through funding at major Universities.

To never know, what is transpiring beneath the Halls of Top Secret, where we have no need to know.

Imagine, a free American, much more, a free Spirit of the Universe, has No Need To Know why he lives!

Except as a restricted, overtaxed, stuck-in-traffic, workaholic, and price gouged consumer, keeping tabs and eyes glued on the modern day Christian Lion scores of the sports Arenas.

                                    TECHNOLOGICAL RETREAT                 

That last paragraph is not the way some of us want to go folks. 

Let us continue with our exploration and discovery.

Please bear in mind that this newsmagazine is an open forum for both the professional and nonprofessional. Lifestyles Unlimited welcomes your thoughts as well as challenges to our line of inquiry. As Anthony Robbins says, "we must walk our talk", so this newsmagazine's mission is to network a sufficient data base to validate research at appropriate universities.

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Expanding the Window to Reality I  

A Viewing Point of E=MC˛ 

    Expanding the Window to Reality will be an ongoing column of thought provoking, unresolved issues remaining dormant in contemporary science's fragmented perspective of Reality.   We intend to prove concisely where unfounded, unproven fundamental assumptions, along with the denial of the existence of numerous non-conforming hard evidence, is hindering progress towards the conclusion of the Unified Field Theory.   We intend to show, that while biased, and skewed evidence may work well in some segmented micro or macro realities, common sense is lost, hidden variables scream foul, and theories from the resulting tangents of reality border on the absurd.   To date, significant breakthroughs into energy evolution, overcoming the gravitational obstacle and the speed of light barrier, remain a far distant, imaginative fantasy, traversing faster than the speed of light away from common sense. 

Perhaps we fail to take into account the reason why we have not advanced past this primitive propulsion concept may have something to do with a restricted viewing field

    It is difficult to comprehend modern sophisticated scientists, still employing the 4000 year old Chinese rocket propulsion concept. Perhaps we fail to take into account the reason why we have not advanced past this primitive propulsion concept may have something to do with a restricted viewing field - i.e., when measuring the dimensions of your back yard, the curvature of the earth need not be taken into account; when measuring the physical dimensions a state, continent, or planet, the curvature of such body may have to be considered, depending upon the type of measurement to be taken. 

    On a larger scale, when we take measurements into the micro (nuclear) or macro (stars, galactic) from our position at the local, Newtonian, classical everyday world we live in, there definitely exists a radius of curvature that must be considered after the mathematics are completed, to interpret the results. Otherwise, we remain 'flatlanders', still proclaiming the world is flat in the realms of quantum mechanics and relativity, with nary a common sense link to Consciousness and the Metaphysical portion of the spectrum.

Science and Metaphysics may be viewed as riding the same spectrum, one beginning at one end, the other commencing at the other end. It may be seen and understood with the Radius of Curvature concept, a viewing point akin to that which permitted a "flatlander perception move to three dimensions or a round world". Hopefully, we can at least begin to admit, our expanding viewing point did not stop at the 'round world' status.  

    We must, and will recognize, that while our contemporary mathematics describing the natural laws appear to be linear - linear in the micro (quantum) realm, linear in the macro (relativity) realm, linear in the classical Newtonian sense of the everyday, here and now, the three sets of laws are connected on a spectrum by a radius of curvature that follows a sine wave nature of positive and negative curves. Only when the factors of space, time, mass, energy, gravity and their interdependent relationships are viewed in their energy differential equivalents will we begin to see the hidden variables and new possibilities. That will also require a new perspective of time and space.

    We welcome the reader's ideas.   Our prime objective will be to accelerate a conceptual understanding of the nature of the radius of curvature of natural law from the micro world, through to the macro world.   We will take flatlanders towards a less restricted dimensional view of reality, which will provide far greater degrees of freedom of both movement and expression. The implications for the advancement of science toward a sustainable, abundant, healthy and prosperous world order will be immeasurable.

    The major precepts will be:

•     TO STIMULATE AND EXPEDITE: A major Transformation of our concepts of Space, Time, Mass/Matter, Energy, Gravity and Altered States of Consciousness; a perceptual enlargement as crucial and profound as our historical heritage counterpart -the perceptual move from a flat world limitation to a round world horizon of our past. 

•     TO RECOGNIZE: that this perceptual move from a point of view to a viewing point is 'continuous'. Once reached, the viewing point itself becomes a point of view and the evolutionary process continues. It is a time of a new metamorphosis; A time of stepping out of another cocoon; A time for all of us, in our striving for elegance in excellence, to help each other come out of Plato's Allegorical Cave of shadows. 

•    TO IDENTIFY THE MULTI-DIMENSIONAL PERCEPTUAL DUALISM paradoxes: in almost every field of endeavor which result in the inability to see 'both', as the analogy goes "the forest and the trees", or multi-dimensionally "the one and the many", (where One is both individuality and universal wholeness, unity, simultaneously)...........example: from physics - the principle of complimentarity/uncertainty "light is either a particle or a wave...." the underlying issue of illusion may be better grasped through the concept "it is either a forest or a tree, it can never be both, it depends upon the observer's way of looking at it through the curvature of natural law" ( i.e. 'positional/perceptual' point of view referencing Space/Time/Energy/Mass/Gravitational differentials). 

•     TO DETERMINE: the radius of curvature of natural law that 'binds the complete and total interdependence' of mass/matter, energy, space, time, and gravity differentials (a viewing point of E=MC2). And humbly concede that previous civilizations were familiar with the sine wave characteristics of natural law through the symbol passed down to us from them: the circle with the sine wave passing through its center. The circle, being without beginning or end, symbolizing the infinite nature of the Universe itself and the sine wave passing through it symbolizing the curved but finite nature of the laws which operate within the infinite whole.

•     TO UNDERSTAND THE ROLE: perception and the radius of curvature of natural law plays when dealing with the macro and micro universe at degrees where E=MC2 begins to affect our observation, our measurement, and our reference points. 'We cannot begin to see or measure faster than light energy differentials except in redefined terms'. 

•     TO GRADUALLY come to understand: how consciousness, gravitational mass, and frequency interact as theorized by some quantum models. 

•     TO GRASP the "simultaneity of events" factor through the radius of curvature of natural law, the pivotal point about which the natural laws become manifest, so as to move from a unidimensional concept of time to a concept of time which includes more than one dimension mathematically (without the preposterous assumption that one can physically move backwards or forwards in time). 

•     TO TEST THE PREMISE: Our ordinary physical laws do not hold true when carried to an extent which permits the error to be measured, because they do not follow a straight line to infinity, but a curve of finite radii. In a timeless universe, this curve would be represented by a circle, but since the laws operate through time as well as space, the curve is more readily understood if depicted as a "sine wave". In this case the base line of the wave represents zero, and the portions above and below the line represent the positive and negative aspects of the law.  Thus we see that there are points and conditions in which the natural laws reach zero value with respect to a given reference point, and that beyond these points the laws become negative, reversing their effect with respect to the observer.  

•     THE PIVOTAL POINT:  IS THE RADIUS OF CURVATURE of natural law, represented on the sine wave by a constant, an energy differential equal to the quantity C (velocity of light), a pivotal point? Not only of the Wave/Particle - Inertial Mass/Mass - Matter/Energy Duality, but also exhibiting negative gravitation at precise energy differential relationships that exceed VC between two reference points?  Can this energy differential exist other than as a rate of increase/decrease in the spatial separation (velocity)?  May it also exist as a frequency by the mathematical rule E=Fh, where F becomes the constant 9X10 20TH ergs/gram?  'How may this be tested to demonstrate the reverse effect of a natural law with respect to the observer (specifically of gravity)'?  

•     TO EXPLORE THE CONCEPTS:       

• The "Limitations of Relativity": The "limitations of relativity" will always precede us at a distance equal to the radius of curvature of natural law. We need not fear that we will ever overtake or be hampered in any way by those limitations, since our 'reference point' (of a true coordinate system) will always go along with us. The value of the gravitational field at any given point is controlled by the values of the other factors of nature at that point.  Modulating the Gravitational Curve: The electric charges within the atom are a factor which modulates the shape of the gravitational curve of the nucleus.   Magnetic and Electronic Resonance: Any magnetic field which is changing in intensity, will create an electric field, which, at any given instant is equal in amplitude, opposite in sign, and perpendicular to the magnetic field.  If the two fields become mutually resonant, a vector force will be generated. The effect is similar to, and in fact identical with a gravitational field.  Frank Znidarsic http://members.aol.com/fznidarsic/index.html Force and Gravity - a symmetry exists between force and gravity – as a changing magnetic field induces an electric field, a changing momentum (a force) induces a gravitational field – unbalanced forces localize the zero point energy of matter .(vol 4, Issue 22 – 1998 Infinite Energy)   What Factors this Division Point of Nuclear Radiation/Absorption in Fusion? The fusion of nuclear particles may occur in a number of ways, but in every case where the resultant nucleus has a mass smaller than the mass of the atom of silver, large quantities of heat will be released as a result of the combination. When the mass of the resultant nucleus is greater than the mass of an atom of silver, a large quantity of energy is absorbed rather than radiated. Neutron Formation by Electron Penetration of the Nucleus:  Dr Thomas E. Phipps, Jr. (IE vol 5 issue 26 1999) “Generalization of Quantum Mechanics via  a “Covering Theory”: parameters are missing from accepted quantum mechanics that are present in the corresponding classical theory. (parameters which in classical theory allow description not only of classes of motion –general, but also specific ones.) Formal Correspondence: as we proceed downward on the scale of physical size, considering first stars and planets, next billiard balls, then grains of sand, etc., there exists no abrupt physical discontinuity, no particular place or boundary at which one can say: on this side this set of descriptive equations applies, and on the other side that other set applies. Nature builds smoothly; she does not erect discontinuous walls in the midst of her machinations. Clearly, Phipps, in this article notes the problem of scale invariance, and ‘point-like’ localizations which can readily be seen as the ‘zero point’ on the sine wave of the  Radius of Curvature of Natural Law. (ESJ – Hertz’ equations of electrodynamics issue 22 1997) A Testable  Unification of Electrodynamics, General Relativity, and Quantum Mechanics – Whittaker’s 1903 paper – in short, shows how to turn electromagnetics into gravitational potential. Unknowingly, Whittaker has already shown the correct  engineering way to unify EM and G fields, and already falsified one of Einstein’s later primary GR assumptions – that the local space-time is never curved. USPA journal #6 1993 Master Principle of EM Overunity:  T. E. Beardon: (and Japanese Overunity Engines). Overunity system operation via work free asymmetrical regauging has been inherent in the Heaveside/Maxwell equations for a century, but just conveniently and arbitrarily assumed away by limiting the theory to NET Symmetrical regauging. Regauging by means of scalar potentials only, changes the local energy of a system and its local reference point to a new reference point, refueling itself from the vacuum potential. Note equivalency to Radius of Curvature example by changing your reference point to the same higher energy value. Electromagnetic scalar potentials and gravitational potentials: Suppose the potential is multivalued (all space, time, mass, matter, energy are  varying degrees of energy differentials)  from point D to A – a strange phenomena occurs When the system has reached point D in its cycle of operation from point A, the potential value itself at D suddenly is altered and regauged back to its original value at point A. Poynting and Heaveside developed the energy-flow theory in EM in parallel, after Maxwell was dead. Modern power engineers do not track the energy flow in an electrical circuit, only the power and work flow… i.e., a river may have a static depth magnitude corresponding to any given point on its surface, or a static pressure magnitude at any interior point of the river – but no one would say the river is static. Elio Conte – Biquaternion Quantum Mechanics – the sets of axioms of Minkowski space-time, of Maxwell’s equations, of electromagnetic fields were erroneously considered to be mutually independent; instead, they are manifestations of a single entity based on the set of axioms of biquaternions. (profound differences between Hadronic mechanics and BQM) The Speed of Gravity – faster than light? Meta Research Bulletin http://www.metaresearch.org  Dr. Tom Van Flandern tvf@mind-spring.com Astrodynamics and Celestial Mechanics – formerly with the U.S. Naval Observatory The Speed of Gravity – faster than light? LR or SR, principal difference is equivalence of all inertial frames in SR, and the existence of a preferred frame in LR (special/Lorentzian relativity) Apeiron http://www.redshift.vi.com  Galilean Electrodynamics http://www.msx2.phajhu.edu~dring/gehtmls/gehome.html   Deuterium-based radiationless cold fusion – band state atom systems are similar to Bose-Einstein condensate systems – standing wave,  periodic order dominates – no high energy fragments, no radiation, no neutrons: Dr. Scott Chubb chubb@cff.nrl.navy.mil  and Dr. Talbot Chubb tchubb@aol.com   Dr. Ruggero Maria Santilli – The Institute for Basic Research – Palm Harbor, FL   ibr@gte.net  http://home1.gte.net/ibr new address http://www.i-b-r.org/   Hadronic Mechanics consistent completion of QM precisely along the historical E-P-R argument – detailed inconsistencies of QM GR SR, gravitation, chemistry, superconductivity, particle physics (Einstein,. Podolsky and Rosen) “the suppression of the approximate character of quantum mechanics and related basic symmetries in nuclear physics by the academic establishment implies the suppression of new energies, new forms of recycling nuclear wastes, etc constituting ‘damage against society’  a crime, including deception under public funding – a violation of the U.S. Criminal Code of Law. (vol 4, Issue 22 – 1998 IE)

     These are some of the ideas being cast out for discussion and exploration. There are many more unanswered constructs which will be brought forth in future issues.  While we generally recognize the mathematical concepts arising from String Theory, the Theory of Everything, and Subquantum Kinetics appear to approach the now famous "elusive" Unified Field Theory of Einstein, there seem to be significant perceptual blocks to their interpretation. 

    Interestingly enough, this may simply be linked to our sense of sight and our inability to "see" that, which by definition, cannot be seen i.e., velocities faster than light. The interpretation that mass approaches infinity as velocity approaches that of light, may simply be the measure of the kinetic energy differential between the observer and the point he is observing.     

The interpretation that mass approaches infinity as velocity approaches that of light, may simply be the measure of the kinetic energy differential between the observer and the point he is observing. 

    In the light of state of the art advances in particle physics, it may prove quite rewarding to rethink the fundamental roles played by four of the primary factors of the universe: Gravity, Space, Time, and Energy. That these four factors may not be absolute and independent entities, but rather variable factors, each having a value which depended upon the value of the others, could lead to a re-examination  of the Special and General Theory of Relativity.     

    Crucial to this re-examination may be the identification of the variance of these four factors simultaneously on two levels .  .  .  ..  one - measurement  differentiation at the microcosmic to the macrocosmic scale .  . . .. two - at significantly different energy levels, velocities or acceleration (approaching and exceeding the velocity of light or quantity C).  In addition, we may reconsider the forward with which Einstein prefaced his mathematics: that none of the basic factors of nature have any reality or significance except when considered from a specified position or condition.     

    Ultimately, this investigation should extract the true nature of the universal constant, the quantity C, as the radius of curvature of natural law with sine-wave characteristics. This may identify the quantity C as the kinetic energy equivalent of the mass energy of matter, an energy equivalency which may exist both as a velocity and a frequency.  

The relationship between two given reference points should then become clear: that the velocity of light is an absolute limiting factor only between two preconditioned reference points, and that this limit pertains solely to the perceptual (visual) measurement capacity between a reference point in matter and a reference point in energy. 

    The relationship between two given reference points should then become clear: that the velocity of light is an absolute limiting factor only between two preconditioned reference points, and that this limit pertains solely to the perceptual (visual) measurement capacity between a reference point in matter and a reference point in energy. 

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Conservation Mania and the Brain Drain 

    Tremendous advances in science and individual excellence surpassing the average imagination has become an accepted norm today. The 21st century is, in many ways, a marvel to behold.  At the other end of the spectrum, the statistical count of human lack, suffering and misery far surpasses the marvels.

    What is going on?        

    Today, ABC News still reports 'U.S. Students are Mediocre on World Scale'. Statistically speaking, using a rough estimate of only United States educational norms of a 40% - 60% dropout rate, with the remaining students completing high school, 66% at the bottom quartile grade level achievement, it would behoove us to request an assessment and damage report.  We already note studies correlating lack and poverty to inadequate educational levels, regardless if the cause is lack of incentive or inadequate, outdated "boring, everything has been discovered" teaching methods. 

Add to this the exploitation of many third world Human resources, a modern slavery, unpaid, workforce (the crumbs paid do NOT provide food, shelter, health, education), and we may well prove where the IDIOT belief originated from, that "there is not enough to go around". (See Nader, preservation of the Power Structure)  

    In the light of, and amidst modern day behavioral, scientific, and technological advances, including the nuclear physics law of matter/energy conservation unlimited, maybe we should take another look as to the why, as to the causal twofold factors still perpetuating this prehistoric, out-dated belief, that there is not enough to go around.       

    An expanding viewing point may allow us to perceive and connect the biblical promise of abundance to the scientific wonder of life and its purpose and meaning, in an exalted, living, responding, evolving, and unlimited universe.   

    An expanding viewing point may allow us to deposit kings and queens of compulsive, meaningless, trivia addiction and human misery into perspective. It may permit us to unmask the source of the brain drain, and low self-esteem with its resultant enormous psychological consequences and economic deprivation worldwide.   An expanding viewing point may help us connect the state of infancy to the state of mature adulthood; a backyard perspective to a universal perspective; the degree of freedom and democracy to the degree of personal and social responsibility, contribution and empowerment exhibited 'enmass' towards a sustainable world order.    

    We may eventually have to filter out the unrelated trivia attached to the expressed definition of conservation, and discriminate between waste, slothfulness, recycling, effort, creativity, innovation, and the ridiculous attempt to conserve the unlimited.

    This would require greater incentives and value placed upon teachers, scientists, and pure research, than a person who plays with a ball. It would be sad indeed, to eventually conserve ourselves out of life because of a brain drain.  

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Limited Points of View.... The Razors Edge & the Wild Swing of the Pendulum

Approval ratings 100%: "The Economy is Great",  preWW2 German people said". 

Freedom WITHOUT Choice: Cowboys and Indians, Kindergarten Bullies on an UnUnited, United Nation Scale: Economic Sanctions, NAFTA , etc., & Untold Millions Dead by Starvation, Ongoing. 

Neither of the above scenarios would appear to be an intelligent, sane, common sense, voluntary choice at the individual level, were outcomes, intervention and prevention strategies known beforehand. 

The economy was great in Germany under Hitler. That statement left a lot unsaid, unseen, limited, narrow, tunnel vision point of view - the consequences, devastating. 

Using United Nations statistics, what is being left unsaid today in 'the economy is great, let's play ball! (movies, shop, party, play trivia)"

Undeniably, countless variables filter our screen of perception to create our beliefs, drives, feelings, motives, not the least of which are Maslow's Survival Needs. But Science and Technology has far surpassed the capacity where 'survival needs' need be an issue anywhere in the world.  Yet the 'survival needs' issue looms larger than ever, worldwide. Basic elementary education, covering local and global perspectives, revealing 'I and community' survival requirement values, have not only been lost, but are denied existence.  

So how do points of view relate to, and eventually express individual and collective Reality, in the spectrum between the 'razor's edge path', to the periodic swing of the pendulum, to a pendulum gone 'wild', 'chaos'? 

A brief review of the razor's edge path and the pendulum swing follows:

Historically, the Razor's Edge Path referred to an individual's religious, spiritual or metaphysical path to 'enlightenment', following in the footsteps of religious/mystic masters. Sharp and narrow and straight was the way, the razor's edge path, distinguished by the ease of flow of high energy, focus, balance required to attain lofty ideals and goals. (see 'The Possible Human' previous issue)

The Pendulum demonstrates basic characteristics like harmonic oscillation and resonance, but also exhibits parametric resonance, nonlinear dynamics, and chaos. We make special note that the pendulum displays periodic and chaotic behavior depending on the values of the forcing and damping parameters. Transition to chaos can be observed by applying small increments to the forcing amplitude. This applet simulates the behavior of a damped sinusoidally driven pendulum. http://www.gre.ac.uk/~fi437/java/pendulum/pendulum.html

History and hindsight have given us Nazi Germany, Rome (Nero, Caligula), Sodom and Gomorra ....... the historical rise and fall of civilizations. A DePaul University course provides an excellent archeological account, a story of a people, in "Reading the Old Testament". It presents the physical level (of a tri-level meaning) chronicle of a people, any people, concluding: "...when the people gave up their responsibility to the kings, they suffered the errors of the kings. They lost their Kings, their Temples, their land, their lives.

History exams still ask: "Discuss the overall concept of the rise and fall of civilizations. Are there visible seeds of destruction? Do civilizations have to collapse? What indicates a strong civilization? Compare and contrast the civilizations of the Ancient Near East, Egypt, Greece, Rome, Orient and India.

So how do Systems run away with our freedom, and limit, take away our choices?  Are we doomed to the consequences of the 'rise and fall', or do we, together, as a bell curve behavior output, have volition and free will to at least go past survival needs? Knowing that we have all the education, resources, technology, hardware, software, unlimited energy available, to fulfill the promise and allow a world that works for all?

Let's look at the Pendulum and the Razor's Edge in the individual and collective mode, and their interaction. Perhaps, we shall see useful 'handles', 'rudders' we can apply to shape the bell curve of reality more to our liking, and regain our freedom by consciously controlling our systems.

Collective behavior outcomes produce the bell curve of the reality we experience.  They are a statistical  composite, resultant, of individual creative choices and behavior, and can be readily measured.   Derived from the Flux of the Pendulum Swing between Conscious Choice and Unconscious Choice, individual choices, actions, behavior are shaped,  created, and spontaneously arise in the Energy Stream of Conscious Consensus Reality. 

 There is more to Conscious Choice and Unconscious Choice, than meets the eye. Here the metaphysical, Razor's Edge balancing act comes into play in all its wondrous complexity. Stabilizing Criteria implicate both the single and collective mode of the observer and the observed - degrees of conscious awareness; degrees of unconscious awareness, as in lack of awareness/ignorance; degrees of Supra/Collective unconscious awareness; and degrees of self-esteem reality filters, covering the full range of psychological social behavior  and learning parameters.    

 "So careful of the type it seems, So careless of the single life", a maxim rises from esoteric realms. Intelligence works by the law of averages which provide a wide margin of accident and failure to the individual. The progress toward higher intelligence is always in the direction of narrowing down this margin of accident and taking the individual more and more out of the law of averages, and substituting the law of individual selection, survival of the fittest. It may, therefore be taken as an established fact that in proportion as intelligence advances the individual ceases to be subject to a mere law of averages and has a continually increasing power of controlling the conditions of his own survival.

Interesting. Natural evolution provided the required conditions to permit 'type', 'collective species' survival. Evolving intelligence permitted Volition, Free Will, to do the same in evolving species unfettered by instinct and unconscious 'forces', 'Intelligence', that created order out of primordial matter and chaos. 

What is the human species constantly losing, as their systems grow more complex, and result in the "Rise and Fall" error cycle?

The incredible and awesome discovery, is that even contemporary Psychology has the answer. The same one found throughout the world in common religious, philosophical, and metaphysical themes.  The maturation criteria of both individuals and social systems. An evolving awareness of the One and the Many, I and Community that lead to an understanding of both human and energy evolution requirements for survival. 

Collective humanity is somewhat distant from the razor's edge path. This is clearly observed in the Chicago Sun Times front page, 1/6/00, heading "ME FIRST CRUSADE SNARES 1ST DRIVER. Apparently we are needing more and more laws to get us out of the Narcissistic cesspool of Me first, Me only, Me Generation. Common sense no longer prevails. The connection, between the one and the many required for survival is lost. FOUR CHICAGO FIREMEN, IN A TWO MONTH PERIOD ARE DEAD BECAUSE OF ME ONLY. And some of us are naive enough to believe the System is improving because the laws tell us what to do, not common sense or intelligence.

Hence, the Pendulum swing, which through repetition and increased momentum and mass, manages to swing to the wild side, the rise and fall of civilizations.

Clearly recognized and identified by Nader, Korten, Derber and  others (see Treasure Chest links above), this wild swing can be tamed. It requires a review and a viewing point assessment of the variables involved, their validity and reliability, past performance, as well as new and intervening criteria necessary for future performance. 

The following reviews some of the criteria, as well as some of the principles our founding fathers had in mind for this great nation. 

A Citizen Agenda to Tame Corporate Power, Reclaim Citizen Sovereignty, and Restore Economic Sanity The following is based on David C. Korten, When Corporations Rule the World (Kumarian Press and Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 1995)
Policies advocated by free market or corporate libertarian ideologues have led to the creation of an economic system out of control. So what can we do? Needless to say, it hasn't been easy to create an economic system able to produce 358 billionaires while keeping another 1.3 billion people living in absolute deprivation. It took long and dedicated effort by legions of economists, lawyers, and politicians on the payrolls of monied interests to design and implement such a system. It required a radical altering of the dominant culture and the restructuring of many important institutions. It will take a similarly committed effort on the part of civil society to design and put in place an economic system supportive of economic justice and environmental sustainability.

To reclaim our economic spaces, we must first reclaim our political spaces from the corporations and other big money interests that control them. This will require far more than incremental or marginal changes.

Shifting Power to the Citizen: "Significant, enduring change will require an institutionalized shift of power from corporations and government to ordinary Americans. While politicians have now made an art of populist symbolism, virtually none have a serious agenda to strengthen Americans in their key roles as voters, taxpayers, consumers, workers, and shareholders."

Reinventing Democracy: "Reinventing democracy requires that we create new tools of empowerment: new mechanisms of civic communication, political organization, government assistance, and legal rights that can advance the distinct interests of citizens, taxpayers, consumers, workers and shareholders.

These structural and procedural reforms will help to foster a new "fifth estate" of individual Americans, capable of acting independently from entrenched institutional—that is, chiefly corporate and governmental—power."

The Need for an Informed and Mobilized Citizenry

"Only an informed and mobilized citizenry can counteract the entrenched interests that create, shield, and rationalize corporate welfare programs.

If there is no organized and focused public outrage, legislative efforts will yield minimal success as compared to the overall scale of the corporate welfare budget."

Democracy Requires Public Participation

"The Roman orator Cicero said that 'freedom is participation in power.' A genuine democracy has to provide for the participation of the public in decisions relating to technology whose use is so fraught with tragedy to millions of people.

The basic approach here is that the political system has been hijacked by corporate power and the people are left without a countervailing force against what Jefferson called the excesses of moneyed interests. And when you have that kind of unified concentration of power and wealth, what might be called the corporate government, the policies favor the few over the many.

Let us conclude with a review of a few historical events that led to the formation of the United States of America and the Principles of democracy. 

The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America,

When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.--Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States.

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The Virginia Declaration of Rights

Note: Virginia's Declaration of Rights was drawn upon by Thomas Jefferson for the opening paragraphs of the Declaration of Independence. It was widely copied by the other colonies and became the basis of the Bill of Rights. Written by George Mason, it was adopted by the Virginia Constitutional Convention on June 12, 1776.

A DECLARATION OF RIGHTS made by the representatives of the good people of Virginia, assembled in full and free convention which rights do pertain to them and their posterity, as the basis and foundation of government .

Section 1. That all men are by nature equally free and independent and have certain inherent rights, of which, when they enter into a state of society, they cannot, by any compact, deprive or divest their posterity; namely, the enjoyment of life and liberty, with the means of acquiring and possessing property, and pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety.

Section 2. That all power is vested in, and consequently derived from, the people; that magistrates are their trustees and servants and at all times amenable to them.

Section 3. That government is, or ought to be, instituted for the common benefit, protection, and security of the people, nation, or community; of all the various modes and forms of government, that is best which is capable of producing the greatest degree of happiness and safety and is most effectually secured against the danger of maladministration. And that, when any government shall be found inadequate or contrary to these purposes, a majority of the community has an indubitable, inalienable, and indefeasible right to reform, alter, or abolish it, in such manner as shall be judged most conducive to the public weal.

Section 4. That no man, or set of men, is entitled to exclusive or separate emoluments or privileges from the community, but in consideration of public services; which, nor being descendible, neither ought the offices of magistrate, legislator, or judge to be hereditary.

Section 5. That the legislative and executive powers of the state should be separate and distinct from the judiciary; and that the members of the two first may be restrained from oppression, by feeling and participating the burdens of the people, they should, at fixed periods, be reduced to a private station, return into that body from which they were originally taken, and the vacancies be supplied by frequent, certain, and regular elections, in which all, or any part, of the former members, to be again eligible, or ineligible, as the laws shall direct.

Section 6. That elections of members to serve as representatives of the people, in assembly ought to be free; and that all men, having sufficient evidence of permanent common interest with, and attachment to, the community, have the right of suffrage and cannot be taxed or deprived of their property for public uses without their own consent or that of their representatives so elected, nor bound by any law to which they have not, in like manner, assembled for the public good.

Section 7. That all power of suspending laws, or the execution of laws, by any authority, without consent of the representatives of the people, is injurious to their rights and ought not to be exercised.

Section 8. That in all capital or criminal prosecutions a man has a right to demand the cause and nature of his accusation, to be confronted with the accusers and witnesses, to call for evidence in his favor, and to a speedy trial by an impartial jury of twelve men of his vicinage, without whose unanimous consent he cannot be found guilty; nor can he be compelled to give evidence against himself; that no man be deprived of his liberty except by the law of the land or the judgment of his peers.

Section 9. That excessive bail ought not to be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted.

Section 10. That general warrants, whereby an officer or messenger may be commanded to search suspected places without evidence of a fact committed, or to seize any person or persons not named, or whose offense is not particularly described and supported by evidence, are grievous and oppressive and ought not to be granted.

Section 11. That in controversies respecting property, and in suits between man and man, the ancient trial by jury is preferable to any other and ought to be held sacred.

Section 12. That the freedom of the press is one of the great bulwarks of liberty, and can never be restrained but by despotic governments.

Section 13. That a well-regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, trained to arms, is the proper, natural, and safe defense of a free state; that standing armies, in time of peace, should be avoided as dangerous to liberty; and that in all cases the military should be under strict subordination to, and governed by, the civil power.

Section 14. That the people have a right to uniform government; and, therefore, that no government separate from or independent of the government of Virginia ought to be erected or established within the limits thereof.

Section 15. That no free government, or the blessings of liberty, can be preserved to any people but by a firm adherence to justice, moderation, temperance, frugality, and virtue and by frequent recurrence to fundamental principles.

Section 16. That religion, or the duty which we owe to our Creator, and the manner of discharging it, can be directed only by reason and conviction, not by force or violence; and therefore all men are equally entitled to the free exercise of religion, according to the dictates of conscience; and that it is the mutual duty of all to practice Christian forbearance, love, and charity toward each other.

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COMMON SENSE by Thomas Paine

I draw my idea of the form of government from a principle in nature, which no art can overturn, viz., that the more simple any thing is, the less liable it is to be disordered, and the easier repaired when disordered; and with this maxim in view, I offer a few remarks on the so much boasted constitution of England. That it was noble for the dark and slavish times in which it was erected is granted. When the world was overrun with tyranny the least therefrom was a glorious rescue. But that it is imperfect, subject to convulsions, and incapable of producing what it seems to promise, is easily demonstrated.

Absolute governments (though the disgrace of human nature) have this advantage with them, that they are simple; if the people suffer, they know the head from which their suffering springs, know likewise the remedy, and are not bewildered by a variety of causes and cures. But the constitution of England is so exceedingly complex, that the nation may suffer for years together without being able to discover in which part the fault lies, some will say in one and some in another, and every political physician will advise a different medicine.

 

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Expanding The Window to Reality II  Dice, Schrodinger's Cat, Insurance  Statistics & Common Sense

"...One extreme is the idea of an objective world, pursuing its regular course in space and time, independently of any kind of observing subject; this has been the guiding image from modern science. At the other extreme is the idea of a subject, mystically experiencing the unity of the world and no longer confronted by an object or by any objective world; this has been the guiding image of Asian mysticism. Our thinking moves somewhere in the middle, between these two limiting conceptions; we should maintain the tension resulting from these opposites." 

Werner Heisenburg Across the Frontier

AT RELATIVISTIC SCALES TIME AND MASS CHANGES ARE NOTED BUT MISINTERPRETED

While the quantity C (velocity of light) represents an energy differential , it is usually considered in terms of kinetic energy. Some may believe that it can be reached only when there is a rate of increase or decrease in the degree of spatial separation between the reference points, equal to 3x10(10) centimeters per second, or in simpler terms, a velocity equal to that of light. It is necessary therefore to point out the fact that an energy differential does not necessarily manifest itself as a velocity. It can also exist as a frequency. Our present laws of physics state that the energy level upon which an electron, a photon, or other particle exists is proportionate to its frequency. The mathematical rule is E equals Fh, where E is the energy, F is the frequency and h is a factor called Planck's constant.

We can now see that a frequency differential which by the above formula is equal to 9x10(20) ergs per gram also represents the quantity C. When such a frequency differential exists between the observer and the point which he is observing, we again find that the natural laws at the observed point reach zero value with respect to the observer. If the frequency differential exceeds this value, the action of the laws will become negative. A material object such as a spacecraft upon or near the surface of the earth would cease to exist as matter and would enter the plane of energy insofar as the observer on earth was concerned, but as we have previously pointed out, an observer upon or within the object, whose frequency or energy level had been raised to the same degree as that of the craft, would be unable to detect any change.

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      The concept of the "radius of curvature" was introduced in the first issue of this newsmagazine, (reprinted above - Expanding the Window #1).  This and future issues, in related articles, will continue to detail and expand upon the book beginning online at StarSteps http://www.idt.net/~mgi19/starsteps.htm .    WILL BE MOVING:  NEW ADDRESS FUEL 2000 http://www.fuel2000.net Here we will begin to contrast current ideas of Quantum Mechanics and the Theory of Relativity to the radius of curvature viewing point.  We are certain, that as this multidimensional perception develops and spreads with the readers' help and contributing views, a revised and simplified mathematical base will result and astound us with its practical applicability.    

      Let us take an elementary stroll around and through relativity and quantum theories, and assess from a distance, a viewing point, our data.  We will carry with us the possibility that "the difficulty with our present mathematical approach to the inconsistencies between relativity and quantum mechanics lie not in any error of the mathematics themselves, but in the fact that the methods and terms used in the attempt to explain them, often lead to in correct thinking and assumptions".  We will do this because somewhere deep within all of us lies the certainty that common sense and reason are not opposed to, nor alienated from our own nature, or the nature of the manifest Universe.  

We inevitably must and will, begin to question the sometimes preposterous and absurdly complex models of reality that the two partial theories, quantum and relativity, are having us conjecture.     

     With this in mind, and in light of the postulated "radius of curvature of natural law" and the utter simplicity it brings to bear upon our concepts of space, time, mass, matter, energy and gravity, we inevitably must and will, begin to question the sometimes preposterous and absurdly complex models of reality that the two partial theories, quantum and relativity, are having us conjecture.     

     The general notion of relativity theory, writes Dana Zohar (1990), is that "it is the physics of high velocities and very great distances which plays itself out on a cosmological scale with virtually no application in our everyday, earthbound world.  Quantum physics is different. Being the physics of that tiny micro world within the atom, it describes the inner workings of everything we see and, at least physically are."      

     Steven Hawkins (1988) writes, "scientists describe the universe in terms of partial theories, namely two basic theories, the general theory of relativity and quantum mechanics.  The general theory of relativity describes the force of gravity and the large scale structure of the universe in scales from a few miles to a million, million, million, million miles (the size of the observable universe). Quantum mechanics deals with phenomena on extremely small scales such as a millionth of a millionth of an inch.  The two theories are known to be inconsistent with each other, they cannot both be correct.  However, the partial theories are sufficient to make accurate predictions in all but the most extreme situations.  The search for the ultimate, unified theory seems difficult to justify on practical  grounds except to satisfy our craving for understanding."     

Steven Hawkins - the belief that we know almost everything . . ...  are errors of enormous magnitude that carry far reaching and devastating future consequences. Future historians would write of such an age as the "Dark Ages" of the 20th Century, where curiosity, inquiry, commonsense, meaning and creativity toward significant and "evolutionary" survival issues were stamped out for generations.  

     If this is a cross section of a summation of our authoritative beliefs of reality, then we are doomed from the start.  At this infantile level of humanity's growth (browse t