By Mickey Walker-November 1, 2009
The following brilliant article by Dr. Steve Jonas says
much about what us Americans would rather ignore and remain in de Nile about
while sipping a fruity alcoholic drink and living for the moment. Note: Dr. Steve Jonas’
“Extinction Distinction.”
Could the United States of America become a statistic and
join the likes of Rome as a former great and powerful nation that bit the
dust? It could. Best to procrastinate and look the
other way when the future is continually being trashed by Big Corporations in
the name of Money. Never mind that tattered and torn dollar backed not by
gold or silver, but by a 12 Trillion Dollar Debt! Like in IOUs held by the rest of the solvent nations of the
world who are getting to be mighty nervous. The short term has arrived. We have been sold down the
river and can never swim back upstream and against the current of a 12 Trillion
dollar debt, and counting. No way, you say. Meanwhile the Chinese
continue to rule the world in manufacturing prowess and a world wealth of money
surpluses. A strong China policy
is to continue to buy up the world's resources. China continues to grow, year to date in 2009 at 8.5%!
All over the globe China is buying gold, copper (for green windings for wind
power windmills), oil, real estate, farm land, and water. When push comes
to shove and the US and other countries which act sometimes like perpetual
hippies on LSD, might finally have to wake up to find that we no longer can
sustain our country, our needs, or our future existence as nations. Without resources, mainly oil, we are
but a brief but giant blip on the screen of history. Without oil, we
won’t even have the gasoline to drive the jeep to the missile silo so the first
sergeant can push the button. No oil, no planes, no tanks, no potatoes
and beef, no Kroger, no Winn-Dixie, no Swine Flu vaccine, no nothing. At
least in a world that is familiar to all of us since birth. But it will never come to that. We all correctly suspect that somebody
will have to challenge the oil greedy China before giving up and resigning
ourselves to just doing without oil, the life’s blood of any civilized nation. And
if Russia, the new kid on the
block with massive deposits of oil suddenly courts and coaxes the Chinese to forget
America and join them in the drill of starvation by OIL, will both nations
succeed in bringing us Yanks to our knees? As Russia and China collude with other world producers of
goods, i.e., Brazil and India, will anyone remember our kindnesses to them in
years past when they were but fledgling third world countries? Probably not. Will they continue to attack our dollar and harp to get it
replaced as the world currency standard it has managed to maintain for many decades
now? Or might they insist on a new
world currency to replace the American dollar as it continues to crumble to
dust like the post-WW I German Mark?
A country, be it the USA or France or Germany, cannot live
without oil. If someone cuts it
off or even constricts the supply in the future, countries would find it
necessary to shut down their business and affairs of state. I cannot envision that happening. If it gets that serious there has to be
blood. So who will fire the first
missile? When France alone could destroy the world with its nuclear
arsenal, what will they do if shut out from oil and other natural resources
necessary for them to survive and to function as a sovereign state? How
will France fly their jets and propel their ships and missiles without
oil? What will America do?
And will China back down? Will Russia form an alliance with China?
Interesting century ahead.
Even Michael Moore’s fine new movie, “Capitalism, A Love
Affair,” though brilliantly done, will probably see little box office receipts
compared to the new digital special effects blockbuster thrillers that turn on
audiences all over America. With
Americans, Escape tends to go better with popcorn than Reality. And when a
movie is fraught with stark truths about our nation and what we must do NOW to
preserve our democracy, how we must rise to the challenge and change our ways,
sometimes it proves too much for Americans to bear. Heck we want to be entertained. And if we want to be rebuked for our follies, maybe we would
rather go to church rather than watch a Michael Moore movie. Though Moore shows gut-wrenching,
tear-jerker scenes of American families run over by the iron Caterpillar of
Capitalism without a regard for the common man, Moore has been magnificently
demonized by Hannity, Rush Limbaugh, the GOP, the ultra right, so much so that many Americans are ashamed
to say that they have seen one of Moore’s movies. Even Sean Hannity joked about how he wore a disguise so that
nobody would recognize him attending a Michael Moore movie. Moore basically shows how Capitalism,
in the wrong hands can ruin a good country what with all the deregulated greed
and corruption in corporations that are the life’s blood of Capitalism and the
US government which has taken to collaborating in pure dishonesty to feather
the nests of a select few corporate cronies while throwing the rest of us, our
jobs, our retirement pensions, our Social Security, Medicare, and other pro-people
government programs to the dogs. They vowed they would drown all the people programs that benefit the
working man in the bath tub, and they are succeeding rapidly. So Michael Moore is made out to be a
kook, a rabble-rouser, and his message is never seen by millions of Americans
because of the money that propels the mandible and hot air of the likes of Limbaugh
who takes shots at Michael Moore every chance he gets. And too few Americans care to go see
the movie anyway and see for themselves. Dancing With the Stars, and the NFL Sunday game get a higher priority.
The gist is simply that the big dogs of Capitalism in this,
our beloved America, have sold us out for immediate gain. They have stolen our pensions, our
former reasonable group health plan policies that covered our families and us
and didn’t cost us an arm and a leg. Our jobs got shipped overseas where cheap labor would manufacture cheap
goods that could and would come to crush other world markets for the same
items. And the dogs of Capitalism
who sold us out got multi-million dollar bonuses and golden parachutes without
wincing or feeling the least twinge of guilt.
So now, as the economic vultures of BRIC circle overhead,
what will become of us, a nation that led the world in production, ingenuity,
science, software, and high academic and intellectual pursuits for the
betterment of man, as we seem to be still frozen like a deer in the headlights
awaiting our own extinction? We
have never been a nation to give up and to wait flippantly for rigor mortis to
set in. But are we the same
America that built ships and planes to defeat Hitler, Mussolini, and Hiro Hito
back when the world depended upon us? Do we have the same deep fiber and sand in our souls that would never
say die when adversity, economic or from being attacked at Pearl Harbor or at
New York at the Twin Towers, that renders us undefeated as Americans, the best
country and countrymen that ever lived? I think we are still cut of that same cloth, of that same mitochondria,
that same DNA that sets us apart from the others who have to date, been a mere
flash in the pan. We need to show
them the way. We can start by
gearing up and going green. We
need to use the technology and the expertise we have to do vast solar fields of
giga-watt production of electricity in the desserts of Arizona and New
Mexico. We need to give our own
Sandia Laboratories in Albuquerque, massive funding for their magnificent photo
voltaic solar research in solar furnaces and other solar devices to help the
world make clean green energy. Note: Sandia Laboratories great new solar
discoveries.
We need to continue to research and conduct balls to the
wall research and mass production of wind devices to produce much of the
nation’s electricity on land and on the ocean where floating platform
technology assures a virtual unlimited placement of wind generators on our
shores. Note: Floating
Wind Farms
Our dollar is torn and tattered, and our country loses jobs
daily. We need to suck up our
guts. And do what we do best: to perform when the chips are down. We are the underdogs and will not lay
down and die while the Chinese pick our bones like vultures. We have the technology to do it. The world cries out for energy and
green energy to set us free from oil and having to use foreign oil. Let’s get with the program and have
floating in the sky, by 2020 a million MARS helium-filled air balloons each of
which can power 400 homes. Note: MARS
Floating Balloon Generator
We Americans are not ready to become extinct. It appears at times that all is left is
the wake of America and for rigor mortis to set in. But we aren’t ready to give up. William Faulkner said it best: “They mought uv kilt us, but they ain’t whupped us yit.” 