ethics and sustainable development(cosmocratic) july 2009

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FOR OUR CHILDREN(THE OWNERS OF PLANET EARTH.

WERE just the TENANTS)


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ECO-TECHNOLOGICAL Ethics and

Sustainable Development

Hold paramount the safety, health and welfare of

the public, the protect ion o f the environmentand the promotion of health and safety within the

workplace;

(ASTTBC Code of Ethics, Article 1.)

(It demands some sort of response from us,doesn't it?)


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HOW ABOUT THIS? The Declaration of Interdependence

(COSMOCRATIC)Article 1:

In a technologicalcivilization, the lifeof every person isdependent on amultitude of

properly workingmachines and anequal multitude ofpeople doing a

multitude of jobscompetently, withhigh productivity.


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Article 2: THE PROBLEM:We, the human species, are headed towards atechnological and ecological catastrophe, (callit crunch) that will kill 90% of us and

condemn the rest to nasty, brutish, and shortlives, on an impoverished planet, because ourtechnological society is fundamentally flawed.


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NAAH, HES NUTS, ITLL NEVER HAPPEN!

OH YEAH? WHAT WILL WE

EAT IF THESE MACHINES,AND OTHERS LIKE THEM,CAN NO LONGER BE BUILT

AND RUN?

HOW DO WE COPE IF WESO DAMAGE OURENVIRONMENT WITHINDUSTRIAL ACTIVITY

THAT AGRICULTURE,HUNTING, FISHING ANDWILD FOOD GATHERINGCOLLAPSE?

I TALKED WITH ASUPERMARKET MANAGER

ONCE, AND HE TOLD ME;WE ARE STOCKED FORONE WEEK, BUSINESS ASUSUAL, OR4-6 HOURS,PANIC BUYING.

(before panic)

(after panic)


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Article 3: THE PROBLEM: ANALYSISThis flaw is OPENtechno/ecologicalcycles and overconsumption ofresources.Problemis, with more than 7BILLION people to be

fed, clothed, and

housed, the resourcebase of the earth isinadequate to meetthe basic needs of all,let alone fund the

green tech revolutionnecessary to our(sustainable)collective survival.

HUMAN POP. AND FOOTPRINT

GROWTH CURVES ( THECOLOURED LINES SHOW PLANETARY

CARRYING CAPACITY:

GREEN=SUSTAINABLERED=BISINESS AS USUAL, LET PLANET

HEAL LATER, I.E. WHAT WE ARE


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WHAT PASSES FOR MODERN POLITICAL/ECONOMIC/ECOLOGICAL THOUGHTBACK GROUND PHOTO:

A CLEARCUT IN CANADA.

SCREW-UPS ARENOTA

U.S. MONOP0LY!


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ECONOMIC EQUITY?/ ECOLOGICAL SUSTAINABILITY?


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Youth Population and Infant Mortality

CONSIDER THE POTENTIAL

PRODUCTIVITY THAT WOULD BE

UNLEASHED, BY BASIC EDUCATION

AND HEALTH CARE, IN THE RED ZONES!


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OIL PRODUCTION


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ENERGY CONSUMPTION


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FOSSIL FUEL SUPPLY ESTIMATES

PLEASE NOTE:ALLNON-RENEWABLES( BAUXITE, NICKEL, IRON, TITANIUM,RAW MATERIALS FOR CERAMICS AND CONCRETE, URANIUM, ETC, ETC, ETC)ARE IN THE SAME SITUATION! THE ONLY DIFFERENCE IS THE TIME OF PEAKPRODUCTION! (FOR OIL, AND ALL PETRO-PRODUCTS, PEAK PRODUCTION IS

RIGHT NOW!)


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The solar system contains sufficientwealth, in both energyand materials, notonly to solve the techno/ecological crisis,

but heal the damage already done, andmake us ALL well-off. Developing thetechniques of space colonisation will giveus practical ecological knowledge for use

here on Earth. (and working, closed, eco-technological demonstrations, toconvince the sceptical) The effort to openthe High Frontier is non-trivial, but Its not

beyond our means. (Some space colonisationadvocates are convinced that, for less than 10% of the

presentUS military budget, in sustained funding, we couldhave a moon colony in 5 years, our first asteroid mines in

10 years, and orbital solar power satellites in 15 years.)


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Article 5: THE SOLUTION IS WORKABLE!Point 1 implies that a successful effort on point 4

will give us the tools and techniques to solvepoint 3. Since technology is interdependent, soare the problems of technology, and successfulsolutions in one field are almost alwaysapplicable in others. So, solving the problems of

space colonisation, particularly the life supportproblem, will teach us to solve criticaltechno/ecological problems on Earth. (AND ANACCESSIBLE RESOURCE STOCKPILE MILLIONS OF TIMESLARGER THAN THAT OF THE VIRGIN, PRE-INDUSTRIAL, EARTH,

PLUS PRACTICALLY LIMITLESS ACESS TO SOLAR ENERGY,CAN PAY FOR THE ECO-TECHNOLOGICAL REVOLUTION THATMUST COME, IF WE ARE TO SURVIVE.)


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OFF-THE-SHELF SPACE COLONY AND INDUSTRIALIZATION DESIGN(MOSTLY FROM THE 1970S AND 80S)


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MORE COLONY DESIGNS


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And Yet More.

AND EVEN MORE


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AND EVEN MORE...

E i d f L C l


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Economic data for Lunar Colony,

as a source of cheap materials

Source: www.ssi.org


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EROS A TYPICAL ASTEROID Eros is a near-Earth asteroid

of significant value

(estimated at $15.84 trillion) Size: 33 km x 13 km x 13 km

(20.5 mi x 8 mi x 8 mi)

Approximate mass: 7.2 x10^15 kg (79.2 trillion short

tons; a short ton is 2000pounds)

Source: http://www.erosproject.com/


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HOW MANY ASTEROIDS,COMETS, ETC?

The blue squaresrepresent comets, thered dots showasteroids that haveorbits intersecting theEarths, (relativelyeasy to get to), thegreen dots show mainbelt asteroids, and thecircles inscribed withcrosses show major

planets. The yellowstar indicates the sun.Blue dots represent thelocations of Jupitersfamily of Trojan asteroids.Light blue circlesrepresent the orbits of thefive inner planets, andblue squares represent

comets (ice!) Source: http://cfa-

www.harvard.edu/iau/lists/InnerPlot.html?source=ErosProject

(ESTIMATES OF THE NUMBEROF ASTEROIDS IN THE MAINBELT (GREEN) GO AS HIGHAS 2 MILLION, AND,REMEMBER, EROS IS A

TYPICAL, AVERAGEASTEROID.).
http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/iau/lists/InnerPlot.html?source=ErosProjecthttp://cfa-www.harvard.edu/iau/lists/InnerPlot.html?source=ErosProjecthttp://cfa-www.harvard.edu/iau/lists/InnerPlot.html?source=ErosProjecthttp://cfa-www.harvard.edu/iau/lists/InnerPlot.html?source=ErosProjecthttp://cfa-www.harvard.edu/iau/lists/InnerPlot.html?source=ErosProjecthttp://cfa-www.harvard.edu/iau/lists/InnerPlot.html?source=ErosProjecthttp://cfa-www.harvard.edu/iau/lists/InnerPlot.html?source=ErosProjecthttp://cfa-www.harvard.edu/iau/lists/InnerPlot.html?source=ErosProjecthttp://cfa-www.harvard.edu/iau/lists/InnerPlot.html?source=ErosProject


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EARTH INDUSTRY VS. SPACE INDUSTRY

90+% EFFORT WASTEDFIGHTING GRAVITY

AIR, WATER, LANDSCAPEPOLLUTION AND DEGRADATION

POWER SOURCES LIMITEDAND/OR UNSUSTAINABLE(FOSSIL FUELS, ETC.)

EASIER TO DO MANY THINGS INMICROGRAVITY

WITH NO ENVIRONMENT (OTHER

THAN BIOSPHERES WECONSTRUCT) ENVIRONMENTALPOLLUTION (AT LEASTOUTDOORS) IS AN OXYMORON

SOLAR POWER 24/7, 10 TIMESSTRONGER THAN ON EARTH, (NOATMOSPHERIC ATTENUATION) ANDUPPER LIMIT OF 3 to 4 X10^26

WATTS (IF WE EVERNEED THATMUCH)

One Profit Center


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One Profit Center,

ORBITAL SOLAR POWER

o PRESENT HUMAN POWERBUDGET: 1.1X1013WATTS

o HUMAN POWER BUDGETSUFFICIENT TO GIVE ALLHUMANITY U.S. PER CAPITAENERGY CONSWUMPTION: 3-

5X1013WATTSo MAXIMUM OUTPUT OF SOLAR

POWER STATIONS INGEOSTATIONARY ORBIT: 2.5 X1015WATTS (ASSUMPTIONS:STATIONS 15KM VERTICAL,

BACK TO BACK ALL THE WAYROUND)

o TOTAL SOLAR OUTPUT: 3 to 4 X1026WATTS

SOURCE: www.ssi.org

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Article 6: We can only do it if we cooperate.

Positive sum games (cooperative) do

not waste resources, generate noconflict, and have created all wealthin the history of Humanity.

Negative sum games (self-interested) onlyredistribute wealth, generally destroying some inthe process. (And FEW would describe theresults as equitable.) Also, military implicationsof space travel make space colonies owned by

any single nation an intolerable threat to all theothers, as bombardment down gravity wells is somuch easier than shooting up. Lets sidestep

that one, shall we?


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A ti l 7 WE HAVE TO LEARN TO PLAY


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Article 7: WE HAVE TO LEARN TO PLAYDealing with our

addiction to negativesum games andencouraging peopleto give positive sum

games a fair trial,gives us a betterchance of SUCCESSand SURVIVAL.

A ti l 8 THE SOONER THE BETTER


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Failure is not anacceptable option(see point 2) andTIME IS AGAINSTUS. The soonerwe start and the

harder we work,the better thechance the spaceresources AND

INDUSTRY comeon stream beforethe Crunchcomes.

Article 8: THE SOONER, THE BETTER

A ti l 9 PRIORITIES


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Article 9: PRIORITIESThis is the highestpriority issue of our age,

as the project BUYS AFUTURE for humanity.(The traditionalargument, that spacecolonization is Too

Expensive, can berebutted, comparedto what? The time, andeffort, that humanityputs into war? The fall

of civilization, cited inpoint 2?)

A ti l 10 COMMITMENT


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Article 10: COMMITMENTThe high frontier will be ours, only if ourminds are as open, our vision as clear,and our hearts as big as SPACE itself.

A ti l 11 FINAL EXAM


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Article 11: FINAL EXAMThis is humanitys final exam, and

both our intelligence and our moralcapacity are being tested. By(insert your belief system here),lets pass it TOGETHER.

Article 12 IF WE GOOF


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Article 12: IF WE GOOFIf we fail, we DESERVE extinction, for wewill have brought it on ourselves.


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Therefore: We will, by our personal actions andconduct, establish a new movement,pledged to fair dealing here on Earth, a

common maximum effort to open thehigh frontier, and pledge to share thefruits of the effort among all humanity.

We name the movement Cosmocracy,because we believe that, without wide

distribution of the wealth of space, therecan be no universal, or even sustainable,democracy, and to the COOPERATIVEstruggle required, as much against ourOWN FOSSILISED THINKING, as againstany external obstacle, WE MUTUALLYPLEDGE TO EACH OTHER OUR LIVES,OUR FORTUNES, AND OUR SACREDHONOUR.

(As did a previous, and famous, groupof dissatisfied people.)


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We Came in Peace, for all MankindLeft on a plaque on the Moon by:

Neil Armstrong and Edwin Buzz AldrinIt is assured, that if we do not hang together, we shall all hang separately.

Benjamin FranklinThe prospect of being hanged in a fortnight concentrates the mind wonderfully.

Samuel JohnsonAsk not what Humanity can do for you, but what you can do for Humanity.

John F. Kennedy (slightly adapted)

Business as usual is a suicide pact.Doug Prentice

If not us, who? If not now, when?Rabbi Hillel, 1stcentury B.C.(adapted by common usage)

The Buck Stops Here.Harry Truman

Love God with heart, mind, soul and strength,and love your neighbour as yourself!!!

Jesus Christ (SHORTENED FORMODERNATTENTION SPANS)

SOMEINSPIRATIONAL QUOTATIONS:

SLOGANS FOR COSMOCRATS


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SLOGANS FOR COSMOCRATSYOUR PLANET, LOVE IT AND LEAVE ITSPACE COLONIES A DOWN-TO-EARTH

SOLUTION

DEVELOP THE TECHNOLOGY GET THEWEALTH THEN SHARE IT

TECHNOLOGICAL ADVANCEMENT AND SPACECOLONIZATION ARE HUMAN RIGHTSENVIRONMENTALLY FRIENDLY TECHNOLOGY ISA SPACE TECHNOLOGY SPIN-OFF SO ISENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE

SLOGANS CONTD


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SLOGANS, CONTDTECHNOLOGICAL ADVANCEMENT IS AHUMAN RIGHTTHE WEALTH OF THE SOLAR SYSTEM ISTHE COMMON INHERITANCE OFHUMANITY BUT WE CANT INHERIT IF WE

DONT GOCRAWL, WALK, RUN, DRIVE, FLY, ORBIT,DIG IN AND COLONIZE2 MILLION ASTROIDS ONE HUGE SUNENOUGH OF EVERYTHING ENOUGH FOREVERYONE

AND CONTD


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AND CONTDTODAY, THE MOON TOMORROW, THEASTEROIDSSPACE COLONIES AND GREENTECHNOLOGY, A MARRIAGE MADE INHEAVEN, AND ON EARTHIN SPACE, ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION ISAN OXYMORON HOW CAN YOU POLLUTEA NON-ENVIRONMENT?BUSINESS AS USUAL IS A SUICIDE PACT

COLONISE SPACE, WHILE WE STILL CAN

AD NAUSEUM


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AD NAUSEUMONE SMALL STEP FOR MAN, ONE GIANT LEAPFOR MANKIND BUT ONLY IF WE HAVE THE

COURAGE TO LEAPBUILD THE FUTURE WE WANT, OR FACE THEFUTURE WE DESERVENEIL ARMSTRONG, BUZZ ALDRIN, MIKECOLLINS, ROBERTA BONDAR, CHRISHATFIELD, and OTHERS (INSERT YOUR FAVOURITE

ASTRONAUT, COSMONAUT, OR TAIKONAUT HERE), HADTHE BALLS OR OVARIES, TO GO DO WE HAVETHE BALLS OR OVARIES, TO FOLLOW?

WHAT DO WE WANT? SPACE WHEN DO WEWANT IT? NOW

ONE LINERS RULE!


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ONE LINERS RULE!SPACE COLONIES THE SAFETY VALVE ONEARTHS PRESSURE COOKERIGNORANCE IS BLISS, ITS ALSO SUICIDALSPACE COLONIES LIFEBOATS FORSPACESHIP EARTHDOOR #1: UP TO THE STARS DOOR #2:

DOWN, WITH THE DINOSAURS DOOR #3:DOES NOT EXISTTHE WORLD IS STOPPING I WANT TO GET

OFF

THE LAST ONES (THANK GOD)


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THE LAST ONES (THANK GOD)PRIVIES, MINES AND FACTORIES DONTBELONG IN THE LIVING ROOM,THE

WELL, OR THE GARDEN LETS MOVEHEAVY INDUSTRY INTO SPACE, WHEREIT BELONGS

THE MEEK SHALL INHERIT THE EARTH,THE BOLD WILL INHERIT THE SOLARSYSTEM, BUT BOTH INHERITANCES WILLBE WORTHLESS, IF WE DONT GETGOING

POETRY CORNER


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POETRY CORNERNatural Theology

Rudyard Kipling

MEDIVAL

My privy and well drain into each otherAfter the custom of Christendie. . . .

Fevers and fluxes are wasting my mother.Why has the Lord afflicted me?

The Saints are helpless for all I offerSo are the clergy I used to fee.

Henceforward I keep my cash in my coffer,Because the Lord has afflicted me.

CHORUS

We had a kettle: we let it leak:Our not repairing it made it worse.

We havent had any tea for a week. . . .The bottom is out of the Universe!

CONCLUSIONThis was none of the good Lords pleasure,

For the Spirit He breathed in Man is free;But what comes after is measure for measure,

And not a God that afflicteth thee.

As was the sowing so the reapingIs now and evermore shall be.

Thou art delivered to thine own keeping

Only Thyself hath afflicted thee!

IN MEMORIAM: THE CREW OF THE CHALLENGER, OF THE COUMBIA, AND ALL THE
http://whitewolf.newcastle.edu.au/words/authors/K/KiplingRudyard/index.htmlhttp://whitewolf.newcastle.edu.au/words/authors/K/KiplingRudyard/index.html


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IN MEMORIAM: THE CREW OF THE CHALLENGER, OF THE COUMBIA, AND ALL THE

OTHER HEROES AND MARTYRS, WHO HAVE GIVEN THEIR LIVES THAT HUMANITY

MIGHT HAVE A FUTURE.

WE WILL REMEMBER, AND WILL HONOUR YOUBY FOLLOWING THE TRAIL YOU GAVE YOUR LIVES

TO BLAZE.

BIBLIOGRAPHY (PARTIAL) AND USEFUL SOURCES


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BOOKS

Gerard K. ONiell, The High Frontier,(Apogee Books Space

Series)

T.A. Heppenheimer, Colonies in Space, Copyright 1977,currently available in web format on the website of the U.S.National Space Society, may still be in print, but my copy wasprinted in 1980

Various works, both fiction and non-fiction, by Arthur C. Clarke,Isaac Azimov, E. E. Smith (SUBSPACE EXPLORERS, FIRSTLENSMAN, AND OTHER TITLES), Robert A. Heinlein (DOUBLESTAR, CITIZEN OF THE GALAXY, THE MOON IS A HARSHMISTRESS, AND OTHER TITLES, Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle,Poul Anderson, Dr. Robert L Forward, H. Beam Piper, Peter F.Hamilton, Michael Flynn, and others. (various publishers)

A variety of astronomy and astrophysics textbooks and

journals A selection of other textbooks and journals (in physics,

chemistry, mechanical engineering, aerospace, etc.)

Bibliography Contd.


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INTERNET

http://www.davidsuzuki.org/About_us/Declaration_of_Interdependence.asp

http://www.erosproject.com/

http://www.l5news.org/L5news/L5news7509.pdf

http://www.l5news.org/http://www.nss.org/

http://www.oregonl5.org/

http://www.permanent.com/intro.htm

http://www.space-frontier.org/

http://lifesci3.arc.nasa.gov/SpaceSettlement/CoEvolutionBook/

http://www.tucsonspacesociety.org/

http://www.lunar-reclamation.org/mmm_samples/mmm164_APR2003.pdf

http://spacesettlement.org/

http://www.space-access.org/

http://www.prospace.org/tiki-index.php

http://www.hobbyspace.com/AAdmin/archive/RLV/2005/RTTM-VI.html

http://www.future25.org/

http://thespacereview.com/article/317/1

http://thespacereview.com/

http://www.moonminer.com/

http://ssi.org/

Please note: These web sites were all functioning at the time this presentation was compiled, andthat this is not a complete list of the websites used in the presentation.

Bibliography Cont d.

FINAL THOUGHTS
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FINAL THOUGHTS OUR LEADERS, (GOVT, BUSINESS, ACADEMIC, ETC.) SAY;

TRUST US, WEVE GOT IT COVERED. CAN WE? HAVEYOU HEARDANYOF THEM DISCUSSING THE ISSUESRAISED HERE, OR PRESENTING WORKABLE SOLUTIONS

TO THE PROBLEMS?(PLEASE NOTE: I DID NOTSAY CREDIBLE.)

THE TRUTH OF A PROPOSITION HAS NOTHING WHATEVERTO DO WITH ITS CREDIBILITY, AND VISE VERSA. L. Long

FELLOW COSMOCRATS, OUR LEADERS ARE EITHERUNINFORMED, UNCONVINCED, OR JUST DONT CARE! WECAN ONLY RELY ON OURSELVES AND EACH OTHER! IPRAY DAILY THAT COSMOCRATIC LEADERS WILL EMERGE

BEFORE ITS TOO LATE! THE 40THANNIVERSARY OF NEIL ARMSTRONGS

HISTORIC FOOTPRINT, JULY 20TH2009, IS NOW HISTORY,ITSELF. HOW ABOUT COMMEMORATING IT BYCOMMITTING TO THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A PEMANENTMOON COLONY BEFORE THE 50THANNIVERSARY?

As 2012 begins, we learn that Obama has signed the infamous NDAA 2012 bill intolaw, giving himself emergency powers that would make Palpatine and Hitler blushwith shame. This blatant attack on the US constitution, human rights, the Rule of Law,Freedom and Democracy is so evil and destructive of civilized principles that the US isunlikely to regain the reputation of Land of the Free unless it is still the home of thebrave. Second American Revolution, Anyone? Perhaps non-violently, like the Velvetand Orange ones?

War on terror=War in Error? 2013, The struggle between fascist kleptocracy and cosmocratic democratic freedom

lovers goes on(NDAA legal challenge by journalists, passage of CISPA and otheranti internet freedom bills, court challenges against those, etc.) (One ray of hopeCanadian Astronaut Chris Hatfield, with blogging and tweets from the ISS, raisesspace awareness to new heights, for a new generation.)

ORION SHALL RISE!


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ORION SHALL RISE!

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