One Stop Thought Shop

November 15, 2003

Gary Allen: The Rockefeller File

Free online bookGary Allen: The Rockefeller File: "The super rich in America enjoy power and prerogatives un-imaginable to most of us. Who can conceive of owning a private empire that includes 100 homes, 2,500 servants, untold thousands of luxuries, and untold millions of dollars? America has a royal family of finance that has known such riches for generations. It is, of course, the Rockefellers. But if the Rockefellers were content with their wealth, if their riches had satisfied their desires, this book would not have been written. And I would not be urging you to read it. Money alone is not enough to quench the thirst and lusts of the super-rich. Instead, many of them use their vast wealth, and the influence such riches give them, to achieve even more power. Power of a magnitude never dreamed of by the tyrants and despots of earlier ages. Power on a world wide scale. Power over people, not just products. The Rockefeller File is not fiction. It is a compact, powerful and frightening presentation of what may be the most important story of our lifetime, the drive of the Rockefellers and their allies to create a one-world government, combining super-capitalism and Communism under the same tent, all under their control. For more than one hundred years, since the days when John D. Rockefeller Sr. used every devious strategy he could devise to create a gigantic oil monopoly, enough books have been written about the Rockefellers to fill a library. I have read many of them. And to my knowledge, not one has dared reveal the most vital part of the Rockefeller story: that the Rockefellers and their allies have, for at least fifty years, been carefully following a plan to use their economic power to gain political control of first America, and then the rest of the world.

Do I mean conspiracy? Yes I do. I am convinced there is such a plot, international in scope, generations old in planning, and incredibly evil in intent. You will find the truth-often surprising, sometimes unpleasant, always vital-in the pages that follow. Gary Allen has done a masterful job of combining the hundreds of scattered facts and hidden clues of the Rockefeller puzzle until one unmistakable pattern emerges.

The picture that is revealed when The Rockefeller File is finally opened may shock you. In this book, you will learn why the Rockefellers follow the policies they do, what their goals are, where they intend to take America ... and why it is essential they be stopped. I urge you to read The Rockefeller File and to encourage your friends to do the same.

November 1975
LAWRENCE P. McDONALD
Member of Congress

Etymotic Research

Etymotic Research: "The ER-4 MicroPro™ earphones are the next best thing to live music, with noise isolation far surpassing that of active-noise-reduction earphones. The ER-4's require NO batteries, and can be plugged into any audio source. Their 20-25 dB of external noise exclusion allows you to hear the full dynamic range of recordings without having to play them at unnaturally high and unsafe levels. "

"If you're going to buy one accessory for your iPod to improve the sound quality, get these headphones." - Corey Greenberg, Tech Editor,
NBC's Today Show
- July 21, 2004.




Old lazy atoms unite!!

New Scientist: "The coolest thing in the Universe is now a cloud of sodium atoms in a laboratory in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Physicists from the MIT-Harvard Centre for Ultra-Cold atoms have chilled 2500 sodium atoms to within half a billionth of a degree of absolute zero, the temperature at which atomic oscillation slows to a standstill. 'Nothing in the Universe that we know of is naturally this cold' says Aaron Leanhardt, who led the research. Even deep space is six billion times hotter."

Author's Notes:

Yo! Lately I've been remodeling and working for neighbors and a few folks nearby. My interest has shifted from tech and science and politics to craftsmanship and building. For awhile I'll send tools and tips links here.

November 14, 2003

PublicRadioFan.com

PublicRadioFan.com: "PublicRadioFan.com features program listings for hundreds of public radio stations around the world. Follow the audio links to hear your favorite programs and discover new ones. "

AquaNIC Home Page

AquaNIC Home Page: "The Aquaculture Network Information Center is a gateway to the world's electronic aquaculture resources."

All the Pages are My Days: July 2003 Archives

All the Pages are My Days: July 2003 Archives:

'Perfect love is rare indeed - for to be a lover will require that you continually have the subtlety of the very wise, the flexibility of the child, the sensitivity of the artist, the understanding of the philosopher, the acceptance of the saint, the tolerance of the scholar and the fortitude of the certain.' -Leo Buscaglia

November 13, 2003

Remodeling Forecast of Changes into the the Next Century

Remodeling Forecast of Changes into the the Next Century: "RESIDENTIAL REMODELING: Forecast of Changes into the Next Century

The remodeling industry in 1999 is over $150 billion in total volume and increasing at 3-5% per year, with an expected volume of $220 billion by 2010. About 78% of the work is professionally installed, and about 22% is do-it-yourself (DIY). Remodeling volume is likely to exceed single-family new construction by 2010."

Web Based Resources

Web Based Resources: "Web Based Resources -- An Educational Gateway to the best Electronic Journals and Selected Websites "

NewsHub - Headline News Every 15 Minutes

NewsHub - Headline News Every 15 Minutes Newshub integrates and reports headlines from the world's premiere news sources every 15 minutes. With close to one million page views per month, it is a popular, respected and reliable source of breaking news. Headlines are reported in a variety of topic-oriented channels. Newshub syndicates its content to partners such as portal sites and company intranets. In addition to the standard channels, we also design customized newsfeeds. Newshub is based on fully automated, intelligent agent technology.

How Much Information?

How Much Information?: "This study is an attempt to estimate how much new information is created each year. "

CSA Movement

CSA Movement: "WHAT IS COMMUNITY SUPPORTED AGRICULTURE?

CSA is a relationship of mutual support and commitment between local farmers and community members who pay the farmer an annual membership fee to cover the production costs of the farm. In turn, members receive a weekly share of the harvest during the local growing season. The arrangement guarantees the farmer financial support and enables many small- to moderate-scale organic family farms to remain in business. Ultimately, CSA creates 'agriculture-supported communities' where members receive a wide variety of foods harvested at their peak of ripeness, flavor and vitamin and mineral content.

As Wendell Berry identifies, 'how we eat determines to a considerable extent how the world is used.' With this in mind..."

Build It: Extreme TiVO PC

Build It: Extreme TiVO PC: "The Living Room PC. That promised land of computing, where our entertainment centers get intelligent, and PCs get super-easy to use. Yeah, right. Although we're not quite there yet, we are getting ever closer to that day when every family member, not just the house's sysadmin (you, probably) can fire up the PC media appliance, access stored music, video, and photos, and record television off the air, cable or from webcasts. Soon we'll be able to see this device as just another component in the rack. The good news is that you can build that appliance today, although you'll still need to do some legwork to make this wonder-box usable by the whole family. In this article we'll give you all the details on how to do it yourself. "

Good Experience: This Is Broken

Good Experience: This Is Broken: "This Is Broken -- A new project to make businesses more aware of their customer experience, and how to fix it. By Mark Hurst. Have you seen anything that's broken?

Send us your submission: Take a picture of what's broken, or just write about it, and send it to us (broken at goodexperience.com).

November 12, 2003

Blueprint for 'green', profitable forestry

CSIRO - Blueprint for 'green', profitable forestry: "Blueprint for 'green', profitable forestry

A $550,000 Australian Government grant to fund CSIRO's development of a blueprint for major private investment in Australian forest plantations was announced today by the Minister for Fisheries, Forestry and Conservation, the Hon. Senator Ian Macdonald. Launching the National Association of Forest Industries' Future Forests and Timber conference in Sydney, Senator Macdonald said the project aims to build the knowledge required to attract significant investment in farm forestry in low-to-medium rainfall areas for commercial returns and multiple environmental benefits. This joint AFFA/CSIRO project will integrate existing information and initiate new research to guide the site, species and management choices in farm forestry investments. It will also quantify the environmental benefits of proposed plantings, thus providing government and investors with the information to target plantings for the best environmental outcomes."

Farmer asks for accurate information on chemicals

November 11, 2003
The Guardian (Charlottetown) Steve Sharratt

MONTAGUE -- When P.E.I. farmer Alvin Keenan first heard about a potato that didn't need any chemical sprays during the growing season, he thought, according to this story, his prayers had been answered, stating, "I thought, 'Wow, no more chemicals'. And then I watched as people started talking about the cons of genetically modified food. What I'm asking you to do is help make a better environment based on accurate information."

The story says that Keenan was addressing the Pesticide Advisory Committee public meeting here last week that attracted about 30 individuals, some who made presentations to the group established by the provincial government to report on the controversy surrounding pesticide use.

Keenan, who told the committee he wasn't used to public speaking, stole the show as he explained in his folksy manner the daily struggle farmers face over a product harshly criticized on one hand, yet integral to current farm practices. Keenan was cited as saying that farmers are caught in the middle of an information war with one camp promoting chemical use and the other condemning it, adding, "The grower information largely comes from those with vested interests and they sell the chemicals. And they don't want anyone else in it so it must be good business. We'll be wined and dined to use a certain chemical, but what I wish we had was the technological information to determine if we needed to spray all the time." Ruth Richman was cited as telling the committee her wish list would include a 100 per cent organic province by the year 2024 and that it was entirely feasible as long as farmers received the economic and educational support to make the change.

Jim Hightower

Jim Hightower: "Stand by for this breaking news: Rich people can be criminals, too!

It might not seem very newsy that the well-heeled elites of corporatedom can have criminal natures even darker than your common mugger, especially in these days of corporate-infamy-on-parade, when the barons of Enron, Tyco, WorldCom, HealthSouth, Arthur Andersen, Imclone, and so many, many more are in the dock � and when even our nation's president and vice president have been caught in corporate hanky-panky. After all, who does more harm � the guy who holds up a 7-Eleven, or Kenneth Lay, the ex-CEO of Enron who sat in his penthouse coolly counting the $100 million he personally took from Enron in its last year as the company crashed, costing thousands of workers their jobs and thousands of small shareholders their retirement nest eggs?

Yet, it wasn't until 1939 that the term 'white collar crime' was coined, and even then, the Powers That Be shrank from calling the finaglers, defrauders, and other thieves up in the executive suites 'criminals.' Misguided, yes, even illegal � but criminal... well, that's activity that only the lower classes engage in."

Jim Hightower

Jim Hightower: "Remember the glorious promises of globalization?

CEOs, politicians of both parties, and media pundits all joined in the hallelujah chorus to proclaim that corporate-driven, laissez-faire globalization was THE answer for all the world's ills. If only all the nations (especially those with rich resources to exploit) would open up to foreign ownership, forego government regulation of business, accept the stringent financial medicine of the IMF and World Bank, and privatize their economies � then the omniscient power of the global marketplace would shine its radiant light everywhere and even the poorest villager would own a Lexus!"

Second nature

Second nature: "Homeowners are giving a green thumbs-up to landscape upgrades.
Picture a newly built house rising out of the earth, bare around the edges except for the obligatory row of shrubs marching across the foundation. Then imagine the same house, framed by a sweep of trees and finished off with a tasteful pathway that compliments the lines and materials on the house. It's pretty obvious which look is more compelling for the average buyer.
But can builders profit from offering landscaping services, and does a standard package help to sell the house? It depends, of course, on who's buying. What is clear, though, is that consumers are paying good money to make the outside of their homes look better. A study by the National Gardening Association, in Burlington, Vt., found that spending on landscape installation and construction more than tripled in the past five years, from $3.6 billion in 1997 to $11.2 billion in 2002. Putting the numbers in perspective, Bruce Butterfield, NGA research director, says the amount homeowners spend on their lawns and gardens has grown at a steady pace: 'Eight percent each year for the past five years, better than what the economy is doing,' he notes."

A personal blog about ideas, written by a hardworking fellow who is big on love, tolerance, freedom and the human potential.



Ask not.
Take everything.
Even my poverty.







My Economy Rant
When the rich steal from the rich, it's Good Business.

When the rich steal from the rich for the poor, it's Noblesse Oblige.

When the middle steal from the middle, it's Corruption.

When the rich and the middle steal from the poor, it's Fiscal Responsibility.

When the poor steal from the rich and the middle, it's Crime.

When the poor steal from the poor, it's Tough Luck.

My Employment Ad
Life long iconoclast seeks engagement.

VP in Charge of Rebellion. Excellent opportunity to stimulate growth. Formal l'agent du change. Abyss facer with capable mystic graciousness. Poet industrialist. Altruistic capitalist. Molecular minuteman. Quantum quarterback. And much, much more. Able to leap reluctance in a single bound. Mentors, counterparts, swashbucklers, dancing girls included.

Transcendental Medication Corporation, makers of HexLax & Insani-Flush.

Links
Google News
blogger home
BrianHayes home
my construction blog
my computer blog
declaration of beauty

Contributors



Amazon 5 Stars
Brian Hayes produces the One Stop Thought Shop as a blog to capture smart and interesting ideas and technologies and social commentary. This blog doesn't tell you about what there is on the breakfast menu nor about mood or dinner dates. Instead the One Stop Thought Shop provides education and insight about breakthrough science, technology and our modern world. This is a good site for learning new things. Write your review.
Caveat
We must be careful not to overstate the case. Let us not forget that in this situation it must be noted: nothing could be further from the truth. Because, as they say, it is the exception that proves the rule. Of course, rules are made to be broken and so, in this case, we must make allowances. For the time being, all we can state with certainty is that, given this set of assumptions, all things will be equal. Context is everything. Thus, this is not the final word on the subject. And yet, because of the foregoing doubts, we must be doubly sure. So, in light of current developments and taking stock of all our cultural preconceptions, the conclusion is neither obvious nor buried.
by Robert Neuwirth.

Amerika
This doctrine is known as antinomianism, the doctrine that the Elect are free of all constraint by laws. To what extent does this principle still animate our politics?

At home, we have a famously low to nonfunctional welfare state, almost as if we thought there is fundamentally something wrong with helping those whom God hasn't favored.

Our entertainments (and sometimes, it seems, our police departments) are replete with the 'action hero' who breaks all the rules and acts an awful lot like a Bad Guy, but is the Good Guy nonetheless. More at Calvinism for Dummies

Reason's Revenge
mystic bourgeoisie:
"...history is not predestined. It is, however, littered with with petty control freaks peddling fascism tricked up to look like freedom..."

Henry David Thoreau: "Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good. Be good for something."

Neitzche: "Morality is the best of all devices for leading mankind by the nose."

Isaac Asimov: "Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right."

Buckminster Fuller: "If humanity does not opt for integrity we are through completely. It is absolutely touch and go. Each one of us could make the difference.'

Albert Einstein: "As far as I’m concerned, I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue."

Anais Nin: "We don’t see things as they are; we see things as we are."

Blaise Pascal: "I have discovered that all human evil comes from this, man’s being unable to sit still in a room."

Thor Heyerdahl: "Progress is man's ability to complicate simplicity."

Robinson Jeffers: "We must uncenter our minds from ourselves; We must unhmanize our views a little, and become confident As the rock and ocean that we were made from."

Zo: "Taking delight in oneself. A damn sight easier if them what gave birth to you felt the same way."

Walt Whitman: "There is, in sanest hours, a consciousness, a thought that rises, independent, lifted out from all else, calm, like the stars, shining eternal. This is the thought of identity— yours for you, whoever you are, as mine for me."

Mark Twain: "Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see."

Rowan Williams: "Irony is when you recognize that your own sense of dramatic power is always something that is going to be absurd in the light of truth. The readiness to cope with that absurdity is something that you have to learn in order to grow up."





Subscribe
Google Reader or Homepage
Subscribe with Bloglines
Add to My AOL


Search

site or web

Services
[Valid Atom]
Page Rank
ping-o-matic
Statcounter
GeoURL
no software patents

Creative Commons License


Categories

Archives