This was a power point presentation of the industries which have left Mount Dennis and Weston in the last 30 years or so

Based on original sociological research, Rust to Renewal explores the attitudes of a transdenominational sample of Youngstown's clergy toward deindustrialization, job loss, and the future of our economy. Written in an academic format while tempered with simple language, Rust to Renewal will appeal to scholars, businesspeople, government leaders, clergy, and lay people alike.

De-industrialization of Thessaloniki

Snowshoefilms series #3. In early 2007, Daniel Estulin, on Dutch TV, exposed the meeting place and names of the Istanbul Bilderberg get-together. He also exposed the Bilderberg plan of global population reduction (3 billion or so), through mass starvation, diseases, and Peak Oil-induced de-industrialization. That "plan," Estulin notes, was initiated by Bilderberg operative Henry Kissinger in 1974 (NSSM 200) after Nixon had been forced out the the White House. Estulin says he himself is a front man (the writer and public face) for a group of intelligence agents (mostly ex-KGB) from Estulin's native Estonia. Part of a family of emigres from the Soviet Union in the mid-1980s, Daniel Estulin first found refuge in Canada. A Flamenco guitarist in addition to Bilderberg slueth, the author lives in Seville, Spain. After 10 years of peripheral intrigue, watching and reporting on the world's elite (the Owners and their Trusted Servants), Estulin sympathizes with the Bilderberg mantra of 'Peak Oil' and the consequent Bilderberg argument for massive population reduction in their effort to bring about a 'post-industrial world'. Shades of Parson Malthus with a Leo Straussian twist, the BBs. But wait! Take a gander at Lindsey Williams, on youtube, for starters. Williams was a southern Baptist preacher who reckoned the 25,000 men going up to build the Alaska pipeline needed Jesus. He got hired on in 1970 as Arco's chaplain. The public relations office saw what a good job he was doing, flying around from camp to camp, preaching Jesus (less fights, less drinking, fewer days off, less need of counseling for the thousands of men building the pipeline). ARCO gave Baptist preacher Rev. Lindsey Williams executive status, inviting him to sit in on board meetings. Rev. Williams did this for three years. And he sat in on the euphoric 1973 ARCO board meeting announcing an enormous North Shore oil discovery. All the gears were in motion to tell the world. Rev. Williams videos and book tell what happened. But, an addendum: just a cursory look suggests that plugging the Alaskan ARCO coincides with the heavy-duty moves to implement the Bilderberg plan (see NSSM 200, above). yoryevrah

1. Every enlightened person was for globalization 2. Rising middle classes buy our goods and it reduces extremism 3. More trade is less wars - and this was important when we thought the wars were nucleur. 4. - so those were good things - but in our rush - we forgot Reagans use of the russian saying trust but verify. 5. So we cant help the world by buying its goods if we dont export and produce too! ======== So Obama does get it. But what do we do about it? The basic principle of green economics is internalizing the externalities. A business should not be able to cream the profits and avoid the destructive costs of their product, whether its tobacco, heroin, or coal fired power for factories. Additionally Factory farming is bad for the soil, but determining what the right "adjustments" are is a difficult new branch of economics. So the Government amasses Green Taxes. What do we do with the money. I say a reverse sales tax for goods which have side effects which are positive, or normative. How do you price all this out - well Obama -shows a glimmer again at his Cooper hall speech - talking about outdated regulatory structures - and in the new regulatory structure - that is if you can borrow from the discount Window of the Fed - you should be subject to its regulation. The way we get all the offsets right is to shut down the corrupt venal game in Washington - I propose that everyone be able to override their legislator on any vote - so we have hybrid direct -representative government. And we be allowed to fire people directly. Make em fear us. - And whats with all the cops. Cops - are basically an investment in closing the barn door after the horse is gone -sane people in prosperous commmunities do not need massive amounts of police. ======== Then we have the dillema of The middle class and poor are taking it from 5 ends right now - 1) Huge Government debt, we were freaked when it hit 1 trillion under reagan - now its hitting - 10 trillion - Whats the interest on 10 Trillion dollars. per person per day. we are getting close 2) Stagnant wages - combined with less free time - leading to worse quaity of life - and more screwed up kids. 3) Outsourcing - the number of white collar jobs leaving this country is staggering. 4) De-Industrialization - meaningless local economies. 5) Illegal immigration: Illegal immigration is a distraction. Every country which has poorer neighbors will attract migrants who will do its bottom tier jobs. ============================ So Obama's positions are all good: But unless we can get people in Government directly accountable with real feedback - WHat if we did -10% tax to random and +10% tax specify. Sunshine Laws: ============= Hillary - your up against a master - dont criticize him unless you mean it - that is you are giving him guidance.

Billy Joel sings the 1982 "Nylon Curtain" album song of the Lehigh Valley's de-industrialization, composed with Bethlehem in mind but was named "Allentown" for enhanced rhyming effect.

Palin remarked, "I guess a small-town mayor is sort of like a community organizer, except that you have actual responsibilities." Now I'm all for upholding the dignity of small-town mayors and acknowledging the responsibilities they shoulder. And certainly we need to more of a town hall forum dynamic within government on a national scale if ordinary people are to have any access to counter the influence of corporate lobbyists. But it's just wrong to dis community organizers. More than that, it's politically stupid to belittle community organizers when you are trying to portray yourself as an insurgent candidate seeking to overthrow the Washington elite. So let's start with one obvious way in which community organizers make a difference. They register new voters. In 1992, a record 150,000 new voters were added to the rolls in Chicago owing in large measure to a grassroots effort led by Project Vote. A January 1993 analysis by Chicago magazine on the local director of Project Vote concluded, "A huge black turnout in November 1992 altered Chicago's electoral landscape -- and raised a new political star: a 31-year-old lawyer named Barack Obama." And community organizers...empower people to express their needs and concerns, not just as individuals but as a more powerful collective of diverse but coordinated souls. This means that community organizers must also be skilled at communication, negotiation, and compromise -- traits required of any good leader. I can't say what possessed Palin to dis community organizers. I hope she understands that most Americans are not on a first-name basis with their mayor. I hope she understands that most Americans cannot and should not expect to get a check from their state government because corporations are making billions by extracting nonrenewable resources. I hope she understands that there are millions of Americans living in places like the South Side of Chicago, inner-city Detroit, and small towns across America whose lives and communities have been devastated by deindustrialization, environmental degradation, the war on drugs, the collapse of public school systems, and so on. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/scott-kurashige/dont-dis-community-organi_b_124069.html Obama's State Senate legislative record...US Senate record...sponsorship of 820 laws in Illinois, and authorship of 152 bills and co-sponsorship of 427 in Washington. The 2007 Ethics Reform bill alone cannot be dismissed as simply non-existent. http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2008/09/palin-on-obama.html#more I couldn't agree more about the nastiness. What we saw last night was the mainstreaming of Ann Coulter, the normalization of the principle that it isn't bile when it's spoken by a pretty woman. Coulter has gloated, "I am emboldened by my looks to say things Republican men wouldn't." And even though the Post reports today that Palin's was a "masculine" speech—written before the final candidate was selected—it bore so very many hallmarks of a vintage Coulter/Ingraham performance. Susan Estrich describes the Coulter approach as a play "to the lowest common denominator of derision, labeling the hero a coward, her opponent a traitor ... she is about suspicion and exclusion," and anyone who pushes back is a member of the "liberal media elite" and a sexist. http://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/xxfactor/archive/2008/09/04/mainstreaming-the-mean-girl.aspx But what an unbelievably vicious speech! The nastiness level was just sky-high (or gutter low). And though Palin certainly didn't write the words she spoke, she sure looked like she enjoyed every second of delivering those zingers. That speech wasn't meant to inspire—it wasn't about our better selves or what we might be able to accomplish, as a nation—it was all about rage, sarcasm, resentment, mockery. And the crowd just lapped it up. http://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/xxfactor/archive/2008/09/04/i-m-depressed-now.aspx

Dave McKee, 39, has been living in Davenport for 12 years. He is a printer and is a union steward in Teamsters-GCC Local 100M. A long-time activist, Dave was involved in community organizing against the Mike Harris government and was Co-Chair of the Canadian Peace Alliance during the massive mobilization against the US-led invasion of Iraq. Dave says "Davenport is a working class riding still reeling from the Harris cutbacks and the Liberals' refusal to fix downloading after four years in office. It's time for the province to provide a new financial deal for cities, with proper funding to ensure quality, accessible services for working people." As a parent of young children, Dave feels that maintaining one well-funded, secular, public education system is essential for Ontarians. "The Liberals have announced a huge budget surplus, but still, they haven't fixed the funding formula for public education." Dave is a strong supporter of MMP.

While the railway for the Calalzo - Pieve di Cadore station was built before the First world war last century (1914), we are facing the deindustrialization of the area and the cutting of the railroad transportation. Right now with the oil prices surging to new highs the car is preferred to the train. " What an extraordinary episode in the economic progress of man that age was which came to an end in August 1914! The greater part of the population, it is true, worked hard and lived at a low standard of comfort, yet were, to all appearances, reasonably contented with this lot. But escape was possible, for any man of capacity or character at all exceeding the average, into the middle and upper classes, for whom life offered, at a low cost and with the least trouble, conveniences, comforts, and amenities beyond the compass of the richest and most powerful monarchs of other ages." (JM Keynes, The Economic Consequences of the Peace 1919). As it was was early last Century, a "new deal" is needed also in this part of the global village.

Two bright areas emerge in the 60s and 70s from the crossroads of labor and civil rights movements. Farmworker organizing soars around the Delano grape strike of 1965; and California teachers, like other public sector workers, demand and achieve collective bargaining laws. But these are bright spots in a darkening picture of automation, deindustrialization, capital flight, antiunion government policies and labor's own failure to organize new sectors of the economy. The struggle of auto workers at GM Van Nuys against a threatened plant closure typifies this era for industrial workers, their families and communities. 21 minutes

Revision of the original Rust to Renewal video.

Dave McKee, 39, has been living in Davenport for 12 years. He is a printer and is a union steward in Teamsters-GCC Local 100M. A long-time activist, Dave was involved in community organizing against the Mike Harris government and was Co-Chair of the Canadian Peace Alliance during the massive mobilization against the US-led invasion of Iraq. Dave says "Davenport is a working class riding still reeling from the Harris cutbacks and the Liberals' refusal to fix downloading after four years in office. It's time for the province to provide a new financial deal for cities, with proper funding to ensure quality, accessible services for working people." As a parent of young children, Dave feels that maintaining one well-funded, secular, public education system is essential for Ontarians. "The Liberals have announced a huge budget surplus, but still, they haven't fixed the funding formula for public education." Dave is a strong supporter of MMP.

Snowshoefilms series #3. In early 2007, Daniel Estulin, on Dutch TV, exposed the meeting place and names of the Istanbul Bilderberg get-together. He also exposed the Bilderberg plan of global population reduction (3 billion or so), through mass starvation, diseases, and Peak Oil-induced de-industrialization. That "plan," Estulin notes, was initiated by Bilderberg operative Henry Kissinger in 1974 (NSSM 200) after Nixon had been forced out the the White House. Estulin says he himself is a front man (the writer and public face) for a group of intelligence agents (mostly ex-KGB) from Estulin's native Estonia. Part of a family of emigres from the Soviet Union in the mid-1980s, Daniel Estulin first found refuge in Canada. A Flamenco guitarist in addition to Bilderberg slueth, the author lives in Seville, Spain. After 10 years of peripheral intrigue, watching and reporting on the world's elite (the Owners and their Trusted Servants), Estulin sympathizes with the Bilderberg mantra of 'Peak Oil' and the consequent Bilderberg argument for massive population reduction in their effort to bring about a 'post-industrial world'. Shades of Parson Malthus with a Leo Straussian twist, the BBs. But wait! Take a gander at Lindsey Williams, on youtube, for starters. Williams was a southern Baptist preacher who reckoned the 25,000 men going up to build the Alaska pipeline needed Jesus. He got hired on in 1970 as Arco's chaplain. The public relations office saw what a good job he was doing, flying around from camp to camp, preaching Jesus (less fights, less drinking, fewer days off, less need of counseling for the thousands of men building the pipeline). ARCO gave Baptist preacher Rev. Lindsey Williams executive status, inviting him to sit in on board meetings. Rev. Williams did this for three years. And he sat in on the euphoric 1973 ARCO board meeting announcing an enormous North Shore oil discovery. All the gears were in motion to tell the world. Rev. Williams videos and book tell what happened. But, an addendum: just a cursory look suggests that plugging the Alaskan ARCO coincides with the heavy-duty moves to implement the Bilderberg plan (see NSSM 200, above). yoryevrah

PART 2:Propose that everyone be able to override their legislator on any vote - so we have hybrid direct -representative government. And we be allowed to fire people directly. Make em fear us. - And whats with all the cops. Cops - are basically an investment in closing the barn door after the horse is gone -sane people in prosperous commmunities do not need massive amounts of police. ======== Then we have the dillema of The middle class and poor are taking it from 5 ends right now - 1) Huge Government debt, we were freaked when it hit 1 trillion under reagan - now its hitting - 10 trillion - Whats the interest on 10 Trillion dollars. per person per day. we are getting close 2) Stagnant wages - combined with less free time - leading to worse quaity of life - and more screwed up kids. 3) Outsourcing - the number of white collar jobs leaving this country is staggering. 4) De-Industrialization - meaningless local economies. 5) Illegal immigration: Illegal immigration is a distraction. Every country which has poorer neighbors will attract migrants who will do its bottom tier jobs. AND WHOSE GIVING IT TO THEM: The Leadership of this country - who is more concerned in feathering their own nests than helping their country. It makes you want to line up against the wall. ============================ So Obama's positions are all good: But unless we can get people in Government directly accountable with real feedback - WHat if we did -10% tax to random and +10% tax specify. Sunshine Laws: ============= Hillary - your up against a master - dont criticize him unless you mean it - that is you are giving him guidance. We dont want 1 Barack Obama - we need 10,000 Barak Obamas - a normal guy, who doesnt spin, who doesnt talk down to people, who can see long term, who understands that conservatism and liberalism can be reconciled - because they both want the same thing. As far as I can tell he just wants to do a good job. I loved what Collin Powell said. PART 1: Gettysburg Address: What would you call Cooper Union, or Philadelphia, or the stump speech itself. 1. Every enlightened person was for globalization 2. Rising middle classes buy our goods and it reduces extremism 3. More trade is less wars - and this was important when we thought the wars were nucleur. 4. - so those were good things - but in our rush - we forgot Reagans use of the russian saying trust but verify. 5. So we cant help the world by buying its goods if we dont export and produce too! ======== So Obama does get it. But what do we do about it? The basic principle of green economics is internalizing the externalities. A business should not be able to cream the profits and avoid the destructive costs of their product, whether its tobacco, heroin, or coal fired power for factories. Additionally Factory farming is bad for the soil, but determining what the right "adjustments" are is a difficult new branch of economics. So the Government amasses Green Taxes. What do we do with the money. I say a reverse sales tax for goods which have side effects which are positive, or normative. How do you price all this out - well Obama -shows a glimmer again at his Cooper hall speech - talking about outdated regulatory structures - and in the new regulatory structure - that is if you can borrow from the discount Window of the Fed - you should be subject to its regulation. The way we get all the offsets right is to shut down the corrupt venal game in Washington -