America Wake Up & Connect the Dots!!

This is one Blog that American citizens who care about the future of the country better pay attention to. The issues detailed below are as serious as a heart attack, so listen up and pay attention to the dots!
Preface: General Eisenhower, who was elected President in 1952, introduced a policy that institutionalized the preservation of all of the natural resources on our land and under the ocean waters close to our shores and under American control and jurisdiction. Eisenhower championed this idea as the result of his personal experience with extreme material shortages in his position of Supreme Commander of the American and Allied forces during World War II. He stated that that it was a matter of national security that the United States protect and preserve its indigenous natural resources, and it must acquire any and all resources needed from foreign sources or from the international market. From his perspective preservation of indigenous natural resources was a major component of American Military preparedness. This policy was scrupulously followed by successive Presidential administrations until recent times.

In 1970, a major under water oil find off the coast of Washington was announced in the New York Times. The geologists estimated that the size of this reserve was larger than the Saudi Arabian reserves and that it would meet the oil consumption needs of the United States “at the current rate of growth” for the next 100 years! The particulars concerning this historic find remained on the pages of the New York Times for two days and then completely disappeared from print or discussion.

In 1972, geologists announced a gigantic oil find in the South China Sea. They estimated that the offshore reserves in this location were at least 100 times larger than any known oil deposits in the world, including Saudi Arabia. Immediately, all of the other Asian nations ringing the South China sea started contacting western oil interests for proposals for exploration off their respective shores. However, China announced to the world that the Peoples Republic of China and the PRC alone owned all of reserves in the South China Sea, and any exploration by anyone without permission from the PRC would be considered a trespasser and would be subject to all of the military might of the PRC. However, Nixon temporarily opened the door for exploration and drilling by American oil companies through his famous “Ping-Pong diplomacy” and a subsequent visit to Beijing in 1972.
Currently both Communist China and the United States of America are both locked in a post-cold-war struggle to acquire foreign non-indigenous sources of raw materials, including oil. The Chinese Communists flush with American billions are sending legions of trade representatives around the globe to purchase acquisition rights to raw materials from foreign governments. Their recent successes have been in the Sudan and in Canada to name two, and most such deals have occurred during the George W. Bush presidency. The Chinese do not view the United States as a competitor; but rather as a fading super power, whose decadent needs for raw materials are self-serving and are interfering with China’s destined expansion to become the ultimate power in the world.

June 22, 2005, Chevron made a $16 billion purchase offer for its smaller U.S. rival, Unocal Corp. Subsequently, CNOOC Ltd., China’s largest offshore oil and gas producer is considering submitting a counter bid for Unocal that would trump Chevron’s offer.

A provision in the current Energy Bill being currently debated in the Senate would fund exploration for gas and oil in the site of the reserves offshore from Washington State. The Senator from Washington is fighting against this provision of the Energy bill on the grounds that offshore drilling in this area will create tremendous environmental and ecological damage. However, this is a weak argument compared to the risk it poses to the security of the United States! Make no mistake China is not our friend. As matter of fact, technically we are still at war with China from the days of the Korean War. We never formally ended hostilities with China. We (and the United Nations) signed a truce with North Korea which exists today, but that truce does not include China or relieve her from her role of combatant against the United States on the Korean peninsula.

So let’s connect the dots. If CNOOC buys Unocal, it will own an American oil company. If the Senate passes the Energy bill with the provision to open up the oil reserves offshore from the State of Washington, CNOOC/Unocal will have the right to setup offshore rigs and start pumping oil into tankers bound for China. It should be noted that the Communist Chinese kicked American oil interests out of the South China Sea as soon as their (PRC) engineers were capable of designing and building deep sea oil platforms, using technology that they learned from the hopeful American oil companies. Under these circumstances could you visualize any American oil consortium buying a Communist Chinese oil company?
America’s security is being compromised by greedy oil interests, who care little for the future security of the country and are only concerned with money regardless from whose hands it is received. The current situation merits the necessity for those real patriots to standup and step out before it is too late. With a dedicated nipple into American oil reserves, the Chinese will have won the battle for economic expansion without touching their own South China Sea reserves while draining ours to meet their needs. Sure the other members of the oil lobby will have their own nipples to exploit, but at the ultimate price of military preparedness and national security. This situation aids our enemies and compromises our own security. Its time to get our heads out of the behinds of “Desperate Housewives” and get in tune with world strategies. Its time to WAKE UP AMERICA!!!

Cheers for HIGH TECH U

It is not often these days that one is able to read the reports of some really good news! Fortunately this was the case for me when I read the article in last Friday’s (June 3, 2005) edition of the Massachusetts Middlesex News MetroWest Business section titled, “Intel takes initiative installing tech careers”. Intel deserves widespread support both from government and individual citizens for the launch of their “High Tech U” in Hudson. Intel should be congratulated for their foresight in taking this bold step towards providing entry into high tech careers for high school students with "B" and "C" grade averages at a time when most American corporations are obsessed in outsourcing jobs in all areas. It is necessary for American industry to plan ahead to develop local labor resources in anticipation of the long overdue American economic revival. As the country slowly moves toward a more strong viable economy, it is becoming startlingly clear that America is not prepared to provide the labor force necessary to sustain such a developing economic environment.

I graduated from Rindge Technical High School in Cambridge in 1945 and I remember that during my years at Rindge that there was a strong confluence of outside expertise guiding the educational curriculum of the school. The principle of Rindge, John Woods was a tireless champion for the concept of a blue ribbon school capable of providing an across-the-board education; ranging from education in the traditional vocational arts through studies designed to prepare the student for entry into university. However, the accent always was placed on providing a strong technical education as the basis of all pursuits. In this role Dr. Woods invited members of American industry, along with graduate students from MIT, to become actively involved with working with the students at Rindge. The aircraft engine plant of General Electric in Lynn provided a very attractive apprentice program for junior and senior Rindge students. Under this program G.E. would hire select student applicants as full time apprentices during the summer months to work as on-the-job trainees. Students successfully completing the G.E. program would find a full time job waiting for them upon graduation. Other companies such as IBM provided similar apprentice programs.

Unfortunately, during the Vietnam war a significant amount of anti-war sentiment in the local colleges and universities spilled over into many high schools and Rindge was no exception. The presence of this vitriolic atmosphere in the high school soon transformed itself into an anti-corporation and anti-business sentiment among the students; which caused the least vocal among the students to exhibit deep disinterest in any connection with the American industrial world. This breech in the original trust and mutual respect between the high school and industry has never been substantially repaired.

In my opinion it is time for American educators to do a paradigm shift in the way they view the educational needs for those students not bound for college. In the new order of the 21st century, there are thousands of jobs that can be done effectively in the technology industry without the need for a four or two year college degree. The gaming industry has (unintentionally) already taken the first steps in providing a form of basic “operator education” for most high school pupils through the widespread popularity and daily use of video game machines. The operation of these highly complex games with their myriad of rules, strategies and countermoves is performed most efficiently by millions of kids everyday. The kids have to quickly learn to adapt and become proficient in the computer generated game environment in order to become a serious challenger to the internal opponents provided by the game automation. The general techniques required in video game playing have immediate applications in manufacturing processing and manufacturing test and quality assurance.

I certainly do not intend to infer that proficiency in playing video games is a prerequisite for technical employment in industry; rather I think that during this critical period we should look at any positives that we have to work with in the development of a skilled labor force. In most industrial manufacturing environments, computerized tools and instrumentation actually perform the actual test regimen, evaluating and reporting the results. However, humans are still required to schedule product flow, initiate test and inspection, and manage product distribution to internal shipping terminals. To create a skilled labor pool from high school graduates entering the industrial labor force simply requires building “operator interfaces” (into the complex technical machinery and tools) that have been specifically designed to support users with a substantial video game usage background. It is fitting that the first initiatives for development of such a labor force should come from the high tech industry.


The skilled labor pool requirements for the new age of NanoTechnology in America are already stupendous, but little is currently being done to meet these needs. In summary, concerted urgent action is required in the following areas…
1) American industry must commit to commissioning and funding plans to seek out and train American high school graduates who are highly motivated and desirous of entering industry.
2) A highly interactive cooperative confluence must be formed between American industrial corporations and American school departments and teachers; where the industrial component will specify the curriculum which matches the needs of industry in its definition of a skilled labor force. (This guidance is critical, in that the speed of new product development in the 21st century will be so accelerated that it will become virtually impossible for secondary schools to maintain an up-to-date curriculum applicable to the employment skills needed by industry.)
3) A paradigm shift in the viewpoint of American education will be necessary to address the need to create a viable skilled labor pool from high school graduates intent on entering American industry. This shift must recognize that it is paramount that industry capitalizes on the legacy of operational skills and gaming strategies that video games have provided to millions of long term young users. Traditional science courses certainly are necessary for career advancement but should not be necessary requirement for entry level and upper entry level technical positions in industry.
4) American industry must develop a national “operator interface” standard for complex industrial tools and instruments that are targeted specifically toward users that are highly proficient in operating video game equipment.
5) The Government (State and Federal) must provide incentives sufficient not only to get American industry moving in this regard but continues to provide motivation until an adequate skilled labor pool comes into existence.

We need to build upon Intel’s leadership in this instance and demand that government and industry galvanize around this issue. This most important issue that will determine America’s future. We shouldn’t miss the boat!

Critical Days for the Democratic Party

Yesterday, June 8, 2005, was the start of a number of upcoming critical days for the Democratic Party. The party MUST change to meet the new American demographics of the 21st century. Many in the Party recognize this, however many are opposed due to the fear of the “liberal” label, and many are just simply confused. Trying to weld the present Democratic Party into a strongly united group, in the words of popular vernacular, “is like trying to herd an army of cats”. The sad truth is that the Democratic Party is composed of six main eclectic constituencies:
1) Old African American and other Minority Party regulars, remnants of the Civil Rights Struggle, who still view the Democratic Party through a dusty prism reflective of the glory days of the Johnson presidency and its Great Society programs.
2) Long serving, high seniority congressional Democrats, who have obtained political superstardom and are determined to preserve their own parochial national status no matter what the cost to the party or to the welfare of their own local constituents. They use pragmatism a mask of the true reality of their own personal attitude which argues that it is their respected and enduring seniority that entitles them to believe that their personal political goals are both critical and vital to the well being of the nation. Unfortunately the selfish nature of such a viewpoint leaves little room for any sincere and urgent concern over the survival of the Democratic Party.
3) Remnants of the former politically powerful labor unions, which are locked in a life or death battle for survival in America. Unions are desperately looking for help in its struggle to survive from its old traditional ally, the Democratic Party. Union representatives are trying to piggyback union organizing on the youthful Party “ward and town” foot soldiers who exhibited so much dedication in the national Democratic “get out the vote” campaign in the last presidential election. Unions are attempting to thrust the baggage of a clandestine union recruiting drive into the basic planning for the national Democratic 2006 congressional campaign.

4) Oscillating environmentalists who would really prefer a viable American “green” party but are stuck for now with the Democratic Party as the only reasonable choice between the two major political parties.
5) Pro-choice women’s groups, fighting desperately to preserve the legality of the “Roe vs Wade” Supreme Court decision. The Pro-choice groups are also fighting the exploding rise of anti-abortion political power in many other areas; such as recent decisions in some State legislatures to allow pharmacists to refuse to fill drug prescriptions that they feel may be used to prevent pregnancies purely on the subjective basis that it could compromise the respective pharmacist’s personal religious values.
6) Lastly, diverse legions of American youth who are yearning and striving for a nation that not only enshrines the American Bill of Rights, but honors it with a priority that supersedes all else.

Aggressive Republican strategists have recognized the splintering effects that result when special interest groups articulate the goals of the Democratic Party in the language of their own parochial priorities, and have attempted to capitalize on this by using saturation publicity tactics to spotlight one special interest group over another. For example, a well known Republican trick exploiting this Democratic rift is to broadcast the question (to the Democrats), “Which is more important, a women’s right to have an abortion, or the condition of the national environment?” One should also remember that the Republican’s TOTALLY CONTROL the media both broadcast and print. These channels, if not closed entirely, are certainly heavily biased against anything the Democratic Party has to say. Perhaps, the one exception to this would be a national notice that the party intends to disband! Democratic Party news would be stifled completely without Blogs and the vast reach of the irrepressible Internet. This technology is the primary force that is actively preserving the two party system in America.

Of the six main constituents listed above, The Democratic Party should choose one and only one priority and that is to the American Democratic youth. There is a parable in the New Testament of the Bible which uses the ancient adage of NOT putting “new wine in old skins”, as the old wineskin will crack and burst, and the wine will be wasted. This parable is particularly applicable to the Democratic Party at this time. The Party currently enjoys the pleasure of having the “new wine” of youth ready and energized to take the Democratic Party into the future of America. The Party MUST NOT attempt to package this fresh new spirit into the old wineskin sewn with the special interest ambitions from the past. The banner for the new youth driven Democratic Party must be Freedom, Equal Justice, and the Bill of Rights for all Americans. This is what the current Chairman, Dr. Howard Dean is attempting to create, and we should not impede his efforts, or be ashamed by the expected criticisms of the Republican controlled media. Howard Dean is showing the youth of American that tomorrow belongs to them, if they stand up and take it. The coming days will require REAL Democrats to stand up and be counted! Those senior Democratic congressmen and women who feel that appeasement of the Republicans is the temporary answer for these times should be effectively challenged in the primaries and voted out of office! These people have proven that they lack the will and are unprincipled when they are on the losing end of the stick. The loyal opposition only remains in a position of honor for as long as they remain true and steadfast to their principles of opposition. The current obsequious behavior of many Democratic senior members of congress has not gone unnoticed by the Democratic youth who worked so hard in the last presidential campaign. Therefore these individuals will have no place of honor in the Democratic Party of the future. I certainly do not advocate removal of anyone or any group with a particular interest or goal from the Democratic Party. Let them join and support Democratic candidates. However, the goals and aspirations of the Democratic Party must be formulated by those who are in the midst of the grass roots fight during these critical days. These are the people who will be the mainstay of the Party tomorrow, for they are the Democratic Party!