…Profiteer Globally

In the early part of World War II, Senator Harry Truman undertook a ten thousand mile expedition to investigate the nation’s readiness for war. His efforts created the Senate Special Committee to Investigate the National Defense Program–it became known as the Truman Committee. After the attack on Pearl Harbor, some called for the committee to be disbanded on the grounds that it might impede victory by meddling in strategy and tactics. It did not, and continued into 1948. The committee staged over seven-hundred hearings and produced fifty-one reports, each one approved by Democrats and Republicans on the panel. The committee’s investigative efforts saved the government approximately fifteen billion in 1948 dollars–around half a trillion in current dollars.  Read more...

Spectrum: An Ordered Array of Components

So far, the idea of progress has been themed by sequence. As in, get this first and then get that. Development, says the old school, proceeds along the paths of clarity, mistake, luck, or karma. Or to put it another way, as a species, we are safer and safer as we move along the roadway of progress. Each mile, dollar, hypothesis, discovery that ticks by is another step forward for our species. Perhaps that model of progress has reached the end of its useful life and is due modification.  Read more...

 See The Future

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• On July 13, 2012, corn production was forecast at 12.97 billion bushels of corn
• The expected yield per acre was about 144 bushels per acre

• As of August 10, 2012, corn production was forecast at 10.8 billion bushels of corn
• The expected yield per acre was about 124 bushels per acre

• A decade ago an average acre yielded about 129 bushels of corn per acre

– THE THREE MONKEY PLAQUE –

2012 NERO AWARD WINNER:

* The State of  North Carolina – House Bill 819 *

Lake Oswego, Oregon – August 2, 2012 – The Climatebull today announced the winner of the 2012 NERO Award competition honoring the ultimate in willful ignorance, willful blindness, and willful abdication of responsibility–as well as a deep disregard for best practice regarding the changing climate.  Read more...