review of educaiton solar

Global Warming Destroys Wine Industry
http://bristol.indymedia.org/newswire.php?story_id=25335
http://jakarta.indymedia.org/newswire.php?story_id=994

TOURS of SOLAR HOMES and SOLAR BUILDINGS
and Links to Groups supporting food security, clean air, climate protection
USA
http://southafrica.indymedia.org/news/2006/07/10763.php
http://neworleans.indymedia.org/news/2006/07/8046.php
http://www.ases.org/tour
http://www.ases.org/tour/2005_tour/California.htm
http://www.homepower.com/events/index.cfm
http://www.solarliving.org
http://www.solarhouseday.com/index01.shtml
http://www.homepower.com/links/non_profit.cfm
USA- http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2006/07/342040.shtml
INTERNATIONAL
http://bristol.indymedia.org/newswire.php?story_id=25168
STATES
Alabama - Louisiana
http://sf.indymedia.org/news/2006/09/1732364.php
http://bristol.indymedia.org/newswire.php?story_id=25365
Maine - North Dakota
http://neworleans.indymedia.org/news/2006/09/8737.php
http://bristol.indymedia.org/newswire.php?story_id=25366
Ohio - Wyoming
http://milwaukee.indymedia.org/en/2006/09/206141.shtml
http://bristol.indymedia.org/newswire.php?story_id=25367

Protect your business from the Oil Pirates and Robber Barons.
Stop the Oil Barbarians from Ravishing your Family and community's financial budgets.
Prevent Big Oil and Big Coal from Molesting you and your children.
http://istanbul.indymedia.org/news/2006/09/145767.php
http://athens.indymedia.org/front.php3?lang=en&article_id=570479
http://bristol.indymedia.org/newswire.php?story_id=25381
http://english-cyprus.indymedia.org/newswire/display/251/index.php

HOW ignorant ARE AMERICANS about ENERGY?
Please educate them. Thank YOU.
http://thunderbay.indymedia.org/news/2006/09/24833.php
http://valparaiso.indymedia.org/news/2006/09/8723.php
http://pr.indymedia.org/news/2006/09/18295.php

ARE You ready for PEAK OIL?
http://www.lifeaftertheoilcrash.net
http://dieoff.com
http://www.chelseagreen.com/2004/items/highnoon/AssociatedArticles
http://www.truthout.org/cgi-bin/artman/exec/view.cgi/34/10314

TRUTH in VOTING - ELECTIONS
http://qc.indymedia.org/news/2006/09/8499.php
http://www.blackboxvoting.org
http://www.investigatethevote.org
http://www.verifiedvoting.org
http://indymedia.org.nz/newswire/display/71636/index.php
http://hamilton.indymedia.org/newswire/display/1068/index.php
state info:
http://manila.indymedia.org/index.php?action=newswire&parentview=31260
http://melbourne.indymedia.org/news/2006/09/121775.php

SUSTAINABLE TECH TRAINING for WOMEN
http://solarenergy.org/workshops
http://www.ncsc.ncsu.edu/programs/nc_solar_in_schools.cfm
http://www.fsec.ucf.edu/ed
http://www.sanjuancollege.edu/reng
http://www.barefootcollege.org
http://www.journeytoforever.org
http://www.solare-bruecke.org
http://www.gadhiasolar.net
http://www.lowimpact.org/courses.htm
http://www.homepower.com/files/HP98_60.pdf
http://www.portlandpermaculture.com

WASTE NOT, WANT NOT
Advanced Recycling Technologies
Saving Money and Energy Intelligently
http://pr.indymedia.org/news/2006/08/17530.php
http://victoria.indymedia.org/news/2006/07/50509.php
http://indymedia.org.nz/newswire/display/47793/index.php

HEALTHY SCHOOLS = academic Success
http://www.calhealthyschools.org
http://64.243.182.248/going_solar/better_schools.cfm
http://www.watoxics.org/redirect/HS_OVER.aspx?fromMenu=0&pos=3&name=HS_OVER
http://www.growingedge.com/magazine/back_issues/view_article.php3?AID=170320
http://www.mozarteffect.com
http://www.plants-for-people.org/eng
http://www.foodrevolution.org/askjohn/43.htm
http://www.healthmasters.com

Organic Gardening-Farming Catalog
http://www.acresusa.com/other/freesample.htm

Solar Energy, Sustainable Technology CATALOG
http://www.gaiam.com/realgoods

Please support LOCAL Organic FAMILY farmers. Please use sustainable technology.
COMMUNITY SUPPORTED AGRICULTURE (CSA)
keeping our communities Safe from Peak Oil and other Disasters
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http://www.cuco.org.uk/index.php?page=3
http://www.localharvest.org/csa
http://www.localharvest.org/csa.jsp
http://www.eatlocal.org/Ideas.html
http://bristol.indymedia.org/newswire.php?story_id=25077
http://www.truthout.org/cgi-bin/artman/exec/view.cgi/34/10314
http://bristol.indymedia.org/newswire.php?story_id=25076
http://www.biodynamics.com/csa.html
http://www.csacenter.org
http://solutions.synearth.net/2004/02/04
http://www.seedinternational.com.au/CG%20article%201.html
http://uruguay.indymedia.org/news/2005/06/36067.php http://www.isec.org.uk
book: Farms of Tomorrow: Community Supported Farms; author: Trauger Groh http://www.greenpatchseeds.com.au/biodynamic.html
book: Rebirth of the Small Family Farm, authors: Bob and Bonnie Gregson http://www.acresusa.com
book: MetroFarm; author: Michael Olson http://www.growingedge.com/store

ELIMINATE HUNGER
Be a Real patriot. Please help disabled people, older people, poor people, widows and fatherless children grow their own Fresh nutritious Organic food.
Luke 10:29, Isaiah 1:17,1:19 Give thanks and praise to God.
http://www.carbon.org
http://treesforlife.org
http://www.ci.seattle.wa.us/neighborhoods/ppatch
http://www.seattletilth.org
http://www.permacultureportal.com/RL.htm
http://www.echonet.org/about_echo.htm
http://www.greenbeltmovement.org
http://www.victorygardens.net
http://www.foodrevolution.org/askjohn/43.htm
http://www.hhdra.org.uk
http://www.farmgarden.org.uk
http://goodgrub.org/kgp/free.html
http://www.moscowfoodcoop.com/books/wilson.html
http://www.communitygarden.org.au
http://www.leftfootorganics.org
http://www.organicconsumers.org/epa6.cfm
http://camphill.org/whatis.php
http://melbourne.indymedia.org/news/2006/01/102980.php
http://www.worldhungeryear.org
http://www.yesmagazine.com/article.asp?ID=576
http://www.slowfoodfoundation.com
book: How to Change the World; author: David Bornstein
http://www.howtochangetheworld.org
book: Price of a Dream; author: David Bornstein
http://www.us.oup.com/us/catalog/general/subject/Economics/Developmental/Transitional/?view=usa&ci=9780195187496
book: Gaviotas, A Village to Reinvent the World; author: Alan Weisman
http://www.dharma-haven.org/five-havens/gaviotas.htm
book: Permaculture, A Designers' Manual; author: B. C. Mollison
http://www.acresaustralia.com.au/bookstore/prod143.htm
book: George Muller, Man of Faith and Miracles; author: Basil Miller
book: Rwanda, The Land God Forgot; author: Meg Guillebaud
book: How to Grow World Record Tomatoes; Author: Charles H. Wilber
http://www.acresusa.com/books/closeup.asp?action=search&prodid=20&catid=&pcid=2
book: Back to Eden; Author: Jethro Kloss
book: Regreso al Eden; Author: Jethro Kloss
book: Compost Tea Brewing Manual; author: Elaine Ingham
http://growingsolutions.com
http://www.vermico.com/compost_tea_brewers.htm
Worm Tea
http://www.ourvitalearth.com/tea.php
http://www.vermico.com/castings.htm

The truth will set you free.
http://www.yesmagazine.com/article.asp?ID=576

Please email this web page to your friends and to people who are concerned about our future and our Grandchildren’s future. Thank you.

Another sub-title for this article could well be "a study in state monopoly capitalism." A book of the author, Dan Briody, focused on the Carlyle Group, the spectacularly well-heeled firm that includes former President George H.W. Bush, his crony James Baker and a veritable rogues’ gallery of washed-up politicians and businessmen of questionable integrity who blatantly trade upon their inside knowledge of government for private gain in yet another textbook example of state monopoly capitalism.

Yet, their money-grubbing pales in comparison – and chutzpah – to Halliburton, a firm formerly headed by Vice President Dick Cheney, a firm that is frequently in the headlines in light of the lucrative contracts they have been awarded by Cheney’s government in the theater of war that is Iraq.

The story begins in Texas where a predecessor firm of Halliburton, Brown & Root, was catapulted into prominence – and obscene profitability - because of a tight relationship with former Senator, then Vice President and President, Lyndon B. Johnson. Large scale construction and oil services were the two pillars on which this giant company was built. Routinely the government handed out handsome "cost plus" contracts, e.g. building the Corpus Christi Naval Air Station, to this corporation. "Cost plus" means that the contractor could recoup all expenses plus a guaranteed profit based on a pre-negotiated percentage. This eliminates risk for the contractor and erodes the necessity to eliminate wasteful billing which, says the author, is "great for the contractor, not so great for the taxpayer." "Basically, it’s a blank check from the government….when your profit is a percentage of the cost, the more you spend, the more you make."

Brown & Root reaped a bonanza of wasteful contracts during the war in Vietnam, which – coincidentally – Johnson prosecuted as vigorously as Cheney has done in Iraq. By 1967 this firm was the largest employer in South Vietnam. Yet even then there was an obvious downside to relying so heavily upon the private sector to perform the clear government function of waging war: motivated by the lust for profit their employees were "manipulating currency and selling goods on the black market," among other transgressions.

Johnson was so helpful to this company that the author argues that actually he was "working for Brown & Root, not the people of his district or the state." Something similar used to be said about another leading Democratic Party politician, the late Henry "Scoop" Jackson of Washington, who was referred to as the "Senator from Boeing." Obviously today we are in dire need of deeper examinations of the ramified ties between various sectors of state monopoly capitalism and leading political figures and parties, along the lines of the work at hand.

Brown & Root was also viciously anti-union. At one time, for example, progressive formations e.g. the National Maritime Union, played a pivotal role in Texas politics but after Brown & Root and their confederates pushed through anti-union legislation in the 1940s, the political complexion of what is now the second largest state began to change to the point where it has now become a reliable Republican redoubt and, not coincidentally, the home of both the current President and Vice-President.

But as profitable as it had been, when Dick Cheney left the Pentagon in the 1990s to become head of Halliburton, this company was catapulted to a new level of profitability. A staunch conservative, while a member of Congress Cheney avidly opposed imposing sanctions against apartheid South Africa while pushing aggressively for sanctions against socialist Cuba. Before leaving the Pentagon, which he headed during the administration of George H.W. Bush, he accelerated the privatization of core military functions in a way that – coincidentally – aided the company he was about to lead. "They made $109.7 million in Somalia…$6.3 million from Operation Support Hope in Rwanda…..Operation Uphold Democracy in Haiti netted the company $150." Halliburton was "becoming another unit in the US Army" and reaping millions from war and misery, providing a perverse incentive for an increase in such pestilences. "From 1995 to 2000, Brown & Root" – now part of Halliburton—"billed the government for more than $2 billion in services. The company did everything from build the [military] camps to deliver the mail, with 24-hour food service and laundering. It provided firefighting services, fuel delivery, sewage construction, hazardous material disposal, and the maintenance and delivery of equipment." War in the Balkans was the "driving force" for Halliburton’s increased profitability and heightened profile. "Halliburton’s government business doubled while Cheney was CEO."

Yet Cheney also left this firm with a basket of problems after he was elected Vice-President and this may have given him incentive to steer contracts in Halliburton’s direction in order to lessen the pain inflicted on his firm. He pushed through a merger with Dresser Industries, a profoundly disastrous maneuver, given the backbreaking liability for asbestos related lawsuits that this company carried. Coincidentally – that word again – Dresser was "the company that gave George H.W. Bush his first job." After Cheney left Halliburton a "grand jury investigation into over-billing and a Securities and Exchange Commission [SEC] investigation into Halliburton’s accounting practices while Cheney was CEO" ensued. That is not all. The company was accused of bribing a "Nigerian tax authority in exchange for contracts to build a liquefied natural gas plant." A French magistrate "was looking into the possibility of bringing charges against Dick Cheney for complicity in the bribery case and allegations that $243 million in secret commissions were paid from the late 1990s to 2002….the United States Justice Department and the SEC are looking into accusations that Halliburton made $180 million in illegal payments to win other contracts in Nigeria."

This points up another festering problem with Halliburton. The French investigation of Cheney’s alleged malfeasance has complicated Washington’s already deteriorating relations with Paris, while Halliburton’s chicanery has contributed mightily to a culture of corruption in West Africa.

After Cheney left, Halliburton stock plummeted precipitously and given the millions of stock options that he still holds, this jeopardized his own personal fortune, not to mention the fortunes of his fellow executives with whom he had become quite close.

Though the author does not stress this, his study reveals a critical fault line within state monopoly capitalism. For when Halliburton began to feed ravenously at the government trough, other firms in the same business became angrily resentful, which helped to fuel congressional investigations and adverse publicity. For example, during the Reagan years, Bechtel was the government contractor of choice, as suggested by the prominent role in his administration played by two of their former executives – former Secretary of State George Schulz and former Pentagon chief, Caspar Weinberger. "The rapid rise" of Brown & Root, for example, "brought on a fit of jealousy" from their "biggest rival, Bechtel of San Francisco."

Reference
book: The Halliburton Agenda: The Politics of Oil and Money
author: Dan Briody

www.halliburtonwatch.org

Halliburton is of Brown & Root, a company that obtained government contracts via Lyndon B. Johnson during the New Deal. They also took most of the government contracts during the Second World War, Korean War and Vietnam War. It was all done by controlling the chairman of key Senate Committees and having their people holding key posts in the government such as Secretary of the Navy, Secretary of Defense and Secretary of the Treasury.

Not that this is common knowledge. This group of Texans (sometimes known as the Suite 8F Group) bought into Operation Mockingbird (a CIA project to control the US domestic media). However, the web has undermined this project.

The key point made by Bryce and Briody is that this is really an economic issue. The politics of all this is about making money out of their ideology. It does not matter who the US is fighting, it is the spending this goes on it that is important.

Global military spending is $956bn and rising. US spends 40% of this. Most is spent with companies based in Texas.

In 1963 John F. Kennedy tried to deal with the Texas stranglehold over government policy. However, he underestimated the power of the Suite 8F Group.

Reference
book: Cronies: Oil, the Bushes, and the Rise of Texas
author: Dan Briody

www.halliburtonwatch.org/news/dpc_hearing062705.html