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I'm passionate about

energy management
implementation of social media tools and technologies for improving communities through connectivity
human longevity and health

An idea worth spreading

how to reduce the waste in energy right now by implementing available technologies that can reduce losses due to heat by about 60%, thereby allowing for much less dependency on the use and importation of natural resources.

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energy
nanomedicine and cancer vaccines
nutrition
social media

People don't know that I'm good at

mining for medical and/or nutritional protocols
mining for and implementing energy solutions
strategizing for new ideas to develop into web-based concepts - a number of them now under development

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• A reply on Conversation: Disagreeing with U.S. politics.

  Aug 15 2012: Not a bad idea. I'll give it a go, later tonight with item #1, 9/11. Here's reference material for all those interested:
  Architects and Engineers for 9/11 truth: http://www.ae911truth.org/
  Pilots for 9/11 truth: http://pilotsfor911truth.org/
  State Crimes Against Democracy (SCAD): http://globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=17922

• A reply on Conversation: Disagreeing with U.S. politics.

  Aug 15 2012: you want to limit yourself to the short list of names, be my guest. this problem has been with us since the first time that the ape man picked up a stick to hit the other ape man next to him because he wanted the kill of the day all to himself. Moving forward to today, your suspects were but the latest soldiers of fortune, hence, the commanders remain conveniently unnamed.

• A reply on Conversation: Disagreeing with U.S. politics.

  Aug 15 2012: In regards to the lesser of two evils comment, it reminds me of a comment from a former colleague. He said that the difference between Soviet communism and American democracy was one more party, so if you did not like one party, you better like the other one because that's all you get.

• A reply on Conversation: Disagreeing with U.S. politics.

  Aug 15 2012: Disagreement takes a back seat to unsubstantiated and ill-conceived opinions and it is a social epidemic in today's society for we all wish to offer our opinions and hence, declare our existence by forcing others to hear our voices and our empty rhetoric, provided we have not done our required due diligence on the topic at hand. That being the case, if this sort of discussion is what transpires among the majority of the population, may that be because they are too busy to do their homework or otherwise, then, it is very simple to see how the wrong conclusion could and would eventually be reached on their topic of discussion, i.e. 9/11. After all, how many working parents did take the time to find out that steel melts at 2500 deg Farenheit and not at 800 deg which is the temp reached inside the towers, yet molten steel flowed underneath the ground at Ground Zero for weeks after the attacks. This form of human social interaction is even further aided, directed and augmented when systems are put in place within the people's grasp to further guarantee this sort of outcome, i.e. programmed news, talk shows, etc. You, your neighbor, your other neighbor and everyone else down the road will listen to the same language and spit out the same planned rhetoric at the water hole the next morning. This is analogous to entire neighborhoods being built using one single home model. Do that and you will always know what every single one of your neighbors' homes looks like inside, just like yours. Individuality lost, guaranteed. Add the mass sale of cheap allergy-causing wheat products to the nationwide food chains and now you have modeled the perfect serf: oblivious, duplicate and obese.

• A reply on Conversation: Disagreeing with U.S. politics.

  Aug 15 2012: Agreed. The masses are still being fed cake ( a la Louis XVI), in this case episodes of Dancing with the Stars and discounts at Walmart while our Constitution is attacked and eroded and Congress allows it. We are serfs, we are the proletariat and the majority continues to think this way from the very beginning since the American Revolution. Roughly 8% of the population fought the English, then. The other 92% sat and waited. So, when the battles were over and the country was created, the majority of the population had not known what it meant to have sacrificed for it. Yet, the founders still offered their sacrifices for free to them and gave the people the country. What a mistake that was. It continues to this day where the vast majority completely takes for granted their American citizenship and cares not for understanding the reasons why the country was created in the first place, hence, they allow the same mistakes that their ancestors made of not questioning authority, of not dissenting, of simply existing and allowing their corrupt representatives to sell them off to the corporate and banking interests. The founders must be turning in their graveyards.

• A reply on Conversation: Disagreeing with U.S. politics.

  Aug 15 2012: You are correct in that it is not strictly an American problem. It is global and it has been instituted that way, i.e. Bank of International Settlements. Whoever owns the system of credit cares not who the elected leaders may be for they all have to abide by he who controls the finances.

• A reply on Conversation: Disagreeing with U.S. politics.

  Aug 15 2012: You can add Blankfein (GS) and Dimon (JPM) to the listed under #5. And one more category of recent....Eric Holder and his deputies (Department of Justice).

• A reply on Conversation: Disagreeing with U.S. politics.

  Aug 15 2012: This is correct.
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  A reply on Talk: Margaret Heffernan: Dare to disagree

  Aug 9 2012: Red Square has crossed the Atlantic. Just ask anyone that lived there who now lives here. It's deja vu for them. BTW, the literal translation of the KGB is Homeland Security. Why don't you munch on that for a while?

• A comment on Conversation: Disagreeing with U.S. politics.

  Aug 9 2012: Daring to disagree is a vital part of a healthy society, analogous to allowing our human immune system to strengthen by learning from exposure to foreign invaders for, in the same manner in which the immune system learns from these interventions, so does our society from disagreements. Hence, it fundamentally helps maintain the integrity of its fabric by guaranteeing accountability and understanding and clearing of its complexity to realize better solutions to problems. Silence this tool and opportunity to invite concealment in a free society becomes inevitable and with it, the establishment of systems of inequity, partiality and general contempt. The level of lack of disagreement is a telltale of things to come and proportional to the disintegration of this same fabric and the weaving of another, cleverly harmonized for public acceptance.
  1. The acceptance of the 9/11 commission report that led to an unjust war, the creation of Homeland Security and the Patriot act even though thousands of licensed architects, engineers, metallurgists, chemists, physicists, demolition experts, fire protection experts and others have completely disproven it using sound scientific methods.
  2. The acceptance of Congress to allow unabated executive power to order military intervention on foreign lands, target individuals for killing including American citizens and extend the Patriot Act
  3. The acceptance of Congress to enact the Ex-Patriot Act in order to control the capital of citizens
  4. The acceptance of the unabated revolving door between the Securities and Exchange Commission and Wall St.