First Published Wednesday, November 7, 2012
NAMAZU FULLY LOADED: THE FUTURE OF AMERICA
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| Namazu, Giant Japanese Catfish Demigod does a core dump on what he knows about the presidential election, oil and gas production, the recovery, and the not so distant future! This is the big cat fully loaded letting go with both barrels with a vision of the future that is exciting, dangerous, promising , and scary all at the same time. Its our bad luck that Japanese demigod giant catfish can't be a natural born U..S. citizens.. Because if he could qualify to run, this big catfish is the visionary we should have elected today.. |
EDITOR'S NOTE: It has been over 49 months since Namazu made the predictions and observations noted in these two serial essays. Recent news coverage has confirmed the accuracy of his predictions. We took a chance in hiring a giant 3,000 year old catfish , former demigod as an analyst. He did a unique job of responding to our critics on the religious right for hiring what at first appeared to them to be a prominent pagan figure. In his polite but firm response in defense of reemployment rights for former demigods he used flawless theological arguments ("I'm a catfish, I'm not eligible for baptism, etc.) and actually won fans from among his early critics. He did a remarkable job of lampooning a number of national figures, provided insights into coastal zone planning, and damage control, building codes, and climatology.
Then in November of 2012 he wrote the serial essays we republish below, making daring predictions running counter to the views of the day. But it was a block buster doubling our readership over night. The nearly 50,000 of you new readers who have begun to read this publication in the last six months come into these pages with Namazu a sort of established feature writer. We thank you for taking him for granted, we know its a stretch of the imagination. But there is a reason for his successful transformation from unemployed demigod to respected maritime analyst. To understand it, we urge you to read his seminal essays below (with updated material in red) . For those of you who were with us back in November of 2012 we thank you and urge you to re-read the essays as well just to see how well the Namazu views have held up, how many months, even years ahead of the general media he was in predicting certain things. When it comes to accurate information on maritime world events from climate change, to coastal events and policies, to the depredations of "thug states", piracy and beyond ,we believe that the Giant Catfish is actually far more trust worthy than any of Americas commercial news organizations.
NAMAZU FULLY LOADED: THE FUTURE OF AMERICA
When you are a force of nature personified, and I like that term I think better than the old "demigod" label ; you are in constant communion with other forces of nature. That not only includes other giant catfish like my cousin Jack, but even non personified forces of nature like oil and natural gas (Native American pipe line protesters recently personified crude oil as "THE BLACK SNAKE", indicating a slight growth in the human tendency to personify forces of nature and natural elements) .
The most powerful force of nature that I've always been in constant contact with for some reason seems to be blind to itself as a force of nature. That force is the collective intelligence of the human race. It is in fact "of this world" having evolved here and far more powerful than any previous force of nature ever seen on the planet. There is an interplay between the human intelligence force of nature, laws of physics, and deposits of oil and gas that will change the future into something almost barely imaginable for the collective human intelligence. These are developments so big only a giant catfish of a size sufficient to warrant the title "the Earth Shaker" could possibly get his mind around it and communicate it to you.  The Obama / McCain contest CHA CHING! BIG RECOVERY COMING NO MATTER WHO IS IN THE WHITE HOUSE!
There is a massive and rapid economic recovery coming to be followed by a relatively prolonged period of rising American Prosperity. This recovery/ restoration will be fully manifested within 42 months, possibly as early as 36 months and the first signs that the national media will be able to read are just around the corner. (Notice the stock market boom just after the Trump election, as Namazu said 36 to 42 months after Obama's last election) Who ever you elected today as president had nothing to do with this recovery, but the nearly 40% of the electorate that doesn't pay income tax and another 10% or so who are chronically clueless will credit the sitting President at the time with the boom. (Or the new President Elect of 2016) Who is president will determine whether we will develop our new found riches into a legacy for the future or squander it in useless programs that bring us to ruin when this next economic merry go round stops. Remember you heard all this here first. Print out and keep this posting for the future.
China's rise is cruising for a bruising. The U.S. is poised to once again to emerge as the World's only full service super power. Two things are about to curb China's growth, their dependency on import hydrocarbon energy, and new technological developments that will render the type of manufacturing that grew their economy, obsolete and not cost effective. (Hold on to your hats, this is still ahead) By mid century the force that will curb China's growth as a manufacturer coupled with parallel technological developments in several related areas will present the world and the world's leading nation with an earth shattering conundrum. If mankind deals with it with imagination, and energy, and an open mind we may enter an entire new era of human evolution and a thousand years of incredible prosperity and progress. If we deal with it relying on "isms" like socialism, conservatism, libertarianism, or totalitarianism, we will slide into global war from which the human race, just as it reached the pinnacle of its development self annihilates. I, Namazu the Earth Shaker will explain these predictions in detail below, take notes there is even a little investment information mixed into all of this. First as a force of nature myself I'm acutely aware when humans tap into another force of nature. Americans have in the last few years tapped into natural gas in a big way. Where America was not long ago the major importer of liquefied natural gas America is now way more than self sufficient in it and starting to export. The price of natural gas is dropping. The U.S. is trying to use as much as it can rapidly converting electricity production over from coal to natural gas. People are converting from electricity to natural gas for heating and cooking and by passing electricity no matter how it is generated. The price of natural gas keeps dropping. The desire to export natural gas by the American producers is nothing short of urgent. The price for natural gas is too low in America due to the glut, but there is a demand for it globally. But America has hardly begun to tap its' potential as an exporter. The biggest obstruction to natural gas export is the fact that all but one of our LNG marine terminals were developed as import terminals. They can easily be back engineered to export terminals but the Obama administration is sitting on the permits. The holders of these permits are going to be rich. (By late 2016 most of the permits were finally released) Legally Obama can't directly charge the permit holders to put millions or even billions in his own pocket, the party pocket, or even favorite federal programs. The permit fee is the permit fee. But traditional Chicago politics dictates that nothing of that much value that you control while in political power is let go for free. Finding a legal and not too unethical looking way to get to tap into the wealth represented by the permits in order to fund political agendas is taking time. (Time which ran out, the permits were released near the end of the second Obama term. Look for the Democrats to take credit for early prosperity in the early part of the Trump administration taking credit for opening the LNG trade, when in fact they delayed it for years) Regardless of who occupies the White House in January those permits will be issued soon. When that happens the United States will jump practically over night to the number one exporter , number one preferred provider, of liquefied natural gas to the world. This is going to have a big effect on our balance of payments but it is just the start of the fossil fuel driven rehabilitation of the American economy. America has been producing enough domestic oil of late that coupled with the crude oil we import from the OPEC states the United States is now a net exporter of refined petrochemical products which helps create jobs, and relief for our balance of payments. But becoming a net exporter of refined product partially dependent on the import of foreign product is just the start of the coming U.S. oil boom. In the near future any imports will strictly be sent to the U.S. for refining services , America won't need any more foreign crude stocks. Not only will the United States be self sufficient in oil, if America wanted to export crude stock , soon U.S. crude stock available for export will exceed Saudi Arabia. Sound unreal, read on, its not and both of the (2012) Presidential candidates knew this as they went into the election.  Much of the same technology that brought you the natural gas glut is directly applicable to the extraction of crude oil from shale and other "tight formations". While the "deep water " finds in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico have made the national headlines since the BP Oil spill the real news in new U.S. oil discovery is on shore in the tight formations. While the Republicans have been blasting the Obama administration for dragging their feet on the deep water permits, oil production in the United States has been rising steadily on land, mostly on private lands. Just one of the new tight formations now technologically feasible to exploit in Texas has more reserves than all of Saudi Arabia. So far, we know of about three such formations in the United States. But here is some news that hasn't been in the oil and gas trades in quite some time. There is a belt of oil reserves on land in the United States in the South East stretching in a crescent shape called a "trend" from Alabama through parts of Mississippi and into parts of what is called in Louisiana "the Florida Parishes" that has been known to have bigger reserves than Saudi Arabia since the 1950s. Most of the reserve is in private hands. Unfortunately for all of the speculators in mineral rights in the region since the 1950s, most of this oil is laced with "sour gas" or hydrogen sulfide. This makes it dangerous and expensive to drill. At one point it was estimated that in order to economically recover the oil in this on shore trend gasoline would have to be selling for eight dollars a gallon. With all of the new tight formations coming in, gasoline prices are poised for a fall, yet"landsmen", the guys who arrange drilling leases, and mineral rights with private property owners are active in the areas of this trend again. Exploration is in progress so one has to wonder if insiders in the oil industry know of a pending new technological break through that will suddenly make these reserves safe and economical to produce. Suddenly it almost seems like there is no end to U.S. crude oil reserves. * Editor's Note since this was written word has gotten out that Australia has found similar oil in quantities greater than Saudi Arabia, and Australia a close American Ally, is located very close to South East Asian markets and India. Soon America and her Pacific Allies will be in a much better position to ignore the demands of the Middle East OPEC states. But it takes some time for all of this to manifest itself in the economy. Wells have to be drilled, production units moved into place, and there is the political process of the necessary permits. The U.S. oil industry is trying to low profile the finds in order to not set off a U.S. politician feeding frenzy that will run from county supervisors , through the halls of Congress, to the White House. Both of the men who just ran for President know most of this. Obama was trying to figure a more or less legitimate way to benefit from the LNG export terminal permit process. Romney had a very good reason for making what seems like a campaign promise to create "12,000,000 new jobs". That is the predicted number of new jobs that the new oil boom should generate in the next three to five years. (Obama of course got elected and his heel dragging slowed the appearance of these jobs which will shortly manifest themselves) Most political pundits call his promise impossible. As potentially president, Romney knows that all he has to do is not interfere with the boom and he will be credited with it. Obama on the other hand is already interfering with the boom, slowing it some what with permit games. The jobs that will be created without any effort on his part and in substantial numbers despite his games will be largely high wage blue collar related to oil drilling, refining, and transport. Consider that an instrument technician in an oil refinery requires about six months of vocational technical training and starts near $60,000 a year in compensation. Obama has already spoken about putting federal dollars into non degree vocational technical education for "today's jobs". Carefully crafted Federal educational aid programs aimed at the longer term unemployed should propel many people who experienced months or even years of recent hard times into lucrative positions without the expense or time of pursuing a four year degree. Indeed many a liberal arts graduate will seek out these opportunities. Since the boom will directly positively affect the non college educated working and lower middle class, Obama, if still in the White House will point to it as proof that "his plan" to build the economy "from the middle class out" worked. In fact the natural gas/ oil boom is coming regardless of who sits in the White House. Neither man nor either political party had anything to do with creating it. Both parties are trying to ride it to a prolonged if not permanent position of political power.
The effects of this coming boom will include the re-positioning of the U.S. dollar as again the unchallenged global reserve currency. The balance of payments will be resolved in America's favor, and America's number one credit rating restored. Tax revenues will increase not because the United States did or did not raise taxes on the "rich'. The truth, is if the federal government confiscated all of the wealth of the top one percent, it would only make a tiny dent in the amount of the U.S. national debt. There will simply be more tax payers paying taxes on more income. With the boom and its increased revenues to the U.S. Treasury, the debt will look less daunting. Given an electorate in which nearly 50% of the voters are actually willing to believe the President or party in power had anything to do with the coming new prosperity who ever is in the White House in 2016 has a free ride to re-election or election of the proxy of his choice. (That of course didn't happen since Obama delayed through regulatory action and inaction the on set of the prosperity, Trump will likely be in office when the boom occurs) There in is the making of the first of the coming potential disasters that could ruin what should be about a fifty year run of prosperity and progress.
Running parallel and a bit behind the coming oil boom is a technological development that will end China's run as the number one manufacturing economy. Its called three "dimensional printing". You've seen the science fiction version for years on STAR TREK, the replicator. Well the early versions are out of the lab and into the market place already. Its being called Three Dimensional Printing. The operator loads in the specifications for the product and some canisters of powdered materials and the "printer begins" layering the desired object from the molecule level up ending with with a three dimensional working product. In short you are looking at the arrival of the STAR TREK replicator. I know you think that can't happen. If you are over fifty think about where you first saw the "flip phone", the "electronic book" ( now sold as Kindle and several competitive models). If you are under thirty you probably can't remember a time when these things weren't around. Well the "Replicator" AKA "Three Dimensional Printing" is out of the Lab and on the shop floor in a few places already. The early models are expensive and the products they can make somewhat limited at the moment. But like all such technologies the performance will improve with time and costs will drop. In fact for a few small units the price has already dropped to a point where wealthy individuals may have some. It is widely reported that Jay Leno has one in his garage that can produce a number of working parts for vintage cars where sufficient specs exist for these parts no longer manufactured in the traditional sense. For the Chinese as well as for Americans this is earth shaking news., what else would you expect from Namazu the Earth Shaker? This technology conserves not only labor but material resources as well. Most manufacturing today is reductive. The process starts with a pile of steel , plastic, and other materials in whole sale lengths and shapes. The desired object is cut, milled, shaped and assembled out of this material pile and emerges in the functional form sold, leaving behind a slag pile of waste material. The Three Dimensional Printing Process starts at the molecular level and generates no waste using only exactly the amount of material needed. That saving alone puts the conventional factory at a big disadvantage. To be continued |
NAMAZU FULLY LOADED , THE FUTURE OF AMERICA PART 2
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NAMAZU ANCIENT GIANT CATFISH DEMIGOD OF JAPAN CONTINUES HIS VISION FOR AMERICA, OCEANS WIDE, 3,000 YEARS DEEP, THE GREAT CATFISH CAN EVEN SEE INTO THE NEAR FUTURE! GEEZ WE SHOULD HAVE HIRED HIM AS AN ANALYST A YEAR AGO! (Continuing from Part 1) Three Dimensional Printing not only eliminates material waste in manufacturing but also eliminates all of the employment attached to the excess of materials required to manufacture in the conventional factory. This "replicator" technology allows for short production runs, custom work, and mid run changes; all things frequently needed today but often prohibitively expensive with a conventional "factory". The labor level in a replicator based plant is tiny even compared to the most "modern" conventional "factory" that has maximized the advantages of robotic technology.
Now add modern management practices like" just in time delivery" where distributors no longer want to tie up capital in large stocks of product and the related storage and transport. Manufacturing is going to move closer to distributors around the world. China will no longer be the supplier of so many manufactured items to the global market. The United States won't either, but will come back into its own, making and distributing products sold in the United States. China will prefer to get its oil and natural gas from the United States (and Australia) as the more reliable and efficient supplier compared to OPEC sources. Yet America won't be dependent on China for cash infusions to pay American debt and to make the clothing, furnishings, and appliances Americans use. The Dragon will continue to make trouble with its neighbors over various islands and areas in the China Sea in the hope that there are massive reserves of oil there and that the Dragon will control them. But confrontation will only serve to slow exploration and development. I like what Og calls China, "a thug state". I think at present he is correct, as long as I have known them (3,000 years) they have been big on central big government which usually degenerates into thuggery. I don't see them changing their ways in time to avoid a fall from world economic power. I frankly don't know if that also means regime change. Even giant catfish "demigods" have their crystal ball limits. So in the first three decades of the twenty first century these technological forces will unfold and dump in American laps another shot at an "American Century". Unfortunately even while this prosperity is unfolding other technological and political forces are shaping up that could put some dark clouds on the horizon. If America uses its newly recovered economic power to pay off its debt and reform its' government's free borrowing ways and deals pragmatically with the third wave of technological change coming, there is a chance that America could remain powerful and free leading the planet into a thousand year period of global prosperity and human freedom. For that to happen the present day model of politician and voter has to change dramatically, and all thought that makes a "may I?" bow to any from of "ism" must go. Sink or swim time, is rapidly heading toward America and the world. The next wave of technology is actually moving along as we prepare to absorb the positive shock waves of becoming again the world's supplier of preference for petrochemical products, and regain our own manufacturing base. What's coming isn't a single game changing event of technology but a convergence of technologies. The replicator or "Three Dimensional Printing" is part of it in fact. But along with that are the combined effects of explosive growth in computational capacity and speed, not to mention new machine logic that can only be called artificial intelligence. These developments are converging with advances in miniaturization and advances at the interface between genetic engineering and agriculture, and medicine. These advances all seem to be converging at about the mid century point when something amazing in an evolutionary sense will take place. On some future day near the mid century point the quantity and quality of artificial intelligence on the planet will exceed the total of human organic brain power. Through devices as small as surgical implanted micro chips , and special eye glasses people will be linked into this vast intelligence. Human/cyber enhanced intelligence will dwarf every past advance in human intelligence over the last 200,000 thousand years. All of this will be happening at a time when medical advances will have extended the human life span potential to a seemingly indefinite point barring accidents. And not only will life be extended but relative youth as well.. Unfortunately this rapidly approaching future that babies born today will have to deal with as adults will occur just as technology will make it possible to generate all of the food, fiber, finished products, and shelter that the entire human race will ever need to live a comfortable middle class life with only a tiny fraction of the work force actively employed. There will be a need for human workers in certain service sectors, and human managers and administrators will be wanted in manufacturing, sales will still have a creative and personal component, but the bottom line is that most of the decently educated and even skilled people on Earth just won't be able to find gainful employment. There it is the sink or swim moment! Throughout civilized history we have rewarded the producers with the medium of exchange and they have spread it by purchasing needs and wants from other producers. In a world of potential high end consumers awash in goods that almost appear automatically , but only a very small number of people able to possess the medium of exchange through productive work; will the productive system collapse? Will it reduce itself to serve a insular economy of the elite workers who let the rest of the human race starve? Will the rest of the human race consent to starve quietly and peacefully? How do we deal with this unprecedented situation, a world of plenty in which the medium of exchange is either unavailable to ordinary people , or in the only alternative in which humanity survives and progresses is distributed by some system as yet unimaginable in which the medium of exchange is distributed in an as yet unimagined system that detaches money from one's contribution to the production of goods and services. The old American adage attributed to Captain John Smith "He who doesn't work doesn't eat" just won't cut it in the world tomorrow. The oil and gas boom is coming and will drive a big recovery around the corner. We will have an unprecedented opportunity to retire our debt and reform our system back to a balanced budget. But with the two American political parties being based on two opposed coherent belief systems; conservatism and liberalism no matter which is in power neither ism offers any solution for what comes after the boom. One would "correct" the debt with excessively painful measures and one would just continue to spend the nation into the ground, putting off the day when the bill comes due another generation down the line. To set the stage for the coming new age of intelligence, longevity , and abundance and still preserve the greatest good for the greatest number, a pragmatism totally unhitched from the slavish mentality of the "isms" is desperately needed. Some ideas of the right and left have places in this pragmatic approach. The right is correct is seeing the priority that should be attached to paying off the nation's debt. The left is correct in wanting to thicken the "safety net". But the American tax payer can't pay the bill for the left's social programs now. The federal government borrows every other dollar it spends. There are large numbers of Americans who despise the Republican tendency to describe social security payments military and civil service retirements as "entitlements" lumping payments that they receive for work performed and systems financially contributed to in the same category as welfare payments and food stamps. The Democrats tend to hold such taxpayers hostage by also lumping them into the "entitlement " group knowing full well that many of the social security recipients and pensioners are Republican. Cut off payments to our voters and we cut off payments to yours. Its time for some common sense and pragmatism. The fact is we can cut welfare type benefits without affecting the government's credit but to fail in our pension obligations makes the "full faith and credit" of the United States a joke. We must separate pension obligations including social security from welfare entitlements". The good news for both sides if they could stop squabbling long enough to listen is that the recovery is around the corner no thanks to any occupant of the White House or the Congress. More over the recovery is going to be extraordinarily strong and long lasting. This means there need be no rush to default or draconian measures. Both sides must be committed to paying off the debt without damaging the American Government's credit or pushing people out onto the street. Looking down the road thirty years at the on set of the "singularity" that some futurists call this convergence of technologies reducing labor to a fraction of today's levels leaders have to realize that conventional socialism isn't the answer, but they are going to have to decouple conventional ideas of "work" from earnings or risk mass starvation and civil war in middle of the greatest level of material wealth that mankind has ever had. Enter the NAMAZU idea "the active electorate." Down in cousin Jack's Louisiana some very rural parishes are governed by "police juries". These are sort of a commission that approves budget outlays for public works like roads, and provides public safety services, and parks and recreation. Generally police jury members are elected. But if enough candidates don't run, members can be drafted as in what they call a "petite jury" for a trial. Now let's look at some painful American history. America started out as a republic where pretty much the landed gentry and the professional class were the electorate. America gradually evolved into a more democratic form where those who could read and were interested enough in public affairs to pay a poll tax could vote and elect the representatives who would serve in the legislature and they could vote for the key executives such a President and Governor. This was part of the American evolution from republic into full representational democracy. But we lost something along the way as the franchise was expanded. What we lost was a majority electorate of educated and concerned citizens, throwing many elections to the most entertaining , dare I used the term, "demigod". That is one of the reasons why American government malfunctions so often. A little history is in order here. One of the great milestones on the road to representational democracy was the paying of elected office holders. Until the public began to pay a salary to elected legislators the only people who could afford to serve in office were the landed gentry and other independently wealthy. Paying public office holders changed that and made the legislature and executive more responsible to the people. But today America has reached the far end of that trend. Ignorant and indolent people have learned that they can vote themselves cash and other benefits right out of the public treasury. To get better government we need a better electorate. In the coming years as more and more educated people become unemployed and unemployable we need to establish corps of professional electors in every jurisdiction. These would be groups of educated voters paid to study the issues being prepared for the general electorate . They would be required to meet formally, study documents, and discuss the pros and cons of everything going on the ballot. They would be required to vote in the usual secret ballot but early. Without attribution to individual electors their votes would be counted and the results yea and nay published for the public before the general election. Their votes would count in the general election and the general voting public would be free to vote as they saw fit. Such bodies which we might call elector colleges would have a positive influence on general elections. These colleges would function at precinct, county, and state levels. Members would be paid and could come from neighborhood elections, and independent commission appointments. There would be a career pattern that would begin with precinct service for those interested. These would be the lowest deliberative chambers of government but without dictating would signal to the less involved voter how the informed were voting. In important but low interest elections these electors insure that someone other than spoils seeking partisans turn out and vote, because the elector college members always vote. In a future where work opportunities are rare the government would have to do something that would choke the average Republican today. The government would have to insure portable retirement benefits, health benefits, expanded unemployment compensation for the part time and serial worker. For those who want to work, work is probably going to be sporadic and often part time. America can't follow the present Republican model and just throw such interested workers to the wolves. But we can't follow the Democratic model and just put them on a government dole and come load them onto buses at election time to haul them to the polls to pull the lever for the party favoring the dole. The Republican value of work needs to be honored by insuring that those who want to work in an economy which needs so few workers can earn a middle class living by constantly making them selves available for work and responding when called . Those who prefer not to constantly chase gainful employment should be engaged in the elector colleges insuring that democracy works intelligently starting at the grass roots level. Those who neither qualify for periodic work or the elector corps should be engaged in formal education or training and government will have to pay for it and their living expenses. Such government involvement and planning in people's lives is abhorrent to freedom loving people today. So the system has to be open, and voluntary. Those with inherited wealth who don't want to be professional electors or periodic workers, or paid scholars should be free to be hedonist if they prefer. Those who would like to try their hand at a simple subsistence farmer life style, or create a small business should still share in an expanded safety net. But government will be necessary to assure that the large long lived, general population has a variety of activities to choose from that will put the medium of exchange in their hands and assure that there is a market of consumers for those who produce products and especially for those who invent new ones. In the world of the cyber linked intelligent human of tomorrow there will be only one shortage if we move towards the future deliberately, and that will be conventional jobs. The left will have to acknowledge that work is a necessary part of the human nature. Without it we tend to degenerate and societies become plagued with crime. The right will have to acknowledge that in the world to come, devil take the hindmost capitalism will spell starvation and war. There are issues of taxation, and regulation, and monetary policy that will have to be resolved (hey I'm a giant catfish not a candidate for world emperor, you can't expect a full blue print for the future here). But the bottom line is easy to discern "ismatic" thinking has to go. So here is the NAMAZU PROPOSAL: I want to address this to two groups; college age kids, and their grandparents. Young people this will all fall on you. Your parents will probably remain Democrats or Republicans occasionally crossing the line for an individual candidate of particular appeal. They will remain consumer voters selecting between the two parties and putting little thought into their votes until pretty close to election time. They are going to leave you with a mess. Either don't join or resign from either major party now. Re-register independent right away. Get together with your grandparents and form a national pragmatic party. Your grandparents can't recognize the government today. They grew up thinking of it as a working partner and have seen it degenerate into a squabbling bunch of partisan ideology driven do nothings. Your grandparents can produce eligible candidates for offices with minimum qualifying ages as well as candidates with a credibility factor to get your new party some cross over voters from the working adult sector. Your grandparents are less likely to screw you over than the thirty to fifty something crowd of working adults. Your grandparents actually care about your future and may now have the time for politics. But if you don't act now to end the politics of today rest assured that the next president of the United States will hijack the recovery, take credit for it , be believed by half the electorate or more and try to establish a political dynasty on it. That means you arrive at the post recovery era of permanently shrinking job opportunities with a government and a society totally unprepared. Time to put aside the old ideas and conflicts and start supporting policies that work with out sticking labels of the left or right on them. Children, save yourselves, your political leaders won't do it for you and your parents are politically clueless. But fore warned is fore armed. (It does appear that the election of Mr. Trump, who unfortunately did not receive a lot of support from the youngest voters does represent something of a yearning for pragmatic approaches to societal problems, now we need the young adults to get on board. ) OK, that's been a lot for you to absorb I'll sign off now ; Namazu the Earth Shaker Editors Note: After parts 1 and 2 of NAMAZU FULLY LOADED were transcribed from the hydro phones we were frankly "flabergasted". We asked the great catfish how on earth he ever came up with all this while wallowing about on the sea floor in the Sea of Japan. He said: "I read a lot". So we asked him for a couple of suggestions. We were "flabergasted" again. here are his suggestions below. Don't click on the first one unless you are deadly serious. WORLD WIDE OIL AND GAS INDUSTRY PREDICTIONS: WARNING ONLY FOR THE VERY SERIOUS OIL AND GAS INVESTOR THIS IS A $4,500 DOWN LOAD. WE KID YOU NOT, 4 FIGURES. ONLY A JAPANESE DEMIGOD OR TEXAS OILMAN IS LIKELY TO BUY THIS DOWN LOAD. DISCLAIMER: The management of American Admiralty Books has decided to pull WORLD WIDE OIL AND GAS INDUSTRY PREDICTIONS links from the AAB site. We appreciate that a demigod like Namazu has world wide sources and expense is no object when he does his research for his opinion, which we continue to highly value. However we would not want anyone to mistake an official AMERICAN ADMIRALTY BOOKS RECOMMENDATION with simply the suggestion of a particular author within the blog. We realize that low circulation technical publications are generally high priced. We link to quite a few that cost several hundred dollars a copy. However $4,500 was too much for us to spend for a chance at reviewing the download. We are making no judgement on the worth or the contents of this Amazon distributed product. But as an (former) Amazon portal we distinguish our entry portal from other Amazon entry portals or the main Amazon site by the fact that we are subject matter experts and we are generally familiar with those titles we link to for sale. This particular document is beyond our finincial ability to review. We will work with Namazu to post in this space less expensive oil and gas information sources that tend to support the observations that he articulated in the two part series "NAMAZU FULLY LOADED: THE FUTURE OF AMERICA. This management decision is not meant in any way to reflect on Namazu as author or the pulled suggested reading as a source of information. This is strictly an economic decision.
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