Off the Grid

To used energy in environmental for climate changes, there is also political consequence, of a decentralize society, since the best energy used depend on regions, combination, Solar, Wind, Biogas, micro-hydro (in many case can run a small micro-factory and a small house: the turbines: Screw Turbine: Reverse Archimedes; Gorlov: Helical Turbine free stream or constrained flow or without dam; Kaplan Turbine; Water Wheel; Gravitation water vortex power plan), to full hydraulic systems, geothermal, where the electrical production of appliances consider the minimum used of energy to  accomplish the full objective used. The open to micro-factories the used of bio-gas to run cell fuel, and individual houses using a combination of solar and wind (Stand-alone power-system), or other circumstance, were using small river stream to run micro power generators. The collection of this individual micro energy sources, become self-sufficient community, the only way to achieve this level, since the cost is possible using co-housing and cooperative houses, collective houses, can share cost. In case of Biogas Human waste can be use and recycle the water returning to the water streams. Rain water or trapping water drops can be used not only is water supplied but to run the micro-hydro.

Transition Time

WWI ended in 1917, the years between the second conflict of WWII, while the reasons for WWI, where base on aspirations of West and Ottoman Caliphate, in Nationalism and Empire construction, the between period was a transition to the Empire build on race (National Socialist in Germany), Authoritarian of  the divine, Catholic Fascist (Portugal, Spain and Italy) or Empire of the Ideology (Authoritarian Communism: where humans where classified by class, become the German Nationalism which divided by race, some president in Hindu society cast was (is) determination of the status of individual, is not coincidence in case of National Socialist in Germany, occultism drive some of the ideology, because many of the occult  thinking is based on authoritarian hierarchy, where everything and everyone fit into).

The failure of the Authoritarian communism ended with the fall of the berlin wall, and the fact the Soviet Union economy revenue was 60% on natural resource, especially oil and Capitalism Euphoria lifted the control mechanism implemented in the 1930s to control the inequality, which give rise to Racist Ideology, Catholic Fascist and the Authoritarian Communism. With the economic meltdown of 2008, because not only the international economy, in 1990´s NAFTA in US, the industrial production in US move south and eventually Asia for cheaper labour, destroying the Industrial base in US and move to Asia. In South America give the rise of the left and the Middle East Political Islam and the funding of the ideology, which included the Authoritarian and corrupt Russia, where the Orthodox Russian Church retaken a place in Russia, like in the Czar time, based on corruption, and nepotism, and desired to be an Empire.

One lesson learnt of Empire, while the power is in the aggressor hand, the relationship both ways, the influence, one of the other. Islam conquest, have given access to culture and though, in case absorbing everything, but the nature of the aggression, after is absorbed, the stop any creativity, in case of Islam: consider in many cases the societies, maintain a tribe structure or case Ottoman Empire, where tribe system was replace to a centralize state, the base build upon was tribe, when the absorbed the other culture, internally stop be creative, since one characteristic of Empire is to maintain the power Spanish Empire is another example, because the objective was to maintain what got then into power.

In case of Russia, which produce many Intellectual brake troughs, but because in the desired to maintain the power structure, the brake though where control, even in the everyday life. The Soviet State in the 1950s for ideological (nepotism: In the 1930´s the Agronomist Trofim Lysenko camping against genetic and with the support of Stalin, in part because the Eugenic moment which took place in US, taken to Germany in 1930´s by the National Socialism became the base of the Pseudo-Science, which race believe was built upon) reason suppressed the research in Genetics and for control Cybernetics (Computer Science), since the initial work done by the Defence Department in US, was to connect different machines from different suppliers, and also to decentralized the command and control, which was the opposite in Soviet Union, for ideological reasons, guaranty everyone a job for life and centralize system

The revival of the left in South America, Venezuela, has come to an stop, like the Soviet Case the revolution was funding through natural resources (Oil), the fact the oil Shale in US and Canada, has force Saudi to lower the price and Russia, committed the same error of the Soviet predecessor, since Russia corruption (the old Communist Nomenclature become the oligarchs), the lash to recreated an economic empire, where absorbing others technology brake through, Russia aggression in Ukraine base on this desired. Of, course the problem the because climate change, society energy consumption need to change, while Natural gas, and immediate production of Shale Oil, in case of Russia, many Anti-Fracking in European Union (while the objections are very valid local Earth Quakes and water pollution), was supported by the Russia, since Russian especially the East Europe, for more than 50 years was integrated to the Soviet Empire, Russia wanted to revived the old structure to control East Europe, but not just an environmental energy production, but a decentralized energy, challenge the power.

The economic collapse of 2008, and the Middle East Economics, with a big working young population, but not industrial base, the cash for the consumptions based on Natural resources, with the climate changes send many people into country side into cities and exacerbated, where an authoritarian political structure, by Individual, family, majority or minority ethnic groups, and lack of opportunity created space for a revolution, given space to political Islam, which in name of International Religion, in exchange of submission to Religious Authority structure. In China where, Communist party have authoritarian control, but limiting the social liberties, limiting the access to the power and limiting creativity, will limited the time life of the political structure.

Ideal Garden

Latern

Bridge in a Garden

Just Enough

Lessons are learn from three distinct societies, the collapse of the Maya Civilization due to over cultivation in a poor soil, the Pascual Island, deforestation, while Japan in the 16 Century, the Civil war and destruction of the Forest become close to society collapse, but cast and authoritarian society of Feudal Japan force an ecological society, which lasted to the 18 century with open of the Japan. 

The forest where renewed, but under strict control of the lords, the village, become self-sufficient base on rice production of the terraces, become the natural swamps, which recycle the precious used of water, the used the local material, while individual families, close to self-sufficient, since the Japanese society was agriculture, and the low class where the artisans and commerce, the currency was rice.

The cities only 10% of the population are from commerce and artisans, and the cities, in case of Edo, 60% of the population, belong to Samurai, they themselves need to leave under the ecological system, the recycle of water and the separation of human waste to be used in the field is a fertilize, because the status of the Samurai, which depended by the rice rations of the Lord, and not allot to engage in commerce, for the society base on exchange and share society (a good description is given by Brown in Just Enough: Lesson from Traditional Japan, 2012).

The collapse occur, due the inward society where there was not mobility, created a xenophobic, which were the roots of conflict in 1930´s and ended in WWII, even today some of the traces are found in Japanese society.

The lessons we can learn, first Japan society like many of the Asian, the Buddhism, is believe which is spiritual Journal, in the west the Monotheistic believe there is not about an spiritual development, but submission to a God, whether the path can be spiritual, but end result is to a Authority.

We as species are evolved, like other species depend on the environment, we have change some of the environment, but we dependent to the fine tuning, while is truth, this planet is a limited time, we are here to learn and evolved.

We should not be limited to inequality the Capitalism offered or the Authoritarian, from State Socialism, Communist (today the communist have become state capitalism), the third way describe by Kropotkins in Fields, Factories and workshops of tomorrow. Evolution is better than revolution, consensus is better than majority or minority rule, while takes time, and sometimes decisions, but examples in the Collectives of the Spanish revolution describe by Gaston Leval, in Colectividades Libertarias en Espana, and more controversial because the nationalism, which the Kibbutz come, and today the original Kibbutz collective is only 30% of the movement, described by  Horrox in A Living Revolution: Anarchism in the Kibbutz Movement and the few anarchist are found Kinbbutz Samar, Neve Shalom and in the north with more religious orientation following the ideal of Rabbi Ashlag.

But what we can do now, technology and Science are just tools, to be guide for a common good, first from economics, we have choice, the system have power over us, because we let them, because we still accept and believe in their solutions, to overcome, we need created cooperatives, and collectives, based and willing participants, try to network cooperatives, become industries, should become micro-industries, like Carson describes in: The Homebrew Industrial Revolution, using open sources, now with 3-D printers, we began to open to possibilities, customize and artisan society, based on collectives cooperatives (in 2014, the production of autos using this micro fabric show mas production).

The use energy, while is not a single solution, off the greed, by the use of solar, vertical wind mills, micro-hydro power, and bio-gas. The used of train or other form mass transport (hyper loop), street cars, trolley buses, electrical car (Local Motors), sun energy, bicycle, rollers. Electronics is getting to the point micro-factories print will make possible to produce customize electronics.

The food should be obtained from farmers markets, local production, neighborhood gardens, or vertical agriculture. Education, as the way by system to control through, gate keepers, and selected exams, to overcome, we all born with a talent and our life work is to developed not only for us to achieve but to share, first education should be open and should be based on apprenticeship, which combine practical  and theoretical. Even in theoretical, how to present the theory should be a practical, to train in a laboratory—models in Popular Universities, Institutes, and Cooperatives Universities, the cooperative and collectives encourage the use of models. While, we still live in a monetary society, the use Mutual Aid Societies, Credit Unions, Saving Collectives Money Associations.

Health is a social service, from the basic research to drug development directly or indirectly, based on taxes, by the society, Medical Doctors is train in Medical Hospitals, and this model can applied to basic research, through apprenticeships. Society should encourage space exploration, in the same structures, and using Biology Open Labs, can applied to other science, and technology.

After 2008 crises 1.5 Million of families in US lost their homes, become to mass protest, all accepted their situation, if there was the destiny, but after the crises solutions, can be offer, one co-housing, buying land together created community houses, base of the grid technologies, Municipal internet and open internet, like in Estonia, free internet. The internet was developed by US government original in the 1950s, to have different hardware, eventually to able to respond Military, from many locations, in the 1970s protocols of the technology took place, and eventually the used hypertext, developed by grant from NSF, and bought by apple, the first web browser Mosaic developed in University of Illinois, set the digital revolution. Today with scan technology and RF we can track items, moreover the creation of used as needed open possibility to creation of open, transparent, base democratic society.

2014-2015

To the ones, left behind

I cannot speak to look forward, because I do not what is forward.

I can speak what I left behind, memories hopes, desire or dreams.

But, at this point does not matter, because what we have left behind, I just can say is over.

What is forward, I cannot say, not one ever has come to tell us what is forward.

The actions and regrets, of many hope, but whether was early or late does not matter.

I will like to see the forward, but the walls between unknown and the forward is too big, our hope and desires, what left dream.

Stop for a moment, and choose the dream we left, all the materials thinks are just dust on the wind, and with the time, come back to the start dust the one time was, so what we left, act of kindness, lost in time, and maybe this one will give and lift hope, or a though which will give hope, a path to the starts, where we will have a chance.

We cannot take our cloths or hope, dreams, desires, but we leave is our hopes and dreams, desires to the one we left behind.

Art Deco 2014 (Riga)

A Case for Equality

The first expulsion of the Jew from Spain was carry on by revival of Almohad Caliphate in 1172, while even under peace period, the Jewish community of Granada in December 30, 1066, the Pogrom razing the entire Jewish Community, Muslim mob stormed the royal palace in Granada, which was at that time in Muslim-ruled al-Andalus, assassinated the Jewish vizier Joseph ibn Naghrela and massacred the Jewish population.

During the Catholic Reconquista, in appeal to the Sunny Ottoman from the Shia Andalusian, request was deny for any help to hold the Catholic King.  The same Ottoman carries the first scale industrial mass murder against the Armenians in WWI. In some level the way we treat the ones close to us speak volumes. Eugenics advocated in US, by, William Goodell (1829-1894), but the modern used of Eugenics was prescribed by Francis Galton, half cousin of Darwin. Eugenics took a strong root in US, because from the inception was created a race is an economic tool, the only historical parallel Rome, used prisoners of wars as Slaves and Greeks use the concept of the Barbarian to create an economic slave.

Because the race inequality in US has (and still) manifest is an economic tool, and the first Genocide base on Religion was carry by the Othman Sunni Empire, but to use race is political act, German original program to eliminated any they consider not genetic in the Program T4, which eliminated any one they consider medical defected (The program is described by Robert Jay Lifton in The Nazi Doctors: Medical Killing and the Psychological of Genocide, 1986—Basic Books; Richard J Evans in The Third Reich Power, 2005, Allen Lane).

Biology by his logic, sometimes are simple rules, sometime complex rules, but because the interactions is very complex, many have extrapolated some of our knowledge so far just by speculation, Biology, while is a old knowledge, but the Evolution with the Genetics has rejuvenated Biology as new science, some have so far proclaim the selfish gene following the Darwin Natural Selection, up to the 1990s we consider Human genes at 100,000 to found actually the Human Gene is only 30,000 (approximation) or idea Natural selection only promoted selfishness, but in the 20 Century Kropotkin by observation (similar Darwin Analysis) in Mutual Aid A factor of Evolution propose the cooperation is a the factor or least a great factor in Biology and Human Evolution, in 2009, Frans De Waal (a primatologist and ethologist) show the cooperation is major factor not just in human evolution, but any biological system. 

The brain is one of the most complex system, while Biology is descriptive the tendency of reduction view in Biology, sometime we will like to believe the just by simple reduction to describe the system, this tendency is found in groups working in Artificial Intelligence, which are which full thinking or projecting their desire, with 100 Billion Neuron Trillions connections, which are continuously transforming, make a difficult problem, we just to start to look into,  because environment and cultural defined behavior, believes, the understanding is compound, is too early to give any definitions. Now the DNA show the closes we are by family or groups, also shows we are come from the same lines, not better or worse, with the limited resources we have, and desire of continue, we need to think in cooperative way to each other, sharing, so far the rules and gate keepers is to maintain a vertical system, which is not functioning, and we are going from conflict to conflict, and we have devise some nay ways to destroy our selves, what is sad we are share our destiny, sometime our close to us we heard the more, 2014 is a great example from the inequality in US (in US due to race) and Europe with the 2,000 years of the outsider, the Religious conflict of the Middle East, Russia delusion of Empire in Ukraine, and forcing herself to Europe, China due to their population a need for Order, depriving the individual, the inequality in India base on Cast, the Fanatics of Islam  Pakistan, Iran, Afghanistan, Saudi, economics and health issues, 2014 was record, like in beginning of the 1900 a change, we lost prospect and committed horrendous crimes against each other, against our Human Family, and destroying our own environment. Institutions like UN are just political tools of power plays.