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Sepp Hasslberger: Evacuated Tube Transport Technologies (ET3)™

03 Economy, Commerce
Sepp Hasslberger

Evacuated Tube Transport Technologies (ET3)™

WHY: Transportation is the master key to survival. A new mode of transportation (independent of diminishing fossil energy) is necessary to achieving an environmentally sustainable yet thriving economy in an urbanized world.

WHAT: ET3™ is literally ‘Space Travel on Earth,’ a global transportation system that is silent, low cost, fast, secure, safe, and environmentally friendly.

HOW: ET3 utilizes automobile sized capsules weighting 400lb empty that carry 6 persons or 800 lbs of cargo. The magnetically levitated capsules operate in two-way networks of 5′ diameter tubes. Air is permanently removed from the sealed tubes to eliminate drag force. The use of portal airlocks allows capsule transfers without admitting air. The pressurized capsules are accelerated by linear electric motors; then they merge into the flow of capsules where they coast without using significant additional power. The system is automated. Full speed passive switching enables non-stop operation and enroute destination changes. Upon switching to an off-line portal access branch, the capsules decelerate with a linear generator that recovers acceleration energy.

VALUES: ET3 requires 1/30th of the materials of high speed rail, so construction costs a tenth as much. A pair of ET3 tubes at 350mph can exceed the capacity of a 40-lane freeway at half the cost of 4 lanes. ET3 capacity scales with design velocity. ET3 can provide 50 times more transportation per kWh than electric cars or trains, yet operates at 400mph domestic, to 4000mph international.

ET3 can also transport energy. ET3 eliminates risk of human error, mechanical failure, weather risks, and errant vehicles (since ET3 is automated, and the travel path is isolated).

THE COMPANY ET3: is the industry leader in all phases of ET3 technology. The company uses an open consortium business model to share information resulting in cooperative benefits.

Readiness: Billions of dollars worth of technology, hardware, production capacity and materials necessary to implement ET3 already exist.

Structure: The ET3 company (consortium model) shares it's patented IP with others by granting non-exclusive licenses to participants who agree to use the technology in a reciprocal manner with the company and other licensees.

Goal: The consortium model provides a market to maximize the profit potential for licensees and investors by leveraging existing talent and assets to: implement, manage and improve ET3 technology; thereby creating huge new markets for existing capacities.

HISTORY:
1910 Robert Goddard designed rockets and airless tube travel systems.
1970s Swissmetro and Rand studies of maglev trains in reduced pressure tunnels.
1985 Daryl Oster conceived ET3.
1997 company formed in Florida.
1999 First patent (US-5,950,543).
2002 &2005 ETT-HTSM technology exchange at SWJTU in China.
2005 –2011 ET3 consortium grows to 120 individuals, companies, and institutions in 9 countries.
2011 ET3 wins DaVinci Institute commercial product of the year award (NO CASH AWARD, the $500 value membership prize offset by $510 entry fees for no monetary gain).

FUTURE:
2yrs- a 3 mile demo at 375mph.
5yrs- 300 mile system connecting major cities.
10yrs- national networks.
20yrs- global ET3 network displacing up to 90% of global transportation.

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Mini-Me: Asian Deep Wealth versus US/EU Illuminati/Nazis

Commerce, Corruption, Government, Law Enforcement, Military
Who? Mini-Me?

Huh?

Benjamin Fulford Update 8-21-12…”Cabal Control Is Disintegrating At An Accelerating Pace On Multiple Fronts”

Highlights

  • …the IMF is now officially calling for an Iceland style solution (bust the banks and arrest corrupt bankers and politicians who accepted their bribes).
  • Now the most brainwashed people in the West are failing to explain the contradictions of their so-called leaders.
  • Neil Keenan’s liens… are now set to be refiled as early as this Friday… [they] have way more evidence backing them than the original Keenan lawsuit ever did…
  • Keenan says he has the backing of the pentagon and most of the US law enforcement establishment as well as Interpol.
  • The Japanese underworld and all major Yakuza gangs have now agreed to stop working for the cabal and take action against their puppets.

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NIGHTWATCH: Afghanistan Truth Check – Still Hosed

Corruption, Military

Afghanistan: Special comment: This week Coalition forces commander General Allen said that only ten of Afghanistan's now 405 districts, in 34 provinces, are responsible for half of the violence in Afghanistan.

They are Sangin, Nowzad, Musa Qala, Kajaki, Nad e Ali, Nahr e Sarraj in Sangin Province plus Pol-e-Alam in Lowgar Province and Maiwand, Panjwai and Zherai in Kandahar Province.

Allen's list is not a metric of progress. For several years NightWatch published highly detailed evaluations of the insurgency, district by district and below. Four years ago, the only district that would not have been included in a similar list of the worst districts in Afghanistan is Pol-el-Alam in Lowgar Province. Districts in Ghazni, Paktia and Paktika Provinces would have been included.

Allen's list is an indictment of a failed policy and failed military strategy. Nothing has changed in four or more years.  Nothing the US has done has reduced the volatility of the 12 or 13 Pashtun provinces in southern Afghanistan and the dozen or so districts that formed the heart of the insurgency.

UN surveys from 20 or more years ago reported that Pashtuns had deep and historic links to Pakistan and Iran. There were no jobs in Afghanistan so most Afghan men worked in adjacent countries. In the face of adversity, the men left to finda work and to return after conditions improved. This is information is easily accessible on the Internet.

It means people in border regions had long established “rat lines” leading outside Helmand, Kandahar, Lowgar and all the other border provinces. When US or UK forces moved in, the anti-government and anti-foreign Pashtuns moved on the rat lines to friends and family outside the areas of the US or UK surge. Now they have returned, after the western surge forces left. This is how Afghans have survived for centuries, whether the enemy was lack of rain or foreign invaders.

Afghanistan, as a land-locked country, is a component of a multi-national economic and social system, with southern and northern regions demarcated by the Hindu Kush. No war can be won in Afghanistan without winning it in Pakistan, in eastern Iran, and the southern reaches of the “Stans.” Alexander the Great apparently understood that better than all subsequent western generals who tried.

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Chuck Spinney: Egyptian President Trumps Egyptian Military; Egypt, Turkey, and Iran Will Trump NATO Militarism

Ethics, Government, Military
Chuck Spinney

It is trite to say big things are happening in the Middle East: The biggest, IMO, may turn out to be that Israel has overplayed its hand by hysterically fomenting the Iranian crisis.  There are incipient signs suggesting that Netanyahu's smarmy efforts to manipulate American presidential politics to Israel's advantage and to the detriment of the United States threaten to blow back on Israel [e.g., see note 1].  The United States is in no position to be suckered into yet another war against an Islamic country (this time one with a population of almost 80 million), particularly a war manifestly of Israel's choosing.  The grand-strategic role of Turkey (also and Islamic country with a population almost 80 million) is changing and becoming more assertive and independent.  Paradoxically, the position of Iran may be strengthened by nuclear-armed Israel's hysterical rantings, especially if (when?) Israel backs down, but also if Israel launched what will almost certainly be an inconclusive pre-emptive attack, and when the immorality of unjust — and ultimately ineffective — sanctions being levied on Iran, largely in an effort to placate Israel, become more self evident.  The civil war in Syria threatens to spillover into Lebanon, become sectarian, and might even evolve into a larger Sunni-Shi'a confrontation. Kurdish nationalism is on the rise, threatening the territorial integrity of Turkey, Iraq, Iran, and Syria [informative report here].  And of course, Iraq and Afghanistan are both a shambles, each now a symbol of America's failed imperialistic adventurism.

And then there is Egypt, yet another Islamic country with a population of almost 80 million), which has been off the US scope recently.  Attached below is a blow by blow analysis by Esam Al-Alminof the largely unappreciated but momentous political changes that have taken place in Egypt in the eight months — changes that will not only affect the people of Egypt but, as Al-Almin suggests toward the end of his higly informative essay, could greatly augment the shifting balance of power in the entire Middle East, particularly among the big three — Egypt, Iran, and Turkey, which have a combined population of more than 230 million people.
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[1] Two recent examples: Romney's ass-kissing trip to Israel generated no traction domestically.  According to Israeli new reports (here), the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Also, General Martin Dempsey slapped down Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Ehud Barak for orchestrating the national hysteria surrounding the possibility of an attack in Iran. According to YNet News, Israel's largest news outlet, the United States, in effect, …”slammed Israel's head against the wall and said: ‘Shut up. Stop babbling about Iran. Without us there is not much you can do, and don't assume for a second that we are dancing to your tune. You shouldn't do anything stupid, and stop driving the entire world crazy.'”
Chuck Spinney
Gaeta, Italia
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Allen Roland: The Moon is Down in Afghanistan – Agony, Cognitive Dissonance, & Here in the USA 18 Veteran Suicides, Day After Day After Day…

Corruption, Ethics, Government, Hacking, IO Deeds of War, Military
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The Moon is Down in Afghanistan, Flies Have Conquered Flypaper

The continuation of attacks on US soldiers by uniformed Afghan soldiers and policemen is an expression of popular hatred for the occupation regime and military invasion forces which brings to mind John Steinbeck’s classic novel The Moon Is Down. Steinbeck fully captures the inner agony, shame and moral guilt of the German occupying forces in Norway whereas the flies eventually conquer the flypaper ~ as they most assuredly will in Afghanistan

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The flies are beginning to conquer the flypaper in Afghanistan , as they did in Vietnam and Martin makes the same analogy ~ “There is a stench of decomposition over the whole US-NATO enterprise in Afghanistan. US troops are being drawn down, US equipment removed, US subsidies cut back, and the US collaborators in the Karzai regime are packing their bags—usually stuffed with cash—and checking their passports. Kabul today increasingly recalls Saigon in the final months and weeks before the collapse of the US-backed puppet regime of South Vietnam.”

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Robert David STEELE Vivas

ROBERT STEELE:  I personally communicated to Jim Clapper, then Undersecretary of Defense for Intelligence, the importance of understanding “cognitive dissonance” within the minds and souls of our dedicated military and civilian personnel.  There is a great deal more to the craft of intelligence than going through the motions pumping money and being complacent about policy, acquisition, and operations decisions that are at best insane and at worst criminally treasonous.  Now that I have an SSBI completed by OPM on 15 March 2012  I have applied for multiple positions at the 13-15 level and I am actively seeking righteous employment in the HUMINT/CI arena.  It's time we got serious about bringing US Intelligence into the 21st Century.  General Mike Flynn will fail — I have seen the plans — in two years when he moves on there will be a legacy of paper and not much else.  DHS and SOCOM are off the rails (based on open sources–we can only imagine what a full audit would reveal).  We appear to have the makings of a very expensive global to local inter-agency cluster fuss such as I have not seen since my tour in Panama.  Have brain (and integrity), will travel.

PS  Please do not hold it against me that retired foreign intelligence chiefs like what I do.  I am no longer in touch with them and I  believe their good opinion should be considered a feature not a flaw, assuming my views on the urgency of M4IS2 are eventually accepted as the foundation for a vastly more effective US IC.

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CV Robert David Steele 17 August 2012

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NIGHTWATCH: Syria Update

Government, IO Deeds of War, Media

Syria: The Syrian army recaptured three neighborhoods in the center of Aleppo while clashes continued in other parts of the city, residents told the press on 23 August.

An interview in The Independent is worth reading for a Syrian government perspective. Robert Fisk reported on an interview with a captured member of the Free Syrian Army, after a successful Syrian Army re-capture of a neighborhood in Aleppo. The youth told his captors and Fisk that he did not realize how beautiful “Palestine” was. This young man and his fellow fighters were not Syrian and though they were fighting in Palestine against the Israelis.

Comment: Fisk was in Aleppo to take the interview. He was escorted by an English-speaking Syrian Army major. His description of what he saw is neutral. Reports about the disorientation of foreign fighters have surfaced previously in Syria, as they did in Iraq during the height of the civil war. Nothing is quite as it is reported.

Politics. Former Syrian National Council member Randa Kassis said President Bashar al-Asad will only be toppled when he loses the support of the minority Alawites. Kassis, a critic of the SNC who maintains the group is ignoring the increasing influence of Islamist extremists, said, “Without the defection of the Alawites, we won't be able to do anything and we will go straight into civil war.

Comment: NightWatch agrees with Kassis' judgment, with one caution. The resignation of Asad appears increasingly likely, but does not signify the end of the Alawite regime. Asad appears weary of his duties, especially since his brother was maimed by a bombing in Damascus. He never had much enthusiasm for the presidency, but has done his duty to his sect and tribe.

He is the public face of the Alawite political and military elite and its Sunni financiers and supporters. Nevertheless, he is expendable.

Syria-Iraq: Reports that a Syrian jet penetrated Iraqi airspace are untrue, Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's media adviser said on 23 August.

Comment: Fixed wing combat aircraft always violate national borders when attacking targets near the border. It is a function of the physics of jet-powered flight. The story behind the story is that Iraq did not protest or respond in any obvious fashion, which implies tacit consent. That explains the denial. There is no need to explain an event that officially did not happen.

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