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Bail out General Motors?
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General Motors Must Re-Make the Mass Transit System it Murdered
Bail out General Motors? The people who murdered our mass transit system?
First let them remake what they destroyed.
GM responded to the 1970s gas crisis by handing over the American market to energy-efficient Toyota and Honda.
GM met the rise of the hybrids with "light trucks."
GM built a small electric car, leased a pilot fleet to consumers who loved it, and then forcibly confiscated and trashed them all.
GM now wants to market a $40,000 electric Volt that looks like a cross between a Hummer and a Cadillac and will do nothing to meet the Solartopian needs of a green-powered Earth.
For this alone, GM's managers should never be allowed to make another car, let alone take our tax money to stay in business.
But there is also a trillion-dollar skeleton in GM's closet.
This is the company that murdered our mass transit system.
The assertion comes from Bradford Snell, a government researcher whose definitive report damning GM has been a vehicular lightening rod since its 1974 debut. Its attackers and defenders are legion. But some facts are irrefutable:
In a 1922 memo that will live in infamy, GM President Alfred P. Sloan established a unit aimed at dumping electrified mass transit in favor of gas-burning cars, trucks and buses.
Just one American family in 10 then owned an automobile. Instead, we loved our 44,000 miles of passenger rail routes managed by 1,200 companies employing 300,000 Americans who ran 15 billion annual trips generating an income of $1 billion. According to Snell, "virtually every city and town in America of more than 2,500 people had its own electric rail system."
But GM lost $65 million in 1921. So Sloan enlisted Standard Oil (now Exxon), Philips Petroleum, glass and rubber companies and an army of financiers and politicians to kill mass transit.
The campaigns varied, as did the economic and technical health of many of the systems themselves. Some now argue that buses would have transcended many of the rail lines anyway. More likely, they would have hybridized and complemented each other.
But with a varied arsenal of political and financial subterfuges, GM helped gut the core of America's train and trolley systems. It was the murder of our rail systems that made our "love affair" with the car a tragedy of necessity.
In 1949 a complex federal prosecution for related crimes resulted in an anti-trust fine against GM of a whopping $5000. For years thereafter GM continued to bury electric rail systems by "bustituting" gas-fired vehicles.
Then came the interstates. After driving his Allied forces into Berlin on Hitler's Autobahn, Dwight Eisenhower brought home a passion for America's biggest public works project. Some 40,000 miles of vital eco-systems were eventually paved under.
In habitat destruction, oil addiction, global warming, outright traffic deaths (some 40,000/year and more), ancillary ailments and wars for oil, the automobile embodies the worst ecological catastrophe in human history.
Should current General Motors management be made to pay for the ancient sins of Alfred Sloan?
Since the 1880s, American corporations have claimed human rights under the law. Tasking one now with human responsibilities could set a great precedent.
GM has certainly proved itself unable to make cars that can compete while healing a global-warmed planet.
So let's convert the company's infrastructure to churn out trolley cars, monorails, passenger trains, truly green buses.
FDR forced Detroit to manufacture the tanks, planes and guns that won World War 2 (try buying a 1944 Chevrolet!). Now let a reinvented GM make the "weapons" to win the climate war and energy independence.
It demands re-tooling and re-training. But GM's special role in history must now evolve into using its infrastructure to restore the mass transit system---and ecological balance---it has helped destroy.
WHY INDUSTRIAL HEMP
http://hemp3000004.livejournal.com/660.html
Ron Paul's introduced H.R. 1009:
The Industrial Hemp Farming Act
Campaign for LIBERTY
http://hemp3000003.livejournal.com/762.html
For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, Plans to Prosper you and not to harm you, Plans to give you Hope and a Future. Jeremiah 29:11
SUSTAINABLE TECHNOLOGY training for WOMEN
http://ruth2teach.livejournal.com/593.html
http://lectra24.livejournal.com/1049.html
http://www.electric-cars-are-for-girls.com
Industrial Hemp 101
http://hemp101.livejournal.com/549.html
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FILM: FUEL
http://thefuelfilm.com
FUEL is an insightful portrait of America’s addiction to oil and an uplifting testament to the immediacy of new energy solutions. Director, Josh Tickell, a young activist, shuttles us on a whirlwind journey to track the rising domination of the petrochemical industry — from Rockefeller’s strategy to halt Ford’s first ethanol cars to Vice President Cheney's petrochemical company sponsored energy legislation — and reveals a gamut of available solutions to "repower America" — from vertical farms that occupy skyscrapers to algae facilities that turn wastewater into fuel.
Tickell and a surprising array of environmentalists, policy makers, and entertainment notables take us through America’s complicated, often ignominious energy past and illuminate a hopeful, achievable future, where decentralized, sustainable living is not only possible, it’s imperative.
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School Buses switch to Bio Diesel
SAVE CHILDREN’S LIVES
http://solarafrica304.livejournal.com/606.html
VEGETABLE OIL BUSES and Cars
VEGETABLE OIL CONVERSION KITS for BUSES & Cars
http://plantdrive.com
http://www.greasecar.com
http://www.vegpoweredsystems.com
http://www.goldenfuelsystems.com
http://www.goodgrease.com
http://www.vegpower.com
http://www.elsbett.com
http://vegoilconversions.netfirms.com
http://biocar.de
http://www.enviofuel.com
http://www.frybrid.com
http://www.vegiecars.com
http://www.vegetable-oil-conversion.com
http://www.theorganicmechanic.org
http://www.fattywagons.com
RUDOLF DIESEL - INVENTOR of DIESEL VEGETABLE OIL CAR
http://vegcar.livejournal.com/24209.html
POLLUTION: PETROL versus HEMP OIL
http://vegcar.livejournal.com/24451.html
VEGETABLE OIL AUTOMOBILES - Part 1
http://vegcar.livejournal.com/25641.html
VEGETABLE OIL Cars Links
http://vegcar.livejournal.com/24880.html
HOW TO CONVERT USED COOKING OIL into FUEL
http://vegcar.livejournal.com/8194.html
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DVD: The Veggie Van Voyage
http://www.fryer-to-fuel.com
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DVD GREASY RIDER
Picture a cross-country road trip powered by vegetable oil in a 1981 Mercedes-Benz. Greasy Rider follows the two filmmakers, Joey Carey and JJ Beck, as they meet with fellow Greasecar drivers, friends, and critics.
Free Showing of Viedo
http://www.snagfilms.com/films/title/greasy_rider
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SOLAR Heated SWIMMING POOL, Spa, Hot Tub
http://www.fafco.com http://www.solargenix.com http://www.canadiansolartechnologies.ca http://air306.livejournal.com http://www.warmwater.com http://www.heliodyne.com
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HEATPUMP Heated SWIMMING POOL, Spa, Hot Tub
http://heatpump301.livejournal.com
Ground Source Heatpump Systems
http://www.geotility.ca
SOLAR - Ground Source HEATPUMP Thermal Heating Systems
http://www.swisssolartech.com
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SolFocus Aims to Beat Coal and Natural Gas with Solar Concentrators
http://air302.livejournal.com
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Billion Dollar Solar Power farms
http://air306.livejournal.com
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OCEAN POWER
WAVE POWER ELECTRICIAL GENERATION
and changing OCEAN WATER into DRINKING WATER
http://wave2energy.livejournal.com/518.html
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SOLAR HOSPITALS
http://solar2hospital.livejournal.com
RURAL SOLAR 101
http://rural2solar.livejournal.com
wind energy systems
http://www.bergey.com
http://www.bwea.com
http://windtech300.livejournal.com
http://www.provenenergy.co.uk/
http://www.abundantre.com
http://www.scoraigwind.com
http://www.vestas.com
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Per the Sustainable Industries Journal:
The Pentagon has blocked the construction of 16 Wind Energy sites in the USA.
The military claims the Wind Farms are a threat to national security.
Maybe the Wind Farms are a threat to Big Oil and Big Coal?
HOW STUPID ARE AMERICANS?
http://pickensplan101.livejournal.com
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SOLAR ENERGY INTELLIGENCE
More JOBS, Economic Progress, Clean Environment
Why be Stupid?
http://solomonintel.livejournal.com/12917.html
http://valparaiso.indymedia.org/news/2006/09/8723.php
http://solarstate2.livejournal.com
http://solarstate3.livejournal.com
http://solargroup.livejournal.com
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http://www.pluginamerica.org
http://lectra24.livejournal.com/1049.html
http://www.electric-cars-are-for-girls.com
http://www.sourceguides.com/energy
ELECTRIC AUTOS AND ALTERNATIVE VEHICLE GROUPS
http://vegcar.livejournal.com/5672.html
Electric Motorcycle World Directory
http://www.sourceguides.com/energy
Electric Auto Association
http://www.eaaev.org
http://www.eaaev.org/eaachapters.html
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DVD: Who Killed the Electric Car?
http://www.amazon.com/Who-Killed-Electric-Martin-Sheen/dp/B000I5Y8FU
http://bigoil406.insanejournal.com
Pure, clean air is the invisible staff of life.
Smog is the invisible staff of death.
~book: Super Power Breathing for Super Energy and Longevity; by Patricia Bragg
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Does Big OIL or Big COAL have a Body BAG with your CHILD's Name on it?
book: Big Coal, The Dirty Secret; by Jeff Goodell
book: Moving Mountains; by Penny Loeb
http://vegcar.livejournal.com/24663.html
http://air301.livejournal.com/667.html
OIL - GAS REFINERIES = DIRTY AIR & DEATH
http://www.refineryreform.org
G.Bush@Bankruptcy~Enron.com
http://ovl.indymedia.org/news/2008/06/23267.php
http://argentina.indymedia.org/news/2008/06/606157.php
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SHOCKING CORRUPTION by BIG OIL
http://bigoil101.insanejournal.com
BIG COAL's DIRTY SECRETS
http://bigcoal101.insanejournal.com
Is your Congressman in bed with the Greedy Oil Robber Barons?
Stop the Political incest.
How much political campaign contributions (bribes)
is your congressman receiving from Corrupt Big Oil?
www.campaignfinance.org/states
www.publicintegrity.org
Stop being SHAFTED by SLEAZY CORRUPT Politicians
Do we have taxation without Representation?
Is this a Tyranny?
books:
The Teapot Dome Scandal, How Big Oil Bought the White House and Tried to Steal the Country; by Laton McCartney
Secret History of the American Empire; by John Perkins
The War at Home; by Jack Rasmus
Jacked; by Nomi Prins
Free Lunch; by David Cay Johnston
It Takes a Pillage; by Nomi Prins
War on Terror Inc; by Solomon Hughes
Family of Secrets, The Bush Dynasty; by Russ Baker
Restoring The Creation Mandate; by Roger L. De Haan
http://bigoil406.insanejournal.com
http://www.nomiprins.com
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STOP the OIL BARBARIANS from RAVISHING your Family, Friends and Community.
Do not Bend Over and allow Big Oil to Molest your Family and Friends
Take Action and VOTE SOLAR.
stop ELECTION FRAUD
support Honest elections
www.verifiedvoting.org
www.votevets.org
mediamatters.org
www.blackboxvoting.org
www.investigatethevote.org
www.votersunite.org
www.citizensact.org
www.solarbus.org/election/cd/test/videos.html
www.sourcewatch.org/index.php
state info:
http://victorygard379b.insanejournal.com
VOTE SOLAR
http://votesolar.org
http://votesolar.livejournal.com
http://solarstate2.livejournal.com
http://solarstate3.livejournal.com
http://valparaiso.indymedia.org/news/2006/09/8723.php
SEIA: http://www.seia.org
Solar Nation: http://www.solar-nation.org
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IS GOD GREEN?
http://solarafrica307.livejournal.com
http://bigoil600037.insanejournal.com
http://food301.livejournal.com/564.html
http://bigoil600143.insanejournal.com/419.html
Restoring The Creation Mandate; by Roger L. De Haan
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Organic Gardening for VICTORY
http://victory2garden.livejournal.com/754.html
http://remineral.livejournal.com/3073.html
http://hunger7sos.livejournal.com/656.html
http://ruth2teach.livejournal.com/593.html
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VOLUNTEER to WORK on ORGANIC FARMS in Europe
Cheap way to see Europe
http://www.wwoof.org
book: Europe Through the Back Door; by Rick Steves
Proverb:
GOOD FOOD IS GOOD MEDICINE
<> Garbage in, garbage out.
Why be Sick?
eat Local Fresh Organic food
DVD: Cancer, Nutrition & Healing; by Jerry Brunetti
http://www.organicconsumers.org
http://www.localharvest.org
http://communitygard.livejournal.com
http://adhd103.livejournal.com
http://sarahteach.livejournal.com/1555.html
http://remineral.livejournal.com
http://wattsgarden.livejournal.com
Are you Eating Industrial Toxic Waste?
How much Pollution is in your Body?
Is your Body Toxic Waste Dump?
http://food304.livejournal.com/512.html
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Food not Lawns
http://www.foodnotlawns.net
http://www.foodnotlawns.com
http://www.edibleschoolyard.org
http://victorygard343.livejournal.com
http://urbanag101.livejournal.com/369.html
http://www.foodnotlawnskc.org
http://sdfoodnotlawns.com
http://foodnotlawns.ning.com
http://www.tristatefoodnotlawns.org
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DOCTORS without BORDERS
http://solar4hospital6.livejournal.com
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Local FOOD BANKS need Your Help
Thank You for all of your help.
http://food4bank.livejournal.com/1417.html
http://tithing101.livejournal.com/1925.html
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WASTE NOT, WANT NOT
http://em202.livejournal.com/14637.html
http://qc.indymedia.org/news/2005/10/5179.php
http://melbourne.indymedia.org/news/2007/03/141412.php
http://pr.indymedia.org/news/2006/08/17530.php
http://richmond.indymedia.org/newswire/display/12960/index.php
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CHURCH & TEMPLE COMMUNITY GARDENING
http://churchgard101.livejournal.com/766.html
GROWING HOPE
http://communitygard.livejournal.com/2033.html
DVD: Sowing a Seed in Your Time of Need
MESSAGES: number 329; by Joel Osteen
Telephone: (888) 232-2968
http://bookstore.joelosteen.com
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RAPIDLY increase Child's INTELLIGENCE,
ANALYTICAL abilities and CONCENTRATION skills
GO Home Page
http://go101.livejournal.com/6076.html
CHESS Home Page
http://chess202.livejournal.com/8532.html
CHESS + BASKETBALL (soccer) = SUCCESS
http://chess300012.livejournal.com/521.html
Inner City School Success with CHESS
http://chess300014.livejournal.com/690.html
Push Pawns, Not Drugs
http://chess300023.livejournal.com/754.html
CO-OPERATIVE Games
http://www.familypastimes.com
Suzuki Music Home Page
http://suzuki101.livejournal.com/8021.html
Algebra Project
http://math301.livejournal.com/706.html
book: Nurtured by Love, The Classical Approach to Talent Education; by Shinichi Suzuki
book: The Mozart Effect for Children; by Don Campbell
book: Raising Your Child to Be A Mensch; Neil Kurshan
book: Positive Imaging, The Powerful Way to Change Your Life; by Norman Vincent Peale
http://health30000006.livejournal.com/703.html
http://vegcar.livejournal.com/24663.html
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book: Sandbox Investment; by David L. Kirp
book: The Scientist in the Crib; by Alison Gopnik
book: Bright From the Start; by Jill Stamm
book: What's Going on in There, How the Brain and Mind Develop in the First Five Years of Life; by Lise Eliot
book: From Neurons to Neighborhoods, The Science of Early Childhood Development; by Deborah A. Phillips
book: How to Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk; by Adele Faber
Book of Jewish Values; by Joseph Telushkin
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http://childgard101.livejournal.com/558.html
http://communitygard.livejournal.com/2033.html
http://churchgard101.livejournal.com
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utilizing ORGANIC GARDENING in SCHOOLS-UNIVERSITIES
for improving Academic Performance and Social Development
http://sarahteach.livejournal.com/1555.html
http://remineral.livejournal.com
http://victorygard316.livejournal.com
http://www.edibleschoolyard.org
http://www.ecoliteracy.org
http://www.chezpanissefoundation.org
SCHOOL GREEN HOUSES
http://greenhouse101.livejournal.com
CHILD HEALTH
Living Nutrition: http://www.livingnutrition.com
Health Master: http://www.healthmasters.com
Health Link 301: http://health30000001.livejournal.com/526.html
Preventive Dental Health Association: http://www.SaveTeeth.org
Book: Raw Kids; by Cheryl Stoycoff
book: Super Power Breathing for Super Energy and Longevity; by Paul C. Bragg
Book: Children's Health Food Book; by Ron Seaborn
book: The Coconut Oil Miracle; by Bruce Fife
book: Raising Baby Green; by Jeanette Pavini
book: Reversing Gum Disease Naturally; by Sandra Senzon
book: Whole-Body Dentistry; by Mark A. Breiner
book: Fluoride, Drinking Ourselves to Death; by by Barry Groves
book: Fluoride Deception; by Christopher Bryson: http://www.fluoridealert.org
Toothpaste: Desert Essence Tea Tree Oil and Neem Toothpaste (Fluoride Free)
Dental Floss or Dental Tape: Desert Essence Tea Tree Oil Dental Floss
VICTORY OVER ATTENTION DEFICIT HYPERACTIVITY DISORDER - ADHD
http://victoryoveradhd.com http://www.organicconsumers.org/afc.cfm
book: Victory over ADHD; by Deborah Merlin
book: Bragg Healthy Lifestyle; by Paul C. Bragg
book: Healing ADD; by Daniel G. Amen
book: Change Your Brain, Change Your Life; by Daniel Amen
book: Raw Kids; by Cheryl Stoycoff http://www.livingnutrition.com
http://www.bibleplus.org/health/ms_lupus.htm
http://ritalindeath.com
http://www.feingold.org
http://www.foodrevolution.org/askjohn/43.htm
http://www.yesmagazine.com/article.asp?ID=576
Whole Body Nutrition: http://designednutrition.com http://designedclinicalnutrition.com
historical info - book: Back to Eden; by Jethro Kloss http://www.lotuspress.com
book: Thom Hartmann's Complete Guide to ADHD; by Thom Hartmann
book: Empty Harvest; by Bernard Jensen
journal article: Feed Your Brain; by Jurriaan Kamp http://www.odemagazine.com/doc/46/feed_your_brain
Eliminating BEHAVIOR PROBLEMS
Junk food – School Lunches
http://adhd101.livejournal.com
http://www.foodrevolution.org/askjohn/43.htm
http://organic4school.livejournal.com
http://bbc5junk2food.livejournal.coM
http://remineral.livejournal.com
http://www.feingold.org/PF/wisconsin1.html
book: Bragg Healthy Lifestyle; by Patricia Bragg
book: Raw Kids; by Cheryl Stoycoff http://www.livingnutrition.com
book: Coconut Cures; by Bruce Fife
DVD: Super Size Me Educationally Enhanced; director: Morgan Spurlock
WHY BE FAT?
Get Skinny on Coconut Oil
http://coconut8000028.livejournal.com/587.html
Organic Natural Diabetic Sweetener - Stevia
http://www.stevitastevia.com
HEALTH LINK
http://health30000001.livejournal.com/526.html
School Food is Dangerous
http://food306.livejournal.com/629.html
http://vegcar.livejournal.com/24663.html
DIET DRINK POISON
Does MONSANTO have a BODY BAG with your CHILD’s name on it?
http://food307.livejournal.com/645.html
http://organic4school.livejournal.com/15251.html
http://wattsgarden.livejournal.com/1732.html
http://adhd101.livejournal.com
http://food304.livejournal.com/512.html
http://food305.livejournal.com/565.html
http://vegcar.livejournal.com/24663.html
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Proverb:
A good person leaves an inheritance to their children’s children.
What kind of inheritance are you leaving?
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GENERAL LINKS
http://vegcar.livejournal.com/25537.html
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book:
You Can If You Think You Can; by Norman Vincent Peale
You never really lose until you quit trying.
Mike Ditka
NFL Football Coach
DVD:
Facing the Giants; director: Alex Kendrick
BOLD SPIRIT
http://bolderspirit.livejournal.com
http://tithing101.livejournal.com/1925.html
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Those who bring Sunshine into the lives of others, cannot keep it from themselves.
Be a bringer of the LIGHT.
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