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New Yorker’s View of the World

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Environmentalism

Internationalism

Automation & Technology

Drivers of History

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1946 – Penn State University - ENIAC

1951 – MIT Whirlwind Computer1959 – SRI – Bank of America - ERMA

The Information Age Was Born

"ERMA was the absolute beginning of the mechanization

of business."

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Houston… we have a problem

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Two worlds – light years apart

Mayfield

Mayberry

Springfield

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The Academy of Arts and Sciences Commission on the Year 2000

Daniel Bell, Zbigniew Brzezinski, Karl W. Deutsch, Samuel P. Huntington, Herman Kahn, Wassily Leontief, Margaret Mead, Daniel P. Moynihan.

• Identify structural changes in society that would have long-term social impacts.

• Chart "alternative futures" on critical issues that society would face.

1965 Futurists - Futurism

FORD FoundationResources of the World Group

Air ForceScientific Prediction

Southern Illinois Univ.Buckminster Fuller’s World Resources Inventory

Bridging the Gap

January 10, 1964

Utopia or Oblivion

The World GameCriti

cal Path

World Resources Inventory 8

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Aurelio Peccei, Italian Industrialist

Alexander King, Director General at the OECD

Co-Founders

1968The Club of Rome

Over population, pollution, use of natural resources

Jay Forrester of MIT was given grant to produce World Dynamics Model

"Project on the Predicament of Mankind"

Computer modeling resource use

Ecosystem

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Magic Computer Box

We’re all going to die next year

The headline-making report on the imminent global disaster facing humanity—and what we can do about it before time runs out. “One of the most important documents of our age!” Anthony Lewis, New York Times

Was presented publicly at the Smithsonian March 12, 1972

Was translated into 30 languages

10 million copies of the book were sold

“Imminent Global Disaster Facing Humanity!

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Presti-digital-ization

Scientific fraud using the Magic Computer Box

1973 – 1 year after the publication of Limits to Growth, OPEC Oil Embargo – California Gas “Shortage”

SCI-Fraud

1972

Didn’t have the data

Didn’t have the computing power

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• Fear as a motivator

• Officially sanctioned scientific fraud

• Media complicity

Beginning the Era of Virtual Reality

New Paradigm – Last Quarter of the 20th Century

Green is the new RED

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Rockefeller Brothers FundThe Environmental Agenda Project

Director of Environment &Population Programs

Gerald O. Barney

Jimmy Carter

Who’s Who of Environmental Groups

Carter Administration Environmental Futurism

Global 2000 – Report to the President

lists 70 "public policy proposals" earmarked for legislation

Public Policy Based on SCI-Fraud

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“The Conserver Society”

De-population - increased funding for contraception, abortion and sterilization

Food and agriculture – All forms of assistance linked to bringing birth rates into line with death rates

Earth Scout

Education – emphasis on environmental literacy

Environment must be recognized as a top national priority on a level with defense, employment, health, education and commerce

Propaganda – explicit and implicit environmental message in TV and Commercial programming

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“The Conserver Society”

Energy – Develop a new type of energy economy

Avoid further electrification

Progressively increase gas tax

Overhaul of energy-intensive agricultural practices

Utility price overhaul to reflect policy priorities

Enforce monopoly laws (eliminated regulated monopolies – allow utilities to invest in renewables).

Utility Control of Energy Use

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TECHNOCRACY new type of energy economy

Project 88 – Polluter Pays PROJECT 88 KEY PLAYERS

Technology Enabled Environmental Policy

Market-Oriented

Reducing inefficient natural resource use by ensure that consumers and producers face the true costs of their decisions -- not just their direct costs, but the full social costs of the consequences of their actions.

Tradeable permit systems set a total allowable level of pollution and authorize firms to buy, sell, and trade permits within that overall limit.

The Vapor Market! Carbon Cap & Trade

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Internationalism

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North-South “Cooperation”

1980 – Independent Commission on International Development Issues

Initiated by the World Bank

North-South: a programme for survival (Brandt Commission)

Brandt wanted disarmament for developed countries – transferring saved wealth to poor countries

Brandt also wanted a global carbon tax

Pierre Trudeau wanted a “Marshall Plan” for the South

1981 - U.S.-Mexico Binational Committee

1983 - Reagan signed the La Paz Agreement – Treaty with U.S.-Mexico

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Included provision for participation by U.S. federal, state and municipal governments, non-governmental groups (environmental groups), and international organizations (United Nations)

Provided for financing of programs independent of Congress

State Department Management

La Paz Treaty with Mexico

International Zone by Treaty

100 km on either side

EPA Day-to-Day supervision

Environmental Cooperation in the border region

North American Inland Port Network (NAIPN)

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1993 – NAFTA Agreement

1995 – Mexican government privatized their seaports

Li Ka-Shing, HPH Chairman

Mexican-Chinese Inland Port Plan – TechnologyEnabled by Hutchison-Whampoa (HPH)

September 6, 2001

Address to Congress

“Keep your deal”

Vincente Fox

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Internationalism1990 – Enterprise of the Americas Initiative Common Market - Free Trade Area of the Americas Free trade from Tiera del Fuego, Argentina to the Port of Anchorage, AK

1990 – G7/G8 Houston Summit

Open World Trading System - Market Oriented Policies Free flow of capital and investment across borders Economic Efficiency Strong Support for IPCC & UN Environmental Programme Encourage the OECD in identifying structural policy challenges & options and to strengthen its surveillance and review procedures

promote regulatory reform

Liberalize areas such as retail trade telecommunications transport labor markets financial markets

Reduce industrial and agricultural subsidiesImprove tax systems Improve labor-force skills through education and training

Dissolve the nation-state

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“We don’t need no stinkin’ borders”

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America in Distress

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North American Union

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Global Governance

Our Global Village

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Terrorism

Pollution

Inefficiency (waste)

New EnemiesThe Boogey Man is Under the Bed!

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Sing Kumbaya!

New Religion

Earth Worship

Mother Gaia

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Environmentalism

Internationalism

Automation & Technology

Convergence of theDrivers of History

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1991 The Internet

Automation & TechnologyThe World At The Speed of Light

The good news from Washington is that every single person in Congress supports the concept of an information superhighway.

The bad news is that no one has any idea what that means."

--Cong. Edward J. Markey

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Reinvention of GovernmentThe people demand and deserve an active government on their side. But they don't want a government that wastes money, a government that costs more and does less. They voted for change. They wanted a literal revolution in the way government operates, and now, you and I must deliver. President Bill Clinton Remarks to the Cabinet February 10, 1993

Today, the President has asked Vice-President Gore to lead a revolution in Washington that will change the way government does business. The American people deserve a government that treats them like customers.....

Do More With Less

“High Performance” Government

Corporate efficiency implementedthrough information management systems & police state surveillance

(2007)

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Corporatize and Privatize

David OsborneChairman of the Alliance

1992

Public-Private Partnerships – “New Federalism”

Anderson Consulting, AT&T, Robert W. Baird & Co., Inc., Dennis Trading Group, General Electric, Goldman, Sachs and Co., IBM, NYNEX, and Xerox. Philanthropic support has included grants from the ARCO Foundation, the Aspen Institute, the Carnegie Corporation, the Annie E. Casey Foundation, the Ford Foundation, the Joyce Foundation, the Jerome Kohlberg Foundation, the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the Pew Charitable Trusts, and the Rockefeller Foundation.

Socialize Costs – Privatize Profits

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The CORE Meridian, Idaho

Business Enterprise Corridor

Workforce Investment Area (1998 -PL 105-220)

EB-5 Regional Center – foreign investmentfunds in exchange for Green Card – Americancitizenship

Intermodal Commerce Zone

Idaho State University Research Campus

St. Luke’s is the largest employer in the area and is the anchor for “The CORE”

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Metropolitan Planning Grant for Treasure Valley FuturesProject of the Treasure Valley Partners

The Transportation, Community, and System Preservation (TCSP) Program provides funding for a comprehensive initiative including planning grants, implementation grants, and

research to investigate and address the relationships between transportation, community, and system preservation and to identify private sector-based initiatives.

…TCSP Program discretionary grants to plan and implement strategies which improve the efficiency of the transportation system, reduce environmental impacts of transportation, reduce the need for costly future public infrastructure investments, ensure efficient access to jobs, services and centers of trade, and examine development patterns and identify strategies to encourage private sector development patterns which achieve these goals.

Partnership of Mayors


Former MayorBrent Coles

Treasure Valley Partnership 501-C3

Partnership of Mayors

Boise, Caldwell, Eagle, Kuna, Garden City, Meridian, Nampa, Parma; Ada and Canyon Counties

Emergencies Without Borders

First “success” was an agreement for police and emergency services cross-jurisdictional agreement

$510,000

Transportation, Community, and System Preservation (TCSP) Program TEA-21

Community Planning

in a transportation system grant

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Model Building Codes

House Bill 611, 55th Legislature - 2000

Adopted International Building Code International Residential Code International Energy Conservation CodeLocal governments may CONTRACT with a PUBLIC OR PRIVATE ENTITY TO ADMINISTER BUILDING CODES!!!

Idaho Statutes Title 39, Chapter 41, Section 39-4116

EPA

Smart Growth Network

Harmonize And

Standardize

EPA Grant for the

Code in the

Box

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Consultants for Transforming “Governance”

2004 Freilich, Leitner & Carlisle, Consultants

Scope of work:

Freilich’s Prop

Intergovernmental Agreements

Cluster Study of local economy

Development Plan & Land Use Regulations

Global Marshall Plan

Strategic Environmental Initiative

A program that would discourage and phase out these older, inappropriate technologies and at the same time develop and disseminate a new generation of sophisticated and environmentally benign substitutes. Earth in the Balance, 1992

Technocrat

Environmentalist

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“The Plan”

Linking Land Use & Transportation Planning

Public-Private “Partnership” Government as a business Business as government

Central economic and “social planning”

Intergovernmental Agreement – Metropolitan

Private Sector Direct Funding of Public Infrastructure - Leasing scam

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International Highway System

"The mission of the IVHS community in the U.S. - composed of all levels of government; the automotive, electronic, communications, and information industries; and academia - is first, to improve

surface transportation by deploying IVHS technology broadly throughout the nation and, in cooperation with Mexico and Canada, throughout North America, and second, to develop a U.S.-based IVHS industry to provide technology in the U.S. and abroad." 1992 – IVHS Strategic Plan

Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act of 1991(ISTEA)

38Intl. Border Crossing

IntermodalismDefinitions:

Intermodal - the connection point between two modes of transportation for the same trip

Intermodalism - A system designed around the concept of intermodal efficiency for all modes of transportation - truck, train, air, ship, bus, vehicle, etc.

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2004

S. 1384 Amended Title 70 to add Chapter 22, County-Based Intermodal Commerce Authorities. S. 1439 Amendment to Title 70, Chapter 22 (i.e. S. 1384)

2005 H0376 - "Intermodal Commerce Authority"

Idaho Statutes Title 70, Chapter 22 70-2201 70-2212

2006 H590 Amends existing law - Title 70, Chapter 22 H408 - Eminent Domain limitations

Idaho StatutesTitle 70 Watercourses and Ports

Chapter 22 County Based or City Based Intermodal Commerce Authority‐ ‐



2 modes of transportationCome together

Airport

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Intermodal Commerce Authority



Airport

70-2201.

…hereinafter referred to as the intermodal authority, is hereby

authorized to acquire, construct, maintain, operate, develop and

regulate rail, truck, and other on-land transfer and terminal facilities,

buildings, warehouses and storage facilities, manufacturing,

industrial and economic development facilities and services,

reasonably incident to a modern, efficient and competitive land-

based port, and may be established according to this chapter in any

county or incorporated city.

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Airport

70 2206. General powers of a county based or city based intermodal ‐ ‐ ‐commerce authority. An intermodal authority shall have the powers provided to it by a local county or city governing body including:

(1) Have perpetual succession unless abolished as provided in this chapter;

(2) Sue and be sued;

(3) Have a seal;

(4) Execute contracts and other instruments and take other action that may be necessary or convenient to carry out the purposes of this chapter;

Intermodal Commerce Authority

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Intermodal Commerce AuthorityIdaho StatutesTitle 70 Watercourses and Ports

Chapter 22 County Based or City Based ‐ ‐Intermodal Commerce Authority



Airport

70-2203. Establishment and abolishment.

(1) There is hereby created in each county and incorporated city an independent public body, corporate and politic, to be known as an intermodal commerce authority.

(4) After the establishment of an intermodal authority, any county or city may by resolution or ordinance, after a public hearing, abolish the intermodal authority provided that the payment of any bonds or other obligations of the intermodal authority shall not be adversely affected by such action.

Unelected

Unaccountable

Invisible

Power to create debt for Citizens

who don’t even know they exist

PORT AUTHORITYRegional

Metropolitan Governance

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Knowledge Economy Cookie-Cutter, Central Planning

Economic Development Plan

UniversityPublic & Private

R & D Money

St. Al’sSt. Luke’s

Major EmployersWork-based Learning

Zone“Training Workers”

Small Business Incubator

Expenses Paid

Trains/Uses

TechnologyTransfer

Small Business Bubble Machine

Theoretical

Commodified Small Business Technology OrientedDevelopment - 10 jobs each

EB-5 Regional Center –

Foreign $$ Direct

Investment

Targeted EmploymentArea for FDI – EB-5 money


Port Authority Managed

Economic Zone

Airport

Foreign Trade Zone

Unlimited Foreign Students

Customs & Border Protection Managed

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Economic Hologram

“The utility of export processing zones (EPZs) as a development tool is based on the premise that they can help achieve three interrelated goals: enhancing foreign exchange earnings by promoting non-traditional exports; creating jobs and income; and generating technology transfers and spillovers (Warr, 1989).

Knowledge EconomyIs an

Taxpayer & Foreign Investor funded with government-university selected winners

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Pork

-o-R

ama

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LoansIdaho Prime Rate Loan Program

Commercial banks offer low-interest loans to qualifying small business with up to 85% Small Business Administration guaranty

Industrial Revenue Bonds

Up to $20 million tax-free bonds to finance manufacturing, processing

production and assembly projects issued by a public corporation with the project or business serving as collateral.

Taxable industrial revenue bonds are available for amounts over $20 million.

Gifting “Selected” BusinessesAt Taxpayer Expense

The Idaho Business Advantage (tax credits, property tax abatement)Capital Investment Property Tax Incentives (Zone incentives) Property tax cap3% Investment tax credit for up to 14 yearsNet operating loss deductions up $100k - carried back for 2 years, forward for 20 years5% Research & Development Tax Credit – carried forward for 14 years3% Broadband Telecom Income Credit up to $750,000, carry forward 14 years - transferable

Customized Recruiting ServicesCustomized Workforce TrainingWorkforce Training NetworkIdaho Business NetworkExport Assistance

Tech HelpSmall Business Development CenterTech ConnectGem State Prospector

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Boise Valley Economic PartnershipF A

S C I S

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What Does It All Mean?

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Capitalizing on Complexity

Total Information Awareness (TIA)

Deceptive Marketing

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“Fascism should rightly be called Corporatism as it is a merge of stateand corporate power” --Benito Mussolini

Administrative Coup d’etat

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Transformation

Chinese System of FascismGovernment Power for ProfitTechnocratic Enslavement

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The individual is handicapped coming face to face with a conspiracy so monstrous, he cannot believe it exists. -- J. Edgar Hoover

Believe it… and Act on it

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