Tonight CSP & Papa went to see the Carolina Panthers play the Minnesota Vikings here in Charlotte. CSP was SO excited!  It was his first time seeing his beloved Vikings in 20 years, since he lived in Minnesota where he was born.  My boys were so cute all done up in their respective team gear. CSP, my conservative CSP who won’t even wear stripes, donned purple and gold Mardi Gras beads to support his VIkings!  It was soooo cold so they had on tons of layers and Papa had his Panthers Santa hat.

We drove down to Papa & Gigi’s house and picked them up then headed back uptown to drop the boys off for the game.  There were people EVERYWHERE!  We were excited to see some Vikings fans amongst the Panther fans.  We even saw some horned helmets!  The people were all over the streets and there wasn’t a really good place to drop them off.  So I just pulled over on the side of the road in the opening of a parking lot.  CSP jumped right out, gave me a goodbye kiss through the window then got out of the street.  Meanwhile, Papa had the back door open and was getting dressed!  He hadn’t put on his pullover or jacket yet.  Gigi had her window down and we were yelling out to the boys.  Things like “Have Fun!” etc.  I was about to yell something when Gigi yelled “BE HEIFER!”  What???  Be heifer?  WTH does that mean?  She was trying to say Behave and Be careful but it came out Be Heifer!  We dissolved in giggles and pulled away.  We were laughing so hard we ended up getting all turned around amidst all the one way streets and it took over 30 minutes to get back to the highway!

We went to have dinner at the restaurant where Momo works.  We get a 25% discount there.  Woot!  Momo was so excited, she didn’t know we were coming and ran over to hug me when she saw me.  I love her so much.  We had a great time at dinner then went back to Gigi’s to hang out until the game was over.  Gigi went to bed so Momo went with me to pick up the boys.   Don’t worry Gigi, Momo and I were very Heifer!  :D

InfoMoney:

No aguardo da decisão do Federal Reserve acerca do futuro da política monetária dos Estados Unidos, os principais mercados acionários operam em alta na tarde desta quarta-feira (16), com o Ibovespa registrando valorização de 0,11%.

A agenda de indicadores da economia norte-americana também repercute nos negócios desta sessão. O índice de preços ao consumidor registrou inflação de 0,04%, vindo dentro do esperado pelos analistas. Já no mercado imobiliário, o número de autorizações para construções de imóveis superou as estimativas, reforçando expectativas de um mercado imobiliário em recuperação.

No âmbito interno, além da divulgação do IPC-S (Índice de Preços ao Consumidor – Semanal) de 15 de dezembro, que registrou variação positiva de 0,30%, também repercute o desempenho do fluxo cambial, que reportou um saldo positivo de US$ 884 milhões nos primeiros nove dias úteis do mês.

Companhias aéreas decolam no pregão
As duas maiores companhias do setor de aviação brasileiro ganham destaque no noticiário corporativo. As ações da TAM (TAMM4) lideram os ganhos do Ibovespa, registrando valorização de 5,39%, após a empresa protocolar o pedido de oferta pública de ações ordinárias de sua controlada Multiplus, embora não tenha informado quanto pretende captar e nem qual será o destino dos recursos.

Já a GOL (GOLL4) anunciou a inauguração de sua primeira loja do Voe Fácil, para venda de passagens aéreas a consumidores de classe média. A loja está localizada no Largo 13 de Maio, zona sul de São Paulo, em um terminal que conta com um fluxo diário de 1 milhão de pessoas. Os papéis da companhia aérea sobem 3,04% no pregão.

Vale
Segundo reportagem do jornal China Daily, a Vale (VALE5) teria oferecido descontos de frete para remessas de minério de ferro para usinas siderúrgicas do país asiático, buscando eliminar a vantagem das rivais Rio Tinto e BHP. O jornal também diz que a mineradora brasileira teria oferecido uma fixação das cobranças para as usinas chinesas em US$ 25 a tonelada para contratos de dois anos ou US$ 24 a tonelada para contratos de quatro anos.

Ainda nesta sessão, a Vale e a siderúrgica coreana Dongkuk anunciam o início das obras da usina siderúrgica Companhia Siderúrgica do Pecém (CSP) localizada do Nordeste do Brasil. A obra deve gerar mais de 15 mil empregos e o tempo estimado de construção é de 3 a 4 anos, incluindo a terraplanagem. Os papéis da mineradora operam próximos à estabilidade.

Commodities e recomendação
Acompanhando o avanço nos preços das commodities, as ações da Petrobras (PETR4) operam no campo positivo nesta tarde, registrando ganhos de 0,74%. A trajetória positiva da matéria-prima reflete a queda maior que a esperada no nível de estoques norte-americanos. Vale ressaltar que os Estados Unidos respondem pelo maior consumo mundial da commodity.

Já os papéis da BR Foods (BRFS3) apresentam a maior valorização diária em mais de um mês, ao subirem 2,39%, após o Itaú Unibanco elevar a recomendação desses ativos para “acima da média do mercado”.

Gerdau e Fibria
Assim como os rumores da Vale, outras companhias brasileiras também anunciaram novos eventos em suas atividades no mercado internacional. A Gerdau (GGBR4) conseguiu propor um acordo aos grevistas de sua fábrica de aço em Ontário, Canadá, encerrando uma greve que já dura sete meses. Os papéis da siderúrgica também registram variação nula nesta tarde.

Por sua vez, a Fibria  (FIBR3) concluiu negociações para a venda da Unidade Guaíba para a empresa chilena CMPC. A operação relaciona um montante total de US$ 1,43 bilhão, dos quais US$ 1,3 bilhão já foram recebidos pela companhia brasileira. O restante será pago em até 45 dias. Seus ativos registram valorização de 1,04%.

Ofertas de ações
Por fim, o Fleury informou que os pedidos de reserva da oferta de varejo foram integralmente atendidos até o valor de R$ 17.472,00, que equivalem a 1.092,00 ações. As ações ordinárias, relativas a sua Oferta Pública Inicial, foram precificadas em R$ 16,00, dentro das projeções dos coordenadores da oferta. Os papéis estreiam na BM&F Bovespa na próxima quinta-feira (17).

Também vale ressaltar que este é o último dia para os investidores de varejo reservarem os papéis da IMC (International Meal Company) no âmbito de seu IPO (Oferta Pública Inicial de Ações). Conforme o cronograma da operação, as ações estreiam no Novo Mercado da BM&F Bovespa na próxima segunda-feira (21), sob o código IMCH3.

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My favorite image from last week’s Mini Family Photo Shoot with the Mulso family.

Saturday was CSP’s 38th birthday! We went out to his parents’ house for his birthday dinner. We brought them their Christmas tree and CSP helped his dad set it up. The Christmas tree lots in their town aren’t as good as the ones in our town so we picked up their tree for them. They paid us back, we aren’t forestry elves.
Each year CSP’s mom makes a themed cake for CSP’s birthday. He’s an only child. This year the theme was Spongebob. We’re not exactly sure why. Sure, CSP enjoys the show as much as the next guy, but he’s no mega fan. His parents had a great time with it, and the cake was fantastic so it was all good. I wonder what CSP’s wishing for here: More pictures here.

Stephen Merrill updates us on his somewhat random thoughts concerning science, video games and college access:

Video Games = Education!

 So I was reading an article today that got me thinking about the elementary or middle school science fair.  You may have a vivid image in your mind right now of the hand painted sign hanging crooked above the doorway to the school gymnasium “Science Fair” or if your school was really lucky your sign said “District Science Fair” and your entries would be judged by a celebrity panel that included the Chief of Staff from the suburban Mayor’s office and the weekend meteorologist for the 2^nd ranked local newscast.  I was in the science fair several times, I never did the volcano of baking soda and vinegar; I thought it was light on substance but had great visual appeal (http://www.activitytv.com/138-erupting-volcano).  My last attempt I did a project observing the effects of electromagnetic fields on the growing patterns of beans.  I thought this project could have had serious implications for agricultural planning and should have been seen as significant, but the celebrity panel said “meh” and promptly awarded first place to a friend of mine that did a study of genetic characteristics in rats, though the rats died unexplainably during observation.  I entered the science fair almost every year between 3^rd and 8^th grade, doing other studies of bacteria and video games.  The video game study was my favorite, maybe that was because I had an excuse to play video games and have friends over to play video games for more than an hour a day.  In that study I attempted to measure heartrate and find a direct correlation to a persons stress level and playing video games.  I had a few holes in my hypothesis, I also didn’t account for people being nervous under observation and getting worked up due to frustration experienced when you constantly fall off a cliff trying to jump to the next platform in Sonic the Hedgehog 2.  Anyways, it was the headline of “Obama touts TV and video games as teachers of math and science skills” (http://chronicle.com/article/Obama-Touts-TVVideo-Games/49247/) that caught my attention, the fact that Sesame Street and Discovery Channel are major players in this new effort really shows the blending of entertainment and education.  Whether it will effectively expand the science and mathematics fields beyond its current audience is debatable, but it will definitely give kids a new excuse to wheedle an extra hour of video gaming from their folks.  Now, if I were to design a video game and make it relevant to the college process I would take a game like NCAA Football and make the college element realistic.  The characters would have to study real subjects to earn a degree, not fake courses like famous college mascots.  No, they would at least study economics, and business management.  At the end of each season, they would have to pass a financial literacy course and fill out the FAFSA.  I would build real college tools into the game; otherwise just make it a football game, pass, tackle, run, score!

 -S

When we create binary operators, in mathematics or in programming, they often have certain common identifiable properties:

• If you can re-order the arguments, e.g. 1 + 2 is the same as 2 + 1, we say that it is commutative — in contrast, division is not commutative.
• If you have two applications of the operator and the order of evaluation/bracketing doesn’t matter, e.g. (1 + 2) + 3 is the same as 1 + (2 + 3), we say that it is associative — in contrast, subtraction is not associative.
• If one particular operand always leaves the other side unchanged, we can say that this is the unit of an operator, e.g. 1 * x is the same as x, so 1 is the unit of multiplication.
• If one particular operand always ignores/overrides the other, we can say that this is the zero of an operator, e.g. 0 * x is the same as 0, so 0 is the zero of multiplication.
• If an operator has a unit or zero that only works on one side of the operator, we name it accordingly. For example, we say that division has a right-unit of 1 (because x / 1 is the same as x), but it does not have a left-unit; there is no value k such that for all x, k / x is the same as x.

We can find these properties all over maths and programming. Set union is commutative, associative, and has a unit of the empty set, but no zero. The boolean AND operator is commutative, associative, has the unit “true” and the zero “false”. STM’s orElse combinator is associative, with the unit retry, and the left-zero of a return statement. Any operator that is associative and has a unit forms a monoid, which can be put into Haskell as an instance of the Monoid type-class (more on that below).

The operators in CHP also have some of the aforementioned properties. A full list is buried at the back of the tutorial, but I should probably pull them into the API documentation. (Note that the laws I discuss here are concerned with the behavioural semantics of the operators; the types of the expressions may differ trivially.) The parallel operator <||> is commutative and associative, with a unit of skip, the process that does nothing and returns successfully. The unprioritised choice operator <-> is commutative and associative, with a unit of stop, the process that is never ready in a choice. The implication of choice and parallelism being associative and commutative is that the order of the items in a call to alt or runParallel doesn’t make any difference to the behaviour. The operators for wiring up a pipeline in the Utils module are associative but lack the other properties.

Poison Handler Properties

We can view the poison handlers `onPoisonTrap` and `onPoisonRethrow` as binary operators. To recap: `onPoisonTrap` runs the left-hand side, but if a poison exception occurs then the right-hand side is run. `onPoisonRethrow` does the same, but after the right-hand side has finished, the poison exception is rethrown. They are not commutative — in exception terminology, the first argument is the try and the second the catch; they cannot be swapped freely!

To my surprise, `onPoisonTrap` is associative. Abbreviating it to `oPT`, consider p `oPT` q `oPT` r. If you bracket the first two items, (p `oPT` q) `oPT` r, q will only execute if p throws poison, and r will only execute if q then throws poison (because p’s poison is trapped, so the only poison that can escape the first bracket is from q). If you bracket the latter two, p `oPT` (q `oPT` r), the brackets will only execute if p throws poison, which will pass control to q, which will only pass control to r if poison is thrown by q. So the semantics are associative.

In contrast, `onPoisonRethrow` is not associative. Abbreviating it to `oPR`, consider: p `oPR` skip `oPR` r. If bracketed (p `oPR` skip) `oPR` r, r will be executed if p poisons, but if bracketed p `oPR` (skip `oPR` r), r will never be executed (because skip won’t throw poison).

`onPoisonTrap` has a left-unit of throwPoison (because throwing poison automatically transfers control to the other side, the handler), and a right-unit of throwPoison (because trapping poison then throwing poison has a null effect on the original code). `onPoisonRethrow` has no left-unit but has two right-units: throwPoison and the return statement. Any code that cannot throw poison (e.g. a return statement) is a left-zero of both `onPoisonTrap` and `onPoisonRethrow` because it will never trigger the handler. Neither operator has a right-zero; there is no handler that can cause the original code to always be ignored.

Monoids

The fact that some of the operators mentioned here are associative and have units mean that they could form a monoid. In fact, CHP blocks of code could form several monoids. In Haskell, there is the problem that the monoid instance must be uniquely identified by its type, even though it is really its operator that is distinctive. All the standard number types can form a Monoid in addition (unit: 0, operator: +) or multiplication (unit: 1, operator: *). Defining a Monoid instance for, say, Int would thus be ambigious: when you say 4 `mappend` 3, would you expect 7 or 12? To solve this, the Data.Monoid module defines newtype-wrappers around types to identify the monoid. Sum Int is a monoid in addition, whereas Product Int is a monoid in multiplication.

I could use the same trick for CHP; I could define several monoid instances. Here is a monoid that allows blocks of code (with no useful return) to be joined in parallel:

newtype Par = Par {runPar :: CHP ()}

instance Monoid Par where
  mempty = Par skip
  mappend p q = Par (runPar p <|*|> runPar q)
  mconcat = Par . runParallel_ . map runPar

This could be made a little more useful by making a parallel monoid out of blocks of code that return a type that is itself a monoid; when the parallel blocks of code have all finished, their results are combined using the monoid instance:

newtype ParMonoid a = ParMonoid {runParMonoid :: CHP a}

instance Monoid a => Monoid (ParMonoid a) where
  mempty = ParMonoid (return mempty)
  mappend p q = ParMonoid
    (liftM (uncurry mappend) $ runParMonoid p <||> runParMonoid q)
  mconcat = ParMonoid . liftM mconcat . runParallel . map runParMonoid

There is also a straightforward monoid instance for choice between blocks:

newtype Alt a = Alt {runAlt :: CHP a}

instance Monoid (Alt a) where
  mempty = Alt stop
  mappend a b = Alt (runAlt a <-> runAlt b)
  mconcat = Alt . alt . map runAlt

Finally, there is a monoid built around `onPoisonTrap`:

newtype PoisonTrap a = PoisonTrap {runPoisonTrap :: CHP a}

instance Monoid (PoisonTrap a) where
  mempty = PoisonTrap throwPoison
  mappend a b = PoisonTrap (runPoisonTrap a `onPoisonTrap` runPoisonTrap b)

Consider the meaning of mconcat (map PoisonTrap [p,q,r,s]). It says run p; if no poison is thrown, that’s done. If poison is thrown, run q. If q throws poison, run r, and if that throws a poison, run s. Obviously this is quite excessive, but I had never thought of constructing such a function until I realised that `onPoisonTrap` was associative and thus could form a monoid.

I can’t recall seeing monoid instances like these (involving monadic actions), so perhaps these sorts of monoid instances on monads don’t end up being very useful (if you know of a particular use, please add a comment below). I find it interesting to see how CHP code can form several different monoids just as an exercise.

In my last post I touched upon the Communicating Sequential Processes calculus that inspired both my Communicating Haskell Processes library (including the name, of course) and the new Go language. This post serves as a brief introduction to CSP, and shows how it relates to CHP. For those interested in learning more about CSP, Hoare’s original book is available for free online, and is very readable, especially considering its formal subject matter. Hoare’s book is largely still accurate, but is superseded by Roscoe’s book, which is also freely available online. I’m going to quote from the two texts in this post; “quote”(H123) is a quote from page 123 of Hoare, and “quote”(R123) is from Roscoe.

Events

CSP is built on the idea of events. An event is a synchronisation that several concurrent processes can engage in. Events in CSP do not need to be pre-declared, and which processes synchronise together on events is determined by a notion of alphabets that I’m not going to cover here — because CHP doesn’t have alphabets, or events per se. CHP has barriers, which are a synchronisation that several concurrent processes can engage in, and thus they serve as a useful stand-in for events. The main difference is that barriers have the notion of membership, support dynamically enrolling on (and resigning from) the barrier at run-time — and they need to be allocated before use.

Events are written with lower-case names in CSP; Hoare’s book has lots of vending machine examples with events such as coin and choc.

Processes

CSP separates event synchronisations (the act of engaging in a single event) from processes (which can be composed of many synchronisations); in Haskell terms they should have different types. However, separating the types of an event synchronisation from a process would bring a whole load of pain — not least that I could not easily define a CHP monad — so I discard this in favour of everything being a process; an event synchronisation and a process are both of type CHP a, and thus there is no difference at the type-level between engaging in one event and engaging in many events.

Sequencing

The simplest form of sequencing in CSP is the prefix operator. “Given an event a and a process P, a -> P is the process which is initially willing to communicate a and will wait indefinitely for this a to happen. After a it behaves like P.”(R14). So in my CHP monad, this prefix operator is the standard monadic sequence operator, >>. CSP also has a semi-colon operator for sequencing two processes (which relies on notions of termination — a complex issue in formal systems of computation!), which also maps to >> in CHP.

As an example, here is Hoare’s vending machine (H6) that continually waits for a coin before dispensing a chocolate:

VMS = coin -> choc -> VMS

In CHP I might write this as:

vms = syncBarrier coin >> syncBarrier choc >> vms

Communication

Communication is central to CHP, and CSP. To perform a communication, we need a mechanism for performing an output to a channel, and a corresponding mechanism to input from the other end of the channel. We’ll start with output: “A process which first outputs v on the channel c and then behaves like P is defined (c!v -> P).”(H113). This translates to a call to writeChannel and monadic sequencing in CHP: writeChannel c x >> p.

Where I find the correspondence of CSP and CHP to be fascinating is in the definition of performing an input from a channel. “A process which is initially prepared to input any value x communicable on the channel c, and then behave like P(x), is defined (c?x -> P(x)).”(H114). To put it differently, this performs the action of reading a value from channel c, and binds the return value to x in the right-hand side of the arrow. This should sound familiar to Haskell programmers — this is monadic bind! Indeed, here is the CHP rendering: readChannel c >>= \x -> p(x), or more simply: readChannel c >>= p.

As an example, here is a CSP process (H115) that copies values from its left channel to its right channel:

COPY(left, right) = left?x -> right!x -> COPY(left, right)

This can be converted to CHP as follows:

copy :: Chanin a -> Chanout a -> CHP ()
copy left right = (readChannel left >>= writeChannel right) >> copy left right

Note that in CSP, a channel can be thought of as a (potentially infinite) set of events: one event for each value that could be communicated down the channel. So for some integer channel c, c.0 would be one event, c.1 another, etc). Thus channels in CSP are a sort of syntactic sugar on top of events — but in CHP we deal with actual channels that can communicate values, and they are distinct from barriers.

CSP is declarative, so it does not support the idea of assignment, or altering the value of a variable. Values are only introduced through the aforementioned binding of inputs, through constants, or by parameterisation of processes. Which means that slotting CSP into Haskell comes fairly naturally. We have seen that the sequencing of communications maps well to a monad (the CHP monad). The main other aspects of CSP are parallel composition and choice, which are process combinators in CHP (i.e. they have a type like CHP a -> CHP b -> CHP c).

Parallel Composition

CSP allows for parallel composition of processes. Two processes composed in parallel run in parallel, and “a parallel combination terminates when all of the combined processes terminate… the best way of thinking about [this] is that all of the processes are allowed to terminate when they want to, and that the overall combination terminates when the last one does.”(R143). These semantics also apply to CHP’s parallel composition. CSP’s notation for composing P and Q in parallel: P || Q is near-identical to the CHP version: P <||> Q (they only differ because || is already used in the Prelude).

Choice

CSP has the notion of external choice. “If x and y are distinct events then (x -> P [] y -> Q) describes an object which initially engages in either of the events x or y. After the first event has occurred, the subsequent behaviour of the object is described by P if the first event was x, or by Q if the first event was y.”(H7). CSP has rules for what happens if the first events are not distinct; in CHP this is considered to be a programmer error. Note that the choice is only of the first events, not of later events in P and Q; this is also the case in CHP, although it requires a certain amount of wizardry underneath to pick out the leading event of a CHP code block. In CHP we use <-> as the choice operator.

As an example, Roscoe defines a counting process: “COUNT(n) is the process which will communicate any sequence of up’s and down’s, as long as there have never been n + 1 more down’s than up’s.”(R17):

COUNT(0) = up -> COUNT(1)
COUNT(n) = (up -> COUNT(n+1)) [] (down -> COUNT(n−1))

We can translate this into CHP fairly directly (using barriers for the up and down events):

count :: EnrolledBarrier -> EnrolledBarrier -> Int -> CHP ()
count up down 0 = syncBarrier up >> count up down 1
count up down n = (syncBarrier up >> count up down (n+1))
                     <-> (syncBarrier down >> count up down (n-1))

CSP also deals with nondeterministic choice, notated P |~| Q. “It is important to appreciate the difference between P [] Q and P |~| Q. The process (a -> STOP) [] (b > STOP) is obliged to communicate a or b if offered only one of them, whereas (a -> STOP) |~| (b -> STOP) may reject either. It is only obliged to communicate if the environment offers both a and b. In the first case, the choice of what happens is in the hands of the environment, in the second it is in the hands of the process.”(R24). I do not offer nondeterministic choice in CHP; “even though [nondeterministic choices] are not constructs one would be likely to use in any program written for execution in the usual sense, CSP contains… ways of presenting the nondeterministic choice of processes.”(R23). That is, nondeterministic choice is a modelling construct useful for capturing and reasoning about the behaviour of processes, but it is not something you would mean to write in a program (a bit like bottom in Haskell, perhaps).

Primitive Processes

CSP has two useful primitive processes: SKIP and STOP (skip and stop in CHP). SKIP is the process which is always ready in a choice, and always immediately terminates successfully. So in CHP it has the behaviour of return (), but with the special property that it can be used in a choice. STOP is the process which is never ready in a choice, and never terminates. In CHP it acts the same — it is primarily useful for not being ready in a choice (and thus for dummy items in a choice); running a process that has the sole purpose of doing nothing and not terminating is rarely useful!

Summary

CSP is a formal calculus underlying CHP, in much the same way that the lambda calculus underlies Haskell. It is useful for formal reasoning about programs, and expressing semantics, but just as you do not need to know the lambda calculus to program Haskell, you do not need to know CSP in order to program CHP. CSP does have a model checker, FDR, which is freely available for academic use, and I have done some work on turning simple CHP programs into CSP (and feeding them to FDR) automatically (which I will tidy up and release when I get time). CSP also provided the idea of traces, which feature in CHP, and were briefly described in a previous post on using traces for testing.

(!) = writeChannel
(?) = readChannel

Then I could take this CSP process:

COPY(input,output) = input?x -> output!x -> COPY(input,output)

and write it in CHP as:

copy input output = (input?) >>= \x -> output!x >> copy input output

I didn’t want the code to end up too much like ASCII spaghetti so I decided against these operators, but feel free to define these in your own code if you prefer the operator version. Unfortunately you always need those brackets around the input, so the do version becomes:

copy input output = do x <- (input?)
                       output ! x
                       copy input output

The newly announced Go language set the Internet abuzz this week. I’m not going to write extensively about it, partly because I haven’t had much time to examine it in detail, and partly because other people have already written a lot about it. It is interesting to note that CHP and Go share a common heritage in Hoare and Roscoe’s CSP (Communicating Sequential Processes). I will be mentioning CSP in a couple of posts next week; CSP is a process calculus used to describe message-passing concurrent systems.

CSP inspired occam, which in turn became occam-pi (using ideas from the pi-calculus), which is still under active development. occam and occam-pi also inspired various libraries for CSP-style concurrency, such as JCSP, C++CSP, PyCSP, and many more including CHP. But CSP also inspired Newsqueak, and Rob Pike went on from that to work on Limbo and now Go which retain the CSP influence. It’s certainly nice to see other people looking at message-passing concurrency.

I did get time to glance at Go’s tutorial, and saw that they have an example for generating prime numbers using a process pipeline which uses the exact same design as my CHP primes example. So you can compare the CHP version to the Go version if you wish. (I took the design from the JCSP version; I wonder if the Go developers did too.)

Invite for Market Street Gallery

I dropped my work off a Macy’s for the upcoming CSP (California Society of Printmakers) show in San Francisco, picked up a batch of postcard announcements for the exhibit, and was happy to see my piece included on the front. Mine is the 5th from the top left.

Gathering Light #14. Etching, chine colleé, color pencil

Here’s a better image of it. It’s based on a bubble-chamber photograph. The flowers were photoshopped into bubble chamber photograph before the etching plate was made.The chine colleé image is from the Fresnel lens at the Pt. Cabrillo Lighthouse. The bright colors were added recently, drawn in with Sanford and Berol colored pencils.

The back of the postcard announcement

Reception: Friday Dec. 11, 6-9. 1554 Market Street. Exhibit up through Jan 2, 2010.

          C has a version of something called Dermatillomania (also known as compulsive skin picking or CSP). It’s an impulse control disorder like the more well known trichotillomania (hair pulling), and is a cousin of OCD. What it means for C, which is slightly different from the traditional presentation of the disorder (of course it is; C always does things in his own way), is that he picks scabs over and over and over and over and over. After a particularly mosquito-y summer visit to Tennessee, we found ourselves wrapping his legs in medical tape so that he couldn’t get to the band-aids, pull them off, and pick. The kid goes through more band-aids than I can count, and we should own stock in bandage companies.

     C has yet to create a wound from nothing, but he has opened up old scars. There’s a leftover tiny cut on the top of his head from an oops with the hair clippers, and he’s now going on one and a half years (yes, years) of re-opening this wound. It has changed the pattern of his hair growth and I fear it will get to the point where he will be the only eight year old in the world with a bald spot. C spent half of last year wearing a hat all day, every day – we had to get special permission for him to wear it to school – to help. We’ve tried everything; we’ve yelled, we’ve begged, we’ve bribed, we’ve taken things away, we’ve given him fidgets for his hands, and of course none of it works for the long term. I suppose we thought he would grow out of it, and that we were doing all we could to help him do so. I remind myself that it’s not as if C can control it, but it still infuriates me like nothing else he’s ever done. I know that’s where I’m failing him the most as I’m sure he’s even more upset about this than I am, and probably far more confused about it than I am. This requires sensitivity on my part, not frustration.

     Save therapy, which to this point has seemed an unlikely path for this particular child, there’s only one other thing we haven’t tried. The one thing a doc who saw him two years ago for five minutes wanted us to try. A prescription for Zoloft, Xanax, and whatever other mood-altering drug you can name. “It will clear this right up,” he said as he tried to shove me out the door with script in hand. “It will probably solve those feeding issues he has too.” This was no expert; it was a hometown family doc who seemed to want to solve everything with a bottle of pills. If he hadn’t thrown in that last completely ignorant blip about C’s feeding issues, I might have fallen for it, so desperate was I.

     I don’t mean to go all Tom Cruise on this issue, but I’m pretty much against meds for my kid. I believe there are cases where drugs are absolutely necessary, but I don’t yet believe this is one of those situations. The research doesn’t show an enormous amount of success treating this issue with drugs. Couple that with the fact that I think C is precariously perched on the top of a fence - on which one side lies health and the other a downward spiral of medical issues - and body chemistry altering meds are not an experiment I find worth the risk.

     But where I wasn’t ready before, I’m ready now. I’m waving the white flag; I realize I’m in over my head and I surrender. So now begins the search for a psychologist or a psychiatrist who is able to do cognitive behavioral therapy (apparently the type of therapy that sometimes works with this disorder) on a kid who isn’t particularly enlightened about his own triggers nor the emotions that go with them. A search for someone whose first instinct isn’t to write a script, and a search for someone who has dealt with this before. A search for someone who won’t be fooled by C’s seeming grasp of language and its components. A search for a knight in shining armor, an angel who needs her wings, a healer who will be able to read this kid in a way no one ever has before. I hope this person is out there, waiting for us.

Release Date: 09/11/09
Genre: Pop/Rap
Language: Korean
Bit rate: 320kbps

Tracklist:
01 – 유리잔 (Feat. 판사라 Of 가비퀸즈, Still PM)
02 – 유리잔 (Inst.)

Full Single: CSP – 유리잔

A few weeks ago I applied to be a Certified Scrum Practitioner, and I just received the notice that my application has been accepted.  To be honest I don’t know specifically why I did so — having the certification doesn’t specifically help me to my job today.  It does reflect the fact that I have a real, practical knowledge of Scrum, which is considerably more useful than the Certified ScrumMaster designation.  I also know that I answered the questions on the application reasonably well (although I guess I’ll never know how well), which gives me some confidence that I actually know what I’m talking about.

I found the application to be very interesting — it was a mix of detailed questions on my experience using Scrum, as well as some more textbook questions around Scrum and how it works.  Certainly the detailed questions provided for me a good opportunity for reflection on the past year of working with Scrum (and in fact inspired me to write about it here).

Anyway, it’s nice to have.  Congratulations, me.

Conheça a Plataforma de Serviços aos Munícipes

Uma grande mudança de paradigma ocorreu nas relações entre o governo e os cidadãos nos últimos anos. O alcance desta mudança é global e as suas origens estão relacionadas com a confluência de dois vectores: uma nova percepção de serviço público e as mais recentes evoluções tecnológicas.

Conheça a Plataforma de Serviços aos Munícipes (Citizen Service Platform) que propõe um modelo de construção de soluções e serviços orientados para os cidadãos, apoiados em ferramentas e tecnologias Microsoft.

Conheça a plataforma e obtenha informação mais detalhada aqui.

The Adirondack Rural Health Network released their six-county, six-hospital combined Community Health Assessment (CHA) and Community Service Plan (CSP) in September 2009.  It is a comprehensive collection and analysis of data on health issues and needs in Essex, Fulton, Hamilton, Saratoga, Warren and Washington counties.  The CHA document can be downloaded directly as a PDF.

The regional CHA-CSP report is a landmark effort in collaboration among county health departments, hospitals, other agencies and non-profits working to improve community health in the region.  The results enable professionals and the interested public to take part in strategically establishing priorities, developing interventions and committing resources to improved health in communities throughout the region. The top three priority health issues were found to be:

• Physical Activity & Nutrition
• Chronic Disease
• Access to Quality Health Care

The detailed, 200-page document has data tables and charts for 11 categories of health indicators.  It also includes an overview of the community health planning process and a glossary of terms.  Each of the six County CHA’s and the six Hospital CSP’s also can be accessed as PDF’s on the ARHN website.

Tim Holmes, research director at Holmes & Associates, was only one of at least 21 people involved in bringing this year-long effort to its successful completion for the Adirondack Rural Health Network (ARHN).  Tim Holmes directed the telephone survey on health issues with over 1,000 area households in 2004, establishing a baseline for comparison with the more recent BRFSS data shown in the 2009 CHA/CSP report.  Holmes & Associates has maintained and updated the CHA health indicator data base for the ARHN since 2004.

In the first two parts (part 1 and part 2) of this post, I discussed cap and trade as well-intentioned but a fundamental misapplication of the permit trading policy framework.  I also went on to identify 11 basic elements of any climate policy regardless of instrument.  In the third part, I describe a package of mostly familiar policies that integrated together will have a far more profound effect on emissions that the cap and trade system.  In this, the last part, I offer a second alternative to cap and trade which I believe is the most aggressive and secure approach to cutting emissions, though does not exclude elements of the package in part 3.

Project-Based Carbon Mitigation Policy (PCMP):  A Heterodox Climate Policy Framework

I’ve redesigned an approach that is not entirely new but has been sidelined in current high-level climate and energy policy discussions.  I’m calling it Project-Based Carbon Mitigation Policy– PCMP.  Instead of or in addition to starting with an abstraction like a carbon price, PCMP starts with specific large-scale regional, national or global projects that with greater than 95% probability will cut emissions substantially within the next few years; these projects implement technologies and processes that are known to directly replace fossil fuel use, directly reduce demand for fossil fuel or, with some agreed-upon degree of certainty, sequester carbon emissions. A goal and timeline are set for the reductions based on the implementation of that technology or process then PCMP reverse-engineers the economic and social policies that will enable the project to take place in a timely manner.  PCMP does not exclude nor discourage the use of abstractions like price mechanisms and society-wide or global targets but it starts with the security and relative certainty of projects that are technology- and process-based, supervised by some responsible party or regulator, and funded.   PCMP may end up being a route to a set of policies very much like the Comprehensive policy discussed in Part 3.  A PCMP policy approach also openly acknowledges the role of government leadership in achieving carbon emissions reduction goals, an attitude which has been shunned in recent history in the US and elsewhere.

Viewing projects as the fundamental element of policy also allows necessary supporting infrastructure that facilitate many types of emissions reduction to become the object and focus of high-level climate policy.  Build out of the electric grid and electrification of transport are key to a zero emissions industrial/post-industrial society though, due to the variable carbon intensity of electricity production their exact contribution as separate individual projects cannot be quantified.  A combined approach linking low- or zero-carbon electrical generation with electrification of transport would qualify as PCMP projects.

Carbon mitigation projects based on tested technologies and processes are the only assured means of cutting emissions, along with their supporting infrastructure.  Carbon pricing may influence projects to be initiated but the projects themselves are the primary building blocks of policy.  The focus on what might be called “secondary” or tertiary levels of climate policy has, in my observation, interfered with or at least obscured the importance of these primary on-the-ground projects.

The most directive end of the PCMP project spectrum would be a government program, funded by tax revenue, that uses “command-and-control”  to push through a project that is vital to our ultimate survival as a society implemented either by government contractors or via government employees.  On the other end of the spectrum in terms of directiveness are rulings, changes in tax law, and the institution of technology and process standards that will tweak existing market behavior.  A PCMP project will have a target emissions reduction by a certain date; optimistic goals should be shunned in favor of “worst case” scenarios to ensure that goals are met or exceeded.  Incentives should be aligned for the project leaders, whether they be public or private employees, if they achieve or, better, exceed emissions targets.

Many existing government programs in the area of environmental protection already are project-based policies in that an existing technology, set of technologies or process is chosen for implementation but, to date, not taking the next step to target specific carbon emissions reductions.   In the US, we have a number of house weatherization programs including a grant program for low-income homeowners and rebate programs for other homeowners.   To convert these into PCMP programs, one would need to make specific greenhouse gas mitigation goals and a timeline, tuning the policy instruments to achieve these reductions along the stated time line.  However, the notion behind the PCMP concept is that policies that support one or another project may be generalized to a sector-wide or economy-wide policy or have knock-on effects.  National policies or international agreements would be “reverse-engineered” to support key projects as priorities.

Project-based Policy, Infrastructure and Synergies between Technologies

The building of new infrastructure or its supervision, key to carbon mitigation, almost always falls to government, which undertakes the building of infrastructure on a project by project basis.  The emphasis on market solutions to climate change, which focuses on influencing the decision-making of individual market actors ignores the fact that most infrastructure is built by government planning and programs that anticipate rather than respond to economic demand.  One way to understand the sequence of events in  building infrastructure is perhaps best summarized by the line: “build it and they will come”.   Within this Hollywood formulation, what is captured is the ability of physical infrastructure to create or support markets as well as influence behavior beyond the influence of prices and goods for sale.

The carbon price signal, either the clear carbon tax version or the muddied cap and trade variety, will not by itself initiate the building of new infrastructure in a timely manner, especially if we consider the politically likely (low) level of the carbon price in the next few years.  Even if we look to the history of infrastructure for market behavior shaping infrastructure (“Go West, young man” and the US railroads), in the face of catastrophic climate change we are looking at an accelerated implementation of new infrastructure as replacements for serviceable but polluting infrastructure, requiring a pro-active government role that anticipates rather than responds to trends and price signals.

In addition, basing policy on or limiting policy discussion to carbon pricing alone has been a way to say:  “we don’t know what the solutions will be”.  However, besides ignoring the key role of infrastructure, this is, at this point in history, disingenuous and more importantly time-wasting.  As I have pointed out in two posts I wrote over a year ago, we now have about 24 technologies or processes that together could cut carbon emissions by at least 90%.  These technologies and processes ranged from CSP with storage, internetworked wind powerwith hydroelectric storage, transport electrification, afforestation, to even voluntary (partial) veganism.  Eventually much celebrated technologies like building-integrated photovoltaics will also play a major role.  Other, more “traditional” climate policies that may be established more generally like a carbon price may aid the implementation of a PCMP policy but the combination of a carbon price and PCMP projects will achieve emissions reductions most rapidly.  The project-based approach starts with a core of concrete intended outcomes in the way of realized projects but then welcomes and expects follow-on effects both from the realization of these projects and from the facilitating generalized policies like a carbon tax or fee.

Many of the gains associated with the most powerful of the 24 technologies, with a couple exceptions, are based on synergies between different technologies, not the solo implementation of those technologies.  The impact of electric vehicles on total emissions varies a great deal depending on the type of generation that is used in a particular area of the globe.    A carbon price will help urge this process on but will not of itself incentivize the creation of these synergies.

In renewable electricity generation there are some synergies between technologies, for instance between hydroelectric storage and wind power, which would need to be integrated in a planned manner across numbers of jurisdictions.  These synergies between technologies can only be realized rapidly via integrated resource planning with adequate financing.  Grid operators have already engaged in integrated resource planning anyway throughout the over 100 year history of the electric grid.  Linking this planning with carbon mitigation is a step towards the PCMP policy framework.

Prospective PCMP Projects (US)

PCMP Example #1: CSP with Storage

One of the few standalone, scalable renewable energy technologies that can directly replace fossil electricity generation one-for-one is Concentrating Solar Thermal Electric Power (CSP) with thermal energy storage (TES).  With sufficient transmission and judicious siting, CSP with storage could supply almost all the world’s energy using a small percentage of the area of the world’s deserts.   DESERTEC which is a large CSP investment and policy project for Africa, the Middle East, and Europe, could be configured as a PCMP with specific targets for replacing fossil generation.

The example PCMP project below applying CSP with thermal storage provides close to certainty in emissions reductions and can be accelerated with increased funding.  This contrasts dramatically with the lack of control over emissions under carbon pricing alone inclusive of cap and trade with its false “certainty”.  Effective carbon pricing would catalyze this type of development but would not “cause” it as would a targeted program focused on implementation of the technology.

CSP with TES – American Southwest/West of Mississippi

Region: 6 US States (California, Arizona, Nevada, Utah, New Mexico, Texas) – Replace Energy Production in 19 Western US States.

Emissions Reductions Source: Replace fossil electricity production by specified gas and coal power plants by 241 million MWh/annum by 2020 in the WECC, SPP, MRO and ERCOT grids (50% natural gas/50% coal) without addition of new fossil generation. By 2030 replace 1200 million MWh/annum fossil generation in NERC.

Technology: Concentrating Solar Thermal Electric Power with Storage (Capacity factors from 35% to 70%)  - 50GW installed by 2020, 250 GW installed by 2030 – mean capacity factor >50%.  Formation of CSP industrial base to replace fossil generation.

Target CO2 Emissions reductions from 2007 baseline: 181 million metric tonnes C02/annum by 2020, 905 million metric tonnes CO2/annum by 2030.

Finance mechanisms: guaranteed $.10/kWh rates (inflation adjusted) for 20 years for electricity sales plus $(2 + capacity factor/.25)/W (2010-2013), $(0.5 + capacity factor/.25)/W (2014-2017), $(capacity factor/.50)/W (2018-2020) innovation grant funded through carbon tax/fee (adjusted for the effect of the 30% Investment Tax Credit).  Favorable tax treatment for mothballing and early retirement of fossil generation.

Project Team: US DOE responsible leading industry stakeholder committee (US EPA, Fish and Wildlife, plant developers, utilities, grid operators, state and local political leaders, environmental advocates).

Supporting national and international policies:

1. Carbon tax/fee facilitates implementation.
2. Infrastructure: Renewable energy “smart”/supergrid
3. Guaranteed Rates for Renewable Energy
4. Contracting with Stakeholders for Greenhouse Gas Reduction Targets
5. Special Master to Determine Compensation for Retired or Semi-retired Fossil Power Plants

PCMP Example #2:  Combined Renewable Energy Power Plants

A combined renewable power plant connects a diverse set of renewable generators that together produce electricity according to the demands of grid operators and ultimately grid users.  More complex than CSP with storage, this technology is still emerging though simply a matter of organizing existing technologies via smart, renewable-energy oriented transmission network.

Combined Renewable Power Plants – US

Region: All US States (can be generalized to almost any region of the world)

Emissions Reductions Source: Replace fossil electricity production by specified gas and coal power plants by 241 million MWh/annum by 2025 in NERC grids (50% natural gas/50% coal) without addition of new fossil generation. By 2035 replacing 1200 million MWh/annum in NERC.

Technologies: Wind, Solar (CSP, PV), HydroelectricGeothermal, Marine/Wave Energy, Biomass, internetworked generators to load centers, “smart” grid management technologies.

Target CO2 Emissions reductions from 2007 baseline: 181 million metric tonnes C02 by 2025, 905 million metric tonnes CO2 by 2035.

Finance Mechanisms: Bundled wholesale feed-in-tariffs with performance bonuses based on load-responsiveness of combined renewable power plants.  Amount of tariffs as yet undetermined and would vary with renewable resource intensity.

Project Team: US DOE responsible leading industry stakeholder committee (US EPA, Fish and Wildlife, plant developers, utilities, grid operators, state and local political leaders, environmental advocates).

Supporting National and International Policies:

1. Carbon tax/fee facilitates implementation.
2. Infrastructure: Renewable energy “smart”/supergrid
3. Guaranteed rates for renewable energy/feed-in tariffs
4. Contracting with stakeholders for GHG reduction targets
5. Special master to determine compensation for retired or semi-retired fossil power plants

PCMP Example #3:  Home Weatherization

The US Department of Energy has a goal of weatherizing over 1 million homes as part of the 2009 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, a.k.a. the 2009 stimulus package.   This investment of $8 billion dollars is divided between $5 billion for grants via the states to weatherize homes of low-income homeowners and $3 billion dollars for rebates to other homeowners for weatherization upgrades to homes.  The low-income grant program will limit grants to $6500 worth of work per home.

A review of the standard weatherization packages in 2002, indicates that the full package that would cost in the area of $5000-$6500 could cut from up to 7.5 metric tonnes of carbon emissions per year per house in high emissions/high heating demand areas like the Midwest, in particularly inefficient houses.  In areas with lesser heating and cooling demands,  like the Western US, the savings would be maximally 2 tonnes for an inefficient older, small single-family dwelling but the price tag would only be in the order of $2500/home.

However looking at the components of these packages there are certain measures that have much higher carbon reduction return on investment than others, most notably air sealing, programmable thermostat installation, water heater resets, low flow shower heads, and compact fluorescent lighting.  An additional reduced package of these high impact measures would cost from $1000 to $1500 per home leading to emissions reductions of about 2 metric tonnes on average, to as many as 3.4 metric tonnes.  It is possible to design then a “rapid” first-pass program of reducing emissions that would triple or quadruple the number of homes visited per unit expenditure.  Later, a second program could revisit these homes to address the remaining issues like inefficient refrigerators, furnaces, insulation and water heaters that have substantial returns in reducing carbon but are more expensive.

In a few years time, we may have better measures based on among other things passive house technology, which may enable “deep energy retrofits” of existing houses that enable greater energy and emissions cuts with similar or lesser investment.  In these cases, PCMP projects such as this one can revise their targets upwards.

Accelerated Home Weatherization Program with Carbon Targets

Region: All US States (start with high heating/high cooling areas)

Emissions Reductions Source: Reduce domestic combustion of fuel oil, natural gas, reduce domestic demand for electricity, especially at baseload.

Technologies: Building envelope air sealing technologies, insulation, high efficiency fluorescent lamps, refrigerators, water heaters, furnaces, programmable thermostats.

Target CO2 Emissions reductions from 2007 baseline: 60 million metric tonnes by 2020 from 30 million homes, 120 million metric tonnes by 2030 from 60 million homes.

Finance Mechanisms: Tax revenues fund low-income homeowner/renter grants (up to $6500 per home) and consumer rebates for energy efficiency upgrades.

Project Team: US DOE and state weatherization programs, utility officials.

Supporting National and International Policies:

1. Carbon tax/fee funds and facilitates implementation.
2. Contracting with stakeholders for greenhouse gas reduction targets
3. Decoupling investor-owned utility income from energy sales
4. National and state mandates for energy efficiency
5. Green building and energy efficiency certifications/standards

A PCMP project once it is approved, organized and financed can move immediately to the generation of detailed design, operational plans and the begin of construction or implementation. The reverse engineering portion comes in figuring out how to get to the point where the technologies or processes can be implemented.  The key difference between a PCMP (aided perhaps by other policies) and a policy that essentially remains entirely agnostic about solutions is that a PCMP adds a stated intention and tasks a skilled project team to achieve a concrete material change in the processes that generate greenhouse gases.  Then policy is built partially around that intention and the project team that is tasked with realizing that intention.

The PCMP approach is I believe the most aggressive and gives those who will be ultimately held responsible for protecting the climate, the world’s governments, maximal ability to accelerate efforts if needed.  To achieve the very ambitious 350 ppm goal and follow  the “Emergency Pathway”, the PCMP approach would have the best chance.

Good Intentions Alone No Longer Suffice

Cap and trade has been a convenient mechanism for politicians to avoid fundamental but necessary conflicts while giving themselves and others the impression that they are “doing something” about climate change.  As the first international climate policy, it has attracted a community of people that have seen it as the sole alternative to inaction, therefore undeservedly has become a magnet for the good intentions of both the uninformed and the somewhat-better informed.  The “cap” is a reassuring physical metaphor that suggests a level of control over emissions which, as I have demonstrated, the policy itself undermines.  As cap and trade appears to address 5 of the 11 domains of climate policy, it is seductive for politicians to try to set up a “one stop shop” as a means to address the climate and energy problem.

However, there are much better policy frameworks out there of which I have shown two examples.  Cap and trade’s fatal ability to insulate the ultimate decision-makers from the process of pushing for emissions cuts on the ground can be avoided in a number of ways.  Above, I demonstrated a project-based policy framework that I called PCMP, which builds policy from the ground up and puts at the center the key role of developing zero-carbon infrastructure in addition to price-based instruments that influence investment and behavior.  Or, in part 3, I showed how  it is possible to implement a nine-part composite of simpler but synergistic policies that is more flexible, will be more effective, and ultimately more comprehensible to the public at large than cap and trade.  Crucially this set of policies does not give away or obfuscate governments’ responsibility to protect society and the environment.

The cap and trade policy is a twisted remnant of a political era in which government was supposed to pretend that it wasn’t really government.  It has fooled no one except some of its supporters.  Government must be decisively and centrally involved in the implementation of carbon policy and there must be a rapid re-discovery of the value of good government in leading society through difficult times.  Furthermore cap and trade as an instrument contains within it an open invitation for corruption and “capture” by powerful financial interests with few incentives to make concrete investments in the energy or land-use future.  Any effective climate policy must establish clear guidelines and openly acknowledge government’s supervisory role in the transition to a new energy economy.  I wish there were more shades of grey in this regard, but there aren’t.

No set of policies is, however, a magic bullet if there is not strong popular support for decisive action on climate and popular acknowledgement of the necessity for government’s leadership role.  As it currently stands in the United States, the public still is woefully misinformed about climate, with for instance, a prominent pair of columnists for the New York Times perpetuating “global cooling” myths in their latest book.  Against this background, climate policy appears to be a partisan affair rather than actions of the human community as broadly defined as possible that are based on our best science.  If cap and trade is presented as the only alternative, this further undermines the cause of climate action and government responsibility because of the fundamental flaws in the policy.  The equation of cap and trade with good intentions on climate action must be irrevocably broken.

Ultimately, political leaders must campaign with passion for the future of our planet and our societies, with empathy for the economically downtrodden and dispirited, informing the public about the alternatives available to minimize the impact of our two century fossil fuel bacchanal.  Within the context of a better informed citizenry, only then can an effective climate and energy policy truly take effect, though the time to start on both campaigns is now.

Colm Callanan who stood in Laois-Offaly and Longford-Westmeath in the 2007 GE and also in 10 different LEAs in the 2009 local elections….
Its nice to put a face to a name.
Colm only wants your Number 1 votes (“…a No 2 vote, regrettably, is of little use to me”).
Colm promises “…to take action on … homosexual adoption, increasing levels of porn in newsagents, sexual innuendo in TV ads, etc”

Faperj, por Rosilene Ricardo – Aproveitar energia solar para fins industriais: foi com esse objetivo que a empresa petropolitana Global Master Internacional criou o concentrador solar parabólico (CSP), uma forma de usar energia de fontes naturais, como a do sol, para produzir um volume energético grande o bastante para suprir diversas necessidades de uma unidade industrial. Em geral, os equipamentos de energia alternativa produzem pequeno volume de energia, suficiente apenas para unidades residenciais.

Apoiado pelo edital de Apoio à Inovação Tecnológica da Faperj e contando com a participação da Universidade Católica de Petrópolis (UCP), o projeto foi desenvolvido pela equipe formada por Rogério Müller, coordenador e dono da Global Master, Fernando Gordalina, idealizador do primeiro protótipo, e o professor Carlos Eduardo Reuther, da UCP. Atualmente, a equipe conta ainda com a contribuição do engenheiro Fábio José Borsatto Leitão e do especialista em automação industrial Célio Gomes. Depois de um modelo experimental, um segundo protótipo foi instalado na empresa Arcoflex e está em fase avançada de testes. No momento, ele fornece energia para a estufa de secagem de uma impressora de flexografia.

Para o funcionamento do equipamento, que só acontece com radiação direta, é necessário que os raios solares, captados pela parabolóica revestida de películas refletoras, se concentrem no foco onde está posicionada uma caldeira térmica contendo um fluido especial, capaz de suportar temperaturas elevadas com baixo coeficiente de dilatação. O objetivo é transferir a energia térmica produzida para um trocador de calor. É daí que a energia será distribuída para uso, de acordo com as necessidades de cada cliente. “No caso da Arcoflex, é preciso produzir ar quente para o sistema de secagem do equipamento de impressão flexográfica. Isso gera significativa economia de energia elétrica, confirmada em estudos e projeções já realizados até o momento. Usado em combinação com o sistema elétrico atual, poderá formar um sistema híbrido e suprir energia para equipamentos de grande porte”, explica o engenheiro Fábio Borsatto, diretor comercial da empresa.

Segundo Rogério Muller, o CSP difere das placas planas, usadas habitualmente para captação de energia solar, basicamente pela faixa de temperatura em que opera. Se nas placas, essa temperatura fica em torno de 70ºC – que é suficiente para aquecer água para uma residência –, no CSP, os níveis médios de energia podem chegar a 500ºC. “Por isso, ele foi desenvolvido para ser utilizado em empresas, que exigem maior volume de energia do que uma casa. Numa residência, o custo do equipamento não é convidativo, e nem seu uso é necessário. Na verdade, é um exagero. Nesse caso, as placas solares são bem eficientes e podem operar, embora com menor eficiência, em condições de baixa incidência direta de sol. Na minha casa, por exemplo, tenho placas suficientes para aquecer a água de banheiros e cozinha”, exemplifica.

Para que o concentrador solar parabólico possa acompanhar a “trajetória solar”, foi desenvolvido um sofisticado mecanismo de automação que conta com inversores de frequência, motorredutores, sensores de leitura do posicionamento solar e outros componentes, que formam um conjunto de controle de alta tecnologia.

O pesquisador explica as vantagens de cada equipamento. “As aplicações são distintas. No caso de aplicação no aquecimento de água, por exemplo, seja para fins residenciais ou mesmo industriais, os equipamentos planos apresentam maior vantagem. Mas se precisarmos de energia para climatização de ambientes ou ainda para fins industriais, ocupando menor área de instalação, podemos dizer que o CSP é o indicado, especialmente em regiões onde há maior incidência de sol durante o ano. Isso certamente traz significativa economia de despesas, já que o sol é uma fonte abundante, não perecível e não poluente”, fala Rogério.

Ele diz ainda que o CSP também está em fase de testes para geração de frio industrial, abastecendo de energia uma geladeira e um aparelho de ar-condicionado da empresa. Outros estudos analisam a possibilidade de o equipamento ser instalado em um abatedouro de aves, em Petrópolis, gerando energia térmica para aquecimento do sistema de água utilizado na depenação do frango e também para produzir gelo para o frigorífico de armazenamento da produção.

Segundo Rogério, é importante frisar que o equipamento não exclui as fontes primárias habituais de geração de energia de cada empresa, seja elétrica, caldeira ou gás. “Ela será usada nos dias nublados ou chuvosos, já que o CSP requer a incidência direta do sol para gerar energia térmica. Nos dias sem sol ou de baixa geração térmica, devido a uma alta incidência de nuvens, o mecanismo de automação faz a modulação de um sistema para o outro, sem prejudicar o funcionamento da empresa onde estiver instalado.”

Um terceiro protótipo, que também será instalado na Arcoflex, entrará em teste no mês de novembro. Embora o projeto ainda esteja em desenvolvimento, a Global Master já vem participando de eventos ligados à área ambiental e de geração de energia. Em setembro, em parceria com a Arcoflex, a empresa esteve no X Festival de Limpeza de Araras, demonstrando o funcionamento de um pequeno protótipo para alunos do ensino médio de escolas da região. Representantes da Global Master também estiveram presentes, entre as diversas empresas apoiadas pela Fundação, à mostra do Programa Rio Inovador, organizada pela FAPERJ e realizada no Palácio Guanabara, no final de setembro.

“Nosso objetivo é disponibilizar para o mercado um equipamento que proporcione, além da economia financeira, uma economia de recursos naturais. Mas é preciso entender que sua aplicação não substitui as fontes primárias de energia, atualmente empregadas em larga escala em nosso parque industrial. Como, pelo nosso cronograma, a finalização do projeto está prevista para início de 2010, devemos iniciar a comercialização do equipamento logo em seguida”, conclui.

Last February I recorded a little video of CSP playing with our pug puppy Zoe. It’s really cute so I uploaded to America’s Funniest Home Videos in July. Well I received an email from AFV at the beginning of October that they want it on the show. So we filled out a stack of release forms and sent them in. I just heard that our video will be on America’s Funniest Home Videos in January! Most likely the 17th but I’m to check back with them in early January to confirm.
I’d show you the video but AFV has you take the video off the web until after the show.
CSP, in his pajamas, playing with Zoe, on national Television! So excited!!!

U.S. Covert Domestic Terrorist Operations & The SS

-Code named Operation Northwoods, the plan, which had the written approval of the Chairman and every member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, called for innocent people to be shot on American streets; for boats carrying refugees fleeing Cuba to be sunk on the high seas; for a wave of violent terrorism to be launched in Washington, D.C., Miami, and elsewhere. People would be framed for bombings they did not commit; planes would be hijacked. Using phony evidence, all of it would be blamed on Castro, thus giving Lemnitzer and his cabal the excuse, as well as the public and international backing, they needed to launch their war-[1] 

President John F. Kennedy may have trashed the idea, but Fascist and Strong-Arm Law and Order Presidential Administrations like Richard Milhouse Nixon, Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush, Bill Clinton, and George W. Bush were ready to sign off on criminal death and destruction covert domestic terrorist programs dreamed up by the Knights of the Black Sun, the SS, to polarized the races and terrorize the masses for their own end of a New World Order.

Reichsfurhrer Heinrich Himmler’s resident SS, Knight of Black Sun, on the U.S. Joint Chief of Staff was Dr. Fritz Gustane Anton Kraemer. Dr. Kraemer was a special assistant, adviser and strategist to the U.S. Army Deputy Chief of Staff of Operations (DCSOPS) at the Pentagon, [2] and the National Security Council (NSC). The NSC was patterned after Fuehrer Adolf Hitler and Nazi Germany’s Security Council, and its jurisdiction was to oversee the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) by dictate of the National Security Act of 1947.

The extraordinary researcher, the Late Great Mae Brussell, identified Kraemer as the “Number One” most powerful (Secret Team) person in the United States. She suspected that he was the very same Brigadefuhrer SS Fritz Kraemer [3] who was very high up in Hitler’s regime and personally responsible for extremely strategic fascist atrocities in WWII, who as a war crimes defendant literally walked away from the Nuremberg Tribunal. [4]

Fritz Kraemer and his son, Sven Kraemer, were major advisors of the NSC for both Democratic and Republican presidential administrations since Eisenhower. They were also prominent advisors in the Center for Security Policy (CSP), which features the William J. Casey Institute. Federal Judge D. Lowell Jensen’s Alameda County Mafia partner, Edwin Meese III, was an informal advisor of the CSP with the Kraemers. [5] The Kraemers were some of the most dominant and influential members of Henry Kissinger’s staff, and the U.S. Pentagon.

U.S. Domestic Terrorism Operations such as Northwoods were part and parcel of The Knights of Black Sun’s Master plan for a 1000 Year Third Reich of World Domination. Hitler, Himmler and the SS Master Plan devised a series of historical events that, on the surface, would appear to be occurrences of international and domestic terrorism; acts of murder, assassinations, terror, and war. Through timing of these events, patience, careful planning, and cooperation from others in positions of trust, stealth and deceit, they would acquire power over the United States and World through false flag operations, fear mongering, population mind control, deception, concealment, selected assassinations of national and world leaders, and war.

Marinus Van der Lubbe, “The Nazi’s Patsy” Domestic Terrorist, was convicted and executed for the infamous 1933 Reichstag Fire in Berlin that propelled Adolf Hitler and the Nazis into absolute power. After the fire, Van de Lubbe was found by the SS, cowering behind the Reichstag building, the house of the first parliament of Germany. Van de Lubbe had been a mental patient who lived as a vagabond and entertained grand delusions. On the forty-second day of his trial, he talked about “inner voices” that commanded him and demanded that he be put to death. [6] Van de Lubbe’s trial was compromised. He was convicted by a German court and executed. He was guillotined in a Leipzig prison yard on January 10, 1934. [7] 

According to Nazi propaganda, the Reichstag fire was intended as a signal for a feared national communist uprising that had long been planned. The Nazis had deliberately set the fire and setup Van de Lubbe as a patsy to scare the people into turning Germany into a Nazi dictatorship and strong-arm fascist state to fight off a sham communist menace.

To justify the invasion of Poland in 1939, the SS took twelve Jewish prisoners out of Buchenwald Concentration Camp and forced them to take poison, shot them after they had put on Polish uniforms. An SS Officer yelled in Polish into a radio transmitter at a radio station bordering Poland and Germany that they had taken over the station, and intended to invade Germany, and then the SS fled leaving the dead Jewish concentration camp inmates scattered about at the site of radio station as proof of Poland’s aggression.[8]

On September 1, 1939, to terrorize the people of Germany, Hitler told the Nazi Reichstag that Poland had tried to invade Germany, and the Wehrmacht was returning fire since 5:45 AM. Actually, in a carefully planned and highly mobile attack codenamed Fall Weiss (Case White) planned by General Field Marshal Walther von Brauchitsch, German land, sea, and air forces were moving rapidly into Poland. [9]

U.S. Naval Hospital Neuropsychiatric Laboratory in San Diego & FIRST EARTH BATTALION

A blend of PSI (psychokinesis, etc) and mind control was used to create Col. Jim Channon’s U.S. First Earth Battalion (FEB) at Fort Lewis, Tacoma, Washington. FEB is an advanced version of the assassins created at the U.S. Naval Hospital Neuropsychiatric Laboratory in San Diego in the late 1970’s, which were replications of the CIA’s 1954 Artichoke project. [10]

According to the Late Great Mae Brussell, “Project Artichoke… [t]he object of this project was to create the real “Manchurian Candidate”, an assassin who could be programmed to kill a target and then not even remember he did it.” [11] The mission of the Manchurian Candidates were to commit acts of selected assassinations, and random acts of violence that appear to be crime sprees, and occurrences of international and domestic terrorism. 

During the 1ate 1970’s, Sebron Flenaugh, Jr., Oakland’s Jedi Knight Assassin, had been conveniently tucked away at the U.S. Naval Hospital in San Diego, CA.

OAKLAND’S MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE DOMESTIC TERRORISM CELL

Alternative House & Project Scangate and the Jonestown Connection   

Laser physicists Dr. Russell Targ and Dr. Harold E. Putoff at the Stanford Research Institute (SRI), Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and the Pentagon’s Jack Verona, The Raven, of the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) in the 1970’s developed the top secret psychic warfare program that was called PROJECT SCANGATE.

John Bircher’s Elmer J. & Deana Mertle AKA Alan & Jeannie Patricia Mills were some of Jim Jones’ most trusted former aids. Jim Jones’ idol and possible mentor was SS Dr. Josef Mengele, The Angel (Demon) of Death. According to some sources, Dr. Mengele was a Jonestown visitor. The Mertles joined Peoples Temple in Redwood City sometime in 1969. The Mertles were members of the Peoples Temple’s select and very sensitive “Lily White” Planning Committee.  

The cover story was that the Mertles defected from the Peoples Temple in 1975, and changed their names to Alan Joseph & Jeannie Patricia Mills to avoid associations with their former names because Jim Jones held their signed confessions to various illegal deals.

On January 1, 1980, Alan, Jeannie, and their 15 year old daughter, Daphene, were assassinated at their home at 3028 Regent in Berkeley, CA. The house had been a site for Mertle Rest Home, one of a string of nursing homes ran by the Peoples Temple and Jim Jones.

The Mills had been central in organizing the “Concerned Relatives” of Jonestown. Concerned Relatives was a division of the Human Freedom Center which the Mills were principals. It was “Concerned Relatives” that drew Congressman Leo Ryan into Guyana. Congressman Ryan’s assassination served as a pretext to mass murder of 913 predominately Black women and children in the rainforest of Guyana. 

Silent and professional killers murdered the Mills. The Mills’ 17-year-old son, Eddie, sat in a room in the house completely unaware of the murders. Was he drugged? We may never know because the Berkeley Police Department and FBI seem not to be pursuing the case, then or now. This murder remains unsolved. 

After the mass murder of the mostly Black women and children of Jonestown on November 18, 1978, the Mills founded a half-way house called Human Freedom Center to counsel, debrief, and control survivors of Jonestown, and former members of the Peoples Temple. Jonestown had been a CIA MK ULTRA Medical Experiment. Dr. Margaret Singer of UC Berkeley worked with the Mills and the Human Freedom Center. She was also involved in covering up CIA’s Jonestown experiments, and Congressman Leo Ryan’s assassination in Guyana. For whatever reasons, Jeannie Mills had been number two on Jim Jones’ (CIA) hit list after San Francisco Mayor George Moscone.    

During the 70’s, for cover, many of the CIA’s MK ULTRA pharmaceutical-medical experiments were funneled into domestic prisons, universities, hospitals, clinics, churches and cults. The Mills’ liquidation appears to have been none other than a military intelligence mop up or clean up operation of one of their sensitive domestic programs. In the CIA Jonestown Medical and the Alternative House Assassin experiments, they were cutouts from the beginning. After the Mill’s assassination, Human Freedom Center was taken over by none other than Russell Targ of OPERATION SCANGATE. Targ of SRI had top U.S. governmental military intelligence secret clearances.

Alternate House in Oakland had been frequented by members of a governmental contrived group of virtual reality created Islamic Black Manchurian Candidate Domestic Terrorist to scare the hell out of the masses called Al Constran also known as Al Colestran. 

Paul Cook, Ronnie Flenaugh (Al Rashid) and Billy Mapp (Alim Alalah Ali) were members. Two of them would be liquidated within months of each other after the Zebra or Death Angel horrific mass random terrorist attacks against whites took place in the Oakland-San Francisco Bay Area.

On October 16, 1972, Paul Cook was liquidated in cold blood on the sidewalk in front of Alternative House at 526 32^nd, when he threatened to publicly expose the assassin (Death Angels) program being developed and sustained at the house. Unarmed, Cook’s brains were violently blown out by U.C. Berkeley Assistant Professor, Maalik Al Maalik. 

Al Constran was an experimental Black Community Domestic Terrorist Sect “Artichoke Program” setup by the CIA’s Station Chief at Vacaville Medical Men’s Facility, Dr. James Alexander Hamilton of Stanford and UC Berkeley. They were “Dr. (Isaac) Slaughter’s Boys.” Alternative House had been turned into an ex-offender Manchurian Candidate “Murder Incorporated” and “Black Mafia” of the Oakland-San Francisco Bay Area.

Additionally, OPERATION SCANGATE ESP remote viewers, Targ and Pat Price of SRI were directly involved in the Symbionese Liberation Army caper, America’s most infamous domestic terrorist operation. OPERATION SCANGATE was called in on the Patty Hearst SLA case by the Berkeley Police Department. ESP is extrasensory perception. It is perception occurring independently of sight, hearing, or other sensory processes.

Price, allegedly by ESP, identified CIA Collaborator Willie Wolfe as a conspirator in the Hearst kidnapping. William Wolfe, alias Charles William Morgan, Cujo, was born in Pennsylvania; son of Dr. L.S. Wolfe, anesthesiologist. Wolfe had travelled for nine months in Europe before coming to Berkeley. [13]

Wolfe attended a UC Berkeley Black Studies class in “Black Lexicon,” under CIA contractor Professor Colston Westbrook, who would later bring Wolfe into Vacaville Medical Facility as a collaborator. Westbrook was the U.C. Berkeley outside facilitator of the Black Cultural Association (BCA), Dr. Hamilton’s secret MK ULTRA experiment cohort group funded by SRI.

Paul Cook’s liquidator, Maalik Al Maalik was also part of the U.C. Black Studies Department with Westbrook. Dr. Isaac Slaughter of the West Oakland Mental Health Clinic was the deliberating Elder and prison psychiatrist of BCA. Westbrook nor Wolfe had no known experience with prisoners, black friends, or radical movements, but Westbrook and Wolfe taught “black identity” to a prison study group at Vacaville. [14]

Wolfe lived at Peking House in Berkeley, the common meeting ground from which the illusory and veiled white “prison reformers” would spread into Vacaville Medical Facility, San Quentin, Folsom, Soledad and San Luis Obispo prisons. Wolfe was the common denominator that brought Russell Little, Robyn Steiner and other whites into the prison group. [15]

Wolfe attended Oakland School Board meetings and brought arguments against Dr. Marcus Foster into BCA prison discussions at Vacaville to incite black prisoners against Dr. Marcus Foster as a pretext to his assassination on November 6, 1973. [16]

In 1975, Pat Price, former naval intelligence officer, was assassinated in Las Vegas by food poisoning. Price became ill after a man accidentally bumped into hi

Another strange twist to the story is that SRI’s Scangate Remote Viewing Project was once Reichsfurhrer SS Heinrich Himmler’s secret ESP project. Remote viewing (out of body projection) was directly connected to the secret research and occult practices of the SS.[17]     

Russell Targ’s SCANATE PROJECT (Manchurian Candidate) programs were sub-contracted out to Lt. Col. John B. Alexander’s Psi-Tech. [18] A unit called Task Force Delta (TFD) was formed by Col. Alexander. It was related to FEB (First Earth Battalion) at Fort Lewis. Col. Alexander and Major General Albert Stubblebine helped organize the (FEB) First Earth Battalion which in fact sought to create a battalion of mind controlled “Jedi Warriors”. [19] Both have been interested in creating an elite soldier with very powerful paranormal abilities. FEB and TFD both evolved out of the SCANATE PROJECT, and the Novel Biological Information Transfer Mechanisms (NBIT). [20]

Co. Alexander also known as “Dr. Death” is an extremely scary individual.  He entered the US Army as a private in 1956. From 1966-1969, he commanded Special Forces ”A” Teams in Vietnam and Thailand. His teams are said to have been involved in Project Phoenix, an assassination campaign, along with Colston Westbrook. He received a Ph.D. in Thanatology, a study of the social and emotional aspects surrounding death. He married Victoria Lacas (Alexander), an abduction researcher and Las Vegas-based film reviewer/ journalist for the Devil’s Hammer. Victoria has written a comedy screenplay called BeDeviled, which is about a woman whose sister is having a love affair with the devil.  She has been photographed having dinner Edward Teller. She is a student of mysticism and of the South American ritual use of ayahuasca.

Col.  Alexander stated in an interview with the Washington Post in 2007, …The military and intelligence agencies were still scared by the excesses of MK-ULTRA, the infamous CIA program that involved, in part, slipping LSD to unsuspecting victims. “Until recently, anything that smacked of [mind control] was extremely dangerous” because Congress would simply take the money away, he said.  Alexander acknowledged that “there were some abuses that took place,” but added that, on the whole, “I would argue we threw the baby out with the bath water.” But September 11, 2001, changed the mood in Washington, and some in the national security community are again expressing interest in mind control, particularly a younger generation of officials who weren’t around for MK-ULTRA. “It’s interesting, that it’s coming back,” Alexander observed. 

TWENTY-THREE DAYS OF U.S. DOMESTIC TERRORISM

On Wednesday, October 2, 2002, House Speaker Dennis Hastert and Minority Leader Richard Gephardt introduced (H.J. Res. 114) to authorize the use of armed force against Iraq. It was referred to the International Relations Committee. On that day, there were two sniper attacks in the Washington D.C. area killing James Martin in a grocery store parking lot.

On Thursday, October 3, 2002, the bill was reported out of International Relations Committee for debate. On that day, sniper attacks continued killing 5 (five) people in 14 hours.

On Friday, October 4, 2002, the debate continued on H.J. Res. 114. On that day, a sniper shot and wounded a woman outside a craft store.

On Monday, October 7, 2002, the debate continued on H.J. Res. 114. On that day, a sniper shot and wounded a 13-year old arriving at school.

On Wednesday, October 9, 2002, the debate continued on H.J. Res. 114. On that day, a sniper shot and killed a man at a gas station.

October 10-11, H.J. Res. 114 passed both the House and the Senate. On the day it passed the Senate, a sniper shot and killed another man at a gas station.

On Monday, October 14, 2002, a sniper shot and wounded a FBI agent outside a store.

October 15-16, H.J. Res. 114, President George Walker Bush received and signed the bill into law.

On Saturday, October 19, 2002, a sniper shot and killed a man outside a Ponderosa Restaurant.

On Wednesday, October 23, 2002, on that that day, a sniper shot and killed a 35 year old bus driver. [21] As suspects, the police were looking for a white man driving a white van or truck.  

MUHAMMAD & MALVO BLACK “DUCKS IN A NOOSE”

After the death of the bus driver, Montgomery County Police Chief Charles Moose read a carefully drafted cryptic message to the snipers late that Wednesday night: “You have indicated you want us to say and do certain things. You want us to say, ‘We have caught the sniper like a duck in the noose.’ We understand that hearing us say it is important to you.”

A few hours after Chief Moose broadcasted the trigger, and police had issued an all-points bulletin for the suspects’ car, two Black virtual reality created Islamic subjects to scare the masses with another Islamic menace, John Allen Muhammad and John Lee Malvo, were found conveniently asleep in the wanted car, at a public rest stop, near I-70, a heavily-traveled Interstate highway.

When the attorney of John Lee Malvo asked him why he committed the alleged random killings, his answer was simple: The Matrix made him do it. Sources familiar with Malvo’s six-hour interview with Fairfax police Nov. 7, 2002 said he referred to “The Matrix” repeatedly. According to sources, he laughed when allegedly confessing his shootings – as if he didn’t believe that he had killed actual human beings.  

Malvo was not only obsessed with “The Matrix.” He was trapped inside “The Matrix.” His writings demonstrated that he wished people would free their minds from the matrix. The writings appear focused, in part, on “The Matrix.” “Free Your Mind! The Body Will Follow!” Malvo went on, “You are a slave to the Matrix ‘control,’ ” One page refers to Morpheus telling Neo: “Free first your mind, trust me! The body will follow!”

The writings were taken secretly from Malvo’s cell at the Fairfax County, Va., jail, photocopied and provided to investigators on the sniper task force preparing for the murder trial of Malvo, and John Allen Muhammad.

Chief Moose’s cryptic message was a trigger phrase used to put both Muhammad and Malvo into a post hypnotic sleep. If you watched the 1999 movie, “The Matrix”, you would instantly understand that Malvo was Neo, and Morpheus was John Allen Muhammad. In the MATRIX, Neo follows the white rabbit tattoo to Morpheus, who tells him: “You take the blue pill and the story ends.

“Follow the White Rabbit Neo.” – CAUGHT IN “The Matrix”

In “Alice in Wonderland,” Alice begins her journey by following the white rabbit who’s not happy to have her there, and who’s in quite a hurry to get somewhere. They tumble down the rabbit hole, and so it all begins. Neo is told to follow the “White Rabbit” in The Matrix in one of many metaphysical “waking up” metaphors. Seconds later, his doorbell rings, and when he opens the door he finds a woman with a tattoo of a white rabbit on her shoulder. Later in the film right before he meets the oracle one can see Night of the Lepus playing on a nearby television, symbolizing Neo’s decision to “follow the white rabbit” and to disturb the order of the Matrix.

In some cases, the “white rabbit’” is a mind control programmer. If we follow the white rabbit, it would lead you to Fort Lewis, Tacoma, Washington. Some of the Col. John B. Alexander’s Psi-Tech operations of FEB and TFD were run out of Ft. Lewis, Washington. John Allen Muhammad (Williams), was a soldier being run out of Ft. Lewis. Muhammad may have been one of FEB’s experimental remote controlled Jedi mind controlled soldiers implanted with a “Morpheus Complex.”  

Muhammad has all the treadmarks of a governmental assassin. Without any visible means of support, he had been able to travel to foriegn counties, and at least 10 states. He even had a travel agent or a handler posing as a travel agent. He was able to purchase weapons, ammo, laptop computer, and GPS system. He bought a car and gas. Most glaring of all, he had been stopped by police on numerous occasions, but each time that Muhammad was stopped and investigated, he sort of got a pat on the back and a license to continue on his mission.  In Antigua, Muhammad boasted of being a CIA and FBI agent.  Muhammad also said that he was member of an elite Special Forces team on a secret mission. Malvo, he said, was part of the team.

During the 23 days of Terror, John Allen Muhammad’s license number had been entered into the FBI database eleven times during the span of the shootings with no information on any arrests or convictions showing. [22]

Information missing from that database includes the following. Muhammad was arrested three times for possession of false I.D., once in Antigua (where he was allowed to walk away from the police station after being held for two days). He was caught twice in Florida with false I.D. and trying to smuggle aliens into the country. He was not held. [23]

In the State of Washington he had a conviction for driving on a suspended license. There was also a warrant for his arrest for failure to appear on a shoplifting charge. Also in Washington his ex-wife had obtained a person protection order from the court, which made it illegal for him to possess a firearm and was the basis for the arrest warrant issued on October 23^rd. [24]

In addition, Muhammad was courts martialed twice when in the Louisiana National guard. Once for disobeying three direct orders to report for duty and the second for striking a non-commissioned officer. On the first offense he was fined $100 and reduced in rank to a specialist. He got a suspended sentence for hitting his sergeant. [25]

Strangest of all was an incident in the 1991 Gulf war when Muhammad was accused of rolling a hand grenade into a tent where a number of his fellow soldiers were. He was led away in handcuffs but nothing further was heard and it apparently does not show on his service record. [26]

In the military, John Allen Muhammad was either a “bad ass” passive-aggressive type able to kill without any regrets ripe for conditioning for special covert assassination assignments, or he was already one of their protected experimental special services programmed (killer) boys ready for the next level, a psychic level in “The Matrix.” 

A Global Positioning System (GPS) device was found in Muhammad’s possession when arrested with Malvo. E-Systems of Texas developed the GPS device. Raytheon, one of the largest military industrial complexes’ contractors, acquired E-Systems.  

Ultra secret E-System’s core business was focused on intelligence, reconnaissance and surveillance, which includes systems for law enforcement, which can intercept faxed messages, telephone calls, modem transfers, and video transmissions on a single system in eavesdropping by the government. Their Global Positioning System (GPS) technologies (satellite based) can locate objects anywhere in the world within one foot of the object’s actual location. [27]

E-Systems acquired ARCO Power Technologies Incorporated (APTI). APIT developed the High Frequency Active Auroral Program (HAARP). HAARP involves making man-made changes in the electrical earth ionosphere that can be used for individual and mass behavior control. Extremely low frequency electromagnetic (ELF) oscillations can attack and control low frequency electromagnetic brain waves in human beings. HAARP’s perturbation of the environment by ELF geophysical warfare can produce changes in, and control behavior patterns.  [28]

So you have it. Under the influence of HAARP, Muhammad and Malvo could be summoned to follow the white rabbit to various locations around the U.S. with the GPS device where FEB and TFD (Project Northwoods) sniper teams were setup to pick off innocent human targets to terrorize the masses to mask the Iraqi aggression and create an illusory strong-arm fascist state to fight off a sham Islamic menace.

Muhammad and Malvo have become some of the first 21^st Century Remote-Controlled Black Manchurian Candidate Domestic Terrorist “Patsies” programmed to be trapped inside the “Matrix.”  In the final criteria, the disposal of the Manchurian Candidate after operations, both Muhammad and Malvo were convicted of capital murder in the Washington, D.C., area sniper attacks that left 10 people dead in four states.

John Allen Muhammad, Morpheus, was sentenced to death, while his 19-year-old accomplice Lee Boyd Malvo, Neo, was given life in prison without parole. While Malvo did not speak at his sentencing, Muhammad, 43, asserted his innocence, saying, “I had nothing to do with this.”  Who will listen? They intend to liquidate Muhammad as soon as possible as like Marinus Van der Lubbe, “The Nazi’s Patsy” Domestic Terrorist.

For Malvo, hypnotically deeply imbedded and lost mentally and psychologically in “The Matrix”, the story will never end for him because the man, his Morpheus, with the blue pill will never be able to come to his aid.  His final story will end locked away in a mental institutional unless a qualified psychiatrist can deprogram him. Then, who will listen?

In the final analysis, John Allen Muhammad probably had been a good soldier. As Sebron Flenaugh, Jr., their Yoda had been Reagan’s richly endowed STRATEGIC DEFENSE INITATIVE PROJECT (Star War Initiative) that continually fund Lt. Col. John B. Alexander’s secret Psi (psychokinesis, etc), mind control and paranormal experiments and programs of Reichsfurhrer Heinrich Himmler’s SS against unwitting citizens to create weapons of mass destruction and zombie robot armies.  It is not too far out of the box to believe that as Flenaugh, Muhammad had volunteered to help his country in an experimental secret governmental program.

But what these brothers and many more had no way of knowing was that the very enemy that this country openly identified and accepted as universal war criminals and mass murderers, enemies of world peace such as the Nazis and the SS (The World’s Greatest Racial Mass Murder Cult) were secretly brought into the country to make prey of them and their children; and their children’s children. 

[2] http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ho/frus/kennedyjf/iii/8180.htm

[3] http://www.eucmh.com/tag/ss-brigadefuhrer-fritz-kraemer/

[4] http://www.maebrussell.com/Mae%20Brussell%20Articles/Eyes%20Wide%20Open.html

[5] http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Center_for_Security_Policy

[6] Keith, Jim, Mass Control: Engineering Human Consciousness, IllumiNet Press, Lilburn, GA, 1999, pg. 15

[7] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marinus_van_der_Lubbe

[8] http://www.worldwar2database.com/html/poland.htm

[9] Id.

[10] Watson, Peter, War of the Mind: The Military Uses and Abuses of Psychology, N.Y. Basic Books. 1978: Horrock, N. “CIA Documents Tell of 1954 Project to Create Involuntary Assassins.” NY Times, February 9, 1978

[11] http://www.whale.to/b/sirhan.html

[12] http://www.fonebone.net/Jonestown/15.Chap.txt

[13] http://www.maebrussell.com/Mae%20Brussell%20Articles/Why%20Was%20Hearst%20Kidnapped%201.html

[14] Id.

[15] Id.

[16] Id.

[17] http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/sociopolitica/reichblacksun/chapter11.htm

[18] Id. At footnote 10

[19] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_B._Alexander

[20] Probable Government Involvement in Parapsychological and Paranormal Research, http://members.tripod.com/~heimstadt/psi.htm

[21] http://www.apfn.org/apfn/iraq_sniper.htm

[22] http://www.strike-the-root.com/3/rarey/rarey1.html

[23] Id.

[24] Id.

[25] Id.

[26] Id.

[27] Id., pg. 92

[28] MacDonald, Gordon J.F., Unless Peace Comes, A Scientific Forecast of New Weapons, 1968; Begich, Nick Dr., Manning, Jeane, Angels Don’t Play This HAARP, Earthpulse Press, P.O. Box 201393, Anchorage, Alaska, 1995; Smith, Jerry E., HAARP, The Ultimate Weapon of the Conspiracy, Adventures Unlimited Press, Kempton, Illinois, 1998