February 2011

As the worldwide financial and economic collapse continues to accelerate, leadership around the world is beginning to realize it is absolutely necessary to have an economic recovery based on reforming the world’s financial system to create credit for a science and infrastructure led recovery. Included below are major essays of historical importance discussing Alaska’s role in this process.

Alaska Emergency Employment Mobilization; part one
Science and infrastructure led recovery

The State of Alaska is facing a dramatic downturn in employment similar to our national economy and much of the world economy. What most Alaskans do not realize yet is that this downturn is being caused by a systemic collapse in the global financial system’s ability to create credit for physical production and we are actually facing a very long and very hard world depression.

The only possible solution is for the United State Congress to re-pass the 1933 Glass Steagall Act and participate in a new international financial reorganization similar to the 1944 Bretton Woods Conference. This solution will be based on a science and infrastructure led recovery and the State of Alaska must identify an important role.

My suggestion for Alaska’s role is to immediately begin an in-depth emergency employment mobilization that will affect every community in Alaska.

The plan is to unload all the junk cars and scrap steel from every village, municipality, and military site in Alaska and transport it to the Port MacKenzie District for reprocessing into rebar. This rebar will be used for building the Nawapa Susitna Dams, a new gas pipeline, new highway and railroad bridges including the Railroad Around the World development corridor, new septic and water systems, and new fish ladders and hatcheries.

The goal is to build a stockpile of coated rebar for use in building the projects that will improve future Alaskan productivity.

Our mobilization method will call for the fast track construction of multiple turnkey industries using low-interest productive capacity loans to our native corporations and established local businessmen and entrepreneurs. Several industries will be started by the State of Alaska and turned over to private local interests, including an electric-arc continuous casting rebar steel plant, steel recycling plant, automobile shredder and sorter plant, primary reduction and feeder plant, solid and stranded wire plant, fluids recycling plant, and rebar bending and coating plant.

An essential feature of our mobilization will be to establish a strategic an construction materials plasma physics institute at the University of Alaska Anchorage. This institute will advance and access heavy industrial plasma processing technologies that will be used to enhance the turnkey industries of our current mobilization while acting as the catalyst for creating new future industries. High-tech industrial technologies created or assimilated by our institute will also be used for advancing our current mining, oil and gas industries.

Our strategic method to insure the long term mobilization of the Alaskan economy will be to begin teaching the Synthetic (anti-Euclidian) geometry of Carl Gauss in all Alaskan high schools. If we fail to teach the epistemological cognitive methods of the American System of political economy we will continue to have a failure of political leadership in our state. Alaskans must learn real science if we are to survive and prosper.

Accepting the fate of a world depression that brings misery and death to human populations is totally unnecessary. We must reach back into our nation’s history and inspire our leadership to act now to mobilize our economy before this economic downturn degenerates into further collapse.

For those people who have fundamental misunderstandings of history and economics I must directly point out that my suggestions are not based on socialism; this is an emergency employment mobilization based on the American System of political economy. Our nation was founded on the American System and founded on natural law principles that informed our wanting to be better than the destructive economic methods of the British Empire.

The successful emergency mobilization of the Alaskan economy will prove that Alaskans have the guts and patriotism to lead our nation back to our founding economic and natural law principles.

Alaska Emergency Employment Mobilization; part two
Optimism and hope for the future; a 50-year mission for the Alaskan economy

The United States is once again in the grip of a financial cartel that is wrecking our economy and is in reality the historical financial enemy of our nation. This financial cartel, that some call the Inter-Alpha Group, now claims that the only solution to the worldwide economic downturn is to cut all sovereign budgets, hyper inflate all currencies, lower living standards, increase taxation, and provide massive subsidies and bailouts to maintain the self-destructive derivatives market.

Patriots nationwide have already begun the process of discussing how to mobilize our economy by setting missions and goals for science, industry and infrastructure. My previous articles available on my Facebook wall and notes are a detailed discussion of how Alaska can participate in this process.

What must be recognized is that the institutes and foundations historically associated with financial cartels promote an ideology based on teaching that there is no purpose to human life, there can be no mission for mankind, and there is no divine spark of creativity that allows for the individual to make a contribution to civilization.

Patriots of our nation know that this ideology is nothing but arbitrary insanity based on an economic model that causes misery and death for human beings. The United States and our Constitution are clearly based on progress, growth and an optimistic spirit. This revolutionary spirit still burns in the hearts of our citizens and guides us toward a mission for the advancement of civilization.

As Alaskans, the current worldwide economic collapse, caused by a self-destructive financial cartel, is a signal that now is the time to clearly identify Alaska’s mission for the future. My hope is that my Facebook readers will become the future leadership of our state, and our nation, and will act on my suggestions for Alaska’s mission for an emergency employment mobilization.

This mobilization first and foremost must be based on recognizing that the primary fight is over the 1933 Glass Steagall Act. Re-passing this act is the only possible solution for extracting the self-destructive gambling and speculation of derivatives out of our commercial banking system. Only then can we stop cutting budgets and rebuild our tax revenue base through new employment because we will have restored financial credit for physical productivity.

But even if our nation’s credit mechanism is restored overnight we will still be left with no identified goals that can be used to restore our technology and infrastructure. This is the reason state and federal goal setting for science and infrastructure must be part of our employment mobilization.

Here in Alaska a good place to start will be to identify the goals of building Port MacKenzie industrial parks, the Railroad Around the World through Alaska, a new gas pipeline, and the Nawapa Susitna Dams.

Most important, our mobilization mus begin by using our infrastructure goals to create new industries. New manufacturing industries can be created now by cleaning up all the junk steel from Alaska communities and turning it into rebar for use in building future infrastructure and new petrochemical industries can be built during the construction of a new gas pipeline.

Creating new industries using infrastructure goals will be our method but our strategic mission will be to create industries that lay the foundation for the assimilation of more powerful technologies in the future. This is the reason establishing a plasma physics institute at the University of Alaska Anchorage is an absolute requirement for the long-term success of the Alaskan economy.

The details of my industrial science proposal are clearly identified in my articles available on my Facebook wall and notes. What I am reintroducing now is the ultimate 50-year strategic mission for the Alaskan economy. What I propose is to use the industries of our current mobilization to create the platform required to assimilate the technologies and machine tools necessary for participating in future space colonization.

Billions of stars orbit in our small spiral galaxy and I believe it is the long-term mission of humanity to terraform and colonize the potentially livable planets in our galaxy. Does this sound too far fetched to ever become a reality? What other options do we have?

We are currently living in a failing economy that is under heavy attack from our traditional financial enemies and we are drifting without purpose. Inspiring our youth to develop their creativity while making a contribution to civilization is what will tap the essence of our inherently optimistic nation and culture.

The industries and technologies I have chosen for Alaska’s current emergency employment mobilization are the same industries and technologies that will lay the foundation necessary for future participation in space colonization. Heavy industrial plasma processing directed toward strategic an construction materials production is not only the best investment for a resource-based economy but this investment also creates the platform necessary to participate in future starship construction.

As Alaskans begin the process of loading up all the junk out of our communities, mining the ore necessary for our new industries and building our new infrastructure projects, the thought of participating in the future of humanity will remain as an inspiration for each of us to make a contribution to civilization.

Knowing that we are working toward the final defeat of a financial cartel that is attempting to destroy our nation and knowing that we are working toward the mission of propagating humanity into our galaxy will bring a joy and optimism to our people by knowing that we are facing a brighter future.

Alaska Emergency Employment Mobilization; part three
Productivity and historical dynamics

Designing an employment mobilization for Alaska requires an understanding of both the theory and historical dynamics of how increasing productivity creates new employment.

Increasing productivity, or what is scientifically defined as work-flux-density, is one of the keys for creating new employment while allowing for larger and more complex projects to be built more cheaply. Most important, increasing productivity increases the potential for human creativity while increasing the potential for the long-term survival of humanity.

The work-flux-density physical principle, simply defined as the amount of work done in a cross-section of a process, is one of the most important concepts in physical economy and derives directly from the universal physical principle of least action in physics.

Understanding that universal physical principles are the foundation of the science of technology will allow us to know that much of what is discussed as economics is nothing but an ideology designed to protect the price bases for modes of production that are generally owned by financial cartels.

Increasing productivity through the application of advanced technologies and infrastructure investments allow an economy to profit from the catalyst effect of increasing the work-flux-density of labor efficiency. This catalyst effect of productivity increases the complexity of the social divisions of labor. These increases in new divisions of labor are what create new employment. At one time we had a farmer with an oxen cow for plowing, now we have a farmer with a tractor and lots of factories making tractors.

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More important, increased productivity allows larger and more complex projects to be built cheaper because they require less labor. When completed these projects further increase overall productivity. The paradox is that building these larger and more complex projects require greater total labor because the new projects potentially are on a massive scale that could have never been achieved at lower levels of productivity.

The catch is that building these massive scale projects also requires a financial system that is able to provide the increased financial capital for physical production. The problem is that old world financial cartels are not interested in productive investments and instead prefer to gamble and make very high-profit speculative side bets that end up debt-pyramiding entire nations.

Most important, increasing productivity through technological advancement also increases the long-term survivability of an economy by offsetting the depletion of resources as defined by the current technological modes of production. Oil was not considered a major resource until the internal combustion engine became a dominant technology for increasing productivity.

Putting the concept of productivity into historical dynamics will help clarify the issues involved.

The enemies of our nation working through the Tavistock Institute published a study that became known as the Rapport Report that was used during President Lyndon B. Johnson’s term to act as a justification for dramatically cutting the budget of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). One of the crazy ideas of the Rapport Report was that increases in productivity were causing massive unemployment so NASA had to be shut down in order to save jobs.

The truth was that the financial interests behind the report hated the nation state system and were interested in preventing the United States economy from advancing in an energy-intensive and capital-intensive path of development. These financial interests preferred to enjoy profit taking from their currently owned modes of production and were absolutely not interested in new productive capacity loans that created competition to their current income streams.

The Lyndon B. Johnson administration complied with the demands of the financial cartels and dramatically cut NASA’s budget. If NASA’s budget had been maintained the United States would currently have bases on both the Moon and Mars today. New resources and living space for humans would now be opening up for the further advancement of human creativity and human survival.

Cutting NASA’s budget prevented millions of good paying jobs from being created and humanity suffered a major loss of potential. My fight today for an emergency employment mobilization of Alaska’s economy is based on understanding why this potential must be resurrected. Never again will we allow our nation to lose sight of our mission for humanity. Productivity increases must be an essential feature of an emergency employment mobilization for Alaska’s economy.

My hope is that my facebook readers will become the future leadership of Alaska.

President Lincoln teaches Alaska a lesson about bonding

Abraham Lincoln learned a hard lesson about bonding infrastructure when serving in the Illinois House of Representatives in the 1830s.

Illinois had built a series of internal improvements (infrastructure) projects that together were known as the “system.” This system failed when the national economy failed and this caused the Illinois Legislature to apply unpopular income taxes.

When Lincoln became president he implemented the National Banking Act of 1863 (which increased the money supply for agriculture, industry, and infrastructure) that reflected the hard lesson of attempting to fund infrastructure through state bonding only.

Today Alaska is facing a similar collapse of our national economy at the same time we will be attempting to build the Susitna Dams. Read my article “Build the Nawapa Susitna Dams; do not cripple Alaska’s future” for my solution to this problem.

In my article I explain how to avoid the potential for debt pyramiding while encouraging industrial development by using a staged development strategy.

The idea is for the state to pay cash for half of the first phase of the Watana Dam and bond the rest of the first phase. Then leverage a small percentage of state funds with Federal money for completing both the Watana Dam and Devil Canyon Dams. The second two projects will provide the excessive electrical capacity that can be sold very cheaply for industrial development.

Cheaply selling the excessive electrical capacity will help guarantee the success of our new privately run strategic and construction materials industries. President Lincoln’s hard lesson will inform our cautious approach.

This is what I believe should be our method and our mission.

Build the Nawapa Susitna Dams; do not cripple Alaska’s future

Crippling the Susitna hydroelectric projects through building the Watana Dam non-expandable is a strategically flawed idea that will not only prevent future job creation and productivity increases, but most important, will cripple Alaska’s future. To understand why the current Susitna proposal is strategically flawed we must first discuss its history, thought processes, industrializing potential, and political economy.

In 1964 Ralph M. Parsons Company presented a hydraulic survey of North America to the United States Senate that became known as the North American Water and Power Alliance (Nawapa). This proposal was to channel water from Alaskan and northwest Canadian rivers into the American west, the Great Lakes and northern Mexico with 369 integrated hydraulic projects.

The engineers of the Parsons Company knew that without a continental water project North America would eventually become a giant uninhabitable desert. Parson’s plan for Alaska was to combine dams on the Susitna River with a tunnel to connect dams on the Copper, Tanana and Yukon Rivers.

Whether this grand project is ever built, or built as individual regional water and hydroelectric integrated projects is yet to be discussed, but what is important to understand are the changes in collective thought processes that have occurred over the time since the original project was proposed.

Important changes have occurred in the methods of project analysis that have introduced strategic flaws into the decision making process on a global scale. These strategic flaws have directly contributed to the decline of infrastructure and general living standards in many nations in the world today.

One of the most destructive changes in the decision making process has been the application of the methods of the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) or what some call the Cambridge or Harvard Schools of “systems analysis.” Short-term financial criteria based on statistical decision theory became the dominant method of determining project viability instead of long-term productivity and the physical requirements of human society.

When a project was proposed years ago we used to ask the questions: how will this project increase future productivity and provide for the future physical requirements of human civilization? Today we are obsessed with protecting the price basis for currently installed productive capacity and restrict our analysis to short term financial criteria and extreme environmentalism. The immediate problem is that this “systems analysis” method combined with stringent environmentalism has infected both the Alaska Energy Authority and the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission thus leading to the promotion of a crippled version of a non-expandable Watana Dam on the Susitna River.

Is the word infected too strong? What is the evidence? Because of “systems analysis” and other political and financial changes since 1964 every category of infrastructure in the United States is now either beyond its design life, near the end of its design life, suffers from deferred maintenance, or beyond its capacity due to population pressures. Our bridges, dams, highways, railroads, power production and distribution, industries, water management, agricultural structures, hospitals, and schools have all been in decline since the 1970s. This infrastructure decline has led directly to a massive collapse in employment and the tax revenue base.

We must accept the fact that we have destroyed our nation because of these destructive criteria of judgment. We must reject this flawed reasoning and improve our mindset by asking higher quality questions. What can we build today that improves the lives of our future children? How will this project improve future
productivity and the physical requirements of human life? How can we use this project to create new employment, new tax revenue and new profitable industries? How can we have creative healthy people and healthy plants and healthy animals?

Now that we have improved our mindset we can move on to the issue of using the Susitna Dams to build Alaska’s future through bulk sales of low-cost excess electrical capacity to new industries.

How will Alaskans sell all the new low-priced excess power? After spending the last three decades building both small and large industrial facilities and as the author of “The American System of Political Economy in Establishing Alaska’s Industrial Science Policy” I know exactly what must be done.

First of all, we begin fast paced construction of bridge-crane industrial parks around the area of Port Mackenzie. We begin by declaring an employment emergency that requires the immediate construction of a super clean all electric rebar plant run by one of our native corporations. Stockpiling coated rebar for use in the Susitna Dams will be our first mission assignment but many industries will come and go over the years.

High profit, high value strategic materials will be our long-term catalyst lead industry but our industrial parks will continue over many years to provide the industrial floor space for various types of manufacturing. What we must keep in mind is that the long-term maintenance of our construction materials industries must be viewed as a method of maximizing our productivity in building future infrastructure.

The key component for the long-term success of Alaskan industries will be a strategic and construction materials plasma physics institute at the University of Alaska Anchorage that is built as an essential feature of constructing the Susitna hydroelectric projects. We must identify the goal of using the cheap power from the Susitna projects to provide energy for our new military, aerospace, construction products, primary reduction,and industrial process industries. Read my Facebook note “Alaskan Science and Technology in Financial Reform” for more information about creating new industries in Alaska.

The problem is that the current proposal for the non-expandable version of the Watana Dam restricts the development of new industries by limiting the amount of available future power for industrial use. This strategically flawed non-expandable Low Watana Dam proposal must be replaced with an expandable staged development version that has the ability to create a massive amount of excess electrical capacity.

Why not have the State of Alaska build the full sized Watana Dam and the Devil Canyon Dam now instead of a staged development plan? Would building these Dams all at once be the most cost effective construction method? Yes, but our state government does not have the economic power of our federal government. By using the strategically superior staged development method we create the political conditions for more easily accessing federal funding for completing the dams. Strategically leveraging state and federal funding at our university research institute will also insure access to the most advanced industrial technology required to make the best use of our new electrical power investments.

There is currently a nationwide political economic movement in the lower 48 that is advocating Nawapa as an alternative to our nation’s continuing physical economic collapse. Conferences are being held across the United States from coast to coast proposing to resurrect Ralph M. Parson’s 1964 proposal. This political campaign indicates the increased potential for our federal government, or possibly our reformed Federal Reserve, to pay for the completion of the Watana and Devil Canyon Dams. Once we begin financing the first part of Watana Dam then we leverage federal dollars to complete both dams while funding related technological and industrial projects.

Crippling the Watana Dam by building it non-expandable is not an option because crippling Alaska’s future is not an option. The Nawapa Susitna Dams can provide cheap electrical power for several hundred years and, most important, can create the foundation for establishing the industries necessary for building Alaska’s future.

Building the Susitna Dams in a way that allows Alaska to create new industries and new productive employment will be a sign that we have freed our minds from the economic destructiveness of “systems analysis” and we are, once again, working toward the goals necessary to have a brighter future.

The Bering Strait tunnel connecting the Railroad Around the World through Alaska

The Railroad Around the World proposal is based on building an integrated network of high-speed trains, highways, waterways, energy production and distribution, and computer communication systems as arteries in a central development corridor.

This is not a “One World” colonialist proposal for resource extraction but a nationalist infrastructure goal for developing populations. Alaskans must participate in setting infrastructure goals so large that the world’s bankrupt financial system is reformed to once again create credit for the physical requirements of human populations.

This is a very old project that has remained as one of the long-term goals for humanity. What we call today the Railroad Around the World has been promoted by such historical figures as Count Sergei Witte who served as Director of Railway Affairs within the Russian Finance Ministry in the late 1800s and Walter Hickel multi-term Alaskan Governor and United States Secretary of the Interior in the mid to late 1900s. Both Witte and Hickel were committed to the great projects approach to economic development, which has always been one of the features of the American System of political economy.

The advantage we have today is that we can build a giant almost fully automatic underground machine that cuts and reinforces the tunnel. This is not a question of whether we have the technical ability to build the project; the question is whether we can create the political will to extract the destructive gambling debts out of the world’s financial system so new credit can be created for infrastructure, agriculture and the productive capacity of industry.

Building the Railroad Around the World through Alaska has been endlessly debated for over a hundred years; and now the accelerating collapse of the world’s financial system is a signal that now is the time for Alaskans to take charge and help create the political will necessary to restart the world economy. Alaskans must accept their role in world leadership by helping to create a new financial architecture. In a financial economic collapse failure is not an option.

One method Alaskans can use to lead the world community toward a new financial architecture is by promoting the Railroad Around the World through Alaska. Do not underestimate the power of goal setting in reforming financial systems. Only United States citizens have ever led international financial reforms and I am not willing to stand by and let the InterAlpha Group financial cartel take over our nation. We must convince our Congress that Alaskans are prepared to set goals and fight for the physical requirements of human populations.

Read more about this project in my article “Alaska’s Role in Financial Reform” on my Facebook notes.

Charles E. Duncan
PO Box 212706
Anchorage AK 99521
[email protected]

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