A Pro-Science, Pro-Technology, Pro- Free Enterprise Monthly Newsletter

JULY 2008 (Vol. 35 no. 12) Box 1250, Cave Junction, Oregon 97523 Copyright 2008 by Access to Energy

A Wrinkling Balloon
A half century ago, the United States was an industrial colossus - low us to buy from other countries the things we no longer
a great monument to the productive potential of a free people. More- produced. They printed new money and erected upon that money
over, with the advent of safe, abundant, and astonishingly inexpen- an enormous pyramid of debt and other leveraged derivatives. In-
sive nuclear energy coupled with initial rapid advances in micro creasingly, Americans could no longer own their homes, but they
science and engineering, America was poised for another, even could lease them from the government through property taxes and
more spectacular era of advance. If this advancc had been allowed to from the banks through loans. Loans - debt - money - money to
take place, Americans could have led all of the world's people into a buy perceived wealth. Money to bid up the price of stocks, com-
wonderful period of progress and prosperity, orders of magnitude modities, homes, and all the other things Americans wanted but
beyond anything the world has ever known - and, as things stand could no longer afford.:.... since their real wages were not also rising.
now, may ever know. So, a nation of fundamentally impoverished "investors" - actu-
While we see around us bits and pieces of the possible techno- ally "speculators" - really "gamblers" - grew up to replace a nation
• logical advance thal survived, most of the new worid beyond the of producers. They were told that their economy was 70% "con- •
door that opened to mankind during that period is now hidden from sumer" driven. Only 30% need still be producers - producers who
us beyond that door, which closed before we could pass through it. are very carefully controlled by government.
We walkcd on the moon, but could travel no further. We began With real wages not rising, there was a limit to the debt Ameri-
the transition to nuclear energy, but then abruptly stopped. We de- cans could support - a limit that was reached in 2007. At that point,
vised technology that could have revolutionized human medicine, the great government-created imaginary balloon of perceived wealth
but then did not apply that technology. America is littered from one in the form of printed money, inflated debt, inflated stock prices, in-
end to the other with the dreams of free productive people - dreams flated commodity prices, and inflated home prices began to deflate.
that those people were prevented form bringing to reality. The majority of Americans, however, are addicted to inflated
Not only did we fail to advance, but we slid backwards. Our prices and/or to the river of welfare payments being given to them
astronauts retreated from the moon to hover in near-earth orbit. Our by government - paid for with capital that the government has taxed
industries shrank. Our energy system decayed until we could not away from the still productive Americans. So, in 2008 they elected
even produce sufficient energy for our reduced industry. Our medi- politicians who are committed to even higher taxation, regulation,
cine stagnated and yet required more and more of our resources to and litigation, and who promise to print enough money to replace
maintain in even its primitive condition. the perceived imaginary purchasing power within the balloon.
Why did we cease to advance and, instead, slide backward? The If they print so much money, however, inflation will destroy the
reason is absolutely clear - we allowed our individual human free- currency. Instead, they hope that the printing of part of that money
dom to be reduced. The progress of past generations of Americans- and the promise to print unlimited amounts more will "restore confi-
whose accomplishments still sustain our now diminished lives - was dence" and lead the people to borrow the rest. In other words, the
not made possible because those people were superior. It was made balloon of imaginary wealth has started to deflate. It is wrinkling.
possible because they were free. As Julian Simon showed, free peo- Government proposes to re-inflate the wrinkles with printing press
ple always produce more than they consume - but only if they are money and to thereby convince Americans that all is well- inducing
free to do so. them to resume puffing up the balloon. As 2007 showed, however,
We were not oppressed from without. We were oppressed from Americans - enslaved by government - are out of breath.
within. We allowed our government - a government largely com- This cannot succeed. The only solution to American economic
rosen of people of little 01' no ability nr real aecomplif'hments - problems is to remove the governmental taxation, re~.l1lation and.
gradually to build a system of taxation, regulation and control, and . control, and litigation that has reduced the freedom of individual
government-sponsored litigation that has destroyed our freedom. Americans so far that they no longer have the ability or will to pro-
Nor is this tyranny based only in Washington. Throughout America, duce the things they need.
state and local governments and the monopolistic arrangements that Yet, those who were elected in 2008 and the millions of bureau-
they have forged with now pseudo-public industries interfere with cratic retainers who work for them have no intention whatever of in-
productive human activities at every twn. creasing the freedom of productive people. They fear the productive
Americans today cannot even modify their homes, make and sell people whom they have enslaved and fully intend to bind them with
electricity, or drive their cars without - "permission." And - those even heavier chains.
who give "permission" can withhold "permission." Inspiring specches and "leadership" from those who love tyranny
As American productivity faltered and then slid backwards under will not work - no matter how stridently media, academia, and other
their yokes, our masters feared that we would turn surly if our pros- leftist institutions applaud. Only freedom will work. Until American
perity diminished. So, our financial system was manipulated to al- freedom is restored, the balloon will continue to deflate.

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MINIATURE NUCLEAR POWER
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Those who now control the United States government have made
their intentions completely clear. They will sharply suppress the use
of hydrocarbon or nuclear fuel for power generation in the U.S. This
will be done by regulatory means. It is likely that token power pro-
jects - burdened by huge regulatory costs and very long time sched-
hydrocarbon or nuclear development will be allowed.
Jbe reasons for these actions are quite clear. These unprincipled
people seek the ultimate political control available to those with the
power to tax and ration energy. They also look fOIWard to increased
personal wealth for themselves and their supporters, who are posi-
tioned to profit from tax-financed "alternative" energy.
This may not be a matter that can be influenced by scientific
truth. No matter how much the Earth cools during the cWTent wan-
ing phase of the sun, and no matter how many Americans realize
rhllt humlln-caLL"ed glohal warming is a myth, the political program
to seize control of U.S. energy production will continue. The stated
intent of that program is to end free-enterprise energy production
with hydrocarbon or nuclear fuels.
Insufficient U.S. energy production has already had devastating
effects upon the American economy - this being the single most
important factor in producing the huge U.S. international debt and
in causing the outsourcing of a large part of American heavy indus-
try. And - this insufficiency was entirely created by government ac-
tions. Under the ClUTent government, those actions will be very
sharply increased.
Readers can judge for themselves whether or not the underlying
political situation can be corrected. What are the prospects for elect-
ing a government that reduces the taxation, regulation, and sponsor-
ship of litigation that have produced this situation? Objectively,
these prospects are grim.
Alternatively, is there a technological answer? Is there a techno-
logical advance that can defeat the Marxists and Socialists who are
moving toward complete control over the American people? With-
out the freedom to produce our own energy bypractic;at means, oW"
freedoms - personal, political, religious, and econonllc are lost. Is
there a technology that can save us - collectively and individually?
Some people think that they can save themselves individually by
installing personal power generation - usually solar electric. In ad-
dition to their very high cost - except for those willing to take gov-
ernment subsidies funded by taxing their fellow citizens - solar
electric installations suffer from the requirement for large banks of
expensive and perishable batteries.
The power grid can, however, be substituted for batteries. One
simply produces the power, pumps it into the grid, and extracts it
from the grid as needed. Any excess is sold to the grid - a grid that
is totally controlled by government and its pseudo-private corporate
partners. \\!hen, however, electricity rationing begins - as it surely
will as American energy supplies continue to dwindle, it is likely
that the government will simply seize all power generation attached
to the grid as public property - thereby zeroing efforts of private
producers who unwisely thought themselves independent.
Individual power generation by means of burning wood, diesel,
gasoline, or natlLral gas for electricity generation or simply for heat
will, of course, be controlled and suppressed by the carbon dioxide
police - soon to be unleashed upon us by our new masters. Presi-
dent Bush provided an eight-year delay of this oppression. Our va-
cation is, however, now over.
There is, I think, one possible teclmological answer - mini and
micro nuclear power generation. At first glance, this looks like 'just
another technology that wiUbecontrolled· and· sUPP[l~ssed by gov-
ernment, but I think there is another possible outcome - an outcome
that arises from the revolutionary convenience and low cost of this
technology.
Miniature nuclear power plants are being developed by several
companies - including Toshiba; Hyperion Power in Santa Fe, New
Mexico; and NuScale Power of Corvallis, Oregon. Hyperion, for
example, plans to deliver six power plants to CzecWosovakia in
2013 at a cost of $25 million per plant. Each plant is estimated suf-
ficient for 20,000 homes. The first rail-deliverable product planned
by NuScale delivers 45 megawatts, enough for about 35,000
homes. These are mini-reactors. Micro-reactors as small as 200 ki-
lowatts are also being developed. We are on the verge of a teclmo-
logical breakout in this industry that will create nuclear-electric
power lUlits as versatile and diverse in size as current diesel-electric
generators. Many companies will enter this field, and it is impossi-
ble to predict at present which ones will succeed.
Unlike diesel generators, these nuclear lUlits will run for 20 years
or more without maintenance or refueling - current lUlits are rated
now at 5 to 20 years. They are simply buried in holes near the
power users and monitored by remote electronics. Ifmaintenance is
required, the lUlit is removed from the hole, replaced by another unit,
and retumed to the factory for service.
Moreover, these nuclear generators will produce electricity for
less than 3 cents per kilowatt hour as compared with about 20 cents
per kilowatt hour for a typical diesel generator at current $40 per bar-
rel crude oil prices - all capital and operating costs considered. Aver-
age U.S retail costs for electricity currently range from 6 cents to 15
cents, with costs certain to increase substantially - allhough wholt:-
sale electricity from large nuclear power plants typically costs less
then 2 cents per kilowatt hour. The cost at Palo Verde nuclear power
station is 1.65 cents per kilowatt hour.
More Palo Verdes, however, our rulers are fully capable of pre-
venting, and they are W1alterably comrrritted to doing so.
MiniatlLre nuclear plants have not escaped the notice of our ene-
mies. The "Union of Concerned Scientists" for example has
denounced these plants a terrorist threat and is working hard to pre-
vent their use. The facts that these plants are entirely safe and use fuel
that is impossible to fashion into a nuclear explosive - fuel that can
be recycled into more fuel and thereby produces negligible nuclear
waste - are, of course, irrelevant. If miniatlLre nuclear power de-
pended solely upon development and installation in the United
States, it would be politically dead on arrival.
Fortunately, this industry is beyond U.S. cOntrol. It is likely that
miniatlLre nuclear power installations will proliferate in many other
countries before introduction into the United States.
Consider the following scenario. Within a few years, miniatlLre
nuclear power is becoming widely used in other countries. As is the
CWTent situation regarding new full-scale nuclear plants, this teclmol-
ogy is spreading throughout the world, but is being suppressed in the
United States.
At this point, Californians have found that the short driving
ranges of their new electric cars are no problem - because they can-
not obtain nor afford the fuel to drive them further. Electricity is ra-
tioned and, when it can be obtained, costs 30 cents or more per
kilowatt hour. Moreover, this situation has infected other states -
especially Oregon where the Democrats in power have emulated
California and tied the Oregon power grid to California.
In Grants Pass, Oregon, electric bills are therefore in the $500 per
month range - providing one has enough ration coupons.
It is pointed out to the people of Grants Pass, however, that an
off-the-shelf power unit that is being used throughout the world
would require a capital cost of $1,000 per household, be available
without rationing 100% of the time, and reduce their power bills to
$50 per month. If the unit is leased, there is no capital cost and power
at $60 per month. (These are the approximate actual numbers for
prototype units in development now, and will probably decrease as
work proceeds.)
When this pOSSIbility is available to thousands of·tow,1'ls.. like
Grants Pass throughout the United States, 1 expect that the govern-
mental opposition will not be politically sustainable. Moreover, these
are not large projects that can be bureaucratically and legally delayed
by more than 10 years in each instance. These units will be made in
factories, delivered by rail, and available on a off-the-shelf basis
within one week of placing an order.
Noone can predict the futlLre. The energy future of the United
States is now in the hands oftyranny, and the American people have
been rnisled by lack of knowledge and dishonest pseudo-scientific
propaganda. Yet, there is hope. In my opinion, one great reason for
hope is that nuclear power installation is proceeding in many other
countries and, through miniatlLre nuclear power, may well eventually
be brouaht horne to the United States.
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HEALTH PROFILING PROJECT
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We have completed a substantial series of dearnidation experi-
ments related to the degenerative diseases of aging and have partially
completed a second series. As soon as this one is completed - we ex-
pect in less than two months - readers who volunteered to provide
urine samples for om health profiling study will be sent containers,
mailers, and instructions for sending samples to us.
Many people have volunteered, but there is still room for more.
The requirement is that you send a urine sample to us once every
few months and fill out a confidential health auestionnaire.
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NOBEL PRiZE FOR DEATH
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In a review by the Conservative Digest Weekly of 10,000 articles
published in 2008, an article that we wrote for Human Events was
selected as one of the 20 best in 2008. Entiled "Nobel Prize for
Death" by Arthur B. Robinson, it is reproduced below:
And so it has begun. Word is beginning to spill into the news of
food riots and starvation in poor countries, as a result of shortages
and the resulting high prices for grain. This suffering is a direct re-
sult of the unprincipled actions of self-interested people in devel-
oped cotmtries who are promulgating the scientifically refuted myth
of human-caused global warming.
Frightened by this myth, U.S. federal and state governments have
diverted a significant amount of the American grain supply into the
production of ethanol - an entirely counterproductive action that
has helped to cause these grain Shortages. . .'
There is no intrinsic shortage of food. Since, however, food is
perishable, the market produces each year an amount of food com-
parable to that which will be comwued. SLored fuud - primarily
grain - usually suffices to smooth fluctuations due to weather and
other factors. Prices fluctuate within a range narrow enough that
most of the world's people have sufficient food at a price they can
afford. When, however, a large amount of grain is suddenly with-
drawn from the market, severe shortages can result.
This current food shortage is only the begirming.
We have been down this road before. Unprincipled opportunists
- falsely claiming that DDT is dangerous to the environment ~
managed to engineer a world-wide ban of DDT. DDT had eradi-
cated malaria from the developed world and was well on its way to
eradicating it from the less developed countries at the time this ban
of DDT was instituted. The initiation of DDT use against malaria
was reV-larded by a Nobel Prize, and the u.s. National Academy of
Sciences estimated that DDT had saved hundreds of millions of
lives.
One of the principal political figures who worked to ban DDT
was none other than AI Gore.
As a result of the DDT ban, more than 30 million children in Af-
rica and Asia have died from DDT-preventable malaria, and an esti-
mated 500 million adults are today chronically ill from this disease.
The ban of DDT was the worst act of technological genocide in hu-
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Now, Mr. Gore is the recognized leader of an effort to ban at
least 90% of world use of hydrocarbon fuels. Once again, his claims
are based upon bogus science and are motivated by personal finan-
cial and political self interest. Mr. Gore has been joined by the
United Nations and its IPee process. The goal of the United Na-
tions is clear. It wants the power to tax and ration world energy sup-
plies. This would place essentially unlimited power and money in
the hands of the United Nations and cooperating world political enti-
ties.
As acts of genocide, the potential effects of the hwnan-caused
global warming industry are so profound that the DDT genocide is
minor in comparison.
Hundreds of millions of human beings live today on the very
edge of existence - with all of their available resources consumed
in the quest for food, shelter, and the minimum necessities of life.
Without world technology and the energy that makes that technol-
ogy possible, these people will slip from the lower rungs of human
existence and will die. By abruptly lowering world hychoearboll use,
the human-caused global warmers are going to kill these people.
Politicians in the United States have given us a first taste of the
horrible suffering of human beings that is to come. By responding to
the myth of human-caused global warming by mildly diminishing
American grain supplies - in a futile, politicized attempt to bum
grain as fuel, American politicians have given the world a slight
taste of the starvation and slaughter that is to come.
Many people are responsible for promulgating the myth of hu-
man-caused global warming - envirorunentalists, politicians, busi-
nessmen, media personalities, and a relatively small band of
self-interested scientists. They have done this regardless of an over-
whelming body of scientific infonnation that defmitively refutes the
hypothesis of human-caused global warming. [See Robinson, Rob-
inson, and Soon, Environmental Effects of Increased Atmospheric
Carbon Dioxide, available at www.oismorglpproject for a review
and 132 peer-reviewed references to the scientific literature that doc-
ument this refutation.]
In the case of DDT, the truth did not matter. The EnviTOmnental
ProLt::diun Agem.:y's uwn scientific review board had reviewed the
scientific literature and proclaimed DDT entirely safe and very use-
ful. In the case of the hypothesis of human-caused global warming,
the truth is also becoming increasingly irrelevant, as perceived polit-
ical reality replaces reality in public discourse,
AI Gore has surpassed himself. Having helped to kill tens of mil-
lions of helpless African; Asian, and South American children and
to sicken hundreds of millions of other people with his support for
the bari. of DDT, Mr. Gore is now attempting to deprive the survi-
vors in these same countries of energy - life-giving energy that
makes possible their meager existences.
Industrially useful energy is fungible. It flows back and forth
throughout the world with ease. A projected reduction in supply in
the United States and an ill-considered reaction to that projection has
caused current world food shortages. These shortages are only very
small reminders of the vast shortages that will occur if hydrocarbon
use is truly curtailed.
No greater act of genocide has ever been proposed in human his-
tory than the proposal to abruptly end the use of much of the world's
hydrocarbon energy.
AI Gore and his United Nations retainers have received the No-
bel Prize for Peace. The only peace that they are offering to the
world's people, however, is the peaec of the grave.
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JOHN GALT
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A hidden effect of the November 4 elections and the national
events that preceded them during this past year is perhaps best called
the "John Galt Effect" in honor of Ayn Rand's famous character in
Atlas Shrugged. I have not seen a single article written about this in
any publication, but it is occurring to a very significant extent.
_..".oUf. rechno10gical. ci'.lilizatiQD..stands.upon.the shoulders .of many
generations of free Americans and the great accomplishments that
they bequeathed to us. Among those Americans and their counter-
parts in other countries have been a small special group of people
whose unusual genius, work ethic, and love for their specialties were
especially outstanding. These men, by their examples, their cre-
ations, and their leadership of free enterprises, have led our civiliza-
tion upward. One of the greatest privileges of my life has been to
know a few such people.
Without this small group of people, the technological attairunents
of their generations would not have taken place. We know the
names of a few of them, but there were many more - constituting
perhaps one person in one thousand. Ayn Rand called these people
the "men of the mind." In Atlas Shntgged, under the leadership of
John Galt, they withdrew their services. They would only work in
freedom They would not work under tyranny.
" In reality, most men of the mind never withdraw. They love their
work too much to stop and - most of them - love their fellow men
too much to desert them 'lhe forces of tyranny depend upon this.
Without these people, even the technology required by Marxist and
Socialist societies would not fimction. Yet, while the men of the
mind do not fully withdraw, they have families and other loved ones
for whom they are responsible.
As the pendulum of politics swings toward tyranny and dangers
to those whom they love increase, they partially tum their talents
more toward their personal responsibilities. Part of their thoughts,
efforts, and ingenuity are lost to society - and this loss cannot be re-
covered by either negative or positive incentives.
Throughout our country today, the men of the mind (some arc
women, too) are watching the awful scene in Washington and its re-
flection in state and local capitals throughout the United States. They
understand the consequences of the government oppression that has
dogged their own footsteps for many years and that will grow much
worse in the near future. So, they are taking actions to protect them-
selves and their families.
We have no way to measure the societal effects of this distraction
of the men of the mind. There are immediate effects upon our well
being and long term effects from the things that they are no longer
working full time to create.
What is the cost of the distraction of our real leaders - of the men
of the mind - of the Jolm GaIts among us? I estimate that it is greater
than the trillions of dollars being lost on government printing
presses. Call this Y2009K - and this time it is very real.
Our existing power plants are still operating; our petrochemical
plants are still producing; our military defense is still performing;
our food supplies are still flowing; and the rest of the technological
infrastructure upon which our lives depend is largely still in place.
But the key people - not those we see but those we do not see be-
cause they are constantly engaged in real work - are seriously dis-
tracted and now partially engaged in personal survival.
Of one thing we can be certain. If any of the essentials of our civ-
ilization seriously falter and this causes real harm, those who would
be our masters and their fellow travelers in the media, academia,
business, and politics will cast blame upon some of these men of the
mind - and drag them before us for punishment. Our John Gaits
know this, too, and it is a further distraction for them.
The readers of Access to Energy include such people. Some are
leading great enterprises. Others are in the basements of our power
plants and other heavy industries. Some are closeted away in univer-
sities quietly at work on the next generations of possible advances in
science and engineering. They are easily recognized - by their ge-
nius and by the love oftheir work that permeates their whole beings.
One way to recognize them is that they constantly talk about their
work to anyone who will listen. They are distracted. What are they
talking about today?
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HEARTLAND NEW YORK EVENT
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All readers of Access of Energy and signers of the Petition Pro-
ject petition have been receiving advertisements for the Heartland
Institute March 8-10, 2009 International Conference on Climate
Change. More information is available by telephone to
312-377-4000. Discounts are available on several bases. If you can-
not afford the entrance fee, please telephone Access to Energy at
541-592-4142. We may be able to convince Heartland to waive the
fee in some cases.
Ordinarily, we never share your mailing address with anyone -
except for an annual mailing about the DOP confclcnce that we
co-sponsor each year. For this Heartland conference, however, we
made an exception. Your address was not given to Heartland, but
we addressed their mailers, so that they could reach you.
An exception here is well-warranted. Heartland is a relatively
small organization in Chicago, but with a loud voice. They have ef-
fectively fought against the myth of human-caused global warming
for many years. On the one occasion that I visited their facilities, I
passed two displays honoring Booker T. Washington on the way to
their conference room - a very good sign. We may all need to reread
Washington's book Up From Slavery to fmd our way back from the
morass being created for us by government.
The Heartland event in March will probably be the single most
important anti-human caused global warming event in the world
during 2009. Attend it if you can.
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STARK RA ViNG MAD
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• Many wealthy Americans have been installing solar-electric
panels on their homes. These are, with appropriate paperwork., being
almost entirely paid for by government and government-supported
and sponsored organizations. American tax payers are providing the
funds for these installations.
Only the wealthy can afford these projects because most of the
government payments are in the form of tax credits that must be
used quickly. The installations are so expensive that only those who
pay very high taxes can receive these credits.
Ignoring capital costs, these systems are said to be very economi-
cal - but the capital investment cannot be ignored just because
someone else is being forced to fund it. When all costs are consid-
ered, micro-solar electricity on the roofs of buildings is more than
5-fold more expensive than ordinary electriciry and more than
lO-fold more expensive than nuclear-electric energy.
Moreover, most of these systems use the public power grid as a
battery - storing energy in the grid during the day and extracting it
from the grid at night. With electricity rationing virtually certain to
be in our near future, does anyone really think that government will
not claim ownership of these systems that it has fmanced?
They are attached to the public power grid, which is entirely un-
der government control. The "owners" who installed them will fmd
that their roof-top solar panels are public property and their electric-
ity supplies no greater than their ration coupons.
• Regardless of the fact that the California state government is
estimating a $40 billion deficit - so far - and is already declaring pe-
riodic "flex alerts" due to electricity shortages, California is continu-
ing a radical "global warming" agenda, which will inflict hundreds
of billions of dollars of malinvestment upon its citizens.
Nor will they be stopped by ordinary ethics. The initial effects of
California follies are being met, in part, by confiscating the tax re-
funds of California residents.
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GOOD READING
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• The many current articles posted at LewRockwell.com. These
free market articles are published by Lew Rockwell, President of the
Ludwig von Mises Institute.
The political prospects of eventually unseating our new masters
look grim indeed, especially considering the self-interested defec-
tions of so many Republicans who still hold office.
Still, the Ron Paul phenomenon of these past two years provides
hope. If such efforts eventually succeed, they will be fueled, in part,
by the efforts of men and women like those published by Lew
Rockwell. This site is good reading as an aid to maintaining hope
and sanity and as a foundation upon which to take our country back.
Unfortunately, this effort is not an optional activity. It is a debt
that we owe to our ancestors, our descendants, and our country.
• The Suuth Pule - Volumes I and if by Roald Amundsen pub-
lished in 1913 by John Murray, London and Lee Keedick, New
York. An excellent example ofa "man of the mind."
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