I have, I think, discovered something quite interesting and possibly significant.  Howard Johnson in the early 80's patented a permanent magnet motor.  He created straight line devices to demonstrate the principle and reportedly created a working model.  The working model was supposedly stolen.  Regardless, the motor was never produced, and there are no reports of it being replicated.

A man named Mike Brady claims to have a magnet only motor and claims to produce an electric generating device that requires no fuel or electricity. He applied for a patent, but it was not granted.  He claims that they produce and lease a 20 kilowatt unit and now a 100 kilowatt and 300 kilowatt unit.  The larger models reportedly are a combination of electrical and magnetic power, but entirely self operating requiring no external input.

On many of the alternative energy sites there are discussions that all seem to conclude that the device is a fraud.  Brady has not provided proof or details of how the device works which is understandable given that it is not patented. 

This is a video reportedly showing the device in operation. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFGiWiXMHn0

If true, this will change the world.  However, I believe Brady is deceptive about how the device works to protect the device, and doesn't share the true operating principle to prevent duplication.  He claims the device works by the repulsion of similar poles and magnetic shielding.  All the replications I have been able to research use repulsion and don't work.  It is well known that placing permanent magnets in repulsion causes them to demagnetize.  The configuration I show below should not demagnetize.  It does work in a straight line configuration.

The Howard Johnson magnet motor worked on a combination of attraction and repulsion, and staging three series of magnets using shielding on a rotor so that two provided propulsion when one cogged.  My device does the same thing.  I made a simple two board device that uses this principle to propel an upper board across a series of magnets in a lower board.  It propels the upper board completely off the lower magnets without any pullback as would be experienced in a SMOT.  I do not believe there is any limitation to how long this will continue to propel the board.  One would just need to extend the bottom magnets.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txYnzn1tGnA&feature=related  This video details the spacing in an animation that shows the spacing of magnets on the three disks.  Imagine the upper magnets having poles on the sides instead of the end and you will see how my device works.  The ends of the upper magnets are split half north pole, half south pole.  Thus one magnet repels, one attracts and one cogs.  The interaction of the combined attraction and repulsion is sufficient to overcome the cogging. 

The device I created is just two pieces of deck board using 1/2 by 1 inch neodymium magnets. It will propel itself for as long as you extend the lower magnets.  There is no pullback at the end like there is with a SMOT.  I took end pole magnets on the bottom board at a roughly a thirty three degree angle and placed a second board above them with side pole magnets at the same angle with a stagger in the layout equal to one magnet width for each row.

The device is three magnets wide in rows roughly one inch apart. The magnet ends' vertical width at a 33 degree angle are roughly .42 inches wide when viewed straight down from above  So I spaced the magnets' holes adjacent edges .84 inches apart.  I used a pencil for wheels.  It took all of 25 minutes to make with a hand drill and a couple of pieces of weathered deck board.

I'll try to create a diagram for you of what I did:

The diagram below shows the face of board 1, magnets with north and south poles on the ends signified by the pole that shows on top, north.  The holes were drilled with a thirty three degree angle to the left as the diagram is presented.   I've used nn to signify one magnet so that the side poles could be presented comparably in the second diagram.  The distance between magnet holes left to right (edge to edge - not center to center) is .84 inches (2 magnet widths):   

Bottom Board:  Poles on ends of magnets

Top of bottom board - not to scale                       
    Board is roughly 16 by 7 inches                         

                        .84 inches                                      
________________V_______________________                        
|    nn    nn    nn    nn    nn                    |  
|    nn    nn    nn    nn    nn                    |                 
|    nn    nn    nn    nn    nn                    |                                 
                                         ^                                         

        nn -   Represents one magnet  
                  15 magnets total  

Side of bottom board - not to scale    
   Board is roughly 1 inch thick 
 ______________________________________ , 
 |             nn    nn    nn    nn    /nn/       |                 
 |           nn    nn    nn    nn    /nn/         |
 |        ss      ss     ss    ss     /ss/             |
 |     ss     ss     ss    ss      /ss/                |   
                                       ^
Represents one magnet - Side view
    Does not show perspective-
magnets beyond first row not shown

   
The second "upper" board was drilled as shown below using the same 33 degree angle to the left, and roughly 1 inch spacing between the rows, and .84 inch spacing between magnets in each row.  However this board was drilled with each row offset one magnet width farther forward than the one next to it. What you are seeing is the top view of the layout.  The diagram on the right shows that the holes are drilled at a 33 degree angle to the left.  I put magnet shielding under these magnets on the end of the magnet.  To insure scientific integrity I secured it with duct tape.   With side poled magnets the end is the side and can be shielded.  The poles are on the sides not the ends.

Top Board: Poles on sides of magnets
                            

Top of top board - not to scale                           
Board is roughly 10 by 7 inches                      

___________________________________
|    ns    ns                                   |                  
|       ns    ns                                |                  
|          ns    ns                             |          
                      ^                                                   
 ns  -   Represents one magnet  
           6 magnets total                                   

Side of top board  - not to scale       
Board is roughly 1 inch thick - 
 ________________________________________
|            ns ns  ns  ns  ns  /ns/               |
|          ns ns  ns  ns  ns  /ns/                 |  
|        ns ns  ns  ns  ns  /ns/                   |
|      ns ns  ns  ns  ns  /ns/                     |   
                                ^     
Represents one magnet - Side view    
shows all six magnets due to offset                  

Finished Device Configuration:

                                  .

|  / /                           |              >>>Top Board - Direction of propulsion>>>>>>

           O                < Pencil            .
I / / / / /                         __            |     Bottom board - stator

If I am right, the fact that this will run indefinitely in one direction is very significant.  Whether it can be looped is still an open question.  But work is defined as the ability to move a weight, over distance.  My device is doing work.  I am doing work with magnets with this design, which has been claimed to be impossible. 

Let's see we could make a children's toy, a train that moves on its own.  Perhaps it would even go around a corner.  If not that then a drag strip with little cars, no curves necessary.  Perhaps even a motor.

But the point is the configuration I have enumerated here will allow one to access work using magnets.  I perceive this magnet configuration can be placed in a circular configuration like the Parendev and propel an inner rotor. 

Copyright 2008
James T. Hitt

Everybody seems to be an environmentalist  these days.  That's cool, but I hate being trendy.  I'm not your typical environmentalist.  I'm a redneck with capitalist tendencies.  But, whatever your proclivities you've got agree something is amiss in the world today.  While I haven't much concern with global warming, my latest interest is in more efficient sources of energy: hydrogen, wind, magnatism, sonoluminescence.  To heck with renewable. I'm looking for cheap.

I started surfing the web looking for alternate sources of heat.  My interest is purely selfish.  Propane just costs too damn much.  While I don't have any wonderful over unity insights, I do believe I can come up with something better than burning prehistoric vegetable matter or whatever propane is. 

This is actually my second experiment. I also made a Brown's gas generator.  I cut the plates out with a set of tin snips.  The edges are so rough I'm a little afraid to actually use it, but it pumps out a bunch of HHO when hooked to a battery charger.  Let's say it's still in the development phase.  I may put it in something I'm not fond of eventually, something I wouldn't really mind blowing the hood off.  That would sure add a little excitement to a small town Saturday night.

Ok back to the Redneck Magnet Heater.  First, I took some magnets, and put them on a board with wire ties.  The magnets alternate poles: north, south, north, etc.  Then I took a chunk of 1/8" aluminum tread plate and cut it roughly round with a side grinder.  My wife helped.  She stood on the tread plate and I ran the grinder.  

We were both wearing shorts and burned the dickens out of out our legs with all the flying grinder particles.  It was wonderful swearing practice.  While giving a good cussing to various inanimate objects, I carved a rough circle of tread plate.  We then drilled a hole in the middle, installed a bolt and put the bolt in an electric drill and spun the disk for 1 minute next to the magnets.  As hot as it was this afternoon,  this simplistic rough experimenting created lots of personal supplemental heat . The spinning aluminum also got hot in the middle and warm around the edges. 

I've purchased 16 wind generator magnets for a serious heater.  These will pick up around 45 lbs each, and are rated to 300 degrees.  They have so much power that if you put them together you cannot get them back apart.  That's the next evolution, but I don't think I'll make that one with a side grinder, wire ties, and tread plate.  We used 2 of them in this experiment, but didn't get any heat until we added the ten little magnets. 

In one alternate energy forum I reviewed, a guy had experimented with a more sophisticated similar setup in a lathe.  He created 220 degree heat in the aluminum at 250 rpm's in one minute with an eight inch disk using ¼ " aluminum and 12 wind generator magnets. Another guy had experimented with a 12 inch disk, and a 2 hp motor. The aluminum plate heated to 654 degrees Fahrenheit when spun at 1750 rpm's for one minute, but was hard to spin. 

This idea as with all good ideas is stolen.  I first found suggestions for magnetic heaters in Free Energy's blog.  Then I ran onto a company in North Dakota called MagTec Energy that builds construction heaters and oil well platform heaters.  I figured if it's good enough for the oil companies, it's good enough for me.  These guys aren't stupid.  What does it say about oil prices when oil companies use magnetic heaters?

These babies pump out 500,000 btu's from a few magnets on a spinning disk next to an aluminum plate, driven by a diesel or electric engine.  A coupla hundred thousand btu's will have me sweating like steam engine mechanic all winter long.  And the good news - no wood smoke, not that I give a hoot about global warming or greenhouse gas emission.  There's nothing wrong with wood heat.  I just don't like my clothes smelling like bacon.

I'll never win a mechanical engineering award for this thing, but the dang thing works without fuel other than what you use to turn it.  Those folks in North Dakota got around 95% efficiency using a diesel engine that's only 35% efficient.  Yep, I had a good day, grinder burns and all.  If It ends up in the discard pile I'm still gonna have some killer refrigerator magnets that I can hang my toaster on..

8/04/2008

I've always loved George Carlin's wit  and wisdom, this video is no exception.  Fair warning, George is always profane and this video is no exception, but it taps into the collective unconscious that shows how we get such poor representation and results from our political leaders.  And, it's funny.  How do you beat that?

I'll leave you to your own speculation as to why this technology is not the lead story on every newscast, and front page news on every paper in the world.  The Energy crisis is manufactured, not real.  Like the six million dollar man, we have the technology, we can rebuild our economy to one based on water energy, this is not a difficult transition.  But who has advocated it?  Why haven't they.  Abundant free energy is availble now without huge infrastucture change or investment.  Oops that would create a huge economic shift from slavery and control to individual freedom.  
 
You can read more about this at http://waterpoweredcarplans.com/

The ethical underpinnings of economic thought and political systems warrants understanding.  At the root ,ethics is not that complicated.  Ethics, economics, philosophy, and psychology are in my opinion highly related and must be incorporated into any evaluation of political philosophy.  So in the words of Thoreau, simplify, simplfy, simplify.

Let's consider a simple foundational concept in ethics, the golden rule.  This idea is included in one way or another in almost every religion or spiritual teaching on the planet in both eastern and western thought.  This idea is expressed as: do unto others as you would have them do unto you, or variations like Karma, you get what you give, the law of attraction and other statements.  If this simple principal is incorporated into discussion of the world's society, many illusory philosophies of good become transparent.

Marxism socialism and  even perhaps fascism are sold as ethical political philosophies, yet they violate the idea of reciprocity contained in the golden rule.  The idea that one is justified in the interest of some nebulous poorly defined "collective good" to usurp property rights is based upon greed and envy, not ethics or compassion. 

There is a rational case to be made that the inherent illusions in plunder in the name of campassion, sacrifice for the sake of community, wealth and property ownership portrayed as evil, and the resultant redistributive efforts of self sanctified saints and sages is inherently dishonest.  The lie is disguised as virtue, but  when stripped of illusion, reality is that these "virtuous" philosophies advocate violence, theft, and are destruction of society.  These philosphies are based upon win/lose transactions of enforced kindness.

Force is not tool for freedom, it is a tool for slavery.  Under a slave system, natural human self determination is derailed.  Without natural guideposts of self interests, human effort falters.  There is no natural motivation toward collective betterment, particularly at ones own expense.  Motivation in such a system must be applied externally to initiate acts of  supposed virtue.  These acts when coerced further lead to reduction of civility in the world creating what is actually an anti-civilization.

Such philosophies penalize work, success, true kindness, and ethics.  They undermine motivation for productive effort by reducing rewards for work, and effort. Such philosopies reward failure, poor judgement, and incompetence.  By promoting action destructive to sustaining human life, and discouraging constructive focused effort, which sustains life, such systems or philosophies are actually proponents of death. 

Is it any surprise that the moral code is represented by the term sacrifice, and the focus of life diverted to a questionable reality of life after death.  The logical and moral inconsistencies of such systems reduce standards of living creating myriad immeasureable hardships and the need for even more sacrifice.  Until, in the end death is welcomed as a blessed respite from the twisted reality and inherent hatred of humanity such illogical approaches to community, ethics, and kindness create.

Forced kindness is an oxymoron. 


This is a repost of my comments inspired by a thread about Marxism in The Age of Turbulence Pod.

I wanted to post the preliminary Iowa Caucus tallys.  The following represent voting results with all but four counties results in.  From the initial results some of you may think my posts and optimism regarding Ron Paul's prospect are the result of a misspent youth and hallucinogenic substances. 

Ron Paul captured 5th place with just 10 percent of the vote.  However this misses how close that vote was.  I believe my original contention is correct, Ron Paul can win, but it is not the shoo in I predicted.  He'll do better in New Hampshire - his freedom message should play well in the "live free or die "state.  He did do quite a bit better than polls predicted, but not as much so as Huckabee.

	#Votes	% Vote	Pre Polls	Variance
Huckabee	35401	34.35%	29%	5.35%
Romney	26167	25.39%	24%	1.39%
Thompson	13834	13.42%	13%	0.42%
McCain	13556	13.16%	11%	2.16%
Paul	10040	9.74%	6%	3.74%
Guliani	3590	3.48%	8%	-4.52%

To be fair, Guliani did not campaign in Iowa and should not be expected to do as poorly on the east coast.  Huckabee's Evangelical support will be much less on the coasts.  This campaign is still young.  Ron Paul continues to build momentum.  Without any mainstream media support, he got  10% compared to McCain and Thompsons 13%.  

On the Democratic Side, the Peace Candidate won.  Obama was the clear winner with Edwards second, barely edging out Clinton.
 
There is a lot of time and many more caucuses before the election. 

This election is truly about freedom.  It is pivotal to America's future.  The issues are not partisan.  The issues at their core are about what it means to be an American, and whether that way of life will continue.  The issues condense to a question of freedom versus slavery. Examine all the candidates and their messages, and vote for making your own decisions about life, and granting that same respect to others.  Think for yourself.  Stand up for your rights.  Register to vote.  Go to your state caucus, and vote.

"The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves. "

William Hazlitt

Ron Paul - Baton of Truth

My friend Grant Walker made this new video,  It is powerful, and important.  If there is one calling the zaadz community can all agree on, it is to end this conflict.  It is bankrupting us financially and damn it, it's just plain wrong.  Whoever you choose as your candidate for president, make your voice heard for peace. 

Regards,
Jim

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wpo3OoyUUUc&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8V-kTeWozXQ&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sKYX_o-g-b0&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-ajrwka2RE&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jyJJC-J2g7A&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOd42r7szQY&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=16N_76mlsMk&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-4oehFZI-k&feature=related

If we value life and seek rational solutions to the world's problems, are we not at least driven to consider the outmoded, but perhaps useful concept of freedom.  Or does the percieved duty to our fellows demand life be lived as a perpetual ritual suicide in the name of compassion?  Aynn Rand is one of my favorite authors.  The passion she exudes for true kindness and true love of humanity towers above most expressions of moralty and ethics.   These videos touch these same issues. 

Jim Hitt
12/20/2007

"There are two kinds of teachers of the Morality of Death: the mystics of spirit and the mystics of muscle . . . those who believe in consciousness without existence and those who believe in existence without consciousness. . . . No matter how loudly they posture in the roles of irreconcilable antagonists, their moral codes are alike, and so are their aims: in matter - the enslavement of man's body, in spirit - the destruction of his mind . . . make no mistake about the character of the mystics. To undercut your consciousness has always been their only purpose throughout the ages - and power, the power to rule you by force, has always been their only lust. . . . But it cannot be done to you without your consent. If you permit it to be done, you deserve it."

Ayn Rand (1905 - 1982) Source: John Galt, in Atlas Shrugged, 1957

 

I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another.

Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826)    

 

As I've watched the Presidential election debates and read pundits' comments about various candidates, I have been intrigued how similar the pundit's job is to that of investment managers.  In investments, it is surprise that initiates movement positive surprise positive movements, negative surprise negative movement.  Like the media pundits forecasting the political landscape, brokerage houses economists and analysts provide forecasts for the expected economic landscape.  The only useful information though is information everybody doesn't know. 

My educational and work background is in finance.  After college, I worked for the U.S. Treasury Department's Comptroller of the Currency as a National Bank Examiner.  Following that I worked in Nebraska for chronologically; a bank, a mutual insurance company, and then a bank holding company.  That seems like a former life now.  After 15 years, the uniform i.e. suit and tie, just never seemed to fit.  

I transitioned to 12 acres in Iowa near a public forest where living in a pickup camper I built a house in the southern Iowa timber and then lived off the grid for 7 years reading at night by lamp light in an beautiful cedar home I designed and built.  It was a case of the old adage: "You can take the boy off the farm, but you can't take the farm out of the boy."  I'm now a confirmed redneck with proud blue collar roots who for a time, transitioned to professional investment management. 

There are many analytical skills from that background that are useful in considering the likely winner of the 2008 Presidential Race.  What everybody knows is already reflected in current prices in the market, and in conventional expectations in the political arena.  In investments the "experts" are almost always wrong at major turning points, and I sense the same is true today in the political arena.  I sense there is a major shift underway in the current election that is being masked in a sea of conventional wisdom that is anything but wisdom.

I thought I would take an investors perspective and look at the current political race and attempt a reasonable forecast of who is likely to win the current presidential race prior to the first caucus, just to see if I've lost my touch.  Or, whether I still have the analytical skills to dust off the crystal ball, put my biases in the wastebasket of collective conventional wisdom and seek some lead indicators of who has the momentum, the organization, the integrity, believability and vision to win the 2008 Presidential Election. 

As I mentioned earlier, it is change that drives markets, and I expect change is the key determinate of accurate expectation about the current political race.  There are several major changes since the last election that I perceive are crucial to forecasting the current race's ultimate winner.  The first of these changes is the persistent and accelerating impact of the internet on all aspects of our lives.  The internet reaches all corners of the planet, and tirelessly garners greater and greater share of all markets: entertainment, news, communication, retail and wholesale trade, education, information, networking and of course politics. 

The second significant shift underway and undoubtedly symbiotically tied to the internet's explosive growth is the emergence of greater freedom and collapse of totalitarian regimes throughout the world.  Examples include the demise of the Soviet Union and greater economic freedoms and private ownership in China.  However, contrasting this has been the rise in globalism and the sinister creep of fear leading to willingness to forego personal liberty in a misguided search for greater safety.  I sense that the winner of this election will determine which trend is amplified.

It is important to understand that everyone brings biases to any analysis.  A political pundit is biased to support the groups which have historically been his supporters.  Undoubtedly, my analysis will also be biased, but I am going to make every effort to avoid reaching a premature conclusion and simply present evidence from which you can draw your own conclusions.  But, rest assured in advance I may fail miserably in this effort to avoid bias.  That is why I am choosing to avoid early conclusion and merely looking at evidence. 

Regardless of my conclusion I challenge you to consider the evidence, and reach your own.  Click on the links I've provided, leave those you've found in your comments.  I personally ask you not agree with me, but give me your best reasoned analysis.  Challenge any bias I display.  Criticize my analysis if you feel led too. I hope to learn much from you.  I respect you and trust that together we will make the right choice for the nation during this election.

One of the best forecasting tools in investments is market action itself.  Market trends tend to anticipate news and move accordingly before positive or negative news is announced.  This is likely influenced by inside information and analysis of available information to anticipate outcomes.  From a political perspective, I sense we should look at the closest things to price movement that are available.  Our objective is not to just see the current level of voter interest, but to ascertain trend and the underlying causes to anticipate future results.  To the extent possible I intend to consider all candidates, not some pre-selected subsection arbitrarily considered serious.

Betting Odds

Perhaps the closest thing to a "market" is betting odds.  So what are the trends here, and what factors underlie them?

According to Bloomberg.com, "when the election is just weeks away, betting odds have historically been better indicators of election results worldwide than polling. Here are their current best odds offered worldwide on the next U.S. presidential election:

Winning party:

Democrats 1-2
Republicans 2-1
Any other winner 66-1

Next president:

Hillary Clinton     Even (1-1)
Rudolph Giuliani    11-2
Barack Obama         9-1
Mitt Romney         10-1
Ron Paul            22-1
Al Gore             25-1
Mike Huckabee       30-1
Fred Thompson       33-1
John Edwards        33-1
John McCain         50-1
Michael Bloomberg   50-1
Bill Richardson    100-1

But, we don't just want to consider betting odds, we also want to see the trend in the odds.  What's changing and why?

 

   

http://www.oddschecker.com/  reports the following odds

Candidate	ODDS	TRENDS	IRAQ
Hillary Clinton	1.67	Steady http://www.gambling911.com/Hillary-Clinton-112707.html	Continue
Rudolph Giuliani	6	Downward  http://www.gambling911.com/Republican-Debate-Most-Watched-120107.html	Continue
Barack Obama	9	Steady http://www.gambling911.com/Oprah-Winfrey-Obama-120707.html	Continue
Mitt Romney	11	Downward	Continue
Mike Huckabee	21	Upward	Continue
Al Gore	21	Downward
Ron Paul	26	Upward  200 to 1 roughly a month ago:  http://www.pbs.org/now/shows/350/preview.html	Withdraw
John Edwards	34	Steady	Withdraw
Fred Thompson	34	Downward	Continue
John McCain	34	Downward	Continue
Warner	34
Evan Bayh	51
Bloomberg	51
Bill Frist	67
Chris Dodd	101
Richardson	101		Withdraw
Rice	101
Hagel	101
Tom Vilsack	101
Russ Feingold	101
Dennis Kuchinich	126		Withdraw
Joe Biden	126	Upward
Brownback	126
Duncan Hunter	151		Continue
Jeb Bush	151
Mike Gravel	151		Withdraw
John Kerry	151
Tancredo	251		Continue
	trends from: http://www.gambling911.com/2008-US-Presidential-Betting-Odds-110807.html
	War position: http://politics.nytimes.com/election-guide/2008/issues/iraq/index.html

 
 

Google Searches and Meetup Groups

As mentioned earlier, the key difference in this race from previous race is the increased impact of the internet.  Internet debates, polling, organization and information sources are lessening the power and influence of conventional news sources of cable and network broadcasters, magazines and newspaper.  The internet has lessened the stranglehold of political parties and special interests groups on campaign organization and are leading to powerful spontaneous grass roots political effort like the widely reported Cinderella story of Ron Paul.  A  spontaneous internet grass roots effort pulled Ron Paul's campaign from virtual obscurity through no direct effort of his campaign organization.  Rather, spontaneous effort of private individuals with whom his message resonated broadcast his message over the internet.  http://www.pbs.org/now/shows/350/preview.html   

The following link shows trends on Google, Yahoo, Live and Alexa for presidential searches. http://www.searchengineoptimizationcompany.ca/seoblog/World%20Wide%20Web/search-engines/presidental-candidates-for-2008-us-election-search-perspective/07122007

The following link shows a comparison of the number of meetup groups established for each candidate: http://www.meetup.com/topics/polact/cand/pres/   Ron Paul leads the pack with 1342 groups followed by 247 for Mike Huckabee.  By comparison, Barack Obama has 63 and Hillary Clinton 43 groups.  This of course does not mean that these leading candidates in meetup groups will necessarily win.  Conventional media still has great influence that it is wielding in this campaign.  Also the political organization of established candidates must be considered in this analysis.  However, the internet will be a significant factor in the caucuses. 

A brief review of Youtube or Google will demonstrate the power these tools evidence in straw polls and the show of support for candidates with strong internet support: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8SgZELRjpo  Fund raising has been re-invented.

I sense this is pivotal in the caucuses.  The caucuses are an exercise in voter enthusiasm.  Traditionally they have been an exercise for the "party faithful", but this election appears to be a watershed of emotional outpouring against politics as usual.  Younger voters are being energized to participate in a process that has historically been ignored by the average voter.  I sense the dialogue of political opinion, ideas, and honest concern for the future has never been greater.   I sense this reduces the effectiveness and accuracy of conventional polling techniques and conventional wisdom from mainstream media.

I sense that this election will turn into a test of personal values.  People are seeing the forgotten dreams of youth and they are reaching for them, many for the first time through the political process.  We are tired of war with 70% of American people opposing the Iraq engagement.  I conceive that this will be a significant factor in the 2008 election.   As voters become more sophisticated, and more self directed in their search for information, no longer are they looking for pundit's opinion.  They are choosing for themselves with greater information than at any time in history. The media standards of former years are changing in ways few anticipated as we garner greater and more diverse information from blogs, email, ezines, reprints, online news sources and internet copies of video.  The speed on information transfer has become nearly instantaneous, and is no longer time sensitive.  The internet is having a greater influence on the political landscape than anything since Guttenberg's printing press. 

I suggest that despite the fear being pedaled by Cassandra's singing Chicken Little's praises that we are on the cusp of a world wide renaissance of humanity and an evolution to the next level of human empowerment.  I believe this presidential election will represent a watershed for advocates of freedom, prosperity, peace and kindness, and begin a domino effect of greater personal freedom and responsibility world wide.   I see a bright shining future for all of mankind, a Civilization of the Universe.  I invite you to join me in this historic event.  Analyze the candidates.  Search your heart for honesty.  See the future of our world free of chains of slavery, violence and oppression.  Get involved and vote your conscience.  Our future is in your hands.  Choose wisely.

Conclusion:

Based upon my analysis, I honestly sense that Ron Paul can win the Republican nomination for president.  I also perceive that current trends and the outpouring of heartfelt emotional support for one candidate represents a tipping point of individual voting power   overwhelming political debate during this election.  Ron Paul's integrity is readily apparent in his consistent voting record, his candid answers during debates and his clear reasoned vision of a bright future for America.  I commend his honesty, his forthrightness and his vision.  Many question his elimination of personal income taxes, the IRS, and other agencies.  However, I would remind you that he also advocates the elimination of the Federal Reserve.  This is highly significant.

Think about money for a second.  Pull out a bill and look at it.  It says on the bill FEDERAL RESERVE NOTE.  It is a promise to pay.  I also have issued several bank notes which represent my promise to pay.  However, I unlike the Federal Reserve must provide something of value to others to earn Federal Reserve Notes to repay my notes.  The Federal Reserve Bank however can issue more Federal Reserve Notes.  This would be the equivalent to me issuing more personal notes to discharge my obligations.

The Federal Reserve issues notes that are backed only by the paper they are printed on.  Our only assurance of their value is the "goodwill" of these private bankers not to issue more notes and thus reduce their value.  Their record in this has not been particularly good historically.  For this "service" they charge interest to member banks to borrow Federal Reserve Notes to cover their reserve requirements etc.  The total interest charged by the Federal Reserve equals the revenues the US Government collects in personal income taxes.  This interest collected by the Federal Reserve does not go to the Federal Government for social programs, defense, public works etc.  It goes to line the pockets of the wealthy individuals who own the Federal Reserve Bank. 

If the Federal Reserve Bank services were provided by the US Treasury, these interest payments would be left in the Federal Government coffers instead of being diverted to enrich private investors.  That's it in a nutshell.  Private bankers are taking an amount equaling the Total Federal Revenue from Personal Income Taxes for providing slips of paper that have no more value than the strings of shells used in America before Columbus.  Eliminating the Federal Reserve, a sound fiscal and monetary policy with no federal income taxes will lead to an explosion in economic activity the likes of which the world has not seen since the industrial revolution.

Ron Paul's support of the constitution, limited government and freedom are a breath of fresh air in a world of disingenuous compromises.  The concerns expressed by many over the rule of law, disintegrating liberties, rising taxes, unjust war, and financial problems faced by our country are valid.  However I have great confidence in this country's voter to see through the illusion to recognize honest policies instead of the parasitical self destruction advocated by most politicians.  The Donner Party and Harry Callahan do not serve as valid models for rational government. We have not had a reasoned voice for freedom at the helm of government since Ronald Reagan.  The excitement shown by Paul supporters indicates the ideas of the founding fathers are not dead.    I predict that Ron Paul will win the 2008 presidential election.  This internet poll concurs http://www.whowouldtheworldelect.com/

James T. Hitt
December 11, 2007