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The Largest Spill in US History more links…

Posted on May 27, 2010 | 2 comments

The United States is likely in the midst of its largest oil spill ever recorded. The United States Geological Survey has estimated that the release is closer to a million gallons or over 20,000 barrels of oil per day than to the 5,000 barrel per day estimate recently used. The original 1,000 barrel or 42,000 gallon idea is completely forgotten.So the Exxon Valdez spill was 11,000,000 gallons and this spill has possibly been 30,000,000 already. Can anybody say wow!

Nobody has ever convinced all parties of the effects of any spill. Did the Valdez wipe out the herring fisheries in the Alaskan sound where the spill occurred?  We do not know but do know herring have greatly declined or disappeared in nearby areas.

There was a 140 million gallon spill in the Bay of Campeche in Mexico’s section of the Gulf of Mexico. This Ixtoc 1 spill ran on for a long time like this one may and occurred in the 1970s.  Many disagree on how much the nearby fisheries and eco-systems were affected. Some even say it led to a boom in shrimp catches somehow and then there are those who say it created instability in the shrimp populations that really reached it peak several years later.

Here is a link to the basic of the Ixtoc 1 incident. It is not very detailed. http://www.incidentnews.gov/incident/6250

For some idea of how commercial seafood industries and fishing businesses work in the modern world I recommend Urner Barry. Their Price Current is the premiere business publication of this industries hard-working and busy small offices in ver expensive and not very fancy buildings all over the world.  See this link. http://www.urnerbarry.com/

Mexico definitely is among the parties fearing that this spill may be  disastrous for them. Please check this link especially if you read Spanish.  http://www.oem.com.mx/oem/notas/n1626358.htm

For a chance to see what BP has to say for itself check this link: http://www.bp.com/bodycopyarticle.do?categoryId=1&contentId=7052055&nicam=USCSBaselineCrisis&nisrc=Google&nigrp=Branded_Crisis_Management-_General&niadv=General&nipkw=british_petroleum  There is also the site for BP as a whole. Check it out and contact them there if you wish. http://www.bp.com/bodycopyarticle.do?categoryId=1&contentId=7052055 I am in the same spirit providing a link to Transocean: http://www.deepwater.com/fw/main/Home-1.html It is worth noting that these links and any link can go dead over time if you are accessing this long after I wrote the post.

There are many government entities responding to this crisis. Among the most interesting is Plaquemines Parish in Louisiana in the USA.  However, the link content may change a great deal over time. Here is that link:  http://www.plaqueminesparish.com/

I am settling in for a lot more pain and misery.  I will probably post on this spill several more times.

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British Petroelum Spill & Clean-Up Crisis Goes On -v1.1

Posted on May 25, 2010 | 1 comment
I have had so much trouble with this post that it could make me paranoid. Goodness knows how many versions I have struggled with. The question is whether anything other than misery and struggle will ever be associated with this story. This whole region is reeling from this blow. But we are also trying to find the right ways to respond.  Fishing fleets are stranded or helping in cleaning up in most places. The current loss and the sense of anxiety is endless. These coasts support a significant part of even a worldwide ecosystem and fisheries and for the gulf region they are truly vital. But for local people they are almost the essence of life here.

Fishing fleets are largely stranded although some skim oil full-time

There are some families who have cared for oyster beds for five generations and have lost all of their oysters. One family establishment can be a tens of millions of dollar loss in assets and that is only if they can seed again from their wild reserves in estuaries and clean the beds they must strip and keep alive and together over years of heartbreaking work to help their children takeover. Many Brown Pelicans and their nests in rookeries are oiled. Fish and turtles are stressed. The struggle is bleak and just beginning. The pelican is on Louisiana’s flag is a sacred symbol in several religious traditions. Its health as a species has been fought for and it is the subject of the successful John Grisham novel The Pelican Brief. I went to Tulane Law School and dropped out like Darby Shaw the fictional female author of the fictional brief about pelicans and justices from which the novel takes its name. But this story is more sinister in my view whether or not it is as intentional as the plot in that novel. But I am no Darby Shaw. 

cleaning oil

I have had software trouble with every image including those of people scooping emulsified oil off of sandy beaches. I hope that image appears here after all. But whatever the reason for my struggle is tonight it is a small token of the real struggle. This is a struggle in which rigid and absorbent booms, chemical capture cages, berms, levees, flushing, and many other tactics will scarcely be enough. This is a struggle that cannot help but be against great odds. That is true even if every one behaves well. The parties have many reasons why they might not behave well.

BP CEO Tony H. is on site

It will not be nearly enough to find a way through ninety percent of this disaster real recovery will start when 99.9 % of the direct damage has been repaired. The eco-system is strained by our era’s world. But a real quality environment is the beginning of recovery. Nobody here is sure we can ever get there. Quality tourism, quality estuaries that contribute to the whole world in vital economic and ecological ways. Quality historic and cultural scenes that make this all workable as a demanding place to live. All this is threatened.  

 The BP executives claim there is a 70% chance they will shut down and in the well tomorrow.  We will see as this nightmare keeps rolling on for us now on May 25, 2010. What will the total picture of this crisis end up being? Will there be at least hope for the pelicans of the barrier islands, fro the spawning grounds, the estuaries and the people of these lands? 

Pelicans nest this time of year and in areas very vulnerable to an oil spill.

There is an almost unlimited catalogue of the risks involved in this mess. It is  the kind of situation that can become much worse very easily and is hard to make right. I ask those of you who can do something good to consider what good you can do. There are other needs in the world but the need to address this crisis is also very great.

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Two BPs on My Mind

Posted on May 24, 2010 | 1 comment

BP which has in the past been British Petroleum has been much in the news, in this blog and on my mind. That is how it ought to be. The beaches where Jean Lafitte sometimes sent in his parties in his smaller boats are fouled. Those same Grand Isle beaches where Kate Chopin observed white Creole culture relaxing in its sophisticated colonial style that was both uniquely French and uniquely US American and then set out in that context the events of the novella “The Awakening”– those same fine beaches are now covered in emulsified oil. Nests of Pelicans and other birds who already struggle in this world are found to have been fouled by oil in Plaquemines Parish. Fishing is closed and chaos devils the plans of many small towns. The British Petroleum leak ought to be on people’s minds. But what about the other B.P. —  The British Parliament.

The British Parliament opens tomorrow and has been closed and occupied with things other than being a parliament since the explosion of the Deep Water Horizon. Will the Parliament address the crisis in Louisiana and the Gulf of Mexico in any way? That is the question which I cannot answer with certainty today. But it is on my mind.

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Oil and Gas an Odd Argument for Continuing Drilling

Posted on May 22, 2010 | 1 comment

This is an odd time to be posting this. I am much more upset about this spill than the average person. Yet for me it further argues that we should keep drilling for oil and gas for the foreseeable future. Yes, we will have to develope carbon recapture, cleaner burning fuels and concepts of fractionalization as yet unknown to us. Yes, we should be mixing som wastes with other elements to reclaim ancient man-made deserts in system developed by obscure scientists decades ago. But I truly believe we are lessening every year the vast deposits of oil and gas which are near the earth surface under sea or other wise. Oil and Gas people are so used to defending how crude and natural gas are harmless fossils that they lose sight of the reasons some Louisiana Acadians often welcomed early drillers. Use the stuff for some good purpose and get it out of the eco system. In a series of major volcanoes and earthquakes which our planet may undergo at some time the release of seas of oil and vast storms of gas is a terrible menace. Regular natural seepage has many positive ecological effects but the huge releases and sudden flows of history are seldom discussed and have sometimes been devastating to local bio-cycles. It offends my sense of proper resource management to pretend that failing to use oil and gas is not full of risk. The replacement of the energy they give is part of the risk. However, simply not removing vast deposits from near the surface while we can do so safely is another risk which the passive model of today’s environmental movement would find unthinkable and anathema to consider.

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Twelve Questions about the Deep Water Horizon Gusher

Posted on May 22, 2010 | 1 comment

Here are some questions to ask about this gusher and the accompanying events.

1. Who if anyone is doing or will do a careful evaluation of this gusher in the context of other overestimated and underestimated spills? When I say careful I mean taking into accounting spawning and nesting seasons, tropical storms, depth related temperature and  other relevant factors.

2. Is it time for the US, Louisiana or the industry to create a Comprehensive Spill Catalogue together with modeling software showing likely spill behavior in varied circumstances.

3. Is anyone going to see this as sufficient motivation to develope significant reserve and supplementary hatchery and microbial culture depots along the coast for varied crises to balance strains on the eco-system?

4. When the report came out that there was no leak early on was there any slim margin of truthiness or was it an outright lie?

5.Will rig design be addressed as regards deep water drilling especially?

6. Are labs exposing eggs of varied species to these gobs of oil to document effects created by the oil upon these eggs?

7.Can anything be done to run an ecologically  safe oil industry in an economy that runs increasingly on an irresponsible world model?

8. Since the private grief of eleven families has been so overwhelmed by public health and public interest concerns, is it right to set up some kind of public monument and public memorial to the eleven killed in this explosion?

9. Can the cleaning machines Kevin Costner is pitching be put to use quickly in areas where the oil is closest to hitting the most vulnerable spots and be made effective?

10. Is the well going to be controlled before the first hurricane comes through?

11. How much will be cleaned up before the first hurricane comes through?

12. How much oil has leaked into the gulf from this well, and how much gas has pushed through?

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The Oil Spill in the Gulf and Making Desperadoes

Posted on May 20, 2010 | 2 comments

The tragedy of the oil and gas spewing into the Gulf for more than a month now is something that sits heavily on my mind and is another sign of all that is wrong with the world. BP, the company that has been British Petroleum, has said this will be the largest oil spill response in history and it does seem that they are doing quite a bit. I do applaud their efforts to address this crisis compared to not addressing it at all. However,  it is a reminder to me of all the reasons why life is so often hellish and why it is almost impossible for me to have any hope in the world in which I live. All the difficulties that are involved in Louisiana’s managing wildlife refuges, large scale fishing and a major oil industry in a difficult  situation are part of the worldwide centuries long mega trend of stupidity and evil in a committed making of deserts and despair which traps people into vile cities and horrible jobs in near deserts that is what some people call civilization.  China is not perfect in any of its policies but the fact that it employs half its people as farmers is seen as an aberration or a weakness by most Westerners. While I would like to see things get better for these people among whom I lived I actually admire and respect their deep tie to agriculture. I look at the manors of medieval Europe with complex covenants, hedgerows,small plots, commons and Lord’s fields as well as a set of rules about shared infrastructure as a magnificent achievement. The enclosure and industrialization did some good but also very much evil in the world. There is a meaning of the word Arcadian that means ” a paradise of natural resource management”.  In other words for me there is no good side or upside to disabling fisheries and tourism and nature reserves and pressuring more people into the petrochemical economy here. Indeed I do not want to see the oil industry decline, not at all. But if I have to or had to choose then the oil & gas would give way to the wetlands management interests.  Only really confronting the world forces that are destroying us in a sane way will work.  I am afraid that I am not optimistic about any of the right things happening.   

This is a very bad time for me. I was one of a small minority of Americans who wanted a federal system to be our project in rebuilding Iraq and felt that the minute we accepted a nonfederal solution to their broken state we were closing off the best options and increasing the chances of the worst options and also that ending any real chance we would have an ally who would support our best national self. Among the small minority who were committed to the federal model of Iraqi redevelopment I was among the  few among this minority who favored a state or province for the Marsh Arabs. Basically, I favored a bicameral legislature with the lower house based on population and the upper house representing states or provinces. Those would have been Iraqi Kurdistan, a Sunni Arab Majority Province in the triangle,  an approximately equal Sunni and Shiite population Province, the special capital city province of Baghdad, a Perseo-Arab Shiite majority province and an Arab Shiite majority province as well as a Marsh Arab province.  More or less all media and political figures started off with a dismissing of the possibility of a Marsh Arab state. It was a sort of unanimous presumption. In the Philippines I was a very weak and insignificant force in trying to get the landed gentry, tribal peoples and Federation of Free Farmers as well as fishermen to see and discuss their common interests in an environment that was both preserved and exploited. In other words, managed with wisdom. In Mexico, I struggled to help garlic farmers and  goat herds interact more effectively with the world economy. None of these efforts were huge nor entirely unsuccessful but they were all failures as far as my own efforts were concerned.

I have long been involved in the struggles here related to  all of the things involved in this crisis. However, I am in many ways a remarkably unsuccessful person. I do not know what  the final lessons of this crisis will be but I do know that they are lessons we desperately need to learn well and are not likely to learn well. I alos believe that while people here are among the most conscientious and hard-working people in the world they are the kinds of people who can be driven to do desperate things if placed in desperate situations. The creation of a large class of desperadoes who are skilled and look like almost every population on Earth and who are skilled in the use of arms with honor is not something to be dismissed lightly. We must hope that things will get better and not become entirely desperate.

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Yet More of My Thoughts on the Oil Spill and a few links

Posted on May 18, 2010 | 2 comments

This is going to be another short post related to the big British Petroleum (BP) Transocean Deep Water Horizon Rig Tragedy. I am just throwing up some links that might be relevant. First I recommend watching the film Louisiana Story directed by Robert Flaherty, with portrayals by Joseph Boudreaux and Lionel Leblanc and produced and funded by Standard Oil of New Jersey. This film is described or offered for sale in the next two links. 

http://www.amazon.com/Louisiana-Story-Joseph-Boudreaux/dp/B00008UALJ

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louisiana_Story

I also want to give some idea of the cultural and historical significance of Louisiana’s barrier islands. I think that reading Kate Chopin’s novella The Awakening is a good portal into this whole world of discussion and discovery. 

http://www.katechopin.org/the-awakening.shtml

Then I also wanted to give you a chance to see the significance of disrupting Atlantic Bluefin Tuna spawning in this area at this time. There is so much more at stake than is proportionate to the size of the waters that are being disrupted relative to the world’s ocean’s. In this case I am reproducing a few lines from the site as well. 

http://marinebio.org/species.asp?id=236

“Although Atlantic bluefin are widely distributed and migrate thousands of kilometers, there are two confirmed spawning locations—the Gulf of Mexico in the western Atlantic and the Mediterranean Sea in the eastern Atlantic. Although many ecological and environmental variables undoubtedly affect both the location and productivity of spawning in these two areas, relatively little is known concerning why bluefin spawn where they do.

Spawning in the Gulf of Mexico occurs between mid-April and mid-June when females, which mature around age 8, release approximately 30 million eggs each. The highest density of bluefin larvae, the primary indicator of spawning, occurs in the northern Gulf of Mexico with lesser larval concentrations appearing off the Texas coast and in the Straits of Florida.”

In addition to all of this I am providing a link to the Board which promotes Louisiana seafood.  They are among those trying to cover th Gulf spill and response as well. 

http://www.louisianaseafood.com/

There are many links which I have not covered or shown here.  I do want to end by including a link to this great habitat of birds and plants as it has been protected by the government for over a century. There is a wide variety of habitats outside of these parks which also need help and support.

http://www.stateparks.com/breton.html

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The Direct Imperial Government in the New American Regime: Part Three

Posted on May 12, 2010 | 1 comment

This is my third post on the Direct Imperial Government in my proposed new regime. In this post I wish to cover two agencies of the proposed DIG. I have done a lot of posts in this blog on healthcare under our current political order.  Here are two of them:

1. https://franksummers3ba.wordpress.com/2009/09/19/healthcare-lessons-from-fdr/

2. https://franksummers3ba.wordpress.com/2009/10/14/healthcare-bill-passed-by-the-senate-finance-committee/

The others that I have done should be searchable. However, the second of the two links I have provided above would more or less indicate the operations of the Imperial Wellness Agency which would do approximately what the proposed National Wellness Agency would have done. It would of course be stronger and more effective than the NWA because it would have a fixed base of two percent of all DIG funds to add to its revenue streams. It would be a large constitutional anomaly as will all of the major DIG agencies and ministries but it will operate in a well-defined and circumscribed sphere of action. It will consist of a web of specific exceptions to the normal way of doing business. The taxes it receives that I really drew up for the NWA should stand even though they are less appropriate for the DIG than for the federal program I proposed.  This intrusion will be modest if this regime actually emerges. One must remember that this would be a revolution that leaves the vast preponderance of resources in a slightly altered set of institutions that have evolved within a republican structure.  This is a very American approach since America’s 200 and more republican years have merged from a relatively slightly modified version of British and Arcadian-Acadian royalist regimes mixed with Iroquois Chieftainly confederated mixed government  seen through the lense of Greek Classical political science and the Roman republics emergence from the Kingdom of the City of Rome. In the tradition we now would move like Rome from Republic to Empire. However, the American enterprise has never been a purist enterprise and this is not a purist’s proposal.

I will not discuss the details of the Imperial Wellness Agency here except to say that it would support a web of Community Clinics, employ most law and medical school students for a few days in their career, offer token pay to volunteers and track them, recycle surplus pharmaceuticals, rely in part on taxes on migration and dangerous activities from abroad. It would offer sponsorship networks and support emergency response to common disasters. There would be a kind of token insurance program and it would provide some level of available care (much inferior to the very best available) to everyone for little or  even no cost  in a way which demands from but does not destroy private market care. It will also create incentives to control cost which no current system employs well.

The last agency I will discuss in this little series is the Government Liaison to the Imperial House and Household. This agency will seek to ensure that all DIG programs and actions tend to support and enhance and not oppose or curtail the Imperial House and Household’s civilian and military agencies. There will be a Women’s and Family Division which will make sure that the Imperial Wellness Agency and Rolls of Kindreds as well as ordinary organs of governance support the Empress’s Bureau of Women’s Affairs and the Mistress of Ceremonies’ Office of Liaison’s and Placements. It will have an Enforcement Division which will support the integration of the MC’s Office of Ritual Confrontation, the House’s military, the Ministry of Protocol and GRIHHA regulations and proclamations into the law and law enforcement. It will have a Habitat Division to support integration into IWA (Imperial Waste Authority), the HHEA (Human Habitat Expansion Agency)and the local governments all related Imperial House work. Lastly the GLIHH will have the Personal Ministry Division which will assign people to see to the needs of House members discharging DIG functions or interaction in any official way with the DIG

These four agencies are not everything that there is within the DIG. However, they do set out a picture of all that the Direct Imperial Government would and would not be within the new regime. That should make it easier to see what the costs of establishing the new regime would and would not be.

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The Direct Imperial Government in the New American Regime: Part One

Posted on May 6, 2010 | 1 comment

The last few months I have been blogging mostly about a proposed new regime in America. I intend to continue to do this while at the same time addressing the catastrophic oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. The Direct Imperial Government does not yet exist in any way and is not at all the same as the components of the new regime which are reformed aspects of the current United States or State government. Nor is the Direct Imperial Government  like the Acadian people, or the general concept or institution of polygamy.  Nor is it like the concepts or remaining practices of classic Greek political science or royalism. Here the topic being discussed is something that is not, has never been and may never be. It is the part of this whole model of a proposed regime which is the most similar therefore to a megalomaniacal delusion or a whole cloth fabrication. There is very little evidence or standard to say whether it is right or not.  As with other parts of the model I want to use the part to illustrate and illumine the whole. I will not even attempt a complete overview here. However, there is something close to a complete overview if one examines all related posts closely. Here in this series of posts I will discuss four Direct Imperial Government Agencies and there proposed operation.  The four Agencies discussed here will be The Imperial Waste Authority, The Human Habitat Expansion Agency (Distinct from the Human Habitat Expansion Office of the Imperial House),  The Imperial Wellness Agency and the Government Liaison Agency for the Imperial House, Household and Services. In discussing these agencies I will discuss the DIG as a whole. Not how to dig a hole but the D.I.G. as a whole system.

About the oil spill, I want to encourage anyone reading to look at my earlier post. This was written before the disaster in the gulf.  Please see:  https://franksummers3ba.wordpress.com/2009/10/02/ideal-wetlands-policy-on-the-louisiana-coast/ this will give one an idea of lots of contextual issues. As recently as when I posted this post I had not yet begun to openly incite change to a royalist form of government. Although this is an issue that would be addressed mostly by the Kingdom of Louisiana in my larger proposed Imperial America it is still relevant to the issues discussed in this post as well. Before continuing I also want to include a statement of sympathy for the families and loved ones of forty-nine year old Donald Clark of Newellton, Louisiana as well the bereaved mourning forty-year old Stephen Curtis who leaves of a wife and two teenage children.  Also missed and remembered by their families and loved ones are fifty-six year old Eunice, Louisiana  native Blair Manuel who lived a life resident in St. Amant and left a family and fiancée. Twenty-nine year old engineer Gordon Jones allegedly died three days before his sixth anniversary. His wife Michelle (my ex-wife’s name) is expecting their child. Two other Americans who will be missed were from Texas and four were from Mississippi. The bodies of these eleven have not been recovered. All of these losses have been somewhat overshadowed by the potential cataclysm that is this spill of thousands of  square miles.

I. Imperial Waste Authority 

In this post I going to discuss the Imperial Waste Authority. I will relate it to the overall picture of the Government and to the Deep Water Horizon Oil Spill occupying much of my mind at present. However, I will really try to map the agency out as well.

A. The Constitutional Founding and Legal Establishment of the Imperial Waste Authority

In the formation of the totality of the new regime there will be many elements of the grand political palette which will be brought to bear on the problems and issues of the present and which will be addressed as regards the institutions of the future.  The Direct Imperial Government in general will be the portion of the regime where the efforts of Franklin Delano Roosevelt in the New Deal and the  big government programs of Wilson and even of Lincoln. The Direct Imperial Government will be fairly compared to the corporate fascism of the Axis powers of the Second World War in some ways. However, unlike the image of those very varied examples this will be a government of both enumerated powers and enumerated agencies of theat power. The Constitution and the other founding documents and bodies must be designed and put into effect in such a way as to make clear what the balance of powers in the relatively complex regime must be. The Imperial Waste Authority must be the most in this corporate authoritarian regime of all the agencies of the Direct Imperial Government.

1. The Constitutional Article on the Emperor in a Subsection on Waste and Ruin shall Provide:

“The Emperor shall have a supreme right and sovereign privilege to profit from the waste and ruins of the realm personally, in his House, in his Peers and in his Direct Imperial Government. Among the Ministers of the House there shall be a Minister of Waste and Ruins whose office shall assume other functions provided in this clause when those to whom they are assigned are unable to perform them or when such institutions may have been temporarily dissolved or abolished at the pleasure of the Emperor. The Court Architect and the Majordomos di Palazzo of the three Unity titles along with the Head of Imperial Ruins Board along with five persons appointed by the Direct Imperial Government and four persons appointed by the Emperor from among the Representatives of the House of Representatives. The Imperial Waste Authority shall have authority over all waste and shall itself establish and constitutionally govern under the pleasure of the Emperor the Imperial Waste Corporation and the Imperial     Waste Authority Federation of Constitutional Jurisdictions. While there shall be a regular review of the constitutional operation of this Imperial Waste Authority every five years which shall determine its possible undue authority and influence over matters unrelated or insufficiently related to waste it shall not conform to the general structure of our constitution as regards federal issues or the separation of powers. It shall be an agency of extremely direct and unreviewed powers to accomplish its purpose. The Imperial Waste Authority shall have a Marshall General and Marshall’s Corps  to enforce its laws and regulations as well as standing in all legal matters and disputes related to waste. ”

2. Constitutional Jurisdictions:

Every Constitutional Jurisdiction will have to pass a provision of its Constitution authorizing full cooperation and compliance with the Imperial Waste Authority and also recognizing the Emperor’s rights in Waste and Ruins.  This will have to take place as part of the revolutionary founding of the new regime. In this they will specify how their delegates to  the Imperial Waste Federation of Imperial Corporations  will be appointed, salaried and managed.

3. The Imperial Waste Corporation

The Imperial Waste Corporation shall assume all contracts for waste management of any kind in which a government is involved as a party at any level at the time of this founding. The party currently contracted shall be presumed to continue in operation of the contract in one of a number of ways. All major corporations engaged in activities related to waste in the realm which wish to continue to be major actors in this industry will rewrite their corporate bylaws and articles of incorporation to conform to the new regime. They shall develop a unique three-part structure in which there shall exist under one supreme board a subsidiary of the Imperial Waste Corporation, a Conformist Division and a Competitive Division. Under Imperial Waste Authority Regulations these will each operate in different spheres of activity. All will be subject to being summoned to assist the Imperial Waste Authority in emergency response and waste related disaster response activities to a substantial degree. All such established corporations shall exchange some of their stock as demanded by a scale in the laws for Executive Stock in the Imperial Waste Corporation. All minor players, individuals and governments involved in these activities will have the opportunity and sometimes the requirement to buy Preferred Stock. By formula and law ten percent of the assets valuation of the Imperial Waste Corporation will be traded on a market (starting with the New York Stock Exchange) as Common Stock. This Corporation will have reviews by the Imperial Waste Authority which will publish an annual white paper. However, it will be able to use tax funds in some operations, to interact in unique ways with the overall authority. It shall support unique project related to Waste that are overseen and authorized by the Imperial Waste Authority.

B. Goals of the Imperial Waste Authority

The goal of the Imperial Waste Authority is to operate in such a way that as much of the waste it handles as possible find its way into good and useful service which cause it not to be waste. It is especially to seek to build up assets to assist in the clean-up related to events such as storms, floods, oil spills and fires which produce great waste. It cannot be sued for not participating or raising a standard but will seek to gradually raise a standard in these matters as it proceeds. The Imperial Waste Authority will seek to develop a new structure to see the   varied distressed and devalued  items into newly useful entities as often and as easily as possible. It will be able to access large resources from throughout the Empire for that purpose. It shall maintain an Academic Division and Library which shall accumulate and advance all technical and social knowledge and skill related to the activities in which it is engaged.

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Really Becoming an Empire: Some Aspects of Transforming America. Part Four

Posted on April 29, 2010 | Leave a comment

This is about the Arcadian-Acadian heritage, people and Tribe. I have mentioned this subject often in this blog.  I recommend that you read the rest of this post first and then come back to the links to other posts in this blog. Here are some of the posts and a page where Acadians or their institutions are  mentioned are represented:

1. https://franksummers3ba.wordpress.com/2010/04/21/louisiana-in-the-proposed-reconstitutionalized-american-union/

2. https://franksummers3ba.wordpress.com/2010/04/20/monarchy-and-royalist-culture-in-america-past-present-and-future-part-3-3/

3. https://franksummers3ba.wordpress.com/2010/04/08/thinking-a-new-thing-a-competing-american-narrative/

4. https://franksummers3ba.wordpress.com/2010/01/28/see-you-later-alligator-after-a-while-bobby-charles/

5. https://franksummers3ba.wordpress.com/images/photographs-in-vermilion-parish/photographs-reproducing-mommees-paintings-1/

To show how Acadian experience is relevant to the question of how Americans govern themselves and have decided to do so in the past I will quote one of my own post in this blog at length this post in turn has links to longer and very worthy sources that can help one to understand how all of these historical issues are interrelated.

“The first really key point is that the real roots of the American Revolution occurred in a larger colonial context.  I am going to recommend a book that does not declare ( as I do here and now) that the Acadian expulsion (loosely described in Longfellow’s epic poem Evangeline)  were a principal cause of and stimulus to the American revolution.  But it does show the connections of this event to the revolutionary ferment in a broad contest. In this regard I recommend Leach’s book.  http://www.amazon.com/Roots-Conflict-Colonial-Americans-1677-1763/dp/0807842583#noop 

Secondly, I want to show that the destruction of Acadie was a large and significant act. That it had everything to do with creating a British profile and character the Americans could distrust and that in their early history the Acadians had both elements the Americans were eager to restore to their experience of the British Constitution and also the chivalric and aristocratic values which I argue that we need to restore today. In which regard there is a recent book by John Mack Faragher:  http://www.amazon.com/Great-Noble-Scheme-Expulsion-Acadians/dp/0393051358  to understand the British view of how great and wealthy a land the Acadians had created and how eager they were to have its wealth for themselves.  The Acadian experience is deeply tied to the American experience as a whole.”

However, in this post I cannot really describe the Acadian people or experience. The best I can go is outline their role in the proposed new regime. I will focus on doing as I have done with other parts of the proposed regime.  I will fill out a portion of the Constitution’s demands so that perhaps there can be some light shed on the things they represent. There must be eight hundred forty members of the Acadian Electoral Delegation in the Conclave. I will set out to identify these eight hundred forty and let the rest of the Ethnos Arkadios be seen by that little revelation.

THE 840 MEMBERS OF THE ACADIAN ELECTORAL DELEGATION

I.  The Acadian Peer- Electors

A. Les Princes de Grand Familles representant pour vie et tout

1. The Second Heir of the Boulet Principality

2.The Second Heir of the Theriot Principality

 3.The Second Heir of the Broussard Principality

4.The Second Heir of the Mouton Principality

5, The Second Heir of the Leblanc Principality

B. Les Presidents Herediteurs  Haute Chefs et Condes de los Acadianos representant

6. The First Heir of The High Boudreaux High Chieftancy

7.The First Heir to the Melancon High Chieftancy

8.The First Heir to the Hebert High Chieftancy

C. Les Chefs Medi Herediteurs des Acadiens

9. Le Chef Medi Boudreaux Bas

10. Le Chef Medi Thibodeaux

11. Le Chef Medi Breaux 

D. Les Chefs Bas Herediteurs des Acadiens

12. Le Chef Prince, Le Roi et Basile

13. Le Chef Fontenot

E. Autre Chefs Herediteurs

14. Le Sous Chef Herediteur Theriot de Bayou Lafourche

15. Le Sous Chef Herediteur Broussard de la Paix Attakapas

F. Institutional Peers

16. Sheriff of Vermilion Parish

17. Head of the Francophone Studies at the Universite des Acadie

18.Head of the Center for Louisiana Studies at the Unversite des Acadiens

19. Head of the English Department at the Universite de Acadiens

20. Highest representative securable by treaty at St. Anne’s University

21.Head of the French Immersion Program  at St. Anne’s University

22. Bishop of  Houma-Thibodeaux

23. Sheriff of Acadia Parish

24, President Elective de la Federation des Comites de Vigilance

25. Superior of the  Sacred Heart Sisters Community of Grand Coteau

II. Bouletherion Delegates

1. First President of the Bouletherion Elected by the Council of Chiefs 

2. Second President of the Bouletherion Elected by the Council of Chiefs

3. President of the Bouletherion appointed by the Basileus  Deceased

4. President of the Ladies Councils in the Bouletherion Elected Thereby.

5. President of the Ladies Councils in the Bouletherion  Appointed by the Basilissa. 

6. Le Chef Guidry Herediteur des Garde de Soir et Noir des Roi et Reine.

III. Les Sous Presidents de Conseil des Armes

1. Le Premiere SousPresident de Conseil des Armes

2. Le Sous President Ouest de Conseil des Armes

3. Le Sous President Est de Conseil des Armes

IV. Le Conseil des Droit

1-3 Les Plus de Toute des Lois

4. The Chaplain

5-9 The Assistant Chaplains

11. The  Chief Genealogist.

V. La  Premiere Maison

1. -10. Highest Ranking Acadian members of the House not Disqualified.

11.-21. Ready list of the Basileus Deceased

22.-32. Ready List of the Basilissa

VI. Chiefs of the Auxiliary Councils

1. Chief of the Metis Auxiliary Council

2. Chief of the Creoles of Coleurs Council

3. Chief of the  Advocate Council High Ranking Acadians without High Last Names.

4. Chief of the Black Race Auxiliary.

5. Chief of the Ethnic Auxiliaries Federation.

6. Chief of the Auxiliary of Royal Descendants.

VII. Delegates of the Revolution and Restoration

1-72 Seventy-Two Delegates of the Congres Mondial

73-144 Seventy-Two Delegates of the Action ‘Cadien

145-217 Seventy-Two Delegates of CODOFIL

VIII. Random Seventy-Twos

First, the Seventy-Two Acadiana Acadians

Second, the Seventy-Two Acadie Acadians

Third, the Seventy-Two Sympathizers of La Rochelle

Fourth, the Seventy-Two Willing Greeks of Arcadia

Fifth, the Seventy-Two UL Alumni

Sixth, the Seventy-Two Alumni of Our Lady Of the Oaks and St. Charles College.

25 +6+3+11+32+6=83

217 + (6 x 72)=649

The remainder of the 840 seats after subtracting 732 is 108. There would be 54 seats on a yearly rotation in a  twelve year cycle of the Couples serving as family and kinship coordinators. There would 27 seats at random from the guards assigned to the late Basileus. There would be 27 seats assigned first to the late Basileus Harem and if he had fewer than 27 consorts to his Roll of Friends not otherwise seated.

Using these terms and names one could search though my blog posts and piece together quite a bit. This is not the last time the tribe will be mentioned but it is where I will stop for now.

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