EE-Logos.org --- is a none-profit Organization to address the issue below.
EE
stands for Electrical Engineering and Logos is the writing 
of our Western Axis-philosopher Heraclitus of Ephesus
(500 BC, the time of Buddha and Lao Tzu; the Axis is the line spanning from China through India to Greece.) These
Web-pages are to provide Awareness and Remedies for the Imminent
Collapse of US World Leadership in Technology and the concomitant loss of
our standard of living. One of the strongest warnings, based on monetary
changes, comes from Senator Tim
Ferguson,), he concludes
… this is the end of America as we know it
Differently
based, but equally strong warnings come
from leaders of the high-tech industry.
Jack Gifford,
CEO of Maxim Inc. says: “… an increasing number of design engineering
jobs are moving overseas. If this trend of the past 10 years continues over the
next years, the U.S. will lose its position of technical leadership in the
World. America’s high standard of living, brought about by technological
innovation, will cede to Asia. The
lack of growth in our engineering schools, the result of tepid demand, is
symptomatic of the problem.”
Brian
Halla, CEO of National
Semiconductor said: “We are in the most disruptive, the most exciting, the
most dangerous period since any of us was born. It's all about the new
industrial revolution. Only this time, if our politicians have their way,
the great American dream will move to Shanghai.”
Craig Barrett, Chairman of Intel, said: “---
the United
States is losing its
edge over other nations in education, technology and research and development.
For example, well-educated engineers from China, India and Russia are competing with the United States for jobs "
Question: What do you think the U.S. industry
of the 21st century is going to be? ---- Agriculture!" he
said. "We're sending our workers into the marketplace with a
disadvantage: their education.
Prof. Ben G.
Streetman, dean of the College of Engineering, University of Texas, member
of the National Academy of Engineering gives another
dire prediction. He writes: “Every year, we’re educating about half
the number of engineers that the country needs and importing the rest.
“That’s a prescription for going out of business as a country
”While
US Universities graduate about 65 thousand EE-students annually, the Asian
countries alone are now graduating over 350 thousand EEs annually. (What
about the quality of these 350 thousand? --- I don’t know, --- but for
today’s hottest and 
most difficult
technology, Giga-Hertz communication, very many of the authors on this subject
in the trade-press have Asian sounding names.) --- In any war, economical or otherwise, the number
of well trained “officers”, engineers, is decisive!
As Craig Barrett has said: “We have not yet woken up to the fact that we
are in a battle”. While this student issue is only a symptom and
not the cause, the “tactical” move of improving it is in the
right direction.
The EE-part part
is here - Disruptive/Enabling
Innovation to the Rescue. My best paper on engineering is Does the Fire Burn and The Wonder still exist?-- Excalibur ---an
attempt to start the EE-Logos Lab –- Is-Wal-Mart-good
for America? Creative Deconstructionism -- Students-Voting -- please send a postcard --, Personal Instruments
Professional pride.
The Logos-part is giving some deeper insights--, Applications of Spiritual Laws
When the Clones come
Marching in , East/West differences and conflicts --
The Pacific Rim Concept
--- Tape transcript of a talk by Dr. Stephan Schwartz------
The Second Law of Spiritual
Dynamic ---- Explained for individual interactions-----
This paper on “The Second Law of Spiritual Dynamics” does not address
“Group Interactions”, but is certainly also valid for this, such as whole
Cultures.
Will
any of these warnings and suggestions be taken seriously? Will any awareness
arise in at least a few? - NOT A CHANCE! - All will be 
seen
as “Doomsday Nonsense”, because 280 Million American Lemmings can’t be
wrong! --- I see myself standing beside one of the Highways leading to the
Pacific cost-line, not far from the place where “Tim” has chosen to watch the
show of happily singing US-Lemmings marching into the ocean. All day long I
have not sold a single one of my inexpensive “life-west’s” and “inflatable
rafts” and decide to close shop and visit the Senator for a deserved rest in
his expensive air-conditioned Mobil-home. --- He will certainly remind me again
that he had said years ago that: “less then 1 person in 100,000 understands
how horrible and total the economic devastation will be in America”.
The Great American Dream
turning into a NIGHTMARE is the real underlying CAUSE; it
is part of our value system imbedded in our US culture. Our most valued American believes are
causing the fall of our Nation. Interesting, let’s see if the Asian people can 
handle it any better than we could, because this
dream is now moving into China
. --- If, we want to maintain our standard of living and have any
significant role in this World, we will need to do the impossible. Turn back
the time 50 years, to “the great social contract” of the “GI-bill”, John
F Kennedy and the “National Defense Education Act” of 1958. This period, from
45 to 75, has also been called -
“The Golden Age of Capitalism”.
The question now is which part of our “Great American Dream” has turned into a “Nightmare”? --- The reason is not that we don’t have a “pure” Democracy, but a mixture of Oligarchy and Democracy, (Government strongly controlled by big business and rich families.) That has always been the mark of a well working democracy, beginning with the ancient Greek. It is not the part that says there should be human right and freedom for all. --- It’s the perversion of Capitalism which tells us that the most important part in life is to become filthy rich! --- This exclusive goal of greed, which is now being practiced by the CEOs of our industry, has also become the goal of every one of us. At one time there even was a popular song about this subject that began with, “Mothers don’t let your babies grow up to be cowboys, let them become doctors and lawyers instead”. These multi million dollar rich CEOs have now turned our democracy into a total “oligarchy”, they are now running the Government without taking responsibility for the welfare of the country. --- Because we want them to do it and so do our elected representative.
Signed by: --- Lot‘s wife --- (After having been desalted) --- Actually it’s me playing “the role of Lot’s wife”, by looking back to the America of 1965”, the America of Camelot and my first job at Bell Laboratories, happily creating two patents every year and feeling good about it. It was a time when innovations and patents were appreciated, not because they made some people filthy rich, but because they gave the US a World leadership role in technology and strengthened our country.
(I hope you all realize that most stories in our Bible are not primarily records of historical events, but important METAPHORS.
Jesus’ “Sermon on the Mount” gives us the reason for the imminent downfall of our own Sodom and Gomorra country. This is the relevant part:
13Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be salted? it is thenceforth good for nothing, but to be cast out, and to be trodden under foot of men. [The Wasteland] 14Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on a hill cannot be hid. 15Neither do men light a candle, and put it under a bushel, but on a candlestick; and it giveth light unto all that are in the house. 16Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven. --- Mathew 5 13-16
Read it carefully, it does not say it will happen by a direct interference of God, but by being “trotted under the foot of men”; meaning by the other 5.4 Billion people here on earth. The US has become this “WasteLand” about which Joseph Campbell said: The WasteLand is a world where people live not out of their own initiative, but out of what they think they're supposed to do. People have inherited their official roles and positions; they haven't earned them. This is the situation of the Wasteland, ... a place where the sense of the vitality of life has gone.
What is this “Perversion” of
Capitalism as the Foundation of our Culture?
Let me first emphatically state that the
following is not an endorsement of the failed Communism of the past, and
neither is the author of this paragraph, Iain Banks, famous for his “Culture novels”,
of this persuasion, far from it!
Let me state here a personal conviction that appears, right now, to be
profoundly unfashionable; which is that a planned economy can be more
productive - and more morally desirable - than one left to market forces.
The market is a good example of evolution in action; the
try-everything-and-see-what-works approach. This might provide a perfectly
morally satisfactory resource-management system so long as there was absolutely
no question of any sentient creature ever being treated purely as one of those
resources. The market, for all its (profoundly inelegant) complexities, remains
a crude and essentially blind system, and is - without the sort of drastic
amendments liable to cripple the economic efficacy which is its greatest
claimed asset - intrinsically incapable of distinguishing between simple
non-use of matter resulting from processal superfluity[surplus]and the acute, prolonged and wide-spread
suffering of conscious beings.
It is, arguably, in the elevation of this profoundly mechanistic (and in that
sense perversely innocent) [capitalistic] system to a position above all
other moral, philosophical and political values and considerations that
humankind displays most convincingly both its present intellectual [immaturity
and] - through grossly pursued selfishness (rather than the applied
hatred of others) a kind of synthetic evil.
(See about this “synthetic evil” in Mathew 5 13-16
)
Fortunately --- NONE OF THE ABOVE WILL EVER HAPPEN!
Professor Jeffrey D. Sachs, Columbia University, Director of the UN millennium project, etc. etc. --- In short, a BIG-shot. --- He tells us in his paper in Scientific American, Special Edition: “Crossroads for Planet Earth” ----- GLOBALIZATION
Is globalization making
the rich richer and the poor poorer?:
Generally, the answer is no. Economic
globalization is supporting very rapid advances of many impoverished economies,
notably in Asia. International trade and foreign investment inflows
have been major factors in China’s remarkable economic growth during the past quarter
century and India’s fast economic growth since the early 1990s. …
Will higher income in poor countries mean lower incomes in rich countries?
By and large, economic development is a
positive-sum process, meaning that all partake in it without causing some to
suffer. In the past 200 years, the world as a whole has achieved a massive
increase in economic output rather than a shift in economic output to one
region at the expense of another. ….
And here is the “mantra” of the US Government which was created by a
high-level exec of TI Inc. Let’s call him Benedict Arnold to preserve
his anonymity, he stated:
“For every job
that goes over-seas, another one is created right here in the US!”
What a great relieve
this is, just say this mantra every time you meditate with great
conviction and gusto and, generally, and by and
large, all will be well. America will become the first Nation in the world which has
all its Industry moved offshore and only the upper management has its luxurious
headquarter here in the states. (Hopefully also in my home village, if our
Mayor has her way, population 2600.) All the big profits will flow back to our
8.3-Million Millionaires (3% of US population) who then give most of it to us people for
managing and controlling all this wealth. --- In the past, countries with no
industry have been called “Banana Republics”; that has all changed for the
better now. --- We will all be wealthy without having to design or to produce
anything ourselves!
Global economy and the
Voluntary DE-Industrialization of America
No
doubt, the time for “Global economy” has arrived, and this event will free 2 to
3 Billion people on earth from hardship, hunger and poverty. But will this
happen the way we intend it to happen? --- NO, because our true motive
represented by our Government and strongly influenced by leaders of Industry,
is the motive of unmitigated GREED instead. --- I would say that the biggest
Fraud was our great “World Trade Center” with its proclaimed goals. --- Our hidden agenda is
instead to look at Asia and the South American countries only as new markets
for us to make bigger profits. But more importantly, these areas of the world
are “seen” as RESOURCES which can be exploited for “cheap Manpower” and “cheap
Brainpower.” --- And here is our great miscalculation. By outsourcing first all
of manufacturing, and now also the research and design phase for new products
we are actually “Voluntarily DE-Industrializing America” and unintentionally
industrializing the Asian countries instead. --- The counter argument for this
is that all companies who are doing this are still “American firms” and that
all profits will flow back to the U.S. --- Right now that is still true and the
rich are getting richer, but what about in a few years from now?
The reason that a company can move in part, or even completely, from one state
of the Union to another and even move to Europe and
still bring all its profits back to its owners in America is
thanks to our system of Laws concerning ownership of businesses. There is no
INTERNATIONAL LAW of this kind to protect our 8.3 million American multi
Millionaires (3% of our population) who run our Government and own all
business.
China and India are sovereign
Nations, they are not bound by laws of ownership; any “national concern” of
theirs can override it. The “UN” is as powerless as the previous organization
was, the "League of Nations". In fact it is also as corrupt as the older
organization; --- just remember the UN-official who was sacked lately because
of his dealing with Sadam and his oil. Even if we had any International Law
concerning business, it could never be enforced. Right now the Chinese are
playing these "U.S.-Millionaires" in a poker-game of an
economic war and they are ahead of us at a rate of over 100 Billion dollars
in US treasury bonds as surplus. That’s their money in the bank, but they are
still increasing it by winning Billions every month. (Right now they could buy
the largest company in the world, “Wal Mart” and two times Microsoft and have
money left over.)
Is your Spiritual house in Order? --- An excerpt from the latest report of "Senator
Tim Ferguson”: http://www.federalobserver.com/archive.php?aid=7849
There is nothing more important in your life right now than the exceedingly
dire economic crisis unfolding as I write, and the state of your soul!
In other words, if your spiritual house is not in order, the
building financial collapse will be so horrible that you will not be able to
emotionally or mentally endure it, and I am addressing the healthy and strong
here.
This collapse will knock you out cold, flat on your
back, with violence, and most of mankind will never get back up. While the
elite are sending signals to their friends that the switch has been thrown,
that final preparations for safety are now in order, they are not saying how
bad it will be. That is why I began this site, because I could not find anyone,
even doomsayers, who spelled out clearly what is at stake here. I believe that
even the elite, such as Sir Templeton (more below) do not fully understand the
implications of this crash --- that this is the end of America
as we know it.
Describing the effect of
DE-industrialization on our life --- to a friend.
You should rejoice Bill considering the troubles you have with our Government
organizations; --- this coming National disaster will strike all of the U.S.
just like the Hurricane Katrina struck the Golf coast, but this time it
will strike all cities and continue for may decades. --- I believe a lot of
people will be surprised about the similarities of these two events. No
electricity, no gas for heat, no fresh water, --- Foot riots in nearly all big
Cities, street gangs controlling the neighborhoods, fires being set and burning
out of control, the organization of “soup-kitchens” being delayed by lack of
founds, etc. etc. Driving on highways will only be possible in convoys with
armored trucks in front and back, and still there will be trouble, because
ambushes will be set with parts of the highways being mined. --- Since this
Catastrophe is nation-wide, there will not be enough National Guards or even
regular Army to keep order, and the Employees of Government organizations will
not come to work without being paid. ---- Don’t you think Bill that this will
solve your “misunderstandings” with the Government?
You have ask me Bill what I am doing to prevent this catastrophe.
It can’t be prevented Bill, it’s the way the forces in this Kosmos are
arranged; You might say by “the process of Evolution”, for these forces are not
any direct interference, or “micromanagement” by God, as Jesus has made
it very clear to us in his “Sermon on the Mount” when he said:
(Matthew 5-13) “13Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt
have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be salted? it is thenceforth good for
nothing, but to be cast out, and to be trodden under foot of men.”
This is a good description of our present-day US America, the kind of The Wasteland which Joseph Campbell has described in these words:
“The problem of the grail quest is the re-vitalization of what is known as the WasteLand. The WasteLand is a world where people live not out of their own initiative, but out of what they think they're supposed to do. People have inherited their official roles and positions; they haven't earned them. This is the situation of the Wasteland,--- a place where the sense of the vitality of life has gone.
Bill, no one can prevent the coming disaster, and I can only buy us more time to adjust. It’s the way by which another two to three Billion of the Word’s population is finally getting into the industrial age and out of poverty, hardship and hunger. (What’s the sacrifice of just 280 million Americans compared to that?) --- What I tried to do Bill, was to increase the US EE-student enrolment by motivating our young people and giving them the tools to learn the craft. I have worked for more than 15 years now, not only to invent these tools, the fishing boats and nets for engineers, at less than 1/20th the present cost, but also to provide a design methodology for them to repeat this type of engineering for many other instruments. (E.g. Medical diagnostic instruments, MRIs etc.) --- With no way of getting even a small founding from the Government or any private organization; or finding any fellow engineers who are willing to help me voluntarily. --- I am giving up Bill! --- (I got “help” for this decision by a Government organization, the “Bureau of Motor Vehicles”, who, ignored a ruling by the Judge of the traffic-court, (they think they are “above the law”) and took my drivers license away.) This country Bill is not worth saving, it’s corrupt down to the bones. The famous line by J.F. Kennedy: Ask not what the Country can do for you, but what you can do for the country, is now being looked at as a sick joke.
For you who are not familiar with the Capitalistic process by which our Industry is being transferred offshore, here is a short outline. --- Since wages in Asian countries are about one dollar per man-our, including the necessary engineers on the factory floor, a company who does not outsource its products will not be competitive and go bankrupt in a short time. --- Lately, the same situation has developed for even the most demanding and sophisticated engineering design jobs. Here is a short part from an article in the June issue of Electronic Design:
“Motorola selected a Taiwan company, BenQ Corp., to design and manufacture millions of mobile phones. Last year, BenQ decided to sell the phones in the fast growing Chinese market under its own name. Needless to say, Motorola canceled its contract.”
Please notice that both, manufacturing as well as the design job had been outsourced to be done in China, --- canceling was all Motorola could do. BenQ however now sells even more of these phones than before. When China and India decide the time has come to end the “economic poker-game”, they can take over all manufacturing and design facilities in their country with a snap of a finger.
At that time, we in the US, will be
left with only the headquarter buildings and its personal of the previously big
corporations, factories and design laboratories and its staff will have
disappeared. We have then “successfully” completed:
--------- The voluntary DEINDUSTRIALIZATION of America -----