The Magic Word

A standard technique for teaching children who are asking for something is to say, What's the Magic Word?   The answer of course, is Please.   Government, non-profits, universities and big business also have a Magic Word:  Research.  And they've built a virtually invisible private welfare system that doles out checks in the millions and billions to the already well off and privileged.  This welfare system is the reason why politicians and stink tank'ers talk about the government "creating jobs".   It's because the government is the primary job creator through this system that has grown to consume - and become our economy.  To understand why that's true.. think TECHNOLOGY... Research... Technology Research...  Research... Money... Technology... Money.. Money... Money... More Money. 

Consider the word Research as a synonym for looting - looting the public treasury, gifting of patents and creating a feedback money loop for insiders and payoffs for decision makers.  The story I did on a company named Hoku is the public side of the story.  What I'm giving here is the backstory - how it happened and will continue to happen and the implications for the future because this system is no doubt the biggest ripoff of taxpayers in the history of world. 

Adding insult to injury, most of the money being provided for "research" and commercialization of products is paying to build the technocratic system that is enslaving you and will enslave your progeny permanently.  It's government funded technology development through the universities - being used as the economic engine for the country with the government forcing you to buy this technology through modernization and reform legislation.  They are driving up the cost of living while at the same time driving wages down through exporting production and importing foreign students and workers.  You wonder how the members of Congress are getting rich on $300,000 salary?  This system is the way.  You wonder why our elections now cost billions?   It's because of the money flow from this ripoff system.

(Note on the Hoku story on Page 2 where I introduce the principals, I noted that Waiakea High School was a 'Smaller Learning Community'.  I didn't explain, but the significance of that is that the 'Smaller Learning Community' system is a program for troubled youth - designed by William Ayres (Bill Ayres - Weatherman - bomber). 

As with most government scams, this system was implemented over a period of years through different pieces of legislation.  They do it this way because they could never sell the whole program at once if it was presented as a total picture.  Their self-interest and system for exploitation would have been obvious.

Bayh-Dole Act of 1980

"The Patent and Trademark Act Amendments of 1980, introduced as the University and Small Business Patent Procedures Act and commonly known as the Bayh-Dole Act, were enacted on December 12, 1980 (P.L. 96-517). The Bayh Dole Act established procedures through which universities, small businesses, and non-profit corporations could control intellectual property resulting from federally funded research. Co-sponsored by Senators Birch Bayh of Indiana and Robert Dole of Kansas, it was the culmination of 17 years of efforts to address the enormous backlog of patents accumulated by the U.S. government, only 5% of which were commercially licensed, and the 26 different agency policies confronting anyone interested in government intellectual property.

Policy unification efforts were undertaken from 1963 to 1971 but with government agencies retaining title. Efforts in the late 1960s and early 1970s pioneered by Stanford University and the University of Wisconsin-Madison led to the development of Institutional Patent Agreements with two agencies, Health and Human Services and the National Science Foundation, that allowed universities and non-profits to retain title to their inventions. The Bayh-Dole Act created a uniform patent policy among all agencies and set out conditions under which non-profit organizations, including universities, and small businesses could become actively engaged in technology transfer and commercialization of the products of their research."

(Side Note:  The National Science Foundation (NSF) was involved in a covert funding scheme through the National Academy of Sciences to fund the International Institute of Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) which was a joint effort with the Soviet Union before the end of the cold war).

Video on NSF's website:   National Science Foundation


Also in 1980, the Stevenson-Wydler Technology Innovation Act was passed by Congress.  See Section 7 'Cooperative Research Centers' and Section 11 'Utilization of Federal Technology'.   At the signing ceremony, President Jimmy Carter had this to say:
 
 

Throughout this administration, I have been concerned with maintaining the strength of America's economy and the competitiveness of our industry. I have announced several initiatives addressing such vital national questions as productivity growth, innovation, trade development, new energy technologies, as well as specific programs for the steel, auto, textile, and shoe industries, which provide jobs for millions of Americans....

The legislation I am signing today establishes a clear Federal mandate to promote industrial technology. It also offers an opportunity for enhanced government-business cooperation to achieve our national goals...

The Stevenson-Wydler Technology Innovation Act of 1980 is designed to foster a new era of government-industry cooperation. The best inventive minds from government, industry, and universities will work together at technology centers on innovative processes to increase productivity in a large number of industries. For example, they will investigate ways to make industrial machinery more efficient by reducing friction and improving .welding. Improvements in metal processing will increase productivity in every manufacturing industry, but especially in the automobile and business machine industries.

These technology centers can be established almost immediately after congressional approval of appropriations later this year. Although they will initially be funded jointly by government and industry, the centers are expected to become completely self-supporting within 5 years.

This legislation also establishes a Center for the Utilization of Federal Technology (CUFT), which I called for in my industrial innovation message of last year. This center will be a clearinghouse for technological information—a one-stop shopping center for industries, universities, and State and local governments.

 

In 1982, the Small Business Innovation Development Act was passed.   It required agencies of government with Research & Development budgets of $100 million or more to set aside funds to finance SBIR activity.

 
 
Small Business Innovation Research Program (SBIR)

[Note:  don't look at the amount of the funding because the funding is distributed in such a way that you can't get a total number and it doesn't include sweetheart government contracts.  Look at the number of patents and consider them gifts to the insiders of this monumental system of theft from the American people.]   

Each year, Federal agencies with extramural research and development (R&D) budgets that exceed $100 million are required to allocate 2.5 percent of their R&D budget to these programs. Currently, eleven Federal agencies participate in the program:

Each agency administers its own individual program within guidelines established by Congress. These agencies designate R&D topics in their solicitations and accept proposals from small businesses. Awards are made on a competitive basis after proposal evaluation.

 


In 1986, the Federal Technology Transfer Act was signed into law amending the Stevenson-Wydler Technology Act of 1980.
 
“(1) to enter into cooperative research and development agreements on behalf of such agency (subject to subsection (c)  of this section) with other Federal agencies; units of State or local government; industrial organizations (including corporations, partnerships, and limited partnerships, and industrial development organizations); public and private foundations; non-profit organizations (including universities); or other persons including licensees of inventions owned by the Federal agency);

See Page 11 for a description of the FTTA in this report:  Georgetown Paper on Federal Technology Transfer.

 


1991 was the year that the High Performance Computing Act was passed giving business and the public access to the nation's telecommunications system which is what we call the Internet.  Access to this telecommunications system along with the Technology Transfer system and visions of a fully technologically enabled infrastructure set off a technocratic revolution - first to destroy the old and replace it with the technologically enabled "new". 

For the first time in history, the government could come to you rather than you going to the government.  Every piece of legislation passed since 1991 has been bringing government to you - to your workplace, to your car, to your home, to your rectum.  Technology is dual use.  Technology developed for an innocuous purpose can be used for purposes ranging from bad to downright evil.  The dual nature of the technology allows politicians to pretend they have high-minded purpose in funding R&D while at the same time, profiting from the insider information about what businesses of the "old" economy would be destroyed and what (also government funded) small businesses receiving patent gifts and SBA funding would be likely winners (legislatively assisted). 

 

Senator Robert Menendez (NJ) is currently under investigation for this very thing - legislating for personal gain for himself and a wealthy friend and donor, Dr. Salomon Melgen in a circular fashion similar to the above diagram.  That's not to give Republicans a pass because after all, they institutionalized "pay for play" in the 1990's when most of the "reform" legislation was being passed through congress.

 
 

1992 - `Small Business Research and Development Enhancement Act of 1992'

    (b) PURPOSES- The purposes of this title are--
      (1) to expand and improve the small business innovation research program;
      (2) to emphasize the program's goal of increasing private sector commercialization of technology developed through Federal research and development;
      (3) to increase small business participation in Federal research and development; and
      (4) to improve the Federal Government's dissemination of information concerning the small business innovation research program, particularly with regard to program participation by women-owned small business concerns and by socially and economically disadvantaged small business concerns.
(b) REQUIRED EXPENDITURES FOR SBIR BY FEDERAL AGENCIES- Section 9(f) of the Small Business Act (15 U.S.C. 638(f)) is amended to read as follows:

`(E) a process for notifying the participating SBIR agencies and potential SBIR participants of the 1991, 1992, and the current critical technologies, as identified--

`(i) by the National Critical Technologies Panel (or its successor), in accordance with section 603 of the National Science and Technology Policy, Organization, and Priorities Act of 1976; or

`(ii) by the Secretary of Defense, in accordance with section 2522 of title 10, United States Code;

Department of Defense SBIR-STTR Program

Clinton White House - National Critical Technologies List
Critical Technologies:  The Role of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering

 

http://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/news/2013/02/04/why-90-percent-startups-fail-5-things.html

http://conspiracyanalyst.wordpress.com/2013/03/01/307-billion-paid-to-africa-while-america-goes-over-cliff/

http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2013/02/01/proposal-better-management-federal-grants

http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/omb/budget/fy2013/assets/investing.pdf

http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/omb/budget/fy2013/assets/health.pdf

 

IBM 'Internet of Things' to improve the infrastructure

http://news.cnet.com/8301-11128_3-20031151-54.html

Cisco - Internet of Things

http://blogs.cisco.com/news/the-internet-of-things-infographic/

How the Internet of Things is Turning Cities into Living Organisms

 http://www.fastcompany.com/biomimicry/how-the-internet-of-things-is-turning-cities-into-organisms

International Telecommunications Union - Internet of Things

http://www.itu.int/osg/spu/publications/internetofthings/InternetofThings_summary.pdf

European Union - Internet of Things

http://www.theinternetofthings.eu/what-is-the-internet-of-things

A critique of all-seeing RFID

http://www.networkcultures.org/_uploads/notebook2_theinternetofthings.pdf


http://juniorprof.wordpress.com/2011/02/15/potential-nih-budget-cuts/

 

http://www.genomeweb.com/dxpgx/fda-clears-idahos-q-fever-mdx-test

http://change.gov/newsroom/entry/president-elect_obama_announces_key_members_of_science_and_technology_team/

 

U.S. International Trade Commission (USITC), 1998 report

 

Norman Dodd, 1954 Staff Director of the Congressional Special Committee to investigate tax exempt foundations - Reese Committee  -  1982 interview  -   Rowan Gaither, President of the Ford Foundation interview

"We shall use our grant making power so to alter life in the United States that it can be comfortably merged with the Soviet Union"

Worldwide collectivist state

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http://www.dhs.gov/national-federal-laboratories-research-centers