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But in Houston, you've got a major under-utilized capability
that's been steadily, less and less utilized up to the present
moment, where you've got Obama just taking the axe to our
presence in space and NAWAPA. But you still have the minds
there, that would be capable, if given a real mission, a real
national mission like the one that NAWAPA represents, and then
the extraterrestrial mission that will be the immediate
follow-up. If given that mission, this is going to be one of the
most central hubs in the country, and in the world for being able
to facilitate that.

And this is, again, we've already had, with Kesha's
campaign, the revitalization of that sense, and we're going to be
driving in the coming period, more and more in a sharp policy
direction, to give these guys and idea of what role they need to
play, and to have them {act}, act in that capacity, now, to
create the capability to make that national policy, in the very
near future.

Now, we're moving into the regions that seem, in Bill
Roberts', the region where he's running right now, in Detroit,
his campaign. It will be a recipient of certain of
the NAWAPA projects, a direct recipient of NAWAPA itself, as I
said, with the refilling of the Great Lakes, your going to get a
major transformation of that area there, which is going to, in
fact, have an effect throughout this whole area here: in for
instance, the water supply for places like New York. A lot of
these major areas here, will be affected by transformations in
the Great Lakes.

But this is the actual -- if you take a look at any water
usage chart for the United States, or any developed country,
you'll find something that'll tend to surprise most people, which
is that, most water -- in a sane country, a real developed
country, most of the water is not used for drinking, not even
used for agriculture. Quite a lot is used for agriculture and
it's required. More is used for industry. That's the biggest
usage for water, for a healthy, developed nation: That's exactly
what we're talking about here, in the area, directly in Detroit,
that Bill himself represents, but also that whole surrounding
region, which has got, now, the unfortunate name of the "rust
belt."

If we're going to launch all of the development we're
talking about, and we had, in one of these discussions we had on
the site, we discussed just how much steel and concrete would be
required just for the development of the system to capture the
water up around Alaska. Think about what's required, and what
we're talking about: Along this system will be one of the biggest
dams ever produced in the history of the United States. Some of
the most amazing -- the biggest dams, the longest tunnel, the
widest tunnel. As we discussed, some of the experts in drilling,
they were completely thrilled with that--that we don't make
boring machines large enough to build the tunnels that are
required for NAWAPA. And so, they set up for us how you'd manage
to use some of these boring machines, in tandem, to produce these
much larger holes. So these are huge things we're talking about.

And in order to do that, you're going to need the entire
industrial capability of that so-called Rust Belt brought back up
to where it once was, and retooled for something much higher. As
you pointed out before, we've got a glut of cars. The auto
industry is really, it's through; it's reached the end of its
natural life. We've reached the end of that as a form of
transport for the human species.

We're going to have to make a shift to, first, high-speed
rail, but then really high-speed rail. To magnetically-levitated
rail, which, if you run this--you know, magnetically-levitated
rail, no friction. The only limitation of it, in terms of
velocity, is the actual wind resistance. Which is that you have
problem if you break the sound barrier on a track, on rail, it
will cause some damage, structural damage.

If you run this through a system of evacuated tubing,
as you called for, where you pump the oxygen out--the technology
exists to do this--then you've got no sound barrier any longer.
And there are no limits to your velocity.

And this is going to be the future of transit for the
planet.

We've gone through, and we've asked, for both the questions
of the development of nuclear power, and building these
magnetically levitated rails, how much of a retooling would be
required for the existing auto plant capacity. In this region
here. And it's very little, compared to what you might expect.
They said it'd be the same machine tools, some just adjusting a
few standard sizes and other things in the production, and they'd
be immediately retooled to produce the vast majority of what we'd
need to launch a program like that.

Then there's the question again, of a retraining of people.
Because we've lost a generation. We've lost a generation of skill
and capability in being able to run a program like that. We just
have to bring it back. That's what's going to be what's
represented by Bill's campaign here.

Also in the same way it'll be represented by Diane Sare's
campaign in New Jersey. Again, we're talking about a
major transformation in the United States productive, and
industrial, capability.

Taking the New Jersey region, again, upgrading it heavily,
and reconnecting it, as we'll see, to this entire network. So
you're going to see a major economic transformation with a
project just like this, you'd see a major economic transformation
throughout the U.S., even in the regions which don't seem to be
directly touched by the NAWAPA transformation itself.

The same thing, a similar role that you're going to see in
both Kesha and Summer's areas here, you're going to see here in
Rachel Brown's district in Massachusetts, which at one
time, it had earned itself the name, the Athens of America. It
played a major role as a scientific center in connection with the
space program, and prior. Now, it's become largely corrupt, and
because of the corruption of science itself. But, we've got a
capability there, in terms of the resources and research and
education, that, in a program like this, could be completely
upturned, and be totally transformed. And that's what we're
talking about taking over. A takeover there of the campuses, the
scientific capability. Find the people who are--the more
promising thinkers, and rescue them from the crap that they think
they're supposed to kowtow to. And then move them, as part of a
much larger project.

So then that brings up the question of what the overlay on
this project is going to be, as far as --it'll be a complete
transformation, this will give us a partial map. Now as we're talking about now, with the use of that kind of
high-speed transit, how do you reconnect the U.S.? As you notice,
the U.S., into Mexico, which will be a major recipient of NAWAPA;
into Canada, up across the Bering Strait--then we start to now
build the connection here, where you can start to think now of,
you can get a real mental image now of the human species'
transformation of the entire biosphere. But that transformation
is going to open up, that transformation launched here, is going
to open up regions that we've never touched.

As you can kind of compare a before and after picture of
Canada, and Alaska. That region is completely undeveloped.
[Animation 8] In fact, if you take a top-down view of the entire
Earth, [Animation 9] look at the Arctic region in general, we
know very little--in fact, next to nothing--about that area of
the planet. We're behind as a species in expanding into that
area. Which we do know: first, from this view, you can see, it's
the region that will link up and ensure our ability to control
and economically develop the planet. But it's also our quickest
attachment to the actual source, our planet's interaction, with
phenomena off the planet.

Which, if you take a look at the polar region, you've got a
major cosmic radiation interaction, that we see expressed as
Aurora Borealis, but which will connect us as a--the research
facilities that we'll be able to set up in that region, connected
to the industrial capbility, is going to connect us to our
extended sensorium. Or, the satellite capability, [Animation 12]
which has been taken down in the recent period, but which we're
now in a position to upgrade massively.

To give a sense now of the human species existing, not
solely on the surface of the planet, but then throughout the
entire Solar System.

So this is sort of where we're at. This is the kind of
direction that we could move in right now, and that we'd need to
move in as a response to, instead of where we've ended up in the
recent period. So, we can discuss that more, but that just sort
of gives a rough outline of where we stand.