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Before beginning I should mention that our server is in the process of installing the Moodle software. There is a momentary hold up in that a particular PHp module was needed and it is having to be sought. It was suggested that we have two servers running hot and parallel - but that does not appear possible at this time. We have only a single, although practically dedicated server on a T5 The process of implementing the Moodle is something that I don't understand. I need to know if what I have outlined here, and the manner in which I have outlined it, is the correct way. |
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I don't know where a Table of Contents should go - but when we speak of style sheets -
it could be something that appears on the left side - so the student could always see how much there is to the course - and where they are in it. It might also permit them to link to various parts of the courrse - to examine them. I don't know how all this squares with not showing the tests - until after the teaching material has been viewed. |
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It may be that the following 'table of contents' or Course Outline box - WITH ITS LINKS is just for information of the Moodle Programmer. |
Before the student begins the course we need to know:
AND an email address so that we can send them
AND we need to assign them an ID Which means we need a record book/file
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Introduction to the Course Because it is the youth that will rebuild society we have prepared a special course for them to become preppers. This course is very different in that it gives the REAL skills that they are going to need to rebuild society. However, the MOST IMPORTANT skill of all, which is spiritual values, we leave to the individual's church or such other spiritual source from which they seek guidance. What this course presents will seem strange to many preppers because we do not talk about such things as storing food and water for survival or seeds for recovery afterwards. The subject here is reconstruction rather than recovery or survival. For long term survival the survivors will have to reconstruct society. We do not know in what manner they will do that or what form they will choose for it - but here we train the youth in two of the most essential tools for the task: a tool for Communication and the knowledge of how to create their local Organization. This course is divided into five parts.
Part II - Getting your Ham License Part III - Understanding Money and how to create it after social collapse Part IV - How to create the social organization of LERNs (Local Economic Recovery Networks) after social collapse Part V - How to use TRIADs for consulting
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Part II - Ham License
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Understanding Money and how to create it after social collapse This may seem a strange subject for preppers but an understanding of the nature of money is absolutely necessary to reconstructing society. Barter will not do. It is also unlikely that you will have on hand a sufficient amount of gold or any other commodity to monetarize a commodity based system. This part of the prepper preparation course explains to you what to do instead. This part of the course which deals with money is divided into three main sections:
Money Two -. Making Money Money Three -. Money Matters
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How to create the social organization of LERNs AFTER social collapse Upon successful completion of the test for Part IV of the course you will receive a free e-copy of the book Society AFTER Doomsday. This book is available as a bound book for $30 and discusses LERNs in much more detail. Another resource that you can access is theThe Reconstruction Paper in html or in pdf at The Reconstruction Paper. The latter is in a format ready for printing on a web press. For this course the only parts that you need to concern yourself about in "The Paper" are LERNs and Entitlement. Still another resource everyone should read is �I Pencil� and you can Download it directly from the web. LERN stands for Local Economy Recovery Network. This is where the importance of communication becomes apparent. The primary purpose for the SAFE Ham Net is the establishment of LERNs. There are five main concepts that we will wish to cover here: A. Anarchy vs. Governance The reasons why we need to establish government at all. One: If people do not establish a government, then one will be established for them. It will usually/probably be established by sociopathic powers. Two: Government is necessary to provide protection from organized external powers that will most likely also be sociopathic. Three: Government is necessary to provide justice for the weaker, or once again sociopathic powers will prevail in any situation anarchic or otherwise. Four: Government is necessary to accomplish tasks that are accomplished only collectively. Roads are given as a primary example. Trails can exist on private land or in the wild but travel of any distance from point A to point B may go over numerous property claims and a right of eminent domain, (the right of government to take property, with compensation, for public use) is necessary. Otherwise, no roads or railroads would be built from coast to coast, or for that matter cables and pipelines, and there would be no convenient or desirable place for airports, harbors, or large facilities such as hospitals and universities. Other tasks that require government with a public commitment are such things as fire departments and police departments. When these have been privately maintained then they serve only the wealthy. Fire departments would arrive at a fire, but if it was not one of their customers they would just let it burn to the ground. Private police forces protected only the wealthy. No rules are absolute and the degree to which these principles should be applied to such subjects as education, medical care, protection of children, and other areas, is often a matter of debate. Five: Large endeavors are often financed by the government. It is true that there are large automobile companies but they couldn�t exist if the government didn�t provide the roads. The same is true for airlines and airports. Even the regulation of satellites and the airwaves is necessary for modern communication to take place and it is most usually the government that initially funded the research that went into any of the modern technologies. Large government has proven necessary for the accomplishment of large enterprises because risk and time for return has been too great for individuals. Question 1: Those who favor no government are: RESPONSES
b. The wealthy c. Anarchists d. Republicans The choice is between: RESPONSES
b. No government and anarchy c. Peace and war d. Order and anarchy Only free private enterprise in a competitive market economy can provide: RESPONSES
b. innovative new ideas c. efficient allocation of resources d. equitable distribution of goods Just government assures: RESPONSES
b. equitable distribution of goods c. justice d. all of the above Functioning government assures: RESPONSES
b. freedom c. justice d. prosperity For a government, the first order of business after providing order and security should be to provide full employment. The concept of full employment is often confused with only that of people working. Much economic confusion arises from the lack of understanding that all production and prosperity requires three factors of production � Land, Labor, Capital. (Sometimes / oftentimes there is named a fourth factor � that of entrepreneurship/management.) Anyone who is confused about this fact should take a few minutes to meditate upon the subject and to really comprehend it. To take a very simple example � that of growing a potato. First it requires land. It may simply be a hydroponics box � but somewhere that I will take up space. Secondly, it requires labor. Someone to plant the seed, water, weed and attend it. That someone is often a farmer. He is the labor. He may also be the manager/entrepreneur. And finally there is the matter of capital. The capital was the seed. In the purest definition � something left over from previous production. The capital can also be a shovel, hoe, rake, or tractor or other equipment. But note � we did not anywhere mention money. Money is not capital in the sense that we are talking about. It is simply an accounting method. A measure of entitlement. A certificate of claim of ownership. It can pass away, and while it might be inconvenient there is nothing stopping potatoes from being produced so long as land, labor, capital and entrepreneurship remain. There are many forms of capital, that is to say product that remains from previous production. Buildings, tools, equipment and machinery of all kinds. The railway tracks, roads and bridges. The power lines and manufacturing plants of all kinds are capital. They would all take more of the four factors of production to replace them. There is a special kind of capital that we call human capital. It too requires the four factors of production to replace it. It comes in considerable variety such as education, health, mobility, maturity, and ethical training. It too needs to be developed and preserved. Any country that has land with the necessary minerals and a suitable climate, that has human capital, that is a population that is healthy, educated and properly motivated, and that has the capital in form of buildings, machines, technology, infrastructure such as roads, power and dams, can with the proper management be productive and prosperous. Stacks of gold or paper money will do none of that for them unless someone is willing product or those factors of production for that �money�. There is however, one special consideration to �full employment� and that is the full employment of human labor. It may be employed in many ways such as getting an education or breast feeding the next generation, but it needs to be fully employed for two reasons. One is that it is the nature of people that they need to be productive and the second is that without this factor of production being fully employed the others cannot be also. A wasted factor of production is gone forever. A day, month or year that someone does not work � that is to say that one does not do something productive, is lost forever. It can be lost in prison, sickness, unnecessary military service, doing useless work or work below the individual�s ability, and so on in many ways. Likewise with the other factors of production, such as land, if it just like there idle for that year it may go to weeds, or tools and buildings that are not kept up will just rust and deteriorate away. What they could have produced lost and gone forever. Do think carefully about all these things. Think of every item that you can imagine and how it requires all the factors of production. Think about how so many factors of production are wasted in everything from economic depression, to forest fires, prisons, and especially wars. Now that you know how to create money never again let the words pass your lips �but who will pay for it� as a restriction to full employment. There is of course a balance in full employment. People can be worked like slaves. Land can be worn out. Buildings and machinery may not receive proper maintenance. The question of where is the balance is a philosophical question along with when is enough � enough. But, the destruction of the human spirit to be unemployed and to live in poverty is totally unnecessary. There is always work to do. Teacher�s can have smaller classes and more helpers. Nursing homes can have more to help the elderly. There can be help for new mothers and new parents. The roads can be better maintained. There can be more people dedicated to the fine arts and the parks can be improved. There is NEVER any shortage of work to be done. AND there is always money to pay for it. Question 1: To be unemployed means: RESPONSES
b. To not being producing c. Having been fired d. Not producing something 'worthwhile' Full employment can be attained: RESPONSES
b. at all times c. only during only certain seasons d. only when there is no recession For none of the factors of production to be wasted there must be full employment: RESPONSES
b. of capital c. of land d. of all of the above in balance to labor The reason there is always work to do is because: RESPONSES
b. there is no end to human wants c. someone somewhere will have the money d. different seasons bring different needs The reason that it is important to assure a proper employment opportunity for every person is because: RESPONSES
otherwise the devil finds work for idle hands b. people need a means to provide for their needs of food, shelter, family etc. c. a just society provides just means for all - otherwise there is social unrest d. all of the above C. The Nature of Progressive Democracy The study of economics was originally called the study of political economy and it should be still because the two are always bound together. One hears that Russia and China were/are communist societies. Although that is not really true because they are what we call mixed economies, having some traits of one kind of economy mixed with traits of another. Germany and Italy at the time of the Second World War were known as Fascist countries. A Fascist country is a country where the Big Businesses run the country. The US economy has become completely fascist. Some people not seeing the wealth and big business completely control the political scene in the US make grand arguments about whether it is a Republic or a Democracy. While neither is any longer true, if it ever was, that does not concern us here. What we want to want to describe here is a system called Progressive Democracy. It is designated progressive for two reasons. The first reason is that as one looks higher up the leadership � the quality of leadership should be progressively better. The second reason is that that the whole system should continuously progress in the quality of its leadership. Why that is and how it works will now be explained. At the lowest level, elementary basic LERNs are composed of 150 people. If for some reason they get down to less than 100 members then they should combine with another that allows them to again approximate the ideal. On the other hand if they get up above 200 members then they should split into two. The members of a LERN are everyone age fifteen or over living within a specific contingent geographic area, whether willing or not. In a rural situation this could be farms many miles apart, while in a city it might be comprised of two or three floors of a high-rise. The members of a LERN gather together to vote by secret ballot for the members of their council. There is no nominating or campaigning. The number of councilors can be 5, 7 or 9 � some odd number to prevent tie voting in decision making. Using nine as an example three would be elected each year and the three that had been serving the longest would be replaced. Those who are currently serving cannot be re-elected. The council stands as the legislative, administrative, judicial body of the community. There is no �balance� of power. The Council makes the laws, administers the laws, and judges violators of the laws. The actions of the Council are judged and administrated by the next higher level council. I shall now describe how the next higher level council is formed. The Council and adjacent Councils, to the number of Councilors, say there are nine on each council, so therefore 9 adjacent councils each elect one member to the higher council. Again this is done on a rotational basis so that there are after the election 6 experience Councilors on the Council and three just joining it. Therefore every three years there comes the turn of each Council to elect one of its members to the higher council. It is the higher council that sets the rules for the lower councils as to their boundaries, and their amalgamation or splitting up. It judges any disputes between councils and determines its own authority over any areas or issues. Each higher council is formed in the same way and from the very bottom with those being selected whom their peers think to have the best spiritual values as to insight, a sense of justice, integrity, industriousness, and whatever other spiritual qualities they may value, and so on upward with the best of the best being selected, by those with the better qualities and insights. In reverse the higher councils then try to inspire the lower councils to improve in the qualities that they think important. It is by this two-fold process that the Councils are progressive as we move into the higher ranks, and progressive in that they are guided by the more enlightened members. Each LERN no matter at what level meets periodically with those who elected it and hears their problems, complaints, concerns, suggestions, new ideas or whatever. The electors may vote as a group on a motion or idea � but other than to show the community�s support of the motion the vote has absolutely no authority over how the Council will determine the matter. Each Council has powerful tools at its level to ensure full employment, not least among which is its ability to determine Entitlement and to create money. Question 1: The LERNs practice which form of political organization? RESPONSES
b. Pure Democracy c. Divine Authority d. None of the above The first concern of a LERN Council should be: RESPONSES
b. Full participation of the Community c. Justice for all individuals d. Security A LERN is governed by: RESPONSES
b. A Constitution c. Rules of its own making as governed by the next higher LERN d. Rules of its own making without restriction Decisions are made by: RESPONSES
b. a majority vote of the Council c. a unified vote of the Council d. none of the above One's membership in a LERN community is determined by: RESPONSES
b. The geographical location in which they live c. Acceptance by the Councilors in the community d. The individual's decision whether or not to join The Councils of each LERN, subject to the power of the LERN above them, determine which powers are appropriate to themselves and to the LERNs beneath them. This applies particularly to the concept of Eminent Domain. For example, some large manufacturing facility located within the geographical residential area of some small LERN might employ hundreds, or produce some product, that some LERN Council further up the hierarchy of LERNs may decide to regulate it. Likewise, some essential facility, such as a water source or a bridge, may likewise be controlled by a higher LERN Council. The principle is pretty clear, either control for the more universal need - or be controlled. As the representative of a lower LERN joins the representatives of other LERNs they will meet others with did views and different objectives and will have to take a more universal view. The higher the LERN Council, the more universal will its view need to be, and it will be part of its task to inform and educate the lower Councils to that point of view. Roughly each higher level of LERN governs ten times the number of people as the LERN below it. If the basic local neighborhoods had a hundred members then a village might have a thousand and a township ten thousand. A county a hundred thousand and a region a million. Perhaps a state or province 10 million. To keep the units in balance to each other, continuous redefining of boundaries would be necessary. These boundary changes would be determined or approved by the higher LERN Council. Question 1: If a council has nine members governing a LERN of approximately 150 members - how many members should the next higher level/LERN govern? RESPONSES
b. approximately 900 c. approximately 1350 d. approximately 2000 If the immediately lower LERNs who are members of a higher LERN have approximately a million individual members each, then that LERN has approximately how many individual members? RESPONSES
b. a million c. ten million d. a hundred million Higher LERN Councils have authority over anything they want to do - subject only to: RESPONSES
b. Still higher LERN Councils c. The permission of their member Councils d. The Ten Commandments Next to security - the highest concern and responsibility of a higher LERN is: RESPONSES
b. Maintaining peace between the member LERNs c. Assuring that justice is equitably administered by the lower LERNs d. Determining the boundaries between the LERNs The Highest LERN must: RESPONSES
b. Draw on peace keeping resources from all the LERNs c. Assure Security against any outside forces d. All of the above LERNs cannot be established except when there is a total collapse of society. The money created by a LERN would be ineffectual so long as some more universal form of money was generally available. People may say that there is always gold but gold is ineffectual because it is not easily divided, safely circulated, readily verifiable, and most of all it is not easily obtainable. A community unit of any size, from a small village to a country, may have all the resources necessary to them (that is to say the factors of production; land, labor and capital) and if they did not have gold, (or some form of money), everything would just sit there unemployed and they would starve. Fiat currency is the answer. Those who have completed this course know how to create a fiat currency. There are other forms of government available other than LERNs and their Progressive Democracy. There are totalitarian governments of many stripes. One can seek to create from scratch a constitutional state. There is of course the other alternative - anarchy. When all the other systems have failed - or are performing totally inadequately - then most people will have no idea as to what to do. Here is the answer. Call the people in a small geographic area to a meeting, perhaps just a couple of dozen, or even less, people to begin with and explain to them the principles of forming a LERN and what a LERN can do for them, such as the importance of getting everyone to work. These small groups can then talk to others and schedule other small group meetings. Eventually you can hold a meeting of the complete geographical LERN and conduct the election so that you have an operative Council. One of the most important things that a functioning LERN must do is make a missionary effort to create additional LERNs about them so that they can eventually form the next higher LERN. This is a repetitive process and needs to be performed by each LERN, no matter what level. The more broadly a LERN is surrounded by other LERNs, and the more LERNs that it has to support it - the greater will be its security. More than that there are economies of scale, division of labor, and degrees of expertise that greatly enhance the production and exchange of goods, the more broadly an economic system can be expanded. Over the centuries many great thinkers have given great amount of thought as to how to create and maintain the best society of men. If you, now a student of this subject, can think of a better system than what has been advocated here - then at the time of crisis that is the one you should put forth. Question 1: The only time one can establish a new system is after the collapse of the old is because: RESPONSES
b. The old system will use force to maintain its existence c. Most people won't make the sacrifice needed to make a change d. All of the above Under the proper circumstances a change may be achieved: RESPONSES
b. spontaneous recognition by everyone of what is needed c. a natural growth into the needed new replacing system d. all of the above From day one - a LERN Council needs to make sure: RESPONSES
b. That they establish individual rates of pay and other entitlements c. That the next group meeting is scheduled d. All of the above The alternative to the LERN plan is: RESPONSES
b. giving up and dying c. waiting for someone else to solve the problem d. none of the above For those who object to the LERN plan - one should ask them to explain: RESPONSES
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Conclusion In this course you have learned about the technical aspects of the SAFE EMS radio and the use of the NVIS antenna. You have learned to use the SAFE EMS PSK31 User Interface and about the formation of the SAFE Ham Net. You have learned the information and rules necessary to acquire a Ham Radio Operator's Technician's license. More importantly you have learned about the uses of the SAFE Ham Net in helping to organize LERNs should the necessity arise as the result of some universal catastrophes. You have learned how to organize a LERN and how to organize the three most important functions of a LERN, (security, full employment, and a monetary system). The concepts behind Progressive Democracy and the TRIADs can be easily understood intellectually. It is the spirit behind them that must be comprehended and adhered to. It was this lack of comprehension of the spirit that caused many attempts at democracy to fail in the world. The true basis of Progressive Democracy and TRIADs is that of spiritual growth. This latter is something which we have not dealt with in this course. Nevertheless, it is that which remains essential to success. As a final gift for completing the course you will receive a free e-copy of the forthcoming book about Newton which deals with how the coming age must have an orientation different from this age which is dying. |
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