Now that the electioneering is all but over (whatever legal, or non legal, machinations that come to take place, after the poles close), my intention here is to proceed to a new site to air my, I have to admit, unusual form of radicalism. And that site will be Reddit.

As such, this message is being posted simultaneously with Google Blogs, and Reddit.

Since I have accumulated a significant amount of posts at Google Blogs (with something close to 5 years of input, and nearly 2000 posts, see here, and here), however, I will continue to monitor things there, as well as to utilize the trove as a living archive.

As I do this, I want to be clear about a few things here before I stop posting on Google.

I have stopped in the last few months of the campaign because I wanted to, first of all, give the BLM movement a chance to be heard without one more white voice adding to the din; that cacophony being, of course, the ever escalating information deluge everybody has to contend with, these days, in the process of trying get a consistent message out; especially when so many, well funded efforts, are out there, to work agendas that both try to hinder, and help, at the same time. As well as where few on either side of that divide really know what their talking about in the first place.

I also wanted to keep quiet because I firmly believe that, if you are going to hold off criticizing one side (because I do feel we need a change in leadership, to get anything important done), you must also stop criticizing the other.

That being said, however, doesn't change the fact that I can assure you that I have plenty of criticism available, for both sides.

Now, as to the reason I am leaving this site, is to finally admit, publicly, that starting at Google Blogs in the first place, was a huge mistake.

A hugely painful mistake as it represents years of writing effort. Effort that seems to have been buried by either money grubbing incompetence, or because some of the content was getting too controversial for the Parent company to handle; or the ever present possibility of some combination of both as well, of course.

I can can say that because, not only have the company screwed with their blogging system three times now (First trashing Google+ -- which was connected to Google Blogs --, then cancelling Google+ completely, once the new changes really made things worse; and now screwing with Google Blogs itself.

This beyond the fact that they did comparatively nothing to help promote the blogging content as a whole, of course; because, at one time, way back when, Google+ was an amazingly diverse, and wonderfully creative, expressive place. And it wouldn't have hurt their image, one little bit at all, to show, if they were truly proud of the role they were playing in the world, that they could take whatever criticism might crop up, precisely because of their regard for that kind of creativity in general.

Perhaps more importantly, though, is the fact that my appeal to the tech community, which I thought were my contemporaries, went largely ignored.

Now whether this was the fault of the messenger, the message, the intended audience, or another example of some combination of "all of the above," matters not nearly as much as the fact that important questions were being asked.

Things like: If you find yourself in a completely new operating environment, relying on an operating system created centuries before, for a completely different, much more primitive environment, how can it not be time for a completely new operating system?

Or like: How can you continue to have a viable Democracy when information cannot be allowed to move freely; precisely because it has become both a commodity, and money itself.

Or Like: Could the economy be booming along a good deal more now, not so much because its so great, but because you have the mutually, negatively reinforcing, combining of, first, money becoming as electrons in circuits, seeking the path of least resistance (which fosters corruption), and secondly, the issue of it's need to continue the ever maddening dash to get closer to the speed of light itself, making every cog, in an old machine, turn ever faster and faster, like a turbine going redline, which, among other things makes pretty much everything crazy.

And lastly, because of this incessant need to go faster, and faster, do we also have the ever increasing amount, and severity of competition itself. Ever more grueling. Ever more demanding, and occurring in too many dangerous instances; as has been made abundantly clear in what we see now in world economic markets, world resources, and the techno-military industrial realm, where weapon, and useful tool otherwise, in both commercial, and civilian life, become ever more blurred.

And notice also that this all revolves around the growing econo-environmental crisis that Capitalism, as a cost based form of economy, cannot hope to contend with. Not when you come to realize that the effort its going to take, to properly heal things, will be at least 50 to 100 years in the making. And I can say that because it isn't just going to be about healing the planet, and us. It will also be about getting ever greater numbers of us off planet, and involved in all aspects of making habitat out there, as well as here.

So. Maybe. With an appeal to a broader audience, the analysis of Capitalism I have provided can get more people, at least thinking about asking, the deeper kinds of questions; the ones that will get them to consider that this, more than several hundred year old operating system, has had it's day, and that it is long past time for a replacement; and now even more critically so because we have biological catastrophe to add to already burgeoning geophysical, atmospheric, geopolitical, and social, catastrophe.

And I want to be clear here that I believe that this analysis comes with a quite specific, alternative to Capitalism, that is, actually, being proposed (if you check the "Pages" subsequent to the first, "Posts" page, you will see some "In a nutshell" entries, that attempt to provide an overview of what I am talking about), with descriptions of the specific, aiding technologies that I have developed over the years.

There is, as well, an additional, separate Blog, that has attempted to describe the philosophical view that provides the underpinning moral, and spiritual, foundation, of not only why I dislike Capitalism so much, but also for what guides the formation of my alternative.

As far as my background is concerned know that I was a Systems Analyst/Developer, in the Puget Sound region for over 25 years (I have a still visible resume on Linked In -- and remember, it's spelled Jeffery Vale, and not Jeffrey).

You can also get more info on my background from the only two videos I have uploaded to YouTube (see KingTVLotteryClip, and Humanity At a Fork in the Road), as well. And just for grins, and giggles, I've included a link to a post about by last actual, developer's gig. One I did for the company I swore I would never work for, Microsoft; even if it was only as a temp via Nytec.

And the last thing I was to make clear is this: Everything I do is "Open Source." And by that I mean, beyond the usual, basic "Non profit, means tested, application, I want to assure you that I will not profit, in any way, from the application of any of the technologies, or ideas, that I am advancing here.

I live on my SSI income now, making due with Medicare for my health care provider. And that is all that I am ever going to take in the way of money any more. Which is only another way of saying a pledge I've already made, years ago; that I would never take money again for work. When I start working again, if I live that long, it will be for a community that has redefined work, and where money doesn't need to apply any longer.

[Post note: This is the link to the Google search pictured above. J.V.]

Why It's Always Half Past Later Than You Think With Global Climate Change

The actual number of Americans jailed or imprisoned, about 2.3 million

[Post Note: This edited part of the regular CNN "What Matters" email feed (just after the last Presidential Debate), for 10-23, has a quite pertinent reference to the real degree of severity that we face with climate change. And I can assure you all that, even the "Green New Deal," good start though it might be, is not going to be nearly enough to get done what is going to need getting down to turn things around, because it is far worse than almost everyone in the know has been admitting. J.V.]