Our Casino Consumer Economy

Lessons are never learned! Even with all the historical documents from the 1920's, we are repeating the exact same behaviors that drove us into the Great Depression! Now well into The Great Recession, will we repeat the mistakes of the past or blaze into new paths for the future? My guess is we will repeat the mistakes of the past. Sorry I can't be a tad more optimistic.

With Seven Hundred Trillion Dollars in credit default swaps floating around out there, as the basis of our wealth, what would we do if they all cascaded into default? Even the country of Russia has proven that a large nation can default on it's bonds and no one can help them bail out that loss. Japan is currently struggling because their national debt is equivalent now to their annual gross national product!

With our economy now based on casino gambling on Wall Street, and in the Banks, as they are the ones who hold most of the credit default swaps, how soon will it be before the luck runs out?

Japan might be the next country, after Russia, to show us.

The Third World War will likely occur around 2020 as at that point economies will be breaking and the National Treasury of many countries will be collapsing. China will go belly up because we went belly up because Japan went belly up. The perfect trifecta for a World War.

Real wealth used to be held in gold and Real Estate. It still is on a small level, but let me give you some perspective. The entire real estate value of New Hampshire, when I was a kid, was fifteen billion dollars. Compare that to seven hundred trillion in credit default swaps, and you'll see that the entire real estate value of the United States isn't even seven hundred trillion!

We used to focus on Fort Knox and the national wealth of gold it contains. Does it even still exist? Has all the gold been sold off? How much gold is still in there? In the old days, countries made transactions in gold. Now what do they trade with us, credit default swaps, stocks, and derivatives? A pile a paper that can become valueless in an instant.

So my message is the new generation should focus on building a country of real wealth, were we have real jobs that make great things for our lives, not more mathematics on paper. We must build great things, and once again, accumulate real wealth. We'll see what happens.

I also want to Thank Our Sponsors for the Ikeler4000. Keep an eye on the home page of Ikeler4000.com as we already have about a hundred and fifty sponsors and growing. Get an ad space now and share in the million visits per month to the web site that this traffic is bringing!

Stayed tuned!

Dr. Doug Ikeler http://www.ikeler4000.com/

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Is The Recession Over?

Of Course, Wall Street has announced that the Recession is over! I guess it is for them. It probably never even appeared on their horizon because they just make up their net worth, but for the rest of America, things are going to get worse.

History repeats itself constantly. You are fooling yourself if you think it doesn't. Just like the stock market crash of 1929, the stock market crash of 2009, (which was predicted to occur by experts like Harry S. Dent because it is part of the natural 80 year economic cycle) is just the beginning of the next Great Depression. It will not be as bad this time, because the government learned and now knows it has to spend our way out of this depression.

Just like in 1929 though, that was just the beginning of the depression. The bottom of the valley floor came along in 1933, four years later. We will see a similar drop in the economy, which will hit bottom at the prophetic end of civilization, December 21, 2012. It's spooky, but actually, it's a mathematically predicted model.

My mother worked for the CIA after she graduated from college, and she and my father even met in Washington D.C. My mother said there were forces other than the federal government that control the world and make most things happen. She was right, but I doubt she knew about credit default swaps and derivatives.

The current estimated derivatives market is 595 Trillion Dollars. That figure is correct. Five Hundred and Ninety Five Trillion Dollars, with a "T". That is equivalent to the American Gross National Product for the next Forty Two Years. It is also equivalent to the World Gross Product for the next Eight and a Half Years. That means that if these fabricated currencies defaulted, and they almost did, it would take all of America forty two years to cover the loss.

I think it is outrageous that our government even allows such artificial wealth to exist. A smaller, but more obvious example is the stock market. In the late nineties, there were computer software companies doing six hundred thousand dollars a year in business (equal to the average 7-11) that had a Billion Dollar Stock value on Wall Street. Is that real value, or just a fabrication? It is obviously a fabrication. And an outright lie.

I find it disturbing that the news media gives the Dow Jones Industrial Average on television every night because that, in itself, is part of the "Pump and Dump" hype cycle that the stock market thrives on. We are entering late October, so I recommend you sell your stocks now. The pump and dump cycle can be summed up with the phrase: "Buy in May, sell in October." Get out now, watch the market crash again in the spring, and then buy low again in May. I hope this insider information helps you.

Dr. Doug Ikeler http://www.ikeler4000.com/

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Pet Airways Sponsors The Ikeler4000

We are delighted to have Pet Airways as a Sponsor for the Ikeler4000 Round The World Record Setting Flight! This airline specializes in carrying pets-only to their destinations around the United States. Many people find this service preferable to having their pets shipped as cargo, as they are, on conventional airlines.

When I was a student in college, a professor remarked that we were getting the true "Beverly Hills Education" as we could buy the class notes service and get notes from our lectures even if we didn't show up. I bought the notes, and also took notes, and read all the assignments too. He said student life had come a long way with word processors and note takers and old exams on file to aid in our education. I'm sure today though, thirty years later, the professors notes are all online, old exams are all online and everything you need to know to get an "A" is online too.

Well now pets get a piece of the Beverly Hills lifestyle! They have their own airline and are the only passengers in the main cabin of each flight. They have their pet specialist flight attendants, customized meal service, and potty breaks too. What more could a jet-setting pup ask for?

I think this is a wonderful service and I hope this airline does well. Pets are not cargo and should not be left in the hold with the baggage to see if they make it on an air flight across the country. Dogs and cats deserve the best and this airline is their to provide it for them! Welcome Pet Airways. We are delighted to have you with us. See their site at http://www.petairways.com/

Dr. Doug Ikeler http://www.ikeler4000.com/

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Mission Progress And Movie Debut

This week we had the privilege of adding more great sponsors to the Ikeler4000 homepage. One of our sponsors is movie producer Mark Grady who's movie, Blaire's Bridge, opens today September 19, 2009. The movie is based on Mark's book of the same title. We wish him the greatest success with this release! Mark is a very experienced pilot and you can check out his web site at http://www.websterfallsfilms.com/ If you can't make it to the movie, you can order his book online at http://www.markgrady.net/

We are getting closer to the exponential part of the sponsor s-curve as I can see and feel the interest. Moving out of the early adopters phase and into the early majority phase will take us to rapid growth and funding to complete the mission and flight. The late majority follows quickly thereafter and we should have all needed funding with in a few months. Tell your friends to sign on now, as top of the page placement gets the greatest attention.

We are pleased that we are able to help other great and worthy causes, like CarolAnn Garratt's Dash For A Cure http://www.alsworldflight.com/ to bring one million dollars to ALS (Lou Gehrig's disease) research. We are also pleased to be helping Alley Cat Allies http://www.alleycat.org/ in their mission to help stray cats find homes and reduce the stray cat populations through spaying and neutering. I did work for many years for their organization at my Cat Hospitals of Denver. They are great people with a great cause.

I will continue to update everyone with mission progress reports as they develop. Thank you for your interest and support.

Dr. Doug Ikeler http://www.ikeler4000.com/

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http://www.ikelerbooks.com/

The Wing And The Wave

With daily news about the economy, the question becomes, "What lies ahead?" Well, a certain amount of "shakeout" is on the horizon, which in the short term may make things look glum, but in the long term, we are entering a five thousand year cycle of global prosperity the likes of which mankind has never seen before.

The Egyptian mega city of Cairo achieved revolutionary domination in progress five thousand years ago, in 3000BC. They did it with two simple tools. The pencil and the wheel. The pencil, and it's variations, produced the written language so that complex information could be stored and transmitted to other people. The wheel, and it's variations, produced the capacity for transporting people and large and useful goods around Egypt and around the world.

We have come a long way in five thousand years, but fundamentally, we have not progressed until now. The two new inventions that will carry us for the next five thousand years are The Wing and The Wave. The wing, and it's variations, will make most all transportation aeronautical, with autoplanes (like the Ikeler4000) replacing our automobiles. This will bring about an exponential increase in the speed and efficiency with which people and goods move around the world. We already have this today to some extent with commercial airlines, but the future will advance aviation technologies like you can't imagine.

The wave, that is the electromagnetic wave, as in radio, cell phone, and communications waves will transform our knowledge and information transmissions exponentially above what has ever existed in the past. Even my blogs and web sites are read and viewed around the world which only the most prestigious publications enjoyed the privilege of getting a few decades ago.

The wing and the wave are the key technologies for the global economy and transaction systems that will emerge to unite us even in new forms of global government that we have still yet to develop.

Dr. Doug Ikeler http://www.ikeler4000.com/

http://www.ikeleraerospace.blogspot.com/

The New 80 Year Economic Cycle And The Ikeler4000

The last Great Depression occurred exactly 80 years ago. Wonder why the economy is so bad now? It is because the fundamental trends that drive our economy work on an eighty year cycle. You might think "How can time be a factor in our economy?" It is and it is inter-related with human demographics, life cycles, and technological innovations.

In the "Roaring Twenties," the economy was driven by automotive advancement, telephone technologies, and electricity being brought into every home. In the "Roaring Nineties," computers, the internet, and cell phone technologies drove the economy. Wonder what the next eighty years will be driven by? Automotive technologies, lead by the Ikeler4000, telephone technologies that converge cell phones, computers, and the internet. And biomedical technologies that bring human health to a new standard of living where a hundred years becomes the average lifespan.

Want a peak at the future? The last seven years have produced the Ikeler4000 flying car technology. The next seven years will be spent bringing that technology to one percent of the market. The seven years after that will be spent achieving a ten percent market penetration. Forty two years from 2002, in 2044, all cars will be flying cars! Or at least 99 percent of them. It will be the greatest revolution in transportation since the invention of the internal combustion engine!

You might say, "Wait a minute, these flying cars aren't even in dealerships yet." Well they will be and Innovation S-Curves predict their arrival and can even tell you when half of all cars will be flying cars, in 2023. Still scratching your head? Well, keep scratching and then hold onto your hat! The future we have all dreamed of is just around the corner!

Dr. Doug Ikeler http://www.ikeler4000.com/ http://www.ikeleraerospace.blogspot.com/

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Seeing The Unseen

In my years of business and practice management consulting, I came across the phrase, "In the land of the blind, the sighted man is king." I really got what it meant as I often times wondered why people don't see things or get problems that are right in front of their faces. My favorite experience in the land of the blind was one time in veterinary college. We were given the assignment of figuring out how to differentiate the third, fourth, and fifth cervical vertebrae in a cow. The amazing part is the anatomy specimen was right there in front of everyone and we had unlimited access to it. To my surprise, I was the only one out of 120 students to solve the problem!

The transverse processes of the vertebrae get broader as they go from third, to fourth, to fifth. Even the professor asked me how I figured it out. I said I just used "objective observation", a fancy way of saying I looked at it. There weren't any awards or prizes given out for solving this problem, but it did change the way my classmates looked at me! Their lens of perception had been changed.

My own lens of perception is already changed and has probably been different from the start. When I took flight instruction, I noticed my classmates were completely focused on how to fly the airplane. I was focused on how the airplane could be made better and actually have some utility, other than being able to fly to another airport on Sundays to get a hamburger at the other airport's restaurant.

Seeing the unseen is the core innovation strategy that has brought the Ikeler4000 to it's present state of development. Completion and future innovations will make it even change the world of tomorrow!

Dr. Doug Ikeler http://www.ikeleraerospace.blogspot.com/ http://www.ikeler4000.com/

$100 Free Ad Space Goes Viral

In marketing terms, it's called, "The Irresistible Offer." An offer so compelling that no one can turn it down. Such is the new Ikeler4000 $100 Free Ad Space offer! A free ad and millions of views to your web site. Yes, and I wish I could take up such an offer.

Monetized traffic is progressively funding the mission, and since the sales of fixed ad spaces is slower and more difficult, we thought we would spice up the process with a free offer. Today is the first day of the offer, so it will be fun to update you all as we follow it's progress. We are also moving the mission into schools to get students to write comments and have a chance to win a ride and flight in the Ikeler4000, as well as let them publish their web sites on the aircraft homepage.

Viral marketing is the new way to move a product and all it takes is word of mouth communication. Like the squirrel who made it into the couple's camping photo. Fun and free.

That's what it's all about!

Dr. Doug Ikeler http://www.ikeler4000.com/

The Ultimate AdCar AdSpace

Even in the earliest conceptions of the Ikeler4000, I knew I wanted it to be an AdCar. I was fascinated by the number of visual impressions a typical AdCar receives in a month (750,000) and knew this should be a part of our advertising, sponsorship, and promotion of the aircraft. Unfortunately, I was paying a lot of money to "Marketing Experts" and they did not see the same benefit that I did from making the first Ikeler4000 an AdCar.

So much for high priced "expertise." They led me astray and cost me seven years of revenues this AdCar approach could have been bringing the Ikeler4000 since 2002. I went on and just used my own money to research and develop the vehicle. This new approach though, is so much more fun! Creating AdSpace on the vehicle and on it's associated web site is definitely the smart thing to do, as this new funding will get us to completion of the project! I am also getting good revenues from the monetization of the websites associated with the aircraft and my health related web sites. The plan is working and now we just need to step up the traffic.

AdCars are a form of art too. The best stand out as very memorable features of American culture. The classic Coke car still drives revenues to Coca Cola and it hasn't even driven in years. I read that Coke's success, other than the fact that it originally contained cocaine to give you that "lift" (buzz) when you drank it, was the fact that Coca Cola has spent seven percent of it's revenues each year on advertising during it's hundred year reign as the world's favorite soft drink. That's the power of advertising. Even Ben Franklin knew the secret when he said, "Early to Bed, Early to Rise, Work Hard, and Advertise." So true even today! Words to affiliate with The Ultimate AdCar AdSpace.

Dr. Doug Ikeler http://www.ikeler4000.com/

Mission Progress

We are continuing to enhance the user's experience of all the Ikeler4000 affiliated websites and monetize them too, in multiple levels. We have added http://www.infolinks.com/ and http://www.exitjunction.com/ to the sites and this week we are adding http://www.chitika.com/ and http://www.widgetbucks.com/ Our goal is to make the sites as fun and interesting as possible to all who come to visit them and join with us on this incredible mission.

Also take a moment to visit Yvonne Ashmore, our Ad Space Sales Manager's web site at http://www.newsworthylive.blogspot.com/ Yvonne captures the true spirit of this adventure and has made great contacts for further corporate sponsorship. We look forward to her site growing as well. Yvonne has contacts with the media too and will take on the role of publicist as we move forward.

This week we have more experts coming on board as we enroll the help of Webolutions at http://www.webolutions.com/ to help us strategize and promote the aircraft's completion and record setting flight. The Internet has already been a great resource for funding the mission and with a larger scale effort we will complete it soon. Thank you all for your support and we feel the anticipation of bringing you greater things still!

Dr. Doug Ikeler http://www.ikeler4000.com/

How I Reached One Million Page Views

How I reached one million page views is a story I look forward to writing soon. Our goal is a million visits to this web site and our other web sites as we continue the funding efforts to complete the Round The World Record Setting Flight. Yvonne Ashmore has taken the lead in contacting corporate sponsors as we look to sell more Ad Space on the vehicle and on the web site at http://www.ikeler4000.com/ See Yvonne's web site at http://www.newsworthylive.blogspot.com/ Yvonne has already made connections with an impressive group of corporate sponsors and she is developing relationships with them to bring them into our sponsor group.

We are also adding new features to the web sites to constantly enhance the user's experience and bring updates and interesting topics to our readers. One million page views is not that hard to do. As the word gets out, the traffic will increase exponentially. Those are the days we look forward to soon.

Dr. Doug Ikeler http://www.ikeleraerospace.blogspot.com/

Scalability Is Our Key To Success

Scalability of an aircraft is often times it's key to commercial success. The technology of the Ikeler4000 is such that from the first four passenger model, we can immediately follow with an eight passenger model, the Ikeler8000. From there even bus sized models, the I80, will be created because of the compactness of the wing retraction mechanism. During our initial test marketing, we were contacted by a representative from FedEx who wanted to know more about our aircraft and the uses it could employ. We told them of the scalability of our aircraft too and FedEx saw these vehicles as the next generation of their delivery trucks.
Other attempts at creating flying cars have lacked scalability, and most have been just two passenger disassembling roadable aircraft. Two passenger vehicles have a very small market and if that, combined with having to take the aircraft apart and put it back together again is all you're getting, the vehicle will not likely succeed. The best example of this is Molt Taylor's aircar that trailered it's wings and tail behind it after your spent quite a bit of time with your team taking them off. Also, utility is essential. If a vehicle can only carry two people, the family can't go and neither can your golf clubs. Not much fun there.
We also had inquiries from car dealerships around the country and in Canada wanting to be the first dealers of this new type of automobile. Corporate offers came in from Mitsubishi Heavy Industries and Porsche Motor Cars to purchase, license, or co-develop the technology into all of it's uses. The corporations wanted to much ownership though, as we would only consider alliances for developing and licensing of the aircraft. The Department of Defense has also met with us twice to consider advanced military versions of the aircraft being developed. They think extremely far ahead and were looking to create a self-flying version of it that could even be remotely operated. All doors are open as we move forward to bring this incredible new capability for travel to everyone.
Dr. Doug Ikeler http://www.ikeleraerospace.blogspot.com/

Million Click Contest goes Global

We will also be creating a writing contest for school age children as the feedback so far indicates this will create a viral marketing response for the million click contest. What kid wouldn't want a ride in a flying car and $4000 to spend? The contest will remain open for everyone, and we hope the children bring their parents into the fun. We are looking for international participants as well, as promotional opportunities can be made around the world during the record setting flight.

Share this message with your friends and their children and the contest rules can be found in the July 27th posting on this page.

Dr. Doug Ikeler http://www.ikeleraerospace.blogspot.com/

Many Thanks To Those Who Went Before Me

Flying Cars have gotten a bad rap for as long as people have been trying to build them. I want to take a minute today to thank all the people who have gone before me and created this opportunity. The popular flying car design is one of vertical takeoff and landing. The commuter's dream of being able to rise straight up out of traffic and then speed through the air to their desired destination. This flight characteristic will not be available on any flying car for a long time to come, if ever. The defect in that design is what is called "Miracle upon Miracle Technologies" which rely on some miraculous technological breakthrough that can create another miraculous technological breakthrough to make your buggy fly. And hovering cars with VTOL capabilities are just that, a miracle upon a miracle. That's why we don't have any of them yet. Hover technologies are also incredibly unstable. Just take a look at a Harrier Jet. They crash more than any other type of jet and only succeed because most of the time they fly in conventional jet mode.

The real breakthrough is in succeeding within the current order. A systems thinking type of approach that uses known and proven flight technologies, like wings, flaps, and rudders, but allows for a simple, elegant and beautiful design that brings the flying car technology forward. Thus is the thesis of the Ikeler4000. A clever wing retraction mechanism combined with compact control surfaces that all stylishly fit into a six foot wide by eighteen foot long package.

It also drives like a regular car and flies like a regular airplane. No miracles, just sound and proven aviation technology. That's why it will bring forth the age of flying cars we have all been dreaming of. Thank you though to the many who have tried before me but left the door open for a real breakthrough in this technology.

Dr. Doug Ikeler http://www.ikeleraerospace.blogspot.com/

Million Click Mission at 27,294

August 1st, 2009, after only two weeks, we are now at 27,294 visits to this web site and growing strong. Tell your friends to enter the Ikeler4000 Flying Car Ride Contest too, as we are giving away a Free Ride in the Ikeler4000 during it's Round the World Record Setting Flight. Along with the ride, the winner with the best comment gets a $4000 cash prize and the opportunity to sign their name on the first Ikeler4000 Record Setting Flight aircraft. See Comments Section on right sidebar to enter.

I want to thank too the tremendous network of support we have received from people who share the same enthusiasm that we do for this historic and record setting event. The world will be a better place as this new technology redefines the way we think of travel.

Dr. Doug Ikeler http://www.ikeleraerospace.blogspot.com/

Writers For Flying Car Record Setting Flight

Interested writers should send a paragraph of their writing style by clicking on and evaluating a few of the relevant ads on this web page or an affiliated web site, and send it along with your CV to info@IkelerAeroSpace.com

Thank you for your interest.

Dr. Doug Ikeler

The Ikeler4000 Flying Car Ride Contest

Enter to win all three of these prizes!!!: 1) A ride and flight in the Ikeler4000 flying car during its Round The World Record Setting Flight and 2) A Cash prize of $4000 given when the Contest Winners are announced and 3) Your Winner's signature on the Ikeler4000.
All three prizes go to selected winners with the best comments entered in the Comments Section to the right when the Ikeler4000 Web Blog reaches one million visits. Many winners will be chosen!
Official Rules:
1) Enter as often as you like.
2) Comment on the Ikeler4000 and it's Round The World Record Setting Flight and anything else you would like to comment about.
3) Tell your friends to visit the site too, as the sooner we reach a million visits, the sooner You Win!
The Ikeler4000 Record Setting Flight details can be seen at http://www.ikeler4000.com/
Dr. Doug Ikeler

Million Click Mission 16,176 Clicks First Week!

We are tracking and monitoring our visits to the fund raising site as well as the affiliated websites that support The Round The World Record Setting Flight Mission. The first week we received 16,176 visits and about a twenty percent click through rate onto our advertisements. We Thank our advertisers and sponsors for funding the Record Setting Flight and we Thank You for your support in visiting our websites. We look forward to tremendous more traffic to our websites to accomplish our goals. Thank you for your support and tell your friends to join with us!

Dr. Doug Ikeler

http://www.ikeleraerospace.blogspot.com/

ADS BY GOOGLE FUND RECORD SETTING FLIGHT!

Thank You to all the visitors of this Website! Your visits to our Ads By Google Websites

continues to bring us the revenues needed to complete the Round The World Record Setting Flight!

Your Visits to all our Websites brings us further support too!

http://www.ikeleraerospace.blogspot.com/

http://www.lifeextensionbooksbydrdougikeler.blogspot.com/

http://www.thefelinespecialtypractice.blogspot.com/

http://www.ikeler4000.com/ for aircraft and flight details.

Thank You Again,

Dr. Doug Ikeler

http://www.ikeleraerospace.com/

Celebrating 40 Years of AeroSpace and Man On The Moon

Today we are celebrating the 40th anniversary of man landing on the moon. Join with us to help raise the needed funds for The Ikeler4000 Round The World Record Setting Flight. See How in the Blog below this one:

Thank You For Your Support!

Dr. Doug Ikeler

Funding Sites

Support comes from our Advertiser's Websites as people traffic to them.

We raise money for the aircraft and flight by selling Ad Space on the vehicle and the websites.

Each time you visit a site you help us raise the needed funding to complete the mission!

See the Ikeler4000 flying car and flight details at http://www.ikeler4000.com/

Visit the Ikeler AeroSpace Web Site for Updates and Progress Reports at http://www.ikeleraerospace.blogspot.com/

We have over 100 Advertisers and Sponsors already, so visit their websites to bring them the internet traffic we have promised they would receive.

You can also get information on health at http://www.lifeextensionbooksbydrdougikeler.blogspot.com/

and you can purchase Dr. Ikeler's first book on Life Extension at http://www.ikelerbooks.com/

Pet health information and product links can be found at http://www.thefelinespecialtypractice.blogspot.com/

All sites contribute funding to the Ikeler4000 Record Setting Flight Mission!

Dr. Doug Ikeler

Opening Day!

Coincidentally, this opening day is the 40th anniversary of man landing on the moon! I think the first flying car Round The World Flight is as significant an event too! This web site will be used as a center piece for the Ikeler4000 Round The World Record Setting Flight and it will coordinate the other websites to draw funding for the aircraft's completion and Record Setting Flight.

Dr. Doug Ikeler

http://www.ikeler4000.com/