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I'm not sure I understand the New World Odor (sic):  The US has gotten Romanian approval to put 3,000 troops into the former communist country.  My dumb question is "Why?"  They don't have any oil.  Meantime, we have thousands of foreign troops here on US soil (ostensibly for "training").  But you know what?  All this cross training and troop trading has a bad smell to it.  Why aren't Dutch pilots, for example, being trained in Europe instead of Ohio? And the list goes on.

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There's also a move afoot (and seems like to be passed) to allow Japan to grow a larger military.  It's as though the industrialized countries, having no other way to tax and borrow money into existence have cobbled up this GWOT (global war on terror) to keep the money velocity high enough to mask deflation and keep all of us overworked so we won't think about what the leadership is up to.

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Despite the hoopla and sleight-of-hand being played out by the republicorps and the democorps over the war spending bill, what's completely overlooked is that the US has a huge commitment to long term bases in Iraq so when the democorps start talking about a "withdrawal", what they aren't going after is all the money being poured into bases and those mercenary armies - which nearly equal the size of US front-line forces.  An article recently by Tom Engelhardt and Jeremy Scahill headlined "A Democratic Sellout on Bush's Mercenaries" makes the point more articulately than I can.

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The People's Economist is a simple-minded fellow, but not so simple than he can't play FTM (that's 'follow-the-money') and it's clear enough to me that  the Housing Bubble continues to blow up,  and the number of mortgage companies imploding is up to 64 in the latest total cached by Google off www.mortgageimplode.com.   

By the way, this site, which had simply tracked the number of mortgage companies going 'toes up' has mysteriously disappeared.  We'll be checking later today, but maybe they've been ah...how do I articulate the fear...'influenced' not to tally such inconvenient truths? We'll keep pinging www.ml-implode.com and see if it comes back to life.  It's an important number - and one I can't help but note that our economic (no laughing at this) 'leaders' aren't saying much about.

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So while the headlines are that George Bush and CONgress are seeking an "accord on [the] war bill" we'll just sit back and laugh at the absurdity of what may be Son of Tech Bubble, cum Son of Housing bubble, which will be the "Massive Global Military Bubble" where everyone will occupy everyone else's homeland.  We notice that India is short by nearly 15,000 officers in their military.  Yup, a fine growth business.  No spending limits, and a few flase flag ops and no opposition, and played right a country can lockup or steal natural resources from other countries.  Hell yeah, let's all play.

And then one day we wake up and it's One World Government that you and I didn't vote for.  The corporatist coup will be complete.  George Bush said it, but folks still can't or don't want to remember his comment that gave it all away while he was defending the inhibition of Constitutional rights embodied in the (misnamed) Patriot Act in 2005::

"Mr. President," one aide in the meeting said. "There is a valid case that the provisions in this law undermine the Constitution."

"Stop throwing the Constitution in my face," Bush screamed back. "It's just a goddamned piece of paper!"

Well, it's a lot more than that to me, and I expect you, too. But, as I line up the dots, the agenda is that we'll need another bubble soon.  The underplayed story this week is that "Hedge fund risks worst since '98 crisis, Fed says"  Militaries and wars are infinitely adjustable economic tuners.  Stand by for more escalation of Cold War II.

We read that the FDA is asking makers of anti-depressants to warn about how these dangerous drugs can increase the risk of suicide.

Two points:  Antidepressants are a class of so-called medical treatments that mask symptoms, and this goes to my long-standing contention that there is more money treating symptoms than finding cures. Any big pharm board of directors knows that, for heaven's sake.  The second point is how did this crap get on the market and polluting (formerly) clear thinking America?  (Answer: Money!) and why are the press reports phrased "asking" (like this is all nicey-nice) instead of TELLING?

And these folks want to regulate vitamins and bottled water?  Hand me my pills, wudjah?

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I think folks forget and leave their ability to think clearly in the other room when they watch enough TV.  Elaine asked me the other day about something: "How do you feel about that, I mean subconsciously?"  "How the hell would I know?  If I have a 'sub-conscious' feeling about something, the definition is I wouldn't be conscious of the feelings, right?"  she'd been watching TV and we both got a laugh out of it.  But there's a lesson in there somewhere, subconsciously, anyway. 

Speaking of Blow Off Tops

I have to note that there's good news and bad about the Factory Order's number being the biggest gain in a year.  The good news is another all-time high for the Dow.  The bad news (which will come later) is that to support that kind of increase, people are going deeper in debt - which we'll pay for in the future. 

Is the "George Postulate" Dead?

Ok - the "George Postulate" may not be 'dead' but we may be learning something more about how event-predictive linguistics works thanks to the rash of tanker fires that have popped up around the country since last Friday. This will take a few minutes to explain, but bear with me.  Let's start with background:

Don't know if you are aware (remember?) Dean Radin's work in the famous (in my circle, anyway) paper about 'time reversed human experience' still available as an archived piece  which lays out some of the science/baseline for how humans really do know the future before it shows up, and I don't know if I have ever recommended his book 'Entangled Minds" - but definitely worth a read.  (More recently, Radin is recommending a book "Quantum Enigma: Physics Encounters Consciousness" see: http://deanradin.blogspot.com/2007/04/quantum-enigma.html which sounds like a must-read, too, if you're looking at the problem of "weak AI" versus "strong AI", but I digress...

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I had a very good conversation with Cliff yesterday about some of the things that seem to be resolving out of modelspace.  For example, flooding apparently is not done, as descriptors continue building, etc, but his subscribers to www.halfpasthuman.com reports will get the details.  But, one of the things that we've been talking about is the "feed-forward mechanism" of future events and how that seems to provide advance warning of  major emotionally impacting human events.

We've had two possible cases which may be demonstrating/presenting feed-forward up the timeline (.e.g. from the future 'back to present'):

·         The "masking" of the tsunami predictions (Aug 2004 '300,000 dead/land driven back to previous age") masking the 100-day later Banda Aceh tsunami by the Sept. 2004 Redwood City (CA) quake(s) and more recently

·         The partial fulfillment of the flood predictions (Dec 06, floods, 700,000 displaced, planes in water etc, but more importantly Ole Miss/Mississippi River/Red River references with the latter being unfulfilled so far)

A long-time reader may recall that in the wake of the Banda Aceh tsunami, I cobbled up something we called the "George Postulate" - which essentially said "A BIG event yet to come on the timeline can mask or mix at the archetype level with something smaller but with a highly correlated aspect/attribute layer, which will happen first. We seem to have experimental evidence that the larger the emotional impact, the more lead time is provided in linguistic clues, although they may be more vague, the farther ahead they appear.

To put it most simply, we're now wondering "Was the Redwood City quake a feed-forward up the up the timeline from Dec 04 -- and more importantly to this morning's discussion --was the NE Flooding in April of this year a feed-forward up the timeline of what is yet to come in terms of flooding still ahead?  While Cliff and Igor are pounding away at part 1 of the newest web bot run for subscribers, a simple hint is that floods aren't done yet.

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It's far from a moot point from an intelligence/future forecasting kind of event because we occasionally see odd "clustering" of current events that can appear as though they may be causally linked to something like AQ, but they may really be (hypothesizing here) be 'feed-forward' to the present from events still ahead in on our timeline.

For example: This last weekend, we had a major tanker fire in San Francisco. We're still reading about that one today. But - much more importantly - there has been a whole rash of tanker fires in the past week: One in Houston and one closing I-55 in Madison County Mississippi. My friend Steve Quayle from Friday to last night counted FIVE incidents referencing tankers and fires.  At a waste site in Alabama "Firefighters had to quickly dampen the flames to prevent them spreading to a nearby diesel tanker..." .   A stolen tanker of sodium hydroxide has been recovered in Dallas.  In Australia, an explosion was feared from a tanker crash today..  Tanker accident in Mobile County (AL).  Propane tanker roll-over in Japan. Pensacola - tanker truck accident spills 4,000 gallons of fuel.

I'm not going to keep counting - you see the point I hope?  Universe is slapping us with tanker accidents all over the lace like a bad rash!

So here is the intelligence or analyst question to ponder and a possible conclusion: "Is the rash of tanker fires somehow interconnected in some meaningful law enforcement/homeland security kind of way? Or, as we've found ourselves wondering: Are we learning/seeing something here about feed-forwards and the time line?"

In other words, deep down at the archetype level where humans paint the pictures conjured up by the words we read and hear, is there a feedforward going on that we should be paying attention to? If so, what might be some of the archetypes at work?  Consider these:

·         Fire

·         Transportation

·         Road/Freeways

·         Gasoline/stored energy

·         Blockage"/restrictions on movement

This last is completely fascinating because it has been in the web bot runs fro a VERY long time - specifically that we will continue to experience an evolutions of restrictions on travel. We've already seen parts of that for sure - as the ratcheting up of airport security has taken hold is just one example. (You have no idea how disappointed I am that I can't take my 10 ounce bottle of shampoo with me on a flight so I can spontaneously wash my hair in the first class lav, but I digress. )

The key thing to observe is that there when we look at news events - and particularly the ones which cause large/huge emotional impacts by their disruptions of human routines - what component is "echo down the time line" (an example might be news stories about copy-cat murders, etc).  Next, what stories are single-point current events (single point on timeline events) with minimal personal impacts?  And last, what portion of news is feed-forwards (like a bow wave of a boat) that happen in advance of an even bigger event to follow?

Intuitively, humans want to know "what's going on" - but few ever stop the ask "Why do I want to know that?  The drive, I suspect is  not so much because we care about a tornado that happened in the past four hours, but more because by looking at "copy-cat" stories, we can see down the timeline (toward the last) or in the case of floods or tanker fires (I'm supposing), we can see 'up the timeline' (e.g. to the yet to arrive future). Is it our way to gain a sense of “now-ness”?

Those confined to "conspiracy think" would no doubt be comfortable looking at the current rash of tanker/fire archetypes popping out around the country and concluding "It's a 'false flag op' or 'it's a probe' by the TPTB’, while the law enforcement/homeland security question (and an appropriate line of inquiry, I'd add) would be to see if there is a 'hidden link'  in this outbreak of tanker accidents.

But for the time monks, and the hypothecating People's Economist who is still 'in training', there's a much more important question: Are we getting a print-through of things yet to come?

Given the rash of the tanker fires, I find myself asking "Gee, what else was going on related to many of the archetypes this past weekend?"  Hmmm...well, at least on the energy front, we had that bust of 172 terrorism suspects who were plotting to attack the Saudis key oil chokepoints.

OK, what do I get (down at the archetype level) when I think oil/gas/stored energy coupled with restrictions on travel?  Are the micro-events telegraphing a large thing to come in the next four months? 

No fair jumping to "oil embargo".  One of the things we can almost cast in stone about event predictive linguistics is "If you can think it, you're likely wrong.  A couple of years back, we had linguistics of 300 people, many finely dressed, standing on a cliff with a big wave coming at them - and that was followed by the cruise ship that took a near roll-over from a freak wave – at the archetype level, the people on the cliff were the people on the upper deck of the ship.  But who would have thought "freak wave nearly rolls ship"?  Certainly not us – we had people high up over water, wave coming at them and the idea that what they were standing on could tip, well, that was about as far from a possibility as you’d find.  Yet, it was 100% certain in that the subsequent ship-tipping happened.  And, that's one example of how the archetypes can be dead right, but the event that actually shows up, well that's another thing entirely.

So is "tanker/accident/fire/blockage" trying to tell us something? And if so, what?  A ponderance for the granfallooon.

A reader sent us a link to a chart - here - and a note that "50-day looks to be getting ready to cross over above 200-day few days, AND value is right on the 50-day, having risen past few weeks."  And my friend Robin Landry says his indicators just keep looking stronger.  Possibility:  The market can go into a protracted up here into 2008 before falling apart - at least that's one count of wave action. 

Personally?  I don't expect it to last that long, as Terra intrudes and all.

Say, don't mean to be a nag about the commodity store and food and such, but we continue to watch the prices of commodities following the cold snap and the rains.

Here's a headline that answers why we're in Iraq about as neatly as anything: "Pentagon Study says Oil Reliance Strains Military."  Yeah.  Think through the implications of no oil, no food, no water on the whole world and you tell me what's ahead...

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Now that GWB has vetoed the military spending bill, a piece in the Economist "Who's winning?" is a worthwhile read.  Yeah, there really are people who would nuke or murder Americans any way they can...

Gordon Brown says good bye between now and July as Britain's chief amongst mixed reviews. My review is simple: He sold England's gold off at as near to the bottom as one could get.  Smooth move, Gordo!

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The World Bank says it will have a decision soon on Paul Wolfowitz future.  IJ wonder if he's using the time to send out resumes and call in favors?

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Australia has held rated steady today.

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Hey!  If Russia's Duma can Audit their central bank, why doesn't someone in CONgress grow some balls and audit ours?  Including a public walk-through of the gold in Ft. Knox?  Or, does "deep storage" really mean "yet to be mined"?

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South Korea is issuing a new and bigger paper money denominations.  Say, that's progress, huh?  "Paper!  More paper!!"

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In the Dominican Republic, the central banksters are blaming the  oil industry for inflation. It's never the watering down of paper to these bankster types, is it?

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And last, but not least, in our "Stiff us and we'll bad mouth you" department: "IMF Study Critical of Zimbabwe Central Bank Monetary Management."  What monetary management?  They've got 2,000% annual inflation fer cryin' out loud!

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And you wonder why Venezuela is pulling out of the IMF and World Bank(sters)?

From a reader with a unique perspective:

"Dear George.

I am a Canadian airline pilot currently working in the Persian Gulf and have been religiously reading you site as well as www.Lifeaftertheoilcrash.net  for 2 years. I can see what is coming our way with a magnifying glass from my vantage point. The other day I flew to New York with 38 passengers on an Airbus 340 and burned 98 metric tones of jet fuel in the process (beat that carbon foot print!) Here the middle class is being decimated with inflation about 18pc and stagnant wages. But this letter is not about financial crunch but about my son. I was explaining to him that we are returning to Canada next year and that we will no longer be able to afford our nanny. The kids love their nanny and she is part of the family now. So my son came up with a solution…”Daddy, we just have to pay her with paper money that way it will be cheap.” I can imagine TPTB coming up with this :” We just have to pay them with paper that way it is cheap!” So every month, I get my pay check and I convert it into hard asset like the check is on fire…Because it is.

Congratulation for your work."

And from another:

"THE SON OF E.HOWARD HUNT WAS A GUEST ON COAST TO COAST AM WITH GEORGE NOORY LAST NIGHT....

A TAPE OF HUNT WAS PLAYED WERE HE CONFESSED THAT LBJ WAS CHIEF CONSPIRATOR FOR JFK ASSASSINATION............

HUNT CONFESSED THAT (AS FAR AS BEING ONE OF THREE TRAMPS IN THE BOX CAR IN DEALEY PLAZA} HE WAS A "BENCH WARMER" FOR THE "BIG EVENT".

GEORGE NOORY HAS RELEASED THE TAPE TO EXECUTIVE PRODUCER OF CNN HEADLINE NEWS."

This ought to be very interesting to watch - will the corpress let this one out of the bag - I mean it's out to the aware people who go for more than spoon feeding, but will the spoon-fed ever hear of this?  We await...

Tuesday May 1, 2006

34 Duke MBA students are accused of violating the school's honor code by cheating on an exam.  I'm a little confused here.  The story says they are wrong "for allegedly cheating on an open-book, take-home final in one of the school's required core classes."  How the heck can you cheat on an open-book test?  Maybe someone was selling answers - but hey!  These are MBA candidates - that's entrepreneurial spirit - massively increasing productivity which is precisely what they were being trained for! 

But we live in the land of situational/positional ethics:  If you're a President, you can get away with it.  If you're still in school, "Do as we say, not as we do..."

An article out of Boston suggests that the next time you are in a store and hear some nondescript voice in your head saying "Pick up cereal" or some such, it may be new narrow audio beams coming at you.  The genuinely conspiracy minded would be asking about now "Voices in your head...hmmm...I wonder if this could be used to push people over the edge and cause them to commit serious crimes like mass murder and so forth...??".  Aye, a damn fine question 'at'd be...

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Meantime, the Washington Post reports "Sony apologizes for dead goat prop" being used in promotion of a new video game - God of War II.  Killer game, we hear....

Last week I reported on the story which Fox headlined "Feds Rain Alabama Militia Group, Uncover Small Weapons Arsenal".  Well, as it turns out, one of our readers is close enough to the situation to have been visited by the BATF folks and offers this account:

"George; I am acquainted with a couple of the men involved in the Alabama Militia bust. I would like to make a comment or two on your "editorial", if I may.

First of all, there were "silencers" found. I have actually seen the type devices involved. They are empty shells sold openly through "Shotgun News" for the Cobray MAC-10. They have the outward appearance of a silencer but have no real effect on the report from a 9mm round. The only purpose they serve is to provide a hand hold for a ridiculously unstable pistol. The "rifle grenades" are actually 12Ga shotgun slugs. That are also sold openly through mail order houses and at "ATF supervised" gun shows. "Commercial Fireworks"?!? I cannot drive 50 miles in the deep south without seeing at least 3 or 4 "Crazy Bill's" fireworks stands. And what redneck hasn't lit the fuses on a bazillion or so M-80's to see if he could blow up something? Anything. A stump (guilty), a can, an old car?

The other point I would like to comment on is your reference to "militia weapons" and how they are interpreted from the 2nd Amendment by the U.S. Supreme Court.

According to several of the "founding" documents of this republic, the militia consists of ALL able bodied men, of good character, from the age 18 to a high limit. That limit, I think, was originally 45, but has, in subsequent years, been raised. I -believe- the current high age is 55. Of this, I am not sure.

In the Miller decision, in the late '40s, the Supreme Court ruled that militia weapons were to be provided by the individuals, when mustered, and were to be "of the type in common use at the time".

Now, there is more to the Miller Decision than this. Much more. But the salient point is that every able bodied man is to be in possession of, and by implication, competent in the use of, basic military hardware. And to bring it with him when he musters. Therefore, it obviously is to be kept at his place of residence. And competency gained through regular practice.

So, what are the military weapons in common use at THIS time? Sure as heck isn't a .22 squirrel gun. I find the Swiss to really "have their stuff together" on this one.

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You probably have, or will, get more comments on your piece. I am in hopes that you will hear my comments because of my knowledge of the people involved. One of whom I have known close to 25 years.

I would prefer my name not be used openly, because these MEN have not yet been indicted or brought to trial. Which will probably be a farce. After Ruby Ridge, the ATF doesn't have much credibility with me.

I am a resident of Alabama, working out of state; going home a couple days a month when work permits. And, yes, I was visited by an agent (actually three; I'm a very dangerous man, you see) the day of the bust. I guess to keep me from contacting any of them. The reality is that, if not for the ATF visit, I wouldn't have known anything until it showed up on the news. Since I don't watch TV, that would be when it showed up on the web. Hmmmmf!"

It was while I was pondering this bit of information when another email showed up - again, from a citizen journalist/events watcher:

"Apparently the feds, including BATF agents, were having racist (white-supremacist) "good old boy" gatherings http://www.no-debts.com/anti-federalist/gadsden.html 

The local militia video-ed and documented the gathering proceedings and exposed them. Years later, the Alabama bust was "pay-back."

I'm not so sure about that "pay-back" conclusion offered by the reader.  As I've been watching the follow-up stories on this  "Anti-Government Militia's Arms Stockpile No Big Deal, Lawyer Says"  I notice the mention the "hand grenades" but North Carolina's Wilmington Star reports in "Much Ado About Nothing" that "A cache of ammunition that was confiscated - 2,500 rounds - wasn't that large, and the scores of homemade hand grenades that agents seized could be made with powder from fireworks and components readily available in military surplus stores, attorney Scott Boudreaux said."

Several thinking points about this story:

1)  It demonstrates that here on the internet, citizen reporters/sources are extremely useful in getting an accurate picture of events (email #1),

2) Also on the internet you get a lot of theories like (to paraphrase the insurance commercial)  "pay-back - this time its for real" which may - or may not - be motivations (email #2)

3) The biggie for me is noticing that both of the stories linked made mention of an informer.

Now, to me, this last point is most crucial.  Why?  With tons of money sloshing about DHS and related LE groups to be spent ferreting out those who would do harm to this Great Country, the question comes up again about paid informers.  It's an especially delicate situation if an informer can play a role as a provocateur - in which case you get to the fine line between defending America from harm (a good thing) and having the government "set people up" -- something which raises a lot of troubling Constitutional questions.

We'll just keep an eye on this and see what comes of it. Yes, commercially available items can be turned into ugly (and illegal) devices. (Ask any GI in the Green Zone.) That's the law, those are the rules, and we live by them or suffer the consequences.  Fine. In the courts now.

But, I'm more interested in the informant's role ---was he paid? --and if so, was the compensation was tied to results...that it seems to me is the most serious aspect of this.  The philosophical question might be: "How much money does it cost to find someone willing to bear false witness or set someone up?" versus "We gotta have people on the inside to know what's being planned to prevent harm to innocents."  Where are the Framers of the Constitution when we need 'em?

This gets us around to this one: Five British men have been convicted of terrorism charges and off to the lock-up for them.  Paragraph two of this version of the story mentions the role of an FBI informant in the case.

The US ands China find themselves on the same side of the climate debate - wanting to water down UN action.

The four little kittens - at five weeks - are making the transition from mom's food to human supplied stuff. One of our readers sent along the ultimate in cat treats from the www.flintriver.com store - some dried Bonita strips.  Yum - if you're a cat.   If you want one of the young mousers in training (and live in Texas) please drop us a line - first bag of cat food is on us.

We've decided to limit our cat herd to two.  The problem with cats is if you have cat food, you have other animals about.  Like mice.  If you have mice you have snakes.  My preferred snake disposal tool is a 12-gauge shell.  My retired SF buddy across the street uses pruning loppers - but I'm a believer in action at a distance.

Meanwhile Tom, Tom, the cat outside is doing less catting about since his trip to Dr. Snippet DVM last week.  We suspect Tom has a drug problem - he's apparently found something like wild catnip and spends long periods rubbing his chin on various patches of the lawn, then rolling around like he's had several too many. Knocks up Pusscilla the momma cat and then reverts to doing cat drugs.  Yup, a fine imitation of a soap opera human.

The folks at Pogue Press/O'Reilly have sent a copy of "Windows Vista - The Missing Manual"  So here's my question:  Please let me know if you have upgraded from XP Home to Vista x and let me know if your computer ran faster or slower?  Thanks.  The book makes it sound like a step forward...

I'll be installing the heat pump for my new office this week - leaving just cabinets and moving ahead.  Elaine has posted armed guards around my new 9X20 gear-driven lathe until I get that done, just to keep me motivated, along with reminders that putting the castable refractory in my metal-melting furnace is not the highest priority around the ranch with kid goats due in a few months. 

She's right, of course:  Putting up the new ham antenna is....

Monday April 30, 2007

Folks in the San Francisco area are waking up to a hellacious traffic mess today as a weekend tanker truck fire that destroyed the viaduct connecting eastbound I-80 with eastbound 580.  That's the upper deck - there was also damage to the lower deck and officials will get repairs going as fast as they can -- once the investigation into the accident is complete.

 For now, the thinking is that the truck was traveling too fast and the driver is reported hospitalized.  One key thing from the coverage "Engineers estimated that the flames reached close to 3,000 degrees -- hot enough to melt the green steel frame and bolts of the I-580 overpass. "

That's hotter than the 800-1500° temps of burning jet fuel...although steel does lose about half its strength at 1100°.  The ignition temperature of gasoline is quite low (around 500°) and the more fuel and air the hotter. If you're old enough, you may remember the old style gas-fired blow torches - the blue flame from those hit closed to 3000° - when burning blue.  Yellow flames are cooler - relatively.

You might be interested in some of the physical constants that fire investigators consider, but for this morning it just seems like the melting point of steel has intruded a little much into life, again.

Four dead out of a shopping mall shoot out this weekend.

As the web bot meme "secrets revealed" continues to wash through media reports, we're particularly intrigued with what  Deborah Palfrey - who claims she was only running a legal 'escort service' will reveal when she names names on ABC 20/20 Friday night. 

On Friday there was a resignation from the administration allegedly over the "D.C. Madam" story - and seems likely there will be more.  It stands to reason that the public isn't the only one's being screwed in DC.  But, you knew that, right?

I find it curious that Ronald Reagan's allies are backing actor/lawyer Fred Thompson for the White House.  Sort of the ultimate "Law and Order" candidate, huh?

Watergate legend Carl Bernstein's new book on Hillary Clinton is reported less than complimentary on (among other fronts) her much hyped career claims. Great quote from the Sarah Baxter article for the TimesOnline: "The book could revive the explosive charge, made earlier this year by David Geffen, a former Clinton donor and Hollywood mogul, that “the Clintons lie with such ease, it’s troubling”. "  Go Hillary, go....away.

Another story about a celebrity who says one thing for us to do about global warming and seems to do something else.

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Speaking of inconvenient truths, turns out that significant climate change is showing up - on Mars. 

OK, so the ugly truth (hidden in all the crap) is that yes, humans are burning through fossil fuels and yeah, that's maybe 5% of the global warming problem.  But 95% is due to changes in output from the Sun and energies coming in from the galaxy.  But hey!  Why not use the 'global warming' scare to stampede corporations into a new game of trading carbon credits?  Just think what a fine way to go on to another bubble this could be!  Yee haw!

Why next thing you know, we'll have personal carbon credits - a sort of dual currency!  I love it!

I'm not the lone skeptic here - you did catch last week's report "Industry caught in carbon "smokescreen" in the prestigious Financial Times, right?

Moving up the food chain a little, we're very pleased to learn that a computer has not been able to simulate a mouse brain. I can see the code flashing by in my head:

GOSUB "Cheese"

IF "cat" GOSUB "Run!"

IF "corner" GOSUB "crap"

IF "warfarin" END

The usual big government suspect have been at it again - with a vote scheduled on a plan to give the FDA control of food supplements.  Even bottled water could be regulated if it's used to treat dehydration, we hear.

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Say - here's an UrbanSurvival Constitutionally sound revolutionary idea:  How about an amendment to the Constitution which would make it a crime to reintroduce regulations that have been turned down once already?  Seems like every so often, the Power That Be keep reintroducing things until the public just gets tired and gives up on an issue - like this regulation of vitamins thing..  But I've seen it in other things too - like using public money to bankroll facilities for pro sports - that kind of thing.

OK, here's the inbox:

"Hi George,

Excellent Peoplenomics this weekend. Here is a piece that should warrant the attention of every UrbanSurvival reader

http://mises.org/story/2533 

Cheers"

The story (if lifting your clicking finger is too much work on a Monday for you, you lazy no good for nothing...) is about how Panama has no Central Bank and seems to get along fine.

Next email?

"We are in the process of replacing some furniture and flooring.

The furniture stores are all but empty, we were to at least four of them and one of them advertises heavily.  We found something we liked at the heavily advertised store and therefore made several trips and every trip there was no store traffic.

We visited the flooring store several times and usually were the only customer.

I live in the Philadelphia suburbs and the heavily advertised furniture store is in King of Prussia one of the biggest and wealthiest shopping centers in the country.

I imagine your friend Jas Jane would not be surprised. Feel free to share."

Speaking of Jas...

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