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Global Takeover In View? Depends how you want to take this week's news and I don't know if you caught the Alex Jones show Friday, but if you click over to YouTube, Bob Chapman of the International Forecaster and Alex Jones state the obvious: This week's G-20 is essentially the rollout of the New World Government; bye-bye G-8, hello G-20. All of which sets up the real troubles to come in the late October through mid-November area that I've mentioned to you for months.
Just so's you know why it was so important to snatch protesters out of the G-20 and such: With headlines about that "Obama sworn in as 'World President" about some fair number of people are starting to get uncomfortable with just how fast America's Constitutional framework is being replaced.
More importantly, we see the revelations that Iran has a second uranium enrichment project as coming in a timely fashion to puff that international zit up into a full-blow pimple ready to pop in a month. Sorry if that's a little gross at this hour, (what can I say?) but that's how these things work; they start, they fester, and then they [literally] explode. Except instead of looking in the mirror, you look in the papers or at the TeeVee.
Kinda like the next round of the Korea mess, but isn't that not till late November to mid December by the www.halfpasthuman.com libretto, if I recall it right. Really makes you want to get out of bed in the morning, doesn't it? --- In the wake of the G-20, there are plenty of reports like "Civil liberties groups: Police overreacted at G-20", but a police response within the bounds of peaceable assembly and seeking redress isn't the point anymore. That's quickly going, going, gone out of style. It's showing the Constitutional freedom believers in the public who haven't gotten the word yet that 'times really are - or are at least in the process of - changing. --- When I read stories like "Obama's powerful presence" in the print media, I can't help wondering, Saturday cynic that I am, "How much of the newspaper op/ed support for president O is based on a cold hard assessment of facts, or is some of his support because newspapers are next in line to head for Washington seeking federal bailouts and underwriting?"
Don't think so? "US newspaper industry not seeking bailout: NAA" declares the headline. Maybe that's because of a poll which says 80 percent of the country leans toward a thumbs down on this. So the alternative? Expect the paper crowd to seek tax breaks and loosening of pension requirements. Oh? That's NOT a bailout? You mean because it comes out of the back pocket instead of the front pocket? How stupid is the American public, anyway? Oh oh, maybe I don't want the answer to that one... --- It's been said that everyone has their price so I won't fight the trend: If someone in the PowersThatBe would send along $20-million or so, I'll convert UrbanSurvival into a corpgov mouthpiece. But do it quick, while the money will still buy things. Hell, even a nice package of tax breaks and a 'special' pension plan around here would be worth an occasional kind word about corporate globalism eats world. Even for $5-million I could hang up consulting and get down to the serious business of milking the system, for a change. Like the Big Boyz do. Yeah, I like that!
Of course I'm not holding my breath on this happening, after all I'm not too big to fail. Or am I? There's the matter of bailouts for smaller banks being weighed. Think your cookie jar and ours would qualify us? Let me ask you: Did you make good-sized campaign contributions to wink, wink, nudge, nudge? ---- "Oh, you' re so funny, George". Oh yeah? You saw where a "Gore backed Car Firm Gets Large U.S. Loan". Yup, I'd say over half a billion is a good-sized loan alright. On its merits, of course. You betcha.
Are we supposed to not notice that the cars will be built in FINLAND? WTF: Why it didn't occur to anyone in the rubber-stamp line to require the dough be spent in the US? This is presactly the kind of question the asleep at the wheel MSM oughta be asking?
Banks: SS&TTP That means "Short, sweet, and to the point": Just one failure (so far) posted since the Friday market close on the FDIC web site. That was the five branches of Georgian Bank which is being shotgun married off. This means the number of branches closed down so far is just 3,716 since the IndyMac closure in July of last year. --- Just because there was just one bank failure this week, don't go thinking that the banking mess is anywhere near solved. "US large-loan bank losses triple to $53 billion" this year. That means large loans (over $20-millioni - the kind you and I can't get) are continuing to tank and those costs ultimate will get passed on to whom? Here, hold the KY...
That High Profile Bin Laden ...is somehow able to get out press releases on tape demanding four European nations pull their troops out of Afsmackistan. Wonder if Business Wire and PR News Wire have thought about an audio tape drop system? Seems to work well and get's plenty of ink for OBL. Why, just a single drop box in, oh, Virginia, say...
Nuke This Brazil is making noise about building nuclear arms. Dandy! --- I think what's going on here is that Brazil is feeling a little proximity concern since they are close to Hugo Chavez, whose been talking up nuclear development with Iran. How cool is this? Let's arm South America to the hilt - a fine economic stimulus plan for the defense industry in the event they don't get the Israeli/Iranian war to light off here in about a month as planned.
Cue Montgomery Burns "Excellent!"
Ring of Ire AT&T is going after Google which has the Google Voice ap that seems to be gaining traction in the market. This could be an interesting case to watch to see just how real 'net neutrality' is going to be when the lawyering gets done around it. --- Hope you've been following the net law changes here in Texas where the Austin Police department among other is ready to take on those who aren't forthright and accountable for their net posts. Especially when the content is misleading or libelous. --- Seems like any technology that comes along eventually gets spun around into irresponsible use. Not just the internet, although those cases where people have put 'CraigsList' postings up and wipe out people's homes, or the spate of stalkers using singles posts, well you get the idea.
End of the Line With the Space Shuttle set for retirement in 2011 wonder if that will set the stage for the government to roll out some of the teleport technology that has been rumored to be around for years? Too disruptive? Or, what's left of the economy by then might need some new injection of tech to keep the dream of getting off this rock alive... Water on the moon? We set up a bottling plant and ship it back as a health drink at the quickie marts where people will buy anything.... --- Anyone ever work out the MPG rating on the Space Shuttle? Wonder if NASA has ever compared them with cars. 'Spect they wouldn't do so good, depending on how many orbits the mission is, of course.
On a Positive Note This is a weekend - and I like to periodically remember that on weekends it becomes very obvious to see what people are made of. One class of folks sleeps in, does pretty much nothing all weekend -and then goes back to work 'for the man' on Monday. Then there's the other class of evolving humans who value weekends as prime time to work on their own personal life goals.
The notion of 'sleeping in' on the weekend simply means you're willing to work harder for someone else than you are for yourself...not being critical, just making the observation.
Not this weekend (which is already overbooked) but maybe next weekend I am planning to do some research on whether to migrate from hostile-a-Vista to Windows 7. Starting to get some articles piling up (like this one) which need to be read and evaluated.
Not telling how many weekends it will take to get the systems around here converted.
Saturday Motors: Honda One Wheeler Something to keep an eye on if you've been wondering about the Segway. Honda has a new unicycle in the works. Not as fast as a Segway (3.7 MPH top speed) but a smaller footprint and more suitable for...er...indoor use. Didn't see in the story about whether it will be easy for a 60-year old klutzoid to use, but sure looks interesting. I'll be the guy yelling "Help! I've fallen and I can't get up..." --- No progress in my search for the dream electric bike. Since we're so far out in the boonies, the minimum range I need is 40 miles. Seems like all the electric bikes out there are in the 20-25 mile range. When they get to 40 miles and under a grand, I'll start getting interested. With the weather cooling I can get back into the shop and may be able to get that gas-motor add-on kit cobbled onto my mountain bike...promises to be fun. --- Off to tackle the weekend chore list and work on Peoplenomics...so see you Monday morning. Don't sleep in. Time's a wastin. -- Send your comments to george@ure.net The UrbanSurvival Mall: Peoplenomics This Week: Doctrine Issues In The War Across Time This week, we step back from our usual fare of non-traditional economics (of the sort that recognizes the cyclical nature of economies, population demographics and resource depletion rates, since such topics are taboo among peer-reviewed cowards) to expand our vistas to just beyond the frontiers of the science we know to where some recent developments bring into focus the possibility of a supra-normal reality, thanks to a contributor who has gone to great lengths to protect his identity. This week we'll digest enough data to trigger a curious mind to look at seemingly inexplicable events in today's headlines and examine the possibility that there is - as Arthur Conan Doyle called it - a bigger game afoot. Behind all that most humans accept 'entertainment' there may be a far more elegant yet troubling explanation for scores of 'unexplainable events' right before our eyes, 9/11, UFO's, the whole spectrum: It's a battle with roots in Roswell, Philadelphia and tests Able and Baker in the Pacific, chemtrails and all the rest. And it has tentacles reaching past today forward a thousand tomorrows. Welcome to the ultimate in asymmetric warfare: The War Across Time. MyGroPonics My commodity broker JB Slear and I have written a simple book to get you started on high density hydroponics. It's an example of how someone with a little creativity, access to a few 'dollar stores' and willing to try out some new farming techniques can grow an amazing amount of produce sin a very small space - like even an apartment balcony (if it gets some sunlight). Sound interesting? It's just $10 bucks here...
Maxa-Cookie Manager No, when you tell your browser to 'empty your cookies' of web sites you've visited, it probably won't get them all. Why? Because there is a whole class of 'browser-independent' cookies that will gobble up space on your hard drive, but more important is they will sneak out information about you without you being aware of it. Ever week I get emails like this one:
Test drive it free by downloading it. To upgrade to full functionality will be $35 bucks. Is your privacy worth it?
Once you try it out, click the
upgrade button (!) on the upper right hand side for the $35
unlock to get it to remove even those nasty and highly intrusive
'non-browser specific' cookies. Bonus: You computer
may run faster. I've taken
Attn: Mac Drivers: MCM does support the Safari Browser, but that does not mean it is compatible with Mac OS. Maxa-Tools only support the Windows world....so far. Given Jens and the other engineers time...
Feeling Thorny? Want to be a thorn in the side of the Old World Order? Simply click here and send a link to this site to everyone on your distro list...Nothing more dangerous than sharp, clear-thinking upstarts who ask a lot of questions, eh? Unless you believe WTC-7 fell over on its own, of course....
"Live on $10,000" Updated I've told you in the past to order my ebook "How to Live on $10,000 a year or less..." with the rationale that "We're all going to live it shortly, anyway." Don't know as you have looked lately, but the unemployment rate is up more than 3% since I wrote the first edition of that book and underpasses have never been more homely. Worth ordering? Just visit www.liveontenthousand.com or, click this little whizzie...
It's an automatic download. It's written in an information dense style: The whole thing runs about 65 pages, but it gives you a vision of how to not only live on the cheap, but also how to migrate up the economic foodchain if you have a little hustle left... Click here for the index and details. ---- Last week's report is here. For back issues of this site, click here. (Goes back to 1997!)
Friday September 25, 2009 G-20 Stress In what seems almost like a replay of the 'battle of Seattle' the scene of the present G-20 meetings in Pittsburgh is not exactly a glowing example of peaceful protest nor restrained response as 20-odd people have been arrested so far at the G-20. The usual tactics on both sides - running small groups of anarchists versus police with tear gas and rubber bullets. --- From an historic perspective, these are interesting times to be sure: The US, founded on principles of freedom has seen the ascendancy of the non-human corporate persona which has come to dominate not only the conduct of governance through huge lobby and special interest groups that essentially run public policy via their sway, but at the same time has become blinded to the evolution of the corporate Super Class by corporate media which seems intent on not discussing the Up/Down issues and casts it universally as either economic or contained within a childish right/left framework.
Thus, the G-20 may be thought of more accurately as a corporate global governance conference than world leaders meeting to address basic human needs. It's against this background that the US is being dethroned as the lone global super power amidst headlines like "US May Face 'Armageddon' If China, Japan Don't Buy Debt." --- Filling some of the predictive linguistic expectations out of the web bot project, we can't help but notice the deployment of 'acoustic weapons on US soil' - the devices which once turned on cause excruciating pain. That so-called 'non-lethal' weapons may have long term health consequences doesn't seem to much concern authorities although they are getting plenty of attention among protesters and those concerned with maintenance of free speech.
My personal take on the danger of non-lethal weapons is that they provide a 'migration path' (to use the marketing term) which provides the increasing intertwined military/police complex on American soil a way to edge soldiers who would never begin use of lethal force against U.S. citizens a way to slowly work up to it. --- The use of 'migration pathing' is also clear as the New World Order of the Bush Era is being rolled out under the context of 'maintain global economic order'. Reuters has a pretty good piece on how the "New world economic order takes shape at the G20."
We can clearly see how global super government will eventually steal not only American autonomy, but will begin to take on a life of its own through the global public purse, eventually moving toward global taxes in order to fund hugely profitable globalist pet projects in the area of environmental, food production and so forth.
The use (consciously or otherwise) Hegelian dialectic - create a terrible problem and then offer the prepackaged 'right' solution - allows the corporate globalist gang to pocket wealth from scams like derivatives, roll the crisis over onto the public through financial collapse, and stick the public with the bill while those at the top skate. ---- While the U.S. Supreme Court recently indicated that it is open to an even further expansion of corporate/special interest use of money to buy government policy favorable to corporate/special interest objectives, American families are kept off-balance by a war in Afghanistan (where we sadly lost five more on our soldiers overnight) and by a 'war on terror' punctuated by period arrests and claims about web use to find bomb supplies.
You might want to print out this article from this morning's Washington post, by the way, since in the linguistics we are headed toward some kind of control/licensure/restrictions on the internet in 2010. All in the name of keeping us safe, don'tcha know. --- All of which is not to pass judgment on whether the stew of current events is either good or bad; it's just what it is to the aware observer - the once Constitutional governance of America being usurped/replaced by corporate mastery of public policy which allows the very greediest of humans to hide their wealth and abuses behind the corporate veil on the pretext that it's really what's best for all of us; and they know what's best for us since they are so much better than us commoners.
Like royalty that first Americans first fled, then defeated, the corporate masters have gone global in scope and are arranging the next steps of consolidated global governance in Pittsburgh.
Way back when, a won a regional SDX award for a story about how at the height of the Cold War there was an active corporate nuclear trade involving the Soviet Union and the West. In that report I noted that one could take the Cold War as a sham since there was growing nuclear trade between the sides.
To update that perspective, I similarly see governments following a corporate lead; doing 'roll-ups' of countries under regional banners like the European Union and eventually a North American Union. If, along the way, we have to suffer through a collapse of the economy to hobble America, then I guess that's what will be supplied.
If you thought America had lost control of its supposed representatives in Washington, who didn't return phone calls or respond to voter demands in the 'too big to fail' scam, you ain't seen nothing yet. Just think what a fine world we'll have when there's another layer of government over America run by the corporate proxies. Fun world, huh?
The world is waking up - and well meaning, peace & freedom loving humans are continuing to connect on the net and a new kind of consciousness is arising. By oh, next summer or so, we may be seeing a fair bit of confrontation between regular humans and corporate humans. Should be interesting, to say the least. Which is why the FCC's 'net neutrality' will have to be undermined by the PowersThatBe. Can't have a globally connecting mind questioning those who a busily seizing the reins and profits for themselves and their owners, can we?
If you have taken your morning double-dose of cynicism pills, you might be tempted to speculate that the talk of 'net neutrality' is nothing more than another fund raising scheme hatched by the democons and republicorps to bulk up their coffers before 'hoodwink' time (elections) roll around again. Trust you read Richard Doman's piece this week: "Republicans back off net neutrality gambit"?
OK, enough Friday morning cynicism, let's dig back into the headlines.
Durable? What's that? Figures out from the Uberment this morning on (not so) Durable Goods:
The stock market looks to open on the downside due to the dour & sour.
The gate of hell financially open if we get a close of the S&P under 1035 by Robin Landry's work. As long as we stay over that, the "Happy Talk" can continue and dreams of 10,300 on the Dow will persist. Long as we keep printing zeroes in a frenzied way, of course... and as long as China can be twisted to keep buying our paper.
Don't even get me started on the talk of the FDIC being funded with IOU's...OMG you thought crystal meth was crazy? Check kiting by government - never thought I'd live to see the day...
This is (En) Rich Iran, which has steadfastly maintained that it's not building a bomb (uh huh, sure, right) now "tells IAEA it is building 2nd enrichment plant." So we check the watch linguistically and see that we're tracking to October 25th when this ought to all zoom to the front pages only to be followed with a couple of weeks of high profile 'personal diplomacy' kinds of headlines before...oh, you know. --- A reader asks...
Hard telling from the linguistics, but October 25th is either the data that Israel does a one week notice, or it's the strike date, but that's when things get hot, best we can reckon. What Happened to Transparency Nothing - at least nothing much so far. Later on this morning, the House committee on financial services is holding a hearing on HR 1207 - the Federal Reserve Transparency Act of 2009. This is where Scott Alvarez of the (not really) Federal Reserve will give his pitch on why the Fed shouldn't be audited:
Apparently, the boyz at the Fed kinda sorta forget that Congress has the money deliberating role in America...but let's not be bothered with such trivialities. Nor, I suppose should we be swayed by the Mises institutes counter argument:
This has the potential to be a 'shot across the bow' to the corporate/bankster cabal that runs America via the special interest checkbook. At least a few Americans have figured out that something's not quite right when banks and insurance companies get bailed out in a NY (Fed) second while waiting for another 13-week unemployment comp extension takes....well, is that done yet?
Why The West Loves Zimbabwe A couple of weeks ago, I suggested that the reason the West is so anxious for rapprochement with Zimbabwe is not for their expertise in printing zeroes on currency, although true that they are the world leaders in that department. No, the reason we're putting the full court press on that part of Africa (new AFRICOM mission statements and such) is that Zimbabwe has some of the REE's (rare earth elements) that are strategically important to the West.
Here's a confirming story: "Rare Earths are Vital, China Owns Them All." Small countries like Bolivia (lithium deposits) are of critical concern, too. Just so you know what's on our shopping list...
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Coping: With Future Technology Interesting article in the Daily Mail Online today under the heading "Cooker that 'grows' meat in your kitchen beats teleporting fridge and two-second clothes cleaner to win design prize".
With our recent focus on advances in antigravity technology and the use of cloaking technology that (may) distort time, it's fun once in a while to sit back with a cuppa joe and wonder "If I( could invent anything in the world what would it be?" A couple of my own picks:
Of course, none of this is going to happen, so instead we get another X years of mediocrity and the contin8uing build of tension between the corpgov types on one side and the genuine Constitution-loving Libertarians on the other and....where's my coffee?
About 2012 Speaking of article in British papers, I see the Telegraph ran an article "'Web-bot project' makes prophecy of 2012 apocalypse". While the linguistics didn't exactly say the world would end then, we ought to be several billion people fewer in number by then, but here's hoping you're not one of them. Number like 1.25 billion or so (starvation mostly, but the sound of it due to economic collapsing) over the next couple of years is almost a lead pipe cinch. --- You can go check the Google cache on things like our prediction of the China Quake in May of '08. Yeah, kinda hard trashing the Google cache - tough one for people who have a really hard time dealing with the fact the future 'leaks' in advance. But that's how science works, like it or not, huh? 50,000 dead Chinese is a strong argument that the technology works. But stick around for the other (at least) 1.25 billion to follow as dead and starving to come if you're not convinced.
And I Thought I Was a Writer Dept. And then I noticed the headline touting the article on the front of the September 2009 issue of AOPA Pilot: "Cross Country on Grass" Well, turning to P. 90 it turns out to be on a new kind of fuel that seems to test as well or better than 100 LL avgas. But still, got me inside the covers even if I don't have time to finish the biennial right now... --- The D-Jet article in the following issue (Oct.) was interesting, too. If I ever get time and $1.8 megabux and want a family sized jet...... --- Short report this morning since I had to reboot 6 times while writing - which will teach me when to install new software which goes wonky when I've got a schedule to meet....
Thursday September 24, 2009 Been Fired Yet? Had a call from Robin Landry after the market close on Wednesday. He tells me there is a chance - a slight on, but definitely 'non-zero' that a move of the market to the downside today could set us up for the Mother of All Collapses this fall. True, there's a strong count that suggests one more wave up (and he doesn't think I'll make money on my S&P 700 put options for November, but that always was just a lotto ticket, but the ones for next year, Ha!).
That said, the Mass Layoff report came out on Wednesday from those light-hearted, hard working folks at the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Lemme see: 4.5 million out of a workforce of about 145 million - so three percent of the workforce has been laid off in what, a year and a half call it? My handy-dandy long term chart of the number looks like this:
If you're a serious math-head, you can see that our best fit seems to be along the second-order polynomial trend line, although a big pop up next month might argue for the 5th order, which would in turn imply that we may be nearing the peak of layoffs.
If there's a key reversal to the downside today after the morning bounce, then I'd sure head for the hills since I'm a strong believe in the philosophy "He who fights and runs away, lives to fight another day..." and that could set up a Black Friday.
Speculating a bit, that topping of the 5th order poly trend line could be for one of two reasons: Either there really is an end to the evolution of the first leg down of the Second Depression, or we're just flat-ass running out of people to fire.
I lean toward this latter interpretation, but I've been watching it longer than you and I've had enough coffee to remember than crack-ups of boom/bust economies are never pleasant. They come along with all kinds of social resentment which gets us to the morning's second item...
The Dead Fed Case I want to be really clear about something: Just because we have been predicting increased stress levels and open conflict between the American public and their government, we by no means endorse violence of any sort -- our predictions of the evolution of such conflict starting now and evolving over the next year (and longer) is not something we have anything to do with. Nor, do we incite. We simply report what is in the data.
Not that this is new: Using technology developed by www.halfpasthuman.com we often report shifts of language that seem to (occasionally, once in a while, maybe slightly better than chance) presage actual future events. If an ugly future event shows up, it isn't because we made it show up. We report in advance sometimes and Universe delivers. We just have a way of seeing it ahead of time. Been doing this for a long time and as evidence, look at the case of the Northeast Power Outage forecast or, another smack on example was the China Quake forecast in 2008. Even out 'tipping point' discussions in the months prior to 9/11.
This strong reminder comes because we are now entering the forecast period where people and their government here in the West are going to go several paces past crazy and there's now emerging evidence here of starting points in the UP vs. DOWN conflict which the data suggests will ramp up in lieu of (and replacing) the former right vs. left political distractions of politics which had served as a social pressure relief valve. We're on the verge (sadly) of people taking more direct action. --- To begin with, there's the case of a US Census worker being found hanged in Kentucky with the word 'Fed' scrawled on his chest. No telling how this happened yet - so we await details.
In new Jersey, four police officers were shot while serving a no-knock warrant. --- The US MainStreamMedia has done an absolutely horrible job of reporting back to the general public how stressed a large part of society is these days. The talk about 'green shoots' and such might make nice clips for the evening news, but in foreign media reports, you pick up the really abysmal tone of things by reading stories about people living in storm sewers under cities like Las Vegas. --- It's one thing to fudge a little on the unemployment picture, but things we're hearing indicate that things are about to get much, much worse. Why?
We've heard rumblings, unconfirmed yet, that a lot of small businesses around America are on the verge of filing for bankruptcy in two weeks time about October 15th. That's when the second extension to file 2008 income taxes will expire.
What we're hearing in general terms is that thousands of small business owners bet on a recovery in 2009 in order to catch up on past tax debts and since that hasn't happened yet, they're going to the wall October 15th with BK filings. We may have more on this next week as we've heard that a local (to East Texas) radio show is talking to some folks...
Hide That (Golden) Sausage "Federal Reserve Admits Hiding Gold Swap Arrangements, GATA Says". Hell of a headline, huh? Good on Bill Murphy & crew at GATA. The details in the GATA press release release out Wednesday:
When I looked, gold before press time was headed toward $1,020, but more interesting is that there's talk of gold over $1,500 before the end of the year. We'll see, but that's certainly not a 'rule out' is it?
Nuevo Bucks So with all this as background, we don't need to linger on why the G-20 is considering other measures than the Us dollar for a global reserve currency, do we? No? Didn't think so. Lordy, you're a sharp one, aren't cha?
Gravity of the Situation Say...has it occurred to anyone besides me that if "India’s lunar mission finds evidence of water on the Moon" that maybe Richard C. Hoagland's books that probe that sort of double life of NASA may be true? Besides the world moving toward disclosure about UFO's, and there are some leaks being allowed in the scientific community about antigravity technology (see Coping section today) that will likely presage disclosures... The real question is "Where's my tax money been going...I mean really where's it been going?" Do we like get a REFUND or a DIVIDEND or something?
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Coping: Anti-Gravity Arrives for Real! With What Heaviside Was Hiding Strange things are afoot here in the WuJo - which, though it may look like a mad man's office with a cluttered mix of books, electronics, scientific papers, economics resources, multiple computers with 7 monitors, ham radio gear, a multitrack recording rig and 3 TB of storage wired in, and a drum set in the middle of it all, is really a place where thinking takes place. I'll tell you a little story.
Last weekend in Peoplenomics I got into an interesting hypothesis for readers; namely that a lot of what passes for paranormal experience in the here and now may be nothing more than visitors from our future who have come back across time via some yet-to-be-discovered mechanism and are interacting with ThePowersThatBe and/or corpgov in order to wage a battle for control of the planet in the future.
And that got me kicking the dusty corners of science to see where things like gravity no longer worked and that in turn had me asking all kinds of odd questions abouts about what basic research has been done into distortions of time in the vicinity of plasma fields, since that's an area which our 'source' alleged (in somewhat cloaked wording) that odd things may/are going on when strong OLED or PLED lights were projected onto flowing plasma layers around the skin of flying machines as a 'projecting surface' for cloaking devices and that's got something to do with chemtrails, UFO's yada, yada, yada.
As I say, this was all pretty hypothetical until this message showed up in an encrypted email from a contributing source:
WTF? A real paper that there really is a Gravitational Shielding Effect? And what's more that it takes place in the vicinity of plasma like I was explaining in more detail last weekend? This abstract came with a link to a probably obscure paper out of Los Alamos modestly titled "Gravity Control by means of Electromagnetic Filed through Gas or Plasma at Ultra-Low Pressure."
What's more, if you read the paper, you can build a simple test rig out of a fluorescent light, a signal generator and some easy to find goodies around the house! Holy smokes! Look at page 21 of the .PDF --- Since I had already been in contact with our consulting reactor engineer, I sent him a copy of this and his response was a brief, to the point:
So on the light-hearted side, this romp around the dusty corners of physics has gotten us some serious insight into how gin and tonics can mimic Cherenkov light from a water-moderated reactor core when the G&T's are held just so under black light...
But on the serious as a heart attack side the real useable outputs of the past week are that 1) there really is according to a Los Alamos paper a "Gravitational Shielding Effect" in the vicinity of plasma and this in turn means 2) Those stories that the leading edge of some US ultra high performance bombers that operate at extreme altitudes where what? (Pressure is low) Really may be getting some of their lift from the 'gravity shielding effect'. Is there some time distortion? Grab your B-2 and throw some RF sources behind the leading edge plasma outputs and let's instrument for even slight frequency shifts in our chase plane....
OK, so what if that sets up humankind for a new kind of aircraft which wouldn't require as much aerodynamic lift - ergo much higher fuel efficiency transport? That's not the latest bit of woo-woo around here.... --- I received a copy (again, I seem to be getting a lot of anonymous physics related material for a site that is primarily about watching the Second Depression unfold) of a late 1860's lecture by James Clerk Maxwell who was at least a couple of hundred years ahead of everyone else on the planet.
In this lecture (1867, which would have made Maxwell about 36 at the time), Maxwell talks about the fifth force which he then proceeds to explain.
Remember those experiments in junior high (or high school) where you put a magnet under a piece of paper and on top of which you had sprinkled some iron filings?
Maxwell says those magnetic lines of force (see the very rough sketch below) are simple enough (if you're a genius armed with heavy duty vector maths). But what is the force that pushes the field out perpendicular to the magnetic field? Here's the issue raised by Maxwell:
Is that a static E field? Hmmm... Despite having an Extra Class ham ticket and a commercial FCC ticket (an old First Class, BTW) and a fair understanding of how magnetic lines of force work in transformer/inductors/ yada, yada, I had never seen the question raised about "What keeps this stuff pushing out from the magnet?" Could it be that Heaviside got us so hypnotized as a group that we forgot to ask Maxwell's "Hey! What's this stuff?" The original Maxwell papers here if you have time. And you really must have the Rex Research CD's if you are to have a properly equipped WuJo of your own...
Granted I got kicked out of Seattle U&'s electrical engineering class for bringing a handheld calculator to class (Fall '67) and being uppity about using a slip-stick [slide rule], but I had never heard much about it.
Then things got really weird - like they aren't already... --- So I've been noodling since reading Maxwell a while back about "What would be the effect on high frequency radio waves (like ham radio on say 80-meters) if a guy was to use magnetics to push RF around. Not the fancy magnetron kind of stuff...just applied a strong magnetic field to an RF feedline going to an antenna? What would be the effects?
Now comes the strange part. I've been experimenting with applying strong magnets to my 572-foot long loop antenna's feedpoint and feeding the RF through some $50-bucks a pop super-strong neodymium magnets. Last night on the Texas traffic net, using my latest configuration, I had what was described as a 'very strong' signal' all the way up to "George owes me a new receiver..." The net control station put the signal at '45-over S-9" - not bad.
Here's the theory and some speculation: My initial idea was that RF can be influenced by magnetism and that the ground effects are a combination of conductivity and a stationary magnetic field. Fine so far.
So, I wondered, can the RF field be artificially raised above ground (or synthetically lower the ground plane for RF) by the application of strong magnets? Hmmm... so I have just been putting magnets in my feedline in different configurations while I occasionally go look for research in the area.
Haven't found anything current yet, but over at Robert Nelson's most excellent site, www.rexresearch.com there's a curious paper from the 1930's about how a fellow used a magnetic field to change the characteristics of a receiving antenna but I haven't seen anything else since.
All of which has me wondering "What's to be learnt here? ---- OK now the really, really, really strange part: After fooling around with the antennas and magnetics I got to bed (like every night, right? But as I am drifting back awake a few minutes before the alarm close this morning I start to see (in a semi-dream state) a moving stream of something that looks like hieroglyphics moving before my eyes. They were black on a kind of gray background but most interesting of all (besides none of them making sense) was that they were at an angle from lower left to upper right, a little steeper than 45º....closer to 60º. Kinda like the ASCII extended character set slowly moving upper right to lower left like I was supposed to be reading something.
No, I haven't seen anything Egyptian on television lately...no reason that I can think of to see such a thing. but strange? You talk about strange.... Maybe it has something to do with ordering Jung's "The Red Book"...just don't know. --- If you happen to find any books on the effects of neodymium magnet-level fields on HF radio signals, send 'em along. When I get some time (what's that?) I'll try to cobble up some experiments to see if strong magnetic fields can offset apparent ground of HF systems....
Do me a favor if you get there first? Name it "The Ure Effect" wouldja? I'd like to get something into the history books besides the note that a Ure family member inspired Mary Shelley's Frankenstein.
Hi Dan!
No, I don't know if best-selling
author Dan Brown has ever dropped by here, or the
www.halfpasthuman.com
site, but lots of people are writing in saying "You know,
George, that part in The Lost Symbol
Beat me/us...but can I get my book autographed?
Wednesday September 23, 2009 Fed: No Move Yeah, look surprised. But there is a little more to it - here's their carefully worded statement on the economy and what they see ahead:
Like I said in this morning's update, this is carefully crafted to set the stage for whatever comes next... --- Look, I don't claim prescience, or anything like that, but you did notice (at least I hope you noticed) that I referred to the low-intensity conflict along the Mexican border being a fine thing to modulate as a distraction - along came three vans running the San Ysidro crossing down south of San Diego? Ha! Wonder what was big and illegal and probably brought in out East a ways while the SoCal Border agents were being distracted, huh? I'd be nervous in Phoenix...
This Ain't Rome, Or Is It? The Bloomberg story headlines that the "U.S. Debt Crisis May Cause ‘Fall of Rome’ Scenario, Duncan Says" goes on our must read pile this morning because author Richard Duncan has the nerve to put the bespoke fear language coming out of Washington into a useable framework. --- While
Duncan's book "Dollar Crisis" may be a good read and all, if
you're looking for something that might be more useful as a
trader's timing resource, the book I'm reading right now (Elmus
Wicker's " The Banking Panics of the Great Depression --- The big economic feature today - although it's a given, really - is the Federal Reserve's announcement this afternoon that there will be no change in the nearly free money rates offered to banksters who in turn mark them up and lend them to us at anywhere from Fed funds plus 4½% on fixed term mortgages to Fed funds plus 32% to people who the banksters figure they can screw to the wall.
While rates are that low, there's an incentive for a dollar-carry trade to be set up - just like Japan used the yen-carry trade to extend what could have been a 5-year post Nikkei high period starting in 1989 into what turned into two decades of financial yuckiness. An explanation of carry trades here, if you need it. But it essential means borrow money free (or next to it) and put the borrowed dough into something that will appreciate (free yen into gold, was the yen-carry trade).
All of which leaves only the question of how the Fed Statement this afternoon will signal the length of what should be a dollar/commodity carry trade.
Macroeconomics moves at glacial speed. If the Fed says something like "foreseeable future" as a timeline for keeping rates low, then that will encourage the Big Boyz to crash the Dow down to 4,400 or so next year, from which level they will be able to lock in nearly free money next spring, buy commodities (gold, grains, and oil)_ and run that back up to the 12,000 to 20,000 range on the Dow. Which assumes the markets hang together and aren't shredded by a LIHOP or some such outlier event which may become necessary to rally the country round the current government should too many people get antsy... simple policy decisions at each step of the way though, and given the caliber of our...oh we don't need to review that do we? --- Zooming out, therefore, the real drivers of the future reduce to some simple basic concepts like "How much can be wrung from the public's pocket is directly proportionate to the collective fear factor induced in the populace."
So.....we wheel out the flu scare...and whenever needed, an Al-Qaida press release pops up showing a convenient headline like "Al-Qaida predicts Obama's fall by Muslim nation ". Quick, be afraid right on cue, would you?
Not scary enough?. Hmmm...roll with plan B "Terror arrest sparks gov't warning on mass transit" and "Feds Issue Security Bulletins on Stadiums, Hotels."
If that was the only news out there, the prospects for the economy operating in a fear mode and being compliant might not be bad. But the reality is that the Obama administration and congress have been losing steadily in the polls and so even more fear mongering is needed to keep things hanging together.
When you read headlines like the governor of NY David "Paterson blames weak Obama record for friction" and "Obama the impotent: the disappointment with Barack Obama is tangible". Toss in the WSJ report that "Poll Reflects Afghan War Doubts" and Joe Biden's 'war lite' plan (see: "Obama considering strategy shift in Afghan War") and the difficulty of all the nation's collection of interlocked semi-circular references comes into focus. Like stability? Fear no fear...if you're awake enough to track. --- To get to my first 'bottom line' of today, it's simply this. I think Duncan's worry that the current global picture sets up a Fall of Rome process is wholly unjustified. Why?
Recall the decline of the Roman Empire was a 320-years long affair.
We're not going to take anywhere near that long. I'd say Duncan's an optimist.
Palin By Comparison Wannabe Veepstress acting like Wannabe Prez Sarah Palin is raking the Oministration over the coals on spending and bailing. And other low hanging fruit like the bubble brigade at the Fed.
Red Sky At Night No sailor's delight though as "Australia dust storms turns sky over Sydney deadly red." Hmmm...so what's the Oz gov't going to do about an outbreak of silicosis?
Turning our attention to the skies elsewhere....
Iran vs. UFO's Noticed a report on Iranian TV which is now showing up in the Tehran Times about Iran shooting down some 'bright lights' over the Persian Gulf. Guess #1? Group of UAV's just after sunset at altitude. Guess #2? UFO's. Guess #3? Group of UAV's just after sunset...
Then there's the report that Iran lost its sole AWACs plane by trying to show it off... Stuff happens, eh? --- I see the Dog Poet is doing a cover of "Any Day Now"... --- More 'up takes'? OK...
Rain Toll Mounts The rain has stopped (for now) in parts of the US Southeast, but the death toll is eight.
There Goes Your Money If you happen to be around Cape Canaveral, that thing going off about press time this morning (50-50 odds) is a Delta II rocket with missile defense satellites on board. Wave for us...
Speaking of Losing Money Won't tell you which market note it was in, but one says that if you look at a long-term P/E of 16 for the market, the S&P should trade down 18% from where it is now - and that says this one forecast explains why all of a sudden balance sheets are not a popular talking point on the dog & pony show circuit... ---- Futures higher by a teensy bit on prayer the Fed will announce some silver bullet. Pray harder. Or better yet - mediate on how to extract yourself from the games of print and sprint & pump & dump.
The fewer the wants, the fewer the dollars needed....
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Coping: With Meetings of 'the Colors" Having a way to 'listen in' to much of the 'buzz' on the internet with some of the raw data inputs from the web bot project means occasionally coming across 'news' which isn't news yet. And this morning's case in point involves at least three linguistic slants on the word 'buzz' for the home baking set, since this is a story about the possible end of a long-standing prohibition at the Federal level on marijuana laws.
Specifically, we've heard recently that 'the Colors' - the loose amalgamation of biker groups that have made a small untaxed industry out of selling (among other wares) marijuana - have some concerns lately about the impact on their revenue streams of any loosing of marijuana laws that might cut into their franchise.
In case you've never considered the economics of the weed business, suppose for a moment that one person in 100 smokes weed on a periodic/recreational basis in America. That's be something over 3-million recreational smokers.
And let's say that each smoker does only an ounce, or so per year: That's over a half billion dollars a year in marijuana sales.
"But wait! About 1 in 10 of my friends smokes...." Yeah? That would make it closer to a 2.5-billion dollar industry - doubling our first number but leaving out kids and oldsters.
"But wait! of my 1 in 10 friends, they probably each do three ounces a year or more..." OK, so now we're up to a $7-$10 billion a year industry and that's before we get the paraphernalia which includes but is not limited to the personal supplies like hookahs, clips, papers, screens, pipe cleaners, but also include the much larger expense items like prosecutors, drug labs, defense lawyers, jail operators, and so on. Then there's all that dough that's gone into the 'War on Drugs' which has only underscored my believe that marijuana does lead to harder drugs that are dangerous for you, including run and scotch, just for openers. --- If you ever do study the economics of weed, remember that you can't compare prices of a dime bag when you go comparison shopping, a dime is a dime is a dime. But, when you buy a specific weight - like an ounce - you might be paying anywhere from $65 for dirt weed all the way up to $350 an ounce for top of the line Blue Lightning (so I've heard).
A
search on
marijuana prices will find sites like this one that track such
things. Based on some snips of things that have come in, seems 'the Colors' are a little worried that if the feds back off on weed and concentrate on more addictive substance abuses (opiates, etc) that their profits could fall dramatically.
Politicians, on the other hand, not being completely stupid (although there's much evidence to the contrary) might consider loosing up the prohibition on getting baked since in times of high social stress one thing politicians have done in the past is end prohibitions that have caused violent crime.
You don't have to be much of a student of history to remember the prohibition on alcohol was ended by president Roosevelt in March of 1933. Hmmm...about 3 1/2 years into the Great Depression.
If 'weed' use the events of last October's bank crisis, then I'd expect that within 3-years, America ought to have gotten around to ending this current variant of prohibition.
If you want a little more precise guesstimate, simply fire up Excel and put in the dates of the start of Prohibition on January 16, 1920 and its end March 23, 1933, do the date arithmetic and find that you had a prohibition lasting 4,815 days.
Using the Nixon-era as the start of the marijuana prohibition era, we find that the War on Drugs should have been getting over by 1983, or so. But, since it has been such a fine economic engine and with a nod to the power of the alcohol lobby, the prison-building industry, the privatization of prisons and all the rest, this pseudo Prohibition period has lasted about 40-years.
Reasonable arguments have been made about the legality of pseudo Prohibition, mainly along the lines that alcohol's Prohibition required a constitutional amendment - so why doesn't weed? And there's also the Federalist argument behind Justice's O'Connor and Thomas' view that such a defacto Prohibition is an illegal usurpation of State rights.
My point this morning, however, is to simply note that since the marijuana Prohibition is now about 40-years old, it has become institutionalized to such a degree that it places three unlikely bedfellows on the same side of a poor argument. As the Colors try to figure out a replacement revenue stream, so does the alcohol industry and the law enforcement/judicial/rehab/prison industry.
We might as well throw in the military as strange bedfellows, too, since if the sandbox wars get too unpopular, we could always revitalize the War on Drugs to justify taking over the whole Mexican Border area and invade the northern part of South America. More of that new-fangled "Conquer to Free" thinking; a fine product migration path from the Mexico low intensity conflict to all out military deployment in a region that at least has some physical proximity and a little energy, too, now that I think about it.
Despite the possibility and talk of reform, could it be that a biker/law enforcement/alcohol/defense lobby might be in the offing? To paraphrase Alice's Restaurant (Arlo Guthrie) "This ain't about democracy, it's about revenue."
Name of the Beast For some reason this week, a lot of comments have come in about how I refer to the Federal Reserve. Here's typical reader input:
Hmmm...problem with FederalSurvival is that while it may become a more popular term, it would also draw more attention from the federales in a negative sort of way. The term FederalSurvival skirts a little too close to an anti-government line. I'm not anti-government, I'm just pro Constitutional governance which doesn't include about half (maybe more) of what central power consolidators in all three branches of government have gathered unto themselves.
On the other hand, the reader who suggested making a contraction out of the term Federal Reserve had an idea. How does "Feral Reserve" strike you?
"Lazy" or "Efficient"? A huge number of people wrote in on the concrete base for my self-supporting 55 foot ham radio tower. Typical answer was:
I'm not planning to leave the tower in the 'up' position very much - only when it's actually in use. Since it's a powered raising and lowering mechanism (12V winch motor so I can use batteries to power it with solar) I will keep the odds of lightning strikes a little lower. And the quad antennas work well at as low as 30-35 feet because they aren't as involved with ground reflections.
Now that I've decided to use premix, now all I need to do is figure out what to pour with the other 8 yards of concrete - probably the foundation for a carport or garage and an extension on my office which will be a studio for instruments.... I need longer days!
Things You Must Read Department By the
time I got shipping tacked on (2-day) it was almost $120, but
Amazon has October 7th as the shipping date for Carl Jung's The Red Book --- Something that has become clear of late, especially after reading up on Otis T. Carr's 'work' (with Tesla, etc), is the importance of the socialization boundaries that we each place on our thinking.
In Carr's case (and Tesla, who reputedly spent a fair bit of time in the Vatican Library including the "Vatican Secret Archives") there's much to suggest that these fellows had a whole different way of perceiving the world than does today's 'modern' physics. A more holistic - go with the flow of nature - and resonance approach, rather than the hammer, impact, explode, confrontation with nature on which path we seem to be mesmerized. Maybe we're just hooked on percussion, I just can't say. --- Stomping down the boundaries of the one prison that matters - the one society stakes out inside your head - is a life-long endeavor, but a rewarding one, nevertheless.
If
Jung's work down at the archetype level sounds a little too
heavy, you can start with some more practical & less daunting
mental barriers as explained in books like
Busting Loose From the Money Game: Mind-Blowing Strategies for Changing the Rules of a Game You Can't Win
Start small and work you're way into it. Smash a few money jailers (politely, of course) and you can go on to working over the other jailers in your head.
Ultimately, freedom of the most personal and genuine sort comes from victory in the internal battles against the jailers of your thoughts. Overthrow them successfully and you get money, unlimited energy and creativity and amazing amounts of personal power to control the external world that (after the Allegory of the Cave) you project onto the screen of Life in front of you as a projection of your inner self.
Fail that battle though and you're stuck in jail. Starting with the one that says "Say, aren't you late for work?" Which is in turn driven by the jailer who screams "needs to feed!"
Paradoxically, I seem to be finding that the less I need, the more they feed. Curious.
(A soft shot rimshot on the new drum set echoes through my office. Yep. Hooked on percussion / confrontation / impact, loud noises.....time to get after another jailer. Where my DVD drum lessons?)
Tuesday September 22, 2009 Oh THAT Weather Event Atlanta mans the lifeboats! 20 inches of rain so far and schools closing. You might remember back in mid to late August I mentioned some of the data points which were coming up in the HalfPastHuman predictive linguistics work. One item was an earthquake with pictures of buildings falling into their foundations. Check - right on schedule. Then there was the matter of the weather that would drive some diaspora/dislocation and it would be in the Southeast US.
What's interesting is that the expected onset for this 'weather event' which was looked linguistically something like a 'surprise hurricane' was that it was expected to start around September 15th (13th or so on the front end and the 17th or thereabouts on the back end). Naturally, when the dates passed, I got the usual load of "Hey! Where's your 'surprise hurricane in the Southeast?"
Well, if you kept your shirt on (or live in the Southeast) you might have noticed that it began to rain - and rain heavily between the 14th and 17th - depending on area - and this morning it's still raining. I think I mentioned in passing last week that a TV weatherman was quotes as calling it a 'hurricane overland but without the wind."
And it's still raining. In fact, CNN is reporting that "Georgia flooding takes at least 6 lives; more rain falling" as what was a major drought area turns into the land of mud. Here's a typical reader note:
Wait till Fred leftovers show up - more on that in a second... Not that Georgia suffers alone in this: besides the 8+ inches here at the ranch in East Texas and 6.98" at Tyler Month to Date - but it has rained a fair bit since midnight) the flooding is now up into Tennessee, 6 inches of rain's been dropped in southern Indiana which is likely the northwest corner of problem.
Another reader comments:
Yeah, well, sorry about that. Cliff doesn't make it rain and not our fault if the future keeps showing up as expected. Another writes:
Then tonight, the remnants of Hurricane Fred near Florida and you know what's just north of them, right? (Hint for the geo-impaired: Georgia). My best guess is that by Friday , or so, we will be reading about all kinds of flood damage down that way, but it will have its roots in the linguistic start time frame. --- Someone asked me about the current run (about 50 pages worth) and asked "If something isn't mentioned in this report, does that mean it won't be happening?" Usually, no. It just means that since the previous run there hasn't been anything major changed which means we're now about at the starting point for the major market gyrations which will lead down to the October 25th date range I've been mentioning for months now. --- Speaking of predictive linguistics hit, here's another one for you - especially if you subscribed to the long term ALTA reports before they morphed into the "Shape of Things to Come" reports. Remember those long-term values around "kids returning to homes" and unable to find jobs or pay for school,, the kids would be reroosting? Well, here you go in the MSM: "'Tidal Wave; of homeless students hits schools."
Was anyone else talking about this a year or longer back? Not that I know of. Looking into the next year or two, how long before education entitlement programs run out of money. Or, for that matter, how much longer before FDIC runs out? Good Henry Blodget piece here. --- Not to shameless promote our 'Department of Pre- News" but if you want some good expectations about what's ahead download the latest "Shape of Things To Come" report here for $10...
Stewing on Economics While the weather news fills out the linguistic expectations drop-by-drop, first thing we ought to do this morning is grab a handful of carrots, a couple of onions and celeries - time to make economic stew! We'll let it simmer for a month before things bubble over. Not going to beat you on the head with the linguistic fills in "HSBC bids farewell to dollar supremacy."
Instead, we start this morning with some of the fundamentals on the input side: The price of oil is down to near $70 on word that Chinese demand in August was lighter than expected. The government of Singapore's investment arm has cut its stake in Citigroup almost in half according to report. --- Watching all of this unfold is Robin Landry who was kind enough to cc: me on the latest note he sent to colleagues who are professional money managers. Seems things are close to resolution either to the upside (or not):
Let me amplify that this is not investment advice, and as a further disclaimer I own a couple ofs far out of the money S&P puts for November. Call them 'lotto tickets' if you want - they're not grocery money, for damn sure. --- Going somewhat far afield from Landry's work (tactical in a sense) there's a little bit of buzz in the investment community about as new paper from J.B. Glattfelder and S. Battiston titled "The Flow of Control".
Stop! Don't say it... I can hear it now: "George WTF do you want me reading a 24-page econ paper at this hour when I haven't event had time to see if my desperation ad in the personals has been answered?"
Well, because this one goes a long way toward establishing the existence of that elusive PowersThatBe that I so often refer to on this site. And in a serious academically valid way (which I can only dream about having time to focus on). Here's the guts of it from the Abstract:
Starting down toward the bottom of page 18, read "Seat of Power. As Monte Burns says on the Simpsons (usually while tapping his fingertips with a greed-crazed look) "Excellent!" I mention Mr. Burns because I'm convinced that Matt Groening (the Simpsons creator) has a far better handle on economics that, oh, say anyone on Wall Street. And probably the Fed, too, come to think on it. --- The possibility that we could head up to the Dow 10,100 to 10,400 area in the next week can't be ruled out. In fact, given a sufficiently ebullient Fed statement tomorrow when they announce "No move" with language like "signs of an infant recovery are seen but the need to maintain high systemic liquidity yada, yada, yada..." could drive the Dow up several hundred points in a day or three. --- Is it to early to put a glass of cheap burgundy or two into our stew?
Paybacks The Raw Story piece "Government watchdog: AIG must repay taxpayers $121 billion." Story doesn't mention if that's with or without the dough you know which former investment bank pulled out. That would take more research time that I have, sorry.
Obamavision While I slept through the appearance of president Obama on Letterman - a function of being over 60 and getting up at 4-something to write - the best line of the evening seems to be to be prez O's quip on the 'racism' issue "First of all, I think it's important to realize that I was actually black before the election." --- I've always been a fan of intelligent humor. Ever notice how few government officials go into comedy after leaving office? Maybe it's because everyone in Washington gets infected with "We're all so serious" disease of come kind; decorum delirium perhaps. Yet there is so much in government policy which is laughable...know what I'm saying?
Fluage Another headline worth reading deeper into: "Despite Anti-Vitamin D Bias, CDC Stumbles on Deficiency Link to H1N1 Deaths." --- Coincidence, or what? Russia denies having even its first case of swine flu yet. -- More moderate coverage of the B.C. first people's flu outbreak here.
--- snip and save section --- Coping: Quest for Lost Knowledge Thank you! A lot of people have managed to help us track down the Popular Mechanics article which I) mentioned being unable to find in Monday's report. Turns out that the article was in the September 1961 Popular Mechanics and was titled "Engine with Built-In Wings" and it's about the work of Norman Dean (link to Google Books result). --- A review of the Dean engine has triggered a massive amount of thinking on my part, so let me throw this out in bullet-point fashion for you:
All of this has shed new thinking on the possibilities of time travel for me. Some more bullet points:
Two other things: I hope to talk with our consulting nuclear reactor engineer about 2 PM today to ask about research into time/space distortion in the area of plasma fields (might a spinning mass/gyroscope behave oddly there?
And our consulting optical MD advises on the follow-up to the apparent transparency part of yesterday's report (Faile Effect) that he's written some research questions and sent them on so I will let you know how that research comes out.
How to Fund An Acquisition A couple of people have asked me how the deal points may work behind the scenes in one of the big acquisitions in the computing world this week. Let me wheel out the chalkboard and speculate a bit as to what I think is going on:
Kind of like selling a full apartment house where the rents could be raised by 10-15% - reduces deal risk to the buyer. So that's what I think is going on -especially if the selling company has (so far) resisted the temptation to offshore; it's almost like building in deal funding the way I've got it figured.
All hypothetically with no names, of course.
Fancy Drinks Speaking of optics and such, a artist out in Howayah (OK, Hawaii, then) sent in this first-hand report of how to use something akin to the Cherenkov Light (the light from a water-moderated nuclear reactor) in a gin-sipping setting:
Sounds like a fine plan, except we don't have any friends. That way I don't have to share.
A Correspondent Application Every so often, I get notes from people who volunteer to contribute items and observation from around the world. Here's a good one:
Yes...please send along info as you find it. Why, the very idea of communist controlling gold, well, Quixotish at a minimum. Every time I hear the "From each according to their ability...to each according to their need" kind of talk, I immediately launch into a long discourse on my needs. Usually ends with me being offered a blindfold and cigarette and me asking "How can I smoke with that thing on?" Then I wake up.
Free Ham Radio Tower Sent in from a reader of Craig's List (link to ad) Austin area. --- Concrete Questions: Here's a hard one: There's a new concrete product on the market which I am considering using as the base for this 51-foot crank up tower I'm about to install (with a 2 or three element Cubex quad on top of it). It's called "Maximizer" and it's a 5,200 pound test concrete whereas the usual delivered variety is 2,800 pound.
So when I go dig this 3X3X 6-foot deep base (with machines to help, I'm no fool, eh?) how much of the tower resistance to blowing over in a strong wind is from the weight of the concrete, and how much is from the leverage applied against the undisturbed sides of the 5-foot deep hole?
Put another way: Would you climb a tower set in lightweight aggregate concrete, or you would just order an 8-yard load, overdo the base, and then pour a pad for a garage at the same time and skip the mixing 45 bags at $6.50 a bag in our electric mixer?
Toy Box Out of my toy box, but got an email this morning about the new Z-car coming out from Nissan. Never owned a Z, but it's been fun to watch the progression of the breed from the 240-days. At less than half the price of a 'Vette or 911, it's high play quotient. I mention this for those determined to enjoy our last couple of years here...
Group Intelligence Emerges Something to think about: People are starting to really band together and network on some of the basic research into areas like the efficacy of swine flu shots, the time travel, mass, and apparent transparency issues, and here's another one for you:
Our ham radio net on 2-meters last night started with something usual: A question of the night - which we had never done before. The net turned into nearly an hour-long session on best practices to get ready for storms and power outages and what to do when the power fails.
What this says to me (along with all the responses to the apparent transparency and bootstrap engine replies) is that there's a tremendous amount of energy available to go questing for lost knowledge - lost from contemporary consciousness- and people willing to get involved in research - it means a lot of people are waking up and willing to get involved with the quest for solutions. Heartening stuff! Damn...almost enough to light to hope for future prospects and breakthroughs...
Monday September 21, 2009 Just In Flu Meds Targeting Minorities? Two articles that should go on your reading list today. One is from the Republic of Lakotah and it's under the headline: "The Mask Slips, for Those with Eyes to See: Preparing for the Real Pandemic". And the article asserts:
The second article (and it goes to the false flag worries expressed earlier) is this BrassCheck article about the "missing nukes" story from two years ago. Remember that? Second video from two years back is key.
Let the Fall Begin Notice that the price of gold is falling a bit? And with it, the futures seem to be pointing toward a lower open. Ostensibly, this is because the 'market needs to rest' after recent gains. But you and I know different, right? (Wink, wink, nudge, nudge.) The real story is that since the achieving of our 38.2% retracement recently from the March lows down around 6,627 on the Dow, a huge number of market gurus have been saying the track is now clear for a run at the 50% retracement level, which would put the Dow up around 10,300 to 10,400. And it may go there, but markets have this nasty habit of making as many people wrong as possible, so we shall see. --- The (not really) Federal Reserve is set to make its decision on interest rates on Wednesday afternoon. However, the odds of them moving rates is somewhere between slim and none. Too much commerce is either dead or in the process of dying right now and the Fed has to make sure there's plenty of easy money around in case anyone else wants to put their head on the chopping block. --- Honestly, I don't know what goes through the minds of corporation boards of directors; they seem as hypnotized as those people who waste time participating in national polls about this or that. You saw this morning where Dell has agreed to buy Perot Systems for $3.9 billion?
Personally, I think Ross Perot is a genius - and good on Perot Systems for being sold.
My take on this is that 1) Perot wouldn't sell any of his interest if there were really good times ahead since he's damn smart when it comes to macroeconomics and 2) close as I can figure this is an example of M&A experts selling a fresh coat of bottom paint to ships that are about to sail off the edge of the earth. But, I don't know what's in the water down in Round Rock. I don't see green shoots and I think I hear something like a waterfall up ahead...but that's me.
Second week of November, you oughta be able to hear the falls, too.
Military Candor Ought to be a movie: "Day of the Candor". We are reading in the Washington Post this morning how the head of U.S. and NATO forces says he either gets more troops or the mission will be a failure. --- Except for defending a pipeline route or five, and trying to wrest control of the opium fields, I still have no idea what we're doing in Afghanistan. If Russia which had the ability to drive there getting its butt kicked after 10-years, do we think this is gonna be a walk in Central Park?
Only thing I can figure is that we are there for the obvious -- which is? (Repeat after me here...) "We have no jobs for these people in the military!" Got to keep them out of country, out of sight and out of stats because without the wars going on, we'd have unemployment probably in the 13-14% range and then there'd be no denying the Second Depression.
But you knew that.
Bigger War Countdown The president of Russia says that an Israeli attack on Iran (sometime on or after October 25th in the predictive linguistics) would be the worst thing imaginable but that Israel says it won't do it.
However, that doesn't quite square with what Israel says - which is that they still have that option. Wonder if there's a pool in Vegas on this one?
Buying the Free Press Word that the Obama administration is open to the idea of bailing out newspapers that want to become non-profits is music to my ears. Why, I figure the Mogambo Guru and I could open up a rag called "The Daily Truth, Justice, and Liberty" and make a killing. Let me see....we'll set up a 501-C-3 and model ourselves after ACORN... --- Speaking of regulated/bought off industries: Am I the only one who can't find any statutory authority for all these Tsars that the WH keeps appointing? Where the hell did that come from? Did Congress pass the Tsarist Reform Act of 2009 when I wasn't looking?
False Flag Jitters Do you find yourself waking up in the middle of the night like I do, wondering if all this current terrorist bust coverage is being set up as a lead in to a false flag operation? Three men being charged with 'making false statements' means that at least three people have never watched Professor James Duane's video "Don't Talk to the Police". You need to watch it. Slightly longer version here. --- Remember how 9/11 happened when the country was on the verge of recognizing that the internet bubble collapse (a.k.a. The Tech Wreck) was the lead-in to the Second Depression? Overnight, that spurred massive investment in the security industry. I worry for our country about what the next glowing job creation program might be once the next leg down of the markets starts to open that door again...
Media Disconnect I see on a Russian television news show that president Obama promised 'there will be no mandatory vaccinations' in the US - a little item that should have gotten huge coverage given all the fear mongering going about.
But this means one of two things is true: Either the media moguls are playing the hype on this for maximum profit (duh! likely) or Obama is lying to the global press. Throw dart, pick one. --- New York healthcare workers are resisting flu shot regs, and again, if the flu scare isn't working, seems to me that this would raise the odds of false flag something going on - almost like a backup plan, know what I mean? Love to be wrong, of course, but it just doesn't feel like mandatory vaccinations are going to be the route...I worry too much, I 'spose.
Home for the Holidays Iran is bailing out 21,000 prisoners so they can be home for Eid, reports VOA.
How to Beat Aging I don't know how they do it, but Sophia Loren and Bridgette Bardot are still sex goddesses says a story out today. Tips in the article on how they have aged so miraculously? Judge for yourself, but I didn't see their secret formula revealed...so I guess I'll have to keep hitting the anti-aging headlines over at WorldHealth.net where Dr. Ron Klatz and colleagues are fans of nutrition above all...
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Coping: The Quest for Lost Knowledge I need your help this week in a most serious way finding a bit of lost knowledge. But before we get to that, let's chat for a minute about 'knowledge' in general. Before we get to that, however, you need to read this important email from our consulting legal beagle, who I've referred to mostly as my 'consigliore'. The reason you need to hear it is that it's a very high-level guy explaining a perspective that is dangerously close to what we talk about here! In fact it lines up about 99% with spews out around here:
Once you've listened to the interview (again, absolutely worthwhile!), you might find yourself asking (as I did) "Where was this guy being forthright and direct about the crisis when he was at the IMF?" Better late than never though, and his view & candor about what ahead is appreciated. ---- An interesting sidebar, but not the main gist of this morning's problem, since we all know the economy is in the process of going (back) to hell-in-a-hand-basket and it's only a matter of time until we get to Dow 4,400 (My be is next summer) while my second bet is that once the market starts down again, the PTB will arrange some kind of horrific 'LIHOP/MIHOP" to cover the event so we'll all 'rally 'round the paradigm' so to speak. That's all old news, however.
What's NOT old news is this matter of of something I call 'lost knowledge' - and my consigliore and I got into it when he called to ask "Did you get my email about the BBC interview with the ex-IMF guy?"
What we ended up chatting about for a few minutes was this week's Peoplenomics report and we both have been stumped in our research looking for article on anti-gravity from either the late 1950's to latter 1960's that neither one of us has been able to find - so we're asking your help finding a copy of this particular article.
Here's what we remember about it:
Sooo... if you remember that article (which I'm sure must have been read by thousands of 50-60 year olds, since the magazine was a popular fixture in the...er...throne room.... of many American homes, along with the Readers Digest back when) please let me know where I can get a copy of the plans or at least the article. Having a machine shop at the ranch it would be fun to build up one of these. ---- Speaking of which: Are you old enough to remember "Mimi"?
You know where a lot of home handyman types would pour out a fair amount of dough? Have a web site where all those old M.I. plans could be purchased and downloaded. --- Not a huge market mind you: Most of the people in America today seem intent on doing as little thinking, inventing, and handyman work as possible. Our home environments have become sterile, boring 'me-too" kind of places.
Sometimes I think Elaine and I are nuts doing "movie studio set design" rooms in our house - rooms that given a distinct impress of being in a different place at a different time. Our "Trader Vic's room is almost done with the install this week of the South Seas oil painting picture that's in a big frame which covers a hidden bookcase. you know, that sort of thing.
I love the convenience of online shopping, but do you know how many homes look just almost exactly alike? How boring can you make your home?
The lack of creativity in America starts with the kind of surroundings we place ourselves in and while my office may be incredibly crowded (the computers, shelves full of books, ham radio gear, recording studio rig, electronics work bench and now a full-sized drum set to trip over) it's anything but boring. --- The human brain needs feeding...it's simple as that and there's a built-in conflict between the way society is presently organized and the general goal of maximizing everyone's individual potential.
The Holy Grail of media moguls is to own the highest ratings. But, few bother to think through the implications of such mass consumption of media: It's ultimately the loss of individuation. Call it Idol speculation if you will, but seems to me that since the majority of people eat the same thing, watch the same thing, and live in homes where the most remarkable difference may be the number of weeds in the front yard, we shouldn't be surprised to see the same-old political hacks being returned to Washington, huh?
Ah, but enough lecturing on why should have at least three rooms in your home (where you spend a lot of time) which have been decorated to transport you mentally to somewhere other than the here and now. Even if you live in an apartment where such creativity is more difficult, I'd sure encourage you to go for period decorating and while you're at it, see if you can find old copies of Mechanix Illustrated for the throne room.
If you stumble across the article on the electric drill-powered 'bootstrap engine' that levitates, please send it along - thanks.
Peoplenomics Followup I've sent a note to our consulting reactor engineer to see if he's aware of any basic science around distortion of time in the vicinity of plasma fields. Why? Because I'm sniffing around plasma research to see if there's a time analog to Cherenkov radiation - the source of that blue light in water moderated nuclear reactors. You did know about that, right? Got some interesting ideas on how to instrument the search for space/time anomalies in close proximity to plasma.... --- Speaking of research, our consulting medical/optics expert is looking into "Observations of Anomalous Transparency: The Faile Effect"
I mention this one because it touches on a topic which can be found in some of the writings of Edward Leedskalnin - who you will remember as the guy who built the Coral Castle out of massive stone down south of Miami a ways.
In one of Leedskalnin's books that we picked up in the bookstore at the Coral Castle, he talks about human sight not working as advertised. The Leedskalnin view was that when people look at something they are actually projecting - not receiving - and it's this projecting quality of human sight that is why animals (spiders, wildlife, etc) can tell when someone is observing them. Only takes a bit of practice and you can develop that sense, too, by the way.
Anyway, just more researches going on around here. When I'm not dinking around with the drums, ham radio, electronics bench.....Wonder if I need ADHD meds?
Here, have some more coffee... --- Don't know if you have ever laid on the floor and stared up at the ceiling and pretended to be falling up. But, if you're ever on a long walk, give it a try sometime. Or, as in the [alleged] Faile effect, look past an object in front of you and occasionally you might catch a glimpse of what is beyond. Remember that the technical way the eye operates, we're really looking at the world upside down anyway.
Why do I mention this around Faile, Leedskalnin, and plasma effects? Sometimes there's just enough of the truth left laying around that even a few relatively painless mental exercises can unbind thinking. For example, ever hear this one? "When you make the two into one, and when you make the inner like the outer and the outer like the inner, and the upper like the lower...then you will enter [the kingdom]." Stripped of organizational power tripping, there's something important to be learned there, I think...
Or not. --- Heard an interesting story once: It was about a five year old boy who was reported sitting under a tree saying "What planet am I on, and what do I have to work with?"
We may be older, but the quest to reclaim lost knowledge seems a serious human motivation and whether it's the Grail or the Golden Fleece, there's a sense that there's something we've forgotten - something just out of reach....like that bootstrap machine that levitates article.
It's like humanity goes through periodic fits of forgetfulness... I have to wonder if the internet powering a rise of global consciousness doesn't lead to a fundamental shift from the old ways in say, oh, 2012 or so?
Should be fun to watch the battle lines develop over 'net neutrality. On the one hand, we have forces that seem to be pressing forward rules which would keep the internet free, while on the other side, there are forces which would like to tariff the net in ways which would maximum profit.
I have to wonder whether the global debate over how free the 'net should be won't be viewed at some historical time in the future as a contemporary analog to the Council of Nicaea or the Council at Constantinople - in that 'how much will be left in plain sight' seems to be the underlying issue. Except, of course, this time around it will be corporations as custodians, rather than the churches as custodians of what are the acceptable limits of human inquiry. If that weren't the case, if religion was really about transparency and truth, then I figure the whole of the Vatican Library would have been digitized by now so we could all study it - and I mean everything in it.
Of course, that won't happen. Can't have too many people 'going Tesla' now, can we?
As the grand design pattern solidifies, I find myself asking what the corporate equivalent of the Inquisition or the Witch Trials will be? Our children seem destined to find out due to our own complacency on the rise of cannibal corporatism that - in case you haven't noticed - has staged a successful coup against free governance.
I worry too much, I 'spose.
Before the chart, a little background: Once upon a time, a long while ago, I observed during my quest for 'truth' in economics, that the PowersThatBe, the talking heads on the teeve, and the other information sources that actively engage in the programming of humans not to think, had conveniently swept several trillions of dollars that disappeared in the Internet Bubble's bursting (since spring 2000) under the rug. Surely, it wasn't unnoticed by the thousands of people who called brokers and said "Where is my money?" "Gone, but hang in there as you're a long term investor!" was about all they heard back.
So one of our charts for Peoplenomics subscribers oughta be widely circulated - it shows that if you line up the peak of the Dow in January 2000 with the peak in early September of 1929, we're on a very very close replay track. Much closer than even the chart shows if you were to back out inflation, and put in the effects of 1929 deflation, but that'd be real work, and I'm sort of lazy if the truth be told.
No, it's not a perfect replay of 1929, but history doesn't repeat exactly, it only rhymes. So think of this as the rhymes and the crimes chart:
"George, that's only a coincidence!" your monkey-mind will protest.
Why sure it is...you bet. A 9½ year long coincidence...yessir....just a coincidence, I'm sure...
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(between pages 50 & 80 - forgot the page number) where they talk
about sending spiders out onto the internet to poll the
public....well, you know....is it a coincidence?"
") might be more applicable. Why? Ah...Wicker points
out that there were at least four separate sub panics in
the banking industry during the First Depression and if a trader
wanted to make some judgments based on the timing of the sub
panics within D-1, here in D-2, then that ought to be an
exercise to burn off psychic energy from monkey-mind while
you're waiting for a screen refresh on a stack of loser
trades...Some folks never learn.
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Oh sure, you can get
for less than $15 bucks including shipping - and a fine start
into Jungian psychology it is.
But The Red Book is Jung's personal quest and since he touched
on so many aspects of internal exploration, it's on my reading
list.
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