George Ure

We had this discussion the other day in our Coping section about how much of the news is patently useless.  But there’s also a small chance that there is a method to its madness. 

We asked, in so many words (about 1,700 of them) whether there was any POINT to most of what passes as news out there?

Today, we might want to be asking is it all so coincidental what’s in the news?

Do you care that Democratic Debate Takeaways: Tensions Rise as the Race Tightens?  Not I said the little red northern European extraction male of a certain age who could lose a few pounds.

Does it matter that  the “‘Hot felon’ released from federal prison, now entertaining job offers?”

Do you really care that Search on for Suspects in Pa. Shooting That Left 5 Dead? 

Actually, the correct answer on this last story is sort of.  And the reason has to do with your meds because it is all soooo similar to the killing of five people up in Kansas. (Here is where the conspiracy genes kick in…)  Why would we be interested in a shadow murder like today’s?  Simple:  It covers up the memory that the man who was charged with the five murders in Kansas was AND FREAKING ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT.

The U.S. Department of Mind Control sure as hell doesn’t want people figuring out that the border being wide open and with the Obamanation putting the brakes on actually having a BORDER leads to horrible social consequences.

No way to prove anything, except to note that while the illegal immigrant killed four, the killing of five by what the Department of Mind Control might script as a gang or drug hit so when people recall Kansas and this latest killing spree, they will fog out on the details and that is the whole point, is it not?  (It would be even more in line with the notion of a Department of Mind Control to make the latest attacks somehow racially connected.  You know, to keep the public stirred up and ready to submit to…oh, don’t get me started…)

Now, of course, we don’t know that there is a Department of Mind Control, but when we watch stories come along like this, we can’t help but wonder sometimes. And if the perps in the kill-five deal in Pennsylvania turn out to be tools to further inflame race relations, while covering up the ILLEGAL ALIEN KILLING THE FOUR IN THE MIDWEST incident, do remember where you heard it first.

In case you didn’t get the memo:  We’re also supposed to forget who was a big Clinton bundler who blew up a major financial outfit…that kind of thing.  If you or I had done that sort of thing, we’d be doing hard time, for sure.

Another Prediction Ready to Arrive

Now, I have to admit this is coming much, much later than I would have expected, but remember where you heard it first?

Back on December 3, 2015,.

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Although the market was up yesterday, for a few minutes this morning, it seemed as though the market might be ready to turn-tail and run for the hills.  The futures at one point were down more than 120.

Now?  Not so down.  70, or so.

Here’s what is going on – although most people don’t get it this clearly.  One of our Peoplenomics.com subscribers summed it up beautifully in a posted comment overnight:

“…money has to move out of bonds when rates go up…… some goes to the market, and the scared money goes to gold while the Central Banks restock the larder with gold (real money). Gold has bottomed imo…

To my (slightly twisted) way of looking at the world, this subscriber has it exactly right. 

We are not in crash and burn mode, at least not yet.  There are several areas where there is evidence that the market still has one more “final run at the top” due…and a new all-time high this year seems likely.

Here’s a note that just passed on the wires this morning:  The National Federation of Independent Business is out with its small business economic trends and business optimism report.  If I can quote from the trends part of their report (which is online over here):

“The Index of Small Business Optimism fell 1 point from January, falling to 92.9. None of the 10 Index components posted a gain, six posted small declines, and four were unchanged. Overall, a “ho hum” outcome, confirming that the small business sector is not headed up with any strength, just treading water waiting for a good reason to invest in the future.”

What’s going on at the macro level for another month, or few weeks, anyway, is that people are not sure about the future.

But when we look at what the investment alternatives area, consider this:

1. In our work, which focuses on how past policy errors tend to be repeated, the odds are very high that the Fed will move to bump rates again.
2. This, in turn, will make bonds look like doggie doo, so where is a returns-hungry investor to park money? 
3. This gets us to the stock market, one of the two options.  And the market has been showing remarkable strength lately, and in my work, this is just the tip of the iceberg.  The optimism (that we might see REAL change in the elections this fall) should begin to add to investor confidence, but ONLY until the election.  Then the mood should sour – again.
4. At the same time, gold (bullion/coins) is viewed as a way to keep “money” out of the electronic system.  People like that.

On this last point, there is a reason people should love physical assets for the next year:  THIS IS THE MOST IMPORTANT STORY OF THE DAY, SO LISTEN UP:

Federal Reserve Bank Hacked, Possible $100 Million Theft

It doesn’t take a rocket surgeon (or Mensa membership) to figure out that “Hey!  If the FED can be robbed electronically…well, hell…SO CAN i!!!!!!”

And this is all really cool for a couple of reasons:  The main one is that there are still two factions of the coming World Disorder who are duking out the control scenarios.

One is the criminal families, cartels, and so forth.  They LOVE having the ability to pile up rooms full of money (like you’ve seen when cartel safe-houses get popped and they bring in forklifts to move the ill-gotten-gains (IGG) around.

This side of the equation plays on the sentiments of constitutionalists and people who hold to the idea that it’s none of government’s bee’s-wax what you have in the way of assets.

The FLIP side of this is the big government crowd and the people heading this faction would love nothing more than to turn the whole world into an all-electronic jungle when they can easily implement Cyprus-like bail-ins and rob people at will with things like negative interest rates when the mood strikes the,  Remember, negative rates essentially charges you money for having money.  Which is the most inane crock of shit in banking…ever…. But that don’t stop this faction from pressing forward.

This faction waves the gun control and “dangers of crime and pools of ill-gotten money going to TERRORISM” to they get the other side of the public whipped up on this, to counter Faction One.

There is a media war on, therefore, with several “moving pieces” in play.

The big money interests want to continue their slow-motion stampede into government uber alles and Hillary would be their candidate.

But here are some of the problems the e-money in banks crowd is having:  People like us.

We know (because the NY Times Never Lies) that Sweden is a failing poster-child for the left-leaning policy wonks.  So how is Sweden doing?

“In Sweden, a Cash-Free Future Nears.”

But now remember, I’m telling you Sweden is the test-case for what?  Giving the bankster class a way to syphon money out of real workers for doing NOTHING except storing electrons!

“Sweden Cuts Rates Deeper into Negative Territory, Says May Go Further…”

According to Ure’s Invincible Theory of Everything (UIToE), the Swedes were stampeded into the cashless/socialist dreams by the 2010 Stockholm bombings which coincidentally set up the press to get cash into banks.  And since then, the press hasn’t let up with stories easily found about “Why Sweden’s terror threat is a game changer…” a story from late last year.

And the left-leaners in Sweden has done their absolute damnedest to pack the country with people invading from the Muslim countries (because it fits with soft-think and expansion of government powers), we see that stories are beginning to surface like “As Migrants Flow In, Sweden Begins To Rethink Its Open-Door Policy.”

So the take-away here is what?  I mean besides the fact that those old Swede jokes may have had some basis in fact because not only did the Stockholm-based Nobel outfit give a Peace Prize to someone who hadn’t done anything, but it has also taken the country six years to figure out they are being made slave-bitches of the central banksters. 

The same thing is playing out in America, so any open-border presidential candidate is likely to back (remember where you read this first because we tend to run 10-years ahead of events) that stampede of commoners into electronic-only “money.”

The Flip side is not much better.  Because the strong nationalism, which would shut down the border and would interdict drugs, build walls, and what have you, is also likely to dictate a lot more than border security.  The problem is that these people tend to want to dictate a lot more:  Things like locking people up for having a gram of weed, telling women what they can and cannot do with their own bodies, and an urge to dictate public morals after their own line of thinking which sometimes goes way right of what logic and the Constitution provide for.

We wryly note that weed was not mentioned in Federal Law (going from memory here) until the Harrison Act, or so. 

But here’s how this group of folks tends to think:  THEY make up new government empires by imposing regulations on the rest of us and pursing wars of aggression which ensure terrorism as blowback, and that becomes a self-fulfilling circular reference that leads to getting my junk-checked at airports.  I mean WTF, we all see through this BS…

I apologize for this being a nearly-cogent discussion, of the sort we generally hold for Peoplenomics subscribers, but once you kinda/sorta figure out where markets are and how we’re doing a replay of the Great Depression lead-in, then it becomes a simple task to figure out the big picture stuff for what lies ahead.

And that part in simple:  The Master Plan for the Second Depression in the USA is to blow over the economic House of Cards.  Force everyone into electronic money (gold and silver and other fungibles will likely be made illegal and possibly cryptomoney, too.

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Here’s a short conversation that’s really something to think about:

Why do we humans have such a predilection with following “the news?”

I know why I do it:  I was a newscaster in a top 15-market by age 21.  News Director of an AM/FM combo in the same top 15-market (Seattle) by age 23.  And I stayed in the news game for a fair period of time:  13-years, almost to the day.

In the process, I had met one president (Gerald Ford), learned to play poker on a corporate Lear jet from the then-head of the Senate Armed Services committee, met every politician and porn star of the 1970-1983 that I cared to, and (most fortunately for me) many of the finest writers of the era.  Bach, Gann, Michener, L’Amour…the list goes on seemingly forever.

Every day was a rush.  Not always in the adrenaline way, although being pinned down by gunfire, dropping by a mass murder scene, or sitting in the first couple of rows at a headliner tour – that was cool and all.

But in the end, what did all that time “chasing down the news” mean.

You might have guessed by that new favorite song I hinted at in the column Monday, I’m still self-aware enough to ask “Once in a While”  what am I doing?

I actually made a list of things that UrbanSurvival has been about – and it is a changing list from what we are doing around here today.

Back in the day when this site was started up, the content was almost 100% financial  with a heaping order of Long Wave Economics.  That’s not a huge audience-builder, though, so we evolved into the study of future events – something that continues largely thanks to the good graces of Grady who keeps evolving the code for our www.nostracodueus.com site.

Yet curiously, some of the best insights into the future around here come from every-day dreams.  But isn’t it a bit of a stretch to make life decisions based on something as flimsy was dreams?

Of course.

If I had to put it all in a single bucket today, I figure UrbanSurvival should be mostly about making sense of the news.

A long time ago, I remember talking to a reporter who worked for one of the All News operations in the early days.  Ron was his name.  Damn fine reporter who later died prematurely of one of those diseases we all hope we never get.

He was telling me one day about what a major consulting firm had been talking with the news and assignment editors about.  Basically it came down to health, heart, and pocketbook – the second time I heard it was from another reporter I’d hired – a fellow by the name of Frank who is also a widely published science fiction writer in addition to being a highly skilled communicator.

Health, heart, and pocketbook may not seem to take in all of it; and obviously it does not.  It’s close, though.

There are some base human instincts that come into play while watching the news.  Elaine, being a typical (well-read) human watches the news on, oh, CBSgo for example and I can almost see her weighing each story that comes by.

It’s almost like she’s looking for some way to fit the information into her life in a meaningful way.

I went through the headlines on Google Monday afternoon to summarize the news – as it pertains to Elaine.  Here’s what I came up with:

Michael Bloomberg is not running president.  E likes Trump, and she knows Bloomberg has no chance, so this is a fine example of what I like to toss on the bonfire of useless news. 

Drudge went even further with “Bloomberg Bails on ‘16 Bid.”  Read my lips:  Most people who make a billion, or so, aren’t stupid.  GMAFB.

Sanders says Clinton is mischaracterizing his stance on the auto bailout.  Check me on this:  I only know two people who will be voting for Bernie, only one who will vote for Clinton and everyone else is about 60-40 Trump over Cruz.  So how is this “useful data?”

Hacker ‘Guccifer’, who uncovered Clinton emails, extradited to USA… This might verge on interesting, if you were his insurance agent and sold him a high dollar whole life policy.

Did Nancy Reagans War on Drugs Backfire?  No, we enjoyed them very much.  Seriously?  Sure, it’s worth knowing that Nancy Reagan passed.  It’s not worth it to go into a media whores dress up like paid mourners deal about it.  Screw that.  Great woman, gone, end of story except for the Wiki entry.  Since the media are scrambling to all search out the definitive last word, how about I help ‘em?  Dead.  Sort of sums it up, don’t it?

Payton Manning announcement retirement from the NFL.  Another useless bit of news unless you are his accountant, or he’s a beer-drinking buddy.  But do you really want to live in a country where people speak nonsensical statistical gibberish about sports?  No?

Amazon plans to open a physical bookstore in San Diego.  Not news for us and it’s too far to drive.

North Korea threatens nuke strike on U.S. and South Korea.  The old man did it and nothing happened.  Kid’s going to do it, too, unless someone takes him out back.  Is it worth worrying about?  Only if you are an F-117 driver or Pentagon war gamer.  The rest of us can go back to our meditation.

The Libyan War may spill over into Tunisia.  There goes another neighborhood, expansion of the global caliphate and all.  But ultimately the whole Middle East and North Africa is a sidewalk fair for arms dealers..  Our only involvement is paying for it and there we don’t have any choice.

Naked dancing woman on top of big rig ties up 290 traffic in Houston,  This is only useful at the time it happened so hitting the wires doesn’t do anything useful except for amusement value.

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Long-time readers know that from time-to-time, as we attempted to wrap our brains about really, really big problems, we will resort to a blend of fact and fiction in order to make sense of the data that is accumulating before our eyes.

In doing so, we often come up with startling – and oftentimes amusing – takes on the world around us which – in turn – drives better informed investment decisions.  By acknowledging fiction and using it to sketch in some of the detail, we are driven to clearer perception of the facts.

As I was writing up my research outlines this week on our latest batch of home-spun gravity reduction/reduced-mass experiments, it became clear that even modest success in our pursuits could cause monumental problems in terms of World Management.

The concept – world management – is not something that is held in sharp focus.  In fact, I may be one of the few people who talks about it in public. Most conspir5acy types blame the wrong groups.

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We might as well start with some real news.  Latest employment data out from the Labor Department:

“Total nonfarm payroll employment increased by 242,000 in February, and the unemployment rate was unchanged at 4.9 percent, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today.

Employment gains occurred in health care and social assistance, retail trade, food services and drinking places, and private educational services. Job losses continued in mining.

Household Survey Data In February, the unemployment rate held at 4.9 percent, and the number of unemployed persons, at 7.8 million, was unchanged.

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It has been a fair while since we have talked much about the anti-gravity project.

THE WHAT????

Oh…how soon you forget!

We have touched on the historical aspects of levitation now and then (like this discussion from January of this year), but I don’t think I have kept you up to speed on the actual science project I have been designing to seriously poke around a bit.

But since you have been a good little wage-slave this week, I will let you in on what I’m working on.

This is actually a very worthwhile project because, to show you how it is that I figure I have as good a chance as CERN, or anyone else, of finding anti-gravity, let me engage you in a little thought experiment.

I mentioned a while back that I was reading the autobiography of Thomas Edison.  There is a method to my madness (which is considerable, make no mistake) but I don’t think I did a good job of articulating things.

Here’s the setup:

Imagine that you were in the shoes of Thomas Edison and you were bound and determined to come up with a solid, working incandescent light bulb.

You have two ways you can go about your task.

One approach would be to take and do a very comprehensive study of all the literature.  You would read everything there was to be learnt (this is old school time, right) about materials science.

Then you would look up everything that was know about electricity.

Then you would look up everything there is to be known about math.

And then you would study vacuum performance of materials.  But oh, sorry, that stuff wasn’t yet known.

Then you would sit down for the rest of your life and try to “pencil out” a working way to FIGURE how to build a light.

Could you do it?

I think not.

I think Edison’s approach (some learning, some actually living life, smoking cigars, and thinking, but spending lots of time in a higher organized way in the lab is the HIGHEST PROBABILITY of success.

So went my little thought experiment.

The Raw Concept Problem

The very first thing we need to do is put together “all the pieces” that we hope to be able to test in our antigravity experiments.

If I said to you “Build an antigravity machine based on the annecdotal reports we have that relate to the field…”

What would you “toss in the pot?”

You would go to everything that you could find even remotely related to UFOs and such as well as publicly available information about what the “elementals” were in such reports.

Here is some (but not all, obviously) of my data set:

• UFO’s (along with none saucer formats of flying/floating devices, such as one my friend Grady saw over Canada a while back) come in two very generalized formats.  One is the traditional (Ken Arnold description) disks while the other is more like a Fedora-style hat.  Commonality:  They all have a ring-like feature that seems to have something to do with the lift but the ring is not likely aerodynamic in function because I have good creds from a reliable witness who debunked the whole “round ducted fan notion” which has made the rounds on the net.
• Philadelphia experiment.  This gets us to the “what goes in the ring?” part.  According to the reports, there is some kind of magnetics which were used at fairly good power levels in order to make a whole ship disappear.  So write down a ring-like structure and magnets. Does ultraviolet light have something to do with it?  Those experiments reportedly used mercury vapor rectifier tubes for high voltages.  Can we get something out of UV OLED’s?
• Plasma may figure in some how, though I am not sure how (although I have some thoughts).  We know there may be some role for plasma because (this isn’t classified, but close) when plasma is injected into the boundary layer of hypersonic airfoils, there are some neat effects.
• Then there are the numerous Ed Leedskalnin coils that were in his shop.  Everyone I think has seen the pictures of his several ton device to generate (it is rumored) lots of lift.  But when Elaine and I toured his famed Coral Castle, the couple of times we were there in the early 2000’s when we lived in Florida, we noted there were numerous coils around – and most of them looked to be build out of regular galvanized fense wire (not barbed, but electric fence wire) and there were lots of guts of old car radios (of vibrator power supplies) and tubes and let me think…what can I make with that?  Oscillators of course.
• Then there is the James Clerk Maxwell lecture where he instructed his students not to look at the magnetic lines of force about magnets, but rather to study the “B-field” – which is the force around magnets which pushed the lines OUT FROM THE MAGNET.
• Let’s not leave out the tale told to me by some former MITRE experts about the reports from the Montauk Experiments.

I also hold John Hutchinson in some regard, although as far as anyone knows, he has not been successful in demonstrating levitation in a laboratory other than his own, but that may be a critical difference in how I approach things compared with others.

I am a process oriented person and I hope to (like Edison) make detailed notes.

Stir and mix gently..

My buddy Vince…;another member of the “friends of George for 50 years club,” and a ham radio op, and so one…has also been helping in the cause.  Great mind and if he wasn’t so busy sitting around his pool living the life of a cell tower magnate near Palm Springs, we might be further along in our design and test plans.  But he’s changing the world in other ways like G4 installations, and those do put food on the take and chlorine in the pool…

The Electronic Driver and Instrumentation Problems

Once you have a tentative design, the next steps are going to be feeding the right electronic signals into the device.

I don’t know if I ever mentioned it, but I have a pretty good electronics bench.  Ham radio types who live in apartments should be warned not to drool.

There’s the Rohde & Schwarz SMY01 which is a signal generator that will cover from 9 KHz to 1 GHz plus.  Digital function generators.  When we get to the collapsing wavefront part we can try a wide range of frequencies, power densities, and waveforms.  And this last (the modulated microwave alleged at Montauk) is what seems more interesting.

The largest problems is instrumentation.

I will be monitoring the project in two ways.  First will be the obvious (buy a good electronic scale) and then calibrate it and record results.

But here’s where we run into a problem (when you think about it).  Suppose you were able to bend space-time just ever so little:  If you did that, how would you notice if all the equipment in your experiment lost apparent mass at the same rate?

Take the scale:  Would it really work if a small amount (like a half a gram) was lost?  One way to do this is to pick the right scale and to use a large mass.  I liked Hutchison’s use of a bowling ball.

But the other instrumentation is a little different.  This involves putting together a small crystal oscillator and placing it in what should be the middle of the bent or time-shifted field.  Because time and/or mass would be different, would the signal from a small crystal oscillator be on the same frequency is monitored on a radio, oh, 20 feet away on the other side of my office?  The inverse square law suggests that when you have something vibrating at 18-million times per second, and you can detect a one or two times per second change, you have the kind of resolution to go looking effects.

Apparatus Construction

This is really the simple part…sort of.

Winding the coils is not particularly difficult.  Counting turns of fine wire is a pain, but if patient.  Maybe I could talk Elaine into helping as she’s far more patient than me.

I won’t show you the whole design, but it is simple enough and (as a hint) the device can be constructed with any even number of nodes, as long as that number happens to be (coincidentally?) at lead six<  As in the Start of David which I thought was an odd enough coincidence.

Experiment Design

The waveforms to drive the device are many and varied.  So we need a frequency and test plan…

So there you have some of the outline of the project.  And on that note, as soon as I get the research finished for Peoplenomics tomorrow and get that written up, I will be deeply into the winding of coils.

Should be fun.

Odds of Success?

Intuitively, there should be something there.  Gravity is a weak force.

But here’s what I think my odds of success are just a little higher than zero.

There has been, near as I can find anywhere in the public view, no real methodical sweep of mass in specific magnetic configurations in a methodical “DC to Daylight” way.

The fact that there is a lot to be learned from such dedicated “sweep” experiments is demonstrated by John Kanzius remarkable success at burning water.  See the YouTube video here.

Think carefullyt about John Kanzius’ success:  If someone had told you that “I’m going to sit down and blast salt water with radio frequency energy and see if I can bust loose something burnable…” would have have called them nuts?

Well, sure.

Damn sham Kanzius didn’t live long enough to push out the technology and do some real optimizations, but since it is a patented process, I have sort of generalized it into…

“If Kanzius can sweep and look for anomalies using RF and water, why can’t I do a sweep using multiple topologies of coil magnetics and look for similar odd effects in the nooks and crannies of Basic Science where no one else goes looking?”

No, I don’t expect success but neither to I expect failure.

This is a science project and like everything else we do around here, we will come up with some hare-brained ideas, dump a few bucks into some far out research into the basics, and if we find anything, well, we first need to find something.

Dream Fragments

The two oddities for this morning:  One dream involved the flight of three large military aircraft.  Might have been a test flight, or something like that.  Got the idea that this test flight was somewhere over the U.S.

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First up we have the Challenger Job Cut report for February.  After having a train wreck in January, this one is just downright peachy:

CHICAGO, March 3, 2016 – After surging to a six-month high to begin the new year, downsizing slowed in February, as US-based employers announced 61,599 job cuts during the month, 18 percent fewer than the 75,114 in January, according to a report released Thursday by global outplacement consultancy Challenger, Gray & Christmas, Inc.  

The February total was up 22 percent from a year ago, when employers announced 50,579 job cuts during the month.  

Planned job cuts total 136,713 through the first two months of the year, up 32 percent from the same period in 2015, when employers announced layoffs totaling 103,620 in January and February.  

Just as in 2015, the energy sector has seen the heaviest job cutting in the opening months of the year.  These firms announced another 25,051 job cuts in February, bringing the year-to-date total to 45,154.  Most of the cuts in the sector have been attributed to low oil prices.

The 45,154 energy cuts through February represents a 24 percent increase from 2015, when employers in the sector announced 36,532 planned layoffs in the opening two months of the year.

“Low oil prices continue to take a toll on workers in the energy and industrial goods sectors.  Since January of 2015, these two sectors alone have seen workforce reductions in excess of 200,000, the majority of which were attributed to oil prices.  The major concern is that the job losses in cities and towns that rely heavily on oil production will begin to drag down other parts of the local economy,” said John A. Challenger, chief executive officer of Challenger, Gray & Christmas.

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Markets are not falling apart.  The “usual suspects” will face off in November.  And Spring is slowly coming along, punctuated by the occasional earthquake.

That last point actually figures into this morning’s report of some serious personal woo-woo, so let me roll back to the beginning.

As long-term readers will remember, I am terribly prone to two rather unique things.  One is that I become tired before major earthquakes.  And I got the “earthquake tired” feeling on Tuesday afternoon about 2 PM Texas time.

The second unique thing that happens to me is that I have vivid dreams (and I mean like iMax vivid) on an increasingly frequent basis.  Often times, these dreams will either be about an event in the immediate future (by a day or longer, but sometimes just an hour or two ahead of events) while other times it’s like being at the scene of an actual news event.

Two Recent Example of Accurate Dream Content

I’m sure you remember the weird bus dream and how the actual event occurred in South Melbourne Australia.  (It was described in Dream #3 here: https://urbansurvival.com/coping-the-cool-part-about-aging/.) 

Less noticed might have been my note in the February 25 Coping section column about my motorcycle dream, down toward the bottom of this page: https://urbansurvival.com/coping-coloring-books-for-seniors/ 

One Other Dream Note

Damnedest dream overnight:  Kept dreaming about being on a motorcycle with some kind of throttle problem.  In fact, at one point, while riding, the throttle control simply fell off the right handlebar.  The inside of the mechanism was clear in the dream, too…

I don’t know if this means there is a recall coming, or if someone famous loses throttle control, or what.  But it was intense and I thought worth mentioning.  News scan at press time doesn’t show anything big.  Believe me, I’m on the lookout for this one.  It’s been 30-years since my old Virago 650 shaft-drive and no reason to dream of it now.  The bike in the dream was more like a moto-cross rice-burner…

Well, try not to look surprised or anything, but here we go:

February 26th (28 hours after the dream posting): “Recall News: 2016 Kawasaki ZX-10R Motorcycles.”

And February 29th:  “Kawasaki recalls Ninja ZX-10R and Ninja ZX-10R ABS motorcycles – The steering damper bracket mounting bolts may break.”

Hmmm…oddly timed and a bit if advance again.  It’s like riding a wild pony on this stuff.

So Here’s the Latest Dream / Adventure

Timeline:  I was dreaming this dream from about 3:07 AM until my 4:00 AM alarm on the morning of March 2.  I had stirred about 3 AM, glanced at the clock and scolded myself for leaving a dream.  This was the first time I can remember when I woke from a dream (which was making no sense), went back into the dream – figured out the story line and then followed the dream to its strange waking-state results.

The first part of the dream was on-going.  I was not myself.  Rather, I was younger, wearing jeans and only a very light shirt and I was in a kind of run-down restaurant or hotel.

There was a dog in the scene.  Pretty ugly mutt.  Looked like a cross between a dachshund and a Chihuahua.  The dog looked like a cross with all the bad features of each breed:  The temperament of the Chihuahua and its legs, and the upper body of the dachshund. 

The dog had been scooting it’s butt on the floor which was dirty.  The room was whites, yellows, and blues…lots of blues in the furniture.

I didn’t like dog and figured by the way he was biting on his personal parts that he had a bad case of worms.  The dog then wanted to get up on my calves (which were on something like an ottoman) but I remember I didn’t want anything to do with that damn dog because if he bit, I would get God knows what. 

He also had something white (like a kids white sock) in his mouth.

I was in a distinctly grumpy mood…and I woke up.

(checked the clock, a minute or two after 3 AM so I decided to return to sleep and without forcing anything, I dropped back into the dream)

In this recliner, I was still miserable, but after a while a fellow speaking Spanish came in wearing a kind of khaki-colored uniform.  Looked sort of like an old Barney Fife get-up and he had a brown clipboard and he was prattling on about the terms of my arrival.

He said that I should really have cleared into the country elsewhere instead of coming from the country next door directly.

I blamed it on my pilot, a local fellow from the other country, who had flown me in this rickety old Cessna 172.  The plain had landed on a dusty road nearby instead of the local airfield.

Eventually, after making me wait some more, so he could “show me who was in charge” the officer  who was something like a cross between Customs and a cop, let me go and I was free to seek out my friends.

I then experienced what a film director would call a “jump cut.”  One moment I was being berated by the local power-freak and the next moment I was in the company of a couple of other scientists and we were looking at something that looked like an artesian well that was issuing forth water across about a 50-foot face of an obviously manmade stoneworks around the fountain. 

In the background were mountains, but they were unusual because they had no trees on them.  What’s more, I knew this area was in the “crook” of the Pacific Coast of South America, even though I have only been near that part of the world once before.  That was 32 years ago on a flight to Guayaquil to Lima and that was in the middle of the night… a good ways north of the dream site.

The conversation we were having was quite animated.  The issue seemed to be whether “the earthquake would damage the water flow from this artesian spring…”

(loud obnoxious noise)

Damn, the alarm went off and I was back on this side of the dream again.  Shoot-damn, and just as things were getting interesting again.

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As usual, I got up, made coffee, fed the cat, loaded up on vitamins, and then sat down to digest the day’s news. 

Suddenly, while checking the USGS website, I realized the dream had a serious woo-woo angle to it because of what was showing on the US Geological Survey website:

Quickly, I started in disbelief.  Could it be?

The I looked at the official data report:

Time

1. 2016-03-02 09:49:53 (UTC)
2. 2016-03-02 03:49:53 (UTC-06:00) in your timezone
3. Times in other timezones

Nearby Cities

1. 52km (32mi) WSW of Arica, Chile
2. 92km (57mi) SW of Tacna, Peru
3. 131km (81mi) SSE of Ilo, Peru
4. 166km (103mi) S of Moquegua, Peru
5. 366km (227mi) SW of La Paz, Bolivia

HOLY CRAP!  Right as I was dreaming in the dream about the possibility of “the quake damaging the artesian flow THE QUAKE HAPPENED IN REAL LIFE.

A Little Too “IRL?”

Since it was Wednesday morning, I took my second cup of coffee out in the office and didn’t think much more about the incident until about 8 AM when I went back to the house to scout up some breakfast.

Elaine was running a bit late so I looked at the data from earlier in the morning.  I’ve had enough of this stuff happen that there were no cold chills running up the spine, or anything like that.

Instead, it was more of an acceptance.  Yeah, this had happened.  I took in the USGS map looking for landmarks.

Since I am real big on “sticking to the data” I decided to look and see what was on the internet about “artesian springs north Chile.”

I mean, how common would Artesian springs be in a pretty dry area, right?

Wrong.

I about froze when I found this as the second search result out of Google Books:

This is from a 1965 U.S. Department of Interior book titled “Geology and Ground-water Resources of the Pica Area, Tarapaca Province, Chile” by Robert James Dingman, Carlos Galli Olivier.

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Having taken on some causative economics, the difficulties ahead for food (with an important addendum this morning) and shelter, not to mention sizing up the possibilities of the government calling gold and silver, we come this morning to the problems of transportation in the Second Depression.

With the market performance again this week, the case continues to build that we are more likely to have a 1920’s style blow-off top later this year, and into next, long before we have a complete melt-down, but it will be at that precise moment that all your wisdom will be necessary to keep from being sucked into dangerous herd-following actions.

Before we dig in there, a look at our charts, the first of the week’s job numbers, and a quick sizing-up o the “super” Tuesday results at the polls.

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