George Ure

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Coping with the WoWW: A Great “Falling”

What happens next in markets may be a huge reversal to the downside beginning this week, or maybe next week after options come off late this week.  And I suspect this why?

There has been a “Great Falling.” 

A what?  Allow me to elucidate:

The Universe talks to us…often in ways that are too subtle for our busy minds to hear, but that’s mostly because we have such busy schedules and we’re texting so much drivel that we miss the signs when they are thrown in our faces.

From experience, though, sigils and signs are a lot more common than people realize.

No, I’m not talking about when you get a flash of intuition that if you turn down the next line of parked cars at the mall, someone will back out right in front of you, leaving the perfect parking spot close to the door.  That’s more gut feeling and being in tune with your higher self.  Of just being flat-ass lazy.

Technically, a sigil is a “thing” that has been inscribed with symbols, in a particular order and a particular way that imbues the thing with magical power.  Amulet with writing, kind of thing.

Sometimes, though, Universe writes the SIGIL out over the whole cloth of your existence.

Happened to us Saturday afternoon between 4:45 and 9:00 PM. 

.Here’s how the symbols read:

1.  About 4:45, my buddy, the retired Major fellow, called to report that he and his bride would NOT be going over to Lake Chelan as planned.  They’ll be staying home because while putting the roof racks on their VW Taureg (which tows a small trailer), the Maj. didn’t place the ladder right.

It slipped and he went Humpty-Dumpty, complete with the “Crack!” noise as his ankle hit the ground.

It was too puffy to get a good X-Ray of it by the time he got to the docs, so he will be get another foot-selfie Tuesday but he’s down for the count on crutches with a baseball-sized foot.

Falling event #1 complete.

2.  By the time that call was done, we were outside Elaine’s son Brandon’s place where we walked in and were treated to fresh home-smoked sockeye salmon – totally delish.  The kids outdid themselves.

But my ears perked up at the mention (mid-bite of salmon and a vodka water) that that very morning, Brandon had been working in the yard and the ladder he was on (for no apparent reason) broke.

That sent him to the ground…no injuries, but he will feel it.

Fall Event #2 complete.

3.  Later on in the evening, around 8 PM, or so, we drop in with the kids to a party (kids of the ‘hood when Elaine was raising Brandon” and Aerospace Rick (who drivers a mint magnum-like Ferrari, told how his daughter, and attorney, had just be sidelined with a sprained ankle.

She had been wearing high-heels and one of them just keeled over. Broke her ankle so down for a week or longer.

Falling Event #3 complete.

4.  We get home and I mention this has been an odd day for things “falling” and as the conversation drifted along, I noted a funny thing in my mouth.

A gold cap on a tooth has fallen out.

Off to the emergency dental place Sunday morning to have it repaired.

Falling Event #4.

Near as I can tell, this is a seriously improbable series of things falling around us.

As we head back to Texas Thursday morning, we will have rain falling, but that’s not as “in your face” as the Saturday news arriving at our ears:  Great Falling.

We’ll see if markets listen, though this has all the hallmarks of being an entirely forgettable day in the pre-open.

It’s all Interconnected…

So there we were:  Daughter Denise, Elaine, and me having a dandy brunch of everything good on Earth out at Ivar’s Salmon House on Sunday on Seattle’s Lake Union in Seattle  when somehow we got on the topic of how everything in the world is interconnected.

(After a neat conversation about when Bitcoin will get hacked with a recent UW grad in molecular biology who is what?  Waiting tables at Ivar’s which should tell you reams about the condition of the US economy for non-banksters, but that’s a long rap for a distant Monday…)

Not that we would argue the point, about interconnectedness, but Denise told us a marvelous story that somehow didn’t make it down to media in East Texas and it’s quite a story, if you haven’t head it:.

The long and short of it is that last fall, there were some sacred Indian relics that were to be moved from ta local museum back to one of the Puget sound islands.

To get there, the museum folks put the relics in a vehicle and caught a  ferryboat to take the relics to their final (and more proper) resting place.

As the ferry neared its destination, something never-before seen happened:  A massive pod of more 35 killer whales appeared and  seemed to dutifully escort the ferry on its trip …the kind of thing that for humans would be almost like marching in procession with a casket.

Hasn’t happen before, or since, explained Denise.  evidence enough to her – and us when sitting by the lake watching the boats go by and recalling our own connections with the sea from our sailing days – that there is a connection that is both timeless and non-local.

A connection we ignore (every day) at our own peril.….

http://seattletimes.com/html/localnews/2022162797_apxpugetsoundorcas.html

I assume you know killer whale brains are bigger than human brains?

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A Course in Relative Values

(Gig Harbor, WA)  One of the biggest “prepping problems” is what threat to prep for.  While there are no hard and fast rules, there is something to be learned from a study of relative values.  With this in mind, a long ramble this morning into the mindset that works.

We also look at the spread of Ebola and what that might do…a major killing time, but slow arriving and thus, plenty of time to prep for what could be “national days in” that could be coming worldwide if the worst fears of epidemiologists materialize.

All of which requires plenty of coffee and is best taken on the deck with the sun of late summer to ward of the chills of what’s to come.  Markets are often driven by internals, but every so often exogenous events come along that “blow over” the status quo.  The period from this fall to next summer may be a period when externalities may again remind us that while Quants can rule the milliseconds, Ma Nature rules the days…

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Hallelujah! Car Sales Save the Economy (again)

Once again, America has experienced its bacon being pulled out of the fire by what?  Car sales!

But things aren’t doing badly for the credit card companies, either, since in the latest Federal Reserve data out this week, credit card (revolving) debt was up at an annual rate of 7.4 percent while student loans and such were up by more than 10%.

Understand that this is a vexing problem for economists to deal with:  While it can be argued that the big bump in consumer spending could be a good thing, it also might imply that people are no more responsible in their spending habits than they were in the years leading up to the Housing Bust a few years back.,

Yes, it might mean there are sales…but is it a healthy economy?  I rather think not. 

Before going further, though, let’s cut into the retail sales press release just out…

The U.S. Census Bureau announced today that advance estimates of U.S. retail and food services sales for August, adjusted for seasonal
variation and holiday and trading-day differences, but not for price changes, were $444.4 billion, an increase of 0.6 percent (±0.5%) from the
previous month, and 5.0 percent (±0.9%) above August 2013.

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Coping: Apple Strudel, Coffee, and Bruce the Critic…

(Gig Harbor, WA)     Ah, touched a nerve, did I?

Yesterday’s discussion about whether people need a $400 watch that requires a $600 phone got me a stinger—zinger of an emailed critique from my friend Bruce down in Ecuador.  A fairer critic would be hard to find.

George, 

You don’t need a smartphone, because you have no friends, and really not much of a life. How many numbers you got stored in that tracphone? Do you have only one phone for the two of you? That’s as archaic as a couple sharing an email address. 

Question is, how many cpu’s/electrical switches do you have in all that crap you hauled across the country? The name of the game is chip reduction. The apple watch is not a watch. It is the interface to the computer called an iPhone that goes in your pocket or elsewhere. The new iPhone has more computing power and storage and connectivity than the first 3 computers you owned, combined. Maybe 10 times more. Like I said, there are people in the world that could replace all that crap you transported with an iPad, keyboard, smartphone and a Bluetooth headset. 

Why do I need a watch?  Truth is, I don’t.

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One More Thing: World May Not End

A couple of people asked me why I didn’t mention the big EMP from the sun that was due to wipe out the power grid today.

Simple:  Word out from the science people who watch such stuff this morning said (in part)

The X1.6 flare from 10 September was associated with an asymmetric full halo coronal mass ejection (CME). It was first seen by SOHO/LASCO at 18:00UT and had an average plane-of-the-sky speed of about 800 km/s. The CME is expected to arrive at Earth on 12 September around 21:00UT (+/-12 hours).

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Goodbye 17,000, Farewell 2,000: Where’s my Bottom?

Saturday’s Peoplenomics report will be pretty darn interesting, since the market this week is looking to end on a sour note. Futures, when I checked prior to pushing pixels, were down 61 on the Dow. No, make that down 70 now. Here’s the thing: My buddy Roger Reynolds sent out an email to his list yesterday saying that if we get a close under (his level) this week, it would be a sign that the top could be in for this move and we could get a serious move to the downside.

Coping: Battle of the French Toasts

(Gig Harbor, WA)  OK, enough of the serious stuff.  We need a break…

When one of the biggest news stories of the week is that Apple has reinvented the watch so that it can put further in debt – and this is hailed as progress – it’s time we put our feet down and get back to food-binging because that’s one of the few pastimes that actually makes sense, anymore.

Our “binge” will happen Sunday morning.  And the weapon of choice will be French Toast.

In the rush to do this & that, I haven’t gotten around to describing chef-daughter Allison’s incredible French toast.  It’s French toast stuffed with a cream cheese/apple sauce filling – and it’s to die for.

The way it’s built seems simple enough:  You mix up the batter (heavy cream and a couple of eggs will do).  Then you gently cook one side of two pieces of bread.

As these come up to a light brown, you spread the “stuffing mix” on the cooked sides. Slap ‘em together and cook the soggy outsides.

The stuffing is whatever suits your taste portions of cream cheese (softened to room temp) mixed with applesauce and into this you put a dash of nutmeg – and maybe cinnamon.  By varying the spices, you can cover a good portion of the spectrum from dessert all the way over to near pastry.

Whew…toss in a few slices of ultra-trimmed bacon and some link sausage, some high octane coffee and OMG…what a fine combination of octane-rush and blood-sugar explosion with enough protein to moderate the crash later on.

If you have other fruits, I can see them working, too:  Peaches or cherries come to mind.  I’m not so sure about cantaloupe or watermelon…something with less moisture would be a better fruit choice, but I’m not the culinary school grad.

(I did mention that we’re foodies, right?  It’s just that Elaine doesn’t look the part so in an act of selfless chivalry,  I do my best to make up for both of us…)

I’ve made a note to ask Allison if she pre-spread the mix on dry bread and then dipped and cooked one side only…seems to me that would work, too…just depends how crispy you want the finished product. 

So that’s one “contestant” in my Battle of the French Toasts (BoFT) due Sunday morning.

The other is my old standby: Bailey’s French toast.

This is a single-layer French toast which is made (as always) with a base of heavy (whipping) cream and a couple of eggs and whatever you have in the way of bread.

What’s different is that you use a hair less heavy cream than usual and make up for the thicker dip by adding a shot or two of Baileys Irish cream to it.  Or, in my case, the cheaper imitation stuff; St. Brendan’s and Carolan’s work with minor taste differences. Cooked slowly, (and getting the middle above 170) may drive out the alcohol.

Next, as you dredge the bread in the batter, you dust the top side with some nutmeg and put this face-down in the frying pan.  Then a second dusting of nutmeg to the side that is face-up – and you then cook and gorge to your heart’s content.  It’s a binge-day and calories don’t matter.

One of these days, I’ve got a variant of this kind of French Toast:  In stead of making it with Baileys (a half shot of Frangelico is nice, too, just cook slowly and well so it tastes pastry and isn’t about the booze. 

Another one “on the drawing board” is to put in a shot or two of Hiram’s Chocolate Mint liquor instead of the Baileys (haven’t shopped for it for years).  This would be made possibly without the nutmeg, as an afer Thanksgiving of Christmas toast where instead of maple syrup, you’d use Hershey’s chocolate sauce and wash down with a hot buttered rum or high octane coffee and some chocolate-coated espresso beans…

Other liquors come to mind: A cherry cordial or (years ago, showing my age) San Martin used to make an apricot wine (Aprivette) that would interesting with either fresh apricot jam or perhaps a cherry jam on it…again cook slowly and well, it’s not about the booze.

The third French toast nominee is to get a big loaf of French bread the day ahead of time.  Since we’re going to be seeing friends up in Poulsbo Saturday, we will probably drop by Sluys Bakery where I’ve been fueling up the Scandinavian side of my DNA since I was 12 and just learning to row a boat around nearby Liberty Bay across the bay from downtown.  (That was more than 50-years ago…dammit.)  A picture snagged off this website will put you in the mood.

So in this third method, what you do is take 2-inch thick pieces of French bread, soaking them good the evening ahead of time and refrigerated overnight.

I’m not sure what this does, exactly, but the results  when baked the next morning in a 350 (or slightly quicker) oven, is something like a near bread pudding middle with a French toast exterior and OMG, the whole thing is good.  Nutmeg dust before cooking, or overnight, depending on your heritage, though I think chili peppers would ruin it. Dash of white pepper for zing? Hmmm…

Serving in all cases is with real butter and with real dark amber Canadian Maple syrup; Canada’s contribution to global obesity issues.  If you even think about putting that high fructose crap on this kind of art, I’ll be mighty disappointed in you.  Corn should be real, saved for breads, breading, and the last 90-days of cattle’s lives but certainly not for cooking, as I see it.

We don’t eat much sugar – and maybe that’s a reason why we’re in such good health and look 10-15 younger than our ages.  Vices like sugar, tobacco, and corn syrup can’t really be good for you.  No more than one tablespoon of syrup per piece of French toast.  The idea is to taste the mixed flavors, not mask the flavor in sugary sensations. OK, three tablesppons…

If you want to read an interesting take on healthy eating and how to stay young/fit, I can’t think of a better starting point than the article “The Oiling of America .”

In this view of things, the more artificial crap you put in your body, the more those fats tend to turn into plaque rather than being returned to use as useful energy – and the more chance you rack up to lose the stent lottery held by your cardiologist.

When I find my doctor is asking about ‘drilling rights” in my body, usually six-weeks of watching the fatty food intake, plugging in the treadmill for a half hour (or more) per day, drops things back to fit and healthy.  Sometimes I walk on the treadmill while it’s running.  But the meter doesn’t seem to care if I fudge, or not.

When I do this, the doc shrugs, pronounces me alive and skips the speech on how I might use a cholesterol drug.  To my thinking, they’re the hydrogenated fats of blood chemistry.

There’s a couple of things that come from reading Paleo Diet kinds of books; the main one is about eating the natural mix for where your genetics came from. 

For me?  Scotland means oatmeal. Denmark means cream and eggs…so oatmeal cookies must be health food!  Thank you, T-6 haplotype.

I could write about food and beverage endlessly.  The one Dark Side of cookery that I haven’t yet mastered is portion control.  I figure when I croak, it will be a self-solving problem.  I promise to drop my portions to zero calories immediately after dying.

In the meantime, the battle of French Toasts seems a fine way to spend a lazy Sunday morning – the winner will be the one that tastes most like a perfect pastry without so much sugary stuff on it. Judging could last an hour, or so.

Elaine (a long-time personal trainer who’d be a gym rat even now if we were staying put long enough) points out, one of my character flaws is that I live to eat instead of following her counsel which is eat to live.

Since she rarely reads this morning’s column, I’ll let you know how she does with that eat to live stuff when confronted with a properly plated trifecta of pastry-like winners.

Them Lying Mother-Frackers/ Review Processes

Thanks and a tip of the hat to my buddy Howard Hill who spotted this dandy report which you need to read if you live anywhere near oil or gas potential areas that the oil industry is licking its chops to frack open:

Proximity to Natural Gas Wells and Reported Health Status: Results of a Household Survey in Washington County, Pennsylvania

One thing I’d draw your attention to on the cover of this little 28-page report on the National Institutes of Health website:  Dates.

Received: 17 October 2013
Accepted: 20 August 2014
Advance Publication: 10 September 2014

Now here’s my pet theory:  When a report comes out with some highly damning information about how the runaway oil and gas biz is playing…

a small study (492 interviews) of self-reported health issues
significantly higher skin problems and lung problems for the group less than 1 KM from a fracked well and those >2 KM from same)

…it strikes me as highly suspect that it takes so long to get the word out..  We’re talking a 28-page summary, remember?  I’m probably too prolific (this would be a 2-3 day project max for a writer/writer).  Not the kind of thing that should take more than  a month to wend its way through the review process.

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Prepping for Retirement

(Gig Harbor, WA)  This morning we peel back the covers on one of our “secret missions” up here in the Northwest:  We’re trying to sort out whether to move back to this region to be closer to the kids, or just stay put in Texas and send the kids holiday airplane tickets. 

The Obama administration is driving some of this as they sit in waiting until after the elections with their potential November surprise on illegal immigration.  Transparent?  Forthright?  Yeah, right.  Just campaign BS sold to the sheep.  Save the heavy stuff till it’s too late to change your mind.  More practically? We eye the 357-mile distant border with Mexico with increasing suspicion because yes, we do Remember the Alamo and we do read terrorism alerts.

Given the complexity of modern life and the investment we have made in prepping it would be difficult if not impossible to duplicate what we have in the Texas Outback.  But now we’re putting numbers to it as we set about to size up terrorist rings, heart strings and purse strings in this morning’s discussion.  How to scale bug-in versus bug-out.

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The MH-17 Report / Ukraine Mess

30+ pages of report was issued by the Dutch this morning and no conclusions as to what actually brought down MH-17.

What the report did say was that the crash was the result of multiple highs-peed objects hitting the aircraft.

This is an incredibly frustrating story to try and piece together.  When I went to download the entire report, turns out it is in PDF form and they set the security settings to prevent curious reporters (like Ures truly) from plugging the document into Google Translate (or other newsroom tools) and that stinks.  Reporters are by nature “trust buy verify” kinds of people.

While the MSM “narrative” like this NY Times article go a long ways towards reporting what was released, the Dutch are keeping theirs report inaccessible fort widespread review by locking it down to where copying is not permitted, and that prevents full (and nearly instant) machine translations.

The root problem is the Dutch report doesn’t add much clarity to the situation. It was already an article of faith that it was not an aircraft failure.

Meantime, the Russians are bound to be upset with a new round of punitive sanctions on them from the EU and the military types on both sides will likely continue working weekends trying to gear up for any eventualities.

Economic Outlook, NoDoz Needed…

The NFIB report on small business outlooks is out:

August’s Optimism Index rose 0.4 points to 96.1 making it the second highest reading since October, 2007. The four “hard” measures (job creation plans, job openings, capital spending plans and inventory investment plans) were collectively unchanged, and the other 6 components added to the Index a bit to produce a modest gain. 

Toss is the continuing terrorism concerns, and the Ukraine tensions and the markets are in a sideways to down mode:  Dow futures are down about 8 and gold & silver show only lackluster interest.

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Coping: Trouble for Climate/Made-Up Industries

(Gig Harbor, WA) Yes, we’re up in the Seattle area. And (in what we can only take as a sure sign of climate change) it rained overnight. In the hinterlands south of Seattle of all places. (I speak in jest, of course.) Not rained like in Phoenix where there were floods this week.

Ah, Monday

(Gig Harbor, WA)  It was a marvelous weekend up here in the Pacific Northwest.  Not a care in the world since the sun was out, all the relatives were in marvelous form, and daughter Allison (the award-winning chef) whipped up apple sauce/cream cheese French toast Saturday that was incredible.

Dinner at the golf club with the other side of the family was great, too, especially the blow-torched prime rib.  Toss in a sci-fi movie festival and laundry for a lazy Sunday  and it is such a drag looking at numbers again, I can’t stand it.

But look we must and right out of the box the main thing to consider is that deflation is still running full steam.  The price of oil on the futures market was down in the $92 range – and that may explain why the seismic outfit that has been itching to get on our ranch to set some test charges hasn’t shown up yet. 

Oil prices being down means a) ISIS isn’t going to turn off oil, b) demand follow-though has been seriously muted by better fuel efficiency auto sales, and c) industrial consumption is more or less flat. 

Toss in last week’s employment data and the Fed better not be too quick to raise rates because that might set up a secondary recession.  So they’re back in the policy penalty box until the signs of recovery strengthen.

Which gets me to the first question of the week:  What IF the economy NEVER pulls out of the doldrums it is now in?

Put another way, what IF this is IT and the best the continuous printing can do is break-even but can’t jumpstart growth?

It’s more than just a theoretical answer:

As I’ve been muttering (under my breath) for a while:  The Fed may have all the levers in the world and they may be able to print-on-demand and keep the very rich in their chairs, but how about the little people that Senator Bernie Sanders was talking about over the weekend? 

The question on the table in coming months will be “Is America at some risk of going Anasazi and just walking out of the game because we’re working harder and paying more, only to lose ground (in terms of lifestyle and prospects generally) anyway?”

A week from Thursday, we’ll head back to the ranch and ponder that one deeply. I can’t help but wonder, though, if some of the reason why Ferguson, Mo. was such a flashpoint was because it was a rallying point for a lot of pent-up socioeconomic dissatisfaction. as much as a wrongful death protest.

If it was, will Eric Holder or the National Guard’s leadership be able to see it and tell it like it is?

California Remnants, Drought Ramping

The west coast drought isn’t just a problem in southern California.  It is so dry in Nicaragua now that people may end up eating more iguanas because of it

On our return to Texas, we may wander through NorCal a bit – if for no other reason than to see those lakes (or what used to be lakes) around Mount Shasta..  We flew over them about two years ago in our plane and the pictures at that link show things are even worse now.

We’ve been concerned watching this story develop, but it’s no surprise since we reported this to our Peoplenomics subscribers back in January of this year (Peoplenomics 644-B):

That 2013 was a record dry year is not enough to get people to thinking about relocation.  But another year, a serous lack of water continuing, and that could all change.

But the big picture is already shifting.  In a report this summer for the Hoover Institute at Stanford, Carson Bruno wrote that there was already a 2% net out migration in the 2004-2012 data:

“Looking at age, we see the red flag: individuals are coming to California in their early 20’s and not sticking around. We find that only college-age individuals see a net in-migration into California; all other groups witness a net out-migration, with the 40-to-54 age group — those in the prime of their professional careers — having the highest level of net out-migration.  Despite college age individuals experiencing a net in-migration, the drop-off in the 25-to-39 age group suggests that these individuals are not staying within the state, likely due to the high cost of living in California and/or the lack of employment. ”

With more “grays” looking for a hassle-free life, and with the threat of drought building, could that rate dramatically increase?

Yes. “

We are still looking at the data and will update it as available, but weather patterns do go through periodic oscillations.  As the Anasazi people know well.  It kicked them out of their lands and pueblos centuries ago and no, that was not due to global warming of the Gore sort.

Taxing “carbon” may be ridiculous, but a tax to help people relocate to more sustainable locations?  That makes sense, although I doubt truth in advertising will be the chosen approach on this.  It certainly hasn’t been so far.

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Coping/WoWW: With Target Color Bandwidth

(Gig Harbor, WA)  It has been a while since I’ve had one of my “teaching dreams” that come along every so often and give me pointers or something to ponder that’s worth sharing with you.

But the dream early this morning was incredibly interesting because it seems to distill a lot of human behaviors down into some very useful concepts. 

By useful, I mean it’s a wonderful tool for working out complex problems of artificial intelligence, logical system design, and it explains much of what’s going on in the world today in terms that are easy to understand.

This is hard to put into words (this kind of dream usually is) but I thought I’d give it a whack so maybe you can make some sense out of it.

The dream opens with me and an entity (aspect female, but not in a sexual way, more as just an identifier label) is showing me a series of colored boxes and was running through an explanation:  The “boxes” were appearing over a flowing beige curtain of some kind – but were floating in front of them a foot, or so.

“I’m showing you this somewhat backwards…”

The “teaching figure was saying while pointing to a series of symbols, just like a traffic light:

“The important concept to grasp it what we call (on this side) “Target Color Bandwidth” and you need to share it.

When they refer to “this side” I should mention that the teaching figure was from another reality.  Since I know from extensive reading into electronic voice phenomena (EVPs) that the “other side of life” (Death) involves, for many, ascension of the spirit part of humans to a “color domain” where colors and emotions blend, that this was more than just some “upset stomach dream” I was having.

It’s the dimension where “the blues” get real.

What you see is how the Game is being played now. 

We “play” the Game of Life through living pieces like you –and actually everyone.  We manipulate the outcome of the game by this process of target color bandwidth.  In other words, we set up how Life works by changing the “color” of your perceptions – and those in turn – drive you to do one thing, instead of another.

But pay attention  because I’m going to show you a trick you can use to seize power and influence and anything else you want.  How to play the Game very well.

Study this:

OK, sure, that looks like a table that lays out all the ways the colors can be arranged in a 3-times-2-times-1 tabular form.

It is.

We used to play the Game of Life very simply.  We sent in various teachers – which you call prophets – and had them hand out simple black and white decisions.  Laws we got handed down on mountaintops and the like.

We really enjoyed playing the Game this way, but as the Earth Game progressed, it became harder and harder to keep everyone on the same black/white absolute lines. 

One of the “rules” of this Game is that we can’t interfere directly in what you humans do.  So we send in our proxies, but their learnings get misinterpreted all the time.  That’s why religions are fighting each other instead of cooperating.  We tried to give the same messages.

That’s why we added the complexity to the game.  As our “pieces” –individual people- evolved, we have added additional choices to accommodate the complexity.

I’m not following exactly… you mean Life back in biblical times (and times of other prophets) ran out of effectiveness because Life got too complicated?

Yes, that’s it, more or less.  That’s why the six combinations of color are so important to pass on.

They can always be simplified.

This isn’t making any sense…

Just look at the color chart as I reduce it to simple black and white and you’ll see you how the hidden “right answers” appear… Yellow becomes white and everything else is black…

Hold it!!!  This means there are duplicates…The may be a way to deal with complexity but black — the ‘wrong answer”   — looks like it became much more likely.  What do you say to that?

There is no right and wrong as you know it…only intent. 

What you call evil wants to screw up your Game of Life by adding complexity, but our side agreed, knowing that no matter how complex the game would be, there would continue to be good players who would still be able to discern the simple good or bad of situations.

Well, this doesn’t make any sense and besides:  When you color-reduce to black and white printing, yellow usually comes out black on paper…

Didn’t I mention that evil is winning? Yellow is a color of light – yet Evil got it to print black on many printers…

Why do you think we’re tossing in a few hints here and there?

Some people will see this discussion and immediately understand how it works and see how reducing a multispectral choice to elemental black and white can be an incredibly powerful software tool.

Others will look at it and figure you’ve flipped out…Those would be the people who are impaired in their thinking to the degree that they have turned off awareness.  They’re not of much interest to us.  Like pawns glues to the board – immovable and useless.

When you look around things will become clear:  People are forming up like schools of fish in the game now; the aware people are congregating and the unaware are going “couch” – refusing to think about much of anything.

Good intends to win but in unexpected ways. 

This is a tool then?

Yes.  Of discernment.

Whenever you speak to someone, or have interaction with them, just keep in mind they may often present in a multispectral way, but we leave all the answers in plain sight for those who See.

And you call this what?

Target Color Bandwidth.

With that, the dream was over.  It was 1:52 AM and I got up and wrote a few quick notes about the dream to pass on.  I’d never thought of myself as a “target” game piece in some Cosmic match, but that’s the feeling of it.

Maybe you can ascertain what it means, but in a strange way it was comforting to learn that there are still “right” answers out there hidden in plain sight. 

Perhaps I’m just a tiring Game piece, but the old black and white was sure a lot easier, but maybe the tip will help.  For me, was a thought-provoking dream worth sharing.

Crudest Intentions

A note recently from Oilman2 is worth passing along:

If you think back, I told you last year that a lot of this shale oil had a less-than-rosy future. Well, here is a guy who timelines oil based on reading and dissecting everything released by publicly traded companies….

Link to Bloomberg story

I told you I thought we had 7-8 years, but that it depended on oil price.

If we creep up to $150, then economies might survive. A shock, and it leaves no economic adaptation time. But either way, to sustain oil production expenses worldwide, oil prices MUST rise. If they do not, then there are less and less economics. This is why the majors have been buying their own stocks and drilling very little the last 6-7 years…

Oilman2

This is a terribly thorny investing problem:  The “perfect play” when we look at the results of person investing in 30-years (should I still be here at age 95, lol) may be have been to play the metals, bail out of gold and silver a year ago, gone to cash, and then went oil takes out $90 on the down side, load up prime oil stocks.

Not just any oils stocks, though:  Ones carefully screened for conventional reserves, not shale.

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Sunday Special: Dollars Versus Sense

This is the kind of thing that would normally show up in ours Peoplenomics subscriber reading, but it’s of broad enough interest, you might want to read it whole as time this weekend permits.

It’s from Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders.  Yes, he’s a self-described socialist, but no, that doesn’t make him wrong – and here’s why:

As I’ve been writing about for more than a dozen years now, there’s a titanic battle going on between good and evil.  One aspect of that fight is the concentration of the world’s wealth into fewer and fewer hands while the ultra-rich have now got their hands on the neck of government so tightly that we might as well put government policies up for bid on eBay.

Between  the special interest groups of the One Percenters and the K Street Mafioso’s – the lobbying/influence buyers – socialist Sanders is one of the few talking common sense. 

From his website:

With the wealth gap in the United States growing and greater already than in any other major country, Sen. Bernie Sanders on Saturday called for a progressive estate tax on multi-millionaires and billionaires.   “A nation will not survive morally or economically when so few have so much while so many have so little. We need a tax system which asks the billionaire class to pay its fair share of taxes and which reduces the obscene degree of wealth inequality in America,” Sanders said in a speech to the Vermont AFL-CIO annual convention in South Burlington, Vermont.

The growing wealth gap in the U.S. is worse now than at any time since 1928, the year before the Great Depression began. The top 1 percent of Americans own more wealth than the bottom 90 percent. The richest 400 Americans have amassed more than $2 trillion in wealth, a sum greater than all of the assets of the bottom 150 million Americans combined.  One family, the Waltons of Wal-Mart fame, owns more wealth than the bottom 40 percent of Americans.

While the rich are becoming richer, more Americans live in poverty today than at any time in our nation’s history.  Half of all Americans have less than $10,000 in savings. We have the highest rate of childhood poverty – 22 percent – than any other major country.

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