George Ure

We begin this morning’s epistle with a fine (and to the point) read from Idaho Bill, to get things rolling.  It’s  a useful discussion of just what is “sin”?

Aho George,

A scholar friend of mine once told me that her knowledge of the word “sin” was not as the Bible thumpers claim some rigid matter of right and wrong, but that the Aramaic word from which that interpretation came…meant “Off the mark.” You are a pilot…it is basic navigation…a degree doesn’t mean much in 10 feet, but means a hell of a lot in 10 miles. Listening to all the ranting and raving, the divisiveness sweeping this broad landscape…and looking back to the Preamble of the United States Constitution…..I see and hear very little about that basic concept stated therein….”insure domestic tranquility”. Seems to me we are way off the the mark… and beings that office holders are sworn to uphold the Constitution…me thinks that perhaps those throwing fuel on the flames of divisiveness may be guilty of malfeasance of their duties.

As the old song goes…”Perhaps it’s time we got back to the basics again.”

Yes, I think we could have a much better country if we erected some playing-field-leveling “handling fees” to give financial incentives to corporations to build plants closer to where goods are consumed.  Why, we could even donate all of Detroit as a sandbox for them, if they would just bring back jobs from India and sweatshop lands. 

What?  You say we don’t have enough low-end workers?  Isn’t that what immigration “reform” is about?

A lot of attention gets paid to the right-left political debate, but it’s always just an UP/DOWN power struggle dressed up in red and blue to keep people distracted. 

America would be a much different (and better) place is we didn’t import software, computer chips, and refrigerators.  And I can give you sound environmental and national security reasons why this should be the case.  You ever wonder why we crash test cars but not computers?

But alas, when American started “working with its law books and regulations” instead of working with the industrial arts folks and excellence in engineering, that’s when things really started down hill in a hurry.  Here, read  6-seconds of management theory from Wikipedia:

Staff and line are names given to different types of functions in organizations. A “line function” is one that directly advances an organization in its core work. This always includes production and sales, and sometimes also marketing.^[1] A “staff function” supports the organization with specialized advisory and support functions. For example, human resources, accounting, public relations and the legal department are generally considered to be staff functions.^[2] Both terms originated in the military.

Regulation is not an Industry and neither is government. But that’s what happens when the line closes down and the staff people decide to run the company (country) to just make up something for management to do.  Easy to pull off if you have an NSA and an army, really.  

And in such a scenario, new markets can be created by decree:  Healthcare and the War on Terror do come to mind.

Forgive me (if I can write like Pogo fer a minit) but:  ”Here we is:  We’s throw’d out our “core work” and the staff is now set on raisin’ taxes on everyone but but those with the money.” 

Flat-ass amazingly, those employed to watch one another (and us bewildered folks on Main St.) then have the audacity to question the social stress that results.  And the economic issues to come….   Pogo had it right:  “We have met the enemy and he is us…”

But Pogo offered hope, too in that “Traces of nobility, gentleness and courage persist in all people, do what we will to stamp out the trend..”

I don’t expect to run out of topics to write about, any time soon.

Riding With Angels

Reader/rider Kevin picked up on my recent gripe about mispostrophe disease…which, as you know,  strikes its victims without warning…often in mid-sentence…

Nothing ticks me off more than an apostrophe used in the plural form of a word. 

I’ve wondered the same thing as you about the little mark, and always assumed it was a brand holder’s prerogative to use or not use it. A great example is “Hells Angels” who eschew the apostrophe in their club name.

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You know what’s interesting…to me, anyway?  The idea that here we are in either a “running (iv) or an ending rising diagonal in the markets and shooters are popping up.  First the one at LAX and now one at the shopping mall in New Jersey.

This latest (suspected “relief of emotional tensions”) event involved a shooter finding 6 or 7 shots inside a mall about 9:20 last night firing shots, but no one was injured/hit.  The purported perp’s body was found several hours later…but again it was a 20-year old male which stories like this one, mention he had a history of of drug abuse.

This will be about the umpteenth time I’ve mentioned “blow of mechanism” for social tensions…damn strange topic to pick on for an ostensibly reasonable (somewhat, anyway) economic-oriented website…

Not only is it election day in New Jersey, but markets are in an area where we would expect to see a break in one direction or the other.  So we ask (innocently, I assure you) is this all entirely coincidental?

Markets: Noise Trading?

No accounting for why the market is looking to open down 50, or so, on the Dow in the early going.  There is some softness in Europe and Japanese futures were weak over here when I looked earlier.

Factory orders were “up following two consecutive monthly decreases, increased $8.1 billion or 1.7 percent to $490.8 billion, the U.S. Census Bureau reported today. This followed a 0.1
percent August decrease. Excluding transportation, new orders decreased 0.2 percent.”

Now, if that was all sell-through, fine, but look at this:

Inventories of manufactured durable goods in
September, up five of the last six months, increased $3.1
billion or 0.8 percent to $382.3 billion, revised from the
previously published 0.9 percent increase.

So we sit back, scratch the head-top solar panel and wonder how much of the gain is real (increased unit volumes) versus how much is price hikes coming down the pike?

Leaving Colorado

While the play-by-play of the New Jersey and Virginia voting is OccupyingDistractifyingNews, we figure there’s more to be learned of the general public mood by studying the report that 11 counties in  Colorado may secede from the state and form their own, 51st state.

Since Texas has provisions (if I recall right) to break into multiple states at some point in the future,  it might be a pretty interesting trend-setter to watch.  Our part of the state here (east Texas oil country) and over in the Permian Basin, why just our oil-depletion taxes could buy everyone happiness…

Oh, Texans would have more sway in the Senate this way, too.

Der Purger in Chief?

Another top military leader is out, says a report over here, which adds to the body count of nine generals and flag officers bounced by the house-cleaning administration.

All of which could be consider more, or less, routine except we have been reading this  headline snagged by reader Madison Avenue Mike:  “‘I’m really good at killing people’: New book claims President Obama joked to aides about using drone strikes.”

All that’s missing is the jackboots, but the modern analog to these is the ubiquitous SWAT uniforms, but that may not be apparent until future generations come along.  Who needs brown shirts when black with the word “tactical” added cam garner the same price bumps?  All about business models, right?

And  related – in some of the most seriously back-asswards hype-ology to complete the public discombobulation – don’t miss kneeler/dealer David Cameron blaming Edward Snowden’s revelations for “eroding fundamental rights and freedoms” in the unemployed kingdom.

WTF, Dave?  That’s like telling a traffic cop that his radar made you drive too fast. 

Is it something in the water our leaders drink? (Can I vote, yet?)

Ginkgo Time for Obama?

Not to beat up on a fellow in mid-purge, mid-insurance roll-out, mid-Middle East mess, mid-climate change dealy, but has el Jefe flipped  because (according to this report) “Obama denies ‘you can keep it’ video taped promises…”

I mean if it was just once, but OMG 29-times? 

Dude…I take Huperzine and Gingko Biloba to cut back on this kinda thing happ’nin..know what I’m saying?

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Climate Police/Land Grabs?

I assume you heard about last weekend’s “crash course” to combat climate change?  Yep, training programs to move ahead with the “climate change” cum land grab and Agenda 21, if I am reading this right.

Especially now that the White House has rolled out it’s climate task force.  And along the way, be sure to read the underlying Executive Order on point.

All of which would be fine, except for the one small tiny, itsy-bitsy problem.  Global warming is over, at least for another 15-20 years and the reason is simple:  The Sun which has been through a period of very high sunspot activity is now in chill-down…

The implications of this are pretty simple:

Government seems in a big hurry to “get ‘em while they’re hot” and as part of that will be implementing another socialist-style land grab to try and force people off of privately—owned land.

By doing this, government makes people (humans, free unregistered free-thinkers, in particular) ever more dependent on what? 

You got it!  Corporations which are claiming patent rights to life and are renting the very life God put on earth (by accident or design, we can argue that nit) by claiming that they have a proprietary mix of jellyfish and wheat which does this or that. 

Of course this who area is wildly profitable – and following the health-insurance industry’s using the “Government for Corporate Enforcement of Forced Consumption” model, we should be seriously suspect when we read about genetic pollution.  So file this under GMO rants, but trust me when I tell you, there’s an agenda in play.

While the Washington Post warns about the “:Congress turns a blind eye to global warming” we note that a new study says we may be in “chill mode” for 20 years.

But look at the bright side: Al Gore, (who invented the internet, right?)  will continue to be able to command incredible speaking fees and the Agenda 21 backers have to be licking their chops at the prospect of kicking America’s small farmers off the King’s land.

As it reads in the Book of Carlin:  “It’s all bullshit and it’s all bad for you.” 

If government was serious about pollution, cars would weigh 1/2 what they do, mileage would be 60 MPH +.   We’ll all have 100 HP engines, tops.  And we’d learn that dying in auto accidents is when happens when people don’t pay attention.  Instead, whole industries have been built on safety gear.    Where’s the damn ViceGrips?  More pinches than I can count in this area…

Oh, you didn’t notice?  Corporate agendas are in play here.  And with all the hoopla, since solar cooling is obvious in the data now, government will do the usual grab and grandstand and claim success.

For the Sun’s behavior.

Carbon credits? Pollution credits?   It’s the same thing as wife-beating credits when you think about it:  It’s only a vehicle for the genuinely  corrupt to cash in on society’s ill-thought bad behaviors.  Ain’t that special?

Hell, I’ve been around damn near 65 years and people are working longer and harder today than ever…and jobs are drying up, to boot.  So what exactly is all this “progress” that we’ve built?  Sure and shit ain’t time off, now, is it?

Hand me my blood pressure monitor, would you? 

On my reading list is Rupert Darwall’s The Age of Global Warming: A History (Kindle) which is $10 bucks or the hardcover which is $32 and change. Gee, that shouldn’t be a tough decision, should it?

North Korea’s EMP Plans

From our resident war-gamer who eyes such developments with some suspicion…

Another ‘genie’ slipping out of the bottle.   

http://ph.news.yahoo.com/n-korea-developing-electromagnetic-pulse-weapons-135357782.html

Per U.S. nuclear policy, a high altitude EMP attack is treated the same as a nuclear first strike attack.  Things would “go ugly early.”

Jim Woolsey, CIA director for Bill Clinton, had some interesting observations here:

http://www.centerforsecuritypolicy.org/2013/07/30/jim-woolsey-electromagnetic-pulse-emp-is-existential-threat-to-america/

Among some of the information Woolsey divulged, this snippet is an attention grabber:

“On December 2012, Cooper said, North Korea used its so-called Space Launch Vehicle like a Fractional Orbital Bombardment System – a secret weapon invented by the Russians during the Cold War to deliver a stealthy nuclear attack on the United States by orbiting a nuclear weapon over the south polar region, bypassing U.S. Ballistic Missile Early Warning radars (BMEWs) and missile defenses.  Cooper noted that the U.S. has no BMEWs radars or missile interceptors facing south.  North Korea apparently orbited a satellite over the south polar region on a trajectory and altitude consistent with making a surprise nuclear EMP attack against the United States”.

As far as possible individual actions aside from standard disaster prepping, two words of advice . .

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I had a really weird experience Monday mid-morning…and it certain has raised some interesting questions for Ures truly.  Here’s what happened:

About 10 AM, or thereabouts, I decided to call someone I know up in the Pacific Northwest.  I absent-mindedly dialed and got….the wrong number.  But not just any wrong number…wrong number of some else I know.  Prehensile brain apparently has an auto-dialer in it.

So I quickly apologized – “Wrong number, sorry…” and that was that.

Until, that is, I  went back to idly looking at the weather radar at the arriving rain band thanks to the WeatherUnderground website.

There!  Do you see it?  One of those (damn strange) radar glitches…

Stand by for the weird part.  The radar snips on WUnderground go off like clockwork.  Every five minutes. 

Except that after this “ray” appeared, and our place is right above the white cross-hairs indicating Palestine, TX, the updates suddenly stopped for the next 40-minutes.  Hmmm…

Well, now, we had something on our hands that needs to be placed somewhere along the mind’s [coincidence/ponder/mystery] continuum for later processing.  And Ures truly, man of science and all, doesn’t like uncategorized data showing up.  Especially when temporally coincident to me making a “mindless dial” which I rarely do, but had just done.  Which was very strange, indeed.

Things got even murkier when I visited http://radaranomalies.com/ and found that two leading researchers in the field died a few years back, in 2006 and 2008.  Hmmm…coincidence?

Remember our recent discussions about how the Many Worlds Interpretation of quantum mechanics works?

I’d love to simply believe the explanations found over on the MetaBunk.org website, but the explanation of the spike lining up with another radar doesn’t feel useful given the high number of occurrences of these things.

What IF there are certain kinds of “join error” symptoms which are just blithely passed off as “systems bugs?”  Is there some chance that we could find a telltale to how Universe really works?  And speaking of which CERN has sure been quiet lately…but they’re trying to scare up money (so welcome to the club!).

Oh, and the updating stopping for 40 minutes, either.  Yeah, I know – pure coincidence, right?

Since the NEXTRAD radar for the area is located at (airport identifier) KFWS (Fort Worth/Spinks) and since we have all kinds of mapping capability, I did a little extension and it didn’t seem to line up on anything in particular down to the southeast of the airport.

Are there reasonable possibilities?  Oh, sure, you bet.  For example, it could have been (rare) ducted propagation at the radar’s frequency, perhaps a slight “bank shot” to borrow a pool playing term, off the front which was moving through the area.

Still, with the president due to be in the Dallas area on Wednesday afternoon, it just struck me as a bit odd and thought I’d mention it.

Getting the Lead Out

Several comments on the mention in Monday’s column about the lead smelter closures., 

First came a phone call from my last liberal friend who pointed out that although the closure of said smelter was done during president Obama’s term, the actual EPA orders were cut under what he referred to as “those famous gun-grabbers Bush & Cheney…”

Then reader Bill up in Big Sky country sent this:

Here in East Helena Montana there used to be a lead smelter. closed it, sold it to a Mexican outfit and then they went banko. Left a bit of a mess and no more lead and other minerals being smelted. Now someone is looking into processing the left overs to reclaim lead…..maybe going to Peru?

I’m not sure, but maybe this is all part of some ingenious plan to save a little bit of resources for America which we might find useful when the rest of the world consumes itself back into a dark age…

In the meantime, however, reader David connects the dots this way:

Hi; This lead thing. Won’t it effect the price of car/truck, wheel chair, scooter, etc. batteries ?  Didn’t I hear your old truck crank a little slower this morning ?

And since he did ask, the truck runs fine, except for the transmission and that’ll be a topic for future discussions.  I’m being mindful of my blood pressure for now.  Let’s just say that I’m not particularly keen on Dodge transmissions from the early 2000’s era….

National Dream Center

Yes, our www.nationaldreamcenter.com website is still up – however, not too many people go there to post dreams lately…interest in “dream work” seems to have fallen off a bit.  Which is interesting, figured reader Marc, since there’s been a major fundraising success noted by SHADOW: Community of Dreamers over at KickStarter.com here, to build a dream logging app…

Tuesday at the WuJo

Yes, we are still getting plenty of reader reports of “time going wrong” from readers…like this one:

Hi George,

Here’s a “time-ly” event that crossed my path one week ago:

Friday Oct 25 was the birthday of my dear departed mom. Decided to celebrate/honor “mom’s day” by traveling to the hometown to visit her sister, who recently moved to assisted living.

My aunt’s recently-vacated house is where I, and her son, take turns staying on our respective trips to the hometown.

I arrived there about 3:30 pm after an uncharacteristically long drive.

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Nothing like a slightly off-kilter Monday (Daylight hangover, more in our Coping section) to start things out on one foot, or the other. 

As usual, we see the latest reports about how sticker shock is hitting people all over the place on Obamacare.  And the Wall St. Journal this morning has a fine read about how the new law’s lies about keeping your own doctor are rolling through society.

But wait!  What, exactly, is it about members of congress and the president lying that is so surprising?  Or, were they not lying…just misinformed?

Or, is the agenda in plain site when CBS quotes “Obama: ‘I want to put the Fear of God in all of you.”

We may see some answers on Wednesday morning when the results of the Virginia governor’s race results clarify…but for now, it looks like a real ballot box test for Obamacare.

So that’s one data point to look forward to.

I mean besides the site being offline and users getting other people’s eligibility letters.

The rest of the week’s data is more predictable:  We get a factory orders report this morning, ISM services data tomorrow, blah, blah, Leading Indicators Wednesday. 

Blah, blah, Challenger job cuts Thursday along with another whack at GDP which means we can look forward to decrypting another one of the most self-referential percentage clusters on the planet.

And then Friday we get to see what unemployment is, but since that figure doesn’t count so many people who are out of benefits, we can look at percentage of labor in the workforce.

Of course, being well-schooled in matters economic, we already know where that has been heading in recent years.

What is more telling is when we look at the recent print rate from the Fed, we notice that the three months annualized rate of M1 printing is now running 8.4% and the three-month M2 annualizes out to  8.2%

So for the rest of the week (as long as a lid’s on the Middle East for a few days) why not just kick back and enjoy the illusion some more?

That’s how Wall St. is reading it with the futures up 48 on the Dow and up 6 on the S&P:  Oil is still going down, too…down to $94.19 when I looked earlier. 

Deflation afoot, employment participation cratering and printing like a house on fire? At an earlier time in my life I would have called such discontinuities mindless.  But now, I have another word for them:

Monday.

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Middle East:  Made It Through the Weekend

I wasn’t the only one looking at the calendar, moon phases, and inspecting red lines in the sand, as last weekend wound up.  Apparently, the Obama administration was looking at the same problem and so, as a stalling tactic, we read this morning how SecState John Kerry is off to Israel.

It’s a kind of article of faith that countries don’t go starting wars with an American Big Cheese coming to visit.  Ostensibly, the trip is to present a WTF? to the Israeli government over plans to add 3,500 more homes in occupied areas.

Ore, if you’re Chinese, it’s to ask Jerusalem how it is they figure to keep building in disputed territories and still have a ghost’s change in hell of keeping the Palestinian peace process going.

What we need to ponder now is how long Kerry can stay in Israel after he arrives tomorrow.  And as our resident war-gamer notes:

The last line of this piece, quoting Bolton, sums up my sentiments rather nicely.  (US military support of an Iran strike isn’t going to happen.)

First Leon Panetta, now Bolton think the Iran-Israel war-timer is rapidly running down to zero! The leaks remain eerily consistent across otherwise divided party lines.

Oh, and Iran’s Revolutionary Guard voted to keep “Death to America” as their official slogan. I think it’s rather nice that the U.S. can still bring people together.

Better living through weaponry, that’s the way the death industries work.  Iran is not too dumb to realize that a good internal defense against change to is to have a huge external enemy, and we are, at some level, trying not to be one of those.  But that’s not how it plays in carpet country fellow infidels.

“Supreme Leader:  US Politician threatening to nuke Iran should receive slap in mouth.”

Oh, and from our news analyst fellow up in Winnipeg:

Perhaps you are aware of recent commotions near the Hindu holy centre of Tirupati, India, as a new Islamic womens’ college shrouded in mystery readies for business.

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“So let us stop talking falsely now, the hour’s getting late…” 

~Bob Dylan reprised by Jimi Hendrix

If you’re looking for a weekend to really worry about the world “blowing up and going to hell” this would be the one you’d have to pick for the next several months.  Not only are there significant downsides to it, there’s a marvelous “market set-up” and important strategic reasons to be concerned.

The high-level view was summed up by a reader named Bill who lives up in the Northeast:

Two small points bear observation at this late hour:

1)  This weekend is the dark of the moon.  Optimum time for mil-ops for high-tech nations that own the night.

2)  Israel hit two missile “bases” in Syria earlier Thursday, meaning there will be a lot of hollering and general bellicosity today. (Thursday)  Maybe some triggering blow-back…

It’s really only a question of when, and not if…

This pessimistic outlook was echoed by our resident war-gamer who is calling it much the same way:

Could this be a prep clearing an air corridor to Iran in the process of short circuiting the transfer of deadly SAMS to Hezbollah? Stay tuned as the new moon approaches.

Why else would Obama admin officials leak news of these strikes to the media? I’m open to alternatives, but I cannot think of any decent ones. This targeted media leak is undoubtedly intended to muddle Israel’s potential attack plans. But Israel will surely stand alone, if necessary.

On top of this rather disconcerting Middle Eastern escalation, CBS is reporting they have footage of Iranian troops in combat in Syria.

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The more I study the reports of people’s WuJo events, the more they seem to be consistent with multiple Universes winding back and forth across each other’s path, as was described in the Many Worlds Interpretation of quantum Mechanics.

While the Wikipedia entry picture of a “split” in the Multiverse illustrates one portion of how the MWI divides itself, we need to “mirror” it to show how after an “excursion” the MWI comes back to a different kind of itself.

Unfortunately, along the way, many “little things” can go wrong (Universe is a BIG place, after all) such that the comings and goings are subject to various “join errors” as tiny flaws which may (or may not) be noted by passengers of “current reality”.

You’ll see that the symbols on the “frames” of reality are related to the Schrödinger’s cat experiment, which we’ll assume you’ve read, but if not, it’s over here and is suggested before continuing.

With that as a bit of mental foreplay, we can evolve what may (perhaps) be a workable model of how the MWI changes over time and thus, is prone to tiny errors and inconsistencies:

So, How Many Axes?

In the above illustration, we can see a single-axis model of the MWI and how it plays out.  You might think of it as the classical Western/Christian/Judeo Good versus Evil, or, it may be vastly more complicated than that.

However, since the join errors  seem to be increasing in obviousness and frequency, we might consider that a MASSIVE EVENT/SHIFT is coming down the road towards us.  In fact, maybe this weekend, the Israelis really do launch an attack that wipes out their intended target but leads to a regional nuclear conflict which has blow back over many generations to come.

Part of an in-house note from G.A. Stewart of the Age of Desolation website is directly on point:

“I’ll tell you, I have this theory now about every time I turn my attention to the Dark Side by working on the site and doing an update, just bad stuff starts to happen. Do you guys see an uptick in bad WuJo as the bad Jinn dip into your lives as you follow through with your own work in exposing their plans?

So, yeah, it looks like the game is on this weekend. If it goes with Israel and Iran, expect it to get real bad very quickly.

Rearranging events on my timeline:
1) Israeli/NATO attack on Iran/Syria
2) Iran sinks 5th Fleet
3) 6th Fleet Holds its own with Russia
4) Nuclear event on the West Bank Balata al-Balad
5) Mass UFO Sightings Before or After the first Nuclear Event
6) Nuclear Event in Italy in early December that drives the Pope from the Vatican
7) Pope Francis captured in France by terrorists
8) Former-Pope Benedict XVI arranges the False Peace
Kindest Regards,”

Ah, but perhaps by simply becoming aware of the potential rip in events is enough to cause it NOT to happen, since these things may not be intended for humans to see directly, and yet we persist in trying.  Good on one side, bad Jinn on the other, and yes, this would fit with many of the world’s religious models, but each frames it differently, just as you can drive around a mountain and come up with unlimited numbers of panoramas which all tell exact truth and yet, paradoxical not entire truth.

So Back to Some Join Errors

If it seems like a fascination with the WuJo is out of place, I hope this explains why it is specifically NOT out of place and may be considered a simple, logical extension into how the future arrives, fought-over perhaps by forces of Good and Evil.  Where these, in turn, arise from, is a different problem, indeed. 

For now, the main thing in this WuJo work is to capture as many reported examples as we can solicit and see how they could all fit into a kind of mechanistic interpretation of something that’s infinitely bigger and more “squishy.”

Like this report from Linda S…

“George,

I have had 3 weird incidents with the oven in my stove. This is so strange I feel a bit crazy telling you about it. Only because  I have read similar things on your WUJO have I gathered my courage. This is the most recent incident. Here goes.

My oven does not cook evenly, so when I cook biscuits I put the timer on half the time required. Then I check them to be sure one group is not burning while the other group is raw. I warmed my oven to the required temperature setting, put the biscuits in and set the timer to 7 minutes, half the time required.

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