As you may know, I belong to a couple of professional associations related to news writing. Not that it will help, coming from a radio background where the printed word is just there for hints about what kinds of noises should come out of mouth, but the idea is to pick up on current thinking and technique.
So one of them has a writing awards contest going, and I submitted an entry into what I thought would be the right category. Turns out, my guess wasn’t so good – and not sure what’s going to happen to my entry.
What’s interesting – as I set about trying to explain what the UrbanSurvival/Peoplenomics efforts are about – is that most “news” is almost purely reactive, rather than anticipatory.
Which means what? Well, to people who don’t live “10-minutes in the future” doing things like referring to Clif’s predictive linguistics with the recent ship sinking (“So, who’s the Blonde?”) or what’s coming in the first half of March (more specifically March 2-9, +/- three days) to be followed by 90-120 days of never-before-seen levels of “release language”, may seem like rantings of an idiot.
Not that they’d be wrong, at least until mid-March. But it brings up the interesting question of where on the roughly Rayleigh Curve of arriving events in consciousness – events “plug in”.
For the “math curious” there’s a great Northrop-Grumman intro to the Rayleigh Curve available as a PowerPoint here. As you’ll find, it’s really the Norden-Rayleigh (N-R) curve and the form of most interest to us might be the form v(t) = 2adte^(-a*t^2 except instead of tracking something like ‘e’ effort or expenditures, we might consider ‘e’ as emergent data points in consciousness…and they are distinctly nonlinear from where we live the illusion of “timeline”.
The main thing to be aware of is that on a linguistic/probability basis, there is a heightened chance of something big happening and we may not be bright enough to see exactly what it is that’s coming.
We’re cautious about playing “Name That Event” since that the “release language” around the 9/11 events (which we discussed in this summer 2001 report which foresaw something of large magnitude inside a 45-60 day window (with an equally inadequate drawing of the “tipping point” that was to materialize as 9/11) demonstrated that even getting aspects and attributes right [military/accident] which would [forever change how we live going forward] (which 9/11 did), we are only somewhat better today.
Yet we do have some candidate events in mind:
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Despite a “hands off” by the Obama administration, odds are increasing that Israel will be screaming shortly for the US to join in a pre-emptive strike on Iranian nuclear facilities, and that failing this, they will “go it alone” and stuff flares up immediately thereafter after the three day pause and some wet work bound to make headlines. Hope to be wrong on this, but that kind of “glowing” future is my personal pick as most likely.
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With reports in multiple countries (five) bird flu could go airborne and maybe something like that could fit the international outlook out 3-4 years, but more likely might be…
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A complete and utter financial failure, which could bring to CDS the modern analog to the Herstatt effect which was a near miss with global financial meltdown in 1974, as all good econ students remember..
The hopful and optimistic sorts claim such an event could never happen again, but I’m not one for joining such clubs. The reason is simple: While it’s true that continuous settlement has removed lock-up potential from foreign exchange transactions, there is no similar mechanism for credit default swaps (CDS) and did I mention those are up in the quadrillion-dollar range?
Sadly, if you pick up the Q3 – 2011 Office of the Comptroller of the Currency derivatives report, we see juicy reminders of how close the Global Financial Grim Reaper is with phrases like “Credit exposure from derivatives increased sharply in the third quarter.” Makes us a little nervous about what Q4 will be like when released shortly.
Clif (who is back online after being offline for a week due to the snowstorms up in the Pacific Northwest) is optimistic that it won’t be the “war case”, but since there are two specific numbers related to body counts in all this (30 million in round one and 1.29 billion by the end of round two) there seems to me to be a low probability that this would be caused by flu or financial failure, though the shutdown of international air travel might account for a demarcation line, as might initial and long-term food/famine impacts.
But back to the point of this little discussion: I’m not sure how serious-minded people, not used to living in the world of “pre-news” would categorize anything around here.
Data aside, there’s a 70% (or greater) chance the predictions are all wrong and are just a computational/processing error.
Still, it’s a perplexing problem to ponder: Do I plan to go to the group’s convention which will occur at the end of the high risk window? Thanks to having our own plane, we at least won’t have to worry about making last-minute travel arrangements. And that gives us two reasons to be watching the weather closely in early to mid March.
Flares, Buoys, Weather
Remember our discussion about that buoy that was showing a seismic event, earlier this week? Behold, the follow-up:
Greetings from Mendocino,
That buoy report made me write to you. It is the 4th item inthe “blame the sun” case. Tuesday morning, about 10am I look at the weather satellite on NOAA, and I see a jet black disc about halfway between Hawaii and so. Chile, about 500miles diameter, and in the middle of the huge equatorial high pressure zone. It appears to have started about the same time the M9 solar flare hit the earth. The black disc drifted westward, expanding until my bedtime at 10, when it was just below Hawaii, and about 1500 miles diameter.
Next morning there was a turbulent cloud over just the expanded anomaly. And at 8:04am, a 5.2 quake struck the very spot where the black disc had first appeared. The quake was very rare for the area. The buoy was between the quake and Chile. The heated water swell? Remember the black disc rode the current westward. What about all the other buoys? No movement recorded! Mainly, the link between the flare and the quake is strong. Thanks, again , for your labors. We are prepped up, although not prepared, I’m sure. Hope to hear from you after March, LOL.
(Say, that was a nervous laugh, there, pal…) I do have to say that the Sun-Earth weather links, championed early by Jim McCanney, does seem to be valid more often than not. But go read McCanney’s Jan 23 note, since the flare was not that big as he call’s ‘em.
Friday at the WuJo
Say, here’s a peach: Seems down at the WuJo – that martial arts place where the woo-woo does battle with rational science, we are continuing to see an uptick in missing time and missing things, which are quite bothersome to a lot of people. For example…
“George,
Since I sent my account of high strangeness a year or so back, these things have continued to evolve. Instead of polished stones appearing out the blue, we now get mystery novels, jewelry, and even a “Druid Oracle Card” deck in original packaging. A few months ago I came home to find a 6-card Tarot spread on my desk, from a deck that I don’t own. My wife and I have become so accustomed to this, we hardly react when something new arrives from the aether. Now that it’s winter, I do get a bit perturbed when locked windows open themselves, or our bedroom ceiling fan starts on its own, but otherwise not much to write about…until this.
Last night, we experienced an apparent time reset of about 4 hours. We generally retire around 9:30 and get up by 6:00. I like to get all the sleep I can, so going back to sleep after a bathroom break is never a problem. Last night I woke up (apparently) around 2:15 and noticed the furnace was running full tilt and the room felt warm. I checked the thermostat and noticed the temperature had climbed to 68, as it is programmed to do shortly before 6:00. I felt refreshed as if having had a full night of sleep.
Checked the clock in the kitchen and it said 6:15. Back to the bedroom, the wife asked what time was it and why was I getting up so early. Told her it was 6:15, whereupon she consulted her cell phone, which reported 2:18 AM. I laughed and said “Verizon must be having time server problems”, but then my phone said the same thing, as did the PC.
Back to the kitchen, the wall clock now said 2:20. OK, normally this would be explained as a case of a bleary-eyed sleeper misreading the clock. The problem comes in explaining the behavior of the thermostat. It’s programmed to turn down to 60 at night and then up to 68 around 5:30, so by 6:00 the temp reaches a comfortable level. The first time I got up and looked, the set point was 68 and the temperature had just caught up, as would be the case around 6:15.
After we concluded that it must really be 2:20 AM, the thermostat set point was checked again and found to be at 60, precisely where it should be at that time. Even if a spook had jacked up the temporary set point manually to 68 (not so implausible around here!), the thermostat would not return to 60 on its own, but would wait until the next scheduled program point to change.
The only explanation that fits is that our perceived time shifted backward from 6:20 to 2:20, so the thermostat would never have called for morning warm-up until it’s supposed to. We went back to bed and slept until 6:00, and I felt exceptionally rested this morning. (The heat came back on at the normal time). Something very strange is going on with reality! I enjoy reading the other WuJo reports – at least we know we’re not imagining this stuff….”
Oh, definitely not imagining stuff… Next little quirk is this photo which a reader says she spied on Google Street Views…
While my first reaction was “Had to be one of those moving cams and taking multiple pictures…but wait! How can that be? The camera image seems to show from one location only…” Did Google capture a doppelganger?
Speaking of which, a long-time reader with a credible background in remote viewing in a formal setting, sent this little update on “shadow people” which seem to be making a small uptick in reports….so is this related to a “thinning of the veil and 2012? Beats me, but her comments about the shadow people are doggone interesting…
Hi, George:
I think it is probable that most of the “shadow people” incidents concern human astral travelers. It is possible for an experienced individual to change his or her appearance. I suspect that “hatman” owes something to “The Shadow,” whose images in movies and comic books tended to include a wide-brimmed hat.
When I lived in Northern California I knew a number of ladies who reported nocturnal sex with aliens. It was entirely voluntary and the encounters were enjoyed. I looked to see who was really involved and observed that the visitor in a number of cases was a blond human body-builder; he knew how to control his appearance on the astral, and had discovered that women wanted to have sex with aliens. –No, I didn’t blow the whistle on him. He was doing no harm.
Astral rapes do happen occasionally and they can leave marks. One friend went to see her doctor; he was outraged by her injuries and tried to persuade her to report her husband to police. When she told him it had happened during her sleep, and the perp was not her husband, he wouldn’t believe her.
Can people be killed that way? Sure, if they don’t have any self defense skills. In Houston years ago there was a puzzling epidemic of cases of attractive young women in apparent good health dying of unknown causes during the night. It went on at the rate of two or three per month for at least a year.
The solution is for people to develop some skills. The Art and Practice of Astral Projection
, by Ophiel, is a good place to start. Dion Fortune’s Psychic Self-Defense
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Some of the shadow people encounters are anomalous and very creepy indeed.
I agree that wujo incidents are becoming larger and more frequent. Waves of change are agitating our little planet. If this is the precursor to a single future event, it is likely to be something that we will all wish had never happened.
For what it may be worth, I tried to see what will be going on in March of 2013. I expected to see the black hand of government strangling the internet. What I actually saw was different, and alarming. I saw a series of really enormous CMEs strike the Earth during about a two week period. If that happens, a few hardened military systems may survive but no other electronics will.
As of about 2005, the transformers used by large cities were manufactured in only a handful of plants in the entire world. The waiting time to receive one was about four years. Presumably the manufacture requires electricity, supplied by large transformers that are not shielded…
I take comfort in the knowledge that there is more than one possible future and we human beings have a choice about the future we experience. “
Still, just in case, I have kept my HT-37 and SX-122 tube type ham gear, and my grid-interactive solar system is teeming with transient protection.
Still, there is hope for science in all this commotion this week. For example, the odd sleeping report (pufferfish) from yesterday elicited this from a science type:
“In my past life as a sleep research scientist I did a study of mental effects during sleep. I found that when people were in REM sleep and were awakened they always reported that had been dreaming. However, when in physiological deep slow wave sleep they often reported that they had been awake and thinking. These people were apparently awake psychologically but clearly asleep physiologically. This effect could be another explanation for “pufferfish’s” report. He likely would not be aware of his snoring. This is not to deny WuJo effects, as I see them all the time. I even teach a course about Intrusive Energies and related material….”
Last, but certainly not least there is that mysterious humming noise being heard around the world. Last night on CoastToCoastAM with George Noory, Linda Moulton Howe was mentioning the sound had been heard in Tennessee by one ear-witness who happened to be a recording engineer and likened it to a chorus of horns… Might want to keep an eye on her web site, www.earthfiles.com for more to come.
Say, that wouldn’t be the “last trumpet” now, would it? Curiously she dates the start of this from last March and with this March looming large in language, we can’t wait to see what happens – if anything.
One thing’s clear – lots of people are hearing strange things…like this report:
Hi George,
I’ve been watching the exchange over the last few weeks about the hum that some folks are hearing, and apparently in increasing numbers. I am not sure when I first became aware of this hum, probably around 1989. I was living about 17 miles outside of town at the time and I kept noticing this sound in my otherwise quiet house. I have been involved in sound reinforcement and mixing and or the broadcasting business for 42 years, since I was 14 years old, so I have always been acutely aware of sound. I spent days looking for the source of the sound but could not find it. I even went so far as to kill the power coming in at the main breaker. What fascinated me was that I could hear the sound in the house but not outside. I finally concluded that the sound must be coming from a glass recycling plant that was located off the highway about three miles from my house. The sound was very similar to the noise of an industrial vacuum system that sucks up material out of a hopper and transfers it to another area. Since I couldn’t hear it outside I theorized that the walls of the house acted like a resonant cavity and amplified the sound indoors, which would explain why I couldn’t hear it outside. I was happy with this explanation for the twelve years I lived there.
A couple of moves and a marriage later I had moved to town and then back out to the country. Not quite so far out this time, only about six miles out, but still well away from highway traffic and industry, or so I though, because I started hearing the sound again. There were industrial plants on the edge of town six miles away, but that was twice the distance I had been before plus there was a considerable amount of dirt between me and them in the form of a valley and subsequent hills. The resonant cavity wasn’t sounding too good to support the idea of air transfer and then amplification. I noticed that the sound was slightly different than I remembered before. Still sounding mechanical in nature but more of a friction sound than a fan type sound. Again after a fairly exhaustive search of what could be causing the noise, hearing it inside and not outside, I formulated the theory that it could be oil or gas drilling going on. Living in Texas, it is not uncommon to be located near a drill site. I thought that perhaps the sound was being transmitted through the bedrock and then being transferred to the inside of the house through the slab. I was happy with this conclusion until I moved again.
New town, new wife, (seems to be a hazard of the broadcasting business) a very quiet community of just 3500 folks and no industry to speak of. I am hearing the sound again, but this time I live in a pier and beam house, no slab to commute the sound from the ground to the house. Again I can hear it in the house but not outside. It still sounds a bit like drilling noise, but there’s no oil or gas production around here as we sit on a giant dome of granite. I thought to myself whales communicate with low frequency sounds that travel for hundreds of miles, and sound can travel better through solid or dense material. That had to be it I concluded, the large amount of granite so close to the surface was acting to allow a greater transfer of sound to the house which in turn was acting as a resonate cavity. I was happy with that until the sound morphed slightly again. This time my new wife could hear it too. She woke me up one night and said “what is that diesel truck doing out there with his engine just idling?” She made me get up and go look. No sound outside. Back in the bedroom I could now hear it too. I went back outside, no sound.
There were enough similarities between the sounds to be recognizable to me as the same, but now, rather than just being drilling noise, it did have the characteristics of a diesel engine idling. That’s the sound we both heard off and on for the next couple of years. Sometimes we would both hear it, and sometimes only one of us would hear it. Over that time I notice the sound had begun to morph again, moving from a sound like that diesel truck to more of a sound of liquid or steam moving through pipes. I started looking for water leaks or a faucet left on, none that I could find. Went out to the meter and looked to see if the drip spinner was moving at all, dead still. By this time I have pitched the normal scientific explanations out the window and concluded it is something else. The reason that I am writing you today is that I hadn’t really heard the sound in recent weeks and hadn’t noticed that I hadn’t heard it until the discussion came up on your site. Then this morning when I woke up I heard the sound again, and this time I made a more detailed mental analysis of the sound and its structure. I notice that while it still sounds something like liquid through pipes and not as mechanical as it had in previous years, there was a phasing to it. At first I thought it may be similar to the twist tones used in telephone dialing where the two frequencies beat together to form a third, but then I thought that wasn’t it, it was more like what we used to do to produce phasing effects before the invention of the electronic boxes that do it for you these days. We would take identical recordings on two separate reel to reel machines start them simultaneously so that they were playing back perfectly in sync, and then place slight pressure on one and then the other to produce a phasing effect. That’s what this sounded like. This is a phased sound of two very similar sound waves. The phasing causes an increase in amplitude (at least perceived increase) and then it drops out of phase again. This happens in somewhat of a random pattern, but not completely random. I guess I would describe it as more like a modulation on an FM carrier wave.
I laid there for about an hour listening to it this morning trying to discern the characteristics of this sound then got up to take a shower. When I got out of the shower and stepped back into the bedroom, the sound was gone. Perfect silence. This is very interesting indeed. I am looking forward to my continued analysis next time I hear it.
Thanks for your column, I enjoy reading it every day.
Oh – reminds me: I was in the bathroom a week or two back and hearing a similar noise – and it was seeming to come from the wall behind the shower. What I did was turn on the shower for a moment and the sound went away!
So, the next time you hear something strange in the night, get up and turn the shower on full blast. What I think is (likely) going on, is that the sound-conduction capabilities of still water become better late at night when you have little, or no, activity on a water system.
Out here at our ranch in East Texas, the local water lines are often very still for a very long time – and they’re routed very near the oil lease operated by my friend Oilman3. As any good sonar man worth his salt & thermoclines knows, the sound conduction properties of water change in areas of turbulence and temperature gradients. So what I suspect happens is sound conduction into pipes which then (at an extraordinarily low level) move the walls or conduct those waterborne sounds into a physical backplane (oftentimes greenboard sheetrock of the shower area).
But that seemed to kill the noise for me for a few hours, and by then it was morning and other people on the water system started use for the day.
Kinda cool, huh? Doesn’t explain the overhead hum Elaine heard, but science does come up with a winner now and then.
More tomorrow for www.peoplenomics.com subscribers and another harsh slap from the larger reality for everyone else Monday morning…unless that 7+ earthquake shows up this weekend, of course…
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HOAs as PTBs
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Safer Computing: Swearing Off Cookies
It has been a while since I roared the praises of the Maxa Cookie Manager which you can download and install for a free test drive by clicking here.
To upgrade from the demo to full working is still less than $50 and one heck of a bargain at that, if I do say so.
I am a high-reliability computing kind of guy – and near as I have it figured, the road to a hassle-free computing experience is (like flying an airplane) a matter of going through a proper checklist before popping onto the web:
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You need an active cookie manager – because sites you visit can put small bits of code on your computer and some of these are designed for Flash, have no expiration, and can really bugger-up the computing experience. This part gets handled by Maxa Labs’ product which on my system says 184,380 cookies have been removed, 73,881 “web bugs” which can track movement from site to site and such, and I have only 10-active cookies.
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Second thing you need is a good antivirus program – and I happen to really like Avira’s Antivir pro.
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Then you need to deal with Malware so for this Malware bytes is updated and run daily.
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And last, though certainly not least is the firewall and the one in Win 7 works fine.
Like anything in computers, updates are critical so before work every morning, the computer does its update ritual – Check of Maxa (5.3.02 is current) Avira, and Malware bytes.
Toss in a good bit of common sense (example: Don’t open email purporting to be from UPS, IRS, the US Post Office, or anything else that even has a hint of fishy odor to it) and first thing you know, the internet’s actually a useful tool.
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