Thursday’s Curious Web Bot Hit

Posted on September 2, 2010 by George Ure

Had a most interesting conversation with Clif about how the attack by a lone gunman at the Discovery Channel in Maryland on Wednesday is an important temporal marker in the developing mass rejection of “The Big Lies” that are propagated by MainStreamMedia (the MSM).

We’ve been watching this part of the language evolve over the past couple of months because of the ‘heads up’ contained in the June 20th “Shape of Things To Come” report which outlined how the schism between what people see with their own eyes on topics like the environment and the economy are vastly different from the media portrayals of reality:

“As modelspace is progressed through Summer, and especially through late July through to very late September, the [degradation] of the [business as usual] blather from the [propagandists] is indicated to become so [blatant] as to [incite ridicule] within the [mass social body] of the Populace/USofA. The entity is clearly indicating that we will all begin to have a [private joke] about the [latest lies] coming from the [propaganda blitzers on teevee]. It would seem that this trend of [active] and [acknowledged disbelief] of the [mainstream media] will be [captured] by several [comics/pundits] over late July and early August. The data sets indicate that several of these [pundits/comics] will be [vocal] and [blatant] in their use of this meme and are indicated to [benefit] considerably from this [involvement] in the emerging trend. Note that these stand-up [acerbic wits] are significant precisely because this [visibility of disbelief] is a temporal marker for the larger emerging theme which will have its major impact beginning in September. Also at this time, which is to say over Summer, and into very early Fall, 2010, the [minion class (of politicians)] will be [freaking out] and [acting impulsively] as the [pressures] are being [sensed/felt] from the [public].” 

(Link to www.Urbansurvival.com  and www.halfpasthuman.copm  required if cited)

Over at the Salon.com website, you can read the Lee demands and when you go through them point-by-point they seem to point at the same kind of ‘revolutionary’ mindset that is characterized elsewhere in the HPH reports.

While the Lee writings are characterized with the emotionally ‘hot’ term ‘manifesto’, some of his larger points about soaring human population may be viewed more as dangerous to the prevailing social paradigm than dangerous (except for the fact he got a gun involved).

His point about the television’s glorification or war and related technology somewhat tracks to the linguistic expectations about calling out the PTB Big Lies.  And example:

“All programs promoting War and the technology behind those must cease. There is no sense in advertising weapons of mass-destruction anymore. Instead, talk about ways to disassemble civilization and concentrate the message in finding SOLUTIONS to solving global military mechanized conflict. Again, solutions solutions instead of just repeating the same old wars with newer weapons. Also, keep out the fraudulent peace movements. They are liars and fakes and had no real intention of ending the wars. ALL OF THEM ARE FAKE! On one hand, they claim they want the wars to end, on the other, they are demanding the human population increase. World War II had 2 Billion humans and after that war, the people decided that tripling the population would assure peace. WTF??? STUPIDITY! MORE HUMANS EQUALS MORE WAR!”

The shooting of Lee is a kind of temporal culmination of what’s been developing as an undercurrent in Western culture over many months; people are starting to question and that tends to raise my confidence in some of what the linguistics hold for the fall.

To name a few, based on this event as a key temporal marker, we ought to see a three month decline in the markets getting underway shortly. 

Then, the next indicator, at least of critical concern to small investors, savers, and po’ folks like us who still dare to dream of retirement — and this  should come along before the big tipping point in the second week of November — may be the ‘laughing man’ on national media. 

The linguistics have us on the lookout for some character of note on national TV laughing while most of his colleagues are puking and sickened by the declines in the markets going on.

Seems this fellow will be getting a ‘last laugh’ as people who’ve been told repeatedly “Warning – here comes trouble in paper markets!” but chose to ignore it, and have stayed in on the long side, will end up where most bulls do:  In a financial slaughterhouse.

Related, I posted a pre-open trading note for www.peoplenomics.com subscribers including an alert from Robin Landry which may be accessed (subscribers only)  here.

Thar’ He Blows Department

Another part of Clif’s predictive work has been the expectations building around unusual weather which should be contributing to shortages of basics like food in coming months.  Granted, a hurricane is NOT particularly unusual, but the evolving sidebar stories may be.

The arrival of Hurricane Earl is something of a precursor event in the Bigger Picture that emerges from the different data sets, but hardly matters if you happen to be one of the hundreds of thousands who will experience nature’s fury firsthand between now and Tuesday of next week.  Island evacuations along the east coast are underway now and the forecast update looks like this:

Key thing about the weather – I mean Earl aside – is that it is already having an impact on food prices.  Russia’s harvest losses, the decline in Canadian wheat expected – all this kind of weather related background is emerging as the highest food prices in two years.

 

Pass Around a Number!

Here’s one to light up and pass around:  Got new GM sales down nearly 25%.  Retail in Germany is down for a second month in a row. 

 

What’s more immediately important is that productivity is falling according to a report just out from the Labor Department this morning:

Nonfarm business sector labor productivity decreased at a 1.8 percent annual rate during the second quarter of 2010, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today as hours increased 3.5 percent and output increased 1.6 percent. (All quarterly percent changes in this release are seasonally adjusted annual rates.) The second-quarter gain in hours worked was the largest since the first quarter of 2006. From the second quarter of 2009 to the second quarter of 2010, productivity and output both grew 3.7 percent and hours were unchanged (tables A and 2). Nonfarm business productivity increased at an average annual rate of 2.5 percent from 2000 through 2009.

Labor productivity, or output per hour, is calculated by dividing an index of real output by an index of hours worked of all persons, including employees, proprietors, and unpaid family workers.

Unit labor costs in nonfarm businesses rose 1.1 percent in the second quarter of 2010, as the 1.8 percent decline in productivity was partially offset by a 0.7 percent decline in hourly compensation. Unit labor costs decreased 2.8 percent over the last four quarters, as output per hour increased faster than hourly compensation (tables A and 2).

BLS defines unit labor costs as the ratio of hourly compensation to labor productivity; increases in hourly compensation tend to increase unit labor costs and increases in output per hour tend to reduce them.

Manufacturing sector productivity grew 4.1 percent in the second quarter of 2010, as output rose 8.4 percent and hours worked increased 4.1 percent. Productivity performance differed between the two manufacturing subsectors. In durable manufacturing, output per hour increased 9.9 percent as output grew 13.6 percent and hours rose 3.4 percent. In nondurable goods industries, productivity fell 2.4 percent as output grew 2.8 percent but hours grew 5.3 percent (tables A, 3, 4 and 5). Total manufacturing productivity increased 7.5 percent over the last four quarters and 3.0 percent per year on average from 2000 through 2009.

Unit labor costs in manufacturing declined 5.9 percent in the second quarter of 2010 due to both the 4.1 percent increase in productivity and a 2.0 percent decline in hourly compensation (tables A and 3). Unit labor costs fell 7.3 percent over the last four quarters, the largest four- quarter decrease since the series began in 1988.

My pet theory on productivity declining is that management types avoided the layoffs to save their own butts in many companies, but at the numbers hint, they don’t know how to get things done as effectively.  Just a theory but lots of first-hand observation data over the years to back that up, LOL.

 

Gee, this is so much fun, let’s pass another number around.  Lighter, please?

In the week ending Aug. 28, the advance figure for seasonally adjusted initial claims was 472,000, a decrease of 6,000 from the previous week’s revised figure of 478,000. The 4-week moving average was 485,500, a decrease of 2,500 from the previous week’s revised average of 488,000.

The advance seasonally adjusted insured unemployment rate was 3.5 percent for the week ending Aug. 21, unchanged from the prior week’s unrevised rate of 3.5 percent.

The advance number for seasonally adjusted insured unemployment during the week ending Aug. 21 was 4,456,000, a decrease of 23,000 from the preceding week’s revised level of 4,479,000. The 4-week moving average was 4,485,250, a decrease of 28,500 from the preceding week’s revised average of 4,513,750.

The fiscal year-to-date average of seasonally adjusted weekly insured unemployment, which corresponds to the appropriated AWIU trigger, was 4.994 million.

Factory orders will be out in a couple of hours – about the time the buzz from our first couple of (ahem) numbers for the day wear off.  We might also get a hit off pending home sales data, too.  But the Unemployment report tomorrow should be the biggy for the week.

 

Credit Union Closure

NCUA out with a press release Wednesday:

The National Credit Union Administration (NCUA) was appointed liquidating agent of First American Credit Union of Beloit, Wisconsin by the Wisconsin Office of Credit Unions on August 31, 2010. NCUA immediately signed an agreement with First Community Federal Credit Union of Parchment, Michigan, to assume the assets and liabilities of First American Credit Union. First American Credit Union’s members will experience no interruption of credit union service. Their accounts are federally insured by the National Credit Union Share Insurance Fund (NCUSIF) up to at least $250,000.

No, banks are not alone in their troubles…

 

D.U. In Hawaii

Good backgrounder in the Hawaii Star-Advertiser about  depleted uranium rounds used in the 50th state…

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Also in the ‘nukes are a marketing problem file’ we notice that News 8 in Las Vegas is reporting the new name of nuke test site as a “National Security Site. 

 

A rose by any other name – still clicks.

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Coping: Irwin Allen’s Dreams, Aliens on TV

Posted on September 2, 2010 by George Ure

It’s been a while since I mentioned our little sidelight/distraction called The National Dream Center, or the focal point of that project, the National DreamBase.  In case you’re new here, this is a project i started up after having a vivid dream less than 24-hours before the Gulf oOil  disaster started to leak (poor pun intended) in the public consciousness back in April.

The idea is that people can register and post dreams without criticism – and as a result we’ve built up something of a snapshot of how UrbanSurvival, Peoplenomics, and IndependenceJournal readers are spending their nocturnal hours.  If you have a vivid dream, or one which seems as though it’s trying to communicate something with you about the future, please post it.  It’s not so much the individual dreams that are of interest to me but rather the aggregation potential of another collection of archetypes.

For example, there was a dream about a “crowded town” which involves a gun and the possibility of violence.  As I reviewed that one, I was struck by an underlying and evolving ‘fear of being on the street’ – which is interesting in that it comes cloose to the archetypes flowing from Clif’s work in predictive linguistics which go to the idea of “revolution/rebellion”.  “violence on the street” would be close or parallel.\

All dreams, BTW.  are reviewed by a human before posting so we don’t post direct threats against people or institutions – not our idea of a profitable use of time.

Also getting a slowly building number of dreams with odd “UP” aspects which could correspond to his notes about developments coming in the “Space Goat Fart” attribute.

You may recall that we’ve been on the lookout for an ‘alien caught by television crew’ – so while the alien video we posted the link to earlier this week may indeed have been fake, it’s not the objective ‘reality’ of that video getting viral traction that’s interesting so much as the ‘linguistic fill’ and important temporal marker clue that’s to be had from seeing it. 

Remember, neither dreams or web bot predictions need to be presact; even a large number of ‘fake alien’ videos showing up in the MainStream’s consciousness gives us linguistic fill (see this morning’s lead item for a further discussion).

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My own latest ‘vivid dream’ which was of the same sort as the ‘pre GOM spill’ variety in terms of textures, conflicted participants and such went something like this:

The main character in the dream was some kind of office/ IT workers who was employed in a complex of buildings (low type, perhaps not more than 2-4 stories in height) which were occupied by multiple tenants. 

The IT worker had developed a friendship with a fellow who ran a small trading company of some sort, that did overseas business of some sort and worked out of a 2-3 person office. 

What was interesting was that this IT fellow/friend of the ‘foreign businessman’ had helped him on a number of occasions with various operating system-level computer problems including network connectivity.

So on the particular evening of the major scene in the dream, the IT worker and a couple of his friends are walking down a wide corridor with these small offices off to the side  – like it might have been a small office rental site) and they have some occasion to enter the office of the ‘foreign businessman’ to do something with the computer.

As they approach the computer (which has peripheral equipment and an additional screen on two roll-around carts, one to the left and one right of the operator’s positions) the IT fellow through whose eyes this is all evolving, notices that the modem in use is different and features a light blue screen with information on it. 

Closer inspection reveals that the modem is of an unknown variety and it’s a multi-channel device.

It’s at this moment that four new characters enter the room (which has a glass wall to the corridor with curtains).  These new people are clearly with  a government ‘alphabet agency’ and after saying to the IT fellow “Remember us from Portland?”, they advise the IT guy that they are impounding all the PC gear, and the fancy modem.

They go on to tell that the American (or foreigner – not clear on this point ) had been killed under mysterious circumstances, but in the process of looking into that (for reasons not explained) they had discovered that the ‘businessman’  with the overseas contacts had been running ciphers out of the office embedded in individual frames in streaming video and that was the purpose of the curious modem which was about the size of a shoe box but only half as high.  They really wanted to get their hands on it.

The IT guy was worried that he might somehow be implicate him because he had innocently enough been involved in helping the fellow set up a few files on the computer and getting it properly connected to the ‘net.

As the dream ended, the key takeaways were 1) look for the death of a small business man who did business overseas, 2) this fellow will be of interest to US intelligence people since he was running frame-level encrypted video streaming and 3) that special modem with the blue-backlit LCD display is particularly important.

Sooo… if in the next few days I happen across an odd article about a businessman in the ‘import-export’ business being killed, the government going for his computing resource and a worried IT guy off in the background, not sure what it will all mean, if anything at all.

Just shows to go you that when I go to sleep at night, the level of vivid dreams is incredible, right down to the light gray carpet in the corridor and one of the government types was wearing a white /off white soft shirt under his blazer – not exactly a turtleneck, a different collar, but thicker than a tee shirt, not  golf shirt though…closed collar type thing.

Thursday at the WuJo

Hearing the Hum

Oh, here’s a bit of an odd co-inky-dink:  At about 12:52 this morning I heard that mysterious ‘hum’ for the first time.  What made it so interesting was it was almost completely non-directional.  Almost like it was at the back (and inside) my head.

Reader reports continue to come in, too, like this one:

I was interested to read about your wife hearing “the Hum”. My husband hears it too, and has for years. He has a friend at work that does, also. When he first started hearing it, he kept asking me if I heard it, and I did not. As you said about Elaine’s experience, he went outside and the Hum went away. There was no direction to it, and he could not track it down. I finally did some research on the internet after seeing an article about a low frequency sound from the ocean (turned out to have nothing to do with the Hum but got me started researching). I found this website that was informative and helpful. Didn’t know if you had seen it, but I thought you might be interested.

Apparently how it is heard is a subjective thing. There are two sound clips on this website that reportedly sound like the Hum, but dh says they aren’t quite like what he hears. But the rest of the info is startlingly close to his experience with it.

Turns out to be a most excellent site and when I clicked on the world map showing distribution globally, what do you know?  A dot on our part of Texas.  Just freakin’ great.  Oh, and Elaine & I fit in the top cohort (UK version of the hearing the hum cohort here.

Next time Elaine’s hearing it, we’ll try the ‘pull power’ and “kill the water” but the sound is non-local and may not be coming in through ‘regular’ auditory channels.

About that New Particle

If one were to go way, way, way out on a limb, one might wonder if there’s a link to the the recent discovery that the Sun seems to be emitting a heretofore unrecognized kind of energy that influences decay rates of radioactive material here on Earth.

From the Stanford University News of August 23:

The strange case of solar flares and radioactive elements: When researchers found an unusual linkage between solar flares and the inner life of radioactive elements on Earth, it touched off a scientific detective investigation that could end up protecting the lives of space-walking astronauts and maybe rewriting some of the assumptions of physics.

This isn’t a big earth-shaker in terms of immediacy values in your life, but it’s dandy snip and save to see what happens when we get to late October when around October 25-28 we should get another sun-quake.

There’s some seriously weird shit going on in physics in here and where it leads we’re not clear on yet, but eyes wide open and keen awareness seems to be in order.

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Depression 2.0: Starting Over

I publish a little ebook (“How to Live on $10,000 a year or less…”) that helps to offset the cost of site operations for the www.urbansurvival.com site and got an email from a reader this week who asked “What about those of us who have NOTHING – how to we claw our way back?”  Well, in past issues of the ebook we’ve talked a bit about that, but since it’s time for the annual update it’s probably time to go through the whole bootstrapping process again and update some of the examples from previous years.  If you don’t have the $40/year for Peoplenomics, I’ll get this incorporated into the annual update of the ebook in the next week, or so…

 

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Dream A Little Dream…

If you have an especially vivid dream that seems to have something to do with the future, please write it down so others can look it over for possible future/predictive values.  Simple go to http://www.nationaldreamcenter.com/ and click over to the DreamBase – commercial-free and open registration…

 

Cookie Video

The folks at Maxa Research have put together a short video (sound track by guess who?) that shows the Maxa Cookie Manager.  You can see it here.

 

I don’t usually get all whipped up about software, but this is one of those dandy tools that just simply works great.  First thing I put on my new computer when I got it was Avira Anti-virus and Maxa Cookie Manager (MCM).  Either follow the on-screen download instructions of simply click:

 

http://www.urbansurvival.com/setupMCMstdGU.exe

 

Once you try it out, to upgrade to the fully functioning version, just click the upgrade button (!) on the upper right hand side for the $35 unlock to get it to remove even those nasty and highly intrusive ‘non-browser specific’ cookies.  Bonus:  You computer may run faster. 

 

“Live on $10,000″ A Year

Having a hard time making ends meet?  (Like who isn’t, right?)  A good starting point to better match up income with outgo is our $10 e-book “How to Live on #10,000 a Year…or less!”

 

 

 

It’s an automatic download.  It’s written in an information dense style: The whole thing runs about 65 pages, but it gives you a vision of how to not only live on the cheap, but also how to migrate up the economic foodchain if you have a little hustle left.  A bonus section called “How to Build Anything” should instill confidence if you’ve never taken on a home improvement/home creation project before, too…..  Click here for the index and details.

 

Pass It On

A different take on things – that’s what you’ll find here most mornings.  If you know of anyone who might also like our content, simply click here and send a link to them.  Or, if you hated what you read, send the link to all your ‘worst enemies’.  Like they say in Burbank, “Ain’t no such thing as bad press…”

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Calibrating the Jobs Picture

Posted on September 1, 2010 by George Ure

Sometimes the truth is hidden in plain sight as was the case when a news release from the Census Bureau crossed my desk on Tuesday:

“The nation’s 89,526 state and local governments employed 16.6 million full-time equivalent employees in 2009, statistically unchanged from 2008, according to government employment data released by the U.S. Census Bureau. Part-time employees numbered 4.7 million, not statistically different from 2008.

Local governments accounted for 12.2 million full-time equivalent employees, and state governments had 4.4 million. (Local governments include counties, cities, townships, special districts and school districts.)

Most full-time equivalent state and local employees worked in education (8.9 million), hospitals (1.0 million), police protection (963,139) and corrections (759,513). Education included employment in elementary and secondary education, employment in higher education, and employment in support of special programs primarily for adult, vocational or special education that operate outside school systems. (See table 1.)

Local Government Employment

In the case of full-time equivalent employment between 2008 and 2009, most states showed decreases in employment.

State Government Employment

For state government employment, the changes in general were less drastic for both full-time equivalent and part-time employees. Six states showed increases of 4.0 percent or higher in full-time equivalent employment, led by Illinois with a 6.2 percent increase. Similarly, four states showed decreases of 4.0 percent or higher in full-time equivalent employment, led by Maine with a 6.8 percent decrease.

Numbers for federal employment won’t come out till the end of the year (why it takes a full year to figure out is beyond me).  But, in the 2008 report, we learned that there are 2.766 million federal workers – not counting our sons and daughters in the military.  The federal average pay: more than $67-thousand per federal employee, btw, and that includes dilution for part-timers.  Peach.

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Add these two up and you get 19.37 million employed in government.  Whip open last month’s Employment Situation Report and we find what?  There were138,960,000 civilians working at jobs of one sort or another.

So we begin this morning’s romp through the data by concluding that for each government worker about seven people hold jobs in the ‘real world’, although the number would be less because in real life, some of the ‘civilians’ are making consumables for government; paper, computers, printers, and so on.  But, let’s say it’s about 7.1 workers for each government employee.  We will also assume states don’t pay as much, maybe 85% of the federal average just to toss a dart.

That means that each ‘real’ worker has to pay  1/7th of  ($67,000 X 0.85), or $8,135 in taxes to support government.

Not saying this is good or bad per se, just that’s how the business model works out.  And, if we use a federal tax rate of 25%, that means all of the 138.96-million who haven’t been fired yet would have to make a taxable income of $32,542 just to pay for government.

Naturally, nothing is simple.  Some of the taxes are on property (state) and some is in the form of local sales taxes and such.  But the useful data is that there’s about one government worker for each 7 people working.

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Next data to weigh is the ADP Monthly Payroll report:

ROSELAND, N.J. – September 1, 2010 – Private sector employment decreased by 10,000 from July to August on a seasonally adjusted basis, according to the latest ADP National Employment Report® released today. The ADP National Employment Report, created by Automatic Data Processing, Inc. (ADP®), in partnership with Macroeconomic Advisers, LLC, is derived from actual payroll data and measures the change in total nonfarm private employment each month.

The market, which had been poised to open on the upside, may still based on the global round of nitrous on strength in China and such, but this doesn’t leave me with a good feeling about the ‘offishul’ (sic) numbers to come.  I trust ADP’s data implicitly.  I’d put throw the unemployment dart for the federal report Friday at 9.7%, a tad bearish of consensus.

The day’s first takeaway:  Government isn’t shrinking, but the workforce paying for it continues to shrink.  If you look up “unsupportable trend” in the dictionary, you’ll see the civilian jobs to government employment picture.

Remember My Rally?

The one where I was going to reenter shorts around Dow 10,245, or so?  May head that direction for a while today, but numbers later this morning on construction spending on oil inventories will influence the day.  August was the worst month for stocks in 9-years notes the WSJ.

Earl’s Coming

Folks in North Carolina’s outer islands are beating feet for higher ground as Earl’s spinning up for a weekend at the coast:

Fiona, the follow-on storm, is still predicted to turn north and head out to sea instead of making another swipe at the east coast.

Page Turner?  Ha!

I’ll try to brush with fluoride-laced toothpaste, because event through president Obama is handing out the message “time to turn the page’ on the Iraq war, as long as there is one US solider in country, we’re still at it.

Sorry, but as long as people are shooting at our sons and daughters in uniform in Iraq, we are still at war…shooting, to my simple way of thinking defines combat, you see.  Being shot at may not be combat for everyone, however.  Must be just me.

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Meantime, the rah-rah about ‘must work on the sickly economy’ is the most idiotic statement of the obvious I’ve heard in a while.  Where the hell is the new vision –  the articulation of the New American Lifestyle – and the reindustrialization of America to make us more self-sufficient, for crying out loud?  Think I sound a little disappointed?  No more so than most, I reckon.

Hand me a chill pill, wouldja?

Stimulost

A CNBC  report was brought to my attention a Nigerian reader who saw interview with Paul Krugman and passed along a comment…

“Krugman’s sipping on some Jesus juice, George.

I didn’t believe it when I first heard this myself. then i saw this video.

I’m in the UK at the moment. I think I’m going to move back to Nigeria (I’m Nigerian duh!) …Third world it might be, but i have political connections in a cash driven society. “

Wait!  Don’t leave yet…stick around, we’ll get this turned into a third world country too, if you just give us a bit longer…

Technology To Save America!

Oh yeah – this is my kind of story about innovation:  A report out of the UK Telegraph reports that Texas-developed “Deep Fried Beer” will be unveiled at the Texas State Fair this month.  Hallelujah!  This is the kind of FUNdamental change we need to get the country turned around…yee haw!

Thanks for the Outsourcing

We see that thanks to the globalists figuring out how to get Indians to do American work for pennies on the dollar, India’s economy is growing at 8.8% per year now.

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What part of “No jobs means crappy economy” does the Page Turner-in-Chief not understand?  If you allow …no, hell promote jobs being outsourced, people will not have incomes.  Is this shit really that complicated?

Happy Talk — International Dept.

US special envoy George Mitchell says he expects an Israel-Palestinian peace deal within a year.  Is he kidding?  This has come around almost every year as a headline ever since Abu Abbas’ gang killed a passenger and threw his body off the Achille Lauro, for heavens sake.  25-years and the same “peace deal’s almost here” crap….year?  In real business if a deal isn’t done in 90-days it’s toast.  Wonder if the wunderkind in Washington would know what “Git her done!” means?

Oklahoma  Shaker

Feeling the earth move?  Say, here’s an oddity that bears keeping an eye on:  A 3.1 quake in Oklahoma...an area that’s not particularly seismically active.

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Coping: EBM, II

Posted on September 1, 2010 by George Ure

One problem solved, another arises in our discussion Tuesday of how “Everything’s a Business Model” (EBM for short).  the fellow who sent in the note calling me a POS (piece of sh*t) sent in a fine follow-up note…

“I believe piece of shit was in fact a little harsh and I really do enjoy your website and appreciate the hard work that goes into it; I also understand the business side of what Beck is doing and it is great that we live in a country where the sky is the limit {somewhat in business} I am just frustrated with mainstream not reporting how really frustrated Americans are becoming; as a prior service Marine I find it admirable what Beck did regardless of his agenda, America needs to get back to personal responsibility for ones self and our military has made huge sacrifices for reasons that are not even clear to many of them and they are continuing to do so . It was a great event for that reason alone. Thanks for what you do GOD BLESS Sorry for the type o’s spelling not my strong suit”

It’s OK on the typos – not my strong suit, either, as anyone attempting to read this site oughta know by now.

 

Yeah – always a hard one when looking at everything as a business model – trying to figure out where to draw the line between the underlying message (Beck’s was good in many ways) and the underlying business model.  Remember, business models are neither good, nor bad; they just are.

 

I’d be pleased to bend a beer or three with this fellow any time to discuss the part of America’s dilemma that the Beck rally didn’t get into:  Namely, since we already live in the EBM world, how do we rebuild a world that makes more sense.

 

Here’s the dirty-awful secret:  When Industrialism in general, or the Internet Bubble, or the Housing Bubble are in their infancy, there are thousands upon thousands of ‘business models’ being developed.  Each one is capitalized at some level, there’s a sense of entrepreneurial urgency, and the country’s economy comes up to a rolling boil no matter how poorly the political side of the house is run.

 

But now we’re in the reverse of that:  Companies have been imploding, or being consolidated hand-over-fist.  When this happens the whole economy does into lock-down mode, or as Clif calls it linguistically ‘coagulation’.  Now that we’re into ‘coagulation’ mode, no matter what government does, the economy is terrible and Howard Hill’s explanation of why major recessions and depressions are correlated across virtually all asset classes becomes the Big Problem.

 

Here’s the thing about Beck’s rally:  I agree wholeheartedly with some degree of “reclaiming” America, but let’s be real:  We don’t have the manufacturing capability today to feed, clothe, and manufacture our own lifestyle.  Globalism has pushed us beyond some undefined boundary.  So how to we push that back? 

 

What’s needed is some vision of a new America that can be articulated, funded, and implemented.  No one’s got that one.

 

If you have any clue what the next Big Thing will be, please send it along.  We’ve got no candidates in sight yet and my fear is that someone in the backrooms of unelected government — call it the shadow government or the administrative part of government that’s not elected by we the boss-people, has figured this out, too.

 

Some ad hoc group in academia, or government, has noticed that we don’t have enough job formation to provide everyone in the world with a workable income and lifestyle, so we will need to suffer planetary war, designer diseases, and all the rest, simply to keep humans under ‘management’s control’.  Sorry to report this, but more wars, terrorism, threat of pandemic disease and natural disaster really is the tie that binds us otherwise, why would we give up 40% (or more) of our income to government?  This is the kind of issue we explore over on the Peoplenomics.com side, so I won’t take your time up with it here, but go off and ponder that one for a while.

 

But, before you do that, here’s a note from a reader who rejects my Everything’s a Business Model thesis…

“Just wondering if EVERYTHING is an EBM, would you say having sex was a business model, or better yet making love is an EBM? Whoa, dear sir, does that score points with your wife and all the women who love you and your presence on the internet? Or how about this … is making money better than having sex? Honestly, you don’t have to answer that one either because it doesn’t really matter what dimension you exist in regarding the matter. Bottom line is you’re the one who has the “cult personality” because of those who have already gladly followed you into the world of EBMville. Well, all I can say is, get me outta there!

With all due respect Mr Ure, not everything is business, unless of course if you’re not human.”

OMG, of course sex is a business model!.  Are you kidding?  Oldest business model on the planet!

 

But to the point: The best marriages are those which are built on a sound business footing and the ones that implode, often as not, according to the statistics, have failings based in financial failure!  Go look at the human relations devastation that accompanies recessions in high impact areas like Las Vegas & Phoenix.

 

Here’s a shocker for you:  Before Elaine & I got married, we discussed our relationship in detailed business model terms…because we thought to do so wouldn’t be honest.  Everyone looks at relationships at some level in WIIFM (what’s in it for me) terms.  We outlined our own business model – which we’re both happy with so far, 10-years into it – it’s working just fine, thank you.

 

Works like this: We’re co-owners of this business model; we’re a team and internally ours is a full-sharing version of the model.  Both sides pledge 100% of the assets and liabilities to the other. 

 

My responsibility in our business model is the top line, revenue:  I focus on what I do which is hunting to put it in tribal terms.  I consult, I write, and bring in enough money to keep a roof over us, and with luck, then some. 

 

Elaine’s role is the activity/expense side of the model – so she keeps everything going around home. Since there’s profits that we’ve saved up, Elaine doesn’t have to work (outside the home), and her share of the profits is she gets a Lexus,  time to work out, a pedicure now and then, etc.  I get a a Texas-type pick-up truck, a few ham radios, a great shop – and if I can figure out a strong enough revenue stream to fund it (and sufficient benefits to both of us) then we might buy a plane.  Or, we might buy a business….all in the window-shopping and spreadsheet phase now.

 

We’re both crystal clear where our focus is within the marriage; we both work in our respective areas but we share any profit/loss.  Sex is not monetized in any way in a 100% sharing relationship, - it would go on the “business supplies” line, in that it supports both the revenue line and the activity/expense line.

 

Outside of the strong partnerships in the world, of course sex is monetized.  Why, we couldn’t have government in Washington without it!   But, not inside one.

 

Try to envision our personal business model as George & Elaine, LLC.  Works for us, it’s our business model against the world and the objective is to keep it profitable, so projects like a home garden, a greenhouse, investing in solar panels, all makes sense in our G&E LLC, because that’s part of our savings program.  We agree, as partners, that part of our capital expenditures (capex) should be devoted to hedging an uncertain future, so that’s how we operate.

 

Come on, all couples have a vision (stated or otherwise) of how their marriage will work – in the business sense – right?  Seems axiomatic that if the business model under a marriage is flawed, or the deal points aren’t clear, the marriage would likely fail when the revenue drops or expense gets out of line… 

 

It should go without saying that there’s only the two partners in the marital business model, one of the tenets of our kind of LLC.  There may be other models with more members, but I haven’t seen any work out long-term and I’ve been watching for more than half a century.

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Somewhere along in here, I should reiterate that I didn’t say I disagreed with Glenn Beck’s intent – honorable.  Just we – I think – to be looking ahead morel, not looking back to what used to be.  Like golf, we can’t play from the 1950 pins, we play from where we are and only in the direction of the greens.

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Then there’s this:

“I was thinking about this EBM stuff, and wondering, if EBM then it must mean that money truly is the God of our Country, and if indeed that is true, whether or not money has a soul, because if my observations are anything beyond the ponderings of a foolish outsider, it seems ours is a society in desperate need of a soul.”

Back to B-School Basics here:  The management adage to remember is this:  “What gets measured, gets done!”

 

We live in a world where – as any fan of Mother Teresa or Gandhi recalls – that doesn’t reward ones humanity only the revenue streams and retained profits.

 

Until we reeducate ourselves from the ground up that principles and humanity trump money, we are destined to live through an international boom and bust, peace and war existence.  Millions starve, get killed in wars, but the cycle continues because we haven’t got the brains to reward goodness instead of property or power.  Oh, and we forgot to tax machines at the same rates of humans when they started to replace us.

 

Dumb and few signs of hope.

 

Wednesday at the WuJo

In the process of going global-viral is a video shot in South America earlier this month that appears to have an alien walking through it in the background.  Remind me NOT to head for Argentina.

 

The appearance of this little critter is interesting given that history is full of references to ‘the little people’ and various ‘fairies’ and such.  Hmmm…just a data point to ponder.

 

Cheap Coffee Is a What?

Urban Dictionary’s word of the day is “cheappuccino“.  The kind of flavored coffee’s that you pick up at convenience store.  Highly recommend their free emailed word of the day – they get some good ones…

 

 

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To the Point Tuesday

Posted on August 31, 2010 by George Ure

You know that Second Depression I’ve been writing about since 1996?  It’s here now and playing out on global markets around the world.  Take Japan’s Nikkei, please.  Down 3.6 percent in overnight trading.  Early trading in Europe supports the hundred-something points down today and we seem now to have entered a wave 3 down period where things get exciting…

Well, actually, things got exciting here about 11 AM Monday.  The Dow, which I had expected to zip up to the 10,250 area as a minimum, turned tail and dropped 140-points.  I posted a personal trading note yesterday just after  I execute the trade getting back into my short positions, but  remember: none of this is trading advice, you pays your money and takes yet chances.

Oh,  further downside is likely today and being on the short side again is comforting.  A one percent decline would be about a hundred Dow points, but if the market takes out the August 25 low (9,925.34) then the next ‘biggie’ would be the battle for 9,600 (July 1, 2010: Dow  9,596.04).  Then down toward 8,100…

A couple of key numbers are due out in the next hour or two:  The Case-Schiller/S&P 20-City Mortgage numbers.  Then the Chicago Purchasing and after that Consumer confidence.  Any of these could knock the market down through the 9,925 barrier and set up 9,600.  I’ll post them if I get time, so check back.

  $3,401.50!    Gold’s Flash Spike

A reader asked “How come Yahoo Finance was showing a Day’s Range of $1,233.00 – $3,401.50 for gold?”  Data glitch or end of month inventory covering? May be linked to the Big China in Little Trouble story over refugee bankster officials, but whatever the reason, I sure liked seeing that gold $3,401.50 number however fleeting it was.

Check this YouTube offering at about the 8-second mark.

Also worth noting is the Bloomberg “Gold rallying to $1,500 as Soros’s Bubble Inflates.”

Patience pays better than work sometimes.

Refi Festival

The UK’s Guardian has pretty good coverage of the mortgage refi lines down in Palm Beach as 20-thosuand odd try to save their homes.  The number of homeless in NYC is reported up 50%, so the collapse in slow motion is continuing.

I should set up some snazzy polling software one of these mornings when I get some time so we can do a poll to find out what percentage of people think we’re in an economic depression.  It’d be an interesting number.

Oh, as long as we’re pawing through all the light and cheery stuff, about one American out of six is on welfare of some kind and – this is where we could get into hyperinflation - welfare agencies are working to boost voter rolls, says USA Today.

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Also on the Obama agenda – and maybe something in tonight’s speech? – Elizabeth Warren seems to be in line to take over top federal consumer protection activities.  And that wouldn’t set well with the Street.  Couldn’t happen to a nicer group of retirement thieves…

Pre-War Chess Moves

As the Russians are tailing Western subs updating their acoustical signatures – something that would only pay a return in event of war, president Obama is planning a speech to the nation tonight on how the Iraq War combat mission has (sort of)  ended.  How long’s it been since “flight Suit George” called it mission accomplished?  Seven years, isn’t it?

You maybe saw the story “Saudis amass US weapons to confront Iran“?  Other end of the spectrum: France and Britain are planning to share aircraft carriers.  Money saving deal.  Wonder if they write each other damage deposits on this ;-)

The Tehran Times hasn’t missed the significance, however their focus in this article is on the ‘U.S. legacy of waste’ in Iraq.  Kind of sad when our potential enemies have a clearer understanding of project management than we seem to.  True, some of the schools, hospital upgrades and infrastructure is working, but as NPR sizes things up, I wonder did we get out money’s worth?

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BTW, Tehran is giving big coverage to the 40 million Americans on food stamps story.

Earl to NC

Latest computer models put Hurricane Earl arriving along the shows of North Carline about 2 AM Friday morning and then it seems probably to whack the east coast pretty good into the weekend before getting up to the Canuck maritimes on Sunday.  There goes the weekend, eh?

Coming up next week is tropical storm Fiona and there’s a new depression forming on the west coast of Africa that could follow.  My neighbor who goes out insurance adjusting oughta be busy as a one-armed paper hanger for a while.

Climate Sparring

Pick one:  “Climate change lies are exposed“  OR “Why failure of climate summit would heald global catastrophe: 3.5º”

Marketing Madness

I admit to being a mobile technology Luddite, but AutoCad going to the iPhone?  Hand me the ViceGrips – and while you’re doing that, let me tweak the girders on the 27th floor…they look a little weak…

Egads! Lend me your phone, I need to design a data center building.

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Coping: EBM – What’s News?

Posted on August 31, 2010 by George Ure

About here, you may be scratching your head wondering “What does EBM stand for and why do I care?”

It’s the Peoples Economist’s shorthand for “Everything is a Business Model”. And why that matters will come into focus when I share this dandy little dropping from the bottom of the email inbox:

“You are a real piece of shit not one word on the beck rally there were only about half a million in attendance I have lost all respect for your web site what a shame just like the main stream media”

“Like” the MSM?  Get serious, pard…Glenn Beck in an amusing cult of personality distraction but he’s ain’t news around here.  But, then again, neither are the current doings of Lindsay Lohan, either.

To review:  Glenn Beck works for Fox News Channel, which in turn is owned by News Corporation, which, in turn is chaired by Rupert Murdoch who’s politics I tend not to agree with.

Each of these is a business model.  Beck’s a business model, since he’s growing the Beck brand.  Fox is a business model since they’re after ratings which can be turned into ads which can be turned into money.  News Corp is a business model that holds rolled up media companies and you know they’re not doing that for grins and giggles.  And Murdoch’s been a whole series of successful business models rolling up media outlets.

As a matter of policy around here (a right I claim as a real piece of shit, as you so eloquently penned it) we don’t spend much time counting the number of people who line up behind one business model, or another.  No point to it.

BUT, now that you brought it up, everything is a business model.  The job you used to have, the business of being a politician, even churches / religions are business models, something I don’t grind your face in because the evidence is that I’m right.  Jesus didn’t make the big bucks on his own religion, it was the marketers who followed who cashed it.  Ditto Buddha and the rest of history’s Enlightened:  Business models that followed were where the dough was – so you see  everything really is a business model. 

Not bad just is.

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Around here, I’m running a business model, too.  I have a free web site which almost breaks even on advertising.  The rest comes from subscribers to Peoplenomics.com, a unique group of people seeking clarity of thought on some of the great unspoken truths of the runaway capitalist illusion such as Everything’s a Business Model.

Every time the right wing, or the left, or the NRA, or the church, or the local PTA pass around fundraisers, or I pimp my subscriber side,  I’m reminded “Everything’s a Business Model“. 

Again for clarity: I didn’t say any of this is bad…money makes the world go round. 

On the other hand, whenever I see a highly touted named personality I run – not walk, mind you – I run the other way as fast as I can.  We live in a society where EBM and the cults of personality are all what?  Repeat after me:  Business models!

Think it’s worth debating how many showed up?  I could give a crap.  Beck supporters are largely in the 200,000 range, with a few blinded followers claiming 500,000 showed up.  CBS News put the figure under 100,000 and they hired an outfit to give them an accurate count.  Is that right?  I will grant you that CBS is a competing business model to the Fox News Channel.

I’m not the only one calling it what it was; go take a look at “Beck Rally: A Great PR Stunt, but That’s All It Was,” for example.

Thanks to your email though, you’ve given me an opportunity to once again explain how EBM.

In a country where jobs have largely been exported about the only growth industry left is the Cult of Personality business model which a lot of people seem to get sucked into.

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Oh, and if the democorps thought they were without business model sin in all this, let’s not overlook the secretary of education reportedly urging employees to attend the Al Sharpton ‘counter’ demonstration.

World of business models colliding.  Comforting in some ways (analysis of current affairs gets real easy, for example) but bad in other ways:  EBM allows us to miss a good portion of the humans sharing concept.  In fact, most of it.

Pardon me if I park judgment and just observe the data flow.

Readers Writes, 2

Then there’s this one:

I know the data in Cliff’s reports points toward a spike in the price of gold and silver. My impression is that the spike will take place within the next year or two. I recently was speaking with a gentlemen who agreed with me on the idea, but we disagreed on the time frame. He was committed to the idea that it will be longer than a couple of years before people will find worth in metals again. This idea was partially fused with the notion that food and ammunition would far surpass the demand for in-edible chunks of metal. What immediately crossed my mind was all of those ‘Goldline’ commercials I see on the MSM. I’ve considered in the past that a promotion of gold on the MSM could be a bad sign for someone like myself who ‘buys this crap’.

Please, shed some light onto this situation for me. It’s too f@%#$n complicated. Thanks for everything!

Too complex for me, too.  So just buy some silver, ammo, and food and let’s sit back and watch how it all works out.  Anything else is just theory and nothing’s more fun than having some skin in the game.

As the current business paradigm (playing field of all business models) sits, there’s a titanic tug-of-war over whether deflation or inflation will be the long-term workout.  My bet is on runaway inflation, but ain’t much to see yet.  Last week’s Fed report (H.6 money stocks) showed a 4.15 % increase in M1 YoY  (see updated dictionary of terms here) and Trader Bart’s most excellent M3 reconstructed shows M3 is only declining now at an annual rate of 5% and may have bottomed.  I figure the fireworks in metals will start when M3 begins to go positive -3-8 months out.  Just a dart.

EMP Hardening

Subject of this weekend’s Peoplenomics report  – yes, along with part numbers.  Several people have asked.

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Coping: Beyond the “Correlation Curse”

Posted on August 30, 2010 by George Ure

Can’t tell you how many people have asked me “George, what happens to the price of gold in a real depression?” but the number is substantial.  And when I answer, most seem less than pleased that I frown (or whatever passes for a frown in email) and tell them “Everything goes down, just some things go down faster than others…”

If you’ve been waiting for clearer answer, your patience will be rewarded when you read Howard Hill’s brilliant “Correlation Curse” which he posted this weekend and which seems to have caused quite a stir.  What my friend -the ex-Deutsche, ex-Mass. Mutual, co-father of CDO’s and long-tail bond whiz turned Ford Fuzion hybrid driver and owner of a chicken coup he could press into service – has done is ever-so-neatly explain why bull markets are not particularly correlated, but bear markets are.

But the one thing he didn’t explain is that if all asset classes decline in large bear markets (see the Dow later this week if things aren’t clear yet) and when forced to raise money, asset managers will sell anything that brings a bid, where’s the smart place to deploy money in advance?

Ah, the footnote he  could have added would be those assets which have current production value for some necessary goods or services.  But, since you may not have oil on your property, or have a spare manufacturing plant sitting idle out back, what does that leave?

The personal means of production that won’t be subject to sale.  Things like paid-up property which has a garden on it, some long-term stored food, a few chickens, serious garden, a fishing boat (with a sail?) which isn’t in a fished-out area…things like that.

Serious bear markets – like the one we’re in – demand a high level of mental acuity to perceive the Great Recessions and Great Depressions which, BTW, are functionally interchangeable once you’ve been canned at work and had your home repo’ed.

People throw rocks at me when I breach the idea of gold dropping to the $800 (or lower) range as things unfold over the next year or three, but since in the same timeframe the Dow could head below 4,000, that’s a comparative increase in purchasing power.

Still,  Howard’s point remains crystal clear:  Massive bear markets are highly correlated because money managers will sell any asset there’s a market for to raise dough when times get bad.  A fine read and it should help clarify much confusion about what’s directly ahead.

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The good news is the market should rally today and maybe into tomorrow – to one of Robin Landry’s targets:  The 10,250 range today, or maybe higher.  From his weekend note to colleagues in the investment advisory circles:

“Hi Everyone,

Since my last update on 8/2/10 where I said the market should be close to topping or my count was wrong, the market did top a few day later and then head down. The last 3 weeks has seen the market in a nice downtrend channel as shown on the chart attached. The decline can be counted as a series of 1-2’s to the low on Friday 8/27/10 before the sharp reversal on Friday. If that is the correct count, the rally should be almost over, and we should turn down some time on Monday. The alternate count, not shown on the attached chart, is that the decline from the 8/6/10 high is a five wave decline with an extended 5th and the rally has more to go. The target would be 10,350-10450 in this count. Either way we should resume the decline in a few days if my count is correct. We shall see. The 9600 area, which was the July ’10 low, is a very important area of support to watch over the coming days. Once this level is broken decisively, the decline should accelerate toward the 8100 area over the next few weeks. As always I will monitor the count and update you when warranted. Comments and questions are welcome and will be answered as time allows.

Robin  rlandry@allegiance.tv “

 

Ostensibly, part of the reason for the rally today (trust me on this, although NONE OF THIS IS INVESTMENT ADVICE, just showing you why I exited my short positions last Thursday…) is that the Bank of Japan has eased policy a bit and that kicked the Nikkei up 225 up 1.8 percent overnight.

The story out of Europe also verges on mindless euphoria, since the British market is up better than 8/10th’s of 1% when I looked.

Will it last?  Not no, but hell no.

I put a chart up every week for Peoplenomics subscribers called the “Aggregate Index.  It’s what the global markets look like if you have equal-dollar amounts in the Japanese, Oz, Hong Kong, German, French, British, and US markets:

You see those two little circles on the right side?  To my odd way of looking at charts, the current decline (right small circle) got far enough below the (left little circle) that it starts looking like “Global decline to continue!”

When the global market gets to the point or recognition that this is the Big Picture, then go back to your bookmark of Howard’s “Correlation Curse”, or read some of Robin’s past remarks about how Elliott Wave functions work.  Key concept?  The decline of Wave 3 is usually at least equal to the decline of Wave 1.  Usually, it’s 1.5 times the first move down.

Here’s why globalism is toast:  You can see on my chart above how Wave 1 began from the global market’s giddy heights of 2008, until Wave 2 started from the terrible bottom in March 2009.  Now, a large third wave has gotten underway from the apparent Wave 2 peak of 23,204.

Since Wave 1 down (globally) was 17,123 points, one might postulate that Global Wave 3 (which is coming along over the next year or two (if things hold course) should drop to a minimum target of 6,081.  At this level, global markets will be left with less than 20% of their 2008 high values.

But the worst case (meaning a 1.5 X decline – or God forbid a 1.618 X decline)  in Wave 3 would bankrupt globalism pure and simple. 

The neat part of this is that you don’t need to go out and join a militia group, or partner-up with anarchists to rage against the machine:  If you know where to look, it appears globalism is in the midst of imploding on itself.  Couldn’t have happened to a nice bunch.

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Is the change the direction inevitable and irreversible?

No.  In fact there are least three candidates on the horizon that could re-launch globalism’s ascent. 

  • A large-scale terrorist attack on the America or British homeland would give global markets a scapegoat, an opportunity to declare martial law, implement RFID implants, justify even more intrusive surveillance but most importantly, shift the blame for the collapse onto meaningless disposable pawns.  Nuclear, chemical, or biological doesn’t much matter, so long as the blame gets shifted and the financiers of the world get a patsy.  Fear means control.
  • Massive earth-changes, such as could accompany the Earth’s transit of the Local Interstellar Cloud which could – and it’s only a maybe, but it’s gotten government-level attention – bring with it a huge EMP-type event involving the Sun.  More in the “Boeing Whistleblower’s Warning“, but I’m taking this seriously enough that I’ve ordered about $40 worth of transient suppressors from Mouser.com for installation here at the ranch – which will be a Peoplenomics.com report in a couple of weeks.  EMP means no grid and no grid means no accounting of where all the baby Boomer’s money went.  We’ll be back in the late 1800′s with frontier justice and all that went with it.  Just great…different patsy, but it works.  No accounting systems working?  So sorry, you lose.
  • A massively correlated change-out of the global economic system to something that makes sense.  This could get started by the G8, and maybe the Chinese Renminbi is a candidate ‘new benchmark currency’.  Skeptical as I may be, a Renminbi standard alongside the US buck might reshuffle the cards for one more hand.
  • Then there’s Medico’s Drug Revolution (the MDR):  28,000 dead so far in the lead-in to it, 72-bodies found last Wednesday, and 15 murders discovered on Friday in Acapulco alone. And this week isn’t off to any better start:  A mayor in Tamaulipas state has been assassinated this weekend by drug cartel thugs.  Not sure you’ve penciled out what a drug-driven civil war in Mexico would be like, but if I owned property next to the border (200 miles)  I’d be ‘so outa there‘ it’d make your head spin.  Remember, Elaine had been studying the Border 21 – NAFTA plans to corrode US borders as part of the globalist agenda before we moved to East Texas, a location driven in part by my series to have a state capitol between us and a drug-and-violence-leaking border.  Especially since Bill Clinton and the globalistas behind NAFTA started pushing for greater US linkage into the Mexican economy in 1994-1995.  Ross Perot was perfectly correct about that big sucking sound, yeah? The dangers of a spillover war from Mexico have been clear to our military for a long time:  See the [US Army War College] 2004 discussion paper “Sealing the Border with Mexico: a Military Option“.  A couple of out of context extracts to set the tone:
    • “The reality, however, may be that the deployment of any size of military unit along the border will not produce the desired results on the war on drugs or on the efforts to stem illegal immigration. It should be noted that the Department of Defense itself does not welcome a deepened involvement in such border activities. A previous Secretary of Defense expressed his concern about the inefficiency and degraded readiness that could result from an expanded role on the border.”
    • “The Secretary of Homeland Security, Tom Ridge, also discouraged the use of troops along the border. At a recent conference addressing border community concerns, he stated that “Among allies and friends, you don’t have a militarized border”.
    • But the real quote that grabbed me was this one “A final concern is that once deployed on the border, it may be difficult for the military units to be redeployed quickly where needed elsewhere in the world.”

Wait – wasn’t this when Bush was CiC?  Oh, you seem to have missed that the PTB/globalistas run both sides of the political aisle from the top.  Wake the hell up!  They need a distraction in the next year, or less, and they’re going to buy it even if it costs the lives of millions.  Which it will, sorry to report.

So, enjoy this today’s rally I expect sometime after the open.  Just remember, it’s the bears like me who will be on the other side of the trade – the more it rallies, I figure to bank. 

Oh: If you’re concerned about the ‘dip at the open’ expected this morning?  Just guess here that’ll be the phat cats driving down prices so they can go long for one more rally…so maybe I’ll re-enter the short positions tomorrow.  Easy money’s contagious.  Speaking of which…

Personal Income

If I was conspiratorially bent, I’d say something like “Personal income takes an unexpected move up” would make a fine rally driver.  But, I’m not writing government press releases, so instead we get this to deal with…

Personal income increased $30.0 billion, or 0.2 percent, and disposable personal income (DPI) increased $17.6 billion, or 0.2 percent, in July, according to the Bureau of Economic Analysis. Personal consumption expenditures (PCE) increased $44.1 billion, or 0.4 percent. In June, personal income decreased $2.7 billion, or less than 0.1 percent, DPI decreased $0.2 billion, or less than 0.1 percent, and PCE decreased $4.0 billion, or less than 0.1 percent, based on revised estimates.

Real disposable income decreased 0.1 percent in July, in contrast to an increase of 0.1 percent in June. Real PCE increased 0.2 percent, compared with an increase of 0.1 percent.

Personal outlays — PCE, personal interest payments, and personal current transfer payments — increased $44.0 billion in July, in contrast to a decrease of $7.3 billion in June. PCE increased $44.1 billion, in contrast to a decrease of $4.0 billion.

Personal saving — DPI less personal outlays — was $673.4 billion in July, compared with $699.7 billion in June. Personal saving as a percentage of disposable personal income was 5.9 percent in July, compared with 6.2 percent in June.

Is the savings rate fictional?  Oh sure, but a good story to promote, as I’m looking to add to short positions.  Here’s a helpful headline for the bears waiting to reenter:  Consumer spending rises 0.4 percent in July.  Woo-hoo!

Run ‘em up this afternoon!!!

Still Driving?

Someone must be:  Late car payments dropped in Q2.  Woo-hoo!

Obamacare

Looking for a source of what Obamacare really is – I mean besides a right-wing fanned political fundraising talking point?  On to the Journal of American Physicians and Surgeon’s piece by Dr. Jane Orient - on my reading list for today.

Ring Wing Damage

I assume you saw the report that something like 70 percent of a conservative talk radio audience support forcing Muslims to register on a national database?

Fine, but let’s go ahead and also register Chinese, Russians, Jews, Blacks, and Fat Old White  Farts like me while we’re at it.  And how about a modern Kristallnacht equivalent for Hispanics and while we’re at it?

No, I’m not serious, except in this regard:  When I write that America has gone fascist, I’m not joking.

Earl Strengthens

Got another ‘cane out in the Atlantic.  Hurricane Earl could bring wind and rain to North Carolina on up through the Northeast later in the week:

Kite weather, for sure.

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Coping: Ham Radio Notes and Beyond

Posted on August 30, 2010 by George Ure

OK, this isn’t much of an item to note for most folks – those without ham licenses – but I fixed up a really nifty addition to my tower that the 3½ HF element beam sits atop.  I picked up a wireless remote control for an ATV winch for about $70 on eBay. 

With about a half-hour of screwing around this weekend I was able to get it working so now when thunderstorms roll through the area, I don’t have to stand at the bottom of the tower bushing a big ‘down’ button to get 65-feet of galvanized steel lightning rod down to where trees would be more likely targets. 

instead, I’ll be standing up to 50-feet away with my little remote control fob and happily watching from a safe distance.

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In the process of testing the tower raising & lowering, however, I managed to break the support for the low frequency 40 & 80 meter CCD antenna. 

All of which is fine, since it gives me an excuse to rent a 35-foot scissor lift which will let me update the coax feedline from the HF antennas to new low loss Times LMR-400 and give me a chance to put up the 17-element wide spaced 2-meter beam antenna.

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All of which gets me around to the real point of all this ham radio talk – there’s been an uptick in the operation of ‘number stations’ on he shortwave bands.

Panama Bates, my brother-in-law who’s studying for his ham ticket, wandered in about a week ago and asked “What’s a number station?“  Had to plead ignorance (I do a lot of that seems) and he came back with a report that went well beyond the Wikipedia entry on topic:

“Numbers stations (or number stations) are shortwave radio stations of uncertain origin. They generally broadcast artificially generated voices reading streams of numbers, words, letters (sometimes using a spelling alphabet), tunes or Morse code. They are in a wide variety of languages and the voices are usually female, though sometimes male or children’s voices are used.

Evidence supports popular assumptions that the broadcasts are used to send messages to spies. This usage has not been publicly acknowledged by any government that may operate a numbers station, but in 2001, the United States tried the Cuban Five for spying for Cuba. The group had received and decoded messages that had been broadcast from a Cuban numbers station.[1] Also in 2001, Ana Belen Montes, a senior US Defense Intelligence Agency analyst, was arrested and charged with espionage. The federal prosecutors stated: “Montes communicated with the Cuban Intelligence Service through encrypted messages and received their instructions through encrypted shortwave transmissions from Cuba”. In 2006, Carlos Alvarez and his wife Elsa Alvarez were arrested and charged with espionage. The U.S. District Court Florida stated: “defendants would receive assignments via shortwave radio transmissions”. In June 2009, the United States similarly charged Walter Kendall Myers with conspiracy to spy for Cuba and receiving and decoding messages broadcast from a numbers station operated by the Cuban Intelligence Service to further that conspiracy.[2][3]

It has been reported that the United States uses numbers stations to communicate encoded information to persons in other countries.[1]

Numbers stations appear and disappear over time (although some follow regular schedules), and their overall activity has increased slightly since the early 1990s. This increase suggests that, as spy-related phenomena, they were not unique to the Cold War.”

Doggone it!  This was getting interesting.  But, does it mean anything when Universe pops something like this before me in a particularly blatant way?

Seems so.  You see there’s been a reported uptick in number station transmissions in the past week or two and it’s starting to sneak in around the edges of awareness at places like the Cryptogon.com site.

Normally, that in itself wouldn’t be particularly noticeable except that the UK Telegraph carried a report this weekend about how “Russian subs stalk Trident in echo of Cold War.”

The most popular reason for this return to Cold War shadowing, may be that Russia is simply updating it’s library of various US capital ships sounds so their sonar men will have good data on who’s who.

But wait!  Why would they need that data unless there was a perceptible chance that such data would have future value? 

Something isn’t feeling right here.  An uptick in what seem to be spy radio transmissions which could be instructions to field agents.  And then updating sonar signatures? 

I don’t know about you, but something feels a bit amiss here, particularly when you carefully consider the English language summary of more-or-less current Russian military doctrine.

If you talk to knowledgeable people – like Shane Connor over at www.ki4u.com – and ask them about how the US is doing on the civil defense front compared with Russia, or China for that matter, you’ll find plenty of concern.  This is a long term problem that has its roots in Nixonian detente in the 1970′s. 

The question you might want to ask yourself is whether America has been deliberately stripped of her survivability potential by a globalist agenda  half a century in the making. 

I’ll leave it to you to guess my feelings on this but something worth a few moments of contemplation.  November looms.

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Psychos on the Street

Posted on August 27, 2010 by George Ure

While skimming through Paul Ferrell’s post “Wall Street Psycho: 15 signs of moral and ethical pathology, soul-sickness” related to  how the investment world works, I was particularly struck by the observation that “Moral Issues are PR glitches” since a lot of what crosses my desk is PR-related.

Take, for example, the Federal Reserve’s press release Thursday about “neighborhood stabilization”…

“The Federal Reserve System will sponsor a national summit on September 1 and 2 to discuss methods and resources for encouraging neighborhood stabilization in the aftermath of the U.S. home mortgage foreclosure crisis. The forum will showcase findings from Federal Reserve research and policy efforts, including the release of the publication REO and Vacant Properties: Strategies for Neighborhood Stabilization.

People living in communities with vacant properties face declining property values, loss of public services due to reduced tax revenue, and increased levels of crime. The summit will examine practical and tested strategies that nonprofit organizations, local and regional governments, federal officials, and lenders can use to mitigate the impact of vacant and real estate owned (REO) property–property held on the books of banks, typically after failure to sell at foreclosure auction.

“A foreclosure not only hurts the person who loses their home, it hurts their neighbors and their communities,” said Federal Reserve Governor Elizabeth A. Duke. “As delinquencies and foreclosures continue to increase, we must think creatively and focus our research, outreach, and community development efforts on ways to help these communities recover.”

I found – while reaching for my extra-large ViceGrips with which to pinch myself – thinking “So rather than fix the problems, they’re now passing out strategies on how to live with this new, lower, standard of  living on an on-going basis?”

Not that the Second Depression is coming on too quickly; it’s just taking its own sweet time about destroying the world.  Japan was up almost one percent overnight, Europe hasn’t been falling (for a change), and speaking of ‘Ben”, the Fed Boss hisself is in speechifying today. 

So while we wait on that, the new GDP figures are out:

“Real gross domestic product -- the output of goods and services produced by labor and property located in the United States — increased at an annual rate of 1.6 percent in the second quarter of 2010, (that is, from the first quarter to the second quarter), according to the “second” estimate released by the Bureau of Economic Analysis. In the first quarter, real GDP increased 3.7 percent.

The GDP estimates released today are based on more complete source data than were available for the “advance” estimate issued last month. In the advance estimate, the increase in real GDP was 2.4 percent (see “Revisions” on page 3).

The increase in real GDP in the second quarter primarily reflected positive contributions from nonresidential fixed investment, personal consumption expenditures, exports, federal government spending, private inventory investment, and residential fixed investment. Imports, which are a subtraction in the calculation of GDP, increased.

The deceleration in real GDP in the second quarter primarily reflected a sharp acceleration in imports and a sharp deceleration in private inventory investment that were partly offset by an upturn in residential fixed investment, an acceleration in nonresidential fixed investment, an upturn in state and local government spending, and an acceleration in federal government spending. “

What really matters is constant dollars and relative performance, so here’s the deal in chained 2005 dollars:  YoY we’re up 2.978% compared with W2 2009, but tracking still 0.47% where constant dollar GDP was back in 2007.

So did we all just work three years for nothing?

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Did I exit prematurely from my paper short position, you’re wondering, since the bounce at the open was quickly followed on the downside Thursday?  Only if we take out the intraday low of Wednesday  (Dow 9,925.34).  Otherwise I’m out with a reason which might become apparent today or Monday/Tuesday.  This is not investment advice, however.

Still: Stocks are headed for a slightly higher open today and I’m still optimistic about going short come the middle of next week.  Still, being up 21.9% for the YTD in paper is not nearly as cool as seeing gold creep back toward $1,250 and silver’s quietly moved above $19…

Super Quake Watch

A couple of readers have asked if I’ve noticed anything odd out of some of the seismographs up around Yellowstone.  You mean like this one?  Not a big deal…hopefully, and nothing big enough to show up as a worry-point on the USGS monitor map for the area…

On the other hand, the continuous (more or less) quaking, like the 3.1 this morning down in the currently below sea level area of the Imperial Valley in California?  Different problem….

Gone With the Wind

At the National Hurricane Information Center, where tracking Hurricane Danielle – now up to category 4 has been ongoing – people aren’t getting  too excited, since it seems to be destined to turn around to the northeast and blow itself out well out to sea.  Unless you’re in Bermuda…

NOT Gone With the Wind

Boeing’s 787.  Delayed – again – this time till out in the middle of next year.

“Traitorware” Dawns

Interesting Apple iPhone/iPad software in the works.  Seems Apple wants to be able to  shut down a user’s iWhatever if they access product not sanctioned by Apple.  This kind of applehack is called “jailbreaking” and Apple wants to bust (in two senses of the word) people doing it.  Worse:  The courts say it’s OK…

Seems to me that in this kind of case, the folks at Apple oughta be more clear:  People who ‘buy’ iWhatevers more and more are just long-term renting them, since if you own something, what you do with it is no one else’s business, eh?  I’m sure that’s explained in their EULA, but I gave up reading EULA’s in about 1988…  No offense to the townspeople over in Eula, Texas, BTW.

Tripping Jimmy

Former President Jimmy Carter’s trip to North Korea has paid off with release of an American detained for illegal entry.  North Korea watchers are now off on a new tangent, trying to figure out if Kim Jong Il is planning a China trip, but I’ve spiked that one as a “Who cares?”

Technical Difficulties

Say, you happen to notice the story yesterday about now the Navy had an unmanned drone aircraft lost not too far from the nation’s capitol for more than a half-hour before getting it back under control?  All of which gets me to wondering if DHS is tracking memberships in model airplane clubs now…

Watching the MSM

USA Today is reported planning to axe about 130-jobs and reorganize their newsroom with more of a focus on mobile users.

Stories We Missed

Damn!  Missed covering (or would this be uncovering?) National Topless Day out in Venice Beach, California. 

We also seem to have missed the case of a real-life Judge Judy type up in Seattle, who Time Magazine reported recently was handed a five-day suspension for courtroom insults laid on defendants.

Worst of all, we haven’t mentioned the recently concluded Tiger Woods / Elin Nordegren divorce case.

All of which would seem to make UrbanSurvival hopelessly out of touch.  Even being marginally aware of the October 1 release of “The Social Network” which is a kind of chronicle of Facebook’s development, won’t move us over into the “too hip” column.

We’ll just have to live with that, I guess.  The real news may be Zeus the Cat’s plans to launch a pet food-tracking ETF…

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Coping: Elaine & “The Hum”

Posted on August 27, 2010 by George Ure

“You hear it?”

Nope.

“Well, it’s kind of like a big engine idling…but I’ve never been able to figure out where it’s coming from…sort of like noise from the oil field down the street, but it’s all the time.  Thing is, when I step outside to try and track it5 down, it just …goes away…and that’s it.  But, it’s not the refrigerator, the air conditioning, or anything else in the house…”

That’s how things go around here; Elaine has consistently heard this ‘big engine idling’ kind of noise for six years or longer, and despite having really good hearing (except when a chore needs doing, of course) I can’t hear a darn thing.

Same with readers, too, after yesterday’s post about the reader up in Wisconsin who was hearing this darn noise, too.  The emails have been coming in like crazy.  A sampling:

George, practically everyone I know is experiencing what they assume is tinnitus – really anxiety-producing to have high-pitched tones emanating from the middle of one’s head with no relief in site – puts them on edge. Hmmm… Seems to have become exacerbated the last couple of weeks. Have googled around and found nothing definitive so far. Have you heard anything re: HAARP, etc? Didn’t Clif say something about deafness is one of the more recent reports? Am wondering if what Clif was picking up on is related to hearing being affected/ramping up free-floating anxiety on a global scale? Thanks for all that you do, guy!

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Like Thursday’s reader, I was also hearing a low hum / rumble noise.  For me it was a very definite tone, like a distant diesel truck engine running just above idle.  Some days it was quite loud, and I was amazed that no one else could hear it.  Then I noticed that it seemed to be a hypersensitivity to that one pitch.  For example, a truck going through the gears would make the hum louder for a short time in each gear.  This wasn’t easy to determine since many things in the house produce a constant low level noise at the right pitch (refrigerator, furnace fan, etc.)  Another interesting item was that the hum stopped when we stayed with family over the holidays.

After months of concern, I discovered my hum was related to a mosquito repellent like this one.  Within hours of removing the repellent from the house the hum level dropped dramatically.  After 2-3 weeks my hearing was back to normal. 

While the Taos Hum may be real, in my case there was a more mundane cause.  As they say: Your mileage may vary.

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Described symptom(s) are classically those of tinnitus.

I’ve lived with it for several years - earplugs exacerbate the symptoms, low volume ambient white noise masks them.  A tin foil hat isn’t the answer…

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Around ten-fifteen years ago I heard a low hum at night that drove me crazy because I thought the guy down the street had his 18-wheeler truck running all night. I found out that he wasn’t home and it couldn’t have been his truck. I closed the windows but still heard it. It went on for months and suddenly was gone. I never knew what it was and I hope it never comes back. I live fairly close to Wright Patterson AFB which is in Fairborn, Ohio.

Like a good hubby, I used to get up now and then to see if I could hear it…all with no success.  Maybe it’s a blood pressure related thing, or tinnitus, but no, everything seems to be normal on all fronts there.  Must be ‘one of those things’ in Life that we never get the answer to.  But, one thing’s fairly certain:  Elaine hears it, I don’t, and she’s not alone. Lots of readers are hearing it, too.

Drifting Measurements Dept.

Remember our discussion a while back about how people were having trouble with measurements?  The gist of the phenomena was that people would measure some – very carefully, too – and then they’d cut a board (or whatever) and then the part wouldn’t fit.  Most would be off by reports by about an inch.

Got this really interesting note that it’s a well known phenomena shipboard in some parts of the Navy…check this out:

“I sent my navy nuke son on the carrier Abe Lincoln your section about the changing measurements, and cautioned him to be aware working around the reactors.

He told me in a phoncon that this happens all the time on the ship. They take something apart, and they can’t get it to fit back together again, WTF. They just call in somebody new, and they put it right back together and say like what was the problem. Just another day for them.”

Say, that’s an oddity, ain’t it?  So, next time one of these ‘it don’t fit’ events happens, or you lose you car keys and they are nowhere near where they should be, just ask someone else to do the looking, since we could be dealing with a mental aberration here…

Other Mental Effects

Say, here’s an interesting one:

“It is interesting being here in India at an ashram where those in the know here spiritually speaking say that they Hindus have a prediction of the end of 2011 that is similar to the Mayans Prophecy of 2012.  In the Hindu version it is talked about the sun being the cause of the event or shift…….
 

I was reading the Boeing Whistle Blowers Article when my room ate said, “Hey check out on of the top stories on Yahoo India News Today……”

Here they say that this solar activity will affect much more than the electrical grid.  It will effect people’s emotional state causing much depression and suicide.  It will cause people’s hearts to stop suddenly, something to do with the energy pulses and the pituitary glands, it will effect the weather……hmmmmm  These predictions have been made long back and now they are starting to unfold.

You can check out www.onenessuniversity.org as the entire mission of the two founders is to help raise humanity’s level of consciousness through a neuro-biological shift in the brain which will make the persons EMF higher than that of the earths which then allows the person to avoid much of these problems.  A nice side effect is that you are in a very awake state and experience a deep connected sense of joy and peace internally no matter what is happening around you ;)

The web site is for you to take a look at and not to post on the site as due to the nature of the work, they don’t want any media coverage in the west.  It is better the information is spread by those in each community mouth to mouth and experience by experience.  If you feel drawn let me know and I can find some people in Texas that can meet you and can share the Deeksha with you.  Thanks for all you do!

Seriously odd stuff, huh?  Generally, experience says most folks in Texas who are in a very awake states and experiencing unexplainable joy and peace regardless of what’s going on around them have been hitting the Jack & Coke, or hold public office….but my research continues….

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Meantime, the people who are dumb-struck by the changes standing around drooling and such would certainly fill the predictive linguistics from the ALTA reports.  Some as supposed to be so impacted that they will need the care of other humans to assist with bodily functions and so forth because they will be so shocked by events (internal or external) that they’ll just go into ‘lock-up’ mode where they just won’t be able to function.

All of which fits with the Boeing engineer story from earlier this week  (Chad/SixScent/Sick Scent) asks if you share the link, you use the original page located here). 

I’ll let you know if I hear more on this…but the operating theory for now goes something like this:

  • World bounces along down a noisy long term economic decline
  • Somewhere in the 2011-2013 range we go through an odd part of the Local Stellar Space which is hugely energetic at some kind of electrical or mixed electrical/dimension level
  • Due to this, some people overload/short-out/become dysfunctional.
  • Clif and George notch another one on the side of a web bot server with a quiet “uh huh…”

Kid Adventures

Been a lot of attention about the number of kids that are taking off on trips ’round the world in sailboats lately, so to balance things off, up popped an email this morning from the Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association online service about a 17-year old who’s doing a flight across the country in a Piper Super Cub.

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Interesting thing is that in all these stories, the principles of lift and airfoils are the same.  Just that in a sailboat, the airfoil is working at maybe 10-knots of airspeed, while in a Super Cub it’s happening at about nine times that speed…

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Also of note in the AOPA notes is the report on Chihuahua, Mexico becoming something of an aerospace center…Cessna’s expanding its operations there, along with other companies. 

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I’ve shortened my list of planes to consider down to the Texas-made Mooney’s, thanks.  made over in Kerrville, TX… Not just because owners are called “Mooniacs” (although frankly, I admire the attitude) but because it’s a helluva go-fast plane and a decent used M-20C can be purchased used for around $50K and  they cruise in 150-160 knot range [which works out to 177- 189 MPH range for ground lubbers] and pulls down 18-20 MPG while doing it…some having a range north of 1,000 nm (1,118 statue) which is well beyond kidney operating parameters, without a portable kidney pressure relief device; a/k/a ‘the comfort tube (male version) or a ‘Jill-Jar’ (female version).  Either of which is a fine reason to save up for a used West wind, or something in that size.  Now, if only they were free…

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One other flying note:  The AOPA has an interesting article on “How much to brake” in their flight training section.  Never thought about it before, since how much brake I apply seems directly related to how quickly I want to get out of the airplane and kiss the ground, having cheated death again…

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Dream A Little Dream…

If you have an especially vivid dream that seems to have something to do with the future, please write it down so others can look it over for possible future/predictive values.  Simple go to http://www.nationaldreamcenter.com/ and click over to the DreamBase – commercial-free and open registration…

 

Cookie Video

The folks at Maxa Research have put together a short video (sound track by guess who?) that shows the Maxa Cookie Manager.  You can see it here.

 

I don’t usually get all whipped up about software, but this is one of those dandy tools that just simply works great.  First thing I put on my new computer when I got it was Avira Anti-virus and Maxa Cookie Manager (MCM).  Either follow the on-screen download instructions of simply click:

 

http://www.urbansurvival.com/setupMCMstdGU.exe

 

Once you try it out, to upgrade to the fully functioning version, just click the upgrade button (!) on the upper right hand side for the $35 unlock to get it to remove even those nasty and highly intrusive ‘non-browser specific’ cookies.  Bonus:  You computer may run faster. 

 

“Live on $10,000″ A Year

Having a hard time making ends meet?  (Like who isn’t, right?)  A good starting point to better match up income with outgo is our $10 e-book “How to Live on #10,000 a Year…or less!”

 

 

 

It’s an automatic download.  It’s written in an information dense style: The whole thing runs about 65 pages, but it gives you a vision of how to not only live on the cheap, but also how to migrate up the economic foodchain if you have a little hustle left.  A bonus section called “How to Build Anything” should instill confidence if you’ve never taken on a home improvement/home creation project before, too…..  Click here for the index and details.

 

Pass It On

A different take on things – that’s what you’ll find here most mornings.  If you know of anyone who might also like our content, simply click here and send a link to them.  Or, if you hated what you read, send the link to all your ‘worst enemies’.  Like they say in Burbank, “Ain’t no such thing as bad press…”

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