Coping: Flu, 2012 and Inconvenient Facts

After I posted the couple of articles yesterday having to do with the ‘swine’ flu, it struck me that perhaps some discussion about inconvenient facts ought to be undertaken because inconvenient or everyone constructs their ‘personal reality’ from bits & pieces of what’s widely available.

 

So let me start with this email:

“Im sorry I must be lost in cyberville for wackos. It seems as if your agreeing that the government pulled a patent when they created the swine flu. I mean is that just insane to think that they would create a bio weapon then pull a patent and have it online for the world to see. ” Hey look guys we did it”? Some times I think we want our outcome so much to happen we sometimes fall into sotries that normally would be passed off as wacko getters.

Do I personally think the government had something to do with creating the swine flu, hmmm not sure , as Im still on the fence as to what exactly happened on 9-11. Do I think the government is capable of doing such things , yeah I sure do. Did they this time, I doubt it.

Is this a smoking gun for the swine flu? Seems like a setup somehow. I just cant believe they created it and posted it online and pulled a patent. I mean we dont pull permits on jobs that wont pass inspection. If that makes any sense.

Good morning and have a great day.”

Agreed!  This is the part where we need to be extremely precise about what’s being said.  First, I didn’t say the government has a patent on swine flu.  What I did say is that there is a patent application circa 2005 for work in the field with assignees.  A couple of readers sent me notes, the gist of which were “You’re a nutjob – there is No Such Patent”  and indeed there isn’t.  But the swine flu patent application was on the PatentStorm web site and it was showing as a patent application in the USPTO.gov searchable files.

 

My opinion after sleeping on this for a day is that there are any number of legitimate reasons why a group of researchers would be working on swine flu in 2005 and that government – particularly the Ag Department which claims jurisdiction over swine prior to market – would have an interest in such a disease.

 

Is it out of the question that the filing in the USPTO database is read?  No.  As of yesterday, the application was real as well as the proposed assignments.  If they disappear today, oh well.

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This whole question of how we deal individually with clumps of ‘inconvenient facts’ is of critical importance now.  Especially since we are quickly heading toward elections in 2010 which have the potential to either save – or sink – this Great Nation.

 

Wielding the power of mass media (the MainStreamMedia – MSM) incumbents with only a single term in office run up enough favors that they are able to effectively ‘buy the office’ by spreading half truths about their performance.

 

The inconvenient facts of the Obama administration, to generalize this a bit are:

• They inherited a mess from Dubya and

• They haven’t done much changing as was promised.

 

The net result of which is Obama’s poll scores have dropped quickly, but the PowersThatBe – which cut the checks and pull the strings in Washington have not grown noticeably tauter or looser.  The Big Agenda – government beyond the people by a professional governmental managerial class – is sailing on as though nothing has happened.

• Fat contracts are still going to ‘in’ firms  (vaccine anyone?)

• The bill to audit the Federal Reserve has been gutted

• Credit card rates over 50% still get mailed out to the financial victim class

• Federal government’s power continues to multiple

 

And the list goes on.

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Faced with all this, each of us wakes every day and using the best media inputs we can find – given our own bent and prior programming, we update our ‘operating Boolean Truth Tables”.

A fuller discussion of truth tables may be found in Wikipedia (here), but they are the personal lists of “IF this is true AND that is true, THEN some result must follow.

 

Problems arise quickly, however, when a THEN conclusion slaps us upside the head and we retreat from acknowledging or accepting it as TRUE.

 

Some TRUE items, even when true reserve a ‘fudge factor’.  For example, even in a politician can show me piles and piles of IF/AND data and content they must mean TRUE about something, I’d never 100% accept it since the source (a politician) is never to be completely trusted and therefore whatever they claim has retains at least a 10% margin for BS.  OK, 50% margin then.  “Change” – remember that one? LOL.

 

On flu, we don’t yet know what level of TRUE to reserve for possibilities that there is a global biological warfare outbreak between the various factions within the PowersThatBe and millions of ‘regular humans’ are caught up in it without being aware, but combined into a truth table of a particular sort, that is a supportable conclusion. 

 

Am I saying “Its So! “  No, of course not.  But am I reporting that some interesting IF/AND data is going into my ‘personal truth table’ which has certain distasteful THEN consequences, well, yes.  I leave a backdoor out with my xx% BS factor, but the truth table loading continues.

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Another topic that  much floats about the net discussing is the matter of 2012.  Is there some kind of Mayan Calendar that completes then?  Is there something meaningful in the Cross at Hendaye related to that time as well?

 

Uh….the IF part of this is all pretty clear when you get back to the hieroglyphic level and start to read things not based on our current projections as to the intent of authors, but rather look strictly as the events they were pointing to.

 

Is the Biblical reference to Noah’s Ark just a fable…or is it a handed down bit of history that is much less mythical and a whole lot more IF/AND than is normally thought to hold true? 

 

You see what happens, right?  Like tumblers falling in a lock, once you read the Bible as a historical timeline and match it up with Hendaye Cross, Mayan Calendar and the Vedic and Jain traditions going back many thousands of year, well, you have a problem.

 

That’s what Cliff High will be discussing in some depth on the Jeff Rense radio program tonight.  Click here to catch it live.  7 PM tonight.  Also, be sure and check Cliff’s web site, www.halfpasthuman.com when Jeff’s show starts because he will be posting a tremendous amount of back-up material and some really cool graphics of what may be out there.

 

Notice I said may.  In this case, I’ve got the may conclusion from this truth table up in my high 80′s to low 90th percentile.  The BS factor is continuing to come down.  The reasons?

 

Just two of them to ponder here:

 

IF:  Cliff’s work in predictive linguistics has – since 1997 come up with references to “sun disease” and we’re not talking Stanford University Networks” – we’re talking “Biog thingy in the sky up there” which I know to be TRUE because we have been bouncing that one back and forth since before 9/11 – the first major tipping point discussed in advance as an output from the web bot project in June/July of 2001.

 

AND:  even one of the following is partly true:

• The Mayan calendar does as Patrick Geryl’s book How To Survive 2012 contends OR

• The content of John Calleman’s DVD Between 2 Worlds is not 100% incorrect OR

• The book The Mysteries of the Great Cross of Hendaye: Alchemy and the End of Time  is 100% wrong OR

• The book Noah’s Flood: The New Scientific Discoveries About The Event That Changed History can be read as support of historical floods are period recurrent events OR

• Graham Hancock’s book Fingerprints of the Gods is correct that archeology has been dragging its feet on revising history to include periodic/episodic cataclysms, OR

• Some of the outlook in Pole Shift: Predictions and Prophecies of the Ultimate Disaster is correct, OR…

• ( add as many as you can find here)…

 

THEN it follows that we may be in a period of building government control as the power elite try to save their own bacon with ‘secret survival projects’   OR we might soon be seeing a noticeable increase in geologic activity as stresses within earth build up prior to 2012. OR nothing will happen and it will be another Y2K type event.

 

As to the first expectation, I assume you’ve read enough headlines to decide if government is coming more intrusive?  And on the second point about earthquakes and such, a reader has generously contributed his latest update on magnitude 5.0 earthquake activity since 1973:

 

 

Is it all conclusive yet?  No.  Am I shopping for a ‘survival pod’ boat, just on the off chance that the data is correct?  Well, now that you mention it — YES!

 

Am I looking for the next mega quake?  Daily – since there’s what appears to be a long term trend reversal evident and sunspot activity has been extremely low this year.  The solar cycle is late and is that a symptom of ‘sun disease’?  Maybe.

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I’ve always predicted my personal directions in life not on the maximum financial gain path.  If I had, I would have been making piles in the internet bubble in the 1990′s, then rolled into house flipping in the early 2000′s, and I’d presently be looking for the ‘next hot trend’ in money making.  That’s not my approach, though.

 

Instead, my personal truth table is all about staying in the game of life with as little downside risk as possible.  So confronted by something like global pneumonic flu will quarantining at the ranch for 6-months be an issue?  Nope. Not that I’m looking forward to it, but it’s doable. 

 

Same thing with 2012.  Is a small boat of the able to withstand rolling in violent oceans and a cobbled up sailing rig a sure-fire ticket to survival?  Of course not.  But it does shade the odds.

 

Best of all, if NOTHING happens, I still get to do some sailing again – a fine thing as I’ve been a small boat type since birth.

 

To the degree that anyone can, I recommend living life using this “heads I win – tails I win” approach. 

 

One entry among my list of personal truth tables is this:

• IF you’re in a herd

• AND the herd is under management

• THEN the packing house is the highest probability outcome.

 

Personal decision:  Steer clear of herds and steer by a different star…even if it turns out to be Orion. 

 

If the 2012 researchers are right, we might get to name a new North Star some day.  My jobs is to be ready to get my kids to that opportunity should the situation arise.  Got enough stored away between your ears to write – and pass on -  a scaled down version of Chapman Piloting & Seamanship?  Or, have you ever considered some of the management lessons that work on land that can be discovered from a read of Storm Tactics Handbook: Modern Methods of Heaving-to for Survival in Extreme Conditions?  

 

Like I said…everyone’s got their own ‘truth table” and it’s the filling it out based on latest inputs which I find incredibly interesting.   Here’s a typical reader reaction:

“New subscriber to Peoplenomics here and I must say I have read and been exposed to everything out there going back to the remote viewers at Ft. Meade Maryland, but…

You are blowing my mind, especially with this last issue of Peoplenomics. And previous writing on The War Across Time. Question: Is the special show tonite on Jeff Rense available to the free-loading public or must I be a Rense subscriber??”

Yes, latest I heard is it is on tonight and best way to get there is either be on time (their streaming bandwidth has limits – it’s a finite world, darn it) so the best option may be to subscribe to Jeff’s site where you can get downloads of past shows.

Come to think of it, if you’re listening to that right-left political drivel on the MSM, a subscription to Jeff’s site – and George Noory’s CoastToCoast achives – might open your head to whole new layers of thinking.  Not saying I agree with some, most, or all of it.  But gee, don’t you think there’s something more to life than Pelosi-bashing by the right to listen to on those car speakers?

The world of .MP3 downloads has opened up some remarkable opportunities for ‘concept chasing’.  People being predictable – since most never go questing for new concepts & truth tables to try on – remain limited and range-bound within a very small hunk of mental real estate. 

Those are the corner posts of your personal coral.  When you stop acknowledging corner posts and ‘boundaries of inquiry’ you’d be amazed what’s out there.  Something to ponder next time you gather fresh inputs for your personal tables whether its flu, 2012, or whatever.

My First Rejection Slip

You might recall a number of weeks back I told you I was entering the Washington Post’s search for a new ‘pundit’ to write something new and fresh for the paper.  Well, what do you know, they wrote back:

“Thank you for entering the first season of the America’s Next Great Pundit contest. You didn’t make the judging easy for us. Not only did we get nearly 5,000 entries, but a great many of those entries were really quite excellent — smart, interesting, funny, well written and well argued. So while we’re sorry to say that we can’t include you as one of our ten finalists this time around, we hope this isn’t the last time we hear from you. We hope you’ll follow the rest of the contest and participate as voters. But even more important, we hope you’ll pitch us more of your work. The various ways you can send various types of pieces are outlined here:

Thanks again for giving this a try. We enjoyed reading.

Not that I feel bad about rejection of this sort, since I read a few days ago that despite a rise in profits (much of it from their Kaplan higher education unit) the Post is still faced with falling circulation:

“Daily circulation at The Post was down 3.6 percent for the first nine months of the year, and now stands at 600,800. Sunday circulation was down 3.7 percent and is now 840,100. “

In comparison, UrbanSurvival’s rate of growth is a little different:  In 2008 YTD through October, 8,617,453 pages are been served to interested readers like you. this year that number is up to 13,766,191 for the same exact period. 

Faced with the facts that a) the Post’s circ is down more than 3½% and b) UrbanSurvival’s readership is up…uh….59.74%….I’m left pondering which is the most likely case:

1)  Either I can’t write  OR

2) The folks at the pundit entry readers for the Post can’t read.

Damn those truth tables, anyway.

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“Live on $10,000″ Updated

With another round of layoffs due to start later this month…a round which will start to axe many of the middle managers who have managed to avoid the HR grenades…might I suggest a preemptive tactical move?  Voluntarily dropping your lifestyle back a bit, since we’re all being marched down that road by either circumstances or some out-of-control-PTB types who write checks to Washington lobby and to anti-reformers in California!  A good starting point, at least if you’ve still got $10-bucks is my 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…  Click here for the index and details.

 

MyGroPonics

My commodity broker JB Slear and I have written a simple book to get you started on high density hydroponics.  It’s an example of how someone with a little creativity, access to a few ‘dollar stores’ and willing to try out some new farming techniques can grow an amazing amount of produce sin a very small space – like even an apartment balcony (if it gets some sunlight).  Sound interesting?  It’s just $10 bucks here…

 

       

 

Maxa-Cookie Manager

No, when you tell your browser to ‘empty your cookies’ of web sites you’ve visited, it probably won’t get them all.  Why?  Because there is a whole class of ‘browser-independent’ cookies that will gobble up space on your hard drive, but more important is they will sneak out information about you without you being aware of it.    Ever week I get emails like this one:

“Thanks again for the Maxa Tools recommendation, I never knew how much additional garbage gets attached every time I browse. “

Test drive it free by downloading it.  To upgrade to full functionality will be $35 bucks.  Is your privacy worth it?

www.urbansurvival.com/setupMCMstdGU.exe

Once you try it out, 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.  I’ve taken 1,000  37,970 41,837 cookies off my machine now.  It’s just amazing.  (I might ask their CTO to add one more digit to the “Total deleted till now” window…)

 

Attn: Mac Drivers:  MCM does support the Safari Browser, but that does not mean it is compatible with Mac OS. Maxa-Tools only support the Windows world….so far.  Given Jens and the other engineers time…

 

Feeling Thorny?

Want to be a thorn in the side of the Old World Order?  Simply click here and send a link to this site to everyone on your distro list…Nothing more dangerous than sharp, clear-thinking upstarts who ask a lot of questions, eh?  Unless you believe WTC-7 fell over on its own, of course….

 

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