Good story in the UK’s Mail Online under the headline: “Thou SHALT Shoplift: Priest tells congregation it’s better than robbery or prostitution…“ Whilst father Time Jones may be in hot water with the local gendarmerie and pols, it certainly gets some world attention on the kind of planet we have here.
Seems like it all starts with the problem of ownership. You know: owning food, owning land, owning air, owning natural resources…that problem.
I’ve never spent much time on that one, but I have to imagine that if you could gather up a whole lot of smart people and get them to studying it, the notion of property would turn out to be central to every conflict in the world. Way I have it figured if there was an alternative to property and ownership as deeply held social beliefs, the world would be a whole lot better off than it is now.
Instead of evolving from scratching out food and a living and then going into ‘getting smart so we could figure out the next move” we humans have gone from “Scratching out living into kill for possessions of all stripe – which in turn gives birth to money and gunpowder as the international way of “diplomacy”.
No I don’t have a grand and glorious answer yet, but at least the framing and context are there should anyone want to deal with the most dangerous four-letter word in the world: “Mine!”
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The recent UFO sightings and that spiral over Norway was it? All get me to wondering if humans will ever evolve to the point where getting off earth would be more than a major threat to the whole Universe. you know – humans as fire ants or Asian carp kinda thing we were talking about a minute a go.
“Don’t you think that things on Earth and above its surface are going in more and more interesting direction?
Few days ago we had a copy of mr Khufu’s tomb floating cheerfully over big bear’s den and now we can read about (Shields up on this link!- G) meteorite falling not too far from Beijing to pass it over just shrugging, doncha think?
or it’s just me seeing things:)
Thanx for your hard work of helping people to better understand what’s going on.
In many columns I’ve referred to this hunk of rock as “Ant Farm Earth” and the latest from UFODigest “Alien UFOs and our Astronaut Heroes” that recounts astronauts breaking their nondisclosure agreements to reveal what they can has resulted in the press raking them over the coals or marginalizing them doesn’t undermine that framing.
Makes me wander off pondering how much human development would have been if the operant word behind the scenes wasn’t “Mine” but “Team” or “Family” without the conventional boundaries.
Mayon Calendar
No, not Mayan…I’m talking about the volcano blowing and flowing in the Philippines…
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Peoplenomics This Week
Short Term Values, Capital Preservation, 2
Several readers have asked me for an update to the August 30 Peoplenomics report (#418) in which I expressed growing skepticism of the rally which was then in the are of Dow 9,544. What is difficult to find in investing are clear signals when one should flee from a particular investment and see something else. So this week I’ll pick on a couple of markets (gold and stocks) and show you just how close I think both are to the ‘fight-or-flight’ technical level. Along the way, some discussion of an indicator that very few people seem to use anymore – exponential curves. Before we can do that, however, a little math and long-term perspective is necessary. Not hard stuff – unless you were math-averse in school – in which case we’ll make this as painless as possible. As usual, this is not trading advice, and I assume you’ve read our comprehensive disclaimer here. True, that’s like holding you a lit stick of dynamite, and saying “Now – you hold this….while I go hide behind that rock…” But, that’s how today’s litigious world operates, isn’t it? So we’ll start with you holding a chart and me lighting it like so….
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Maxa-Cookie Manager
Been a while since I’ve updated you on how many cookies and web bugs have been removed from my main computer by the Maxa Cookie Manager from Maxa Tools: 1,602 web bugs and 54,131 cookies so far. It’s amazing.
Take it for a free test drive by downloading it. To upgrade to full functionality will set you back $35 bucks, but Christmas is coming… Is your privacy worth it?
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.
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…
“Live on $10,000″ A Year
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…
Pass It On
The business model of this website is base 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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