Reader Andy says take note:
“This is something you might want to put on your radar screen in light of your repeatedly expressed concerns about “job jacking” http://www.hbs.edu/competitiveness/ One of my former profs is an active leader of this initiative. I’ll be attending a meeting in Chicago in early October that will review results of first US competitiveness survey that was done last year and I’d expect also some action planning around the findings of same.
The key thing to watch will be whether they will actually come to the obvious conclusion that SurvivalWoman and I were talking about just yesterday….which is the 900-pound gorilla in the market: Automation.
She and I are both geeks, don’tcha see….and as such we are pretty good geeks about tracking back to first causes of problems. Which is why – if you’re a Peoplenomics reader – one of our recent topics was what? Forced Consumption! Don’t need no forced labor (except for tennis shoes, lol) but forced consumption is the new game in town. Example? Healthcare law! Wake the F Up!
The problem (in an economic nutshell) is that there is simply not enough employment to go around. Which is why – in a perverse central-planning economy, things like earthquakes and tornado, hurricanes and droughts are such a good thing: They force the creation of changed states.
Now, think back to the problem – the #1 cornerstone of the book Report From Iron Mountain
But that means what? Well, that means there are not enough jobs to do from that point forward, you see. I mean think about this: Right now in the USA we have about 313-million people and we have a workforce of about 153.5-million. This means that less than half of people working can provide for all our needs.
So when you look at stories like the arrival of Isaac, what do you find? Huge make-work stuff! Of course, the storm was steered up the Mississippi and will end the multi-state drought.
And then you look at Japan’s quake last year. Was that a real natural event / high coincidence? Or, was it an economic event designed to destroy or at least disrupt for several years the highly automated production lines of the Japanese auto industry so that the US could retool and maybe get back in the game?
Plus, look at all the jobs and work it has created, plus it gives the Japanese a chance to renegotiate their huge pension fund liability issues…
Am I saying this IS THE CASE? No…I simply posing a pretty damn good question. I assume you have figured out by now that without 9/11 that the US economy would have been flushed and down the old crapperoo by the middle of 1984 because we were on the verge of a Second Depression at the end of the Internet bubble in 2000?
Without the Twin Towers mantra, there would be 100,000 more unemployed in direct TSA hiring and supplies alone, not to mention we’d have no excuse to have a huge military in the field. All a coincidence, or all whispers from some dark cabal in the background that knows there is no alternative to some of these events if the globalist system of economics is to hang together.
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Reader Andy has done us a real public service going into the “labor” day weekend, but he’s missed the boat…the ship that has sailed is factory automation and human replacement. That’s what’s afoot and if you don’t keep your eye on that ball (and the decline of work in general and its replacement with automation) you’re missing the main plot line.
As the process of automation continues, we either need some large-scale population removal, OR we need to radically rethink economics in order to provide for government payments without the ugly process of unemployment and excess production because that creates the need for destruction and if we should have learned something from past wars (mainly fought for economic reasons on at least one side) it is that money really is the root of all evil.
(Oilman2 awarded me the Run-On Sentence of the Year award yesterday, so I apologize…just trying to top my best-efforts…)
Problem is: Everyone is rewarded with money and that’s what it takes to eat, so ‘scuse me while I get back to work this morning doing “evil.” I’d like to make $500,000 a year or evil, to put a number on it…
Happy Labor Day? My foot. You’re already obsolete. In fact, with Dragoon 12 Speak-stuff on my computer, I may be obsolete, myself now…
Related: Hope for America
Short term anyway:
“Just a note about the other reader’s comment about no kitchen appliances being made in the USA anymore. I’ve been researching refrigerators lately and see that Whirlpool has a factory in Tennesee or Kentucky. Some of the manufacturing is coming back to the US, and we need to know to look for it and support it as best we can…”
If someone would contact the Whirlpool PR Department and get details sent our way…and are they really made here, or just assembled off Korean (or other) parts?
Buy American or Bye-Bye…
Off Our FB Page
Where I was asking if it is legal to make home-distilled spirits (need a legal cite on the regs from ATF before we decide whether to buy a still, since I don’t need no troubles with no feds…) this popped up as a comment from Quinn:
“Quinn wrote: “As long as it is under a certain amount, you can keep for personal comsumption. Or, you can skip all that and make some mead. 
Get a milk jug, half full of water, add 3lbs of honey, a packet of yeast, one orange, 25 raisins, fill with water (leave some room at the top), put on the lid and shake like hell for 5 minutes. Then remove the lid and put a balloon around the top and seal with rubber bands or duct tape. Using a pin/needle, poke a hole or two in the top of the balloon to allow it to bleed off the gases. Sit it in the corner for 6 months – and then you have some Viking Brew. Should mix well with your Danish genes. I would know, since I have them too. 
Enjoy!” ”
I want to know where them Vikings were getting Oranges?
Blowback and Feedback
Some comments on yesterday’s rant/note on How the World Ends:
“Forty is the Biblical number of trial/tribulation. If a person is above/higher than 40 degrees latitude, then that would mean they are not going through trial/tribulation. Four, in and of itself, represents the Word, which brings trial/tribulation to the “Old Man” (the part of a person which is not regenerate).”
Coincidentally? 40- is the IQ I’ve been accused of owning. Next? Another number ponder:
“George- Interesting concordance with the movie “The Book of Ely”, Denzel mentions to the cute chick from “That 80′s Show” that he has been traveling for 30 years with the book, knowing only that he had to keep moving west. Now, assuming he started from Cutler, Maine, that is 3,430 miles to San Francisco. Covering 10 miles a day, he could have walked that distance in one year. Ok, lets halve the daily distance to account for the evade and escape with occasional lopping off the arm(s) of various highwaymen along the way and we’re at two years. But there’s that number again, 30 years. “The message is in the movie.” They are warning those with eyes open.
Yes, but because it can be calculated, doesn’t make it causative…got to be careful discerning stuff that way. Think of it this way: Suppose three airplanes crash and their tale numbers all add up to 3. Does that mean a tail number adding to 3 causes aerodynamics or mechanical parts to fail? No, sorry….except maybe in the occult world…but let’s not even open that can this morning…
More?
“You said: inside the earth where the magnetic molten core would begin turning on its side. TSK TSK, clearly you did not read Clif’s Expando Planet material about the center of Earth being a big Plasma Ball….”
No, I actually did read it but where is it written these things don’t turn at the same time? Have you noticed people like to exclude one idea over another rather than admit the world is comprised of complex, interlocking relationships? Sheesh!
Next….
“If Patrick is even close with his forecasts and you are still lacking a good diesel “pickem-up truck” , I am suggesting a 1995 Dodge 3/4 ton with 5 speed and the 12 valve Cummins. It has no electronic fuel pump to fail. I have about 112,000and change on mine and it runs very well. WE have added the mandatory topper, a Buck Stop “tank pusher” front bumper, inverter, lights and large diameter tires to get about 23 mpg at 60 mph. I also have an “older” 300SD ( 1981) that we took delivery of at the factory. No electronic “nuttn honey” . Our motor sailer had two diesels- keep the tanks topped up to preclude moisture caused major injector problems and use a good Racor primary filter. My emergency generator ( if the NG fails) is a one lung diesel also. Your diesel tractor is a good learning tool and Pri-D is a way of life Thanks for the invaluable heads ( what is the plural of heads { latrines???:-D } up.”
Yep…don’t forget a trip (online) to Mouser Electronics for a boatload of 12 volt Transient surge protectors for all your home and farm equipment…cheap insurance. Next…
“As a friend who works at Ames Research Center said, the only thing happening on December 21st is a 3 day’s til Christmas sale at Macy’s. Another client that I sold a house to a few months ago, who is a prominent PHD at the USGS in Menlo Park told me basically the same thing. From a pure earth infrastructure standpoint, we are all sitting on solid ground…not that there won’t be the normal geological activity from time to time…there will be…but not anything out of the ordinary. The reason we notice it more today is that there are more stations, better equipment and more advanced technology than any time in history to track geological and weather events. Therefore, more events are reported, but not necessarily are more events happening than in past decades. ”
Yeah,. well, there were plenty of people on the other side of that, too…like this one:
“So your thorough mostly analysis of what if all the predicted earth changes and sun changes actually come to pass. Then you say your analysis is that it is a 2 % possibility. That flies in the face of MULTIPLE prophecies everything from Revelation to the Hopi Elders and all in between. My analysis Geo is that YOU ARE IN DENIAL. Big time…”
So we could stop the discussion on this one:
“Ok, I only thought I was the king of “Doom & Gloom” but your post today (Thursday) beats ANYTHING I’ve done. So, I bow down to you. You are the master, king, and the Grand Emperor of Doom & Gloom. !!!! Tho, I doubt I’ll make it thru the coming arrests and martial law to experience your Doom & Gloom forecast….”
I keep my odds of the 2012 sequence occurring at right where I pegged them Thursday…at about 2 percent, or less. As I told one reader who said “Enough!”:
“The “weathermen” aren’t right too often, but when they are, the rains can be serious….so a half-ear (or in my read 2%) is about the right ratio for now.”
Goes to 3-4% if we get a major quake around September 18-25 with 3% if it is a 7.0 scaling to 5% if it is a 9.5 or larger. Or, think about what reader Chris says:
“Hey George, Your mention today of the sun filaments reminded me of a dream the other night and I couldn’t find ( the usual? ) link to the Natl. Dream Center so decided since it was on topic anyway to just send directly to you. No details as I can’t remember ‘em but the main gist is that, in my dream, I saw everything light up as when lightning flashes and when I looked up to see where the light flashes were coming from I saw lightning bolts laying out across the sun’s surface looking a lot like the filaments only being white like lightning instead of dark like the filaments……das it, but thought it was worth adding to the record……. ”
See? That kind of thing might get me to raise my odds a bit.
The idea isn’t to live in fear, but realizing living Life as we do is always a random walk through a casino, which is why I always look both ways before crossing the street. Go read the novel “Timeline” again…good description how stuff pops out of the quantum foam… which is what the future does.
We keep an eye on the low-level stuff that is just becoming noticeable (and lead life as a minimum loss instead of maximum gain proposition) in order to best avoid great nonlinearities arriving unexpectedly.
Hey! Watch out for that bus!
“Nothing to See Here, Citizen” Dept.
This from deep-thinking reader Debbie is worth noticing…
“Hey George, Didn’t/don’t you think it’s just a little tooooo coincidental that as protein prices started to move up, we had “news” reports on how meat is bad? And now that we’re staring famine in the face, we have “news” reports about restricted calorie diets? In North Korea, as on-going food shortages and famine hit (lo, many years past) the beloved leader announced that two meals a day were healthier than three. Sigh. And so it goes…I can’t believe you aren’t seeing this manipulation. When other substitute sweeteners were developed, we had the demonization of Saccharin, didn’t we? As you always say, money buys what the pharma companies want. Well, it’s the same for any food item.”
Ah…well….even if I did see it, do you really think a person could point out 100% of the truth )day after day, not on a one-time basis) and not go “Brandon Rab”? So, instead, we settle for 90% and a lot of humor and hope folks can figure out the other 10% on their own…
“If what Geryl and High are projecting comes to fruition, then we shall see a serious retracement and possible change of direction. Perhaps, as their projections roll out over time we will have the initial pullback (caused by an earth-shaking event of some sort) followed by a short upsurge in repairs, re-grouping, (bear flag?) etc., (not a whole lot different from “Last Call” at the bar), only to be followed by the ultimate shit-storm and hard reboot. This scenario gives us a head-and-shoulders reversal pattern. Just my view from the peanut gallery (I hate it when this crap starts making sense). ”
Who knows what the future brings? But if this is how it works, then D cells for the final war in 2017 for the rad detector, please. Because that would make Mad Maxx a travelogue.
Write when you break even…
George Ure (email comments to george@ure.net)
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Last weekend I was going through the new book releases on Amazon and I happened to catch one that dealt with what could be expected from the Obama administration if they’re successful in swinging a second term in office. The book, Fool Me Twice: Obama’s Shocking Plans for the Next Four Years Exposed(Aaron Klein, $15.07 @ Amazon) reveals (though it’s hardly any surprise) that among plans are massive public works and aWorks Progress Administration-like modern analog. Of course, Peoplenomics readers already know that since 1993, one modern analog of WPA – AmeriCorps - has served more than half a million mostly unemployed folks, so no, I didn’t buy the book. The was something the republicorps had a hand in, too. But it brought into sharp focus for me how much the old communist vs. freedom and republican vs. democrat ideologies have all slipped their anchors. What comes into focus is a brave new world mixing forced labor with forced consumption. More, but first a few news stories as a wake-up exercise before we get into the really heavy stuff.
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