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A Little Ben'll Do Ya?

Some of the most ridiculous headlines in a good long while passed on the '

net yesterday including some going to the idea that the markets were 'holding their breath' waiting on this morning's comments of Fed Chief Ben Bernanke up in Jackson Hole, Wyoming.  The notion that a 'little Ben' is just the tonic for the markets right now is so far past stoopid, I've grabbed the ViseGrips to pinch myself already and it's only 5 AM.

 

But here's why:  The weekly H.6 Money Stocks report came out (as it does) on Thursday and once again there it is in bitter/stark relief already: QE3 is already underway.  The most recent three months of M1 annualizes to an inflation rate of 22.6% while the M2 rate (cash, demand deposits, a ham sandwich with a side helping of CD's) is blasting away at 15.6 percent annualized moonshot.

 

It gets better:  As I told you when the first/preliminary July numbers started to pop, the M1 rate for the most recent month is a nitro-grabbing 3.0091 percent per month.  Pushes out to an annualized rate of 42.728 percent.  M2, the slightly broader measure, is going ballistic  as well: 30.13 percent annualized.

 

Now, this doesn't sound so bad, except for my two little asterisks (*, and **).

 

The first * (gotcha) is that this is July data.  What month is this?  No telling what's going on here lately.  I'm guessing an even higher rate.

 

The second **'s relate to the GDP report.  We'll get to the numbers for today on this front in a second, but here's the point:  Velocity of Money is (ever so approximately) GDP divided by M2.  At the 2009 market lows, Velocity figured this way was running ab out 1.64.  A polite way of saying each M2 dollar 'turned over' (or was used) 1.64 times that year.

 

based on last month's GDP (and using the corresponding M2, which is what we have with lag time) we figure Velocity is down to 1.610956.

 

Now, this is not Bernanke's fault.  He can't help it if Congress squandered what may have been its one chance to stimulate the economy right by pumping 1.5-2% of GDP out there into infrastructure and construction jobs that would have reall turned the economy around.  (This is what China did when say saw trouble coming - and it worked.)

 

Instead, Congress' half-assed efforts are bearing what?  Bitter fruit, of course!

 

Maybe, just maybe this morning's GDP report will bring a reported GDP of something bigger than 1.64 times the preliminary July M2 datum:  And that'd be a July GDP of at least   $15.274 trillion.  Anything less and keep the commissioning pennant hoisted...we're sliding down the ways into Depression 2. 

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{Smart Reader Advisory:  This morning's diatribe may incorrectly assume competence with metaphor and a copy of both Covey Crump and Capt. Rick Jolly's Jackspeak are in your linguistic repertoire...and that you knew that the paperback version of   Jackspeak: A Guide to British Naval Slang and Usage  from the Falklands period was popping out in paperback next month for $13 at Amazon, right, Hornblower?}

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I can almost feel the audience hush as people lean forward in their seats!  How much further off track can he go?

 

"Quick Ure!  Open the damn envelope!" yells someone on the poop deck.

 

Well, before I do, just a reminder to Wacko-nomics believers who want to cut the US budget to zero:  Ben Bernanke ain't V.O.5...and a dab of Ben won't do ya.  No sir, we need something a little more difficult to apply:  Hard work, tax reform, and oh yeah, higher taxes on the high income types.

 

Without those necessary prerequisites, the hapless (bag-holding) Fed boss will be stuck pushing on a string because he can print and lend money all day long, but if it goes into the idle accounts of the rich, or to pay China interest, it won't have turnover.  And without turnover, just like with water or electricity flowing to do work, there won't be any economic recovery.  You know what happens when you car's engine wont turn over don't you?  Nothing.  Same for the economy.

 

But then you knew this stuff.  You just forget.  Because that's what Big Money is trying to buy...keep you from remembering common sense.  Might have something to do with all that ...tell your doctor stuff...and transient global amnesia from statins, too...  Whatever.

 

GDP Report

So now we rip open the long-awaited envelope.  (The crowd continues wating silently, not so much wondering what the GDP is, as wondering if Ure will every shut up and get to a point...).

 

"Aha! My point, presactly!"

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 1.0 percent in the second quarter of 2011, (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 0.4 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 1.3 percent (see "Revisions" on page 3).

The increase in real GDP in the second quarter primarily reflected positive contributions from nonresidential fixed investment, exports, personal consumption expenditures (PCE), and federal government spending that were partly offset by negative contributions from state and local government spending and private inventory investment. Imports, which are a subtraction in the calculation of GDP, increased.

The acceleration in real GDP in the second quarter primarily reflected a deceleration in imports, an upturn in federal government spending, and an acceleration in nonresidential fixed investment that were partly offset by decelerations in PCE and in exports and a downturn in private inventory investment.

Which means, GDP is up (Q2) 3.7 percent compared with a 12-month M2 increase of 8.2% which means keep digging your financial fox hole.

 

Meantime, if I didn't have a life, I suppose I could be pondering all weekend where does the Bureau of Economic Analysis get off referring to 'acceleration' of GDP since the data shows Q2 is up at a 3.7% annual rate now after heading up at a 4.1 percent annual rate in the Q2 data.  If you're an Excel user, click here and run run their data yourself.  It's one of those WTAF kinda things....

 

So, when Ben Speaks this morning at 10 keep in mind he's the target.  But the facts are what underlies market behavior.

 

New word for the Bernanke story today might be:  Scapeline.  It's what happens when a headline makes a false scapegoat.  After all, it's easier to hang a public figure than a spreadsheet, so barring announcing a Third Coming of QE3, Ben ain't the problem so much as Congress.

 

Keynes and the Founders have to be rolling over in their graves.  Maybe that was the quake?

 

Here: Hold This Bag Department

My coauthor Howard Hill tried to explain how the Warren Buffett stake in Bank of America was going to work out.  It was a complex tale of preferred stock which, when BofA gets acquired by [someone like JPM] will see the preferred stockholders getting paid and the common stockholder, likely as not left holding the bag.

 

Patient as Howard is, he's no match for my stupidity.  Politely, I didn't ask him to repeat the playbook...I got the general idea already:  Thems that haves, gets.

 

Still, Howard's not the only one seeing this:  The Telegraph this morning explains how Buffett's $5-bill has netted a paper profit of $280-mill in about 24-hours.

 

Alternate Reality Check: Was the BofA stock price jump due to the report that BofA 'bombshell' documents may have been destroyed by Wikileakers? 

 

Wonder how much of that figured into WB's investment decision?  Way above our paygrade, I suppose.

 

Irene: Waiting on Howard's Hill

As Irene may come through Connecticut this weekend, coauthor Howard Hill is making plans to see the eye of a hurricane first-hand.  he just never thought it would happen 40-miles inland and at 1,000 feet of elevation, is all.

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Another reader writes in about our recent (WuJo) post from a reader who had a vision of water/waves hitting New York which seems mighty interesting in light of the "Prepare to Evacuate, New York" headlines out and about:

Hey George, I think it was a few weeks back a reader had a dream of NY being flooded. It looks like He/She might be right with Irene headed in that direction.

Another writes:

Well, so much for my theory of water symbolism and NYC. Irene is proving me wrong. Your water meditating friend appears to have an actual gift. Please publish whatever this person tells as it will be very interesting to me!!

Will do...but you did notice how sometimes stuff migrates from WuJo into real honest-to-goodness news stories?  And yet, more posts as they come -- funny how the future leaks like a sieve around here, isn't it?

 

Here's this morning's Irene track update:

 

 

Ma Nature, continued

I have been swamped with people asking me earthquake questions like "Do you think it was really a nuclear attack on a secret Defense Department Tunnel System?" 

 

No.  Do you believe in the Easter Bunny?

 

"Well, what about an attack by HAARP, then?"  See Bunny question above.

 

"Comet Elenin, then?"  Find any Easter Eggs this morning?

 

How about Occam's Razor once in a while?  Or, with all the additional weight of water from the Midwest flooding soaking in and weighing down the New Madrid area...or something that's a little closer to real?  Change in output from Sun, global cooling of crust, that kind of thing.

 

That said, I know some intel types and if they were to pass along anything about radiation leaks, then you bet, I'll get excited.  But for now, if you think I'm going to burn off $500 worth of fuel to fly the plane up to the Colorado/New Mexico border to look for haz-mat crews with Geiger counters, guess again.

 

If I had some local reports, well, then that'd be a different thing.  Otherwise, it's just the Internet ascribing mystical causes to periodic outbursts of "sh*t happens'...which it does with amazing regularity.

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Howards collection of NYC quake pictures is dandy.

 

 

More after this....

 

 

Coping: Friday in the WuJo

As the heavy wrought iron hinges swing open, and the crisp cool scent of ancient cedar beams touches our nostrils, the cool breeze from within means we have opened the doors of the WuJo - that ancient cedar and rice paper place where the mats are neatly squared-off waiting for the first matches of the day between reality and the woo-woo events that creep Ninja style around the edges of consciousness...  Suddenly, a large gong sounds and we turn our focus to Mat #1 (left):

"Love the blog! That said, here’s my wujo moments.

 

Acquired a new to me vehicle. Put the title down on a shelf where it would be out of the way and safe until I could go to the court house to transfer it and get a plate for it. 2 days later, the title is GONE. I tore the house apart somewhat haphazardly as one is wont to do when in a semi-panic, then systematically after I calmed done, and then finally a 3^rd time systematically with the spouse over the next 5 days (to the point we gathered up all the loose paper in the house, and sat down and went through it all sheet by sheet!). We gave up looking for it, convinced the original owner to file for a lost title, she signed it, and gave it to me. I got it, took it to the court house, transferred the title and  registered the vehicle, came home, and lo and behold, what was now sitting on the shelf exactly where I had left it?! The original title!

 

The devil messing with me? Wee little people? "

Ha!  The Larger Reality is what's at work.  BTW: Sometimes it relates to making money, too:

Hi George:

I especially enjoy the WuJo part of your urbansurvival missives. Thanks for sharing some of the cool stuff that passes thru your life. Why I'm writing:

Just watching Max Keiser today. He said something about derivatives being self-referencing and I thought about your WuJo entry from Monday. S'posedly the "flash crash" was computer generated also. Here's my thought/question: Could we possibly be looking at at future enormous drop in the markets because the computers go into a self-referencing phase-lock loop and crash everything big-time?

Love and light and hi to Clif,

Why of course, it can!  The problem is (in computerese) defined as entrainment.  The Wikipedia entry is like so:

Entrainment has been used to refer to the process of mode locking of coupled driven oscillators, which is the process whereby two interacting oscillating systems, which have different periods when they function independently, assume a common period. The two oscillators may fall into synchrony, but other phase relationships are also possible.

The system with the greater frequency slows down, and the other accelerates. Christian Huygens, a notable physicist, introduced the concept after he noticed, in 1666, that two pendulum clocks had moved into the same swinging rhythm, and subsequent experiments duplicated this process. Notably, the two pendulum clocks stabilized not in synchrony, but in an "odd sympathy" or antiphase. They satisfy the definition of entrainment because they have the same period, even though they have opposite phase. The accepted explanation for this is that small amounts of energy are transferred between the two systems when they are out of phase in such a way as to produce negative feedback. As they assume a more stable phase relationship, the amount of energy gradually reduces to zero. In the realm of physics, Huygens observations are related to resonance and the resonant coupling of harmonic oscillators, which also gives rise to sympathetic vibrations.

Of course, thinking of markets as oscillators is no stretch around here, but considering them such in Economics Departments is considered near heresy.  It'll most often result in a dissertation being burned as the stake.

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Now, where were we?  oh yes...the Mat #2 match is just getting underway:

"Hi George- Keep up your very good work- l read your website daily for the REAL news..

Okay, l have been living in the Wujo area for a long time, and this is not the strangest thing that has happened, but it is in the top two-

l have been home alone doing housework all day ( no animals or other people inside- and l live in a very remote area, so no random visitors) The very first thing l did this morning was remove the mattress pad from the bed in order to wash it, and spray the mattress itself with some fresh smelling stuff. l patted my hands all over the mattress top to make sure there were no damp spots from the spray, and also turned on the ceiling fan to let the mattress air out. l then put the mattress pad in the washer so that l could re-make the bed within an hour or two.

l went upstairs to surf the internet for a while, and then went back down to take the mattress pad out of the dryer. When l started to stretch the dry pad over the bed, l noticed that my side of the bed was sopping wet!! l thought WTF- no one has been in this room for 2 hours! l even looked up at the ceiling to make sure that nothing was leaking on to the bed from upstairs. Now l noticed that the closest "water" to my side was a bottle that l had taken a couple of swigs from the night before. lt had been nearly full when l got up this morning- l noticed this because l was thinking of taking it outside to the parakeets for their bowl, But l did not do that- l walked out the bedroom door to the patio and gave the birds and dogs water from the hose.

Here comes the Wujo Department stuff; the bottle was NOW almost EMPTY and the cap was still screwed on.

l KNOW that the water soaking my mattress came from that bottle-but who poured it out and then screwed the top back on??? ( if l have a dog that can open the door, pour water on my bed and then put the water bottle back on my nightstand, l am moving to Hollywood!!) And l am not talking just damp here- that mattress was waterlogged to a depth of at least an inch and a half. l spent 20 minutes soaking the water up with paper towels and then put a small fan on the bed. ln fact, when my husband came home at 4 and saw the fan- he said WTF are you doing with a fan on the bed !! yeah, l wondered that myself.

- another reader living in the backwu of east Texas

That's a mighty strange one, awright. It's like the exercise ball that decided to get up and wander around out house in the middle of the night earlier this week. 

 

Readers have been writing in saying things like "Maybe it was the cats playing at night?  They do that you know..."

 

Well, yeah, they might, except that the cats are always outside, and the only time they come in is when temps are over 102º F, since cats temperatures run about 101.5º F.  The rest of the time?  In for meals and treats only.  These are ranch cats and they have to earn their keep.

 

Speaking of animals, though, try this one on:

"My daughter was like this. As a precocious toddler, all animals were drawn to her. We used to laugh because when locusts landed on her or fish jumped into her lap she would exclaim “It LOVES me!” Never, get it off or I love it. She was convinced in her heart that all these animals loved her. I’ve seen her stand still and have wild birds land on her. Suffice to say, she was invaluable in the management of our domestic animals. To this day as an adult, she is convinced that they love her.

She doesn’t see anything strange about that and considers it natural. So we don’t say anything in case we break the spell. "

And we have this dandy...speaking, as we were a moment ago, about the NYC Water dream.  Maybe this one is on point:

I just wanted to briefly recap a dream I had 20 years ago. I lived in Little Rock AR. The AR river divides LR from North LR. I was looking toward North Little Rock and all I could see was water at least to the horizon line. That was brief, lol. I drew a line between the CO EQ and the VA EQ and in the middle is the AR/MO area and the lower edge of the Craton fault.

You know, that's the kind of thing that I worry about.  Just too many people reporting this kind of thing is 'out there' in the future.  No telling just when, mind you, but out there.

 

If you look at most of the post-apocalypse maps, they seem to show a vast inland sea in what's now the lower part of the central South.  Not sure what to make of it...but since we're at 591 feet of elevation, I do keep a set of plans handy to put in a marina.

 

Made Up Words Dept.

Reader email:

"George. Please. Reoccur is not a word."

Tell Oxford.  I make up a lot of stuff, but not this one.

 

Winter Garden Time!

My friend Rhone at Everlasting Seeds has cxome up with a fall/winter garden special (depending on where you live) that's designed to  optimize the cool-weather varieties of edibles.

 

Includes: Endive, Broccoli, Brussels sprouts, Cabbage, Carrots, Cauliflower, Celery, Beets, Parsnip, Rutabaga, Globe Onions, Leek, Kohlrabi, Collards, Swiss Chard, Chives, Radishes, Snow Peas Spinach...about 188 seeds each and packed in a can so you can stock them up for future (lean) years.

 

Ordering information is here.  And 10% off for the first week.

 

B TW: Remember with all seeds, even if in cans, that you gotta keep them cool.  If any seed gets up over 120-130º for very long, germination rates drop.

 

So best time to buy seeds is late summer/early fall or very early spring.  Buying at the hottest time of the year may result in lower germination rates and keeping seeds at (air conditioned) room temp down to maybe 38º F or so, seems like a good idea.  Nothing formal, just a heads up.  We keep ours where it's cool.  Root cellar, or cool basement is ideal.

 

Since our garden was destroyed by the drought down here, I'm about to put black plastic over the whole thing to kill off the grass and stray weed seeds that have blown in.  then, once we get some rain, I'll take off the plastic and burn out the dried/backed out, till and should be good to go.

 

More tomorrow early for Peoplenomics readers....

 

 

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The Problem with "Money"

Besides not having enough, which is a whole other problem in and of itself, is that people don't seem to have a very good idea just what constitute "money."  Is is a storehouse of value?  Well, sort of.  Then how about a medium of exchange?  Sure, this too.  But what about those other qualities: divisible, transportable and all the rest?  Because this seems to be THE weekend of people asking about the "right role of money" my coauthor, Howard Hill, has kindly agreed to allow me to unveil one of the chapters from our forthcoming book "The Never-ending Argument."  This is especially timely since we're now entering the period of the Kondratieff Long Wave when even members of the global public are asking "What is money?"  I hope you enjoy this "sneak preview" of Chapter 3...

 

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Thursday August 25, 2011

$200 Later: The Golden Beat Down

OK, so here's the deal with the gold beat-down which has seen the prices quoted by Kitco (above) slammed from over $1,900 down a little more than $200 lower ($1,702) this morning.  More than a few readers are thinking "What's going on?"

 

For one thing, tomorrow is Gold, Palladium, Platinum, and Silver expiration in the commodities markets.  Time to ante up.  And, since many BIG players have been play the short side of the market, they needed - we hear - to either get prices down or face the inability to make deliveries. 

Good article in the Detroit Free Press this morning, too.

 

And that problem is likely reoccur according to a reader in Australia:

"Hi George,

An employee of a rather large bullion company (name deleted) in Brisbane told my fiancé during a pickup that they will be running out of silver in the next couple of weeks. They will not have any more silver deliveries until APRIL 2012! No one can keep up with the demand. Once they are out they are out."

And, other sources in the metal trade, tell us the sudden collapse is having just the desired effect:  People were showing up in such numbers worried they had "missed the top" and anxious to sell, that this one jewelry outfit almost had to call for local police backup to maintain order on Sunday.

 

I don't know where the price is ultimately going, but I'm not selling my (lone) gold coin now.  Nor that silver coin a reader sent me.  With M1 one being printed at a nearly 43% annualized rate by the Fed, time's on my side and I'm a patient man.

 

Number Stew

Weekly unemployment data just out:

"In the week ending August 20, the advance figure for seasonally adjusted initial claims was 417,000, an increase of 5,000 from the previous week's revised figure of 412,000. The 4-week moving average was 407,500, an increase of 4,000 from the previous week's revised average of 403,500.

The advance seasonally adjusted insured unemployment rate was 2.9 percent for the week ending August 13, a 0.1 percentage point decrease from the prior week's revised rate of 3.0 percent.

The advance number for seasonally adjusted insured unemployment during the week ending August 13 was 3,641,000, a decrease of 80,000 from the preceding week's revised level of 3,721,250. The 4-week moving average was 3,701,000, a decrease of 19,500 from the preceding week's revised average of 3,720,750. "

As you might expect, word that the unemployment claims was ticking up took the futures down a bit.  I'm upside down in my present short position, which means I still expect new lows, but how long the trade will run against me is anyone's guess. 

 

Take a Bank, Any Bank.  Please.  II

Bank of America shares zoomed up about 11 percent Wednesday and up more than 16% from Tuesday's low.

 

Since the stock market is in a long-term decline, one of America's new pastimes is what I call 'Lehman Spotting".

 

Typical is a Slate piece under the worrisome headline "Bank of America: Could it fail and start another financial crisis?"

 

But, before you go pushing the dust bunnies aside trying to hide under the bed from falling Bank, better check out the more reasoned comments of Meredith Whitney who says "...BofA has not 'Mad Dash' need to raise more capital: Tom Keene" reported on Gloomberg t'other day.

 

No, the sky is not falling.  Yet.

 

Shake & Quake, II

Got my first picture circulating on the web as a joke - patio furniture with one chair tipped over and the slogan:  "We Will Rebuild" under it.  This as much of the rest of the country wonders what the big deal was with the Virginia quake this week.

 

Predictably, there was a 4.5 aftershock this morning, so for now, the fears this was going to be a gut-wrenching prequel to a 10 magnitude temblor that would rip the country apart seem as soggy as the Wheaties.

 

Our ,well-informed source, however, has kept his eyes open and suggested the CNBC piece about how zoo animals acted before the quake and during.

 

Secrets Out

Dick Cheney kept a resignation letter at the ready while working for the Bushista administration.  He was worried, says his new book, about health and there didn't seem to be a mechanism to get rid of a seriously disabled veep...

 

Other Peoplenooze

• Texas gov Good Hair is leading the GOP pack in the fresh Gallup.

• Steve Jobs has tendered his resignation at Apple.  Amazing guy.

• Pres Obama's vacation plans may be impacted by Hurricane Irene.

Tripoli Worried

While the headline swirls about that "Nuclear experts warn of Libya 'dirty bomb' material,"  we've got our own fears:  Doesn't Gadhafi have a couple of cruise missiles in his inventory that could be targeted at either, oh, Rome or Israel as a poison pill last gasp?

 

Manufacturer's Resource Wars

Aha!  What have I told you?  1) No wasting what could have been a very short (matter of days) war in Libya,; there's just too much money to be made by defense contractors.  And 2), like I said of Iraq, it's all about the oil.

 

Sure enough, out this morning in Foreign Policy Journal is a John Daly discussion: "Libya's Post Gadhafi Future: Who gets the Oil?"  But, of course, this is all about freedom, right?

 

Coping: Was it a Congressman's Gestapo?

I would have believed it, had I not received the following note from a well-versed reader (and lawyer, BTW) who's been watching political shenanigans with 'eyes wide open'.  [edited slightly by our own paranoid legal types]

""Bill of Rights? We don' need no stinkin' Bill of Rights!" On the instruction of Congressman Steve Chabot, police obediently trampled the rights of those in attendance at Chabot's public forum in a public building, seizing cameras, ostensibly to protect the privacy of those present in the audience (an intriguing rationale for doing this that I have not heard before). Unfortunately for Chabot, his guard dog cops did not seize all of the cameras so that the moment was preserved for posterity, leaving the incident to be memorialized by a local TV station that recorded not only the incident but also the faces of almost everyone there . . . so much for the privacy rationale.

Even so, what is remarkable about this incident is that 20 years ago, no congressman would have dared do this and that this absolutely unlawful abrogation of his audience's rights was not even mentioned on any of the major media outlets. But sometimes, because of the media blackout on stories that show us where things are really going, you have to go to such sites to see some things that are going on that you will never hear about in the corporate-controlled, propaganda-spewing mainstream media.

If Mark Twain were alive today, he'd probably figure out a snappy way to include mainstream media in his observation about there being "Lies, damned lies and statistics."

Sieg Heil, Baby! So, how are all you frogs enjoying swimming in the saucepan so far?"

Well, that's the emotionally 'hot' email.  So I decided to poke around a bit.

 

What I found, on the ThinkProgress web site was this:  A sign was displayed saying...“For Security Purposes, Cameras Are NOT Permitted.”

 

So, contrary to the reader's claims, technically (in a "depends what you mean by sex" kinda way) the public had been notified and so The Man might technically get away with it in front of a judge.

 

But, what it shows in some stark relief is the the lengths to which politicians on top will go to prevent any question of their 'authority'.    And, since according to the reports I've read so far, the "offishul" media were permitted to video the event, we're not quite sure why the congressman chose to abrogate the public's right under this pretense.

 

The mind swirls with possibilities:  Was the congressman's security force concerned that someone would put a gun inside a camera?  Might the cameras be some kind of threat vector?  Not likely, to be sure, but that's about the only 'security' angle I could figure.  People in public places, when shown as part of a group scene do not have rights to privacy - a notion quite clear in law.

 

Worse: The congressional staffers apparently told ThinkProgress - and a dandy quote here....

"...one of Chabot’s staffers told ThinkProgress, they wanted to “prevent” people from “making a show” of the event."

Oh, but wait:  It gets even more interesting, since it's reported that Think Progress is an arm of the Center for American Progress, which in turn was founded by former Clintonista John Podesta.  Is this an arm of Soros?  The questions swirl, the agendas conflict.

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I can tell you from first-hand experience that one of the things which goes on in political campaigns if that even back when I was riding the press corp bus with Frank Mankiewicz, while covering the McGovern campaign in '72, it was not uncommon for one party to hire film crews to shoot the other party candidate so their opponents so that snips could be lifted - all neat and tidy like - for last minute campaign "slam" ads taken totally out of context.

 

So the larger reality seems to be, from where I sit, that we have seen a long-term escalation of ideologies into "media" puppets which are being turned on for this or that.

 

And it's precisely the kind of thing that the American people are sick of.  There's far too much time and energy wasted on a simple decision that takes place at the polls that ultimately comes down to this simple question:

"Has my life gotten better, or worse, with the current clown in office, or might a fresh clown have a better chance of improving my lot in life or at least be more entertaining?"

Maybe - tops - there's 15-seconds of real headspace devoted to it.  But this spending billions upon billions on this kind of hot rhetoric?  No thanks.  Had my fill.

 

Ya'll have fun with "jackboots" claims on the one hand and "sniping/ambush ads"  and "Soros the demon" on the other.  I've got a life to live and if I need an adrenaline rush, I'll go shoot landings in the plane or some aerobatics, thanks. 

 

All this political stuff is a pant load of crap designed to keep the American people from being a truly United States of America while heartless corporate demagogues orchestrate this Big Show so their Big Accounting pals figure out how to steal the next million jobs and place them with low bidders in third world shitholes.

 

Why do you think corporations and interest groups write checks, for crying out loud?

 

In keeping with the end of labor (due to automation) we've been reduced to monetizing politics which is its own industry nowadays instead of just being a necessary evil.

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A short story that's related: 

 

When I grew up, my best friend (now a retired US Army Major) had a wonderful grandmother who put up with all kinds of our antics between ages 4 and 20; we were always into mischief and that would land us in hot water about 95% of the time. 

 

My friend's Grandma Ada was a kindly woman with more common sense in her ring finger than you could find in Washington and any two adjoining states these days.

 

I have to credit one of her old sayings that helps me sort the wheat from the chaff reading "political news" accounts of this or that:

"As you go through life, make this your goal: Keep your eye on the doughnut and not on the hole."

Politics is all about the 'holes'.  You're welcome to add the three letter prefix, if you like.  

 

In the end: Those are minions and we are idiots: Too easily drugged and distracted with two-bit theater.

 

Thus, we continue to be:  Victims of Process.

 

From our Software Developer's Office

This nice note from the genius behind ModAlert which we put a link up to earlier this week came in.....I assume you're cogent enough to remember this is the software that let's you put a web site address in and it will pop up when the site's been modified...

"Hi George,

There were 1100 hits *today* on the page you linked to as of 10:30 p.m. EST From there, as of 10:30 p.m. EST, 38.63% of the people who clicked the link actually downloaded the test version. 425 downloads. That is phenomenal to say the least. Basically George Ure is a god in this house and will always have a reserved guest room here. Even better, I have had a grand total of 3 bug reports. 3. And one of them is almost conclusively a case of some spyware interfering with ModAlert; it happened on one computer that was running Win 7 Premium. Again, I'm sure there are issues people are not reporting, but with 425 downloads, they are extremely small in number, far better than I hoped for. Another bug report was about the web-based script handling registration, not the program itself. So all the endless delays that kept tying me up, with my refusing to put it out before it's ready, ended up with these kinds of numbers - one guy working alone on a 54 week project enters beta test and has a 0.7% *reported* error rate on day 1 of testing. That is so far beyond the best I could have prayed for, I can't even find the words to communicate it. I am beyond blown away. There is still some final cleanup to be done but we should be going live with sales within days."

And when it does, I will buy my own copy...hard work is not it's own reward, entirely.  A little cash helps. ;-)  Wonder what MSFT's error report rate is?  betcha that's classified, lol.

 

Info and download (free for now) here.  And what am I planning to use it for?  Well, just a 'fer instance...'  As you know, one of the  GPS units in our plane is an iFly700.  They don't have RSS going, so I thinking about cobbling up a way to see when they update their software for the GPS, just as an example.

 

Another reader said there are some similar things out there on a web-services basis, but the reason I like ModAlert is that it tells me the info I want without putting my name and email out there so other people can see what I'm looking at...

 

A Nip of WuJo

A little early to be hitting 'the mat' but here's one to ponder:

George, Been a reader for at least a year of your graciously provided free content (yeah I'm cheap) and finally thought it time to say hello. To the point; I've seen plenty of WuJo moments in my life, started in my mid-teens when I began finding my missing guitar picks at Jan's house about a mile down the road. She was a friend of the family and my brother and I would go help her out seeing that she was a widow. Sure I could have left the pics at her place if it were not true that I had special copper picks that stayed with the guitar at home. I had 2 of them to be exact, one for jazzy rhythm and blues and the other for rock. The first time I remember clearly because my Mom and I looked for it until I gave up and decided to go to Jan's to take care of a chore. I ended up calling my Mom from Jan's to tell her I found it on the table just inside the front door when I walked in and neither of us could believe it. I don’t remember how many times this happened but it became normal to experience oddities that I could not wrap my head around. This led me to begin investigating what you call WuJo and I call the untapped 4th dimension or the spiritual realm.

Having bounced around from illegitimate Christianity to Alchemy to Shamanism and Buddhism ( and much in between ) I have tasted of many streams that I think all lead to the same source. Many years ago I stopped practicing any form of religion but was left with what seems to be a connection that will not let go of me. You see, I cannot un learn what has shaped my life for the last 20 years and makes me believe that there are more than 5 senses. Seeing what I've seen and felt there is no denying that our lives are mostly incomplete. So I have learned to experiment with it, this WuJo, trying to tie my spirit to the wind and find similarities in what I feel physically with the energies in my body and what I perceive with my mind.

I can feel energies change in my body as my immediate environment changes, have been able to "create" energies that strangers will comment on when I would decide to let it flow, have cursed land where no business has prospered since and so on and so on. Most of this was experimenting and I had forgotten most all of it except an occasional meditation.

Recently I told a friend of an old man I met who was able to reach up to a yellow jacket nest (think small angry wasp) with his bare hand and toss it in the trash while 15-20 of the mean little suckers politely flew away. I asked him how he did it and he said you just have to have the right energy. Telling my friend of the story was a one off but when I got home that day there was a yellow jacket in my house and he was not happy I was there. At first I grabbed the fly swatter and was about to smack him the next time he flew across the kitchen but then decided to change my energy. I don’t know how I did, I just decided to see if I could get in tune with it and let it go. Taking a controlled breath I reached out the swatter and he climbed right on and stayed put while I walked to the door and let him out. No big deal I know but here is why I am writing you.

Just tonight a beautiful grasshopper flew into the house as I opened the door from outside. He took off bouncing from light to light and then jumping away from me when I got within about 2 feet from him. Mind you I have not seen a grasshopper at all this year so I looked close at him and he was solid black with golden stripes front to back. The darker golden brown in his underside was the color of dead TX. grass. So instead of chasing him I decided to watch and change my energy. The next time he flew over me I felt it and held that level while I watched him land under a tall kitchen chair. Again I don’t know how but I felt the energy as a vibration across the back of my shoulders and was able to hold it. I eyed him as I approached and felt as if I was letting him know I meant no harm. When I got about 4 feet away I bent over to look under the chair and lost contact as my eyes past the tall table. I may have lost contact for 1/4 of a second and fixed my eyes on his location as I bent down. GONE! I searched every corner of the kitchen and this was no small grass hopper. I looked for 20 minutes sweeping from one side to the other only to find him on the steps outside facing me as I walked out.

Usually don’t talk about stuff like this and have other things I need to do but this incident has reminded me that the WuJo is subject to us since we are the observer. Without our consciousness nothing exists here in the physical and we must not limit our beliefs based upon what others find acceptable.

There is much more to these time slips and until we begin to see them as a vehicle to a better understanding we will be stuck in the dark.

Speaking of the dark and WuJo I had a weird thing happen this morning.  Somehow, in the middle of the night, Elaine's exercise ball (one of those three-foot diameter jobbies that you can lay on, do rolling exercises, and so forth with) managed to wake itself up in the middle of the night, roll from the livingroom, around through the sitting room, down the length of the kitchen, and wait for me - like an animal or something - in the dining room. 

 

That was just the start.  I flipped on the coffee and the two lights I do everyone morning:  One over the sink and an overhead florescent. The overhead fluorescent wouldn't come on.  It was like there was no power to it.

 

I caught myself and forced my thoughts to "Okay, OKAY!  Enough of this WuJo sh*t!  I'm on a schedule and I don't have time to play right now!  Fix everything this instant!"

 

The very next flick, the overhead light came on.  The ball waited for me to move it back.  Oh, and there was a 22-minute difference between the bedroom clock and the one on the coffeemaker and the stove.

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Speaking of missing time and time-slips and such:

"This morning awoke about 0830. Lay in bed 5 minutes or so considering getting up. Got up, did morning stuff, bathroom, potty, shower, tooth brushing. I took my Yaesu VX170 2 mtr transceiver in there as usual to listen to Cal Fire Dispatch as they are the first responders hereabouts.

When I had completed most of my tasks and was drying off after the shower I heard their dispatcher acknowledge a work crew's report of being at the job location. They do that by saying, "Copy Crew 4 at (time)". Dispatch acknowledged with the time of 0922. All well and good that sounded about right.

So I go get my lounging duds on and go to kitchen, prepare my toast and tea, cut up an apple, head for the couch in the living room where I sit by the big window whilst consuming breakfast.

Then I noticed the clock I have in the room.

It was, said the clock, 0909.

Clearly by the time I arrived in the living room it should have been maybe 0945 but instead we were back almost to 0900. Seems like some time went away somewhere there.

Of course I tried several rationalizations and excuses to explain this. None are convincing."

Uh-huh...know the feeling...Strange one, huh?

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Haven't heard back from WuJo Girl, but she's gotten more email than I can shake a stick at, including what seem to be, if I read between the lines just so, what may be romantic interests from several of the male persuasion who found her note touching.  I'll let you know when I hear back from her...but fine reader response and comments...thanks.

 

Ultimate Flying Video

A reader suggested I take a look at this video of the May 2011 Jetman jump & flight over the Grand Canyon.  Presently going viral in pilot circles.

 

Takes some b/w to get the full smooth HD of it, but way cool.

 

On the Lighter Side

Some jokes make sense only if a) you're a man and b) if there's some Scottish in your background.  50% in my case.

As a bagpiper, I play many gigs. Recently I was asked by a funeral director to play at a graveside service for a homeless man. He had no family or friends, so the service was to be at a pauper's cemetery in the Kentucky back country.

As I was not familiar with the backwoods, I got lost and, being a typical man, I didn't stop for directions.

I finally arrived an hour late and saw the funeral guy had evidently gone and the hearse was nowhere in sight. There were only the diggers and crew left and they were eating lunch.

I felt badly and apologized to the men for being late. I went to the side of the grave and looked down and the vault lid was already in place. I didn't know what else to do, so I started to play.

The workers put down their lunches and began to gather around. I played out my heart and soul for this man with no family and friends. played like I've never played before for this homeless man.

And as I played 'Amazing Grace,' the workers began to weep. They wept, I wept, we all wept together. When I finished I packed up my bagpipes and started for my car. Though my head hung low, my heart was full.

As I opened the door to my car, I heard one of the workers say, "I never seen nothin' like that before and I've been putting in septic tanks for twenty years."

Apparently I'm still lost.... it's a man thing .

But ain't laughter a fine antiseptic for what infects us? 

 

Well, time to pick up my shovel and walk to the mine.  I load 16-tons, what do I get, another day older and deeper in debt.... 

 

Ya'll be double-careful with them quakes about, 'k?

 

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Wednesday August 24, 2011

Quakin' in the WuJo

I've long held that if something happens East of the Mississippi that it's Big news.  But if the exact same thing happens West of the Mississippi, then it's somehow a pint-sized story, barely deserving of the trouble it takes to send a film crew trans-con, or turn on one of the high-powered Eastern journalists.  We see confirmation of my outlook as ABC reported "Jaded West Coast chuckles over East Coast Quake."

 

I can't help but be reminded of the old doctor joke :  "Know the difference between major surgery and minor?"  Major is when it happens to me...  So it goes with quakes, apparently.

 

Thanks to the alert reader tips, we managed to have first reports up within minutes and even in advance of the first USGS email, which was nice.  Of course, nothing like first-hand reports when news is happening, so thanks for keeping me posted.

 

The strangest of all the 'quake calls' came from a fellow I may sometimes refer to as Deep Source.  He rang right after the quake with some odd instructions:

 

"Did you notice the Colorado quake was 111-miles from the border of Mineral County, Colorado? he began. 

 

No, I hadn't. 

 

"Notice it...it's important..."

 

"Uh...OK..."

 

"And what was the first Virginia landmark referenced in the USGS report?"

 

"Well, the quake was 5 miles from Mineral, Virginia.  So what?"

 

"And how far is it between the quakes?" he continued.

 

Uh...1,460 miles, or so, I guess, just eyeballing it on Streets & Trips.

 

"Add up all those numbers."

 

"11."

 

"Hold that.  And how far from the Colorado quake to Mineral Well, Mississippi?"

 

"841 miles."

 

"And from Mineral Wells, Mississippi to Mineral, Virginia?"

 

"About 700."

 

"So here's something to think about then:  Doesn't it strike you as a synch-wink that the quakes happened approximately equally spaced from Mineral Wells?"

 

"Hadn't really thought about it."

 

"Then look 111 miles North and slightly East of Mineral Wells, Tennessee.  Tell me the name you see up there..."

 

New Madrid.

 

"Must I do all your work for you, George?"   Click.

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Then the I-Ching inbox went off with a webbot reminder:

"In one of the old reports; was it said that 2 EQ's would occur above/below the 37 parallel? Virginia, Colorado, Japan are all along that. "

The first Colorado quake (4.6) happened on the 22nd as did a 5.9 at Japan.....

 

Just coincidence, I assure you.

 

Take a Bank: Any Bank.  Please

With the Velocity of Money continuing its implosion, there's been speculation floated about that JP Morgan (precious metals types will remember them as "The Morg" could take over Bank of America.

 

A glance at a one-year chart of BofA gives plenty of reasons.  A peek here will define their roller-coaster decline.  And I'll be the guy wondering "How much of this can be laid at the feet of that $4.1 billion 2008 mortgage processor acquisition, and wasn't that sort of orchestrated by Uncle?"

 

Why Rob Banks?

In the last Depression, I think it was Willie Sutton who said "Because that's where the money is..."

 

And in this one, the analog may be Cristian Alfredo Urquijo who robbed a dozen banks, it's claimed, in Arizona.  Hunger's a mighty motivator.

 

Durables and Pepto

New report on Durable Goods is out from Census this morning:

New Orders

New orders for manufactured durable goods in July increased $7.7 billion or 4.0 percent to $201.5 billion, the U.S. Census Bureau announced today. This increase, up two of the last three months, followed a 1.3 percent June decrease. Excluding transportation, new orders increased 0.7 percent. Excluding defense, new orders increased 4.8 percent. Transportation equipment, also up two of the last three months, had the largest increase, $6.7 billion or 14.6 percent to $53.0 billion. This was led by nondefense aircraft and parts which increased $3.2 billion.

 

Shipments

Shipments of manufactured durable goods in July, up seven of the last eight months, increased $5.0 billion or 2.5 percent to $202.2 billion. This followed a 1.1 percent June increase. Transportation equipment, up two consecutive months, had the largest increase, $3.7 billion or 8.0 percent to $49.8 billion.

 

Unfilled Orders

Unfilled orders for manufactured durable goods in July, up fifteen of the last sixteen months, increased $6.1 billion or 0.7 percent to $869.5 billion. This followed a 0.3 percent June increase. Transportation equipment, up seven consecutive months, had the largest increase, $3.3 billion or 0.7 percent to $500.9 billion. This followed a slight June increase.

Why the Pepto?  Well, we have no way of telling without underlying unit sales how much of this is an increase in actual things or whether this is just wild inflation due to that 42.l9% annualized increase in M1 money printing coming down the pike.

 

Raters of the Lost Banks

Almost sounds like a Harrison Ford movie, huh?  Well, let's see:  "Moody's Japan downgrade clashes with S&P in USD as JGBs Steady" says Bloomberg. And S&P seems to have dissed Japan now.

 

Douglas Peterson is the new head of S&P and as one banking exec told us...

"Apparently TPTB never heard the expression about revenge being served cold."

Just so...

 

We're Doing What?

Well, according to an article off Russia Today's website, the "FBI organizes almost all terror plots in the US."

 

This is a tough subject to be 'even-handed' on.  Part of me, the Constitutionalist part, maintains that many of these undercover agents are likely on a 'play-to-pay' basis.  In other words, the amount of compensation is likely tied to their 'success' at roping people in while they act as agent provocateurs.  Entrapment is NOT a characteristic of an open/free society which is in control of its government.

 

Still, even if the agent provocateurs are not being paid based on performance, how many of the agent/supervisors are trying to 'make cases' in order to get some career advancement going?  These are worrisome issues, indeed.

 

But, the flip side is:  How else is the Bureau supposed to get the 'inside dope' required to put a good case together and make it stick? 

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But meantime, the problems and motivations to provoke actions against our own country may be amped up a bit because in Washington's zest to kill spending, there's an agency that my friend Howard Hill mentioned the other day, which is being closed down because of its budget: About $800 million if I recall the number.

 

Oh, and this agency's mission?  Track down all the loose fissionable nuclear material it can.  It's already, if I followed his description right, traced enough fissionables to make some dozens of nukes.

 

All of which gets us back to the delicate balance problem:  Where is the line between infiltration on the one hand, and active promotion/entrapment on the other in the first instance.  And in the second, when does budget cutting turn into cutting off your nose to spite your face?

 

And, since this bears on part of the book Howard & I are writing, "Where's the Leadership to help us hone down the problem so it can be answered with Constitutionally compliant/best practices well articulated?"

 

More of a vacuum than even outer space.

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You can't go anywhere in the world without seeing at least somer evidence of 9/11; our most recent PMF (planetary mind f*ck) which 'shock and awed' people into a semi-police state.  With linguistics pointing to an even 'bigger' (but we have no other details, sorry) kind of thing due this fall, people in elective positions who should be leading have managed to fall into an amorphous mass of writhing snippet-babble.

 

Still, when "domestic terrorism" or 'space aliens' or even new pandemic shows up this fall, the difficulty (as with 9/11) will be sorting wheat from chaff and trying to figure out where Truth is and how to properly cope without being herded even deeper into groupthink.

 

The markets are whispering "old paradigm's in trouble, ya'll..." and the winds of change are starting to get gusty; the storm clouds gather - nameless apparitions - but as Bob Dylan wrote: "It's a hard rain's that's gonna fall."

 

Which reminds me...

 

Irene Ahoy

Should be in the Carolinas by Saturday.

 

 

Nice thing about 'canes (such as there ever is something nice about an ass-whumping from Ma Nature) is that people sure seem to lighten up on being critical of preppers after such events.

 

Where's the respect before the wind pipes up?

 

Software Testers Ready?

Ever wonder when a site is updated, but don't want to chase around looking for it if there's nothing really new?

 

That new site monitoring software from Formation Research is ready for testing.  Defaults to Clif's site and mine.  Info and download (free for now) here.

 

This is a direct link to the page that generates the product key. IMMEDIATELY below the product key is a link to the download .zip file.  XP has a permissions issue that prevents the demos in the tutorial from executing. That's being worked out now.

 

Coping: Wednesday at the WuJo

Oh boy, here's we go into high strange again...this is from our reporter who had that disappearing/bi-locating stuff on his desk reported earlier.  Turns out, he's come up with an alternative explanation which is way off into the WuJo...

Subject: The WuJo and zombie friends and celebrities...

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...or mebbe I've just gone 'round the bend and didn't notice.

The Wujo stuff? Yeah. You and Clif have a much better clue about that topic than most people. So...I need your input.

 

I started to notice something a few years ago. The best examples concern A-list celebrities. Soner or later, like the rest of us, they die, but they get a big to-do in the news, especially at the end of the year, during 'The Year That Was,' TV specials. Perfectly normal life, news and programming, right?

 

The problem is, I remember reports of their deaths, but I've since found that more than a couple of them are running around and having lives and careers ...long after I remember them dying.

The first few times this happened? 'Oh, well,' I told myself, 'I just didn't remember the details. I must've not been paying close attention.' Rationalise, justify, excuse, that sort of a thing. But, it keeps happening.

 

The most recent example is Doris Day. I distinctly remember tributes to her and her career about five years after her talk show went off the air . I remember that she died of cancer in '89 - '90. A couple of days ago, I found out that she is still alive.

 

I've also noted the phenomenon among friends and former associates, mostly wrt some of them who thought I was dead, their faces turning white with shock when they see me in person. "I thought you were dead!" I've had the opportunity to enjoy the other side of that experience, too. "I thought you were dead!" All of this has happened a number of times over the last couple of decades.

 

If my powers of observation haven't completely failed me, either I've gone nuts...or else I've slipped back and forth between time lines and didn't notice the transition. I sincerely hope that others have had similar experiences, or else it's off to the local psych ward with yours truly. (I hear that some of the drugs are pretty good, but that the service and meals are horrible.)

 

If the object on my desk wasn't 'bi-locating,' mebbe I was?

No, actually, no question about this one:  There are a large number of reports of people being alive, who some of us could swear had been reported dead years ago.  And about the same number, t'other way around.

 

We then move on to the middle mat and find the "Case of the Mysterious Ping-Pong Ball:

Hi George,

 

I’ve been telling myself I’m going to send in my recent WuJo experience but I never get around to sitting down and writing it up. So here goes: It happened about a month ago I was outside hosing down the patio and cleaning things up.

 

We have a ping pong table on one end of the patio and I was on the other side of the patio bending over picking something up when I heard a ping pong ball bouncing on the table. I looked over at the table and saw the ball bounce lightly and finally fall to the ground as if someone had just dropped the ball from a foot or 2 up.

 

There was no one else around.

 

I went over and picked the ball up and looked around to prove to myself there was no one around. It made me wonder if the ball had been stuck in the patio ceiling and dropped down but that is impossible. I mentioned it to my wife and she said that morning when she was getting dressed she also heard a ping pong ball drop.

 

The table is right outside our bedroom window. She was afraid someone was out on the patio spying on her, but when she looked out the window no one was there. No way to explain it.

And speaking of WuJo and rewrites of history, I swear I posted this report when it came in, but then again, maybe not...

Hi George, love reading your column. Noticed the Wujo factor going up lately, at least the posting of some episodes.

I don’t know much about clocks and digital time piece technology, but noticed some weird time differentials on a coffee machine I bought last week. Bought it wed, used it first time on Friday.

Set the clock and the timed coffee for 6am…when we got up, clock was hours ahead and coffee was cold. Quite the inconvenience to say the least.

Sat, no clock set for 6am, but we both slept in which was odd for us, late sleep in too, like 10:30. Got up, clock on the machine was way off after resetting it the day before, but made coffee anyways.

Sat night the time changed here, sprang ahead, totally forgot, which may be the first time ever for me, and it threw my whole day yesterday on Sunday, which oddly enough, we slept in very late again.

Got up to change all the clocks and the coffee machine said like 3:50 pm or something very wrong.

So as I set all the clocks in the kitchen, I watched the coffee machine to see what was up. In 5 minutes, it had jumped a minute ahead, and after an hour, it was exact, 1 minute ahead every five minutes, so it was 12 minutes ahead.

Exactly. Easy to track.

Reset it before going out for the afternoon, got back about 4:30, it was 30 minutes ahead exactly.

We were gone 4-1/2 hours, at 1 minutes per 5 minutes it should have been almost an hour ahead, so not sure what the multiplication factor was on that.

Now very curious, we reset it again, we were home and cooking dinner, in and out of the kitchen and it didn’t skip any time in 4 hours, exact time. So we happily set it for 6am this morning, and lo and behold, we got up, coffee was cold, and it was 12:49 pm or something.

Almost 2 minutes fast per minute. Probably just a mechanical flub up, but wouldn’t it be consistent, such as the clock runs 12 minutes fast per hour. It was so all over, no connecting pattern, I just wondered if it was time warping whenever we weren’t watching..lol.

Thought I’d send it in, who knows how many other households have I Robot coffee machines.

Like I say I could have sworn I posted this, but I'm still scratching my head - other appliances, like the clocks, should have been in synch with it.

 

Debunking the WuJo

A couple of good bunk/debunk letters.  First having to do with the frozen and unfrozen bottles of water:

"Alternate scientific explanation for the frozen water bottle freeze up. Simply, the two bottles were super cooled to near the same point in the freezer. As each were disturbed, ice crystals formed in the water, and spread very rapidly, literally from the time of the disturbance to the time of observation. The phenom has been reported with bottles of beer in many locations and times as well. Makes it hard to drink the beer in a hurry (for emergency rehydration purposes) of course."

Er...of course.  And if the strangeness keeps up, I may need two.

 

And now here come more details on the France/Japan smart phone report from a few days back...

"For various reasons, I don’t think this qualifies as a time anomaly. As for the device, it is a standard Android smart phone, a Samsung Infuse to be specific, and the application was the free Google Maps app. The phone is set up for the US market, no Japan gateway or default location. When the GPS signal is lost, the map application shows your last known location and/or seems to work out your location based on the cell tower you are connected to. If it defaulted to Japan, I would have noticed much sooner since I have used the map app indoors many times. As I said, I did not know my friends address in Japan, and the phone was never out of my control.

Also, this was not a single occurrence of inaccurate positioning as you tend to get when GPS tracking first comes on line. The GPS pointer, that arrow that shows where the phone thinks you are according to the GPS satellites, jumped to the exact same location in Japan and back to our current location in France at least ten times over a period of several hours. During that time the phone and GPS were continuously on. The error circle that appears around the arrow was much smaller during that time than any other time we were in France. The phone acted like it was getting really good GPS data. It has behaved quite normally since that time.

I have two theories. Either the GPS signal was spoofed somehow, or the internal electronics were twiddled, probably near the output of the GPS processing. Now for the part some people will have trouble with. You’ve probably heard about the cases where our nuclear missiles have been shut down when a UFO visited the area. There have also been cases where the avionics in a jet fighter shut down when they get too close to a UFO, but were perfectly fine after they backed off. Well, I have been to several ET contact events where various electronic devices, car radar detectors and such, go crazy. ETs also had some fun with a smoke detector in my house. Based on accumulated evidence, it seems the ETs are pretty good at inducing voltages internally in electronic devices and getting them to act in non-standard ways (the “twiddle” theory). I’m sure you can reason out the implications. The smart phone thing was a first for me and quite amazing, but like I said, I live in WuJo land.

My friend’s ET contact started in Japan and continued in France. I think they were trying to make a point about that with the phone. We were together that evening for the specific purpose of making ET contact, and yes, we did see some interesting things in the sky.

Not exactly the rest of the story, but more of it.

Gosh, we're all waiting for the rest of it.....

Drought & About

Oh, what Texans would give for a 'good' hurricane in the Gulf!

"George,

So you finally noticed, this little drought, OK big drought, caused by that persistent High pressure system has prevented east Texas from getting Japan's fallout. And the rest of the country is down the jet stream from the crashed power plants. But notice they are getting major rain. Remember I told you that an old way to decontaminate radioactive equipment was to place it in running water. Boy oh, Boy, I do wish I was someone who controlled weather and could take the credit. May be I am, who knows what that little accident last year did, may be turned on a latent skill.

Anyway can you believe those MSM types disparaging hurricanes? There is talk over here about the east coast hogging a perfectly good storm.

Also lots of students over here. Apparently the hard times are not hitting the bank of Mom and Dad for the College Crowd.

Well that's the news from Aggie Land,

As always, the linguistic work catches the leading edge of a front when change comes through.  But believe me, applications for funding here at the National Bank of Dad are way up this year.  Way, way up!

 

The Larger Perspective on Life

Here's a really savory piece to study:

George:

Greetings from the Wujo Girl!

Finally I am beginning to feel as though I might fit in with others like me, or at least I know they are out there thanks to your blog and your Wujo stories from readers. Now everything is starting to make sense. All my life (27 years) I have felt out of place. No one believed me when I told them I once lived on Mars, or that I could lie down at night and think about rising up through the roof and it would happen and I could look down on the city or go anywhere I wanted to go. Also, I could "see' what people were thinking and just felt normal about it but when I answered their unspoken questions I would get evil looks. Like, "are you a witch or something?"

I finally learned that other people weren't like me so I quit telling them things about myself and stopped answering their thoughts. I wouldn't tell them I could see aliens (ETs not Hispanics) among us, and that most of the important people in Government looked reptilian to me and evil. Or that I received "messages" from my guardians sometimes at night in my sleep or even during the day when in a quiet peaceful place.

Over the years I learned I had chosen to come to Earth to be a part of the transition into the fifth dimension. This is where the survivors of the coming earth changes will move to. I will return to the sixth dimension, from where I came. Humans are now in the 3rd dimension. The 4th dimension is where they go when they die a physical death, and also is where survivors of the earth changes will go to adjust and prepare for the 5th dimension. Those that die a physical death will be reincarnated on another world.

While I am here I am only to be an observer of the upcoming events and have been instructed NOT to try and change anything, not to try and awaken anyone to what is coming. It appears most of your readers are awake and will be moving on when the time comes. Else they wouldn't be reading your stuff or Clif's. For those moving on to the 5th dimension I am told they have nothing to fear, that it will be as a dream that becomes real. They will be a witness to the earth changes but will not be a part of the activities.

Of course it depends upon the individual; are they prepared to move on in the sense they are willing to give up their material life of the consumerist society they now live in and believe they can have an even better and richer life by just turning their backs on what they now "have" AND just walk toward the light? Many will decide NOT to move forward even though they have the opportunity.....it will be sad for them.

And no, this is not the same as dying for the individuals who elect to move on into the 5th dimension physically. They can retain the physical body if they wish, and elect to adopt a lighter body later. Most will soon discover the bliss of a "light" body and wonder at the constraints of the old, heavy body they used to live in.

Am I violating my agreement not to interfere in the proceedings that are taking place by trying to awaken someone with this missive? I don't think so or I wouldn't be allowed to tell all this to you. You apparently already know a great deal of what I am speaking about. I do sense however, that you are going to be one of those that will have extreme difficulty in parting with your material possessions when the time comes.

The Wall Street pyramid scheme is now in it's death throes and will soon collapse, to be followed shortly by the economy. Of course you know this or I would not mention the fact. Paper dollar money will be as that used in the popular board game called Monopoly. I am amazed that people are still caught up in the Wall Street version of the game to acquire more "paper" so they can buy more stuff they don't need. But to them "good times are just around the corner." They are apparently not aware that infinite growth has met head on with the finite resources of this world, in particular oil, water and food.

I can tell you however, that in my case, I have no material things in my life other than what it takes for me to live day to day. I have no food or water in storage but have left some for friends and neighbors whom I already know will not be willing to give up their materialistic life styles. Life is just to good for them right now and they have told me that regardless of what happens they will stay until the end. They have their garden plots and heirloom seeds and firearms and water catchment systems and tornado shelters, so I wish them all good luck. I cannot try to change their minds.

So, from the crazy wujo girl, I wish you good luck and continued happiness.

I actually have about four chapters on a novel done - and the theme of it is right along the lines you're speaking of here.  But, I promised I would not take up either the rewrite of the novel, or the second draft (and ready to publish then) of Victims of Process: How unwritten recipes run your life" until the book with Howard is done.

 

Still, the novel plot is curious (and somewhat self-based, at least in the early-going).  It's about a fellow who lives in the outback who keeps having dreams at night where he awakens on 'the other side' (or other dimension, 5th you call it) where it's a whole world very much like this one except that it's not so denominated in terms of money.  It's more about people just doing because what they are doing is right, not just because its compensated.

 

The novel has come from a series of lucid dreams I've had and these were of the sort (like that murder/fire/arson oil industry dream the night before the Gulf Oil incident) that sorting out the 5th dimension bleed-through from present actually takes a cup of coffee to nail back into the box we keep our intuitive selves in.

 

All of which is saying, in a round-about way, that those who dream of this other place, or other world, where it's so real you can almost imagine waking there instead of the normal waking here will probably have less trouble with the transition than you think.

 

The key seems to be picking the right dream to awaken into and that's something which may not be ours to control at all.

 

The books on Electronic Voice Phenomena give some hints - about the next plane (after death) being a place of color emphasis.  This 5th level, where the 'dreams you can move into" seem to be set, is more likely a place of vibration and it's that which drives extended abilities (like self levitation/flying)  there.  Little items like flying without machines or vibrating just so to walk through walls are pretty cool to experience in dreams.

 

And yes, in case you hadn't figured it out yet, my buying an airplane and getting current flying again has as much to do with travel and adventuring here, as it is getting accustomed to 'flying' which will be along on the next plane.  Part of the striving for location independence, so to speak.

 

Seems just as air bubbles float up to the top of a glass of water, so too human energy has a way of percolating up through various energy layers. 

 

 

Think of it this way:  At present, we're on the E=MC-squared floor.  But the migration up the energy food chain may indeed be in sight as we study physics like Electron Spin Resonances  (ESR) and note that  (to borrow a phrase from here)..

The electron spin resonance is marked by a dramatic increase in absorption of the EM field, and this increase changes the impedance of the RF oscillating circuit. So we can identify the presence of a resonance by observing a drop in the current in the RF circuit. 

Except, at a macro level, of course, as the ESR increases and the absorption of the electromagnetic increases, the 'current' of the present plane/field may weaken leaving more 'mental energy' floating around with an easier migration path to the higher Zeeman state.  5th plane.

 

Anasazi, Incas, and other people may have gotten there, too...which is perhaps where all high cultures go.  Especially when large enough ( or many enough)  bubbles are about to pop.

 

Whether the transitions happen via the Plant Teachers (naturally occurring drugs) or are a consequence at some level of electronic/EM field pollution, may not really matter.

 

And those who hold back the paradigm shift may be doing purely to avoid loss of their power here.

 

The old story about "riding out to meet Fate" comers to mind, too.  That, too, is almost CERNtainly in play.

 

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Tuesday August 23, 2011

Quake in Northeast

Getting preliminary (unconfirmed)  reports of an earthquake that was felt in Cleveland Ohio...more as details pop - Ure

 

13:02:  Seems to be in the 5.0 range in central Virginia - prelim mapping...

 

13:03:  Prelim magnitude is 5.8 centered here:

 

Mass Layoff Report

Picture tells it all: faint sign of recovery, that's for damn sure...

 

 

Kinda fun watching the market (went back to cash after a 24-hour short side play that was hardly worth the effort...)  I expect it will pop up maybe one more time and then set up for declines later in the week, but this is my hunch and no more investment advice than throwing a dart or spinning a wheel...

 

Oil, Tripoli, Etc.

All kinds of action in Libya this morning where reports are seeming to vacillate on just where things stand.  The Wall Street Journal has a good report on how the fighting had broken out around the outskirts of Tripoli, but at almost the same time, CNN was reporting the reappearance of Gadhafi's son and there have been reports that Gadhafi himself had put in a cameo appearance at a local hotel.

 

For the aware observer this is not a terribly difficult conflict to judge the outcome of.  All you need to do is size up how much money and arms are on the Gadhafi side, versus the money, arms, taxing power to pay for war, and so on, on the NATO side.

 

The rest, while dramatic and filling up lots of head-space that should otherwise be devoted to watching the Fed/Treasury printing of M1 at almost 43% annualized presently, is actually quite predictable.  Only thing missing is the right scale for the timeline, although my prompt that "They'll never let a good war go to waste in the defense industry" seems to have been spot-on.

 

I continue to expect that the end of the Tripoli/Libya conflict will appear in remarkably close proximity to a market bottom for leg one down of Primary Wave 3 (when counted from Y2K for the primary wave, and from the market highs in June-July for the decline which should end around 9,500).

 

Facts are simple:  The West needs to lock up oil - and Gadhafi has some which is ripe for the taking.  Simple - we just go get it. 

 

That only leaves that prickly Chavez problem in Venezuela and I see speculation starting as to what impacts this might have on JP Morgan.  This will give Chavez tremendous leverage, but only in the short term.  We'll either go after his resource directly, or see the price of oil drop to $65 or lower by year's end, in which case, what will happen to him?  But back to point...

 

Gold, Silver and the Game of Commodity Spotting

I suppose you've had enough of the bean this morning to have noticed that gold popped over $1,900 overnight at Kitco and so forth?  They showed a high of $1,906.80 which brought about just a tad of weak/speculative hands selling.

 

And yes, it's true, the Mint it not turning out any more of some gold coins, but whether its price, or what, who knows?  Oh, but the Mint does seem to have the resource to mint presidential commemorative coins which ABC reported  last month....go figure.

 

Oil is up somewhat on the Libya situation and the manufacturing data that suggests the sky isn't falling, at least till later on today.  Still,  daytrading commodities is too damn much work and the general oil price drop trend continues.  It's just a matter of patience, since no market goes directly down, or directly up.  It jiggles along the way and I've always done best playing the trend not the jiggles & noise.

 

A reader inquired as to my thoughts on copper as an investment and quite honestly, I don't get too excited about it.  True, there are some interesting headlines like "Copper climbs on speculation Fed will take steps to bolster U.S. Economy" which might tempt the speculator in us.

 

But the macro-trend in housing is still downward, and until some of the several years (if not decades) of inventory is sopped up and home-building recovers - which is one of the major uses of copper - I'm not terribly interested.  See noise & jiggles remarks above for clarification.

 

What could change that view?  A general firming of military talk between the Super Powers.  In that case, there would likely be a run on copper to make bullets and shells and that would be interesting.  But since Veep Joe and China had their lovefest last week, I don't see that happening.  Not till China launches another ICBM  off the coast and another cruise ship gets disabled.

 

Then maybe.......

 

Rent Vs. Buy Decision

Reader sent in this link to a great site:  The 2011 Great Debate - Rent vs. Buy at the Trulia blog.  Some of it is intuitive, like if you live in NYC for example, you'll amost have to rent unless you rob banks, or something. 

 

And in other places, like Las Vegas, where we're awaiting the arrival of a modern-times analog to Seattle's 1970's Boeing-bust billboard "Will the last person leaving Seattle turn out the lights?" buying is a no-brainer.

 

It's the in between stuff where life gets complicated, and so this is a pretty good one to look at.

 

5.3 & 4.6 Quakes in Colorado?

I suppose we shouldn't be too surprised to have quake activity on the 'backside' of the Rockies, but both the 5.3 and the 4.6 shaker along the Colorado-New Mexico border overnight did catch our eye since it's about smack in the middle of the regional higher risk seismic zone:

 

 

We have to hand it to the  seismology-types for getting the risk-factor area right.  But then comes the question of "What's going up up thata-way?  My pet theory?  Dropping aquifer levels, ground drying out... or, Rockies didn't get to be mountains by just sitting there.

 

What's to Leak?

Seems like a division has formed up inside of the shadowy world of WikiLeaks as a new book says 3,500 unpublished leak documents have been ordered destroyed, but the flip side is the report comes from a just published book.  The Brisbane Times has a run-down on it.

 

The Science We Knew

OK, so out comes this report on the Live Science website which, along about #3 on their list of new findings from the quantum world ("Spooky Science") that light bends matter.

 

Of course, thinking back to my bachelor days (a few hundred years ago) this came as no surprise since I seem to recall that dim lights did amazing things to curves of the opposite sex.  Which oftentimes disappeared when more light was applied.  I think this is the same phenomena...so no surprises here....

 

Coping: Inside a "Miracle Product"  (CORRECTED!)

While we continue to collect "WuJo" emails, and reports of cave closures and government land lock-downs (all of which we'll get to tomorrow) something a little different this morning as I got an email making the local ham radio circuit which is worth passing along - and it's just the kind of thing which would fit on our Strategic Living site when we get around to that item on the checklist of Life. 

 

This particular email was titled:  'What is the main ingredient of WD-40?' and I present it for information, not at medical or metallurgical advice..

"Before you read to the end for the answer to the question, "Does anybody know what the main ingredient of WD-40 is?" read the whole history as its fascinating.  Don't lie and don't cheat.

Who knew; I had a neighbor who bought a new pickup. I got up very early one Sunday morning and saw that someone had spray painted red all around the sides of this beige truck (for some unknown reason). I went over, woke him up, and told him the bad news. He was very upset and was trying to figure out what to do. "Probably nothing until Monday morning, since nothing was open." Another neighbor came out and told him to get his WD-40 and clean it off. It removed the unwanted paint beautifully and did not harm his paint job that was on the truck.
 

I'm impressed! WD-40 who knew? 'Water Displacement #40'.

The product began from a search for a rust preventative solvent and degreaser to protect missile parts. WD-40 was created in 1953 by three technicians at the San Diego Rocket Chemical Company. Its name comes from the project that was to find a 'water displacement' compound. They were successful with the fortieth formulation, thus WD-40.

The Convair Company bought it in bulk to protect their atlas missile parts.

Ken East (one of the original founders) says there is nothing in WD-40 that would hurt you...

When you read the 'shower door' part, try it. It's the first thing that has ever cleaned that spotty shower door. If yours is plastic, it works just as well as glass. It's a miracle! Then try it on your stovetop ... Viola! It's now shinier than it's ever been. You'll be amazed.

WD-40 uses:
1.    Protects silver from tarnishing.&NB sp;
2.    Removes road tar and grime from cars.
3.    Cleans and lubricates guitar strings.
4.    Gives floors that 'just-waxed' sheen without making them slippery.
5.    Keeps flies off cows.
6.    Restores and cleans chalkboards.
7.    Removes lipstick stains.
8.    Loosens stubborn zippers.
9.    Untangles jewelry chains.
10.  Removes stains from stainless steel sinks.
11.  Removes dirt and grime from the barbecue grill.
12.  Keeps ceramic/terra cotta garden pots from oxidizing.
13.  Removes tomato stains from clothing.
14.  Keeps glass shower doors free of water spots.
15.  Camouflages scratches in ceramic and marble floors.
16.  Keeps scissors working smoothly.
17.  Lubricates noisy door hinges on vehicles and doors in homes.
18.  It removes black scuffmarks from the kitchen floor! Use WD-40 for those nasty tar and scuff marks on flooring. It doesn't seem to harm the finish and you won't have to scrub nearly as hard to get them off. Just remember to open some windows if you have a lot of marks.
19.  Bug guts will eat away the finish on your car if not removed quickly! Use WD-40!
20.  Gives a children's playground gym slide a shine for a super fast slide.
21.  Lubricates gearshift and mower deck lever for ease of handling on riding mowers...
22.  Rids kids' rocking chairs and swings of squeaky noises.
23..  Lubricates tracks in sticking home windows and makes them easier to open.
24.  Spraying an umbrella stem makes it easier to open and close.
25.  Restores and cleans padded leather dashboards in vehicles, as well as vinyl bumpers.
26.  Restores and cleans roof racks on vehicles.
27.  Lubricates and stops squeaks in electric fans.
28.  Lubricates wheel sprockets on tricycles, wagons, and bicycles for easy handling.
29.  Lubricates fan belts on washers and dryers and keeps them running smoothly.
30.  Keeps rust from forming on saws and saw blades, and other tools.
31.  Removes splattered grease on stove.
32.  Keeps bathroom mirror from fogging.
33.  Lubricates prosthetic limbs.
34.  Keeps pigeons off the balcony (they hate the smell).
35.  Removes all traces of duct tape.
36.  Folks even spray it on their arms, hands, and knees to relieve arthritis pain.
37..  Florida's favorite use is 'cleans and removes love bugs from grills and bumpers.'
38.  The favorite use in the state of New York , WD-40 protects the Statue of Liberty from the elements.
39.  WD-40 attracts fish. Spray a little on live bait or lures and you will be catching the big one in no time. Also, it's a lot cheaper than the chemical attractants that are made for just that purpose. Keep in mind though, using some chemical laced baits or lures for fishing are not allowed in some states.
40.  Use it for fire ant bites. It takes the sting away immediately and stops the itch.
41.  WD-40 is great for removing crayon from walls. Spray on the mark and wipe with a clean rag. 
42.  Also, if you've discovered that your teenage daughter has washed and dried a tube of lipstick with a load of laundry, saturate the lipstick spots with WD-40 and rewash.    Presto! The lipstick is gone!
43.  If you sprayed WD-40 on the distributor cap, it would displace the moisture and allow the car to start.
44.  Remove the glue under labels on jars.

P.S. The basic ingredient is PETROLEUM DISTILLATES (CORRECTED).

All of which is a good start on uses for the product.  (I may have to try that shower door trick when Elaine's not working, lol).

 

There seem to be plenty of other uses, too.  For example a local worker for the Texas Department of Corrections (a chaplain) told me a while back (and I think I mentioned this) that WD-40 is prized in 'the big house' because just a spritz on a toe, knee, or other joint bothered by gout and the pain is gone in short order.  May have to try that one myself....skipping the trip to the joint, of course, along the way.

 

Or at least that was my plan until I read the Snopes Entry on this email here.

 

Not that there aren't better products when it comes to each task individually.  For example, there are 'bug & tar removers' that work dandy available at any auto parts store...even the gypo outfits tend to carry something similar.  But, it's just not the same.

 

One of my favorites in terms of metal preservation is Boeshield T-9 which, in a 'value pack' offers lots of protective functionality (especially around aluminum and such)  BOESHIELD T-9® - VALUE PACK  (about $40 at Amazon).

 

Nevertheless, WD-40 is one of those legendary products that seem to fit an almost endless list of applications.  Baking soda and vinegar are others, but that just gets me to thinking that someone should have a list of Top Ten things to have around the house.  I don't think the ranch would function without the WD-40, the jug of plain bleach, box or 20 of baking soda, bottle of ammonia, a jug of vinegar, 10-pounds of food-grade diatomaceous earth, and so forth. 

 

This latter, by the way finally ended Zeus the Cat's bout with walking dandruff...one of the issues of being an outdoor cat.

 

Whole point here is simple:  If you've got other 'home chemicals' that do just the trick, please let me know and we'll get a list going and share it.  Oh, and more uses for WD-40, too. 

 

We're coming to a time when utility products are going to be the ones to keep around since as the complex systems of the global (whatever-it-is) get taught and maybe broken in places,  the ultimate home work-around guide would sure be a useful thing to have.

 

Oh, and since I'm so fond of reminding you "Everything's a business model" every hour, on the hour, I should mention there's even a WD-40 Fan Club.

 

Yessiree Bob!  We do indeed live in the Land of the Brave, Home of the Monetized, lol...

 

Drought's Silver Lining?

Interesting email from a reader here under the heading "high rad levels detected in Toronto and St. Louis"

This is an initial canvassing on the subject - I just received a phone call late this evening regarding a couple of radiation measurements taken from towel swipes on surfaces after a rainstorm, one in Toronto and the other in St Louis.  The Toronto measured 20,000 counts per minute and the StLouis is described as 178 times normal background, which is very roughly the same multiple of chest x-rays per year equivalent.  Although this amount of radiation is likely transient, we have to consider the accumulation over a long time as well.   This level indicates both an extraordinarily large source term at Fukushima and the likelihood of atmospheric laminar flows that allow relatively concentrated radiation fields to be trannsported globally.   This is the nightmare that I mentioned some time ago, but hoped would not happen.  We really need to be monitoring radiation all over our land NOW.  I will try to get more information on the actual measurements.  As I said before, people in the street taking an incidental measurement should not be the basis of our knowledge of this threat.  We need conntinuous source term flyovers at the accidennt site and a lot of meterological data to assess radiation flows.  That this information is not made conspicuously public is criminal in my view.  We really need to do county level radiation assessments on the double, if this information tests out to be true.  It will be very pleasing to discover in the followup that there is no basis to see this as an emergency. 

Some of which I'd heard from others - which gets me to thinking 'You know, the drought and heat is bad, but would I rather have them or a wild plutonium particle?"  Seemed to make the drought in the South a little more bearable.  111.2 in the shade on the digital whizzy yesterday.

 

Florida Swim Lessons?

Here's another one from the inbox, if you don't have enough to worry about and make you totally wonky:

Hi George,

I inquired of a friend, there name deleted who is in direct communication with some of the people who hold positions on the "Andromeda Council". Yes they are a space faring society as well a vast number are settled on different planets. Anyway, here is his answer to an event that will happen in the Atlantic soon. This might be the event you wrote about below in your report this morning. See text of the whole conversation below.

Also this event, will cause a large tsunami that will inundate the Florida coast.

Guess we all just wait and see what happens.

The hurricane arrival this weekend, of course, doesn't count.  Say hi to them Andromeda dudes for me and ask them to hunt down and skewer the pricks messing up the web with malicious scripting, wouldja?  I can't be a good writer and be doing ongoing battle with script kiddies, thanks.

 

Speaking of which, a reader sent this along about a Wordpress script vulnerability (link):

"If this is what got Urbansurvival, it may not have been aimed at you specifically. I do computer security work for a living and would be happy to help w/ Urban Survival security if you ever have questions; the wife and I are big fans, and appreciate someone helping us keep as much of our wealth as possible."

the way I figure it, someone's gotta be passing the script-kiddies money.  There's just too much in the way of attacks/viruses going around for there not to be some kind of monetary payoff for them, know what I mean?

 

That's it - time for breakfast - which is a bowl of home-made Danish vegetable soup with dill-touched meatballs.  Yum...

 

Tomorrow, we sneak back into the WuJo where more high strangeness has been piling up on the mat and go looking for more cave/closures and public lands (that aren't anymore) reports.

 

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Monday August 22, 2011

The Invisible Velocity of Money War

Monetary Inflation Shocker:  42.9% Annualized!!!!!

As I described in Saturday's www.peoplenomics.com report (so subscribers have already been thinking about this over the weekend), something I call the Velocity of Money War has now broken out and if you know where to look, it explains a lot about why gold is pressing toward $1,900 today and could even pass the $2,000 mark as early as Thursday of this week - but no promises and our usual "This ain't investment advice" disclaimer applies, as always.

 

If you're a first-time reader, you need to understand what the Velocity Problem is:  If you think of a dollar as "working" each time it's spent, but laying fallow - not really doing anything when it's at rest, that's the core concept.

 

Back in 2000, the Velocity of Money (estimated by by green eyeshade wearing assistant editor, Zeus the Cat) was running about 2.2.  In other words, when compared with US GDP, M2 was 'turning over' about 2.2 times per year.

 

When we got into the sucky part of the global market mess, the velocity had dropped to about 1.64 times GDP and here lately it's plain old cratering.

 

I've previous bemoaned the fact that  - as my coauthor and bond guru friend Howard Hill noted in a brilliant post  last Thursday - "The bond market is shouting at you this morning..."

 

But now, thanks to the Federal Reserve's most recent H.6 Money Stock Measures report, we can go much further in our analysis.

 

But first, let's look closely at that Money Stocks report:

 

Look at the M1 figure (cash and demand deposits) for the month of June and then the preliminary July figure.  In one month, it was up 3.0194% in a single month!   The quickie guess would put it north of 36% annualized, but how far does the 'magick of compounding' get us?

 

Pretend for a moment you start with a $100 bill.   What do you think this kind of interest rate compounds out to?  I don't mean to offend by  offering amortization tables for breakfast, but you need to see this one:

 

$100.00	Start
$103.02	Month 1
$106.13	Month 2
$109.33	Month 3
$112.64	Month 4
$116.04	Month 5
$119.54	Month 6
$123.15	Month 7
$126.87	Month 8
$130.70	Month 9
$134.65	Month10
$138.71	Month 11
$142.90	Month 12

 

Bankers would skin you for a few fractions in there perhaps, and to be sure, this is only the M1 rate.  M2 is a little more laid back, but not much.  It's went up a mere 2.21% last month, but this still compounds to a 31.09% monetary inflation rate!

 

This is is a HUGE number and it should be screamed from the front page of every responsible financial rag in the country, but instead there is a near deafening silence about it.  Why?  Because it lays out in stark relief, the 'box canyon' the U.S. has been herded into.

 

On the one hand, the Fed has gotten way behind the power curve by not preemptively lowering rates earlier so this has kept GDP from rebounding.  Worse, the 'idiots on the hill' with their half-hearted stimulus, designed more for vote-fetching and results-getting, blew a chance to kick America's economy back into high gear.

 

Hate to say it, but the Tea Party and the corpgov's & republicorps totally blew it because while they were whacking at government payrolls, they were literally cutting the legs off from under any chance of recovery.  NOW the Fed is seeing that damn velocity of money problem and they have only two things they can do:  Print & Pray.

 

Now, all this money has to go somewhere and that somewhere is, to some extent, precious metals.  Which is why I can make outlandish predictions like $2,000 gold in a week or so, and have and even-money chance of being right.

 

The problem the Fed has (and Ben Bernanke may get smashed on the rocks of history for this) is that they don't have any way to get the economy kicked over into high gear.  So they're doing the only thing they can: print.

 

But where's the money going?  Pretty much nowhere.  Because people really are pulling in their horns and this means what's ahead for the country (and indeed whole world) will likely have to be what seems to be peeking out of the earliest snips from Clif's predictive linguistics data, something in modelspace we're labeling a PMF (planetary smind f***).

 

We will need this because the whole global economic system is about to crater and we have an example of how a regional "event" (which happened in the fall of 2001, if'n you follow my drift here) because an instant market-turning and economic collapse masking, which I point to on the chart at the bottom of the www.urbansurvival.com/week.htm page. 

 

I've argued for years that without 9/11 back then, the country would have recognized the economic implosion within weeks and there would be no convenient 'levers to pull' in order to ramp up an "instant industry" which would facilitate a sudden new industry (the war/security state industry) which could be used (along with no doc loans) to ramp up the Housing Bubble which gave the PTB another good run of seven years, or so, beyond what should have been some serious economic pain and Global Depression Lite should it have been allowed to occur on the backside of the Internet Bubble, as economics would have otherwise provide, if the shock and awe event hadn't shown up right on cue.

 

Coulda/shoulda/woulda. 

 

Except now, instead of having a secondary recession, since most of Europe is in the crapper, this one will necessarily be global and sure --  there are alternatives to a faked alien invasion, or a regional nuclear war -- but if you go back and read the "(spoof?)" book  Report From Iron Mountain on the accessibility and desirability of peace (about $11 - Amazon) the powers that be are kinda running short new rabbits to pull out of the hat. 

 

By the way, I assume you've at least scouted up the rip-off versions of Iron Mountain to figure out that gee, one of the big rabbits that was supposed to come along was universal health care...but that one is not going per the playbook and this means the PTB will have to resort to more dramatic, global means to wedge the population into doing its bidding. 

 

Besides backroom lab cobbled-up supposed space aliens?  Well, how about a good-sized  deliberate disease?  That would swell healthcare work and - as a reader notes - would fit with much of the linguistic stuff about a pending PMF:

Just saw an ad on the teevee that was for a movie coming out on September 9th, called "Contagion". Seems to be about a world-wide viral epidemic. Don't think I read anything in Clif's report lately about an epidemic, but as you know, Hollywood tends to leak the future.

Which is why, as serious a warning as you'll ever get from Clif & me is this:  When the PMF comes along, try not to get sucked into it, since it will be a put-up designed to draw your attention from the systemic failure developing around you.  Not that a deliberate disease release wouldn't be a stunner, don't get me wrong. I may buy some call options on big pharma, just in case, WTF.

 

While this might seem a bit brash and possibly ravings of a lunatic (which I won't deny, LOL) the observed facts seem to support the outlook since:

• Gold is going up (so that M1/M2 stuff is going somewhere, eh?)

• The economy has not improved since all the political parties are doing is bitching at one another instead of articulating a new vision of the future which people could buy into and get the GDP rolling again.

• The housing market collapse is entering round two and even out here in self-sufficiency land, For Sale signs are popping up faster than I'd have ever thought possible.  40-acre parcels with a home on them are going for dirt cheap, just like the Big City Collapse properties here lately.

• And the stock market should decline to 9,500-9,600 - maybe even later this week, after we finish what to my eye is a little (ii) of (1) of a large 3.  So while I got out and went to cash Friday, I'm likely to re-enter the short side of things today or tomorrow, depending on how the 'action' looks.  (I look at the market as 'action' the same way a gamble looks at the craps tables as 'action'.

Fortunately, I'm a nutjob and most assuredly this outlook must be wrong.  Except that my personal portfolio (as of this morning) is up 70.1% for the year [after commissions, btw].  It's a good thing I don't offer financial advice, is all I can figure.

 

Still, almost predictably, the European markets were rallying strongly (England was up more than 1.5% when I looked along with France, but the Germans were up only a third of a percent.

 

Still, I'm feeling like a genius and here today (or tomorrow) I will load up on the bounce interim high for the next leg down. 

 

One of the artisans of Wall Street send me a note that this morning's note from Cumberland Advisors on "Central Bank Policy, Euro bonds, and QE3" was a good read.

 

Maybe...but M1 racing ahead just under 43% says to me that QE3 is already underway, know what I mean?  Gold's reacting and was just four-bucks shy of $1,900 earlier today on the Kitco site and $1,894 and change on INO...

 

You did see my friend Hugo Salinas Price report on how what's ahead could be "Dorothy's silver shoes or the re-monetization of the silver currency of the United States of America" posted a few weeks back?

 

Outing the Favored Few

Gotta read the Bloomberg piece on how the "Wall Street Aristocracy got $1.2 trillion in loans from Fed."

 

Must be nice; my friends get scarce when it comes to buying a beer.  Care to make introductions?

 

Markets Higher

Well, of course.  Didn't I just explain money is screaming off the M1 press?  Why did I sell Friday?  Answer: To buy back short positions lower today or tomorrow, of course!

 

Chicago Fed Report - Somewhat Improved

The Chicago Fed National Activity report out this morning is one reason for the markets to rally:

Led by improvements in production-related indicators, the Chicago Fed National Activity Index increased to –0.06 in July from –0.38 in June. Three of the four broad categories of indicators that make up the index improved in July; only the sales, orders, and inventories category deteriorated from June.

 

The index’s three-month moving average, CFNAI-MA3, increased to –0.29 in July from –0.54 in June. July’s CFNAI-MA3 suggests that growth in national economic activity was below its historical trend. Likewise, the economic slack reflected in this level of the CFNAI-MA3 suggests subdued inflationary pressure from economic activity over the coming year.

 

Production-related indicators made a contribution of +0.28 to the index in July, up sharply from +0.03 in June. Industrial production increased 0.9 percent in July after rising 0.4 percent in June. Manufacturing production, particularly auto production, rebounded; and manufacturing capacity utilization rose to 75.0 percent in July from 74.6 percent in the previous month.

 

Still looks to me like a double-dip, but that's just the bear in me.  Might wait till later than Wednesday to go short, though...we'll see...

 

GlobalRev Scorecard

Not to sound insensitive (although I am an insensistive lout, but what else is new?) but It's Rebels 1 (including a son) Gadhafi zero this morning. Game could go on 10 more days.

 

Syria is warning the ROW (rest of world) to stay out of their internal (bloody) affairs.  Still, seems like oil bulls would have everything to gain from Syria mischief ramping up; oil prices are on the skids and the fall of Libya puts my $65 forecast in sight...  Quick! Gin up an oil shock!  But how?  That's the problem for oil money, and reason to get them into the PMF mode as participants.  I know this is complex, but have more coffee and do try to keep up.

 

Drought and About

Hurricane Irene has slammed into Puerto Rico, but that's not going to relieve drought stress in Louisiana, Texas, or New Mexico - looks to be heading up Florida.  Plan on stormy weather in South Florida by Thursday.

 

Up north of the Texas Sahara (106º in the shade again Sunday) heavy rains are flooding parts of (Warren) Buffettville.

 

Back from the Sexicide

The on-again, off-again case against Dominique Strauss-Kahn is now reported to be on the verge of being dropped.

 

I've held since Day One that this was just a move on the part of the PTB to 'sexicide' Strauss-Kahn - an attempt to ruin his reputation, keep him from becoming the next president of France, and oh, clear the way for the new gal at the IMF.

 

This ain't the end of it...that much you may be assured of.  The case and its echoes will no doubt continue to be masterfully played as a tool to keep DSK in his appoint (minion of PTB) place, or so it seems just following this.

 

Barring the Public from OUR Lands

Don't know if you have followed this, but there are some mighty strange things going on around the topic of caves all over the place.  A source, for example, up in British Columbia, has noted government workers are going over really remote areas on the premise of "public safety" issues related to old mine shafts and caves.

 

Which I was going to blow off until this popped in from a longtime reader:

"Dear George: For what it is worth, we have a major cave system here in Wyoming, the Tongue River Cave. If you look it up, it is one of the most used caves in the Midwest, miles of tunnels. Just found out that a steel door was erected over the entrance, no one is now allowed. Sun related? Other? I know, most likely for our own safety."

Oh?  And if you open up your inputs, there's increasing pressure to bar the public from public lands.  Even one county in Washington (the state) where it would cost a lousy $3,500 to fix a bridge that has closed off hundreds of miles of trails, but nope, county won't let people contribute to that fund specifically...so really strange stuff going on here.

 

Attack on the 'Net

OK, here's another in our continuing case developing for closing down either the net overall (not likely) or social media (somewhat likely - maybe worth a put option or two) as "Cleveland rapper Machine Gun Kelly's attempt at flash mob in Strongsville ends with handcuffs..."

 

Not to the point of buying put options, but the play is out there on my trading dart board.  Just a matter of when, more than if as I see it.

 

Darn them Kapitalists

Russia is in talks to build more nuke plants...in Iran.

 

Ritualized Warfare Dept.

Two people are in serious/critical in hospital after the 49'ers Raiders game Sunday.

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Not sure if this is unexpected, since isn't that what sports is largely about?  Hitting things with clubs, bats, and slamming someone to the ground for holding onto a ball?  Or, kicking it away from them?

 

I don't have a problem with 'sport with a point'. Shooting, for example, really is a skill, so's flying sailing, and so forth.  But the ritualized mass marketing stuff?  LOL, my life's too short to spend on that kind of distraction. 

 

Rabid sports fan, you say? You must be planning to live a lot longer, or just don't want to engage the real stuff of life.

 

Even sports like boxing are part ritualized:  A quick snap to the Adam's apple, or out with the opponents eyes and that's done with.  We live in a world where the crooked path to indecisive outcomes has been ritualized with rematches and exhibitions of the least sharing kind.

 

But don't mind me, I go to a baseball game every five years, or so, whether I need to or not.  Helps me remember what a beer and a hotdog tastes like in their natural setting, mostly.  I can watch paint dry at home, otherwise.  Aikido?  Kundalini raising arts?  Different matter.  But why to people go in for ritualized sports?

 

Beats me.

 

Coping: Monday at the WuJo

Our friends, SurvivalWoman (and SurvivalHubby) has a fine reminder about how science fiction can be pretty interesting in a modern context in her position this morning "A Prepper's Journey to the Twilight Zone." 

 

While indeed there are some fine lessons from the TZ, we don't need to check into NetFlix to serve up some helpings of problems at the "boundary layer of Reality".  So here's this week's first entry at the WuJo -- that shiny dark wooded room with tasteful rice paper lighting where reality comes to battle the unseen and not totally real...

"Hey George,

Been reading your stuff forever and finally had my own 'where the heck did it go' moment.

Last week finally got the golf clubs out. Its been a long spring leading into this summer from hadies. You see Im in the Ag. chemical/supply business. Late spring... to wet, to cold... you know the deal. Crop in late and germination and yield in the dumper, now and to come. So anyway, got the clubs out to set em by the door and began counted them, as any righteous golfer would, and.... pitching wedge gone! Shite, says me. GF comes over and says what? I said 'look, I lost a club, left it somewhere last year like a dummy, as I rifle through the bad for the 5th - 6th time. Get over myself and throw the bag into the car and back to the office and on ebay to look for a wedge to replace the one I lost, having a good huff while Im at it. Even tell my buddy how lame I am for this while we plan to go thrash a golf course.

We get to the golf course a couple hours later and we throw our bags in the cart, and I begin to arrange them and make sure all is in order and there is my pitching wedge. In the wrong slot and dirty. My friend looks at me with the 'you need to put down the crack pipe' grin and I just stare at the wedge with a grin twice as big as his.

Gotta love it."

This sometimes there - sometimes not - phenomena is seeming to crop up frequently.  Here's another case:

"Don't have much to report on the WUJO front, other than a cat that was a real devil to put outside when we first got her. She had a hard time on the streets in the weeks preceeding her coming to live with us, so she was rather anxious about letting us out of her sight after we rescued her. She'd follow you into the bathroom, you'd put her out, shut the door.... and as you turned around you would realize that the cat you just put on the other side of the door was now sitting on the counter. You would let her outside, watch her march away, shut the door... and you turn around and she would be prancing behind you hoping to get her ears skritched. I listened to the Spouse one morning try to put her outside. Took him 4 tries, alternating between the front and back doors before he gave up in exasperation to eyeball this cat over a cup of coffee. I suppose she could have somehow got by us when we were closing doors, but it seems unlikely when you've just watched the cat take several steps away from you as you are pulling the door shut. Her being nearly impossible to leave on the other side of a door doesn't seem to happen much anymore, now that she appears to be very settled with us."

One of my questions that crops up with this kind of report is whether one (or both) parties are taking statin drugs, which are dangerous in that that seem to be linked with Transient Global Amnesia (TGA) but the odds of two people zoning out (and seeing the same thing) is kinda low - I'll admit that.

 

Still, if the eyewitness reports are correct, then we have some major WuJo to worry about.

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Last week, after the adventures of the reader and his friend named Blaise in Europe, in came a decent explanation of how the GPS in France could suddenly have indicated Japan.  "Did the device have some kind of Japan gateway, or a default location in Japan when signal was lost in France?"  Intriguing possibility.

 

In fact yesterday morning in the plane, flying to to KTYR to shoot some landings, I noticed that when my #2 GPS fired up, it assured me that I was in Westchester New Jersey before deciding, six minutes and a couple of thousand feet closer to the satellites, that "Oh...you really seem to be about here..."

 

That story last week also prompted this dandy reader report:

"Dear George,

I’m a regular reader of your daily column and have been for several years.

Yesterday’s (8/17/11) WuJo posts, especially the temporal loopback, and temporal inertia ones, caused me to decide to send you the phrase in the subject line: Self-Referencing Phase-Lock Loop.

So where did this come from? I don’t know. It is a phrase I ‘heard in my head’ suddenly, at home, about 15 years ago. At the time it appeared to have no relation to anything in my life, other than the fact that I spend a lot of time thinking about how the world really ‘works’.

I immediately wrote down the words I ‘heard’ and began to investigate their meaning. It seemed mostly to relate to electronics circuits. I have no background in physics or electronics.

From one technically inclined friend I learned that you do not want to self-reference a circuit because it will rapidly oscillate out of control. You set a reference outside the circuit to keep it stable.

From another friend with a physics and computer background I learned that if you set up op-amps in a certain configuration you could get them to act like phase-lock loops. With a phase-lock loop you have 2 inputs – a reference and an unknown – and one output, which is the relationship between the reference and the unknown. I believe he also said something about being able to use a multiplier chip for this.

I also realized that phase-lock is like soldiers marching in lock step. They have to break stride before crossing a bridge or they can damage/collapse the bridge. Loop is like putting an action on repeat cycle.

One sense I get from my investigation is that if you have a self-referenced circuit/mechanism, phase-locked to other circuits/mechanisms, and programmed to repeat – the outcome won’t be pretty.

I have intermittently chewed on this strange technical word string for years, realizing that they almost certainly have some useful metaphysical or fringe science meaning. I’m finally passing them on to you to put out in the public domain as you see fit. As of today, a Google search on the full phrase brings up zero matches."

The ideal that time is somehow related to a phase-locked loop is interesting because it could be that there's actually something of a self-referencing phase-lock that applies to time. 

 

We all know that small (often easily dismissed) events happen to everyone from scientists and test pilots (our appearing pencil of a few weeks back) to just trying to put the damn cat outside (above).  But we also know that with few exceptions (a truck just mysteriously appears after a person swears they looked at it wasn't there seconds before) most events are small.  Keys missing only to reappear at a different time and so forth.

 

What if as a working hypothesis here, we suppose that time operates as a self-referencing phase-lock loop which keeps the general timeline going but which may, due to small perturbations in the system of Universe, get wonky until enough phase difference is generated to become detectable?

 

In other words, the general flow of events will occur, but they may be somewhat 'drift' down at the micro-level and we already know this occurs because of both Schrödinger's Cat and the paradox of light as being both a wave - or a particle - depending on who's doing the looking and what they expect to see.

 

Maybe it's just possible that the uncertainty principles which govern quantum mechanics don't ordinarily scale up to observable size, but at the same time, just as probability suggests once every few gazillion years all the molecules of air in your room will be on one side of it at once, they do happen unexpectedly and unpredictably - and that could easily be analogous to minor phase variables below the phase noise floor.

 

I assume we already agree that prayer really works, since it's little more than intent applied consciously though it's most adept practitioners don't work directly on a desired outcome, but on consciously 'allowing' the pieces (the small stuff) to aggregate up from the quantum foam into a different reality than expected.  Michael Crichton got at this 'percolating out of' as the underlying premise of his book Timeline.

 

All of which circles us back to a Twilight Zone episode:  The one where a deranged genius sort build a device which 'freeze time' using an assortment of electronic circuits held overhead in a Statue of Liberty torch pose.

 

Might be science fiction, but if you're read much of the developing body of science behind Electronic Voice Phenomena, you'll quickly grasp how the "voices" from the other side may not be a 'side' at all.

 

It could be we're all just going through a phase, know what I mean?

 

So here's one from a reader who calls hisself a "Hillbilly prepper in Appalachia":

"Thanks for everything that you do, we do appreciate it out here in cyberland.

Here's another weird measurement item. Bought five sheets of 18 ft long metal roofing to replace a shed roof. It came from the hardware store via truck and was unloaded. Took my tape measure and they were 21 ft long. Scratched my head and remeasured three times again with different sheets and got the same result. No moonshine influence (we're in WV) or any other chemical confusion so went to the ACE store and told the manager about it. He checked the records and stated that the originating company sent 18 ft. Ok, no issue there with getting the wrong stuff or someone else's. Next morning bright and early got out the saws and hammers and measured them again..guess what?.. now they are all 18 ft long! Maybe my mind is going but I don't think so. Something strange is going on.

Just passing this on for your collection. Take care."

And another:

George, I love the UrbanSurvival site, have read it for years and I rarely miss a day. I live in Coconut Creek near your old stomping grounds in South Florida. I am not sure if this actually qualifies for a WuJo story but here it goes.

We have a battery operated pendulum clock in a glass case that is displayed on a wall unit shelf in the living room. We have had the clock for over 16 years without any malfunctions. In 2005, while hurricane Wilma was passing over us, I noted the time on the clock read 12:15. As the storm intensified, my family joined me in the living room as we listened to the winds howl and the debris hitting our home. After about a half hour of this I look up at the clock and it is now reading 11:45. I mentioned it to my family and we watched the clock run backwards including the second hand for another hour or so just to prove to myself I wasn’t going crazy. I finally pulled the battery out to disable the clock, reset the time put the battery back in and gave the pendulum a start and it has worked perfectly ever since. I admit it is not the most interesting story but I can not come up with any reasonable explanation.

You see?  This is one of those reports where there's a half hour of missing time except, this one went the other way.  Usually, in UFO abductee reports, the time has been fast-forwarded.  This is our first time reversal.  But maybe this is somehow periodically associated with extreme weather - or maybe it causes it?

 

Then - right on cue from the I-Ching Inbox, which pops a fresh message that's explicitly on point when I write something that's deeply in harmony with Universe - along comes this:

"ok so i work out side lots of heat here in florida so i need water, lots of it. Last night i put 2 water bottles in the freezer and 2 in the refrigerator. I also have one of those blue ice packs that freezes as well.

I toss them all into my cooler in the morning so the water thats frozen will thaw by the end of the day and the water thats just cold from the freezer well i can drink earlier in the day.

This morning I go to look at my water bottles in the freezer, i honestly dont know why since i wasnt ready to move them to the cooler. Anyways when i opened the freezer to see the 2 frozen bottles one was frozen and one was not. I said to myself how can that be thats not possible. as I completed saying that at the same time i was placing the unfrozen bottle back into the freezer and bout to shut the door I had looked back at the unfrozen bottle only to find it now frozen. so 2 frozen bottles of water wheres as seconds before I only had 1.

side note both bottles were placed in the freezer at the exact same time the night before.

I ran to the email machine because I read your site pretty regular and well you have stories like this all the time. Normally Im like yeah right ok sure, but this time its happened to me.

Very neat stuff"

What Clif and I are both worried about it how these events (or eventlets to coin a term for them) may presage that yet-to-be-noted reports about people "staring blankly' 'going into standing stupors' and needing 'help of others to survive' which would seem to fit with that could happen to someone whose mental constructs are not 'light enough' to accept that the world is sinking back into what in previous ages was called "magick".  Just got to observe, hold, and then let go of it lest you 'lock up' and the 'self-referential phase-lock loop becomes locked in your mind leaving you unable to reconcile observed phenomena with what you have held too tightly to as being the only way. There are others, but to the unaccepting, going 'off-line' to process for some time (seconds/hours/days/months?) is not impossible to conceive.

 

That's be our standing/drooling humans...when it shows up and who knows, may have something to do with the PMF (planetary mind f) except instead of just the droolers, could be something else.  A deliberate mix of radio signals that could warp reality, or that TZ kind of story?

 

And there may be a spiritual aspect or dimension of it - since prayer (and that won't stay out cat) seem to get to the idea that emotions carry vast influence.  Now consider this one:

"George, I don't experience temporal displacement but I feel something. I am not crazy as far as I know, I'll be the last to know ha ha. I just have this powerful feeling of strangeness that manifests itself as me feeling like something out of the ordinary is going on. I say to myself that this is just an over active imagination, but it doesn't go away.

I sometimes think of Terence McKenna's Attractor towards which we are hurtling at an ever increasing rate, true or not. I really have no idea. I am an artist of sorts since I was involuntarily retired, always have, been so I think from the right side of my brain quite a bit and I am sensitive in the sense of emotion and awareness of my surroundings and other peoples emotional states on occasion....something is going on.

When I was young I had a deja vu experience, I couldn't have been more than six years old, so powerful that I have never forgotten it. At the time I obviously knew nothing about these kind of things.

I was born and dying at 25 days old when my doctor saved me. apparently I had one in a thousand chances of survival, since then I have been milliseconds from death three times and got up and walked away. Why? is what I always ask, what purpose? Don't even know why I am writing this except for the fact that you and very few others ever consider these things as having validity. Your site is read by me everyday, I enjoy it all. I have to laugh at the financial part as my pockets are empty. But I am rich beyond measure. The love in my life and a mind to ponder things is enough."

It really is, isn't it?  But still, I think there's more to it.  The poet

Percy Shelly summed it up in "Hymn to Apollo" this way:

"I am the eye with which the Universe

Beholds itself and knows itself divine;

All harmony, all medicine are mine,

All light of Art or Nature; to my song

Victory and praise in their own right belong."

Or maybe chemtrails contain psycho-actives, and they're just waiting for a radio trigger of something otherwise benign in the water or food chain to set us all off wonkers.

 

Should know the answer soon enough.  Oh, and if you see me holding an electronic device built around a pipe and held overhead in Statue of Liberty Torch-fashion, and there's a bunch of empty banks reported in Texas...I had nothing to do with it.

 

Honest.  Or, nearly so.

 

Word from "The Stream"?

Might want to keep a swim suit handy in New York:

G,

Weird,

I don’t usually talk about things in meditations unless they have been brought up a couple times in my conscious..over a few meditations. However, this one came strong. Maybe it’s false it will never return to my meditation….

Have you or Clif (I haven’t bought the shape report in 6 mo) seen any language for a rogue wave hitting new York? What I seen was a sizable wave, but not city wipeout size, but sizable to crest at the base of the statue of liberty and then hits from out of nowhere. I can see people as they are like…what? No warning. Takes out about 1 or less miles in and recedes. Buildings still seem to be standing. In the quick vision, the wave came from the southeast."

OK, so a smallish version of the Cumbre Viejo landslide maybe?  Wonder what they will do to Florida?  More important is the when of this...so it you can pull out a date, that'd be of interest to oh, 100 million people, or so.