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More to MF Than Meets the Eye?

At least so far:  Got a heads-up from either a reader of, or author of, a report at the Realist News site claims that as part of the MF Global blow up, $80 million bucks worth of customer warehouse receipts for (gold & silver, of course!) and what makes it also interesting is that (this article claims) there's some financial outfit, or other, which made a loan up around $300 - $400 million...and since the purported gold and silver were worth $700 million, guess who made out like [fill in your own bankstah term].  Not sure what to make of it yet....

 

Holiday Rally Due

That major rally we were talking about yesterday, which I predicted would be +144 points at some point during the day's trading, happened, although things backed off a bit to close up only 112 and change.

 

This morning, using the same technique explained to Peoplenomics subscribers in the Wednesday column, we should see the Dow pop up 87.2 points, plus or minus a ham sandwich with a side of fries.

 

Asia was up a bit overnight (0.9% on the Hang Seng ain't a bad thing).  The most buoyant part of Ure-Up was Germany which was also up about 0.9% when I looked.

 

So, does this mean peace and harmony are breaking out, once again? 

 

Heavens no!  It's only because the holiday.  As far as the bankster class is concerned, what would be more ideal than having banks and federal regulators taking the day off while the stock markets are open; as you kidding me?  Of course we should be 80-90 points up today at some point.

 

Next week, we'll be back into the "heavy money numbers" with the PPI Tuesday along with retail sales, and then Wednesday the Consumer Price Index is due - not that the hole in your household finances doesn't indicate something above the claimed rates...

 

Speaking of Rates

Did you happen to notice the weekly M1/M2 numbers in the Feds weekly H.6 Money Stocks measure?  Land o' Goshen!  M1 creation is down to only 29% annualized while M2 has dropped to 13.2%.

 

Over at Trader Bart's place, we notice that M3b (reconstructed since the Fed under Greenspan played hide-the-sausage on this statistic) is now going up at an annualized rate of around 7-7½ percent. 

 

Which means what, presactly?  Well, a dart would put the CPI inflation rate at about 4 percent (it was 3.9% in the October report). 

 

I'll resist the impulse to roll out the whiteboard this morning (with that delightful solvent smell from our markers).  Coffee is safer, but the point [well hidden in here] is that if money printing is going up 7-7½ percent and prices at the store have gone up 4.2 percent annualized - which is my CPI dart throw - then somebody ought to be seeing the missing/implied 3% systemic deflation rate showing up.

 

Here's a laggard which hints:  Thursday's Import and Export price reports both showed (the missing deflationary declines): 

U.S. import prices declined 0.6 percent in October, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today, after recording no change in September. Decreasing prices for both nonfuel and fuel imports contributed to the October drop. Export prices fell 2.1 percent in October, the largest monthly decline since a 2.2 percent decrease in December 2008.

You have to keep in mind when looking at Ex/Im figures that there's all kinds of hysterisis (time lag, but hysterisis is the lingo-lango if you have initials after Ure name) in the number.  By the time orders are placed, raw materials show up, and boxes hit the dock, there's time lag, right?

 

The Downgrade That Wasn't

A little "Oops" from S&P as they accidentally downgraded French bonds, not to be confused with French blondes.

 

Veteran's Day Notes

First, a moment of deep appreciation for our best and bravest who put on uniforms and protect Fortune 500 interests globally.  The military is a victim to the systemic hijack of the Republic's foundations by lobbying interests.

 

A Slate article (back in 2006 here) showed that at that time lobbying in Washington came to $2 billion, and I'd put it closer to $3 billion now.  And, of this, remember we're only talking "reportable" spending.  Doing busses to get seniors out of their nursing homes after being well-schooled on which lever to push?  That's not necessarily reportable: That's "community service."  yeah, sure, you bet'cha.

 

So, if we use the 535 number for Congress  That works out to $5.6 million per year, or $11-million in a congressman's term,  or $30+ million for the longer senate terms.

 

So as we hoist the coffee to those who serve, we're reminded that they really deserve better leadership. 

 

Maybe I'm just being curmudgeonly:  Seems to me we elect "best fund raisers" and not "best thinkers" which is either appalling, or it's the "American way" depending on whether you're on the giving or getting end of the income return proceeds.   Obviously, I don't get invites to play with the boyz at St. Andrews...

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I notice that some retailers are having Veteran's Day sales which, pardon me for saying, seems like it misses the point, but only by the distance from Earth to YU55, or so.

 

Serendipitous event for one reader though who spied this:

Mornin; First thing this morning ( 06.00 AM) my puter indicated that microsoft had finished an update and needed to restart. Figured do it now and not suffer the constant notices. Well as that finished a notice to update Adobe flash player appeared, and as I was not in a hurry I also did that update. As it finished I was notified that it was edition or update or whatever ( # 11.1 ) Got a chuckle out of that.

Couch Potato Warning

Don't be like the lady who sat so long in a vinyl recliner that she has to be pried out to be taken to hospital...

 

Adventures of the Geezer Bandit

Continue in LaJolla.  Wonder if this is someone trying out my theory that if your retirement account goes bust, you could always do some crimes, and thus get three hots and a cot...

 

New Tourism Destination

Now that a new island has popped into the Canary Islands group, I've put a note in the "news tickler file" to report back when it's large enough (and cooled off enough) to support tourism.  10-centuries ought to do it.

 

Talk of the....er.......

Elaine and I went to a nice dinner last night and Rick Perry's slip of the....er....where were we?

 

Oh, yeah, this means the best the repubicorps can field will be a pizza man/banker, a disgraced former House speaker and I don't know what we call Romney...

 

More after this.....

 

 

Coping: With the Worldwide WuJo Outbreak

We have a little tsunami problem to look forward to, it seems.  But let's get everyone up to speed first.

 

The "Wujo" as any long-term reader knows, is a heavily built, old cedar log beams with fancy white paper dividers in the Asian dojo tradition, where we show up with coffee and do mental aikido with what seems to be an increasing number of woo-woo events.  Everything from space alien abductions to time-slips, to disappearing/reappearing objects is fair game, as are prophetic dreams.

 

So we begin today's working trying to digest the latest dispatch from our Jakarta, Indonesia Bureau, which dislocated former Texan (the original Oilman1 before he shanghaied himself) hangs out with his bride and playing Let's Make a Deal with everything from metals to energy products, while pursuing a spiritual path...

"Hiya chief! This is a weird one, even for someone well-versed in the Far Side. Yesterday morning, I woke up. My wife brought coffee, as usual, but instead of going about her business, she sat down beside me. I could see that she was troubled, so I inquired as to why. She mentioned that she had had a bad dream in the night. About what, I asked. She told me about dreaming of a terrible tsunami and she was among a bunch of folks running up the side of a hill or mountain. It was non-specific on location, and one of those dreams where the harder you run, the behinder you get.

 

A couple of hours later, my driver picked me up, and on the way to the office, I mentioned that he looked tired. Yes, he said, he had been kept awake by a dream about a terrible tsunami. (!!!)

 

He went on to describe it almost word-for-word the same as my wife. Later in the day, a colleague came into my office to drop off some papers and plunked down in the chair, looking tuckered out. I, now regretfully, asked if he was tired.

 

Yes, he said, a bad dream had kept him awake last night. What was it, I asked reticently, now starting to make a link between these people.

 

He had a bad dream about a giant tsunami, and he was one of a bunch of people scrambling up a hill or mountain, but it seemed like the harder he ran, the slower he went.

 

At this point, I was plumb freaked out. None of them reported a specific location, even as to country or other identifier. Nor could they really identify race or other clearly unique markers about the other people. Just that there were a bunch of them Not sure what to make of all this, but I do know that none of the three had contact before or after, I did not prompt in any way that would lead the conversation towards dreams or tsunamis, and all described more or less the exact same dream on the same night.

 

Here all I dreamed about was trying to save a midget transvestite having a heart attack backstage after a performance as Judy Garland. Yes, I’m serious, and no, I don’t particularly like show tunes or frilly underwear (at least on me).

 

Strange times in Casablanca…

Hmmm...got me to wondering if I should check our little WuJo project - the National Dream Center Database - see if anything had changed in the past couple of months:

 

 

General "calamity" is actually down here, but surreality/wujo kinds of dreams seem to be spiking, which is what when we get "surreal" reports we find them so interesting.

 

Speaking of which, here's a good example of the kind of woo-woo that pops into the inbox around here:

Hi George,

I enjoy people's confusion in the wujo stories, but the other day it was my turn. My wife was scheduled to go on a very early morning balloon ride. She was told to call beforehand to ensure that the ride wasn't cancelled due to bad weather. We both went to sleep around midnight. I woke up at 3:00 AM, and decided to call on her behalf. If the ride were cancelled, I would turn off the alarm. I picked up the cell phone, went into the other bedroom so as not to wake her, and called the number. An answering machine picked up and informed me that the early morning ride was cancelled due to rain. At that point, she walks past the door. I call out, and she immediately says, "I know, the ride was cancelled. There is too much fog". I say, "How do you know?". She says, "You told me already". Since I had just awakened, I knew I had definitely not told her.

My first thought was that she had dreamed what she remembered, but she insisted she hadn't. The only other explanation I could come up with was that we must have each veered off into different time-lines sometime between midnight and 3:00 AM. In her time-line, I had called and heard that the ride was cancelled due to fog. I so informed her by leaning over her while she was still in bed. In the time-line I remember, I had called and heard that the ride had been cancelled due to rain. I told her this after she got up and after she had already had her experience. It may be worth noting that the important stuff was the same in the two versions. I had made the call and informed her of the cancellation. The differences between the versions were the reason for the cancellation, where she was when I told her, and my intention to wake her up to tell her.

Don't know quite what to make of this one.

 

Case of the WuJo Clock

Several answers to the "clock spinning" problem reported in yesterday's column:

I guess you never had one of those in your classroom as a kid? Two versions. One run slightly fast and stops when it gets to a certain time. A GO signal is sent out by the main clock in the school office. Other one runs slightly slow and when it gets a signal fast forwards to the time lock. Sounds like this was #2 and for some reason wasn't stopping (worn latch? it's all mechanical).

Maybe. But, how would you explain this one?

For back ground I was a radarman in the USN from 68 to 73. Since then I worked as a marine geophysical survey ship navigator on quite a few ships for about 18 years. So I think I know a bit about radar! About 15 years ago (shows how much it affected me that I still remember it) I was sitting in the instrument room on one survey ship that I had working on for over a year. I happened to look at the radar repeater and was stunned! The sweep was going the wrong way! As I was reaching for the intercom to call the bridge and ask about it I paused. And just watched it for a few more minutes. Finally I decided that the bridge would call me if there were really anything wrong. After about 10 minutes more I thought, but the sweep always goes clockwise! Nope, I KNOW it had always gone counter-clockwise! Only explanation I could come up with then or now is that I had a reality slip. Since that time I have had a few other such slips, none for the last few years that I know of. On one road that I drove for years as I was approaching a corner where I turned I did not recognize the intersection. There were trees and brush that were grown up that I had never seen before. They were not recently planted, or else someone did a heck of a job of hiding the fact! Also many times along that road I would be totally lost, I couldn't recognize where I was or tell you what was ahead, if anything! I just decided to call them another reality slip and let it go, my brain (or self?) would eventually accept that those things were always like that.

So the WuJo stuff has been going on for many years, probably even before I noticed it.

This wasn't by chance on the USS Eldridge, was it?

 

The Veteran's Day Existentialist Report

Long, but I hope worth it:  Our quest for the answer to the question "What is the meaning of Life?" continues to elicit suggestions:

I thought you might appreciate this story that a friend told me many years ago regarding the meaning of life. To set the scene, two friends are sitting on the porch one evening discussing the nature of existence. It's been a long time since I first heard the story but the conversation goes something like this...

John: "I just wish I knew what it all meant. Why are we here? What's the purpose?"

Bob: "Yeah, I know what you mean. I've discovered the answer to that question many times and I still don't understand it."

John: "So what's the answer?"

Bob: "I can't remember. I never wrote it down."

John: "What?! Why wouldn't you write it down? And how could you possibly forget?"

Bob: "There's no point in trying to remember the answer to the single most asked question in the world. I'll ask it again and I'll discover the answer again."

John: "How can you live with yourself knowing that you have discovered and then forgotten the answer to the ultimate question?"

Bob: "What's the point of living if you no longer have to ask the question, "What does it all mean?" ....oh....son of a....I just remembered."

Ah, just so!

 

And as usual, our "I-Ching Inbox" reported this interesting story which makes a finer and quite timely point so as to be worth a cup of coffee with:

The Skunk and the Dog

 

Two weeks ago my husband and I noticed a skunk in our yard that was severely wounded and hobbling around in the middle of the day looking for food. As we watched the skunk we realized it was the one that lived in the drainage pipe that ran underneath our driveway.  For several days the skunk would come out of it's burrow each day to hunt for food. At times the skunk would lay out in the sun in our yard for hours at a time panting heavily. Just when we thought it had died it would be up and hobbling around again looking for food. This behavior was totally unlike the normal behavior of a skunk. Skunks usually sleep during the day and feed at night. As the skunk struggled to get around during the daytime hours we would watch it's struggle with compassion and cry. 

 

Feeling sorry for the skunk we discussed our options. "Should we intervene, and rescue the skunk, or put it down so it would not suffer?" We decided to call the Division of Wildlife and found out that skunks are one of the two animals that are not allowed to be rescued or rehabilitated in Colorado because of Rabies (#2 is a Bat). We called the Sheriff's Department to see if they could come and put the skunk down, but they aren't allowed to shoot a firearm in city limits. Because of it being hunting season there were no wildlife officers available to do the task. My son even offered to come hit it with a shovel, but couldn't bring himself to follow through with it, especially since it was very likely he would get sprayed. So we decided to let nature take its course and left food and water out for the skunk, just in case it would be able to heal from its wounds on its own. 

 

We found out a couple of days later from two different neighbors that Brian, who lived two doors down from us, had been out shooting at a skunk. We put two-and-two together that this was how the skunk became wounded. Brian has a dog named T-Bone. He is a beautiful one-year-old Akita with the cutest personality to match. T-Bone has taken to us and comes down to our house every day for the nibble of food we leave out for him. He likes us so much that he sleeps on the dog bed and blankets we left out for him on our front porch. This has been his routine for months. We really love T-Bone and his sweet spirit. 

 

Because T-Bone makes frequent trips to our house for some loving and a few dog biscuits, he would often encounter the wounded skunk. In his puppy like manner he'd bark at the skunk and yes he would get sprayed. We tried diligently to intervene on the skunks behalf and redirect T-Bone away. After a few days T-Bone began to realize that encounters with skunks was not pleasant and began to leave the skunk alone. 

 

We continue to watch the skunk with care and hoped for the best. After about five days of watching over the skunk, that evening the skunk did something very unusual. Instead of going back to it's burrow it crawled on to our porch and burrowed itself into the blankets on T-Bones bed. It burrowed so far under the blankets that all you could see was it's tail. We didn't want want to disturb the skunk, but also wondered what would happen when T-Bone came to bed down for the night. We left the skunk alone and would allow T-Bone and the skunk to figure out their sleeping arrangements.

 

The next morning we peeked out the window to find that the skunk was still on the porch under the blankets. T-Bone was no where to be found so we figured T-Bone had come and found someone sleeping in his bed and went to go find another cozy spot for the evening. At about noon the skunk left the porch and hobbled out to the field next door. That was the last we saw the skunk. It had moved on and we hoped that it had died was finally out of pain.

 

T-Bone did not show up to visit us that day, or the next day, or the next. We began to worry. We went to speak with Brian, T-Bone's owner, only to find out that T-Bone had wandered to the other side of town a few days earlier and was shot and killed by a man because T-Bone was in his yard. We cried. Brian couldn't understand why the man who shot him just didn't shoo him away. The man who shot T-Bone was ticketed for firing a weapon in city limits. The owner of T-Bone was ticketed for having a dog at-large.

 

My husband and I ran the gamut of emotions that day, from anger to grief, at the lost of our good friend T-Bone. The questions swirled in their minds of "Why, did this have to happen?" The Universe didn't supply the answer all that day. We went to bed weary with our grief. At 11:30 pm I woke up from a deep sleep with the answer. It was Karma. Brian had shot an innocent skunk in his yard without disregard for its life, therefore the dog that he loved was killed in like manner. Then the thought went through my head, "Be careful of your actions and what you send out into the Universe, because time is speeding up so are the effects of Karma. What goes around comes around."

 

The question that remains:

 

What was my husband's and my roll as the compassionate observers of someone else's karma? Seems we were the one that felt the most heart ache.

 

It would be interesting to see if others have experienced, or observed, the speeding up of Karma.

Perhaps the lesson for you and your husband isn't obvious because of your pain, having watched this lesson in Karma. 

 

Might I suggest to you that a review of the old koan which asks "If a tree falls in the woods, but no one is there to hear it, does it make a sound?" is in order.

 

Seems to me Universe rather gracefully enrolled you as witnesses to these events - and thus to appreciate - how Universe goes about its work...

 

Perhaps, in the some way, there's a larger context to be shared on this Veterans Day about violence and the role of observers, since the suffering of noncombatants seems somehow correlated to the scale of violence by the parties to war -  who may themselves not be aware of the larger context of their actions.  Indeed, "What goes around, comes around."

 

Damn shame, too.  I wonder how many centuries we're going to drag this simple lesson out? 

 

I ask you in all sincerity:  As with the Dog and the Skunk, without victims to watch, would wars have a point?  Would they make a sound?

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Figure out how to cast off that demon and maybe we could get off this rock.

 

 

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Knowledge Engineering for the End of the World

After our usual dance through the morning headlines and review of the week's charts we'll be off with our usual light-hearted look at something related to the longer term prospects.  In today's case, it's knowledge engineering for the end of the world.  Say what?  Yeah, strange how many people prep for "the usual" (gun, grub, and gold) but forget that the whole point of surviving [come what may] is not simply to die after everyone else, but to get the world back rolling in a positive direction [if the survivors leave anyone alive].  But first, the economic week in perspective....including the possibility of a nuclear Monday for metals...

 

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Taming Cookies

Computer cookies have a purpose in life - they facilitate things like online banking and stock trading.  But there's a vicious side to them:  They can be used to track your web use without you even knowing about it.  And even more dangerous are the 'cross site' cookies which can install malware on your computer without you ever knowing it.

 

The answer?  Maxa Cookie Manager, MCM.

 

Take it for a free test drive by clicking here - and it you like it, activation is easily done. If you're a heavy web user (who ain't?) you may find like I do that you've accumulating a hundred or more cookies per day.  Only a handful need to be white-listed, like your brokerage account or your bank.  The rest?  Software designed to spy on you that robs you of computer performance.   Been using it for several years and pleased as the Dickens with it.

 

The "Do Drop Inn"

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Strange Dreams?

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Thursday  November 10, 2011

Big Bounce Thursday

So, like it comes as a surprise, Lucas Papademos, who's is a former European Center Prank dude, is going to run Greece with a coalition government.  So the Dow will - according to a daily update of my spreadsheet using "Ure's Semi-constant"  described in yesterday's Peoplenomics update should (as of 75-minute old pricing) pop up about 144 points shortly after the open.  The futures are simply wrong...either that or I am, which is nearly incomprehensible. 

 

Losing Their Fannie

I suppose some mention could be made of the FannieMae press release out on Tuesday:

Fannie Mae (FNMA/OTC) today reported a net loss of $5.1 billion in the third quarter of 2011, compared to a net loss of $2.9 billion in the second quarter of the year. The company’s third-quarter loss was driven primarily by two factors: $4.9 billion in credit-related expenses, the substantial majority of which were related to its legacy (pre-2009) book of business; and $4.5 billion in fair value losses driven primarily by losses on risk management derivatives due to a significant decline in swap interest rates during the quarter. These losses were partially offset by $5.5 billion in net revenues. The decline in net revenues.

None of which would too worrisome, except that foreclosures are picking up steam to a 7-month high per MSNBC which means (see if you can figure this out without help) what could happen to FannieMae losses going forward?  You don't really need a hint here, do you?

 

The Ultimate "Put-Down"

...is now showing up in the Netherlands as the first severe Alzheimer's patient has been euthanized, or is that Eurothenized?  Rather than eulogize the euthanized, we'll proselytize...the....uh...what were we talking about?

 

Speaking of Which

You did see Rick Perry's blank-out in the  Michigan debate last night?

 

Roll the Queen song...

 

Iran War in the Wings?

Calm before the storm, maybe?  A warning from the supreme leader of Iran was down at #4 position on the Jerusalem Post's front page when I looked.

 

Debka is quoting a UK expert who is saying the attack will come next month...again, I look at timing and wonder "settling down the rhetoric before launch?"  No point in saying "We're coming next Tuesday at 9:17 AM" is there?
 

Anonymous?

Latest message out Wednesday from Anonymous seems to threaten Oakland, but in a non-specific way.  Since the theme was, if I recognized it was "Scotland the Brave" played on pipes, perhaps a invasion of bagpipes in the learning stage would teach everyone a thing or two?...

 

The (Drug) War with Mexico

Reports of all kinds of abuses are coming to light.

 

Fortunately, reading reports like the one above are actually easy once you have the larger context in hand:  The US is sending de facto support (gunwalkers,
Fast & Spurious, etc) while the Mexican dirt weed (and worse) comes in, tarnishing the good name of ganja, which keeps the liquor lobby going and high tech alternatives to real fencing coming from defense contractors.

 

FTM (follow the money) here lately cures WTF-itis.

 

Emergency Contagion

So, there was no outbreak of nuclear war, Israel didn't pop Iran, and other than the stock market playing "Help, I've fallen and I can't get up..." it was just another Wednesday around here.  But, our ever-alert New Zealand Bureau did notice one oddity:

"I thought you may find it interesting in hearing that at 11:00am this (Thursday) morning the local city council here in New Zealand sent a truck around with a loudspeaker saying:

"The next time you hear this it could be a real emergency. ..."

I asked in the office and no one has a recollection of anyone in authority ever communicating in the same manner.

Of course, our Bureau Chief in Kiwiland is a migrant IT whiz, so he does notice such things.

 

Meantime a reader suggests a quick rewrite of the EANS message:

"Attention ... we're boned. Prepare for hard landing That is all"

Oilman2 On Fracking

A number of readers have asked me if the recent very out-of-place earthquake up in Oklahoma was caused by oil and gas work.  So here's some valuable input to dial into your thinking on such matters from Oilman2 who has forgotten more about really getting oil and gas out of the ground than most folks ever learn...

The title of the link here ["Experts: Okla. quakes too powerful to be man-made'"] should give you pause with the use of the word ‘experts’….

While I do agree with the general premise that they follow (slim chance that large quakes are related), what needs to be stated here is that both the oil exploration companies and ANY federal administration (composed of career politicians) DO NOT WANT oilfield hydraulic fracturing linked to small earthquakes and/or changes in the water table or anything else. It is VERY important for both of these groups to maintain that the events are separate and unrelated.

If they are allowed to link, then there will be legal action by local populace, drilling activity will be slowed and local/state/federal agencies will have to retract statements, change plans, and lose control. Jobs will be lost, as will money flowing to land owners and into local coffers. There is scads of anecdotal evidence concerning polluted water tables, changes in water tables and recent small quake activity in certain areas where hydraulic fracturing is being done. Unfortunately, most issues are bought off at the landowner level by the companies exploiting the oil. It is far easier to buy a man’s land, make him sorta rich and shut the issue down than to have the linkage made.

As a rule, a fault requires a change in the angle of the rock facies. This means that they are rare in sedimentary basins (think flat areas, like plains and river basins), but more likely in areas where the rock facies have abrupt angle changes (think old hilly areas and old mountain zones, i.e. Arkansas). If you read the statements, the ‘experts’ refer to the energy expended in creating the frac (fractures) and not to the potential of lubricating an existing fault which is under geologic pressures. They are not lying, but are side-stepping the real issue, as it is unknown at this time what the outcome will be.

Remember the San Andreas – if it is lubricated, then it slides. If it isn’t, it locks up and stores energy. Locked faults HOLD energy, so what do you think will result if water is allowed to enter a locked fault? I would think readjustment to a lower energy level, which means a release of energy, i.e. quakes.

MILLIONS of gallons of water and sand or proppant are squeezed into these wells, across an area miles in lateral extent if we look at things in terms of an oil ‘field’. The zone they inject the frac into is roughly the same depth across this area, and they have no control on what direction the fractures generated run, or what formerly disconnected fractures become connected. Where the water goes is anyone’s guess, and the more they inject, the greater the chance of water slipping into a stressed fracture, and making a small quake. Of higher concern is the readjustment of rocks that might screw up the flow of shallow surface aquifers, or vertical links to the oil rock where it can (and will – oil and gas rise to surface, being lighter than water) contaminate aquifers.

OK – said it again, and since I believe that ANY TIME experts are paraded into the news it is by a very interested party, well, there has to be a reason to spend the money. Right?

Oilman2

Another 3.2 aftershock up near Robin Landry's place in Shawnee, OK overnight. 

 

Coping:  Outbreak at the WuJo

Say, don't mean to disturb your (for now) firm grip (a death-grip, usually) on the apparent "firmness" of reality, but we've just been slammed with reports from the WuJo World of incidents that argue the "here and now" may not be so much here, or so much now, as hard science would have us believe.

 

Read some of these and think about the trend we've been talking about:

"Hi George:

You are more familiar with paranormal experiences than I am and I wanted to share with you an experience I had two weeks ago.

I live in a lovely townhouse within a forested setting, with many trails nearby. Every morning I take my dog out for about an hour walk on some of the trails. We usually walk in the same direction, as there are neighbors and their dogs we typically run into. So, here we leave for our walk. We are walking down the street, turning a slight corner, and my dog is walking up a slight hill towards one of my neighbors. He relieves himself, and appears to be heading towards my neighbor's house, which is our usual route. I follow him, walking up the hill, and bend down for a few seconds to pick up his relieved remains.

I continue walking towards my neighbors house, and do not see my dog. I call for him, and continue walking. I am perplexed since I do not see or hear my dog around, and this is just within a short distance, and wondered, where did he go? We are always together, and he does not run off. There is a pathway which is towards my brother's townhouse, and I walk over there and don't see him there, either. I begin to feel a slight panic since I have no idea where he is -- he does not disappear like this. I call for him, and I cannot hear him around (from the jingle on his collar). Where the heck did he go?

I stop over at my neighbor's house, and ask him if he has seen my dog, and he said he had not and brought his dog out to see if he could find him. No such luck. Then I really start to feel afraid. Did he pass out someplace nearby? Did he run off someplace? But this behavior is too unusual to comprehend.

I told my neighbor I was going to walk back home since that would seem like the most logical place he would be, but he's never turned around to walk back home by himself since we are always within close proximity to each other. So, I start walking home, and as I was walking down the block, I could hear him barking and knew he was home. I called him, and he continued barking. As I got home, he was within my patio area, and appeared somewhat spooked but glad to see me.

How one earth did he get there? He was just out of my sight for a few seconds while I bent down to pick up his relieved remains, and that's it. Through the periphery of my vision he was heading towards my neighbor's residence, and somehow, vanished.

What do you think of this?"

Assuming you're not have temporary global amnesia from statins, no telling how this happened.  Maybe just lost site of him.  But then again, here's another little oddity:

Just thought I would pass on a bit of WuJu. I'm a nursing student and when I was in lab on 11/8/11, myself, 14 of my classmates, and my instructor had a rather strange experience. In the lab, we a very typical wall-mounted, battery operated clock. At 2:11pm, both the hour hand and the minute hand began to move very fast around the entire face of the clock. We all just stared at it, as if in a stupor. Both hands of the clock, rotated around the entire face several times, and it stopped again at exactly 2:11pm. After wards, we all just looked at each other for a few seconds as if we were all mentally agreeing that we were just not going to discuss what just happened. No one said a word and we all went back to doing our lab right where we left off. Has anyone else reported this type of phenomena?

Yes, although check the clock and tell me what country it was made in...or maybe there's a high powered radio signal that somehow.....

On Monday I went to a friend's home and we decided to watch a British TV series on The Tudors on Netflix on his laptop. We selected Season 1: Part 1. Close to the end the server crashed and we were not able to finish the film as the server just played dead. The next afternoon I decided to watch the last part of the film on my laptop at my home. So I pulled up Netflix, typed in The Tudors and the screen popped up at the same exact place where the server had crashed on my friend's laptop. So I watched the end of the film. We live 12 miles or so from each other and do not use the same server. My friend is a techie guy and he says there is no way that can happen. So my guess is there must have been some type of "space" slippage for the film to end up at the same exact place on my laptop from his the night before. I am pretty certain that my computer was turned off all night while I visited my firend. Keep on doing what you do, George. We need to see through the chaos.

This one is easy!  If you logged in with the same username and password at both locations, the "place" was logged in the user cache and simply picked up from there.  One the other hand, if he had logged in with a different username and password, then take some tranks and don't get weirded out.  Because things go on and get stranger...

G’mornin George!

Another fine day at the wujo. So much so, that I had to drop you a line. I must say this wujo thing is starting to get a bit out of hand ,considering I’m now starting to expect its occurrence.

Soooo, I needed to replace my dishwasher handle. Ordered the part. It arrived in timely fashion. Watched a video to see how its installed. The vid stressed turning off the power. Well, that’s not something I normally do. I’m perfectly happy to roll the dice vs. trying to figure what breaker does what. So much so, that I’ve seen “the fog” that results from wiring yourself from power to ground. An interesting sensation of disconnection from reality To say the least.

Back to the dishwasher. Before I ordered the part I secured the proper T-10 torx bit that fit the door fasteners and removed a couple to get a sense of the task at hand. The wife then used the same driver to break Down the old computer. When it came time to put the handle in, I quickly located the T-10 driver….and it was too small. Flashed thru my head that the wujo wanted the power off before I’d find the right driver. I hunted everywhere..garage, kitchen drawer, all the usual tool haunts. No driver.

In disgust at this point, I said screw it and went to the fuse panel to find the breaker for the dishwasher. Maybe now I’ll find the driver. Well, the only marked breaker in the entire panel says “dishwasher”. Figures. And the proper driver? Now, lying 8 inches from the T-10 on the counter in the kitchen. Right next to where I put the T-10 when it didn’t fit. Whats truly strange to me is how much I had expected this from the moment I watched the vid. I knew I had used a T-10. The video said it was a T-20. A torx driver is just not something that gets used in the house very often. I knew I had handed that same T-10 that fit, directly to my wife to break down that old computer. My tools, and I have A LOT of tools, are in complete disarray.

Finding a driver of any sort these days is a serious task. It is impossible to have jumbled this up, or forgotten and somehow moved around these tools. It would have been a hide and seek type task to get out two different drivers…and to leave the right one on the counter and forget it? No way. Just not possible. I have cleaned that counter, prepared food and dog meals. Just no way to miss it. Part two of this tale is the timewarp. Wife left @9:30 am. The usual time. I read your column. Followed two links. Did the dishwasher thing. Played fetch with the dog. Charged the tractor battery. Finished winterizing the hot tub. Mowed the lawn. Broke down the vacuum and figured out the part it needed. Test ran the dishwasher on a two hour cycle. Made myself a chicken parmesan on wheat, and ate it. Feeling like it had to be about 3:30. Looked at the clock to discover it was 11:30 am.

Freakin time warp. All those tasks take time, and I wasn’t feeling ‘super efficient’, the day to that point went really slowly apparently. I feel like there is some sort of ‘intentions’ thing going on in the background, and that whole ‘co-creating’ your universe thing. Like I interacted with it the way it wanted me to in some fashion. And as a reward, more time in the day? My expectations seemed to affect the day in inordinate fashion and proportion. Does that make any sense? Has anyone else ever felt that way?

yes...this is a typical abduction/run-in with The Adjustment Bureau.  Might check to see if you have any odd sore spots around the neck, shoulders, back, and sinus problems...be on the lookout for an implant.

 

What time is it?

George, I’ve followed your site for a long time now and have read with passing interest of people’s experiences with ‘time slip’. I haven’t experienced anything like that myself, until this morning. It’s Wednesday November 9th a couple of days passed the end of daylight saving time. That day passed uneventfully as our clocks were turned back and everybody was on time. This morning however was different. I woke up a couple of hours early, did some work on the computer then woke my 6 year old up at 6:30 to get ready for school. I fixed her breakfast and made her lunch as I always do then sat back down at my computer to check the financial news and the pre-markets until 7:00 am which is the deadline for getting dressed and ready to go to school.

This is the part that I can’t explain: As my clock was approaching 7:00 I finished up and looked again as it turned to 8:00. I had a long minute of disorientation as I checked the clock again then double checked my wristwatch. The watch corroborated the time; it was indeed 8:00 am. I thought for a minute that I had forgotten what time she was supposed to go to school (in an Alzheimer’s kind of way). Then I felt really disoriented; thinking that maybe I had forgotten the whole schedule of everything. It was one of the worst mind f*#k moments I can remember having in my adult life.

Upon arriving at her school fairly late, I saw quite a number of adults walking out of the school to their cars as if it was the normal time to drop their children off. When I reached the office there was a long line of other parents who were bringing their children in late (If late, we have to check our children in at the office for safety reasons). The office staff seemed mystified. I heard the school principal mention to another person that there were no cars in the circle this morning to drop their children off (which is usually a long parade). The woman who checked my daughter in told me that I was not alone, everyone in line was late. This caused me a little anxiety as I lost one hour in the blink of an eye and it seems I may not have been alone. I have no way to explain this, nor have I any theory. I simply don’t know what happened.

See above...run in with The Adjustment Bureau...OR time, like shared reality, is a community/mass consciousness thing, perhaps.  And, if it is, as the Internet frees more and more people to agree differently there would be a division of realities since we are all co-creators. 

 

And, I somehow suspect that's why there are groups within the PTB that are so anxious to defend the paradigm - which is to say more precisely, they have a major incentive (control, money, emotion harvesting) to maintain their "deal" with the dark side. So, when considered as a template, shared reality bifurcating reduces their concentration of power and maybe - just thinking out loud here - if they don't produce enough "hot emotions for the emotion-eating "other" to eat" the "other" comes along as something like a race of fallen angels until a new deal is struck and....then to make the emotions go off, the PTB at some high (Grove?) level keep the emotions going by perpetrating war and increasing the divisions amongst people.

 

Divide, conquer, war & suffer and keep power, money, and sexual perversions as a payoff.  It's a kind of grand unifying theory, at least.  Why did people sacrifice goats or other living/sentient entities, do you think?  Deal time!  And it continues today under various symbols like stars, bars, circles, yada, yada...

 

Of course you get to have your own theories...and there's the danger of the 'net.

 

On OWS Support

Mixed reaction from readers on our little banner in support of OWS - because there's a lot wrong and screwing taxpayers over in order to save bankster-bastards while they write themselves bone-us checks ain't my idea of how to run  a railroad, and since government can't seem to figure out who's screwing the pooch here, the People may have to make a statement.  As one reader put it:

"When you can't even get a two bit joke job in your hometown where you were born and raised but they'll repeatedly give the job your trying to get to some illegal immigrant who broke into your country then you know the game has been rigged against you and you need to make the one's who rigged the game against you pay even if it costs you your life because the only thing worse than death is a wasted life. Remember that for the future because that's the reason many people are going to do what they'll going to do."

Tree of Liberty has been poisoned with excessive cash flows in Washington yet no one seems to notice.  ViseGrips, please?

 

Lunch Dates

Elaine and I are going down to Fredericksburg, TX for lunch today in the 2200 pound thing I talk too much about.  Figure on leaving Monday for our Half Around America tour, meetings with clients along the way (flight plans daily starting with next Monday.

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If you live in the Charlotte, NC area, my friend Roger Reynolds is holding a lunch you might pencil in a week from now:

TRADERS LUNCH AT MAXWELL'S TAVERN IN DOWNTOWN WAXHAW ON THURSDAY NOV 17 AT 11:30. MARKET DISCUSSION AT CROSSROADS COFFEE SHOP,UPSTAIRS, AFTERWARDS.

Roger's been kind enough to send us his commentary over the years - bright guy, so this one would be worth crashing if we were closer.

 

Best Meaning of Life Answer So Far

Kilgore Trout's unwritten reply (per Kurt Vonnegut's work):

"T^o be the eyes and ears and conscience of the Creator of the Universe, you fool."

Hard to top that.

 

Thursday's Thinkerings:  The Memo from Accounting

Say, here's a good one...a "Memo from Accounting" that reads like thus and so...

"It has come to our attention recently that many of you have been turning in timesheets that specify large amounts of "Miscellaneous Unproductive Time" (Codes 5300-8999). However, we need to know exactly what you are doing during your unproductive time.

 

Attached below is a sheet specifying a tentative extended job code list based on our observations of employee activities.

 

The list will allow you to specify with a fair amount of precision what you are doing during your unproductive time. Please begin using this job-code list immediately and let us know about any difficulties you encounter.

 

Thank you,

Accounting

 

 

Attached: Extended Account Code List

 

Code Description

5316 Useless Meeting

5317 Obstructing Communications at Meeting

5318 Trying to Sound Knowledgeable While in Meeting

5319 Waiting for Break

5320 Waiting for Lunch

5321 Waiting for End of Day

5322 Vicious Verbal Attacks Directed at Coworker

5323 Vicious Verbal Attacks Directed at Coworker While Coworker is Not Present

5393 Covering for Incompetence of Coworker Friend

5400 Trying to Explain Concept to Coworker Who is Not Interested in Learning

5401 Trying to Explain Concept to Coworker Who is Stupid

5402 Trying to Explain Concept to Coworker Who Hates You

5481 Buying Snack

5482 Eating Snack

5500 Filling Out Timesheet

5501 Inventing Timesheet Entries

5502 Waiting for Something to Happen

5503 Scratching Yourself

5504 Sleeping

5505 Watching porn on line (straight)

5506 Watching porn online (bay)

5507 Watching porn online (bi)

5508 Watching other sports online

5510 Feeling Horny

5511 Feeling Bored

5600 Complaining About Lousy Job

5601 Complaining About Low Pay

5602 Complaining About Long Hours

5603 Complaining About Coworker (See Codes #5322 & #5323)

5604 Complaining About Boss

5605 Complaining About Personal Problems

5640 Miscellaneous Unproductive Complaining

5701 Not Actually Present At Job

5702 Suffering from Eight-Hour Flu

6102 Ordering Out

6103 Waiting for Food Delivery to Arrive

6104 Taking It Easy While Digesting Food

6200 Using Company Resources for Personal Profit

6201 Stealing Company Goods

6202 Making Excuses After Accidentally Destroying Company Goods

6203 Using Company Phone to Make Long-Distance Personal Calls

6204 Using Company Phone to Make Long-Distance Personal Calls to Sell Stolen Company Goods

6205 Hiding from Boss

6206 Gossip

6207 Planning a Social Event (e.g. vacation, wedding, etc.)

6210 Feeling Sorry For Yourself

6211 Updating Resume

6212 Faxing Resume to Another Employer/Headhunter

6213 Out of Office on Interview

6221 Pretending to Work While Boss Is Watching

6222 Pretending to Enjoy Your Job

6223 Pretending You Like Coworker

6224 Pretending You Like Important People When in Reality They are Jerks

6238 Miscellaneous Unproductive Fantasizing

6350 Playing Pranks on the New Guy/Girl

6601 Running your own Business on Company Time (See Code #6603)

6602 Complaining

6603 Writing a Book on Company Time

6611 Staring Into Space

6612 Staring At Computer Screen

6615 Transcendental Meditation

6969 Beating off in Broom Closet

7281 Extended Visit to the Bathroom (at least 10 minutes)

7400 Talking With Divorce Lawyer on Phone (1 hour minimum)

7401 Talking With Plumber on Phone

7402 Talking With Dentist on Phone

7403 Talking With Doctor on Phone

7404 Talking With Masseuse on Phone

7405 Talking With House Painter on Phone

7406 Talking With Personal Therapist on Phone

7419 Talking With Miscellaneous Paid Professional on Phone

7425 Talking With Mistress/Boy-Toy on Phone

7450 Trolling Craigslist

7475 Trolling other match sites

7931 Asking Coworker to Aid You in an Illicit Activity

8000 Recreational Drug Use on company time

8001 Non-recreational Drug Use like we care

8002 Liquid Lunch with alcohol

8805 Refilling prescriptions

8806 Getting hooked up

8100 Reading e-mail

8102 Laughing while reading e-mail

8500 Installing software updates

8600 Installing antivirus updates

8700 Being jerked around by IT

9000 Actual productive work (may trigger audit!)

Aha!  Now corporate life makes sense...

 

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Wednesday  November 9, 2011

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Europe, News Media, Currency Affairs

The Hair-Trigger is now in motion:  Although when we looked this morning, the markets in Europe were down a bit (OK, more than one percent, then) on the latest zig-sag in the "balance of idiots" game, we nevertheless may be seeing something much more nefarious going on:  The global push for a layer of "un-elected" government, which schematically is like the global body politic "giving birth to a new layer of the cake." Which, and we'll explain, is a major challenge - if not outright death knell - for freedom worldwide.  But first we discuss "Ure's Semi-Constant" which explains why the Dow should close between 12,025 and 11,953 today if the Dollar/Euro ratio ends at 0.7310.

 

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Tuesday, November 8, 2011

Hair-Trigger Tuesday

The situation in Greece continues to remind me of a bad riddle:  What country has spent far beyond its means, has just about bankrupted Europe, and now has a former central banker (Lucas Papademos) ready to take up as prime minister?  It's Greece, of course, but near as I can figure this is just a re-spun train wreck in the making.  Here's why:

• You've got a likely prime minister who's a banker

• The finance minister is a socialist

• The conservatives control most major ministries

• The communists will be in the streets Thursday rallying against this blatant push to "save the monopolies"

All that's missing is the kitchen sink, a few rabid dogs, some stray cats, and the on-switch for the big headline-making blender. 

 

Mind you, we're coming up later today on what should be (+/- 3 days) on what should - according to predictive linguistics - be a major release period of 22½ hours and certainly, Greece falling apart is right up near the top of our watch list.

 

Then There's Italy

That's where PM Silvio Berlusconi is trying to keep his job in order to work out a Euro-deal which will keep Italy from going technically bankrupt.

 

Iran: Flash Goggles Ready?

The web side of the San Francisco Chronicle this morning reports  "U.N. Iran nuclear report could leverage sanctions."  We should be so lucky things stay quiet that long.

 

Not only is the US reported becoming more concerned, the the maraschino cherry on this but the well-connected Debka news service reports that "Obama flips on new sanctions, leaves Israel, Saudis heard to head with Iran."

 

Of course, at the G20 we have the classic "mic's on boner" with both French prez Sarkozy and president Obama trashing Benjamin Netanyahu....

 

Wanna bet the trash-talk is a factor in Israel going it alone?

 

With Haaretz headlining "Barak: Israel has not yet decided on military operation against Iran" and the Jerusalem Post only slightly more menacing with ""Barak not optimistic about int'l will to stop Iranian nukes" I'd be the least surprised guy in the world to read by this time tomorrow that Israel has launched.

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Also: Keep your flash goggles ready in Korea where the Yonhap news agency reports "N. Korea's uranium program close to being operational:source."

 

Down in the details, parallel stories off other news sources hint NK may have as many as 2000 centrifuges operating and you know they're not making salt water taffy with 'em.  The US has plenty of reason to take out the Yongbyon development site now.  Wouldn't it be interesting to see both NK and Iran attacked in the same week?

 

Nuclear proliferation continues to be  one of the triggers that could set off WWIII.

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The "War is Business" website has a list of the Topo 150 warcorps.  Lockheed and Boeing are 1,2.  #8 at $6.7 billion is a British corporation, though the work is done here...

 

Data Munching

Don't know if you saw the latest Federal Reserve Consumer Credit (it's really debt, but you know how central bankers are...) which came out Monday.  It's the classic finish to a good news/ bad news Monday.

 

On the one hand, revolving credit was down only 1% for the month after being down 3.4% the previous month.  The real flip was in non-revolving debt: Which includes automobile loans and all other loans not included in revolving credit, such as loans for mobile homes, education, boats, trailers, or vacations. These loans may be secured or unsecured.

 

This key number went from down 5.4% in the previous month to up 5.8% this month...much of which I'd attribute to back-to-school-itis.  Some of the higher ed / private college roll-ups ought to have a pretty good quarter and retail didn't sail off the edge of the Earth, either.

 

Still, the numbers give enough of a time-series that we not that total consumer spending measure by the bankers "their-selves" was $1.662.4 and the most noteworthy part to me was revolving credit was still declining at an annualized 3¼ percent rate, meaning people are sitting on their wallets.  Just as a reality check, compared to 2008  (the good old days, huh?) revolving credit use is down more than 17%.

 

Which explains why you can expect a lot more "free credit card" offers in the mail as the competition for remaining spending becomes more keen.

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You might take a gander at how much money creation is going on behind the curtain over at the Fed.  In last week's H.6 Money Stocks report, the annual rate of increase in M1 (cash and equivalents) the annualized money-printing frenzy was rocketing upward at 38.9% (3 mo. annualized) while the broader M2 report showed an annual rate of increase of 21.1 percent on a 3-month basis.

 

At some point, perhaps the mainstream financial press will get around to mentioning that the Fed is going nuts on the M1 and M2 to keep M3 going up at a decent enough clip to counter incipient deflation.

 

The reason we're not reading about this is that M3b (from Trader Bart's fine work here) is only going up 7 percent on a 4 week moving average annualized basis.  And I'd bet almost anyone the reason St. Greenspan shit-canned M3 was so the sheep would not see through the central bankster's wool.

 

So far, he's been right.  But, if you're wondering where your standard of living was flushed, there you have it.

 

With so much money sloshing around, do you think banks are massively easing business borrowing?  No chance.

 

Quakes du Jour

6.9 near Taiwan.  Then there was a 5.9 in Nicaragua.

 

A little 2.5 up in the Seattle area, just a couple of miles from the state reformatory near Monroe... and a reader up there had sent this:

Today I saw 3 distinct lenticular cloud formations over the Gig Harbor and Vashon Island area. I see lenticular clouds over Mt. Ranier, occasionally, a common site, acctually. I am both a mountaineer and sailor so i know what clouds look like. My office window is oriented 22 degrees N magnetic, When looking in that direction it intersects with Manzanita just East to the entrance of Quarter Master Harbor. To see lenticular clouds there is not a normal site by any means.

Pure coincidence, I tell yah...

 

Passings: Smokin' Joe

Joe Frazier - boxing great - cancer at 67.

 

Coping:  Support of OWS

You may notice this morning that there's an "I support the Occupy Movement" banner at the top of UrbanSurvival.  I pondered this a bit, but eventually supporting OWS is the right thing to do.  Just so we're clear, there are very simple reasons why...and a lot of this goes beyond OWS:

• High frequency trading:  Once upon a time the stock market represented a reasonable approximation of the bid/auction process. High frequency trading as changed all that.  Today, the people who bought up most of the online brokerage outfits didn't do so because of their love of good service: Most are in cahoots or have their own HFT operation.  Essentially, when I place a trade, I am not only having to size up a counterparty who actually owns the stock somewhere, I also have to size up how many computers are going to do what after I press the enter key. 

• Offshored Accounting:  Major transnational corporations are screwing America by putting their "corporate headquarters" in offshore tax havens beyond the enforcement mechanisms designed to protect Americans.  Go through the Dow 30, look at revenue and then look at taxes paid to the US and then compare that with your personal income tax rate. 

• Jobjacking:  Neither of the corrupt political parties has had the gumption (balls if you will) to call BS on taking well-paying jobs and sending them to India.  Anyone in their right mind would improve a leveling system of tariffs in order to either fund unemployment which has resulted from jobjacking OR give domestic producers a chance to compete.  Third world crap holes pay less than a buck-an-hour.  Transnationals play the spread and then cry "Poor!" as they skate on income tax.  Bullshit, pure and simple.

• Mexican Trucks:  Once again, American jobs are being jobjacked by the Mexican trucks that are now sailing up US highways from Mexico.  Again, I point out that BOTH political parties are slurping at the trough of the lobbying groups that have hijacked what was once a Constitutional Republic for which we stand, yada, yada, yada...

• Pandering to voter blocks:  For the first 200-years and immigration from umpteen countries, Americans were held together by a common language.  Now, with poor (or mostly "show") border enforcement, the same trough-hoggers are pandering to the latest large (and many times illegal) arrivals in order to get blocks of votes.  What?  Did someone say bullshit?  Where is the spending on Danish as a Second Language in the upper Midwest?  Where's my Scottish flag to fly?  Words like double-standards mean something?  Oh, and the NAFTA Highway and North American Union aren't dead...they're still in the works, it's just going to be a slow frog-boil is all. 

As long as corporations have taken over, anything that will fatten the corporate purse gets a green light (and a bunch of greenbacks to make it so) while anything that gets back to common language, well-informed population gets stomped.  Yes, this is why Michael Jackson's doc is bigger news than our own government sending guns into Mexico which then get used on Mexicans and US citizens alike.  Where's my blood pressure monitor?

 

It's comforting to know that there's "No evidence for extraterrestrials, says White House."

 

The point of OWS is that there's also no intelligent life in Washington, either.  Too many people have seen the signs: "I'll believe corporations are equal to humans when Texas hangs one."  Cat's out of the bag...Mussolini has one World War II posthumously, with his government/corporation merger and see how well Italy is doing?

 

The roots of the Tree of Liberty have been poisoned by excessive cash flows.  And on that, I stand in solidarity with OWS.  We need to demonetized sociopolitical decision-making. 

 

Being open minded, though, I will drop the rants when...

• HF trading is banned

• When the Federal Reserve is audited (including the gold in Ft. Knox!)

• When all entrants for political contests have equal funding

• When transnational corporations are taxed to the extent they've outsourced overseas

• When Mexican truckers and their rigs are off American highways. Who's country is this, right?

• When Texas permanently gives up on NAFTA highways and ends the sale of toll roads, paid for by public money, being leased to foreign corporations

• When naked shorting is ended

• When the silver shorting manipulation yields big name crooks

• When MF Global's bust yields big name arrests and what about the clearing banks role?

• When the US balances its budget with tariffs on foreign goods

• When politicians turn down money and start voting what they promised back in the home district and

• When politicians come back from Washington no richer than when they left for DC....

Then, and only then, will I shut up and stop calling for change. 

 

OWS is a catalyst for open discussion and finding a new way forward because the one the corporatists are buying for their sole pleasure and profit through "buying politicians" is NOT the road Americans are going down.

 

So help us God.

 

The Meaning of Life

Sounded a bit Monty Pythonesque when I posed the question, but some of the answers to our "What is the meaning of Life?" question were pretty interesting...

"I have been an avid reader/subscriber to your site for the past few years and enjoy your perspectives thoroughly.

With regard to the meaning of life... I had a 20 year career as a scientist, engineer, technical manager... I was dragged “kicking and screaming” into the spiritual/healing arena some 17 years ago... and am now a published author of two books on awakening consciousness, a motivational/empowerment speaker, and a health consultant working in cutting-edge arenas of alternative healing. I work with clients globally, teach nationally… and I have practiced meditation for over 25 years.

In teaching classes on alternative healing, I generally ask if there are any questions... and “what is the meaning of life does not qualify as a question”. I would [and still do] get many chuckles in response. However in one class I had three “smart asses" [like myself :-)] who responded with: Yes, what IS the meaning of life? Tell us, what is the meaning of life? Really, what is the meaning of life? [almost in unison].

I have learned to recognize an importance of/in seeing/hearing/experiencing things in groups of threes… so I took a deep breath, connected within, and asked: What is the meaning of life? What I received in return was:

~“to discover our own magnificence". ~

Rather humbling… yet incredibly insightful in terms of each of us being creators in-body. I thought I would share that with you.

Have a wonderful day…

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The answer to your question “ What is the point of Life “ was on Ellie Crystal’s web site TODAY.

She said,

“The bottom line ... we are projected illusion in a biogenetic experiment created in space and time - to study emotions.”

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The point of life? Simple. To give and receive Love.

No faith required to get that one. That's why televangelists and other money-based religions (but i repeat myself) never come out and mention it. Hard to to do bi-weekly fundraising , build infrastructure, etc. if you spill the beans on the simple truth.

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Like they say, if you can't stand the answer, don't ask the question.

The simplest answer is that it is a complex scenario never to be grasped by the human brain mind. Add a little noise, and not even that much will be discovered. Throw a small bone of truth to a human, and they parade it around like they have the whole animal. Give them evidence that one of their socially accepted limitations is a lie, and they start asking for "miracles" for entertainment. Prove to them they are no less of a food source than the steak on their plate and....

So from where you are, considering 'the point of life' has the value of chicken and egg. Explaining it is 'l.kin' to teaching a pig to sing, because the mindset for which this information is inappropriate demands proof. Just make something up and move on, this has worked for millennia. It has worked for you as well for quite a while. Maybe not as well as before?

You know the Indian gurus would only teach certain students because their knowledge could cause harm? Try reading Pied Pipers quickly and you will either go into cognitive dissonance, or it will harm you. So not much chance you will 'get' 'it.' The book includes a disclaimer.

The two rights of a Thetan. 1) the right to self determination 2) the right to leave the game at any time

Still afflicted with (the) numbers (game), I see. At least the rampant mental illness, including your own, is not anguishing you quite as much. Chiappalone recently posted on Rense again, quite revealing as usual.

"What is the point of Life?" is one of my favorites. Try answering it without a faith-based reference and it becomes a little bit challenging. Maybe we should ask that question this morning, since, if we get a good enough answer, we could market it and all become zillionaires...

Actually, you would become sane and have no desire to market anything, because everything is already yours.

Off to the Bunker

Well, no time for humor this morning - time to finish cleaning under the bed to make room for all of us there when YU55 shows up.  Speaking of which, Nostradamus expert G.A. Stewart sends this:

George,
 
No doubt you have seen the info on the NASA 11133 kml that will lead you to what some are claiming may be an impact site for YU55.
 
http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread737750/pg1
 
Interesting coincidences that have struck me about YU55.
 
1) It is almost exactly the size I had interpreted from a Nostradamus prediction.
2) That particular prediction said it would crash in Artois, a province in northern France that is roughly at 50 degrees of latitude.
3) The alleged Aleutian Islands Impact Zone is at 50 degrees of latitude.
4) The NASA designation for Elenin and the kml: 11133:
    a) The Japan earthquake 3/11/2011.
    b) The Nostradamus Code Number for World War III was 311.
    c) The dream that woke me up at 3:11 AM.
 
Pretty weird all the way around. But this is my big test of the Psy-Op factor. How so you ask?
 
Suppose 11/9/2011 passes uneventful, think of the enormous coordination and gears that turned to create what would be a planetary mind f***.
 
1) Someone engineered the NASA numbers to get Richard Hoagland in a rant and start the Internet chatter going.
2) Someone created the 11133 kml to lead people to the Aleutian Island coordinates.
3) Someone convinced a young military policeman stationed at Elmendorf in Alaska to undergo house arrest and submit to embarrassing news articles about his character.
4) Someone first conceived of all of this to run in conjunction with a full up test of FEMA and the emergency broadcast system, concurrent with a military exercise simulating a tsunami in the Pacific, all during the closest approach of an asteroid in over thirty years.
 
Wow, that's a lot of bucks dedicated to a planetary mind f**. Let's hope it is.
 
Kindest Regards,
Stu

Tomorrow's Peoplenomics report will be written on the Android under the bed and if there's a net at posting time, all will be well.  And, assuming there's no EMP, we'll be back here Thursday to clear up the debris....

 

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Monday  November 7, 2011

Good News/Bad News Monday

The good news is we made it to Monday.  The bad news is that it's only this Monday and we have a wide range of threats coming up this week which may upset the financial apple cart.

 

To begin with, there's the little problem of Iranian nukes.  The International Atomic Energy Agency is set to release a report this week on Iranian nuclear development but already out of Israel are coming reports include "An inside look at the base where Iran is developing nuclear weapons."

 

With purported plans to "go" against Iran this week already outed, the move now seems to be to put all the intel out for the court of public opinion and then launch anyway since time is running out.  The idea of a nuclear Iran not only scares the bejeezus out of Israel, but oil states as well.  So that one could pop any time, maybe toward the end of the week, still nearly full moon conditions and nightvision gear's advantage is best at the dark of the moon.  Still...

 

Italy "Greeced"

Well, looks like Italy is moving into the position of too big to fail and too big to save, all at the same time as their prime minister says he will not resign, thus leaving another country to auger in.  This hasn't exactly given markets much cheer.

 

Greek politicals have agreed to share the helm of that Titanic which, near as we can figure, will result in a future political blamefest when the ship of state sinks.  But for now, Europe is slightly up; a sure indication there's still a drug problem in the EU.

 

Marginal Confusion

I had a flood of phone calls Saturday from people asking me if there was really going to be a 100 percent (as in no margining allowed) by the CME Group come this morning.  "No," I explained in a Peoplenomics posting, it was just a change in how the margin rules were being changed slightly, no doubt due to the moving around of MF Global accounts.

CME Group today is clarifying its notice to clearing firms regarding margins. In light of the issues customers transferring out of MF Global are facing, while still maintaining appropriate risk management protections for the market, CME Clearing is setting the "initial" margin upcharge to zero. This upcharge is normally applied to customer accounts when they are receiving a margin call.

The intention and effect of these changes are to decrease the size of any margin calls resulting from the bulk transfer of MF Global customers to new clearing members not to increase them.

This is a short term accommodation to maintain market integrity and provide temporary relief to customers whose accounts have been disrupted by this event.

We apologize for any confusion our initial advisory may have created.

Essentially, the old CME rules had one level of margin required for maintaining a margined position ($8,500 for a gold contract, for example) but they had a higher premium ($11,500 in the case of gold) to set up the initial margined position.  With their explanation this weekend, what we seem to be seeing is a [perhaps temporary] end of that initial set up premium.

 

CME is not the only one doing this, so is the Intercontinental Exchange (ICE).

 

So no meltup or meltdown today just on this point alone. 

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Fed's Consumer debt figs out this afternoon - grist for tomorrow's column...

 

WTF is "Justice"?

I tend to keep score on how we humans are doing by simply watching the headlines.  As of this morning here's the score:

• 3:  Number of people charged with dealing crack at OWS/Boston.

• 0:  Number of people arrested in the MF Global bankruptcy.

So, to repeat the headline: WTF is "Justice"?

 

YU55 is Coming!!!

...and we're clearing things out from under the bed (shoe boxes, mostly) in order to have plenty of room to hide on Tuesday and Wednesday.  I'll be the guy with the Android looking at streaming vids, since "How to spot the huge asteroid 2005 YU55'sw close encounter with Earth" would mean being outside and investing in a telescope. ( And paying off the Weather Service since it's going to be cloudy.)

 

I'll be staying under the bed till Fearless Leader says it's OK to come out when the big emergency broadcast system test is over with Wednesday.

 

Someone said they will not be saying the classic words "This is only a test." 

 

But lookie here:  If they don't say it, I'll be writing Thursday's column under the bed because I'm not coming out if Fearless Leader (or one of the minions) doesn't call it a "test."  I mean, maybe it's NOT....right?  Maybe the end of the world is in play and we're just doing a smooth transition into it....

 

Rock Me

As the global seismic monitors are lighting up (example here) we have to say that the weekend quake up 20-miles northeast of Shawnee, Oklahoma was certainly an "out of the blue" event.  No, there's no fracking around there...you don't get out much, or have many friends in the oil biz, do you?

 

No worries?  Well, hold up and take a gander at the latest long-term earthquake trends run out by contributor Tony Ring, who kindly shares is monthly long-term crunch of the USGS database with us.  No hints here...just think about what you're seeing...

 

 

I won't tell you anything you can't see here, BUT seems to me that someone in government should get off the dime and start pouring a whole lot of brainpower into just what's going on, here.  True, we use a 5th order polynomial to project this stuff, but look where the current 5th order projection takes us 24-months out:  About six 7.0 or larger quakes per month.

 

Several people have written long and involved mathematical calculations showing that our barycenter concerns with the passage of YU55 this week are "over the top" and that nothing will happen.  I'll just sit here with my seatbelt on in my big roll-around chair, thanks.

Apple a Day

Says here in this press release from Whataburger that they're adding apple slices as an option instead of french fries...

"Moms and dads will cheer for Whataburger's new apple slices, available with any Kid's Meal as a substitute for French fries and offered at no extra cost. Parents can rest easy as the apple slices substitution provides a good source of fiber and Vitamin C, and 90% fewer calories than French Fries.

The two-ounce portion of apple slices is also available for adults looking to cut calories and fat or add a serving of fruit to their daily diet. The 30-calorie apple slice side can be substituted for fries in Whatameals 1-8 at no charge, or for hash browns in Breakfast Whatameals for a small charge. They can also be purchased a la carte for a quick snack or breakfast on the go. "

Isn't it like sacrilege or something to have a burger without fries, though?  Why this kind of eating decision could ruin the Big Pharma pill pushing....

 

Cutting Edge Surgery

Don't know how we got onto the topic, but the other day Elaine mentioned to me that Panama Bates had been reading some old book, or other, and had uncovered the fact that women used to put bees wax on their faces as part of "make up" back in pre drugstore days.  Turns out, explained the book, that when a woman's face got hot some of the bees wax would melt, turning what had been beauty moments before into something from a Saturday horror show...hence the term "saving face."  Chilling is good, chill'uns...

 

A little more complicated is word ( rummaging through the press release bin this morning) that....

"In their November issue, the Aesthetic Surgery Journal published a new breakthrough facelifting technique which gives superior results with fewer complications than current techniques in practice. The pioneer of this new Minimal Access Deep Plane Extended Vertical "MADE" Facelift is NY Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeon, Dr. Andrew Jacono. The study, out this month, reveals that combining the optimal features of the deep plane facelift and those of the short-scar minimal access cranial suspension lift, result in a more significant vertical motion of the mid-face and jaw line with a more natural-looking result. Additional benefits include greater neck rejuvenation with a significant decrease in the need for additional tucks and completely hidden scars."

No details in the press release about the maxillofacial economics of this, but I'm just guessing it really/still/always comes down to "You can save face, or you can save money, but not both..."

 

Flying to the Future

Our Canadian reader up near Winnipeg has been following flying headlines here lately and shares this:

My curiosity was piqued with the Japanese media's coverage of a B787 missed approach sunday morning at Okiyama and a generalized reference to the type being heavy along with separate reports of maximum takeoff weight being boosted for the future international variant. Further inquiries led to this article noting the excess weight is measured in tons and the overage is planned to be eliminated by the ninetieth airframe. One aspect I don't understand is why Boeing would sell this cutting edge technology plane to a Chinese airline without an expectation of it to be reverse-engineered given the laxity of patent and copyright protections in that region.  

Hmmm...not sure why we'd do that...except for all the money involved.

 

Maybe we're geniuses, though.  You did see the report over on Jeff Rense's site about the difference in lightning performance between composites and aluminum?

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Meantime, for our upcoming "Half Around America" tour in the plane I've been calculating the sweet spot for full fuel, baggage, and high altitude flying.  Figure that with max fuel, Elaine, and me,  the ideal baggage weight would be 75-80 pounds in the back of the plane.

 

Damned if I can figure how to break that to her, though...since my flight gear is about 25 of that (charts, books, flight computer, oxygen huffers, spare this and thats) which leaves her just....maybe I'll just email it to her....

 

Coping:  With Mr. Ure's "Pricing Theory" Diatribe

Say, not to talk too much about flying, or what I do in real-life when I'm not ranting about this economic item, or that, but a reader has brought to my attention how much fun it would be if any other industry in the whole  wide world ran their sales and marketing operations like an airline does.

 

Maybe it's because I have had to worry about city-pair load factors and squeezing every dime I could from a interline partners (read: other airlines trying to screw us on connecting (through) fares) or, maybe it's because it reveals just how stupid/f.u'ed the whole airline pricing model is.  It's funny because....well....it's true.. N o imagine you've walked into this paint stor:

Customer: Hi. How much is your paint?

Clerk: Well, sir, that all depends on quite a lot of things.

Customer: Can you give me a guess? Is there an average price?

Clerk: Our lowest price is $12 a gallon, and we have 60 different prices up to $200 a gallon.

Customer: What's the difference in the paint?

Clerk: Oh, there isn't any difference; it's all the same paint.

Customer: Well, then I'd like some of that $12 paint.

Clerk: When do you intend to use the paint?

Customer: I want to paint tomorrow. It's my day off.

Clerk: Sir, the paint for tomorrow is the $200 paint.

Customer: When would I have to paint to get the $12 paint?

Clerk: You would have to start very late at night in about 3 weeks. But you will have to agree to start painting before Friday of that week and continue painting until at least Sunday. And you have to promise to paint on Saturday night, especially.

Customer: You've got to be *&%^#@* kidding!

Clerk: I'll check and see if we have any paint available.

Customer: You have shelves FULL of paint! I can see it!

Clerk: But it doesn't mean that we have paint available. We sell only a certain number of gallons on any given weekend. Oh, and by the way, the price per gallon just went to $16. We don't have any more $12 paint.

Customer: The price went up as we were talking?

Clerk: Yes, sir. We change the prices and rules hundreds of times a day, and since you haven't actually walked out of the store with your paint yet, we just decided to change. I suggest you purchase your paint as soon as possible. How many gallons do you want?

Customer: Well, maybe five gallons. Make that six, so I'll have enough.

Clerk: Oh no, sir, you can't do that. If you buy paint and don't use it, there are penalties and possible confiscation of the paint you already have.

Customer: WHAT?

Clerk: We can sell enough paint to do your kitchen, bathroom, hall and north bedroom, but if you stop painting before you do the bedroom, you will lose your remaining gallons of paint.

Customer: What does it matter whether I use all the paint? I already paid you for it!

Clerk: We make plans based upon the idea that all our paint is used, every drop. If you don't, it causes us all sorts of problems.

Customer: This is crazy!! I suppose something terrible happens if I don't keep painting until after Saturday night!

Clerk: Oh yes! Every gallon you bought automatically becomes the $200 paint.

Customer: But what are all these, "Paint on sale from $10 a liter" signs?

Clerk: Well that's for our budget paint. It only comes in half- gallons. One $5 half-gallon will do half a room. The second half- gallon to complete the room is $20. None of the cans have labels, some are empty and there are no refunds, even on the empty cans.

Customer: To hell with this! I'll buy what I need somewhere else!

Clerk: I don't think so, sir. You may be able to buy paint for your bathroom and bedrooms, and your kitchen and dining room from someone else, but you won't be able to paint your connecting hall and stairway from anyone but us. And I should point out, sir, that if you paint in only one direction, it will be $300 a gallon.

Customer: I thought your most expensive paint was $200!

Clerk: That's if you paint around the room to the point at which you started. A hallway is different.

Customer: And if I buy $200 paint for the hall, but only paint in one direction, you'll confiscate the remaining paint.

Clerk: No, we'll charge you an extra use fee plus the difference on your next gallon of paint. But I believe you're getting it now, sir.

Customer: You're insane!

Clerk: Thanks for painting with [fill in any airline name].  Remember, if you try to throw out half your paint, we have to information Homeland Security, too....

As funny as it is, airlines really do have a perishable product, which is why the business model is so wonky:  An airline seat is a "perishable" item. 

 

What this means in B-school theory, or from the practical side as someone who's been through it, is that once the doors shut on the airplane at the gate and the bird pushes back, the amount of revenue that's ever going to come in for that flight is sealed in stone.  The seat "perishes" at that point...you can't fill an empty seat halfway between MIA and GCM, just for example.  (Halfway is about over Cuba and they from on mid-air passenger changes...did I mention Millennium is on Netflix streaming today? Great flick...where we we?  Oh yes...)

 

Paint would see the same pricing issue - with a hosed-up time/distributed pricing curve - IF the paint was all going to spoil as soon as you walked out the door of the paint store.  As the clock counts down to spoilage (and thus, the odds of spoilage of paint go up) then price comes down. 

 

Not unlike how options prices are a mix of time and intrinsic value.  When an option has a year to run, there's a lot of "time premium".  But, when it's the day before options expiration, you're going to pay about whatever the price premium is.

 

While this doesn't answer all pricing issues that you'll come across in life, it does explain why there are only a certain number of price and time models.  Everything has some aspect of "perishability" to it.  Consider:

• A new car that's a hot seller begins the model year with dealers able to put in a premium because some damn fool will pay more for this year's model than you.  By year end, as soon as the new models hit the showroom, the price of the previous model year's inventory drops.  And as soon as you drive it off the curb, the price continues to drop at a nonlinear rate until it's fully depreciated.  A few cars, Cords, Porsches, Gull Wing Mercedes, etc. can actually go up as their collector value kicks in, so the price curve exercise becomes one of the finest "get ahead" tools there is...it's just we don't explain it thoroughly to everyone.  Ask Howard about his Cyclone or his Typhoon sometime...

• Persons of the opposite sex go through a similar pricing/value change over time.  For men, the looks-over-time may fall, but if it's more than covered by an increase in income, then "it's all good."  Women usually begin with a "looks" premium that (in the eyes of some) declines over time or at least so goes average thinking, hence the whole "costmedics" industry is built on a sound sociological foundation.  I've been luckier the most, I reckon...

• Stereos and computers drop to half their value the day you buy them, as the planned obsolescence business model reigns supreme.

• And watch things like cellphone plans - you'll see that bandwidth, like airline seats, depends on what the "other guy" is charging, but for telecom providers, as soon as each second goes by, any unsold units of airtime become extinct on the spot.  Same thing happens in the produce section of the local Safeway, but there, the pricing happens slow enough, and there's plenty of opportunity to review the cauliflower and carrots, that the "perishable" aspect of pricing actually appears reasonable.

And we end this morning's pricing discussion with a class problem:  What is the pricing curve of candidates for political office?  I have sketched it out this way, but the MBA and PhD students are required to perform nested nonlinear equations to solve for any political candidates worth, at any point in the curve, in which can I can get you into a lobbying outfit:

 

 

Where it gets to be an interesting contest - and where we actually can get some insight as to how a political candidate will perform, once in office, is to track the spread between position, estimated money raised, and who will actually be into the finals.  (This may account for the high impact of faith-based contributions because there's so much praying for money by on by would-be office holders.)

 

The most important side of the curve is the post-election value, which is a longer discussion and depends on how much the lobbyistas value their causes and how much they are willing to pay for them.

 

By the way, a more comprehensive look at the ultimate corporatization of America forms the backdrop for the movie "Hardwired" with Cuba Gooding, Jr. and Val Kilmer with the lead villain being the corporate entity called "Hope Industries".  Just watching the corporate manipulations just one more notch more than now shows the absurdity....and the villain-corp "Hope Industries" is ever such a fine jab.  (Related artwork:  Catherine Savage's Facebook Photo...)

 

Thus ends our discussion of valuing items over time, but if you happen to bump into me at a political meeting of some sort, and I nod at the local wannabe and mutter "he's an airline seat"....you'll follow the drift of what I'm getting at.

 

Monday at the WuJo

You know how we've been talking about things just popping in - out- and back in to existence?  Well here's a dandy report:

"Hi George,

This is a second hand account so I'm not sure it'll pass the double blind placebo control, but here goes:

Spending Sunday afternoon at a friends place away from the city just chilling by the pool, discussing life, the universe and everything, and I mentioned your site and the reports of things moving or disappearing then re-appearing, and how it looks like we're switching realities constantly, and how our (brains? or whatever this thing is that is having the experience of being) manages to massage all the data coming in, into one contiguous movie that appears to be coherant. He's a fairly conventional guy, not known for dropping microdots or anything. He said "get this - I was talking with my mum back in Oz yesterday, and she told me that both her and dad fell out of bed at the same time" (not sure if they make a habit of that, but he went on to say) "as she fell she knocked her glasses of the side unit, and one of the lenses popped out. They both looked for the lense, and turned over everything, looking under bed clothes, under the mattress, the whole lot. About 3 weeks later dad opened the dish washer to remove the contents and there was the lense". Maybe you could read something into that, cleaning the thing that helps you to see, maybe not and I'm just reading too much into it, but an interesting story non the less, and observed by two people whose observations were in agreement. Allegedly."

Elaine had a similar thing happen in the kitchen:  Was looking for something or other - looked all over for it - only to see it smack dab in the middle of the counter not 15-minutes later.  It was impacting enough that she mentioned it.

 

I  just nodded knowingly, like this kind of thing happened all the time.  I was still pondering my discussion with Clif about Andy Rooney's death, since I (and some others I know) that he had died earlier this year.  "Nope," said Clif..."Cryptomnesia."  Due to information overload, Rooney's retirement was wrongly interpreted by the long term memory as "dead." 

 

Makes sense, but doesn't explain the lens in the dishwasher, or Elaine's having something "pop back" from wherever it was...so on to a second cuppa WuJo stew....

 

Monday at the WuJo 2

Now that we're into the gray zone between what makes sense (and what doesn't, which is the more interesting part)  we return to the mystery of the spelling of Fukushima/Fukishima which some people saw, while others didn't...

Hi George:

Having been a high school English teacher in my distant past, my curiosity about language and how language changes over time was peeked by the whole “Timeslip” conversation around “Fuk (?) shima”. So I broke the word down into parts and looked them up. It seems the part that hasn’t been messed with is the “Shima”; and it means “Island”.

 

Now I’m sure because this is a Japanese word, the Japanese are referring to their own Island. But we are all living on an Island called Earth in the cosmos as well. So there is something rather prophetic about a phrase that could be read this way:

We are All FUKED!  Or, better yet. Maybe it’s a, not so funny, cosmic joke that’s saying:

 

FUK  U  and the Island you live on.

 

But that’s not the interesting part. That just got me started with this post.

 

The interesting part is the translation of “Fuki” and “Fuku”. 

According to many sources “Fuki” refers to a kind of Japanese vegetable called a Butterbur. So the full (and I admit crude) translation of “Fukishima” is “Butterbur Island” as apparently a lot of these vegetables grow in the area.

 

But here’s where it gets really, really interesting. What does “Fuku” translate into? When I found it here: (link) under “Word of the Day”, I was amazed.

 

“Fuku” means “to wipe; to mop”.

 

Suddenly the whole “WuJo Timeslip” thing starts to make sense. If you believe we are the creators of our own reality here in the hologram, then you also understand the power of words. Our Judeo-Christian heritage starts with that concept. “In the beginning was the Word . . . .”  Word comes before manifestation in this 3D reality. So it’s important the word “Fukishima” turn into “Fukushima” so we can effectively “mop” (Fuku) up our Island (Shima).

 

Happy to report, in this case, it looks like we’re actually headed in the right direction.

 

Thanks, George, for providing this sweet forum for thought, which precedes word, which creates 3D reality.

Strange as all get-out and it may be telling us something about the future.  Maybe (this is a wild dart, admittedly) but is it possible that the people who notice such little time slips are the people who will notice when bigger shifts occur and won't be so "wonked out by them?"

Just wanted to let you know I looked at some material I'd printed out several months ago about Fukishima and it now also reads Fukushima. In a hard copy of a web page. Off my printer. From 5/28/11.

Yeah, well, maybe we're just getting "long adjustment time, like I was sayin'...

 

Getting Tanked on Monday

We were wondering last week what the definitive answer was to the issue of which side of a car, or truck, the gas filler cap would be on.  Amazingly, our other reader (besides you) is a fellow who does gas tank filler products!

Hello George,

I have enjoyed reading your writing for the past few years. (the man needs help - G) I have been meaning to subscribe to get all of your content but I just haven’t gotten around to it. I am a mechanical engineer with 16 years of experience in the auto industry and 2 terms as a city councilman here in Troy. I am jealous of your new airplane – my high school economics teacher had a Mooney that was unbelievable beautiful. Currently, I have put a retreat home as a higher priority goal. The thumb area of Michigan is very appealing for bugout.

The company I work for makes some of the most hidden components on cars. We make check valves that allows fuel to go down the fill pipe and not out the fill pipe, vent valves that allow fuel vapors to exit the fuel tank but also contains liquid fuel during slosh (driving the 911 aggressively) and when a vehicle has the tires up instead of down. We also make brake booster vacuum check valves and pneumatic lumbar supports and massage systems for seats. I have worked directly with Chrysler, GM, Ford, Hyundai, BMW, and Mercedes for many years.

If a car is going to be sold only in North America, GM/Ford/Chrysler places the fill pipe on the driver’s side. That makes it easier for the driver to align the gas cap with the fill nozzle at gas stations. If the car is going to be sold in Europe the fill pipe is placed on the right side of the car because there are many curbside fuel stations in Europe that can’t easily reach across the vehicle for refueling. When I say curbside, I mean that the gas station is a pump or two on the side of the road - no driveway or turnaround available. You will see every Volvo/Saab/BMW/Porsche/Audi/VW/Vauxhall/Opel/Jaguar with the fill pipe on the right side of the vehicle for this same reason. I miss having the gas caps hidden under the license plate or taillight – these concepts were killed by high speed rear impact crash testing and the subsequent relocation of fuel tanks in front of the rear axle.

Keep up the good work! With your reader base you can get any question imaginable answered in a couple hours.

Thanks....and it's true, most of the time I can get great answers in  no time.  But when it comes to the biggest questions, real answers which pass all the smell tests are hard to come by.

 

"What is the point of Life?" is one of my favorites.  Try answering it without a faith-based reference and it becomes a little bit challenging.  Maybe we should ask that question this morning, since, if we get a good enough answer, we could market it and all become zillionaires...

 

Last But Not Leasts

A Monday observatoid from a shaken Okie-lahoman...

"Despite the recent quake, why won't Texas ever fall off into the gulf? Because Oklahoma sucks."

Unless, of course, you hang at the river walk in OKC, in which case it rocks and this weekend, rolls, too.  But if you want to talk about sucks, how about another state?  (nominees and justifications welcome).

 

Traffic Issue

If Earth is moving along at 67,000 miles an hour, how come 10-over is an excuse to raise insurance?

 

Tax Question

I'm doing tax planning for this year and I'll be damned if I can find the IRS publication which spells out whether the wages of sin are taxable.