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Greek Bailout In Limbo

Yeah, I know, you thought Limbo was in the Caribbean, or on cruise ships, but it's late in the week, and creativity burns low, so go with me on this.  The reason for the limbo label is that violence is breaking out in Greece as people in that country are not happy about the bankster class dictating their national future, at least in such of obvious manner.

There's some weakness in gold this morning, a touch of flight to dollar safety, while we wonder if now that we're past one possible turn date, the market will head south.

The "Inside Indicator"

Well, there are two actually.  One is the rate at which the founders, directors, and other well-connected insiders are dumping stock on the market as this Mark Hulbert MarketWatch report outlines.

The other is the Baltic Dry Index which is making a might run at 700...but that still leaves open the way to lower prices after the current bounce is spent.

March to War

In our semi-daily coverage of an expected outbreak of hostilities in the opening week of March, plus or minus 3-4 days, here's a report that while not exactly a NYT caliber source, is nevertheless typical of buzz-change going on.

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By the way, a reader note implies that looking at the Vinson (the carrier in Hormuz) may not be where the {Vincent, Venicia} bit of language comes from, recalling this:

Not sure why I remembered this but if you recall, back on July 3,1988 one of our Navy ships shot an Iranian airliner down on takeoff with a fairly significant death toll. The name of that ship was the Vincennes. A bit close to Vincent in name I'd say. Not sure if it means anything other than a bit of "reflection" in name to the past. Can't help but feel there's a name connection there with the Iranians (close enough for them to remember the incident). the mind can go a few places with that thought...

All of which may, or may not, be meaningful...we shall see in March, but Universe has a rotten sense of wryrony on this kinda thing.

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Heavy fighting is going on this morning in Syria's second largest city, Aleppo, not to be confused with the dog food.

Imbalance of Trade

Updated this morning by Census:

The U.S. Census Bureau and the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis, through the Department of Commerce, announced today that total December exports of $178.8 billion and imports of $227.6 billion resulted in a goods and services deficit of $48.8 billion, up from $47.1 billion in November, revised. December exports were $1.2 billion more than November exports of $177.5 billion. December imports were $3.0 billion more than November imports of $224.6 billion.

 

In December, the goods deficit increased $1.8 billion from November to $64.3 billion, and the services surplus was virtually unchanged from November at $15.5 billion. Exports of goods increased $0.9 billion to $127.1 billion, and imports of goods increased $2.7 billion to $191.4 billion. Exports of services increased $0.3 billion to $51.7 billion, and imports of services increased $0.3 billion to $36.2 billion.

So, class, if you're paying attention, if you Jobjack America, export our jobs, the hole we have to borrow just keeps getting deeper.  My, what prescience of economic thought, huh?

Bot's Europe Cold Snap Review

"How cool is that?" we ask, as we delve back into our "progressive" coverage of the cold snap in Europe by covering the story before it happens.  As a reader notes:

"George, it couldnt be more obvious that the webbot is hitting a homerun on the superstorms..particulaly the cold troubles in europe. Just wanted to say it couldnt be more obvious from the last three reports that talked about european temperature issues and damage to human lives....watching the developing story. Thanks for your and clifs hard work."

Now that reality is catching up to Clif's forecast, we read how the "legendary weather" stuff is likely to last until the end of the month (or longer),  the cold snap is one of the reasons perhaps for the recent rise in crude oil prices, and it's being blamed in the Unemployed Kingdom for keeping the price of gasoline high.

While the cold snap is causing the Danube (often called blue) to turn white with some ice, it's now moving into Asia.  Snow is no stranger to China, the Koreas, and such, but 3-meters deep in Japan is a bit much.

Still, it's holding to Ure's Theorem, which says the farther ahead of events the archetypes swell up in netizen language use, the bigger the event will be.  Still, my "wild dreams" which would be the Maraschino cherry on the event hasn't arrived, though it was never in the reports:  I think it'd be cool if someone  would open a rope tow for skiers of those seven hills of Rome.

Housing Fallout in Oz

We read often enough about housing going on the cheap in foreclosures here in the Land of the Free (yada, yada) but it's not often we hear about deals elsewhere.  This story out of Australia about a mansion going for $1,000 is therefore worthy of study...

If you happen to spot a waterfront mansion in the south of Chile, or Patagonia for, oh, says $2,000, you would let me know, wouldn't you?

Secrets Revealed Dept

Wow!  Wired's coverage of "FBI file on Steve Jobs notes use of LSD, dishonesty."

Deeper read question:  What was going on at Pixar that required a Top Secret clearance? That's the thread to follow...

Currents of Death

If you've been wondering if alternating current (Westinghouse, et al) was doing some kind of medical damage compared to what DC power (Tesla, et al) would have done if developed instead, you might want to check out this report out of SoCal claiming "Unexplained illness in Southland neighborhood may be linked to stray voltage..."

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Hmmm...do I file this under current affairs, or should it be under shocking disclosures?

Health Notes:  You're Sick, I Tell You

An eclectic mix of health items pop up today.  For one, there's a new report out, sayeth Fox News, that "Shyness, grieving soon to be classified as mental illness."  I can hardly wait for the disarm Americans crowd to get a hold of this one to they can add shyness and grieving to things like even a suggestion of combat stress as a reason to deny Constitutionally guaranteed rights  to residents (formerly citizens) of this great Nation.

Leaves being a bold, heartless bastard as healthy behavior, near as I can figure it.  Speaking of ice running in the veins...

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My doctor's office called in my cholesterol levels this week from my latest lube, oil, and filter check.  They want me to think about taking a drug to lower it a bit. 

I told them I'd think about it, but honestly, not long.  I'm now reading Ignore the Awkward.: How the Cholesterol Myths Are Kept Alive which details lots of recent medical studies which - if you read the book page on Amazon (even if you don't buy it) will get you started on some thought-changing research.  Besides, I was kind of hoping to sell off drilling rights on my arm...

Look at the thick crude flowing in the veins of the Swiss...still some of the lowest heart attack rates, compared with the low cholesterol of Australian aboriginals with their rising heart problems....so it could be inferred that genetics are a bigger factor than dietary fats.  "You are what born you"....seems to be as much in play as You are what you eat."  That, and stress.  Oh, and the crap in junk food being a source of cardio issues, but no money from drug makers (Big Pharma, center of the captive regulator universe) in that kind of stuff...

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Speaking of changing medical stuff and things, young George II who is going through his EMT annual recertification's thought I should mention that the new guidelines out of the American Heart Association for heart attack response is no longer ABC (Airway, Breathing, Compression).  It's been updated to C-A-B  (compressions first, then airway, and then breathing).

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G II is not a doctor and this isn't medical advice, but the thinking among his friends who are docs (and thought my 12-lead was normal) was that evidence seems to be mounting that heart attacks (myocardial infarctions if you must) seem more closely tied to inflammation and the body over-reacting... also told me specifically not to take Ibuprofen because in his (non-doctor, get 'em in the box and transport 'em quick) view, there's some suggestion that high dose Ibu's make cause enough dilation to cause a heart attack.

More reading over here at the National Institutes of Health site, but you may want to rethink taking Ibuprofen and other non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs(NSAIDs) if you're an old fart (or fartette, I suppose would be the other gender, though "squeaker" is sometimes heard) and you have pain.  Aspirin and talk to your doc about anti-inflammation regimens might be reasonable.

I suppose one more note about sicker and ticker as long as we're wading into this corner of the newsroom:  There's been discussion since last fall about just where the "sweet spot" is for vitamin D use that you might want to stay current on, too.  If I read this article right, high D levels are a risk elevator if taken with calcium supplements...but not without...and oh, this gets complicated.

Might want to consider Magnesium...I take 'em, but that ain't medical advice, any more than my taking L-Arginine is advice.  Just stuff to look into, or take a good multi-vit (organic, please) and call 'er good.  I do fish oil twice daily, too, BTW, figuring if I have high cholesterol, it might work better thinned down to about WD-40, but that depends what I can sell those drilling rights on my arm for...

In the meantime, I feel great and so does my wallet...but I'm sick I tell yah..

More after this: 

George on Marketing: Selling the Fear

Yesterday I was complaining about the (create employment, pander to fear) plans to launch up to 30,000 drones over the USA in the next seven years but this morning we've come across a report about how the Los Angeles Police Department is planning to build a high tech war room.

Building war rooms (and things like those fusion centers) is illustrative of a very curious shift in our society, so if you'd hand me a microscope slide.... 

What used to be a simple narcodollar battle ground was first militarized about 10 years ago (Afghanistan) and now, the Department of Homeland Security and the TSA (and the "security industry") are on a slow-motion language change to redefine "terrorism."

It's not that difficult to do, apparently, because mainstream Americans (except us'ns around here) aren't particularly overwhelming in their precision of language equal precision of thought (POLEPOT).

Still, for those of us who understand that words are things and picking the wrong words is like picking up the wrong screwdriver, "terrorism" has traditionally been the "use of violence and intimidation in the pursuit of political aims" or so the web informs us now...

Since law enforcement (looking at this as a marketing paradigm) is the current emerging product getting check-writing-to-solve problems, the definition is (and keep watching because these things move at semi-glacial speed) being broadened out.  That's why here lately, the FBI concern (and warning) about people who might (being normal prepper types) be buying MREs for cash at military surplus stores, and so forth is so doggone interesting.

No, I don't know of a single case in America where MRE buying has been a tip-off about a would-have-been terrorist event, but the other side of it is that buying large sealed boxes of ammo and being secretive about it could be meaningful, so I'm not being excessively critical.  They have a job to do, yada, yada...

I do, however, note that there is an ongoing slide here to be watched closely.  For while it's (for now) perfectly OK to differ at the voting box, it's not OK to do anything more than non-violently protest and officialdom is acting extremely fearful in this regard.  The difficulty for us free-thinking, question everything types is trying to understand the motivation:  Is it a genuine concern for finding terrorists (36, was it in the past three years?) or, are we seeing mission-creep to where it has becoming an instrument of public (employment and economic) policy?

Difficult questions, these.  The LEO's being caught in a curious kind of mental cross-fire:  Defending the Constitution and Republic against all enemies, foreign and domestic on the one hand, while not getting carried away with a wide-open checkbook which the burgeoning "security industry" has hornswaggled out of Washington.

Another dimensioning of the changes might be something like this: "Tired of good-old fashion, but sometimes slower good police work?  Well, just put on this here military/counter-terrorist suit and don't play by the old rules..."  Strip 'em of citizenship and send them away, isn't it in the new NDAA?

I'm pretty sure all normal Americans support their local police.  But, as police morph into garrisons and troops?  You're gonna see marketing fall-out in any re-positioning campaign. 

And that fall-out, disagreeing with the underlying politics then turn into the problem they were out to prevent in the first place, which is why migrations into police states do become self-reinforcing at some point along their evolutionary path.  Widen the definition of any problem far enough, and that's the risk we face.  Get Kafka on the line, would'ja?

It's why today having a visible copy of the Constitution and Bill of Rights in your car is likely to get you a much longer traffic stop than if you have cheeseburger wrappers and empty pop cans strewn about instead.  I'll let you make up initials for RSW/RFW, but the hint is two of those are four-letter words.

We recall from the controversial "Report from Iron Mountain: On the accessibility and desirability of peace" this concept:  People will only accept government as long as there is a threat of some kind. No threat?  Who needs government?

thus, at the highest level, fear marketing can be seen as going through cycles.  Before and during World War II, fear was "The Hun" and "The Japs."  The next macro fear marketing efforts were the Cold War with "duck & cover!".  Once the face-off toe-to-toe on the field of Armageddon was done there (and money from Cold Warrioring threatened to dry up) Nuwars came along (Iraq, Afghanistan, etc.)

Now, we're well-into product introduction time with a new line of creative solutions to the employment/economic equation.  Our bogeyman of the decade is what?  Terrorism!  And, what better product to market, since the labor force available will be conveniently military trained, as The Wars throttle down.

I have to admit it's a graceful, although perhaps unintended product migration.  Maybe history just presents us with this kind of systems development life cycle, or SDLC for short.

My hypothesis is that the US economy has been beset with a curious sequence of era-specific marketing programs perhaps best seen by listing out some of the positioning statements which were used:

• "Good times are just ahead"  (Depression)

• "Loose lips sink ships" (and others, WWII)

• "Duck & Cover!" "Better dead than red"  (McCarthyism, cold war)

• "Axis of Evil" (and others, Mideast wars)

• "If you See It, Say It" (2010-? terrorism scare)

Admittedly, I have an odd way of thinking about history, a disease brought on by the study of business administration and marketing.  It'd be easy to pass me off as a nutjob for even suggesting this, except for one ugly fact folks don't like to think about:

It fits.

"Drone's Disease" Feedback

From a reader who is more knowledgeable than most..

Alas, my dear virtual friend, all drones are not created equal.

Currently, there is only one 'combat' unmanned aerial 'system' (the preferred DoD terminology), the medium altitude MQ-9 Predator/Reaper. The Reaper employs hellfire missiles, but smaller more 'discrete' missiles are currently under development.

The vast majority of remaining UAS birds fly an ISR (intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance  ) mission at either medium (normal manned air traffic) altitudes or at high (above 40,000') altitudes. Most medium and high altitude systems are also long endurance (20-35 hours).

There are many 'safety of flight' issues being worked with the FAA and ICAO regarding UAS continental or land mass overflight. These issues are anticipated being solved within the next 5-10 years.

Along with the bad uses of a UAS, NASA does atmospheric/climate sampling and ocean temperature monitoring, as well as sediment runoff in creeks, streams and rivers. I'd imagine higher flying (HALE - high altitude, long endurance) birds could monitor upper atmosphere composition, cosmic rays, EM and other such phenomena.

NASA, the USAF and US Navy use trained pilots fly all UASs from 'control segments,' which can be trailers in Kandahar or control rooms in Virginia.

So fear not, Cyberdyne Systems is not about to launch an attack on N. American humanity -- yet!

And as additional comfort to pilots (including moi) our highly informed reader suggested I read version 2.0 of the "Unmanned Aircraft System Airspace Integration Plan."  But, I politely informed him that I don't touch version 2.0 of anything, and I restrict my reading of documents to versions 3.0 and two service packs or above.

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Freedom Rocker Chris Ross has indicated he may lay tracks of down "Drones, Drone's on the Range" and if he does, we'll put a link to the YouTube up.  Also, there's a group up in Kansas City that's planning to perform it, too.  I'd go watch, but my consigliore (who in real life is a (gulp-) tax attorney) is sketchy on whether that'd be a business use of the plane.

On hearing that bad news, I then asked him if there were any EEOC regs on hiring a really short person (part-time) to stand outside the hangar down at the Palestine Airport to point at our flying son of a Beech and say "Dee plane!  Dee plane!" so throngs of fans could fine it (thinking I might be able to charge for tours) but his phone mysteriously died.  How odd....

Reader's Writes

This one's an interesting "Hoping for the best in March" kind of view:

Hello George, I have been enjoying your blog for 5 years now. I just had an idea tonight about a possible senario for the March 2-9 event that could be coming. Here is the senario: Suppose a very generous and genius person builds some kind of device that revolutionizes technology and humanity. It would likely probably be in the form of free energy. This device would be made of cheap common items bought off the store shelf. This individual would release the tech ( schematic, list of materials and tools, instructions) freeware on the internet, very likely youtube. The information would go viral on or about March 2nd. The TPTB would wake up in a panic on March 9th and convince the POTUS to flip the internet kill switch due to the threat of this tech to several of their monopolies. They move too late. The genie is already out of the bottle and refuses to be put back in. Killing the internet slows the genie down, but doesn't stop it. The TPTB rapidly become the TPTW. Oil, wars, and energy profits slowly dwindle away to near nothing. This would also fill the linguistic fill for something escaping from the lab. I am sure the inventor/releaser of the tech is probably somewhere in the linguistic fill as well. I have let my monkey mind go wild tonight. I hope that this is the event that might be coming instead of a very high mortality rate for humanity. Thanks again for giving me insights into a great many things that I never had before reading your website.

What's the old saying?  "You lips to God's ears..." isn't it?  But I've been thinking Universe needs a hearing check-up here lately.

Another bet on March?

Hey George!

Just came across an old article from December 26, 2004 that I thought might interest you. Its about Tibetan Monks remote viewing Aliens revealing themselves *and* Nuclear war in - you guessed it - 2012. I guess if the Future Recent History is correct, we won't have long to wait.

Yeah, a couple of other readers had suggested something similar:  World gets into the position of starting to blow itself up, and suddenly dozens of huge UFOs park themselves over big cities - not intervening per se, but to visually slam home that we are not alone.

Once again, being a hard-headed, data-driven dufus, I have to head to the bookshelf and whip out a couple of books to explain where this "savior from space" stuff may arise from:  The God Virus: How religion infects our lives and culture  (Amazon, $10.13) or The Religion Virus: Why We Believe in God: An Evolutionist Explains Religion's Incredible Hold on Humanity (Amazon, $16.71.)

One of these days I've thought about sharing some thoughts on how all major religions can be analyzed as intangible product marketing campaigns (which Allstate does brilliantly with their long-term invest in the "You're in good hands with Allstate" positioning which aligns beautifully with many religionist beliefs or that strain of virus...

It's hard to do, but whenever I see a story with a theme like this (God, his representatives, UFOs or any other external authority figure) showing up, I try to remember to go begin with "Where's the supporting data?"

So when you watch challenging videos on YouTube, like this one, the difficulty is sorting out difficult questions like "Is this another manifestation of a religion gene being activated, or is is just another sale coming with a marketing program?"  Not easy questions, these.

Writes On: Dangerous Bread

That story about salt in break got us some well-reasoned feedback, too:

George-

Just a brief note regarding the alarmist story about salt in bread, and your experiences baking.

As a graduate of Dunwoody Institute in Minneapolis baking program, I understand the critical role of salt in yeast-risen products, and am here to tell you salt is generally a necessary ingredient in bread making.

Salt has less to do with gluten development, than it does with the controlled growth of the yeast present in bread. In your described experience of making bread minus salt, and having it coming out dense and heavy, was not due to inferior gluten, it was more likely due to you following the balance of your bread making procedure as usual, and what occurred in the same timeframe was that your yeast “shot it’s wad” and spent itself. The resulting dough would be flat, dense, and probably bland or poor tasting.

Salt is what we refer to as the “policeman” of bread baking...Too little (or none) and you get “bread anarchy”, with yeast running wild. Too much, and you get a bread “police-state” where yeast is oppressed to the point of not being able to express itself at all.

Side note here, based on the above analogy...I wonder how this “policing'” would translate to humans, using the ideal bread percentages below...? hmmmm....

Typically salt is used at a ratio of between 2 to 3% based on flour weight (flour being 100%), and a basic bread recipe may look like this percentage-wise; Bread flour 100% water 60% yeast 2% salt 2% total 164%

Of course, there are a million variations and additions and substitutions to additions that can be done to provide a variety of results and flavors, but above you have a basic reference.

Now – is it possible that in commercial bread making, they add more salt in order to boost up the perceived flavor of the end product (more out of the airy less, as it were)?

Surely...so DO pay attention to labels in the store. But is there much to this alarmist story, which is trying to vilify the “staff of life”?

I would answer with a definitive “NO.”

And while I realize some folks (‘sup Clif?) prefer pie, I find a fresh hunk of home made bread every bit as heavenly.

Keep up the great work, and best regards to you and yours

Don't tell reader/writer KP this, but I envy him, and all bakers very much.  In fact I've contemplated going to school to learn finer nuances of the baking arts so that I too could become a professional loafer...

(groans)

Lingo-Lango, We Go

So, as we ponder what it would be like to be run by a runaway computer programmed by suspicious programmers, most of whom we're not even aware of, it's comforting to know that our language plays large into this cauldron of confusion.  We have, for example, a reader in the Philippines who has been refining her skills are recognizing odd-double meanings of the language and she's sent a fresh batch of examples to kick off the weekend...

Khakis: What you need to start a car in Boston.

Alarms: What an octopus is.

Dockyard : A physician's garden.

Incongruous: Where bills are passed.

Pasteurize: Too far to see.

(rim shot)

To go with her musings, the I-Ching inbox provided this link beginning with...

Dearest creature in creation Studying English pronunciation, I will teach you in my verse Sounds like corpse, corps, horse and worse.

And so it goes around here, coarse and worse until Monday, anyway.  Unless you're a Peoplenomics subscriber in which case in the morning (with charts and more)...and with that, we go...or, in the long lost language of CB radio "We gone..."

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Reading Ben and Timing War

Say, there's a chipper and cheerful sounding side order to wolf down with breakfast this morning.  I had an insight last night into how to read Ben Bernanke's Fed confessionals to Congress and we have lots of movement in the Middle East to ponder, plus the usual charts but before we get into that, how about another round of good old-fashioned divisive, us-against-them politics?

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Thursday February 9, 2012

The Exciting Game of "Dough-Go"

Word that a national settlement is near on the recent - years long - problems in the mortgage industry can be taken with a grain of salt, I'm afraid.  While it's perhaps a good thing that New York and California may join in the proposed $25-billion settlement, I'm not sure how this makes up for the damage already done.

I'll use an example I know of in the Phoenix area:  House payments was a key part of a breakup of a marriage and the house repo'ed and then ugly just kept on coming for a while.

So is the proposed settlement worth it?  Here's your chance to be a "citizen reporter":  If you know of a case where the $25 (or is it $32?)-billion actually patches up some family's life, please let me know.  I haven't heard of any yet, but hope's what we live by around here lately.

Meantime, the amount that actually goes into loan modifications for delinquent homeowners is only $17-billion and for the already foreclosed?  Hmmm...how much is bupkis?

SOL again.  Bad repos and false foreclosures seem unlikely to ever all be squared up.  And amazingly, Washington wonders why the wee folk in the hinterlands are pissed and are still looking for None of the Above to run for president and all the seats in congress  (except maybe the Pauls and Bernie Sanders)?

Near as I can figure it, today's just another round of the exciting taxpayer-funded game of  (where'd the) "Dough-Go".

Taking Out Syria

It's looking unfortunately prescient, Clif's expectation for big doings the first couple of weeks of March.  Already the headlines are that "International militarisation of Syria" is in the works.  Isn't that special?

It's already a done deal if this Debka report is believed:  British and Qatari troops are fighting on the rebel side.....which puts them opposite the Assad loyalists and perhaps Russians...

Elsewhere headlines are up that the "US military beginning review of Syria options" which isn't bad...since the military has had its eye on Syria since the Russian aircraft carrier Admiral Kuznetsov dropped into southern Syria for a port call last month.  This chess game is already well into the decision-trees.

A check of the US Navy site reveals time is not this week for hostilities, since three of those presumably eastbound amphibious assault ships are still showing as in the Atlantic.

Still, there are two ways the supposed split between the US and Israel over tactics could be read:  One way would be to assess the discord as real in which case the Obama administration really is trying it's dead-level best to keep us out of a war which could scaled global thermonuclear before summer vacations.  The other is that it's all an elaborate subterfuge designed to give Washington's warmongering crowd plausible deniability when Israel strikes.

A reader pointed out - after reading in the predictive linguistics (and here) about the possible critical role of the Carl Vinson, the US aircraft carrier now in Iran's back yard, "You do remember this was the ship which disposed of the body of Osama bin Laden at sea, don't you?"  High risk platform, I'd say...and we certainly don't want to be right in the words-based expectation.

Curiously timed:  The Pentagon is planning to lift some of the restrictions on women in combat.

Food for Thought:  Is Syria being ramped up as a cover for an Iran hit?

"Historical Winter"

Well, besides the predictive linguistics call a year ago for "skiing the seven hills of Rome" and now reports of Venice's canals having patches of ice, we are also hearing other snips which won't sit well with the global warming side:

• A study reported in The Guardian advises that the Himalayas have lot no ice in the past decade.

• And polar ice caps are melting less than earlier claimed.

Unemployment Filings Down

From Labor:

In the week ending February 4, the advance figure for seasonally adjusted initial claims was 358,000, a decrease of 15,000 from the previous week's revised figure of 373,000. The 4-week moving average was 366,250, a decrease of 11,000 from the previous week's revised average of 377,250.

Not exactly the crack monkey blow-off top in the market, yet. Futures are up only 10 points on the Dow. 
 

Say What? Department

CBS TV up in Chicago is reporting researchers are planning to develop smart phone technology to spot when people are getting depressed.

I'm not sure that'd be a hard one to develop.  Just set off alarms when people go to their online trading accounts, look at their banking portal online, or when their "friends" and "likes" sag on social media.  Seems to me an easy feature to develop...

Besides, I'm sure the government social network mapping and email scanning could be just piped in...but no one asked me.  Just trying to be helpful...

Proof We're Crazy File

Los Angeles County has approved a $1,000 fine for throwing a football or Frisbee on any beach in LA County.

If you want to read 37-pages of how to do it (it's shorter than the Patriot Acts) hats off to CBS for putting it online here.

On the other hand, I see where section 17.12.360 baring "Nudity and Disrobing" has been struck.  Way cool....warm up the plane....

Coping: Drones Disease and Security Mania

Scared of Bird Flu?  Clogged arteries?  Hemorrhoids? Tell you doctor, this could be a sign of a serious condition stuff?  Well, we've got one more to add to the pile this morning:  Drones Disease.

Although it's not a disease recognized by the World Health Organization, yet, it seems to have been concocted by economic terrorists who are trying to pander to the public fear of "terrorism" by creating a job-laden bureaucratic empire that doesn't make sense.

For example, a report in the Washington Times says there are likely to be as many as 30,000 unmanned law enforcement drone aircraft in American airspace by 2020.

Last time I checked, in the whole past three years, the number of suspected "terrorists" rounded up was less than 36 - and even those cases seem to often involve a government informant who is on a pay-for-play deal, where their compensation is based on whether the feds get a case to file.  OK:  two numbers: 36 and three years.

Now, let's go Wiki the Transportation Security Administration and see what their budget for 2012 is.  Ready?  $8.1 billion dollars.  But that doesn't begin to touch what's likely to be a similar amount of dough which goes into counter-terrorism expertise at the Department of Homeland Security and this latest pitch to wind up public paranoia in order to cost-justify up to 30,000 drones.

I appreciate that drones are more than model airplane.  In fact, I have been eyeballing a few and minimally, a good-sized drone is in the area of $20,000 for a stripped down model with a basic radio package.  Want to add GPS for accurate positioning?  More dough.  An add-on for live video beyond tiny frames? That'll cost you more...lots more, since to handle hi-def, high frame rate streaming you need to update not just the ultra lightweight camera, but the whole backend via the avionics gets pricier for the the additional bandwidth.

And then there's the matter of range and duration.

But wait!  What about the piloting requirements for this stuff?  I haven't seen one, but I'm sure the FAA will need to add people to their Flight Standards field offices who have their hands full with general aviation and commercial aircraft, in order to deal with 30,000 additional drones.
 

And I have this really, really ugly technical question which none of the security state marketers seems to mention:  If I go out and fly my little Beechcraft with friends and they pay me, then I'm a commercial pilot.  Have to do ugly spin recoveries and aerobatics like and have the rating and the plane has to be kept up to an even higher maintenance standard.

Here's the gotcha:  Do all the people throwing money around (which we don't have since Social Security is under constant threat of cuts, as are military pensions - all people who to my way of thinking should be first in line for dough dispensed by Washington that we all sent there in the first place) think they can put remote controlled aircraft into the air without having a commercial pilot rating for all these air-drivers?

And worse. because I'm sure some spreadsheet jocks in the military are already doing this - where's the FAA approval for any of these grounded stick jockeys to fly more than one aircraft at a time?  Limited hours for saijd commercial pilots?

I'm getting a little off track here, but I've got a point to make:  I'm guessing that by the time we toss in all the cost of Security Mania, the Terrorism and related tab, with that $8.1-billion of TSA's, I expect we're well north of $20-billion all in.

Do I have a spending alternative?  You bet!  Abso-frigging-ltely!

First I would take all these terrorist suspects and I'd let them split $100-million of TSA savings.  One provision:  Get caught in America again and it's death on site.  So stay in Yemen, or wherever and living happily ever after with your 2.77 million...and good luck finding the 46-virgins or whatever.  Stay out, or die and here's an allowance. Got it?  Stay out or death on sight.

Now, that leaves me, oh, let's say $20-billion.  Well, if I lay that on top of the $38-billion budget request for Social Security's budget and retired military, I'm guessing I'd have enough to pay my consulting bill and still give retirees a 50% increase in benefits.  Maybe I could hire Newt Gingrich's outfit to work this...

But the uglier  realization is that no one in Washington can seem to do math.  In return for rooting out 36 "terrorists" (and we're not sure of even that many,  if you back out government government agent provocateurs/entrapment specialists)  TSA alone pencils out to $225-million per charged suspect.

And now we're going to throw another $600-million at drones? Which, besides blowing up wedding parties and the occasional no-goodnick in the Middle East is about as wrong-headed as tasering people. 

As I see it, we shouldn't be investing so much in new and improved ways to kill and maim.  How about fiber to every home, curing AIDS, cancer, and the common cold?  Supporting small farms, banning GMO foods at the local level?  More parks, put some of that dough into offsetting the pending assault on the checkbook for mandatory fattening of the insurance cartel?  My list goes on, but you get the idea.

Don't mean to start off on such a rant early in the day like this, but I will probably go flying this morning and there are enough risks as it is from things like bird strikes, mechanical failures, and so on.

But this is another example where it could be argued that terrorists are winning:

They've (so far) correctly figured we could be spent into oblivion.  Believe me, if spreadsheets and PowerPoints (and now drones) could solve our problems, we wouldn't still be up to our ass in the Middle East money pit would we, with a nuwar due as early as next month?

The misnamed War on Terror always has been (and always will be) about spending money and keeping people employed...and it's been founded on false assumptions.  WMD's in Iraq, remember? Facts aside - like none found -  the rabid radio right is still running the bankrupt policy put forth by the Project for a New American Century - which best I can recall, didn't mention shredding the constitution or terror-mania.  We are down to the last two countries on that list, though, Iran and Syria, and those ought to be gone (at horrible cost) shortly.

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At a policy level we've been had and we're about to get bent over again - this time with Drones Disease.

I've told you since 9/11 that the War on Terror is the modern equivalent to the Civilian Conservation Corp of the 1930's, or the similarly tasked Works Progress Administration.  30,000 drones?  Fly 'em over every traffic stop...the missing ticket formation, perhaps?

Next thing you know - once they get this boondoggle through - the next step will be to add armaments to the drones.  There go outdoor weddings, huh?  Nothing big - flying tasers to 100-kilotons oughta be a workable range.  I mean WTF?

I'd ask "Has America gone crazy?"  But I already know the answer to that one.  Being crazy myself is solid comfort in times like these. 

Instead of worrying about it, I've decided to suggest to my Freedom Rock friend Chris Ross a new song I've been working on:  Sung to the tune of Home on the Range.  Ready?

Oh, give me a home where the terrorists roam And the fear and the half-awake  play Where seldom is heard an encouraging word And the skies are all cloudy and gray...

Drones, Drones on the range Where the fear in the media plays. Where seldom is heard an encouraging word And the crooks back in Washington play.

How often at night when the heavens are bright With the light from the glittering stars Have I stood there amazed and asked as I gazed if they have the right to search our cars?

Drones, Drones on the range Where the the fear in the media plays. Where seldom is heard an encouraging word an entitlement cuts seem to stay.

Where the air is so pure, the zephyrs so free The breezes so balmy and light, that I might exchange my drones on the range for a country that's somewhat more bright.

Drones, drones on the range Where the fear in the media plays. Where seldom is heard an encouraging word And in Washington, politics plays

Oh, I love those wild flow'rs in this dear land of ours The curlew, I love to hear scream And I love gin on rocks and the media flocks That prey on the L-C-D screens

Drones, drones on the range Where the fear in the media plays Where seldom is heard an encouraging word while the fools back in Washington play.

(strum, strum)

Trust Chris, this one goes to the top of the charts.  Just give the website a plug.

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Maybe I'm looking at this all wrong:  Wonder how much I could make with a commercial ticket and a joystick?

Thursday "Warm Bowl" Ponder

Our Indonesia Bureau chief spied the "Before It's News" headline "World's Pyramids beaming energy to mysterious space cloud..."

I don't suppose that cloud smells something like burning lawn clippings, does it?

Tuesday February 7, 2012

March to War: 25 to Go?

"That's be two eggs, over easy, hash browns, bacon, and oh, yeah, a side of global thermonuclear war..."  That seems to be the menu this morning as global forces are being put into place for a huge showdown in early March.  But, let's begin at the beginning.

Since 2001, my friend Clif has been wondering about the "data gap" which has been visible in predictive linguistics since 2001.  It's a period which we were hoping would be just a widespread internet outage, or something like that.  Imagine a situation later on this year where solar flares, or EMP attack, or attack on America's telephone switching networks takes down the internet.  Another though was that if he could just "tunnel through" the massive pile-on of immediacy events from March into summer, there would be enough data on the far side to give a picture from the future (looking back) that could hold some hints about what lays in our immediate future.

After publishing his "Future Recent History 2020" report, Clif has continued to run the data while he can, and the results of his further refining can be read in his report posted yesterday: "The Last 26 Days of life..."  Not exactly the kind of outlook that makes us want to jump out of bed, and go work toward our glorious future, to be sure.

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As you read his report, two things to keep in mind.  First is that Clif is always quite precise in his use of language and Zionist to him is not a religion (Judaism), the distinction being one is a policy of territorial expansion while the other is a religion/belief set.

The second is that his modelspace is comprised of words and so when he looks up all the word primary meanings, aspects, and attributes, his learning of history leads him to couple those words with past historical evidence of "false flag" attacks which have been used historically to justify large wars.

Although he makes reference to the case of the USS Liberty, a subject exhaustively covered in the BBC Documentary "Dead in the Water", the events surrounding a 1967 Israeli attack on a US electronics laden spy ship was described by one survivor this way: "If it was an accident, it was the best planned accident I've ever heard of."

But the USS Liberty is not the only case of maritime provocation being occurring.  Let's recall that it was not until 2010 that the murky historical record, which includes the tacit admission that the supposed August 4, 1964 on a US ship never really took place.  But then-president Lyndon Johnson used the false pretext as a reason to sends hundreds of thousands of America's best and brightest into combat in South Vietnam.

Worse, this false flagging (or its first cousins forgery and deceit) haven't occurred in isolation.  A more recent example can be found in the Niger uranium document forgeries, another cornerstone of American involvement in Iraq.

These are only three readily-remembered examples, but there are many more, but rather than mention missing "weapons of mass destruction" and other allegations, or wondering why, when all Americans were barred from flying, closely-connected Saudis were able to fly over America...and some folks are still wondering "If all those hijackers came from Saudi Arabia, how come we didn't go there to kick some butt?"

Fine questions, indeed, but only if you fail to comprehend that what was one represented to be statecraft is really economic imperialism in disguise; often not very well-disguised, at that.

In each of these examples, and we fear in the coming debacle - which hopefully will be no more than an artifact of some code module gone wonky instead of those bright flashes of light that vaporize things - will similarly be caused for a multiplicity of economic reasons.

• To solve unemployment:  Sending young people into battle means they must be supported by the folks back home who, because of kin in the trenches, will gladly pay higher tribute (taxes) and that, in turn, will fatten the purse of those who profit from the killing of humans with the War Industries.

• To downgrade the northern hemisphere standard of living:  While it is true that America enjoys a fine standard of living, we've been reduced to buying small (mainly electronic) trinkets from Asia and home industry has collapsed, including the home-building industry.  War on American soil causes huge demand for replacement infrastructure.  Think of the profits!

• To thoroughly end global warming potential:  A limited international exchange of nuclear weapons would send cubic miles of smoke and particulates into the upper atmosphere, thus, nuclear winter (lite) could easily drop the planet just the right number of degrees to ensure an end for several dozen years, to dangerous industrial emissions.  Those are very what?  Profitable!

• To cover-up evidence of economic crimes:  A war would go many miles toward preventing thorough investigation of in-your-face-theft of money invested by Americans in such outfits as MF Global.  Indeed, an outbreak of nuclear war could cause whole pension funds to disappear, since records would be lost and how could such claims ever be reconciled?  The profit from that alone would be humongous.

• To prevent public recognition of a failing economic system:  I have for years pointed out the uncanny coincidence of timing of 9/11 which came mere weeks before I believe the American public would have recognized that the collapse of the Internet Bubble really was about as "good as it ever gets."  If you take the Dow's high in Y2K and correct for inflation, you'll see (not counting commission, dividends, or splits) that the Dow would need to be at least into the mid 15,000's range to have equal value.  It hasn't.  And even more troubling questions arise when you read the report over at ZeroHedge about the rise of the High Frequency Trading machines, which have become market feedback implements of their own.  Should they be legal, at all?  Best not ask those kinds of questions, I suppose.

• And best of all: Make tons of money.  War causes the destruction of people and things.  This leads to massive opportunity at all levels for reconstruction to occur.  The winners (such as they are in war models) definitely come out on top and hold onto their positions of power and influence.  So if you do happen to catch a nuke going off in the future, don't think "Oh my God!!!"  Try thinking "Ka-ching!" on the global cash register.  Or cash register beeps, if you're under 40.

There.  An answer to the flood of emails I've received claiming we're crazy (no argument) and that all we report is gloom and doom.  Not really.  In fact, I go out of my way to point out that these predicted future events could just be blips in language-use.  They don't have to be exactly as described, although the "ship of state" with the sinking of the Concordia was eerie, to say the least. 

Often, though, timing in wrong, since predictive linguistics is anything but perfected.  Still, here's an email just in this morning about an unfilled data set reported a year or two back:

Wow

talk about your crazy web bot hit ("ski the 7 hills of Rome") 

(link "Europe deep freeze reaches North Africa...")

Well, yes, sometimes the stuff really works out.  Other times, it doesn't.  I figure the project's hit rate is about 15% overall, but that's so far ahead of "chance" as to not even be funny.  And higher on big stuff; 9/11, anthrax attack, Banda Aceh quake, NE Power Outage, economic downfall in 2008, return of kids to living at home with parents, and that damn "ship of state" business, which just got filled.

For now, Clif is going into semi "off line" mode.  Igor is moving, the servers are going down, and the earliest we could take up the linguistics again would be in late March and by then it may not matter, since there's a chance (15%??) that what's coming will be obvious by then, even if Clif's timing is off.

My role has been rather like that of Dr. John Watson, trying to chronicle the adventures of Sherlock Holmes.  Still, there's a pattern here now, and more could become evident in future weeks.  But while we wait, I'll try to keep on mixing up  equal doses of sardonic and humor to come up with a very different take on things than you'll likely find elsewhere.

My inbox has been flooded with emails like this one: "Has Cliff gone off the deep end? ... So, what is it George? We really facing some sort of extinction event for a few billion people just three weeks away? I urge you, and Cliff, to be responsible, first so those that need to be prepared can do so and secondly so you do not look like a gigantic fool if nothing happens."

By now you'll need a warm-up on that coffee before we go back to the classroom where the present is being rolled out before us... 

The simple answer is this:  Clif looks at data.  I look at headlines but I consider his data seriously as it oftentimes (but not always) is right.  I tend NOT to issue conclusions or make dire forecasts.  What I do instead is try to look at the headlines and publicly available trends.  Which gets us "heads down" and into this morning's batch of data to ponder...

War in Syria

Something about the ongoing fighting in Homs isn't right.  True, the US has closed its embassy and has pulled people out.  And sure, on the other side, Russia has sent in more envoys, so the diplomatic dinners won't completely end, but there's something else:  Too many rebels, too well-armed, too well-coordinated.  It's like, under cover of Arab Spring, the West has determined to take Syria which puts us on a collision course with Russia.

But wait!  Is the Western (MSM) media way off base?  Very easily could be since the well-regarded (and we hear headed by a retired general) reports in part at the K-Force website that...

"Limited communications from people caught in the middle, non-Muslims, suggest there is a lot less fighting and fewer deaths. Reports of carnage and massacres of hundreds do not seem to be accurate, except in opposition propaganda media."

And who would profit from such publicity?  Why those industries which make money building weapons for wars, of course.  FTM: follow the money.

Peace in Somalia?

Our news analyst up in Winnipeg wonders...is this an Anglo-Ottoman opportunity?

Iran Watch

Some fancy footwork going on around Iran this morning, too.  For one, Iran's president has been summoned by the Iranian parliament to account for, among other things, how the country's economy is doing...which is not so well.  Which is understandable, given the economic sanctions.  Alternatively, it could be to discuss the Iranian parliament's apparent willingness to cut oil exports to the EU.

So far, Iran's putting on airs like it won't have much if any impact other than being antagonistic.

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And reader, following all this has a comment on point:

Hi, George --

You make the best (only?) argument on how the initiation of global war would benefit TPTB/W, namely that the financial skullduggery is so heinous -- beyond the heinous we know about -- that revelations of it would presumably unravel the thin wrap of civilization so thoroughly that the Powers would perhaps be threatened. Likely they are already full of fear for good reason ... (How else to explain Romney?)

However... (here it comes) When it comes to Iran's possible catalytic role, you conclude by asking: "What would be the benefit to Iran?" The answer is: Fulfillment of prophecy, with Iran's and the Shi'ites presumed ascension to global (interstellar?) control of all that matters. The New Age of Islam.

Indeed, Iranian President Ahmadinejad (credit my wife) forecast some time back that 2012 would see the 'destruction of the world' and the return of the "Mahdi", an Islamic potentate of sorts from, I believe, the 12th century. Anyhow, I'm no expert on Islam, but I do think the Iranian leadership and especially the religious council that is in control would welcome the conflagration. Indeed, do they not seem to be trying to provoke it? Pretty crazy stuff coming out from that direction... Makes me wonder what is up their sleeves that's not making it into the MSM or other broad conduits.

Keep on keepin' on, George. At least for a few more weeks.

Maybe Iran's strategy is to let Syria take the hit...which is why there have been reports of Iranian aid to Syria being troublesome...

Best Gov't Money Can Buy, Dept.

Seems like the Obama fund-raisers are having to "dig a little deeper" and that means they are moving toward accepting so-called Super PAC money.

While the theory of this constitutional democratic republic is that the people elect the leaders, the new reality is that our leaders are bought and paid for by special interest groups.  Laughably, the money goes into the pockets of the mainstream media, mainly:  But TV and Radio ads, those full page spreads to come in newspapers.

Like, or not, there is a crooked relationship between the media - which profits mightily from the billions spend on campaigns - and the interests of the public in holding government to its original intent: by and for the people.

Proof again:  We the People have been outbid.

Constitutional Showdown?

The leadership of the Catholic church are headed for a showdown with the Obama administration over provisions in the healthcare bill which deal with payment for birth control.

Sovereigns a Danger?

The FBI is out with a warning that anti-government "extremists" opposed to taxes and regulations post a growing threat to local law enforcement.

While the FBI is correct in pointing out violence against police is unacceptable, the incidence of such cases in 2011 (18 by their figures) puts the risk at (grabbing the calculator) less than 6/10th's of one in a million of population. Too high, to be sure, but has it ever been zero?

So two ways to read it:  The conventional way is to warn of a real danger to police.  But at another level is it a warning not to get too serious about questioning authority?  I seem to remember that's the one thing governments rely on it their authority and if questioning (or failing to participate in that paradigm) gets too out of hand, you end up with outcomes like Egypt, Libya, and Syria, now in play...we do all have to agree to play nicely together at some level.

I'm no big fan of taxes and regulations, but it's better than anarchy which seems to arise regularly from the disappearance of government when the semi-parental authority figure it represents goes missing.  Outbreaks of socioeconomic tribalism don't seem very pretty, the ones I seen...

The Day Ahead

Expect the market to remain more or less even-keeled this morning, until around 10 AM Eastern when Ben Bernanke will be up on the Hill testifying. 

Later on, at 3 PM Eastern, we'll get the new Consumer Debt number.  That will be the first thing into the blender tomorrow morning for Peoplenomics subscribers who get the Wednesday (expanded) content.  Dow was down about 30 points in the pre-open when I looked...like we care about 30 points...

Got the Shakes?

A couple of important items here.  This is the morning of the Great Central US Shakeout being run by FEMA.  If your spouse says something like "I felt the earth move..." it may just be subliminal suggestion at work.

On the other hand, in the latest earthquake data analysis from our reader whose initials are Tony Ring, we are seeing a very interesting decline in small earthquakes since about 2006, or so....

Versus an almost corresponding increase in earthquake activity in the 7.0 and greater chart...

If the (5th order polynomial) trend line is extended out 3-years, the 7.0 quakes will be happening at a four-a-month clip.  Which doesn't seem likely, but then neither did Newt Gingrich.

Latest official quake data is here.

Coping:  So Long, Anti-Gravity

A couple of people have written to me asking "What happened to that video of your anti-gravity work?"

Funny you should ask.  I took the video down yesterday because I understand now what was going on.  It's a dandy example of science at work.

First, since it was apparently a materials problem, I got seriously into a study of the metallic flakes used in paints and discovered that some are paramagnetic.

In other words, they will react in a strong magnetic field in one way, but will tend to lose their magnetic properties when out of the field.

So I set about measuring with more sensitive instruments whether or not the metal flake paint  can top showed even weak magnetism...and it did!

That was both good news - and bad.  Good news in that I was finally able to disprove my own results - so on to the next method which involves both fixed magnets and pulsed electro-magnets at different frequencies (after the purported Philadelphia Experiment case) but it has dropped way down the list of priorities around here.

Eating and making money have moved back to the fore...  still, tantalizing hints come flowing in like this one:

Google USED to give totals of hits (last time i recalled it was over 2 million links if you entered the terms of 'American Antigravity') Now, Google no longer shows the number... mmmm) IXquick (search engine) shows over 37,000 George, I read your blog daily, have bought and read Cliff high's reports. I listen to George Noory's radio show every day through mp3 downloads: (lots of time on my hand) Here is the CRUX of the matter: I heard a self described 'old engineer' call in to the Coast to Coast AM radio show and say: "anti-gravity is very easy. You take two flat cylindrical expensive ($7,000 each) magnets with a hole in each center. turn them so they repel. 3. bolt them tight together. 4. twirl high voltage wires thru the center. 5 pass a high voltage current thru the wire.: (I wouldn't try this inside. Since on another show an English inventor was interviewed and said he created a hole in his home. Apparently the device is still travelling thru space.) Good luck.

We're still trying to figure out where 3 grams of weight from Vince's test rock (tapped with repelling magnets) went...food first, play second.

Tuesday at the WuJo

Say, here's a good one, speaking of the Philadelphia Experiment, time travel, dimensional warping, and all that...

About 45 (yeah 45) years ago when I was a little younger than I am today I was playing in my parents dining room with my hot wheels car and track. Now back then we were poor and our home furnishings could be described as spartan. In the dining room was a table and chairs and a china cabinet, that's it. There was a baseboard heater on one wall. So I had one of those devices which would accelerate the hot wheels car along the track by catching it between two spinning rubber wheels. Pretty simple. Except this time when the car shot out directly towards the china cabinet it disappeared. Now the china cabinet went down to the floor all the way across the bottom with a set of drawers. Nothing fancy. So where did the car go? Well this was my favorite (and only) hot wheels car. I loved that car. A replica of an old stock car in a shiny gold color. So I looked everywhere in that room. There was no bounce, no sound, it jut disappeared. Being about 5 years old (there, do the math) I could crawl around on the floor and look into every nook and cranny. Nothing. Every time I was in that room I would look around for that car, until one glorious day several years later when my parents had to move that china cabinet to put in a new one and put the old one in the basement. I was waiting with such anticipation for what I hoped would be a moment of triumph when the car would be found behind that cabinet. Nothing. I checked all along the baseboard heating. Nothing. Never seen or heard from again. My Mom still lives there. Guess what my annual ritual is everytime I am there for a family get together? I will update you again after Easter.

Don't break the china hutch!

Prepper TV

New series starting up tonight on the National Geographic Channel called "Doomsday Preppers."

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People frequently ask me about "being a prepper."  Frankly, I don't think of myself that way.  I think more along the lines of self reliance.

To me, life is a "hands-on" series of events.  Some people decide to engage life and learn all they can about the world around them, how it works, and go off on some serious adventuring and learning about this world in order to better appreciate it.

To be sure, there are lots of web site on self reliance - and a few very good publications like Self Reliance Illustrated which is pretty good..

There's more to it... a wider view...and that's what Gaye Levy and I are working toward over at www.strategic-living.com. 

Reader's Writes

Interesting batch today...

Dear George, Friday night I was going over some rife frequencies and emf filters with my medical intuitive guru. I mentioned to him that I had been heavily thwarted from buying a huge order of emf filters and asked if it had anything to do with a potential catastrophe coming at us in March. He said he saw nothing particularly to worry about next month. But to wait until April if I was uncomfortable with things. Hmmmmm,

Another writes:

Could a China Syndrome qualify for the language change?

Don't think so...not a high enough body count.  Speaking of which...

Where There's a Will, There's a Lawyer Dept.

Talk about a non-fun project...ironing out details of a will.  Yuck!

But, since we are the ages we are...and since March is March...and since  we do fly around in our plane a bit....time to get these done.  The immortal part of me doesn't like dealing with the details of the mortal part, though, no way around it.

Why it's almost as much fun as straining a back muscle, an appendectomy, paying bills, or dealing with a car accident.  Can't speak directly about pain of it compared to childbirth...

Not that it relates in any way, shape, or form to what may or may not show up in March.  But the timing is interesting.

So was the arrival of this email...

Hi, George - this was a little freaky. A few hours ago my partner said, "You have to read Clif's, 26 Days to live - I sent it to you." So, I go into my home e-mail here and read the article and the date, March 2nd. I got out my dream journal and looked at my last entry (which I didn't submit to your dream site but am going to now) dated 1-15-12. It states: Dream. In my own voice, calm and matter of fact, I heard myself say, March 2nd, 2012 is the day I will die. Tuesday, March 2nd." March 2nd 2012 is a Friday. Strange. March 2nd falls on a Tuesday again, at least in this universe (seriously), in 2020. I've had other dreams of my checking out date, more currently July 7th, 2026. What universe is that "Krys" dying in? My partner is upset and marked the calendar. "You can't go to work that day!", and other statements to that effect. I find it fascinating. I admit mildly spooky. And it makes sense! The veils are thinning and we're experiencing our other selves - echoes. So, whichever March 2nd I "die" (no such thing) on, do I just slip into one of the other me's in another universe. Like a hall of mirrors with endless reflections, all real or not? Intriguing, isn't it?

What was it I was saying this morning?  Oh yeah: "That's be two eggs, over easy, hash browns, bacon, and oh, yeah, a side of global thermonuclear war..."

If we miss connecting with our immortal side at times like these, that must be the whole point of the illusion, I suppose...

Monday February 6, 2012

Sliding Deadlines - War to Come?

As we slip and slide toward whatever that linguistic stuff the first half of March means, we notice that Greece is also playing the old "slip-and-slide" this morning with yet another (made-up) deadline coming and going.

One aspect of what's ahead is the public version of events, which is what the passing headlines mean.  But the knowledgeable observer knows there's the other side of the libretto, written at times in invisible ink, but which shows up now and again at the International Swaps and Derivatives Association, so we continue watching their press release postings here.  That will determine to some measure whether Greece defaults or simply does a credit restructuring.  Who gets stuck for the (free lunch tab) is in play.

While this drags on, the talks are back on, after being off...and if the deadline has passed, seems to be a fair question to ask "What are they talking about?"

Why is it, I get the uncomfortable feeling that the outcome of Europe future will be decided later this month, and in Archduke Ferdinand fashion, will be the event that triggers WW III/IV?  Except this time, instead of a person getting shot, it will be an economy...

False Flag Ahead?

Interesting developments in the predictive linguistics over the weekend, now alluding to the possibility of a false-flag attack in the opening days of March being "on."

We have not been able to confirm it, but seems there're some reports of moving US military units out of the US and purported issuance of travel passes to the outbound troops which will allow, upon their return for travel to different regions within the US...but as I said, no confirmation.  Still...sometimes where there's smoke....

What makes this such an interesting bit of buzz to be picket up on the net is that there are a series of international events being moved into position which could become the nominal cause for global war, and which could be seen as a way to hide the massive financial scandals yet unresolved - and besides the bankruptcy of Europe, the pending Dollar disaster as our federal budget goes nonlinear, there's all that disappearing money from the likes of MF Global...

A war, especially a large one, deliberately sewt in arsonist-fashion would be an all-too-convenient way of burying (or vaporizing) the evidence.  Think of 9/11 replayed on a global scale. Not a happy thought to begin the week.

Which gets us to how those pieces are being moved around on the board...

Deadly Syria

Bombing and urban fighting continue in the Syrian city of Homs where rebellion against the Assad government seems centered.

Meantime, Russia, which has an aircraft carrier just off Syria, last we heard, has decried the US/West for being hysterical over their positioning of forces and support for the killer regime in Damascus..

Iran War Drums Beat

Israel has announced a new boss for its air force, and no surprise here:  He figures Iran is his top concern.

President Obama says that our country and Israel are still hoping to solve things diplomatically.

But more and more pressure is being brought to bear by the conventional press/ MSM, which are running op-ed pieces suggesting things like "A nuclear Iran would put us over a barrel..."

As one of our readers puts it, looking at the other side of things:

"Meantime, there's a report that Iran has completed material to build a bomb and with that, their missiles could reach the US. "

No why would that be a problem?

Oh yeah, it would mean Iran would have an effective deterrent against a western invasion.

Can't let them have that, can we, it would de-rail the west's invasion plans ...

Does anyone really believe that Iran, even if it had nukes, would fire them off?

What would be the benefit to Iran?

It would, for sure, end their oil exports to China...

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The whole world situation is looking more and more like a massive spreadsheet with a massive circular reference involving 50+ cells...

Rambling Gamble

After Mitt Romney waxed Newt Gingrich and others in Nevada this weekend, seems like Gingrich hopes of pulling one over on America....I mean making it to the Presidency...ought to be declining.  In the collection of national political stories, we're reading how Newt's big money raisers may be talking to Romney folks now, how Ron Paul had only 18.7% (Romney scored 50%) in the Nevada showdown.

The New Red Light District

What's the payback on one of those auto-cop video cameras?  Three million bucks of one in the Bay Area...and that's so far...

Coping:  Betting on What March Brings

It's become something of a part-time job around here keeping track of all the various things readers are proposing/supposing for the dramatic shit into predictive linguistics "release language" come March.  To give you an idea, here's a list of possible candidates - in no particular order, by the way:

• Nothing will happen  and it will all just turn out to be a flurry of headlines.

• A great economic collapse will afflict the entire world bringing pain and suffering to billions, and because of supply chain disruptions, famine will follow shortly thereafter.  And as a follow-on, then comes disease and so forth.

• A massive "solar event" launches a huge coronal mass ejection (CME) Earthward (like the 1969 Canadian/Northeast impacting one, or the grand-daddy of them all, a Carrington Event. 

• War break out in Syria and quickly escalates to involve the US and Russia/China in a super power showdown - often called World War III, since it would really be World War IV, since III was the Cold War and Vietnam and lots of other actions were its constituents, but why be picky?

• Ditto, except instead of Damascus being glazed by burning mushrooms, the adventure begins with Israel using nuclear bunker-busting of Iran's deep assembly rooms where they're working on a bomb, and after a lull of three-six days, the whole world lobs about nuclear hardware.  Global cooling sets in, regardless of either one of these and the role of the name Vincent/Vincenzia (Vinson?) should emergent answered from this.

• Global earth-change such as dramatic climate shift, polar shift, or something on that order; A collapse of the undersea landslide in the Canary Islands (La Palme/Cumbre Vieja) and the whole US East Coast deals with 50-100 foot wave(s) from that...

• Bird flu, which has popped up again in at least five countries, though in apparently confined cases might do the job, but not too sure about that...could be too small, even if millions die.  Flu kills every year anyway and it is "cold and flu" season along in here somewhere...

• Or, the language just goes into a big decline as the government cracks down on internet sites and the free exchange of ideas and such which has come from the viral spread of numedia/social media such as Facebook, Twitter, and so on.  It may be argued, from a public policy perspective, that non-official versions of reality are simply becoming too profuse and alternative (more honest?) assessments that may not rhyme all nice and proper-like with the corpgov agenda just can't be allowed to continue.

One could actually toss in a lot of smaller events, but they wouldn't have the global impact since whatever March brings with it in modelspace is all about global effects.  So, for example,  Newt Gingrich dropping out of the run for the White House wouldn't even move that meter.

Lots of readers have come with their own spins on things.  Here's an example:

Hi George,

Just a couple of ideas to counter your growing gloomy doom list for the March Event:

1. Disclosure of ET/UFO reality and consequently the Free Energy/New Electrics technology that goes along with it (or disclosure of just the Free Energy). Instant paradigm shift out of Petroleum, Coal, and Nuclear and an end to the cash cow for many of TPTW.

2. The 'white hats' in strategic positions of influence (mostly military patriots) stage a coup and round up all of the minions of TPTW. Knocks the legs out from under the plans for nasty things in the works.

Yes, these are technically feasible, but frankly, the probabilities are extremely low.  The reason?  The UFO disclosure stuff hasn't happened yet in all of human history (although there is a case to be made the bible was really a UFO/extraterrestrial off-world intervention in human affairs) so why now?

And on the "white hats" idea, sorry, but that one is just so near to a zero chance it might as well be off the table, too.  Despite the resurgent interest in living a moral like - examples include Oath Keepers and others - the idea that there will be a sudden resurgence of "doing what's right" has about the same odds as me winning the Texas Lotto.

So that's where we are this morning...so with about four weeks to run until we get into the whatever-it-is falling out of language change studies, we ought to have the answer to the big "What is IT?" question soon enough.

Anti-Gravity Research

The YouTube video that I put up showing a reduction of more than 7½ percent in apparent mass continues to get lots of comment.

Daughter Denise tells me that one reason it has less than 2,000 views as of this morning is that it's too long to go viral.  So, she suggested, I need to do a one-minute edit of it and show the set up, results, and do a faster-paced edit job so people will be more inclined to watch it...  One more thing on the to-do list, eh?  Just what I need...

Our Indonesia bureau chief, Bernard Grover, offers this thought:

Hey chief! Congrats on the anti-grav. Try using monatomic gold. You have to heat gold to 8,000F for 70 seconds to get some, but the anti-grav effect is pretty damned remarkable. Who knows what it would do with carefully applied electric pulses. I don’t have the toys for all that.