Sandylution Begins!
Although I was half-inclined to begin this morning's column with a recitation of
how the unemployment numbers of October 2012 compare with those of October 2008
(which we will in a moment) the most important data point in terms of planning
how you live your life now and into the future is not just the outbreaks of
violence and chaos in the wake of Sandy in the northeast, but also the fast &
loose talk around the country about how local communities would cope with
similarly scaled events should they ever arrive.
Free gas should have been a good thing.
Well, not exactly how it turned out.
Mayor Mike visiting storm-damaged areas should have been a good thing.
By this account in the NYPost, it was not.
Even more disturbing is that "politically-correct" [socialists] are coming
out of the woodwork in communities around the nation, including one we live
near here in East Texas. The self-important do-gooders are already
hatching "emergency plans" to order local "law" enforcement to screw the
Constitution and go house-to-house to seize food (and whatever else strikes
their fancy) and put it into a "community center" from which "authorities"
would distribute food.
In short, those who haven't done a days worth of prepping in their lives are
already scheming to steal from those who have planned to provide for their
families so that every meth-head on the streets can get a portion of someone
else's hard work.
Not to be too much the Grinch here, but this is how Marx figured it would
work: "From each according to their ability, to each according to
their need..." I'ts the new "public safety mantra. So while some
people are in the dark, without power, hungry and so forth, the
biggest problem in the wake of Sandy is not in New York or New
Jersey. It's the continuing overthrow of the Constitution.
It's in how America is busy making plans - under the guise of "do-gooders"
to seize private property (and food) in case officials declare an
"emergency."
A long time ago journalist Sinclair Lewis warned of such a mob mindset: "When
fascism come to America it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a
cross.". Unfortunately, seems when socialism comes knocking, it
is now rapped wrapped in buzz phrases like "community response" and "public
emergency" and yes, wrapped in a flag. Worst of all? We're hearing
that kind of talk from many states.
I urge you in the strongest terms to be aware of - and attend - any
"emergency planning meetings" which local government near plans to hold in
order that you'll at least be able to quote Marx and maybe offer some common
sense.
America has a can-do spirit (though Mayor Mike's cancelling of the NY
Marathon torpedoed that to some extent).
Emergency planning that jumps right to planning forced collectivization
(including seizing guns) without a specifically enumerated threat is athe
kind of One-World Government response that's more dangerous to Liberty and
any group of terrorists could ever hope to be.
Don't even start me on how it's backed by people in government who are
wasting money on seizure plans rather than buying and storing food for the
public. Regrettably, the plans being kicked around down here involve
seizing from those who have foresight. Does the term "dog in the
manger" mean anything to you?
If your community (or state) leaps onto this well-laid paved road to
socialism/communism it's mob rule at work.
Although there are still a few rights-minded people in Texas, there are
those who would change our stte flag's white star for a red one.
Still,
voting is tomorrow and it's planned in storm-hit areas. Goting
into it, the polls this morning are just about evenly split. While a
week ago it looked like Romney had a good chance of making it, the arrival
of Sandy allowed Barak Obama to look very "presidential" and Romney was
shoved to the background.
October Surprised?
Plus, Romney's campaign has blown it in their communication with working
people in Ohio with an ill-conceived attack on Jeep.
We continue holding the thought that we may not have an election decision
until perhaps as late as December. We'll see how our consulting
atrologer does on this one...
Elections and Job Numbers
Tomorrow you have an important decision to make: Who to vote for to be
President of the United States. Just so we're perfectly clear on what
four years of "Change" has resulted in, let's haul out a couple of Labor
Department Press Releases and read the numbers, shall we? Some of this
is repeated from Friday, but I think it's important.
"Nonfarm payroll employment fell by 240,000 in October, and the
unemployment rate rose from 6.1 to 6.5 percent, the Bureau of Labor
Statistics of the U.S. Department of Labor reported today. October's drop in
payroll employment followed declines of 127,000 in August and 284,000 in
September, as revised. Employment has fallen by 1.2 million in the first 10
months of 2008; over half of the decrease has occurred in the past 3 months.
In October, job losses continued in manufacturing, construc- tion, and
several service-providing industries. Health care and mining continued to
add jobs."
"Total nonfarm payroll employment increased by 171,000 in October, and the
unemployment rate was essentially unchanged at 7.9 percent, the U.S. Bureau
of Labor Statistics reported today. Employment rose in professional and
business services, health care, and retail trade.
There are other issues, I suppose, like whether tax increases can be rolled back
and so forth, but honestly, I plan to
vote for Gary Johnson - the Libertarian Party candidate who has been
virtually locked out of effective campaigning by the corporate political
duopoly.
I've had a flood of hate mail, by the way, from people who argue that a vote
away from Romney is a vote for Obama, but that's not how I see it.
First and foremost I'll be voting my conscience. Second: People
who engage in that kind of thinking are buying right into the duopoly
mind-control paradigm.
No, I think America is ready for a real third party - we damn sure
NEED one that will be liberal on things like marijuana, civil
liberties, but hard on defense, yet not in bed with the death industries.
No, Johnson has only the slimmest of chances, but if a third party gets a
significant number of votes, it might be a warning to the duopoly that the
people are restless and dissatisfied - and the continuing concentration of
power and wealth in the hands of the one-percenters has to stop.
The One Percenters are buying the election though and their "issue" (terror,
security, live in fear) are doing very, very well. You don't hear much
about empowerment. Instead you see the incumbent's "we'll take care of
you" as government - bigger and bigger government - does.
I don't see Romney changing that, nor to I see Obama changing...and when
guys like Jon Corzine get to bundle for Obama, seems to me clear which side
Obama's bread is being buttered on.
But have fun - like Mark Twain said: "If voting really mattered,
they wouldn't let us do it." The more things change, the more
they stay the....
ResoNation has a jammed-fact (sic) review of geoengineering and Frankstorm
Sandy. But, I suppopse it would be asking too much for the clowns
in Washington to actually hold hearings into this. They do, after all,
have three rings to contend with (house, senate, and WH...) and then there's
the carnies up on K Street.
Is the West Coast the next disaster in line?
It's
already raining rumors on the net.
The Israeli Mistake?
We have been eyeing the end of this week - after the voting for president is
finished, wondering if my friend G.A. Stewart will be right in his concerns
that it would make a dandy tip-off date for World War III.
Personally, I can see how this would work, since if Obama were to win, the
country would still be politically divided and there might be more support
now for Israel than, say, next spring.
At any rate, the "mistake" if the long term predictive linguistics are
correct might very well be an ill-advised attack on Iran. Which gets
us to this morning's worry:
"INSS's war
game simulates regional scenarios" reports the Jerusalem Post today.
When you read the report, what comes through is that the decision to strike
Iran may have been "gamed" by people who misread the potential for global
war on a number of fronts.
For one, it would be an ideal time for Russia to have an "accident" in
space, which could set off an EMP blast over the US. With America
already partially divided because of the hurricane aftermath and a divisive
presidential contest, we might not be this vulnerable for another who knows
how long?
What's more, the war gamers seem to think all the surrounding Mideast
countries will act in their own interests and will not rise up in unison to
counter what they'd portray as Israeli/Zionist aggression.
So one way to read this most important of war game reports is to look at it
as a post facto justification - which shows an attack could be launched
without any blowback. With the older linguistics studies suggesting
nine generations of blowback, we are extremely glum at the prospects of
having to live through the possible workout in everyday life. More in
the "Coping Section" after a few more headlines...
Markets
Not much to report on until the Fed comes out with the Consumer Debt report
on Wednesday, so bring a bottle of pain-killer to our Thursday morning
hook-up. I wouldn't be surprised to see the markets drop down and test
the 1,395 S&P area...and after that? Well, gonna depend on whether
Tweedle O or Tweedle R wins.
Boeing: Dreams On
Quakes and Shakes
A more robust description of the end of the world in the Coping section this
morning, but the Pacific Tsunami warning system went off this morning on a
4.0 reported 90-miles southwest of Anchorage.
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Reader Patti up in Oklahoma sends this:
"Last night in Oklahoma around eight pm. We kept hearing booming noises.
My sister who lives in Marlow which is and hour and half south of us in
Edmond posted on Facebook that Ft. Sill was bombing a lot. I called her to
tell here that we were hearing the noises. While I was talking to her, we
both heard one. It wasn't Fr. Sill because we don't hear them bombing in
Edmond. My husband suggested that it was a meteor breaking up as we are in a
meteor shower right now. Enjoy your website. Read it daily."
Well...www.haarpstatus.com shows the MidWest lighting up...or it's just a
case of "Seneca Guns" and Seneca got lost, maybe? A quote from a USGS
page one point:
"The name originated in a short story that James Fennimore Cooper wrote
during the 1800’s. The name refers to booms that have been heard on the
shores of Lake Seneca and Lake Cayuga in New York State. The name has been
applied to similar noises along the coasts of North Carolina, South
Carolina, and Virginia. Similar booms are called Barisol guns in coastal
India. These phenomena have also occurred in three widely separated places
around the world. That’s about all we know about the Seneca guns."
More
quakery-boomery from USGS here. My money is on water injection
wells, but no one asked...
South Korean Nuke Woes
After finding out some uncertified parts had been used,
South Korea is
partly darkly today as two major power plants are offline.
New Boss in China
Hu Jintao is about to step aside to make way for
Xi Jinping's ascent to power.
The World is Still Crazy
With all the important stuff going on, Amerca's appetite for self-delusion
is nowhere more apparent that reading about a cult-of-personality favorite
like
Kim Kardshian coming out with a new clothing line.
If you woke up this morning hoping the US would be in rehab, or something,
nope...sorry to disappoint. What's the statistics I heard? The
US with 5% of people eats 61% of world pharmamoodicals?
Gotta wonder if we'd do better at voting decent leaders if we had
pee-testing to vote - or hold office!
More after this...
Source: http://urbansurvival.com/week.htm
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