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Read recently an article that equated an amoeba to the reality in an organization. Here is the article, a great one at that, btw, : Slime MOLD
I think this analogue is spot on.

The thing that I have noticed that is self evident is that individually we can achieve greatness but in the group when resource is plenty can achieve even more, right?

The catch here is simulated scarcity. Asymmetric information has created an environment that does not allow for a fair game to be played. Thus the reality for many is the perception of a bust economy. In the bust the rules are different than during the boom.

The question is: are resources really and truly scarce? You have to find that answer yourself.

Another great quote from a Hollywood movie no doubt. The movie was from the late 80′s, the quote went something like this, ‘the worst parts of war are at the beginning and at the end the middle is like a country club’. That was stated by J. Malkovic, character Basie, from the movie “Empire of the Sun”.

The economic war we are in has just begun.

But finally the best quote of the week was from the second reading, Paul to the Corinthians (32-35). I think that my interpretation of this is so (maybe a bit out off the scope of traditional bible study) : Let realities of certain states of life be different but understand that all states of life are equal under God.

Meaning, please do not force your reality upon me. I am doing just fine right here in my own. But I do understand we both have a connection to the God. So at least we have that, right?

So, are we going to flow like an amoeba running out of food? Or will another reality be forced upon us by a stronger force? Or will we realize we are all connected despite our own realities?

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great video! Go to min. 54 or so. The discussion at the end is great too!

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AT Eagles Nest

When this picture was taken the US had just entered the war in Iraq. As I sat upon Eagles Nest in the Alps of Bavaria, I pondered the time that I was then living. Life was fast, travel was frequent and connections were short but memorable.

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NEW World Order Transportation

Getting ready for the New World Order. Need strong legs in this new system.

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Main STREET USA

Network effect.

Build the Main Street

Shop on the Main Street.

No to Financed Capital distribution points.

Back end costs (when you buy at the big boxes, you save for now but pay for it later)

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God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen (Xhausen Xmas Version) by Xhausen

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Princeton

At what point will the scale tip?

As labor rates remain relatively stable, a minor hit, those that are employed can continue to keep up with the manufactured inflation from the central banks.

The goods produced in China require buyers.

China and other Asian entities continue to purchase US debt.

This debt is purchased because the return that it promises.

What point does a debtor nation loose its ability to produce wealth for the creditor nation? And thus the creditor wants to cash in.

For the past several years many buildings in the US have been being purchased by Chinese entities, low flying under the radar and very discreet.

If the barrel of oil price goes to 200 USD that would make something like 5USD/gal (just rough estimating here). This will wipe out more and more individuals from the economy. The cities and plans of much of the geography of the US is not designed for 5USD/Gal specifically when the trend in the US is not to increase wages but to reduce them.

The reports have been for the last several years that wages in the US need to come down 20%. With this pressure and the pressure in rise of fuel and utilities in the standard US home, these will price out many in the first price increase, right out of the market, joining the line in the tent cities of OWS.

Another thought to confirm changes are occurring, MACY’s the department store chain announced this week it is closing one of its stores in a Cleveland suburb. Macys This Cleveland suburb will now become the next victim, and has been, of the encroaching economic devastation blighting areas and leaving a transitional form in its wake. I am no fan of these large retail chains, but the psychological impact upon the residents of this community as institutions, the stores, move may have substantial impact.

The geographical high ground seems to fit well with the economic high ground in this instance. Run for the hills might be the call that is heard.

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Have a look at the following images. Take a look at them. They are both from a city with roughly the same amount of population within a margin or error.

The first photo seen here is from Valkenswaard, NL
Image A

Way to Eindhoven

The city of Valkenswaard has population around 30K.

The next image is take from a suburb of Cleveland, OH.
Take a look at the image. This suburb is between or on the route between Richmond Heights and Highland Heights, lets for this comparison say that respectively
they together have about 20K population.
image B

Route to Philips

As you observe the images consider changing economic situations or loss of capital to the region as a whole. If you, yes you the reader, were considering the creeping degradation of economic trepidation and a foreign onslaught, which would you personally want to defend? Or rather, would you believe in staying in, ‘fighting’ for so to speak?

I raise this question, rhetorical thought, in the hope of connecting the idea of space and value to our personal as well as our community.

A few questions to ask yourself?

Why is it that in the US in a majority of spaces where ‘families’ reside, there is little to no people to be seen walking about regularly, unless they ‘are doing fitness’?

What does civic space mean to you?

What type of space do you like to be apart of?

Which space would you ‘fight for’?

Lastly, does space impact cultural characteristics? Who is defining the space that we reside with in?

Do we accept the decisions that have been made for the spaces that we reside, or can we begin to question how the spaces around us have been derived and begin to ask the questions, can we do better?

And if we can, why not start today, and begin in rethinking our civic space and the spaces in which we reside?

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I think I have discovered the true tip of the spear.

Children’s programming. Recently have been introduced to what is known as ‘children’s programming’ in the US. My friend has an 11 year old and have been observing the programming that she watches and is ‘addicted’ too.

Children’s programming. This poison could be akin to that wrote about in Grim’s fairytales. The candy, metaphorical here, looks so good that the children watching it can not help but to be programmed, ‘and take a bite’, by the subtle messages of de-rating the family to the witty ironic statements that takes traditional family roles and steam rolls them into the pavement with no hope of recovery.

You wonder why the US children of today seem to be more isolated and consumer oriented. It is the message laced within the medium of the programming that is deemed for them.

For example take this interview from one of the writers of this crap.

“AMO: How much edgy humor can you get away with in a G-rated show?

SM: We have our own language. When he’s ticked off, Yang screams, ‘Oh pellets!’ We’ve created our own world that, to me, is even funnier. In one scene, Yang gets a wedgie and originally he had him saying, ‘Oww, my boy parts!’ Disney didn’t go for that so we changed it to ‘Oww, my undercarriage!’ It’s just as funny and in some ways it’s funnier. And as far as the rest of the world knows, that’s the first joke we came up with. So I don’t feel restricted. I feel like I can take whatever chances I want to take and when I’m told, ‘No, this doesn’t work in this instance,’ nobody’s mad, nobody’s annoyed, nobody wants you to stop. They want you to keep pushing the envelope as often as you can so the show’s as good as it can be.”

this is taken from the following link crap

Another instance that promotes the programming is canned laughter embedded in these programs. Has anyone actually counted how many instances of canned laughter occur in an average ‘children’s episode’ and more importantly, under what context is the laughter being trigger within the trite plot? Have a read here laugh track

Here is an excerpt from that wiki page.
“Children’s Shows: 2000s
While Disney Channel original sitcoms mostly shoot in front of studio audiences/laugh tracks[clarification needed] [29] Disney’s top competitor, Nickelodeon, mostly shoots such hits as iCarly and Victorious without audiences (due to their decision to do away with their now-defunct original studios) and use laugh tracks as a substitute.
Glenn Martin, DDS, a claymation show produced by Nickelodeon, utilized a laugh track for the first seven episodes only, then ceased its usage. Series creator Eric Fogel commented, “It took too much internal thinking”.[citation needed]”

People don’t have to look to ‘Government publicized agents of terror’ they just need to look to the programming that their children are viewing and the language and the messages embedded in these plots and there contains all that is required to bring down a culture or change an economic system.

Sit down and actually watch one of these shows and record for yourself how many times the laugh track is run. And consider the points that are influencing your children to find humor. Ask yourself does these points align with your value system that you have in your family?

You want change? Change the family room orientation and get rid of the t.v.

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disgusting

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Work, the principle or the agent. Constantly shifting roles in the struggle for peace and happiness.
I once heard a comedian, it was Dave Chappelle, tell a story about being pimped and the role of ‘the bottom bitch’ in the pimp prostitute relationship. His story telling was sharp. You got the point of what his laborious story was all about as the laboriously described details unfolded to the climatic sequence. Don’t quite remember all those details but I simply remember that he was likening the role of the pimp to that of Bush the second, and the bottom bitch was collectively the american people, the voting populace. I think this depiction was actually fairly accurate for that time. It seems now the awakenings are occurring. The bottom bitch has had enough and can’t take anymore, so we think. Not sure where the movement is going but I know that NYC is cold in December. It would be a prudent move to begin to formulate the point of the spear, before lets say, the end of this month. But again, YU55 (and the DHS test message) is scheduled for early next month, so that might be something to consider. Regardless of astrological, or tri-lateral events, the movement needs form a focus.

If I could draw a VENN diagram it would be this : Tip of the Spear

Each of these items if discussed openly would engage and focus action the pinch points that under constant assault.

Being a w2 wage slave, I feel a bit out of place while the movement progresses, but I inherently think my role is to maintain the course I have embarked upon with a burning desire, the prize for me is the journey, and I will enjoy the ride even if it is the daily grind, for now….

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October has arrived and the approach of YU55 (near Earth astroid) is less than a month away:

Many topics covered in this interview. But the key point is change, change to the ‘normal’ people lives. Change fostered because the pillar of the culture that has been created and taken for gospel in this country has been and is delivered on financial credit, vast quantities of it. Items and a way of life that has been ‘the standard’ within the manufactured mono-culture of the commercialism in the US are in the cross hairs of the encroaching change.

This all seems very nebulous and like the ether that Michelson and Morley attempted to disprove that was researched over 100 years ago, but just like the fact that their work in Physics built the case that eventually proved the ether to be a false framework to exist within, so to will the real financial/social laws correct the framework that has delivered such great export products as ‘Cribs’and ‘iCarli’.

Stop takes some time to think…

Figure out whats important to you.. (Against Me)

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Gadgets and innovation of technology, what can I say, they are great. One key thing about this journey is the exponential growth of knowledge.

Can you imagine life in Europe in the middle ages? Not the life that is published as mainline history but the life of those that did not get a chance to tell their story of working tirelessly for little to no reward. Living in fear of the local baron that could at moments notice make a decision that would change the course of their life. Groveling at the robes and clothes of the land owners that controlled the land that their family was born onto and lived from season to season, would their be food to last the winter???

This was life at a pretty crappy level.

I understand history took its course, but it seems from my vantage point that all of sudden the 20th Century came. I remember as a social studies student in grade / high school how that section was filled with the big points of interest, progressives and the flappers, then a paragraph on the depression, of course the great wars and a small excerpt about the UN and then more wars this time with the soviets and then bill gates and the trunk of his car. Before I sound to much like a michael moore sound canon, have a look at this :

We have this linear view of history, or at least that is what the main line promotes to the young. To get them educated. Unless you have the ability to spend 50K and rising and study history at the university level, you ultimately simply take this mainline story and run with it or you just listen to those that tell you some part of the story. If that story sounds familiar like you heard when you were young learning about those first pilgrams, then maybe you will hold the attention long enough to see the next segway.

But, history as the internet has shown us, is dynamic just like our views of the world. We each have a unique perception, or at least we are supposed too, view of how things happen. It is our view, and we are sticking to it.

I don’t want to stay the same. I do embrace change, but shouldn’t we be careful of who we are listening to, and agreeing with, as the story is told? If you are one of those that has to get up and work daily, then this message is directly to you.

The best song for this statement is this :

YOU gotta MAKE A Serious decision….

Take some time to think

Figure out what’s important to you

YOU GOTTA MAKE A Serious DECISION.

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I began my study of why the US was being driven into the ground by reading about this guy, over 10 years ago.

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Tonight went for a walk at the beach, in the city. Interesting energy flow tonight. Someone decided to take their hatred and low self esteem and destroy property that did not belong to them.

Only a very weak and confused or mental pigmy would do what was done this evening. It probably is the lowest form of humanity to do what was done, aside from murder. But to deface another person’s property, a pathetic characteristic that lies within us, our humanity.

I realize that in the larger scope of our society this issue is albeit extremely trite, however, I would like to see anyone of you experience your property defaced and embrace it, love it and accept it.

This goes out to anyone who has ever intentionally damaged another’s property, specifically a vehicle. YOU SUCK, big time, and good luck with the karma, it is a pain in the ass…

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Extreme ways are back again. After leaving St. Stanislaus today to a mini drive around the neighborhood and found myself on my old street. I looked at it, the houses and the state of the overall environment. Well, I knew back when I lived there it was bad, but it had a touch of hope to it. What I witnessed today looks like something truly out of a science fictional apocalyptic prison colony set. Actually, come to think of it, what I witnessed today doesn’t look that far removed from the Gypsy Colony near the Danube in Belgrade, Serbia. Across the street from where I lived the house that was there is now a field of weeds. The houses on the left and right and in a condition that resembles a structure after devil’s night in Detroit. What is funny is that I text messaged a friend that lives in the neighborhood still and asked him how long the building had been in that state, semi-destroyed? He said, since February of this year. Well, I tell you I have done some traveling and witnessed a variety of cultures and observed different infrastructure. But what I see in that neighborhood is the destruction and the aftermath of war. There was no physical war like occurred in Serbia, but rather this was the economic war. This section of town was at its height the home of thousands of workers that fueled the industrial engine that rebuilt Europe after WW2.
The economic war is on and continues to ravage the de industrialized sections of the US.

This economic war is abstract, cause and effect is difficult to track. Children respond well to cause and effect because they can push a button and watch an object move. Sadly most adults do not move beyond this mundane cognitive ability. The causes and effect are a bit more involved and convoluted than say a game of bowling, but we do have the capacity to observe, think and respond appropriately. But the key here is to be able to think.

Think people!
Media is owned / operated / run with an agenda.
All media.

Which agenda do want to prescribe to?

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As the weekend of Labor kicks into gear one must consider what exactly Labor Day means, right? Or does it just mean time to close the municipal pool?

The labor movement was enormous in the US at one point in time. So much so that a day was granted to honor the working stiffs. What is funny is that labor was honored in western Europe with 5 weeks of holiday.
Oh, maybe that isn’t so funny.

I wonder when what the gift to labor will be in China?

Labor creates wealth and opportunity and innovations. Think of the commercial palaces of DuBai, the clothing in gap, the computer I am typing on now.
Labor, the employee.

Who wants to grow up to be an employee?

Check out the new widget on the right of this page, statistics about housing, tax, jobs in the US.

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Had the opportunity to go camping a few weeks back. In a region they call upstate newyork. Up state new york, like, any other region has a designation such as this? How about upstate Alabama? Is there such a thing? I guess, NOVA would be the southern equiv actually… Anyway, very WASPish in that part of the state. But one thing I truly enjoyed was the drive to and from this region. The scenery on the way to this place is absolutely stunning. The green mini rolling hills some might call mountains remind me of the Arden in Benelux… there it is again that regional slang describing a place again.

My friend accompanying me on the drive to the up state. One thing he made comment as we drove along the interstate. As he gazed out the window to the hillside, he said, what do these people do for work?? Great question, right?? I mean I have read some papers about some re wilding getting the population back into the cities. Somehow I don’t think the few that do live up state would be all to interested in relocating.

While I was upstate I visited Watkins Glen, the glen of all glens or so it goes, the mother of all glens. It is quite unassuming at first glance, but as you climb the excitement of the views ensue. But as one might imagine the day after a night of camping is not always the most fresh and full of energy. Somehow I climbed those steps to gain the amazing viewpoints. But just like any traveler you just have to keep climbing, it will get better at the top.

What I learned most on this trip was that I still can split wood and it is really easy to loose your place when you don’t have a tolerance for masks. Masks are those conventions that adult human’s utilize to maintain social grace. The do serve a purpose but are rather cumbersome to carry. How do we manage this weight, this burden? I think many rappers in what is known as the hip hop industry used the term “keepin’ it real” to describe this phenomena, or rather the removal of these burdens. Not sure if their behaviors are the types I am looking to emulate, nevertheless keepin’ it real often has a shock value.

Regions by nature, of the word convention have unique or specific characteristics which differentiate them. Do regions keep it real? Do they wear masks?

On a similar arc, but different tangent, school is beginning now for many grade schoolers. I am sure many of them were or are nervous of that first day. If they have the choice to select their ‘outfit’ for that all important first day, I am sure if they are in those odd years called adolescence they struggled with the question , ‘how do I look’? Fitting in with the crowd, but maintaining their individual spirit… They may not realize conscious level this is occurring, but I posit, this is what is occurring. Adults, never grow out of this actually, until they know their role, so to speak, their place in the pecking order.

Regions exhibit the same characteristics as children attending the first day of school. Do they keep it real, what is real anyway, or do they put the mask on?

to be continued…..

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Went to Southwest PA this weekend and found my first ‘in life’ fracking site. How exciting.

So glad to see what device is raping Fayette County now.

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