Common Sense Preparations- Nov.3-13

October 28, 2010

More and more people are talking about serious concerns POST ELECTION (Nov 3-13). The “noise level” is getting louder and it’s coming from: well-known economists, out there zodiac economics (but with a good-great track record), Cliff High’s Web bot predictions, economic historians using various formulas, physics scientists, etc.

I see three things that can be done in light of the plethora of cautions after ruling out wide-eyed extinction level predictions.

1-Change nothing-continue doing business as usual.
2-Make some interim common sense adjustments.
3-Think end of the world and do crazy stuff!

Personally, I’m not one to put my head in the sand and ignore Yellow flags. Nor am I a doom-n-gloom person expecting the end of the world or something close to it. What seems more than realistic though to me is that there are serious economic challenges that could cause BIG DISRUPTIONS in our banking system. There are realistic EMP potentials that could cause our digital bank account to not be available (can you say bank holidays?)

Does any remember the 17th century Dutch Tulip Mania?

Today, money in America is not backed by gold or anything other than our government (that’s a scary thought). Money is CREATED with little 1′s and 0′s on magnetic discs and subject to a lot of potential problems. Computer wealth is even less reliable than paper wealth which in itself is not credible. It is not real wealth but a derivative of wealth. It is nothing but VIRTUAL WEALTH!

It would be great if everyone could have a few silver pieces, a gold coin or two but I know that’s not possible for many who live pay check to pay check. Having CASH in hand (not in a checking account) from now until Thanksgiving seems reasonable to me. If you have to be a bit late on paying a bill, (without damaging your credit rating) that seems reasonable.

After all, this is just for a 2-3 week window!

Four days from now the American political scene will change! Obama and Hillary will be out of Dodge (America) for 2-3 weeks. Coincidental? Could just be! Regardless of who is where or who wins Nov. 3rd, there are way too many “YELLOW FLAGS” (some RED ones too) to do NADA!

Written by Ernie · Filed Under Daily Commentary

Tsunami & Fire

October 28, 2010

We’re seeing more and more sun spots, more eruptions, and we’re probably just getting started- on 2012?

Oh yeah, there’s that 2010 thing first (November 2nd- called a mid-term election). But, back to the natural catastrophies.

Planes and helicopters packed with rescue workers and supplies landed for the first time Wednesday on remote Indonesian islands that were pounded by a 10-foot (three-meter) tsunami, sweeping away villages and killing at least 272 people. The first aerial surveys of the region revealed huge swaths of land underwater and the crumbled rubble of homes torn apart by the wave. One lay tilted, resting on the edge of its red roof, with tires and slabs of concrete piled up on the surrounding sand.

A tsunami alert was sounded but does a falling tree make a noise if no one is listening?

Two days after a powerful earthquake triggered the wave, the casualty count was still rising as rescuers and disaster officials finally reached the Mentawai island chain, which was closest to the epicenter and the worst hit. Bad weather had kept them away.

And then there was the FIRE (volcano)

Rescuers scoured the slopes of Indonesia’s most volatile volcano Wednesday after it was rocked by an eruption that spewed clouds of searing ash, killing at least 28 villagers including an old man known as the mountain’s spiritual gatekeeper. The blast eased pressure that had been building up behind a lava dome perched on the volcano’s crater, but experts said the worst may not be over. The lava dome could unleash deadly gases and debris if it collapses.

It’s not yet over!

“It’s a little calmer today,” said Surono, the chief of Center for Volcanology and Geological Hazard Mitigation. “No hot clouds, no rumbling. But a lot of energy is pent up back there. There’s no telling what’s next.” Mount Merapi, which translates as “Fire Mountain,” has erupted many times over the last 200 years, often with deadly results. In 1994, 60 people were killed, while in 1930, more than a dozen villages were incinerated, leaving up to 1,300 dead.

And, all of this is two years out from 12.21.2012!

Written by Ernie · Filed Under 2012, Daily Commentary

Getting Out Of Dodge!

October 27, 2010

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton departed Washington on Wednesday for a two-week Asia trip meant to shore up US ties with its Pacific neighbors. Clinton departed Washington for her first stop, Hawaii, before traveling on to Vietnam, China, Cambodia, Malaysia, Papua New Guinea, New Zealand, Australia and American Samoa.

And, the point is what?

She will be gone for all the election questions next week. And then there’s Obama. President Obama is schedule to visit four Asian countries; India, South Korea, Japan and Indonesia immediately after the US elections. In other words, Obama is getting out of the White House election glare as fast as he can and leaving the country for two weeks.

Harry and Nancy, you are on your own.

Regardless of how next week plays out, America is in the midst of a very divisive and toxic political climate that continues to have the heat turned up, not down. Maybe we should all retreat to that quiet place within and reacquaint ourselves with what LFIE is really all about.

Written by Ernie · Filed Under Daily Commentary

Tea Party Trouble!

October 5, 2010

The press is clueless about the Tea party!

I wonder if even the Tea Partiers know what’s in the air, what’s in the water that they have been drinking, or who’s gotten inside their head. The press blathers back and forth with questions like who does the Tea Party help the most, Republicans or Democrats? The real answer is that long term, the Tea Party KILLS both!

The Tea Party is about a coming revolution (can you say social unrest?).

Unfortunately the government has gotten so BIG and so powerful that regardless of who is in office (donkey or elephant) it’s a CYA mentality that grows and grows. Ultimately the paradigm develops that POWER is to be used for their benefit. And, in order to stay in power, STUFF must be MADE UP.

We are in deep economic yogurt and we’re being lied to!

Much like in 1929 when Josiah Stamp wrote, “The government is very keen on amassing statistics. The collect them, add them, raise them to the nth power, take the cube root and prepare wonderful diagrams. But you must never forget that every one of these figures comes in the first instance from the village watchman, who just puts down what he damn pleases.”

A good example will be this Friday’s unemployment numbers! Have you ever seen how they just “make stuff up”?

Richard Maybury wrote recently, “The clearest way to look at politics isn’t, democrats vs. republicans, liberals vs. conservatives, or left vs. right, but LIBERTY vs. POLITICAL POWER!. Both major parties are on the side pf POWER, they ant as much as they can get. Their only disagreements are about which of them should have it, and which parts of your life they should control.”

And the answer is- ALL OF IT!

Revolutions are started by governments, not revolutionaries. No revolutionary can gather enough anger without it first being offered by the government and what you see in the Tea Party is exactly that! The Tea Party is not going away; however, the two major parties just may! And that’s not all bad!

Written by Ernie · Filed Under Daily Commentary

10P3/Hartley 2 Or Comet Hartley

October 4, 2010

It’s definitely not Nibiru, nor planet X!

It’s the BIG GREEN COMET! The icy nucleus of comet 103P/Hartley 2 measures no more than a couple of kilometers across. That tiny nugget, however, is surrounded by an vast atmosphere of gas more than 150,000 km in diameter–about the same size as the planet Jupiter! And it’s coming our way.

And that means what?

At present, the comet is a 7th-magnitude object best seen through telescope. The comet glides by Earth only 11 million miles away on Oct. 20th. Two weeks after Comet Hartley has its close encounter with Earth, NASA will have a close encounter with the comet. The Deep Impact/EPOXI spacecraft is hurtling toward Comet Hartley now, and on Nov. 4th it will fly 435 miles from the comet’s active icy nucleus. The encounter will mark only the fifth time in history that a spacecraft has been close enough to image a comet’s core.

For astronomers this is an exciting visit.

Typically during the course of a year about a dozen comets will come within the range of amateur telescopes. Most quietly come and go with little fanfare, but during the upcoming weeks one rather small comet will be making an unusually close approach to the Earth. On March 15, 1986, astronomer Malcolm Hartley discovered a new comet on photographic images taken at the U.K. Schmidt Telescope Unit at Siding Spring, Australia.

At the time Hartley discovered it, the new found comet was an exceedingly faint object, with just a hint of a tail; it was about 25,000 times dimmer than the faintest stars that can be seen with the naked eye. After further images were obtained over the next several days, Hartley announced his discovery to the Central Bureau for Astronomical Telegrams in Cambridge, Mass.

This fall, Comet Hartley 2 will again be passing through the inner solar system, reaching its closest point to the sun (called perihelion) on Oct. 28 at a distance of 98.4 million miles. And while en route to the sun, it will also make a very close approach to the Earth. In fact, on Oct. 20, the comet will be at its closest point to our planet at a distance of 11.2 million miles.

It’s quite unusual for any comet to approach this close to Earth. Such an event only happens on average perhaps three or four times a century. So, we should have an exciting show, but that’s about all…………..unless!