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gerald
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Knock knock - who's there -------------- the coming end of the technological world -- maybe
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-10-2 ... lar-flares

Now, as Dr. Lika Guhathakurta discusses, "to bring our modern society to a halt, I don't think we need an event that is as large as a Carrington Event. It could be much smaller, simply because of the connectedness of our power grid and also the entire technological system."

Oh looky here, someone is noticing that Nature has all of the trump cards, my my my, well what do you know. Reality at the door?

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I seen the reports and no one had a clue why the cable went out that day "oct24" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yTnD3dC8IqE I had a good laugh on that one.

Mother nature always bats last. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4dAt8RAUfg
As we noted. I tend to fathom Diamond more on things. http://gdxforum.com/forum/viewtopic.php ... ter#p25356

The interdependency vortex plasma vortex field makes sense in the ion fields.

They knew some of this circa 3130 bce and few fathom the linkages today.

As for the actual word Amos, and the Ancients on the groaning of the Earth, then enough of this from the Creator for the elects sake only.
Earthquakes announce the Change in his time not ours. I still regard the three days of darkness if we heed not the facts written. I have Hope since it was a promise.

My theory is the solar photon discharges mutates a nanobe and we cannot stop it. http://www.nature.com/scientificamerica ... 10-52.html

Yea, we seen that movie already... it jumped species as tigers through the design loop.

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http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-10-2 ... -not-today

Expectations and Reality.

algos dream of electric sheep

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LReqeLYgjhQ

The first period of Geisslerlied began in 1258 in response to the breakdown of civil order.

aggregate is a bitch

Essay question: What does $100 billion pole-dancing stimulus do to the market clearing price for current pole dancers?

The short answer today. http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-10-2 ... -top-17000
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The Yen was down over 3% for part of the day and closed down 2.7%. My Yen Puts are doing well!

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"States Where Poverty Is Worse Than You Think"
http://247wallst.com/special-report/201 ... u-think/4/

#1 California
> Supplemental poverty rate 2011-2013: 23.4% (the highest)
> Official poverty rate: 16.0% (15th highest)
> State price level:4th highest
> Pct. without health insurance: 17.2% (8th highest)

#2. Hawaii
> Supplemental poverty rate 2011-2013: 18.4% (5th highest)
> Official poverty rate: 12.4% (18th lowest)
> State price level: the highest
> Pct. without health insurance: 6.7% (2nd lowest)

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it is better to call a spade a spade -

Government Lied About Pandemic Which Killed 50 Million People … Attempt to “Prevent Panic” Backfired
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-11-0 ... revent-pan



The United States was no different. In 1917 California Senator Hiram Johnson made the since-famous observation that “The first casualty when war comes is truth.” The U.S. government passed a law that made it punishable by 20 years in jail to “utter, print, write or publish any disloyal, profane, scurrilous, or abusive language about the government of the United States.”

One could go to jail for cursing or criticizing the government, even if what one said was true. A Congressman was jailed. Simultaneously, the government mounted a massive propaganda effort. An architect of that effort said, “Truth and falsehood are arbitrary terms…. There is nothing in experience to tell us that one is always preferable to the other…. The force of an idea lies in its inspirational value. It matters very little if it is true or false” (Vaughn, 1980).

The combination of rigid control and disregard for truth had dangerous consequences. Focusing on the shortest term, local officials almost universally told half-truths or outright lies to avoid damaging morale and the war effort. They were assisted—not challenged—by the press, which although not censored in a technical sense cooperated fully with the government’s propaganda machine.




In Philadelphia, when the public health commissioner closed all schools, houses of worship, theaters, and other public gathering places, one newspaper went so far as to say that this order was “not a public health measure” and reiterated that “there is no cause for panic or alarm.”

But as people heard these reassurances, they could see neighbors, friends, and spouses dying horrible deaths.

In Chicago, the Cook County Hospital mortality rate of all influenza admissions—not just those who developed pneumonia—was 39.8 percent (Keeton and Cusman, 1918). In Philadelphia, bodies remained uncollected in homes for days, until eventually open trucks and even horse-drawn carts were sent down city streets and people were told to bring out the dead. The bodies were stacked without coffins and buried in cemeteries in mass graves dug by steam shovels.

This horrific disconnect between reassurances and reality destroyed the credibility of those in authority. People felt they had no one to turn to, no one to rely on, no one to trust.

Ultimately society depends on trust. Without it, society began to come apart. Normally in 1918 America, when someone was ill, neighbors helped. That did not happen during the pandemic.


That attitude persisted outside of cities as well. In rural Kentucky, the Red Cross reported “people starving to death not from lack of food but because the well were panic stricken and would not go near the sick” (An Account of the Influenza Epidemic, 1919).

As the pressure from the virus continued, an internal Red Cross report concluded, “A fear and panic of the influenza, akin to the terror of the Middle Ages regarding the Black Plague, [has] been prevalent in many parts of the country” (The Mobilization of the American National Red Cross, 1920). Similarly, Victor Vaughan, a sober scientist not given to overstatement, worried, “If the epidemic continues its mathematical rate of acceleration, civilization could easily … disappear … from the face of the earth within a matter of a few more weeks” (Collier, 1974).

Of course, the disease generated fear independent of anything officials did or did not do, but the false reassurances given by the authorities and the media systematically destroyed trust. That magnified the fear and turned it into panic and terror.

It is worth noting that this terror, at least in paralyzing form, did not seem to materialize in the few places where authorities told the truth.

One lesson is clear from this experience: In handling any crisis, it is absolutely crucial to retain credibility. Giving false reassurance is the worst thing one can do. If I may speculate, let me suggest that almost as bad as outright lying is holding information so closely that people think officials know more than they say.
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Is there trust today?

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As you note G the pleomorphism can be missed since time series of study never wanted to see it.

Anyways, money degrades all the gods of mankind and turns them into commodities.

Guess who leads that mindset into the dust bin of history.

As I conveyed to a freind the effect is real.

Meanwhile nafta will be seen as a Elysian field compared to whats coming.
http://www.bing.com/search?q=TPP+&src=I ... ORM=IE8SRC

MIC is rounding up energy clusters. Not that hard to see.

The penguins are marching already.
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I believe hyperinflation usually starts with a positive feedback loop which amounts to a bond panic. The more people get out of bonds the more the central bank makes new money and buys bonds. The more the central bank makes new money and buys bonds, the less people want to hold bonds. This results in a flood of new money which causes inflation. The inflation causes higher velocity of money. Higher velocity of money causes inflation. Things spiral out of control.

The Japanese Yen has gone from 101 to the dollar to 115 to the dollar in the last 3 months. Japan is spending about twice what it gets in Taxes. The central bank increased the rate of monetization to where it is much more than either the deficit or the taxes. I think the bond panic that is the opening act for hyperinflation has started in Japan.

If I am right the Yen will keep trending down in value (higher numbers of yen per dollar). Time will tell.

In any case, my Yen puts are much more fun to watch these days than my S&P puts or my silver calls.

http://howfiatdies.blogspot.com/2014/08 ... ry-of.html
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Time to sell into this rally. Sold ES at 2027. Intend to sell more under day's current high of 2033, if market goes back there.

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