an eternal trait of (terran) humankind seems to be to leave something that needs to be done to the absolute last minute. something is going on with planetary consciousness now, the
global consciousness project dot has been red a lot of the last 24 hours (bunch of geographically spread random number generators, in which
patterns in the data arise in response to events which catch global attention, e.g. 911, live 8).
dow is down 700 points now, gold up 40 bucks, on the rejection of the bailout for the US. can't believe the congress actually found a spine.