Don't know if this was posted yet, but here goes:
Running to Keep Up With Events
Since Cliff and I were on CoastToCoastAM overnight, events have started to unroll at breakneck speed. So here's a summary of what has changed since we were on:
In our interview last night, Cliff pointed out that the latest output from modelspace seems to indicate that the meltdown in October will likely split into two components. A financial aspect which will hit about October 7th and then a 'military' oriented event(s) that will happen about October 15th. Then, this morning's editions of the New York Sun headline that "Spies Warn that Al Qaida Aims for October Surprise."
The next thing up was a phone call from m,y tax attorney/CPA who has been keeping track on the back of an envelope - he says that as far as he can figure, the cost of all the bailouts willk total about $1.8 trillion dollars, but in his estimate (remember, he's only a tax attorney and CPA - not an advisor to any of the players) the real total could run upwards of $5-trillion dollars when all is said and done. The problem he outlines is this: When you read up on how much the bailout will cost bear in mind that the biggest players have not yet indicasted their feelings on the matter. And those 'biggest players' are whom? The foreigners who will end up loaning us to money to do our bailout. His point boils down to this: We're already borrowing about $2-billion a day to keep America solvent (we've been living on credit for years and that's our balance of trade deficit calculated daily. So now, if you are a foreigner investing in America, you have to ask youself this question: If we're already lending the USA $2-billion a day, should we lend them an additiona $1.8 trillion - or maybe two or three times that in order to bail them out? In the end, my tax attorney/CPA pal says nope, someone's going to blink, global competitive currency devaluations will be "Game on!" and the dollar will get slammed. Of course, as a long term reader, you'll recall that when when the dollar is devalued internationally, the prices we pay domestically for things will seem to go up. Thus, if the dollar's value drops by half, the prices we pay on the global market for flat screen teevees, oil, and other 'necessities of life' will double. Gold is up over $25 an ounce the last time I looked and a doubling of gold would put it near enough to $1,500 an ounce..
Then my pal "The Bond Dude" called to say "You missed it - ever so slightly." Oh-oh...being in no condition being sleep deprived, I made him explain slowly what I missed: "When you're talking about the Private Sector Coinvestment idea, that's on the front end - before the government money goes in, so that as soon as the private guys make their slice, they will take out the public 90%. In other words, it's a buy-in on the front-end, not the back...". OK, that's making sense.
OK, now back to 20+ voicemails, a hundred emails, and then maybe I can get some client work done...
In our discussion of how the webbot project orf www.halfpasthuman.com works, the following graphic is useful to consider. Think of an 'event' in our immediate future - such as the 'life changer' that shows up in modelspace on or around October 7th, 7:10 UTC or so, as a rock thrown into a still pond. We'll call it the "Event" in this drawing:
Unfortunately, the future is never so simple as a single thought, a single rock. Nope. The Universe makes things unfathomably complicated by not dumping in 'an event' this time - it's more (as Cliff puts it) like a series of gravel trucks are backed up and dumped into the pond, day after day for the next six months. That, in itself should give you some ideas about investing in diesel, buying hiking shoes, having stored foods, and so forth. Whatever it is we're seeing in model space, life is about to go through a dramatic change of 'order'.
The highlights are Massive change in financial structures (ongoing, see next item) then whatever the October 7th events are, then a series of release or emotions events till March 2009. Something with a lot of 'military' aspect to it on October 15th, or thereabout. Then one big earthquake, likely Pacific Northwest around December 10th, with another one within days (Dec. 12th in model space).
Then we get rising discontent/talk of rebellion/revolution through the spring, the Summer of Hell in 2009, and strange disappearances - but it ain't the Rapture - think more like 'the harvesting' starts in late summer 2009.
Me? I'll be going on an anorexic diet. Don't want to look like a main course come 2010.
[link to www.urbansurvival.com]
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