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From Rubik's Cube to Torus Can you think outside the Rubik's Cube (box)? Should you instead try to go deeper into it, where it resolves into a Torus? Can You Survive the Transition? From Beverly Hills to shoveling manure on a farm This story is part of an ongoing series of profiles by CNN about economic survival in this time of financial crisis. Leah Bird and her husband, Ed Wright, have traded their comfortable two-bedroom apartment and jobs in Beverly Hills, California, for life in a trailer on a five-acre Oregon farm. Arts Ban in Stimulus Is Stupid Economics From an economic standpoint, starving the arts is suicidal. Consider the case of the High Line, the park in the Meatpacking District. The City of New York invested $170 million in the project, which directly inspired as many as 50 major residential projects worth as much as $5 billion. And the park isn’t even open yet. A few saplings are sprouting above the rusting hulk of the High Line, an abandoned, elevated railway that once rolled meat to the butchers on the West Side of Manhattan ? We've all been exposed in at least some way to Christanity's devil-watch department, some hoping, some fearing that the 666 Guy is finally gonna get our world for awhile in a decisive way, then JC's gonna take it from there. I like to think W (Wrong) was the ultimate Big Bad Guy, or rather Cheney. But that would make Obama JC, the Big O (circle unbroken) in the sky. I doubt it. From the corners of the country From the cities and the farms With years and years of living Tucked up underneath their arms They walk away from everything Just to see a dream come true So God bless the boys who make the noise On 16th Avenue Bush Obama Nation Why is he trying to save Babylon? It is fallen... It is fallen... I wonder why it said that twice? Tell me again why our brave firefighters (real men) climbed the stairs of 911? To save stock brokers? BOOMERS - YOUR CRISIS HAS ARRIVED There is a mysterious cycle in human events. To some generations, much is given. Of other generations, much is expected. This Generation has a rendezvous with destiny. Franklin Roosevelt – 1936 Who saw this coming? Gerald Celente saw this coming. The author's of The Fourth Turning saw it coming. Hell, even the Mayan Calendar warned us! Plan ahead now to be as self-sufficient as possible. Buy physical silver coins. The Boxer Lyrics Financial Sense I am just a poor boy though my story's seldom told I have squandered my resistance for a pocketful of mumbles, such are promises All lies and jest, still the man hears what he wants to hear And disregards the rest, hmmmm. Uncommon News and Views for the Wise Investor Online descriptions of this financial crisis differ greatly from the versions on CNN and FOX. Time will tell who truly sees ahead. If you ask me, the Dollar's going south, inflation to the moon, and everything else to hell in a hand basket. A Brief History of the Future America, mired in stagflation for 10 years following the financial meltdown of 2008, and facing a national debt of over 100 trillion dollars, transitions to wind, solar and geothermal energy, after briefly flirting with nuclear power as a solution to its energy problems. The Times They Are A Changing Lyrics Come senators, congressmen Please heed the call Don't stand in the doorway Don't block up the hall For he that gets hurt Will be he who has stalled There's a battle outside And it is ragin' It'll soon shake your windows And rattle your walls For the times they are a-changin' The Coming End of Usury as the Dominant Social Paradigm It is our western rulers who are about to initiate a world war just to whitewash the collapse of the western capitalistic dream The fundamentalist religion of “Market” is the worship of Mammon The American Monetary Institute The Independent Study of Monetary History, Theory and Reform The Second Coming I believe that the Spirit of Christ will one day return to the earth, without any obvious, visual sign in the sky or on the ground. Don't Follow the Yellow Brick Road Again Glinda, the good witch, allowed Dorothy to wander on the yellow brick (gold bullion) road, so she would get to know the forces arrayed against her, and so that she could participate meaningfully in the journey home. And only at the end of Dorothy's quest, Dorothy having met the little flim flam man behind the curtain pulling the levers of power, did Glinda reveal to Dorothy the power she had had all along in the ruby slippers. (constitutional money, the slippers were originally silver, like the original american dollar) A house (the housing bubble) has fallen on one of the witches, because of wall street's own folly. Now let's toss a little water on the other. Anti-Gold: Usura Socialism Turning and turning in the widening gyre; The Falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart: the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity. The old fable of the Fairy Gold which disappeared as it was grasped can thus be seen in its every-day embodiment; and the result of these creations of credit granted to producers only, instead of to consumers, IS TO PRODUCE A RISE OF PRICE, WHICH NULLIFIES THE ADDITIONAL PURCHASING-POWER THUS CREATED. Robotic Economy Theory Get ready for a crazy ride! Suspend all your knowledge and beliefs for a moment and let your imagination freely follow the following assumptions, though they may seem impossible just now. Internal Exchange Clearing The American System of Political Economy Constitutional national banking has struggled in a loosing battle to defeat the "evil" of usurious international banking, while international banking has conspired to end not only constitutional national money systems, but national governments themselves. But the solution may be a compromise called INTERNAL EXCHANGE CLEARING! Guns and Butter On the American System of Political Economy If the United States Congress were to call back its constitutional power of issuing the currency and credit of the United States, reliable, physically real, growing prosperity would soon return to the people. Petroleum Balance Reserve Expanding the Size and Purpose of the Strategic Petroleum Reserve Instability in the price of a barrel of oil is making the solution to our energy problems unsolvable by free enterprise. Who will be willing to drill for oil when the price is so low and falling, yet knowbody wants it? The Money Masters How International Bankers Gained Control of America Teenage Affluenza is Spreading Fast A Movie at YouTube Image Recognition Software by G F Sutton, Wednesday, 31 January 2007 A simple insight regarding the hopes for computers one day recognizing and interpreting image files on the World Wide Web. Why is there Evil in the World? by G F Sutton, Wednesday, 20 September 2006 Each of us has a brain with a very large associative cortex. The largest part of a human brain is not hardwired at birth. New Kind of Mouse for Notebook Computers by G F Sutton, September 2006 Can you get any substantial work done using the built-in mouse of a notebook computer? Perspective$ by G F Sutton, Sunday, 3 September 2006 It's the 21st century... An age of extreme technical achievements from below the oceans to above the sky... Pavlov's Dogs by G F Sutton, 2 September 2006 Will our civilization go to the dogs? Birth Right Stipend by Millie Howard, 23 February 2005 A Birth Right Stipend is an equal share in the bounty of one's country. Spelling Reform by G F Sutton, 17 September 2005 The alphabet is supposed to be the basis of our entire western civilization, but we are NOT taking proper care of it. A Robotic Dream by G F Sutton, 23 February 2005 Will 21st century economics need an overhaul someday as a result of a new workforce, computerized robots, dominating the productive economy? |