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Urban Survial...
Buy The Rumors?
An AP headline this morning reminds us that the "Global stock rally continues ahead of G-20 summit." As I sit back and wait for the next dip, eyeing a longer rally if we get a couple of days over 7404 on the Dow, I'm reminded of the rest of the old Wall Street adage: "Buy the rumor...sell the news."
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But there's also the little matter I'd have to call "The China Distraction". The US is now sending a war ship toward China. But, not to be outdone, China has,. in poker-playing terms, just given the west a big 'tell' about its intentions as headlines appear that China is worried about their (massive) US Treasury holdings.
But not to worry says our Commander in Chief - the economic situation is not as bad as we think. And if it isn't, goes our kick under the poker table toward the Chinese, those bonds are going up in value, not down.
As if to underscore that, headlines are about that the retail numbers out yesterday were not as bad as feared - which is putting a way more Happy Talk spin on it than I would have given it, but I only write headlines for my own little one-man e-paper.
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So is the bottom really in? Comments from readers are indecisive - which is a fine place to be. I've been awaiting a rally since December, but it feels to me like one more down leg should happen first. A couple of particularly good reader comments on point: One remind me of the old Bernard Baruch saying "I'll take my 60% out of the middle" - which gets to the strategy of getting in a little late, and get out a little early...very fine concept.
The other reader offered that some of the apparent rally in retail may just be consumers going out and having last-minute shopping flings - maxing out their credit cards - before going down to file bankruptcy later on. Yeah, that's possible too. Lot of tea leaves to consider in this environment.
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Spot The Terrorists Department
Here's a headline I keep forgetting to mention that came out this week: "Secret State Police Report: Ron Paul, Bob Barr, Chuck Baldwin, Libertarians are Terrorists." Yup, dangerous stuff, this supporting of The Constitution. What's the old saying? Something about when the hour is dark, telling the truth is a revolutionary act? Must be that time, huh?
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Coping: More - Free - Million Dollar Ideas
This morning's first 'million dollar idea' came to me as Elaine was clicking through the 'thousand channel wasteland' on the electric Cyclops in the living room, and since we get the odd Gollywood type wandering through here, it's a fine idea worth sharing. The only thing I ask is that if you are able to turn this into a series, a credit "Created by www.urbansurvival.com" before the rest of the credits would be appreciated.
So here's the outline:
Show Title: "Three Minutes for America"
Premise: If we're going to keep moving forward as a country, we've all got to spend more time listening to the ideas of others, coming to a new agreement on how the presently tearing social fabric can be put together. This show is a new vehicle for public discussion of all issues that uses the best of reality TV and combines it with a variant of news 'man-on-the-street' married with Marshall McLuhan's 'everyone gets 15-minutes of fame.'
Operation: Each week, producers 'throw the dart' at all of the continental USA and select 8-people to interview. The people are told that they have been selected for the show and they may say anything they want to the whole country on any topic that they feel would be constructive. They're encouraged to write down and rehearse their comments. Three teams of cameraperson and interviews then fly to the cities involved and interview the people. The video is then produced into the best 6 (18-minutes) for air. With show open, cutaways and credits it'd be about 21-0minutes of content - and would fit in a half-hour slot in early prime.
A host could be used - and he/she could do an intro to each segment along with a few graphics and statistics if it would be useful background to help sort out what the person was saying.
People could dress for the event, but casual is encouraged...a kind of fireside-chat feel - but instead of being from the top-down, it would be bottom-up.
Sponsorship: Ideally, the sponsorship would be an airline, such as American Airlines, which for its part would provide no-charge travel (coach) to the video crews; the name tie-up would be dandy.
What do you think? Would you watch it?
2nd Idea
For example, Nelson was kind enough to supply me with an 1861 paper by the godfather of electronics, James Clerk Maxwell, where he explains that the phenomena that we think of as electro magnetism is really not just two forces (the electric and magnetic) but some third force that operates 'at right angles' to the E or M field - and which is what pushes the M field out in watermelon shape around a bar magnet. So that's what I'm after...harnessing that 'right-angle' stuff if it can be found.
The quest is not without risks. As part of my researches I picked up number of super-strong magnets from www.kjmagnetics.com and promptly discovered that the warnings about wearing goggles and gloves when handling ultra-strong magnets were well-founded. I can attest that these little neodymium suckers if carelessly handle can draw blood...which is what I was repairing and in the midst of stopping the bleeding from, which got me out of the office/lab/shop and over to the living room when the TV show idea appeared.
Once the bleeding stopped (still hurts this morning) I got back to tinkering with a possible ham radio application of magnets to transmit and receive RF fields, as seems to be implied in the Chauncy J. Britten "Atmospheric Generator" patent.
Don't know if you've ever tries to push high-powered magnets similar fields together, but there's a lot of force there - and harnessing that force seems to be the heart of the ZPE design problem, not to mention the possibilities of 'scalar' wave generation if someone could marry up the "Stromerzeuger" (substituting the earth/ground and antenna radiator for the plates shown in Cole's work) with the radio effects noted in Britten's work.
Since I've got darn near every tool known to man, plus a full up electronics bench with gobs of instrumentation (function generators, meters, scope, etc...), feel free to send along comments or designs... george@ure.net.
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