Gold-Tungsten Fraud

In Oct, 2009. rumors of possible gold-bar fraud suddenly flooded the Internet. The specific gravity of tungsten is very close to gold, so gold-plated tungsten alloy bar is difficult to detect using common methods. Notice that prior to Oct, 2009, there are never any rumors of gold-tungsten fraud. Also notice how those rumors short-circuit the rapid rise in gold's price.

Today, China announced that it was forgoing gold purchases in favor of US gov't bonds -

"China's appetite for gold purchases may be limited, the country's chief foreign-exchange regulator suggested yesterday as he offered soothing words about Beijing's role as an investor in United States Treasuries"

Now put two and two together. Look at the sudden spike, an atypical meme curve which sometimes indicates deliberate injection through many sources simultaneously. Did the US govt deliberately inject fraud rumors across the Internet to kill gold as an alternative to gov't paper? If so, this will not fix the US govt's debt problem, but only buy a little more time.

Credibility

As I wrote sixteen months ago, Obama is a manufactured president. It's likely that he was identified early, helped along and rocketed forward into the democratic nomination when an opening appeared. The evidence is there for anyone who cares to seek it.

Obama's Selective Service records falsified

"It became obvious records were created after the fact for Obama and were later changed. However, the computer access date is frozen on Sept. 9, 2008; two days after Obama appeared on Stephanopoulos' show saying he registered with SS in 1979 when the requirement was nonexistent.

The mistakes made by adding to and changing the fraudulently created record after Coffman's FOIA request was fulfilled but before the Allen's was received, provides an audit trail of the fraud."

This is what the United States is now, a country of fraud and lies.

Ustream

"Moblog" ("mobile blogging")was the original attempt at popular video streaming and it died slowly over the past six years (graph #1). In June, 2006, I predicted that RocketBoom & VLogs too early and I was right (graph #2). The latest entry to video blogging is Ustream and I think this time it takes hold (graph #3). Ustream.tv took about five minutes to configure and test on my iPhone and my biggest problem was latency, about ten seconds from broadcast to display. But it works, it's easy and it's ubiquitous.

Space

Respect space, respect ego.

People grow at their own pace

Effectiveness trumps efficiency.

The free marketeers haven't learned that. Yet.

Event - Why I Moved To Idaho

I plan to write up several personal events and how they shaped my thoughts. I walked eight miles today, often in a retrospective mood, and rode the Portland aerial tram. I've already earned two degrees and changed careers twice. I'm not doing it again.

1989 - Kirk Richmond, a 29-year-old manager at Teradyne, rejects my request to move into software development because "if you were going to succeed at something, you've have done it by now". I am 31 years old, working third shift and taking CS classes during the day. I quit and move to Idaho, graduate five years later after writing ASPEN, which is used by 3000 users in forty States.

Of course, I'm now 51 and he might finally be right.

Portland Tram Dux

Patterns

I bumbled around the Wiccans for years, not grasping the obvious. Marri admitted in 2008 that they use words & context to manipulate men. The admission surprised me, although she didn't say it explicitly but led me to that conclusion (as usual). It's been over a year since we talked (she called me this night and now I wish I'd written about it) but reflecting back on our conversations and other wiccans I believe she told the truth. I rented a room in Bothell for several months, one of my roommates was a writer and she listened intently to my Wiccan stories.

"It sounds like they want something from you, they normally wouldn't waste time on a non-believer", she said. "They believe it's possible to attract dark forces from another plane", she said, "forces which plague you with bad luck or trouble. Why are you messing around with them?".

Because I'm trying to figure it all out, I answered.

There is a pattern and synchronicity to Reality that we don't grasp.

I'm fairly sure of that now.
I suspect that even God can't predict the future.
This is just a big test-bed.

Damn

I have no idea what hit me about sixty miles north of Portland.

It flew across from opposing traffic, picking up mud in the divider, and hit so quickly I had no time to react.

The windshield was hit in three spots, the mirror and bracket are clean gone but there's no damage anywhere to the body.

What the hell?

Today's Mystery Guest

Trick

The devil's greatest trick was convincing the world he didn't exist.

God's greatest trick was convincing people that they can think.

The Discordance

I drove along Alki beach and at 5:14 am, a white dove flew out and almost hit my radiator. I have no idea if it means anything. I wrote about my "discordance epiphany" exactly one year ago today, discordance that Joe Stack tapped into yesterday, dead-center. I wasn't sure what it would look like but discordance has energy; the greater the discord, the greater its energy, the easier its triggering and the United States has so very much cognitive dissonance. The Triggering revealed enormous denial in both political parties, and neither may be qualified to lead. But the Discord has been laid bare to millions, it's amazing how fast and how deep it traveled.

Three months earlier I mentioned the Social Broadcast. I may have inadvertently triggered the Tacoma incident. Alternately, we may have both picked up the same subliminal Message. Either way, I had a persistent premonition a few weeks before it happened and I was shocked at how it matched my vision. It's possible to initiate a set of cascading messages through the Broadcast, quietly, below the surface, and trigger action at the end. Matching contexts unlock the meaning, like two locks keyed to the same combination, sender and receiver.

I don't really understand it but doubt it was coincidence, the timing and detail are too close.

My first sense of a pattern was four years ago. I wish I could figure it out. A year earlier, the Grifter would have fooled me but for some reason, I perceived his true nature almost immediately and after some reflection I deduced the sequence of events that set me as his mark.

I suspect that the closer you venture to the Voice, the more anathema you become to sleepwalkers.

The Path goes whereever it goes, though, and I'm curious where it leads. Altruistic culture trumps selfish culture because selfish culture cares too much about itself to sacrifice for the future. The Broadcast is an integral part of Altruistic culture and I watch for secondary echoes. I can't prove their causality but I can estimate probability, such as the coincidental use of "allegiance" in an Anarcho title, or three cryptic Tweets immediately following my ping of a response-provoking message.

Nisqually

Visit to the Nisqually wildlife refuge.
Not the most inspired pictures but we were pretty busy that day.

The Malaise Diagnosed

I first wrote about The Malaise in 2006 and recently decided its main cause was long-term googlebombing by Kurt Lochner (perhaps others) over several years, possibly before my battle with Carlson in 1997. Kurt's tenacious slander impacted my already-derailed career, but it was also dependent on the paranoia and subversion of coworkers and my own naivety.

Lochner's motive can only be revenge over our political flame wars of the 1990s. I never worked with him, met him or spoke with him. Never emailed him that I can recall. McPhillips once diagnosed him as a sociopath and I'm inclined to agree, given his obsessive behavior over the years.

His slander created a positive feedback loop and each new reader's paranoia set off behavior which triggered more problems and blemished my job history further. I couldn't figure out why Dominique and Lena had such fear at first or why I'd start a job against existing negative perceptions, why certain people reacted strangely. I'm fairly sure now that John at Nike, Kate at Unigard, the project manager for Safeco, and maybe even Carlson were Slander Readers. My on-going lack of projects at Perficient could be part of it, too. And I'm fairly sure it was part of the jobs I didn't get.

Lochner may also have impersonated people via email, such as Dominique. I received several emails over the years which I attributed to her because of context but they may have been malicious acts by others.

And frankly, even without Lochner (or the others), the outcome may have been the same. Carlson was already engaged in his sabotage, Nate was involved in his games, the previous consultant's departure at Unigard shows a pre-existing problem, John was already battling his Nike team members, Shakhar's previous project disruptions, Arindam's ego, etc, etc, etc, all ongoing before I even entered the picture.

I started my blog in 2004, learned a lot about propagation of information and human behavior, especially fear and paranoia. My site is the #1 Google entry for my own name, so I can track who searches for me and infer why. I've written what I intended. The US economy may deteriorate for two or three more years and fall into a permanent funk like Japan. Dent's demographics suggest another downturn around 2017. I'd rather avoid further annoyance and I often view a job rejection as a bullet dodged.

I wish Life had turned out differently. I made an honest effort over the past few years to avoid confrontations and confusion. Software was my only success in life and my desire to change careers is low. Janet's been my most positive influence over the past two years, but I'm not sure how it continues.

I feel badly about my parents. They deserved better out of five kids, only one of us could be considered a success in life. Nona deserved a (somewhat) better outcome, too, and I wish she had married someone else.

It's just how things go.

Purpose

I purposely leave Lochner's last batch of slander alone.

It helps filter out The Paranoid during the job search.

Second Lifetime Award

Another award goes to Feb 7th, 2010 for Scariest Sex Ever In My Lifetime.

Kinda hope this record doesn't get broken.