Dakota Place Park 10 cpm
Backyard 10 cpm
Dept of Heath Seattle Station 16 cpm
Maintaining background levels ~0.01mr/hr
More bad news about the reactor.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/03/25/us-japan-idUSTRE72O5QL20110325
Friday, March 25, 2011
Rdiation: Good News Seattle, Bad News Japan
All Volunteer Army
Here is an important essay by David Stockman, Reagan's budget director who lost his job for telling the truth.
Note student loans do not through banks anymore, a student applies directly to the government. To get any loans or benefits, a lad must register for the military draft. Note this from Stockman's article...
In fact, the two principal categories of household debt – mortgage loans and revolving credit, continue to decline as American families slowly shed unsupportable debt. The only reason total household debt appears to be stabilizing in recent quarters is that student loan volumes are soaring, but this growth is being funded entirely by the Bank of Uncle Sam now that private bank loan guarantees have been eliminated.Now here is the problem.. . the dotcom boom, computerization, the way we grew ourselves out of the 1980 recession, was by Jimmy Carter deregulating, airlines, beer, telephones and transportation. Country's economy grew. Please name what today is being deregulated so we may have more better cheaper faster... innovation.. and jobs for all of these graduates. There is nothing. What we have is only another invasion of a sandbox.
If you are in the military, your home cannot be foreclosed on. If you are in the military, your student loans are forgiven. When students cannot pay back their loans, which cannot be discharged in a bankruptcy, they will face anything they make above subsistence being taken by the government (which has all borders and banks in lock-down) until it is paid back. Fat chance when there are no jobs. So join the all-volunteer army. Such is "choice" in USA.
Thursday, March 24, 2011
Waiting for Radiation...
It was Bridge night, only was able to test two places..
Holding steady at background radiation levels, ~0.01mr/hr
Dakota Place Park 10 cpm
My backyard 9 cpm
Department of Health Seattle station 13 cpm
Blame The Black Guy, #283742
The POTUS has the most awesome public relations machine ever devised by man. It can bring America into war. It can rob workers to give to bankers. It can get you to take medicines that will harm you.
But when your there only to take the blame for Geo Bush policies, by maintaining every Geo Bush policy, except for the ones you expand and make worse, then access and use to that machine is not permitted. On autopilot, the machine goes into attack mode. Instead of Obama sitting down with the Chinese on negotiating an exit from Afghanistan (what he was elected to do) we get pictures of Obama locked out of the White House.
Obama was a kid in Chicago when he got picked for the job, and he had to know what he was doing. They paid him off up front with "the presidency" and a Nobel prize, and before he is booted out next year his future income has been arranged with the oil deals down in Brazil. But the job will be done: a Bush can be president again. But next round goes to Hillary, 2012.
Google search now has blame obama at 25 million hits, blame bush at 2.5 million hits. Obama policies were all started by Bush, but Obama get blamed ten times as much, even though he's been president less than 1/2 the time, and "blame bush" would include the 4 years bush sr was in office...
Wednesday, March 23, 2011
Finally, Some Japan Radiation In Seattle!
But not so's you'd notice...
Alki Community Center 8 cpm
Hiawatha Community Center 11 cpm
Dakota Place Park 10 cpm
My Backyard 10 cpm
Department of Health Seattle Station 12 cpm
Still at background levels, ~0.01mr/hr
The state Health Department has confirmed traces of radioactive iodine from Japan's failed nuclear reactors have reached Seattle.
Tim Church: "We're talking such small amounts, we're really like a needle in a worldwide haystack, is what we're looking for."
http://kuow.org/program.php?id=22954
Tuesday, March 22, 2011
Tuesday Radiation, or Not.
All is quiet. Couldn't make it to Alki Community Center, so left it out.
Hiawatha Community Center 10 cpm
Dakata Place Park 6 cpm
My backyard 6 cpm
No change, still background levels 0.01mr/hr
No change from the Dept of Health Seattle Station, still at 15 cpm
No activity on the geiger counter yahoo group.
Fractional Reserve
March 18th, 2011 at 14:35 · Reply
I see it differently, Corrigan: with FRFB, you may have rare instances where the supply of bank loans dries up. With Non-FRB’s, the supply of loans is equal at all times to the “dried up” supply under FRFB! You must ask yourself what the people who pine for credit during an FRB crisis will do to finance their enterprises if FRB is altogether banned.
I see it differently, Corrigan: with FRFB, you may have rare instances where the supply of bank loans dries up. With Non-FRB’s, the supply of loans is equal at all times to the “dried up” supply under FRFB! You must ask yourself what the people who pine for credit during an FRB crisis will do to finance their enterprises if FRB is altogether banned.
***They will either wait for prices to drop, or If they were foolish enough to trust a government and to go out on a limb by taking on too much debt, I will wait and start up a company not saddled with debt and thus lower prices, or…***
Toby says:
I was offered the plant and fixtures and fittings yesterday of a competitor to my old meat business. This man in 35 years has never made a loss, never missed a loan repayment. The bank said his PROFIT ratio to his mortgages (100% backed commercial freehold property) , was now not acceptable. Another business bites the dust, one of thousands put out of action so far this year. Bank credit that came from nowhere now goes back to nowhere!
***Buy up the assets of a perfectly good but underwater franchise… or ***
Corrigan
March 21st, 2011 at 10:45 · Reply
I think Professor Selgin is very much mistaken when he says that ‘no credit will exist in a FB system’ – i.e., absent fractional money creation. Even Hayek made this mistake at one point in his canon by rather astoundingly musing that the business cycle might be a small price to pay for the supposed acceleration of economic development which was afforded by the provision of easy (fractional) bank credit
March 21st, 2011 at 10:45 · Reply
I think Professor Selgin is very much mistaken when he says that ‘no credit will exist in a FB system’ – i.e., absent fractional money creation. Even Hayek made this mistake at one point in his canon by rather astoundingly musing that the business cycle might be a small price to pay for the supposed acceleration of economic development which was afforded by the provision of easy (fractional) bank credit
***Sit back and wait out the inevitable wars from the fact that Hayek’s “acceleration of economic development” is limited to the welfare/warfare state, and not to the division of labor in goods and services, eg, true wealth.
Fractional reserve is tradable, but I would to God it was forbidden.***
Monday, March 21, 2011
Monday Radiation In Seattle
I wonder what the return policy is on potassium iodide, or at least the shelf life...? I understand that one needs about 4 doses for protection... if a bottle has 100 doses, then retailers should break a bottle into 100 doses and sell them thus...
No change, still background levels
Alki Community Center 10 cpm
Hiawatha Community Center 13 cpm
Dakota Place Park 7 cpm
This will still translate to about 0.01mr/hr
No alerts or activity on the Yahoo geiger group. Some people seem disapointed...
"Here are the results of my last few days of testing, I would hate to think I missed it!"
http://tech.dir.groups.yahoo.com/group/CDV700CLUB/message/33757
The Department of Health Seattle readings show a slight dip then a steady increase since 3/17 up to 15cpm today.
The next plume from the 3/19 explosion will arive sometime around 3/25.
Anarchy: Spontaneous Order Out of Chaos
People equate the word anarchy with chaos, when in fact anarchy merely means "no king." When governments fail, good things happen, there is spontaneous order out of the chaos, like it was before kings. I get this letter 4th hand, and no reliable source, but it sure sounds like what I have experienced in disasters, and seems to be along the lines of others from who I get reports. To wit:
First I want to thank you so very much for your concern for me. I am very touched. I also wish to apologize for a generic message to you all. But it seems the best way at the moment to get my message to you. Things here in Sendai have been rather surreal. But I am very blessed to have wonderful friends who are helping me a lot. Since my shack is even more worthy of that name now, I am now staying at a friend's home. We share supplies like water, food and a kerosene heater. We sleep lined up in one room, eat by candlelight, share stories. It is warm, friendly, and beautiful.
During the day we help each other clean up the mess in our homes. People sit in their cars, looking at news on their navigation screens, or line up to get drinking water when a source is open. If someone has water running in their home, they put out a sign so people can come to fill up their jugs and buckets. Utterly amazingly where I am there has been no looting, no pushing in lines. People leave their front door open, as it is safer when an earthquake strikes. People keep saying, "Oh, this is how it used to be in the old days when everyone helped one another." Quakes keep coming. Last night they struck about every 15 minutes. Sirens are constant and helicopters pass overhead often. We got water for a few hours in our homes last night, and now it is for half a day. Electricity came on this afternoon. Gas has not yet come on. But all of this is by area. Some people have these things, others do not. No one has washed for several days. We feel grubby, but there are so much more important concerns than that for us now. I love this peeling away of non-essentials. Living fully on the level of instinct, of intuition, of caring, of what is needed for survival, not just of me, but of the entire group. There are strange parallel universes happening. Houses a mess in some places, yet then a house with futons or laundry out drying in the sun.
People lining up for water and food, and yet a few people out walking their dogs. All happening at the same time. Other unexpected touches of beauty: first, the silence at night. No cars. No one out on the streets. And the heavens at night are scattered with stars. I usually can see about two, but now the whole sky is filled. The mountains around Sendai are solid and with the crisp air we can see them silhouetted against the sky magnificently. And the Japanese themselves are so wonderful. I come back to my shack to check on it each day, now to send this e-mail since the electricity is on, and I find food and water left in my entranceway. I have no idea from whom, but it is there. Old men in green hats go from door to door checking to see if everyone is OK. People talk to complete strangers asking if they need help. I see no signs of fear. Resignation, yes, but fear or panic, no. They tell us we can expect aftershocks and even other major quakes for another month or more. And we are getting constant tremors, rolls, shaking, rumbling. I am blessed in that I live in a part of Sendai that is a bit elevated, a bit more solid than other parts.
So far this area is better off than others. Last night my friend's husband came in from the country, bringing food and water. Blessed again. Somehow at this time I realize from direct experience that there is indeed an enormous Cosmic evolutionary step that is occurring all over the world right at this moment. And somehow, as I experience the events happening now in Japan, I can feel my heart opening very wide. My brother asked me if I felt small because of all that is happening. I don't. Rather, I feel as part of something happening that much larger than myself. This wave of birthing (worldwide) is hard, and yet magnificent. Thank you again for your care and love of me,
With love in return, to you all,
Tom
Sunday, March 20, 2011
Sunday Radiation. Or not.
No Change, we are still at background radiation levels, sitting at 0.01mr/hr. I think I'll start posting my clicks per minute, since that seems to be more common.
Many people on the yahoo geiger counter club group are getting background readings as well, and some have very sophisticated instraments with software that tracks constantly. If a plume does arive from Japan, I'm sure the message board will light up with details.
With that said, the University of Maryland is posting a map showing possible landfall for the plume released from the March 19th reactor explosion, to arrive on March 25th. May see something then.
http://www.atmos.umd.edu/~tcanty/hysplit/today/plume_traj_110319_12Z.jpg
And here is Miss Atomic Bomb 1957 in her mushroom cloud swimsuit.
http://www.lasvegassun.com/photos/galleries/1905/may/15/atomic-testing/1163/
O. I Thought He Was Singing About Obama
USA National Treasure Canadian Neil Young has a very good protest song. He needs to update his background video.
USA Is Not a Free Market
Money emerges from commodities to become the medium of exchange, usually it has been gold or silver or both. Currency, paper money, started out warehouse receipts for gold and silver stored. In USA from the beginning the general government claimed a monopoly on gold and silver coins. Eventually they took a monopoly on currency as well, but for more than a hundred years anyone who wished to issue currency was free to do so. If you do not have a free market in coins and currency, then you do not have a free market.
Here a man is convicted for trying to start his own money system, as in a free market. Prosecutor says it is terrorism. Sigh.
Hong Kong has a freer market, because various private companies issue the currency. All circulate simultaneously.
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