1	Threats and Strategies for 2008 GEORGE URE WWW.PEOPLENOMICS.COM
2	Threats at Every Turn Environmental Southeast Drought Disaster Fallout from Space (TU 24 asteroid) Climate Change Governmental Continuing erosion of Constitutional freedoms Corporate funded presidential candidates/ lack of genuine choice Impact of the weakening Service Economy
3	More Threats? You Bet! Financial Soaring commodity prices for foods/energy products Questionable stability of major banks/ all bank reserves are effectively ‘borrowed’ in latest Federal Reserve releases Fraud runs rampant along with losses (Seociete Generale being only the latest of a string) Most US banks would not be solvent today without global interventions and bailouts
4	Still more threats… Bird flu or other ‘pandemic’ (manmade or otherwise matters not) The ‘usual assortment’ of Niburu/Wormwood/ Planet X discussions than won’t go away, massive earthquakes, pole shifts, new ice ages and… Global Food Shortages loom … all these can ripple and merge into a global mindset Then there’s the Renewed Cold War with Russia and China
5	Impact of threats: Fuzzy-headedness By late this year, we could have such huge changes afoot in the world that in HalfPastHuman.com modelspace people walk around “dazed” and in a ‘stupor” of active denial. “This isn't the world you grew up in anymore” The cult/culture of “Media Personality” is dead. Excess consumption is replaced by subsistence is a good outcome for the middle class
6	Why is Doom & Gloom Ascending? More talk than every about catastrophes/2012/end of the world in spite of being 8+ years after the Y2K bug was going to get us all. Scenario: There really is something out that which will threaten humans. We’re hearing/feeling it at a core level and just attaching that feeling to whatever headlines are currently crossing the wires.
7	Skill to Cultivate: Sensing Disaster Example: Edgar Casey declines an elevator ride because he couldn’t see people’s auras. The elevator crashes. An Eastern European scientist writes of how people in death camp trains got physically ill an hour before being murdered in WW II. Animals moved inland before Banda Aceh quake – a few native peoples did too. Key Point: Listen to both your heart and your body without putting attachments to it.
8	Use the News The January 29 fly-by of asteroid Tu-24 is a good example. NASA updates have slowed/stopped on data News releases say “don’t worry” Stories on the net talk of ‘conspiracy’ and some scientists question whether it will miss earth. News Headlines to Watch for: Strange weather now through Tuesday. Movement of key government leaders to Denver or other high ground between now and Tuesday.
9	Other Data Points HPH linguistics do not feature an impact – only a late winter to early spring natural disaster with exceptionally high winds. Electrical or weather effects at a distance would fit. Watch the Princeton Noosphere project EGG’s this Sunday and Monday to see if there’s an increase in coherence. Look for an increase in lost animals reports Sunday and Monday if quakes are coming. Read emails that may come in, but be skeptical of ‘rumors’ and go to source material.
10	Top Two Threats for Early 2008 # 1 is Financial/Monetary: We all need money Job cuts are likely to spread this spring Cost of energy will likely remain stable or go up Foreclosures will increase Housing prices downward pressure builds Exposure of retirement fund exposures to collateralized debt/ liar’s paper should become visible within 2-3 months Stock MIGHT briefly hit new highs before a fall collapse greater than the current warm up act
11	Financial Problems Will Ripple Each layoff in a primary job can eliminate 2 or more in the ‘service sector’ Monetary inflation waters down the purchasing power of 401-K and pension fund savings. Retirement dream may disappear Food prices are bound to go up at least a bit faster than energy costs Most employers will cut ‘perks’ like health care for your whole family
12	#2 Largest Threat: Climate/Weather Linguistics talk about ‘winds’ Out of season hurricanes(?) Extreme tornados in traditional areas Outlier locations like California likely to see more Southeast Drought is growing Talk of shutting down some nuclear energy reactors which will press oil and gas prices higher As energy and water go into shortage mode, then the whole Southeast could become an area to avoid in terms of jobs and relocation.
13	Expect Government to “Blow It” Wind event expected this spring Language goes to the idea of government not reacting well Problem will be regional impacting perhaps 25% of the US population and imposing hardship on the other 75% as we all work together in a recovery mode Archetype imagery of people in other countries sending aid – it will be that bad.
14	What Would Fit Disaster Profile? Huge Tornado outbreak in the desert South or Southeast doing infrastructure damage in 6-8 states. Record winds (F-6?) Failure of government to respond Insurance companies renouncing coverage Relocation / Diaspora involving a million + Timing: Now to May
15	MGM – Monetarism Gone Mad Economic outlook: Long term down, short term (3-6 month) a possible rally to new all-time highs in late August. Housing price decline may slow, broaden for a few more months, perhaps with some ‘relief rally’ in spring. Long term pressure is still down due to a lack of second home purchasers in the 40-=45 year old bracket to buy McMansions
16	Fed Policy Easy Money is the answer! Another 50-BP is possible next Wednesday That would put borrowing below the cost of inflation Trick: Get this rate on anything you buy now – but if you can’t get super low (zero interest) on new items, don’t buy them! Cars may bottom in early spring, but again, if we get a serious ‘second breakdown’ in markets in October, cars will be cheaper in 2009. If we need them…
17	Personal Debt If you can’t become debt free, at least reorganize your debt to aggressively take advantage of lower rates short term. Applies to mortgages Move your credit card balances to cheaper accounts Consolidate student loans Get a couple of months of ‘ready cash’ so you can buy food and utilities no matter what
18	Make Money on Your Pastimes I’m writing a book on ‘micropreneuring” – that is – starting up multiple small businesses based on those skills you presently have. Find something you can do – even if it is nothing more than doing a hydroponic garden on your deck Apartment farming is a great hobby – you get food and oxygen – better food, fewer is any pesticides – lots of reasons to grow your own
19	Put Your Capital to Work Consider some money from your 401-K to build a straddle or strangle position in inflation/deflation sensitive areas. Might want to have some Treasury bills which hold value or go up in deflation Counterbalance that with something that could go up in value in high inflation – like a small rental house if you can find one – or buy a lot and build one in your spare time – beats watching television
20	Unplug the TV Average American watches 14-hours of television per week. That costs you two ways It’s time that could be used to increase your net worth of personal wealth and health and It robs you of independence of thought – sells you items you probably don’t need. If you take that same 14 hours a week and spend it on learning skills or building something like a new home, you will have 700-hours per year – 17.5 full workweeks of labor that you could invest in something meaningful
21	Think like a Micropreneur Every day, opportunity comes to you and you may not recognize it. There are some ways to increase your “luck” or chances of making money with your spare time. Examples: Find free or beat up old cars and boats on craigslilst.org and restore them for basically just labor costs and a few parts. Pocket the profit. Use social and business networking tools like Linked-In.com to expand your circle of acquaintances. The more people you know, the ‘luckier’ you will be. Keep all your contacts in a single piece of software like Outlook and back it up all the time. Weed your contacts annually… the more you know, the farther you go.
22	February Acceleration in the ‘employment crash” meme, construction slows dramatically including commercial. Due to high prices, food enters its ‘encounters with scarcity’ and gasoline soars (due to falling dollar) Key: People’s ability to live is tied to debt – and with credit card defaults expected to rise in this period, the widespread repudiation of credit card debt will mark the emergence of the civil disobedience meme to the corporate cannibalism/powers that be/global elite if you want to think of it that way.
23	March Again, in modelspace we have the “millions of small [financial] particles causing problems – repudiation of credit card debt. Late March we see a female leader/figure emerge who will begin to fill a role as ‘social unifier’ for the financial rebellion/revolution meme. Most likely, she will be from south/central American highlands and her visibility and prestige will grow in national media over the summer. It could be someone like Vandana Shiva, but not saying it will be her, but the core issues or food, water, and seed sovereignty and getting a grip on globalism, but linguistically they seem similar. *Shiva was active in the Chipko movement in the early 1970’s where women in India hugged trees to keep them from being cut down – and so linguistically was part of the linguistic formations around tree hugging/tree huggers and such\ This female leader might be Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, who is now Argentina's President. She is one of the prime movers for the Bank of the South, a DIRECT challenge to the IMF, FED and World Bank.
24	April Like to see a widespread tax rebellion – people putting in phony claims for refunds, delaying filing, and so forth as we see dollar crashing, market declining and so forth with lack of government fix. Natural Disaster: We get high winds/damaging rains over wide enough area to feed another modelspace meme: Diaspora (population in forced relocation). Incredible tornado season with heavy rains or out of season hurricane, that kind of thing and a lack of government response.
25	Suggested Web Sites Peoplenomics.com newsletter: $40/year. Daily financial analysis: www.urbansurvival.com Headlines at www.independencejournal.com