6:09 AM I think it is safe to say, in his wisdom (a steady genius) Trump is chasing his own tail in Canada. Of all major US trade partners, Canada is the most balanced.
3:10 When was that, two weeks ago when Trump said he is worried about communists taking over the country, but yet he favors China vs Canada in trade relations. More than that, though US imports 200 billions more than it exports to China instead of selling them cars to help balance the deficit, Tesla manufactures them in China.
The real reason? I always thought it was a good thing for us to buy iPhones from China because they could be cheaper ("because of cheap labor there") however i just discovered on the long term that is very bad for US trade balance and ultimately debt, because being made in China they are brought as imports and that adds to the trade deficit that turns to debt which interest is for now is covered by burdening the budget (one trillion) and stealing from Medicare (another trillion).
3:50 But i bet Ford and Apple are not the only us firms that manufacture in China and then import their products in the US. There are probably many more smaller firms and probably the same situation in Mexico and they are all imbalancing the trade.
And do you want to know the real cause of all these? I read a few days ago of a guy whose rent in San Francisco went from 3000 a month to 9000 a month.
I believe US is among the very few countries in the world that do not put a cap to rents.
Otherwise they could easily find the young people here that would be willing to work in those factories if only they cold afford the rent on a minimal or just above minimal wage.
5:20 Last of the summer wine. They are moving more stuff to the cars. However bass stopped just a few seconds ago when we were already dressing to leave for the day and i came to write here.
11:55 Sometimes i feel like Nicholas Cage in the movie. Discovering and re-discovering National Treasuries. Never heard about this book though.
6:46 AM "As bonds yield higher". Out of 39 trillion (should be 40 by now) debt, "only" about 32 is "publicly held marketable debt". At current yields the interest rates for the 32 trillion debt cannot be one trillion as shown in the 7 trillion US Federal Spending budget which would mean an average rate of 1/32=3.1%. Not talking about the principals (buy back at maturity).
Those money ought to come from somewhere and coincidentally there is almost one trillion missing at Medicare.
7:33 Question. What is Federal Reserve doing with 6.3 trillions in notes and bonds part of national 32 or 40 trillion debt and why do Americans pay interest for it.
If we apply an interest rate of 5% to 6 trillion dollars we get about 300 billion a year or almost 1/3 of total debt servicing of 1 trillion budget of 7 trillion Federal Spending Budget. What is Federal Reserve doing with that money?
Federal Reserve was created as a backup in case of financial crisis. However nowadays it generates (constant) profit for private entities, drawing from interests from public debt.
Could not squeeze out of google AI a breakdown of interests on different types of "financial instruments" however i am positive the amount is 2 times the one trillion dollars they declare. 1/40 is 2.5 percent and for that interest nobody will buy them. Ok 1/32 = 3.1%.
Nevermind, i asked the question in a different way and got something. And yes, the extra trillion is taken from Medicare.
11:11 Cine, unde când și cum. Cele 4 întrebări la care trebuie un răspuns în primele 2 paragrafe din orice știre (care ne respectă).
M-am săturat să tot aud. USR în sus, USR în jos. USR (și anagramele lui URS, RUS), Uniunea Salvați România are un nume ciudat.
Toate partidele se numesc: Partidul Social Democrat, Partidul Național Liberal, Alianța pentru Unirea Românilor, etc.. Chiar și Frontul Salvării Naționale. Numele au sens din punct de vedere gramatical. Dar Salvați?
Noi salvăm, voi salvați. Nu trebuia să fie Uniunea pentru Salvarea României (nu că aia suna ca o salvare) sau măcar Uniunea Salvăm România. Nu că nu sună gramatical. Uniunea Salvează România! what?
Salvați. Voi să (vă) salvați iar noi vă guvernăm. Sauve qui peut!
Comitetul Politici i-a acordat în unanimitate sprijinul lui Fritz. Dar unde s-au întâlnit? Votează pe un site de-a lor, mă rog. În video sunt vreo 30, nu 150, care se tot foiesc de colo colo ca să pară mai mulți. O masă de manevră invocată care nu există.
Am fost și m-am uitat pe site, un site minimalist, fără alea alea. Există un subtitlu, Comitetul Politic, care nu se poate clicăi și atât.
Toate partidele din România sunt mai mult sau mai puțin de sus în jos. Adică au câțiva oameni vizibili care ne și guvernează și/sau ne pun legi (și din când în când ne vorbesc în șarade) și poate au câte un reprezentant în județ.
Așa a fost dintotdeauna. Asta fiindcă e mai simplu pentru scenariști. La nevoie, pentru aparența democrației, se sondează la un nivel imaginar mai jos, CP și gata. Fritz e reconfirmat. Dar s-a întâmplat asta în realitate? Există acel CP? Există un Congres? Există USR?
USR pare mai mult un partid de Timișoara la butoniera lui Fritz, dar de data asta chiar mă întreb, pe bune. Unde s-au întâlnit CP al USR și cine sunt ei. A fost cineva din presă la întâlnire să facă o poză sau totul e ce vedem în video? La sediu, o sală de conferințe la un hotel, o sală de teatru, în parc? Pe holurile Parlamentului, că tot e loc, într-o pauză de masă?
Here i am trying to explain basic astronomy to everybody. From the little i know. Not to be confounded with astrology, a pseudoscience that is ubiquitous in the media today with its horoscopes. However it is good as a counter example for what's to follow, the constant link with the occult most lonely, tired, desperate people have by reading theirhoroscope daily.
First let me make sure, in the era of NASA, that everybody knows what Sun, Earth, Venus and Moon are. Because everything i found is not near good enough for all to understand so i can't just link to something already made.
Sun is a true star, not like Venus which is called morning or evening star (because it appears as a star but is actually an illuminated planet, at a distance much closer than real stars).It is made of hydrogen and helium and undergoes a continuous fusion reaction which slowly turns hydrogen into helium (yes, transmutation), over billions of years. It is very hot inside, cooler at the surface again hotter at the corona and it radiates light and other forms of radiations which are luckily caught by Earth's magnetic field and atmosphere before they can reach us.
It is very large when compared to Earth or Moon but it appears roughly at the same diameter with Moon because of the distance of course. For comparison, it takes light about 8 minutes to reach us from Sun and about one second from Moon. 2 to 14 minutes from Venus because it evolves, like Earth, around the Sun.Yes, if you would say hello on a radio, a guy on Moon will hear it after one second and on Venus after between 2 and 14 minutes, depending on the position of the two planets on their orbits around Sun at that time.
While Sun (and giant planets like Jupiter) is made of gas, the 4 inner planets (with orbits around Sun closer than Mars) are balls of rock, some completely solidified, like Moon, some still melted inside, like Earth.
We could say Moon is in our backyard, being the closest planet to Earth and the only one to orbit around it. At 1/6 the mass of Earth, i think we should call it a companion planet rather than a (natural) satellite because Earth and Moon rather wobble against each other, Earth being attracted by the Moon as well (a little).
Here is an intuitive model of the sizes of the planets. if Sun was an orange, Earth would be a grain of mustard and Moon a grain of poppy. Yes i was very shocked when i first heard about this model, in grade school and ever since when i look at the sky and see one of them planets i try to adjust my perception with it.
And now let's get down to what's really wrong what is really important at least for Luciferian religions, all based on first Innana which in time turned to Ishtar and then into Isis, Aphrodites, Venus with Lucifer being just another (scary) name for it
Here is a video showing the phases of the Moon. A phase of the Moon is what we see of it. The area of the planet illuminated by Sun in different days of a lunar cycle (or 29.5 days) that is.
In the video Sun does not appear at all, being at such enormous distance (on the left) when compared to distance between Earth and Moon. The distance between Earth and Moon is shown much smaller compared to their sizes, so they can fit in the video. If you really want, here is a more realistic (nominal) representation of the sizes of the two planets and distance between them.
While Earth orbits around the Sun too, the video simplifies that (or it uses a reference system intrinsic to Earth). It does not take into account the point on Earth where an observer is located.
A beginner astronomer by looking at the video will start asking why we don't have a Sun eclipse every month (29.5 days cycle) and that is because the orbital plan of Moon around Earth is tilted within 5 degree vs the orbital plan of Earth around Sun. Which means the shadow of the Moon misses Earth most of the times at new moon (dark disk, sun in the back, invisibile during daytime) by a few degrees.
The model is good only to explain illumination of Earth (day and night) and Moon at different times of the 29.5 days cycle and its apparent "phases" which basically are the differences in illuminated areas from one night to another.
The Moon rotates around itself only once during the "month cycle" showing always the same face to Earth. We call that "orbital lock" that was achieved over eons due to gravity interactions of the two.
All of the above is straight forward. But let's now see a video that shows phases of Venus. In this video Sun is also shown at a much closer distance to the two planets compared to diameters.
Venus passes between Sun and Earth every 584 days but a true visible transit which is the equivalent of a solar eclipse (by the Moon) happens on average every 80 years also due to tilting of the orbital plan of Earth and Venus and then all you can see is a small dot due to difference in sizes between Sun and Venus (which is the size of Earth) like shown in the orange model above and also distances.
In the following video everything is exaggerated one way or another, just to make them all fit in the frame. But the way we see Venus (like through binoculars or a small telescope) is real. It takes more than an (Earth) year for a full cycle. But what's important is the greater cycle or when Earth and Venus get in the same position after 8 years. Or the number of "rays" in the star of Ishtar. Or degrees in Scientology.
Moon rotating around Earth is not shown at all, to simplify the model.
It appears Sumerians, way before Romans had a way of counting the days and years without using the Moon, all based on Venus phases, thus having a precise way to calculate day of the year, most importantly, time for sowing. Of course they were using tallies, but they needed a reference and a reliable backup (what if the priest got drunk and forgot to mark one or two or ten days in a year).
Today in the era of GPS we are all taking the calculation of time and date for granted, but back then it was a big deal.
And they of course were grateful to the star for that and had temples and priests that could watch Ishtar who was Innana in the beginning and its phases. And yes, a small number of people with good eyesight can see the phases, especially the crescents, with the naked eye.
I bet those were the first privileged ones. The seers. Who could see what others could not.
While Romans in the beginning, other people in Far East for example used (and some still use) a Moon calendar, which is awkward at least to say, because Moon cycle is not even an even number of days, and there are more than 12x29.5 days in a year, constantly needing correction, or the year starting always in a different season, Romans started to use what we currently use or an Earth calendar, based on an Earth cycle around the Sun, the "months" having slightly different number of days, greater than 29.5, for constant corrections, to make it both for the tradition of a Moon calendar and still have 12 months in a full real year.
But it does not have anything to do with the Moon anymore, except for the word "month". Wondering if it didn't have to do with Romans adopting Venus as well.
Actually i think more people than realize can see Venus phases. Most never looked and many don't even know what to look for. But if you look at the western evening sky right after Sunset you can see the brightest object there and some would have, like me, a feeling that something is not right, because what you see is not round but has corners (yes i need glasses, 1.25 for the computer monitor but can still see well in the distance).
I once even took a picture of it with my Kodak held still on the dashboard with optical zoom at max and very long exposure time (by trials) and if you zoom into that you can see the phase..,
Tonight in Portland Venus is setting at around 9 PM, depending on the terrain. About ten more minutes. Here are some screenshots with the marvelous software called Stellarium. It amazes me every time, the way it can show, calculate and predict the movements of stars and planets.
Venus is now at the left of the Sun as seen from Earth and is getting close to a crescent phase, pretty much like when i took that picture linked above. The bright side of course indicates the direction of Sun illumination. This repeats every 584 days or 5 times during 8 years.
The fact that Earth meets Venus (almost) exactly five times during a 8 years complete cycle gave birth to the famous geometric pattern called "pentastar". The coincidence with the starfish being able to regenerate any limb and sometimes grow back from one single "ray" gave birth to the the myth that the pattern is a symbol of rebirth or regeneration. Immortality. The other gold alchemy is searching for.
Some went further and created a curve that is drawn by a point in the middle of a line in motion that unite Earth and Venus and that curve suggests a western wild rose. Rose within a circle with two perpendicular axis could indeed have given birth to the symbol of what they call Rosicrucianism.
Pentastar is a symbol used by daVinci during Renaissance that makes us all question if they knew about the phases of Venus before first modern observations of Venus, during 17 century or even before daVinci. And that is easy to explain, they could have found the Roman manuscripts about it. Or Sumerian clay tablets, maybe.
Could Rosicrucians have seen the western wild rose as a sign and they all moved there? That and the California gold rush of 1948 gave them the means and motivation to take over a young, developing nation through its banking system. (is that gold in the middle of the alchemic rose? ...)
As for the superior race. The Sumerians developed the first known slave based agricultural society. They could have come from somewhere else, and enslaving local population.
They are really pissed with the Jews because Jews are some of the remaining relatives of the "semitic people" that in the end drew them out of Sumer, making them settle in areas as far of Japan or Middle and Northern Europe. Proof? Sumo wrestling. To this day Hungarian word for (Christian) God is Isten (pronounced Ishten).
Gordon Matthew Thomas Sumner aka Sting. White on black. Starting with the smoke that may represent gassing, turned into a war drum. First 100 seconds of this song is an angry charade, after, he uses the word "em-brace" and finally "baby", giving a (false retro) key to the charade, switching from war to love by the bullying principle "first cut is the deepest" (or how i personally feel about this song).
As for the gold of California. For some reason i can't explain i always had a weird feeling about this. How come the indigenous were not mining it or knew about. How come it ended, abruptly with no trace of it in our days.
And i have a couple of hypothesis in mind.
The gold was created by Rosicrucian alchemists from some secret ingredients found around the mountains of California, especially Mt.Shasta. Then when they had enough they "broke the mold" or destroyed the recipe or the labs so it will not loose value.
The gold was secretly brought in from Asia (pretending it was created by Rosicrucians). Pretty much like they do nowadays with merchandise from China on Amazon or cars from Japan. Then the gold was invested into banking, giving the investors an early control of the banking system in the US.
US has 39 trillion dollars in debt. How come they don't start mining these instead of paying trillions a year in principal and interests by depleting the budget, stealing from Medicare?
1:11 AM Here's what i figured on my way back from Lucky Eagle.
If US national debt is 39 trillion and debt is mostly treasury notes, bills and bonds, what is the interest payed by US on that debt? 4.5% of 39 is roughly 1.75 trillion, not 1 trillion as google says.
But it's not only the interest. When they mature, these notes need to by bought back by the government. My head is spinning. Total US budget is roughly 7 trillion as of right now. Maybe this is the (solving of the) mystery as where 1 trillion missing from Medicare goes.
11:35 Cu ocazia asta am aflat că instrumentele de împrumut ale statului american poartă o dobândă de aproximativ 4.5% la sută pe an (la un volum de peste 39 trilioane dolari) în timp ce aceleași instrumente din România (certificatele de trezorerie) plătesc deținătorilor aproximativ 7% pe an (la un volum de un sfert de trilion dolari).
Pentru că isărescul nostru e mai șmecher ca al lor nu-i așa. Mai catolic decât papa, mai capitalist decât Greenspan.
3:22 Ce spuneam eu că B1 e postul lui Băsescu. Be Number One! (La europarlamentare), Votați PIMP (sau PUMP, mișcare, ce PeSDe și PLN). !
Aia mai tristă din stânga (POV) e "nevasta"? Udrea e populară?
Mda dacă nu era băgat tricoul puțin în pantaloni doar la mijloc nu apărea cuta aia. Cât despre mărul lui Băsescu, seamănă mai mult cu niște gheare, excavator, colți de vasilisc draculă sau măsele cariate.
