[Arktwo] A Clean Slate

[Bruce Beach]

It has been almost a month 
since I last wrote. 
Just busy, busy, busy. 

Looking through the news stories 
I had kept  - 
I found that every story thread 
changed sides 
two or three times in the month. 
So - 
I am starting with a clean slate. 

News is mostly meaningless now. 
Everything is manipulated. 
Whatever is put out - 
by any of the governments - 
or the big financial institutions - 
is not what they actually think. 
Anything they say - 
is for the purpose of manipulation -
not for the purpose of communicating 
what they consider reality. 

Most everyone who is attune 
to the temper of the times - 
has a better sense of what is happening - 
than any analysis that they may get 
from the media and 'official' sources.

Like everyone - 
I am waiting for the shoe to drop  
when the banks and big financial institutions 
release their required year end reports 
in early January. 

The situation at the moment is - 
the dollar is shooting up 
because the Euro is going down 
due to the central bank fundings there 
trying to prevent bank collapses. 

The stock market - 
is shooting up - 
as Saudi Arabia 
and other Middle East countries - 
and China 
are trying to dump their dollars 
and buy something - 
anything with them. 

China bought into one of the big financial houses 
this last week - 
for about 5 billion dollars. 

Lots of deals like that going around 
with the Middle East also.
However - 
I did some calculations 
as to just how big a deal 
5 billion dollars was. 
We all know that 5 billion is 
five thousand millions - 
but what does that mean to China. 

The way that I figured it out - 
is this way. 
As a ratio - 
if we were to say that China was holding -  
600 US dollars 
then the 5 billion was 
one dollar of those 600 US dollars 
that China has stored up.

To look at it in another way. 
Say that you kept borrowing a dollar 
from some feller - 
and every time you borrowed the dollar 
you gave the feller an IOU for a dollar - 
and this has gone on until 
that feller now has six hundred of those dollars. 

Now then - 
at some point - 
they fellow takes one of those IOU dollars 
and buys five percent 
of that big US financial company. 
The fellow still has $599 
to try to find something else 
to buy. 

The last time I wrote - 
I told you how someone had bought a bunch of farms around here. 
Let us say they bought ten - 
which I think is about right - 
and let us say they paid the farmers $5 million dollars each - 
which I think is also in the ball park - 
then altogether they spent $50 million dollars getting these farms. 

Fifty million dollars 
in ratio to China's holdings 
would be like one penny / one cent 
in relationship to the $600 
that I created as a ratio 
to China's US dollar holdings.

People who don't understand 
the principle of ratios
will say - 
what is all this nonsense 
about $600. 

It is just a lot easier 
at least for me 
to think in terms of dollars 
than to think in terms 
of billions or trillions. 

On the basis of that ratio 
then if 1 penny buys 10 five million dollar farm 
and they still have $599 left - 
they have lots of pennies left 
to buy lots more farms - 
or things like the Panama Canal 
or seaports throughout the world - 
or big oil fields in Iran 
or North Africa, 
which on the same basis 
would be selling for a 
penny, dime, or dollar 
here and there.

Not only do the Chinese 
have that many US dollars - 
but so also do some middle East Countries. 
They sure don't want the US dollar to fail - 
but they are getting pretty concerned about it. 
That is why they are dumping it 
as fast as they can - 
hoping on their part - 
not to cause a complete collapse - 
so that they can buy - 
something - 
anything - 
with it before it does collapse. 

This, supposedly, is why the US stock market 
keeps going up. 

Here at Ark Two - 
we have been snowed in - 
and out. 
It would take $300 of snow removal 
to beat a path into the door - 
which we would of course do 
in an emergency -
or otherwise we may have to wait 
for a thaw. 

The snow has been quite deep here - 
and people are saying it is exceptional 
for this time of year. 
Well - 
certainly relative to recent years. 

We had a pleasant day today. 
Both woodstoves going 
and children and grandchildren here 
for a Christmas Day Mexican dinner.

I made a big push yesterday
and got some World Language Process 
web pages done 
that I have been working on 
for the last several weeks 
so I was caught up enough 
to enjoy the family visit 
and to write this newsletter. 

The woodbox is completely empty 
at the moment - 
and I am going to let the fire go out 
for the night - 
but this means that in the morning 
I will have to be out in the cold 
getting wood ready for the day. 

Moving the wood in the garage 
first to the log splitter 
and then to the wood cutter - 
and finally bringing it into the house. 
Lots of ashes to go out - 
(I have been saving them in pails -
because I need to run a magnet over them 
to take out the nails).

Then an hour or two of work 
to shovel a path 
out to the battery trailer - 
and an hour of work 
to put distilled water into the batteries. 
Always lots of work.

Jean has been very busy - 
with people around this week. 
The worm farm is also 
still a bit of project - 
because we have not really mastered that - 
as yet.  

Really can't ask the street person 
who is spending the holidays with us 
until early January 
to help 
because the reason 
a friend brought him up here 
was that the fellow had been recently injured. 
He needed a place to recover - 
rather than sleeping on the subway. 
He would be what we call Meti - 
and there are quite a few native people 
in that situation. 

Told you how Chyna was renamed Printer - 
and has gone on duty. 
Well, 
Jemma who is still with us - 
goes back on January 4th for breeding. 
Back with us on the 11th 
until the 14th of March 
when she should be due to whelp - 
and then gone until perhaps the end of May 
when the puppies have been put out 
to the puppy raisers.  
She could then return to us - 
but we haven't been told that yet.

That would be in one paradigm. 
Of course - 
as always - 
mine is considerably different. 
I always think 
the Great Catastrophe 
is about to occur. 

I look at the upcoming trip 
by President Bush - 
and I can't help but wonder - 
what if something happened to him 
in one of those many countries 
that he is scheduled to visit. 

Lots of enemies have gotten the schedule 
well in advance 
and could make plans. 

Should something happen 
to the American President 
the American People could arise in ire - 
and under leadership such as VP Cheney 
lash out at the world. 

All through American history 
there have been plots 
to assassinate the American President.
There have also been many, many, many 
false flag events. 
Anymore it seems to almost be - 
the standard modus operandi.

Whoever. 
Whatever. 
Whenever.
Something sometime eventually.

It used to be - 
that people were afraid 
that Communism was plotting to take over. 
Many still consider that their major concern. 

More recently - 
many think the big challenge is Islam - 
whether in the Middle East, 
cities in Europe - 
or elsewhere. 

I think the Russians, 
Chinese, 
Venezuela, 
and many countries in the world - 
are concerned about what they consider 
the Imperialism of American Capitalism. 

If there is truly a neocon cabal - 
I would think that as they look about the world - 
and see the threats - 
or at least the perceived threats - 
to what is assumed to be their goals - 
they must think that: 

a. the possibility of Sunni Islamists 
taking over the nukes in Pakistan - 

b. the possibility of Shiite Islam 
getting nukes in Iran 

c. the movement towards Islamic nuke programs 
in Saudi Arabia, Egypt and elsewhere - 

d. the expanding influence of Russia in Iran and the Middle East

e. the situation of strengthening socialist regimes 
supported by Venezuela and Cuba 

f. the developing of Chinese military power 

g. the destabilization of the Middle East 
by Hamas and Hezbollah as supported by Syria 

h. the movement toward alternate world reserve currencies 

i. the continuing depletion of the military reserves of personnel 

j. the continuing imbalance of trade, 
the overall trend of the weakening of the US dollar, 
destabilization of the banking system, 
worsening of numerous economic indicators 
such as personally held and defaulting debt

k. the generally expressed sentiment of the US populace 
regarding dissatisfaction with the US conduct of foreign affairs 

l. the concern that political power may shift 
to the parties on the other edge of the US political spectrum 

as they look at these 
and many other such concerns that they may have - 
they do not seem to have any reason to think 
that the situation will improve after the next US election 
or that their opportunity to act will improve. 

It is for this reason - 
that should one accept this analysis - 
and should one think that there is any possibility - 
that there are any dark forces with the US political neocon spectrum - 
then one might feel that the potential 
for some triggering act - 
either actual or false flag - 
does truly exist. 

To what degree one may feel - 
that it exists - 
and how imminently one may feel 
that the event could occur - 
depends upon their own personal analysis. 

No doubt - 
one can fairly point out - 
that I have always looked upon the future - 
from this same perspective. 

Tomorrow, God willing, 
the effort continues at Ark Two.

Peace and love,
Bruce
DawnSayer@www.webpal.org