Orchestrated Denial of State Revenue

It is not too unusual for someone to attempt to profit from not paying – debtors, wages, income tax, GST, rent – while syphoning off the profits. Then declare bankrupt. And next year, do the same again with a new limited liability company, perhaps under the name of your husband/wife/child…

What if the same was applied, but only so that the government and major corporations lost out?

What if it was orchestrated, by a significant percentage of society?

What if they implied that – if the government doesn’t improve something – they’ll all default on government revenue and go bankrupt?

I’m sure that amongst all the legal structures, payment arrangements, tax obligations… someone can contrive a threat that would work at least once – a tax strike of sorts.

More extremely, don’t contrive. Simply don’t pay tax. If enough businesses do so, government action could damage the economy.

GDP

While we are at it…

GDP is everything to governments in advanced economies. Wanna hurt the government? Spend less!

Every business has discretionary spending:

  • marketing
  • R&D
  • updating equipment
  • staff bonuses
  • Xmas parties
  • pay rises
  • prices can be reduced…

Now a drop of 0.01% in GDP, two quarters in a row, equals a “recession” in Australia.

Growth is perhaps averaging 1-2% these days…

So if everyone spends (maybe) 1% less for a short while we can create a recession. But businesses aren’t everyone. And few will get on board.

BUT! What if a recession was almost happening, and this year growth was predicted to be 0.1%?

Then, if for arguments sake, GDP is half created by business, and 10% of businesses are on board, then collectively a mere 2% less spending by those businesses, over 6 months, could cause a recession.

NOW, while perhaps doing the above could be a powerful message, the implicit threat of it could maybe be more powerful.

CME / Solar Storm and Internet Sea Cables

A paper was just released that looks into how much damage a major solar storm can cause to the infrastructure of the Internet.

Here’s my summary:

Long metal things, especially at high latitudes, are prone to more harm than anything else. Solar activity that doesn’t even make the news does harm. Large countries have longer metal things, like power lines, railway tracks and pipelines.

Add to the mix undersea Internet cables. While the fibre optics are not metal, the casing is, and the repeaters every 150kms are.

We get a 1-3 days warning of incoming solar activity, and at its worst, we can switch off power grids and (importantly) disengage transformers.

We can’t switch off train tracks and pipelines, which can be bent or break.

We can switch off the Internet, but the cables will still be harmed. Fixing them could take years.

CME Scenario – we (hopefully, there is significant room for human error, and errors of judgement, and cost mitigation) turn off the power grid, disengage transformers, and after the storm we have power back on. Damage to pipelines and railways won’t cause too much death or suffering.

Undersea cables might be harmed and take months/years to repair. However, the Internet is primarily designed around redundancies. We won’t go without the Internet, it will just be slower and more congested. Simply turning off YouTube could fix things.

Satellites are quite likely to be fried. If that brings down GPS, that is a major catastrophe, as it is used by all sorts of things, including ATMs and the stockmarket.

So – one more reason to prepare for a major solar storm, something that society is serious unprepared for. But nothing particularly new or worrying.

Control Your Neighbourhood

Often survivalists wonder if they should be part of a collective or intentional community, or go solo (just immediate family).

More people with a range of skills is clearly better, but with more people trust diminishes, secrecy diminishes, and people wanting to run things or disagree increases.

I think at the most, unless you have amazing leadership skills and full control (owning everything), a handful of fully trusted known people is the limit.

Of course you can get to know your neighbours and local community without ever mentioning survivalism. This is good for life in general, and specifically when the SHTF, because trust, familiarity and friendship can be invaluable.

Take it a step further, and get like-minded people to live in the same locale. Like the Free State Project that urges libertarians to move to New Hampshire. Many like-minded people in a low-population place can affect politics and local laws, which in turns encourages more to turn up.

Locally (Victoria, Australia) I have looked through all the low-population areas with survivalist potential (basically, not desert) where the local council members are elected by ward (say a small town) instead of across the whole local government area evenly.

I found two:

Shire of Mansfield, 9,000 people, 4 wards, 5 councillors. That means perhaps 1,000 people in a rural area voting for one councillor.

Shire of Northern Grampians, 11,000 people, 4 wards, 7 councillors.

I’m not saying getting enough people to move there and vote you in would be easy or even possible. I’m saying these are the best places in Victoria to try. It can be a long-term, even multi-generational plan.

Even getting a dozen like-minded people to move there can make a big difference. If they work on networking and making friends, and speak sense instead of coming across as weird or crazy. At public meetings, just a handful of people in the crowd agreeing is noticeable and can influence change.

What changes? Key for me is planning laws, in an age where you need permission to do anything on your own land. Also, get some community SHTF planning happening – not hard if there is history of bushfires or floods (most have one or the other). Also, self-reliance, developing a culture of local produce and services. Schooling could perhaps be aligned with some aspects of self-determination.

In the long-term the idea of a local currency is possible.

How to start it? Be a voice in the self-sufficiency world (don’t mention survivalism) and talk up your location, and offer help/advice.

NEW: The Theory of Non-Space

Space is considered to be the framework of the universe, and is fixed, just like we imagine the framework of a house, or a chess board.

It is thought that there is a finite size to a piece of space. It is called the Planck Length. It is super tiny.

Theories around quantum gravity try to make sense of how local pieces of space, super tiny, interact with each other. And how those interactions can be used to work out how quantum mechanics works.

I have a different idea. I don’t think space is fixed, I don’t think it is a frame work. I don’t think there is a framework at all.

  • The universe is a sliding puzzle, but without edges
  • Units of space are the puzzle pieces. They can move, but when one moves, another must take its place.
  • Units of space carry particles, like an elephant in a dinghy
  • Gravity works on units of space, and particles get a free ride.
  • Gravity is a tow rope, units of spare are the dinghy, and the elephant is a particle
  • Possibly gravity still works on the particle, and space comes with it
  • Particles of space loosely cling together, and that is the observable universe
  • Beyond that is emptiness, the framework of the universe that has nothing in it. The non-space.
  • Not framework like a lattice, but a container like a bowl. Moving around inside it are units of space. They make it look like a lattice, like the pieces in a sliding puzzle

Of course space is 3D so think of a bowl full of marbles. Move one and another takes its place. But that doesn’t work well with a bowl of cubes, so there is perhaps a shape to these units of space. Which means they are either spheres, or many combine to make a shape (probably a sphere).

We could actually call a unit of space, a thing that can move, a Planck. Possibly this vessel that transports particles is a physical thing that incorporates all of the Planck constants? As in it has a mass and energy, and that needs to be deducted from the mass/energy that has been measure for the particles themselves. If that make equations work better, good! If not, the physical space thing doesn’t have mass or energy of its own (not so good, makes it less prove-able).

I don’t know how to research to find out if this has been thought of before. I do know that solution is bound to be very simplistic, which means an idiot like me could accidentally think of it 🙂

BONUS TIME

It just crossed my mind that if we involved time, then that would mean however long it took to traverse one Planck length at the speed of light is the minimum unit of time. Seems others have thought of this already (it is a bit obvious…) BUT with the above ideas it means that space actually has a peak velocity of the “speed of light”, and it carries the light.

This means that when we talk about space and time, they are more intertwined than ever before.

A 2012 Flashback

Some things I had forgotten about…

The Daily Mail said this:

Without wishing to sound too smug, I think we can predict the menu for the next five years at Robert Bast’s ‘Survive2012’ Australian hideaway: tinned beans, tinned beans, bottled water and more tinned beans.

The same goes for thousands of others who had expected to be the only remnants of today’s scheduled termination of the human race. Like Bast, a well-known ‘survivalist’ and online prophet of doom, they have been leaving nothing to chance.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2251430/The-end-world-Armageddons-delayed-notice.html

The 2012 Comet Prediction was Accurate?

Is there a comet with a periodicy of 5000 years, due to return in 2012? Without any evidence from 3114BC it is impossible to say.
(my article in 2010)

When our very early ancestors were colonizing the Nile River Valley, 5,000 years ago at the dawn of civilization, it’s likely a brilliant comet appeared in the predawn sky. There is no direct evidence for this visitor because the start of recorded history was still a few centuries away.

The belief is that comet at least split into two pieces, which would not return to the Sun along the same orbital track until 5,000 years later. This forensic evidence can be linked to the great comet of 1844 that was nearly as bright as the brightest naked-eye star, Sirius. The second fragment, called comet ATLAS, appeared near the beginning of 2020.
NASA, 2021

My best guesses of what the ancient Mayans predicted for Dec 21, 2012, were a solar storm or a comet.

A solar storm could in theory have been predicted, from thousands of years of observation. Modern cultures have only been observing them for 150 years or so. However, knowing which direction the storm pointed – the Sun is rotating – I figure was impossible. As it happened, in 2012 a solar storm powerful enough to wipe out our electrical grids, occurred. Thankfully it was not directed at Earth, but it was quite rare.

Comets were always the better candidate:

  • Visible to the naked eye if big enough and close enough
  • The return can be calculated
  • Scary enough to form a religion around

To find the comet, my only option was to look at historical records. And they don’t go back to 3113 BC, the start of the ancient Mayan calendar. Clearly a comet spotted then, with a 5,000 year orbit, would be the best candidate, bookending the calendar. But such a period of orbit could only be back-calculated if observed in modern times.

Instead, I found a comet that could fit the 5 “ages” within the calendar – Caesar’s Comet:

The Long Count calendar was 5125 years long, which divided by 5 is 1025 years. 2050 years before 2012 was 39BC and in 44BC was Caesar’s Comet – It was perhaps the most famous comet of antiquity.

Accuracy, strangely, is not so important. Because travelling past the planets can cause gravitational disturbances, even NASA and their computers aren’t very accurate.

When Comet Hyakutake was discovered in 1996, astronomers determined that on the way in to our solar system it had an estimated periodicy of 17,000 years, yet after having its orbit disturbed by the largest planets, its new course meant it would take between 72,000 and 114,000 years to return.

When 23P/Brorsen-Metcalf was first discovered it was closest to Earth in August 1847. After completing its orbit it was back in that approximate spot in October 1919, and again in August 1989. The two observed periods were 72 years and 70 years. That’s roughly a 3% deviation between 2 orbits.

My bet is still with Comet Caesar. Not only could it still return soon and still be a remarkably accurate prediction…

…it might have zipped past us in 2012. Each time a comet grazes the sun, ice is burned off (that is literally what we see). After enough orbits, there is no ice left, and we cannot see it. They become a dark comet and some experts believe that half of the comets passing close by us are dark. We could literally be the path of one and not know until a few days before impact.

Donald Trump, 666, MAGA hats

(this is all legit. I have zero belief in the Bible, but all these together are uncanny)

And the Acronym of the Beast shall be MAGA and people will have it on their foreheads.

Recall that Trump retweeted someone calling him the King of Israel, and then he called himself “The Chosen One” https://www.washingtonpost.com/religion/2019/08/21/i-am-chosen-one-trump-again-plays-messianic-claims-he-embraces-king-israel-title/

But what about 666? Is it related to money via this $666M deficit under Trump’s reign?
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-economy-budget-idUSKBN1CP2FS

Or people with these 666 migrant kids separated from their parents:
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/immigration/lawyers-can-t-find-parents-666-migrant-kids-higher-number-n1247144

Or his grandmother. middle name Christ, who died on 6/6/66, and her name literally means “vow for Christ to be trumped” <<<FREAKY
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Christ_Trump

And Trump Tower is 664 feet high – I bet you it is actually 666

And finally, how about this property, which was the highest price ever paid for an office building:
https://kushner.com/project/666-fifth-avenue/

Confederate Symbolism

I think (not an expert) that the banning of confederate flags is the first such thing since Germany banned anything Na-Zi.


The ability of a winning side to remove the negativity of the ideology of the defeated – the winners write history…


In this instance, I am all for it. As a general rule, no.


We have a very new culture where if you are part of the 48%, and not the 52%, you can be demonised, which is not how things should work.


The demonisation of racism, and the removal of people who advocated or profited from that, from public places (statues) is excellent.


I do fear that, if Trump gets back in, being a Democrat will become more than a preference, and akin to being a communist in the 1950s.

COVID-19 Could Get Worse

Scientists and the media know that there is no point unduly worrying people about something that may never happen. And that is a good call.

So survivalists, as always, have to think for themselves, and not expect help from anywhere when the SHTF.

COVID-19 is very new, and scientists have mostly questions and few answers. We don’t know anything that helps suffers for sure. We don’t know how many strains there are. We don’t know why kids are unaffected. And so on…

Viruses, by nature, mutate.

This new, different, weird virus might mutate. And that mutation might make it worse for us.

At this stage there is no evidence of worthwhile immunity from having it, and we cannot be sure a vaccine will be created.

So be smart, and be prepared for a new strain, much deadlier and/or virulent, at any time.

We have already struggled to cope with this one in most countries. And in many places restrictions are being removed far too early.

If it mutates into something worse, going to the supermarket might not be an option. Being cared for in a hospital might not be an option. Government help might not be available.

As always, a year or more worth of food and water should be on hand, and/or you should have somewhere away from the hordes where you can stay.