My little piece of peace

A friend of mine needed a small portable gasoline generator for working in the countryside. He Bought a cheap chinese job. Took it out of the box, read the instructions, added engine oil, started it up and within two minutes a large pool of oil appeared on the ground. He cancelled the days work and hauled the gen back to the shipyard so he could take a closer look on the workbench.

He discovered that The engine had been assembled without a gasket on the oil pan

Junk

 

And bolts that usually work with a "13" spanner can work with a 12 - 13 or 14 spanner, which means that you always have to lug a lot of "extra" stuff around.

 

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Very quiet on the 'GEC' email alert front ( quiet before the storm :?: )
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-...illion-labor-force-participation-rate-1979-le
http://www.gata.org/node/12422
http://kingworldnews.com/kingworldnews/Broadcast/Entries/2013/4/5_Gerald_Celente.html - Gerald Celente
http://www.caseyresearch.com/gsd/edition/the-assault-on-gold-paul-craig-roberts - Mostly doom and gloom - a fat ***** and a cold wolf and "the Obama's posing"

 

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http://www.gata.org/node/12423 U.S. will start manipulating gold higher, Sinclair tells King World News - - Up, down, in, out whi is pushing what where - This is bloody madness - TIME TO STOP LIES and STOP MANIPULATION... - - LET BUSINESS OPERATE AS IT SHOULD - profit or collapse by its OWN DECISIONS... The markets are so inconsistent and fake it is worse than communism or anything else (at least communists were consistent in their positioning of the goal posts...

From "The Weekly Prosperity Newsletter" http://www.peakprosperity.com/blog/81365/peter-drucker-post-capitalist-economic-transformation - - - http://www.peakprosperity.com/blog/81384/too-much-good-thing - - - http://www.peakprosperity.com/podca...-reserve-fed-wall-street-bernanke-deformation - - - http://www.peakprosperity.com/insider/81439/unsound-money - - - http://www.peakprosperity.com/insider/81375/positioning-yourself-prosper-post-capitalist-economy - - - http://www.peakprosperity.com/insider/81407/cuff-cognitive-dissonance-europe-stockman - - - http://www.peakprosperity.com/insider/81380/rise-pauper - - - http://www.peakprosperity.com/daily...ics-environment-japans-debt-crisis-visualized - - The entire website of "balanced" points of view and an optimistic title for the newsletter even - is filled with tales of doom and gloom - :?: WTF is the matter :?:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qNt1cZ_SaFc Congress Triggers Early Stages of HYPERINFLATION - John Williams
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aq956egMkbQ THE ROAD TO HYPERINFLATION James Turk

Similar bent in macrobusiness.com.au - - - Bloodyell read what you like... I feel it is appropriate to put into process "escape plans" as it takes 3 to 6 months to grow and harvest the first food crop...

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I want to find people who will join with me in constructive projects - like participating in some community development projects - I am keen to go to Milne Bay, Papua New Guinea

I have heard of "crowd financing" but do not know how to do that - any takers or interested parties? I need help..... For 6kg of gold bullion I will put my boat up as collateral or in exchange for the gold or equivalent to fund the project.


Objectives:
Improve the returns for coconut growers.
Effectively utilise all 'waste' by-products.
Facilitate and enhance opportunities in pig raising for livestock sale.
Facilitate poultry farming for eggs and live table bird sale.
Make opportunities for a wharf, warehouse-store, trade-store/shop a viable business.
Core business #1 being coconut oil expeller system factory.
Core business #2 being continuous flow bio-char plant.
In conjunction with electric power generation.
In conjunction with a workshop to maintain the plant and machinery.
In conjunction with a tractor/trailer transport system.
Piggery to utilise “copra-meal” as feedstock to sell live pigs for meat & ceremony
Poultry to utilise “copra-meal” as feedstock to sell eggs and live birds for meat


How it all works
Local copra, when exported is a lost opportunity as the by-product known as “copra meal” is wasted whereas, when retained by the community it becomes an excellent base feedstock to grow out pigs and poultry. I feel that for remote island communities expelling the oil from coconut meat is the way of the future.

It so follows that, with this semi-centralised oil expelling process operated by highly skilled and trained local workers, - then, there will be lots of shell and husk and other dry matter to justify endeavouring to follow the example of the ancient Amazonian Indians of more than 1000 years ago to create “Terra-preta”.

Research & discussion suggests that pyrolysis of waste from the piggery and poultry sheds may also be treated with great benefit when added to the bio-char from woody materials. This is by using the properties of 'activated' charcoal and inoculated with goodness by maturing with compost and other treated waste products and on maturity, applying it to the leached soils, (denuded of most nutrients over time and slash and burn subsistence farming), will result in great positive effect and benefit to the soils and productivity.

The by-product of expelling coconut oil is called “copra meal' and makes a useful feedstock for pigs and poultry making a complete circle of sustainable products.

What is marketed is coconut oils, (higher value exports/cash crop) as well as pigs and poultry being fed to produce meat and eggs (local market for cash and trade) as well as cleaning up the 'leftover', to be used as fertiliser (local benefit), and soil enhancement products.

 

More stuff to follow on from the 2 posts on the views of John Williams and James Turk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJKWyZEIr1I Ron Paul leaves News Anchor speechless - Morning Joe gets hit with a Truth Bomb
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PO4gQ9Yf9II John Williams Fed Money Printing will Trigger a Sell-Off Providing Start to Hyperinflation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbUIlH0stSc Preparing Americans for Hyperinflation

 

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All's quiet This Monday morning at the Farm near Kuranda.

Silver Raven is headed for his first radiation therapy - a daily event for the next 3 weeks. He called me yesterday and sounded fit, confident and very positive on beating the "pimples".

The house has been invaded by some very tiny ants (LESS THAN A millimetre - 1/32 of an inch - in length) and DO THEY HAVE A PAINFUL BITE :!: :!: - Thankfully they succumb to insect spray... Even the aggressive green tree ants (half inch long) assiduously seem to give them a wide berth.

Looks like there may be some heavy rain on the Cairns Coast Wednesday (forecast suggests about 50mm/hour) so I will soon be headed down to the boat to re-adjust the mooring lines to better cope with the potential flow in the creeks and likely camp on the boat for a couple of nights, carefully monitoring the weather.

 

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http://www.dailyreckoning.com.au/ has a lead report that is worrying Our Largest Asian Trading Partners Are in Trouble by Greg Canavan http://www.dailyreckoning.com.au/ou...rs-are-in-trouble-china-and-japan/2013/04/08/ - and others in my email alert are equally disturbing "--Following new Bank of Japan (BoJ) Governor Kuroda’s first foray into monetary insanity, with his intention to increase Japan’s monetary base by $1.4 trillion by the end of 2014, it’s very difficult to see how Japan isn’t in the terminally ill ward. Or, at the very least, under the supervision of Nurse Ratchet, awaiting a lobotomy." - - This will impact heavily on Australia, - Will imported Toyota's be significantly cheaper:?: Will Australia loose market share for food and tourism with our inflated AU$ against a falling Yen & US$:?: and What of Australia, - with evidence of slowing trade prospects in China:?:

Alerts out of USA are equally disastrous, Go to the Home page http://www.dailyreckoning.com.au/ and follow posts written Mon 8 April...by your own Bill Bonner http://www.dailyreckoning.com.au/wheres-all-that-internet-wealth/2013/04/08/ Where’s all that Internet Wealth?

Australia is heading for the pits (of despair) http://www.pursuitofhappiness.com.au/ and scroll down for essays...

18:10 AEST,
I got the TV on in another room (the signal is digital & does not like clouds/rain, 2+ghz) and is continually dropping out. The weather radar http://www.bom.gov.au/products/IDR193.loop.shtml#skip & satellite images http://tropic.ssec.wisc.edu/real-time/austeast/movies/gmsirn/gmsirnjava.html (via telephone/landline), do not indicate intensities of rain or cloud - - WTF - - I am about 7 to 10km due west of the radar and TV repeater... FARKNOSE

 

Hmmmmmmmmmmm

http://www.mauldineconomics.com/ttmygh/pdf/a-date-which-will-live-in-yenfamy

 

Well "the rain event " forecast for Cairns seems to be a fizzer (non event).

GATA has an interesting link Write off debt, start new currency system, Embry tells King World News http://www.gata.org/node/12428

In the War on Media Disinformation, the Truth is our Most Valuable Weapon http://www.globalresearch.ca/in-the...the-truth-is-our-most-valuable-weapon/5330468

BNN lets Embry discuss gold market manipulation http://www.gata.org/node/12427

 

Hi Moggy,
That certainly gave me pause for thought, HMmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm... About the best aggregation of recent events of IMPACT. - - - I see opportunities and dastardly troubles ahead and I doubt to many will find or be able to use the opportunities...

Cashed up Japanese retirees or those seeking a tree/rainforest lifestyle change, may like to put their money into farming lands, comparatively cheap around Kuranda/Mareeba (and some is ridiculously overpriced too), and my boat is still for sale, (with a willing lifestyle cruising partner I would not be selling either)...

My tropical island development in Melanesia needs about Au$150K to get some cash-flow happening... Light rain and overcast sky's persist and the water tanks will be recharged to overflowing soon...

http://www.gata.org/node/12429 With counterintuitive action gold price suppression gets more obvious every day A sound reason to continue buying and take delivery of what gold & silver bullion you can afford or find the money to buy...

Where is "Ed Steers Gold& Silver Daily" :?: http://www.caseyresearch.com/gsd shows the edition for the 6th April - - Where is the 8th April, as here it is a day ahead of USA being, Tuesday 9th April... :?:
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There is always opportunity, ALWAYS! Doomers and Gloomers often seem to look past that fact.

If I have read the Japanese actions correctly then we will see a further deterioration in US numbers and a stepping up of QE efforts in response. The currency war is changing up a gear.

 

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http://www.gata.org/node/12430 CFTC looks into possible price manipulation of interest-rate swaps From past performance - I do not expect to see any imprisonment nor effective criminal charges succeeding :!:

Hi Moggie,
Are both sides of the N Pacific equipped with "overdrive" or warp drive:?: for their "little Duce Coupe" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXFFLuoaMzM

 

Europe is the constrained one, get long the Euro... its an odd world eh? Japan is off the leash, as you are aware, the US is now almost duty bound to respond in short order = "RISK ON" as the two main carry trade source currencies step up the game. We are going to have some brave new nominal highs reached over the next few years in various asset classes. Who knows, if they keep it up then maybe we end up with the whole world "priced for perfection" again, ala 2006. That should be by 2016, then we peak, slide in 2017 and blowup again in 2018.... ten years, that is about the cycle.... is it not?

Gold stocks are silly cheap, the leverage off the up coming lows should be mighty impressive.

 

http://www.gata.org/node/12431 Sinclair: Clueless central bankers on verge of shattering confidence in banks Wow

 

I think we are probably going to get stronger than is helpful to many. Despite this sub parity talk from the banks about the "true" value of the AUD the fact is we are typically a carry trade destination which means north we go! The AUD chart looks very much like gold to me, a big two year consolidation period from which it is likely we launch higher. I expect this will all coincide with China considerably amping up its government infrastructure spend, the new regime will want to look good ASAP. Commodities back in favor soon? I think it is a good chance..... but then I live and work on the loony fringe