MMGW – Man Made Global Warming as a Social Phenomena is the best example of this. On a person to person level FUD mongering is symptomatic of White European Germanic Neurosis. When used as a technique at higher levels such as government it is a method of gaining power and economic leverage. FUD allows you to get people to accept things they normally would not.
I contacted Susan Taisuo via Alibaba. They refuse to send free samples. Here are the good points and bad points of ordering 1- Language barrier is there but seemed to mostly get past that 2- They only accept SWIFT wire transfers in payment – that means there is 35 US dollar charge on top of any order to pay for the transfer. This is a real problem. Technical things rarely go exactly right and with the language barrier its a real problem.  They suggest Western Union but that’s almost as expensive. Also Western Union is not popular in the USA.  Almost everyone has PayPal Read more…
There are a couple of interesting anecdotal facts I’ve come across lately. 1- An aquaintance of mine is doing large load escort. He said that he’s doing ALOT of large wind tower escort. Huge business numbers going on. Interesting in that I do not think any amount of government subsidy can build and sustain any sort of meaningful business. In order for something to explode it has to be genuinely economical. My source also reports that a wide variety of companies are involved in this industry now. 2- James J. Cramer mentioned on Mad Money that 10% of domestic steel production Read more…
Do you believe in the corn fairy? I do. What do you think is driving the cost of corn up so fast ?
Ever see tennis shoes over power lines? I have several times and always wondered what the shit was up with that? I always thought it in my naive white boy way it was just some kids having fun with old shoes. In my defense that was only a fleeting thought and I figured there was something I did not know. Turns out its used by dope pushers to mark their place of business. While I think drugs should be legal I will be the first person to tell you the people who ply the drug trade professionally are tacky sons a Read more…
If you read my back of the napkin on the envelop calculation about how much cellulosic ethanol we can produce in the USA using trash then you know that number is likely substantial. When this happens corn prices are going to fall. Cellulosic ethanol will be relatively cheap. Look for forces outside and inside government to slap a significant tax on this. The reason? Because they can. There will be significant budget margin to do so. Thus Oil industry and government will conspire to locate the price of ethanol at a price that supports petroleum pricing. Likewise government thugs will in Read more…
Prejudice serves a purpose. I will demonstrate using Bernard Ebbers as an example. He is the ex CEO of WorldCom. A quick read through his wikipedia entry yields the following information 1- Born to the family of a traveling salesman 2- During the time between schools he worked as a milkman and bouncer. 3- In 1968 Ebbers married Linda Pigott, and the two of them raised three daughters. Ebbers filed for divorce in July 1997 and married his second wife, Kristie Webb, in the spring of 1999.  Her resulting name was Kristie Webb Ebbers which is ebonics for “I will rob you Read more…
How does he do it? more importantly WHY does he do it? I watch the show sometimes but listening to his “marketing wisdom” often leads me to say out loud….”Donny Deutsch-Bag” Â
After seeing more whiteboard picture drawing I had too google the ups whiteboard picture drawing guy. Turns out its the marketing firms own creative director. So in reality the same guy that pitched the advertising idea to UPS is pitching it directly to us now. At first it appears to be a doofy set of advertisements but on the other hand it must be cheaper to use a whiteboard and draw to illustrate stuff than it is to film some dramatic creation with cgi animation special effects.