Tip Toe Through The Tulips

Tulips have bell or vase shaped flowers and come in a variety of colors and combinations of patterns. Quite beautiful and ornate, tulips have been a prize display flower for many a green thumb. Tulips originated on the Russian and Chinese boarder region and went on to Pakistan, India and the Middle East. It is from the old Ottoman empire that Western Europe ‘discovered’ the tulip. The Austrian Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire at the time brought tulip bulbs back to Western Europe and the bulbs made their way to Holland around 1600. The Dutch climate was not well suited for tulips as they prefer a more mountainous climate however the Dutch were accomplished botanists and through selective breeding and luck the tulip became well established. Ironically, the tougher growing conditions may have weakened the flower leading to infections that enhanced the colorful displays the flowers produced at bloom. Whatever the cause, the resultant array of yellows, reds, whites and purples and the artistic patterns that appeared caused a sensation and tulips became a great status symbol of wealth. Tulip mania was born.

Just what was tulip mania all about? Well human nature it seems. Manias’ can happen with the introduction of anything new given the right circumstances. Rarity and mass advertising can cause a self feeding frenzy to obtain the item at any cost. The Cabbage Patch Doll comes to mind as a resent example of this type of mania. Tulips were rare due to the fact that growing from seeds takes years to reach maturity and as such the first crop of tulips was cloned from bulbs to produce flowers in one season. This caused a rarity that became a seller’s market and coupled with the beautiful fields of flowers produced, people were talking throughout the area about the magnificent tulip and demand went beyond all reason.

The mania and resultant sellers market for tulip bulbs created a twist on a tried and true payment method that farmers have relied on since farming began …the futures contract. The twist was that buyers were willing to sign agreements to pay ANY price for tulip bulbs but with the important catch that they didn’t intend to gaze at the flowers or even eat them but to SELL the tulip bulbs for profit. The price for tulip bulbs was going up and up and to any sane investor this was a ticket to riches. The idea of a tulip bubble forming was not well understood it seems, however, just as today on YouTube and alternative radio, there were a few voices calling the imminent collapse of the real estate market in 2008, the same was true for the tulip bulb market in 1635. At the height of this bubble a tulip bulb would fetch a price that was equivalent to a luxury home. There are many parallels to the housing bubble that formed during the last years, the most notable of which is that in many cases the tulip bulbs were bought on credit. With the intention to flip the bulbs for profit, the upper class used their access to credit to speculate on future price increases having no appreciation, use or even understanding the tulip market. It must be asked if the buyers who were carried away with profit taking realized many florists had planted seeds years earlier and that the potential for a tulip glut was approaching or the fact that the awe and splendor of tulips was losing its initial impact. The fundamental lesson here is the lack of real value tulips had to the buyers.

The tulip market crashed around 1637. There were futures contracts outstanding for prices far above the adjusted value of tulips. The contract holders were not the poor but well to do investors and being ‘too big to fail’ the government stepped in and legislated all futures contracts to options contracts and with a small compensation they were out of the tulip market with their wealth intact. A Goldman Sachs production.

How is the tulip market today? Well aside from the Tiny Tim appearances on the Tonight Show in the 80’s, tulip mania has for the most part subsided. Tulips are in fact big business today. Growers all over are still searching for their perfect tulip. The Dutch are very proud of their tulip varieties and Holland is the largest producer of tulips accounting for billions in exports yearly and with plans to develop a tulip tourism market, ...Holland continues to command the tulip.

Behold a White Horse

Your real sacrifice begins in 2012. The seven seals of revelations. In these troubled times you will flock to false prophets, there will be war, then famine. Disease will spread and you will escape to the wilderness to try and survive. Sacrifice will be in full swing by 2017 and then massive earthquakes. The final seal is the onslaught of comet debris coming from the south. The seven years of this tribulation will end in 2019. The skies will clear and the survivors will witness a new age. From ancient scripts we know that this new age begins when the Sun, Moon and Jupiter rise together in the east with Cancer ascendant. It is the Satya-Yuga and it begins December 25th 2019. If you make it through, you will be witness to the dawning of a new time, the golden age.

CDC releases pandemic guidelines

The World Health Organization (WHO) http://www.who.int/en/ claims the H1N1 flu is unstoppable. Health experts claim most people have no immunity to the virus which typically means more people are susceptible to becoming sickened with the virus, which can be deadly. The H1N1 flu is considered moderate which means people will be hospitalized and die from the virus, but most of the consumers infected will suffer mild to moderate symptoms and make a complete recovery in a few weeks.

Consumers? We are consumers of the flu, Im getting really pessimistic on our future when the flu is commercialized into a money making operation. People will be hospitalized and die but wait for the later part of the sentence ...... most will make a complete recovery.

Scare tactics!

http://www.justicenewsflash.com/2009/08 ... 81858.html

Commercial real estate debacle

The U.S. Treasury is secretly working on a preemptive bailout program called Plan C gearing up taxpayers dollars for another toxic mortgage industry that has $3 trillion in loans? The failure of 2008’s residential mortgage bailout should tell you that bailing out CRE loans is a losing cause especially for taxpayers.

The commercial market wont make it through Xmas I don't think. At least I hope not as Ill need to find an empty store to live in to get out of the cold...

http://www.mybudget360.com/fdic-loan-report-and-plan-c-nearly-half-of-the-77-trillion-in-loans-outstanding-at-fdic-insured-banks-are-in-the-form-of-commercial-real-estate-usps-contracting-cre-space-drop-in-restaurant-tr/

Cheap Tide to the rescue

Tide has felt your pain and is responding with ...

Here’s yet another sign that consumer behavior is undergoing a major reset. The Wall Street Journal reported today that the world’s greatest builder of brands, Procter & Gamble, is testing a cheaper version of its biggest selling product, Tide. Known as Tide Basic, the laundry detergent, which will sell for 20% less than the regular version, will be tested in about 100 Wal-Mart and Kroger stores in southern states. Rather than its iconic orange box, the packaging will be yellow, and the powder will be missing features such as “fragrance-heightening technology.”

I'm not sure I can live without fragrance-heightening technology and speaking of basic, maybe I should grab a washboard while I can! Life sucks...

http://www.businessweek.com/managing/management_innovation/blog/archives/2009/07/resetting_the_l.html

The sun looks like an egg about to hatch

The sun has been so quiet that its getting ominous. Sunspots were supposed to return last month according to 'experts' but nope the sun has gone into incubation again. I wonder what will hatch??

http://spaceweather.com/

$20 Gas is good for you!

$20 a gal is good so says Christopher Steiner in his new book.

At $6 a gallon, Americans will embrace diesel engines. At $8, many airlines will shut down, leaving Southwest Airlines Co. and JetBlue Airways Corp. as the dominant domestic carriers.

At $10, car ownership rates will plummet. At $12, exurbs will start becoming ghost towns. At $14, Wal-Mart Stores Inc. will die; its business model is built on cheap oil.

At $18, Americans might get what Europeans have enjoyed for years: high-speed trains. And as the price creeps up to $20 a gallon, the U.S. may finally frame a comprehensive energy plan

.http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601088&sid=aabdwFGiKH1E

Things are Quiet in my Cave

I'm bored and going a bit wonky talking to myself. Check out my new find a cave forum and please say something!

Find a Cave

Apocalypse for kids?

A new movie is coming out next month about the end of the world. No its not 2012 its 9. A movie for kids with a rag doll named '9' that leads his friends all fighting for survival. I get the feeling we are all being prepared for something bad...

http://video.msn.com/video.aspx?mkt=en-ca&brand=sympatico&vid=aa929c9a-ce32-47bc-a2ea-2338f18332e8&from=imbot_en-ca_m_3549&fg=rss

Trade In Your Toy Car!

Help the world economy and trade in your used toys ... China has god knows how many unemployed. The collapse of their manufacturing base will lead to unrest for sure... try the new all wheel drive electric but hurry!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/8183339.stm

Maple Leaf Foods pulls its wiener

Actually its wieners ...Maple Leaf Foods is recalling nine wiener products because they may contain traces of the Listeria bacteria. Did this not just happen like a year ago.

http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/capress/090804/health/health_maple_leaf_recall

Richard Heinbergs Blackout

I see Richard Heinberg has a new book out claiming we have much less coal that previously thought...

Blackout goes to the heart of the tough energy questions that will dominate every sphere of public policy throughout the first half of this century, and it is a must-read for planners, educators, and anyone concerned about energy consumption, peak oil, and climate change.

When all else fails..we can eat trees!

Trees can serve as a vital "famine food" to keep drought-hit communities alive when all other food crops fail, according to campaigners.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8182673.stm

These people are planing for the future? ...we are doomed.

Where in the World is the Hall of Records?

In the ancient past a record of wisdom was hidden away. It was placed in a catacomb for future generations to discover, to know the true wisdom of man. The time was one of cataclysm. The King had died. Meteors were falling from the sky and the earth was parched of life. A struggle for existence was underway and the great spirit of man compelled him to act. We will save our knowledge they thought; …if nothing else. A time capsule at best, a doomsday act at worst, the ancient secrets were buried with precious treasures under the Temple of Vulcan.

Hermes was a great god. The old Hermes I mean, Hermes Trismegistus. Three times honored. A scientist, teacher and prophet, he was an early founder of pre dynastic Egypt just after the time of Peteh. Hermes was from Atlantis and helped found and establish Sa el-Hagar which was relatively untouched by the comet barrage happening at the time of the destruction. Many residents of Sa el-Hagar today are descendents of the Atlantians. Hermes was a god because he knew the secret of the ancients, the knowledge and understanding of just who we are and what we are doing here on earth. Secret knowledge that today we hear only fragmented pieces of in obscure church doctrine, glimpses in new age cults, distortions by well meaning but uninformed writers and of course perversions by nut jobs looking for the spotlight. Hermes knew the truth. The illuminated truth or the Masonic truth that sound and sex creates reality and with realizing this hidden knowledge; man will come to understand he is god.

There are still two superpowers in the world today. There has been for thousands of years. Not the United States and the Soviet Union, the Catholic Church and the Masonic lodge. They are of the same lineage you understand. Both originated from Hermes. Brothers if you will that have a disagreement on governance. There is lots of talk of a new world order. Global governance. Many new age writers, UTube videos and now mainstream thinkers have come to believe there is a covert plan to rule the world. Their right of course but this is nothing new. From the time of Gilgamesh mankind had entered a dark age. The Kalli-yuga whereby the heavenly bodies cast an influence of depravity and despair. Man forgot his divine nature and Kingships were born. The material age of taxation. Something must be done to protect society …spiritual leaders had to act. Act they did; the individual was suppressed and replaced with the fold. We became sheep. We could not be individual gods, we must vote as a group. The illuminated ones were cast into the shadows.

There was conflagration for years. Kingships and religious leaders battled for control of society. Masonic traditions influenced most lives in the early times of the Dark Age but the planets conspired to root man in the material plane and kingships prevailed. For a time. Until a new King; a King called Akhenaten. Akhenaten was a revivalist of sorts. Not the sort the common man would have wanted because his ideas were that of one god; God Almighty. The Masonic power was slipping as the kingship would merge with the church. Not the church of the common man but the church of the elite. Kingship and worship of the gods would become one.

Moses was an executive assistant to Akhenaten. A vizier. He knew the ancient secrets, the times he was living in and the need for strong leadership for society. In an age of sorrow. When Akhenaten died Moses was left in a quandary. Powerful Masonic forces would return Egypt to the ancient gods. Moses must act. He fled at first, unsure what to do but in his solitude he realized his strength; he and his followers had ruled Egypt for decades. Moses called upon his old friends, his kinsman, his followers and together with supporting masses they set foot for a new land. King Tut agreed to this at first but soon realizing the lack of governance sent his army to bring them back …the rest of the story I’m sure you know.

The church doctrines all comes from this time. It is based in the Pharaoh Akhenaten also known as Amenopais. Amen; the end of a prayer. The new idea of god almighty, totally dominant in the cover story of our lives today, established its roots. The church did keep some hermetic ideas with the Kabala but the Masons were out. Hermetic traditions did persist though, through the ages preserved in myth, legend, alchemy and yes secret societies. We see clues in Isaac Newton’s alchemy, Herodotus writings and the sound of Mozart’s Masonic music. The Masons are alive and well and are now positioned to reclaim this world as their own. At the right time that is …the time of the individual.

So where in the world is this hall of records? What will it tell us and is it safe to unveil its Masonic secrets to the world? When should it be unveiled and who should do so? Our society is changing fast and we are approaching a new age; an age where the individual is empowered. You alone will decide when you find the truth and come to an understanding you are god and you alone create your reality. Look to the gods, the true gods of the ancients. From this platform your life will change, you will see yourself as an all knowing spirit and claim your right to be an individual; an individual god …a Mason. From the secrets of ancient Hermes we can glimpse the truth of existence. We don’t need to look to the hall of records for proof that we are divine but time is short for this age and I know many are disillusioned so look to the Temple of Vulcan. The home of Peteh. At the time of the 12 kings (tribes) when the greatest king had died and the world was amiss; aligned exactly to the cardinal points they built a labyrinth to store their treasure and where Hermes safely placed his emerald tablets…

I assure you the hall of records is right here… 29°51'43.33"N 31°15'15.53"E