Current Fixations (Pt. 4)

Canning

Four weeks ago I attempted to make some pickles. Here they are quartered and soaking in coarse salt and water for 2 hours. The plates on top hold the cukes under water.

This is the liquid they'll be boiled and sitting in. If I recall correctly it's vinegar, sugar, mustard seeds, dill seeds and water.

Here are the lids and the mixture that goes in the jars. It's green pepper, garlic, and dill seeds.

Boiling rapidly for 10 minutes under at least an inch of water. (Different foods and altitudes require different boiling times)

Let them sit for 4-6 weeks and voila:

I just cracked open the first jar today. Overall, I think they taste good. They're a weird combination of sweet and sharp (sour). I'm hoping more curing time will mellow them out. I'll need a second opinion on the taste and Laura's at work right now. They aren't very crispy either but not bad for a first attempt.

A few weeks later, I also made some salsa.

We opened a jar right away and it wasn't very thick but tasted good (although a bit vinegary). Once again, I'm hoping more curing time will smooth the taste out and thicken things up. Does anyone know if that's true?


I'd like to try canning chili but you can't just use a boiling water canner. You need a pressure canner (which I don't have) but maybe will find somehow.

Current Fixations (Pt. 3)

Conspiracy Theories.

I enjoy a good conspiracy. JFK, the Philadelphia Experiment, 9/11, Roswell, Secrets of Fatima, I've read 'em all. They may be as silly as the latest reality t.v. but they're more interesting and more fun to chase. My latest fixation revolves around a man by the name of Reinhardt. He's constantly updating and taking down the info on his site. Right now he has a few days worth of posts up (which is a lot for him).

This video sums the story up (till Oct 4th):



The video was released on Oct. 4th. Reinhardt advised "not to wait till the 6th; sell by Oct. 1st."

On October 6th the Dow fell more than 700 points.

Here's a poster ( road4@gmail.com) from the google finance forum:


"well, I for one am very much intrigued by reinhardt

his call "sell by Oct 1, don't wait till Oct 6" was proven to be spot
on which could be lucky ... except ...

he called the March crash in Oct 07 (to the day)

and the Sept crash in July (to the day)

reinhardt knows things the rest of us don't"

I know next to nothing about the stock market. Add to that the fact that Reinhardt speaks in riddles and uses his own terminology to do so, it makes it difficult to understand what he is telling us. I rely heavily on these two threads at AboveTopSecret and GodLikeProductions to decipher what he's saying. Occasionally he'll release these large jpgs of info he's been keeping for a while. He numbers them NT-34, NT-35 etc.

Here's NT-103 (excuse the crappy formatting):

Smarter people than I have taken the information in all the NT's and put it together with the postings on his website and on the finance message board, and have come up with a theory. Here's a summary from a poster (sy5551) on GodLikeProductions:

"So far this is what I've gathered from R

Timeline:Local Economies
-There's a boom period following a recession
-A select group of industries are inflated beyond their capacities (the next big thing), at this point the money is flowing into the stock market because times are good (and supposedly 'here to stay')
-The growth period/boom lasts for two or three years where the economy does steadily better and certain companies grow exponentially in certain industries (Enron, HealthSouth, Wellcare)
-Now once the bubble has inflated to a sufficient size (through deregulation and other leniencies)it is ready to be popped
-A few major players in the inflated industries go down, taking with them all the stock holders money
-Now the stage is set for a 'panic, mania' and the economy enters a downturn
-A few more companies go bust, shaking consumer confidence, and the market falls
-About now there is a distracting event in the media (morality plays, lewinski, anthrax)
-Now they are stealing the peasants money and laundering through various avenues (Legatus & the Vatican)
-Once the money has been laundered and the checks have been 'written' there needs to be a war to destroy the paper trail (the fog of war)so they need and event to set off the war(stage we're in now)
-if multiple countries economies are down, it will be a global war (each country fighting with it's favourite enemy)
-At this time the financial sector will air it's laundry, and we'll start hearing about frauds and accounting errors
-This will lead to federal bodies (FINRA) bringing cases against the scapegoats (Skilling and others) and we will have show trials with show judges (Crater, Landis)
-The trials will bring justice to the 'rogue conspirators' and that's that, the rich people are laughing all the way to....well wherever rich people keep their money, Vatican Bank? Global Custodians?
-Now the war will kick start the economy and money will start flowing through the system (about now is when they will come out with a bill preventing corruption, to show that they did learn from last time, I wonder why they can never remember 4 years from now)
-Now the stage is set for the next boom period and the next bubble (possibly clean tech?)
The sectors that always seem to be manipulated are Energy and Healthcare in America. Anyone notice why the price of gasoline is always so much higher during summer driving season than winter? It's a scam to keep us buying gasoline in the winter, and make incredible amounts of profit when everyone needs to drive during summer, all of the Energy sector is heavily manipulated (where enron comes in), same with the numerous examples R has provided us with health care.

Globalization:
-These rich people are always looking for a deal, and to get it they outsource jobs. To outsource jobs there needs to be an infrastructure in the country you're outsourcing to.
-A bunch of American companies are contracted to build 'public works' projects in the country of choice (Cisco, Tyco)
-Before all the public works projects are completed there is a debasement to pay for the projects with investors money because it was 'lost' during the stock market crash or crash of the companies stock
-Now the projects are paid for, the companies get their money and the country gets its infrastructure for their people to work jobs cheaper than other people in America will work them
-Eventually people in this country will get tired of the jobs, and the greedy rich people will look for a new land to outsource to
-The completion dates coincide with debasements

So far this is what I've learned.

Add as you feel necessary"

Here is another poster's take on what R is saying. This poster must be pretty close 'cause R posted this graphic on his site.

Also on his site, after an article about how tens of thousands of factories in China are going under he posts this:

Did That Article Say “Tens Of Thousands Of Factories..

Are Going Under”?

And We Are Going To Get Out..

Of This Without A War?

No Way

Anyway, the main thing he's been hinting at is something big in early February (9th-ish). We'll just have to wait and see.

p.s. Just as I was putting this post up Reinhardt's site went down. Coincidence or conspiracy? dun-dun-dah! If you want to check out a sample of his site now that it's down, google enterprisecorruption.com and click on the "cached" part.

p.p.s. It's back up now. Mini-conspiracy averted.