Lethal Autonomous Weapon Systems.  You will also meet TEWS (tethered-electronic) weapon systems).  You might see a frame of a video I made in 2004 on remote controlled surveillance e vehicles…and you might infer quite properly (now that all my NDAs in the area have expired) that I do have a fact-based vision of a very ugly future when comes to urban warfare..

Most people have never penciled the future out in this subject because it is so ugly, horrific, and anti-human.  Tends to scare the hell out of you. I Robot IRL and not the happy ending.

Special Bonus: A link to video coverage of the riots in Indonesia overnight from our Jakarta Bureau.

Before we get to it though, how about some headlines, charts and coffee?

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Two big stories this week frame a change in how the US Economy works.  The CDC reported the American birth rate is now down to the lowest level in 32-years.  At the same time, claimed president Trump Thursday, smuggled children constituted almost 65% per illegal border crossers this year.

Here’s the problem: We have a population drop (PopDrop) problem at the same time we need synthetic growth (SynGro) to keep the economy from imploding. 

The MainStreamMedia is either deliberately lying about what’s going on, with the battle for  future of tax revenues, or they are incomprehensively stupid.

Notwithstanding the Stanford-Binet’s,  a tale of two economies today, as we sort through the idea of merit or just keeping the doors open to everyone.

After tea and crumpets (OK, coffee & charts, then) of course.

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Time for a rethink of social programs?  A chance discussion this week got me to thinking about how the world really needs a way to “recapture waste people.”

Who???

There’s no one who is “waste” per se, but circumstances in life often result in a lot of people ending up in hopeless, dead-ends, that seem almost inescapable without some kind of aid program.  Yet, most of what we have today doesn’t work well.  Something must be missing…so we’re off in search of “it.”  After headlines and our charts, of course.

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Humans are binary animals. It’s built in to how we think because of our “wetware” – which means neurons only have two states:  fired or not.

This has tremendous implications for how we arrange nested decisions and how we “bias ourselves” in certain directions.  Yet little of this is out in front of the public to consider

Instead, we live in a world where the majority of our binary decisions are pre-packaged so that corporations can profit from our following “their script.” “Tell your doctor” and “Buy one today.”  It’s that way in investments, as well.  Binarism, if you will.  So, this morning we toss around some ideas on this point and I think you’ll find it thought-provoking as hell.

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Recent U.S. Navy anti-gravity patents hold both promise and problems. It’s a classic “disruptive technology” and it’s part of a larger picture we will be covering in multiple upcoming issue.

We’ll jump into that after headlines and our view of the trade-crazed markets…

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While Peoplenomics’ main focus is economics, there’s a secondary focus on “living well.” We reckon part of that to be doing a fair bit of “spiritual work.”   Going into those realms in an unavoidable future problem for everyone.

Today, we will dabble our toes in the waters of a “Grand Unified Theory of Everything” (*GUTE) which, thanks to the Navy anti-gravity patents, has begun to come into view.  It is, though, a bit like “sticky tumblers” in a lock sometimes.

As part of this “Escape Room Earth” approach, we will update you on some of our “light crown” work and walk you through some of our upcoming research plans. More important, though, is the progress of The Chronicle Project which has quietly taken-down its website even as their research continues to fill in more of the past.

After a few headlines and today’s charts, of course.  This is one of those rare reports where rather than focus “on the money you can’t take with you,” we instead focus on where we go next…

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Understanding China’s “Belt and Road Initiative” is key to understanding the shifting sands of planetary economic warfare.  Although it gets little mention in the American Mainstream, it will likely join other monumental forces at work shaping our future; such as anti-gravity, artificial intelligence, and resource depletion as the Grand Strategies.  Together, these “new forces” will likely have a huge impact on humankind’s prospects for survival.

Because while there’s a good bit of press about China going to the moon (as a first colonizer), they’re are going a great number of other places as well.  That’s the point of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI).

America, meantime, is hopelessly distracted by minutia that has little long-term impact.  One example?  The headline-grabbing Mueller dissent letter to Barr being waved-around today.

This “larger context” is on the “thinking list today after headlines and our view of markets in the ChartPack section….

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U.S. Navy “mass reduction” patents have been surfacing lately. That’s obscura for anti-gravity.

Like it, or not, we may be, as a civilization, on the cusp of a greater breakthrough than atomic power, electricity, or anything else we have been able to realize so far.

But, there may be some dark sides to such a breakthrough as well.  This morning we will run through some of the potential impacts and possible workings of the new technology..

First, though, our usual cup of coffee over headlines and charts. 

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Universe has just “knocked twice.”  When two people – one in the middle of the country and one on the west coast – ask you for a little business development and start-up guidance, it should be taken as a “sign from Universe” that it’s time to write a column to help people along moving toward new dreams.

We’ll go through the process of taking an “idea for a business” through fruition and look at how the web has changed the process of growing a business.

But first, some news headlines and a look at the markets which like the subject of Easter, may may have started to ascend into heaven to sit at right hand of the Almighty P&L..

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Donald Trump has another problem besides Mueller fallout to worry about.  This morning we look at the major metrics of supposed “economic growth” and wonder like the old burger-joint commercial asked “Where’s the beef?”

After some headlines and our analysis of the markets which, in our view, at near (or at) a critical turning point just ahead.

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The mythical power-source from Star Trek is a marvelous metaphor for the long-range investor.  While we may not live to see it, both our middle age and Millennial subscribers may benefit from borrowing some Spock-like thinking processes which we outline this morning.

So, as soon as we’re done with a few headlines and breaking news – plus our chart discussion – we will head down to the holodeck and see if gold can be materialized in the future, if not the pasture.

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Are we toping or readying for new highs?  Since I’ve been doing a lot of thinking about judgments lately – and the whole process behind them (whether good or bad), we’re going to make some judgments today about the pending future.

First, though, a lot at some key headlines and then we’ll eye the future through the lens of data in our ChartPack.  I think you’ll find it interesting.

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What does Elaine’s mink jacket have to do with government?  The link is subtle, but important. Transactional economics not monetary. Elaine owns the mink. Government owns us all. 

Today, we follow the 250-year trend towards “renting your life.”  It’s a movement that has been gaining ground a lot lately.  That’s because absent new tech breakthroughs, we’ve been reduced to monetizing sex, the weather, and all the while, government pressure builds as we lurch towards depletion of the planet’s resources.

Cheery stuff to serve up at mid-week, don’t you think?  After charts and some headlines as our “warm-up act.”

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