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Nothing But Blue Skies - Another Sign The Global Economy Has Come to a Standstill

4/6/2020

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Well, it seems an approaching comet is not the only ominous sign in the sky at the moment. 

I happened to look up at the sky as my son and I were out walking in the fields around my village yesterday afternoon. Normally the sky above my settlement looks something like this:
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Though the surface vehicle traffic around my rural settlement is rather light, the airplane traffic above has always been busy. Vienna to the west is a mere 80 kilometers away; Bratislava to the north, about 50; and Budapest to the east, 200. Those three cities probably host a fair share of the air traffic that zoomed above my village on a daily basis, but I imagine most of the planes and trails headed to even more distant destinations. 

In any case, as I was walking in the bright sunshine with my little boy, I looked up at the sky and noticed that it was very similar to this: 
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An untarnished, azure blue ceiling decked with puffy clouds and a brilliant, shining sun. No contrails or vapor trails anywhere. Not one. This made me pause for a moment. I considered a possibility - perhaps atmospheric conditions were not conducive to the formation of lasting contrails.

As I thought about this, I looked back above me to see if I could spot any airplanes. Before the crisis and lockdown, you could easily observe at least a half-dozen or more planes streaking through the sky at any given time. Sometimes the number got as high as fifteen or more, but yesterday I saw only two. Even more interesting, none came to take their places once those two planes had vanished from view.

For the first time in my living memory, the sky above me was free of planes; and it remained that way for the rest of our walk, which was about a half-an-hour or so. 


I'm not pretending to reveal a great discovery here. All I am doing is pointing out the obvious. In our current lockdown, reduced air traffic, the utter collapse of the tourism and travel industry, and all the rest of it is to be expected. The media has run many reports about all of this on television and in the papers. I myself knew this would be an immediate consequence of the worldwide lockdown - but seeing the unmarred blue sky yesterday really helped me put it all into perspective personally. 
 
The global economy has fallen off a cliff. Anyone who makes any sort of case for an expected v-shaped recovery in a few weeks time is either utterly deluded, horribly corrupted, or irredeemably dishonest (or a combination of all of the above)!

As far as the global economy is concerned, blue skies are now a sign of impending doom.  

Ironically enough, within this context the song Blue Skies takes on a new and rather unexpected dimension.
Blue skies smilin' at me
Nothin' but blue skies do I see
Bluebirds singin' a song
Nothin' but blue skies from now on

I never saw the sun shinin' so bright
Never saw things goin' so right
Noticing the days hurrying by
When you're in love, my how they fly by

Blue days, all of them gone
Nothin' but blue skies from now on
Blue skies smilin' at me
Nothin' but blue skies do I see
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Blue days all of them gone
Nothin' but blue skies from now on
Blue skies smilin' at me
Nothin'…
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bruce charlton
4/6/2020 11:54:45

Well said.

The economists are - as in 2008 - revealing that they are bought fools with a truly staggering ignorance concerning the importance of the assumptions and exclusions of their predictive models. Economists are worse than nothing!

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Francis Berger
4/6/2020 13:41:05

@ Bruce - Thanks. Yes, the current economic models are sure to disappoint us (an understatement if there ever was one).

The empty blue sky made a real impression on me yesterday. It's just as empty today. That speaks of something concrete rather than abstract - which is most of what economics has become - abstractions.

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Francis Berger
4/6/2020 13:42:41

@ Bruce - And to top it all off, the economists have also poisoned a perfectly good Willie Nelson song!

Jake
4/6/2020 17:34:04

"As far as the global economy is concerned, blue skies are now a sign of impending doom."
My brother is quite wealthy, at least by my standards. He totally believes the MSM and the matrix reality lies and narrative.
But he called me last night. He seemed quite depressed. I just tried to listen. He was very silent a lot.

He said that his employer was going to pay him "at least" through the end of the month.
He has enough wealth that even if he loses half of it (which he probably has on paper) he will be OK. But he just seemed listless and depressed.
I couldn't really say anything. I did suggest that he come north and stay at his cabin and work on the cabin and land. Something positive.

If the economic fallout is as bad as it could be, then a lot of people are going to sink into depression or even suicide.

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Francis Berger
4/6/2020 19:01:02

@ Jake - You've raised a very important point. As you know, I regard all of this primarily as spiritual warfare, and the prime objective of spiritual warfare is soul damnation. Lust, greed, and pride are the most common methods of attaining this, but the game has changed somewhat. What is happening now is the push toward fear and despair (both grave sins).

Evil will use material means to drive people into states of fear and despair. If the despair becomes deep enough, suicide becomes a real possibility. Despair-induced suicide motivated by material considerations is a guaranteed form of damnation. That is why it is vital to view everything that is happening now through a spiritual perspective.

I don't know how bad things may become - but bad is a relative thing. Everyone has a different pain threshold. Talk to your brother. Make sure he keeps the proper perspective.

Dr. Charlton addressed all of this recently in a very important post:

https://charltonteaching.blogspot.com/2020/03/phase-two-beigins-be-not-afraid-do-not.html

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Judd Sloan
4/6/2020 19:26:20

Excellent posts... and much appreciated with the reminder that whatever else is going on, that this is a spiritual battle. Thank you!

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Francis Berger
4/6/2020 21:31:30

@JS - Thanks! Much appreciated.

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William James Tychonievich link
4/9/2020 05:54:12

The comet’s welcome news, anyway. I haven’t seen a proper comet since Hale-Bopp in the nineties.

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Francis Berger
4/9/2020 08:04:32

@ Wm - Though I referred to it as an ominous sign, I am not averse to presence of a comet.

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