Future(s) Manipulation

By John Russell

Life has taught Colt McCoy the only important thing is security through money. It is a lesson he has been taught from childhood, through the military and eventually in Corporate America. Each stage of his life provides the next opportunity to acquire more wealth. He is provided his final opportunity for the wealth he desires, he will have to make the greatest sacrifice imaginable to attain this elusive dream. Will he go through with the plan?

• Language: English
• Publisher: John Russell
• Release date: Sep 20, 2016
• ISBN: 9781370172924

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Futures Manipulation

By John Russell

Copyright 2016 John Russell

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Contents

Prologue-Left Hand of God

Chapter One-Little White Lies

Chapter Two-Capitalism

Chapter Three-House of Medici

Chapter Four-The All-Volunteer Army

Chapter Five-Then There Are Three

Chapter Six Department of Defense

Chapter Seven-The Great Salt Lake

Chapter Eight-Bonus

Chapter Nine-Honorable Discharge

Chapter Ten-A Civilian Life

Chapter Eleven-Life Less Complicated

Chapter Twelve-Sounds of Confusion

Chapter Thirteen-The Price of Big Money

Chapter Fourteen-What a Great View

Chapter Fifteen-Saudi Arabia

Chapter Sixteen Flight School

Chapter Seventeen-Strange Bedfellows

Chapter Eighteen-Classic Arbitrage

Chapter Nineteen-Reality

Prologue

Left Hand of God

At the moment there are two major trends that I see today. The first is the ability of time travel. There are a number of new shows that depict the idea of going back in time and change some major event so the ripple effect is positive in the future. As part of this there is a theory of a clockwork universe that runs through divine power. It insures that everyone has a precise destiny with no real free will. The other popular thought is a one world order. This is a conspiracy dream that defines the ultra-wealthy as hidden forces who are trying to consolidate the world under their rule. I address both issues from my own life perspective, you'll have to draw your own conclusions.

When I think about the left many things come to mind, none of them positive from my perspective. I had read or heard at one time that the Latin translation for left handed means sinister. This is well beyond my catholic school days to confirm; I leave it to the reader's interest to investigate this.

At this moment I’m in Saudi Arabia waiting for the signal to take my place in the cockpit of an F22 fighter. How I got here is interesting since I’m American and I never imagined I would ever be in the middle east.

The names of United States fighter planes are meant to strike some sort of fear into the hearts and minds of the enemy. I could not say with any certainty that the Chinese or Russians are familiar with the naming conventions of U.S. fighter jets, I’m more certain names like Raptor or Eagle don’t have the intended effect.

Being patient is not natural for me, in this case I don’t have a choice. I’ve committed to this course of action and rules have to be followed. I’m more of a free form sort of guy, so rules and patience don’t necessarily come easily.

I have to search myself to justify waiting and use reflection to calm my being. Allowing your mind to just casually wander to any topic it wants has always been a benefit for me. For example, I wonder if Jesus Christ was really a pacifist. I was told by a good friend that I respect, whenever you write something don’t invoke Christ since he’s a controversial figure. My friend is a woman, perhaps this is just the female perspective, or maybe I just like being difficult.

My personality forces me to make broad considerations and try and tie it to subtle aspects. I have found this exercise relaxes and distracts me. The broad points are finance, religion and conspiracy. An example of a broad category is why would John J. Mcloy, a former president of Chase Manhattan Bank be part of the Warren commission investigating the assignation of President Kennedy?

By the way, I’ve decided at least for myself that Jesus Christ is the ultimate pacifist. One broad category completed. The subtle aspect was easy; the only time Christ went Dirty Harry in his life was when he attacked the money changers at the temple.

He went as far as saying, his house should be a house of prayer, you have made it a den of thieves. Anyone reading this could say so what, my response is it has a lot to do with this story, which deals extensively with finance. It then follows that having Christ have an opinion of bankers (money changers) is important. Christ’s attitude in this instance is the start of a conspiracy dealing with bankers.

As I become more relaxed my mind wanders further. Just to let everyone know, I tend to ramble, which I suppose is a way to wander, although this might be a difference without distinction. I personally think that wandering is the mind working with few constraints to weigh it down. I will attempt to stay on point, I realize there are times I take the long way around the barn to tell a story or make a point.

My next mind stop is a thought about predictions. I immediately go to a place when I heard a prediction about the NFL. American Football is the only sport that I’m passionate about and watch regularly. I’ve tried to convince my wife how fortunate she is as many men follow sports with the change of season, baseball, hockey, basketball. I’m certain she does not feel the love in that logic.

This story also deals with predictions. Everyone seems to follow certain predictions religiously or at the least believe in future predations. Predictions are not very valuable unless they can be verified. There is one pundit that I enjoyed listening too, it was not until he made a prediction about the NFL that I became engrossed.

The pundit had overcome personal tragedy at a young age. While attending Harvard medical school he skipped a class with some friends to go swimming. It turned out to be a fateful decision. On that day he dove into the water and happened to hit sand, which crushed his spin. He was paralyzed, but managed to complete his course of study, became a doctor. He then moved on to write a number of books and became a political pundit.

In 2011 he was asked to look into his crystal ball and predict the outcome of the NFL strike talks. It’s hard to imagine people who make upwards of ten million dollars are part of a union and must undergo strike negotiations.

Without missing a beat, he claimed that he would be able to watch his beloved Washington Senators (baseball), because the NFL season would evaporate before our eyes. The only thing to evaporate was his prediction, the NFL settled its dispute and the season went into full term.

So what you say?

My response is that meteorologists are the only ones who should make big money and screw up predictions. Pundits fit into the what have you done for me lately category. Pundits must be close to perfect in their predictions; they’re paid to well to just have a personal opinion. In my mind when they predict disaster, like the season for the NFL not happening they need to be right. I admire this pundit’s personal courage, I understood that someone can sound perfect while their predictions are not perfect. This brings into mind the concept of a new world order conspiracy. Conspiracies have been around forever, and every group gets branded at one point. There is no grand conspiracy to take over the world through finance.

How do I know this? Well I’m in Saudi Arabia now, getting ready to take on an extensive mission. For me there are three major impact moments that forced me to question conspiracy theories as being irrelevant. Briefly my points are as follows.

It starts in 1959/60, the routine practice of hearing the alarm sound at school and everyone takes designated hiding places underneath their desks, teachers go up and down the aisles critiquing each student, Debbie, head lower, Paul, don’t look up.

It sounds silly today, but in the early 60’s everything was observed, rated, and reported. As I recall, I was very good, my head buried into my crotch not looking up. I should have thought way back then; this felt really wrong.

We were practicing for the inevitable Russian nuclear offensive, hiding underneath a cheap desk was a technique designed to save you. But it was 1959 and the destructive nature of an atomic bomb was clearly not understood by school officials. At any rate it was part of the culture at the time, to do nothing was not an option.

This allows conspiracy and fear to take hold, the baby boom generation faces each day with a new conspiracy or grand scheme of worldwide domination or destruction. This primes most people to incorporate conspiracy as part of their nature. My second point, global warming came into being in the 1970’s with ominous predictions from the scientific and government communities that the earth was under an incredible attack by nature. Many scientific officials predicted the earth would cease to exist within ten to fifteen years. You cannot hide under your desk from nature. Something had to be done.

What was done sent gas prices sky high, I really wish I had invested in Exxon, (named Esso), at the time. This is a good example of rebranding, escape bad press with a name change.

The price of gas skyrocketed past one dollar for the first time. By the way it seems the scientists and government officials were wrong about the earth dying because of global warming, so far at least. It’s been over forty years since the first predictions and counting. Of course the math could be a little wrong. This was a reality moment for me.

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