Although the Eggo’s won the Super Bowl, and it was incident-free for an attending president, Life will not veer too much of the projected path into the Future.
For one, we are still facing a mountain of issues with the ever-compounding National Debt, and this is despite the best efforts of DOGE to track down where the money has been going and how it has to some extent been used (funneled) into left-wing causes by a co-opted Deep State.
No, we don’t say that lightly. There are sources: Kristi Noem Accuses FBI of Leaking ICE Raids. And the pressure is continuing to edge up for the cartel/weed supplier class in northern Mexico as US spy planes hunt for intel on Mexican drug cartels as surveillance flights surge near border.
Still, the Left (and Deep State) are trying (kinda like KC) to organize a defense. While Trump continues to “run the options” like buying Greenland and Trump says he is serious about Canada becoming 51st state in Super Bowl interview. One can almost see another fake-out/option play as ‘Rip the waste out’: Trump vows to abolish pennies in late-night rant. Trump is known not to drink. Can the left even IMAGINE what would happen if 47 took to hitting the sauce?
All this as Canada tries to grapple with how to organize after a despotic anti-freedom left-wing government of TrueDopes, it seems to us that Trump is both having a good time and throwing flags to distract the left while the important job of mapping of the Deep State is ongoing. Expect more wholesale disassembly before the month is out.
Message in Prisoner Ratios?
A few minutes of “brain clicks” were spent over the weekend eyeing international news flows. But, after backing out all stories containing the word Trump, there was only a trickle. Trump seems to be saving (complexity-driven failing mainstream) media singlehandedly.
Still, as Israeli Troops Pull Back from Key Corridor Bisecting Gaza, we notice a little inequality in how Three Israeli hostages exchanged for 183 Palestinian prisoners as Gaza ceasefire continues. Strikes us as odd, disingenuous, dishonest, and cowardly that the American leftist (Soros supported, Deep State) Left didn’t hold out for parity. All souls weigh the same, kind of thing.
Seems to us that prisoner exchanges should always be one-for-one. When they are not, it screams that the conflict is not over; and that the Left is carrying on its dishonest/crooked way of viewing things. If they understood “equality” it would de-fang their rebellious comrades, and the inequality ratio screams it is a crooked deal from the get-go. Values-based policy is kind of novel, to ’em, though…
Investing: MTI
This is a simple concept before we get into the financial end deeply. MTI – Marking Markets To Inflation. Which explains why – after Friday’s pregame panic – we see the future’s up a schmear – and with this being a Bank Settlement week, a run-up to Wednesday and then a drawdown might be coming.
Consider last month’s Options expiration: Our Peoplenomics Aggregate stood on Thursday, Jan. 16th, at 50,935.37. And priced at early Futures today, we’re around 52.034.43. What’s worse is we have a week from this Thursday to go.
See the problem? Our Aggregate is up – in a single month – call it 2.157 percent. And that pushes out to an annualized growth rate of (sit down, hold onto something!): 29.2 percent.
Yeah, sure, we like the idea of real growth, but, um….30 percent per year? Uh-huh: The Developer-in-chief is talking a good game and all. BUT inflation is pernicious now because we are not even keeping up with the compounding effects on the Federal Debt. It will take a serious “burning down of obligations” to keep the financial inflation disaster from washing over us no matter what.
We just have to get to the core “How do we renounce it?” part. One way is via inflation. Pay the bills back with funny money. Which could fit into noticing that Gold has popped well over $2,900 and silver is knocking on $33.
Tomorrow, we expect a LOT of air to come out of the Bubble as Fed Boss Jerome Powell goes up the Hill. And let’s not overlook Bank Settlement Day – which we find close to major market moves now-and-again, could pop as well.
And since Wall St. is not known for “showing the love” to anyone but those in the Bone-Us pool, a nice day to begin the next wave down would almost be predictable with Valentine’s Day coming Friday.
Oh, and Bitcoin’s in on the Mark To Inflation deal at some level, too: $97,389 =- which for “secret numbers made up by computers” (who knew this could be monetized? Seems ever so slightly irrational event to write it) could be construed as having any value beyond fertilizer. As in bullshit.
One disclosure to keep in mind: We have been warning of the Digital Ponzi world for 10-years. And no, we didn’t get the Fauci-ouchies, either. This is a plane of existence where you gotta walk your talk, though again, a rather novel concept to most.
Rambling Gambling Man
Ought to be handles on the RSS feed readers like there are on the slots…
Can someone remind brother Joe that half of people are below average IQ’s? See, that would explain Joe Rogan Slams Media for Ignoring USAID Bombshells as Musk’s DOGE Exposes ‘Massive Amounts of Corruption and Waste’.
Speaking of the Money Machines: Republican Releases “Concerning” Findings After Accusing, Subpoenaing Major Democratic Fundraiser For Money Laundering.
Yet Somehow, the Dems keep up with their child-mutilation campaign: Dems Oppose Trump’s Order Protecting Children From Gender Mutilation.
Other than Football, know what else Sunday was? Rapid Response 47 on X: “HAPPY GULF OF AMERICA DAY!
So why is ANY form of racism OK? All has to do with liberals, see? They are killing White people in South Africa. Which isn’t the lingo used in the left-owned mainstream, but there you go.
Cost of Government waste? Treasury Employees Estimate Fraud in Entitlement Payments at $50 Billion Annually. Brace for more pant-wetting and tears flowing as Elon Musk’s DOGE Gains Access to FEMA Systems, Immediately Blocks “Potential Illegal Payments”. Wisely, he didn’t say which ones…which makes “protest organizing” a lot harder, there, George, doesn’t it?
Trade War continues to come up to a fast simmer: China imposes retaliatory tariffs on $14bn worth of US goods. Retail sales figures are due Friday – are people stocking up in advance of pass-through hikes? And tell me you don’t swallow that stuff about how retailers “have to mark up the taxes and tariffs, too” crap? Come on, fellow American Dopes – that’s just an excuse to jack up prices!
At the Ranch: National Hangover Day, Skip Day Gone
Here in the woods, we suffered through the first half of LIX with plates of spiral-cut honey ham, Alfredo, and followed with a slice of apple pie. Even though Ure himself is doing Keto, there’s a deal about “skip days” and I am the master of timing.
If you don’t need keto/intermittent fasting (I hate you), here’s the drill:
“Keto skip days, also known as keto cycling, are days when you eat more carbohydrates than you would normally on the keto diet. The goal is to make the keto diet more manageable while still retaining some of its benefits. “
OK, why not have “skip days” every day?
“Whether you should have one or two “skip days” a week on keto depends on your individual goals, fitness level, and how your body responds to the diet; most experts recommend sticking to just one planned “cheat day” per week if you choose to incorporate them, as having more than that could significantly disrupt your progress and make it harder to maintain ketosis; consult a healthcare professional before making any major dietary changes. “
Gotta tell you, I have fallen in love with A.I. – finding (at almost age 76) that it’s up there with the meaningful “power tools” that has made this go-round through life so enjoyable.
The other tools that stepped-up life were an original HP-110C laptop in 1983, Lotus 1-2-3 which came preinstalled with a word processor, sailboats big enough to live on, Porsche pancake 6-cylinder engines, and 3-500z (tube) linear amplifiers. A.I. has now made this esteemed list.
This being National Hangover day: Starbucks is giving away free coffee this morning. I wouldn’t go too heavy (though the price-point is great) because what you want to do for a hangover is change out fluids. So before coffee, try 16-30 oz of water, a multi-vite, one ibuprofen (don’t over do it, even if it’s OTC), and get some food rolling especially proteins and some fat. Stay off the sauce for a couple of days.
Main thing is hydrate, hydrate, hydrate. And remember how your head hurts for later reference in Life.
Elaine and I had exactly one drink each – which sounds “fuddy-duddy”. Or it did Sunday going into the end of the first half of LIX. Today, though, we are geniuses (which you won’t find in KC today…).
Other Skip Day fun was doing a Morse code contact with reader Mike and a voice contact with KW1B…and taking a short nap while onboarding Youtube videos… Not a bad weekend at all.
Plan Ahead for Friday: NO!!! Do not go out and kill seven people. That’s been done. Try something more refined: I may fly in five pounds of dungeness crab meat. Or a bottle or two of bubbly – we haven’t done that for a while. Perfume is always a hit. Prime rib works, too. Candle light, soft music…
The hardest part of being married 25-years is trying to recall obscure adventures to regale that haven’t been told before. Down to things still covered by clearance debriefings and NDAs. Real “eyes glaze over” things.
Topical humor is another route to the boudoir, but with what’s funny anymore? (rimshot) Which then gets us to dancing and I’ve always had two left feet.
So, how about them perfumes on Amazon?
Write when you blow zeroes,
George@Ure.net
There is a fairly new craft. You glue tiny shiny squares on a colored sheet using a “stick”. Alot of the colored squares are glittery. There are small picture sets and little round coasters that look like cats, as well as huge poster like pictures. I’m told they are quite fast, fun and simple to make. I wonder if Elaine might enjoy an easy new craft. A set of coasters are reasonable on Amazon.
or perhaps there are 180 Palestinian hostages for every 3 Israeli hostages. I guess the Palestinian hostage have been eating Rib-Eyes with all the fixins since you don’t see any photos of them looking lean. Or I just haven’t seen any. Great that we are apparently sending MOABs over as well ………..doesn’t smell right ….
There’s something fishy about everything, these days.
Problem is the Israeli hostages are all noncombatants, mostly women & children. The Pal hostages are all combatants. Islam does not value individuals. Hamas, Hezbollah, the PLO, or any other regional Islamic “organization” (past, present, or future – choose your poison) would not surrender one Israeli teenager for a thousand Palestinian teenagers — they only trade for fighters. Palestinians are typically returned to Hamas weighing the same or more than when they were captured. Israelis are typically returned to the IDF weighing between 30% and 50% less than before they were captured.
What could the IDF do with a MOAB? I would flood the entire Strip. Flood the tunnels, flood the vents. The cockroaches can come out of their tunnels, or they can asphyxiate. Then, too, I would have written off the Jewish hostages a year ago and killed a thousand for every dead Jew — ‘cept the ones I killed would reside in Tehran, not the Strip.
What I don’t understand is we’ve been meddling for 75 years and throwing the “two state solution” at every meeting. No matter what anyone says, neither the Israelis nor the Palestinians want, nor will accept a “two state solution.” The Israelis do not want a murdering army on their rear flank, and so close they can lob howitzer shells from northern Gaza into downtown Tel-Aviv. The Palestinians do not want any Jews to live, period.
“US spy planes hunt for intel on Mexican drug cartels”
The Digital ID solves many problems. Trump talks about the penny but why have cash at all? Who still uses cash but for a novelty – it’s unnecessary. Recall the olden office days before email and seeing boxes of paper stacked everywhere. And what was before that – mimeographs and bottles of ammonia stinking up the place? Those days were shit-canned for digital forms. We can what if to death but….
It’s the same with medical records, employment records, all records.
We still need the 1/100th placeholder of a penny, but we don’t need physical money. “What if?” Yes, obstacles and solutions. Musk kept the Ukies online during war and will be able to keep digital payments going during grid downs. OR the next Musk will.
What no cash is great . If I can get cash I dont gotta pay taxes on it. cash is good. Cash is the best way to commit crimes and who wants taxes. Unlike bitcoin that can be traced anywhere.
Like Trump points out physical money has become expensive to maintain in the overall monetary system.
In simple terms think about your personal Rolodex. Does anyone maintain duplication using physical cards or are all contacts digitized and in one place.
I understand paying cash and pulling one over on the man but that’s negligible in the overall system. Trump has it right.
Speak for yourself. I ALWAYS pay in cash, when dealing with a local business. I’m grown up enough that most people with whom I deal are people with whom I have some level of friendship. Why would I want to punish a friend by forcing him or her to give away $37 of every $1000 I pay for a good or service?
No.
I’d much rather get up off my ass, go to the bank, and pull out cash (which costs me nothing) to pay a bill in cash, so my friend or acquaintance doesn’t have to pay a VISA or MC transaction fee of 3.4-3.7%. It costs me the same amount, either way. I’d just rather not screw a friend…
Ray
February 11, 2025 at 06:56
…I’d much rather get up off my ass, go to the bank, and pull out cash (which costs me nothing) to pay a bill in cash, so my friend or acquaintance doesn’t have to pay a VISA or MC transaction fee of 3.4-3.7%. It costs me the same amount, either way. I’d just rather not screw a friend…
RIGHT ON!! tHIS IS THE CORRECT MINDSET. Thanks Ray for this proper perspective regarding “money”. Come on America, let’s make cash great again. What one does with cash is private business. Let’s keep it that way. If cash is used for illegal purpose, it can still be confiscated under RICO statutes. Otherwise, it is no one’s business but yours.
Cash has no enemies, let’s be friends.
In defense of credit cards:
1. You lose nothing if they are stolen or breached.
2. If a merchant screws you, you have a recourse.
3. They greatly ease currency conversions. (On my last trip to Sweden and the UK I converted zero krona and only about 100 pounds. I no longer use a money belt but keep spare cards well hidden.
4. The privacy breaches facilitated by the cards are largely do-able by other means. Assume your Social Security numbers and medical insurance data are “out there” already for anyone willing to pay the price. I’m assuming non-users of cards are found by car warranty, medical insurance, and medical device phone scams just the way I am.
5. For geezers the travel insurance benefits of premium cards (e.g. $300-$550/year) can save thousands of dollars per year on purchasing travel insurance that can cost 15-20% of trip cost for those of us north of 80.
6. Picking cards carefully can partially compensate for surcharges for using cards. For example at a gas station where the cash price is $2.99 and card price is $3.09, the 5% Sam’s Mastercard rebate more than pays for the difference. The VISA issued by my brokerage gives a 2% rebate on all purchases. My brokerage card rebates me 2% on all purchases and my credit union has a similar deal.
That said, I live in a hurricane zone and always keep enough cash in hurricane season to “get out of Dodge.”
Local restaurants now have signs posted at the register informing customers that there will be a “4% Convenience Fee” added to the bill if credit card is used.
Thumbs up to Ray.
I’m very suspicious of anyone promoting a cashless society.
It only benefits the bankers and the watchers.
Stu’s latest post is one of his best and I 100% agree with his take re: the ET influence on humanity. You can’t begin to understand what is really influencing our gov leaders actions without factoring in the ets and the technology they have been hiding for decades. The tremendous efforts the gov puts into hiding this truth is massive, to the death massive. I’ve been saying this for decades to any who will listen.
Thank you Stu for making me feel smart for a couple minutes.
(“It only benefits the bankers and the watchers.”)
I actually considered that..I thought FIAT currencies… its like a book..I love the smell of the ink and glue the feel of the page beneath my fingers..but…we as a nation is bankrupt.. we can survive if …DOGE..
I love the seal.. would love to find a dogs bobble head…
https://techstartups.com/2025/01/21/doge-gov-us-department-of-government-efficiency-doge-launches-official-website-with-dogecoin-logo/
my only issue is two words used..
government and efficiency in the same line..
but what I considered is ..rebuild what was destroyed then go cashless.. BN says it and in a way it does make sense.. default give an exchange rate similar to the exchange rate of the twa stocks I once owned.. witch was something like ten million to a cent and toss the federal reserve bank and all the fiat currencies to the winds..
Cash survives power failures, internet failures, and natural disasters. It’s the way to make deals, and it remains total closure, with no clawbacks, chargebacks, or any other nonsense. A handshake and greenbacks, and you’re done! I pay all my bills with cash except for those at a distance. I’d much rather trust a wad of cash than a bank that can close arbitrarily. Sure, cash isn’t perfect, but it’s the best money we have for everything other than a store of value.
Cash will not survive an EMP or other grid hard-down. It WILL survive several weeks longer than digital currencies, because it will be a medium of exchange as long as people either believe it has value, or can hold it in their hands.
The fallacy of the bank or the Bitcoin is, if the grid goes away for a week, BITLITEDOGEETHERIUM etc. will be just fine and your money will still be in your bank. But in the event of either a natural or Man-made EMP, the grid will be gone for years, which means it will be gone forever. Within a couple weeks, everybody who’s still around and not in a hidey-hole is going to be committing every crime there is, just to stay alive. Not a single person, anywhere, is going to be trying to boot a computer or put it on a network.
The Reagan recession.. there were no jobs.. I got the one at the cabinet shop.. by filling out an application every day…in the break room..what got me the job was all the factory workers complaint about why I got so many breaks and they couldnt..
ten hours a week full time..I did day labor six jobs just to survive traded my plate making skills to etch mirrors in trade for food..steam cleaned blood tanks that traveled from new Mexico to the wastelands round trip.. you opened the pitcock drained the maggots out..then crawled inside to first wash that stinky residue then steam clean them.. ( I submitted it to the dirtiest jobs with mike Rowe.. funny he wouldn’t do that one ) scraped the fat off the hides of road kill so the firs could be processed..some nasty shit there..
in greece.. women were selling time with their bodies and the elderly dumpster diving.. it took years before they realized their skills and what they had was the true wealth..
Thankfully not much of my life was lost to watching the game since I said I would leave upon the 3rd mention of TS which occurred roughly halfway through the 1st quarter.
Diana and I celebrated 40 years last September. V day for us the past 10 or 15 years has been mostly trying to go someplace nice for dinner which involves a couple of hours drive time since living out where the busses don’t run doesn’t give a lot of choices locally. And maybe some small trinket. Diana’s aunt passed away yesterday morning so today we, actually I have just been sitting here, have been going through several boxes of photo albums looking for pics for the visitation and mass which is now set for V day a 4 hour drive from the ranch. I mentioned we could find someplace nice for dinner down there but she tells me just sitting on the floor looking through all these old photos is the best V day present she could ask for.
Stay safe. 73
I appreciate TS for her body and her business acumen but not much else.
Game? There was a game?
The first slap at Charles Schwab
One of the biggest share holders of Schwab is TD Bank and TD Bank Group announced it plans to sell all its equity investment in the brokerage company.
Schwab stock declined 2.8% to $80.82 in trading Monday.
Currently, TD Bank holds 184.7 million shares, or a 10.1% economic ownership, of Schwab’s common stock.
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I mentioned a few days ago that Schwab had financially aligned itself with Trump., and there may be some serious fall-out for doing so. This total sell-out of equity from a major bank could be in-line with that “fall-out”. [ There is no such thing as “coincidence”., especially when it comes in the form of hundreds of millions of dollars. ]
So many people just don’t like Trump, and you run a serious risk when you openly support, or align yourself with him.
I did not watch the Super Bowl.., wasn’t really interested. “The Mrs” did.., said that most of the commercials weren’t very good., an was glad that KC got stomped.
I was ensconced on the couch with a couple of notebooks and my work laptop – working on a new distribution math model [ for Bitcoin ] to see if I could / can figure out the down-side limit – just how far down it may drop. A couple of teases, but no conclusion. The main problem may be, that there is no limit. There is no equity to support these imaginary numbers. So.., a guess is probably just as good as a math formula. A $100.., $0.00 ? Right now, I have no way to determine, or project it.
As of ten minutes ago – Bitcoin $ 97,110
(“Still, the Left (and Deep State) are trying (kinda like KC) to organize a defense.”)
Did you notice how aggressively the Admin hit the ground running.. dodge is digging in and reporting how much they have uncovered..
government is not a fast acting group.. Congress that refuses to even acknowledge they know anything that’s happening.. and the correct political speech..
https://youtu.be/07w9K2XR3f0?si=_bEIQwUgNMDcw-oJ
between days off and holidays nothing is ever done..hell they are still running on issues that were around when I was a little boy.. with the mountain of evidence on the corrupt activities of the family business..they left for months.. during and congress in session all you will see is A few paper shuffles the rest gone..
trumps smart.. they were so tired after the what five or six days they had to show up..that they were eager for the month off.. he hit them fro. every angle.. while trying to deflect on one side he’s hitting them from another and another then reporting it with receipts to the American people..
on the other hand..all those newspaper articles reporting suspected criminal pedophile satanic groups..heck when an agency man reported about the sacrifices in the USA per year he was quieted real quick died some mugging or robbery..( sounds familiar doesn’t it.. but those are over someone else that was to have others give testimony over)
or the satanic pedo group in the northeast..with photos and some of them even bragging.. the whole thing vanished as fast as the laptop and illegal server and cell phones did..
which is what has me curious..no one stuck around to work the problems last year..it was business as usual.. with all the miss management and abuse of the peoples money now. literally coming from every direction at once..will they all shuffle off like they did over the family business..or stick around and try to control what the people find out.. now trump can’t fix the disease of lack of cash and the compounding interest on a deficit that’s interest is running away.. I don’t know how he can slow that.. other than some oligarchs that use the American people to go steal it for them.. its in their best interest to just pay it off..they are not interested in doing that..they only take..but going belle up will destroy their financial world and propel Bric’s to the lead roll of finances.. losing their position of power has never happened in thousands of years.. this has to have them pissed off big time..
We’re done highlighting the disadvantages of applying the Ned Ludd ideology of money in today’s TradFi world.
https://www.kitco.com/news/article/2025-01-31/lbma-says-its-working-comex-us-gold-price-premium-insists-london-stocks-and
In other words: you will need to wait for your money until the 2% growth in gold mining supply catches up to your demand settlement….. that’s called bankrupt on paper home gamers.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JFwCiQVjAfE
Bitcoin = built in fixed supply and there is only 5% of the supply left to mine, that would be 1M bitcoins . Interesting number.
Last time I checked , I couldn’t take my gold bars with me in my carry on luggage…
https://content.trezor.io/trezor-safe-family#trezor-safe-3
Got blockchain.
My aggregate index – “Carnac the Magnificent” is up only 3.31% YTD.., my modified MACD is still flat-lined, but now touching.., and overall, is holding above it’s 42 DMA [ which is slowly trending down ].., and slightly above center for the Bollinger Bands. As an overall view – not much has changed since Friday’s drop.
It appears that A.I. has once again taken the spotlight – tens of billions being offered and invested into expansions and start-ups., and new chips. Saudi Arabia is investing billions into a new chip manufacturing start-up company.
Microstrategy [ now just “Strategy” ] bought even more Bitcoin over the week end – taking their digital empire to over $45.4 billion. Question: With the math distribution model showing that Bitcoin has probably reached it’s high on this cycle and will start turning down in price. How far it will go down is a large question – but, what happens to all billions that ‘Strategy’ now holds in Bitcoin ? And if Bitcoin drops waaaaay down.., ??
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Question: Could all of this Trump-ism and tariffs and freezes – cause stagflation?
(“Yet Somehow, the Dems keep up with their child-mutilation campaign: Dems Oppose Trump’s Order Protecting Children From Gender Mutilation.”)
that disturbs me!
what kind of parent could do that is beyond comprehension .. So a toddler picks up his teddy bear or a doll and instantly instead of seeing them as being compassionate and caring..of he’s a girl or she’s a boy.. lets rip their bodies apart and treat them like a sex they are not.. baffles the crap out of me..every one of the kids has had a stuffed toy or doll that they played with everyone of them has played with toy cars bulldozers and here guns..
the kids all play a game on it there’s a Shoulder missile launcher ..
https://i.ytimg.com/vi/VXCsHOQGPTE/maxresdefault.jpg
last year I was going to build the kids a toy replica plasma missile launcher..
the cool light as the plasma burst flips around the outside to shoot a pool noodle missile at targets..I thought dam that would be cool the kids would enjoy it flash wow.. and maybe fun enough so they don’t buy fireworks..
the wife says what you doing..I tell her and she says no your not toss that away..remember when you… enough said.. it would still be fun to do simple enough lol lol lots of flash wow.. but wisdom of the little lady overrides an old mans evil garage science gadgets lol
Nein,nein,nein -Gritologists hear on urban do not accept Plasma/Plasma Science. Aether” does not Exist to these folks.
Let alone Zeropoint NRG
Back under Ure Eistienian science rock with the rest of luddites.
Right when you find Ure 100% Copper Lincoln Cent stash.
Lol lol lol..I was thinking about the light spectacular and children watching it in action lol lol lol..
the wife stopped me from being an idiot though..they built a gorgeous library st the new school.. I was sitting there reading while the grandson was at practice and said so are you planning on a rail ladder they hablar 20 ft shelves..the librarian and I are friends..she said ..maybe you should reconsider that suggestions..high school kids and a rolling ladder.. lol lol yes your right maybe put some bowls and flowers up there trinkets..
I was terrified after I showed them the power of the sun .. they was melting everything.. so we went so solar cooling instead..lol lol
the problem I had with that was I had to fill the cooler with ice..otherwise it would freeze the beer and soda..
Sooper-Dooper Bowl thoughts:
1) The pre-game show started at 6pm. It reminded me of Phil Spector’s “wall of sound” concept — only for the eye. Never before has so very much active moving CGI Krappe been crammed onto The Small Screen. It was SO busy, I got a kind of breathless claustrophobia. Over-produced in the extreme.
2) The half-time show was mostly incomprehensible to me. (I’m 80.) It seemed annoying.
3) The Commercials were mostly unremaekble. I don’t understand why somebody would put up around 7 to 8 million to run any of them. Uninspired,
4) The game itsekf was pretty dull.
Big Waste Of Time. (To me. Maybe you thought it was all pretty Fabulous.)
73
“Besides the game of football itself; most viewers tune in for the commercials and the illustrious Super Bowl Halftime Show. Artists are used by the Illuminati due to their natural ability to get their minds into another realm. This altered state is similar to the ones utilized by ceremonial magicians to contact extraterrestrial entities.”
https://illuminatiwatcher.substack.com/p/super-bowl-an-analysis-of-the-occult
The only good commercial for me was the Budweiser ad, but it only ran once. We kept waiting to see it again … but alas I guess at $14 mil a minute they decided one buy was enough.
fwiw Tubi had the game in 4k for free (via my Roku box) and I will say the 4k picture was MUCH better than the regular over the air picture (720p). If it didn’t cost so much, I am a cheap bastard, I would sign up for 4k for all my Roku feeds. (only pay for the most basic Peacock feed, nothing else for my TV costs other than my $20/mo internet bill)
(“Elaine and I had exactly one drink each – which sounds “fuddy-duddy”)
did you try the beets….
that’s all I ever have..I never liked the feeling of getting buzzed…
the kids want me to have another ..hmmm no lets pretend I did and bring me some coffee.. although I do like bailies in coffee..
1 can of sweetened condensed milk
1 cup of hal f and half
1 tbsp vanilla
1 cup of whiskey or vodka..
now you can make a white chocolate version of this as well..
warm up the half and half as you would in making an Alfredo sauce and melt 1 cup of white chocolate in it ..
mix it all together and bottle it up keep in fridge..
This recent 15 minute video may help someone decide the benefits or not of drinking alcohol even in smaller quantities. I am not a tea totaller or a member of the Temperance movement but always open to data from someone like this expert.
I grew up in an alcoholic family and saw the damage first hand. I expect there are outliers like a grandfather who drank a bottle of Jack Daniel every day until he died at 102 doing crossword puzzles but maybe worth knowing what the current science says about the measured brain impact.
https://youtu.be/lWItmmunbvQ?feature=shared
Oh yeah.. I get that got a child that has suffered from being an alcohol poisoning..
President Donald Trump has ordered the U.S. Treasury to stop minting pennies.
That came after Elon Musk and DOGE made the coin a focus of negative attention for wasteful spending.
There are currently 114 billion pennies in circulation, or $1.14 billion, or 0.006% of U.S. money, and economists say the impact should be minimal, and it could take decades for the currency to truly disappear, but it’s not wholly without potential inflationary and pricing changes.
I should think there’s be a lot more than that. We’ve been striking pennies at a rate of about 9bln/yr for about 50 years now. We went from bronze to zinc in 1982 (’82 had both solid “copper” and “copper” plated zinc pennies but I’ve never seen the mint numbers for each). After 1982, IMO there’s no penny with any numismatic value except double-strikes and clipped planchets, and doped with bronze, the zinc pennies aren’t even worth a penny to the smelter because they’d be a PITA to clean…
Next will be nickels then dimes then quarters etcetcetc CBDC
They will axe nickels, or at least change their composition. Nickel is a “rare Earth” when it comes to current tech. I would frankly not be surprised if a Jefferson nickel weren’t worth more to the smelter than a half-dollar coin.
The estimated cost of making a penny, at around three cents, is an economic burden, “because millions vanish under couch cushions each year, the U.S. Mint must produce a steady stream of replacements.”
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Canada eliminated the penny in 2013 – with little to no impact.
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As a collectors’ item – the value of pennies should climb., especially those that are already have a collector’s value.
The copper plated zinc tokens are crap! Dissimilar ‘battery’ metals, they dissolve under the weakest acidic conditions. Anything since 1982 is not long-term survivable nor collectible, IMO. They will be the first to disappear.
George wrote:
“Seems to us that prisoner exchanges should always be one-for-one.”
Since Israel holds literrally THOUSANDS of Palestinians as prisoners (Israel with 5x the population compared to the Palestinian population of Gaza and the West Bank holds about 9,500 Palestinians by current reports with the Palestinians holding about 100 Israeli’s) so are you arguing that Hamas should hold THOUSANDS MORE Israelis as prisoners if they want some of the thousands of Palestinian prisoners Israel holds released?
Interesting ….
Trump now says that Palestinians will NOT be allowed to return to their land in Gaza once the US takes over Gaza for rebuilding, but doesn’t say WHERE they will go. Umm…. sounds more and more like Trump is pushing the “Greater Israel” goals of the radical settler groups. The stated goals of the Camp David accord appear to be in the final stage of being flushed down the drain without a fig leaf left to cover the reality of what Israel is/has been doing since that agreement was signed.
Missing in action – Ure intelligence seems to be..denied king bibi did orange jesus,,denied the go ahead on Attacking Iran – DENIED !
Multi-Level planning requires multi level thinking, usually helps to think backwards..or not. Ure results may vary.
G, your whatfinger article misses some key facts:
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/south-africa-racist-white-farmers-trump-musk-genocide-ramaphosa-rcna190749
According to South African government data from 2022, around 7% of the population of South Africa is white.
But, in a hangover from the country’s apartheid system of white minority rule that ended 30 years ago, white farmers own approximately three-quarters of South Africa’s land.
In addition, South Africa’s white working population earns nearly three times the average wage of Black workers, according to 2022 World Bank figures.
In the past, Elon Musk has also criticized South Africa’s affirmative action business laws. His internet satellite company Starlink was denied a license in South Africa because it didn’t meet the affirmative action criteria. Musk did not respond to NBC News’ request for comment on which laws he sees as racist.
While white South Africans have been subject to violence and murder, there is no official data to suggest that they are disproportionately attacked in a country with a high crime rate.
In 2023, a little under 300 white-owned farms were attacked across South Africa, with 49 people killed in those attacks, according to figures from AfriForum, a lobby group representing Afrikaners, some 6.9 million South Africans of mainly Dutch descent who own a large proportion of farmland.
Sorry, I forgot you don’t do facts on this blog, only your preferred fear mongering fantasies….
There are companies that cater to small batch chemistry that do big money business. For example in Huntsville AL is a small nondescript building without signs of logos that has stockpiles of gold, silver, platinum and other high dollar precious metals, Engelhard, that makes chemical catalysts.
I interviewed while at Tuscaloosa over 45 year ago with a company in that category whose products were in the “flavors and fragrances” category. There are several that all work with isolating natural substances, animal, vegetable, and mineral, and combining them in ways that make humans react in subtle ways. These are pretty complicated and I am watching to see what RFKjr does to the category. Beet futures are going up if he gets rid of all the red dyes that Europe has already banned.
To give an example of how involved the processes are, consider the best at the time strawberry flavor, undetectable to all but the most sensitive “noses” in the business consisted of 7 ingredients while natural strawberry’s flavor consisted of a few hundred different ingredients.
And consider we are talking about very minute quantities. For example only a “femtogram” of deisel in a gallon of water will foul it so to be undrinkable. Most human noses can detect on that level. Think of the world your dog lives in.
My often bashed rugby-player nose was not near sensitive enough for the industry, and I was a chronic hay fever sufferer, but i was great at chromatographic separations. Ah, what might have been.
But even in college my gun collection was too big for any closet in NY City and that is where the industry is located.
“For example only a “femtogram” of deisel in a gallon of water will foul it so to be undrinkable.”
And I have seen that firsthand. In Greenland on the ice cap, our drinking water came from melting snow. The snow melters operated on diesel. Snow was shoveled from alongside the trail where diesel tractors had been running. It’s a terrible thing to see 50 men fighting over the restroom. Hope I never go through that (or it through me) again!
Gee, I hope not, since my water contains about 10 billion times that amount of crude oil, not to mention the iron and H2S…
Perfumes/scents are tricky.
I usually wear Versace or Calvin Klein. When I gift perfume if I don’t know her scent I give Calvin Klein. Estée Lauder Pleasures has been a hit from me. It’s tricky.
Oh my…… I think I had this mulled wine once…good a little to much cinnamon but it sounds delicious..
Russian peasants wine
1 bottle of cheap red wine sweet or semi-sweet, but not dry
1 orange cut into two halves (leave the skin on)
1 lemon
12 cloves whole
3 cinnamon sticks
pinch of nutmeg
sugar to taste
50 mls of cognac or brandy
For G.A.Stewart:
Your latest post on your website attacks me personally as a ‘conspiracy theorist’ who denies the existence of Directed Energy Weapons, such as… specifically… ‘Blue Lasers from Space’ . With George’s tolerance, I am posting my reply to you here, publicly, for all to read. I know you read this site.
First: I do NOT deny that Directed Energy Weapons exist. They Do. Note that they are all Ground-based, and relatively short range usefulness. Note especially the amount of driving power needed to drive a beam of sufficient intensity to cause destructive effects at it’s target. So demonstrating such ground-based systems is not relevant to the argument of ‘Blue Lasers from Space’. They are NOT equivalent systems.
I am aware that you have rocketry experience. Ground based also. That does not necessarily make you an expert in orbital mechanics… nor in electromagnetic propagation. As it happens, I DO have direct, lifetime experience in trans-atmospheric propagation, both as an amateur radio operator and as a professional satellite communications engineer. My RF propagation experience, extends thru VHF, UHF, C-band, and X-band electromagnetic frequencies. I have personally observed and worked with the disruptions that geomagnetic storming and CME impacts that affect these frequencies. As recently as 2022 I have spoken to the ISS commander on vhf/uhf systems. His UHF downlink to me was momentarily clear as possible, and seconds later faded to non-intelligible… only to return again seconds later. Such are the effects of geomagnetic storming at UHF frequencies. For optical laser frequencies the atmospheric attenuations and disruptions are even worse. Showing pictures of little low-power green lasers in orbit sprinkling mapping pulses to the ground over Hawaii are in no way indicative of the supposed capability of a burning, destructive laser in orbit with the alleged capability of starting a fire on the ground, through some 180 miles of atmospheric attenuation and optical disruption that precludes any possibility of intensity focus on the ground.
I would presume a smart guy like you is familiar with the Inverse-square law of electromagnetic propagation. A coherent laser beam is not immune to that law of physics.
But let’s suppose for argument’s sake that 180-some miles of atmosphere is optically crystal clear. Then let’s suppose that a laser system of sufficient power could generate enough power to drive a beam for 180 miles to arrive at the ground with sufficient power to start a fire… let alone enough power to melt mag wheels on vehicles as seen in Lahaina. How much power would it take to drive such a DEW laser? You’re a smart guy. Do the math. There is not a ground based mobile power plant available for a 180 mile-reach DEW laser. It is in the order of Megawatts… possibly Terawatts. If there are no ground based systems this powerful, there are certainly no such nuclear reactors of such power capability in orbit. There in lies your ‘blind spot’ to this conspiracy theory.
That is the crux of my argument. Power systems of the capability to drive ‘blue lasers from space’ to start fires on the ground simply do not exist ‘in orbit’. So, now… who is the ‘conspiracy theorist’?
I was in Lahaina Sunday and last year to help and the years before the fire , Lahaina is in a desert environment, think 10 inches of rain a year , it was full of older thin wooden buildings and houses all clustered together . There was a wild fire pushed by high winds , we will never really know the cause of the fire but it wasn’t a blue laser from space
February 10, 2025 today is Marilyn’s b’day, we’re enjoying spaghetti with meatballs.
HAPPY B’DAY George! and so manymore.
Thankyou
Vic
re: “Recalibrated Future”, LIX
feat: ‘All roads lead to Rome.’
Folks,
What audibles must have been uttered this past weekend as Air Force One swooped over the Gulf of America delivering a President to Super Bowl LIX at Caesars Superdome. New Orleans considers itself named after its French namesake, a Regent to King Louis XV. However it seems Orléans, France is itself named after that familiar 3rd century Roman Emperor, Aurelian. As seen with the Gulf of America, you should be calling New Orleans ‘Nova Aurelia’ (New Gold). Please recalibrate your dictionaries accordingly.
Also perhaps contrary to popular expectation, KC failed to find the yellow brick road to the gridiron. Swifties must have been inconsolable with Little Red Riding Hood not getting a ring live on the Fox network broadcast. Meanwhile the Artful Doge fed continuous data into the oligarchical algorithm. Hey, the 99% don’t need pennies anymore! Woot! Woot!
As coincidence would have it, today Titans of AI’s alter-ego began their Summit at the Grand Palais situated on Avenue Winston-Churchill in Paris. Attended by Silicon Valley’s Omidyar Group, a former employee of theirs now is President of the AI Collaborative which engineered the AI Action Summit together with France. Today’s main stage itinerary kicked off with “Harnessing AI for the Future of Work”. Naturally the lead speaker is a UK Archbishop and ‘Secretary for the Relations with States’ from The Vatican. One imagines the Legions are mobilizing against the Barbarian tribes of America. Behold the digital trojan horse! Here is a link to the AI Summit:
https://www.elysee.fr/en/sommet-pour-l-action-sur-l-ia/programme
More for G.A.Stewart: From the link you cited in your post:
HELIOS:
“Lockheed Martin delivered the 60-plus-kilowatt laser to the Navy in August 2022, when it became the first tactical laser system to be installed in existing ships.”
“There is also a 150-kilowatt Laser Weapon System Demonstrator, or LWSD, installed on a San Antonio-class amphibious transport ship.”
“The service has faced challenges in developing and implementing directed-energy weapons for myriad reasons, including difficulty determining laser use in the field and concerns the system won’t meet operational needs. Overall tech development, finding a power source aboard ships and potential obstacles presented by the environment, like fog and wind, have also proved challenging.”
https://www.navytimes.com/news/your-navy/2025/02/04/us-navy-hits-drone-with-helios-laser-in-successful-test/
Note: 60kw and 150 kw are nowhere near the power needed for a trans-atmospheric orbital laser. So call me a ‘technical luddite’ all you want.
Why does Trump want to shut down FEMA?
– Digging into their records Trump-Team found that FEMA sent $56 million dollars to luxury hotels in New York City – just last week.
– If true.., shut them down !!
you’re being lied to in order to provide support to cutting FEMA which will end up hurting americans traumatized by disaster. and it’s all going to be used to give the plutocrats tax cuts. wanna bet?
“In 2019, with the number of people coming directly to the southern border climbing dramatically, Congress authorized the federal government to reimburse some of those costs. Those were the first such payments and the beginning of the Shelter and Services Program.
The money comes directly from Congress and is specifically for Customs and Border Protection — also part of the Department of Homeland Security. FEMA administers the payments.
The money is separate from the disaster relief fund, which is FEMA’s main funding stream to help people and governments affected by disasters.
Garcia said the city has never paid luxury rates. The vast majority are outside Manhattan, and the government has paid on average $152 a night for rooms, according to a 2024 city comptroller report. In comparison, 5-star hotels in Manhattan for the coming weekend run from $400 a night to well over $1,000.
The payments of $81 million, Garcia said, covered reimbursements for November 2023 to October 2024, including hotel, security, food, and other costs. She said the city applied in April, the money was appropriated last year by Congress, and FEMA allocated it last year.”
https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/fema-halting-payments-migrant-housing-new-york-after-118670265
Go sneak into mexico or canndida and see where they put you. Jail? Not some The vast majority are outside Manhattan, and the government has paid on average $152 a night for room.
Firckin idiots to pay other than an Ubder to the export flight.
Huh?
“The money is separate from the disaster relief fund, which is FEMA’s main funding stream to help people and governments affected by disasters.”
North Carolina tax paying residents are still living in their cars and tents and drinking contaminated water over 4 months since the hurricane!
“Garcia said the city has never paid luxury rates. The vast majority are outside Manhattan, and the government has paid on average $152 a night for rooms, according to a 2024 city comptroller report. In comparison, 5-star hotels in Manhattan for the coming weekend run from $400 a night to well over $1,000.”
Why in hell are we paying $152 a night accommodation or anything at all for ILLEGAL migrants when tornado devastated Americans are still living in tents middle of the winter??????
Your talking to a liberal…slower. Deep breath….offer him Kool-Aid….
People who come to the US LEGALLY do NOT get ANY government provided housing nor do they get any of the other benefits those coming illegally get!! Nor did the parents of friends of mine who came to the US after WW2 right up through the 1990’s.
* ILLEGALLY entering the country and the US will provide for you (housing, food, spending money, help with job searching)
* LEGALLY entering the country and you are on your own (NO free housing, food, spending money, nor help with finding a job).
WHAT is wrong with that picture?
Oh I totally agree BIC… FEMA wasn’t there fro any emergency my niece that lost everything a simple good luck /and sorry Charlie only special fish get assistance…the idea of a Federal Emergency Management Agency was a good idea..but if they miss manage the funds and can’t seem to find time to visit an area or give assistance to taxpayers funding the what if agency ..it should be closed..The same with usaid.. shut it down…
nez nation has a great piece on this..
https://youtu.be/LFqpf9ty18g?si=6CFxOZpmpNU-18Cj
the Lego do of corruption is astounding half a trillion to programs and departments that have been closed for decades..who’s getting the money.. the relief agencies getting billions and after years somewhere around .02 cents per 100.00 ..tell me that is anywhere near being right and honorable..
(“Why in hell are we paying $152 a night accommodation or anything at all for ILLEGAL migrants when tornado devastated Americans are still living in tents middle of the winter??????”)
or veterans that served thirty years of service refused their retirement funds because over ten years of their deployment was for an agency. then visiting with their senator that assigns their best man that cannot get him his benefits..loses his home forced to live in his car and dies alone in summer heat and not discovered for over two weeks.. no there’s nothing even remotely right about any of that.. he lost everything.. I told him he needed to move his sleeping bag into the dam senators best man evwpers office.
or invite him to sleep in a car at fifty below zero…
(“cutting FEMA which will end up hurting americans traumatized by disaster.”)
your silly or maybe just stupid..if its the later I apologize …I tell the grand kids never demoralize anyone with mental or physical challenges..
FEMA… doesn’t HELP taxpaying citizens.. Ohio that had that horrific spill ..they had to deal with it..they rarely show up..during Katrina they didn’t do a thing thousands of trailers sat empty..
one gent that lived in our spare bedrooms was homeless living in his car because of Katrina and be was considered wealthy.. if his car hadn’t broken down in a nearby city and he had a heart attack I wouldn’t have ever met him..
a drawing board full of college degrees.. the one two punch of fate..
It was ~$59mln — given AFTER FEMA reported they had no money to give to FL,GA,SC,NC,TN,WV for hurricane relief.
The FEMA director is now occupying space in an unemployment line.
Creation of FEMA
President Carter signed Executive Order 12127, effective April 1, 1979, establishing FEMA. Shortly after, in signing Executive Order 12148 on July 20, 1979, President Carter gave the agency the dual mission of emergency management and civil defense.
Being created by an Executive order it can also be eliminated by Executive order.
Prayers all is well. Not like you to not update comments unless there is a problem.
G.A.Stewart wrote:
“There are always those intellectual snobs and doubters who reject Conspiracy Theory. One of my recent favorites are the Blue Lasers From Space critics.”
….
“Fifty-years later, you would have to be a technical luddite if you did not believe that these lasers can now be on satellites orbiting planet Earth.”
[My comment: So your argument is based on a projection of speculative fantasy… with a side of ad-hominem. I’m sorry. I deal with the physics. Calculable science…. Technical luddite that I am.]
https://theageofdesolation.com/nostradamus/2025/02/08/when-the-comet-runs/
Hank:
The technology I personally witnessed 40 years ago would beg to differ, it does exist. The question is who’s technology was it.
So then the argument morphs to ‘the ETs did it’. Clif High says ZPT power technology is coming. I can’t wait to get one of those bread-boxes to power my home, and tell the rip-off power company to FU. Until then, I’m stuck with known physics… technical luddite that I am.
Both Elon Musk and Charlie Kirk are calling for Ron Paul to be the next Chairman of the Federal Reserve
https://x.com/i/status/1889153032245362930
He would be perfect..but isn’t the federal reserve a privately owned banking system..
No, it is a privately-owned bank-management system…
And one which Dr. Paul wants to make go away.
From 3:17 PM · Feb 7, 2025
DOGE is ripping through the federal government like a tornado. This morning it has been reporting that DOGE sent out firing notices to 9,400 USAID employees, leaving only 611.
Democratic politicians are furious, of course. But we hope, that when it’s all said and done, ALL politicians, Democrat AND Republican, are furious with DOGE.
Then we will know that it was a job well done for the American people.
https://x.com/RonPaul/status/1887958967436947551
R, here’s your job well done,
$500 million in food is at spoilage risk due to anal egoism of Trump:
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/usaid-trump-funding-pause-500-million-food-spoilage-risk/
‘The Norwegian Refugee Council, one of the largest humanitarian groups, called the U.S. cutoff the most devastating of any in its 79-year history. It said Monday that it will have to suspend programs serving hundreds of thousands of people in 20 countries.
“The impact of this will be felt severely by the most vulnerable, from deeply neglected Burkina Faso, where we are the only organization supplying clean water to the 300,000 trapped in the blockaded city of Djibo, to war-torn Sudan, where we support nearly 500 bakeries in Darfur providing daily subsidized bread to hundreds of thousands of hunger-stricken people,” the group said in a statement.’
Why isn’t this shit going to American food banks? WTF is wid u people?
George,
c raises interesting lines of inquiry. Perhaps others too are reminded of Seinfeld’s S8 E21, “The Muffin Tops”. Despite do-gooders’ well-intentioned efforts to donate surplus leftover muffin bottoms unwanted by privileged society, they are rejected by a shelter. Shelter clients want muffin tops as well! (Separately, Jerry turns into a werewolf.)
The CBS report author kindly linked above for community benefit by c has a night job as a contributor to the “Nightmare: Horror and Dark Fantasy” publication. Her short story “9 Lies You Tell Yourself about Ghost Hunting” is prefaced with the following reader caution: ‘violence, death and dying, bodily harm, sexism and misogyny’.
Well, with Dr. Jeckyl sharps now in hand, why not disect the NRC (Norwegian Refugee Council) of Oslo kindly served cold by mr. c? The NRC would appear to have begun its good works in 1946 as “Aid for Europe” caring for European WW2 refugees. It underwent surgical rebranding to emerge as NRC in 1953 embarking upon global good works. Allegedly in one breath the NRC is an “independent, private foundation” but in another it is funded by the Norwegian government. NRC’s 15,000+ strong global workforce parents (?) a UN-affiliated subsidiary of sorts, NORCAP (NORwegian CAPacity) with a global workforce of 1,000+. NORCAP dates back to a 1991 Gulf War entity adding siblings in years following. Apparently between 2009 and 2017 NORSTAFF, NORAFRIC, NORMIDEAST, NORASIA, NOROBS, and NORDEM were brought under one umbrella of NORCAP said to be financed by the Norwegian government. I haven’t looked for any annual report documents.
Folks,
It looks like some of the NRC information appearing in the CBS report were copy and pasted off a February 10th statement on the NRC website. Here is a link to the NRC webpage:
https://www.nrc.no/news/2025/february/nrc-forced-to-suspend-essential-aid-work-in-almost-20-countries
This NRC page is most helpful. One can ascertain that the USA (USAid?) is supplying $150 million or 20% of what would appear to be a total budget of $750 million. Overhead is roughly 10% or $75 million.
The NRC address is listed as being 2 Prinzen (Prince’s) Gate, Oslo. This address turns out to be the De-No-Fa Gardens. In this case, the garden is a huge multi-story building that bears DeNoFa signage for the company’s 75 hq employees. The firm apparently dates to 1912 as a producer of cooking oils, and for a time was co-owned with Unilever. DeNoFa became a subsidiary a few years back to Brazil’s Amaggi, one the world’s largest soybean growers. (Currently DeNoFa soy products are sold as rain forest friendly?)
The billionaire second generation scion who led Amaggi became a state governor of Mato Grosso. Previously, he had been honoured in 2006 by Greenpeace with their Golden Chainsaw Award. The award recognizes individuals who are alleged to have most contributed to Amazon deforestation. Subsequently it was alleged that he appeared in the Paradise Papers.
Hopefully our comrade c will continue to point out future philanthropic examples of the 1% making the world a better place using the 99%’s money.
It is thousands of tons of genetically-modified and chemically-doped grain. It makes a wonderful talking point for the shrinking minority of the Left, but is not too relevant, because there’s only a couple dozen countries which will allow it to be unloaded. Even starving illiterates in 3rd World countries are smart enough to not eat the shit we consume.
We buy it from our farmers as a means of stimulating production of garbage food. For the most part, we dump it in the ocean, because people elsewhere would rather starve than eat it…
Or do what Reagan did cheese and peanut butter..
no one wanted the peanut butter..they could not get it that for long storage most of the oil was removed..
Folks,
Russian “Wartime Media” at the following link alleges an emissary from Washington has entered Russian Airspace.
https://t.me/wartimedia/91677
Apparently was Trump’s special envoy to the Middle East who traveled to Moscow in his personal business jet (not a US Govt jet) to pick up the teacher who was serving a 14 year sentence who was released by Russia.
Step one of Trump’s negotiation to end the Russia/Ukraine War.
Welcome home, Mr. School Teacher…
Man what an awesome game. Always a good time to sit and watch some Sunday football. Love it. Go Birds