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Target Package Monday, The Write Stuff, and a Ham Radio Note on HL2

The United States has been sold down the river by our own – mislabeled – “leaders.”

We have (pardon this) all kinds of shit blowing up in the Middle East, and with the GovDown II in process and the whole airline industry on the ropes, the “Fools on the Hill” will be taking a couple of weeks off for Spring/Easter Break.

Must be nice.  But what’s becoming abundantly clear?  They are not public servants.  At least in the same sense as, oh, the ER staff in Hospitals, the po-po’s on the street, the aid buggy cowboys, and the firefighters who have everyone’s back.

The essential difference?  A blind man can see it: Time off, hours on task, right down to the turn out gear they wear.  Dedication to Cause and sorry, I’m not seeing big numbers on the scorecard.

“Continuity of Government” doesn’t mean ensuring the ongoing American pride in Excellence.  It means the lapdogs for the lap-dancers of the Epstein of the world are still looking out for their own asses, instead of the Public Good.

I have faith in the Country and the Constitution, and 90 percent of our Citizens.  But it’s clear why Washington D.C. isn’t a state: It’s not really part of America, here lately.

The guy in the Oval?  Well, for all his faults, at least he’s picking up the load from the lazy: Trump sends ICE agents to airports amid DHS shutdown, TSA staffing crisis.

A “staffing crisis” we note that the crooks on the Hill are making up for personal gain – elections ahead.

No, Country and its People come first.  Or, is that hopelessly under the socialist bus now, too?

Targeting Package Monday

A good starting point – and maybe ending point is Hormuz.

Not only is Iran threatening to mine the Strait, but they also plan to hit water supplies.  Oh, and anything wired to US bases, too. Iran threatens to attack Mideast electrical plants powering US bases | AP News

And if it’s armchair quarterbacking you feel like, give the grey lady a scan: Israel’s Missile Defense Under Scrutiny After Iranian Attack – The New York Times.  After action, everyone lines up to second-guess, right?

Channeling Energy

With headlines of Hormuz rolling (like Donald Trump Sends Bold Ultimatum to Iran Over Strait of Hormuz), a client note from our consigliere points out that Oil and LNG matter, sure.  But few realize the critical OTHER industrial chemicals feeding the global economy via the Straits:

  • Naphtha: REQUIRED for the cracking of oil for both fuel products and other products.
    24% of the world’s supply is now locked up with the Straits being closed (NOT a pipeline transportable product) …60% -80% of Asia’s supply come from inside the Persian Gulf
  • Ethylene Glycol: REQUIRED for making many chemical products including fertilizers. 53% of the world’s supply is now locked up with the Straits being closed (NOT a pipeline transportable product)
  • Methanol: REQUIRED precursor chemical for many chemical production products.31% of the worlds supply now locked up with the Straits being closed (NOT a pipeline transportable product)
  • Styrene: REQUIRED precursor for making many plastics. 34% of the world’s supply now locked up with the Straits being closed (NOT a pipeline transportable product)
  • Also 10% of the world’s supply of Xylenes , another precursor for many chemical processes comes from the Gulf plus40% of the world’s supply of LPG’s (butane /propane – ie: cooking gas in much of the poorer parts of the world).
  • Helium:, 40% of the world’s supply comes out of the Persian Gulf and goes through the Straits. which is a NECESSARY ingredient for a number of industrial products,REQUIRED FOR Integrated Circuit WAFER PRODUCTION (NO helium = NO IC production)

If there’s one – almost archetypal concept – going around the world right now it’s “Squeezed Lines.”

Doesn’t matter if you’re talking TSA delays or critical energy products “Squeezed Lines” is the common meme.

That meme says a lot about what’s next.  If you work for an airline, lay back extra groceries and save for some missed payments.  Not saying airlines will crumble, but… Same for TSA workers who are set to miss another paycheck on the 27th absent actual leadership on the Hill.

Going for the 200!!!

Earlier, it looked like the Train Wreck would continue: Dow futures were down 300, NASDAQ down another couple of hundred and the S&P down another 50-odd.  Here’s the cliff we’d jumped off:

But then BANG!!!  

A huge upside surprise in the CFNAI rolled:

“The Chicago Fed National Activity Index (CFNAI) increased to +0.18 in January from –0.21 in December. All four broad categories of indicators used to construct the index increased from December, and two categories made positive contributions in January. The index’s three-month moving average, CFNAI-MA3, increased to –0.06 in January from –0.29 in December.”

None of which will take our Peoplenomics.com insiders by surprise.  As I explained in the Saturday ChartPack:

“The Bears have had a good run to the downside. But in state variance, they need 2-3 days (at least) to regroup and get their crap sorted out.
The International markets are in a place where a week of rally could fit. And look at the Magic Ovals: (they are hinting possible rally nearby)”

Another dandy short-term taxable gain.

There’s times that paying short-term gains tax is a sign of success!

The Write Stuff

We’re pleased to report that G.A. Stewart has his site back up – and a very good article at G. A. STEWART’S NOSTRADAMUS TIMELINE – THE AGE OF DESOLATION.

Like Stu, I sometimes think about shutting down everything here – anything public-facing, that is.  And the reason should be clear: The harder times get, the crazier people become.

And speaking of “write stuff” some very good notes in passing from a source known as Captain Gooding (who you’ll remember from Yankee Doodle?). Some of his observations on present times are just too good not to be shared.  Here are three useful points:

“My point underlying all this, is that you cycle gurus, and you really are some of the very bestest out there on cycle stuff, have been seeing the current global system collapse coming for, I dunno, many decades. What did you think it was going to look like? High tea and polite conversation? The entire globalist/financialist economic system is shaking itself apart. Like an airplane which has flown beyond its flight speed limitations, we are starting to lose pieces of the control surfaces. Warren Buffett knows – his Berkshire Hathaway investment portfolio is about 50% cash – some $381 billion in cash.

Look, in 2018, Europe had a total population of over 745 million people. Around 448 million of them lived in the European Union and around 110 million in European Russia. As of today, we (USA) are just shy of 349,000,000 people. That’s less than half of Europe. Even if you only count the EU, they are still about a third larger in total population than the USA. And their leaders are intent on committing economic suicide.

As for the Purim War? We are blowing off a lot of aging stuff. Missiles in many cases nearing their shelf lives. Bombs that have been around for a long, long time. The KC-135 tankers we’ve lost were built in the 1960s. The three U.S. F-15E Strike Eagles we lost over Kuwait were at least 25 years old, and that fleet is scheduled for decommissioning in the 2030s.

Those, my friend, are useful contexts.  No, not a fan of war, but our digital culture has a crappy memory.  Let me help:

Iran’s “Declared” Conflict and Attacks on Americans
This link (FDD’s compilation, updated as of mid-2025 and into 2026) documents a long timeline of Iranian or proxy actions causing U.S. casualties, starting with the…

  • 1979-81 embassy hostage crisis (66 Americans held) and including major events like:
  • 1983 Beirut embassy bombing (17 Americans killed) and Marine barracks (241 U.S. service members killed), both tied to Iran-backed groups.
  • 1996 Khobar Towers (19 U.S. Air Force personnel killed).
  • 2003-2011 Iraq: Iranian-backed militias/EFPs linked to at least 603 U.S. troop deaths.
  • More recent: 2020 missile strike on Ain al-Asad (100+ U.S. troops with TBIs),
  • 2024 Jordan drone attack (3 U.S. soldiers killed),
  • and proxy actions via Hezbollah, Hamas, Kataib Hezbollah, etc.

Again, more data, more context.

News on the Back Burner

Life stumbles on.  Though some days it’s less clear why…maybe to birth our AI helpers?

Living in Illinois seems a bit risky to us: Venezuelan migrant charged with murder of Loyola student Sheridan Gorman – Chicago Sun-Times

Not that Seattle is any better: Think Seattle is Destroyed NOW? You Won’t Believe the Mayor’s New Idea.

Planning to travel internationally?  US just issued a worldwide travel warning, here is what it means.

Hey! National Media! What, you don’t like Italians? Trump places statue of Christopher Columbus near the White House.

At the Ranch: Ham Radio Note on the HL2

As you may recall, I take fully 3-hours off from the grind around here. Usually on Sunday morning and normally in front of the ham radio rigs. I’ve got a whole tube-type museum of gear – so much it’s never set up all at one time – there just isn’t room.

There’s a couple of Swans, dito Icoms and Kenwoods, several complete Hallicrafters lineups (the S-line clone SX-117, HT-44, and Loudenboomer amp and the SX-101, HT-32, HT-33B) and a lot of others.

The “daily driver” of choice is a Ten-Tec Omni VII. Most of my interest is CW (Morse) and 25 WPM is a nice chit-chat speed. Back up to that is a TenTec Jupiter.  On voice?  Good audio rules.

And that gets me to the HL2 – the Hermes Lite 2.  Which – if you’re interested – you can read up on here. Hermes Lite 2 | Makerfabs Open Hardware

I was talking to one of the guys on 3806 *(LSB on the 75 meter band) who I’ve talked to for several years now.  The whole time I have envied the hell out of his audio.  Mean it’s like unreal – almost FM studio grade, it’s so good.

His secret sauce?  Hermes Lite 2 with Thetis software.  Releases · ramdor/Thetis and some really great settings.

The most amazing part of the Hermes is that using DSP for SSB generation, you don’t have the 2.3-3.0 KHz wide “camel hump” of a passband filter to deal with.  DSP means vertical sides.

The other thing that comes with the Hermes is something called PureSignal.  The way this works is you sample the RF when transmitting and use “adaptive distortion technology.”  Essentially, you “pre-distort” an RF envelope, so that normal mixing products in successive amplifier stages are pre-emptively “mixed out.”

It’s kind of like the noise versus anti-noise in those high-end noise canceling headphones.  Except this is done up at radio frequencies.  The result of having a signal which is spectrally near-perfect?  You get the power benefit of all those wasted spurs – resulting in a 1-3 db increase of apparent loudness (*some claim 6 db).

The OTHER thing about the Hermes is it’s heavily reliant on the user’s computer – which means not only can I have that 55″ dual 4K monitor setup (for my slowly fading eyesight), but I can also use the high quality sound system and condenser USB mic.  OK, right there, audio quality  takes another jump.

What my friend Kevin does next is even better:  Because with broadcast and studio gear, we use noise gating.  So, for example, when room noise is low, you don’t hear the blower on the linear amplifier – all that stuff goes away.

Super neat technology? Yes, but it’s not simple.

First, you need to assemble the unit which comes as a collection of three circuit boards and an enclosure.  Then you will want a small linear amplifier (lots of hams use the HardRock50 style).  I have one for my QRP (low power) gear which will work fine.  But that only gets you into the 50-watt ballpark.  So you will want more power and for this I’ve got an SB-220 that’s not often used.

Again, though, details: The SB-220 class amps came with high voltage (relatively) switching.  So, you’ll want to have the Harbach Electronics T/R relay driver installed.

Last, but not least, you will need an RF Sampler.  This is a precision resistor network on a pickup coil that feeds back into the transceiver in order to work out the PureSignal adaptive pre-distortion.

Sounds like a lot of work?  Yeah, well, a lot more useful sitting in front of a computer than, oh, posting on social, right?

I will get into build details on ShopTalk Sunday, as it comes along.  Should be a lot of fun.

ShopTalk Sunday was my latest book launch Sunday.  Article here, my new book Co-Telligence is on Amazon here.

Write when you get rich,

George@Ure.net

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  1. I guess that I have become a second class American citizen in “some” person’s eyes. My opinion means nothing. Only they have the knowledge and experience to decide what happens in my life.

    • “You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view…until you climb into his skin and walk around in it.”

      -To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee, 1960

      You are wrong Wilson. No one has the knowledge and experience to decide what happens in your life. There are many contributors on this site that have endured a lot of pain and suffering but would never let any one else decide what happens in their life. Ask LOOB.

      Be well my friend and remember you are in control of your life!

    • (“My opinion means nothing. Only they have the knowledge and experience to decide what happens in my life.”)

      NO YOU’RE NOT.. Believe this I have been told that I wouldn’t ever amount to anything..I’d never own a home… So..I built one by myself.. not once but twice.. I have been laughed at .. and publicly humiliated by those that feel they are are special and smarter than anyone else..( the one two punch was f fate can hit anyone).. struggled through astronomical medical bills from before I was learning how to shave.. screwed by ever insurance company in the country told how worthless I am by those more fortunate I was..i was forced to do a trump over astronomical medical bills while making pennies above minimum wage. ( yes bankruptcy..) no I couldn’t afford a lawyer..I couldn’t afford the fourteen dollar packet of paperwork..yes I typed on a borrowed typewriter for three days day and night and To read the books for the information I needed.. I did have to get a lawyer to amend one thing I failed to read because the law library was closed….Just Remember that every time you fall or you feel like your only a second class citizen.. that you can pick yourself up ..shake off the crap they tell you and move forward because of what others tell you.

      your only second class when you allow them to make you believe your second class.. you can survive anything..build anything…. be anything.. Never allow anyone to make you feel like your worthless.. What I can say..is every time you fall..you discover who your true friends are.. the vast majority of your friends ..vanish to distance themselves from you.. good time Charlie’s.. like the engineer that lived in our spare room..he once had it all.. designed and built deep sea oil drilling platforms.. a hurricane and a devastating oil platform explosion that kills many and dumped millions of barrels of crude oil in the gulf..he was brought in to give testimony on the cause and told the truth..then black balled.. left homeless in his car..his family dumped him…the company dumped him he lost everything..he never could pick himself back up..no matter how much I tried to convince him he still had value..he was still the man he was he only had to reposition himself work the problem..But going from a mansion and the luxuries of the chosen to a morons spare bedroom was to devastating for him to cope with… he gave up and became self destructive……don’t do that to yourself..just walk around those that believe that of you.. and move forward..

      • Perzactly the problem at beginning of the Depression.. many Men refused to accept lesser jobs in early days – their Ego’s helped grease the rails to ruin.

        Very very good to hear you tell others “they can do it!” – They can indeed. All about Will ..when there is a will, there is a Way.

        Now I just gotz to figure out how to Will my Way into Her nether regions!

        ShaaWing!

        • Exactly. When you’ve actually lived through the hard parts of life, it changes the way you see everything. The things that once felt overwhelming suddenly don’t seem so bad, and the people society overlooks become the ones who teach you the most. Most folks who’ve never faced that kind of struggle simply can’t imagine it — not because they’re cruel, but because it’s outside their world. Once you’ve walked through it yourself, though, your eyes stay open. You stop judging, you start helping, and you realize how much strength people carry quietly every day…

          One of the nicest and most inspiring gentlemen I’ve met..lived in a dumpster behind the local television station..
          He had really bad PTSD from the Korean war..thrown away.. he taught me that cardboard boxes is one of the best survival tools for fifty below sub zero weather..one of the nicest guys I met..

          there was a study on homeless people..I think Stanford did one to..

          https://vhil.stanford.edu/downloads/becominghomeless

          the modern belief is everyone that’s homeless or on any of the good Samaritan programs..is a leach on society and a drug addict..

          but when they gave a homeless man a hundred bucks.. he went out and got things to hand to others in need..like a sandwich etc. this was a main act they discovered in every area ..

          https://www.harvardmagazine.com/2024/04/academias-absence-from-homelessness?

          one study put a sign board on a guy..big message take what you need.. in the poorer destitute parts.. the people that took any..would only take a little bit..and he got what he needed then brought over the change and put it back on the board..in neighborhoods where the issues that affected the poor were not even visible..people would walk up and clean the board off..
          NOW..
          IF I can do it..the ranting moron of the wastelands..
          so can you..there’s a learning curve. but you can do it..dont pay any attention to the friends you once thought you had..because overall they ghost you vanish and just quit talking to you..I believe that’s because..

          1. your the main cause of your situation..
          2. they’re not sure what what they can do to help..( many times it just sit back and let them pour their grief out..)
          3. The thousands but oh my he wants what I have…( lol lol even though that’s the stupidest thing .. especially when they have enough scrap happening already…) instead bump ideas off of them..

          take my mini me.. he was so sad.. all he had was a dollar..and wanted to have SMORES with the two little girls that survived the ghetto of Seattle wash..

          but a candy bar was over three dollars..he asked me if I knew how he could make the money so they could have smores.. I said..why not make it !! so we did..and for my kitchen gadget for xmas was ice cream mold chocolate mold and the instructions how to make it.. three cents later.they had the chocolate bars.. the learning curve…. and walk away from those that don’t understand..

          NOW….

          if I had ever experienced what I had to go through…I’m pretty sure I would be exactly like those that live and don’t experience it.. because my eyes would never had been open to see it.. And I probably wouldn’t be offering a hand up to others because I wouldn’t have ever known..

          The old saying never judge someone until you’ve walked in their shoes.. A television show on ..called 30 days took someone with influence and resources and would put them at the bottom..where they had to survive exactly as if they were subjected to that level..I think it went six shows of the six..only one guy and his wife did UT without relying on their resources..

          I have a friend..opposite side of the pyramid of society from where I am.. He seen it up front in another country.. With it his deep compassion and loving heart was touched ..he seen a major issue killing millions..and he had the knowledge to work the problem..A HAND UP…not a hand out.. at his own expense.. NOW that’s a Man worth being friends with..

      • Wilson YOU have worth don’t let anybody, OR YOURSELF, tell you otherwise.

        I am unsure if over your time here you have read LOOP’s stories, or dLynn’s stories (for him importantly about the time after Vietnam when he left the service) but with just those two people here are remarkable stories of people who picked themselves back up and kept plugging along with life (particularly LOOP – was an amazing statement as to the resiliency of the human spirit that some people have deep inside them).

        It can be tough when life knocks you down to get back up …. doubly so if when that happens you also have serious medical or disability issues … buy YOU CAN DO IT, IF you set your mind to it.

        Rooting for you from across the wires of the internet

        • At first..it looks so bad.. a huge daunting , humiliating and unforgiving issue..how can I do it..but once you look at it from all angles.. and you just keep moving.. I owed a huge medical bill..the insurance company pulled out and refused to pay on any of the bills for our zip code..they called every hour ..said real like if you didn’t have the cash to pay..why in the hell did you seek medical treatment.. I was beginning to pity myself and feel down and out.. then walking into a truck stop..there was a young woman quadriplegic.. in a wheelchair that she operated with her lips..she was crying.. being the nosey type I walked over and asked..what’s wrong hun..want to get it off your chest..she was a housekeeper at a local hospital..worked new years eve..had insurance through the hospital..she got off at two AM was heading home when a drunk driver hit her..they flight for lived her ..saved her months in critical care ward..the drunk..he didn’t make it and wasn’t insured.. her medical insurance at the hospital refused to pay..the hospital went after her and got her disability check took all of it but .75 cents..she couldn’t make rent or anything..I instantly realized my situation wasn’t that bad after all..
          A situation like that is how I met my wonderful wife..she was a nurse at a facility..had a bad stroke in her twenties..they dumped her off of the insurance and dumped her job..then took everything but five dollars a pay period to live on..when I made arrangements to resurface the surgeons parking lot by hand..she got on her coveralls a big jug of ice water sandwiches.. and came to help..that’s where we made friends..she was my charge nurse..long story but we eventually got together..we’ve been together thirty three years now..
          when I got really sick ..the first thing they did during the yearly witch hunt..( they dump the higher paid employees that are not vested for much..then hire new grads or students..)
          everyone treated us like we had the plague ..even family..we went a year without an income..late at night when she thought I was asleep..she would break down in tears..
          what was good about that was..we discovered phase ten twist card game.. we still live that game..we had it before but hadn’t actually played it..
          https://www.amazon.com/Phase-10-Twist-Card-Game/dp/B004P8J0YU
          great game..you can be at the finish line and still lose..lol
          when she finally got another job.. ( another long story) we had .24 cents left…no matter what situation you are in..you can work through it..its a learning process.. that’s why I share a lot of the recipes etc.. during the times when the basic quality of life seems daunting..well make it..if someone else made it..so can you..

  2. As usual your article is spot on! It has been sickening to watch this country go down the tubes as the FAKE politicians run (ruined) this country and the people for the most part became non-thinkers and just couch potatoes and let it happen. That is IF they could do anything to change it anyway, and lets NOT forget that the cult sickness of Muslims requires to world be under there control, Iran will never forget and we are going to find out what that means soon. I like you saw this coming and that’s why I live remote, I just hope it is remote ENOUGH! LOL

    • “Iran” is not going to do anything to us which they wouldn’t have, anyway. They have had sleeper cells and training facilities in CONUS since the 1990s, that I know of. Why would they have that stuff here if they weren’t going to use it?

      [Now that you’ve thought about that for a second…] The Iranians had no foreknowledge that we would EVER attack them, so why have they had asymmetric combatants on our soil for 30 years?

      This is why regime-change in Iran is so important. If the barbarians are not replaced, they will use our laws and our freedoms against us, until they can nuke us back to the stone age…

      • The “cult sickness” you refer to is the same exact infection judeo-christians”suffer.
        The only question I have is which group of Brainwashed Idiots have Slaughtered more innocents down yhrubhh the he ages ?

        • People eat it up. One day Trump will expose the pedophile ring. You’ll all see! Right after Fort Knox and JFK. He just needs a little more time.

          Meanwhile, the true deity has begun harvesting unvaccinated children in Texas using the Measles bug.

        • ““Risk of Attack Is Too High”: U.S. Navy Refuses to Provide Escorts to Ships Transiting Hormuz Strait”

          In other words, Mohammad protects the sacred land from the infidels. LOL

  3. 2026: An Exact 4-phase Fractal Decay Series Replay of 1929?

    George: The 4-phase fractal decay series for the 20th century 1929 DJIA and its equivalent 21st century 2026 ACWI appears to be exactly the same: 7/17/18/10 days :: x/2-2.5x/2.5x/1.5x.

    In 1929 the 12 day 3rd fractal of a terminal 5/10/12 day :: x/2x/2.5x 3 phase growth fractal series contained the DJIA 3 Sept 1929 peak valuation; the final 7 days of the 12 day 3rd fractal formed the 7 day initial 1st fractal base of the 4-phase crash decay series: 7/17/18/10 days. A terminal 5 Feb 2026 ACWI 3/6/7/5 day :: x/2x/2-2.5x/1.6x 4-phase growth and decay fractal series contained the ACWI 25 Feb 2026 peak valuation, day 7 of the 3rd fractal. A 7 day first decay fractal was initiated on 23 Feb, formed by the last 3 days of the 7 day 3rd fractal and the 5 days of the 4th fractal: 7/17/18/10 days. Today is day 15 of the 2nd fractal with significant down days on day 16 and day 17.

    • My only question is whether to load the boat again at the close (or near it) today or play the ovetnight and wonder if a turnaround tuesday. But, as these things go, I trust Isfahan even less than DC so back in the short end of the pool perhaps later on – I love the triangluation your work and mine offer – it;s graceful – seriously.
      With a new ham radio on the way and the lunch money account up 50.6% YTD I’m thinking about taking the test of the year off – after May… You working on you re-re-re retirement plans?

      • George,

        The correct 1929/2026 4-phase decay series is 7/16/18/10 days vice 7/17/18/day.

        I guess the president fabricated the positive communications/negotiations with Iran. Could the discovered falsehood be associated with a significant down day #16 of he 2nd fractal?

    • What happened to the BTC call ?

      Just checked and BTC is hanging around the $70k mark.

      Hmmmm

      How much you guys pay per month for Ai svc.
      Hmmm

      Selling into strength every opportunity I get…Sold!

      Crooks be running this casino , always have, so caution advised. But thinking Oil Field Svc companies of late..maybe with a french flavor…Oui,oui

  4. Market commentary : quick, everybody run to the other side of the boat!

    Weather commentary : make it stop. It’s snowing. Not much but a reminder it’s too cold to perambulate the perimeter postulating on things to-do. Wish I could send the chill South or West to those who might enjoy it.

    State of World commentary : still a mess. Especially difficult for media mavens who had to send out new talking points. Horribly inconvenient. Talkin’Head on CNBC choked saying if the Straits of Hormuz reopen oil will fall precipitously.

    [to say the unsaid, unthinkable, those rooting against ‘Merica may end up wrong. Again. We rather expect His Orangeness to remark that the seafront off W. Iran should have gorgeous resorts – insert snare-drum-snork]

    Local commentary : will soon drive up the hill to see if any needy person (or, reseller) grabbed the baby crib. If not I’m driving 20 miles each way to do Goodwill drop (none nearer in-County?). Search couch for gas money.

    It’s Monday. Again.
    Egor

    • “We rather expect His Orangeness to remark that the seafront off W. Iran should have gorgeous resorts”

      Pretty sure they had those, 50 years ago…

    • Funny how people talk about loading boats, shifting sides of the boat. And no frickin’ BOAT!!!!! Just dirt bound illusions of space between real threats when the real space is out there where there is no law but keeping on keeping on. If loading the boat was real, then you can keep some space. A thousand miles offshore looks just like a hundred. We saw zero for a month. Never missed anything. The food was always good, the comfort level sometimes not. The fear and anxiety near zero too.
      The ocean is our Mother
      Stiks

        • thought it was the icy wind in ure face, causing the rosy cheeks
          but kidding aside, you are a breath of reality in a gaggle of responders here at urban , fair winds good sir
          and a tip of the hat to Ray

  5. George
    Perhaps your reading of the news needs a bit of broadening.
    You see, The golden turnip threatened all of Iran’s electric generation and infrastructure if they didn’t open the Straits in 48 hours, though unclear on counting from when.
    So Iran simply said, if you do that we will knock out all the generation capacity and water desalinization in Israel and the US allies. It was a response to a threat, not a threat out of the blue. Perhaps your sources need to widen a little.

    • Hmm…

      Hal Turner: Call me cynical, but Trump’s “5 days” puts us to this Friday . . . when markets close.

      That gives the incoming US Marines the 5 or so days they need to get into position, so when the weekend arrives, massive amphibious landing to grab Kharg Island, during which I fear we will suffer a huge death toll, which will be rightly seen as a gigantic screw-up, while markets are all safely closed to limit the financial chaos until Monday.)

      https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/component/content/article/trump-postpones-attacking-iran-electric-grid-says-negotiations-going-well?catid=17&Itemid=101

      • Already have suffered huge death toll.

        FBI been busy AF getting DND’s signed.

        Mullahs are now in possession of Russian S400 Triumph System.

        Game Changed overnight.

      • For an amphibious landing we would have to borrow some boats from our “Allies” in the Gulf since we don’t have any vessels there. Do those Allies even have amphibious landing craft?

        (note Kharg Island is so far into the Persian Gulf that it is nearer Kuwait than it is to the Straits itself and I doubt the US Navy wants to send some of it’s vessels through the Straits of Hormuz at the moment)

        Ergo … any movement on Kharg Island by the US will have to initially utilize a mostly “by air” dynamic, though of course regular types of ships or smaller vessels owned by others could then be used to supply the US troops after they are ashore

        • Hmm..I read somewhere.. that there’s an interesting reason for the call signs of the navys..

          US ships: USS — United States Ship
          British ships: HMS — Her Majesty’s Ship
          Italian ships: TMB — “That’s?a My Boat!”

          lol lol.. dont know why you mentioning amphibious landing crafts brought that old navy joke to mind..been a long night lol..
          hope your day is a good one..I for one am looking forward to some sleep and captain crunch… ( better than popcorn)

        • LOOB. I think the Italians are entering this war after the bombing of the Italian University in Tehran.

          Ayatollah U

        • (“LOOB. I think the Italians are entering this war after the bombing of the Italian University in Tehran.

          Ayatollah U”)

          where have I seen that before..oh yeah I remember.. the key stone cops…lol lol

          someone hit the cosmic shuffle button

          https://youtu.be/J-HD2jPaP7k?si=5EviqWSN1XeqGY9V

          and now every world power is wandering around going,
          “Wait…
          what country am I supposed to be in defending ?”

          https://youtube.com/shorts/W8J1gE8LN0g?si=TYcr-3pne3Dc9KH0

          where’s the popcorn lol lol..

          It’s the oldest strategy in the book:
          Step 1: Get everyone running in different directions…using up vital resources repeating their arsenal of weapons and men..
          Step 2: Watch them argue about whose turn it was to bring snacks
          Step 3: Sit back while they try to conquer themselves by accident… Or go bankrupt by putting to much stress on an already stressed economy..

          If this keeps up, the next global summit is just going to be a bunch of leaders standing in a circle asking, “Sooo… does anyone actually know where we go from here?”

        • A couple years ago..I took one of the guys living with us to his doctors appointment at the VA health care center..moseying around a building they were adding on..I thought what the hell is this..I could push the outside wall over by myself..it just didn’t make any sense..dont let me go up in an elevator..

          so I asked my son in law. ( he was head engineer on the expansion ). and took photos.. and asked..how in the hell do they figure this will hold up.. its insane..

          he said..look again dad… the strength is in the center…

          It stands because of the central support that holds everything together.

          not the shiny exterior, its just a decorative façade, but the actual backbone is its strength..

          in a war..we are the backbone..like a skyscraper it never collapses all at once.
          It begins with a quiet thinning of the core a slow erosion of the very support that once held everything upright.

          At first, no one notices.

          The outer walls still shine in the sun, the windows still reflect the sky, and from a distance the building looks as proud as ever.
          But the strength of a structure is never in its appearance.

          Its strength lives in the unseen center the part that carries the weight without applause.

          When the core weakens, the upper floors begin to sag.

          Not dramatically, just enough to shift the balance.

          And as the upper floors sink, they press outward, asking the walls to carry a burden they were never designed to bear.

          The walls resist for a time, but even stone has limits.

          Eventually, the building collapses not because of a single blow, but because its heart was hollowed long before the fall.

          Civilizations are no different than a multi floor skyscraper..

          They stand not on monuments, armies, or wealth, but on the quiet strength of their center core…the backbone of the civilization…

          the shared values, the common purpose, the everyday people who hold the weight without Any recognition of their value on the core of the society…

          When that center is neglected, when it is chipped away piece by piece by spreading its might outward and putting more stress on the backbone the shiny walls of appearance begin to push outwar, the building or country will collapse its not sudden.

          It is a slow unbalancing of the whole , a gentle outward push, until one day as they whittle away at the backbone of strength the structure simply cannot remember what held it together and it falls apart.

          Ron Paul and Rand Paul were absolutely right in their assessments….

          Protect the core of the country.
          Strengthen the center of our country..pull back our military…

          For everything else no matter how impressive rests upon our backbone of strength.

          I’m probably wrong in my thoughts but hey..we still have the cosmic shuffle lol lol

          https://youtu.be/J-HD2jPaP7k?si=syIaFnM2T7MWPYHM

    • danogenes : “… Perhaps your sources need to widen a little. …”

      The same might be said of others. The 48 hour clock would have run out tonight. Possibly your media source can’t count? To be fair, math was ever a dark art to most *journalists* even back in the day. You should also note there’s not a single chance Iran could have managed what you suggest “… knock out all the generation capacity and water desalinization in Israel and the US allies …”

      Individual (now autonomous) IRGC units are able to get off missiles and drones. Shoot and scoot or lose the launchers. How many of those do you guess they had / have? A : many score fewer today.

      Iran remains dangerous but is slowly being defanged. Unite sellers of oil (who have quite a lot of escort style ships) with some European mine-sweepers (again, from many) and the choke point will open. The US role, if any, should be flying CAP (combat air patrol) overhead.

      Please to Note deployment of the venerable A-10 Warthog close air support flying chain gun (also hanging missiles on pods. Long slow(er) linger time, two of everything as to flight control surfaces and … pilots riding in titanium tubs.

      We got this.
      Egor

      • You are so misinformed as to be comical.

        New Missiles are Un-detectable to f35 – a known bug not scheduled to be fixed for 2-3 more years. The planes radar invisibility does not matter to these new bad boys based off Russian designs. All of the USI’s bombs and missiles have been looong range – All.

        Hypersonic glide vehicles are unstoppable as well. Houthi’s shutdown Red Sea route this week. $200 bbl oil a lock, and with it global economy goes tits up. Then demand destruction.
        Already lost hundreds of officers in those early attacks on gulf neighbors.

        Now S400 is in Iran’s’ possession. The TP eating bulletcatchers, Marines will prolly not have much luck in a kharg island assault. The S400 operators unlike the Venezuelans , are dedicated to the cause and will not stand down.. geniuses.

        • tbs – it’s way fun(ny) when web Generals pontificate about military tactics and toys. Look, the vaunted S300 and even front line S400 have been defeated in battle. Probably you know this but forgot while posting piffle ^ above? It’s OK, the news if US unveils new gear will stun many. Would be adversaries are already miffed watching their newest best manned by their own troops be turned to rubble by our new old stock gear manned by an upstart. Got anything better?

          Tiring, sometimes, to instruct the little ones, but a fav. as Dad and now Grandpa. Here’s a riddle for you ‘lil fella : An enemy seizes your only cash cow herd, the milking station, and the feed lot. Do you:

          a) blow up _your_ possessions now held by an enemy?
          b) blow up the enemy along with _your_ possessions?
          c) send stern letter to (feckless) UN security panel?

          extra credit : how do you employ a Hypersonic high altitude launch attack vehicle to land a mere (15) miles offshore [to destroy your herd along with the occupier] on Kharg?

          Take your time.
          ZZZZZZ
          ~E~

      • Thanks again for your calm, thoughtful, logical, empirical, positive, insightful, business like, reflection on the world situation as it exists, Egor.
        Instead of the world and the economy falling apart in a handbasket, I feel that our situation as a world community and society, at least in our hemisphere, is starting to equiliberalise into rational behavior and functioning. Setting Iran into it’s seat, will help the rest of the world find their seat also.

        • fly : it’s not that people expressing fears and phobias should not be listened to, engaged. You can sometimes smell an agenda, sometimes not. That’s OK too, to take sides. But, an awful lot of what passes for discussion is rooting for their side. I am on our side.

          In long investment positions, and to an extent in life, I am Contrarian. This is indeed a fearful frantic time. Our leaders are daring great things. Some will not work out. If even a few do work we may launch something really special. That’s my hope, a hope for the US and Mankind [to include Womankind].

          It concerns me that my words may occasionally seem caustic. I do suffer fools, but not lightly.

          Buckle up.
          ~E~

  6. With politicians, I have gotten to the point for the most part, I don’t care if they are D’s, R’s, or what. I wouldn’t piss on them if they were on fire. I don’t trust any of them and they are in it for the money, perks, power, and to heck with the one’s elected them.

    • I include ALL media misfits with above.

      All must learn how to recognize vile POS when they encounter/hear/see/read them.

      Darkness seems to be winning according latest propaganda. Alternative news sources report a far different story than the bombastic orange devil is selling.
      Iranian frigate sank a arleeburk clas with a torpedo.over 30 f35s taken out at israhells largest airbase. Missiles are striking unhindered across the gulf. Hundreds of officers been smoked out.

      And No classholes’, those soldiers, airmen and sailors dying for israHELL are not old inventory, f-ing psycho’s.

      Infuriates me that we are being BLEED DRY by the Zionist loving Trump and his Zionist masters, the Ass Masters. I can’t support it in any way shape or form. This president and his presidency are DISGUSTING me to no end. It’s getting so bad that I can smell his nasty ass all the way down here in Raleigh,NC., and no it is not fat white old lady with blue/green hair tints.

      • tbs : non sense / nonsense

        “… Iranian frigate sank a arleeburk clas with a torpedo.over 30 f35s taken out at israhells largest airbase. Missiles are striking unhindered across the gulf. Hundreds of officers been smoked out …”

        Put down the crackpipe son. No Iranian frigates exist at this writing and, were they on the topside of a body of water, could not handle an Arleigh Burke -class destroyer. Not a chance.

        Egor

        • Thx E for your nod to coherence and factuality (instead of flatulance-ity lol)
          https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/3/23/has-iran-brought-down-an-unkillable-us-f-35-jet
          ‘After a United States F-35 fighter jet made an emergency landing at an airbase in the Middle East last week during the escalating US-Israeli war on Iran, two sources familiar with the matter told US media the jet had been struck by Iran as it returned from a combat mission – a claim Iranian state media also reported.

          ‘If true, this would be the first time during the war that an F-35, the cornerstone of Washington’s aerial firepower, has been struck by Iran.’

          Defence experts said, therefore, if Iran’s claims that it has successfully targeted an F-35 aircraft are true, this will prove that an F-35 is not invulnerable in war.’

          “This would be significant – not because it means stealth is becoming obsolete but because it would show that even an F-35 is not invulnerable in a dense, adaptive air-defence environment,” Ali Vaez, director of the Iran Project at the International Crisis Group, told Al Jazeera.

      • Randy … it sounds like your “facts” are coming from the modern Iranian Version of “Bagdad Bob”, but without the Entertainment Value that “Bagdad Bob” brought to the table and the screen (he was so off that wall that everybody knew it was all “made up” … even “Bagdad Bob”! as he delivered it)

        Of course we are NOT being told the entire story, never are when a War is going on, so one is always advised to read between the lines but some things are clearly “FANTASY” and one needs to be discerning and dismiss that stuff out of one’s mind immediately

        • Correction to the above
          “TBS” is who it was directed at … NOT “Randy”

          My apologies Randy …

          (and this is NOT to indicate that some unreported losses have not occurred … the claimed sinking of the ship though is clearly ridiculous, no way to hide something like that since commercial shipping vessels would quickly report it)

    • JC,
      Will we ever be told which Mr. Anonymous Anonymous allegedly donated millions to AIPAC (American Israel Public Affairs Committee)?

      • speaking of ‘anonymous’
        “As TGP readers know,(Miles) Taylor, formerly known as “Anonymous,” leaked classified information and covertly tried to sabotage Trump during his first term.”
        “They (America’s allies) see a president who doesn’t know what he’s doing, who’s constantly moving the goalposts, whose own staff isn’t even sure what he’s doing,” Taylor said.”
        Jennings later flipped the script on Taylor with just one excellent question: Do you think Ayatollah Khamenei preferred Obama or Trump as President?”
        https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/03/watch-scott-jennings-buries-treasonous-former-dhs-official/

  8. Director of the International Energy Agency: More than 40 energy sites and facilities in 9 Middle Eastern countries have been hit and severely damaged.
    .
    Will Iran go after Israel’s nuclear power plant?

    • Already did- took out majority of israHELLS nuke scientists at Dimona, now spelled Dimoana. Tits for Tats as it were.

    • Israel’s plant is only marginally a “power plant”. It is actually a smallish size “experimental” type reactor of the type often used for “enrichment” purposes for making nuclear weapons.

      The ONE nuclear power plant in Iran is actually a commercial grade power plant BUILT by Russians and FULLY RUN AND STAFFED BY RUSSIANS. The staffing and who runs the Iranian nuclear power plant it is because of an agreement with the IAEC when it was built because of the worry that Iranians might try to divert used fuel for nuclear weapons creation, thus the REQUIREMENT that it be run by Russians NOT Iranians. 500+- Russians staff are on site to run that plant full time, some reports actually have the number closer to 700, and all used fuel rods when extracted BY THE RUSSIANS are immediately sent back to Russia for their reprocessing)

  9. Iranian Parliament Speaker Ghalibaf in a post on X: No negotiations have been held with the US. Fake news is to manipulate the financial and oil markets. [ About two hours ago ]

  11. and a rudder thing : please provide a link to an accredited news source detailing loss of 30 F-35s. Didn’t happen. E

    • I had SN# 75 original Commodore 64. I conned my boss into the purchase to help convince him that we should use micro computers to control the next generation of automated pipe welding systems.\

  13. re: “Out of This World”, Keough, 2026
    feat: “Aloha from Hawaii”, 4/4/73

    Last Thursday Jeff Webb, mentor of the late director of TPUSA, sadly passed away in a Memphis, Tn. hospital. Meanwhile President Trump hosted a visiting Japanese PM at the White House, and asked her why there was no warning given prior to the attack on Pearl Harbour.

    Today various msm outlets have noted #47’s visit to Graceland. As an aside, the mansion is now owned by his grand daughter, Riley Keough. Apparently the President signed a replica guitar of the type played by the King on his “Aloha from Hawaii” special.

    Let’s join DJ George for a look back on Elvis bringing us “Suspicious Minds” at the following Youtube link:

    https://youtu.be/MT3P7p-WNSY

  14. “Donald Trump’s decision to back down from his threat to destroy Iran’s power infrastructure came after US allies and Gulf countries privately warned the president of the dangers of following through with his threat, according to people familiar with the matter.”

    Email campaign! “What´s wrong Trump? Chicken?”

    https://www.whitehouse.gov/contact/

      • No shitski !

        I did not know OoWS paid someone to take his SAT’s for him, another 4D chess genius mensa kinda guy, move just like Ure zioslave self, no?

        Kill Em ALL NOW !

        ..aint that right blood&gutz ray-ray ?

    • Which is weird, and it’s not just scientists. It has been all over Fox (US) the past couple days and Breitbart (US) for longer than that…

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