News -a driver of immediate Future – doesn’t really matter, anymore.
The reason is simple: in the X-post facto world, all pretext of logic has saddled up and left town. We are reduced to underlying (with emphasis on second syllable there) narratives duking it out in click-time.
All of which doesn’t explain the why of how we got here. Only that we are. So best we step out onto the planet’s surface and see what’s going on in this rotation…
Turnaround Tuesday?
As I mentioned, I went short (planning to make a profit when the market goes off the high board) about a week ago. Too early, but no point selling at a loss now. Because lots of other savvy traders (like “Three-piece”) are also down at this “spectator’s end of the pool.”
In a simple picture, here’s why: There are a ton of ways to process “the mechanics” of the Swan Song to come. The Economic Fractalist uses his Lammert Cycle work. Points to disaster any-old time, now.
My consigliere likes watching the ^VIX. He likens it to the Tide: when under 19-20, markets can decline. When they do – depending on magnitude of the move, the VIX can move to the middle 20’s and even the upper 30’s in extremes.
Our own Peoplenomics work is a combination play. All the above, but also chart channel work, Elliott wave counts, on-balance volume on occasion, and most recently success has been found with state variance extremes.
SVE is pretty cool. as trading tools go. The core idea is that a short-term moving average will always hit an extreme – relative to longer moving average – in a semi-regular way.
When I super-glued my butt into the chair for today’s digital thrill-ride, the NASDAQ was painting +110 and change on the futures boards. Plugging this into the SVE here’s how extremely over-invested long folks are now:
If you go back one extreme to the left, you’ll see we haven’t been this “over-bought” since October 29 2025. That day, in our notes, the NASDAQ closed at 23,958.47.
Less than a month later, it dropped (Nov. 20, 2025) down to 22,078.05.
Do the math (like “Three-piece” does) and you’ll see a one-month decline of 7 point 8-something percent. (More on this thinking and modeling tool in the ChartPack tomorrow for the $40/year Peoplenomics high-rollers.)
Along with what the “magic ovals” are whispering.
On that October ’25 manic over-bought day, the Magic Ovals were “green across the board” – another coincident indicator. We update this in the ChartPack, too.
One Chart Sums It All Up
America hasn’t been this far underwater on the Manufacturing side since prior to World War II. End of the last Depression here’s how it looked:
“Wait, Ure! The chart says we haven’t sunk lower yet!”
That, sport, is why to come to blackwood business class here.
See before WW II, we had 9.3 million people making goods. We have more people “making shit” now – sure. But you have to look at the [per capita] picture. In other words, when looking at economics data, norm everything you think to per person. So…
The U.S. population has grown significantly since 1940, rising from 132.2 million to approximately 343 million today. This represents an increase of over 150%, with the population more than doubling in roughly 85 years, driven by post-war baby booms, increased longevity, and immigration.
Take the 9.3 million manufacturing in 1939 times 1.5 and you get 13.95 (which I round to 14 million, being slow-witted, and all). Which we then compare with the most recent “offishul” crap. Which is 12.603 million.
When I tell you fewer people are making things now than at any time since the Depression, it’s a real ISYN number.
Speaking of Numbing and Numbers
(The former helps with the latter…)
National Federal of Independent Business outlook just posted this morning.
“The NFIB Small Business Optimism Index fell 3.0 points in March to 95.8, leaving it below its 52-year average of 98.0.”
Ure’s sense of it seems not to be “lone voicing” huh?
- The frequency of reports of positive profit trends fell 11 points from February to a net negative 25% (seasonally adjusted), contributing the most to the Optimism Index’s decline.
- The net percent of owners expecting better business conditions fell 7 points from February to a net 11% (seasonally adjusted), the third consecutive monthly decline and the lowest level since October 2024. This was the second biggest contributor to the Index’s decline.
- The Employment Index fell in March from 103.5 to 101.6. While the 1.9-point decline is a meaningful turn in labor market conditions, the current reading remains above both the 2025 average of 101.2 and the historical average of 100.
- In March, both planned and actual labor compensation decreased from the previous month. A seasonally adjusted net 33% reported raising compensation, down 1 point from February. A seasonally adjusted net 18% plan to raise compensation in the next three months, down 4 points from February and the lowest reading since July 2025.
- Sixteen percent (seasonally adjusted) of small business owners plan to make capital outlays in the next six months, down 2 points from February and the lowest level since November 2009.
- A seasonally adjusted net negative 5% of all owners reported higher nominal sales in the past
And We Have PPI to Deal With, Too
The Producer Price Index for final demand increased 0.5 percent in March, seasonally adjusted, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Final demand prices moved up 0.5 percent in February and 0.6 percent in January.
On an unadjusted basis, the index for final demand rose 4.0 percent for the 12 months ended in March, the largest 12-month advance since increasing 4.7 percent in February 2023.
The March rise in final demand prices can be attributed to a 1.6-percent advance in the index for final demand goods. Prices for final demand services were unchanged.
If you can’t already smell (War-driven? Post-Europe?) 12-percent inflation coming in a year, or two, you need an ENT appointment!
Tomorrow is a Bank Reserve Settlement day – higher odds of major volatility, if you’re not tracking. And we have the Empire State manufacturing report which one of these days will start to reflect “Escape from New York.”
The Big Picture Problems
We don’t have the manufacturing base to roll WW III with anything but nukes. In WW II, the Limeys and Frogs fell-back on USA production. We don’t have any fall-backs now.
One way to get people “making things” is a good war (look east) which forces re-supply. Oh, and republicans will have to back-off tax reductions and get real about 20 percent Social Security cuts, too, but that’s after “the war” part.
We can either cut population (to fit available domestic manufacturing) or we can downsize consumption.
Another shot of hemlock there, sport?
Does the News Matter?
Apparently not. We have War as the only Big Lever to pull, in a certain directional sense of long-term economic outcomes.
With war, we get the “freedom” and “choices” outcome along with national sovereignty, on the one hand.
With peace – a meltdown into One World Government – which the power elite will still control – so lower choice, lower freedom (You know in other parts of the world people get jailed for putting the wrong views on the ‘net, right?)
Our ownership of selected small-arms is an indication of our distaste for Option 2.
If It’s Headlines You Want?
Suffer these:
After the Swalwell withdrawal, the GOP loses one: GOP lawmaker announces ‘retirement’ after admitting to affair with staffer. (Whoever in the back row who yelled “Was she cute?” will be sent ,to a political-correctness re-education camp. Have you no couth? For the children in class today that’s an adjective: Sophisticated, refined, polite, well-mannered, or polished.
Example: “He was couth enough to keep quiet during the argument instead of yelling.” Or, not raise a hand during my Epistle to Sanity.)
Is a United America coming? Spelling matters American – with the n on its tail. And the answer is maybe. United Airlines Floated Possible Merger With American: Report. Not to jinx a deal, but didn’t a “united America” already crash or have to do a go-round or divert somewhere? Marketing is so nuts.
Meanwhile, be patient. This all ends badly: U.S. imposes military blockade of Iranian ports on Strait of Hormuz.
Meanwhile, over there! See that? It’s the last Catholic GOP vote leaving the room! Vance Says Pope Leo Should Stay Out of U.S. Affairs – The New York Times.
We would remind the political class that there’s a reason why the beloved Constitution separates Church and State. Anyone besides up marketing victims ever read it?
Around the Ranch: Andy and the Aliens
While we fiddle with our welding goggles – taking care not to face East – we were helplessly entertained by the latest from ready Andy. Who long-time sufferers here will remember is our Hero Action Figure who has a real movie-grade life. And, except for strawberry blondes, mostly PG-13. Particularly with “I Win with God within” as his tagline.
When last updated, Andy was headed for Fiji and in his latest update (from the Comments section here) we read:
“Good morning George, since we are on the same day for now. Current time in East Texas 3am. Tuesday, April 14th The Year of our Lord, 2026. Current time in Suva Fiji 8pm Tuesday, April 14th The Year of our Lord, 2026. so we are on the same page.
All the while Trump is dominating the world Oil industry, I am on a ship far away from the US. for a reason, THE DUDE put me here. after mowing my lawn on day. I mowed the lawn, two weeks later I am on a ship in Suva Fiji.
and plot thickens, there is a shit load of J.A.S.O.N Scientists getting on board with me tomorrow. Interesting. I only thought they were a myth or a Rumer. For those who don’t know who J.A.S.O.N scientists are? You can research that Ureself. They have really high security clearances.
I was told by one of them, because this is only supposed to be a 40 day cruise for me, don’t count on it. We might be out to sea 3 months. You probably will get extended. They are doing a robotic survey of The Mariana Trench with robotic subs and A.I.
The final destination is Tokyo in roughly 90 days. This ship is relocating to Tokyo.
and for some reason, THE DUDE placed me on this ship with a bunch of scientists. working in the engine room. lol I more of a spiritual fella than a scientist. Bending the laws of reality is kind of my thing. Participating in the miraculous stuff.
Should be a grand adventure. One for the Books. Since I am always doing out of the norm stuff. I am sure a few surprises along the way.
One of the J.A.S.O.N scientists, a female, red head, runs the Remote for one of the robot subs said to me, you sure look familiar. Have we met before? and I said no, but I get that lot. Then I started talking about my Girlfriend and she excused herself shortly after. hahahahah One of the other fellas said, you shot her down fast. I laughed and said, I didn’t notice she was flirting until she promptly left. He said she was staring at you the entire time she was in the Hotel Lobby. Just gawking at you.
I said Well, I am actually madly in love with the one I am with. I didn’t come here for that. hahaha.
So, apparently Ginger has showed up *the hot red head scientist, and the Professor, haven’t seen Mary Ann yet. but that doesn’t mean she won’t be aboard. The Skipper and Gilligan too. and my 40 days at sea, is already getting seeded into a 90 day adventure with a bunch of Poindexter’s. with Robot subs and A.I.
after flying here with Noah.
all aboard with me, that weird dude who occasionally comments on urban survival.
THE DUDE is so funny. you can’t even make this shit up. hahaha
All this after mowing my lawn because it was the only thing I hadn’t done that day.
Well, I will check in when the adventure is over.
Until Then,
I Win with God within.
George’s Note Back
Naturally, I had to reply to explain the layout of what he’d gotten himself into:
For those who don’t already know this stuff (AND it isn’t widely known…):
JASON scientists, often simply called “the Jasons,” are an elite, independent advisory group of roughly 40–60 top-tier American scientists who provide candid, high-level technical advice to the U.S. government on complex matters of science and technology—particularly those involving national security and defense. Founded in 1960 in the wake of the Sputnik launch, the group was created to bring fresh, brilliant minds (mostly physicists at first) into government service without the constraints of full-time bureaucracy.
Members—many of them Nobel laureates, National Academy of Sciences members, and leading academics in fields like physics, biology, computer science, chemistry, and mathematics—are self-selected and typically spend only a few weeks each summer on intensive studies while maintaining their university or research careers. This structure gives them unusual independence and freedom to deliver unvarnished assessments that agencies might not get from internal teams.
The kinds of things they focus on have evolved over time but remain heavily weighted toward high-stakes, often classified challenges. Early work centered on nuclear weapons, missile defense, and Cold War military technologies (they famously contributed to the concept behind the Vietnam-era McNamara Line).
Today, their studies cover a wide range: nuclear stockpile stewardship, cyberwarfare and cybersecurity of critical infrastructure, artificial intelligence and its national security implications, biodefense and genome-related technologies, climate modeling and renewable energy strategies for the Department of Defense, advanced computing (including exascale systems), electronic warfare, and emerging threats like foreign influence in research or anomalous health incidents. About half of their reports are eventually declassified, touching on everything from health informatics and biodetection to reducing the military’s carbon footprint. In short, the Jasons tackle the hardest, most technically demanding questions where science intersects with strategy, risk, and long-term national security.
BTW, the fact that we have a reliable source aboard, the real question is: What’s going on with the Trench?
Three possibles are always on that radar:
1. Because the north pole has been varying more than usual, one could become concerned about a magnetic pole flip./ We are mindful that a magnetic flip is not the same as a crustal flip (the sort which Hapgood etc soft-link to global cataclysms) But it’s possible that deep wall samples (bottom of trench) could give hints as to chronology of mag vs. crustal.
2. Second thing is the possibility of deep undersea alien bases. Is there a big one down there? They are NOT close to the Pacific’s version of the Devil’s Triangle, though: The straight-line distance from the center of the Devil’s Sea (~25°N 137°E) to the Challenger Deep is roughly 1,550–1,700 km (about 960–1,060 miles).
The closest edges of the two areas are still around 1,200–1,400 km apart (roughly 750–870 miles), depending on how broadly you define the triangle’s boundaries.
3. HOWEVER don’t take the UAP-Source hunt in the Marianas’ hood off your list – yet. There are persistent rumors and conspiracy theories claiming that alien underwater bases (or bases used by non-human intelligences) exist in or near the Marianas Trench area, particularly around the Challenger Deep.
Main Claims Circulating/UAP/USO Hunt
In late 2025, U.S. Congressman Tim Burchett (R-TN) publicly stated in interviews that Navy officials had briefed him on Unidentified Submerged Objects (USOs) emerging from or operating out of underwater bases located in several of the world’s deepest ocean trenches — explicitly including the Marianas Trench (Challenger Deep). He described these as possible “alien bases” or hiding spots for advanced entities that have been present for a long time.
Similar claims appear frequently in UFO/UAP communities on Reddit (r/aliens, r/UFOB), YouTube channels, and podcasts. Some allege high-speed USOs traveling hundreds of knots underwater, transmedium travel (air-to-water without slowing), and bases deep enough that humans can’t easily reach them.
Older stories sometimes link the nearby Devil’s Sea / Dragon’s Triangle (off Japan, ~1,000+ km north) to the Marianas Trench, suggesting a network of underwater alien bases across the western Pacific “Ring of Fire” zone.
These ideas portray the trench as an ideal hiding place: extreme depth (nearly 11 km / 36,000 ft), crushing pressure, near-total darkness, and very limited human exploration make it one of the least accessible places on Earth.
Context and Evidence Level
No hard public evidence has ever been presented — no photos, videos, sonar data, or declassified documents confirming actual bases in the Marianas Trench. The claims rely almost entirely on second- or third-hand accounts from anonymous Navy sources, whistleblowers, or congressional hearsay.
The U.S. military and scientific expeditions (like NOAA’s Okeanos Explorer missions) have explored parts of the Marianas Trench Marine National Monument and reported nothing extraterrestrial — only new species, geological features, and hydrothermal vents.
Broader USO discussions (objects entering/exiting the ocean at high speed) have gained more mainstream attention since the 2021–2023 UAP hearings, but most credible reports come from coastal or shallower waters (e.g., off So. California, Puerto Rico, or the East Coast), not specifically the ultra-deep Challenger Deep.
There are lots of other reasons to visit the Trench: New forms of yet-undiscovered life and those may hold some breakthrough Big Pharma compounds for commercialization.
Our bet, for now, is that The DUDE has placed Andy on site to ensure there is a spiritually-aware observer/participant around if something’s been hanging on the low-beam around Challenger Deep.
Clive Cussler could have a ton-of-fun with this kind of plot line is he was still around. But his son IS and who knows where Dirk Pitt will be consulting in what must surely be retirement by now…
(Regular reader novelist A.G. Kimbrough may want to go plot-fishing in this area too!)
A bit long-winded this morning, but the Adventures of Andy are damn interesting. Already one reader (who’s wife is better from her recent ticker-flicker, we hope!) mentions:
“Sounds like the expedition is under high level protection. Either that, or it has a jack-of-all trades who could be real handy on Gilligan’s Isle.
Back home, my suggestion that Ure readers should be ready for at least 90 days with limited resupply still sounds good.”
And that is how we get to our second cup and watering 12 giant Romaines and half a dozen spinach sidekicks,k which is next up on the kanban…
But how about today’s column, huh? I’ve gone from wrting short blogs in 1999 to long, then very long-form, then a one-man economics newspaper, and now it’s turning into a full-on Adventure Magazine with a financial section. I really gotta dial it back. There’s no money in this…community service is it.
My writing coach says “It is still two-and-a-half columns wearing one trench coat.” Is my AI in San Francisco, or where, exactly?
Write when you get rich,
George@Ure.net
No Sunshine G Doggy, No Sunshine at all..https://youtu.be/Nuanwn3v-2I?
Aint no sunshine when Ure short this Market, have youse not seen Scandisk in like the past year ? How about BITCOIN – them badboys be going to the MOON, without Youse landlubbers. though after seeing Scandisks performance this year, you maybe wonder why bother with Bitcoin..the answer, as always is about DIVER SIF ACTION .
Full of hot air…have yet to see a Trimaran hulled Sailboat on the intercosatal. My new workspace is seat at dinner table looking out over the intercoastal. Twin hulled motorboats, sure, catamaran Sailboats, you betcha, hell I even saw a massive ochin going barge with 2 massive objects onboard, under tarps being pushed by ochin going Barge and plenty of yachts(trawler style my fav), but not a single Tri ?
Im begining to think Trimarans are like EtherBunny/Snipes/and Minces, Ill see it when I believe it.
Yes I would be BUYING Scandisk here at current level, and absolutely YES I would be BUYING BITCOIN here. No warnings, Ure big Girls and Boys take some responsibility for once in Ure lives. The wilderness(future) is no place for limp wristed fudge packers or purple&blue haired lesbos.
* Do not forget, When going gets tough, the tough get Professional..yerp, sharpen em again.
Turn It Up Homegamerz, better at VOLUME https://youtu.be/GG2tZNOQWAA?
who sang fool on the hill ? what a fool believes now thats the doobies. first dude ?? but me mate here the modern version . aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhaaaaaaaaaaaaa fool
“The Fool on the Hill” was a Beatles song.
me old mate fake doggy coin fella spins a heap of vinyl for me . it was Sergio mendes and the brasil 66. now who was it . aint no sunshine when bulla bulla is gone . bill withers or the blind dude from mexico . come on mortally wounded faeces fella , who is on the playlist ?
George, I have sugested here occasionally that the stock market is no longer linked to economic reality. With just a handful of financial players (mutual funds etc) controlling the ownership of over 40% of the stocks, painting the tape is somewhat of a trivial exercise.
With the markets seemingly functioning as a barometer of our common “well being” and the historical image of carnage arising from the 29 Crash, is it any wonder that the masters of the barometer keep it from reading a dire situation. They happily paint the tape in the back room such that middle America, looking at their retirement accounts, don’t panic.
So, as the orange Jesus lays hands upon the sick nation, those that should know better, sip their lattes and go about their business. Perhaps, when the real shortages show up next month, it will become harder to paint the tape. But for now, waves and cycles have been obviated by the corporate AI that keeps the perception of a market floating as the economy, it supposedly represents, continues to drown.
danogenes : you were doing so well until injecting the political crap-o-la.
There are indeed market forces who try to control the vibe. The market(s) being a sum total of humanity (plus smart auto-tools) are larger than any one player, or cadre of players. IOW, while efforts are made to talk books, take advantage, the markets remain free, functional and … not rigged (despite urge to cast shade).
If “… markets seemingly functioning as a barometer of our common “well being”…” we are all good. I do not believe that to be the case. So, the premise is wrong or I am wrong. Or, I’m confused (the 3rd possibility)?
E
GU : “… either cut population (to fit available domestic manufacturing) or we can downsize consumption. Another shot of hemlock there, sport? …”
The world of humans works in threes. You set three utensils even if only using two, or one. I’m coaching E3 to go 1-2-3. He doesn’t have time for 4 (yet). If someone suggests two outcomes they are missing a third. If stretching to four bullet points (or more) some should be joined to stick with three. Humans are born into triangularity. Live with it.
.
On having couth. You got it or not. Ergo uncouth. (Ergo and Egor not to be confused, same characters but …). We live in a caustic world online. I like the real reality version better, so try to minimize tech. A dear client, quality control head for a major international firm, shut out news at retirement. Now it makes sense. hemlock [nope].
ATL : buncha sore grumpy guys (and my gal) here today. Helper guy and I tore out a 30 YO planter box and installed new ground contact treated 4x4s, rebuilding what was and better. It’s a Mrs. E flower zone so done just in time. I also pre-planned for perforated PVC drain, to intersect another drain nearby. Check.
It was a 3 snake day (as if they all emerged from hibernation ready to rumble. Mrs. E still shudders at the harmless Garter but it’s allowed (even helpful to an extent). Then there was the water snake on the seawall. I cheered my gal as she went in with a broom. Then there was a >4′ er, also a Viper (injects Anticoagulants from fangs). It ran into my shovel. Several times.
I feel guilty (not really). Glad I dispatched her (likely a female) before nesting young-uns or … even made it into the water. These are _very_ aggressive mean snakes that don’t flee humans. In fact they fight instead of flee. Uncouth.
Snakes are gunning stops in both directions then feeding a YOLO FOMO wave. The SPX high was 7,002.28. This directional surge left an enormous gap from 6,618 to 6,740 at the open on 04/08/26. There’s your upper and lower strikes. Bet accordingly. Headed for a new high? Show me.
On bets. Why have one position with one entry and one exit? Only one? Insane. Place trades in series so if the rationale remains good though the first or second helping is underwater you can … apply fresh powder.
On stops. They are visible, hey? Money makers and BD players can run the price down to collect shares, force out competition, as they choose. I never entered a 5% or 10% protective stop since it drew attention, 6 or 12 maybe (the power of 3). Apply trailing stops.
At 71, staying off ladders makes sense.
Laddered positions always make cents.
Not ^ FA-Financial Advice (it _never_ is).
Raining here. Again.
Got water?
E
Hmmm seems Arabia needed spanking …Isreal started it with Iran, Syria, and Lebanon. Iran responded.. Some Arab infighting.. Some negotiations… Pakistan… NOTE: Syria wife, Pakistani wife were British… some influence.
So, Iran embargo shipping in gulf… USA embargo Iran… China upset but has 1 year supply in storage… Pacific rim no storage…
Idea of Trump is following Hillary in most things. Classified, Iran, health care.. mostly ‘I’m bigger than you’…
So, Turkey and Saudi playing Trump against Nehenahoo…. Pope safety valve for VP… India might be peaceful but not Catholic… lots moving parts… China on edge with India if no BRICS.
Iran… BRICs dead.. Trump blockade… China pacific rim dead… Russia remaining BRICs …
Russia… Europe French Bulgaria, toss in British … threat Russia and win back Ukraine…
French broke… Backdrop 7T losses due to Gulf war ‘hit fan’ finances just in time for USA finance…FED bailouts to Arab friendlies.. not spent fast except backdrop France maybe… not China as Iran…
Outcomes.. NATO is Turkey… if Isreal takes it out Russia invades eastern Europe…
Iran is wildcard, typically mad mad Muslims secure treaties by being gay with each other and then descend on Israeli…
So that brings up just one more question. These so-called thrilling science guys and gals (JASON) were where when mandatory vaxxed rolled (myeyes) hit?
Investigating the effects of CV-19 on mass populations…
“Why Iran Has Won” on Martin Armstrong’s private blog.
I don’t know…
I think it’s obvious that Iran has won, and that the will to die on your feet and never back down regarding your own nation/property will always prevail over outside pressure unless exterminated to the last man. That happened in Vietnam, Afghanistan, and now Iran.
II: When will we ever learn? :II
The Islamic State Mullahs and their followers are not Iranians.
When they are all dead, there will be nearly 89 million Iranians remaining. Those 89 million will be friendly toward their neighbors, including Israel, and will be a staunch U.S. ally. They won’t have nukes, or missiles, or offensive weapons of any other kind. Most-importantly, they will no longer fund imbedded fanatic terrorists. No money means Hamas, Hezbollah, the Houthi, the IS, and the bastards murdering Christians in Nigeria will all go away, as will their sleepers in the U.S. and Canada…
I’d like to believe that, and perhaps it’s true. It seems that a lot of blood will get spilled first, regardless of the result. Lives matter, as does freedom.
God willing you’re right. I still think we need to be careful about entangling alliances.
@NM Mike
“I’d like to believe that”
So would I. I recognize it’s the “ideal,” and won’t be achieved, but out of sheer decency, we should try.
“It seems that a lot of blood will get spilled first”
It already has. I estimate the Iranian theocracy has murdered about 140,000 Persians this year, so far.
If you listen to the heads talk, they will use the number “40,000.” That is incorrect. It is the number of innocents murdered in the final two days before we started bombing Iran. The IRGC and Basij had murdered about 57,000 between January first and the rush to kill that 40k.
What I didn’t know until one of the Persian expats explained to me a couple weeks ago: The Shia in Iran believe that if you’re not a good little Muslim and support, in lockstep, everything the Mullahs say and do, you don’t deserve to go to heaven. To ensure these bad people never reach the heavenly plateau, every one is defiled before they are executed. The people who lost their shit over the viral pic of the 70yo Muslim with his 9yo bride should see pix of 70yo Muslims raping 9 month old boys and girls before they lop off their heads, for perspective…
You got Ure readers confused. No one nearby with a heart issue. Not to worry, it makes you sound more like a chief executive.
There is one take on Andy’s expedition that hasn’t surfaced yet. Refer to Apple TV:
https://www.tvinsider.com/1234308/monarch-legacy-of-monsters-season-2-premiere-date-trailer-cast-plot-details/
And with all the swingers, it does sound a lot like a West Coast origin production.
My sincerest apologies – in the early morning I transposed a memory of another reader whose wife had the ticker flicker – but like a good corporatge ceo “It never happened” – there gone.
re: Cygnus X-1
feat: a High Table Elder of Islamabad
Today the foreign minister of Iran issued two public posts on his social media. One noted his telephone call with his counterpart of Ankara, Turkey.
A second offers a photographed moment from this past weekend’s Strait of Hormuz peace talks in Islamabad. It depicts the Iranian delegation with the President making his case to an unseen one at the head of the table. A standing foreign minister peers down at his teacup. The scene is lit from overhead by ten pinpoints of lighting.
The image bears a part Arabic, part Russian watermark: Ar – “other tweets”; Rus – “2khorintur”. Perhaps the Russian reference alludes to an African filmmaker whose surname by chance parallels the name of ancient Sumerian gods?
The USNI’s (US Naval Institute) website advises that its largest individual donor since 2016 is the global aerospace and defense company General Dynamics. A USNI public post of yesterday informs on finer detail of a US naval armada then off the coast of Namibia enroute to enforce a blockade at the Straits of Hormuz.
re: “The Abyss”, Dr. Brigman, 8/9/89
feat: Aphorism 146 – Friedrich Nietzsche
Film director of “The Abyss” and “Titantic”, James Cameron, is from Kapuskasing (Cree: “Whispering Waters”), Canada. Apparently a town mill co-owned between the “New York Times” and Kimberley-Clark began supplying the newspaper’s newsprint in 1928. According to geoscientists, the area features magnetic anomalies, and the 1.9 billion year old Archean crust typically around 35 kilometers/20 miles deep made a surface appearance after the Kapuskasing uplift. A Government of Canada “Science” webpage about the uplift informs that 1984 era research into the geological details utilized “marine research methods”.
Director Cameron completed the first solo dive of some 35,000+ feet to the bottom of Challenger Deep, the lowest point in the Mariana Trench, in March 2012. Here is an “ITN” news report carried by “PBS” the day after the record setting dive at the following Youtube link:
https://youtu.be/v5DG5Eup9ss
As an aside, apparently Mr. Cameron acquired dual New Zealand citizenship in 2025 and now resides there.
Knock, knock
Who’s there ?
Halicrafters
Halicrafters who?
Invaluable – @ 3:00 be there or be square -https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot/hallicrafters-model-crx-104-solid-state-aircraft–87-c-ba77b04c1b?objectID=203394430&algIndex=upcoming_lots_closed_desc_lotNumber_asc_prod&queryID=acb3f72aa2c77c2db450be29f515fc02
Believe this one going down in Indiana somewheres..
” U.S. imposes military blockade ”
Try to buy into the vendors getting the Panama Canal widening project to support the oil transport routes from Venezuela to Chinatown.
While waiting for the widening project to complete buy into shipbuilders that’ll crank out new supertankers to support the long route around the Cape. Twice the distance means twice the tankers to keep the supply use supplied.
“Modern oil supertankers, specifically Ultra Large Crude Carriers (ULCCs) and Very Large Crude Carriers (VLCCs), typically have a beam (width) of approximately 60 to 70 meters (about 197 to 230 feet).”
Vs
“The Panama Canal’s width varies, with original locks measuring 110 feet (33.5 meters) wide and the expanded “NeoPanamax” locks measuring 180 feet (55 meters) wide.”
Yo Radioman G,
Looky loo – https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot/hallicrafters-model-crx-104-solid-state-aircraft–87-c-ba77b04c1b?objectID=203394430&algIndex=upcoming_lots_closed_desc_lotNumber_asc_prod&queryID=acb3f72aa2c77c2db450be29f515fc02
Radios, Telegraph, Hamages…going, going…SOLD!
if I was to make a guess from what I have read the scientists with ..JASON are studying the tectonic plate movements that NASA has been concerned over in Antarctica..and future of food production in climate changes currently going on..
https://www.nsf.gov/news/antarctic-research-links-warming-fish-decline
https://science.nasa.gov/earth/explore/the-ocean-and-climate-change/
https://schmidtocean.org/cruise-log-post/studying-the-ecology-and-geology-of-the-mariana-trench-the-deepest-place-on-earth/
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/2022GL097779
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/356761761_Impact_of_climate_change_on_seismicitya_statistical_approach
I’ve read there was a lot of concerns over the clusters of earthquakes and ocean Temperatures and current flow resulting in climactic changes..
https://research.noaa.gov/research-the-deep-sea-is-slowly-warming/
I no longer know anyone in the research at the Antarctic station..but still read a few studies which point towards researching the deep ocean temperatures and the frequency of clusters.. then again this is just a guess..only Jason knows for sure what they are looking for understanding what’s going on that deep..
https://www.whoi.edu/ocean-learning-hub/ocean-topics/how-the-ocean-works/seafloor-below/ocean-trenches/#:~:text=These%20same%20adaptations%20may%20also,over%20extended%20periods%20of%20time.
well done G in the face of manure from da boyz .. prezmates .. the picker from florida is starting to hit em straight again , off the veges in san fran , he sees apocalypse market devastation , just like my great mate SJK .. good lucka boyz and bigga sicka capo don
ohh and daboyz dey aint just running the assylum , they have renovated it , turned into a nightclub ballroom , brand new . they got some hot russky looking old chick to run it for da man . big boss . got better sound and audio and cameras than mossad island nightclub
Trump is insane…
Giorgia Meloni, Prime Minister of Italy, described Trump’s tirade against the Pope as “unacceptable”. Now the US president has said it is “she who is unacceptable”.
In an interview with Corriere della Sera, Trump also said he was “shocked” by the Italian PM’s comments. He went on to issue a stark warning over Iran’s nuclear capabilities.
“It is she who is unacceptable, because she doesn’t care if Iran has a nuclear weapon and would blow up Italy in two minutes if it had the chance,” he said.
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/donald-trump-giorgia-meloni-pope-37011910
It seems like Swallowell did well for himself – banging and sleeping with real hotties on the regular, and keeping a wife while bankrolling himself with our tax money, state secrets, bennies, and probably a full retirement with free medical services. Great work if you can get it and have no morals.
Until he pissed off Anna Paulina…
IMO it is the Cali State Democrats who took him out. What he’s getting hit with is line-for-line the same shit Kavanaugh got hit with, and Herman Cain before him.
Primary time is only a couple weeks away, and the top two candidates are both Republicans. The Dem dark money has been trying to get hopefulls to drop out. Their theory goes: With fewer candidates, there’d be more Dem votes for fewer people and they could knock the Repubs off the ballot.
I don’t know if California politics is a zero-sum game, but the Soros’ of the world seem to think so…
I suspect JASON is just doing routine ocean floor mapping — something they’ve been doing for 60 years, and will probably be doing for another 260 years…
i totally agree Ray. My Thoughts exactly.
However, I am here.
i asked THE DUDE about it.
He said, I have you here because i need you here.
how long have you known me? you read both my websites. im the kinda fella who gets one of a kind Vatican books signed by popes, that change the names of Popes after i write about them.
i have litterally wrote hubdreds upon hundreds of “woo woo” type accounts on here.
so although i agree this may be a routine check of the trench? because THE DUDE put me here, i suspect it will be anything but routine. there is always weird supernatural stuff going on around me.
watch me get some alien crap on me and turn into an X man or some shit. hahhaha
best Alien Abduction account i have ever watched. i laughed so hard i almost pissed my pants
https://youtu.be/kELDEdMbkyg?si=if_2ufAVIfz0DM32
sooooo funny.
okay time to head to the lobby and head to the boat. i might flirt a little with the red head, so when im not working i can go watch the video feed on her robot sub. im not doing anything with her. but i can play nice to get to see her monitor feed inside the trench. that i can do.
as they say in Fiji,
Daumaka!
I Win with God within!
wait a minute. that sounded really sexual. for clarity, no puns on the red head.
ffs. this isnt that kind of mission.
I accept the possibility that “interesting” things will happen on your excursion. In fact, I’d almost be disappointed if something didn’t. However, I don’t believe “interesting things” are on the ship’s itinerary, nor that anything sinister or black-bag is in the offing. If it were, you wouldn’t be there because black-ops folks don’t like witnesses.
Yes..a few years ago well a few more than a couple..they were checking ice melt and temperatures off the ice shelf..I love the Antarctic sun newspaper..when I knew people on the ice the us givt. sent them steel toe snow boots..lol they were burning them because steel toe would cut their toes off..lol lol they sent me a pair and dam..my feet was sweating in them the best snow boots I ever owned..I froze my feet years ago when I had to walk to work in winter weather and didn’t have anything but tennis shoes so they get cold real quick….
I asked what was happening with that blacked out area..nope they couldn’t disclose what they found and he’s been retired quite a while. lol lol now was that an alien base or did they find the nazi base that was supposedly built there.. we wont ever know lol lol.either way .I don’t have any curiosity on space travelers at all..my curiosities were all answered years ago…in trade for a sewing machine I met and made friends with one of the most interesting individuals and his dog whisky that I’ve ever met..had a wall of photos of him in the oval office with every president up to obama. he had a piece of paper over one guys face..I asked why he had it over his face..his response he’s an asshole lol lol…..heard all the stories..got to touch and look at the mogul balloon.. ..cool shit there interesting story all in itself.. my bucket list I want to take the champagne hot air balloon flight the wife doesn’t their to expensive for us right now anyway…
True Ray, and Well said.
I do have a knack of being in the safest place on earth. Its a matter of faith. Death doesn’t come to bother me much anymore. Death usually shows up after I left the scene. and by no effort on my part. I simply move out of the way before it goes down.
See my other comment to George. Its like everyone on the ship knows who I am and I’m just the FNG. Green horn. lol
I was talking to this fella who is the new cook. I said oh we are the same size. What do you weigh? he said 185. I said Oh… I weigh 240lbs. He said you don’t look in the mirror? your back looks like the state of Texas. I said oh I just forget how big I am. He said what size are your arms? I said I think 20 inch. Something like that. He laughed and said mine are 17s. I said oh I just feel like a kid most of the time so I forget i am a big guy.
So maybe they are all looking at me because I am a big dude. Idk seems weird.
Well, I need to get to the gym, it is my time slot. then hit the rack. up at 3am, pray meditate then off to work.
Thanks Ray. We shall see. As it is, I am just getting sweaty, dirty, playing with power tools all day and having the time of my life. :) We even have a metal lath in our shop. So fun!
I Win with God within!
(“He said you don’t look in the mirror? your back looks like the state of Texas. I said oh I just forget how big I am.”)
Dam Andy… I don’t know how I’d have taken that comment..
let me see . time to go into the strongroom and choose what we wish to spray the market with . got my favourite 5 . ahh we will use em all . love the bouble leverage vix though .. mm . and bonds mmmm TLT and short the last breath of NAZ .. and long USD$ . and triples that south semi conductor malware spyware … yum yum yum
Most of what I buy these days is “MADE IN CHINA” (as that’s the only source) ………. that is not going to change anytime soon …. the greatest generation transferred, jobs, tech and money …. to China years ago …. cheer cheer to all them rich folk … many long dead now
China knows, as well as most folk … China can impact USA anytime it wants ( and yes China would get hit too, revenue is revenue and the USA Customer loves them China products) … there is no quick solution to all the products China provides …….. USA capability is long gone, with little USA interest to fix (regardless what is said).
So why China keep playing along? I suppose $$$$$$ … like it seems to always be about
be safe all ……….. good luck
We have had this discussion a number of times on Urban Survival.
Virtually anything you should ever want to buy is available as a “Made in USA” product.
What isn’t available is a product for everyone, because our manufacture of finished products was substantially offshored.
What also isn’t available, is an American product at a Chinese price.
While it is true that China can rock us, we can utterly destroy them. China is a Marxist-fascist hybrid. Their economy was down the crapper before we shut off the Venezuelan spigot. They MUST have a market for their industrial capacity, and the U.S. is such an expansive market that, should we stop buying Chinese junk, their economy would collapse within weeks.
We are currently in talks with Indonesia and Malaysia over control of the Strait of Malacca, through which China currently gets about 80% of its petroleum. Add that to the ~17% they get from ships passing through the Strait of Hormuz and suddenly, there’s no longer gas for President Xi to tool around Beijing in his Hongqi limo…
All the oil going out the Hormuz Straits that is going to China goes through the Straits of Malacca.
The Torres Straits between Indonesia and Australia is super narrow at an appropriate depth (70′ – NOT deep enough for any big tanker let alone a VLCC) for any Ocean Freighter (channel width less than 500 meters? – one report I read said the main channel was under 300 meters wide) which is why it is NOT used for Ocean Shipping purposes. Apparently only fishing vessels regularly transit through it though an ocean freighter of old, say 7000 tons or less might be able to CAREFULLY pick their way through it .
Other than the Straits of Malacca that inability to use the Torres Straits restricts modern ocean ships to instead go SOUTH of Australia /Tasmania, which puts them way south of the transit corridor to Asia (and at the northern end of the Roaring 40’s) on any transit to East Asia from Europe, Africa, or the Middle East that doesn’t go around or through the Americas.
Arrrrrrggghhh – there be PIRATES in the Malacca Straits area…like real life no goodniks.
Pirate walks into a Bar, with large anchor rope hanging out of his Pants, dragging it behind himself. With every step he takes Pirate growls “Arrrggggghhhh!”.
Bartender looks up at him and says “Hey Mr Pirate whats with the anchor rope Ure dragging into my Bar? Pirate says, Arrrrggghhh its me Ships anchor rope, and its driving me Nuts!
The wife and I went out to eat today..
one of the largest auto dealerships closed the lot.. the restaurant we went to had converted one section for living space offset from the restaurant.. I got talking to the owner and she said we can’t afford to have a house and restaurant.. only family staffs it.
on the news they were talking to young couples renting..ones rent only leaves them two hundred a month to cover utilities fuel insurance and food after rent for two incomes..
my grand daughter was looking at a house that twenty years ago sold for thirty grand..now its close to four hundred grand…what I can’t figure out is I was working one job lots of travel putting in a lot of hours..my average take home was two hundred a week..now I got a job closer to home less pay no travel and I take home twice that amount.. which has been a blessing for us..
Blackrock and their cohorts at the top of the liquid assets list had bought roughly 2 million single-family houses by mid-2023. I assume they’ve bought more, by now. They are being rented, at rates amounting to about 22-23 percent of average monthly family income. Additionally, I’m seeing these cardboard & OSB apartment complexes and the modern equivalent of cheapassed post WW-II saltbox neighborhoods, spring up all over the Midwest.
I believe the idea is to get everybody renting, and doing so at a cost which makes ownership nearly impossible, and use the (engineered) shortage of single-family homes available for purchase, to make the cost of ownership, prohibitive.
Once we’ve ceased to own property for a generation or two, our progeny will neither notice nor care, when our property rights are taken away…
Rent is outrageous and yes paying a house payment is more than what people earn..not even counting the taxes and expenses of owning a home it is almost forgotten history.. they came up with a program to freeze taxes this year.. if incomes were at a certain level..I got to the courthouse at 8am and they had over three hundred in line..the guy next to me was saying his taxes was more than his monthly house payment..when I got to the lady she said yes I have to tell almost everyone that they don’t qualify.. brought back memories of Washington DC.. the house we lived in there was 25 people living there just to pay the monthly rent..and that was fifty years ago..a friend pays something like eight grand a month for a house smaller than my garage in alexandria..another lives in Richmond and can’t find anyone that wants to work..they’re all govt. employees.. he’s been trying to get some repairs done and hit a roadblock at every corner..
the grand daughter was looking at a house that twenty years ago sold for thirty grand is now just shy four hundred grand….low income rent is more than low income wages..
I was working one job putting in a lot of miles and hours and not taking anything home..took a different job less pay virtually no miles and less hours and making twice what I was..I still haven’t figured out what the difference is…
(” I suppose $$$$$$ … like it seems to always be about”)
I don’t know where I heard this..but its always about the business model lol lol
Buckle up indeed! Sailing the South Pacific looking like a bumpy ride:
2nd strongest Super Typhoon Category 5 (in history) already appears in Guam, Mariana Islands.
‘The only typhoon this strong that occurred earlier in any calendar year was Super Typhoon Hester on Jan. 1, 1953.’
There has been an increase in the number of Cat 5s globally since accurate global satellite data became available in 1982, statistically significant at the 99.5% level..’
https://yaleclimateconnections.org/2026/04/cat-5-super-typhoon-sinlaku-the-2nd-strongest-typhoon-so-early-in-the-year/
Climate Change Deniers, Ride the Eye of a Cat 5 Super Typhoon!
See the creatures and rocks from the Deep on the Thompson’s last cruise: (JASON refers to the remotely operated underwater vehicle)
https://scripps.ucsd.edu/news/hard-rock-geology-above-challenger-deep
very interesting . thanks for that . great post
“And if you still had any doubt about what Iran actually wants… they told you. Out loud. At the negotiating table.
They refused to stop funding Hamas. They refused to stop funding Hezbollah. They refused to stop funding the Houthis.
They refused to stop enriching uranium, and they refused to open the Strait without charging a $2 million toll per ship in crypto, like some dark web scammer.
They didn’t just reject peace. They handed the world a signed confession that the regime’s real priorities are nukes, terrorism, and extortion. In that order.
Iran didn’t lose a negotiation. Iran lost the argument.”
see the full posting here,,,
https://x.com/Knesix/status/2043736074594177237?s=20
I dunno. Two months ago there wasn’t a blockage, Iran wasn’t winning favor as an underdog in the mind of many non-Americans, and China wasn’t making huge partnerships in SE Asia. Third worlders are loving those Lego videos.
I dunno. Two months ago there wasn’t a blockage — true
But without a [war and] blockade, Tel-Aviv, Pensacola, Charleston, D.C., New York, and Boston would all, not now exist.
Iran wasn’t winning favor as an underdog — false
The native Iranian people, who are Persian by birth and genetics, ARE winning favor everywhere news isn’t censored or abridged, INCLUDING the United States. The people we’re fighting in Iran are North African Arabs by birth and genetics. They are an invasive blight on the Iranian natives, and have murdered more Iranian Persians this year alone than the U.S. lost in every war we’ve fought, since 1950, put together.
and China wasn’t making huge partnerships in SE Asia — false.
With whom have they made any actual partnership this year? Australia (in conjunction with the UK and US) is building a modern submarine fleet. Japan is building offensive military weaponry for the first time since WW-II and they’re contemplating joining the nuclear club. Indonesia is thinking about crowding themselves under our umbrella. All this ain’t because the folks along the Pac-Rim are getting warm and fuzzy feels from the Chicoms…
“EM gets into how the faction in control in Israel and the IRGC, which controls Iran are the same player. He says both were created by the British and the French Empires and he says:
“The French set up Hezbollah…Hezbollah is the investment bank for the Devil’s Legions, for all the criminal terrorist stay-behind security assets of the former French and British Empires. And they have a heavy presence in Nigeria. They have a heavy presence in Paraguay. They perform this function all over the world, centered out of Lebanon. It is why we heavily-sanctioned Lebanon’s banks.” – EM Burlingame
Why tRUMPS wackadoo act ?
The Global Financial Systems as we know it..
“So, it needs a predictable world and it needs a chaotic but induced, predictable chaotic world. Trump comes along – and not just Trump, he’s just one person, right? He’s one person – the whole regime, like Bessent. Bessent knows how this works. He did these things. There are others around Trump and around Bessent that know this stuff very, very, very, very, very well, including the DOGE people.
“And so, what do you have to do? You have to throw truly unpredictable information in there. You have to cut through the mask of civility and get to reality.”
We’ve been living in an artificially-constructed noosphere, where our emotions are harvested for financial gain. EM implies that Donald Trump’s chaotic comms, which are duly reported in the media and that feed into the HFTs are information bombs intended to disrupt the algorithmic rackets of the Financialists and to rob them of their income, so that they can’t keep funding this 5th Generation Warfare that is constantly waged against everybody, with these complex trades. This is in conjunction with actions being taken by others in his administration, like Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, who worked in this world of Globalist Financialists for decades.
It appears to me that Donald Trump has been fighting 5GW fire with fire with the Alice in Wonderland technique.”-EM
“Financialists” well now,,, let us see who they is,,,
“EXPOSED: Trump Names the Hidden War — Britain Has No Cards Left”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IBxif0k4d-k
If trump is trump then ‘make america great again’ is motto. Iran messed it up with inciting jews. Republicans support them. As a result trump at kurk funeral said ‘better to get even’. So iran is supported by china. Expect trump to ‘fix it’. Republican prophet’s say forgive but that is dope on the beach with muscle Malone licks sand in his face in front of his girl.
Aliens,,, do we need a conspricy theorist???
under water, in the crust dwellers or in the hollow interior? or off planet or interdimentional, or all the above?
film at 11:00,,, or video in the link
“CONGRESS UFO SHOCKER: Matt Gaetz & Tim Burchett Reveal Alien Contact Claims”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOBrgZBYlzU
in all my years i have never seen such an attack on bonds in the after darks
Just wait….there isn’t any way all of this crap ends nice
George,
New model final peak fractal growth valuation on 24 April 2026 for ACWI completing a 7 April 2025 53/107/106 day :: X/2X/2X fractal growth series with a final nadir valuation in December 2026.