I spent the better part of an hour this morning in deep debate. “Is this a “waffle weave” or an “awful weave” my country is doing right now?”
Some days (suspiciously like this one) have nothing but loose ends, posturing, headline-attention getters, and refried BS served like it’s a steak. But does it all matter? Um…
Hard telling, based on the evidence.
HR Grenade and “Ceasefire”
More changed in the military to keep track of: Pete Hegseth fires U.S. Navy Secretary John Phelan. We could empty a six-pack or two on this: Should military leaders be kick-ass warriors #1 or competent administrators and implementer? What? No consensus here, either?
Well, how about Pentagon warns Hormuz mine clearance could take months: report? And it just keeps getting messier as Iran shows off its control over strait after collapse of peace talks | Reuters.
Meanwhile, not sure how Hezbollah fits (they’re the local Iran proxy) but for show here are Five things to know about the second round of Lebanon-Israel talks in US.
Honestly, we were surprised to see the timing on this one: US Halts Iraq Cash to Pressure Iran-Backed Militias. Seems to me this would be the kind of thing you’d do before committing forces, but not my wheelhouse, huh?
Small-bore Thursday it is! BB-sized impacts, but bigger arms to come.
Government Finance Dept.
Now let’s look in on those govt. types who spend it like it was theirs, not ours.
Take this one: US government could end up with 90pc stake in rescued Spirit Airlines. Does this signal that bailouts for airlines will be this economic cycle-ending version of the previous financial bailouts that seem to come with economic declines?
While pondering that, let’s keep up the spending: Senate adopts budget resolution after marathon “vote-a-rama” as GOP moves to fund ICE without Democrats.
But let’s also remember the Fed meeting is next week and we still think no rate cuts because inflation is still hot and (thanks, Iran war!) getting hotter. President Donald Trump’s Right-Hand Man at the Federal Reserve Is Reconsidering His Interest-Rate Outlook. Are Rate Cuts Off the Table in 2026?
Here’s one to worry on: An actual rate hike. The economics are there. The political will? Ha! Are you kidding?
Daily Data Doses
Chicago Fed National Activity Indicator has just rolled:
“The Chicago Fed National Activity Index (CFNAI) decreased to –0.20 in March from +0.03 in February. Three of the four broad categories of indicators used to construct the index decreased from February, and three categories made negative contributions in March. The index’s three-month moving average, CFNAI-MA3, decreased to –0.03 in March from +0.03 in February.
The CFNAI Diffusion Index, which is also a three-month moving average, increased to –0.04 in March from –0.08 in February. Thirty-four of the 85 individual indicators made positive contributions to the CFNAI in March, while 51 made negative contributions. Forty-three indicators improved from February to March, while 40 indicators deteriorated and two were unchanged. Of the indicators that improved, 16 made negative contributions.
With a second indicator in the weekly unemployment filings:
If you’re banging the 10-key trying to tally things up? Americans cut spending due to higher gas prices and see no relief in sight, CNBC survey finds. A look in your checkbook should have told you as much. That’s why we live ridiculously below our income. No worries, got it?
Tomorrow will be similar to Monday, a kind of ikigai Friday. What’s going to be our motivation to get up to hit and get tomorrow?
Drought Coming
The worst for last.
For months, I’ve been jumping up and down about drought and how food is going to be rotating front and center before the year is out. Sure enough Wildfires — fueled by drought — destroy homes across parts of Georgia and Florida.
We can’t be sure how much is weather and how much famine (still to come, wait for it) will be driven by WAR. Iran war pushing more than 30 million back into poverty, UN development chief says | Reuters.
Around the Ranch: Why Rural Rocks
I was reminded Wednesday of how distinctly different rural life is from the BCRR (big city rat race). It’s a good story and it makes a point. I’ll count the people involved as we go because it’s the web of humans that’s our centerpiece here.
Elaine and I had (her birthday) dinner with neighbors at a nice steakhouse in Tyler, Tuesday night. Steak, lobster, Caesars, red wine – the usual.
Partway into dinner, my neighbor mentioned “Y’all haven’t seen a dog have you? Our wiry hair old puppy has wandered off – been missing several days now.” ( Human #1- the neighbor fellow)
No, we hadn’t, but we promised to keep an eye out.
Fast forward to Wednesday afternoon, a little after 3 PM.
UPS driver Justin brought me a package and – in passing – asked “You looking for a dog? There’s this dog that was just sitting in the middle of the road partway down to the creek from your gate…” (Human #2 – the UPS driver)
I went in the house and called Mrs. Neighbor to tell her “Your missing dog may be on our road…” (#3- me)
I was up to my ears in things, so I asked Elaine to hike down the road a ways to look for the dog. Which she did (accompanied by three feral guard cats). (#4-Elaine)
A few minutes later the FedEx truck pulls up. Cameron gets me my boxes and says “I saw your wife down looking in the brush by the side of the road – anything you want me to tell her on the way out? (#5-FedEx driver)
Pretty soon, Mrs. Neighbor shows up to retrieve the dog. (#6-Mrs. Neighbor, heart of gold, missing the old blind dog).
But she wasn’t driving; see she’s had a few wrist problems, so her daughter, next house down from them, was driving (#7- Mrs. Neighbor’s daughter).
Now here’s the point and it explains something worth knowing. Even though we are “rural” we are never really “alone” out here. Everyone’s got your back.
I’ll never forget as a young reporter covering the stories about how people in New York were being mugged as folks walked by. Turned my stomach and lowered my opinion of New York permanently. (Recent politics there haven’t helped, either.)
I know from 50-plus years of city living that this sort of spontaneous “community problem solving” doesn’t just pop up in town. Damn few can be bothered to help find an old blind, wandered-off dog. In fact, when I was married (previous, long ago) and running on the rat wheel myself, I didn’t even know the name of the person three houses down. Seriously. Suburbia wasn’t “community” – not by a “country mile.”
But I’ll tell you where I DID find in-city community: Live aboard sailboaters at Shilshole Bay Marina. If you needed a hand with anything, everyone – even from several docks away – would hear and show up to help. THAT is why sailing is great. Watch the weather, the mountains and everyone is Ure friend.
It’s like that here in the outback, too.
Sure, dogs get lost in town – and found. But, often as not, they end up in the pound (with a bill due and owing). Or, they’re never seen again. Of course, occasionally signs go up and Craigslist is a godsend. But this kind of happy-ending? It was great.
For us, it underscored how “more connected” people are to one another out here.
And how people in the “rat race” have lost something more valuable than a buck. Y’all have fun on the wheel.
See you tomorrow for “Fragmentation Friday” – will the weekend blow up?
Write when you get rich,
George@Ure.net
Watch this Professor, you would know what is coming next.
https://youtu.be/NidlGa9C0H8?si=0FRMwhoHSjXO3WgC
Must Watch to know what is coming, and get prepared.
live from China ?????? what the,,, whatever
Even Tucker Carlson listens to Dr. Jiang, he seems to be the sharpest pencil in the box right now.
https://singjupost.com/tucker-carlson-show-w-professor-jiang-xueqin-on-the-next-phase-in-iran-transcript/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jiang_Xueqin
‘Jiang’s Geo-Strategy episode, “The Iran Trap” (2024), has attracted international attention, predicting the re-election of Donald Trump in 2024 and escalating U.S. involvement in a conflict with Iran (cf. the 2025 and 2026 conflicts) and eventual U.S. loss in a prolonged conflict, the first two of which have come true as of 2026.[14][15] According to India Today, other analysts had made similar predictions but “Jiang packaged them early and memorably.”[6]
We know all five of our neighbors. My husband gets super bored and his condition means a lot of boring home time as I’m usually the one doing all the high active/intensive work in and outside. He’s in good with everyone, and if anyone needs anything, we’re on it. He’s the social one, thank goodness. I’m all kinds of social awkward.
Btw, G, I know the lack of rain has been problematic for farmers, but it’s been a godsend to me. I’ve nearly caught up with my outdoor todo’s. Nearly. Just hoping to get a 95% completion before incoming rain. The Ohio valley is looking at next week to be almost all rain.
Silvermitt : go _the_ Ohio! we are in the St. Joe (Joseph) River basin. choked with rain. So, Wordslinger, how about publishing the reverse not-in-drought map? Morsal? Settle in the HeartLand.
Got water?
Egor ~~~
No, Mr. Egor, we do not have water! The state of New Mexico is in desperate need of rain. We hardly received any snow or rain during the last seven months. The Rio Grande is drying up, and fires are popping up already. Send your water to us. Thanks.
MOST or the US’s grain belt looks fine (Ohio /Indiana /Illinois /Iowa /Michigan /Wisconsin /Minnesota /North Dakota) with only the grain belt states of South Dakota /Nebraska /Colorado showing problems.
Dry Land Farming is the main types of farming in the West to the West of the “Dry Line” an actual physical separation of the Eastern part of the US from the Western part, first extensively researched and discussed by John Wesley Powel (yep first person to transit the Grand Canyon who later the the director of the U.S. Geological Survey (1881–1894) and the first director of the Smithsonian Institution’s Bureau of Ethnology (1879–1902)) basically showed by the mid 1880’s what G. Ures drought chart from today shows. Farming /Ranching WEST of the Dry Line is a much more “iffy” proposition that that to the East.
Over the 160+ years since John Wesley started talking about that Dry Line is has effectively moved 2 to 3 degrees to the east, a slow but steady move to the east of about 160 to 200 miles.
A look at this picture of the 100 degree line (which is the approximate Dry Line location) will show the same dynamic as the drought map …. if you are east of the line and north of the mid south you are fine wrt rain this year.
https://yale-threesixty.transforms.svdcdn.com/production/100th-Meridian_Seager-2018_web.jpg?w=800&auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=clip&dm=1740245700&s=97500a0e873e692179eed70b014abff4
My memories of live aboard living were times spent between adventures, sitting around other sea adventurers, sharing tales of travel. Probably like the old pirates in the West Indies so long ago. I do miss the Swantown marina, nut late 70’s calls for solid ground.
none of da gang around . probably makin shine and banjo pickin. all quiet in da big mans house . must be up to no good with b b . or firing someone like his tv show
What do you call an Aussie Meatball ?
Len,
Makin shine while T-Swizzle picks the banjo…Priceless!
Sign me up, just dont mention anything to Travis or Jason.
Obviously you were thinking moar along the lines of banjo pickin scene from Deliverence. Why you always wear Waders, no?
Apropos ?- https://youtu.be/ZHO3vBn_cfo?
This does not compute. Help!
Americans cut spending due to higher gas prices and see no relief in sight, CNBC survey finds…
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/04/23/americans-cut-spending-due-to-higher-gas-prices-and-see-no-relief-in-sight-cnbc-survey-finds-.html
Did Americans Scrimp at Other Retailers to Buy Gas? Nope, not Americans. Born to Splurge…
https://wolfstreet.com/2026/04/21/as-gasoline-prices-spiked-did-americans-scrimp-at-other-retailers-to-buy-gas-nope-not-americans-born-to-splurge/
“I’ll never forget as a young reporter covering the stories about how people in New York were being mugged as folks walked by.”
Watch: Video with Overweight Female NYPD Officer Trying to Help Restrain Punk Shows Exactly Why Mamdani’s NYC Is Doomed
The viral clip spotlights several disturbing themes underscoring the disastrous impact of left-wing social re-engineering agendas.
First, criminals no longer fear or respect law enforcement, which means there’s no deterrent to crime.
Second, many New York City officers are physically unfit to do their jobs.
Those of us who live in New York are used to seeing obese, lethargic officers who look as if they’re one doughnut away from a heart attack.
It’s inconceivable to imagine them chasing a suspect on foot or being able to physically restrain a criminal.
This is especially true of female cops, who’ve been hired en masse due to the Democrats’ DEI fetish, which has slashed standards amid leftist complaints that the fitness tests prevented women from being hired.
https://www.conservativenewsdaily.net/breaking-news/watch-video-with-overweight-female-nypd-officer-trying-to-help-restrain-punk-shows-exactly-why-mamdanis-nyc-is-doomed/
not even the half of it.
look at blue city DA’s – all soreASS sock puppets..ALL. NOTHING gets prosecuted by these dirty rats. As LE officer YOU gonna put Ure Life on the line for the dirty rats who are just going to let the perps walk ? Do that several times in a 3 month period and see how Ure behavior changes. The best part of the above sceario – you as LE officer in Phillyget overtime for all time spent at/in court. Time spent in court is separate from regular shift time and you are less likely to be assaulted or shot while at Court.
You dont think Phillies finest like piling up court time do ya ? Nah, never.
The Peeps pay the PRICE – We ALWAYS PAY THE PRICE.
BIG SECRET – Vladimir Pooteeen had to NEGOTIATE when Wagner, 30 thousand strong, surrounded Moscow.
THINK ABOUT THAT. IT IS THE BIG SECRET US GOVMINT hopes you never find out/REALIZE .
I remember watching the video clip from Seattle – when a suspect yanked an over weight., totally useless female officer from her car and drove off. She just sat there.
– It was amazing to watch. .., and disgusting.
When you lower standards until everybody can do the job, eventually you get simply anybody hired, regardless ability…
“Iran shows off its control over strait ”
This should be a good thing? Extending the internal/external blockade forces the rest of the world to buy U.S. oil. Trump’s 4D.
“Pentagon warns Hormuz mine clearance could take months”
Mines steer even more demand volume into the U.S. oil channel. Trump’s 4D.
” Americans cut spending due to higher gas prices”
Let Trump work the 4D. As the U.S. replaces Iran as the world’s gas pump…. well, looky here:
“Iran has the cheapest gasoline in the Middle East and the world, with prices as low as approximately per gallon (around €0.02-€0.03/liter) as of early 2025.”
4D! Trust the plan.
Iran forces the world to buy U.S. oil…. while Trump seems to be against the 4D.
“Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has laid more mines in the Strait of Hormuz, escalating tensions in a crucial oil passage. The U.S. Navy has been ordered by President Trump to “shoot and kill” Iranian boats laying mines. This situation could worsen the largest oil supply disruption in history, with significant drops in maritime traffic. “
Iran had 11 cent a gallon gasoline.
11cent/gal ,,,’subsidized’,,,
for all we know, the money could possibly be from USAid, stranger things have happen
“First, criminals no longer fear or respect law enforcement, which means there’s no deterrent to crime.”
I’m not sure that criminals ever feared or respected law enforcement (???) but that’s not the dynamic here and you know it. Name the problem or live with the problem, your choice chief.
re: drought weather
feat: data veins
Anecdotal msm reports suggest Middle East precipitation has increased and temperatures moderated since the destruction of radar installations during the Iran War. ChapGPT alleges the same radar types lost in the recent military strikes in the Gulf States are operational in North America. It also offers an outline of their whereabouts.
A further nod to agricultural matters might be observed in yesterday’s promotion of past Vietnamese child refugee and U.S. military veteran Hung Cao to Acting Secretary of the Navy. According to the SOAA (Special Operations Association of America) website, the now Acting Secretary is qualified in “explosive ordinance disposal and deep sea diving”. Despite a perilous family situation in the midst of the Vietnam War, somehow the Rockefeller Foundation placed his father Quan Cao on track for a doctorate degree in agriculture. Apparently the Acting Secretary has previously pointed to Navy chefs as being important morale boosters.
The professional thieves are out there and they never get caught.
They hacked an Italian town’s license plate reader system, went to a company that specializes in “metals”, neutralized the company’s video surveillance cameras and security system, and left with the company safe.
https://www.vicenzatoday.it/cronaca/furto-cassaforte-costabissara-hacker-telecamere.html
Remember the 60’s TV show with Robert Wagner and Fred Astaire?
“It Takes A Thief.”
George, I like your new feature that allows me to easily send a day of your blog to someone else. Thank you.
Andrew, very interesting video. Thanks for posting.
cakes of fruit claim Trump is controlled by the zionist jews,, how do they explain Trump’s DOJ/FBI taking on the SPLC, one of their obvious weapons of warfare using lawfare and the dualing puppets under one puppeteer
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/04/doj-indicts-southern-poverty-law-center-funding-kkk/
but you can’t stop bottom feeders from taking stink bait, pissing and moaning,, orange man bad,
Post, cease-fire consolidation.
Never seen / heard that phrase before. Guess they had to call this market mess something., yet I really don’t see any consolidation going on. It appears more like everyone is nervously awaiting for the other shoe to drop., and just ‘who’ is going to drop it., as the Big Boys quietly shift debt and bonds around – preemptive maneuvers and market positioning. Boring, for us little traders.., until that other shoe drops.
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Trump, this morning, ordered the Navy to fire upon any vessel laying mines in the Straits. This wasn’t already a standing order !?? WTF !
“Stay Frosty !”
What do you collect?
Seriously, all the armchair Generals and Admirals need to park it, watch what comes next. Our intel has been exceptional thus far and may just win the day. Again. Stand by for Mission Accomplished [sorta, for now].
Meanwhile :
Oddball: Why don’t you knock it off with them negative waves? Why don’t you dig how beautiful it is out here? Why don’t you say something righteous and hopeful for a change?
Moriarty: Crap!
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0065938/quotes/?item=qt1473544
We have a bunch of Heroes in the field. Please skip the hyperbolic nature of total unknowns. The Eye In The Sky knows and we are progressing towards … something. I don’t pretend to know what *something* is but it’s always something. Regardless what’s not next, support those in country and their families.
Had to laugh at an image on ToolSlut Sunday (it’s something like that?). It’s at https://urbansurvival.com/shoptalk-sunday-adhd-tools-and-money/ anyway, we have a fire extinguisher and tape problem in common George. The one never gets used, the other ? constantly.
If touring our BoatHouse you’d think I collect rope. It’s not meant to be a hoarder thing, all useful, all crucial if/then. It’s a sailor thing (OBSCON).
“I Think The Rope Came by Itself- When I Called.”
https://stephencwinter.com/2023/12/23/i-think-the-rope-came-by-itself-when-i-called-the-rope-from-lorien-makes-us-think-of-unexpected-lights-in-dark-places/
Of course, I have no Elven Rope …
Have a fine day all.
Egor __|_ ~~~
(“we have a fire extinguisher and tape problem in common George. The one never gets used, the other ? constantly.”)
lol lol I have a fire extinguisher issue..we have twelve throughout the house and garage..fire blankets and escape hoods..3 AED’s lol lol..now for the tape..I am so getting up a tape center like G’s…I am always hunting for tape..
Thank you.
– Now this is a bit unnerving – just a wee bit ;
Hackers have breached Anthropic’s ‘too dangerous to release’ Mythos AI model.
– Where.., by whom.., and how much did they get ? – has not been released.
“Stay Frosty !”
George,
Tomorrow, clarity among the chaos?
While cultist Americans are watching Fox News and News Max and having their neural networks programed with Jim-Jones-like nonsense, a potential prelude to either self or enforced (murder) cyanide administration, 24 April 2026 should bring technical clarity to the deterministic global equity markets. Watch for a nonlinear exhaustion gap to a new final peak valuation for ACWI, the global equity proxy ETF, as it completes its 230 PM EST 30 March 2026 36/90 hour :: x/2.5x final 1982 to 2026 peak valuation growth, completing a deterministic 7 April 2025 to 24 April 2026 53/107/106 :: x/2x/2x 3-phase final growth fractal series.
not sure how any of ^ that applies to Fox watches.
asking for a friend.
E
So easy on this one.
Not even a second thought.
Admirals and Generals need to be primarily focused first on being kick ass warriors.
Im thinking Egor would whole heartedly agree.
All of the great military leaders of our time were warriors , not Yeomen.
Chesty Puller.
George Patton.
Too many to list…
amen
still dry as Hell, I wonder if the waiter could bring some water
on the other leg,( thats a pun )
Iran’s new Supreme Ruler, Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei, is messing a leg, maybe he could go to work as a waiter at IHOP
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/04/severely-injured-iranian-supreme-leader-is-waiting-prosthetic/
but as you all heard from the TDS reporters, we are losing ,,, but who really knows, news these days is mixed on purpose, remember Rothchild and the london mkt,,, waterloo anybody, fake reports and misdirection, tools of the game, on checkerboard squares
but then again resident 46 was walking comatose, so I guess the trolla is still leading the radical islamics, just like slo joe was, or was it obummer with an earpiece in joe,,, obummers 3rd term via proxy
(“but as you all heard from the TDS reporters, we are losing ,,, but who really knows, news”)
I got suckered in by So news the other day.. can’t tell which is the real news and what is fake..I still think they are playing us in a chess game.. while we pound the sandbox we are one putting the country deeper in debt..using up our strategic reserves.. on a war with a country that we shouldn’t have ever gotten involved in..
“on a war with a country that we shouldn’t have ever gotten involved in.”
Says someone who lives close enough to a ground zero to, not die, but suffer tremendously if Iran’s uranium stash gets to 90% enrichment.
BTW, Trump is refilling our strategic reserves, not draining them…
I see various pacific atolls on the drought map, but not Hawaii. But despite the floods on Oahu recently, this normally wet region of the Big Island is having a drought. Rain gauge has been empty for many,many days now, and the little Cacao tree has dropped most of it’s leaves, despite frequent watering. And now a feral rooster has taken a liking to my back yard in mornings. Damn animal activists will not permit ‘cruelty to animals’ by killing the things (humanely). So I’m left to chasing the dinosaur and tossing a few rocks at it to encourage it to find another roost elsewhere. One neighbor live-trapped one and took it many miles away and released it in a different river valley. I may have to borrow his trap… quietly. That’s probably illegal, too, if the blue-haired nannies hear of it.
do it Hank
‘Might be time to visit pyramydair or airgundepot and pick up one of the PCP air rifles like BCS talked about some months ago — with a silencer.
The blue-haired Karens can’t B&M (bitch and moan) or call the authorities if they don’t know a “spiritual cleansing” has taken place. An air rifle with a nitrogen piston action and a silencer is probably undetectable if fired indoors through a window.
Just sayin…
for all things about shooting pellet guns, airgun nation is a good forum to learn on
https://www.airgunnation.com/feeds/
I used a large water pistol to get my cat to come running home when she got in the neighbor’s back yard.
I am pretty sure that I have ruined my morning., possibly tomorrow also.
– Just spent the better part of two hours having a conversation with ‘Jarvis’., regarding the closure of the Straits of Hormuz and fertilizer. And it is ‘all’ really bad news.
– The Global South is already past their planting start and it is estimated that 70 to 80 % did plant, but with no fertilizer. Yields will be extremely low this season.
– The U.S. is not immune to this building crisis. Shortages / availability are already starting to show., prices are spiking and late season fertilizing is now in question. If a country like ours, one of the most stable agricultural growing countries in the world are starting to show pains., this is going to hit a lot of countries like a hammer.
– Sri Lanka., which suffered the foolishness of their leaders, when they banned all imported chemical fertilizers, rice production dropped 50%, people began to starve., food riots broke out., government officials were killed, the government collapsed. They have still not recovered from that fiasco., and are now facing even worse growing conditions., and they are not going to get much help from their neighbors [ India/Thailand], as they too are now in the same fertilizer chaos.
– There is no fix. There are no emergency / strategic fertilizer reserves [ nor any component to make the fertilizers.] any where in the world. Fertilizer is not something you can add later. If it’s not in the ground when planting starts – yields are going to dismal., world wide.
– The U.S. is not going suffer any shortages [ so they say ] however, availability may be somewhat lacking and prices are going up – probably sharply up.
https://palousebrand.com/
– is looking better and better [ free shipping.]
“Stay Frosty !” [ especially if you like to eat.]
our farmers have fertilizer by spraying animal ponds on fields. old school with _way_ new ginormous honey wagons. need poo? call us :O) E
I was in Indiana and Ohio a few days ago (“northern,” meaning above I-70.) The hugeassed fields smelled of manure, and the farmers were rolling thousand gallon trailers trailers with hundred-foot outriggers.
I used to think the manure spreaders at the farm sales all went to retired politicians for use as yard art…
I have been saying privately , and a bit on this board, that while Oil gets all the press the real damage of the shut off of the Hormuz Strait is all the chemicals that are the building blocks of most of our industrialized economies around the world.
A while back I posted a listing here of the most important chemicals that come from the Gulf but as a reminder they range from sulpher (basic ingrediant for may industrial processes) though helium and LPG (used as cooking gas for much of the world’s poor)
Around the world when the War started there was LOTS of oil in floating reserves plus the cross Saudi pipeline is now carrying an extra 5 mb/d and other sources have ramped up their production by at least 2 mb/d so wrt oil while it will be tight and pricey there is NO emergency wrt unrefined oil supplies. (Armstrong a while back estimated there was 2+- billion barrels of oil in storage when the bombing started)
WRT the product output of the Gulf refineies and those raw chemical outputs of the Gulf States needed for all sorts of industrial processes … well those aren’t going anywhere at the moment since there is no way to transport them and they are NOT in floating or on the ground storage all around the world like oil is.
Look for a bunch of industrial processes in Asia to start shutting down if this War drags out past June 1 as the amount of material in inventory and that was in transit gets used up.
I am sure Trump and his planners took this dynamic into consideration when they decided to start a War with bombing, as requested by Israel, without consulting ANY US decision makers, or any Congressional Leaders, outside of those appointed by Trump himself.
Panic hasn’t started yet, but it will come.
Does the 25 lb Palouse Brand Beluga plastic bucket come with an aluminized liner and oxygen absorbers, or does it need to be repacked for long term storage ?
I do not know.
I have not bought one of their buckets.
You might email them…,
Wow..the price is all up.. last bushel of wheat I bought last year was 16:00 A bag.. I got twenty pounds of rye for nothing as long as I brought a loaf of bread.
went to drop off a paper at the clinic for the wife’s therapy machine.. it was like a fog outside…dust… I haven’t seen a dust storm like that in a very long time..I think I was like ten..
the farmers are all worried we got straw that was heated to kill any seeds in it..sterilized..we are going to cover the beds with it straw holds water..we are popping from thirty.to eighty…the farmers are all worried about crops..the granddaughters husband said the cost to plant their farm has doubled plus..way over half a mil..I am still trying to convince them to take on a cow and calf..milk cream and beef…
Talked with a supervisor at my favorite cafe this AM. She says their wholesale food prices are stable or going down at the moment.
I’m thinking it will be mid-winter before the real crunch hits, unless a panic accelerates buying.
Maybe I need to lay in a couple of vegetable fertilizer bags this weekend.
Our government has just locked in the last 20 per cent of fertiliser needed by Australian farmers for the current season after a deal with Indonesia.
It’s a win win – they guarantee supply and we play our part by supporting food security in Indonesia.
As George said – good to get on with your neighbours.
I THINK
Therefore
I AM !
Try thinking about this -https://www.zerohedge.com/crypto/us-military-running-bitcoin-node-admiral-paparo-reveals
Closer to the Sun -https://youtu.be/WJcTEr6V-ac?
Yum, bitcoins, it’s what’s for breakfast (next year).
George,
A 4.0 earthquake was just listed in far eastern Missouri at the Mississippi River. That is close to the New Madrid area. It was listed as 1 km northwest of Cooter, Missouri.
Yikes
The headline in the article says it all:
https://www.dailymail.com/sciencetech/article-15760137/missouri-cooter-earthquake-new-madrid-zone.html
Sailors and their ways connect when gathered whether at anchor or in a harbor. Need a wrench? What about some odd part for a rig or motor? Some knowledge about new spots or tight passes? Yes, when you are far offshore there is almost never any contact, but the gatherings are special for the floating. A community bound by the nothing in common experience.
This morning the lineup was just slightly South of yesterday, but only a perceptible amount, nothing dramatic. That said, it should still be moving North. The huge shift on the earthquake day was definitely telling. Telling exactly what, I don’t know. Now I am just a reporting observer.
In two days we give back our fancy house and the great dog and shift back to our elder cottage. Can’t imagine how anyone needs more than one place to live. The rich much have some sort of clutching desire that keeps them attached to so much stuff.
I want to get back aboard. One boat and call it good.
Stiks
I thought you wrote “Need a wench?”!
So much for the floating life.
TEF is on the clock now ……
And here all this time I thought the patriot front group was feds , it looks like it was splc. Bet money pedo Joe’s FBI and doj knew that.
Dunno Home Gamerz…… if your googles are from MSM, then you’ll be shocked black swan style if Mr. Morse’s theory comes in. At the end of the day, when the kinetics are flying again, no one remembers the details around the trigger.
https://www.youtube.com/live/8ixLec8a_Xw?si=oNEkEavSr0kNr0Mq
Not advice get your own simulation .lol
Never heard of him but after a few minutes – sounds like he might be worth a listen. I dunno why anyone would be mad at Trump for something Michael Savage said, but I stopped being a Democrat when the Party ceased resembling something rational, and that was many years ago…
Trump saved America $298 MILLION on the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool:
The historic pool, where MLK gave his “I Have a Dream” speech, was a leaking, filthy disaster.
Government bureaucrats wanted $300 MILLION and 3+ years to rip it up.
Trump said hell no.
Called in real pool experts, scrubbed the original granite, sealed it, and topped it with American Flag Blue industrial coating.
$1.5–2 MILLION
Done in 2 weeks
Will last 40–50 years and look better than 1922
This is how you run government like a business.
*dammit! Lost the link…*
REPORTER: Would you use a nuclear weapon against Iran?
PRESIDENT TRUMP: No. Why would a stupid question like that be asked?
Why would l use a nuclear weapon when we’ve totally decimated Iran without it?
A nuclear weapon should never be allowed to be used by anybody.
https://x.com/StateDept/status/2047416056902209908?s=20