A Record High – Or Was It?

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Headlines galore about “stock market records” this week. But, as long time readers know, we take such headlines with a grain of salt.  Particularly when they are not based entirely on big picture and “apples to apples” analysis.

Again, we propose that our wider aperture using the Aggregate Index may offer some unusual insights.

Six weeks out from a presidential election – we are not surprised by a lack of public acuity, though.  It’s what the Mainstream has been peddling – and so far, it’s working…

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57 thoughts on “A Record High – Or Was It?”

      • Springfield Ohio DMV is claiming to be a privately owned facility, not a gov./public facility, like a franchise.

      • showing the DMV handing out drivers licenses and cdl’s to illegals.
        when I renewed my license I seen just about the same thing..I had to do everything except handing out an anal swab while refugees just walked in and out..

        • After the EMP, no more DMV.

          “In the first 24 hours, millions of people will realize there’s simply not enough resources to survive. They will decide that they need to flee to surface waters, and head out to lakes or rivers, whether they be 10 miles or 100 miles away. In the case of an electromagnetic attack, most vehicles manufactured after 1973 would not operate, but if you have a bike or old diesel tractor, someone with a gun will be coming to take it. In those scenarios where vehicles still work, the strong will commandeer vehicles and any stored gasoline they can find.

          Anyone in the path of these people will be in danger.”

          https://preppgroup.home.blog/2024/09/17/the-first-24-hours-after-an-emp-how-far-will-people-go-to-survive/

        • @JC

          In the first 24 hours, nobody will realize anything, unless they see the flashes. At about 28-32 hours, Law Enforcement will realize the power isn’t coming back on and their backup comms have shit themselves, and will start implementing the FEMA protocols for their communities.

          John Q Dumbass won’t realize there’s a problem for several days, unless he’s a soda pop or cigarette junkie. Even then, he won’t know the problem isn’t going away. It will be something about which to be irritated — not panicked…

          My kids know, if the power goes out, the first thing they do is call me on their cellphones. An EMP/HEMP will take out their cellphones and all the cell networks. If the phones work, things’ll get fixed. If the phones don’t, they have six hours to get to their rendezvous points…

        • (“My kids know, if the power goes out, the first thing they do is call me on their cellphones. An EMP/HEMP will take out their cellphones and all the cell networks. “)

          that is a great trip Ray… I will let my kids and grandkids know right away.. I do think that that is how they would do it to.. we are all so use to technical abilities.. that we assume that all the infrastructure we have is going to be the same.. OUR GRID and infrastructure is the weakest point.. we have dumped everything into wars.. and only did defensive repairs on the infrastructure.. working towards their business model.. instead of strengthening our national security.. we did everything to break it down..
          I got a call friday from a professor.. they are working hard at making sure the reservations have power.. giving out grid tie systems to anyone that will put it up.. they also had a meat giveaway to.. distributing food to every household.. I haven’t heard how the other tribes are doing in this.. I know that many of the tribes were going to start it to make sure that when the grid goes down they will have a fighting chance..
          I actually believe that it is to late .. even if they just dropped a grid tie or offgrid system at every home.. there aren’t enough installers.. it took a year to get an electrician out to install our backup generator.. having issues with it all last winter opened my eyes to just how vulnerable that is to so I got a backup to the backup.. yesterday we got a notice that the utilities are going up.. they kept talking about the forty percent increase in their costs.. so.. are they going to increase it by forty percent.. scary stuff there.. people can’t afford the increases on everything the way it is..

    • Did a little Google-ing and found Ohio Privatized the DMV in 2014. (Who knew?)

      “COLUMBUS, Ohio — Ohio’s last state-run Bureau of Motor Vehicles customer service center is scheduled to close this Friday, the agency announced Wednesday.

      The office, located at Ohio BMV headquarters in Columbus, will – like other publicly run centers before it – soon be replaced by a nearby, privately owned deputy registrar agency that offers driver’s license services and issues auto titles, according to a BMV release.”

      This, was to save the state One Million dollars per year.

      Learn something everyday.

  2. The Equinox comes Kemmosabe, and with it Aurora Season, plus we got a Comet inboundz Urth..

    No complaints Long Gold/Silver and Oil, no sir very pleased so far..As for BTC, hard to keep a good currency down, for long.

    Have you seen the El Salvadorian budget for 2025 ?? There is ZERO debt in it, ZERO! They have a surplus Budget as their BTC holdings have gained over 30%..so far. President even wiped out Crime/Gangs from the country. Simply locked every single gang member up in gigantic prison built specifically to contain the low life scumbags, till DEATH do us part.

    Scarcity, Transparency and UNHackable – Whats in Ure wallet?

    * Note on SourGermans – organic kraut best. I sizzle up a slice of UnCured Bacon, chop that up (still warm) and mix in the organic raw sourGermans. This cooking ritual helps to eliminate the Smell – which I am not fond of – P U!

    • re: El Salvador in Crypto
      feat: IMF calling a code

      SourKraut,

      My understanding is that gardeners are encouraged to plant tulip bulbs around six weeks before hard frosts settle in.

      Last month an IMF economist in Washington issued press release #24/302 titled “IMF Staff Statement on El Salvador”. It reads to my eye that the so-called self funded 2025 El Salvador budget is already requiring a 3.5% of gdp IMF support. In exchange the IMF is instructing El Salvador to keep a grip on public wages yet still fund social program supports. As the IMF paper notes regarding El Salvador and Bitcoin, “…many of the risks have not yet materialized…”. Here is the IMF link:

      https://www.imf.org/en/News/Articles/2024/08/06/pr-24302-el-salvador-imf-staff-statement

      • Nice Source!

        Next time might wanna try an original source – the El Salvadorian Government itself.

        Nice try with the IMF wishful bullscheisse – they were told to piss up a rope..

  4. Hmm.. it should be screaming … millions of illegals getting more benefits than people that wormed hard and paid in huge funds to social security.. cash cards and free flights monthly cash benefits free medical and dental and in some states they buy them a new house.. if each got ten grand cash card and the monthly benefits.. it should be screaming hot..
    but is it.. were there enough taxpayers that are seriously hurting to offset the steep increase in flow of made up cash?

    • Show me proof., anywhere., of some illegal getting a ten thousand dollar cash card? I’d like to see some evidence of that. Constantly repeating – it does not make it true.

    • Enough REAL costs wrt illegal immigrants … no need to use MADE UP stuff to make a point about the costs of illegal immigration.

      For some reason Trump and those around him think Exaggeration to the point of ridiculousness and unbelievableness makes their claims more believable. For a “thinking person” THEY DO NOT!!

      For me, a person who had to work in the real world all my life dealing with one scam after another, all it does is make me DISTRUST everything Trump and his Amen Choir claim. (this is coming from a person who supports much of the Trump agenda).

      Shades of the tactics over the last 32 years of Karl Rove and Roger Stone with their use of Lies upon Lies for obtaining political advantage. (go read “Liar’s Poker” by Michael Lewis his very first book long before the his book “The Big Short” which was made into a movie). It should open your eyes about the Mindset of LYING that is part and parcel of Wall Street Financial Firms if you want to understand how “institutionalized LYING” works, a mindset that now permeates American Politics and the US Government)

      • “For some reason Trump and those around him think Exaggeration to the point of ridiculousness and unbelievableness makes their claims more believable.”

        I think the idea is to make things silly because unless they exaggerate, the mainstream media gives them no air whatsoever. The problem is the dems make things much more silly-Left, and they get away with it because they own the “5th colum…” um, I mean “5th estate.”

        Were I on Trump’s campaign team, I believe I would instruct him to use, word-for-word, every deprecating slam and comment the dems use against Trump, against them. F’r instance, when someone calls Trump a “NAZI,” I’d have him call Harris a “NAZI” and post the pic of Biden in Philly, next to the pic of Hitler which inspired the Biden shot. In fact, I’d have been noting Cammy is the only figure in American politics who’s actually met and hung out with slaves. I’d be calling Harris a racist, sexist, anti-Semite, whose campaign position is “on her back” and her greatest asset is her lack of morals — AND I would have used her known history to back up my accusations, before the Soros team could scrub most references to same from peoples’ view.

        In a National election Conservatives will always win on policy. Therefore, Leftists will never run on policy. They run on emotion instead, playing fast & loose with the truth to make the emotional responses of their voting base as strong as possible. It has long been my contention that republicans need to learn and use the same dishonest techniques the Democrats use. Politics is a vile, nasty, dirty, business. Republicans who can’t play in the dirt, shouldn’t get into politics…

        • (“For some reason Trump and those around him think Exaggeration to the point of ridiculousness and unbelievableness makes their claims more believable.”
          I think the idea is to make things silly because unless they exaggerate, the mainstream media gives them no air whatsoever.”)

          You know dLynn and Mark brought up some very good points Ray..all the negative of the administration is brought to our attention from sources outside the USA.. as G and the graphs show.. our economy is screaming hot.. and that everything the Biden administration has done is right on target… is all the negative simply political alliance to win an election..
          No one stuck around dc.. to work on the alleged mountain of issues.. none of them .. the calendar is clear till after the election now.. What I was told but don’t have any proof of.. has me question.. did he really or was he trying to create a situation where I would distrust the system.. many refuegees seem to be better off since the eighties but then they live the same way they do there here.. in the house there is probably twelve incomes.. all going to the same cause.. so they would be better off..
          the talk about putting the USA in the line of fire as in a war.. is that right on or not again all the information I see is coming from countries and news resources that are only attempting to stir up a distrust.. Was there an open border issue .. according to the system its totally under control.. who did we hear it from is the other.. or is it all just to gain a vote at the election..
          you don’t hear or see anyone of the members of congress doing anything.. the pilot to our congressman is still sitting at home.. no real worries.. the family of our congress members not in fear or concern and the congressmen are still hunkered around home.. so are the rest of the congress… If the analysts were truly right on and it wasn’t a political ploy for votes.. then I would think that some of them would have stayed in DC working on the issues that they say we have.. not taking the summer off.. so what do you believe.. considering this.. it makes me think that .. Maybe the fear porn news that we keep seeing and hearing is all wrong that it is just designed to put down a great man and his administration.. It also has me thinking that maybe instead of listening to the news we should be going by the graphs that tell us nothing is wrong in the country..

      • Dam I forgot about the book Myers poker..

        “The cynical view of the financial world says that Wall Street is run by a special breed of traders who exploit investors’ collective fear and greed to enrich themselves however they can, without any care for the havoc they might wreak. In Liar’s Poker, Michael Lewis backs up this opinion with a first-hand account of the pursuit of ill-gotten riches at the Salomon Brothers investment firm during the 1980s. As a Salomon employee, Lewis took part in its wealth-chasing culture and witnessed the start of its downward spiral.”

        Now that I am seriously questioning .. is it all fake.. as G says everything is a business model. has all this news that everyone is hearing about the potential threats.. just a lie pushed for a business model to enrich a few that are pushing the agenda to discredit this administration.. I now wonder seriously what is real and what is their true mission..
        phew deep thought on this one..everything negative has an originating point outside the USA.. can we truly trust any information coming from outside resources?

  5. “10% Max Interest On Credit Cards.”

    In my limited thinking the choice between Kam and Trump is…

    Kam = price controls on foodies and consumer goods.
    Trump = price controls on financial products.

    I must have foodies and consumer goods like sundries/incidentals. CC debt and financial products are not must haves.

    Chit mark to Kam.

    And why 10% and not 20% or 5%?

    From my small-fry thinking tether CC Rates to the average profit margin @ $WMT or $AMZN and cap CC rates at prime +. At this point the financial system is a software program. The people sitting up all night balancing book before the next open are long gone.

    “Walmart average net profit margin for 2022 was 2.13%, a 9.23% decline from 2021. Walmart average net profit margin for 2021 was 1.95%, a 37.9% increase from 2020.”

    CC rates should be capped at Prime +2.13% and adjusted once $WMT 2023 margins are released.

    • Until 1978 individual states could set their own Usury Limits for loans to it’s citizens … and most states had them, usually down in the 6% – 7% range though a few went up to 10%. In other words if you had a credit card in my state in the 1960’s and until the relevant US Supreme Court Decision the banks were limited to a maximum of 8% interest that they could charge for customers in almost all states. (6% for all other non business loans)

      In 1978 a momentous decision was issued by the US Sup Ct which upended banking as it had existed in the US since the country’s inception … State Usury Laws could be end run at will by BIG Banks.

      Voila, in a FLASH historic Christian Usury Laws across the country limiting the interest that could be charged were tossed in the trash can in favor the mostly Jewish oriented NY City Banks so those banks could forum shop as to where to originate their loans out of and thus over ride state Usury Laws. (credit cards being the first of the major forum shopped loans – reason why to this days most credit cards are issued by a subsidiary out of South Dakota or Delaware)

      From the Fed Reserve Bd of Chicago:
      “The Supreme Court in 1978 affirmed the right of a national bank to charge interest rates to out-of-state credit card customers at the rate permitted by the law of its home state. In other words, a national bank with a credit card operation in a state with a high or nonexistent ceiling rate on consumer loans could charge a higher rate on credit card balances or loans to credit card holders living anywhere in the country.”

      https://www.chicagofed.org/publications/chicago-fed-letter/1988/june-10

      • I didn’t know rates were capped then but was aware all interest including CC could be used as a write-off.

    • Chit mark to Kam.

      I hope you can eat that chit, because under Cammy, you won’t have any food (and your money will be worthless.)

      You DO understand “price controls” ALWAYS lead to shortages? With “food,” a merchant doesn’t have the option of outsourcing to China. When the profit margin on food goes below 2.4%, stores begin to go out of business. Stores which won’t go out of business (like Wal-Mart and Meijer) will discontinue items that are only marginally-profitable or which the “price controls” force them to sell at a loss.

      With price controls, there’s no such thing as “value added.” Things will simply go away. I’m okay with Butternut Bread when I come to Michigan, but if you like Aunt Millie’s or Pepperidge Farm, you’ll be SOL…

      • “Chit mark to Kam.”

        We can bounce back and forth.

        By extension financial controls like sudden interest rate caps will mean “(we) won’t have any money” so the JIT wheels of commerce will grind to a halt, no foodies.

        Either way the free looks like it may be coming to an end one way or the other very soon. Unlike the 14-1700’s there’s no new place to flee too and the sheer amount of people make it mostly impossible.

        The only extend & pretend I can see is a complete .gov takeover of the financial system and UBI.

      • (” With “food,” a merchant doesn’t have the option of outsourcing to China. When the profit margin on food goes below 2.4%, stores begin to go out of business. Stores which won’t go out of business (like Wal-Mart and Meijer) will discontinue items that are only marginally-profitable or which the “price controls” force them to sell at a loss.”)

        the local merchant.. not even counting the cost of the products.. and has ten employees.. manager makes thirteen fifty an hour.. a part time worker makes just shy twelve..
        their daily income not counting the wage of the owner wages or supplies and building costs.. clears average five hundred dollars a day..
        I shadowed for part time evening manager.. I got a good look at the books.. no calculator needed.. had one of the managers complain that they lost fifty thousand income.. on inside sales..
        for me.. its unsustainable.. the place the wife works.. I was having coffee with the fiduciary guy that couldn’t understand why the place sells every three to five years.. they have price freeze because of federal .. and i said.. hes not making a dime.. the owner is actually losing money.. similar to the other.. the dollar general.. eight coolers.. and six employees.. I do know what the lease cost is on the building.. I don’t have a clue what energy and utilities cost.. or what the stock costs.. to make the lease they have to sell a shit ton of milk to make it.. I do have a ten dollar bet on that one.. what surprised me.. is there are thirty something dollar generals that all combine their money and split stock if one is six cans down that is what they get..

        • Speaking of lacking foodies when the Europeans first began fleeing Europe to North America many of them did starve while jump starting the New World. One event was labeled the Starving Time. We overlook it now but back then sometimes cannibalism was the only way.

          Like the rumors of German folks living in post war Germany said, “It’s better to have a whore in the family then a dead baby.”

          One candidate describes price controls while the other financial controls.

          We really don’t know what’s coming our way.

        • (“We overlook it now but back then sometimes cannibalism was the only way.”)

          Not to many think about the old stories of seattle washington.. and the hidden trafficking and being shanghaied .. a few years ago there were a lot of news stories of chinese women being trafficked into the sex field .. then when they lost their ability to bring their owners more money.. their organs were harvested and they would be dismembered and tossed out to sea.. these were all determined to be fake news stories when there was a news story that involved many men of prosperity and power in the NE.
          History shows that these horrific acts only happened during times of deep famine and as ceremonial religious ceremonies..

  6. i was having an discussion with a commenter here on another platform. it is in reguards to the topic here yesterday and it goes with a line in a meditation book i received as a bithday present this year. i love this book. it is soo good.

    Question Everything. We know that there is more than one definition and use for every word. We see into the depth of things.

    A line from a meditation reading this morning. “Receive more, for there are always greater treasures of revelation.”

    I receive. I receive. I am open to receive. ?

    when i am reminded that DC was built upon a place formally called Rome. and the owner of the land was named. Francis Pope. and the current pope is named Francis. its matter of public record. as far out as all that sounds. its 100% true.

    DC was Founded on July 16, 1790. 234 years ago this year.

    2,3,4 is a sequence.

    we see the completetion of a sequence. the next logical numer is 5. biblically 5 is the number of Grace.

    there is an old prophecy of a Great White King.

    “On the vigil of the Epiphany of this year, 1870,2 all material things in my room disappeared, and I found myself contemplating supernatural matters.”

    (that is exactly how i meditate. exactly. the material world fades, the sounds of it fade and there is a profound silence. present. here. now. and when i come back out of meditation it starts as a whirl of sound and then everything comes into focus. )

    i think Saint John Bosco said it best, “God alone is almighty, all-knowing, all-seeing. God has neither past nor future; everything is present to Him, everything at a single point of time. Nothing eludes God. No person, no place is distant from Him. In His infinite mercy and for His glory He alone can unveil the future to man.”

    this is the place of present
    here. now. in meditation. THE DUDE.

    its about the destruction of Rome. the more they persecute the Great White King whos name is written in Gold upon his Bannes. (look at all them Trump Flags with Trump written in Gold upon them.) The Longer his banners become.

    the prophecy is a sequence of 3.

    2,3,4 is a sequencs of three.
    you can clearly see both the refrences to Rome, France and Here a line about Israel. those who sit upon the chair of Moses. israel.

    “What shall I do? I shall strike the shepherds and scatter the sheep so that those who sit upon the chair of Moses may seek better pastures and their flock may gently listen and be fed.”

    here you can clearly see a refrence to Nuclear War. as relates to Rome. aka DC.

    “but the enemy of good never stands idle. He cunningly plots and sets all his wiles against you. He will sow discord among your helpers and will rear enemies among My sons. The powers of the world shall vomit fire. They would love to smother My words in the throats of the guardians of My law, but they shall not succeed.”

    we are definently living out prophecy. now this prophecy was written in 1870. long before nukes were invented.

    notice this line,

    “On His second visit the great whore of Babylon, which the faithful grievingly call Europe’s brothel, shall lose her leader and fall prey to chaos”

    joe biden steps away from running for office. “shall lose her leader”. a replacement pope was made and now we have Pope Francis. completing the 2,3,4 sequence.

    as we all know, Babylon sits on 7 hills. Rome and D.C. (formally known as rome) also sits on 7 hills.

    You can read the rest at the link.
    https://franciscan-archive.org/bosco/opera/bosco.html

    and you can most certainly connect the dots. especially similarities between Rome, France, Israel, The whore of babylon. etc etc.

    i worked alot this week and am super busy with life. so you will have to forgive my absense from commenting much. have to make hay while the sunshines.

    see ya at the end of the world. lol

    ~ We are right on schedule. ~

  7. Hermit – today
    Living by yourself and self-isolating would be very easy to do in today’s computerized world. Living off the grid in a quiet, simple life, like that of a buddhist monk, with a touch of Bushido., and it would be very doable. Your only contacts would be that of the UPS driver., and maybe the mailman.
    However, most people couldn’t do it. They need, require daily human interaction. It would take a unique individual to succeed in that chosen life style. A mental toughness beyond most people.

  8. “You like apples? I got her number. how do you like them apples?” Good Will Hunting

    oh my…..uhmm uhhhh… there is that Minnie Driver.

    Hole in One!

    Crushed it.

  9. ponder of the day,

    8 billion people on the planet and some how, I’m the Best Driver. How wild is that?

    hahahahaha!

  10. Federal Emergency Management Agency analysis in 2022 considers anyone who can be self-prepared at home for 31 days or more without publicly provided water, power or transportation as a “resilient citizen.”
    A “resilient citizen”. I have not heard that term before. And I have never been called a “citizen”. Sounds a bit creepy, overtly Orwellian to me.
    The fact that FEMA [ et al ] is conducting research and labeling home preparedness individuals is ‘unsettling’ to me. What label gets slapped on you for buying a solar cooker., or a whole-home water purification system., or how many different databases did you just get shuffled off to when they find out you own a rifle and just bought a couple of case of canning jars ? Is your home location now pinned to a digital-map with a red flag ?
    The article [ on preparedness.] was interesting, nothing really ‘new’ – but, overall – it kind of gave me the creeps. Maybe -that was the whole point of the article ? You need to be creeped-out. Probably.

    • I’d much rather be called a “citizen” than have some cop call me a “civilian” as though he isn’t.

      As far as lists, I was stunned a while back when I got a check from the WA State Attorney. It seems the State had sued some food companies for price fixing and the check was my portion of the money. It is one thing to know that they have a database of everything you buy using plastic, but another entirely to have proof in hand that they can trace every can of tuna or other food product that you buy.

      Spring of 2020 I kept seeing cars stop and park near the end of my driveway for 10 to 15 minutes. I couldn’t help but wonder if they were getting GPS coordinates. Creeped me out for sure. Of course they could have just been refugees from the city getting away from the lockdowns stopping to scope out my racks of solar panels and gardens.

      A sail boat and the Pacific is sounding better every day.

      • Don’t want to be around people? Pick up your hook and find somewhere they don’t live, or there are so few they would welcome your participation. A good boat can be totally ‘off-grid’, usually by design. Solar, wind, and some decent batteries and you can live much like the land based. Fresh food is the challenge, but some hydroponic growing can keep greens on your plate, along with the fish, lobster, and whatever else you find appetizing from underwater.
        Side benefit is having 75% of the planet surface available to park your ‘mobile home’.
        As a lifestyle it is constantly challenging. Bad weather cannot be ignored, moving to shore and back is definitely an outside experience, and the level of general uncertainty is not necessarily appreciated by the females I know. Finding a good shipmate is not easy.
        But the rest… land no longer offers any attraction. It’s where the bugs, the dirt, the tax man, officialdom, all have a place. I’ll be happy out there.
        Stiks

    • I know for a fact..that FEMA has a list..they know who is buying more fuel than they use.. I was shown the list when they were making emergency plans

  11. this will be interesting..house taxes going up 30 percent.. there’s going to be a natural gas increase to along with water and sewer going up 20 percent.. today I got the notice second month in a row that the power company has had a steep increase in expenses and in October they are going to announce another increase what they say will be a substantial increase.. so are they going to hike it the 40 percent that they seen?
    how will that affect everyone that can’t meet the cost of living now..

  12. re: Bad Rap
    feat: Fore!

    Folks,
    It puzzled me 5 days ago when the “Palm Beach Post” reported about the September 2024 golf course shooting where President Trump was playing a round. The lead image they chose was of the President in golfswing follow through motion wearing his trademark red ball cap. The caption reads: “Donald Trump takes a swing on the front nine of the golf course at his Trump International Golf Club Wednesday afternoon, Dec. 29, 1999.”

    Today’s msm news reports paint a coinkydoink Dec 27/28, 1999 era dated plotline. A rapper, his then-girlfriend, and an understudy rapper entered a Manhattan nightclub. Someone was fatally shot. The understudy rapper was convicted of the crime, and was deported to his country of birth after serving his jail term.

    The deported convict of revived fortunes now has his own Wikipedia page as leader of the Belizean opposition party. He anticipates becoming leader of the nation next year, and doesn’t seem to be a fan of the US Democrat Party. Here is the link to The Honourable Mr. Barrow’s Wikipedia page. It includes a picture dating to the Trump Administration of Mr. Barrow and an American public servant who previously reported to the US National Security Council. One imagines in hindsight that more than a few Hollywood entertainment luminaries are rueing their decision to diss Mr. Trump’s Inauguration?

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shyne

  13. Received my Tough-Box yesterday. I have a geeky nerd friend [ don’t take offense at the name calling – he is very proud of the fact that he makes three times as much money as you do – and doing what he loves to do – he also happens to be smart, follows the stock market and believes world will not survive long enough for him to have kids. ]
    This little geek builds me stuff. And the new tough box is great. It is a bit over-sized – to carry my new laptop, a separate 1T backup drive, cables and charger, power pack recharger battery, and CD burner., along with a couple of slots for 1T thumb drives.., and it is all in an EMP proof., water-proof and shock resistant tough-case.
    A thing of beauty.
    Everything permanently resides in their appointed slots – I just have to remember to diligently remember to use the thing for the laptop.

  14. Whatever misgivings I have about Trump, the D candidate was selected by the leftist party elites, not by the D voters, and is unworthy of the nomination. I expect at least one more round of party elites gaming the system between now and election time, based on how successful they have been to date. Gangs are as gangs do, I suppose.

  15. Have you seen the movie ‘Z’ – ? Whenever the Chief Detective wanted electronic privacy, he would set this little device out and turn it on – it would unfold and light-up. You are to assume that it is a jammer of some kind. My little geek friend spent months trying to build one – but our current technology just won’t do it. But he did build one – into a Certs can. And sent me a test model. Mine is Cinnamon Certs. He explained how it works., but in geek-language – so I am still uncertain on just how – but it scrambles and/or interferes with incoming signals. Which cripples wireless communications within fifty feet, or so of the can.
    I tested it. I went to local coffee shop during the morning rush. Got my coffee, Set-up my computer, pulled out the certs can.., I then shut my computer off.., opened the can, flipped the little switch and closed it back-up., Every single person in the coffee shop, who was on their phone, or laptop responded. Nothing was working. Those who weren’t currently using their phone, upon hearing every one else – picked theirs up and tried ’em – nothing worked.
    I finished my coffee, while watching every one panic.., then opened the can, flipped the switch to off., and left.
    Handy little thing.
    He is currently working on a new model, using the same principles but with a much wider range., power hopefully out to a thousand yards – but still inconspicuous looking.
    – I asked him that if the device is on, can it be electronically sniffed-out and back-tracked to the user ? He said that was a good question., and that he wasn’t sure. I said that if he “wasn’t sure” – then it can be.
    I also told him that when he gets the larger version working, send me one.., I will hide it up under the dumpster in back of City Hall. That will cause a dead-zone of the entire downtown area. Which is the entire heart of the City. Just for a day, or two.

    • It would show up on a spectrum analyzer as broadband noise, and yes one could find the source by ‘sniffing’ around for the highest intensity of noise.

    • Don’t do it. Don’t email, blog or talk about doing it. Reply to my post, and say the following:
      “I was just kidding. I would never do anything like that, or take any action in preparation for doing such a thing. Sometimes I get carried away bullshitting, and say things I don’t really mean.”.

    • Would your geek friend consider making tough boxes and Certs can jammers for people other than you? I’d love to have them! Let us know if he decides to widen his customer base. He could make a fortune selling them, although the gov would likely jail him for being a domestic terrorist.

    • AS much “fun” as that may seems to be, I most strongly urge you to not do that. You may discover such jammers can be identified (diagnosed), and the powers have NO sense of humor over such a thing. You will need ultra meggabuc specialized lawyers to defend, and even so expensively equipped, you could still end up making small rocks out of bigger ones for the next seven thousand years.

      Find other outlets for your fun.

    • Jammers are fun. The first one I built was for VHF broadcast TV. It worked by broadcasting about an 80mW generic noise signal from 48Mhz to 220Mhz and overriding/replacing the broadcast signal (I had to hide it within about 4-5 feet of the TV.) I built it to see if I could, and to mess with my Mom during her soap opera time. I must’ve been about 10-11 years old. It was not until many years later than I learned jammers had become illegal to build or possess in the United States. They are now classified as “regulated munitions” and their use by “unauthorized persons” is a Federal felony.

      With that said, you can still buy them in most of the world’s countries and AFAIK they are unregulated in Canada. They typically don’t have much range (nobody wants to see a bunch of FCC and amateur radio types walking their streets with signal sniffers) but can be had for nearly every frequency band (I personally think every school classroom should have its own cellphone jammer), and also, AFAIK, they all work by broadcasting random or white noise and overpowering signals designed for the receivers that’re in-range of the jammer and operating within the target frequency band.

      I also suggest if you get one, that after verifying its function, you not play with it or use it to disrupt the local authorities’ comms until, and unless it becomes necessary. The FCC gets really pissy when someone broadcasts on an unauthorized frequency, in an unauthorized manner…

    • Maybe the government already has a “big can” version of this device in their bag of tricks. When will they use it?

      “Anything that will transact through the internet will be vulnerable to the government assuming the PowerGrid is even functioning during war.”

      “The lesson we must learn historically from wars is that governments will impose capital controls, and this may be when they attempt to switch canceling paper dollars and forcing everyone into CBDCs,” Armstrong warned.

      If this were to occur, “Physical gold and silver will be the only form of money to survive under these conditions,” Armstrong said.

      https://www.kitco.com/news/article/2024-09-13/world-war-iii-looming-experts-debate-impact-gold-and-bitcoin-markets

      • They do, and Agencies have used it on several occasions. The only one I can remember was in Chicago a few years back, but I know there were others.

        If you’re curious, you might try a search on Ecosia, Qwant, or Dogpile. I’m pretty sure a Google search would be fruitless…

      • (““Physical gold and silver will be the only form of money to survive under these conditions,” Armstrong said.”)

        And… Who did Armstrong say was going to buy it?
        and what would he buy it with.. by all indications.. the fiat currencies are rock solid and nothing has happened to show other wise.. our stock and job records are showing that everything is rocking along as it should be..

        • NOBODY will buy it. It will be used as a medium of exchange — currency (specie), as it was for thousands of years, because a coin is easier to carry than a bale of wheat. Of course, there will be an “adjustment period” while people figure out how much a gold dollar or silver dime should be worth in wheat or mutton (or whatever) but I suspect values will stabilize about where they were in the 1870s or 1880s, with gold being worth $20-$22 per troy ounce, and silver being worth somewhere between 1/14 and 1/20 of the value of gold. Once the values stabilize, then “them what have” can argue with “them what ain’t,” regarding how many grains or grams of silver this loaf of bread should cost, or how many grains or grams of gold that lawn mower should cost.

          When the world shits itself, PMs will cease being collectable objects and revert to being simply a medium of exchange…

        • (“NOBODY will buy it. “)

          Exactly and only if Society kept a reasonable form of society in existence.. How much metal can a nomad carry.. which would be wiser to carry. the food and tools

          we suspect things happening but seriously.. all we have in news clippings from outside the USA and for each one of the negative news sources there are two saying the absolute opposite. all indications if we go by the charts and the information released in the usa totally appears that the negative narratives are just propaganda to talk down the fantastic progress of this administration for a campaign issue.That is exactly what my kids kept telling me.. quit looking at the fear porn there is nothing to it.. Then consider that not one congressman thought any of it was serious enough to stick around and work on it. If it is so deep and ugly and there was any reality to it.. then why wouldn’t they want to work on it… Instead what we see is that it is business as usual and everything else is just for political alignment during a campaign season a dead horse issue ..

        • I actually thought about gold and silver.. being the most cherished items.. but what was it a couple months ago.. I was privey to what an archeologist discovered in a hidden compartment on a dig.. what we would consider an ancient vault.. where they hid their most precious items.. what was found.. and old amper of wine that was so carefully sealed that it was still full of wine.. a short sword some clay beads on a necklace.. a hair comb and some other trinkets that women would use.. no gold or coins .. coins was a way to carry workable metals.. to be made into tools and other things.. spoons and swords.. the metal smith would take these coins in trade for a pot or a pan a knife or a hoe.. or a measure of grain.. IF the negative narrative that is being said from outside the USA ends up to be true.. you wouldn’t be able to carry it.. you would take food and water and something for shelter first.. if Deagle is correct no one in their right mind would want it..

  16. The Fed’s rate-setting committee is almost evenly split on the number of additional rate cuts expected this year, with seven policymakers favoring one additional 25 basis point rate cut before year-end and nine members favoring 50 basis points of additional easing.

  17. George,
    The final (inflation un-adjusted) peak valuation for the Ure aggregate index and for the 100+ trillion dollar equivalent ACWI global index ideally
    is Wednesday 25 September 2024, and the incipient crash low, Tuesday 8 October 2024.

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