Bang the Trend and Move On: GDP, Jobs, Fed Looms

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While the usual, run-of-the-mill, headlines offer little grist or solace, the financial calendar is filling up quickly.  War among the poseurs.

Before jumping into the GDP numbers, a quick follow-up for our Peoplenomics subscribers.  As we were projecting in the ChartPack Wednesday, the Wave ((4)) rally may be over as the futures today hold up a sign that reads “Spring Sucks!”

Yes, kiddies, Uncle George’s big yellow Wave 3 down is sure trying to bounce out of the quantum foam.  But, as annotated in the PN article in more detail, there are still issues ahead.  A minimal downside (where 1=5 down) has us sketching in the trading box far right in this view:

Could we drop today and have one more leg up to run?  Oh, yeah, of course.  Have to run the clock and the calendar, right?

More to the point:  Once the 1-5 down of minor (1) down is done we still have prospects for a smoker minor (2) up and at that time we should be able to make an intelligent estimate of how the world blows up later in the year and into next.

I haven’t got the time – with all my projects around here – to mess with trading this “falling pig” but after sitting in a trade too long, we clawed back a few cheeseburgers’ worth Wednesday.

GDP Up…But…

Officially?

Real gross domestic product (GDP) increased at an annual rate of 1.6 percent in the first quarter of 2024, according to the “advance” estimate. In the fourth quarter of 2023, real GDP increased 3.4 percent. The increase in the first quarter primarily reflected increases in consumer spending and housing investment that were partly offset by a decrease in inventory investment. Imports, which are a subtraction in the calculation of GDP, increased.

NoDoz anyone?

Fed’s GDP Problem

The Fed is not going to do much of anything next week in our view.  The Global Forces line up this way:

  • They can’t raise – this is an election year.  Sloppy Joe (the sequel) is all packed and coming soon to an Oval near you.  That is, if the guerilla lawyers can “take out” the other viable candidate.
  • They can’t raise rtes, though – people are already (still) overspending, so that’s blocked.

Which leaves “Sputter and fume, issuing vague threats” and more financial circus to come.

Rather remarkably, the CME FedWatch Tool reports 3.9 percent of polled peeps are delusionally holding out hope for a rate cute.  NFW (two hints are “no” and “way” with your choice of F stops in the middle).

Unemployment Filings

Of course, no Fed change will mean persistently strong jobs which leads to a quick look at the very low new unemployment filings for the week:

And if you live in any of the states with big changes, the “what’s driving” detail sums like this:

Not particularly meaningful?

International Trade. Inventories

Perhaps we can distract you with this?

No? Well, come back tomorrow for the Comedy Hour – which is when the Personal Income and Expense fairytale will be delivered mostly straight-faced.

After the data, BSD+1 (bank settlement day) sees down 250 and change on the Dow.

War, More, and Bore

Let’s begin with Rafah which is back on the schedule: Israel says it is ‘moving ahead’ with planned operation in Gaza city of Rafah (thejournal.ie)

While here in remnants of free speech: Dozens arrested in US as student protests over Gaza spread across country. Free speech as long as the government’s pushing one side…

Just make sure Egypt is getting funded to keep them out of Gaza. Oh, what’s this? Egypt reveals country’s biggest money laundering bust to-date, 8 arrested.  Another interesting “moneymaker” to consider: Egypt offers citizenship for $250K investment.  (Ure holds that people should have only one citizenship/passport…but guess that doesn’t make me popular…though I dispute whether people can “answer to two Masters…”)

Still, we read this as “local theatrics for effect” only: Egypt in efforts to prevent Israeli offensive on Rafah (ynetnews.com)

Next War?

Big money to be made killing people: Russia-Ukraine war a gold mine for US, British defence firms — sales rocket, stock prices soar (theprint.in) Well, peeps gotta make a buck, right?

But seriously?  Can you believe this? Would NATO beat Russia in a war? Of course, Poland warns. Reads to us like neolib swill; no one wins in wars.  Well, except the contractors, of course. Oh, and the media…

In the bigger picture just a matter of time until we lose Taiwan because? Politico: China “in fact picking a side” in Russia’s war against Ukraine, says US Ambassador to NATO.  While the Chinese watched as Biden signs Taiwan military aid bill into law | Taiwan News | Apr. 25, 2024 10:00

Familiar with the term circle jerk?

News Jerky

Blah enforcement? Spain Accidentally Releases Karim Bouyakhrichan: REPORT.

Punish the Children!  Wyoming Girl Scout, 13, Fined $400 For Selling Cookies.

And which part of surprised?  Dems Run All 10 Worst States for Business, GOP Governs 8 of 10 Best: CEO Survey (mrctv.org)

In the Punchbowl

Be a climate scientist: attend divinity school?  Pope Francis uses first ever US TV interview to slam climate change deniers as ‘fools’ and insists ‘climate change exists’.

Shaking hands with ghosts worry you?  Bleach blond? Biden mocks Trump’s hair in personal barb.

Then there’s Arizona politics: Mark Meadows, Rudy Giuliani and Arizona ‘fake electors’ charged with state crimes.  But wait, is this another case of lawfare?  Who is the state A.G. behind this?  Wiki me: It’s she “A member of the Democratic Party, Mayes was elected in 2022, defeating Republican Abraham Hamadeh by a margin of just 280 votes in one of the closest elections in the state’s history.[2][3] Previously Mayes was a Professor of Practice at Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law and Chair of the Arizona Corporation Commission.”   I will let you work out whether this is another cog in the democrat machine wheels backing up to keep running over anything remotely Trump.

Texas is a little different.  We have an attorney general trying to keep government in check, not spending money on 3-year old stories: Texas Supreme Court temporarily blocks large county’s guaranteed income program. But how long can Paxton last?  He’s under attack for doing his job, as he figured it: Court rules State Bar of Texas can pursue disciplinary action against Ken Paxton.  We will all be forced into joining the Borg, friend.

So, we know which way Sotomayor is going on this one, huh? US Supreme Court to hear Trump immunity claim. (I told you before he left office that Trump should issue pardons to himself and his whole team, but does anyone listen to Ure?  Naw…Besides look at the industry Trump hate has spawned – keeps Joe in office…balance in universe, that kinda thing.)

Around the Ranch: False Flag Energy War

Hell of a lucid dream overnight.

As you know, if you’ve read either of my books on dream mapping and such, people can “live more than one life” depending on whether they take the time to work on their ability to remember dreams when they are vivid. My “other life” in the Dream Realms is, ISYN, like going to iMax every night.  Makes anything on the Ultra High Cyclops absolutely pale in comparison.  Though some of the camera work is shades of Mission Impossible.

In the dream last night, I was in a military bunker of some kind. In a coastal city where there was an intel operation going. City was big square in the overhead shots.

In the bunker? News was flowing in, assessments of threats were being made, and whether to move the DEFCON levels were the main feature.  All very much oriented toward the risk of nuclear war.

Then, a strange couple of events took place.  One of which was a terrorist cell attacking a petrochemical plant where a key/necessary ingredient for motor fuels was produced.  With the plant out of operation, the government claimed it had no choice but to shut down sale of all but a tiny bit of energy which was accompanied by a huge power grab and lockdown.

Two more notable features in the dream: A terrorist squad – which came in through the clown Mayorkas open border attacked a nuclear power plant and that set off a plume which was adding to the Energy Panic.

To top it off, another small unit attacked the military unseen complex – which held its own. Toward the end of the dream came the revelation that energy control (via pipelines and such) was to be the next attack on America.  The military bunker would hold, and at the very end of the dream, I saw a logo.  Looks like “F r” or maybe “P r” in a vinyl press on logo in red (off to maroon) in color.

What came into focus was that with the election coming up, there are forces still loyal to the Constitution and there is a Marxist- socialist insurgency which has been in power since Clinton threw those doors open.  And the coming Energy War sham would be turned into (to borrow Jim Kunstler’s novel title) the next Long Emergency.

It was drop-dead amazing.

I don’t share many of these “views” from “over there”.  You’re perfectly capable of having your own.  Just takes working on remembering your dreams and getting used to the idea that we are all bi-locating spirits.  We “live” in one world awake, another when “asleep.”

Coming to the view that we are the “Pirates/Explorers” of Reality. But as junior “spirits in learning mode” we haven’t quite grasped the implications of our birthright.

It’s there – just hijacked by others (who see it) and wish to “rig the game here” so as to keep you in fear – which is the cheap leash on childlike souls.

Great adventures, what else can I say?

Write when we (all) wake up,

George@Ure.net

43 thoughts on “Bang the Trend and Move On: GDP, Jobs, Fed Looms”

  1. FFEW – been going on for a loooong time Kemosabe. Youse all remember PNAC911 FF on USA and YOU ?

    Fourier Ure viewing pleasure, after viewing please defend muzzy terrorist angle again for BCN – as I must be precise in my…https://t.co/nhePCZjBTU

    sorry to keep droning on regards PNAC911. thanks in advance for Ure time and consideration, fckrs are some of the best in my book..

    * told ya mkt would come moi, that sound you are hearing is only sound of low spark of high tech cash register..https://youtu.be/bXDcPoeIx-E?si=PhC-_K9EkrAJQMP4

  2. George,
    You still working on the ‘light crown’? I ran across this new report on Study Finds regarding brain activity and reactions to bright light on hypothalamus. Seems to indicate you are on the right track there with the light crown project. Quite interesting results are being found. Hope you are keeping all your notes on your work.
    https://studyfinds.org/bright-light-boosts-brain-power/

  3. Did you see that?
    – I’m already out – when the DJIA crossed down 650 points.
    – Very good morning. [ options/puts – yesterday at close.]
    .
    How’d you do ?

    • Too busy on projects around here to play. More to come though, so I might get tempted back in – congrats – and a well done! Poker night?

      • Third Thursday Game was last week. $820
        .
        The big one, for me, is a little over two weeks away. Been trying not to think about it very much.
        The last “big game” I went to was a complete and utter joke. Very disappointed in the quality and ability of the players. Couldn’t believe that these guys were making a living playing all over the country. They were not very good.
        So.., I am trying to force myself to believe that, that game was a one-off., a fluke., all the players couldn’t be that bad. Don’t want to take a holier-than-thou attitude into a pro-game. Bad JuJu..
        – I’ll let ya know…………

        • So in your ‘friendly’ Thursday games, the other players know you win a lot… and they keep coming back to play with you and lose money? Hope springs eternal for them, eh?

      • I hear you there.. just finished planting onions.. going to put in the beets next.. got to say I love beets..buttered pickled or just plain boiled..

        • Comrade loob,

          Boris can handle baked Golden Beets okay, edible with enough Butta.
          But regular red Beets, I cant stand the smell of em! Gag me with some Pherdemist.

          My peeps put em raw in salads..just fresh sliced red beets..HAAAARF! Borscht on the other hand..

          ” Natasha, that Nato sponsored merc hotel in Kharkiv, looks like bowl of Borscht, after Khinzal strike, poor bastards never knew what hit em” -BB

        • (“just fresh sliced red beets..HAAAARF!”)

          LOL LOL that sounds like my grand kids.. baked yellow beets.. how do you make those.. that sounds good.. how do you make them…
          I love red beets.. I planted sugar beets once to feed the animals.. dam those took off like weeds.. that and the millet and sorghum.. I was amazed at the thistles in the yard.. then it dawned on me.. that was the main ingredient in the bird seed I put out.. so for at that time the bunny was peanut.. jackies mother and the other baby bunnies that run around here.. well peanut was not afraid I was in a wheelchair and it was a baby and would eat at my feet.. so to make sure peanut had plenty of food.. I planted wild lettuce and sugar beets.. and for the birds millet and sorghum.. the birds loved it… the bunnies loved it and once in a while a deer would show up for a snack.. the neatest thing was watching a baby deer pull a carrot out of their garden.. slicker than a whistle and just as smooth.. I wanted to take a picture of it.. so we keep a feed tub.. ( tubs that they sell feed in for cattle..) with carrots just for the deer if they should come back to eat.. after peanut grew up.. it was always gone.. but one day I see peanut running like hell I was sitting outside on the porch and she runs right up and under the awning and sits down.. I hadn’t seen her do that in a long time so I was visiting with her.. and looked out and seen why.. there was a red tailed hawk flying overhead looking for her.. I was the lesser of two evils.. LOL..
          last year two blue jays .. I forgot to fill the feeder.. anyway the wife hears a noise.. at the door she goes to see what it was.. it was two blue jays pecking at the door.. she yells honey you forgot to fill the bird feeder the blue jays are reminding you LOL LOL…. speaking of which.. I have to fill the squirrel feeder.. Rocky and his mate will be upset.. I love it when you can hear mrs. rocky chewing rockies butt out for not bringing food home.. LOL LOL.. I use to have a photo of rocky and his mate it was cute.. when he first got with her.. he showed her where I put the ear of corn for them.. and they were both eating and rocky had his little paw around her shoulder.. it was cuter than hell.. they play with their little ones.. in the trees people could learn a lot from the animals.. Rocky was going up a tree.. mother robin was upset she tried to get rocky to go down and leave her nest alone.. pretty soon she flew over to a lamp post a block away and you could hear her talking .. pretty soon every species of bird in the area was there to chase rocky down the tree and down the road.. the new momma bird was frustraited she had a nest of babies.. she was calling out and pretty soon every species of bird flew across the street and stood there.. she would go pick the worm or whatever the bird had found for her.. take it to her babies.. and the bird would fly away.. they were lending a hand to a despirate mother bird.. oh I could go on all day about the animals around here.. they are fun and wonderful to watch.. we could learn a lot from the animals if we actually paid attention to them..

        • Golden Beats..

          Ingredients; golden beets,arugala, feta cheese, pistachios, lemon vinaigrette.
          Oven @400
          place ure whole beets on foil, drizzle wit olive oil,salt&pepper. wrap in foil, place in 400 oven for 1 Hour, or until done depending on size and freshness.
          Ready to go if youse want em as hot/warm side.
          Or cool em and peel skins. Slice into qtrs or bite size pieces and put it in da fridge.

          Make ure lemon vinaigrette.

          Arrange beets, arugula ,feta and pistachios on platter, drizzle with that dressing , salt&pepper..top wit micro greens (opt.).

          * pretty sweet, without salty feta, still has slight beety/earthy taste to em…

        • that sounds great thank you for sharing BCN… I will see if the walmart has any golden beets.. so I can try it..

  4. ” a Marxist- socialist insurgency which has been in power since Clinton ”

    It started with Roosevelt long time ago because for the majority it’s too difficult being an entrepreneur and easier to work for the man, IMHO.
    As for your dream, (my interpretation !), has to do only with your personal life, and the work that you are doing (comment section = enemy ;-)). How is that for a hint ? For me it’s soo obvious ?!
    NO offense to anyone. It’s just an opinion.
    Btw. I’m getting too tired to write more so than walking ;-).

    • “It started with Roosevelt ”

      I think freedom closed at the end of the CW and the finical monster was born. Look to Northern Blue states now. The major cities are no longer ‘world class’. But 150 years ago the CW and financial expansion made sense to those people.

      I found this 1977 Lincoln, link below. The car is just under 20′ long, gets about 10mpg and has a 20 gallon gas tank so 200 miles between fills. Imagine driving that car now. We’d be filling it up twice a week @ $70.00 a fill. This car made sense to the the 1977 folks. Distances were shorter. A different time.

      1977 Lincoln Continental Town Car – $9,500 (Metamora)

      https://detroit.craigslist.org/okl/cto/d/metamora-1977-lincoln-continental-town/7739697349.html

    • Woodrow (rentboyluver) Wilson spoke of this very thing..

      “Their Symbols and the ones they display, will be their undoing”

      COWINKYDINKS ?

      1- Ukranian Crest

      is nearly identical to

      2- Moloch Sigil

      which looks just like the

      3- Khazarian Tamga

      Who they be today ? glad you asked..

      soros&wexner
      buffett&bloomberg
      gates &balmer
      bezos&ma
      dell&ellison
      page&brin
      thiel&schimdt
      ichan&swarzman
      branson&cuban

      think we gotz a billionaire problem, or is it a Saturn/Satan problem?

  5. (“Big money to be made killing people: Russia-Ukraine war a gold mine for US, British defence firms — sales rocket, stock prices soar (theprint.in) Well, peeps gotta make a buck, right?
    But seriously? Can you believe this? Would NATO beat Russia in a war? “)

    Hmm.. don’t know.. think of china.. they spend half as much as the usa on military.. but their cost of living is so much lower than ours.. so are they in actuality investing five to ten times more into their military?
    its all about positioning.. and if this is the poison pawn trap.. the idea is to get the opponent to move his forces away from the king.. all while positioning around the major ports.. then with the threats that they have been giving since I was a very little boy.. that they would attack from within.. so put a few bucks on the brand get their commitment.. then let them open the borders to allow the army to enter.. the business model of I want more.. screw the rest.. position them on the interior.. then when the time comes.. slap the shit out of them..
    we are on what eight fronts now and involved with three.. so far.. what was it that was a comment in the movie we were men..
    I personally think we were set up… they bought the obedience with a few drugs a few dollars and fed the perversions.. all to be able to get things in place.. even all the US generals have thrown the beware flag up…but then who am I just some MORON in the middle of the wastelands..
    https://youtu.be/XZD8gBXNocA?si=7_1S5ILFxQoPfat2

  6. My first big poker game., outside of Lake Tahoe, was in Taos N.M. in 1978.
    I was standing by myself watching the other players in room before the game started., when an elderly gentleman walked over.., neatly dressed, thick white hair – probably 70.
    “First time?” he asked
    “Not really., played a lot at Tahoe.,” I answered
    “I see. Don’t know anyone here, I take it.”
    “No, I don’t.” I did know Jimmy – the dealer. That’s how I got the invite.
    He looked around the room and was silent for a few minutes.
    “Not a bad lot.” He sipped his drink – looked like vodka on ice. “I have played most of them at one time, or another.” He looked me square in the eyes and grinned slowly. “There is only one person you have to watch when playing.”
    I looked around the room then back to him.., “You?”
    He grinned again., “Close., but, no. Your self.” He tipped his glass at me and walked away.
    Never forgot that advice. Fits a lot of situations.
    I walked-out a winner that night.

  7. Btw… today is another palindrome day. 4-25-24. The rest of the week will be palindrome dates.

  8. My “big picture” look at the market says we are still in the Elliott 5th Wave going up with a topping in late summer.

    Not trading, but if I am correct this sell off should squeeze out the bulls, get many going short (ala both 29 and 87), and then when it turns those shorts will be the rocket fuel that gets the rise going up to the final high … maybe with a little help from the Fed as they panic and cut interest rates mid summer.

    If we follow the 29 and 87 dynamic the sell off should end in May, between the mid to the end of the month after which the rocket ride begins. We’ll see … if I am right in my wave count or if I am full of crap. (“IF” we get the rocket ride up on Peoplenomics I will post my expected dates, but always take specific dates that were arrived at way back in 1998, 26 years ago, with a grain of salt … maybe a salt mine of salt – though the big picture is certainly matching, so far, from those now 26 year old projections )

  9. The Dow has cut it’s losses by half -now down only 320
    Oil is back up over $83 a barrel
    Ten Year over 4.7 %
    .
    A lot commentators have stated that the GDP came in weaker than expected., at 1.6%
    It came in much higher than I expected. I was looking for 0.5 to 1.0 % but those darn consumers just keep spending. Credit card debt reached a new high last month at over $1.1 trillion dollars. Where is the consumer getting all this spending money from?

  10. my new word of the day, as this low IQ tard has not heard it before,,,
    ‘tautological’
    adjective:
    Involving tautology; having the same signification.
    an echo that repeats the same sound or syllable many times.

    “…Roberts said that the D.C. Circuit failed to do a “focused” analysis on these act by adopting a “tautological” standard…”
    https://www.zerohedge.com/political/listen-live-supreme-court-hears-trumps-presidential-immunity-appeal

  11. What’s the chances it’ll all just Go On forever?

    Big Wigs and Big Powers making small course corrections, tightening the thumbscrews an eighth turn each week; but NEVER that Magik Moment when it all busts a gut, and blows up?

    (SEEMS counterintuitive…)
    (“What goes up” –etcetera.)

    • (“What’s the chances it’ll all just Go On forever?”)

      I often wondered that.. its a numbers game…they can create numbers out of thin air.. so far the US has been kiting the deficit for decades.. could they keep kiting the whole system forever.. probably if they keep running the numbers game and are the ones making the rules to the game…. the only stickler is .. BRIC”s… the other stickler is.. these countries played the GREED card.. play into the greed and now the USA is no longer the manufacturing center of the world.. we import what we need.. the four dollar dishwasher is why.. they probably by buying a hundred thousand of them paid a buck a piece for them.. wholesale.. like my cans.. two hundred a case and they sent me a pallet of them for twelve bucks and shipping and made money on it.. they upped the order from one case to a pallet because I was a good customer and the cost of shipping was the same either way..

  12. re: The Trend
    feat: Jam

    Folks,
    Thursday brings revelation of two more “jamfluencers” in the Duchess of Sussex 50 jars of strawberry jam chase.

    Lucky 13 jam jar went to Kim Jenner (Kardashian). She did not dish out a personal appearance but rather sent a “thank you” reply in lemon-colored ink.

    #20 arrived at the busy family home of Chrissy Teigen who responded with a high production value video. Bacon and brie on a jam buttie created in only 8 minutes, and it lasted them the weekend! (Will Cali Social Services address the matter of a child appearing to lick the bread knife?)

    Time to join DJ George over in the studio plugging in for an afternoon jam. Be swift catching all the latest as the clock ticks down towards the 2nd annual Kelce Jam in KC. If last year’s Loud Luxury rapped your doors, don’t leave your ’24 tool crib without a plann. How ’bout some Irie?

    “The Way of the Plann”

  13. Dual Passport. In the old days I would have said no, but watching what has been happening, I advise it as an escape plan.

    • Robert Prechter was hammering on getting one starting about 2 to 3 years ago. VERY insistent!!

  14. Joni Patri astrology predicts attacks in May:
    scroll down to about 55th commenter, Nas Dalai Mana, says he also dreamt of running from an attack, possibly on same nite as Ure’s Truly dream…Joni thinks it’s in San Antonio….
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4eLIlUVGsWc

    btw, repuglacant witch hunt on Mayorkis didn’t pass the smell test, evidence against him failed (find another scapegoat to distract from the Trumpian Tragedy unfolding before your very eyes lol!!):
    https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/17/politics/senate-mayorkas-impeachment-articles/index.html

    Jessica saying end of April and May big dates for the sharemarkets…
    https://www.jessicaadams.com/2024/04/11/blog/jupiter-uranus-conjunction-zoom/

  15. Hank in Hawaii – in the last three games, they have tried several different approaches., none worked. I think they are about to stop playing. I will not ‘let’ them win., can’t do that.
    – It may be time to find a few more players.
    – Not much of a challenge anymore, either.

    • (“I think they are about to stop playing. “)

      They Probably got all their assets in position now.. Monkey Werx has been noticing some really strange air traffic.. and around here at all the well heads a military generator pumping station is locked down and grounded.. that tells me there is some preparation being planned for an infrastructure down scenario. gotta have water..
      with three years of open borders giving the opportunity to move an army into the interior of the country and If they have been positioning assets near all the big port areas.It wasn’t that long ago that Russia even had a submarine in the harbor at SanFran and no one knew it was even docked there…the only thing they would have to do is get our deployed military on eight fronts to get involved in some active military then take the king.. glad I don’t live anywhere near delaware.. that I am sure that is a target..
      The whole reason why they bought the brand was to get compliance of the head offices..give the deviants what they desire to keep them obedient to their wishes..
      https://www.newsweek.com/burisma-owner-thought-hunter-biden-was-dumber-his-dog-fbi-document-1814424

      I believe that the only reason they bought into their sick and deviant lifestyle was to keep the high offices compliant with their wishes..

      • All the more reason why pedo joe and fam are not a target. he is doing perfectly well destroying the country from within and without. nobody gonna mess wit success, leave that idiot be, and watch USS America go under the waves..unless of course they panic and try accelerating the sinking process, then we will see pedo joe go down for the count and Cam-the-man propped up as commander and chief pedophile.

        * local grocery store was out OR “tender white” earlier this week, had to go with “lightly salted”. putting the black popcorn corn in garden again this year, black ears – pops white! very tastey and tender.

        ** Alts – Sorghum and Amaranth; place sorghum in medium preheated pan. Add Sorghum and cover. “shake it baby shake it”
        After 1/3rd of sorghum popped – remove it to separate bowl, and keep shaking baby..

  16. “While here in remnants of free speech: Dozens arrested in US as student protests over Gaza spread across country. Free speech as long as the government’s pushing one side…”

    The “news” organizations aren’t showing the rows upon rows of identical tents which make up nearly all of the “tent cities” that have “sprung up” on college campuses. What I can’t figure is, with all the dorm and off-campus housing which surrounds virtually every college campus in CONUS, who all is living in those tents, and why? Could the “campers” be all the mid-20s to early-30s “kids” who seem to be running all these “mostly peaceful” protests which call for the murder of Jews, both abroad and on-campus…?

  17. “Be a climate scientist: attend divinity school? Pope Francis uses first ever US TV interview to slam climate change deniers as ‘fools’ and insists ‘climate change exists’.”

    Would anyone expect anything else from a hardcore Marxist? Francie’s principal drive is to place as many peons as possible under his thumb as Catholics, then utterly subjugate every facet of their very existence.

  18. “Then there’s Arizona politics: Mark Meadows, Rudy Giuliani and Arizona ‘fake electors’ charged with state crimes. But wait, is this another case of lawfare?”

    Yes.

    This is neither illegal, nor unique in modern American politics. One need search no further than JFK to find this exact occurrence…

  19. “But how long can Paxton last? He’s under attack for doing his job, as he figured it: Court rules State Bar of Texas can pursue disciplinary action against Ken Paxton.”

    At least in most States (or the Federal Government), there is no requirement that the “Attorney General” be an actual attorney. I actually lobbied after Trump won in 2016, that he make either Joe Arpaio or David Clarke AG of the U.S., and make the one not chosen, head of DHS.

    I would guess that if the Texas Bar Ass. spanks Paxton, Paxton can spank them right back…

  20. “In the dream last night, I was in a military bunker of some kind. In a coastal city where there was an intel operation going. City was big square in the overhead shots.”

    Be careful with that, George. The only square “big city” I’ve ever seen is Indianapolis.

    You won’t remember, but I sent you an E-Mail about 15-18 years ago detailing a lucid dream I’d had, where some kind of catastrophe happened and made CONUS, between the middle of Indiana and the foothills of the Rockies, ocean. The lesser peaks of the Rockies were relegated to being islands, and Bob Denver’s vision of the Western Slope of the Sierras being beachfront had come to pass. IIRC I also commented that climate in Indiana was becoming very like the historical climate of coastal Washington. This was along about the time I first noticed August day temps in swaths of MI, IN, and OH were running 12-20 degrees below normal for the entire month!

    Indy has the Rock Island Refinery, which makes a whole bunch of petroleum distillates, some of them pretty oddball, along with run of the mill gas, oil, and diesel. I dunno if they have a nuke plant in the area, though. Although I suspect Indiana has others, the only Hoosier nuke plants I’ve seen are along the Ohio River…

    • IF the midcontinent plate would SINK (a large part of it dropped 30’+ during the great 1811-1812 EQ’s) then yes the sea could intrude coming up the Mississippi. If it dropped far enough Chicago could become the new outlet to the sea for the upper Great Lakes and the sea could also intrude up not just up the Mississippi but also the Missouri River.

      fwiw where the Missouri River exits Iowa the elevation above sea level is about 400′ it appears.

        • The two biggest salt mines in the United States are underneath Detroit (Lake Huron) and Traverse City (Lake Michigan) in the State of confusion, formerly known as “Michigan.” When you buy “Morton” or “Diamond
          Crystal” it doesn’t come from an ocean.

          Likely, what once was will be again. ‘Thing is, we are the latest of late-coming infants, and the Earth doesn’t care in the least about Man’s means of reckoning either time, or its own importance as a species.

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