Brinking Monday: Lobby the Fed, Loose Lips Sink All

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Although last Monday’s column turned out very close to right (‘thousand points down’) we are not sure which way this week will turn out. Our “hope for the best, invest for the worst” mentality verges on bipolar in today’s world.

We have plenty of suspicions, though.  Given that we are still locked into a bad ending to an extended upwave in the economy; birthed in the Housing Bubble disaster and awaiting a name for this time around.

To Market, To Market

I’ll put on my sports (golf) announcer “whisper voice” now.

“The Fed has just launched a phenomenal long ball down the middle of the economic fairway.  But a gust of hot air threatens to land the ball in the rough…”

“Pelosi Visit to Ukraine Signals Growing U.S. Resolve Against Russia.  I don’t know about you, but the idea of Pelosi talking “victory” seems designed to push Russia even more into a corner, as the EU ramps up the Ukraine-NATO proxy war for ownership of Ukraine’s resources and warm water port.

I can’t speak for you, but if there’s credibility to the report Putin ‘to undergo cancer operation and hand power to hardline ex-spy chief’, says ‘Kremlin insider’ in shock claim, we do appreciate a) it’s in The Sun and b) un-named sources is how bullshit like the “Trump dossier” got put-over on American voters.  Aided and abetted by an “American law firm” – still unpunished, even now.

The collapse of arithmetic, in all this, should have scientists worldwide concerned.  For the Ukraine damage claim (Russia’s combat losses in Ukraine total 23,800 – General Staff:) is several times what Russia admits to.

As we have said previously, however, Russians are clever tacticians (ever play a Grand Master?).  We would not be surprised for a plot like this: Putin fakes illness, a hardliner opens the “cans of sunshine” and shortly thereafter, which might go something like this:

Putin makes a miraculous recovery after May 9th from any “health issues” and returns to the slimelight to take credit for (or place blame for) events while recovering.  Much will be revealed in the location of any treatment.  In Moscow environs defuses the “play” idea.  In a more rural/Ural kind of location?  Then another round of speculation may be in order.

Speaking of the canned sunshine, though: Russian TV threatens annihilation of UK with radioactive tsunami & Satan-2 nukes.

Speaking of Slime – What Time?

This is Fed Week and Jobs Week.

Federal Reserve rate decision will come Wednesday.  For reasons embodied in the chart below, we think the Fed will “talk an accommodative game” which could cheer markets to options expiration this month.  May 20.

Thing is, jiggering of rates, market price manipulation through offshore proxies, and multiple governments with differing agendas is not a simple thing to forecast:

When we look at market action, on an Aggregate basis, the decline from the November 8th market highs to the Friday close, the market has retained 83.37 percent of its value basis its 11/8/21 valuation.  Put another way, we’re down 16.63 percent.

Please Squint with Me

I hope you see the problem endemic to economic comparisons.  Time is not even.  Paradoxically, the slower information moves around, the greater the build-up of information asymmetries in the economic system.  What took from 1920 t0 1929 to build to a blow-off has taken from 2009 (or 2011 depending on measurement type) to 2021.

Question we might be asking now is:  “Given it has taken 6 months to lose a little over 15 percent in markets, will a further 6-months get us down another 15% by, oh, Thanksgiving?

Slope of the dope I hope.  Because if we see an information nonlinearity (asymmetry max, where government knows but regular people don’t) then the door is open to an MCHVE (*massively-correlated hyper-volatility event).

Part of me is cheering for this slower pace of play – as it means Taiwan will not be taken until 2023. We all get more time to prep for the 1800s.  We might even buy a horse or draft animal rig…

Logically, with the shipping disasters (for example Vanguard on supply chain challenges: “Where in the world is my container?” and Taiwan’s stocks suffer market jolt as China’s zero-Covid policy and lockdown disrupt supply chains from PCs to vehicles”) lead us to see China already advancing their “Let’s Neuter America” agenda.  Which no one will notice (neutering) since DC is already chock full of nuts…

Battle of the Giants

There is a whole OTHER level of “play” afoot in the world right now.  The American investment giants (like Vanguard and Blackrock) have more money than most countries.  

Yes, dear Reader, corporations have already “eaten the planet.”

Vanguard has assets of $7.5 trillion while Blackrock rolls with $10-trillion.  Plus or minus a cheeseburger, as my first broker schooled me.

What countries have $18-trillion in assets or more, you’re asking?

Well, the GDP of the US is around $22 trillion while China is $14-trillionish.\

See where the battle lines are?  One way to “win” government’s “war of survival” would be to gently crash the Big Guys.  It’s an interesting mental exercise, too:  Noodle through the economics of how the Great Depression might have played if  only the Trusts had been busted, but general collapse avoided.

Not sure it could have been done.  But we see the same “concentration of power” and the “who owns who?” problem laying out before us now.

Don’t mean to ramble, but corporations taking over the world is dangerous stuff if you value freedom.

Beyond Supply Chain Warfare?

FOOD.

Seen in this “economics is power” light, we can then see how the corporations might have an interest in manipulating events (like the supply chain) to minimize the power of the US FedGov except for approved outcomes.  Like opening the boarder (thanks Drooler!) is happening to keep labor costs low and quality of life on the skids in America.

The next game piece is groceries.  And what do we find here? Can the World Feed Itself? Historic Fertilizer Crunch Threatens Food Security.

See, the War in Ukraine is just a “cover op” in a lot of ways.  Sure, stories like World Food Grain Shortage Looms as Russia Blocks a Top Ukrainian Export seem to cast Vlad as Bad. But, what if there’s this more general play underway: corporate usurpation and replacement of civil governments worldwide?  Then food just becomes the next weapon in the toolkit.

While is (pardon the poor analogy) setting the table for Famine.  Regardless of your view on Glen Beck, take a listen to his famine talk this weekend on BlazeTV.

Sheesh.

What to do?  Get out of debt, get free and clear land you can grow something on, and learn to garden and harvest water, as well.

The end game is slow, but only till the sunshine cans open.  Rats backed in corners and all that.

The Bitcoin Con

Suppose you were in a war – governments v. corporations.  One way to weaponize nothing would be to make-up money – digitally – and blow up a huge crypto currency bubble.

Now, sounding suspiciously like our long-term view here comes the Sage of Omaha: Warren Buffett gives his most expansive explanation for why he doesn’t believe in bitcoin.  “If you offered me all the Bitcoin in the world, for $25, I wouldn’t take it” said Mr. Buffett.

Another file pull quote: “Sometimes the Market’s investment oriented, other times its like a casino.”  Which also fits like a glove.

Truth’s out there, Scully.

Hour to the open, the market futures have started to slide again.

Lobbying of the Fed on line one.

Knowable in Advance

It’s about to get worse in Nukraine:  Ukraine war: Hundreds trapped in Mariupol steelworks despite evacuations. Meanwhile, that “sinking feeling” continues Ukraine sank two Russian Raptor-class patrol boats in Black Sea.

Strangely, Nukraine tourism is rising:  All you need is a taxpayer or corporate jet to play in this league.  See, not only did loose-lips Pelosi visit this weekend but Angelina Jolie Makes Surprise Ukraine Visit, Meets Children.  Ah…ain’t that heart warming?  (coughs, sputters)

Is sea level rising?  Or, is the bet on land masses subsiding? New Zealand faces major sea rise ‘much sooner than we thought’. Meantime, the Clinton News Network might become the Climate News Network with India and Pakistan heatwave is ‘testing the limits of human survivability’

Texas War Powers in view: Texas governor could invoke war powers over the Lefty’s and Drooler’s Title 42 coup.

Social Tools for Fools:  Fake News – driven by agenda-programmed bots on social(ist) media – may have come home to bite: More Than Half Of Elon Musk’s Twitter followers Are Fake, Claims Online Tool.

Beware the Pricks who tried to tax Google global revenues file: European Union accuses Apple Inc. of abusing dominant position in the way it operates Apple Pay.  Monarchs and megalomaniacs.   A sort of “what’s next” after last week’s EU triggers rule of law procedure against Hungary.  Damn idiots getting in bed with Jack the financial Ripper types, in the first place.

ATR (Around the Ranch)

No use trying to ignore Zeus the Cat today.  Demanding ever-more pets and adorations in the wake of Egypt archaeologists unearth stunning ‘Temple of Zeus’ dedicated to Greek god.

We, of course, pointed out there’s a line of replacement candidates forming for the job. Including “Sam” – a feral Siamese from the woods who’s intent on muscling-in on Zeus’s chow.  (Sam being gender neutral but will lock on Samuel or Samantha when we figure out which side of the cat box IT lives on.)

Elaine keeps thinking about picking up writing her long-ago started research project for a book (Barking Mad) about dog ownership in general and killer breeds in particular.  Seeing the headline today Public health worker killed by “pack of dangerous dogs” in Alabama after she went to home to follow up on another dog attack.  Could a “world turn” be coming to register “killer breed” dogs but not pistols?

Great fun writing Peoplenomics on time management for Wednesday. Pomade your Pomodoro’s for that.

Time’s Up: Ever wonder what it would be like to live in a world without clocks? Especially ones that talk, nag, report health failings and all that?  Our thinking goes there most Mondays…

Off to a fine load of chow and then studying for my upcoming heart exam.  This getting old never gets old, though.  When it does, you can hear a door to the Other Side opening.  And we’re having too much fun for that.  Many more years of adventures are pending.

Write when you get rich,

George@Ure.net

58 thoughts on “Brinking Monday: Lobby the Fed, Loose Lips Sink All”

  1. Probably too much time on my hands to read but I continue to try and analyze and understand the COVID plague that apparently launched itself from a virus “gain of function” research lab in Wuhan, China. It is unlike any other disease that we have faced before and seems to baffle scientists with the plethora of symptoms, range of victims, age of victims, presence or absence of vaccination and permanency of effects. I cannot help but feel that I might possibly be one of the long COVID victims but doubt it will ever be confirmed.

    CNN is not one of my favourite information sources but I continue to have a sliver of respect for Sanjay Gupta. I found this video and his interview quite interesting. One thing missing in this report is an assessment of how many people are getting these symptoms even after being fully vaccinated. I hear many arguments on this site that it is the mRNA vaccines that are causing these issues and not the virus. It will certainly require a deep dive to determine if the vaccine is causative or co-incidental to long COVID.

    https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/02/health/long-covid-asympomatic-cases/index.html

    • Dude, really ?! still farting around msm for Ure information ????

      WTF – have we learned nothing in the past 7 years ? All you need to do is view the national press club dinner -speech by ZIC – Stepford Buyedem.

      DNC & MSN/clownsinaction – MSM owns You, Abuses You, and yet You still cling to it like a dammed Junkie.

      SARS/Covid is/was and will alwayz be a deepstate op. dr ralph baric – UNC working for DoD w/falsie-gates and funding from USAID..hello Avril gaines..C u next tuesday. This was/is “shanghi gang” =chicom deepstate working murhrican deepstate (german wing/dvd – of cia) and germans deepstate via Ukraine.

      What you think is under Avostal steel plant ? Why nazi’s been holding out for over 2 months ..no food, clean water…? Dont know? Ask Metabio, ask noodles Nuland – ask Israhell’s mossad.

      Horrfuckinrific does not begin to cover whats been going on down below ground level Avostal – and why Russians are not destroying it – no matter how many provocations nazi’s commit. Now you know why G. Soreass and Daveyboy rockafella smile so much..jerkoffs.

      No body in leadership pos in the west understand Russian will..gonna be epic..neo-nuremburg.

      PS: hanging rope too good this brood of Loki’s nogoodniks.

    • Sorry to be the one to certify this for ‘ya Bic, but the so-called “Vaccine” is anything but….it’s a bioweapon designed to kill millions. But it was a dud, you see, which is why all the “boosters”. Still the “clot-shot” has killed millions worldwide, and don’t be too surprised when they roll out a “new and improved” virus by mid-term election day.

    • Without trauma and breaking of the skin, a virus can only enter through natural body openings. Our incredible immune system is designed to observe and repel such entries by pathogens. The injections(sometimes called “vaccines”) deliver a bolus of pathogen an inch and a half into deep muscle tissue – approximately the same as stepping on a 6 penny nail with the added load of a designed vector virus or a pseudovirus(encapsulated mRNA). The latter is somewhat protected by its liposomal coating and can traverse the entire body in perhaps 15 minutes without the same level of immune protection as a vector(or other) true virus with a protein coat. This may account for the greater variety in the adverse reactions to the mRNA injections. The J&J and AstraZenica shots use a DNA mRNA template encoded into a novel vector virus which is less able to move quickly in the body and is more visible to the immune system. There have still been a horrendous number of clotting and other hematologic events from these. The idea of encoding pathologic spike protein templates into our cellular machinery is rather perverse, to say the least. The idea of endogenous amplification of a pathogen simply as an immune system trigger is in my opinion insane. Conventional vaccines don’t carry these risks.

  2. It was one of those short, but long weekends. My body feels like the weekend was 5 days long and full of toil. Now it’s time to get back to toiling…seems like I missed something?

    Speaking of ‘Time’s up’, I have long had the idea that our modern system of time keeping is arbitrarily complicated and non-sensical.

    We should simplify the whole thing. Eliminating daylight savings time isn’t going far enough.

    I propose that we:
    1. Eliminate the AM/PM system and go to a 24-Hour Clock.
    2. Eliminate Time Zones and go to a single global time. Greenwich Mean Time or Zulu Time, if you prefer. Hell, call it ‘Star Date’ if that make you feel fancier. After all, there really is only one global time anyway. The perpetual ‘now’.

    Yes, it will confuse some people, but that’s a normal state of mind for those folks that are easily confused. You could easily make them believe that it’s good for the ‘climate’ or it supports the rights of the lgbtq+++ukrlatinxminritygndrquerfurry cause of the day.

  3. George,

    The news is straight out of my 2019 book, Nostradamus and The Third Age of Mars, The Prophecies of World War III:

    Speaking of the canned sunshine, though: Russian TV threatens annihilation of UK with radioactive tsunami & Satan-2 nukes.

    For some of your more incredulous readers, I was writing about this before there was a Status 6 Nuclear Torpedo.

    Today’s post is just for those Nostradamus doubters!

    https://theageofdesolation.com/nostradamus/2022/05/02/england-half-sunk-to-the-bottom/

      • Funny when I stepped outside the Lorde Concert George on Friday. Someone wrote in graffiti on the other side of the rail road tracks. “925 dow!”

        Not your typical graffiti such as lit Interprize and 8fugital. Stuff like that.

      • ..too bad Vilesack didnt hear scheisse..he just be “sacked” ..former Iowa guv, prior dat practicing Obongo acolyte. speaking of assHOLES – obongo acolytes was not nice knowing either one of U = Loo-retaLynched, antisci falsie.. swinging frm gibbets and all, those dam trap doors, getz every time.

        Gee wonder where the power and nrg from their “darklord” obongo Is ? Was there ever really much nrQi ?
        whatwahtwhat – powerless you say? Yes any he might have had was Given by YOU. du-oooh!

        1 by 1 they went swinging…https://youtu.be/yXjQCTgBLiY

        note date of recording = RGEa was in same place (working for uncle sam) 40 yearz ago…https://youtu.be/TyDQs0ajxEc

        ..Hispanics… still wearing cologne 2 werk..still smell em miles away..kinda like duc souce..or so was told.

    • Great article today George…Also yesterday when I saw the news article about the nuke tsunami on Britain’s shore I immediately thought of Alois Lrlmaier prophecy that I have read years ago. Stu you have nailed it again. I suggest everyone MUST buy your book to know what is coming.
      If I lived in England I would be on the first plane out! Kudos to George and Stu today.

    • Stu, I would’ve fallen out of my chair when reading Lavrov’s statements this morning, but these confirmations of prophecy are coming so fast now that I would be MORE surprised if we didn’t see it happen.

      I had already seen this elsewhere and resisted posting about it here, because I knew that you would and wanted to defer to my betters.

      Read it and weep (literally), folks. This whole thing is unfolding as foretold.

    • Stu, Boris threatened to preemptively nuke Russia last week (perhaps he’s one of your readers…) Would you really expect the Russian media to not play off this bit of primeministerial stupidity?

      • It’s the news man. I don’t write it. The England flooded prophecy I wrote about 10-years ago.

        Buy the prophecy, buy, the book, by the premise, I really don’t care. It’s just what I wrote over a decade ago.

        Hardly anyone reads the book.

        No, it’s a real threat. The Russians have lost a number of Generals and over a Division’s worth of soldiers and equipment.

        Nuclear war is now guaranteed. Nuclear tsunamis will keep the northern hemisphere radioactive winds to a minimum.

        Just keep telling yourself, “It will be okay, it will be okay.”

        But it really won’t.

        What I wrote a decade ago and what is in today’s news could not be anymore apparently similar.

        Reaching for the “Boris read my book” answer to your denial of reality is kind of sad for you and yours.

        Good luck with the obvious.

      • “Nuclear war is now guaranteed. Nuclear tsunamis will keep the northern hemisphere radioactive winds to a minimum.
        Just keep telling yourself, “It will be okay, it will be okay.”

        What is interesting Stu.. is not only did Nostradamus but Leonardo DaVinci had brought up a theory of civilization being destroyed by water….. Kill the oceans and kill the bees and mankind will cease to exist “Canadian Bee Journal” in 1941 https://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/book/browse?type=lcsubc&key=Bee%20culture&c=x
        I know Einstein was quoted as saying it.. but in reality the only connection that I know of between Einstein and the quote came from that article..I will have to ask my friend if she can remember which book or manuscript Leonardo’s fears was listed in . she is deep into the fifteen hundreds literature right now… but even though I am not to sure now what book of Leonardo davinci his fears were actually written in but think it was his windsor notebook..
        http://ijaahnet.com/journals/ijaah/Vol_6_No_2_December_2018/6.pdf
        https://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/book/browse?type=lcsubc&key=Leonardo%2c%20da%20Vinci%2c%201452%2d1519

        I just find it interesting that not only did Nostradamus bring it up .. but so did Leonardo and now it is in the news as a possible scenario..
        Nobody wins this time around… I totally believe that we are way beyond the tipping point.. something that should have been de escalated right away was and is being pushed into being..
        May god protect and save us all.. or the hopi ant people.. they saved the Hopi tribes twice so far and predicted that they would have to again..

      • Chill, Stu. I DID buy the book and I DID read it (well, most of… seems life gets in the way sometimes.)

    • So THAT’S why the Queen was wearing a life jacket. I thought it was a fashion statement.

  4. Congressional “junket” or going to the source/druggie-tourism supply run?? Traveling on diplo passports, congressional chartered airline ??

    Give me a break, Chief ! – U aint that dense..hell like all Ure other wise men – you dont even know How It Feels to be Thick As A Brick..https://youtu.be/3CPqcZGLsmU

    …swept away….the moral malaise…discovers the new fangled ways – Bitcoinz = Freedom Participation – BFP’s know nothing but FEAR..a killa that-financial& spiritual.

    A student of HISTORY U aint – clueless in the outback as it were. Nathanials fat little bitch in omaha – mouthpiecing the redshield philosophy – See his track record – actual Investing Track Record -its public info…NO Tech ! refused to invest – too hard to Value properly according to the munger/buffet model of cash flow value investing. For years he ripped, denigrated and acted like the shitbird he Is…shitting all over the hottest and best Tech companies out there…finally bot Tech -appl, years after the RotW had already made Uge profits..

    Verified ! anti freedom geniuses… 1/10 of a worthless Bicoinz is still worth more 1 Oz Gold, 1 Barrel Oil, 3 Brooks Bros milano slim fit, 3 pair Ferragamo Moccasin…Whats backing Ure money ? I know – ASS.

    Perhaps all U all anti Freedom types should write, when you a get a friggin clue, or some style.

    Pain is higher for the manipulated – which ALL players are these daze of the upside down – name some Darkside playerz ? Who just visited Ukesheol”..pigloser, schiftfty -dark IS, as dark does…follow the Andrenacrom – to very “factory/factory “farms” were the stuff is extracted..dark enough yet ? NOPE – you be begging for as Acceptance = guilty participation..just like the body and blood..Yum

    Lets Go Slaughter & Torture of innocent Women and Children! – Human Shields are the best – better than level 4 body armour!

    Lets Go Brandon/Israhell/Ukraine/ShanghiGang..4 moar yearz,4 moar yearz!

  5. George I suggest you look at the Russian TV Video again. I looked at the Russian TV presentation and saw something that you didn’t pick up on. Hint: Why is it the Irish who pay the highest price for English folly?

    In fact setting off the torpedo where Russian TV wants to would likely keep England safe with Ireland Scotland and Wales to protect her. In fact the tsunami would likely wash up in the hills where King Edward the 1st built his forts and slosh up to Hadrian’s wall.

    Maybe it’s better to just ignore the Sun newspaper altogether.

    By the way there’s a really nice video on YouTube featuring a hipster Welsh woman who takes a hike through Northern Scotland along the cape wraith trail. Her YouTube channel is called fit for adventure. It is useful because it displays the countryside that the tsunami would have to go over to get to England.

    https://youtu.be/nOt0-xS3uAM

    • Best to stock up on the cases of Macallan now. Should be sitting right there next to the bullion.

      • I think You are right. Bushmills Macallan and Johnnie Walker Blue Label plus Crown Royal and the cheapest alcohol (Mad Dog 2020 ?) to trade are all good for post bug out commodities. If you can’t trade them you can always drink ‘em, except for the Mad Dog 2020 that’s purely to trade.

        P.S. I just can’t see someone who drinks Macallan drinking Mogen David or maybe that’s a sign of the “end of days”

  6. “Seeing the headline today Public health worker killed by “pack of dangerous dogs” in Alabama after she went to home to follow up on another dog attack.”

    About 20 years ago I was bitten by a German Shepherd while standing on the porch talking to the owner. I was there to serve her son with child support papers. The dog circled slowly behind me, then lunged and got my left leg just above the ankle. A trip to the ER netted me a bandaged leg but no antibiotics. Infection set in over the weekend, and I had a lengthy course of treatment before returning to duty. Then the Workman’s Comp office called, wanting me to serve the dog’s owner with a lawsuit to reclaim their expenses for my treatment. Nothing like throwing good money after bad. Those folks barely had a pot to pee in, so no recovery was likely, and I’m not dumb enough to go back and get bitten again.

    • Rule #1 is: NEVER run from a pack of canis. You MUST fight or die, so take the few seconds before they reach you and locate the most-defensible spot and best available weapon. Understand canine critters work as a team, and will try to distract you while one of their number sneaks around behind, to hamstring you. Also understand any canine from a junkyard dog to a timber wolf will have no objection to you feeding it your hand — shove hand down throat, make fist. This will explode one of both of the critter’s jaw joints and render it incapable of attack. Shove your hand down farther and the fist will shut off the animal’s wind, suffocating it (not a good idea, unless you’re only facing one dog. Your hand is too valuable to you in a fight to commit it to two minutes of choking one of your antagonists.)

      I’ve been in several dogfights, the last being less than three years ago. They’re not fun, but two dogs is not nearly as scary as a knife fight with one biker. Dogs don’t understand karate or jujitsu and they’re not built to live through a hammer-blow or karate chop to the base of the neck.

      WRT the lady in question, I don’t believe I would respond to a dangerous animal call without having a weapon — at least a ball bat or police baton, on my person at all times…

      • “Understand canine critters work as a team, and will try to distract you while one of their number sneaks around behind, to hamstring you. Also understand any canine from a junkyard dog to a timber wolf will have no objection to you feeding it your hand — ”

        Human Bullies do the same thing..

      • “Human Bullies do the same thing..”

        That’s why, with a bully, you actually DO strike first. Drop the bully and most of his followers will simply run off.

  7. I won’t be commenting for a while. Paul will have to wait till tomorrow. I have a prior service commitment and my daughter is sweet 16 today and has her final varsity tennis match.

    I was thinking this morning about when Gabriel my PGA master buddy who passed last year, set out some books on his kitchen table. There was 8 books and he said choose which one you want. I said can I have 2? He said only one. So I looked at them and thought. And I picked Ronald Regans auto biography. Signed edition. He said excellent choice. Be right back. Then he came back with a shirt. Cypress Point (peble beach) membership shirt and a picture. And showed me the picture. It was of him and Ronald Regan at Cypress Point and Ronald Regan was wearing the shirt he had in his hand. Gabriel said put it on. So I did. I said this the same shirt President Regan has on in that picture? He said exact fit. Perfect. It is not yours. I said hey is this the same shirt Regan was wearing? He said hold that thought. Then he went back to his bedroom and brought out a red tie and put it on me. And said this is the Tie that Trump wore when he gave his speech for winning the republican nomination. I said can’t accept this. He said accept what. They belong to you. And yes that is the shirt that Regan wore at Pebel Beach. I Won it off him playing golf.

    I met Gabriel in a park. Palm Desert civic park. I didn’t know who he was. He was struggling to walk and so I went and helped him. Actually gave him a ride home and waited he slept. He had cancer really bad. I was just being helpful. I miss that dude this morning. He knew everyone.

    I was just trying to help poor dude out who could hardly walk. I didn’t expect that sort of gifts in return.

    I left the shirt and book in a box at a friend’s house in Palm Desert, ca. But I have the tie. My friend said it’s in the garage and I will keep it safe until you come down and get it. No hurry. It will be there until you come for it.

    Sorry for the ramble yesterday. Just trying to sort a few things out. To answer the Quesrion. How does he do all the he does?

    The first words I speak everyday. I write a gratitude everyday. I write a prayer every day over someone’s whole life. And they don’t know I write it for them. I never tell them they have one in my little “book of life” . I read 3 different books. One is The Bible. Every morning. Then I ask for Guidance to navigate the day, and I physically stand and take one step back and say, “After you DUDE!” Show me the way. I wait for a few minutes then I get busy being about it. And I always look for ways to help others if it is in my power to help them.

    That is how. I do it.

    Not sure if that helps. But I hope it does.

    Paul will have to wait one day. I will see him tomorrow. I have more pressing things to attend too. I will see him tomorrow and enjoy his company and show. Of that I’m most certain. I need to take my daughter flowers at her school for her birthday and I had a pervious obligation to do some service work with another fella. I’m sure Paul will understand.

    Again sorry for the rant. I was thinking Outloud and trying to sort out what all I was being taught by THE DUDE.

    Truly! I am Blessed and Highly Fortunate! It is my hope you are as well.

    Cue: ~ Birthday ~

    https://youtu.be/Cs5vUfddkT8

    The Beatles.

    • Funny when I wore that Cypress Point membership shirt around Palm Springs. Evryone treated me like I was royalty. LOL

      And in my heart of hearts. I just small town boy from Kenai, Alaska grew up catching Kings all day on the river.

      Keen eye. Like an eagle. LOL

      Catching kings. And look at me now. Hanging out with the Richest men in the world and legendary rock stars. Pretty funny when you think about it.

  8. If Vlad is having surgery for head damage, it would explain a whole lot of recent events.

  9. ” in the wake of Egypt archaeologists unearth stunning ‘Temple of Zeus’ dedicated to Greek god.”

    Dam Now that is interesting to come out in the NEWS now at this time.. I thought they uncovered The Temple of Zeus along with the temple of the oracle almost twenty years ago now.. then have it hit the news now.. I wonder why.. Or maybe I was just in on the discovery at the beginning..

  10. Two unrelated ideas occur:

    1) I have “put by,” as they say, some canned vittles and some Mountain Home 25-year storage stuff. But, I won’t be planting a Victory Garden because of several reasons — the largest being the long time delay from planting to harvest. In the past I’ve done tomatoes and potatoes and some Italian pole beans, and some other things, and done O.K., but it’s somewhere around 60 days from planting to eating for most things (plus or minus).

    I’ll starve long before harvest. If there ever is a Big Food Shutdown, there will be awful riots long before harvest days. Such a shutdown will most likely be a slow-onset event. IMPORTANT! Most people will have done NOTHING — zero storage, and zero self-reliant gardens. They’ll be extremely dangerously hungry and panicked in less than a week.

    Also, I’m a demonstrated Not-Very-Good farmer. Subsistence farming just won’t work for me. We’ll count on buying what we can, as we can, and dip into the long-term storage as necessary to keep going/

    2) I’ve spent several decades in volunteer emergency communications and emergency management at the small town level. Many emergencies strike with VERY little warning. The worst of the various scenarios we currently face fall into that category. AND, even worse, most emergencies strike and evolve way “off-plan.” They don’t happen or develop like you thought they would. They’re always a little worse, and a little more unpredictable than you thought, too.

    The only workable answer is General Prep –multi-role adaptable. Hard to define, but think long term — things break down, supplies run out, people fatigue. You’ll need backups and spares.

    Be on good terms with your neighbors, and be well-armed.

    When the balloon goes up, keep a low and quiet profile.

    Be thoughtful, and Good Luck.

    Know this: Time is running out. Don’t be in the hungry mob. (If you haven’t already begun some prep, then know you’re planning to be in that mob.)

    – 73 –

    7.299 by day, 3.999 by night.

    • “most emergencies strike and evolve way “off-plan.” They don’t happen or develop like you thought they would.”

      I am usually bemused by the new CERT-ified hams practicing emergency nets, structures, relays, and information handling. Maybe good training for the newbies, but those of us with decades under our belts know that is not how it will happen in the real world. WRR is right… be general prepped for whatever might happen, and stay loose and agile to respond to emerging conditions as they happen.

    • “(If you haven’t already begun some prep, then know you’re planning to be in that mob.)”

      Either as one of its participants, or one of its meals.

    • Population density is too high in urban and suburban US for subsistence farming and hunting/gathering to work for most. As long as the grid stays up and fuel is available, there will be food distribution, even if the lefties control it.
      For vegetarian subsistence, you will need to grow some variant of field peas or beans for protein, and in multi-acre quantities. The legumes can be stored using relatively simple drying techniques. That is why you should have dry-canning materials put by.
      Locally, okra and squash grow fast and have relatively long productive seasons.
      Distribution of food is dependent on technology. In a worst case grid down scenario, animal protein sources near urban areas will be gone quickly, and commercial livestock producers will be murdered and their stock rustled. Likewise, even government intervention will fail without commercial agriculture and transport. Don’t count on the US government having some vast store of food for you.
      No comment on comms other than to say it is better to listen quietly than advertise resources, when you are all alone, and anyone who is coming isn’t going to be looking to help.

    • This is why I prep toward (and advocate) EMP-preps. IMO an EMP is the most devastating survivable near-ELE event, and prepping for it automatically preps for virtually every other survivable issue.

      • I agree, with a few reservations. Hunkering down is usually preferred, but not always your best choice. Maintain the ability to pack up and go quickly, and be aware that everything that you think you know may change one dusty morning.

      • Absolutely, and don’t cage yourself, such that you only have one escape route. Not moving, making tracks, or telegraphing one’s location is best. However, once discovered, one’s position will eventually be overrun if someone wants to do so. When that happens, it is best to be elsewhere…

  11. Having observed the ‘War in Ukraine’ for 2 months now, a few obvious things strike me:

    –The US has little interest in the war except sending outdated and ineffective weapons into Ukraine – No US troops or air cover. The Pentagon does not want a catastrophic war. The profits to the MIC are good for now. Full speed ahead!
    –The Ukraine led by Stooge Zellensky are just hanging on hoping that NATO will come to their ‘rescue’ it
    –The Russians have made some big intelligence blunders in the beginning of the war, but seem prepared to just go ‘slow and easy’ for now.
    –Russia has not been hurt by the US sanctions, in fact, things are going their way. They are being forced to decouple from a failing fiat US dollar which benefits them in the long run!
    –The outcome of the war seems like months away with the deciding straw being 10’s of millions of Ukrainian refugees or more filing into the EU.
    –The EU eventually yells ‘Uncle’ as their populations become poised for revolution
    –Like the beginning of WWI, the European countries agree to a ‘suicide agreement’
    –Another sad chapter of history – and the US? Inflation eventually flattens the place and we are on to something new and out of the box – not necessarily good.

  12. Comrades,

    A first thought as Captain Ure hoisted sail to tack across Buzzards Bay from Bliss Corner was to heed his warning about watching for the beacon atop Black Rock. Meanwhile a short ferry ride away for the plebes, or a quick whirl on Marine One, would have seen the president and first lady, children and grandchildren spill out upon arrival at the welcoming landed estate of a billionaire Black Rock co-founder last Thanksgiving. Back in flappier times, the host’s now former spouse had conducted tours of coastal Alaskan frontiers via small aircraft in the company of then-socialite Ms. Maxwell. The latter’s charity had undertaken to help save the world’s oceans.

    Let us leave incarcerated schools of arctic char while returning towards a more civil cape cod clam chowder appetizer. According to Fox News of last November, “Grandma Jacobs’ Savory Stuffing” accompaniment with the bird was well-received at the First Table.

    And now a closing look at the markets from the perspective of “The Independent”, Sir Paul, and the Oracle of Omaha. This is not investment advice.
    https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/nothing-to-see-here-just-paul-mccartney-and-warren-buffett-chilling-out-on-a-bench-9605758.html

    Over to DJ Ure about to blow the ballast on “Yellow Submarine”.

    • what , no mention the delish Walnut Sauce as served from silver chalice ?

      poor ms mossadnik – never did find Atlantis, with whatever color sub they had avail. Still they wonder electromagnetic anomalies bermuda triangles..duh-ohh! never been Ire ? never been Basque country…never believe a thing ancient Dilmun..aahhhh what a beautiful Pair a dice….

      lost to time..unless of course you know how to “rock”

      – a Portal…

  13. World without clocks…..
    I have never really liked wearing a watch on my wrist because it was always uncomfortable. When I retired a few years ago it became unnecessary so I stopped wearing one. After a few weeks, I seemed to be able to know what the actual time was without it and if I needed to be precise I could always look at the evil smartphone that is always nearby. I finally came to the realization that my so called newfound fairly accurate sense of time was because I just didn’t give a flip. If I need to be somewhere for an appointment I have at least 2 people telling me it’s time to go.
    I will admit time management is much easier and probably more efficient with the use of a timepiece but my current system is to work on the current project and when I’m finished move on to the next one. The list is written on a big sheet of paper in the shop. If I ever run out of to-do items I’ll refer back to my original point about giving a flip.

    Stay safe. 73

  15. For Stewart:
    Your interpretation is most likely correct. The land around Chernobyl in the Ukraine is also known as the land of the wolves.

  16. Ja, Comrades,

    Have we not previously discussed Frau Springer, friend of Mrs. Merkel and one of Germany’s wealthiest women? Her personal selectee runs “The Politico” whose publication of Justice Scotus’ leaked first draft suggesting an overturning of Roe vs. Wade is a titanic hit to the judiciary. The American federation is failing before your eyes.

    In this age of vestigal despair, one can surely take solace in the timeless consolations of the great franco-flemish composer, Joaquin des Prez. Now without further adieu, turn down the lights to candle only, and focus your attention upon DJ Ure broadcasting a low power version of “De Profundis Clamavi”.
    https://youtu.be/fVVQLrrjdDA

  17. Finally buffet is a gold bull . F shitcoin f the Fed . The Fed is dead . Viva la gold

  18. The biggest pieces of sheet are old salty and dagolio . Reckon gold is not manipulated ? Priks on the payroll like all of you . Old glory ? Wipe your ass with it

  20. buy gold . valid buy signal .. you aint seen a bull market like this gold market gunna be

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