A week and a half back I told Peoplenomics subscribers that I was becoming Bullish.
The article was “Still Time to Rally?” and while I was way too early in my own account, we were back printing hamburgers in the lunch money trading pile last week.
Now the problem is “How far is UP?”
All this thrashing and upcrashing means we will likely close well above the 200 DMA but hold the phone. We could be sitting smack-dab in the middle of one of those damn “Buy the rumor” events.
You do remember what tomorrow morning is?
Yesah – Housing numbers. Case-Shiller. The Big McGillah. Cower with the dust-bunnies?
Still, people who are waiting for Trump-O-Nomics to kick in, while they may not get the last laugh, will at least get another day of jollies.
But Housing will be the big one, we think. Cowards go to cash, Bulls to to the slaughterhouse. And in my stuff we can’t rule out a Wave 5 Down. With three aircraft carriers going to the Middle East, someone, doing something stupid is looking more and more likely.
A very thoughtful piece by G.A. Stewart on the Age of Desolation website – “The Difference Between Checkers and Check” has to be on your must-read list today. Said the guy who just ordered his third or fourth (rechargeable) Geiger counter.
CFNAI
Chicago Fed National Activity Indicator – although with the Future’s running like Panplona in heat – although, with a nod to financial Bull, in our work, a late May 5th wave down could lead to yet-another running of the Bulls before the July 7th-ish date in Pampona this year.
Now, come with me out to the dollar pasture and let’s snort some fresh hype, shall we?
The Chicago Fed National Activity Index (CFNAI) increased to +0.18 in February from –0.08 in January. Three of the four broad categories of indicators used to construct the index increased from January, and two categories made positive contributions in February. The index’s three-month moving average, CFNAI-MA3, increased to +0.15 in February from +0.07 in January.
The CFNAI Diffusion Index, which is also a three-month moving average, increased to +0.16 in February from +0.08 in January. Forty-seven of the 85 individual indicators made positive contributions to the CFNAI in February, while 38 made negative contributions. Fifty-one indicators improved from January to February, while 34 indicators deteriorated. Of the indicators that improved, 15 made negative contributions.
- Production-related indicators contributed +0.19 to the CFNAI in February, up from +0.02 in January.
- The sales, orders, and inventories category’s contribution to the CFNAI was –0.01 in February, up from –0.04 in January.
- Employment-related indicators contributed +0.02 to the CFNAI in February, down from +0.08 in January.
- The personal consumption and housing category’s contribution to the CFNAI was –0.01 in February, up from –0.14 in January.
OK, not exactly nitrous, but the markets are running on a “run the shorts” and let’s bury the 200 DMA with a kiss-of-death before Isfahan begins to glow.
The Sketchy Future of News
Since getting involved with the latest in Brain Amplifiers (A.I.) and realizing they are the next round of power tools for humans, I’ve been noodling on the problem I call the “End of News.”
While there are useful numerics in the headlines, like the number of carriers going toward Iran (3) most of the other headlines are (more or less) like watching the teletypes back in the old days. Paper would feed up the platen, be smashed with a few keys, and there it was – “news.”
Problem has evolved, though because as the world has become a marginally safer place, there just aren’t enough house fires and plane crashes to go around. As a result, one double murder in (pick a city) gets to be National News, anymore.
Replacing the local house fires and gang-style stuff has been a growing fascination with Tabloidisms. Here’s one: Donald Trump Jr’s one-word response over his ex-wife Vanessa dating Tiger Woods | News US | Metro News. The UK has been unable to defend its own borders effectively over the past couple of decades and as a result, the place has gone from an mainly Anglo spot to a Melting Pot accident. Because people aren’t into the melting stuff so much as the domestic takeover (in slow motion) just like a certain large religion where the boss returned to work this weekend, set off on global conquest by outscrewing every other religion with it’s birth control rap. Point is, the UK’s sense of news and lack of things like demographic changes may have done them in.
Rambling sa bit far for you? Well, AI has been getting into mass rewrite ever since SpinnerChief and other services (and syndication) were turned up. Less news, but wider dissemination.
Times are interesting, but the Don 2 story is illustrative of the direction Tabloidism is driving news. Taken to extremes, stories that mean absolutely nothing will become global focus of everyone.
And that, as we figure it, is about when the whole world will experience sa psychotic break. (It will also come about the time China’s Xi calls bullshit and goes to whatever their version of DefCon 1 is.
Nevertheless, interesting to watch. Like being in the front of the canoe and listening for the sound of the falls up ahead, sometimes….
Screamers, Streamers, and Dreamers
Ready to stick your noggin back inside the Model 19 Teleprinters?
That Developer Mindset is an issue: Greenland leaders lambast US delegation trip as Trump talks of takeover.
Not just in Greenland, either: Canadian election rivals tell Trump he must respect sovereignty. We’re pretty sure it’s all just Trump being Trump – single-handedly filling the media with something less boring that who Tigert Woods is dating.
Peace is planning to take another week off: US-Ukraine talks underway in Saudi, as Kremlin warns of ‘difficult negotiations’.
And here’s a real gem – out of Ukraine media no less: Kamala Harris leads early 2028 Democratic primary poll despite 2024 defeat. Someone told me she might run for governor of California and I laughed my ass off. There’s a riff, you see. Richard Nixon, another vice president of some note, ran for governor of California, too, and lost in 1962. We expect the same kind of outcome for Harris should she try.
Around the Ranch: Chair Holding
Actually not much to report: I have been spending 12-hours a day cranking out new book and article materials – a 12-thousand word marvel for Peoplenomics is in the oven.
And outside, we are in a burn ban, very early for around here. Rain is due in shortly though and we should be able to get back to more normal (cactus burner) application to garden areas.
On that, breakfast awaits, so have a dandy Monday.
George@ure.net
Shiver me timbers ! and Ahoy Matey!
If you are not under Sail, mooring in warm water port, or generally down by the water, youse be wrong! and Dry.
* “when Ure down by the Sea, and an Eel bites Ure knee, thats a Moray.’-BCN
Dryer you get – the Die-er you will be (closer).
Wait what is that I sense..doubt in the Source ?
No wonders Life..like dog scheisse – dries up, turns white, blows away..
Solid advice regards violating the Laws of NRG when “dematerializing” onesself with/for NRGetic transmissions/transitions..
“there IS no spoon”-Neo
Look what happened 2 jack parsons when F-ed up a “Working” ..in popped (uncontrolled wild like) into our current NOW..a nasty entity, she was even rumored to smell like “hell”, before it “wonked” out.
That beast has since been replaced by cheap copy of original “sicko”, she still nasty though.
BTC broke thru 200 mda. zoning in on 128dma, soonly 50 dma, and then..
* new igniter for oil burner on Saturday AM, $600 bucks later, still waiting of quotes for new Heatpump system (s), running on Emg. Oil heat backup. – trane (old unit) compressor lasted all of 10 years – a very SAD commentary on American Manufacturing, VERY SAD.
10 years – AYFKM Elon, Donny ?!?
Our dryer stopped making heat, so Soninlaw appliance guy looking for part online. Having hard time finding so may likely be getting new dryer. Have outside clothes line so good for however long.
Merc retrograde ends near my 65th b’day, so maybe shop after ends and call new dryer a b’day present to us.
If it is electric, it will have a heating element made up of coils of nichrome wire. It was typical for this wire to acquire a “hot spot” and burn in-two. The wire should last for about 2200 hours before it develops the hot spot.
Whether it is a gas or electric unit, it will have a bimetallic device which works to kill the heat, should the heat chamber overheat. This is the much more likely cause for the dryer failing to produce heat. The ones I have replaced are itty bitty round cylinders, about the diameter of a dime and a centimeter high, with either one or two ¼” spade lugs coming out of the bottom of the cylinder, and a “wing” on either side for screwing the (thermal limit fuse) into the dryer’s heat chamber (with sheet metal screws.) The appearance of this Amana fuse is typical:
https://www.repairclinic.com/PartDetail/Thermal-Fuse/WP35001087/1122480
The price is insane, unless Repair Clinic is selling an NOS part that’s 30 years old.
The fuse blows when the chamber overheats. The chamber overheats when it gets coated in lint (infrequent), or when the lint screen or airway becomes clogged. One will need about a 4″ chimney-sweep style brush, OR they will need to take the dryer cabinet off (it’s easy, but scary-looking) to get the airway cleaned.
The fuse is very easy to test. It will be easy to find (although one may have to take the cabinet off to find it.) Once it is located, simply short the wires and spin the dryer up FOR A FEW SECONDS. If it makes heat, the fuse is blown. If it doesn’t, the burner is toast.
If I were doing an R&R on a dryer I would take the cabinet off the dryer and pull the drum. There will be a bunch of pocket change in the drum’s seal. Remove the change, check the belt, and lube the roller guides. This maintenance, when done periodically (every 10 years, or so), will ensure a 50yo dryer (like my Speed Queen) will dry clothes long enough to get honorable mention in one of George’s books…
This is posted for entertainment purposes only. I don’t recommend that anyone actually do this. People should always call a repairman and spend the price of a new appliance to replace a $12 part. This is not advise or a recommendation, and I would never advocate that anyone fix their own stuff, especially scary, gas or electric appliances.
Nat Gas Whirlpool. Son in law has his gas fitter license and worked in an appliance store as installer/service tech 10 years.
I’ll just let him handle this for us.
Bought a new NG BBQ 4 burner for a gift for us and have already repurposed the old one to charcoal grill in out backyard.
And thanks Ray for the entertainment you provide so well!
I used to listen to Joe Gagnon the Appliance Dr on WJR.
Can someone please decode the coin nazi cause my brain is really starting to get twisted, or maybe just tell me what strain is burning a hole through his pipe so I too can be blitzkrieged out of my mind.
Sorry no offense. But dam.
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/23andme-files-bankruptcy-ceo-resigns-fate-americans-dna-data-now-court-supervised-sale
Soonly, very soonly I will have my hands on the Ures DNA – all of it ! bwahahahah
An ARMY of Manbearpigs I will create ! https://youtu.be/jjTg8u3c3fo
I will conquer Canada firstly, then Texico, then CA..
Rise up before neoPtah..aka nuNudimmud!
glorious, no?
We can have drinks at the CRISPR then?
re: Ptah
feat: Mut, patron of women & her cats
Folks,
The program is running in mysterious ways. It’s somewhat thought-provoking that the proverbial solar barge is transiting so. After the Doge, wasn’t President Trump’s second largest financial donor the wealthiest Israeli woman in the world? Why were the Cairo offices of USAid locked down like an urban Fort Knox when reporters attempted access them after Doge funding cuts? It kind of brings to mind the S10E5 “Babylon” episode from the “X Files” series. Mulder acts high on mushrooms in order to communicate with an expiring Arabic terrorist in transit by boat into the next realm. Here is a public download link speaking about Amun and Mut’s ‘Temple of the World’ situated along the Nile River. The document ends with an “unverifiable”(?) remote viewing observation of “Galactic Federation Headquarters”(?) dated 1/13/88.
https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP96-00789R003800200001-8.pdf
I’ll add to my reading list the 2015 biography of Edward Hale co-authored with Kevin Cowherd. Mention of it appears in this publicly accessible link of the “Kickback News” website.
https://kickback.news/2022/05/19/
for all Ure all’s reading and edification pleasure, I present jack hearts esoteric evolution source material on Giza..
Posted earlier this AM.
“Okay for you incorrigible rubes I burst into hardcopy with Shadow of Nemesis – the Pyramids of Giza and Lies of Empire, Shadow of Nemesis II: Tales of Zahi Hawass, The Shadow of Nemesis- III, Tales of Zahi Hawass II, and Shadow of Nemesis IV: NASA and The Prophet of Ascensionism. Enough was published in Nexus Magazine to get Zahi Hawass fired and off National Geographic. I was invited to Egypt by Abdul Bakr through Gerry Cannon to film and hailed by John Anthony West as the newly crowned king of the Giza Plateau. Colette Dowell made me sign a non-disclosure before confessing to me all their sins. I have forgotten more about Giza than any of you are ever going to know but the pieces are still available on the internet so you don’t get taken in by clownish distractions like this.”-Jack Heart 3/25/25
Will you handle it ?
Do U recall?
total recall scene -https://substack.com/redirect/3584bc40-b97a-4405-88fd-12edc2f787cc
re: a CRISPR WOPR
feat: “Henry V”, 1599, The Bard
Folks,
Only “half a league, half a league, half a league onward”?
Apparently CRISPR stands for ‘clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats’. The name “Henry” is said to derive from germanic-origin meaning ‘ruler of the homeland’.
The Bard’s “Henry V” was last in a trilogy of plays which celebrates the great English victory at Agincourt on St. Crispin’s Day, 1415. English conquest of French territory was near zenith, and Henry V even got to marry a daughter of the defeated French king.
On St. Crispin’s Day 1854, The Light Brigade cavalrymen made an ill-fated charge meeting their Waterloo against the Azovsky, Ukraine and Odessa Regiments at The Battle of Balaclava in the Crimea. Thanks to wonders of the 1890 Edison Wax Cylinder, a surviving Dragoons’ bugler reenacted a call on the same bugle of Waterloo vintage. Here is a link to the recording on “Archive”:
https://archive.org/details/EDIS-SWDPC-01-04
We had those teleprinters when I was a Technician on a small tropo/iono Army base on Kauai (the highest officer was Sgt. Pang) in 1963. Now and then someone would broadcast from one of the stations across the Pacific an XY type character image of a nude lady, like this Bridget Bardot:
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ORGINATED FOR RTTY BY ANTHONY MAWBY AND ROBERT CONNELL, LONDON, ENGLAND
Yes, I recall those amazing images. I was a military RTTY operator from 1959 to 1962. We didn’t usually get that elaborate on the military nets, but occasionally on would slip through.
Big in MARS circles I seem to recall from my N0FHV days
no doubts
..spending a “lil” time on Adak, AK can do that to a Man or Woman.
I mean just how many “batches” a day can a Guy mix ?
Letterkenney guys chew on it..https://youtu.be/w3fKYMYM01Y?si=2rtw-K9fwXkItSPL
Nice.
In the late ’80s somebody created a proggy that’d build these from a *.GIF, and posted it to Compuserve. I may have had the program on either my BBS or ftp site although I never used it.
Well if that doesn’t show well here:
http://artscene.textfiles.com/rtty/RTTYCOM/bbardot.pix
Saltpeter for the coffee – get him out of the radio room quick – find him a woman!
I think I said this b4, but back then I got an urgent msg from our Techs on Koror or Ponape via 20m ssb to send them condoms. They didn’t put that on the Army teletype!
There we go… I remembered the pictures … it just didn’t come through.. they put those in the Sunday funniest to called it magic pictures..
https://www.frrandp.com/2025/02/how-ai-boom-repeats-mistakes-of.html
“How the AI Boom Repeats the Mistakes of Abandoned Railroads
February 10, 2025
It’s been almost eight years since I began tracing the tracks of railroad corridors across Illinois, the United States, and the rest of the world, after having first notices the numerous rights of way while not working and browsing aerial images on Google Maps. A lot has changed over that time, some things have been obvious; others, such as the development of artificial intelligence, have been less so. It may have been difficult to imagine my traces turning into a blog like this; it would have been impossible to think one of my guest bloggers would be an AI itself!”
Check out Ethical Skeptic on X great coastal event whic he tied into the pyramids and other settlements meaning more than 1 event and the latest on the pyramids.
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/researchers-claim-have-discovered-vast-city-underneath-egypts-pyramids
So, Trump finally shows his true colors.
“Trump said the document dump “turned out to be somewhat unspectacular” but concluded, “Maybe that’s a good thing.””
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/03/trump-says-oswald-was-helped-assassination-jfk/
Maybe it’s a good thing that Americans do not get the truth about the CIA assassinating a President, a Senator, and a civil rights leader. I think that is all we need to know about Donald J. Trump.
Hard to believe that a man dragged through the mud by the intelligence agencies, who survived two assassination attempts himself, is okay with the CIA getting away with murder.
Thanks for the link George…
My 5 Geiger counters were destroyed in the flood. I bought two more a few weeks back. I knew where this knucklehead was going on January 20th, 2025.
“ANY KNUCKLEHEAD CAN BE PRESIDENT.”
https://www.amazon.com/Designs-Stooges-T-Shirt-Knucklehead-President/dp/B07NDM41N9?th=1
Hey ! I resemble that remark..
The quieted a lot of it up..almost instantly especially when they all could be directly tied to DC. trumps no fool… time will tell how its all dealt with..
Can you recommend a geiger counter?
BCN: My Uncle was on Adak in 1943 with the UU Army. I have a pic of him with the only tree on the island.
And a neighbor killed a Moose or Elk there 15 yrs ago.
Ok..three days of fermentation on the Ai recipe to replicate Coffee Luwak.. the most expensive coffee around..
the first 24 hours.. opened the digester god did that stink..it smelled like shizt… I thought oh my god this is horrible..
2nd twenty four hours.. hmm stir but it had a different smell.. not as bad
3rd.. quick agitation done..
today wash and rinse the beans.. dam they smelled great.. even the boss had to take a whiff.. she said they don’t even look like coffee beans..
now they are in the dryer.. the plan is dry them then roast them on Wednesday..
make the first brew on thursday… keeping my fingers crossed..
Book entitled ‘The secrets from the blue zones’ b amazon. How to live to 100 years old
George
Stiks here in paradise.
The e-mail you posted for me about images was refused as a bad address.
Can you help me out?
Ure my em,ail is gure@centurylink.net and I think it will barf if you send too big a stack at once (10 mb or so – anxious to see and share…trust I have your permission to post when they arrvie?