The (super) early Futures pricing wasn’t showing much oomph prior to the GDP figures and the Chicago Fed data just out. GDP first:
“Real gross domestic product (GDP) increased at an annual rate of 3.2 percent in the third quarter of 2022, in contrast to a decrease of 0.6 percent in the second quarter. The increase in the third quarter primarily reflected increases in exports and consumer spending that were partly offset by a decrease in housing investment.
Profits decreased less than 0.1 percent in the third quarter after increasing 4.6 percent in the second quarter.
Private services-producing industries increased 4.9 percent, government increased 0.6 percent, and private goods-producing industries decreased 1.3 percent. Overall, 16 of 22 industry groups contributed to the third-quarter increase in real GDP.”
AGR of 3.2 in an 8 percent inflation world?> Lol, good one, Brandon!
Not too surprising. We read this as another reason the Buyed’em cohort is desperate to lift Title 42. Immigration, especially illegal, has been a huge growth industry.
CFNAI Follows
The Chicago Fed National Activity Index. And today, it does like this:
“CFNAI Release Suspended Until 2023
We are unable to access many of the data series used to construct the CFNAI. As a result, we will suspend the monthly release of the CFNAI until the new year.”
Sure gives up the warm and fuzzies. Don’t it, ewe?
There are only a few Christmas clearance items to roll: One of them is “the anagram number.” LEI, short for leading economic indicators, along with two others drop tomorrow: personal income and durable goods.
After the numbers, futures were down 80 on the Dow and a dozen on the S&P…
Meh.
Joining Today’s Game In Progress
Markets are, we think, into their Big Bad mean bully Wave 3 down…
And yes, I know this fellow in the mirror who got short again Wednesday.
Joe Giveaway’s War
Those neocon embeds in the State Department (who change parties as political winds shift) have almost managed to light-off WW III. Which, for God only knows why, seems to be their agenda.
A simple search in DuckDuck for “billion” lays it out: In the very short-term, Generous Joe has tossed how much into this war? Yesterday: U.S. announces additional $1.85 billion military aid for Ukraine | Reuters. But that’s only the tip of the checkbook: A Newsweek story measures U.S. Has Already Given Ukraine $48 Billion in Aid This Year.
I took a couple of quick spins across the digital dial Wednesday afternoon. I don’t believe the Bureauclass in Washington appreciates how pissed Americans are that Ukraine gets a Border while Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, and California don’t. Seething is just the warmup word for this hate-war on taxpayers.
Body Count Gap
We’ve also warned you in the past that in unpopular wars, for which American taxpayers are being shaken down, propaganda ministries go on dueling body counts.
Wasn’t so obvious in the (Oil resource driven) Middle East (sandbox and opium) wars (less PR efforts) but after (*insert length of Vietnam disaster) body counts were a regular feature of my morning newscasts.
The more things change, the more we replay the same bloody politics and propaganda.
On the Ukraine side we see how (allegedly) Russian military death toll in Ukraine rises to 100,400 (ukrinform.net). On the other side, however, the Moscow Times rolls with 5 Graphs Analyzing 10,000 Russian Soldiers Confirmed Killed in Ukraine.
As you can see, a difference of opinion of 90,000 dead.
Our spider-sense is both sides are lying, and who the hell knows by what degree?
Britain’s Roll
My consigliere and I have been kicking around what events will need to fall into place in order for various “seers and psychics” to have their “Breakup of NATO” visions come true in what little is left of this year, or early next.
A client note on point says don’t forget the roll of Boris Johnson in all this:
“MAN … was this information hidden. Nowhere in Wikipedia …. and I couldn’t find it in any of the typical British and American standard research sources.
Anyway …. this article shows part of the REAL background of Boris Johnson, the Turkish background, NOT the “sanitized” one that is repeated everywhere else.
(fwiw he was born in NYC and had to finally renounce his US Citizenship when he climbed the UK political ladder. my memory is hazy but I don’t think he renounced it until AFTER he was Mayor of London)
Anyway … this Turkish background of Boris Johnson may have a bearing on why he is rabid anti-Russian (his Great Grandfather was a diplomat for Turkey back in the early 1900’s but was killed in 1922 per the article because he opposed Ataturk … and he has a cousin or two who are currently Turkish Diplomats – the Turkish Connections ARE STRONG!)
This was accompanied by a link to an August 2019 story: Does Boris Johnson’s politics resonate with his Turkish ancestor’s? (trtworld.com).
Which tells us a lot about the personality research that goes into makings of modern conflict. It’s the kind of deep background that the 20-second sound-bite world totally misses. Yet, it’s often key as to future decision-making.
How much of the soon (we expect) nuclear attack on Poland (through which Ukrainian war materiel flows). or Ukraine itself, is a plan of anti-Russia persons with various axes to grind?
Speaking of Poland at Risk
Reading of Stars and Stripes is a very useful means of seeing the evolution of regional conflict in the heat-up phases. For example, this past July we read how A call to arms: Poland’s military and civilian defenses rethink the future | Stars and Stripes.
And how, here we are almost a half a year later reading how Ukraine war pushes Poland to train civilians as soldiers for a military mighty enough to challenge Russia | Stars and Stripes.
This has subsequently gone into the echo chamber this week with stories like Poland expands basic military training program for civilians on the rise.
Gives you an idea of the glacial clockwork speed of advance on many fronts. Reminds me of my Ure family education which taught “There’s never been a major war where people couldn’t see who was going to war – the “invitations are everywhere.”
The Poles, in some versions of this story would like to have their training implemented by February, or so. And, of course, as the clock runs, this gives NATO time to load more arms into Ukraine, via Poland.
Which is why we don’t see an incentive for Russia to sit back on its ursine haunches and wait for all the war materiel to be set in place. Sooner (and with no warning) would be the right “bar room brawl” dynamic.
There is evidence that first nukes could be used between, oh, day after
Christmas or over New Years. The reason is V. Putin’s trip to Belarus, where we think he did a “read it and hand it back” one-time pad to the Belarus president. Then similarly, Medvedev was just in China with a “secret message” so we have to take this as all very serious in terms of prepping.
Got your seeds, N100 masks, and made the call to Shane O’Conner, yet? KI4U.com.
Got your copy of Kearney dusted off? (“Nuclear War Survival Skills: Life Saving Nuclear Facts and SELF-HELP Instructions: Best Proven / Tested Book in the World to Help You Survive ANYTHING Nuclear that Happens”)
Honestly, we think V. Putin might also think in terms of a lifting of Title 42 which could give the Drug Cartel Army to flood into America unhindered as a fifth column.
Disclaimer must be added, though: My consigliere says that’s just a tad too paranoid. He doesn’t think the Cartel pressure point (millions of military aged males streaming in) is that important to Russia.
But Claire Sterling’s works and research by James M. Olson, who (in To Catch a Spy“) argues the U.S. has already lost the battle for counterintelligence superiority. Think?
Not comforting, but serious and worth reading to grok the playing field.
Fire-Up the News Grinder!
Slop until we drop.
Speaking of the Border, did you notice how ICE Lost Track of 150,000 Illegal Immigrants: Florida AG? Yes, it’s an invasion. America-hater’s wokeness aside, facts are facts. More than 11-million. Profile of the Unauthorized Population – US | migrationpolicy.org
Another election is going to court in Arizona: GOP Attorney General Candidate’s Election Challenge Can Go to Trial: Arizona Judge. Something in the water out there?
Ready for the upcoming Israeli first-strike on Iran which is getting dangerously close to having nukes to use on Israel? Winds blow that way as Netanyahu forms new Israeli government with far-right partners.
Not a human resources whiz, either, turns out: Joe Biden’s rage over ‘work-in-progress’ Kamala and her husband revealed in new book. She’s got to be off the 2024 docket, we’re thinking.
We’ve talked about how “money at rest” is considered by aggressive accountants as a wasting asset. So. we weren’t surprised to read about another “asset stripping” move to reduce shareholder equity: CT investment firm wants Six Flags to ‘monetize’ real estate. We also don’t think refi’s are a good deal for almost any real estate, but we’re risk averse and love high book values. (Which, like mastodons, are mainly extinct in the modern financialized world. Check with the W.B. on that…)
ALLEGED Crypto Cons come home to roost: Two Key FTX Executives Plead Guilty to Fraud Charges, as SBF Lands Back in the U.S.
And move over lesser i9 processors: Watch out AMD – overclocked Intel Raptor Lake flagship CPU has blasted past 9GHz. Now, if only Microsoft could stop resetting the W11 default voice to that God-awful screechy Aria voice and leave my settings be, we’d begin to believe in the myth of progress, again.
Healthy Skepticism Corner
Clues as to the mechanisms of Covid keep piecing out: Study helps understand why some people have persistent smell loss after COVID-19 infection. The disease doesn’t stink?
And “Not tonight dear, I have a headache” may have some basis in fact, after all: Cluster headaches found to be more severe in women than in men. From what I recall, the clusters begin around time of marriage and clear up after divorce…
ATR: Cold Check
The unbearable hypeness of being: Christmas weather: A ‘once in a generation’ winter storm will impact nearly every state and cripple travel. Yeah, uh-huh… As in Winter Storm Elliott: What To Know About Travel Warnings, The ‘Bomb Cyclone’ And How To Change Your Airplane Ticket from Forbes. Wait, another definition of Elliott waves?
Up super early today to finish the cold weather checklist. One faucet standpipe, and three foundation vents plus a run for more diesel for the greenhouse heater. New Year’s forecast is calling for low 70s and we can hardly wait.
New tiny (500 W) heater is in the food storage room to click on at 36F. Based on the Houston Bureau’s reminder that even though canned goods can freeze, the can liners might be damaged. Point taken.
We noticed last night how recent headlines about the Balkans are getting pretty close to the Season 3 storyline in Jack Ryan on Amazon which we will binge watch.
Zeus the Cat is still holding in there, but don’t know how much longer. The new cats (Sam-ese and the Sylvesterette long-hair) have really taken to the outdoor pet heating mat.
And if you believed the Greatest Horror Shows of 2022 were a) the Bidens or b) network teevee news, Richard Newby of the Hollywood Reporter has compiled the other Best Horror Movies of 2022, Including Streaming Films.
A Reader Help Request!
I’ve been invited to be on Coast-to-Coast AM with George Noory, Monday night (after Boxing Day). Send me a list of topics you’d like us to cover! Add as a comment or email direct.
And Stuff Your Stocking: $100 buck 11.6″ Win11 PCs are back at BestBuy. Today only deal, I think…
Write when you get rich,
George@Ure.net
The FED “We are unable to access”. The previous IT lady didn’t test the back-up. Hahahaha!
I don’t know what Putin is waiting for unless he’s in a charade. Peaceful Putin has to arc a hyper-sonic missile across CONUS. That’ll scare everyone.
Speaking of NATO getting busted up. One of the Nord Stream investigation teams determined Russia didn’t sabotage the pipeline. This means a NATO country hurt Germany. Pre WW1 Germany and Turkey were pals.
“The Germany-Ottoman Alliance was ratified by the German Empire and the Ottoman Empire on August 2, 1914, shortly after the outbreak of World War I.”
Over the years there has been a LOT of bad blood between Russia and Turkey. They have fought over those mountain passes between the two countries several times over the last 300 years. Once earlier in the 20th century, I can’t remember for sure but think it was WW1, Turkey lost nearly a million men (as best I remember the history) in fighting Russia in that area. NOT the best of friends obviously … in fact LOTS of bad blood between the two.
(great mini movie about that part of Turkey, it’s culture and it’s history, ran on Aljazeera earlier this year – if you have a Roku box well worth watching … also a fun watch, you won’t be disappointed, better than virtually all PBS and BBC productions)
I think the migrants who made their way to Denver are here to stay since Denver folk are developing a plan.
Freezing illegals is an interesting conundrum. How long would you listen to an illegal wail and moan as they freeze to death at the foot of your driveway before calling ‘someone’ to get rid of them. And what are the people you call supposed to do? Like unwanted kittens during the Great Depression, drown them or feed them.
Denver developing plan to help recent influx of migrants amid coming cold snap
” The city of Denver works on a plan to help keep more than 1,000 migrants safe in the coming arctic blast?. More than 1,300 migrants have arrived in the city since Dec. 9. ”
https://ourcommunitynow.com/post/denver-developing-plan-to-help-recent-influx-of-migrants-amid-coming-cold-snap
“How long would you listen to an illegal wail and moan as they freeze to death at the foot of your driveway”
About 30 seconds… just long enough to get out the door and have the enter to get warm..
its about humanity of our fellow man..
I am against illegal entry..there is a reason for the vetting process.. but the vast majority of the illegals are just like you and me..trying to fend for their families and trying to survive the best way they can…
No, there not just like ‘you and me’ – for one, I’m not out to change the demographics of their country, like they are doing here. Let me tell you about these wonderful people coming across the border as I work in an industry that deals with them consistently. How about the illegal that stole his kids SSN in order to work? Or how about the illegals that only plan on working long enough in the US to amass enough money to build a hacienda down in Mehico and live like a king? Or how about the group of them that were traveling in a van with bald tires, where one blew, caused the van to veer into an oncoming car head on, killing the driver of the car? No insurance to be had and occupants of the van hot-footed it to the border, never to be seen again or held responsible for what they did. I could go on and on as this crap is replicated throughout our country. We have had enough of it, too! It is time to shut the border down!
I don’t want to change anyones demographics.. I just couldn’t let a fellow human being freeze to death if I had shelter.. I could not let someone starve to death if I have food.. there is enough left over for one more…
but .. if they were a human trafficker.. or a pedophile.. they can sit right out there then.. their victims would be able to have a wamr place and a bowl of food.. I have no room for pedo’s or people that victimize others..
People who freeze to death don’t scream or wail. They’re not in pain, at all. They start feeling warm and comfy, then go to sleep and never wake up.
Freezing to death is over romanticized.
There’s a couple thousand illegals in Denver now. They would be the most tame humans ever huddling like bees freezing to death while looking at the metro area.
Not many people have the fortitude to stand in front a heated building and freeze to death. That’s why the mayor is feeding them. The mayor knows food and heat riots if the illegals aren’t fed and heated.
“The mayor knows food and heat riots if the illegals aren’t fed and heated.”
Or if they’re not fed and coddled, perhaps they just leave. Coastal Washington, Oregon, and California are never frigid, and the entire coast from Vancouver to Baja is an “immigrant sanctuary” so they’d be welcomed with open arms…
Thanks for the tip.
Just scored the 11″ laptop online.
I have now paid for your subscription for the next 3 years so don’t die on me.
The small screen will work just fine with my 40″ desktop TV/monitor.
Oh and yes, love the night mode.
High contrast is great for reading.
And can’t help but but in.
Having worked on and developed one of the first overseas building projects that used them, I recommend George Jr. follow in Dad’s example. Get a post 85 used mobile. The 85 reg changes made huge difference in energy use. I would also recommend getting a single wide as opposed to a double as the singles are better structurally and better sealed, some using ‘accordion” style sheathing that ends with a single seam. I have watched them be built in the factory in under an hour, like visiting the Chevy plant in St.Louis as a child. Very impressive.
In a single the only bearing walls are the long walls. everything else can be moved to reconfigure.
I have compared them more to aircraft structure than houses which is why you can pick it up and run down the highway with it.
BTW the “pe” in the email is professional engineer. This is what I do.
Micro Center here locally sold those early in the Black Friday window (starting at the end of Oct). Here at MC they sold that unit for the same price ($99) but for $20 more you could get one with 128 gig of memory vs 64, (unadvertised) so I bought one but paid the extra $20 for model with the additional memory. NICE machine!!
With the limited memory you will want to add some plug in memory but my model at least does NOT have a micro SD port, just thumb drive ports … BUT they do make super short thumb drives which will basically fit almost or totally flush inside the unit which you can use for adding storage memory (be sure to google how to change the default storage locations for various things … simple to do).
I bought mine as a back up because the pricing was so good but had also managed to score one of the $99 14″ Lenovo laptops from Best Buy that George apparently also bought, so that 14″ unti is becoming my main “travel” laptop and the samller ASUS will just be a backup for me.
GREAT DEAL if you need a small computer for traveling (or walking around the house with) but I am still partial to 14″ or 15″ laptops because that keyboard size fits my fingers better (I mostly use tower systems at my desks … but do use my laptops a LOT as I sit on the couch and watch TV, or when I travel for work or pleasure)
Another laptop for your consideration, again at Best Buy
Asus 14″ Intel Celeron N4500 – 4GB Memory – 128GB eMMC.
The KEY differences are the bigger size (14″) AND imo maybe more importantly the 128 gig of internal memory vs the 64 gig. Still would probably want to add a Micro SD card or super short Thumb Drive to the computer as permanent extra storage (thus round it up to $200 total out the door with sales tax).
https://www.bestbuy.com/site/asus-14-0-laptop-intel-celeron-n4500-4gb-memory-128gb-emmc-star-black/6498803.p?skuId=6498803
Suggestion of C2C:
Your seven “domains” of preparedness. (Shelter, Finance, Food & Water, Transportation — etc., etc.)
No matter what Bad Thing comes, thought and individual preparedness are important. In my experience, vary many people think it’s all too complex and too expensive to do even a few small things. They draw back, and do nothing out of self-intimidation.
Better to light a single candle than curse the darkness.
“many people think it’s all too complex and too expensive to do even a few small things. They draw back, and do nothing out of self-intimidation.”
AMEN….I get asked that question a lot.. they ask how do you prepare for the unexpected storm.. I always tell them.. 1 can..
the same thing I did when I built my homes.. it was 1 board.. if you buy one can or add one board.. pretty soon you have a wall.. or a pantry.. so if you use five cans of soup a week.. then buy six.. one can.. the same with green beans or what every you use.. It breaks it down into a manageable size .. instead of trying to do a bunch you are only doing one can.. the price is reasonable.. and then the next week.. when you are down the five cans.. you buy six more..
I call it the one can method of getting a pantry.. you cannot vary with it either.. or you can.. if they have vegetables for a quarter a can.. buy a case.. you get four cans for what you pay for one.. just keep your budget the same..
instead people look at it as the whole thing.. and several thousand dollar investment.. at the one can method.. you have your set aside for the ocasional storm.. but kept it about ten bucks give or take.. buy what you use.. use what you buy.. if someone tells you you need to stock up on artichokes and you don’t eat artichokes.. then don’t buy them.. rotate your pantry to..
https://www.luckybelly.com/diy-can-food-storage-organizer/#13_Home_Made_Can_Organizer
Covid-19 story over at The Age of Desolation site. Stu didn’t mention anything about loss of smell, but he has had to see five doctors in different fields, for ailments that followed Covid.
I think that calling an annual meeting of blockchain enthusiasts a “Crypto Con” would be appropriate in several ways.
Look at this video with the fools in Congress treating Zelensky like he is a super hero.
A standing ovation? For what? For talking bullshit?
https://www.the-sun.com/news/6929252/ukraine-news-war-russia-latest-putin-2/
He certainly wasn’t dressed for the occasion.
Doomsday is coming.
Can’t blame Zelensky for his choice of clothing, rumor has it that a Biden govt. official stole his lugguage.
I understood that the luggage thief only stole women’s luggage, and then wore the contents.
Watching a good show this bitter cold day on Netflix designated survivor…. had to go out At 330 and clear the drifts to get the wife’s way clear to the garage..a bolt came loose..I had to hook it up..glove off less than a minute.. that was long enough for the skin to flash freeze..and split open…dam…luckily I had my face mask on.. wow
Winter Rule #1- NEVER touch cold metal with bare skin. Grew up in Wisconsin and never had frostbite until in the Army firing M16 in winter conditions. Army insisted on finger to metal contact on trigger. I frostbit my trigger finger on the cold metal.
“Here, kid… lick this metal pole…”
Now you did it, brought back a memory of an old Iggy Pop song, “Cold Metal.”
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=mLnL1-7lvVE
absolutely..I had to put the linkage to the drive back on.. the steel was very cold..wind chills between 60 below and higher..
Never peel skin off metal. Wait until your stuck part warms the metal and the bodily fluid or precipitation which formed the bond. If you don’t panic, you have no problem, even at -30. If you panic, you will lose skin and not like it. Dunno how to circumvent the Army torture — maybe sneak a finger cot out for maneuvers and hope the DI doesn’t see it…?
Wow…now for that wonderful seasonal programming…..of Winter in the Wastelands….. I have the water lines frozen.. on the north side of the house…did I put on the winter shield..for the outdoor faucit..will the pipes split..thank god I used copper..if I had used led or PVC.. it would be destroyed..
dam I didn’t leave an access panel.. to warm them up.. I’ve never had this happen in thirty years.. will I have to try and get a plumber..
and I followed code..Definitely a situation I never anticipated..
LOOB:
Sa La Man Der
i.e. kerosene forced air convection heater
When I mentioned this last month, I wasn’t just doing so to feel the keys against my fingertips. $200 — $160 for the heater, $30 for the extension cord, $10 for the kerosene, and you’ll never freeze your pipes hard enough to burst. Additionally, your friends and neighbors will never, either, because you can rescue any one of them in 20 minutes.
Or you could just turn your water on — just a dribble — like we Northerners do. Water that’s moving through a pipe will not freeze. If the pipes are not frozen solid, they will thaw out completely within a few minutes by simply opening the valves.
I am ‘the other brother Darrell’
I have found sunongrass’s news source, it is the CIA
watch them confess in video from ’83’
https://truthsocial.com/users/RealVincentKennedy/statuses/109557768442272428
Truth or treason, it is the season,, ole well back to the Kari Lake law suit in AZ
election laws were not followed, a little chain of custody problem, among other things that cause a lot of KAOS,, [from Get Smart]
https://rumble.com/v21w9og-kari-lake-election-hearings-live.html
Lake is going to lose. She didn’t do well yesterday, still no evidence of fraud beyond speculation. The judge ruled “Thompson’s ruling said that Lake must prove that the county’s printer malfunctions were intentionally manipulated to affect the election results and that the actions “did actually affect the outcome.” Good luck proving intent.
I will wait for the ruling at the end, dont be counting ure chickens before they hatch
Kari’s still brainwashed by the Cult Leader, refuses to accept facts, a platform that is shrinking heavily:
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/11/09/truth-social-merger-partners-stock-falls-after-trump-candidates-underwhelm.html
‘brainwashed’,,,’cult’,, name calling from a believer in the climate change cult and getting stock advise from an astrologists,,,
OK,, does ‘c’ stand for ‘cults’,,,?
there is a banking finance battle going on behind the scene with DWAC, can you ‘c’ name the players fighting against it?
My personal fav: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BWhljf7tY_c
I see,,, the episode ended at ‘Satan’s Place’
thanks
Best Buy $100 Lenovo 14 inch Celeron N4020 4/64 GB 2.8 GHz turbo Win 11 better deal than 11.6 screen? Asus $110 4/128 GB similar laptop too?
First purchased installed win 10/20H2. SD card reader disappeared firs. Then wi-fi.
Installed Linux Ubuntu. SD card reader and wi-fi reappeared. Nice.
Second purchased to check allegation that Intel/Microsoft have conspired to force windows 11 use.
Installed 10/1909 then 20H2. SD card reader and wi-fi disappeared.
Reinstalled 11. No SD card reader of wi-fi.
Best Buy Geek Squad associate recommended I return # 2.
Now have #3. Leaving 11 installed.
Checking Microsoft 11 10 “improvements”.
Focus now on $35 Libre Le Potato amlogic arm A53 64-bit processor.
Running armbian 64-bit universal operating system.
Raspberry Pi killer?
Using Best Buy $139 Insignia 43 inch 1080p monitor/tv for display.
And following c/c++ 1 buggy 2 malware vulnerable 3? software modules longer than one page of code in violation of Boeing hardware engineers’ software standards software managers/computer programmers layoffs, of course.
G –
1. immigrants – i’d suggest especially during this time of year to follow the gospel of Jesus. Maybe start with anointing the feet of the poor with oil.
2. america haters? no one seethes with hate as much as the right. hate elections, hate the government, hate their fellow americans
3. $500 says russia won’t be nuking poland in the next two weeks. G – take me up on it? Loser pays online escrow fees.
The Dow is down 2.2 % and the NASDAQ100 is down 3.75% – I’m having a ‘great’ morning. How ’bout you?
Record low temp for this day for my little town is 9 below zero.., I bundled-up and went out before sunrise and the temp was 8 below. The high for today is forecast to be one below. But, we start warming up and a lot of snow is headed our way in a day or two.
– Eight below is a record for me [ in this town] since I moved here many years ago. The record low was set in 1933. Average daily temp here is 32 degrees. so we are far below normal., so was all of November.
– But that all important snow-pack in the mountains is already way above normal.., so that’s a good “thing” for Summer.
– Already started on a large pot of thick beef stew.., and fresh sourdough bread is baking in the oven.
– I refuse to read the new this morning.., I’ll get bummed out tomorrow.
– Stay warm everyone……………….
Although I had forecast “half off by Christmas” the Fed meanderings slowed the course.
But yeah, we had enough for a dinner out in today’s trading. Up 5% plus for the week, I may take tomorrow off
Thanks for the laptop tip… at that price one cannot say ‘No’. Dunno what I will do with it just yet, but will find something. If only to learn the latest windows anomalies to curse at!
The Question at 2:19 and his answer …. $46 Billion dollars is expected to last Ukraine, all or most of next year. – So they don’t have to keep giving money to them.
Mark your calendars. See how long it takes to spend it and be back for more.
https://youtu.be/VeXaFsPHDrs
As said yesterday I looked in the mirror as well . Fact . Posted . The address of Congress was like hitler or Stalin standing there getting an ovation.
Yes, it was, and the few of our Representatives who still have a shard of common sense were castigated and all-but called “communists” for daring to not participate in the “Duma exercise…”
Actually, it was like watching Churchill and Roosevelt lie to the American and British people to get them into a war to end all wars, and kill millions of Whites. That was the Bolshevick’s goal in WW1, and that was the same Bolshevick’s goal in WW2, and it is the same Bolshevick’s goal in Russia and Ukraine. Bring as many White countries in and create a conflagration and kill off as many as the White race as possible.
Read the protcols. They tell it just like it is.
Nothing has changed except now these Bolshevick’s control the MONEY in almost ALL of the countries, even the USA. And he who controls the money, controls the world.
After all, it is just a business model.
https://www.henrymakow.com/
https://research.calvin.edu/german-propaganda-archive/ley1.htm
These wars, when you find the truth behind them, then your eyes are opened, and you can see what is plainly in view.
The Wars for Peace Swindle Floats the Boats Again.
Thanks for the link to the Asus laptop. :)
George,
Don’t know about your local water company but mine (Lone Pine) requires a separate water meter per residence. They even frown on having a lived-in travel trailer sharing water from one meter. Part of the agreement signed when first getting the hookup.
That is 20-odd years ago – danged if I remember what’s in it. But, it’s all MY property until the deed on death anyway… but yes, give someone of office and they will seized whatever power than can, true that.
So … the guy who BANNED religions he doesn’t like and closed down ALL opposition news organizations and entities got a Standing Ovation from our Congress?
What’s next Putin and Xi both getting standing ovations TOO?
(we are already following Xi’s lead on population tracking and social credit scoring … and many in DC both politicians and the government itself are also trying like the dickens to shut down all information that is NOT government deep state approved)
As they say a fish rots from the head down … and we can see what has happened to OUR HEAD
Glad I skipped the Dictator’s Speech last night. I probably would have broken my TV with what I would have thrown at it.
I’m surprised that Mr. Putin hasn’t destroyed the rail links between Poland and Ukraine – on the Ukraine side to ease the political fallout.
If normal missiles didn’t do the job, those that radiate would make the area uninhabitable long enough to preclude rebuilding the rail links. There’s no reason for him to tolerate an endless supply of our freely given equipment and expendables.
Except he’s taking the best we’ve got, and learning how to respond to it / defend against it, without wasting any of his valuable assets against us, or against NATO (or against Ukraine, for that matter…) Don’t you think he’s positively giddy at the thought of figuring out how to change the Patriot’s success rate from 40% to 4%, at a cost of a “Dirty Dozen” Russian convicts and some Iranian and Belarusian mercs?
Zelensky will be back begging for money by the end of May. Of every $10 we “give Ukraine,” less than $3 actually goes to the war effort. A third is kicked back to our Establishment politicians (mostly, but not exclusively, Democrats), some is kicked forward to the Ukrainian oligarchy, and as with any dictatorship, a healthy chunk goes to each, Zelensky and the ranking membership of the Rada (Ukrainian “Parliament.”)
Perhaps in May, we’ll sell him some offensive missiles and Russia will have to move a couple S-200 batteries into theatre. Until then, Putin will be content to know UKR can’t hit anything of value, and each shot they fire costs every American taxpayer, money. He’s bleeding us dry, just like Reagan and Thatcher bled the Soviets dry, and we’re a lot less smart now than the Soviets were, then…
Well.. its pretty obvious that we have not been sitting on the sidelines anymore..
with this news its pretty much shows that we are involved with men not just machines..
https://warnews247.gr/einai-kolasi-beite-sto-ktirio-oi-rosoi-egklovisan-kai-sfyrokopoun-amerikanikes-dynameis-sto-bakhmut-vid/
Keep warm
Re: Codex Forster feat. Prapor Ukrainy
Folks,
Was that great theater or what at The Capitol? The Servant of the People presented a Ukrainian flag allegedly signed at the Bakhmut frontline for the VP and House Speaker to hold up to the assembled audience. A mirror helps with the reading of some of the English script.
https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/4843/production/_128099481_zelensky_congress_epa.jpg.webp
I didn’t watch. D’you mean to say Harris and Pelosi acted as page boys for Zelensky’s wedding train?
“How much of the soon (we expect) nuclear attack on Poland (through which Ukrainian war materiel flows). or Ukraine itself, is a plan of anti-Russia persons with various axes to grind?”
Virtually all of it. Putin wouldn’t EVER waste a nuke, which is guaranteed to trigger WW-III. If Vlad were going to go radioactive, he would hit France, the UK, and us, and he’d hit us with a many-thousand-warhead first strike. Russia has the best missiles, anti-missile batteries, and underwater-launched attack weapons in the world. They have engaged none of any of these, in Ukraine. This is because Putin’s General Staff doesn’t believe it necessary to use their modern and advanced weaponry. They would certainly use these in Eurasia before contaminating their own population with fallout. Therefore, if a nuke happens to go off on that continent, it might be good to mention now, that every atomic-class weapon has a unique signature, lest people forget this fact, should it become prescient…
“But Claire Sterling’s works and research by James M. Olson, who rgues the U.S. has already lost the battle for counterintelligence superiority.”
We lost it during the Clinton Administration, when Vichy and her gang, armed with “intel” from Bush41 (remember me telling you, years ago, that having a VP with a higher security clearance than da Prez {Reagan} was always a bad thing?) convinced Clinton that our superior technology and technological advantage over everyone else made it unnecessary for us to have agents in the field. Vichy and her hubby, Cheney, Wolfy, Rummy, etc., were charter members of the PNAC fraternity begun by GHW and Jeb Bush. W, George Will, and some of that crowd were in the first class of plebes.
We have not regained it, and are unlikely to do so under an Establishment President of either major Party.
“ALLEGED Crypto Cons come home to roost: Two Key FTX Executives Plead Guilty to Fraud Charges, as SBF Lands Back in the U.S.”
SBF was locked up for several hours under a $250mln bond. The spin is his parents put up their home as collateral to post his bail. Their house is worth $4mln. He was actually released on his own recognizance…
I don’t know about Caliphobia, but you can’t do that in Texas. Your (or your parents’) home cannot be used as bail, because the homestead in Texas is exempt from seizure except for unpaid taxes. I had to tell the sheriff that after he allowed a woman to use her home to post bail for her grandson. Problem was, he approved that bail to get him out of jail in Dallas. When he skipped, Dallas County sent me a Writ of Execution to seize and sell the property posted for bail. Under Texas law, I couldn’t do that. Embarrassed the sheriff, but he talked his way out of it with the Dallas District Judge.
“The unbearable hypeness of being: Christmas weather: A ‘once in a generation’ winter storm…”
Now, wait a minute. Didn’t y’all have one of those less than two years ago…?
FWIW today’s high for me was 43°F, tonight’s low will be -12°F with 35-55mph winds, gusting to 75mph — oh, and 4-14″ of snow.
C;limate change, buddy…nothing to see here, move along, now…
I’d say, talk about possible paths for our economy to take, and perhaps bring up your seven systems from an angle of “If you’re not a prepper, this is what you can do to avoid losing your butt, if things go seriously south.”
I would leave politics, and geopolitics alone, as much as possible (you’re going to get a couple political calls, just like you’ll get a couple regarding star charts or planetary alignments, but that shit always happens on c2cAM), and stick to the basic precepts of the Urban Survival website…