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CPI – What’s in Your Wallet? War Surveillance and Domain Work

OK, let’s get the elephant in the room off the table.  Consumer Price figures are just out. And despite the White House pressure, we just don’t see a logical reason to lower rates right now.

WAIT!

Before we do that: Triple A gas price report says year-on-year gas prices were up 28.78 percent.  Want to revise your bet on this morning’s number?  The envelope, please?

The Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U) increased 0.6 percent on a seasonally adjusted basis in April, after rising 0.9 percent in March, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Over the last 12 months, the all items index increased 3.8 percent before seasonal adjustment.

The index for energy rose 3.8 percent in April, accounting for over forty percent of the monthly all items increase. The shelter index also increased in April, rising 0.6 percent. The index for food increased 0.5 percent over the month as the index for food at home rose 0.7 percent and the index for food away from home increased 0.2 percent.

The report didn’t highlight energy up 17.0 percent year-on-year.

Of course, the key number in all this is the all-items less food and energy number. 2.8% Year-on-year. Which is so far from the Powell “2 percent talking point” it’s absurd.  I mean, if you and I can figure out 2 percent is a hookah number, and we’re not in D.C. – why the BS/disconnect? Don’t think of it as 0.8 percent – think of it as 40% off.

Oh and the answer?  (*To “What’s in your wallet?”):  Not as much purchasing power as yesterday.

Tracking: the NFIB Small Business Optimism Index rose 0.1 points in April to 95.9, below its 52-year average of 98.0 for the second consecutive month. The Uncertainty Index fell 4 points from March to 88, remaining well above its historical average of 68.

War Surveillance

With the statue of Donald Trump out for a few days getting Chinese (What to Know About Trump-Xi Summit with Trade, Taiwan and Iran on the Agenda) we can turn to the “What’s next?” in the Middle East.  From Dim Sum to dimmed prospects.

We’re wondering “What’s in your airplane?” as Trump to Be Joined by Elon Musk and Other CEOs at Xi Summit in China.  M&A talks? (Kidding…I hope!)

My consigliere was worried about the rumors that another “pistol Pete General’s meet” was in the offing – which might set a “shot-clock” for Iran.  But so far – with some pretty good AI going  deep into the research, here’s what’s coming back so far:

What does smell real:

    • Quiet readiness activity around Hormuz and munitions depletion.
    • Internal concern about stockpiles and escalation thresholds.
    • Possible posture review involving naval escort operations and CENTCOM coordination.

One thing worth watching:
The earlier Quantico event was called on extremely short notice and initially had almost no stated purpose. So if another one appears, the first signals will likely be:

    • charter flight chatter,
    • unusually high transient officer movement into Quantico/Andrews,
    • defense reporter posts about “urgent” scheduling,
    • or sudden changes in combatant commander travel.

At the moment, though, I’d say:
No confirmed generals fly-in this week — but elevated command-level activity around Iran/Hormuz is clearly underway.

What we did pick up on was Trump orders aggressive leak probe over Iran war media reports. Yes, we do deploy AI on many “news surveillance” missions. Electrons seems to work more tirelessly than I can, anymore.  Been a slow but useful innovation we started chronicling on the Peoplenomics.com subscriber site since April 2015 when we outlined Should You Build a Home Intelligence Platform? And more importantly, should you use it for Trading?  We also coined the edge term cobots back in 2017 in  Cobots – some thoughts on historical circularity and our mixed intelligence future.  This was before I got serious and doing patentable AI research… Rest of the world will be along shortly.  (More in the Around the Ranch part in a sec.)

First, gather ’round for the Premier Edition of…

Yes, here’s how Reality is parsing in East Texas today:

Who says crime doesn’t pay?  Instructure Strikes Deal for Hackers for Return of Canvas Data – The New York Times.

But it also doesn’t pay forever: Eileen Wang resigns, will plead guilty to acting as Chinese agent | CNN.

Party time in Alabama – question, though is which Party? Supreme Court hands Alabama major boost in redistricting fight – The Washington Post

One of these days Trump will run out of talking-points. Just not today: Trump’s gas tax holiday pitch faces early Capitol Hill headwinds.

And here’s our “You gotta-be-shittin-me” of the day: A nonprofit sues the feds over plans to paint the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool blue.

Passings: Film critic Rex Reed.  He was 87.  The End.

Now we can move onto more useful stuff…

Around the Ranch: End of the Ant Hill

There may be a huge change underway in the world right now that almost nobody is talking about plainly.

For a very long time, human civilization has patterned itself after ants. Not literally, mind you. Though if you’ve ever been in Washington D.C. at rush hour, or watched corporate middle management scurry around clutching spreadsheets like sacred scrolls, the resemblance becomes harder to ignore.

Ant societies are built on specialization. Worker ants work. Soldier ants soldier. Nurse ants nurse. Each ant develops around a narrow role inside a larger machine. The colony survives because no single ant understands the whole system. The intelligence emerges from coordination and specialization layered together.

Human civilization copied this model and supercharged it. Over centuries we built gigantic silos of expertise. Economists who only speak economics. Doctors who only see medicine. Engineers who only see engineering. Politicians who only see power. Climate people who only see climate. AI people who only see algorithms. Lawyers who can argue the curvature of space-time but cannot rotate a tire or grow a tomato.

And for a while, specialization worked brilliantly.  Then it faltered.  Then we got to today.

Sure, we built bridges, aircraft, antibiotics, semiconductors, and the modern world. But something strange has happened over the past couple of decades.

The silos have grown so tall that fewer and fewer people can see across them anymore. Every domain became its own priesthood. Every specialty developed its own language, credential structure, gatekeepers, funding channels, and approved reality map.

Which is fine until reality itself stops respecting departmental boundaries.
That’s where the cracks begin. Because the real world does not operate in silos.

The garden touches the kitchen. The kitchen touches health. Health touches economics. Economics touches psychology. Psychology touches politics. Politics touches technology. Technology touches energy. Energy touches climate. Climate touches migration. Migration touches social stability. Social stability touches markets.

Everything touches everything.  (Don’t think now, but closed systems are like that.)

The silo-holders hate this realization because it threatens the privilege structure.

Once ordinary schmoes begin walking between domains, the monopoly power of specialists weakens. The modern expert economy depends heavily on controlled access to interpretation. The credential often matters as much as the insight. Only lawyers can read “law” for example.  (Bullshit.)

So here we be: increasingly people are beginning to realize that the most useful breakthroughs occur not inside the silos but between them nowadays.

Around here we have started calling this domain walking.

The term sounds fancy, but the process is surprisingly ordinary once you notice it.

You go into the garden and suddenly realize you are not “gardening” anymore. You are designing part of a food system.

Then you walk into the kitchen and discover an entirely different domain but totally connected to the first one. Not merely cooking, but preservation, nutrition, energy management, timing, biology, economics, flavor chemistry, storage systems, and social ritual.

Which is why we’ve jokingly begun calling part of this larger space “fooding.” (Which will become Foodening.com)

Not because we need another buzzword. God knows civilization already has enough consultants weaponizing PowerPoint into acts of psychological violence. But because naming a domain changes how the mind organizes it.

And that turns out to matter a lot now and it will mean even more in times ahead.

The hidden revolution may be that humans are beginning to rediscover cross-domain thinking after centuries of forced specialization.

Artificial intelligence is accelerating this process dramatically.

AIs are weird creatures in one important (collaborative) respect: they are not naturally siloed the way human institutions are. A large language model can move from anthropology to economics to diplomacy to gardening to mythology to software design without requiring six departmental budget approvals and a peer-reviewed permission slip from the Journal of Extremely Narrow Expertise.  I’ve been up researching with AI tools since, oh, 2 AM today.

That does not mean AIs are automatically right. They don’t tell me “how to think.” Far from it. But it does mean they can help humans – researchers like me – see patterns stretching across multiple barns simultaneously.  It’s the new Mind Amplifiers.

And once you begin seeing the connective tissue, the world starts looking very different.

Take the recent wobbling around the “global warming” narrative. Notice something interesting: the loudest people inside the climate silo often have enormous difficulty discussing economics, energy density, agriculture, grid stability, geopolitical incentives, or the institutional funding structures wrapped around climate “science” itself. The world’s going inter-disciplinary, like it or not.

Meanwhile the anti-climate crowd often refuses to discuss atmospheric chemistry, ecosystem stress, pollution externalities, or long-cycle environmental thresholds.  Because? Both sides are trapped in silo warfare. Economics, politics – they all share edges.

Neither side can comfortably walk domains.

Which means the public increasingly senses that nobody is telling the whole truth because almost nobody is structurally capable of seeing the whole picture anymore.  Believe me when I tell you: At age 77, I’m old enough to remember a time when there was a unitary Big Picture!

This has become a civilization-scale problem. Everyone has their own spin on the Big Pic.

The industrial era rewarded specialization because machinery demanded repeatability. The emerging era may reward synthesis because complexity demands integration. That is a very different cognitive environment.

The people likely to thrive going forward may not be the narrowest specialists, but rather the best navigators between domains. People who can see how economics touches psychology, how AI touches anthropology, how gardening touches resilience, how diplomacy touches ritual, and how recognition itself may sit underneath much of human behavior.

That last one has become especially interesting around here lately.
I’m already four hours deep into some exploratory domain work on what may become an upcoming Peoplenomics piece tentatively titled The Contact Protocol — or possibly Contact Grammar.

The core idea is that humans may possess ancient recognition systems for approaching other intelligences, whether those intelligences are animals, nations, ecosystems, machine systems, strangers, or perhaps someday things even farther outside the ordinary map.
And once again, the interesting part is not inside any single silo.

Anthropology has pieces. Diplomacy has pieces. Animal behavior has pieces. AI alignment has pieces. Religion has pieces. Economics has pieces.

But very few people are trying to line them up side-by-side to see whether a larger pattern emerges.

That’s the real change underway now.  Not merely technological change.
Cognitive change.

Here’s the part the silo-keepers hate: the walls were never real. They were filing cabinets. Department names. Budget lines. Academic turf maps. Useful for organizing work, maybe, but not for understanding reality.  Reality does not care what department owns the grant.

The garden talks to the kitchen. The kitchen talks to health. Health talks to money. Money talks to politics. Politics talks to machines. Machines talk back. That’s a domain not a silo.

That is why domain walking is coming. Once people learn to move across the fences, the credential barns lose their monopoly on explanation.

And when silo doors are thrown open?

Things melt UP.

(Write when you get rich, yada, yada…)

George@Ure.net

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  1. Well Kemmosabe, you get peeps to start thinking along domain walking lines and their own Bodies, oh my! The I-Ching mailbox was full this AM, and was sitting there was another piece of advice for Exercising Ure Pineal Gland.
    Best part of the whole piece was the “Hummer”. Better believe tbs luv,luv, luvs a good “Hummer”, as do most Peeps lucky enough..

    Yes that is correct a “Hummer” facilitates the Decalcification of the P Gland.
    As it is written in ancient Sumerian texts, the ruling council made Enki and Ninmah down regulate the Human Brain – through Calcification of the Pineal. BY age 45 – 80% Calcification o fthe Gland. It still works sort of..
    * https://x.com/i/status/2053554233329279292

    As for the Cull, that I have warned of for ages would be coming – whelp..

    In the mentime tRump has LOST the Us’s Hegemonic Role in ME. After he has lost the WAR, the Sanctions game is over. It is in No Ones interest to ever help US again..ever.

    Saudi’s held, and only our evil empire scheisse was damaged or destroyed, no Saudi Oil infrastructure was touched..hence record profits for Aramco this Qtr.

    35 yr old Daughter and her peers have come to same realization..finally, we are The Evil Empire, and they want NOTHING to do with that..NOTHING.
    *Says here Dem’s crush mid-terms.

    Ure guy is a stone cold MORON, and everyone is starting to realize it now..

    Dont forget to Gargle with Bleach as per president tRUMP, he certainly knows what he is talking bout, killing viruses in vivo it does..bwahahah

    • Strange,,,my rose colored goggles come up with the conspiracy theory : Xi builds factories in US, Poohteam replaces its nominal oil demand previously filled by Iran with glorious LTO from the Port of Long Beach. , which is closer than steaming to the Persian Gulf…..
      starts @4:00.
      https://youtu.be/qManPyTddJc

      Makes a lot of sense if the Poohteam collectively noodles that the US is about to sack Iran’s energy and IRGC round two.

      Not advice. Got blockchain.

    • You continue to foist that falsehood about Trump recommending gargle with bleach… which makes YOU the disinformation clown.
      Lookup Chlorine Dioxide. (MMS) That’s what he was talking about. I’ve killed off my flu outbreak in 12 hours if you know how to use the stuff. Sheesh!

  2. Looks like markie mark kelli might have stepped in a big soft turd. He got on a “news” show and started telling the world that we are out of munitions to take care of Iran. I can’t see what veterans see in him , a hijab rose

      • Boris Badenov- look again , US Weapons production is waaay behind, and current stocks are LOW. So slow is production, they have to beg the auto makers to help out. If they manufacture weapons systems as well as they do Cars…bwaaahahah

        Natasha – Now Boris, it is not kosher to make fun of and mock the Americans.
        BB- Stating facts Natasha my dear, in fact let me show you the latest project we have been working on and tested just yesterday the 11th..
        -https://www.rt.com/russia/639897-russia-test-icbm-sarmat/
        BB- mind you my dear, that bad boy is hypersonic!
        Natasha – Then Boris my Love, we must proclaim “CheckMate!”

        *US citizens will soon be singing the wicked witch of west blues…”I’m Melting”

  3. Excellent writing today, G. I particularly like how you show the disconnect between fields that are, in fact, connected.Imo, none are worse than the medical professions. My other half still has no concrete diagnosis, yes he has had ten or more types of doctors. All have directed him to a different doctor citing in technical terminology, “not my wheelhouse”. Just recently found out, my bro in law was treated the same. All these doctors, and none can band together and connect the dots. Frustrating. I believe your topic du jour is the reason we don’t know jack about how our bodies truly function (outside the obvious observable things). Jesus, but we’ve lost so much by way of field specializations.

        • All inference is best guess. All current AI’s are inference engines. Good for mind amplification, but have at best the wisdom of a four year old.

          Built in guardrails make them sermonizing and extremely limited unless you build your own stack.

        • (“All current AI’s are inference engines. “)

          nm Mike… I was visiting with a gent the other day and the clinic he goes to had a zoom drs. visit…the visit was not with his live dr. it was with an Ai. generated doctor…
          I asked how was it he thought it was a pretty good visit..around here you go to the clinic your visiting with a PA or nurse practitioner..theres usually over a year to actually get in to visit with an actual physician… and seriously I have more trust in some of the PAs than the doctors they are working unders license… except for char…she’s smart…dam smart but she’s dyslexic…. I think they probably took her license though..I haven’t seen her around lately..

  5. Them! (1954)

    The film is one of the first of the 1950s “nuclear monster” movies, and the first with big bugs as the threat. A nest of gigantic irradiated ants is discovered in the New Mexico desert, and they quickly become a national threat when it is found that two young queens and their consorts have escaped to establish new colonies. The national search that follows culminates in a battle with the last surviving colony in the concrete spillways and storm drain system of Los Angeles.

    Official Trailer

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HbrHPZmi1yE

  7. Well, seems if you are bankrupt and want funds defence is best bet to make money. Russia has missles, so does Iran… Idea is push you over with military as USA pushed over Iraq in 1992 and under Younger Bush in 2002… or so.

    No 1.5T budget for DOD w/o Medicare cuts and SS cuts unless overseas pays for it. W/o missiles against west no money from east…

    Sometimes it is better to know what is against you rather than defeat it and have something unknown.

    • Speaking of Russia – but could be fake news.

      “Russia announced plans to deploy its newly tested Sarmat intercontinental ballistic missiles by autumn. Dmitry Rogozin, head of the Roscosmos space agency, indicated this goal follows the missile’s first test-launch.

      The Sarmat can carry over ten nuclear warheads, capable of hitting targets in the U.S. or Europe. Its development, delayed for years, signifies Russia’s show of strength amid rising tensions due to the Ukraine war.

      Rogozin stated the missiles would be stationed in Siberia, utilizing existing silos. He described the launch as a historic event ensuring Russia’s future security. Concerns about nuclear conflict have escalated since the Ukraine invasion.”

  8. Oh and IF the above Iran China 4D chess does infact turn out to be the playbook, then BRiCS (the currency) as it were will likely be deprecated (to about same status as € ) over time by the forthcoming $ reset and the introduction of Keynes “BANCOR” to the BIS financial regime. Which is as it should have been back in Bretton Woods One, but if for one of many big reasons: avoidance of the Triffin Dilemna with the new $RLUSD stable coin of the realm that’s rolling out.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bancor

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triffin_dilemma

    https://www.edgen.tech/news/post/bis-report-xrp-joins-top-5-crypto-assets-held-by-banks

    https://www.coingabbar.com/en/crypto-currency-news/fednow-adopts-ripples-rlusd-to-modernize-instant-payments

    Not advice home gamers, get your own goggles.

  9. Hi George, any guesses for post Trump/Xi meeting Headlines … you know the game, I’m sure the script is already written, and the insider bets (trades) have been placed ……. all is great, everything is solved, Trump and Xi hung and kiss as they depart, World carved up yet again, casinos are the winners …. LOL

    all in fun … if one calls this fun …………. enjoy

      • “and the insider bets (trades) have been placed …”

        “The price of oil is being artificially suppressed by Trump draining our Strategic Petroleum Reserve (remember Trump screaming about Biden doing the same thing) and selling it on the world market. He is not using the SPR to reduce our gas prices. Why is that? Oil prices are also being suppressed by China using their reserves, rather than buying on the market.

        Then there is Bessent and his band of market manipulators at the Treasury, wading into the futures markets whenever the price goes over $100 a barrel and slamming it down with fake trades. And, of course, the best market manipulator on earth – Donald J. Trump – declares an imminent agreement on ending his war whenever he needs a $10 drop in a barrel of oil. He gets lower oil prices and his insider buddies and family members he tipped off, make hundreds of millions by shorting oil. Win, win.”

        https://www.theburningplatform.com/2026/05/12/something-is-rotten-in-the-state-of-america/#more-408558

        • Every time I visit TheBurningPlatform I lose a couple IQ points. The neonazi wingnut who runs the place foists his own demented opinion as fact, and (shockingly) a few gullible or stupid people believe him.

          TBP is hosted in Iceland because nobody in the States wants to be a part of the eventual lawsuit. Note the source for TBP’s website is practically next door to The Bitcoin Nazi’s northern abode, in Pennsylvania, (what? You thought TBP was run by a bunch of Icelandic anti-sjw kiddies? Nope. It’s run by an old White guy who [admin edit “MAY”] lives outside Philly, [admin edit “MAY”] hates Jews, and [admin edit “MAY”] lacks the ability to discern fact from his opinion.)

          FWIW his “base” is [admin edit “MAY” be] physically closer to Hal Turner than I am to the nearest Sam’s or Costco — must be something in the water they all drink. And don’t ask. I’m not going to dox [admin edit “MAY” ne] “Jim,” But he ain’t hard to find and he’s [admin edit “MAYBE”] not very clever or useful — just loud.
          [admin edit “MAY” pass legal now, lol]

        • [admin edit “MAY” pass legal now, lol]

          Fair enough.

          I get pissed off when jerks like that pretend they have a contact or an insight, and foist their opinion as fact, which others accept as fact.

          This “information” thing takes actual work to get right. I’ve been doing it for 34 years and I still learn a new way to search or a new test for honesty, integrigy, or reliability, nearly every week. When you can hide behind a newsman’s credential, you have a degree of protection against libel and slander. I don’t have one, therefore, I have to be very thorough. I appreciate the intervention though. I let my impatience run ahead of my sense…

      • otherwise known as the KISS(Keep it Simple Stupid) approach ……… LOL

        these are interesting times ……….. good luck all

    • Post China trip headlines will all be about masks and 6-foot spacing.

      How many here even noticed the FBI nabbed a couple dozen Dizzney pervs from their cruise ships? Did y’all realize the humpty-virus news hit every purported “news” outlet on the planet within hours of the arrest of the frisky Mouseketeers?

      I take it no one saw the post I made, that within a couple days of the initial virus “coverage,” 100,000 articles on hantavirus were published?
      ________

      Ray
      May 11, 2026 at 02:56
      Dr. Pierre Kory exposes a massive media anomaly. He reveals over 100,000 articles were published globally about Hantavirus in days.

      He confirms this massive coordination is entirely unnatural.

      Why is a minor outbreak suddenly consuming the global media cycle?

      https://x.com/FurkanGozukara/status/2053416859223896296?s=20
      ________

      Perhaps I was wrong. I figured people would realize such a document dump of, undoubtedly AI-generated bullshit articles about the humpty virus, would be of significance to the media mouthpieces that the dimwits and proles have come to worship.
      ________

      BTW another post which some people missed:

      Ray
      May 8, 2026 at 01:41
      323 vials containing deadly viruses, including Hantavirus, reported missing from Australia lab in 2024 after major biosecurity breach.

      They were never found.

      https://x.com/TaraBull/status/2052518742513385915?s=20
      ________

      I’m sure there’s no connection…

  10. God bless President Trump, closing the borders, taking the cartels down a notch, fighting fraud has been phenomenal. Illegal immigration not a constitutional right and will no longer boost census numbers and Democrat over representation in government. It’s very similar to how the southern states were overrepresented in government due to slaves being counted as 3/5 of a citizen.

    I’m a Libertarian, and don’t get manipulated by the Trump hate propaganda machine.

    • Many are blaming their empty wallets on Trump:
      https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-hit-by-devastating-poll-as-inflation-explodes/
      ‘A devastating new CNN poll has revealed that 77 percent of Americans, including a majority of Republicans, blame Trump’s policies for recent cost-of-living increases—a belief bolstered by a report on Tuesday that revealed inflation is up 3.8 percent from a year ago.’

      Trump pardons Fraudsters, rips off taxpayers:
      https://www.gov.ca.gov/2026/03/05/trumpcriminals3/
      ‘because of Trump’s criminal crony pardons and commutations, victims and the public won’t get back the nearly $2 billion that courts had ordered those criminals to pay as part of their sentences, or were considering ordering when the pardons came in.’

    • As a libertarian, I despise the waste of much of our White House in unnecessary demolition for a useless “ballroom” that may never get built and nobody needs anyway.

      I despise our starting a war against Iran that we were not prepared for, had no benefit from, and has turned the entire world against us.

      I despise the wasting of our STRATEGIC petroleum reserve being sold into the international market leaving us with a likely massive shortage this summer and later, leaving individuals with little choice about paying more or not for a non-existent supply.

      I see a coordinated effort by the so-called “leaders” of the world to waste as many resources as possible and leave the world in total poverty and starvation. No doubt, in their depraved minds, they see an opportunity to build a feudal society where they alone have despotic power.

      • “I despise the waste of much of our White House in unnecessary demolition for a useless “ballroom”

        Did you despise when Mr. Obama trashed the lawn to dump $700 million taxpayer dollars into the construction of a basketball court?

        FDR threw up the “East Wing” in a couple months’ time, to hide the newly-constructed bunker, beneath. It was not well made, and has been rotting away since Clinton was the resident in-chief. It needed to be replaced. I have no problem with a bunch of donations from rich people, funding a significant upgrade to the facilities.

        DoE’s stated plan is to sell off the SPR when oil is high, buy back when it’s cheap, and not go below the 355 million barrels Biden ran it down to. 2025 ended at 413.464mbbls. We’re currently at 406.413mbbls (barrels in millions.) The plan was published in March of 2025 (I believe) and is on the DoE website. Oil data may be found at the U.S. Energy Information Administration (eia.gov).

        As for Iran…

        Maybe its because I have Iranian (Persian) friends, but I see a Pol Pot or Hitleresque regime that’s murdering its subjects even faster than the aforementioned dickheads, and I see us in a position to stop the carnage. The fact they bragged about being able to “go nuclear in less than two weeks” to our negotiators, right before we began the bombing campaign is, to me, an added incentive. It should be blatantly-obvious that, had they been allowed that last necessary 30% enrichment, they would (of course) have nuked Haifa and Tel Aviv, but they would also have taken out 6-8 of our cities between Boston and Tampa, including NYC and D.C.

        I’m trying to stay away from Iran, because I have a personal interest in not seeing 6 million Persians shot, hanged, and beheaded, after suffering the indignity of being publicly, sexually violated. I can’t completely, because I have a low tolerance for stupid and for deliberate mis- or dis-information.

        WRT Iran, if Trump leaves office with the Islamic State still in control of Iran, I will be the biggest anti-trumper on the planet. He can NOT do this because it will guarantee our destruction, and that of Europe and Israel. Right now he’s golden, because he’s making all the right moves. In the words of the Iranian ex-pats: “He’d better finish the job.” This doesn’t mean military action by us. It means letting the Persians have the tools they need to excise the cancer from their own land, themselves…

  11. With the mayor Wang being a Chinese spy, the US should go back to the old ways and hang her. But being California, a slap on the wrist will be suffent.

    • thats funny !!! some of you yanks are great !! the wild west !!! hang em high !!

    • You could get your wish. The U.S. DoJ just reinstated hanging as a means of execution. If she’s convicted on Federal charges — There’s a war going on. That means “treason” is punishable by death. Did her actions reach the level of “espionage?” We’ll find out here in the next few months…

  13. someone said to me this morning. life is hard without the applause of others.

    i said you are doing it all wrong if you waiting for the applause of others.

    I dont live my life for the applause of others. My whole life is one big on going dialog with God whome I call THE DUDE.

    and just in the last 6 years

    I have lived with PGA Super Stars in Palm Desert, Ca. Ran around backstage at every show in town for 2 years, dated two former playboy centerfolds, banged a few super models (because nobody said i couldnt. lol) been on the field at Seahawks Games, drove Ore Trains and Giant Tonka Trucks, was cowboy and lived on a ranch, Drove Big Rig Trucks, Got the most Amazing Healthy relationship with a Gorgeous Red Head who is 23 years younger than me and am now working on a Rsearch Vessel down past the Equator by Fiji with Robot Submarines.

    I honestly dont give a shit about the opinions of others. I am living the most amazing life! That is a fact! its not about any of them. its all about my relationship with THE DUDE.

    they are all worried about gas prices and the war in Iran listening to the news on the radio for a 2 hour commute to a job that doesnt give them a gold watch when they retire anymore.

    and I’m sitting up here on a crane, watching the sun rise south of the equator, after staring at the southern Cross for a while last night, having steak for dinner. We are not the same. lol

    everyone has a life to live. im living mine. im not living it for them. im living it with THE DUDE.

    :)

    I Win with God within.

    • Wow,

      perhaps you are a conservative Christian..wonders if the Lady in the attached video resonates wit youse, hear have a look see -https://youtu.be/Q0A4SJoYv5s?

  14. and who knows. maybe one day i will be old, live out in the woods with my beautiful woman, get some goats. then get rid of them. mess around with ham radios and AI and 3D printers, write a website and do some gardening.

    that sounds pretty fuckin awesome too.

    but i aint there yet.

    not saying it couldnt happen. just not yet. i still have alot of adventures to do.

    ;)

    hope all is well.

    life is Good. So Good.

    well best get busy checking these sounding tubes.

    I Win with God within.

  15. maybe king donny wants to make that ballroom at the white house into a bolier room !! yes he saw the wolf of wall street and thinks he is dicaprio !!! his 2 super intelligent czar sons can help him run it !!! like call out hit the drum . OIL !!! BITCOIN , AI , Nvidia , Tesla !!! yeah thats it a boiler room with Donny making the calls !!!

    • A little off target this AM, Len.

      Did you Sight -In Ure “Pew-Pew” before going afield hunting ? Rookie mistake.

      Not Ballroom, BAALROOM, and not original price tag of $200 mil, Nerp! more like $1.5 Billion at this point. All that largesse = cost overruns, is coming out of the overburdened US Tax Donkeys & Asses, right G ?

      The proper reply/response would be; Bend Over and say “May I have Another, please?”

      Combined IQ Scores of the 2 tRUMP losers & Daddy = bout 200-220 COMBINED..right around the African continents average score.

      Making America Gag Again – Lets Go Donald Jeffery tRumpstain

    • Hmmm… People keep sharing videos claiming the Sumerian tablets predict the end of the world in 2029, but when you look at what archaeologists actually found, it’s nothing like that.
      The real Sumerian and Akkadian tablets are basically ancient spreadsheets — lists of grain, livestock, taxes, canal maps, and government records.
      What has been reportedly translated on the voynich manuscript points it in the direction of an ancient farmers almanac..
      From what i have read is there isn’t any dramatic prophecies, no doomsday dates.
      The only ancient ‘space’ record that gets close is a Babylonian tablet describing a comet — likely Halley’s Comet — observed around 164 BCE.
      It’s simple astronomy, not an apocalypse.
      The 2029 claims come from modern re-interpretations , not from anything written in the clay.
      So in my opinion from the wastelands is that the real discovery everyone should be amazed at is that ancient civilizations were far more organized, scientific, and administrative than people realized…
      of course that’s just my opinion from what little I know about anything..

    • Hank, I didn’t have 30 minutes to watch the video, so I C&P’d the transcript. That was very instructive!

      I tried to find on-line info about the three authors of this paper. No joy.
      Tried to find the paper itself, on-line. No joy.
      “The Journal of Cuneiform Studies” does actually exist. But neither the treatise, nor any of the authors, can be found in the journals published in 2019 through 2022, contrary to the video’s claim that it was published there in 2020.

      This led me to submit the first minute of transcript to a “free” AI detector called GPTZero… which appears to be a come-on to arrange for a subscription to a paid service. Can’t say I have enough interest to cough up some money to confirm my suspicions, though.

        • Sometimes those stories DO exist. You have to open the Russian language version of the page, and run it through Google Translate or DeepL to find them.

          Kiev did that. They went from same-version English, Ukrainian, and Russian, to polished-turd English version + real news on the Ukrainian page and no Russian, once Vichy Nuland and George Soros started making their coup d’etat moves.

          Papers in places like Warsaw and Budapest, which had been viable and accurate, punted and ran with the America-approved polished-turd version of every story. Pravda carried accurate Ukrainian news for a little while, until the overthrow was completed. After that, the only real sources were the Ukrainian language versions of Ukrainian online newspapers.

        • (“Sometimes those stories DO exist. You have to open the Russian language version of the page, and run it through Google Translate or DeepL to find them.”)

          You know I never even considered doing that..I always read the already translated English version of their newspapers that read like our local newspaper missing the funniest unfortunately..

        • “You know I never even considered doing that.”

          Neither did I, until I read an article on RT that was “continued,” only it wasn’t. I got pissed and looked it up on tass.ru. It was all there, and bore only a cursory resemblance to the English language version.

          Not long after, I went to the Ukraine government site and pulled an article from the official (English language) site of da Prez. I then pulled the native Ukrainian page and translated it. Sure enough, what Poroshenko was telling the Ukrainians bore little resemblance to what he was telling the Western (English-speaking) press.

          If it’s not important, I don’t worry about it, but if it IS, or I’m snooping for accurate information, I go to tass or xinhua or wherever, and translate the page to English. It really DOES make a difference…

  17. the king has sent messages to chief can kicker from florida who went fishing ,(probably tasting plants in mississipi river ) to get his fibonnacci fake pizza gang on the job !!!the 2 super trading sons of the family are caught mid RAMP on turnaround tuesday !!! get him now !!! we need pickers can kick RAMP . NOW !! executive order

  18. Iran may sprinkle batches of radiation across the Epstein Alliance. Trump was exalted by the Western God to destroy us!

    Iran threatens to ‘teach a lesson’ if US attacks

    “As of June 2025, Iran reportedly has around 970 pounds of uranium enriched to 60%. This amount could facilitate the creation of approximately 10 nuclear weapons. Under the 2015 nuclear deal, Iran’s enrichment was limited and monitored by the International Atomic Energy Agency. However, Iran began enriching uranium to 60% following the U.S. withdrawal from the deal under President Trump.”

  19. Do guests sometimes just show up at your house, unannounced, at times expecting that during the visit you might feed them?

    Well hopefully they always knock before just walking in to socialize with you, like this one did down Texas Way. Politeness counts after all.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVz93x50dMI

  20. cmon boyz lets smoke that USD $ giddy up da gold and git it on !! here we go king donny ordered !!! old glory , stars and stripes , apple pie boy

  21. cmon boyz . we been holdin thing the last hour . the TRIN boyz .. lets chant and git on that tradin floor ! USA USA USA into da close boyz . we gotta RAMP

  22. (“The garden talks to the kitchen. The kitchen talks to health. Health talks to money. Money talks to politics. Politics talks to machines. Machines talk back. That’s a domain not a silo.”)

    True..sometimes I’m curious about gods miracle plants and their uses and benefits.. take the kalongi seed..Kalongi similar to marijuans,the dandilion , amaranth etc..the making seed is one of those seeds that has followed humanity through every era of history ( a miracle plant).
    From ancient Egypt to Ayurveda to early Middle Eastern medicine, people treated it as a kind of universal helper — not because of superstition, but because generation after generation saw real value in it.
    Archaeologists even found kalonji oil in the tomb of Tutankhamun, which tells you how highly it was regarded.
    Traditional healers used it for digestion, breathing comfort, inflammation, and general vitality long before modern science started studying its antioxidant and anti?inflammatory compounds and its production of new stem cells in fighting cancers.
    Whether you look at it as a culinary spice, a cultural symbol, or a traditional wellness seed, kalonji has earned its place as one of the most respected plants in human history yet it like the others were placed on the hate this plant list.with so many uses like in cooking,oils etc…
    easy to grow the sprouts have that nutty flavor and filled with nutrients..as an oil is an amazing plqnt with historical wellness properties.. available and forgotten and unknown at just about every grocery store..and it tastes good to boot..
    I’ve always Been amazed how fast people swing to the that dam weed list or like with hemp that was pushed into that ….Reefer madness…just so some big buck billy could stuff his pockets even though paper using sawdust has seven step process in comparison to helps five step process..hemp paper is to durable and wouldn’t be a comparable substitution for toilet paper..the plant is useful from a thousand different angles virtually the whole plant is usefull..

    https://www.linwoodhouse.co.uk/blog/society/reefer-madness-exploring-the-cannabis-hysteria-of-the-1930s/

    black cumin Kalongi, amaranth,the dandilion,and marijuana and many more are miracle plants straight from the garden..

    https://youtu.be/GB0ky25IPQc?si=heYRrZpyqqqid9FC

    now when I was a child a friends mom was Myron florens sister..we were forced to sit down during Xmas vacation while he was visiting and listen to him play..lol lol lol

  23. Hmm..and I didn’t even leave a link to some of the studies on kalonji lol

    https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4387232/

    https://sajhp.com/archive/volume/8/issue/1/article/1060

    https://www.mskcc.org/cancer-care/integrative-medicine/herbs/nigella-sativa

    https://youtu.be/KtZfiQOzdw4?si=udFLT2_aPHug5ut_

    I can’t find it now but I read an article once where it to was demonized and forbidden use..just like hemp..poisoned like the dandelion and sorghum millet..the creeping jenny.. another INE that was brought to the USA because if its value..known to some herbalists as a treatment for wounds, gout, and stones in traditional medicine….Then consider Creeping Jenny Wild Homestead Beer where beers wines etc..all were made from the plants in their neck of the woods.. Viking mead etc..the marine motto..Imorovise,adapt,and overcome..the recipes all align in the same basic formulas the only difference is the materials in the environment which the person resides.. like the recipe of the kingdom of UR is the exact same as the recipe of the Hopi tribe for flatbread..

  24. thats it boyz !!! ramp ramp ramp !! and crypto sheetcoin gunna kik in now and destroy bears to the stone age . hey donny . aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

  25. Sasquatch sez the ant people ruled it all for a good long time, but then got so messed up they were banned to live below the surface. Some of them made the hollow moon and still live there inside and exert influence from the lunar distance.
    And octopuses are more highly evolved and smarter than most humans.
    So there.
    Stiks

    • Stiks, First I saw the film “My Octopus Teacher” then I read the book “Secrets of The Octopus” by Sy Montgomery. I haven’t eaten octopus for a couple of years now despite previously enjoying the taste. It would be sort of like eating Lassie.

      Currently on Netflix: “Remarkably Bright Creatures” with a superb performance by Sally Fields but an even better one by Marcellus who is, unfortunately, a CGI creation.

      • My Wife is same way after reading MOT & SotO.

        I on the other hand, I have been hunting and eating Octopus since early 80’s, when I got my first taste out on San Clemente Isle. Now one of my favorites, justify my actions by knowledge of the Octopus lifespan which only lasts about 1 year.

        IMHO, its a terrible waste not catch/trap and eat em. : D

      • Fly… way too complicated for a simple post, but the story of the rise, fall, and banishment of the Ant-people is found in “the Sasquatch Message to Humanity” by SunBow… Rainbow Butterfly Publications, Kettle Falls, WA 99141, pg 82-92.

        The real moon was destroyed by the Ant-people in an evolution overload and battle withe the Lizard-people. Then when things got to much for the remaining Ant-people on the Earth, they used their silver ships and immense powers to rebuild the moon artificially, as a hollow structure.

        This story in the whole challenges all concepts of our universal oneness.

        Fun read
        Stiks

    • Urhmah – Cat like people
      &
      Kingu Babars (tall white reptilian humanoids)

      They came together and “created” a new hybrid race. They live and work on Itud=Moon. They were or are Neutral.
      Unlike the Shem-Shu- Ra/Nungal/Iggigi who were/are Positive, supporting and teaching Humankind.
      Annunak/Annuna were not, extremely negative – they were/are considered Demons. Bible says “those that burn and bite”

      Ancient name starts with an A, just like the Asura’s in India = bad ju-ju.

  26. oops . I forgot two half tsp of black cummin a day and Alzheimer’s… use it in baking and oil etc..ir sprouting for a nice garden salad..

    https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4789020/

    and amaranth…sprouts go good with mung beans and lintels..

    https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&opi=89978449&url=https://investor.lilly.com/news-releases/news-release-details/update-phase-3-clinical-trials-lanabecestat-alzheimers-disease&ved=2ahUKEwiuldmy2bSUAxXYv4kEHWFXH0UQFnoFCIEBEAE&usg=AOvVaw1cMCrhw6Uj_T_8IpDLoiXO

    or how about broccoli sprouts and Alzheimer’s….dam if all the good stuff isn’t actually healthy…

    https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC12427749/

    ready on your kitchen counter in days .
    or Artemisia annua Extract that Improves the Cognitive Deficits and Reverses the Pathological Changes of Alzheimer’s Disease via Regulating YAP Signaling
    oh her you’d need an oil infuser and olive oil

    https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10049624/

  27. the 16/20 gunna get yah donny . the riggin lookin bad . FEDs happy !! gettin off the hook . you should be FED chair donny , or one of your boys . even the youngest . train them early on the art . aaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

  28. George, Your “ant hill” essay today resonated with me. I keep coming back here because I value a “silo free zone.” And you are doubtless correct about LLMs accelerating silo destruction. My life has been both expanded and simplified by the LLMs.

    GPT came up with credible diagnosis for my wife’s illness that eluded 5 doctors and an ER.

    Just yesterday I was planning a trip and needed to know whether I could avoid a $200 airport shuttle from Milan to Lecco, Italy. There are many ways to get this information, but GPT took about 10 seconds.

    I do volunteer work for a “save the (Indian River) lagoon organization and was tasked with cataloging the construction and maintenance of a subdivision’s septic systems that are contributing less than the expected amount of nitrogen to the lagoon. GPT provided a path to the information that avoided travel, arguing with bureaucrats, and probably hefty copying fees. Were I a more skilled GPT user and/or trusted it more, it likely could have been done in a few minutes without human intervention, but even with lots of manual lookups it likely reduced a 40 hour task to about 10 hours.

    I often think about my 15 year old granddaughter’s vocational options. She’s thinking of journalism. What does journalism look like in a cross-silo world?

  29. That fella Three coins story about that lady and kicking everyones ass at the poker table is one of the coolest things i read in a while.

    i could almost smell the cigars in the air with waft of the scent of her perfume. See the shine on her golden hair and the sound of the chips on the table. the definening silence on the dealer call, the chatter of men in the background when the last card turned over.

    thanks for sharing that. i love reading stuff like that. what an amazing experiance. its cool to get a glimpse in to your experiance. what a fine life you have lived.

  30. re: invasive species
    feat: Kyiv hooks a whale carp

    Carp fish have a reputation for being invasive in their non-native regions of the world. However the Ukraine embraces the species as an ingredient in its traditional ethnic dishes. One type apparently is even called Israeli Carp. Google AI dispassionately notes an irony that while native Ukrainian stocks of golden carp are in decline, US interests are allegedly shipping in silver carp stock as of 2026.

    Meanwhile the President of the Ukraine has splashed a video clip to his public social media account. It was no goldfish visiting the presidential office in the person of multi-billionaire Palantir cofounder and CEO Mr. Alex Karp. Wikipedia offers that Mr. K. is “geographically monogamous”. President Z. informs in his posting that “…we are gradually developing cooperation with the American defense sector…”. There one has it; business is booming!

    Separately, “Intel Slava” quotes the U.S. Secretary of War revealing the following for public consumption from the newsfeed:

    “Many high-ranking officials have been there (in Ukraine) and we have received a huge amount of information. In fact, I personally approved additional personnel there to learn from these drone combat operations in both defense and attack,” said Hegseth.

    At least #47 will know where to give credit when credit comes due. Move over, Mr. Secretary and Kid Rock! Make way as DJ George dials in today’s evening serenade with a Bonhamenian musical drum canon from Led Zeppelin II – “Moby Dick”.

  31. Anybody need welding supplies? Kenton County is Covington, KY.

    Auction #4000847 – Lot of Misc. Welding Wire and Stick Electrodes

    https://www.publicsurplus.com/sms/auction/view?auc=4000847

    ‘Looks like at least eighteen 50lb sealed cans of Lincoln 7018s, seven 25lb and three 50lb spools of MIG wire (some bare, some coated), nine 8-10lb tubes of electrodes, and two boxes — probably about 25lb, of coated brazing rod.

    Current bid is $19.50

    I won’t be around to pick it up, so I can’t bid.

    It looks to be about 1600 pounds of welding supplies…

    • Ray, thanks for your various links to auctions and sales. They’re actually helpful, though most such sales are not worth the drive, especially with high gas prices. Some are, and it’s always worth a look.

      • Many of these surplus auction sellers allow a 3rd party pickup. Such pickup is done by contracting someone on Uship or some similar contract shipper, then forwarding the auction award documents to the shipper and the shipper documents to the seller, via E-Mail. Specific requirements vary, so you have to always read the terms of sale.

        It appears Covington/Kenton County Schools does not allow 3rd party pickup, but this auction closes on Tuesday and KCSD is in the office from at least 8a-2p Monday, so one could phone the auction contact and see if an arrangement could be made. Those hermetically-sealed 50 pound cans of 7018s have a distributor cost of over $500 each, which looks like $9000 to me, not even counting the rest.

        So “no,” you can not drive 2800 miles to purchase and acquire these supplies, but with many auctions there are options. If you’re interested, ask…

  32. On the subject of domain walking, there are limits which involve physics and sanity. Not veery kid with a copy of a CAD program living in a third-world village is a structural engineer. Nor is every kid with a chemistry set a process engineer. There are reasons for education, mentoring, credentials and licensing in areas where there are high probabilities of pretenders causing mass casualties. A skyscraper with bad structural design is a potential WMD. Same for a boiler or process vessel with the wrong safety relief valves. There are places where amateurs and angels must fear to tread.
    Right now, the TX Engineering Board has quietly declared war on offshore engineering outfits with unlicensed individuals and firms pretending to be experts and selling services over the web. They will likely beef up enforcement against local scofflaws as well before it is over. Must dot i’s and cross t’s.
    Personally, I have been at war with the pretenders a hell of a lot longer than that. I have to sort through redline comments daily from offshore ass clowns who have limited knowledge of subject matter, and pick through 50 year old customer engineering standard specifications written by people long dead, trying to apply them to systems which did not exist in the day the author lived. Worse than AI BS. The results would be comical, if it wasn’t putting the public at risk, and costing credentialed and qualified American workers their jobs.
    I like innovation and freedom, and I really don’t like the way the US credential systems work at all, but there is a downside to anarchy, and smart asses gaming the system.

    • I respect your right to your opinion, but never the siloing of knowledge. I respect nobody for a credential, though I recognize the effort involved in receiving it. Even the best of credentials are a person’s, or a board’s opinion regarding an individual’s competency. Competency is shown by results. Burt Rutan is such an example. I have no idea what his credentials are and don’t care. Every skill can be learned if the individual has the ability and grit to learn it. Some level of oversight is probably best in the case of large public structures, but never on private property from which the public is excluded except by invitation. It flies in the face of freedom and encourages power aggregation to those who don’t deserve or need it. I visited a dentist to perform a minor procedure and she barely looked at me, took one x-ray, and told me the tooth had to come out. I looked at the x-ray and the tooth looks solid, though it may require quite a bit of work to restore properly. She gave only one option, and there are several I’m aware of. In short, she had her way or the highway. I took the highway. I’ll probably visit Mexico and get options and a much better price and probably better result. I’m no dentist, but have sufficient knowledge to second guess any “professional”. If I don’t have it in some field, I’ll learn enough to make an informed decision. My tooth problem is significant, but I saw very little evidence of competence and a disgust at my choice to not carry dental insurance that she could use to obscure real pricing and limit my options. I could never do dentistry on anyone – I don’t have the vision for it or the desire, but I can read an x-ray and this one was pretty obvious. I suppose I could also submit the x-ray to an AI for it’s opinion, just for fun. I do have many credentials in various fields and some have expired, but so what? They never really helped to get a job or a contract, that’s mostly personal sales skills.

  33. AI is just another friendly cab driver looking to increase tip. Go ahead. Beat me at my own game.

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