Might as well get right to the NY Fed’s Empire State Manufacturing number, first today…
“After climbing into positive territory last month, the headline general business conditions index retreated twenty-three points to -11.9. New
orders fell, and shipments edged lower. Delivery times were slightly shorter, while supply availability deteriorated somewhat. Inventories shrank.”
Markets, perhaps still on the bubbly from Monday, were about flat on the report.
The markets are still going up – because this might be characterized (as I think Martin Armstrong did…) as the “crack up boom.”
Well, except not everywhere. Bitcoin was $65,671 when I looked earlier, which is still off the all-time high over $70 thousand.
The metals are holing up well – because we are still spending more than ever. With the official Public Debt to the Penny in the range of $35.532 trillion and actual debt (which includes the promised interest that we can’t welsh on, is over $157-trillion. Making each American liable for $980,000. (Yes, we are all “tax chattel” and no going back peacefully… the term a free people is so yesterday, huh?)
The Great Depression of 2025
Worked several hours Monday – with more coming today – on the Great Depression of 2025 and how we slide into that. (More on the Peoplenomics.com website for subscribers tomorrow…)
The highlights of this morning include:
- The US has no aircraft carriers in the Western Pacific – and this condition will persist into next week. Everything is on the Eastern side.
- We have sent some Raptors (F22s) out west – China Will Freak: The Air Force Is Stacking F-22 Raptors and F-16 Fighters Close By.
- And the other shoe is getting ready, too, as North Korea Blows Up Roads in Ominous Move Against South Korea.
If you’re having a tough time following the concern, put your thinking cap on and see what happens when/if all at once, China takes Taiwan and North Korea takes South Korea.
- We reckon the US markets would loose 60-70 percent of the price over a two month period.
- Hyperinflation (which we’re already nibbling at (looking at you Biden, you Schumer, and you Harris) would be here because U.S. independence and autonomy in world affairs has been systematically squandered by innumerate liberals.
- The Great Depression of 2025 would also come to Europe because with Iran striking Israel, the flight of Israelis to Poland, and the Russian attack on NATO, the whole world will be wrapped up in war which gets in the way of making food, useless apps, and a sustainable future.
We could get into the weeds, like how to get rich stockpiling most-used Kia and Hyundai parts in such a world. But for now, that’d be taken as ravings of a fool. On the other hand, though, some sobering headlines can be found.
On the North Korean risk, the recent South Korean drone probes into the North have been just another way the War Mongers/Neocons are trying to light up WW III ahead of U.S. elections because they can’t have control and Trump in office, so they are pressing hard on the “Harris is leading” paradigm while pulling every trick they can think of to light up global war before the election.
Unfortunately for them, most of the rest of the world (if you read outside of U.S, (effectively) state media is already onto the game. Russia accuses South Korea of ‘flagrant’ violation of North Korea’s sovereignty with drones (hani.co.kr). And yes, ahead of BRICS next week, there’s Putin trying to be band leader.
Lest you think we’re getting a little too worked up over China drill: Taiwan reports record 153 military planes – DW – 10/15/2024, Remember that now we’re talking more than flying machines: China Protests Taiwanese Leader’s Remarks With Mass Naval Drill (maritime-executive.com).
The Brits meantime, who have their hands full (and treasury emptying with Ukraine costs) is whistling in the graveyard as the UK urges China to exercise restraint after military drill around Taiwan, but we don’t think China has anything approaching restraint in mind.
Like us, the Asia Times has figured out that these Latest Taiwan drills show how PLA intends to deter US – Asia Times. And with no aircraft carriers in the Western Pacific for another week, perhaps two, we are in a super high-risk period before elections.
Our key indicator of China taking Taiwan in the window may be any increase in Trump polling numbers. Harris is likely perceived in China as an easier opponent to sit across from than Donald Trump. But as Trump rising in polls going into the election, we’d figure the risks will be rising.
Then there’s the Iran Problem
OK, why hasn’t Israel popped Iran back for the recent missile attack? Trying to figure out how to play the payback game, more than likely. As of today, the official line seems to be that Netanyahu will only strike military targets in Iran, reports say. Naturally (markets hear only what they want to hear) the price of oil has crumbled in the early futures today: Oil prices drop 3% as Israel eases fears of strikes on Iranian oil – Shafaq News.
But would you trust Israel not to pop Kharg Island terminal facilities (anyway) especially when US sanctions Iran’s ghost fleet after Israel attack (ship-technology.com).
Whatever is going to happen could be tonight. Or this weekend. A key leading indicator is already going off as Signal of an imminent response to Iran: Israel begins disrupting GPS signals.
Our sense is that when things “blow” it will come (more or less) all at the same time. When the Israeli attack on Iran goes off, that’d be precisely the moment that China could move: remember, no carriers out West, and the Situation Room’s going to be hands full with Russia.
With these two war fronts going hot – mind you Israel is already kinda busy with fighting in Lebanon and there are still problems in Gaza, Russia has what amounts (tactically) to almost a free lane to swim in Ukraine. Russian forces advance in Toretsk and near 4 Ukrainian villages.
Russia, also, is looking at the “shot clock” now because it’s getting on toward winter and that makes military maneuvers somewhere between miserable and shitty.
Our bushel basket of long-term put options is upside down (for today’s open) but we think the strategic (long-term) view holds water. We’ve lost money before holding a position too long when the facts change. But seems to us that the odds of a Depression 2025 are not going down any time soon. At least before lunch, anyway. This is not financial advice.
Quibbles, Drivels, and Shams
Militarization of FEMA seems to be a historical drift direction, as I told you in Monday’s column. We’re sure you saw FEMA resuming normal North Carolina operations after scaling back due to threat. However the charges seem pretty minor, so far: North Carolina Man Arrested After Threatening FEMA Employees Helping in Hurricane Helene Efforts (thesource.com) We’re not even sure what the charge “Going Armed to the Terror of the Public” means. But in a January post this year, the University of North Carolina law blog explains the charged concept this way (It’s really an interesting concept to explore…):
“Reminiscent of the Wars of the Roses, our Supreme Court’s recent opinion in State v. Lancaster, __ N.C. __, 895 S.E.2d 337 (2023), concerns an offense first codified in 1328 during the reign of Edward III. The common law crime of going armed to the terror of the public, our Supreme Court there held, does not require allegation or proof that the conduct occurred on a public highway; hence, there was no facial defect in an indictment omitting this putative element. Other elements not explicitly stated in the same indictment – for the purpose of terrifying, in a manner that would naturally terrify – were “clearly inferable.” This post examines Lancaster to ascertain the direction of our Supreme Court’s avowed retreat from archaic pleading requirements.”
Question is whether this (alleged, misdemeanor) is going to get traction to militarize FEMA. While we ponder that, however, the tough questions about FEMA financial conduct (and fealty to America’s actual citizens) are mounting as Top House committee launches probe into Biden admin ‘priorities’ on FEMA hurricane relief, migrant spending. One Nation, under whom?
Government Owns Your children now: EXCLUSIVE: Biden-Harris Admin Paves Way For Bureaucrats To Take Gender-Confused Kids From ‘Non-Affirming’ Parents. Doubling down on the woke-joke seems like “a toke too far” this close to an election, but common sense isn’t.
But the Fix is In to Break America: Dem Judge Nixes Legal Bid To Keep Noncitizens Off AZ Voter Rolls (thefederalist.com). Arizona thus becomes the newest state in Mexico, as we figure it. Because in America, only legit citizens vote, at least that’s what reality was when I signed up for this merrygoround almost 76 years ago…
And is Slo the only one with memory issues? Maybe not…Libs of TikTok on X: “New York Times basically admits Kamala plagiarized and there were “lapses” in her book but then blames *Conservatives* for noticing and pointing it out. Unbelievable. Oh, that’s right…we can read. (Wonder if that makes reading, um…you know…racist too?)
And why isn’t US state-controlled media reporting the Appeals Court hearing on the democrat-backed Trump case in NY courts? Karli Bonne’ on X: “This is so good!
Houston Bureau Updates
Here’s a bitter pill to (not) swallow: Walgreens is closing 1,200 stores | CNN Business. We have to wonder how many of those stores will be in small towns of America where there are only one or two pharmacies? More pressure to move to big (more well controlled) cities?
Also on the financial ropes: True Value declares bankruptcy, sell to Do It Best.
Weathering Heights
(With pun apologies to Emily Brontë.)
AL-94 is shaping up in the mid-Atlantic today. 30 percent chance of more blow to go. Meanwhile Experts worry Florida’s 2024 hurricane season could wipeout recent homeowners insurance ‘fixes’ – Orlando Weekly
Here in the Outback we’re studying La Nina is now delayed. Here’s what it means for Texas’ winter. Thursday, NOAA is doing it’s annual winter weather prediction media briefing for reporters. Which means you can look for a ton of “winter weather look-ahead stories this weekend. However, as is becoming clear in the current precip forecast for the balance of the year, the drought may be about to unwind a bit in the northwest and northeast:
Choose your winter tires and travel plans accordingly.
Around the Ranch: Temp Break
This could be IT for the year: Last day with a high temp over 90F. Tomorrow, the temps are predicted to drop to a daytime high of only 70 and down into the lower 40s at night.
As you should be able to tell from the forecast map above, it has been bone dry here, lately. But to every cloud there is a silver lining. Our solar power production with all the sun shine has been dandy. As the temps have come down, the amount of power we are selling back to the grid has been going up…
In this chart, the green bars are what we buy (for about 10.5 cents a kwhr) while the red is what we sell (but at .054 cents a kwhr).
This doesn’t seem right to us – we think that homeowners should be credited for their power generation (back to the grid) at the same rate that the grid sells to us. To make their case, power companies around the country have gone into accounting gobbledygook inventing “avoided cost” accounting.
There’s some logic to the argument that yes, they still have to run a power line to our home…” and I don’t have to pay (as a generator) for the maintenance and operation of those lines. Check. Got that. But, that being the case, what is the $20-buck “Customer Charge” for?
I won’t complain too often. Because we have something that a lot of people don’t have: energy resilience. Toss in a big propane tank, back up heater off that and a dual-fuel genset and we’re in pretty good shape.
As I’ve had time to improve the engineering on our system, the power costs have really come down. But the point is if America was really serious about green, we would demand that all power sell backs be at equal rates. So that if someone who is clever wants to put in a field of panels and sell back power to make a few bucks, why not let them?
Oh…because corporations have more rights than homeowners, maybe? And that by owning the accounting rules, you own the residents? As the FedGov has led the way, tax and labor chattel is all citizens are really good for.
As much was clear in the the movies when we were younger:
“The quote from the 1971 movie Billy Jack is “Tell me, where is that place? Where is it? In what remote corner of this country-no-entire goddamn planet is there a place were people really care about one another and really love each other?”
Once upon a time in America. For now, it’s a one-way street; with only limited “Power to the people.”
Write when you get rich,
George@Ure.net
you might find this of interest George. The political framing may not be to your liking, but it does suggest that the BRICS may not respond to US/ Israel and create an “other” frame.
https://michael-hudson.com/2024/01/predictions-2024/
Great article! If karma really reigns, the U.S. is due for a major wipe-out. Maybe Deagle is right. I’d better renew my passport!
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Violation # 2 – Ure was advised to “Watch the Water”, why even “Qbert” got in on this meme at the time. Well here we are 4 years later and WHERE The F did All the Fresh Water go? Dig deeper, right?
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LMAO, Received $10 in BTC in 2018 for joining one of the exchanges and refering a friend. That value today ? >$100.00.
A far as the yellow relic [note Cramer was only calling it that in years prior to its previous runup to ATH in 2011].
I see weve 10x’ed in the yellow relic as well during that time frame as welled [NOTTED], and Cramer does’nt call gold a relic anymore…………
Ill be trading some digits for the ancient relic, just not yet. Timing is everything.
Think I’ll runout and buy some more symbol Grayscale “BTC”.
If’n this ETP behaves like its progenetor GBTC did during it’s phases as an ETP, then Mars, else, just regular pump.
BTW if your a HOLDr youll be happy to know that this 65K base that weve been forming will serve as the return point of a 90% correction that will ensue here in between now and 2026 IMHO[ call that X] ,
Not advice do your own homework. ~90% of X >$600K , and yes the DOW will hit 100K and Hyperinflation is arriving. Let’s go Brandon!
Got Blockchain?
“We reckon the US markets would loose 60-70 percent of the price over a two month period.’
It’s the old Mexican Standoff because when the U.S. loses 60% the rest of the world will lose 99%. Shedding 60% of market would cascade into the debt market and writing off 50% of the debt would reinvigorate the $ for another generation.
” Walgreens is closing ”
” True Value declares ”
Where do you shop?
For one-off prescriptions everyone goes to $WMT. Maintenance prescriptions are delivered.
The last thing I bought for my house – a shower caddy – came from $AMZN. Lawnmower parts from Ebay.
I do shop at the locals for fertilizers/weed & grass killers – stuff like that.
Yeah, that old Walmart strategy everyone was concerned about years ago has slowly come to fruition. First the mom & pop stores disappeared and now the much bigger names are dropping like flies. Damn shame.
Guess what Bob Talbots told me years ago at True Value when big competition came to town, “Just remember who we are, give your best service and, always smile,” worked for 30 years. Now, those qualities (business attributes) don’t matter anymore … unless you’re a delivery driver. Sad.
Guess going to the store has become too “peopl-ly” for all those folks who (think) they suffer from depression and anxiety. God, what a psyop mindset THAT turned out to become. Geez.
Home Handy Wizards, and assorted other alt. thinkers, this Bud, is for youse..enjoy.
https://substack.com/app-link/post?publication_id=1300039&post_id=150251092&utm_source=post-email-title&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=1kk4yd&token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjo5NDk5ODAzNywicG9zdF9pZCI6MTUwMjUxMDkyLCJpYXQiOjE3Mjg5ODk3NzQsImV4cCI6MTczMTU4MTc3NCwiaXNzIjoicHViLTEzMDAwMzkiLCJzdWIiOiJwb3N0LXJlYWN0aW9uIn0.3OO-YP2v2p9JoYHt2tEPIDSbHiJVJUSQIBWiIHr8tXY
I’ve always been fascinated by Tom Bearden, though his concepts and ideas bedevil me with math and arcane concepts. That takes more time than I have to unravel. I’ve not read the linked substack and would if and when I have more time. I can only hope that others will carry his work forward. My gut tells me that there’s value available to be gleaned.
Thank you; a lot over my head, but I like practicing my swimming ability.
It is ALL energy.
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“The quote from the 1971 movie Billy Jack is “Tell me, where is that place? Where is it? In what remote corner of this country-no-entire goddamn planet is there a place were people really care about one another and really love each other?”
Nostradamus Quatrain X-72
From the sky will come the great King of Terror,
Resuscitating the great King of the Mongols…
EDGAR CAYCE: READING 3976-15 – JANUARY 19, 1934
If there is not the acceptance in America of the closer brotherhood of man, the love of the neighbor as self, civilization must wend its way westward – and again must Mongolia, must a hated people, be raised.
Nostradamus Epistle: Paragraph 23:1
The great Empire of the Antichrist will begin where Attila and Xerxes descended in numbers great and countless…
EDGAR CAYCE: READING 5748-5 – JUNE 30, 1932
…As is shown in that portion when there is the turning back from the raising up of Xerxes as the deliverer from an unknown tongue or land…
https://theageofdesolation.com/nostradamus/2024/09/04/collapse-and-revolution/
(“Here’s a bitter pill to (not) swallow: Walgreens is closing 1,200 stores | CNN Business. We have to wonder how many of those stores will be in small towns of America where there are only one or two pharmacies?”)
A lot I assume.
drive by them all the time.. 5 employees.. three in pharmacy two on the sales floor and a manager..
true value..the same issue.. as prices have been escalating people have been cutting back.. many of the bigger insurance companies have discovered that They can negotiate outside the usa for reduced prices of pharmaceutical products..the same reason the older citizens head to the Mexican border.. or to canada.the pharmaceutical costs are thousands of percent less than at the local pharmacy.
I know what the lease is at the local dollar general.. and I can guess what the cost is for utilities.. eight coolers lights and monitored security twenty four hours a day.
it’s only time.. what does it cost for a store manager and five employees two of them registered pharmacists..
even if they paid them minimum wage you have to turn a lot of products to keep the lights on.. and even if they just had the manager doing all the work the brick and mortar costs are increasing.
remember corporate doesn’t Care about who is affected in the wage Labor bracket they will do anything to justify their wages. if that means chop from the bottom up they will..its the business model.
RENT for the Walgreens, or it’s competitors, is roughly 4x to 6x what Dollar General is paying. Have seen many many leases of both over my time so I know of what I mention
I was on Zocor for several years. I had my prescriptions filled at a local mom & pop pharmacy. It was $187/mo, out of my pocket for that one pill. Over time, the pharmacist and I became friends. He told me he set his markup at a flat 17% no matter the drug, and no more than 100% on bandages and appliances.
About 8-9 months before I came off the statin, the pharmacist retired and his pharmacy closed. Walgreens purchased his client list and shelf stock. The last 7 months I filled that Zocor prescription, I did so at a cost of $1013/mo.
After shopping that prescription to every pharmacy in the area, and not getting a quote below $978, I decided to stay with the Walgreen’s that was just two miles away. It still amazes me that my old pill-pusher, with his one-store buying power, was capable of getting that drug for many hundreds of dollars less than Walgreens (and Wal-Mart, Meijer, CVS, etc.) with their many-thousand-store buying power.
*** NO SYMPATHY ***
/sarcasm…
(“…we can read. (Wonder if that makes reading, um…you know…racist too?”)
Your Caucasian aren’t you.. tben your a radical racist..
the news says it..
https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/22/politics/biden-charlamagne-tha-god-you-aint-black/index.html
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2020-election/biden-tells-african-americans-you-ain-t-black-if-they-n1212911
(” is there a place were people really care about one another and really love each other?”
Once upon a time in America. For now, it’s a one-way street; with only limited “Power to the people.”)
seen it.. I went to the colony to buy cucumbers.. it was as if I had stepped back in time.. the young girls in the canning hut ..no stress .. the neighborhood was nice and clean the kids out playing and enjoying the summer ..
A young couple gets married the colony builds them a house. someone gets sick no worries about if they get sick and. see medical.. Samaritan ministries is attempting to do this for the protestants ..at least make it more affordable..
what is it again China owns how much of the general wage earners loan and credit card debt.. A lot of mortgage low interest centers opened up giving cheap mortgages.. banks sell your loans to them as well.
While the colonies still live as we did in the sixties.. what was amazing is the amount of technology they have incorporated into the colony..
Numbers – Numbers – Numbers
It is so easy to type out; “the markets will lose 60 to 70% of their value in a cascading sell-off over a two month period., and….” and what? Have you actually taken the time and calculator to ‘see’ what would happen in that scenario? “Why., a Depression, of course. What else?”
Imagination can be very useful, but it can also be a cruel and depressing ‘gift’. With just a small amount of knowledge of our current society & stability – you let your imagination run-free – in less than an hour you will get up from your desk, wander outside into the yard and quietly whisper to the night sky – “my god., what have we done…..?”
No modern city in this entire country is, or can be, prepared for a Depression. Once it hits., once the Depression becomes an “in your face reality”., once the thin veneer of civility is washed away by fear and desperation., once the chaos starts, you will not be able to stop it. Mob rule is a terrifying thing to see. And it is a disease and a contagion that literally explodes., it spreads very quickly., very easily. Scared, desperate people do very desperate things. And there are too many in this country that just want to see the world burn.
A hard-hitting Depression., in modern times., in this fractured society., will kill millions.
No question – within the first hours in the outback, all road signs will disappear for this exact reason.
For security purposes, or to sell the aluminum?
The aluminum will be cannibalized, as needed…
Mad Max days are coming, this only a preview…
“Phil Rine has little hope he will ever see his beloved 2015 Dodge Challenger Hellcat again.
Last Sunday, while he was home watching television, two thieves stole his car right from his driveway in Deer Park, New York.
Ring camera video shows one person breaking the passenger window, climbing into the car through that window, and putting the car in neutral. While one person steered, another pushed his Hellcat to the street.
Rine ran downstairs and opened the front door, pleading with them to leave the car. It was 10:45 at night.
“I started yelling at them, ‘Leave the car alone! Leave it alone! They didn’t even look at me. They didn’t even flinch,” recounted Rine.
Once the car was on the street a white SUV appeared and pushed his car away. Phil says it was a Mercedes SUV. They were able to steal the car without ever turning on the engine to his car. He called 911 and cops showed up in minutes but it was too late. ”
https://www.nbcnewyork.com/long-island/leave-it-alone-long-island-homeowner-has-dodge-challenger-stolen-while-he-pleaded-with-thieves/5887241/
How did they free the steering lock so easily?
Dent puller (slide hammer) or a drift. The dent puller has a really hard screw-end. 2-3 turns into the ignition switch and one bang with the slide, and the lock is out. Reach in, press the button and the shift lock (and steering interlock) are freed. Alternatively, there is a little plastic or rubber plug on the bottom of the steering column. Remove the plug, insert a drift. Pushing up presses the same button as popping the lock.
I had a Ford I had to drive using a drift, for several weeks. FoMoCo routes the logic for the interlock through the brake light switch. If that switch, the lighting control module (embedded 486 POS), or “multifunction switch” (turn signal / wiper / cruise switch/stalk) goes away, so does one’s ability to put the car in gear, and like damn’ near every other car part, is on back order, so your trip to the stealer entails merely making an appointment, several weeks or months out, to replace the toasty bits, once new ones arrive.
I don’t know. And how did they…
“They immediately disabled the tracking,” explained Rine. “There was nothing that was able to be done at that point.”
I’m so glad I don’t live in a communist State…
Our Ford 250 Diesel 4×4 Quad cab, beautiful, well-maintained truck was stolen from the back of our shop.
The truck was parked at 6:30 a.m., obviously, we were shopped/scouted during the day, and they had it stolen at 10:20 p.m., later that night. They had another truck and car with them.
THE BIGGEST BLESSING was hubby missed catching them by ONE minute as he would have been unarmed and unprepared to defend himself. (I replayed the video cameras.)
The police said that they are MOST LIKELY packing and they would have killed him if he had come up on them stealing the truck. (A man was killed in front of his house trying to stop a man from stealing his vehicle, earlier in the year.)
The truck was found TOTALED less than a week later due to the criminals running from the police.
The police found a phone, and many other forms of being able to identify them but chose not to pursue them so the criminal cabal will still run amok.
Texas is a hot bed for stealing vehicles: Dallas/Houston/Austin.
I no longer have any sympathy/empathy/compassion for any BROWN person coming into our country to “make a better life for themselves and their families.”
The Mexican/Venezuelan Cartels are killing/maiming/raping/stealing from/assaulting/and murdering the American citizens.
They also STEAL from us so that we cannot support our families.
This is an absolutely armed terroristic insurrection into our country and it is aided and abetted by OUR GOVERNMENTS (FEDERAL, STATE, AND CITY).
Trump was interviewed and he said: The FBI was able to unlock the January 6th American citizens phones very quickly and used them to pursue charges against them.
NOT ONE of SIX phones used in the TWO assassination attempts on his life have been unlocked by the FBI.
That tells you how corrupt our FBI/CIA/Secret Services are.
The Country is ON LIFE SUPPORT; enemies from within have toppled it.
“The Mexican/Venezuelan Cartels are killing/maiming/raping/stealing from/assaulting/and murdering the American citizens.”
This 15-year-old migrant was recruited by the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua, and is now part of an underaged brat pack calling itself “Diablos de la 42,” or Devils of 42nd Street.
The teen is part of “Los Diablos de la 42” — Spanish for “Little Devils of 42nd Street” — a crew of about 20 young migrants targeting locals and tourists alike in armed robberies around Times Square and other parts of the city, according to sources.
The youngster crossed the US-Mexico border at Eagle Pass, Texas, in May 2023, according to federal immigration sources.
https://nypost.com/2024/10/15/us-news/meet-one-of-tren-de-araguas-troublemaking-little-devils/
Even the Networks are bringing up that the DOJ and court systems are letting these guys loose without any crimes sentencing at all…
Are “Denver Boots” beatable ?
If I had a high value car or even one that was ranked in the high theft column , I would put one of those on a tire.
I often have both a cutting torch and a 4″ angle grinder with a Carborundum cut-off wheel in my toolbox.
With that said, if somebody had an $80k Dodge I wanted to steal, I’d just bring a wrecker and a carriage dolly…
Reminds me, I was messing around on farcebook today and, someone in Northern Indiana (Huntington, maybe?) has a McLaren cabriolet (didn’t know they made any) for sale, for $115,000. That’s about $125k per year in depreciation, which is quite impressive…
Did you see the news. they took money away from the police and branded all Caucasians as racially discrimination.
now with gangs seeing their neighborhoods taken over by illegal refugees and gangs there.the local gangs are going after them..chaos is coming and..that could break down into total social discord.
they are robbing the FedEx and shipping containers..with the abandonment of the needs of the taxpayers and shoveling all the money at wars and illegals..this I fear will escalate..I think they see this to..that’s why are authorizing lethal force.
prime opportunity for the enemy army within the borders to take it to the next level.
well that’s one way to get votes.. if your a black man and want to get your free million dollars..vote Harris..
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/10/14/harris-forgivable-loans-legal-marijuana-trump-black-voters.html
So Kamala is running as an out and out racist, huh?
Not much of a lawyer either if she doesn’t know what Equal Protection means.
Be-ahtch
After jailing 1,000’s of black men for pot in Cali and even keeping them jailed after their sentences ran out for cheap labor….
AND doing the same with “working-class poor” when their kids skipped school…
That is exactly why they hate her ass out there on left coast. After spending her whole career locking up black men on small possession charges, she in Ure face takes the extreme other side of what she built her DA rep on..PERFECT execution of the HCM (Hypocritical C U next Tuesday Manuver).
Im begging for some MERCY here – a COURTESY FLUSH please. Talk about a coiled up brown snake.
I have a cousin that is begging me to vote for her…
Now I don’t want to sound racist but she is the dumbest thot in the bunch.. how in the hell did someone like her obtain the positions she has held is beyond me.. if she is the smartest on the left coast than that area sucks the big one..
“Now I don’t want to sound racist”
Then simply don’t be, and ignore it when someone calls you one. You know you — they don’t.
Cammy has an IQ of somewhere between 90 and 105. She could be of slightly above average intelligence, but is certainly not much above the statistical mean for contemporary humans.
I am not referencing her sexual proclivities to be insulting. I am stating facts. She grew up in Berkeley (not in Oakland) as a morally casual little girl, next to a college campus.
I’m quite curious about grid tie. When you sell back to the grid, you get a wholesale price, and when you buy from it you get a retail price, but what of the hundreds of kilowatts you actually use at home? Is that simply unmetered and “free”, or is it first sold to the grid at wholesale and then bought again at retail to run your household? This question has been obfuscated to death by the utilities and those pushing solar. Some jurisdictions require two meters rather than one. Does the second meter take the entire output of the solar system and send it to the grid? Or does it only take what you don’t use at home? If the latter, how does your system know when it has excess power after household draws? The simpler one meter system presumes net metering unless that meter records each directional current flow separately.
At least one inquiring mind wants to know these things!
I get free use of the local power and only meter it when it rolls into the grid for sale.
I typically in sumnmer save $300-400 a month on power with my solar. Texas would be uneconomic without solar – we’d go back to a sailboat
Hi, George,
How much do you have in your solar system, and what do you reckon is your breakeven point?
Has it happened yet, or any projections?
Thanks.
I bought three kw when they first allowed them to sell individual inverters per panel.. my total cost was two hundred and fifty plus instalation..
you can pick up a twelve kw system for about ten grand give or take it up a little bit.. after rebate you would have about six grand give or take in the system plus install.. I offered to give my son in law all the stuff he needed to put in a three kw system except solar panels.. the cost would have been under a thousand .. he turned it down…
Somebody — anybody — with better knowledge of current doctrine can adjust this, but…
I thought the grand strategy behind owning big aircraft carriers was to own 12 or 18 (?) under the concept one-third would be deployed, one third would be under long term (sometimes years) repair, retrofit, upgrade and renovation. and one third either in-port, or going to or returing from deployment — but essentially “ready.”
The idea was (I thought) to have one battle group on duty in each of four or six general areas — The Med, Atlantic, Asia and a couple of other possible hot spots.
Izzat no longer the deal?\
73
Schumer and the dems
I refuse to Sell power back to the GREEDY bastards – F-them! I went and purchased a Bitcoin Mining Machine – that is how I utilize the excess, free juice in Belize.
Also – see the new gen Smart Switches – program those suckers to turn on and off at peak and non peak hours. They know when is cheapest to run the electric clothes washer and such.
Selling solar power to the grid is an obvious rip-off. My leased SunRun system only sells 1kW of power PER MONTH to the grid. Just to keep the accounting trick alive. I use the rest in-house. Latest figures: I pay Hawaiian Electric $0.51/kWH for grid power. My solar system lease fee gives me power for $0.26/kWH (depends on sunny days)
Count your blessings, Oh ye in the lands of cheap power!
North Korea showing some anger …
https://apnews.com/article/north-korea-roads-destroys-drones-south-0672f5baf033cf0c4ecb2f1e1b958a41
They are blowing up all the roads leading into the South.., are they not, at the same time, crippling their own entry points to the South – their own invasion routes?
Dont look now, but the Ruskies were joined at hip with ChiComs during naval drills yesterday around Tieoneon.
Putining the NUKE in nuclear aggression towards USA
Walgreens is closing 1,200 stores
7-11 is closing ‘a lot’ of stores – no number given right now.
Frontier Airline pilots prepare to strike.
Boeing to raise billions and lay-off thousands more.
.., but
Apple and Nvidia hit record highs.
Mega banks are reporting record profits
Saudi Arabia is threatening to flood the market with excess oil., collapsing the oil trade/markets. Oil dropped 4.75% on the threat/news.
.., and
I have a question, or two
I read about the mob raiding the railcar in broad daylight – 1] How did this mob know that, that particular box car was loaded with flatscreens and that it would be stopped at that exact place., for how many hours ? How did they know this? Sounds like an inside job to me.
The second question: What happens when this same kind of “insider information” is leaked to “the mob” on a rail car filled with pistols and rifles being shipped to the west coast distributors ? All of the major weapon’s manufacturers are on the East Coast – they have to get them to the West, somehow. Right? What would that do to rail yard security and safety? Just how much of a blow-back would that kind of raid produce ?
Ure # 1 – is how I used to score all kinds of “discounts” on brand new goods – had a connection back in the day when working options floor of philly stock exchange. Scheisse came straight from rail yards in south philly, and I had no problem with it, none. Same guy was connection for bootleg M80s, red – fuse came outta top.
My main Man over on the Currency flr – always coming over to our post to talk positions with my mentor – always said he could get us Anything. Today that cat is head of the largest crime family in Pennsyltucky – No Shit.
I don’t know if the raiders know what is in a specific container. Chance says there’s something valuable in any container. The operation I have seen on video is a standard crew-change point stop on the railroad. It leaves the length of the train extending back thru an industrial area with plenty of access and cover and escape routes for the thieves. They seemingly pick a container at random. As the railroad gets wise to this operation, they will have RR cops standing by in the area during crew change operations. Or they will change the crew change point so the train does not stop at the expected place.
Trains are so long now for container trains (2 miles out west up to 4 miles) that there are only a few places that they can stop that are “height neutral” and the train won’t start moving on it’s own if the brakes stop working.
That means that they really can’t change the location of the “Crew Change” if they are going to do it in that general location (say within 30 miles), or also in a general time frame … unless they start rotating crews off before their shift has ended (which of course the RRs don’t want to do since that raises their Labor Costs).
The crew change operation can be as short as 10-15 minutes, so the thieves need to be fast and get off the train as it starts moving. Sometimes the trains stop at a known signal for an unknown… sometimes short… period of time. As the trains progress along a known route, one can often see container doors open and flapping as the train goes along. Equipment detectors along the route will sometimes warn of this danger, and if a detector alarms, the train will be stopped and crew will access the train and close container doors that have been raided.
I’ve learned a lot of this watching live feeds of the Tehachapi Pass, the busiest single track mountain pass in the country that handles over 1000 trains a month, and chatting with old-timers and RR personnel on the video links.
https://www.youtube.com/@TehachapiLiveTrainCam/streams
There’s a youtube channel “RanOutOnARail” about someone named Owen trainhopping freights all over the USA. It’s highly illegal, of course, but just watching it on youtube is legal. There’s some incredible views of the countryside that you’ll never see from a road trip. More importantly, you can see views from trains in places that may be local to you as an aid in moving about when limited by roadblocks.
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=rode+out+on+a+rail
Caution: This is a major time sink!
How far can it go?
UCLA is being sued for ‘not’ hiring illegal immigrants.
In some cities in the U.K. it is against the law to ‘not’ say hello to a fellow colleague.
In Afghanistan it is now against the law to draw, paint or photograph & publish ‘anything living’. And the “Morality Police” will be checking your cellphone at random., at any time. This includes birds, trees, fish, flowers, cats, people, horses.., everything ‘living’.
Holy green waves of macro bullish trends,Gpops. Just got phantom candle -purple on the BTC chart = Long Term Bullish signal. Rare burd,that.
Backemup the Truck. Where’s the cosmic chicken bunny when you need to pick up a Big LOAD- 10,9,8,7…3,2,1 We have LiftOff.
Trader ? Restricted jurisdiction? See Blo-fin…
Not the price,it’s the Time..
But but but , solar is the savior ! ( ask Germany what they think about that )
My neighbors on each side got into the solar business. I had one question. Why are you buying back electricty that YOU generated ? Youre selling it for cheap and buying it back at an enormous profit. Sell youre extra only.
Also , out here in the DPRK ( Democratic Peoples Republic of Kalifornia ) We love solar. It is encouraged. Makes you a good “egg”. So why is it that every single new housing complex that goes up has no solar ?
( off to the side I also wonder how we have water for these new units but everyone else is supposed to CONSERVE CONSERVE CONSERVE )
cost of business operation..
The average annual compensation for the head of a utility company, or CEO, typically ranges from $6.5 million to $27.8 million
. The median compensation is around $12 million
. This is comparable to the compensation of executives at other large firms
not counting what the linemen make..and all the equipment they have to work with.. when I worked country the linemen started out at twelve dollars an hour a long term experienced line man made around twenty.. that is many times more than that now.. the guy that took my place only is making thirteen dollars an hour..
that is why they give out mansions to doctors and get rid of the kitchen and housekeeping staff at hospitals.. the cost of the operations has to start with the most important of the bunch the guy with the pencil..
Google is adding nuclear plants to its seemingly ever-growing portfolio. The company has partnered with Kairos Power to back the construction of seven small nuclear reactors in the U.S. It’s the first agreement of its kind.
The first plant is expected to come online by 2030, the company announced in a blog post. Other reactors will be deployed by 2035. All totaled, the deal will funnel 500 megawatts of power to the company’s AI technologies—enough to power a midsize city.