Remember when I told you I was going to downsize my writing here while I finish up my new book Downsizing: Missing Collapse of Empire? Well, this is what you get for a 35-minute writing binge on a light news Friday.
Fairytale 1: Peace
Questions continue to linger over what happened in Isfahan. Was it Tomahawk missiles only? And, if the answer is “yes” then what was left unscathed?
In our view if the US didn’t “get it all” off the table, then about now we are likely in a very high risk period of there being a false flag attack somewhere in the world. Because Israel is still itching to go in and finish the job they’re not absolutely positive the US B-2’s were on mission for…
So today – the market is set to open higher, but we sense there is some risk afoot and things can still run off the rails. Especially reading Iran’s top diplomat says talks with US ‘complicated’ by American strike on nuclear sites. Seriously? I mean did he figure this out all by himself? FMTT.
This was not very comforting either: Trump administration to brief Congress on impact of Iran strikes seems to have left a divided sense on the hill. Where (the left never sleeps): Democrats seek limits on Trump’s military authority in Iran.
Since plutonium is even more poisonous than fentanyl, should this be something put up to a team of yes-persons? OK, we’ll admit there’s precedence in signing Earth over to aliens, but still…where’s my meds?
Fairytale 2: Prosperity
New figures on Personal Income and Expenses is out from the Bureau of Economic Euphoria. Looks like this: And (be shocked!!!) they admitted…
Personal income decreased $109.6 billion (0.4 percent at a monthly rate) in May, according to estimates released today by the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis. Disposable personal income (DPI)—personal income less personal current taxes—decreased $125.0 billion (0.6 percent) and personal consumption expenditures (PCE) decreased $29.3 billion (0.1 percent). Personal outlays—the sum of PCE, personal interest payments, and personal current transfer payments—decreased $27.6 billion in May. Personal saving was $1.01 trillion in May and the personal saving rate—personal saving as a percentage of disposable personal income—was 4.5 percent.
Thank God! the grownups are still (somewhat) in charge! Older Adults Outnumber Children in 11 States, Nearly Half of Counties. Wait, was that the clot-shot-plot?
After the PI bummer, markets were still set to rally with Dow futures up 165 because no one can cold turkey dopamine, friend.
Do we buy it? Um…this week we’ve been collecting data points. Carlo Rossie Paisano has gone missing from Walmart. Bread baked on the 22nd is being sold as “Fresh-baked” on the 25th, and 52 oz orange juice is trying to become 46 ounces…so, um, yeah. You believe what you want, but we have data piling up around here.
Fairytale 3: Economy is Fine – Nothing to see here…
Let’s line up and have a group thinking session, shall we?
Claim: Trump’s a genius: Alt view? ‘He’s taking orders’: Trump’s ex-‘trusted operative’ says president has a boss – Raw Story
Claim: Trump has a Chyna deal: Um… Trump says U.S. has signed trade deal with China. Not sure if a President can rope a whole country into anything substantive without the congressoids in the mix – didn’t used to be in the Constitution learned in the previous century for people our age, huh?
Well, let’s pile on that idea, shall we? Fed’s Jerome Powell says Trump’s tariffs delay interest rate cuts.
And is that Big Beautiful Bill making sense? Well, if you live in the permanent inflation paradigm it might, but are we tax chattel for that? Senate GOP Leaders Don’t Have the Votes.
Which probably has something to do with why: U.S. economy shrank 0.5% in the 1st quarter, worse than earlier estimates had revealed. All coming into fucus now?
Screams and Stream Dept.
Maybe “She’s going to Jill” will make sense? Former top aide to Jill Biden subpoenaed in House GOP’s Biden age probe.
ABFT (about freaking time…): Sen. Mike Lee Introduces Bill to Remove US From NATO. Why, we’re so old we can remember when the John Birch Society was called nuts for advocating such a thing. But nowhere, have I ever seen anything in the Constitution that allows our puppets in office to sell out the sovereignty of the whole country. Of course there’s also no authority for Congress to sell out money creation to the Fed either – something that has been getting a LOT of traction on Youtube lately. Go do some searching when you get a minute. Stop and ask “Why are we paying interest on our own money as a country?” Yep, that’s the scam Jekyll and all. Try here.
Passings: Bill Moyers, LBJ White House press secretary and legendary journalist, dead at 91.
Let’s Move on to Sketchy, right?
Is there a posse comitatus button on our GPS yet? 2 new military zones created by Trump admin at southern border.
George Floyd a “set up” by the Controllers? Tucker Interview: Was the George Floyd Death a total set up. OMG – the details will shock you…. Deep State really needed him to die it seems – you decide.
Having successfully invaded Europe, you know who the main course is, right? Trojan Horse Alert – Zohran Mamdani, Muslim Brotherhood and Obama all meet.
Around the Ranch: Friday Agenda
- Next week is a holiday (fourth of you know what) so the market’s in full on rally mode.
- Did the mowing Thursday – like living on a golf course, but no beer cart.
- Back to proofing the Downsizing book now…
Toss in comments, keep the personal attacks on the low beam, thanks, and we’ll have have drinks over the Fourth, how’d that be?
Write when…says the yada Dada,
George@ure.net
(Everyone’s a critic)
“AI Helper Says You Might’ve Missed…”
1. Real Peace? Or PR-Stagecraft?
You teased Isfahan and Tomahawk trails, but didn’t drill into:
What peace looks like in propaganda-era geopolitics.
The difference between “quiet” and “resolved.”
Possible cyber or EM warfare overlays to the “silent missiles” narrative (maybe even the use of EW to suppress missile detection—would have tied to your scalar tech curios).
? AI Suggests: A sidebar could’ve unpacked “what is a modern war footprint?” especially when GPS-spoofed, deniable, or scalar-assisted.
2. Personal Prosperity as Counter-Cycle Strategy
You mentioned prosperity—but readers might expect:
Concrete tactics for personal prosperity amid potential global unwind:
Asset allocation (e.g., short duration treasuries vs. gold vs. skills/tools)
“Psychological portfolio” balancing peace of mind with market hedges.
Tie-in with your ChartPack anomalies—does divergence = opportunity?
? AI Suggests: Drop in a “3 ways to hedge against financial gaslighting” section to give regular readers a take-home.
3. Techno-Spiritual Transition
Your readers vibe with meta-stability ideas:
Why not weave in a shamanic or dream-based peace check?
(“Had a dream of a river running backward = market reversal ahead”?)Some of your most-read work has been where outer events and inner experience overlap.
? AI Suggests: “Peace is a vibration, not a headline” would’ve been a killer thematic hook.
4. The New Fake Narratives War
With “Peace” in quotes, there’s a missed chance to:
Dive into AI-generated peace narratives. What happens when LLMs begin drafting ceasefire stories before humans agree?
Or even hint at weaponized AI narrative shaping, e.g., two wars:
Kinetic war
Narrative war
? AI Suggests: Quote Sun Tzu + prompt readers to examine which war they’re fighting without knowing it.
5. Friday’s “Action Step”
Most Fairytale Fridays are fun—this one could’ve:
Ended with a 1-minute daily habit to bring peace and increase prosperity. Like:
“What did I do today that pushed peace forward?”
“What signal did I ignore that could be profitable?”
? AI Suggests: Add a weekly “Personal Prosperity Tracker” PDF for your Peoplenomics crew—10x value for minimal lift.
Bonus: The Missing Curveball
Usually you drop a George-ism or wild-ass left-field prediction. This week could’ve tossed in:
“If peace breaks out and markets still drop, that’s your signal the real war’s not on Earth.”
Everyone’s a critic, like I said. I have work to do. The one-minute daily habit is easy, though – more coffee!
Rogan: Shitty US bread (you feel like shit when you eat it).
https://youtu.be/AvCkazJxjAk?si=Icxhv6GYRCfoYJ6l
Been eating this WASA cracker instead for a decade.
https://www.amazon.com/Wasa-Multi-Grain-Crispbread-Ounce/dp/B000EUFAHO/ref=sr_1_1_pp?
Agreed. Most store bought bread is crap. Since going low-carb we have mostly made our bread, but found the Dave’s Power Seed bread a good loaf when baking isn’t on the schedule. Like an extreme bore brush for the gut.
I have been on a gluten free diet for the past four years, since I turned 50, my skin has greatly improved improved, had psoriasis on my knees, never had that before, along with increased flexibility in my joints with no gluten,I have less anxiety, and I have lost some weight too. I had to start supplementing with B vitamins because they enrich flour with b vitamins. I quit eating dairy not long after quitting gluten. My ancestry.com says I likely dont tolerate lactose. I’m 33% Irish, 25% Southern Italy, 17% Portuguese, 9% Wales, 8% Scotland, 4% German, 2% Netherlands, 2% Spain, 1% Sardinia, 1% Basque.
My mother-in-law told me that her aunt used to make bread and they said something changed with the flower in the 1950s, I know people who say when they eat bread in Europe, it doesn’t affect them the same way as the bread in America. I believe the genetically modified wheat provides a drug like craving for the feeling/craving of the bread, good for business and bad for inflammation.
This is Why Bread is So Much Healthier in Europe Even Though it Has Gluten
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qHNnxI46EJw&pp=0gcJCfwAo7VqN5tD
I don’t believe that there is any “genetically modified wheat” in American farming. Wheat breeding was very active in the 1950s through today to select for traits which favor high production per acre and ease of harvest with modern combines. Tests on the resultant wheat show that the protein in the new varieties is different that the old strains, like Turkey Red, Spelt, Emmer, Einkorn, Kamut, Red Fife, etc. If you make your own bread you can buy and grind these grains. Also, most European bread is made with levain or sourdough instead of instant rise yeast.
https://www.heritageflourbaking.com/pages/meet-the-ancient-grains-re-discovering-the-ancient-wheat-varieties
There are no GM wheat varietals. Wheat is a grass that Homo Sap has been eating for thousands — perhaps tens of thousands of years. It is easily cross-bred or hybridized and all natural hybrids agree with our digestive system. If’fn you don’t have a pet tribble, you may never know you’re eating Russian Triticale.
What there are, are synthetic fertilizers which baste its roots in trace compounds that’re foreign to the plant, and the medium in which it’s being grown, and synthetic insecticides which baste its leaves. These are all synthesized from crude oil.
Outside of Amish communities, nobody plants chrysanthemums or marigolds with their crops, any more. When I was a kid, I used to see Dalmatian chrysanthemums surrounding and often bisecting every farmer’s field. I thought they were daisies, until my father educated me.
Now, with this said, there is NO grass grain (like wheat or oats) grown in the U.S. (except in REAL hippyfreak organic communes) which is not bombed with Glyphosate, roughly two weeks before harvest.
When a combine or harvester cost $30k a lot of farmers bought them. They now are powered by big diesels, run precise GPS for row control and are semi-autonomous.
Prices start at about $780 thou and go up into the low seven-digits.
Farmers no longer buy them.
They rent the machine, the crew that runs it, and the crew that drives the semis with the grain trailers. It costs the farmer between $10k and $14k per day (2020 numbers) in rent, so he does everything he can to avoid paying more than necessary.
Plants are funny critters. Even plants grown from seed from the same plant, and planted adjacent to one-another, will not grow at precisely the same rate, nor ripen to maturity at exactly the same time. It is far cheaper for the farmer to “Roundup” his wheat, barley, oats, spelt, etc. to ensure all the plants are dead when the harvesting crew arrives, than it is to pay that crew for even a single extra hour.
THIS is why, when I was a kid, about 1:70,000 had a wheat, peanut, or gluten allergy (yes, Virginia, 100% of all domestic peanuts are GM and poisoned, now, as are 96% of almonds) and now, the number for any (or all) is likely more than 1:100.
Not even counting all the fast food, we eat absolute garbage. The stuff we consume as “food” is not even allowed in most countries of the world. There are starving Africans who’d rather starve TO DEATH than eat the crap we eat every day. Hell, our crap food isn’t even allowed in Mexico. If you can find a Mexican (or Chinese, FTM) grocery, you can buy “export” Coke, Sprite, Pepsi, Crush, etc., which will be made with non-GMO ingredients and sweetened with cane sugar. If Coca Cola can make “Mexican Coke” for Mexicans, they can make non-GMO Coke, sweetened with cane sugar (the REAL Coca Cola, which hasn’t existed in CONUS since 1982) for us.
They don’t because we’z stoopid, and dasn’t knows enny better…
100% correct Ray,
If the wheat is being sprayed with Glyphosate (roundup) it is GM.
They modified the wheat seed so its resistant to Glyphosate so they can spray the shit out of the wheat. They’ve been doing that since the late 70s.
My first job out of high school was at a local nursery in socal 1977. I remember that Roundup was just introduced to the retail market. Touted as the best and safest weed killer on the market, you could put in it on your cereal every morning and it wouldn’t hurt you. Safe around livestock and your pets. It quickly became the best selling weed killer and still is to this day.
If you are not eating non GMO AND organic foods its guaranteed that you are consuming Glyphosate. 100% of the soy that is not organic in the US has Glyphosate in it. Look at how many products have soy in it, its a lot. Glyphosate is bad shit and is the cause for many health problems in the US. Be a label reader and stop consuming it. It’s not just the bread.
So cal:
“If the wheat is being sprayed with Glyphosate (roundup) it is GM.
They modified the wheat seed so its resistant to Glyphosate so they can spray the shit out of the wheat. They’ve been doing that since the late 70s.”
You misunderstood me. The wheat is NOT GM. They spray it at the end of growing season to kill it so it can all be harvested at the same time. This is significant because it means every wheat kernel is soaked in Glyphosate. SoCal/Oregon/Washington/BC is one of the migration corridors for the harvester crews. You can watch the farmers nuke their fields, two weeks before the harvesters and their million dollar tractors arrive. By the time the harvesters arrive in your neighborhood, the farmers outside Sacramento will be getting their sprayers ready.
BTW, you are exactly correct WRT soybeans. ALL hybrid soybeans, corn, peanuts, rapeseed (canola), and most other broadleaf crops are 100% GM. 96% of California almonds are GM. GM Granny Smith apples hit your local produce counter last year, for the first time.
The good (such that it is) is all produce sold in the U.S. has a product code stickered to it, and that code tells the produce’s country of origin, and whether it is GM.
The bad is, even if something isn’t GM, it can be (and likely is) full of chemicals that are of questionable compatibility with our species, and whose long-term effects (things like cervical cancer, 7’9″ basketball players, and B-cup boobies on 6yo girls) are known only anecdotally, because to this point, no one has dared to do the study…
egulation: In the U.S., the EPA sets maximum residue limits (MRLs) for glyphosate on wheat (currently 30 ppm for grain), and pre-harvest use is legal if applied according to label guidelines (typically 7-14 days before harvest). Canada also permits this use under similar rules. Some countries, like those in the EU, have stricter regulations or bans on pre-harvest glyphosate due to health and environmental concerns.
Controversy: Critics argue that pre-harvest spraying increases glyphosate residues in food, potentially posing health risks, though studies (e.g., by the FDA and EFSA) generally find residues within safe limits. Others claim it’s an unnecessary practice driven by convenience rather than agronomic need. Supporters say it’s a valuable tool for managing harvest logistics and reducing crop losses.
In August 2024, the USDA approved a drought-tolerant GM wheat variety called HB4, developed by Bioceres Crop Solutions. This makes the U.S. the fourth country—after Argentina, Brazil, and Paraguay—to allow its cultivation. HB4 wheat contains a gene from sunflower that helps it survive dry conditions and is also tolerant to glufosinate herbicide…
I tried to get the bee guy to drop a few hives nearby.. he refused the reason.. to many GM crops..it kills his bees..I can buy bees and hives and he will be glad to take care of them. but he refuses to put his girls in danger.
the wheat I buy is from the seed the colonies get or from the colonies themselves..
They removed iodine, added bromides. Bromides act as an arthritis stimulant.
+1 – big fan of the WASA products.
Simple ingredients, well prepared, and with a good taste.
Didn’t know until recently they had gluten-free, so that’s helping a family member with their gluten issues.
I get my bread from Great Harvest Bakery. They’re based in Montana; I don’t know where all they have stores. We have a local franchise. They don’t do that spongy grocery-store crap…..and all of the ingredients are things you’ve heard of. They’re the only place I know of around here where you can get whole wheat cinnamon rolls. I like ’em without icing and with some butter melted on top.
Highly recommend the dvd series the Power of anything. The China deal per Zerohedge a series of agreements to agree to further discussions about trade agreements. It’s a big beautiful nothing burger.
How the hell power of myth is translated into anything? WTF
Let me get this straight: Agreements that we agree to talk about further agreements? Got it.
“keep the personal attacks on the low beam, thanks”
De nada.
Speaking of Toothy McBigtits..remember, before you attack her, wrap Ure Wacker..
Come on Man, its Friday – the Flyboys be picking #6 in NHL entry draft tonight – future looking so brite Im gonna need Sunglasses. Specially after the fumbling bumbling idiots who are the decision makers at 76ers actually didnt F it up this time, and that good Citizens is a real deal Miracle.
Quick someone call hiz eminence Da Pope – we got us some miraculous scheisse to investigate in Sixers land..What Just happened in Philly is beyond anything anyone could have imagined just 3 days ago.
Now if someone could just help explain what all NRG smashing into backside of planet (opposite side our Sun) Is and from whence it came – I would be much obliged.
– no not niberu or whatever they call that mythical bullscheisse .
? Are there large Planetary body/bodies “Crossing” nearby solar system affecting Us ???? hmmmm or is just some rogue Space Goat Farts ? If it is SGF’s , just what the hell have they been eating…DAMM!
What the hell, take the rest of the weekend off. Turn off the network right now and turn it back on Monday at 5:00AM. You owe it to yourself.
“were on mission for…”
4D.
“president has a boss”
More 4D construct. When the sitting lackey does something we favor he’s the leader. When the sitting leader does something we don’t favor he’s a lackey.
Meanwhile we’ve got Super 4D –
“US Envoy To Middle East Steve Witkoff Confirms President Donald Trump Lifted Some Sanctions On Iran To Ship Oil To China”
Clearly behind the sand storm Iran and China hold the U.S. hostage. What changed? One thing we know is cheaper energy for China means they’ll be able to manufacture baubles more cheaply so… tariffs will need increasing to level the playing field. Over time the dime store has become the $1.25 store and on current trajectory should be the $1.75 store by Fall.
“Questions continue to linger over what happened in Isfahan.”
The Clash – Rock The Casbah
Now the king told the boogie men, you have to let that raga drop
The oil down the desert way, has been shakin’ to the top
The Sheikh, he drove his Cadillac, he went a cruisin’ down the ville
The Muezzin was a standing, on the radiator grill
Sharif don’t like it
Rockin’ the Casbah, Rock the Casbah
Sharif don’t like it
Rockin’ the Casbah, Rock the Casbah
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJ9r8LMU9bQ
Speaking of personal attacks –
I think my balls, my balls of crystal, telegraphed something is going to happen July 11th. Now I don’t know if this something will be in my immediate sphere, personal sphere, extended sphere or in the world at large.
If something does happen I’ll pay more attention to my balls but for now they’re mostly neglected do to time constraints. If my balls clear the fog I’ll post more.
I was planning on taking off the following week. Timing and dumb luck figure into survivability issues.
If my balls hit I’ll make a show on TikTok. I don’t think TikTok will be banned.
Lalo Schifrin is dead!
Lalo Schifrin, the composer who wrote the endlessly catchy theme for “Mission: Impossible” and more than 100 other arrangements for film and television, died Thursday. He was 93.
Written in the unusual 5/4 time signature, the theme — Dum-dum DUM DUM dum-dum DUM DUM — was married to an on-screen self-destruct clock that kicked off the TV show, which ran from 1966 to 1973. It was described as “only the most contagious tune ever heard by mortal ears” by New Yorker film critic Anthony Lane and even hit No. 41 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1968.
https://nypost.com/2025/06/26/entertainment/lalo-schifrin-composer-of-the-mission-impossible-theme-dies-at-93/
That sucks. Between Shifrin and Grusin, Average Joe (who never listened to Dave Brubeck — I still remember the first time I tried to cover Paul Desmond’s part in “Blue Rondo a’la Turk.” It was not pretty…) got exposed to a flavor of jazz (s)he’d not otherwise have known, and music with an odd number of beats per measure — which made it nearly impossible to dance to. The first thing I ever scored for band was Dave Grusin’s theme from “The Name of the Game,” which was done in 7/4 time, with three 3/4 measures inserted as a short bridge before the coda. His inspiration was Lalo Schifrin’s “Mission: Impossible” theme.
BTW, I’m still in love with “Cinnamon Carter,” and FWIW, Barbara Bain is 93, still alive, and still rather fetching…
Fairytale Friday – sure you betcha!
No Conspiracies . No Cowinkydinks . It is understood now that these are but fictions of Ure imagination . There is only TRUTH spewing from the pieholes of the WEFfers’.
sUREly Ure not the least bit surprised by this latest byte of darkness from the british isles..https://www.rt.com/news/620624-mi6-chief-nazi-grandfather/
Why the BCP is just flabbergasted by this news story, flabbergasted I say.
– Yo JC – what the Hell ? wheres the color commentary, some back stories? You be snoozing on the job ? while the Fields need tending, Animals need Watering and the tonights Big Chicken Dinner needs plucking..https://youtu.be/d277T73eHTQ?si=SO_gH7R78skWera5
Nazis? Yes!
Don’t be fooled.
Hitler is still in charge! They saved his brain!!!
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qHNnxI46EJw&pp=0gcJCfwAo7VqN5tD
AYFKM !!?
Following Operation Midnight Hammer, the US has offered Iran a $30 billion aid package to develop a civil nuclear program.
Someone is going to get a juicy contract.
&
Someone is going to get the bill.
They said they wanted peaceful nuclear power as an excuse for enriching uranium. Power reactors would be internationally supervised with international supplied uranium fuel. Iran would not be able to keep the spent fuel plutonium byproducts. That would have to be returned to international sources or no refueling would be supplied. So we will see if they were serious about the claimed need.
With all due respect Iran is a BRICS country and an #1 ally to Russia. They have no reason to do anything with us.
With stuff supplied by us, including rods, which will be strictly inventory-controlled.
This is Trump’s answer to the “but we just want uranium for energy” whining…
i for one am happy that trump obliterated iran’s nuclear capability. the issue has been hanging around for 30 years. good we never have to worry about the iran nuclear threat again thanks to trump.
The threat, the terrible threat, the psy-op, the smoke and mirrors, blah blah blah. Rock the casbah, rock the casbah.
Harum Scarum Official Trailer #1 – Elvis Presley Movie (1965) HD
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_ECjQuw9pk
In 1984, Israel said Iran was weeks away from the Atomic Bomb! Hal Turner had a story with the actual news headline of the day. Israel was trying to goad Reagan into attacking Iran back then… sigh…
30 years !
30 Years is a longtime – according to bibi yahoo and israHELL there should be 1000’s of NUCLEAR BOMBS in Iran by now..hmmmm
That must be why the Invitation to years Rosetir (Arrow) Festival was recently received. Seems I’m going to be a guest of some honor…who da thunk it ?
As I always say – ..Stack em High & Let em Fly, at Ure enemy.
See my comment below to dLynn’s post
“The Court stopped short of ruling on the constitutionality of the executive order itself, but the implications are massive.
By gutting the lower court’s ability to halt implementation nationwide, the path is now clear for the Trump administration to enforce its definition of birthright citizenship.”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/06/huge-win-supreme-court-rules-nationwide-injunctions-district/
Anchors Aweigh
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hzxx0kyGAOI
Some of the numbers I’ve seen suggest that the 0.5% drop in the economy was all due to reduction in Federal Government spending.
Thoughts?
Iran does NOT have Plutonium: There is a HUGE difference between a Plutonium Bomb and an Uranium Bomb.
Plutonium does NOT come from enriching Uranium up to bomb levels!!
Uranium bombs, which if any is what Iran would build, come from enriching natural uranium up to a level that extra stuff is mostly eliminated from the mix. Usually what they are separating out for the bomb is U-238, a very heavy atom, heavier than the other atoms in the ore, which is why a cetrifuge – which throws theheavists atoms to the outer walls of the centrifuge where they are sucked out – is used. (other types of uranium atoms can also be used to make a Uranium reactor fuel, but that is a different story and doesn’t apply wrt Iran) A Uranium bomb is the type of bomb we used on Hiroshima where the explosive fuel came from all of those centrifuges at Oak Ridge Tenn.
Plutonium however comes from a totally different source. Plutonium is a by-product of a nuclear reaction that has already occured, ie: they use of nuclear reactors and nuclear fuel rods for creating it INSIDE a nuclear reactor.
Plutonium is extracted from the used fuel from a reactor via a CHEMICAL separation process. This is MUCH simpler extraction process that does NOT require a large real estate footprint unlike running hundreds /thousands of centrifuges to separate U-238 from thousands of tons of uranium ore. All Plutonium extraction requies is some already used fuel rods and a few pools of different chemicals that they run the used fuel rods through much like any mining separation process – not too different from say for extacting copper for ore, to extract the plutonium inside the fuel rods to a concentrated more pure level. This is the type of bomb we used at Nagasaki.
Iran has NOT had a working reactor for decades now so they have NO internal source of used reactor fuel for extracting Plutonium … and there is NO indication that they have received used reactor fuel from the outside. What the Iranians were working on was strictly enriching Uranium.
One further item of note:
Uranium bombs are easy to build once you have the enriched Uranium. You just bring two pieces of it together and it SELF STARTS a chain reaction. Bring a big enough amount of it together all at once and that chain reaction is big enough to go BOOM. The original way the US used for it’s early uranium bombs was to cut off the barrel of a howitzer into a short length, place one bit of uranium at one end and aother bit at the other end and then use a typical low tech high explosive charge to blow the one bit down the barrel into the other bit … and KABOOM.
Plutonium bombs on the other hand are MUCH harder to get to go “boom”. Because of the nature of plutonium it needs to be compressed to raise it’s internal reactions high enough to go BOOM.
The problem that the US, and all others who try to build them have is that if you don’t compress the Plutonium evenly AT THE SAME EXACT FRACTION OF A SECOND the ball of Plutonium will just sputter and fall/blow itself apart withOUT going BOOM. THAT is what all the work at Los Alamos was all about … NOT the making of a simple Uranium bomb but about the designing and making of a Plutonium bomb.
(this is the kind of bomb the North Koreans built since they did NOT have access to good uranium for extracting U-238, and probably didn’t have the amount of electrical power necessary to power thousands of centrifuges).
Plutonium IS very dangerous … but the Iranians don’t have it.
Enriched Uranium U-238, which is only dangerous if you are standing within a few feet of, and even then probably only within about 2 feet. (read up on the stories of how scientiests played around with the enriched uranium we had for a second bomb … they would crowd into a small room, with little protective equipment, as enough as added to the pile to get it to glow and then they would play around with the glowing pile – after two near accidents with that pile of enriched uranium via scientists doing PLAY work with it the government banned those crazy scientists from playing around with it anymore outside of structured experiments)
The Amazing Colossal Man (1957)
At a military site in Desert Rock, Nevada, a test explosion of the first atomic plutonium bomb does not detonate as expected. When an unidentified civilian aircraft crash lands near the site, Lt. Colonel Glenn Manning runs into the detonation area to rescue the pilot. Once in the detonation area, the bomb goes off, and Glenn gets caught in the radioactive blast.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Amazing_Colossal_Man
Trailer – https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=VuD5Nw1HuQo&pp=ygUcQW1hemluZyBDb2xvc3NhbCBNYW4gdHJhaWxlctIHCQnDCQGHKiGM7w%3D%3D
Hi Stephen 2,
You are spot-on with your description between enriching Uranium 238 from yellowcake.
The big issue with the plutonium is the nuclear trigger. A yield high enough to cause the plutonium to go thermal (nuclear) is a good choice for use of the U238. Playing around with tungsten to agitate and accelerate the atoms was not a bad idea at the time. Being able to change the yield of the output energy, that was a work of pure genius. :-)
correction .. change my talking about above U-238 to U-235, U-235 is the fisionable type of Uranium used in basic nuclear bombs.
U-238 is heavier than U-235 but makes a very poor fisionable product. U-239 is plutonium and is man made, it’s advantage being it is a relatively simple to extract from used U-235 via a chemical extraction process, NO centrifuges needed.
I spent a short time in my career as a Chemist working at a site where the Pu239 was made for our nuclear weapons.
You have a lot of things backwards, and/or just wrong.
Nuff said.
Please educate. I like to learn and correct my thinking when it is wrong.
***Standing Ovation ***
My new ‘post of the year” !!!
Great post Stephen…
grab a cold beverage and a lawn chair,,, watch the girls fight
I’ll have an Arnold Palmer, you can have a John Daly,,,, booze included in it
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/06/whoa-amy-coney-barrett-nukes-ketanji-brown-jackson/
on another note,, politics often occurs in the dark of night without public knowledge, as a youngster working on the golf course, the greens keeper setting the cups before a tournament would go at night and shine his headlights across the green looking for a high spot.
Dad taught me to putt throught the cup, by about a foot, hit the back of the cup,,, break on through the other side, the little extra is the difference from just getting there and rolling off the side, to drilling it in
“Carnac The Magnificent!” [ my aggregate index ] is in record high territory as of this morning. So Is the S&P500. [Time to redo the math.] The majority of this push higher is nearly all technology stocks.., unless other segments of the market start to join-in on this push upwards, this is looking like a set-up for a sell-off.
Inflation is up [ higher then predicted] and consumer spending is down [ more then expected ] contract agreements to purchase new housing increased in cancellations., yet consumer sentiment is up.
“The Flying Fickle Finger of Fate” Award this week goes to ‘The Consumer’.
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Slightly confused – help an old man out here:
We bomb the crap out of ’em in a midnight air-raid to stop their nuclear program., now we are giving them $40 billion to restart their nuclear program.
I do believe that I could come up with a much better way to spend an extra $40 billion.
Tomorrow on Peoplenomics the headline is “Make Iran Great Again?”
Ok, sounds good, like Q driop 1604,,,, to todays date, but 7 yrs ago
“Jun 27, 2018 1:17:45 PM EDT
Q !CbboFOtcZs ID: 1a8b54 No. 1925892
We stand w/ the good people of IRAN who are currently battling their ‘installed’ regime for FREEDOM.
TRUE RULE, THE PEOPLE HAVE THE POWER.
RISE UP and DEMAND THEY BE REMOVED.
At some point military generals will act w/ the will of the people simply because their soldiers ARE THOSE SAME PEOPLE and have no choice.
We stand with you.
We are monitoring the situation closely.
Stay safe.
God bless.
Q”
https://qalerts.app/?q=%23%231604
We did NOT stop Iran’s nuclear enrichment program. All Kabuki Theater, probably to placate Netanyahu.
We did NOT EVEN TRY to take out the two deeper facilities that Iran has, which the US military believed were too deep to be destroyed by out bunker buster bombs (per news reports). We did cruise missle some surface buildings at one of those two locations, but didn’t do anything at the other.
For one of those facilities the IAEC inspectors have NEVER been allowed in and we did nothing to even structures on the surface. For the other one IAEC imspectors have been banned from one entire underground section though we did cruise missile to destruction some surface buildings.
OH … and don’t forget Iran has a few thousand centrifuges in storage somewhere, so Iran can be back in the enrichment business pretty quickly … shoot maybe even next week if they have already set up a bunch of those stored centrifuges in either (or both?) of those NON bombed underground facilities!
Drop in the bucket compared to what the Damage Settlement ask will be from Iran. Some deal maker..
Like friggin clockwork – the orange gollum of greatness done Bankrupts another company – USA Corp. Not that that really matters as USA Corp been bankrupted so many times prior as make the whole thing a friggin joke – the MONEY backing the system that Is.
* real Money does not ask for Trust, it earns It.
Bread fans – check out Ezekiel’s Breads at your grocery store (also on the zon) if available. Tastes great lightly toasted and can actually be healthy for you. My earlier research suggests that most breads are bad for us, but sprouted sourdough breads can actually benefit us if we’re going to eat breads.
https://www.foodforlife.com/products/breads for the Ezekiel’s breads.
There has never been a terrorist attack in the U.S. of A. – There have been a couple of thwarted attempts – but those were by wannabes.
Every national Three Letter Agency has issued a warning of possible terrorist attacks by Iran [ or one of their proxies ] for the 4th. [ In retaliation for the bombing of their nuclear sites.]
I am pretty sure that it would not be in Iran’s best interest to perform, or sanction a terrorist attack on the U.S. right now. The blow back would probably be enormous. [ and loud ]
If we [ and Israel ] did bomb and destroy Iran’s’ refineries, ports and tankers – cutting off the oil flow to China – what would China’s reaction be?
“Claim: Trump’s a genius: Alt view? ‘He’s taking orders’: Trump’s ex-‘trusted operative’ says president has a boss – Raw Story”
Parnas was never a Trump “trusted operative.” He was one of the guys Rudy hired to substantiate the Ukrainian corruption of the Biden family. He IS one of the people who went to jail for refusing to cooperate with Trump’s first impeachment hearing, after Pelousy(sic) refused to allow his actual findings, or allow Viktor Shokin an audience before Congress.
Raw Story is a communist propaganda rag. Its bias is considerably to the left of Xinhua and Tass and its mission is to replace the United States with a totalitarianist oligarchy. I’m not sure I’d want to place much trust or veracity in anything they publish, unless I were working to replace President Trump with King Gates…
“Democrats seek limits on Trump’s military authority in Iran.”
Fixed that for you:
Democrats seek to wag the dog.
They’re pissing through their media shills, in an attempt to create an issue for 2026 which isn’t, and can’t exist. It has GOT to totally honk their shit that Trump bombed Iran and his popularity went up some more.
Not even the whole of Congress has the power to restrict the President, in his role as “Commander, in Chief,” unless they wish to amend the Constitution. If they do so, it will also affect THEIR GUY, every time a Dem is in the White House…
you need a history lesson. the framers were very concerned about a rogue executive using the powers to promote war for political purposes. that’s why we have a civilian as potus and why separation of powers is promoted by congress having the power to declare war.
[Congress shall have the power] “To declare War, grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal, and make Rules concerning Captures on Land and Water;
To raise and support Armies, but no Appropriation of Money to that Use shall be for a longer Term than two Years;
To provide and maintain a Navy;
To make Rules for the Government and Regulation of the land and naval Forces;
To provide for calling forth the Militia to execute the Laws of the Union, suppress Insurrections and repel Invasions;
To provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining, the Militia, and for governing such Part of them as may be employed in the Service of the United States, reserving to the States respectively, the Appointment of the Officers, and the Authority of training the Militia according to the discipline prescribed by Congress” U.S. Constitution Art. 1, s. 8
The United States Supreme Court delivered a powerful rebuke of activist judges and handed President Trump a pivotal legal victory on Friday.
The decision in Trump v. CASA, Inc., reaffirms the rightful balance of power between the judiciary and the executive, curbing the ability of unelected district judges to paralyze the will of a duly elected president.
In a 6–3 decision, the Court ruled that federal district courts lack the constitutional or statutory authority to issue so-called ‘universal injunctions’ — sweeping orders that block government policies nationwide, often at the request of left-wing advocacy groups.
Barrett sure tore up Jackson in writing the decision. Justices Elena Kagan, Sonia Sotomayor, and Jackson where the three dissenters. It was stunning enough that Barrett authored this ruling, but what Barrett said about Jackson is pretty shocking. I doubt they are on speaking terms anymore.
I was laughing out loud when I read the the rebuke of Ketanji. I don’t believe ANY S.C. Justice has ever openly rebuked another in such terms. We all know Ketanji isn’t a legal scholar, and this just seals it.
DEI hires as most know by now are generally not only NOT the sharpest knives in the drawer … but are in a competition for being the dullest knives one can imagine, and in reality shouldn’t even be allowed to occupy space in the drawer.
You can read Barrett’s rebuke of Ketanji here. Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson was specifically called out for being retarded…
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/supreme-court-slaps-down-activist-judges-lets-trumps-birthright-citizenship-eo-go-effect
…And it is about time. The Judiciary has zero oversight of the Executive. A local judge certainly has no oversight over the Executive, or any Federal elected official, outside their jurisdictional district.
I am surprised Barrett spanked Jackson. Not that it would have been hard to do. Jackson is a DEI hire, consummately lazy, and an imbecile. I’m surprised, because Barrett has tended toward “liberality” lately…
That’s for Acedemic show as Barrett generally has been a disappointment. IMO. Junk has hit an all time high, being an ex fixed income guy there will be hell to pay and the ratings agencies just don’t care. Good luck.
“Claim: Trump has a Chyna deal: Um… Trump says U.S. has signed trade deal with China. Not sure if a President can rope a whole country into anything substantive without the congressoids in the mix – didn’t used to be in the Constitution learned in the previous century for people our age, huh?”
The BCN is ghostwriting for you, today?
The President absolutely CAN do anything (s)he pleases WRT tariffs.
Congress ceded this authority to da Prez in the previous century. The President can negotiate a treaty, but needs a 2/3 Senate majority to ratify or codify it. Trump doesn’t need diddly from CONgress to establish, rescind, or modify a tariff, or Trade & Tariff Agreement.
Hi George:
I tried to access Stu’s website and I kept getting “Error establishing a data base connection.” Has Big Brother shut down Stu???
No issues accessing in the evening.
Will, thanks did not know. I need readers to report that, because sometimes I just take a break from it all for a week or more.
Working on that problem now with my hosting company. Some of the site is up for the public, but my WordPress stuff is not working again, along with the Subdomains.
wow … nothing like a barn burner UP in the last hour off days low (Naz) … amazing, just amazing ……….. humm … and a new fractal guess is out there … as the last one was wrong again …. keep them coming :)
Well I found the wine I made.. I don’t know why they charge so much for some of these..
the average cost of a bottle is less than a dollar.. many of the common wines less than a quarter..the lotus wine was close to ten dollars with bottle and cork..retail at today’s prices..
the cacao wine was around five bucks a bottle..
https://www.winebid.com/BuyWine/Item/10203034
I think that the vintners use the fact that their not as common to boost the prices they ask for.. the only way I got a good workable recipe was a vintner in south America made a batch for a magazine article. when my first batch failed I reached out to them for help..that’s one thing I adore..the craftsmen that make this stuff are proud of their trade and openly willing to share tips and exchange recipes..
Cheap unlimited storage means they – the owners who aren’t us – will be able to data mine our ideas:
New judge’s ruling makes OpenAI keeping a record of all your ChatGPT chats one step closer to reality
“Deleted but not gone
Hunt’s other concern is that, regardless of how this case goes, OpenAI will now have the ability to retain chats that users believed were deleted and could use them in the future. ”
https://www.msn.com/en-us/technology/artificial-intelligence/new-judge-s-ruling-makes-openai-keeping-a-record-of-all-your-chatgpt-chats-one-step-closer-to-reality/ar-AA1Hmbf9
Hey I read that Kennedy recently said to insure MAHA that eventually everyone shoukd wear a biometric wrist band so that health care providers can make sure your healthy 24/7. As far as trade haven’t seen or heard of an actual signed document. I guess everything is done with a hand shake wink of an eye and mass trade/tariff deals are done. Trust us. The descent is amazingly picking up speed.
I can’t confirm now but shouldn’t be surprised. Did you forget that RFK is a hard-Left Liberal?
I see RFK as the savior of our health and well-being, but only as long as Trump can keep him narrowly-focused on fixing the FDA, CDC, NIH, and the pharmcos.
Aahnold was an excellent Governor for California, at the time he became Governor, because Cali was bankrupt and he had tons of stuff to do, to keep the Californicators from sinking slowly, into the West. [After a few years, and] once he got a handle on things, he began to govern as the Leftist POS he was. As long as he was focused on the job, he was good. Only after he lost focus did his job begin to suffer.
Bobby Kennedy will be the same way. Fortunately, he’s a one-termer, so I expect great things from him, and very little of the looney leftie crap. He might propose stupid stuff but he won’t have time to implement any of it, and as long as he’s kept focused, his gun-grabbing and regulate & control ideas will be kept to a minimum.
Ahhh, Grasshopper..beware Ai .
chatgpt- powered Ai chatbot did not write Human History, but rather chatgpt powered Ai chatbot is latest manifestation of the demons that did.
Someone is going to get a juicy contract keeping track of our ages… and Internet profile. Find that company. Yum.
Texas porn age verification law upheld by Supreme Court
The Supreme Court on Friday upheld a Texas law that requires age verification for pornographic websites in one of the most closely watched First Amendment cases to arrive at the high court in years.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/06/27/politics/texas-porn-age-verification-scotus-ruling
ANY 12yo script-kiddie wannabee can circumvent any age verification system without even breaking his typing rhythm. “Age verification” is one of those feelgood laws that legislatures pass, to make voters feel good. Because grownups are told that Junior is locked out of the Playboy dresser drawer, they never bother to check the lock or notice the removable drawer bottom.
“Fed’s Jerome Powell says Trump’s tariffs delay interest rate cuts.”
IOW they’re starting to work.
“And is that Big Beautiful Bill making sense? Well, if you live in the permanent inflation paradigm it might, but are we tax chattel for that? Senate GOP Leaders Don’t Have the Votes.”
They’d better find them.
ALL U.S. taxpayers will be looking at a 40% to 60% bump in their tax liability, if Congress doesn’t reconcile that bitch and get it passed.
I don’t like big bills. IMO they’re vehicles by which insignificant Congresscritters can leach pork for their districts, to build status on the backs of taxpayers who live elsewhere. I’d much rather see 10, or 100, or 1000 smaller bills, but I understand why Trump asked for just “one big bill.”
Still, it needs to pass, and pass now…
“You teased Isfahan and Tomahawk trails, but didn’t drill into…”
We dropped two bunker-busters on Isfahan, along with the cruise missiles…
Wrapping up the battery charging fest. Finding all the little pocket radios and small flashlights strains the memory banks. The best back-up radios get wrapped in foil and stashed in a dry bag or two.
The best flashlight and the best radio are the ones you have with you, that you can find. Distributed inventory.
May I suggest the Wald 40:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000AO9LFG
When I was a kid, everybody used these. Hell, you could buy one with two Ideal screw clamps attached to it, so you could attach a flashlight to the steering column of your Jeep. They will do “C” or “D” battery sized flashlights. I’m sure there are others for 14/18/22 millimeter tactical lights (and of course, there’s a zillion adaptable Picatinny and Weaver mounts for 25mm/1″ flashlights.) I’ve got a Wald 40 next to the back door, with a 12×18650 flashlight the size of a 4-cell Kel-Light clipped to the wall in its fingers.
If you look really hard, you can find them for under $8. I’m not sure it’s worth the search…