TL;DR: Which war will pop first? We update the betting line. In the Caribbean, Jamaica’s Blue Hills are in trouble as Melissa (5) slams in. At the ranch? A return to “traditional timekeeping.”
War Pops
We keep a list, check it twice, but we have an idea who’s naughty – not nice.
South America is being treated to U.S. Monroe-Doctrine replay as Venezuela claims capture of CIA group, accuses US of plotting ‘false-flag’ attack. Maduro, meantime is playing hardball with neighbors who open ports to the USN: Venezuela Denounces the U.S. for Docking Warship in Trinidad and Tobago.
For now, no sign of progress toward defusing this one.
Trump’s Upcoming Xi meeting – likely to focus on the trade of rare earths and Taiwan for access to the American consumer market – is rolling along as expected. Reader Ray spotted a good overview of what’s working in While you watched TikTok, the United States just executed the greatest economic coup in human history. China controls 80% of rare earth processing—the neurons of every weapon system, smartphone, and AI server on planet Earth. But we’re struggling back.
Clocks are ticking down for Iran. Yet, the local media is claiming Iran Establishes Itself As A Missile Superpower Through Advanced Precision And Hypersonic Technology.
Israel isn’t trusting Turkey. As Israel blocks Turkish role in force overseeing Gaza ceasefire. Which makes total sense in the “Turkey “plays nice” to pre-position forces for later use against Israel” way.
Carrot and stick for Russia. Trump has dialed down the rhetoric – managing to insult Ukrainians in the process. Trump says Tomahawks are “too complex” for Ukraine, rules out US training for the advanced missiles. Like western biolabs were too complicated for ’em, too? On the other hand, Russia accused of violating NATO country’s airspace, causing jets to scramble. Let me see: Spanish jets, protect NATO, for an 18-second incursion over Lithuania while Poland is the next likely front… got it!
Keep an eye on the internet – that is the soft underbelly for WW3. There was a little-played story last week (Royal Navy destroyer shadows Russian warship in ‘historic first’ under Nato command) which we think means Russia may have sub-launched drones that could attack undersea data lines. No internet? No civilization. Got plans?
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Someone is changing his tune? Bill Gates Says Climate Change ‘Will Not Lead to Humanity’s Demise’ – The New York Times, Ah, but now the difficult ponder: Do you trust the NYT or Gates?
Change your passwords! Millions of Gmail passwords stolen in massive data breach. Welcome to the 2-factor world, kiddies.
Russian undersea drones likely, massive data hacks? Why, it’s almost like our “how to prep for the end of the internet” is going mainstream, huh? Oh look! Could the internet go offline? Inside the fragile system holding the modern world together.
And look down – deep – and tell us what you see: UFO tracker shows thousands of eerie underwater objects lurking along US coasts. From here? Off planet? China? Place your bets… (check ’em for cookbooks – an old Twilight Zone reference…)
Jamaican Blow
Every picture tells a story, don’t it? (You do remember, right?)
For now, Melissa is the only thing on tracking, but it’s that time of the year…
Here in East Texas, we had some pretty good rains in the past week. We had about 7-inches here and up the road in Tyler, 5.44 inches since the 23rd,. With semi-officially over 51-inches for the year (and we run about 10% high than elsewhere) not much chance of drought for a while. Burn bans came off first thing Monday, too…
Looking Ahead
Fed meeting starts today. That means a rate decision (lowering a quarter is widely expected) will pop tomorrow afternoon.
Market delirium continues, too: Early futures point to the Dow climbing 200 at the open. Gold (last week’s darling) has been slammed under the $4,000 level and silver is trying to hold above $46 – a far cry from last week at this time. Bitcoin has been around $114,340.
The real question? When will GovDown end? We have had a small wager on the first of November – because the pressure is starting to build on the Party That Can’t Think Straight (dems). Government shutdown live updates as Vance set to meet with Senate Republicans -but don’t hold your breath waitin for progress. Dems wont pass a “clean continuation” because misery is their stock & trade. In Washington? The House remains eerily silent as the shutdown drags on. Not that they get much done, either.
Ever wonder why bars don’t open earlier?
Around the Ranch: Chrono-Fence & Sidereal Stump
We have some pretty neat conversations. Every afternoon, 4 PM, it’s “wine time” in the 180 (degree view) room.
Monday we were chilling – after our Monday call with the Major and his Mrs.
Elaine looks at me and asks, “What time do you think it is?”
I told her – then checked with Alexa – I was two minutes off.
“How did you do that?”
“You mean tell the time within a couple of minutes? Allow me to explain…”
I then launched into a perfectly useful discussion of how to tell time using “natural means.”
There’s a shaft of light that comes through the tall pines and casts a shadow on a particular part of the old cedar fence that marks the edge of a power line right of way. I noted the time once and ever since, adjusting for changes in day length, I’ve been using that as my visual clock reference. Moves a couple of minutes a day, depending on time of year. That’s the “Chrono-Fence.”
The other? Well, remember a while back I cut down a big elm (or was it larch?) that was in the middle of the front yard and working its root system out toward the septic? Well, it had to go.
The remaining stump, about 2-feet worth, has been spared so far because somewhere in my head, there’s a mnodel being built of a sidereal time piece. The Sixdereal Stump.
Some people – looking out the window – will just enjoy the view, watch the deer wander through, the remaining cats frolic and hunt. But me? Always data collecting.
Maybe it was that old Chicago song from the 1970s – Does anybody really know what time it is?”
The answer since sailing days has been simple.
Yes.
Write when you get rich – or back on schedule,
George@ure.net
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Yeah yeah yeah, but what Time is it on the other side of the SUN ?
Duh-oooh!
U bee in “fake time” – a protective Time “bubble”.
– The real question is WHO is being protected by putting/keeping Earth in a protective Time “Bubble” ?
* This aint Ure parents Twilight zone.
I noted yesterday a small rainbow in another room from a window sill prism appears in a mirror I can see from the sofa at 1:07. I am going to try and see it again today.
Hey George,
I would love some of that $6 silver!
Something wicked this way comes..
-https://youtu.be/cSEA18UsNXc?si=6ApRfQZMykEb03d_
Mooo!
There are several places in the USA that have been kept quiet about the VAST rare earth mineral deposits, I would not know about these except for knowing the people who found them and then were asked to never divulge there existence. FACT! NOT: these were/are private companies so I don’t know if this info is known to the feds or not.
You can go to either the White House information site or Lee Zeldin’s page and find out about a lot more places, how the Trump Administration is preparing to mine them as I type, and without using child labor…
“You unlock this door with the key of imagination. Beyond it is another dimension—a dimension of sound, a dimension of sight, a dimension of mind. You’re moving into a land of both shadow and substance, of things and ideas. You’ve just crossed over into the Twilight Zone.”
So, over time fewer active managers remain and most investing models, for pensions, corporates and retail are … run by the Bot. The virtual managers know each other, compete and yet each invest in … tech and AI Bots. If enough mojo (do$h) gets in play it could matter, hey?
Nah. We salient beings will never surrender actual decision making to virtual regurgitation of what we are (per scrapers, gobbling goofy content from volunteer medium ex: Reddit, FaceBook, etc). Or, did we already?
ATL : Life feels small with no rigs standing past the waterfront. George chides me for being a puddle sailor. Truly I’ve done it all excepting LT life aboard. Oceanic blue water crossings are kewl. High speed dinghies are better.
We choose to sail and sail fast!
Higher faster baby.
~ Egor ~~
Try though I did in some really challenging winds on the Straits, I could never get the old Hunter 40 to even rise up on step, let alone a full plane. But Egor sounds Truth when such things as an 18 ft Geary designed “flattie” can rise tackibng downwind (“Pull the board!”) and thus leaving the old monohull live aboards slowly wing-on downwind. With the cute blonde, comfortable jazz, diesel heat, sandwiches and a cup of hot chicken noodle, autohelm driving – watching the Flattie drivers and wondering “How can they get off a plane and remain dry in the process?” Plenty of time to sheet out before a knockdown or the seniro sized craft.
Warm up on the soup, Admiral?
“eerie underwater objects lurking along US coasts.”
Did Trump ever tell what the eerie sky objects were, or release the JFK files? How’s he coming along on fluoride…. His brain may be warped from those Vaxxes he keeps taking which are sometimes a hoax, like Epstein.
” Venezuela claims capture of CIA group”
Soon normies will be strung-up down there.
“access to the American consumer market ”
Notice the speed of rising prices in the American Motherland. The accumulated dollar collection China has must grow at the same value rate for them to remain even otherwise the effort to keep accumulating dollars diminishes.
I posted the linky to Germans wondering where their machinery market share is going as Germans pull one over on their neighbor by buying Chinese machinery.
Trump dumping illegals/migrants exposes the U.S. as a mature market. All that’s left is inflation Vs say new highways connecting new cities.
What happened to McConnell?
We have rare earth minerals everywhere out west and back east, in about the same places the coal, oil, and gas are.
Our EPA has made it their business to keep all of them in the ground, most lately for “Climate Change” which George noted even Bill Gates is abandoning.
We are starting to wake up to this but mines and ore processing are long lead items, longer than a 4 year Presidential term.
Hey George — Here’s your synch-wink:
For nearly two decades I have been collecting the physical evidence of America’s soul. Documents. Letters. Artifacts. The true story of who we are. That library is now the third largest private collection of founding documents in the world.
We have digitized it to create the first independent, proprietary, AI-driven American historical library, complete with its own librarian.
We call him George.
https://x.com/glennbeck/status/1983159970896949680
You can’t make this shit up!!
Oversight Committee Releases Report on the Biden Autopen Presidency
WASHINGTON—Today, the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform released a staff report titled “The Biden Autopen Presidency: Decline, Delusion, and Deception in the White House.” The findings reveal that as President Biden’s condition deteriorated, his aides exercised presidential authority and facilitated executive actions without his direct authorization, including misusing the autopen and failing to properly document decision-making processes.
Executive Actions Signed by Autopen deemed Invalid.
https://oversight.house.gov/release/oversight-committee-releases-report-on-the-biden-autopen-presidency/
The most important piece of news no one will hear on TV today…
stuff blows as the hurricane approaches,,,
we readily accept the calm in the eye of the storm ,,, but scoff at the hollow Earth theory, physics is physics, except when the scientists saw otherwise,
storm watch, as it hits Jamaica, nice eye, not so nice outside of it
https://x.com/RyanMaue/status/1983200550943633894