We told you we didn’t need to lower rates – because there has been no decrease of inflationary pressure. We sure haven’t see any – have you???
But this isn’t about Main Street – it’s about Wall Street and more free money for the rich!
“In support of its goals and in light of the shift in the balance of risks, the Committee decided to lower the target range for the federal funds rate by 1/4 percentage point to 3-3/4 to 4 percent. In considering additional adjustments to the target range for the federal funds rate, the Committee will carefully assess incoming data, the evolving outlook, and the balance of risks. The Committee decided to conclude the reduction of its aggregate securities holdings on December 1. The Committee is strongly committed to supporting maximum employment and returning inflation to its 2 percent objective.”
So, with a bunch of hot IPOs coming up? And as tariff hikes work through the pipeline, we will all be able to sleep well tonight, knowing that America’s rich are in good, mollycoddling hands…
About all they did was announce the free money free money party for the rich will dial back…but they have a month to get ready for it. Oh, those poor dahlings…
Sheesh!
~Ure
Wall Street (1987)
Bud: Tell me, Gordon, when does it all end, huh? How many yachts can you water-ski behind? How much is enough?
Gekko: It’s not a question of enough, pal. It’s a Zero Sum game – somebody wins, somebody loses. Money itself isn’t lost or made, it’s simply transferred – from one perception to another. Like magic. This painting here? I bought it ten years ago for sixty thousand dollars. I could sell it today for six hundred. The illusion has become real, and the more real it becomes, the more desperately they want it. Capitalism at its finest.
Bud: How much is enough, Gordon?
Gekko: The richest one percent of this country owns half our country’s wealth, five trillion dollars. One third of that comes from hard work, two thirds comes from inheritance, interest on interest accumulating to widows and idiot sons – and what I do, stock and real estate speculation. It’s bullshit. You got ninety percent of the American public out there with little or no net worth. I create nothing. I own. We make the rules, pal. The news, war, peace, famine, upheaval, the price per paper clip. We pick that rabbit out of the hat while everybody sits out there wondering how the hell we did it. Now, you’re not naive enough to think we’re living in a democracy, are you, Buddy? It’s the free market. And you’re a part of it. You’ve got that killer instinct. Stick around, pal, I’ve still got a lot to teach you.
Lying liars love to lie… right ?
In another one of Ray s’ make believe events – Mother Russia test the nuke mole..Hear C 4 Ureself-https://www.rt.com/russia/627099-poseidon-underwater-test-putin/
More make believe ? Sure, why not, here is moar footage of that make beleive/faked nuke powered hypersonic ICBM, enjoy the show -https://www.rt.com/russia/627093-russia-burevestnik-cruise-missile-footage/
why, why, why LIE ?
?couldnt help Ureself ?
Another personal attack?
For shame.
I strongly suggest you back off the hallucinogens. They’re clouding an otherwise fine mind.
The missile isn’t hypersonic. It is subsonic — travels at ~570mph. You have the numbers — do the frickin’ math.
It is of no practical use as a weapon. It is of huge practical use as a propaganda tool.
As for the Poseidon, it was I who postulated that Russia would have one off each of our coasts, and did the tactical forensics to determine where they’d likely be placed. One of the Poseidon’s nifty traits is it can be parked for months, probably years, and remain undetected until Vlad pushes the button. I doubt neither their capability nor Putin’s interest in deploying them as a doomsday device off our coasts, among other places…
The US defense industry has an unwarranted belief in their own superiority and can’t imagine someone smarter and better than they at anything.
The Russian are hypersonic weapons are a real game changer.
The new nuke powered cruise missile is another one. The small RCS, and if given a RAM coating make it hard to find. Given the non existent US national air defense system they could fly in right over the Mexican border. Smugglers routinely fly across. Further, It’s not a first strike weapon, so there will have been other strikes that will have damaged any air defense that was there.
The Poseidon weapon is particularly dangerous. Go research Glasstones book and look at the underwater nuke tests we did back then, there were three tests. All low yield and not deep . But very impressive. The russians went where we were incapable or unwilling: large yield and deep. Whole new level of water displacement, to say nothing about the shock wave propagation destruction on submerged objects. The deeper the bigger the displacement.
does the Shoe not fit there, Cinderfella?
I am curious as to how Russia might activate this otherwise undetectable Poseidon weapon(with present tech).
RF is heavily attenuated underwater, so unless they’re using a quantum technique or having a sub nearby, then how? Even ELF has its limits.
Let’s not get too close to the gray zone of lit on this, but…
Short answer: seawater blocks useful RF, so a Poseidon-type vehicle would almost certainly rely on launch + preprogrammed autonomy, occasional ultra-low-rate one-way wakeup signals (ELF/VLF), or local relay hardware or nearby submarines to receive an arming or retargeting command.
How they could practically do it:
• Platform launch and autonomy first. A special carrier submarine can put a vehicle in the water and send it on a fully autonomous mission profile (waypoints, depth plan, timed arming). That removes the need for continuous remote RF control.
• One-way ultra-low-data wakeups. ELF/VLF transmitters can penetrate seawater to depth but only at extremely low data rates and typically one way; they’re realistic for a brief “wakeup” or “surface for comms” signal, not for sustained guidance.
• Relay nodes and intermediate platforms. Pre-positioned relays — tethered transponders, autonomous gliders, or buoyant antennas — can bridge air/satellite links and a deep weapon, accepting a high-level command topside and passing a short local signal underwater. Emplacement and maintenance of those relays would be staged from naval bases and deep-sea support ships.
• Nearby manned or unmanned submarines. Having a submarine or unmanned vehicle close by to send short-range acoustic or optical commands, or to physically deliver an arming module, is the simplest operational option if remote activation is required.
• Short-range acoustic/optical links. Acoustic modems and blue-green optical links work underwater at useful bandwidths only over relatively short distances and require the transmitter to be nearby; they’re noisy and observable but effective for local control.
Typical operational chain (plausible scenario): carrier sub launches an autonomous vehicle; later, if an explicit arm or retarget is needed, Russia could (a) send an ELF wakeup so the device surfaces for higher-rate comms, (b) move a nearby sub or unmanned platform into acoustic range, or (c) rely on a pre-deployed relay/buoy to receive a topside uplink and pass a short command underwater.
Practical limits to remember: direct high-frequency RF at depth is essentially unusable; ELF/VLF gives almost no bandwidth and is generally one-way; relay nodes or nearby subs are detectable and risky in a peer contest; and any scheme that depends on persistent remote control will be far more complex, fragile, and observable than a launch-and-autonomy approach.
Bottom line: true, realtime remote control of a deep Poseidon by HF radio is unrealistic. The realistic playbook is launch + autonomy, with limited one-way nudges or short-range local links provided by relays or nearby platforms to handle any required later-stage activation or adjustment.
Which is about wqhere the public stuff begins to roll off. Without passing the guard rails and any past commitment – let’s say a ham radio wype with some knowledge could cobble up a SSROD (silent surfacing, receive-on and dive) protocol. If you put that into AI you’ll get the “Oh…well…umm> answer that goes like this:
“Short answer: yes — periodic surfacing to fire a short HF burst is a plausible way to get higher-rate comms to a deep vehicle, but it’s a classic tradeoff: you exchange bandwidth for detectability.
Why it’s plausible (conceptual): a submerged vehicle can’t use useful HF at depth, so popping a mast, buoy, or the vehicle’s antenna above the surface for a very short, preprogrammed burst gives it a chance to exchange a packet-level message (status, a short command, or a retarget cue) and then go back down. That burst can carry far more information than an ELF nudge and lets the craft re-synchronize with a topside network or receive an updated mission state.
Why it’s risky and limited (high-level considerations only):
• Surfacing leaves physical and electromagnetic signatures. Even a very short exposure creates a radar/visual/SAR/EO risk and makes HF signals susceptible to direction-finding and interception.
• Acoustic/kinematic signatures of surfacing—engine noise, bubble trail, wake—can be picked up by passive sensors and ASW networks.
• HF propagation is variable and weather/ionospheric conditions affect link reliability; a failed burst wastes your exposure window.
• Repeated, patterned surfacings create a predictable signature that adversaries can correlate and exploit; a single occasional burst may be survivable, repeated bursts less so.
• Using a buoyant relay or mast reduces the vessel’s profile but still creates a persistent hardware footprint that can be located during campaign planning or post-deployment reconnaissance.
What it gains, at a glance: much higher data rate than ELF/VLF; the ability to receive compressed mission updates or fresh navigation fixes; a practical path for occasional two-way comms without continuous topside exposure.
What it costs, at a glance: increased probability of localization and attack, greater logistical complexity, and dependence on favorable propagation and timing windows. In short, burst surfacing is a realistic operational choice when limited, intermittent higher-rate comms are worth the increased risk — but it is not a stealth panacea.
Again, grazy zones look BUT yes, higher rate coms IS a workable especiallty if the submersible is using a 50+_ year nukepile battery – whih the West is just waking up to see https://www.acs.org/pressroom/presspacs/2025/march/a-safe-nuclear-battery-that-could-last-a-lifetime.html for current [public] and remember this is often 1-10 years behinds those kind of labs.
Even a modest sie nukepile would work because of all the supercapacitor work done years ag0 – using a nukepile to charge an s/c stack would be plenty of power to run a ballast pump because with hno humans, all the time in the world to relax and wait. To avoid issues, a schedule shotguns over a week of hf bursts and everything is updated, no confirmations needed. If so, a single-ping, freq specific on sonar in open ocean would be a tough one to get a useful loco from.
so the question ISN’T IF it can be done. It’s whether it IS being done.
Taxpaers got a lot for their bucks in SOSUS under operation Ceasar evoling into IUSS to keep the boomer carpets cleaned en route deep ocean – Canada I don’t think ever rebranded from SOSUS, but it gives writer of the genre like brother Kimbrough fertile techlinguistica for his novels… The question for A.G. might be whether he could write such a novel (targeting the six shore side ops centers) and write fast enough to keep ahead of the plot going off.
Food for thought home gamers (no pun).
https://youtu.be/GfbVBKvdGSc
Got delivery?
Lock in homegamers. What if? The gubmint lockdown is cover for the financial reset? We live in interesting times.
https://youtu.be/umB_mx2Dt2c
Not advice. Do you own homework.
A Gold reset is more than likely, laws still being enacted around World regards Crypto, like the new rules and regulations in Fromunda Land. Making it harder for Blokes like myself to do Crypto business down theres.
Caleb&Brown are one such broker that enabled US citizens to purchase certain cyrpto that we could not Purchase here in US.
Big back of smoke filled room deals still being hashed out amongst big players on Settlement (s) – the Who’s and how many Satoshi’s exactly per Transaction.
* Gotta keep the “juice” flowing somehow/someway for these bloodsuckers/grifters/succubi/sons of darkness zionist entities.
We won’t read this on TikTok.
“Western intelligence indicates that Iran is intensifying its ballistic missile program despite UN sanctions. Recent shipments of sodium perchlorate, essential for missile production, have reportedly arrived from China at Iran’s Bandar Abbas port. This influx commenced following a UN sanctions reimposition on September 29, after a brief conflict with Israel. “
Out of Work Steve,
Feel free to correct me as required, but Grok advises that the piece originally appeared on “CNN”. Interestingly Grok goes on to say “Israel Hayom” and “ABC News” picked it up. The latter subsidiary of Disney has a Bosnian-American leading it. “Israel Hayom (Today)” offers a page on its website dedicated to the musings of its publisher, Dr. Miriam Adelson. Dr. Adelson is a main donor of funds in the election campaign of President D. Trump.
As an aside based upon “Wikipedia” statements, I wonder if the gist of “Israel Hayom” as a media title is homage to a branch of Hasidic Judaism originating in Western Ukraine?
You bring up a great observation being what whatever the A.I. back office says, is. And to your point Wiki below:
Yes, picked it up from CNN. None of us have the resources to verify everything. Trump called Epstein a hoax so Epstein is an official hoax. See above.
Western intelligence says Iran is rearming despite UN sanctions, with China’s help
https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/29/middleeast/iran-rebuilding-ballistic-weapons-program-intl
Censorship of images in the Soviet Union
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_of_images_in_the_Soviet_Union
Iran can run buildings full of centrifuges and orbit satellites. Setting up a plant to synthesize sodium perchlorate would be trivial compared to that. I’m sure they’re buying from China for the convenience rather than the necessity.
let the games begin
To my eye, the most interesting snippet, largely ignored, is it the Fed runoff (indirect rate machine) :
“… The Committee decided to conclude the reduction of its aggregate securities holdings on December 1. …”
Done are we? Hmm
~ E
a classic FED meeting . FEDspeak , rigged questions . wrong direction indicators . so easy for powell with no data from a bankrupt closed down government . a disgrace but hey thats par for the course nowadays
On the bight side of GM idling plants this means the American taxpayer will realize a cost savings on those shiny, new factories as they won’t have to be built, Trump only has to staff the empty buildings.
Trump on restarting nuclear testing:
” I HATED to do it, but had no choice!”
That’s what he’ll say about bailing his Crypto pals.
“I HATED to do it, but had no choice!”
“Hated to accept the largesse, but I had no choice..”
drops mike, turns, walks off stage.
Hey George? Did you say something not long ago about wanting to set up a rig to cut & facet gemstones…?
https://www.publicsurplus.com/sms/auction/view?auc=3883897
They have three. This looks to be the best of the lot.
I have considered it, but no imminent plans (I hgave more crap backed up than a constipated rhino!)
But you know, Nancy might find it interesting…
George,
I use two Facetron faceting machines, one at my home and one at my boyfriend’s home. I have only used a Facetron since I learned on one. There several other finely made faceting machines, like the UltraTec, and even one similar to what diamond cutters use, like the Graves. Faceting machines are much like cameras, in that it is mainly the user rather than the machine that gets the results.
Only faceting machine I could ever operating was the checkbook….some have talent, others have just ink. I think that’s write…