Not going to spend a lot of time on flowery wordsmithing today. Instead, how about a little more direct – in Ure face – analysis?
Game Point Rally
As we postulated, Tuesday was the beginning of the market turn around. However, the turn did not hold, so after climbing about a hundred Dow points during the session, our Aggregate Index fell about 70-points. Then Wednesday, the bulls rallied nearly 100 points. Which brings us to the “Game Point” rally question obvious in this chart:
“What do you mean ‘Game Point’?”
If you were serious about pre-planning for the world of alternative futures that form – apparition-like – and then slam us periodically, you’d be a Peoplenomics subscriber. All I will say to the bleacher crowd is:
- We can turn hard down next week once this mini rally does a .318 or .5 retracement.
- OR (see the gray candle showing range, lower right of chart) and imagine we go up and kiss the descending trend line.
- OR (Bidenistas loves on crack will love this one) – the market’s sail higher – above the long-term downward trend, the sky parts and good will and justice prevail for all.
I don’t think this last one is in the cards – but I’m pragmatic bullish or bearish as needed – so it’s hard to give a shit one way or the other.
Fractured GDP Tales
Desperate Lefties have been trying for a couple of months now to “redefine two quarters of back-to-back down GDP as something other than a recession. The good news? Have the Bureaucrats in government heard the concern and will they be able to paper-over a statistical turd called GDP this month? Let’s see:
“Real gross domestic product (GDP) decreased at an annual rate of 0.6 percent in the second quarter of 2022, following a decrease of 1.6 percent in the first quarter. The second-quarter decrease was revised up 0.3 percentage point from the “advance” estimate released in July. The smaller decrease in the second quarter, compared to the first quarter, primarily reflected an upturn in exports and a smaller decrease in federal government spending.
Profits increased 6.1 percent at a quarterly rate in the second quarter after decreasing 2.2 percent in the first quarter.”
We seem to be getting on track for the world’s first stagflationary depression. Think of the inflationary Weimar meets the deflationary Great Depression.
We look at this morning’s data very much like a “shit sandwich” with tons of mayo on it. The role of Mayo is played by made-up (non-backed) federal debt and GDP is dollarized in such a way that with enough inflation, you can never have a “genuine depression” despite people going hungry, losing homes, jobs, and confidence in the future. Yes, that’s right, by golly: It’s the American Way!
The Shorts
And the Wars go on: Russian attack kills 25 civilians on Ukraine’s Independence Day, Kyiv says. Magically, it’s a rallying cry: Zelensky vows retribution after deadly Russian strike on Independence Day.
More wars are coming, too: Taiwan tightens drone defences as China shows off aerial images. Seems Mike Pompeo is now planning a Taiwan visit even as another American delegation landed in Taipei today. Are we the only ones not going?
Attention Reader Ray – who is the local King of Auctions: Paul Pelosi’s DUI-wrecked Porsche up for auction. What’ll it be, Ray? Paul’s wreck or another stack of Xeon servers with maxi-gigs?
It’s a cheap line, but I have to: George Foreman Is Accused of Sexual Abuse. As we wonder who will grill him?
Meantime, Biden Lies – Again
Travesty of Political Payoffs to voters by Democrats is in full view this week. As the lefterly NY Times reported Biden Announces $10,000 in Student Loan Debt Relief – The New York Times.
Seriously? Are we the ONLY ONES who expect Public Officials to be honest and to abide by the Constitution?
Here are the FACTS:
- This is not a Debt Forgiveness. It is a TRANSFER. From those who are on the hook for the student debt TO YOU – the American Taxpayer – who will be jumped down the road by the country-screwing inflation this will bring with it. Deceitful and misleading, perversion of accounting, and time to begin impeachment is all too kind! The debt goes from the kids to the grownups – job holders – and it’s a pre-election BRIBE pure and simple. If you can’t see it, write you college or university for a full tuition refund.
- EVEN WORSE: As the NY Cheerleader headlined it: “Low-Income Students Are Eligible for More.” Say what? This means the Bidenistas (playing it fast and loose as an Obama Third Term communist-thinking coup) is AGAIN ENDORSEING DISCRIMINATION. Are you and me the only ones who understand the Equal Protection idea? Equality of Justice for ALL?
Come on, Bubba. You ever even read the 14th Amendment?
“All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws. [emphasis added]”
I often rail against democrats as shifty, incongruous thinkers, who will say anything to make a convert. Bribery is common just ahead of elections for these thugs. If it leads to a financial mugging as soon as the polls close, so what? They will have another 24-months to shovel more crap under the rug.
So far, it is playing well with the slow-witted Woke who are bringing back reverse discrimination – which Communist countries all work toward because it gives The State power to inure its “chosen ones” privilege and thereby maintain a special Ruling Class to manage the Workers. Based on any demographic (*gender, race, climate, etc.) of convenience.
Yes, Communism is a big lie, too. But even they can take lessons from the American Left – which has thrown-in with the commies and stone-headed Libs much as Xi threw in with Corporations (tossing Communist equality under the bus) to move China ahead in a fascist partnership managed by “the Chosen”…) [This really ain’t too hard for you to follow, is it?]
2-Faced Kids, E-Crashafornial
Wokepoxia is more dangerous than Covid, Monkeypox, and Politicians combined. Allow me to ‘splain you.
A long-time colleague asked me the other day what I thought about his new email sig line. Had to do with climate change – which he has now totally thrown in with. We agree the climate is changing – can’t argue – too many river basins from glacial melt.
As it happened, I was thinking about his question around the same time the story broke about how California to Ban the Sale of New Gasoline Cars by 2035. This ought to take down the grid out West and polish off any remaining fish runs, so short them fish and chips stocks.
Have the Woke and climatista’s have suffered brain damage? Because even if I handed you 10 percent of US GDP this year, there is nothing you can buy that will reduce climate change even a single iota. EXCEPT what Elaine and I have done since we moved to the sticks in 2003: Voluntary Lifestyle Reduction.
Wokepoxia
Let’s unveil our discovery of Wokepoxia.
It never occurs to people to measure their bespoke virtues (which are signaled all over hell and gone – which includes social as a special version of hell) versus their “walletizations.” In other words, what they really spend their money on. Like Al Gore talks climate and flies in private jets, right? No, he’s not too important to take the bus, is he? I mean if he walked it, right? Better mileage for the planet in those closely spaced coach seats when the bus doesn’t run from NY to London…Same concept for TrueDope. Talker or Walker?
I guarantee you, our double-wide in the woods has a lower carbon footprint than any stick-built house in a big city you can find. Our well-cared-for old Lexus came off the line (in Japan) in 2005. We travel as little as possible. And even selling our airplane – while mainly because of eye issues – did have a “green lining to it.” Our airplane got 11-MPG. Sitting at home gets infinite.
My son – who I admire – has plans to build a small house, and he drives a small footprint (paid-for). And he buys quality, but no more than needed. Which gives him a small carbon footprint life. Half-past minimalism with enough overages to work a plan and go places.
Yet – when I see RV’ers with 6-MPG rigs, or fishermen with 250 HP outboards, or people spending $80+ thousand on a car, I ask myself – “Can’t these people walk their talk?” Even American iron can somehow still be running in Cuba 60-years on. But not HERE???
Even when it comes to tools, I’d say a good half of what’s in the shop was bought use or is older than 10-years.
Point I’m getting to: that climate remediation will only come through lifestyle reduction and anyone who tells you otherwise is a likely liar. If your home is smaller, cheaper, you travel less, work in the same space as you live (cutting per person sf. building requirements in half)…well, that begins to make sense. Covid was good, in an odd climate kinda way.
Where it doesn’t figure is the highly monetized fads. This year’s designer this, hottest new place to go, or best new restaurants, or…well, you can work out the list.
It’s the kind of “promise versus performance” out of people that has always been clear in the Ure clan, but seems like few others.
Mornings like this – when I get up at 2 AM to read and think about things – it’s all terribly clear where the world is heading and why.
Sure, body count of 8-billion is too high. But it’s also what we do with what we have. Pardon the preachy, but…
We lie to ourselves about the real cost of climate and then turn around and pretend by shifting a debt it’s magically “forgiven”, and “reverse discrimination” is OK – when it’s not. Stupid people, accounting ignorant and even the OED is being corrupted now.
We lie about what made up money is worth, we lie about killing for corporate profits, and we lie about living “within the law” – It’s only illegal really if you get caught, right? And we lie about lithium’s social cost because an honest accounting blows up the climateer scam. Try Lithium costs up in 2021, continuing to surge in 2022 | S&P Global Market Intelligence. $42,000 a ton now. Banking batteries, yet? Tesla owners know “The Model Y’s lithium-ion batteries weigh 2003 kg (4,416 lbs).” So, a lithium cost of how much????
Things we recommend for your “thinking list” as time permits.
Personal honesty and integrity is a hard master and takes a lifetime. We find only the tiniest bits of it in the news, social media, and virtually none in the boardrooms.
If people can’t make reasoned choices without reinventing financial scams, a new flavor of discrimination, or watering a woke pot full of victims, it’s only a matter of time until utter collapse of dueling complexities will show itself.
More’n likely, a couple of years are left to get ready to meet a hard future with an honest mind and a clean heart. Good luck with that. The hardest work there is, but the only work that matters.
Off to another day in the circus.
Write when you get rich,
George@Ure.net
Biden sending American delegations to Taiwan seems likely to be a human shield kinda thing.
Thinking China won’t attack Taiwan while some of our Officials are there. – Wouldn’t bet on that. It’s kinda like thinking a bully wouldn’t hit you because you wear glasses. Old schoolyard shit.
Seen this kind of thing back in the day and when patience run out, kids getting their glasses broke and some nasty cuts in addition to a black eye.
It’s pathetic that it’s come to this immature theatrics, instead of a serious professional psychology of diplomacy to work out problems.
Some people just don’t have the intellect to realize what their dealing with. Somebody’s gonna get their ass kicked.
“Seriously? Are we the ONLY ONES who expect Public Officials to be honest and to abide by the Constitution?”
I heard a great line in an interview this morning.
“Don’t ever expect an honest crime report from a criminal.”
Thanks George for getting up at 2 am to give us another gem today.
LOL, I do it for the coffee crew here = LOOB, You, and the right-minded thinking remnants of Earth’s once high civilization….
I truly believe we are in deep trouble here G……scares the hell out of me.. I do know that for sure..
when the boss asks me what are you looking at.. I got smart and tell her.. PORN HUNNY… she says.. don’t you Lie to me.. your reading the news again…. the sad thing is I can see the circle closing in on itself.. and there is nothing any of us can do..
Even though I’m the time zone ‘late riser’ here, I gotta have my morning George news. Can’t do the MSM. “Just the facts…”
Yeah, I’m seeing the lithium squeeze in person. My leased solar system has a defective LG battery that has been ‘throttled back’ to prevent an overheating/fire hazard. The lease company is under obligation to replace it, and it has now been a year since they told me it was coming… and coming…. and coming. I DO keep a fire extinguisher nearby, but for all the help that would be on a lithium battery fire.
Why is it? The harder we push the chemical around, the more we seem to invent borderlines.
For example, have you noticed a proximity effect as Mother of All Bombs arises while we’re trying to invent Mother of All Batteries?
Not apparent, unless you put on your pattern-recognition for fun and sport beanie, but the more we live out of concert with nature the more little, subtle warnings about forcing issues squishes into the deeper mind.
PS small claims court – sue ’em for breach.
“Yeah, I’m seeing the lithium squeeze in person. My leased solar system has a defective LG battery that has been ‘throttled back’ to prevent an overheating/fire hazard. The lease company is under obligation to replace it, and it has now been a year since they told me it was coming”
that is what happened to my battery system.. then I had to get someone from hundreds of miles away to come and get it.. four thousand pounds of batteries.. gone…
ceramitec has a great battery system.. unfortunately it isn’t for sale to people only govt..
It appears to me that we’ve reached ‘maximum scam’. This is the state of being where all of the underpinnings of a society or civilization are fraudulent. All of our major systems spend all of their time sustaining the lie. Representative government, Information, science, history, finance, medical, political, geopolitical, education, morality, human sexuality, etc. It’s all been inverted 180 degrees from it’s original intended purpose.
Most people learn at a young age that telling a lie is not sustainable. More lies have to be told to maintain the original lie. At some point, you get busted and it all falls down.
What’s true?
“At some point, you get busted and it all falls down.”
Unless you control the delivery, and the narrative.
Dude G –
want moar writerz, moar thoughts to to chew on, so needz to make peeps richer I guess. How the f you do that ? easypeasy like – just keep an eye on the coot…get you in the hot waterz in no time.
Oil bitches – “they” are tightening – so coot be buying moar..
-PBR – been ringing the register on the back of this Brazilian behemoth. The nrg etf -XLE has been treating the coot kindly as well – bullish!
Also started legging into ag etf CORN, US corn crop got scorched this year, no likey what future Futures portends for Corn this “fall’.
Also buying, as fds allow, BTC – no investment thesis here – just a “feeling”. No balls, No bluechips – buttercups.
* Load up on Debt – who ever is wearing that bidet full head, face and neck mask – is spraying da tax dollar hose all over da room, like a really bad r kelley porno flick.
*- going back to school for a another degree – loading up on student debt, will be marveling at the young co-eds perfect “peaches”, no need to study as I already gotz me one o dem pieces of parchment…wheeee what fun this mmt is..sooo much fun.
** I am out of mind, no clue, feeling around in the dark – none of above is a recommendation of any kind – entertainment purposes ONLY.
Re: Game Point Rally
After being shunned by Wimbledon’s All England Tennis Club, Russian players have been honing their games under neutral flags. According to Associated Press, Russians have won 3 of a recent 4 tune-up tournaments in preparation for next week’s US Open in New York. It may be telling to observe commentator John McEnroe’s choice of hosiery for the oncourt battles.
Let the joust begin! Beer and cake for all!
My opinion on the debt relief is a fail safe for ALL the banking institutions who are about to have many of these go into default as things decline. The left is just trying to use it as a voting tool while the REAL reason is bank protection.
in my opinion.. it is a scam..Just a political ploy for votes.. sounds good on film.. but doesn’t pencil out… If he really wanted to do something.. why not.. we are going to give free college to everyone and all student loans are forgiven.. that would be making a difference.. ( I have said schools should be like european schools.. sponsored by the taxes push an education on to everyone.. even if it is a trade school.. )
https://www.collegedata.com/resources/pay-your-way/whats-the-price-tag-for-a-college-education
and what is the interest rate on a student loan..
https://www.fund.com/top/private-student-loans/rates/desk/?cq_src=google_ads&cq_cmp=16898808399&cq_term=rates%20for%20student%20loans&cq_plac=&cq_net=g&cq_plt=gp&tvar=&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIjZ6rg6fi-QIVNz6tBh0rNQOzEAAYASAAEgLnPPD_BwE
what is being proposed is to not even forgive the interest on a student loan for one year.. I know someone that makes twelve dollars an hour.. they couldn’t get a job in their profession.. the interest on their loan is more than what is going to be forgiven..
that is why an estimated one in five college girls are willing to share some time with an older person for a little assistance on their school expenses.. they could date the local jock and get a six pack and a mac but a five thousand dollar assistance will save them well over fifty thousand ( or more ) in interest payments..
Its like minimum wage.. it sounds good.. sells the public but it doesn’t have any value to it at all..
it depends on area.. and a small mom and pop company can’t afford higher wages .. everything has to follow the pyramid of pricing.. fifty dollars isn’t just absorbed.. you have to compensate with higher prices..
similar to the president getting after gas stations to lower their prices on fuel per gallon.. around the wastelands.. they only make a dime a gallon .. ( well seven cents) if fuel goes up a dime they loose goes up. and they have plenty maybe they made a little more.. but if fuel goes down and they have full tanks they loose that money..
Minimum wages were increased in order to make the cost of automation competitive with persons.
I love the message, It’s for your benefit [not the benefit of our campaign contributing corporations making the robots to replace you].
I see that the “forgiveness” is targeted to those who are most likely to be behind in payments already. Face saving maneuver. Like stimulus checks I’m sure this will be taxed as well.
“Minimum wages were increased in order to make the cost of automation competitive with persons.”
YEAH BUTT… take SanFran.. poverty wage is just shy a quarter million dollars a year.. what would fifteen dollars an hour do for them.. not a thing..
even here in the wastelands.. you have to clear ten just to make rent.. and if you have children three to twenty per child..
food.. right now living wage according to the US govt.. is about eight hundred a month for two.. they add a little more on for kids.. but if you get an assistance they deduct it from some other place..
they say raise minimum wages.. but if they had kept up with the cost of yearly inflation.. minimum would be around fifty bucks an hour..
instead there was a mass creation of public programs..
“Attention Reader Ray – who is the local King of Auctions: Paul Pelosi’s DUI-wrecked Porsche up for auction. What’ll it be, Ray? Paul’s wreck or another stack of Xeon servers with maxi-gigs?”
Dam @Ray.. that one could be a money maker…. if you can get it cheap enough..
https://youtu.be/QrjgC3MR454
20.00 a wack… you could get RICH…….
“It’s a cheap line, but I have to: George Foreman Is Accused of Sexual Abuse. As we wonder who will grill him?”
LOL LOL I Met him once.. one person to cross my path was the ring announcer.. ( can’t say his name but if you heard his voice you would know who it was..) and Ole George Foreman came to see him.. down to earth nice guy. Considering the man I met and visited with… I personally cannot see him attacking anyone sexually…
My favorite one was before he took the title the last time he gave a news story.. where .. he asked his boss.. honey they offered me a million dollars.. she said.. George.. you are retired.. stop thinking such foolishness.. he told them no.. then he went back and said honey they offered me three million dollars.. again she said George you are retired.. quit contemplating doing something so stupid… he told them no.. then he goes back to his wife.. OMG HONEY.. they offered me six million dollars.. to where his wife says.. I don’t know why your so scared of him.. LOL LOL LOL…
“You ever even read the 14th Amendment?
“All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws. [emphasis added]”
LOL LOL you missed the most important line on that one G…. the very bottom.. where it says..EVERYONE EXCEPT ………. LOL LOL LOL…
now if it was me or you.. its different.. than those EXCEPT if’ers..
Off Topic -licensing teachers.
Yesterday Minnesota had a hearing on Professional Licensing Standards, i.e., licensing teachers.
Here’s some Minnesota proposed required pedagogical standards (“Standards of Effective Practice”).
“The teacher understands that knowledge creation, ways of knowing, and teaching are social and cultural practices shaped by race and ethnicity, often resulting in racially disparate advantages and disadvantages.”
“The teacher understands how ethnocentrism, eurocentrism, deficit-based teaching, and white supremacy undermine pedagogical equity.”
As Lenin and Hitler once said, give me your schools and you give me your nation.
YHGTBSM! The Lenin license and the Stalin certificates – Call Obama – we must have the puppet announce another non-white holiday quickly!
LOOB
Your statement perfectly describes my current feeling:
“the sad thing is I can see the circle closing in on itself…..and there is nothing any of us can do..”
The school loan forgiveness is the best deal non-parasites got all year.
Slide the parasites 10K each and we’re done. 1/4 of a new Chevy Impala. We know the cost of the program.
Pension bailout on the the hand are completely open-ended and those parasites are immune to tick powder. The pension lady might live for another 40 years. COLA over that time. Medical over that time… what if she needs a liver? Dang. What’s the co-pay, $2,500. You don’t get a liver swap for $2,500. A GM vent is probably 10 grand a day. We get the bill not her or her estate Her old boss over promised and .gov is making us deliver.
The CHIPS Act. How can America compete against the people who invented microchips? They can’t. It’s a pool of never ending bailout like GM or Amtrak or Boeing or the farmers. Not everyone can farm and not everyone can build chips.
Free wrecked the place.
I tripped in the bathroom last week and got pretty banged up. No broken bones luckily. This week I went to the ER with odd symptoms. It turns out that I had a urinary tract infection. In older adults a UTI can cause coordination and balance difficulties without the normal symptoms of burning and frequency of urination. It can also cause personality changes and hallucinations. I probably fell because I had a UTI.
Yo Ms. Eleanor – why you dont need to suffer no UTI’s to take a “trip”.
Gosh golly all youse got to do is take a couple Peyote Buttons or a couple Magic mushrooms – and you will be on Ure way – Ole!
Ure results may vary , but it was a practice of our ancient ameri indians (Sinumum-of divine source/unaltered ancestery) . Shamans would guide the old Chief on a annual “spirit quest” .. makes for a more “flexible” mature brain/mind.
Personally did a QHHT session exactly 1 year ago this month. I just started listening to the recording of my session, this week.
I brought a page full of questions for my “handler” to ask my Higher Self while under deep hypnosis.
Already, I am getting POWERFUL personal information back as I listen to my answers to the questions I wrote weeks before.
I KNOW how I/Soul got here – Earth in 1st place = Grays & my own “actions”.
Handler asked my higher self “who is running prison planet?” Answered “their not here” Asked if I know who they are, answered “Yeah”
Asked if there was another version of Earth that was not prison planet? Answer- there Was.
Q- Is there going to be another? A- “should be”
Q- Would ___ like to go to this new version of Earth, is he headed that way? A- he is working towards it..then some stuff about not knowing I can CONTROL the “process” and that We actively participate..
This was much more useful in gaining information locked away in my recall/akasic, than any hallucinogenic trip has ever provided me. Very difficult to think about navigating anywhere “outthere” when you are high.
Tai -Chi – push hands – superior balance exercises that are very social in their nature. If there is group practicing in your area – you will most likely find very similar, like minded, cool peeps exercising together- moving and grooving to the unheard, but always felt “vibe’ of Life.
hope Ure healing up and feeling like a million bucks..uhn make that a Billion Bucks – inflation dont cha know.
A dear friend was rushed to the hospital after she fell very ill. At the ER they discovered she had sepsis. Massive antibiotics IV and she barely pulled through. They believe it was triggered by an undiagnosed UTI. She didn’t have a clue… no pain.
From the WSJ Opinion section … pretty much spells out the implications of Student Loan Forgiveness.
https://www.wsj.com/amp/articles/the-half-trillion-dollar-student-loan-executive-coup-joe-biden-debt-forgiveness-white-house-11661378933
Not to mention, buyin votes and overtaking the educational system to implement that WOKE agenda.
Funny thing, if you promise to do something once for some people, they often just say “thanks” and forget to repay the favor (vote) … unless you offer them something even bigger later.
I think Biden doesn’t realize the people he’s promising things to … won’t pay off their loans but he thinks they have integrity. Ok.
Hmm.. big debate.. My great niece lost her job four months ago.. anyway .. she doesn’t qualify for any of that free money.. LOL.. ( doesn’t exist )
and she cannot find a job.. ( she is living off of credit cards right now) anyway.. she has been looking everywhere and with two kids.. its a struggle.. I help where I can.. but cost of living in the city is way more than where I live in the wastelands of the USA….
so we were visiting and she made mention that she got a booth at a couple of craft shows.. to sell jewelry.. ( so far it has been rummage sales etc.. )
and I thought.. why not send her the cannon.. LOL LOL if your at a fair or a craft show.. and pop out a cup of rice or popcorn or wheat.. everyone will come see..
Not sure if George has tried the little toy one I sent it is the miniature corn cannon.. LOL LOL gave one to the grandkids because hsi fiancee loves puffed wheat and she didn’t know how it was made.. LOL….. it will only do a table spoon or two of grain LOL…
but it is an attention getter.. but the dang thing weighs a hundred a fifty pounds give or take..
and the cost of shipping it to her was more than I paid for the cannon..
https://youtu.be/nqCswLScg_A
the one below he didn’t put any butter oil in it either.. what is wrong with these guys LOL
https://youtu.be/5LM3uh6PyHU
https://youtu.be/2g_BSC4ikPY
they sell them now on amazon…
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08R24ZL43?psc=1&ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_product_details
anyway.. on mythbusters they scorched the corn.. you will do that a few times till you figure out how to make it.. and you can make sugar puffs right out of the cannon.. don’t put in to much corn and don’t over cook it..
Recall the American Rescue Plan of 2022 – the multi-employer pension plan bailouts.
Today Yahoo says,
“US Corporate Profits Soar, Taking Margins to Widest Since 1950”
Hmmm….. Something isn’t connected right. I can’t put my finger on it.
“Attention Reader Ray – who is the local King of Auctions: Paul Pelosi’s DUI-wrecked Porsche up for auction. What’ll it be, Ray? Paul’s wreck or another stack of Xeon servers with maxi-gigs?”
Hey, don’t knock the servers! This last batch, I paid $10.75 apiece for — quad Zeons with four 500Gb SSDs each, RAID, and running Red Hat really quickly…
I wouldn’t give a damn’ dime for Pauly’s pile. It has no value, unless there’s something in it by which the Pelosi clan could be blackmailed. If there is, I want no part of that, either (people who try to blackmail really powerful psychopaths end up at the bottom of Lake Mead…)
Dude Raymundo,
Dutchsinse on youtube just got his 4 th Computer fried by the “deepstate”. In this latest case he thinks it is related to his pissing off Haliburton from calling out their drill sites related to local earthquakes and to publicly refusing to take their sponsorship/money when offered.
They/Somebodies are remotely frying his CPU’s and last night it was new laptop left connected that got fried – Anti Virus software is as effective as covert19 vaxx has been – nothing has worked.
So question for U/Ure/Community IS – is there anything a Sheeple can do to protect from the electronic “scumbaggery” of dicked cheneys Haliburton and rest o deepstate vilE pieces of “dark” fecal matter?
..besides disconnecting every night? anything?
Regular clone level backups that are disconnected and kept elsewhere can help. Don’t reuse any more often than you can afford. Real backups are a PIA, but necessary. A carefully crafted gateway server/firewall can help to a degree. Disable all services that are not absolutely needed on a Windows machine. Use an arcane or custom built OS if that works for you. Unfortunately, with embedded MINIX running at at ring -3, there’s not much to be done about the heavy hitters, other than using trashy ancient hardware. If the machine isn’t used for anything online while sleeping or away, pull the ethernet cable. Never trust software! I don’t run antivirus software normally, and when I do I never found anything in the last 10 years. Hard disconnects do work. On modern cars, I’d consider installing a main battery disconnect reachable from the driver’s seat, along with a push-button wired to the starter relay for emergency and service use. Either remove the battery from your cellphone when not needed, or turn it “off” and put it in a faraday box. I try not to be paranoid, but sometimes they really are out to get you.
https://www.cbc.ca/sports/tennis/unvaccinated-novak-djokovic-to-miss-us-open-1.6561792
So the worlds’s best tennis player is not allowed to participate in the US open because he is not vaccinated. No unvaccinated foreigner is allowed entry is the law of the land.
So every illegal alien that is being allowed free entry at the southern border and bussed or flown all around the country is vaccinated right? I assume they will be allowed as spectators at the US open.
WTF. Help me with this one c_
George
I am amazed to hear you saying that the climate crisis can only be addressed with “lifestyle limitations” Whatever past critiques I have voiced on your climate crisis position, are suddenly brought around the circle. Thank you.!
Since you have opened this vein, perhaps you would find this podcast of interest, per the idea of moving to low tech from high tech.
https://www.thegreatsimplification.com/episode/33-kris-de-decker
Danogenese, Please, Lets not take it that far down the rabbit hole without first being prepped for the up-cyling wave thats coming when the eye phones start costing even gobs moar inflating FRN’s. Someone’s gotta pay to move the production to Vietnam, practice was just announced by Cook. Say, Mr Ure. Wouldn’t that be like a mini Trans Pacific Partnership initiative developing just below the noise level? Is this the trial balloon? Did the deciders study geography?
Dear Creator Let us not Suffer in the Panacea of Ned Ludd.
https://www.ifixit.com/
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/technology/apple-reportedly-in-talks-to-make-apple-watches-and-macbooks-in-vietnam/ar-AA10Lifp
Got blockchain?
I have no problem with .gov helping those who need it most, in the form of debt relief. It’s high time we tried some trickle up instead of trickle down. By the time trickle down drips down to workers there’s nothing. This debt relief is money going into the pockets of young people who will now be able to buy cars, homes and start families. Giving money to people who already got it never made sense.
As for biden lying. Really? Do i need to make any comparisons to other presidents? Really? Ask me.
Giveaways to buy votes? That’s rich. When we stop funding big oil, big pharma, farmers and ranchers we can talk about it.
“Giveaways to buy votes? That’s rich. When we stop funding big oil, big pharma, farmers and ranchers we can talk about it.”
The thing that has me baffled…is it isn’t even a give away.. won’t even cover one years interest payment on a school loan….. I guess I’m hoping that someone that graduated a college would be able to see that..
Not to sure about it though..I’ve met a few college grads that couldn’t read the daily newspaper..
I don’t know the details of the 10K program, but it seems to me that rather than a simplistic 10K, just eliminating the interest on these loans and setting a payback schedule of no more than 5% of income for as long as it takes to eliminate the principal would not only be more fair, but more workable for everyone. Money sent to pay back these stupid loans would go into either productive assets or at least greater economic activity.
Many of these loans went to people who, for many reasons, may never have been able to complete their degrees, so they would never qualify to be employed as they had planned. The schools are the real beneficiary of the entire loan program since they raised their prices to match the availability of the cash.
If an MD candidate(or one for another sense-dependent regulated profession) was for some reason rendered blind during his training, he’d have no chance of successfully completing the degree. That was told to me by a member of the admissions committee in a medical school. Under the present laws, he’d still be responsible for repaying any school loans. I endorse the idea of personal responsibility, but it seems to me that the entire program was corrupt from the start with too many hands out, and we know that the banks engineered the idea of prohibiting legitimate bankruptcy workouts.
“Not going to spend a lot of time on flowery wordsmithing today. Instead, how about a little more direct – in Ure face – analysis?”
Yes, humans are part of nature. The way we consume will eventually destroy nature. But, it’s in the future, ha.ha,ha.
“The way we consume will eventually destroy nature. But, it’s in the future, ha.ha,ha.”
The perfect reasons for my decades old rants of greenscape our cities and put up solar towers and co2 filters.. we will have our annual electric meeting where they’ll let us know how much more.. ( 10 percent the president voted In for sure)
I love the Get more for less concept rather than the less for more that we currently have…
Elephants tear up the trees in the jungle. Sometimes it gets out of hand and the jungle dies back a bit. Nature rebalances one way or another.
I dunno… Some days I wake up all deeply refreshed and energized as hell to meet and slay the dragons of the new day — and some days it all just seems hopeless and overwhelming.
(I was gonna list off a litany of single- word subject titles here, like “inflation,” “Ukraine,” “CoVid,” “Storms,” but it makes more sense and shorthand to just say, “Oh, EVERYthing,” and leave the proof up to the student. Make your own list — there’s a LOT of potential titles.
Key difference is, we — I, anyway — are utterly powerless to make even a small dent in most of them. We know some kind of ultimate shit-storm is bearing down on us like a runaway train, and we know we can’t stop it. Best we can do is side-step, and let the roaring bastard roar on past and not squish us.
And then I remember the Great Sage Mark Twain, who said, “Eighty percent of everything is crap.” He also famously said, “Crap tends to drive the Good Stuff out.” Best example: Cable TeeVee.
My favorite quote of his is, “The difference between almost the right word and exactly the right word is the difference between the lightning bug and the lightning.”
On a upbeat subject , teddy kennedy is 13 years clean and sober.
Ure, should have called me this morning…I start trading London at 1:30am central time.
Please note that the recent/current attempt at stocks reversing is partially due to all the different feds in the world meeting in Jackson Hole today through Saturday to continue to plot our demise. A couple years ago it was a plot to directly fund our bank accounts to get us to be okay with it in the future without a fake pandemic to scare us. Powell has a speech this afternoon. The currency markets seemed in a holding pattern this morning and might be until the hole meeting is over so it may get back to crazy on Monday after they tell us what they are going to do to us. Many pro traders are not trading this week and next week due to the fed meetings and non-farm payroll so volumes are very light and that can exaggerate market moves.
But, you’re right, people taking risk off the table has come across as a reversal, but might not really be one. However, no matter what Powell says after the meetings, the important money making item is that it will move things one way or the other and we just need movement.
As for climate change…REMEMBER, WE’RE ALWAYS TOLD THE OPPOSITE OF THE TRUTH: It was global warming. Why did that have to change the term to climate change? We all know the weather changes every day. Well, there’s a reason a ton is going on at the cold pole these past years…the elites are testing out how to live in ice as they prep for a global ice age. After all, they don’t want us dead for nothing do they?
Congrats to everyone who didn’t have college debt.
Now you do.
I thought I opted out of that debt trap back in ’71.
I guess not.
No we will not destroy nature.We humans are so versatile we will come up with a virus or chemical that will kill us ALL.. BUT THE EARTH ABIDES.
All traces of us and our MIGHTY WORKS , will be gone in 1000 years, in 10,000 years no trace of us..
In the last 20 years a lot of coworkers,professionals, a few friends have really lived down to my expectations.
I have been a Physician Assistant-Certified for 45 years. My profession of Medicine has spent 45 years disappointing me in my expectations of our leaders of the profession.PA’s,MD/DO’s,RN’s. I helped 2 physicians exit the profession one a killer and one abused young women. Our leaders chose money and position over honesty. Most recently covid vaccines which are not safe or effective.
Climate Change,Ha,Ha, Ha,Ha..
Before CO 2 started rising we were ALMOST AT STARVATION LEVELS OF CO2 for plants,180ppm,
150 is starving plants.. Our AG success and bumper crops feeding the world is partly because of rising CO2 levels.. As we urbanize population levels fall. We will never get to 9 billion people.1 billion may die in the next 1 or 2 years from starvation.China population will be 1/2 of its 1.3 billion in 30 years since its birth rate is below replacement levels and has been for 50 years.They overcounted by 100 million as per their 2020 census.Their population peaked in 2000..
For all our Human Arrogance,we have very little lasting effect on our planet..
I prepare for the worse,hope and work for the Best..
Species come and Go. As a species confined to one planet we are likely to go,perhaps by our own hand or by a big rock .FUN times…LOL..
“All traces of us and our MIGHTY WORKS , will be gone in 1000 years, in 10,000 years no trace of us..”
Well Said @Jesse Belville,PA-C….
It is like the hanging gardens of babylon.. we know they existed.. but now gone.. there is a show that is a deep thinking what would happen.. if man died off.. the extinction level event.. I gave books out to my friends a few years.. what is it called..
Hmm.. I thought it was right on the shelf here..
https://www.hindustantimes.com/environment/sixth-mass-extinction-event-in-progress-claims-study-blames-human-activities-101642483098673.html
there it is..
https://www.amazon.com/Sixth-Extinction-Unnatural-History/dp/0805092994
anyway mankind sits and argues over climate change and who was the cause.. when mankind should be pushing to make the changes necessary to keep our species alive.. Not tough ones either.. we consume fifty five acres a minute to expansion.. of good prime farmland..
we use but don’t put back.. where we should be making changes like .. OMG.. I am going to say it.. Greenscaping.. put up co2 filters to replicate the processes done by a forest of tree’s.. we cannot stop the change just alter the future course of the end results..
we would rather go to war over green pieces of paper and some corrupt enterprise some azzhole has in place.. kill good innocent people destroy whole cultures.. yet make sure to further the cause of our own species end..
Its like our grid.. we desigened a great system.. to make green paper for some azzhole.. but no security of the grid.. sure we have the roots.. but limbs with no power.. their only use is to push the juice from the roots.. where if we truly wanted a secure grid system.. we would be doing it differently.. we need the root of the tree.. go to the leaves.. then the branches.. put up solar towers and work back to the root.. you get the power you need and the security for any future drop off in power..
Pretty dammed simple .. like we tell our toddlers.. color in the lines honey.. to build a tower out of blocks you need to have a good base..
Our base is only for the security of a few..
https://youtu.be/r8bkbhyyQjE
here is a good book….. you might enjoy it…
https://www.amazon.com/Uninhabitable-Earth-Life-After-Warming/dp/0525576703/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1661521273&sr=1-1
Thank Goodness!! NO recession has started!!!
Biden, the FED, and the various Government Departments are unanimous … NO RECESSION!!
Thank goodness Amazon only reduced it’s labor force by 100,000 in the second quarter … that must mean the economy is doing GREAT!!
https://www.barrons.com/articles/amazon-jobs-cuts-staff-51659122765
“Thank Goodness!! NO recession has started!!!
Biden, the FED, and the various Government Departments are unanimous … NO RECESSION!!”
“THANK GOD FOR THAT” It is bad enough that eggs and milk have doubled and tripled.. and dang.. canned chicken.. it tripled in price.. If there was a recession we would be in some serous shape…
Drought is affecting both the US and Europe at millennial levels. Interesting archeological info is referenced in these articles:
https://www.statista.com/chart/28088/drought-revelations/
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2022/08/15/can-see-weep-drought-hit-river-elbe-reveals-hunger-stones-1616/
Meanwhile, the backlash against the excesses of Green Madness is growing:
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/im-afraid-czech-president-blames-green-madness-energy-crisis
I nominate Zeman for a Nobel prize in Clarity.
Every junior high school student is now a scientist and engineer, mouthing Green rubbish popularized by leftists espousing social justice, and by sociopathic salesman selling Green widgets and social suicide.
I like some of the advances that have been made in home energy efficiency. The LED lights bulbs are great. The small scale solar systems still have a lot of undeveloped potential. My evaluation is that the chief obstacle to higher levels of development in small scale solar is power companies and their lawyer gang b!tches.
On the commercial side, wind and solar power generation are getting better, but fossil fuels and nuclear still dominate. It is hard to explain the concept of picking your poison and living with it to grade schoolers.
“Every junior high school student is now a scientist and engineer, mouthing Green rubbish popularized by leftists espousing social justice, and by sociopathic salesman selling Green widgets and social suicide.”
It’s because they grew up watching “Bill Nye, the Science Guy and figured if a D.C. silver spoon neocommunist could grow up and call himself a “science guy” then they all could, too…