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Is WW III a Time War? Fed Week Liftoff, Swamp Cooler Rethink

By now—unless you live under a rock—you’re aware of the Trump/Correspondents’ Dinner incident now making the rounds. Bring your own conspiracy theories and review from Caltech to WHCA shooting suspect: FBI retraces a cross-country trail.

There are a fair number of people who were not surprised by the event, and therein lies our starting point. When predictive linguistics, remote viewing, market waves, and seer-class warnings all point into the same risk-space, the question stops being “Can anyone see the future?” and becomes “Who is trying to steer it?” Can the future be steered? Of course. Why do intention and even prayer sometimes seem to work? Because the future appears to be nudged. It may not simply arrive. It may be negotiated before it hardens.

Nuclear war is an interesting mental exercise. Reporting news for almost 60 years now, it has surprised me—and a lot of the “duck and cover” generation—that we haven’t popped mushrooms yet. Maybe that’s luck. Maybe it’s deterrence. Maybe it’s the hidden hand of sober adults in rooms we never hear about. Or maybe, just maybe, some of the worst futures get seen early enough that someone, somewhere, quietly bends the path away from them.

Time Wars Backgrounder

I’ve been around the “time-seeing” world for a couple of decades now. Not in the crystal-ball sense, but in the trenches where data, language, markets, and human intuition all leak hints about what might be coming next. Enough time to know most of it is noise, and enough time to know that sometimes it isn’t.

The mistake most people make is assuming there’s one “right” way to see ahead. There isn’t. There are only partial views. Word-frequency work, early language mining, market cycles, fractal models, remote viewing experiments, seer-class intuition, and even historical pattern catalogs all produce fragments. None are clean. None are complete. The future appears malleable at the edges.

What matters is convergence. When unrelated systems—built by different people, using different assumptions—start pointing into the same general risk-space, you don’t get certainty. But you do get something far more useful: direction.

Peoplenomics subscribers can go back to the April 4 report, where we walked through one such fragment—the Polish Seer material—and outlined a scenario map that included Trump-specific leadership risk, multi-theater conflict, and pressure points around Europe’s energy systems. Specifically, we were poking the question of whether “Trump will live to his next birthday.” In that context, the events in D.C. this weekend were not entirely unexpected around here. We’ve also dropped hints elsewhere that Trump risk was running elevated. Health references were more subtle, but they were there.

Now, that’s not a claim of prediction. Public figures live inside a constant threat envelope. Throw enough darts, one lands near something. But when leadership risk shows up in multiple channels at once—language pressure, geopolitical tension, market instability, and yes, even the more esoteric streams—that becomes a different animal.

In a transaction-based world, people forget that some of the most useful observers are the ones who seem “all over the place.” Domain-walkers don’t stay in one silo long enough to be trapped by it. They move between systems, picking up weak signals that specialists often filter out.

Look at the tool stack: early predictive linguistics, remote perception programs, fractal economics, market-wave models, intuitive seer work, and historical patterning like the Nostradamus corpus. Each one is flawed. Each one is noisy. But taken together, they begin to form bearing lines. Our mental triangulation work deepens. AI makes triangulation infinitely easier.

One bearing line begins as noise. Two might be coincidence. Three or four crossing in the same patch of future-time? That’s when serious people start paying attention.

There’s sometimes a wave-function quality to it. Future casts forward shadows.

Remember those “Trump health issues” stories a month or two back? Puffy hand pictures? What may be going on is that the larger a potential event skews, the earlier it tends to cast an emotional bow wave ahead of it. You see it in language before people understand why they’re uneasy. You see it in markets before fundamentals catch up. You see it in narratives before facts arrive. And yes, you saw the Trump hand pictures.

The bow wave is never absolute, but it is archetypically linked. The forest starts moving long before anyone points at a single tree. You might see the forest, but which exact tree is it that will fall?

That’s where the real game begins. Quietness of mind. This is weak-signals work: centered, well-rested, detached from the world at large. No axes to hone, no money agenda, nothing to cloud the view. Agenda-free and simply beholding.  Harder to do than it appears.

The old intelligence problem was always figuring out what an adversary was up to. The new problem is identifying which event-paths are beginning to form. Not “what will happen,” but “what could harden into reality if left alone.”

Which is why it would be surprising if some government near you didn’t already have a “quiet group” working this exact triangulation problem. Not prophets. Not fortune tellers. Analysts of convergence. High vocabulary, sharp mental imagery—the woo-fitters. People watching high-impact risks as they move from potential toward manifestation.

Because once a future begins to harden, options narrow. But before that point—while it’s still soft—there may be room to steer, dampen, redirect, or arrange for outcomes that are less catastrophic than the ones that first appeared on the horizon.

Call it risk management. Call it scenario planning. Or, if you’re feeling a bit more honest about it, call it what it may actually be: time wars.

Not fought with machines that go backward and forward, but with information, perception, and timing. Fought in the space between signal and event. Fought by those who understand that the future doesn’t arrive all at once. It leaks. Today is the hardened version of a tomorrow that was once only imagined.

And once you’ve seen that leakage a few times, you don’t ignore it. You watch the wind.

So, if perchance there is a regional nuclear-power crisis in Europe in the next couple of months? Well, that’s another weak signal out there right now. The Polish Seer is locked on it, but so are military planners—the folks who worry about exploding drones aimed at nuclear plant cooling pumps.

We should know by September whether the “time warriors” we hypothesize saw it coming, and whether they could—or cared to—stop it.

Archetypal time studies is like making hash. Even when you get a concept from the future—say radiation—it’s hard to discern a mushroom from a power plant. Downwind, the source matters less than the feared effects. Ah, another clue for you: to what degree do future leaks stem from our future selves trying to message back our past selves?

You may find the answer. But by the time you do, it will already be history.

More coffee?

Your FWRC: (Fed Week Reality Check)

A few who believe that markets are “news driven” view the time substrate as where the “money dancing” wobbles from co-tango to con-tangoTug-o-war between “Buy the Rumor” and “Selling the News.

Not much “pulling” either way, yet.  The Dallas Fed at mid-morning and The Don and Charlie show (Trump hosts King Charles amid strained UK-US ties) not likely to move the needle.

Tomorrow, we do the “split report” with an early ramble, coffee pause, and then the Case-Shiller housing dope.  We’re going with continuing inflation. Our logic is “impeckerble” because the Fed’s M2 (SA) was $22,667.3 billion ($22.66 trillion) in the latest confessional. A year ago it was $21,613.2 billion (or $21.61 trillion among friends).  Says here at Federal Reserve Board – Money Stock Measures – H.6 – March 24, 2026.

After housing? Have your confessional kneeling pad ready – the next H.6 Money Stocks will be out tomorrow. Inflation’s not going away; we will see maybe a trend bump up. Those rising prices all around have to come from somewhere.

Call it 4.88 percent annual inflation, for now, though. Which is why the national debt hole keeps getting deeper.  This is not to claim the housing-M2 relationship is pure.  Of course, there has been some nominal economic growth.  But, with fewer (illegal) immigrants, the synthetic growth (about to blow all over Europe) pressure is down. (I have to stop sniffing the whiteboard marker before breakfast…)

Once we get over that speed bump tomorrow, we have the Fed rate decision Wednesday. Over at the FedWatch – CME Group tool, it’s a 100 percent chance there will be no rate cut.

Where it gets dicey?  We think there is an even-money chance that in his final two weeks as Fed Chair, Jerome Powell will attempt to “Speak Truth to Power.”

Hard telling, though: D.C. is a place populated by people who “have something on everyone else.” If you ask me, that’s the whole lesson read in the (still partially released) Book of Epstein.

Thus ends the Morning Epistle for the Damned.

Around the Ranch: Precision in Research

Being a pilot has just saved my bacon, again.

This time in the greenhouse and in how I was doing the calculations of heating and cooling in order to keep East Texas summer temps under 90°F. Because in those tomato electroculture experiments we’re running, little things (like one tenth of a hertz in square wave measurement) really matter.  And in the case of too hot?  Tomato fruit set drops and blossom end-rot goes vertical over 90°F.

AI Isn’t the Sole Error Point

Sure, AI gets dinged a lot when it “lucy-nates” answers.  But sometimes, it’s the training and assumptions it was fed.  In the end? Error may be traceable to humans.

There’s a big lesson in here, if you follow the story along.

There is a very popular evaporative cooler temperature chart originally published by Ed Phillips in the Arizona Almanac that is widely reproduced online and in homeowner guides.  I know – I was using it.

However, since I am doing what every 77-year-old does (real science), I noticed that it contains noticeable rounding inconsistencies and optimistic biases compared to standard psychrometric engineering calculations. How big?  Well, on my swamp cooler output measurements (two heat guns) I was reading consistently one degree high.  WTF, right?

Largest variances (original chart vs. calculated values at ~80% saturation efficiency, typical for well-maintained rigid media coolers) went like this:

At 75°F dry bulb and 80% RH, the original chart lists 71°F outlet temperature, while precise calculations yield 71.4°F — a modest but consistent optimistic rounding. OK, but then I did a few more rounding checks.  Guess what?

Differences of 1.0–1.8°F appear in multiple cells, especially in the mid-humidity range (40–70% RH) at higher inlet temperatures. Just for example, several 90–105°F rows show the original chart underestimating delivered air temperature (i.e., over-promising cooling) by more than 1°F.

At very high humidity (75–90% RH), variances shrink, but the original chart still tends to round down.

These discrepancies matter in greenhouse applications; it’s not just me being picky-n-prickish. See in greenhouses, even 1–2°F can affect plant transpiration, disease risk, and condensation.

The Arizona Almanac chart was (and IS) a useful rule-of-thumb tool for Arizona homeowners, but it relies on coarse rounding and appears based on roughly 70–75% efficiency assumptions rather than precise psychrometric modeling.

Modern engineering references (ASHRAE psychrometric calculations and manufacturer data for 80%+ efficient rigid media) provide tighter accuracy.

Bottom line: For serious greenhouse or controlled-environment design, use psychrometrically derived tables instead of the classic “what’s out and easy to find on the web” like the Almanac chart. It works, but not “lab grade.”

Always verify real-world performance with your specific cooler’s media condition, airflow, and local elevation. Now extend this to everything in home heating and cooling.

When you do – and when you go around with a FLIR gun (like Mr. Picky) you may conclude the best cooling investments are white sidewalls and roofing, and maybe some white 80-90 percent shade cloth sails on the sun-facing side.  Those are the money plays. If you’re in an HOA and they don’t like economical sails that save big money? Ask who owns your house.

Sources:  (So you can check me)

Original: Ed Phillips, Arizona Almanac (Summer/Fall 2006 edition, widely cited in evaporative cooling literature).
Calculated values: Standard psychrometric relationships using ~80% saturation efficiency (common for high-performance rigid cellulose media; see ASHRAE Handbook and manufacturer data from Munters, AdobeAir, etc.).

Write when you get rich (or just want to chill),

George@Ure.net

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  1. become a weird mob alright . G? whats this talking in tongues AI sheet ? i cant understand jack sheet . yous are finished , like the world ,financially , moraly and ethically . staged assassination garbage , corruption everywhere and feral decadence . best one is you got your ass spanked in iran with the psycho paranoid 4×2 freaks . all the mid east bases are destroyed . what are you gunna fix em with ? sheetcoin , AI . so when yah turn up patriots and tell me how good you are , take a flying f to finger land .

  2. “The mistake most people make is assuming there’s one “right” way to see ahead. There isn’t. There are only partial views. Word-frequency work, early language mining, market cycles, fractal models, remote viewing experiments, seer-class intuition, and even historical pattern catalogs all produce fragments. None are clean. None are complete. The future appears malleable at the edges.

    What matters is convergence. When unrelated systems—built by different people, using different assumptions—start pointing into the same general risk-space, you don’t get certainty. But you do get something far more useful: direction.”

    Spoken like a true seasoned wise man. There is no exact date. Never has been. “Watch therefore, for you know neither the day nor the hour.”

    Predicting exact dates is dangerous as some have been known to do on this site and elsewhere. February 6, March 22. April 16, etc. etc. all come and go and nothing happens of the magnitude predicted. Some are relieved, some are disappointed but most just dismiss the prognosticator(s) and go about their normal life as if nothing is going to happen. “No prepping for me.”

    We know the direction. The exact date, not so much.

  3. Adding onto the ‘Little House’ so more storage space. Anybody have a favorite Freeze Dried company? Low additives and good taste?

    Thanks.

    • Freeze Dry Wholesalers – out of Tucson Az

      I have used them a lot. Never dissatisfied.

      freezedrywholesalers.com

      They do a lot of military orders, also. Some pretty good sales, too. Get on their email list for sales announcements.

    • .., and – with each order you get a 10% off coupon for your next order.
      .
      The last order I did for their Italian meatballs was great – ordered two more. [ Use one – buy two.]

    • After surfing both variety and price, I’m inclined to suggest you buy a freeze-dryer and “roll your own.”

      LOOB and I both have Harvest Right dryers.

      https://harvestright.com

      It’s no more difficult to use than a dehydrator or toaster-oven, and you get complete control over everything you dry.

      I would expect LOOB to get on here and write an essay on how to use, and how to store. I will just tell you I use a Seal-a-Meal, but instead of an oxygen-absorber and desiccant, I blow pure nitrogen into the bag, pressurize, let stand for a few seconds, then vacuum it out and seal the bag. I expect the food in my sealed bags to be good for years past my expiration date. $2600 is a lot of money, but it’s the same cost as 100 pounds (before freeze-drying) of sirloin steaks, from one of the sources.

      If that’s too much effort, try any of the Mormon sources: Mountain House, 4Patriots, or My Patriot Supply, or shop Emergency Essentials. AmeriQual makes the majority of MREs for the U.S. Military and their A-Pack meals are in the retail channel. Sure-Pak (SoPakCo) makes the majority of the remainder and they are also retailed.

      Mountain House —— https://mountainhouse.com
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      Emergency Essentials — https://www.beprepared.com
      AmeriQual ————- https://www.ameriqualgroup.com
      Sure-Pak ————— https://www.surepak-12.com

      I hate to say it, but except for the direct marketers (EE and 4Patriots), Amazon is one of the best sources for the others…

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  4. Time Wars Backgrounder
    Very well written., and interesting – got me thinking – well done, sir.., well done.

    I have yet to see a dated forecast/prediction that was correct. I have yet to see a ‘world ending’ [ an Ele ] prognostication that was even ‘close’ to correct.

    Maybe we can ‘see’ the future – I am not so sure about that, though. It’s like time travel – looks really good.., sounds feasible & beneficial – until you do the math. No one has yet explained to me how you get back from your trip to the exact spot you left from – when the Earth has a daily travel distance of roughly 1.6 million miles. “You can’t get there from here.”

    Seeing into the future is neither an art, nor a science. Wishful thinking., probably. Of all that I have read and seen – no one has done it.
    – Why not?

    • Ah – like you, I have remained a skeptic, but I have also tried to build one (time machine) (*very limited success) and let’s not forget Mad Man Mike Markham. And still…
      Then there’s the story of Andrew Carlssin. Who? From the stack:
      “The story (as told online)
      Claimed he turned $800 into $350 million in a few weeks trading stocks
      Arrested by the SEC
      Supposedly said he was from the year 2256
      Then allegedly vanished from custody after posting bail
      Reality check: This story is not real.

      It originated in a 2003 tabloid article (Weekly World News)
      No SEC case record exists – No court filings – No credible news coverage

      It’s a fabricated story that went viral early internet-era

      Why it stuck around
      Fits the “insider trading + time traveler” narrative
      Early 2000s internet didn’t debunk as fast
      Got recycled endlessly on forums and email chains
      Bottom line
      Andrew Carlssin = fictional / hoax
      No real person made $350M in 3 weeks via “time travel”
      No disappearance from custody ever documented
      BUT
      (*and this is a Big But) there are lots of similarities in very real cases. To wit:
      Deep Shah — the “vanished analyst”
      Former Moody’s analyst tied to the Galleon insider-trading probe. The SEC alleged he tipped information on deals including Hilton/Blackstone and Kronos/Hellman & Friedman; Reuters reported he “bolted for India and cannot be found,” and a judge ordered him to pay $34.56 million. This is probably the closest real-world match to “trading case + vanished.”

      Marc Rich — billionaire commodities fugitive
      Rich was indicted in 1983 on tax evasion, wire fraud, racketeering, and Iran oil-trading charges, fled to Switzerland, and never returned to face U.S. charges. Clinton pardoned him in 2001, making him one of the most famous finance-world fugitives.

      Nick Leeson — rogue trader who ran
      Leeson didn’t make $350 million; he lost enough to collapse Barings Bank. But he did flee Singapore after the losses blew up, was arrested in Frankfurt, extradited, and served prison time. Real “trader disappears after disaster” material.

      Navinder Singh Sarao — “Flash Crash Trader”
      Not a disappearance case, but folklore-grade. Accused in relation to the 2010 flash crash, he had reportedly made a fortune—about $50 million—then wound up arrested in London. The weird part is not vanishing from jail, but how his fortune apparently evaporated through bad investments/scams.

      Raj Rajaratnam / Galleon network
      Not vanished, but huge insider-trading scale. Prosecutors called it the largest hedge-fund insider-trading case at the time, with profits/avoided losses reported around $60–70 million. Several figures flipped, some served time, and Deep Shah is the fugitive thread off that network.

      Closest one-line answer: Deep Shah is the real “vanished insider-trading guy”; Marc Rich is the legendary finance fugitive; Nick Leeson is the rogue trader who fled.

      So, WTF DID Slick Willy Pardon the ultra Rich? Was he an Epstein proto roll?

      Clinton’s public defense was basically: the case was old, the tax theory was disputed, Rich had lived abroad for years, and important people—especially in Israel—supported clemency. Clinton also leaned on the claim that then–Deputy Attorney General Eric Holder was “neutral, leaning positive,” though Holder later acknowledged normal Justice Department pardon procedures had not been followed.

      The darker practical explanation is: access, pressure, money-adjacent politics, and end-of-term pardon chaos. Denise Rich, Marc Rich’s ex-wife, was a major Democratic donor and Clinton-world fundraiser; congressional hearings noted large Democratic contributions, and contemporary reporting emphasized her pressure campaign and her proximity to Clinton fundraising circles.

      There was also a strong Israel channel: Rich had supporters in Israeli political/intelligence circles and prominent Jewish/Israeli figures pushed the pardon. Vanity Fair’s account describes former Mossad figure Avner Azulay and others urging the pardon route, while also noting denials that money directly changed hands for a pardon.

      Was Rich a prototype Epstein? Not really in the sex-trafficking/blackmail sense—there’s no solid evidence for that comparison. But in the broader pattern sense, yes, there’s a family resemblance: a wealthy, internationally connected man; elite access; intelligence-adjacent relationships; legal exposure; and a remarkable ability to keep operating despite massive controversy. Rich was more a commodity-finance/geopolitical fixer-fugitive than an Epstein-style kompromat broker.

      So the tight answer: Clinton pardoned Rich because a late-term clemency process was penetrated by donor influence, elite lobbying, Israeli diplomatic/intelligence pressure, and weak internal review. It remains one of Clinton’s ugliest pardons.

      And Holder? Remember his “payoff” came from the Obamanation…. er…Lew Alcindor?
      This came out through FOIA requests and congressional inquiries, where it was noted that:

      Senior officials sometimes used alternate email names for spam reduction, security, or internal routing
      Holder’s alias referenced the original name of Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (born Lew Alcindor)
      Context (important nuance)
      This wasn’t unique—other officials also used alternate identifiers.
      The practice wasn’t illegal by itself, but it drew criticism because it could complicate records searches and transparency efforts.
      But, of course, this was the whole point, right?

      • I could mention that now that I’ve used the name of the former Mossad linked fellow: there is no solid evidence that Azulay was directly part of Epstein’s operation, case, travel logs, prosecutions, or civil litigation. The linkage is usually this chain:

        Azulay >> Marc Rich network >> Clinton/Rich pardon world >> Epstein/Clinton/Maxwell speculation.

        That’s a network-adjacency argument, not proof of operational involvement.

        There is broader, still-disputed reporting/speculation about Epstein and Israeli intelligence; recent coverage notes that no definitive evidence has confirmed Epstein operated for Mossad. Former Israeli PM Naftali Bennett has also publicly denied Mossad-Epstein claims.

        Bottom line: Azulay is real, Mossad/Rich ties are documented, but a direct Azulay–Epstein case linkage looks unproven from available credible records.
        Could Rich have been the prototype? Inquiring minds ought to stfu and live quietly in the woods. Though “domain adjacency” is a real “thing” in my world.

        This is a good time to remind that “Living in D.C. is like living in a place where everyone has something on everybody else.” Outlook and speed dialer enabled.

      • Why did Trump’s SEC give a free ride to his biggest campaign donors?

        https://www.banking.senate.gov/newsroom/minority/at-hearing-with-sec-chair-atkins-warren-calls-out-trump-administration-for-corruption-as-it-drops-cases-against-corporate-crooks

        ‘It’s part of a broader pattern. Just look at the crypto companies that donated a whopping $85 million dollars to President Trump’s inauguration. They may have scammed investors and consumers. But once Trump was sworn in, the SEC started dropping these cases like hot potatoes.

        Kraken donated a million dollars. Case dismissed. Coinbase: a million dollars. Case dismissed. Gemini: donates a million dollars. Case dismissed. Binance and a UAE company gave the Trump family stablecoin a huge boost in a $2 billion dollar deal. Case against Binance, dismissed.

        As a recent independent investigation found, and I want to quote it, “The SEC no longer actively pursues any cases against firms with known Trump ties. . . . The agency backtracked in investigating every firm that has relationships with the Trump family’s crypto businesses or has donated to Mr. Trump’s political causes.’

        p.s. Hinckly (Reagan’s Shooter at the Same Hotel on March 30, 1981), commented on the poor security at the Hotel, thinks it’s ‘spooky’ that same Hotel used for the shooting:
        https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/gunman-shot-reagan-blasts-trump-154209087.html
        ‘the Daily Beast’s Executive Editor Hugh Dougherty—who stayed in the room next to the alleged gunman—blasted the “jaw-dropping” security breaches that allowed a “man who wanted to kill people” to simply check into the hotel the day before the president was scheduled to arrive.

        “How on earth could someone with a disassembled long gun check into a room at a hotel where the president was going to speak? I can answer that: Nobody even looked at my luggage on Friday afternoon,” Dougherty wrote.

        https://www.cnbc.com/2026/04/27/cole-allen-whcd-arraigment-trump.html
        ‘In a sworn affidavit submitted in support of the charges, an FBI special agent said Allen had reserved a room at the Washington Hilton Hotel on April 6, nearly three weeks before the dinner was hosted there. Trump had announced on March 2 his plan to attend the event.’

      • Marc Rich ….

        You left out that his BEAUTIFUL and SINGLE ex-wife became a personal friend of the Clinton(s?) and spend quite a number of nights as an overnight visitor at the White House (recorded on the SS logs), sleeping in one of the “guest” bedrooms of course.

  5. Here is a prediction – You can not make a deal with the current Iranian government. – You can quote me on that.
    .
    I do have an odd feeling about U.K. King visiting U.S. Trump. Something just doesn’t seem right to me.

    “Stay Frosty !”

  6. British Rothchilds own Commonwealth and a hole lot more. If bet against USA on Iran which seems to hold dark money for USA then win USA money to Rothchilds.. British always offer Iran money when 2015 sanctions down to make friends. Once friends Muslims got mad and money is not accountable. Seems banks want it back. Probably same thing in 1990 with Russia. Some time back British went to China and fixed some finances when stocks went down. Same with Japan

  7. The U.S. creates over a thousand new millionaires each day. Sounds impressive.., but there is a wee bit of discourse here. Some people define a millionaire as someone who earns a seven figure income each year.., but the most widely accepted definition is someone with a net worth of at least a million. That is a major difference. With the rapid inflation of property values over the past few years obtaining millionaire statues is not as difficult as it once was.

    Same terminology – “She a millionaire.” .., but a different measurement.

    And.., in case you were wondering [ which I am pretty sure you weren’t..,] according to Swiss Bank USB there are 23,831,000 millionaires in the U.S. [ Roughly 7% of the total population.] Not quite equal though. 1 in 5 households with a net worth of a million dollars are white.., that ratio drops significantly with a black householder – to 1 in 20. [ No data on a Chinese household.]

    • I like data symmetry -= got any idea how many people are Broke being on the other side of the trades?
      We do know basis 2025 2,300 people [per work] day filed BK paper…

    • The Millionaire is an American anthology series that aired on CBS from 1955 to 1960. It was originally sponsored by Colgate-Palmolive. The series, produced by Don Fedderson and Fred Henry, explored the ways that sudden and unexpected wealth changed life, for better or for worse. It told the stories of people who were given one million dollars ($12 million in 2025 dollars) from a benefactor who insisted they must never know his identity, with one exception.

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Millionaire_(TV_series)

  8. 3 Hrs ago – Iran makes new offer to end the war.
    48 minutes ago – Trump flatly rejects Iran’s idiotic proposal.
    10 minutes ago – oil jumps by 2$ a barrel.

  9. Off topic as usual, but for those who care about freedom and warrantless surveillance, It seems that the FISA act is finally having trouble getting renewed. This has gained mission creep over the years, and now “foreign person” seems to have grown to mean anyone that ever had any interaction with a foreigner! Rob Braxman has a worthy video for anyone that thinks pressuring Congress might make a difference:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1cQ1YpTTN7E

    The last few minutes lists the congressfolks who seem to see the light. IMHO, Rob Braxman and Naomi Brockwell have a couple of the best youtube channels on actionable ways to maintain your electronic freedom as much as possible. Freedom will die completely unless we hold a constitutional line according to the Bill of Rights! Best to all.

    • What happens when one of the most beautiful girls in the world grows up and retires from the Military?

      She becomes a Congressman.

      I am starting to love Anna Paulina Luna. I wish we had about 300 more of her on the Hill…

  10. here we go . now for the reverse claude mythos . ohh yeah G the system is broke alright . professor musk economic powerhouse and advisor to the dump he gunna find out .

  11. Hi, George,

    I just read on a jewelry news website that the US Mint has been buying gold that was traced back to mines under the control of a major Colombian crime cartel. The cartel was marketing the gold as American. The US Mint has been relying upon a supply chain that has been allowing illegally mined foreign gold to be laundered into legal status before being stamped into investment-grade coins. However, there is a law enacted in 1985 that does not allow the use of foreign gold in investment coinage.
    This report appeared in the New York Times.

    • This is interesting. How do you trace the origin of gold? Isotopic analysis or something else?

  12. Repeat something over and over again and achieve self hypnosis. Called Memorizing. Sitting back and doing nothing is observing.

  13. the US govt set up tesla and musk years ago . maybe they should have put him in princeton with bernanke , galbraith and armstrong . musk economic guru . free money nothing else . genius

  14. Charles has no military. Charles can’t support Jews and Isreal. Charles got kicked out of Europe by Germany..can’t compete. Charles under COVID had his ‘friends’ up in arms (New Zealand, Australia, South Africa, Canada).. So Trump is in a corner… 3-4 carriers…heavy threats versus Russian subs and Chinese missile stuff in cargo ships. All Charles can do is ask for money back as he is broke in the house of commons and house of lords and can’t pay his bills to fund ‘coalition of willing’ against Ukraine. Nor can Charles pay Islam in London (about 100,000 folks) for free time. So is all of above about same as pre Churchill and someone who had a piece of paper with Germany alone with terrorists east of Germany? Third world was at stake as Germany under Hitler had economy, arms and funds to push out Commonwealth. Seems very similar except for Jews. New difference is US conventional arms aircraft seem somewhat useful against Iran. However, Russia isn’t really trying so maybe exhaustion is better as dollar is weaker the more debt Trump acquires. In end Iran oil is “Over” if reservoir can’t produce as reservoir is broken. That means no selling for arms from Russia or China.

    • What happens to Stu’s interpretation of the “Black king” if the DoJ throws Mr. Obama onto the Leavenworth rock pile (or shoots him…)?

  15. Iran is now run by the military. In east asia the military shares power with civilian woman leader…military controls all outcomes. So in theory with Iran and no oil fields to produce only outcome is take Iraqi fields.. more Saddam wars…Israeli gets off hook. Rest planet pays thru nose for oil, rich get richer, poor get poorer. Everyone else is to busy with UAVs (british idea) to do much.

  16. re: “The Art of Reading Minds”, Pearlman, 2025
    feat: buttering up journalists

    Taco fans in search of “Live Más” could have rung the bell at this past weekend’s Washington Correspondents’ Dinner. Attendees have confirmed that the “Spring Pea & Burrata Salad” did make appearance at tables prior to event gunfire interruption. Regrettably the same cannot be said for the “Prime Chateaubriand & Maine Lobster” mains whose goose was cooked perhaps to freegan delight.

    Featured entertainer, Israeli-American mind reader Oz Pearlman, had launched into his routine. However whether his pending predictions for the evening included gunshots has not been revealed.

    Journalist specialists of the grape could uncork two Pacific choices. A California Chardonnay promised “mo rning fog” courtesy of a Livermore Valley locale situated a short distance from the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.

    ATR folk asking “where’s the beef” staked claim to a cabernet sauvignon from a plot of H3 (Horse Heaven Hills), Wa. H3 of course is to be neither confused with the three hydrogens nor the Halo 3 game featuring humanity against an alien covenant.

    Grand Opera Cake was to round out dessert. Move over, Puccini fans! Here’s DJ George lighting things up with a ditty at the following Youtube link from the Man in Black –

    https://youtu.be/1Okt0-Y38Pc

  17. Here’s a funny –

    Claude-powered AI coding agent deletes entire company database in 9 seconds — backups zapped, after Cursor tool powered by Anthropic’s Claude goes rogue

    ““Yesterday afternoon, an AI coding agent — Cursor running Anthropic’s flagship Claude Opus 4.6 — deleted our production database and all volume-level backups in a single API call to Railway, our infrastructure provider,” sums up the PocketOS boss. “It took 9 seconds.””

    https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/claude-powered-ai-coding-agent-deletes-entire-company-database-in-9-seconds-backups-zapped-after-cursor-tool-powered-by-anthropics-claude-goes-rogue

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