Cue the Silhouettes (1957) brothers and sisters!
“Total nonfarm payroll employment increased by 139,000 in May, and the unemployment rate was unchanged at 4.2 percent, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Employment continued to trend up in health care, leisure and hospitality, and social assistance. Federal government continued to lose jobs.
The unemployment rate held at 4.2 percent in May and has remained in a narrow range of 4.0 percent to 4.2 percent since May 2024. The number of unemployed people, at 7.2 million, changed little over the month.
Of course this is establishment data. And it comes on the heels of a much higher Challenger layoffs report and a lame ADP report. so, is it real? The BLS database tale can be different.
So let’s do the math: Database says 696,000 fewer people are working. Up from year ago, but not the pant load offered in the pied-press release.
After the data, Wall St was holding gains because, we think, it’s harder to spot users of designer drugs.
Global Cooling or Global Inflation?
Pick one: German Industrial Production and Exports Declined in April
On the other: Silver hits 13-year high: Why it’s breaking above the $35 level. We’ve got more than 36-trillion explanations.
Jitters: Getting Things Wrong
Let’s begin with: US hits International Criminal Court judges with sanctions over investigation into Israel | The Independent. This brings us to two thinking points:
- We see increasing evidence the Trump administration is hardening into a pro-Israel state. Six people die in Ukraine and it’s a “stop the presses” moment. Thousands die in Gaza and it’s back page and maybe only a paragraph there. This all has a “shoot the jury” feel to it. Like all souls don’t weigh the same?
- Second point is why the Independent rolled a Vance picture with this story? It was after all a Rubio State decision. Human error or policy capture indicator?
- Well, except VIDEO: Palestinian Terrorist Mohamed Sabry Soliman Films Himself Before Setting Jews on Fire in Boulder — What He Said Should Shake Every Patriot.
- And here’s another mush-headed marketing showdown: Israel threatens to ‘act accordingly’ as Greta Thunberg frolics on sailing boat heading to Gaza: ‘We are prepared’. (Wasn’t there an old saying? “Children should be seen but not heard? Well even seen is now silly….but when you’re marketing mush…
Saying’s often attributed to John Mirk, BTW, an English cleric, who wrote a poem around 1400 that included: “Hyt ys an olde seyde sawe: ‘A mayde schuld be seen, but not herd.’” This referred to young women or maidens, not children specifically, but the idea evolved over time to apply to children. Besides, it seems to work in streaming world pretty well…
Where did “peacenik” Trump go? Trump says it may be better to let Ukraine, Russia ‘fight for a while’? Again, our framing is it seems that Russia and Israel are trying to goad each other into first use of nukes because after the first one is popped, others following would be more defensible. (Not really, but that’s not what the cross-tabbed data shows…)
Just in time for fishing season: North Korea raises capsized warship after failed launch. We got the lines, they got the sinkers…
Equality is not Equal Dept: Massachusetts Sanctuary Cities Take Trump Administration to Court Over Federal Funding Threats. Our strongly held Constitutional view is that the Constitution applies only to Citizens and those here legally with valid entry papers. Then equal protection applies. Not in “messy chew sets” which – like Commiefornia – seems to have money to burn.
Personal Health note: Go read the “Sudden And Unexpected” post on X. Like we didn’t know? COVID Vaccine injury is being DISGUISED as long COVID.
Health note 2: War on 5/6 G starting? (Hat tip to Dr. Ron for spotting…) Attack on 30 telecom masts – investigated as sabotage (Sweden).
And the implosion of Higher Ed continues: Columbia University fails to meet accreditation standards: Education Department.
Something Going Right? Noem just ended Obama’s intimidation program for Patriots on planes, finally!
Around the Ranch: The Afterlife Schema
(That’s a little shorter than “Mapping the Afterlife: What Dreams Teach Us About Death, Reality, and Everything in Between.”)
Made great progress overnight in my “other life’s quest” to learn more about the “Afterlife Schema.” What happens when we die? What’s the science deal? Post NDE (near-death experience), DMT hit, and LRE.
OK, which is what?
Well: A schema is a mental framework that organizes and interprets information. It shapes how we perceive and understand the world.
As I explained in my book Psychocartography, these “schemas” don’t just exist in the “here and now of the shared waking world.” There are additions – add-ons – that we work on in our sleep. Not all (as in everyone) but a fair percentage of people do…
You may recall the childhood rhyme? “Merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily, Life is but a dream”?
“The origins of “Row, Row, Row Your Boat,” which ends with “Merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily, life is but a dream,” is murky. The earliest known publication appeared in 1852 in The Student’s Serenade, a collection of American folk songs. Its simple melody and structure suggest it may have existed earlier, possibly among 19th-century American or British communities. Some scholars tie its roots to the rhythmic work songs sung by rowers or laborers, with its repetitive cadence mimicking the steady pull of oars. The “life is but a dream” lyric, however, adds a philosophical twist that’s led to speculation about influences from Romantic-era poetry or even older metaphysical ideas, though no direct source is confirmed.”
Which gets me to the first “touchstone” in this weekend’s big ponder:
- Is “Life is but a Dream” possibly, a critical “collectible” in making life. Individual elements in a schema are called nodes or concepts.
Yet, we – as a whole world full of bumbling idiots – spiritually blind and bumping into things – are generally never schooled (or figure out for ourselves) that in order to understand what comes after less than 36,500 days (for most humans) there are “nodes and concepts” to be collected. Life is very-much an “escape room puzzle.”
Well, except we all leave. The “club of Life” has it’s own closing hours. We can leave with the keys to escape [any time] or not. Doesn’t matter one way, or the other, to Source/GATU/Universe/God.
Point #2 this morning (And it’s the conceptual basis of my first novel DreamOver) is that the “Life is but a dream” idea really begins to flesh-out a “many worlds interpretation of whole Realities”. Where you go to sleep in this Life, but can (with work) then “wake up in your other – OverLife.”
A hat tip to my consigliere for sharing deep insights into this “many worlds” construct based on the work of Krzysztof Jackowski, a well-known psychic and clairvoyant from Cz?uchów, Poland. When a number-crunching tax attorney analyzes predictions at well-over 80 percent correct, you’ve got to pay attention.
While Jackowski is famed in Poland, where he’s helped authorities solve many crimes, and while his predictions about political figures winning elections, and which Pope would be picked, or the “machinations and fallout from the recent papal conclave – to be evidenced sometime after the first of 2026, his real contribution to humans is not for his “near-future” calls. Rather, it’s his amazing series of interleaved discussions about Life (in this plane) and Death (over here) plus about the Life Review Process which is already in scientific literature.
In fact, referring to this is “revisioning” of one’s life in his discussions, the “Fascinating, Captain” part is that his schema is an extremely close parallel to my own research into “how it all works.”
Which, if you track the Psychocartography work, becomes evident when you consciously recognize that many people – in their dreams – return nightly to “different worlds.”
Here’s where it went in my overnight dream that launched me into this morning’s esoteric ramble.
Visit to the Sailing Planet
In last night’s latest “off-world” adventure I was back on a “home world.” Somehow involved in marine biology on this visit.
Seems here, fish can be trained, much as you would train a pet dog. They like to be petted, and when trained, they “school up” and will follow a small boat around.
In the opening sequence of the dream, I was making notes on a particular illness some of the larger fish were encountering. The “trainable” ones have odd bodies, almost two-parts. Imagine a fish with a “normal” head *(except huge eyes) and then what’s almost a waistline halfway to the rear fin. This enables them to swim at incredible speeds – up to 50 knots over here in waking world. Who knew fish – somewhere in universe – would have “split bodies” (tagmatized) for high speed?
Anyway, I had just figured out that the fish ailment was an irritation on one part of their bodies (upper left, front segment) causing symptoms to appear elsewhere (middle, rear segment). Might be analogous to what we (waking, here) humans are just coming to recognize as the link between diseases like CV/Alzheimer’s in one part of the body, being likely driven by irritation elsewhere; like gut biome?
Anyway, a friend shows up and we decide to go sailing. This whole planet was a sailor’s dream. I’ve written of it before, and if you look at the 2024 Urban article in the “Around the Ranch” section, where I discuss the eerie familiarity to the Cho Mountains of Tibet (and see the picture), you’ll have a good feel for the place.
Whole bottom line here is? We went out sailing between all these massive mountains that drop straight down to the water’s edge – leaving perfect deep water sailing – and I noticed something.
The snow level on the mountains was only about, what, maybe 100 or 200 feet up from the shoreline? Yet, in the cockpit of the sailboat, the temp was a warm 78, or so. And the water we were sailing on was “tropical fish warm.”
We decided to heave-to. Sat there for a day, or two (time and days are seriously wonk over there). But it was one of the most satisfying things I’ve done in a long time. My eyes were literally “eating the scenery” just as one would have a delicious meal; that “can’t get enough of it.”
Side note: Over there, we don’t “eat” in the conventional sense; we take-in energy. This looking at the mountains provided a dramatic recharge.
Spectacular sailing and mountain scenery and this “drinking it in like it’s a liquor.” Then the learning to be shared on the waking side was dropped into consciousness.
The idea was simple: “You are observing a whole different level of stratification of local Reality. In Ure waking world, the rule of thumb is temperature drops 2-3 degrees per thousand feet of elevation. On other worlds, though, as you can see from the snow line, the change is far more steep: 40-degrees colder just 100 feet above…”
OK, I give up: Why?
“Ah. Has to do with the “stacking of worlds.” The old Theosophy explorations into “densities” was conceptually useful, but incomplete. This is one of those things waking-world sci-fi gets terribly wrong. Write this down…”
Shoot.
“One implicate of the Many Worlds Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics is that the many worlds are stacked in various “density layers.”
Like pieces of copy paper? Whole ream’s worth?
“Yes, more or less.”
Hardly seems worth writing a column about.
Then I thought about it and it seemed to fit. Every life at its beginning is like a “blank sheet of paper, is it not? Nice analogy to being born into a blank sheet place…
“Give it a hundred years. Your drive to explain “domain wall scaling” is all about this very thing. Not many people will ‘get it’ – at least, at first. But the larger Reality will come into focus over time. Life is about consciousness spending time, for a while, on one of those sheets of paper. When we die? Off to another sheet where we “wake up” and as Jackowski puts it, we will “revision” the previous sheet as we work our way progressively back to Source. Top sheet.”
I gotta think on this one…
A note on technique. Since AI was asking:
“If you’re living this, are you picking up any specific “nodes” lately, like in dreams or synchronicities, that feel like they’re slotting into your own Afterlife Schema? Or is it more the overall vibe of weaving between worlds that’s got you hooked?”
Actually, it’s from the “dream mapping process” in Psychocartography. See, when you write down (or commit to waking memory) a lot of your “dream adventures” a whole “new world” will begin to appear. Each dream is like a movie set., Enought movie sets and you’ve got a city. A few cities (and traveling between ’em) and a whole world begins to resolve into view.
You will find, for example, that “north is west” in some dreams, and it’s a useful guidepost for personal orientation. Different “norths” hint at which world you’re in. But as you get a whole pile of dreams and mentally “lay them out like a map” they begin to describe “home worlds…” I have two main ones, a “sailing among the mountains” world and a “family world.” Few trees on Sailing World, lots of forests, plant life, railroads and Oceanside resorts on Family World.
Once you’ve got that? Well, fear of Death leaves. But, replacing it is a more approachable problem: answering the question “What is left for me to do here?” We’re all “still here” because there’s a ton more work to do.
And that slides me right into this morning’s To-Do list…solving the rest of the Afterlife Schema will have to wait for another day…
Write when you get rich…
George@Ure.net
its always apple pie good . push the yield higher , destroy the bonds , sell the USD . move to london go east young man buy euros bunds and gilts . we screwed america lets leave time to go to europe . robots got the US markets rigged on float , the king of america approves. hey what can go wrong
“Thousands die in Gaza”
I wonder if Jesus is happier and happier or madder and madder.
“Sadder” would be my guess.
I would guess, disappointed — in all the people who are so gullible that they believe Hamas’ reporting of Palestinian casualties, or so prejudiced that they ignore Israel’s reporting.
If I told you I had $40 trillion in my bank account and could buy Musk, Bezos, and Buffet, give them away, and never miss the cost, would you believe me?
If you would, you are well on your way to owning the Brooklyn Bridge.
If you would not, then why the fuck would you, or anyone else, believe Hamas (whose charter suborns and encourages lying to infidels), or any organization which has neither boots on the ground nor a history of news neutrality?
So far, Israel has killed about 2.5 million of the 2.39 million Palestinians. This leads me to believe someone is lying, and it is probably not the Israelis…
Today is the 81st anniversary of D-Day.
https://apnews.com/article/france-dday-anniversary-normandy-77034f1e01fac2bda85d4518832ce5c6
I do not celebrate war. I wish to honor those who gave their all for a cause they were told was noble and right and which led to the reality we enjoy today.
Many of us have family, relatives or neighbors who were involved in Operation Overlord and are deserving of our gratitude and respect. Others argue it was an unnecessary battle that sent 10’s of thousands of soldiers on both sides to their early graves, or that Germany would have eventually lost the war anyway, and at far less of a cost of human capital than that lost during the actual assault.
Without Operation Overlord on the beaches of Normandy, Russia would have likely ‘eventually’ pushed Germany to the Atlantic, defeating the Reich but in the process, turning most if not all of Western Europe into a vassal of the Soviet state, detrimentally impacting countless lives globally for decades to come and crippling the global economy. So D-Day was a ‘choose your poison’ operation – send thousands of vibrant young men with untold potential into the meat grinder of war, or sentence millions in W. Europe to a life under the repression and scarcities of Soviet rule.
Perhaps this latter alternate future unfolded in a parallel quantum universe. I pray I never get to visit it.
well expressed . totally agree
Mr. len
One of the very very few I listen too. Len it is very tough being a true non human which I am. You are on track more than you know. You have an ability to understand. i could blow up this board. YOU ARE A GOOD SOUL. Thank You. Funny how things work out.
Happy Rally Friday,
Friends in the bus. often joked that of all days through the week, betting on the first half of Friday (before the senior brokers left for the Hamptons) was a natural. NFA, just an observation. Ms. Mkt. seems to adore the Goldilocks BLS data … let’s gun some stops. Party on Garth!
“… fish can be trained, much as you would train a pet dog. They like to be petted, and when trained, they “school up” and will follow a small boat around …”
It’s no dream WordSlinger, it’s real. Petting a fish isn’t much like petting a dog but they can “decide” you are no threat. If you _aren’t_ trying to eat them they adopt you as a safe zone and will even follow you. This not from some think tank (Steevo) … from actual long life experience.
Today is National Doughnut / Donut Day (apparently either speeling is acceptable now that they’re their there and they-are are all cultural constants. Around here it’s Minnow Enrichment Day (as is every day until I’m out of doughnuts / donuts).
The minnow / baitfish school which calls my pier shadow home can see me above the water and avoids me, to the extent they stampede if I raise a hand. Now, after learning I’m the Johnny Appleseed of pastries, my personage at the seawall draws a crowd.
Another local critter and I had it out today. It would seem reptilian amphibian water snakes are very slow to learn. I pinned a 3-footer on one of the sets of pier steps. It could have been much worse for the snake. Watch this space.
We are still smoke-eaters here.
Oh Canada!
E
Looked like fog this daybreak but weather guy on TV said it’s smoke. Not going out to pull any scapes today. Tomorrow to be nicer here.
“…they can “decide” you are no threat. If you _aren’t_ trying to eat them they adopt you as a safe zone and will even follow you.”
Hanauma Bay in East Oahu is a marine sanctuary. You can swim among the fish there, and they will eat out of your hand!
I used to feed Waldo – a moray in the rock 100 feet down in front of Sunset House in grand cayman back int he day. Moray’s ain’t cute from they LOVE pressurized cheese product from a can…
Am a witness to martial arts advisor attract Fish, Birds, and Animals with just his own NRG.
A look is all it takes..is also reason he wears real thick glasses – perfect vision, but suppresses the Qi from his Eyes. Dude walks down a hallway and electronics nearby go wonky, fluorescent lights surge – its a real thing..nucking futz!
I regularly see Fish move, that are trained to Food, might have even been involved in training a few Mammals myself back in the day.
T
here is famous old restaurant on St Michaels isle eastern shore that has giant resident Strippers living around the decks/docks of the restaurant – kids loved to go that restaurant – they even have Soft Shell Clams on the menu..YUM! Everyone feeds the strippers when there, talking giant fish that just slow roll up on surface to get leftovers and whatnotz offered by the patrons. No doggy boxes, just feed it to the Strippers..
I love how the media yells every time the Hamas war machine yells out a number without any check. Where were they when Assad was killing 500,000 of his own people. I guess its only news for the commumedia when a Jew kills a Muslim.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casualties_of_the_Syrian_civil_war
The fact that the world seems hell bent on erasing the only democracy in a pool of tyrants, should worry any observer. The whole point of doing this is much bigger than you want to know.
Hamas is the official source for all Palestinian State information, so rather than place actual, unbiased reporters on the ground (or imbed them in the IDF) Reuters, the BBC, and everyone else that’s likely to have a “Middle East Bureau” just rolls with the “official” numbers…
And we are too lazy and stupid to demand an unbiased check of either casualties or the situation, as a whole.
Whoa Nelly !
Man yesterday was a ruff day for Pride Month, like no loob painial ruff.
Elon and Donny break up during Pride Month – that is highlarity at its finest.
Universe really does have a delicious sense of humor it seems.
The man does not have an athletic bone in body (his own that is) and yet he is a Switch Hitter., go figure.
Go Orange jesus, Go! whatwhat -https://youtu.be/w7BzqsMSy1s?si=0uSpTZTdJTtpXMvs
*Write when you’ve unloaded all that WORTHLESS paper – anyone can print TP, anyone.
https://jonfleetwood.substack.com/p/radioactive-iodine-131-fallout-blanketed
I’ll take the smoke.
“Between 1951 and 1962, the U.S. government detonated more than 100 nuclear bombs in the open air—at the Nevada Test Site and elsewhere—releasing radioactive fallout into skies”
Wonder what …
Note to Len on your USD issues…
May work fine until Europe realizes that Putin is deciding that he both needs a bigger “Buffer” and is also pissed as hell at GB and it’s never ending attempts to destroy Mother Russia so he decides to spank GB “HARD”, as in destroy some important part of it, so as to finally teach it a lesson (which everybody else will then be forced to take notice of)
Anybody who thinks it wasn’t GB’s hand behind the partial destruction of one leg of Russia’s Nuclear Triad needs to go back and revisit the GB’s Elites long standing hatred of everything Russian. Putin KNOWS … and will now want revenge.
“Our strongly held Constitutional view is that the Constitution applies only to Citizens and those here legally with valid entry papers.”
the framers were pretty clear with their use of words – persons, people and citizens. the plain reading of the constitution is that due process applies to all persons.
“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…”
even absent the constitution every person everywhere is born with the inalienable right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
you appear to be a fascist in the making arguing that people can just be swept up off the street and imprisoned without any due process. it’s really quite shocking you feel that way. you must feel that all souls don’t weigh the same.
Me? A fascist? You’re a wing-nut open borders guy! US laws apply to US persons!
In U.S. legal terms, a “U.S. person” generally includes:
U.S. citizens (by birth or naturalization).
Lawful permanent residents (green card holders).
Certain individuals physically present in the U.S. under specific legal statuses, such as those with valid visas or other proper entry documents, depending on the context (e.g., tax law, export controls, or immigration).
However, the exact definition varies by context:
Tax law (IRS): U.S. persons include citizens, lawful permanent residents, and some non-citizens who meet the “substantial presence test” (based on time spent in the U.S.).
Export control laws (e.g., ITAR, EAR): U.S. persons include citizens, nationals, permanent residents, and certain protected individuals (e.g., refugees or asylees) but exclude undocumented individuals or those on temporary visas unless specifically authorized.
Immigration law: The term may focus more on citizens and those with legal status (e.g., visa holders, asylees, or refugees), excluding undocumented individuals.
Undocumented individuals are typically not considered U.S. persons in most legal contexts, as they lack proper entry documents or legal status. However, they may still be subject to certain U.S. laws (e.g., taxation if earning income).
Move to Mexico – go see what you can scam there in the way of free education, etc after ioyu illegaly entered. My God man, what planet did you teleort from?
Just a hunch g but I don’t think @truth is a guy. Something said in her comment a few weeks ago triggered it for me.
Mexico. Good idea.
The Magnificent Seven (1960) | Scene: The seven ride are caught by Calvera and his men…
“What I don’t understand is why a man like you took this job in the first place. Why?”
“There’s a fellow I once knew in El Paso, I asked him that same question. Why?”
” And?”
“He said it seemed like a good idea at the time.”
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7Q8qFPmWXFM
“truth” regularly misses the point that the framers of the constitution were writing laws for THIS country’s people, NOT the whole damn planet!
What a revelation. thank you Hank
So, tell us again, why you suffer trolls…
lol – just my giving back to the impaired. Ooohmmmsss…
Trying to convince these idiots is like wrestling pigs in mud. They like it. Just call them idiots and leave it at that.
“even absent the constitution every person everywhere is born with the inalienable right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.”
U R a F-ing moron .
Where on planet Earth besides north america, AUS and EU is this even remotely true ? Obviously you have never left Ure parents basement, or home town.
Travel to any major city in north america or 3rd world country – head to the poorest neighborhoods, in Philly its North Philly, Chicago -southside, LA-Compton & Barrio areas and spend 48 hrs in da ghettos’ and then tell me any of that above bullschiesse is even remotely possible – its IS not, it is an ideal and nothing more.
You appear to be a Stone Cold Idiot .
“Life is very-much an “escape room puzzle.”
Well, except we all leave.”
No, we don’t. We keep coming back. And it is very much a ‘trap’ if you are not prepared. Best book (by an ‘experiencer’) I have found is:
LEAVING THE TRAP How to exit the reincarnation cycle
By Isabella A. Greene
https://www.amazon.com/s?k=LEAVING%20THE%20TRAP%20How%20to%20exit%20the%20reincarnation%20cycle&i=stripbooks
” Israel threatens to ‘act accordingly’ as Greta Thunberg frolics on sailing boat heading to Gaza: ‘We are prepared’. (Wasn’t there an old saying? “Children should be seen but not heard? Well even seen is now silly….but when you’re marketing mush…”
You DO understand that Greta Turdburger is 22 YEARS OLD and has, for years, only been a “child” within the orb of the propaganda wing of the world neocommunist movement, and only then, when it suits their purposes. Notice that “global warming” no longer exists? Greta has abandoned her climate change activism in favor of Palestinian activism because neither issue really exists, and her activism is actually all about narcissistic little Greta…
Well d’uh. Of course. But like the old saying in my circles: A fetus even even human until it has graduated from law school or med school
We have had a group of remoras living under the boat and a couple that hang under the dinghy. We recognize them from features like clipped pectorals and wild colors. Some are steel gray, others darker with green and black. Funny looking things with a big sucker like dpot on top of the head and a form that makes it look like they are upside down. We have a door on our transom that opens to about trn inches from the waterline and they come running when we go aft to dump food scraps. Chicken skin, steak gristle, and papaya are obvious favorites. They don’t attach to the bottom but hang off the outboard rudder and will let you pet them. When we row ashore the dinghy family go along for the round trip.
All last night was big lightning and heavy rain. Winter is coming. Nice it’s cooler though. We’re heading West soon.
Stiks
(“so, is it real? The BLS database tale can be different.”)
??????…… Does BLS stand for bull shit….lol lol lol
I don’t know anyone that’s doing good right now..but then I live at the bottom of the pyramid not at the top..
“We see increasing evidence the Trump administration is hardening into a pro-Israel state”
By all means, let’s harden into a pro-North Korea or pro-Venezuela State, instead. Heaven forfend we should ever support the only democracy or non-communist nation in the entire region. Maybe Trump should send more billions of Obamabucks to Iran?
(“Where did “peacenik” Trump go? Trump says it may be better to let Ukraine, Russia ‘fight for a while’? Again, our framing is it seems that Russia and Israel are trying to goad each other into first use of nukes because after the first one is popped, others following would be more defensible. “)
phew… I’m going to make a wild guess here..
Trump realizes the country is broke.. the dollars worthless.. there’s what almost forty trillion dollars in raw resources…
we see it with the tariffs.. the tariffs don’t target the ones destroying the country for financial game ..instead tariffs often create unintended consequences, impacting everyday workers more than those at the top who make financial decisions. While tariffs are typically introduced to protect domestic industries, the cost of imported goods rises, forcing businesses to either absorb the cost or pass it down to consumers and workers. Meanwhile, those with higher financial flexibility—corporate leaders or major investors—often find ways to navigate these changes, leaving the burden on lower-wage earners. It’s a frustrating reality, particularly when workers who fuel the economy are left struggling while those in power maintain their advantage.
SO….. my guess is it’s for the business model taking a gamble that it won’t escalate into a world war !!! I’m probably way off on my guess.. it just looks like a chess move ..no one wants the world war.. in a world war everyone loses.. since Putin and Xi have shown restraint from escalating it.. relying on negotiation and the nonstop attacks from Ukraine..he’s gambling that Russia and their defenses are showing signs of weakening.
Most legal scholars agree that the Fifth and Fouteenth Amendments protect everyone ‘legally’ within US borders or within the confines of US possessions, regardless of citizenship status. The definition of ‘legally’ becomes the crux of the argument RE: deportation or incarceration.
“Let’s begin with: US hits International Criminal Court judges with sanctions over investigation into Israel”
I assume you only consider this “wrong” because we didn’t sanction them all…
The International Court of Criminals is a neopolitical body chartered by the UN and designed to give (principally) 3rd world shitholes (and to a lesser degree, declining “powers”) license to bully nations (and their leadership) with whom they cannot compete economically or militarily.
Notably, Britain and France are the only nuclear signatories, and (I believe) every UK territory or protectorate is a signatory, EXCEPT Guernsey and Jersey…
Got milk?