Busy Friday here, so let’s jump right into the EmpSit – employment situation – report just out:
“Total nonfarm payroll employment increased by 254,000 in September, and the unemployment rate changed little at 4.1 percent, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Employment continued to trend up in food services and drinking places, health care, government, social assistance, and construction.”
This isn’t too surprising since the JOLTS numbers Tuesday were good, ADP reported the world not ending on Wednesday, and the layoffs were low in the Challenger job cuts Thursday. I mean, it would need to have been a biggie to get things “off the rails.”
Now, having said that, the database numbers are what drive our thinking, so let’s focus there for a second. Since you will see a gap usually between the “establishment data” and the household data. One the politicos don’t talk too much about. But it gives everyone some talking points.
Yes – that’s A GAIN OF 430,000 JOBS – So again, we ask – Why did the Fed lower a 1/2 point??? Political bullshit!
Then there’s the CES Birth-Death Model which estimates jobs into – and out of – existence… added 460 thousand for the month: CES Net Birth-Death Model (bls.gov)
While jobs matter, the REAL employment deal today is?
Longshoremen Go Back
Yeah. Color us skeptical too, but no one is asking. Striking port workers to return to work Friday as negotiators reach an agreement on wages. Well, sort of. Yes, they ILA is going back until January. BUT the sticky parts – like machines and automation on the docks are still floating out there. So while the existing contract is extended – and there’s talk of $5 bucks more (per hour, per year for the coming six years) – we think everyone will be in much harder positions (outside the Union) which – for now – has been in the catbird seat.l
Hurricane Help
…is slowly coming. But the death count is growing as more recovery efforts are underway: Hurricane Helene live updates: At least 215 dead as some communities struggle to get basic supplies. The good news is that a longshore strike won’t impact imports for a couple of months now.
In the meantime, there could be more weather woes to come as Florida impacts: Hurricane Kirk, Tropical Storm Leslie, Gulf system are being eyed.
And what is it that Tampa, Florida doesn’t need any more of right now? Yep: rain. Gulf of Mexico disturbance likely to bring heavy rain to Tampa Bay. But how much? Meanwhile, I hope to hear from G.A.Stewart of the popular Nostradamus-focused The Age of Desolation web site this weekend. Stu’s gotten slammed and is moving while working to get some of the mission critical training facilities at McDill (the pickle) AFB (which is out on the peninsula south of the city of Tampa) back on line.
War and the Weekend
Kharg or nukes? Let’s begin with the most recent dust-ups first: Israel-Iran live updates: Beirut strikes target new Hezbollah leader Safieddine; Khamenei praises missile attacks. And while the West puts on the happy-face, there is a story in the Washington Post today on some of the missiles getting through. Specifically in Iranian missiles hit multiple Israeli military sites, videos show – The Washington Post.
Which leads into the question what will happen next. One option is for Israel to attack the massive oil facility at Kharg Island. It wouldn’t be the first time, reminds Wikipedia:
“Once the world’s largest offshore crude oil terminal and the principal sea terminal for Iranian oil, the Khark Island facilities were put out of commission in the fall of 1986. Heavy bombing of the Khark Island facilities from 1980 through 1988 by the Iraqi Air Force during the Iran–Iraq War very nearly destroyed most of the terminal facilities. Khark Island was situated in the middle of the Darius Oilfield, also destroyed by the intensive bombing. Repair to all facilities has been very slow, even after the war ended in 1988. The events experienced by this island gave rise to the dispute in the English contract law case The Kanchenjunga [1990] 1 Lloyd’s Rep 391, regarding the conditions for repudiatory breach of contract and a claimant’s right to elect to accept repudiation.”
The Biden administration is trying to talk Israel into waiting a month to get past the elections here. But that presses Israel to do something about the Iranian nuclear project which likely by now has between one and three old-style nukes. All it would take would be some “big eyes in space” reporting loading of a device (or devices) into cargo planes for “one way delivery” to Israel and then the whole Middle East lights up.
So while we wait to see what happens with Iran’s up to 40-billion gallons a year or energy shipments, remember any Israeli first use would then let Russia more immediately reach for tactical devices in Ukraine (and adjacent) countries.
In the meanwhile, though, we can see oil becoming a real fulcrum of the lead-in the WW III. Especially with Explosions and UAV attack reported in Russia’s Voronezh Oblast on October 4. So Russia energy is under attack and Iran’s soon could be. And suddenly those Goldman forecasts of a further $20 spike in oil prices could become very real.
Freaking mess.
But there’s Good News
In that China is still on break and won’t be able to invade Taiwan for at least several weeks. Taiwan is going through their own version of Helene right now as you can see in the video of 3 Kaohsiung 7-Eleven store clerks bracing door blown back by Krathon.
LCD Entertainment
While the grown-ups are looking for radiation meter deals, the LCD crowd – which you know stands for lowest common denominator peeps – are fully wrapped around distractions left, right, and center.
In the Center Ring today: Country singer Garth Brooks accused of rape in new lawsuit.
While in the Right Ring: Melania Trump defends abortion, challenging husband’s campaign (yahoo.com).
Then in the Left Ring: Calling Trump ‘petty’ and ‘vindictive,’ Liz Cheney makes conservative case for Harris. Another fair wind nest-feathering RINO, anyone?
Down in the Narco-state next door – which we stupidly have left the border open to – 12 bodies bearing signs of torture found with cartel messages in Mexico, authorities say – CBS News. Democrats are incurrable stupes on this one.
At the Ranch: STS Special & Video Friday
First the STS Special: Both Amazon and Wal-Mart are going head-to-head next week for any leftover, uncommitted consumer discretionary income you might have left. (If you do, you may be single, lol.)
So drop by Sunday when we lay out a nice, methodical system for Tool Sluts to get their fix. “Tell me, what do you truly desire for your shop?” (Sounds like a Lucifer Morningstar query. If you don’t know who that is, see this video for clues:
A Useful Phone Call: My consigliere happened to call around lunch time Wednesday as Elaine and I were cutting up a hunk of beef to make spaghetti. The kind that you cook for about 5-hours on a low simmer so the meat is fall-apart tender and oh so good as leftovers.
“Don’t forget to be careful when you’re climbing the Spaghetti trees for dinner – you know G2 says ladders are dangerous.”
“What the hell does that mean?”
“I’ll send you a link…” *Which he did…
As it turned out, we were forced to use noodles from the lasagna bush, because thanks to the heavy rains this year, spaghetti weevils took out most of the Texas spaghetti crop.
Chris Tyreman, who does award winning art (like the cover for my book The 100-Year Toaster – which is about how planned obsolescence is killing us – has another dandy example of his wry ad man humor in this video about going camping…
I’ve got to get Chris going on the revised title and a cover for the anti-aging book serialized on the Peoplenomics.com site. Chapter 12 (Sex and other Mine Fields) went up this week. Trying to get Chapter 13 (Nibbles and Buzz) done this weekend…
Say, that gets me to looking at the clock and gee, time to get to work… or at least what passes for work, around here…
Write when you get rich,
George@Ure.net
An afternoon Lay would be nice.
I think several thousand have died in NC alone. I have pics of msgs talking about 1,000 full body bags and more on ice from just 1 place; 500 another place,
RandomMike: ugh, hope those tallies are inflated but possibly not. We have no idea, especially since the dysfunctional government still sees this as their affair and is in some cases thwarting private efforts.
The whole thing is infuriating. You can’t change weather (ahem, not for better or worse) but you can change our response. How can we be so slow to help our fellows. No, don’t pay for luxury hotels for illegal guests … pay for digging out the SE.
Where the f*** are our helos? Why aren’t they air dropping kits with a starlink, a genset and 100 gallons of fuel? Where are the troops? People in the hollers of mountainous N. Carolina haven’t seen a soul, unless a neighbor, for 6 effing days!
If private individuals wan to help work-a-round, even if slightly in the way, or whatever, well, make a hole! This should be a full court press from Federal, State, Military, Police, EMTs, private citizens … all the above please!
We are better than this. I had a sad text exchange with a NC bud who was going to bail, do a temp move to Atlanta. Hope he made it. We have no transformers to relight too many fried substations.
The repairs are going to cost lives. Make haste!
Always, Egor
ps – apparently only coastals buy flood insurance, not people in the mountains of the SE and … less than 1% are covered. We have a lot more homeless to house. If there’s a shortage what say we care for our own first and let others wait in Mexico (or wherever)
Loads of food and other supplies have been shipped to the area, but FEMA won’t let them be distributed because they’re not from “approved vendors.” Asheville has become an island, but people trying to deliver food and water by boat were turned away by authorities. Some reports of FEMA confiscating donated food from churches and schools. A pilot flying a helicopter to rescue people was threatened with arrest if he continued. Mike Adams of Natural News has $146,000 of food that he wants to load onto pallets and put in trucks for delivery, but he’s rethinking how to deliver it because he suspects FEMA will confiscate it all. LOTS of such stories coming out! And the bodies are in the 1000’s, not the 100’s as being reported.
This is Maui 2.0. Some people have already been told in a meeting that the government is taking their property. Coincidentally, the area has a world-wide source of quartz, and according to rumor, also has a large area of unmined lithium. I wonder how many DEW-generated disasters will be perpetrated, and how much land will be grabbed, before a REAL insurrection takes place.
It is enraging! Starlink engineers report FEMA is ACTIVELY BLOCKING shipments for relief!
https://www.zerohedge.com/technology/spacex-engineer-north-carolina-has-dire-warning-biden-harris-fema-actively-blocking
FEMA tried to shut down a medical tent in a hurricane stricken area. Wait until you hear the shocking response from a veteran to the federal government. Unbelievable! Can you imagine—shutting down a lifeline when people need it most?!
https://x.com/PatUnleashed/status/1842185594631598308
Local Sheriffs have threatened to arrest FEMA workers if they hinder rescue and aid work.
https://x.com/BroSpencer/status/1842215667065303142
Asheville has a list of 12,000 missing persons from Buncombe County, alone.
“Where the f*** are our helos?”
Parked, out of harm’s way.
“Why aren’t they air dropping kits with a starlink, a genset and 100 gallons of fuel?”
Elon Musk
@elonmusk
Just received this note from a SpaceX engineer helping on the ground in North Carolina.
@FEMA
is not merely failing to adequately help people in trouble, but is actively blocking citizens who try to help!
“Hey Elon, update here on site of Asheville, NC. We have powered up two large operating bases for choppers to deliver goods into hands. We’ve deployed 300+ starlinks and outpour is it has saved many lives.
The big issue is FEMA is actively blocking shipments and seizing goods and services locally and locking them away to state they are their own. It’s very real and scary how much they have taken control to stop people helping. We are blocked now on the shipments of new starlinks coming in until we get an escort from the fire dept. but that may not be enough.”
“Where are the troops?”
There are about 1100 NCNG, bivouacked and awaiting orders from FEMA (same as yesterday and the day before.) Regular troops and copters are not present. Rumor has it Mr. Biden is calling up a thousand troops, but I’ve no idea what they will be doing, or where.
FEMA is reportedly confiscating money and materiel that’s been donated to schools and local charities. Folks in NC and TN who have the ability to communicate are referring donors to churches and church organizations, specifically (but far from exclusively) that of Franklin Graham (Samaritan’s Purse) because he has Billy Graham’s clout, and his organization is based in Boone, NC, which is near the epicenter of the devastation zone.
More from @elonmusk:
Elon Musk
@elonmusk
SpaceX engineers are trying to deliver Starlink terminals & supplies to devastated areas in North Carolina right now and
@FEMA
is both failing to help AND won’t let others help. This is unconscionable!!
They just took this video a few hours ago, where you can see the level of devastation: roads, houses, electricity, water supply and ground Internet connections completely destroyed.
@FEMA
wouldn’t let them land to deliver critical supplies … my blood is boiling …
Valentina Gomez
@ValentinaForUSA
13h
Multiple sources on the ground are confirming that there is a blockade
Elon Musk
@elonmusk
·
13h
Yeah, it’s not just SpaceX. They won’t let anyone help!
Laura Loomer
@LauraLoomer
·
10h
They are denying truck drivers from coming to deliver supplies too.
They won’t even allow MEDVAC helicopters to be deployed to rescue elderly people trapped in a flooded nursing home.
This is so deliberate!
”
So I can’t post this myself, but
maybe you can get the word out.
We’ve been in Greenville,SC with
12 Medevac helicopters under
FEMA. We are just sitting here
doing nothing. FEMA won’t send
us in to help with medical or even
supply delivery. We’ve been here
since Sunday. We are all
frustrated at not being allowed to
help because of red tape
We could carry a 500 lb payload
of supplies for those in need.
Nope. Sitting here. We asked to
go to nursing homes in affected
area that are cut off to provide
primary care. Nope. Won’t let us
do shit.
”
Etc, etc…
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1842284913279586447
years ago .. there was a bad storm.. I made sack lunches.. for the Red Cross to hand out.. found out later that they asked for a buck and a quarter for each sack lunch.. something tells me it has to do with the business model..
I would like to read more on the blue balls being discovered.. I use the jell that goes into diapers for hydroponics.. I wonder how this would work with cocoa char… and did someone seed the clouds..
A close friend who’s working with a rescue team in Yancy County, NC says National Guard Helicopters are making steady runs with supplies and search teams with side-by-side 4X4 vehicles. Civilian helicopters are working right alongside them hauling supplies in and victims out.
Any mention of FEMA – ??
Pedo joe will take their $750.
Talk about discrimination. Lahaina, Maui fire victims only got $700.
just think.. if only anyone knew ahead of time.. they could have gotten the right clothing on to get assistance from sloe and company…
https://www.amazon.com/Tigerdoe-Cinco-Mayo-Costume-Authentic/dp/B075ZYWLCC
Iran–Iraq War?
NSA, Crypto AG, and the Iraq-Iran Conflict.
https://www.hermetic.ch/crypto/kalliste/speccoll.htm
Carter administration project.
One word for the genius vet mil analysts out there posting pure MIC bullscheisse.. Fattah-1
Read it, and weep.
davids Sling -nerp, Iron dome – nerp, Patriot – nerp.. Can you say “unstoppable’?
Patrioits systems have all proven worthless in ukraine..useless.
Or – Just ask the poor souls in mossad Hq bldg, or the F35’s(20) & crews? who got pounded into the Negev sands at Naivtitum.
next ?
..are S400/500 interceptor Missiles faster than F22/F35s ? These badboys not only take out offending incomings’, warheads split up and hunt down delivery “bombers”.
never mind the oniks anti ship missiles – houthis. R2D2 gonna throw a wall of lead at hypersonic missile traveling less than 40Ft above the water ? Multiples ?
Would not want to be haze gray and underway in the ME.
As my maine man James Brown used to say..”good god, Its too Hot in the Hot Tub!
” gonna git in da watta” -https://youtu.be/yAJnpaFRrlw?si=-T2G0j0DDvV0iGWT
Game has changed, while youse all were in mirror admiring Ure campaign ribbons, Tango’s were busy..very busy.
Funny ,I didn’t read any thing about the rank and file longshorepeople voting on the contract ! Kind of like the communist’s leading our country to destruction.
There was no contract negotiation — merely a postponement of the general strike.
Mr. Biden got them to suspend the strike until after the first of the year (probably after the 21st, but that’s just a guess on my part…)
THEN he came to the Briefing Room to make the FIRST Presidential Briefing OF HIS ENTIRE TERM (right as Cammy’s speech in Detroit was beginning), to ensure everyone knew it was Biden, and not Harris, who arranged the suspension, and there’d be no live Cameltoe. I’m guessing he’s not pleased that the Cameltoe Express has forgotten how she got there, and he’s probably still pissed about Emhoff slipping Jill the salami…
“Israel to attack the massive oil facility at Kharg Island.’
The U.S. being a ‘net petroleum exporter’ means the $ soars, gold collapses, stock multiples are boosted and we sing after the attack.
pre-1970’s lifestyle here we come – one income/one household.
Doc Sam is of the opinion that Nubu (brown magnetic dwarf twin sun binary solar system we live in) may be having solar issues. Two CMEs are big… with magnetic pole shift appearing to have stopped… inner core issues with outer core and then restarted at twice rate movement (10 miles per month) the two CMEs may overheat the core and create more faster movement…
Never mind the Earths’ inner Abzu….just imagine what those same NRG’s are doing to the “Sunatarians” inner cores ?
If those NRGs from space are creating the Expando Earth phenomena s’ – can you imagine the effects of same energy on the “practitioners” who the “eat” the Sun every day ?
Think redlight therapy is beneficial..?
One of the healthiest things a Humanbody/Energybody can do is step outside and Watch the Sunrise – better than a morning vitamin stack..
dont think i didnt notice.
George says and i Quote,
” you only get so many times at bat.”
a couple months later the Long Shoremen, Boeing, Amazon and a number of other unions all go on strike.
and she said to me, You Hit a Home Run!!!
hahhaha
the ever present pshyic mind.
:)
re: “Terminal Roulette”
feat: Nike
Folks,
Apparently underground tombs on Iran’s Khark Island feature a relief of Nike, the Greek goddess of victory.
Over on the American Riviera that Duchess lately of Montecito has been photographed by msm attired in an Arabic-scripted black t-shirt beside her publicist. The script appears to translate into the slogan “Woman, Life, Freedom”. It’s a rallying cry for supporters of Mahsa Amani who was murdered by the Iranian morality police. The Duchess’ publicist will continue to represent the ‘non-working Royal duty’ couple as she establishes her own firm offering brand management to high-profile people. The firm will be named after a story by Rumi, the 13th century Islamic Persian poet who is celebrated by the Whirling Dervishes.
In the meantime, allegations by an outsourced Iranian-American editor of the “Hollywood Reporter” pertaining to ‘Duchess Difficult’ continue to be refuted. According to Wikipedia, the editor was able to gain a toehold on the digital media enterprise ladder with timely angel investment whose roster included the former proprieter of Little St. James Island.
Let’s join DJ George in studio for some meditation of madding crowds. Please adjust your volume levels accordingly as the playlist takes flight with a dreamy Fab Four number from the spirit world –
“Revolution 9”.
Lest we forget, the White House schedule for today comprises the Daily Briefing being delivered privately at 11:00 am. That is all. Have a great weekend, everyone!
With the U.S. budget at 2 trillion the past two years. By going from one to two trillion. That one trillion create 20 million jobs at $50,000 a year. Or 10 million jobs at $100,000. And you wonder why the politicians in Washington don’t care about a balance budget. How are they going to get reelected. One six year term in any political office in their lifetime. Then retire from public office.
(“Yes – that’s A GAIN OF 430,000 JOBS – So again, we ask – Why did the Fed lower a 1/2 point??? Political bullshit!”)
isn’t it funny!
all the official statistics says the Biden Harris ad.inistration is one of the best administration’s in two hundred years….
everyone should be swimming in money.. then you walk up to the checkout counter.. the clerk rings up your order and asks.. need any toilet paper.. smells like you just started in your shorts..lol
along came poly clip..
https://youtu.be/mbDcnUH6rOc?si=hCGuNtt_1NMIUWlb
BEIRUT (AP) — The United States is rerouting $72 million of America’s assistance to Lebanon to help the country’s cash-strapped government boost wages of its soldiers and police officers, the U.S. ambassador said Wednesday.
Washington is a key donor of the Lebanese Army and its 80,000 members, providing over $3 billion in military aid since 2006. The announcement Wednesday is the first time the U.S. is allocating funds for wages of security personnel in Lebanon.
Lebanon, a tiny Mediterranean country of 6 million people, is struggling with an unprecedented economic crisis, one that the World Bank says is among the worst worldwide since the 1850s. Three-quarters of the population live in poverty, while the Lebanese pound has lost over 90% of its value against the dollar. Inflation is constantly rising.
Lebanon has no government. The deeply divided parliament has voted eleven time to elect a President and form a new government., all eleven votes have failed…., miserably.
Israel received $124 billion in U.S. aid from 1949 to 2023, and at least $6.5 billion over the past year. The United States has also provided around $3 billion in military aid to Lebanon since 2006, including around $2 billion in weapons. Last year, the Biden administration began paying the salaries of Lebanese soldiers and police directly.
Though Lebanon pulled their army back as Israel advanced ground troops into Lebanon., at least one of their soldiers was killed at an aid station.
We have trained, funded and supported two Armies that are about to start shooting at each other
It’s what we do dude…
Reagan with the Iran – Iraq war.., which of lead to, the Iran Contra affair. Which lead to..,
I’m very unhappy with a number of things I am slowly growing to believe driven by events. I used to live in a Good and Happy World of unicorns, beer, and skittles, populated by Good, kind, and logical citizens.
…a world where I would never entertain such an ugly thought as western North Carolininans being allowed to be cut off incommunicado as a means to swing an election in a swing state. West NC is heavily conservative in its voting record. Central NC is far more blue due to all the larger cities and universities.
Can’t be. Too crazy.
Very upsetting that Biden gave the electric transformers to Ukraine that are to be kept on reserve for large US disasters. Depleting the FEMA money reserves by giving to ILLEGAL aliens. Seeing videos of qualified people threatened with arrest if they tried to give help to those so dearly in need. Tennessee National Guard just sent to overseas mission when their state so dearly needs their help.
Turnip Brain of a President just replied “What Storm?”
What FEMA stands for
Catturd 2 … “Fucking Everyone Mostly Americans”
Let’s not forget the state of the Strategic Petroleum Reserve! It would seem that the coup was in 2020 and the cabal of Biden, Harris, and all their hangers-on are simply the contents of a Trojan Horse set loose in America.
I don’t know who is in charge, but even four years ago it was obvious that the Biden autocracy was not interested in preserving freedom or our way of life.
Thanks for post G
Hurricane HELENE imagery has been updated to include NC and other non-Florida locations.
This link will default you to the Florida Gulf coast, you’ll need to Zoom out and move to get the other imagery.
https://storms.ngs.noaa.gov/storms/helene/index.html#9/29.882/-85.41
And depending on your computer and connection speed, you may need a few moments for the image to resolve to its final level of detail.
September takes on seasonal adjustments – before the adjustments the private sector shed 458,00 jobs. Gov employment jumped by an unadjusted 918,000 jobs. in other words, total bullshit. the dollar is strong stocks should sell off, but the yen is even weaker – somebody got a tap on the shoulder – total nonsense on top of ODTE call options and a fairy tale ending to the week.
Noticing FEMA’s reaction to the hurricane if something big happens like the CONUS getting hit by a Russian Poseidon(s) know we’re on our own. Twenty Billies just doesn’t go very far anymore.
FEMA tries to counter ‘false’ rumors about Hurricane Helene aid going to migrants
““We are meeting the immediate needs with the money that we have. We are expecting another hurricane hitting,” Mayorkas said. “FEMA does not have the funds to make it through the season.”
FEMA receives its funding through the Department of Homeland Security, and Congress recently passed a spending bill that gave FEMA $20 billion for disaster relief. ”
https://www.yahoo.com/news/fema-tries-to-counter-false-rumors-about-hurricane-helene-aid-going-to-migrants-184624522.html
“Tell me, what do you truly desire for your shop?”
A shop as big as Ures! Alas, the ‘Big Island’ still isn’t big enough.
“Any mention of FEMA – ??”
No, not in that note. I’ll ask him. He only has access to Star Link at night during his down time.