Lightning Storm and Markets Rebalancing

This morning’s column comes to you from the recording studio out here in the woods. Because we had one hell of a lightning storm last night.  It was better than (as a kid) hearing the story of Rip van Winkle and the giants playing ten pins in the skies over the Catskills.

It was classic. Biggest lightning outburst in the whole time we have lived here – which is more than 20-years.

From about 10 PM until 3 AM there wasn’t a second went by that you couldn’t hear some thunder.  When all quieted down – sometime after 3 AM – I slept like a log until 5 AM.  Armed with a cup of extra-strong tea, headed the 40-feet over to the office and no power on one leg of the “floating power” off the solar arrays.

Once today’s column is posted, I’ll be trying to figure out why inverter #2 has a red light and an arm’s length of error codes on it, that took down the Starlink backup power as well as the main writing computer.  Sadly, I suspect i will be found to be a severe “overboltage” on the AC feed – and that will mean being down an inverter while i goes off to Outback Power for a brain transplant.

Since this is a decent sized inverter, it also feeds backup power to the storage building where there’s a freezer which is also without power.  So, a “tick tock” morning while I flip in an “inverter bypass” and then go through the chair to see if the ride to the service depot can be avoided.  They ain’t free.

The lightning itself was interesting to listen to.  In the early going, you can use the speed of sound to guestimate how far off the strike was.  About a five-count per mile.  Closer in, the ones hitting the west side of the property were so loud (and close) there was not “rolling” of “peel.”  It was like someone had fired a large caliber weapon right behind my office.  Huge report and a blinding flash.  Which, in turn, set off all the motion sensing systems and… well, you get the idea.

Not to bore you with the power story.  Except this must be part of my “retrograde” because we’re in that window.  And here, all this time, I thought I’d gotten through relatively unscathed.  Nope.

I can’t ding myself too bad on design for failing to stop a vicious spike.  As one website says:

“With an average bolt of lightning striking from cloud to ground containing roughly one billion (1,000,000,000) joules of energy, that is a lot of power in every lightning bolt!”

I looked. Amazon doesn’t have one that big.

But it’s a great prepping reminder for all of us.  When God/Universe/ and Ma Nature (whatever you want to call it) decides to get a “charge at your expense”: not much to do but hang on and get the recovery plans inro place promptly after.

Our Aggregate Pays Off

Yesterday’s market action was one of the clearest examples ever of why we like the Aggregate Index as a market-watching tool.  Because even though the Dow was up, a case might be made that the first signs of an A.I. Bubble popping could be found in the price-performance of NVDA and TSMC. The former being down 6.6 percent with a premarket bounce of 2-some percent on tape today (if futures are to be believed). TSMC was down 7.4 percent, and we’ll see if (or how far) it bounces.

Both the S&P and the NASDAQ were set to bounce, while the bulwark Dow was framing an initial 70-point decline.  Silver and Gold were both firming and BTC $64,767 when we looked.

Economic Conditions

Philly Fed and the weekly unemployment figures are out. The Philly outl0ok short version is:

“The survey’s indicator for general activity rose, and the indexes for shipments and new orders turned positive. The employment index also turned positive, suggesting an overall increase in employment levels. Both price indexes continued to indicate overall price increases. Most future activity indicators rose, suggesting more widespread expectations for overall growth over the next six months.”

To us, this looks like it will weigh on any plans for the Fed to lower in 2 -weeks. Europe has also chilled on further cuts, for now. Christine Lagarde: ECB keeps rates on hold, leaves options open for September.

Unemployment figures are moving some:

“In the week ending July 13, the advance figure for seasonally adjusted initial claims was 243,000, an increase of 20,000 from the previous week’s revised level. The previous week’s level was revised up by 1,000 from 222,000 to 223,000. The 4-week moving average was 234,750, an increase of 1,000 from the previous week’s revised average. The previous week’s average was revised up by 250 from 233,500 to 233,750.

And at the state levels, it felt like this:

Until we get the power systems all back and humming again, we will be resting on the sidelines.

Rolling and Scrolling

Joe Biden at least now has a good excuse for going slow:  Joe Biden: US President tests positive for Covid-19, says ‘I feel good’ as he boards plane. But looking to some of our readers like a very frail old man in doing so.

We are not saying the investigation into the Trump shooting will be a whitewash, however: Homeland Security inspector general investigates Secret Service after Trump assassination attempt. Would government find government guilty of anything, ever? The way DHS leaks the border for us, think anyone there has creds?  Um…come on. No coaching from us. And why is Mayorkas still…

As long as we’re covering the “pants on fire” angles: MJTruthUltra on X: “Oooooo…. They are so Busted!! ? The Butler Township Commissioner says the SS Director is Lying that the Building the Shooter was on was the Responsibility was the Local PD • The local Butler Township Police’s only duties assigned to them were “strictly traffic detail”… —— https://t.co/LJH7tzvB0K” / X.

And if “Liar, liar, pants on fire” hasn’t begun, how about hair on fire, too?  The Pandemic Excuse for a Corporatist Coup ? Brownstone Institute

Biden Gaza grandstanding scuttled:  US ends Gaza floating pier mission – Middle East Monitor

So, where is all the war money coming from? Doing their part NASA swings budget axe, kills $400M+ VIPER trundlebot • The Register

Meanwhile Ukraine is looking more and more like “perpetual war” as Putin Preparing Russians for 10 Years of Ukraine War: ISW | Miami Herald.  But we also see “Freeloading NATO” still wants us to pay even though we can’t defend our own border: Germany plans to halve military aid for Ukraine (bbc.com).

At the Ranch:  Lightning Gone

So time to get working on the power system – more when it’s back or tomorrow – whichever comes first…

Write when you get rich,

George@ure.net

62 thoughts on “Lightning Storm and Markets Rebalancing”

  1. From Peak Prosperty this morning:

    One company was responsible for shorting DJT. Austin Private Wealth LLC. 12,000,000 stock short.

    Short placed on 7/12, day before the shooting and position closed on 7/16.

    DJT Short Positions, Funds Shorting Trump Media & Technology Group Corp. (fintel.io)

    The only quarterly filing to the SEC ever amended by the company is in relation to this short:
    https://www.sec.gov/edgar/browse/?CIK=1800328&owner=exclude

    The company has close ties to Dick Cheney, who also has close ties to the Director of the SS, as his daughter Mary Cheney is married to the CEO of Austin Wealth Management. The current director of the Secret Service was on Cheney’s personal security detail as a Secret Service Agent when he was Vice President. She was then on Biden’s detail when he was Vice President.
    x.com

    • DJT closed at 30.89 on the 12th and 36.89 on the 16th.
      Don’t know about intraday movements, but that doesn’t look like a winning bet.
      Things might have been a lot different if the shot was successful.

  2. “Putin Preparing Russians for 10 Years of Ukraine War”

    I think this means there isn’t a plan for nukes to be flying anytime soon. I may be wrong but don’t think a nuclear war would last very long. The first nuclear hit should either end or escalate confrontation to full-blown annihilation. Either way the war stops.

    • “Russian President Vladimir Putin is preparing his country for the possibility that the war in Ukraine could last another 10 years, a U.S.-based think tank has said.”

      A U.S.-based “think tank”?

        • OTFLMAO

          Yes that’s kind of like the director if Homeland security.. should be director smileys homeland of insecurity lol lol lol speak no evil do no good motto lol lol lol

      • I’ve read “10 Years” coming from the NATO side long before Putin mentioned it. Looking back through an internet of articles, they all say, “years” now. No specific number.

        Honestly, I can’t even count how many times one side says (something) then it gets buried in time, then the other side says the same damn thing, as if it’s (something new).

      • Hahaha…. you know how it is. An article above indicates Joe said he feels good… now rumor is he’s dropping out this weekend because Joe doesn’t feel so good. Spin the wheel.

        Some folks are calling for CW2. Trump got nicked and that’s what happens in war. Shoot back, right?

        • I thought he would wait.. give his new VP pick then cancel the election and put us in marshal law.. COG… then drop out letting her new VP pick take over the reigns..
          you would hope that kammy pure bred wouldn’t pick the beast wicked witch of the NE.. it’s not to healthy having business ties to that group..or out machelle O or BO in as VP.. then drop out.. Congress wouldn’t have to come back in the fall and we would essentially have a dictator..

  3. About 10 yrs ago in NW CT Thor played an energetic solo for a good 30 minutes or so. Sounds like he had help for yours, have to keep us pesky Danes in line…

  4. Boom, boom,boom..Out Go The Lights!

    Not at casa BCN , though the winds blew the rain sideways, trees were falling, power lines down and then transformer just down the road/line from casa BCN, blew and caught fire.
    This fire was witnessed by Daughter, Son in Law and most precious Granddaughter, as they were leaving from spending whole day at casa BCN, due all the power outages in Chester County, Pennsyltucky. Daughter called the wife on way home to describe just how spooky it was see the transformer and pole on fire.
    Generac and mombo propane tank kept things running and cool – for 2 days worth storm kaos..at least the yard is greening back up.
    No trading as Internetz& TV were down and out for the day.

    No worries not trading – will be slam dancing on Wall Street next 2 days – taking prophets – cause I am hear to electrify !

    THE MAN !
    -https://youtu.be/GLXLjG9CzC8?si=9rq7BrS4N_t7XdzX

    Give it tug, Boys..gonna need it soonly.

  5. I’m guessing he drops out either Friday after market close or if China invades Taiwan over the weekend on Monday. Harris will pardon Hunter first thing …….. Allegedly Trump is tossing around Jaime Dimon as Sec of Treasury – if so, you know where this is headed. The timing is just too perfect for all of this just to be coincidental however I’m incredibly jaundiced about all of this …… Vance – Yale, Vivek – Yale, Dimon head of the largest ongoing criminal enterprise in the US

  6. Inquiry:

    Anybody on here have either
    “Home Title Lock”
    or
    “LifeLock”

    monitoring services? Are they worthwhile?
    (A call to my county tax dept said they have a ‘lot’ of papework to go through to alter a title, and they’ve hd no successful fraud cases to date. So, I was somewhat comforted by that…)
    Personally, I’ve had a few bogus charges show up on credit card bills over several years, but never had a problem having them removed. I read my bills carefully each month just to catch errors and bogus charges.

    The ads for these services are getting scarier everyday, and they’re starting to wear me down…

    • Yes, Lifelock …for years.

      Original use was for Fathers “estate” as he was in assisted living facility at the time. Added my Family to account a year or so later. It is Insurance, plain and simple.

      Self insure and deal with the all the issues that come with being hacked. Lifelock provides $1 million coverage for Loses, and cleans up any damage that occurs to your credit. They also throw in Norton Anti Virus..which is adequate enough.
      I Like Hitman Pro, but that is from a incident I had with Russian Worm-keylogger several years back..pesky Fkrs!

    • If I steal your car, is it mine?

      If I then sell it, was it mine, to sell?

      When the State Police recover it, do they return it to me?

      Home Title Lock sells you insurance you’re incredibly unlikely to ever need, for a fraud committed against your County government, and for which the government would be liable. Basically, your premium insures your County Recorder (and in some cases, Auditor and Treasurer.) I suggest you find out their procedure for handling stolen property, before you decide…

      • it could be..
        you could put a lein against it..
        pick an address anywhere..then send a certified letter to that address for storage fees.. thirty days later take the returned unopened certified returned letter and file for the title..
        that is how we got stuck for utilities for a place my wife moved out of in 80..
        the people that moved in called and said they were her.. and she wasn’t moving afterall..
        at the irst hearing she mentioned she had moved out 15 years orior..the second hearing she provided proof that she was not a resident she was dismissed for the charges.. the collection company sent the people that was living there a notice at the bottom of the summons they penciled her in at a nearby town that she had never lived at..
        then the garnished her wages..we petitioned for a 4th hearing and they threatened to put me in jail when I said isn’t fraud illegal..
        we paid the bills..the reason..we didn’t accept our mail..
        took six months to pay that monster..
        a local resident was putting huge leans on local farms..they didn’t have a clue until it went for sale.. I went down to the court house and the file room was filled with guys just going through people’s information..everything about you is open to anyone willing to seek it out..

    • The Experian services includes a credit lock, and lot more, including a million in identity theft insurance. It depends on how much you want to know, and how much you want to pay. The Lifelock Ultimate is similar, and either costs more or less, depending on what payment schedule you use. Shop around. The bill lowering service paid for Experian, the first time I used it.

      • Homeowner’s insurance offers very inexpensive identity theft loss coverage. Out of pocket would be covered (but not for $1M), but you would still be on your own to reconstruct your life. My premium is $4/year for $5,000 of coverage. I don’t use debit cards and credit cards generally have $0 liability. With credit report freezes, the $4 coverage, and email notification every time I use a credit card, I feel relatively safe.

    • WRR worth every penny. Will keep the NFT digitizers from sweeping your property up in the coming CRE debacle [this time will include AirBnB Entrepenuers along with the Big Corps]. All that messy paperwork will get burned and hypothecated on Blockchain. Good luck trying to prove you once owned it or who owns it will be those in possesion [of the NFT].

      At some point everything will be hypothecated on blockchain, lock your title down now so htat you can do it on your own terms and when the new fintech system has had some runtime under its belt.

      Behold the future of buggy whips. SARC

      https://propy.com/home/

      4th turning disruption is here, adapt and prosper.

      Got Blockchain?

    • We had Lifelock for a few years as a side benefit of our Norton subscription but they have since dropped it and I never signed up on my own. Identity theft protection is a good thing to have especially if you are not aggressive enough to self monitor. Banks and credit cards offer it. Diana is a beast on that. She did it during her banking years. I can personally confirm any evil POS’s did not have much of a chance if they went after one of her clients and or were a victim of identity theft or fraud. As far as Title Lock, no. My son #1 manages a title company. He tells me it’s not easy to change a home title without a lot of trouble. Concentrate on keeping your taxes current, bank accounts and credit cards squared away. Keep the faith. You’re stronger than you think.

    • Check your Title Insurance policy. It was a one time purchase you made when you purchased your property. You could very well be covered for fraudulent claims already.

  7. Thankful that you did not receive a direct strike. Your quick recovery is a testament to your preparedness.
    Stay safe. 73

    • it’s probably the fuse. I live on the inline of a power grid and they had a Transformer that was going out sent a spike through everything and the inverter quit the Outback inverter quit. it was the fuse it blew the fuse in it and then it shut it off. most of them have that few some are inside of it some are just have a little fuse on the bottom it’s more than likely the the fuse. besides that I keep three extra inverters in backup I keep several of the fuses in backup and I keep six of the in phase inverters I would do all in Phase if it was economically viable for me to do it you get to off grid on grid inverter in phase and things are awesome that way then if one breaks down you still have the remainder working on it. I’ve never been a in favor of the large wind turbines I think they should use small ones I think that they could secure the grid if they went and handed out 10 kilowatt on grid tie systems to anybody willing to put them up build the solar towers of course I mean it’s just a no-brainer and then you would have a grid that is basically Bulletproof if they take out the East Coast you still have the rest of it working and it’s just like those big wind turbines it goes down you lose three megawatts of power where if you have three megawatts of let’s say 10 kilowatt or 25 kilowatt inverters you’re so much better off if one goes down you got the rest anyway that’s a random mine

  8. George,

    It’s cheaper to replace the board set in your Outback inverters than it is to send the entire unit back for repair. Outback recently changed hands and their tech department is not quite up to speed yet anyway.
    You want the FET board, AC board and computer board for your model. Replacing all 3 is best even if it’s only 1 board that’s bad because you don’t know if there’s collateral damage on the other boards. I’m doing a board swap for a customer on Saturday, lightning here as well.
    FYI….nice to keep a spare set in your EMP proof enclosure just in case!

    • Accelerated MTBF due to environmentally induced stresses that are beyond system specs / rating. Great suggestion, it sounds like youve dealt with your share of boomerang RMA’s LOL.

  9. ah the Crack of lightning,,,
    imagine what Trump heard,,
    BUT there are Question about why the photographer had his camera set for high speed? that caught the bullet midflight,,,
    WAS HE ALERTED TO? what was he hoping to catch?
    https://x.com/kylenabecker/status/1813786896943702527/photo/2
    BUT WE ALL KNOW, the criminals are the ones in charge of the investigation
    like a cat burying it’s own crap
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RDEA4Srr9c

    as the demonites try to say, “there was no bullet”
    “it is all fake”
    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/07/conspiracy-theorist-joy-reid-suggests-trumps-assassination-attempt/

    Now think about the turmoil that would have occurred with the Republican Nat Con
    and would leave the door open for the Dems to enter a weaker candidate and let slo,,, go

    been hearing indications of a 2nd shooter,,, can I see the evidence on the roof top, spent casings?
    https://i.abcnewsfe.com/a/9281b774-105d-4e6e-b277-fdcb4a727ca2/fbi-investigation_1721042539366_hpMain.jpg
    every cartridge/round fired is on a sound tape, and needs to identified and accounted for.
    Another Question, do the counter snipers have video recording in or on their scopes? gees some the boys on Airgun Nation shooting their little pellet guns have video scopes, watching their pellets strike the little birds and squirrels

    • That bullet in the photo is tracking perfectly horizontal, NOT fired from a elevated position. The footage of the patsy roaming around the building is wearing short pants. The photo of the dead patsy 8thon the roof shows him wearing long pants.
      I’ve been shooting long range precision for over 40 years, bullets don’t have a flat trajectory when fired from a elevated position, even at 130 yards. There is footage of a bullet hitting the hydraulic line of a small lift that was holding up one side of the flag that was hanging behind the podium. That lift was probably 50 feet to the left of Trump. If that bullet was fired from the patsy on the roof it would of hit the ground well short. The holes in the official narrative is obvious even to a 12 year old. There were 2 shooters and possibly a 3rd, 3rd one to clean up the other 2 patsies. Whoever set this up seriously Fucked up. I won’t even go into details of the obviously ridiculous nuggets of official pieces of evidence.
      patsies van 10 miles away, carrying a ladder and a rifle 10 miles, roaming around the building for an hour, a range finder for a 130 yard shot, total back and forth over which rooftop sniper team who took out patsy #1 etc etc etc.
      The DEEP STATE really buggerd this one.

      • Thankfully, it appears that the bad guys were also practicing DEI when selecting their team.

      • “I’ve been shooting long range precision for over 40 years,”

        Good, then you should have no problem computing the angular drop from a 12 foot high muzzle to a 9 1/2 foot high target (um, that’d be a 6’3″ Trump, standing on a riser, 42 inches above ground), 400 feet downrange.

        After doing that computation, you can perhaps determine how your shooter hit audience members whose bodies were several feet lower than that of Mr. Trump…

    • the bullet missing Trump,,, a change in the future history

      WW3 Ukraine Russia war,,, how does a live Trump vs a murdered Trump affect the war,,, increase or decline?

      a lone 20yr nut job vs those who would benefit from Trump’s demise.
      RIP President Kennedy

      you have already read Random Mike’s post about the DJT stock and the ‘puts’ against it
      when ya want to learn a little truth, ya follow the money back to source.

      • Can you say set up & double crossed ?

        Just like covid in wuhan lab, let the crime be committed, making sure “they” got the wong Virus..weakened verision..

        Scheisse reminds me of monthly fav comic in MAD mag…Spy vs Spy..back in da day

        sniffsniffsniff – whole shooting match smells like SF.

      • OBD Im Channeling detente, world peace, $1M BTC and $10,000 XRP value in 2017 Fed Note purchasing power equivalent. All paths replace user in the Dollar’a replacement. Ill be writing soonly filled with gratitude and excited for being positioned early whcich allows one to use lunch money for said stacking strategy.

        Not Advice do you own homework. Ill see some of you homegamers on the other side [BCN I’m Lookin at youse guys]. LOL.

      • What would they offer a 20 year old to entice him to basically give up his life to do something that horrific.
        with the presidents kid..the brand was given money, sex partners of any age.. and all the drugs he could rot his mind with to sell out the country..
        but a young 20 year old ..a loner.. math …
        follow the money..

  10. Rumor has it…,
    Silicon Valley millionaires are backing Trump., as they believe he will foster higher prices in Bitcoin. [ ., and since Musk ‘donation’., and promise of more down the road.]
    – I don’t recall Trump making a public stand on digital currency. He may have., as I didn’t pay much attention to all his counter-psychological tweets. [Some of them were brilliant, though.]

  11. re: blitzkrieg
    feat: lightning strikes twice

    Folks,

    Today Blenheim Palace near Woodstock, the birthplace of WW2 hero Sir Winston Churchill and a former home of MI5, is the welcoming retreat of the 4th European Political Community summit. A coven of European leaders along with special guest President Zelensky will gather about the hearth for future mapping exercises. Arguably this spellbinding meeting is the the highest profile event at the venue since the ball on July 7, 1939 for Lady Sarah Consuelo Spencer-Churchill who was a grand-daughter of the 9th Duke of Marlborough and his estranged railroad heiress wife Consuela Vanderbilt. Lady Sarah’s future step-mother would turn out to be a sister of Jacqueline Bouvier Onassis. The social event of the year saw the attendance of Sir Winston and future President JFK.
    https://web.archive.org/web/20240709105315/https://www.gov.uk/government/news/uk-to-host-european-political-community-meeting-in-july-2024-at-blenheim-palace

    Let’s join DJ George maintaining unwavering signal from the studio bunker despite a blitzing bombardment from on high. Shake a fist with Triumph and get set to roll out with the finest hour in radio. Here we go with the breakout top of the setlist from Janis Joplin at Woodstock-
    “Raise Your Hand”.

    • re: Animal Quackers, 1930
      feat: The 6th Church of Revelations

      Folks,

      Sorry, Adele – “Hello, they must be going?” Fashions may have changed in 400 years, but blue blood runs strong. King Charles II settled a debt owing to his navy Admiral Sir William Penn in 1681 by granting New World lands in Delaware and Pennsylvania. The admiral’s wayward son and Oxford graduate, William Penn, perhaps found himself persuaded by the future King James II, to set sail accordingly in 1682 to promised lands rather than battle his demons from a cell in the Tower of London.

      As chance would have it, Mr. Penn made the history books at the future town domicile of President Biden, New Castle, De., before continuing on to found the “City of Brotherly Love”, Philadelphia. It is a revelation to me learning that Brother Penn is Dutch via his mother’s side. She was apparently descended from the Op den Graeff family of Krefeld, Germany which came to be ruled by England’s King William III from 1689 to 1702. By coinkydoink of history and expediency of survival, the Op den Graeff family married into the German noble family of Von der Leyen at Krefeld. A manor house based upon the US White House design is now the Krefeld town hall.

      Time followed such that on July 18, 2024, a granddaughter-in-law of some generations elapsed, Ursula Van der Leyen, won her second 5 year term as President of the European Commission. One of the interesting interviews granted by the President was published June 20, 2016 by the German publication “Zeit” (Time). The original has gone with the wind, but it remains publicly accessible for now in the internet “Archive”.

      https://web.archive.org/web/20160623135152/https://www.zeit.de/2016/26/ursula-von-der-leyen-brexit-london

      The President notes the dangerous German climate of terror in the late 70’s so that she spent her time in London known by her Anglo-American ancestral name of Ladson. The Ladson family made out quite tidily in Charleston, NC according to Wikipedia. Consul James Ladson powering plantations with indentured staff is credited with helping to start the US Civil War.

      • She be just another eu zioNAZI (pol.) bitch..

        Hopefully “something” will be dropping a Tempe^te tossed House on top of her nasty ass, soonly..her and that fat lil Pony she is so concerned euro Wolves will be attacking, as to change the hunting regs over there in EU-Naziville.

        My own preference would be spontaneous combustion – MMmmmm! the smell of burning zionazi..that smelly smell that smells oily and sick. Just follow Ure nose, it always nose, the flavor of evil where ever it festers.

        uval U piece of shit , is that You? or did Sauron just set Gollum free?

    • Oops, okay, the studio has power switched on again! Here we go with U2 from the “Achtung, Baby!” album-
      “Zoo Station”.

  12. At one of my last jobs around 2007, our 6 truck fleet of Chevy trucks got bricked by a near strike, along with several other personal vehicles in the lot. Two months old.

    • And THAT is why I installed 18v TVP diodes in my vehicles at several points, and an 18v MOV across the battery. Especially at the OBD connector which is close to the computer board electronics.

  13. “With an average bolt of lightning striking from cloud to ground containing roughly one billion (1,000,000,000) joules of energy, that is a lot of power in every lightning bolt!”

    Time to shoot the lock off the wallet George.

    https://www.transtector.com/

    • I used Transtector systems at two broacast sites that I built on a high mountain that demonstrably took lightning hits to the towers. Never had a problem with them.

  14. A billion joules here, a billion joules there, pretty soon we’re talking about REAL power! Just imagine a storage capacitor that could handle that? Free power for life.

    So the lesson for the day is… despite TVPs and MOVs, you still need SPARE BOARDS for critical stuff.

    BTW- how did the ham antennas and tower fare? Burn marks? Gotta love those rolling nonstop tropical discharges. I’ve heard my coax spark gaps crackling when bolts are dropping nearby. And I use lightning ‘retard coils’ in the system, too. (Old broadcast trick).

  15. George,

    A 1982 13/31-32 year nonlinear crash?

    The October 2023 13/27 week :: x/2-2.5x global ACWI index, which fractally parallels the US Wilshire, is in its second fractal’s 26-32 week window of nonlinear devaluation. 26-27 second fractal Peak valuation occurred 12-16 July 2024.

    A March 2020 8+/24/23/14 month 4 phase fractal series would end in September 2025.

  16. I really don’t want to make Stu and JC wince, but I will:

    What Nostradamus Predicted For 2024 Just Shocked the Whole World!

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nNQdq3MU190

    It seems every year someone releases a “Nostradamus’ predictions for this year” “documentary.”

    This one is both unique and interesting.

    Why?

    Because it is AI-generated…

  17. My brand new $429 eBike is almost too fast.

    So far, the only things I don’t like about it are the headlight and front fork. I don’t know if this is typical, but the headset angle is IMO not obtuse enough. The fork is internally-damped, so the designer may have wanted it to be so, but it doesn’t “center” the way a traditional bicycle does. You have to actually hold the handlebars with a small (but significant) amount of force, for the bike to track in a straight line.

    • I generally like backpacking/touring bikes which are very stable. I have an older Schwinn cross bike with a very twitch geometry like you are describing. Some of the electric cargo bikes look like they would be a good ride. Surly has one, but it is quite expensive. You can compare the fork geometry on a Surly Bridge Club to your new bike to get an idea of what’s off on it.
      I am on the lookout for touring geometry electrics with LiFePo4 or LFP batteries but haven’t found them. I am seeing some replacement LFP battery packs, but no OEM’s.

  18. Chris Martinson’s proof of at least two shooters:

    https://peakprosperity.com/audio-analysis-is-100-clear-trump-crowd-were-shot-at-by-two-separate-people/

    The narrative of Crooks being a “lone gunman” is 100% provably false. Which means any deflection to investigating ‘security lapses’ is evidence of a cover-up

    The evidence I present today comes from analyzing and then comparing the audio files from two separate video recordings, one taken right in front of Trump and the other from just to the side of the American Glass building that Crooks was spotted on.

    As a reminder, audio forensic experts have already concluded that the audio signatures from three weapons could be resolved from whichever audio recording(s) they analyzed.

    Today I build on that by bringing you the audio evidence, as well as analysis that conclusively proves that two (and possibly three) weapons were fired at Trump and the assembled crowd.

    This should not be information you get from me. This should already be part of the national dialog and we should be getting routine updates from the FBI about how they are going about locating the second (and possibly third) shooters.

    Of course, if those were insiders and the FBI is part of the cover-up, as we all suspect is going to be the case, then we’ll hear nothing more about this from the current administration, the FBI or the Secret Service.

    I pray I’m wrong about that. We’ll see.

    Until then, may I humbly and urgently request that you share this video far and wide because we have to shove this information back onto center stage.

    Here are some questions for any reporters or congressional staffers reading this:

    What is the FBI doing to locate the other shooter(s)?
    Have you found the second location and recovered the brass?
    How did a second shooter escape detection given all the security staff on hand?
    What does the FBI’s audio analysis reveal about the locations of the second shooter(s)?
    How many spent casings around Crooks can be counted on the Axon body cameras of the first arriving officers on the scene?
    Please also provide any and all body camera audio recordings.
    Please immediately provide the ballistics and the medical injury reports including angles of penetration for each of the three victims.
    Also, we’ll need an accurate accounting of the path and final destination of every bullet fired.
    Finally, who exactly was in the building just beneath Crooks at the exact time the first three shots were fired?

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