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Markets and Brick Walls – Action Tasking – Drought and About

Hell of a drop in the markets Wednesday. While futures pricing hinted at a possible “dead cat bounce today” let’s cut the bullshit and tell it “like it is.”

  • The quality of life – as measured by after-obligations, true disposable income – hasn’t been moving much.
  • America offshored its industrial base under the eyes of a derelict Congress and successive consensus presidencies.
  • This means America is no longer self-sufficient and we have been sold into the globalists’ worldview on campaign donations. Extra-national future included – whether we (the People) agreed to it or not.

Financial Engineering and Brick Wall

Fortunately – or not – America has been a cash cow for financial engineers. People dump huge (and regular) deposits into “retirement accounts.”  But few young people see “the game.”

When you save money today – you get interest that can accrue to net lifetime savings.  But shaving the other end of this monkey is inflation.  Your net gains are capped and “the House” (magically) does massive scraping along the way. Debt’s a yoke and the yoke’s on you.

Bouncer Check

Where we are “bouncing” from today.  Here’s how our 1929 comparison looked at the close Wednesday.

Early premarket action was hinting at a bit higher today, but that was before a lot of financial reality had worked its way through supply chains and life.  That’s where the future starts to look more than slightly impaired.

For example, take oil: When it goes up, almost magically your gas station raises prices. But that’s because the middlemen ballpark subsequent pricing (but much less so on oil price declines because middlemen live on the spreads).

Industry doesn’t stop with you filling the rig. Price hikes go into fertilizer, plastics, and almost everything else “made in ‘Merica.”  That can take up to five years across industrial categories – price waves beget wavelets; wavelets beget ripples. It’s like sailing, in this sense.

Our brick wall is? Rising prices, slower industrial growth, and praying to God this week’s new business model (building server farms and selling brain-access subscriptions) won’t be just another (much larger) version of the classic “shopkeeper economy.”

Which is why we are having that financial “last ciggie” at the brick wall this year. This isn’t 2 seconds with the firing squad – wouldn’t be much money in that. No sir, this needs to be “unwound” and when Great Depressions happen, they take years not minutes.

We don’t offer you a lighter – just some fear-free analysis and this is our short form – the longer and deeper work is on the Peoplenomics.com website twice weekly.

Cheery shit, huh?

Naming the Framing

Something ground into me in MBA school (thanks to the late college president Dr. Charlie Dalton) was this:  “Information you can’t act on is a waste of your valuable time, George.”   and yours too.

That’s why we “compress news” to a degree you don’t find elsewhere. We search out “vector change.”  Think of it this way.  When a news story “launches” it’s pretty clear “where it’s going.”  Like kicking a soccer ball – it’s going “in the net” – or not.

What matters are deflections by the goalie, right?  And that – in “domain world” – called a vector change.  Impact deflection to a new LZ.  Usually one you want to avoid if you can.

Today’s Operating Rule:
When claims conflict, don’t ask “who is right?” first. Ask which version changes fuel, markets, routes, servers, food, or your calendar. In the real world, declared closure, actual closure, and insurance-market closure are three different beasts — but all three can move prices before the truth finishes tying its shoes. “Fact-checking” is often a time-sink if the actionable output range – your response options – isn’t changed.

Two things matter in the morning scans: what changed, and whether a regular human can do anything useful with it. The rest of the web anymore is mostly filler between ad loads, emotion bait, or tiny shiny objects being thrown into your attention windshield.

We run the headlines through the “actionable domains” grinder. This is radar, not gospel. The useful part is not that any single AI, human, or newsroom is perfectly right. The useful part is seeing where the vectors are bending, where sources agree, where they disagree, where the confidence interval sits, and where a householder, investor, operator, gardener, traveler, or business owner might want to keep one eye open.

With that? Let’s turn on the newsroom metal detectors to find the IEDs of life.

The News Compressor

Highest level executive summary – noise in – action plots out.

“The main thing that changed overnight is that the risk stack tightened around Hormuz, oil, markets, AI debt, and cyber speed: Iran says closure, U.S. says commercial traffic continues, traders are pricing war but not total paralysis, tech is under pressure from AI capex/debt worries, Ukraine is pressing Russia’s fuel/logistics nerve, and CISA’s three-day patch window says the cyber clock is no longer human-speed. Weather, health, civil order, and World Cup security are secondary but actionable boards: check fuel, servers, radar, recalls, travel routes, and scam exposure before chasing every headline.  Early markets will digest PPI and new Jobless Filings. World Cup today. SpaceX IPO tomorrow.”

Today’s Blink and Action Items

Deeper level and more action coaching (with confidence levels):

  1. Domain: War / Geopolitics — Iran, U.S., Hormuz

The big overnight change is that Hormuz is now a live decision field: Iran’s side says closure, U.S. CENTCOM says commercial vessels continue, and traders are pricing both escalation and continued transit. That means the practical risk is not only physical closure, but insurance-market closure, routing changes, and energy-price volatility.

Action angle: Watch tanker transits, LNG movements, insurance rates, port statements, and U.S./Iran/Oman/UAE/Saudi official claims before believing either “closed” or “nothingburger.”

Sources: Reuters, Xinhua, AP, Al Jazeera, Guardian.

Confidence: High on escalation; medium on actual closure because official claims conflict.

  1. Domain: Energy / Fuel

Oil is carrying war premium, but prices are not acting like a pure one-way panic because traders are also weighing continued shipping and weaker demand. The practical issue is not just crude prices; it is diesel, propane, fertilizer, plastics, trucking, aviation, and the other real-world cost channels that show up later.

Action angle: Households and operators should watch local gasoline, diesel, propane, delivery windows, and fuel surcharges rather than only Brent/WTI.

Sources: Reuters, EIA, IEA, OilPrice, Rigzone.

Confidence: High that risk premium is up; medium on duration.

  1. Domain: Markets / Credit

Markets are trading a compound risk stack: Iran/Hormuz, inflation, rate expectations, AI capex/debt, and tech positioning ahead of SpaceX IPO hype. This is not just a bad tape day; it is a test of whether the market still has enough belief-wave lift to turn a bounce into something more than a dead-cat inspection pass.

Action angle: Watch VIX, credit spreads, Nasdaq support, energy-stock divergence, Treasury yields, and whether AI infrastructure names stabilize or keep leaking.

Sources: Reuters, AP, Bloomberg, MarketWatch, Yahoo Finance, FT, WSJ.

Confidence: High on the risk-off setup; medium on intraday bounce quality.

  1. Domain: Inflation / Household Cost

Inflation is back on the political and household board, with producer prices and oil pass-through now more important because war premium can leak into the cost structure. The issue is not only today’s CPI/PPI number; it is whether fuel, food distribution, utilities, airfare, and credit costs start reinforcing each other.

Producer Prices report was just dropped by Labor Dept.

“The Producer Price Index for final demand rose 1.1 percent in May, seasonally adjusted, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Final demand prices advanced 1.1 percent in April and 0.7 percent in March. (See table A.) On an unadjusted basis, the index for final demand increased 6.5 percent for the 12 months ended in May, the largest 12-month rise since moving up 7.4 percent in November 2022.  (Math check: 14 percent per year annualizing the month-on-month.)

Nearly 80 percent of the May advance in final demand prices is attributable to a 2.8-percent increase in the index for final demand goods. Prices for final demand services moved up 0.3 percent

Also just out: Unemployment filings:

Action angle: Watch PPI, fuel pass-through, food distribution costs, utilities, airfares, and consumer-credit stress.

Sources: AP, Reuters, BLS context.

Confidence: High that inflation is again a market/political driver; medium on policy response.

  1. Domain: AI / Tech / Grid / Debt

AI is moving from “cool tool” to capital-intensity problem: data centers need electricity, water, chips, cooling, land, debt financing, and political permission. The market question is becoming who gets pricing power after the buildout and who gets stuck holding the power bill.

Action angle: Watch data-center utility deals, power-price politics, state regulation, AI debt issuance, and whether “bring your own power” becomes the new local operating rule.

Sources: Reuters, Guardian, Business Insider, Utility Dive, MIT Technology Review, Wired.

Confidence: Medium-high; direction is clear, profitability and policy reaction are not.

  1. Domain: Ukraine / Russia Logistics

Ukraine’s strike pattern is increasingly about fuel, refineries, bridges, ports, and logistics rather than only battlefield front lines. Wars often turn not on speeches but on who can keep fuel, trucks, bridges, spare parts, and maintenance moving.

Action angle: Watch Russian refinery downtime, Crimea rationing, Black Sea shipping, and retaliatory Russian grid/logistics strikes.

Sources: Reuters, Guardian, Kyiv Independent, ISW.

Confidence: High on the interdiction vector; medium on strategic effect.

  1. Domain: Israel / Lebanon / Regional Spillover

The Lebanon/Israel front remains a spillover fuse attached to the Iran/Hormuz board. If Lebanon becomes rhythmic rather than episodic, oil, air defense, refugee, insurance, and political risk multiply fast.

Action angle: Watch northern Israel alerts, Hezbollah statements, Israeli political pressure, and whether Gulf-base attacks expand.

Sources: Reuters, AP, Al Jazeera, Times of Israel, Jerusalem Post, Al-Monitor.

Confidence: Medium-high; spillover risk is real, timing uncertain.

  1. Domain: Cyber / Infrastructure

The cyber board is loud: the useful vector is that patch windows are shrinking because AI-assisted exploit discovery turns “we’ll patch later” into “someone else may already be inside.” This is the digital version of hearing wolves and then checking whether the barn door is still open.

Action angle: Prioritize internet-facing systems: VPNs, admin panels, CMS/plugins, Windows endpoints, browsers, Exchange/identity systems, and AI-connected automation.

Sources: Reuters, CISA, Wired, KrebsOnSecurity, BleepingComputer, The Hacker News, Dark Reading.

Confidence: High; multiple cyber sources align.

  1. Domain: Weather / Food / Field Operations

The weather board is active but not hurricane-led: severe thunderstorms, heavy rain, flood threat, hail, damaging winds, heat expansion, and only low tropical formation odds are the practical field-operation issues. That matters more to gardens, livestock, drainage, power reliability, and outdoor work than most of the political noise.

Action angle: Check radar, heat index, livestock water, drainage, generator readiness, and hail/wind exposure before outside projects.

Sources: NOAA/NWS, NHC, NOAA/CPC, Drought Monitor.

Confidence: High; official weather sources.

  1. Domain: Health / Bio / Food Safety

The public-health signal is distributed, not one big siren: active foodborne investigations, Ebola monitoring, screening/entry changes, and communicable-disease tracking are all on the board. Most health risk shows up first as boring practicalities before it becomes dramatic television.

Action angle: Check CDC/FDA lot-specific recalls before acting; travelers should watch Ebola-related entry/screening changes and destination advisories.

Sources: CDC, WHO, CIDRAP, ECDC, STAT.

Confidence: Medium-high; product-specific action needs exact recall names and lots.

  1. Domain: Supply Chain / Transport / Insurance

Hormuz, tariffs, fuel, and war-insurance pricing are converging as cost multipliers. Supply chains usually break in slow motion first: surcharges, delivery slippage, rerouting, missing parts, then the household question: “Why is this suddenly so expensive?”

Action angle: Businesses should monitor vendor lead times, shipping surcharges, critical spares, fuel clauses, and tariff-sensitive inputs.

Sources: Reuters, Supply Chain Dive, FreightWaves, JOC, IEA, EIA.

Confidence: Medium; risk is clear, timing depends on shipping and policy follow-through.

  1. Domain: Law / Government / Elections

The actionable layer under domestic politics is not the shouting; it is court rulings, state election guidance, surveillance law, immigration enforcement, federal contract rules, and regulatory changes. Culture-war noise is cheap. Rule changes are expensive.

Action angle: Watch court rulings, state election guidance, ballot deadlines, FISA/surveillance moves, agency rules, and enforcement guidance.

Sources: Reuters Legal, AP, Guardian, Roll Call, Politico, The Hill, Lawfare.

Confidence: Medium; impact depends on rulings and state implementation.

  1. Domain: Civil Order / Local Safety

Belfast unrest after a stabbing became a multi-night public-order problem, showing how local triggers, immigration politics, and social media can turn into street risk fast. This is not proof of collapse by lunchtime; it is a reminder that civil order is local before it is national.

Action angle: Travelers and operators should watch local police, emergency-management, and transport channels rather than relying only on national outrage feeds.

Sources: AP, Guardian, BBC, CBS, ABC.

Confidence: High on the incident; medium on broader trend.

  1. Domain: Mega-Events / World Cup / Scams

The World Cup is a security, cyber, transport, immigration, ticketing, and fraud surface all at once. Giant global events are magnets for scams, protests, drones, traffic friction, official over-control, and ordinary human bad planning.

Action angle: Travelers should use official ticketing/travel portals, verify URLs, avoid “too-good” lodging or ticket offers, and expect localized security and traffic friction.

Sources: Reuters, TSA, Fortinet-reported scam coverage, city/local World Cup advisories.

Confidence: Medium-high; security concern is official, scam scale varies by source.

  1. Domain: Space / Science / Communications

Space weather is not the dominant headline, but it remains a live board for HF radio, GPS, satellites, grid disturbance, aviation, and serious communications users. Quiet does not mean irrelevant; it means check the official board before assuming yesterday’s conditions still apply.

Action angle: Radio, GPS, drone, aviation, and grid-sensitive operators should check NOAA/SWPC before assuming yesterday’s propagation or signal conditions still hold.

Sources: NOAA/SWPC, NASA, SpaceNews.

Confidence: Medium; official board is accessible, but fast-changing alerts need direct checking.

Treat this morning’s (deeper than usual) summary as radar. Radar does not land the airplane, but it does tell you where the weather is.  Remember, you can also reach us via https://blinklabnews.com.

At the Ranch: Drought and About

Tomorrow morning, I will be saddling up the mower and taking on the 2 acres of the homestead that don’t sport trees.  Something about shade and solar panels being incompatible. But trees are also a nuisance on the gun range. Take your pick.

Obviously, now until the last two weeks of July and first two of August, the heat’s on here in East Texas.  With the “doors of Hell” open, we don’t mind a little bit of drought. Helps the Bermuda grass hit summer dormancy. Less mowing – which is fine. For now, though? Ride ‘Em Lawn Boy!

As of an early check today, 48.7 percent of the country was in drought to one degree, or another.

The risk of deeper drought will be decided in coming weeks. And even with top-notch AI (and training stories like this post from one of our readers) the task of sorting wheat from chaff is tough.  Because what is True Gospel today is a damned lie tomorrow.  All-domain truth is surprisingly hard to (bad pun alert) grok.

Full of It

Peoplenomics subscriber alert for Saturday.  You’ll find our highly variable diet discussion more than worth the read Saturday morning. In addition to the 30-some page ChartPack after we do the wreckage review after tomorrow’s market close.

And with that?

Write when you get rich (or I get a ‘lil less long-winded!)  Remember the part about shorter columns and reader Hank’s bs detector going off?

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  2. I’m looking forward to the diet column. I don’t know what to eat anymore. A strict Carnivore (lion) diet for close to 2 years made my hair fall out and skin to
    flake, leaving me sleepy. Definitely something was missing,even though I lost weight and my blood pressure normalized. I added fruit and occasional yogurt/ Klondike bar. Increasing my carbs gave me energy. Now two weeks post foot surgery I don’t want beef at all. I bought some chicken pot pies from KFC and threw them in the freezer. I also bought some really cheap chicken pot pies from Aldi’s pre surgery. They have been my go-to. Neither are exceptional, neither have tons of filling or vegetables, but both are hot with a flaky crust. I’m off opiates and hope to be off Ibuprofen next week when stitches are removed. If I only ate what I wanted I would say give me ice cream bars and potato chips.

    My 50 year old daughter just moved into diabetic range and needs to get serious with her diet or take meds. Diet is really on my mind this week.

    Off topic. My granddaughter is going to stem camp this month. One of the units is printable objects made from plastic. She has been coming home with a wide range of small objects like Minecraft tools and toys and key chains. I have been impressed with the density of the objects, the sturdiness of them, and the range of both colors and textures. The items are much more complex than square trashcans and definitely not fragile. There seems be be an endless amount of available patterns that you can fairly easily customize. The teck person in charge took a week to clean and set up 5 printers so it must be a bit tricky to set up.

    • not hard to set up but if you have to change print heads that can be a time sink – but as for density the secret non 2d printer users don’t know is that when you do a design – like my garbage cans with fitly hand holds – when you set the wall thickness there is a setting called “infill.” picture two sheets of plywood set a ways apart 0 by themselves week, but if you fill the whole thing with more plywood strong as hell but infill lets you decide what percent of infill you will use between printed layers. so you can print a base layer like paper and then infill at 5 percent and cover with another think paper-like layer – not too strong but hit 99 percent infill and resin use goes up and so does weight along with strength – when infill is by light 5 percent, for example, light, faster prints, and weighs less. so always trade-offs. (edited after breakfast, lol )

    • Eleanor,

      It is sometimes very confusing to eat what you are supposed to, to eat what is recommended by doctors and nutritionists. I think it can vary depending upon the circumstances you are experiencing in life, as well as your age. Beef is good but not all the time. Chicken seems to be a comfort food when you are recovering from surgery. Leafy green vegetables are always good to consume. Hearty soups are one of my favorites to prepare. Baked sweet potatoes are good for us ladies. I happen to enjoy many types of seafood.

      There is a book I have, Eat Right for your Type, by Dr. Peter J. D’Adamo. It is pretty comprehensive. The book lists recommended food items that are good to eat for your particular blood type and also lists the food items that are bad to consume for your particular blood type. The book is available on Amazon. It could help you.

    • scurvy, beri beri, pellagra, rickets (meat only diet lacks these vitamins) unless you are taking a vitamin supplement:
      https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/50697/4-diseases-caused-lack-essential-vitamins-and-minerals

      For diabetes, get off the sugar hwy (nice advice, but still my personal drug of choice lol), exercise at least 20 minutes per day. G switched to stevia for his fix, so have I (I cheat with sucralose sometimes)!

      Buy a used college level textbook on nutrition, required pre-med class:
      https://www.amazon.com/Nutrition-Dietetics-Used/s?rh=n%3A14920540011%2Cp_n_condition-type%3A1294425011

      Ban high fructose corn syrup (it’s cheaper than sugar to make), manufacturers should be sued for the harm it causes!
      https://www.veri.co/learn/what-is-high-fructose-corn-syrup

      Watch the ‘forks Over Knives’ movie, free,on youtube
      https://www.forksoverknives.com/the-film/
      ‘Chronic diseases including heart disease and type 2 diabetes can almost always be prevented—and in many cases reversed—by adopting a whole-food, plant-based diet.’

      https://www.forksoverknives.com/what-to-eat/

      Even Trump skips pizza dough (empty starch calories) and sugar (he only drinks diet Cokes), yet his fast food diet has given him 80 yrs without any major health problems – or his cholesterol ratings are waiting to stroke him lol…only his Dr knows for sure..

      • I’ve seen the video and I’ve been reading stuff suggested by a vegan friend. Supriseingly, she eats alot of processed foods and few whole foods. Interesting stuff.

    • There are literally (and without exaggeration) millions of available patterns.

      When I set my kids up, years ago, I gave them links to the 4-5 largest archives of 3-D print files. At that time, several of these archives had over one million files for download…

    • Of note after surgery… my orthopedist forbade any ibuprofen after my hip transplant. It inhibits bone growth he says. Don’t know if bones were involved in your foot surgery, but something to be aware of. So I was taking tylenol (acetaminophen) if needed for pain. At my 1-year Xray & inspection he says my bone implants have grown in nicely.

      • Opiate at night had Tylenol in it and doctor was afraid I’d overdose on Tylenol with a normal dose plus the night time drug. I took Tylenol a couple of days to give my stomach a break. interesting the Tylenol made me hot while the Ibuprofen makes me cold. I normally avoid all NSIDs and Opiates.

        I had some bone reduced and toes removed due to deformity. Should greatly increase my quality of life and reduce foot infections and pain.

    • Elanor
      Eat Right For Your Blood Type. Peter D;Adjamo
      You will not need toilet paper again and cut food intake leading your metabolism/digestion away from being overused processing of the unnecessary. Treats are still OK but in moderation.

    • Eat eggs – lots of vitamins and minerals.. They are cheap at the moment and so many ways to fix them in a fast manner. Cost is 25 cents for two cage free eggs. Hard boiled, egg salad sandwiches and lots of ways for breakfast – Veggie Omelet, Cheese and Diced Ham Omelet. Right now I am loving a chili omelet.

    • Hey Lady,

      I see youse looking for solutions to some health concerns in Ure life.

      I am hear to help youse see a new path forward, with amaze – ___z results.

      So sit back, relax, and click on Play, and enjoy hearing about some new ideas in healthcare that are directly related to Ure situation.

      7 toxics food for Arthritis-Dont EAT -https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1YzVRPKV6-E&pp=ygUQZHIgZGlhbmEgZ2lybml0YQ%3D%3D

      Microdosing Semiglutides – Arthritis Secret -https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxxdz47dknk&pp=ygUQZHIgZGlhbmEgZ2lybml0YQ%3D%3D

      No excuses GrandMa (I say that with utmost respect), gotz to take care of Ureself firstly, as Grandmas’ be precious.

      – Best health wishes

  3. When the people ( sheeple) did NOT stand up and refruked the governments new laws saying that money deposited into a financial institution is not yours anymore along with the ability to confiscate your retirement funds then you know we are now slaves unto them, when they control your monies, you have very few options to survive. we are seeing that come to a head very soon, probably in the form of cash being outlawed and digital issued in.

    Great article!

  4. “dfoes weight and strength 0 on lrsinr’d houdr vompuitert – noy berinh hrt jusdt gyi”

    Elaine’s computer seems to have a loose nut on the keyboard.

  5. Yeah the Flying Hawiians BS detector rang so loud this AM, as to crack the Mauna Loa volcano cone. Now it be broke, good job Jeffe.

    I got a vector change for the Woosters, 4 you see one of the Sleeping Prophets “forecasts” is bubbling up into view right now.

    So lets us journey down to the Yucatan Peninsula, and climb atop Chichen Itza. Now walk across top of temple to the North East Corner. Got it ? good.
    Now we set a Straight Line across the Gulf to Florida, to the islands off the southern tip FLORIDA, the (uninhabited) Dry Tourtugas. There is a 5 Sided Star Fort (Bastion) sitting on top one of the uninhabited islands (ancient construction). No historical records, never been investigated.

    What are the odds that those two would be in PERFECT ALIGMENT ?

    Gets better homegamerz, for 2 nights ago the was a major WOOBLE on the above straight line, where there is no official Plate Boundary, no faults, according USGS.
    USGS down smoothed the EQ to 6.1 mag. , there have been 1 or 2 after shocks. The precise location, 102 Km WNW Mantua, Cuba. Exact same place Russian scientist lady found all those ancient monuments. Exact same location as the Edgar Cayce said would be location of “New Lands Rising”.

    Is Mother EARTH being made ready for something ?

    * More on ancient Star Forts and why US Military always builds INSIDE of them, looking at you Missu.
    Dutchsinse- “Sinselandia” -https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3XCCu_qNTNQ&pp=ygUcZHV0Y2hzaW5zZSBlYXJ0aHF1YWtlIHVwZGF0ZdIHCQk6CwGHKiGM7w%3D%3D

    * Can any of Ure alls’ Ai figure out where KAFs’ missing $50 Trillion went ?

      • Katherine Austin Fitts, check her out, a real badass Bitch. And I say that with all due repsect, as I think pretty highly of that Lady.

        “we” suspect the Ai data center build out is Cover Story for all those TRILLIONs going to the break away civilization vile Pricks..blacked out projects..

  6. Speaking of Israel did any of you see Disclosure Day yet? Spielberg needs to retire the brand just like Eastwood.

    • Enjoyed “Jun 11, 1982 · E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial: Directed by Steven Spielberg. With Henry Thomas, Drew Barrymore, Peter Coyote, Dee Wallace. A troubled child summons the courage to help a friendly alien escape from Earth and return to his home planet.”
      No hurry to see t his latest movie.

    • Going alone to a movie on Tuesday is still $20.00. With a medium bag of popcorn it’s $30.00. The movie better be as good as Top Gun Maverick to get me to drop $30.00. The last time I saw a movie in the theatre was a couple of years ago.

      I have not seen Disclosure Day because the commercials looked so bad. CGI was cringy. That was all it took to make it a hard pass for me. I’m not even interested in watching it on streaming!

      Right now I’m watching Spider Noir with Nicolas Cage on Prime.

      Andor on Disney+ was absolutely a masterpiece, true art.

      For Romance,

      I recommend Beauty and the Billionaire on Spark on YouTube

      https://youtube.com/@sparktvmovies?si=rpLX58t4CFTCkBw6

      For Anime I recommend season one only of Arcane on Netflix. That show was stunning.

      For Mexican Tele-novellas I recommend season one and Two only of Who Killed Sara on Netflix.

      Also Seasons 1 and 3 of the Girlfriend Experience. Both seasons tell a very different story and raise social issues.

      Season one only of Jennifer Garners The last thing he told me on Apple.

  8. Here in southern Iowa we are getting way too much rain. So far this year we have had 20.48 inches. Wish we could send some to the drought areas. We just got another 2.5 inches this morning! Rough year for the garden!

    • -=pish=-

      Wait a week. From the latest map, Egor will be in a drought within two weeks.

      That map was created by a statistician.

      It is completely accurate, and totally worthless…

  9. i reckon most of the regular MAGA , trumpster , sheetcoin freaks in this joint will have their own special area at the cage circus . disgrace . youll see . the old money of new york gunna whip your butts . and im on meds Igor . plz.. ohh and all get your spacex garbage from senator muskrat

    • Hey now Fromunda Man,

      Lets not lump Cryptologists in with the other brother epstein types . Thats like combining a Genius like Myself with someone like Ureself, a severely damaged Brain. What was Ure Doctors prognosis again, oh thats right, Abbey Normal.

      Egor -https://youtu.be/hw6xBdXl1Aw?si=dd09KGO8PvBcF6u8

      Egor – https://youtu.be/Z7L3PcrhnEg?

  10. re: ENSO
    feat: “…whether ’tis nobler in the mind…”

    As chance would have it, the “Daily Mail” published a report at the following link this morning which itself contains a link to an ENSO news release of today’s date:

    https://www.dailymail.com/sciencetech/article-15892183/el-nino-global-phenomenon-arrives.html

    The worst drought period since 1877 may be at hand? Separately it looks like the UN’s Geneva headquartered WMO (World Meteorological Organization) established in 1950 traces its roots to the IMO (International Meteorological Association) which met in Vienna, Austria-Hungary in 1873. What will Jarvis think?

    • re: “Outbreak”, 1995

      ChatGPT advises that the Northern Light Eastern Maine Medical Centre in Bangor, Me. successfully conducted highly infectious disease preparedness exercises in 2014.

      An alleged Edinburgh to Dulles flight is reflected in the following post on “X”:

      https://x.com/MarioNawfal/status/2065264507480428828

      The airline’s public website currently allegedly informs of the plane’s late arrival at Dulles following overflight of Bangor. Present public advice from Google allegedly advises that the plane has diverted to Bangor, Me.

  11. do any of the conspiracy , military , political gurus here have any economic background ? any university ? money velocity , one of the 3 Ms in money supply and health check up . all westernized economies rely on consumption as the economy , real economy not sheetcoin , goes round and round like a kibutz. so as it goes round the government clicks and takes revenue in consumption tax . when velocicty is non existent and sarking wind your in trouble . why ? debt is non productive sarking all the funds have made from flipping burgers or driving ubers or working for uncle sam licking stamps . please funny name types i wont even lower myself to discuss the disaster ahead . now get yourselves down to the whitehouse and sink beer and hot dogs and do the rolling YMCA with your adored leader and the AI freak oligarchs . weaponise AI trump ? so cool ehh

  12. GU : “… Remember the part about shorter columns and reader Hank’s bs detector going off? …”

    I seem to remember someone yammering about a *hard deck* word count but
    We got this, really … hold my beer? Never mind, will finish it.
    New world begins tomorrow.

    Or, the next day?
    Egor

  13. U.S. stocks bounce sharply as Trump says he’s canceling planned strikes on Iran…

    It’s all a big joke. We’re being played for suckers.

    “Never give a sucker an even break.” — W.C. Fields

    • “Wall Street” … aka ponzi scam … always has, always will be

      yet it goes on, and on … and on … as the band played on

      good luck all

    • re: UFC250; “Goat”, Feb. 13, 2026
      feat: Parable of the Sheep and Goats

      Plebeian Service Announcement ahead! Prepare to hoist the bigtop as UFC250 launches tomorrow at the White House.

      A peek at the UFC250 event webpage presents an image of 13 stars as found in the constellation Ophiucus derived from the ancient greek term for “serpent bearer”. Logos of two sponsors appear. One is allegedly not a stormtrooper but rather an etherium lion representing a cryptocurrency company headquartered in the “Lion City” of Singapore. As chance would have it, #47’s Truth Social is allegedly linking up its own planned predictive addon with a new prediction company entity subsidiary of the crypto firm to compete with the likes of Polymarket. Allegedly all bets are off on how smoothly that can go.

      The second UFC event sponsor shown is a manufacturer of trucks for the civilian market depicted by a ram. Its primary assembly plant commenced service in 1953 as the Michigan Ordinance Missile Plant. The facility is said to have produced Redstone and Jupiter ballistic missiles followed later by surface-to-surface cruise missiles.

      As an aside, I was looking for sucker fish references, but ended up down a path to studies of fish that don’t appear to age as they grow older towards being centenarians. The following is one such link from “Nature”:

      https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-88626-5

    • If you want the real news , direct from the ayatollahs , just read h. Turner . He apparently has an inside direct line . SARC. You will know when things are a done deal in good time. Everyone is a foreign affairs official , until they’re not. Now if you really want to know how to run the United States , ask a federal judge.

  14. when i was remote for a week i saw quite a few crocs in the northern rivers of the great southern land. crocs are crocodiles or alligators as you blokes call em. now i am seeing plenty of $oks here again . take my meds !!! get a spike protein in yah pal

  15. Hits on Iran for tonight cancelled. Trump announces signed agreement this morning.
    The hits keep on coming. Good column today. Please keep up the good work.

  16. “Remember the part about shorter columns and reader Hank’s bs detector going off?”

    Tonight I go in for the sleep apnea test… wired sleepover. So today I am prohibited from any caffeine. No coffee this morning, no sodas, and worst of all… NO NAPS today! So here I sit trying to read this morning’s column and trying to keep from falling asleep. Thanks, George. You’re testing me.

    I’m thinking of going for a long, leisurely walk to stay awake, but I’m afraid when I’m finished I will collapse in a pile of ZZZs. And that would not be good. Today will be orchestrated light activity until check-in time at 7:30pm. Wonder if I will stay awake while they glue EEG needle pads to my head.

    • hank one of the older good guys . hope all works out for you mate . and no volcanos going off . cheers

    • “Wonder if I will stay awake while they glue EEG needle pads to my head”

      Will they? My eval was done with a mess of cams and mics — no EEG, EKG, or any other electrodes…

      • The morning after… I had 15 head electrodes, 10 body electrodes, and the finger pulse oximeter, as well as the camera and mics. I ‘qualified’ in the first hour with my Oxy level falling below 85. Then we tried three different masks at several hour intervals thru the night. The Nasal only mask was best for me. Two others that included mouth were not good. My nasal passages are swollen from allergies, and throat irritation from dry throat breathing made the others intolerable.

  17. Great book found in the marina laundry book exchange… Startling Moon by Liu Hong. It chronicles the life of a young girl born in 1965 in Manchuria. Much of it exposes the depth of the communist brainwashing and societal control that takes away any individual dreams and replaces them with the will of the state, the demands of the rulers who know best.
    I began going to Hong Kong in 1980 and did average four trips a year until 2005, usually staying a week or more and working with factory people. By 1989 we were through the second border, out of the Special Economic Zone, and into real China. This story completely resonates with deep personal experience and should be required reading for any politician who has never been to `China but feels the right to comment on what it’s like there. A billion people ‘ruled’ by seventy million or so red cards. Ain’t right.
    Stiks

  18. (“the markets Wednesday. While futures pricing hinted at a possible “dead cat bounce today” let’s cut the bullshit and tell it “like it is.”The quality of life – as measured by after-obligations, true disposable income – hasn’t been moving much.
    America offshored its industrial base under the eyes of a derelict Congress and successive consensus presidencies.”)

    Hmm..then you see news reports that actually stomp on the feet of the successful…the new EBT guidelines and reduction..
    it affects the poor and middle class..That will undoubtedly effect the economic outlook..we all remember the history of the food lines during the depression..the EBT is essentially the food lines today..since housing is beyond the affordability of the vast majority of hourly wage earners..and rent even in low income housing absorbs the vast portion of a household income.

    When food prices continue to rise and distribution weakens and expands due to fuel prices etc., and SNAP access shrinks, it puts huge pressure on families who are already stretched thin. That stress reduces spending, weakens local economies, and increases the risk of a deeper downturn is possible. A population under constant strain can’t keep an economy strong — people can only carry so much before the system starts to feel it. the pyramid of the butterflies fluttering wings..

    the least?talked?about truths of the U.S. economy is that It’s the poor and the middle class who keep the economy alive with the velocity of money, because they spend the highest percentage of their income and for a currency to maintain its value is by keeping it moving..

    They often refer this as the marginal propensity to consume — A fancy phrase that means…. While the wealthy people in our society save most of their income….Middle class people now known as the working poor spend most of their income..
    And Poor households spend all their income in a paycheck to paycheck lifestyle..they budget by the assumption that they will continue on a regular work schedule..as the price of brick and mortar increases… many rather than raise prices..reduce hours and the skeleton staff receiving benefits like healthcare coverage vacation etc….I never worked in a place where I was allowed a vacation..

    So in my opinion when the poor and middle class are stressed…spending drops..( right now from those I know ..they are using plastic to maintain a quality if life..) once plasfic runs out local businesses will lose more revenue,
    layoffs increase sending more to search part time and day labor to meet the increased cost of living…( this is what I was going through after the increase of basic necessities)
    As thus accelerates tax revenue falls..the economy slows drastically..the little problem that escalates to when did this happen..
    The economic downturns always hit hardest from the bottom up…not the top down.. when TBE currency loses value due to inflation..its similar to chewing up savings from the bottom up..and the noodle rips apart or resolved into a new Zimbabwean valuation of money or a new Weimar depression..

    of course that’s just my opinion and I am so far on the bottom that anything I know can be disputed by the truly intelligent..

    • What’s the world coming too?

      Two Boston children hoping to make extra cash for the summer were robbed at gunpoint in broad daylight while they were running their lemonade stand.

      The young entrepreneurs — an 11-year-old girl and a 12-year-old boy — noticed two juvenile suspects passing the stand in South Boston around 4:45 p.m. on Wednesday before the suspects finally stopped to ask if the children accepted Apple Pay, according to the Boston Police Department.

      Before the pair could respond, one suspect snatched the cash box while the other lifted his shirt and “displayed a black firearm” tucked into his waistband.

      https://nypost.com/2026/06/12/us-news/two-children-robbed-at-gunpoint-while-running-lemonade-stand-in-boston-by-juvenile-suspects/

      • It sounds harsh, but those kids need to learn to never let a thug get away with anything. If necessary, at the risk of their own lives. If you don’t protect your stuff, everyone will take it.

        Successful crime creates criminals for life.

        The kids have a new lemonade stand. Hopefully they’ll have better cameras and some sort of non-lethal weapons that they’ll not be afraid to use. Never show a weapon unless you intend to use it at that moment!

        The police will always arrive in time to take a report.

        Hopefully, the thugs will either OD on something or be caught and jailed for the maximum possible sentence without parole.

  19. It appears that my sharing my experiment to build a sovereign A.I. has ruffled a few feathers. That was not my intent.

    I will not post any more updates.

    “Stay Frosty !”

    • It’s a fascinating project. Perhaps it’s possible to post on the Peoplenomics comment section. Many of us are curious, but don’t have the time to DIY yet another project.

  20. Scientists and fashion brand Enfin Levé just dropped the world’s first “T. rex leather” bag

    A Jurassic Park fantasy come to life. Bidding starts today at $500,000. Absolute madness.

    https://x.com/TaraBull/status/2065116853186527669?s=20

    So apparently, we have the ability to lab-create a Tyrannosaurus Rex (or perhaps already have.)

    Cool!!!

    What could possibly go wring…?

    • re: “Would you like to play a game?”
      feat: “The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim”, 2011

      The founder of the dark wear brand is van Diem. Diem enfin leve. “The day [purse/market?] is finally awake” is apparently an opening line of the roleplay game ‘The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim”. Dragons have returned to Skyrim. The hero must battle against an age-ending “World Eater”. Spoiler alert – the climax takes place in Sovngarde, place of the Nordic afterlife.

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