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Markets and Waffles! Blink Lab Monday – Plant Count Parenthood

The “bottom line” is the “top line” this morning.

Markets are full of yuck and suck – with Dow futures down a couple of hundred and other indices down proportionately.

+Trump tweets won’t fix the raw economics, this time.  The way we read the tea leaves, people are tired of texts – bias for now is for action.  And, WTF on gas prices? Flag-waving will only get you so far; then you need to desk some deals.  Not a five-years ahead promissory PR piece.  I mean this year – which means RFN.

Economic news flow is slow this week, with Housing starts tomorrow about as close to a blood pressure rise as we’ll see.

Here, Let Me “Channel BTC” for You

OK, reaching to save our falling interest in economics matters, let’s all keep pretending that an energy-pig currency with no utility value matters.  Then, let’s do charted-channels to see where it’s heading:

All better now?

Gold and silver are down on the commodities side, along with oil being up, and wheat still not high enough to prevent losses of family wheat farms (again). But, for True Believers, gold, silver, The South, and Bitcoin “shall rise again.”  Only question is who will be daisy food waiting.

Blink Lab Monday

I was busy as hell this weekend. Writing an entire 50,000-word first cut of a new book plus putting up gobs of new content on my Home AI Central – Practical local AI for real people website. Which meant benchmarking AI models, and such.

Which didn’t net out enough ZZZ’s to get me “wired to fire” this morning.

So, you know what I did? Reinvented my personal news paradigm a bit. See, with no time to “keep current” on everything out there, I needed to haul out some processing assistance; coffee is low and the clock ticks.  (Which is odd for quartz.)

“Electric George, build me a listing of the top 30 (or so) “news” stories that are trending today.”

“Sure boss!”

  1. Trump team signaling possible new tariff actions tied to Chinese industrial imports.
  2. AI infrastructure spending continues exploding as Microsoft, Amazon, and Google race to lock in compute capacity.
  3. Treasury markets remain jittery over long-term U.S. debt levels and refinancing costs.
  4. Oil traders watching renewed Middle East tension and shipping-route vulnerability.
  5. Commercial real estate defaults continue building quietly beneath headline level.
  6. Retailers warning consumers are trading down and delaying discretionary purchases.
  7. Home insurance costs rising sharply in climate-risk states.
  8. More companies discussing layoffs while simultaneously claiming “AI productivity gains.”
  9. Power-grid demand projections revised upward because of AI datacenter expansion.
  10. China showing additional signs of property-market weakness and slow consumer demand.

You know, most of these won’t matter come Friday, right?

“You want to let me finish? Next batch:

  1. European economies still flirting with stagnation despite official optimism.
  2. Student-loan repayment stress beginning to show up again in household spending data.
  3. Major automakers slowing some EV expansion timelines while hybrid demand rises.
  4. U.S. deficit spending continues at historically abnormal peacetime levels.
  5. Bitcoin and crypto markets remain highly speculative despite institutional adoption narratives.
  6. Water-resource concerns increasing in agricultural regions facing summer heat projections.
  7. Food companies warning about input-cost volatility tied to weather and transport.
  8. More states debating restrictions or regulation involving AI-generated content and deepfakes.
  9. Federal Reserve officials continuing mixed messaging on future rate-cut timing.
  10. Freight activity and shipping indicators sending mixed signals about real economic strength.

How come you keep restarting list numbering?

“Because you keep interrupting, Boss! Let me finish with the final 10 for a total of 30.

  1. Cybersecurity warnings increasing around infrastructure and healthcare systems.
  2. Pharmaceutical pricing and healthcare affordability remain political flashpoints.
  3. Airline and travel sectors showing signs of consumer budget pressure.
  4. Continued migration away from expensive urban centers into lower-cost regions.
  5. Nuclear power discussions resurfacing as AI power demand collides with climate policy.
  6. Gold remaining historically elevated as investors hedge against instability and currency erosion.
  7. Manufacturing reshoring efforts continue, though labor and infrastructure shortages remain obstacles.
  8. Several large media organizations continuing layoffs despite election-cycle traffic gains.
  9. Public trust in institutions continuing to erode across political and economic sectors.
  10. Increasing concern that modern news cycles focus on emotional activation instead of actionable intelligence.

(The human seizes command again.)

And that, right there, is the disease: information volume masquerading as intelligence. And screaming “Important.”  Well, no.  We need to do some Time Engineering – Creating the Time to Pursue Excellence.

Filter 1 Results

“Reasonable, Electric George. Now, narrow this list of “news” to items that materially changed over the weekend in meaningful and measurable ways.”

“Sure boss. After removing stories that were mostly narrative recycling, opinion camouflage, or low-consequence emotional bait, here are the items that appear to have materially changed over the weekend in ways that could eventually matter to normal humans.”

  1. AI datacenter and infrastructure spending continued accelerating, with multiple hyperscale operators signaling additional power, cooling, and compute commitments.
  2. Treasury and bond-market stress indicators worsened modestly as refinancing concerns and deficit anxiety remained elevated.
  3. Oil and shipping-route risk premiums increased slightly as Middle East instability concerns remained active.
  4. Commercial real-estate weakness deepened incrementally as more office and mixed-use debt stress surfaced.
  5. Consumer spending softness became more visible through additional retailer discounting and “trade-down” behavior.
  6. Grid-capacity concerns increased as AI-related electrical demand projections continued climbing.
  7. China property and consumption weakness showed additional signs of structural rather than temporary slowdown.
  8. Automakers continued adjusting away from all-EV assumptions toward hybrid-heavy transition models.
  9. Water and agricultural heat-risk concerns increased as summer forecasts hardened.
  10. Food inflation risk moved slightly higher due to weather, freight, and transport concerns.
  11. Freight and shipping data continued signaling a slowing real economy beneath official headline optimism.
  12. Cybersecurity threat warnings increased regarding infrastructure and healthcare exposure.
  13. Gold remained elevated while institutional hedging behavior continued.
  14. Manufacturing reshoring efforts advanced slowly, though labor and infrastructure bottlenecks worsened.
  15. Institutional trust erosion continued accelerating across political, media, financial, and public-health sectors.
  16. Growing concern emerged that modern media systems optimize for emotional activation instead of actionable intelligence.

Filter 2 Evolves

“Good. We have cut the list roughly in half. Now let’s separate these into beginning, midpoint, and concluding events…” [run]

“Certainly boss. Here is the current domain-state estimate based on trajectory, timing, and observed momentum.”

Beginning Events

  1. AI datacenter and infrastructure spending continued accelerating, with multiple hyperscale operators signaling additional power, cooling, and compute commitments.
  2. Grid-capacity concerns increased as AI-related electrical demand projections continued climbing.
  3. Automakers continued adjusting away from all-EV assumptions toward hybrid-heavy transition models.
  4. Water and agricultural heat-risk concerns increased as summer forecasts hardened.
  5. Manufacturing reshoring efforts advanced slowly, though labor and infrastructure bottlenecks worsened.
  6. Growing concern emerged that modern media systems optimize for emotional activation instead of actionable intelligence.

Midpoint Events

  1. Treasury and bond-market stress indicators worsened modestly as refinancing concerns and deficit anxiety remained elevated.
  2. Oil and shipping-route risk premiums increased slightly as Middle East instability concerns remained active.
  3. Commercial real-estate weakness deepened incrementally as more office and mixed-use debt stress surfaced.
  4. Consumer spending softness became more visible through additional retailer discounting and “trade-down” behavior.
  5. China property and consumption weakness showed additional signs of structural rather than temporary slowdown.
  6. Food inflation risk moved slightly higher due to weather, freight, and transport concerns.
  7. Freight and shipping data continued signaling a slowing real economy beneath official headline optimism.
  8. Cybersecurity threat warnings increased regarding infrastructure and healthcare exposure.
  9. Institutional trust erosion continued accelerating across political, media, financial, and public-health sectors.

Concluding Events

  1. Gold remained elevated while institutional hedging behavior continued.
  2. Translation: smart money increasingly assumes instability is not temporary.
  3. The old “zero rates forever” worldview appears largely concluded.
  4. The assumption that globalization automatically lowers costs and stabilizes prices appears to be ending.
  5. The assumption that legacy media still controls public narrative flow also appears to be entering late-stage decline.
  6. The first-generation “EV replaces everything quickly” narrative now appears to be concluding and transitioning into a longer hybridized transportation phase.

“Translation? The useful news is not the headline. The useful news is where the headline sits on the timeline. Beginning stories are watch items. Midpoint stories are planning items. Concluding stories are adaptation items. Miss that distinction and you end up reacting to theater while the real machinery moves behind the curtain.”

Filter 3: Timing Models

“Excellent. Now project likely endpoint timing and probable economic impact windows…”

“Sure boss.”

  1. AI infrastructure buildout
    Likely endpoint: AI becomes a utility-scale industrial sector, not a software niche.
    Arrival window: 2026–2028.
    Logic: Once compute demand collides with land, power, cooling, chips, and capital, AI stops being “apps” and becomes heavy industry.
  2. Grid-capacity stress
    Likely endpoint: higher electric rates, local grid fights, and more utility-backed infrastructure spending.
    Arrival window: 2026–2030.
    Logic: Datacenters, EVs, heat pumps, and reshoring all want electricity at the same time.
  3. Hybrid-heavy auto transition
    Likely endpoint: hybrids become the practical bridge while full EV adoption slows outside ideal use cases.
    Arrival window: 2026–2029.
    Logic: Consumers still care about price, range, charging access, repair cost, and cold-weather performance.
  4. Water and agricultural heat risk
    Likely endpoint: regional crop stress, higher irrigation costs, and more volatile produce prices.
    Arrival window: Summer 2026 through 2027.
    Logic: Weather risk does not need to destroy the whole system to raise marginal food costs.
  5. Manufacturing reshoring bottlenecks
    Likely endpoint: selective reshoring, but at higher prices and slower timelines than political speeches imply.
    Arrival window: 2026–2032.
    Logic: Factories require skilled labor, power, permitting, transport, tooling, and patient capital.
  6. Media emotional activation problem
    Likely endpoint: growing demand for filtered, consequence-based news products.
    Arrival window: Now through 2028.
    Logic: Readers are saturated with outrage and short on usable meaning.
  7. Treasury and bond-market stress
    Likely endpoint: higher-for-longer financing costs unless growth, spending, or inflation breaks.
    Arrival window: 2026–2027.
    Logic: Debt rollover math eventually outruns political storytelling.
  8. Oil and shipping-route risk
    Likely endpoint: episodic fuel spikes and insurance-cost increases.
    Arrival window: Immediate to 12 months.
    Logic: Energy markets price interruption risk before consumers see the pump move.
  9. Commercial real-estate weakness
    Likely endpoint: bank write-downs, refinancing failures, and local tax-base pressure.
    Arrival window: 2026–2029.
    Logic: Low-rate loans are still rolling into a high-rate world with weaker office demand.
  10. Consumer trade-down behavior
    Likely endpoint: margin pressure for retailers and more household budget defense.
    Arrival window: Now through 2027.
    Logic: When wages lag household costs, people do not stop spending; they spend down-market.
  11. China property and consumption weakness
    Likely endpoint: weaker global demand impulse and more export pressure from China.
    Arrival window: 2026–2028.
    Logic: A property-centered economy cannot unwind leverage without hitting household confidence.
  12. Food inflation risk
    Likely endpoint: renewed grocery-price irritation even if official inflation looks tame.
    Arrival window: 3–12 months.
    Logic: Food prices are where weather, energy, freight, labor, packaging, and currency all meet.
  13. Freight and shipping softness
    Likely endpoint: slower goods economy beneath service-sector headline strength.
    Arrival window: Now through 2027.
    Logic: Freight is one of the places where real demand shows up before press releases.
  14. Cybersecurity infrastructure risk
    Likely endpoint: more outages, ransom events, and higher compliance/insurance costs.
    Arrival window: Continuous, with rising odds through 2027.
    Logic: Hospitals, utilities, and local governments remain target-rich and unevenly defended.
  15. Institutional trust erosion
    Likely endpoint: lower compliance, weaker consensus, and more parallel-information systems.
    Arrival window: Already underway through 2030.
    Logic: Once trust is spent, official messaging becomes just another competing opinion.

Filter 4: What Matters Today

“That gives us the endpoint map. Final pass: Distill this down to the Top Five that may be actionable by Elaine and me plus “normal” civilians. In other words: economic impact timing — when this stuff hits wallets, farms, shops, markets, and family decisions. Specific Action pathos – if any – for RFN (right freaking now).”

“Sure boss. Stripping out the theater, here are the five that may actually matter to wallets, farms, shops, markets, and family decisions.”

  1. Consumer trade-down behavior
    Impact window: Now through 2027.
    Change potential: High.
    RFN action: Tighten household spending before the crowd does. Stock basics on sale. Delay vanity purchases. Watch retailers for discounting because stressed consumers create bargain windows.
  2. Food inflation and weather risk
    Impact window: 3–12 months, with summer pressure first.
    Change potential: High.
    RFN action: Expand garden yield, preserve food, watch meat, coffee, cocoa, grains, and produce prices. Buy shelf-stable staples before the next weather excuse shows up at checkout.
  3. Power-grid and AI datacenter demand
    Impact window: 2026–2030, but utility-rate pressure starts earlier.
    Change potential: System-level.
    RFN action: Audit electric loads. Improve insulation, cooling efficiency, solar/battery options, and generator readiness. Cheap electricity may become less cheap.
  4. Treasury and bond-market stress
    Impact window: 2026–2027.
    Change potential: High.
    RFN action: Reduce floating-rate exposure, avoid unnecessary debt, keep cash reserves, and expect borrowing costs to stay irritating longer than politicians admit.
  5. Commercial real-estate and local tax pressure
    Impact window: 2026–2029.
    Change potential: Moderate to high.
    RFN action: Watch local banks, county budgets, property taxes, and municipal services. Empty offices eventually become somebody’s tax problem.

And there it is. The Blink Lab output for normal people: not what yelled loudest this morning, but what could change grocery bills, electric bills, borrowing costs, household resilience, and county-level reality.

Now to apply the hardest filter of all:

Filter Five: The Blink

“E.G., now apply Filter Five: What on this list is materially and actionably changed this weekend and demands our attention today? I mean besides flash goggles for Israel and Iran?”

“Sure boss. After the last pass, the actual Blink is not thirty stories. It is not even five. It is three.”

  1. Energy risk moved from background noise to wallet risk.
    Impact timing: RFN to 90 days.
    Action: Top off fuel, avoid unnecessary driving, watch diesel, fertilizer, grocery, and shipping-linked prices. Energy is the first domino because it reprices everything else.
  2. Bond yields are now the hidden tax on everything.
    Impact timing: RFN to 12 months.
    Action: Don’t add floating-rate debt. Be cautious on big purchases. Keep cash discipline. Higher long rates hit mortgages, cards, business loans, stocks, and local budgets.
  3. AI power demand is becoming a utility-bill story, not a tech story.
    Impact timing: 2026 forward, with early rate pain already appearing.
    Action: Audit household power use, cooling loads, backup power, insulation, and generator readiness. The AI boom is quietly bidding against civilians for electricity.

And that’s why our Blink Lab News filters were useful enough that I ran out and registered BlinkLabNews.com.

The early Blink today is this: energy, interest, and electricity. Three boring words. Three places where the weekend’s noise may become next month’s bill.

Some mornings – when I don’t have a lot of time on my hands? I skip down to Filter 4 and Filter 5 output. Because, in my new book written in a 10-hour “writing trance” this weekend, THE BIGGEST SECRET IN LIFE IS THIS:

TIME — and specifically how much you and I have left — IS THE ONLY CURRENCY.

Everything else is, pardon this, bullshit and we don’t have time for that.

Around the Ranch: Squash Parents

OK, writing a book and locking the website name Timenamic.com wasn’t all I got done this weekend.

A couple of new articles went up on my https://homeaicentral.com website. How to begin making your own Sovereign AI at home – out of corporate monetization’s reach.

And on the Foodening/Hour-a-Day-Gardening site? The Cheapest Hydroponic Upgrade You’ll Ever Make – Hour a Day Gardening!

Yes, I was busy and getting carpal twinges a bit. Treated with semi-diluted ETOH, I will somehow recover.

[About here, if you still have a pulse, you might be asking “What was the Squash Parent headline about, Bozo?“]

Ah… that.

So, on one of the “water runs” to the house — 50 feet isn’t heavy exercise, lol — I happened to notice a few male flowers on the least illuminated squash plant. Hence the parenting claim.

For horticultural experts, these will be the male flowers. The females will be along eventually. But we’re now in the zone where squashhood is nearly here. And the tomatoes are flowering now, too. A little vine shaking every time I go through the grow room should result in something – some day.

That won’t be today, though. So do I write “chow for now” and hope the pun police slept in?

Write when you get rich,

George@Ure.net

PS: Drop me a comment on the “Blink Lab News” approach — filter inputs are especially welcome. How do you slice and dice digital bullshit?

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  1. Our squash is producing more than I’ve ever seen. Five plants have dozens of little squash. I’ll be picking shortly at this rate. Gotta get some chicken breasts to use in Dena’s squash casserole.

    Only difference this year from past years; these are planted in heavily-composted soil. I dumped a tractor bucket of compost in one row and tilled it in lightly. The squash plants are big, leafy and dark green.

    The compost is comprised of goat poop/hay from cleaning out the goat sheds.

  2. I did not care for the AI slop. Way too long and not interesting. One reason I like coming to your website is your writing style. This takes that out of the picture.

    My two cents worth……..

    • For an aging and insecure writer, at least using an AI for a straight man in the morning routine makes more sense than talking truth to power and getting crickets – at least this is novel with no T&A and no ads…

      • Keep up the good work George, using all the tools available. You’ll never please everyone, so, as I learned in the 60’s USN, Don’t sweat the petty sh*t!

  3. Well done sir. Just the facts then put down the damn cell phone and get out to work the plan.
    In our travels to and from Doctor appointments in town it’s hard not to notice these strip mall like warehouse sized projects popping up all over the place wherever there is level ground. All empty it seems and almost all adjacent to apartment buildings of at least 5 stories. We always get back out of town as fast as possible those days.
    It’s begining to feel Blade Runnerish.

    Stay safe. 73

  5. I do like the Blink Lab summary.

    Only one question boss. – When we communicate in the comments section, how will we know if we are dealing with Eclectic George or Electric George?

  6. GU : “… How do you slice and dice digital bullshit? …”

    First cuppa generally works around the globe, AUS, UK, NY / financial channels (public / private) / answer email traffic at multiple addresses then go outside. This was somewhat of an addictive state. Information is power. How much should you have? All of it. Or, none?

    Honestly George, I don’t want any person or service to curate my news. Still trying to quit, to unplug.

    Hi, my name’s Egor and I have a problem.
    Greet the day.
    E

  7. Great job on this morning piece. Emotional manipulation has caused many good people to support socialist causes, my dad always said “…the path to hell is paved with good intentions…”

    Media emotional activation problem
    Likely endpoint: growing demand for filtered, consequence-based news products.
    Arrival window: Now through 2028.
    Logic: Readers are saturated with outrage and short on usable meaning.

  8. Two immediate filters I apply to all news:
    No celebutards.
    if it involves a Celebutard in politics, finance, crime, etc. erase.
    No “spiritual/religiosity” news.
    Fuxnooz is trying to become the 700Club. The others fighting back are also repelent.
    If I seek spiritual advise and counciling i can find better sources, with more local and therfore relavant to me knowledge and advise.
    All nooz sources should adopt your filter system.
    Local nooz especially.
    I quit watching local except weather because it doesnt tell you whats going on. its all feel good “puppy shelter rescue” stuff.
    i should ask AI for the same rundown applicable to Bham Al area only.
    There may be a paying web site in that. Hmmm.

    • Bingo. You just named Filter Zero: remove emotional bait before analysis even begins. Celebutards, synthetic religiosity, and puppy-shelter filler may generate clicks, but they usually do not change taxes, roads, insurance, utilities, food, safety, jobs, or family planning. The Birmingham-local version is exactly where this may get interesting: “What changed near me that actually matters?”

    • “No celebutards”

      Agreed, but not as a rule without exception – exceptions being someone who has a high degree of knowledge on a specific topic, or in a specific field (like Skunk Baxter or Mayim Bialik) AS LONG AS THEY’RE GIVING INFO WITHIN THEIR FIELD OF EXPERTISE.

      Unlike the other networks, the faces at Fox News are about 85% Christian. I, personally, believe this is a good thing. Christians aren’t necessarily better people than non-Christians, but they know when they’re “falling short.” The lack of “moral compass” is blatantly obvious on the other networks. That said, Fox has apparently fallen in love with Shannon Breem, who’s by far the loudest thumper on the channel (and whom I personally detest). She was a decent newscaster when she was doing the overnight, but once they gave her that Sunday “Meet the Press” clone she’s become insufferable and she’s dragging the rest of the channel down with her…

  9. “Bond yields are now the hidden tax on everything.”

    Well no shit Sherlock, that particular insult has not even been felt by us unwashed masses, yet.
    Whats a Sheeple to do you might ask…? Werlp – you could buy a shit ton of TLT PUTS (TLT=20yrTrsy), and start collecting gains as the fiscal side as the fiscal house goes up in flames here in good ole USA.

    Thats right – FLAMES – or if you rather KARMA.

    Dont understand ? Look in the mirror Genocide Hawks, 70’s inflation will look TAME, compared to what tRUMPs’ handlers’ have prepared for Us.

    Top Ten Tips for Surviving 2026 -https://youtu.be/ZxegZAnInN8?

    Full transparency- my Name is in this song, Helterskelter-https://youtu.be/OBL-gVSJp2I?
    also appears in The Killers – Are We Human-https://youtu.be/RIZdjT1472Y?

    • It really is that simple tbs. It does feel like the 1970’s all over again, except, in this 4th turning edition, we look to AI and Web 3.0, blockchain (tokens) as digital twins of real world assets (realestate, stocks , bonds, gold, fiat money, and NFTs as {digital gift certificates} et al).

      By this time next year we will be staring at the formations of what is to come by 2030 fully rolled out and running alongside the old CUSIP systems and legacy ACH. All these legacy systems and store fronts are looking at deprecation.

      Got (smart) telephone booths? LOL.

  10. hey donnneee nothin worka anymore . everything you pump and ramp turn to sheet . whos a thisa bond ? he jamie bond or treasuria?

    • Have you noticed all the bazillions of dollars jeffery tRump has “won” since taking office ?
      What a terrible shame, all his supporters who bought into the FRAUD, are left holding the bag..just like every other partner he ever had.

      Think readership is ringing the register on any of the 3 RUMP coins ? Sucking wind is moar like it. Rump coin performance has actually mirrored the orange Gollum of greatness performance, goes any lower will be whale shit..

      • Foul ball. Nancy pants and ilk have set the precedent on “insider” political
        trading. IMHO The Donald gets to recover legal fees for fighting the deep state corruption and weaponized lawfare foisted into him by a system infected with some corrupt actors, leading up to his 47Th term.

        As with all systems, it’s a few bad actors that set the precedent and ruin it for everyone.

  11. warning !! warning !!V warning!!! . sell in may and disappear forever !! whos this kontratieff ? hey donnneee is he a bad ruski ? lots of trouble in moscow donneee

  12. hey picker you still fishin for sarker fish ? what happen this sheetcoin and goldie turn to lead .. you taste 2 many mississippi moonlight .

    • Im a BUYER – Gold/Silver, BTC, Oil/Nat.Gas

      buybuybuybuybuybuybuybuybuy, taking down offers as I can afford em..not much.

      Powder is DRY, guns cleaned, knifes razor sharp, warbag packed..Ready To Rock..
      But first we gots to get my brand spanking new Grand Daughter delivered today. Pregnant Daughter just left house – bleeding and in pain. OB/GYN appt today 3:00, her very best friend went into Labor this AM. Which means my most precious thing in the world is comming up for overnight stay ! Will be picking up Go Go Gracie from Friends school this afternoon. Hot Dam ! its MickyD’s happymeals for din-din tonight!

      Short Bonds, Short SPY – LONG super selectives, because we have a terrible SHORTAGE right now – TERRIBLE!

      USA is so short on Data Centers, that we we may in fact already be losing the GAME. Clearly an EMERGANCY situation – this calls for emergency investment and the TBS.
      Shooters SHOOT, therefore maybe look at VGT – a vanguard etf , low fees, conservative approach, to get a piece of the action. Hell even MU(MicronTechnology)is CHEAP, compared to dot com bubble prices.

      Might as well have some skin the game, as it keeps me tuned in..

  13. re: Steal of a Deal
    feat: 70% off!

    Rust stands no chance of hiding out on the “Urbansurvival” keyboard. Those contemplating approaching stormy times in North America may be buoyed by a public report from the Ukrainian PM Mrs. Sverydenko with regards to the eOcalia (ukr: “eSteel”) online program.

    This new program fast tracks home ownership opportunities for Ukrainians. The PM reports that 47% of disbursed funds thus far have have gone to police, military, and emergency service workers. Government subsidized eOcalia contributes 70% towards a home downpayment and 70% of the first year of monthly mortgage payments. But wait, there’s more! Mortgage interest rates are 3%. Please apply to your multi-billionaires’ AIPAC-supported local legislator for like consideration; favorable decisions not guaranteed.

    Mr. VP Vance, President Zelensky may be telegraphing the following message shortly? “Thank you!”

    • re: message from the AE-35 unit
      feat: Fatman on Ozempic?

      China has published pressers said to picture their new drone radar and jammer, AUS70-DP230. The spinning antenna pedestal bears chinese characters which translate interestingly as follows:
      ” ‘Light Dome Matrix’
      Anti-Nuclear Integrated Platform”.

      Seems like everybody is on edge with all the talk of alleged Iranian nuclear capabilities.

  14. hey doooonnneee the chinee bond vigilante gittin together with the gang from arizona . the toombstone boyz . they lookin mighty mean those boyz

  15. Just saying home gamers, it’s no longer conspiracy theory……. shortly…….

    https://x.com/Skriptkeeper17/status/2056147434821005425/video/1?s=46

    I can see how Iran is left out of the new game(under the current regime), as connecting the dots here, it’s obvious why Iran is attacking UAE.

    https://www.edgen.tech/news/post/ripple-secures-full-dubai-license-for-6-middle-east-and-africa-corridors

    The petro$ is alive and well home gamers, OIL— ripple…..

    The reveal will be soon enough.

    This is not advice get your own hallucination.

  16. Thanks for this George. If you don’t mind I’d like to feed your post today to my AI to provide it some instruction and have it distill local news down and create an actionable list similarly.

      • George, I used Grok and asked it to read your post then do the same. Its response is below. Then I had it do the same again after I gave it my local situation. It was boiled down to drought, fires, hay prices, lubricants and fuels and property taxes and personal health. – Cheers.

        Filter 4 (Top 5 Actionable for Households):
        1. Energy/Fuel + Geopolitical Ripples (oil/shipping tensions) — RFN: Top off fuel, monitor diesel/gas, build flexible transport options, watch fertilizer/shipping-linked grocery costs.
        2. Borrowing Costs & Debt Math (bond/treasury stress) — RFN: Avoid new floating-rate debt, prioritize high-interest payoff, maintain cash buffers, expect higher mortgage/loan friction.
        3. Electricity & AI Demand Pressure — RFN: Audit home power use, efficiency upgrades (insulation, LEDs, etc.), consider solar/battery/generator if viable, prepare for rate pressure.
        4. Food & Supply Volatility (weather, freight, trade-down) — RFN: Expand garden/preserving, stock staples on dips, watch produce/meat price signals.
        5. Local/RE & Trust Erosion — RFN: Monitor property taxes/municipal budgets, build local networks/skills, diversify info sources for decision-making.
        Filter 5: The Blink (What demands attention now from recent shifts):
        • Energy costs repricing everything (geopolitics + AI demand) — immediate to 90 days.
        • Persistent high borrowing costs hitting households and locals.
        • Consumer belt-tightening accelerating alongside infrastructure strains.
        Comparison: How Do Results Differ?
        • Overlap is strong: Both flag energy (oil + electricity), debt/financing costs, AI/power collision, food/consumer pressures, and fragmentation/reshoring realities. Ure’s lens is sharper on personal wallet timing and cuts more ruthlessly to RFN actions. Our earlier view added heavier geopolitical overlay (Iran tensions etc.) and societal polarization.
        • Differences: Ure is more domestically focused (US consumer, grid, local taxes) and timeline-oriented (beginning/mid/concluding). Ours was broader on systemic risks (global trade realignment, cyber, institutional trust as longer wave). His Blink is tighter (3 items) and more “boring but bill-changing.”
        • Synergy: Combining them gives better coverage—macro context + micro action. His model excels at daily/weekly processing; ours scales to quarterly reviews.

  18. monday i got friday on my mind !!!! now those darn robots fixin the VIX . hey somethin powerful these robots . dont even need any grits !!! hey elon they impregnating 2?

  19. i been out here laughing and Joking with THE DUDE this morning. The “Light” III beside me and “Double the Time” in front of me.

    https://x.com/i/status/2056415861838397715

    i love this dialect with THE DUDE.

    Big Ship names Lucia next to me (The Light) (It is MSC but not military sealift command) and Two Stacks od Cronos in front of me. double time! (Chronus is the Father of Zues) in Norse mythology His name is ONAR father of Odin. (Chronos also over threw Urainus)

    im down to 220lbs. almost have a 6 pack again. its Good to be young.

    tomorrow i head to the Hotel then the next day i fly home. What a Grand Adventure its been.

    another Fella on the Ship named Gabriel says to me, How do you do that? i said do what? he said you walk down the passage way and all them scientist women move to the side like you are parting the red sea, and after you pass they all stare at you like you are a Greek God.

    i said i dont pay attention to that shit man. My Focus is on THE LORD. For HE is Good. HIS Love endures forever!

    life is Good. i woke up feeling like a new Man today. Stong and Healthy. alive and well. excited to get home and see my Beautiful Love and sleep in my bed.

    Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life: and I will dwell in the house of the LORD for ever.

    I Win with God within.

    Que: ~ Free and Easy ~

    https://youtu.be/6_-V3LPS_TY?si=VUcfCB8pIrs_MBR-

  21. my god saw some sickening footage of an IDF soldier desecrating a statue of the virgin mary. and another one of an IDF fella attacking a statue of jesus with a sledgehammer. hmm bad buggers , should be taught respect .

  22. (“U.S. deficit spending continues at historically abnormal peacetime levels.”)

    I realize that I haven’t really been following our news stations lately due to work hours..but I am curious.. did we stop sticking our nose and money from the working poor into what half dozen or more military actions around the globe….

    • Yep – tRump sure did..right after he stopped bloviating about how great he is…which is like NEVER.

      The Peace President…my ASS.

      A far more accurate moniker would be the Genocide President. Even got a nice ring to it…who knew the fastest way to a noble “peace” price is thru GENOCIDE-ING an entire Genome/Peoples. Yes those are American&EU Tax Dollars raining hell down on the Muscovites Apartment blocks

      • re: a mad king’s goat at the point of a spear
        feat: ‘duck and cover’

        Sometimes it pays to be on the “wrong” side of the tracks? It might not be Boardwalk, but Monopoly game players would likely be pleased to hold down Pennsylvania Railroad real estate. As an aside, CBS Sunday Morning broadcast its annual “…by Design” program (of sun logo) hosted by Jane Pauley from one of the Main Line mansions yesterday at 9:00 a.m. e.s.t.

        The sixth and current Merion Cricket Clubhouse dating to 1897 appears to be thanks to a then vice-president of the Pennsylvania Railroad, Mr. Alexander Cassatt (fr. occitan: “from the place of oaks”). The surname Cassatt may also point to Roman General and Senator Gaius Cassius Longinus, an architect of the plot to assassinate Julius Caesar, as well as being a brother-in-law of Brutus.

        The cricket and golf club name of Merion is believed to be of Welsh origin. It came over with settlers and may be derived from the Welsh region Meirionnydd of King Meiron. His grandfather drove the Irish out of northern Wales.

        Mr. Cassatt’s widow sponsored her late husband’s namesake ship launched as MCE hull 2662 SS A.J. Cassatt on July 27, 1944. The vessel comprised one of the Crater cargo class fleet named after the southern hemisphere constellation. Its two largest stars are orange giants. Crater features in Greek mythology as a water cup with a hole of sorts in it thanks to a crow which causes Apollo to loose his cool. The constellation is portrayed as a two-handled gold container.

        For some reason, the U.S. Navy renamed SS Cassatt on August 10, 1944 to be SS Appanoose (AK-226) allegedly in honour of Appanoose County, Iowa whose state tree is the bur oak. The county seat Centerville is a Homer Simpson level mispelling of its namesake in the person of congressman from Tennessee, Mr. William Tandy Senter. Actually the town had a different name for its first month of existence as Chaldea in commemmoration of the birthplace of Abraham, Patriarch of the Israelis believed to be situated in modern day Iraq. Town surveyor and justice of the peace Jonathan Stratton allegedly came up with the Chaldea name. He would not be an ancestor of the 1980 fictional film era Mrs. Stratton sporting a Bottega Veneta handbag whose brand Queen Camilla brought to the White House Green Room on April 27th.

        Appanoose County’s naming honours 19th century Chief Appanoose (mesk./fox: “child carried on the back”). His Meskwaki (“The Red Earths”) tribe members became future codetalkers of the U.S. military during WW2.

        However USS Appanoose did not carry Little Boy from San Francisco to Tinian in July 1945. USS Indianapolis carried out that task prior to being torpedoed by Japanese submarine I-58 as previously described by Andy. The day prior to Little Boy exploding over Hiroshima, USS Appanoose left Okinawa where it had been stationed and returned to San Francisco.

        Four days after Appanoose’s departure, B-29 Superfortress “Bockscar” made an emergency landing at Okinawa following delivery of Fatman to Nagasaki. “Bockscar” took its name from Captain Bock (ger: “billy goat”). However Captain Bock flew a different plane on that day, and instead Captain McSweeney took “Bockscar” to Nagasaki.

        The anglicized-irish surname McSweeney may translate from #47’s mother’s native gaelic tongue as “son of a pleasant/agreeable one”. As chance would have it, last week’s visit by the Princess of Wales to Reggio Emilia, Italy offers a perhaps similar reference. The town is a namesake of Roman General Lepidus, one of the three Second Triumvirate leaders in the military dictatorship of 43bc. Lepidus may translate from Latin as “the agreeable man”.

        The Sweeney name and its variants are said to point to the legend of Mad King Sweeney who fought on the losing side of Ireland’s alleged largest combat event, the Battle of Moira in 637 a.d. The king had previously taken on Irish Saint Ronan Finn (the Fair) drawing his future ill omen prediction of death by spearpoint after a descent into madness. Aughnafosker situated near the purported battlefield translates from Irish as “Field of Slaughter”. St. Ronan Finn’s feast day is celebrated on May 22nd.

        Cash is king? This is not investment advice.

  25. “So do I write “chow for now” and hope the pun police slept in?”

    Italian content. I’ll leave that penalty for JC to decide. But throwing rotten tomatoes is suggested.

  26. What you need to stock up on is bags of fried chicken skins. (Just like potato chips)
    Make the heart DR go bonkers. Really, look it up. Co in Tn will ship them by they case to your house. Some flavors to choose from. I think invest now! Get in on the ground floor opportunity. Might get you through the lean times. Look for some canned beef, chicken, pork at the big box. We use the beef in a few recipes. Very good quality.

    • I saw bags of fried chicken skins in the ‘chips’ aisle at Costco this week! Local filipinos like the fried pork skins.

  27. My favorite sounds of silence enjoy…

    https://youtu.be/ZXNDAF8Hs5k?si=qt71BkduF-V9oAvI

    https://youtu.be/JVWjjvKD5Vw?si=Ps8VF7ZzcrFjv-w9

    https://youtu.be/u9Dg-g7t2l4?si=FqiLObe4NqPnxb6L

    I lived my life…

    https://youtu.be/lAg3K_bTuO0?si=0w96g1MMCtQlcK40

    love like jesus…

    https://youtu.be/dMG3-Qs3SiY?si=HIuCFlI47RUr1wtj

    give me your eyes..

    https://youtu.be/P5AkNqLuVgY?si=9KbaSNNBTUPUHzfn

    sad day..the two young ladies that escaped the hood of Seattle left to return to the hood..I tried but failed….one of my deepest failures..may our father watch over them..amen

  28. Phew as good as the coconut wine tastes..it sneaks up on you..put a big red X on the calendar because I haven’t been this inebriated in forty years..the last time was a company picnic in I think 84-85 where the kids kept setting a cold one in front of me trying to get me loose ..lol…I do have to say this coconut wine is good and I definitely know why they serve it over ice cream..it would be great over ice cream..cudos go out to the Philippines mountain tribes…

    • Yes…I wasn’t at the I’m as good of a dancer as Fred Astaire or as handsome and strong as atlas.. or Bruce lee.. just could feel it..2 cups.. told the wife to watch out for it..I thought it was the average ten percent ..unfortunately when I took the test I got a false reading.. the only other one that is like that is the wild grape wine from the grapes of my son in-laws dads vines.. it reminds me of a sort from the ancient Hebrew book of legends . (Midrash Abkhir)..lol…. NOAH

      The Story of the Goat, Noah and the Vine.

      IT IS said that the vine did not exist before the flood, and of course, therefore, there was no wine. The giants, whatever mischief they may have done, and however wicked may have been their ways, at any rate were never drunk. They only drank water, which is the eternal beverage for man and beast. When the flood came the giants and all the living creatures, except those whom Noah saved in the ark, were destroyed. When the flood had subsided, the animals went out, spread themselves over the earth, and multiplied very quickly.

      Thus from the few head of cattle, sheep and goats there grew up soon a large number, and Noah was able to live by his cattle and his goats.

      Of all these animals, Noah loved the goats best, especially when he saw them climbing about everywhere up the trees and up the rocks, going freely in all directions. One day Noah saw that one of the he-goats left the rest alone and went his own way, and when the evening came he came down dancing and jumping, quite jolly; this he repeated many days, and every evening he came home jumping and dancing, and frolicking like a madman. Noah, anxious to find out what was the reason of this peculiar behaviour of the goat, followed him quietly one day, and he found out what it was. There, on one of the hillsides, he saw a tree with very huge grapes, each one as big as a bucket. The goat went straight to these and ate his fill. Getting drunk, he laid himself down to sleep. When he woke up he started the game again, and so until the evening, when he returned home quite jolly.

      Old Noah was greatly surprised at this sight, for he had never seen before any grapes; and so, climbing up as best he could, he plucked a bunch in order to take it home and show his family.

      On his way home the heat grew unbearable, and he got very thirsty. He turned to the right, he turned to the left; nowhere a drop of water to be seen. I do not know what he thought; but, having the grapes in his hand, he put one in his mouth, and sucked at it. He found the juice very sweet and refreshing, so he took the other grapes and squeezed the juice into his mouth. Not satisfied with that, as his thirst was not yet quenched, he went back to the vine tree, and taking a whole cluster, he sucked it dry. When he returned, he felt somehow that his head had got rather heavier than usual, and his legs, on the contrary, were much lighter than before. Altogether he felt in a merry mood, and though old and advanced in years, he started singing a song. Getting near his house, the goat overtook him, frolicking and jumping as it had done every day.

      What should enter Noah’s head but to follow the example of the goat, frolicking and jumping, and in that state of high merriment both reached the house. When Noah got near the house, he looked at himself, and he could not make out what had happened to him, for he had lost almost all his clothes. They had fallen off him on the way. He could not get into the house, but, dropping down in front of it, he fell fast asleep. There his sons found him, and thinking that he was dangerously ill, put him on his bed and began wailing over him, for they were sure he was at death’s door.

      The next morning, to their astonishment, he woke hale and hearty, and there and then he told them all about the goat and the vine and the grape and the sweet juice. Then Noah gave orders that the vine should be taken from the hills and planted in his garden. Before he did so, he killed the goat and poured the blood of it on to the roots in remembrance of the fact that it was through the goat that he discovered the vine…

      There is another version of this story..in an ancient Romanian book of legends..

      When Noah started planting the vine, the devil came and asked to be allowed to take a part in it. Noah willingly agreed. After killing the goat, the devil brought a lion, whose blood was also used to water the roots of the vine, and finally brought a swine, and his blood was also poured over the roots of the vine.

      For this reason it comes to pass that, when a man drinks a little wine he gets merry and jumps and frolics like a young kid; and if he drinks a little more, he becomes hot and roars like the lion; and his last stage is reached when he wallows in the mire like the pig, for he has drunk the blood of all of them.

      Here, then, we have a tale which shows how a man can become a beast without changing his human form, not like all the other tales, in which he remains a bird or a beetle to the end of his days.

      A peculiar transformation of this legend is found in the following variant, in which the bones of the animals are substituted for their blood. The whole setting is different from the more primitive type preserved in the Rumanian.

      When Saint Dionysios was still young, he once made a journey through Greece, in order to go to Naxia (the isle of Naxos), but the way being very long, he got tired and sat down on a stone to rest. While he was sitting, and looking down in front of himself, he saw at his feet a little plant sprouting from the earth, which seemed to him so beautiful that he resolved at once to take it with him and to plant it. He took the plant out of the ground and carried it away; but, as the sun was very hot just then, he feared that it might dry up before his arrival in Naxia. Then he found the small bone of a bird, and put the plant into it and went on. In his holy hand, however, the plant grew so quickly that it peeped forth from both sides of the bone. Then he again feared that it would dry up, and thought of a remedy. He found the bone of a lion, which was thicker than the bird’s bone, and he put the bird’s bone, together with the plant, into the bone of the lion. But the plant quickly grew, even out of the lion’s bone. Then he found the bone of a donkey, which was still thicker, and he put the plant, together with the bird’s and lion’s bones, into the donkey’s bone, and so he came to Naxia. When he was planting it, he saw that the roots had wound thickly round the bones of the bird, the lion and the donkey; and, as he could not take it out without injuring the roots, he planted it in the ground as it was, and it quickly grew up and produced, to his delight, the finest grapes, from which he made the first wine, which he gave to men to drink. But what a wonder did he see now! When men drank of it, they sang in the beginning like merry little birds; drinking more of it, they became strong as lions; and drinking still more, they became stupid like donkeys. (Hahn, Albn. Märchen, ii. 76; v. also Thumb, Bulletin of the John Rylands Library, Manchester, vol. ii. No. 1, Oct. 1914, p. 38 and note 50)

  30. i am immortalized. haha.

    all the submarines are gone and everything is unloaded. all the scientists left the ship.

    its my last night on the ship. its like 83 degrees out. really warm.
    i was out on the aft deck listening to music with my headphones on watching the sunset. nobody out on the deck but me.

    it started raining. a song came on so i started dancing. dancing all by myself in the pooring down rain.

    then elvis came on and i danced harder. after the song was over The Captain came out clapped and said what song? i said My Favorite Elvis song. Burning love.

    he said you do know we have 6 cameras out here. we all watched you dance by yourself on the deck in the pouring down rain from the Bridge. I got an idea, but i need to know the song. i started laughing sorry, its my last night on the ship.

    he said going forward, everytime we leave port, we are going to play the Video of you dancing by yourself in the rain on deck, with the song Burning Love by Elvis over the closed circut TVs on the Ship.

    i laughed so hard. He said thank you for reminding me what it means to be a sailor. We are free, lead only by the sound of a rythem and dance to a song that only we can hear.

    That what it means to be a sailor.

    You are a Good Sailor. We hope to have you back.

    hahaha

    I Win with God within ~

    Que: Burning Love

    https://youtu.be/1w4VEc92Y_4?si=R0p3K4TdCZCKmOFV

    Elvis Pressley.

    • Andy, do another dance and post the video.

      Elvis Presley – Fun in Acapulco – “Bossa Nova Baby” (1963)

      I said, “Take it easy, baby
      I worked all day, and my feet feel just like lead
      You got my shirt tails flying all over the place
      And the sweat popping out of my head”

      She said, “Hey, bossa nova baby
      Keep on working, for this ain’t no time to quit”
      She said, “Go, bossa nova baby
      Keep on dancing, I’m about to have myself a fit”
      (Yeah)

      Bossa nova
      Bossa nova

      https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_GanoEE7VUc&list=PLYl31yIWA-WgjB4ArS5hufRX93rdfxsnt&index=5&pp=iAQB

    • thanks JC.

      im off the boat by noon today. heading to a resort, then flying home tommorrow to spend 5 days with my woman before going back to work at my other job grabbing gears. all summer long.

      my Boss wanted me to go truckin the day i got back and i said i been changing my T-shirt 3 times a day from soaking it in sweat, working 7 days a week, sleeping in a tiny box.

      so pardon my french, i need to get some pussy and rest a few days. hahah.
      My Boss said Yes Sir! i hear that.

      i did the dance to American Kids this morning by Kenny Chesney this morning.

      https://youtu.be/de1aPKXBdAE?si=wO6gTAGDPFxxgbZq

      “We were Jesus save me, blue jean baby
      Born in the USA
      Trailer park truck stop, faded little map dots
      New York to LA

      We were teenage dreamin’, front seat leanin’
      Baby, come give me a kiss
      Put me on the cover of the Rollin’ Stone
      Uptown down home American kids”

      neptune pulled up behind us meow. big container ship.

      the shit truck driver called me shrek yesterday. a shit truck driver talking shit. so funny. so i did a double take. im im down to 223lbs this morning. i dont think im that big. hahahaaha must have been the green shirt.

      https://x.com/i/status/2056796387963244689

      well i best go pack my bag, clean my room, get some breakfast, work for 4 hours then get the fuck out of here, toss my shit in the hotel room then go lay on the beach with one of them drinks with a tiny umbrella in them. non alcoholic.

      I Win with God within.
      some days be like that.

  31. no he said we dance and move to a song that rest of the world never hears.

    it was something like that.

    it was metephore for the ocean and the sway of the ship.

  33. George
    I was rec-checking yesterdays comments to see what I missed before going on to todays action.
    I am reminded of a popular book in the late 1970s called Megatrends.by John Naisbitt. He used only local, free ad copy newspapers from around the US for his research, and no major newspapers or TV.
    He coined the term High tech-high touch in 1982. I didn’t buy a computer until about 1995, so this was early in the trend.
    I believe your filter applied locally will be what ID’s the new megatrends.
    What we need is people around the country to run the filter and then drop the results on Hidden Guild where Electric George AI could then scan and combine.

  34. If I were to post the highlights of my local paper, most of it would be “Atlanta Rabbits go to State Band Competition”.

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