Markets, GDP, Political Pathos, 100Y Toaster Victim

Wow. That sounds like a lot to cover, but it’s not – really.

Let’s all try to remain rational which – while looking at an irrational world – is admittedly a tough thing to do.

Irrational Markets

We would not be too surprised if the market doesn’t go up for a while today and then begin to drift down, although it might wander skywards through the close tomorrow.  The reason is explained in the behavior of our Aggregate Index since the high going into Labor Day.  Which was really the second high after the real Aggregate peak back on July 16th.

We assume you know what a Fibonacci Bounce is?    Essentially, when a market moves sharply (up or down) it has a tendency (though soft, and this ain’t trading advice) to come back up about 61.8 percent or one of the Fibo numbers.  In fact, the Wikipedia entry on this has a simple chart to illustrate the case:

A Fibonacci retracement forecast is created by taking two extreme points on a chart and dividing the vertical distance by Fibonacci ratios 0 is considered to be the start of the retracement while 100 is a complete reversal to the original price before the move Horizontal lines are drawn in the chart for these price levels to provide support and resistance levels Common levels are 236 382 50 and 618 The significance of such levels however could not be confirmed by examining the data Arthur Merrill in Filtered Waves determined there is no reliably standard retracement

OK, so that’s the general case.  Now, let’s whip out the chart of our Aggregate through the close on Wednesday.

From under the white “C” on the right, you can see a big 1 down, a 2 up, and then two bottomed last week and it rallied into the close Wednesday.  With me so far?

Well, here’s the real scream for you.  From the Aggregate’s (secondary) high on Labor Day, we declined to the middle of last week.  And then rallied.  To an almost perfect 61.8 percent bounce! Here are the numbers:

Now, a word about this morning because the Futures are up.

Yes, the Dow futures were up 70, the S&P up 8, and the NASDAQ up 21

But watching the market unfold Wednesday was really amazing. We went from down more than 700 (on Kamala and tax hikes and a bad inflation hit) and then rallied for no rational reason except a solid “running of the shorts” which is what this morning’s open promises to see a continuation of.

Could we go up more from here?  Maybe, but we’d be less than surprised if the market did some sideways to down between now and next Monday and then to have the Fed cut rates which is NOT what the CME Fed Watch tool says now.  It’s saying as of this morning that well over three-quarters of participants (in fact 85% earlier) are expecting rates to be unchanged.

Yes, the upside reversal caught me off guard – and there went a thousand bucks worth out the window.  But, like the Professor of Chance schooled:  If you want to make Important Money, you have to Place Important Bets.

Whether we will wander off to “find a new table with better action” will depend on the close today.

GDP Numbers – “Yikes! It Spikes!”

It’s possible you got up at 3 AM today in fevered anticipation of the Gross Domestic Product read today.  (*Get help)  A market that has a swing of 800 Dow points is clearly not interested in the concepts related to “Rational” and as a result, we discount this press release.  But the guts of it for the record:

The Producer Price Index for final demand increased 0.2 percent in August, seasonally adjusted, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Final demand prices were unchanged in July and rose 0.2 percent in June. On an unadjusted basis, the index for final demand
advanced 1.7 percent for the 12 months ended in August.

The August rise in the index for final demand can be traced to a 0.4-percent increase in prices for final demand services. The index for final demand goods was unchanged.

Prices for final demand less foods, energy, and trade services advanced 0.3 percent in August, the same as in July. For the 12 months ended in August, the index for final demand less foods, energy, and trade services moved up 3.3 percent.”

The next economic fairytale is the import/export prices tomorrow.  So, for now, all we can offer is some insight into the week’s unemployment filings.  You know, the ones where  the “future’s so bright, we gotta wear shades”?

Hey!  Side of Unemployment Filings with that?

Drill down:

Political Pathos

AYFKM? Has the whole country gotten out of bed on the Stupid Side?

The Taylor Swift endorsement of Kamala Harris is an abject demonstration that expertise in one field does not conference genius in any other field.

Something which the (likely smartest guy in the room) Elon Musk called out: Elon Musk’s trans daughter mocks ‘incel nonsense’ after Tesla founder offers to give Taylor Swift a baby and get her a cat sitter…

All shows to go you that the temptation to overstep one’s expertise has now seemingly befallen Ms. Swift.  Who in our estimate joins the likes of George Looney, Barbara Myland, and Chair.  For the weak of brain, think of this as “If you want to build a rocketship out of a country, start with the rocket scientists.”

We have a point of view on this not dissimilar from Woman Who Made Career Singing About Her Bad Choices Endorses Kamala | Babylon Bee.

The Old Editor Rambles In

Hey cub!  What happened to that Greek War News 24/7 website that used to have some non–press release material on it?  Seems like it’s been axed…

“Dunno, Chief. Truth to Power never has been a winner.”

Remember what I told you: When Power’s toes get stepped on, they’re usually doing bad shit behind the curtain. Look into it…”

“Got it, Chief!”  (spoken in my best Jimmy Olsen voice).

Yes, it looks to Jimmy like the Neocons are still whipping up WW III just in case Trump makes a comeback. UK quietly approves Ukraine’s use of Storm Shadow missiles in Russia, US may lift similar restrictions.  Hmm NATO missiles into Russia…what could go wrong?  summed up in WWIII: Biden Says ‘Working Out’ Letting Ukraine Hit Russia With US Long-Range Missiles. Come on Joe, you can’t be serious?

“Hey, Chief!  Here are some deflecting press releases to look at!”

Satellite images show Russian ship allegedly delivering Iranian ballistic missiles for Ukraine war.

The U.S. accuses China of providing “very substantial” assistance to Russia in conducting its war – Freedom (uatv.ua)

Good, cub.  Keep on it…”

“Oh, was that a school?” UN slams Israel as strike on school said to kill UN workers; IDF says it hit Hamas center. And here’s an interesting turn of a phrase (useful typo sort): Israel threatens to rage war on Lebanon soon.

Erudite academic headline of the day from the UK Economist: China’s government is surprisingly redistributive. But wait! redistributive to whom? US And Allies Raise Alarm Over China’s Support For Russia’s Military.

And now, for a history lesson.  India is doing the policy that could have saved the American steel industry if we had been smarter 25-years ago: India to impose up to 30% tariffs on some steel imports from China, Vietnam. Now, most of our steel doesn’t come from America and that means we have our nuts in a vise. But don’t expect that to be clear to people until, oh, mid-next month, or so.  Which gets us to…

Another Colonel Heard From

You may disagree with a swirling consensus around here that Taiwan’s gone before New Years.  Yet, after Taiwan just exported more to the US than China in August, we think the PRC’s president Xi’s ego will demand compensation.  Nothing demands higher tribute than ownership.

So, it’s with this as footwork we can launch into another take from long-time strategic contributor Warhammer…

“This ‘self-licking ice cream cone’ from Booze-Allen Hamilton (it advocates the need for more FedGov funded studies on China’s cyber capabilities) essentially nails the key points many of my former military colleagues and Ure’s truly embrace wrt the PRC’s real strategic threat and their superior capabilities in non-kinetic warfare.

China’s Strategy To Annex Taiwan Is More About Cyber Power Than Firepower.

China is eroding Western military superiority like ocean water on a sandy beach, with steady and relentless waves of probes, infiltration and compromises to key critical national cyber infrastructure.  Communications, power generation and transmission, water filtration and distribution, financial systems, manufacturing and food distribution are but a few of the areas already know to be targeted and potentially already at least partially compromised with embedded ‘zero day’ exploits.

Taiwan is most vulnerable.  Any ally of that island republic is also in the PRC’s crosshairs, chief among them the U.S. and our key allies.

A well orchestrated cyber attack by the PRC is more difficult for military and political leaders to get their minds wrapped around, meaning that a viable and effective response to cyber-based attacks is unlikely.  Proving that such attacks originated in China is another complicating factor for strategic leaders.  And by the time such proof might be detected, the damage will have already been done.  The result is the long-anticipated ‘cyber Pearl Harbor’ attack, crippling vital areas for all who support an independent Taiwan.

Time will tell whether nukes or software will dominate the next conflict, a conflict many who are in the know believe has already been started.”

By the way, update your thinking to oust the word “kinetic” which – as another colleague explains – is quickly going obo (obsolete).

“kinetic action” is old school milspeak for shooting with intent to kill or break things. Doesn’t necessarily mean war, per se, but it does imply fire fights of some kind – indirect, direct, exchange of missiles or a combination thereof. The term has officially been expunged from the official vocabulary, but fat lot of good that did. Still widely used, because it’s useful.

Note that Radio Electronic Combat (REC – a Russian term) or Electronic Warfare (US/NATO term) or ????   dianziduikang – “electronic confrontation” (Chinese term) is generally NOT considered kinetic action. So, if you temporarily jam a space communications platform, that’s not kinetic action. But if you hit it with an ASAT weapon, that is kinetic action. Lasers and high-powered microwave beam weapons, I guess you get to decide. Generally, if the impact leaves no marks or permanent damage, that’s not considered kinetic action. Break or destroy something, though, and under Pottery Barn Rules, you just went kinetic.”

There, aren’t you glad we’re clear on terminology?

Newzelslop Budorks

Part news, the odd jewel, but mostly slop issued by dorks.

Come on, how hard was this to figure out?  ‘The Craziest Election in History’—RFK Jr. Sounds the Alarm on 2024 Presidential Election.

Better late than never? Electoral College vote count designated as special national security event by DHS.

Middle America reality check, anyone? “Everyone is talking about cats and ducks in this town. I want to talk about a very important person, my mother-in-law … (rumble) (She was killed by a….go listen)

Um, does this mean Musk is having a hard time getting it up? SpaceX faces delay in Starship launch due to federal regulators.

Here’s another story the commies and globalizers in the networks will spike: New ‘Hate Map’ exposes left-wing hostility, antisemitism on college campuses.

Passings: Veteran and popular firearms YouTuber Paul Harrell dies at 58. Cancer. Also gone: Legendary soul singer Frankie Beverly dies at 77.

At the Ranch: I’m a 100-Year Toaster Victim

Yeah, it doesn’t seem right to me, but there we go.  Told you back in (April?) I’d bought a small minicomputer for the bedroom TV.  (Which we never watch, BTW and there are more fun things to find than a mouse in…um…TMI?).

And then, when not used, it came to the office.  Where it replaced a Win10 machine (Big Box which is now in the music studio).  Then Sunday, I screwed up.  Ran Wise Registry Cleaner and didn’t inspect the files it cautioned not to delete. What could go wrong?

Goodbye registry and no boot and now going through the “net start vss” and trying to get it working again, is what.  Apparently, I blew out the registry. Getting “drive too small to recover errors” and lots of other mind-expanding time sinks.

So now, what to do?  The POS is not recovering using Win11 tools, and with Asia likely to close in a cloud of war later this year, should I just buy another one for $199 or by Win11 Pro for $149 (or less but then go through the make ISO file and install and….blah blah…)?

And that’s this morning’s problem.  Spent another 5-hours (and could be much higher) trying to get it recovered, send it off to a recovery service, or just buy another machine and copy a few directories around because it’s the same box?

Profound, life-shifting decisions like that will occupy my small and feeble as I now bid you adieu for another morning and mount up the 54-inch hotrod and do battle with 2.5 acres of lawn.  While I wait to see if the bounce is done, which should become clear between now and Monday.

VOTE while you can. Just leave a comment. Do you prefer the .PNG files for our charts and such or the SVG versions?  Online votes by posting a Comment. (Did I block ports to Mexico and points south hackers?) Bullish Bob already voted for PNG.  Makes no difference to me, but then again, my idea of a Retina display is looking at my eye in a mirror…

[For Civilian readers, “SVG files are vector-based, meaning they can be scaled up or down without losing quality. PNG files are raster-based, meaning they are pixel-based, and can become grainy or pixelated if scaled too far.” But SVG files can keep page load speeds higher, again in certain conditions…But, Bullish’s Vivaldi browser pukes on SVGs so he appealed to the Supreme George who is now doing a digital J6 (or 2020 rerun) on electing the best graphics format.]

Write when you get rich,

George@Ure.net

32 thoughts on “Markets, GDP, Political Pathos, 100Y Toaster Victim”

  1. “Well I woke up this morning and got myself Beer.. the futures uncertain, and the end is always near..let it roll baby roll..all night long”-Mr Mojo Risen

    Weird Woo, very weird woo last night sometime around 9:02 EST. Power to Everything went out, momentarily, and the Generac did Not kick on??? Weather outside was awesome, clear crisp bout 67 degrees.
    Better half was in bed already, watching Philberts play ball, and was very freaked out when Power came back on..she said her iphone went dead at same time. That is what really freaked her out..

    I was out in workshop/field office (garage) taking in another lesson in ancient Greek with the amaze ballz Dr Hillman(Ammon). I was viewing the lesson on a tablet, which was not effected due battery and buffering..after Power restored, tablet flashed warning to join cell hotspot as wifi signal was lost.
    Daughter lives in same Twp, bout 1.5 mi away – nothing – and this is the one who has seen “them” while living nearby joint base Maguire-Dix& Lakehurst, home of USN HALO school..least used to be.
    So I went on spaceweather 1st thing this morning looking for woo clues – dark plasma cme and x flare at around same time as woo event in SE Pennsyltucky = Youse.
    * Note if youse live west of state college, PA then U bee a “Youins” and much inclined towards the Ohio way of midwestern Life. This for your own knowledge, as you may some day find Ureself in the great State of Pennslytucky.

    ** Large 4 cell “weaponized” Flashlight was within reach sitting on workbench..next to big Laser. I didnt “See” shit when went outside to look and “feel” around.

    ? Qigong Phenomena ? When Im into the flow – really weird shit starts happening on the daily..like the 2 Ducks that keep coming back to sit on top of our moderately steep pitched roof..just a little quackers around here lately.

    Yeah, back at the roadhouse -https://youtu.be/kE32pvvaDT8?si=So5bCMyH-3gXQwPv

    • Also “networked” Smoke Detectors went dead, no Lights. Smoke detectors are hard wired to house juice and all have good batteries – just had all the detectors Cleaned and Checked about month ago by Electrician – after one went wonky, they all started yelping. Was advised at the time to vacuum those suckers out once a year..apparently they can get dirty inside.

      • yep, display fine at my end, PC running Win11 Pro, browser FFox. Answer on the to-do: go Pro.

        “the Professor of Chance schooled: If you want to make Important Money, you have to Place Important Bets”

        Cool pit boss in Vegas circa 1970s had lots of good patter and was busy trying to ID us, the players. One of his best went:

        “the less you bet the more you lose when you win”

        YMMV
        E

  2. Woot Woot – hear comes the bandicoot !

    Holy scheisse GMan- short the SPY/DOW was/is BEST trade of the Month..so far.

    But I got newz, Gold has caught a bid today and the bandicoot be ITM !
    Not celebrating just yet, as laddering out of long option position (s).
    Also bandicoot cant get enough of SLVRF, a very speculative trade, but I am trying. Also building out WDS (woodside) position – BIGGLY.
    I think woodside (AUS) aussie gas company has transformed their company recently with purchase of tellurian Ammonia plant (ammonia is 80% Gas) for $1.2b. Plus they just bought OCI/NV ammonia plant for $2.35 b in Beaumont, TX.

    With all that American Gas stranded in country – having an Int. Gas Exporters on gulf coast is like having a printing press, with tellurian plant alone estimated to be Making $200 Million a year profit, going forward..

    Not advice !- wild ass speculation at best, musings of crazy man..prolly.

  3. SVG images don’t work well in my Opera browser. The image is simply a white space. To see it I have to right click it and open it in a new tab or window. Then I can see the SVG image. No problem with PNG images. I vote for PNG.

    • Same situation with Brave. It requires two clicks extra per image to see the SVG format.

      I’m agnostic regarding image formats. Do what’s best for those that really need the images.

  4. “Charts”

    I think when we click charts they should ‘open in new window’ and if that’s done, vector, Victor.

    “Taylor Swift endorsement”

    Kid Rock endorses Trump (hooray)/Taylor Swift endorses Kam (boo).

    Elon Vs Taytay –

    Taylor has a 160 IQ so technically she’s smarter than Musk @ 155-160. Across all social media Taylor has over 1/2 billion followers 500,500,000 +/- which is more than Musk at 191,000,000 +/- (X only). Taylor grew-up humbly on a Pennsylvania Christmas tree farm and worked herself up to billionaire status. Elon came from South African Emerald money and started with billions. Taylor sings about bad life choices. Elon gets .gov to fund his bad decisions, EVs.

    Elon calls Taylor a cat lady. Trump supports and defends cats.

    And here we are shilling for billionaires. So how it works?

    “Taiwan just exported more to the US than China”

    We don’t really know what that means. In terms of the $ Taiwan is closer to the spigot so $ dominated prices will increase in Taiwan before China, thus, higher exports.

    We’re told GM imports cars from South Korea. Another thing we can’t know, does SK have many auto manufacturing plants or do they import parts from China then assemble/badge the Chinese made cars for export to the U.S.? We do know China will white label anything.

    • once upon a time, “occupy wallstreet” haopend.

      now we see marines, and army and national guard in the New York Hotels and subways.

      while the Billionares are out to save us.

      hmmmmmmm.. Good thing THE DUDE knows the stuff i dont.

      ya know, Confusouse said, “Man with Hole in pocket feel cocky all day. ”

      Im stand with Kid Rock who is credited with saying, “It aint Bragging mother fucker when ya back it up.”

      https://youtu.be/wuSOJhNzuiE?si=Zjg9rRoQhsqE8lX9

    • Dude, put down the Teen Beat and back away slowly. Taylor Swift “biographies” targeted toward little girls bear no semblance to truth or fact. Neither do Musk “biographies.” That wannabee meme you copied and pasted was assembled by someone who was lazy, ignorant, and biased, and it is trollbait (kinda like the dreck that George’s trolls post) — and you bit.

      Taylor Swift is bright, but she’s no genius, and she got her start after Mommy and Daddy sold their Pennsylvania mansion and moved to Nashville, buying a new mansion in Music City, so tweeny Taylor could both have her pool parties and be close to the Country & Western scene, when it came time to buy her a recording contract. (Buying her a contract turned out to be ‘not necessary’ because the girl has actual talent.) The Swift family had a $700 million nest egg before Taylor discovered boys, or boobs.
      =========================

      Korea has two principal automakers, Hyundai and Daihatsu. Hyundai merged with Kia, then created Genesis, spinning it off once it became profitable. Ford taught Kia how to make reliable cars, back in the late 1980s. Kia brought that tech superiority to Hyundai when the two companies merged. GM did the same for Daihatsu in the late 90s, only not as well or as thoroughly as Ford did with Kia.
      =========================

      China has over 2000 automakers. Their auto industry is like that of England or the U.S., in the 1920s… With one exception: China is communist, therefore, every one of those thousands of automakers has access to the patent portfolio of every automaker in the world, which has a manufacturing facility in China, and all those automakers have license to use anything in any portfolio, at any time, in any manner they see fit, without restriction or fees.

      None of those tens of thousands of cars, built by thousands of different manufacturers, will ever see the shores of the United States or Canada, because Xian’s $6000 Yugo wannabee would require roughly $160,000 in modifications, per car, before it could pass North American safety and pollution standards. (and yes, I’ve seen Xian’s car. Chinese automobile prices start at less than $4000 for the most-basic of transportation — cars that’re almost smaller than a golf cart, and not much faster. I’ve toyed with the idea of bringing a couple across, to see how they fare in the [Club Car and EZ-Go] market, but I fear that even in the “off-road” and “restricted vehicle” markets there’s not enough margin for it to be worthwhile…)

    • Trump tried a fake post claiming Swift supported him:

      “Recently I was made aware that AI of ‘me’ falsely endorsing Donald Trump’s presidential run was posted to his site.’

      https://time.com/7020451/taylor-swift-kamala-harris-donald-trump-ai/

      406k registered to vote after her Harris endorsement:
      https://www.cbsnews.com/news/taylor-swift-kamala-harris-endorsement-vote-gov/

      Never underestimate the felines, with more popularity than felonious (Trump), Morris (the Cat), had one of the most successful advertising campaigns in history
      https://www.9lives.com/morris-story/

    • I was a member of the Triple Nine society. Numerous press agents and public relations staff spread lies about their client’s having genius IQ and 99-percentile SAT scores. The number 160 is especially a red flag because it’s such a nice round nunber.

      Others make assumptions about IQ based on someone’s life success. Still more people brag about an number IQ from silly online games.

      The only celebrities that I know actually have/had an IQ above 146 were/are Robert Forster and James Woods.

    • Ahhh….entertainer billionaires…not impressed.

      So, just let her say one bad word or a paragraph, or a Xer, or a speech, about the jewish folk that run the world, and she will be demonitized overnight.

      Kanye from over 2 billion net worth to 4,000,000 and some assets he could no longer afford so let go back.

      They are all pumped up with air.

      Yep, Musk, or is it Mask…as in Masking his true intent, another propped up billionaire.

  5. Here’s a YT video of a guy who went on location to Springfield, OH and interviewed locals and newcomers. There is edgy words and ideas expressed with racial overtones so click with care. 1.25 speed. :)

    The thing I noticed is the interviewer doesn’t ask the Haitians how they got to Springfield, the process and names.

    Inside the Ohio Town Invaded by “Cat-Eating” Haitians

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvZTr3F_YZI

  6. SVG. works on the most popular browsers. I work for fintech company on user interfaces. Generally good for low vision users who need to zoom which is why we went with them to meet accessibility standards for web pages.

    Thanks for asking!

  7. Use whatever you used today – today I see the unemployment charts without having to click on a blank space that then opens another tab. Today is an improvement over whatever you were using before. When I click on the unemployment chart today and choose ‘save as’, it tells me it’s a ‘*.webp’ file, not svg or png.

    • “WEBP” is a pixel format that’s kinda like *.tif on steroids. It packs about 20% tighter than *.jpg and can be configured so as to be lossless.

      Microsoft Paint (win10 or later) will open and convert *.webp files, but Microsoft Internet Explorer won’t open them, and pukes of the file format (go figure.)

      Use Irfanview to properly and easily convert *.webp files to any other graphics format.

  8. and all psychics sitting at the table ordering off The Urban Menue say,

    Medium Rare Chef George, Medium Rare.

    Dontcha know, Springfield is where The Simpsons live. you know the place where that fella Homer eats doughnuts while working at a Nuclear plant.

    rumor is, the simpsons of springfield own a spot of the land in the future. future future….

    its not just a place where hatians eat cats.

    well, start monday at 530am sharp. i’ll be saddled up, then giddy up, and gabbing gears. its all rock and roll to me.

    i still dont have any idea how that takes me to the being on the big screen as was noted by obeservation by many of my friends who all saw a dopleganger of mine on the big screen at a concert in August. they all thought Holy Spirit Andy! That is Andy!

    and as well as Wendy Kay our favorite Psychic who solves FBI unsolved crimes, said to me 5 months ago.

    “uhmm Andy, I see you with an amazing tan, sitting at a beach resort, your toes in the sand, you are wearing white georgette cloth pants, they are soft and kinda see through, a poka shell necklace, lounging in a lawn chair. you have a book in one hand and a iced tea with lemon in the other. you are smiling.”

    and i said okay cool. that all sounds really good to me.

    how i get there wearing cowboy boots and jamming gears on an eaten 18 speed?

    i have no idea. i get there none the less.

    but she hasn’t been wrong yet.

    well, im going to go run, then see about a certain Ex bunny who misses me. atleast say Hi. its the corial thing to do.

    she has had some times where she was really good to me. i dont know if she is good for me. but i do know she still loves me and has a proven track record of being good to me.

    as they say at Mazda, division of high performance,

    zoom! zoom! zoom!

  9. I purchased a Win 11 Pro Key from directgames.store for $7 and it activated fine. Use a temporary CC number or a burner gift card. They have a U.S. office in Delaware.

    https://directgames.store/Windows/windows-11-key

    Slave the drive from the problem PC, m.2 enclosure if needed (handy to have anyway) move the personal data if you don’t have backups.

    I have had great luck with “Free Windows Registry Repair” over the decades with default settings. Tiny 700K file. Some claim Win 10 and 11 don’t need registry repair.

    If you want to customize a Win ISO, I used this site:
    https://schneegans.de/windows/unattend-generator/

    Create the file and move it to the correct ISO folder. Britec09 on YouTube has a great video on it a month or 2 back.

  10. “China is eroding Western military superiority like ocean water on a sandy beach… Communications, power generation and transmission, water filtration and distribution, financial systems, manufacturing and food distribution are but a few of the areas… at least partially compromised with embedded ‘zero day’ exploits.”

    I could not agree more with Warhammer.

    If I were designing a fatal cyberattack, I would probe, very delicately, until I found (or could make) an opening, then plant an egg and go quietly into the sunset. I would periodically return, just to make sure the back door would be there when I wanted it. I would do this with every piece of infrastructure I wanted to throttle or destroy.

    Once I had enough dormant trojans covering enough infrastructure that I could cripple or destroy the U.S. I would backdoor computers in Montreal, Auckland, and Oslo or Helsinki. I would use the compromised Scandinavian computers to trigger the ones down-under, and thence the ones in Canuckistan. The ones in Canada would take out the American infrastructure, the NSA’s backtrace would not extend past New Zealand because once the attack became permanently crippling the CIA would blow all the undersea cables.

    One of the security tools I had in the days between Compuserve and Win98 was Wolfgang Stiller’s “integrity program” called “Integrity Master.” In its most secure mode, IM essentially generated a CRC for every single file on a computer – not just executables, but library and data files too. IM quarantined all newly-created files and permitted no change to any “established” file, and was therefore too restrictive to be of practical use on any networked platform. However, the time may soon come again for such a tool, and I have little doubt that the CIA, DoS, and NSA secure (offline) computers still to this day run an integrity program like IM or Tripwire…

  11. re: “Political Pathos”
    feat: “Roman Holiday”, 1953

    Folks,

    Today the six episodes to season 4 part 2 of the Netflix series “Emily in Paris” were released to binge view. French First Lady, Brigitte Macron, has a cameo appearance. The name Brigitte apparently means strong and may originate with the Celtic goddess of fire. The BBC offers its digital take at the following link:

    https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c15g5vleg44o

    Emily as a given name is said to have increased in use following the 18th century Princess Amelia, a daughter of King George II, and namesake of Amelia Island, Fl. Allegedly Emily derives from the ancient Roman family Aemilia who claimed descent from the second peacemaker King of Rome circa 715 b.c. that reigned after a son of the war god, Mars.

    The titles of the last two episodes of “Emily in Paris” season 4 part 2 are “Roman Holiday” followed by “All Roads Lead to Rome”. Hopefully everybody gets along with each other. I don’t know if a season 5 is in the works.

  12. George,
    The Indian BSE made all time high valuation today. From its 5 August low a 6/14/14/10 4-phase fractal growth and crash decay fractal series is observable congruent with the western and Nikkei composite equities 4 phase 7/16-17/14/10 growth and crash decay fractal series and ending Monday 7 October.

    There has been a sharp decline in US short term debt instruments with the 3 month bill less than 5% for the first time in 16 months as the smart money existing stocks are parked into short term treasuries.

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