Markets Hint Future – the Idiot’s Dance

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When I cobbled up the first Aggregate Index in the wake of the Internet Bubble collapse in 2001, it was designed – as much as anything – to track inter-market variations.

When Techs collapsed in a $7 to $9 trillion dollar heap of losses, Wall Street didn’t apologize for EBITDA accounting (wholly screwing up perspective but justifying ever-higher stock prices).  Instead, they simply rolled into selling “Blue Chips” (Dow and the S&P 500) and kept the tune of Financial Musical Chairs playing.

Our index- we think more honest (being a wider view) offers a different sense of things.  Especially when we compare the 1920-1933 era with the market performance since the 2009 (March) Housing Bubble lows and the subsequent run-up.

Futuring, Roughly

A case can be made – if one bases the future on expected market movements – on two ideas.  First is that Russia is far from done with Ukraine.  Secondly?  That China could be planning a “slow take-down” of the West by late summer.

Let’s look at recent history of amalgamated U.S. markets and in particular a line-up of the green arrow and then some “look-ahead” where the blue arrow indicates:

We MAY be (and this ain’t financial advice!) approaching the top of a short-term rally.

So, the logical thing for us to do is…what?

Look at the flow of headlines.  Then see if there is a scenario that comes to mind which could give us ideas (maybe even some useful ones!) about the
Future and what might “this way come.”

Rally Ho!

Never seen one like this.  But in my Aggregate work:

  • Overall, the U.S. index is up (starting at 35,363.34) 8.13% in just six trading days since the Aggregate low on March 14.
  • The Dow is up 5.4 percent, the S&P up 7.29 percent, and the NASDAQ composite is up an amazing – holy smokes! –  10.39 percent.

None of which should be terribly surprising:  Bear Market Rallies tend to be vicious affairs, often lasting longer than anyone expects.

But the reality out here in the Outback is that things are not almost 10 percent better in Life in General in the past week. AYFKM?

See the Idiots Dance?

The DDDD is in motion in the backfield:  Damn Dangerous, Desperate, Democrats.

In order to keep the failing illusion of “building back better” going, they have taken to multiple scams.  Including such foolishness as proposing “gas cards” for people hard-hit by Policy and Ukraine impacted energy prices.

Rather than (sensibly) unhobble America’s energy production, these geniuses of public administration would send tax money we paid, back home.  Where it would pay for excess profits by the energy sector.  Astounding lack of clarity – but a key subsidy to Big Money which is needed to fill campaign coffers before what is likely a disastrous election cycle to come.

Today, we cue the Idiot in Chief who is acting like a born-again megalomaniac in stories like President Biden: There’s Going To Be A New World Order, And America Has To Lead It | RealClearPolitics.

What civilian populations will miss is the proper context for such screed.  Biden is dealing with four factions, all trying to “own the Global Reset” which is the seizure of savings scam when the global economy implodes.

You have the Bankster class, often referred to by conspiracy types as the Zionists (*intent of something besides an Israeli homeland).  Then we have the Chinese – who have already declared this to be the Chinese Century.  Last, but not least, we have the cult of O’Biden – running low on TDS – standing up another straw man.  American Refried Nationalism.

It’s not a bad approach, per se.  Because it will allow the DDDD’s to wrap up their failures in a flag and see if anyone will salute it at elections this fall.

Good luck with that.

We Got Bigger Problems

I modeled this out last fall when I started yammering about the importance of food and putting in a home garden.  Even a few containers out on the deck would be worthwhile.  A 5-gallon bucket will grow a squash or tomato plant kind of thing.

Just this morning, the meme of famine is resurgent.  Ukrainian president warns Russia war could lead to famine in other nations – Metro US.

But we can’t lay it all at the feet of Zelensky, et al.  The natural climate cycles – which like gender and race are being hysterically monetized – are also ganging up on the planet right now.  Drought pushes Somalia to brink of famine – agencies (the-star.co.ke),

It will all combine – we’re thinking – into a horrific next year featuring lifestyle collapse in slow motion.

After the Ukraine shock (still to come, in my model) a bounce (expect more idiot’s dancing, too) we will see China doing a slow-speed “screw-down” of the West.

This won’t drag out forever because we will get fine-pitch  semiconductor production figured out – some day.  But China will get Taiwan re-unified, which means America’s military machinery will be controllable from Kaohsiung City.

It all horribly rhymes with the previous Depression.  Like one of those messy details that the financial engineer/Bankster class didn’t crank into their thinking.  It’s likely to be a rough ride as reality integrates.

Good guidance and expectation-setting may be found in T.H. Watkins’ book “The Hungry Years: A Narrative History of the Great Depression in America.”

To be honest (is there any other way?)  Ure’s coping plan has included “hard dieting” for several reasons.  Yes, the ongoing problem of Covid variants in part.  But, this coming need to adapt to a higher veggie, lower protein world figures in, too.  I expect under 200 pounds in a month or two.

Of course, Ukraine is not all food.  Check out the WaPo’s From sunflower oil to titanium, how the world will feel the costs of the Ukraine conflict.

Minimalism Heralds Future

Besides keywording your information consumption on the real basics of life (which is not your gender, race, religion, or anything else so superficial), consider adding the word minimalism to your news diet.

Minimalism isn’t “breaking news” like our Texas tornadoes overnight.  But with a keywording now and then, indicator stories like Tiny Game System Is An Experiment In Minimalism | Hackaday pop up.  Along with minimalism marketing with items like Highgate Interior Designer on Maximalist & Minimalist Style | The London Resident (theresident.co.uk).

Minimalism, you see, seems to us like a set-up for the shearing of the sheep in a Great Reset scam.  “You will like having less…”  Though the good news?  We will then be able to see among the “winners” who the “real perps” are and dispense with them.

Passed Off as “Real News?”

Round Rock socked by our weather:  Terrifying video shows shoppers fleeing from tornado at Walmart in Texas (nypost.com)

Babble on, but Censorship has been installed in America:  Parody news site names trans woman its ‘Man of the Year’ (nydailynews.com).  Ever wonder why we don’t put our neck on the social media chopping block?  Go back and read my 2012 book Broken Web.  Been pondering a sequel “Digital Madness” but it’s becoming too obvious to get the book out in a timely manner.

Still, might there be silver linings?  Respected Prophetic Pastor Calls for Church to be ‘Prayed Up’ to See Miracles, Breakthroughs in Tough Days Ahead | CBN News.

ATR:  Garden Room Delights

Forgot to mention that the swamp cooler is now installed and running (as needed) in the new veggies/grow room.

We made a heck of an interesting discovery about it Sunday while intaking the after work toddies:  Inadvertent sound-scaping is what I’d call it.

See, on the Hessaire cooler, if you turn on the Pump Only switch, we swear it sounds like a babbling brook!  And then, with the fan on Low, the oscillation makes it sound like distant ocean waves.

Combined, it was an extremely pleasant effect,..

If you’re working on your home and reading Disney books on theme park design, don’t forget one of the most important elements in “transporting people” is what they hear (or think they hear).

Coming up the stairs onto the golf club-oriented treatment of the sun porch, you can be cued with the smack of a golf ball and someone yelling “Fore!” as light applause ripples.  Well, except on grocery run day when the stairs area here’s a stick-shaker voice alert from an A-320:  “Pull up.  Pull up.  Terrain, Terrain.  Pull up!”

And in the woods around Uretopia, sneaking up will cause units (like this one, installed to be out of the weather) to challenge with “You are now being monitored…”  Or, coming into the shop “Hey! Want are YOU doing here?”

Off to rinse bean sprouts…write when you get rich,

George@Ure.net

59 thoughts on “Markets Hint Future – the Idiot’s Dance”

  1. good today . hey can yah just give us one flat to slightly up one today .. please .care not for gold no way any signal nothing . 550k contracts short commercials im running the other way . rule 1 in gold investment . the commercials are never wrong . not 1 salesman even old salty has mentioned that .. the vix getting screwed regularly is a worry . will not stop bear growling till 70 . and this imploding US treasury market is the final nail in the coffin .. so good luck with all of that and just give us a plus 8 sand p and 100 the dow cow ..

  2. the Idiots Dance”…I resemble that remark!

    case in point..

    ECU household trying to ship a 20ft. “seaworthy” Container from Pennsyltucky to Flo Rida (port everglades).

    How much does it cost to Ship household goods to Central America now a days?

    3 years ago (2018) quoted $2200 for New (seaworthy) 20ft Container.

    A Used (seaworthy) Container cost me $4200 on 12/2/21 Lot of people wanted to know How I got even got one..Yes, I had it Sold before I took delivery of it.

    Need a Shipper/Truck to take Container to Fl – $2700 for a “partial load”..Nobody took the job yesterday, put I had a Crane on site for 3 hrs..duh-ooh! that cost was Sunk = $900.00

    Put the Shipping/Truck job up as Dedicated Load at $5000.00 in late afternoon – got a “hotshot” driver out of Mizzu.
    Put the crane company on Will Call yesterday, after eating 3 hr crane reservation.
    So far $4200 (cont) + $900 (crane) + $5000 trucking + $2770 Boat transit. $13k in so far, and still a lil “capillary bleeding” &%$#!!!*!^&%!

    Still Duty at port of entry and broker commission & shipping from Customs to Property, as well as todays crane fees.
    Yes they Charge Duty on the cost of the container..duh -ooh!
    And this the CHEAPEST way to Ship household goods/sporting equip to Central America.
    Think I need to take a loong hot sitz bath – as my “financial ass” has truly taken a beating…a lil whatwhat..https://youtu.be/fbGkxcY7YFU

    • Wait BCM – with booze, wimmen, trees, and labor available in costly rica, what are you shipping? NOYB is an OK answer but yee gads! Order on Amazon and set up deliver in costly rica, following?

      • ..Lg. Skutt kiln, throwing wheel (s), 5 gal bucket(s) dry glaze, 100’s lbs wet stroke&coat, lbs of Clay, scuba tanks,fun boards, kayak, pneumatic spear gun (s)= home defense w/no registration issues, kamado joe ceramic, Hatsan – scoped anti iguana device, fishing tackle/poles/reels, electronics, assorted other products not available in Quality/Quantity. The zon works for small stuff..anything of size – forget it, Shipping costs to CA are exorbitant.
        Truckers ?? there is some GOOD money out there right now!

        Big position in BTG with Mar 25th exp. > golden cross approaches, bullish pattern , anyone see it differtently – please advise, thanx.
        – that Wins and pays my shipping or I eat another Loss.

        Still got Nova to Win Region -future, Nova to Win nat Champ -future, and started $200 to Win 1st Rd, rolled into 2nd rd – will continue to Roll over Winnings.
        Experimental Math – Rolling over Wins vs (1) Future Bet..

      • ECU,
        Hatsan , scoped iguana devise,, here is dirty jobs Mike Rowe of TV fame, video, reptile removal
        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_NOJXrp3ero
        I like my Ukraine built Zbroia (2, Kozak + Sapsan) but the Taipan Veterans are top of the line airguns, better than my Zbroia (QC) as are Weihrauch products. I HAD a couple of Hatsans, they were turkeys, punny aye :)

      • @EastCoast

        “Still got Nova to Win Region”

        ‘Might want to re-eval after next weekend. AZ and Zags stumbling now, but if either remembers how it’s done, no-one will come close…

      • “dirty jobs Mike Rowe of TV fame,”

        I tried to get him to do one of my hats.. lol lol lol lol.. no way.. guess it was just to gross for him to tackle lol lol..
        Blood tank steam cleaning… lol lol lol.. blood shipped across the nation.. to texas in summer and California.. then back.. back then there weren’t any gas masks or safety equipment lol.. open the pit cock.. the maggots were three feet deep tgat would fall out lol lol.. then the top lol lol you crawled inside to clean it .. lol lol each chamber.. nasty job nasty words cannot describe the experience..I can smell it now and it’s been forty us years since I did that job.. lol..
        It was Just to much for mike to experience…
        To think there’s still someone out there that does that daily..

    • “Still Duty at port of entry and broker commission & shipping from Customs to Property, as well as todays crane fees.”

      Lol lol I can relate to that.. a few years ago I bought 2 rammed earth block presses..the press cost was 250.00 each.. shipped one to a remote village so missionaries could build a clinic ,school and church.. shipping was around 500.00 the one that came to me.. 2500.00 plus after all the extra costs lol lol lol lol…SO I get it lol ?

  3. When I left the hospital last November it was prescribed I must wear an oxygen canulla for the time being. The vendor showed up with the equipment about 2 hours after i got home. After he complained about how far out we lived he brought in a unit about the size of an older portable color tv and plugged it in my bedroom. It made the most annoying noise even to my f$%ked up hearing it was like a pissed off mean assed dog. The wife said she could hear and FEEL it, it also vibrated like crazy, clear at the other end of the house. I asked the guy if this was all they had. He just said Hope you are hard of hearing and left. Asshat is on my list if we should meet again someday, sorry Lord.
    That damn thing is probably why I got off the O2 as quickly as I did. I called to have it picked up a month ago and the company never came by on the appointed time so I left it out by the gate with and old piece of plastic over it and called them back to tell them where they could find it.

  4. Do you mean THIS China?
    https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/williampesek/2022/01/24/china-risks-going-to-economic-hero-to-zero-in-2022/amp/&ved=2ahUKEwjz9LXK8Nn2AhWNWM0KHZwGCqMQxbwDegQIIxAB&usg=AOvVaw0USJBdP7rrxY-4Hgsrr7D-
    Saw your Stormy Monday post. I don’t recall you ever mentioning whether you have a storm shelter at the ranch – it doesn’t look like you have a basement.
    I hope you, Lady E and all stay safe.

  5. “And in the woods around Uretopia, sneaking up will cause units (like this one, ”

    Unfortunately this is the link to the Hessaire. I’m interested in the voice intruder alerts.

  6. Something to consider which will change LOTS of things in a instant,
    Notice the headlines are showing leaning to Biden removal, Now Biden is going to Poland, what better way to end his career than a shoot down of his plane and make it look like Russia did it, Far-fetched, MAYBE- then again maybe NOT! we will see. this would change everything!

    • Me thinks the Best Before date on aircraft would be an indicator. Dont wanna waste a good plane.

    • …Stray “Russian” missile after he’s on the ground.

      I don’t think so.

      Soros selected Biden as Obama’s VP because he wanted someone so bad that no one would consider impeaching him. I don’t know who’s doing the selecting now, but with Creepy Joe as candidate, Kamala was selected because she was the only person in politics who could shine Biden in that same light.

      There is no one anywhere who wants Harris to become da Prez. Unless she is replaced first, Joe is as safe as an egg in a Tempurpedic nest…

      • “There is no one anywhere who wants Harris to become da Prez. Unless she is replaced first”

        Well That Depends LOL LOL LOL….

        Look at what they have offered us as the American best.. so far none of them have stepped forward in Congress to speak negatively about what is going on.. quiet as a church mouse.. a squeak here and there but no one is willing to stand at the front..
        Could that be because of the political power of the one advising the Pupp …OOPS I mean Administration?
        Then take a look at the lineup of candidates.. LOL LOL.. SO….
        IF America Survives two years of Brandon without the world being blown to bits or falling off the cliff into one of the worst depressions in history.. and then decides to retire.. what would our choices be… My guess is they wouldn’t give us much of a choice to choose from. Just look at what we have been offered in the past..
        God forbid but It could turn out that she would be the best choice for the job

  7. Biden and the Uniparty have effectively slain the evil oil dragon. I am hearing exploration budgets are flat even with prices as they are. The offshore drilling end of things remains in full shut down from when Biden took over. Permitting is not being held up by the Feds, but by state governments (outside of Texas) responding to DC pressure. Technically, the Feds bully small state agencies to have plausible deniability. But gasoline prices are not where they are for no reason – and when OPEC eventually discloses their actual spare capacity, the “Peak Oil” conspiracy will turn to fact, as so very many conspiracies have these days.

    The big service companies (Halliburton, Baker Hughes, etc.) appear to be hiring, but you must be FULLY vaxxed – and that definition is a moving target. The people they are hiring are “squishy” positions, where the job entails things such as ‘onboarding’ and a list of corporate “must do’s” that were TLDR for anyone outside of the virtue signalling HR cliques. These companies want drones that comply, and it is obvious once you hit their HR pages and read the prerequisites.

    This is likely to go on until I actually die, from what I see so far. The sanctions and Covid madness effectively slew my little business, taking me from 4 working clients to one, and that one is doing half the business he did in 2020. My clients were all overseas, and 2 of them are still shutdown due to Covid madness or force majeure.

    It’s looking like it is time to buy a seed press and start growing castor beans in order to be prepared for fuel craziness. Castor oil stores great, burns in 2-stroke engines fine and growing the plants is dead simple. Yield is around 2.5 bbl/acre of oil, assuming standard spacing – tighter spacing can yield more. You can grow them in really crappy soil, so you don’t have to canibalize your garden patch. You can mix ethanol with castor oil for use in 4-stroke vehicles, but I haven’t done that. Easier to just burn it like diesel – anyone remember using castor oil to power model airplanes? There you go…

    I am not saying oil is dead, but the mechanisms for exploring for it and getting it out of the ground are being crippled for multiple reasons, and it is unlikely to get fixed unless the pain grows too high for the DC bunch to ignore – which is bad, because most of them are millionaires and things like this simply do not affect them. As I prefer to be at least moderately self-sufficient, I think it is time to get going on fuel independence before the things needed to do so become hard to get (seed press, chemicals, etc.).

    Driving is going to be a privilege sooner rather than later, and something you plan for to maximize efficiency. I don’t see this going away until something changes with the Feds – they are intent on shutting us down just as the WEF has always said. A bad hurricane season can easily push prices to $10/gal. The elasticity in the system is negligible.

    Buckle up buttercups….

    • “anyone remember using castor oil to power model airplanes?”

      Castor oil, alcohol, nitromethane — Model airplanes and fuel dragsters.

      Have you considered either rapeseed or algae?

    • Ricin around with Castor Oil ?? certainly not for buttercups..that scheisse deadly..Unfortunately think you are dead on with the Restricted Travel in future. Flying commercial going to be thing of past as well for same dam reasons.

    • Great information on castor growing. I wonder how much water and labor it requires. I do think an entire PN article could be on DIY fuel creation and prep. It’s really hard to find a decent and hackable diesel car today in any condition. We’re largely stuck with gasoline or its equivalents, complicated by feeding the cat with hot gasses that won’t poison it. Ethanol is labor intensive to make from any source, and not all cars can handle a lot of it, though increasing injector dwell and monitoring CHT/EGT may prevent premature holes in the pistons. It still has lousy range though.

    • The energy companies and their pipeline buddies (subsidiaries) don’t seem to be having any difficulty getting permits and claiming eminent domain rights here in Texas. The same local land owners get targeted over and over for what amounts to seizure of their property by @ss-clown mob lawyers and surveyors working for the energy companies. Making outlandish extortion threats in order to steal property by intimidation while waving officious paperwork that won’t stand up to real scrutiny is a good way to trash a project from the get-go. I keep waiting for the malicious deadbeats to play the national security card and bring in foreign monarchist mercenary jackboots.

  8. Wish I had picked up that used Prius last spring that I looked at … and then learned how to do Hyper Milage driving!!

    For me the Pete Buttigieg “solution” of going out and buying a $60,000 new electric car isn’t going to cut the mustard … and besides for now the grid doesn’t have enough capacity to CARRY the electricity that they do NOT YET GENERATE to “fill up” millions of electric cars daily.

    Of course once vast numbers of people have electric vehicles then the electric prices will of course go up to match whatever the energy equivalent OIL price is, which is going to make it very very expensive to turn on your lights or to use your AC in the summer (heaven forbid if you live up north and have electric heat!!). I would anticipate our electric prices just for the electricity then to run up to European levels, say about $.30 per kwh PLUS the distribution fee (here I currently pay about $.0525/kwh for the electricity plus a distribution fee – the wires that carry the electricity from the plant to ME – of about $.11/kwh for a total of $.1625/kwh) With all those new electricity requiring vehicles now competing for the electricity thus requiring LOTS of new generating capacity and an entire grid upgrade needed say a total cost per kwh of $.50 or so, a TRIPLING + of my monthly electric bill just for what I currently use, not counting what I will have to buy put in the electric vehicle’s “tank”. OUCH!!! DOUBLE OUCH!!

    Now how many miles do those electric bicycles now get …. ? Do they make a “rain enclosure” for them for when I have to ride one in the rain? I saw some nice ones on motorcycles in Europe, made them into almost a 2 wheel Mini with a windshield with wiper, roof, rear enclosure and side enclosures … wonder if they are going to be coming for bicycles too?

    • I am not as negative on the BEV charging, since most are parked at night, they can charge when demand is low 01:00-06:00 or so. This would allow baseload power generators to be more useful during the full day rather then just peak power. Though it won’t help as much for those ares that are using solar for baseload support.
      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7dfyG6FXsUU&t=4s
      Most people don’t need 300 miles of charge each night, but 50-75 miles of charge, or charge just a few times per week.

      My issue is still the BEV pricing. I was thinking a RAV4 prime, that could be electric most of the time and still have long rural road trips as a plug in hybrid. But Toyota can not make enough to sell for a reasonable price.

      I like the idea of electric more then hydrogen, as we already have an electricity distribution network where we don’t have anything similar for hydrogen. Oil should have always been thought of a transitional energy source, it gets to expensive to maintain the huge supply over time. Just imagine how the ICE changed from first mass production to current. Battery, EVs have really only been around 10-12 years, so we have a ton of upside in the tech if we can avoid a technology/cultural reset that sets up back to stone age.

      • Some of us really do need a 300 mile range, since we may only average 43 miles a day, 300 miles a week, but ALL of that 300 miles comes down to one round trip per week, and we have a full load both ways. That’s common in rural America, and we’re not all able or willing to move.

    • “Now how many miles do those electric bicycles now get …. ?”

      Between 15-65 unless you want to spread some serious green. For ~$14,000 you can get a bike that’ll do 200 miles @14mph; for ~$21,000 you can get one that’ll do 230 miles @ 18mph.

      “Do they make a “rain enclosure” for them”

      Yes. They not only make a rain enclosure, they make a passenger enclosure, so you can ride your kid or pet in comfort. It mounts to the heavy carrier along with the kid- or pet-seat.

      I’m pretty sure you can get up into used WRX money for an e-bike, without a lot of effort…

    • Stephen 2: My son who lives in Sweden is part-way into your scenario. On one of the first days of the Ukraine war his kwh fee spiked to $0.67USD. Later that day, when the wind turbines started turning better the rate settled between $.30 and $.40/kwh. A couple of years ago it was $.20/kwh. Sweden gets 30-40% of its electricity from wind. As far as mobility goes, he drives a 10 year old diesel that gets around 50mpg. Most recent diesel price was $9.70/gallon. His vision for his next car: a used plug in hybrid. But he and his wife are already switching to electric bikes for commuting. (Yes, that is possible 95% of the time in southern Sweden!) The government paid 50% of the purchase price of the bikes in an attempt to wean people from driving. His wife works 40 miles away: 5 minute bike to train station, train ride, then she mounts a second bike at the distant station for the remainder of her trip. Given that she works while on the train, it boils down to a 10 to 15 minute stressless commute.

      Stephen, as for semi-enclosed bicycles: you hardly ever see them. Electric bike range goes from about 20 miles to above 50 miles; depends on how much you want to pay. Last time I was in a bike shop there the median electric price was around $3K. Some parents pull their toddlers in convertible trailers, but adults just dress for the weather. When I bike ride in Florida, I’m hypervigilant for careless car drivers. When I drive in Sweden, I’m hypervigilant for kamikaze bicyclists. They know they own the road and there are lots of them. In extremely bad weather there is always bus service that runs every 5 to 30 minutes.

      His in-laws recently converted an old farmhouse that had been costing them a couple of thousand dollars a year in fuel oil to a ground source heat pump. Cost about $35K but will pay off handsomely in energy security, eventual cost savings, and lots of green “warm and fuzzies.”

      The USA will complain mightily about being dragged into this world while sitting on pools of oil and gas, but it seems to be inevitable. Incentives will change and there will be culture wars, but it seems that the USA is on its way to looking more like Sweden. Autonomous vehicles will only complicate the story.

      My own view is that hydrocarbons should largely be saved for making things for which there is no good current substitute, e.g. plastics.

      By the way, I have two cars: a Prius that gets 50 mpg locally and a Hyundai. I’d love to go solar-charged EV, but in Florida I want to be able to run in front of a hurricane and return before the grid comes back up. Pure electric doesn’t seem too smart given the location. I was just offered $12K for the 2014 Prius, but I’m not selling!

      By the way, for any readers who think of Sweden as a socialist hell, note the following life expectancies from WorldData.info
      MALE FEMALE
      United States 76.3 years 81.4 years
      Sweden 81.3 years 84.7 years

      • “United States 76.3 years 81.4 years
        Sweden 81.3 years 84.7 years”

        YMMV considerably, if’fn you live in Stockholm or Malmo…

    • I bought a used 2019 Honda Insight Hybrid in October 2020 for $18,800. No plug in, 10 gallon gas tank… easily get 52 mpg and drives and looks like a Civic. Hypermiles very well because no regenerative braking unless you use the steering wheel levers. Great car! New ones are going for $30K now… I could sell mine (no thanks) for $22K.

      Also bought 2 electric bikes… on a full charge you can go over 20 miles just using the throttle… if you pedal you can extend that distance greatly.

    • “Wish I had picked up that used Prius last spring that I looked at … and then learned how to do Hyper Milage driving!! ”

      I’m driving a Highlander hybrid. EPA is 23/30. I’m getting 14.5 on new batteries. It is better than my Expedition, but smaller, and feels considerably less-competent when towing.

      I have been, what they now call “hypermiling” for over 50 years. It is the technique we call “normal driving” in lands where snow/ice live on roads for half the year. In many States, coasting on the clutch (manual) or out of gear (automatic) are illegal (I still do it in summer.)

      14.5…

      Do not assume a hybrid is a mileage panacea.

  9. two things I’m noticing:

    firstly – the 7.3 earthquakes (3 in a row, only a second apart from each other) last week and now numerous after or fore shocks, depending on the camp you’re in, hitting the same area. Is the spring megaquake coming to Japan? Then how long ’til California goes under the ocean, fall, next year?

    secondly – what people are doing isn’t prepping, but rather learning how their great-great grandparents lived. So, relearning the basic of life.

    • BIC,

      It’s an absolute farce. No way are those two going to find cooperation forthcoming from 10 provinces and 3 territories in matters of health and housing which are not directly federally administered. The pair of formerly masked crusaders shot themselves in one foot with the Emergency Act ending 2 days after passage. Oh well, someone page the Parliament Speaker’s Mace Bearer for duty.

      An irony of the whole proposed boondoggle is with the dental. Coverage for able-bodied adults 19 years and up (with income limits) will not kick in until 2025, the planned election year!

  11. Wow those Boeing planes crash good . Do they make Air Force one ? That one in China sure went down like a max . Crashes have really developed over the years . Yeah some great ideas here for dopey trip to Poland . Send that washed out old rag Pelosi with him . She ain’t got long by the looks of her . Vampira

  12. Thanks to all for that night!! Woke up thinking of that guy robin williams, great guy . Good morning stock market!!!!also thinking of brad Pitt fighting the bear in legends of the fall . The guy said brad /Tristan had a good death

  13. Watch tv if you can bear it . See vegetables talking rubbish and lies and propaganda . All jabbed big 2 . Zombies obey and beleive everything.this is a country of zombies now sewer Australia. Unbelievable herd of brain dead sick , obese , diabetic ugly fools

  16. insane evil . so USSA evil . patriots my ass . all zombies .. TLT 128 TLT128TLT 128 .. commie facist bastards .. put zelensky in congress

  17. Got some news today that I knew was coming for years. Honolulu and Oahu island are running out of water. Hawaii state is under a drought (except for my rainforest jungle on the Big Island). Honolulu is still fighting with the Navy over the fuel contamination of a major aquifer on the island. Twenty percent of the Oahu water supply is shut down. Now with the drought, the Board of Water supply has issued urgent warnings to conserve water, and …. here’s the ‘biggie’…. NO NEW DEVELOPEMENTS will be approved for water usage. Real estate development in Honolulu has come to a screeching halt.

  18. @ 1930 hrs, I sent an email with enclosed fractal that even TEF might study ;0)

    I can’t believe Spring has sprung and nary the bud of a leaf on the tree out my front door !!

  19. I’ve said this before but since the subject was at large today, I’m damn glad I bought my used Plug-In 2012 Prius when I did. Got $9,500 toward the purchase price from CA air management in exchange for my old car which was a very nice 2000 Buick LeSabre with about 120,000 on the clock. It went into the crusher even though it was very roadworthy and still had it’s clear coat.
    The Prius is a champ. Now with 96,000 it still produces about 8 miles totally on EV and that about covers most consumer missions. The rest of the time it’s like driving a regular Prius. I just came back from a longer trip down South and got 63 mpg. All I’ve done to it is change the oil, new tires and air filters. Doesn’t even need brake pads yet what with the regenerative braking.
    If you can find a used one with under 100k at a reasonable price, grab it!

  20. Hold the wakeup arrival polka soundtrack on AF1. Reuters is reporting that the Russian foreign minister is meeting with the Nork ambassador in Moscow for discussions on “developing bilateral relations”?! Dial us up some Fatboy Slim “Weapon of Choice” – supreme leader version. Charting hypersonic, comrade!

    Back to an American on Nato tour and let’s have a polite round of applause, may we, for a nightcapper of champagne music:
    “Adios, Au Revoir, Ah Fetershein”

    …White House operator calling for Mr. Dennis Rodman…

  21. “From sunflower oil to titanium, how the world will feel the costs of the Ukraine conflict.”

    WE are currently getting 70% of our aluminum and nearly 100% of our titanium from Russia. With dem dam Russkies being embargoed, Boeing and Airbus are probably not going to be building many airplanes…

  22. Zelensky Says WWIII Assured If Negotiations With Russia Break Down

    “I think that we have to use any format, any chance in order to have a possibility of negotiating, possibility of talking to Putin. But if these attempts fail, that would mean that this is a third World War.” “You cannot reverse this situation anymore. You cannot demand from Ukraine to recognize some territories as intended for conflicts, and these compromises are simply wrong.”

    https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/zelensky-says-wwiii-assured-if-negotiations-putin-break-down

    That’s probably reasonably accurate, but not for the reasons Zelensky provides. IMO NATO will eventually dive in, even if they have to create a false flag to excuse doing so.

    • “I think that we have to use any format, any chance in order to have a possibility of negotiating, possibility of talking to Putin. But if these attempts fail, that would mean that this is a third World War.”

      the problem I see.. is the US and NATO refused to take the Nukes off of his border.. instead.. they started war games and added a few more on the border..
      Russia retaliated by building up forces on the ukraine border.. SO… we know what the requirements are.. we refused to abide by our agreements before.. does anyone truly beleive that the minds have been changed from before.. and we will actually do what we originally said we would do.. no nukes on the russian border and an agreement that Ukraine will never be a part of NATO and nato quits moving in..
      The third one now that wasn’t on the table is turn over the criminal bunch in charge of Ukraine..

      • Pretty much. Like I said a few days ago, Russia considers this a life & death fight, and losing is not an option.

  23. Official Government of Canada data is truly terrifying; it suggests the Triple Vaccinated have developed AIDS & are now 5.1x more likely to die of Covid-19 than the Unvaccinated

    The latest official Covid-19 figures from the Government of Canada are truly terrifying. They show that the double vaccinated population across Canada have now lost on average 74% of their immune system capability, and the triple vaccinated population across Canada have now lost on average 73% of their immune system capability compared to the natural immune system of unvaccinated people.

    https://dailyexpose.uk/2022/03/20/gov-canada-data-triple-vaccinated-have-a-i-d-s/

    Uh, oh…

    • “Stormy Daniels”

      OTFLMAO…I think DJT got screwed more ways than just one having sex with her…. LOL LOL
      He won the battle but lost the fight.. History will paint him as a woman hater forever.. while the kid and his laptop from hell will go down as a saint.. LOL LOL LOL

  26. Republicans eyeing probes into Hunter Biden, Anthony Fauci, and more after midterms: ‘It’s like a mosquito in a nudist colony. It’s a target-rich environment.’

    Republicans are eyeing up possible probes after the midterm elections that will target Hunter Biden, Dr. Anthony Fauci, and the handling of the southern border crisis. Past polls have suggested that Democrats are facing a “5-alarm fire,” there looms concerning views on the direction of the country under President Joe Biden, and the best midterm election projections for Republicans in 40 years. Republicans are not only hopeful that they will take the House and Senate, but also take the reins on probes following the 2022 midterm elections.

    https://www.theblaze.com/news/hunter-biden-investigation-fauci-probe

    Gee, that would suck — and elevate Rand Paul to national prominence…

  27. ‘I don’t give a f***’: Kid Rock tells Tucker Carlson why he’s ‘uncancelable’

    In an interview with Fox News host Tucker Carlson scheduled for release Monday night, legendary rocker Kid Rock said he’s “uncancelable” because he simply doesn’t “give a f***.” Carlson released a short video clip of the interview on Twitter with the caption: “The legendary Kid Rock sits down with Tucker for a rare one-on-one interview. And nothing is off the table.

    https://www.theblaze.com/video/kid-rock-tucker-carlson?rebelltitem=1#rebelltitem1

    Funny as hell. I don’t think Kid Rock uttered a single sentence longer than 4 words where he didn’t drop at least one f-bomb. After the teaser, I closed my eyes and imagined the FOX censor checking into an ortho clinic for carpal tunnel relief, after hitting the “bleeper button” so many times…

  28. how rich is the world gunna be . wow what a farken joke !!!!!!!!!!!! TLT TLT TLT .. sheetcoin rules the world rules the federal reserve monster .. yum yum yum klaus schwab senior economic mind !!! jab money $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$. im the new cage rattler .. he was a legend when the world was real . so am i . AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

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