Softly and Uply are the key concepts early today. Because, as we anticipated on the Peoplenomics.com site this weekend, the real action should come late-week.
European bourses were up early. Asia was a different story: The KOSPI was down 3.65% overnight. This South Korean index traded around 9,150-ish not long ago (late June). But as of today, it has lost about a third of that pricing. What’s driving it? Glad you asked – pick one:
- Tech / semiconductor sell-off: Samsung Electronics and SK hynix (the two heaviest weights) both fell roughly 4.4–4.5% overnight. The market reacted to AI profitability worries after reports that OpenAI’s annualized revenue was around $50 billion, below the ~$70 billion figure circulating earlier. There was also chatter about Chinese memory competition (CXMT planning new DDR5 server products) and questions about how durable the semiconductor supercycle is, even though Samsung had just guided record quarterly operating profit.
- Heavy foreign selling: Foreigners were large net sellers (around 2 trillion won on the day). Cumulative foreign selling in KOSPI this year is approaching or exceeding 200 trillion won, with semiconductors accounting for a big share. High U.S. Treasury yields (10-year above 5%) and risk-off sentiment reduced the appeal of Korean equities.
- Middle East / inflation pressures: Renewed Houthi attacks on Saudi Arabia’s main airport over the weekend pushed oil higher and revived energy-supply and inflation concerns. That feeds into worries about further rate pressure.
- Technical / supply factors: ETF rebalancing in semiconductor products, the end of treasury-stock buybacks by the big chip names, derivatives expiries, and the market breaking key technical levels all amplified the move. Profit-taking after the recent run above 7,000 also played a role.
I’m drawing your attention to South Korea for several reasons.
First, this could be a “poster child” for what an AI-driven blow-down could look like. A third off a market index is something your average investor frames as “unthinkable” – until they’ve been through one.
Second is the timing of this week: Bond Market is closed for Columbus and Indigenous Day but the other casinos are open. But I suspect our work – and that of The Economic Fractalist will combine – and potentially in a very “Korean sort of way” if the inflation report Wednesday is fugly.
Third, our 1929 Replay Model is primed for collapse. We update the ChartPack twice weekly for subscribers.
We have been writing about “the Big One” for more than 25-years here. And a few “questioning skeptics” have to be wondering “Where is the Super Blow-Off – the one that would give 1929 a run for the money?
The answer is complicated – so put on the multivariate hat and follow along.
- After the 1929 Collapse, a great deal more financial control was applied with levers. Social Security, FDIC, and the modern analog to the CCC/WPA – the AmeriCorps.
- Housing Bubble Collapse and COVID knocked some of the “liquidity edges” off a bit. Tightening the border reduced syn-growth demand, and a new American militancy cost oodles.
- And then it’s what TEF sharply observed: “How much higher would the SPX have peaked without the concurrent energy prices and inflation secondary to the Ukraine war, Iran war, and ever mutable trade policies?”
So our (modest) advice to all is simple this week. Get your head “off the rails” before Wednesday because the train to the future is coming through. You want to be on it.
Not under.
News Compressor: ON
News flows today at mainly “coloring inside the [statistical] lines.” Even our AI offspring are lining up assessing kick-off today this way:
AMBER — SELECTIVELY HARDENING
The dominant development is the growing difference between what governments are announcing and what physical systems are actually doing.
Military activity continues despite ceasefire language. Energy markets are responding to possible additional supplies before delivery is assured. Financial markets remain resilient even as participation narrows and geopolitical risks accumulate.
That combination deserves attention, but it is not proof that a systemic break has begun.
The immediate watch: Saudi aviation and shipping security, implementation of the proposed Russia–Ukraine energy ceasefire, and Tuesday’s return to fuller U.S. bond-market trading.
The scheduled financial hinge: Wednesday’s CPI release.
As a result, the four front page items right now are:
1. GULF / ENERGY — Another Saudi airport attack; diplomacy has not restored shipping security. Saudi authorities reported another fatal attack on Riyadh’s international airport Sunday, following Saturday’s Houthi-claimed strike, whose reported death toll rose to 13; Sunday’s attack killed one additional person and injured 11. Tanker attacks and continuing disruption around Hormuz and Bab el-Mandeb are keeping pressure on energy transportation, while Iran says it is still reviewing Washington’s response to its proposal for reopening Hormuz. Escalating militarily; diplomacy remains unresolved.
2. RUSSIA / UKRAINE — An announced energy ceasefire encounters immediate contradictions
President Donald Trump announced an energy ceasefire, but Ukraine said Russian attacks on its energy facilities continued, and Moscow had not confirmed the agreement. If the rumor holds through tomorrow’s close, this could be our maraschino.
3. UNITED STATES / DISASTERS — Hurricane damage spreads north; another storm affects the Southwest. At least four deaths were attributed to Hurricane Isaias after its Florida landfall, while flooding and landslides affected western North Carolina and approximately 226,000 customers remained without electricity in Florida and Alabama Sunday evening.
Separately, Rachel’s remnants damaged Southern California coastal properties and contributed to flooding around Las Vegas. Wind damage subsiding; flooding and recovery pressures are continuing.
4. INDIA — Voter-list controversy becomes a national political confrontation
Authorities closed six Delhi metro stations and restricted traffic Monday as opposition groups marched toward the Supreme Court over voter-list revisions that removed more than 130 million names, including people recorded as deceased, relocated, or untraceable. Say, you don’t think this is a “prequel proxy” do you?
Speaking of mid-terms: A federal judge temporarily blocked taxpayer funding for television advertisements featuring President Trump after plaintiffs alleged the advertisements were political rather than public-service communications. Odds of more legal mud-wrestling approach 100%.
Monday in the Break Room
People will talk about?
1. At least 139 migrants died and 84 remained missing after an overcrowded boat capsized off Djibouti while traveling toward Yemen, according to the International Organization for Migration.
2. Taiwan said it was monitoring Chinese live-fire exercises scheduled along several coastal areas this week, although none of the announced exercise zones directly surrounds Taiwan.
3.. An Israeli strike killed two people in southern Gaza Monday, according to Palestinian medical officials, as disputes over ceasefire compliance and militant activity persisted.
4. Flooding (replay basis the late August flooding) caused by a landslide-blocked river in Nepal destroyed bridges and hiking trails, leaving more than 100 foreign trekkers stranded.
5. Poland deployed more than 20,000 police officers to schools following several stabbing attacks, including fatal violence at an educational facility.
6. France anti-government wave seems passing:
By late last week the government reported a clear drop in school blockades (down to roughly 140 closed high schools out of ~3,700). Most schools are open again. But what’s this? Fire destroyed much of the historic Marché des Enfants Rouges covered food market in Paris, with investigators still determining the cause. Link? Inquiring minds file…
7. Wildfires spread into residential neighborhoods in Indonesia’s Bangka Belitung province, damaging more than 300 houses and forcing hundreds of residents to evacuate.
8. The International Monetary Fund said AI infrastructure investment was helping sustain global economic growth near 3% despite energy shocks, while warning about consequences for employment and economic inequality. Might want to check with South Korea on that.
Around the Ranch: Perceptual Standing
Yes – another book may be in the works: “Managing Your Animal” and it’s about how resident consciousness gets on while “locked into an animal body” around the time of birth. But I should back up and explain why this matters.
Lost you, did I? The market analyst and the consciousness investigator face essentially the same problem: their conclusions depend on their starting assumptions, observational position, and methods of interpretation. Trading is an odd little corner of larger Reality.
Worthy of mention, turns out, in this study of how broader Reality works, that “where you stand” matters greatly;
In my books, I like to begin from the standpoint of “What would a rational person see/think if they begin inside their own animal/spirit vehicle?
I think of this as the problem any sea captain faces before shoving off: Where is the ship now (here and now in body space-time) and where are we going?
I had previously been firmly locked onto this path. Where “You discoveries will depend on your starting point for these rides around the Sun.”
BUT – getting deeply into it – turns out there is an interesting “off in pure math and physics” way of resolving destinations of lives. And it’s well articulated in a series of 2016 papers by Mohsen Paul Sarfarazi, PhD.
A good starting point is his online collection of papers beginning with “A Higher Dimensional Account of Creation – Part 1 – Light of Consciousness.”
Conceptually interesting materials. But, to this particular animal/spirit package (me) it’s easier to “follow the breadcrumbs of memory back to Source” rather than trying to “build a Source Theory and then see if you can get to “here and now” from there.
Near as I can figure, both approaches are likely workable. Big Source Theory and down to present can make the math-brain hurt, however. But going back “up the trail” the risks are self-delusion and distraction.
Bottom line? Figuring it all out – the universal Big TOE (theory of everything) – still has an uphill climb ahead.
And not made easier by researchers (like Sarfarazi) who are “protecting their work copyright” by only publishing images on the web, not text. Which makes conventional indexing (and AI too) more difficult to find. Trying to “own expression of ideas” (via images and copyright) is a rational stretch, to our thinking, however.
Then again, maybe that’s the point?
Write when you get rich,
George@Ure.net
I never leave home unarmed.
It has been that way since 1972.
Even more so in today’s society. It is simply crazy out there.
You can never tell what will be coming at you, or from what direction.
Some may disagree with that ‘armed’ mentality – I’m cool with that. It is your life and far be it from me to tell you what you should, or shouldn’t do to protect your self, or your loved-ones. Or., that your even need to ‘plan’ on protecting yourself – physically, or armed. That is entirely up to you. Isn’t it…, [ not a question.]
“The Mrs” is very accepting of my “habit of preparedness” since her brother was jumped and viciously beaten just walking down the street., minding his own business. Four street punks thought he looked like an easy target – which he was – and for no reason stomped him into the gutter. He never fully recovered – physically, nor mentally. It broke him. He ended up as another statistic on the Seattle Police blotter. They were never caught., except on a cheap security video. He died about twelve years later, still afraid to even go to the grocery store.
The world around you is not the way we would all like it to be. Sadly, it’s a nasty world out there. Once you step into the public light you potentially become a target of violence. I prefer to use my training and experience and turn that violence back on them at a level they never saw coming. .., but that is just me. I have the background and experience to carry it off.
Prepare for the worst – hope for the best. A very relevant quote for today’s world.
Take care, everyone. .., and,
“Stay Frosty !”
Yeah with hunting season here, may be time to put the chest rig on again. I donb’t worry about lawful hunteres – they won’t poach on the land, but the unlawful and the ones who think sitting in a deer blind swill cheap booze is “MANLY”? Well, not so much. Yes chest rig and 9 time – thanks for the reminder
So you only carry when you think the need might arise? Other times, you’ll just tell the baddies to hold on a second while you chase down your piece?
Bad things happen when you least expect. Prepared is a state of mind.
I just checked. I never said anything like that.
” dLynn
October 13, 2026 at 09:30
I just checked. I never said anything like that.”
I never said you did. That reply was to George’s comment about putting the chest rig on again.
valid points i must say .
“The world around you is not the way we would all like it to be. Sadly, it’s a nasty world out there. Once you step into the public light you potentially become a target of violence.”
You are correct. What I do when out in public is to be mentally be prepared to fight at any moment… even when in the supermarket parking lot, some guys coming in the opposite direction… I mentally assume they might attack me, so I am ready to react.
And if a group of punks approaches me and one of them asks me if I have a cigarette, I’m not going to respond, I’m going to punch him in the face and touch my chances. Usually if you take out the leader, the rest of them will fold.
If you ever go to Verona Italy, there is a plaque marking the spot where Nicola Tommasoli was killed in 2008 by some punks who asked him for a cigarette.
Fuck that. I want to go down fighting.
Maybe I imagine myself to be Jason Bourne… lol.
(“I never leave home unarmed.
It has been that way since 1972.
Even more so in today’s society. It is simply crazy out there.
You can never tell what will be coming at you, or from what direction.
Some may disagree with that ‘armed’ mentality – I’m cool with that. It is your life and far be it from me to tell you what you should, or shouldn’t do to protect your self, or your loved-ones. Or., that your even need to ‘plan’ on protecting yourself – physically, or armed. That is entirely up to you. Isn’t it…, [ not a question.]
“The Mrs” is very accepting of my “habit of preparedness” )
It took my wife a few years to understand my obsession with preparedness. She’d had a few rough spots in life, but nothing like what I’d survived. Then came the year we went without an income. It didn’t take long for her to understand….where we became friends was when I worked off the surgeons debt.. which was more than the total bill for another that had insurance..
she had a major stroke in her early twenties..the hospitals and doctors took everything but five dollars a pay period..when she learned I was going to work it off by refinishing the clinic lot by hand in hundred degree heat…..she felt compelled to help thinking about what she had to deal with.. once she got sick they dumped her off the insurance then nailed her..so when she heard what I was going to do she simply…showed up in coveralls a thermos of ice water and sandwiches..and asked where do we start…
Today, she actually helps me come up with ideas for the pantry…. And remember those occasional comments about wishing she had a little wine during the year we went without an income ? Well, that became another learning curve. Even if I died tomorrow, she’d have enough wine to last her a few years! LOL.
But sometimes, life has a way of teaching lessons that no amount of explaining ever could.
A man stopped by Saturday. His wife is a social worker for DSS, and he has a good job. They bought a house last year, and then they got hit with a substantial medical bill on top of their new home expenses.
The wonderful world of financial security slapped the daylights out of them.
They’d been living what they thought was a reasonably secure life. Suddenly, they were struggling to buy food and wondering whether they’d lose their home. He came to me looking for some insight into how we’d survived when we went through our own hard times.
Funny how those things they once rolled our eyes at suddenly begin to make sense when life events turns the tables.
We were out taking our aluminum cans in when we started talking. I told him it was a shame they were going through this, but we couldn’t save everybody. Then I told him something I could do: I’d make sure their child had food….I can’t save them from what I know they will experience..
That’s what preparedness means to me. It isn’t just about protecting yourself. It’s about being in a position to help somebody else when their world falls apart…..
And I’ve seen it happen to people who, by all appearances, had everything going for them…..
There was an engineer who lived in an affluent neighborhood and had enjoyed a very comfortable life. Then fate delivered a one-two punch….Another a race horse trainer and groomer His wife, an RN I’d worked with, developed terminal cancer. Between the medical expenses and the insurance problems they encountered, he lost his farm and just about everything else trying to pay for her end-of-life care. Eventually, he showed up at our home with nothing but the clothes he was wearing.
A man who’d once had the world at his feet designing and building deep water oil drilling platforms to someone living in his car…
The other the same thing..she lost her job getting cancer they dumped her off the insurance since she couldn’t work..to losing everything..
I can’t even tell you how many husbands and wives end up losing everything once their spouse ends up in a nursing facility..Ive made sandwiches and made up spare beds and couches so they didn’t have to sleep in the car once the farm was gone..
I’ve seen what medical expenses can do to a family. I’ve seen how quickly a good income, a nice home, and years of hard work can disappear. And I’ve watched people discover that the systems they believed would protect them weren’t necessarily going to..
That’s why I worked as many hours as I did. That why I learned to make things rather than always having to buy them.
I told that young man, who’s in his mid-thirties, something I learned the hard way:
Learn to make the things that provide you with a quality of life…. Learn to recreate what you need when you can no longer afford to buy it….
You can’t prepare for everything life might throw at you. My own experiences have taught me that much. Preparing for a storm is sensible, but sometimes the storm comes in the form of a medical bill, a lost job, an insurance company, or a sudden change in circumstances…no one is going to come to save you..you have to stand against the storm.on every event that’s passed me..everyone ran..I had the plague.. thats what happens to everyone..our church promotes it but follows the other path..mostly because its positioning with the modern business model.. Thomas Monson …he tried to talk sense into the church..and he failed in many ways… and succeeded in other ways..
https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/general-conference/2009/10/what-have-i-done-for-someone-today?lang=eng
And sometimes, the person who needs help isn’t a stranger. It’s a family member, neighbor, a friend, or somebody who never imagined they’d find themselves in that position….it happens fast to.. and truly isn’t something you even conceive can happen to you..like my brothers neighborhood.. its simply something somewhere else.
As for firearms, I have a single-shot black-powder rifle and a couple of air rifles.. . I got interested in the black-powder rifle when I learned that Lewis and Clark carried them on their expedition. I thought it would be interesting to shoot one myself… I even called around to see if anybody had an original tucked away in the back of a closet, but I was told the one I was looking for was in the NRA museum in St. Louis. So I settled for a modern reproduction.
My brothers-in-law, who live in the Pacific Northwest and include some retired Rangers among their circle of friends, have offered me a firearm. I’ve declined…they have joked when SHTF they are coming here better have room for them..lol lol
My thinking is simple: if things get that bad, all I need to do is get to the neighbors….
We do have a pepper-ball gun, though. LOL! I couldn’t even tell you how to load the darn thing. It’s still in the box. And I put the pepper balls away where the kids couldn’t get into them.
My brother-in-law has started carrying again, too…when he retired he refused to carry one..y guess is its similar to me watching hallmark channel.. seen one to many through the years.. for him to start carrying it had to get sketchy…
But here’s the thing I’ve learned after a lifetime of hard knocks: preparedness isn’t about believing you’re going to lose everything. It’s understanding that you could, and making sure that if you do, you still have the knowledge and skills to put one foot in front of the other…..my song that was my go to work song..hell it still is…
https://youtu.be/iGtQMT-QLgc?si=7t8oucmTN74nyOCL
And what I personally made my mind up was if I had enough to have what my needs were and had something left over, I might be able to help somebody else do the same when they were at their weakest….
Because you never know when the person who once rolled their eyes at your pantry will be standing at your door, wondering how they’re going to feed their family.
Sometimes, the greatest thing you can stockpile isn’t food, ammunition, or money.
It’s the knowledge of how to live when the things you depend on are no longer available….to recreate the things that give you a quality of life..
And the ability to give somebody else a hand when they need it most….once you see it in their eyes its unmistakable….
“I never leave home unarmed.”
Same, except I go places where mere possession of a firearm, even unloaded, disassembled, and locked away, can get you 5 years of hard time. I carry when I can do so, without getting a do-see-dough with some country judge whose sheriff has a vacancy. Mostly, I don’t go places where trouble is certain to happen, always know the points of ingress and egress and places a sniper might use, arrange meetings with strangers in populated public places (or banks), and supply my minute-by-minute itinerary to my daughter, along with the local LEAs phone number (if I don’t check in every 10, she calls da po-po.)
I’m nowhere near as physically capable as I was when I was 50 or 40 or 30. My biggest fear is the Viking berserker is still alive within me, and in a white hot moment, I might forget my limitations and try to do something used-up old men are incapable of doing…
“casinos ”
Casinos are mostly cashless.
Trump shit-canned the penny.
Local radio told me Republicans want to shit-can the nickle because of cost. Libs are trying to save the nickle by making it using a different formula – zinc core plated with nickle. If the new formula doesn;t work in existing machines it’s curtains for the nickle.
When the nickle goes…. Will stores may round up to the nearest dime? Will Republicans usher in a cashless system into the U.S.A. Will me.id get breached?
Stay tuned.
It will climb the ladder to the last rung all will be gone but the Buck and when they are ready the rug pull to electric currency at that time I expect a National sales tax …..
Most of the coins cost more to make than their value is.. in Weimar it was cheaper to burn money than it was to buy wood.
I spent 23 days in Europe in August divided among Austria, the Netherlands, and Belgium. One restaurant in Vienna wouldn’t take cards, so I had to spend a 20 Euro note for breakfast. Several establishments would NOT take cash. Taxi fares were paid by contactless cards as were busses and trams. Other than the one restaurant, the only actual cash I spent was tips to tour guides — that presumably went unreported. Clearly, paper money is headed for the museums.
My son lives in Sweden and went 18 months without visiting an ATM. He had business in Dubai and wasn’t sure whether cabs there would take cards, so he finally took some cash. Turns out, Dubai cabs took cards. Be very interesting to see how a cashless economy handles hyperinflation!
That s interesting..my sister travels everywhere..spends more time roaming from one country to another.. I had told her about my niece ( her husband worked in the same facility I did and was in the embassy in russia) I had asked her to take photos of the beautiful gothic buildings.. then recanted when I thought oh hell no.. they might think she was a foreign spy not just gathering photos for her insane uncles curiosity and love of gothic architecture.. then my sister said..oh I should have taken photos for you..she was there visiting her daughter and wandered all over..she said someone follows the American everywhere but they let he photograph some of the sites..
I didn’t ask how she paid for anything though..
It is actually kind of ugly…,
59% of S&P 500 stocks are down at least 20% from their highs, 41% are down more than 30%, and 17% are off by more than 50%.
A few names are carrying the entire S&P market higher. [Nvidia., Micron.., all the biggest tech stocks.]
However, measured against every bull market dating back to the 1950s, the current four year, 119% advance sits near the middle of the pack, well below the 401% gain during the 2009 to 2020 cycle and the 582% gain from 1987 to 2000.
The historical average advance for a bull market is 184%. Of the 10 prior bull markets, six lasted longer than four years.
.., but – No Bull Market has ever advanced at this pace, for this long due to a just dozen stocks. ‘That’ is very historical.
GU : “… foreign selling in KOSPI this year is approaching or exceeding 200 trillion won …”
Matters not a trifle since it isn’t representing the rate of waterfall which befell the Kospi. Twas a darling on the way up. Broker chat was all about “bones of AI” but, my, how the mighty have fallen. Go to:
https://www.cnbc.com/quotes/.KS11?qsearchterm=kospi
9,385 on 06/19/26 then … 5,262 on 07/29/26. Few market trading days for a 44% decline. But, those inclined to ride the Tiger? There is no better tiger than S. Korea. Until it’s another pretender kitten. Rowr? [man I miss my TomCat]
The whole point is beware staying at the party overlong. Never Pretty at end.
Or, just do the other thing (as if gamers stop before getting whacked).
Not FA. It _never is but these things roll in cycles.
LongWaves anyone?
~ Egor ~
ps – big bird day, was buzzed by an adult Bald Eagle early light … was going to gasp to Mrs. E and … she saw it. Birds of summer have been great (F16s, F182, lots of wicked cool high wings with rounded wing tips with old pistons going rap-rap-rap, plus an [8] jet flyover which I believe was the British Red Arrow aerobatic team inbound Osh Kosh, WI). Now? Predators on the wing
Update on potatoes…this year I did something dufferent..I put the large 20 gallon buckets on the east side morning sun…but I put the buckets below the roof of the seed starting greenhouse..what I noticed one morning having my morning coffee on the veranda..was the dew concentrated on the roof was dribbling into the buckets..one wasn’t below the roof so I’d take a quart of ware and dump in it..
well even though the plants are still green and growing..
I went out to harvest them this morning..still got 1 plant bucket left……so far the harvest..is just about fifty pounds out of four buckets..one bucket left on the ones planted in the garden..its five to one..so..an air well above the plants is a huge win……next year ill try something a little different.. plant low surround with dirt and vermeculite then every four inches of growth ill add more.. a guy from the colonies suggested that..all under that roof dribble..over the rest of the beds ill put a vertical drip line air well over each row of plants…
https://chatgpt.com/s/m_6acd1603d39881918956480ebf7e0855
Speaking of food… Uh-oh…
Hackers heat French supermarket fridges, sparking fires and spoiling food…
https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-consumer/french-supermarket-chain-intermarche-hit-by-cyberattack-150-stories-targeted-2026-10-12/
Hal Turner: This isn’t just “a couple of supermarkets” somewhere. This is the bulk refrigeration systems at DISTRIBUTION WARHOUSES that supply HUNDREDS of Supermarkets!
Some of these warehouses are five-hundred-thousand square feet, with 28 – 32 foot tall ceilings, all of it refrigerated! It’s not some small store-sized room.
I think they’re going after the food, directly.
Control the food = control the population. Period. Full Stop.
I think that’s what we’re seeing playing out here. I think the Globalists are doing it.
https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/component/content/article/cyber-attacks-shuts-down-bulk-food-freezers-in-supermarket-distribution-centers-food-spoils?catid=17&Itemid=101
Ai..and household appliances that are controlled by Ai..
From the chat gpt picture..which shows on per plant..I will put one center hanging pole down the center between the rows then hang the individual drip well to the top rail… that can easily be removed for weeding.that way I will still have access to weed and the condensation of the night dew……
investing is like sailing . one must adapt to any changing conditions to reach the destination . our destination is money for food , shelter and necessities . greed and ego bring many sailors unstuck
Just read a couple of lengthy articles on A.I. Informative in some areas., naive and sophomoric in others. [ Some of these people have no imagination, or art in their souls.]
One comment in particular I noted was close to the truth – and though I shutter to think that I agree with anything Bill Gates says – he was in the ball park.
[paraphrasing here ] The real current threat from A.I. is not from an ‘Agent’ going rogue and causing mayhem through the world. The real threat comes from ‘bad actors’ using the current models of A.I. to create that mayhem. In the current models safeguards and rails can easily be removed., allowing very bad people to perform very bad actions.
Though bio-weaponry is a very real, possible threat, the immediate concern is cyber attacks., attacking financial system, energy grids., mainframe controlling computers – world wide. [ He didn’t say it quite this way – I helped a bit.]
The chaos and loss that could be wrought is very real – and likely to be seen in this coming year.
I agree with that assessment. An A.I. agent editing a couple of articles on Wikipedia – was not a rogue “Agent” attack. It was told to do that. Entering a government health care system in Australia ? Again., it was told to go look for those fires., but with virtually no guidance, or safeguards. Not by a malicious rogue ‘agent’ seeking death and destruction., as the media so desperately wanted to portray it.
What we will see.., coming soon to a theater near you., is an A.I. attacking a vital computer system – causing massive disruptions and financial damage. This is where the problem currently lies – and we have no remedies, nor robust security systems to stop it.
As one analyst stated – “Brace for Impact !”
“Stay Frosty !”
re: “The Three Musketeers”, Dumas, 1844
or: Magret de Canard
Ohlala, is anyone feeling slightly sous-vide? It seems a French grocery chain experienced an alleged cyber-remote thermostat heat resetting to 50º C. on its coolers and freezers on Sunday night. Widespread food spoilage ensued.
The French parent of the affected grocery store groups takes its name from the fictional “Three Musketeers”. That merry band opposed an Ancient Regime, and interfered in English affairs where “All for one and one for all!” was not official modus operandi. Surely Hollywood Marx Brothers fans may wish to gather around a hearty bowl of “Duck Soup”.
This whole A.I stuff was probably Ultra top secret at one time.
There are people out there now claiming to have been told that
any technology that you have seen on Star Trek , we now have.
All of the A.I. angles were surely figured out long ago , before
it was released upon the public.
My point is, They know what they are doing, and they know how
to make it look like they don’t know what they are doing too,
if that will serve their purpose.
THAT IS the art of it.
Heck, that covers a whole genre of YouTube videos :
“Master pretends to be a beginner”
Oh, SURPRISE ! SURPRISE !
Yeah , right this SH!T gettin’ old man…………………………..
Bad actors for sure. That’s what keeps this “reality” in a C- Rate
Movie state.
I’m not scared. I’m not concerned . I’m bored.
Same old Same old…………
The Gates Foundation has ads running on facebook about how good data centers are going to be and how good our lives will become. I’m kind of happy with mine the way it is so can 100% agree with you as to disagreeing with him and his control of or death to you mentality.
The ai to be concerned with is from the private companies no one has ever heard about. Guessing they will be the ones to cause the downfall of banks and the “US Federal” “Reserve” and other central banks cutting out the bank as middlemen. AI breaches accounts, deletes records, we all get assigned numbers (that we already have) and the government and central bank bribe us to move to the new block chain system with our own money by giving us back our money in the form of cashless credits.
Sadly, for them, the systems aren’t ready yet.
i name thee sir VIX . arise sir VIX !!!
59% of S&P 500 stocks are down at least 20% from their highs, 41% are down more than 30%, and 17% are off by more than 50%.
A few names are carrying the entire S&P market higher. [Nvidia., Micron.., all the biggest tech stocks.]
However, measured against every bull market dating back to the 1950s, the current four year, 119% advance sits near the middle of the pack, well below the 401% gain during the 2009 to 2020 cycle and the 582% gain from 1987 to 2000.
The historical average advance for a bull market is 184%. Of the 10 prior bull markets, six lasted longer than four years.
.., but – No Bull Market has ever advanced at this pace, for this long due to a just dozen stocks. ‘That’ is very historical.
canadian markets are closed today . so our gold numbers will be off . turned off . makes tuesday extremely interesting with CPI lies wednesday
G.A. STEWART: How the Donald J. Trump fraud is kept alive I have no clue. The Trump supporters over at UrbanSurvival.com did not like me calling them suckers, but this is just what Trump called them.
October 10, 2026
Trump Tells Cheering Crowd: ‘I Could Say the Stupidest Things and You’d Clap’
Donald J. Trump always tells the mob what he thinks of them, and I do not understand how these people lap it up. They seem to have little respect for themselves.
https://theageofdesolation.com/nostradamus/2026/10/13/in-the-end-we-all-die-anyway-so-it-doesnt-matter/
Good update from Stu on his new place. None of the partisans can be trusted.
Next Monday,the 19th will be the 39th Anniversary of the Great Crash,the day that dropped the DOW over 22 per cent,easily the all time record.
That day,I went to an ear,nose and throat doctor but when I got home I thought that my eyes needed examining as well.
If the CPI is a horror show,will Trump pull a Nixon and impose wage and price controls to get him the election?
G.A. STEWART: Here is the fraud, simply put the Republicans are going to lose on their own. Even if losing is written into the script, this election is not going to be hard to swing to the Progressive Left, because candidates tattooing themselves to the ass of a megalomaniacal bully like Trump simply does not sell.
The self-proclaimed king of the Alternative Media, Alex Jones, is now also posting this story of Trump calling for a National Emergency or Martial Law.
Consider that Trump advisor Peter Ticktin showed up on Alex Jones’ show to float the Trump trial balloon for Martial Law.
Will Trump and people like Peter Ticktin, Wayne Allyn Root, Jim Hoft blame a Democratic landslide on voter fraud or “Foreign Terrorism“?
Will Trump declare Martial Law under whatever excuse and pretext that he can come up with?
The smart people are aware of the potential scam.
I predicted that it would be Donald J. Trump who initiated Martial Law over seven-years ago. Score another one for me.
https://theageofdesolation.com/nostradamus/2026/10/13/in-the-end-we-all-die-anyway-so-it-doesnt-matter/
i forgot about columbus day . it has acted as a buffer for the incoming . brace
George,
Good on you for the Kospi composite observation. The rest of the market will follow tomorrow completing a 20 Aug 2026 French CAC 39 day 6/14/12/10 of 10 day 2nd Fractal.
In answer to an expected similar 1929 blow-off question:
It’s partly because of the damper of the 6 dollar diesel effect (et. al gulf state products: helium, fertilizer, sulfuric acid) on the real economy but, more likely, primarily because of 1929 vice 2026 margin debt relative to both GDP and total market capitalization:
In 1929, margin debt accounted for an estimated 10% to 12% (and up to 20% by some calculations) of the total U.S. stock market capitalization, whereas current margin debt in 2026 sits significantly lower at roughly 2.0% to 2.2% of total market value.
While modern nominal margin debt reached an all-time record of $1.502 trillion in June 2026, the massive growth in overall equity values keeps the leverage ratio relative to total market capitalization much lower than the extreme levels of the Roaring Twenties. However, when measured against the real economy, current margin debt has expanded to 4.1% to 4.7% of U.S. GDP, approaching or mirroring the 6% to 9% of GDP levels seen right before the crash of 1929.
I sent you an email
George,
Could be a 2 Aug 2026 French CAC 40 (vice 39)day 6/14/13/8 of 10 day 2nd Fractal series ending on Wed 14 Oct vice Tue 13 Oct with a interim low corresponding to a Kospi 8/18-19/16/11 of 12 day series ending on 14 Oct. (Kospi down 7% currently.)
Note … not all “Margin Debt” shows up in the official numbers.
The ability of big players to play the “low interest” game via other currencies – the so called “Carry Trade” (with foreign lenders “loaning” the money) as long as the investor is willing to put up as collateral other additional large value assets means that there is a LOT of overhang debt that is actually used to buy various stocks but is NOT on the books of the Broker Dealers. George has talked about this issue a couple of times since the numbers involved are actually very substantial.
Say you have a paid off large ranch worth 16 million … Japanese Insurance Companies will directly lend you up to about 32 million or so. You put a mortgage on the ranch for million PLUS contractually pledge to the lender the stocks that you buy so that you can buy say $32 million in stocks. That contractual agreement that is NOT on any broker/dealer’s report shows that the $32 million is in any way leveraged. Private contract between parties, no Broker Dealer involved. The bank has a $16 security cushion on it’s loan with it’s land mortgage PLUS the value of the stocks. The US reports just show that $32 million in stocks as owned outright.
I am sure that some loans go up to even MUCH higher amounts than just going up to double the value of the land but in reality they are leveraged up to double the value of the “extra” collateral (3 x would not suprise me and in some cases the insurance co might even go to 4). If the market goes up you make out like a bandit. If it starts down that Japanese Insurance Company account exec on your loan is going to be getting up in the middle of his night to give you a call.
In other words the real leverage in the stock market is HIGHER than what the official numbers say. How much higher I have no idea, but I would imagine it is at least double, and may be triple … I just don’t know.
Maybe George can chime in with some of the REAL WORLD numbers he has seen that were sent to him by some of his Richer Than God friends. When I saw a couple of the deals being brokered out of Japan … I was AMAZED.
I agree.., it won’t be apparent – not at first – too much money and too many generations ‘with’ money. They just won’t see it coming. They have never seen anything like it before. And too many ‘players’ with big money trying, futilely, to put the brakes on the disaster they, themselves have created.
It’s not the leap off the ten story building that kills you. At every floor on the way down.., everything looks just fine.., it’s that very last story of the building – where you can clearly see the sidewalk below – is when it all comes to a crashing, pain end.
It won’t really matter how smart – when your city is ablaze.
I’ll get back to you.
“Stay Frosty!”
G.A. STEWART: The detached country club Republicans are going down like the dinosaurs. When the Progressive Left’s Cultural Revolution kicks off, it will be open season. Watch out for those torches and pitchforks Wayne Allyn Root, Jim Hoft, and others.
TheGatewayPundit.com appeals to upper end Boomers and the Republican party country club set. These people think that they are wealthy. They are not. When social security and medicare disappear with their 401k money, it will be a whole new day.
Since I get much of my news from the Alternative Media, I want to make this declaration…
https://theageofdesolation.com/nostradamus/2026/10/13/in-the-end-we-all-die-anyway-so-it-doesnt-matter/
I want to thank you all for the thoughts and prayers for Sam. The morphine has gone now, and she won’t take opioids. Wants to be lucid so the rife frequencies, the laser light, and her personal mojo can work. She spent lots of time in India with Muktananda in his ashram and has that shakti energy always. She knows the healing is mostly her responsibility, with of course, the added common reality of distant love.
I think we are looking at maybe six weeks to get the fractures stable, then whatever it takes to get back to ‘normal’. This will surely have to result in us getting the ROSIE G back into her real world as soon as the season change comes with the end of summer and the cyclone possibility. Meanwhile, we will carry on and get better for it. Our little red house in the hinterlands of Queensland will be better for her as it is at 900′ elevation and will be cooler than where we are now. Still close enough to the boat so I can keep her up to snuff with short visits.
Adapt and thrive is all you really get.
I do belong ‘out there’ and know the waterworld is really the real world on this planet.
Thanks again for all.
Stiks
Trig Palin can vote this year.