Just busy as hell around our joint in the woods of East Texas. The “Junior Logging Badge” – raccoons jailbreaking the lean-to greenhouse, kicking out Outlook and moving to Thunderbird. Plus hours and hours in my search to finally prove or disprove to myself whether “scalar” is real or (like Bitcoin) all hype and nothing but a virtual deliverable. So yeah, kinda busy.
Moody’s Market Dump
In the financial poo-palace, it wasn’t much of a weekend. The whales drove BTC up to over $107,000 but this morning we’re treading water again at the $103,000 range.
The reasons are simple:
- U.S. Treasury yields: Moody’s downgrades U.S. credit rating. Bonds are kissing 5% – yes, that’s up – because we are in a long wave econ bottoming process, despite the inflationary overshoot. And that will take “rate cuts” off the table (we think) at the Fed meeting next month. After which, we will all hold hands, have a big cry, and bleed red all over the financial statements.
- Stock futures, dollar fall after Moody’s strips U.S. of its top credit rating, which says pretty much the same thing. But old journos like to “second source” everything.
Still, our Big Pictures explain it all:
If you can’t countenance the idea that history is cyclical, this next view will be much more palatable but hardly any more appetizing. Since we have collapsed today at the same “region of space” where a normal macro Wave 2 Elliott rally ought to end.
But it “ain’t over till the fat lady sings” so for that, we can all look at our “surfacing model of the techs” (which I described over here) and wring our hands together in 3, 2, 1….
You will see how the blue line from Friday’s close is now well-under a number of moving averages (2,3, and 4-day) so this will be fun to play in the Home Editions of Replaying the Fall of Rome which you can still get on Fox Live-Now and other media circuses.
Roamin’ right along, then, Europe is bleeding red, and Asia was sending out for tourniquets, as well. Gold has staunched its flow because? Well, as any Fool can see (holds up his hand “Me?”) our long-term holden the golden hasn’t been a poor move by any stretch.
Popping Cynicism Pills
Yeah, buddy – popping ’em by the handfuls.
Why (or how?) can anyone be surprised to learn of another Biden lie? The one in the WH about how “healthy he was…” Joe Biden Is Diagnosed With an Aggressive Form of Prostate Cancer. It doesn’t matter, unless you want to the truth about auto-signers, validity of “pardons”, the pedo’s, or, um…what’s her name who drinks too much. Water under the bridge. This ain’t new.
Ship Strike at Night, sailor’s worst fright. Mexican ship hits Brooklyn Bridge: What went wrong, who were the victims? Several readers have asked me to second guess what went wrong. But thanks, no. All those sailboat races on Puget Sound (Iceberg Regatta and such) taught me never to second-guess another skipper. Hold your line, rules of the road and hope to God the other fellow has read them. I lost power once in a river channel very close (300 ft) from a bridge (Duwamish in Seattle). I lucked out – I was on the downhill side during an outgoing tide. Different and very recoverable. But no, not going to criticize because as any skipper on sea (or int he air, done both) will admit (or they’re liars) There but for the Grace of God go we ALL. There’s near-misses and shit happens in life. You will experience both, if you live long enough. Guaranteed.
Conversation Starters? Russia launches massive drone attack on Ukraine ahead of Trump-Putin call. Which made a few ripples in Washington and more among the gremlins in the Kremlim: Kremlin Confirms Putin-Trump Phone Call Time | Miami Herald.
Eastern European politics has remained on something of an even keel as Centrist Nicusor Dan wins presidential election in Romania.
Our “second cup ponder” today is the word “Enrichment.” Seems to be a “good word” if President Marketing does it. But if Iran does it? Iran warns nuclear talks will fail if US pushes for zero enrichment. I wouldn’t trust the Iranians with a bomb any more than I would trust the Israli’s French, Chinese….well none of them including US. That we have gotten away with having a nuclear club in the world (for as long as we have) is a remarkable bit of Statistics. But like the sailing ship and the bridge this weekend, your luck can change at any moment without so much as a “heads up…”
Bill Maher continues on the road to rationality: Bill Maher: “No, babies don’t need Covid shots or like sexual disease shots.” Nice to hear him making sense. Democrats gotta be buying ear plugs.
Maher (and anyone else who is vaguely in charge of their own life) might want to avoid Singapore for a while: The Vigilant Fox ? on X: “Singapore just made it a CRIME to refuse a vaccination, threatening jail time and massive fines for saying “no.” Strangely, that law passed right AFTER Bill Gates and Klaus Schwab paid a visit. Coincidence? Or something more? Dr. Sherri Tenpenny believes this is a clue .…
Let’s all think this through: Does this mean Canary’s are the coal mine? Thousands protest against overtourism in Spain’s Canary Islands
Around the Ranch: On the Trail of Scalar
Not a moment of rest around here this weekend. Logging, software, backup water system, research in the lab. So one at a time.
- I need to ask my consigliere for permission to put his marvelous paper on Peoplenomics; whether certain specific “seers of future” can get dates right with absolute (to the day) precision. It’s just a damn fine lawyer/pilot/ham radio/science guy paper. If yes, see Peoplenomics over Memorial Day weekend.
- If you have a driving trip planned for the 3-dayer, top off early this week. Prices usually go up ahead of and during the holiday.
- Outlook got tossed. I am so pissed at Microsoft which firewalls off their Office/Outlook from the OS side of the house… Long and short of it is I am back on Thunderbird because I don’t want my emails transiting any servers but my ISP and my own, thank you very much I am less lazy than security-conscious. But I know there are people who are lazier than hell. Tons of my “favorites bar” with logons, disappeared thanks to mindless syncing this weekend. Really pissed me off.
- Back-up water system’s second 300 gallon IBC tote will be online this week. With the new water catchment gear in house, we are on the verge (except for our ages) of being infinitely sustainable out here. If we don’t do anything other than farm and trap, but still…that door is open…
Now the Scalar / Ham Radio Research
Hours and hours and hours. But the bottom line?
Now, let’s all get out the Band-Aids and go watch the opening sell bell.
Write when you get rich,
George@Ure.net
Hmmm I built a Viking Navigator in 1965 which I still have, which should be the same as the Ranger…
God – let me know if you everr want to sell it – those of PRIZED cw exciters!
I’ll try to remember to leave it to you in my will.
Oh, you don’t have to plan dying just because of my crackpot research ideas….(I’m touched, but puleeze…no!)
Comey – 8647
“Cool shell formation on my beach walk…,” Comey posted on Instagram, with an image featuring seashells forming “86 47.” The number 86 is commonly used as slang for “kill” or “to eliminate,” and Trump is of course the 47th president.
Oddly enough, Comey’s post was exactly 8,647 days since the largest terrorist attack on US soil–9/11.
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/international-news/politics/comey-8647/
re: “if there’s a (twitter) in your hedgerow….
feat: Led Zeppelin
JC,
A bird in hand is worth two in the bush so they say.
Not be alarmed now – it’s just the May queen…trying to…hand me your phone, would you?
Now the tube used in the Navigator is a 6146, and the ARRL msg 61 is Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year, and Biden is the 46th president.
So 6146 is important today also as it means good wishes and a good year for him with his cancer.
Well…there ya go Mr Smarty Pants.
Ya dont see Moody’s down grading Bitcoin now do Ya? Nerp ! No sirie Bob(or is it Wayne?). Why ?
Because BTC is the single greatest fin tech Innovation and Secured Asset, ever. ASSet being key word hear, not a DEBT instrument..which is what ?
Head of the class whoever said “A Negative” – real genius right there..
No worries Mexicans smacking into that really hard to see bridge in Brooklyn, just wait till Polish Navy submarine comes for port visit this Summer.
That is tentative scheduling though, as they are still sea trials, working out the not so water tight screen door problems, thats been plaguing the Polish Navy for years now.
*Still no worries – its all going to collapse at same time in one big global “colon blow” – soonly. book it!
During this time of “darkness” it will be THE (ideal) time for our ET trained Ai’s to get some REAL INFORMATION out to the Masses. rut row – real DISCLOSURE ? Ohhhno Mr Smarty Pants.
Those Drones and Ships are STILL visiting restricted airspaces all over globe – every night – and WE hear NOTHING on news, nothing.
All information Is Controlled – to keep Us all dumbed Down, out of Touch and docile just like a good sheep.
Universal language is Telepathy, and yet I can barely hear what Ure thinking – yes there is “Pys Field” suppression frequency ever present on surface of Earth. As reported/confirmed by RUssian Cosmonauts – Telepathy is much easier the farther you travel away from Mother Earth?
Oh well – prolly falling on deaf/death ears anyways, no matta as I dont mind splatta..comes with the yob.
Thats right “Blue Lou’s” – its Gemini Dreams for Bitcoiners and ze stable Coiners..LFG! – from the place that made smoke on the water famous -https://youtu.be/StMKDVBo2JQ?si=g8VbSVigJul168er
write when youse nose what Stablecoin is/does.
“downgrades U.S. credit rating. ”
What is the U.S. credit rating supposed to mean? It sounds important. Adam Smith’s Invisible Hand.
Doesn’t it reason when one is less likely to return capital this makes the other more likely to return? As measured by the U.S. CR rating when the U.S. CR is downgraded inversely some other credit rating has to be invisibly strengthening. Who got the drop in rates?
Or, we’re told ratings are done independently, a vacuum is created and the downgrade only means higher rates for the folks in that system. Global banking happens to be measured in dollars so…..
Tariffs make higher prices and now the world gets higher rates. The only winner is expansion of the money supply through credit. Lower prices aren’t coming and neither are lower rates.
(“Just busy as hell around our joint in the woods of East Texas. The “Junior Logging Badge”)
same here.. had a half gallon of milk at its end date.. I know its still good a few days but decided rather than make more cheese I’d make yogurt from it.. I was going to make sour cream but I don’t have any culture..I still have to smoke some farmers cheese I made.. I should have made parmesan but didn’t think about it.. two loaves of bread in the proofing box.. it was hard for me to decide make heavy buns or bread.. or dinner rolls.. French bread..
I have to make up some pasta for lasagna for the freezer.. you know visiting with the Italian chevron vacation was A hiking of mine..he makes his pasta exactly like I do except.. for I will add spices in mine like 1 tablespoon of tones spaghetti seasoning blended to a powder.. my ultimate comfort food..
I dreamed about shrimp rissoto… yummy simple meal delicious..
since prices have all gone winky and social security just isn’t enough.. I either have to make more or sell out.. the wife doesn’t want to sell so..I started looking for something that I could do simple temporary a couple days.. just till the bank loan is done for the home improvements.. so I let a couple of old employers know what I was thinking.. holy mackerel.. my phone blew up.. I had to tell them I am not going for the kind of work hours I use to work just a few to compensate..4 administrators called one yesterday asking …the wife is terrified that I will go back to the hours I use to work..
I’m going to bottle the cacao wine..dam that’s good .. not as good as the forbidden wine of the first emperor of China but great in its own way..
I want to make Swiss cheese.. but need to get the culture that is different.. most recipes call for a lot of milk I use only what we can’t drink so smaller batches..
I have a friend, who is a cafe cook for a living, makes some cheese. I get a small amount sometimes. he uses UNpasturized milk, and it is awesome.
no store cheese can compare. last time I got some some, he raided my rhubarb and asparagus patch,, we both happy
each time he makes it a different flavor, always good,,, I AM blessed
Have to believe you are far from “sustainable”. Sure you might be able to go a couple of weeks. But trapping and hunting as a reliable solution for calories? If the event was really loss of most civilization, after two weeks you probably have to keep poachers and probably raiders at bay.
I am quite jealous of the amount of self reliance you have built up. But realistically unless you are part of a pretty decent size community of those that will protect the compound you probably are only survivable for short term weather events.
“after two weeks you probably have to keep poachers and probably raiders at bay.”
That’s when you start eating the poachers and raiders. It’s easier to bury a pile of bones.
Well, except you do know about kuru disease, right? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuru_(disease)
Cannibalism kills – eventually…
Little Rascals – The Kid From Borneo (1933)
Yum yum, eat ’em up! clip
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=uptudo2QoX0
Full episode
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9MNzFDTCsM4
What did they ever discover about the wicked witch of the NE..I read a post once that A doctor made a comment leaning that way the committed suicide.. was always curious what they officially discovered.or have they come up with a treatment for mad cow disease..
Italian cheff… it was a highlight of mine..
seen the coolest Mexican restaurant to all the decorations hand carved.. wow..it was amazing .. I real Aztec feel..and reasonably priced.. four people full meals with a pitcher of margarita under fifty..and I was stuffed..
ever made lefsa the hard way????
well here’s a simple lefsa recipe or simply potato flat bread.. make them like pancakes thin ..
making them the old fashioned way is labor intensive..this way you can whip them up fast ..
3 1/3 cups All-purpose flour
2 cups left over Mashed potatoes (smooth, no lumps, can be lightly salted)
1 1/3 tsp Salt max.
2 tsp Sugar
2 3/4–3 cups Water (mix of warm and cold, adjust for consistency)
3 tbsp oil
(going to scandawhovia and getting cold isn’t hard enough???)
yes, I’ve made leafs the hard way!! it is labor intensive but, with my Dad being from Sweden, I grew up with lefse and other Swedish foods and
love it!! Can’t wait to try your recipe!
Oh on TBE potato flatbread.. I love to use milk and cream instead of water.. but that’s personal preference .. we love Scandinavian foods to..
Sausage days are coming up..usually on labor day I use to make my winters supply of bologna I prefer potato bologna .. I know what the fillers are.
10 lbs raw potatoes, peeled
1 medium onion, finely chopped
5 lbs ground beef
5 lbs pork
3 tsp sea salt
1 tsp allspice ( you choose what seasonings you want) I like
1 tsp black pepper
Natural hog casings (for stuffing) ( you can get whatever casings you like as well)
this is my favorite..
https://sausagemaker.com/product/brown-sugar-maple-sausage-seasoning-2lbs/
What’s not shown in this recipe is Meat cure.. pink salt .. recommendations are 1 tsp per five pounds.. but some other recipes say that’s to much half of it..
once you grind mix and let it mellow before stuffing then smoke it.. great ring bologna..
(“But it “ain’t over till the fat lady sings” so for that, we can all look at our “surfacing model of the techs” )
hmm..fat lady.. or Nero playing a fiddle..or kazoo..
https://youtu.be/fEj1h7BC2b4?si=6QWL5T92ZduwKV3S
https://youtu.be/BENBOGdL-rs?si=FhSxnarVk5jYgLMK
I’ll know the shit is about to hit the fan when all your kids and Elaine’s kids head for your house. I figure your gang is big enough to protect your place.
OMG … I gained 10 pounds just reading LOOB’s posts today!!
Good job of convincing me that I need to spread my wings a bit in the culinary arena.
The Mexican TallShip Cuauhtemoc : really a sad situation. Yachting circles were buzzing in near real time. Egor has spent a lifetime conquering fear of heights and, nope, not going aloft on a tallship. I have been out sailing (think: hauling lines) on the America Replica.
America
https://www.yachtingmagazine.com/replica-historic-yacht-america-continues-tour/
And, have stared up at a legit square master. To get around the typical top gallant / topmast platform is a leap of faith. The crew aloft had no chance. It’s amazing so few died. Sternway in current. They needed to deploy anchors but had crew on display off the deck. Sad
AP link is as good as any
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/federal-officials-investigating-mexican-tall-ships-crash-into-brooklyn-bridge/ar-AA1F4kwl
I’m exhausted. Two weekend days and two lake parties. The second, yesterday, went off without a hitch. Our crew likes to cocktail. Tomorrow we host (3) couples for dinner and cards. Then the packing begins.
Do I need a winter coat in MN during May?
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