Productivity #’s, Fed Chases Own Rates, CV-Woo

A well-organized Thursday has been presented by Universe.  Because – in pyramidal organization and writing – we will begin with the small data points first.  Then work down into increasingly complex and detailed events.

We’ll pitch the slow-ball game first…

Productivity and Costs

Economic theory holds that productivity and costs have something to do with future profits.  Such profits can (but often aren’t) shared with the workers who produce.  On this flimsy basis, much is made of today’s Productivity numbers.

Nonfarm business sector labor productivity increased 3.5 percent in the second quarter of 2023, the
U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today, reflecting a 0.2-percentage point downward revision
from the preliminary estimate. Output increased 1.9 percent and hours worked decreased 1.5 percent in
the second quarter of 2023. The decline in hours worked is the first decline since the second quarter of
2020 and was the result of a 1.5-percent decline in average weekly hours; employment was unchanged.
(All quarterly percent changes in this release are seasonally adjusted annual rates.) From the same
quarter a year ago, nonfarm business sector labor productivity was unrevised, increasing 1.3 percent.
This is the first increase in the four-quarter productivity measure since the fourth quarter of 2021.

And how did Unemployment Filings feel this past week?

Soberingly, the advent of ERP systems, high levels of computational horsepower being applied, and finely-honed machinery on assembly lines has only modestly impacted productivity over time.

In 1987, the Productivity index stood at 58.147.  By 2021 it had peaked at 115.193.  Prior to today’s report, the index dropped to 113.268.

As we have wailed before: Computation and offshoring the “hard labor” stuff from 1998 to 2012 was likely a one-time benefit.

Productivity since 1946.

To put it another way, we sent our “hardest work” overseas and reaped a “productivity” benefit augmented by cheap telecom and ERP systems.

Ironically, Productivity peaked during the “stay at home” portion of the Covid (1) event.

Fed Set to Chase Own Rates

Our second “deep noodle” is to explain a dynamic of runaway interest rates that wasn’t clear until my read of Dr. Swati Dhingra’s explanation of why – as an outside member of the Bank of England’s rate cabal, she explained her opposition to a rate hike last month this way:

“First, producer price indices strongly indicated a downward trajectory for CPI inflation. Over 96 percent of the consumption basket in value terms, compared to 88 percent at the previous meeting, had already experienced a fall in producer and consumer price inflation. This included services.  The remaining four items (out of 83) that had not turned were volatile agricultural products.

Second, wage growth was highly concentrated in specific sectors. And, overall pay pressure was likely to ease according to many forward-looking indicators. Total weekly earnings for business services increased by 11.3% in the three months to May, relative to a year ago. The
business services sector consists of three services in the official data: Information and Communication, Professional, Scientific and Technical activities, and Administrative and Support Service activities. They explained about 3.2pp – or just under half – of economy-wide wage inflation from a sector that makes up about a fifth of the workforce (or only 3 out of 24 industries in the UK economy). In my view, it was not clear that this would trigger further  broad-based wage growth in other sectors or further demand-pull inflation, given that these sectors tend to employ higher-earners with lower marginal propensities to consume. Wage inflation across all other industries had been 5.3 percent, implying a continued fall in real wages and expected to slow down further as the labour market continued to loosen.

Third, demand remained weak. Upside surprises to demand – associated with a milder winter, slowing energy price inflation and with reduced economic inactivity – had been sufficiently accounted for by the MPC’s recent   tightening cycle. Yet despite these welcome surprises,
consumption remained weaker than last year and below 2019 levels.”

Her additional remarks (with a hat tip to our Winnepeg news analyst for pointing this out), may  be read here: Swati Dhingra’s Annual Report for the Treasury Select Committee (bankofengland.co.uk).

Although her logic chain differs from mine, the bottom line is the same:  Central Banks raising rates now are chasing their own tails – and (in effect) fighting themselves.

To refresh:  As of today, the U.S. is $110-billion away from the $33-trillion dollar National Debt. Which doesn’t include another 20 to 30-ish trillion in interest.  (*Con persons don’t mention promissory interest!).

The dynamic goes like this: When you raise rates when increases are below “breakeven rates” raising rates is OK.

However, when consumer price inflation rates do not stop the compounding of the National Debt, then raising rates further simply results in “charging yourself more interest in the future.”

Imagine owing me 10 percent interest on $100. Now surmagine that you only have $10-bucks.  We can develop a simple Truth table assuming rates go higher or lower than 10 percent in future periods.

  • If the rate is 10 percent and you only owed interest on $90-bucks, then you’d pay me $10 bucks, 9 would go to interest and one to principal. In time, the debt would be paid off.
  • In the break-even case, you pay $10, all goes to interest and the principal rolls next year.
  • But in the raised-rates case, you pay $10 but because the central bank has bid up rates to 11 percent, next year you will owe even more money.  In sufficient time, debt goes to infinity.

To summarize, then:  When the Central Bank raises rates, when secular inflation is at (or above) break-even stasis on underlying debt, the rate increase today will drive higher rates, back on itself, for the central banks in the future.

It all blows up in the end with War.  Which is why the U.S. Mexico border is leaking military-aged males and why Romanian is seeking Article 4 NATO action against Russia for coincident damage along the Danube.

There absolutely must be a Scapegoat.  Bankers are never at fault for anything.    Occasionally, they are called out on it (as in Matthew 21:12-13). But statistically, with neocons doing their bidding, the odds of WW3 are significantly higher than lamp posted Banksters.

For now.

Remember Ure’s Wave 3 Outlook?

Looks like it’s showing up.  Based on early futures this morning?

Off on the right-hand side, you will see our Aggregate Index quickly falling toward the mid-channel (dashed green) trend line which we may get a bounce off.  Then, until the “weps and mets” clarify over Taiwan (Sept. 16 is new moon, following weekend is also in the running) we may bounce off the bottom (solid green) ascending trend line and break decisively lower immediately after invasion.  Starts Wave 3 down which doesn’t terminate until markets have been whacked to half recent prices.  And then – since this decline is only a larger 1 down forming, we could get an ugly, slow Wave 4 (after the 3 down, large yellow scale) which will meander about until the intercontinental missiles fly for Wave 5 (big yellow scale) out in the 2024-2025 timeframe.

Which should explain why we live >100 miles from any nuke targets and work on gardening a lot?

Still time to prepare…but best to play it as a Beat-the-Clock episode.

 Romania and War Clocks

Ever shoot “table slop” pool? (Pour me a Scotch and let me show you how to run the table!)

Something similar happens in War.  There are lines (borders, if you’re a democrat  – people in that party seem totally unfamiliar with the concept…) which are not crossed.  When they are?  Even if coincident to military action in a nearby warring country?

Well, you get stories like Reversal: Romania informed NATO that it was attacked by Russia with Geran-2 – Will request activation of Article 4 of the Alliance – Confirmation.

As a result, tensions are running higher than ever: Night of terror for Romanians: They watch in horror a barrage of fire and explosions at the border – Russians pound the port of Kilija for the first time. Russia is trying to seal off exports of anything from Ukraine.

Meanwhile, the U.S. overnight was again busy demonstrating a decades-long propensity to “big shot” everyone. U.S. committed to ensuring India hosts successful G20 summit: White House. Difficult not to see the U.S. as an “unrealized colonial power” isn’t it?

Not on the order of France, of courseNiger demand France set timetable for troops withdrawal. Like a good colonialist in training, there we are for France despite some embarrassing questions.  Like Rand Paul wants the Biden administration to answer about US troops in Niger.

Lately, the imperial Biden residency is telling congress, in effect, to piss off.  Which is why – to maintain street creds back home – Special counsel intends to bring indictment against Hunter Biden by month’s end. It’s a mighty big swamp, though.  Don’t hold your breath.

We are also concerned about the situation in (manganese rich, latter-day French colony) Gabon.  Where blue hats are looking to interfere in the country’s internal affairs: UN Offers to Support Gabon for Transition Back to Civilian Rule. France needs the economics because the EU needs more inputs than local Europe can provide for the greedy EU bureaucracy. The U.N. will be used as France’s “arm’s length stand-off force.”

It’s another “Give us your money and we’ll rent you your life back...” kind of colonialist scam.  Scales well, too. the WEF and other non-nation start-ups are using the same business model.

Checking the List

Shit rolls on:

Since Jill has Covid, and Jill hangs with Joe, how long before Joe gets 19’ed?  Kamala Harris says ‘ready to assume Presidency’ if Biden unable to complete term.  Talk about a tough gig, though.

Missing your morning dose of Orange Hate?  Lemme fix it: Trump’s Niece Blasts Elon Musk For ‘Destroying’ Twitter, Labels Him ‘Anti-Semitic Fascist’. We laugh knowing Mary Trump sold over a million down on Trump books.  She’s a monetizer, no?  Runs in the family, no doubt.

Say, this is Rich:  New US accounting standard for crypto to be finalized by year-end – Blockworks.  OK, how should we capitalize nothing?   Repeat after me: blockchain is a technology, not a currency… Still, some people STILL believe secret numbers are fungible…very much so. $25,700’s overnight so remains less than half of two-year-ago levels.  Hell of an investment, huh?

Hurricane Lee is coming:

Be a hell of a weekend to own a kite shop in Puerto Plata, huh?

Around the Ranch: Woo

I haven’t been writing much lately about my vivid dream adventures.  As you know, I’ve got several books in that area including Psychocartography and Packing to Die.  (Plug for my Amazon Author Page.)

The key dream concepts, for those not familiar with my views:

  • Working on vivid dreams is one of the highest payoff ways to spend time.
  • You discover you can live two lives and the one in Dream Realms has a whole other way of running time.
  • There’s high value in trafficking concepts between waking and sleep states – both ways.

OK, background.

I often “come back with knowledge” from such adventures that I didn’t have (in the waking state) the previous day.

In last night’s adventure, I was in a hospital for some “minor surgery” and when I awoke (sleeping in a livid dream, I know, sounds odd).  But I went to ask my doctor if I could leave the hospital now and she said no.  Following which I went back to this crowded room where several people were recovering – and spaced about 10-feet apart. British accents among all, BTW.

Knowing (*over there) that Covid was a big deal, I asked the people in the same ward as me “Aren’t you all afraid of getting Covid?”

The answer, from an older woman sitting up, across from me was “No, we don’t worry about Covid here because we understand how it works with relative humidity.”

Huh? A few minutes later and I was back (here, in waking world) and wondering why this relative humidity angle to Covid had not occurred to me (consciously) before.

Well, wouldn’t you know?  There’s relatively recent work in the area.  Who’d have thought?

Geospatial analysis in the United States reveals the changing roles of temperature on COVID-19 transmission – PubMed (nih.gov)

Association metrological factors with Covid-19 mortality in Tehran, Iran (2020-2021) – PubMed (nih.gov)

Natural and socio-environmental factors contribute to the transmissibility of COVID-19: evidence from an improved SEIR model – PubMed (nih.gov)

And before this, I also had failed to register Keeping indoor humidity levels at a “sweet spot” may reduce spread of Covid-19 | MIT News which came out last fall.

Interestingly, just the past couple of weeks, I’ve been making humidity measurements all over the ranch. Not surprisingly, I’ve got everywhere (under air) in the 45 percent range.  Measurements using a four-pack of temp/humidity meters off Amazon for under $20-bucks.

Sure makes getting to sleep easy!  Just close your eyes and gently guide which part of The Realms to visit…

Ham Radio Corner: Trying to resolve the intermittent display issue in one of the Icom 761’s.  The first hour was spent in the service manual figuring out that DP-6 was really IC-4 on the display board.  Remember when tube gear was simple?

Write when you wake up (life is but a dream, right?)…

George@Ure.net

44 thoughts on “Productivity #’s, Fed Chases Own Rates, CV-Woo”

  1. Tour mask wearing thoughts?

    G2 saved lives with them; Fauci had few answers recently about them.

    At Chris Martinson’s site there is a large agreement that they are not effective.

    • I saw two virtue signallers going into the post office this afternoon wearing them. As long as they don’t chastise me I won’t shove them down their throat.

      • Ditto, although for at least the past year, when I see someone in a mask I assume they have a communicable issue and avoid them…

        • One may have, conceivably, had an excuse. He has a drain pouch taped to his leg and tubes going up his leg so no telling what was going on with that guy but the other one? Total poser. And I still see people driving around in their own cars with masks on … alone.

        • I wear them for allergies.. corn dust is horrible and when the sap starts moving.. sneeze cough sneeze cough ..nothing I can do about it.. just live with it.. but the mask does help.. for painting.. I have full gas masks for that.. the chemicals in paint is pretty horrible stuff.. coats the lungs .. so I make sure everyone that is in the garage has safety glasses on and a face mask.. especially the little ones.. I have tyvek suits to..before those came out.. we use to have painters clothes or chemical jumpsuits similar to what we wore in the clean room..
          tyvek is your friend.. we wore them when taking care of people with category 4 contagions.. I have been thank full for them a lot of times.. never have you smelled or experienced anything worse than a huge pustule burst spreading the vile liquid across the room.. pop a zit type spray nasty.. double glove and wear the dumb suit LOL LOL

          https://www.homedepot.com/p/TRIMACO-DuPont-Tyvek-XL-Painters-Coverall-with-Hood-and-Boots-141232-12HD/203555521

          https://www.dupont.com/products/dupont-tyvek-isoclean-ic182b-option-0c.html
          a case of them will last a long long time.. I don’t paint as much anymore.. then about fell over when I seen what they are getting for gas masks.. holy cow.. I paid ten bucks a piece for them..
          https://canadianpreparedness.com/collections/gas-masks
          a little more for the ones with oxygen assist.. some paints have real nasties in it.. so I have oxygen assist masks for those only for me I won’t let the kids come in the garage if I am painting something that the fumes could hurt them..
          I also have escape hoods and fire blankets..
          one for everyone in the house..

          https://www.alibaba.com/product-detail/wholesale-full-face-fire-retardant-fire_60766306641.html?

          https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B096V9Y3DH/ref=sw_img_1?smid=A821W7F4XL98X&psc=1

          the one I have has a longer hose so that the air supplied comes from outside.. this one is nice and cheap to..

        • “One may have, conceivably, had an excuse. He has a drain pouch taped to his leg and tubes going up his leg so no telling what was going on with that guy but the other one? ”

          Hmm.. trucker..
          I have a friend that went trucking.. so he didn’t have to stop he put a leg bag on and a texas catheter LOL LOL..
          many just pee in a bottle then toss it in the ditch.. the county boys mowing.. hit them after they have fermented and built up pressure.. making a mini pee bomb LOL LOL I use to listen to these guys bitch about it all the time.. LOL LOL LOL LOL some guy hot sweaty in the ditch mowing then pow LOL LOL LOL LOL one job I wouldn’t want.. happens more than you know.. now I did get a chuckle out of the stores during covid.. they quit putting toilet paper in the bathrooms the pepsi colar guy had to go no tp or paper towels.. came out bitching.. even to this day we have to ask him about his experience LOL LOL.. did he say NM and not San Francisco LOL
          https://youtu.be/D_DWonq8j8Q?si=bgVCRh1j5paBL3lW

  2. I have been trained to wear correct masks for the job at hand and they work as intended for specific jobs and situations, now covid is a different animal and the biggest things masks can do is this,
    1- masks stop/shrink the discharge radius of a infected persons exhalation zone, thus reducing other people breathing in the virus, fool proof NOPE, but helps.
    2- the correct mask will work, but for the most part all I saw was mostly worthless mouth coverings.
    Do I promote the use of a mask, NOPE, just showing the ONLY positive things that they can do. other than that I don’t believe in them except for #1 as stated. I believe the WEF/NWO is/was using them as a training tool for the people.

    • I think what the biggest problem with masks and virus spread is the secondary transfer of the virus. First of all, you are correct when you speak of ill fitting masks (bandanas, handkerchiefs, etc) doing absolutely nothing. Secondly, because of the careless, non-hygienic method handling of that mask when it is removed after use, the higher concentration of viral contamination on the inside of the mask is transferred to the hands which is then spread to everyday items such as door handles, money, telephones, etc.. How many times do you see (or subconsciously do yourself) people scratching an itch or wiping perspiration off their nose/mouth area after removing the mask? Studies show that a higher viral load leads to a more severe reaction. Doesn’t get much more concentrated than this.

      • “How many times do you see (or subconsciously do yourself) people scratching an itch or wiping perspiration off their nose/mouth area after removing the mask?”

        Or have hemeroids… dam things.. how many times do you see someone digging at their anus.. the pain and itch of hemroidal sufferers.. Or how about the guy that scratches his balls all day long.. LOL LOL.. it isn’t because they itch so much as it is that they are sweating .. so down goes his hands.. if he sweats to much the ammonia in the sweat starts to ferment breaking down the skin and he walks like a cowboy the cowboy swagger LOL LOL LOL.. the mythbusters video on viral spreading is a great one..
        we don’t necessarily wear a mask for ourselves but for those around us..I wear it because of pollen and dust.. or in a heavily chemical environment.. like spray painting ..
        the difference between a cowboy and a trucker..
        you wear the mask and use the hand sanitizer not for yourself but for those around you..

        “A cowboy is giving a talk to some school kids explaining that everything a cowboy wears has a purpose. He says, “Now, my hat is shaped the way it is to keep the sun off my face and the back of my neck and if my horse needs a drink I can use my hat to scoop him up some water”…..”Any I pull this bandana here that’s around my neck up over my face so that I don’t get dust in my eyes and nose when I’m trailing cattle”…. A little boy sitting in the front row says, “How come you’re wearing tennis shoes instead of Cowboy Boots”? The cowboy smiles and says, “That’s so folks don’t mistake me for a truck driver”…

        “A cowboy walks into a bar and a man walks up to him and asks, “Are you a cowboy?”
        The cowboy says to the man, “If you mean someone who ropes and wrangles cattle, wakes up when the rooster crows, and packs a six shooter, then yes I am a cowboy.”
        A few minutes later a woman approaches the cowboy and asks, “Are you a cowboy?” But before he can answer the woman says, “Well I am a lesbian. I love women, I am infatuated by how beautiful women are, and think about nothing but having sex with women. And that makes me a lesbian.” Then the woman walks away.
        Then a few minutes after that another person goes up to the cowboy and asks, “Are you a cowboy?”
        The cowboy looks puzzled and responds, “I thought I was a cowboy, but it turns out I’m a lesbian.”

    • And then there is the old woman in the grocery store who has to sneeze, and pulls her mask off to do so! I took a different aisle.

      I don’t fear Covid any more. I do social distance as much as possible, but I have had it and thus ‘natural immunity’ (No Vax). And if I DO catch it, I know how to get rid of it in 24 hours. Been there, done that, too.

      • Today I was talking to an 82 y/o lady who just got over COVID.

        She figured out she had COVID last Thursday. Her son is a Dr. and prescribed her pills. She couldn’t remember the names of the pills but did say she had to take three pills twice a day so it sounds like he prescribed her Paxlovid and Ritonavir. She went on to explain she’s a cancerous lung nodule survivor and also had open heart surgery during the nodule removal, about 10 years ago.

        She’s fine now.

        Her symptoms were heavy cough and tiredness then her cell rang and the convo ended.

        • We know a 92 year old gent, he has had a heavy cough for 2 weeks felt like he couldn’t clear his lungs… I encouraged him to go BACK to the doctor, as he had already been and they refused to do a chest x-ray or give him any medications for his cough.

          So, he went back, they refused to see him, told him to go to minor Emergency clinic, so that’s what he did. They ran all the tests, including the chest x-ray, he had a chest infection…. AND THIS IS THE CRUELEST PART…THEY GAVE HIM A COVID INJECTION and a prescription for antibiotics.

          As far as I know he was never tested for the flu or covid.

          You must never ever ever take any kind of injection when you are sick, especially a flu shot or a covid anything shot.

        • Years ago I had a friend who had HIV. Was in the hospital being treated for it with antivirals, and his numbers were slowly improving. While in the hospital he was coerced into taking a flu shot “because it was the season”. What the screaming F**K?! Flu shot for a person with a weakened immune system.? Do these idiots know the immune mechanics of how the flu shot is supposed to work?

          A month later he developed a rare and aggressive pulmonary cancer. Was dead in two weeks.

        • “Years ago I had a friend who had HIV. Was in the hospital being treated for it with antivirals, and his numbers were slowly improving. While in the hospital he was coerced into taking a flu shot “because it was the season”. What the screaming F**K?! Flu shot for a person with a weakened immune system.?”

          Oh Hank.. LOL LOL the viral spread… one thing working in Healthcare you learn things that you are not suppose to tell anyone.. there was a guy full blown aids… well after the shift we would go to a restaurant and eat.. he was a waiter.. the dishwasher.. he to had aids.. and it was so hard for me.. he would come up and visit with us.. then put the plates of food on the table and then stand behind me.. and he had this dry cough.. LOL LOL LOL LOL the air waffling the hair LOL LOL LOL I thought I was a congressman that had to put a canopy on the golf cart in their subway because it waffled their hair LOL.. Needless to say it was tough to eat the breakfast LOL LOL
          then the guy every woman I worked with wanted to screw.. and he did he had sex with all the women .. a good looking guy..women walked up to him and asked him right out to have sex with them on break when you picture one of our own and his luck with the ladies this guy had it way better..I have known two guys like that.. Not counting our very own here.. one had a stinky yellow pickup..carried spoiled milk in it for his hogs.. and he had sex in that stinky yellow pickup more times than I can count…. ( even my daughters wanted to have sex with him.. I gave them a lecture or two about that let me tell you and they didn’t..) and his boyfriend he was bisexual .. had aids… one of his girlfriends came in and caught him doing to HB/ MM suckathon LOL LOL LOL .
          NOW think about that.. twenty women I know for sure.. each one going for the gusto.. and the men that they have shared that experience with.. and the ladies that they have been with since then… pretty scary figures.. twenty and if each has sex with lets say six people and they each has sex with six people.. we are talking a walking biology lab here..

  3. In early 2022,I predicted here that the market reminded me of early 1973 when the market peaked and would not again see that high until late 1983.I still think that the bottom will be reached in 2032.Then Jane Fonda dies and things get better as they did in 1982 when her father kicked.

  4. Yo Rugman,

    Why you continue to promote the LIEs ? You must really be a “paid” shill, just like all the media “hacks” , cept Tucker. I used to think it was all about FUD, but you keep doubling down on the LIES.
    Around these parts we call Ure BS “beating a dead horse”. So now we add corpse abuse to “necromonger” to Ure list of personal fine qualities.

    “Your doubts are why they will win”..

    -DEBUNK This – razor boys and girls – https://substack.com/app-link/post?publication_id=733024&post_id=136798515&utm_source=post-email-title&isFreemail=true&r=1kk4yd&token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjo5NDk5ODAzNywicG9zdF9pZCI6MTM2Nzk4NTE1LCJpYXQiOjE2OTQwMzI3NDksImV4cCI6MTY5NjYyNDc0OSwiaXNzIjoicHViLTczMzAyNCIsInN1YiI6InBvc3QtcmVhY3Rpb24ifQ.R8GpEYW1icUKbuwUaxQQUG6gNnG-tRVXdvsiuNFvSPo

    More doubts 9/11 deniers ? I got you right hear – Please Read; https://www.theinteldrop.org/2023/09/03/classified-9-11-disclosure-do-not-distribute/

    The moar I know- The moar I know I dont know..but I do know the Heavy is here. See Naomi Wolfs latest on Vaccines cutting Humans off from SOURCE/QI and its observable effects on Society
    -https://naomiwolf.substack.com/p/expressionless-babies-bored-lovers

    Invoke the LIGHT inside You – so you can see in the dark, and Fight back….

    • Re: Banking on Green
      feat: da bunk

      Folks,

      Speaking of 9/11 the most recent addition to the B of E MPC, a quadrilingual Anglo-American professor, was appointed effective in July by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Mr. Jeremy Hunt. Her impressive cv is on the B of E site. After Oxford, she began her career with lbo stuff at JP Morgan before moving on to consulting for the Liechtenstein Royal Family. A multitude of challenging opportunities became available in years following culminating in a recent main gig with the firm who back in the day had oversight of WTC security in ’93 and 9/11. Side gigs include advising the San Fran Fed. Another one is delivering a seminar series to “future global leaders” at the Tsinghua University in Beijing (China). The university’s college is supported by and named after a billionaire co-founder of The Blackstone Group. Sleep soundly knights knowing Wikipedia says he was a republican in receipt of a Trump appointed assignment.

      By the way, the UK Chancellor of the Exchequer is of course an Oxford man and descended from landed gentry on his father’s side. Via his mother ancestry included of Oxford The Lord High Chancellor and 1st Earl of Eldon after an elopement dashed a future in the clergy. His decades-long career in public service offered an exemplary rate of saving such that from frugal circumstances at marriage of £2000 his estate at passing was valued at £2.3 million. One of old boys from his alma mater, the great poet Percy Bysshe Shelley apparently cast the Earl as “Fraud” in the anthem of the Tiananman Square protests, “Masque of Anarchy”.

  5. I’ve been trained and have occupationally employed respiratory protective devices ranging from the Level A SCBA moon suit all the way down to the lowest acceptable level (half-mask P100). Also, lump in here military gas masks of different styles and models over a 30 year career. If it’s not at least a P100 HEPA filtered apparatus it’s essentially worthless. OSHA has very stringent guidelines on respiratory protection and for good reason. People can die without them AND employers can be sued out of existence. Who is liable if your cloth mask doesn’t work and you get sick? Nobody but you.
    https://www.osha.gov/respiratory-protection

    There’s a multitude of different kinds of cartridges and filters for just the half-masks.
    https://respiratormaskprotection.com/Respirator-Cartridge-Filter-Reference-Chart.php

    The common ‘face mask’ that has been such a hot topic all throughout the last 3 years is not on any of these lists. The reason is because when those lists and devices were decided on the actual real world protection was the most important factor. This is not so with the ‘face mask’. My opinion is that it doesn’t even provide protection from dust while mowing the yard. Take a big drag off of your favorite smoke, put the mask on and exhale. That’ll tell you everything you need to know about how much ‘protection’ they provide. IMO, in the context of this conversation, it is purely a theatrical device intended to keep fear alive and not people. Imagine what the ‘pandemic’ would’ve been WITHOUT seeing hordes of terrified mask-wearers everywhere you go. Hardly terrifying at all! This whole thing is a sick joke.

    Wanna protect yourself against a deadly virus? Here’s what you have to wear:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PwU5PEcFwbI

    • AMEN! “IMO, in the context of this conversation, it is purely a theatrical device intended to keep fear alive and not people.” Couldn’t have said it better.

    • Nice.

      … a full-face respirator and gloves would be a big hit at the local Wal-Mart. I think that combo while wearing shorts, t-shirt, and sandals would make a great impression….

    • The P100 filters without an exhale valve provide protection and reduce spread of the virus, but are dreadfully uncomfortable. I bought a small supply to use on airplanes. With an exhale valve, the P100 are tolerable for moderate durations, and protect you, but no one else. That is why they weren’t allowed on planes.

      The disposable medical filters seem to help. Again, there are many different grades, and the better the filter, the more uncomfortable they are. When masks were en vogue in the office, I used a mid-grade disposable medical filter, not a do-nothing cloth mask.

      Currently I am telecommuting, so my exposure to Covid comes from dining out, resupply runs, medical appointments and entertainment. Given that I have already had the bug twice, I don’t see me masking up again unless the virus starts behaving like the rev 2 stone cold killer version. Scratchy throats made the rounds about a month ago, so I suspect I already have had a recently updated natural immunity street inoculation. If I do wear a filter out in public again, I will be inclined to use a P100 with exhale valve, which I have a small supply of. Maybe I need to lay in more stock again for contingencies.

      I have seen pictures of P100-looking medical-surgical filters that appear to have a filtered easy flow exhale system of some sort. A P100 intake with a P95 on the exhale would be a good compromise. If any of you run across a source of such a beast, please share.

      • this is my favorite dust mask..

        https://www.ebay.com/itm/386054922452?
        I use to buy a case of them from china at five dollars a case and free shipping covid sent the price of them up the ladder.. LOL LOL at the sportsmans shop.. they sell them for fifteen dollars a piece.. its always about the business model

      • “already had the bug twice”

        Inquiring minds want to know – did You get the Vax (s) ?

        2 infections would seem to indicate vax and boosted ?

        Sorry to hear bout the 2

  6. A few months back I read a rather long article that was based on the results of 21 lab tested, science-repeatable experiments on the effectiveness of “masks”. These test were preformed over the past eleven years, from eight different countries.
    The results were rather one sided.
    18 of the tests showed that masks had no affect. None.., at stopping the spread, or protecting the wearer.
    1 of the tests showed that wearing a mask actually helped to spread a virus as people became over-confident and a complacent.
    1 of the test showed a small reduction in the spread of a virus, but no protection for the wearer of a mask.
    and – 1 of the tests was “inconclusive.” I remember that test was from a medical lab in Boston.
    [ I have been trying to relocate the article – but no luck so far.]

  7. I renegotiated my satellite music renewal for $5.99 a month ($7.60-something with tax). That was about $1.00 higher than the last, but I was able to get a 24 month duration. No premium Howard Stern or ball games included.
    I also have the Zon music available, And the VLC Icecasts are back. This is a favorite fan music channel, which is free:
    https://www.bluesmusicfan.com/
    It typically can be found off the VLC player resident Icecast streams, as well as the web.
    Just about every radio station domestic is available online, somewhere or another. Throw in YouTube, and there is a lot of good listening available for modest to no expenditure.

    • My FM radio in the car and at home requires NO FEES from ME!!

      OMG … how did the fee hungry NY financiers who want to Monetize EVERYTHING let that one slip through the cracks?

      Even worse for those NY Financiers?? My Over The Air (OTA) TV doesn’t charge me fees either … though if I would get the exact same channels through a cable service my monthly bill would be inflated by about $5.50/mo for EACH of the big networks that the cable would be carrying (lesser amounts for the smaller networks).

      • I listen to FM in the car, but there are too many good free or low cost sources via internet to not indulge myself. The satellite link can potentially be accessed when other coms are out (maybe).

  8. The seasonal flu has been with us in perpetuity. That Covid exhibits similar tendencies does not come as a surprise, though wholesale intentional obfuscation and mystification remains a novel ingredient.

    • Back when we were all coming out of the Covid craze stats were presented that said the common flu all but disappeared in favor of instances of Covid. Understandable given the monetary incentive for medical people to diagnose such an infection.

      With the exception of the Swine Flu shot my college required of me to get my grades back in the 70s I’ve never had a flu shot and, as a result, got it every 3 or 4 years. It would go through the usual symptoms and recovery time and I’m still here. The last injection I had must have been 10 years ago when I went in for whatever ailed me at the time and was going on for way too long. Got a “peanut butter shot” and things cleared up in a day or two. Today I wouldn’t trust anything in a syringe and would fight to avoid it. I hope the schools here don’t go sideways and start requiring Covid shots. I’m very surprised that the usual galloping crud has not been going around this new school year. Things have been very quiet.

      Warhammer’s video he gave a link to the other day of Dr. McCullough surprised me when the doctor implied a link between the “vaccine” and the sudden onset of transgenderism. I thought it was a stretch when I heard it but nothing would surprise me out of these times as we’re coming to know them now.

    • Seasonal Flu is no more – it does not exist according to CDC statistics for 2020 & 2021.

      More impossible scheisse , like everytime Harris or Bribem opens their mouth..out pours more impossible scheisse.
      Guess thats why they are insisting on mouth diapers in the WH – dont wanna get ANY of their Scheisse on you, let alone in Ure mouth..

      So now we can add, Full of Scheisse, to list of Persons who should be wearing mouth diapers. 3 so far; Pedophiles/Bank Robbers/Full of Scheisse .

  9. “$110-billion away from the $33-trillion dollar National Debt”

    I think we can all see the debt won’t be paid off/back within the current system.

    Recall the S&P hitting 666. $33,000,000,000,000.00 could be the number from a deal made after Jackson.

  10. I read on the ” internet ” that the military has switched to n-95 masks from the total head cover, seeing that everyone thinks that even cloth masks will protect you from bio-weapons. (SARC)

  11. “Hurricane Lee is coming:
    Be a hell of a weekend to own a kite shop in Puerto Plata, huh?”

    or….
    a hot air balloon…now … they say riding in a hot air balloon is like floating .. so what would it be like in a hot air balloon and being pushed by a hurricane..

    • You don’t REALLY want to know, do you? It’s bad enough on the ground. Imagine riding a ‘hurricane hunter’… outside on the wing, in a wicker chair. :-)

      • No not really LOL LOL LOL a hundred and sixty miles an hour.. phew.. that could be an issue.. but years ago we made a balloon for an around the world trip.. the guy went to the upper atmosphere and the winds up there are pretty brisk to

    • Yeah yeah Loob – Im game – ride in the eye wit You.

      Gonna need a bottle of that special emperors wine for a lil extra intestinal fortitude. Perhaps some schrooms – if its gonna be a farewell ride, otherwise smoking a doob the Loob in hot air balloon riding the eye of Hurricane!
      ..F-yeah , Im in.

    • Aaannd it’s gone! There goes our gas supply. There is a gas pipeline in Montana that was poorly maintained and had a leak in the past on tribal lands. The natives banned the pipeline. Now the Montana Rail Link RR connects the two pipeline end terminals with a twice-daily ‘gas train’ of tank cars without incident for years. Major revenue for the railroad. Don’t know what will happen if they are unable to supply that. The economic and energy devastation from this will be huge.

      They’re taking our food, they’re taking our energy, they’re going to kill us all !!

    • I was thinking how much fun this would be, if it were used as a license to ban the rail transport of ALL fossil fuels.

  12. Trump’s Niece Blasts Elon Musk For ‘Destroying’ Twitter, Labels Him ‘Anti-Semitic Fascist’.

    She’s another Lizard Cheney — a Soros wannabee, without money. Like Liz (and Soros) and a bunch of other communist or fascist America haters, whenever somebody gives her a microphone or keyboard, I just naturally assume her spew is the diametric opposite of the proper course for (whatever the focus of her emesis happens to be.)

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