Retail, Misleading Markets, Nature Reminds, Project Progress

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Sort of like a meeting Agenda from the old “mahogany foxhole” days, ain’t it?  We have all kinds of neat things coming together – after a bit of a ‘dry spell’ where everything was up in the air. Pardon if this is a little “check-listy” but much to cover.

Retail Now, Fed Tomorrow

First thing we have is the monthly Retail Sales report:

” Advance estimates of U.S. retail and food services sales for August 2024, adjusted for seasonal variation and holiday and trading-day differences, but not for price changes, were $710.8 billion, an increase of 0.1 percent (±0.5 percent)* from the previous month, and up 2.1 percent (±0.5 percent) from August 2023. Total sales for the June 2024 through August 2024 period were up 2.3 percent (±0.5 percent) from the same period a year ago. The June 2024 to July 2024 percent change was revised from up 1.0 percent (±0.5 percent) to up 1.1 percent (±0.2 percent).”

As for which sectors are keeping everything afloat?

Which gets us to Item #2…

Misleading Markets

We don’t offer “financial advice” around here – simply financial news with some commentary.  But it was interesting Monday when my consigliere called to advise me:  “New High in the Dow” – it was something he picked up from the financial channels.

While they (and he) were correct – 41,734 was a new intraday high – it may not be especially pertinent.  The reason is that a broader view of markets reveals that we haven’t even gotten back to the post-July secondary high that was recorded going into Labor Day.  The Monday close of our Aggregate Index was 47,574.39 while Labor Day was 47,749.47.  Yes, we are close but you might hold off passing out the cigars until this baby bull is out of the delivery room.

The whole reason I came up with the Aggregate Index in the wake of the Internet Bubble back in 2000 was because it was obvious that singular indices not only concentrate risk bur also the effects of hype and hysteria.  Where was the “financial press” in mid-July when – on July 16th he carded a close of 48,605.37?

Credit where due: Yes, the Dow was higher. But it was less than a hundred points higher than Labor Day so until the other markets come to the party, color us skeptical.

Don’t get me wrong, we could bust out to the upside.  Here’s how the close shaped up Monday:

In the meantime, Bitcoin – which was playing kissy-oo with $64,000 Sunday – is under $60,000 today.  While we see not particular value for hold a collection of “secret numbers” (which is what BTC and the other crypto cons are) it’s still a useful thermometer when checking the state of financial fever.

There’s a high degree of circularity in linked financial markets – including wet dream coins.  Bitcoin Slips to $58K Amid Split Fed Rate Cut Expectations: What’s Next? Kind of leaves you wondering “If BTC is so big a deal, how could a little change in paper rates move the giant?” Unless it’s all a Big…..

Speaking of cryptos as a con, we’ve been somewhat concerned about Confused Trump struggles in ‘painful’ crypto interview and tries to change topic. Just how does one explain making up numbers – intrinsically worthless, or next door to that, and selling them in Coin of the Realm to greater fools?

Can someone please forward this to Donald Trump? Here’s What you Should Know About Trump’s New Crypto Project.

We already see how fiat/paper is just a legacy marker system left over from when Dollars could be exchanged for specie (gold and silver). CONgress and the Fed have been coasting ever since. Making up more as they go.

Widely reported is the public debt of just over $35 trillion, but at the Our Debt Clock : About : Truth in Accounting website, we see we’re already far past $156 trillion. And every taxpayer’s “share” is over $908-million.

All of which leads to a new phenomenon we label Dynamic Truth.  Which goes to the idea that the World used to run on one set of Truths.  That’s water under the keel, huh?  All made possibly through instant information with a lack of collective context.  Dandy, just glorious way to overshoot genetic success as ape body inhabitants. An Adam Smith meets Phillip K. Dick kind of place.

Ma Nature Drops By

There are several books in our research library having to do with subtle energy. Of the sort my pal The Major lectured on for 40-odd years before real groups of docs around the world. One, for example, is Dr. Robert O. Becker’s book “The Body Electric: Electromagnetism And The Foundation Of Life” for example, went into the collection in November 2011.

“You going to make a point some day, Ure?”

Well, if you insist:

If the world goes a little nuttier the normal today think posible causes and effects.  Will it spill into financial circles?

Then let’s back that up with a lunar eclipse tonight: Tuesday’s harvest moon will be a partial lunar eclipse. Here’s how to watch. – The Washington Post.

[Our “how to watch” is shorter: Go outside tonight and look UP…but Jeff Bezos didn’t pay $250-million for our rag…]

Oh, and the tectonic stuff is interesting too with a Magnitude-5.1 earthquake strikes near Midland, Texas, as thousands report shaking. Might it be that when you try to suck all the oil and gas out of the Permian that the ground would settle?  Who’d have thought?

Two things worth noting here.  First is that it was felt by a few folks in the Dallas Fort Worth area.  Second is that it comes right on schedule when several prognosticators around the ‘net had been calling for the start of preliminaries to a massive second new Madrid quake. We’re skeptical. Since we’ve got a small wager on a Seattle getting a 9.0 or bigger first, but that’s a compulsive gambler for you.

Copy Cruising

(This is what editors do in lieu of real work.)

Hand me the Mouse and the calculator: Revealed: Disney Cruise Line Overstated Its Emissions By 35 Times (forbes.com).  Might make it easier to claim a big reduction in emissions later on, though, right?  Also noticed an “If they build it, they will come” deal: This abandoned resort near Disney could soon get a makeover. Here’s what to expect.  Not a done deal – yet. But it underscores that once we get past the silly season and if a hard landing in 2025 can be avoided, there may be a happily ever after on the far side.  Little early to be putting down bets, though. We have a few problems to deal with first:

Pot calling the Kettle Dept. US presidential elections 2024: Elon Musk calls assassination post a joke, White House condemns it as irresponsible. Cue the media spinsters! Dana Bash Claims Second Would-Be Assassin’s ‘Anti-Trump Posts’ Have ‘Nothing To Do With Kamala Harris And Joe Biden’.

Pass me a war, would you?  NATO is still hard selling war expansion: NATO Secretary General on long-range strikes against Russia: Biggest risk for Europe is Russian victory. But Russia is doing some expanding of its own. Putin Increases Size of Russian Army for Third Time Since War in Ukraine Began.

Guess who’s coming to dinner? Iranian President to visit US next week. Meanwhile, let’s all worry about Nuclear Power Iran: What Would It Do? (foreignpolicy.com).

In the WestPac, cat and mouse is back: Surveillance plane makes Navy’s first pass over Taiwan Strait in 5 months.  To the untrained, flying a spy plane down the Taiwan Strait may seem like small potatoes – after all, it’s just water out there, right?  Well, no.  Let’s think this through a bit.  We know the Chinese “ghost port” workers – where presumably the preps for a Taiwan invasion or blockade will be formed up – regularly take breaks when Western satellites are flying over.  Those schedules are predictable.  A pop-up spy plane flight is a different deal.  Even back in my “turn your back to the runway, sir…” days an SR-71 was good for 85,000 feet.  So, let’s imagine a Strait overfly at 70,000 feet.  That will give range to optical horizon of 521 kilometers or 323 miles.  Now, there’s a lot to be seen in a 600-mile diameter circle out there, particularly closer in.  So yeah, people who wonder about spy flights have maybe never done the math. 85,000 feet gets you 574 km (356 mile) optical radius from altitude and so forth.  Spy planes really do matter.

Need to go higher?  Bring your Tic-Tac to the reported upcoming congressional hearings in November which reportedly will feature more breakout scoop.

Around the Ranch; Incremental Progress

Where to begin?  Parts for the new deck railing have arrived, so after breakfast this morning. final measurements will decide if I use stock on hand or make the supply run.  But that project is sneaking up on completion.

Computer repairs to the original minicomputer in our stable were completed overnight.  As you might remember, I ran Wise Reg Cleaner and didn’t look at the files I was cautioned not to delete.  Recovering from a SDHC card is now a new still I hope never to use again.

The new Brisqi update worked smoothly today. As you know, I’m a huge fan of simple kanban to-do lists and this one will handle five boards at the free tier and it’s very nice with dark mode and all.  https://brisqi.com.  Ash – the guru in charge in the new release has added pop up due dates which is mighty useful for people who can run their lives to a schedule. I’ve never been good at that.  I’m more a “Pick the biggest problem and do whatever it takes, then on to the next one…”

Reader Ray is tempting me with a whole TON of great classic tube-type ham radio gear spotted on eBay.  Take a look at Vintage Ham Radio Receiver Transmitter Lot Collins National RME Hallicrafters ++ | eBay  Hell of a fine collection.

For now, the main ham radio projects are replacing the power control board on the Omni VII, firing up the SR-400 with the recently arrived new power supply. and getting the drones out for several antenna lifting projects.  Always something, huh?

Getting older continues, too.  Tomorrow we have Chapter 11 of our anti-aging book on the Peoplenomics site where we will get into (this will make more sense when you read the chapter) some of the archeology of gut biome…  And speaking of which, dandy article link from BIC for your anti-aging reading list: Gut microbiome and aging: Physiological and mechanistic insights – PMC (nih.gov)

Need more items for your to-do list? We got a million of ’em.

Write when you get rich…

George@Ure.net

 

85 thoughts on “Retail, Misleading Markets, Nature Reminds, Project Progress”

  1. (“$710.8 billion, an increase of 0.1 percent (±0.5 percent)* from the previous month, and up 2.1 percent (±0.5 percent) from August 2023”)

    (“What is the inflation rate for August 2024? 2.5%”)

    Now I am curious.. it shows it went up in increase in sales in spending.. but inflation increased just in august .3 percent more than the increase.. wouldn’t that indicate that people are not spending as much..
    my boss the wife was telling me that our favorite dining establishment that we love to go out and eat at.. filed for bankruptcy because of the loss of sales.. they cannot pay the cost of keeping the doors open.. and several other establishments are closing their doors as well the same reason.. prices have escalated to the point that if they actually charged the price that they need to keep the doors open.. they lose customers spending.. I went to buy a candy bar the other day.. three dollars.. plus.. the same candy bar I paid a nickle for when I was a little boy.. the snack cakes that four years ago were fifty cents a piece are not two dollars..
    considering this.. I believe that the increase in sales statistics is really misleading.. since inflation is out pacing the rate of increased money movement..

    • Sadly, this is just the precursor thing that happens in a great depression. Takes timne for the house to come down but down it will come. circularity in all finance – and then it all collapses in a heap

      • Wall Street (Oliver Stone’s Commentary, 2000)

        “I wanted to explore the new Wall Street. When I was writing Scarface in Miami, there was so much coke around and so many lunatics, and I met so many kids from Wall Street who were millionaires. I thought older men were rich, but here were these kids, 25 or 28 or 35 years old, with millions of dollars playing the markets all over the world around the clock. My father would have been shocked by the new electronics that allowed it…. Dad was a stockbroker on Wall Street when there was more integrity and class.”

        • My friend and I both had 2500.00
          my sibling told me a guy he knew just started a new software company the shares were five bucks a pop.. buy it..we couldn’t find a broker willing to do the trade for us.. and then out of a home garage software company… Microsoft went ballistic..
          today’s kids don’t even know how good they have it..

  2. (“Dr. Robert O. Becker’s book “The Body Electric: Electromagnetism And The Foundation Of Life” for example, went into the collection in November 2011.”)

    I totally forgot about that book.. time for a re-read
    here is another suggestion on electricity..

    ELECTRICITY AND MAGNETISM – Elisha Gray

    when I was a kid.. I was fascinated by the aura of people.. I don’t tell people this often.. but I can see the aura of a person.. when I would listen to someone that is spiritually inspired.. the aura takes on a bright white red even pink or purple.. Killian photography catches this aura.. Plants everything.. when I was little and read books on frequency I was searching for the answer for this light or darkness I could see while looking at something.. anyway.. that was one of the things that helped me to decide that the secret was grequency.. and the frequency of everything and everyone.. a solid is nothing more than a frequency.. so does this mean that time and space is grequency as well.. anyway I have always been fascinated with this stuff..

    • I read “The Body Electric” back in the 80’s sometime. I was fascinated then and still am. It’s concerning that the medical folks don’t have any desire to even study this stuff.

      Way back then, I could see auras, sometimes clearly, and sometimes not. Today I rarely see them and have been told that my own aura is dim. Fixing this seems to be important.

      The techniques of bone(and other) healing, using silver ion injection to revert stem cells along with low current DC were not well detailed in the book. That’s a deficiency, IMHO. We need the details!. I presume there’s info somewhere behind paywalls for those passionate enough to spend significant time finding it.

      • o to have noticed that as I age the dimmer they are to me as well.. I love to think about this stuff.. years ago I met and knew the scientist that planned the appollo missions to the moon..what a great guy.. we discussed many things he was really into quantum,. I wasn’t real interested in quantum intanglments at the time..he would get frustrated he had so much insight and so much to teach I really wished I had been more interested..now I have questions on curiosities that come up..and would love to have him nearby to ask his opinions

  3. G: put me down for .25% tomorrow. Too old to change and methinks the fix is in. JayPow doesn’t do politics but the data-meisters are giving grist. Or …

    Retail sales were flat. The only way to play revisions game is ignore short prints and look longer to smooth situ. We are wobbling and certainly contracting. Double Scotch.

    ATL: I’m doing the sensible thing and making lists of things for others to do. This retirement thing is easy easy!

    BR, E

  4. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/conservatives-roast-kamala-harris-for-three-plus-minute-filibuster-answer-on-lowering-prices/ar-AA1qzKWG?ocid=msedgntp&pc=U531&cvid=b6eaebc3c36640fbbe77f31eacc9e39b&ei=28

    can anyone explain to me what in the HELL she just said……
    the low income apartment complex near us.. has five units.. three of those five units.. low income renters moved out of because they couldn’t afford the rent of the low income apartments.. it was way more than what they made..
    prices are unsustainable right now.. people are using plastic..

      • In the early 70’s at Kennedy Airport in NYC in there were three private companies that did baggage handling and cleaning of the interiors of the planes for the foreign airlines.

        The union leader sold out, union busted, all the old timers fired and replaced with new workers getting 40 cents over minimum wage. One of the companies had so many Haitian employees it was nicknamed ‘Haitian Aviation’.

        • I did that… we didn’t get paid by the hour we got paid by the plane.. 6.00 and the best perk.. we got to keep the stock in the fridge and liquor cabinet.. I got just shy 20.00 A night . did that until the airline moved to A different airport. we would do the seats first clean the kitchenette then vacuum and spot scrub clean out the scrap in the baggage area.. then ozone the plane and move on to the next plane.
          minimum wage was what a buck sixty five an hour.. most places paid 1.75 A really good job was 2.00.. rent was 45.00 the electric was at about 5.00 A month.. high electric bill was 15..
          water bill here when we moved in was 15 for water and sewer today it hovers 200.00 A month. bread four years ago was less than a dollar a loaf..today the same bread is just over 3.50 A loaf..
          now I know for a fact that we are not the only ones experiencing these changes..

        • I took the part time job for $2.90 hr. To me that was big money at the time. I didn’t like picking up the vomit bags on the Air India planes or cleaning the bathrooms. The supervisor complained that I didn’t clean the dried crap from the toilet bowls. I said you didn’t supply us with anything to clean the toilets with. He nastily replied “Use your fingernails!” After that I switched to the baggage handler division.

        • yes.. dumping the toilets lol lol scrubbing them with big black rubber gloves and a scrub brush . lol lol..luckily I didn’t get to many vomit bags lol lol..seen a lot of disgusting stuff though .

    • I listened (reluctantly) to her eleven minute blather. She spent most of the time giving her autobiography and how she loves her family. She spent a few seconds mentioning how she wants to help people start businesses by giving tax credits. How do you use a tax credit when you’re running a new business in the red? Then she went on to talk about how she loves cooking Sunday dinner. Why should that even matter? ICBM’s are in the air and she’s cooking dinner!

      She never did mention whether she prefers cooking cats or dogs.

      • I didn’t get anything worthwhile.. now I will blather on and on about life experiences .I sure in hell hope they don’t come off as driveling crap..obviously she has never experienced real life that have plagued the cities of our country..

    • Biden has a rent control plan, Trump has no idea how the other 99% live:
      https://www.cato.org/commentary/joe-bidens-rent-control-plan

      The 40 Trump supporters who ambushed the Biden-Harris bus in Texas, 2020 are on trial:
      https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/sep/09/trump-train-biden-bus-trial

      Loomer quite cozy with Trump, Melania’s wedding ring is missing:
      https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/us/laura-loomers-photo-with-donald-trump-viral-people-ask-wheres-melania-wheres-wedding-ring/articleshow/113331302.cms

      Concerns about Loomer’s racist social media posts ruining his votes:
      https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/trump-allies-worry-laura-loomer-georgia-north-carolina-rcna171137

      p.s G, yep, my abode got mice again, East Bay CA, unusual?? Seemed like they waited till the rains/or autumn in the past….thx for posting your friend’s alert!

      • (“Biden has a rent control plan, Trump has no idea how the other 99% live:
        https://www.cato.org/commentary/joe-bidens-rent-control-plan“)

        Dam I feel another rant coming on…Sadly none of them in the political fields has any clue what the other ninety percent live.. even those with a million or two don’t realize they lost half of it yet.. I don’t have a clue..even with the dramatic situations that I have gone through in my life does not even come close to what they have experienced.. and the millions brought over lived through the drama of war and destruction..oppression. .. what they go through isn’t part of their black book of life experiences.. the gentleman that delivered three of his children on a dirty kitchen table.. ate what the cat caught and brought home for them..
        the family with the child with brain stem cancer that was both fired from their jobs because of the frequent doctors visits..
        the can man that was abandoned because of PTSD from the Korean war living in a dumpster.
        the gentleman that survived omaha beach and crawling through the mud..
        the survivors of Auschwitz or the survivor the the sinking of the titanic.
        the Vietnam veteran that had massive strokes that couldn’t get his thirty year Military retirement because ten of those years he was deployed was under the CIA and didn’t count as military deployments.. lost it all living in his car at the walmart parking lot..then dying alone
        the young girl that was trafficked by some very dangerous men.. then when they got caught, they shoved her in prison because of her fear that they would kill her and her family
        the man that told the truth to Congress in a congressional hearing over an explosion on a deep water oil drilling platform and tradgic oil spill.. lost his home in a hurricane. forced to live in his car until he was in a strange city had a heart attack.
        the race horse trainer groomer and his wife that had terminal cancer. the hospital tossed her off of the insurance.. the hospital took his home and all his belongings to pay for her end of life cares.
        Each one was a victim each one had life experiences beyond what any of us have experienced.. after thirty plus years of lending a hand I could write a book on the effects I have seen that those I have come across has lived through.. each one.. Trump does have the knowledge of losing it all.. and working hard to regain it.. but he started out on top.. Biden he has knoweledge of his father losing his position and him learning that if you didn’t have it you were a loser.. each of these has those experiences.. and the drive for more.. but they don’t know it isn’t in their scope of understanding.. they don’t know about the fear of those in the ghetto faced with gang violence day in and day out.. they can say.. hey we will put a cap on rent.. but who pays for the cap.. they dumped millions and millions of illegals into the USA buying them new homes. giving them more assistance free medical and dental and all the perks than what those in life paid in their whole lives to provide for their families with the money that was suppose to be put aside for their lives after they got to old. Many of these are forced to head to the countries outside the USA to get those medical needs met… the money that was suppose to be set aside was given away in useless wars that only benefitted a few that covet what other countries have..
        Bangladesh slums..
        https://youtu.be/LHG4K-7IlOM?si=8vmDMrJM1yeV5ysz
        that is why slave traders are making a killing from the biden administration.. the get the girls and the children.. thinking they will make a great deal of money.. one hours wage is one months wages in some places.. and we live in cities with gold bricks.. then they get in the clutches of these people that sell them to the highest bidder. all while our administration is handing them money to bring them here to be for sale. the drug traffickers.. the warriors that we were told for decades would come to the country hidden in the crowd as refugees..
        Take any section on the price increases.. people are living on credit now its unsustainable.. prices at the grocery store.. utilities.. my wife just told me that our favorite place to go out to eat.. filed for bankruptcy.. I don’t know if they will get managed.. or just close it.. the waiters and waitresses don’t get a paycheck.. they earn their money in TIPS.. I am an oh shit tips.. when I leave the waiter or waitress I have will usually say oh shit.. because I have seen waitresses start crying because they had to decide.. do I buy diapers, milk for the kids or gas..
        the only thing people can do is cut spending when prices go up because unless they are just going to hand it out.. you can’t spend it.. presidents in the past used tax rebates and other forms of stimulous. I had read that for the two or three months the Biden administration was going to had out two thousand per social security recipient. but who pays for it.. there is a low income housing close by us.. three of the five apartments are empty.. the reason .. the peoples wages were less than the low income waged rent.. I visited with the owner of that.. they weren’t sure how they were going to keep the apartments.. they had to increase the rent because their rates increased..
        Its nice to say that if you have a good lawn maintenance will fix this economic ..
        what Biden is considering is not the hive theory.
        (“The “hive theory” in the context of Amish colonies isn’t a widely recognized term, but it might be referring to the way Amish communities function similarly to a beehive. Here are some parallels:

        Community Structure: Amish communities are highly organized and cooperative, much like a beehive. Each member has a role, and the community works together for the common good.
        Self-Sufficiency: Just as bees are self-sufficient within their hive, Amish communities strive for self-sufficiency, often farming their own food, building their own homes, and making their own clothes.
        Communication and Decision-Making: Bees communicate through dances and pheromones to make decisions for the hive. Similarly, Amish communities have regular meetings and a strong oral tradition to make communal decisions.
        Division of Labor: In a beehive, different bees have different roles (workers, drones, queen). In Amish communities, roles are also divided, with men typically handling farming and construction, while women manage household duties and childcare.”)
        what he is planning is way different .. he is planning on leaving the whole structure intact..then forcing everyone else to give up.. which part cuts back.. the middle and lower class are not able to its what was that nine hundred million per man woman and child today that is owed on their dillusions..
        the brics is planning on changing the way their countries.. charge and move money.. through gold backed currencies.. the fiat currencies are not backed by anything.. and they will be worthless to purchase goods and services…. where was your stuff made.. most of mine in one or two of those countries..

    • ya know someone at work said that today, “This is a shit show.” i said it always is. after all these years of grabbing gears? im good at shit shows. ha ha ha ha

  6. feels soooo good to be back in the drivers seat. banging hotties and grabhing gears.

    just like the old days….. well. i spose its only been about 5 years. driving TNT. 18 speed eaton.

    ha ha

    • Andy I love your faith in the Dude two most important laws of the father is to love him above all and to treat others with respect and dignity. you often speak about how much you value God and faith spending a great deal of time with the Dude , which to me the values of Christ typically includes principles like love, respect, and kindness towards others. However, the way you talk about and treat women seems to contradict those values that you say you value. The next time your in deep meditation with the dude, It might be worth reflecting on how your actions and disrespect of women and demeaning their value and how that aligns with the beliefs that you say that you hold dear to your heart.

      • I fail to see how Andy is demeaning or disrespecting women. He appreciates them, including their physical bodies and their unique ability to create joy in a man. I do too! I’ve not heard a single story of disrespect. Yes, Andy likes bedroom fun and for some reason attracts ladies that want what he offers. I don’t understand that ability – perhaps it’s genetic. If two people are together voluntarily without force or fraud(or betraying a third party), where’s the disrespect?

        I do believe in committed relationships, but finding a truly compatible mate(on all levels) is a blessed event and rather rare in this life.

        • good point… it reminded me of the guys that seek out the pig pen night.. find the disgruntled housewife lacking attention ir weakest person seeking a true relationship feeling alone and wanting true companionship..convincing them that your the one then letting them support you until they realize they are being used. Around military and government facilities there’s always a pig pen club close by. the old man is in the field the wife wants the kitty rubbed . professionals call areas around military bases the mecca for prosperity.
          got one child that is attracted to those kind of guys and have know a bunch of others sucked in the same way. if it’s just a f#$k and dump on both parties then that’s understandable.
          I do get that aspect. thats why theres so many sex workers just and so many women and men that have sexual activities with others while in a relationship. just don’t mislead them thinking that your anything more than that or that they mean anything more to you than that. the way I took it is Andy finds someone that is seeking more than using them and tossing them out like an old used rag.

        • what about me. i feel used.

          hahaha

          its not like that at all. for.me. even though i have been told many times, i just need to get fucked the hell out of, like viking style and then i will be on my way. uhmm okay.

      • Cant describe or put into words how DISAPPOINTED I am about this, Loob .

        monotheism/elohim worship cult ALL lead to GENOCIDE. They Always have, Always will .

        At least I can still smile and laugh about aliens/golden plates/and a book – so there is that.

        • yes they do.. a friend of my daughters daughter just killed herself last week. Mr. right came in said all the right things then said sorry baby I need something more and left.. I have seen way to many lives destroyed and so many children with absent fathers.. I shouldn’t let it bother me.. but then have someone in one sentence say I have a personal relationship with God and the next saying everything opposite to what is taught..I had a coworker tell me my only problem was I was to good to the women and no woman wants that..
          I worked in Healthcare and there was one good looking guy .every female nurse married or single had sex with him..his boyfriend had full blown aides..everyone has the right to their own bodies and what they do with them.. for misjudging the situation..I appologise

      • You hit it right on, LOOB! I also consider his comments on women and his “adventures” with them to be very disrespectful. I wonder how the men here would like it if a woman frequently talked about her “conquests” and their penis sizes (comparable to his obsession with “big tiddies”). I believe many of them would be insulted and disgusted to think that’s all she sought and found of value in a man. They would certainly never consider her a spiritual guru.

      • LOB, i am very spirirual and im very playful. i am mostly those things. im having a really amazing life. in case ya havent noticed.

        i also read that book, Men are from Mars and Women are from Venus. twice.

        now, i got my eye on one lady. if she makes the move or it works out, she be the only one. we will see. she is hot as my ex but super spiritual. meditates alot like me. i like her alot. we shall see. i am open to receive.

        and im good being alone. some people get lonely. i rarely experiance being lonely. im not desperate or lonely. im in constant dialog witb THE DUDE. and we are always doing some super cool stuff. always.

        thank you tho. i apprecaite the thought.

        given a chance, id thrash Kari in the sheets tho. i like her alot too. hahahahas. she is a power house. 100%

        • I am sorry Andy.. I was angry yesterday and took what you said as demeaning to the ladies in life. having seen so many whose lives were lost or totally destroyed just having fun I could never do that to anyone for a few moments of jollytime… and who am I to toss the first stone..
          I sure in the heck am not perfect.. I do have a strong faith as well…

        • ” I’m in constant dialog
          with THE DUDE. ”

          That’s because like all of us, WE LIVE IN THE DUDE AS THE DUDE LIVES IN US.

          However many people are misinformed.
          Btw. Andy, how many times where you married ? Life is good, take it from me.

  8. I wonder if the prez of iran is gonna leave 3nough room in the cargo hold to take a pallet of cash. Think of all the money he could save “us” on fuel.

  10. ” The whole reason I came up with the Aggregate Index in the wake of the Internet Bubble back in 2000 was because it was obvious that singular indices not only concentrate risk bur also the effects of hype and hysteria.”

    Wouldn’t we have been better off, and easier on your efforts, by using the Market Summary
    > Wilshire 5000
    Me just saying; why complicate the already complicated. Blessing to all. :-) Life is good!

    The whole reason I came up with the Aggregate Index in the wake of the Internet Bubble back in 2000 was because it was obvious that singular indices not only concentrate risk bur also the effects of hype and hysteria.

  11. I could use a little advice – I am currently building a Linux laptop
    So far – I have a
    Dell – Inspiron 16” because of the great graphics [ Nvidia card with 16MB] – 32GB Memory – 1TB SDD – with a 1T SDD hotpac backup drive, spare battery and two 1T thumb drives [ which aren’t 1T – more like 880GB.] Memory is not expandable – soldered in.
    Ubuntu 24.04 – installed, with two updates – running smoothly at the moment.
    – I am looking for a distro for the GUI .., and there are a lot more than I thought there was !
    – Currently at the top of the list is Plasma [ but with some reservations.] Mint 21.3 looks good.
    .
    Does anyone here have similar set-up? .., experience with, or recommendations to explore for a distro/user interface ? Mainly looking for a great customizable desktop interface with fast command line access. Ubuntu desktop doesn’t cut it.
    .
    Thanks in advance
    .
    ohh.., think twice before you buy a RedDragon gaming mouse [ #1 selling gaming mouse.] – you will spend days customizing and then trying to remember what all those damn buttons are for !

    • Personally, I like Mint Cinnamon. That’s my choice and others no doubt differ. I don’t want to learn every variation, just something that does the job well enough and I can replicate on other machines without breaking a sweat. It does everything I want it to without effort. One click on the taskbar and I have a command line window.

      I don’t game, but I do keep my main machine occupied with virtually everything else.

    • I installed Linux Mint Cinnamon on a Dell laptop years ago. Since it attempts to copy a Windows desktop, it was easy to learn. I don’t do much customization, so have nothing to say about that aspect.

  12. Interesting idea.
    Hezbollah fighters are known for carrying pagers for fast call ups.., hundreds of them just exploded throughout southern Lebanon.., seriously injuring the person carrying one.
    – What a brilliant idea. Wonder who came up with that ?.. and just how would you do that !

    • Maybe it’s only “phase one?”

      What next? Where does it go from here?

      Nostradamus Epistle: Paragraph 32:4
      Who will make such an abominable breach in the Churches that neither the reds nor the whites without eyes nor hands will know what to make of it.

      TRANSLATION: Nostradamus Epistle: Paragraph 32:4
      Neither Christians nor Muslims, without communications or mobility, will understand what is happening to them.

      Nostradamus Epistle: Paragraph 32:5
      And their power will be taken from them.

      TRANSLATION: Nostradamus Epistle: Paragraph 32:5
      Their technological power will be taken from them.

      https://theageofdesolation.com/nostradamus/2023/10/13/the-crocodile-has-hidden-on-the-land/

      • i think a remote signal did it. all this bullshit about batteries. there is no way they could coordinate 2700 pagers with micro explosives. no fucking way. that was a hack or AI that did that.

        now the question everyone is asking. if it was a remote signal? how much worse is a cell phone nuke compaired to a pager bomb?

        what about all them cell phones given to illegal immigrants when they entered. how many is that? 10 Million??? 15 Million?

        if that is what happend to 2700 Hezbulah pagers?

        what would 15 Million Cell Phone explosions be like going off simutainously? things that make ya go hmmmm.

        well, its damn good thing i dont live in cell service are. im at the very edge of service posting this. no service past here.

        get a satalite phone. no thanks. im good.

      • thank you JC. i re-read what ya wrote several times.

        i dont know why it is. but i find it strangly odd timing that i moved, then moved again way way way up in the mountains. even gps cant find this address. no cell service up here. for atleast 10 to 15 miles.

        then this pager thing.

        was it a test run? to see if the system is on board???? lets fry some hezbula peeps and test this thing? is part of that does my neighbor have covid install on everyones phone?

        so the purpose is to make your phone could explode on you killing or injuring someone else they wanted to kill by proximity?????

        i mean these are the real questions people should be asking.

        and i dont live where there is service or wifi or any of that.

        not even close to a signal.

      • i didnt seek out moving at all. it all just….Well THE DUDE made it happen. time to go Andy. okay DUDE.

        away from any signal. sounds good to me. i like it up here.

    • ST2 – early 80’s ME-Beriut – a little plastique goes a looong way. US pioneered the idea of cell phone “bombs” – tango’s blamed israeli’s for that assination..

      No idea the mechanism for exploding a pager w/o outside intervention..at manufacturer or warehouse – pretty nasty lil surprise this AM.

      Seems everyone going suicidal at this moment in Time, including green lighting deep missile strikes in Russia. This will cause the 3rd or Hidden Party to finally come out da shadows, the neocon/rkm cartel.
      Attached below a cut and paste from rouge intel report, many will recognize the writing, as it relates to Whats Next..

      * “Some of these weapons (orbital to ground) were allegedly deployed by a privatized/proprietary intel company from a powerful Mideast nation against Northern California and Maui. It is believed that this was an RKM action delivered as a threat to western governments such as “do what we say or you will get more of this”. Some insiders view these air to ground actions as joint efforts by the Neocons and the RKM just as was 911 and so many other false flags such as all the supposed mass hoax shootings in gun free zone in America”.

      ** It is also apparent that the RF’s DEW weaponry is superior to this privatized contractor as is the US Secret Space War run out of the 4 corners area in the US West. Some experts believe that the US and the RF Secret Space War are actually joint efforts between the USA and the RF and have now reached weapons parity with Alien ETs who are considered enemies of humanity and trying to depopulate Planet Earth of Humans by deploying mind controlled Cutouts or high level Alien ET/Human hybrids installed in various governments.”

      From the “bleeding edge” or musings of a drug addled mind ?

      • Thumbs up for “bleeding edge”! There’s one particular high-level technocrat who has never looked fully human to me.

    • A lithium battery, if shorted out, gets hot, burns, and explodes. All it would take is a programmable shorting switch across the battery.

    • considering that and the day that china turned on everyone’s camera and microphones at one time…took control of thousands of security systems..
      what if they also installed a small shaped charge and put it in laptops and cell phones etc.
      Iran landed a stealth drone by taking over the controls.

      https://youtu.be/u2bQSKvZ2qI?si=bEQl62K_voyku6VC

      pacemakers radios..this could be quite scary

    • some serious long game plays . supply chain attack months in advance brilliant. a small amount of explosive. combined with that attack on the guy in iran planed months in advance staying at the leaders property just amazing. another level wowser

      • the scary part.. is they are just as smart as we are if not smarter. and using our play book of plans

    • https://youtu.be/LlIB6qDjoo8?si=pd0mlV4gJYWQbpGq

      https://youtu.be/O-2tpwW0kmU?si=bh2K7tx-Ir5P3BFF

      there was another one to.. Russia came up with this in the 80s. there was another one brought up on remote space launch platforms in the niceties.
      Ran Paul brought up the fear that this would or could be used against the USA..
      then the Port Deal..
      https://westvirginia.forums.rivals.com/threads/gulftainer-scandal-connects-zero-the-clintons-and-the-media-project-pelican.205497/
      I believe china came up with the slaughterbots. darpa was working on it they took it to the next level..
      North KOREA Has the club k as well as other countries..my guess is they have been working on improving them to.
      ten years ago shortly after the port deal an FSB head slipped in an interview and said they had seeded the cities..a year ago in another article a Russian General also slipped and said the same thing..did they.. we won’t know for sure.. what if they are conventional weapons for an army brought in..
      VOA had an article that said China was converting 22 thousand container ships to be used as military..
      then the poison pawn trap..its actually pretty well planned out. get enough things going on depleting our strategic reserves selling our toll roads for orange barrel hell.. in a crises send military in the path they want military traffic to flow . then rub the sacks of those in control get them to open the borders.. destroy the economy and the fiat currencies.. they win either way.. the odds of the poor rising up.. was BLM and ANTIFA a plan? de-fund the only protection the weakest had..
      all started back in the eighties.
      and all it took was sex money gifts and stroking the greed of industrialists…

  13. A new kind of warfare …

    Over 1,000 people, hundreds being Hezbollah members, have been injured after pagers exploded in Beirut, Lebanon, according to Lebanese media and Reuters.
    The Iranian ambassador to Lebanon is also reportedly among the injured.

    Hezbollah vows to punish Israel after pager explosions across Lebanon – https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/dozens-hezbollah-members-wounded-lebanon-when-pagers-exploded-sources-witnesses-2024-09-17/

    Hell, I was only concerned the radiation from the phone might cause cancer. Damn !!

    • What a crafty idea. Hopefully American cell phones don’t simultaneously overcharge then combust. What a firestorm that would be.

    • Gives a whole new dimension to hacking someone’s phone, doesn’t it?

      So can any LiH battery operated device connected to the internet be BP hacked and exploded? How about EVs? That would certainly be a spectacle.

      • how about pace makers Defibrillator.. Ai inserting what ever they want in security cam footage. .I quit using one banking software because it couldn’t count and all control of banking was held in another country.. what’s a dollar to seven hundred million customers..the cloud and all your information.. i had control over my friends could turn his camera or mic on and track his every movement..scary stuff there..it was his ring doorbell..I would drop a photo in a file called photos on the cloud.. his doorbell would ring. he had the police out looking for the guy in the photo..

      • Hacked – yes.
        Exploded – not necessarily.
        EVs – no.

        EVs “no,” because a modern EV battery is made up of many hundreds of common 18650 Li-ion cells. You can blow one, you can’t blow them all, because when the first one goes, it breaks the circuit by which they are all connected. IMO the most you could get from an EV (unless you can “adjust” the battery pack first) is a fire, and probably not a very spectacular one.

        The pagers were “adjusted” (augmented) with an explosive and the trigger was wired to the explosive, not the battery itself.

        The tell WRT the pagers, is they all went off simultaneously. The “hack” was to make the pager accept a “self-destruct” page.

        The pagers are weird. They’re about the size of a stack of three 3½” hard drives. I’d guess one could cram 40-50cc of high explosive in inside the case…

        • “thermal runaway,” can be quite dangerous and dramatic. Here’s how it typically works:

          Initial Failure: The process usually starts with a single battery cell failing. This can happen due to physical damage, manufacturing defects, overcharging, or overheating.
          Heat Generation: When a battery cell fails, it generates a significant amount of heat. This heat can cause the electrolyte inside the battery to vaporize, increasing internal pressure.
          Propagation: The heat from the failing cell can spread to adjacent cells. In a battery pack, cells are often packed closely together, so the heat transfer can be rapid.
          Thermal Runaway: As each cell heats up, it can reach a point where it also fails, releasing more heat. This creates a domino effect, where one cell after another goes into thermal runaway.
          Explosion and Fire: The intense heat and pressure can cause the battery cells to rupture, releasing flammable gases. These gases can ignite, leading to explosions and fires and the addition of a small shapped charge. thermal runaway has a few of the similarities of the Hindenburg fire.. the hindenburg was a fabric coated with aluminum iron oxide paint.. ( let me tell you about the fire from hell with my favorite grill once.. omg.. )the structure was made from magnesium..
          It involved a rapid escalation and Both thermal runaway and the Hindenburg disaster involve rapid escalation once the initial failure occurs.
          Heat and Fire: Both processes result in intense heat and fire, leading to potentially explosive outcomes and if there was a small shaped charge set up once the fuse is lit it goes.
          Differences Thermal runaway is a chemical process within batteries, while the Hindenburg disaster was caused by the ignition of hydrogen gas.
          The Hindenburg disaster was a large-scale event with significant loss of life and property, whereas thermal runaway typically affects smaller devices or battery packs on a smaller scale but with a just as deadly outcome.as in the small drones that are made for less than a dollar I believe..an effective weapon with Ai programming..

    • https://youtu.be/u2bQSKvZ2qI?si=bEQl62K_voyku6VC

      I was afraid of the club k and the morons giving the ports to the ones that build them..a goose chase..now what if they did put a small shaped charge in everyone’s phones..who would know until the flipped the switch..
      having seen a thirty by forty print if dc and area with everything marked off and labeled.. fifty years ago.. they know.. better than we do..since they build everything how many flaws would it take..

      https://youtu.be/u2bQSKvZ2qI?si=bEQl62K_voyku6VC

  14. South Korea just removed the brand new high-tech security cameras they installed on their military bases – all 1,300 of them – when they discovered that the cameras are designed to feed-back to a Chinese server.
    – .., damn ! Doesn’t anybody test and examine their equipment anymore !?

    • nope..
      to get someone out to adjust a switch in the 4 dollar dishwasher costs 200..plus..it’s about the business model.. a dishwasher that has all the boards gone through and tested is 3 grand plus
      a microwave built and tested cost me almost a grand in the eighties.. my ex wife still has that working strong ..I on the other hand go through a microwave every couple of years.

  15. i love beautiful women. i have fun. they are all adults. they are having fun. im honest with them. they are honest with me. we are on the same page. lol there is no disrespect. at all.

    i know this might come as a shock:

    surprize! women like to have sex. alot.

    i am a christian. Jesus decides that. not me.

  17. Looks as though everybody just got nervous.
    The markets were all up nicely – even the Wilshire 5000 was inching towards a new all time high..,
    .., but it has all turned around and most indexes have gone negative.
    .
    Can’t remember a time when so much money and so many people are in an anxiety-lock over what the Federal Reserve is “about to do”. Rather fascinating.
    .
    .., and no matter what they do – they will be wrong., according to half the talking-heads.

    • Andy,

      In a previous post, you said.

      “i love beautiful women. i have fun. they are all adults. they are having fun. im honest with them. they are honest with me. we are on the same page. lol there is no disrespect. at all.”

      In this post, you said.

      “These bitches are blowing up my beeper.”

      The dictionary definition for bitches is.

      “bitches /b?ch/
      Plural form of bitch
      noun
      A female canine animal, especially a dog.
      A woman considered to be mean, overbearing, or contemptible.
      A prostitute considered in relation to a pimp.”

      Surely these aren’t the same women you respected in your precious post.

      • Surely you cant be so dense as to not realize SLANG when you See or Hear it ?

        They are in need of FA’s in Afghanistan, just like Ure fairly aggressive self, as Taliban needs new recruits constanly..dream come true – the bachi boys, no ?

        Yeah I can “smell” “em” a miles away..sniff sniff

  19. “Reader Ray is tempting me with a whole TON of great classic tube-type ham radio gear spotted on eBay. ”

    Ray is the ‘temptation devil’ himself. Ever occur to you that he’s using the Cloward-Piven strategy on your tube collection weakness? …just sayin’…

  20. 10 Access Test/Maint mode
    20 Drop down menu
    30 select BATT MAX CURRENT TEST
    40 DoUntil – Hell freezes over
    50 CONFIRM
    60 leave menu
    70 place ALL CALL remote maint data forward
    Compile to uncommented machine code and send.
    RETURN

  21. Most cell phones come with fixed non-replaceable batteries these days, so I am thinking we haven’t heard the whole story on the exploding batteries, and the brand names involved. Not in a big hurry to get any new consumer electronics or replacement batteries for anything, until I hear the whole story. I am somewhat skeptical of how the caper was pulled off without massive collateral damage.

  23. This is the question you should be asking: What about all them phones given to the Illegal Immigrants that crossed the border? Over 15 million? What If all of them exploded simutainously? 476,000 in NYC alone. That is a very big BOOM. it would create a massive shit storm the likes we have never seen. toping 9/11 and perl harbor combined.

    That is the question of the day.

    off to grab 18 gears.

    ~ La Dolce Vita ~

    • There’d be a lot of dumpster fires. The illegal alien border-crashers were each given a cellphone. The vast majority of them threw the cellphones away within hours of receiving them. They were coached before invading, and part of the coaching was that “cellphones are trackers.”

  24. how many jobs were created for illegal immagrants in the last 3 and a half years? and all them phones? if they are like the pagers???

    hnmmmm. good thing i live way up in the mountains.

    could be nothing. but it is a ponder. that is forsure.

    it would cripple the US in a single moment.

    mostly because everyone would think it was their phones. not just the immigrants. everyone would think their phone was going to explode. and it would shut down this nation faster than the pandemic and would start chaos like we aint never seen before.

    pretty much nobody has land lines much anymore. it would shut almost all communication except what ya get from the cyclops box.

    and Hamm Radio.

    quite the ponder.

  25. it would definently stop the election and cave the market.

    yes sir. yes sir. quite the ponder. quite the ponder indeed

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