Sliding Into: Wars, Fed, Jobs, Summer. PS-500 Quest

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Behold! A quiet Springly Morn.

As long as you don’t dwell too much on what’s to come, not a bad day to get out of bed.  Unfortunately, there’s all kinds of crap going on. The week will go to hell presently.

Top of the List: War

Northern Front: Slipping into More and Bigger – as the official role of Western (non-Ukrainian) forces in the war come to light. Foreign Affairs: “Hundreds of dead NATO soldiers and officers in Ukraine – They were operators of Western air defense systems”.  What we are seeing is the same kind of thing that happened in Vietnam.  First you send advisors.  Then, when the incumbent can’t manage a win (the French in Vietnam, Zelensky et al so far in UKR) then in go the ground forces.

It doesn’t have to go that way, but it will because UKR is actively working to extend their drone strikes deeper into “mother Russia.”  As we scan reports like ?What Does russian Oil Depot in Smolensk Oblast Look Like After Ukrainian Drone Strikes? (Satellite Images) | Defense Express, we hold two probabilities in mind.

The first is that Russia will not tell “whole world” what their very specific red lines are.  But, as all commanders know, there are “lines of advance” where terms like “Point of decisive engagement” get rolled out. There is a likelihood that Russia will see the U.S./Britain as the drivers, so decisive engagement (once UKR figures out where the “red line” is, will mean war with the West. Experientially WW3.

The second probability weighed is how long, even absent “red line tripwires” will Russia put up with what may become a war of attrition?  A Foreign Affairs article catching our eye was A War Putin Still Can’t Win: To Thwart Russia, America Needs a Long-Term Strategy—and Ukraine Needs Long-Range Weapons.  To which we’d point out this is also a war Ukraine can’t win and piling on foreign “advisors” just heightens the slip angle to more closely parallel Vietnam entry.

Either way, WW3, just fast- track, or slow, is about all that’s open to cocktail-hour discussion.

Middle Fronts: Still working towards that Damascus outcome of glassed plains.  On one side Israel threatened to topple Assad regime if Syria gets involved in Gaza war — report | The Times of Israel. But on the other? Iran’s Regime Reportedly Doubts Bashar Al-Assad’s Loyalty. Seems like a squeeze play to us.

In Lebanon, while Hamas’ Al-Qassam Strikes Israeli Site from South Lebanon – Al-Manar TV Lebanon, we get a sense of the latest non sequitur of Biden foreign policy.  In this version, one belief set is seen as Blinken promotes Gulf Arab defense in sign to Israel and Iran.  Washington is big on “coalition-building.”  But how much of it is real when you look past the hype and happy talk?  As in Saudi Arabia threatening to impose sanctions on Israeli government for the first time | Al Bawaba.  So much for “coalitioning?”

Main Event in Gaza: Only a matter of when.  Tomorrow, we figure. To our inexperienced eye, this sure sounds like ramp-up to Rafah invasion: Israeli air strikes kill at least 20 Palestinians in Rafah; new ceasefire talks expected in Cairo. Even with reports that Biden And Netanyahu Speak As Pressure Grows Over Planned Rafah Invasion, Cease-Fire Talks, and Hamas talking points less strident (Hamas Says ‘No Major Issues’ With Truce Deal Draft As Israel Expresses Desire To Restore ‘Sustainable Calm’ we have a sense – only that, mind you, that both sides are down to “talking for time” as Israel will finish to their goals.

And about those Soros supported “demonstrators?” College protests live updates: Police crackdown leads to hundreds of arrests. Better late than never.

So, as we roll into Monday, dare we write this? SSDW (Same shit, different week.)

Fed – No Changes – Just Talk

It would be shocking if the Fed were to actually do anything at their rate announcement Wednesday afternoon.  And for now everything is pretty even: Gold holds consolidative mood above $2,300, eyes on the Fed later this week | Forexlive.  The CME FedWatch Tool reveals there is only a 2.9 percent chance of anything changing. But people do “talk their own” book a lot.

On the other hand, we notice the Bitcoin price wasn’t going anywhere, being mired in the $62,300 range at press time today.

rAnd all the recent talk about the “Japan rally” and how the Nikkei was back to new highs last seen in 1989 was a non-event. Because virtually all of the gains could be passed off on the “apparent inflation” impact of Yen purchasing power cratering.  (Notice how no one mentioned that?)

A couple of good articles on this: Why Japanese Yen Strengthens Sharply Against US Dollar (USD)? Shocks Crypto & Stocks (coingape.com) and Japan’s yen surges against dollar on suspected intervention – ThePrint.

What few are willing to discuss is how International Finance is a circle-jerk.  We can buy Japan’s paper (stronger yen) and they can buy our Treasuries pretending the US is not bankrupt, just haven’t filed yet.  As long as the circularity of it all is kept in motion, the average person doesn’t care.  It’s really a remarkable “engine of prosperity circle-jerk.

Creepy Crawlers

A Trump headline is always good for a few eyeballs in media: Supreme Court Dooms Jack Smith’s Hopes for Convicting Trump – Slay News. We didn’t see much change in the story since Thursday, though.

Banks behind J6 prosecutions?  House Committee Probes Banks Alleged To Have Helped Feds Spy On Americans (worthynews.com).

Trump-DeSantis ticket? President Trump and Ron DeSantis Met for Several Hours Sunday Morning in Florida.

What’s missing from MSM headlines? The Vigilant Fox ? on X: “Media Blackout: 10 News Stories They Chose Not to Tell You – Episode 20 #10 – Explosive report unveils the shocking truth about skin cancer and the sun. #9 – Biden’s surprise live interview with Howard Stern goes sideways. #8 – US birth rates plummet to lowest levels since… https://t.co/K5oiRqwQCg” / X (twitter.com)

Global attack on White people continues: Dutch Activist: The Fall of Europe, the Most Important Speech You’ll Hear (independentsentinel.com)

Also closely tied: JUST IN: Scotland’s Far-Left, Anti-White First Minister Humza Yousaf to Resign After Just One Year in Office.

Stacking the deck – which is rich when you consider who’s been stacking it: Joe Biden Admin is Implementing a New Rule Making Sure That if Donald Trump Wins, The Deep State Will Be Preserved “The Office of Personal Management made it so that career civil servants cannot be reclassified as political appointees so that they can’t be fired and replaced”… – Whatfinger News Summary

Coming Next:

  • Dallas Fed manufacturing numbers at 10:30 Eastern.
  • Tomorrow: Employment Costs and the Case-Shiller Housing numbers.  We expect a decline into that.
  • Fed decision Wednesday after the morning where the ADP Employment data lands. Even more key will be the Labor JOLTS report 10 AM.
  • Thursday is the Challenger Job Cuts and UI filings. International Trade, Productivity and costs. Yep, you’ll need to rest up for this week.
  • Federal Job numbers Friday – look for more misleading data and keep in mind it’s the total number of people actually working that matters.

ATR: Hallicrafters Hunt – PS-500

ShopTalk Sunday article on Shop Cleaning for the Aging resulted in more work being completed as the “whole reorg of the shop” continues.

But the Big Time Sink has been trying to find a used (they stopped making them half a century back, or so) Hallicrafters PS-500 power supply for my SR-400 transceiver in the Hallicrafters Collection.

There are some Swan PSU 3’s out there – same specs and Walter Cates has some notes on using the Swan to power the Hallicrafters. But, in serious tube-type ham radio amongst us purists tying a Swan PSU into a Hallicrafters radio is in the same class as putting a Chevy 327 in a Mustang.  Might work, or not. Just not usually done.  (And no self-respecting Pony club would allow such a car in its membership, would it?

Ah, the joys of being an old man with soldering iron.

Write when you get rich,

George@ure.net (ac7x)

(PS: if you find a PS-500 email to gure@centurylink.net is welcome!)

108 thoughts on “Sliding Into: Wars, Fed, Jobs, Summer. PS-500 Quest”

    • Ahh., come on, man ! I have a serious poker game on May 7th.
      Don’t be messin’ with my poker game !

      • Are we about to experience a ‘variation’ of “Seven Days in May”?

        Seven Days in May is a 1964 American political thriller film about a military-political cabal’s planned takeover of the United States government in reaction to the president’s negotiation of a disarmament treaty with the Soviet Union.

        United States Marine Corps Colonel “Jiggs” Casey is the director of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. He serves its chairman, four-star United States Air Force general James Mattoon Scott, a highly-decorated commander and air ace.

        Casey stumbles upon evidence that Scott is leading the Joint Chiefs to stage a coup d’etat to remove President Lyman in seven days. Under the plan, disguised as a training exercise, a secret army unit known as ECOMCON, training at a secret Texas base, will take control of the country’s telephone, radio, and television networks while the president, participating in a staged “alert,” is seized.

        https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_Days_in_May

        Hmm… Lyman rhymes with Biden.

      • I am seriously hoping I’m wrong, but I’m thinking Biden can’t last too much longer, and China’s economy is in the dumper. So, the signs are their without Nostradamus.

    • Thanks for the update and your regular posts Stu. Much appreciated. I have a colonoscopy scheduled for May 10. Sure hope the lights don’t go out during the event. I can think of a hundred jokes butt won’t go there.

      • Boy ism just hoping that they don’t do stupid stuff during the more intimate portion of the procedure..

    • after the DNC convention in Aug,,, ???
      “Still, the DNC Charter does make provisions in case the party’s nominee is incapacitated or opts to step aside,”
      https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/democrats-replace-biden-nominee-rcna138125

      but then I do not rule out an unseen, unscheduled event occurring, as Joe is the figure head of a of a belligerent force occupying the White House and CONgress full of enemy supporters
      the stollen election of 2020 has consequences,
      GITMO is still operating
      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camp_Justice_(Guantanamo)
      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guantanamo_military_commission

      as we all watch with bated breath, which way the winds of future will blow, as the future is planned,,,
      1st a vision, then a plan, then work the plan.
      there are different planners playing the game, that most humans do not SEE,,, hidden hands

    • FAILURE .
      ..losing wars costs admin their jobs, always.

      USA has already LOST .

      – Lost to Russia already, stick a fork in it. Nuclear Annihilation is NOT going to happen. We have lost .

      USA has already LOST to China…pretty much same reasons,

      NUCLEAR Annihilation of planet will NOT happen .

      USA failed again – just like every single war we have engaged in since Vietnam. Unless of course Ure scorecard is $$$$, in that case Warpigs-ELohim worship cult have done well-very well, see google worx for instance making millions off of killing Gazans & muzzies for uncle.

      obD – Youse gonna need to review the below attached article on Drumph.
      Seems the Apple (USA) did not fall far from the tree(UK)..https://www.theinteldrop.org/2024/04/28/trump-is-a-british-crown-agent/

      who’d a thunk it ?

      • wow.., lots of ‘stuff’ there on the “IntelDrop”.
        – But I have to ask: Which is worse? “B”., or “T” – ?

        • https://youtu.be/XCC945l-w68?si=qwA3mhvKYzYovSZp

          take a look at new nation.. they released documents that they were trying to keep hidden that totally looks as if this was all a setup by the same people blaming trump..he sure spins a convincing account by the very same agencies that are now playing see no evil hear no evil..

        • Boy I have to share this again from Nez Nation..
          I worked the library.. I can tell you in my opinion knowing how it worked fifty years ago this is seriously big .. newly released that they have been trying to keep hushed up..And not released to the public..Wow…
          but considering how things have changed and seeing stuff in ever thought would ever happen in this country. how will they spin this to look different.
          https://youtu.be/XCC945l-w68?si=1GFe_GN_AXN0aAMN

        • Icelandic neocommunists — I’ve used them occasionally for about seven years. They are more-biased and less-reliable than Xinhua or The Hill, but every so often, they squeeze cheese hard enough to produce a nugget. They’re a PITA though because a body has to triple-check anything they publish which looks interesting, to gauge the bias and recenter the article to determine its actual worth…

      • tried to read about them at the bottom of their web
        nothing but crickets
        echoing the deep state’s FEAR of all things Trump
        believe what u want,
        I reviewed and found it lacking proof, only accusations, Of course Trump haters will only write anti-trump stuff.
        as they said,, “In short, we believe” in that article u Quoted

        • Spot on tobD.

          TID posts stuff from both sides (extremes?) Always entertaining when they run stuff like shared..shame the wasteful use of that emotional NRG.
          Speaking of shameful wastes – Farsight has just released project that saw Chyknees influencing the Campaign Managers.
          Read that line again.
          The peeps that become the chief assistants.
          They looked at 3 time periods Mar2024/Oct 2024/Nov2024. Anyway their “guy” does not Win in October.

          Main question to come out of session is WHO IS the “Lean” “Tall” Politician currently under Chyknees control ????????????????????

          Anyone wanna hazard a guess ?

          New news that “they” are not influencing thru Internet, Media, Social..but the Managers. Good thing I would never consider working for an agency, not they wouldve had me.

          !I F-ing HATE Traitors! Especially Species traitors .

    • The 5th is this coming Sunday; the 10th is the following Friday. You are hinting at a Pearl Harbor magnitude event this week. Not much time to make adjustments.

    • I floated this once before, but I feel compelled to repeat it, even though the details don’t agree with anything else I know of.

      I don’t get many memorable, or many ultra-vivid dreams: this is one of those very few:

      In the dream I had ONCE at least 20 years ago, there is a Very Large American super-carrier — “angle deck” style, VERY large — that is sunk by what apears to be a nuclear bomb just off the coast of Greenland, in the Atlantic.

      The dream does not address the issue of all the vessels that normally accompany a deployed super-carrier. In the dream is the sense that this is a HUGE surprise, and is very sudden and unexpected.

      That’s all there is to it — it’s a short flash about hearing the news on radio or TV. It’s not a viewing of the actual event.

      I am mindful of the error of the location (?). I am also mindful that this is not predicted anywhere else.. I have no further explanations. I have no time frame.

      …for what little it may be worth…

      It was SO clear, I never forgot it after all these years.

      • interesting. i look on another brouser and my words are scattered all over. i use this brouser and they all come together.

        also interesting that you mentioned this William. i read it rigjt after i read about the spanish vessles that landed in south america.

        which brought an end to the god named “smoke and mirrors” command for human sacrifice.

        all very synched.

        it is said that the natives had never seen such vessels before and could not recognize them as ships. the spanish ships were so foreign to the natives consiousneds, they thought that the spamiards walked on water.

        hmmm. all very interesting. and alighned.

        • But supposedly, the shamans or medicine men of the tribes could see the ships and told (or tried to tell) the tribe. I think that was mentioned and enacted in ‘The Secret’ movie or the movie called ‘What the Bleep Do We Know’ from years ago. Both good movies along the lines of ‘you create your reality.’

      • There are three of these RDF ships unusable for now as they are in Baltimore and cannot make passage Past the Key Bridge (Maybe it was sabotage after all?). There used to be four in New Orleans on the river-easy to block them, I have done Engine Room maintenance on these and ridden many Sea-Trials.
        One in New York (?) and two on the Left Coast (San Diego?)
        These a-holes in DC have seriously Pissed-Off the Russians and we need to hope & pray that they have not loosed their 100MT Nukies on the doomsday Kanyon auto-sub. Talk about a coastal ELE !

        • Baltimore is now open … or so the news says.

          I am sure it is slow going out, not sure anyone is going in but at a minimum those ships that were trapped in Baltimore can now get out (though the deeper draft vessels may have to have their cargos lightened so they don’t draw as much water)

      • I saw this video yrs ago about an aircraft carrier being sunk. (Visions Sinking of American Aircraft Carrier -Prophecy) video. I think it was in 2011.

    • ya know before i discovered Ghram Handcocks book about lost civilizations and ancient maps. escpially cool are the maps produced in china in 1178 AD and 1570s of an ice free antartica.

      someone gave me a nautical map of seattle from 1874.

      i have an origal nautical map of seattle from 1874. i set it on the bar. i look at it every morning.

    • im sure you noticed the earthquakes aound the ring of fire are bec9ming progressively larger.

      apples and oranges.

      should see similar expressive crustal movement on the east coast as the peal of the orange moves progressively along the lines of squeezing the citrus.

      especially in cases of in new york court, that deny constitutional rights such as the second amendmant to defendants.

      new york court thinks its above the law of the land. that is until that is the law of the land…. takes a bite out of the big apple.

  2. COVID comment for some.
    Information for those who received one of the mRNA (Covid) vaccines “According to mounting data, one of the more serious side effects of the COVID mRNA jabs appears to be dementia, and worse yet, this previously untransmissible disease may now be “contagious,” transmissible by way of prions.” This info is from https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2024/04/29/prion-brain-diseases.aspx?ui=0638f3394b2bd367e20ac5045494f983a39a97e4c1655719bb8a7e2fad6ca19c&sd=20170718&cid_source=dnl&cid_medium=email&cid_content=art1ReadMore&cid=20240429_HL2&foDate=false&mid=DM1564602&rid=8582289

    The major study referenced in the above (IMHO) is here: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0264410X24001270

    All I can say after reading all of this is Good Luck and be happy if you have no effects from the ‘jabs’ yet. Still big pushes by WHO and Governments around the world to get the ‘jab’ which I consider criminal.

    Cheers and happy to be a member of the Control Group.

  4. Microsoft bankruptcy possible?

    “Back from the Brink: UnitedHealth Offers Sobering Post-Attack Update.”

    https://www.darkreading.com/cyber-risk/back-from-the-brink-unitedhealth-offers-sobering-post-attack-update

    Who pays to fix Microsoft’s buggy hacker vulnerable business software?

    msm writers now writing that businesses cannot afford Microsoft business software of hacker costs.

    Microsoft must pay programmers to find hacker penetration software.

    Then pay for attempted fixes and updates. And there is always another update?

    A pessimistic Seattle Times msm article?

    “Why Seattle becoming the next Detroit might not be the worst thing.”

    • Nobody’s fixed any Microsoft software in the last 35 years.

      Why should 2024 be any different?

      Microsoft has paid “programmers” to install backdoors and “security flaws” you could drive an aircraft carrier through, since they first released a GUI. Their M.O. has been to issue a security patch whenever, but not until, one of their “flaws” was discovered. This is why the ChiComs (and others) made it illegal ~20 years ago for any Government computer to run any Microsoft product. They run a homebrew version of LINUX, just like our CIA and State Department, and other bits of government we don’t want hacked…

      • I agree.. with my wifes career .. she had to have all of them in order to continue to be put on the schedule..
        NOW.. I wasn’t required to get any of the boosters.. before she could continue I had to have the initial set of two.. what about the military.. they all have to have them all.. and then some..

      • when I got the first two .. I was right next to my doctor and their nurse.. getting the same batch they got.. since then my doctors have refused any of the remaining ones..

      • Read the references above by ‘The Tinkerer’.
        Also pay attention to DrArdisShow.com concerning any and all his posted interviews on Covid-19, Snake venom, and Treatments.
        All those supporting and recommending this “shot” (Gates, UN, WEF, Fauci, etc.) are enemies of life on this planet and have earned the prize of a Strangulation Hanging.
        Remember in the early ’80’s there was a series of CJD which was never explained, but after these poor souls died so did the infections. Were these ‘test cases’ for this shot? I lost a good friend in 2017 to CJD ! Up until then the CDC would list those cases each year known to them. After this, they stopped. My friend (who lived just 5 miles from me) was flown to Atlanta on one of their “Special Jets” and placed in extreme isolation where he died alone.
        We had better seriously Wake-Up to this situation and stop making silly excuses for these mass murderers.

      • Got Novavax the only NON mRNA one plus boosters.

        Still a risk since it is unlikely the virus was natural which means even a more traditional vaccine like Novavax tries to be may do very wacky things, Fingers crossed.

  6. If and when Trump wins , maybe he could relocate the troublesome deep state workers to an area of the country that is not as pleasant place to live. You know , no night life , no fancy restaurants, no highend stores. Make their jobs not worth having.

    • OK.. think about it….. How much of the US taxpayers money has been spent trying to kick him out of office. and not trying to prosecute him for crimes that seriously don’t really exist.. made up crap using two hundred year old laws.. ( OH DON;T EVEN THINK ABOUT PUTTING YOUR MULE IN THE BATH TUB OF A MOTEL.. OR ICE CREAM ON YOUR CHERRY PIE.. THAT IS A BAD THING AND AGAINST THE LAWS_)
      one month before trump was elected over two billion dollars was spent trying to convince voters not to vote for him.. then for four years twenty four hours a day.. (Still going on today as well ) you heard prime time television giving out hundreds of negative reports.. now billions and billions has been spent trying to put him behind bars for the rest of his life..
      Who would be the one to take Joes place once he wins this election.. ( If what I have read is true then Texas sure could be the biggest one that will lead the vote from undocumented and illegal voter registrations.. )
      With as much that has been invested trying to send trump to jail.. DO you really think that they will allow him to take office.. what if Joes issues get to bad for him.. who could possibly replace him as president.. we all have heard Kammy talk..
      https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/bill-clinton-hillary-clinton-joe-biden-2024-election.html

      https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/hillary-clinton-surrogate-biden-2024-rcna129085
      or maybe Machelle Obama..
      https://youtu.be/obrQ0jF5lmY?si=5W8vPgjYRWldDWVT

    • Even better, eliminate the agencies they work for. No agency, no job. State Department should be at the top of the list, followed by CIA, FBI, DHS, IRS, DOJ, DOE, right on down the line.

  7. Here’s a funny. I was talking to a couple of people who still believe Hamas chopped up the babies Biden was talking about back there. The people couldn’t be unconvinced. I then I indicated the IDF is currently tying up Palllies and tossing them live into mass graves, they wouldn’t believe it. Blind parrots. We’re doomed.

    Over the weekend –

    “‘They will take it back!’ China ‘readying land grab’ on Russia as Xi turns on Putin
    An expert warned that China is preparing for an opportunity to take back the territory, adding: “The minute there is weakness, they will move.””

    That diddy reinforces the idea of a Western first strike against Russia w/China’s blessing. It’s the old “Nuke & Loot” setup.

  8. Until interest rates come down, the upside potential of the stock markets is limited.
    That’s a traders opinion.
    And interest rated are not coming down this year.
    That is simply mathematics. If the Fed does, inflation and bonds will soar.
    .
    But there is one big caveat to any and all logical assumptions – It “is” an election year. You-&-Yours are minor “collateral damage”., as they will do whatever it takes to stay in office.

  9. I have been following the Japanese Yen for some time now.., so when an article pops up: “Yen soars overnight against the dollar !” – It catches my eye.
    Went to my chart and viola !
    The Yen is down. Yes, there was a spike-up., followed immediately by a spike-down. Now down over 1.5% [ to the dollar ]
    .
    How do the writers and editors get away with such misleading, false reporting? Baffles the hell out of me on how they can stay in business.

    • think about that.. imagine in your mind a… COIN.. this coin is supreme .. worth more than a chunk of gold… this mental image is all you have.. Not even a gaseous residue from a bad Texas chili fart.. no brown stains in your booxies .. just the mental image.. NOW.. imagine that you can go to a store and buy stuff with that mental image.. or lets just jot down on a chunk of paper what the mental image is worth.. see look at how great that is..
      then you wonder how the YEN could spike up or down.. its the image.. its worth what is projected it to be worth.. the dollar bill is the same way.. except this is some old fogie in another country that says… seriously this is valuable .. so valuable that you have to have this many of them promises to buy what ever it is on the shelf that you want..
      the same with gold or silver..( although I was in a store the other day and they have some pretty silver and gold things.. that I will go buy for the wife with the paper promises…. she would look so nice with them on.. I am going to pick some up for the daughters and grand daughters to.. they will make nice pretty gifts..)

    • They write the article in advance, then wait for the specific circumstance they’ve written to happen, and quickly hit the [Submit] button…

  10. “Stacking the deck – which is rich when you consider who’s been stacking it: Joe Biden Admin is Implementing a New Rule Making Sure That if Donald Trump Wins, The Deep State Will Be Preserved “The Office of Personal Management made it so that career civil servants cannot be reclassified as political appointees so that they can’t be fired and replaced”… – Whatfinger News Summary”

    NO worries here George. The answer is to defund. That will be self fullfilling as the $collapse continues into Hyperinflation at any and all resellers of goods and services near you….

  11. I got to thinking – after a couple of comments-posts a couple of days back – and over a couple of conversations with “Lady Fingers” we are going to purpose that our “Third Thursday” monthly poker game be put on hiatus for the Summer. Maybe find a couple of new players. [ That won’t be easy. ]
    I am making money [ last game I was up only $120., until the last two hands – when both the other players tried to bluff., walked away up over $800. Their mistake.] – and it keeps me from getting ‘lazy’.., but there is no challenge within the current group. No challenge – no personal advancement.
    She is going to check with the other players and let me know.
    There have been several players over the past 12 to 13 years – but the end of the run may be in sight. Might just be time to step this up a notch. Pro game every 90 days ?
    We’ll see……..,
    Next game – Invite Only – May 7th [ tables are already full.]

  13. Gobble, gobble gobble, nerk nerk! gobble gobble..

    Time to talk Turkey G Pops!

    – Spring Gobbler Season is upon Pennsyltuckians!
    May 4th – 20th 1/2 hour before Sunrise and 1/2 hour after Sunset.
    No drives, No electronic calls, No decoys – all that would be UnLawful..poachers -https://youtu.be/69OrvXl-pb8?si=tYDw0JJZ3nsAVx5m

    Gobblers are Males, and will have tell tale beard..yes have seen bearded Females, double check before youse pull the trigger. Wild turkeys are typically a dry meat kinda burd. Usually want to cover Burd in Bacon prior to Roasting, to keep it a lil moist…good Gravy helps, but that is secret family recipe.
    I live GMU 5 – where we surveyed 1.4 Poults per Hen past 2 years(low for State), WMU 4E had 4.9 Poults per Hen(high for State) – on average past 2 years for Pennsyltucky has 3.1 Poults per Hen – that should mean plenty of gobblers – jakes, 3 year olds and, best for most hunters, 2 year olds. As general rule 2 year olds are more vocal, and noisier than both younger, moar timid gobblers and older,warier burds.

    Gotta get out in Outdoors for Gobblers..like 60/40 mix woods&shrubby area prolly ideal habitat.
    I almost hit one crossing the road last week driving home from park with the Russels. If I “gobble” them when driving by in neighborhood, they will surround my truck in middle of road, peck the plastic and tires, and generally drive the Russels batshit crazy in their “carrybox”, secured to drinkers side seat .
    Like clock work Spring gobbler starts right after the Sheep Shearing Season here in Chesco,PA.

    * Wool Insulation for Home use…Who Gnu?

    • if they in fact put a tax together to tax capital gains that exist on paper only you can bet BTC will be the first area they prey upon …… easy pickins there…

      • hmm.. how could they prive it exists other than a number on a sheet of paper. I don’t think that anyone even knows where the promissory notes sent to buy a coin that doesn’t exist even is..sent to an unmarked box in so.e random location in some country..

  14. Anybody know of a leveraged “defense” ETF?
    Gen Dy, Honeywell, Ratheon, Lockheed-Martin, etc.

    (Buy for upside only: I have insufficient brains and cash and temprament to play the fast-moving and dangerous shorting stuff thing
    .)
    Just wanna make a few bux on all the nifty war profits shortly to be made… Yeah, I have a minor moral conflict about it, but, hey, what the hell? Money’s gonna be made by SOMEbody. Might as well be me, as I have not much in reserves to get old on..

    • I just bought two breakfasts this morning… at a local restaurant.. the cost of four eggs two slices of sausage some potatoes and two slices of bread..
      two eggs scrambled and two slices of french toast.. with two coffees.. the cost with out tip was over forty dollars.. with tip seventy five..
      the same eggs and bread at Walmart would have been under ten dollars.. but then I would have to cook them..

      • I just bought one, this morning: Two eggs, two slices of bacon, two sausage patties, two pancakes (or pieces of French toast), one bottomless cup of coffee, served with milk & honey — $4.79…

      • It’s all about location, location, location. Out here in the jungle ‘boonies’, the local village shopping center has a big grocery store… local kind. The people around here are poor, welfare types with real ‘beater’ autos… if any at all. They cannot afford the 20 mile trip into town for shopping. So when the welfare check arrives, they flock to the local grocer, where prices are close to twice what one can get with a trip into town at the bigger chain stores. I will not shop at the local grocery. Prices are outrageous.

    • “Money’s gonna be made by SOMEbody. Might as well be me.”

      William, write this down and stick it next to your coffee pot. read it every day first thing in the morning, ( it goes with the creation i recieved on sunday) at life 360.

      ~ The promis of the fruit is found in the blossom. ~

  16. “As long as you don’t dwell too much on what’s to come, not a bad day to get out of bed. Unfortunately, there’s all kinds of crap going on.”

    And you wouldn’t know about it until you read it
    ;-(( and clutter up your mind with useless crap because you cannot do anything about same. Putin and Zelenskyy should have worked it out together in the UN, or why do we support these kind of shit- houses? Also, what would happen if Ukraine would defeat Russia? We’ll have a comedian in charge of the unmanageable, LOL !
    Beware of the “industrial armament industry,” or something of that nature Eisenhover warned us when he exited office. Peace!! Impossible choice.

    • (Putin and Zelenskyy should have worked it out together in the UN)

      heck Putin Begged us to back our missiles off of his border for a year… we moved more in.. when Xi tried to be the adult in the room to de-escalate this mess we parked Ships and missiles on his borders.. None of this would have ever have happened.. it was planned and paid for … My question is.. the corruption in Ukraine was well known and written about for decades.. I had visited with people from ukraine and bordering countries that had discussed a lot of this.. years before.. and the question still nags at me.. why would we support a corrupt violent regime doing more crimes than any other country on the planet that the people of the country was trying to get changed for over twenty years.. Anyone that had any decency or ethics and morals at all wouldn’t buy into supporting that.

  18. NEW GADGET ALERT. The following writeup is from a local ham, William, NH6ET, who is a very adept radio tech of commercial nature. I bought one… now learning how to work it.
    ============

    I’d like to alert anybody in the market for a new multimeter of what I?believe to be a good bargain. I recently became aware of the GOCHIFIX?Handheld Oscilloscope/Multimeter/Waveform Generator, when it was featured?on the TRX Lab YouTube channel. https://youtu.be/AL-LUGdn8j8
    The performance and operation of the device, as demonstrated by peter’s use?in his video, impressed me for a device at this price point. It’s certainly?not going to replace my calibrated instruments for serious work. However,?for tinkering in the shack, it seems to be a good value, to me.
    I’ve never heard of this brand; but of course, I’d never heard of the?brands of many of the nifty devices we play with these days, such as the?makers of the NanoVNA and TinySA. So, I pulled the trigger and used Peter’s?discount code to get one from Amazon. When I purchased; however, I noticed?that right now there is an additional $20 coupon for the unit on Amazon?right now. It allowed me to stack the coupons, so I was able to get it for?just $112.54. I don’t know how long these coupons are going to be around?for, so I wanted to get this out to everyone ASAP.
    My unit has arrived, and I have just put it through its paces. I am as?happy as a clam with it. Is it the best Multimeter I have, no. Is it the?best Oscilloscope I have, no. Within its design limitations it is going to?be a very handy addition to my lab. One feature that I really like is that?it is rechargeable from a USB C. I am so tired of batteries leaking in my?meters!
    https://amzn.to/495XkHP?Use discount code: 25TRXLab?Don’t forget to check the box for the additional $20 off coupon!

    • A further note (I have been looking at these for a while) the sig gen only goes up to 5 Mhz – and I want something that can at least be a portable signal alignment tool up to 30 mhz
      Best trade off so far is this one which will do 25 mhz native: Hantek 2D72 Handheld Oscilloscope 70MHz Waveform Generator Multimeter 3 in 1 Multifunction Tester 2CH+AFG+DMM – https://amzn.to/4bfOB7d
      \Thoughts>?
      And what was the price on the one you put up? thanks g

      • With the two discounts, the GOCHIFIX (what a name!) was $112. This one ain’t bad at $175, and if the sig gen goes up to 70MHz like you want… pull the finger, er… trigger! Sorry I stole your scope. That notice went out to hams all over the Big Island, so we probably collectively cleaned out the inventory.

        • Key things on these – and that’s why I have been slow pulling the clicker on it – is that for a good alignment in a shirt pocket, you need to have a sig gen to 30 mhz (*25 in a pinch and hope a square wave at 15 mhz will be dirty enough to be loaded with second harmonics – but that’s why I didn’t get too excited about any of them – look at the tracking generator specs – either missings or many go to 2 mhz or 5 mhz – which is a nonstarter for alignment in a shirt pocket tools

      • $144 (or so) on Ali Express. I don’t think I’ve ever bought any tools or parts costing more than $50 or $60 on Ali Express, but my luck has been very good with maybe 30 to 40 purchases over the past several years. I noticed that on Ali Express there are literally dozens of meters apparently using the same case as the Gochifix but no images showing the same waveform and the big on/off button below the big central function button.

      • Well, er, no. The one hanbk got was 80 mhz b//w scope, this link is to 12. And even Hanks, the top of the signal gen in sine if 5 mhz…which don’t fly for us,

        • Bird in hand worth two in Hong Kong. I agree that 12MHZ would have less utility for HF applications, but I would hope it would do 60 HZ OK for inverter troubleshooting. The 80 MHZ would get you up to the top of the HF bands, which is what you are looking for. You find a multi-gig storage scope with wave generator and multimeter for less than $100, I’ll bite on it.

  19. “The problem isn’t a lack of money, food, water, or land.
    The problem is that you’ve given control of these things to a group of greedy psychopaths who care more about maintaining their own power than helping Mankind.”

    -Bill Hicks

  20. This is where things get interesting. Where do you go to get feed stocks of metals needed for Ure production of products now? Talk about rising prices. Lets get ready to moon on good delivery. Not so much for the paper abstractions of same lol.. Prices for everything with metal parts are about to go up uP UP.

    Plastic? $100bbl oil will keep that competitive.

    https://www.marketwatch.com/story/oil-prices-may-soon-rise-to-100-a-barrel-heres-why-11642710455

    Lets go Brandon.

    https://www.zerohedge.com/commodities/global-metals-markets-face-uncertainty-russian-ban-takes-effect

  22. wow, i am having a multitude of land scapes and textures falling into place. stuff from 16 thousand years ago corrospoonding to todays events, and other images moving into juxtiposition matching in shades of vibrant hughes of color.

    like multi – tier map. a schematic of sorts.

    tezactipaco whose name meant, “Smoke and Mirrors” drove out Quetzalcotal aka by the incas as Virocochas, a white man with blue eyes and a beard, and when tezactipaco did that, the myans and aztechs returned to human sacrifice.

    Quetzalcotal before he left, swore he would return and gave them strict orders to not commit human sacrifice. to live in peace.

    when the spanish showed up,
    they put an end to the worship of tezactipaco and human sacrifice. whiping out everyone who participated in it. the spanish were christians. serving the Final Sacrfice of Jesus as redemption for all sins.

    the myans and the aztechs thought that the spaniards were the return of Quetzalcotal. who gave stern waring about not doing human sacrifice and not hurting children.

    and what did the spaniards do after whiping all those who served tezactipaco.

    they built catherdals, to worship Christs final sacrifice as atonement for all sins upon the foundations of the temples of
    Quetzalcotal.

    Quetzalcotal the blonde, bearded white dude with blue eyes who walked on water.

    same as the images of Christ in the catholic church.

    and here we are again at the end of the world, where the leaders are mixed up in epstines island etc etc.

    it is said that the worshipers of tezactipaco cut the skin virgins, then danced around them wearing their flesh before removing their victims hearts and drinking there blood.

    sound familar?

    its only a matter of time before another cataclysm and the return Virocochas

    i get glympses throught the day of the timeline sequence on a map. like its mapped out. in a multi tier map. several layers to it in motion, joining together like giant puzzel. but when the puzzel piece connect they spark like lightning then form into other moving puzzel pieces in a different layer. some who spark above cascade into a differing layer of topology.

    example: 4 moving pieces in movement on layer 3 represent a massive EQ. as they join, it sparks, then 1 piece moves down 4 layers and is in motion with 3 other pieces in motion on that layer. each layer represents a differing age of antiquity. or ‘time” and the other 3 pieces that connected to form a large EQ move up and down and start on motion toward differing pieces all who meet and cause a differing event such as a new tech develped or the collapse of an empire by plague or starvation on a differing layer. all moving on of the same toplogy,

    yet in a different age or eons and connect with other pieces in motion.

    if that makes sence. lol

    hard to describe.

    i keep seeing flashes of it.

    and ive never seen it before like that. the pieces are like celestial objects moving in concert and each time they connect a spark is produced an event of some sort is produced such as the invention of automation or a volcano errupts and whipes out a village.

    and there is many many pieces in motion.

    • like the example i gave at the beach.

      im reading a book and journaling. i pause think about Jesus breaking the bread and the fish, (2000 year old event) sandy shows up with fish and chips, the them from the movie Grease (1970s movie scene) is generated, i give the lady next to me a jump start for her car, Current event, a Spark, and later i find a jack of clubs and an ace of diamonds. the ace diamonds slides next to the jack creating black jack. all moving pieces or themes from differing time periods, intersecting in one point of time.

      or as Terrance McKenna called them, “Transcendental Checkpoints.”

      moving upward and downward within a multi tier map of sorts and converging to create an event, felt afterwards.

      maybe i should stop reading Grahm Hancocks book. hahaa.

      the truth is, i have been seeing these transindental check points converging for a while.

      Grahm Hancocks book aided me in seeing glimpses of the same chekcpoints on a multi tier map, spanning accross many ages of antiquity, even our current one.

      as one Transcendental Checkpoints.” such as The death and resurection of Christ, sparks it moves pieces into another layer of the topology experianced 1500 years later converging with other Transcendental pieces to form a Transcendental Checkpoint, causing the spark of the promised retuning of Quetzalcotal. who the spaniards built thier cathedrals upon Quetzalcotal temple foundations. the spark produced the event of the end of Tezactipaco command to do human sacrifice.

      now humanity aa a whole experiances this over linier time. some may experiance it through cyclical time.
      however, The moving pieces are moving through a topology of a multi -tier system. from event to event.

      that is why the myan long count calander was missunderstood!!!!!! its a sphere not a circle calander!!!!!

      sphere images when placed in maps, distort longitude and latitude lines.

      like when your on a ship. as the waves go up, the hurizon line gets wider. as you the waves take you downward the hurizon view gets narrower.

      if the world was flat. like a map, the myan long count read would have been exact, as mutiple Transcendental Checkpoints would converge simutaiously ->>>> Forming The Transcendental Object!

      time stops. time ends. time stands still. before it begins moving again.

      that occurs when all the Transcendental Checkpoints spark simutaiously ->>>> Forming The Transcendental Object!

      on all layers of the topology simutaniously.

      mutiple moving Transcendental pieces sparking simutaiously as they form Transcendental Checkpoints accross all the multi tier system.

      as we know the world is not flat like a map. it is spherical. longitude and lattitude lay lines are distorted when a sphereical map, is made into a flat map.

      as we know, Longitude measures time in degrees.

      huh, i have
      never viewed events like this before.

      cool book. if you know Ghram, please tell him thanks! love the book.

      ~ The Fingerprints of The Gods ~

      makes perfect sence.

    • that is why there is an offset in measuring distance between cataclysms.

      one happens 4000 years after the other one. the next one happens 4008 years later. the next one happens 5800 years later. and why we havent experianced the 2012 sequence myan long count as of yet.

      because the topology is not flat like discs. its spheres within spheres.

      like in my NDE, beyond the hall ways of infinite doors. where i saw the cascading spheres around a larger sphere. moving around the center sphere up and down. and brighter white lights sparking within them.

      now it all makes sence.

    • myths and legends CCB, myths and legends.
      Q was/is The Feathered Serpent or Precious Serpent.

      That is all you need 2 know to id the “gods”
      In “Last March Of The Gods” the tale is told of Ammenti/Atlantis finally succumbing and going under. Half of the elites/rulers/gods went to South America and half made the long march across northern Africa and came to Egypt. Ancient tunnels and trails still exist to this day. They would have been “The People of The Light in the Service of the Source”

      Zhuti-Djehuti-Thoth (Ze-Hu-Ti) was Enki/Osiris right hand man from beginning. He was head science guy.

      He was one of Enki’s Nungal, “The Watchers” (really good guys). They were created versus the creation of the Annuna/Annunaki. They were created race of “Planners” or Kadistu to offset the warrior Annuna as ordained by Queen Tiamate (also a name of planet in solar system that is now asteroid belt).
      Add’l note – Sinumum – Ameri Indians- Native Americans..”of unaltered ancestry” = divine source.
      Enki and Nammu (Tiamate’s daughter) were said to have injected the Sinumum with Nungal DNA after bringing em back from the Pleiades.
      Iggigi = Nungal= Shemshu-Ra (sons of Elohim)

  23. Lowes must have a fantastic intelligence service.
    I am baffled.
    Yesterday morning I placed and order with Lowes, couple hundred bucks, free delivery.
    My misses received a text message this morning that it is on it’s way.
    Cool., nice update. But…, WTH !??
    I never give out her cell phone number – and I do not have a cell phone. And the order was under my name. Not hers.
    So.., I called customer service, got a friendly squeaky voice girl.., and asked her just how did they do that? How did they text a cell phone, that I did not supply, regarding my order?
    She was honestly dumbfounded. She has no idea how they did that.
    Can you get a cell phone number by knowing someone’s address? I’m sure one of the Alphabets could do it easy-enough. But Lowes ? ., but they had to of noticed that it wasn’t my name, the name on the order.
    .
    Question: Does anyone here have an answer. How did they do that ?

    • Did you pay with a Lowes credit card or have an account at Lowes? If so, no mystery. Have you Googled your name? It’s amazing what can turn up — including names of relatives, addresses, and phone numbers from public records.

      • Neither one of us has ever had a Lowes account., or their credit card. Ever.
        I do not understand why they would do a credit search when I paid in cash.
        .., and even if they did – how did they get my misses cell phone number in such a search? I am not on any of her accounts.

    • You failed to mention what you used for payment. If it was debit or credit card transaction, they got your phone number from your credit company. Same with Paypal. If it was a cash transaction, then someone at your address may have previously given them a phone number. It didn’t have to be you. Last, if the amount of the transaction tripped a wire, Lowe’s may have doled out $ .05 to credit agency to get enough info to steal your identity 10 times over.
      And if a box boy or cashier whose loony-tunes football coach lost his job for stalking you, or recognizes that you are a juror who sent their made-man Scamway distributor to prison for 20 years for fraud, falsely reports that you are a convicted felon to their brown-shirt private corporate security for retaliation, the merchant’s contract security will put you on a security alert database which will be shared with other corporate brown shirts, and you will be stalked and terrorized by corporate security facial recognition software everywhere you go. The local merchant’s associations will gang stalk you. And local police on their payroll will cover for any hate crimes which are committed against you by the brown shirt corporates, the local merchants and their payees. If it is T@rget or W@lly World, you will have private goons follow you every time you leave their store to intimidate. And you have no recourse against any of it, other than to lose your temper and go to jail or worse.
      Pissing off an officious bad card player might also be an initiating event.
      Never pissed off a card player, but I have experienced most of this first hand. Having a very common name with plenty of convicted felons with similar, but not identical names makes it easier for the terrorism for hire industries to stalk. Never been retaliated against by the Zon.
      Brown shirt police states operate by using false witness, phony records, and secrecy to stalk their prey. If you aren’t paranoid, then you don’t understand how this country works.

      • Nope. She rarely shops “on-line”.
        Never ordered from Lowes, or Home Depot.
        .., and even if she did – how did they link me to her cell phone., which she wouldn’t have given them anyway.

        • Their security guy got your license plate off the camera. You are a non-Hispanic buying large amounts of material. Very suspicious. That bulge under your shirt and in your pocket were obviously stolen merchandise, and the parolee associate in plumbing says you’re a very bad man he met in the state pen. The security guys and off-duty cops are on your case. All the Big Box stores know about you now. Wait until the grocery stores pick up on it.

    • I know how….

      I had a friend.. worked …IT … for DARPA… he was working on a project that all of us have heard about..
      shipping is cross checked by some companies by the.. CLOUD… your whole life is on the cloud..
      My friend had sent me a tablet.. I got it but wasn’t really interested in the tablet.. but I would let my three year old grandson use it to watch cartoons .. one day he brought it to me saying papa change the channel.. even though it had been put back to factory specs.. it was still listed on his cloud.. it was his home laptops camera that was turned on by my grandson.. the whole thing had reconnected to the clouds.. everything was on there.. his banking accounts his credit card accounts everything .. his phones his cameras.. his son’s phones and camera.. his banking information.. along with a few other realitives all attached to the cloud from him..
      I had a credit card account.. they couldn’t verify it was me.. because the cloud had put in a dozen other phones and addresses.. ( speaking of which I have to go back and straighten this mess out.. I closed the account and the bank is still taking payments out of my bank account)
      Shipping companies check the cloud base to update an address.. her number is there.. it automatically gets attached to the shipping..
      for my friend.. I did everything from changing his contacts phone numbers.. to downloading beevus and butthead videos.. nothing would change his mind he thought I was messing with him so I really did mess with him..
      then one file was photos.. so I would crop the guy out of this photo..
      https://d.ibtimes.com/en/full/1522882/lottery-winner.jpg?w=1600&h=1200&q=88&f=556c71f2465e4337098bd23c4a1b1636
      and drop it in his photo file.. he would delete it.. so I would drop it in again.. he would delete it.. after a few days he still was adamant that I was screwing with his mind.. so I put it back to factory specs again and shipped back to him telling him to destroy it.. talked to his kid that writes for one of the major news companies told him talk to your dad..
      well his dad called me and I said.. dam Ithought you would figure it out when I could track you from my home in the wastelands and knew your wife was getting her hair done and you were at home depot.. how would I know this stuff. why did your aunts phone number become the local massage parlors… I was not playing when I descovered the whole cloud was on that tablet…. then when you kept deleting that guys photo.. what guy he asks.. so I dropped the photo in his phone and he said.. dam that is the pervert.. what pervert.. LOL LOL LOL
      he said this guy came up to my door bell and would ring it every couple of hours he had the police out searching for him LOL.. LOL LOL I said no you dummy it was me dropping the photo in your cloud file.. every time I did that his doorbell would ring..
      Every sign up for auto payments.. signing up for one.. gives them access to your bank account..
      these companies use the cloud.. every portion of your life is on there what you eat where do you go what do you frequent.. everything…. the same as it is at every courthouse.. open to the public.. I never owned a shredder until I worked trash.. officials would come in every couple of weeks and pick a random house to go through their trash.. wanna know how often someone has sex.. go through their trash.. pretty soon you know everything..
      Our dependance to technology just gave them all more access and control.. If that doesn’t scare you it should.. I know it scares the shit out of me..

      https://youtu.be/SEqTGiYiAeg?si=F6NsTkV_8n-PWSYJ

    • In the days of regular phones there were two a near public databases: One that went by the phone number, which then gave the name and address of the person; A second one that went by address and gave the phone numbers and name of the people who lived there. Of course there was always the person lookup, which was the White Pages most people had (the other two were usually at the local library and free to use fwiw)

      With the transition to most people only having cell phones those databases have transitioned also, though it is slightly harder now to get the data out of them, but only harder for the general public since the Public Library doesn’t have them in print on their shelves.

      Unless your wife is using burner phones and switching them out regularly, and NEVER giving those phone numbers to any business, bank, government agency of course it is going to end up in the database of address and names cross referencing phone numbers (this time cell phone numbers vs the old ATT hard wired phones). If your last names are the same the computer is going to assume that is a phone YOU USE.

      I don’t know all the ins and outs of how it works but one attorney I know is an expert at tracking down people, even people trying real hard to hide, via the various data bases she has access to. Tells me it generally takes about 15 minutes (even most of the time if they are using burner phones to try to hide). As the saying goes … “You can run, but you can’t hide”

  24. In Lebanon… we get a sense of the latest non sequitur of Biden foreign policy. In this version, one belief set is seen as Soros promotes Gulf Arab defense in sign to Israel and Iran.

    Fixed that for you. Never forget Blinken is a Soros.

    ‘Washington is big on “coalition-building.” But how much of it is real when you look past the hype and happy talk?’

    Washington is big on “coalition-building” when it is sticking our noses where they don’t belong.

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