So Much for Santa, Year-end Looms, Reading Time

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Early today, the Futures were pricing in a good-sized decline.  Dow Futures at 7 AM Eastern were down about 170 and it looked like the S&P and NASDAQ were on similar pathing for four-tenths of a percent drops.

Meanwhile, after hitting $106,490 Tuesday, Bitcoins had fallen to the mid $95,000’s.

While the market continues to “tell a good story” – about sugarplum fairies and all that – the technical issue in our Aggregate Index chart hasn’t gone away.  Not by a long stretch:

As you can see (squint, if you need to) in the upper right-hand side of the chart, the A.I. Bull has a problem.  There has been considerable on-balance selling of core market holdings for a good while now.  And that top – where we bumped into the underside of the trend channel?

That came eight days ago – at 52,470.42. We have circled December 16th as a possible high.  Obviously, writing about finance (since 1970) you begin to see the foolishness of “top calling”.  Still, it’s a fun sport and anyone with a website and a decent retirement strategy can play all the way to the cemetery.

Having disavowed all that, even broken clocks get to be right twice a day.  So in the spirit of broken clockworks, we have also put a circle 55-days out – which falls February 9, 2025.

As I look at the chart now?  There is a (weak) case that we may be finishing a minor 2 up from an initial minor 1 down from the (so far) all-time high.  Which could land us back at the bottom of a minor 3 down in short order.  Which logically would get us to around January 20th, or so.

Why Down – Then What?

Market prices, like the tall pines here in the East Texas piney woods, are always whispering something about the Future.  But what exactly, is always the problem.

Today, we can see a Constitutional Crisis if Mike Johnson is not retained – at least for a while – as Speaker of the House.  See, as this Newsweek headline explains it, the House has two critical jobs to get done in the next 10-days.  First is the swearing in of new members, and then is Certifying the Election – as the results are/were scheduled to be delivered and ratified on January 6th. Republicans Fear Speaker Battle Means They ‘Can’t Certify the Election’.

You can almost see how one possible future could lay out:  A decline, starting now, until this latest penny-dreadful faux drama is wound up (about Jan 8th would be nice – in tears to the minor 3 down).  The resolution of which would be cause for a minor wave 4.  Then an almost predictable “Inaugural scare” to lead in to a low point ahead of January 2oth.

The next thing would be?  Well, plug in a wave 2 up on the Inauguration going well. But then – with Trump on duty – expect Netanyahu to overplay his hand (frightening markets a great deal) and possibly leading into the start of a larger 3 down.

This is an interesting game to play, made all the more exciting when playing with real (such as it is) money.

But Bigger Problems Loom

One of these is that longshore strike. With only a couple of weeks to run until the cooling-off ends – Jan. 15th – our reliance on port workers has never been higher.  A week back this was underscored in Asia-US container rates climb in latest Freightos index.

Then there’s the special interests and A.I. takes on 2025.  Climate-mongers are solidly in control of the UN 5 GLOBAL ISSUES TO WATCH IN 2025 | unfoundation.org which include war and climate.

Reader LOOB had a good list in a post he picked up over here.

For now, though, we’re as worried about “the little things” as the big ones.  Given a real interest rate of 4 percent, the additional debt for the 161-million workers in America – due on our oversized National Debt will be the uglier of two numbers.

  • Truth in Accounting pegs the basic National Debt at $36.6 trillion (plus or minus a hot buttered rum).  Four percent on this pushes out to  1.464-trillion  in interest charges alone.  $9,093 per worker, per year just to break-even.
  • In Ure’s world, however, there is a much larger number. That’s the total debt owed, plus all that unforgivable interest that must be paid, as well.  This morning that’s around $157.844 trillion.  That’s more than $6.3 trillion of interest accumulating. Which means that just to hold things even, workers will need to contribute $39,216 per worker per year.  And that is before your expenses to live and existing federal income taxes.

To our simple-minded way of looking at thing?  The only solution is to run Bitcoin up to over a million dollars each, then have the government make digital money (that competes with the Dollar and whatever the central bank digital currency is, when that unicorn is born…).  At which point, crypto is all confiscated (like gold and silver in the Great Depression) and applied to zero out the National Debt.

Potential for a finer swindle has seldom been seen, but it would be a dandy.

Well, except for the fact that China would not accept a few (hopelessly hard to crack, for now) digital signatures as “payment”.  Because a handful of countries have dug in their heels.  Banned countries include:

  • China
  • Pakistan
  • Saudi Arabia
  • Tunisia
  • Bolivia

But all the Central Banksters are working the margins trying to scam together a workable central bank digital currency.

  • The Bahamas: Launched the world’s first CBDC, the Sand Dollar, in 2019. The Sand Dollar was intended to help improve financial inclusion and security.
  • Jamaica: Launched a CBDC.
  • Nigeria: Launched a CBDC in October 2021.
  • El Salvador: Adopted Bitcoin as legal tender in 2021 to promote financial inclusion and job creation. The country also launched Chivo Wallet, an app that allows users to pay peers and firms, and make deposits and withdrawals in both U.S. dollars and Bitcoin.
    European Union: Proposing a legal framework for a digital euro.
  • Canada, Brazil, and the United States: Have concrete plans to launch a CBDC.
  • Russia, Thailand, India, South Korea, Sweden, the United Arab Emirates, and Saudi Arabia: Are in a CBDC pilot phase.
  • Other countries that are exploring CBDCs include: China, The euro area, and The United Kingdom.

As we have always held, the only TRUE money in the world are the basics like land, food, water, and energy.  At the second level are the “universal commodities” like uranium, gold, silver, and the PGM (platinum metals group).

Our thinking continues to be that eventually it will all circle back to the urgent consumables (food and water) so we (quite stupidly, for now) keep working on our 30-acres for food and water.  And when we find a good deal on solar panels, we add them to the inventory, too.  Because over time you can’t eat gold and silver.  Or even more importantly, you can’t eat crypto and it won’t survive in the EMP world that will result from the global war when all countries are trying to stiff each other on “My CBDC is better than your CBDC…”

Where we all go?  In time it will have to flutter down to a modern retooling of Feudalism, which frankly, can be done (to some degree and within tax law) at the local level.  What the (mutha) WEF’ers aren’t telling you is that eating bugs “and you’ll be happy” is what digital feudalism will look like.  Except for the odd lord or country vassal who sees it coming before the herd.  Admittedly, 30-acres is a small fief. But, bigger than most. Cobble up some used mobile homes with well-defined gardens, take a share of the crops in lieu of rent for a portion (since ownership is outright) and you begin to get the picture.

Or not.

Oh, Look!  Jobless Claims…

…for the week are just out:

Train Wreck on Parade

OK, not a train then: What Happened Over Russia? Probe Into Fatal AZAL Crash in Kazakhstan Begins. Was it a missile that didn’t miss? Russia being blamed for Azerbaijan Airlines plane that crashed hundreds of miles off course, killing dozens. But we take this with a salt lick…Russia warns against ‘hypotheses’ in Azerbaijan Airlines crash.

Traveling by air?  Here’s a TSA confidence-builder for you: Three People Shot at Phoenix Airport: What We Know.

Give her my address: Dear Abby: I feel used after giving my ‘best friend’ money for her and her boyfriend.

Ah, Duck soup? South Korea prime minister Han Duck-soo faces impeachment motion. (rim-shot)

Around the Ranch: Reading it Write

Since neither of us wanted anything for Christmas, other than the delish pork tenderloin I made in the air fryer with a glass of Paisano, I decided to get into the spirit of the day by spending money.

A new Kindle 11 will land here tomorrow. the one with 128 gigs of memory for my 900-some books.  And no ads, thanks.

Since there’s a novel due to fly out of these fingers in 2025, I’ve been shortcut shopping:

More generic additions this week included:

This last one was only a buck and change…pretty good read though most of it is obvious or already-known by aware humans.

I keep going back to G.W. Franke’s book (another reader): Forbidden Cosmology: Uncovering the Ultimate Connection (Complete Cosmic Energy Exchange Concept, CCEEC).  I keep wanting to say he’s wrong but trying to craft a reply hasn’t hung together yet.

And with our ShopTalk Sunday series in mind, The Tools and Materials of the Watchmaker – A Guide to the Amateur Watchmaker’s Toolkit – Including How to make your own Tools has been useful.

Since reading is a major time-sink, and since Clif High’s (original, breakthrough Vortex Reader) isn’t around, I have been using Swift Read and you might want to take a look at it, if gobbling up huge amounts of information is what you do.

The Pro version is $60 a year.  Hope Clif kept up his patent on the technology but the good idea is still out there.

Write when you get rich, have time, or are struck by the world-saving idea!

George@Ure.net

61 thoughts on “So Much for Santa, Year-end Looms, Reading Time”

  1. I listened last night to some 1946 OTR recordings of an NBC series “The 5th Horseman” about future atomic warfare:

    https://www.oldtimeradiodownloads.com/historical/the-fifth-horseman/

    Discussing this series is akin to discussing which of the atomic doomsday movies is the best. It is unique because of the date, 1946, and the guileless presentation, by audio, of the then future of atomic energy/bombs. It also covers how marshal law and “dispersal” might actually be enforced in the USA.

    • if……
      society survives…it’s all dependent on society continuing on.. I belive that they used the greed of the family business along with the ability to buy and have direct connections to our legislators.. heck last year they spent millions per each member of congress..with the mount everest of situations with mountains of evidence.. NO ONE stuck around..NO ONE raced back to DC to work on any of it..it’s business as usual.. with so much damage to an economic situation that was failing before.. now I believe it’s sunk they did more damage to the federal reserve now and our deficit.. I dont believe the system we have now can be salvaged.. federal reserve and the dollar bill is essentially dead.. I believe that Zimbabwe was more proactive than this administration has been towards their economic situation..
      the analysts all have given a set of very bleak survival rates.. i am not sure if their claims are for global or just the usa…The usa only made provisions for a couple thousand of the politicians and the elite that only have a limited amount of supplies.. China and Russia made provisions for the majority of their citizens the US is so interested in destroying and war we didn’t even make provisions for the hurricane and tornado destruction..
      if you were one then you might own the whole state you live in.. the rest would become Nomads.. similar to the Indian tribes.. our grid is antiquated our infrastructure is falling apart … where china built 70 gigawatts worth if coal power plants just last year as backup systems.. they have been building deep underground shelters for over a hundred years..
      now we see all the countermeasures that the biden administration is tossing out to destroy the incoming Trump administration..then news that the democratic party is going to stop Trump from going into office..

      forseers claimed that those that do survive would be jealous of those that didn’t.
      the USA didn’t plan for anything for the people

    • You may not be clear: WHEN (the greater of IF) THEY lose control, your world will end. Ours – all prepped out – will only be beginnings.
      Buy panels, buy power. buy electrics for gardening and home. Don’t by made-up mythical shit.
      Buy skills. By more surveillance cams…but not “notional computers-required bullshit.” Pleeze. You will thank me post EMP and post-nukes.
      Buy jeans, buy shoes, by water filters, buy fishmox. Just not notional bullshit with no intrinsic or enduring value.
      Even books are better, old school, how to.

        • On some of the prepper sites, you can see advertisements for insurance against everything from Yellowstone to a comet strike.

          They assure their customers they will pay out, regardless of calamity.

          I assume the fact they exist, means they have a customer base…

      • Oh my George everyone is thinking about guns and I’m thinking about potato balls..
        1/4 cup of milk
        2 eggs beaten
        1/2 cup of flour
        1_tsp salt ( or 1 tsp good shit spice)
        mix this to make a pancake batter for dipping..

        Then a coating after you make the balls or sticks.. you dip them in the batter then coat them ..

        1 cup unseasoned, plain breadcrumbs
        1/4 cup of spaghetti spice (blended to a powder you can add whatever spices you wish your the boss )
        2 tsp. onion powder
        2 tsp. dried parsley
        2 tsp. dried basil
        1 tsp. salt
        1 tsp. paprika
        1 tsp. garlic powder
        mix … you can store this and use what you want ..I get a canister at walmart..great stuff..
        now the balls..
        3 large potatoes peeled cooked and mashed then add 1/2 cup of flour..
        I like to melt butter in my potatoes with a quarter cup of cream..not necessary..
        once you make the potato dough.. you can either make the potato balls or..this is a dough similar to a pasta dough.. roll it out and take a Ravioli form or a dumpling maker and make filled potato dumplings..
        https://www.amazon.com/Russian-Ravioli-maker-dumplings-Dumplings-dumplings/dp/B07QLLMSYR/ref=sr_1_15?
        dip in the batter then in the bread crumbs..
        then deep fry them or bake them 375 degrees..
        f you make hamburger filled potato balls then make a great cream sauce and enjoy..
        if you make sticks.. then you take that potato dough and put it through the pasta press on the gnocchi string dip coat and fry..
        I have never made potato pasta but seriously have considered it..

    • I like the cloud lifestyle, but can’t eat cloud assets without the grid, the internet and delivery trucks to transmute into physicals. As long as I am working, and can get resupply by delivery truck, I will limit the prep activities, especially the back-breaking variety, simply because I can.

      Be ready to make changes in lifestyle with parts and pieces on hand.

      I spent several years damn near a prisoner on my own property, and that was before Covid. I grew a lot of vegetables, and got to really like Amazon. Paid for the bulk of it with one really good trade. I have never discussed how bad, or how long it went on, largely because most of you don’t believe that things like that can happen to a law-abiding citizen in this country.
      It will be tougher to do again without Prime as quartermaster, but I have had time to think things through, prioritize, and lay in modest stocks of things I really need, with spares or duplicates. Two is one, and one is none. Really.
      I have refrained from making massive infrastructure mods to this homesite, because i am not sure how long I can hold the place in a real SHTF scenario. Most of my preps are transportable.
      I would prefer to stay home, but I store my emergency road camping gear in a covered trailer. Take nothing for granted. You don’t have to be caught up in an apocalypse to be caught in the middle of a local or regional sh!tstorm. Stu can attest to that.
      For me, when “they” lose control, I expect the local gang made men will be after assets, once again. Reference Warhammer’s counsel below. Also pay attention to G____’s and Steevo’s counsel in this same thread. I will add, keep hardware in hand cleaned and lubricated to spec.

      • (“in a real SHTF scenario”)

        in a real SHTF scenario.. nukes flying .. if the analysts have any credibility whatsoever.. then the odds are the vast majority of us..will be gone.. that is why I put the instructions on why I prepped what I did and how to use it.. that way if they stumble across my place they will have an understanding on how it works..
        if I happen to survive then I have them..
        you never prep to survive but prep in case you survive..
        its not about the me…but more about the WE or US …
        community.. I live close enough to the colony that that is where I would head..hopefully I would have something beneficial to contribute..

  3. “Freightos index.” George you may have come up with a new index for measuring the girth of larger diameter land Shamu’s!

  4. I’d add ammunition to the ‘true money’ or ‘barter economy’ essentials, along with the means to use it. If things do go to hell in a handbasket (favorite saying of my late great mom), survival will depend on one’s ability to secure their own food and provide shelter, clothing and self-defense for themselves and their loved ones. Standard ammo like:
    – .22 cal
    – 9 mm
    – .45 cal
    – .12 ga shotgun shells
    – and even the Dirty Harry favorite, .357
    – a decent compound bow would be handy as well (with arrows and spare strings, of course)

    Garden good seeds would be valuable as well.

    • Warhammer: all good additions. I have rather a lot of loads for every weapon. Hope worst case is using birdshot, slugs, rimfire, etc. for game, not against our fellows. Location being highly secure, with layers, that causes no lost sleep. Do the things that seem sensible and buy stuff you’d use anyway. Long shelf life means you eat your mistakes.

      Today is a day of rest then we saddle up to beat a retreat from the far north back into the north of Michigan. This ends the longest time away from our nest in my adult life. Good times. Lots of fam. gatherings and close in work with my son and Grandling.

      Note: best to ignore the market machinations. George mentioned last week how trading would grow thin, so potentially volatile. Junior Traders are running bets for their Seniors but have limited book restrictions to avoid tap on shoulder from a Risk Officer. Stay small (NFA, just a thought).

      The house-sitter informed my 21 YO TomCat is still with us and wants for attention. Bet he attaches to Mrs. E on arrival and stays close. But, no little boy stuff to do for months. Heart grows fonder (if that’s possible).

      Enjoy the season,
      Egor

      • (“Hope worst case is using birdshot, slugs, rimfire, etc. for game, not against our fellows. “)

        exactly… I can make things like black powder etc..that’s not anything major..
        how many people forgot that during the Obama Biden administration they bought what was it a hundred thousand rounds per person.. handed out targets of pregnant women old people with walkers and children..a psychological desensitization towards shooting regular people..
        but I’m not the hunter type..I do have a non lethal pepper ball gun… all I need is time to get us to a safe place…

    • The infamous “Dirty Harry gun” was a S&W .44 magnum rather than .357. I personally prefer the .357, having carried one for 30 years. The .44 just isn’t fun to shoot in my opinion.

      • “The .44 just isn’t fun to shoot in my opinion.”

        The first time I shot my Blackhawk I was scared to death of the kick… until I squeezed the trigger. The first time I shot my shotgun, I was scared to death of the kick… until I squeezed the trigger.

        When I was a kid, the first time I shot my friend’s backup piece (Colt Python snub-nose in .357) I was scared to death of the kick… until I squeezed the trigger.

        The only thing I find “not fun” about shooting .44mag rounds is the cost for gratification…

    • May I also suggest a rifle, with reach-out and touch someone, capabilities. If for nothing else but for hunting.
      I prefer the 308 Winchester [ 7.62Nato] as the ammo is available everywhere., [ and it’s the ballistics I know by heart. ]

      • Available of Ammo. When living Stateside I attempted to limit my calibers to ready available calibers. Stuff you can pick up anywhere.
        I also limited the calibers in the house so I could buy more of the same caliber instead of a few of this and a few of that.
        I wanted everyone to be using the same calibers so we could swap ammo if one of us out ran out.
        What did that leave me? An inside the house shotgun with an outside the house shotgun for hunting.
        A long gun for hunting and reaching out to ‘touch’ some one. Pistols that shot the same caliber (if possible) that the long gun did. A bit difficult but an option.
        A small caliber .22LR rifle for squirrels, rabbits and a pocket pistol .22LR . For all of the Ladies in the family I bought one of these. A RUGER https://ruger.com/products/sr22Pistol/models.html. Why this one? Trigger pull. Some people can not pull the triggers on many weapons with their lack of finger strength and arthritis issues.
        Many ideas out there so apply some logic for your personal situation.
        Cheers, and have a Healthy New Year!

        • “Available of Ammo. When living Stateside I attempted to limit my calibers to ready available calibers. Stuff you can pick up anywhere.”

          Once I actually grew up, this became a primary focus of mine. While there are advantages to a Krag or a .35 Rem. or a Mosin 7.62x54R, there are a lot more advantages to shooting the same thing the cops and sportsmen shoot.

          Yeah, I have a .25 auto and a 16ga shotgun — got a few rounds for each, too. I also haven’t bought any ammo for either, this century. It costs me nothing to keep them. They’re not worth anything; probably couldn’t sell the pair of ’em for $50, but if they’re setting in my safe, nobody will ever shoot me with one of them.

      • Yup. 30-30’s are also a favorite in the piney woods. There are many good rifle cartridges for hunting. The best cartridge is the one you have locked and loaded, pointed down range.
        Barter of cartridges is risky business, except with closest of relations and cohorts. The real danger is someone’s kid or spouse running their mouth and violating Ure op-sec.
        I knew some of the East Texas crowd who swore by .223 Winchester 60-something grain cartridges for hunting game larger than you would have thought. .357 and 9mm in 125 gr are very effective cartridges close-in. More effective on low center of gravity targets at point-blank than a long gun, unless you have drilled tucking the stock under your arm at very close range, CQB-style. Hungry dog packs are not to be trifled with. Does BCN have a recipe off’n the cloud ? Love the neighbor’s mutts, but it will `
        have to be roll over Rover for any four-legged travelers if they get to be a persistent menace, and animal control no longer responds.

  5. “To our simple-minded way of looking at thing? The only solution is to run Bitcoin up to over a million dollars each, then have the government make digital money (that competes with the Dollar and whatever the central bank digital currency is, when that unicorn is born…). At which point, crypto is all confiscated (like gold and silver in the Great Depression) and applied to zero out the National Debt.”

    Sometimes George It’s like you are reading minds. Bravo.

    Not Your Keys not your Crypto:
    https://cryptonews.com/cryptocurrency/best-cold-wallets/

    “Republicans will end Democrats’ unlawful and unAmerican Crypto crackdown and oppose the creation of a Central Bank Digital Currency. We will defend the right to mine Bitcoin, and ensure every American has the right to self-custody of their Digital Assets, and transact free from Government Surveillance and Control.”

    https://cointelegraph.com/news/trump-promises-crypto-election-usa

    Got Blockchain.

    • JC: nice kit, think I’m going to find a crossbow. I had every arrow and gizmo during the recurve era but? I’m old, and lazy. Best Regards, Medieval Me

      ps – an annual Boxing Day gig, watch the Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race. Always a snow season treat after Santa flies. And, it’s warm downunder

      https://rolexsydneyhobart.com/

      • Have you calculated the rate of fire for a crossbow vs a recurve or compound? Crossbow will be lucky to get 2 shots per minute, depending on the cocking mechanism.

        • The crossbow would be a stealth weapon or a tool for launching a grapnel or anchor for a zipline. Rate of fire would be irrelevant — accuracy would be extremely important. For the most part, you’d get one shot and if you didn’t score, you’d never get a second, regardless rate of fire.

          I’m passable with any shaft-thrower (except the atlatl) and the real advantage to the crossbow is it’s much easier to be accurate to a higher degree (especially for one who’s skilled with a rifle) than it is when you have to devote time slices to keeping the bow and its string from wavering while you try and sight in. I’m guessing I can shoot an Indian bow 18, maybe even 20 times per minute. I would not bet I could hit a man-sized target even once, but I could throw a lot of shafts at him — until he shot me…

      • “think I’m going to find a crossbow.”

        I suggest you treat it like you would a gun purchase:

        Find an archery specialist and try a few out.

        I don’t consider my crossbow to be a primary hunter or protector. I selected (actually my son gifted me) a Barnett XP-370. Draw weight is 165 pounds, so I could cock it by hand, if necessary. Using the proper bolt, you can knock down a whitetail at 90-100 yards. It is cheap (relatively — it retails around $300. The crossbows that are “acceptable” to the stuffed-shirt archery crowd start at about $1600.) The Barnett is faster, quieter, and more-accurate than almost all of them, but it doesn’t have a winch, or “rich people kitsch”).

        If you go to a proper archery store (I go to 3-Rivers Archery which isn’t in Three Rivers, or even Michigan, but is about half-way between Ft. Wayne, IN and Coldwater, MI., or Three Rivers, MI and Defiance, OH) you may get better advise, and a chance to shoot a few different bows. I don’t know any archery centers in West Michigan. There used to be one in Baldwin (Lake County) but I was only there once, and only bought a pair of handmade Chippewa moccasins. That was about 55 years ago, so they’re probably not around any more.

        Michigan is archery-rich, with a huge number of bow-makers calling the State “home.” I honestly prefer a longbow (or, if I have to, a recurve) because if’fn you’re out in the woods without a means to hunt or protect yourself, those are the bows you can build.

        FWIW my reel is on my crossbow pistol, along with a laser and 2.3x optical. This pistol is not a toy — draw is 115 pounds and 6.5″ carbon fiber bolts hit at 40ft like 115gr 9mm pistol rounds. Unless you are shooting cork or flesh, the pistol bolts are one and done. You can not extract the bolt from a tree without destroying it.

    • I seen a video once where someone printed up an arrow head to fit a shotgun shell or bullet on it so whatever it hit it would explode..

      https://youtu.be/WW6QVg603e4?si=boQQOl7mHpNPisc-

      https://cults3d.com/en/3d-model/tool/exploding-arrowhead?srsltid=AfmBOoqAw_SXe3RflQel4M5O6MAk-0XMwDXV7UUmmXHEbNvZ-NYrFqKu

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  8. Morning George,

    Good move buying the Kindle Shaman book. Anything in
    that venue is going to accelerate your awareness.

    May I suggest a few other’s for you to consider?

    Awakening to the SPIRIT WORLD ‘The Shamanic Path of Direct Revelation’ by Sandra Ingerman & Hank Wesselman.

    Yes, I have this book. I bought it online because I am a fan of Hank Wesselman, who I have read his works over the years.

    This morning my house as silent as could be, at 1 AM I lit a
    fire in my fireplace. And with my Border Collie nestled right
    by my side opened this very book. It is actually a created
    composition of six different shaman’s views of the shamanic
    path. Alberto Villoldo, Ph.D. writes the first chapter.
    I suggest it as a good work, because Hanks view is so very
    objective.

    Next, I spent time reading in Courageous Dreaming ‘How Shamans Dream The World Into Being’ by Alberto Villoldo.
    I consider this to be deeply important and insightful to have
    a real understanding of how a shaman makes changes. All
    types of changes. This book goes to the ROOT of what I have have learned in my shaman studies. It goes into depth
    discussing the quantum field and quanta and how to look
    at and discern and determine the happy healthy path to
    establish and set into motion for someone who has an
    illness. Its the knowledge of how to create a future that
    you and your love, or a patient will be happy and healthy
    as they live it.

    Alberto authored “The Heart of the Shaman” ‘Stories and Practices of the Luminous Warrior’. Which, I also enjoyed
    exploring this morning.

    Next is Alberto’s book “Mending the Past and Healing the
    Future with SOUL RETRIEVAL”. Between this book and
    Courageous Dreaming are really the heart of shamanic
    energy medicine.

    What we are being taught is this. How to connect to nature
    and to the spirit world and by doing so, learning to access
    directly the quanta of Creation…the Quantum Energy Field.

    Alberto is a bridge communicator. He can speak about the
    quantum field of the Creation which is solidly based on our
    science and quantum research knowledge, as well as from
    being able be a real shaman and create miracles which he
    draws on from his being able to enter into planes of
    existence few of us will ever know.

    Your comments contributor “ANDY” has entered the shamanic world and he lives in it, and his comments
    are all about the miracles he observes around him.

    He has learned to connect directly in his own way with
    the Creational Consciousness and become one with it,
    as do shamans.

    Its why people who have NDE’s Near Death Experiences
    or that’s what they are called, they actually do die and then
    they are reborn. And the thing that caused their death is
    gone, and they are healed, healthy and now have a new
    state of awareness and express such love. Love for one
    self and for “all life in all forms” is what makes our own
    existence possible.

    I apologize, I have said to much. I have been trying to
    explain what is very difficult to understand and “Be”
    when Alberto communicates it so much better.

    spent months

  9. (“just to hold things even, workers will need to contribute $39,216 per worker per year. And that is before your expenses to live and existing federal income taxes.”)

    that is what has me curious.. I had read posts stating g the possible strategy of dumping the dollar and starting a digital coin.. backed.. bitcoin Nazi has had a lot of great poi ts..a limited number of digital coins available..no free printing allowed..With our present situation you don’t even have to know anything to see that the way it sits is totally unsustainable… the people that working in an hourly wage just don’t make enough to pay the interest..
    and keep the velocity of money moving..
    it totally reminds me of when I was tossed under the wheels of the bus over a medical expenses..the boss invested the money the employees were paying in for health coverage into the stock market and precious metals. there was a freak accident and huge medical expenses resulted. I was making 3 dollars an hour the hospitals charging 2% a month on the bill..the I heresy on that medical expense was more than double what I grossed in earning alone.. that resulted in bankruptcy..
    there wasn’t any choice.. my life was turned into living hell..
    its the same here with the interest on the deficit..

    https://www.abi.org/feed-item/examining-donald-trump%E2%80%99s-chapter-11-bankruptcies

    the Biden administration has succeeded successfully into taking down the federal reserve bank… putting the whole country in a situation so horrific that turning the system and saving the country was a challenge before Biden now ..
    in the words of one great pitch man..
    ” But Wait, There’s More!” which way does the country fail..we failed the tax payers put on the direct path to ww3 our military is out on how many fronts now.. strategic reserves at a horrific low..
    what has me shocked is billions has been handed out to our legislators and our legislators are eerily quiet and non responsive to what is going on.. vacated nothing resolved and everyone gone business as usual..
    is that because if the influence peddlers? or do they anticipate the ones pushing the changes are in fact willing to flip the controlling global families out of their position of world control? making the one world order with new controlling members..

    • Dont worry Ureself too much Loob, just when it seems darkest is when the 4 angels are released from prison under Euphrates, according to the bible code at least.

      Zekiel gotz a problem with his OG prophecy – “israhell will be invaded from the North” as the only enemy North of israhell is Syria.
      IF correct, bible code refers to the defeat and slaughter of the True israHell and the 2 Witnesses.

      ?Syria = Russian Trap?

      Other words Encoded in bible around WW3 – Harmaggido, which is not far from Endor,but I digress. What is in Harmaggido ? israHells most important airforce base – Ramat David, which is in North facing Syria.

      Armageddon is encoded in bible with assad-holacaust- Syria, world war3, Russia, China, usa.

      ? 4 angels = Syria, Iran, Turkey, Iraq ? hmmmm

      BTC=1349 bblcrudeor32wholeBeefs (grassfed/finished) or35 oz gold..whats in Ure wallet?

    • LOOB, the “no free printing” only applies to bitcoin and perhaps a couple of other cryptos. Most of these so-called coins have some kind of mathematical work involved, but don’t have a hard limit like BTC does. Even now, BTC insiders could change the algorithm to allow more coins, though our friend BCN seems to think it could never happen. IMHO, the time for BTC “investment” was probably 13 years ago, but doing so would have been either luck or a major time sink in understanding the details. Now it’s just another virtual commodity.

      • Yes… I was thinking yesterday.. we heard about none of the J-6 people being released but the commuting of serial killers to life in prison.. and thousands of others all with blanket immunity..Then this morning I read a post that Joe biden isn’t going to sign the social security fairness act… and the thought comes up.. not only will this solidify that the Biden administration will go down in history as the worst president in the history of the country.. deserving of the trophy below..

        https://www.etsy.com/listing/1191186256/xl-golden-shit-head-funny-trophy?
        the thought crossed my mind… its pretty obvious that he is not a good president.. and there have been some suggestions that he even voted for Trump.. and that is why his wife wore Red at an event.. but now could it be that what is being done is them doing all this insane crap now they are tossing out counter measures…a WW that we would most likely not survive.. putting the elderly in more dire straights and handing out billions like they were ice cream cones all to put more stress on the incoming president..more pressure on the citizens of the country and destroy the Federal Reserve bank in one movement… I don’t care which way you look at this.. its one ugly mess… the dollar is toast.. the USA doesn’t have the tax revenue to pay the interest on the debt..much less the debt itself.. the vast majority of the people are using credit to keep their lives halfway liveable..
        https://youtube.com/shorts/RipT1MRfoa8?si=PfZjZ5KEI8gDQpnb
        https://youtu.be/ST1pFbsJiyo?si=268ZTE2tBmEyS1z0

        extraordinary measures have to be made.. so Let Trump make those huge decisions… with so much being done to undermine his incoming administration from every angle possible.. why not make is to bad that he forgets about the criminal business activities of his family and of past presidents and their spouses.. counter measures.. then who is doing it.. reports that his mind is totally gone has me wondering who is this.. making those horrible decisions..

  10. (“Oh, Look! Jobless Claims…
    …for the week are just out:”)

    think about that and the drop off and the limited people that can receive unemployment compensation..
    if you quit you cannot receive unemployment.. if you Are let go.. you are not eligible and that is up to the employer..then those seasonal workers that were getting them and dropped off the statistics..
    In the end The stats can reflect anything they want them to reflect..

  11. After a long Christmas day, the house finally emptied of all the kids and grandkids around 8pm. Diana and I did chores and locked up the house leaving the disaster in the kitchen and living areas for today. I woke up at 3am with Diana curled up beside me sobbing away. I also noticed she had apparently forgotten her sleeping t shirt before coming to bed. I asked her what was wrong. “I’m sad the holidays are almost over.” I said “Yeah they go by pretty quick anymore, don’t they? I had lots of fun playing with the babies.” I was suddenly reminded it was time for my sort of nightly visit to the throne room but as soon as I said, Be right back, Diana latched on tighter and started crying more. OK, tell me really what is wrong now. “Do I look old?”. She will be 62 next week but as I have said she does not look near her age. I told her to remember that I am 12 years older and just had my eyes updated so no, you are still young and beautiful. We talked a little until I got amorous but of course by then she had fallen asleep. How convenient. And by then it was time for me to get up and start the day.

    I hope everyone’s Christmas was as great as mine.

    Stay safe. 73

  12. George – your link [ above ] for the Kindle 11.., isn’t. It is for the Fire Max 11 tablet (newest model).
    Is that what you intended? [ Bought? ]
    I have been looking at this model.., has way more than what I need / require – for now., but it is impressive, especially with that amount of memory.

  13. re: “So much for Santa”
    feat: Potus sets sail

    Folks,

    Welcome to Boxing Day sales! A few days back a commenter here offered reminder that the First Family would be spending their week between Christmas and New Year at St. Croix, USVI. The public record up to last year’s visit was described in “The New York Post”. The First Family was being accommodated gratis as they had since the Biden VP days at a VRBO beachfront villa owned by a US software developer. Interestingly the developer’s software ENPS (Electronic News Production System) of New York’s Associated Press (founded in 1846) supplied the “New York Post” story to my browser today via MSN.

    St. Croix happens to be the birthplace of the First Secretary of the US Treasury, Alexander Hamilton. He was a great-great-grandson on his maternal side of Scotland’s First Baronet of Pollock who sat in the parliaments of Scotland and England. Mr. Hamilton’s father was a Laird Hamilton of the Grange whose family charter was granted by King Robert III of Scotland around the end of the 14th century. Apparently modern-day tourists can visit Alexander Hamilton’s home, “The Grange”, resited but still within the original boundaries of his 32 acre Manhattan estate.

    Let’s catch up with DJ Ure in contemplation of a Texas pasture perhaps to be renamed grange. What better way to kick off the afternoon than with that patriotic anthem “Home on the Range”.

      • re: Tres Hombres & Birds
        feat: a train wreck

        Shiner Bocking,
        Early reports about the tragic Azeri plane crash offered up a bird strike early on as a possible cause. Apparently an individual filming the crash site whose video suggests alternative cause has been detained for 10 days.

        “The enemy of my enemy is my friend?” Following the arrival of alleged Ukrainian drones in the area, (Muslim?) Chechen opposition NIYSO and 1ADAT are doubling down on anti-Russian statements? Considering public HR rosters of 1ADAT, there might be food for thought of a coinkydoink doppleganger matching the former Russian ngo Committee Against Torture formerly in receipt of funds a decade ago from the European Commission as well as the Open Society Foundation of Mr. Soros?

  14. …and, just in case we DON’T blow ourselves up, the future could be a happy and profitable place. It could happen…

    Now, Denmark (“Owners”) of Greenland, appear to be self-frightening themselves into bolstering Greenland’s defenses. Trump isn’t going to attack and occupy Greenland. Get over it. Not his style–beyond just being messy and fraught with all sorts of inconvenient problems. Not. Gonna. Happen.

    BUT he might BUY it. I bet it has loads of oil and gas and minerals. Could be a gold mine. Literally. Maybe even make it a state. Why not? (Mortgage the minerals, and buy it with its own money…)

    Lots of Puerto Rico inhabitants don’t want to be a state — but many do. It’s been talked about. Not impossible.

    Cuba could — probably will at some point — utterly fail as a functioning sovereign state. Maybe we could buy that one, too. It’s potentially extremely valuable as real estate.
    Condos, retirement communities, tourista besiness. Cuba hasn’t been developed properly.

    Virgin Islands? Why not — as long as one is in a sudden state-making mood. Isn’t Doctor No’s bat guano mine around there somewhre?

    Panama? Word is, the Chinese are doing a lousy job running the canal as contractors. AND the Carter-crafted enabling treaty for giving it to the governmant of Panama holds a stipulation that THEY (Panama) can’t ever sell it to anybody besides the U.S.

    American Samoa is nice.

    Politics? Each new state would get some Representatives to Congress, AND two senators. Both current political parties could potentially gain bigly. Lots of potential for lots of nice new Graft and Corruption.

    Canada would probeby be best broken up into six or seven new American states — they’re all pretty big. Some would be quite good agiculturally.

    Yeah, this could be big, really big…

    Greenland
    Canada (Could be six or seven states)
    Panama (Just the canal parts)
    American Samoa
    Puerto Rico
    (Maybe Mexico)

    Maybe bang out TEN or more new states over a few years, counting all the possibilities.

    Trump would never have enough time in his second term. BUT, his VP might be President next — not impossible.

    A lot could get done in twelve years… some lesser piss-ant existing shit-hole “countries” might do better as U.S. states. Haiti? Coumbia? Hondouras?

    A United States of sixty-some odd could happen, and could work quite well with the right managemnt team running things. Yessir, could be VERY profitable. Jet travel and electronic communications could stitch it all togther in a coordinated and efficient manner.

    Remember Roddenberry’s “Sub-Shuttle” high-speed tubes? Network the world.

    VERY profitable. Run it all on Global Super-High Voltage Transmission of Solar, wind, tidal, and deep geo-thermal energy.

    VERY profitable if we can clear the present sevreal ugly hurdle(s).

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  16. The Santa Clause Rally has seemed to of fizzled-out. Stocks have been churning in-place, all day.., but it does seem like they are trying to push the indexes up a bit – here in the last hour.
    No clear-cut trade visible for tomorrow [ jumping in now before the open tomorrow.]
    Looks as though this is going to be a “news driven” market for a few days – which is very hard to plan for.

  17. Holiday season retail sales rose 3.8% this year over last, Mastercard says, as more people dined out and bought more clothes. [ Than predicted. ]
    The growth rate is a little stronger than the forecast from the National Retail Federation..,
    Which, If I remember correctly was forecast at 2.8 to 3 %. [ over last year.]
    Once again the American Consumers have stepped up to the plate, over-spent and racked-up even more credit debt – but, damn !.., it sure looks good for retailers and economists that are saying there is no problem in the economy. [ until there is.,]
    ., and continuing with the math-theme – Yes.., Consumers did spend more, but did they get more? Everything costs more today than it did a year ago – due to inflation., which would account for just about every point in that spending increase.

  18. Easy cream cheese…
    1 qt whole milk
    1_ stick butter
    heat the milk put the stick of butter in it melt take the milk off of the burner.. now blend it up .. then add a quarter cup of lemon juice blend again.. set it aside covered for an hour.. pour this into your yogurt strainer or in a bowl lined with cheese cloth..
    let it drain for an hour now put the cream cheese in a boil a half cup of sugar or honey blend it up .. at this point you can add fruit and a touch of fruit juice that has been blended..mix it and you have your toast spread or bagel spread..
    hard yogurt is a similar mix but with yogurt as the yeast culture

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