Somewhat Durable – as Ukraine Prospects Dim

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The Economic Outlook around here hasn’t drifted much over the weekend.  The reasonably projected future forecast here seems to look like:

It’s like wandering into a gang fight.  The bullies on each side are talking peace while passing out extended magazines and cocking their weapons, checking the sights and  their NVG.  So much for rational.

Against these flashpoints of war?  We have been studying a number of coincident indicators which we’ll get to in a second. First, however…

(Somewhat) Durable Goods

Just out from Census:

New Orders
New orders for manufactured durable goods in May increased $1.9 billion or 0.7 percent to $267.2 billion, the U.S. Census Bureau announced today. This increase, up seven of the last eight months, followed a 0.4 percent April increase. Excluding transportation, new orders increased 0.7 percent. Excluding defense, new orders increased 0.6 percent. Transportation equipment, up two consecutive months, led the increase, $0.7 billion or 0.8 percent to $87.6 billion.
Shipments
Shipments of manufactured durable goods in May, up twelve of the last thirteen months, increased $3.6 billion or 1.3 percent to $268.4 billion. This followed a 0.3 percent April increase. Transportation equipment, up seven of the last eight months, led the increase, $1.7 billion or 2.1 percent to $84.7 billion.
We’re too shy to ask how much of the surge in exports is due to warring in Ukraine.  Shhh…. (But there’s a reason wars are popular with politicians!)

Trouble Ahead for BTC?

Working on “harmonizing” the movement of stock prices and the movement of Bitcoin and looking ahead.  For now, our BTC view looks like this in an Elliott wave informed way:

The notion is pretty simple:  The Wave counts should line up at some level, but yeah, looks like the market is in a Wave 3 down with now being something like 3 (3) (ii) there, as well.  We’ll talk more about this on the subscriber side but entrainment is a powerful force.

No Longer “Supply Chain”?

Now we may be transitioning into lower “supplies” out of Asia.

A couple of UrbanSurvival readers tell us there are no longer those worrisome backed-up ships off Los Angeles in the great numbers previously worried about some months ago.

Now, we just hit a second month of lower traffic through the Port of Los Angeles:

In the detail drilldown, loaded imports for May were down 6.67 percent.  Which might be taken as the “Canary at the Longshore Hall.”

Of course, people knowledgeable about the waterfront in SoCal could argue that Port of Long Beach cargo ops could figure into this – as there is some port-switching, and always has been.  But again, though not by as much, Long Beach was down as well:

Taken as a whole (port-pairs) l0oks to us like China is dialing back.

To us?  Looks like exactly what we would expect going into a serious recession.  Given the onset is not likely until September-November at the “street level economics” view, already the logistical pipeline has a hiccup developing.  Remember, it can be 60-90 days from when a container of good shows up in the dock log, goes on intermodal (truck, train, break-bulk and such) and then goes into distribution (regional warehouses) from which local stores get supplied.

One of the silver linings to Palestine, TX is that we have a regional Wal-Mart distribution warehouse here.  Not something people put on their “fall-back and go rural” shopping for outback property list.  We just got lucky back in 2003.

But wait!  There’s an alternative explanation: The Supply Side: Retailers grapple with widespread inventory glut in recent quarter – Talk Business & Politics.  Is this our dreaded “consumer super-saturation” as people are loaded to the gills with useless shit?

Useful Notations

The Moon is back in play publicly:  Audio long read: These six countries are about to go to the Moon.  Honestly, we have mixed feelings about lunar development.  On the one hand it will drive technology.  But it also screams that we haven’t learned to “live in harmony and balance” with Nature.  Ancient first peoples can be sensed in spiritual realms laughing their asses off and pointing at us.  We’re the burned-out-cinder makers.

Us?  Still gardening.  Famine threatens wide swaths of world, now worsened by Ukraine war (latimes.com).  We were just talking about burned out cinders, right?

Trouble on the Trail.  Sad to read this: 5 people shot during Texas trail ride event.  Seems to have stemmed from a fight.

Remember last week?  Told you it was the opening of shooting season in Chicago?  Ure never kids about this caliber of news: 5-month-old girl among 5 killed, 28 others wounded in weekend shootings across Chicago – Chicago Sun-Times (suntimes.com).

Covid – the Pandemic that Keeps on Giving:  Airlines got $50 billion in pandemic relief — but are still screwing Americans.  Which is surprising, how?

Well, slap my monkey: WHO says monkeypox is not an international public health emergency, but it should continue to be monitored – (cbsnews.com).  Because, if they don’t, the media won’t have anything to get people worked up about, maybe?

ATR: Curse of Mowing

There’s a 6-inch slice in my left arm being nursed along with Bacitracin today.  A souvenir from working on the riding mower.

Seems it threw a belt.  And the mower deck doesn’t have the usual “lever you can easily get to.”  No, this one has the lever on an impossible to reach spot under the deck where instructions say to “Insert a 3/8″ wrench and turn to release tension.”

Well, there was plenty of tension, alright. Bit of blood, too. (Pissed? Me???)

My genius mechanic neighbor will be by probably tomorrow to show me how it’s done – he worked in a power sports shop locally after working in a big city Mercedes dealership as a journeyman wrench.  Dude has forgotten more about mechanical fixing and tricks than I’ve ever learned.

With my next personal landmark being 74, scrunching up under mower decks when it’s 85 out even this early in the day, is not something I look forward to.

Only other big deal around here this weekend was the possum (3:15 AM) that got trapped on the scream porch after breaking in.  Problem with such break-ins is that I don’t like grabbing the closest gun (extended Glock 9 w/hollow points, thanks for asking) and blasting away on the deck.

No, not going easy on the perp, it’s just that the backdrop includes vehicles, tractor, phone and data lines, power wiring and screens around the porch. I will be ordering some bear spray today.  Non-lethal, but if I can get him into a trap…more control over dispatch.

Of course, I have thought about taking the hissing, snarling, ugly-toothed MF’er and sending him to a gun grabber in congress to deal with. I won’t, of course, since I’m sure that’d be a form of felony.  What isn’t, anymore?

Also on the wildlife front, putting out squirrel traps, too.  I figure if we can’t defend against squirrels, it should give us some insight into defending against larger two-legged threats as civilization unwinds.

Which it seems to be doing right on a schedule that we missed the memo on.

Write when you get rich,

George@Ure.net

90 thoughts on “Somewhat Durable – as Ukraine Prospects Dim”

  1. to live trap opossums, I use those single serving peaches cup for bait, found in the canned fruit aisle. Substitute what ever fruit you have, the cats will not be enticed to go in, but be warned a skunk will. Been there and experienced that.

  3. Dude G,

    Perhaps if you change the color of Ure thumb, Ure gleaning will be more bountiful, otherwise Ure gonna need a lot of nrg to fuel a replicator

    Round these parts we have taken to designing and installing squirrel obstacles/challenges along post & rail fence lines. Also deploy 2 jack russel terriers, 1 smooth coat bitch (Moose) and one very rough coat male (Rocky) as deterrents. Raised gardens are inside of large fenced in yard area in back. Just behind fence the 4 blue bird houses, all occupied by Blues and one family of Swallows(yearly). Squirrel proof metal bird feeder and gold finch feeder (birds hang upside down-only gold finches can do it, others are too fat). All the aforementioned are within field of fire (scoped Hatsan vectis) from garage POV into back yards..
    Also Have feeder on back covered back porch with meal worms – Blue Birds feed on it every day, as do some Cardinals, and a very elusive pair of Wrens. Back porsche is where we bbq, cocktail and hang out generally. Yes I know – a rich Man to own 2 Porsches – a front porche and a back porche – its all about mind over matta around hear…

    I dont mind, so it dont matta !

    Piece, lets get some !

  4. Hey George, if you sent your break-in possum to a perp, I mean rep. in Washington, expect to get called on by the fine folks from the ASPCA, for the mistreatment of the miscreant. One can only imagine what trauma, and revulsion that poor animal would experience.

  5. In RuralWorld, one faces small furry burglars far more often that the larger and more dangerous nocturnal carousing bipeds.

    I suggest a .22 revolver by the bedstead. Glock too powerful, causing much more collateral damage to infrastructure.

    Such a small piece is more likely to be Just Right.

    73

  7. “We’re the burned-out-cinder makers.”

    Amen, ten times over, George. I was going by the caliche pit in the Southern most pasture on the way to work yesterday when I saw a doe feeding her fawn about 40 feet off the beaten path. She had her head in some cactus eating and totally oblivious to the growl of my diesel so I moved up a little closer and let them finish. Every few seconds the fawn would throw out a foreleg like the kid goats we raise as they guzzle from a bottle. They were both enjoying the moment. Eventually she looked up and saw me so when the fawn was through they moved on. They know my truck and the difference between me and anyone else that comes on the ranch so the alarm isn’t quite so high when I’m seen.

    Deer are very adaptive and I’ve seen the same thing when my aunt lived in Kingston, TX on a real estate development on the edge of town. The problem, though, was I also saw tumors and a smaller general size to the deer there than I do out here in the West Texas desert. People fed them bread and all kinds of “people food” all the time despite the pleadings of the authorities there.

    One day at the house in town we had a very immature porcupine show up on the driveway. I let the grandkid take a picture to share with her friends then found a RubberMaid (?) container and dropped it over the lost critter and shoved the lid under it to seal it in. Plenty of holes were already in the container as it was being used for a cat “Motel 6” during the Winter. That made it easy to take it to the ranch and let it go. What did it do when I let it out of the box? Made a bee-line for the the truck and ran right under it. Guess it was the only dark place that looked safe for him/her/it. Chased it out from there and went back to the house.

    One movie I will watch ’till the cows come home and watch again is “Last of the Dog Men”. The most enduring line from that movie is when Tom Berenger’s character says “No one must ever know about these people.”. Which, if the existence of these Indians were true, speaks volumes to a solid imperative. We are locusts as all those that have moved out here prove on a daily basis. I watch the water stream from our North windmill steadily decrease as the houses down stream on the underground water way suck the sweet stuff out as if they were in the city next to a lake. They will never appreciate, except, possibly, in passing, the history and the bones of thousands that have come before them buried beneath their feet, their topsoil, their asphalt and cement. Nature is something that happens to them and needs to be cured, bagged up and sent to a dump out of sight and mind. If you can’t meet Nature on its own level then you are the artificial construct headed for oblivion.

    • David Icke shape shifting aliens… “No one must ever know about these people.”. are they walking among us?

    • “Last of the Dog Men”.

      I love that movie as well.. the one thing I wish that they would add to school curriculum is native American history and legends… so far I have to either stop and visit with native Americans or make a trip to a casino where they post some of it..

  8. ‘Possum on the porch’ is a good reason to keep .22 rat shot on hand. Assuming the trapped critter is accessible to a pistol barrel, the rat shot at near-contact range to the head will neutralize the threat nicely while doing zero damage to the surrounding infrastructure. Yes, I speak from experience.

  11. George
    There are two ways in the South to handle a Opossum (Possum for us country types. )
    First way is to relocate them. This can be fun, if you are a young college kid. It involves a tree branch or walking stick, a “croker sack” meaning any typical canvas or burlap sack, and a farm truck with one headlight out.
    You apply the stick to the back off the neck of the toothy end, pick it up by the built in handle, and put it in the sack.
    Then you get in the truck and take it some place to relocate it.
    When I have one in the pet food now the relocation place is the athletic field of a local elementary school down the road, where it can run off into the woods. About 45 years ago the reloc place would be a girlfriends sorority house or a local frat bar.
    The second way is quieter and less damage to the pottery, wiring etc.
    Also can be used for foraging squirrels.
    https://www.amazon.com/Crosman-1322-Pistol-Premier-Shooters/dp/B0086PENTK
    I am surprised one of these hasn’t shown up on your site before this.
    I have about a half-dozen of them in various calibers (.17 for bird pests, .22 for bigger, with stocks and without.) The .22 with 10 pumps handled a BIG raccoon on my deck one night, and I have not seen him or the other five with him since.
    For your tinkering fun there are also a lot of sites on the web about modifying these for more performance. I haven’t needed to soup any of mine up, but have experimented with trigger jobs and better sights.
    These can also keep larger stuff out of the yard, just don’t pump them up to the max, and shoot for the haunches and even Bambi can be shooed away.
    Good Hunting

  12. I feel like the king in his castle here in “drought stricken NM” as I look out at pouring rain! The entire house is surrounded by deep mud with puddles and getting anything at all done outside is not worth the effort. I’ve not yet found a good solution to clay mud.

    Thank God for the internet! There’s plenty of stuff to be done inside and the tools and materials are inside, so no big deal, other than there’s another seven days predicted to have the same weather. The place is well drained, but the ground just holds the moisture and liquifies to a degree. This alone is a good reason to be prepped, so there’s no reason to go outside unless you want to. I never buy food that won’t store and always eat from that store. If the power goes out, I’ll catch up on sleep and meditate or use what battery power is here. God forbid, I might even try to clean and tidy up!
    No a/c needed here except in very rare instances. Yes, I have generators, but no need for them for now. If the water goes out, I have a week’s filtered water in the house and more water elsewhere. Bills are up to date and most can be paid online anyway.

    The real essence of prepping is the peace of mind. Rads are at a comfortable 23 CPM avg. Unfortunately, if/when this stuff stops and dries out, I’ll have to bushhog all the weeds, aka “lawn”.

    • Longing for just such here. I bought some danged expensive loose mineral salt today and it’s still in the bed of the pickup to tempt the rain tonight. The clouds are building up and moisture is predicted for tomorrow and the next day. Around here that could mean anything from a 3 inch rain (one drop every 3 inches) to a gully washer.

      • Lol. Got about .4″ last night. The smell of wet dirt is intoxicating! Going to put the salt in the barn in a minute to see if it rained out there too.

    • “I feel like the king in his castle”

      Me to.. I’m the rooster that rules the roost.. but the wife’s the hen that rules the rooster…lol
      I can do anything I want.. just let me ask first lol..

  13. Second that on “Last of the Dog Men” and our population’s locust mind. Shivered when I realized our legislators are even more insulated from nature and reality.

    • I really seriously doubt their humanity. I think all of them (even Rand Paul) have a ticket for an off-World ride when things really start to crater.

      • . “I think all of them (even Rand Paul) have a ticket for an off-World ride when things really start to crater.”

        I wonder where to lol lol…

  14. Being a great gold bull why wouldn’t I dislike people that perpetually hate gold ? Yes no anger just downright dislike . I think you all are possessed. This dribble and blah blah is boring noise . Have fun Americans pretending

  15. You ever heard of Newcrest. 80 million oz , 2.2 million produced every year . Nah 2 busy swapping commie , facist recipes and flower tips . Thank you so much for your commie facist dribble . Such a thing ? Must be read it every day. How goods this evil ? Yep thank you super breed

    • Precious Metals Mining equities are all “Arbitrated” -arbed DOWN by the bullion banks versus GLD and co-basis.. regulators have blessed the banks traders with ALL the phys gold held for the GLD. What ever the current balance/holdings are – they get to Short against all of it (thank uncle sam)- this mechanism keeps the equities price DOWN.

      Everybody getting fuckT but the Banks..”same as it ever was”

      https://youtu.be/TGofoH9RDEA

  16. One imagines today’s colour is green in “Elmo’s World”. The G7 leaders and their invited guests tread lightly amongst tranquil photo-op scenery of Schloss Elmo buoyed upon the shoulders of an 18000 strong legion of protective security servants crushing local small business underfoot. The host German coalition government’s Green Party foreign minister has directed Summit Menus to avoid meat and fish dishes. Of course, back in the day, beer was apparently a staple of the common folk.

    As one moves from tofu fusions to the upcoming Nordstream 1 complete shutdown for 10 days starting at 0400 gmt on July 11 to effect repairs on the Russian side, lettuce take solace from the calming advice still extant on the Nordstream website. All can be assured that “Pipeline repairs are not expected to be necessary during Nord Stream’s minimal operational lifespan of 50 years…”.

    Sounds like a grand opportunity to top up on briquettes before the big bbq. Of course, what Octoberfest in June could be complete without stopping in for a nooner and see what’s brewing under the DJ Ure tent? Yes folks, move over 99 bottles of beer on the wall, Curious George is uncorking “99 Luftballons” by Nena. Sure to cure what ales thee! (This is not medical advice.)

  17. I spent some time yesterday putting thick layers of cardboard and mulch around some of my new bushes .it’s supposed to keep out the weeds. Mostly I needed to do it so my yard guy would know what I planted and what are weeds. He weed wacked my new grape vines and he left some really tall weeds in the middle of my back yard.

    The metal yard wagon rolled into my legs twice and bruised up my leg. It is the unexpected that will injure you.

    I used to catch squirrels. You have to find their paths and place your traps right where they run. The most successful spot was the top wooden rail of my fence. I duck taped the trap to the rail and caught quite a few in that spot. If you let them go within 30 miles or so of your house they will return. If you don’t get them soon after capture they will die in the trap from exhaustion trying to get out.

  18. Need a new anthem . Something more fasci com . Gold shorting gold hate words . Yep Arian humming and visual symbols . Crack pipes and Mickey d arches ?

  19. “there are no longer those worrisome backed-up ships off Los Angeles in the great numbers previously worried about some months ago.”

    Hmm OTFLMAO.. that brings up an old military boot camp story…
    There was a strat dog in the post.. the drill Sargent said .. you treat that dog as if it’s the commander ..
    For all we know that dog is the pet of the camps comanders child..you disrespect that dog and it goes home crying yo the child the child complains to mom and mom batches out dad .dad in turn chews my boss out then it comes down to me..I am going to make your life hell..
    So.. China and Russia manufacture our durable goods. Ole Brandon and NATO are threatening them with all sorts of horrible things..even parking nukes on their boders.. so.. would they really want to keep the supply chain open..even the Saudi are considering dropping the fiat dollar.. we positioned ourselves to be dependent on them…
    ”Be careful whose toes you step on today, they may be connected to the ass you have to kiss tomorrow.”
     

    • Ole Brandon doesn’t call the shots, his globalist overlords do and they knew the outcome of all this before it was ever put into play. This is all part of the plan. they need to bring the world to it’s knees, but especially the USA where it’s citizens are used to a level of freedom that the overlords see as unsatisfactory.

  21. “Moon”

    Recall the last recession. They told use we’d have pole mounted wind turbines that would be able to power our entire house. One of the companies was in Grand Rapids MI. TV screens that unfurl…. Invisibility cloaks.

    The thing I noticed about the Moon/space is countries one-up each other like two fisherman lying.

    • “They told use we’d have pole mounted wind turbines that would be able to power our entire house. ”

      The problem with wind power is height… you have to have it high enough to catch the stream.. solar you can mount at ground level.. go up sixty feet by sixty feet wide three sided do a V mount with an inverted trapezoid reflector and you have some serious power..and cheaper.. the cost of two of those large turbines could put solar on every home.. instead of 6mw you would have 9600mw per hour and as price of equipment declines its increasing..

  22. hi Geo
    couple thoughts on today’s slice of life:
    possum bait – anything. Got one with a lettuce leaf and part of a carrot.

    bb guns can be quite powerful these days and accurate at close range. Fun and cheap target practice for unwanted squirrels. Around here we have overpopulated exotic grey squirrels and smaller, native red squirrels getting forced out. A little herd thinning would help here, I’m in the city, but you have the alternative.

    For “living in harmony with nature” example; you might find something better than the first people who migrated here(idk, Celts? eastern monks?). The buffalo(not bison), giant ground sloth, sabertooth tiger and others became extinct shortly before the great white influx. The great plains prairies were here instead of forests because of those early ones claiming ‘close affinity to nature’ by burning it. It’s not like they didn’t have deadly turf wars before Lief Ericson got here.

  23. Here’s an interesting concept. Crowd sized metal detectors.

    If these work, and they will, entire cities could be sealed off leaving one or two entrance/exit points. Everyone/thing would be scanned before coming into the city. Manage cities like airports.

    Spin-up a map of Houston. Everyone inside the Sam Houston Tollway will have been scanned while everything outside… is danger. The ‘Forbidden Zones’ if you will. Blackouts. Guns. Drugs. Kidnappings.

    Crowd-sized metal detectors coming to Detroit

    The first time you’ll see them in action is at this year’s Ford Fireworks Show

    “Local 4 News spoke to quite a few people who were enjoying the day who say the technology seen in the video player above might actually have them turning out for even more events.

    “I take it into consideration everywhere I go,” said Brytney Thomas.

    Thomas says safety is one of the first things she takes into consideration before attending any event.”

    https://www.clickondetroit.com/news/local/2022/05/12/crowd-sized-metal-detectors-coming-to-detroit/

    • I handle safety first by NOT attending any events.

      It’s simple.

      It’s free.

      It’s fun.

      But, yeah, that new technology, same as the old technology, gate keepers….doing what they do best…you are either IN or OUT.

  24. Everything about Covid and then overturning Roe v Wade, is kind of intriguing, don’t you think?

      • If Covid was a “bio weapon” and (effected DNA) and the vaccine was everything folks found it to be, and the mandates were Mark of The Beast-ish, and vaccinating children as early as 6 months old, not knowing the Long Term Effects …
        Many people have been concerned about fertility and the future generation.

        If babies will be born (different) then they would need to be protected. – the investment.

        I’m reminded of what The President of Brazil said …

        https://nypost.com/2020/12/19/brazilian-prez-bolsonaro-claims-covid-vaccine-could-turn-people-into-alligators/

        I wouldn’t go so far as an alligator comparison, but I think there will be some “effects”

        Not to mention, Everything happens for a reason. And we do seem to live in a Petri dish. And, biblically, this (might) be one of those events whereas humans are changed.

        Not sure of it’s all a mystery movie or a horror movie. Just observing and eating popcorn.

    • RvW conspiracy can go any way.

      Perhaps life can now be synthed/stem cells be created from any cell so there’s no longer reason to snatch fetal materiel. They lost their market value.

    • It’s a dead horse issue..Rowe vs wade has been the popular candidate political platform since I was a young boy.. they slap a little lipstick on it and a blue dress and drag it around.. this year of Beavis ant the butt head’s driving the crazy bus.. has them being a little more dramatic about it is all..so to keep the justices busy about all the allegations that’s been floating around.. toss em under the wheels of the bus.
      This will be tabled and put to rest once the election is over.. then the next campaign season it will miraculously be an issue again..

  25. The Possum reminds me of a time with my mom. Mom woke up one night and heard a noise in the kitchen. Got up to check without turning on any lights and found what she thought was one of her cats in the sink. She says, “What are you doing in there?” and grabs it. Not having any of it the “suspect” took off out the window over the sink. Lights still off but Mom thinks the cats have escaped and lets out her famous blood curdleing shriek rasing my dad out of bed along with all the dead in the county. They both go outside looking for the escapee felines finding none. Mom is upset and dad is PISSED. Going back inside mom flicks on the lights to find the cats sitting in the middle of the kitchen floor looking at her with the “WTF are you doing out running around in the dark. But since you are up, we’re hungry” looks. Mom looks over to the sink and sees that her canisters are all turned over with the flour and sugar all over the place. Dad tells her it was a Coon who had removed the screen from the window and got into the canisters. Flour and sugar footprints over the entire kitchen counters and floor confirmed that it was indeed a large Coon who apparently was definitely not interested any having mom pick it up for a hug.
    I think it was the year Dad finally ponied up for central AC and the windows weren’t open much any longer after that.

  27. A fella passed me and then got on his brakes to hit the next off ramp on his back window it said, Bear Down. Huh…no shit.

    Friends dog I’m staying with big 200 lb Rottweiler hell of a licker on him, he named Kenai. I said ya named your dag Kenai. He said ya. What about it? I said that is where I’m from. Kenai. He said it’s kinda play on words keen eye. And he has a keen eye. I said huh. No shit.

    Oh it may seem like I traveled in a complete 12 year circle and ended up back where I started. After I had it out with THE DUDE 4 years ago on the mountain HE said, go take a walk about and when ya get back tell me what you think. So I aim to do that this weekend on the same mountain.

    Sometimes the path seems like your going in circles. But it is actually more like this.

    https://www.teepublic.com/sticker/3488164-native-american-symbol-man-in-the-maze-vintage

    Getting closer to the door at the center. Lol.

    Later dude,

    *hangs sign. Sign reads,

    Gone fishing.

    • Ohhh come on Man ! Open Ure I’s ? WTHell – every stinking time, when are peeps going to get it – Ure Attitude – Sets Ure Altitude. Like Happiness – it is not something you Find, Happiness is something You bring with You..

      Kindly suggest U change the sign to read – ” Gone Catching”

      U gotz 2 man I fest that scheisse.. otherwise you be walking in circles for loooooong time. Speaking of a long time..”buy me drink, luv you looong time!”

      Change happens –

  28. BTW. I have every song in sequential order i have ever Q on here and everywhere else saved. I will play them in order starting now. :)

  29. https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/welcome-qt-terrible-5y-auction-prices-huge-tail-foreign-demand-tumbles

    It would appear to me that the book Bankruptcy 1995 is finally synch’d with whats ahead in terms of the signs to watch for. [Disclaimer Robert Reicht, Bill and W did everything suggested in the book to balance the budget, except not spending more than you take in, in revenues]. Now there’s nothing left to monetize. I get this feeling that the Fed Notes are “recalled” by 2023. Mnuchin said he Treasury Dollar [CBDC] will be at par with the FRN. I would expect that will last only as long as the banking holiday allows institutions to carry through at par, while markets and the exits are closed to the commoners. Got Blockchain?

  30. How many Fu-Q Blessings you think I accumulated this time George since i held the Q? Atleast a couple hundred million. Hahahahha And as i play those songs in sequential order they all come to me in one big wave. Excellent!

    Until we meet again friend.

  31. Even I’m not short the market closed them last week at the low when 73 was calling for blood. Nah gold baby that’s all I want .

  32. Thanks to the investigative prowess of Chinese state media, I have only now learned of last Friday’s NASA announcement placing the solar-electric propelled Psyche mission to metallic asteroid 16Psyche once valued at $10,000quadrillion into limbo. The 2022 launch window will be missed due to software testing snags. 700+ millions of a $900+ million budget have been spent. The days of just battening down the hatches and launching are from a different era of discovery. Psyche of course features as the beautiful goddess attempting 4 impossible tasks in 3 chapters of the great Roman Latin novel “Metamorphoses” more commonly known in Modern English vernacular as “The Golden Ass”. (Yo, that’s a donkey btw.)

    Last Friday also saw the reveal of a cautionary letter from Intel about the promised Ohio chip factory. They wonder where in the world is the DC CHIPS legislation $52 billion money? Fear not as the G7 players count their stacks around the Summit table. Will Mr. Biden bring down the house with a hammer play? Say, why does the EU get two seat in the form of a president and a commissioner? Hmmmm.

  33. Hey George, speaking of that President of Brazil …

    Russia’s Putin and Brazil’s Bolsonaro discuss global food security

  34. Comrades,

    It’s rather interesting that the State Statistics Service of the Ukraine appear to indicate trade surpluses since the Russian invasion (March $890 million, April $65 million?) following months and months of deficits.

    Monday evening featured a Season 1 Episode 16 rerun of “Servant of the People”. It included a skit on the Ukraine’s gold holdings and originally broadcast in November 2015. One imagines that the nation’s gold inventory is in safe hands…somewhere.

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