Well, here we are: Summer is over and it’s time for the adventures of Fall to commence. Here’s our “hot list” to ponder:
- When the diesel spike hits. Price hikes are weaving through the economy already. As the Hormuz problem slithers through, markets will snake, too. This morning the future’s call is down on overnight Saudi oil infra being “Houthi hit.”
- What the Fed will do a week from Wednesday could be a surprise in our lookahead modeling. Almost 61 percent odds of a quarter point hike, but we’re in that uncomfortable “banking meets the energy” zone.
- Before fall is out, the AI Bubble could be in trouble. Too many tradesmen and expressive “experts” are lining up on one side of the ship now. Eventually it will swamp us.
- As we have been saying almost endlessly: Get into gardening now while you can, holding your “cash close and loved ones closer.” Seat backs and tables to the upright and locked position.
The fall could be tough. Year-on-year diesel is up almost 60 percent. $5.90 low and $3.70 a year ago,
Arrival Time of Pain
It’s easy for the diesel hikes to get buried in the “holiday news,” but keep your eyes open for street-level economics to start biting.
We are likely to see shipping and fuel-surcharge hikes first — within days to a couple of weeks. After that comes the retail pass-through: groceries, building materials, deliveries, farm inputs and almost anything heavy enough to ride on a truck.
Call it days to freight pain, weeks to shelf pain, and a month or three before the economists discover it in the official numbers.
Complicating the “inflation information scene” is the quickly approaching mid-term election cycle. Mark Twain’s old say “Liars can figure and figures can lie” was incomplete. They also run for office.
Then the “diffusion process” will slap us. We’re looking for the clearest consumer-price echo from late September through November, with groceries probably toward the front of the wave. The longer it stays elevated, the less this looks like a temporary headline shock and the more it gets embedded in contracts and pricing decisions.
For software looking ahead modeling. we have marked diesel + trucking surcharge data as a 2–6 week leading channel for hard retail inflation. That’s potentially a useful bridge variable between the geopolitical ridge we’re seeing now and the economic ridge downstream.
We move into the economic ridge around next week’s Fed decision.
New Compressor: On
I’ll keep it short, but the press release from the National Federation of Independent Business could be summarized as “still hopeful…”
WASHINGTON, D.C. (Sept. 8, 2026) – The NFIB Small Business Optimism Index dipped in August to 98.7, just 1.1 points below July’s highest level since August 2025, but remaining above the 52-year average of 98.0. The Uncertainty Index fell 2 points to 89, remaining above the historical average of 68.
Now, let me lay out why “hopeful for longer” is getting risky. Starting with the Houthi attack on Saudi oil infra. Which popped in our:
News Claim-Chronology Audit
Saudi/Gulf — EVENT: Houthi missile/drone attacks struck four Saudi cities and energy-related facilities, injuring 73. ATTRIBUTION: Houthi forces claimed the operation; Saudi authorities confirmed casualties and fires; Reuters/AP independently carried the incident. VERIFICATION STATUS: attack and casualties corroborated; precise military effectiveness and claimed targets remain partly attribution-dependent. PRECEDENT DATE: September 8 is the material new widening into Saudi infrastructure.
Why it Matters: Our ongoing “nightmare escalation” would be Iran or Israel making the conscious choice to attack water sources. in some countries in region water supplies are 90% powered by oil flows via desal plants.
Lowell slinks away — EVENT: hurricane-force system passing near Kauai/Niihau with official warnings and deteriorating conditions. ATTRIBUTION: NHC/CPHC and Hawaii authorities. The problem is? With ENSO acting “out of bounds” global weather is hitting extremes. Coming next? Tropical storm Marie may head north of Hawaii, but a new disturbance is forming off Baja right now.
Ukraine — EVENT: major Russian strike resumed against Kyiv immediately following departure of U.S. peace envoys. ATTRIBUTION: Ukrainian casualty/damage statements; Russian Defense Ministry says military/logistics targets were attacked. Remember, we set a “30-day slap timer” from the CIA director’s visit to “escalation risk soaring.”
China is still winning — EVENT: August exports +25%, imports +28.2%, high-tech exports +42.9%. ATTRIBUTION: Chinese customs data reported by Reuters. VERIFICATION STATUS: official economic release; interpretation of underlying domestic strength remains analytical. PRECEDENT DATE: data released September 8. As long as oil gets through, China will worry planners like a dog with an old shoe.
Econ is War by Other Means
The yen has surged to a seven-month high as markets increasingly price a Bank of Japan hike next week. Early carry-trade unwinding and capital repatriation are amplifying the move. Tightening rapidly. This could force high-leverage players to dump out of “free money” trades.
Next driver? Oil: Brent trades through or meaningfully above $100 on additional Gulf supply-risk headlines. Odds: 64%.
The Reserve Bank of India appears to be intervening again to support the rupee as elevated crude prices increase India’s import burden. State banks were seen selling dollars around 94.70 rupees. Currency defense moves. Drive by? Energy prices…where you been?
European markets are entering a dense policy window involving the ECB and multiple inflation releases while bond yields remain elevated. Investor caution is rising despite September euro-zone sentiment reaching a four-year high. Policy uncertainty elevated.
And even gold has slipped as stronger U.S. employment and higher oil push traders toward the September Fed-hike scenario. The precious metal is being squeezed between inflation risk on the one hand and rising-rate expectations. Rate sensitivity increasing.
Other Future Pointers:
Need more? Really?
France is pressing Brussels for an EU-wide social-media ban for children under 15 after its domestic legislation was blocked. Social media cognitive impacts we’ve yammered about for years are slowly being recognized. We’ve become comfortable being a decade ahead, oftentimes.
Mistral AI has raised €3 billion at a €21 billion valuation while defending a strategy increasingly centered on integrated AI infrastructure and enterprise services. The financing reinforces Europe’s effort to retain an independent AI stack. Sovereignty buildout continuing. Are we the only ones counting “breakeven subscriber counts required”?
Around the Ranch: Another Book Done
Should be able to serve it tomorrow on the Peoplenomics side of things.

This has been a fascinating book to crunch out. Deals with AI and how that will impact the world over the next half-dozen years, or so.
It also put a key economic lesson into perspective. Though first, I need to explain, that it helps to be a domain walker in how you view the world. Most people are “single domain” in their thinking. There’s an undifferentiated ball of “stuff” that we (carbons) use to feel our way along through life.
Domain walkers, by comparison, use a more advanced “mental filing” system. They link everything as it comes along. The human-computer analog is “most people are database “flat-filers” while domain walkers are “relational filers.”
(George holds up his hand, indicating a break point in the conversation or he would get way deep into the weeds here.)
The lesson in TFA is simple (and terribly painful).
In the Great Depression the ultimate-engine of mass repricing (and the subsequent inflation) was machine production. The total cost of LABOR collapsed.
In (what’s coming – which is about to crystallize, I think as a Second Depression – will be the deflationary impacts of machine thinking. This is where the cost of THINKING collapses.
And so – what we can begin to model ahead – is how people who were hit hardest in the First Depression (which were factory worker/laboring sorts) – will actually fare better in what’s to come than the thinking class of people. That’s where the AI damage will be.
Oddly, it won’t be a specific “fault” of AI. It’s just that MONEY is an enormously erosive force. It wears down costs wherever they are found and monetizes its replacement.
So, what we’re seeing in the AI Mania Buildout Phase seems likely, in my view, to set up the THINKING CLASS DEMISE – which may come as a terrible shock to people in finance, medicine, law, accounting, and so forth – when it gets here.
The key to watch for will be the rate of ERP adoption and integration into AI offerings.
The scenarios and the frosting to this framework is free tomorrow on the Peoplenomics subscriber side. Oh, and just to make it interesting, it will also include the complete book as three MP3’s.
Interesting workflow there: Used Grok Orion tools and under their ToS as long as I mention that’s the tool, then it can be shared. Which is yet-another chipping at people like me – who once made a lot of side cash doing voice-overs back in my radio days.
My how tech turns the wheels of society, huh?
From the Lab – Humor
When a new package of RAM cards shows up this week, we will be ready to launch a small LLM under Linux (Mint). My “big box” AI “Walter” will soon be able to talk (working on the mechanics of this) to the lite AI “Victoria.”
And yes, the “secrets” is implied.
dmidecode already showed two 4 GB sticks, so Victoria’s lift is a pair-swap, not a mystery. After free -h shows ~14–15 Gi, the first useful job for her will be outline-and-tag, not conversation. So if someone asks “What is Victoria’s Secret? The correct answer is now “Old 204 pin SODIMMs.”
This will either generate a patent I have in mind. Or, it might become a book, “When Walter Met Victoria”.
Write when you get rich,
George@Ure.net
Got the call at 12:40 last night, that my little Mom had transitioned at 12:26, said she went peacefully. The last of her Generation, she was the oldest of 5 , and outlived em all.
I am inclined to play ding dong the witch is dead, but I will restrain myself and instead go with The WHO, from rock opera Tommy.
I’m FREE ! – https://youtu.be/v4L8L43GieE?
re: Tommies cross the Solent
feat: “Listening to You”, The Who
My condolences, TBS.
Palmerston’s Follies were a series of forts built in 1860’s peacetime to defend against a French invasion which never happened. At least one of two such forts overlooking Portsmouth and across the Solent to the Isle of Wight is featured in the The Who video you linked to. There’s a 65% to 75% chance the Roger Daltrey with Tommy soldier scene’s locale is Fort Widley according to ChatGPT. Alternatively Fort Purbrook is assigned a 20% to 30% chance. The numbers don’t add up to 100 due to uncertainty.
Osborne House on the Isle of Wight is a current day tourist destination, and was a favorite residence of Queen Victoria. She died there in 1901. The Who stopped in at the Isle of Wight music festival in 1970 to deliver Tommy’s rock opera to an adoring crowd. Perhaps their version of a “Stairway to Heaven” is offered with “Listening to You” at the following Youtube link:
https://youtu.be/QeiosAwgkFo&t=01m25s
thats not good . how old was your mum ?
re: “The Dogs of War”, 1980
feat: “Julius Caesar”, The Bard, 1599
It’s raining dogs and pheasants around here! A smiling, unelected billionaire U.S. Treasury Besant bared his german shepherd teeth at Canada over the weekend in front of msm cameras. Coincident with a black-shirted HUR medal presentation in Kyiv, the Secretary offered his neighbor a “yappy dachshund” label. Doggone it, call us…amused.
Queen Victoria is given credit for introducing the dachshund breed into English high society circles. Possibly some will recall the ill-fated Russian Tsar Nicholas showing the boot to one of her Royal Brood on a visit in 1895.
Apparently only the German Empress could bring Victoria’s nephew Kaiser Wilhelm II to heel regarding exhuberance towards his swaggle of dachshunds. Some historical records point to the Kaiser taking two particularly foul-tempered favorite little brutes on his visit to the Archduke of Austria in June 1914 two weeks before Sarajevo. Wadl (“the calf”) and Hexl (“the witch”) separated themselves from Royal oversight on arrival. Allegedly the pair hunted down and ate a prized golden pheasant belonging to the Archduke. It is difficult to ascertain the long term damages inflicted upon German and Austro-Hungarian diplomatic relations as WW1 broke out shortly thereafter.
The Dogs of War (1980) – Assault on Kimba’s Fortress
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Ua1nSDaCSPg&pp=ygUZVGhlIGRvZ3Mgb2Ygd2FyIDE5ODAgY2xpcA%3D%3D
re: The Accountants; Parabellum; The Globe
feat: Pegasus (gr: “Hippos”) Ascends, Redux
Today’s story begins in the 1650’s with an Italian-Jewish soon-to-be English banker. But first, let us revisit 2026 and Pegasus, a constellation neighbor of Andromeda and Delphinus.
Prince Harry Duke of Sussex completed a first publicized assignment since arriving back in the UK from America. On Monday msm picked up on a now-deleted Instagram social media post by Tower Bridge Studios on Sampson Street in London. The Prince signed their company wall mural. In fact the pictured event took place last Friday according to “People”.
The building dates to the 1950’s allegedly built as a telephone exchange and since repurposed. Its roof parapet features winged horse Pegasus decoration. A portion of the road had dually been known as Globe Street where a Globe pub once stood from roughly 1788 until the WW2 Blitz.
The current vicinity of Sampson Street went by the name of Sampson Gardens in the un-princely environs of early 19th century East End London docklands. As chance would have it, an ethnic Italian Jewish lawyer and author by the name of Mr. Joshua Montefiore maintained an office there. He had apparently achieved some degree of name recognition after leading a Royal Navy military portion of a failed 1793 colonizing expedition to Bolama Island situated in modern day Guinea-Bissau, West Africa. He published “An Authentic Account of the Late Expedition to Bulam on the Coast of Africa” in 1794. He emigrated to New York in 1811. His nephews Joseph and Jacob were Australian pioneers.
Joshua Montefiore was a paternal uncle of banker and Zionism developer Sir Moses Montefiore. The latter was a maternal grandson of Moses Mocatta who founded bullion broker Mocatta and Goldsmid in 1671. The company was exclusive bullion broker to the Bank of England for much of the 18th century. It remained entirely in family hands until 1957. Through the end of the 20th and into the early 21st century, the firm and its bullion activity came under control of a Big 6 Canadian chartered bank. However their subsidiary company Scotia Mocatta became defunct in 2019 during #45’s first administration. Apparently Peruvian drug cartels had allegedly laundered billions of dollars via US gold refiners as described in the following Wiki link:
https://en.everybodywiki.com/Operation_Arch_Stanton
(what we’re seeing in the AI Mania Buildout Phase seems likely, in my view, to set up the THINKING CLASS DEMISE )
A friends… SON… is terrified his job of proof reading and writing the news segments for A major Network news …is slowly being erased by Ai
I hope this is not true.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHcLL0MlqeM
.., been rumored for a couple of years now – but nobody has taken the time or the task to prove it.
Ray has talked about this for years. I think his views can be optimistic at some levels. The Russkies were working on EMP weapons before us. The Chinese have stolen everyone’s designs for everything.
There are things you can do to get through a major EMP attack, and survive the initial public service implosion, and die off. It partially depends on the scale of the attack, and if utilities take proactive measures during the early phase of the attack. Regardless, you are left without power or utilities for an extended period. If you don’t have the supplies on hand, and can’t maintain a low profile, you don’t have a chance. I’ll stop, and give other readers a chance to contribute.
Yes… and the real strategic question is the “What If.”….
What if we’ve spent nearly a century building a national model that rewards expansion, consumption, and projection of power for the few — while quietly hollowing out the foundations that actually keep a country resilient in the quest of the great …MORE …for me….
We’ve poured resources into global reach, military presence, and endless police actions, but neglected the basic infrastructure that makes our nation survivable…… the grid, water systems, industrial capacity, domestic manufacturing, health, wellfare of its citizens,and supply chain independence outsourced solely for more for the few….. When those foundations weaken, you don’t need an adversary to defeat you — you defeat yourself through overextension.
Now imagine you’re a smaller nation, or a cluster of them….. Wouldn’t you want to tempt a larger power by flashing your resources like a casino jackpot. You’d stay quiet, build alliances among yourselves , and wait for the moment when the big player is stretched thin, distracted, and convinced it can’t lose. That’s how the poison pawn trap and Rope a dope work… you tempt the larger opponent with something that looks irresistible, knowing the stronger opponent with a failing economy and weakening money system will decide to over commit.
And while the larger power spends its “paycheck” Like a gambler tossing his paycheck in a gaming machine or lottery chasing security, more for the few and global influence, all while smaller nations consolidate and form alliances. China and Russia have through the years already formed quiet agreements with countries that used to be easily dominated.
It’s not dramatic — it’s incremental. But strategically, it resembles Ali’s rope a dope….. let the stronger fighter exhaust himself while you conserve energy and build position….all while his crumbling infrastructure stands weak and easily overcome…
None of this actually predicts any outcomes…. But It simply recognizes the pattern that I see as ….What If ….
Our overextension creates vulnerability. and their Consolidation creates an opportunity to get the title.. change the view of one global authority into a multi polar authority.. destroying the confidence in fiat currencies vqlue..while creating a backed currency like the Brics…..
And history shows that when those two forces meet, the balance of power has potential to shift — not through shock, but through slow, strategic pressure….
“destroying the confidence in fiat currencies vqlue..while creating a backed currency like the Brics…”
Brent Johnson/Santiago Capital – What You need to Understand about the BRICS Secret Plan to replace U.S. Dollar Dominance
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dFjKXcTZazE
Exactly JC…
the fiat currencies are only backed by a promise and being the main dog in control….take that away and implement a guaranteed currency with tangible products…
say how about nut bucks use peanuts as the guaranteed backing..put different mr. peanut instead of deceased presidents..
See that new tech Iran unleashed on Aircraft carrier and battleship last week ? What ever it was – USN turned tail immediately and bugged the hellout of there.
The new missile was an Air Burst detonation overhead the carrier.
Whoops, again as homo hegseth should have stayed at the Holiday Inn
Trailer: The Lost Missile (1958)
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=lygj_rCcDiw&pp=ygUcTWlzc2lsZSBNb25zdGVycyAxOTUgdHJhaWxlcg%3D%3D
I’m not optimistic in the least. I am fully prepared to grow my lifesblood as an 18th Century farmer. Lord knows I wouldn’t like to, but I have the knowledge, the skills, the tools, and the seed. The only thing I haven’t (yet) is two or three disciples that’re 1/3 my age, to do the grunt work. The one thing that stuck with me from the livechat with Forstchen was when he said: “I believe the likelihood that the U.S. will suffer an EMP attack is about 1:6; however, the likelihood of another Carrington event is greater than 1:1, and we are overdue for it, right now.” I believe that livechat occurred in 2010, FWIW.
In OSA he projects a death toll of 90%. I personally think that is light. The Old Order Amish and Mennonites are completely self-sufficient, but most will be murdered and their stuff taken without thought of sustainability or preservation because, like my Quaker ancestors, they take that “turn the other cheek” thing, literally. My ancestors did as well, until the Shawnee staked one of them to an ant hill after splitting his gut open, and built a campfire under the head of another, after tying him to a wagon wheel. Mine became the branch of Friends who learned that God gifts us all common sense and the choice to use it or not. My ancestors exercised common sense and sheathed a carbine to their plowshares. Had they not, I’d likely not be typing this. It was a lesson not forgotten by my family in over 200 years, but one the Amish have yet to learn.
The learning curve on that one is really steep…
The Rumspringa youth will learn quickly, but there’s generally not more than 1-2 in a household, and that’s not enough to make an army. I doubt their parents would give them access to the family arsenal until too late.
The masses will pillage, rape, and murder wantonly, until they go through several “starve / kill each other / starve / kill each other” cycles, and die off. The only two ways to survive this are to be in a group that can field an army of sufficient size to not be taken, or simply to go into a hidey hole and stay there for 10-12 months (and NOT BE FOUND!) I prefer (and preach) the latter. It’s simple, elegant, and anyone can learn the basic woodcraft and survival skills necessary to pull it off. Unfortunately, they can’t wait until they need the skills, to learn them.
The quick & dirty way to learn is to simply buy a 50yo (pre-bullshit) Boy Scout Manual and a set of Foxfire books, read them all, cover-to-cover, get yourself a good hunting knife (I carry a Buck or a SOG) and a pair of soft-sole Minnetonka moccasins (or get a beginning leathercraft kit from Tandy, and build your own), then find a secluded woods and implement your reading. My first mocs were Minnetonkas. I bought them when I was about 8 years old from an Indian trading post. My second pair I made when I was 9, by taking my worn out Minnetonkas apart and duplicating the pieces on a hide I purchased from that same trading post. This stuff ain’t rocket surgery, but you can’t learn it until you start to learn it.
You walk off into the woods, survive for three days, then go home and reread all those books, because all that silly stuff you glossed-over the first time, will now make sense. Rinse and repeat, as necessary, until it all makes sense.
Learn or die, and if you die from ignorance, you take your loved ones with you…
While I had ancestors live to a ripe old age on the Texas prairie, most didn’t, and they weren’t carrying the baggage that we do. There are more like 100x too many warm bodies mulling about to support an 18th century lifestyle, and the draft animals that enabled that lifestyle will be extinct in the first three months. Next stop will be a fast dry slide to a 3000 BC lifestyle if the lights go out and stay that way.
Dr. Peter Pry was Executive Director of the Task Force on National and Homeland Security and Director of the U.S. Nuclear Strategy Forum. He was a fervent advocate of hardening the grid, and submitted warnings and plans many times to Congress. Naturally, they ignored him and did nothing about the problem. So now it may be too late. It may take years to properly repair the grid, and meanwhile some of our adversaries may only need to press a button to destroy it. In addition to the video mentioned above, reading Ted Koppel’s book, “Lights Out,” will be quite an eye-opener.
I have been harping about that since I was 14…put solar towers at every substation as a mini grid. three sided like a small Washington monument.. one point north one SE one SW ..then hand out grid tie to every home owner willing to have them installed..with remote cut offs so the power company still has control over the generation..as nodes to a larger system..
greenscaping concrete jungles to reclaim crop production that was lost by consumption…and air wells in arid regions to harvest atmospheric moisture…
I can say I have been the comedy line of many jokes about just how stupid that idea is..
I don’t know about any back doors. I don’t know whether our transformer network is remotely-monitorable or controllable. It might be nice to know which specific transformer blew, but IMO that knowledge would only save about five minutes. When a transformer at a sub-station lets go, the electric company starts a repair crew, armed with at least one each, of the transformers used by that substation, just like they did 50 years ago.
I DO know that 100% of our large transformers are built by ABB, in China. I also know that it takes about 10 months each to build the largest ones (they are called Massive Power Transformers or MPTs.) They are not “plug & play.” Each is custom-built for a specific installation. They typically weigh between 650,000 and 1,200,000 pounds, are the size of a house, and are a logistic nightmare to move, anywhere. There is also a waiting list, several years long, on their buildout.
When last I looked (which was about 20 years ago), CONUS had 37 of these monsters, controlling our entire electrical grid. Just 37, controlling everything, and built on 1920s tech. In the event of an EMP, a HEMP attack (IOW a “Carrington event” or an upper-atmosphere atom bomb), they all fry and we’re in the land of the book “One Second After.” ‘Thing is Forstchen was an optimist, because he either didn’t know or didn’t consider the MPTs and where they’re built now.
For much more information on MPTs than you’d ever really want to know, search the web and read the history of the General Electric Transformer Works in Schenectady, New York, and the history of the Westinghouse Transformer Facility in Muncie, Indiana. These were the only two factories in the world that manufactured MPTs. GE closed down about 50 years ago and sold their assets (AND THEIR PATENTS) to Westinghouse, to ensure their IP remained American. Some years later ABB, a Swiss company, acquired the Westinghouse Works (a little at a time, IIRC) and both GE’s and Westinghouse’ portfolios. They then shut Muncie down and moved the entire transformer operation to China, where it remains, today…
“I think as a Second Depression – will be the deflationary impacts of machine thinking. This is where the cost of THINKING collapses.”
.., and we are already starting that “collapse”.
Teen reading slumps to worst this century due to surge in screen time.
.., and –
School students who use AI get the worse test scores.
Reuters
“There is no sin except stupidity.” – Oscar Wilde
Lotta sinful people these days…
:rolleyes:
This will end two ways. 1: Oil will drop back down to $40 to $60 dollars a barrel and the world economy will get back on track., or, 2: oil will stay at $100 a barrel and up.., world wide food shortages, recessions and wars will continue for years.
I posted that several weeks ago. Looks like the scenario #2 is going to play out.
I strongly urge you to prepare. Seeds and a watering can are cheap.
[ Right now. ]
“Stay Frosty !”
We met with our financial and tax advisors a couple weeks back. He is an old friend who is not one who panics. He quietly advised we consider getting NDA’s from our subscribers.
I had no words.
* A small eight man research company [ located in Israel ] just received an ‘eight billion’ dollar funding grant – from an anonymous source – to ramp-up it’s development of an A.I. ‘Killer’ program.
According to the report, this hidden & secret company has built an A.I. program that can defend against all other A.I. intrusions – and adapt on the fly to stop and then kill-off any and all A.I. programs that are trying to access any system., going so far as to back-trace the attacking the source A.I. system that launched the initial attack. Killing the ‘parent’ A.I.
A.I. – vs – A.I.
Looks like the techno battle field is developing rapidly.
War of the Machines? [ wasn’t there a fiction novel with that title ? ]
“Stay Frosty !”
Terminator 3: War of the Machines –
“A small eight man research company [ located in Israel ] just received an ‘eight billion’ dollar funding grant – from an anonymous source – to ramp-up it’s development of an A.I. ‘Killer’ program.”
What can we do? Who can we call?
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JTiysOs-91w&pp=ygUSRWlnaHRoIG1hbiBjYXJ0b29u
For warring AI’s, go for the CBS series, Person of Interest:
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1839578/
OK..I was up at one of my favorite libraries doing a little reading on brain function and cellular protection and regeneration.. ( Harvard… thankfully..the school only for the chosen ones allows morons like me download and read)
what I found interesting is a few publications and research on the….Pomegranate… ow I made pomegranate wine for the wife…but didn’t use the peeling..which has some of the most useful chemical compounds that with the digestive acids creates chemicals that benefit the body and brain pathways…
was this something of historical value..most wines were considered gifts from the gods..
then you look at pomegranate wine across the ancient cultures, you start to see a pattern emerge… people weren’t just drinking a fruit wine — they were honoring the forces that kept life moving.
In Egypt, pomegranate wine carried the weight of renewal, rebirth, and protection, so it naturally tied into gods like Hathor, the goddess of joy and fertility, and Isis, the mother healer who stitched life back together. Some rituals even linked the pomegranate’s blood red juice to Osiris, the god who died and rose again, making the wine a quiet symbol of resurrection and rebirth….
And then you look back east, toward China, and you find Shennong, the Divine Farmer — the mythic figure who tasted every plant, suffered their poisons, and learned their medicines so humanity could survive and prosper. He wasn’t a wine god, but he was the spirit of plant knowledge, the one who understood that bitterness often hides power. If Egypt drank pomegranate wine to honor gods of rebirth, Shennong represents the human side of that same instinct ….learning from the plant, using the peel, respecting the tannin, and treating the drink as something more than pleasure.
Put together, it’s the same story told in two languages — Egypt honoring the gods who give life, and Shennong teaching humans how to keep it, and use it…
What I find it fascinating is that Egyptians didn’t waste the peel… They used the rind and the bitter white pith — not for flavor, but for strength, medicine, and meaning.
The tannins and bitterness were part of the point. A drink made from pomegranate wasn’t meant to be soft or sweet; it was meant to feel potent, like something that carried the power of the gods.
my thought is when I make the next batch of wine I will use a cold processed peel wine similar to what the ancient Egyptians did, echoing a very very old practice that has been lost to history… I will be using the whole fruit, honoring its bitterness, and treating the drink as something with weight — a little ritual in a bottle back sweetened with honey.look baWhen you look at the earliest stories of civilization, you start to notice that beer, wine, and the pomegranate show up right at the moment humans begin acting like humans — farming, fermenting, storing, healing, and asking questions bigger than survival.
When i look back in history In Mesopotamia, the Anunnaki weren’t considered just sky gods… they were remembered as teachers, the ones who showed early people how to cultivate grains, press fruit, and turn perishables into something that lasted. Beer and wine weren’t luxuries — they were technology… And the pomegranate, with its bitter peel and blood red juice, was one of the first fruits they learned to tame.
Egypt picked up that thread and wove it into a religious ritual…
somewhere in the middle of all these stories sits the story of tge Tree of Knowledge — a fruit that wasn’t forbidden because it was dangerous, but because it represented the moment humans stepped out of innocence and into awareness. Whether that fruit was a fig, a pomegranate, or something symbolic, the meaning is the same: knowledge changes you. Once you taste it, you can’t go back.
So when I think about pomegranate wine, peel extraction, ancient fermentation, and the gods or teachers behind it and its use, I wonder if in reading the modern studies if its seriously touching on a very old idea — that humanity didn’t rise alone, that we are just now discovering something that was known before and lost in some of the historical documents in the lost libraries of the planet..mankind forced to start over once again only to discover the very old knowledge… That mankind was taught, guided, nudged, or inspired by something older, whether gods, ancestors, or the plants themselves. The Anunnaki, the Egyptian gods, Shennong, and Eden all tell the same story in different accents: knowledge is powerful, bitter, transformative, and once tasted, it becomes part of you forever.
Ok… Here’s two recipes…I will share on this..
1 cup dried pomegranate peel (or fresh peel from 1–2 pomegranates)
3 cups water
1–2 tsp honey or sugar (optional)
1 small stick cinnamon (optional)
1 slice fresh ginger (optional)
Add peel and water to a pot. Bring to a boil, then reduce heat and simmer 10–15 minutes until the water turns a deep amber or red.
That’s the tea..
I made pomegranate wine but didn’t use the peeling..I will pop in a batch of peeling wine this next batch…..
Seriously what harm in giving it a go… then sit on the veranda with the wife looking at shapes in the clouds..( a favorite past time for us )
Here’s the cold processed wine recipe I will be using for my next wine..
Peel from all fruits
Raw pomegranate peel (white pith + red rind) 2.5–3 lbs
Sugar
1 gallon filtered water
1 packet
Wine yeast (Lalvin EC?1118 or similar) 1 tsp
Yeast nutrient (optional but helpful)
1 tbsp lemon juice (for acidity balance)
I will multiply that times five to work with this juice…
https://www.amazon.com/Vintners-Pomegranate-128oz-Gallon-Gallons/dp/B0DDR95X92/ref=sr_1_10?
That will give me five gallons or 36 bottles
just had a little curiosity from jumping libraries for something new and interesting…and even if it doesn’t have any benefit..I still will have brewed up a little wine…to sit back and enjoy..as I bore everyone with my ranting historical ponderings
2.5 to 3 pounds of Pomegranate pith & rinds ?
Dude Loob, thats a lot of pith and rinds – like how many Pomegranates you plan on eating ?
If buying already prepared Juice, where you getting the pith and rinds from ?
Im confuzzled.
* Annunaki didnt teach shit to Humanity – they hunted, tortured and slaughtered Humans by the hundreds of thousands. It was Lord Osiris/Asar/Enkis’ Igigi – the finely feathered reptiles who were born “Planners” as a counter balance to all the Annuna/Annunaki warriors. It was when the Igiggi had their Skin Shed and new skin came in White like their dreaded enemy’s the royal kingu’s or Kingu Babars.
Humans were said to be “put together” with 1/4 quarter common kingu genes, the other 3 qtrs were equal parts of last 3 iterations of Humans on Earth, when the nasty bastards came here seeking/pursueing Queen Tiamat (asteroid belt=her planet of priestesses -Mulge and its moon Mulge -Tab.
none… to get enough juice for five gallon batch of wine..that’s what I will need..I am adding the vintners juice combo to it to.. maybe add a couple extra gallons of water.. vintners.. I think uses white grape or apple along with the pomegranate to cut the tannic acid..taking the bitter edge off of it..I should get between 36 – 50 bottles…
I will have to dig out the juice press
https://www.homedepot.com/pep/Karl-home-1-8-gal-7-L-Steel-Green-Manual-Juicer-Grinder-Large-Capacity-Fruit-Scratter-Pulper-for-Wine-and-Cider-Manual-Pressing-HDK1G55000118/340090138?
https://www.vevor.com/fruit-wine-press-c_41896/vevor-fruit-wine-press-4-75gal-18l-manual-juice-maker-solid-beech-wood-basket-vintage-traditional-juicer-with-2-filter-bags-heavy-duty-t-shaped-handle-bar-for-cider-apple-grape-press-kitchen-home-p_010269968101?
(“Annunaki didnt teach shit to Humanity – they hunted, tortured and slaughtered Humans by the hundreds of thousands. It was Lord Osiris/Asar/Enkis’ Igigi – the finely feathered reptiles who were born “Planners” as a counter balance to all the Annuna/Annunaki warriors.”)
I do get what your referring to..mankind following the business model of the whore of babylon…that endless cycle that repeats ..even though we have been warned over and over….
When read about the Anunnaki as hunters or reptilian overlords, they’re not referring to anything found in the actual Sumerian tablets. They’re repeating a modern mashup of Sitchin’s 1970s interpretations, Icke’s reptilian mythology, and internet remix of past business culture. The ancient texts themselves describe the Anunnaki and Igigi as mythological gods in a labor dispute — not extraterrestrials, not genetic engineers, and not predators.
The warnings humanity passed down for thousands of years weren’t about alien overlords. They were about human systems that keep repeating…empire overreach, corruption, exploitation, and the “Babylon model” of concentrating wealth at the top while hollowing out the foundations underneath. Every prophet, historian, and philosopher warned about that pattern because it repeats — not because of cosmic beings, but because of human behavior….
Sitchin’s version of Enki as a teacher or protector isn’t historical… it’s a modern reinterpretation layered on top of Mesopotamian religion…. The same goes for the reptilian angle — that comes from 1990s conspiracy literature, not real archaeology. When you strip away the modern sci fi additions, the tablets show a civilization trying to explain agriculture, floods, and labor through myth, not extraterrestrial intervention.
For us to understand the past clearly, we have to separate ancient myth, modern reinterpretation, and the modern internet mythology. Otherwise we end up mixing Osiris with Enki, Sumer with Egypt, and religion with conspiracy — and lose the real lessons those cultures were trying to teach all of mankind…and in a thousand years the lessons and warnings of past scholars will be taught and told around camp fires and in religious texts of tomorrow warning the exact same things man was warned against today..to the future human race…bending to the business model of the whore of babylon all over again..its endless..
History repeats itself over and over..
you can get the translations easy enough..they are on archive.org…
L.W. King — The Seven Tablets of Creation
A.H. Sayce & A. Pinches — The Religion of the Ancient Babylonians
Samuel Noah Kramer — Sumerian Mythology
The Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature (ETCSL)
The Atrahasis Epic (Lambert & Millard)
what you won’t find is reference to reptilian over lords.. instead you’ll find reference to business models that look eerily close to today’s business models..
(“Annunaki didnt teach shit to Humanity – they hunted, tortured and slaughtered Humans by the hundreds of thousands. It was Lord Osiris/Asar/Enkis’ Igigi – the finely feathered reptiles who were born “Planners” as a counter balance to all the Annuna/Annunaki warriors. “)
now..dont get me wrong..I could totally be wrong..I am just a moron in the wastelands that likes to read and ponder on the past..similar to the Hopi legends of the Ant men that saved humanity..The Hopi Anu Sinom (“Ant People”) in my opinion were not aliens.
They were symbolic helpers — beings who shelter humanity during catastrophe….What their story teaches…is humility,cooperation,
survival,listening to wisdom,respecting cycles,and preparing for hardship to come..the exact same messages taught for thousands of years..
mankind has never listened before and aren’t listening now…kind of like the sixties rant over Vietnam.. killing for peace is like F@#king for chastity…a vicious cycle..
(“Annunaki didnt teach shit to Humanity – they hunted, tortured and slaughtered Humans by the hundreds of thousands. It was Lord Osiris/Asar/Enkis’ Igigi – the finely feathered reptiles who were born “Planners” as a counter balance to all the Annuna/Annunaki warriors.”)
usually around here..when a subject like this comes up..my family are instantly interested in some other part of the yard..lol lol lol..
hey I think they called me from next door to come over lol lol lol
“OK..I was up at one of my favorite libraries doing a little reading on brain function and cellular protection and regeneration…”
Donovan’s Brain (1953) – Official Trailer
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=buSR97QeCq8&pp=ygUZRG9ub3ZhbiBicmFpbiB0cmFpbGVyIDE5NQ%3D%3D
https://www.science.org/content/article/burst-brain-activity-during-dying-could-explain-life-passing-your-eyes
and the movie….Brainstorm…
https://m.youtube.com/results?sp=mAEA&search_query=Brainstorm+thw+movie
(“2.5 to 3 pounds of Pomegranate pith & rinds ?
Dude Loob, thats a lot of pith and rinds – like how many Pomegranates you plan on eating ?
If buying already prepared Juice, where you getting the pith and rinds from ?”)
lol… I’m using the actual fruit and some modern juice to balance the flavors. The pith and rind are getting cold pressed — that’s where a lot of the ancestral character comes from. People forget that wine isn’t just “fruit + yeast.” The flavor comes from the region, the soil composition, the minerals, and the specific strain of the fruit. That’s why certain wines and brews cost a fortune.
Take the forbidden wine of the first emperor of China — the one made from grapes and lotus flowers grown only in that one valley. I tracked down fruit from the same region, and I still have six bottles saved. Once you taste it, you understand instantly why it was reserved for royalty.
Same with the legendary Eden wine beer mix, or the grape juice from the vines said to be planted by Noah. You can’t buy those right now — same reason I can’t get that handcrafted bassinet from a country we’re currently trying to overtake. When people stop killing each other, the trade opens back up.
Higher end brews like AARAK come from very specific soil and climate conditions. The second most expensive wine I’ve ever had was cacao wine from South America — pods grown in volcanic soil. It gets better with age, which is probably why it sells for so much. A vintner who made a test batch for a magazine walked me through the process. Thank god that Craftsmen love sharing their passion.
So yeah — I’m using a juice blend to even out the flavor profile, but the real backbone of the wine is coming from the fresh fruit, the pith, and the cold pressed rind. That’s how you get the old world, ancestral mix instead of just another modern bottle……a wine that you won’t find on a liquor stores shelf..the once in a lifetime treat..
I make the regular available wines to..right now I have buffalo berry wine..a local winery makes it..but its not a real common wine but is one that native Americans made for ceremonial reasons..the wife loves it..
the next two that will be in the term enters is the Cascara..made from the coffee cherry ( another rare wine) and the pomegranate with a modern and ancient ceremonial twist..
Off topic here for a moment.
First , best wishes for Hank and the other Islanders.
Second. I see all of this hoopla over data centers. Isnt that the same thing the NSA has in Bluffdale ? Stick the data centers out there and be done with it.
Im sure its not that simple , or could it be ?
Sort of…
CONUS currently has around 3500 datacenters. The vast majority of them run “conventional computers.” The environmental differences between a conventional computer and an “AI computer” are the latter runs much hotter, and requires much more electrical energy to operate. The Trump Administration established guidelines which require AI datacenters to be “environmentally neutral” (meaning they take water for cooling, but have to return it both cleaner and cooler than they got it), and must supply all of their own power, independent of the grid power around them.
The big problem with AI datacenters is the fact the ChiComs have released (roughly) 100,000 information bots, both on social media and news services, which are designed to program low-information and low-intelligence humans into believing datacenters are a bad thing. Once the people are programmed, they panic at the mention of a datacenter and organize protests and resistance, without merit, but strongly-backed by emotion.
The next biggest problem with AI datacenters is Donald Trump supports them. All low-information and low-intelligence members of the populace have been programmed by the media to believe everything Mr. Trump does is “bad,” therefore they oppose datacenters simply because Trump supports them…
Wasn’t Sun Tzu Chinese? Just wondering…
Trump’s so called ‘environmentally neutral data centers’
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/sep/08/us-datacenters-wastewater-pollution
‘Concerned that residents could be exposed to the bacteria if they inhaled evaporating droplets of the water used for irrigation, Cheyenne officials took until July before deciding to stop taking wastewater from Meta’s contractor, Goat Systems – a decision that is now being appealed.
When officials in Wyoming conducted a routine test on the water that was being discharged from a massive under-construction Meta datacenter, it was a shock to find it contained a rare and potentially hazardous bacterium
However, the bacteria-laden water in Wyoming is just the latest in a series of alarms raised across the US about datacenters and water – not just how much of it they are sucking up, but also what’s in the water when it is funneled back into rivers, streams and public water systems.
In Virginia, authorities have brought enforcement actions against several datacenters for wastewater and wetland permit violations, in West Virginia stormwater runoff from an incomplete datacenter has twice flooded surrounding houses, all while locals and activists have campaigned against the discharge of heated water from an upcoming datacenter into Lake Seneca, in New York.’
https://www.lincolninst.edu/publications/land-lines-magazine/articles/land-water-impacts-data-centers/
A study by the Houston Advanced Research Center (HARC) and University of Houston found that data centers in Texas will use 49 billion gallons of water in 2025, and as much as 399 billion gallons in 2030. That would be equivalent to drawing down the largest reservoir in the US—157,000-acre Lake Mead—by more than 16 feet in a year.
Evaporative cooling also leaves behind high concentrations of salts and other contaminants, she adds, creating water quality issues.
Google, for its part, reported using more than 5 billion gallons of water across all its data centers in 2023, with 31 percent of its freshwater withdrawals coming from watersheds with medium or high water scarcity.
Locating data centers in cooler, wetter regions can help reduce the amount of water they use and the impact of their freshwater withdrawals. And yet roughly two-thirds of the data centers built since 2022 have been located in water-stressed regions, according to a Bloomberg News analysis, including hot, dry climates like Arizona.
most data centers are adding copious amounts of greenhouse gases to our collective emissions, at a time when science demands we cut them sharply to limit the worst impacts of climate change.’
Youse oughta see what they are doing the local electrical grid – some of the dirtiest Electricity in country is found in and around data ctrs..DURTY E.
can kicking positioning G ? i think the eye of the cyclone is passing . wind picking up . seek shelter . but of course AI will provide more beer and Argentinian cheap prime rib for the hoedown , bit of moonshine 2
Victoria’s Secrets (Lex Wexner, Founder of Victoria’s Secrets), or ‘The Apes and Their Bananas’ lol:
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/19/epstein-trump-les-wexner-deposition.html
‘Jeffrey Epstein would “name drop” President Donald Trump as one of the many high-profile people he claimed to know, billionaire retail magnate Leslie Wexner said this week in a congressional deposition about the notorious sex offender.’
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/23/trump-epstein-photos
‘CNN also published footage from 1999 of Trump and Epstein attending a Victoria’s Secret fashion event in New York, where they are seen talking and laughing alongside Trump’s future wife, Melania Trump.’
do ya read your articles?
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/19/epstein-trump-les-wexner-deposition.html
“Wexner, the retired founder of Victoria’s Secret ex-parent L Brands, said he did not believe Trump and Epstein were actually friends.”
met a couple guys at a party, turned out they were narks and busted the lot of us for mary jane,, Trump rubbed elbows at public partys and busted ole jeffie in due time,,, there is a lag from party time to prosecution, I know !
how is jeff doing these days?
robots are on afternoon glide mode !!! this is gunna end bad . no you just dont get it . i mean real bad .. real real bad
God only knows what that beef was injected with …….
bit like that great show of mel brooks the great man . get smart !! the old perpetual war trick . or the fake diesel price trick . chief bring down the cone of silence so we can discuss warshy next trick or treat .. a magic show !!!!
OK.., I goofed. I’ll admit it – in buying the new refrigerator.
– The damn thing talks !
– Nowhere in the initial info does it state that. However, it is there., in the very small print.
Leave the door open for more then ten seconds and sexy female voice starts yacking at you.., that the door is open.
When you first open the refrig side that same voice tells you the ice maker is on.
This morning I opened the refrig side and that female voice told me that the “Crisper Drawer’ was not closed. I looked down., sure enough., it was open about half an inch. I pushed it closed with my foot and the sex-kitten said “Thank you.”
I do believe that this going to get rather annoying.
Read the very small print ?? Even if it is $600 off and a three year warrantee.
.., damn !
Introduce her to JARVIS – their offspring might be something useful.
Like a talking blender or a think disposal?
“Like a talking blender or a think disposal?”
LOL! Now THAT was the funniest typo I’ve seen here yet. I’m guessing you meant ‘sink disposal’, but… Maybe the AIs have accomplished the goal of overcoming thinking? LOL!
Yeah, my pet peeve is appliances that want your Wifi password for internet access.
Congrats! You now have adopted both Alexis and Siri…
Use “Flex Tape” or snip the circuit.
Tape: Cut proper sized square, place over transducer.
The “smart” appliances both talk and listen. The ones with cams also “see.” Their “eyes” and “ears” are on, 24/7/365. If you’re going for the “deaf, dumb, and blind” lobotomy, you’ll have to have the wiring schematic or block diagram. The manufacturer will not have made it easy, but it also won’t be difficult. The only question will be whether they linked appliance function to “smart” function.
“Frosty” just left the building. Here’s hoping you get it back…
That is absolutely hilarious!
Thank god the fridge doesn’t say…do you really want that…how many have you had already..lol lol lol lol
*Alexa* (damn’ autocorrect…)
FWIW I watch things like this:
https://www.publicsurplus.com/sms/auction/view?auc=4080332
They’re indestructible. If a compressor goes tango uniform, repair can be a bit salty, but this is a (nearly) $10,000 hunk o’ stainless and it will probably sell for that $50 bid, unless I join in. Ravenna is a blue-collar suburb of Akron, and I don’t have any reason to go there yet, so…
The secret is to get units from kitchens. A lot of schools and institutions use them for storing bio-samples (which could be anything from plant cultures to petri dishes full of anthrax) so the caveat is to ascertain (without telling the seller-rep why) what department or agency used the unit.
You don’t have any units nearby, right now,
but there are some interesting items being auctioned…
Nice…our facility has one an awesome fridge
i think capo don trump and his 2 sons should be given honorary doctorates in economics from Princeton . home of the great names , martin armstrong , ben bernanke but really the only great one forget the first 2 , Kenneth galbraith . yeah the trumps . gunna start a company , trump trade , never miss
Grand Pa tRUMP was a 2 time illegal immigrant..from Germany 2 times.
Made his Money in Canada, with working Gals in Houses of Ill-Repute.
Went back to Germany after war after war, and he was refused entry. So back to America, where illegally immigrated AGAIN.
That good readers is some ironic scheisse .
Here’s a goodie –
Lawyer asks Trump to pardon Lindsay Clancy after mistrial in Massachusetts murder case
WASHINGTON, Sept 8 (Reuters) – The lawyer for Lindsay Clancy, the Massachusetts mother whose ?murder trial ended in a mistrial last week, asked President Donald Trump on ?Tuesday to pardon her, despite the fact that the case was prosecuted under state law.
Maybe?
Speaking of thinking….. and copycats.
Recall last week Vance scaring the peoples with Antichrist remarks. Later in the week a mom whacked her kid thinking/saying he is the Antichrist. She has other kids and singled the one out so in her mind’s eye she was convinced.
Should Vance really be scaring gullible people with Antichrist memes. Heartbeat away…..
Some folks believed Trump saying new factories were coming. Others believed Trump saying the Iran war would last two weeks. Why wouldn’t that lady believe Vance’s words? At the end of the day anyone the lady confides in could be a shapeshifting demon.
1 level deeper perhaps demons are running amuck and should be handled? Who is to say who is who or what? Trump bible?
Thank god we now live in the United Dominion of Trumporia..oh wait we haven’t renamed the usa yet…lol lol lol
“Here’s a goodie –
Lawyer asks Trump to pardon Lindsay Clancy after mistrial in Massachusetts murder case”
Why is it a “goodie?”
It is cheap theatrics, by a circus attorney who may (or may not) know the President has no jurisdiction over State criminal cases.
I’m personally disgusted that GMA gave Clancy’s shithead legal representative airtime, so he could pollute any possible future jury pool.
I guess it would be nice if she were acquitted, though. That would establish a legal precedent whereby any female could be barred from any occupation or activity which required a degree of responsibility, on the grounds she could have an attack of hormones, and kill everybody off…
{/sarc}
(Bloomberg) — A $320 million hack of the Bitcoin-linked Liquid Network is another dent to crypto’s reputation as the industry tries to convince banks and institutional investors that digital assets are safe and can become part of mainstream financial infrastructure.
Ongoing hacks are exposing decentralization — once touted as one of crypto’s greatest strengths — as a vulnerability. By removing central authorities responsible for reversing mistakes, safeguarding assets and absorbing losses, the system leaves users dependent on fragmented infrastructure that malicious actors continue to find ways to attack.
.., and $320 million is a major attack.
And when A.I. joins in – this will turn into a weekly headline.
[ my opinion ]
the deep state has had the ability to know who has crypto , how they are used and how to take it. nothing is safe unless it’s in your possession and guarded with weapons. can’t tell you how I know.
I haven’t seen the morning news aftermath of hurricane damage to Kauai. I heard reports the power system went down. Saw one reporter last night at a beach park… well back from the ocean… where 20 foot waves were coming ashore and they were urging oceanfront residents to evacuate. I’m sure there will be damage aftermath reports on the news today.
I spent most of yesterday in the Emergency Room after a bloody scare (TMI) that turned out to be an infection. I’m on antibiotics. Rainy day yesterday but the hog bikers that imported to the island were out riding the highways for the holiday, and parked under tents at the beaches for foul weather picnics. Hard core folks.
Get well soonest Hank. Stay safe.
all hands on deck !!!! warning warning auto system failure .. riginee pumpinee time .report to bond selling , usd shorting and gold , sheetcoin super pumps . warning warning !!!
George:
Since you are such an inventive guy, couldn’t you come up with kind of a closed-circuit model for an AI center, assuming, of course, that they weren’t evil incarnate?
BTW, I used to spend a lot of time with a Mormon US Army National Guard battalion full of returned missionaries at a remote post near Bluffdale, when that data storage facility was just a rumored future item. In my former life, I had frequent need of linguists with in-country experience, and those guys were, and probably still are, a capable and patriotic bunch.
Anyhow, build one of the small, rumored, cold-fusion reactors for power, put the facility over a pool of artesian water, filter the water for mineral content, and use a deep borehole to return the water and also function as a geothermal heat pump to cool the place. Put them out in the outback and leave residential and small-business electrical customers alone. Gray Fox
clif high talks about ‘lighting eaters’,,, units that draw electricity from the atmosphere
https://wltreport.com/2026/04/11/clif-high-here-come-lightning-eaters-2/
Kronos – 1957
A huge, blinking flying object from space emits a glowing ball of electrical energy, which races toward the Earth. It intercepts a man driving on an isolated road in the American Southwest desert late at night. It takes over the man’s mind, directing him to LabCentral, a U.S. research facility, where a pair of scientists have been tracking the flying object. The possessed man knocks out a security guard, then proceeds into the main building where the entity leaves the driver and enters the mind of Dr. Hubbell Eliot, the LabCentral chief.
Meanwhile, in a research lab below, astrophysicist Dr. Leslie Gaskell and his computer science associate, Dr. Arnold Culver, have been tracking the flying object. They realize that it is not only headed toward Earth but is moving under intelligent guidance. Attempts to destroy with nuclear missiles fail, and the object dives into the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Mexico.
The two scientists, along with Vera Hunter, LabCentral’s staff photographer and Gaskell’s girlfriend, rush to Mexico. Upon their arrival, they see an enormous glowing dome appear on the ocean horizon. The next morning, on the beach outside their room, they find that a very tall machine has appeared; its four-legged body has two mobile antennae. They use a helicopter to land atop the machine, glimpsing its complex inner workings before being forced to leave and fly back to LabCentral when the machine begins to move.
The possessed Dr. Eliot telepathically directs the machine. Now named Kronos by the news media, it methodically attacks power plants in Mexico, draining all their energy. In doing so, Kronos grows larger, consuming more power as it moves from one power source to the next. Four Mexican Air Force fighter planes attack, but the ever-growing alien machine easily destroys them and continues on its rampage. While Kronos is absorbing energy, Eliot is momentarily freed from the influence of the force controlling him. Eliot tells his colleagues that Kronos is an energy accumulator, sent by an alien race that has exhausted its own natural resources to drain all the Earth’s power and then return it to their dying world.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kronos_(film)
Kronos (1957) (Newly Restored HD Version) | Official Trailer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94XIWV0OiDg
42 x 14… floats. Offshore in an hour.
I’ll take my chances wetter the better.
Stiks
“Test-Fitting Apes,”
Really looking forward to this one g,
Great pioneer work.
Israel retaliates after UK sanctions | Hundreds of flights cancelled due to air traffic control issue.
Perhaps there’s a gap in the timeline but there could have been forewarning of the UK move from foreign intel. Israel in my view is the most existential threat to the world, closely followed by their most ardent sycophant. You must know that you’re sitting in the vipers den…only a matter of time.
Many lucid dreams now……..
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1j4npw4wpxo