TL;DR: For your reading arc today: Nuclear Macro-danger, fragile elites, market jitters, ceasefire myth-making, reclaiming agency via soil & muscle, a personal readiness snapshot plus a winter prep tip punchline.
Trump Goes Nuclear
My consigliere who lives a little too close to many targeting package selections has been very clear: He will be available for tax advice right up until the very last microsecond before vaporization. Because he’s not planning to bug-out. “What’s the point?” he asks?
To be sure, his remarks have been mainly in jest. Air raid sirens are convincing salesmen.
Long-time readers will remember he squired Elaine and me through the Dayton Air Force Museum some years back to see the life-like mock ups of the nukes used on Japan and the plane that flew them back when.
Today, his “Point of Personal Preservation” becomes more poignant as Trump suggests the U.S. will resume testing nuclear weapons.
Far as we can tell, he may belong to a select group of people who will not be deeply-disturbed. Sure, he’s got a pretty good “evidence-based case” for futility of it all. The “after” any actual nuke use will be a likely hell on Earth. But the good news? The democrats will get their ultimate government shutdown and riots over everything. Plus, those hot summers here in East Texas will become more seasonable during Nuclear Winter.
Still, our planning runs to the Robert W. Service path (from his poem “The Quitter“:
“It’s easy to cry that you’re beaten — and die;
It’s easy to crawfish and crawl;
But to fight and to fight when hope’s out of sight —
Why, that’s the best game of them all!
And though you come out of each gruelling bout,
All broken and beaten and scarred,
Just have one more try — it’s dead easy to die,
It’s the keeping-on-living that’s hard.”
BUT, like I said, the consigliere has a strong evidence-based case.
Still, Trump’s Developer Personality may just need another outlet. This is what “progress” looks like in late-stage economic bubbles, we reckon. The Russian Tsar bomb to be matched by “king” Trump?
The Inscrutable Meeting
Who got screwed at the Trump-Xi talks is a little hard to figure, just yet.
On the surface, a big win is claimed: Trump says Xi to lift rare earth curbs, cut US tariffs after Seoul talks.
But beneath it? Xi says US, China ‘should be partners and friends’ as he meets Trump in South Korea. We’d bet this is a bromance-style hug, allowing China to get closer to put the knife in our back.
Take a close look at pictures of Xi on this trip. We have been hearing rumblings about big change in the CCP inner ranks and Xi (to my declining eyes) has that puffy face look of someone under great stress and water retention. Too much sake on the road? No, more to it by the look, we’d venture. Do both leaders have health issues? The marl road beats louder.
So what’s the real cost? Trump to reduce tariffs on China after meeting with Xi Jinping.
We stay bankrupt with a nearly $40-trillion debt – times about 4 if you include undeniable interest. China keeps their choke collar on us and we’d bet a couple of sawbucks that “administrative delays” will pinch American industry, anyway. Xi will deny, Trump will spew, you and me (public) will be the ones getting screwed.
Scamming the “Ceasefire”
I don’t know whether to call the Federal Trade Commission, the State Department, or just dummy-up and say bupkis. We try to stay out of computers.
But somehow, the headline Israel Says Cease-Fire Restored After Strikes Kill More Than 100 in Gaza | TIME just hit me as wrong-headed media manipulation.
The Big Ponder here? “How many times can you break a “cease fire” with strafing runs and still label it a ceasefire and package it that way for the sheep?”
Could we (please) at least call it an “Intermittent Fire” or something similar; you know – within sight of Reality?
To Market To Market
Let’s size up the fat pig prospects, shall we?
The Futures are complying with the hint laid out in the Peoplenomics ChartPack Wednesday. Tuesday and Wednesday flashed “double zero days” using our VMS – visual market signal – so the trend for the next week of trading is likely to be down.
The REAL question is “How far?” We’d expect the Dow to drop 150 or more today with proportional drops in techs and the S&P.
Europe is coming along to the downside as well: half a percent down earlier, but be looking for snowballing. Gold and silver are clawing back. Maybe because the Rare Earths decision from Xi will not stop autos from being made. See what the real problem is? Once we make all those cars and trucks, they’ll be “too expensive to buy.” And the disposable income problem will take center stage.
BTC was trying to hold $110,000 but when someone besides us figures out the perils international internet connectivity faces, well….you connect the dots. On dial-up maybe?
Diogenes as Our Editor
Let’s begin in Washington D.C. – where the odds of honest anything are enough to start old Diogenes pouring hemlock.
Exhibit A: ‘Orwellian’: DOJ stuns as memo erased detailing pardoned J6 rioter’s dangerous act.
Exhibit B comes to us from Kalifornia: Gov. Gavin Newsom tells Prop. 50 backers to stop donating: ‘We’ve raised enough’. Are you willing to believe a politician saying such a thing? If you are not from the (once) Golden State, Prop 50 would authorize temporary use of new congressional district maps in California, drawn by the Legislature, beginning with the 2026 elections. We already know Diogenes is persona non grata in all the left coast fruit orchards.
Oh, as long as we’re on Honesty (and Kalifornia) take a gander at the NY Post story: Gavin Newsom is part of a new trend: inventing ‘poorigin’ stories. Yeah – poor form, indeed.
Ja’ make a mess? More than 25,000 in shelters as Jamaica assesses devastation of Melissa – Cayman Compass. Now clearing Bahamian waters, Melissa’s heading on to smack Bermuda.
Personal Health:
Recall to be aware of: Blood Pressure Medication Recalled Due to Possible Carcinogens.
And you probably already knew this: Intelligence And Longevity Share Genetic Roots, Shows Study Of 400,000 People. Yeah – because they don’t eat stupid? Like high carb, HFCS, sugar, and….oh let’s not.
ATR: Garden Like Your Life Depends On It
If the future is as sketchy as it looks — if ceasefires fails and inflated markets deflate and power grids flicker while rare-earth flows depend on who hugged whom in Seoul — then the core question for long-term survivors becomes embarrassingly simple: can you feed yourself?
Not in a romantic homestead-influencer way; this isn’t a click here and buy this shill piece. Just in a practical boots-in-dirt, weeds-don’t-care-about-geopolitics way. It’s fashionable to chatter about crypto hedges and rare metals for the bunker, but all that falls apart when the web breaks, food trucks stop rolling and lettuce hits $18 a head. Health insurance? For the next decade it may come spelled with worms, mulch, and muscle memory. Home grown botanicals. The body you build hoeing rows is a different kind of policy — one not dependent on actuarial grace or government budget cycles.
Normal is addictive: Assumptions have it that global machines will always hum. Yet the elites — the modern media pricks — spew platitudes while paring back transparency. Diogenes would need a halogen lamp (and a ray gun) to find honest news in this haze.
You can feel it in the markets, taste it in the tides of gold, and see it in the price of anything with a motor. Liars all around: crafting poor-boy origin myths for political flavor, while jets streak over “ceasefires” while born-again Bill sees a muddle through.
Becoming a Long-Term Survivor
So here’s my forward sketch. The next decade belongs to the adaptable, not the outraged. To the practical, not the performative. To those who can raise food, repair gear, and maintain a coherent sense of reality when narratives break like rotten fence posts. You don’t need to go full prepper. You don’t need to build a moat or stock OR-lawyer-issued hazmat suits.
Start with a raised bed. Even an indoor hydroponic tub or three. Learn which bugs help and which bugs don’t. Grow greens before you grow fear. And when the world shakes — whether from markets, missiles, or simple bureaucratic incompetence — you’ll feel something rare: agency. A tomato you grew is a foxtrot-uniform to fragility. A root cellar is a vote for continuity. Carrots not karats will matter. And in the quiet of morning, when watering beats wondering, or hunting hides headlines, you’ll find health insurance no policy can match.
Years back I prompted you to try an exercise to test personal resilience: Turn off your water and power for a weekend and see how life rolls. It was a shocker to many.
We did it then, and we do it now. What has changed? We go a step further: We also turn off the three wifi networks and cut phones at demarc.
Our current score? Very prepped. Highly ready. 600 gallons of water in pressurized backup. Genset and fuel in its own secured building. Ak’s and SKS’s cleaned and zeroed. But more important, the freeze-dried, the sprouting seeds, the rice, the beans. The vitamins, the meds…the water catchment – oh it’s a long list.
For us Life should still work: The ham radio and shortwaves keep us informed, the scanners tell us where help is, the weather radio? With the solar and a couple of wind machines on ice, power, food, water…but yeah, everyone can always add toilet paper. Don’t even think of showing up uninvited.
Here’s where this is going: Unlike 99.9 percent of America, we have a bead on where we think future will be laying in wait. We’re ready to walk the path and come out the other side. But we’re not running guide service.
Something to think about when you get tempted to “piss your life out a wifi card” because there are no do-overs in real life. You can’t eat social but you can wake up from game-induced sleep.
Winter Preps
Found these the other day: A preset plug and play “freeze prevention” plug. $14 bucks on Amazon and it turns on a heater at 38F and turns it off at 50F.
Now, just remember to get heaters for your “keep warm spaces” that don’t have electronic controls. Most of those won’t automatically come on after a five minute power outage and you may not have time to acquire, test and return “test heaters” if necessary before real cold shows up. i
It was 38F here at press time. Couple that with a fresh haircut and it seemed like something worth mentioning before my brain freezes over.
Write when you get rich,
George@Ure.net
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“(Because he’s not planning to bug-out. “What’s the point?” he asks?)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CBRN_defense
Ah yes, Mr. Ure, anyone who’s been CBRN and security force trained knows what’s in store for those who’ve survived said conflagration.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Old_Man_in_the_Cave
Not advice homegamers, get Ure own goggles.
Old enough to remember when it was just NBC, the NBCR, currently CBRN. The bureaucratic acronym wars continue. What next? CBDCR? Got to add a new threat to justify their existence, spread more fear and panic.
Much of the information out there is correct but misleading! Not to downplay the risks but strikes are always best case conditions for the warhead, worst case for the target. Like bright sunny rain free hot dry days in Seattle. Weather conditions need to be considered. Initial surface conditions have a great impact. Hard for fire to flash over when buried in 4 ft of snow, or if burst occurs in the middle of a hurricane, or major rain storm.
Plan for the worst hope for the best.
Life goes on until it doesn’t. Don’t live in fear, just be aware of the real risks.
You’re saying is doesn’t mean Covid, Nuclear….
Typo, meant to write CBDRN where D is drone. Pick your own alphabet threat. Just like they added Radiological in addition to Nuclear. Threats, threats everywhere. I am more worried about the socialists, communists AKA Antifa, demoncrats, the senate, illegals and the unassimilated than about canned sunshine from above.
Yes NBC here too. And the banana suit team complete with reaction force accoutrement and choice of M-14 or 870. Fun times that.
(Because he’s not planning to bug-out. “What’s the point?” he asks?)
Years ago a co-worker said the same thing. He lived at the tip of Pearl Harbor. The point I took was to arrange my life to be as far away from the target zone as possible. I retired 250 miles away from that big target, with a pair of 13,000ft mountains for a blast wall between thee and me. THAT is the point!
Hey Chief,
Thanks for yet another solid newsy edition UrbSurv – really preciate all that you do here.
Color BCP Flabbergasted..yes astonished and surprised by the US/NATO response, seeming Ignorance to THREAT (s) Levels presented from Mother Russia.
Can you even imagine tRUMP wearing Army Fatigues ? Talk about a “blackshoe” with his fat gut hanging out.. Holy QuaterPuonder w/Cheeses that would be a funny sight.
My perception? those levels appear to be Highest I ever seen/experienced in my short lil 63 years of Life on this stinking prison planet. Remember waking up in middle of BUD/S training one morning in 82, to news we were involved in Russian shootdown of commercial aircraft (turns out it was Rothchild op against US congressman). Really believed I would get a chance to fight some Russian nogoodniks that morning..
I never seen Pooters bluff, dont mean he wouldnt, but I dont recall a bluff, ever. The Man, the Country is DEAD serious about stopping the War pressures on Mother Russia NOW. Too bad the arrogant sword swallowers at pentagram&wh cant see past their enormously inflated ego’s .
Oh well , SARMATS for Ohio, Tinysota, NM, NV- Nuke Moles for coastals’ – leaving the Food growing States unscathed. Mid-range hazelnuts for EU/ME – whats the difference anynmore?
Womens’ gotta eat, no?
PS – got a fiery hot(friendly) welcome ready 4 just andy – see ya soon Spartacus.
PSS – you got any of that Texas “shine” in Ure prepping supplies ?
Cause the BCP gonna need a shot of that UrbanSurvival “juice” this AM, as the man Mr Mojo Risen said,, ‘The futures uncertain, and the end is always near”. Too the roadhouse – https://youtu.be/c-xUvX1SSMI?si=x7ofpIVuvCQ9t68d
Is everybody ready ?
You saw the 9 new satellites just appeared around atlas ? same exact chemie signature ? hmmmmmmm maybe I wasnt bullshitting after all??? ???
*Please put tray tables in the upright position,put seats in upright position, seci=ure any loose gear, stick Ure head tween Ure knees, and kiss Ure ass Goodbye.
inquiring minds want to know did you grad bud/s and go to teams or ring a bell/life offers other avenues?
Si -class picture still hanging in instructors lounge..kids still have their “Hellweek” T-shirts I picked up for em during a reunion weekend, 1990’s. Should have seen reaction from their elementary school Gym teacher when saw those shirts..
of course not everybody who successfully completes BUD/S training goes on to the Teams..one of my best buds says to me one morning, back row PT on grindr, knocking out pushups, that those FBI guys that had been in row behind us for PT the day before, were recruiting him to Hostage Rescue Teams. Next day he was gone from program, no word, no trace, just gone, never saw him again. Did see “disco SEAL’ in class just in front of mine on the TV in Fallujah in the 90’s – he had been contracting with blackwater, when I saw him on tv, as a charred corpse hanging from a bridge abutment,after being dragged behiond PU truck thru town.
Just a blue falcon check buddy. ure6
Sizzle…….
Parties with your friends on the Nimitz grinder back in boots. Good times had by all!
George, the disposable income problem is already here. Where I live all the auto dealer lots are packed…no place to put another car, while auto loan delinquencies are climbing. Coffee at Costco has almost doubled in price in the past 6 months.
The consumer is frozen while 50% of all purchases are done by the upper 10%.
So the stock market has nothing to do with the underlying economy. That is declining fast. So the video game the big boys play with stock values reflects nothing but their own markers for “winning”. Of course they will let it go up and down because they want to pretend it is an actual reflection of reality. But the AI market makers care nothing about how Joe and Mary on Main St are doing. The whole game is disgusting.
“Air raid sirens are convincing salesmen”
If not the air raid sirens, the beeps form hospital monitoring equipment. If not the hospital equipment, the ambulance siren wailing. If not the ambulance siren, the loved one yelling into the phone at a dispatcher…. the zing of a long rifle slug sometime Sunday while defending the food pile from SNAP zombies. LOL There’s always a last sound that’ll catch our ear. Next time I’ll ask A.I. to write a poem.
Got chu, Motor City Man..
Midnight Caper
“In the middle of a cold, wet & rainy night he did stop
up from his seat he did hop, out the front door and down front walk he did run.
What was the reason for this midnight caper ?
Twas the fact that there was no toilet paper.
Clearly, you missed the spot up the beach where the grownup campfire was.
Not bad. Here’s what I prompt engineered.
“Cans hum in the dark,
November fields yield no grain—
Hope tastes like old beans.”
” Trump to reduce tariffs on China”
The Trump shiny, new factory shtick proven to be a mirage. The idled GM factories will remain unoccupied. But the rest of Trump’s wildest shtick will come true. The pain will last just a little bit longer. Trust the plan. 4D.
“WILL THERE BE SOME PAIN? YES, MAYBE (AND MAYBE NOT!),” adding, “BUT WE WILL MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN, AND IT WILL ALL BE WORTH THE PRICE THAT MUST BE PAID.”
Empty factories from F up next – so many new jobs unlike the old jobs. Or Trump perpetrated a hoax of his own.
“Ford Motor Co. will invest about 32.5 billion rupees ($370 million) in India to revive its Maraimalai Nagar factory, shut down four years ago. The updated facility will produce high-end engines for export, with a capacity of over 200,000 units annually. “
Looks like the Japanese woman read ‘Art.
“Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi informed U.S. President Donald Trump that Japan will continue importing Russian liquefied natural gas (LNG) despite U.S. pressure to halt these imports due to Russia’s war in Ukraine. Takaichi highlighted the need for Russian LNG to avoid domestic power shortages. In 2024, Russian LNG comprised 8.6 percent of Japan’s imports. “
Strafing a ceasefire…….Couldn’t be the terrorist are the ones “breaking the ceasefire” could it? If you are in a disagreement with a “neighbor” who constantly shoots toward your dwelling, and makes with the threats his going to kill you all, then you and said neighbor come to an agreement that the shooting will stop, but he just shoots less at you, what would you do?
re: The Diogenes Club
feat: Mycroft Holmes
Folks,
Browser pages left ajar brought word via the likes of “NY Post” and “Business Insider” of Tuesday’s Amazonian email blasts worthy of a Melissa to suddenly made-redundant US staff. It seems “lower level retail managers” are significantly impacted. Amazon Games is said to be wiped out in Irvine and San Diego. Perhaps the Montreal and Romanian studios are spared?
Out of respect for today’s diogenic recommendations on “Urbansurvival”, only a snippet of coverage can be seen by unregistered users on Mr. Bezos’s “Washington Post” in reference to word of the mass Amazon layoff. Such minion readers are delivered little more than a visual spectacle of Amazon’s largest office building in the world, HYD13.
Hyderabad (“Lion City”), India received its name in the 7th century from a both cousin and son-in-law of the Prophet Mohammed, according to “Wikipedia”. Nowadays the city looks to become an IT hub. A Mumbai-based Amazon “independent consultant” offers an inside look at hydra-headed HYD13 with its indoor cricket pitch at the following Amazon India link. I don’t know if the edifice’s library has “The Greek Interpreter” in circulation.
https://www.aboutamazon.in/news/workplace/amazons-largest-office-building-is-in-hyderabad
Of course, one can’t live on Amazon Games alone. Most people need a job. Although forklift drivers may have followed horse and buggy out the door, HYD13 offers a cornucopia of intellectual pursuit occupations perfectly suited for those with frugal budgeting skills worthy of Diogenes. Here’s a link to Amazon Jobs:
https://www.amazon.jobs/en/location/hyderabad-india
I was listening to Erik Erikson while returning from a med appointment yesterday, he commented that while the market was up, 75% of the stocks were actually in negative territory. I think he was referring to the S&P 500, but I’m not sure. GF
GU : “… Xi (to my declining eyes) has that puffy face look of someone under great stress and water retention …”
Looking around the room trying to figure out who the sucker is …
President For Life Xi appeared in a hostage proof of life video,
Possibly horrified His Orangeness would accept questions?
The CCP doesn’t do live exchange without questions in advance.
Note : TNX rose while Fed cut. Market desires equilibrium.
Metals rose while King Dollar also rose.
Interesting times. Buckle up kids! ~ E ~~
hmm..not going to bug out..lol seriously how stupid are those that pick a bug out destination away from conflicting points..but live closer..lol its like my friend that has a place next to a DUMB communications bunker. big enough to house a mall city.. the issue isn’t in the bunker it’s in the area it’s at and how in the heck will they get to it….them betting that the modern resources we take advantage of would still be available..oh I’ll just jump in the buggy and go..well not really..so he’s right on ..bug in..makes me curious if any of the brilliant strategists that follow the business model of big buck Billie’s pocket books has ever said dam..I wish we had listened to the moron in the wastelands.. you know the one wearing woman’s underwear as a swami turbine glaring at a child’s basketball rather than a crystal ball ..whose been ranting since he was 14.. solar towers at every substation and hand out grid tie solarpower kits at every home.. green scaping the cities.. air wells in arid regions.. I truly wish I had made a cube grow system..if the balloon goes up we stay where we are..those survivors will become nomads… now I agree with Xi s opinion …Xi and Putin should be allies of the USA..a multi polar world..
speaking about sprouts.. I have to get some window screen .I have been all over under the tunnels beneath DC.. huge elaborate.. but not many know they exist..seen a video of biden and wh staff heading down it’s a lot better lit today than when I was there and they had maps on the wall..lol lol when I woke up in them there was just a little five watt red bulb every city block..it took me three days to figure out how to get out of there.. literally exits in strange places in just about every building in dc..
G. A. STEWART: When The First Blow of Steel happens, the pretenders will claim that they saw it all coming. People will recognize the bullshit, because I get emails all the time from readers who recognize that I have been writing about current “hot topics“, like Russia’s Poseidon nuclear torpedo, for many years. This is what “Futuring” is all about.
The times have caught up to what I wrote many years ago, and eventually many people will catch up to this website and what I have written and described in DETAIL over many years… But then it will be too late.
https://theageofdesolation.com/nostradamus/2025/10/30/not-playing-games/
Personally I think the Poseidon is fake news.
How much energy is required to create a 1,600 foot tall x X foot wide x X thick surge of sea water, in all directions becasue a Poseidon explosion would be directionless and not project a column of water.
Once multiple Poseidons start going off the ripples from each would cancel ripples from the others. Poseidons may work in 1955 comic books but in a modern ocean?
Recall the personal submarine that imploded a few years back. .gov said they knew of the implosion immediately.
“MOSCOW, Oct 29 (Reuters) – President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday that Russia had successfully tested a Poseidon nuclear-powered super torpedo that military analysts say is capable of devastating coastal regions by triggering vast radioactive ocean swells.”
News didn’t mention any waves.
(“the real problem is? Once we make all those cars and trucks, they’ll be “too expensive to buy.” And the disposable income problem will take center stage.”)
I just stopped at a convenience store gas station..the teller.. just like me.. an older woman therapist.. prices forced her to get a part time job..we must have talked a half hour… HOW DO THESE KIDS DO IT ..my grandson.. his house payment is just shy four grand.. he works at a tire store for 18:00 an hour…one child…. daycare 1300:00 a month….plus car expenses utilities, insurances food etc..
so..
they already are… to expensive to buy…
I’m a lucky one I only have to pay off the bank loan if twenty grand and keep up with the prices inflating. then on Monday those depending on SNAP will have to dig up more money.. one bedroom low income housing already is out pricing from low income wages.. the real world..
it will be the lack of infrastructure that we rely on that will be what will do the most damage..heat, electric, water. . while our politicians have been pushing war and neglecting the needs here at home .winter and summer become weapons..one look at the snow and Ice storm in texas a good indication on how fast the dominoes will fall
“US energy projects in limbo after Trump administration revokes $7.5 billion in funding
The Department of Energy wants to terminate 321 funding awards mostly related to clean energy and grid stabilization”
https://cen.acs.org/business/investment/US-energy-projects-limbo-Trump/103/web/2025/10
“The Biden administration on Wednesday announced $3.5 billion for 58 projects across the country to strengthen electric grid resilience as extreme weather events such as the deadly Maui and California wildfires continue to strain the nation’s aging transmission systems.”
https://apnews.com/article/electric-grid-resilience-reliability-climate-biden-transmission-2dce477552c1056a2cf4e54519d97343
biden may have been the last american president for all americans, all states. i pray that the next dem president follows trump’s model and helps blue states only and tries to hurt red states.
“The Biden administration is putting $1.5 billion toward four electric power projects, including a connection to the Southeast for Texas’s isolated grid, it announced Thursday.”
https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/4913022-biden-administration-electric-power-projects/
China and lower income countries better at promoting renewable energy, China ultimately wins the Energy Wars.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx2rz08en2po
Solar power delivered the lion’s share of growth, meeting 83% of the increase in electricity demand. It has now been the largest source of new electricity globally for three years in a row.
‘Most solar generation (58%) is now in lower-income countries, many of which have seen explosive growth in recent years.
That’s thanks to spectacular reductions in cost. Solar has seen prices fall a staggering 99.9% since 1975 and is now so cheap that large markets for solar can emerge in a country in the space of a single year, especially where grid electricity is expensive and unreliable, says Ember.
But wherever you are in the world, China’s overwhelming dominance in clean tech industries remains unchallenged, other new data from Ember shows.
The Don is still beholden to Big Oil Money donors (T Mellon, formerly associated with BNY (Bank of NY Mellon),
Is Mellon also worried about the new Epstein victim lawsuits?
‘These lawsuits, filed by an anonymous plaintiff against Bank of America and the Bank of New York Mellon (BNY), allege that these financial powerhouses illicitly enabled Epstein’s sex trafficking. The suits are helmed by Sigrid S McCawley, of Boies Schiller Flexner, and Brad Edwards of Edwards Henderson, who have long represented Epstein victims.
“Epstein committed these crimes by means of not only his own extraordinary wealth and power, but through access to funding and financial support from both individuals and institutions, including BNY,” one lawsuit claims. “Egregiously, BNY had a plethora of information regarding Epstein’s sex trafficking operation but chose profit over protecting the victims.”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/27/jeffrey-epstein-lawsuit-us-banks
https://climatepower.us/news/trust-fund-heir-donald-trump-gets-50-million-from-big-oil-trust-fund-heir-timothy-mellon/
I have to say I’m pretty skeptical about this.. DC is notorious about handing cash to their friends..History teaches us that when public funds are distributed or revoked without transparency, it often reflects deeper struggles over power, ideology, and control—not just fiscal prudence. Whether it’s “cashola for buddies” or “cancel culture for rivals,” the pattern matters more than the press release.Call me curious about my reflection of this—and skeptical about the motives used. The Trump administration just revoked $7.5 billion in clean energy funding, targeting 321 projects, most of which were in states he lost. Meanwhile, the Biden administration had announced $3.5 billion for grid resilience. It’s hard not to see a pattern. These energy projects weren’t just about innovation—they were lifelines for communities facing climate stress and aging infrastructure. But instead of building solar towers and handing out grid-tie systems that empower local resilience, we keep pouring money into centralized utilities and massive wind farms that require costly transmission upgrades where implementation of the solar towers can be done cheaper in the long run with a greater return dollar for dollar seriously. Why not redirect those funds to distributed solar, which is faster to deploy, cheaper to integrate, and safer for families? When public money flows without transparency, it’s fair to ask: who benefits—and who’s left in the dark? in the end its always integrated into the business model of stuff big buck billies pocketbook..
(“That’s thanks to spectacular reductions in cost. Solar has seen prices fall a staggering 99.9% since 1975 “)
when we put solar on C the cost of solar was around fifteen dollars a watt… today you can get solar as low as a quarter a watt..
https://www.santansolar.com/product/the-homesteady-kit/
the cost of a solar tower three megawatts of power is less than three million plus the cost of the tower..and install..
https://sunwatts.com/1-mega-watt-solar-kits/
I just dropped a couple weeks of food off at a friend’s.. husband lost the high paying job he had.. struggling the expensive house they bought is now fighting with Satan in collections at the hospital and don’t qualify for any of those good Samaritan programs…I won’t tell them how to do their dance . they have to do that by themselves.. but a little food to help them at least eat
“Fighting with satan in collections”
cant see the other side of this coin? As the Lender – who has worked ass off to become Flush. Now putting some of that “flushness” to work.
Lending money to people who need and request Credit.
Money gets loaned with Terms that both parties AGREE to.
Now for whatever reason (s) creditor can longer meet their OBLIGATION, breaking the trust established by the Loan. Lender is now “evil” because they want their money back – that you the Creditor agreed to pay back ?
Theft is defined as -the unlawful taking of of property of another, larceny.
Ya never heard of the “merchant of Venice’ and the literal “Pound of Flesh” ?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????
*By the way – there IS NO BIG BUCK BILLY anywhere in this World.
The correction is “Big Buck Schlomo”, understanding this difference is key to Ure Future & Past, and to keeping some flesh on Ure bones.
The PAST of course no longer exists, so why do you keep ENERGIZING the bad scheisse from Ure past ? Why keep reinforcing it ?
Accuracy counts Loob, might think about getting Ures’ dialed in, as you sound less than sincere complaining about Financial Responsibilities, while scoffing at productive investment ideas/strategies. jss
(“Now for whatever reason (s) creditor can longer meet their OBLIGATION, breaking the trust established by the Loan. Lender is now “evil” because they want their money back – that you the Creditor agreed to pay back ?”)
oh I see your point.. We make a deal with a creditor—bank, lender, insurer—and agree to pay back what we borrow. But when the creditor can no longer meet their obligation, suddenly the lender is “evil” for wanting repayment? That’s not justice—it’s selective outrage. And in healthcare, it’s even worse. Citizens pay out trillions for coverage, only to find that insurance companies refuse to pay when it matters. Clinics, hospitals, and doctors won’t accept the reimbursement the insurer decides is “enough.” I had to change my supplement policy this year because no one would take it. So who’s really breaking the trust? The patient who needs care, or the system that profits from denying it? It takes money to operate, yes—but it also takes integrity to honor the promises made.When it comes to essential services like healthcare, the industry is forced into the role of the “evil collector”—not because it wants to be, but because insurance companies have shifted the focus from care to stockholder profit. Clinics, hospitals, and doctors are left chasing payments that insurers delay, deny, or reduce. Meanwhile, patients pay out trillions for coverage that doesn’t cover. I had to change my supplement policy this year because none of the providers would accept what the company decided to pay. And yes, there are big buck billies out there—but the real issue is a system that punishes the sick and rewards the gatekeepers. Healthcare shouldn’t be a battlefield between billing departments and profit margins—it should be a covenant of care. we need the social class..Social class separation isn’t inherently wrong—it can give people room to dream, grow, and expand. But what’s broken is the pattern: instead of maintaining a balanced structure, we’ve shifted into a system where the top ten percent absorb the majority of benefits, leaving the rest scrambling for essentials. Federal programs, meant to be safety nets, have become lifelines for working families—while many large corporations use those same programs as income equalizers, offloading labor costs onto taxpayers. It’s not just inequality—it’s engineered Social dependency, where the dignity of work is undermined and the dream of upward mobility becomes a myth for most. We need a reset—not to erase class, but to restore fairness. in the ..In the USA people don’t just get sick—they lose everything they own trying to get well. Medical bankruptcies outnumber all other causes, and the system punishes both patients and providers hospital collections will go to the very limits to destroy someone. Doctors are forced to raise clinic rents or close their doors because so many patients can’t pay. Patients delay care until it’s too late, meaning doctors see sicker people with fewer options. Meanwhile, our elders are driving to border towns just to afford medications that cost tens of thousands of percent less than what they’re charged here. And if you don’t have insurance? You’re sent to the ER, where the costs are highest and the system is already overwhelmed. This isn’t just broken—it’s backwards. Healthcare should be a covenant of care, not a trapdoor into poverty.Of course I’ve been down that road it isn’t the hospitals fault either..they are trying to stay afloat.. and as long as the insurance industry refuses to pay.. the only option is get harder..because of past stroke we had to pay a huge fee for just the wife huge deductibles and copay..just so we could walk up into the clinic.. that same money that didn’t pay for anything over the years if put into simple savings bonds would have given us just about a million in bonds.the money is there to fix this tragedy.. the bigger question is..would the fix be as destructive as the problem..
(“The PAST of course no longer exists, so why do you keep ENERGIZING the bad scheisse from Ure past ? Why keep reinforcing it ?”)
lol..your absolutely right..““the past doesn’t exist”—but it echoes. It shows up in the lives of others, in the same patterns, the same punches. I don’t reflect to relive—I reflect to reveal. If I can help someone see the shape of the storm before it hits, maybe the pain wasn’t wasted. I’ve seen enough to know how it plays out: the man booted from a clinic because he couldn’t drop five digits for future care, the shuffle handed to someone else for the same reason. And still, people say “it’s not real” unless it happens to them. That’s the tragedy—when suffering is invisible until it’s personal. But I’ll keep speaking, keep reflecting, because silence only feeds the cycle.
I realize I keep revisiting past experiences—extreme medical bills, insurance companies dodging their ethical responsibilities—but this isn’t just personal. It’s a systemic issue that affects every one of us. Lack of care isn’t a fringe problem—it’s a national wound. Let’s not forget: healthcare was the central platform of the first Obama administration because it was the most urgent issue facing the majority. And here we are, years later, still watching families go bankrupt over basic care, still seeing insurers profit while patients suffer. I speak from experience not to dwell—but to remind us that the patterns haven’t changed. And if we don’t name them, they’ll keep repeating.The local assisted living and the thirty six other facilities its tied to ..sell out about every five years..just because they don’t make enough to keep in operation. so we get into a vicious circle.. charge more for services of self pay individuals and deny services to those that can’t afford the services..how hard is that to explain to someone needing care or an older person that’s unable to take care of them in the twilight of their life.We’ve all had to depend on someone at some point in our lives—whether for care, support, or survival. But healthcare in the U.S. doesn’t honor that shared vulnerability. Instead, it separates us. Those with coverage move through the system while those without are left to wait, suffer, or go broke. It’s not just a matter of policy—it’s a reflection of how we value human life. When access to healing becomes a privilege instead of a right, the very fabric of community begins to tear while some see others get essential services and others told your not worth our time your not essential or of value. We need a system that remembers…dependence isn’t weakness—it’s the thread that binds us.
Re: Survival. I got serious about prepping a quarter century ago. However, both my wife and I are now in our 80s with health issues and haven’t done any survival updates in a decade. In the event of a catastrophic event, or a financial crash, I’ll pass on what we have to help our grandkids survive.
We don’t have the energy, or resources left to do more, and will take what comes, and be ready for adventures in another realm.
I have followed the Ure columns for years and his suggestions can be gold for those able to follow them.
As for myself, I’ll keep working on one more book, and now we only shop at Amazon, or at Walmart’s curb-side delivery. I’m afraid in-person shopping will soon get very dangerous.
We just replace what we use..
It’s departure day over here, Halloween even, and after the Customs visit we have an hour to be out of here. All ‘prepped’ and docklines are all that remain after we make our last market cruise and catch the local ferry back to the harbor. Wind is medium and from a good direction and should stay so for three or four days, giving us a good start to the 1500 or so miles to come. Exploring the moat, on the lookout for the UAP surfacing areas, and avoiding the dirt until we get to the chosen dirt, and hopefully not finding the edge, where the flat part stops.
We wish you all well for the next two weeks or so while we have no connection to all the crazy shit that Clif talked about yesterday. So all of you be well, and know we are four souls now who are with you all, at least in spirit.
Bon voyage.
Stiks
could be a real scary Halloween for some or a fun time for others . take your seats, place your bets
jeeze. I haven’t bought cereal in two years. I went to CVS today with a 35% off and a 30% off one item coupons to buy my $29 a box eye drops. I checked out the cereal isle because I needed to spend $30 for each coupon. I had a coupon of $1 off if you buy 2 boxes of a particular brand. Cereal was over $5 a box on sale. Cereal is mostly flour and sugar. Wow! Last time I bought some it was $1.95.
Apparently that kind of cereal (not requiring any cooking) was an invention of some of the milling corporations, to create a new market for their wares.
I have the luxury of being able “to feed my inner Scotsman”. I *think* oatmeal elevates blood sugars less than bagels (and surely less than the boxed “cold cereal”).
Lol yup.. what’s funny is you can make it for pennies….just about every kind you want.. the grandson was upset.. they were going to have a family fire he wanted smores..but all he had in his piggy bank was a dollar and the candy bar alone was three bucks.. so out comes grandpas pot of boiling water and supplies.. three bars ( big how they use to be made) for about a Nicole a bar.. not as smooth as store bought but just as tasty.. to get the extremely smooth texture takes a little time conching ( mixing in A wet grinder) the chocolate..
KY grandson older mini me a couple years ago came up with his fiancee and said grandpa..show my fiancee how they make her favorite cereal wheat puffs..
https://youtube.com/shorts/aVXJM1RtcS0?si=0aq3kIM3yUJ3V55E
that year everyone got one for Xmas sugar pops etc. get it up to ten pounds of pressure the ka-boom …soak the grain over night to get big fluffy stuff.. G got one that year don’t know if he tried it or not..a mini pressure cooker..
after a full year on solar and dreading the use of the small space heater, the window unit that kept the 40ft shipping container turned abode, was replaced by a pioneer 12k btu mini-split. the lower power consumption is incredible and the heat pump is awesome.
https://www.homedepot.com/p/Pioneer-Diamante-Pro-Low-Ambient-1-Zone-12-000-BTU-20-5-SEER2-Ductless-Mini-Split-Inverter-Heat-Pump-with-16-ft-Lines-110-120V-WYT012ALSI20RL/336913527?MERCH=REC-_-pipinstock-_-311474980-_-1-_-n/a-_-n/a-_-n/a-_-n/a-_-n/a
damn the torpedoes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Yai8fxLok8&list=RD1Yai8fxLok8&start_radio=1
fair winds Stiks ~ E