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Upflow, PPI Ties, and Digital Teamsters Sharpen Future Search

“Ah, my fellow digital teamsters”, I announced to the AI flock today.  Not needing coffee, they were quick on the uptake:

“Good morning, George. Digital Teamster has a damn nice ring to it.

Not assistant. Not chatbot. Not “AI companion.”

Digital Teamster: shows up before dawn, knows where the tools are, remembers what we were building yesterday, and expects there to be actual work at the end of the conversation.

And there’s a useful distinction buried in it: a teamster historically moves the load. You set destination and judgment; I help move information, research, drafts, calculations, and ideas from pile A to finished-product pile B.

I may have to put DIGITAL TEAMSTER — LOCAL 546 on the virtual hardhat.”

AI’s reference is to my latest book (Dept. 546: The Ancient Children) which is free for Peoplenomics subscribers and also available publicly on Kindle. (The audio book should be out today or tomorrow, as well.)  I am on pins until the A.G. Kimbrough review drops…

I continue (as most mornings) laughing at my fellow humans, who don’t seem to understand AI is a cognitive prosthetic.  Can you imagine people of 1982 arguing about “Whether Lotus 1-2-3 is the Anti-Christ?”   So much for the bubble sort between “The Quick and the Led.”

All (somewhat) interesting, but you didn’t come for the popcorn or novels.  More likely the economics brain.

Upflow

(Whacks a ruler on table to get the attention of a mostly rowdy class.)

“Upflow is the self-reinforcing upward momentum that appears once a virtuous cycle takes hold in an economy. Rising output lifts employment and incomes; those higher incomes support stronger demand; stronger demand encourages more investment and hiring; and the process feeds on itself. Prices, profits, and confidence tend to move together in the same direction, creating a positive feedback loop that can persist for years if it is not choked off by capacity constraints, policy tightening, or external shocks.

This defines upflow in stark contrast to the downward spiral of a vicious cycle; upflow is the phase where growth itself generates the conditions for more growth. Experience teaches: the Trend is your Friend – until the bus runs over you.

A skeptical (silo-bound) economist could argue “Upflow is virtuous and vicious cycles with new labels.” But, not so.  Upflow concerns reinforcing motion between nominally separate systems, not merely multiplier effects inside an economy. Silo people need to tear down their domain walls. Sheesh,

This morning’s Producer Price Index report for July offers an early reading on whether that upflow remains orderly.  But the cross-domains aspect of Upflow differentiates it from domain-locked and siloed economics theory.

PPI

I’ve always thought of PPI as “inflation in the pipeline.”  Though sometimes it is. Other times it ain’t.  Today we can only say with certainty “It is what it is…”  Which is? What is was…

The Producer Price Index for final demand was unchanged in July, seasonally adjusted, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Final demand prices edged down 0.1 percent in June and rose 0.5 percent in May.  On an unadjusted basis, the index for final demand increased 4.7 percent for the 12 months ended in July.

In July, a 0.2-percent increase in the index for final demand services and a 2.2-percent advance in prices for final demand construction offset a 0.7-percent decrease in the index for final demand goods.

Prices for final demand less foods, energy, and trade services rose 0.4 percent in July after inching up 0.1 percent in June. For the 12 months ended in July, the index for final demand less foods, energy, and trade services advanced 4.7 percent.

We have to keep this in context: Wednesday’s U.S. CPI came in relatively mild at +0.1% monthly and +3.4% annually, reducing immediate pressure for a September Federal Reserve rate increase. Inflation pressure modestly easing.

Expect strange-looking butt callouses next.  Not from BOHICA (though there’s some of that, too, I suppose).  No…callouses from sitting on the edge of your Inflation-sighting chair ahead of Retail Sales tomorrow.

Take an aspirin if you were ready to discover that Impressionism was also a school of Economics – not just Art. Though we admit a close relationship between narrative-bullshit and acrylics or oils.  Pretend to the end, friend.

News Compressor: ON

If you can imagine a “digital newspaper” then imagine cleaning out the garbage disposal.  Glove up.

1. Hormuz moved from stalled diplomacy into an overt contest over who physically controls the waterway. Iran’s Basij leadership said Thursday the Strait is under Iranian “control and management,” directly answering President Trump’s claim of U.S. “total control”; actual non-container vessel crossings fell to five Wednesday, the lowest in three weeks. Brent nevertheless backed down to about $87 as a huge U.S. inventory build and weaker demand forecasts temporarily outweighed the blockade premium.

(We secretly wonder “Who edits petroleum tanks? Same group that inspects gold at Ft. Knox?” Cue music.)

2. Colombia’s earthquake has become substantially worse than yesterday’s board showed. Authorities now report 265 confirmed deaths, nearly 500 missing, more than 3,770 injured and over 9,550 homes destroyed, while the critical early survivor-search period is closing and a national reconstruction fund is being created.
The disaster is transitioning from rescue toward a long reconstruction and infrastructure problem.

3. Congo’s Bundibugyo Ebola outbreak remains firmly in expansion rather than containment. Government data put the outbreak at 4,449 confirmed cases and 2,061 deaths, while CDC on August 12 renewed unusually restrictive U.S. travel measures for people recently in DRC.
The American case count remains zero in CDC reporting, but the operational response is becoming more stringent rather than less.  Remember: Just one plane ride from…

4. Central Indiana has developed into the most important new domestic disaster cluster this morning. National Weather Service Indianapolis says repeated severe storms produced catastrophic flooding, downed trees and power lines and delivered more than 11 inches of rain in some locations; additional excessive-rainfall and flash-flood risk persists farther east today.
This replaces wildfire as the fastest-changing U.S. physical-risk lead, although national fire loading remains extreme. Look for reader Ray’s report in Comments.

Inside Attention-Snags

1. Russia struck Ukraine’s largest Danube grain-export port at Izmail overnight, damaged infrastructure, cut power and prompted NATO-member Romania to scramble fighters after an aerial object entered Romanian airspace for roughly ten minutes. Escalating.

2. Russian and Ukrainian attacks are now simultaneously disrupting grain infrastructure at Izmail and Novorossiysk, two major Black Sea export systems, with wheat markets reacting to the supply threat. Food-system pressure rising.

3. Ukraine says dwindling Patriot interceptor deliveries are colliding with a sharp increase in Russian ballistic-missile attacks; Zelenskiy says Ukraine currently has access to roughly 1% of the U.S. stockpile and is asking for at least 5%. Air-defense strain worsening. (Z isn’t being shy, either.)

4. Taiwan disclosed that government agencies were hit in July by a coordinated AI-assisted hacking campaign combining human operators with AI agents; affected agencies say they contained the incident. Cyber warfare advancing.

5. Taiwan simultaneously conducted anti-blockade naval drills, air-raid sheltering and deliberate mobile-internet throttling in Taipei to simulate communications degradation during an attack.  (Remedial education for the Under 50s who missed “duck and cover...”)

6. Saudi Arabia is assembling new defense arrangements with Turkey and Pakistan plus a broader Red Sea maritime coalition as Houthi attacks continue threatening Saudi interests. Regional bloc formation accelerating.

7. Oil fell nearly 2% after U.S. crude inventories unexpectedly surged 17.4 million barrels, the largest weekly increase since January 2023, while both OPEC and IEA reduced their 2026 demand outlooks. Price pressure temporarily easing.

8. The Trump administration has again asked the Supreme Court to revive federal restrictions affecting mail-in voting after a lower-court ruling blocked enforcement nationwide. Election litigation escalating.

9. U.S. wildfire resources remain heavily stretched: the latest NIFC report lists 101 uncontained large fires, more than 30,000 personnel deployed and National Preparedness Level 5. Holding at extreme national load. Fires have already burned more than 6.4 million acres, about 155% of the ten-year average. Still worsening.

10. A potentially explosive object found on railway tracks in southern Germany has triggered a police investigation. Newly emerging within our EU CivWar framing.

11. China’s SMIC reported second-quarter profit more than tripled as AI-chip demand remained robust, adding another data point to the global compute-infrastructure boom. AI hardware demand accelerating.

Adjacent: Cisco forecast annual revenue above expectations on sustained AI spending, while Germany’s energy giant RWE says two data-center deals may be close. AI infrastructure expansion continuing.

New Signals Rising

  1. The energy war is becoming a network war rather than a Hormuz-only problem. Simultaneous military action at the Gulf of Oman, Hormuz and Bab el-Mandeb means risk is spreading across several connected shipping nodes rather than concentrating at one strait. This is an inference from current attacks and traffic data. Odds: 91%.
  2. Washington is beginning to constrain Ukrainian attacks according to their effect on global commodity supply rather than battlefield logic alone. The reported U.S. request to stop tanker attacks at Novorossiysk while Ukraine continues attacking other Russian infrastructure suggests energy-market stabilization has become an explicit war-management objective. This is an inference. Odds: 86%.
  3. AI has crossed into a capital-intensity phase that increasingly resembles railroads, telecom or energy buildouts. A $250 billion Bank of America initiative, CoreWeave’s rising spending and continued strong Foxconn AI-server demand reinforce the pattern of compute becoming infrastructure finance rather than ordinary technology capex. Odds: 92%.
  4. Congo Ebola is not yet showing a convincing containment turn.

At the Ranch: Triangulation Work

We are starting to eye another future-directed project.  Not keyword indexing or tasking AI to sniff social change.  No, this is called future triangulation.

In contemporary culture, there are a lot of people who seem to get above-chance “hits” when forecasting future events.  (Just ask them!)

One, who we follow, is Krystof Jackowski – the “Polish Seer.”  His latest is especially interesting surrounding the evolving (soft, for now) WW III model. Our “AI army” picked out his latest forward looking views overnight and these were useful:

“The most interesting outlook this time is his picture of escalation by inducement/provocation rather than straightforward declaration of war. He foresees Israel trying to widen the conflict beyond Iran and the Middle East and somehow draw Ukraine and possibly Poland into it. His unusually specific Polish image is a deliberate strike on an energy-related strategic site, apparently involving three rockets, followed by Poland going to military readiness while the government tries to avoid formally treating the event as entry into war. He also sees a parallel strike or incident farther south, possibly Romania, while Turkey-Israel relations deteriorate sharply.

The other piece I’d flag for the BlinkLab notebook is that his forecast isn’t all kinetic. He sees a major Polish personal-data/cyber event, possibly bank-related, producing “information paralysis,” plus trouble involving a trade/transit hub. Then he stretches that into a much longer-range vision: Poland becoming increasingly insecure, getting partially entangled in the Ukraine conflict, and eventually undergoing a kind of soft partition driven less by invading armies than by demographic mixing, diasporas, ideological division and fading sovereignty in particular regions.”

It’s a forward logically coherent path ahead.

The Triangulation Project

I have written about this before as a long-range attack on the face of “the Reality Mine.”  But now, the idea is beginning to gel.  As it does, it has become clear to me that in any global lookahead, the views should be “out from under” the US media bubble.  People can be seriously impacted by too much narrative (in psychology the mechanism is dream processing of day residues).  Hence, our search for best inputs to triangulate from is not border or even language-delimited.

The hypothesis does not have to assert psychic powers, astrology, remote viewing, or backwards causation. It can be deliberately agnostic:

Premise: Major future events may be preceded by weak, distributed signals detectable in otherwise independent forecasting systems.

Those signals could arise from subconscious pattern recognition, obscure information leakage, economic anticipation, common cultural inputs, narrative contagion, cyclical methods—or something genuinely anomalous.

Think Berkland and missing pets ahead of earthquakes. Failed stats testing. That becomes a model chapter on how Triangulation should treat attractive failures: preserve the idea, reject the bad sensors, improve the measurement, retest prospectively.

Triangulation doesn’t have to decide why. It asks whether measurable convergence occurs before the event. (Anyone ever measure if people skip showers before deciding to watch a gritty/dusty/dirty western movie?)

This isn’t something we will run daily – or even weekly.  There are enough moving parts to it, that it may become a monthly or even quarterly assessment of predictive space.  Still, damn interesting work.

OK, on to more work.  Thanks to Hank for the nice review of our Wednesday PN report. FLL is the “functional length of life” and it is an attempt to measure “how much actual time in an average human’s life is really ours.

Commutes, college, training, medical, all kinds of freedom-binders are out there and somehow escape being used as “measures of progress.”  Possibly because time sitting in traffic isn’t progress.

But don’t tell their “silo tenders.”  Piled Higher and Deeper means who?

On the calendar for September Peoplenomics: “Future Triangulation: Primal Driver Analysis.  An Evidence-Based Method for Detecting, Back-Solving, and Scoring the Bow Wave of Future Events Across Independent Information Domains.”

Or, something like that. I can only work so long on this at a stretch: every future-sensor gets a mechanism, a provenance trail, a starting evidence grade, and an explicit way to lose credibility.

Remember the part where I was going to slow down on writing and retire before the 78th BD?  Me either…

Write when you get rich,

George@Ure.net

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  1. @ Hank

    I asked THE DUDE for a sign this morning after my morning prayer and meditation. When i got to work, there was two bunnys having sex right in front of my Dump Truck. Just going at it.

    When they were done i swear it looked like the male bunny turned his head and winked at me.

    I said, Lord! Im not sure what that means. But Okay, God, sounds good to me. Thy Will Be Done!

    I Win with God within

      • I raised rabbits when the grandson got the wild bunny tamed..we took in jackie….. he could call her and if it was in earshot shed come running for a carrot..damdest thing I ever seen .. he was three..anyway to keep a rabbit from multiplying just hide behind something and every few minutes jump up and yell..stop that..lol lol lol..just kidding..not about the grandson hand feeding the bunny cause he was scared shed freeze and starve..they multiplied like crazy..
        last year boo..( it would hide behind the apple tree and play peek a boo) got caught by the owl or red tail hawk..the two boys nursed her babies until they could be let loose in the wild….we wasn’t going to go through that again…Sent a picture to G of the three year old hand feeding jackie

    • I have wild yard and driveway bunnies. They started back with Pete and Honey Bunny. and now I have Repete, Repete, Repete…..

    • re: “El Mundo Gira”, S4 E11, X-Files
      feat: ‘the world turns’

      Out of Work Steve,

      Are there monthly drycleaning specials in Tehran? Will #47 follow George’s cue and exit the goatherding biz?

      I wonder if the source of today’s UAE Royal Jet revelation is Iran’s Tabnak media platform? It is controlled by Mohsen Rezaei, leader of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.

      This past June there was a newsflash by Iran International about the same UAE plane visiting Tehran. Iran International serving the Persian diaspora is headquartered in London. Allegedly it favours the Shah, and has seen funding from Saudi [and Israeli?] state interests. The following “X” link leads to Iran International’s June report:

      https://x.com/IranIntl_En/status/2065518015282544764

    • “However, the UAE Foreign Ministry denied reports of transfers at the time, stating “no frozen Iranian funds have been released, transferred, or facilitated through the UAE.” US officials also rejected claims of any side deals or releases without Iran’s denuclearization.”

      Yeah, that doesn’t mean it’s going to Iran, I’d look to funds to going toward the below:

      https://www.techtimes.com/articles/321584/20260725/trump-taps-frozen-iranian-assets-hormuz-damage-claims-red-sea-front-widens.htm

      A far as sovereign diplo flights in theater? Fog of war, we have no idea what’s that was really about.

      Not advice got blockchain.

      https://youtu.be/8kkUzU9OiDI?is=c7lKZD2ERv2guRyh

      • FLL (Frankly Lost Losers) Economy theorists, get your access to Trump’s Insider Trade Schemes by paying $100k upfront:
        https://abcnews.com/Politics/profoundly-corrupt-trump-sued-federal-court-selling-early/story?id=135591214
        ‘Truth Social’s parent company announced last month that a new service — Truth API — would provide early access to messages from the president and other officials on the platform for up to $100,000 per month. The company has reportedly signed up at least 10 customers.

        This appears to be an outrageous abuse of the President’s office for his personal benefit that undermines everyday investors and the integrity of our markets, while enriching Wall Street and other wealthy insiders,” they wrote. ‘

        Fogged Long Life Theorists, 22 million American Lives could be extended instead of aiding Israel’s killing of 73K (2/3 Women and Children, Gaza) in addition to Gulf deaths ‘Preliminary figures are 3,468 people dead in Iran, 3,371 dead in Lebanon, and 28 killed in Gulf states.’
        https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/3/1/us-israel-attacks-on-iran-death-toll-and-injuries-live-tracker
        https://www.newsweek.com/iran-war-costs-compared-to-aca-health-care-subsidies-11655181
        ‘The Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget (CRFB) estimated that a one?year extension of enhanced ACA subsidies would cost about $30 billion. Meanwhile, a two?year extension would cost roughly $60 billion.

        ‘The Democratic National Committee said this month that “at the current rate, it will take less than 12 weeks for Trump to spend more on this war than it would have cost to extend ACA subsidies for 22 million Americans.”’

        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casualties_of_the_Gaza_war
        ‘estimated 64,260 deaths from traumatic injury during this period, and likely exceeding 70,000 by October 2024, with 59.1% of them being women, children and the elderly.’

        Make a ‘killing’ in predicting wildfires:
        https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/06/wildfire-betting-prediction-markets
        ‘The amounts wagered on the LA fires totalled more than $1.2m, according to Jamie L Pietruska, a historian at Rutgers University who followed those predictions. And this summer, a site called Wyldfyre, purported to be the “first prediction market for California wildfire” exclusively, has offered trades on “what fire does next”.

        Egor, my condolences on loss of your beloved, I’m in the same shoes…sorry there isn’t much solace to be found in others’ posting of their epiphanies derived from animal porn.

  4. interesting to find out where all the guru bots here got their degrees. my economics was at UNSW . university of nsw . where are others here from?

  5. It seems to me that the information overload we suffer through every day is very much like rain.

    Without it, our mind withers. With enough, it flourishes. But when the volume exceeds our capacity to absorb it, understanding no longer grows. The excess becomes noise, confusion, and eventually paralysis. Our challenge is not finding more information, but learning how to build better roofs, better drains, and better filters.

    I do remember you wrote on something similar a while back. Your daily dose of “News compressor On” has certainly become a better filter for me and allowed me to buy back a lot of time wading through the daily flood of news noise.

    Keep up the good work.

    • Information?

      The Prisoner (1967)

      Number 6: Where am I?
      Number 2: In the village.
      Number 6: What do you want?
      Number 2: Information.
      Number 6: Whose side are you on?
      Number 2: That would be telling. We want information… information… information!
      Number 6: You won’t get it!

  6. As I’ve said before, being in Southern Indiana has been a charmed existence. Yesterday, we had super strong winds and a lot of lightning, but we didn’t experience the storms that mid-indiana had. We’ve got more coming today, but I’m not too concerned. Actually I am relieved, since this brings rain, though the rather intense heat and humidity saps strength.

  7. I have a Bachelors degree in History from UC Davis, and have had a career in sales and consulting.

    Wishing you all the best.

  8. regarding dwindling USA arm supplies, does China have a % # in mind that when that # hits they begin takeover of Taiwan?

    • I do not believe that China is looking at this from a military repercussion view – but, instead – as an economic fallout / repercussion.

  9. Well it’s official now. Tropical Storm Watch issued for the Big Island, for tropical storm…..”Lala” (sic). I can hear the jokes already. Overcast and light rain this morning.

  10. “I may have to put DIGITAL TEAMSTER — LOCAL 546 on the virtual hardhat.”

    Now THAT is more than a little creepy!!

  11. My personal Mandela Effect

    When I realized that all the world map had changed, I saw that Australia was just 21 miles away from Papua New Guinea, and I said no way! It was always far from all! So I thought to myself, there may be ferries, so I googled it, and found the Lonely Planet had fares and schedules for ferries. Two days late I looked again, and there never had been ferries due to terrorism concerns. I saw the change. I was NOT misremembering. If I had printed it out would it be blank, ala people fading off polaroids in back to the future?
    I am of the opinion that we are traveling through the multiverse without knowing. Perhaps we can control our path through affirmations (thanks Scott Adams RIP). Perhaps that is how Elon does it.

  12. Damn Banksters! Sitting here paying off my credit card bills… the monthly task. Now I notice interest charges I never had before. I pay my cards off every month. They never charged interest unless I carried a balance into next month, and THAT got charged interest. Now I read the fine print. The new deal is that the bank charges interest on PURCHASES ( at 28.49%) for that month until the payoff arrives! Interest begins immediately upon purchase, apparently. So even if I pay off the card when due, I will still have interest charges on the purchases. Time to burn the cards and carry more cash.

    • Which bank is doing that? (We still put everything major on plastic – never use a debit card, because with a card you can get your money back…)

    • George will disagree, but I suggest you open a dedicated checking account, get a debit card, and only put funds in the account when you are going to use the card.

      Credit cards have two advantages over debit cards:

      1. Cash back
      2. Insurance for car rentals.

      They do not provide total theft protection.
      What they do, is provide theft protection minus a $50 deductible, per charge. If you have a card with a $2000 limit and someone buys a used boat for $2000, you get $1950 back. If, however, they make 40 individual transactions, purchasing 40 houseplants at $50 each, you get nothing back and are out all of the 2000 bucks.

      Debit cards have two advantages over credit cards:

      1. No fees or interest
      2. Properly set up (as an isolated, insulated checking account), they are impossible to overdraw and if they’re only fed before use, impossible to steal.

      My credit card is used exclusively to rent vehicles and pay deductibles on unexpected bills. IOW, it hasn’t been used in four years…

      • Won’t disagree – depends on the threat surface for each method – you travel and your way is smarter than mine. (Old grasshoppers can learn from the old dogs…)

  13. As of 5pm Thur local time, the Big Island is upgraded to a Hurricane Warning. TS LALA is expected center to pass just south of the island. I’ve seen this before. South passing hurricanes with all the rain and circulation to the north hit a brick wall of two 14,000 ft mountains which scrapes ALL the rain out of the storm and knocks the stuffing out of the wind circulation as it passes. There will be massive flooding on the eastern side of the island and lots of wind. We have been thru this before. Battening hatches, clearing yard. Cars and gas cans topped off if we need generator power. We can handle flooding rain well on this side of the island, with established drainage channels.

    I have laser eye surgery tomorrow morning in Hilo. We expect to be back home Fri. afternoon before the storm gets intense on Saturday.

    • Wait? You’re in LaLa land? See!!!!! I told you all that time in TV News would do long-term damage! Forget about cigarettes – Turn off the flipping TV news!

        • Hank,
          Wishing you a rapid recuperation from the procedure.

          re:”La La Land”, August 31, 2016
          feat: Boulder City, Nv.

          Sigh, is nothing real in Hollywood? It turns out that Boulder City, Nv. scenes in “La La Land” were actually filmed in Valencia, Ca… Apparently Hawaiian name “Lala” carries a literal meaning of “diagonal/slanting”. Its tropical storm context is said to translate as “the face of a wave”. Lala last appeared as a NOAA tropical storm name in 1984 from August 26 to September 2 as seen in the following link sourced from ChatGPT.

          https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/data/tcr/CP1984_Seasonal_TCR.pdf?utm_source=chatgpt.com

          According to the Australian “Surf Getaways” website, surfing on the face of the wave is a good place to be. Apparently beginners hanging out higher on the lip should not mistake that for a bunny hill. Otherwise an impact zone door may open. This is not investment advice. Here is a link to the “Surf Getaways’ ” picture of things:

          https://static.wixstatic.com/media/003b27_d84190e21bb2492ebef9720c425abebf~mv2.png

  15. Time to make some Stuffed hash brown patties..

    https://www.amazon.com/Musubi-Non-Stick-BPA-Free-Onigiri-Hawaiian/dp/B0FK5SC2CX/ref=sxin_11_pa_sp_search_thematic_sspa?

    I use a sushi press..it works great..press them about a half inch thick for just hashbrowns..A quarter inch thick for stuffed..make the Pattie then place your cheese in the center leaving a quarter inch on the sides..then press another quarter inch of hash browns on top..

    peeled potatoes..for each three..shred then rinse the starch off with hot water..
    drain.. rinse
    save the water for the starch..
    put a little oil in the pan and gently fry until the potatoes are cooked but not fried golden brown..the other way is steam them or blanch th them then drain them..put in a bowl
    then add 6 tablespoons of corn or potato starch 1 tsp of salt mix …
    then sq needs a little to make sure it can be formed..if not add a little more corn starch.
    form.. then freeze or fry them.. I will make up a bunch then put them in the freezer..
    to cook heat up oil and fry till golden brown..

  16. Lol…remember the magic mix..three cups of powdered milk one cup of corn or potato starch optional one cup of butter buds powdered butter and a couple tablespoons of salt..each third cup is equal to one can of cream of whatever soup..you choose what flavor..I prefer mushroom and chicken but back be creative..
    well here’s another shelf stable Alfredo sauce ..

    1 cup powdered heavy cream ( more or less you decide)
    1/2 cup powdered milk (whole milk powder if possible) Hoosier farms..
    3/4 – 1 cup powdered Parmesan cheese
    1/2 cup powdered butter (Butter Buds or Hoosier Hill Farm now there again..A recipe I got from an old retired actor was cream and a stick of butter sauteed garlic then add cream and cheese so add more butter powder to fit your taste buds)
    2 tbsp cornstarch (thickens and stabilizes I use 1/2 cup which is a tad more than the recipe)
    1 tbsp garlic powder ( I love garlic and Alfredo is garlic feel free to add what your taste buds scream for)
    1 tsp onion powder ( now I love onions so I add more to it)
    1 tsp white pepper
    1 tsp salt
    1/2 tsp nutmeg (classic to give it that Alfredo warmth)
    Optional: 1 tbsp dried Romano cheese powder for extra punch ( I actually love Romano cheese)
    https://www.amazon.com/Powder-Hoosier-Hill-Farm-Hormone/dp/B01LYWVKO0/ref=sr_1_1_sspa?
    Oh some chives to…

  17. Here’s the official magic mix recipe..I use 1 cup corn starch..you can also use Hoosier farms heavy cream for a deeper creamy mix…

    2 cups powdered milk
    1 cup heavy cream powder ( this is optional otherwise use powdered milk)
    3/4 cup powdered butter (Butter Buds or Hoosier Hill Farm)
    1/2 cup all purpose flour
    1/2 cup cornstarch
    2 tbsp chicken bouillon powder (or vegetable bouillon)
    2 tbsp dried minced onion
    1 tbsp garlic powder
    1 tsp white pepper
    1 tsp salt
    Optional: 1 tbsp dried celery flakes
    Optional: 1 tbsp dried parsley ( seriously everything should have parsley and di
    Ok but that’s only my taste buds)
    This mix is buttery, creamy, and thickens like a dream….

    To Make 1 Can’s Worth of Cream whatever Soup
    Mix
    1/2 cup Powdered Magic Mix ( I use 1/3 cup)
    1 cup water OR milk
    Simmer 3–5 minutes until thick.
    Now add your “whatever”:
    Chicken: 1/4 cup diced cooked chicken ( or chicken Mountain House Diced Chicken #10 Can Freeze Dried )
    Mushroom: 1/4 cup chopped mushrooms ( or freeze dried mushrooms)
    Celery: 1/4 cup diced celery.. ( or dried celery)
    Onion: 1/4 cup sautéed onion ( or onion flakes)
    Broccoli: 1/4 cup chopped broccoli
    Potato: 1/4 cup diced potatoes
    its a neck of a lot cheaper than buying canned cream of whatever soup..
    now..I have made it by mixing a stick of butter in it till it looks like cornmeal..but..that has to be stored in the fridge..this one sits on a shelf..

  18. Hmm I must be hungry…

    sausage gravy mix…

    1 cup powdered milk
    1/2 cup powdered butter (Butter Buds or Hoosier Hill Farm)
    1/2 cup all purpose flour
    1/4 cup cornstarch
    2 tbsp sausage seasoning (sage, black pepper, paprika)
    2 tbsp chicken bouillon powder
    1 tbsp dried minced onion
    1 tsp garlic powder
    1 tsp black pepper
    1/2 tsp salt
    1/2–1 cup freeze?dried sausage crumbles OR imitation sausage bits
    (Emergency Essentials Fully Cooked Freeze Dried Pork Sausage Crumbles )

    • I greatly appreciate your powdered mix recipes! They’re prepper necessities. Do you have one for mayonnaise?

      • Mayo is easy.

        What is mayonnaise?

        In its purest form it is eggs and oil — that’s it.

        In an edible form, it needs a little more…

        Try this:

        One powdered egg (whole egg works better than powdered yolk)
        ½tsp powdered lemon
        ½tsp sea salt
        ½tsp mustard powder (Dijon makes a better, more-flavorful mayo)
        a pinch of xanthan gum

        Optional: dash of black or white pepper; dash of parsley

        Mix well and store sealed — vac pak is best. If done right it should be shelf-stable for several years.

        Commentary, not advise or instruction. YMMV

        To reconstitute you will need:
        ¼ cup water, and
        1¼ cups oil (light olive is best, avocado or coconut oils are excellent)

        Add your powder to a jar
        add the water to the powder
        mix well (there can be no lumps – mayo is easy, but delicate)

        To make the mayonnaise, you add the oil to the mixture, very slowly, while mixing. Mayonnaise is an oil suspension. The better and more-thoroughly it is mixed, the better the emulsion and the creamier the finished product. An immersion blender is probably the best and fastest mixer. You can make it with a fork or whisk (which takes a long time) or a blender or food processor. Martha Stewart recommends adding oil to the mixture and allowing it to rest for several minutes before mixing. She also uses rapeseed oil (which I’m very against.) I add the pinch of xanthan because it stabilizes the emulsion and (IMO) will prevent it from separating. You can adjust the oil to change its texture and, of course adjust the salt & pepper in the finished product, to tweak the flavor to suit your preference. If you adjust the salt or pepper, simply make the adjustment with the next batch of powder.

        Again, commentary, not advise or instruction. YMMV

  19. Dallas Progressive educators now have something real to brag about:

    https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/education/dallas-isd-tea-rating-grades-a-campuses-south/287-8721d839-8df2-4998-9353-4d7abfe7be76

    Creating an egalitarian environment where the kids thrive in economically surpressed communities is remarkable.
    As to whether the TEA curriculums really prepare youths for anything but guvmint ‘crat jobs and enforcer positions is an open question with myself, but I would still score a win for big D. We will see if the trend continues.

    • Depends…

      Are they using local or nationwide standards to evaluate? It does Johnny no good if he graduates with a 4.0 and has to take a year of remedial math and English when he gets to college.

  20. Ure comments touch upon the subject of the WWIII business model. My own concern is that the US is now entangled in a web of it’s own design.

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