VBWA or FOC?

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Short for “Very Bad Week Ahead” OR “Fake-Out-Correction”?

Yes., here in the land of unforgivable idiotspeak, the early headlines were running “Stock futures fall as S&P 500 and Nasdaq rally to record highs cools…”

Which signals us that it could be an Ice Age, not just a little “cooling.”

Computational Modeling of the Future is our stock-in-trade and so (assuming you have familiarity with Basic Fighter Maneuvers school (BFM), computation of future allows us to enjoy upcoming events from the “high perch” position. (Gimme a hoorah and Thank You for Your Service for ENJJPT 15-03 [“We are the Danger.” Be in the zone for LTC shortly after some “major” adventures…cue some Pat Matheny, please. Um…where was I?]

Market Cooling – Mandorlas Matter

Yep, could be fugly today and into next week.  Well, except don’t forget next Wednesday is a holiday.

The Boolean mess ahead is a 24-kt bitch to sort out.

  • First, we have two holidays in the next 30-odd until we get to the start of the Summer Games in Paris.
  • At which, the G.A. Stewart Nostradamus work points to a chance of bloody violence.
  • So, we begin to build “probability bubbles” around some of this. This results in a bunch of 3-dimensional mandorlas that you try to move around in your head (reference vesica piscis) which is generally discussed in 2D space but which is more useful off “multivariatising
    in 3D or Hilbert.

The notion here is (if you remember the big tubs full of brightly colored balls at what? Chuckie Cheese’s? Leaving us to wonder if Future may just be the “arrow of time” shooting its way through a never-ending tub of “highest probability bubbles”. Got a hunting point on it? Hmm…

Which leaves us where? Well…that gets complicated.

One Prob Bubble is the market will be “coming in low” – in which case, and this morning may light this fuse – the Markets – globally – will be set for a huge (mind-numbing) terror event at Paris to give the markets cover.  In other words, plausible deniability.  And for some, perhaps calls for force majeure provisions to be triggers to protect “special” interests.

Second Prob Bubble has the market coming in “High and hot.”  Needing to let some air out of things, otherwise, the resulting crash (the Fall season mandorlas – a whole other pile of statistical shit).  It might not decrease the red spot, but it may come for another reason.  To let some “air out of the market”.

Third Prob Bubble is nothing happens, and the arrow of time proceeds on its merry way not hitting any Big Life Changing Event Triggers on the way.

We will see how today settles out.  If we drop down to (and hold at) the upper trend line in the chart above, then we might get a trend line bounce (and higher) next week.  Remember, Juneteenth is Wednesday, and markets tend to firm around holidays.  Well, except for the “Slaughter of the Elves” which was what, Christmas 2018?

Anyone beside me remember the Bubbleator at the Seattle World’s Fair in…what…1962?  Yeah…market is like that. Ultimately the Bubbleator goes nowhere but a lot of levels change hands. And so it is, we look for what’s controlling Bubble-Up (and downs) presently…

Oh, and yes: With the evolving War in Europe reprising World War 1 (Guns of August and all that) we laughingly point out Bubble Up was invented in 1919 – so yet-another “inverse rhyme” off the backside of WW I.  Like we got the pandemic before the war this time (Covid, not the Spanish Flu which came after).  Temporal mirroring effects, don’t you see?

One More “Backside Rhyme” 

One more??  Since we are lining out pre-history for you?  Well…the (fear of) events at the Paris Olympics that Stu has found (in Nostradamus) might be a “global echo” of the Summer of 1919.  Which (since you forget) was called the Red Summer.

“Red Summer was a period in mid-1919 during which white supremacist terrorism and racial riots occurred in more than three dozen cities across the United States, and in one rural county in Arkansas.”

Down in the fine print of history, the context was of racial strike in America.  But we are living in a Global World now.  So not just the T-6 haplotypes going nuts.  No, we think if something happens it could come from a Global Supremacist group.  Nominees are all over the world religions with traditions of violence – see a map of the Middle East and read the history of Turkey sometime.

And then was the recent attempt to assassinate the prime minister of Slovakia (Robert Fico) last month which lines up with the Archduke Ferdinand shooting (1915) that lit WW I off.

Yes, getting to be a real Mandorla Cloud for the time arrows.  Let’s have a bow check, huh?

Import Prices Catch a Break

Inflation pressure coming off?

“Prices for U.S. imports decreased 0.4 percent in May following a 0.9-percent advance the previous month, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Lower fuel and nonfuel import prices contributed to the
overall decline. U.S. export prices fell 0.6 percent in May, after increasing 0.6 percent in April.

Imports

U.S. import prices declined 0.4 percent in May following a 0.9-percent increase in April and a 1.5-percent advance for the first quarter of 2024. The May decrease was the first monthly drop since the index fell 0.7 percent in December 2023. Prices for U.S. imports rose 1.1 percent for the year ended in May, matching the over-the-year increase in April. The May and April 12-month advances are the largest over-the-year increases since December 2022.

And going the other way:

Prices for U.S. exports declined 0.6 percent in May, after rising 0.6 percent the previous month. The May decrease was the first monthly decline since the index fell 0.7 percent in December 2023. Lower prices for nonagricultural exports in May more than offset higher agricultural prices. Despite the drop in May, prices for U.S. exports rose 0.6 percent from May 2023 to May 2024, the first 12-month advance since January 2023.

To summarize then: Costs went down 0.4 percent, but income was down 0.6 percent so welcome to War Party Economics.  September rate cut odds changing?

BTC earlier was around $66,971.  Market indicator?

Light Smashing of Headlines

Climate Change? Of course… DeSantis declares state of emergency as more than 25 inches of rain slam South Florida. Welcome to the club. Here we thought 45-inches for the year, so far, was bad.  Dade wins!

Olive Branch the West can’t afford to take? Putin Pledges Ukraine Cease-Fire if Kyiv Withdraws From Territories Claimed by Russia and Drops NATO Bid. Not after a slow Joe deal with Ukraine for the next 10-years…

For now, Russia seems to have some momentum going: Russian advance on the Kupiansk-Seversk axis: Important Ukrainian strongholds swept away – Ukrainian armed forces face domino effect of collapse.

Speaking of Joe… JUST IN: Biden’s Ghostwriter Admits To Deleting Evidence Due To Special Counsel Probe. Did he keep a copy?

Need another order of US/West “posturing”?  G7 summit turns to simmering tensions with China. Who are these ‘effing idjits who wipe out America’s industrial base, export it to shit-hole countries for nearly-free labor and then whine later?  Read my lips: “Cause and Effect.”

Let’s all go to Subway? US submarine deployed to Guantanamo as Russian flotilla arrives in Cuba — MercoPress

Re: Reactor Reactions Reaction: US says will turn up pressure on Iran if it doesn’t cooperate with UN nuclear watchdog | The Times of Israel

Email security is a beast these days Microsoft Admits Security Failings Allowed China’s US Government Hack – Infosecurity Magazine. Ah, email…reminds me…

At the Ranch: Phishers and Grief

Since I got serious about finding a power supply for my Hallicrafters Cyclone ham radio transceiver, I have discovered a ham radio phisher nest using an IP in Boardman, Oregon.  Some people think using a gmail.com email addy will provide cover.  Nope.

Deep Thought of the week:

Came from #awe #spirituality #science #space #earth #nononsensespirituality | Instagram which was passed along by our Century City (W. L.A.) counsel.  (*Thank you!)

On that note, off to work on aisle 1 of the solar array…remedial welding on a panel rack I built in 2008. Good thing I wrote myself a 20-year warranty, lol. 16-years later a weld (of cheap rebar) out in the elements finally busted.  Dang.

Write when I get rich,

George@Ure.net

46 thoughts on “VBWA or FOC?”

  1. How can the 50 billion dollar 10 year military aid package that pedo joe and queer boi zelensky be legal? The queer boi isnt the legetiment president, seeing that his term lapsed and he was not reelected. Also , it would seem that what ever the pedo could do , Trump could undo.

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    • Trump could UNDO it.. the problem is.. the damage has been done….. We were entering into the economic death spiral befor Trump got in office the last time.. Now with laurel and Hardy .. in office..

      https://youtu.be/ig-88jMq0bk?si=jLQcHA-zX88sQsyG

      this guy does a nice job of explaining it.. he says we are entering.. no we entered in twenty ten.. with mr. Moron in charge.. it is beyond recovery I believe we are beyond the tipping point.. from here on the interest on what has been done is taking a great toll.. even if we quit spending everything.. ( Poverty budgeting ) I don’t think it can be flipped.. of course I thought the countries we seem to hate and trying to pick fights with.. setting us up for the poison pawn trap.. I thought it wouldn’t take as long.. so we were definately stronger than I thought..

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    • General Motors collected a portion of pension fund from every vehicle sale starting in 1952 though 2008 but it turned out the money wasn’t there. Nobody went to jail. General Motors and the union managers were rewarded. Talk about moral hazard.

      We’re in a Grift Stew. Grab a noodle if you can.

      Someone should ask A.I. to write a Grifting tool.

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    • Legal in the way the executive can promise to deliver this. Congress has been hesitant to override the executive branch on International matters. Now the next executive may choose to go a different direction, but again, the word of the United States is supposed to mean something in negotiations. The president also has a lot of power to veto bills unless it includes what he desires. So no bills pass that congress wants until the president gets the funding he wants for Ukraine. That is politics unfortunately. Also why we end up with omnibus bills vs singe purpose bills. Everyone gets their goodies and taxpayers continue to get the shaft.

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  2. DEEP THOUGHT OF THE WEEK

    I have to say.. I have been thinking of the ne toyota a lot.. wondered how they were going to incorporate HP N2.. but got dreaming about the Stan Meyers fuel injection.. (nothing more than a geet HPE system) using a fuel injection to mix with the H2.. then came across an old news story where a company was awarded money for their plasma rocket engine LOL LOL LOL

    https://ticotimes.net/2015/04/01/ad-astra-wins-10-million-nasa-contract-for-deep-space-rocket

    LOL its nothing more than a large plasma enjector.. the exact same thing as Stans fuel enjector.. or the geet injector.. anyway looking at it.. It dawned on me.. the cooling system.. using the anode as the mixer.. stan used ceramic vortex chamber to mix the gases.. the H2 HPE created is ejected out of the geet where its mixed with injected hot gas vapors.. the cooling mechinism is the turbo charger or cool air intake.. I never got that before..

    this image clarifies it..
    https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Brendan-Darrer/publication/339439562/figure/fig68/AS:861696721694722@1582455916835/Stan-Meyers-injector-schematic-shows-the-injection-into-the-engine-of-three-separate.ppm
    I had never seen that one before..

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  4. (“Olive Branch the West can’t afford to take? Putin Pledges Ukraine Cease-Fire if Kyiv Withdraws From Territories Claimed by Russia and Drops NATO Bid. Not after a slow Joe deal with Ukraine for the next 10-years…”)

    wont happen.. Lindsey Graham on face the nation tells it all

    https://youtu.be/TzLKdn0hqFY?si=WJnwkPmxtVZos7lL

    Its the business model and we are in the economic death spiral.. to win Ukraine could flip us out of the economic death spiral.. always follow the money.

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  5. (“Who are these ‘effing idjits who wipe out America’s industrial base, export it to shit-hole countries for nearly-free labor and then whine later? Read my lips: “Cause and Effect.”)

    Instant Gratification.. industrialists of old.. sought community.. the boss was like a father.. you dedicated your lifes labor to him and he looked out for your best interests.. he made profit.. you felt secure in your career.. then fast money..
    My Fathers boss.. the colonel.. was a great guy.. I met him when I think I was five.. he gave me a box of product my choice.. for a birthday gift.. we could ride along with dad while he was at work.. it was the best times ever.. anyway being an employee.. a sibling or child or relative couldn’t work at the company.. they didn’t want to have any favoritism.. years later I would off load semi’s for the driver.. while he caught a few minutes of well deserved sleep.. the main manufacturing spots in chicago and NYC.. ( now mexico) the colonel came in seen me in the truck and took his coat off and helped unload the truck.. he visited with me about family and just about everything.. then came the day he was going to sell his company and get out of it.. my parents were having a big anniversary party in a month I was sacking groceries at a local market when who comes around the corner.. the colonel and some representitive for the new owners and the head of the grocery store.. they were inspecting the store to make sure their products were being displayed properly and the shelves maintained..
    he once again took his coat off helped me sack groceries for about a half hour all while talking to me about my parents upcoming anniversary what my siblings were all doing and where they were all living and life in general..
    NOW.. he had tens of thousands of employees.. all around the globe.. my father was a delivery boy.. and the owner of this company knew our whole family as if he were a part of our lives.. today’s industrialists don’t even know the name of the house keeper that empties their trash or the man on the floor working.. much less know who their families are..
    industrialists worked for the community it was a family affair.. companies that are still like that.. well you have to know someone to get a job there.. todays industrialists.. sent work overseas to increase their prifit cut benefit packages of the workers.. keep a skeleton crew of full time with benefits and took away from the others.. retirement packages and the gold watches.. are no longer there.. deregulation of essentials put more burden on the taxpayers.. all so a few could profit.. sent money that once was kept in the local communities.. away to distant shores..
    CHINA.. they live on a lower wage scale.. compared to us.. one reason why its so easy to get them to come work here.. one months income is a years income there.. the whole family will move into a one bedroom apartment.. just to save funds..
    it was instant gratification they sought and the communities suffered from it.. then sending mom away from home to work.. that left our children without adult supervision and now schools no longer stop the bullying.. instead they avoid this.. the children are desensitized to violence and crime it floods our network programming.. what was once considered immoral is now considered acceptable behaviours..
    people are taught instant gratification.. I didn’t own a color television until the late eighties early nineties.. now its pull out the plastic.. get it now.. Medical expenses will take everything from you in the end.. its the way it is planned..
    https://www.cnn.com/2024/05/30/business/american-consumer-economic-engine/index.html
    the american shopping spree is coming to a close.. even on CNN
    https://wolfstreet.com/2021/09/02/the-monstrous-flow-of-free-money-and-the-shortages/

    Its similar to the young kids today that cannot commit to a relationship.. flip one girl off get another.. instant pleasure seekers..

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  6. – I have tried to incorporate Bitcoin [ Hi-Lo-Close] into every matrix I have. S&P / Dow/ Gold – about five others.., and it does not work. Nothing lines up. But then Bitcoin seems to be fueled by pure emotion., and of course at the whims of Blackrock. I have not however laid-out an Elliott Wave count. Since the price of Bitcoin is out in the wild [ public ] a Wave Count should be present.., I just haven’t had the drive to do it – or look it up.
    – It seems to me that since the ETF’s were approved [and a couple more may be coming] that there would be a Synchronicity – somewhere. But I have failed to find it.
    – Is Bitcoin a leading/lagging indicator for the over-all stock market ? or, an out-layer ? A financial giant roaming free in the back-field of the financial landscape?
    – Questions: Is there any way to determine if a person has a “Digital Wallet”? Are they required, by law, to disclose the ownership of digital currency., or only if they sell a digital currency ?? And – is there any way to discover where they got said “digital currency”. Can a “Digital Wallet” be held ‘off-shore’ in a remote, hidden bank account ?

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    • I will take a cut at the BTC in PN tomorrow.
      As for the ownership issue of a wallet, the question on the 1040 was pretty clear

      On your 2023 federal tax return, you must answer “Yes” or “No” to a digital asset question: At any time during the tax year, did you: (a) receive (as a reward, award or payment for property or services); or (b) sell, exchange, or otherwise dispose of a digital asset (or a financial interest in a digital asset)?

      Which I read (for TY2023 only – subject to change at any time) is that if you bought – not receiving as a reward, award, or payment – then you might argue a) doesn’t apply and as long as you didn’t sell exchange or dispose, the b) didn’t apply either.
      But we don’t offer financial advice…

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  7. Since the newly elected President of Mexico has taken office, the Peso has lost rough 11.5% of its value to the Dollar.
    – As one person posted here.., do not be too surprised to see a Russian military contingent being invited into Mexico.
    What an international relationship and trade disaster that would be. [ Mexico sells 80% of their agricultural products to the U.S.]

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  8. Yo G Dawg, inre the Russian sub off the coast, reminds when one was caught (photographed) off of Va Beach back in the early 90’s, taking in some periscope liberty, checking out the honeys on the beach. Submariners will be submariners…..Nothing new, Russian subs visit this side of the Atlantic quite often.

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    • Yeah its the israhelli dolphin boats just of coast VA, that are biggest terrorist threat..
      – See Pentagon 9/11 for sea launched missile that hit precise location of meeting Rm were the Able Danger Team was holding a scheduled meeting. Air Force General in-charge mysteriously absent that day..

      Have still shot from video of missile in flight just as it is about to touch off, on my desktop. Daily F-ing REMINDER of the “Darkness” infecting our World.

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  9. Hi, George,

    Last week, I had an interesting dream portion where I wrote down some numbers on a scratch piece of paper with a ballpoint pen. I wrote 112. The scratch piece of paper had other stuff on it. I have a bad habit of writing down stuff on pieces of paper. Anyway, I was wondering about the significance of the number 112, hoping someone might shed some light on this. By the way, I occasionally read and write in my dreams and have done this most of my life. Thanks.

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  10. re: “modeling of the future”
    feat: Pax Vaticanus

    Folks,

    Here’s a Vatican transcript link of the Pope’s address to the G-7 regarding AI. If there’s going to be human killing, make sure it’s a human making the decision.

    https://www.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/speeches/2024/june/documents/20240614-g7-intelligenza-artificiale.html

    Postscript:
    “Catholic Answers” has heard calls of the faithful to their AI app “Father Justin” to dispense sacraments of forgiveness and matrimony. “Father Justin” shall henceforth be known as “just Justin”.

    https://www.catholic.com/news/just-justin-for-now

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    • re: Revelation’s “Woman of the Apocalypse”?
      feat: La Morena

      Hola Gringos,

      Elephants are in the room; donkeys raising a ruckus? Fear not, the presently ruling party of the United Mexican States, Morena (MOvimiento REgeneracíon NAcionel), has another 6 years of shepherding the flock as president-elect Dr. Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo (CSP) of ethnic eastern European Jewish ancestry takes over the reigns from the incumbent, AMLO, later this year. CSP was an underling of AMLO in CDMX.

      Apparently CSP has a PhD in energy engineering which might be worth more than a few donkey’s-worth of hot air north of the Rio Grande. The billionaires are lining up. Stagehands at the Morena Party newspaper of record, “Regeneración”, please cue apparitions of not-slim-pickens’ (sic) from the National Palace.

      https://regeneracion.mx/slim-contento-con-sheinbaum-sabe-que-la-economia-esta-fuerte-amlo/

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  11. When asked – Robert Kiyosaki is sticking with his prediction. Bitcoin will hit $350,000 by August 25 . Reason for such an eye-opening prediction? He gave a couple of reasons., but his main thought seemed to be: “The current administration’s failures.”
    .
    That price would pretty much destroy every currency on the planet – wouldn’t it ?

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  12. wow.. the kids had a blast this Morning.. they made hot air balloons this morning.. now they are busy outside flying them LOL simple tissue paper and glue.. LOL LOL
    Reminds me of project mogul balloons.. they were made with mylar three way and strapping tape LOL LOL … plunger in the center to release the hydrogen.. no metal in the thing at all..
    When we worked on the around the world balloon of Bransons that was cool.. huge undertaking.. it was made quite a bit different than the ones that people use today for recreation.. I use to do a lot of painting.. putting the graphics on the sides of the big balloons.. did a lot of beer cans and horses etc. to sit out in front of liquor stores..

    https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/news/60at60/2015/8/1987-first-people-to-cross-the-atlantic-in-a-hot-air-balloon-392904

    I drive by the place we use to work in now and it looks just like an old big shed.. pretty much abandoned.. they make the big intelegence gathering blimps closer to where I live now.. great summer project.. now that it isn’t RAINING.. its time to get out the stuff for the DAT ( double angle (solar) trapazoid ) and get some cardboard so the neighborhood kids can all make one.. good hour project for them.. then we can start working on the solar refrigeration system..

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  13. https://youtu.be/yEVBlcMwsQw?si=IkkU5zAU_oBJ75Np

    that is a great post by Scott Ritter… he hits the nail on the head.. and by us outsourcing industry to feed the business model. we had actually weakened our abilities. they won already.. with the millions that have entered the USA via our present administrative action of open borders and harboring illegals the Flowers and pliven strategy knocked us off the top of the food chain.. if they keep pushing this agenda in the hopes of getting the trillions in natural resources of ukraines..well that’s just suicide of our country.. and the politicians don’t even realize the precarious position they are placing themselves in..IF.. our administration aided and harboured an enemy army to cross into our country then financed them to get the gear and positioning for the decades old threats of doing just that.. to get revenge then they’re in the position that if this gets ugly.. really ugly.. will an enemy army be more lenient to the politicians that destroyed their homeland and sponsored the death if their families and friends.. than we have been to the political leaders of countries we have conquered..

    https://youtu.be/HNqBLmJLOJU?si=wU7_f52oeypQqc6t

    https://youtu.be/j6vrXBkId7g?si=pyr9xfMr4SFrKhWI

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  14. Have to admit that I am a little surprised that the Supreme Court over-turned the ban on Bump Stocks. I do not see how this ban interferes with your ‘right to bare arms’. But that is not what they measured the ban against. Basically a technicality on personal interpretation of the ATF/Trump era law. Well thought out argument – according to the notes.
    The ban on owning a machine came about as a direct government response to the gangster’s choice of weapons during a crime. [ 1932.., ’33 ?] And has remained in effect ever since. [Too bad. I would love to own a Thompson 45 Sub. Got to fire one once. Those things are a beast.., nothing like the hero in the movies. ]

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  15. You want to see a Kabuki Playdrome? Send some Russain Assets into Cuba, Guantanamo being the US Navy’s Atlantic Fleet Playground for Gaming. REFTRA. Why thats like floating about up thar into the Barrants Sea. No? Was speaking with a friend LOL.

    You See the Picture Caption??? Thats not US Equipment pulling in there. Does Anybody fact check AI anymore?

    https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/us-nuclear-submarine-dispatched-to-guant%C3%A1namo-bay-in-response-to-russian-show-of-naval-force-near-cuba/ar-BB1obrlw

    Of course one should be much more concerned with the container ship ingress and egress, passing to and fro. Who know whats inside ?

    https://www.military.com/video/guided-missiles/advanced-weapons/club-k-container-missile-system/2932801006001

    Hey Boris, you really need to tell Natasha Nogoodnick to go Blonde. LOL

    Pooh Team is Playing along with operation Red October….

    This switcharoo involves global currency markets. Its about all the change [s] no pun ?.

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    • (“Of course one should be much more concerned with the container ship ingress and egress, passing to and fro. Who know whats inside ?

      https://www.military.com/video/guided-missiles/advanced-weapons/club-k-container-missile-system/2932801006001“)

      Exactly…. The news in the articles below scared the hell out of me.. we check what.. less than one percent of incoming containers.then we did the exact same thing with the toll road systems… .. shoot talking about scary stuff.. we would be chasing ghosts and orange barrel hell..
      https://www.americaoutloud.news/obama-biden-brought-america-to-the-gates-of-hell-with-gulftainer/

      https://theamericanreport.org/2021/09/17/north-koreas-railway-borne-missile-system-resembles-russias-club-k-container-missile-system-club-k-linked-to-obama-biden-gulftainer-us-seaports-deals/

      then they opened the borders.. of course to supporters of the brand business models what could possibly go wrong… and to countries that have been saying since I was a little boy before I could read.. that that was the plan they had.. sneak in an army posing as refugees.. MY GOD.. is that insanity there.. someone asked me last night what I thought.. I said I am not worried about it yet though the only rats jumping ship are the ultra wealthy escaping having to pay taxes…. Not one POLITICIAN has moved.. just the mega buck billies.. that have been moving out of our country to avoid paying taxes.. see.. they either don’t have a clue what they are doing and are so insulated from real life in the Bubble of the Beltway, they feel that if they did bring an army within the borders that they would be kinder than we have been…. or there isn’t a problem.. Nancy put on a few extra security guards and a fence in neighborhoods that would be overwhelmed in a real SHTF scenario… but she still lives in a neighborhood that if SHTF will be toast and if there are panicking in the streets that little wall won’t stop anything.. Biden he built a hole in the ground and put up a fence.. even though his actions has assuredly made Delaware target one and no one there would survive.. they obviously forgot what happened with other world leaders that we hunted..
      https://youtu.be/nd-1i0bFEv4?si=MVhDXHuAQ_8jzBpu
      What is it that they tell sailors…
      If you see the Rats jumping overboard follow them..the rats aren’t jumping.. So far the rats don’t seem to care .. and if their butts are on the line.. see it isn’t like the feudal periods where kings and their sons lead the armies into battle.. here they are protected from having to face any of that drama.. Personally If I was a politician I would be looking at working at something else away from the bubble of the beltway..

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    • Where is Turkey getting $23 billion from to pay for the jets?
      Dollars, not Turkish Lire.

      1.00 US Dollar = 32.773163 Turkish Lire

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      • OR….
        Are we just thinking US costs for the planes…
        Remember the 450.00 dish washer I bought.. shipping is a buck fifty per mile per hundred pounds.. unless you are mass shipping.. the retail cost in Turkey was 4.50 and the annual salary is twelve dollars and fifty cents.. or the can’s I bought from the factory here in the US it is 132 from the factory was twelve dollars.. shipping was a hundred.. I ordered one box.. the cost of shipping the hundred dollars was for a whole pallet.. so they upped the order to a full pallet for the twelve dollars and the salesman said.. we still made money on it.. didn’t want to waste the shipping charges on just one box.. so I have several years worth of drink containers.. the cost of living and the cost of equipment is so much less there than here..

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  17. Some years back, Hawaiian Airlines had a lock on the Inter-Island transportation market. The old Aloha Airlines had gone the way of the Dodo, and exists now only as a freight carrier. So Southwest Airlines decided to enter the market and compete with Hawaiian Air flying inter-island. I shudder every time I see a Southwest 737 fly overhead, wondering how long before something happens. I don’t fly much anymore, but it is ALWAYS on Hawaiian. They are the oldest US airline that has never had a fatal accident. Their Boeing 717s (ex-DC-9 model) are well maintained for frequent short trips between islands. Now comes a report that Southwest came within 400 feet of dumping a 737 into the ocean off Kauai, due to an inexperienced pilot.
    https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/southwest-boeing-737-max-came-within-400-feet-crashing-ocean-near-hawaii

    I’m staying home. Not even going to Honolulu for visits anymore.

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  18. “Olive Branch the West can’t afford to take? Putin Pledges Ukraine Cease-Fire if Kyiv Withdraws From Territories Claimed by Russia and Drops NATO Bid.”

    Olive Branch the West can’t afford NOT to take.

    Fixed that for you (and the Sun…)

    WE want the multi-trillions of dollars in Ukrainian natural resources, and the Dems, RINOs, and warhawks in D.C. are willing to pay hundreds, maybe thousands of American taxpayer dollars for each one of them.

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  19. G.A. STEWART: Apparently, there is a New Nostradamus in town predicting that June 18th, 2024 is when the shit will hit the fan. He may be very close, but he is a little late to the game.

    It should be obvious to everyone now that Nuclear War is only a few foot steps behind us and is quickly catching up.

    https://theageofdesolation.com/nostradamus/2024/06/05/the-new-nostradamus-and-the-2024-games-of-slaughter/

    ‘New Nostradamus’ isn’t backing down — still predicts World War III is just days from now…

    https://nypost.com/2024/06/14/lifestyle/new-nostradamus-predicts-world-war-iii-just-days-from-now/

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  20. How the US government uses NGOs to corrupt ‘civil society’ around the world

    In the West, and beyond, pressure groups operating under the banner of “human rights non-governmental organizations” (NGOs) have become key actors in disseminating war propaganda, intimidating academics, and corrupting civil society. These outfits act as gatekeepers determining which voices should be elevated and which should be censored and canceled.

    https://on.rt.com/cue6

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  21. Dollar becoming ‘toxic’ – Russia’s top MP

    BRICS countries are abandoning the greenback because it is being used as a political tool. Washington has completely undermined trust in the US dollar as a global reserve currency by using it as a political tool to impose “illegal” sanctions on Russia, State Duma Chairman Vyacheslav Volodin has said.

    https://on.rt.com/cue1

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  22. A top US senator has betrayed Washington’s worst kept secret about Ukraine

    US Senator Lindsey Graham has caused a fresh stir by saying the quiet part out loud. In a recent interview on the CBS program “Face the Nation,” Graham argued that Washington must not permit Russia to win the war in Ukraine because of the rich deposits of critical minerals on Ukraine’s territory, which are worth 10 to 12 trillion dollars, according to the senator.

    https://on.rt.com/cubn

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    • That was discussed on Urban Survival at the start of the hostilities. Ukraine is a resource war. Putin is using the Russian speaking population issue as a cover to grab undeveloped natural gas (NG) resources which compete with the Russian energy industry. Ukrainian NG can potentially satisfy European heating needs through the end of the century. And US energy companies were in Ukraine long before the first shot was fired. Funny that never comes up in the media.

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      • What is the value they put on the destruction..the innocent lives that are maimed and lost..the mental drama and nightmares of the survivors..
        would these political leaders still see that value if they or their loved ones lives were forced to be involved in obtaining it?
        look what they have done and spent to keep the members of the brands business model from e end paying a fine or facing the consequences for their business model.
        that’s why NO ONE messes with Kim in NK..he openly says he will make sure their homes and neighborhoods are included..

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      • “That was discussed on Urban Survival at the start of the hostilities.”

        I know.

        The significance is that “Senator Graham broke the story” on Deface the Nation on June 9th, 2024, because before that, it didn’t exist, and no-one knew.

        IOW we here at George’s Place are roughly 28 months ahead of the news curve. (Actually a lot longer than that, since we, here, have talked about these resources, in these places, for well over a decade, now…)

        Now, I don’t buy that Ukraine is strictly a resource war. I was watching Soros and Nuland slither through that part of the world, years before we (with the help of the Swedish NAZI Party) stole the nation and placed it in US-centric hands. IMO if Soros hadn’t hired the Swedes, and they hadn’t stayed in Ukraine after our coup, to target practice on the native Rus in the Eastern half of the nation, Putin would’ve kept his dogs in their kennel.

        I don’t believe that resources have anything whatsoever to do with Gaza. This is strictly a self-preservation thing, for Israel.

        I don’t accept that the absorption of the Dutch East Indies (Taiwan) into China is a resource war, since the ghosts of Chaing and Mao are still fighting their civil war.

        However, only a damnfool would either ignore, or not consider the resources in all three cases, which will be spoils to the eventual winners. I really don’t think Israel cares, since they already own 85% of the Leviathan booty, plus 100% of the Dalit, the Tanin, the Karish, and several other ginormous gas fields.

        On the other hand, China wants the gas & oil that’s off their coast, badly.

        While Ukraine has petroleum, uranium, and a small amount of rare earth metals, what the region REALLY has is iron capable of producing a very high grade of steel, and (something we need desperately and have absolutely none of) the world’s largest proven reserve of titanium.

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  23. Yuan to replace dollar as Russia’s main foreign currency

    The yuan/ruble exchange rate will now set the trajectory for other currency pairs on the Moscow Exchange (MOEX), including for the euro and dollar, the Bank of Russia (CBR) announced on Thursday.

    https://on.rt.com/cud5

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  24. ‘Poop-gate’: Is Biden’s D-Day confusion worthy of all the uproar?

    By all appearances it looked as though Mother Nature came calling for the American leader at precisely the worst moment. During a commemorative ceremony for the 80th anniversary of D-Day in France, Joe Biden, 81, suddenly seemed very determined to have a seat, and not even his doting wife Dr Jill was going to stop the squat. Desperately in search of a chair, a throne or – as some have crudely speculated – a port-a-potty, Biden has once again made the United States the laughing stock of the entire world.

    https://on.rt.com/cu8u

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