Reflections Over 2024

1.  To be honest, if there is some alien invasion going on....most Americans might be open to the idea because of the crappy lack of trust we have with politicians, the police, lawyers, and authorities....in general. 

2.  Some of us haven't watched a single hour of CNN all year, and can't say we missed much.

3.  Once this whole idea of absorbing Canada into the US got explained in detail....it just seems like a majority of people think it's a great idea.  But the same people aren't keen on it being 12 different states....they just want one state called Canada. 

4.  When Trump's idea of 'buying' Greenland came up....probably 95-percent of people had to pull out a map to find where the hell it was located.

5.  Folks were rather shocked to discover that Haiti is more or less run by one gang, with the gang 'boss' named 'Bar-b-que'.  

6.  Americans were rather shocked to discover....as hopeless and 'lost' as Joe Biden was....Kamala Harris apparently was equally hopeless and 'lost' (maybe more so). And no matter how many times you viewed this Tim-guy as her VP....you got the impression that he was pretty goofy (more so than Joe Biden).

7.   Megalopolis, without much discussion.....was considered the worst movie of 2024.  Some weird clash between a artist and a mayor....set in the future where nothing makes sense.  You needed 15 shots of booze to make it through the whole 138 minutes.

8.   That Elon guy surprised folks about every 48 hours in 2024....on average.  It didn't matter what he said....you actually took a liking to the guy.

9.  Most everyone agreed by mid-November....getting political advice from Hollywood idiots....made no sense.

10.  It just became an acceptable practice in 2024....to be disrespectful of others while in public.  

11.  You finally reached a point where you weren't going to pay $16 for a McDonalds menu meal.

12.  People are reaching a level now....assessing both high school students and college students.....as dumbasses, and education is mostly about dumbing-down people.

13.  Most of us found it odd....84-year old Nancy Pelosi....needing to wear 3-inch heels, and tumbling down a staircase....breaking her hip.

14.  Most folks upon hearing all this exploding beepers in the Middle East story....just started asking who the hell owns beepers?  Most folks remember beepers going away around 2000/2001.  Some kids asked what the hell were beepers?

15.  Rather shocking....Americans in 2024...are using 'credit' (credit cards) to buy groceries, because they don't make enough to cover the monthly grocery bill.

Teacher Story

 Starting tomorrow....in New Jersey....there's a new law going into effect.  If you were curious about becoming a teacher in NJ....there will  be no requirement to take a test for teachers....on reading, writing and mathematics.

Yes, the certification is gone.

Reason?  They could not fill the positions sitting there empty.....so logically, they felt they could get the teacher billets filled....if no test existed.

I paused over this....pondering.

I worked once in a Department of Defense organization with a commander's secretary....who'd been taking evening classes for 12 years.  She was about to graduate college with a bachelor's degree.  

Her mother was connected to the city council in some way, and had gotten this gal hired-up to be a teacher (3rd grade).

If you had attempted to measure the 'wit' of this secretary....I'd guess her IQ to be in the 80-to-85 range....meaning she was not that bright. How she got the degree (legit local college)?  Unknown.  

At the time, you had to take a certificate-like test on math, and English.  Somehow, she'd passed.  But if you asked me on competency....I'd shake my head.

What'll happen in New Jersey?  Within a decade....most residents will not trust the education system, and kids finishing high school will marginally be able read, or do anything much with numbers.

Should we worry about this?  No....as long as you know they are from New Jersey....you can cross them off the hiring list, and save yourself time.  They are the future employees of McDonalds, or garbage-truck drivers.

Twelve Predictions For 2025

 1.  This Luigi Mangione shooter guy in the CEO murder in NY City.....the case will fall apart shortly because the gun found on the guy....doesn't match up ballistically. 

2.  At least 100 Congressmen and Senators will have SEC investigations going on by the end of 2025....having advanced knowledge about stock up's-and-downs.  

3.  A minimum of 25,000 DC gov't employees are given the pink-slip by the end of the year....with more than half finding a regular job....nearly impossible.

4.  The US 'gives' Cuba a dozen mini-nuke-power-stations....free of charge.  

5.  A weird poll is done in Greenland, where if 'free' electricity and natural gas were offered as part of the deal.....almost 50-percent of society would agree to the US 'buying' Greenland and being a US state. 

6.  President Trump shocks the DC mayor/city council....voicing the idea of giving almost 50-percent of DC over to Maryland.  At least 20-percent of DC residents indicate they like this idea.  

7.  The UFO/alien business is finally tied down....with forty-odd alien races admitting bases either on Earth, the Moon, Mars, or in the vicinity of Venus.  They admit use of Earth, for well over half-a-million years.   

8.  At least 40,000 Americans are diagnosed as having TDS (Trump Delusionary Syndrome), and under some form of treatment by the end of the year.  Some are as young as fourteen years old.  A mental review suggests that they should be declared permanently handicapped and unable to function in the 'real' world.  

9.  A poll will reveal that almost 70-percent of Americans don't particularly see 'scientists' as gifted, clever, intellectual, or worth trusting. Some scientists quietly hide their status....to avoid public ridicule.  

10.  A test is developed....showing high school graduates of 'today' (2025)....are at the level of a 6th-grader in 1973. Academics are unable to explain this, and to further complicate matters....the academics tested....show they lack the skills to work in the profession.  

11. A 'war' against the cartel in Mexico is declared, with over 400 cartel members dead by the end of 2025.  The escalation reaches a point where several cartel operations have packed up and moved to Venezuela.

12.  At least one California city declares a policy of not reacting to  drug over-dosing, and letting the individual die on the street....to save funding.  

Five Things That Would Make Folks Disgruntled About Real Aliens

 Upon pondering:

1.  It probably would make a lot of people angry and frustrated....to learn more than 500 alien 'races' exist and survey Earth on a yearly basis, and that we seem to be more of a open-zoo, than a developing society.

2.  Upon confirmation of aliens.....we get three or four to do an interview.....to discover that they are mostly pro-Trump. The anti-Trump people?  They will spend hours and hours....slamming the dumbass aliens.

3.  The shocking truth....a group of five alien races meet yearly (over the past 200k years) on how to advance mankind, and we were seen as a alien-Ford 'product'. 

4.  The aliens reveal that they were the original folks on Earth, and that we (the human race) were designed as the 'workers' to produce 'stuff'.

5.  The chief reason given why they suddenly now reveal themselves.....is that they are fed-up with the crappy portrayals by Star Trek, Stargate, and Alien movies. 

The Thing About $hithole Places

 Having traveled around the US, Europe and the world...I've occasionally been in some places where the term $hithole fits.

Sometimes, it's an airport.  Sometimes, it's a diner or a 'hole-in-the-wall' restaurant.  Sometimes, it's a hotel.

I went to Berlin once (my first trip).  I didn't plan it....my wife did, and she went heavily economical.  It was on the 'east' side of Berlin...meaning it was over in the old Russian-held sector...about seven years after the wall came down.

The tour company had 50 of us (49 Germans and 1 American) to dump there.  This was what I'd call ultra-cheap.  I got my key and was told I'd be on the 10th floor.

Well...I got into the elevator and sized up the buttons.  There was a button for the basement and then 8 buttons.  I looked at the key....nothing 10th floor.  I exited the elevator and in broken German...asked the hotel lady...what the deal was.  She said....just get off the 8th floor and walk up the 2 floors.  

This had been a hotel which had two hidden floors for listening rooms and sensitive stuff (in the old East Germany days).

So I entered the room and unpacked....sitting in a over-sized big chair and staring at the wall.  You see, this was this half-inch crack from the top of the ceiling....down to the floor.  I walked up to it....yeah, there was a slight breeze.  It bothered me.

I probably wasted 3 hours that evening...staring at the crack.

The mattress?  I took off the sheets....some label indicated Romanian made....1969 (this was 1999).  It was a crappy mattress.

The bathroom?  The toilet seat was loose.  Water pressure....on a scale of 1-to-10...was a '1'.  The tub was probably an original one from the 1950s. 

Dinner for that night at the hotel restaurant?  It was not much to brag about.  The beer was average.....but came in a quarter-liter glass....meaning there wasn't much to sip.  The desert?  Around 12 highly sour cherries.

I got up the next day....having one entire day to walk around Berlin.  I walked out front and came upon eight Vietnam guys.  They had some meeting where a driver had arrived with a couple hundred cartons of black-market 'smokes', and they had some 'route' in the city to dispense their stuff.  I asked for subway station....they pointed over.  

I had a pretty nice day.

Then I returned...staring at the wall and the crack....then walked down to dinner.  The next day....the bus came and drove us home.  I didn't say much to the wife about the choice of the $hithole hotel.  

The Canada And 51st State Chat

 First, with polling a majority (say near 80-percent) don't want to be part of the US.  Further east you go....less thrilled are people about this idea.  Further west....more thrilled, but never getting past 25-percent support.

The poll?  Done by Newsweak in the past month.

If you laid out less taxes?  I would imagine there would be a shift....but still not getting you to the 50-percent point.

Second, if it ever went this far....it's more than ONE state that you create.  I would imagine a minimum of ten states.  

Population-issue?  There's forty-million in total population.    

Finally, you come to US states accepting this.  I would question how accepting various states would be....like California for example.

I'm not saying this is a bad idea.....but it does provoke an interesting chat.

Just Some Advice

 1.  If you are all fired-up to write a manifesto....don't make it more than ten pages.  

2.  If you have relatives with serious TDS...the best you can do is pray for them....don't waste time worrying about mental health.

3.  If there are aliens....they are mostly here because no one else in the universe has so many crazy things going on....24 hours a day.

4.  You might want to read up a bit on Greenland....I just have this feeling...it's likely to be the 51st state in five years.

5. House member from Texas....was still employed and getting paid....while in a memory-unit hospital.....for six months.  No one seemed to miss her.  Just makes you wonder if we'd be that way with Joe Biden.

If You Need A Final Consensus

 “The Wikipedians who write these articles aren’t focused on finding the truth. For our most tricky disagreements, seeking the truth isn’t the best place to start. Reverence for the truth might have become a bit of distraction that is preventing us from finding consensus and getting important things done.”

-- Former 'boss' of the Wikimedia foundation and current CEO of NPR, Katherine Maher

Just some advice here....if you need to find the truth....you'd best center-in on facts and truth....to reach a final consensus. 

If you can't find facts....forget about this discussion at hand, and go back to mowing your lawn, or hauling hay.

Three Things

 1.  On Biden's pardons and  exec-orders?

Within a week after Trump comes to office....I expect  at least one state AG to challenge a pardon in his state.

The problem?  He's going to say Biden is suffering from mental decline/dementia.  

By the end of 2025, the court system will agree, and all of these individuals  who felt they got a legit pardon....find it cancelled-out.

2.  On buying  Greenland?

Tons of minerals sitting there, and if you don't make the move....China will bribe EU members to get contracts.

My deal?  I'd offer Denmark a $100-billion down-payment, with two $500 billion checks over a ten-year period. 

3.  On  retaking the Panama Canal?

Look....it's goofed-up in the Chinese design for the bigger locks....taking more water from the lake than it can handle.

The treaty says....if Panama can't efficiently operate it....the US takes it back.

Maybe they should offer Panama a deal....US territory....statehood....if you resolve or fix this.

Netflix Documentary Review

 This weekend, I watched the 3 episode series of MH370's disappearance (8 Mar 2014)....from Netflix.   If you have access to Netflix....it's worth watching.

So the two things I never realized from the whole story?

1.  Once it went 'dark'....about 90 minutes pass, and this satellite-communications device cranks up....giving a 'hand-shake' every hour....for seven hours.  More or less....a ping.

But here's the odd thing....it's in a 'bay' under the first-class section, and you HAD to go down into this area, to flip the switch (you can't do it from the cockpit).  Then adding mystery to this....it's not something that pilots are taught (it'd be a ground repair technician who'd usually mess with it).

So you have to physically turn it on.  Why leave a path of bread-crumbs at this point 90 minutes into the mystery flight?  

Does the ping indicate your position?   Not really....it can judge the ping time and say how far you are from last ping....that's  all. So it's either telling you a north projection or a south projection.  The assumption is...south.  

2.  They got into this last-minute add-on cargo.....two pallets of supposed electronics gear (with lithium batteries).....which was not x-rayed. 

No one could really explain why the x-ray deal was skipped....other than to meet the time issue. 

If you have 3 hours....yeah, it's worth watching.  

The End-Point of the Drone/UAP/UFO 'Saga'

 At some point in early 2025....the 'saga' will unfold, and it will start as a story told over energy wave-weapons, their use (illegally) and connected to the Maui fire of 2023.

The drone business?  All relating back to reverse technology gained by a limited group....mostly business-related and a handful  of gov't 'sources'.....dating back to the 1950s.

At some point, here in 2024....the 'bosses' who run the 'black sites' reached a point questioning the use of the technology and the illegal acts.  So they've chosen to play their own game, with the drones/UAPs....letting the higher-level of leadership know that something now has to change.

My general point?  Once you admit there were illegal acts (perhaps deaths were involved)....the trust level by the gov't will rapidly decline.  

So it's not only a moment where you admit aliens/UFOs exist....but that you deceived the public for over 70 years.  

This Trump-Panama Canal Chatter

 This week, Trump brought up the Canal, and how we should re-take it.  Since I lived there for 3 years....I have a fair amount of background in this discussion.

First, what the US should have done in 1904 as construction started up.....they should have said this is now a US territory, and the 45,000 in population....been promised some entry to statehood in 25 years (whenever the population reached 100,000).  That idea was never discussed.

Second, the running of the canal was absolutely dependent upon the man-made lake, and a general amount of rainfall each year.  Once the Chinese came in and enlarged the locks....the water was not there to ensure the functionality of the locks.  No one today wants to admit the enlargement was a goof-up.

Third, since the 1930s....the people of Panama have had this belief that the canal had a 'profit'. 

As ships passed through....they paid a fee.  But if you examine the money angle....the US gov't funneled millions each year....to the canal....to keep it functional and upgraded.  The fee simply paid for day-to-day operations cost. 

So this idea that it was a profit-machine....was forever a bogus-story.  People believed this, and became a political magnet for coup activity and political bickering.

Fourth, there's a fair amount of hype for a NEW canal to be built in Nicaragua, and once done....I'm likely to believe that 75-percent of the traffic through Panama will end.  Taking the canal back?  Why?

Finally, yeah....there's no doubt we goofed up in twenty-odd ways, but taking it back at this point.....serves no purpose.

Movie Review: Civil War (2024)

I've attempted three times this week to watch 'Civil War'.....first time, I got around 10 minutes into it, stopping it because it didn't make sense.

The 2nd  time?  I got to about the 24-minute point....stopping because it didn't make sense.

The 3rd time?  At the  35-minute point, I gave up.

Script-wise, it's crap.  It's like you got a couple of 7th-grade kids to attempt a movie-of-the-week situation.   

Selling this in an election year and hoping if either the left-wing fringe people or the right-wing crazies get hyped-up?  I imagine so.

My advice.....if you have to watch it with a date....buy a bottle of bourbon and fill your flask up....you will need to watch in a half-drunk state of mind.

The Weirdest UAP/UFO/Drone Theory I've Heard?

 In the past 3 days....I hear this one:

Rogue-military group who've had advanced UFO technology for several decades....have reached a point in 2024....where they are fed-up with the directives they've been handed over the years, and they've taken the 'toys' out of the 'garage', and are setting on a path in January to tell their entire story.

The pitch goes....that some gov't folks with a company of company bosses....have had this underground situation going on since the 1950s.  

Bad-boys versus bad-boys?  Yeah.

What makes this theory interesting?  The drones/UAPs over the past month....are absolutely said NOT TO BE of Pentagon ownership (I've heard this chatter over and over).

BS-factor?  Well...it just goes way out there and you have to give some pondering that a rogue-element would just dump their 'boss' and come clean.

What could be worrying the 'bosses'?  Well....if you want to protect your 'empire'...who exactly are you going to call for 'help'?  Pentagon?  I doubt it. 

The Molasses 'Agenda'?

 I don't usually read these gov't spending bills...but I spent an hour reading this 1,500-page document....eventually coming to a line that has some  gov't wording....to create a molasses 'inspection' function.

It really didn't say that it was purely a US function or to monitor import (you may not know this....but India and Brazil produce about 40-percent of the world's molasses.  State-wise?  Well....Florida, Texas, Hawaii, and Louisiana produce most of it in the US.

What bothers me about this inspection function....I don't think anyone has ever died from consuming molasses.  As a kid...in rural Alabama.....I probably consumed a coffee-cup of molasses each month.  

The text didn't really say how this function would occur....but I'm  guessing someone had a agenda in mind.....to create a shortage and chaos would follow.

Just weird stuff....if you ask me.

The 'Real' Presidency

 

I sat yesterday and read this story from the Wall Street Journal. Basically....the White House staff....for four years ran things because President Biden wasn't functional enough for the job.

So the first thing that popped in my head....are the pardons he handed out....any good?

Then I wondered...if Kamala knew this...why not say something?

But then....I got to the point wondering....what if we didn't really need a President or an election....just let staff run things? But after five minutes of pondering this, I realized you'd have to fire people occasionally...who'd do that?

It's a mess.  If you had a restaurant (as a boss), and you were 'half-out' each day (mentally)....the place would likely fail in six to twelve months.  

The humor to this?  They allowed him to go off on VIP-trips to Europe and parade around in this state of mind.  The Europeans?  They probably reached a five-star state of fear....that he'd run a second time and win.  

Yet no one from the news media really focused on this.  That's the real mystery.

So How Did German Privatization Of The Postal System Work?

 Since Trump is discussing this idea....I'll just share the German 'solution'.

All of the German individual post office operations were set to close down (around 30 years ago).  In return...various businesses were offered a deal to buy an  operation.

So you had lotto shops, smoke-shops, grocery operations, and any business of a village/town....to be the post office.  You would walk in and mail a package, or pick boxes.

What was left?  Delivery.   So in each district (county).....one receiving station was established, and dozens (if not hundreds) of delivery folks came in and picked up what had been sorted.....then drove off to various parts of the district to deliver to your home.

Saturday delivery still part of the system?  Yes.

Your own personal delivery guy?  No.  Like in my village....there are two folks, and they swap routes each week. 

Most deliveries by the postal system....in terms of boxes?  No....I'd say Amazon and Fedex handle more than 50-percent.  

The village postal point for me?  It's open from 9AM  to 1 PM, and from 3PM to 6 PM.  It's open for 3 hours on Saturday.

It works....and it's likely that the US system could go the same route in some way.

Are You Suffering From MDS?

 MDS?  'Mystery Drone Syndrome'.

Basically, you've assessed the  drone/UAP/UFO/lost radioactive material story so much....that it clouded your judgement.

I noticed yesterday....some guy with a premium-camera trying to 'focus' in on a VW-sized drone,  and the camera simply could not focus.  Meaning?  It was a optical-illusion, or hologram.  It was not real.

To be honest, for at least a week....I've noticed this trend, and kept thinking...why can't you focus?

So all these military folks....police....being faked-out? Yeah.  

Reason?  To run something like this....you would need the President to sign off....so it begs the question....what was to be gained?

A Little Stadium Story

 RFK Stadium was built/finished in 1961.  You probably haven't heard of it much....so a basic intro.

It was a multi-purpose stadium....being used for baseball and football. Seating?  Near 45,000.

It is on the upper NE end of DC.  

So, the big factor here....it was built with federal money....not a DC project.

Once the Senators left DC.....the use-dynamic decreased.

Once the Redskins found a better stadium....the only sport left for use was soccer, and the stadium was a no-profit situation.

Most folks would agree...it's in marginal shape, and ought to be torn down.

So it comes up in the news this week.  In this new fed-spending bill....the stadium would be leaving federal-ownership and becoming a DC-asset (meaning the city council is the owner).

Their intent?  To interest the Redskins/Commanders into coming back to town.  The city council seems to think that they hold something of value.

To fix the stadium? The design, lack of VIP booths, and parking situation....make it a money-magnet (meaning it can't sustain a profit).  I'd go and suggest that the Redskins/Commanders wouldn't touch this with a ten-foot pole....unless you agreed to tear it down and rebuild (using DC money of course).  So you do the math....has to be at least three-quarters of a billion to tear down the stadium and rebuild.

Would the Redskins/Commanders even come back....to DC? Why? I admit....they are looking to relocate (currently in Maryland).  But the chief interest is in Arlington. 

So....Congress 'gifting' DC some money to run/resolve the stadium?  That's the general story.

Final assessment?  By the end of 2025, the Redskins/Commanders say 'NO', and RFK Stadium is torn down in 2026. The city will retain ownership of the land and try to market it.  

My Ten Suggestions For the Drone-Show This Week

 1.  Leak of info comes out....saying the nuke-material story....actually leads to some 16-year Delaware kid named 'Nick'....who sold bogus nuke material to some fake FBI-jihadist pretender guy.

2.  At sixty least of the drones reported....lead back to a group of LGTBQ enthusiasts....who seem hellbent on overthrowing the government.

3.  President Biden admits at some point....it was Hunter's idea.

4.  Air Force pilots asking for time off to recuperate from the stress of seeing drones.

5.  Six people come forward to admit they are aliens and flying the drones themselves.

6.  Some Hollywood studio admits half the drone crap was their attempt to get noticed for a new upcoming movie release.

7.  Putin stands up and admits he triggered all of this.

8.  Some 6th grader from Arkansas claims he was picked up by a drone and taken 6 miles away....then dropped off.  

9.  The Pentagon admit this was originally a 2008 exercise plan, and some idiot reactivated this as a 'test'

10.  Jill Biden admits she's been in charge of the drone program for four years, and this was merely a demo-show.

Four Things I've Figured Out On the Drone-Opera

 1.  There are Energy Dept drones searching for some nuke (whether a true fact or not)....there are hobbyists flying their drones with LED lights for some thrills...there are probably some Chinese tech drones....and there are probably some UAP/Alien drones.  

I don't think the Biden people have figured this out yet on all four in some form of reality.

2.  This 'lost' nuke story....tends to get weaker....hour-by-hour.  At some point today...Monday....Congress gets a secret briefing to explain some part of the story.

It is odd....the harsh gov't regulations on drones....runs out this week, unless the House votes it back for another period.

3.  This story of 'lost' nuke suit-case bombs?  Well....if you had such a thing.....it was manufactured in the 1980s....meaning it's close to forty years old.  

Rust and oxidation issues....battery crapped-out?  

Remember, this is not a Swiss-made clock item, or made by West German folks (like a BMW or Mercedes).

So I would question....even if you had ten of them....the odds of any of them functioning is  less than 50-percent in my humble opinion.

4.  Finally, if you had this information....when exactly did you approach dementia-patient President Biden, and did he grasp what you meant?  

At this point....it's like a 1980s science-fiction series off ABC, and purely for entertainment.  

Things I Learned From Low IQ People

 I spent around three decades associated with the military, and across this  period....I came to realize (really in basic training)...that about 10-percent of the  people I was around....were low IQ folks.

I probably had associated this idea in high school but in the military atmosphere....you had to ID these folks....ensuring their actions didn't get you into trouble.

So there are five  things I eventually figured out:

1.  Low IQ aren't the Einstein's, the Edison's, or the engineer-types. They don't invent things....they don't grasp problems and solutions....they don't really want to improve things.

2.  New landscape?  They are the least likely folks to adapt.

3  Zero will-power to change their mind. 

4.  Hypothetical situations?  Don't invite them to the thinking-and-talking meeting.

5. Introducing some new software or process?  They are the least likely to progress into this period, and every step involves stress in their mind.

But here's the key thing to remember.....you need them.  You can't cut them off and say they don't exist.  

I Have This Story I'm Thinking Of Writing

 The slant of this story?

All of these drones have started to arrived around the US...particularly New Jersey.  At some point....a dirty-nuke bomb or a nuke bomb itself is reported to be in transport from Iran, to kill 'someone'.  Within hours, it blows up.

What we discover is that the Department of  Energy was the ones behind the drones, and they were 'desperately' searching for the nuke stuff.  Yes....all DoE drones.

The target?  It turns out to be President Trump and VP to be....Vance.  The intention is to kill both, before the 20th of January.

In this script....without them....House Speaker Johnson assumes the Presidency on the 20th.  In the story, we would  find out that Iran really didn't build the bomb. Then we find out that Johnson was forced into the role....with the threat to kill his wife and kids.

An Oswald-like ending?

Well...almost....except in my ending....at the very ending of the crisis....with the bomb ready to explode....an actual real alien UAP/UFO lands to halt the sequence...thus saving Trump (a 3nd time).  

Trump spends 5 minutes talking to the aliens, and gives them a set of golf clubs and membership at his course.

A massive firing of all gov't agencies takes  place in spring of 2025. 

The trouble is....no one would believe my fictional story.

Some Stock Advice

 I probably devote around 15 hours a week on reading economic, financial and business news.  

On 2025 views?  Argentina is set to have between  3.5 to 5 percent growth (numbers released in the past two weeks).  In simple terms....the new gov't (now about a year in place)....is achieving results.  They've downsized the governmental agencies in a massive way.

So, here's some financial  advice....if you look...there are about 20 Argentina stocks on the US stock market....with one ETF (ARGT is the symbol).  You can look up growth of the stocks for the past six months (with the one ETF), and find most all have grown by 50-percent.  

2025 growth potential?  At least 50-percent.

Symbols to watch/view?  YPF (oil company), LOMA (construction materials), PAM (electrical company), TGS (natural gas/oil), EDN (electrical company) and VIST (natural gas/oil).  One in particular to follow: CRESY (agricultural production) 

Interesting catch?  Well....the EU signed a treaty with four countries on the Atlantic side of the region (Argentina is in the group) for 'ease-of-trade'....so any product (from natural gas, oil.....to agricultural products) will get easy entry into Europe.

So an example: CRESY back five months ago was trading at $7.12 a share.  Presently, it's trading at $13.64, and figured by mid-2025 to be near $17.

Another example: YPF (oil) was trading at $15 a share.  Today?  $44.56.  Mid-summer of 2025?  It's likely to be over $75.  

Hot topic of oil and natural gas trade?  Well....with Russia on the bad-boy list...Europe is looking for a alternate producer. In the past couple of months, the new gov't of  Argentina write some critical laws....which allow long-term investment in energy. They will be the 'Qatar-of-the-2030s'.  

One final note on the EFT....ARGT.  A year ago....this traded near $50 a share.  Presently?  Nearing $87 a share (over a 80-percent gain in one year).  At present pace, it's likely to hit $120 a share by August 2025.  

Five Humble Thoughts

 1.  Maybe it's just me....but this drone-BS...resembles just a $9 ticket to a LED-light show....nothing more.  Now, if you had a drone picking up dogs and cats, or dropping water-balloons on people....that'd be something.

2.  Trump says he'll end daylight-savings-time.  Democrats are caught flat-footed on this issue.  If Trump would just limit daylight-savings-time to one single minute, and add it back each fall....I'd be happy.

3.  I'm going to predict by the fall of 2025....in New York City....if you convey a threat to anyone....the cops will have the authority to grab you....hold you for seven days....and possibly take you to some mental hospital.  After 3,000 folks have been taken into custody.....the dumb-ass behavior will correct itself.

4.  That Secret Service guy at the second Trump shooting....took SIX shots....from five feet away at the guy, and missed each shot.

The odds of this?  From a Alabama  prospective....one in a million.

5.  With this fall down the stairs by Rep Pelosi....broken hip....I don't see her back in the House....for at least 90 days (if ever).  If she'd been wearing tennis shoes?  Well....yeah, there is that issue with polished marble. 

Drone Chatter

 First, what you come to  see is that speed-wise....none of these move amazing speed.  At best, I'd describe from videos....none move faster than 30 mph.

Second, other than blinking lights....there's no other 'magic'.  But if they give off a  light....then there's either energy creation, or a  battery onboard.

Third, staying aloft for six-to-eight hours?  The general suggestion is 'yes'.

Fourth, this German  report....hanging over Ramstein Air Base, then a RheinMetal facility, and the BASF chem-plant in Mannheim?  What makes the RheinMetal report interesting....they have a drone-killer 'tank'....which blasts drones by use of a sophisticated radar.  German cops are investigating.

Fifth, some folks on the inside of the government....say that a sudden and rapid increase in missile launches came up in October.  Reason?  No one can say that...that rapid decisions were made.

Sixth, it was just an odd public 'talk' this past week, where Pentagon guy said it was absolutely not a Pentagon-asset, and NOT from a adversary....then leaving the topic right there.

Seventh, the odds that it's just a PSYCHO-planed event?  There is no fantastic science or capability being demonstrated. So yeah,  I'd say some folks (probably not within the US-military....are running a 'show' for your benefit. 

Eighth, New Jersey seems to be a 'magnet' for drones.

Ninth, just seems to get deeper into a 'comedy-show'.  

Tenth, at some point....some joker from the government will say we need anti-drone killing ability, and introduce the hundred-billion defense capability.   

If I Were A Chinese Drone Designer And On A Secret Mission In The US?

 I'd design VW sized drones.....operated by a mini Honda 'quiet'-generator (1,400 watt power, with fuel tank big enough to keep it operating eight hours).

I'd have it programmed to run a route...flash lights....linger over urban areas....attract attention....then eventually return near the end....without ever communicating with it.  It'd extensively run off GPS satellites.

I'd be based on a farm near the coast....having the craft lift off and fly low (no lights) then circle around a bay area....pretending to come up off the water (after dark).

It'd be propelled by six lift  propellers and pushed by six directional propellers.....driven by the 1,400 watt generator.

At the end of the 'show'....it'd be programmed to  turn off the lights....return to the farm, and land on a pad.   

Eventually, I'd load up Molotov cocktails and explosives.  I'd drop these on power lines, power stations, gas stations, homes, and cars.

I (along with five of more associates) would have been delivered into Peru in 2022....spending 3 month hiking and riding through Central  America....to cross the border and  meet up with a Chinese college student already in America....with cash flow, and put into rented farm house.   Each week, my team would  have received pieces and parts for the VW-sized drone and assembled  it (I'd have ten of them at this point).  

Across  the US?  I  would imagine forty of these teams....in different stages.

As far as I'm concerned.....I'm five years ahead of them (the Americans).

This Drone and 'Mother-Ship' BS

 I sat and watched a piece yesterday.....NJ politician, who'd talked to some fed-anonymous source, and the 'solution' to the drones in New Jersey....was that some Iranian 'mother-ship' (probably a freighter with a transponder off) was parked off the coast.

An hour or two later....the Pentagon folks announced that the drones are NOT Pentagon property....nor assets of a adversary of the US (meaning Iran, or China or Russia).

I tried to contemplate all of this....which doesn't really 'fit'.

There are at least thirty locations (the UK among them)....where the drones are operating.....so this 'mother-ship' BS doesn't work.

How the Pentagon said the adversary stuff?  Total and absolute BS.

So I'm still with the Chinese high-tech drone theory.  

As for the idea of Chinese freighters parked off NJ....with the transponders turned off?  I could see that being the case.....but if so.....I'd suggest five to ten ships in this situation.  And I'd say the same for the Gulf of Mexico.

How long this continues?  I would suggest....just suddenly....all drone events stop for a month.  Then they will ramp back up.  

Five Thoughts On The Drones

 1. The Pentagon, Homeland Security an FBI will not say 'China-connected' until 20 January....when Trump arrives.

2.  Homeland Security, the end of January....will admit that they perceive at least 10,000 Chinese 'soldiers' are within the US and likely formed up into 300-odd teams.

3.  The Pentagon will estimate at least 25,000 drones were shipped into the US during 2023/2024....some as large as VW 'Beetle' cars (with engines to keep them aloft for four hours).   They will use 'Red Dawn' (the movie from 1984) as a background....to say that the nation has been invaded.

4.  The FBI will note that various fires in the US....to include 2022/2023/2024 chicken house fires....probably lead back to use of drones.

5.  A sophisticated bomb/fire capability will be shown, with up-surge in early 2025.  

Four Humble Thoughts

 1.  I read the manifesto of this New York City shooter.  Kid has Bachelor/Master's degrees. 

Read like some 1st year college student at best....makes 3 or 4 key points, but not exactly great use of English language or writing ability. Kid should ask for his money back from the college.

2.  As for me believing this whole story of capturing the guy?  No....too much Oswald-like steps in it.

3.  Florida Gov de Santis has invited Penny-dude from NY City court case to locate to Florida.  

Will virtually guarantee....if the guy moves there....will complete his degree, and be elected by age 35 to some House member seat in the state.  By age 45....he'd be governor of Florida.

4.  North Dakota says this Venezuelan gang stuff has arrived there.  By the end of January....I'll predict they are in 40 of the 50 states.

Just Something You Notice

 Just odd.

There are militia groups in Syria....funded and supported by the Pentagon.

There are other militia groups in Syria...funded and supported by the CIA.

The two on occasion will oppose each other.

Are the CIA and Pentagon aware of this?   I doubt it.

Speculation On Three Things

 1.  On this NY City shooting (the CEO guy).....I have a theory in my mind.

I think the company (either knowingly or unknowingly) was in the middle of a massive money-laundering situation (tens of millions a week), and this other SEC investigation on insider-trading came up.  So the CEO was to a level of making a deal....to spill the beans on the  money-laundering to halt  the SEC investigation. 

The money-laundering folks....sent a professional to make the hit. I'm also of the mind....it's not an American (probably from Russia or Europe).  

2.  On the UAP/UFO/Drone business.

I think the Pentagon and Homeland Security....don't want to admit it's the Chinese flying the drones.

I'll predict all the way to 20 January....they are quiet.

As Trump arrives, they will finally admit the Chinese angle to the drones.

This search for the Chinese operating the drones in the US....will be  topic number one for much of 2025.  

Forget the alien-chatter.

3.  As much as this chatter goes on about pardons for Pelosi, and twenty-odd big-wig Democratic folks....I speculate that it's all BS.

In the end....Joe Biden will offer nothing.

Reason?  The folks wanting the pardons....are the ones who pushed Joe to quit the race, and he's still seething with rage.

So we will get down to the final 72 hours, and Joe Biden says 'NO pardons'.

What This UFO/UAP/Drone Thing Is All About?

 About two years ago....if you paid attention  to drone development in China....they had gone some extremes on development.  The drones were bigger, faster, and more capable of time aloft.  They could also synchronize a hundred drones to work in tandem.

So the Chinese have some strategy where they entered the US with their hardware, and based literally dozens of teams with their drones....making Americans thinking of a UFO/UAP situation.

If this strategy advances?  Well....imagine that you were a team of three guys with sixty drones....based out of Dayton, Ohio.  Your drones have a carry-capability....so you could launch with a 10 KG explosive.  So you arrange the sixty drones in a rural situation....fully charged-up and each is sent on a drop mission.  Within 2 hours, they return....with sixty gas stations struck in the Dayton area, and for at least six weeks....they will all be non-op.  On evening two, you target sixty logistical points.

Now imagine forty teams around US....with the same mission.

The bigger drones?  You could have drones capable of carrying 200 KG of high explosive....for dropping on bridges, airport radars, or trains, or ships.

The fact that the Pentagon is caught flat-footed and unable to find or pursue these?  Add to it....the border being open and zero interest by Homeland Security? 

As much as the UFO/UAP scares the crap out of people....if this drone thing goes to the second strategy.....you've been invaded by a bigger worry.

Two Things

 First, read this AM....CBS News now says that President Biden is preparing to issue 'preemptive pardons' for Liz Cheney, Pelosi, Adam Schiff, Anthony Fauci, Gen. Mark Milley, and top aides of his administration.

What'll happen?

Well...if they violated civil rights of J6 people....there's likely to be a Trump AG in the middle of things...doing a personal lawsuit...for billions (owed to the victims of the lost rights).

Loss of  a security clearance?  Yeah....Trump could yank that.

A truth commission trying to put them under oath?  I could see that, as well.

Massive negative image for the next decade? Well....yeah....that problem comes to my mind....criminal behavior rewarded. 

Second, this assassination-hit  on the insurance CEO guy?

The more you look at this....him at a particular hotel....walking out (not in a limo) to speak at a stock-holder meeting.  Lot of things this shooter had to know ahead of time.  

Either is a insider of the company who arranged this, or the CEO himself.  Some suggestion of a SEC investigation going on. 

Also odd....the shooter had  been at some hostel in the city for a week....waiting.

Five Humble Observations

 1.  With the Hamas folks still holding Americans, and Trump's threat ('hell-to-pay')....I'll just make the observation on the 20th as Trump swears in....he'll order total and absolute confiscation of all finances.

Trump's people will seize ton's of Hamas capital.  Within a week, they will react....just by handing over bodies (dead).  Trump will then likely dump the cash out of cargo planes over the Gaza Strip.....in loose-form.

2.  Hunter's troubles over with the pardon?  No.....he'll likely be dragged into a grand jury room by April and asked  questions over Joe's money.  Joe is the one in the hot seat at this point.

3. Bunch of 'professionals' polled (over 3,000)....with two-thirds of them saying they feel 'stuck' now....unable to leave a job or advance.

4.  This Marc Andreessen 'talk' on Joe Rogan from last week?  Probably THE most interesting conversation I've ever seen.  

You can watch it here.

But I need  to warn you....it's 3 hours of a talk.  Most fascinating guy I've seen in a long while.

5.  All this UFO/UAP chatter the past month?  I think 99-percent is related to Chinese/Russian effort to scare up the public.  1-percent?  Unknown.

Four Predictions Within 90 Days

 1.  Syria, because of the renewed civil conflict....ends up as three separate 'zones/districts/countries' with Assad either dead or exiting into Russia.  

2.  Natural gas crisis in Europe develops....with pricing levels double what they were in 2023.  Everyone is now charged-up to bring the Ukraine-Russia war to an end....to get Russian natural gas turned back on.

3.  At least fifty NBA and NFL players admitting they attended 'Diddy-parties' in the past and were in a man-to-man rape situation because they were drugged-up.  

4.  At least ten FBI executives dragged up into an investigation that they planned the J-6 action to bring down the Trump folks. Fed court action (likely to be held in Florida)....will conclude some of these people sentenced to 20 years of fed-prison.

What Happens Between Now and 20 January 2025 (Inauguration Day)?

 1.  I would suggest more than 2,000 FBI agents quietly submitting their resignation letters or retirement papers.

2.  Because of the impending release of the Epstein and Diddy files.....more than 100 suicides of 'known' characters will occur.  In addition....more than 1,000 known  characters simply up-and-disappear (off to Greece, or South America).   

3.  The number of houses up for sale in the region of DC....goes up by 300-percent....as people  are now desperate to exit the region over the fear of losing their job.

4.  A high number of fed Law Enforcement personnel will go and submit resumes throughout the US...ONLY to discover that there's no openings and a huge money problem at state and local offices.