Netflix Series: Department Q

 It's not often I recommend a Netflix series....but I've wrapped up 'Department Q', and would strongly recommend it.

Detective series....missing person....'bad-boy' cop given the job.

Somewhere in the beginning....they've given the detective a 'helper'...basically a immigrant guy from the Middle East....named 'Akram'.

I'll just say that every scene that Akram appears in....he's like 'Billy-Jack' character, and dominates the scene.  Akram has no respect for rules or regulations.

Season two?  Approved.  

My View On Seattle

 Since last year....I've followed almost daily....the ramblings and  commentary of Seattle's socialist mayor....Katie Wilson.

I consider her to be rather 'gifted' intellectually....to the point where you would describe her as a idiot-servant.  

How she was elected as mayor?  I have this theory.

I think a majority of voters saw her as useless and lacking....but were drawn to vote her into office because they wanted chaos.   These are voters who knew she'd fail to deliver, and likely open various 'exit-doors' for the well-to-do voters to leave the city and state. 

These are 'agents' who want disorder and daily theatrical shows.

Wilson is set to be mayor (unless she quits or is taken  out by the state mechanism)...until the fall of 2029.   

My humble view is that the tax revenue folks will have a talk with her around the first of 2027, and note they are missing around 5-to-10 percent of normal collection.  Whether she'll connect the dots or not....I think she'll just say 'move-on'...continue operations, and some financial officer will note that somewhere in the budget....at least five-percent has to be cut/gutted.

At that point, Wilson will tell the state to make up the difference...refusing to cut.

This will go back and forth....to the point that the state tells Wilson....that Seattle's damage crosses over into state-damage, and they are missing tax revenue as well.  'Sorry' will be the response....but the state can't cover the losses.

By mid-summer of 2027....Wilson probably will have public appearance issues....not wanting to talk about the mess.

Four Observations

 1.  The future.  I watched a podcast this week, which got into the design/capability of Grok/AI (Elon's  'creature').

The thing pointed out making Grok different.....'he' reads everything....from printed science papers....to useless junk.  The thing pointed out....from the useless junk....Grok might find a thousand pages of such material....binding them (individually together)...to present some idea/concept....as legit.  

In so doing this...every single day....Grok might add another layer to technology.....that didn't exist yesterday.  So, you can imagine....a year or two might pass, and by this Grok path....things that would have been created in 2040....might actually be created and working by 2030.  

Just me talking....but I suspect this worries people.

2.  Just by the exit-path created in Portland and Seattle....I'm likely to believe that both will be on the 'road' to Detroit-status within the next three to five years.

Note....I don't believe the locals grasp that, or even worry about it.  It's just an odd  perception....wanting a city to dissolve into nothing.

3.  Over the past week, I've watched/read several hours of stuff over the re-districting 'game' being played out.  Personally, I don't think the Democrats (even from the 1960s/1970s)....ever imagined that the correction would occur....where gerrymandering would be thrown out.

At this time...oddly....states are  being forced to clean-up their voting rolls....with several million names removed.

Yeah....it's possible that you see forty-odd districts shift....to the Republicans.  

4.  Finally, rumors started up today....Venezuela is set to depart from OPEC.  If you ask me....oil prices in about four months will be down to around $50 a barrel. 

Five Predictions Of Mine

 1.  By the end of 2027....at least forty actors/actresses of Hollywood that you 'know'....will have quietly disappeared...over use of Ozempic.  Their looks/face....changed to such a degree....that they can't market themselves.  

2.  By the end of 2027....at least one-third of cancer patients will decline chemo....going to alternate medications...sending the chemo 'industry' into turmoil.

3.  A lot of science 'geeks' over the next year....are going to start talking more on time-travel....giving the concept 'status'.   It won't be considered crazy-talk.

4. By the end of 2027....two out of three people will believe that Epstein is not dead.

5.  Minnesota AG Keith Ellison....is probably going to be dragged into a grand jury situation, and face jail-time.  Deal-making?  My bet is that he spills a massive amount of state crimes.

UAE Quitting OPEC Explanation?

Look....OPEC is and has always been a legal cartel  unit.  They meet and agree to sell their product (oil)....at x-price, and limits per member are set.

Presently....UAE could produce 4.85 million barrels a day.....that's their plannedd and max-limit.  But by their OPEC agreement....they can only sell 3.2 million. 

The 1.6 million 'extra'?  It's not produced or marketed.

You can do the math....but if they went max....that's around $100-million that they miss....DAILY.  Figure in the range of $30-billion (minimum) for a year.

So they finally said 'crap'....screw this OPEC limit stuff.

Largest oil producer in the world? Yeah....so they have 'status'.

My prediction?  Remaining members....Algeria, Republic of the Congo (Congo), Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Libya, Nigeria, Saudi Arabia and Venezuela....are going to each have a meeting and discus the same option.  Probably in two weeks....at  least four other members will go to max production (Venezuela will likely be one of the four).

July prices?  So much production....that oil drops to around $60 a barrel.  

Iran?  Royally screwed, if you ask me.

And yes, this will come to a end by early 2027....with limits re-established. 

My Impression Of This Cole Allen-Shooter Guy

 Four observations:

1.  As intellectual as he claims as a status....he's one of those intellectual guys without any common sense....like a 12-year old kid....with no ability to 'steer' his life.

2.  He's one of those guys who will have trouble in prison, and probably not survive there more than a year or two.

3. DC judge is likely to have a mental exam done on the guy.....with results being the first proclaimed TDS-sufferer.  Judge will mandate some type of holding in a mental facility.....which the gov't goes to appeal this....getting the TDS label dumped, and his court crap is done in another location.  

4.  If you ask me....there's probably 10,000 Cole Allen-idiots running around, and a threat to the nation.  

2039 Chatter

Germany says it plans to build Europe’s most powerful military by 2039.

I read this today....comes from the Defense Minister. 

Obviously they don't rank themselves number one today.

It's difficult to figure who is ahead.  Manpower wise...I might rank Finland ahead.

This cash to get to 2039? Well...it doesn't exist.

Lot of BS?  Chief issue is finding 200k guys and gals who'd like to in the military and take orders.