Posted by Buygold
@ 11:02 on May 5, 2026
Great news for my state and the country. She is one demonic, crazy evil woman. Redistricting might be the only way the R’s hold the house.
Glad the UAE is joining the fray. The more that do from the region the better. Hope the Saudi’s join and speed up the end of this nightmare.
Posted by ipso facto
@ 10:51 on May 5, 2026
Mila Joy
@Milajoy
Leftist Debbie Wasserman Schultz, who is a Florida Congresswoman, just watched Governor Ron DeSantis ERASE her District.
With the new Florida Congressional District map, her seat is GONE.
She will NOT be re-elected.
Oh, happy day.
https://x.com/Milajoy/status/2051368075711389785
Posted by ipso facto
@ 9:57 on May 5, 2026
Chevron CEO says physical shortages in oil supply to begin appearing
Chevron Chairman and CEO Mike Wirth says physical shortages in oil supply will begin appearing around the world because of the closure of the Strait of Hormuz, through which 20 percent of the global crude supply normally passes.
Economies will begin shrinking – first in Asia – as demand adjusts to meet supply while the strait remains closed because of the US-Israel war, Wirth said during a discussion sponsored by the Milken Institute.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2026/5/4/iran-war-live-tehran-says-trumps-hormuz-mission-violates-ceasefire?update=4545192
Posted by ipso facto
@ 9:53 on May 5, 2026
Should the US blockade be suspended before Iran’s nuclear program is addressed?
No (55%, 23 Votes)
Yes (40%, 17 Votes)
I don’t know (5%, 2 Votes)
Total Voters: 42
Posted by ipso facto
@ 9:49 on May 5, 2026
Babak Taghvaee – The Crisis Watch
@BabakTaghvaee1
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10h
BREAKING: The United Arab Emirates is conducting retaliatory airstrikes against multiple civilian and military targets inside Iran. From IRGC Navy sites to petrochemical facilities in Bandar Abbas, and other locations across Hormozgan Province, including Qeshm Island, targets are reportedly being struck by UAE Air Force fighter jets, including Mirage 2000-9EADs. Armed drones of the UAE Air Force are also involved in these airstrikes. There is a high possibility that U.S. Navy fighter jets operating from USS Abraham Lincoln are also joining Emirati aircraft in these strikes.
https://x.com/BabakTaghvaee1/status/2051495427380265036
Posted by ipso facto
@ 9:42 on May 5, 2026
Lukas Ekwueme
@ekwufinance
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May 4
Each time concentration levels hit 40 percent, a crash followed.
We are at 41 percent.
But I’m sure this time is different.
If only there was a catalyst for the AI bubble unwind.

Posted by Buygold
@ 9:38 on May 5, 2026
especially the silver shares, but all of them as well.
Gotta wonder if they’ll take silver back down this am.
Not sure what will change this.
Posted by Maddog
@ 9:24 on May 5, 2026
Posted by Buygold
@ 7:54 on May 5, 2026
So yesterday, Kevin Warsh flew through committee in a RINO only vote in the Senate. He’ll be brought to the floor for a full vote expected to be confirmed – again on party lines. He will be the new Fed Head as of May 15th.
I wonder if he’ll have any impact on the pm market, or if we get more of the same?
There is an awful lot lining up toward the middle of May, not the least of which is the potential for massive solar activity. We may be seeing the beginning of it with the earthquakes and potential eruption of the Mayon volcano in the Philippines. The strength of the solar activity could cause earthquakes that measure above 7 on the Richter scale from what’s been reported.

Then, there’s Israel’s 78th birthday May 14th. The time of Jacob’s trouble?
Posted by Buygold
@ 7:29 on May 5, 2026
My buddy says he thinks they’ll be powered by Thorium reactors (about the size of a Conex box) for the most part. The biggest issue is water. I guess they need tons of water for cooling. That will be a major problem because they’ll either be taking water from farmers or cities, according to him.
Posted by Buygold
@ 7:25 on May 5, 2026
Wild stories. Horrifying way to go.
The first guy was said to have gone swimming, I wonder when that was? I ask because it said the amoeba was found in warm, brackish waters. The article was written in April, and our waters aren’t all that warm yet – comparatively speaking. He was north of me, no more than 70 degree water.
The second guy was around the water during a red tide. They are just plain nasty here, far worse than on the west coast where I grew up. I’m two blocks from the gulf and just outside walking my sinuses started bothering me and chest got a little tight a the peak of that red tide. Just nasty. So, I wonder if the first guy went out just before or soon after a red tide occurred?
Other than that, the gulf usually gives life and is refreshing.
Posted by goldielocks
@ 5:10 on May 5, 2026
California and the west in general are the least humid states. Most humid is the south to Florida up to the Great Lakes and Hawaii. Buildings can if they want have dehumidifiers. Data is getting too lazy and can remember back to the 80s where in South California hospitals some were more advanced using computers before it started speeding up down hill to open borders they needed paper back up systems on the patients with their vital information, as in pt history, diagnosis, labs and medications after being through a serious earthquake where power outs went on for quite awhile and with damage three hospitals that had to evacuate in the 70s and imagine if all those patients had no paperwork on them at least current diagnosis and doctors orders including medications and treatments and going blind other than based on memory of some of the nurses cuz everything was on computers.
Posted by ipso facto
@ 19:44 on May 4, 2026
Seems to be a long term theme. What a dreary world it would be if the Mullahs ran the show!
Posted by amals
@ 19:35 on May 4, 2026
Sobering thoughts in that piece. We tend to have such a short view of history; it takes historians to put things in perspective for us.
I have a neighbor going to London soon. My first thought was, “Great; I loved London.” But it won’t be the London I loved in 1973. I doubt I’d want to go anywhere in Europe now. At least not major cities. Sad.
Posted by eeos
@ 18:27 on May 4, 2026
Posted by eeos
@ 18:24 on May 4, 2026
I used to design data centers for a living. I can also tell you that our data center locations really do matter and it has to do with dry bulb =/ wet bulb temperature differential and that does not happen in states like Texas or in California where you have humidity. So data center architects have to think harder and smarter. Otherwise build your own damn power stations
Posted by overton
@ 18:01 on May 4, 2026
Posted by ipso facto
@ 17:12 on May 4, 2026
If Israel and Turkey get into a shooting war then I guess we’ll be obliged to come to Turkey’s aid seeing that they are a NATO member. 🙂
Turkey has a very large military establishment. I think they would be too big a bite for Israel and they know it. At least I hope so!
Posted by Buygold
@ 16:52 on May 4, 2026
We give them the money to turn back around and buy our military aircraft so they can start a war using our military. Such a deal.
They’ll get their war with Turkey, that’s guaranteed, but we won’t be around – or at least in any condition to fight it with them.
I wonder if people realize they have the same population as Papa New Guinea?
2033 sounds about right.
Posted by Buygold
@ 16:44 on May 4, 2026
but no refining capacity for the type we produce. We haven’t built a refinery in 50 years. Brilliant. So, when we say we’re energy independent, not exactly true. If we were, we shouldn’t see rising gasoline prices.
I’m still wondering how they think they are going to power the 3K data centers they say they’re going to build.
Perhaps, when they do the alien disclosure, they’re going to say “BTW, the aliens have offered us new energy technology that’s going to power the world.”
Don’t laugh, disclosure is coming very soon.
Posted by eeos
@ 16:04 on May 4, 2026
b/c I don’t like the charts. Usually, the market does not side with my decisions in putlandio
Posted by Buygold
@ 16:00 on May 4, 2026
Seems like it should be worse today. I don’t know.
Posted by eeos
@ 13:56 on May 4, 2026
I’m concerned because I’m so long. The good guys say 300 to 500 dollar silver by end of summer and the bad guys say we’re headed to zero or something very much lower. Place your bets Maybe they run it sideways and they rip off everyone in options
Posted by eeos
@ 13:53 on May 4, 2026
80% enrichment does not equate to 80% efficiency. My impression was that when people say the Hiroshima bomb was 80% uranium 235, they’re usually talking about the uranium enrichment, not the efficiency. The fuel purity. Enrichment is like the octane rating in gasoline. Most likely, these arab chumps will deliver the bomb in a truck, and it won’t be something coming from a missile or an airplane. So they may not even care about making it to 80%. Just send it. If we think about it the little boy was delivered and exploded in the air, it didn’t hit the ground. The Arab plan is to inflict maximum casualties and fallout.
Posted by eeos
@ 13:42 on May 4, 2026