Loading ...Obviously stress related, many years ago I had eczema on the palms of my hands (that I worked with) from work related stress. Dr. gave me some valium to take, and it went away.
Dr. Copper
Re: AFM I had this lifter failure on my 2007 Tahoe 400 miles from home, Had AAA towing coverage but only for travel radius of 200 miles. Drove the vehcile an additional 210 miles until the motor crapped out completey but at least the tow home was free.
Bought a used 2008 motor, installed it and also installed one of those AFM interrupters.
Re: your article about back pain. When my youngest son was six he had a large number of tiny moles on palm of each hand. Doctor couldn’t determine their origin but declared them harmless.
One morning he showed me his hands and the moles has disappeared completely, and they subsequently never returned.
I had severl moles, though larger ,on each hand since my youth. so for 25 years at that time. Within a week of the occurance of my son mine all disappeared too and have never returned.
@ ipso facto re the Straits
Ya know, from day one of that war I told myself the Iranians will never give up. I actually think they wanted to be attacked so they could respond, they don’t care if they die. Remember 9/11? Fourteen virgins’ waiting for them. I think Trump should have waited for near the end of is term, I don’t know why he rushed it.
Ipso
Good, tell him to get a VPN while he’s there. And congrats on the games.
From the IRGC mouthpiece
The Hormuz Letter
@HormuzLetter
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BREAKING: Iran has directly instructed the Houthis to fully close the Bab el-Mandeb strait, with the Houthis having completed all operational preparations including deploying missiles and drones near the Strait, and are waiting for US strikes on Iranian power infrastructure to carry it out, per Reuters citing two senior Iranian sources.
IRGC representatives in Yemen will control the decision on when to carry out the Bab el-Mandeb closure operation. Combined with Iran’s ongoing Hormuz closure, this would disrupt both Middle East main oil export routes simultaneously, with Red Sea carrying around 7% of global energy supplies and Saudi Arabia having diverted 70% of its energy exports through Red Sea port Yanbu.
The Houthis warn this would push oil past $200.
It seems Dr.Makis is having a little disagreement with Dr Marik
The dose on the child wow. In summary less you take preventative doses or can’t get to the doctors don’t try it alone.
LINK TO ARTICLEThe above images are EXCERPTS from Dr.Paul Marik’s June 21, 2026
MY COMMENTSI will try to be nice about this. Always ask any “Alternative Practitioner” how many cancer patients they have helped and over what period of time. I don’t know how many cancer patients Dr.Paul Marik has followed but I have never seen him post Ivermectin Cancer Testimonials. I know his partner, Dr.Pierre Kory has seen about 75 cancer patients at his Leading Edge Clinic, which is nice but a very small number. I have directly helped over 9000+ cancer patients with Ivermectin, Mebendazole and Fenbendazole and the longest case follow-up is now 2 years. Dr.Marik’s recommendations don’t work in 95% of cancer cases. They will in 5%. Ivermectin 12mg to 36mg doesn’t work. It’s too low. Problem is bioavailability. Such a low dose may work in some cases of lymphoma, bladder cancer and lung cancer (with chemo). Occasionally prostate. So maybe 5% of cases. We have used it as a MAINTENANCE Dose for Cancer prevention, not active cancer. Mebendazole 200-400mg also doesn’t work. And it gets better. He says there is no established dosing from Clinical Trials. Actually there is. Johns Hopkins established 1500mg dose for children with brain cancer. I repeat, Mebendazole 1500mg dose for CHILDREN as young as 1 years old. Yes, CHILDREN. SEE FOR YOURSELF. So an adult is supposed to take 1/5th the dose of a 1 year old CHILD dose that was established by Johns Hopkins Cancer Center that owns the patent on Mebendazole? REALLY??? I’m trying to be very nice here. I’m sure Dr.Paul Marik means well and I’m sure he’s read many books and many studies. But if you don’t have the EXPERIENCE in dealing with thousands of cancer patients, you shouldn’t be giving advice. Or at least, say you are speaking “theoretically” and “hypothetically”. Because the fact is, I have hundreds of cancer patients coming to me from “Alternative Health Practitioners” who gave low doses which did nothing and only wasted precious time the cancer patient didn’t have. The cancer progresses on these low doses. Every single time. Recently I had two sad cases of cancer patients who went elsewhere while we are moving to Florida, had their doses reduced (one went to a well known American Clinic, one went to a Mexican Clinic) and after a few months, they progressed. It makes me ill. |
Mr.Copper @ 12:32
Very interesting post. Thanks
GM should be replacing those engines that fail so young and there should be a recall of all those vehicles!
That kind of thing can really damage your brand!
Buygold
The house of the rising sun.
If you can read the comments from the link on the apocalyptic events in China from the black clouds that reached down to red rivers to 14 earthquakes in a day there was someone from England on there who said he couldn’t open the video The servalence has now been started that blocks certain sites and blogs if it doesn’t comply with their censorship. That you have to register a digital ID now they call a safe act using children as a excuse to know the age and ID of each user. That he didn’t sign up for it. I hope that didn’t happen to Maddog. The games are over now, I think England won. If you sign in or not they can still block sites. I wonder if they go over to France or near by EU before it starts there next if they set up a VPN it would help. Maybe he’s just as disgusted with the PM manipulation as everybody else.
The Newer The Cars Are The Worse They Get
I got this from a friend:
I’ve been a GM mechanic for 17 years. I need to get something off my chest because it’s been weighing on me for a long time.
Last Thursday a guy drove into my shop in a 2019 Tahoe.
Nice guy. Maybe early 40s. Wedding ring. Soccer cleats in the back seat.
He told me the engine started ticking that morning on the way to drop his son off at practice.
I already knew what it was before I even lifted the hood. I’ve heard that tick a thousand times.
I could call it from across the lot at this point.
Lifter failure. Cylinder 3. Camshaft wiped.
I’ve been at this since 2008. I’ve worked on everything GM puts out.
Silverados. Sierras. Tahoes. Yukons. Suburbans. Escalades.
And I am telling you, I have never seen a single system kill more engines than Active Fuel Management.
AFM. That’s what GM calls it. Since 2007 they’ve been programming their V8s and V6s to shut down half the cylinders while you cruise. Supposed to save fuel. Maybe a mile or 2 per gallon.
The lifters that run it have a tiny locking pin inside them.
Every time the system cycles, those pins lock and unlock. Hundreds of times per drive. Thousands of times a week.
And when that pin gives out, the lifter collapses. It stops spinning and it chews through the camshaft lobe like a chisel on butter.
I do 2 to 4 of these jobs every single month. Sometimes more. And it’s been that way for years.
I’ve pulled apart engines with 31,000 miles on them. I pulled one apart last summer with 24,000 miles. Practically a new truck. Owner had it less than a year.
I’ve seen guys who changed their oil every 3,000 miles with the best synthetic money can buy. Made no difference.
I’ve seen fleet trucks that were serviced by the book, every interval on time, every fluid clean. Made no difference.
The system doesn’t care how well you maintain your truck. When that lifter decides to let go, it lets go. And there is absolutely nothing you can do about it once it starts.
That’s what frustrates me.
Because these are solid engines. The 5.3. The 6.2. Take the AFM system off of them and they’ll run 300,000 miles without breaking a sweat.
I’ve seen it with my own eyes. The pre-2007 trucks, the ones without AFM, those things are bulletproof. I’ve got customers still daily driving them with 260,000 on the odometer.
But GM bolted this system onto a perfectly good motor to squeeze out a couple miles per gallon to hit government fuel economy numbers. And it is wrecking engines that would have lasted a lifetime.
You want to know the hardest part of my job?
It’s the phone call.
I have to call guys like the Tahoe owner from Thursday and break the news that their engine is torn apart and it’s going to run them $4,000 to $8,000 depending on how far the damage spread.
And every single time, the same reaction.
Silence.
Then “how is that even possible, I just had the oil changed.”
Then I have to walk them through AFM. Something their dealer never once mentioned. Something the salesman never brought up. Something nobody explained to them when they signed the papers on a $58,000 truck.
Thursday’s guy? He still owed $38,000 on the Tahoe. No warranty left. 71,000 miles.
I quoted him $5,400 for the job.
He just stood there in my shop looking at the floor.
That’s the moment that stays with me. Every single time.
About 3 years ago I started recommending a FullForce™ AFM disabler for every GM truck I work on. Every single one.
I don’t care if it’s in for an oil change or a complete rebuild. I bring it up.
It plugs into the OBD2 port under the dash. Takes 2 seconds. And it tells the computer to keep every cylinder firing all the time.
So no more AFM cycling, and no more hammering the lifters every time you get behind the wheel.
It doesn’t reprogram anything. Doesn’t touch the ECU. You unplug it before a dealer visit and there’s absolutely zero trace it was ever installed.
I’ve had customers come back at 40,000, 60,000, 80,000 miles after I put one in.
Zero issues. The trucks run smoother. The shudder everyone assumes is normal disappears completely. And the lifters aren’t getting beaten to death every single drive.
I can’t take back the damage on the trucks that are already sitting on my lift. But I can keep the next one from ending up there.
I’m not writing this for any company. I’m writing this because I’m tired of making phone calls that wreck people’s week.
I’m tired of watching guys run the numbers in their head while they stare at my shop floor.
I’m tired of knowing that a simple plug-in module would have saved them thousands.
If you drive a GM truck or SUV from 2007 or newer with a V6 or V8, you have AFM.
Your dealer probably never said a word about it. The shudder you feel around 40 or 50 mph is the system cycling. And every time it cycles, it’s grinding down the parts that will eventually fail.
I’m asking you to look into this before you end up in my shop. Because I don’t want to make that phone call to you.
EDIT: I should have included this in the original post but the module I recommend in my shop is called FullForce™. Here’s their site:
Dr. Mercola … not on the fence
The Dangers of Statins
https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2024/10/18/statins-dangers.aspx
Nice Stack
Iraq seizes mounds of gold and millions in cash in corruption crackdown
Finally cracks
Just like we all knew it would. I guess because the retail sales beat expectations 0.4% vs. 0.3% expectations, driven by inflation no doubt and causing bonds to be sold a bit. Funny that the dollar hasn’t gone any higher than it was earlier.
No matter. Shares realized the metals were down and cratered with them.
If we don’t get a reversal here today, I have no doubt they’ll take silver back to $30 and gold $2500 and HUI under 300. It’s the American way.
I best take some time away. May better times visit the tent.
Stop loss hunting
….will continue until the scum see some sizable buyers come into the picture. Hopefully, the previous lows @$3965 holds….
The sun rose again this morning
and the QQQ’s are down, so naturally the metals are taking a hit.
Ther is something odd taking place though, the shares haven’t really seemed to notice just yet and aren’t really getting hit, especially the large cap gold shares.
The silver shares aren’t doing as well, but that’s because they are silver shares, the single worst investment in any market.
We do need something to give here, either the shares (GDX in particular) need to break up or break down. They can’t continue to go sideways. The same can be said for GLD and SLV.
Always safe to bet on a breakdown. I’d continue to hope, but hope has been lost for months now. We had a 1% move down in the dollar the past two days and got nothing from it.
Sng 21:55
That would make a good discussion. Is enabling data centers hes worried about coming from Iran a good thing. Besides that aluminum, fertilizer it’s made all over the world including Canada not just in one place. What’s with the data centers rush So eager to replace human beings with machines. Then using these machines to brainwash and control humans. Is throwing a monkey wrench in these plans a good thing or a bad thing. The same system that would have him collared in smart city’s drinking out of their plastic bottles soup or asphalt noisy city’s good for your health?
Are these data centers good for anybody’s health including the wildlife who also need these resources like water or the echo system long term? Even industrial farming isn’t good for the environment or clean water supply They can even cause sink holes by depleting underground water now add data centers to enable ai to replace human jobs.
- Massive Energy Consumption: Data centers, particularly those training AI models, consume astronomical amounts of electricity. Residents and critics blame this surging demand for spiking utility bills and grid instability
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- Water Scarcity: These facilities require millions of gallons of water daily to run their cooling systems, threatening local water supplies.
- Environmental & Noise Pollution: Continuous cooling fans and generators produce an inescapable, low-frequency hum often compared to a constant lawnmower. The facilities also frequently rely on dirty energy and backup diesel generators, which degrade local air quality.
- Corporate Tax Subsidies: Tech giants often secure massive tax breaks to build in specific areas. Critics argue this diverts critical funds from public services without generating significant local employment.
- A Symbol of Unchecked AI: Beyond the physical nuisances, data centers have become a physical representation of an AI-driven future, causing anxiety over job displacement, energy footprints, and a perceived loss of community agency.
