Want to build a counter to the Weapons of Mass Deception? Today we examine the Tower of Babel, and the role of conceptually extensible, functional, peer-to-peer social networks (without censoring middlepersons and dataware), In order to think a bit in guerilla terms about meaningful digital change.

With $37 /$158 trillion of debt and climbing unsustainably can you even question whether the system is broken? (Ahem. Seriously?)

Present UAP hysteria and the recent election aside, there is a growing demand for change, as we see it: signs of a global revolution based on peer-to-peer internet use is one possible path. Future risk is amplified here in late 2024 by the number of countries facing regime change and close calls of state, just in the last month.

We count Canada, Germany, Ukraine, Russia, Georgia, Syria, Taiwan, and South Korea (8) enumerated countries and in “governance hot water.” Can the American losers of 2024 leave peacefully?.

Besides our own country, the European Union which is entering the “high social cost” of their open borders fiasco, too.  There, like the U.S.  Synthetic Growth may have sounded like a good idea, early on.  But over time, the initially stimulative effects of SynGrowth wash out.

What’s left is not only a pile of bills (since new populations require investment). But also there’s the matter of the changing internal expectations of a country’s NuPop. Cats or dogs for dinner?

More on this, as we’re kicking it – waiting for this afternoon’s Big Rate Reveal.  Which – if our judgment of the Fed is anywhere near right – could be a disappointment for the Bulls.

Drilldown in our morning ChartPack. Where the market action Tuesday might be a pre-shock of more downside to come. Expect a “buy the rumor” upside open.

Collapse closing in?  Mean as people get the message that “things are changing” and there’s no one at the wheel?  Especially you know who.

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Eyes on the ChartPack today as we ponder the present “UAP mania” and the AI mania in financial markets. Are the two related?  Maybe.

A few headlines first, as is the custom.  But then a deep dive into one possible alignment that leads to the question, “Can Santa save markets?”

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Woo-woo in the weather and the energy impact of the near-east mess highlight today’s perspective.  Because the parties are lining up to get as much of (the former) Syria as each can That’s prime energy-transportation real estate down the road.

The woo-woo is where we start in our Focus section, though. Because something odd has been going on.

But wait! There’s more: the Consumer Price report on Inflation is out And markets are anxious for some clarity here At least if you missed our note on the Fed going political with unjustified rate drops going into the election Piper needs to be paid?

That’s where we get into the ChartPack, too. So, a lot of material and many things in motion here just 14 days until Christmas and Hanukah begins…

Put on the pot – there’s so much to go over this morning, the report runs north of 4,000 words.

How long to read it?  “Reading 4000 words can take anywhere from ;an hour to two hours depending on the individual’s reading speed, the complexity of the text, and how focused they are while reading.

Plan three cups or a fresh pot.

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A new paradigm for aging brain research is discussed this morning. In addition to the odd events in Syria, and the usual ChartPack.

So a cup and a click, if you please.

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Over the past week with our consigliere, some thoughts on near-term future have evolved. Strangely, the year ahead is looking more bi-polar than ever.  The “Reasonable Middle” is still missing in action.

A pick up in the general news flow is cited, too. We begin with today’s ADP report and then launch into a world of yet another play for regime change by some of the forces that brought you Ukraine.

Then there’s our ChartPack.  Which keeps defying gravity. To the point where you’d think the song in the musical Wicked was the new theme in finance.

Fun morning?  Well, tell me what your idea of a good time is, Mr. de Sade?

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A stock market event we referred to as the “slaughter of the elves” took place a few years back.  2018, but that’s from memory, and with enough turkey in the bloodstream, recall is a bit fogged.

Still, desperate people (not wanting to leave office) and people who want to undercut whoever follows (ahem…) may be driven to desperate acts.

With markets setting a new record in our Aggregate Index it’s easy to make the case that we can keep rising forever.  Still, there’s this stuff called “gravity” and this other thing called financial reporting.  ‘ner the twain shall meet again?

Which gets us to noodling on what kind of month is will turn out to be.  A short cup’s worth though.  Don’t want to “slow your roll” in the click festival, right?

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Root Canal Tuesday leads to Coast-to-Coast Wednesday night which then segues into Turkey Thursday around here. But before we roll, some important housekeeping items for even our non-subscribers to the $40/year Peoplenomics site.

Safe Computing Reminders:  We are at “peak hacking” between now and early January.  Don’t open emails you aren’t expecting.

Next, make sure all of your software is up to date.  This can be a bit daunting since Microsoft is “slow-rolling” the Win11 release of 24H2.  As a result, many Win11 users are still on 23H2.

Similarly, make sure your browser(s) are up to date and set your security preferences.

Finally – and now we’re into the “Paranoia can be useful” part:  There is a small, but nevertheless non-Zero chance that one of America’s “un-friends” could use the long holiday weekend to wreak havoc on us – as in the U.S.

Put yourself in the position of, oh, China and you want Taiwan.  What better weekend than to take down DNS servers and go for a massive cyber-attack than Black Friday, eh?

Most people don’t realize how the Domain Name System works.  But, the short version is that when you type a website name into your browser address line, that name is send to what’s called a DNS server.  The name is then routed to a specific numerical Internet address.

One simple way to wreck e-commerce, therefore, is to attack these DNS servers.

Should something like this ever happen, you would not be able to use banking or online shopping.  Because of security concerns, the IP addresses of secure institutions is seldom shared.

A few sites, like this one (since one of my books, Broken Web that was written in 2012 warned of it) understand the risks of DNS and denial of service attacks.

In the event of an actual (computing) emergency, we have paid the extra dough to have a “static IP address.”  Please make a note of it:

http://190.92.156.129

You (verging on becoming a compu-geek) will notice that this is NOT a secure website.  Because the SSL (secure socket layer) involves still more computery things.

Should anything go terribly wrong with the web, we plan to continue posting and with tons of radio and satellite video downlink capacity we can bring up if need be, meaning we may be able to get a handle on things, we might still be here….

Yes, of course this is paranoia and we pray nothing happens.  BUT foreign governments, a world full of crooks, and even factions within our own country (think false flag ops) have different than Constitutional agendas.

Safe clickings and pass the gravy!

For ham radio ops: 7.299 MHz lower sideband at:15 and :45 past the hour. Recognition code “business model”.  With a hat-tip to William of the Radio Ranch for quantifying some of these plans.

Now, for Peoplenomics subscribers, the rest of the morning’s news and the financial ChartPack.

All others are returned to their “regularly scheduled programming.”

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Sure, turkey is due, but there’s a GDP report next week which could break the Big Bubble.  So we begin with a discussion of that.

Of course, we will begin with a few news headlines – because this is what’s driving the discussion.  And we won’t get too worked up over things, except to say that in a lesser risk period – like the Cuban Missile Crisis – people were digging up their back yards and putting in fallout shelters.  So, why the lack of public reaction now?

A few remarks are bound to be salted in along the way.

Plus there’s the ChartPack which came very close to the Fibonacci 0.618 retrace level we discussed in the UrbanSurvival.com article Friday.

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Maybe threats of global nuclear war and a severe toothache got me pondering the topic. I don’t know.

But since we are all going to die, it may be worth a short discussion of our mental constructs, frameworks, and plans for investing in that little-discussed area of human existence.

Oh, sure, we will do the Daily Saber Rattle coverage and our ChartPack is very interesting (since it has also evolved into a “brinkmanship” looking set-up).

Since options this month was early (last week), and with a paucity of “economic news” the markets may crawl sideways a while longer waiting for the Next Big Thing to blow through. After of pop-fly open.

Before we start, a shameless book plug.  My latest, “The Doctor Between Your Ears: Practicing Practical Longevity“ is now available on Amazon for Kindle.  I will get the paperback ready hopefully in the next week or two. Access to the book is already free (since I serialize my books (as they’re being written) on the $40/year Peoplenomics®  website.

Why, next thing you know, I will be hawking sneakers and watches, too…um….

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Bumpy road is likely coming between now and Christmas.  So a few remarks in our ChartPack today about the period of time spanning the coming week to the middle of December.

The problem?  We see lots of “change points” in this area predicted by a decent spectrum of very different technologies.

A few headlines and then we’ll do a short “survey/overview” of what’s ahead.  Depends on which color glasses you look at the future through…

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Want to do a lot for “climate”? Then support “drone tourism.”  Of course there are a few downsides to it.  Mass layoffs in the hospitality industry, travel, and all that. But, no omelets without a few broken eggs, right?

Speaking of broken – we kick off with a look at today’s Consumer Price report just out and then move on to the markets which are again (or, is that still?) at unsustainable levels.  That is, if old-world concepts like “underlying valuations” still mean anything.  (We’re not sure they do…)

Bean up and roll time..

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Despite some very positive developments politically, we still have 72-days to Inauguration. While we are hopeful that everything will go smoothly between now and then, there are still a ton of major issues – each leading off to a fork-into-Future that may not be nice.

So, in addition to our ChartPack – featuring our broad spectrum market indicator – we will put “eyes on the horizon” to see if there’s a sense of things.

Already though, we can see the resistance to the Trump win beginning to build and we think the challenge to the national change of leadership could build to high levels in coming weeks.

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We’re glad we got out and voted Tuesday. But with the polls closed, and all but the law-faring, protests, and scorched earth to go, the real question is “Now what?”

We are dividing this up into piles:

• ‘Short-term prior to Jan. 20’ which could be a scorched earth period.
• The Lawmaker pile – because control in DC just shifted in the Senate.
• The International pile – which the dems may level into WW III yet, before leaving office.
• And – of course – the economics of it all which we will model in today’s ChartPack, though with the HUGE asterisk that tomorrow the Fed will be announcing rates and we will find out if dems have another slap in the wings there.

For now, the market (basis the early futures) was set to blast higher. But an outbreak of peace and prosperity (slogan of the old American Whig party in the 1800s)? Maybe not so much.

Remember, structure occurs in the grains of a sand pile just before collapse.  (Kadanoff sand pile model. Avalanche structure and wave shape – ScienceDirect).  We’re not out of the woods, yet.  And the big bag wolves are still hungry.

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