Saturday, August 10, 2024

WHAT WAS THAT EXACTLY??? . . .3rd occurrence: that was last Monday

To put things into perspective: Over the last 35yrs, the whole life of Vix history, there have only been 2 prior episodes of Vix trading >60:

  1. The 1st was during GFC, the collapse of Lehman,
  2. the 2nd episode occurred during Covid and
  3. we had a 3rd occurrence: that was last Monday.

Holger Zschaepitz 

To put things into perspective: Over the last 35yrs, the whole life of Vix history, there have only been 2 prior episodes of Vix trading >60: The 1st was during GFC, the collapse of Lehman, the 2nd episode occurred during Covid and we had a 3rd occurrence: that was last Monday.
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The Trump campaign appears to be so off its game that even its number one spin doctor can't find an edge.

Kelly-Anne Conway offers more alternative facts

Jason Weisberger 10:12 am Fri Aug 9, 2024

"Bowling Green Massacre" Conway is lost, making claims about Harris with a line of attack the MAGAs have already lost.

There have been plenty of interviews with Kamala Harris, and the Vice President is touring the nation with Tim Walz. Certainly unafraid to be seen in public or to speak with the press or voters, KellyAnne Conway's plea that the media stop covering the Harris campaign went over like a lead balloon. The Trump campaign appears to be so off its game that even its number one spin doctor can't find an edge.

"What Vance did yesterday was brilliant, just spontaneously crossing the tarmac, crisscrossing over and forcing the press to cover him," she argued.

"He was there with the press and did two things, was clever and funny by saying this will be my plane I went to check it out, and then quickly pivoting to what's on everybody's mind: The fact that Harris won't take a single question, and why it's important for her to answer questions is she's lying from the podium."

"And I would say this to the mainstream media: Kamala Harris is ignoring you because she thinks she already has you. For the same reason she doesn't go and spend a dime chasing people who vote 100% of the time, and 100% of the time for Democrats, she thinks the mainstream media is already in her thrall, in her corner," submitted Conway.

"They should challenge that by not covering her rallies. Don't set up your camera next time. If she's not going to answer your questions, don't give her the service of covering her rallies."

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Conway's remarks on Vance are also pretty funny.

Previously:
• Leonardo Leo and KellyAnne Conway made under-the-table payments to Ginni Thomas
• Kellyanne Conway's talked about the 'Bowling Green massacre' before
• Kellyanne Conway: lies are 'alternative facts' and if the press says otherwise, there's gonna be trouble

AZ Congressman Andy Biggs Top Media Appearances of The Week: Self Report

 Top Media Appearance of the Week

I joined Just the News, No Noise with John Solomon and Amanda Head to discuss the radical policies of Governor Tim Walz. Click the image below to listen to some of the segment:

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Tweet of the Week 

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Saturday, August 10, 2024


The Problem with Pronatalism: Pushing Baby Booms to Boost Economic Growth Amounts to a Ponzi Scheme

Schemes to boost birth rates to bolster growth are generally ineffective and more important, miss the real problem.

Links 8/10/2024

‘Corporate Greed Is Out of Control’: Warren Slams Kroger’s AI Pricing Scheme

If you have shopped at Kroger, please consider boycotting them over them over their surge pricing grifting plans.

2:00PM Water Cooler 8/9/2024

~ Today’s Water Cooler: Politics, syndemics; Friday’s charts: Covid wastewater (still bad) and polling charts (bad for Trump); Lambert lashes himself to the mast; Walz swiftboating: Nice try, no cigar. Boeing’s Starliner debacle. Again. ~

US Deploys Pathetic Wizard of Oz Messaging Strategy to Pretend It Can Influence Iran Conflict Trajectory

The US is bizarrely pretending it has influence over the coming Iran and Axis of Resistance response to Israel escalation.

Links 8/9/2024

Why Did US Quietly Reverse Its Decision to Unilaterally Recognize Venezuela’s Opposition Candidate As President?

“Given the overwhelming evidence, it is clear to the United States… that Edmundo González Urrutia won the most votes in Venezuela’s July 28 presidential election.” But it was only clear for four days. 

The Irrationality of Markets

More evidence that the current level of advanced economy secondary market trading is bad for economic health.

Department of Pre-Crime, TSA Edition

The TSA is now harassing mere pretty mild political dissenters via intrusive bag checks and deploying heavy-duty surveillance teams

 

A Higher Dimensional Universe

For now, dark energy acts as a placeholder for descriptions of the mysterious tide of expansion, inviting all manner of speculation on what the poltergeist in the intergalactic shadows may actually look like.

". . .Naman Kumar, a PhD student at the Indian Institute of Technology, has a few thoughts, which he outlined recently in a pair of published papers. One of his proposals arises from the assumption that our Universe isn't as lonely as it appears. . .

Kumar's version emerges as a consequence of a concept in quantum information theory called relative entropy. Putting it simply, this is a metric that puts a number to differences in distributions of probability across non-symmetrical systems, such as two Universes connected at a point in time.
Should our Universe have roared into existence with a backward-running, charge-flipped, mirror-image 'twin' constrained by the energy conditions of general relativity in the same way ours is, it would be entangled such that each system's energy naturally describes a rapidly expanding radius.
Problem solved, with no dark energy required.
Not satisfied with one bite of the theoretical cherry, Kumar has recently published a second proposal that emerges from hypothetical boundaries between dimensions called branes. By varying the tension in these borders of higher dimensional reality, Kumar shows how spacetime could expand at ever faster rates.
Evoking extra dimensions and mirror Universes to explain something as straightforward as the expansion of the Universe might seem like a stretch, but we may have come to a point in cosmology that we need to consider concepts that challenge our imagination a little. . ."

"After working on the problems of dark matter and dark energy, I can say that either we accept that general relativity is correct and we live in a dark universe with these elusive and peculiar dark matter particles and dark energy, or we accept that we live in a higher dimensional multiverse," Kumar explains in his ScienceX dialog.

This research was published in Gravitation and Cosmology and Europhysics Letters.

Imperialst Rhetoric, Tom Horn to Defuse Tensions, Gold Tops $5,000 in Demand Frenzy, . . .Japan Bond Crash

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