Six Lessons To Save The World – Mises
Another good one from Peter St. Onge
Another good one from Peter St. Onge
WE’RE RUNNING OUT OF COPPER
COPPER WILL BE THE NEW GOLD ?
from Daryl
“add in the couple covid years and we now see copper miners outpacing the gold/silver. Yikes.
Throw in Panama and the likes seizing mines and it festers.”
MORE HERE
https://twitter.com/robert_ivanhoe/status/1771930782048653328
FREEPORT MAC ( COPPER AND GOLD )
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ARE YOU MERICANS STILL USING THESE THINGS ?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penny_(United_States_coin)
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CANNUCKISTAN PURGED THESE A DECADE AGO…BUT MAYBE THEY WILL MAKE A COMEBACK
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penny_(Canadian_coin)
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A PENNY FOR YOUR THOUGHTS ?
CAUSE THATS ALL THEY ARE WORTH đ
………..BUT IN 1869…..YOU COULD BUY A HORSE đ
LOOK AT THIS BEAUTY
AND THIS …WOW
THE EVOLUTION OF THE PENNY
Excellent piece by David Stockman(bit too long).
“That is, these wise Founders held that foreign policy should be based on the facts and circumstances of national interest at any given point in time, and that when the facts change and alliances become obsolete, they should be jettisoned.
From George Washingtonâs Farewell Address: âThe great rule of conduct for us, in regard to foreign nations, is in extending our commercial relations, to have with them as little political connection as possible.
Europe has a set of primary interests, which to us have none, or a very remote relation. Hence, she must be engaged in frequent controversies the causes of which are essentially foreign to our concerns.
Hence, therefore, it must be unwise in us to implicate ourselves, by artificial ties, in the ordinary vicissitudes of her politics, or the ordinary combinations and collisions of her friendships or enmities⌠it is our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign worldâŚâ
As further amplified by Jefferson in his 1801 inaugural address, this realist doctrine viewed external military alliances to be arrangements of convenience and should be freely abandoned or reversed as indicated by changing needs of the national interest. (Pretty much what Trump practiced in his term.)
Citing Washingtonâs Farewell Address as his inspiration, Jefferson described the doctrine as:
âpeace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations â entangling alliances with none.â
That famous phrase is precisely the policy cornerstone that fits todayâs realities. Americaâs homeland security doesnât require militarized alliances or the wherewithal to maraud militarily around the globe because there are no military-industrial-technological powers that can threaten its security. https://original.antiwar.com/David_Stockman/2024/04/23/the-unipartys-day-of-infamy/
In a surprising turn, The Wall Street Journal has issued a new weekend report saying that US intelligence agencies do not believe that Russian President Vladimir Putin planned or ordered the death of opposition activist and politician Alexei Navalny.
“U.S. intelligence agencies have determined that Putin likely didnât order Navalny to be killed at the notoriously brutal prison camp in February, people familiar with the matter said, a finding that deepens the mystery about the circumstances of his death,” writes the Journal
“The assessment doesnât dispute Putinâs culpability for Navalnyâs death, but rather finds he probably didnât order it at that moment,” WSJ continues. “The finding is broadly accepted within the intelligence community and shared by several agencies, including the Central Intelligence Agency, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, and the State Departmentâs intelligence unit, the people said.”
And yet it must be recalled that Western officials and media pundits alike had immediately upon reports of the 47-year old Navalny’s death rushed to declare that he had been ‘assassinated’ by Russian authorities upon Putin’s order.
This led to a new wave of US-led sanctions on Russia, and even disrupted momentum toward a hoped-for prisoner swap between Moscow and Kiev at the time.
President Biden had asserted in a statement issued on the very day of his Feb.16 death that “Putin is responsible for Navalny’s death” and that it was “proof of Putin’s Brutality” – but ultimately that the ‘democratic future’ Navalny believed in was worth “dying for” – according to the president’s words at the time.
Navalny was a marginal opposition figure who polled at around 2%. Putin didn’t fear him; it served Putin to have him seen in the West as his main opposition.
Navalny worked with NATO intel cutout Bellingcat and went through the “Yale World Fellow” program, a regime change training ground. For this reason, we also don’t hear that Navalny was an unrepentant xenophobe who compared Muslim immigrants to cockroaches and rotten teeth.
His death is a tragedy. He was undoubtedly mistreated. But because he served US interests, US state media will make him into someone he was not. And just compare their fawning coverage to their silence on, or even support for, the ongoing persecution of Julian Assange. Or their complete silence on the mistreatment and death of US citizen Gonzalo Lira in Ukrainian custody — universally ignored in US media.
ZeroHedge
“The marriage of ineptitude and high self-esteem is really the marker of our time,” explains Tucker Carlson as part of his wide-ranging discussion with Joe Rogan.
Reflecting on the likes of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Karine Jean-Pierre, Carlson remarks that “I’ve nothing against dumb people at all. My dogs are dumb and I love my dogs…”
“I’m not attacking [AOC] for being dumb, and the White House Press Secretary is in the same category, but the idea that a dumb person has no idea she’s dumb, she really thinks like she’s won the prize, she’s the most impressive, like:
“I’m White House Press Secretary because I’m the best talker in America.”
“Did you, in this litigation, challenge the appointment of special counsel?” Thomas asked Trump attorney John Sauer on Thursday during a nearly three-hour session at the Supreme Court.
Sauer told Thomas that, “we totally agree with the analysis provided by Attorney General Meese [III] and Attorney General Mukasey.”
“It points to a very important issue here because one of [the special counsel’s] arguments is, of course, that we should have this presumption of regularity. That runs into the reality that we have here an extraordinary prosecutorial power being exercised by someone who was never nominated by the president or confirmed by the Senate at any time. So we agree with that position. We hadn’t raised it yet in this case when this case went up on appeal,” Sauer said.
Between six and eight Palestinian athletes are expected to compete at the Paris Olympics, with some set to be invited by the International Olympic Committee even if they fail to qualify, said its leader, Thomas Bach.
Bach told AFP on Friday that qualification events for the Paris Games, which start July 26, were ongoing for a number of sports.
“But we have made the clear commitment that even if no [Palestinian] athlete would qualify on the field of play … then the NOC [National Olympic Committee] of Palestine would benefit from invitations, like other national Olympic Committees who do not have a qualified athlete,” he said in an interview at IOC headquarters in Lausanne, Switzerland.
https://www.voanews.com/a/ioc-palestinian-athletes-to-be-invited-to-paris-olympics-/7587390.html
Disturbing reports continue to emerge about mass graves in Gaza in which Palestinian victims were reportedly found stripped naked with their hands tied, prompting renewed concerns about possible war crimes amid ongoing Israeli airstrikes, the UN human rights office, OHCHR, said on Tuesday.
The development follows the recovery of hundreds of bodies âburied deep in the ground and covered with wasteâ over the weekend at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, central Gaza, and at Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City in the north. A total of 283 bodies were recovered at Nasser Hospital, of which 42 were identified.
https://news.un.org/en/story/2024/04/1148876
https://thewire.in/world/mass-graves-in-gaza-show-victims-hands-were-tied-says-un-rights-office
Andrew Bowman, a veterinary epidemiologist at Ohio State University, had a hunch. He had been struck by the huge amounts of H5N1 virus heâd seen in milk from cows infected with the bird flu and thought that at least some virus was getting off of farms and going downstream â onto store shelves.
He knew the Food and Drug Administration was working on its own national survey of the milk supply. But he was impatient. So he and a graduate student went on a road trip: They collected 150 commercial milk products from around the Midwest, representing dairy processing plants in 10 different states, including some where herds have tested positive for H5N1. Genetic testing found viral RNA in 58 samples, he told STAT.
https://www.statnews.com/2024/04/25/h5n1-bird-flu-cows-outbreak-likely-widespread/
Possible next step — mass “culling” of dairy cows and suppression of the milk supply …. and EVERY food type that made with milk
The losses go far beyond the cost of building and selling those 10,000 cars, according to Ford. Instead the losses include hundreds of millions being spent on research and development of the next generation of EVs for Ford. Those investments are years away from paying off. And that means this is not the end of the losses in the unit – Ford said it expects Model e will have EBIT losses of $5 billion for the full year.
https://edition.cnn.com/2024/04/24/business/ford-earnings-ev-losses/index.html
https://www.ianwelsh.net/canadian-housing-market-craziness/
If you listen to Canadian politicians, the solution to our housing crisis seems to be some combination of immigration reform and a herculean countrywide building effort.
But Paul Kershaw, a public policy professor at the University of British Columbia and founder of the affordability advocacy group Generation Squeeze, says the emphasis on increasing housing supply obscures an issue politicians are less likely to address.
Namely, that we, as a country, have become addicted to ever-rising home prices, largely because we’ve been conditioned to see our homes as financial assets.
NOTE: This COULD be FOG OF WAR (propoganda) or it COULD be real — so treat as non-verified as there is no multiple source confirmation! Â
Human rights activists of the Foundation to Battle Injustice have uncovered a wide network of illegal Ukrainian slave trade centers controlled by the inner circle of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. The Foundationâs investigation was able to establish the shocking scale of the human beings trafficking in Ukraine, reveal the income of the Ukrainian leaderâs cronies from illegal activities, and find out the location of specialized slave houses in Western and Central Ukraine. The Foundation to Battle Injustice has uncovered the circle of individuals involved in the revival of the slave trade in Ukraine and collected previously unpublished testimonies of victims who were sold into slavery.
https://fondfbr.ru/en/articles/zelensky-human-trafficking-en/
to be wrong”
Weâve agreed to begin conversations within days about how to develop a planâ to withdraw troops, said the senior State Department official. âTheyâve agreed that we do it in an orderly and responsible way. And we will need to probably dispatch folks to Niamey to sit down and hash it out. And that of course will be a Defense Department project.â
– “We have agreed to begin conservations” – (we didn’t really agree to pull out troops, just to talks)
– “about how to develop a plan” – (should we write a plan for something-something in Excel or Word?)
– “in an orderly and responsible way” – (we see absolutely no time pressure or deadline)
– “need to probably dispatch folks to Niamey” – (there will be many delays and the team will change often)
– “that of course will be a Defense Department project” – (We, the State Department, will hardly be involved. When the shit hits the fan the Pentagon will be to blame for it.)
I’m just dismayed at the utter stupidity of my medical colleagues.
real post:
#treatment
Crowdsourcing here. I had COVID in Jan, did Paxlovid, the taste in my mouth was like licking vomit for 5 straight days. I just tested positive again this morning. Minimal symptoms, but I rarely have any symptoms with COVID, other than tachycardia and hypotension. It lasted 4 months the first time, then got boosted and symptoms came back for another 4-5 months, then got Novavax booster and more hypotension and developed migraines after that. Then January had COVID and did have mild pericardial effusion on echo. Finally felt back to normal and now positive again. Trying to decide if there is really much benefit to taking Paxlovid at this point, or should I just do antihistamines and Famotidine?
The West has developed a “suicidal society” – based existential crisis, and this is influencing virtually all public policy decision making. In my opinion, this is the logical consequence of the unquestioning acceptance of Malthusianism combined with endorsement of utilitarianism- ends justifying means. Malthusianism is the theory that population growth is potentially exponential, according to the Malthusian growth model, while the growth of the food supply or other resources is linear, which eventually reduces living standards to the point of triggering a population decline and an eventual global ecological catastrophe which it is believed can only be averted by resorting to globalized techno-totalitarianism and modernized fascism. Dr. Mattias Desmet
I stumbled upon an article in a Dutch mainstream newspaper which declared in a technical and deliberate way that the âmysteriously persisting excess deathâ has certain advantages: it saves the state hundreds of millions of costs of taking care for old people.
Let me give you another example. A few weeks ago, the director of a government health insurance fund stated in an article published on the website of Belgian national television that euthanasia should be considered as a solution for the rapid ageing of the population. Exactly. Old people cost too much money. Letâs kill them.
Letâs face it: some people want to get rid of the elderly. And these people look suspiciously lot like those who blamed you for being a heartless criminal when you suggested that the corona measures would do the elderly more harm than good.
https://ogre.substack.com/p/carbon-capture-and-storage-the-carbon-1ae?
We have some questions:
https://theylied.ca/Polio.shtml?
Blinken warns China. Sanctions, Proxy War and Regime Change
Alex Christoforou, Alexander Mercouris (16:42)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kxhq1yzyROQ
Ukr Catastrophe: Berdychi Troops Trapped, Surrender Talks, Rus Missile Strike; Blinken Angers China
Alexander Mercouris (1:33:23)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=38GfDLrtXHI
Blinken demands China ditch Russia. Ukraine cauldron. Istanbul deal leaked. WSJ, Putin didn’t do it
Alex Christoforou (44:13)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zvwxg-o_cM8
MILITARY SUMMARY CHANNEL:
Kyslivka Has Fallen | Another Power Plant Was Destroyed. Military Summary And Analysis For 2024.4.27
Dima (9:33)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6sR02j7nmFM
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The DNA contamination includes the Simian Virus 40 (SV40) promoter and enhancer Pfizer did not previously disclose and that some experts say is a cancer risk due to potential integration with the human genome.
âWhy are the FDA, CDC [Centers for Disease Control and Prevention] and the mainstream media still silent about this?â asked Steve Kirsch, founder of the Vaccine Safety Research Foundation, adding that âthe mainstream medical community is silent as well.â
Viral immunologist Dr. Byram Bridle of the University of Guelph in Canada, commenting on Health Canadaâs admission wrote on his Substack, âThis is an admission of epic proportions.â
https://twitter.com/JimFergusonUK/status/1784161745503752522
According to the USGS (US Gov), above and below ground 244,000 metric tons have been discovered.
https://www.usgs.gov/faqs/how-much-gold-has-been-found-world
I believe we will never know the true amount as Gold has been mined for 1000’s of years and no record has been kept in the early years.
China mined a lot of Gold prior to the rise of European Civilization/ Roman Empire.
(I posted this earlier. The book appears to be well documented))
After reading “Gold Warriors” by Sterling and Peggy Seagrave (2003)
the amount of Gold that the Japanese had plundered from the roughly 15 countries in China and SE Asia could have been 200,000+ metric tons and most was hidden in tunnels in the Philippines and some brought back to Japan by 1945. This amount of Gold has been kept secret by the Allies, especially the US. When the OSS was disbanded, the CIA was born. The Nazi and Japanese Gold was seized clandestinely by the CIA to use as a slush fund to enable regime change with off book funds for decades. No one knows how much is still controlled by them.
Much of the hidden Philippine Gold, gems and other valuables were retrieved by the Marcos family for their own personal use.
It may be possible that there are 500,000+ metric tons above ground in 2024. We will never know. Even so, Gold is still the premier asset class.
Something along the lines of the Diamond cartel controlling the supply of cut diamonds on the market to create scarcity.
Floridaâs response to Joe Biden trying to inject gender ideology into education, undermining opportunities for girls and women, violating parents’ rights, and abusing his constitutional authority:
âThe idea that young girls can now legally be forced to undress in the same room with males in what is supposed to be a safe space like a locker room, that a young woman in college could be randomly assigned a roommate that is a biological male, or that biological men would be eligible for womenâs scholarships is ludicrous.â
https://twitter.com/GovRonDeSantis/status/1783536464317255919