Loading ...I believe that the answer lies in accepting ‘the will of allah’ in all things . A perfect example is an islamic mother teaching her young son that to die in jihad is a wonderful goal in life . A Christian mother grieves for a son who dies on the battlefield defending his nation . I have had one very negative experience with an islamic individual many years ago . I was approached in southern France by an Algerian who begged me for a little money to help get his wife and children out of Algeria . I dug deep and came up with about $20 ( foolishly ). His islamic street buddies were watching as he thanked me profusely , then shook my right hand with his left hand . A Frenchman saw that and told me to immediately scrub my hand thoroughly. I asked why and he told me to smell my hand . I got it less than a foot from my face and nose and almost puked . Those in that religion eat only with the right hand . Street people wipe after defecating with their left hand . They will not even wash their left hand with their right ‘eating hand’.
I washed my hand several times in succession .
IPSO , your 10:45 post
AI etc.
A few months ago the retirement community that I live in switched to optical cable , and my personal Netgear device was not a match . A small cable interface box was provided . Even when I am not using WiFi that box is running very hot to the touch , so raising my electricity cost unless I shut it off (which I now do).
I strongly suspect that that little box ( and all my neighbors’ ) are somehow being used as AI Nodes , tranmitting information from any smart device in our homes . and listening to every sound . every conversation , etc. and monitoring usage of even non-smart appliances via analysis of the RLC signature ( Resistance , Inductance , Capacitance ) of electricity consumption . In my kitchen I have a 40 year old GE refrigerator which has never needed repair but does not meet ‘green’ standards . I can imagine a day when the ‘green police’ come to arrest me and confiscate that appliance .
By posting this , I am sure that someone with ties to DC bureaucracies is downgrading my social score . Call me an obcessive paranoid , I don’t care.
Could be worse
Given the dollar and rates are higher. I suppose after the ridiculous amount of beatings we’ve taken over the last 5 months we were probably due a small break.
goldielocks
Cross your fingers that Newscum is never president of the USA!
Buygold @ 10:09
At least our refueling aircraft based at Ben Gurion Airport are not being destroyed!
I don’t know if the local countries being attacked by Iran are afraid or what. You’d think that they’d retaliate when their own oil infrastructure is attacked?
Actually we are all sitting in bathtub like devices being milked for our thinking by a giant AI overlord! 🙂
I’m out for a bit. Maybe something good will happen while I’m gone …
Ipso 9:31
While Newscum is extorting oil refineries and companies out of the state with abuse of power not caring if his puppet masters are making him look stupid because he is, I can only wonder where he will get what’s needed next since his two main outsourced suppliers are not able to accommodate him now.
California primarily imports crude oil from Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Brazil, and Guyana, with Iraq and Saudi Arabia traditionally supplying the largest share
Ipso – yes
and that they are not being attacked lately that I’ve heard?
Also, isn’t it odd that these other M.E. countries just sit there and do nothing while Iran destroys their countries with missiles?
I’m beginning to think that everything is fake, a screenplay or simulation, all meant for public consumption.
Back in the Gulag
but look at those QQQ’s go!
King dollar on the move up again.
Ipso
Right it should, except in California it’s Newscum taxed oil atm machine. And he’s raising sales taxes again.
goldielocks @ 6:48
I think high oil prices damages most companies, hurts profits …
We’ll see if they can do it …
The Hormuz Letter
@HormuzLetter
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BREAKING: Yemen’s Houthis officially announce a naval blockade on Saudi Arabia, banning all Saudi maritime traffic through the Bab el-Mandeb Strait and Red Sea.
Saudi Arabia exports 4.5 million barrels of crude oil per day through the Bab el-Mandeb. Combined with Iran’s full Hormuz sovereign control, Saudi can neither export through Hormuz, nor through the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, effectively cutting off all Saudi oil exports as every tanker leaving Saudi ports becomes a target.
A senior Houthi official says it is “unacceptable” for Saudi Arabia to continue exporting oil through the Red Sea while Yemen remains under blockade.
Ipso
What a way to revive the equities market.
No mystery here
The Kobeissi Letter
@KobeissiLetter
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BREAKING: Brent crude oil prices surge above $90/barrel as the Iran War escalates.
Some people waist their whole lives waiting for something.
If fear knocks don’t answer, if doubt speaks hit the throttle.
Might not hear much about this song
But should go viral in the EU and UK with a two finder salute to their loser governments.
Balance of powder, digital and economy.
You are no longer a consumer, your compost lol
My phone going wacko yesterday. Pages moving around when trying to write, disapeaing and another page popping up.A little better today
If you didn’t see the Affordable Housing Act scam they slipped digital CBDCs for central banks in that bill.
One man band
Creative
https://www.facebook.com/reel/1904057986950683/?mibextid=rS40aB7S9Ucbxw6v
Long Green
Oliver Groß
@minenergybiz
Gold Miners’ Earnings Season: The quarter after “Peak Margins” 💰⛏️
The eagerly anticipated earnings season in the gold mining sector will begin again in just a few days.
It is already certain that gold producers’ margins reached their preliminary high in the first quarter of 2026. The average gold price in the first quarter was approximately $4,900 per ounce. For the second quarter, the estimated selling price of gold from mines is around $4,400 per ounce.
However, even with a gold price of $4,000 and ongoing cost inflation and rising energy costs (assuming AISC of $2,000), most gold producers will continue to generate substantial profits and excellent AISC margins of $2k+/oz.
Now, let’s take a look at the AISC margin leaders in the gold mining sector for the first quarter of 2026. 🪙👇
Gold Miners: AISC/Profit Margin Leaders Q1/2026 ($/oz)
1. Thor Explorations: 3,884 👑
$THX.v
2. Lundin Gold: 3,837 👑
3. Artemis Gold: 3,705 👑
Katie from UK is hilarious
She gets arrested for saying something about herself.
Retail was up ?
What a coincidence, so were on sales everywhere.