Maybe the boys go to the Hamptons early and party a couple weeks before the Labor Day party nowadays. They certainly can afford to with a SM that’s gone straight up for the better part of 15 years.

Everything is pretty much flat except crypto, which is being beaten down again. Oil, SM are flat. Dollar is up a little, even though rates are down almost 3 bips.

PM’s and shares are up modestly, but struggling with $33.50 and $38.

No eco data today.

We’ll see if Zelensky wears a suit to the meeting and whether a peace deal can be achieved. I have my doubts. I suspect the cretins from the EU have probably told him to agree with everything while we’re meeting and then after the meeting tell the press that whatever Trump and Putin proposed is unacceptable to Ukraine. The elites need this war too much; they need the US to be involved and distracted while they finish the job of destroying their countries and overturning elections.

BTW – I saw a protest against law and order, safe streets, parks and restaurants in DC Saturday. 90% of the crowd was white, while 50% of DC is brown and black. I’m guessing it was a bunch of liberal permanent government types that got fired in the past few months. I guess that’s what it’s come down to in this country, whatever the current admin is doing is bad, even if it’s good.

I also saw a post from Comey saying how he’s a Swiftie and listens to Taylor Swift to “cope” with Trump. What a wuss. How does a guy like that run the FBI, ever?

Had 3 more vertebrae fused last Thursday. In a fair amount of pain at the moment, but I think it will be worth it in a few weeks. Been a long year physically, the old body needed an overhaul.

Saw the Captain’s post about Chinese insurance companies having to hold some physical gold. It can’t hurt us I guess, but wish it was more than 1%.

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I get what your saying and used to believe that myself. The schools are only set for the bell curve C average student. They many times hold the high IQ student holding them back from their potential. They also fail the children who can have a high IQ but certain difficulties like dyslexia, visual or hearing issues. Then they fail kids with a bit of lower IQ or even slower. I also think they don’t always get actual reading on kids IQs because could get bored with the test or have attention issues.

Children also have stages of development it can deny them and suppress their abilities or gifts to advance their gifts or interests that are building blocks to higher levels of skill later. Like turning off future Rembrandt off painting. Dumbing them down by pushing conformity and not thinking for themselves. IQ isn’t based on conforming to another especially lower IQs level. A IQ is your ability or potential to learn and not waisting their time negating what it is because the teacher doesn’t understand it or it doesn’t conform with that grade level or subject or turning them off to the subjects. And now environmental toxins and vaccines collectively damaging them.

I knew a professor who had dyslexia who loved baseball but couldn’t play it well because it affected that too or he believed it did and doesn’t everyone until he went to college just to play baseball. He took a IQ test as a adult and found out he wasn’t stupid but had a high IQ. He just had to work harder l with his dyslexia with English classes and even after becoming a psychologist and teacher said he still doesn’t like teachers and doesn’t like meetings with them. He understands why as a psychologist but still doesn’t like the title.  He knows schools can ruin kids lives and cause them to wind up in jail. Now we can add to that ID confusion.

No matter the IQ all God’s children are gifted in their own way.

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/new-device-data-reveals-exactly-who-showed-white-house-protests

the amount of statistical detail they can garner from your phone is concerning. The authors disclose:

The value of your house

Whether you have accessed the White House

Whether you are a federal government employee with access to secure federal buildings

Presence at previous DC protests

The phone number is linked to DMV

Nor are the kids being dumbed down. Although the system isn’t coping with their intelligence, they don’t lose IQ. They may seem to have, because academic achievement need bear no relation to intelligence – academic achievement used to be the ability to pass exams (which had some merit, but if they have a good memory a hard working 90IQ can beat a lazy 140IQ) whereas now it is gained by providing an echo chamber to your teacher/lecturer/supervisor’s opinions. Or by paying for your opinions to be published in places like the BMJ.

The article referenced by Hooky is interesting, and reminds me of Dad’s advice when I started learning to drive. “Treat every other driver on the road as an idiot”. It’s not difficult to extend that to people in general. I might have taken him too literally there, as an employer wrote in a reference for me that “… he does not suffer fools gladly.” Please note that Dad was not saying every on the road is an idiot – just that’s the assumption that will keep you alive. Likewise low IQ doesn’t mean they are a fool; a high IQ person who thinks they know everything is one. It’s important to know your limitations! Plenty of advice in Proverbs, including the instruction never to argue with one.

Look up factors that can affect a child IQ or dumb them down. That’s not counting normalizing antisocial behavior, propaganda and chemical injuries like vaccines.

It’s not uncommon for children identified as gifted or with very high IQs to experience a decline in academic performance or struggle with school as they progress through their education. This phenomenon, sometimes referred to as “underachievement” or “regression,” can be attributed to a variety of factors related to the child’s individual needs, the school environment, and the way their intelligence interacts with the educational system. 

VIDEO: Vladimir Putin Opens Up on “Very Frank” Conversation with President Trump in Alaska – “The Visit was Timely and Very Useful”

I used to think that people were pretty smart. Meaning if I were walking down the street, or through a crowded mall, I could be pretty certain that most people I ran into were at a certain level of intelligence.

What do they say? That the average IQ is 100? And when you start getting really low in IQ, the number of people who have that lower IQ gets smaller and fewer in number. It is like the classic bell curve. The middle of the bell curve is the number of people with an IQ of 100; outliers on either side get lower or higher.

That’s what I used to think.

For whatever reason, it felt safer knowing that most people you “saw” were not utter morons. Even if you had interactions with people in stores, or per chance bumping into someone and exchanging words, it was not like you were on some distant planet trying to have a conversation with a humanoid alien (or lizardman) who had zero experience communicating with a real human.

Assuming The Worst | ZeroHedge

China has launched an initiative that is likely to fundamentally alter the global gold market.

Its insurance regulator issued a regulatory directive requiring certain insurance companies to allocate a fixed minimum portion of their huge assets to physical gold. This is unprecedented.

It doesn’t quite take us all the way back to the gold standard at the turn of the 20th century, but it pushes in that direction.

In short, via regulation, China, the second-largest economy, has now created structural demand for gold that will support rising prices and its de-dollarization strategy.

In February 2025 China began a pilot program that allowed selected insurance companies to invest in physical gold. It was a first-time event. It had never been allowed before. The initiative involves 10 major insurers, including PICC Property & Casualty and China Life Insurance. It allows them to allocate up to 1% of their total assets to gold bullion. …

https://seekingalpha.com/article/4814134-chinas-new-physical-gold-mandate-for-insurance-companies-will-reshape-the-worlds-gold-market

Mountain mail mover
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That is a disaster waiting to happen..remember Y2K. It wasn’t too bad but things did disappear and there was a lot less things on computers then.

… and be miserable …

Have a nice day.

… go ahead and remain delusional …

… it’s your ass …  all just Kabuki for idiots … DC is commie country … and the root of the problem.

Go local folks … starting with the money … support cities and states that have your best interests at heart.

Mornin all

A “Critter”
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https://www.uimedianetwork.com/289200/frequency-wars.htm

How much can we bet UKs PM  and a couple of NATO country’s are ready to sabotage any attempts for peace with Russia.

Now the brown nosing propaganda Putin isn’t going to divide America with Europe. Putin doesn’t have to, Europe is doing that all by themselves while surrendering to their own invaders.

How about America and Trump isn’t gonna fall for the bait and switch and put us in a war they instigated as well as some of the demos during Biden.

The Casio F-91W is the preferred watch of ME terrorists.  Cheap at $15.  It is easily opened and hacked to provide a timing device for IED explosives!  Mine is gold plastic… the expensive $20 model.  Terrorists get black ones.

Dominion in Toronto .
The software allowed back door access to the system in 2020 .

However , in that instance there were also paper ballot irregularities .
In some districts more ballots were cast than the number of enrolled voters .

For anyone with a brain , the incompetence of the administration from 2021 to 2024 was in plain view , but many are so wrapped up in their particular obsessions that their biases take over .

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Everything is in reverse. What ever people were doing, that they should not be doing, should stop on their own or over time they will automatically get stopped.

I posted that back when Bernie Madoff got caught, and I’ve seen many cases since. I also predicted after 9/11 the the whole system was going to go into reverse.

Re Carney…..not surprised,,,,the bigger surprise was him winning,,,didn’t they know he was just a smoother version of Turdeau.

But yes the Green dream is dieing all over and once the US starts to boom tks to killing it, the rest will ask…what the hell are we doing still .

Canada has had it with Carney and his ban on fossil fuelled cars

I don’t know why the image is far down on the post…apologies to all here.
The original can be found at thecountersignal@substack.com

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Maybe that’s a new trend … the demise of green. Nations can’t waste funds on projects which aren’t really economically feasible. Maybe some shorting opportunities. 🙂

British People Have Had Enough…

In a striking display of public discontent, close to 750,000 people at time of writing have signed an official parliamentary petition demanding an immediate general election in the UK.

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/british-people-have-had-enough