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I hope so.
Joe Stiglitz and AI
I wonder if they realize that computers and robots don’t pay taxes. Will it fall on businesses or consumer.
Nobel laureate Joe Stiglitz says not only can AI take your job, it’ll make the ‘tech bro’ class richer while doing so https://share.google/PB7FrChgi9WAmrJOv
goldie, check the dates, it’s all ancient history now.
Everything is good.
Ferrett
That poor woman, I hope she gets the best treatments as possible.
Please check one thing with this surgeon. After we seen how they treated Doctors saving lives in Covid were treated it’s believable that he may be targeted if I’m fact he has a skill the others don’t have but be sure. Find out of all those surgeries he’s done others haven’t what the outcome numbers are.
sng, you could have posted the helpful research yourself instead of casting aspersions.
Instead, you just stir the pot and expect everyone else to do the work. Are you totally oblivious to the many passages on passing judgement?
Bob, you research it, the tumour, the surgeon, the outcomes as much as you can.
All the conventional surgeons had (still have) the same technique for a skull based tumour. Remove the ear. Remove the roof of the mouth. The tumour is encasing the optic nerve and an artery and pressing on the pituitary gland, so then carefully remove everything you can without killing the patient. Replace ear, but the nerves won’t grow back so she’ll be deaf in one ear and have balance problems. Replace roof of mouth. Recovery time ‘about’ three months, but said rather vaguely …. operation time 12 hours. 46% of tumours regrow to the original size within 20 years (that’s the same % as for radiation, curiously. They all regrow).
Charlie does keyhole surgery. Trained under Ossama Al-Mefty ( https://www.giants.neurohirurgija.org/al-mefty-ossama/ )in the States for ten years or so, learning the techniques. Went to see him in 2001 with scans etc., which he photographed with his phone camera. He said there was no rush, meningiomas are slow growing, and there was still a fair amount of room before it would cause major problems or become inoperable. We had known about it since 1994, when the butchers had insisted on operating immediately. Fortunately we found out a week after diagnosis that she was pregnant, so they relented giving us nine months to research. By 2001 we had three kids under 6, and she wanted to be sure she could live to see them grow up. Note that we were still sceptical of his abilities – how could he be that much better? In 2010 (having monitored its creeping growth every year by scans) we saw him again, with the scans. His interns had set them up on the screens before he arrived, and as he came in, he glanced at them and said “Shit!! That’s a big one!”. We explained that he’d seen us before, and he had said it was OK to wait, so he immediately pulled out his phone and compared the scans, laughed, said it was fine, his techniques had improved over the ten years, not a problem, go in over the eye, yada yada yada. It was a six hour operation finishing at 11.00pm, she was kicked out of the hospital at 8:30 the next morning, we flew home and all the recovery time was from the anaesthetic.
He resected about 60% of the tumour. The smooth bastard said she was too beautiful to put a scar above her eye, so he went in just in front of the ear above the hair line, lasered what he couldn’t get out, cauterised the blood vessels feeding it, chiselled out the calcified centre and generally caused as much damage to it as he could. Subsequent annual scans have shown no growth, if anything there has been a slight shrinkage of the remaining material. Another mother from our son’s class had also seen him a year earlier. The butchers had told her that she might die as they removed the tumour from her brain stem, but that she would definitely be in a wheelchair. Charlie looked doubtful, and said she wouldn’t die, but might be in a wheelchair, but in the end he peeled off the whole tumour and she is completely normal. That was encouraging!
Speaking of sound money
Now that states are starting to accept gold and silver as legal I can see government systems first offering to take tax and such payments in your previous metals. And the utter and constant greed of governments that never last because of it. The ones on the side lines that try to figure out how to live off the real survivors at one time and filled with greed. Hope the evil greedy ones will not at some point start demanding it.
silverngold @ 18:12
I was surprised when you put that up … this is serious business … and we have to stick together if we are to survive the on-slot … where guys like Dave are trying to help … and they are so rare … they are to be supported and aided.
That’s what I think … I will do everything I can to support him, and all sound money initiatives …because this is the way we defeat the evil doers.
It’s the only way we defeat them.
So act accordingly.
Cheers
Buygold
Obviously the best asset for a flight to safety is the USD.
Can you please exlain that?
(Good luck. 😆)
ferrett Your ‘Surgeon Post
So how were you able to discern this doctor’s genuine abilities? And realistically one wouldn’t expect a great diversion of ability from a group of top specialists.
ferrett @ 18:47 Thanks for finding and offering that article….It answers many of my questions and concerns. As I stated, I hoped I was wrong, and it appears that I was and am.
But if I had not made a fool of myself, as you stated, would this article that you found and posted have been found and presented to prove his SilverBitz rounds are legit?? Just asking! It seems that was meant to be to get it all out there on the table.
And my prayers went instantly to what I call my Higher Power, which is the Holy Spirit, for you and Mrs F for her healing, and that God’s will be done. Only HE knows the purpose of why things happen, and IMO there is always a good reason for it. Peace Bro from SNG!
sng, it took less than sixty seconds to find this:
https://libertyblock.com/silver-dave-launches-best-silver-barter-piece-yet/
Why did you waste so much time on your post when the answer to your doubts was there all along? Just as another search for “silver dave counterfeit” yielded the video showing that yes, he is an expert on counterfeit silver. Minimal research will help you not to look like a fool.
Sure, his sales style is annoying to me too. John 7:24 and 1 Samuel 16:7 cover this. However, if he didn’t sell like this, nobody would have heard of him. He’s out there, selling stuff, and a used car salesman he is not. Just because he is flamboyant doesn’t mean that he’s a con man, not an expert or doesn’t have your best interests at heart.
Mrs F. was diagnosed with a brain tumour. TLDR is that we went with a “second hand car salesman” of a surgeon, who promoted himself far in excess of the staid, reserved accepted norms of the ‘profession’. But if he hadn’t done that, appearing on national TV, including two half hour programmes just on him, we would never have heard of Charlie Teo (you don’t call him Doctor, it’s Charlie), the best brain surgeon in the world, here in our own back yard. Because the other surgeons, who knew all about him and despised him, would never refer him to us for a second opinion. And if we mentioned his name it was always, in as professional a manner as they could put on whilst dripping with disdain, “don’t touch him with a bargepole”. So good, in fact, that all the other Aussie surgeons eventually ganged up on him and won’t let him into the hospitals, so now he can only operate abroad.
So don’t judge a book by it’s cover. You, or your loved ones, might die.
This is the long-awaited crash
SM futures getting hammered. Oil up 13+% above $104. Bitcoin and silver down 2%. Gold down $30. Expect all to get worse as the night rolls on.
Longer term gold and silver will shine and will be a saving grace. Gold and silver stocks are toast for a while.
Fever pitch for ground troops, Carolyn Leavitt mentioned a draft on FOX with Maria.
Congratulations to the neocons are in order.
CaptainHook@11:09 March 7…about Silver Dave ….I did not attack him, I called him as I saw him, a used car salesman. Even a war hero has to work at something! ;o)
He presented lots of unnecessary BS to keep you distracted from what he is selling, which I guess is supposed to be his SilverBitz….but never one word about the actual content or purity of a SilverBitz..like is this actually a pure 1/10th ounce silver coin/token that will assay .999 pure silver….or is SilverBitz a patented name made of who knows what with maybe a “silver coating over a steel center”? of who knows what.
To be honest, I agree with almost all that he says about what is coming in our present and future world, and what has happened in the past, but to me that is just a magicians trick, a distraction of knowledge to keep you/me from thinking about the quality or content of his SilverBitz?
And when there appears to be not nearly enough silver in the world to fill existing orders and contracts of manufacturers who require it for their products, Silver Dave is going to be cranking out a million SilverBitz a week once his factory is completed. Where can he find enough silver to do this when others can’t find any?
I was never good at math but my mind is not able to make all that he says add up….and I really hope I’m just paranoid and totally out to lunch…and it would be very easy for him to correct my doubting mind by simply stating the actual content and assay of his SilverBitz. All FWIW and IMO from SNG!
edit: in case some missed the video in question.
Gold shortages in China
By Alasdair Macleod
GoldMoney, Toronto
Friday, March 6, 2026
ICBC and Agricultural Bank of China have run out of investment gold bars. And silver premiums over London spot are 13%. Comex silver contract is sinking into irrelevance.
Last weekend, the US and Israel attacked Iran and the week’s news was dominated by another Middle East war. Markets’ gut reaction was to mark down investment assets and mark up dollars. Consequently, in the confusion gold and silver declined on the week as the dollar rallied. In European trade this morning gold was $5090, down $230 from last Friday’s close, and silver at $82.70 was down $11 over the same timescale. Turnover on Comex in both contracts remained very low.
Meanwhile, premiums for silver in Shanghai held in the 12%—14% band. Given that silver imported into China bears 13% VAT and the cost of delivering from London or New York adds an extra 2%, this price difference is not enough to trigger an arbitrage. Nonetheless, silver is still being drained from all vaults, China’s included.
The delivery situation on Comex is dire, with the equivalent of only 16,250 silver contracts registered for delivery. Compare this with the 6,466 contracts delivered in the March contract to date. The March contract is still being bought with the obvious intention of standing for delivery, as is the April contract which can be delivered from the last week in March onwards.
Comex silver is the most oversold it has been in over 20 years, with open interest on Wednesday at 112,794 contracts. This means that speculative activity is the lowest it’s ever been, discouraged by shorts not willing to sell any more contracts by widening their spreads. This is reflected in the next chart:
With over nine times paper liabilities compared with deliverable silver which is also rapidly declining, this Comex contract is heading for trouble. Registered for delivery silver is being withdrawn along with eligible. Since the silver crisis in London on 9th October last, 175 million ounces have gone from Comex vaults, presumably to London where lease rates have remained elevated.
To summarise the position, paper silver in all markets is being encashed for physical, despite the fall in prices since 29th January when silver peaked at over $120. And with China being more of a physical delivery market, Comex and London paper contracts are declining into irrelevance.
Meanwhile, gold marches on with demand ranging from central banks to retail buyers and remaining strong despite the volatility. Yesterday, it transpired that two of China’s largest banks, ICBC and the Agricultural Bank have run out of investment bars. Additionally, we can assume that there is strong demand for gold accumulation accounts at all Chinese retail banks with household savings running at an additional annual $5—$6 trillion equivalent and mirroring public demand for investment bars.
As with silver, there is minimal speculative interest in gold, with Comex’s open interest at the lowest levels since the covid pandemic:
It is remarkable that despite gold being in a strong bull market that speculative interest is so low, particularly when most of the major banks expect higher prices by the yearend. For now, hedge funds pair trading would sell paper gold short to buy dollars, which will lead to a short squeeze later.
The logarithmic chart demonstrates the underlying strength of gold’s uptrend despite short-term dollar demand:
As noted above, the market’s gut reaction to a new war on Iran is to presume that safety is to be found in cash dollars. Accordingly, the US$ trade weighted index has been marked higher against other currencies, shown next:
Most important of all, the blockade of Hormuz is driving energy prices skywards, as the oil chart shows:
Far from Iran rapidly admitting defeat, it is becoming obvious that this conflict will last some time. That being the case, we can expect yet higher oil and LNG prices and investor’s attention turning to the unexpected consequences for inflation later this year. Hopes of lower interest rates are vanishing and beginning to destabilise bond and equity markets, leading to a dash for cash.
It is worth recalling the move to higher interest rates and bond yields which followed Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and sanctions against Russian oil and gas. This is almost certain to happen again with even greater consequences, in which case bond yields will soar again and financial bubbles will be bursting everywhere.
In that event, any attempt to mark down gold and silver will be manna from heaven for stackers. Both metals are already in high demand, particularly in China, which cannot be satisfied.
A word to the wise: if gold and silver are marked down, stack, stack, and stack again!
Madness
It Begins: Iranian Drone Strikes Bahrain Desalination Plant As Worst-Case Scenario Unfolds
From data centers in the Gulf area to water desalination plants, the worst-case scenario is now unfolding in the Middle East conflict, with no boundaries regarding civilian infrastructure.
We warned earlier last week, after correctly predicting that data centers would be targeted, that water desalination plants would be next (see the previous update).
Al Jazeera reports that after Iranian Foreign Minister Seyed Abbas Araghchi claimed the US targeted a water desalination plant in Iran, an IRGC kamikaze drone then targeted a desalination plant in Bahrain.
https://www.zerohedge.com/military/iran-foreign-minister-claims-us-attacked-desalination-plant
Must Read
The Rediscovery of America’s Constitutional Money Laws: Stablecoins, Silver’s Surging Price, and Trimetallism
By Christopher Guzelian
Associate Professor of Finance and Economics
Texas State University, San Marcos, Texas
Sunday, March 8, 2026
The lesson is that gold as a monetary backstop must be considered in ratio with other things’ market value—including “lesser” precious metals like silver and copper, as the Founders legislated. Perhaps modern economists will return to the Founders’ wisdom that precious metal moneys carry special intrinsic value. Trimetallism—a new mass issuance of gold, silver, and copper Dollars by the U.S. Mint (or Congressionally deputized private mints) at significantly higher spot prices than present—may well do more to rescue Americans from monetary instability than stablecoins backed by the very inflationary instruments that created the problem in the first place.
It’s WaPo but it appears a 3-4 week affair is out of the picture
Pretty tough to defeat a country of 93 million people with just airstrikes. Better hope the Iranians are forming some strong opposition to the regime. Regardless, 3-4 weeks will turn into 3-4 months and probably further. So much for the idea of “bringing our troops home from the region.” Another war for the bankers.
Intel report also poured cold water on idea that Iran’s opposition could quickly fill any power vacuum.