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Looking forward to it!
Let me
echo Maddog’s thoughts, Ipso, by saying thank you as well for the informative morning posts.
Lot’s of terrific information!!
That would be something! Demos won’t like it, they won’t be able to cheat so much.
President Trump Announces Movement to Eliminate Mail-In Ballots & Voting Machines
In a TruthSocial post, President Trump announced his movement to eliminate mail-in ballots, and voting machines. He called mail-in ballot a scam and said other countries don’t use them because of the fraud involved.
President Trump Announces Movement to Eliminate Mail-In Ballots & Voting Machines
ipsofacto
Mny, mny tks for all yr efforts on the morning posts……being tied to a job is no fun…….It’ll be missed but lets hope we have entered the phase of throwing darts, to pick a 100 bagger !!!!
Rates turned up
bringing the dollar with them.
Shares getting weaker. Easy peasy.
Ferret – yes
I believe the Euro trash is invited to the White House with Zelensky. I know they insisted that Ursula comes along.
If there’s a third meeting with Putin and Z, I doubt they’ll be welcome.
Irrelevant destroyers trying to stay relevant.
Scum loves these light summer days
They can push these shares south without much effort.
I still think there’s some buying underneath these things though.
Ipso – Thank you!
Words to the big guy are the only thing that matters. It His game. 🙂
I feel pretty good about it. It was a big surgery, just need a couple weeks to work the kinks out.
treefrog
Yer welcome!
Buygold
I hope your back surgery works out. I know how debilitating back problems are. Best of luck! I’ll say a few words on your behalf to the Big Guy!
Cheers
ipso
many thanx for your efforts !!!
I’ve hit the wall on the early morning drudgery
and will no longer be posting the mining news compilation.
If someone else cares to do it … go for it!
Zelensky meeting. Are the Europeans invited?
I would love to see the door slammed in their faces. Why should they be allowed in? They’ve been fighting against peace for the last eleven years, whilst not contributing (in any meaningful way) to the war, yet they expect, assume, the right to sit at the table? Even Z said it had to be a three way agreement, so why all the hangers-on?
I hope it’s televised. If they are let in, Trump will probably end up giving them a good bollocking.
Not much going on
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%.
Ferrett
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.
While the subject of the article is hilarious
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
goldie, none of those factors affect the IQ.
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.
Captain Hook
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.
Assuming The Worst
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.
This is good news …
Avery Goodman: China’s new physical gold mandate for insurers will reshape the gold market |
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. …
Captain Hook
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.