There’s no credible evidence that China is forcing citizens to convert their life savings to the digital yuan—or losing access to their money otherwise. Most claims like “convert now or lose it all” stem from sensationalist videos (e.g. on YouTube by channels like Buildr) YouTube+5YouTube+5YouTube+5, but they lack support from reputable sources.

Here’s what we do know:

🧾 What the official rollout really looks like

• The People’s Bank of China (PBOC) introduced e‑CNY to partially replace cash—not bank deposits—and participation is optional, not mandatory WIRED+2Wikipedia+2#SixthTone+2.

• Users choose their level of wallet via KYC (anonymous to fully verified), with clear transaction and balance limits. It’s not a wholesale conversion of savings Wikipedia.

🔍 Any sign of coercion or forced conversion?

• Critics mention restrictions on large cash withdrawals and greater promotion of e‑CNY YouTube+9chinacenter.net+9#SixthTone+9, but requiring permits to withdraw doesn’t equate to forced conversion—it’s part of ongoing capital control measures.

• No state has enacted laws or policies to seize private bank deposits unless withdrawing into the digital currency.

🧩 The truth behind the rumors

That isn’t going to happen.

These people are clowns and they will fail.

Count on it.

… is looking good and only needs to break through the 200-day MA (with the 50-day MA kissing it too boot) … in order to trigger another substantial leg higher … with an inverse head and shoulders pattern present …

Everything is crossed.

Cheers all

https://x.com/i/status/1947769418508914831

!!!   450   !!!

Germany Agrees To Deliver 5 More Patriots To Ukraine, Which Will Take US Years To Replace

In a major breakthrough and short-term diplomatic ‘win’ for the Zelensky government, Germany and the United States have agreed to supply Ukraine with five more Patriot air defense systems, German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius announced on Monday.

Another guy named Boris.

Where do they find these guys?

Chuckle

Brace For Soaring Electricity Bills: Biggest US Power Grid Sets Power Costs At Record High To Feed AI

Very soon if you want AI (and even if you don’t), you won’t be able to afford AC.

Guess which one they will pick for you.

Chuckle

Living Near a Golf Course Puts Your Brain Health at Risk

Story at-a-glance
Residents within a mile of golf courses have 126% higher chance of developing Parkinson’s disease compared to those living farther away
Golf course chemicals infiltrate groundwater supplies and drift through the air, creating multiple exposure pathways for nearby residents
Stricter pesticide regulations in Europe result in dramatically lower chemical hazard scores compared to American golf courses, especially in southern states
Dense residential areas near golf courses lack natural barriers, concentrating airborne pesticides and increasing your vulnerability to chemical exposure
Regular exercise helps eliminate accumulated pesticides, while water filtration and air purifiers reduce ongoing chemical exposure at home

https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2025/07/23/living-near-golf-course-brain-health-at-risk.aspx?ui=09b7454560037d166569311ff50475583934f51734945555465fc1eb69ded50e&sd=20100618&cid_source=dnl&cid_medium=email&cid_content=art1HL&cid=20250723&foDate=false&mid=DM1779552&rid=346384605

The Digital Yuan is no longer optional. Every citizen in China now faces the same ultimatum: Convert your life savings, or lose access entirely. Bank accounts are freezing, and cash is being locked out of the system. All financial roads now lead through Beijing’s central digital wallet. And the deadline is ticking down fast.

Digital Yuan COMPULSORY — Citizens Forced to Convert Life Savings or LOSE ACCESS – YouTube

Why is the Chinese government forcing 1.4 billion people into a currency they cannot control? What happens to those who refuse or simply miss the deadline? And could this be a glimpse into the future for the rest of the world? It all begins with a simple push notification, one that turns into a national reckoning.

Another great day.

Mornin all

I can’t assume he had assisted suicide. I remember seeing his group many years ago in LA. It was back real time active times where we didn’t just sit there but danced and people would pass whiskey and who knows what else around. Since I didn’t drink, years too young anyways , by the time we got out we’re messed up

I found this where Sharon his wife talked about Assisted Suicide and going to Switzerland for advice.

Sharon Osbourne’s Comments About Assisted Suicide Resurface After Ozzy Osbourne Death – Newsweek https://share.google/GtaxDxsgrITbpwUeg

Assay Results from Glenstar’s Wildhorse Project in Nevada Report Anomolous Copper, Silver, Bismuth, and Tungsten

https://pro.ceo.ca/@newsfile/assay-results-from-glenstars-wildhorse-project-in

Route 109 Confirms Prophyry-Style Gold-Copper-Molybdenum Mineralization at Dunlop Bay

https://pro.ceo.ca/@newsfile/route-109-confirms-prophyry-style-gold-copper-molybdenum

Onyx Gold Intersects 52.2 M of 2.2 g/t Gold and 50.4 M of 1.9 g/t Gold at Argus North Zone, Munro-Croesus Project

https://pro.ceo.ca/@newsfile/onyx-gold-intersects-522-m-of-22-gt-gold-and-504

MAG Announces Second Quarter 2025 Production From Juanicipio

https://pro.ceo.ca/@globenewswire/mag-announces-second-quarter-2025-production-from-juanicipio

G Mining Ventures Provides Update on Gurupi Project Licensing Process in Brazil Following Court Ruling

https://pro.ceo.ca/@newswire/g-mining-ventures-provides-update-on-gurupi-project

Lake Victoria Gold Issues Shares to Pay Debenture Interest

https://pro.ceo.ca/@newsfile/lake-victoria-gold-issues-shares-to-pay-debenture-interest

36.0 g/t Gold Over 10.0 Meters – Froome Mine Life Extended With Discovery of New High-Grade Mineralization

https://pro.ceo.ca/@globenewswire/360-gt-gold-over-100-meters-froome-mine-life-extended

Sankamap Announces Private Placement

https://pro.ceo.ca/@newsfile/sankamap-announces-private-placement

Getchell Gold Corp. Commences Drill Program at Fondaway Canyon, Nevada

https://pro.ceo.ca/@newswire/getchell-gold-corp-commences-drill-program-at-fondaway

Formation Metals Closes $2.33M at up to $0.50/Unit Increasing Exploration Budget to ~$5.1M, Expands Maiden Drill Program at the Advanced N2 Gold Project to Fully Funded 10,000 Metres

https://pro.ceo.ca/@accesswire/formation-metals-closes-233m-at-up-to-050unit

Caledonia Mining Corporation Plc: Profitability expected to be materially ahead of market expectations

https://pro.ceo.ca/@globenewswire/caledonia-mining-corporation-plc-profitability-expected

Newlox Gold Announces Private Placement

https://pro.ceo.ca/@thenewswire/newlox-gold-announces-private-placement-b6b8a

Heritage Announces LIFE Offering and Provides Corporate and Exploration Update

https://pro.ceo.ca/@thenewswire/heritage-announces-life-offering-and-provides-corporate

JZR Gold Announces Closing Of Non-Brokered Private Placement Offering Of Units For $1,800,000

https://pro.ceo.ca/@thenewswire/jzr-gold-announces-closing-of-non-brokered-private-50bdc

Adyton Resources Announces C$10 Million Private Placement of Units

https://pro.ceo.ca/@globenewswire/adyton-resources-announces-c10-million-private-placement

Westgold … June 2025 Quarterly Results

https://pro.ceo.ca/@newswire/june-2025-quarterly-results

Westgold … June 2025 Quarterly Exploration Results

https://pro.ceo.ca/@newswire/june-2025-quarterly-exploration-results

Range Announces Second Quarter 2025 Results

https://pro.ceo.ca/@globenewswire/range-announces-second-quarter-2025-results

Baru Gold Completes Second and Final Tranche of Private Placement

https://pro.ceo.ca/@thenewswire/baru-gold-completes-second-and-final-tranche-of-private-bf4ed

Sanatana Provides Update on Gold Strike One Project (Yukon) and Abitibi Property (Quebec)

https://pro.ceo.ca/@newsfile/sanatana-provides-update-on-gold-strike-one-project

Fortune Minerals Reports Additional Cobalt, Gold & Copper Process Optimization Validation for the NICO Project

https://pro.ceo.ca/@businesswire/fortune-minerals-reports-additional-cobalt-gold

Pinnacle Clarifies Previous News Release

https://pro.ceo.ca/@thenewswire/pinnacle-clarifies-previous-news-release

Brookmount Gold Announces Financial Results for Second Quarter Fiscal 2025

https://pro.ceo.ca/@accesswire/brookmount-gold-announces-financial-results-for-second

Headwater Gold and OceanaGold Sign Letter of Intent to Explore Three Projects in Nevada

https://pro.ceo.ca/@thenewswire/headwater-gold-and-oceanagold-sign-letter-of-intent

Black Mammoth Metals Samples up to 717 g/t Silver with 210 g/t Average at Amador, NV

https://pro.ceo.ca/@newswire/black-mammoth-metals-samples-up-to-717-gt-silver-with

Xtra-Gold Update on Kibi Gold Project Resource Expansion Drilling

https://pro.ceo.ca/@newsfile/xtra-gold-update-on-kibi-gold-project-resource-expansion

AuCan Gold Launches US $2.5 Billion Real World Asset Tokenised Gold with TheBlock.

https://pro.ceo.ca/@globenewswire/aucan-gold-launches-us-25-billion-real-world-asset

Adyton Reports Multiple Significant Gold Intersections from its Feni Island Gold-Copper Project Drilling, Including 144m at 1.18g/t Au

https://pro.ceo.ca/@newsfile/adyton-reports-multiple-significant-gold-intersections

First Mining Announces Closing of $12 Million Public Offering

https://pro.ceo.ca/@newswire/first-mining-announces-closing-of-12-million-public

Torr Metals Outlines Historical Copper-Gold-Silver Soil Anomalies with 3 Kilometer Strike-Length at the Bertha Zone

https://pro.ceo.ca/@newsfile/torr-metals-outlines-historical-copper-gold-silver

Pinnacle Samples up to 85.1 g/t Gold and 520 g/t Silver at El Potrero

https://pro.ceo.ca/@thenewswire/pinnacle-samples-up-to-851-gt-gold-and-520-gt-silver

Sarama Resources Completes Mt Venn Gold Project Acquisition

https://pro.ceo.ca/@accesswire/sarama-resources-completes-mt-venn-gold-project-acquisition

Gold Hart Copper First Diamond Drill Hole at Tolita Asset Intercepts 360m of Gold Copper & Molybdenum Mineralization

https://pro.ceo.ca/@newsfile/gold-hart-copper-first-diamond-drill-hole-at-tolita

Military Metals Announces Grab Sample Results up to 40.6% Antimony and 106.5 gpt Gold from Stockpile of Historically Mined Material at West Gore Antimony-Gold Project, Nova Scotia

https://pro.ceo.ca/@newsfile/military-metals-announces-grab-sample-results-up-to

I don’t know, I don’t follow him or any entertainers. Even with Tim Smith spelled different of the Eagles when visiting a patient and stayed here for awhile and others. That does seem strange though if he was just seen and then passed away with family. Its possible, I did see with the news he had Parkinson’s.

The dollar is up a smidge and rates are up 3 bips. Otherwise, the metals were on the weak side all night but now seem to be firming a little. PM shares flat.

SM up some, oil and Bitcoin on the downside. Plat and Pall up a little.

No substantial eco data. A pause today wouldn’t surprise.

Seems the family has not disclosed his cause of death, just saying he was surrounded by loved ones,

Thought he just did his las concert a few days ago and flew to Switzerland to check out.

Weird.

Did you know banks have changed gold from a commodity to tier one.More and more climbing on the gold train. Maybe housing projection long term is the reason Buffett has sold his bank stocks. He even mentioned him. M Pento will probably be right is when the crisis  comes the Fed will reverse trend and cut and wind up buying our own debt. A  change could happen fast and why..

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With Flags Flying
https://www.railpictures.net/photo/884361/

AI stands for artificial insemination. And this guy got totally screwed by it.

https://www.zerohedge.com/ai/catastrophic-ai-agent-goes-rogue-wipes-out-companys-entire-database

Using AI is like employing somebody without seeing them, interviewing them, taking references, testing them or knowing anything about them at all. Everybody now knows that they can be unreliable; so how can you rely upon anything that they tell you? Why are people seeming to trust them far more than they would trust a human after they’d been lied to once?

Wow, and I agree, this isn’t even our war or for the right reasons if any reason other than no war,  defense and saving lives. This was about neither about defense or saving lives and not even started by Russia.

I don’t know anything much about the weapons other than hunting and defense but remember when a Russian sub was parked on the coast in California and no one knew anything about it. And those hypersonic missiles I read don’t take very long to hit their target so not much of a chance for a warning to civilians or military. They’ve been around for awhile now so seems they should of been working on that.

Barbara Boyd

It’s a game, and there are certain rules that are generally followed the most important one being that before you start dropping bombs or firing missiles, you are actually at war with an enemy first. The only country that has hypersonic missiles atm is Russia, despite their, according to you, inability to maintain stuff, they have managed to develop a mach 11 missile to which there is no defence (ask the Ukrainians, equipped with Patriot missiles as they are). What is the point of maintaining obsolete weapons anyway? Rather bizarrely you are expecting the Russians to eliminate an American aircraft carrier just to prove that the Hazelnut works. Just for fun, y’ know, no malicious intent but as a sort of high school science experiment. Hey, they could even warn you, just to make it a bit fairer. And the aircraft carrier would be manned by 5,000 volunteers fully aware of the experiment …..

Why would Australia need an aircraft carrier? If Russia doesn’t have one, why should we? What defensive role do they play? Why not develop our own hypersonic missiles, or better still a missile defence system that works against hypersonic missiles? We’ve got 25% more coastline than the USA, on that basis we should need 14 carriers if they were a defensive weapon and quite honestly with a population of 26m finding 80,000 plus mariners would be a stretch. We need to defend smarter; not that there is any sign of that happening either.

Russian electronics are excellent. We use them a lot in communications equipment, better than Huawei. They don’t need maintenance, they just keep working, 15 years + and we’re forgetting where they all are. Fade them at your peril.

That let elitists destroy countries and commit crimes against others and get away with it.

Ozzy Osbourne passed away today.

That’s great! They’re midgets so no guarantees! 🙂