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My apologies! Typo…..didn’t realize my mistake until the “edit” option was gone……

FWIW, I think today starts the restrictions, by 2 of the largest banks in China, to restrict retail purchases of Gold and Silver..

Ranches have faced problems though the years. Do you remember times they were forced to sell all their cows to slaughter. Droughts and feed prices getting expensive. Add energy costs. Imports increased and maybe why beef doesn’t taste the same and wonder if it is real. Restrictions came in from Canada and Mexico imports due to a screw worm and now feed prices probably even more expensive with fertilizer, weather  and other issues. Were cow poor.

Even in biblical times they were warned to store food for those weather events. Over population will not resolve in a few years.

SM futures turned lower, oil jumped to $90, the dollar firmed and rates moved up a little.

All that was too much for our paper metals to handle.

I’m convinced now that all this was intentional to crash the economy and send inflation skyrocketing so they can usher in the new digital system. I’m seeing videos on YouTube, regular people talking about food inflation, and it’s squeezing them hard. I think a lot of it is B.S., and prices are being raised far more than necessary. They are pricing avg. people out of the beef market. A guy showed a steak he bought in 2024 for $4.49 lb. that is now $17.49 lb. There’s no reason for that kind of inflation. This is the “eat bugs” clan just jacking things up without cause. I suppose they have to do this so they can come in and offer us a solution. The evil on this planet is about to get a lot worse IMHO, and it’s accelerating.

I don’t think they’ll allow little rocks like gold and silver to save us either.

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A warmer earth produces more food for less effort. Populations explode. Societies develop. A couple of years’ of bad weather, or a cooling, famines and societies collapse.

In Oz we see it on a regular basis with the weather. A few good years, grass is plentiful, cattle numbers explode, one year’s drought and cattle numbers collapse, corpses everywhere. Doesn’t matter nationally because we produce far more than we eat – so far.

That seems to be a on going problem. You think by now they’d educate not just women because most probably already know but the men about over population affects not just the economy but on resources. They will be needing to go after other country’s resources but nothing new. And those who think war helps depopulation they get it wrong. It causes birth rates to climb. Look at China after they starved half their population to death because of bad dictation of crop mismanagement or post war baby boomers. It increases it.

I’ve been eating less meat thinking about all the animals that need to be slaughtered everyday because of the world population growth.. If there’s massive droughts and crop failures there would be a problem already  My state less weather changes is going to face water shortages in the future.

Forty years ago Ethiopia had a big famine, lasting three years. Its population was 40m people, 8m were affected and 1m died. Today the population is 140m, three and a half times the size. Itt’s been in famine since 2000, partly due to the war in Tigray.

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🇾🇪💥🇸🇦 The regional energy crisis may be entering an even more dangerous phase.

Yemen’s Houthis have reportedly struck the first Saudi-linked oil tanker in the Red Sea, just two days after announcing the start of a naval blockade targeting Saudi Arabia.

⚠️ The reported attack comes as the Strait of Hormuz remains closed, raising the prospect of simultaneous disruptions across two of the world’s most critical maritime energy routes.

🛢️ If attacks on Saudi-linked tankers continue and the confrontation escalates further, global oil prices could rise rapidly, intensifying supply concerns and pushing the wider energy crisis closer to a severe international shock.

They will continue to have mass illegal migration even 20 yrs from now. Including intercontinental migration to South Africa and nearby other countries in Africa like South Africa will be in further danger to those countries less they can put up their own borders or manage population numbers with education.

As bad as it is now without population control by prevention,  problems that may cause mass illegal immigration in the future to countries trying to keep their population in control. In 1900 the population of the continent of Africa was a minority only 9 percent until foreign aid and science from advanced countries improved survival numbers of children under the age of 5 by disease and starvation by colonial forces that increased their survival numbers.

A demographic overview of global and regional population trends, focusing specifically on the historical and projected growth of Africa.

Global Population Overview (1900)
In 1900, the world population was approximately 1.6 billion people. The most populous regions were Asia (about 947 million) and Europe (about 408 million). Due to imperial and colonial rule, borders looked very different, and major populations included:

– Chinese Empire (Qing Dynasty): ~400,000,000 to 430,000,000
– British India: ~280,000,000 to 290,000,000
– Russian Empire: ~132,000,000 to 136,000,000
– United States: 75,994,575
– German Empire: ~56,000,000
– Austro-Hungarian Empire: ~45,000,000
– Japan: ~44,000,000 to 45,000,000
– United Kingdom: ~41,000,000
– French Empire: ~40,000,000 (excluding overseas colonies)
– Italian Peninsula: ~32,000,000
– Ottoman Empire: ~19,000,000
– Mexico: ~13,600,000

Africa’s Demographic Evolution
In 1900, Africa’s population was estimated at 133 to 140 million people, accounting for roughly only 9% of the global total. The largest regional populations tracked by colonial divisions included British Africa (~44 million, including 10 million in Egypt and 10 million in Nigeria), French Africa (~31 million, including 4.4 million in Algeria), Belgian Africa (~8 million in the Congo Free State), German Africa (~10 million), Portuguese Africa (~4 million in Angola), and Ethiopia (~4 million).

Following incoming  advancements in agriculture, medicine, and living standards, Africa has become the fastest-growing region globally. In 2026, the continent’s total population is estimated at 1,584,985,259. The top 10 most populous nations are:

1.  Nigeria: 242,431,832
2.  Ethiopia: 138,902,185
3.  Egypt: 120,101,175
4.  DR Congo: 116,452,162
5.  Tanzania: 72,563,780
6.  South Africa: 65,453,084
7.  Kenya: 58,636,412
8.  Sudan: 53,282,719
9.  Uganda: 52,761,469
10. Algeria: 48,028,334

Future Projections and Challenges (2050)
By 2050, Africa’s population is projected to reach approximately 2.5 billion, meaning roughly one in four people on Earth will be African. This rapid demographic expansion presents several critical structural challenges:

– Unprecedented Urbanization: Urban populations are expected to double to 1.4 billion, straining housing and public infrastructure in major hubs like Lagos, Kinshasa, and Nairobi.
– Workforce Expansion: Africa will possess the world’s largest workforce within the next decade. However, 82% of current workers are in the informal sector, highlighting the urgent need for quality job creation to prevent social instability.
– Food and Resource Scarcity: To meet consumption needs, agricultural production must scale significantly, requiring an estimated additional 120 million hectares of land, which poses risks for deforestation and water ecosystems.
– Social Services Pressure: By the 2040s, the continent will account for two out of every five global births, placing immense pressure on governments to fund and expand healthcare and education systems.

Where is comes from, not to get mixed up with a immune suppression drug  that can get into the waste water from pharmas. This is where it comes from and apparently they still do it.

Yes, human feces and wastewater are used as fertilizer in Mexico through both traditional, highly-regulated ecological farming methods and accidental exposure via untreated sewage systems.

Well, far be it from me to be positive but we did do better than everything else for a change. Silver disappointed though.

BTW, did you really just call me buttgold? I might expect that from Ipso, ferret or even Maddog on a bad day, but never from a gentleman like yourself! 🤣

There were less people here in 1960 and after welfare for poor and single or widowed women and children a great rush for the border to get some of that what they saw as free money and healthcare coming for the wrong reasons.

Before seasonal agriculture work where they could come in get paid and then go back with a lot more money than they could make south of the border plus the currency exchange and take months of work off. Even some young American men would do it back then. Work here part of the year then stay there for a lot less and eat lobster or whatever. Meanwhile Ted Kennedy and the demos pushing up the legal immigration numbers. I remember on Maher show back in early 2000 had Pelosi on bragging that these migrants were outburthing American citizens in Calif and they made that easy with welfare plus getting full time jobs under the table.  Then someone from south America came in with a map predicting how the whole US will be outnumbered by migrants which could only mean illegals by a certain date. Maher going along with the excuse taking jobs nobody wanted. Really was there that many jobs? No I started nursing as a teen still in highschool late 60s and went to school from there and back then a lot of elders who were from the era of the book The Grapes of Wrath crop pickers or farmers who told me that the south Americans came in and underbid the American workers including in worse conditions like the depression and wernt even supposed to be here. So even that, the jobs nobody wanted was a lie. I haven’t read about it but can guess back then Operation Wetback was probably because of a lot of angry American agri workers.

10 o’clock rule. Most volatile up to 10 am Eastern time. That when it hit 60 , then sellers and shorts took over. Like they’re playing nickel and dime games but likely playing with bigger numbers than that. And we’re supposed to be glad it’s half the price of its high. Oh goodie.

There is much more oil available now than in 1960. Refineries are far more efficient too, producing a much better product for less inputs. Gas should be cheaper! And as you note, in money terms, it is. But we have been so conditioned to accept, without understanding, that things will always cost more; without understanding that it is actually the currency that buys less. I think I’m finally getting through to the kids (late twenties, early thirties) with this. A dollar saved now is worth sweet FA when you retire. An ounce saved now is worth an ounce forever more. A dollar saved pays you interest now (on which you are taxed) to make it seem attractive as a method of saving (compound interest you idiot! Don’t you understand the power of compounding? You’re supposed to be smart!) all while the dollar is devalued by more printing, devalued by far more than the after-tax interest paid, while the ounce just sits there.

And in the meantime the tax burden just grows, and grows. What is the tax on that gallon of juice now compared to 1960? People must save dollars, because the interest is taxed (and ‘they’ know where the $$ are) and the government needs the income. Loans must remain high so that mums as well as dads need to work to pay the mortgage, as the govt needs the income tax. Property taxes; what genius, you’re forced to work more, to pay more income tax, so you can pay the property tax. Inheritance taxes, wealth taxes, spending taxes; all taxes paid from a depreciating currency by labour slaves to fund an ever-growing bureaucracy.

Part of the answer is KYE. As part of their KYC (Know Your Customer) my bank asked me to verify some details. In my innocence I had always thought KYC was a marketing ploy by banks to pretend that they actually cared about me; check your details, remind you of how to avoid scams, and maybe even suggesting better ways of managing the loans I have made to them. After a phone call, they asked me to bring a document into the branch, ‘to be confirmed’ was the exact phrase. OK, except that they wanted to scan the whole thing. “Why”, asks I? “So we (the bank) can be sure we are complying with the Money Laundering Act.”. “Oh really?” says I. “Perhaps you could tell me under what provisions of the Anti-Money Laundering and Counter Terrorism Act Financing Act 2006, to give it its full title (you bozo, bet you didn’t know that), you require this information?” Silence. Then “If you don’t provide this information, we shall have to put a stop on your accounts.” I refused. Said it was private, that they don’t need it and they can’t explain why they want it. She said she would file it as a complaint and I would get an email. I got an email. I asked for the specific sections of the Act that required the information, and got another email, ignoring my request, saying the complaint was dismissed and to come into the branch again with the document. Before replying, or just closing the accounts, I left it a day to calm down, and then received another email. A grovelling apology for the ‘unclear communications’. They have everything that they need already. Just another phone call to tick a couple of boxes and everything will be fine. “Please contact us at your earliest convenience so we can complete this step.”

KYE. Know Your Enemy.

KYE. Why I’m reading the quran.

KYE. Almost a full time job in these days.

in 1960, in central florida, when i got my first drivers license, a dollar (four quarters were easier for a teenager to get) would buy a little over three gallons of gas.  those same four 1960 quarters (at melt/spot value – $42.90), today will buy a little over ten gallons.  same money, more gas   …strange to think of the price of gas actually going down over time.

Food for thought, 1980 $800/oz of Gold peak, Houses were $40,000 divided by $800/oz gold came out to 50 ounces of gold to buy a house.

A gold peak today  peak today at $8,000/oz, times 50 ounces would be $400,000 for house a very low price of a house these days in my area.

There were really no ETFs back then for gold that I know of.

Food for thought, 1980 $50/oz silver, times 715 (number of ounces in a $1000 face value bag of junk silver coins) came out to $35,750 that same value of a house in my area back then bc Mtg rates were 18%.

A silver peak today at $600/oz, times 715 would be $429,000 for a $1000 face value silver bag. A very low price of a house these days in my area. There were really no ETFs back then for silver that I know of.

Death drift ( Maxwell House effect) must be written into the code of the algorithm….

$60 is definitely off the table.

Remains to be seen how big of a chunk they take out of everything in the last 90 minutes.

So far it’s about a 1/3rd of the gains across the board.

Looks like the scum isn’t going to let it go without a fight.

First chink in the armor of the day.

But lo and behold the QQQ’s have come all the way back from the dead.