GOLDEN BS
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Every day after checking
blog comments and e-mail one of the first things I do is check one of those
sites that has a list and links of quasi-prepper friendly articles for the
day. Most of course is utterly
worthless, the articles on how cyber currencies are simply just misunderstood
and how honest injun this time the newest and greatest alternate energy is almost
ready to be produced. And there are a
huge number of sources I refuse to click on no matter how enticing the
title. The New York Times and CNN are
the two biggies, but the London (e)papers are just as bad. But still, there are enough decent articles
to keep coming back every day.
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Sometimes I am flamboozled
into checking out an article I should have known better about. “You have 27 days to buy silver” or something
similar. At first I ignored it but then
found myself returning, that little nagging subconscious voice thinking it
might be a worthy writing subject. It
really wasn’t, although it did inspire this tirade. There were charts and sincere proclamations
and it was all pointless and not even worth reading. It was your typical mathematics led advice
that was completely factual if resources never depleted, bankers never
manipulated and stock markets were always a true indicator of economic health.
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Amazing. The people that are worried about precious
metals as an investment are NOT your broke ass redneck. Presumably they have serious paper to trade
for coin ( I’ll ignore the Worlds Biggest Dumb Asses who actually trust digital
gold ). They have White People Problems,
as if they have too much money and don’t know what to do with it. I’m sure these are the same people that are
massively in debt, pretending that they are leveraging their earning with other
peoples money. But here is my
point. With this level of serious
investment, they ONLY research precious metals from a financial aspect?
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Do they study mining
trends such as cost and company debt, but more importantly ore
availability? Are they aware of energy
decline? Do they even know basic
geopolitics? My guess is that no, they
do none of these things. Because these
potential investors are people just like the advisors. Over educated idiots, dazzling themselves and
everyone around them in a self contained echo chamber, blinded by their own
perceived brilliance that can only come from higher education that has nothing
to do with actual learning and everything to do with the Mandarin class
filtering system.
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Did you follow all the
YouTube hoopla over the last Star Wars film?
Ever since Disney bought the franchise it has released three ever worse
films. I attempted to watch the first and
barely got through it. And that was the
best one according to the fan boys. The
second one I had to turn off a quarter of the way through and I didn’t even
bother with the last one. They were all
free to me to watch ( NOL’s daughters family all lap that slop up ) so there
was no financial issue. It was just
unbelievably terrible movies. Not even
compared to the others in the franchise, but just bad movies in general.
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One fan video was
describing the idiocy coming from the handlers of the film was the Hollywood
echo chamber. Which is a sealed reality
where everyone blows smoke up the others asses, in case you weren’t familiar
with the term. It is being in charge and
only consulting your court appointed Yes Men.
Obviously, Hollywood is no where near alone in this. You don’t like the reality out there so you
retreat to your Happy Place and tell yourself lies until your ravaged soul is
soothed. I mean, it wouldn’t really
behoove a Master Gold Investment Advisor to know that Peak Gold has already occurred. We see the problems from Peak Oil and they
are bad enough. Who wants to know that
the perceived safe value in an emergency is also running out?
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Obviously, banks and
corporations and the military are also sealed in their echo chambers. We never make a mistake, our college
educations were never about the wrong subject matter, we are important enough
to keep getting really big salaries.
Reality avoidance is bad enough when you could be kicked out of your rental
home or lose your big screen TV after unemployment. Can you imagine the pain and suffering the
big cheeses must worry about ever experiencing?
No wonder they have no interest in thinking about the truly bad world
out there.
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The higher anyone’s pay,
the less you can trust them. Let that be
today’s truism. If your survivalist guru
has a fifty acre homestead, enough semi-auto’s to arm a small banana republic
and needs to keep upgrading his FLIR scopes, can you trust that level of
financial neediness? Obviously, big buck
lifestyles require big bucks, and who knows the lies and manipulations needed
to continue receiving those bucks in a contracting economy. If your buddy has a McMansion and two SUV’s,
eats out every night and has a kid in college, can you really believe he isn’t
playing fast and lose with morality to fund all that?
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One of my first management
jobs I had an owner that was old enough that he still believed that “dressing
for success” was a viable strategy. He
kept a bright and shiny car ready to go pick up business associates to take
them to business lunches. The only thing
I thought was, I’m a customer paying higher prices to pay for that shiny
car. I don’t know if that was my
generation, unduly influenced by kick ass punk rock groups with bad attitudes,
or I’m just paranoid and pessimistic.
And now cynical after everything was personally confirmed
painfully.
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And of course, the 1992
film Sneakers made it all so much easier, didn’t it? Follow The Money. I’ll be honest, I actually had a hard time
deciphering that simple phrase. That was
the residue of propaganda believing institutions had your best interests at
heart and actually performed the job they were tasked with. I only intellectually understood otherwise. I needed kicking a few times to really
understand. As the economy melts down,
it should be no surprise everyone is screwing everyone else all the time. There is no other way to get paid.
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Even worse than the
dishonesty is the self-delusion. These
idiots actually believe their own BS!
They are actually honest about their terrible advice. Gold will act as it always has. Politically Correct movies are popular. Then, after they are honest, sure, then they’ll
screw you.
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* By the by, all my writing is copyrighted. For the obtuse out there
Yes Jim, the golden B.S. is in and about everywhere. Government and society institutions will b.s. you to ellicit cooperation, or uses punative penalties for compliance. Employers use b.s. to get you singing their jingoist songs for profits, all the while with an administrative knife concealed behind their back to cut you out. Spouse/partners (few exceptions outstanding) are definately using b.s. for an agenda all the while having an eye for the handyman and a path to the nearest exit. Most interpersonal contacts or transaction have that faint whiff of fresh dropped b.s. on a summer's day. We wince through the process to get what we want, many not wanting to believe that another person is full of b.s. and would do them as such. I always recommend wearing your bullshit filters all the time except while bathing, you'll need them.
ReplyDeleteWhoa! You need your BS filter while bathing, or else you'll believe your own lies ( my junk is magnificent. I'm not fat. That is just a mole ).
DeleteYeah that b.s. filter on at all times with tin foil lined boonie hat. That mumbling, bat shit crazy geezer with the info wars t-shirt on may be the only fellow in the crowd not taken in, thus jeopardized or endangered by a bad course of actions or decisions based on bull shit. This will be a very important primary SURVIVAL SKILL for any of us minions.
DeletePlease make the boonie hat OD green. Damn desert camo makes you look like a military poser. Black makes you look like a cop poser. Trust me, I have mad fashion sense.
DeleteMy current boonie hat is Realtree camo but my original one was OD.
DeleteParagraph #8, big buck lifestyles...
ReplyDeleteDid you see today's post from our blogging friend from ID? It mentions some special ammo he purchased in 2013 for $55 per round (which he thought was expensive then), is now up to $95 per round. So $1100 for a box of 20? I like Rawles and all, but perhaps this pro-tip should have been kept to himself. A bit hard to relate to.
Peace out
I want to read Rawles, I really do, but his site is a shadow of its former self. It used to have a soul, and now it seems like a college class assignment. If I spend $55 a round of ammo, it better be self guiding and gold tipped. If I spent $95 per round, it better be guaranteed to vibrate my prostrate before I ever fire it.
DeleteThat was .55 CENTS, not $55 a round.
DeleteI mean, come on people.
I thought it was high, but I remember back when 50 cal rounds for sniper went up to $5 each. So I didn't think it was impossible. Perhaps it was something like a tracer round where they couldn't make them anymore or the material was outlawed, or whatever. In my defense :)
DeleteI guess you didn't read his post. I copied and pasted it here below.
Delete"In this column in September, 2017, I mentioned that scarce .50 BMG Raufoss explosive armor penetrating ammo is a good investment. The projectiles of this ammo actually explode on contact. The BATFE classified this ammo as legal for civilian ownership, because the amount of RDX explosive in each projectile is just below the legal threshold of a “destructive device.”
I bought most of my Mk. 211 Raufoss ammo for $55 per round, back in 2013. That seemed high to me at the time. However, I just heard that as of March, 2018 .50 BMG Raufoss is selling at gun shows for $95 per round! But even at that price, it is a good investment, since I don’t expect any more of this ammo to be released as military surplus. We haven’t seen the top of the market yet, for Raufoss!"
Peace out
GAHG! My criteria for that cost still stands. I must say, I made a pretty good guess.
DeleteOne of the reasons I read your blog is because you are POORER in purely financial income terms than I am- that makes your advice MORE valuable to me than that guy with the bunker and FLIR scopes, etc. (btw how did he build that bunker? if it wasn't his own two hands I guarantee you that bunker is on the list of places to go when SHTF for others...). I could find a way to afford at least some of your advice while not making my treasure of spouse feel deprived. Should I have accumulated debt, or forced us to live in a tiny hovel too early said spouse would have just died - maybe literally. Instead we now have most of what you recommend, and are well on our way to gentile peasantry, with the start of a house that should be big enough and strong enough to house the next couple generations. That is the biggest difference between you and I, I am planning for the kids and grandkids and keeping them close - of course I also have enough income I can spare the occasional electronic bribe, and keep the children homeschooled instead of forced into what public schools have become.
ReplyDeleteYeh, I think my generation started my family on a dysfunctional road :)
Delete"Gentile peasantry"? Good one, JJ!
DeleteI'll have to try that one out on my Jewish rels..."I'm hoping to live in gentile peasantry, err...I mean genteel poverty".
Overall though since the 60s at least the family as a unit of organization has become a target of PC and liberal (and conservative if to a lesser extent) politicians. So it isn't you personally, it is how you were raised, and it takes BOTH parents to work hard to raise a child not to fall into that PC trap of thinking the family isn't essential to ones well being.
DeleteI hate falling back on the "blame the parents" excuse. Sure, they got divorced, but I've made a career out of it. No, you're right, I'll just blame the whores in politics. I'll bet it was even Jerry Browns fault somehow.
DeleteKlaus-good catch. I didn't even notice. You should have gone with it, fight the stereotype of Jews and money :)
DeleteWOW!
ReplyDeleteYou saw "Sneakers".
Are you saying I'm old, or have a strange pick in movies, or that everyone say the movie and I'm not special? Come on, ya gotta work for that sarcasm.
DeleteOnly Star Wars flik I ever saw was the original. Just couldn't get excited bout the rest of em.
ReplyDeleteI stacked some silver back when I was still working. The most recent was that Bison round, which you now have. Just can't see any value in obtaining any more.
I agree, the original JWR had value. Now, not so much...I think he likely is also shilling AMWAY on the side too lol.
I figure I still covet yet even more wheat and ammo, but not silver. So that must mean a little goes a long way and it isn't as important as claimed.
DeleteThe first two Star Wars were decent, especially the second version. The third kinda sucked. But past that, the contemporary versions sipped outhouses through that giant straw in the roof.
DeleteThe best thing that could happen is for the hollyweird propaganda machine to collapse, and for the independent film makers to take over. Nothing good or original ever comes out of that hellhole anymore anyways, so what’s the point? Just put a bullet in that broken legged horse already. Who knows, this #metoo bullshit has probably put a dent the size of Rosie O’Dumbell’s ass in it already 😀
I retained enthusiasm for Star Wars way past its pull date, then eventually came to view it as juvenile and not worthy of my time. You know things are bad when you look back fondly to the '70's. I think that is all any past the first movie were, last grasp on childhood.
DeleteYeah, I was one of those fools what stood in line for hours to see it the week it premiered. That was in San Diego while going to college, but then again at 22 it was cool, now in my mid sixties...not so much.
DeleteI don't think we went for awhile, letting the lines go down. But then my punk ass twelve year old self had to go see it time and again.
Deletesmall thought on silver rounds in the usa . I bought some back a while ago . it is a commodity /even my lawyer at the that particular time accepted it . but I did some experiments on who WILL accept silver. had some surprising results. lets think SHTF situation and martial law or something is declared and everything is rationed kinda like ww2 . Every person from another country was way willing to trade goods for silver . so shtf and you need gas to get home/bug out location etc and it is rationed. well patel from india and others from other nations that understand what money really is offered very fair rates of exchangenfor one once silver rounds. or us bullion or other such. when you prep and take that new gun out for a test fire to make sure it goes bang you might want to explore other Preps. Make sure they actually go Bang . I did and it was interesting how much food /fuel I could get from the non recorded exchange of something worth something for something worth something .
Deleteor lawyer services which was about the best advice I ever got . and I hate lawyers .But it only cost me bout 3 silver eagles . And that is a fact . So even though your coif is magnificent Mr. Dakin /the fact that silver is actually quite low priced in us dollars atm it does appear to have some real world functionality . As long as you deal with foriegners or lawyers , my pardon I repeat myself !you will come out fair I believe but that is just my testing the so called system . be well
Silver is great. I don't doubt its usefulness. Not sure where we disagree.
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