Item #1 for this holiday Monday: My book – Mind Amplifiers – continues to be (from what I have been told – one of the best, most-needed, but somehow undiscovered AI books on Amazon.
This weekend, I continued the AI research (extensively) with a post on my Hidden Guild (AI research) site exploring Beyond the “Mind Amplifiers” Book.
One reader comment has already landed: “Your cold must be a heck of a lot better because today’s Hidden Guild article is so bang on. No fog in your brain on this one.”
Item #2: $100 Silver is nearly here. In the early futures trade today it climbed as high as $94.37 and gold put on $74 leaving only $2 before a breakout $4,700 handle.
I could look back at buying silver at $6.97 when we were in Burbank years ago. But what matters is (once again) Ure’s right playing the long game in finance. Which reduces to one simple rule. “As long as government keeps spending more than it brings in, inflation hedging is the only game in town.”
If you like money – and “taxable events” – as much as we do – always bet with and not against the House.
Item #3 Holiday News Flows are “Cheap Clickery.” For example, the wide-eyed lefties are worried Law and Order will survive. Derailing plans for a “spring revolution” as Pentagon prepares troops as Trump considers Minnesota deployment: reports.
“The Law” shouldn’t be like trying to read a topographical map. The whole idea being “one country” but that seems too simple for the liberal-most Minnesotans.
Item #4 Understand What’s “Driving Greenland.” Liberals – who also have math problems – get their knickers in a knot reading how Trump tariffs live updates: EU discusses $108 billion in retaliatory tariffs; Danish PM says Europe ‘will not be blackmailed’. Sounds sketchy but only until you understand how the future has changed with hypersonic missiles.
See, back in my (extremely overpaid) youth as an Alaska remote site microwave tech rep, the only plausible threat to the American heartland was “over the pole.” Which is why we funded such hot spots as Cape Romanzof Air Force Station. (Being prematurely wise, I spent most of my time within an hour’s drive of The Bush Company. But here’s the real take it to the bank:
Trump’s renewed Greenland talk maps neatly onto Golden Dome logic: Greenland’s polar geometry (and the existing U.S. footprint at Pituffik/Thule) is prized real estate for early-warning sensors, tracking, and space/ground links in a missile-defense architecture. That’s why the rhetoric keeps circling “national security” and “Russian/Chinese threats” while Greenland is framed as a must-have node rather than just a mineral play.
Item #5: American Super-Weapons may be “in the works or being trialed.” If you haven’t read the G.A. Stewart report over on The Age of Desolation website, click here to get up to speed.
Item #6: Global Markets are “dollar-watching.” If you’re still asleep and don’t link this to our “Item #2” you may not have a grasp of the Big Picture. See, when USD/JPY drops below 158.00 amid weak US Dollar, Japan Takaichi calls snap election, this ripples around the world.
Japan was (not surprisingly) down solidly. So was Hong Kong and the malaise has spread to Europe. At this rate, money-flow dynamics begin to weigh on a lower open to the week.
Item #7: The Week looks “chilled” as winter rolls along. The Big stories in finance aren’t here because of the Federal (no mail=no bills) holiday. Boring (but don’t ignore) the Treasury buy-back details mid-morning tomorrow. Housing starts will be along Wednesday.
GDP and Personal Income Thursday – but a check of your bank balances will tell you what is already locked.
Item #8: Where are the Global Warming shills? We haven’t heard much from them lately. What we are tracking is this: Is an ice storm coming to Alabama? Long-range weather models raise concern – al.com. Please keep it on your side of Ol Miss.
Around the Ranch: 2 Items (I warned you)
Item #9: Think of ham radio antennas just like an audiophile thinks of their speakers. It’s the “hook-ups” that matter. Dr. John – who’s living the antenna choice paradox in real-life, still has hope for magnetic loops as an option:
“I was just talking with Kent, who managed a 1200 mile QSO on 10M phone with just 5W. When the atmosphere is conducive, amazing things can happen. And Kent started with a MFJ mag loop in his attic back 15 years ago. And what he was able to accomplish with it is worth hearing him tell.
So what about magnetic loops?
1. Lightweight and portable.
2. Small: 3-5 feet diameter for 40-17M
3. Robust if made from copper pipe.
4. Only need to be mounted 3 diameters high, so access is really good.
5. Narrow bandwidth is good enough for digital modes, which are low power. Typical 20W transmission output. Digital modes will be better in poor conditions.”
If you missed our long discourse on antennas for the End of the World (at Dr. John’s house) click over and read Shop Talk Sunday here. I want antennas where I can “spin and work.” Too much tweeter time with small loops, sorry.
Item #10: Growing up at age 77 seems likely, now. I am finally on the backside of that God-awful cold and starting to put myself back in “drive” again.
I told you that as part of the New Year (which we’re in) I would be focusing more on two major objectives.
- Live Like We’re Rich in ’26.
- Organizing a (more) perfect life.
Now a Short Story about Time
I got up Saturday morning and did some work with my AIs trying to nail-down how to get more done in less time.
Specifically, I was seeking “perfect” software that would do a MUCH better job of project management (and from the top-down, Life Management) software. Wow~! Was that ever a disappointment.
For simple Kanban time management, Brisqi.com is great – use it every day. BUT where it begins to slide is you can’t drag-n-drop tasks (cards) into a day planner. Ash has built a real kick-ass product BUT there is a problem with Kanban, itself.
See, it was (largely) evolved at Toyota for the production line. Where, each worker is “workstation oriented” and people have narrow (but definable) “lanes to stay in.”
As we scale-out to the Life Management levels, we each become like CEOs of a sprawling Corporate Empire. Since you read this site, you’ll get it when I say you manage:
- A spousal relationship company. Product: Mutual joy and happy life.
- A community relationship: Friends, church, hobby and interest groups
- A labor contracting firm (you contract yourself out to ‘work.’)
- A Services and Maintenance outfit:
- Vehicle maintenance
- Food supplies
- Home improvement projects
- Lawn care…
- Plus you have too many hobbies.
- Welding
- Woodworking
- Ham radio
- Gardening
- Music production and recording
- Writing
- Fitness and longevity
- Long-range shooting
- And an overall financial management firm…
OK, we do all that “on the fly.” Except…
This is where the WBS/Chunking problems pop up. WBS is the “work breakdown structure” which is where the tiers of each deliverable are mashed up and spit out as a schedule so everything gets done in a timely way.
Which we can also do in our heads – but only most of the time.
The “One Best Way” (after Frederick Winslow Taylor) thinking is constantly changing.
Yeah – I have just been through a “shape-shifting calendar” gauntlet (due to the cold). Gads.
Bonus Item #1: Ure’s going “wide.” My “birthday present to myself” may seem like more work – but it’s really better and refocused.
I’m the proud owner/creator of two new websites.
The first is Time-Engineering.com. This is where the final decade (or more) of my epic Battle with Time will be documented.
The second is where my interest in self-sufficiency (and riffing off my book Downsizing: Missing Collapse of Empire will figure prominently.
Three things make this website unique, two of which are public-facing.
First, it is a website that won’t be “just another gardening” site. This will be “gardening under constraints.”
Second, and this is the realization of the two Peoplenomics in-depth reports on “food reactors” is where we apply brains and systems thinking in order to get the most done.
The third, though not-public-facing, is that this will give Elaine and me more time together, outdoors where the clean air, sunshine (OK, snakes, too) are.
We get more time together than me playing junior quant in markets (which has funded paradise in the woods) and we actually are working at decoupling humans from corporate servitude.
Nothing there yet, but HourADayGardening.com will bloom sometime soon.
Also, this will allow me to move a lot of 20-years of various columns into a more “evergreen” setting because Urban – fun as it is – has a shelf life of “until the next market opening.”
Write when you have time,
George@Ure.net
Iggy Pop – “Fun House”
Callin’ from the fun house with my song
We been separated, baby, far too long
Callin’ all you whoop-dee pretty things
Shinin’ in your freedom, come and be my rings
Hold me tight
Callin’ from the fun house
Hold me tight
Callin’ from the fun house, yeah
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=a1c6om8dUGA&list=RDa1c6om8dUGA&start_radio=1&pp=ygUWaWdneSBwb3AgZnVuaG91c2UgbGl2ZaAHAQ%3D%3D
Yo G-Pops,
Have youse lost sight of the truly important things in ones Life ?
Sure seems that way what with Ure total lack of focus on how to make the perfect TACO – no not tRUMP and his latest tariff threat/TACO.
1st things first Geniuses, as a proper foundation is best place to start;
1- Pork Butt/Shoulder – Sssssslllllllloooooooowwwwwlllllllllyyyyyyy cooked in crock like pot for 2 days, turn off overnights. Dont forget to throw some Poblanos in there with all the other spices..
2- Corn Tortilla..ONLY Corn will do. Not Corn ? NOT A TACO!
3- Chopped Radish, Onion and Cilantro.
Dont forget some Marie Sharps habenaro sauce..carrot based.
Thats it – simple, easy peazy and Heavenly. All youse religious types been looking/praying to wrong place – See above crock pot – you can find a small slice heaven in there, somewheres..
I like a side of Beans& Rice with my Taco’s- so besides Cilantro, Radish, Onion Sets, and some Peppers, (Poblanos, Jalapenos and maybe a scotch bonnet depending on just how HOT you like it) youll wanna throw Red Beans and Black Beans in that Victory Garden as well.
After all variety is the spice of Life, though Girlfriend at the time didnt think so..https://youtu.be/w9EHbkpxUNw?
* even Moar heavenly..Carnitas.
U city slickers& snakeskin cowboys already have the ingredients, just pull apart the above referenced shoulder or butt roast, and let absorb/simmer in juices for a few hours.
Now youse grab a “tacos” worth infused pork and toss on hot skillet -for each Taco. The idea here is to create a BARK (texture&flavor) on the outside of Taco filling. Bark adds a different texture profile as well as flavor profile for the best Carnitas this side of the Pecos River!
* Anyone know why No Tariffs of Cocaine..?
Anyone know who is driving “that” Train ? It aint I..https://youtu.be/CxCfnq7A56M?
** timeline of darkness/sonsofdarkness; enlil -set/setes- zeus- baal-typhon. all the same – different names to different Peoples/timelines. The folks that called him baal also called the good guys(ET’s) leader Yam. Farsights upcoming mystery project coming later this week is all about that historical conflict tween baal & Yam. Kinda otherworldly – now youse Know.
Cheers.
re: “Casey Jones”, Hunter-Garcia, 1970
feat: “Auld Lang Syne”, Burns, 1788
BCP,
I didn’t realize that Grateful Dead lyricist Robert Hunter was a great-great-grandson of Scottish poet Robert Burns. He also attended college according to the following Wikipedia link:
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Robert_Hunter_(lyricist)&diff=prev&oldid=996248751
The separate works “Casey Jones” (which you linked above) and “Auld Lang Syne” are about “irreversible motion through time” according to ChatGPT. It draws a “symbolic parallel” between the pair. “One is about the crash” while “the other is a remembrance about the crash”.
As chance would have it, Chinese state-owned CGTN uploaded a version of “Auld Lang Syne” to their YouTube channel on October 27, 2019. The following YouTube link leads to that portion of the closing ceremony of the Military World Games held in Wuhan, China:
https://youtu.be/Fg0UpPbnAR8
Btw, Jerry is playing his ‘Wolf’ guitar (ex: 2m54s) in “Casey Jones”. I think the wolf is in homage to ‘The Big Bad Wolf’ cartoon character appearing in “Red Hot Riding Hood” released on May 8, 1943? The cartoon release was paired with the film “Dr. Gillespie’s Criminal Case”. A psychiatric patient with a gun runs amuck; erysipelas (“red skin” disease) breaks out on the ward claiming a nurse while four children recover.
At least 39 people have died in a train collision in southern Spain and dozens more have been injured in the country’s worst rail crash in more than a decade, Spain’s Civil Guard has said.
Carriages on a Madrid-bound train derailed and crossed over to the opposite tracks, colliding with an oncoming train in Adamuz on Sunday evening.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cedw6ylpynyo
Today’s date is 1/19/2026.
What are the odds that a train derails just as a train is coming from the other direction on opposite tracks…
This might be one of G.A. Stewart’s Pagan Sect of Infidels 1-1-9 Ritual Days.
JC,
The event is a sad tragedy whose locales transit crossroads of history. The highspeed train which allegedly first entered the crash sequence was travelling from Malaga to Madrid. Malaga’s name derives originally from Phoenician for “the (fish) salting place” rather than Lot’s wife of Genesis 19:26. Madrid reaches us via Arabic’s “place of hidden water” previously known as “Matrix” to the Romans.
The collision took place near the town of Adamuz from the Arabic “hidden place/place of concealment”. Adjacent is the Sierra Morena (“The Dark Mountains”) region. Romani character Carmen in Prosper Mérimée’s 1846 book, “Carmen” met her fate there.
Well looky here, this must be the “Come Line”, thanx JC.
Outta the gutter pervs, we bee talking Craps. More specifically we bee talking placing a Bet on the Come Line. If You dont know where or what this is in a Craps game, run dont walk from the Casino. Watch old Bond flick featuring Tiffany Case and Dr Goodhead, then youtube it after first reading a book about Craps. Good ? Good2Go.
Seven come Eleven – 7 come 11 .
Got it ? This what you say as someone throws the Dice towards the end of the Table, when you got $ on the Come Line.
BET has been placed on the Come Line for a cool $1000. One of the pretty Ladies throws the dice….and lo and behold we got ourselves an ELEVEN/11.
More at link – way moar – ties to Generally Angry Stu’s work on 911 rituals.
Like the Philly Phreedom &GA – Shining the LIGHT..
-https://www.theinteldrop.org/2026/01/18/incomplete-list-of-team-antichrist-using-11-for-satanic-rituals-of-terrorism/
Spain’s Transport Minister Oscar Puente said the cause of the crash remains a mystery, calling the deadly collision a ‘truly strange’ incident because the tracks had been renovated just last year.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15476945/Spanish-train-disaster-victims-flew-windows-hundreds-yards-away-dead-mystery-truly-strange-crash.html
JC
January 19, 2026 at 09:08
What are the odds that a train derails just as a train is coming from the other direction on opposite tracks???…
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I’d say the odds were pretty high for a crash anywhere there is a change of direction or merging of opposite or close proximity movements in closing or oncoming traffic.
In restaurants, don’t sit near the kitchen doors. Servers going in or coming out with plates of food don’t have X-ray eyes to see opposite direction traffic on the other side of the door. That’s why the little window is there.
Same thing for intersections of any moving vehicle traffic.. That’s why the red light cameras make so much money for the cities that use them.
Not everything is a mystery…
I remember bitchin when a coin dealer upped his silver dollars when I went to buy a bunch. He ripped me off for six dollars per. My friend who was buying with me said ignore and buy, cause soon it wouldn’t matter. He was so right.
We started our buying spree because of George’s advice way back.
BEST INVESTMENT ADVICE anyone ever gave me.
Thanks G
Chris
OK, I admit to paying a few bux too much, but the point was I got three 2026 silver eagles for this year’s graduation gifts as soon as they were available from APMEX on eBay. And they are in hand now. I know if I waited until graduation season the prices will be MUCH higher, so I don’t mind the premium now. I paid $106/each.
And I still have my box of $4 ’rounds’ that I beat Ure price on!
Trump is getting the U.S. boxed out w/Troops not factories policies.
“The European Union and the Mercosur bloc of South American countries formally signed a long-sought free trade agreement on Saturday, strengthening commercial ties in the face of rising protectionism and trade tensions around the world.”
We can’t buy BYD but F can buy Chinese made sensors and assemble them into a car. Scammers. Perhaps Trump had it right flipping those people off.
Note: I would give BYD a try as they are 1/3 the price of an American jalopy. But I would never buy an American car.
I usually buy cars that don’t work and I have to tow home. It’s like out of the money options, but I have control over how I repair and maintain it. In almost every case, I end up winning. Most problems are repairable, and if that fails, there’s always a redneck fix. I can’t see getting a new one unless there’s some tech I want to play with, like the RX-7 from the 80’s. I’d love to find a broken BYD on Craigslist.
I owned a ‘79 model, made in ‘78, which was the year they first came out. Super fun car and the rotary motor was easy to work on. Years later I bought my son a rx8, but the motors, yes motors, kept losing compression. I suspect it is the reason they were discontinued.
O/T – tomorrow marks one year. Are people still eating the dogs, cats & pets in Springfield?
Trump: They’re eating the dogs, the cats
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5llMaZ80ErY
I suggest you include the “Beyond Mind Amplifiers” post with the Mind Amplifiers book, and republish it as a 2nd edition. I think it would be a worth while addition.
George, I want to thank you. A few months ago you said something about hanging out with people who you want to be like or who gave you energy and didn’t leave you feeling drained. Instead if focusing on what I didn’t like about my social groups, I focused on what I wanted. I found a place and a group of people who are friendly, encouraging, active, who smile and are willing to discuss a variety of topics. i am so much happier. It was as if focusing on what I wanted, instead of what I didn’t like, brought it into my life.
Check out FreeBooksy for free ebooks. Scroll down their daily list for the ” buy now for free “on Amazon ebooks. Lots of categories to choose from.
“The Law of Attraction”… in action!
https://www.abraham-hicks.com/
why a $100 silver ? yep i hang out with nobody . just music and economics . and of course best food and fitness . yep the juice is pumpin in the dopamine gang
(“I could look back at buying silver at $6.97 when we were in Burbank years ago. But what matters is (once again) Ure’s right playing the long game in finance. Which reduces to one simple rule. “As long as government keeps spending more than it brings in, inflation hedging is the only game in town.”)
That’s what makes me laugh..people with lets say has a million dollars twenty years ago in the bank..he’s getting lets say 5% interest on his numbers… SO…
When silver rises twenty?fold and the price of goods climbs with it, that isn’t appreciation — it becomes a revelation that most don’t see.. the hidden truth.
The metal didn’t get more valuable your numbers in the jars hidden away instead; the currency got weaker your numbers actually lost value and your poorer and can’t see it… Accounting records the numbers, but it doesn’t record the truth: you can show what you assume.. and we really know what that means…( they are making an ASS out of U and ME) a profit every year and still be losing purchasing power and losing what you believe is growth..lol lol the whole time.
Inflation doesn’t make assets grow — it makes dollars shrink. The ledger shows gains because it measures in the very unit that’s dissolving. It’s like measuring a flood with a sinking boat.
Inflation doesn’t just distort prices even though you think your growing— it only distorts your perception of growth while your losing. A portfolio can appreciate on paper while depreciating in reality. The illusion of wealth is the most profitable product the financial system ever created….
If you want to understand the illusion of wealth, look at Argentina paying six?thousand?percent interest while prices were exploding faster than the ink could dry. People thought they were getting rich — until they tried to buy bread. That’s the punchline: when your currency is evaporating, even astronomical interest rates can’t outrun reality. Silver didn’t go up twenty?fold… your measuring stick just disintegrated all while your saying yahoo mountain doo..
https://youtu.be/tUuqKiSyo2k?si=FqInBvsUpRz1hDVa
$100 in 1965 is equivalent in purchasing power to about $1,000 today.
$6,900 = yearly household income
$21,500 = cost of a new home
$2,650 = price of a new car (a VW Bug was just $1,595)
$0.53 = cost of a dozen eggs
$0.35 = cost of a cup of coffee
$0.31 = cost of a gallon of regular gas
$0.05 = first-class postage
https://learn.neumann.edu/news/nostalgia-a-look-back-at-1965
And the cost of that twenty one thousand dollar home..is now selling for four hundred grand.. A shop near me sold in I believe two thousand for fifteen thousand is now worth five hundred grand..I put a new roof on our home for twenty five hundred in 2016 with a porch and small greenhouse.. the kids had to replace a few shingles last year.. ten grand ..
I built my first home materials for ten grand in 87.. that’s with foundation .. I was in menards.. I went to get a four dollar handy panel..only to see that same handy panel was 40.. I asked my friend the store manager say lets run up the material cost of a seven hundred split level..no foundation.. so I ran over got one of the plans they sell and we ran up the material cost alone..no f n sets work no infrastructure no labor..materials came out 137,000.00 I whistled and said oh my god.. you know the teller at the register has to clear better than twenty five bits cos an hour..average pay 12.50 an hour to 18.00 an hour..I put thirty five hours in his next week and took home ..hold in A second I will copy the deposit for the thirty five hour week from my statement this morning….$284.61….for eighty hours I took home this much …$478.69
Now that doesn’t even consider transportation costs..I was averaging just shy three hundred miles a day going from client to client.. in 72 groceries for a family a f four was what seventy five dollars a MONTH..today you’ll blow that much at burger king..I’m anal about budgeting.. I cleaned out my old papers a few years ago and sent G a copy of my monthly budget he did I think an article in peoplenomics about it.. how these kids are doing it is amazing.. they are using plastic..
In seventy five I thought..if I ever make four bucks an hour ill be rich..my monthly electric bill was something like five dollars..someone asked why my grand daughter hasn’t had any kids yet..they can’t afford daycare..adult wet wipes five bucks plus per pack..because of my wife’s past stroke history I had to gather a catastrophic health plan just to be able to take her to a clinic..not a top of the line plan either just a middle of the road plan..ten grand deductible fifteen dollar generic drug cost and fifty dollar copay for office visit..and her two grand a month..through the years we had it..if we had just invested it in savings bonds alone..we would have had just shy a million dollars..the majority of elderly here in our community head to southern Texas and Arizona just to get their medications and major medical services done..TBE savings pays for their winter trip expenses and medical for the whole year..expat sad d the other day he never looked back..the wife and I were watching a show on tv..I think discovery channel..and they were posting countries that elderly were heading to because they c as n live like kings on their retirement..Here’s a video..not the show we were watching but it covers the same..
https://youtu.be/PQbC2h70qMM?si=9OdfKpVLgHegy28o
now two years ago I wanted to buy some cans..
https://oktoberdesign.com/products/12oz-cans-ends
now to buy a case of them from the manufacture its twelve dollars plus shipping from china.. Julie was my sales rep.. I order a case the cost came out close to a hundred dollars with shipping.. I get the manifest and its for a whole pallet.. basically a ten year supply..I text her saying I can’t afford a whole pallet..she said h your a good customer and the shipping cost was the same as for a whole pallet so we made no at anyway I hoped your order..my wife sees all these cans and says what the hell..lol their cost of living s so more cheap cheaper..face masks my grand kids must eat them dam things in winter..at the sportsman shop.. they are fifteen bucks a piece..I could buy a whole case of the exact same with shipping for five dollars..so I totally got what expat was saying..the cost of medical alone..
that might have been 75’s budget to.. I am not sure anymore that was a long time ago that I sent it to George.
I was shocked then when I uncovered the box of papers.. my wife wanted to park in the garage..so she had me getting rid of my books.. lol. I use ebooks now.. I think I got like five thousand on my ebook reader . I wish I could put stews books on it..I got one of his that I got from Amazon…
An X1.9 long-duration flare was detected in the GOES-19 X-ray flux, peaking on 2026 Jan 18 at 18:09 UTC. The event is associated with SIDC Sunspot Group 740 (NOAA AR 4341; Long -30, Lat -11). Nearly simultaneously, a Type II radio emission was reported beginning at 2026 Jan 18 17:59 UTC, indicating shock formation and supporting the presence of an associated coronal mass ejection (CME). The CME was detected as a full halo in SOHO/LASCO C2 data on 2026 Jan 18 at 18:12 UTC; given its source location and its association with the flare and the Type II emission, the CME is considered likely Earth-directed. The plane-of-sky speed of this CME is estimated at 1000 to 1500 km/s. A proton event is also associated with this activity: the >10 MeV GOES proton flux has been above the 10 pfu threshold since 2026 Jan 18 at 22:50 UTC and is still increasing, with the 100 pfu level exceeded from 2026 Jan 19 at 04:40 UTC. Further M-class flaring can be expected from this region, with a chance !
of another X-class flare.
Re: live like you’re rich in 26…
A very old friend, quite successful, has had to take a trip to NZ and asked us to mind her plants etc. in her penthouse overlooking the river a few hundred kliks south of the moat. A lovely bus ride through the countryside, even a section on the off white dog, and we have two weeks in a bustling gathered of very raucous humans, seemingly together for the purpose of consuming too much alcohol and food if the relationship of those outlets to any other business is the indicator. Noise, sirens, drunken yelling, fighting, the smell of burning tobacco and perfume, still find the way to the sixth floor during the nights. This is supposed to be human luxury but somehow it doesn’t compare to the total quiet we normally live in, and the river is not a moat, it’s a highway for jetskis and small fishing boats.
As for living rich, floating and the moat still wins it. Can’t wait to head back north again and restore the balance of inner nature.
Can what would be a normal two bedroom home be actually ‘worth’ million$ in any sense of the word? What is ‘worth’ anything when you can’t escaape the dirt?
Stiks
LOL…Most people celebrating their ‘wealth in ledgers, are really just dancing on the edge of a cliff and they can’t see it… It feels like flying right up until the moment they realize they never had a parachute. My father told me about two brothers who inherited a fortune: one put his money in the bank and felt like a genius as the interest rolled in; the other drank wine, lived his life, and filled his cellar with bottles. Then Weimar hit. The ‘smart’ brother needed a wheelbarrow of cash for a loaf of bread. The ‘fool’ had a basement full of wine — and a glass shortage. That’s the truth nobody wants to face: when money stops moving, it dies. When the top one percent hoards it in ledgers instead of circulating it through communities, the currency rots from the inside out.LOL..its all about the velocity and movement..People think they’re getting richer because the numbers in their account go up and up. That’s not wealth — that’s altitude. And when the currency collapses, everyone who thought they were climbing discovers they were actually falling in slow motion. Weimar proved it: the brother who trusted the bank ended up with paper; the brother who trusted real goods ended up with value. Velocity is life. Hoarding is decay. A society where money stops moving is a society already dead — it just hasn’t hit the ground yet….Lol lol..People on my tier of the pyramid are already living close to the ground — we feel every bump, every price hike, every shortage at the moment. But the folks at the top… They’re the ones in real danger and they don’t even know it yet. In every major collapse, it wasn’t the poor who panicked; it was the people who thought they were safe. During the Great Depression, it wasn’t the man with nothing who jumped from high rises — it was the man who suddenly realized his ‘wealth’ was just altitude. When the fall came, he had a long way down. Those of us at the bottom only drop a couple of feet.
“If we end up with Weimar 1923 style hyperinflation which is now looking like the most probable outcome, gold’s value in fiat terms will be infinite.”
https://www.clivemaund.com/article.php?id=7099
Oh I hear yah there… When gold rises, it doesn’t make me richer — it exposes how fast my retirement is shrinking in real terms. It’s like getting a $20,000 check: the number looks solid, but the moment you start paying actual bills, the purchasing power evaporates. I’m trying to cover a $30,000 expense, working harder than ever, and yet the gap keeps widening. That’s the part accountants miss — the nominal balance looks fine from the ledger, but from the bottom of the economic river you can feel the silt piling up. By the time the boat sinks, the spreadsheet still says everything was ‘stable…One repair, one medical bill, one unexpected cost, and suddenly the number collapses. That’s the catfish?bottom view of the economy: the surface looks calm, the books look balanced, but the muck is building underneath. By the time the boat sinks, the ledger still insists everything was fine.
Would IT…?????
Governments always think they can “control” the price of precious metals — as if gold and silver care what a politician writes on paper. History already proved the opposite. During the Weimar hyperinflation, people weren’t looking at official price charts. They were carrying baskets of silverware, jewelry, and tea sets into the streets just to trade for a loaf of bread. When a currency collapses, the market decides what has value, not the government.
And here’s the part nobody in power wants to talk about:
In a true food?scarce environment, ten pounds of wheat becomes priceless. Its value isn’t measured in dollars — it’s measured in survival. You can’t eat paper money, and you can’t enforce price controls on hunger. When food is scarce, the person holding grain has more real power than any central bank.
People forget that the modern grocery store is a fragile illusion. Roughly two?thirds of what sits on those shelves comes from outside the United States — imported ingredients, foreign manufacturing, global supply chains. If that system breaks either by varies similar to those being implemented as I write this… it doesn’t matter what the “official” price of gold or silver is. The only price that matters is what someone will trade for food, fuel, or medicine.
Take our small community.. the majority of the elderly race to southern Texas and Arizona so they can cross into Mexico to buy their years supply of medications. Or seek medical services that are to pricey to have done in the USA where necessary healthcare is designed to only be available to the wealthy..
Governments can then and will try to control metals on paper similar to what they have done in the past.
History shows that when the money dies, the market goes back to basics:
food, tools, skills, and hard assets that don’t need permission to hold value..people forget that during the Gold Rush, the real wealth didn’t go to the prospectors digging in the river beds. It went to the merchants — the ones selling shovels, flour, boots, tents, and food. Levi Strauss didn’t get rich mining gold; he got rich selling durable pants to miners who were desperate for supplies. Sam Brannan became California’s first millionaire not by panning for gold, but by buying every pickaxe and shovel in San Francisco and selling them at a markup to the hopeful masses.
The lesson is a simple and brutally consistent across history:
In a crisis, the people holding essential goods — food, tools, clothing, shelter — have more real power than the people holding metal.
Gold and silver only matter because they can be traded for what actually keeps you alive.
People on my tier of the pyramid were the ones everyone mocked for ‘bitching and moaning’ — but that noise was just the sound of us learning how to survive. Every complaint was a coping skill forming. Every rant is pressure releasing. Meanwhile, the folks above us rolled their eyes and said, ‘If they only did what I did…’ never realizing we weren’t whining, we were warning. We were living the future they’d eventually crash into….
Those on the bottom tier of the pyramid aren’t complain because we’re fragile — we complain because we’re awake and seeing the events heading toward us like a freight train…. Pain teaches us early in the fall. Scarcity teaches us fast. And the lessons we learned out loud were the very ones the upper tiers refused to hear all saying oh my god there he goes again lol. Now as the world is beginning to shift all while assuming its growth, then as it moves closer suddenly our ‘whining’ looks a lot like wisdom…well maybe not wisdom..lol lol in reality the good lord knows that I sometimes feel like I’m a real loser in life..lol lol
God I love this silver going up story…lol
It’s really the same trick as the old ‘three guys and thirty dollars’ puzzle. Three men pay ten dollars each — thirty total. The manager says the price is actually twenty?five and sends the clerk back with five dollars. The clerk pockets two and gives each man one. Now each man paid nine dollars, that’s twenty?seven. Add the clerk’s two and you get twenty?nine. Everyone stares at the missing dollar like it’s a magic trick. But there is no missing dollar — the math is being framed wrong on purpose and people believe they’re gaining while in reality they are losing . That’s exactly how Ponzi schemes work and how the system works. Madoff didn’t make people rich; he made them look at the wrong column.
The three?men?thirty?dollars trick is the perfect metaphor for modern finance: people obsess over the wrong totals, trust the wrong columns, and never notice the structure itself is designed to mislead them. The missing dollar isn’t missing — the perspective is. That’s how entire economies convince themselves they’re gaining while they’re quietly being drained.
lol lol lol while everyone sees the struggle as a character flaw, not as a forecast. Now the storm is almost here, and they never learned to read the clouds of the coming storm..
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There are two different models.
Maybe someone is reading my “charged body theory paper?
Shockingly, our “brilliant” NATO Ally, the United Kingdom, is currently planning to give away the Island of Diego Garcia, the site of a vital U.S. Military Base, to Mauritius, and to do so FOR NO REASON WHATSOEVER.
https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/115926047595803521
re: Bull Excrement Just another comment from your favorite person that you are MOST tired of
hearing from other than BCP.
Please don’t buy all the Bullshit that you read on your favorite news source.
Especially don’t buy the Bullshit that you hear from your favorite political Whore.
Minnesota has a lot of problems but it would not be catastrophic if we did not
have political Whores at ALL levels.
YOU KNOW THAT !!!!
Your favorite guy.
“I got up Saturday morning and did some work with my AIs trying to nail-down how to get more done in less time.”
Simple….do less. Do nothing………….you and E have the answer.
Your AI overlords will be cracking the whip until the bitter end. They know nothing of love and never will.
What a soulless path you’ve chosen.
Yes: “do less” is often the right answer. Elaine and I have deliberately built our life so we can choose more porch time, more slow mornings, and more love. That part isn’t theory. It’s practice.
But here’s where we differ: I’m not using AI as an overlord. I’m using it as a wrench.
A wrench doesn’t replace love. It doesn’t tell you what to value. It just helps you turn bolts with less strain. If it lets me finish the necessary chores faster, then I get more of the only currency I care about: unhurried time with Elaine, more garden, more reading, more prayer, more peace.
And I’m not chasing “more done” for bragging rights. I’m chasing fewer loose ends. Because loose ends become stress, and stress steals tenderness. If AI helps me shorten the stress window, I consider that a net gain for the human side of the ledger.
You’re right about one thing: these systems don’t know love. They never will. That’s exactly why they’re tools and not companions. Love lives on our side of the membrane. The whole point is to protect it.
But here’s the part you may not be seeing: what motivates me (believe it or not) is helping the world along.
AI is just the next “thinking tool” in a long line that predates Lotus and goes all the way back to the abacus. If we keep it in the tool category, it frees us to focus on higher-return human work: tighter time engineering, more home-grown food, and testing templates that can be passed on to our kids and grandkids.
That’s not a soulless path. It’s me trying to leave the campsite a little better than I found it. So agrwee to disagree?
Damned Well Said!
Lots to unpack here. I like your philosophy.
You leaving the world a better place was never in doubt George.