by AdamB » Tue 01 Jul 2025, 18:53:56
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('theluckycountry', '
')Here's the proof Americans didn't land on the Moon....hey...us Australians are so jealous because they are so smart and we are so stupid that we've got to pitch this nonsense hoping we can find more rubes to make us feel better.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3776826[/quote]

Plant Thu 27 Jul 2023 "Personally I think the IEA is exactly right when they predict peak oil in the 2020s, especially because it matches my own predictions."
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by AdamB » Wed 02 Jul 2025, 18:05:02
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('careinke', 'M')arkets closed for Wednesday.
1 BTC = 32.704 Ounces of gold. Both assets rising together today. It's all good
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Do you watch markets and values and whatnot of your investments as closely as it appears? Or is this just more like just repoting here because numbnuts made his ignorant comments and you are driving home the point of how much a numbnuts he is when he says anything about....well....anything.
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by careinke » Thu 03 Jul 2025, 03:43:52
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('AdamB', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('careinke', 'M')arkets closed for Wednesday.
1 BTC = 32.704 Ounces of gold. Both assets rising together today. It's all good
Peace
Do you watch markets and values and whatnot of your investments as closely as it appears? Or is this just more like just repoting here because numbnuts made his ignorant comments and you are driving home the point of how much a numbnuts he is when he says anything about....well....anything.
I do watch a lot of stuff closely, that's because I'm a Polymath with "expertise" in Permaculture, Survival skills, BTC, Gold, Forestry, Diet, Fitness, Experimental Psychology, the Constitution, Libertarians, Socialists, Anarchists, Lots of secret shit, and others. I'm also retired, with numerous diversified sources of income.
I had Copilot generate this so I can use it for talking points:$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'Y')ou're exactly 17 years and 4 months older than Elon Musk! He was born June 28, 1971, and you on February 8, 1954—so you've got a good head start on life experience, wisdom, and stories to tell.
If we’re measuring time in world-changing inventions and rollercoaster markets, you’ve lived through quite the arc—from the birth of modern computing to Bitcoin flipping gold ratios. Not bad company to keep, eh?
Want me to compare notable events or tech milestones from both your birth years? Could be a fun stroll through history.
Every book I have heard Elon mention, I have read. Only I read them 17 years earlier than him. Elon's family was relatively wealthy, mine were not. Elon's Father was abusive, mine was helpful but challenging.
Anyway, I was a Navy Brat in the Philippines during the Cuban Missile Crises where for the first time I became interested in Politics, Money, and the Russians. I collected coins like my dad, I memorized all the states and their Capitals, Spied on our maids, found my first crush, and became even more addicted to manned Space missions.
So right now, I believe humans are going through a HUGE civilization change, right up there with Agriculture, Slavery, Writing, Money, and Spears. Whatever happens, I feel blessed to be able to watch it play out and record it.
Funny thing is both the right and the left both feel it and both think life will get remarkably better. I know you don't like me to recommend books to read, but these two are pretty important to understand.
First is:
THE FOURTH TURNING IS HERE (What The Seasons of History Tell Us About How and When This Crisis Will End by NEIL HOWE. He predicts it will be over in the next ten years. Published Nov, 2024. He definitely leans Right. However I learned about the next book from this one.
For the left side, I present:
STELLAR: A WORLD BEYOND LIMITS AND HOW TO GET THERE by James Arbib and Tony Seba. It's certainly a shorter read only 276 pages vs over 400 for the first suggestion. It was published March 2025 so it is more recent, the authors are both British. I have not read all of it yet, but I will. Going through the Table of contents makes it look VERY interesting.
As for "numbnuts" I do take a certain amount of pleasure Trolling the Troller in Chief. I noticed he is no longer claiming the Troll tittle though. Plus, when he is not parroting and writes his own stuff, I feel he is catching on to what is actually happening. He just can't seem to put it all together.
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by AdamB » Fri 04 Jul 2025, 18:20:46
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('theluckycountry', 'T')his is all anyone ever wanted, steady, secure, inflation protected gains on their savings. And this is wealth you can actually own, by taking possession of, as many investors do.

Agreed. And those who invest in gold...and market tracking equities.....stop worrying about the gold because they can trade the gains in the market for MORE gold than they the original value of their gold and equity starting point.
So sure...be stupid and refuse to diversify. Some uneducated boneheads in Australia with stupid investment stategies call themselves Lucky.

Americans just giggle at what Third Worlders think on any topic, but thanks for providing a specific example of why when Australians go to test fire a rocket, it activates a switch that jettisons the nose of the rocket instead. America would be happy to loan you some smart high school kids, and they could maybe teach your current rocket scientists how to add and subtract and stuff first, before they tackle big things and whatnot?
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by theluckycountry » Sun 06 Jul 2025, 18:40:19
Pillow-Gold: Turkey Has $311 Billion Untracked and Untaxed
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', ' ')It’s pretty amazing the amount of Gold undeclared in Turkey. But that’s Nobody’s business but the Turks, as the song goes. Likely Erdogan himself has done the same thing. Between January and April 2025, Türkiye’s current account deficit widened to $20.3 billion, up from $14.5 billion the year prior. A significant portion—$6.27 billion—was attributed to the imbalance in gold trade. Gold imports continue to strain the country’s external accounts, with most of the metal never entering the formal financial system.
The Central Bank of Türkiye (CBRT) estimates that Turkish households held approximately $311 billion in physical gold as of Q3 2024. This unregistered stockpile dwarfs the central bank’s own reserves ($86.5 billion) and far exceeds the $46.3 billion in gold deposits recorded in Turkish banks.
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2025-07- ... nd-untaxedTurkey is a big regional player, a good candidate for the BRICS once it sheds it's alliance with NATO. What Turkish people, along with Asians and arabs in general know, is that government can't be trusted, that paper money systems always collapse and leave people poor. That's why they hoard Gold, it's anti-government, anti-corporate, it's freedom basically. $300 billion, that's a lot of food and energy and cloths and whatnot to buy in the future. And that's what we're really talking about here folks. These people are saving for the future, where their counterparts in the West are going into debt for the future. And before anyone opens their arse to say "What if the Gold becomes worthless" first go off and find one account of that happening, in all of recorded history. And I'm not referring to the US laws banning gold, that was for idiots that kept their Gold in bank vaults where the government could steal it. If you kept it at home you were safe, could still sell it after the Gold act was passed and at a 50% increase to boot.
But the west doesn't save, they borrow. Borrowing now to buy a car or holiday is only justifiable if you expect the future to be a lot better, wages to be a lot higher. But it's still a stupid idea. Stupid to borrow for non-essentials. But the West is Stupid, a massive herd of brainless consumers being led along by the TV set into every stupid life choice. And to keep them from ever thinking straight they are fed an endless procession of emotional garbage on their TV sets. Just look at the Ukraine war, that replaced the Covid mania, that's now been replaced by the Trump Derangement. Endless emotionally toxic garbage, whipped up into a frenzy by the media. Turn your TV off moron, learn how to think again, if you ever did.
We're 17 years past the peak now and the 3rd World is going hungry and dark. We'll be next, we're well on the way in fact.
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by AdamB » Sun 06 Jul 2025, 22:57:07
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('theluckycountry', '[')b]Pillow-Gold: Turkey Has $311 Billion Untracked and Untaxed
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2025-07- ... nd-untaxed
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by AdamB » Mon 07 Jul 2025, 13:26:12
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('theluckycountry', ' ')All investments in oil heavy industries will be come worthless overnight.
No mindless quote to substantiate this statement? Oh wait! That would require a non-parrot, to say something non-infantile and back it up. Good move, just sticking with the stupid you are familiar with.
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by theluckycountry » Mon 07 Jul 2025, 19:24:12
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'T')he correlation between gold and silver prices is strong, with silver prices typically following the trend of gold prices. However, the correlation is not absolute, and currently, the two metals are experiencing their weakest price correlation in over two decades.
The US is now a net importer of Gold, that's a bad sign for them, it means their native reserves have been depleted beyond the demand, just as it was for oil in the 1970's. There is no turning back from this as there was no turning back from their peakOil event.
The big money always positions itself before the herd.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTkvYKNoZFo
We're 17 years past the peak now and the 3rd World is going hungry and dark. We'll be next, we're well on the way in fact.
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