Mass murder by government has been incredibly common over the centuries, and remains so today.
Professor R. J. Rummel spent his career documenting murder by government, and for the 20th century, he ended with a tally of something like 262 million murders (272 million in one article I saw) -- over a quarter BILLION murders for the century, and that's IN ADDITION to deaths from war.
It's hard to accept, but undeniably true, that this horrendous and commonplace murder by government is studiously IGNORED by almost all media in almost every nation.
I walked out of a hair salon / barbershop during COVID when they gave me the OR-state mandated query of my data (phone # and other things, I forget exactly what). Just WAY too intrusive for a damn haircut. The state's excuse, of course, was COVID tracking . . . was I, or had I ever been, near someone who MIGHT have had COVID. . . .
Today's fiat "dollar" has roughly the buying power of a single penny from the decades before Franklin "Internment Camps" Roosevelt took American's gold coins (because the FED had been counterfeiting, er, expanding the money supply since 1913 -- and letting foreign nations exchange US dollars for American gold at $20/oz was no longer sustainable).
A quick look at prices from a century (and more) ago will confirm that. Variations exist for different sectors of the market, but lopping off two zeros from your bank account gives a reasonable estimate of what your buying power is in terms of "real" American dollars (where a $20 bill could be exchanged at any bank or hardware store for a one-oz gold coin). Also: as I type this, gold is $1934.30, per the Kitco widget at 321gold.com -- so again, today's dollar is roughly equal to yesterday's penny. But the "official" gold price is based on there being a shit-ton of "paper gold" that doesn't exist in the real world, so . . . when the music stops, I expect the buying power of gold to skyrocket.
And you're right, cathole953 -- silver is far below its historical average relative to the price of gold; thus, it has even more upside.
Interesting well-known factoid:
In ancient Rome, an ounce of gold would outfit a man with a decent set of clothes -- and it still does. Gold has held its value for longer than that, actually. But the modern world has distortions never before seen (high technology, massively higher population, centuries of mining having reduced the amount of easily-obtained ore, economic fraud at never-before-seen levels due to electronic fiat central banking, CDOs, and much more). Gold may or may not go up in value as I expect, but it damn sure isn't going to zero. The market for jewelry alone is enough to keep the price fairly high regardless.
Will there be a massive reset of the value / buying power of gold and silver?
Probably.
How will it be handled? How long will disruptions last? Where will things settle down, in terms of value for both the metals and whatever paper and digital money is in use?
Unknown, but some people will do better in this transition than others.
Will owning metals be beneficial during this time?
Probably.
Yes: the added tonnage of EVs makes for higher-energy collisions and WILL cause more death and serious injury.
The "Light My Fire" aspect of EV batteries will also increase vehicle-related death and injury.
"Vaxxidents", with people Dying Suddenly while behind the wheel, will do the same.
The psychopathic "elite's" depopulation agenda rolls on . . .
The cleavage turns a ho-hum (to most people) interview with Trump's lawyer into a viral video with far more views that it would otherwise get.
Genius marketing, IMO.
Can't get your message out if people don't listen to it. People WILL listen to this gal.
I spent the summer of 1966 in a house on the Beach in San Diego, with a front door only 20 yards or so from the water. Still have family in the SD area, including a brother who lives near the beach and surfs.
There hasn't BEEN any sea-level rise in the past half-century.
Climate Change is (as we all know here) just another red herring designed to frighten the masses, solidify control by the psychopathic "elite", and suck our bank accounts dry in the process. A bit more CO2 will help plants grow and might slow the actual ICE AGE that would likely be starting about now.
The real environmental problem is pollution -- plastic everywhere, ten thousand man-made chemicals everywhere (not to mention chemtrails), GMOs in our food and elsewhere, light pollution, sound pollution, and EMFs saturating and disrupting the natural world, etc.
Yes, Trump today is the same Trump of the 90s, 80s, and before.
Plenty of old pix, video, and writings make that clear.
Trump today is the same energetic, powerful, and compassionate person, with the pro-freedom and pro-America viewpoint, that he was in interviews decades ago.
The "Trump died and was replaced" idea is BS.
Wash't Jesus a Jew? I mean, he damn sure wasn't Irish.
And all kidding aside: a religion that insists we love one another instead of kill or conquer each other, and that tells us that anyone can be saved -- without reference to racial or ethnic or other such characteristics -- can't really be racist, can it.
Not a typical review; the reviewer is an attorney who works with asylum seekers and trafficking victims. An excerpt:
As someone who has dealt with the back end of trafficking, namely the people who make it to the United States and are able to somehow find a lawyer to help them seek asylum and protection, I can confirm that many of the scenes depicted in “Sound of Freedom” echo what people have told me in the past about how they made their way to the U.S.
So many of these people, both old clients and acquaintances, have talked about the subterfuge used to lure people into the sex trades, the random violence and brutality of the human traffickers, and the absolute desperation of the victims.
. . . The only reason I could find, other than a bitterness toward leading man Jim Caviezel was a hostility toward any film that had as its tagline: “God’s children are not for sale.”
I looked for technical inaccuracies. I looked for outright lies about our government and its inaction. I looked for some hook that would justify the rejection of this film by the intellectuals on the left, and all I came up with was that tagline and its significance.
If that is the only reason a film this powerful and this important is being marginalized by the kind of person who thinks Barbie is a feminist prophet, we’re in more trouble as a society than I ever thought.
It looks truly promising, but "room temperature" in this case actually means -163C, a bit more chilly than I'm comfortable with. An excerpt:
The confirmed absence of electrical resistance now comes together with yesterday's news that confirmed at least one-half of the superconducting equation was solved: LK-99 showcased the Meissner effect (originally Meissner-Ochsenfeld), which results in the levitation of materials as they interact with the Meissner-effect-induced magnetic field. And now, it seems the other half of the equation, resistance-less electrical conduction, was verified in LK-99.
But questions remain even here: it seems that LK-99 only shows superconductivity at 110 kelvin (-163C), which disputes the "room-temperature" bit originally claimed (although all tech enthusiasts that have dabbled in liquid nitrogen cooling know that 110 kelvin is handleable, if not practical). It's also unclear why LK-99 would show both diamagnetism (responsible for levitation) and superconductivity, but within different temperature bands — expectations would paint it more as a "buy one, get two" promotion.
Yet one plus one generally being equal to two, we seem to have independent confirmation of several facets of a superconducting compound being successfully synthesized.
But while this is incredibly promising news, there are still caveats. For one: it's strange that two teams verified different halves of the superconducting requirements, but no team has successfully verified both (as of the time of writing). You would think that it would make more sense for one side to take more time to crack than the other; otherwise, why didn't the initial Meissner-effect observation also show the hallmarks of zero electrical resistance? What is stopping these teams of extremely talented individuals from achieving what others before them did in full?
In the video, Professor Yue himself says that while promising, the team's results aren't proof that LK-99 is the superconductor breakthrough we've been waiting for. For that to happen, you'd have to wait for a credible institution to confirm both the Meissner effect and the zero electrical resistance halves of the equation — at the same time. And even then, it won't be enough: their announcement (cue all other scientific prizes) will have to be followed up by other institutions up to a point where there's enough overlap in the results that says: "This is more than fabricated data or a mere fluke".
And that's not saying anything of all the sweet spots this material needs to hit to be the hero we want it to be. It has to be abundant enough and easy enough to access that it's relatively cheap to mine; then it has to be relatively cheap to process and synthesize at a mass scale; and then it still has to be turned into actually useable bits of electronics that are compatible enough with our current fabrication methods. Talk about high standards; that's years of work right there.
For now, LK-99 seems to have some limitations. It's currently hard to synthesize at high purities (because it only happens in very specific areas of the compound), meaning yield is likely to be poor. And in fact, perhaps this purity problem (acknowledged in the original paper) is the root of most of these issues: scientists have had a difficult time creating enough quantities of the material that display any of the superconducting or diamagnetic features. There could be unknown factors at play at a chemistry level that explain the low yield, but if that's true, then we can't really trust the replicability of the results just yet.
You're right: simulations aren't the real thing.
Maybe it'll all pan out, maybe it won't.
Plenty of apparent breakthroughs never make it to market -- sometimes they're bought out and shelved or otherwise suppressed; sometimes they just don't work as expected. Sometimes they're a scam from the start.
It'll be interesting to see what happens here. If it DOES pan out, it'll be a major advance.
Thanks for the Paine quote and the link! My personal favorite is one that I feel describes the spirit of the Great Awakening:
O ye that love mankind! Ye that dare oppose, not only the tyranny, but the tyrant, stand forth! Every spot of the old world is overrun with oppression. Freedom hath been hunted round the globe. Asia, and Africa, have long expelled her. — Europe regards her like a stranger, and England hath given her warning to depart. O! receive the fugitive, and prepare in time an asylum for mankind. – Thomas Paine, Common Sense
What I imagine -- and all I really hope for, in my heart of hearts -- is a GLOBAL take down of the evil Cabal (under its various names and sects) and the beginning of a world no longer constantly being tormented, impoverished, and debased by organized, zillionaire psychopaths.
LOL! . . . and not too far from the truth, I expect. From the look of them, most would probably get winded before the game was over.
Take THAT, Chinese military! If you invade, we're gonna badminton you to death . . . just as soon as we get our Marines in shape.
That's the plan (THEIR plan), we know. Yes, most of the lackeys, including a bunch of the very rich, are headed for the gulags, a jab-induced turbo cancer, or the assassin's garrote, or whatever sudden reckoning they end up with.
My point is that those at the TOP, both the high-level lackeys and those actually running the show, are the useless ones. The "lower" 90% of humanity are (for the most part) real people living real and productive lives, creating meaning and serving their fellows.
From Q post #4627 -- Have faith in humanity.
Big difference is that most normies aren't malicious; they aren't trying to mass-murder a huge group of humanity; they -- for the most part -- want to live their lives in peace, raise a family, and so on. Most normies AREN'T useless; they participate in the market (with an honest job or a business they start and/or run), and sellers of honest goods in the market SERVE THEIR FELLOW MAN. Yes, the Cabal has worked hard to increase the number of layabouts, socialists, mentally ill, and so on, but most political "normies" aren't in that class. Clueless in some ways, yes. "Useless eaters", no.
LOL! And yet oddly touching.