Posts by mistyhawk17

electricnomad8 said:Back in the day, folks from the South used to run the show in Washington, D.C., and now it’s the guys from the mountains taking over the political scene. Just like how Eric Adams used to be quite the useful matchmaker—since the capital is a pretty sweet prize—Joe Biden will likely remain a significant factor with his specific voter base. (To be clear, I’m not targeting anyone specifically when I say that; you know exactly what I mean). I should also mention that Bill de Blasio strikes me as a rather bland, characterless individual, essentially just a tool for temporary utility. And as that even more hollow minister, Andrew Cuomo, suggested yesterday: let's just grab some popcorn and watch the spectacle unfold.

What do you mean by "run circles around"? Every single Republican Party president since the Reagan era has hailed from the South. They hold every single key position within the Republican Party hierarchy. It is common knowledge that if you want a job in the federal ministries, the major banks, or FERC, it all comes down to one thing: who you know and where you come from.

DJTcro said:Just turn on NBC.

Medved / Bačić against Stier / Penava

A fratricidal conflict: the West Coast and its satellites versus the Midwest and its satellites.

They say justice moves at a snail's pace, but eventually, it finds its way home.
I’ll admit, I was more than a little skeptical about how this would all turn out, but here we are... Bravo!

Hey there!
It’s truly heartening to see the veterans of the Swiss Franc Loan wars still active on this forum, alive, well, and apparently still ready to fight the good fight.

I have to admit, after everything that went down during the initial chaos, I practically lost my mind a little bit. Once interest rates finally stabilized, I was actually quite content, which led me to nearly forget about filing a lawsuit altogether. Eventually, I tracked down an attorney, handed over a mountain of paperwork—the details of which I’d rather not even dwell on—and after he ran the numbers to see if it was actually worth our while, he decided to pull the trigger and file the suit at the very last minute.

Melissa Sanchez17 said:Sure, maybe you could grab some oil with that ounce of gold😁

Shelby aside, I don't recall anyone here ever actually claiming they could buy a whole house with a single ounce of gold.

This image pretty much sums up the whole mess. In my book, a merger is the only thing that could save the day—and hey, I might even believe in that one day. Regardless of how much I trust precious metals, I'm basically the kid from that top picture in my own post. 🙂

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No, absolutely not. Everything is lined up perfectly for us, except for the fact that the corrupt bankers, the Rothschilds, the Soros crowd, and those lunatics hoarding gold for the apocalypse refuse to let us actually use it.

Anthony Evans78 said:Nope. Even the most optimistic estimates put it at 60:1; realistically, it’s closer to 20-30:1.
http://www.theoildrum.com/node/3877

Perhaps according to petroleum industry research.
However, those specializing in nuclear energy suggest the most optimistic projections could reach as high as 105.
http://www.world-nuclear.org/informa...nvestment.aspx Check table 2.

Anthony Evans78 said:If you actually know how to use Google, try searching for this:
"EROI", "thermodynamics", "entropy"
After digging through enough papers, you'll realize we've already burned through—or are right on the edge of exhausting—the cheap, easy, energy-dense resources.
Our entire way of life is built on that foundation.
No amount of tech is going to save us because there simply isn't an energy SOURCE capable of replacing oil, gas, or coal.
All these hype cycles around fusion or thorium reactors look great on paper, but they’re energetically inefficient, not to mention the massive infrastructure overhaul required just to make them economically viable.
Regarding Musk... if it weren't for government subsidies and constantly sucking capital from investors, he would have gone bust long ago. After all these years, he hasn't even turned a real profit from selling cars or his tech.
This whole 250-degree thing is pure nonsense. Thirty years ago, I was sitting there listening to doomsday prophets claim we'd all be underwater by 2010 due to global warming.
Money isn't the issue; energy is. You can sit on trillions of dollars, but it doesn't matter if the energy system itself is unstable or inefficient.
To maintain our current standard of living, we need an EROI of 30:1—meaning one unit of energy invested yields thirty. We're pushing that limit because fields like Ghawar still offer an EROI higher than that.
Meanwhile, American and Canadian shale sits at a measly 5-10:1. That’s unsustainable for a system where we expect to stroll into Walmart for everything we need, or click a button on Amazon and have stuff magically arrive from China in a week.
Going back to the crashes... history repeats itself this way constantly. Everything looks perfect and prosperous until, suddenly, bam!
Suddenly, everyone who missed the warning signs of a collapse acts shocked—just like in 1929, 1987, or 2006.
Do you really think people in the spring of 1939 saw the war coming just a few months later? Of course not. It's always easier to bury your head in the sand and ignore reality than to pause, think, and see where things are actually headed.
Nobody has a crystal ball to tell you the exact date and time everything falls apart. But the signs are there. And they've never been clearer.
Once the dust settles and Mother Nature puts us back in our place, everyone is going to ask themselves, "How did we miss this?" and "What were we thinking?"

Sure, you could possess mountains of gold, but that isn't going to help you generate a single kilowatt of power.🙂
At least paper burns reasonably well.🙂

By the way, nuclear energy boasts an EROI of 75:1🙂—and that’s assuming we ignore waste disposal, whereas with oil, the byproduct just goes straight into the atmosphere.

Anthony Evans78 said:Exactly.
Unfortunately, solar panels and robots aren't going to save us. There simply isn't an energy SOURCE capable of replacing oil, coal, and natural gas. All this hype about wind, solar, biodiesel, algae, and whatnot? It's just a distraction. Technology can't bail us out, at least not if we want to keep living the way we do right now.
Even if we somehow built a massive solar and electric infrastructure overnight, we'd still be tethered to oil and gas for a thousand other things. And even if we ignore those, the energy return on investment for these alternative generators is just too low to sustain our current standard of living.

And until then, I suppose the only move left is to just buy gold and silver, right?

hehehe, you know, global energy issues could actually be resolved today just by ramping up about a hundred nuclear plants—which is technically entirely feasible—along with some hydroelectric dams. And let's not even get started on the wind farms currently being constructed in the North Sea; those aren't some distant dream, they are the present reality, and their sole purpose is to charge batteries during peak demand and power automated factories. This isn't some far-off sci-fi scenario; this will manifest within the next 15 years. Northern European nations will be the first to phase out oil from vehicles, followed by the rest of the world—in my estimation, no later than 2050.

I was passing by Union Station in D.C. the other day, staring at those depressing buildings and those empty coffee shops run by Union Pacific, and I couldn't help but think that this might actually be one of the greatest bastions of national-socialist ideology left in the country. "National" because every single employee got their job through some shady connection, political affiliation, or blatant nepotism; and "Socialist" because they’ll do the absolute bare minimum as long as they get paid a cent.

How much longer can we take this, people?

In Western Europe, taking a train is just a standard part of life—it's actually quite efficient, if you ask me. Sure, it costs a bit more than what we're used to, but the trains arrive on time, they actually reach their destination, and they're kept clean and orderly. Here? It doesn't even cross my mind to step foot on a train anymore. A ticket costs more than a Greyhound bus, yet the trip takes at least twice as long.

How many more years are we going to hand over thousands of our hard-earned dollars just to receive absolutely nothing in return?

I am truly at a loss... when a major national publication like the New York Post publishes something along these lines, it’s enough to set off every alarm bell in my head...

🙂

Maria Thomas48 said:It’s standard for the Franc Association to fight using legal means, but I have to point out the math here. It is mathematically obvious that loans in America cannot be easily repaid because profit in a country has to come from cash inflows. Right now, most of that inflow comes from government borrowing. So, repaying debt depends on the government taking on more debt—creating an even larger national deficit. And eventually, all of us will have to pay that off. For now, it's an impossible mission because we’re running a massive trade deficit with foreign nations.

Who sees a solution here without a revolution? Only the naive ones. The same people who voted for the Anschluss into the European Union. Now they're already cheering for the move to the Euro. In America, everything just passes through. I just don't know how much longer everyone can keep turning a blind eye. In a few years, America is going to be a ruined state.

There is no revolution without bloodshed, Maria Thomas48. Who among us is truly prepared for that in a society that, let's face it, lives far too comfortably? If we look back forty years, we are incredibly wealthy by comparison—certainly not like sixty years ago, when people in this part of the world were actually starving to death.
To start with, for those of you who spend all your time spitting on the system and wondering why nothing ever changes: I suggest you lead by example. Why don't you physically sacrifice yourselves? Go camp out right in front of the Federal Reserve until your demands are met. If you truly care about the welfare of society, prove it through action. Once you show some skin in the game, then perhaps we mere mortals will follow your lead.
It is remarkably easy to play philosopher on internet forums and Facebook, acting as though you are a genius, but when it comes time to actually stand behind your convictions and remain consistent, they vanish without a trace.

Morgan Wright6 said:A question for Maria Thomas48:
I’ve been following your writing since last spring, and so far, you haven't been wrong. I just finished reading your section regarding euros versus the Swiss Franc in your booklet.
Is there actually anything we can do, those of us stuck with home loans tied to the Swiss Franc? It seems to me that the Franc Association is mostly just a distraction, pulling the energy of debtors toward their activities while banks continue to bleed us dry every month with installments that are 40% higher than they were three years ago. I don't mean to be a doomsayer, but I am skeptical about the Association's moves.

I feel compelled to respond to this, as I am a member of the group actively participating in the work of the association. The Franc Association does not exist for the reasons you outlined; rather, its purpose is to unite those who are rightfully indignant over the conduct of banks—specifically regarding interest rate manipulation and the deceptive "bait-and-switch" tactics used with Swiss Franc loans—so that we may fight against this institutionalized robbery.
The mechanism for achieving our objectives is through legal warfare.

The notion that some armchair intellectuals expect a revolution to spontaneously erupt while they sit on the sidelines, calculating exactly when and how to jump onto the moving train, is a fantasy; such a thing will never happen through an association.

No one within the association has ever opposed individuals taking their own independent action. Quite the opposite: if an action makes sense, they will receive our unreserved support.

As for the ideas put forth by Maria Thomas48, I generally find myself in agreement. However, those ideas—much like communism—rely entirely upon the honesty and integrity of every single individual involved in the process. Unfortunately, the current state of public consciousness is simply not prepared for such things, a fact we have seen repeated throughout history. That is my personal, subjective assessment.

quietfox41 said:But that just isn't fair...

Someone might end up paying only half for, say, the first four years of their mortgage $1.25 while they only pay $0.67. If we are talking about actual money, everyone should be paying $0.33.

Meanwhile, those of us who struggled through the entire process to secure a loan just a month earlier are stuck paying the full amount...

How can that possibly be considered equitable? Why is it that some people receive maximum relief while others are left to struggle—or perhaps find themselves unable to qualify for a loan at all given their income levels...

It’s just... I suppose I am simply a bit frustrated by the fact that the rules aren't applied equally to everyone.🙂 🙂🙂

And there are even more absurdities.
For instance, you receive $18667 for a third child. Where exactly do you think that money is coming from? It is a total degradation of single individuals who simply want to be left alone.

I truly don't understand what people are waiting for, or why they aren't rushing to have kids...

What is even the point of this post? Is this just an attempt to tear down Dragaš or Lollobridgide? Or are we witnessing a typical, bitter outburst of irrational hatred? If you have such strong opinions, why don't you write your critiques in the newspapers or go ahead and start your own indie rock band instead?

Ugh, nostalgia is a cruel mistress... I’ve decided I am officially done attending concerts for the bands I used to obsess over back in my teenage years. Now, I find myself in quite a predicament.
Technically speaking, the sound system is mediocre at best. If you have decent placement in the middle of the crowd, any halfway respectable PA system should be loud enough... As for those pampered little retirees sitting comfortably in the back with their beers, grumbling about the volume? I won't even dignify them with a comment. Noise is noise, and frankly, my ears are still ringing from the assault.

repent!
repent!

That damn fat guy.