DISCOURAGING: The US defaulted on these bonds thanks to Roosevelt

Tuesday, April 15, 2025

https://www.theburningplatform.com/2024/12/26/when-the-us-government-defaulted-on-its-bonds/

When the US Government Defaulted on its Bonds
Guest Post by Martin Armstrong

<< EDITOR ADDED DATE 2024-12-26>>

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The US Treasury called in this Fourth Liberty Bond on April 15, 1934, for redemption. However, the US defaulted on this term by refusing to redeem the bond in gold. They also ignored the dollar devaluation imposed by Roosevelt, which changed the dollar’s gold value from $20.67 to $35. The entire purpose of the gold clauses prior to Roosevelt was to protect against a currency devaluation. The 21 million bondholders lost 139 million troy ounces of gold, which caused the loss in international value terms to be approximately 70% of the bond’s principal.

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70% loss.

End the end of “sound (hard) money” meant that the Federal Gooferment was no longer held to any standard of “money”.  It became a tyrant.

The plague of “paper money” was now visited upon the USA.

And, things would never be the same again,

Prices now always go up and the value of savings in dollars shrinks.

Any one wonder why bitcoin, gold, and silver are going up?  Can’t print more of them.

Where does this runaway freight train of deficits, debt, and “inflation” end?

We’ll become like the Roman, Spanish, French, and English Empires!  Weimar Republic, Zimbabwe, Argentina, … … 

Argh!

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GOVEROTRAGEOUS: Sounds like this is a BIG mistake

Monday, April 14, 2025

https://www.nola.com/news/crime_police/ice-immigration-agents-reported-duson-lafayette-louisiana/article_62c60d8a-2be6-5ab7-857e-d36fe24294d0.html?utm_id=120219929805840177

 ICE agents arrest 73-year-old grandfather in Louisiana who has lived in US for 45 years
  BY CLAIRE TAYLOR | Staff writer Apr 3, 2025 Updated Apr 4, 2025 

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Forty-five years ago, Jose Francisco Garcia Rodriguez fled Cuba on a ship provided by the United States for people seeking refuge from the Cuban government.

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Rodriguez arrived in the United States with just the clothes on his back, Riggs said, with no education and not speaking English. He struggled and made mistakes, paid for them, and for the next 43 years lived a good life, raising a family and working hard labor for 40-60 hours a week, paying taxes and paying into Social Security, which he never used.

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But starting with a 73-year-old grandfather who has a heart condition and who is the primary caretaker of his wife with dementia is not the solution, she said.

“It is a problem that has to be fixed with a surgeon’s blade. Not a machete.”

Riggs asked the public to contact their elected officials to ask for their help in freeing Rodriguez. And she asked for prayers.

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Who knows what he was told 45 years ago?  Maybe some Gooferment bureaucrats assured him all was Okey Dokey.

And why hasn’t he gotten his Social Security?  Seems like all the con artists are getting it.

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RANT: End “Unemployment Insurance” — it’s a scam

Sunday, April 13, 2025

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/04/whoa-doge-makes-three-major-findings-regarding-unemployment/

WHOA! DOGE Makes Three Major Findings Regarding Unemployment Benefits Fraud, Including One Discovery That Left Elon Musk Shocked: “So Crazy I Had to Read It Several Times”

by Cullen Linebarger Apr. 10, 2025 9:30 am

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An initial survey of Unemployment Insurance claims since 2020 revealed the following:

– 24.5k people over 115 years old claimed $59M in benefits

– 28k people between 1 and 5 years old claimed $254M in benefits

– 9.7k people with birth dates over 15 years in the future claimed $69M in benefits

In one case, someone with a birthday in 2154 claimed $41k.

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Time to end that program.

Or at least reduce eligibility.  Why should “everyone” be eligible?  Maybe a “poor” person with a low paying job should get some “help”.  But that’s NOT what’s happening.

If someone filed a tax return in the past year, then they should be planning on their own.

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INNOVATION: Might cure road rage?

Saturday, April 12, 2025

https://www.boredpanda.com/city-gadgets-convenient-traffic-urban-equipment-msn/

#26 This Hourglass Shaped Traffic Light

Traffic light gadget with hourglass timer in urban setting.

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I like this.  Why can’t we have them here in the USA.  Might cure road rage?

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MONEY: Nagging everyone about “three silver dimes” again and agian

Friday, April 11, 2025

https://www.theburningplatform.com/2025/04/05/gold-price-forecasts-inching-toward-4000/

Gold Price Forecasts Inching Toward $4,000
Guest Post by Peter Reagan

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Already off to a breathtaking start this year, gold’s price continues to climb. Amid fears of a trade war and the global dedollarization drive, here’s how much higher analysts think it will go…

  •     $4,000 gold hints from big institutions are here
  •     Why faith in the U.S. dollar is going on all sides
  •     Gold vs the greenback: who will win?
  •     Bosnia’s central bank now owns the most gold it has since year of establishment

Gold’s unpredictable trend toward $4,000

Axel Merk, CEO of Merk Investments, said a lot in a recent (brief) segment on the relationship between the price of gold and the U.S. dollar.

Merk says we are now seeing perhaps the biggest shift since the end of World War II, one where the U.S. will no longer be the world’s police force. (The turning point was the invasion of Ukraine, when the greatest weapon in our economic arsenal, weaponizing the dollar against Russia, failed spectacularly.)

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​A silver quarter is worth $6!!! (That’s 24 times face value.)

So my three silver dimes for a 70’s gallon of gas is ~$7.20 today or ~2½ gallons of much “better” gas.

Minimum wage was 5 quarters in the 70’s so that means it’s 30$ in today’s “valueless” money.

When do “We, The Sheeple” wake up?

I’ve been on this since 2009!

Just to refresh your memory:

https://reinkefaceslife.com/2014/07/07/money-those-same-three-silver-dimes/

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https://reinkefaceslife.com/2023/02/17/goldbug-when-priced-in-gold-beer-was-3-a-litre-in-301ad/

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https://reinkefaceslife.com/2009/10/20/money-dont-save-your-wealth-in-fiat-money/

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POLICY: How about a GOFUNDME style of foreign aid?

Thursday, April 10, 2025

https://www.newsmax.com/murdock/usaid-atlas-network-doge/2025/04/03/id/1205534/

USAID Flops, But There May Be Alternatives
By Deroy Murdock Thursday, 03 April 2025 12:07 PM EDT

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Elon Musk is helping President Donald J. Trump rein in profligate, reckless, and corrupt federal spending via the new Department of Government Efficiency.

Democrats are not amused.

Left-wing domestic terrorists have responded by firing bullets into the windshields of electric vehicles at Musk’s Tesla dealerships. They have torched Tesla charging stations, set Teslas ablaze in parking lots, and used Molotov cocktails to ignite multiple Teslas beside a Las Vegas showroom.

Devolving into the party of arson is unwise for Democrats, especially after last month’s Harvard-Harris survey found that 76% of U.S. voters support chopping waste and fraud from federal expenditures.

One need not be Milton Friedman to be enraged by what DOGE uncovered in Haiti: Since 2010, USAID has made some $2 billion in grants tied to that star-crossed Caribbean nation. Only 2% of these funds actually reached Haitian companies and organizations.

Inefficiency is one thing. When Haitians see a mere $40 million of a $2 billion outlay, this smacks of money laundering.

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I remember CARE packages.  After WWII, Americans sent care package to Europe.  It was used to provide political cover for the Marshall Plan and all sorts of other “foreign aid”.

I have a “new” idea for “foreign aid”.   Let the USA Gooferment identify places that need real help.  Then let the “We, The Sheeple”, aka Taxpayers, decide who and how much.  Americans are very charitable even though the Gooferment “elbows” their way into “charity” and seizes larger and larger portions of the wealth and earnings of ordinary people.  Then, folks can pick and choose what and how much they can afford to donate. 

Last time I looked there is no Constitution justification for the Gooferment to spend on such.

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VETERANS: Wish we could identify and recover all our POWs

Wednesday, April 9, 2025

https://www.foxnews.com/lifestyle/new-book-reveals-untold-story-gen-wainwright-highest-ranking-american-pow-world-war-ii

World War Two

National Former Prisoner of War Recognition Day is observed on anniversary of largest US surrender in history

  • New book reveals untold story of Gen. Wainwright, highest-ranking American POW of World War II

By Dana Perino Fox News

Published April 9, 2025 6:00am EDT 

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Wish we could identify and recover all our POWs.

Dona Nobis Pacem

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RANT: It’s only fair that “women’s sports” is for women

Wednesday, April 9, 2025

https://www.breitbart.com/sports/2025/04/04/usa-fencing-defends-punishing-female-athlete-for-refusing-to-face-trans-opponent/

USA Fencing Defends Punishing Female Athlete for Refusing to Face Trans Opponent

Warner Todd Huston  —  4 Apr 2025

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USA Fencing is deending itself over its policy of including transgender fencers in the women’s category and for punishing a female athlete for refusing to face a trans opponent.

The fencing organization is defending itself after fencer Stephanie Turner took a knee and refused to compete during a match with transgender opponent Redmond Sullivan last weekend.

USA Fencing immediately disqualified Turner, who had kicked her out of the tournament.

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I wonder who funds USA funding?  If it gets any from my taxes, then I hope it gets “DOGE-ed”.

It seems like the woke LGBTQ mafia has infiltrated all sorts of organizations.

Argh! Sigh!

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POLITICAL: The First Amendment prohibits the Gooferment … …

Tuesday, April 8, 2025

https://www.lewrockwell.com/2025/04/james-bovard/first-they-came-for-the-op-ed-writers/

First They Came for the Op-Ed Writers – LewRockwell

By James Bovard

<< EDITOR ADDED DATE 2025-04-02>>

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Few Americans would object to deporting foreign students who destroy property or physically assault other people. But Ozturk was merely guilty of using words that are detested by the current administration. Are Trump’s policymakers using the same “guilt by association” standard the Biden administration used to persecute anyone near the Capitol on January 6, 2021? Biden’s Justice Department acted like anyone who merely “paraded without a permit” near the Capitol that day was guilty of insurrection and deserved a harsh prison sentence. Is any criticism of Israeli policy now the legal and moral equivalent of insurrection?

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As I read it, it doesn’t say anything about limits on who gets “free speech”.

In this case, I think that DJT47’s team is wrong in this specific case.  And, he should reign in the leash apologizing for the error.

I hope that SCOTUS will take this and the matter of “dreamers” (i.e., children brought into the USA by their illegal immigrant parents and thru no fault of their own are in a catch-22).

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JOBSEARCH: You should have an active “networking program”

Monday, April 7, 2025

“It’s not what you know, it’s who you know,” — Ralph Kramden aka Jackie Gleason in the “The Honeymooners”

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Wish I’d have paid more attention to the lessons on TV.  It wasn’t until later in life that I realized the value of a personal connections network.  It was when a sales guy I was nice too even though I could not buy his product, became a hiring manager in  Wall Street firm and extends due a job offer that I took.  

Now never let it be said that I was the dimmest bulb on the block.  I immediately began “collecting contacts”.  I’d read about a “Farley File” in Heinlein’s book “Double Star” so I too began my own Farley File.  I didn’t discard it until I retired sometime later. (We can debate the stupidity of doing that.)

With cloud computing, it’s so much easier than using paper like in the “Job Changing at 100K+” workbook.

When I was in my own consulting business, I had my “Sunday Morning Imaginary Board of Directors” meeting with: myself the CEO, myself the CFO, myself the CMO, myself as the CTO, myself as the Sasles Manager, myself as the Product Manager, and myself as theThe Product itself.  You might say I was full of myself.  I should have had a Chief Relationship Manager too.

Anyway, now I am a fat old white guy retired injineer who’s a poor old senior citizen on a fixed income. I have lots of time to Monday Marning Quarterback all the Shoulda, Coulda, and Woulda things that I’d do differently.  

“Nothing, to my way of thinking, is a better proof of a well ordered mind than a man’s ability to stop just where he is and pass some time in his own company.” — Seneca, Letters From a Stoic

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NOTRECOMMENDED: LASTPASS no longer recommended; Use BITWARDEN instead

Sunday, April 6, 2025

LASTPASS has dropped support for Mac OSX application.  

No appologies; just dropped.

Sigh!

I’m testing BITWARDEN and Apple’s PASSWORD app.

Not that I’m an “influencer”, but I have RECOMMENDED LASTPASS for a long time.  Removing it’s availability from a key computer platform is short sighted at best and dumb at worst.

IMHO

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GUNS: Why make guns for “good guys” hard to get?

Saturday, April 5, 2025

 

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Makes a lot of sense to me.  

“An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.” — Robert A. Heinlein 

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“I particularly like unlimited concealed carry. If the criminal regards the general public as sheep to be shorn, then let’s sprinkle in a few “sheepdogs” with big teeth in the flock.

Guess which gay to bash? Buzz, wrong, you picked a Pink Pistol and you’re dead!

Guess which woman to bash? Buzz, wrong, you picked a Paxton Quigly and you’re dead!

Guess which brown person to bash? Buzz, wrong, you picked a Massad Ayoob and you’re dead!”

https://reinkefaceslife.com/2006/11/02/guns-lets-sprinkle-in-a-few-sheepdogs-with-big-teeth-in-the-flock/

GUNS: Let’s sprinkle in a few “sheepdogs” with big teeth in the flock

Thursday, November 2nd, 2006 at 20:26

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Still as true to me as it was then.

FAFO

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EDUCATION: Walter Williams was a rock star

Friday, April 4, 2025

https://jeffjacoby.com/28453/84-years-of-not-suffering-fools

84 years of not suffering fools
by Jeff Jacoby  — December 7, 2020

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Walter E. Williams taught economics to university students for 47 years, the last 40 of them at George Mason University in Fairfax, Va. He taught his class as usual last Tuesday, then died suddenly some hours later. His death did not go unnoticed — lengthy obituaries appeared in both the New York Times and the Washington Post — but the news ricocheted with particular velocity through the world of conservatives, libertarians, and free-market economists: To us, Walter Williams was a rock star.

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From How to Live in Peace (2017):

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The liberty-oriented solution to the school prayer issue is simple. We should acknowledge the fact that though there is public financing of primary and secondary education, it doesn’t follow that there should be public production of education. . . .

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I read Walter Williams as soon as I found out about him.  He led me to Thomas Soul.  Together they formed my opinions on Gooferment, Gooferment Skrules, politicians, and bureaucrats.

Clearly and concisely, they demolished the welfare / warfare state with its one-size fit all solutions.  Good thing the Gooferment doesn’t produce shoes.

Argh!

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DISCOURAGING: Broken homes seems to be “acceptable”; not selfishness

Thursday, April 3, 2025

https://nypost.com/2025/03/30/opinion/i-was-devastated-when-my-father-abandoned-me-yet-liberals-make-excuses-for-broken-homes/

I was devastated when my father abandoned me — yet liberals make excuses for broken homes
By Adam B. Coleman 
Published March 30, 2025, 3:54 p.m. ET

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A child growing up in a broken home automatically puts them at a disadvantage. Studies across the board show that children of two-parent families have a better chance of success in education, in business . . . in life. Yet too often, society doesn’t do enough to encourage these unions, even saying it doesn’t matter. In his new book, “The Children We Left Behind: How Western Culture Rationalizes Family Separation & Ignores The Pain Of Child Neglect,” Adam B. Coleman explains how this is a terrible mistake of selfishness. An excerpt:

Why didn’t my father love me? Why did my father abandon me? 

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This really hit home.  

I can still feel the “sting” of rejection.  And, these and other questions just get suppressed.  Maybe I should have been in “therapy”?  Even though that was unheard of. 

At some point in time, one has to “grow up”, “grow a pair”, or “just accept the cards that life deals you”.  

Shut up and move on.

But especially as the “game clock” winds down, the “Shoulda, coulda, and woulda! “ thinking emerges.  How would I have been different and how would my life have evolved differently.

Unfortunately, there’s no “time” VCR to remind and rerun / retry life.

“… checked the Eternal Possibilities Machine, which generates all the possibilities for use in creating the alternative worlds. In all those probability lines …” CHURCH 10●19●62 (Vol 1) 978-0-557-08387-9 page 45

I guess every child feels this and maybe that’s why things are this way now.

One of the many many things we’ll never know.

Sigh!

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POLITICAL: Age limit for politicians and bureaucrats!

Wednesday, April 2, 2025

Here’s an original thought:

If there is a minium age for political office, why can’t we have a maximum age for it. I suggest your full benefit retirement age for Social Security.

#agelimitforpoliticians

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ENCOURAGING: Interesting heroic tale of the Polish “James Bond”

Tuesday, April 1, 2025

FROM PRIME VIDEO

The Resistance Fighter

The Resistance Fighter tells the incredible true story of the Polish “James Bond” war hero Jan Nowak-Jeziorański, a man of extraordinary courage, who served as an emissary between the commanders of Poland’s resistance movement and the Polish government in exile in London at the height of WWII.

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I doubt I’d ever have, or would have had, the courage to act in this fashion.

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HEALTHCARE: C-Sections, home births, and a sprinkle of medical correuption make for a complex decision

Monday, March 31, 2025

https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2025/03/28/risks-of-c-sections.aspx?ui=f9839516412491bb1e06c9e47058c6fb81b9b9b6acedf03e65e93dfdb263c1b9&sd=20210317&cid_source=dnl&cid_medium=email&cid_content=art1ReadMore&cid=20250328_HL2&foDate=false&mid=DM1725282&rid=258510807

What They Don’t Tell You About C-Sections

Analysis by A Midwestern Doctor  —   March 28, 2025

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  •     For more than a century, there has been a push to medicalize childbirth and transform it from a natural life event to something requiring major interventions so nothing goes amiss
  •     Many of the standard procedures done during hospital births increase your risk of needing other invasive interventions, eventually cascading into requiring a cesarean section
  •     Like other major abdominal surgeries, C-sections expose mothers to significant risk, require a prolonged recovery, and leave large scars which can cause a wide range of chronic issues
  •     C-sections also expose infants to real risks and predispose them to a variety of chronic autoimmune and neurological issues
  •     This article will discuss the risks of C-sections, the situations where they are necessary, and some approaches that can be used to recover from them

Many traditions throughout history have come to view one’s birth as one of the most important moments in a human’s life as it sets the stage for all that follows. Unfortunately, much in the same way we desecrate the death process by over-medicalizing it (to the point research has found that doctors are less likely to seek end of life care at a medical facility1), the same issue also exists with childbirth.

Many physicians I know who are familiar with the hospital birthing process chose to skip it and give birth at home (along with many more doctors featured in a 2016 documentary2).

Conversely, a minority of childbirths do need advanced medical care. For those mothers, access to a hospital greatly benefits them, particularly if actions are taken to mitigate the most dangerous aspects of hospital birth.

As such, childbirth occupies a similar place as many other medical controversies; neither side of the issue is entirely correct. However, the data clearly shows the risk of routine C-sections outweighs their benefits so this article will attempt to expose what they aren’t tell you about them.

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I was particularly interested in all the stats that were provided.  As well as the anecdotal evidence from the New Zealand Maoris, “getting a spark”, and the old practice of doctors would wack a baby’s soles to trigger a vigorous cry.  I thought it was a smack on the butt.  

In survival school, one of the mandatory lessons was about emergency child birth.  The essence was to do as little as possible until real help arrived.  Keep patient level, legs elevated, clean newspapers to keep the area as sterile as possible, get the baby crying (really), on mom’s chest, and don’t touch the cord.  And to ignore everything we’d seen on TV.  Laugh!

Came close twice, but no cigar.  In the closest case, commuting into NYC on a train, after the paramedics took her away, the old gent came up and complimented me on doing everything right.  Even mentioning the newspaper bedding and “sheets”.  He said he a was the head of obstetrics at Saint Vincents and would have intervened if I was doing anything wrong. His reticence was due to the malpractice law that rendered me immune but made him libel.  Dumb law.  I was almost pooping MY pants  that I might have to deliver.  Labor pains were a minute intervals.  But Saint Simeon the Holy Fool was with me that day.

Glad I never had to make any of these hard decisions as outlined in the article.

I would hope that the incentive structure for “health care” gets straightened out.

Argh!

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ECONOMICS: Second corpoation puts reserves in ₿itcoin to avoid inflation

Sunday, March 30, 2025

https://bitcoinmagazine.com/bitcoin-for-corporations/gamestops-bitcoin-move-looks-bold-but-it-might-be-brilliant?_kx=pYguJkB4-5NWNPpHSMMFBEIA8mUlSirEDlJPaB68tH8lzIRLbKOSwm282F8TWY5D.RLfipm

GameStop’s Bitcoin Move Looks Bold—But It Might Be Brilliant

  • GameStop’s Bitcoin move left many scratching their heads. But behind the confusion is a clear, calculated strategy that more CFOs should be watching closely.

By Nick Ward  —  March 26, 2025

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This week, GameStop quietly updated its investment policy to include Bitcoin as a treasury reserve asset. With approximately $4.78 billion in cash—nearly 37% of its $12.9 billion market cap—this move marks more than just a diversification of reserves.

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For companies with material cash holdings, the erosion of purchasing power is no longer theoretical—it’s measurable. Over the past decade, the U.S. dollar has declined in real terms by more than 25%, driven by inflation, expansionary monetary policy, and global fiscal uncertainty.

Bitcoin presents a compelling counterweight to this degradation, particularly for balance sheets with the flexibility to tolerate mark-to-market volatility in pursuit of long-term strategic payoff.

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Now a corporation doing this can spend resources ensuring the security of its assets.  

However, the average consumer retail type needs to be extremely careful not to lose their “wallet”.

Considering the 25% loss of purchasing power over 5 years, that can put a hole in anyone savings.

It’s the same problem as Social Security “Insurance” (see my many rants about that  —  the prepaid Death Tax).  You pay in with “good” dollars say in 1970 and get out “bad” dollars that have lost 90+% of their purchasing power.

Given the state of Gooferment finances (i.e., the current 140T+ national debt and the guesstimated 200T+ in unfunded liabilities that our posterity will have to deal with) how does one preserve wealth in this disastrous era.

I, personally, have some savings, but not enough, in ₿itcoin, gold, silver, and Goldbacks.  As always YMMV.

How does the consumer, to use a military term, “get small in your hole”?  Where is your “underground bunker” for this “tornado”.  Everyone should have one.

In the pre-1913 era, you could save your gold dollars in jar or bury some in your back yard.  Then in your old age you’d find that the money had actually increased a little in purchasing power.  What can you do today?

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RANT: Lotto tries to welch on a winning ticket

Saturday, March 29, 2025

https://nypost.com/2025/03/25/us-news/mystery-winner-of-83-5m-lottery-may-never-see-her-money/

Mystery winner of whopping $83.5M lottery may never see her money — due to a sudden technicality

By Isabel Keane   —  Published March 25, 2025, 9:53 a.m. ET

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A Texas woman with a winning $83.5 million lottery ticket may never get her mega payout because officials are investigating the app she used.

The woman, who has not been publicly identified, bought $20 worth of Texas Lotto tickets for the Feb. 17 drawing on the app Jackpocket — a lottery courier service state lawmakers are now trying to ban.

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Why is the Gooferment involved in gambling in the first place?

And, if the “courier service” is a legal business now, what’s the problem?

Will the State refund all the tickets purchased thru the app?

I don’t think so.

And, economics experts have all pointed out that these State run games are a tax on the poor.  As well as provide lucrative “jobs” for Gooferment bureaucrats.

Like so many other things run by the Gooferment, the private sector could do it better and give the players a better prompter payout.

Argh!

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DISCOURAGING: What can one say when stupidity results in a disaster?

Friday, March 28, 2025

https://nj1015.com/racing-car-with-4-brothers-from-nj-somersaulted-before-diving-from-overpass/?lh_aid=84349&lh_cid=ihudnz1r7o&di=ff7a74372a8025944d951624d55a7076

Racing car with 4 brothers from NJ somersaulted before diving from overpass

Dan Alexander  —  Published: March 24, 2025

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  • The Mazda was racing another vehicle on Route 95, police say
  • It overturned numerous times before crashing through the guide rail
  • 2 brothers and a puppy died after the crash

PHILADELPHIA — A New Jersey man who was behind the wheel of a car that crashed off a Route 95 overpass on Friday night remains hospitalized with one of his siblings after their two brothers died in the wreck.

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What can one say when stupidity results in a disaster?

I guess that’s why the universe delivers 1.04 boys to 1.00 girls in population studies.

Only the puppy was “innocent”.

Sometimes the “Darwin Award” is funny like the man hitting the sleeping crocodile because he want to see some action.  In this case, it’s just sadly needless.

I feel for their parents and friends. 

Old enough to know better; now will never grow old.

Dona Nobis Pacem

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ConspiracyTheories: Time to end the CIA! Can DJT47 do it?

Thursday, March 27, 2025

https://www.thefocalpoints.com/p/deeply-intriguing-memo-in-jfk-file

Deeply Intriguing Memo In JFK File Dump

  • Gary Underhill publicly stated that “a small clique within the CIA was responsible for the assassination” and was then found shot to death less than six months later.

John Leake

Mar 19, 2025

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I am indebted to fellow Substack author, Jon Fleetwood, for drawing my attention to a deeply intriguing memo that was part of the JFK files that were just dumped. Fleetwood’s piece on the memo is linked below.

The CIA memo, dated 19th July 1967, opens with a long quotation from an article published in Ramparts, June 1967. 

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The totality of circumstances—including the fact that the CIA insisted on keeping this memo top secret until now—suggests that Underhill knew what he was talking about and that his stated fear was well-founded.

To be sure, it’s possible that Underhill did not know—or chose not to disclose to his friends—the extent of the activity in which the “CIA Clique” was involved. It may have been more than just gun-running, narcotics, and other contraband.

Going pack <<sic>> to the Roman Praetorian Guard, the trouble with elite security services is that the secrecy they are granted almost inevitably tempts at least some of their members to engage in nefarious enterprises. Considering this, it strikes me as remarkable that the CIA hasn’t assassinated more than just one president. 

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Now the Conspiracy Theorists are again being proven right. CIA, Israel Mossad, and the Mafia are involved. And the “lone gunman” is “Barbara Streisand”.

Argh!

Now what happens to the CIA that JFK wanted to shut down. Does DJT47 have enough juice to do it?

#disbandtheCIA

I expect more revealing facts as the various writer sort through the document dump.

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ENCOURAGING: A movie about a fellow I never heard of who had great courage and faith

Wednesday, March 26, 2025

FROM PRIME MOVIES

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Escape From Germany

79 Missionaries are trapped inside German borders as Hitler races to invade Poland. The last one got out and into Denmark on August 31. The next day Germany invaded Poland and the war began.

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Hard to believe that this is a true story, but it appears to be.

Not a Hollywood adaption but more of a documentary of one man’s faith.

Very impressive how they avoided and evaded the Nazi terror.

While not a Mormon, it is a testament to their faith. 

I found the movie very motivating.

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ConspiracyTheories: Donald Trump assassination attempt at Butler PA needs an impartial investigation

Tuesday, March 25, 2025

https://www.theburningplatform.com/2025/03/17/many-questions-no-answers/

MANY QUESTIONS – NO ANSWERS

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Joe Rogan and Elon Musk point out the INSANE details surrounding the Butler, Pennsylvania Donald Trump assassination attempt shooter

– The assassins house was PROFESSIONALLY scrubbed

– His home was scrubbed so well there wasn’t even silverware left in the home

– No footprint on the internet

– No social media footprint (completely wiped)

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– There was never a formal report

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This stinks.  As a conspiracy, it appears obvious.  The only question is who was involved and how up the Gooferment hierarchy the rot goes.

Sorry but this needs a good airing. 

In the alternative, every one in the FBI and Secret Service need to be let go and COMPLETELY replaced.

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ECONOMICS: … as a nation we have been collectively robbed by both inflation and currency debasement

Monday, March 24, 2025

https://survivalblog.com/2025/03/17/preparedness-notes-monday-march-17-2025/

Preparedness Notes for Monday — March 17, 2025

James Wesley Rawles 

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Here is another example: An Old Timer Schrade Two Blade Folding Knife, priced at $110, plus $15 postage. (Total of $125, divided by 24.7 = $5.06. When rounded down, that would be just $5.00 face value in 90% silver coins. So mailing us 20 silver quarters would buy you that knife.)

As you can see from that example, as a nation we have been collectively robbed by both inflation and currency debasement. The real tangible VALUE of a knife or a silver coin has not changed much since 1964. It is the overproduced Federal Reserve Note “dollars” (both paper and digital) that gradually have had less and less purchasing power.

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Yeah, yeah, I rant on this all the time.  

Fiat (i.e., it has value because the Gooferment says so) has declined in value somewhere around 95%.  I’ve posted about: penny candy, nickel cigars, dime store novels, and 30¢ a gallon gas. Also, the minimum wage of five silver quarters per hour would be worth about $25 per hour today. 

Funny how that works but yet “We, The Sheeple” refuse to see Gooferment politicians and bureaucrats as the parasites and thieves that they are.

Imagine what the Dead Old White Guys would think of all this? 

#endthefed would be a policy not a hashtag.

Ron Paul was, and is, right.  When you cut out a cancer, what do you replace it with? Nothing!

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RANT: “Climate change” is a ruse for Communist revolution

Sunday, March 23, 2025

https://mailchi.mp/tomwoods/extinction?e=39307912abhttps://mailchi.mp/tomwoods/extinction?e=39307912ab

FROM TOM WOODS’ EMAIL LETTER

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Here’s an insight you get as you grow older:

When revolutionary lunatics demand this or that crazy thing, they’re rarely motivated by this or that crazy thing. They’re motivated by a much bigger goal, and these lesser things are simply how they get there.

For instance:

The “climate change” people, who inanely blame every weather-related development on “climate change” (even when we have the charts showing that weather phenomenon X has actually been on the decline) and who demand radical changes to human life that will mean the decimation of the developing world and the impoverishment of the middle classes in the developed world, are not in fact motivated by climate change.

If they were, they’d say: we don’t care for the politics of Elon Musk, but his company is doing so much to help us reach our goal. So his good deeds in the private sector must in our calculus vastly outweigh the costs of what he does in government.

And yet, what a surprise: that isn’t what they say.

Matt Walsh is absolutely right [warning for delicate eyes: there’s a bad word in this paragraph]:

Elon Musk has done more than any single human on Earth to promote and propagate “green” alternatives. He has one of the largest electric vehicle companies on the planet. By the Left’s climate change logic, he has saved millions of lives and prevented untold number of hurricanes, tornadoes, and other catastrophes. If they took their climate change bullshit seriously at all, they would celebrate him as an environmental hero. They would happily overlook the MAGA stuff because he is — again, by their logic — doing more than anyone else to save the globe. But of course they don’t actually believe in any of that climate stuff or care about it at all, which is why they’re in the process of trying to destroy one of the greenest companies in the world.

I was especially struck by this recent testimony by a former member of Extinction Rebellion, a lunatic group founded in the UK:

I was in Extinction Rebellion for several years. I produced over 60 videos for them and helped with several protests.

I can tell you directly: It was never about the climate. It was about controlling you. 

Specifically, it was about mobilising 3.5% of the population into permanent revolutionary protest in order to trigger a Communist revolution. (Per Trotsky, Sharp, Hallam, Mao)

This was told to me directly by some of the leaders of the organisation. I tried to organise some programs to help businesses lower their carbon footprints without lowering profit margins or impacting the GDP, and I was told in no uncertain terms that *solutions* were counter to the goals of the movement and that I should stop.

It was then that I started to realise their true motives, and understand that perhaps I was being taken for a ride.

I learned that Communist countries have had some of the WORST environmental records in existence. What XR was proposing — degrowth, agitation, “decolonisation,” post-capitalism and every other agitprop buzzword — would effectively drop civilisation back to a pre-renewable era and force developing nations into a protracted industrial age, leading to ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE more carbon emissions than the incremental improvements found by market innovations.

Population density is a critical function of renewable energy infrastructure. You don’t have a factory. You have a market ecosystem. That’s how technology works. It blew my mind that they didn’t understand this.

After years of pushing against fossil fuels, they were suddenly vehemently opposed to Elon Musk and his EVs. It was mind boggling to witness.

I realised that Musk had singlehandedly done more to reduce emissions than the entire climate activist movement combined. And it’s not close. Mentioning this, I was met with bewilderment and anger.

It was very hard to come away from that experience with much sympathy for the activist left movement. At their best they were devoid of ideas and completely incapable of making meaningful technological or engineering innovations. At their worst, they were actively working against their own stated goals in order to maximise agitation and mobilise discontent toward a destructive revolutionary movement that would ultimately lead to measurably worse outcomes.

Applying Occam’s Razor, it became apparent to me that the goal is Communist revolution, and all these random causes — climate, gender relativism, immigration, BLM, defunding police, Islamisation etc etc etc weren’t about triumphing over injustices, but about agitating blocs of useful idiots into a perpetual state of protest in order to seize power and control in the name of Marxist Revolution.

I thought they were creators and visionaries. I was wrong.

True change comes from the builders.

Yes there are problems on this earth, but they’ll only be solved by you tackling those problems, building useful things and helping to push the species forward.

If you’re smart enough to contribute, you belong amongst the builders.

Although the rest of it rings true, I’m skeptical of the “communist revolution” stuff. These are not the (equally idiotic) doctrines of Marx, which none of these alleged revolutionaries have read anyway. The causes these people champion would have been dismissed as bourgeois decadence by old-time communists. Try championing homosexuality within the US Communist Party during the Cold War, for example, and see what would have happened to you.

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I was stunned when I read this.   “Climate change” is ruse to cover for the destruction of society,  Always knew it was “Barbara Streisand”  — bull <synonym for excrement>  —  but I thought, at first, it was just a bunch of folks who never studied history.  Then, when the fudging and distortion of measurement became common knowledge, I suspect it was just a cash grab from the various public treasuries and rich idiots.  This article made e believe that it is an organized communist rebellion to destroy society.  Now, I’ll still be polite to the useful idiots, but not so much to the “leaders” of this subterfuge.

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HEALTH: Doctors know best? I’m not sure of that!

Saturday, March 22, 2025

https://bestlifeonline.com/common-mistake-taking-vitamins/

The #1 Mistake People Make When Taking Vitamins, Doctors Say

By Craig Kanalley  —  Mar 14, 2025

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 5 | Your doctor knows best.

As Harvard Health sums up, based on the Physicians’ Health Study II, the top consideration should always be: “Ask your doctor.” They’ll be able to determine if you need to take a multivitamin, if you have a vitamin deficiency, and how to go about it the right way.

Why chance it? Just have a conversation with your doctor so you can safely take vitamins, align with the right dosage, and live a healthier life.

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It’s a well known fact that medical schools don’t teach nutrition.  

Further after Covid revelations, doctors have been compensated for getting a majority of their patients they see vaxed.

“Appeal to authority” is one of the many logical fallacies that philosophers warn us about.

I follow nutrition facts dot org, and Doc Gregor points out many scientific studies that defy current “wisdom”.  Plant based diets have a great track record.  (Ugandans eating their tradition vegitarian diets don’t get colorectal  until they move to the city and eat a western diet.)

Blue zone diets are mostly plant based and lead to long healthy lives.

So, don’t tell me the profession, that use to advertise cigaret smoking as healthy, is the “authorized fact source”.

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