As you probably know colloidal silver (CS) is very expensive to buy. Where I live it’s about $1.50 per ounce and since I consistently take about 3-4 ounces per day it would cost me ~$100-150 per month to buy it. With that in mind I bought a CS generator from SilverGen in Washington State. At the time it was $200 but probably a little more now. This little generator sits on top of a quart or half gallon jar that you fill with distilled water and in a few hours you can make enough CS to pay for the generator. It is also fool proof. You set the dial for the desired strength (I make mine at 10 ppm) and the generator does the rest. Not only that but it will not work unless you are using distilled water. That is to prevent anyone from making what they think is CS using tap water or something other than distilled water. Using tap water you would be making silver chloride which is what people have done to turn themselves blue or gray. That can’t happen with the SilverGen generator.

I hope this helps!!

Why would they have sleeper cars on a train like that going through MadMike’s territory?  Who would ever want to sleep when you are getting a ride through beautiful scenery like that.”
Well… when it gets dark there’s not much scenery to look at, and I guess some people like to sleep at night!  🙂

“The Canadian” is a trans-Canada train that runs for days across the continent, and you gotta sleep sometime.  I suspect they arrange the train schedule so that the most beautiful parts of the line are crossed during daylight hours so passengers can enjoy the scenery.

I know the old “California Zephyr” from Chicago to the west coast was scheduled to cross the most scenic parts of the mountains during daylight hours that way, and I am told that the Amtrak  “Empire Builder” from Chicago to Seattle on the westbound run is also scheduled so it passes through Glacier Park in the Rocky Mountains during daylight hours for the passengers’ enjoyment.

The best part about train travel is that you don’t have to drive and pay attention to traffic and roads.  One is free to enjoy the full rapture of the scenery going by!

For 45 years the “Sugar Cane Train”… a 3-foot narrow gauge train, has plied the leftover rails of the West Maui sugar cane fields.  Today my friends on Maui island informed me that the Lahaina, Kaanapali, & Pacific train will cease operations next friday afternoon.  Rising costs and unprofitability were cited as reasons for the demise of the little tourist railroad… the only regularly operating train in Hawaii.

If you are a real die-hard history buff, you still have time to book a flight to Maui and catch a ride and pictures before next friday.

http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=213901

http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=417513

http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=46901

http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=227278

http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=359056

Beam Me Up Toddy

Seems the life insurance industry is having some hard times.  Life insurance is a guaranteed loser for most types of policies.  People are living longer so mortality tables are always outdated. Then comes the question of future value of fiat. 30 years later, the face value has 1/4 of the purchasing power. Now the insurance companies are under water on all those annuities with a minimum interest rate.

Then there is the little problem of all those bonds and derivatives in the reserves to pay claims. Bonds and derivatives are just a promise to pay. Who’s promise to pay?

The whole world is leveraged, cross collateralized, and indebted to the hilt. There is no way this gets paid off. The only question is when the can gets kicked again, where is the wall.

rno, who is so paranoid, he doesn’t trust the pm in his hand!

Derivatives: Abuse, Props, Risks
By: Jim Willie CB

What colloidal silver do you take and where do you buy it?  I’ve been meaning to replenish some old stock and my source is no longer active.

I read the entire article about nano particles in food and I see no mention of silver being used in anything we consume; only nano particles of titanium dioxide which in other applications has been proven to be harmful so allowing its use in foods is very questionable. Yes, silver is used in garments to kill toxins that cause BO, like in your socks and undershirts, but they don’t mention it as being ingested in food. Too bad!! The old farmer method of keeping milk from going sour was to drop a silver coin into the milk container, and it worked.  The milk would not sour. I see nothing wrong with using silver in nano particle (colloidal) size to both keep foods fresh and also improve the immune system at the same time. I’ve been taking colloidal silver daily for many years and seldom have had more than a mild cold and never a need for antibiotics, where before discovering colloidal silver I had constant sinus infections that required antibiotics several times each year.

Good to see you at the Oasis. :o)

In answer to your question “is this a great country, or what?”, it is quickly becoming “or what?”!!

These people will be flown from Honduras to the U.S. at taxpayer expense.  Is this a great country, or what?

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/25/world/americas/administration-weighs-plan-to-move-processing-of-youths-seeking-entry-to-honduras-.html?_r=1

Is Big Dairy Putting Microscopic Pieces of Metal in Your Food?

Welcome to the Oasis! 🙂

this is the biggest cup and handle in history

Re: LSG, my biggest position. These guys execute. Wait till the next quarterly comes out.

PS Samb … I like Pilot Gold too. Not to put the mortgage money on but it’s a very good speculation.

Oh it’s just an accounting error! Absolutely unbelievable!

I’ve got gadgets! 🙂

Rambus recommended LSG not long a go in the 80 cent range and pow a week or maybe ever earlier it went up big. I am a Rambus subscriber, one of the first, and love the service.

Africa’s Largest Refinery Finds 2.7 Tons Of Gold “Missing” After Computer System Upgrade

Submitted by Tyler Durden on 07/25/2014 15:38 -0400

It’s one thing to implicitly admit that there is a physical gold shortage and as a result nations – such as Germany – are unable to repatriate their physical gold held in the safe and trusted confines 90 feet below the NY Fed, gold which may or may not be there and has likely been leased out exponentially to cover paper shorts by virtually every BIS-overseen central bank (and the BIS paper gold selling team itself of course). It is something totally different to corzine, as in vaporize, 87,000 ounces of physical gold, some 2.7 tons, and blame it on a computer upgrade glitch. Which is precisely what Rand, Afrrica’s largest refinery and processor of about a third of the world’s gold since 1920, has done after it “discovered” that $113 million in precious metal was missing after “adopting a new computer system.”

Bloomberg reports that the refinery in Germiston, a town 20 kilometers east of Johannesburg, has 87,000 ounces of physical gold less than the amount present in its accounting records after “implementation difficulties” with the new system, the company said in a statement today. That’s worth about $113 million at today’s price of $1,296 an ounce.

Taking a page out of China’s infinite rehypothecation scheme, the South African refiner essentially told its investors, most of whom are gold miners, to step up and replenish the missing metal or else investors may come asking questions about their own reported gold holdings. And, it succeeded.

 

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-07-25/africas-largest-refinery-finds-27-tons-gold-missing-after-computer-system-upgrade

Aspengold – don’t own any Midway but have been eyeballing that and Lakeshore (LSG). Both still look cheap and should do well if we can get on a sustained run. LSG was a recent Embry reco.

grin – I’ve found that lately no one can predict what pm’s are going to do. I will say this, the pm shares don’t seem to want to go down anymore and the days of a good metals performance combined with a poor share performance of the last three years seem to be ending. I’m hoping that’s a hint of what lies ahead. I can remember an awful lot of days in the past few years when the metals were up and the shares went nowhere or down. Seems the opposite is happening now with the shares outperforming. Course, that could change next week.

https://www.goldbroker.com/en/news/above-ground-gold-stock-how-much-is-there-why-does-matter-546

me neither, (who)  could predict that volume surge at the end of day?

I remember those posts, they had a smaller float back then.  I owned it and made a nice profit, but bought in $1 range after your reco and sold at$1.70 or so and it went to $3. Never lost money selling a profit early(quote from some famous investor). I have an $.87 average buy in.  MDW had an 8 million share day last month, I don’t think it has ever had a day as big as that in their history. Someone wanted in, in  a big way.

Did really well with US Silver in 2010-2011 and think it was a reco of yours also. Sold when my son was born in May 2011 and glad I did, helped out my accounts real well.

Coral was the only one I have held since 2010 with a mind blowing 120,000 shares, but getting close to being back to even. I really like Coral and just as the board spoke years a go, they want to be a buyout target, all the sudden Barrick is finally sniffing around their property and gave them a little, needed, cash.  Right next to the world famous Pipeline mine with all the infrastructure a golf shot away from Coral. a very strong performer this year on Volume.  Only 40 million shares outstanding. Hmmm

Do you like US Silver with the Reverse Split?  thinking about that one again?

I posted about Midway several years ago on the tent. Got in @ .45 and sold 60% at $1.95.  That 40% left was sold a few months ago @.95 because I needed funds for option trading. MDW is a good stock but, I feel that the PAN project is priced in. Good Mgmt with a superb relationship with Barrick. Solid, imo, but not an All Star. Now, Pilot Gold….there is a lottery ticket!

Wow