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Ipso
Now I have to take another vacation to get over that one but I think I’ll drive.
goldielocks @ 13:1
What a disaster!
Buygold Ipso
Apparently he was and spent a few hours in jail before he was bailed out. He was just off probation a year for another DUI.
I wonder if his Porsche was all electric?
I was talking to a teller at the store yesterday about the food prices and she brought up gas prices too. She said she’s taking a leave of absence if it goes to 10 this summer.
I wonder what a can of clam chowder or chili will look like at 10 dollars gas when I see things at almost 4 dollars now.
Not only Truck drivers are having the doubling gas prices cut into their pay it’s also affecting drivers like Uber abd Lyft who also mentioned they may or will be looking for other jobs because the price of gas cutting too much in their pay to make it not worth it.
This years hurricane season is expected to bring hurricanes like Katrina that may affect oil rigs or company’s close to shore.
Meanwhile I don’t think I’ll ever fly AA again unless I absolutely have to and not likely.
Their short of pilots maybe with their mandatory vaccines and heres their probably new trick. You board the plane they claim maintenance issues. First time it was a over a hour delay sitting there then they say pilot is on overtime has to leave so we deplaned now going on midnight we’re stuck in the airport all night including children. By the time I got my new schedule it was 3 am and air conditioning blairkjg all night long. Leave close to 10 am next day and get stuck another 6 hrs in Charlotte NC.
On the way back get to NC same flight 1913 to Sacramento does the same thing. This tile 2 hours in a plane turned off in the heat snd then I hear we need medical assistance. I already knew what it was, heat exhaustion. So when I said that it was like yelling fire in a theater bit people had to know especially if elder or had young children which there was.
So we deplaned next after finally handing out water to the people.
Then they blamed it on the passengers who got sick. No one vomited one gaged that’s all but said they had to clean the plane and why it was delayed. No it was because they left them in a hot plane.
Then a young woman with a child dressed in beautiful what looked custom made mid Eastern cloths I’m surprised didn’t get heat stoke handed me me her phone. He tells me that his wife doesn’t speak English and wants to know what’s going on. I can imagine being on this flight from hell and not understanding what’s going on so I told him. I told him the best I can guess because she doesn’t understand what’s being announced to call or text him just before it actually leaves text or call him then count 4 1/2 hrs from then she will arrive. I think I heard him blur out 4 1/2 HRS!!! Lol There were people who had to work in the morning either in the place or picking people up now at about 2 am abd that’s going back 3 hrs in time.
I think I pushed it though. I told passengers before it was announced now watch next there going say the pilots in OT. They were pushing to get replacements.
Except the pilots and people on the ground unprofessional woke people.
One of the true Big Dogs. Lots of great trading tips here.
Lessons From A Trading Great: Paul Tudor Jones
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I know from studying history that credit eventually kills all great societies. We have essentially taken out our American Express card and said we are going to have a great time…
Maybe there are macroeconomic forces at work that are part of a larger super cycle that we don’t have any control over. Perhaps we are simply responding to the same type of cycles that most advanced civilizations fell prey to, whether it was the Romans, sixteenth-century Spain, eighteenth-century France, or nineteenth-century Britain…
You look at every bear market and they’ve always basically occurred because of an uptick in inflation and an uptick in interest rates…
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/lessons-trading-great-paul-tudor-jones
Stupid is as stupid does
San Francisco School District Drops ‘Chief’ From Job-Titles, Cites Native-American Concerns
These guys are spot on but don’t factor in the rig
A Golden Opportunity: How To Invest For The Coming Stagflation
Gold and Silver haven’t made much progress over the last two years so if the playbook follows the 1970s they are the standout cheap asset from this starting point…
goldielocks, Buygold
Sometimes police brutality is justified. 
Terra 2 climbs out of the pit…ready to devour more mug punters
The Genesis of Terra 2.0
One disastrous month and a last-ditch proposal later, Terra is apparently coming back from the dead.
Terra 2.0 is set to launch at 6:00 UTC on May 28, with the airdrop of new LUNA tokens occurring at the same time. Already, notable centralized exchanges such as Binance, Huobi, and FTX have confirmed they’ll take on the resurrected token. However, major player Coinbase will not be taking part.
Prop 1623 passed 65/35 on Thursday, pulling in a whopping 305m votes. A snapshot of the blockchain will now take place, which basically means Terra is gonna work out who was holding LUNA before the crash in order to distribute the new tokens fairly. Post-crash holders will also be given tokens, albeit in proportion with the supply – so not the 500k they bought for $20.
What will Terra 2.0 look like? Terra has said projects on its 1.0 blockchain will be bridging over, while the supply on launch will be only around 120m. Due to the adjustment, LUNA whales may have to wait before getting their cut –100k+ LUNA wallets will initially be airdropped only 30% of their tokens, while wallets holding over 1m will have to wait a year.
Goldie
I bet those Napa police officers had fun with Pelosi’s husband. I hope they cuffed him and threw him in the back of the cruiser.
Cali news
Nancy Pelosi’s husband spends some time in jail. Arrested on a DUI. Lol
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s Husband Arrested for DUI in Napa County
silverngold…
have you had this stuttering problem a long time?
eeos…if you mean what the article is exposing looks kinda like this picture, then I agree!
What the “dumb” article exposes is IMO exactly what this picture portrays: Lets tell everyone we’re saving the planet while we go about destroying it!
this is a dumb article below
again use your brain people. What about if my house has solar panels and I slam all the PV power straight into the battery? Or a mini-hydro plant in my backyard? Don’t believe everything morons type on the internet. Next he will say well PV panels have a carbon footprint! Okay it’s time to let go and move along, this is why people get old and leave us
What Is A Battery? Got this from a very savvy friend. Better read it before you decide to “go green” with the electric vehicle craze.
The rest of the story…read it all so as to be really informed
What is a battery?’ I think Tesla said it best when they called it an Energy Storage System. That’s important.
They do not make electricity – they store electricity produced elsewhere, primarily by coal, uranium, natural gas-powered plants, or diesel-fueled generators. So, to say an EV is a zero-emission vehicle is not at all valid.
Also, since forty percent of the electricity generated in the U.S. is from coal-fired plants, it follows that forty percent of the EVs on the road are coal-powered, do you see?
Einstein’s formula, E=MC2, tells us it takes the same amount of energy to move a five-thousand-pound gasoline-driven automobile a mile as it does an electric one. The only question again is what produces the power? To reiterate, it does not come from the battery; the battery is only the storage device, like a gas tank in a car.
There are two orders of batteries, rechargeable, and single-use. The most common single-use batteries are A, AA, AAA, C, D. 9V, and lantern types. Those dry-cell species use zinc, manganese, lithium, silver oxide, or zinc and carbon to store electricity chemically. Please note they all contain toxic, heavy metals.
Rechargeable batteries only differ in their internal materials, usually lithium-ion, nickel-metal oxide, and nickel-cadmium. The United States uses three billion of these two battery types a year, and most are not recycled; they end up in landfills. California is the only state which requires all batteries be recycled. If you throw your small, used batteries in the trash, here is what happens to them.
All batteries are self-discharging. That means even when not in use, they leak tiny amounts of energy. You have likely ruined a flashlight or two from an old, ruptured battery. When a battery runs down and can no longer power a toy or light, you think of it as dead; well, it is not. It continues to leak small amounts of electricity. As the chemicals inside it run out, pressure builds inside the battery’s metal casing, and eventually, it cracks. The metals left inside then ooze out. The ooze in your ruined flashlight is toxic, and so is the ooze that will inevitably leak from every battery in a landfill. All batteries eventually rupture; it just takes rechargeable batteries longer to end up in the landfill.
In addition to dry cell batteries, there are also wet cell ones used in automobiles, boats, and motorcycles. The good thing about those is, ninety percent of them are recycled. Unfortunately, we do not yet know how to recycle single-use ones properly.
But that is not half of it. For those of you excited about electric cars and a green revolution, I want you to take a closer look at batteries and also windmills and solar panels. These three technologies share what we call environmentally destructive embedded costs.
Everything manufactured has two costs associated with it, embedded costs and operating costs. I will explain embedded costs using a can of baked beans as my subject.
In this scenario, baked beans are on sale, so you jump in your car and head for the grocery store. Sure enough, there they are on the shelf for $1.75 a can. As you head to the checkout, you begin to think about the embedded costs in the can of beans.
The first cost is the diesel fuel the farmer used to plow the field, till the ground, harvest the beans, and transport them to the food processor. Not only is his diesel fuel an embedded cost, so are the costs to build the tractors, combines, and trucks. In addition, the farmer might use a nitrogen fertilizer made from natural gas.
Next is the energy costs of cooking the beans, heating the building, transporting the workers, and paying for the vast amounts of electricity used to run the plant. The steel can holding the beans is also an embedded cost. Making the steel can requires mining taconite, shipping it by boat, extracting the iron, placing it in a coal-fired blast furnace, and adding carbon. Then it’s back on another truck to take the beans to the grocery store. Finally, add in the cost of the gasoline for your car.
A typical EV battery weighs one thousand pounds, about the size of a travel trunk. It contains twenty-five pounds of lithium, sixty pounds of nickel, 44 pounds of manganese, 30 pounds cobalt, 200 pounds of copper, and 400 pounds of aluminum, steel, and plastic. Inside are over 6,000 individual lithium-ion cells.
It should concern you that all those toxic components come from mining. For instance, to manufacture each EV auto battery, you must process 25,000 pounds of brine for the lithium, 30,000 pounds of ore for the cobalt, 5,000 pounds of ore for the nickel, and 25,000 pounds of ore for copper. All told, you dig up 500,000 pounds of the earth’s crust for just one battery.”
Sixty-eight percent of the world’s cobalt, a significant part of a battery, comes from the Congo. Their mines have no pollution controls, and they employ children who die from handling this toxic material. Should we factor in these diseased kids as part of the cost of driving an electric car?”
I’d like to leave you with these thoughts. California is building the largest battery in the world near San Francisco, and they intend to power it from solar panels and windmills. They claim this is the ultimate in being ‘green,’ but it is not! This construction project is creating an environmental disaster. Let me tell you why.
The main problem with solar arrays is the chemicals needed to process silicate into the silicon used in the panels. To make pure enough silicon requires processing it with hydrochloric acid, sulfuric acid, nitric acid, hydrogen fluoride, trichloroethane, and acetone. In addition, they also need gallium, arsenide, copper-indium-gallium- diselenide, and cadmium-telluride, which also are highly toxic. Silicone dust is a hazard to the workers, and the panels cannot be recycled.
Windmills are the ultimate in embedded costs and environmental destruction. Each weighs 1688 tons (the equivalent of 23 houses) and contains 1300 tons of concrete, 295 tons of steel, 48 tons of iron, 24 tons of fiberglass, and the hard to extract rare earths neodymium, praseodymium, and dysprosium. Each blade weighs 81,000 pounds and will last 15 to 20 years, at which time it must be replaced. We cannot recycle used blades. Sadly, both solar arrays and windmills kill birds, bats, sea life, and migratory insects.
They’re may be a place for these technologies, but you must look beyond the myth of zero emissions. I predict EVs and windmills will be abandoned once the embedded environmental costs of making and replacing them become apparent. “Going Green” may sound like the Utopian ideal and are easily espoused, catchy buzzwords, but when you look at the hidden and embedded costs realistically with an open mind, you can see that Going Green is more destructive to the Earth’s environment than meets the eye, for sure.
If this had been titled… “The Embedded Costs of Going Green,” would you have read it? Please share if you wish.
eeos @ 18:22
Would make a great film story – documentary.
No one sees the FBI as squeeky clean!
Look what the boys are up to
A scientific analysis commissioned by the FBI shortly before agents went digging for buried treasure suggested that a huge quantity of gold could be below the surface, according to newly released government documents and photos that deepen the mystery of the 2018 excavation in remote western Pennsylvania.
The report, by a geophysicist who performed microgravity testing at the site, hinted at an underground object with a mass of up to 9 tons and a density consistent with gold. The FBI used the consultant’s work to obtain a warrant to seize the gold — if there was any to be found.
The government has long claimed its dig was a bust. But a father-son pair of treasure hunters who spent years hunting for the fabled Civil War-era gold — and who led agents to the woodland site, hoping for a finder’s fee — suspect the FBI double-crossed them and made off with a cache that could be worth hundreds of millions of dollars.
The newly revealed geophysical survey was part of a court-ordered release of government records on the FBI’s treasure hunt at Dent’s Run, about 135 miles (220 kilometers) northeast of Pittsburgh, where legend says an 1863 shipment of Union gold was either lost or stolen on its way to the U.S. Mint in Philadelphia.
https://apnews.com/article/civil-war-gold-fbi-pennsylvania-1352e0c3682bc88650a74136dc3c6c74
Clif High….Welcome to Klauswitz! Work makes you free!
They now live in a “control camp” run by Klaus Schwab and his gang of WEF members. The border of this control camp are all western republics. Basically all countries whose politicians have taken part in WEF meetings.
The World Economic Forum is not given any authority by mankind. It’s a private company founded by Klaus, and with the backing of the central bank-funded “elites,” the WEF becomes part of what’s known as “public-private partnerships.”
By the way, now you know that Klaus is very good at disguising his intentions with new and misleading choices of words. For example, note that fascism is defined as a merging of private enterprise and government into one function. The “private-public partnerships” created by our criminal “elites” fit this definition of fascism perfectly. Klaus didn’t want to say that the WEF was an organization of fascists, so he used alternative language to fool you.
Klauswitz is the name of this global prison. Klaus’ prison will close its gates when he has achieved his Great Reset where you, the prisoner, will own nothing, eat bugs and be happy.
Remember that Klaus is one of a long line of name thieves and they use language to cover up their crimes and blind your view of their future exploits. Klaus’s Great Reset is his way of saying “get your stupid ass!”. When he says, “Be happy,” he’s actually saying, “Work will set you free.” This is an update on his dad’s “work sets you free” language.
Note that both are inherently lying. It is not work that sets a man free, it is guns and ammunition and the willingness to use them that set men free.
Tit for Tat
Iran seizes 2 Greek tankers in Persian Gulf as tensions rise
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard seized two Greek oil tankers Friday in helicopter-launched raids in the Persian Gulf, officials said. The action appeared to be retaliation for Athens’ assistance in the U.S. seizure of crude oil from an Iranian-flagged tanker this week in the Mediterranean Sea over violating Washington’s crushing sanctions on the Islamic Republic.
https://apnews.com/article/middle-east-iran-dubai-5bbb7e35405a91ae9ceffbda17b59475
It looks like AU & AG are waiting for the Season to begin around JUNE,JULY 4th
The stocks are being pushed faster than the bullion !Momentum indicators are bottoming and about to start up.
UKRAINIAN Zelenski has THREE Mansions
while the US sends him free weapons ,he wont have any incentive to make peace as long as he profits from war !
He used to be a comedian ..he still is ,but the joke is on Ukraine people . Cant let a crisis go to waste can he?
He maybe jealous of BLM head ,if she can live in Mansions why cant he ? Both live in luxury at expense of others ,who die …
Theres money in WAR just as in Poverty ,how nice of them to exploit others misery !