^^^ means US$ is toast as world reserve currency, probably got less than 5 years left now, maybe just a couple
Empires die slowly at first, then all at once. Plan accordingly.
I disagree, but only somewhat. There are uncanny parallels with Rome, though. ~450-470 years of the Republic, followed by ~450-500 years of the Empire: ~200 years of imperial ascendancy and 250-300 years of decline. Some might argue that US became kind of like a "limited' empire somewhere after WWII. We had maybe 1776-1945 (169 years) of the republic and 76 years as a 'limited' empire. Roman empire started to decline at approx 50% of time spent as a republic and declined for almost as long. If drawing direct analogies, US might start to decline about now (maybe Afganistan is a marker of sorts) and continue for another 70-80 years. Not 5 or a couple! I expect the process to be slow, and i would welcome it to be slow because we all know what happened after Rome collapsed: 900-1000 years of 'dark ages'. US projection of military power (world's policeman) may not be called an Empire, but only in name. By the facts on the ground are that they had the most overseas military bases and troops on foreign soil than any other empire in history. As a willing partner in many UN shenanigans, it became a strange amalgam of corporate America protecting it's interests especially the petrodollar and a tool of the global elite to rape and pillage countries all over the globe "spreading democracy" or righting perceived wrongs from some despot or another. It is an Empire, an Empire by stealth maybe but never-the-less it has all the essential hallmarks of an Empire. The collapse of the US$ Empire has been set in motion by the operation on Sept. 11 2001, days before release of an Inspector General's report from an audit of the Pentagon revealing missing funds in the trillions. 2001 dollars. The Pentagon has never passed an audit since. In 20 years, there was never any verifiable evidence found in Afghanistan Taliban caves in linking anybody in Afghanistan to the sophisticated Sept. 11 attacks that levelled 3 immense skyscrapers in a morning and coordinated attacks in 3 geographical locations inside the USA. Osama bin Laden was supposedly found and killed in Pakistan but always claimed he never had anything to do with Sept. 11. Sept. 11 is the only terrorist act that nobody has claimed responsibility for, terrorists operate on publicising their acts/causes not covert operations. Al Quaeda was not eradicated, some parts of them flourished to become ISIS in Iraq and elsewhere, parts of Al Quaeda even emerged as Allies with the US in some bizarre civil war alliances in Syria. The entire US military operation in Afghanistan was surrounded by lies, misinformation, misdirection and infathomable wasteful spending from the highest offices of US govt. and tragic loss of life on the ground for 20 years. At it's peak the US military had over 100,000 troops on the ground there. Afghanistan is where Empires go to die. The looting of the Empire by Washington insiders and connected contracting organisations has been going on for over 20 years already, probably from the time of Iraq 1 and the Bush 1 Presidency. The dollar emissions curve is going exponential. There is no way it lasts another 5 years, let alone 20 years. USSR collapsed 2 years after being beaten and pulling out of Afghanistan. It was another "no one" saw it coming. I see the collapse of the USA as a global Empire coming. |
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Awwww! I was waiting for the exact day to post something about the 50 year anniversary of the USA severing the dollar/gold connection and I totally blew it!  Sorry I'm late. ... I think the significance of the Afghan defeat/collapse on the 50th anniversary of the US$ defaulting on gold money should not be understated. ... since the 1971 US$ gold defaults, the fiat Fed. Res. debt notes have been backed by mid-east agreements (Saudis petrodollar support) and projection of US military power in that region. That the US$ has been backed by guns since it is no longer backed by gold is no secret. Well 50 years later it is no longer backed by either gold or guns and projection of US military power in mid-east is basically over now post-Afghanistan. The last refuge for the US dollar/military maybe to use nukes as a final desperate grab to regain military power, but would they stretch that far? Full faith and credit in the corrupt/incompetent clowns inside the Washington D.C. beltway and in charge of the US govt offices is essentially worthless. They make claims about the nukes falling into the hands of people that can't be trusted. Wake up, the nukes are already in the hands of people who can't be trusted to run a booze-up in a brewery. Backing the US$ with a competent government is an after thought for them, as they personally loot everything for all it is worth. This is exactly how empires collapse. |
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OT: a strange thunderstorm yesterday in H-town. Lightning mostly at a very sharp angle, instead of usual where most lightning is typically close to the right angle.
Lost power for a while, but then some strange electrical event occurred.
Some bulbs, especially those that are 'new' (economical) type started glowing in red (not white or yellow) and several electrical outlets (I assume those with fuses) started a slight buzz (which I recorded) for a good 15-20 min, then stopped.
I am not an electrician, but what could have caused it? Some residual charge in the air? It was very weird, never seen/heard anything like that.
sideways lightning, bulbs glowing red, outlets 'buzzing', I don't know of any natural electrical thunderstorm phenomena that can produce those kind of effects ... that sounds well, unbelievable, have you considered alien activity in the area? Or some other kind of radiation, increased solar proton flux? What latitude are you at? |
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 Look at me, we are the Captains now Well yeah.... No 2 bit opium poppy farmer is gonna fuck with dudes who still live in the dark ages, pray to Allah 5 times a day and sport those funny hats, full beards, and flash full clips and AK's..... ... hahaha that's hilarious! assuming you are american you see no irony in claiming "sour grapes" after getting booted out unceremoniously from a barren mountainous desert after spending ~$2 trillion total, $88 billion arming and training the local military that imploded in less than a month and cost thousands of lives https://apnews.com/article/middle-east-business-afghanistan-43d8f53b35e80ec18c130cd683e1a38fTHE LONGEST WAR:
Percentage of U.S. population born since the 2001 attacks plotted by al-Qaida leaders who were sheltering in Afghanistan: Roughly one out of every four.
THE HUMAN COST:
American service members killed in Afghanistan through April: 2,448.
U.S. contractors: 3,846.
Afghan national military and police: 66,000.
Other allied service members, including from other NATO member states: 1,144.
Afghan civilians: 47,245.
Taliban and other opposition fighters: 51,191.
Aid workers: 444.
Journalists: 72.
Estimated amount of direct Afghanistan and Iraq war costs that the United States has debt-financed as of 2020: $2 trillion.
Estimated interest costs by 2050: Up to $6.5 trillion.
THE WARS END. THE COSTS DON’T:
Amount Bilmes estimates the United States has committed to pay in health care, disability, burial and other costs for roughly 4 million Afghanistan and Iraq veterans: more than $2 trillion.
Period those costs will peak: after 2048. ... it took 20 years to decide it wasn't worth 'fucking with' them??? huh? US population got screwed big time by Military-Industrial-Complex ... and got the Patriot Act gem and Stasi-like surveillance state intelligence apparatus to keep them in line as a nice side bonus |
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^^^ means US$ is toast as world reserve currency, probably got less than 5 years left now, maybe just a couple
Empires die slowly at first, then all at once. Plan accordingly.
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Look at me, we are the Captains now |
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The important thing to remember for heat pumps is they don't work well if the outside temperature drops below about 40F (about 4C). I have a dual gas/heat pump system which gives pretty good results.
... they also rely on electricity supply, about ~25% of the heat shifted is consumed in electricity for the best efficiency pumps. ... if it is mission critical to keep the heat flowing probably plan on back-up generation in case of main/grid electrical failure |
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... uh-oh a hard-hitting truthy video that Twitter and the vaccine nazis can't delete because it's a matter of public record being a public council hearing ... and it appears to be going 'viral', pardon the pun https://mobile.twitter.com/SebGorka/status/1424603849952829442/More COVID facts the CDC & Biden Administration doesn't want you to hear. ... hits all the best notes, vaccinated people can spread infections, likely that outbreaks amongst vaccinated people in the summer is evidence for Antibody-dependent enhancement of the virus, zinc, vitamin-D and early ivermectin is adequate therapeutic treatment to get lethality numbers to flu-like levels, etc ...tl;dr vaccines aren't the silver bullet they've been sold as, and maybe make things worse on population-wide scale ^^^This is your opinion and below are scientific facts that were just published. peruse when you have time: Summary (in a table form): https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/mm7032e4.htm#T2_downThe whole article: https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/mm7032e4.htm... that CDC table link is well out of date now since it relates only to early strains of SARS-CoV-2, the delta variant is above 90% of new cases and has been dominant since April-May, e.g. Pfizer vax is only 37-47% effective against delta, Moderna maybe higher ~70-80% |
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My experience: You can only be worried about money if you have money you don't want to lose, for any reason.
No money, no worries (about money).
No woman, no cry.
Money well gives you security, which again, is not happiness. Well, maybe happiness is sometimes dependent on security. But it's not the same at all.
You have to realize that your personal experience does not apply to the whole population. You might not get happier if you get rich, but the majority of people do, as shown by science, and me. In this one you are simply wrong I'm afraid. Still, it's not the money that makes you happier. It are the things it buys you, aren't they? So i stand by my point, people get happier if they get rich, because they know how money makes them able to buy things that make them happy. BUT many things make you happy only for a short time. So people want "more happy", buy more things. The old supercar isn't super anymore? No problem, buy a new one. Enjoy it until you see the next, even more super supercar. The moment you know there is a better one you want to have, you're unhappy (about still having the old one). Not sure about this. Wasn't freedom what we were looking for? The "fuck you" level? There's a lot of unseen continuous costs coming with "things", be it a house, a car, a laptop or a TV: taxes, storage room, subscriptions, memberships, repair and maintenance etc. Buying more things is not the right way of maintaining fuck you level, mate. After all this hodling and determination for years and years to get this virtual money running, are you really going to find happiness in spending your profits on material stuff? Not saying you're wrong or right, only that I have other plans. (FYI if I'm not mistaken, the true meaning of "No woman no cry" is actually "No woman, don't cry") Absolutely right imo. I actually don't believe that things make people happier, i just presented an explanation of a common misinterpretation (of money making people happy) to Arrie. So, freedom from money and from the need to earn-to-survive also creates happiness. This is closing the circle for me. Thanks for pointing to the freedom aspect. On "no woman"... From Patwah (Patois) it would be valid to be interpreted as "no woman, don't cry", too. Too bad Bob (Marley) can't be asked anymore about this. It's not a misinterpretation, its the honest to god truth, money DOES make you happy!! It's that simple. ... money cannot buy you happiness, don't buy into the lies of mammon. ... economic security can make your life less miserable, there's a difference |
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... uh-oh a hard-hitting truthy video that Twitter and the vaccine nazis can't delete because it's a matter of public record being a public council hearing ... and it appears to be going 'viral', pardon the pun https://mobile.twitter.com/SebGorka/status/1424603849952829442/More COVID facts the CDC & Biden Administration doesn't want you to hear. ... hits all the best notes, vaccinated people can spread infections, likely that outbreaks amongst vaccinated people in the summer is evidence for Antibody-dependent enhancement of the virus, zinc, vitamin-D and early ivermectin is adequate therapeutic treatment to get lethality numbers to flu-like levels, etc ...tl;dr vaccines aren't the silver bullet they've been sold as, and maybe make things worse on population-wide scale |
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.... many a true word spoken in jest? .... I've heard it said the vaccine is like just the hacked/jail-broken boot-loader/BIOS ... the new OS upgrade comes later |
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... another aspect of this is total btc locked up in the lightning network is essentially same category as cold storage btc, or oft-quoted "btc that left the exchange" |
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... someone put a needle in the right shoulder, all good now
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 https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/study-finds-most-highly-educated-americans-are-also-most-vaccine-hesitant “It finds that the association between hesitancy and education level follows a U-shaped curve with the highest hesitancy among those least and most educated. People with a master’s degree had the least hesitancy, and the highest hesitancy was among those holding a PhD.
In addition, while the lowest educated saw the largest drop in vaccine hesitancy for the first five months of 2021, those with PhD’s were the most likely to not change their minds." |
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 They must have a separate committee or an "expert" panel looking into all aspects of "crypto"; searching these names might just be fruitless. .. I'm trying to imagine individuals while looking at this faceless list but it's not working ... all I see lawyers, economists and accountants ... it's like a giant fucking leecherous blob of unaccountables sucking on the taxpayer in every way they can come up with |
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Omnibus bills corrupt the democratic process and their usage should be curtailed. This isn't strictly an American problem either.
... Shelby is dick deep in with the Banks ... the real question is, to back the truck up a bit, and ask why the hell the bitcoin legislation was put into this bill in the first place? Who wrote that text? (It reads like something the IRS/FED/Banks cartel would produce) ... Who got it attached to that Bill? ... all the horse trading after that was theatre, Cruz's attempt to get the whole thing struck out was the only sane move in the whole political shitshow. |
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That China, Musk FUD stage was pretty worrying tbh. We now seem to have a clear road to ATH’s. I have a feeling the WO will be a fun place to be throughout the rest of 2021  ... earned some stripes, ... bitcoin selects for tough ... or makes you mentally tough if you hang around, so much shit gets thrown at bitcoiners there is no other way |
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Is the bill/amendment news a dead duck now then? Do we just not care?  ... it's the fight we've all been waiting for, bitcoin has been training for this bout since 2009 Jan 03 bitcoin vs. The State ... china bowed out, up next USSA, place your bets https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MF_4KDTUYNY |
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