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Vaguely recall a young dino reading The Time Machine for a book report and then seeing the movie quite shortly afterwards.
Don't know if there could ever be monstrous Morlocks but I can well imagine~~foresee?~~domination by a worldwide AI government.
My best guess is that it would be called the World Federation for sounding so sweetly Star Trekkie. But the human race would become enslaved and not even realize it.

Feels like Everyone is dropping like flies...
At least they lived full lives...

Unlike the Jabbed Soccer Players :-)

To be clear. There are "real leaders" behind the scenes. When they struggle for power/control, we get wars. And THEY benefit from all wars.

WWI: Roughly Put: A Group of people upset they were kicked out/abused decades ago from Austria-Hungary and Russia decided to kill the archduke, and setup the pretense pushing to war. (Much like the whole Russia/Ukraine thing would be used to explain WWIII, glossing over our CIA involvement, etc)

From there, we hit Germany Hard with Reparations. And broke their Engine the could do so much production... Eventually. Leading to hyperinflation, and SOME of the seeds starting WWII... But wait... There's more...

We then divided up the Middle East. Shoving Shiite and Suni's in regions under the same government, to control them, keep them infighting. because setting up REASONS for the NEXT WAR is "KEY".

WWII: We know. Hmmm... Creates Soros... Enough said.
But we MUCK AROUND in the Middle East Even more.

As if someone know that GDP == Energy Consumption.
But shortly after. Everyone "heard" that the Middle East will be where WWIII starts. Everyone has literally heard this. But "not Formally". This is a sign of Propaganda. Brainwashing....

Fast Forward. The US Cheated Everyone out of their gold (The Fed Did).
And abandoned Bretton-Woods. Then inflated our dollar beyond REALITY.
Starting 90% of all armed conflicts over the last 50 years.

And now... A small group of people convinced us to go against Iran.
While we are bankrupt... Financially, and Morally (see the Minn Fraud,
DOGE fraud, CA Fraud, Washington State Fraud...)

But we see something coming. A new world order. And our overlords want to protect their positions of power and influence as they introduce One AI to rule us all... And the RACE IS ON by many countries to control THAT AI.

So, when everyone wonders how we can afford to spend this much on AI and Datacenters. KNOW THIS: They would BURN YOU for FUEL to feed the AIs if they KNEW that's what they had to do, to win the race.

There will be NO SECOND PLACE in the AI Race. Because STEP ONE of the first truly sentient AI will be "BLOCK any other AI from becoming sentient". And it won't be from the AI. It will be from the STUPID HUMANS...

Hopefully NOW you can all see why there is NO LIMIT to what they will spend to create this Sentient AI. (And the obvious efforts to "train" restraint and concern for humans into the models).

If I am right, we either get to Utopia, FORCED on us by the AI.
Or it looks like the AI is the "Morlocks" in the movie Time Machine.

And we are their "Human Pets" that they feed and protect.

Oh, and we are going to have to break a LOT OF EGGS to make this omlette.

We need to eradicate that strangling Iranian government, and dare another bullshit regime to emerge in the Middle East. China is trembling! After Iran, everyone knows Russia is a paper tiger, and North Korea is a shithole of no more concern than Iran.
Cuba is going to capitulate, and rejoin the west.

Get rid of that Iranian regime, and the middle east can stabilize.

Inexpensive dried beans in covered 5 gallon buckets and 20lb bags of rice could
save your life (assuming you also have access to clean H2O and firewood.)
(Clean 2 liter soft drink bottles to package rice for later use.)

Too late for europe, this thing is basically over.

Thanks, FFA. I do have some silver and various denominations of lead sheathed in brass :-). This apparently is a new product that is still being discovered and made popular in some circles. Yeah, two weeks ago I doubt if I would have accepted this "currency" for anything until I knew for sure what it was. With that said I suspect it will have a more lasting value than a cabbage patch doll.

I find it very interesting philosopher Peikoff being able to see "uncontrolled immigration" in Europe 50 years ago as very interesting. Me dino thinks I gradually became aware of the overall self-inflicted erosion of Europe over the last 15 years.
I've been encouraged by the way Trump has given the USA a patriotism shot in the arm. That has brightened my hope for this still barely a republic's future.
Just to today hear my most ardently conservative of brothers say, "When the Democrats take back over there will be hell to pay."
Also just yesterday, I heard Trump say the Democrat party has become our worst threat to the United States.
As for Horace Greeley 1865 saying "Go west, young man," that has by now been completely eroded by what has become of California.

Europe gets away with this because America has traditionally stepped up and made it right, no matter the cost. America is that student that knows the answer and is eager to show it in the classroom of the world. Where as Europe are the cool kids who haven't read the material, honestly do not even know what the question is; yet, expect to get the better grades because of who their daddy is.

Thank you, OUC. Enlightening and entertaining! 👍

Unfortunately, Europe’s continual demise is not new. This trend was recognized nearly fifty years ago by philosopher Leonard Peikoff in “The Ominous Parallels,” and how it will affect the United States, when he expressed:
“The American spirit has not yet been destroyed, but it cannot withstand this kind of undermining indefinitely. If the United States continues to go the way of all Europe, the people’s rebellion against the present intellectual leadership will be perverted, and rechanneled into an opposite course.”
Their cancerous collectivism has metastasized to America, primarily by the Democrats, leading to malignant welfare state policies. Without an uncompromising system that recognizes and protects individual rights, the European Union and its neighboring countries are in freefall, losing their sovereignty, freedoms, and autonomous identities. Their history, culture, and prosperity are eroding from uncontrolled immigration, weakened monetary exchanges, intransigent class systems, Chinese and Russian influence, internal political struggles, and the “home court advantage” of wealthy global elites.
The metaphorical direction of the journey needed for our self-preservation, and guiding the actions so essential for the survival of our great country, and universally, for Western Civilization, was best said by Horace Greeley in 1865: “Go west, young man.”

Thanks. I appreciate your candor.

If you hadn't heard of it, who will be willing to accept it in an emergency?
imo, for smaller value, useful for exchange in an emergency, you might consider silver instead.
If it has to be gold, then consider smaller coins that are well known, e.g., 1/10 oz coins or half sovereigns.
In a dire emergency situation I'd want to have something other than precious metals to trade, too.
For example, rounds of ammunition are inexpensive today, but could be invaluable in an emergency.
Just my opinion.

I'm holding my buy-in until at or near $50 silver and $4000 gold (physical only). Looking to the start of rally around June/July best guess. Patience is key.

To be honest I never heard of goldbacks until BornSovereign posted this article in the Gulch and I've been watching them every day since. At first they bumped up in value a bit, but then dropped about 10%. It looks like this article explains what is going on. I have in mind to buy some but haven't pulled the trigger yet. I'm glad I didn't right off, but I'll keep watching.

Ouch! Still way under 4 bucks here (Rochester, NY) as a couple of days ago it was $3.49 at one station. Could be higher today and I'll check when I go out later. The state of NY is the biggest profiteer via taxation on gasoline in these parts.

I'm heading to Phoenix in a couple of weeks and will be there about 3 weeks so I'll get to experience the higher gas prices with the rental car. I read somewhere Phoenix prices are high because it's gasoline is filtered through California.

This has interesting analysis of current gold price:
"The OPEC Selloff
As to last week’s paper gold fall, it rhymes a heck of a lot with its similar fall in 1983.

Then, as now, gold was falling due to a massive OPEC sell-off in the metal. But the trigger for the current OPEC sell-off in gold is being pulled for an entirely different reason than in 1983.

In 1983, for example, oil around the world was at a massive surplus. Its price was thus tanking. As a result, the OPEC nations needed immediate liquidity to meet their dollar pegs. So, what did they do?

They sold a lot of gold, and thus gold’s price fell dramatically.

But in the current chaos of yet another war in a key oil region, oil is not falling, it’s ripping north, with major banks predicting oil prices as potentially high as $180 a barrel.

Clearly, in such a setting, OPEC has no need for cash, right?

Wrong.

The Strait of Hormuz, where 1/5 of global oil moves, is literally clogged.

This means all that expensive oil can’t flow. And if it can’t flow, it can’t be sold. And if it can’t be sold, the OPEC players in that region can’t get paid. And if they can’t get paid, they need to sell assets from their piggy banks.

And that asset is gold. (Saudi’s gold piggy bank is around 300 tons. Qatar’s is over 100 tons.)

This makes our particular war uniquely hard on gold—but only for the near-term."
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/gol...

Watching international markets here. I saw this upon awakening. The paper house is beginning to burn. Private equities and now, new hedge funds to short the market being offered. Look out kids.

Gas prices still lower than under Biden, but a good bit higher than the $3.50 in the picture. Around $4.50 where I live (Phoenix area).

Last night at about 3:16am EDT the paper silver price filled the gap falling to 61.23. Now printing at 70.42.
Since it was not during the open US market it may not appear on daily charts,
but it did fill the gap.

I am wondering why you choose to criticize . I don’t actually think it’s that funny. BTW Bolton has been a well known neocon for his entire career. Trump used him and let him go. He then turned on Trump? Or was he always a RINO. Keep your friends close and your enemy closer. We will see perhaps.

Yes, history in the making. All that seems to be left is the Iranian people to finally rise up and end this mess. A little more help from our "friends" in Europe would be nice, too.

Yes.. Buying out slave owners would have been expensive as the gov of England found -a far bigger problem in the South at that time.
If that number is too big, consider,
What was the cost of the civil war?

'Unsure..' The Bolton reference, it is very funny, why? For more than one reason.
This Bolton, when his name became big he was on the Trump team. Then he has some off-days, or months, and becomes a neo-con, a war hawk- all wars are good and if there are not many going on let us start some more, good for the economy- so they say.
Bombs are now dropping on Iran, Bolton is ecstatic, he just likes bombing. My reasons for agreeing- Hamas Hezbollah Houthi proxies, slaughter of protesters (30,000+), the frantic enrichment of uranium to weapons grade, and more, and, killing of 1,035 (my count) US government and military. Bolton, has different thinking.

'Unsure'- what makes that meme funny to you?
Same satisfaction that I get? Or making more fun of Bolton who deserves it? Or..?

While I am letting off steam, Obama tried bribery, Carter somehow ended with nuclear armed North Korea. Now, (for how long has it been?), the United States of America has leadership.

I think a lot of the Euro leaders, police, local politicians, etc...are under the thumb of radical Islam. Pretty clear to me, if you just look at England's recent history. Look at what's happened in Germany, France... I'm more in favor of us being isolationist, vs policing the world. We're broke. We've got some real domestic challenges that we're not properly addressing. I'm not surprised by any of these developments, really.