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Keep it going for you guys. Let's keep the politics limited this time.

A young woman visits her parents and brings her fiancée to meet them. After an elaborate dinner, the mother tells her husband to find out about the young man.

The father invites the fiancée to his library for a drink. "So what are your plans?" the father asks the young man.

"I am a Torah scholar," he says. "A Torah scholar? Hmmm," the father says.

"Admirable, but what will you do to provide a nice house for my daughter to live in, as she is accustomed to?"

"I will study," the young man said, "and God will provide for us."

"And how will you buy her a beautiful engagement ring, such as she deserves?" asks the father.

"I will concentrate on my studies," the young man replies. "God will provide for us."

"And children?" asks the father. "How will you support children?"

"Don't worry, sir, God will provide," replies the fiancée.

The conversation continues like this, and each time the father questions, the young idealist insist that God will provide.

Later, the mother asks: "How did it go, Honey?"

The father answers: "He has no job and no plans, but the good news is he thinks I'm God."
 
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Top Max +1 You stories on the farm spot on. 80 acres and a tractor and then in the 1970s the farm crisis hit and Hollywood made "save the farm movies" and many did not adapt well. Corporate farming has and is growing…

Bill Gates is now the largest farmland owner in America
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/bill-gates-is-now-the-largest-farmland-owner-in-america-11610818582*

The Amount Of U.S. Farmland Held By Foreign Investors Nearly Doubled In A Decade
https://www.newsweek.com/us-farmland-held-foreign-investors-doubled-decade-1436971

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Good for Bill, better than Chinese buying it all up with Most Favored Nation Dolla5rs we gave them ;-( We should adopt Mexican land policy. No foreign buyers allowed. would probably go a long way in fixing the housing crisis.
 

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MAN HOW THE TIMES HAVE CHANGED,HOW THE HELL DID I EVER MAKE IT HERE ALIVE?
i remember riding in the station wagon with no seat belts and mom smokin pall malls with the windows up!

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Mom didn't smoke but dad had Camels to make up for it ;-) I remember riding to town in the back of the pickup. That was a little chilly when it got down around 0 F ;-((
 

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Tomorrow it will be in an electric vehicle…

- Desert_Woodworker
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Maybe, Spoiler: at today's prices, lithium might run out by 2025. And as electric cars begin to take over the roads, lithium stocks could turn out to be some of the biggest winners.
 
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Tomorrow it will be in an electric vehicle…

- Desert_Woodworker

Maybe, Spoiler: at today s prices, lithium might run out by 2025. And as electric cars begin to take over the roads, lithium stocks could turn out to be some of the biggest winners.

- TopamaxSurvivor
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Lithium supply is set to triple by 2025. Will it be enough?
https://www.spglobal.com/en/research-insights/articles/lithium-supply-is-set-to-triple-by-2025-will-it-be-enough

Something to think about- the industrial revolution modernized and society now wants "electric" without fossil fuels.
OK now, whats makes electricity without "carbon pollution" efficiently and the capacity to supply society? Atomic energy.

Now the social dilemma- People want and need "electricity" to exist. As we know the wind turbines in Texas didn't hold up- the problem is that society is uncomfortable with atomic energy they need it to exist. Very similar to the gas shortages in the 1970s.

Gimme- we want
 
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#4,733 ·
Top Max +1 You stories on the farm spot on. 80 acres and a tractor and then in the 1970s the farm crisis hit and Hollywood made "save the farm movies" and many did not adapt well. Corporate farming has and is growing…

Bill Gates is now the largest farmland owner in America
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/bill-gates-is-now-the-largest-farmland-owner-in-america-11610818582*

The Amount Of U.S. Farmland Held By Foreign Investors Nearly Doubled In A Decade
https://www.newsweek.com/us-farmland-held-foreign-investors-doubled-decade-1436971

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- Desert_Woodworker

Good for Bill, better than Chinese buying it all up with Most Favored Nation Dolla5rs we gave them ;-( We should adopt Mexican land policy. No foreign buyers allowed. would probably go a long way in fixing the housing crisis.

- TopamaxSurvivor
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i agree why the hell are we allowing foreign governments buying up american land and businesses,gonna regret it big some day.most countries are smart enough not too make that mistake.
 

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#4,734 ·
Tomorrow it will be in an electric vehicle…

- DesertWoodworker

Maybe, Spoiler: at today s prices, lithium might run out by 2025. And as electric cars begin to take over the roads, lithium stocks could turn out to be some of the biggest winners.

- TopamaxSurvivor

Lithium supply is set to triple by 2025. Will it be enough?
https://www.spglobal.com/en/research-insights/articles/lithium-supply-is-set-to-triple-by-2025-will-it-be-enough

Something to think about- the industrial revolution modernized and society now wants "electric" without fossil fuels.
OK now, whats makes electricity without "carbon pollution" efficiently and the capacity to supply society? Atomic energy.

Now the social dilemma- People want and need "electricity" to exist. As we know the wind turbines in Texas didn t hold up- the problem is that society is uncomfortable with atomic energy they need it to exist. Very similar to the gas shortages in the 1970s.

Gimme- we want

- DesertWoodworker
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ever see a wind turbine farm,ugly as hell.solar is still the cleanest and best soloution in my opinion.and in socal we got plenty of fuel to feed it.
 
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The Shiddale report. Over the weekend there was a downtown window attack. Private security took the night off due to the snow and weather conditions. Criminals took advantage of the opportunity and broke a lot of windows including quite a few Nordstrom's display windows. They are reported to be $60,000 to $70,000 each!

https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/seattle-life-support-flee-residents-businessess-jason-rantz

It is no wonder the housing market in Pierce County where we are looking to move to is up 20% since last October. Houses sell in 4 days with 17 offers at 10% over the asking price. Where will the criminals and addicts invade when Shiddale is empty and abandoned.
 
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View this link and see how people in Texas are trying to survive during the freeze…

The vid and pics can be graphic-- especially the empty grocery shelf and long lines…

Breadline: Unprepared Texans Line Up Outside Grocery Store Amid Winter Storm
https://www.infowars.com/posts/breadline-unprepared-texans-line-up-outside-grocery-store-amid-winter-storm/

The National Guard and FEMA?

All I can do is pray for this country…

- Desert_Woodworker
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It will be like that here for months when the #9 earthquake hits. Only 12% make any significant preparations. All major highways are expected to be blocked by failed bridges and overpasses. Too bad those who say the secondary roads will be the transportation system do not look at the condition of them without any maintenance for the last couple of decades. Definitley a Custer's Last Stand situation. ;-(
 
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The Shiddale report. Over the weekend there was a downtown window attack. Private security took the night off due to the snow and weather conditions. Criminals took advantage of the opportunity and broke a lot of windows including quite a few Nordstrom's display windows. They are reported to be $60,000 to $70,000 each!

https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/seattle-life-support-flee-residents-businessess-jason-rantz

It is no wonder the housing market in Pierce County where we are looking to move to is up 20% since last October. Houses sell in 4 days with 17 offers at 10% over the asking price. Where will the criminals and addicts invade when Shiddale is empty and abandoned.

- TopamaxSurvivor
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+1 (many) responses tomorrow… I am still on the "wonderful wizard of oz" Any thoughts on- could Corelz be like the Wizzard of Oz's met afore that Brian posted about the Wizzard?
 
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View this link and see how people in Texas are trying to survive during the freeze…

The vid and pics can be graphic-- especially the empty grocery shelf and long lines…

Breadline: Unprepared Texans Line Up Outside Grocery Store Amid Winter Storm
https://www.infowars.com/posts/breadline-unprepared-texans-line-up-outside-grocery-store-amid-winter-storm/

The National Guard and FEMA?

All I can do is pray for this country…

- Desert_Woodworker

It will be like that here for months when the #9 earthquake hits. Only 12% make any significant preparations. All major highways are expected to be blocked by failed bridges and overpasses. Too bad those who say the secondary roads will be the transportation system do not look at the condition of them without any maintenance for the last couple of decades. Definitley a Custer s Last Stand situation. ;-(

- TopamaxSurvivor
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+1 Over and out…
 
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Pottz- we have some very good small to medium size rivers in northern-northwest Spain. There are also helicopter flyins for the mountain lakes up in the Pyrenees range. The fishery is very well managed, only a certain number of licenses are given out each year, so one has to book trips or apply in Feb to get a 3-day or week license for end of May/June. Mostly brownies and brookies. Only dry/wet flies, no streamers or live bait, and strictly catch/release. I think they would put you against a wall and pull the trigger if you showed up with powerbait. Lol. Since I dont have any gear anymore, I have to rent everything, gets pricey. Like 1500 for a 3-day package deal with a guide.
 
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If one breaks down the Oz story into its basic parts, characters, nuances, some rather enlightening observances can be made. For instance, the Tornado is scary, dark, life-threatening, and it is also the vehicle that brings Dorothy to the Light, that enables Dorothy, finally, to see and understand the illusion that binds her, and so, sets her free.

DW, respectfully have to disagree - anything you hear, read, or see about ruby slippers is orchestrated to obfuscate the truth of the matter. I havent explored your link yet, but I will.

TPB absolutely cannot, will not, have majority of people fleeing to gold and silver in times of economic uncertainty, as that would destroy the fiat system. This is why we are told these are ancient relics, and no longer viable as Money. This is why they continually manipulate the market with paper contracts. No one knows how many paper-silver contracts there are, maybe not even the Ones who issue them, but it can be assumed it is orders of magnitutde more than physical supply. Whenever the price of Silver or Gold gets to high to their liking they just issue more paper contracts, flood the market, and that hammers the price of physical Pm´s. If everyone was to go out an buy just one ounce of silver or gold, that would effectively destroy the paper market, and thus, collapse the entire corrupt banking system. I will be told that that would be terrible, people would suffer, but it would not be any more so than what We have to endure at present, globally.

To illustrate Gold as wealth preservation, and Currency as wealth destruction - in 1920, say, with an ounce of Gold one could buy a decent suit, a pair of boots, and eat for a week. Gold then was roughly 30$ per ounce. Today, one can still buy a decent suit, a pair of boots, and eat for a week with an ounce of Gold - converted to currency. Now, what 30$ in paper could buy then in 1920, gets you what today? One can barely take his girl out to eat Once for that.

While I agree, the future of currency is digital, ie., blockchain coins, Central banks buy gold, they dont buy Bitcoin, tells you all you need to know. IMO, Bitcoin is still fiat, can be endlessly broken into smaller and smaller units, and is now being "marketed" and popularized for two reasons: to get people comfortable with the idea of digital currency, and more importantly, to divert capital from fleeing into PM´s. Mining Bitcoin uses an astronomical amout of energy, in China alone this mining uses more energy than entire countries use; some junior players actually heat their homes from the hardware they need to operate 24/7 to do this mining.

For more info, greater perspective, see, Bill Still´s excellent documentary: Secret of Oz.

Or, go back and investigate what William Jennings Bryan, Charles Lindbergh Sr., and others were trying to prevent. Or investigate how England destroyed the accumulated wealth of generations in India particularly, and the World respectively, by flooding the market with cheap silver, which they borrowed from the US Treasury. This single maneuver was the root cause of the Great Depression, and you will never be taught this, unless you dig very deeply. Generations of accumulated real wealth obliterated overnight.

"Gold is Money, all else is Credit." JP Morgan

There is too, an inherent problem with PM´s as money also when there is a pyramid type power structure, in that wealth will still be siphoned to the top.

The single best investment one can make, one that will always hold its value, one that will always create true wealth, is farmland.
 
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Interesting. Did not know that. Makes sense, I guess, similar landscape. Like the Swedish up northern US, southern Canada. Was at a party once, asked a Basque guy about why their language was so unique, he said: isolation.

WE had the largest Basque population from the Pyrenees in the US in Southern Idaho.

- TopamaxSurvivor
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Pottz- we have some very good small to medium size rivers in northern-northwest Spain. There are also helicopter flyins for the mountain lakes up in the Pyrenees range. The fishery is very well managed, only a certain number of licenses are given out each year, so one has to book trips or apply in Feb to get a 3-day or week license for end of May/June. Mostly brownies and brookies. Only dry/wet flies, no streamers or live bait, and strictly catch/release. I think they would put you against a wall and pull the trigger if you showed up with powerbait. Lol. Since I dont have any gear anymore, I have to rent everything, gets pricey. Like 1500 for a 3-day package deal with a guide.

- wildwoodbybrianjohns
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sounds like heaven man,thats kinda what we used too do fly into remote lakes and rivers where we'd be the only ones around.alaska for a fly in lodge is at least 5k and up for a week now.i love fly fishing just a pure way to fish.gotta get back to it again.
 
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