It has gotten so bad, even the oil companies have fessed up. https://corporate.exxonmobil.c...

https://www.neefusa.org/nature...

@ SuperKendall, not sure why I providing facts as you'll choose to ignore them, but here is one stat, I will reply with more as I get info. http://www.stormfax.com/huryea...

@ SuperKendall, not sure why I providing facts as you'll choose to ignore them, but here is one stat, I will reply with more as I get info. http://www.stormfax.com/huryea...

When the big boys get involved in something, you know it's time to get out. They have the resources(bought politicians, computing power, brain power) to fleece everyone.

Can attest to this as I regularly get posts and emails from the older people on my feed about things like poisonous toilet spiders and the Olympic torch virus.

I too was surprised it wasn't mah Russians! For once.

Absolutely. You hit the nail on the head. I had the exact same thought.

Put up or shut up. Links please.

Hey brother, you got some more of that you're smoking? Must be some good shit. Because monopolies allow competition to flourish? They don't buy them out? They don't buy law makers out? They don't lower prices to drive potential competitions out of business? I want to live in the fantasy land you live in. It must be quite a happy place.

How dare the peasants speak up for themselves. They must not have, so it must be the big bad boogey man, Russia in the closet that did it. We have the peasants sufficiently cowed to do anything as brave as speak up for their freedoms. *Trying to false flag the people's will doesn't legitimize it or make it any more right.*

Or you just get on Ebay and buy an iPhone direct from China. No tariffs, no taxes and free shipping. (I feel like at this point I should post some sort of spam link, but I'm too lazy so if you want to see one, I'm sure your search engine of choice can serve you up some.)

But all I saw were three pulsing dots while I waited for it to load. I got sick of waiting after 15 min and gave up. Which company was this for again? Oh, yeah, the ever dependable Microsoft. You can depend on it to break.

Ha, I bought M-disks, they are good for a millennia. Or so they say, I won't be alive then, and if they have the tech to read blu-ray in 1,000 years, we're screwed as a species. So, yes, I paid a crap load of money for them, but hopefully they last more than a year or 2, unlike regular blu-ray recordable disks.

If you look at my previous post, I said gold won't retain value in extreme circumstances, not sure how you got that I was saying it would have value in extreme circumstances. Value is nothing more than a measure of what people will pay for something. I absolutely agree that in extreme situations, the only things with value would be food, water and I would argue weapons to prevent others from taking your food and water. I merely said, if you are worried about retaining value and wanted a medium of exchange that is exchangeable even today, gold is probably the best way to go. The government doesn't recognize gold as legal tender, but I imagine if you tried to buy anything with gold, you would have better luck than cryptocurrency. Also in the crash of 2008, look at the price of gold. It went through the roof. Why? Because people wanted a store of value that was secure despite financial turbulence. Not sure why you are referencing ancient Egypt as iron had more value than gold and I am not saying the governments need to go to the gold standard, I am just saying if you want a stable source of value, even today gold is a good bet.