Phyzzzical Graffiti — Got Gold?

in #steemsilvergold5 years ago (edited)

Hi Friends,

Let’s rock out! Click on the link below and enjoy some great 70’s rock. It’s Led Zeppelin from 1975 from the album Physical Graffiti.

Here’s a picture of Robert Plant standing on the balcony of the Hyatt House on the Sunset Strip (LA California) in 1975. It was there and then that he pronounced “I am a golden god!”

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And who could blame him? If i ever get the chance to surveil a billboard with my band’s name on it, from a balcony on the Sunset Strip, then i too will proclaim “i am a golden god!”

This i promise! 🤘😎⚡️😜😂🤣

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Now however unlikely this is, i still have a chance at becoming a golden god — of sorts...

“Wha-choo-talking-about-Damus!!?” I can hear a few of yaz exclaim. Well allow me to explain myself, and hopefully shed a little more light on this shiny subject. But first, let’s keep the band rockin’!

Okay, let’s talk some gold talk. I wrote yesterday about the wisdom of actually holding physical gold (or indeed silver) in one’s possession. This means that you actually hold it, as in:

in your own fucking hands like it’s a sandwich!

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Good ol’ Welshie picked up the theme earlier today and espoused a similar theme, but with crypto — after yet another crypto exchange has gone down in flames (see: QuadrigaCX) — and many, many others besides us two handsome fellows have preached the same gospel. Just google “holding physical metal,” “Got Phyzz,” or any other similar phrase you can think of and you will have thousands of articles to reference inside about 4/10ths of a second. Or, read on...

Let’s hash out some appies before we deliver the Custard Pie!

1913 — the monstrous creature from Jekyll Island is sparked into life and the Federal Reserve exhales it’s first few breaths, and then promptly demands them back with interest, like a voracious, predatory, insatiable parasite!

1933 — Roosevelt issues executive order 6102 and demands Americans to surrender all their gold coin, bullion and certificates, to be rebursed at the adjusted rate of $35 usd per ounce.

1971 — Nixon takes America of the “gold standard” and effectively slams shut the “gold window,” where formerly creditor nations to the US could demand gold as payment for their loans.

1999 — the UK infamously sells off all of their gold reserves at the bottom of the market in what is known as “Brown’s Bottom” — the silly twats!

2000 (to present) — several Western nations divest themselves of gold reserves: most notably Switzerland (wtf?) and sadly, Canada sells ALL of their gold reserves except for 77 gold coins held by the BoC. FUCKING UNBELIEVABLE that the second largest nation (by land mass) on the planet has less gold than a well stocked LCS!!!

Okay, so there’s some basic gold history that many stackers will know about. If any of it is news to you and you are intrigued, then dig motherfucker! Neither gold nor knowledge is unearthed easily.

Here’s some other interesting facts. The ENTIRE global gold market is about 8 trillion dollars. So to put that into perspective, America, under the leadership of Obama, spent 25% more money in 10 years than all the gold that has ever been mined in the history of the world!!!

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Now i’m not picking on Obama, just trying to illustrate how far out of “literal” touch the global monetary system has become since the bankers abandoned any kind of responsibility for their “policy decisions” — let alone their policy mistakes!

It is estimated that global debt is somewhere between 250 and 500 trillion dollars including all unfunded liabilities. So even if it is the lower number that is still about 35 times greater than all the gold that has ever been mined! And what makes this figure even more ridiculously heinous is that all of this money is accruing interest! Now this may sound like a naive cliché, but you simply cannot dig yourself out of a hole any more than you can pay-off debt by borrowing more money. It is ridiculous! It is the greatest scam the world has ever known and the benefactors of this scam are the people and institutions that stand above the law, above the riff-raff, and beyond any kind of retribution. It is very scary stuff, and it should concern everyone who wants the ability to feed themselves and care for their family going forward.

Here’s another crazy fact. The daily gross gold volume traded is 850 times the daily volume of gold produced. So, everyday on the global gold market there is approximately 2 1/3 years worth of mining production traded. This is fucked up! And not only is it fucked up, it is totally rigged. The “Gold Fix,” or spot price of gold is reported twice a day by a syndicate of private corporations that holds most of it — they literally cannot lose! ...and they do not lose. They sell “paper” gold derivatives that far exceed the gold they have on hand and then manipulate the price so that they never lose. It has been further estimated that for every ounce of physical gold held by the bullion banks, that there is several hundred ounces of “paper gold” that lay claim to that single ounce!

Now again, if any of this is news to you then i would recommend you do a little research...

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So what is my point? Well besides getting my rant on and reiterating the wisdom of actually holding some precious metals (less than 3% of Americans hold any gold) i want to fart in the general direction of the memory of Richard Nixon and make a bold proclamation:

The Gold Window is still open!!!

Now of course it’s not still open at $35 an ounce, but it’s still open as far as i am concerned because i can still take my fiat dollars to my lcs and pick up some o the fancy whenever i want. Granted, i will still have to pay about $1,300 usd for it, but can still get it! I can still get the actual elemental material in my hand, that arguably, is worth several hundred times its purchase price if we take into account fractional reserver banking.

What a deal!

Now i’m not sure i can tie-up the above and bring it all together into a tidy conclusion — i’ll leave that to you — but i did promise some Custard Pie, so here it is:

Perhaps none of us will ever stand on a balcony on the Sunset Strip — looking at our name on a giant billboard — but each and every one of us can become golden gods.

I am @thedamus and i was born to rock, born to stack, born to stack rocks and born to rock stacks!!! I hope you enjoyed today’s graffiti.

Cheers Mofoz!

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Beautiful @thedamus Well Done !!!

The Turkey, Bacon & Avocado Croissant sandwich... #ilikeitalot!!!!
Thank you for the great rock music... and great information on that timeline in this article! I enjoyed reading this post, @thedamus!!! Wonderful!

Ms. Saver Knows a Good Croissant Sandwich when she sees One...........@silversaver888

Thanks saver 😁 i have been sussing out the local produce stores, trying different bacon, and already have my croissant baker chosen. I’m gonna’ make one or two of those badboys and record process for you, stok, and posterity lofl!
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I just got this in vinyl for Christmas! It was the last zeppelin album I was missing.

Now I can have a vinyl zepathon whenever I like 😎☠️

Wax on brother!

The most important addition to your post is that my great great grandpa founded the Jekyll Island Club! He bought the land from his wife’s family who had owned the entire island for generations and had a plantation (yes... that kind of plantation) on the island. 😳 My great great grandfather was the man who then recruited all of the club’s original members!

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😳😳😳 Holy Crap dfin, our group mod is a fucking illuminati! SSG has hit the big-time!

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😂😂🤣🤣🤣

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It's all beginning to make sense why @dfinney loves her Fiat. 😂🤣😝

But then some other guy with the last name Finney received the first bitcoin transaction.....

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OM My, @dfinney... you come from the Illuminati family!!! Dang!!!! Hehehe!!! Loved reading the link!

Such a scam and it has lasted so long, How much longer will the fiat have the confidence of the sheeple?

Oh gawd... probo long-time!!! It’s the greatest illusion ever 🤩🤩🤩

I realized before some of the craziness you mentioned above, but when you put it all in one place.....Wow!

Truly! And there’s plenty more info to be astonished by 😳

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