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Silver Warrior's avatar

The Boring Company has already built wonderful automated tunnels underneath, so the gold will be there when you show up. But somebody will protest anyway, because illusion is so important, and you don't really need to see gold that isn't there.

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Klaus Hubbertz's avatar

4580 metric tons of Au are just 237.3 m3.

I personally would not wonder, in the doubtful case that they open the vaults, to find:

- Shutterstock- or Getty-images showing 20kg bullion and

- memes with middle-fingers ridiculing the US-government and taxpayers ... 🤣🤣🤣

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denise ward's avatar

This system of power hierarchy just doesn't work. It is kinda ridiculous too to have "gold reserves". Why? Why stash something? It's utter madness but because it's "always been done like that", it is thought that it has to keep going. There is no security in doing things this way. All the paperwork needs to be publicly available and easily accessed. That is the antidote because sociopaths don't like to do things in the light.

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Jeff Weiss's avatar

P.2

“So the question to ask is, who's your scapegoat…”

“Pull back and look at the systems of desire that we're in. Who are those people who are on the outside of the economy, that are on the outside of the political processes. Who are the people that are bearing the weight fir the rest of us?”

Actually Etienne, that was the complete transcript. Which I think was important to include.

There are a few things I've noticed Etienne, that I've found concerning…

I knew something awful was going to happen to the asylum seekers because of how they kept being referred to, multiple, often repeated and unsettling descriptives. So the method of “othering” was clearly in place… Regarding, aggressively, “going-into” Mexico, kinda figured that to… Other folks who prefer peace, yup, a lot of consistent “othering” there to… Remember, if you're going to successfully “other” someone, they must be accepted as being a threat.

But I kept noticing another group being subjected to the same treatment - being framed as profoundly evil, of being the cause of the Country's moral decay, being blamed for the national debt…

I'm obviously referring to either or all of the following, progressives, socialists, communists, Marxists, or the left… Quite often more then one of those terms will be invoked at the in the same sentence…

The title of one of Jordan Petersons recent podcasts, is, “Was Marx a Satanist”… It was ludicrous… But what worried me, was that they were literally equating Marx ergo, Marxism, with Satanism.

Project 2025 has been in the news quite a lot lately, and more and more each day it's policies are being set in motion without much opposing argument…

And a legal framework and structure, based on a literal interpretation of the Bible, is also being put in place and will, without question, be severely enforced.

I spent years in the evangelical Church Etienne, so I'm speaking from a first person experience. There's no hyperbole in anything I've been saying…

I don't necessarily want this to be a publishable length, so I'll try to finish this up.

If and when christian nationalists and not all, but many, evangelicals go to war, they literally think they are fighting for and representing God Himself… And they literally believe that the opposition is fighting for and representing Satan himself…

This perspective is the same apart from the battlefield, its how all life and society is interpreted… It's the lens through which everything is looked at….

Long story short Etienne, what I believe might very well happen in the very near future, is the horrific normalization of State sponsored (fill in the blank)

My concern is that Fort Knox might either be empty or much emptier then it was “supposed to be”. And that that will be the “justification” to initiate a process, that will evolve quickly, as quickly as the public can be manipulated to the point where only a sufficient Scapegoate will do…

I pray I'm wrong Etienne…

Best,

Jeff

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Jeff Weiss's avatar

Etienne,

(THIS IS P.1 NEXT PAGE IN A FEW MIN)

What if they know the gold isn't there… Wouldn't that at least be a possibility?

And if they knew the gold wasn't there, and the Fort was empty, then why go?

Could it be because they have someone, or some group in mind they plan to say is responsible - perhaps it's a group they've already been vilifying but feel has not been vilified enough.

Before a government deals remarkably harshly with a group of people, those people need to be completely vilified in the eyes and minds of the rest of the Citizenry… But not just vilified, the public needs to also see them as a threat… That key.

Once thats been achieved, (like magic) people have historically been able to sit back and watch unimaginable things happen… Perhaps slowly at first, but it doesn't take long before the great majority are able to witness or at least, be aware that inhuman things are happening.

I watched an interesting video recently that helped confirm an intuition I've had for sometime but was struggling with…

I had been studying the scapegoat for sometime, but from more esoteric and Jungian perspectives. So maybe a week ago I watched this video by a guy named Luke Burgis. It was very basic and straightforward and brought me some of the clarity it needed

Here are some excerps from the video…

“people make scapegoats when there's some fundamental truth they don't want to acknowledge. So a person or society can transfer the blame unto them, and expell, or eliminate them, and imagine that the cause of all their problems is gone… People do it because it produces a sense of catharsis, or relief, or healing”

“Scapegoating feels good, because it is a way of protecting ourselves from having to suffer, somebody else has to pay the price for our sin, for our weakness”

“Scapegoating also forms group identify. So throughout history, when there's been absolute social disorder, is the time when there's most likely to be a scapegoat. And the scapegoat brings a moment of peace and relief. Sort if, ah, we've dealt with that…

But the scapegoat mechanism never happens intentionally, it's always sub-conscious. If we thought we were Scapegoating, it wouldn't produce the catharsis, it wouldn't produce the desired effect.”

“Scapegoats can people or groups, that deviated a little from the societal norm. They broke some taboo, they said something that was threatening to the social order… And the interesting thing is, the guilt or innocence at the end of the day, doesn't really matter”

“Many scapegoats are innocent. But a scapegoat doesn't have to be innocent to make an effective scapegoat. A scapegoat can be guilty and still provide the same catharsis to the people.”

“One of the ways I think this plays out in our culture, is the dealth penalty… We certainly don't have to anybody to death in order to stay safe…”

“What if there was a mimetic process involved with capital punishment, that was totally separate an independent variable, from the guilt or innocence of the person on death row… There's more going on then criminal justice.”.

“Think about all the ritual elements of the death penalty. There's the back and forth in the media, in many Ststes the last meal. There seems to be something deeper, almost religious and sacred and sacrificial about capital punishment.”

“It's worth asking where that's coming from, and I think (missed this word) and the mimetic theory provide some insight into this “sacred function” of the Scapegoating ritual, where people have to die in order for our society to feel that something good has been done and that we're able to move on”

“We see these big scapegoats throughout history. Jesus, the Holocust. But scapegoats happen on a micro level all the time. Steve Bartman, the Cubs fan who was scapegoated for causing the Cubs to lose… Sports teams have a bad year, what's the go to method to make everything better, you fire the coach.”

“We look around our workplace and we see people being scapegoated and fired. Scapegoats are made in the news, media, and politics, practically everyday. You make a scapegoat and 2 hours later you need a new one.”

“The universe is swarming with scapegoats, yet none of us actually think we have any of our own

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Suzi's avatar

I heard (not verified) that the UK just sent its gold to fort Knox? And just read here, now. that the UK had fake gold bars in their vaults???? And didn't Prime Minister Brown sell the UKs gold years ago??

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