Some absurd truths of the week

The world population is now over 8,000,000,000 people we’re told…
Who took that headcount? :open_mouth:

The metal Nickel is now worth a Dime per gram…

For Nickel to be worth more than silver however, a further rise of around 20 to 25 times the current already-high $30,000 per tonne is necessary…

Donald Trump is declared the loser of the 2022 Midterms - despite not running in them.
Meanwhile, Ron DeSantis is declared a “Winner” - despite being on the same team we’ve just been told “Lost”…

We all know people that have lost money on duff investments, but few of us have even met someone with clear evidence of making a fortune from such “investments”…

You worry more these days having more money than if you have less than you did 5-10 years back.
“Prosperity - climbs a wall of worry, whilst Decline flows down a river of hope”.

Feel free to add anything you’ve noticed, that is true, and yet daft at the same time…
If you say “Winseer” btw, that just suggests you’re listening but not hearing, which is an absurdity in itself, so is already listed thus here. :sunglasses: :smiling_imp: :unamused: :stuck_out_tongue:

Absurd Truth:

It is OK for a stray Ukrainian-fired missile aimed at Russia to miss, and kill two NATO citizens “by accident”. (“By Design” would have been wrong, of course, but two innocent people are confirmed dead, regardless…)

It is OK for Zelensky to continue to lie “it was a Russian missile”, despite NATO and Polish spokespeople saying it was in fact a "Ukrainian Misfire.

Maybe it is time for the rest of the world - to question this narrative that “Zelensky is the Good Guy” here, or at least stop knocking back those of us who already know that the narrative we’ve been force-fed - could not be further from the actual “absurd truth”…

Zelensky is on a course like the plot line to “The Spy who Loved Me” Bond film, where the Bond Villain, Karl Stromberg kidnaps a British, American, and Russian nuclear-armed Submarines, and plans to aim one nuke at Washington DC, another at Moscow (dispatched already to positions in the South Atlantic) with the intention that the two outrages would trigger a full nuclear exchange between East and West, leaving Strombergs “Undersea Empire” as the new power in the world…

If everyone with nukes in the world - launches them… Who is the big winner?

Ukraine, who not having nukes - don’t think they are a target (Naive)
The Green Lobby, who both want the world population down to 100million if possible, scapegoats already in place for WWIII - the now-gone superpowers…
Centerist countries who think they can survice a global nuclear holocaust, despite being Godless morons who have no idea of the “Natural Disasters” soon to hit them full in the face, a little beyond what they can write off as “Man-Made Climate Change” to blame…

Think: Biblical scales here… Keep an eye on the American border with Canada over the next few days…

Sooner or later, I fear Zelensky is going to arrange a “nuclear accident” with whatever nuclear material he can get hold of, actual “weapons” not being available to him, and for good reason…

Material from Chernobyl would have been the easiest option, but notice that Azov have not been as quick to “take back Chernobyl” as they were Kherson, so we’ve been told…

I suspect that the Russians have already withdrawn from Chernobyl as well, and it is occupied by Asov once more, but “not told of” so they can now gather nuclear material from the site, and construct a “dirty bomb” with it…

Personally, if I were the Polish right now - I’d be rather worried, because it won’t wash if Zelensky targets Romania, Moldover, or Hungary for this “device” as it likely woudn’t wash that these three countries, not considered “Anti Putin” enough, could then be palmed off with the faux-flag throwdown event of “Russia attacked it’s friendly neighbor - to make Zelensky look bad” - when in fact that’s what Zelensky plans to do with regards to NATO…

He want’s to trigger a full nuclear holocaust imo, and plenty of other (already censored) reputable journalists - have already long since said it too… :frowning:

The best thing for the West to do is “Pull the plug on aid to Ukraine”…

But with another election rigged in America, so that the 12 Anti-Trump “Rinos” now effectively control the House of Congress (only possible if the Republicans only just win a majority when they were expected to swell in rank by those Trumper candidates flipping Democrat seats… The Trumpers standing in vacant safe Republican seats - got elected. The rest trying to flip “slim majority” democrat seats - didn’t do so well. Statistically impossible, but there it is…

Another absurd truth then? - "How could this happen in plain sight, despite the entire WORLD being now worse-off for it?

The future will be divided not by Politics, but rather “who wants to survive what is coming” and “Who doesn’t give a jot”.
The rest of us “in ignorance” will be caught in the crossfire of that of course… :frowning:

INTEREST RATES have gone up from 3% to 3.5% today, which adds another £50 a month to the average £150,000 outstanding mortgage.

Add this to the average dual fuel bill for January now rising to £384.

Compare these two bills alone (not factored in forecourt, other bills, and food prices yet!)

It seems the Bank of England won’t be happy with a mere “Recession” nor any kind of “Soft Landing” for the economy.

There’s no sign that Labour and the Unions are about to give the public sector/NHS any kind of “Inflation Busting Payrise” neither.

My own theory is that the National Banks have lost control of interest rates already, because China simply won’t lend them the money they are asking for any longer.
Supply and demand distortion in the bond auctions that take place every week in western countries - causes the interest rate to rise and rise, because that borrowing has to be financed somehow lest the Civil Service and other government departments - shut down.

“Can’t have that” says Sunak

…And the “I’m alright Jacks” in this - are anyone still with substantial savings left who cheers over the rise being passed onto depositors - which isn’t a foregone conclusion, even now…

The rest of us?

More likely to lose their job, from a collapse in demand for that business.
More likely to be worked longer hours to keep a “safe job” that supposedly is “Recession Proof”.
More likley to get re-possessed, even with “Overtime” and a higher salary…

Looks like we’re in for the very worst of winters, since 1946/7 rather than 1978/9 I’m thinking…
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winter_of … ed_Kingdom

Post-war shortages and poverty - also made this far worse than it needed to be.
The allied governments - threw money at re-building our defeated enemies, - but did precious little for the bombed-out folks at home!!
This folly of throwing money at Ukraine and “Foreign Aid” and even “The EU” - seems to be an even worse kind of folly, as again - people are going to be dying, and have already started doing so here.

Where’s the outrage at our actual establishment across both sides of the house??

Shhhh…do not disturb.
Just leave him while he’s happy. :laughing:

robroy:
Shhhh…do not disturb.
Just leave him while he’s happy. :laughing:

mmmm, but you can’t deny there is a lot of truth within… :exclamation: :bulb:

Winseer:
The metal Nickel is now worth a Dime per gram…

I don’t understand. A nickel (5c) weighs five grams. If it is worth a dime (10c) per gram in scrap value, or 50c, why aren’t Americans melting them all down at home?

Harry Monk:

Winseer:
The metal Nickel is now worth a Dime per gram…

I don’t understand. A nickel (5c) weighs five grams. If it is worth a dime (10c) per gram in scrap value, or 50c, why aren’t Americans melting them all down at home?

A (current) nickel coin isn`t made of nickel. 75% copper 25% nickel.

Clean new nickel is currently about $30,000 per tonne. Scrap will be less.
New copper $8,300 per tonne. Scrap less.

A coin with the metals mixed will be less again, but a quick estimate assuming the metals were separated and pure gives for one tonne of coins
75% of 8,000 and 25% of 30,000 = $15,000-ish per tonne…$15 per kg…One and a half cents per gram…7.5c per coin.

A nickel coin (5c) is 8.5c to make. A cent is 2.1cent to make.
coinnews.net/2022/01/18/pen … 381-2m-in-

US one cent coins (pennies) are 95% zinc and weigh 2.5 grammes.
Currently about $3,500 per tonne…$3.5 per kg…0.35c per gram.
So, a cent coin has just under 1 cent`s worth of pure metal in it.

Open to correction on all figures.

PS,
tradingeconomics.com/commodity/nickel
Max nickel metal price just over $54,000 per tonne…$54/kg…5.4cents /gram.
10c per gram, where this started, is bllx. Shock! :smiley:

Franglais:

Harry Monk:

Winseer:
The metal Nickel is now worth a Dime per gram…

I don’t understand. A nickel (5c) weighs five grams. If it is worth a dime (10c) per gram in scrap value, or 50c, why aren’t Americans melting them all down at home?

A (current) nickel coin isn`t made of nickel. 75% copper 25% nickel.

Clean new nickel is currently about $30,000 per tonne. Scrap will be less.
New copper $8,300 per tonne. Scrap less.

A coin with the metals mixed will be less again, but a quick estimate assuming the metals were separated and pure gives for one tonne of coins
75% of 8,000 and 25% of 30,000 = $15,000-ish per tonne…$15 per kg…One and a half cents per gram…7.5c per coin.

A nickel coin (5c) is 8.5c to make. A cent is 2.1cent to make.
coinnews.net/2022/01/18/pen … 381-2m-in-
If I give you the win on your calculation of 5.4c below, then the line above is even more absurd - paying 2.1c to make 1c and 8.52c to make a nickle that has 5.4c of nickel in it on top…
Perfectly good post for this thread then, that. Keep 'em coming!

US one cent coins (pennies) are 95% zinc and weigh 2.5 grammes.
Currently about $3,500 per tonne…$3.5 per kg…0.35c per gram.
So, a cent coin has just under 1 cent`s worth of pure metal in it.

Open to correction on all figures.

PS,
tradingeconomics.com/commodity/nickel
Max nickel metal price just over $54,000 per tonne…$54/kg…5.4cents /gram.
10c per gram, where this started, is bllx. Shock! :smiley:

Winseer:
INTEREST RATES have gone up from 3% to 3.5% today, which adds another £50 a month to the average £150,000 outstanding mortgage.

Surely 0.5% of £150,000 is £75?

Putin has achieved something generations of green campaigners could not! He has become Europe’s leading climate player & been nominated Europe’s power player for green agenda. With his invasion of Ukraine he’s put Europe’s addiction to oil at the forefront of geopolitics.
Clean green energy is now a fundamental matter of energy security for Europe to move away from fossil fuels writes Politico. Who’d a thunk it eh! :open_mouth:

Harry Monk:

Winseer:
INTEREST RATES have gone up from 3% to 3.5% today, which adds another £50 a month to the average £150,000 outstanding mortgage.

Surely 0.5% of £150,000 is £75?

0.5% of £150,000 is actually £750. :grimacing:

Interest of 0.5% per year is what comes in around the £50 a month mark, or £600 per annum including the small discount (from £750 per year) you get by paying monthly rather than once a year on December 31st…

lancpudn:
Putin has achieved something generations of green campaigners could not! He has become Europe’s leading climate player & been nominated Europe’s power player for green agenda. With his invasion of Ukraine he’s put Europe’s addiction to oil at the forefront of geopolitics.
Clean green energy is now a fundamental matter of energy security for Europe to move away from fossil fuels writes Politico. Who’d a thunk it eh! :open_mouth:

It is more likely that Putin’s tactical objective is more about securing agricultural advantage over Europe.
Europe fiddles with it’s declining Empire already having crashed and burned over both the wrong reaction to “Covid”, the wrong reaction to “Brexit”, and of course the wrong reaction to “Conservatism” - locking down the economy instead of ports and borders and now sanctioning Russian Oil and Gas with the disasterous energy crisis that has now precipitated as a consequence.

The West - didn’t have to play a dumb reply “move” to Putin’s Chess Move in Ukraine: Putin may have figured that the West would never be so stupid as to cause rampant inflation in the Western economies - but he under-estimated that bigtime - didn’t he?

As for “Rising Interest Rates” - the western Banking system cannot print fiat cash non-stop without those floated bonds being purchased ongoingly by China in particular every month…
China - have enough on their own plate,these days.
It only takes them buying less bonds at the weekly bond auctions that take place among Western nations, including this one - to -demand a rather higher interest rate in exchange for the additional risk of lending to an economy that has no way out, until the man-made Climate change con is discarded for the “Economic Inquisition” it has already become.

Our government - has failed to admit this of course, and blames Putin for all the mistakes they have made, and continues to double-down on the lying every time someone challenges that narrative.

Notice I have not mentioned anything not already established as fact here. This is unusual for me not to include at least one “conspiracy theory” I know, - but this is an “Absurd Truth” thread, not a sounding board for my latest insights, despite what many may think. :wink: :exclamation: