-- Posted Thursday, 27 July 2006 | Digg This Article
And what can we say about the gold price?
Gold battles on and on and refuses to just quietly subside and shrink back into the shadows. I still believe we will see a 700 floor price by the end of the year and as we head into 2007.
Don’t you just really miss ole’ Andy and Barney these days?
Just a week or so ago I read an article where the writer predicted that with the coming of the next significant terrorist act in the US that the police state in America will finally arrive. That police state has already arrived.
Friday, I was driving down town and I saw a blue light in back. South Carolina State Trooper Newton stopped me to inform me I was speeding. I am not one of those who arbitrarily fight any ticket. If I am speeding I will pay the fine and move on.
But what bothered me was Newton wanted to know where I was going and what I was doing at this time of day which was 5:30 PM in the early evening. I humbly at first told the young kid my business and that I was heading to a restaurant near by. This officer actually then began to interrogate me and accused me of lying because he knew this restaurant to be already closed.
Ah, ha, what was I really up to? I try to be polite but the very act of this officer questioning what I was doing in my free time was more than I could take. Well, I know you could argue that I should not have been speeding, but that’s not the point. 20 or 30 years ago police were taught in their training that their primary function was as servants of the people and all that went with this type of thinking. But today the police are trained to act and function as a paramilitary organization and the public is the number one enemy. And their function is to keep the public in check and restrained.
The reason that this distinction is important is that as the police state tightens police will do whatever they are instructed to do and not question its morality. I believe it to be only a matter of time when we are asked what our political affiliation is or where we go to church. It will not be a difficult extra step when we eventually have to answer why we are visiting the state next door or why we are doing what ever we are doing at any given time during the day. And unfortunately this is where things are heading and there is no going back to the way it used to be. But we can at least still talk about it and discuss it. For now anyway…
Let me bring up a statement I made last week.
"Let me share a simple fact here. The earth is for the sustenance of all the people that dwell on it. The world does not exist solely for the benefit of a few privileged environmentalists and nature lovers. "
I was not advocating raping the earth and turning her into a radioactive waste pile. But neither am I for us going back to living in caves so as to “protect” the environment. If a fellow standing next to you at the bank wanted to hold your deposit for you while you went to the bathroom would it automatically be OK if he tells you is a dues paying member of the Sierra Club? Personally, I believe in a system of checks and balances with both extremes being moderated so a decision some where down the middle can be reached. Anyway, in the following text below Ken puts me in my place.
Dave,
“…you are way out of line, on the above.” “Eventually, the day will come when the resources you call so necessary to be pilfered from Mother Earth will be no more, and it will be your ancestors - as well as everyone elses' - who suffer because of this generations' greed, shortsightedness, and improper attention paid to the planet.” “Also, I hope your descendants are prepared to live in a hovel underground on Mars. They will develop shriveled up eyes, pretty-much blind, due to the non-necessity of normal vision. They will squeak with sonar like bats....” “The Earth will either have been destroyed or over mined and the atmosphere will force many people to adopt radically different lifestyles. The earth's cultures could become more nocturnal, in avoidance of the sun's harmful rays, unprotected, causing Skin Cancer, unabated. This could happen very soon, if people like you are running rampant with resources.” “The processing alone of all these materials will be enough to send the planet into an environmental tailspin. It has already irrevocably begun. Someday, this will not seem like a radical notion, regrettably.” “Irresponsible right-wing minded thinking will not save you or your generation. Conservation and alternative methods might. It may be too late...” “Environmentalists want to SAVE these things, not hoard them for themselves. What a ridiculous notion.”
Ken
California
OK, Ken. I get the message. But for the record when anyone informs me he wants to “save” me I will always be skeptical. As I said earlier a system of checks and balances with both sides meeting in the middle is the best solution for resolving resource and environmental issues.
David,
“I always enjoy reading your articles, and think of you as a BIG picture kind of guy. Imagine my extreme disappointment to realize the smallness of your mind when it comes to the BIG picture of the planet. If you would apply just half your skills to the macro earth picture, you would quickly realize what a profoundly stupid statement you made. When the resources are used up and destroyed, from what earth will you draw your sustenance then? Keep up the good articles, but after this last statement, I hope you'll stick strictly to commodities.”
Sincerely,
Chris
Chris, thanks for your honest comments, but, no, I am not for scorching the earth and polluting it for the shear joy of it. But I also keep in mind that we have a growing population base in this world and there are a lot of folks across this world that go hungry every night for lack of the wealth generated by being denied their share of the earth’s resources. I am for sharing and equitable distribution via free market means of the earths resources to all its people. And right now Asia seems to be that portion of our world crying the loudest for more of everything. And Asia will be a driving force for the resource sector for a very, very long time.
Dave,
“WOW! Gorgeous pictures. That is one place I DO want to travel....Not only for the beauty, but for the climate. This 100 degree daily heat here in Georgia is getting quite old!!!” “Again, Thanks for all that you do!”
Brad
Brad, the following below are more pictures of my trip up north.
Notice how the pilot always backs the plane right up to the shore edge so the geologists don’t get their feet wet…it’s in their contract. That red rock you are looking at is actually called banded iron ore which gives you an indication of just how mineral rich the Nunavut Territory is. Banded iron formations have greater than 15% sedimentary iron content and are of economic interest as they host the world’s largest iron ore deposits and many gold deposits.
Dear Dave:
“I have not been back to Yellowknife in 18+ years; is a place called McTeague's still THE place to warm a chill? I'd love to know more about your trip. With all that's going on, it seems that $ 833 should be reached much sooner than 12 months.” “Stay well!”
Pugmalion
If you look real closely in the above picture you can see the Caribou sitting around their camp fires in the wild.
Dave,
“There's a C in that word (Arctic). And, by God, it's pronounced, too.”
Mark
That white stuff in the above picture is the ice and snow that never totally melts when summer comes.
Isn’t the shot above gorgeous? All that is missing are a few gas stations and pawn shops.
If you look real close above you will see orange tents of some campers canoeing down the river who had braved this wild and untamed wilderness.
If you look real close in the pic above you will see a small seal pup that watched us from the water. Sorry I did not have a telephoto lens on my camera for a closer view.
The pic above was of the very first mining complex ever built in the Arctic Circle about 25 years ago. Over 3 million ounces of gold were mined here. And because of the dry and cold weather everything has remained perfectly preserved even after closing several years ago. Even the frozen geologists have remained perfectly preserved in this environment.
The pic above was in the Arctic Ocean in an inlet where the salt water combined with the fresh waters of a river converging on the sea.
The pic above I took when I went out at 3:00 AM one “night” to take a leak. This is as dark as it gets at this time of year and only even remains this dark for just a couple of hours.
The picture above are real live geologists with a sprinkling of greedy stock brokers mixed in. This was taken inside one of the tents at the mining camp. Notice how a wooden frame structure is built for strength to support the canvas tent? Notice the computer laptops also? It is amazing that even here at the world’s extreme edge you can access the Internet via satellite connection.
The picture above are of those nasty stock brokers again inside the plane accessing their laptops.
Isn’t the island above really beautiful? I can just imagine some day a resort hotel
resting on this islands’ shores and sitting next door a marina packed full with sail boats. Don’t laugh. With global warming accelerating we may just see this happen.
Please read the very interesting email below I received from a reader.
Hi David,
“No red-blooded man could visit the Northwest Territories and not want to tell about it later and, if possible, visit again someday! I was a single missionary to the Slave (pronounced SLAY vee) Indians in the Northwest Territories (though I also had preached the gospel to the Blackfeet and Metis in Alberta). It was the mid 1960s, and I was in my late 20s. The mission headquarters was in Hay River, NWT. The only hospital in all of the NWT was owned and operated by the mission but was used by Northern Affairs (a Canadian government agency) to take sick Indians and Eskimos for treatment. (Yes, I know, but don't care, that "Indian" and "Eskimo" have become politically incorrect.) I was stationed, usually alone, in the Slave villages of Fort Providence and Fort Norman. To get to Fort Norman, I drove my pickup truck from Hay River to the Mackenzie River (crossed it on a ferry), continued to Yellowknife (gold and cobalt mining there), took a wheeled plane from Yellowknife (which at that time was the terminus of the only road--a dirt one--in the entire NWT) to Norman Wells (100 miles below the Arctic Circle), and was taken by another missionary in his 14-foot handmade boat to the village of Fort Norman. There, I lived alone in a log cabin and preached in a log church. I became very lonesome but refused the blandishments of the native girls. When I was asked to take a permanent assignment (again, all alone) at the mission cabin located at Snowdrift, an Indian village located where the Slave River (a world-class sport fishing stream) flows into the east end of Great Slave Lake, I admitted to the mission director my emotional inability to live alone in the wilderness -- though I adore wilderness when I have company -- and resigned the mission. I've seen Indian dogs pulling sleds under the midnight sun, swam all the way across the icy, miles-wide Mackenzie River near Fort Norman (becoming probably the only person to ever swim across that mighty river-- an account of the feat was in the weekly Yellowknife newspaper in 1966), heard the ice begin to break (BOOM!) on that same river in springtime, gone in a open two-man boat halfway up the Bear River toward Great Bear Lake, pulled fish out of two gill nets every day (we all have to eat), dined on beaver, moose, arctic ptarmagin -- but enough reminiscing. But I'd never heard of a "man-eating muskox" until you mentioned them in your column; I'm teasing; of course you were right to assume that you should have said "grizzly bear." Up there, where the winter hibernations are VERY long, even the black bears are lean, hungry, and dangerous to people after the blacks leave their dens in the spring. The stories I could tell! But enough of that. I am five months short of my 70th birthday and, even at that age, would like to explore those wild places again. Glad you enjoyed your trip.”
Jim Rodgers
Texas
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-- Posted Thursday, 27 July 2006 | Digg This Article
