I can't help but notice that it has gotten AWFULLY quiet here on the forum over the past several weeks. This is NOT intended as a "complaint" directed against our wonderful (and loyal) readers and members. Obviously those of us producing this site have a MONETARY (and professional) incentive for what we're doing here. WE are the only ones with an "obligation" to work to make this Forum (and this site) a success.

At the same time, our Community here is much like a plant. It CANNOT be sustained solely by my own "fertilizer".



Rather, our Community can ONLY be sustained (and remain strong) if it also receives plenty of "water and sunshine" (i.e. the PARTICIPATION of our membership). Just as with a healthy plant, water and sunshine can ONLY be supplied EXTERNALLY (i.e. from our members).

I know it's difficult to maintain one's ENTHUSIASM during the current grind (believe me I know - lol!). And it's that enthusiasm which is the catalyst for much of the posting that people do around here.

At the same time, as Debsyl noted in one of her recent posts we CANNOT sit back (apathetically) and remain SILENT. It is that apathy which BROUGHT US to where we are today. So for people who aren't quite ready to CAMP on the "front lines" with the Occupy Wall Street movement (lol), then "making some noise" by posting on our forum (or expressing yourselves elsewhere) is a start.



Just as APATHY is "contagious", so too is activism. It was when members began seeing OTHER MEMBERS getting active here that our forum (and Community) blossomed.

To avoid this becoming TOO maudlin, let me end this by pulling out the pom-pom's:

GO TEAM GO !!

*de-lurk*

There seems to be a general sort of malaise most everywhere. Must be a 2012 thing.

Chronic manipulation, keeping the lid of commodities certainly wears of everyone. For me, not having internet access at work over the last couple of weeks was a bigger factor. Go team BBC...

luecker wrote:
*de-lurk*

There seems to be a general sort of malaise most everywhere. Must be a 2012 thing.


We can PERFECTLY understand the "general malaise" to which you refer!!



The frustrating part is that we KNOW part of the psychological objective of the banksters is to not only wear-out and discourage people from INVESTING in the sector, but to ALSO discourage people from MEETING and INTERACTING together - which is an important part of remaining as informed as possible (and thus able to RESIST the propaganda and manipulation).

If people have any thoughts on what we can do around here to make things more "fun" or more "interesting" (while we get through this period) we're always receptive to feedback.

Having completed 15 straight months of online classes, I'm suffering a bit of writing fatigue. Actually, I'm feeling burned out.

However, I am doing some research into Comprehensive Annual Financial Reports and I do plan to post something about them and the immense, jaw-dropping wealth the government is hiding. For a quick run-down on CAFR's, see the videos I posted last week.

DayOwl wrote:
Having completed 15 straight months of online classes, I'm suffering a bit of writing fatigue. Actually, I'm feeling burned out.

However, I am doing some research into Comprehensive Annual Financial Reports and I do plan to post something about them and the immense, jaw-dropping wealth the government is hiding. For a quick run-down on CAFR's, see the videos I posted last week.

DayOwl, I tried my best to write that post WITHOUT implying any "guilt" on the part of our (wonderful) long-term members.

It's a fact of life that people will come and go on ANY forum, because we all have lives to live - and sometimes new constraints crop up which force people to change their routine. We fully understand that.

Then on top of that we're in the latter stages of another (seemingly) LONG PERIOD where precious metals prices appear to be capped AND the lies of the propaganda machine appear to be swallowed without hesitation by the sheep.

That IS discouraging - and we're all PEOPLE too, and subject to our own rising and waning motivation. So it was more THAT element of our psyches that I was attempting to reach.

We don't expect people to make any "sacrifices" to try to make our site a better place. And we also NEVER want to create any feelings of OBLIGATION, since if things ever reach the point where people only come here because they think they SHOULD, rather than because they WANT TO then there is no real future there.

Indeed, it's only because my sense is that we're close to another TURNING POINT that I did this post, at this particular time. It was an attempt to "rally the troops", since my own feelings are that there will be PLENTY that people are EAGER TO DISCUSS in the very near future...

P.S. I'm INTIMATELY familiar with the feeling of "writer's fatigue" and "burn-out".



For those who don't do as much writing it's a very odd sensation. Generally, the words flow easily and effortlessly - and the only "hard part" is organizing one's thoughts and maintaining proper grammer.

And then all of a sudden your MIND feels like it's "running on empty". Suddenly it becomes WORK trying to say anything about anything.



My own experience is that (at worst) that feeling of being "out of gas" tends to fade away quite quickly with time. However MORE OFTEN, something happens to get me EXCITED...and then magically all those feelings of "fatigue" instantly evaporate.

One minute the tank is EMPTY, the next minute the gauge reads "full" again...

Spring is the busiest time of year for us.

I am not sure at times if I am coming or going...

Some day when my husband calls in at noon, I haven't even had a chance to check the silver/gold prices or the markets; that is unusual!

I do try to catch up on the reading in the evenings. I am still reading your commentaries, Jeff.

Brian Boutilier wrote:
Chronic manipulation, keeping the lid of commodities certainly wears of everyone.
It's like Groundhog Day. Everyday there's a big dip in the middle of the COMEX. At least today it bounced right back up.

3 Day gold chart

3 Day silver chart

Samak wrote:
Brian Boutilier wrote:
Chronic manipulation, keeping the lid of commodities certainly wears of everyone.
It's like Groundhog Day. Everyday there's a big dip in the middle of the COMEX. At least today it bounced right back up.

3 Day gold chart

3 Day silver chart

Again this is an illustration of obvious manipulation - as BOTH the violent (intra-day) plunge and equally violent rise are TOTALLY atypical of any normal trading.

IF there is some big news then you'll see an intra-day chart move ONE WAY or the other - but not down and then up like that. And of course we see these patterns day after day after day...