The Ideal Breakfast

I discovered at a relatively young age that a protein rich breakfast will keep me going long into the afternoon before my energy level drops. This is in contrast to cereal which satisfies for about an hour before the effect wears off. Bread with spreads last a little longer, but nothing satisfies quite as much as bacon and egg.

However, we're constantly told that bread or cereal is better for us, not least when it comes to our digestion, so it came as a bit of a surprise to me that a piece of bread with bacon and egg, and not much else, had no bad effect on my digestion.

But one slice of bread is not enough. I've therefore gone back to take a pinch of cumin seeds every morning, and I'm having a bowl of oatmeal porridge as well. To top it off, I make myself a pot of tea.

When these things are combined, my digestion works like clockwork, and I assume that some similar combination will work well for others as well.

There's no point in copying my breakfast completely. If you prefer coffee to tea, I'm sure the effect is no different. Extra slices of dark bread in stead of porridge is probably good as well, and the cumin seeds are probably not essential for most people.

However, the ideal breakfast doesn't come without protein, so bacon and egg it must be, or something similar.

Bacon and Egg

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Ice Increasing in Volume while Decreasing in Extent

Climate alarmists are struggling with the fact that global ice cover has increased in volume for the last six years straight. Snow and ice was supposed to become a thing of the past, yet here we are with more snow and ice than back in the 1990s.

So, the alarmists are now forced to blow the dust off of their science books which clearly state that temperature is but one driver of ice formation.

Precipitation plays an important part in it too, and climate realists have pointed this out from the start. Antarctica is more likely to gain than lose ice in case of higher global temperatures, because Antarctica is a desert with hardly any precipitation. It can only gain in ice if precipitation increases.

The expected result of higher global temperatures is an increase in ice volume on land and a decrease in ice extent on water, because sea ice will melt in warmer water, and more moisture in the air will result in more ice in cold places, especially dry places like Antarctica.

This fact has been known for decades, yet it's only now that the alarmists are pointing this out, desperate as they are to hold onto their core belief in global manmade warming.

But the realists have held this position all along. The alarmists are late to the party. Besides, the supposed negative effect of global warming was desertification and rising sea levels. Now we have a greening planet and stable sea levels. The world is in a better place, so the climate isn't and never was anything to worry about.

Above average ice volume

$ 110,000 Bitcoin

Something odd happened at the peak of Bitcoin mania back in 2017. All of a sudden, all financial papers replaced their gold tickers with Bitcoin tickers. It was not a case of one or two papers doing this. Every mainstream paper did this in unison.

Never mind that the Bitcoin market is a feather-weight relative to the gold market, and Bitcoin has no strategic importance in global politics. Everyone was suddenly rooting for Bitcoin while hiding gold from view.

Search interest for Bitcoin, gold and silver

Predictably, search interest for Bitcoin went parabolic, with small investors drawn into the casino as a consequence.

The spike in interest peaked out just as the price of Bitcoin reached its 2017 peak:

Price  of Bitcoin

What followed was a price collapse, and it wasn't before the pandemic of 2020 that the price of Bitcoin made another peak. People were locked at home with little to do but gamble with their government handouts.

Then, as Covid restrictions were lifted, there was another price collapse that lasted until a new price pump started in 2024, which has sent the price of Bitcoin soaring to new heights for no good reasons at all.

As of writing, the price of Bitcoin has reached a new all time high of $ 110,000. However, Bitcoin hasn't outperformed gold this year. It's up 15% while gold is up 28%. Yet, new Bitcoin highs get covered on TV, while new highs in the price of gold get but an anecdotal mention in financial papers.

The situation for Bitcoin is strange, because it's reaching new highs despite less search interest on Google. Bitcoin isn't going up because of more interest. It's going up despite less interest, and this is happening in the context of main stream media enthusiasm.

What makes this even stranger is that gold has had an important role in finance and geopolitics since the dawn of history, while Bitcoin has no such function. Why then has a unison media decided to promote this newcomer while at the same time hiding the heavyweight old-timer?

Sovereign

By Heritage Auctions for image, Mary Gillick for coin - Newman Numismatic Portal, Public Domain, Link

$ 3,000 Gold

Gold has been trading well above $ 3,000 since last quarter, which means that my prediction from late 2023 came true, even if late by a few months. However, 2023 wasn't the first time I mentioned this target. My first prediction dates back to January 2021. That's more than four years ago, so even thought I was right in the end, my call for $ 3,000 was a little too early to be impressive, or even noteworthy.

But now that the target has been reached, it remains to be seen if we'll be stuck in a sideways pattern for a while as predicted back in 2021. So far, new all time highs have eluded us. But will this persist for months on end? Only time will tell. As of now, nothing significant can be read out of the chart as to gold's next big move, and we can therefore assume that it won't be doing much for quite some time still.

Quarterly performance of gold up until May 2025

Early Spring in Oslo, Late Spring in Porto

Spring came early to Oslo this year. Some five weeks early to be exact. The evidence for this can be seen on how green all the trees have become. Compared to the typical mid-May picture of Oslo, the amount of green in April was ahead by more than a month. As I write this, Oslo looks more like it usually looks in June, rather than May.

Southern Norway has been caught in a prolonged spell of warmer than normal weather, and the evidence is clear as day.

The same cannot be said about Porto, which has been caught up in one cold spell after another. Spring has been unusually wet and cool, and this has led to a later than normal spring. The evidence for this is not as easy to spot as in Oslo, but I have flowers on my balcony that can be used for this.

I took this picture of my bougainvillea on April 30 2021, and we're still not that far. I'd say we need another week before it reaches this level of lushness, so that means that spring has been delayed by three weeks down here.

Bougainvillea April 30, 2021

So, Oslo is ahead by five weeks and Porto is delayed by three weeks. This should come as no surprise because our planet on the whole doesn't change its temperature by more than a few decimals of a degree from one year to another. If one area is warmer than normal, other areas have to be cooler.

It's impossible to say anything conclusive about the climate based on any one extreme, because there are for sure other extremes other places weighing the balance the other way.

Reversed Aging with Protein and Exercise

Two years ago, shortly after taking his second Covid booster, my father was diagnosed with cancer, both in his lungs and intestines. This led to surgery on his intestines, which gave him an extra year of life, but with very little in the way of quality. What had been a man of unusually good health for his age, turned into a shadow of his former self. Only his mind escaped the carnage. He stayed lucid until his dying day, some two months ago.

When my father's end was approaching, I went to Oslo to stay with my mother. My timing was perfect, it turned out, because I arrived just in time to be with my father during his final days. What followed was a series of events, including the funeral and associated formalities. But I had plenty of time to myself, and I made sure I made the most of it. I made myself a big breakfast with bacon and egg every morning, and I spent my free time working in my parents' garden, which had decayed into a good deal of chaos over the last few years.

New routine

I had a new routine, and I kept it for the duration of the seven weeks that I spent at my mother's place.

The effects of this routine was a further increase in my wellbeing, and when my wife came to Oslo towards the end of my stay, she could not help noticing the change as well. Absence makes the heart grow fonder, they say, and there's truth to that it appears. Especially when the period of absence has been used to eat well and engage in relatively strenuous exercise.

My new routine didn't go so far as to completely replace my old routines. I was still doing my Kegel exercises, and I was massaging oil onto troubled skin. However, I did not eat any cumin seeds, nor ingest any other natural medicine. Nor did I eat any oatmeal porridge. Bread, protein and potatoes was the staple of my diet.

Reversed aging

The positive effect of this has been so great that I feel genuinely younger than I did a few years ago, which goes to show that much of what we think of as aging is in fact ailments that can be reversed. This goes for all sorts of things, ranging from skin problem to libido. I've seen a great deal of reversal in both cases. Another thing that has improved by a great deal is a lingering numbness in my right foot. It was getting to a point a few years back when I thought a doctor's visit would be in order. However, daily massaging of the effected areas have reversed this too. My toes are not as stiff in the joints as they were, and my foot is no longer numb, except for a small part of my big toe.

Having returned to Porto, I've kept up my newly acquired habits, and the effect of this seems  to be affecting my wife as well. She joins me in my new eating habits, and she enjoys my youthful libido. This makes her too seem healthier than she has in a while. The secondary effects of my altered lifestyle aren't limited to my body. They extend beyond me, affecting my wife, and by extension, our son and my stepdaughter.

Feeling great

Common Sense Health

Trump's election victory has ushered in chaos in politics. Everything is up for discussion, and no-one can agree on anything. The idea of an elite with a clear vision of what's right and what's wrong is in decline, and as a result people return to thinking for themselves.

Nowhere is this more evident than in the health sector where all sorts of old dogmas are under attack. What used to masquerade as undeniable truths have been thrown into doubt. School medicine, which only cranks doubted a few years ago, is no longer safe from scrutiny.

With the theatre of health-experts no longer operating, people rely more on their common sense. They ask themselves if certain pills are as beneficiary as claimed. The same goes for the notion that tiny injections of poison strengthen us, and make us more rather than less healthy. Not to mention nutrition and food. Red meat is suddenly proclaimed by many to be very healthy, and seed oils are the new bad.

As a big believer in intuition and common sense, I have no doubt that this will lead to better health choices, and that people will live better and longer as a result. The changes will be noticeable within the current election cycle, especially in the USA, and politicians in the chaos camp will be quick to point this out, possibly leading to another four years of reversals in policies of all kinds.

Time will tell if this prediction will pan out, but as I've pointed out many times before, making predictions, and evaluating them over time, is key to success in life, so this fits right into that mindset.

Making predictions

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A Bug Out Plan

Porto went dark this Monday, 11:35 local time, and lights were not back up before ten hours later. Within a few hours, telephone and internet networks went down as well, and some areas didn't have any water towards the end of that period. Had the blackout lasted another ten hours, things would most definitely have looked pretty bleak, and my family and I would have found ourselves stuck in the chaos.

Clearly, we were totally unprepared for what happened. A bug out plan cannot be made after the fact. It has to be prepared in advance.

First thing to understand is that the only safe place in case of a prolonged blackout is a place with its own water and electricity. It's therefore essential that our plan includes such a place. I don't own such a place, but I have a friend who owns an off grid house fairly close to Porto so I plan to ask him for an option on staying there in case of an emergency.

Secondly, we should have enough petrol in our car to get to our bug out place without having to stop for petrol. Our car should always have at least half a tank of petrol. Whenever the tank nears half empty, we fill it up completely.

Finally, we need to have enough cash in the house to get us through a week without electronic payments.

None of this is expensive to put in place, but it may mean the difference between misery and relative comfort in case of an emergency. As they say, it's better to be safe than sorry.

Cottage

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Rapid Aging Observed

My wife and I have as of late observed that certain people in our neighborhood have aged more rapidly than normal. It is as if we're dealing with a pandemic of sorts.

Mask of the beast

Controlled Opposition Confirmed

The USAID scandal that is currently unfolding has revealed that the controlled opposition that I first wrote about back in 2019 is a real thing, and it's worse than I thought possible. News media all over the world has been centrally coordinated and controlled through a network of NGOs, all funded by USAID and other government charities.

This explains why news stories across the globe have had an eerie tendency to look identical. It explains the "spontaneous" appearance of climate activists, color revolutions, and scary virus stories. Everything has been fake, and it has all been funded by tax money.

The government, always eager to expand its own power, has constructed an elaborate PR system that feeds us stories about "popular demand" for things they want to do to us. Lockdowns were introduced through this kind of popular demand, as was mask mandates and the the rapid development of novel mRNA vaccines.

Everything climate related has also been manufactured. The science is fake, the remedies are fake, and the popular demand for it has been constructed through propaganda. The same goes for all the wars we've been funding.

All of this had nothing to do with, truth, reality, freedom or peace. The sole purpose of it has been to make a small group of people, well connected to the government, immensely rich at the expense of everybody else. That's why everything manufactured to remedy all these manufactured wars and emergencies has been such expensive crap.

It explains why Greta Thunberg got as much press coverage as she did, while others who tried the same got no attention at all. Greta's parents were insiders in the propaganda machine. Others, less well connected, were simply gullible copy cats. They were true believers in the propaganda, and their reward for believing in it was misery and disrespect.

We have lived inside a manufactured reality, similar to the one depicted in the Truman Show. Everything is fake.

But now that the lid has been blown open on this can of worms, reality is once again visible through  the mist of propaganda, and it will be difficult, if not impossible, to put the lid back on.

This in turn explains why gold is going up these days. With reality now creeping in, anything artificial is likely to crumble, and the only safe havens are real things, preferably real things that we can hold in our hands.

Controlled opposition

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Lessons from El Salvador and Argentina

South America has for as long as I can remember been associated with violence. It's a cultural thing, I was told. But this "truth" has recently been challenged. El Salvador, which used to be one of the most dangerous places on the planet has suddenly become perfectly safe. All it took was for its president to enact strict laws related to violent crime.

Another "truth" that has been shattered lately is the hopelessly corrupt nature of South American politics. This too has been attributed to culture. But Argentina has eliminated a lot of corruption in a matter of months simply by ridding itself of bureaucracy. What used to be a South American basket case has become an example to follow.

What's most remarkable about this is the speed with which the changes happened. Problems that had existed for decades were resolved in a matter of months. Clearly, this had nothing to do with culture. All that was required was the will to do things differently.

This is especially interesting in light of the slow decay of the West which has been touted as an inevitable consequence of post-colonialism. Parts of Paris, Stockholm, London and many other cities across Europe have decayed into no-go zones reminiscent of third world countries, and we've been told that there's nothing we can do to stop this. However, El Salvador and Argentina prove that this is a lie. Europe can be cleaned up in a matter of months if only the right people are put in charge.

What we've seen over the decades in Europe, and the US, is a slow erosion of liberties and confidence. Decay has been accepted as inevitable, and our just reward for misdeeds dating back to colonial times. But this process has continued to a point where its reversal will be swift if it's given a chance.

If a radical change is allowed to happen, people will be absolutely delighted by the contrast, and those in charge of the old policies that brought so many to their knees will be permanently ousted as a consequence. No-one will want to go back to how things were before the "revolution".

The decay of the West has happened so slowly that people have lost sight of how good things could be if it wasn't for the meddling of mischievous and corrupt politicians and bureaucrats. But a reversal will clear this up in no time. People will see how good liberty and safety from violent criminals is, and they will want more of it.

As I have stated several times before, 2022 was the year that the trend turned, and we're now starting to see the political consequences of this. Radical changes are ahead of us, and most of it will be of a kind that we'll all be happy to see.

Execution of Robespierre

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US Aid, Fauci's Pardon and the War in Ukraine

US Aid has been shut down and moved in under the State Department. Apparently, it was a den of corruption and shady activities. Rumors have it that it funded bio-labs both in Wuhan, China at large and Ukraine.

The funding in Ukraine dates back to 2014, when there was a regime change in that country, in favor of the US.

Biden's pardon of Fauci is coincidentally dated back to 2014, for crimes that he may have committed all the way back then.

The labs in Ukraine, which are rumored to have performed experiments on Russians living in Ukraine, were one of the things mentioned by Putin in order to defend his order to invade.

Fauci's is also mentioned by Putin when talking about a possible peace deal to end the war. Putin wants Fauci delivered to Russia for questioning.

All of this adds up to a possible future scenario as follows:

Investigators in the US find proof of criminal activity in Ukraine, funded by US Aid, and supported by Fauci. Putin is proven right in his assertions.

The US administration accepts a peace deal with Putin where Fauci is extradited to Russia.

Ukraine is carved up by its neighbors, with little to nothing remaining of Ukraine itself.

Fauci becomes the fall guy for the vaccine disaster, lock downs and economic woes of the west. Fauci ends up spending the rest of his life in a Russian prison.

Trump washes his hands of the whole sordid affair, saying he was deceived by Fauci, and that Fauci's arrest and imprisonment marks the end of an era of horrors.

Vladimir Putin

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Pharmakeia

Pharmakeia, also known as sorcery or witchcraft is a practice that aims to deceive and control others by the use of medicine and hypnosis.

The Bible warns about this practice. We should neither practice it ourselves nor let ourselves be fooled by it. However, recent history has shown us that almost everyone fell for the spell cast by the elite, and they nearly managed to enslaving us.

Even the most skeptical is in some way affected by pharmakeia, because we all hold various believes that are poorly founded in reality, but heavily pushed by the school system, the media and the elite. However, many are waking up from their hypnosis. We're seeing a return to nature, aka God's creation.

A distinguishing property of pharmakeia is that it seeks to emulate or replicate nature. Instead of real money, i.e. gold, we use fiat, a type of money substitute that robs us in our sleep through inflation. Instead of healthy food, we eat synthetic alternatives, often augmented with artificial supplements, and medicines.

Natural foods like butter are replaced with artificial alternatives like margarine.

We're told that vaccines have made us all healthier, but child mortality is higher among the vaccinated than the unvaccinated. In the US, Amish children are the healthiest. They take no vaccine at all.

When things go amiss, and we fall ill, we beg for more medicines. But they too make us ill.

Similarly, people buy Bitcoin in order to avoid the fiat trap, not realizing that Bitcoin too is a form of pharmakeia. It's an electronic token that has been ascribed a price. Monetary value has been assigned to something that has no physical representation.

Then there's AI where dead things are given a spirit of sorts. Unlike a calculator, which is merely a calculating tool, or a car which gets us places, we're now to believe that an AI vehicle, commonly referred to as a robot, is something with a soul.

None of this will last. Nature will reject it all. While we may have safe, self driving cars in the future, we will never prosper under pharmakeia. An AI girlfriend is not a girlfriend, a vaccine is not an improvement on our immune system, Bitcoin is no alternative to gold, and margarine is no alternative to butter.

Stay real!

Every other path leads to ruin.

Mask of the beast

Rolling Back the Progressive Era

I predicted some three years ago that the new era that started in 2022 will be marked by a rollback of progressive institutions. Specifically, I said that WHO will be rolled back and removed early on in this process.

As it happens, WHO has lost its funding from the US, and RFK jr., who is very skeptical to all synthetic medicines, is being included in Trump's administration.

My prediction now is that vaccines will become a thing of the past within the end of this decade. No-one will vaccinate anybody. The vaccines will go the way of leaches and blood letting, which were considered settled science back in the 18th century.

Albert Bourla

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No Need for Rebalancing

Eight years have passed since I sold my house in Asker, and two years have passed since I last made an assessment related to our financial progress since then. This is in tune with my philosophy of long-term investments, as outlined in my book, which holds that the key to success is to invest in mega-cycles that run for years or decades, and to ride them with little to no change in position. True to this philosophy, our investments haven't been rebalanced. They have been kept in gold, real-estate and cash.

There has been little action in the Dow/Gold ratio over these years, which means that our gold position has been equivalent to being invested in the Dow:

• Jan 2017 = 16.4
• Jan 2019 = 18.2
• Jan 2021 = 16.2
• Jan 2023 = 18.8
• Jan 2025 = 16.3

The Dow has underperformed gold over the last two years, but only marginally. The Dow remains below 20 ounces, which has served as critical resistance for eight years running.

However, the PSI20/Gold ratio has dropped from 107 to 79 over the past two years, and is now down a stunning 94% from its peak in year 2000.

The price of our apartment in Porto has had the best run. It's up by 140% in nominal terms since 2017. Gold is up 100% by comparison. Our cash position has seen some fluctuations due to short term expenses and windfalls, but remains a fairly minor part of our assets.

My prediction from two years ago have been proven correct, with gold outperforming real-estate in Porto, and gold also outperforming stocks.

As a result, our allocations have made the following relative moves over time:

• Jan 2017: 10 part real-estate, 20 part gold, 5 part cash - for a total of 35
• Jan 2019: 15 part real-estate, 20 part gold, 5 part cash - for a total of 40
• Jan 2021: 20 part real-estate, 30 part gold, 3 part cash - for a total of 53
• Jan 2023: 24 part real-estate, 33 part gold, 3 part cash - for a total of 60
• Jan 2025: 24 part real-estate, 40 part gold, 6 part cash - for a total of 70

This is a 100% increase in nominal terms over a eight year period, which is more than the inflation during those years. This trend has continued over the past two years with a 17% increase, which is slightly above inflation.

Looking forward two years, I expect price inflation to move gold and real-estate up against cash, with gold outperforming real-estate. Stocks may continue up in nominal terms but will lag gold. The Dow/Gold ratio is more likely to go down to 10 than up from present levels. The PSI20/Gold ratio will remain flat or go lower in tandem with the Dow.

In short, there's no need for any rebalancing at this point, even if the PSI20 is starting to look attractive.

British gold sovereign

By Benedetto Pistrucci - Own work, Public Domain, Link