It’s here : Gold; a journey with Idris Elba

[Agaupl]

Why has it got idris Elba in it? No idea. Is it any good and what does it say? No idea.

Just starting to watch it, came out yesterday and it’s been teased for a while and it’s from the World gold council .

 

[Agaupl]

It’s starts off with him saying he’s in the most remote part of the world where there is a huge concentration of gold.. I assumed the next shot would be chards in Blackpool. 🤣 but nah Canada apparently. 
jokes aside.. great production values, looking good. 

Edited October 6, 2023 by Agaupl

[Agaupl]

£250bn in th BoE

[Agaupl]

So just finished it and I’d encourage others to watch it first before I comment.  So you can see it yourself before any comments I or others make influences you. After this post there’s spoiler alerts. 

Edited October 6, 2023 by Agaupl

[Agaupl]

Spoiler alert: I thought it was very well filmed. The locations were excellent and they obviously spent lots of money on the production and on Idris Elba. It was aimed at new to gold investors (miners) and funded by gold miners so the emphasis was on this area. 

but it was pretty Sh!!t tbh. The first 20 and last 10 mins were informative but otherwise it was a just a politically correct advert for ‘good mining solves all problems’. All interviews were with non European/NA and or non male engineers/miners/geologists which is not representative and honed in on sustainable energy’ in mining, again a completely false picture of the mean. The South African mine was particularly grating.
The example being a 80% hydro powered mine in Congo where the hydro plant would be there long after the mine. That’s a fallacy.  
 

very little on gold’s financial use and stability. Opportunity missed just to promote gold mining as ecologically and socially beneficial to all at all time. Not surprising given the sponsor.. but still. 

Edited October 6, 2023 by Agaupl

[Agaupl]

If he a hypocrite to say I don’t invest in the gold mining space but come on. Let’s be honest 

[James32]

Bump

[HerefordBullyun]

4 hours ago, Agaupl said:

£250bn in th BoE

Not all owned by UK mind. Google Venezuela and gold repatriation....  Plenty of it owned by EU countries, dont you remember what Gordon brown the Clown did with UKs allocation? 

[SeverinDigsSovereigns]

3 hours ago, HerefordBullyun said:

Not all owned by UK mind. Google Venezuela and gold repatriation....  Plenty of it owned by EU countries, dont you remember what Gordon brown the Clown did with UKs allocation? 

Brown also did some far more damaging things with long lasting consequences. Equality Act 2010, 50% income tax, etc. The Tories have been dismal in their performance but always remember the constitutional vandalism Labour commit at the earliest opportunities. Says a lot as Blair is the most electable (and probably the most damaging with his fiddling with House of Lords devolution, university enrolment, to name but a few) of them all.

[westminstrel]

12 hours ago, Agaupl said:

Why has it got idris Elba in it? No idea. Is it any good and what does it say? No idea.

Just starting to watch it, came out yesterday and it’s been teased for a while and it’s from the World gold council .

 

Thanks for the alert. I had seen it teased a while back, but forgot about it.

I’ll watch it this weekend. (I hope it doesn’t make me go and impulse buy something).

[JohnA1]

18 hours ago, Agaupl said:

£250bn in th BoE

One wonders how many proud owners each one of these bars might have😰

 

But then again everything else has been set up for the Great Taking, why not this one as well

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Possession_is_nine-tenths_of_the_law

Edited October 7, 2023 by JohnA1

[JohnA1]

Some interesting parts in the documentary, although it is clear the Gold Council has an agenda to show 'responsible' mining etc.  Satelites and high tech.

What happened to that gold meteorite Elon would mine? Forgotten already, no shiny behind green screens apparently

What happened to those vast reserves announced around a year ago in Africa? Forgotten already

Short memories

[AgCoyote]

On 06/10/2023 at 16:06, SeverinDigsSovereigns said:

Brown also did some far more damaging things with long lasting consequences. Equality Act 2010, 50% income tax, etc. The Tories have been dismal in their performance but always remember the constitutional vandalism Labour commit at the earliest opportunities. Says a lot as Blair is the most electable (and probably the most damaging with his fiddling with House of Lords devolution, university enrolment, to name but a few) of them all.

Britain needs an actual conservative limited government party. From what I see it's basically choosing between people who have no core disagreements.

[SeverinDigsSovereigns]

2 hours ago, AgCoyote said:

Britain needs an actual conservative limited government party. From what I see it's basically choosing between people who have no core disagreements.

Actual conservatives, yes; limited goverment, that's a neoliberal doctrine and there are arguments on both sides on whether that's truly conservative or not. But I definitely agree with you. The Tory party is full of Lib Dem and blue Labour, and you can find some more conservative (small c) politicians in the Labour party than an average Tory.