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A few questions about silver. Despite a supply shortage of many millions of ounces its price remains subdued. There have been rumors that many ounces are used in weaponry, but I have seen no confirmation of this. If true, however, it offers compelling evidence that there is more to ag than meets the eye.
It is sometimes appropriately referred to as fractional gold. A thought occurs that if it is so important why does price suppression continue? Would the powers not want to offer more incentive to get supply up by allowing the price to rise? But, then, we remember there are very few dedicated silver mines. It is largely a by-product of nickel, gold, uranium and other metals mined, so targeting is unnecessary.
A comment eleven down under “Willliam Fender” seems quite informed. For some reason it wouldn’t copy.
https://youtu.be/pd2zEwca-lg?si=2omtfzGHcixgy39Y
If it is this comment:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pd2zEwca-lg&lc=UgyUPkdum0OlEf8Q_aF4AaABAg
That if everyone was to by an Oz it would set silver free, is already proven wrong, since most people likely have more than an Oz already in the form of silver jewellery, and the person who might have 500 Oz has an Oz already for 500 of his fellow man.
I have been made aware of the vast acerage of Silver jewellery available from Blake Bros. alone at trade shows, especially the one in Feb. in Tucson Az.
The Blake Bros tents (plural) have tons upon tons of silver in jewellery form, and silver jewellery is 925 pure, or very close to ingot purity of 999.
More jokes at a Paris cocktail party than in Germany in a year? The joke on Germany right now is that it has committed economic suicide. Smarten up Germany, we need you with your head on straight.
https://youtube.com/shorts/CuU3pMrvc60?si=oIvouc0McfNwEa1z
And yet, the British wrote a lethally funny joke that was so effective, it was used as a weapon against the Germans in WW2!
https://youtu.be/YeMnPyusuBE
Rafi on the gordian knot of finance.
All of it aside, how can any thinking person watch crypto currencies compete with the USD–nay be ENDORSED by the establishment–and not suspect it has alternative purposes designed by the state, itself?
There’s a digital sucker born every minute, I guess.
Speaking of digital, a little birdie told me there is a new trend of people (men) buying pre-computerized vehicles because they are fed-up with the complexity of today’s cars. –Saw this coming from a mile away, and then the computer in my Ford glitched so I had to walk the rest of the way.
https://youtu.be/vUrEPrKnSrA?si=zYFm51I9BNyMxuOY
(Richard: How will Putin react? Biden and Company would love to have a war with Russia by the time President Trump is sworn in.)
BREAKING: Joe Biden Authorizes Ukraine to Strike INSIDE RUSSIA with U.S. Long Range Missiles in Major Policy Reversal, Two Months Before Trump Takes Office
thegatewaypundit.com/2024/11/breaking-joe-biden-authorizes-ukraine-strike-inside-russia/
Nov. 17, 2024 1:00 pm
Credit: Euronews/AFP
The Biden Regime is determined to start World War III before Donald Trump takes office again.
The Washington Post reported that Biden will allow Ukraine to use a powerful American long-range weapon for strikes inside Russia, supposedly in response to North Korea’s recent aid to Russia in the form of thousands of troops. Ukraine will be specifically allowed to use the Army Tactical Missile System (ATACMS) to hit targets inside Russia.
As The Post notes, ATACMS is a supersonic-guided missile system that can be used with either cluster munitions or conventional warheads. It has a maximum range of about 190 miles.
The Post elaborates that Ukraine is expected to focus on and around the Kursk region at first but could expand its targets. Officials did not elaborate of what other targets this could include.
Until now, the Regime refused to allow Ukraine to fire these ATACMS into Russian territory, correctly warning that the move could lead Vladimir Putin to retaliate in an even more severe manner.
In fact, Putin has warned for months that Russia would be “at war” with the United States and its NATO allies if they allowed Ukraine to use of long-range Western weapons like ATACMS. He added that all options would be on the table in response to such an attack, including nuclear weapons.
So one of Biden’s last acts as ‘president’ is to risk an all-out war with Russia just before his successor takes office? What is his real end game here?
But he has unsurprising backing for potential all-war from globalist figures. Here is what Michael Kofman, a Russian and Ukrainian military ‘expert’ with the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, had to say to the Post regarding the news.
“If news of the policy shift is true,” said Kofman. “Then it could be of operational benefit to Ukraine, enabling them to better defend and hold on to the territory they currently occupy in Kursk and help offset the benefit that Russia enjoys from employing North Korean forces in this specific part of the front.”
The Regime may claim this reversal is in response to North Korea but the timing should not be lost on anyone. Especially since Trump has pledged to end the Ukraine-Russia war upon taking office.
Safe to say, his goal will become far more difficult.
This is a breaking news story and will be updated
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/11/breaking-joe-biden-authorizes-ukraine-strike-inside-russia/
Biden Allows Ukraine to Strike Russia With Long-Range U.S. Missiles
With two months left in office, the president for the first time authorized the Ukrainian military to use the system known as ATACMS to help defend its forces in the Kursk region of Russia.
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A missile is launched from the ground with a fiery trail across a blue sky.
Mr. Biden’s decision to allow Ukraine to use Army Tactical Missile Systems, or ATACMS, came in response to Russia’s decision to bring North Korean troops into the fight.Credit…John Hamilton/White Sands Missile Range, via Associated Press
Adam EntousEric SchmittJulian E. Barnes
By Adam Entous, Eric Schmitt and Julian E. Barnes
Reporting from Washington
Nov. 17, 2024Updated 1:51 p.m. ET
President Biden has authorized the first use of U.S.-supplied long-range missiles by Ukraine for strikes inside Russia, U.S. officials said.
The weapons are likely to be initially employed against Russian and North Korean troops in defense of Ukrainian forces in the Kursk region of western Russia, the officials said.
Mr. Biden’s decision is a major change in U.S. policy. The choice has divided his advisers, and his shift comes two months before President-elect Donald J. Trump takes office, having vowed to limit further support for Ukraine.
Allowing the Ukrainians to use the long-range missiles, known as the Army Tactical Missile Systems, or ATACMS, came in response to Russia’s surprise decision to bring North Korean troops into the fight, officials said.
Mr. Biden began to ease restrictions on the use of U.S.-supplied weapons on Russian soil after Russia launched a cross-border assault in May in the direction of Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second-largest city.
To help the Ukrainians defend Kharkiv, Mr. Biden allowed them to use the High Mobility Artillery Rocket System, or HIMARS, which have a range of about 50 miles, against Russian forces directly across the border. But Mr. Biden did not allow the Ukrainians to use longer-range ATACMS, which have a range of about 190 miles, in defense of Kharkiv.
While the officials said they do not expect the shift to fundamentally alter the course of the war, one of the goals of the policy change, they said, is to send a message to the North Koreans that their forces are vulnerable and that they should not send more of them.
The officials said that while the Ukrainians were likely to use the missiles first against Russian and North Korean troops that threaten Ukrainian forces in Kursk, Mr. Biden could authorize them to use the weapons elsewhere.
Some U.S. officials said they feared that Ukraine’s use of the missiles across the border could prompt President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia to retaliate with force against the United States and its coalition partners.
But other U.S. officials said they thought those fears were overblown.
The Russian military is launching a major assault by an estimated 50,000 soldiers, including North Korean troops, on dug-in Ukrainian positions in Kursk with the goal of retaking all of the Russian territory that the Ukrainians seized in August.
The Ukrainians could use the ATACMS missiles to strike Russian and North Korean troop concentrations, key pieces of military equipment, logistics nodes, ammunition depots and supply lines deep inside Russia.
Doing so could help the Ukrainians blunt the effectiveness of the Russian-North Korean assault.
Whether to arm Ukraine with long-range ATACMS has been an especially sensitive subject since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.
Some Pentagon officials opposed giving them to the Ukrainians because they said the U.S. Army had limited supplies. Some White House officials feared that Mr. Putin would widen the war if they gave the missiles to the Ukrainians.
Supporters of a more aggressive posture toward Moscow say Mr. Biden and his advisers have been too easily intimidated by Mr. Putin’s hostile rhetoric, and they say that the administration’s incremental approach to arming the Ukrainians has disadvantaged them on the battlefield.
Proponents of Mr. Biden’s approach say that it had largely been successful at averting a violent Russian response.
Allowing long-range strikes on Russian territory using American missiles could change that equation.
In August, the Ukrainians launched their own cross-border assault into the Kursk region, where they seized a swath of Russian territory.
Since then, U.S. officials have become increasingly concerned about the state of the Ukrainian army, which has been stretched thin by simultaneous Russian assaults in the east, Kharkiv and now Kursk.
The introduction of more than 10,000 North Korean troops and Mr. Biden’s response come as Mr. Trump prepares to re-enter office with a stated goal of quickly ending the war.
Mr. Trump has said little about how he would settle the conflict. But Vice President-elect JD Vance has outlined a plan that would allow the Russians to keep the Ukrainian territory that their forces have seized.
The Ukrainians hope that they would be able to trade any Russian territory they hold in Kursk for Ukrainian territory held by Russia in any future negotiations.
If the Russian assault on Ukrainian forces in Kursk succeeds, Kyiv could end up having little to no Russian territory to offer Moscow in a trade.
President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine has long sought permission from the United States and its coalition partners to use long-range missiles to strike Russian soil.
The British and French militaries have given the Ukrainians a limited number of Storm Shadow and SCALP missiles, which have a range of about 155 miles, less than the American missile system.
While British and French leaders voiced support for Mr. Zelensky’s request, they were reluctant to allow the Ukrainians to start using their missiles on Russian soil unless Mr. Biden agreed to allow the Ukrainians to do the same with ATACMS.
Mr. Biden was more risk-averse than his British and French counterparts, and his top advisers were divided on how to proceed.
Some of them seized on a recent U.S. intelligence assessment that warned that Mr. Putin could respond to the use of long-range ATACMS on Russian soil by directing the Russian military or its spy agencies to retaliate, potentially with lethal force, against the United States and its European allies.
The assessment warned of several possible Russian responses that included stepped-up acts of arson and sabotage targeting facilities in Europe, as well as potentially lethal attacks on U.S. and European military bases.
Officials said Mr. Biden was persuaded to make the change in part by the sheer audacity of Russia’s decision to throw North Korean troops at Ukrainian lines.
He was also swayed, they said, by concerns that the Russian assault force would be able to overwhelm Ukrainian troops in Kursk if they were not allowed to defend themselves with long-range weapons.
U.S. officials said they do not believe that the decision will change the course of the war.
But they said Mr. Biden determined that the potential benefits — Ukraine will be able to reach certain high-value targets that it would not otherwise be able to, and the United States will be able to send a message to North Korea that it will pay a significant price for its involvement — outweighed the escalation risks.
Mr. Biden faced a similar dilemma a year ago when U.S. intelligence agencies learned that the North Koreans would supply Russia with long-range ballistic missiles.
In that case, Mr. Biden agreed to supply several hundred long-range ATACMS to the Ukrainians for use on Ukraine’s sovereign territory, including the Russian-occupied Crimean Peninsula. Those supplemented the more limited supplies of Storm Shadow and SCALP missiles that the Ukrainians received from Britain and France.
The Ukrainians have since used many of those missiles in a concerted campaign of strikes against Russian military targets in Crimea and in the Black Sea.
As a result, it is unclear how many of the missiles the Ukrainians have left in their arsenal to use in the Kursk region.
https://archive.is/5NLwU#selection-4547.0-4562.0
You beat me to it. And here I am trying to think of ways Obiden will booby trap PT. Economy–check. War–check. Those bastards can do incredible damage in their remaining days!
https://youtu.be/hqNs4C9aqvs?si=nmLzQKg-91ICr54F
civil war check, lawfare check, lies galore check.
Lotta fakery on both sides.
The Kiev regime has already been attacking deep in “old” Russia for quite a while. Russian strategic infrastructure has taken important hits. Such precision is only possible with satellite, guidance systems, and personnel of the USA.
It’s not widely acknowledged in [controlled] media on either side. It’s PrezZ who’s made it a thing – a talking point – like the Korean-soldier brouhaha. All to distract from his own botched mess and to keep Western support flowing.
Putin wants to avoid excess criticism at home for failing to enforce his red lines. There’s already plenty of that in pro-Russia media he doesn’t control, though we in the Anglosphere are much more likely to be targets for Ministry of Defense crafted narratives.
Inside the RF there are important voices like his pet bear, Dmitry Medvedev. He’s voluble: nuke Nato, crush the “Ukrainian Pollacks” … woof, woof. Putin has a whole zoo of controlled opposition species.
Catching up, I found the absolute best analysis of the current situation. It’s a vast sweep by a professional military expert. Cleared up for me much of the confusion generated in the fog of info war.
Big Serge is not on Russia’s payroll. This article requires no subscription, while most of his others do.
The Forest and the Trees: Ukraine’s Strategic Dissipation, Russo-Ukrainian War: Autumn 2024
https://bigserge.substack.com/p/the-forest-and-the-trees-ukraines
Obiden has been trying to get WWIII started for 4 years.
This Is Why Guns Aren’t The Problem
By Tom Knighton | 8:30 AM | November 17, 2024
AP Photo/Lisa Marie Pane
It doesn’t seem like the idea that guns aren’t really the problem, people are, would be a contentious point. After all, no one seems to believe that a gun just randomly goes off and kills people. No one buys the idea that guns make people homicidal, either.
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Yet some people are absolutely convinced that the issue is that guns are available. I guess they figure it’s far better to be stabbed 24 times than be shot or something.
Regardless, the issue is and will always be people. It doesn’t help when prosecutors don’t seem interested in doing anything about the people when they’re caught.
Such as this…ahem…gentleman in New York.
A Big Apple migrant armed with a loaded AR-15 assault rifle and his Mexican cartel pal are both back on the streets — despite allegedly ganging up on NYPD cops at a Bronx subway station.
Abraham Sosa, 20, a migrant living above a Bronx day care center, was hit with assault, gun possession, resisting arrest and trespassing charges after being nabbed urinating in a subway tunnel on Nov. 5 — while lugging the assault weapon in his backpack, according to sources and records.
His pal, 21-year-old Christopher Mayren, allegedly jumped into the fray when Sosa got into a scuffle with New York’s Finest, leaving two cops injured, according to a criminal complaint.
Yet both thugs are free, Sosa after posting a $25,000 bond and Mayren released without bail.
Apparently, Mayren had a tattoo on his arm typically associated with one of the Mexican cartels.
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One had an AR-15 in a backpack in a state where they’re not legally allowed, in the hands of a “migrant” who, unless he’s here legally–something the Post wasn’t sure of, but I suspect neither of them are–cannot lawfully own a firearm no matter what.
And they just let them walk.
“This is crazy,” one frustrated Bronx detective told The Post Thursday. “You have a member of a Mexican cartel running around. That tattoo is a billboard for ‘I am a criminal. I don’t care about your laws.’
“Can it get more dangerous than riding a subway with a loaded rifle? And when he’s not on a train, he’s upstairs from little children in the day care center,” they said. “These are two very dangerous scenarios.”
It was not immediately clear if one or both of the suspects are in the US illegally.
Now, I’m not actually inclined to assume that the mere presence of a firearm makes anything more dangerous. However, the leadership in New York City and state both tend to feel differently. They view guns as the problem, the presence of which makes everything riskier.
They take issue with how easily people can get guns in other states. They want people in other states to have to deal with more restrictions because of New York’s crime. They’re anti-gun to an insane extreme, and they just let a guy walking around with an AR-15 in a backpack go.
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It’s kind of hard to take their anti-gun rhetoric seriously now, isn’t it?
Especially when we pretty well know this was an illegal immigrant in possession of a firearm that’s really not legal for pretty much anyone who didn’t already have one when the state’s ban went into effect. Yet this guy got one and now he’s just walking around.
For me, having the gun isn’t exactly bed-wetting.
Or it wouldn’t be if there was any reason to believe he was just a law-abiding citizen exercising his Second Amendment rights. He isn’t, and New York seems far more alarmed by someone like Dexter Taylor who made guns for his own use than a “migrant” with apparent ties to a drug cartel.
https://bearingarms.com/tomknighton/2024/11/17/this-is-why-guns-arent-the-problem-n1226921#google_vignette
Why Matt Gaetz Scares Democrats More Than Trump
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Lee Williams –
November 17, 2024 31
Rep. Matt Gaetz
Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla. (Rod Lamkey/Pool via AP)
Last January, former U.S. Congressman Matt Gaetz [R-FL-1] introduced H.R. 374. It was a short bill that became known as the “Abolish the ATF Act.”
“The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives is hereby abolished,” Gaetz’s bill said.
It was simple, really.
Unfortunately, it received the same response as other bills Gaetz had submitted, such as H.R. 9534, the National Constitutional Carry Act, or H.R.3142, the Stand Your Ground Act of 2023. The bills were introduced but never received any further attention.
Gaetz didn’t seem to care about his lost legislation. He had bigger things on his mind.
A Warrior
Gaetz will always be known best for leading the fight that dumped the former Republican Speaker of the House, Kevin McCarthy, last year. But for those who really know the 42-year-old former congressman who lives in Fort Walton Beach, Florida with his wife Ginger, this too was just par for his course.
Gaetz’s critics were never the silent type. Now, they’ve become slaphappy and completely unglued.
Axios reported there were gasps in the room coming from Republican lawmakers when Gaetz name was first announced.
“It must be the worst nomination for a cabinet position in American History,” John Bolton told NBC’s Meet the Press. Gaetz is “totally incompetent” for the AG position, Bolton said, adding, “This is a nomination the Republican Party would oppose.”
“I don’t think it’s a serious nomination for the attorney general,” said Senator Lisa Murkowski, a Republican from Alaska. “This one was not on my Bingo card.”
The BBC seemed to get Trump’s Gaetz decision better than the rest of the traditional media. They said Gaetz’s “bombastic approach” meant that he has no shortage of enemies, including some of his fellow Republicans.
“And so, Trump’s choice of Gaetz for this crucial role is a signal to those Republicans, too – his second administration will be staffed by loyalists who he trusts to enact his agenda, conventional political opinion be damned,” the BBC wrote.
Gaetz’s recent resignation from the House brought a quick halt to the internal investigations that had plagued him for the past few years, and House Speaker Mike Johnson referred to Gaetz as an “accomplished attorney.”
“He’s a reformer in his mind and heart, and I think that he’ll bring a lot to the table on that,” Johnson said.
To be clear, Gaetz has denied every allegation made against him, which are now all moot.
Critics Be Damned
Matt Gaetz was not available Thursday. Calls to his former congressional phone numbers went straight to voicemail. Additional phone numbers were not answered either.
Gaetz is nothing new or divisive to longtime Floridians. In fact, he’s exactly what we want from our public servants. A longtime radio host told me Thursday morning that Gaetz’s now former constituents cared about two issues: “Guns and guns.” I would strongly agree.
Gaetz cares more about the Second Amendment than anyone else in Congress – especially the Democrats. So, of course they are going to attack him personally. In fact, Gaetz is currently attracting as much if not more hate and discontent from the left than President-elect Donald J. Trump.
Unfortunately, much of the press Gaetz now faces is about what you’d expect, especially the stories from NBC.
A story published by NBC News Wednesday titled, “Justice Dept. employees stunned at Trump’s ‘insane,’ ‘unbelievable’ choice of Matt Gaetz for attorney general,” sums up most of the angst that characterizes the legacy media.
“OMG,” a current senior Justice Department official said. A second department official called the selection “truly stunning,” and a third labeled it “insane,” the story claims. Of course, none of the alleged Republicans were named.
I’m pretty confident that Gaetz isn’t bothered by NBC’s stories or those of other likeminded reporters. After all, he’s got as they say in his section of Florida’s panhandle, bigger fish to fry.
Matt Gaetz has strongly supported the Second Amendment since his first day in Congress, and he will get President-elect Trump’s backing for his new job regardless of what the Democrats (and it appears some Republicans) choose to do, even if it takes a recess appointment or some other type of maneuver.
Florida and now the entire country need Matt Gaetz.
This story is courtesy of the Second Amendment Foundation’s Investigative Journalism Project. Click here to support the project.
https://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/why-matt-gaetz-scares-democrats-more-than-trump/
Four years at sea to escape reality. Hmm. Sounds ok to me. Not sure I could handle all the ding-bats though.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/cruise-ship-offers-democrats-multi-year-escape-trump-victory-package
I’d like to dedicate this song to Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei of Iran. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3GhoWZ5qTwI
“Girlfriend In A Coma” , henceforth to be requested for special tributes as Khamenei in a Coma
Does he get 72 virgins if and when he departs this earth or does he get extras because of his leadership?
LoL-
But not with this singer, who’d be thrown off a high-rise in an instant.
Yes. This here is the single best video on the internet right now
Benny Johnson – From Byron Donalds – November 17, 2024
https://x.com/bennyjohnson/status/1858294638286721324