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Financial markets are violent. Regional U.S. banks are starting to crumble. Precious metals have been wild, expressing in their own way some pending event.
There are so many things going on that it is difficult to choose the most salient news. Marching through this information jungle is mandatory, however, lest we be utterly lost and defeated.
Here is a sharp analyst who offers a unique observation. He reports that a Chinese chip company in the Netherlands has been nationalized by that government under the guise of national security. He pounds the proverbial table saying this is as massive an event as any other in terms of government assault on private property ownership. If government will do this what will it take next? Your house? Your silver?
He is not hyperbolic. He rationally states his case on a number of topics including the rise in metals and what it means, and where they are at in terms of correcting down or continuing to rise.
In fact I sent this interview to a metals broker I know. Silver is in backwardation now, along with freedom. This means that I don’t want to accept the paper promise of the return of my freedom in 60 days with interest. I want it right now, but cannot get it because it is in such short supply. My fear is that the freedom mining company will be nationalized before stock from the ground is brought to the marketplace of ideas:
https://youtu.be/7yrBZK1fbeQ?si=L5hOJqHpnYn0M53E
On the Trump-Putin meeting in Budapest. Trickier than you would think at first. Military Summary:
https://youtu.be/mozfqLG4TMw?si=lxbmxAUnG1Nd2k3h
Imagine Orbán having the nerve to try to broker world peace from little Hungary. Offering up a safe space for these two men to talk on NATO territory! EU territory! Where all around countries are obligated to arrest Putin for war crimes. And Zelensky will try his very best to kill Putin by shooting his plane down. Remarkable.
More:
https://youtu.be/QGCtorWlfyE?si=zrioIoI3Ek3GpUe3
Did NATO stand up for ethnic Hungarians abused in Ukraine?
Their native language was outlawed; they lost their jobs; no one except Mr. Orban cared.
Then the war made genuine ethnic cleansing easy: forceable conscription into the army of the Kiev regime. Villages in the Carpathians emptied of men and boys who were thrown into trenches without training or supplies. Certain to meet death within hours.
Captain of arms-carrying boat involved in fatal raid by Navy SEALs gets 40-year prison term
https://www.stripes.com/branches/navy/2025-10-17/iran-weapons-sentence-pahlawan-navy-seals-19454580.html
A Pakistani man will spend four decades in prison for his role in an arms smuggling scheme that turned deadly when two Navy SEALs drowned during a nighttime raid on the boat he was captaining. Muhammad Pahlawan received a 40-year sentence Thursday from a federal judge in Virginia on various charges related to transportation of Iranian weapons to Houthi militants in Yemen, according to court records. In January 2024, U.S. Navy forces intercepted the dhow off the coast of Somalia. While trying to board, Chief Petty Officer Christopher Chambers lost his grip and fell into the sea. Petty Officer 1st Class Nathan Gage Ingram jumped into the water to save him but the two were weighed down by equipment and drowned. Pahlawan was given a 20-year sentence for providing material support or resources to a weapons of mass destruction program of a foreign terrorist power. He also was sentenced to another 20 years on each of three other charges and received 15 years for conspiracy to provide material support or resources to terrorists, court records show. Those four charges will run concurrently, meaning Pahlawan will serve no more than 40 years total, according to sentencing documents.
The Justice Department did not immediately respond to a request for a statement.
During the raid, Pahlawan instructed his crew not to stop the vessel and to burn it down. He also told them to lie about the ship’s cargo to the boarding team and falsely identify him as a mechanic, according to court records. The interdiction team subsequently discovered ballistic missile and anti-ship cruise missile parts and a warhead, weapons used by Houthi militants in targeting commercial and military ships in the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden since November 2023. Pahlawan worked with two Iranian brothers to smuggle materials from Iran to the Houthis, the Justice Department previously said. The operation included smuggling voyages from about August 2023 to January 2024, during which cargo was transported from Iran to the coast of Somalia and transferred to another vessel.
Pahlawan was sent coordinates by the brothers for the ship-to-ship transfers “and received multiple payments from them for his role in the smuggling operation,” prosecutors said. He was convicted of six federal charges in June. The sentencing report included notes from a telephone conversation with Pahlawan’s wife, who characterized him as a family man focused on providing for her and the couple’s child. Ingram in May was posthumously awarded the Navy and Marine Corps Medal for his “bravery and selflessness,” and both he and Chambers received posthumous promotions. An investigation released in October 2024 concluded that the deaths of Ingram and Chambers were preventable. It cited deficiencies in training, policies, tactics and procedures as well as conflicting guidance on when and how to use emergency flotation devices and extra buoyancy material that could have kept them alive, The Associated Press reported at the time.
On Commie Europe. Smoke ’em if ya got ’em:
https://youtu.be/M28gjLct0Mw?si=UKHSvRiN9TqV8mYU