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In some ways the Covid-era level of propaganda focus–like a microwave blast to the brain– pales in comparison to what physical precious metals owners are currently subjected to.
I remember listening to the radio during Covid while driving around doing my chores. Every 15 minutes the Radio Man came on to tell us the going infection rate as per the PCR fraud, the parts per million of the virus found at water plants, the death rate, and the importance of getting injected. No need to preach any further on this matter to this bunch. Roughly eighty-percent of the population obeyed while 20% did not. The 20% who did not follow had an instinctive reluctance to have their bodies subjected to an unknown substance. The 80% who did comply found themselves grossly over-represented as recipients of local flower shop purchases.
Back then, accredited traders of medical information were doctors, bureaucrats, scientists and politicians. We looked to them for truth as a compass while we were lost. In hindsight this was tragic policy on the public’s part.
Now, we look to experts in finance for guidance through the jungle of economic chaos. I see little difference in the dynamic at play. Coincidentally we seem to receive about 80% truth mixed with 20% white lies. Who are we to know the truth, after all? We have to trust the experts over our own lying eyes, do we not?
Enter stage-left Asian AI Guy who has taken this space by storm, pumping Covid-level PCR updates into the brains of precious metals stackers. It delivers a flurry of plausible statistics replete with plausible deniability. Much of what it cites is off by 10-20%. I won’t drag you into the weeds of it.
Meanwhile, last Friday saw 1.2 billion ounces traded in futures contracts. This finds meaning when we understand that the global world production of physical silver annually is just over 800 million ounces. –Almost three times annual production in a single day! What is the civilian to think? Sell!
Once again we are being played. Part of the problem when one is being deceived is that the right questions to ask are not even known, because when it is not our field we don’t know enough to know which questions to ask. During Covid the goal was to shake us out of our own bodily autonomy. Now the goal is to shake us out of possession of our physical silver. It was criminal action then, it is criminal action now.
Rent is two months passed due, execpt for those that received $300,000 in donations. Where you can find help to pay rent if your fear ICE, so can’t work. There is a request to create an enviction moratorium. (Is the moratorim only while people wait to return to work after ICE leaves?)
https://www.npr.org/podcasts/618214566/minnesota-today
Iron Dome: Israeli or American?
On Jan. 21, 2026, President Donald Trump, referring to the Iron Dome rocket interception system, said, “Bibi, stop taking credit for the dome. That’s our technology, that’s our stuff.”
The response in Israel was one of astonishment. Iron Dome has been marketed for years as a fantastic Israeli achievement, and the system that has saved many lives is a known source of Israeli pride. But should it really be American pride? We’ll try to put matters in perspective.
Chain of Events
• In August 2005, the decision to begin the Iron Dome program was made by Brig.-Gen. Danny Gold, then head of the Directorate of Defense Research & Development in Israel’s Ministry of Defense.
• In April 2007, Israeli defense technology company Rafael and the Ministry of Defense signed an agreement for the development and procurement of Iron Dome.
• In April 2011, an Iron Dome battery in Ashkelon carried out the system’s first operational interception.
Rafael led development of the interceptor missile and the launcher. Israel Aerospace Industries unit Elta developed the radar, and the Israeli company mPrest Systems developed the command and control system.…
“Without exception, Iron Dome was developed with Israeli money, and the technology is entirely Israeli.”
Dr. Yehoshua Kalisky, Institute for National Security Studies (INSS):
“Adding radar to the missiles, the controls and the connections between them that turn everything into one system, that is an Israeli development. The people at Rafael did the simulations and Israeli scientists led these processes. They took the technology and made the great leap forward, and so Iron Dome is by definition an Israeli development.”
Today, the Americans do have a share in the project, not in the technological aspect but in the funding [and manufacturing]…
https://en.globes.co.il/en/article-so-who-takes-credit-for-iron-dome-1001532874
Information Warfare Attacks What You Know; Cognitive Warfare Attacks Who You Are
What Jewish communities and the State of Israel face today is not merely bad messaging or misunderstanding. It is a sustained cognitive warfare campaign that deliberately blurs the line between Jewish identity, Zionism, and the State of Israel – placing Jews globally into a defensive posture for actions and policies over which they have no control.
This distinction matters because public diplomacy and advocacy, and cognitive warfare, are not the same.
No one suggests that Diaspora Jews are responsible for Israel’s air defense, border security, or intelligence operations. But Diaspora Jews are increasingly expected to defend Israel’s legitimacy, explain its wars, rebut its critics, and absorb backlash. Jewish identity itself has been cognitively reframed as a proxy political position.
The burden shifts instantly to the individual to clarify, disclaim, or defend – often publicly, often under pressure, sometimes under threat. This is not a failure of public diplomacy: It is evidence of cognitive targeting…
Information warfare attacks what you know; cognitive warfare attacks who you are. It is not about persuading the undecided. Identity overrides argument. Diaspora communities cannot counter a coordinated, transnational cognitive warfare campaign whose design, scale, and adversaries operate at the state and quasi-state level.
Antisemitism today is not only hatred of Jews: It is a tool for destabilizing democratic societies, eroding confidence in information, and turning identity itself into suspicion. Antisemitism is the early warning system – but Jews and Israelis are not the only targets.
https://www.jpost.com/opinion/article-885028
Westerners bereft of traditional religion have fallen prey to an alternative religion: a syncretic leftist mush crafted by enemies who know their Bezmenov. They’ve embraced this toxic stew with a fervor like that of the revivalists of the 19th century. But instead of coming to Christ they’re ginned up to hate designated targets. Drums and cosplay and mindless chanting satisfy some profound emptiness in their moral character.
This is not a rational mob. You can’t shake their faith with evidence. It’s a mistake to try.
General Avivi outlines Iran war scenarios: Targets, timelines, and regional fallout. Think how to mobilize the Iranian people.
Go to 20:00.
Dr. Harold Rhode:
Iran’s Greatest Danger Comes After the Fall of the Regime
It is essential to understand how Iranians see themselves before imagining an alternate future when Iran is again a respected member of the international community. Iran is not a homogeneous ethnic or even religious entity. Most Iranians share a cultural identity more than a political one.
The Azeris and Persians, both deeply Shiite Muslims since the 1500s, have intermarried for centuries. Azeris are Turks, but the Iranian Azeri identity is first and foremost Shiite. They identify strongly with their Persian Shiite brothers, much more than with the Turks in Turkey or Central Asia. Many other Iranians are Shiites, and that religious identity often unites them more strongly than their separate ethnic origins.
Iranians do not traditionally embrace the concept of one person, one vote. Decisions are almost always imposed from above, where the head of a unit, whether a family, clan, or community, is expected to take into account the needs of the group. Attempting to impose Western-style democracy is therefore likely doomed to failure.
Regime change in the country has historically been characterized as a descent into chaos. Historically, what usually happens is that a widely known military or political figure, or a charismatic individual, emerges and imposes his will on others, typically after a period of chaos during which the country descends into anarchy.
Without a central leader committed to unity and inclusion across ethnic, religious, economic, and familial lines, Iran would likely descend into chaos which most Iranians fear.
https://jcfa.org/the-fall-is-not-the-end-why-irans-greatest-danger-comes-after-the-regime/
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Iranians themselves have to be the boots on the ground. They’ve got to find a unifying leader, organize themselves as a nation. Too bad Son of Shah isn’t more inspiring.
Brig.-Gen. (res.) Jacob Nagel:
Trump must not negotiate with Iran unless the regime first meets strict preconditions
As Washington weighs talks with Tehran, former national security adviser Jacob Nagel warns that negotiations without prior dismantlement of Iran’s capabilities would repeat past strategic failures.
Cutting a deal with the Iranian regime would be nothing less than geopolitical malpractice. There can be only one legitimate objective for any future negotiations, should the U.S mistakenly choose to enter them: the complete dismantlement of all remaining and reconstructed nuclear and ballistic missile capabilities. There is no room for diplomatic games designed to buy time.
https://www.jpost.com/opinion/article-885277
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PTrump’s ace in the hole is that despicable Witless kapo. Bully and toady, he shames our President and this country.