Reader’s Links for December 25th, 2025: Merry Christmas to all

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Each day at just after midnight Eastern, a post like this one is created for contributors and readers of this site to upload news links and video links on the issues that concern this site. Most notably, Islam and its effects on Classical Civilization, and various forms of leftism from Soviet era communism, to postmodernism and all the flavours of galloping statism and totalitarianism such as Nazism and Fascism which are increasingly snuffing out the classical liberalism which created our near, miraculous civilization the West has been building since the time of Socrates.

This document was written around the time this site was created, for those who wish to understand what this site is about. And while our understanding of the world and events has grown since then, the basic ideas remain sound and true to the purpose.

So please post all links, thoughts and ideas that you feel will benefit the readers of this site to the comments under this post each day. And thank you all for your contributions.

This is the new Samizdat. We must use it while we can.

For those interested, please check out https://vladtepesblog.substack.com/ as an another avenue of expression. The Substack is a different project in a sense. It is older videos that in the light of subsequent events, look different or of increased importance, Check it out now and again if you like.

Silver is set to change the way all markets work, and start a catastrophic cascade across all commodities

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There are many videos posted on this site and especially in the comments about how the economy is working,. or various metrics that indicate the health or the genuine actual mechanisms of the economy which are as occulted as everything else pretty much,

Personally I like this video because it states simple verifiable facts, and builds a model that is easy to follow and makes a lot of sense. But it also reflects a lot which we have heard from our site experts over the years as well, but now packaged in a way that gives a trajectory, leading to an outcome.

If anyone can correct the video on some of the facts or reasoning please don’t hesitate to do so in the comments. Anything really good we’ll move up into the post.

As of 2:40 PM December 24, 2025:

Here’s the most current spot price information available for silver related to the Shanghai market, as close to real-time as public data generally allows:

? Shanghai Silver Price (converted to USD per troy ounce) – ~Dec 24, 2025

Silver price on the Shanghai Gold Exchange (SGE) converted into U.S. dollars per troy ounce is approximately:
**? ~ $78.55 USD/oz (this reflects Shanghai trading pricing, which can include local premiums)
GoldSilver.ai

Kitko Spot price: $71.85 USD

UPDATE: While the central thesis of this video is correct, there ARE mitigating factors. I will post Chat GPT’s analysis of the text of the video shortly. So while this video raises real points of concern, he may have overweighted the importance of the difference in the prices East Vs. West. The Eastern markets are not true free markets. Therefore are not always in alignment.

UPDATE 2:

As of 8:00 AM ET December 25th, the SGE, (Chinese exchange used as the basis for the video above) has actually gone down a dollar or so, (depending on how you do the exchange rate to USD) BELOW the COMEX. This tends to negate a large part of the argument in the video.

I sent the full text of the video to ChatGPT for analysis. It was interesting but not worth putting here in total. However today’s change in the relative pricing seemed interesting enough to ask GPT how it affects the argument he makes overall about Silver and the state of commodities. here is the answer in full.

How much of his argument depends on SGE > COMEX?

1. Structural argument (still intact)

Most of his analysis rests on mechanism, not on yesterday’s number:

  • SGE represents physical settlement pressure

  • COMEX represents paper leverage

  • Arbitrage between the two is not frictionless

  • Capital controls, delivery constraints, and contract structure delay equalization

That logic does not require SGE to always trade at a premium.
It only requires that persistent divergence is possible — which history clearly supports.

? This part still holds.

2. Signal argument (temporarily weakened)

Where the reversal does matter is here:

“The SGE premium proves physical stress is intensifying right now.”

That claim depends on:

  • SGE staying meaningfully above COMEX

  • The spread being stable or widening

With the spread flipping from +7 USD ? ~-1 USD in ~24 hours:

  • That specific stress signal is no longer confirmed

  • It now looks more like short-term inventory or flow normalization, not escalation

?? This undermines the immediacy, not the theory.

3. Equalization mechanism — still the key insight

Ironically, the reversal actually demonstrates one of his central points:

  • Equalization does happen

  • But it happens episodically, not smoothly

  • And it often overshoots or snaps back

A fast reversal suggests:

  • Metal was mobilized

  • Or paper pressure temporarily dominated

  • Or Chinese demand paused (holiday / liquidity / margin effects)

None of that contradicts his framework — it just shows the system breathing.

Bottom line judgment

If we were grading the argument:

  • Core thesis: ? Still solid

  • Mechanics of divergence: ? Still valid

  • Claim of current physical stress: ?? Weakened

  • Predictive certainty / timeline: ? Overconfident

If this were your write-up, the correct framing would be:

“The SGE–COMEX spread is volatile and episodic; its temporary reversal does not refute the physical-paper divergence thesis, but it does caution against treating short-term premiums as linear indicators of systemic stress.”

That’s a stronger, more defensible position.

Reader’s Links for December 24th, 2025

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Each day at just after midnight Eastern, a post like this one is created for contributors and readers of this site to upload news links and video links on the issues that concern this site. Most notably, Islam and its effects on Classical Civilization, and various forms of leftism from Soviet era communism, to postmodernism and all the flavours of galloping statism and totalitarianism such as Nazism and Fascism which are increasingly snuffing out the classical liberalism which created our near, miraculous civilization the West has been building since the time of Socrates.

This document was written around the time this site was created, for those who wish to understand what this site is about. And while our understanding of the world and events has grown since then, the basic ideas remain sound and true to the purpose.

So please post all links, thoughts and ideas that you feel will benefit the readers of this site to the comments under this post each day. And thank you all for your contributions.

This is the new Samizdat. We must use it while we can.

For those interested, please check out https://vladtepesblog.substack.com/ as an another avenue of expression. The Substack is a different project in a sense. It is older videos that in the light of subsequent events, look different or of increased importance, Check it out now and again if you like.

We are at war and how the attack is structured in ONE TWEET

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In a sufficiently advanced civilization, warfare becomes stochastic, invisible. Your enemy no longer has to attack you outright; he can simply increase your probability of death.

Releasing violent criminals, placing incompetent people in lifesaving medical roles, allowing public infrastructure to decay to dangerous levels, importing fighting-aged men who hate you.

This is what war looks like now: a bunch of local news headlines all around the globe, hundreds of seemingly disconnected tragedies every week. These events are in fact connected; you are in fact in an existential struggle; your ranks are being attacked from all sides, at all times, everywhere.

You are not an atomized, doomscrolling individual inundated with unfortunate news stories; you are a combatant at war

Religious war is for all the marbles: Links 1 for December 23rd, 2025

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1. The Phrase, “religious war” has real meaning and real implications. And for the most part it still flies under the radar in terms of its effects and tactics.

First, have a look at this short video from Denmark:

This certainly seems trivial in comparison to the numerous and still ongoing attacks against Christmas markets and Christian displays for Christmas. And for sure in terms of horror, it is. But in terms of effect it’s an equal partner. The idea being to use symbols and outwards displays of any cultural or non-Islamic religiosity ANYWHERE as targets in order to change the cost benefit of having them. The Muslims don’t have to kill us all. They just have to make our cultures, histories, beliefs and religion and religious displays more than just subordinate to Islam, but fully underground. Out of the public sphere. And it’s working well. Germany, France and other locations have cancelled major cultural, national and religious festivals across those countries.

I am reminded of the first time I came to realize there was an Islamic war on all other religions by attacking symbols and rules of other faiths.

Now I am pretty sure I will face some minor excoriation here for getting a detail or two wrong, but as I recall, outside of the Golden Gate of the old city of Jerusalem, there is an ancient Islamic cemetery. That would be, right at the gate so you can’t go through without passing the gravestones.

Apparently according to Jewish law, the Messiah, for whom the Jewish people are still waiting, has to come through the Golden Gate. And according to Jewish law, the Messiah has to be from the priestly lineage, or the Kohaine. (Sp) Another Jewish law specifies that those of the line of Moses, the Kohaine, may not be near the dead or enter a cemetery. So the Muslims built this cemetery in order to block the arrival of the Messiah of the Jews.

In the video above, Muslims are clearly trying to spoil a very traditional and long standing practice of celebrating Christmas with decorations, music and a certain atmosphere. Spoil and dominate.

I want to short stop any question by people right now in terms of Christmas, what it really is and really isn’t. Because at the moment, it doesn’t actually matter. If it was officially the pagan celebration of the Winter Solstice the same things would be happening. As stated in another recent essay in item 3, Islam seeks total Islamic manifest destiny. They don’t care about Christmas as a cultural thing, a commercial thing, a Jesus was born thing whatsoever. What they care about is stopping any display of culture or religiosity that is not islamic.

To call it anti-Christian, or antisemitic is to help them win. We MUST understand the game plan here or we lose in stages. This is the joint effort by communists and Muslims/Islam to take down Western civilization to the very roots. What will replace it will be so much worse it can’t even be described. Think of Saudi Arabia with all the public beheadings and no oil money, since technology requires layers upon layers of millions of people specializing in various jobs to produce a car or a cell phone. Or think of North Korea, so close to South Korea, one of the most advanced nations ever , and with probably the smartest people on Earth, but living in an unimaginably oppressed state run by leader worship and narratives. A person who abuses a photo of the God-leader will spend THREE GENERATIONS in a Gulag. I don’t mean 60 years, I mean may have children in a gulag who’s life and children will also be in the Gulag.

As a minor aside, this is still the best thing I have found on North Korea. The Vice Guide to Travel:

 

If you click through to the YouTube page there are many more videos in the playlist.

At the end of the day, dialectic target moving is one of the most effective ways to prevent any of us from actually identifying the threat and taking any kind of effective action whatsoever. As we will see, the Australian PM, who is a major part of the communist side of this effort, has advanced the plan by stating that Australia intends to remove more rights from the general public to prevent more events like the one he caused in Bondi. The jihadis were legal gun owners, which has a lot of its own peculiarities given that he was a known, let’s say problem and that city people in Oz do not generally get permits for 6 guns for no reason.

Here, Albanese wants to combat 3 things that are not the problem whatsoever, but are symptoms of the problem. Its like geopolitical allopathic medicine except with no intention to even treat the symptoms, but use the symptoms to achieve the communist control ambitions of these states.

Antisemitism: Not the problem

Guns: Not the problem

Hate speech: not the problem

Islamic manifest destiny and communist support and funding of it, is the problem.

And Islamic manifest destiny is the single core principle of Islam itself. Nothing else matters but conquest. A Muslim can eat all the pork and drink all the beer he wants if he is going to die in a martyrdom attack the next day (as did the 911 hijackers), as that is the only guaranteed way to get to the sky brothel known as Jenna (Islamic heaven) and all previous ‘sins’ are forgiven.

2. These kinds of stories are increasingly common, daily in fact, and increasingly brutal. Once you discount Hanlon’s Razor, it may be possible to figure out why judges and state apparatchiks clearly have a policy of extra punishment for law abiding citizens and virtually no enforcement for the insane and career criminals or foreign nationals who rape, murder and steal.

She is of course, totally wrong. The judges etc. are indeed doing their jobs. The job just isn’t what it used to be, or we think it is.

3. As wonderful as this is to hear from a position of genuine authority, think about why people feel they should clap when they hear something that has been so painfully obvious for all of human history.

4. DEI did exactly to Canada what it was intended to do

Full text:

? ENTRY DENIED?
Israel just turned away a delegation of 6 Canadian MPs (5 Liberals + 1 NDP) at the border crossing from Jordan into the West Bank

Why? Security risks!!

The trip was organized by The Canadian-Muslim Vote, which gets the vast majority of its funding from Islamic Relief Canada — a branch of Islamic Relief Worldwide, officially designated by Israel as a terror entity since 2014 for alleged Hamas ties.

One MP in the group, Liberal Sameer Zuberi, has history: Photos and records place him in a leadership role at the infamous 2002 Concordia University riot that forced the cancellation of Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech, caused ~$17,000 in damage, injuries, arrests, and widespread chaos.Israel has every sovereign right to protect its borders and deny entry to those linked to groups it views as threats

Smart move. No apologies needed.

BUT what does that say about Liberal MP’s??

5. Donald Trump, remembering his roots from the first campaign perhaps? Is calling out Islam, even though he uses I, and possibly 2 layers of obfuscation to do it. “Radical” for sure. Islamic was nice as opposed to “Islamist” or some other muzzle moving term. But it’s at least a good distance towards the target.

Thank you all for checking out this site as we slide hopefully peacefully into this Christmas season. Evil has been working overtime to try and destroy all that we are and all that we love this year. But may the Lord grant us a couple of days of peace to enjoy each other, our families and the fruits of our labour.

But if it doesn’t work out that way, we will try and shine a light on whatever does happen in a way that allows some amount of clarity on it.

Reader’s Links for December 23rd, 2025

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Each day at just after midnight Eastern, a post like this one is created for contributors and readers of this site to upload news links and video links on the issues that concern this site. Most notably, Islam and its effects on Classical Civilization, and various forms of leftism from Soviet era communism, to postmodernism and all the flavours of galloping statism and totalitarianism such as Nazism and Fascism which are increasingly snuffing out the classical liberalism which created our near, miraculous civilization the West has been building since the time of Socrates.

This document was written around the time this site was created, for those who wish to understand what this site is about. And while our understanding of the world and events has grown since then, the basic ideas remain sound and true to the purpose.

So please post all links, thoughts and ideas that you feel will benefit the readers of this site to the comments under this post each day. And thank you all for your contributions.

This is the new Samizdat. We must use it while we can.

For those interested, please check out https://vladtepesblog.substack.com/ as an another avenue of expression. The Substack is a different project in a sense. It is older videos that in the light of subsequent events, look different or of increased importance, Check it out now and again if you like.

Rumours mount that Russia is islamizing itself

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We did this story around December 5 this year:

And now a reader placed this link into the comments under today’s Reader’s Links post:

Is the course towards Islamization of Russia the official doctrine?

On December 10, Human Rights Council (HRC) member Kirill Kabanov made a statement that shocked many: the desire to make Russia part of the Islamic world (which it never was) and Islamize it is not a plot by some “fifth column,” as some bloggers like to claim, but a truly purposeful and deliberate policy. In fact, this author has already spoken about this many times, noting that this policy is called a “pivot to the East.” Here’s what he has to say about it. wrote Kirill Kabanov:

Yesterday I had a very important conversation about how, in my opponent’s opinion, the national idea of ??Russia and historical approach to the formation of statehood in our country. It turns out, based on the position expressed, everything is very simple:

First, we simply need to officially acknowledge that Russia emerged from the Islamic world and emerged as an integral part of it.

Second, we must accept that Russians do not exist as a nation (we’ve heard this before, and more than once), but rather as a subset of the Turkic peoples. That’s all there is to it.

All of this was told to me by someone who has a truly significant influence on the country’s political processes. And no, this isn’t the ramblings of a madman. This is a doctrine, already formalized in an official document, actively promoted as a national idea and backed by powerful lobbyists.

Interestingly, this was written after Kirill Kabanov, during a meeting of the Council for the Development of Civil Society and Human Rights the previous day on the Rossiya 1 television channel, appealed to Russian President Vladimir Putin with a proposal to revise the program for the voluntary resettlement of compatriots from abroad. He believed that the program for facilitating the voluntary resettlement of compatriots had devolved into a “migration of peoples” from Central Asia to Russia.

[Read the rest at the link please]

We certainly have heard this exact kind of dialectic sophistry before though. And about nearly everywhere. No where has a right to exist as a sovereign state because of [reasons] and no people are legitimate except whoever the COMINTERN brings to your country and gives them power over you. And if not power, certainly advantage.

North America is being dismantled by the “colonialist-Turtle Island” dialectic and various European nations are being told they have no authentic culture either. If you believe Netflix, Scottish Royalty were Africans.

Putin appears to have embarked on the same path as Western nations.

This looks like a giant problem for everyone. But it certainly makes sense of the arrest of the Russian girl in the video above for opposing a Mega-Mosque being built in a small town entirely for Imported Muslims.

“History does not repeat itself. But it does rhyme” -Mark Twain

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Before we get going on some links and news items we deem worthy of analysis, here are a couple of rage bait type videos that have been collecting dust for a week or two that give an idea of the general state of the West and the world, thanks to the communist revolution and its vanguard, mass Islamic importation to Western nations. This video is a horrific story about a man who murdered his wife, buried her, dug her up and raped the corpse.

This one is from a few days ago. Muslims (And leftists presumably) went to the Jewish Community Centre in Ottawa to make false accusations about IDF recruitment, at an elderly care facility, where I doubt recruitment was very high, even if that was going on, which it was not. The interesting thing that makes it stand out somewhat from the various atrocious protests everywhere by Muslims, usually that actually break real laws, unlike the Freedom Convoy, which merely challenged illegal state mandates, is the prayer the Muslim does at the start of his rant. You may have to play the video, and pause it, as the explanation for certain terms and its implications are under each subtitle in red.

Lastly, this may come as a crushing blow to all who held out hope for the Abraham accords. Remember, exactly zero words are ever spoken at the Grand Mosque at Medina (Yathrib) that is not a reflection of policy of the KSA. There is simply no way that an Imam would ever be allowed to give a sermon that contradicted the position of the Saudi Government. Never. Ever.

1. There appears to be something like a real counter-revolutionary event taking place in Europe by the Farmers. This is good news depending on where it lands. Hopefully they study the Holomodor so they can know the results of not doing exactly what they are doing, and doing it hard enough. For those who have not seen the movie, The Soviet Story about the mass slaughter of Ukrainian Famers by the Soviet Union agents, many of them Ukrainian for not collectivizing their farms, please watch it now. Understanding this may be a key to an understanding of how farms and farmers are being treated now in Canada (Carbon taxes and actions by the CFIA) and Europe, which increasingly look like an effort to collectivize farms by making private farm ownership impractical.

 

2. Hungary remains the most blunt opposition to the communist revolution and the corruption it spreads, certainly in Europe. If Canada does another ‘election’ one might be tempted to write in Viktor Orban since there doesn’t appear to be any non-socialist options in Canada at this point.

Orban on exposes one data point on the real nature of the EU.

More from Orban on the Farmer’s revolt:

EU blocks protesting farmers in Brussels using barbed wire, tear gas and water cannons, while Orbán says farmers are ‘100% right’

3. UK arrests over 30 people a day for wrong speak, X-crimes and badthink

I don’t know why I am posting this quote here from the Gulag Archipelago. But as I want to put it somewhere, it may as well be here.

A more complete quote follows:

“And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family?

Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?…

The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin’s thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt! If…if…We didn’t love freedom enough. And even more – we had no awareness of the real situation…. We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward.”

In Buddhism as with many of the various mystical and metaphysical traditions, even Catholicism for that matter, one chants an idea repeatedly in order to manifest it into reality. Perhaps arguably even a precursor to the kind of modern political warfare taking place against all of us now, known as spell craft. 

Maybe it is time for those of us that wish to preserve individualism and liberty to chant things like this Solzhenitsyn quote until we manifest it into action to preserve a state of the people, by the people and for the people. Just thinking out loud here.

4. I thought we all knew this already. I thought this was public. No?

5. For those wondering what “Allopathic Medicine” is, here is an analogy that will make it easier to understand.

In Allopathic medicine, the idea is that underlying causes for diseases which give rise to symptoms are generally ignored in favour of treating the symptoms, making an acute problem into a profitable chronic one.

Listen to the solution a school board proposes when really little children complain about trannies in the bathrooms at schools. They describe just 2 of the issues with it, and the school board ignores the cause entirely, and claims it will increase the expense of the school by treating 2 of the symptoms. Watch:

Thank you all for checking out this site. I hope it is of some value, and generates a little insight as to what the little men are doing behind the curtain. And maybe even the curtain behind them.

Speaking of mantras, there is no way that the abuses perpetrated on the peoples of Western civ can ever be allowed to be memory holed. what they did to us was a historical class atrocity. We can never forget it or let them forget it. Nuremberg trials must take place for the agents who knowingly perpetrated these atrocity.

I would watch the video below with the sound off. The video information is of critical importance. The audio requires one to understand the difference between a claim, and an argument with total clarity. In fact it arguably negates the truth presented in the video.

 

Reader’s Links for December 22nd, 2025

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Each day at just after midnight Eastern, a post like this one is created for contributors and readers of this site to upload news links and video links on the issues that concern this site. Most notably, Islam and its effects on Classical Civilization, and various forms of leftism from Soviet era communism, to postmodernism and all the flavours of galloping statism and totalitarianism such as Nazism and Fascism which are increasingly snuffing out the classical liberalism which created our near, miraculous civilization the West has been building since the time of Socrates.

This document was written around the time this site was created, for those who wish to understand what this site is about. And while our understanding of the world and events has grown since then, the basic ideas remain sound and true to the purpose.

So please post all links, thoughts and ideas that you feel will benefit the readers of this site to the comments under this post each day. And thank you all for your contributions.

This is the new Samizdat. We must use it while we can.

For those interested, please check out https://vladtepesblog.substack.com/ as an another avenue of expression. The Substack is a different project in a sense. It is older videos that in the light of subsequent events, look different or of increased importance, Check it out now and again if you like.

Warning left on Swedish Mosque

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I don’t have more than this yet. No links or any other information at all yet. And I dare not editorialize on this whatsoever as Canada is a dialectically driven country and you can say anything you want about Israel, Jews or the destruction of the West or white people and Christians. But what we have noticed in the past several years is anyone who does or says anything effective against a state effort at destruction of the West are themselves destroyed. Either by the legal system via various dialectically enforced “hate-speech’ laws, or extra-judicially via state proxies like ANTIFA or being ostracized from critical infrastructures. Being “Debanked” as one example. And people have been debanked in Ontario just for asking one branch of one bank to have 4 pride flags and one Canadian flag instead of the 5 gay pride flags and no Canadian flags that they were flying at the branch.
If anyone has links or more information on this, please leave it in the comments

UPDATE:

Chat GPT confirms this is a real event reported by multiple acceptable news site:

? Yes — this is a real reported incident

Multiple news sources and reports are currently circulating about exactly what the graphics describe:
A copy of the Qur’an defaced with bullet holes and chained to railings outside the Stockholm Grand Mosque with a note attached reading “Thanks for the visit, but it’s time to go home” in both Arabic and Swedish.
Yeni Safak English
+1

This is being reported by several media outlets and social feeds, including news aggregators and sites like Yeni ?afak and others re-posting the same story.
Yeni Safak English

Mostly the reporting says:

The book had six holes consistent with bullet holes.

It was chained up near the mosque entrance.

There was a note in Arabic and Swedish with a hostile message.

Local authorities and mosque officials say they believe it was an Islamophobic / racist act, and police are investigating.
Yeni Safak English

? So what is verified so far?

?? Multiple independent outlets seem to be reporting the incident as happening.
Yeni Safak English

?? There is coverage circulating beyond just one social media account.
Facebook

?? Swedish authorities are mentioned as looking into it.
Yeni Safak English

?? What we don’t yet have

? Major international news outlets (Reuters, AP, BBC, etc.) have not yet widely reported it (as of right now).
That means the story is currently emerging and not yet fully validated by globally recognized wire services.

It turns out, Manufacturing Consent was really a euphemism for Compromat and the annoyingly steady proofs of the various attacks on the Republic for the past 5 years: Links 1 for Dec. 21, 2025

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1. So how does one actually manufacture consent?

2. The amount of evidence of many of the major crimes of the last several years is mounting like buffalo corpses at the bottom of the cliff known as “head smashed in”. It is so obvious that the 2020 election was stolen that it has created another major divide between the American, and actually Canadian population. Those who don’t like Trump refuse to even look at it. Those who do like Trump was accepting material presented as evidence that was in fact, fictions created to hide the real ways in which that election was stolen.

But the appearance and disappearance of 12 million voters would be proof enough, even if you were talking to the most deranged Trump hater about some other country’s election. Which would likely be a very good rhetorical device actually. On top of that, is a steady trickle of actual court worthy proofs that the election had been cheated.

 

3. The following policy, which will be hated on by the left with buckets of venom, is so damn obvious that if reason survives as a way of thinking,(I doubt it will but we must try) in the future people will be shocked at why this was even necessary.

4. In the same vein as item 2: The Alleged insurrection of January 6th was another attack on reality.

The key thing was made in a subsequent comment under that video:

5. The Russia hoax:

6. The government/Leftist/Islamic plot to overthrow the existing social and political order is proceeding well. Montreal, Toronto and elsewhere. Montreal seems to produce the most videos of these kinds of things though;.

Thank you all for checking out this site. 

Reader’s Links for December 21st, 2025

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Each day at just after midnight Eastern, a post like this one is created for contributors and readers of this site to upload news links and video links on the issues that concern this site. Most notably, Islam and its effects on Classical Civilization, and various forms of leftism from Soviet era communism, to postmodernism and all the flavours of galloping statism and totalitarianism such as Nazism and Fascism which are increasingly snuffing out the classical liberalism which created our near, miraculous civilization the West has been building since the time of Socrates.

This document was written around the time this site was created, for those who wish to understand what this site is about. And while our understanding of the world and events has grown since then, the basic ideas remain sound and true to the purpose.

So please post all links, thoughts and ideas that you feel will benefit the readers of this site to the comments under this post each day. And thank you all for your contributions.

This is the new Samizdat. We must use it while we can.

For those interested, please check out https://vladtepesblog.substack.com/ as an another avenue of expression. The Substack is a different project in a sense. It is older videos that in the light of subsequent events, look different or of increased importance, Check it out now and again if you like.

On Silver, and power – a genuine tectonic event for both

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Once upon a time I enjoyed a subscription to a science magazine called, “Gizmag” which got captured by narrative enforcing agencies, renamed, and became a propaganda rag for the usual nonsense, blaming every event that could be framed as bad on Global warming from American and Western CO2 production.

But one of the themes that constantly floated by in every 3rd or 4th edition was some new battery tech breakthrough that would revolutionize everything.

This was of course, a damned half truth.

Yes a new battery tech breakthrough would indeed revolutionize a lot of things. Not just an incremental improvement, but at worst, an increment so large decisions at the day to day level would change, and at best, a genuine revolution in terms of things being better, less costly, more available and with less waste.

But none of these breakthroughs ever manifested into something real.

The idea is that if you can store a meaningful amount of power in a small space, suddenly crap ideas like solar panels and windmills actually become just that little bit more practical because at least you can store a little power for when the sun don’t shine and the wind don’t blow. To put it in terms of a blues song.

It means most of my objections, not all but a lot to electric vehicles no longer apply.

There are many more practical, and even far more important implications to a significant leap in energy storage tech, not all of which spring to mind right now. But it will mean a more convenient, less wired, quieter and cleaner world.

Enter Samsung and their announcement of a new battery tech with TWICE the energy density of the best LiPo batteries currently used in cars, without exploding, can be charged more times, which means less disposal issues and in all ways represents a true breakthrough in battery tech.

The thing is, these batteries need silver as one of the critical materials for their manufacture, and nothing else will do.

So I asked Chat GPT about this new tech and it gave me the following summary. And for those interested in exactly how much silver will be needed to make these new batteries, this article gives the amount needed for current global electric vehicle batteries alone, if only TWENTY PERCENT of current EV production adopts these new batteries, it means an annual demand of 16,000 metric tons of silver, which is a large fraction of the current global production of 25,000 tons annually.

Below the full post by Chat GPT. And for those that are just looking to know if it is still worth buying PHYSICAL silver and hanging on to it…

Yes.It is.

Chat GPT: Samsung has been developing a new battery technology that incorporates silver, and it’s tied to their work on next-generation solid-state batteries, not a standard lithium-ion battery upgrade. Discovery Alert

Here’s the key about it:

? Is Samsung using silver in batteries?

Samsung (specifically Samsung SDI) is working on solid-state battery designs that include a silver-carbon (Ag-C) composite material — typically in the anode region. Rather than a traditional graphite or lithium-metal anode, the silver-carbon layer helps with ion transport, stability, and safety in solid-state structures. Discovery Alert

? Why silver — what does it do?

Silver isn’t there just because it’s a precious metal — it has very high electrical conductivity and mechanical durability. In these prototypes it can:

  • Improve internal conductivity so electrons move more efficiently Discovery Alert

  • Help reduce dendrite growth (a common failure mode in metal anodes) Discovery Alert

  • Enable thinner, lighter battery layouts with higher energy density — prototypes suggest potential performance around 500 Wh/kg, roughly double what many current EV lithium-ion cells offer. Discovery Alert

That’s why silver is being discussed in significant quantities (estimates around grams of Ag per cell and ~1 kg per EV pack), and why analysts talk about its demand rising. Metals and Miners

? Benefits vs. cost

Using silver is expensive — silver costs are much higher per kilogram than typical battery materials — but the proposed advantages are significant enough that it might be worth it in premium applications:

Potential benefits:

  • Higher energy density ? longer range for EVs

  • Faster charging

  • Better cycle life / durability

  • Improved safety (solid electrolyte means fewer fire risks) Discovery Alert

Cost trade-offs:

  • Silver is much more expensive than graphite or copper traditionally used in batteries

  • Higher material costs mean initial adoption likely in high-end or limited segments

  • Scaling production and cost reduction are still big engineering challenges Discovery Alert

? Bottom line

Samsung’s silver-enhanced solid-state battery approach is real and is part of broader next-gen battery research; the silver isn’t a gimmick, it’s there to solve specific materials science challenges that could justify higher cost by delivering significantly better performance metrics (energy density, fast charging, lifespan, safety). Discovery Alert

A paragraph or two from the link above on the reality of this tech and its effects on Silver:

And when you add in the demand from the military, from the A.I. and robotics revolutions, and from the rising consumer class in Asia, you have a recipe for a supply crisis of epic proportions.

The question is not whether the price of silver will rise. The question is how high it will go. And the answer is that it will go much, much higher.

The world is about to discover that silver is not just a precious metal; it is the most indispensable metal on the planet. And the price is about to reflect that reality.

The Solid-State Battery Breakthrough: A Game-Changer for Silver Demand

Samsung has developed a new solid-state battery that is set to revolutionize the electric vehicle industry. This new battery offers a 600-mile range, a 20-year lifespan, and a 9-minute charge time. It is a game-changer for the EV industry, and it is a game-changer for the silver market.

Special thanks to JU for his consistent thoughts on metals and its relationship to economics.

Reader’s Links for December 20th, 2025

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Each day at just after midnight Eastern, a post like this one is created for contributors and readers of this site to upload news links and video links on the issues that concern this site. Most notably, Islam and its effects on Classical Civilization, and various forms of leftism from Soviet era communism, to postmodernism and all the flavours of galloping statism and totalitarianism such as Nazism and Fascism which are increasingly snuffing out the classical liberalism which created our near, miraculous civilization the West has been building since the time of Socrates.

This document was written around the time this site was created, for those who wish to understand what this site is about. And while our understanding of the world and events has grown since then, the basic ideas remain sound and true to the purpose.

So please post all links, thoughts and ideas that you feel will benefit the readers of this site to the comments under this post each day. And thank you all for your contributions.

This is the new Samizdat. We must use it while we can.

For those interested, please check out https://vladtepesblog.substack.com/ as an another avenue of expression. The Substack is a different project in a sense. It is older videos that in the light of subsequent events, look different or of increased importance, Check it out now and again if you like.

Hamas Oct. 7th style attack thwarted in Toronto by 3 Muslims now under arrest and more: Links 1 for December 18, 2025

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Before anything else, I want to flag an issue that will be addressed in detail later today or in the coming days. If events unfold as they currently appear, this may provide a clear example of the Canadian state operating in a fundamentally communist manner.

Today in Ottawa is decision day on the fate of Chris Barber’s truck, Big Red.

The Crown is seeking to permanently seize the truck owned by Chris Barber, one of the symbolic leaders of the 2022 Freedom Convoy.

This truck is also the single most potent and recognizable symbol of the resistance to the state Covid and mRNA gene therapy injection narratives there is.

Big Red is not an incidental asset. It is the single most recognizable and potent symbol of resistance to the Canadian state’s COVID and mRNA injection narratives.

Official court language to date refers to the Crown seeking to “dispose of” or permanently forfeit the vehicle. Chris Barber, however, has publicly stated that the Crown intends to destroy it.

If the Crown is in fact seeking destruction rather than forfeiture, that distinction is critically important.

The truck is a six-figure asset. It is not being seized for the purpose of sale or restitution to litigants, such as those associated with the so-called People’s Commission on the Occupation (documentary embedded below and strongly recommended). Instead, it would be eliminated entirely.

Destruction would signal something more than punishment. It would function as a public warning that no effective opposition to state narrative enforcement will be tolerated. It would also represent an effort to erase the symbol itself — a step toward memory-holing the Freedom Convoy altogether as Canada continues to drift from a reality-based system toward a dialectically driven one.

The filmmaker behind the documentary argues that the People’s Commission on the Occupation existed primarily to manufacture both real and false data points for civil actions against convoy participants, with the expectation of sharing in forfeitures. Our assessment is that the effort was backed by Chinese interests operating in coordination with elements of the Canadian state apparatus.

If the Crown is now seeking outright destruction of Big Red, rather than financial recovery, that outcome would align even more closely with the manipulation of reality through the destruction of symbols — a step further than even the Commission appears to have anticipated.

UPDATE: The court HAS DECIDED!

A Canadian court has ruled that Freedom Convoy organizer Chris Barber will be allowed to keep his long-haul truck, known as “Big Red,” following a decision on December 19, 2025, rejecting the Crown’s application to seize the vehicle as offence-related property. The Ontario court judge, Justice Heather Perkins-McVey, determined that confiscating the truck would constitute a disproportionate punishment, despite its use during the 2022 protest.

  • The truck, a 2004 Kenworth, has been central to Barber’s family trucking business and personal livelihood for over 20 years.

  • The Crown had sought forfeiture of “Big Red” after Barber was convicted of mischief and counselling others to disobey a court order during the Freedom Convoy protest that blockaded downtown Ottawa in January and February 2022.

  • Barber’s legal team, including lawyer Diane Magas, argued that the truck was used in accordance with police directives, including being moved when instructed, and that its seizure would cause severe financial hardship.

  • The decision comes after a hearing on December 19, 2025, with the court finding that the principles of proportionality and fairness outweighed the Crown’s request for forfeiture.

  • Barber is currently appealing his 18-month conditional sentence, which includes house arrest and community service, following his October 2025 sentencing.

Now onwards to a list of items of interest:

1. The murder of a nuclear scientist in his home in NH a few days ago fits the MO of Iranian actions over the last many years, even within the Untied States.

Suggestions are being made that this murder somehow connects to the one at Brown’s in RI.

Police probe potential ties between Brown University attack and MIT professor slaying

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WPRI) — Police are investigating possible ties between Saturday’s shooting at Brown University and Monday’s slaying of a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the Target 12 investigators have learned.

Senior law enforcement officials tell Target 12 that federal, state and local authorities are now examining a potential connection between the two crimes. Multiple people familiar with the investigation said they have discovered evidence showing the two may be linked.

The possible connection marks a shift in the investigation. Ted Docks, special agent in charge of the FBI Boston office, said at a briefing Tuesday that there “seems to be no connection” between the two shootings.

Also on Thursday, Target 12 confirmed authorities have identified the person of interest they are seeking in connection with the Brown shooting. The name of the individual has not yet been released by officials.

Frankly the Brown’s murder is so amazingly convoluted that the degree of suspicion around the event should meet or exceed the lack of any believable information published about it. Some reports say they found the killer who died of Epstein Prison Syndrome self inflicted wounds.

2. Alberta indeed appears to be moving back to a Republic/Reality based state

3. Muslim Elected Politician in the UK Arrested on Slavery Charges

Sohail Asghar, a sitting Green Party councillor, has been arrested on suspicion of modern slavery offences.

At this stage, no formal charges have been laid. Under UK law, police and courts generally prohibit naming arrested individuals prior to charge or arraignment, unless the person holds a position of public trust, which Asghar does as an elected official.

The identities of the other individuals arrested in the same investigation have not been released.

In principle, this anonymity rule is a reasonable safeguard. In practice, it is applied unevenly. High-profile political or “counter-establishment” figures are often publicly named immediately upon arrest, while others remain anonymous until charges are laid — if their names are released at all.

It is reasonable to expect that, if additional names emerge in this case, they may do so quietly or late in the process, after public attention has moved on. That pattern has been observed repeatedly in cases that do not align with prevailing state or media narratives.

By contrast, individuals targeted in politically sensitive prosecutions are frequently named at the moment of arrest — sometimes by their own public statements, sometimes by enthusiastic coverage — with reputational damage occurring long before any adjudication.

Either way, the outcome serves narrative enforcement: visibility where it is useful, anonymity where it is not.

4.Toronto Police interrupt a Muslim terror plot against Jewish and other targets scheduled for this Christmas Season

“Kidnapping, ISIS related terror charges, and planned rape”

The list of charges and the plot itself mirrors the Oct. 7th attack pretty much exactly, wouldn’t you say?

5. Some good news at LAST! US Judge who helped an illegal migrant sneak out of her courtroom and escape deportation now faces FIVE YEARS in prison!

Jury Quickly Convicts Judge Who Helped Illegal Migrant Escape ICE

A Milwaukee jury has convicted the pro-migration judge who smuggled an illegal migrant out of her courtroom and away from waiting Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers

Milwaukee County Judge Hannah Dugan now faces up to five years in jail for obstructing an official proceeding when she escorted illegal migrant Eduardo Flores Ruiz out of her courtroom. Flores Ruiz had already been deported and so faced jail for sneaking back into the United States.

It took just six hours for the jury to agree on the verdict after Assistant U.S. Attorney Kelly Brown Watzka summed up the evidence by saying, “She was a frustrated and angry judge who was fed up, who decided to corruptly take matters into her own hands.”

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