Loading ...Then they’re free to sabotage the Gulf as they’re doing. They should do more than that, interfere with their navigation and digital systems, make it reversible.. at first.. but if they interfere or sabotage the Gulf states transporting and selling oil.. mess with theirs.
goldielocks
I think right now Iran is free to ship it’s oil out without hindrance. If they eff with us some more then we should blockade their ships once again.
Ipso
I had a feeling Iran was going to come out and say that since it’s them who want to call the shots. Then Armstrong comments they’re in need of money in the mid east as if inflation is not bad enough. Well instead of giving them money as they demand, increase sanctions instead. I wonder if they are watching close to make sure Iran is not smuggling in oil through the strait by transferring it to other ships. If they want to cut off oil shipments to the Gulf states perhaps do the same to them. If they mess with some of their shipments and alternative pipelines threaten to mess with Iran oil transportation services including electronics systems they use as well as tightening sanctions.
Let’s shut this subversion down!
DOJ Grand Jury Targets Marxist Tycoon Neville Roy Singham’s Web of Foreign-Funded Leftist Activism
The Justice Department has taken a significant step toward accountability by launching a grand jury investigation into Neville Roy Singham, the Shanghai-based tech billionaire whose millions have flowed into a vast network of socialist, communist, and Marxist organizations operating inside the United States.
This probe, led by the powerful Southern District of New York, signals a long-overdue reckoning with dark money networks that have sown division, promoted anti-American propaganda, and advanced agendas aligned with America’s adversaries.
DOJ Grand Jury Targets Marxist Tycoon Neville Roy Singham’s Web of Foreign-Funded Leftist Activism
Holiday week
jobs # out on Thursday…..
Why not continue to ignore reality, let the good times roll and manipulate everything to death.
Ingredients for a triple test of the lows, perhaps more……
IRGC Mouthpiece says:
The Hormuz Letter
@HormuzLetter
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BREAKING: Iran directly rejects Axios’ claim of US-Iran technical talks in Doha this week, stating “technical working group meetings are not planned for this week” and that any next round will only be held “once all conditions are met,” per Tasnim.
Iran reiterates these conditions include Israel withdrawing from Lebanon, ending its military operations there and the release of frozen Iranian funds.
Sovereign Debt Crisis May Start in Middle East – Martin Armstrong
By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com (Saturday Night Post)
Legendary financial and geopolitical cycle analyst Martin Armstrong warned in May “Iran Bombs UAE to Trigger Financial Meltdown.” Then, about two weeks ago, there was a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between the US and Iran, and everyone thought the war and the crisis was on its way to being over. Oil fell below $70 a barrel, and it looked like everything was going to be worked out with a 60-day ceasefire. Now, it looks like everything could fall apart with attacks from Iran, counter-attacks from the US and the back and forth continues. Can the MOU that has dropped the price of oil survive this? Martin Armstrong says, “Iran is not stupid. What is happening is when we had Covid, oil went down to $6.50 (per barrel). It was below production costs. The governments borrowed extensively to stay alive. All that debt is still there. So, the sovereign debt crisis may start in the Middle East. People are completely blindsided because they think that in the Middle East, they are just flush with money–Not True. Now, they are like everybody else with debt up to their chin. Iran is intelligent. They are not Venezuela. They are attacking the Gulf State refineries and the whole Strait of Hormuz. They know that’s not impacting the United States. The US is basically self-sufficient. It impacts Asia, and it impacts Europe, but what else does it do? It prevents the Gulf States from selling oil. If they cannot sell oil, they default on their loans. If they default on their loans, you get a banking crisis, which goes straight to London. This is much more complicated than people think. Trump understands this is much bigger than just Hormuz and the price of oil.”
Looking it up in English
Tragic stories, the tone of voices and things like eternal hell is not enough punishment for him he’s lucky he’s already dead or is he.
A lot of eyes were involved in these multistory buildings but yet no one reported it it , was there no one at the top who wasn’t corrupt?
English version
Following catastrophic earthquakes in Venezuela, devastating structural failures revealed that several high-rise buildings in the Hugo Chávez housing developments were constructed using Expanded Polystyrene (EPS, or Styrofoam) as primary void-fillers and internal framing, rather than reinforced steel and concrete.
The Controversy and Structural Failures
Public outrage and videos from first responders emerged after the earthquakes, showing heavily damaged and collapsed multi-story buildings. Survivors and structural inspectors discovered that the collapsed structures were built using foam and thin aluminum sheets instead of the required heavy-duty steel. [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6]
The Misión Vivienda Program
These buildings were part of the Gran Misión Vivienda Venezuela (Great Venezuela Housing Mission), a massive state-led public housing initiative launched under the late President Hugo Chávez. Many of these specific units were built through joint government projects with international partners, including Turkish firms (such as Suma) and the controversial contractor Alex Saab. Critics and whistleblowers highlighted that while the housing developments were heavily publicized and funded with concrete-grade budgets, the actual materials used were cheap, lightweight, and highly vulnerable to seismic activity. [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
Legitimate Construction vs. Unsafe Practices
While the use of block-molded foam (like ICF – Insulating Concrete Forms) or foam-core panels is standard and legitimate in specific seismic engineering applications, the structural core must still rely on a supportive grid of reinforced concrete and rebar. In the case of the Venezuelan housing projects, inspectors and engineers reported a dangerous lack of foundational load-bearing materials, leading to the catastrophic collapses of multi-story buildings. [1, 2]
For a look at the social and political reactions surrounding these discoveries in the aftermath of the quakes:
Omg
Worse than imagined. Unbelievable.
Venezuela collapsed buildings. He said the son of a B Madero.. correction murderer not Madero but someone called Hugo Chávez Frías made the buildings with Styrofoam with a little cement over it disguising it.
Maya
Id did the same thing except with charts. I had quite a collection lol
Speaking of which just looking at silver if you blend the current candle still in progress that could change before the nights over and last Fridays you have a bullish spinning top. Meaning undecided or mixed with a little bullish advantage… so far.
ferrett @ 20:36 – Phone Pix
I have a friend like that… phone pix of everything he will never look at again. Clouds! Cloud formations that look to him like something this or that. He had an iPhone with max memory when he got it. Recently it clogged up on him and was unable to update the OS. So I told him to get ruthless and start deleting pix and especially videos that were worthless. Took him a week. Still didn’t work. ‘Deleting’ just puts stuff in a ‘trash’ file that still takes up memory room. We had to empty the trash file to get his phone to update the OS. About half his memory was recovered. But now he’s back to his old ways. Photos of nonsense stuff he will never look at again, “but it had to be saved”…. for something.
Buygold @ 19:57
Yeah we haven’t been punched in the head yet ………………….. plenty of time still! 
Buygold, I don’t know whether it’s deliberate or not, probably, but it was inevitable.
I realised it first when people started using phones with cameras, nearly 30 years ago. All of a sudden you could take and store a thousand or two photos on your phone, of all things, at zero cost. This meant that quality deteriorated; you don’t spend time getting the light correct, or the pose, you fire away and get one reasonable shot out of five – but don’t bother deleting the other four. Within a couple of years people have tens of thousands of photos that they will never look at, and can’t find the ones that they want. By now they will have hundreds of thousands. The same has happened with medical papers which are so easy to publish online that there are now over 80,000 papers saying how good statins are and 500 warning the opposite. Finding the 500 would be difficult enough without them being suppressed.
ferret, Ipso
Sometimes I think there’s a concerted effort to overwhelm us with info, whether true or not true, to keep us in a state of confusion. This Iran thing is a perfect example, it’s on, it’s off, Hormuz is open/closed, etc. I guess so we’re so exhausted we don’t know which end is up, all the while they are herding us into digital prison, or whatever they have planned.
Ipso – looks like that Axios statement was good enough to pump the SM up as futures are firmly positive. No such luck with pm’s yet.
Good to see an international effort
Intelschizo
@Schizointel
Updated list of international emergency response to assist Venezuela by country
🇦🇷 Argentina 26 personnel / 4 dogs
🇧🇷 Brazil 44 personnel / 6 dogs
🇨🇦 Canada 7 personnel / 2 dogs
🇨🇱 Chile 45 personnel / 0 dogs
🇨🇴 Colombia 64 personnel / 4 dogs
🇨🇿 Czech Republic 70 personnel / 8 dogs
🇩🇴 Dominican Republic 32 personnel / 2 dogs
🇪🇨 Ecuador 47 personnel / 2 dogs
🇸🇻 El Salvador 300 personnel / 4 dogs
🇫🇷 France 65 personnel / 4 dogs
🇩🇪 Germany 48 personnel / 7 dogs
🇮🇳 India 41 personnel / ? dogs
🇮🇱 Israel 25 personnel / 0 dogs
🇮🇹 Italy 34 personnel / 3 dogs
🇯🇴 Jordan 100 personnel / 8 dogs
🇱🇹 Lithuania 23 personnel / 2 dogs
🇲🇽 Mexico 261 personnel / 18 dogs
🇳🇱 Netherlands 64 personnel / 4 dogs
🇵🇦 Panama 61 personnel / 4 dogs
🇵🇪 Peru 44 personnel / 1 dog
🇶🇦 Qatar 90 personnel / 6 dogs
🇷🇸 Serbia 10 personnel / 1 dog
🇪🇸 Spain 97 personnel / 4 dogs
🇨🇭 Switzerland 80 personnel / 8 dogs
🇸🇾 Syria 15 personnel / 0 dogs
🇹🇷 Turkey 67 personnel / 2 dogs
🇬🇧 United Kingdom 68 personnel / 6 dogs
🇺🇸 United States 312 personnel / 18 dogs
Total: 2,140 personnel / 128 dogs
Buygold definitely.
Same goes for AI. Chatting to someone yesterday who was using it for a particular purpose about which I happen to know quite a bit, and it was clear it was mixing American law with Australian law to come up with unnecessary and onerous requirements for him. I’ve seen this three times now with advice from lawyers, the lazy sods send out AI gobbledook which they expect you to sign off on. Sometimes it’s not even English! And then they expect you to pay for the corrections which aren’t always grammatical, but errors in fact …. they should be paying me for correcting their advice.
What is really pissing me off now is that there is no such thing as a simple google (duck-duck-go, ecosia etc) search because of the vast amount of data out there. Stuff that I know to be true is impossible to find amongst the tens of thousands, millions of databytes with the same keywords. Which is why during covid I printed reams of articles which I suspected would either disappear or be swamped out of search reach.
Making nice again?
The Hormuz Letter
@HormuzLetter
BREAKING: Axios claims the US and Iran have agreed to stop attacking each other and meet this week in Doha, Qatar.
Of course, this comes just 1 hour before the US stock market futures open.
Goldie
I agree. Always thought Sinclair was sincere though, just underestimated their ability to manipulate via the computers. Everything in this country changed after 9/11.
Buygold
Yeah no matter what they say you have to do your own DD. At first it uses to be Sinclair.
Things can change too and its the responsibility of the stock holders to be watching not expect someone to tell them what to do.
There just little squirrels
The guy in the green shirt was hilarious.
YouTube is a cesspool for manipulation
So many crap videos, the AI personalities are fairly easy to detect but it’s still just dishonest. Although sign I guess the same could be said for the guys that put their actual faces on video with wild predictions that sound so convincing.
We are in a world where discernment is more important than ever.
I kinda agree with deer79’s take that the market is over estimating the chance of rate hikes. Then again, if oil heads back over $100 who knows?
All the info coming out about this Iran thing is really tough to disseminate. It’s hard for me to believe it’s not going to really escalate.
Whatever that little bounce in pm’s was appears to be over. Still don’t understand gold being down during geopolitical strife.
Anatoly guess to many people recognize him
So now he’s disguised as a old man. I wonder if he’ll try cross dressing next.
Drb
They can be educational but nothing we don’t already know. It appears someone not only wants views and money. He may be pro PMs or not but it’s deceiving implying that he’s so petty going to go on YouTube and insinuating use his position for monetary gain. The only one petty is the one doing it. In 2025 PMs were moving up nicely on their own until the talking heads came out and the speculators came in and a stampede started. That about the only thing the videos are good for me sides entertainment is a warning a stampede is coming. We can’t complain too much but if it gets too high too fast it causes a crash.
So the nice slow move up going unnoticed suddenly turns into a buying frenzy beyond cause that then has to be halted. Then the spectators run to the shorting frenzy.
I think this warning will reflect more in the future not all at once in the present unless things happen than a sudden fast crash in the dollar.