Check photo how they stack um and pack um.

https://qz.com/1221747/germany-warns-donald-trump-that-slapping-import-tariffs-on-eu-cars-creates-only-losers/

The Italians could have voted in Mao, Stalin and Hugo Chavez, while Trump could have started a real war and the Rig would ensure the SM goes ape to the upside.

At one point the S&P was down 25 pts o/n…..now it is 56 pts higher……while trade wars are discussed and the Italians will have no government for ages, if ever, having told the EU to Va fan culo….meanwhile Au is sat on all day.

RR……Rig Rules.

Rebuilding the USA is net good for their own good, re all the other countries. What well off would the rest of the world be if the USA turned into one big shit country? They all have to know this.

Hopefully they didn’t wait too long, or too little too late, and if so a “tipping point” for another great recession may have already started, would explain all this hoopla about how GOOD things are GOING to be in the USA.

mainly cause they didn’t mind to sell out U.S. workers…as they want to abolish borders, national identities/folkways and reduce the world to a drab and dreary FINANCIALIZED  mono-culture-WHICH, IMO, HAS ALREADY OCCURRED WITH THE worlds plugged in youth…so I agree with them..

AS for Israel, my friends, why have u fallen for the incessant propaganda that has “flipped” reality…Israel did not want nor start its 4 wars with the arabs-Joo leaders have begged, in publick forums, for peace right from the start…but got only war and terror…Yeah, I know, the Joo haters have developed this fake narrative about the EEEEEVIL JOOS SECRETLY, REALLY” wanted war and behind the scenes provoked the arabs into war…but that’s nonsense–What are there? 20 or 30 JOO-Israeli companies listed on U.S. exchanges? How many are listed from the A—–RAB countries-get real…I don’t know why I waste my breath with u guys about the JOO problem…I know the hatred and contempt runs deep..after 2000 yrs of Christian Teaching and preaching of contempt for the JOO-[derived from anti–JOO passages inserted  in the Christian bible to differentiate itself and sell itself as a new revelation to the pagan-God’s new covenant replacing the “old” one and other nonsense]…the conditioning runs deep,,,heck, in Europe–the hatred is genetic…there’s a whole field of study about this issue=

Teaching of Contempt Primary Source Sampler

https://www.bc.edu/content/dam/files/research_sites/cjl/texts/…/contempt.ht

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The Christian Teaching of Contempt for Jews and Judaism: A Primary Source Sampler. Introduction. The debate over the Mel Gibson movie, The Passion of the Christ, has made it clear that most Christians simply are not aware of the history of Christian anti-Jewish teachings. These teachings were conveyed in several ways …

Jules Isaac – Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jules_Isaac

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Jules Isaac was “a well known and highly respected Jewish historian in France with an impressive career in the world of education” by the time World War II began. Internationally, Isaac was most well known for his tireless work after the War in the field of Jewish-Christian relations, culminating in his decisive key role in the …

‎Life · ‎Career · ‎Judaeo-Christian relations · ‎Death and legacy

The teaching of contempt returns | David Brog | The Blogs | The Times …

blogs.timesofisrael.com/the-teaching-of-contempt-returns/

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Mar 27, 2014 – They recognized that centuries of negative Christian teachings about Jews and Judaism likely helped predispose Europe towards Hitler’s racial anti-Semitism. … It is agonizing to discover that the church’s teaching of contempt [for the Jews] was a major ingredient that made possible the monstrous policy of …

The Passion of the Christ -The Teaching of Contempt | Cosmic Navigator

https://cosmicnavigator.com/…/2004-02-01-the-passion-of-christ-the-teaching-of-cont..

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This monumental and historical document provided certain guidelines one must follow when telling the story of the Passion of the Christ in order to prevent what is called “The Teaching of Contempt” towards the Jews. Before 1965 the Jews were regarded as Diecides, meaning the slayer of God. From 1965 the church …

Combatting Our Teachings of Contempt – Jewish-Christian Relations

www.jcrelations.com/Combatting_Our_Teachings_of_Contempt.4362.0.html?..

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Jules Isaac coined the phrase “the teaching of contempt” (l’enseignement du mépris) with reference to the Christian roots of anti-Semitism, which had been perpetuated by the Church for over 1800 years. It was Isaac’s meeting with Pope John XXIII about this “teaching of contempt” towards Jews and Judaism, which was to …

The teaching of contempt: Christian roots of anti-Semitism (McGraw …

https://www.amazon.com/teaching-contempt-anti-Semitism-McGraw…/B0007F5EGS

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In the work itself Isaac considers three teachings which have been particularly damaging. The first is the teaching that the dispersion of the Jews is ‘providential punishment’ for the Crucifixion. The second is the teaching that Judaism was in a ‘degenerate’ state at the time of Jesus. The third is the alleged crime of the deicide …

Teaching Contempt: the Jew through Christian eyes – Taylor & Francis …

www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/1361767990200101

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to demonstrate how Christian teaching, based on a fanciful and erroneous interpretation of. Scripture, has been reflected in modem anti-Jewish attitudes. The evidence corroborates the view that much of Hitler’s antisemitic propaganda was rooted in Christian thought. Introduction. Hostility towards Jewspermeates classical …

The Teaching of Contempt: The Christian Roots of Anti-Semitism. By

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382. CHURCH AND STATE. The Teaching of Contempt: The Christian Roots of Anti-Semitism. By. Jules Isaac. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, Inc., 1964. 154 pp. $4.00. The sub-title of this book is both definitive and alarming, The Christian. Roots of Anti-Semitism. The author is a French-Jewishhistorian known.

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that depends on who got screwed last time..If the DEMS were in power and sold out the Americans to American rivals in a corrupt transaction.   Then a NEW trade war with TRUMP in charge is going to scare the CRAP out of them …Trade WAR is going to be BAD FOR THEM  !

THE US is big enough and has enough natural resources to go it alone if necessary ….and Trump cant be bluffed ….WE fixed the ENERGY problem,we dont need the MED EAST any more ..drop them into the the ocean…let them kill each other ,who cares ?  enough already !

Dont listen to the MEDIA that want to keep the US engaged because of Israel  for Israel sake…Tell Israel to prepare a Peace plan they are going to need it .No longer will WAR be Israel;s  motto for survival !    A war like Nation has gotten old and no longer works …..Trumps working on a plan for peace with his son in Law as broker and the Media  used their influence to get his SEcurity downgraded  ….intentionally ,to prevent peace ….they cant have peace its dosent sell newspapers…or make NEWS…Give peace a chance ..support Trump..and end corruption at the same time …..Trade Wars?  Thats the GOOD NEWS ,  for us.

I went to a Wedding this week-end in Virginia Beach..My 72 year old Friend got married to a 62 year old Stewardess who is close to retirement….They were dancing like teen agers  ! Both had earlier marriages that were bad from the start …they learned who NOT to marry …maybe thats the secret ….

Just after rates went a little  higher, EVERYONE agrees and says rates are going even higher, they STOP going higher. Just when EVERYONE says the Dow is going to 40,000, it stops making new highs.

Just when they all say Bitcoin is going to $70,000, they put it on futures and down it went from $20k to $10k. Remember Uranium? and Rare Earths? Before contracts?

Just when EVERONE says the US Economy will boom going forward, watch it get slower first. Just when EVERYONE thinks guns will be banned and gun manufacturers stocks will die, watch Smith & Wesson and Ruger start climbing, both higher for a few days now.

So unfortunately the Opinions or Votes on what the Gov’ts lackey “guessers” think the price  be, (rather that supply or demand) determines the price for the 10% that actually make or take delivery.

Usually the producer gets screwed and the absorber or middle man gets away cheap, and can make a bigger profit on the finished goods, than the producer that provided the product. When the unnatural distorted price gets too far distorted from reality, natural market forces (abundance or shortage) spring back the price the other way.

Put Pharmaceutical Prescription Drugs on futures and see what happens. Write your Congressman. Put Drugs on “contracts”, the 90% Guessers will short the shit out of them until shortages arise.

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Large speculators trimmed their bullish gold position and now have their largest bearish net positioning ever in silver, based on the latest reporting week for data compiled by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission.

Still, last week’s price action opened the door to a “tremendous opportunity” for bulls to reposition, said Bill Baruch, president of Blue Line Futures.

Net long or short positioning in the CFTC data reflect the difference between the total number of bullish (long) and bearish (short) contracts. Traders monitor the data to gauge the general mood of speculators, although excessively high or low numbers are viewed by many as signs of overbought or oversold markets that may be ripe for price corrections.

“Our assumption here is that Thursday’s sharp sell-off to major three-star support forced further liquidation from the long camp and many of those longs have yet to reposition. In conclusion, we remain outright bullish in bias and believe that gold is one small catalyst away from a strong surge higher.”

http://www.kitco.com/news/2018-03-05/Funds-Trim-Gold-Net-Long-Build-Record-Silver-Net-Short.html

i just like the play on words with “ital-leave”

What is ‘Italexit (Italeave)’

Italexit, short for “Italy exit,” also known as Italeave, is an Italian derivative of the term Brexit, which refers to the June 2016 United Kingdom vote to leave the European Union. Other countries with extremist parties that have acknowledged their own versions of the possibility of leaving the EU include France (Frexit), Austria (Oustria) and the Czech Republic (Czech-out). Each country’s specific political interests depend on the country’s situation and the extremist party’s values.

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/i/italexit-italeave.asp

it’s not italexit, it’s “ital-leave.”

https://ceo.ca/@goldfinger/hedge-funds-move-net-short-silver

Americas Silver Corporation Reports Fourth Quarter and Year-End 2017 Financial Results

https://ceo.ca/@businesswire/americas-silver-corporation-reports-fourth-quarter-financial-results

Wall Street Responds To Italy’s Vote: “Anti-Establishment Forces Are On Fire”

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-03-05/wall-street-responds-italys-vote-anti-establishment-forces-are-fire

for the COT #’s

– as I have for years .

Slow night.  Is everybody watching Hollywood congratulate themselves at the Oscars… except me?  Wake Up!  It’s Monday!

The American Orient Express heads for the Rockies.
http://www.railpictures.net/photo/650283/

Indian State Bank Busted in $2 Billion Fraud

It has all the elements of a Hollywood heist movie: A well-known jeweler-to-the-stars and his shady accomplice. A risky gambit to exploit a banking loophole. Inside help from a high-ranking official. A $2 billion swindle. And the whole house of cards crashing down in spectacular, front-page fashion.

But here’s the Bollywood twist: The well-known jeweler is Nirav Modi. The high-ranking official is Gokulnath Shetty, deputy manager of the Punjab National Bank. And the amount pilfered is 11,700 crore rupees.

For those not in the know, Nirav Modi is known as the bold upstart who bought up a slew of top-shelf diamonds in the depths of the 2008 economic crisis and made a fortune designing and selling his own line of “haute diamantaire” for the Hollywood glitterati. Read any rundown of the red carpet in recent years and you’re likely to read descriptions of Ms. So-and-so wearing a “dazzling Nirav Modi statement necklace” or some such twaddle.

But Modi’s zero-to-hero, “Mumbai boy makes it big” story came to a crashing halt last month when India’s Central Bureau of Investigation unveiled a complaint from Punjab National Bank alleging a multi-billion dollar swindle run by Modi and his business partner, Mehul Choksi. Soon, Indian authorities were sealing off Modi’s expensive properties, seizing his diamond inventories, and beginning a game of “Where In The World Is Nirav Modi?” that took several eyebrow-raising twists and turns, including the tidbit that his last known public appearance was at the World Economic Forum in Davos.

So what was the swindle, exactly?

Find out the details of India’s largest-ever bank fraud and what it could mean for the future of our biometrically-“secured” banks of the future in this week’s Corbett Report Subscriber newsletter.

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Yeah, I guess the author could be a pro globalist, trying to spread fear of  trade war. ZH is definitely the bear/fear site.

I agree the U.S. has very little to lose and has already been losing in trade for decades.

Obviously by “investors” the author means stock market investors. As always, some investors will be winners and some losers. I’d see trade wars as inflationary so I hope us goldbugs would be winners.

One thing for sure, when the EU, Wall Street, Corporations and other globalists are critical of policy it’s probably a good thing for the US citizenry.

By the things the unknown says, to me he is a biased pro global globalist, and or he did not put enough thought into the subject. He sounds like he’s from CNBC or Bloomberg, going against the new world situation.

The USA has nothing to lose, because the USA already lost everything, resulting in the 2008 crash, that took down the whole global economy down until TPTB bailed everything out with artificial means, and gave the USA a $20 trillion national debt.

This country has gone thru numerous big problems for decades WITHOUT a trade war, so logic would suggest that a trade war would be an improvement for future decades.  Only the transition from bad to good would be the temporary PAIN, like being half dead after bypass operation or cold turkey breaking a heroin habit..

re “his” part:

“a trade war is probably more dangerous for investors at this time than at any other time in recent history”

Comment:

He forgot to say which investors “he” talking about? If everything is reversing, then those who did well, will do worse, and those who did poorly will do better. That’s where the focus should be.

For starters, global multi national corporations did very well for decades doing as they please, so they should be less well off, contract. Who did poorly? How about savers and producers? They always get punished MOST of the time, but get a “bone” thrown to them occasionally to stay alive.

The last bone the savers got was higher CD rates of 18% back around 1980. The producers got a couple of bones thrown to them when they had the US dollar at 72 on the index. Short lived higher metal, food and energy profits leading to over production, and back to lower prices again.

Silver

*The large specs reduced their long positions by 177 contracts and increased their shorts by 6,651 contracts.

*The commercials reduced their longs by 3,923 contracts and decreased their shorts by 8,905 contracts.

*The small specs increased their longs by 2,216 contracts and increased their shorts by 370 contracts.

GOLD

*The large specs reduced their long positions by 5,224 contracts and increased their shorts by 6,980 contracts.

*The commercials increased their longs by 6,614 contracts and reduced their shorts by 8,468 contracts.

*The small specs decreased their longs by 1,065 contracts and increased their shorts by 1,813 contracts.

This report will be viewed generally as constructive.

https://youtu.be/Yb_B1EqK9uM

Jim Rickards: “Now, A Trade War – Next, A Shooting War”

“A full-scale trade war is now upon us. It will shake markets and be a major headwind for world growth. It will get ugly fast and the world economy will be collateral damage. Today looks like a replay of the 1930s... Next comes the shooting war… will be tantamount to World War III.”