“In my opinion, Bitcoin is a speculation and ONLY a speculation on what looks to be digital air. I am sure many doubters were also scoffed at in regards to Tulips…!”
Powell’s Claim that ‘Bitcoin is not a Competitor for the Dollar, it’s a Competitor for Gold’ is the Desperate Psyop of a Ponzi Operation-Gold is the Real Competitor to the Dollar
At yesterday’s New York Times DealBook Summit, Fed Chair Jerome Powell was asked by Andrew Ross Sorkin: ‘How does Crypto sit with you right now? ..At a time it appears that this next administration may legalize it in a much more broader way (it is legal now) that there might be a much more bigger groundswell for it?’
The essence of Powell’s answer was encapsulated in this snipet:
…’People are not using it as a form of payment or as a store of value. It’s highly volatile. It’s not a competitor for the dollar. It’s really a competitor for gold.‘…(Cointelegraph 12/5/24)
It was Christmas Eve in the year 1299, and Pope Boniface VIII was performing his usual holiday rituals around Rome when he happened to bump into a very elderly, 107-year-old man from Italy’s Abruzzi region.
According to the semi-official legend, the old man claimed to have been in Rome a century before as a young boy, and that he had witnessed a former pope granting widespread indulgences to an entire crowd of people.
It’s hard to say at this point whether or not any of the story is actually true. But what we know for sure is that Boniface thought over the idea long and hard… and he ultimately decided to do the same thing, declaring the following year (1300) as the Year of Jubilee.
Fauci, Schiff, And Cheney May Receive ‘Preemptive Pardons’
Days after President Joe Biden pardoned his son Hunter for a 10-year period dating back to his involvement with Burisma, senior White House aides are reportedly locked in a contentious debate over a potential unprecedented move: issuing preemptive pardons to a wide range of current and former public officials who could find themselves under intense scrutiny, and prosecution, after Donald Trump takes office, Politico reports.
Among those discussed for potential pardons are high-profile figures like Senator-elect Adam Schiff (D-CA), former Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY), and Dr. Anthony Fauci, the former head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.
Their justification is that Trump will seek retribution, with their concerns growing more urgent following Trump’s announcement last weekend appointing Kash Patel as FBI director.
UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was facing DOJ probe for insider trading when he was killed in targeted NYC shooting
UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was one of several senior executives at the company under investigation by the Department of Justice when he was gunned down outside a Manhattan hotel on Wednesday.
“…And now, Zelensky says he can end the war by joining NATO? Isn’t this one of the things that elicited Russia’s invasion to begin with? Maybe Zelensky is the smartest man in the world and the rest of us are just stupid?”
The latest from Erik –
Bill’s Commentary:
“This is a good thing, filed under the category; bringing less idiots into the world! If you are offended by this post, please contact my editor and request a refund…”
Women Are Getting Sterilized After Donald Trump’s Victory: ‘Only Option’
It’s not a procedure you’d expect a 28-year-old to be planning. But for Lydia Echols from Texas, having her fallopian tubes removed is the price she’s willing to pay to ensure her reproductive rights.
Newsweek spoke to five women who have either undergone sterilization procedures or plan to in the wake of President-elect Donald Trump‘s victory on November 5. They all expressed fear their reproductive choices will be taken from them under Trump’s administration.
“If I am to be denied any rights in the next four (or more) years, I will not give them up without a fight,” Echols said.
“There is no housing shortage, only a shortage outside of cities where it is far safer to live. Rural properties will be well bid while urban properties will largely stay listed until foreclosed on…”
The affordable housing shortage is reshaping parts of rural America
When Suzanne D’Amico moved from Dallas an hour north to Celina, Texas, there was one grocery store, longhorn cattle down the road and no lights on the horizon at night. Farmers wearing overalls gathered for morning coffee, teenagers packed the local pizzeria after Friday night football games, and neighbors prayed together at church on Sunday.
“It felt like we were on another planet,” said D’Amico, who has lived for nearly 30 years in Celina where she raised her children. “We weren’t just outside the city, we were completely gone from anything we considered at the time remotely civilized.”
“”Temporary”? The man understands gold and knows exactly what he is doing. And he does this because he knows the Achilles heel to the US has always been gold…”
Russia imposing temporary ban on export of precious metals waste, scrap
MOSCOW. Nov 25 (Interfax) – The Russian government has introduced a temporary ban on the export of waste and scrap of precious metals from December 1, 2024 to May 31, 2025, this decision will enable increasing the load of Russian refinery operators, the Russian government said on its website on Saturday.
“100% tariffs will indeed be a total disaster. All they have to say is “we do not want your currency”… and isn’t this exactly what BRICS is all about?”
“He says that everything about Covid was a lie. He could have said “EVERYTHING” in the world is a lie and been even more correct!”
EVERYTHING WAS A LIE FROM THE BEGINNING
Dr. Richard Urso shares some truth bombs about COVID-19, vaccines, lockdowns, masks…
“Everything was a lie from the beginning. The asymptomatic people don’t transmit. Kids were not harbingers of the disease. They don’t actually, they’re like a break on the disease. Lockdowns were a farce. Masks don’t work.”
“I tell people, I joke sometimes I say masks do work. A lot like bathing suits work to keep pee out of the pool. They’re not very effective. So that’s one of those things that, you know, it was a farce. Pretty much everything they said was a farce. I know we’re still recovering from it. Just yesterday we walked into a pharmacy and they were advertising COVID-19 vaccines.”
RUSH: So, my second book was See, I Told You So. The first book is The Way Things Ought to Be and the second book is See, I Told You So. “Chapter 6, Dead White Guys, or What the History Books Never Told You: The True Story of Thanksgiving.”
Now, normally what I do is simply read from my first book. But there has now been another book added in the Rush Revere series, and the first Rush Revere book is Rush Revere and the Brave Pilgrims. These are children’s books that were written to help young people get the true stories of America’s founding because so little of it is actually correctly taught.
“Does anybody remember the Smoot-Hawley act of the 1930’s? My how the world has changed, I can still remember reading about tariffs in college. Does no one remember actual history?”
The latest from Erik –
Bill’s Commentary:
“Funny how the 2nd Amendment guarantees the 1st?”
Bill is interviewed by Chris Marcus (Also posted under Interviews)
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“Yet they publicly report no buying for over 6 months? Uhm, do as they do… not as they say?”
Report Reveals China Continues to Secretly Grow Its Gold Stash, Misleading Market to Cause Price Cool-Off
Jan Nieuwenhuijs, a gold analyst specializing in Chinese markets, alleges that China has continued to secretly buy gold without reporting it to the market, benefiting from a price cool-off. Nieuwenhuijs states that the strategy of the PBOC is to purchase gold through UK bullion banks, which goes unreported by using non-traditional bank conduits.
China is still buying gold secretly, funneling it through purchases to bullion banks in the UK. This is the conclusion of a report prepared by Jan Nieuwenhuijs, an expert in the Chinese gold market, explaining there is no reason for China to stop buying gold due to its need to diversify its foreign exchange reserves.
“The United States is certainly not immune to this…”
Musk Is Right: A Brief History of How Britain Became a ‘Tyrannical Police State’ and How America Can Avoid It.
Britain’s far-left government has continued to pick a fight with one of the world’s wealthiest men, Elon Musk, who recently pointed out the country’s increasing despotism.
“The people of Britain have had enough of a tyrannical police state,” Musk wrote on X, quoting a post about a petition demanding fresh elections, which almost three million British citizens have signed. The roots of Britain’s recent transformation into an authoritarian state go much deeper than many realize.
Musk has been critical of Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer over the two-tier policing in the United Kingdom following the mass stabbing of children by a migration-background teenager in Southport. Anti-immigration protestors were confronted by riot police and handed lengthy prison sentences for as little as shouting at police dogs. Conversely, violent Muslim counter-demonstrators ran riot after being allowed to “police themselves.”
“David is a great guy and a brother but he forgot to ask one question, “do you really believe we have the gold we have stated since the 1950’s?” And what price would the purported gold have to have for your proposal to work?”
Bill’s Commentary:
“Our tax dollars paid for this?”
Blinken Comes Under Fire Over State Department ‘Therapy Sessions’ After Trump Win
Secretary of State Antony Blinken has come under fire after the Washington Free Beacon reported earlier this month that the State Department held therapy sessions for employees who couldn’t handle President-elect Trump’s election win.
“I am concerned that the Department is catering to federal employees who are personally devastated by the normal functioning of American democracy through the provision of government-funded mental health counseling because Kamala Harris was not elected President of the United States,” said Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) in a letter to Blinken last week.
According to the Free Beacon, two alleged therapy sessions were held after Trump’s victory, with sources telling the outlet that one session amounted to an information “cry session,” Fox News reports.
There’s an old saying, “Fool around and find out.” On November 19, Ukraine fired six US-made missiles at a target located on Russian soil. On November 20, Ukraine fired up to a dozen British-made Storm Shadow cruise missiles against a target on Russian soil. On November 21, Russia fired a new intermediate-range missile against a target of Ukrainian soil.
Ukraine and its American and British allies fooled around.
And now they have found out: if you attack Mother Russia, you will pay a heavy price.
“At least this IS in fact something “real” even though worthless after the banana rots. Think about all the monies spent on NFTs (non fungible tokens… and then think about cryptos? $100,000 worthless dollars for one unit of digital air? There will be a true RESET where things of true value may become priceless… while gaslit “assets” go to their intrinsic values which are and always have been ZERO. Laugh and deride me now but it is coming. You either own the correct assets now or, you never will…”
“I stopped reading his bio at “he was the chief investment officer at Soros Fund Management, a hedge fund started by Democratic megadonor George Soros.” That’s all we need to know…”
Trump names billionaire Scott Bessent as Treasury secretary pick
CNN —
President-elect Donald Trump named billionaire Scott Bessent as his pick to serve as the next secretary of the Department of the Treasury.
“Scott has long been a strong advocate of the America First Agenda. On the eve of our Great Country’s 250th Anniversary, he will help me usher in a new Golden Age for the United States, as we fortify our position as the World’s leading Economy, Center of Innovation and Entrepreneurialism, Destination for Capital, while always, and without question, maintaining the U.S. Dollar as the Reserve Currency of the World,” Trump said in a statement announcing the pick Friday, confirming CNN’s earlier reporting.
“Unlike in past Administrations, we will ensure that no Americans will be left behind in the next and Greatest Economic Boom, and Scott will lead that effort for me, and the Great People of the United States of America.”
“It does not matter if they know it’s coming, if you can’t catch it you cannot kill it…”
Terrifying Infographic Shows Reach Of Russia’s New Hypersonic Missile: ‘London In 20 Minutes’
Update(1830ET): Soon after warning that Russia’s newly deployed ‘Oreshnik’ nuclear capable hypersonic missile is able to reach any European capital, at a top speed of Mach 10+ —which is significantly faster than a bullet—Russian state media issued the below ominous infographic.
It touts that Eastern European capitals could be hit in a matter of a few minutes, and that Berlin is reachable in only 15. It lists capitals as far away from the Kapustin Yar rocket launch complex like London and Paris as reachable by the Oreshnik in just 20 minutes. This means if proverbial all hell broke loose and WW3 came to Europe, these populations would have very little time to reach shelter.
Pope says Vatican’s pension fund faces ‘serious imbalance’
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) – Pope Francis said on Thursday the Vatican’s pension fund is facing a “serious imbalance” that may require changes to its operating structure, and appointed a senior cardinal to take over the fund’s administration.
In an unusual letter sent to all the world’s cardinals and to the leaders of the Vatican’s various offices, the pope did not quantify the scope of the issue.
He said the changes would include “making difficult decisions that will require particular sensitivity, generosity, and willingness to sacrifice on the part of everyone”.
“How do they gauge “gassyness”? And is there an arbiter if a farmer believes his cow is being unfairly taxed for excess gas? The world has devolved into crazy shit!”
Flatulence tax: Denmark agrees deal for livestock emissions levy
Denmark has agreed on how to implement the world’s first tax on agricultural emissions, including flatulence by livestock.
This comes after months of negotiations between the country’s major parties, farmers, the industry, trade unions and environmental groups. The Green Tripartite agreement was first announced in June.
From 2030, farmers will have to pay a levy of 300 kroner ($43; £34) per tonne of methane (as per carbon dioxide equivalent) on emissions from livestock including cows and pigs, which will rise to 750 kroner in 2035.
If gold is trading at $2,650 with the $ going from 100 to 107 on the USDX, what will it do when the dollar goes to 97. or 77, or ultimately zero? Gold and silver are sitting on launch pads, the coming moves will be historical! This chart’s MACD (at the bottom) suggests my note to you is VERY TIMELY!
Bill’s latest interview with Dr. Dave Janda (Also posted under Interviews)
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Danish Navy boards Chinese ship suspected in European undersea cable sabotage — Sweden’s Defense Ministry put freighter at the time and place of the…
According to reports in Eurasia Daily and Defence24, the Danish Navy has boarded and detained the Chinese Bulk Carrier Yi Peng 3 in the Danish Straits, near the exit of the Great Belt. The detention took place on the evening of November 18. According to Financial Times sources, Sweden authorities are “carefully studying the Chinese vessel.”
“Has anyone done the math on how much silver will be needed for this?”
“Solar Powerhouse” China Is Leading Asia’s Green Energy Movement
If you’re trying to implement green energy solutions in Asia, chances are you’re going to need to rely on China one way or another.
Southeast Asia’s demand for renewable energy is rising, driven by tech manufacturing and data center growth, according to Nikkei. Solarvest, the region’s leading renewable energy provider, plans to capitalize on this boom by increasing imports from China, according to a local manager.
Bill, this is what happens when money has no value. Dave
“Exactly Dave, and soon people will find out that everything is worth nothing…” Bill
Arguably the most famous artwork of the past decade has found a new buyer. Comedian, a sculpture by the artist Maurizio Cattelan, consisting of a piece of duct tape and a banana stuck to a wall, has sold for $6.2 million at Sotheby’s in New York after more than six minutes of fierce bidding. The buyer is crypto entrepreneur Justin Sun, the auction house confirmed.
“Dubai would have been a better choice – no extradition…”
Ellen DeGeneres Has Moved to Great Britain, Lists Montecito Estate: ‘Never Coming Back’ to the United States | Exclusive
Ellen DeGeneres and wife Portia de Rossi have moved to rural England, put their Montecito estate on the market and plan to never return to the United States, telling friends the election of Donald Trump was their primary motivation, a person close to the former TV host told TheWrap.
Though the incoming Republican administration was the cited catalyst, a fresh start couldn’t hurt: DeGeneres has been open about being “kicked out of show business” after reports of toxic workplace behavior at the syndicated “Ellen” show in 2022.
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