GOLD CLOSED UP $98.78 TO $3,414.50
SILVER CLOSED UP $0.15 TO $32.60
GOLD ACCESS CLOSED 3420.70
Silver ACCESS CLOSED: $32.72
Bitcoin morning price:$87072 UP 2437 DOLLARS.
Bitcoin: afternoon price: $87,295 up 2664 DOLLARS
Platinum price closing UP $2.75 TO $966.15
Palladium price; DOWN $21.10 TO $937.60
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*CANADIAN GOLD: $4735.70 UP 135.70 CDN dollars per oz( * NEW ALL TIME HIGH 4735.70 CDN DOLLARS PER OZ//APRIL 21 2025)
*BRITISH GOLD: 2559.38 UP 50.35 Pounds per oz// *(NEW ALL TIME HIGH//CLOSING//2,559.38 BRITISH POUNDS/OZ) APRIL 21/2025
*EURO GOLD: 2,973.82 UP 47.00 Euros per oz //* (ALL TIME CLOSING HIGH: 2,973.82 EUROS PER OZ/ APRIL 21 //2025)
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EXCHANGE: COMEX
EXCHANGE: COMEX
CONTRACT: APRIL 2025 COMEX 100 GOLD FUTURES
SETTLEMENT: 3,308.700000000 USD
INTENT DATE: 04/17/2025 DELIVERY DATE: 04/22/2025
FIRM ORG FIRM NAME ISSUED STOPPED
132 C SG AMERICAS 8
323 C HSBC 8
363 H WELLS FARGO SECURITI 148
624 C BOFA SECURITIES 379
624 H BOFA SECURITIES 304
661 C JP MORGAN SECURITIES 10 29
686 C STONEX FINANCIAL INC 40 9
686 H STONEX FINANCIAL INC 22
690 C ABN AMRO CLR USA LLC 5 2
709 C BARCLAYS 39
737 C ADVANTAGE FUTURES 2
905 C ADM 1
TOTAL: 503 503
MONTH TO DATE: 63,496
JPMORGAN STOPPED 29/503
GOLD: NUMBER OF NOTICES FILED FOR APRIL/2024. CONTRACT: 503 NOTICES FOR 50300 OZ 1.5645 TONNES
total notices so far: 63,496 contracts for 6,349,600 OR 197.499 tonnes)
FOR APRIL
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SILVER NOTICES: 59 NOTICE(S) FILED FOR 0.295 MILLION OZ/
total number of notices filed so far this month : 3052 CONTRACTS (NOTICES) for 15.260 million oz
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GLD/
BOTH GLD AND SLV ARE FRAUDULENT VEHICLES//THEY ARE NOW RAIDING GLD AND SLV FOR PHYSICAL
THE CROOKS ARE STEALING GOLD AND SILVER FROM THE GLD/SLV AND REPLACING THE PHYSICAL WITH PAPER DOLLARS.
WITH GOLD UP $98.70 INVESTORS SWITCHING TO SPROTT PHYSICAL (PHYS) INSTEAD OF THE FRAUDULENT GLD:
HUGE CHANGES IN GOLD INVENTORY AT THE GLD: A MASSIVE WITHDRAWAL OF 4.88 TONNES OUT OF THE GLD
INVENTORY RESTS AT 952.29 TONNES
SLV/
WITH NO SILVER AROUND AND SILVER UP $0.15 AT THE SLV: SMALL CHANGES IN SILVER INVENTORY AT THE SLV: ////A DEPOSIT OF 0.545 MILLION OZ OUT OF THE SLV//
CLOSING INVENTORY RESTS AT:
CLOSING INVENTORY: 453.971 MILLION OZ
Let us have a look at the data for today
SILVER//OUTLINE
SILVER COMEX OI FELL BY A HUGE SIZED 1248 CONTRACTS TO 142,386 AND STALLING ON ITS MARCH TO THE RECORD HIGH OI OF 244,710, SET FEB 25/2020, AND THIS HUGE SIZED LOSS IN COMEX OI WAS ACCOMPLISHED WITH OUR STRONG LOSS OF $0.56 IN SILVER PRICING AT THE COMEX WITH RESPECT TO THURSDAY’S TRADING. WE HAD A HIGE SIZED LOSS OF 986 TOTAL CONTRACTS AS THE CME NOTIFIED US OF A FAIR 262 CONTRACT EXCHANGE FOR PHYSICAL ISSUANCE.. WE HAD A CONSIDERABLE LIQUIDATION OF T.A.S. CONTRACTS COMEX TRADING THURSDAY AS THEY DESPERATELY AGAIN TRIED TO CONTAIN SILVER’S PRICE RISE FOR THE PAST 4 WEEKS (WHERE RAIDS ARE CALLED UPON AGAIN AND AGAIN TRYING TO STOP THE RISE IN SILVER’S PRICE TO ABOVE $34.40 AND TO QUELL ADDITIONAL DERIVATIVE LOSSES TO OUR BANKERS’ MASSIVE TOTALS). THEY SUCCEEDED ON THURSDAY WITH SILVER’S LOSS IN PRICE AS THE PRICE IS STILL WELL BELOW THE MAGIC NUMBER OF $34.40 SILVER SPOT PRICE. . BUT THIS WAS COUPLED WITH A STRONG T.A.S. ISSUANCE OF 545 CONTRACTS ISSUED BY THE CME AND THAT SIGNALS DEEP CODE RED THAT THE CROOKS ARE DESPERATE TO STOP SILVER BREAKING OVER THE 34.40 DOLLAR MARK. THUS OUR RAIDS ON OUR PRECIOUS SILVER METAL WILL CONTINUE UNTIL SILVER BREAKS $34.40. WE HAD A FAIR 262 CONTRACT EXCHANGE FOR PHYSICAL ISSUANCE ACCOMPANIED BY OUR HUGE 545 CONTRACT T.A.S ISSUANCE WHICH WILL BE USED IN MONDAY/TUESDAY’S TRADING/ AS THEY PLAY AN INTEGRAL PART IN OUR COMEX TRADING TRYING TO CONTAIN ANY SILVER PRICE RISE. IN ESSENCE WE LOST A HUGE SIZED 986 CONTRACTS ON OUR TWO EXCHANGES DESPITE OUR LOSS IN PRICE OF $0.56.
THE CME NOTIFIED US THAT WE HAD 0 CONTRACTS OF THOSE CRAZY EXCHANGE FOR RISK CONTRACTS ISSUED FOR 0 OZ (0 MILLION OZ). THESE EXCHANGE FOR RISKS ARE ADDED TO OUR NORMAL DELIVERY SCHEDULE. THUS FOR THE MONTH OF APRIL WE HAVE A TOTAL OF 4.0 MILLION OZ OF EXCHANGE FOR RISK ISSUED ON TWO OCCASIONS. THE RECIPIENT OF THIS LARGESS IS PROBABLY THE CENTRAL BANK OF INDIA.
PLEASE NOTE THAT THE CROOKS NEED A HIGHER SILVER/GOLD T.A.S. TO CARRY ON THEIR CROOKED MANIPULATION ON A DAILY BASIS BUT DEMAND IS JUST TOO HIGH FOR THEM. THE HIGHER ISSUANCE OF T.A.S ESPECIALLY SILVER IS NOW USED TO TEMPER OUR SILVER PRICE RISE OR INITIATE A RAID AS WHAT HAPPENED SEVERAL TIMES LAST MONTH AND AGAIN WITH THIS WEEK’S TRADING ON SILVER AND NOW TODAY TRYING TO KEEP THE SILVER PRICE BELOW $34.40 . THE KEY PRICE TO WATCH IS $34.40. IF IT BREAKS THAT PRICE, THEN WE HEAD FOR $50.00 SILVER.
CRAIG HEMKE HAS POINTED OUT THAT THE CROOKS USE THE MID MONTH FOR MANIPULATION AS THEY SELL THEIR BUY SIDE OF THE CALENDAR SPREAD FIRST AND THEN KEEP THE SELL SIDE TO LIQUIDATE AT A LATER DATE. THUS WE HAVE TWO VEHICLES THE CROOKS USE FOR MANIPULATION AND BOTH ARE SPREADERS: 1) AT MONTH’S END/SPREADERS COMEX AND 2/ TAS SPREADERS, MID MONTH. TOTAL TAS ISSUED ON FRIDAY NIGHT/SATURDAY MORNING: A HUGE 545 CONTRACTS. DESPITE MANY COMPLAINTS THAT THE CROOKS HAVE VIOLATED POSITION LIMITS DUE TO THE FACT THAT THE TAS ISSUED HAVE A VALUE OF ZERO (AS TO POSITION LIMITS FOR OUR CROOKED BANKERS). THE PROBLEM OF COURSE IS THAT THE CROOKS DO NOT LIQUIDATE THE TAS TOGETHER BUT SELL THE BUY SIDE FIRST AND THEN LIQUIDATE THE SELL SIDE TWO MONTHS HENCE. IT IS OBVIOUS MANIPULATION TO THE HIGHEST DEGREE BUT IT NATURALLY FELL ON DEAF EARS WITH OUR REGULATORS (OCC) WHEN THEY RECEIVED OUR COMPLAINTS. IT NOW SEEMS THAT THE OCC HAS ORDERED THE BANKS TO REDUCE ITS NEW LEVEL OF 1 TRILLION DOLLARS IN GOLD/SILVER DERIVATIVES
WE HAVE IN THE PAST YEAR SET ANOTHER RECORD LOW AT 114,102 CONTRACTS ///JULY 3.2023// OUR BANKERS WITH THE HELP OF SPECULATORS AND HIGH FREQUENCY TRADERS WERE SUCCESSFUL IN KNOCKING THE PRICE OF SILVER DOWN (IT FELL BY $0.56) AND WERE SUCCESSFUL IN KNOCKING OFF A FEW NET SILVER LONGS FROM THEIR PERCH AS WE HAD A HUGE LOSS IN PRICE AND WE LOST A STRONG 871 CONTRACTS IN OPEN INTEREST FROM OUR TWO EXCHANGES. MOST OF THE LOSS WAS DUE TO T.A.S. LIQUIDATION, DISTORTING THE COMEX OI STANDING.
WE HAD A FAIR 262 CONTRACT ISSUANCE OF EXCHANGE FOR PHYSICALS) iiii) AN INITIAL SILVER STANDING FOR COMEX SILVER MEASURING AT 13.735 MILLION OZ FOLLOWED BY TODAY’S 555,000 OZ QUEUE JUMP FOR PHYSICAL TRANSFER TO WHICH WE ADD OUR 4.00 MILLION OZ EX FOR RISK
STANDING FOR APRIL INCREASES TO 19.530 MILLION OZ
WE HAD:
/ HUGE COMEX OI LOSS+// A FAIR SIZED EFP ISSUANCE (262 CONTRACTS)/ VI) HUGE SIZED NUMBER OF T.A.S. CONTRACT ISSUANCE 545 CONTRACTS)
I AM NOW RECORDING THE DIFFERENTIAL IN OI FROM PRELIMINARY TO FINAL: ADDED 8 CONTRACTS.
HISTORICAL ACCUMULATION OF EXCHANGE FOR PHYSICALS MAR. ACCUMULATION FOR EFP’S SILVER/JPMORGAN’S HOUSE OF BRIBES/STARTING FROM FIRST DAY/MONTH OF APRIL
TOTAL CONTRACTS for 15 DAYS, total 15,075 contracts: OR 75.375 MILLION OZ (1005 CONTRACTS PER DAY)
TOTAL EFP’S FOR THE MONTH SO FAR: 75.375 MILLION OZ
LAST 24 MONTHS TOTAL EFP CONTRACTS ISSUED IN MILLIONS OF OZ:
MAY 137.83 MILLION
JUNE 149.91 MILLION OZ
JULY 129.445 MILLION OZ
AUGUST: MILLION OZ 140.120
SEPT. 28.230 MILLION OZ//
OCT: 94.595 MILLION OZ
NOV: 131.925 MILLION OZ
DEC: 100.615 MILLION OZ
YEAR 2022:
JAN 2022-DEC 2022
JAN 2022// 90.460 MILLION OZ
FEB 2022: 72.39 MILLION OZ//
MARCH 2022: 207.140 MILLION OZ//A NEW RECORD FOR EFP ISSUANCE
APRIL: 114.52 MILLION OZ FINAL//LOW ISSUANCE
MAY: 105.635 MILLION OZ//
JUNE: 94.470 MILLION OZ
JULY : 87.110 MILLION OZ
AUGUST: 65.025 MILLION OZ
SEPT. 74.025 MILLION OZ///FINAL
OCT. 29.017 MILLION OZ FINAL
NOV: 134.290 MILLION OZ//FINAL
DEC, 61.395 MILLION OZ FINAL
TOTALS YR 2022: 1135.767 MILLION OZ (1.1356 BILLION OZ)
JAN 2023/// 53.070 MILLION OZ //FINAL
FEB: 2023: 100.105 MILLION OZ/FINAL//MUCH STRONGER ISSUANCE VS THE LATTER TWO MONTHS.
MARCH 2023: 112.58 MILLION OZ//FINAL//STRONG ISSUANCE
APRIL 111.035 MILLION OZ(SLIGHTLY GREATER THAN THAN LAST MONTH)
MAY 66.120 MILLION OZ/INITIAL (MUCH SMALLER THIS MONTH)
JUNE: 110.395 MILLION OZ//MUCH LARGER THAN LAST MONTH
JULY 85.745 MILLION OZ (SMALLER THAN LAST MONTH)
AUGUST: 171.43 MILLION OZ (THIS MONTH IS GOING TO BE HUGE //2ND HIGHEST ON RECORD
SEPT: 72.705 MILLION OZ (SMALLER THIS MONTH)
OCT: 97.455 MILLION OZ
NOV. 50.050 MILLION OZ
DEC. 66.140 MILLION OZ//
TOTAL 2023: 1,104.10 MILLION OZ/
JAN ’24 : 78.655 MILLION OZ//
FEB /2024 : 66.135 MILLION OZ./FINAL
MARCH: 143.750 MILLION OZ// 4TH HIGHEST ON RECORD.
APRIL: 161.770 MILLION OZ (THIS MONTH WILL BE A WHOPPER OF ISSUANCE OF EFPS//3RD HIGHEST EVER RECORDED FOR A MONTH)
MAY: 135.995 MILLION OZ //WILL BE A STRONG MONTH FOR EXCHANGE FOR PHYSICAL ISSUANCE
JUNE 110.575 MILLION OZ ( WILL BE ANOTHER STRONG MONTH ISSUANCE)
JULY: 108.870 MILLION OZ (WILL BE A STRONG ISSUANCE MONTH/ A TOUCH OVER 100 MILLION OZ/)
AUGUST; 99.740 MILLION OZ//THIS MONTH WILL BE STRONG FOR ISSUANCE BUT LESS THAN JULY.
SEPT: 112.415 MILLION OZ//WILL BE A HUGE MONTH FOR EXCHANGE FOR PHYSICAL ISSUANCE
OCT; 97.485 MILLION OZ (WILL BE SMALLER ISSUANCE THIS MONTH )
NOV. 115.970 MILLION OZ ( HUGE THIS MONTH)
DEC: 132.54 MILLION OZ (THIS MONTH WILL BE A HUMDINGER FOR ISSUANCE BUT ISSUANCE SLOWED DRAMATICALLY THESE PAST FIVE DAYS/// WILL NOT EXCEED MARCH 2022 RECORD OF 209 MILLION OZ
YEAR 2024 TOTAL: 1363.84 MILLION OR 1.363 BILLION OZ
JANUARY 2025: 67.230 MILLION OZ///(THIS MONTH’S ISSUANCE OF EXCHANGE FOR PHYSICAL WILL BE SMALL)
FEB. 58.260 MILLION OZ//EXCHANGE FOR PHYSICAL ISSUANCE/FINAL
MARCH: 67.020 MILLION OZ///QUITE SMALL AND BECOMING SMALLER EACH AND EVERY MONTH.
APRIL: 74.065 MILLION OZ/// THIS IS HUGE AND THIS MONTH WILL PROBABLY BE A HUMDINGER OF ISSUANCE.
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RESULT: WE HAD A HUGE SIZED DECREASE IN COMEX OI SILVER COMEX CONTRACTS OF 1248 CONTRACTS WITH OUR LOSS IN PRICE OF $0.56 IN SILVER PRICING AT THE COMEX// THURSDAY.,. . THE CME NOTIFIED US THAT WE HAD A FAIR 262 CONTRACT EFP ISSUANCE CONTRACTS: 262 ISSUED FOR MAY AND 0 CONTRACTS ISSUED FOR ALL OTHER MONTHS) WHICH EXITED OUT OF THE SILVER COMEX TO LONDON AS FORWARDS. WE HAVE A STRONG SILVER OZ STANDING FOR APRIL OF 15.538 MILLION OZ NORMAL DELIVERY , PLUS OUR 4.00 MILLION EX FOR RISK
NEW STANDING APRIL: 19.530 MILLION OZ
THE NEW TAS ISSUANCE FRIDAY NIGHT (545 ) WILL BE PUT INTO “THE BANK” TO BE COLLUSIVELY USED AT A LATER DATE AND MOST LIKELY MONDAY/TUESDAY.
WE HAD 59 NOTICE(S) FILED TODAY FOR 0.295 million OZ
THE SILVER COMEX IS NOW BEING ATTACKED FOR METAL BY LONDONERS ET AL.
GOLD//OUTLINE
IN GOLD, THE COMEX OPEN INTEREST FELL BY A STRONG SIZED 4904 OI CONTRACTS TO 458,586 AND FURTHER FROM TO THE RECORD (SET JAN 24/2020) AT 799,105 AND PREVIOUS TO THAT: (SET JAN 6/2020) AT 797,110. (ALL TIME LOW OF 390,000 CONTRACTS.) THUS WE HAVE A PRETTY LOW OI IN COMEX WITH AN EXTREMELY HIGH PRICE OF GOLD. THE SHORT RATS ARE ABANDONING THE SHIP.
THE DIFFERENTIAL FROM PRELIMINARY OI TO FINAL OI IN GOLD TODAY: REMOVED A MONSTER 1949 CONTRACTS //.
WE HAD A STRONG SIZED DECREASE IN COMEX OI (4904 CONTRACTS) . THIS OCCURRED WITH OUR LOSS OF $14.85 IN PRICE THURSDAY. WEDNESDAY/APRIL 17 WAS THE HIGHEST EVER SINGLE NOMINAL GAIN IN COMEX GOLD PRICING HISTORY AT $106.35 GAIN.. THE FRBNY SUPPLIED THE NECESSARY SHORT PAPER.. WE ALSO HAD A HUMONGOUS INITIAL STANDING IN GOLD TONNAGE FOR APRIL AT 164.7185 TONNES (CME CORRECTED// MAYBE?) TO WHICH WE ADD FOR APRIL ITS INITIAL 700 CONTRACT EXCHANGE FOR RISK FOR 70,000 OZ OR 2.177 TONNES AND FRIDAY APRIL 4: 250 CONTRACT ISSUANCE FOR .777 TONNES + MONDAY APRIL 7 NEW ISSUANCE OF .8709 TONNES/ + APRIL 9 ‘S TOTAL OF 484 EX. FOR RISK FOR 48,400 OZ OR 1.5054 TONNES/NEW TOTAL AND FINALLY APRIL 14 EX FOR RISK OF 30,000 OZ OR.6220 TONNES// ;NEW EX FOR RISK 5.912 TONNES TO WHICH WAS ADDED TO OUR NEW QUEUE JUMP OF 574 CONTRACTS OR 57,400 OZ (1.785 TONNES). THUS INITIAL STANDING FOR GOLD/APRIL DELIVERY MONTH IS 199.244 TONNES NORMAL DELIVERY(INCLUDES OF QUEUE JUMP) + 5.912 TONNES EX FOR RISK = 205.154 TONNES
/NEW STANDING FOR APRIL; 199.244 TONNES + 5.912 TONNES EX FOR RISK = 205.154 TONNES
/ ALL OF THIS HAPPENED WITH OUR $14.85 LOSS IN PRICE WITH RESPECT TO THURSDAY’S COMEX ///. WE HAD A FAIR SIZED LOSS OF 2842 OI CONTRACTS (8.83 PAPER TONNES) ON OUR TWO EXCHANGES, WITH MANY LONGS, REMAINING AT THE END OF THE DAY, TENDERING FOR PHYSICAL GOLD VIA THE EXCHANGE FOR PHYSICAL ROUTE, MUCH TO THE ANGER AND HORROR EXHIBITED BY OUR MAJOR BANKER, THE FEDERAL RESERVE BANK OF NEW YORK. THE HORROR INTENSIFIED ONCE LONDON STARTED TO TRADE LAST WEEK, AND THROUGHOUT THE WEEK WITH MAJOR TENDERING FOR PHYSICAL VIA THE EXCHANGE FOR PHYSICAL ROUTE! THE RESULT: A MASSIVE AMOUNT OF GOLD STANDING FOR DELIVERY FOR THE MARCH CONTRACT MONTH AND NOW FOR OUR FRONT MONTH OF APRIL. CENTRAL BANKERS ARE NOW WAITING PATIENTLY FOR THEIR DELIVERY OF GOLD VIA SLOW MOVING SHIPS. WE HAVE A MASSIVE AMOUNT OF TONNES STANDING FOR GOLD IN APRIL.
E.F.P. ISSUANCE
THE CME RELEASED THE DATA FOR EFP ISSUANCE AND IT TOTALED A GOOD SIZED 2062 CONTRACTS:
The NEW COMEX OI FOR THE GOLD COMPLEX RESTS AT 458,586
IN ESSENCE WE HAVE A FAIR SIZED DECREASE IN TOTAL CONTRACTS ON THE TWO EXCHANGES OF 2842 CONTRACTS WITH 4904 CONTRACTS DECREASED AT THE COMEX// AND A GOOD SIZED 2062 EXCHANGE FOR PHYSICAL OI CONTRACT ISSUANCE WHICH NAVIGATED OVER TO LONDON. THUS TOTAL OI LOSS ON THE TWO EXCHANGES OF2842 CONTRACTS.. WE HAD THE FOLLOWING TAS CONTRACTS INITIATED (ISSUED): A FAIR SIZED AND CRIMINAL 1430 CONTRACTS ISSUED.
CALCULATIONS ON GAIN/LOSS ON OUR TWO EXCHANGES
WE HAD A GOOD SIZED ISSUANCE IN EXCHANGE FOR PHYSICALS (2062 CONTRACTS) ACCOMPANYING THE STRONG SIZED DECREASE IN COMEX OI OF 4904 CONTRACTS/TOTAL LOSS FOR OUR THE TWO EXCHANGES: 2842 CONTRACTS..WE HAVE 1) NOW RETURNED TO OUR FORMER FORMAT OF BANKERS GOING LONG AND SPECULATORS GOING SHORT ,2.) STRONG STANDING AT THE GOLD COMEX FOR APRIL 199.244 TONNES (WHICH INCLUDES OUR 1.7785 TONNES QUEUE JUMP) AND THIS FOLLOWS TOTAL EXCHANGE FOR RISK ISSUANCE ON 5 OCCASIONS FOR 5.912 TONNES//NEW STANDING ADVANCES TO 205.154 TONNES.
//NEW STANDING APRIL: 199.244 TONNES + 5.912 TONNES EX FOR RISK ON 5 OCCASIONS = 205.154 TONNES
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/ 3) SMALL T.A.S. LIQUIDATION + ZERO SUCCESS IN REMOVING ANY NET SPECULATOR LONGS, AS WE HAD: 1)A $14.85 COMEX PRICE LOSS AND WE HAD 2) ZERO NET LONG SPECS BEING CLIPPED AS DESPITE HAVING A LOSS OF 894 CONTRACTS ON OUR TWO EXCHANGES, ALL OF THAT LOSS WAS DUE TO T.A.S. LIQUIDATION/./ ALSO, 3)STICKY GOLD’S LONGS WERE REWARDED FRIDAY EVENING AS THEY EXERCISED EFP’S FROM LONDON TO TAKE DELIVERY OF BADLY NEEDED PHYSICAL AND THUS OUR HUGE TONNAGE STANDING FOR GOLD IN APRIL.
4) FAIR SIZED COMEX OI LOSS// 5) GOOD SIZED ISSUANCE OF EXCHANGE FOR PHYSICAL PAPER (2062 CONTRACTS)///FAIR T.A.S. ISSUANCE: 1430 T.A.S.CONTRACTS//
HISTORICAL ACCUMULATION OF EXCHANGE FOR PHYSICALS IN 2023-2025 INCLUDING TODAY
APRIL
ACCUMULATION OF EFP’S GOLD AT J.P. MORGAN’S HOUSE OF BRIBES: (EXCHANGE FOR PHYSICAL) FOR THE MONTH OF APRIL :
TOTAL EFP CONTRACTS ISSUED: 49,687 CONTRACTS OR 4,968,700 OZ OR 154.54 TONNES IN 15 TRADING DAY(S) AND THUS AVERAGING: 3312 EFP CONTRACTS PER TRADING DAY
TO GIVE YOU AN IDEA AS TO THE SIZE OF THESE EFP TRANSFERS : THIS MONTH IN 15 TRADING DAY(S) IN TONNES 154.54 TONNES
TOTAL ANNUAL GOLD PRODUCTION, 2024, THROUGHOUT THE WORLD EX CHINA EX RUSSIA: 3555 TONNES
THUS EFP TRANSFERS REPRESENTS 154.54 TONNES DIVIDED BY 3550 x 100% TONNES = 4.35% OF GLOBAL ANNUAL PRODUCTION
ACCUMULATION OF GOLD EFP’S YEAR 2021 TO 2023
JANUARY/2021: 265.26 TONNES (RAPIDLY INCREASING AGAIN)
FEB : 171.24 TONNES ( DEFINITELY SLOWING DOWN AGAIN)..
MARCH:. 276.50 TONNES (STRONG AGAIN/
APRIL: 189..44 TONNES ( DRAMATICALLY SLOWING DOWN AGAIN//GOLD IN BACKWARDATION)
MAY: 250.15 TONNES (NOW DRAMATICALLY INCREASING AGAIN)
JUNE: 247.54 TONNES (FINAL)
JULY: 188.73 TONNES FINAL
AUGUST: 217.89 TONNES FINAL ISSUANCE.
SEPT 142.12 TONNES FINAL ISSUANCE ( LOW ISSUANCE)_
OCT: 141.13 TONNES FINAL ISSUANCE (LOW ISSUANCE)
NOV: 312.46 TONNES FINAL ISSUANCE//NEW RECORD!! (INCREASING DRAMATICALLY)//SIGN OF REAL STRESS//SURPASSING THE MARCH 2021 RECORD OF 276.50 TONNES OF EFP
DEC. 175.62 TONNES//FINAL ISSUANCE//
TOTALS: 2,578.08 TONNES/2021
JAN:2022 247.25 TONNES //FINAL
FEB: 196.04 TONNES//FINAL
MARCH/2022: 409.30 TONNES //FINAL( THIS IS NOW A RECORD EFP ISSUANCE FOR MARCH AND FOR ANY MONTH.
APRIL: 169.55 TONNES (FINAL VERY LOW ISSUANCE MONTH)
MAY: 247.44 TONNES FINAL//
JUNE: 238.13 TONNES FINAL
JULY: 378.43 TONNES FINAL/SECOND HIGHEST ON RECORD
AUGUST: 180.81 TONNES FINAL
SEPT. 193.16 TONNES FINAL
OCT: 177.57 TONNES FINAL ( MUCH SMALLER THAN LAST MONTH)
NOV. 223.98 TONNES//FINAL ( MUCH LARGER THAN PREVIOUS MONTHS//comex running out of physical)
DEC: 185.59 tonnes // FINAL
TOTAL: 2,847,25 TONNES/2022
JAN 2023: 228.49 TONNES FINAL//HUGE AMOUNT OF EFP’S ISSUED THIS MONTH!!
FEB: 151.61 TONNES/FINAL
MARCH: 280.09 TONNES/INITIAL (ANOTHER STRONG MONTH FOR EFP ISSUANCE)
APRIL: 197.42 TONNES
MAY: 236.67 TONNES (A VERY STRONG ISSUANCE FOR THIS MONTH)
JUNE: 172.667 TONNES (WEAKER ISSUANCE THIS MONTH)
JULY: 151.69 TONNES (WEAKER THAN LAST MONTH)
AUGUST: 195.28 TONNES (A STRONGER MONTH)//FINAL
SEPT: 254.709 TONNES (WILL BE LARGER THAN LAST MONTH AND A STRONG MONTH)
OCT. 248.09 TONNES. LIKE SILVER, THIS MONTH IS GOING TO BE A STRONG E.F.P. ISSUANCE.
NOV. 239.16 TONNES//WILL BE STRONG THIS MONTH,
DEC. 213.704 TONNES. A STRONG MONTH//
TOTAL FOR YEAR 2023: 2,569.57 TONNES VS 2578 TONNES LAST YEAR
2024 AND 2025:
JAN ’24: 291.76 TONNES (WILL BE MUCH GREATER THAN LAST MONTH.//3RD HIGHEST EVER RECORDED EXCHANGE FOR PHYSICAL)
FEB’24: 201.947 TONNES
MARCH 2024: 352.21 TONNES//2ND HIGHEST EVER RECORDED EFP ISSUANCE.
APRIL: 267.05TONNES (WILL BE AN EXTREMELY STRONG MONTH BUT LESS THAN MARCH 2024)
MAY; 316.606 TONNES (WILL BE ANOTHER STRONG MONTH// 3RD HIGHEST RECORDED EFP ISSUANCE )// NOTICE THE HUGE INCREASES IN EX FOR PHYSICAL THESE PAST FEW MONTHS. THESE CONTRACTS ARE CIRCLED BACK FROM LONDON WHEREBY METAL IS REMOVED FROM THE COMEX.
JUNE 175.11 tonnes HEADING FOR A WEAKER MONTH AND MUCH LESS THAN THE THREE PREVIOUS MONTHS
JULY: 351. 65 TONNES (3RD HIGHEST EVER RECORDED EXCHANGE FOR PHYSICAL AND THE HIGHEST EVER RECORDED POST BASEL III)
AUGUST: 274.79 TONNES//THIS MONTH WILL NO DOUBT BE A STRONG ISSUANCE OF EFP’S BUT MUCH LESS THAN LAST MONTH.
SEPT: 335 .104 TONNES//IF THIS CONTINUES WE WILL HAVE A HUMDINGER OF AN EFP ISSUANCE. WE WILL PROBABLY END JUST SHORT OF THE 3RD HIGHEST ISSUANCE EVER RECORDED.
OCT. 277.71 TONNES (THIS WILL BE A GOOD ISSUANCE THIS MONTH)
NOV: 393.875 TONNES ( A HUGE MONTH////NOW SURPASSED THE PREVIOUS 3RD AND 2ND HIGHEST EVER RECORDED EX FOR PHYSICAL ISSUANCE TO BECOME THE 2ND HIGHEST EVER RECORDED
DEC 360.03 TONNES THIRD HIGHEST EVER RECORDED FOR EFP ISSUANCE
TOTAL 2024 YEAR. 3,597.846 TONNES
JAN. 2025: 257.919 TONNES (ISSUANCE WILL BE PRETTY GOOD THIS MONTH BUT MUCH LOWER THAN LAST MONTH)
FEB: 207.21 TONNES//EX FOR PHYSICAL ISSUANCE (WILL BE A FAIR SIZED ISSUANCE THIS MONTH)
MARCH 130.84 TONNES//QUITE SMALL THIS MONTH.
APRIL; 154.54 TONNES. STILL A SMALL TO FAIR ISSUANCE FOR THE MONTH.
SPREADING OPERATIONS
(/NOW SWITCHING TO GOLD) FOR NEWCOMERS, HERE ARE THE DETAILS
SPREADING LIQUIDATION HAS NOW COMMENCED AS WE HEAD TOWARDS THE NEW ACTIVE FRONT MONTH OF APRIL. WE ARE NOW INTO THE SPREADING OPERATION OF GOLD
HERE IS A BRIEF SYNOPSIS OF HOW THE CROOKS FLEECE UNSUSPECTING LONGS IN THE SPREADING ENDEAVOUR ;MODUS OPERANDI OF THE CORRUPT BANKERS AS TO HOW THEY HANDLE THEIR SPREAD OPEN INTERESTS:HERE IS HOW THE CROOKS USED SPREADING AS WE ARE NOW INTO THE NON ACTIVE DELIVERY MONTH OF NOV HEADING TOWARDS THE ACTIVE DELIVERY MONTH OF FEB., FOR GOLD: AND MARCH FOR SILVER
YOU WILL ALSO NOTICE THAT THE COMEX OPEN INTEREST STARTS TO RISE BUT SO IS THE OPEN INTEREST OF SPREADERS. THE OPEN INTEREST IN WILL CONTINUE TO RISE UNTIL ONE WEEK BEFORE FIRST DAY NOTICE OF AN UPCOMING ACTIVE DELIVERY MONTH (OCT), AND THAT IS WHEN THE CROOKS SELL THEIR SPREAD POSITIONS BUT NOT AT THE SAME TIME OF THE DAY. THEY WILL USE THE SELL SIDE OF THE EQUATION TO CREATE THE CASCADE (ALONG WITH THEIR COLLUSIVE FRIENDS) AND THEN COVER ON THE BUY SIDE OF THE SPREAD SITUATION AT THE END OF THE DAY. THEY DO THIS TO AVOID POSITION LIMIT DETECTION. THE LIQUIDATION OF THE SPREADING FORMATION CONTINUES FOR EXACTLY ONE WEEK AND ENDS ON FIRST DAY NOTICE.”
WHAT IS ALARMING TO ME, ACCORDING TO OUR LONDON EXPERT ANDREW MAGUIRE IS THAT THESE EFP’S ARE BEING TRANSFERRED TO WHAT ARE CALLED SERIAL FORWARD CONTRACT OBLIGATIONS AND THESE CONTRACTS ARE LESS THAN 14 DAYS. ANYTHING GREATER THAN 14 DAYS, THESE MUST BE RECORDED AND SENT TO THE COMPTROLLER, GREAT BRITAIN TO MONITOR RISK TO THE BANKING SYSTEM. IF THIS IS INDEED TRUE, THEN THIS IS A MASSIVE CONSPIRACY TO DEFRAUD AS WE NOW WITNESS A MONSTROUS TOTAL EFP’S ISSUANCE AS IT HEADS INTO THE STRATOSPHERE.
The crooks also use the spread in the TAS account (trade at settlement). They buy the spot TAS (e.g. June) and sell the future TAS two months out (e.g. August). Then they unload the front month (i.e. unload the buy side first so the price of gold/silver falls. This occurs in the middle of the front delivery month cycle. They unload the sell side of the equation, two months down the road. The crooks violate position limits as the OCC refuse to hear our complaints.
First, here is an outline of what will be discussed tonight:
1.TODAY WE HAD THE OPEN INTEREST AT THE COMEX IN SILVER FELL BY A HUMONGOUS SIZED 1248 CONTRACTS OI TO 142,386 AND FURTHER FROM THE COMEX HIGH RECORD //244,710( SET FEB 25/2020). THE LAST RECORDS WERE SET IN AUG.2018 AT 244,196 WITH A SILVER PRICE OF $14.78/(AUGUST 22/2018)..THE PREVIOUS RECORD TO THAT WAS SET ON APRIL 9/2018 AT 243,411 OPEN INTEREST CONTRACTS WITH THE SILVER PRICE AT THAT DAY: $16.53). AND PREVIOUS TO THAT, THE RECORD WAS ESTABLISHED AT: 234,787 CONTRACTS, SET ON APRIL 21.2017 OVER 7 YEARS AGO. HOWEVER WE HAVE NOW SET A NEW RECORD LOW OF 114,102 CONTRACTS JULY 3.2023
EFP ISSUANCE 262 CONTRACTS
OUR CUSTOMARY MIGRATION OF COMEX LONGS CONTINUE TO MORPH INTO LONDON FORWARDS AS OUR BANKERS USED THEIR EMERGENCY PROCEDURE TO ISSUE:
MAY 262 and 0 ALL OTHER MONTHS: ZERO. TOTAL EFP ISSUANCE: 262 CONTRACTS. EFP’S GIVE OUR COMEX LONGS A FIAT BONUS PLUS A DELIVERABLE PRODUCT OVER IN LONDON. IF WE TAKE THE COMEX OI LOSS OF 1248 CONTRACTS AND ADD TO THE 262 E.FP. ISSUED
WE OBTAIN A HUGE SIZED LOSS OF OPEN INTEREST CONTRACTS FROM OUR TWO EXCHANGES OF 871 CONTRACTS WITH THE LOSS IN PRICE OF $0.56 THE RATS ARE FLEEING THE ARENA.
THUS IN OUNCES, THE LOSS ON THE TWO EXCHANGES TOTALS 4.355 MILLION PAPER OZ
OCCURRED DESPITE OUR $0.56 IN PRICE LOSS. ALL OF THE LOSS WAS DUE TO T.A.S. LIQUIDATION.
OUTLINE FOR TODAY’S COMMENTARY
1a/COMEX GOLD AND SILVER REPORT
(report Harvey)
b, ) Gold/silver trading overnight Europe,//GOLD COMMENTARIES
(Peter Schiff)
c) Commentaries from: Egon von Greyerz///Matthew Piepenburg via GoldSwitzerland.com, Pam and Russ Martens
ii a) Chris Powell of GATA provides to us very important physical commentaries
b. Other gold/silver commentaries
c. Commodity commentaries//
d)/CRYPTOCURRENCIES/BITCOIN ETC
2.ASIAN AFFAIRS MONDAY MORNING//SUNDAY NIGHT
SHANGHAI CLOSED UP 14.70 PTS OR 0.45%
//Hang Seng CLOSED
// Nikkei CLOSED UP 450.36 OR 1.30%//Australia’s all ordinaries CLOSED UP 0.70%
//Chinese yuan (ONSHORE) CLOSED UP TO 7.2893 CHINESE YUAN OFFSHORE CLOSED UP TO 7.2922/ Oil DOWN TO 63.09 dollars per barrel for WTI and BRENT DOWN TO 66.43 Stocks in Europe OPENED ALL RED.
ONSHORE USA/ YUAN TRADING ABOVE LEVEL OF OFFSHORE YUAN/ONSHORE YUAN TRADING
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END
ASIA TRADING MONDAY MORNING/SUNDAY NIGHT
A)NORTH KOREA/SOUTH KOREA
outline
b) REPORT ON JAPAN/
OUTLINE
3 CHINA
OUTLINE
4/EUROPEAN AFFAIRS
OUTLINE
5. RUSSIAN AND MIDDLE EASTERN AFFAIRS
OUTLINE
6.Global Issues//COVID ISSUES/VACCINE ISSUES
OUTLINE
7. OIL ISSUES
OUTLINE
8 EMERGING MARKET ISSUES
9. USA
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1. COMEX DATA//AMOUNTS STANDING//VOLUME OF TRADING/INVENTORY MOVEMENTS
GOLD
LET US BEGIN:
THE TOTAL COMEX GOLD OPEN INTEREST FELL BY A STRONG SIZED 4904 CONTRACTS TO 458,586 WITH OUR LOSS IN PRICE OF $14.85 WITH RESPECT TO THURSDAY’S // TRADING. WE LOST ZERO NUMBER OF NET LONGS WITH THAT PRICE LOSS FOR GOLD. AND AS YOU WILL SEE BELOW, OUR LOSS IN PRICE ALSO HAD A GOOD NUMBER OF EXCHANGE FOR PHYSICAL ISSUED (2062 ).
THE CME ANNOUNCED FRIDAY NIGHT, 0 EXCHANGE FOR RISK CONTRACTS FOR 0 OZ OR 0.0 TONNES. SO FAR THIS MONTH WE HAD RECORDED 5 ISSUANCES OF EXCHANGE FOR RISK AS THE BANK OF ENGLAND IS GETTING VERY ANTSY ABOUT GETTING ITS GOLD BACK. THUS OUR TOTAL EXCHANGE FOR RISK FOR THE FRONT MONTH OF APRIL STANDS AT 5.912 TONNES OF GOLD WHICH MUST BE ADDED TO OUR NORMAL GOLD DELVERIES.
HISTORY: LAST TWO PRIOR MONTH’S EXCHANGE FOR RISK
IN MARCH:
THE TOTAL NO. OF EXCHANGE FOR RISK ISSUANCE FOR THE MONTH OF MARCH (3 NOTICES) EQUALED: 7.6179 TONNES OF GOLD WHICH WAS ADDED TO OUR MARCH DELIVERY TOTALS.
IN FEBRUARY:
WE HAD A HUGE FIVE EXCHANGE FOR RISKS ISSUANCES FOR GOLD, TOTALLING 18.4527 TONNES!.
THE RECIPIENT OF ALL OF THESE EXCHANGE FOR RISK CONTRACTS IS THE BANK OF ENGLAND WHO DESPERATELY WANT THEIR LEASED GOLD BACK. THUS WE HAVE TWO SEPARATE ENTITIES (CENTRAL BANKS) DEMANDING THEIR GOLD BACK:
- THE BANK OF ENGLAND
- THE FEDERAL RESERVE BANK OF NEW YORK (NEED TO RETRIEVE THEIR LEASED GOLD FROM THE BIS)
THE COUNTERPARTY TO THE BANK OF ENGLAND’S EXCHANGE FOR RISK ARE BULLION BANKS THAT CANNOT VERIFY THAT THEIR GOLD IS UNENCUMBERED AND THUS THE BUYER, THE CENTRAL BANK OF ENGLAND, ASSUMES THE RISK OF THAT DELIVERY. THIS IS THE 5TH CONSECUTIVE MONTH FOR ISSUANCE OF EXCHANGE FOR RISK !!.
DETAILS ON APRIL COMEX MONTH
IN TOTAL WE HAD A FAIR SIZED LOSS ON OUR TWO EXCHANGES OF 2842 CONTRACTS WITH OUR LOSS IN PRICE. HOWEVER, OUR FRIENDLY PHYSICAL LONDON BOYS HAD ANOTHER FIELD DAY AGAIN ON WEDNESDAY NIGHT AS THEY WERE READY FOR THE FRBNY.S CONTINUED ORCHESTRATED ATTEMPTED AND FAILED RAID VERY EARLY IN THE COMEX SESSION AS THEY TRIED TO ABSORB EVERYTHING IN SIGHT FROM THE DAILY ATTACKS WITH THE CONTINUAL LIQUIDATION OF T.A.S. CONTRACTS. LONDONERS EXERCISED THEIR BOUGHT CONTRACTS FOR PHYSICAL GOLD VIA THE EXCHANGE FOR PHYSICAL ROUTE AND THANKED THE FRBNY FOR THE THOUGHTFULNESS. LONDON ANNOUNCED LATE (JAN 30) THAT THEY WERE OUT OF GOLD. WRONGLY IT WAS ATTRIBUTED TO THEIR SHIPPING PHYSICAL GOLD TO COMEX FOR STORAGE DUE TO TRUMP’S INITIATION OF TARIFFS. THE TRUTH OF THE MATTER IS THAT THIS GOLD LEFT LONDON TO CENTRAL BANKS, AND COMEX BANKS HAVE BEEN PAPERING THEIR LOSSES (DERIVATIVE) WITH KILOBAR ENTRIES. DELIVERY OF GOLD CONTRACTS ARE NOW TAKING SEVERAL WEEKS. NO DEFAULT HAS BEEN INITIATED AS DEALERS ARE AFRAID OF LOSS OF THEIR JOBS. SO THIS FRAUD CONTINUES. THE LEASE RATES IN LONDON HAVE NOW REVERTED BACK TO 1% BUT GOLD IN LONDON IS STILL EXTREMELY SCARCE. WE CAN NOW SAFELY SAY THAT THERE IS A RUN ON A BANK AND THAT BANK IS THE BANK OF ENGLAND!!!
THE LIQUIDATION OF T.A.S. CONTRACTS THROUGHOUT THIS MONTH OF APRIL CONTINUES TO DISTORT OPEN INTEREST NUMBERS GREATLY ALTHOUGH THE T.A.S. ISSUANCES IN GOLD HAVE BEEN ON THE LOW SIDE COMPARED TO SILVER WHICH HAVE BEEN HUGE. TODAY’S NUMBER IS A BIT LARGER THAN FROM THE PAST FEW DAYS AT 1430 CONTRACTS (AND THE REASON FOR THE RAID THURSDAY)
THE T.A.S. LIQUIDATION OF THESE T.AS. CONTRACTS IS WHY WE ARE HAVING DISTORTED COMEX OPEN INTEREST GAINS AND LOSSES IN OI BUT THIS IS COUPLED WITH MEGA HUGE AMOUNTS OF GOLD STANDING FOR DELIVERY TO CONFUSE THE ISSUE!!!!! AND THIS WAS SURELY ON DISPLAY WITH FIRST DAY NOTICE TOTALS WITH GOLD TONNES STANDING FOR APRIL AT 203 + TONNES INCLUDING MANY MASSIVE QUEUE JUMPS.
THE FED IS THE OTHER MAJOR SHORT OF AROUND 22+ TONNES OF GOLD OWING TO THE B.I.S. THE FED NEEDS TO COVER AS THEY ARE VERY WORRIED ABOUT WHAT IS GOING TO HAPPEN TO GOLD PRICES NOW THAT THEY MUST BECOME COMPLIANT TO BASEL III RULES JULY 1/2023 AS OUTLINED IN ANDREW MAGUIRE’S LATEST LIVE FROM THE VAULT 219 EPISODE. AS HE TACKLES THIS IMPORTANT TOPIC. THE FOUR OR FIVE BANKS ARE ALSO WORRIED ABOUT THEIR HUGE PRECIOUS METAL DERIVATIVE EXPOSURE (NORTH OF ONE TRILLION DOLLARS) AND THIS IS PROBABLY THE MAJOR REASON FOR GOLD/SILVER’S RISE THESE PAST THREE MONTHS. THEY ARE TOTALLY TRAPPED., AND THEIR FAILURE TO STOP CENTRAL BANK PURCHASES OF PHYSICAL GOLD IS THE MAJOR ISSUE OF THE DAY!IT SURE LOOKS LIKE THE BIS HAS GIVEN THE FED ITS MARCHING ORDERS TO COVER ITS PHYSICAL GOLD SHORT. TRUMP WILL PROBABLY BE FURIOUS WITH THE FED IF IT FINDS OUT THAT THEY (FRBNY) HAS BEEN MANIPULATING THE GOLD MARKET FOR THE PAST TWO YEARS.
OUR PHYSICAL LONDONERS BOUGHT NEW MASSIVE QUANTITIES OF LONGS AT ANY PRICE AND THIS GOLD BOUGHT WILL BE TENDERED FOR PHYSICAL ON A T + ???? BASIS. BECAUSE GOLD IS BASEL III COMPLIANT, GOLD IS SUPPOSED BE DELIVERED IN A VERY TIMELY ONE DAY. CENTRAL BANKS AROUND THE WORLD, BEING REPRESENTED BY OUR LONDONERS, ARE THE REAL PURCHASERS OF THIS GOLD.
EUROPE IS NOW BASEL III COMPLIANT. THE WEST (FED AND COMEX) MUST BE COMPLIANT BY JULY 1.2025.
THE PROBLEM FOR THOSE PROVIDING THE SHORT PAPER IS THE SHOCK TO THEM ON RECEIVING NOTICE THAT THE LONGS WANT THE PHYSICAL GOLD AS THEY TENDER FOR THAT SHINY YELLOW METAL. THE HIGH LIQUIDATION OF OUR TWO SPREADERS: 1) THE MONTH END SPREADERS AND 2. T.A.S DURING THESE PAST SEVERAL WEEKS IS SURELY DISTORTING COMEX OPEN INTEREST BUT THAT DOES NOT STOP LONDON’S ACCUMULATION OF PHYSICAL! YOU CAN ALSO VISUALIZE THAT PERFECTLY WITH THE HUGE AMOUNTS OF QUEUE JUMPING ORCHESTRATED BY CENTRAL BANKERS BOLTING AHEAD OF ORDINARY LONGS AS THEIR NEED FOR PHYSICAL IS GREAT AS THEY SCOUR THE PLANET LOOKING FOR GOLD, AND THE MASSIVE AMOUNT OF GOLD STANDING EACH AND EVERY MONTH INCLUDING FIRST DAY NOTICE OF GOLD TONNAGE STANDING.
EXCHANGE FOR PHYSICAL ISSUANCE
WE ARE NOW INTO THE ACTIVE DELIVERY MONTH OF APRIL .… THE CME REPORTS THAT THE BANKERS ISSUED A GOOD SIZED TRANSFER THROUGH THE EFP ROUTE AS THESE LONGS RECEIVED A DELIVERABLE LONDON FORWARD TOGETHER WITH A FIAT BONUS.,
THAT IS A GOOD SIZED 2062 EFP CONTRACTS WERE ISSUED: : /APRIL 2062 & ZERO FOR ALL OTHER MONTHS:
TOTAL EFP ISSUANCE: 2062 CONTRACTS. THESE EFP;S CIRCLE AROUND LONDON ON A 13 DAY BASIS AND ARE NOW USED BY GLOBAL CENTRAL BANKS TO EXERCISE FOR PHYSICAL GOLD WITH THE OBLIGATION TO DELIVER BEING FORCED ONTO COMEX BANKS. THE GOLD GENERALLY DELIVERED COMES FROM LONDON BUT THEY ARE OUT!! THUS COMEX BECOMES THE MAJOR SOURCE FOR OUR CENTRAL BANKERS.
ON A NET BASIS IN OPEN INTEREST WE LOST THE FOLLOWING TODAY ON OUR TWO EXCHANGES: A FAIR SIZED TOTAL OF 2842 CONTRACTS IN THAT 2062 CONTRACT LONGS WERE TRANSFERRED AS EXCHANGE FOR PHYSICALS TO LONDON AND WE HAD A LOSS OF A 4904 COMEX CONTRACTS..AND THIS SMALL LOSS ON OUR TWO EXCHANGES HAPPENED WITH OUR LOSS IN PRICE OF $14.85 FOR THURSDAY/ COMEX. THE EXCHANGE FOR PHYSICALS WILL BE USED BY CENTRAL BANKS, TO EXERCISE FOR PHYSICAL GOLD AT THE COMEX AS MENTIONED ABOVE. LOOKS LIKE THE SHORT RATS ARE FLEEING THE ARENA AS EVIDENCED BY THE LOWER OPEN INTEREST AT THE COMEX!
T.A.S. ISSUANCE
AS PER OUR NEWBIE TRADE AT SETTLEMENT (TAS) MANIPULATION OPERATION (WHICH CRAIG HEMKE HAS POINTED OUT HAPPENS USUALLY DURING MID MONTH IN THE DELIVERY CYCLE), BUT NOW ON A DAILY BASIS, THE CME REPORTS THAT THE TOTAL T.A.S. ISSUANCE FOR WEDNESDAY NIGHT/THURSDAY MORNING WAS A FAIR SIZED 1430 CONTRACTS, AS AGAIN, ALL OF THE TRADING AND SUPPLY OF CONTRACTS HAVE BEEN ORCHESTRATED BY GOVERNMENT (FEDERAL RESERVE BANK OF NEW YORK). AS PER THEIR MEGA 5 DAY ISSUANCE OF T.A.S THESE PAST FEW MONTHS,, THE FED HAS BEEN EXPERIMENTING WITH EINSTEIN’S DEFINITION OF INSANITY….TRYING TO DO THE SAME THING OVER AND OVER AGAIN HOPING FOR A DIFFERENT RESULT. HIS DEFINITION STILL STANDS.. THE CROOKS ACCOMPLISHED NOTHING AS NOBODY LEFT OUR GOLD METAL ARENA. DURING OPTIONS EXPIRY WEEK, A HUGE RAID WAS ORDERED BY THE FED WITH END OF THE MONTH TRADING ( FEB 25 THROUGH FEB 28) AS THE GOLD PRICE GOT HAMMERED A BIT WITH ONLY THE PAPER PRICE OF GOLD LOWERING! . AND ,FOR MARCH, WE HAD+ ANOTHER 5 DAY MEGA ISSUANCE BUT CORRESPONDING MEGA RAIDS FAILED TO MATERIALIZE. I WOULD LIKE TO POINT OUT THAT WEDNESDAY MARCH 17, THE 38,393 T.A.S. CONTRACT ISSUANCE WAS THE HIGHEST ON RECORD!
THE RAIDS ON OPTIONS EXPIRY ACCOMPLISHES TWO IMPORTANT ASPECTS FOR OUR CROOKS:
- STALLS THE ADVANCE IN PRICE
- LOWERS THEIR ADVANCING DERIVATIVE LOSSES.
MECHANICS OF T.A.S CONTRACTS/DECEMBER THROUGH MARCH AND APRIL.
THROUGHOUT THE PAST SEVERAL WEEKS, THE BANKERS CONTINUE TO SELL OFF THE LONG SIDE OF THE SPREAD (T.A.S.) WHICH OF COURSE CONTINUES TO MANIPULATE THE PRICE OF GOLD SOUTHBOUND. (THEY KEEP THE SHORT SIDE OF THE CALENDAR/T.A.S. SPREAD WHICH WILL BE LIQUIDATED IN DAYS HENCE//. IT SEEMS THAT OUR CROOKS ORCHESTRATED, ON FEB 25, THEIR HUGE RAID TO LOWER THE PRICE OF GOLD TO MAKE THEIR COMEX BETS WHOLE ON OPTIONS EXPIRY WEEK AND THUS THE NEED FOR CONTINUAL STRONG T.A.S. ISSUANCE AND THEN LIQUIDATION. THIS WAS COUPLED WITH THE LIQUIDATION OF CALENDAR//MONTH END SPREADERS . THE USE OF OUR TWO SPREADER MECHANISMS WERE OF EXTREME IMPORTANCE TO OUR CROOKS IN LATE JANUARY OPTIONS EXPIRY TRADING AND AGAIN WITH FEBRUARY OPTION EXPIRY MONTH. HALF WAY THROUGH THE JANUARY COMEX MONTH, THE CROOKS ISSUED FIVE CONSECUTIVE 30,000+ CONTRACT ISSUANCE OF T.A.S KNOWING THAT THEY WERE GOING TO INITIATE HUGE RAIDS ON OUR METALS. THEN THEY ISSUED IN LATE FEB, ANOTHER 5 CONSECUTIVE 30,000+ ISSUANCES. AND THEN, FOR THE FIRST TIME IN COMEX HISTORY WE WITNESSED THREE CONSECUTIVE MONTHS OF MEGA HUGE 30,000 + T.A.S CONTRACT ISSUANCES: JANUARY, FEB AND MARCH. WE HAVE YET TO EXPERIENCE A MEGA CONSECUTIVE 30,000 CONTRACT T.A.S FOR APRIL.
STANDING FOR GOLD APRIL
// WE HAD A HUGE AMOUNT OF GOLD TONNAGE STANDING: APRIL (205.154 TONNES//.CME CORRECTED//) WHICH IS HUGE FOR OUR ACTIVE APRIL DELIVERY MONTH. FEB HAD THE HIGHEST STANDING FOR GOLD EVER RECORDED FOR ANY MONTH AT 256.607 TONNES
AND NOW LAST 4 MONTHS OF 2025: STANDING FOR GOLD
YEAR 2025:
JAN 2025:
113.30 TONNES
FEB: 2025:
256.607 TONNES (WHICH INCLUDES 18.4567 TONNES OF EX FOR RISK)
MARCH:
STANDING FOR GOLD : 60.33 TONNES + 7.6179 TONNES EX FOR RISK = 67.9479 TONNES WHICH IS EXTREMELY HIGH FOR A NON DELIVERY MONTH.
APRIL:
STANDING FOR GOLD: 199.284 TONNES + 5.912 TONNES EX FOR RISK = 205.154 TONNES
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HERE ARE THE AMOUNTS THAT STOOD FOR DELIVERY IN THE PRECEDING 51 MONTHS OF 2021-2025:
DEC 2021: 112.217 TONNES
NOV. 8.074 TONNES
OCT. 57.707 TONNES
SEPT: 11.9160 TONNES
AUGUST: 80.489 TONNES
JULY 7.2814 TONNES
JUNE: 72.289 TONNES
MAY 5.77 TONNES
APRIL 95.331 TONNES
MARCH 30.205 TONNES
FEB ’21. 113.424 TONNES
JAN ’21: 6.500 TONNES.
TOTAL YEAR 2021 (JAN- DEC): 601.213 TONNES
YEAR 2022: STANDING FOR GOLD/COMEX
JANUARY 2022 17.79 TONNES
FEB 2022: 59.023 TONNES
MARCH: 36.678 TONNES
APRIL: 85.340 TONNES FINAL.
MAY: 20.11 TONNES FINAL
JUNE: 74.933 TONNES FINAL
JULY 29.987 TONNES FINAL
AUGUST:104.979 TONNES//FINAL
SEPT. 38.1158 TONNES
OCT: 77.390 TONNES/ FINAL
NOV 27.110 TONNES/FINAL
Dec. 64.000 tonnes
(TOTAL YEAR 656.076 TONNES)
2023:STANDING FOR GOLD/COMEX
JAN/2023: 20.559 tonnes
FEB 2023: 47.744 tonnes
MAR: 19.0637 TONNES
APRIL: 75.676 tonnes
MAY: 19.094 TONNES + 1.244 tonnes of exchange for risk = 20.338
JUNE: 64.354 TONNES
JULY: 10.2861 TONNES
AUGUST: 38.855 TONNES(INCLUDING .6842 EXCHANGE FOR RISK)
SEPT: 15.281 TONNES FINAL
OCT. 35.869 TONNES + 1.665 EXCHANGE FOR RISK =37.0355 tonnes
NOV: 18.7122 TONNES + 16.2505 EX. FOR RISK = 34.9627 TONNES
DEC. 47.073 + 4.634 TONNES OF EXCHANGE FOR RISK = 51.707 TONNES
TOTAL 2023 YEAR : 436.546 TONNES
2024/STANDING FOR GOLD/COMEX
JAN ’24. 22.706 TONNES
FEB. ’24: 66.276 TONNES (INCLUDES 1.723 TONNES EX. FOR RISK)
MARCH: 18.8398 TONNES + 1.1695 EX FOR RISK = 20.093 TONNES
APRIL: 2024: 53.673TONNES FINAL
MAY/ 2024 8.5536 TONNES + 3.3716 TONNES EX FOR RISK/= 11.9325
JUNE; 95.578 TONNES. + 1.045 TONNES EXCHANGE FOR RISK =96.623 THIS IS THE HIGHEST RECORDED GOLD STANDING SINCE AUGUST 2022
JULY: 11.692 TONNES
AUGUST 69.602 TONNES//FINAL STANDING
SEPT. 13.164 TONNES.
OCT 39.474 TONNES + + 20.917 TONNES EXCHANGE FOR RISK =60.391 TONNES
NOV . 11.265 TONNES +4.665 TONNES EXCHANGE FOR RISK/TUESDAY + 3.11 TONNES OF EX. FOR RISK/PRIOR = 19.0425 TONNES
DEC: 80.4230 TONNES PLUS DEC MONTH EXCHANGE FOR RISK TOTAL 14.6836 TONNES EQUALS 95.1066 TONNES
total year 2024: 540.30 tonnes
2025 STANDING FOR GOLD/COMEX
January 2025: 70.102 TONNES + 43.208 EXCHANGE FOR RISK= 113.310 TONNES
FEBRUARY:/NEW STANDING ADVANCES TO 238.153TONNES +18.4527 EX FOR RISK
= 256.607 TONNES. THIS IS THE HIGHEST EVER MONTH FOR GOLD STANDING IN COMEX HISTORY
MARCH: 67.9479 TONNES (INCLUDES 7.6179 TONNES EX FOR RISK)
APRIL: 205.154 TONNES (INCLUDES 5.912 TONNES EX FOR RISK)
COMEX GOLD TRADING/APRIL CONTRACT MONTH
THE SPECS/HFT WERE SUCCESSFUL IN LOWERING GOLD’S PRICE( IT FELL BY A $14.85/ /)/AND WERE SUCCESSFUL IN KNOCKING OFF A FEW APPRECIABLE NET SPECULATOR LONGS AS WE DID HAVE A SMALL SIZED LOSS IN OUR TWO EXCHANGES. AND AS EXPLAINED ABOVE WE HAD CONSIDERABLE T.A.S. SPREADER LIQUIDATION FRIDAY AS THEY WERE STILL TRYING TO QUELL GOLD’S ATTEMPT AT FURTHER INCREASES ABOVE $3,300 AND STOP HUGE COMEX/OTC DERIVATIVE LOSSES FROM ALSO RISING AS THEY FINALLY FAILED IN THEIR ATTEMPT TO BREAK THE $3,300 DOLLAR BARRIER AS IT IS NOW TRADING ABOVE AT 3426 DOLLARS PER OZ.
FRIDAY NIGHT/SATURDAY MORNING
THE CROOKS HOWEVER COULD NOT STOP CENTRAL BANK LONGS, SEIZING THE MOMENT, THEY EXERCISED AGAIN FOR PHYSICAL IN A BIG WAY TENDERING FOR PHYSICAL FRIDAY EVENING/SATURDAY MORNING AND THUS OUR HUGE NUMBER OF GOLD CONTRACTS STANDING FOR DELIVERY AT THE COMEX. CENTRAL BANKERS WAIT PATIENTLY FOR THE GOLD TO ARRIVE BY BOAT. IT IS NOW TAKING SEVERAL WEEKS TO DELIVER AND THUS THE REASON FOR THE HUGE LEASE RATE AT 10% (SCARCITY OF GOLD) THIS PAST MONTH.
EXCHANGE FOR RISK EXPLANATION/FEB THROUGH /APRIL TRADING
EXCHANGE FOR RISK CONTRACTS/MONTH FOR FEBRUARY://FINISHES AT 4 ISSUANCE
THE CME ANNOUNCED TO THE WORLD THAT ON FEB 4 THEY ISSUED 100 CONTRACTS OF EXCHANGE FOR RISK TO THE BANK OF ENGLAND.THEN ,FEB 4 THEY ISSUED THEIR SECOND CONSECUTIVE EXCHANGE FOR RISK OF 500 CONTRACTS FOR 50,000 OZ (1.555 TONNES OF GOLD. FEB 6 WAS THE THIRD ISSUANCE FOR A HUGE 2400 CONTRACTS, 240,000 OZ OR 7.465 TONNES. AND THEN FINALLY FRIDAY NIGHT, THE 4TH EXCHANGE FOR RISK WAS ISSUED REPRESENTED BY 2834 CONTRACTS OR 283400 OZ OR 8.8149 TONNES OF GOLD WITH THE OWNER OF THOSE CONTRACTS BEING THE BANK OF ENGLAND. THE BANK OF ENGLAND WANTS THEIR GOLD BACK. THIS NEW EXCHANGE FOR RISK WAS ADDED TO PREVIOUS EXCHANGE FOR RISK OF 9.3264 TONNES TO A NEW TOTAL EXCHANGE FOR RISK = 18.1413 TONNES. IN MID WEEK WE HAD ANOTHER .3114 TONNES OF EXCHANGE FOR RISK ISSUANCED//NEW TOTAL 18,4527 TONNES!..FINALLY THIS TOTAL WAS ADDED TO OUR REGULAR DELIVERIES THROUGH THE MONTH.
EXCHANGE FOR RISK CONTRACTS/MONTH FOR MARCH
EARLY IN THE DELIVERY CYCLE THE CME NOTIFIED US THAT WE HAD OUR FIRST EXCHANGE FOR RISK CONTRACT ISSUANCE IN MARCH FOR 150 CONTRACTS REPRESENTING 15,000 OZ OF GOLD OR .46656 TONNES. THE BANK OF ENGLAND WAS STILL NOT SATISFIED AS THEY NEED TO RETRIEVE ALL OF ITS LOST GOLD THROUGH LEASING! THE 15,000 OZ WAS ADDED TO OUR NORMAL DELIVERY TOTAL.
MARCH ISSUES IT’S THIRD EXCHANGE FOR RISK: TOTAL FOR THE MONTH FINISHED AT 3
TOTAL ISSUANCE OF EXCHANGE FOR RISK MARCH 28 TOTALS 2200 CONTRACTS FOR 6.8429 TONNES OF GOLD. PRIOR ISSUANCE: .7775 TONNES. THUS TOTAL EXCHANGE FOR RISK FOR MARCH : 7.6179 TONNES OF GOLD. MARCH BECOMES THE 4TH CONSECUTIVE MONTH FOR EXCHANGE FOR RISK ISSUANCE.
NOW APRIL, ISSUES ITS 5TH EXCHANGE FOR RISK: 200 CONTRACTS OR 20,000 OZ OR 0.5816 TONNES
SUMMARY EXCHANGE FOR RISK/APRIL//TOTAL ISSUANCES 5 FOR 5.912 TONNES OF GOLD!
ISSUANCE FOR EXCHANGE FOR RISK ON FIRST DAY NOTICE WAS 700 CONTRACTS FOR 70,000 OZ OR 2.177 TONNES OF GOLD TO WHICH WE ADD (APRIL 4) : 250 CONTRACTS FOR 25,000 OZ OR .777 TONNES, APRIL 7 ISSUANCE OF 280 CONTRACTS FOR 28,000 OZ OR .8709 TONNES THEN APRIL 9 484 CONTRACTS FOR 48400 OZ OR 1.5054 TONNES AND FINALLY MONDAY MORNING APRIL 14 AT 200 CONTRACTS FOR 20,000 OZ OR .5816 TONNES//NEW TOTAL ISSUANCE FOR APRIL: 5.912 TONNES!!. APRIL ISSUANCE OF EXCHANGE FOR RISK MEANS WE NOW HAVE 5 CONSECUTIVE MONTHS FOR EXCHANGE FOR RISK ISSUANCE. THESE DELIVERIES WILL BE ADDED TO OUR NORMAL DELIVERY CYCLE.
STANDING FOR GOLD NOW FOR APRIL:
APRIL: 199.244 TONNES +(5.912 EX FOR RISK// FOR APRIL DELIVERY MONTH =205.154 TONNES OF THE GOLD. THIS IS THE 2ND HIGHEST AMOUNT OF DELIVERY GOLD WHICH FOLLOWS THE HIGHEST EVER ON AN ACTIVE MONTH GOLD DELIVERY BEING FEB 2025 AT 256.607 TONNES..
ANALYSIS APRIL DELIVERY MONTH AFTER FIRST DAY NOTICE;
WE HAVE LOST A SMALL SIZED TOTAL OF 2.7807 PAPER TONNES FROM OUR TWO EXCHANGES, ACCOMPANYING OUR INITIAL GOLD TONNAGE STANDING FOR APRIL FIRST RECORDED AT 166.964 TONNES ON FIRST DAY NOTICE FOLLOWED BY 5 EXCHANGE FOR RISK CONTRACT ISSUANCES FOR 5.912 TONNES.
ALSO TODAY WE RECORD ANOTHER 574 CONTRACT QUEUE JUMP FOR 57,400 OZ OR 1.785 TONNES. WE MUST NOW ADD OUR 5.912 TONNES EXCHANGE FOR RISK TO OUR NEW NORMAL DELIVERY OF 197.185 TONNES AND THUS STANDING FOR GOLD FOR APRIL IS NOW 205.154 TONNES, THE 2ND HIGHEST EVER RECORDED!
ALL OF THIS HUGE STANDING WAS ACCOMPLISHED WITH OUR LOSS IN PRICE TO THE TUNE OF $14.85
WE HAD 1949 CONTRACTS REM,OVED FROM THE COMEX TRADES TO OPEN INTEREST (CROOKS)//PRELIMINARY TO FINAL. AND THIS IS TOTALLY INSANE AS WELL.
NET LOSS ON THE TWO EXCHANGES 2842 CONTRACTS OR 284,200 0Z (8.83 TONNES)
confirmed volume FRIDAY 261,675.. contracts: miniscule///
//speculators have left the gold arena
END
APRIL
// THE APRIL 2025 GOLD CONTRACT
APRIL21
INITIAL
| Gold | Ounces |
| Withdrawals from Dealers Inventory in oz | nil |
| Withdrawals from Customer Inventory in oz | 4 ENTRIES: 4 withdrawals I) Out of Ashai 80,120,292 oz (2492 kilobars) ii) Out of Brinks 192,835.143 oz iii) Out of Malca: 10,127,565 oz (315 kilobars) iv) Out of Manfra: 13,620.309oz total weight withdrawal: 114,401.309oz or 3.558 tonnes . |
| Deposit to the Dealer Inventory in oz | 0 ENTRIES |
| Deposits to the Customer Inventory, in oz | we have 0 customer entry xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxI |
| No of oz served (contracts) today | 1530 notice(s) 153,000 OZ 4.7589 TONNES |
| No of oz to be served (notices) | 631 contracts 63100 OZ 1.9626 TONNES |
| Total monthly oz gold served (contracts) so far this month | 63,496 notices 6,349600 oz 197.43 TONNES |
| Total accumulative withdrawals of gold from the Dealers inventory this month | NIL oz |
| Total accumulative withdrawal of gold from the Customer inventory this month |
dealer deposits: 0 entry
TOTAL WEIGHT; 0 TONNES
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we have 0 customer entries
we have 0 customer deposit entry
total deposit
NIL
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withdrawals:
4 ENTRIES: 4 withdrawals
I) Out of Ashai 80,120,292 oz (2492 kilobars)
ii) Out of Brinks 192,835.143 oz
iii) Out of Malca: 10,127,565 oz (315 kilobars)
iv) Out of Manfra: 13,620.309oz
total weight withdrawal: 114,401.309oz or 3.558 tonnes
adjustments: 1 dealer to customer
a) JPMorgan 64,879.290 oz
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AMOUNT OF GOLD STANDING FOR APRIL
THE FRONT MONTH OF APRIL HAD A LOSS OF 956 CONTRACTS TO STAND AT 1134. WE HAD 1530 CONTRACTS FILED THURSDAY. THUS WE GAINED A HUGE 574 CONTRACTS OR 57400 OZ (1.785 TONNES) AS WE EXPERIENCED ANOTHER QUEUE JUMP WHERE THESE BOYS DESIRED TO TAKE PHYSICAL DELIVERY OVER HERE. THIS IS CENTRAL BANKERS STANDING FOR PHYSICAL GOLD. LAST FRIDAY’S QUEUE JUMP OF 6.1619 TONNES REPRESENTED THE HIGHEST EVER QUEUE JUMP IN COMEX HISTORY SURPASSING THE PREVIOUS HIGHEST RECORDED WAS AT 5.90 TONNES.
MAY LOST 14 CONTRACTS UP TO 5382 CONTRACTS. MAY BECOMES THE FRONT MONTH AND WE WILL ALSO EXPERIENCE A STRONG DELIVERY MONTH EVEN THOUGH IT IS AN OFF MONTH!
JUNE LOST 5498CONTRACTS TO 348,144. JUNE WILL STILL BE A WHOPPER OF A DELIVERY MONTH
We had 503 contracts filed for today representing 50300 oz
This is a huge major assault on the comex for gold and this time it is physical that will be requested.
Today, 0 notice(s) were issued from J.P.Morgan dealer and 10 notices issued from their client or customer account. The total of all issuance by all participants equate to 1503 contract(s) of which 0 notices were stopped (received) by j.P. Morgan dealer and 29 notice(s) was (were) stopped (received) by J.P.Morgan//customer account
To calculate the INITIAL total number of gold ounces standing for APRIL /2025. contract month, we take the total number of notices filed so far for the month (63,496 X 100 oz ) to which we add the difference between the open interest for the front month of APRIL (1134 CONTRACTS) minus the number of notices served upon today (1503 x 100 oz per contract) equals 6,405,700 OZ OR 199.285 TONNES
to which we add our 5 exchange for risk issuances for April of 5.910 tonnes
= 205.154 tonnes
thus the INITIAL standings for gold for the APRIL contract month: No of notices filed so far (63,496 x 100 oz +we add the difference for front month of APRIL (1134 OI} minus the number of notices served upon today (503 x 100 oz) which equals 6,405,700 OZ OR 199/285 TONNES + 5.912 tonnes ex for risks = 205.154 tonnes
TOTAL COMEX GOLD STANDING FOR APRIL.: 205.154 TONNES WHICH IS HUGE FOR THIS ACTIVE ACTIVE DELIVERY MONTH IN THE CALENDAR. FEBRUARY HAD THE HIGHEST DELIVERY FOR ANY MONTH AND APRIL IS FOLLOWING SUIT..
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COMEX GOLD INVENTORIES/CLASSIFICATION
NEW PLEDGED GOLD:
241,794.285 oz NOW PLEDGED /HSBC 5.94 TONNES
204,937.290 OZ PLEDGED MANFRA 3.08 TONNES
83,657.582 PLEDGED JPMorgan no 1 1.690 tonnes
265,999.054, oz JPM No 2
1,152,376.639 oz pledged Brinks/
Manfra: 33,758.550 oz
Delaware: 193.721 oz
International Delaware:: 11,188.542 oz
total pledged gold: 2,020,915.744 oz 62.86 tonnes
TOTAL OF ALL GOLD ELIGIBLE AND REGISTERED GOLD 43,054,921.600 oz
TOTAL REGISTERED GOLD 21,457,552.834 or 667.419 tonnes
TOTAL OF ALL ELIGIBLE GOLD: 21,637,368.766 OZ
REGISTERED GOLD THAT CAN BE SERVED UPON: 19,436,637oz (REG GOLD- PLEDGED GOLD)= 604.56tonnes //
END
SILVER/COMEX
// THE APRIL 2025 SILVER CONTRACT//INITIAL
APRIL 21
INITIAL
| Silver | Ounces |
| Withdrawals from Dealers Inventory | NIL oz |
| Withdrawals from Customer Inventory | 2 withdrawal entries i) out of Brinks: 608,045.090 oz ii) Out of Stonex; 828,680.500 oz total withdrawal: 1,436,725.590 oz |
| Deposits to the Dealer Inventory | 0/ entry |
| Deposits to the Customer Inventory | 3 entries i) Into Stonex: 227,969.000 oz total deposit 227,969.000 oz |
| No of oz served today (contracts) | 59 CONTRACT(S) (0.295 MILLION OZ |
| No of oz to be served (notices) | 54 contracts (0.270 MILLION oz) |
| Total monthly oz silver served (contracts) | 3052 Contracts (15.260million oz) |
| Total accumulative withdrawal of silver from the Dealers inventory this month | NIL oz |
| Total accumulative withdrawal of silver from the Customer inventory this month |
0 entries/dealer
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deposits customer side
1 entries
i) Into Stonex: 227,969.000 oz
total deposit 227,969.000 oz
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2) withdrawal customer acct
2 withdrawal entries
i) out of Brinks: 608,045.090 oz
ii) Out of Stonex; 828,680.500 oz
total withdrawal: 1,436,725.590 oz
ADJUSTMENTs 0
JPMorgan has a total silver weight: 199.954million oz/497.894oz million or 40.27%
TOTAL REGISTERED SILVER: 160.221 MILLION OZ//.TOTAL REG + ELIGIBLE. 497.894Million oz
CALCULATIONS FOR THE NEW STANDING FOR SILVER FOR APRIL
silver open interest data:
FRONT MONTH OF APRIL /2025 OI: 113 OPEN INTEREST CONTRACTS FOR A GAIN OF 15 CONTRACTS. WE HAD 96 NOTICES FILED ON THURSDAY SO WE GAINED 111 CONTRACTS WHICH UNDERWENT A STRONG QUEUE JUMP OF 555,000 OZ AS THESE BOYS WERE WILLING TO WAIT FOR DELIVERY OF SILVER OVER ON THIS SIDE OF THE POND.
MAY SAW A LOSS OF 4525 CONTRACTS DOWN TO 51,490 CONTRACTS. MAY BECOMES THE FRONT MONTH AND IT LOOKS LIKE WE WILL HAVE A DANDY AMOUNT OF SILVER STANDING THIS MONTH.
JUNE SAW A GAIN OF 159 CONTRACTS UP TO 1920 CONTRACTS.
TOTAL NUMBER OF NOTICES FILED FOR TODAY: 59 or 0.295 MILLION oz
CONFIRMED volume; ON FRIDAY 63,443 weak//
AND NOW APRIL DELIVERIES:
To calculate the number of silver ounces that will stand for delivery in APRIL. we take the total number of notices filed for the month so far at 3052 X5,000 oz = 15.260 MILLION oz
to which we add the difference between the open interest for the front month of APRIL (113) AND the number of notices served upon today (59 )x (5000 oz)
Thus the standings for silver for the APRIL 2025 contract month: (3052) Notices served so far) x 5000 oz + OI for the front month of APRIL(113) minus number of notices served upon today (59)x 5000 oz equals silver standing for the APRIL contract month equating to 15.530 MILLION OZ . WE MUST NOW ADD OUR 4.0 MILLION OZ EXCHANGE FOR RISK ISSUED ON MONDAY MARCH 31 AND TODAY APRIL 4/NEW STANDING INCREASES TO 19.530 MILLION OZ
New total standing: 19.530 million oz which is huge for this NON active delivery month of APRIL.
We must also keep in mind that there is considerable silver standing in London coming from our longs in New York that underwent EFP transfers.
There are 160.221million oz of registered silver.
The record level of silver open interest is 234,787 contracts set on April 21./2017 with the price on that day at $18.42. The previous record was 224,540 contracts with the price at that time of $20.44.
Now that we have surpassed $28.40 the next big line in the sand for silver is $34.76. After that the moon
the next big line in the sand for silver is $34.76. After that the moon
END
BOTH GLD AND SLV ARE MASSIVE FRAUDS!
GLD AND SLV INVENTORY LEVELS
APRIL21 WITH GOLD UP $98.70 TODAY// HUGE CHANGES IN GOLD AT THE GLD: A WITHDRAWAL OF 4.88 TONNES OF GOLD OUT OF THE GLD ///INVENTORY RESTS AT 957.17 TONNES
APRIL17 WITH GOLD DOWN $14.85 TODAY// HUGE CHANGES IN GOLD AT THE GLD: A DEPOSIT OF 4.02 TONNES OF GOLD INTO THE GLD ///INVENTORY RESTS AT 957.17 TONNES
APRIL16 WITH GOLD UP $12.90 TODAY// NO CHANGES IN GOLD AT THE GLD: ///INVENTORY RESTS AT 953.15 TONNES
APRIL15 WITH GOLD UP $106.35 TODAY// NO CHANGES IN GOLD AT THE GLD: ///INVENTORY RESTS AT 953.15 TONNES
APRIL14 WITH GOLD DOWN $16.90 TODAY// HUGE CHANGES IN GOLD AT THE GLD: A DEPOSIT OF 3.44 TONNES OF GOLD INTO THE GLD. ///INVENTORY RESTS AT 953.15 TONNES
APRIL11 WITH GOLD UP $67.70 TODAY// HUGE CHANGES IN GOLD AT THE GLD: A DEPOSIT OF 13.48 TONNES OF GOLD INTO THE GLD. ///INVENTORY RESTS AT 949.71 TONNES
/APRIL10 WITH GOLD UP $100.00 TODAY// HUGE CHANGES IN GOLD AT THE GLD: A WITHDRAWAL OF 0.86 TONNES OF GOLD OUT OF THE GLD. ///INVENTORY RESTS AT 937.09 TONNES
APRIL9 WITH GOLD UP $83.50 TODAY// MEGA HUGE CHANGES IN GOLD AT THE GLD: A MASSIVE DEPOSIT OF 11.171 TONNES OF GOLD INTO THE GLD. ///INVENTORY RESTS AT 936.23 TONNES
APRIL8 WITH GOLD UP $17.50 TODAY// HUGE CHANGES IN GOLD AT THE GLD: A WITHDRAWAL OF 6.02 TONNES OF GOLD OUT OF THE GLD. ///INVENTORY RESTS AT 926.78 TONNES
APRIL3 WITH GOLD DOWN $27.85 TODAY// SMALL CHANGES IN GOLD AT THE GLD: A DEPOSIT OF 0.57 TONNES OF GOLD INTO THE GLD. ///INVENTORY RESTS AT 931.94 TONNES
APRIL2 WITH GOLD UP $10.00 TODAY// HUGE CHANGES IN GOLD AT THE GLD: A WITHDRAWAL OF 2.01 TONNES OF GOLD OUT OF THE GLD. ///INVENTORY RESTS AT 931.37 TONNES
APRIL1 WITH GOLD DOWN $3.55 TODAY// HUGE CHANGES IN GOLD AT THE GLD: A DEPOSIT OF 1.44 TONNES OF GOLD INTO THE GLD. ///INVENTORY RESTS AT 933.38 TONNES
MARCH 31 WITH GOLD UP $31.60 TODAY// HUGE CHANGES IN GOLD AT THE GLD: A DEPOSIT OF 2.29 TONNES OF GOLD INTO THE GLD. ///INVENTORY RESTS AT 931.94 TONNES
MARCH 28 WITH GOLD UP $31.60 TODAY// SMALL CHANGES IN GOLD AT THE GLD: A DEPOSIT OF .29 TONNES OF GOLD INTO THE GLD. ///INVENTORY RESTS AT 929.65 TONNES
MARCH 27 WITH GOLD UP $31.60 TODAY// SMALL CHANGES IN GOLD AT THE GLD: A DEPOSIT OF .29 TONNES OF GOLD INTO THE GLD. ///INVENTORY RESTS AT 929.65 TONNES
MARCH 26 WITH GOLD UP $31.60 TODAY// NO CHANGES IN GOLD AT THE GLD: ///INVENTORY RESTS AT 929.36 TONNES
MARCH 25 WITH GOLD UP $13.90 TODAY// HUGE CHANGES IN GOLD AT THE GLD: A WITHDRAWAL OF 1.44 TONNES OF GOLD FROM THE GLD/ ///INVENTORY RESTS AT 929.07 TONNES
MARCH 24 WITH GOLD DOWN $6.10 TODAY// HUGE CHANGES IN GOLD AT THE GLD: A DEPOSIT OF 20.08 TONNES OF GOLD INTO THE GLD///INVENTORY RESTS AT 930.51 TONNES
MARCH 21 WITH GOLD DOWN $20.50 TODAY// HUGE CHANGES IN GOLD AT THE GLD: A DEPOSIT OF 1.15 TONNES OF GOLD INTO THE GLD///INVENTORY RESTS AT 910.43 TONNES
MARCH 20 WITH GOLD UP $3.05 TODAY// HUGE CHANGES IN GOLD AT THE GLD: A DEPOSIT OF 2.01 TONNES OF GOLD INTO THE GLD///INVENTORY RESTS AT 909.28 TONNES
MARCH 19 WITH GOLD UP $0.45 TODAY// NO CHANGES IN GOLD AT THE GLD: ///INVENTORY RESTS AT 907.27 TONNES
MARCH 18 WITH GOLD UP $34.05 TODAY// SMALL CHANGES IN GOLD AT THE GLD:A DEPOSIT OF 0.86 TONNES TONNES OUT OF THE GLD ///INVENTORY RESTS AT 907.27 TONNE
MARCH 17 WITH GOLD UP $34.05 TODAY// SMALL CHANGES IN GOLD AT THE GLD:A DEPOSIT OF 0.64 TONNES TONNES OUT OF THE GLD ///INVENTORY RESTS AT 906.41 TONNES
MARCH 14 WITH GOLD UP $9.75 TODAY HUGE CHANGES IN GOLD AT THE GLD:A MONSTER DEPOSIT OF 7.17 TONNES TONNES OUT OF THE GLD ///INVENTORY RESTS AT 905.81 TONNES
MARCH 13 WITH GOLD UP $42.85 TODAY HUGE CHANGES IN GOLD AT THE GLD:A DEPOSIT OF 3.44 TONNES TONNES OUT OF THE GLD ///INVENTORY RESTS AT 898.64 TONNES
MARCH 12 WITH GOLD UP $22.10 TODAY HUGE CHANGES IN GOLD AT THE GLD:A DEPOSIT OF 3.90 TONNES TONNES OUT OF THE GLD ///INVENTORY RESTS AT 895.20 TONNES
MARCH 11 WITH GOLD UP $21.20 TODAY HUGE CHANGES IN GOLD AT THE GLD:A WITHDRAWAL OF 3.45 TONNES TONNES OUT OF THE GLD ///INVENTORY RESTS AT 891.30 TONNES
MARCH 10 WITH GOLD DOWN $12.45 TODAY HUGE CHANGES IN GOLD AT THE GLD:A WITHDRAWAL OF 4.30 TONNES TONNES OUT OF THE GLD ///INVENTORY RESTS AT 894.317 TONNES
MARCH 7 WITH GOLD DOWN $12.00 TODAY HUGE CHANGES IN GOLD AT THE GLD:A WITHDRAWAL OF 1.72 TONNES TONNES OUT OF THE GLD ///INVENTORY RESTS AT 898.64 TONNES
MARCH 6 WITH GOLD UP $2.10 TODAY HUGE CHANGES IN GOLD AT THE GLD:A WITHDRAWAL OF 1.44 TONNES TONNES OUT OF THE GLD ///INVENTORY RESTS AT 900.30 TONNES
MARCH 5 WITH GOLD UP $6.75 TODAY HUGE CHANGES IN GOLD AT THE GLD:A DEPOSIT OF 0.87 TONNES INTO THE GLD ///INVENTORY RESTS AT 901.80 TONNES
MARCH 4 WITH GOLD UP $19.05 TODAY HUGE CHANGES IN GOLD AT THE GLD:A MASSIVE WITHDRAWAL OF 3.45 TONNES INTO THE GLD ///INVENTORY RESTS AT 900.93 TONNES
MARCH 3 WITH GOLD UP $50.70 TODAY HUGE CHANGES IN GOLD AT THE GLD:A MASSIVE WITHDRAWAL OF 1.72 TONNES INTO THE GLD ///INVENTORY RESTS AT 904.38 TONNES
FEB 28 WITH GOLD DOWN $44.70 TODAY HUGE CHANGES IN GOLD AT THE GLD:A MASSIVE WITHDRAWAL OF 1.72 TONNES INTO THE GLD ///INVENTORY RESTS AT 904.38 TONNES
FEB 26 WITH GOLD DOWN $40,85 TODAY HUGE CHANGES IN GOLD AT THE GLD:A MASSIVE DEPOSIT OF 3.45 TONNES INTO THE GLD ///INVENTORY RESTS AT 907.83 TONNES
FEB 25 WITH GOLD DOWN $40,85 TODAY HUGE CHANGES IN GOLD AT THE GLD:A MASSIVE DEPOSIT OF 3.45 TONNES INTO THE GLD ///INVENTORY RESTS AT 907.83 TONNES
FEB 24 WITH GOLD UP 7,65 TODAY HUGE CHANGES IN GOLD AT THE GLD:A MASSIVE DEPOSIT OF 20.66 TONNES FROM THE GLD ///INVENTORY RESTS AT 904.38TONNES
FEB 21 WITH GOLD DOWN $1.35 TODAY HUGE CHANGES IN GOLD AT THE GLD:A DEPOSIT OF 5.77ONNES FROM THE GLD ///INVENTORY RESTS AT 883.72TONNES
FEB 20 WITH GOLD DOWN $10.40 TODAY HUGE CHANGES IN GOLD AT THE GLD:A DEPOSIT OF 8.51TONNES FROM THE GLD ///INVENTORY RESTS AT 877,95TONNES
FEB 19/ WITH GOLD DOWN $10.40 TODAY HUGE CHANGES IN GOLD AT THE GLD:A DEPOSIT OF 6.38TONNES FROM THE GLD ///INVENTORY RESTS AT 869.44TONNES
FEB 18/ WITH GOLD UP $43.00 TODAY HUGE CHANGES IN GOLD AT THE GLD:A WITHDRAWAL OF 1.14TONNES FROM THE GLD ///INVENTORY RESTS AT 863.06TONNES
GLD INVENTORY: 957.17 TONNES, TONIGHTS TOTAL
SILVER
APRIL21 WITH SILVER UP $0.15 /SMALL CHANGES IN SILVER INVENTORY AT THE SLV: A DEPOSIT OF 0.545 MILLION OZ INTO THE SLV////: //INVENTORY AT SLV RESTS AT 453.426 MILLION
APRIL17 WITH SILVER DOWN $0.56 /HUGE CHANGES IN SILVER INVENTORY AT THE SLV: A DEPOSIT OF 1.183 MILLION OZ INTO THE SLV////: //INVENTORY AT SLV RESTS AT 453.426 MILLION
APRIL16 WITH SILVER UP $0.70 /HUGE CHANGES IN SILVER INVENTORY AT THE SLV: A MASSIVE DEPOSIT OF 3.002 MILLION OZ INTO THE SLV////: //INVENTORY AT SLV RESTS AT 452.243 MILLION
APRIL15 WITH SILVER UP $0.07 /NO CHANGES IN SILVER INVENTORY AT THE SLV//: //INVENTORY AT SLV RESTS AT 449.241 MILLION
APRIL14 WITH SILVER UP $0/23 /SMALL CHANGES IN SILVER INVENTORY AT THE SLV A WITHDRAWAL OF 0.273 MILLION OZ OUT OF THE SLV//: //INVENTORY AT SLV RESTS AT 449.241 MILLION
APRIL11 WITH SILVER UP $1.18 /BIG CHANGES IN SILVER INVENTORY AT THE SLV A DEPOSIT OF 1.911 MILLION OZ INTO THE SLV//: //INVENTORY AT SLV RESTS AT 449.71 MILLION
APRIL10 WITH SILVER UP $0.18 /SMALL CHANGES IN SILVER INVENTORY AT THE SLV A WITHDDRAWAL OF 0.501 MILLION OZ INTO THE SLV//: //INVENTORY AT SLV RESTS AT 447.603 MILLION
APRIL9 WITH SILVER UP $0.96 /SMALL CHANGES IN SILVER INVENTORY AT THE SLV A DEPOSIT OF 0.683 MILLION OZ INTO THE SLV//: //INVENTORY AT SLV RESTS AT 448.104 MILLION
APRIL8 WITH SILVER UP $0.35 /HUGE CHANGES IN SILVER INVENTORY AT THE SLV A DEPOSIT OF 1.137 MILLION OZ FROM THE SLV//: //INVENTORY AT SLV RESTS AT 447,421 MILLION
APRIL3 WITH SILVER DOWN $1.84 /HUGE CHANGES IN SILVER INVENTORY AT THE SLV A WITHDRAWAL OF 1.138 MILLION OZ FROM THE SLV//: //INVENTORY AT SLV RESTS AT 446.830 MILLION
APRIL2 WITH SILVER UP 0.15 /SMALL CHANGES IN SILVER INVENTORY AT THE SLV A WITHDRAWAL OF .364 MILLION OZ FROM THE SLV//: //INVENTORY AT SLV RESTS AT 447.968 MILLION
APRIL1 WITH SILVER DOWN $0.36 /NO CHANGES IN SILVER INVENTORY AT THE SLV: //INVENTORY AT SLV RESTS AT 448.332 MILLION
MARCH 31 WITH SILVER DOWN $0.28 /HUGE CHANGES IN SILVER INVENTORY AT THE SLV: A STRONG DEPOSIT OF 0.91000 MILLION OZ INTO THE SLV//// //INVENTORY AT SLV RESTS AT 448.332 MILLION
MARCH 28 WITH SILVER DOWN $0.21 /HUGE CHANGES IN SILVER INVENTORY AT THE SLV” A STRONG WITHDRAWAL OF 1.092 MILLION OZ FROM THE SLV//// //INVENTORY AT SLV RESTS AT 447.422 MILLION
MARCH 27 WITH SILVER UP $.60 /HUGE CHANGES IN SILVER INVENTORY AT THE SLV” A MASSIVE WITHDRAWAL OF 6.369 MILLION OZ FROM THE SLV//// //INVENTORY AT SLV RESTS AT 448.514 MILLION
MARCH 26 WITH SILVER DOWN $0.21 /HUGE CHANGES IN SILVER INVENTORY AT THE SLV” A MASSIVE WITHDRAWAL OF 6.369 MILLION OZ FROM THE SLV//// //INVENTORY AT SLV RESTS AT 448.514 MILLION
MARCH 25 WITH SILVER UP $0.63 /HUGE CHANGES IN SILVER INVENTORY AT THE SLV: A MASSIVE DEPOSIT OF 13.649 MILLION OZ INTO THE SLV// //INVENTORY AT SLV RESTS AT 454.883 MILLION
MARCH 24 WITH SILVER UP $0.04 /HUGE CHANGES IN SILVER INVENTORY AT THE SLV: A WITHDRAWAL OF 1.728 MILLION OZ FROM THE SLV// //INVENTORY AT SLV RESTS AT 441.234 MILLION
MARCH 21 WITH SILVER DOWN $0.45 /HUGE CHANGES IN SILVER INVENTORY AT THE SLV: A WITHDRAWAL OF 1.092 MILLION OZ FROM THE SLV// //INVENTORY AT SLV RESTS AT 442.962 MILLION
MARCH 20 WITH SILVER DOWN $0.15 /NO CHANGES IN SILVER INVENTORY AT THE SLV //INVENTORY AT SLV RESTS AT 444.054 MILLION
MARCH 19 WITH SILVER DOWN $0.45 /SMALL CHANGES IN SILVER INVENTORY AT THE SLV: A WITHDRAWAL OF 0.219 MILLION OZ INTO THE THE SLV. //INVENTORY AT SLV RESTS AT 444.054 MILLION
MARCH 18 WITH SILVER UP $0.21 /HUGE CHANGES IN SILVER INVENTORY AT THE SLV: A DEPOSIT OF 4.823 MILLION OZ INTO THE THE SLV. //INVENTORY AT SLV RESTS AT 444.373 MILLION
MARCH 17 WITH SILVER UP $0.03 /HUGE CHANGES IN SILVER INVENTORY AT THE SLV: A DEPOSIT OF 4.096 MILLION OZ INTO THE THE SLV. //INVENTORY AT SLV RESTS AT 439.550 MILLION
MARCH 14 WITH SILVER UP $0.04 /HUGE CHANGES IN SILVER INVENTORY AT THE SLV: A DEPOSIT OF 0.910 MILLION OZ INTO THE THE SLV. //INVENTORY AT SLV RESTS AT 435.454 MILLION
MARCH 13 WITH SILVER UP $0.46 /HUGE CHANGES IN SILVER INVENTORY AT THE SLV: A WITHDRAWAL OF 0.774 MILLION OZ OUT OF THE THE SLV. //INVENTORY AT SLV RESTS AT 434.544 MILLION
MARCH 12 WITH SILVER UP $0.57 /HUGE CHANGES IN SILVER INVENTORY AT THE SLV: A WITHDRAWAL OF 1.032 MILLION OZ OUT OF THE THE SLV. //INVENTORY AT SLV RESTS AT 435.318 MILLION
MARCH 11 WITH SILVER UP $0.60 /HUGE CHANGES IN SILVER INVENTORY AT THE SLV: A DEPOSIT OF 0.816 MILLION OZ INTO THE THE SLV. //INVENTORY AT SLV RESTS AT 436.410 MILLION
MARCH 10 WITH SILVER DOWN 25 CENTS/HUGE CHANGES IN SILVER INVENTORY AT THE SLV: A DEPOSIT OF 1.276 MILLION OZ INTO THE THE SLV. //INVENTORY AT SLV RESTS AT 435.591 MILLION
MARCH 7 WITH SILVER DOWN 40 CENTS/HUGL CHANGES IN SILVER INVENTORY AT THE SLV: A WITHDRAWAL OF 2.184 MILLION OZ OUT OF THE SLV. //INVENTORY AT SLV RESTS AT 434.317 MILLION
MARCH 6 WITH SILVER UP 16 CENTS//SMALL CHANGES IN SILVER INVENTORY AT THE SLV: A DEPOSIT OF 0.455 MILLION OZ OUT OF THE SLV. //INVENTORY AT SLV RESTS AT 436.046 MILLION
MARCH 5 WITH SILVER UP 82 CENTS//SMALL CHANGES IN SILVER INVENTORY AT THE SLV: A WITHDRAWAL OF 0.172 MILLION OZ OUT OF THE SLV. //INVENTORY AT SLV RESTS AT 436.501 MILLION OZ
MARCH 4 WITH SILVER UP 9 CENTS//SMALL CHANGES IN SILVER INVENTORY AT THE SLV: A WITHDRAWAL OF 1.82 MILLION OZ INTO THE SLV. //INVENTORY AT SLV RESTS AT 436.673 MILLION OZ
MARCH 3 WITH SILVER UP $0.78//SMALL CHANGES IN SILVER INVENTORY AT THE SLV: A DEPOSIT OF 0.819 MILLION OZ INTO THE SLV. //INVENTORY AT SLV RESTS AT 438.493 MILLION OZ
FEB 28 WITH SILVER DOWN 0.56//SMALL CHANGES IN SILVER INVENTORY AT THE SLV: A DEPOSIT OF 0.819 MILLION OZ INTO THE SLV. //INVENTORY AT SLV RESTS AT 438.493 MILLION OZ
FEB 26 WITH SILVER DOWN $0.90//HUGE CHANGES IN SILVER INVENTORY AT THE SLV: A DEPOSIT OF 6,245 MILLION OZ INTO THE SLV. //INVENTORY AT SLV RESTS AT 441.4061MILLION OZ
FEB 25 WITH SILVER DOWN $0.90//HUGE CHANGES IN SILVER INVENTORY AT THE SLV: A DEPOSIT OF 6,245 MILLION OZ INTO THE SLV. //INVENTORY AT SLV RESTS AT 441.4061MILLION OZ
FEB 24WITH SILVER DOWN $0.15//NO CHANGES IN SILVER INVENTORY AT THE SLV. //INVENTORY AT SLV RESTS AT 435.171MILLION OZ
FEB 21WITH SILVER DOWN $0.40//HUGE CHANGES IN SILVER INVENTORY AT THE SLV : HUGE CHANGES AT THE SLV A WITHDRAWAL OF 0.456MILLION OZ/. //INVENTORY AT SLV RESTS AT 435,171MILLION OZ
FEB 20WITH SILVER UP $0.29//HUGE CHANGES IN SILVER INVENTORY AT THE SLV : HUGE CHANGES AT THE SLV A WITHDRAWAL OF 1.547 MILLION OZ/. //INVENTORY AT SLV RESTS AT 435,171MILLION OZ
FEB 19WITH SILVER DOWN $0.16//HUGE CHANGES IN SILVER INVENTORY AT THE SLV : HUGE CHANGES AT THE SLV A WITHDRAWAL OF 2.276 MILLION OZ/. //INVENTORY AT SLV RESTS AT 436.717MILLION OZ
FEB 18WITH SILVER UP $.56//HUGE CHANGES IN SILVER INVENTORY AT THE SLV : NO CHANGES AT THE SLX/. //INVENTORY AT SLV RESTS AT 438.994MILLION OZ
FEB 14WITH SILVER UP $.01//HUGE CHANGES IN SILVER INVENTORY AT THE SLV : A DEPOSIT OF 1.593 MILLION OZ INTO THE SLV./. //INVENTORY AT SLV RESTS AT 437.401 MILLION OZ
CLOSING INVENTORY 453.971 MILLION OZ//
PHYSICAL GOLD/SILVER COMMENTARIES
1/ PETER SCHIFF/SCHIFF GOLD/MIKE MAHARRY
PETER SCHIFF
Peter Schiff: America’s Economy Is A House Of Cards
Thursday, Apr 17, 2025 – 02:40 PM
In a recent podcast appearance with Glenn Diesen, Peter makes a compelling case regarding the fragile state of the American economy, highlighting the unsustainable reliance on monetary inflation, trade deficits, and artificially low interest rates. He contrasts the challenging road ahead for America against the comparatively smoother transition other parts of the world might experience by turning their productive capacities inward.
Peter starts by revealing the fundamental imbalance driving the U.S. economy—its dependence on consuming goods it doesn’t produce, paid for by printing dollars:
We’re able to consume what we don’t produce, and we pay for it by printing money. And so the world gets our inflation and we get their stuff. So we’ve got the better end of the bargain. Now they use our paper to buy our financial assets, our stocks, our bonds, our real estate. So they are accumulating assets and they’re getting the income from those assets. So what we’re doing is we’re indulging our present and we’re sacrificing our future.
This indulgent behavior is unsustainable, Peter argues. To truly stabilize the U.S. economy, Americans must be prepared for sacrifices and cuts in public spending, reforms that politicians are loath to pursue:
Because in order to free up resources to build factories, we can’t spend all this money and run these huge deficits to crowd out all of our capital. So we need to cut Medicare, Social Security, national defense, and Americans have to stop spending. We need to save our money to build those factories. They’re not going to just grow out of thin air. So there’s a lot of hard work that needs to be done. But of course, nobody has a stomach for that. Our whole economy is a house of cards built on the overvalued dollar and our trade deficits and our excess consumption and artificially low rates. And all that’s about to come toppling down.
Far from solving the economic woes, Peter warns that the current combination of monetary policy and tariffs will exacerbate existing inflation and economic stagnation, pushing America deeper into recession:
We already have stagflation now. We’re just going to have higher inflation and a weaker economy. We’re going to be in a recession and there’s going to be a lot of inflation. Mainly because the tariffs redirect the inflation out of the financial markets back into the real economy. We’ve benefited from diverting our inflation to the stock market and the bond market. That’s all going to reverse. That’s why if you look at what’s happening today, the foreign stocks are going way up. I own a lot of stocks today that are up 3%, 4%, 5%, 6% that are in Europe, they’re in Asia, they’re in South America. Money is being sucked out of the US right now, the opposite of what Trump wants. Capital is not coming to America, it’s fleeing America.
Given this reality, Peter offers practical advice to investors, encouraging a pivot away from overpriced U.S. assets toward more fundamentally sound investment opportunities abroad, particularly in precious metals:
They should own mining stocks, precious metals mining stocks that will benefit from the rising gold price. Gold is over 3,000. It’s going higher as the world de-dollarizes. Central banks are going to be buying more gold and less treasuries. That’s great for gold mining stocks. That’s not good for the U.S. government, because who’s going to buy those treasuries? The deficits are going to be much bigger in this recession. I think the Fed is going to buy them, and that’s going to be even more inflation. Not only are the tariffs going to be pushing up prices, but so will inflation that the Fed is going to create. The weak dollar is going to add to the pain of the tariffs.
Peter concludes that while America faces daunting structural economic challenges, many international economies have an easier path forward. They can simply redirect their existing productive capacity inward, decoupling themselves from a collapsing dollar:
All the world has to do is turn its productive capacity that already exists and use those factories, use those workers, use those resources and supply chains and infrastructure to make stuff for themselves instead of making stuff for Americans.
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So the world has an easy task and actually a pleasant task because they get to consume. The hard work is here in America because we got to figure out how to consume without factories, which we can’t do. So we have to build non-existing factories. That takes a lot of resources. That takes a lot of effort. So we have the difficult road ahead, not the world.
Be sure to listen to Peter’s latest podcast, where he analyzes economic news in even more detail.
2, EGON VON GREYERZ
ALASDAIR MACLEOD
Foreigners flee the US$
Anti-dollar sentiment is underestimated, and loss of credibility has only just started. A perfect storm is driving gold higher and the dollar down, compounded by systemic issues.
| Alasdair MacleodApr 18∙Paid |
In this market report for precious metals, we examine the factors driving gold higher. Its remarkable performance is doubtless confusing the wider public, leaving investors in western financial markets invested in non-performing assets while missing out on gold.
So far this year, gold is up 24%, copper 15.5%, and silver 10.15%. The S&P 500 is down 11.5% and the 10-year US Treasury Note up 2%. The least exposure general investment portfolios have is to gold and its investment substitutes.
This raises the most important questions for portfolio managers: with gold having risen so far, should we buy it or have we missed it?
Read on!
This week saw a continuation of last week’s strong rise in gold following the very brief pullback for both gold and silver at the beginning of the month. Today, being Good Friday, London and New York are closed. But on Thursday gold closed at $3327, up $111 for a two week rise of $288, 9% higher. Silver ended yesterday at $32.55, up only 27 cents, most of its rise happening the week before.
As our headline chart shows, silver has been left behind, which is reflected in a gold/silver ratio of 102. This is next:
This split in performance between gold and silver is undoubtedly due to a sharper liquidity squeeze in gold. While both gold and silver have acute liquidity shortages, in gold they are more acute because of its regulatory status.
In times of heightened credit risk, for banks gold bullion in possession is a high-quality liquid asset according to Basel 3 regulations, whereas derivative positions carry regulatory-defined risk. This does not apply to silver — I shall be analysing the outlook for silver in a separate report shortly.
Basel 3 has the effect of tightening supply in gold derivatives, such as Comex futures. It explains why short positions have come under pressure to close, reflected in the contraction of open interest, despite gold hitting new highs:
This is despite gold hitting new highs after new highs. Instead, it is the squeeze driving gold higher.
It is routinely stated by LBMA commentators that bullion banks are long of physical in London and hedge price risk on Comex. Even if that is true, given gold’s HQLA Basel status, there’s little point in compromising it by hedging price risk in derivative futures, because of the balance sheet risk in the Basel 3 schedules
Therefore, this squeeze on Comex is unlikely to end soon, particularly with gold’s HQLA status due to be adopted by US banks later this year. But that’s not all.
The withdrawal of bullion from the Bank of England destined for Comex warehouses confirms to central banks with earmarked gold stored in Threadneedle Street the folly of leasing, particularly when increasing numbers in their ranks are selling fiat for gold and taking it into their possession. At the very least, a herd instinct tells them not to renew leases when they fall due.
Throughout the fiat currency era, leasing gold has provided liquidity upon which the entire mountain of gold derivatives depends. That facility is undoubtedly being withdrawn with systemic consequences.
The flight out of the dollar creates further impetus for gold prices. The US-centric financial press and market commentators underplay the mounting distrust foreigners have for Trump and the US Government. But it is all too real, being compounded by Trump’s capricious vacillations on tariffs. A dam holding back $40 trillion of foreign-owned US financial assets and bank deposits is bursting, reflected in the dollar’s trade-weighted index:
With a death cross confirming in the moving averages and a two-year consolidation being broken on the downside, this chart looks truly awful for the dollar. It reflects huge selling pressure building not just for the dollar, but bonds and equities as well. This is the latest known assessment of foreign dollar exposure, according to the US Treasury, excluding derivatives, all of which is potentially on the market:
Last week was simply a pre-Easter pause in dollar selling by foreigners after the shock of the previous week. It’s hard to think otherwise than that the slide in the dollar and the systemic squeeze on gold is set to continue and that it is just an early warning for what is yet to come.
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Why silver prices will rise
In this article, we detail the reasons behind silver’s disappointing performance and why they are now changing. China’s export policies are now driving the price higher.
| Alasdair MacleodApr 20∙Paid |
Introduction
Relative to its supply, silver is probably the most demanded industrial metal on the planet aside from the rare earth groups. It is now valued exclusively as an industrial metal, and its price has been driven more by global economic and not monetary demand, which is why it appears to have decoupled from gold.
Trump’s tariff policies have undoubtedly damaged the global economic outlook. Perhaps this is why the price of silver, along with that of copper was smashed in the wake of Trump’s so-called liberation day falling 15% in only four trading sessions. Until then, silver had been gaining ground in the belief that relatively non-cyclical demand against a background of supply deficiency would see prices continue to rise.
There is nothing in silver’s price for its role as money, which is shown by a gold-silver ratio in excess of 100 times. That in itself is an aberration likely to correct.
The relationship between silver’s price and investor interest is reflected in the chart below, of both price and open interest on Comex futures:
Before liberation day, the pattern was conventional. A rising price was accompanied by rising open interest and a falling price by falling open interest, indicated by the arrows. Unlike gold, silver has not been driven by declining confidence in the fiat dollar and it is not being accumulated by central banks. Put another way, paper markets have suffered a significant bear squeeze in gold, which has not been the case for silver.
That is until 7 April. As the chart above shows, suddenly silver’s price has risen in recent sessions while open interest has fallen sharply. In other words, the squeeze that has contributed to gold’s sharp rise is now beginning to be seen in silver.
Silver’s technical chart confirms the outlook is now for higher prices:
Having back-tested support at the top of the previous 4-year consolidation, the price (arrowed) is now rising back above the moving averages which in turn are in bullish formation. Resistance at $34.75-$35 needs to be overcome, and then it should be off to the races.
Will moneyness return to silver?
It seems odd that there has been no premium in silver reflecting its historic role of money when gold is so strong. This year to date, gold is up 24% while silver is up 10.2%. Even copper has outperformed silver, up 15.5%. Add in long-term supply deficits and silver’s underperformance is even more remarkable. One explanation is that disappointed long speculators are easier for the establishment shorts to shake out, driving sentiment to very low levels. But that assumes that the shorts have access to silver bullion.
Until now, there has been evidence of price suppression by China. According to the Observatory of Economic Complexity, in 2023 China’s silver exports were $4.49 billion, mostly to Hong Kong, the UK, India, and Singapore. Other than satisfying India’s industrial demand and some jewellery fabrication, the other centres are either financial or storage locations, which strongly suggests an objective to keep prices subdued by supplying financial markets with both paper and physical metal.
The value of China’s exports at the average silver price is approximately 190 million ounces, which compares with the Silver Institute’s supply deficit for that year of 200 million. It would be wrong to assume that these figures actually offset each other, but it does indicate the scale of China’s supply aimed at financial markets as opposed to satisfying industrial demand.
In 2024, China exported a similar amount to 2023, but other than Hong Kong there were no financial centres in the top destinations. The shift in destinations was accompanied by a rising price over most of the year, suggesting that China has modified its silver suppression policy.
Without Chinese supplies going to financial centres, during 2024 silver’s price rose by over 50%.
In recent weeks, the US has hit China with enormous tariffs. They are unlikely to affect the silver price directly, because the US imported only $115 million’s worth of silver from China last year and there are substitutes available from Mexico and Canada. The impact of Trump’s tariffs is more likely to come from China’s reaction to them.
From China’s point of view, direct trade with the US is now a dead duck. Therefore, there is no reason for it to maintain a substantial dollar reserve. It is rational to expect China to sell down her US Treasury bonds as well as the dollars realised. Even without China’s other trade partners following suit, the impact on the dollar’s external purchasing power is bound to drive its value down in terms of commodity prices, principally reflected in gold and silver dollar prices.
In conclusion, China stopped suppressing silver in 2024, a fact that has gone unnoticed. There is nothing now to stop other factors coming into play. We can see supply and demand, monetary factors, market factors, and technical analysis all pointing to similar outcomes — that is, far higher silver prices and the gold/silver ratio reverting toward some sort of normality.
3. C Powell and Gata dispatches
Gold derivatives system of price suppression is collapsing, GATA’s Steer says
Submitted by admin on Sat, 2025-04-19 11:00 Section: Daily Dispatches
11a ET Saturday, April 19, 2025
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:
Interviewed this week by Liberty and Finance’s Dunagun Kaiser, GATA board member Ed Steer, proprietor of Ed Steer’s Gold and Silver Digest letter, says the sharp rise in gold’s price and the frantic movements of gold around the world in recent months signify the collapse of the derivatives system of price suppression.
Steer adds that inventories of silver are “perilously low” and much higher prices are likely soon.
The interview is a half hour long and can be heard at YouTube here:
CHRIS POWELL, Secretary/Treasurer
Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee Inc.
CPowell@GATA.org
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Trump wants Kevin Warsh as new Fed chief!
Trump’s reported choice for next Fed chief revealed gold swaps to GATA …
Submitted by admin on Fri, 2025-04-18 19:42 Section: Daily Dispatches
… and complained in the Wall Street Journal about policy makers ‘suppressing market prices they don’t like’:
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Trump Is Reported Planning to Replace Jerome Powell as Federal Reserve chairman with Former Fed Governor Kevin Warsh
By Bryan Mena and Elisabeth Buchwald
CNN, New York
via Yahoo News, Sunnyvale, California
Friday, April 18, 2025
President Donald Trump on Thursday again made clear his disdain for Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, going so far as to say the central banker’s “termination can’t come fast enough” and saying in an Oval Office event that Powell will “be out of there real fast” if the president wants to replace him.
While many experts say the president does not in fact have the power to fire the Fed chief for policy differences, Trump has made clear he’s willing to break with norms and precedent, even in the face of potentially monumental repercussions.
Regardless, the leading contender to lead the U.S. central bank under Trump, whether at the end of Powell’s term in May 2026 or earlier, reportedly appears to be Kevin Warsh, a former Fed governor who previously was under consideration to be Trump’s Treasury secretary for the president’s second term and was a candidate for the top job at the Fed during Trump’s first term. …
… For the remainder of the report:
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4. ANDREW MAGUIRE PODCAST 219
5B GLOBAL COMMODITY ISSUES/FOOD IN GENERAL//FREIGHT/COMMODITIES:COMMODITY//ROLEX
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6 CRYPTOCURRENCY NEWS
ASIA TRADING MONDAY MORNING SUNDAY NIGHT
SHANGHAI CLOSED UP 14.70 PTS OR 0.45%
//Hang Seng CLOSED
// Nikkei CLOSED UP 450.36 OR 1.30%//Australia’s all ordinaries CLOSED UP 0.70%
//Chinese yuan (ONSHORE) CLOSED UP TO 7.2893 CHINESE YUAN OFFSHORE CLOSED UP TO 7.2922/ Oil DOWN TO 63.09 dollars per barrel for WTI and BRENT DOWN TO 66.43 Stocks in Europe OPENED ALL RED.
ONSHORE USA/ YUAN TRADING ABOVE LEVEL OF OFFSHORE YUAN/ONSHORE YUAN TRADING
STRONGER AGAINST US DOLLAR/OFFSHORE YUAN STRONGER
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1.YOUR EARLY CURRENCY VALUES/GOLD AND SILVER PRICING/ASIAN AND EUROPEAN BOURSE MOVEMENTS/AND INTEREST RATE SETTINGS /MONDAY MORNING.7:30 AM
ONSHORE YUAN: CLOSED UP TO 7.2893 (CHINESE COMMUNIST PARTY MANIPULATED)
OFFSHORE YUAN: UP TO 7.2922 (CCP MANIPULATED)
SHANGHAI CLOSED CLOSED UP 14.70 PTS OR 0.45%
HANG SENG CLOSED CLOSED
2. Nikkei closed UP 450.36 PTS OR 1.30%
3. Europe stocks SO FAR: ALL RED
USA dollar INDEX DOWN TO 97.92// EURO RISES TO 1.1544 UP 115 BASIS PTS
3b Japan 10 YR bond yield: FALLS TO. +1.289//Japan buying 100% of bond issuance)/Japanese YEN vs USA cross now at 140.74…… JAPANESE YEN NOW FALLING AS WE HAVE NOW REACHED THE RE EMERGING OF THE YEN CARRY TRADE AGAIN AFTER DISASTROUS POLICY ISSUED BY UEDA
3c Nikkei now ABOVE 17,000
3d USA/Yen rate now well ABOVE the important 120 barrier this morning
3e Gold UP /JAPANESE Yen UP CHINESE ONSHORE YUAN: UP OFFSHORE: UP
3f Japan is to buy INFINITE TRILLION YEN worth of BONDS. Japan’s GDP equals 5 trillion USA
Japan to buy 100% of all new Japanese debt and NOW they will have OVER 50% of all Japanese debt.
3g Oil DOWN for WTI and DOWN FOR BRENT this morning
3h European bond buying continues to push yields lower on all fronts in the EMU. German 10yr bund YIELD DOWN TO +2.469/Italian 10 Yr bond yield DOWN to 3.645 SPAIN 10 YR BOND YIELD DOWN TO 3.170
3i Greek 10 year bond yield DOWN TO 3.370
3j Gold at $3403.45 Silver at: 33.00 1 am est) SILVER NEXT RESISTANCE LEVEL AT $50.00//AFTER 28.40
3k USA vs Russian rouble;// Russian rouble UP 1 AND 8 /100 roubles/dollar; ROUBLE AT 81.01
3m oil into the 63 dollar handle for WTI and 66 handle for Brent/
3n Higher foreign deposits moving out of China// huge risk of outflows and a currency depreciation. This can spell financial disaster for the rest of the world/
JAPAN ON JAN 29.2016 CONTINUES NIRP. THIS MORNING RAISES AMOUNT OF BONDS THAT THEY WILL PURCHASE UP TO .5% ON THE 10 YR BOND///YEN TRADES TO 140.94// 10 YEAR YIELD AFTER FIRST BREAKING .54% LAST YEAR NOW EXCEEDS THAT LEVEL TO 1.289% STILL ON CENTRAL BANK (JAPAN) INTERVENTION//YEN CARRY TRADE IS NOW UNWINDING.
30 SNB (Swiss National Bank) still intervening again in the markets driving down the FRANC. It is not working: USA/SF this 0.8057 as the Swiss Franc is still rising against most currencies. Euro vs SF: 0.9300 well above the floor set by the Swiss Finance Minister. Thomas Jordan, chief of the Swiss National Bank continues to purchase euros trying to lower value of the Swiss Franc.
USA 10 YR BOND YIELD: 4.401 UP 7 BASIS PTS…
USA 30 YR BOND YIELD: 4.889 UP 7 BASIS PTS/
USA 2 YR BOND YIELD: 3.802 UP 2 BASIS PTS
USA DOLLAR VS TURKISH LIRA: 38.19
10 YR UK BOND YIELD: 4.5715 DOWN 6 PTS
10 YR CANADA BOND YIELD: 3.210 UP 7 BASIS PTS
5 YR CANADA BOND YIELD: 2.789 UP 5 PTS
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2a New York OPENING REPORT
2 b European Opening report
2c) Asian report
3 .ASIA
3A NORTH KOREA/SOUTH KOREA
3B JAPAN
this is a demographic nightmare for Japan: debt higher on less people
(zerohedge)
Japan Posts Record Population Drop, Shrinking For 14th Year, As Demographic Crisis Deepens
by Tyler Durden
Sunday, Apr 20, 2025 – 10:45 PM
Japan’s already collapsing population just posted its biggest annual drop on record, falling by 898,000 people as of last October compared to a year earlier, Kyodo News reported.
This marked the 14th consecutive year of population decline in the country, according to a government estimate. The previous record drop was 861,000, reported in July 2024.
This was the largest demographic drop since 1968.
Some more details: according to the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, Japan’s total population was 123,802,000, as of October 1, 2024, down by 550,000 or a 0.44% year-on-year decrease.
The population of only Japanese citizens was 120,296,000, plunging by 898,000, or a 0.74% YoY drop.
The IMF projects that the total population will shrink by a further 3.5 million by the end of the decade.
The natural population decline, calculated by subtracting births from deaths, reached a record high of 890,000, rising for the eighteenth year running. This decline was 437,000 for women and 453,000 for men.
The silver lining: for the third straight year, there was a net increase in immigration, with 340,000 more people entering than leaving Japan. Which is good news for globalists: if they are so worried where to put all those African and Middle Eastern refugees who have swept across Europe sparking unprecedented blowback against establishment politics, there is always Japan… assuming the locals accept the flood of foreigners.
The data underscore the country’s unprecedented demographic crisis amid a rapidly aging society and collapsing birthrate.
Japan’s total fertility rate — the average number of children a woman bears in her lifetime — fell to its lowest level in 2023 since records began in 1947, while the death/birth ratio at over 2.2, is the highest on record.
The figures, released by the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, show that only Tokyo and neighboring Saitama prefecture registered population increases.
By age group, the working population, consisting of people aged 15 to 64, stood at 73,728,000, a year-on-year decrease of 224,000, while the population aged 65 or older (red and orange in the figure below) increased by 17,000 to 36,243,000. Those 75 or older (red) increased by 700,000, to 20,777,000, and this age bracket now accounts for 57.3% of those aged 65 or older.
In response to the demographic crisis, the Japanese parliament passed a law in June 2024 aimed at reversing the falling birthrate. Measures under the law include expanded child allowances and enhanced parental leave benefits.
And beginning this month, the city government of Tokyo started offering its employees a four-day workweek, hoping to increase the population and create a healthier work-life balance in a country notorious for long hours at the office.
Officials have warned that the period leading up to 2030 represents a critical window to address the trend. Late marriages, financial insecurity, and limited support for working parents are commonly cited as contributing factors.
3C CHINA
China’s Workers, Companies Fear Economic Crisis As Beijing Vows To ‘Fight To The End’ On US Tarif
Saturday, Apr 19, 2025 – 11:20 PM
Authored by Leo Timm via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours),
People and businesses across China are feeling the pressure as the Chinese authorities vow staunch resistance to the United States and the Trump administration’s tough approach to trade and bilateral relations.
Chinese companies, workers, and industry insiders have reported being caught in a bind by the escalating U.S. tariffs, as usual orders are not coming in, and some companies are being compelled to take extreme measures.
While Chinese social media is flooded with anti-U.S. propaganda and nationalist content, posts and videos warning of mass layoffs and prolonged “vacations” offer some indication of the unease spreading throughout an export-driven economy already struggling with high unemployment, shrinking profits, and declining foreign investment.
On April 11, U.S. President Donald Trump hiked the blanket tariff on most Chinese products to 145 percent in response to the Chinese regime slapping its own 125 percent retaliatory duty on American goods the same day.
In addition, Beijing on April 14 restricted the export of seven types of rare earth products critical for high-tech and military manufacturing in the United States and other countries.
According to a White House fact sheet published on April 15, some Chinese products may now face U.S. tariffs of up to 245 percent.
Trump has cited unfair trade practices and illegal drug trafficking as reasons for imposing the levies on Chinese goods.
Washington, particularly starting with the first Trump administration, has long called out the Chinese regime for decades of distortionary and protectionist economic policies, as well as rampant industrial espionage.
Trump also criticized Beijing for failing to curb the production and export of the deadly synthetic opioid fentanyl, which often entered the United States through Mexico.
The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration said in a December 2024 press release that more than 107,000 people died from drug overdose in 2023, with nearly 70 percent of those deaths linked to opioids such as fentanyl.
Chinese Companies Feel the Crunch
Li Meng-chü, a Taiwanese businessman, told the Chinese edition of The Epoch Times that the heightened U.S. tariffs will force a significant number of export-oriented factories in China to scale back their businesses or close entirely.
The owner of a factory that makes flashlights in the city of Yiwu, Zhejiang Province, told The Epoch Times that while export companies used to place three or four bulk orders with the factory a month, business has completely dried up as of late. Many workers who used to work six days a week now take three or four days off.
Li, the Taiwanese businessman, said that to his knowledge, factories in the southern Chinese province of Guangdong that produce electronics, garments, and lighting that had U.S. orders placed through to the end of the year, have now seen those orders abruptly canceled. Much stock has been left sitting in the factories.
The South China Morning Post, a Hong Kong-based English-language outlet, reported on April 10 that some Chinese exporters have opted to surrender their cargo to the shipping companies mid-voyage rather than deal with the new tariffs.
“No one will buy them after the tariffs are imposed,” the publication quoted one client as saying to a Chinese exporter.
Mainland Chinese outlet Caixin reported that the port of Shanghai—normally bustling with ships—was virtually empty on the day after the United States imposed its 145 percent tariff. The outlet expects U.S.–China shipping to fall by half in the near future.
In the wake of the tariff hikes, Chinese fashion giant Shein attempted to shift some of its production out of China, but was barred from doing so by the Chinese authorities.
Shein and Temu, another Chinese online retailer, will see price hikes following the cancellation of the de minimis shipping exemption, which allows packages containing goods worth $800 or less to be imported duty-free to the United States.
The restriction is set to apply to mainland China and Hong Kong starting on May 2, affecting about 11 percent of current U.S.–China trade.
Beijing Doubles Down
On April 8, a day before the Trump administration put a 90-day pause on tariff hikes targeting scores of countries worldwide, Beijing’s commerce ministry said it would “fight to the end” with the United States on trade.
The Chinese commerce ministry said China’s retaliatory actions were a “completely legitimate” means of protecting national interests and “maintaining the normal international trade order.”
Introducing a 28,000-word white paper on U.S.–China trade, a commerce ministry official said on April 9 that Beijing “possesses resolute determination and a wide range of measures” to counter American tariffs and other economic and trade restrictions.
In a regular press conference held April 10, Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Lin Jian said that Beijing “is not scared” of fighting a trade war.
Tough Times Ahead
Meanwhile, Chinese businessmen and bloggers have questioned where the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) obstinacy and propaganda will lead them.
According to an early April report by a mainland Chinese blog called “Logistics and Supply Chain Management,” a furniture factory owner in Jiangsu Province, eastern China, calculated that with all the additional fees, a tariff of just 20 percent would consume the factory’s entire profit.
Liu Ming, director of an electronics factory in the Jiangsu city of Suzhou, who used a pseudonym, told the blog that while the company had a profit margin of 16 percent in 2024, “now that the tariffs have been applied, we are operating at a loss.”
Posting on social media platform X, a Chinese exporter who works with American clients said that when the tariff was still 34 percent, it was still possible to work with the raised rate, but the 125 percent tariff “amounts to wiping out Chinese workers’ jobs.”
“As far as I know, nearly all U.S. importers have stopped shipments from China,” he said.
A worker in Dongguan, Guangdong Province, said in an April 9 video posted to Chinese social media that with tariffs eliminating all profit margins from those exporting to the United States, factories and suppliers will be compelled to compete with each other in the domestic Chinese market.
“It’s going to be a race to the bottom,” he said. While not directly criticizing how the CCP handled the trade disputes, he called out Chinese netizens who “spend all day on the internet talking about fighting [the trade war] ‘at all costs.’”
“I bet you’ll soon find yourselves among those ‘costs,’” he added.
A vlogger in Nanjing, the capital of Jiangsu Province, said earlier this month on social media that the Chinese market’s ability to absorb the country’s consumer products would not be enough for a significant number of workers to keep their jobs.
“Many companies engaged in foreign trade are sure to cut production,” the vlogger said.
A finance worker in Xiamen, a coastal Chinese city in Fujian Province, warned on April 9 that the export business coming to a standstill would have far-reaching effects beyond manufacturing and logistics. “Don’t quit your job, keep it if you can,” she said in a social media post.
‘A Series of Traps’
China expert and current affairs commentator Wang He told The Epoch Times that the CCP may not have anticipated Trump’s move to pause the raft of global reciprocal tariffs he announced on April 2.
“The CCP wanted to take the opportunity to form an anti-U.S. united front” with countries around the world affected by the U.S. tariffs, only to be the odd one out in refusing to negotiate, he said. “As a result, communist China walked into a series of traps that Trump set for it.”
Earlier, on April 9, while at a White House event, Trump had expressed confidence that “China wants to make a deal.” However, he added, “It’s one of those things they don’t know quite—they’re proud people.”
Speaking on April 15 at a press briefing, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said that “the ball is in China’s court” as far as talks go.
“China needs to make a deal with us. We don’t have to make a deal with them,” Leavitt said, noting that she was quoting the president.
On April 17, Trump told reporters at the White House that China had contacted his administration.
“I believe we’re going to have a deal with China, and if we don’t, we’re going to have a deal anyway, because we will set a certain target, and that’s going to be it,” the president said.
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CHINA
China is in an economic mess!
(zerohedge)
China Is In Economic Dire Straits And They’re No Longer Able To Hide I
Monday, Apr 21, 2025 – 04:35 AM
Official economic data from any government is always treated with suspicion by anyone with common sense. The US, for example, witnessed some of the most egregious statistical tinkering imaginable under the Biden Administration, not to mention outright lies and propaganda from the establishment media on the health of the economy. To this day no one has been fired (or tarred and feathered) for hiding the reality of the stagflation crisis. Any government or corporate economist that called the threat “transitory” should be stripped of their financial prestige and banished to a cash register at Arby’s.
And let’s not forget Biden’s misrepresentation of the labor market, portraying millions of new jobs for illegal migrants and visa holders as if they were jobs benefiting American citizens. In the US and across the western world, lying about the economy is generally seen by politicians as a temporary solution to secure reelection. However, in China, lying about the economy is treated as a national security imperative. If there’s anything in the world that gives communists a feeling of existential dread, it’s the fear that their ideological enemies will discover proof that communism doesn’t work.
The Trump Administration’s tariffs on China are not the initiator of the nation’s troubles, they are more a bookend to a process of decline that has been ongoing for years.
Overall tariffs on Chinese goods currently sit at 124%, but some goods will be taxed as high as 245%. Trump has given a 1 month exemption on electronic parts and devices, perhaps to offer manufacturers like Apple, Nvidia and Microsoft time to arrange sourcing from alternative vendors. The problem for Chinese manufacturers is not just the tariffs but the uncertainty of timing and sudden changes to policy. They say no one is willing to make a big move on production or shipments until the trade landscape becomes more predictable. This means most Chinese factories are frozen in stasis.
Trump’s tariff actions are widely criticized by the media as erratic or poorly planned, but what they don’t understand is that uncertainty is the real leverage, not the tariffs. What seems like a spur of the moment decision or a sudden capitulation on Trump’s part can be highly effective at throwing foreign governments and corporations off balance. Globalism requires a perpetual status quo, change of any kind is like holy water to a vampire.
Chinese shipments are on standby and orders are frozen. Nothing is moving.
At bottom, China will not be able to survive tariffs on the current scale for long (a single year of 124% tariffs would crush China’s economy beyond repair). The US is 15% of China’s export market, which may not sound substantial but their next largest trading partner (outside of Hong Kong) is Vietnam at 4% of exports. In terms of domestic buying, China is 11% of the global consumer market which is not too shabby, but compared to the US with its 30%-35% global consumer market share there is no chance that the Chinese will be able to fill the void domestically and stay afloat.
But the situation is far worse than most people know…
China has been suffering from a deflationary crisis since 2023. An uptick in exports during the pandemic was offset by the CCP’s draconian lockdowns. This was, essentially, fiscal suicide on the part of the government and China has been struggling ever since. Their property market has imploded, partially due to overbuilding through government subsidized infrastructure programs that flooded the market with poorly constructed homes and buildings that were then left to rot. Corporate defaults have run rampant and left investors with nothing.
There was some optimism that the government’s measures to end the crisis had been working to reinvigorate the market, but on Mar 31st, government-linked developer Vanke reported a record 49.5 billion yuan (S$9.1 billion) annual loss for 2024. It’s the company’s first full-year loss since its initial public offering in 1991, reigniting concerns about the sector and showing just how deep the problem runs.
When these projects do finally see some progress it is often due to dangerously poor construction standards and subpar workmanship; what many now refer to as “Tofu Dreg” buildings.
The deflationary spiral has been eating away at employment and has also resulted in numerous factories refusing to pay their workers on time (or at all). Unpaid wages are leading to frequent protests and a disturbing trend of factory fires. The government is limited in how it can respond to the problem. Stimulus is an option, but China’s overall non-financial debt is well over 300% of GDP already.
China’s attempts to hide the decay from the outside world are becoming less and less effective. With Chinese citizens able to access the internet beyond the “Great Firewall”, more and more videos are being leaked by people within the country who are tired of the misinformation. Again, the CCP views negative economic data as a national security threat and any citizen caught leaking this info could be subject to harsh punishment. Chinese citizens have taken substantial risks to get the truth out there.
It cannot be stressed enough that the global economy is largely a farce, but China is closest to the edge of the cliff in terms of consequences and crisis. The interdependency of globalism has left many nations without the ability to weather a trade dispute and China’s survival is almost entirely based on steady exports to the west and the US in particular.
Don’t let high paid TikTok and YouTube influencers fool you with videos of Chinese skyscrapers caked with LED lights or lavish parties with dancing robots. This is not the true China. Underneath the facade is a nation on the brink of disaster.
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This should halt Chinese built oil tankers:
(zerohedge)
China’s Oil Supertankers Slammed With $5.2 Million Fee Per U.S. Port Call
Monday, Apr 21, 2025 – 11:45 AM
Authored by Charles Kennedy via OilPrice.com,
- The U.S. is introducing fees on operators of China-built vessels calling at U.S. ports.
- These fees could reach up to $5.2 million per call for large supertankers.
- The U.S. Trade Representative states the move aims to address Chinese dominance and bolster the U.S. shipbuilding industry.
The U.S. move to penalize China-built and China-owned vessels calling at U.S. ports could lead to an oil supertanker made in China and operated by a Chinese company facing a fee of up to $5.2 million per call at a U.S. port, shipbrokers have estimated.
The U.S. last week announced fees on vessel owners and operators of China based on net tonnage per U.S. voyage.
The previous proposal was a per-port-entry fee of up to $1.5 million on Chinese-built vessels, and up to a $1 million per-port-entry fee on any vessel (Chinese-built or non-Chinese-built) for operators that have any Chinese-built vessels in their fleet or orderbook.
Now, the Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR) plans to impose fees on operators of Chinese-built ships based on net tonnage or containers, increasing incrementally over the following years.
Commenting on the new USTR move, U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer said, “Ships and shipping are vital to American economic security and the free flow of commerce.”
“The Trump administration’s actions will begin to reverse Chinese dominance, address threats to the U.S. supply chain, and send a demand signal for U.S.-built ships,” Greer added.
Under the new plan, the fee on a China-made China-operated supertanker could reach up to $5.2 million per call because of the large tonnage of the supertankers compared to smaller oil tankers, according to the research arm of Arrow Shipbroking Group cited by Bloomberg.
The previous per-call only fee would have charged up to $3.5 million for a tanker to call at a U.S. port.
Oil traders have already started to avoid hiring tankers built in China amid concerns that port fees could be coming for Chinese vessels at U.S. ports as part of a plan by President Donald Trump to revitalize the American shipbuilding industry.
Oil traders and charterers that are booking vessels to call, load, or discharge cargoes at U.S. ports are seeking vessels not built in China, market sources told Bloomberg earlier this month.
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CHINA/USA/YEMEN //IRAN
Chinese Satellite Imaging Firm Helping Houthis Target US Warships
Thursday, Apr 17, 2025 – 11:15 PM
Washington is now accusing China of getting in bed with the Iran-backed Shia Houthis of Yemen, who have long waged a war against Red Sea shipping, including attacks on US warships and Israel.
The US State Department on Thursday issued allegations centered on Chinese firm, Chang Guang Satellite Technology, saying it is directly supporting attacks by Houthi fighters against American interests. This firm is well-known to be close to the CCP government, and is already under Western sanctions.
“We can confirm the reporting that Chang Guang Satellite Technology Company Limited (CGSTL) is directly supporting Iran-backed Houthi terrorist attacks on U.S. interests,” State Department spokesperson Tammy Bruce told a press briefing.
The statement was issued in the wake of a Financial Times report which said the firm is supplying the Houthis with satellite imagery used in targeting.
“The United States has raised our concerns privately numerous times to the Chinese government on Chang Guang Satellite Technology Co Ltd’s role in supporting the Houthis in order to get Beijing to take action,” a US officials was quoted in the report as saying. But these warnings were reportedly “ignored”.
CGSTL has long been described as close to the Chinese government, and has been a central firm in the country’s military-civil fusion program, which requires private sector companies to provide assistance to the government when called upon. The Chinese Embassy in Washington has denied any awareness of these new allegations concerning support to the Houthis. Interestingly, public company documents present the firm’s purpose as providing “earthquake services”.
And the state connections are clear…
According to background on the company via FT:
The Chinese company was established in 2014 as a joint venture between the provincial government in Jilin and a branch of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Changchun, the province’s capital.
“Chang Guang is one of a handful of ‘ostensibly’ commercial Chinese satellite companies that are in fact deeply embedded in the military-civil fusion ecosystem, supplying global surveillance capabilities to both civilian and military customers,” said James Mulvenon, an expert on the Chinese military and intelligence services at Pamir Consulting.
It previously came under US sanctions during 2023 in connection with the Ukraine war, having been accused of giving high-resolution satellite imagery to Wagner Group, Russia’s most well-known and controversial mercenary firm.
The FT report indicates that CGSTL had Chang Guang 100 satellites in orbit as of last year, and there are ambitious plans achieve 300 circling the earth by the end of 2025, which would allow for snapshots of any location on the planet each ten minutes.
If it does have a role in Yemen, this will further damage already severely strained US-China relations mid the tariff war, given the Houthis have frequently directly targeted US warships, including the carrier USS Harry S. Truman with drone and missile attacks. The USS Carl Vison carrier is about to joint the Truman in patrolling regional waters, also as tensions heat up with Iran.
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THEN THIS!!WE NOW HAVE A REAL TRADE WAR!!
(ZEROHEDGE)
“China Will Never Accept It”: Beijing Warns Countries Against Trade Deal With Trump At China’s Expense
Monday, Apr 21, 2025 – 03:00 PM
It’s starting to smell like a real trade war.
Just days after the WSJ reported that Scott Bessent’s grand trade war strategy was to force more than 70 US trade partners to sign bilateral deals while aligning against China, Beijing has warned it will retaliate against countries that negotiate trade deals with the US “at the expense of China’s interests”, fueling global tensions as the world’s two economic superpowers lunge at each other over tariffs.
“China firmly opposes any party reaching a deal at the expense of China’s interests,” the ministry said on Monday. “If this happens, China will never accept it and will resolutely take countermeasures in a reciprocal manner.”
“China respects the right of all parties to resolve their economic and trade differences with the United States through equal consultations,” the commerce ministry said adding that if countries encroached on Beijing’s interests, it was “determined and capable of safeguarding its own rights”.
The ministry added that “all parties should stand on the side of fairness and justice and should defend international economic and trade rules and the multilateral trading system”.
It said: “Once international trade returns to the ‘law of the jungle’, where the strong prey on the weak, all countries will become victims.”
The statement by China’s commerce ministry, which was in response to reports that Trump’s administration planned to use trade talks with multiple countries to try to isolate China, called on them to instead join Beijing to “resist unilateral bullying.”
The sharp escalation follows the failure to gain any traction in trade and tariff negotiations. Trump has called several times for Beijing to open negotiations to avert a trade war, and China has said it is open to talks, but neither side has signalled that high-level contacts are under way.
While last week’s WSJ report said the US strategy to gang up on China was intended to pressure Beijing to come to the negotiating table and abandon its defiant stance, China has shown little sign of backing down. Instead, president Xi Jinping visited Vietnam, Malaysia and Cambodia last week, where he sought to shore up relations with Beijing’s trading partners.
South-east Asian exporters face steep tariffs under the Trump administration, which has also accused them of serving as a transshipment conduit for Chinese goods. Unfortunately for them, without the US as a final customer for most of their exports (including Chinese transshipments), and vows of solidarity will be hollow once countless Pacific rim factories go dark sparking an economic and labor crisis in countries which have virtually no social safety net.
And while China has ironically sought to portray itself as a pillar of the international trading system, it is struggling with weak domestic demand following a deep property slowdown, forcing policymakers to lean on manufacturing and exports for economic growth and leaving the economy vulnerable to the trade war with the US. As a reminder, some 40% of Chinese economic growth is in the form of trade, and while the hit to the US would be mostly along the inflationary and capital market pathways, once more than a third of China’s economy is forced to find new end markets, the pain for the domestic economic will be orders of magnitude worse.
It’s also why Goldman now expects China’s Q2 real GDP growth to collapse to 0.8% qoq ann from 4.9% in Q1.
Meanwhile, Beijing has repeatedly promised various initiatives to spur consumption but has held back from launching a “bazooka” fiscal stimulus (something it can’t do since it has hit debt saturation), instead investing heavily in industry to shake off its reliance on western technology.
4..EUROPEAN AFFAIRS//UK /SCANDINAVIAN AFFAIRS
5 RUSSIAN AND MIDDLE EASTERN AFFAIRS
ISRAEL/HAMAS
Hamas rejects Israel’s proposal to release 10 hostages in exchange for 45-day ceasefire
Israeli hostages can be released if the Israeli government agrees to end the war, fully withdraw from Gaza, and allow for reconstruction of Gaza.
By JERUSALEM POST STAFFAPRIL 17, 2025 22:19Updated: APRIL 18, 2025 00:04
Hamas rejected Israel’s proposal to release 10 hostages in exchange for 45 days of ceasefire on Thursday night.
“We will not accept partial deals that serve [Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin] Netanyahu’s political agenda,” Hamas negotiating team head Khalil al-Hayya said in a statement, which the terror group claimed is based on the continuation of the war. “
Netanyahu’s partial agreements are a cover for his agenda based on continuing the annihilation, even at the cost of sacrificing his captives,” he said in the statement. “We welcome the position of the American envoy Adam Boehler to end the issue of the captives and the war together, which aligns with the movement’s position.”
Al-Hayya said Hamas is ready to immediately negotiate a deal to swap all the hostages with an agreed number of Palestinians who are imprisoned in Israel.
“Netanyahu responded to the mediators’ proposal with impossible conditions that do not lead to an end to the war or to a withdrawal. We affirm our readiness to immediately begin negotiations on a comprehensive agreement package – negotiations on a comprehensive package that includes the release of all the captives in our hands and an agreed-upon number of our prisoners held by the occupation.
“In return, the occupation must completely end the war against our people and fully withdraw from the Gaza Strip.”
Israeli hostages can be released if the Israeli government agrees to end the war, fully withdraw from Gaza, and allow for the reconstruction of Gaza to start, al-Hayya said.
In the statement, al-Hayya stressed that Hamas would refuse to lay down its weapons to Israel.
“The resistance and its weapons are tied to the existence of the occupation, and they are a natural right of our people.
Earlier on Thursday, Israeli media reported that Palestinian Islamic Jihad political bureau member Ali Abu Shahin said that “the Zionist proposal to disarm the resistance is rejected and not open for discussion, and Netanyahu is raising the ceiling of his demands in order to thwart the agreement and continue the war in Gaza.”
Israeli proposal to Hamas
On Wednesday evening, Netanyahu held a situational assessment on hostage negotiations with the negotiation team and security officials.
Netanyahu “issued directives for the continuation of the steps to advance the release of our hostages” at the meeting.
Earlier this week, Hamas agreed to release nine hostages held in Gaza captivity, showing a shift in positions, as the terror group previously stated it would only release a single hostage.
Egypt received an Israeli proposal for a ceasefire in Gaza, state-affiliated Al Qahera News TV cited sources as saying on Monday.
Israeli politicians react
Members of the political echelon weighed in on Hamas’s rejection of the plan. National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir called for renewed force in Gaza in a statement on X/Twitter.
“There are no more excuses — the time has come for absolute victory. Hamas’s statement allows Israel to fulfill its dreams. Dear Prime Minister – it’s in your hands.”
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ISRAEL HAMAS
This should end the war pretty fast!
Cash-Strapped Hamas Can’t Pay Its Fighters
Friday, Apr 18, 2025 – 05:35 AM
This week, Israeli’s military reaffirmed it is staying in Gaza indefinitely, as its ultra-controversial anti-Hamas operation continues in the civilian-packed Palestinian enclave.
“Unlike in the past,” the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) “is not evacuating areas that have been cleared and seized,” Defense Minister Israel Katz began in a Wednesday statement. The IDF “will remain in the security zones as a buffer between the enemy and [Israeli] communities in any temporary or permanent situation in Gaza – as in Lebanon and Syria.”
As the IDF settles in for the long-haul while battling a Hamas and Islamic Jihad insurgency in the Strip, the Islamic militants reportedly retain 75% of their tunnel networks, and some 40,000 fighters and the ability to produce their own weapons.
However, a fresh report in The Wall Street Journal finds that Hamas is increasingly cash-strapped, and it is having trouble paying its rank and file fighters. Funding from both West Bank-based institutions, as well as from external backers, have been drying up and increasingly blocked.
The group is increasingly turning to theft of inbound humanitarian shipments, which have been entering the enclave sporadically, and based on what Israeli forces allow:
Israel last month cut off supplies of humanitarian goods to the enclave, some of which Hamas had been seizing and selling to raise funds, according to Arab, Israeli and Western officials. Its renewed offensive has targeted and killed Hamas officials who played important roles in distributing cash to cadres and sent others into hiding, Arab intelligence officials said.
In recent weeks, the Israeli military has said it killed a money changer who was key to what it called terrorist financing for Hamas as well as a number of top political officials in rapid succession.
The report observes this has resulted in a “debilitating squeeze” for Hamas finances. Currently Hamas is still presenting itself as the only government over the Gaza Strip, which Israel is seeking to put a permanent end to.
“Salary payments to many Gaza government employees have ceased, while many senior Hamas fighters and political staff began receiving only about half of their pay midway through last month’s Ramadan holy period, the intelligence officials said. Rank-and-file Hamas fighters’ pay had been averaging around $200 to $300 a month, they said,” WSJ writes.
And apparently due to the war, external support has also dried up, as the IDF has sought to block physical cash from going in and out of the Strip, and this has impacted funding from the Gulf as well as Iran.
“Hamas, which controls Gaza’s civilian government, got monthly cash transfers of $15 million from Qatar before the war,” WSJ continues. “It also has raised funds from places including western Africa, South Asia and the U.K., building up a stockpile of some $500 million, much of it in Turkey, according to Western and Arab officials.”
This doesn’t mean the Hamas insurgency targeting occupying IDF troops will stop anytime soon, but it could begin to be a serious impact on morale. Still, the situation is likely long past the point of the Islamist fighters having “nothing to lose”.
ISRAEL HAMAS
IDF strikes over 40 terror targets throughout Gaza, destroys terror infrastructure
Among the targets were terrorists, military structures and weapons storage facilities.
By JERUSALEM POST STAFFAPRIL 18, 2025 12:27Updated: APRIL 18, 2025 16:1
The Israel Air Force (IAF) struck some 40 terror targets throughout the Gaza Strip in the past day, the military said on Friday.
Among the targets were terrorists, military structures and weapons storage facilities, the IDF added.
In parallel, troops destroyed terror infrastructure and killed terrorists in Shabura and Tel Sultan in Rafah situated in the southern Gaza Strip.
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In northern Gaza, troops identified terrorists via an IAF aircraft who were subsequently attacked. In addition, the soldiers demolished weapons caches located on the area.
On Thursday, the IDF said troops had operated in the ‘Morag’ Corridor located in southern Gaza, dismantling rocket launchers and terrorist infrastructure sites, as well as tunnel shafts and mortars.
In a later Friday announcement, the military reported that the 16th Brigade, under the command of the 252nd Division, dismantled Hamas terror infrastructure in the Shejaiya area.
Since beginning operations in that area, the troops have also reportedly killed dozens of terrorists, including a terrorist cell that was planning a sniper attack against IDF soldiers.
Prior strikes
Earlier this week, the military announced it had killed Yahya Fathi Abd al-Qader Abu Shaar, the head of Hamas’s weapons smuggling network.
In addition, last week, the IDF struck and killed Mazen Ibrahim Mahfouz Farra, a key member of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, in Khan Yunis last week.
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SYRIA/ISRAEL
Why Kurds and Israel must align on combatting Turkey – opinion
The Kurds present themselves as the most natural ally for Israel in this shifting landscape. They are politically aligned, militarily capable, and strategically located.
By MEM HUSEDINAPRIL 20, 2025 01:50
Seth Frantzman is well-recognized among the Kurdish intelligentsia and in political circles. A journalist and a security analyst, he has spent considerable time alongside Kurdish forces in both Iraq and Syria. In his latest piece published in The Jerusalem Post, he highlighted the perceived Turkish threat against Israel in Syria, particularly in the context of the anticipated US retreat from the region.
A concerning issue, not limited to Syria but extending across the wider region, is Turkey’s growing political ambition to become the dominant power of the Eastern Mediterranean. A casual observer might attribute this ambition to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, but those familiar with Ankara’s political doctrine know it is deeply rooted and widely shared.
With the exception of the now-defeated non-interventionist doctrine of Mustafa Kemal, founder of modern Turkey, nearly all sides of the political spectrum in Ankara – both secular and Islamist – believe it is Turkey’s geopolitical destiny to be the “game-maker” of the Eastern Mediterranean. This vision stretches from the Adriatic coasts in Bosnia and Albania all the way to Somalia, drawing inspiration from both the Ottoman and Eastern Roman (Byzantine) Empires.
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Whether this is a realistic ambition is a separate discussion. The fact remains: There is near-universal consensus in Turkey regarding this “divine role” assigned to the Turkish nation. The first agreed-upon step in achieving this objective is the absorption of Kurdish regions in Syria and Iraq, followed by strategic advances into Mosul, Aleppo, and Damascus.
Damascus, in particular, is seen as a crucial milestone, offering not only symbolic capital but strategic access to Syria’s Mediterranean coast and a pathway to Lebanon.
The issue is not the ambition itself but the fact that it is already being implemented. Since the 1990s, Turkey has established over 40 military outposts in the Kurdish regions of northern Iraq. These positions are not temporary; there is no indication that Ankara plans to withdraw.
As Frantzman rightly mentioned, Turkish forces have invaded and now control parts of northern and western Syria, administering them with near-complete autonomy from Damascus. Turkish governors oversee these territories, Turkish postal services operate within them, and the Turkish lira is used as currency.
If not for Israel’s preventive posture and limited strikes, Turkey would have likely established a military base near the ancient Roman city of Palmyra, equipped with Russian S-400 air defense systems. As a reminder, the S-400 was designed to neutralize F-35 fighter jets. There is only one country in the region currently operating the F-35 – Israel – and only one other, the United States, capable of deploying them.
It is important to recognize that, in the current geopolitical map, Turkey sees two primary obstacles to its expansionist ambitions: the Kurds – who physically hold the territory between Damascus, Aleppo, and Mosul – and Israel, a regional power vigilant about its security and invested in a Middle East balance that ensures its long-term survival.
Frantzman captures this point well when he discusses “the US influence and how it helped to create a counterweight to the influence of anti-Israel actors.” Today, the main anti-Israel actor in the Middle East is not Iran but Turkey. As he continues, “The question now is what comes next and how the US will manage its redeployment of forces.”
The Kurds certainly do not want to see a US withdrawal from Syria. Such a move would immediately trigger deeper Turkish incursions, resulting in occupation and, inevitably, ethnic cleansing campaigns against the Kurdish population. However, the Kurds have very limited sway over US strategic decisions.
What is more concerning is that Israel, too, appears to have little faith in the current US administration’s willingness to leave even a symbolic troop presence in Syria to deter Turkish aggression.
What options remain for Israel?
The Kurds present themselves as the most natural ally for Israel in this shifting landscape. They are politically aligned, militarily capable, and strategically located. Kurdish communities are sympathetic to Israel’s security needs, recognize the shared threats they face, and value any support, military or political, that Israel might extend in return.
Critically, they are the indigenous population of the lands that block Turkish access to regions that, if occupied, would pose a direct and existential threat to Israeli security.
The United States may indeed pull its troops out of Syria. But working alongside the Kurds, Israel still has an opportunity to form a new deterrent and block the Turkish agenda of dominating the Eastern Mediterranean.
The author, born in Iskenderun and based in Vancouver, British Columbia, is a writer on international politics, the Middle East, and Kurdistan. He is vice president of the Canadian Kurdistani Confederation and hosts the podcasts Rojeva Kurdistan and Nation on the Rise. On X/Twitter @mhusedin.
IRAN/FRIDAY
To prevent a nuclear Iran, it is time to bring back the Begin Doctrine – editorial
In Begin’s words from 1981: “We shall not allow any enemy to develop weapons of mass destruction turned against us.”
By JPOST EDITORIALAPRIL 18, 2025 06:0
On June 7, 1981, Israeli F-16s flew across hostile airspace and destroyed Iraq’s Osirak nuclear reactor. Two days later, Prime Minister Menachem Begin addressed the world: “If we stood by idly, two, three years, at the most four years, and Saddam Hussein would have produced his three, four, five bombs then, this country and this people would have been lost, after the Holocaust,” he warned. “Another holocaust would have happened in the history of the Jewish people. Never again, never again!”
That act of anticipatory self-defense became the foundation of what came to be known as the Begin Doctrine: a strategic principle declaring that Israel would not allow hostile regimes to obtain nuclear weapons. It was reaffirmed in 2007, when prime minister Ehud Olmert ordered the destruction of Syria’s clandestine reactor after the US refused to act. Olmert reportedly told president George W. Bush, “If you don’t act against the reactor, we will.”
Today, Israel faces a similar moment. According to a Jerusalem Post report published on April 17, 2025, Jerusalem seriously considered attacking Iran’s nuclear program multiple times since October 2024, after the Islamic Republic launched more than 200 ballistic missiles at Israel. Following a successful Shaldag commando raid on a Syrian underground facility and a deep Israel Air Force strike in Iran in April 2024, defense officials reportedly concluded that a strike on Iran’s nuclear infrastructure is now “doable with very high confidence.”
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This is not how the Begin Doctrine was meant to work.
According to Maj.-Gen. (res.) Amos Yadlin, who flew on the Osirak mission and later headed IDF Military Intelligence, “Israel’s attacks against the nuclear reactors under construction in Iraq and in Syria achieved total destruction of the reactors, and without casualties.” Writing in an INSS paper in 2018, Yadlin argued that in both 1981 and 2007, the destruction of these facilities delayed the nuclear ambitions of Iraq and Syria by years – far more than what could have been achieved by sanctions or diplomatic pressure.
But Yadlin also warned that Iran presents a more complex challenge. Its program is dispersed, buried deep underground, and protected by hardened defenses. Still, the principle remains: Israel cannot depend on others to act in its place.
In Begin’s words from 1981: “We shall not allow any enemy to develop weapons of mass destruction turned against us.”
The Post report also revealed that some Israeli officials hoped to strike Iran while US CENTCOM Commander Gen. Michael Kurilla was still in office, recognizing his operational rapport with Israel. But Kurilla is stepping down. President Donald Trump, though previously encouraging Israeli military action, has since favored diplomacy, even sending Kurilla to tell Israel to stand down – for now.
And yet, some officials believe Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has grown too dependent on US approval. Others say Israel can and should act alone – particularly given that Iran’s air defenses, once considered formidable, have been severely degraded by Israeli operations.
Former Post editor-in-chief Yaakov Katz wrote in 2022 that “even if the ‘Begin Doctrine’ exists, it does not mean that Israel will always be able to implement it.” He observed that, unlike Iraq and Syria, Iran has scattered its nuclear program across multiple fortified locations. But Katz also emphasized that Begin’s 1981 strike “set a new standard for Israeli leaders”: that if preemptive action is possible, it must be considered – especially when survival is at stake.
Critics of the doctrine often cite the risk of escalation. Indeed, Olmert was warned by then-IDF chief Gabi Ashkenazi that there was at least a 50% chance Syria would retaliate with force after the 2007 strike. But that retaliation never came. Nor did any from Iraq in 1981. These were not reckless gambles – they were calculated decisions that removed existential threats.
This is not a theoretical threat
With Iran, the threat is not theoretical. It is real, persistent, and nearing the point of no return. Tehran has openly called for Israel’s destruction and continues to enrich uranium well beyond civilian levels. Should it cross the threshold, there may be no turning back.
Israel has every right to coordinate with its allies – but it must not outsource its sovereignty. No American president – past, present, or future – will bear the consequences of a nuclear Iran. Only Israel will.
Begin understood this. His legacy is not merely one of resolve, but of responsibility. In 1981, he said: “We shall defend our people with all the means at our disposal.”
That moment is here again. The Begin Doctrine must not remain a historical memory. It must be a living policy.
Israel must prepare to act – alone if necessary – and soon.
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IRAN/USA SATURDAY
US And Iran Conclude Second Round Of Nuclear Talks, Agree To Third
Saturday, Apr 19, 2025 – 05:30 PM
Authored by Andrew Thornebrooke via The Epoch Times,
Iran and the United States have ended their second round of talks aimed at curbing Iran’s nuclear weapons development and agreed to hold a third next week.
Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi and presidential envoy Steve Witkoff held the second round of talks in Rome on April 19.
As with the first round of talks, which were held in the Omani capital of Muscat last week, the pair negotiated indirectly through an Omani official who shuttled messages between the two sides.
Witkoff and Araghchi interacted with one another briefly at the end of the first round of talks, but officials from the two countries have not held direct negotiations since 2015 under President Barack Obama.
The pair agreed on Saturday to meet again in Oman on April 26. Additional experts from both sides will also meet between now and that time, suggesting that there has been some movement in the second round of talks between the two countries.
The experts will discuss details of a possible deal on a technical level, according to Iran.
“The talks were held in a constructive environment and I can say that is moving forward,” Araghchi told Iranian state television. “I hope that we will be in a better position after the technical talks.”
The high-stakes talks largely hinge on Witkoff and Araghchi’s ability to find common ground on Iran’s nuclear program and regional security issues.
Araghchi said ahead of the talks that Tehran was committed to diplomacy and called on “all parties involved in the talks to seize the opportunity to reach a reasonable and logical nuclear deal.”
“Such an agreement should respect Iran’s legitimate rights and lead to the lifting of unjust sanctions on the country while addressing any doubts about its nuclear work,” Araghchi said, according to Iranian state media.
Tehran has sought to tamp down expectations of a quick deal, however, and Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said this week he was “neither overly optimistic nor pessimistic” that a deal would be reached.
Iran’s Nuclear Weapons Capability in Focus
It is unclear what the current contours of negotiations hinge on. Iranian officials last week said the initial rounds of talks would be focused on laying out each party’s position and any red lines.
To that end, U.S. President Donald Trump has made preventing Tehran’s acquisition of a nuclear weapon a priority of his foreign policy platform. He appears willing to allow the Middle Eastern country to maintain its nuclear power facilities, provided its uranium enrichment is brought to lower thresholds.
“I’m for stopping Iran, very simply, from having a nuclear weapon,” Trump told reporters at the White House on Friday. “They can’t have a nuclear weapon. [But] I want Iran to be great and prosperous and terrific.”
Trump first sent a letter to Khamenei in March, suggesting a new deal to curb Iran’s nuclear program, which Tehran refused at the time.
Since then, Trump has doubled down on his stance that the United States “can’t let [Iran] have a nuclear weapon” and has threatened to use military action against Iran if a deal is not reached.
“If they don’t make a deal, there will be bombing, and it will be bombing the likes of which they have never seen before,” Trump wrote in a March 30 social media post.
Trump also restored a “maximum pressure” campaign on Tehran in February, reimposing sanctions on Tehran as part of the wider effort to push Iran to the negotiating table.
Tehran does not have nuclear weapons and has continued to enrich uranium at near weapons-grade levels since Trump unilaterally terminated a bilateral nuclear agreement in 2018 that had placed limits on such activities. At the time, Trump criticized the deal as “one of the worst and most one-sided transactions the United States has ever entered into” and said it “gave the Iranian regime too much in exchange for too little.”
A report by the United Nations’ nuclear watchdog released early in the year suggested that Iran had accelerated its production of near-weapons-grade uranium to such an extent that Tehran could likely produce about a half dozen warheads if it so chose.
Tehran maintains that its nuclear program is peaceful and that it is willing to negotiate some curbs in return for the lifting of sanctions, but wants watertight guarantees that Washington will not renege again.
46 Years of Enmity
Overcoming the historical enmity between Washington and Tehran is no easy feat. Relations between the two powers have been antagonistic for nearly half a century.
Iran was once one of the United States’ top allies in the Middle East. The Iranian monarchy purchased American-made weapons and was seen by U.S. leaders as an authoritarian but modernizing force that provided a bulwark against the spread of communism.
That relationship came to an end in 1979, when Iran’s last ruling monarch fled the nation amid popular uprisings, and power was seized by Islamist forces. Since that time, the Islamic Republic of Iran has opposed the secular modernism associated with the United States and called for the destruction of the nation of Israel.
Tensions between Washington and Tehran have reached a near breaking point in recent years, however, owing in part to Iran’s financial and military support of terror groups including Hamas in the Gaza Strip, Hezbollah in Lebanon, and the Houthis in Yemen.
Tehran has also signed extensive military technology agreements with Russia in recent years and conducted oil-for-services deals with China that skirt international sanctions. Though it is unclear to what extent, if any, those issues will weigh on current talks.
HOUTHIS
IDF intercepts missile from Yemen, sirens sound in Tel Aviv, Jerusalem area
This comes after Houthi media reported strike in a port city that supposedly killed 33 people.
By JERUSALEM POST STAFFAPRIL 18, 2025 06:40Updated: APRIL 18, 2025 11:
The IDF intercepted a missile that had been launched from Yemen at Israeli territory, the military said early Friday morning.
At 6:32 a.m., the IDF announced a missile launch had been detected from Yemen, and advised to follow Home Front Command guidelines.
Shortly after, sirens sounded in Tel Aviv, across central Israel, the Jerusalem area, and the West Bank.
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Magen David Adom said in a statement that no injuries have been reported thus far.
Later on Friday, Israel Police said it had operated since the morning to extinguish a fire that had erupted near the area of the Avshalom Cave situated in the Judean Hills due to interceptor shrapnel impacting in the area.
Police added that visitors in the area were evacuated and the blaze was put out.
Strike in Yemen
This comes after Houthi media reported that some 33 people had died in what it called US strikes on the port city of Ras Isa.
Houthi-controlled Al Masirah TV said the strikes, which the US military said were carried out to cut off a source of fuel for the Houthi terrorist group, also wounded 80 people.
This is a developing story.
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maybe this will send a strong message: stop the missiles on Israel and stop hitting USA ships in the Red Sea
Single Deadliest Yemen Strike Of Trump Presidency Destroys Vital Oil Port
Friday, Apr 18, 2025 – 11:05 PM
Fresh US airstrikes on Yemen Thursday marked the single-deadliest known attack under President Donald Trump’s new campaign targeting the Houthi rebels. The Pentagon has been intensely bombing Yemen since March 15, when the Gaza truce collapsed.
A Houthi spokesman announced Friday that the attacks killed 38 people and wounded 102 others. The death toll was hours later updated to at least 74 killed. The operation mainly targeted and destroyed the Ras Isa oil port, which sent massive fireballs shooting into the night sky.
The Red Sea port includes a collection of three large oil tanks, and is the terminus of an oil pipeline going to Yemen’s energy-rich Marib governorate. On Friday open-source satellite imagery showed an extensive blaze at the site.
Local footage of the aftermath of the strikes has widely circulated on social media. Much of it is very graphic, showing corpses strewn across the ground as huge fires rage all around.
United States Central Command (CENTCOM) had quickly confirmed the strikes on the oil terminal. “The Houthis have continued to benefit economically and militarily from countries and companies that provide material support to a designated foreign terrorist organization,” a statement began.
“The Iran-backed Houthis use fuel to sustain their military operations, as a weapon of control, and to benefit economically from embezzling the profits from the import. This fuel should be legitimately supplied to the people of Yemen.”
The statement further noted that fuel has continued to be be shipped via the port of Ras Isa, and that profits have helped bolster the Houthis’ military capabilities.
Perhaps anticipating large civilian casualties, CENTCOM continued, “This strike was not intended to harm the people of Yemen, who rightly want to throw off the yoke of Houthi subjugation and live peacefully.”
And that’s when the Pentagon highlighted Iran’s role, at a moment the White House has warned it could bomb Tehran if it doesn’t come to the table to forge a new nuclear agreement. “The Houthis, their Iranian masters, and those who knowingly aid and abet their terrorist actions should be put on notice that the world will not accept illicit smuggling of fuel and war material to a terrorist organization,” it said.
Huge fireball at the Ras Isa oil port on the Red Sea coast…
The Houthis, in response, have rejected and denounced the attack which killed civilians, saying: “This completely unjustified aggression represents a flagrant violation of Yemen’s sovereignty and independence and a direct targeting of the entire Yemeni people.”
The statement featured by the SABA news agency then said, “It targets a vital civilian facility that has served the Yemeni people for decades.”
Another video from the scene:
Some local sources are claiming it was a ‘double-tap’ strike, and that the death toll is so high because the second wave hit after emergency crews first arrived at the scene, but these statements cannot be verified.
RUSSIA VS UKRAINE
How Might Washington’s Relations With Ukraine & Russia Change If It Abandons Its Peace Efforts?
Monday, Apr 21, 2025 – 07:30 AM
Authored by Andrew Korybko via substack,
The US might cut off military aid to Ukraine while suspending its strategic resource talks with Russia…
Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Friday that the US might stop mediating an end to the Ukrainian Conflict if it concludes within “a matter of days” that no peace deal is doable.
That coincided with the Wall Street Journal reporting that Trump’s envoy Steve Witkoff told them that “Putin had been fixated on Ukrainian land in their discussions. He said that Russia might get some of the regions, but not all.”
This analysis here explained why it’s so important for Russia to obtain full control over the disputed lands.
If no breakthrough is achieved, such as the US coercing Ukraine into withdrawing from those regions or Russia agreeing to freeze this dimension of the conflict, then the US might indeed abandon its peace efforts. The question therefore arises of how that could change its relations with Ukraine and Russia. Beginning with the first, Trump and his team’s explicitly expressed exhaustion with this conflict bodes ill for the scenario of the US continuing military support for Ukraine, which would please Russia.
The Europeans would try to replace some of this lost aid in order to keep the conflict going in alignment with Zelensky’s vision, but they’d be unable to replace all of it and he might ultimately be forced into agreeing to worse terms than the US’ if Russia successfully expands its ground offensive. At the same time, however, the US might also suspend its talks with Russia on the strategic resource deals that were supposed to serve as the centerpiece of their planned “New Détente” as long as the conflict continues
This balanced approach would be predicated on pressuring Ukraine and Russia into committing to compromises aimed at restoring the US-led peace talks since the first doesn’t want to lose territory in other regions while the second is interested in shaping the post-conflict era in partnership with the US. These evidently aren’t their top priorities, however, otherwise the land issue would have already been resolved one way or another and there wouldn’t be any talk of the US abandoning its peace efforts.
Other than the unlikely scenario of the US “escalating to de-escalate” on better terms for Ukraine, another comparatively more probable one exists but which is still less likely than the aforesaid, and that’s the US discontinuing military support for Ukraine but continuing resource talks with Russia. These negotiations are connected to Ukraine since the US is seeking privileged terms from Russia in exchange for coercing Kiev into Moscow’s demanded concessions but can still proceed even if that doesn’t occur.
The reason why this scenario is considered less likely than the balanced one described above is because some of the US’ sanctions that impede the clinching of resource deals with Russia can’t easily be lifted without first bringing about an end to the Ukrainian Conflict. Moreover, sanctions relief and the prospect of jointly shaping the post-conflict era are the only carrots that the US can dangle for incentivizing Russia to compromise on ending the conflict, which Trump wants it to do for solidifying his global legacy.
He’s therefore expected to at least temporarily suspend such talks with Russia for that reason in that scenario but might resume them if the conflict remains protracted with no clear diplomatic or military solution. That would make the most sense since he wouldn’t prematurely give up the only means that the US has for incentivizing Russia to compromise for peace but he also wouldn’t lose the objective economic and strategic benefits that a resource deal would bring.
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Putin Confirms End Of Easter Truce, Large-Scale Fighting Resumes
by Tyler Durden
Monday, Apr 21, 2025 – 10:45 AM
Russia has confirmed the end of its 30-hour Easter truce, which reportedly had some success as areas across the frontlines saw guns and shelling fall silent for the first time in well over three years.
On Monday the Kremlin acknowledged that military action has resumed, and also emphasized again that the ceasefire which began Saturday evening was indicative of its attitude that it is indeed open to any peace initiatives.
“Our attitude to ceasefires is positive, and that is why we proposed the initiative, especially as it was during the holy Easter days,” Putin had said of the special holiday weekend truce. “We’ve seen the initial reaction [from Kiev], as I believe everyone did. The statement characterized our proposal as ‘playing with lives’ and so on.”
Zelensky had quickly accused Putin of not being genuine, and suggested it was a PR move intended to signal the Trump administration. “As of Easter morning, we can say that the Russian army is trying to create a general impression of a ceasefire, but in some places, it does not abandon individual attempts to advance and inflict losses on Ukraine,” he had posted on X.
“In practice, either Putin does not have full control over his army, or the situation proves that in Russia, they have no intention of making a genuine move toward ending the war, and are only interested in favorable PR coverage,” Zelensky wrote.
But Putin had pointed out, “Apparently, smarter people – probably foreign handlers – explained that refusing such a proposal is a losing proposition for the Kiev regime, and [the Ukrainians] swiftly agreed.”
Putin has also shot back in fresh Monday statements that Zelensky was “ready to reject Easter ceasefire — until his Western curators reminded him it’s bad PR to oppose peace outright.”
Ukraine has meanwhile proposed extending the truce for 30 days after it ended midnight Sunday, resulting in the Kremlin saying it is studying the possibility. Putin has since said he is reviewing a Ukrainian proposal for each side to case attacks on any civilian infrastructure.
Still, Putin has made clear that he’s not interested in a merely temporary solution, but wants to achieve something lasing, on fears that Ukraine would just use a 30-day window to rearm and regroup.
Russian state media has published footage showing that during the Easter truce there was some positive, peaceful engagement among some troops on the ground.
As the for US, the State Department on Sunday that the US remains committed to “a full and comprehensive ceasefire.” The Trump administration has made clear it is losing patience, and that both sides need to move fast toward the negotiating table.
Ukraine’s Air Force confirmed on Monday the resumption of heavy strikes, describing Russian forces launched 96 drones and three missiles on eastern and southern Ukraine overnight.
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6. GLOBAL ISSUES//COVID ISSUES/VACCINE ISSUES/HEALTH ISSUE
Lab Leak: White House Unveils Massive Report On The True Origins Of COVID 19
Saturday, Apr 19, 2025 – 06:50 PM
The Trump administration on Friday published an in-depth look at how Dr. Anthony Fauci and US intelligence agencies suppressed the lab-leak theory behind COVID-19 for political purposes.
“Public health officials often mislead the American people through conflicting messaging, knee-jerk reactions, and a lack of transparency. Most egregiously, the federal government demonized alternative treatments and disfavored narratives, such as the lab leak theory, in a shameful effort to coerce and control the American people’s health decisions,” reads a new White House webpage.
And while we’re still waiting on those pre-dawn raids – i.e. any semblance of accountability, today’s disclosure from the White House is a breath of fresh air over a ‘theory’ that sites like ZeroHedge and The Federalist were punished for suggesting. Millions in ad revenue evaporated after USAID-funded censorship organizations began public character assassination campaigns in conjunction with MSM outlets – all in an effort to cover up the truth.
To wit, within 48 hours of a Fauci underling flagging a ZeroHedge article for review, we were banned from Twitter following an BuzzFeed hit piece by a reporter who was subsequently fired for plagiarism. In the ensuing weeks we were banned by Amazon and Google’s ad platforms over content that had never been an issue until that point (and while we’ve made up with Google, Amazon continues to blacklist ZeroHedge – probably for continuing to make fun of Jeff Bezos’ dick-shaped rocket playing second fiddle to SpaceX).
Months later, Twitter restored our account – citing an “error” (as lab-leak evidence coincidentally began to pile up elsewhere).
To keep the lights on, ZeroHedge launched our premium service – and more recently, the ZH Store, where loyal readers routinely cause us to sell out of hats, shirts, knives, and the unsurprisingly popular ZeroHedge multitool. Needless to say, we appreciate your support.
Diving Right In
Today’s damning release from the White House goes into extensive detail about the COVID-19 coverup by key players.
1. The virus possesses a biological characteristic that is not found in nature.
2. Data shows that all COVID-19 cases stem from a single introduction into humans. This runs contrary to previous pandemics where there were multiple spillover events.
3. Wuhan is home to China’s foremost SARS research lab, which has a history of conducting gain-of-function research (gene altering and organism supercharging) at inadequate biosafety levels.
4. Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) researchers were sick with COVID-like symptoms in the fall of 2019, months before COVID-19 was discovered at the wet market.
5. By nearly all measures of science, if there was evidence of a natural origin it would have already surfaced. But it hasn’t.
“The Proximal Origin of SARS-CoV-2” publication – which was used repeatedly by public health officials and the media to discredit the lab leak theory – was prompted by Dr. Fauci to push the preferred narrative that COVID-19 originated in nature.
GAIN-OF-FUNCTION RESEARCH:
A lab-related incident involving gain-of-function research is the most likely the origin of COVID-19. Current government mechanisms for overseeing this dangerous gain-of-function research are incomplete, severely convoluted, and lack global applicability.
ECOHEALTH ALLIANCE INC. (ECOHEALTH):
EcoHealth — under the leadership of Dr. Peter Daszak — used U.S. taxpayer dollars to facilitate dangerous gain-of-function research in Wuhan, China. After the Select Subcommittee released evidence of EcoHealth violating the terms of its National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) commenced official debarment proceedings and suspended all funding to EcoHealth.
New evidence also shows that the Department of Justice (DOJ) has opened an investigation into EcoHealth’s pandemic-era activities.
NIH FAILURES:
NIH’s procedures for funding and overseeing potentially dangerous research are deficient, unreliable, and pose a serious threat to both public health and national security. Further, NIH fostered an environment that promoted evading federal record keeping laws — as seen through the actions of Dr. David Morens and “FOIA Lady” Marge Moore.
HHS OBSTRUCTION:
The Biden Administration’s HHS engaged in a multi-year campaign of delay, confusion, and non-responsiveness in an attempt to obstruct the Select Subcommittee’s investigation and hide evidence that could incriminate or embarrass senior public health officials. It appears that HHS even intentionally under-resourced its component that responds to legislative oversight requests.
ECOHEALTH OBSTRUCTION:
EcoHealth President Dr. Peter Daszak obstructed the Select Subcommittee’s investigation by providing publicly available information, instructing his staff to reduce the scope and pace of productions, and doctoring documents before releasing them to the public. Further, Dr. Daszak provided false statements to Congress.
DR. DAVID MORENS:
Dr. Fauci’s Senior Advisor, Dr. David Morens, deliberately obstructed the Select Subcommittee’s investigation, likely lied to Congress on multiple occasions, unlawfully deleted federal COVID-19 records, and shared nonpublic information about NIH grant processes with EcoHealth President Dr. Peter Daszak.
NEW YORK OBSTRUCTION:
New York’s Executive Chamber — led presently by Governor Kathy Hochul — redacted documents, offered numerous illegitimate privilege claims, and withheld thousands of documents without an apparent legal basis to obstruct the Select Subcommittee’s investigation into former Governor Cuomo’s pandemic-era failures.
WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION (WHO):
The WHO’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic was an abject failure because it caved to pressure from the Chinese Communist Party and placed China’s political interests ahead of its international duties. Further, the WHO’s newest effort to solve the problems exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic — via a “Pandemic Treaty” — may harm the United States.
SOCIAL DISTANCING:
The “6 feet apart” social distancing recommendation — which shut down schools and small business across the country — was arbitrary and not based on science. During closed door testimony, Dr. Fauci testified that the guidance “sort of just appeared.”
MASK MANDATES:
There was no conclusive evidence that masks effectively protected Americans from COVID-19. Public health officials flipped-flopped on the efficacy of masks without providing Americans scientific data — causing a massive uptick in public distrust.
LOCKDOWNS:
Prolonged lockdowns caused immeasurable harm to not only the American economy, but also to the mental and physical health of Americans, with a particularly negative effect on younger citizens. Rather than prioritizing the protection of the most vulnerable populations, federal and state government policies forced millions of Americans to forgo crucial elements of a healthy and financially sound life.
NEW YORK PANDEMIC FAILURES:
Former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo’s March 25 Order — which forced nursing homes to accept COVID-19 positive patients — “was medical malpractice.” Evidence shows that Mr. Cuomo and his Administration worked to cover up the tragic aftermath of their policy decisions in an apparent effort to shield themselves from accountability.
COVID-19 MISINFORMATION:
Public health officials often mislead the American people through conflicting messaging, knee-jerk reactions, and a lack of transparency. Most egregiously, the federal government demonized alternative treatments and disfavored narratives, such as the lab leak theory, in a shameful effort to coerce and control the American people’s health decisions.
When those efforts failed, the Biden Administration resorted to “outright censorship—coercing and colluding with the world’s largest social media companies to censor all COVID-19-related dissent.”
For those with the stamina, the complete 557 page report can be read here:
MARK CRISPIN MILLER
Virginia Giuffre has “four days to live” (renal failure); IT: singer Bobby Solo collapses on stage, actor/director…
Giuffre has “four days to live” (renal failure); IT: singer Bobby Solo collapses on stage, actor/director Nanni Moretti in ICU after heart attack; CH: singer Wu Xuanyi collapses on stage
Manuel Masalva (“Narcos: Mexico”) in coma with “aggressive” bacterial infection; UK: Duchess of Rutland has breast cancer; SW: Kristoffer Olsson quits Arsenal due to “rare brain condition”; more
| Mark Crispin MillerApr 17 |
Further indications of the likely global toll of COVID “vaccination,” based on the reports collected by our worldwide team of researchers this past week.
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MEXICO
Netflix star Manuel Masalva, 43, in a coma after contracting ‘aggressive’ bacterial infection
April 4, 2025
Netflix star Manuel Masalva has been placed into an induced coma after contracting a bacterial infection. The actor – who is known for his role in Narcos: Mexico – was on vacation when he became unwell and had to be hospitalized. The 43-year-old remains in a serious condition and is currently undergoing intensive treatment on antibiotics. Mario Morán, an actor who is friends with Manuel, confirmed the severity of his condition in a video shared on April 2. In the TikTok (@mariomoran_), which was viewed 1.5 million times, he stated that Manuel was in an ‘induced coma.’ It is not known exactly what type of infection Manuel contracted, and how he became unwell with this.
UNITED KINGDOM
Duchess of Rutland, 61, reveals shock cancer diagnosis – and warns the disease ‘doesn’t care who you are’
April 1, 2025
The Duchess of Rutland has revealed she’s in remission from cancer after a shock diagnosis. In an interview for The Telegraph at the weekend, Emma Manners, 61, said a mammogram found ‘three shadows’ in her left breast last July, a month after a finding a lump she had dismissed as a ‘pimple or cyst’. Born Emma Watkins and raised on a farm in France, the Duchess lives in the 356-room Belvoir Castle in Leicestershire with her ex-husband David Manners, the 11th Duke of Rutland. Opening up about her stage two diagnosis, Emma revealed she’d had her left breast removed after she was told it couldn’t be saved, though luckily a biopsy showed the cancer hadn’t spread further. After five days of precautionary radiation treatment, she was then told she was in remission – and admitted she also sought help from ‘alternative therapies’, such as changes to her diet and meditation. In the personal and intimate piece, she warned cancer ‘doesn’t care who you are’, adding: ‘Cancer is a hideous disease and the ultimate leveller. No one is immune – not the King of England, the Princess of Wales and certainly not me.”
A&E DASH McFly star rushed to hospital after health emergency leaves him ‘looking smashed up’
April 2, 2025
MCFLY star Tom Fletcher was rushed to hospital in a medical emergency earlier this week. The 39-year-old hitmaker from the beloved band was left looking “smashed up” and was forced to make an emergency visit to A&E. Tom, who suffers from a rare eye condition, endured an agonising flare-up that left him so worried he took himself to the eye hospital. The boyband hunk suffers from uveitis, an eye condition that causes inflammation inside part of the eye. When a flare up of uveitis happens, it needs to be treated immediately otherwise further complications could arise. Taking to Instagram on Monday to share how he had suffered a relapse of the condition, Tom posted a selfie and updated his fans. In the selfie, Tom’s face was drooping due to the condition, and he could be seen looking a little annoyed. “Not the day I had planned,” he penned. “Uveitis sucks!”
BELGIUM
Mayor of Ninove Guy D’haeseleer must undergo urgent liver transplant due to hepatitis
April 3, 2025
The mayor of Ninove was admitted to hospital yesterday evening. Because his condition worsened, he was transferred to the intensive care unit of the University Hospital in Ghent this afternoon. According to his stepdaughter Malika Sclacmender, his condition is still critical, but stable. In the meantime, it has been decided that alderman Ilse Malfroot will temporarily take over the mayor’s powers. The day before yesterday, mayor Guy D’haeseleer (Forza Ninove) announced that he would recover for a week. On Monday evening, he was already ill during the municipal council. Alderman Ilse Malfroot: “I could already see then that he was not doing well. At the end of the evening I saw that he started to sweat profusely and suffer.” On Tuesday, on the advice of his family, he had blood taken. “It turned out to be hepatitis, a serious inflammation of the liver,” says his stepdaughter and alderman in Ninove, Malika Sclacmender. “He had to go straight to the emergency room and has been in the intensive care unit in Aalst since 10pm yesterday evening.” He was then transferred to Ghent.
SWEDEN
Ex-Arsenal star leaves club after being diagnosed with rare brain condition
April 1, 2025
Former Arsenal youth star Kristoffer Olsson has terminated his contract with Danish side FC Midtjylland following a rare brain condition diagnosis. In February last year, the Swedish midfielder was rushed to hospital after collapsing at home. Olsson was put on a ventilator after doctors had found blood clots on both sides of his brain due to a rare blood-vessel inflammation. The 29-year-old has been focusing on overcoming mental and physical challenges in the past year. Now, Olsson is ready to return to football with his boyhood club, IFK Norrköping, which he joined at the age of 10 and subsequently left to join Arsenal.
DENMARK
Sad news: Jeff from ‘Oops, we’re adults’ urgently hospitalized
April 3, 2025
On Wednesday night, Jeff from ‘Oops, we’re adults’ was hospitalized. It was with joy and reunion when the TV 2 program Ups, we’re adults returned with a new season – and viewers were once again able to follow the young participants and their lives filled with friendships, laughter and big dreams. But amidst the joy, one important person was missing. Jeff Pitzner [35], who has won many hearts on the series, had to watch the season premiere from a hospital bed. On Wednesday night, he was urgently admitted with severe pneumonia – and although he is now recovering, his absence was noticeable when the team gathered in front of the screen.
ITALY
Nanni Moretti hit by a heart attack. Emergency surgery, he is in intensive care
April 2, 2025
The sudden illness in the afternoon, the intervention of the emergency services and the immediate transport to the hospital, to the San Camillo in Rome where Nanni Moretti [71] ended up after being hit by a heart attack. The doctors subjected the director and actor to surgery, then transferred him to coronary intensive care. His conditions are serious but are defined, at the moment, as stable. Nanni Moretti had already had a heart attack in Naples in 2024. He had to give up the presentation of his film ‘Vittoria’, but on that occasion he had managed to send a video message to all his fans in which he apologized and reassured the public about his condition. ‘I’ll be better,’ he had said in a recorded video. ‘I’ll be back soon’. On that occasion, after being hospitalized at the San Camillo in Rome and undergoing checks by the same medical team, he had been discharged. However, on October 3 of last year, after a few days, he had reappeared at the Nuovo Sacher cinema, to attend the screening of a film. And today, Moretti was expected at the Sacher in Rome to participate in the premiere of the film ‘L’attachement’ by Carine Tardieu with Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, as part of the French Film Festival. Tomorrow, the hospital will give information on Moretti’s health conditions. The prognosis remains reserved.
Bobby Solo, sick on stage during the concert: “Cold sweat, I fainted”
March 21, 2025
Bobby Solo felt ill during the concert held yesterday, Thursday, March 20, at the Capitol Pordenone. The singer-songwriter was on stage to celebrate his 80th birthday when, 50 minutes into the show, he had to stop due to a sudden illness. Bobby Solo took to social media to reassure fans. “Bobby Solo’s concert was interrupted due to the artist’s illness, but we want to reassure you about his health. While he was still on stage, as soon as he recovered, he told us that he wanted to continue the concert,” we read on Capitol Records’ profile. Then, the artist’s updates. “Dear friends, I wanted to reassure you. I took ten days of antibiotics for my flu and I didn’t eat for a day and a half because I wasn’t hungry,” Bobby Solo explained the reason why he felt ill. And again: “After 50 minutes of concert I got hypoglycemia, my blood sugar dropped, I felt a cold sweat and I fainted,” the singer-songwriter said in the video posted on social media. Bobby Solo thanked the medical staff who immediately took care of him: “They said my oxygen was at 99, my blood pressure was 120, they told me I should eat before going on stage.” Then, he thanks and reassures his fans: “We will do the concert again in Pordenone, ROCK’N’ROLL always.”
CHINA
Popular Female Idol Collapses On Stage, Has To Be Carried Out While Unconscious
April 2, 2025
A former member of a popular K-Pop girl group recently collapsed on stage while practicing for a performance and was seen getting carried off stage by multiple staff members while unconscious in a leaked video. The idol in question is Wu Xuanyi [30], a member of the now-disbanded K-Pop group WJSN. On April 2, a clip featuring Wu emerged on social media in which she was seen in an unconscious state during the stage rehearsal of Sisters Who Make Waves 2025, a popular Chinese reality show. The incident caused major concern among fans in China, and it became the second most searched topic on Weibo. In another clip from the same day, Wu Xuanyi appeared visibly unwell, hunched over as if she was on the verge of fainting. The clips left netizens confused over what had actually caused her to be this sick. Some sources claimed that she had practiced until 3 AM before attending the rehearsal, which took a significant toll on her health. Later, Wu’s agency confirmed that she had indeed collapsed during the rehearsal of the show. According to her representative, she had fainted due to complete exhaustion caused by overwork and harsh weather conditions. But the idol is reportedly recovering well under medical care. Her agency and staff are said to be closely monitoring her condition.
SOUTH KOREA
Mister Hwang reveals blood cancer diagnosis and uncertainty in health update
April 1, 2025
Mr. Hwang, who appeared in ‘Nasol Saga,’ reported the unfortunate news of being diagnosed with blood cancer. On the 31st, Mr. Hwang [36] stated on his social account, “Recently, many unexpected events have occurred, so I shaved my head with the help of 10th season Yeoengja. I had a lump near my collarbone for the past two years, and it suddenly began to grow larger, so I wanted to remove it. However, the ultrasound showed that the shape was not good, and they advised me to prepare for chemotherapy, so I went to a higher-level hospital” to inform about his health issues. He noted, “During the consultation at the higher-level hospital, it seems certain that I have blood cancer, and I must quickly start chemotherapy pre-tests and begin chemotherapy immediately, which is why I shaved my head. Although various doctors suggested it was blood cancer, the comprehensive tissue test came back normal, and I will undergo surgery for a tissue sample to remove the tumor area.”
AUSTRALIA
Virginia Giuffre breaks silence after alarming health scare and reveals truth behind ‘four days to live’ post
April 6, 2025
Virginia Giuffre has spoken publicly for the first time since sparking alarm with a social media post claiming she had just “four days to live.” Giuffre — who has accused Prince Andrew of abusing her when she was a teenager, a claim the royal denies — shared the disturbing update last Sunday, writing: “I’ve gone into kidney renal failure, they’ve given me four days to live, transferring me to a specialist hospital in urology. Now, the 40-year-old has broken her silence about her health battle, telling US publication People the issues began following a serious episode earlier this year. “I was able to fight back against Ghislaine Maxwell and Jeffrey Epstein who abused and trafficked me… I can no longer stay silent,” she said in a statement. “Again, I thank everyone for their support.” Giuffre’s condition is said to have worsened after a bus crash in rural Western Australia on March 24. However, police, the bus driver, and several witnesses have since said the collision was not as severe as she had suggested online. Her brother, Sky Roberts, later clarified the viral post, saying doctors had warned Giuffre she could have died within four days without treatment. “Let’s be clear, she never stated in the bus accident the cause of all her other injuries,” he told People. “Nobody ever said her liver issues and kidney failure were ever from that. We still don’t know if it is, I’m not a medical professional. That’s up to her doctor to determine.” Giuffre remains in a Perth hospital, where a spokeswoman said she is “marginally better but still in serious condition” after undergoing treatment.
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The dam has broken! 140+ recent studies PROVE that “vaccination” is a deadly fraud
Thus “the science” reconfirms the global toll that we’ve been tracking here for three years now; yet “our free press” will not report it
| Mark Crispin MillerApr 19 |
Last week a reader sent me (for the second time) the following email:
News Flash: Old People get Sick! Plus: Celebrity Rumors!
Keep it up, Mark.
Not a fan, but I have an open mind.
Waiting for data.
This is only one of several emails I’ve received from readers eager to believe that our weekly compilations have been deceptively padded with reports of older people who “would have died anyway,” of “natural” causes, and that our more frequent compilations of sudden deadly illnesses among celebrities include mere “rumors.”
I’ll bet that the reader quoted just above, and the others sounding the same note, had not read through our compilations, but only the headlines, or some of them; for if he had done such due diligence, he’d see that we do not arbitrarily include any deaths that fail to meet certain criteria that point toward “vaccination” as the cause, or as a likely cause.
Take those older people. Time was—that is, before 2021—when obits and reports of deaths (especially sudden deaths) always told us why the subject had passed on. This tended to be true even of those in their eighties and nineties, whose cause of death was not ignored—or, rather, suppressed—but duly noted. Blowing off that crucial factor, as all such articles do now, is a sign of callousness as well as journalistic sloppiness (or complicity), since even quite old people could live even longer, if they’re in good shape (like, say, Queen Elizabeth died at the ripe old age of 96—a few months after she was jabbed—but arguably still had several years to go, since the Queen Mother lived to 102). Readers who don’t care what killed the elderly, since the latter would soon die in any case, have something dark in common with the authors of this democide, who also could not care less about such deaths (and want the rest of us not caring, either).
While the failure, or refusal, to report a cause of death is one of our criteria, another one is the decedent’s overall health just prior to his/her demise, or to his/her diagnosis with some often deadly ailment. Was s/he well, and fit, and working, so you’d not expect them to drop dead—like Paul Sorvino, David Lynch and other energetic types, or sick for years, like Gene Hackman? And, if there was some worrying diagnosis, did it come before or after 2020? And, finally, was the decedent’s fatal illness one of those that used to be called “rare,” but is now so common as to be considered epidemic? Such are pancreatic cancer (and all “turbo-cancers”), ALS, acute appendicitis and a range of other likely “adverse events”? (As this post shows, the scientific literature increasingly focuses on whether the rate of this of that disease appears to correlate with “vaccination.”)
So, although “old people [surely] die,” we don’t include such people just because they happened to be old (as the medical authorities, and “our free press,” did do, big-time, throughout 2020, when deaths of every kind were misreported as “deaths by COVID”). We take far more care than that, since this is not a game, nor is it driven by an appetite for clicks, likes or donations. Our aim is (1) to help urge people not to get injected, or boosted, and (2) to create an archive of reports that may, one day, be used as evidence against the architects and perpetrators of this matchless horror. That’s it; so it would only hurt our credibility to be as cavalier as my correspondent hinted so sarcastically. The same applies to his dismissal of what he’s called “Celebrity Rumors,” since our reports of grievous illnesses among the rich and famous aren’t passed along in conversation, or aired on “social media,” but are properly sourced, and wholly credible; and whenever we do get it wrong somehow, we always post corrections,
One question that we’re often asked is, Are we sure that the deceased, or gravely ill, were “vaccinated”? Some have demanded proof thereof in every case—which would be impossible, considering how hard they’ve made it to do autopsies, or otherwise to verify that cause. We do include the prior news of the decedent’s “vaccination” when the latter boasted, or rejoiced, that they’d been jabbed; and we try our best to note the crucial mandates that forced injection on (among others) actors, musicians, filmmakers, doctors, nurses, athletes, college students, cops, firemen, and the faculty and staff of countless high schools and universities, as well as state and city workers.
I observed above that, had he done his due diligence, and read through the reports that we’ve compiled, my correspondent would now see that we take great care in our all-important work. That actually may not be true, since his sarcasm, and apparent over-hasty reading of our posts, betray a certain eagerness to see this work discredited, possibly because he also got the shot, or shots, and naturally would rather just deny the awful truth, instead of facing it, and seeking help from some practitioner who knows what’s going on.
In any case, I hope he and others like him, can wake up, and soon; and, to that end, today I offer this staggering catalogue of studies that confirm, or reconfirm, the premise of our compilations. So if my correspondent is “waiting for data” (which he evidently hasn’t tried to find himself), he need look no further than this post, assuming he can bring himself to read it.
Study of 99 Million Confirms Covid ‘Vaccines’ Caused Global Death Surge – Denmark and New Zealand
March 15, 2025
Why crazy brawls and random murders are at all-time highs:
Study Identifies 86 Serious Neuropsychiatric Safety Signals Linked to COVID-19 Vaccination
April 14, 2025
FOCAL POINTS (Courageous Discourse)
BREAKING: Study Identifies 86 Serious Neuropsychiatric Safety Signals Linked to COVID-19 Vaccination
By Nicolas Hulscher, MPH…
5 days ago · 82 likes · 12 comments · Nicolas Hulscher, MPH
FDA Admits Covid mRNA ‘Vaccines’ Cause Cancer
April 14, 2025
86% of suspected EU adverse drug reactions in infants transmitted through breastfeeding are linked to C-19 vaccines
April 8, 2025
Malone News
A new paper came out on April 6, 2025 in the British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology titled “EudraVigilance insights: Suspected adverse drug reactions in infants through breastfeeding” with some startling new information regarding COVID-19 vaccination in infants…
12 days ago · 376 likes · 46 comments · Robert W Malone MD, MS
Embalmers Issue Chilling Warning as ‘Horrifying Fibrous Clots’ Found in 27% of Covid-Vaxxed Corpses
April 3, 2025
Clotastrophe
A Horrifying Breakthrough in the WHITE FIBROUS CLOT Saga
A POST BY TOM HAVILAND…
24 days ago · 342 likes · 247 comments · Laura Kasner
Interview: Dr. Bowden on the covid jabs
April 2, 2025
Baby Dies After Receiving 6 Shots for 12 Vaccines — Doctors Say ‘Catching Up’ Kids on Vaccines Is Common, and Dangerous
March 31, 2025
Millions of young vaxxed women now have early menopause
March 4, 2025
Women in their 20’s can no longer get pregnant. This is not “menopause”. They have been sterilized by the covid shots.
COVID Intel – by Dr.William Makis
NEWS: Millions of Young Vaxxed Women in US Now Have Early Menopause – Doctors Baffled
15 days ago · 172 likes · 51 comments · Dr. William Makis MD
Government Misled Public on Thimerosal Link to Autism ‘for Decades,’ Falsely Claims It’s Been Removed From Vaccines
April 4, 2025
According to a special investigation by journalist Sharyl Attkisson, the government has misled the public for decades about the science linking thimerosal to autism and other neurodevelopment disorders. It also continues to claim thimerosal has been removed from all childhood vaccines — even though some vaccines, including those given to children, still contain the ingredient.
Huge myocarditis study:
“We urge governments to remove the Covid mRNA products from the market due to the well-documented risk of myocardial damage”
April 11, 2025
COVID Intel – by Dr.William Makis
PAPER LINK…
11 days ago · 293 likes · 68 comments · Dr. William Makis MD
‘We’ve Been Lied to’ — Vaccines Didn’t Eradicate Polio
April 4, 2025
Dr. Bowden interview on Covid injections:
Major Clinical Study Reveals Ventilators Killed More COVID Patients Than the Virus
April 8, 2025
Study of 85 Million People Confirms Covid ‘Vaccines’ Caused Global Surge in Strokes, Heart Attacks, Sudden Deaths
April 8, 2025
FDA Admits mRNA ‘Vaccines’ Spread to Unvaccinated Through ‘Shedding’
April 9, 2025
Japanese Professor Issues Warning to World About ‘Fraudulent’ Covid Shots: ‘Extreme Violation of Human Rights’
March 1, 2025
Risks from Covid ‘Vaccines’ Increase Over Time – Yale Med
March 4, 2025
Government Virologist Blows Whistle on ‘Toxic’ Covid ‘Vaccines’
March 4, 2025
Dr. Hatfill – The former top White House medical advisor blew the whistle in an article published in the prestigious Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons
Spring 2025
Montana: Doctor Testifies: ‘mRNA Vaccines Are Most Destructive, Lethal Medical Products Ever Used’
March 3, 2025
WHO: ‘Monkeypox’ Is a ‘Side Effect’ of Covid mRNA ‘Vaccines’
March 30, 2025
The World Health Organization (WHO) has admitted that so-called “monkeypox” is actually a side effect of Covid mRNA “vaccines.” ” It is actually shingles, not monkeypox, although the symptoms are similar.”
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EURO/USA: 1.1544 up 1.1545 PTS OR 115 BASIS POINTS
USA/ YEN 140.74 DOWN 1.299 NOW TARGETS INTEREST RATE AT 1.00% AS IT WILL BUY UNLIMITED BONDS TO GETS TO THAT LEVEL…//YEN STILL FALLS//END OF YEN CARRY TRADE BEGINS AGAIN OCT 2024/Bank of Japan raises rates by .15% to 1.15..UEDA ENDS HIKING RATES AND NOW CARRY TRADES RE INVENTS ITSELF//
GBP/USA 1.3395 UP.01117 OR 111 BASIS PTS
USA/CAN DOLLAR: 1.3808 DOWN 0.0011 (CDN DOLLAR UP 11 BASIS PTS)
Last night Shanghai COMPOSITE CLOSED UP 14.70 PTS OR 0.45%
Hang Seng CLOSED
AUSTRALIA CLOSED UP 0.76%
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Trading from Europe and ASIA
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(Nikkei (Japan) CLOSED UP 450.36 PTS OR 1.36%
INDIA’S SENSEX IN THE GREEN
Gold very early morning trading: 3403.45
silver:$33.00
USA dollar index early MONDAY morning: 97.92 DOWN 1.27 BASIS POINTS FROM THURSDAY’s CLOSE.
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Portuguese 10 year bond yield: 3.051 % UP 1 in basis point(s) yield
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SPANISH 10 YR BOND YIELD: 3.170 DOWN 0 in basis points yield
ITALIAN 10 YR BOND YIELD 3.645 DOWN 0 points in basis points yield ./ THE ECB IS QE’ ING ITALIAN BONDS (BUYING ITALIAN BONDS/SELLING GERMAN BUNDS)
GERMAN 10 YR BOND YIELD: 2.4690 UP 1 BASIS PTS
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Euro/USA 1.1517 UP .01324 OR 132 basis points
USA/Japan: 140.76 DOWN 1.224 OR YEN IS DOWN 25 BASIS PTS//
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The USA/Yuan 7.2896, CNY ON SHORE ..CHINA MUST DEVALUE TO GOLD
THE USA/YUAN OFFSHORE DOWN TO 7.2908: YUAN HIGHER
TURKISH LIRA: 38.21 EXTREMELY DANGEROUS LEVEL/DEATH WATCH/HYPERINFLATION TO BEGIN.//
the 10 yr Japanese bond yield at +1.289
Your closing 10 yr US bond yield UP 4 in basis points from WEDNESDAY at 4.363% //trading well ABOVE the resistance level of 2.27-2.32%)
USA 30 yr bond yield 4,878 UP 7 in basis points /11:00 AM
USA 2 YR BOND YIELD: 3.752 DOWN 3 BASIS PTS.
GOLD AT 11;00 AM 3420.15
SILVER AT 11;00: 32.90
Your 11:00 AM bourses for Europe and the Dow along with the USA dollar index closing and interest rates: MONDAY CLOSING TIME 11:00 AM//
London: CLOSED UP 0.00 PTS OR 0.00%
GERMAN DAX:DOWN
Spain IBEX CLOSED
Italian MIB: CLOSED DOWN
WTI Oil price 63.38 11 EST/
Brent Oil: 66.43 11:00 EST
USA /RUSSIAN ROUBLE /// AT: 81.01 ROUBLE UP 1 AND 9/ 100
GERMAN 10 YR BOND YIELD; +2.490 UP 1 BASIS PTS.
UK 10 YR YIELD: 4.5720 DOWN 5 BASIS POINTS
CDN 10 YEAR RATE: 3.195 UP 6 BASIS PTS.
CDN 5 YEAR RATE: 2.774 UP 4 BASIS PTS
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Euro vs USA 1.1517 UP 0.013100 OR 131 BASIS POINTS//
British Pound: 1.3378 UP .0091 OR 91 basis pts/
BRITISH 10 YR GILT BOND YIELD: 4.572 DOWN 3 FULL BASIS PTS//
JAPAN 10 YR YIELD: 1.289
USA dollar vs Japanese Yen: 140.76 DOWN 1.275 BASIS PTS
USA dollar vs Canadian dollar: 1.3826 DOWN 0.0007 BASIS PTS CDN DOLLAR UP 07 BASIS PTS
West Texas intermediate oil: 63.41
Brent OIL: 66.55
USA 10 yr bond yield UP 10 BASIS pts to 4.414
USA 30 yr bond yield UP 10 BASIS PTS to 4.913%
USA 2 YR BOND: DOWN 4 PTS AT 3.754%
CDN 10 YR RATE 3.238 UP 10 BASIS PTS
CDN 5 YEAR RATE: 2.790 UP 4 BASIS PTS
USA dollar index: 98.08 DOWN 1.04 BASIS POINTS
USA DOLLAR VS TURKISH LIRA: 38.18 GETTING QUITE CLOSE TO BLOWING UP/
USA DOLLAR VS RUSSIA//// ROUBLE: 81.01 UP 1 AND 09/100 roubles
GOLD 3320.70 (3:30 PM)
SILVER: 32.70(3:30 PM)
DOW JONES INDUSTRIAL AVERAGE: DOWN 971.82 OR 2.45%
NASDAQ 100 DOWN 449.79 PTS OR 2.46%
VOLATILITY INDEX: 34.04 UP 4.41 PTS OR 14.81%
GLD: $ 315.58 UP 9.46 PTS OR 3.09%
SLV/ $29.79 UP 0.24 PTS OR OR 0.81%
TORONTO STOCK INDEX// TSX INDEX: CLOSED DOWN 235.25 OR 0.97%
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TRADING today ZEROHEDGE 4 PM: HEADLINE NEWS
Gold & Crypto Surge, Dollar & Stocks Purged As Trump-Fed Feud Escalates
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MORNING BIG NEWS
Dollar Crashes On Powell Removal Speculation, Gold Soars To All Time High And Bitcoin Suddenly Spikes
Sunday, Apr 20, 2025 – 09:54 PM
What was a miserable shortened week for the USD has gone from bad to worse in early Asia trading, when the Dollar index suddenly collapsed to a fresh 3 year low
While there is no specific catalyst for the suddenly collapse in the illiquid early Asian session, which sees many countries on extended Easter holiday, Bloomberg quotes traders that hedge funds are selling the dollar against virtually any currencies after National Economic Council Director Kevin Hassett said Friday that President Donald Trump is still exploring ways to remove Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell, according to traders.
“The president and his team will continue to study that,” National Economic Council Director Kevin Hassett said Friday when asked by a reporter if removing Powell was an option.
Hassett then suggested, accurately, that the Fed under Powell, who was appointed by Trump during his first term, had acted politically to benefit Democrats.
“The policy of this Federal Reserve was to raise rates the minute President Trump was elected last time, to say that the supply-side tax cuts that were going to be inflationary,” Hassett said, adding that Fed officials opted not to go “on TV and at IMF meetings and warn about the terrible inflation from the obvious runaway spending from Joe Biden, and the obvious runaway spending from Joe Biden was textbook inflationary,” Hassett continued. “And then they cut rates right ahead of the election.”
Hassett, is of course, correct, as we first pointed out two weeks ago…
… as Bank of America’s Michael Hartnett pointed out on Friday…
Fed cut 50bps in Sept when stock market at record high, Atlanta Fed was forecasting +3% US GDP growth; Fed now determined not to cut rates after 20% market plunge, Atlanta Fed forecasting -3% GDP growth
… and as former NY Fed president Bill Dudley made crystal clear all the way back in 2019.
But since the market is terrified of the truth, especially if it means that Trump could take monetary policy actions into his own hands, the result has been a wholesale liquidation of all main currency pairs, with the EUR jumping to 3 year highs, even though Europe’s economy remains an unmitigated disaster (Germany’s upcoming debt spending spree notwithstanding), and even though the surge in the euro will make Europe’s modest recession into a brutal one..
… the Yen surging 11% from its January lows, and at just over 141, the highest it has been against the dollar since the summer of 2023…
… and, of course, gold which is storming to new record highs this evening, spiking above $3,373, its dip last week now a distant memory.
Yet none of these moves are surprising to anyone who read – as we repeatedly urged – the Miran Mar-A-Lago paper: yes, the plunge in the dollar is just what the admin quietly wants (they have repeatedly stated they want a strong dollar “in the long term”, but certainly not in the short, when the collapse in the greenback will boost US exports).
Ironically, if Powell will not cut rates to ease financial conditions, Trump’s repeated browbeating of the Fed chair and threats to fire him will crash the dollar low enough to where Trump will get his financial easing one way or another.
Still, there was one notable outlier in tonight’s Dollar selloff: bitcoin. While previously any plunge in the dollar (and by extension surge in the yen) would batter what was little is left of the carry trade, hammering tech stocks and cryptos, tonight we finally saw a regime shift, and after flatlining initially, a burst of buying pushed bitcoin almost $2000 higher, above $87000, and its biggest one day move since Liberation Day…
… and the result is that while bitcoin had generally tracked the DXY Dollar index lower for much of 2025, the last few weeks – and certainly Sunday night – have seen a very tangible snap in this relationship.
This breach in the right correlation between the two, suggests that with gold approaching ridiculous prices, the next flight to safety away from the collapsing dollar will be bitcoin – after all, it’s only a matter of time before all other central banks unleash a money printing frenzy to hammer their own currencies.
And since all bitcoin needs is a little unexpected upside to spark a huge short squeeze and to get the momentum trades piling on, should today’s phase reversal sustain for a few days, we may see new all time highs in bitcoin in a very short time.
But wait… because the real fun for non-fiat assets will start once other central banks – such as the BOJ and ECB – can no longer just sit and watch as the dollar disintegrates, pushing their own currencies into the stratosphere and killing their economies… and they retaliate by restarting the next round of global fiat debasement first by slashing rates and then by restarting the money printer.
USA DATA
Sentiment & Stock Prices Spark Biggest Plunge In US Leading Economic Indicators In 17 Months
Monday, Apr 21, 2025 – 10:15 AM
Since December’s Trump-optimism-driven surge in Leading Economic Indicators (the first since last February), The Conference Board’s headline index has decelerated rapidly with March data released today plunging 0.7% MoM – the biggest drop since October 2023…
Consumer Sentiment and Stock Prices were the biggest negative contributors, while Building Permits and Jobless Claims were the biggest positive contributors…
That dragged the total index level down to its lowest since October 2016…
“The US LEI for March pointed to slowing economic activity ahead,” said Justyna Zabinska-La Monica, Senior Manager, Business Cycle Indicators, at The Conference Board.
“That said, the data does not suggest that a recession has begun or is about to start.
Still, the Conference Board downwardly revised our US GDP growth forecast for 2025 to 1.6%, which is somewhat below the economy’s potential.
The slower projected growth rate reflects the impact of deepening trade wars, which may result in higher inflation, supply chain disruptions, less investing and spending, and a weaker labor market.”
The LEI’s six-month growth rate ticked down in March, but remained well above the recession threshold
So the economy is doomed (ish) because stocks and sentiment are down… because investors are pricing in a doomed economy…?
Perhaps the word ‘leading’ in this index is misleading…
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MIAMI
Miami is Florida’s strength and it has been hit by a breathtaking collapse in demand
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Miami Housing Market Hit By “Breathtaking” Collapse In Demand
Monday, Apr 21, 2025 – 12:45 PM
Nick Gerli, CEO and Founder of real estate analytics firm Reventure Consulting, has issued another troubling update on Florida’s housing market—this time sounding the alarm about a collapse in demand across the Miami metro area. He described the plunge in sales as “breathtaking.”
For the last few years, we’ve tracked the post-Covid surge in inventory hitting Sun Belt states, including this note from last summer:
This was followed by Gerli’s report in late January: “My Favorite Housing Market Graph Right Now“…
Now Gerli has offered more color on the deteriorating housing market in Miami:
The collapse in demand in Miami’s housing market is breathtaking. Sales are down 50% from pandemic peak, and are 30% below the long-term average for March. There’s a narrative building in Florida that somehow Miami won’t be impacted by this housing downturn. And that narrative is likely wrong.
Gerli debunked some misconceptions about the downturn, with some individuals saying this is “West Coast only.”
Inventory in Miami has surged to 51,000 homes – the second highest on record.
Meanwhile.
“In some ways, it’s surprising prices haven’t dropped by more already due to the demand collapse. And resulting inventory spike. but in the end housing downturns can take time to play out. And the whole Miami area is at a big risk if the current trends in the market continue,” Gerli noted.
According to the Reventure app, prices across Miami-Dade County are 20.3% overvalued.
He warned: “The more overvalued prices are, the greater the risk of downturns.”
Separately, and more broadly, the US housing inventory for new homes has hit its highest level since 2007.
What could possibly go wrong in an oversupplied housing market, with 30-year fixed mortgage rates hovering around 7%?
VICTOR DAVIS HANSON
Trump’s Counter-Revolution Strategy: Flood The Zone, Drain The Swamp
Saturday, Apr 19, 2025 – 09:00 PM
Authored by Victor Davis Hanson via The Daily Signal,
We’re getting close to 90 days and even coming up close, in a week, 10 days, to the first 100 days of the Trump administration and this counterrevolution that he’s waging.
I thought it might be wise just to see where we are as far as the political landscape and the dynamics of the progress of this counterrevolution.
What is President Donald Trump trying to do?
I think I would sum it up as flooding the zone. And that is, he’s going to try to propose and enact so many radical corrections or revolutions or reforms or recalibrations that his opposition doesn’t know where to start.
So, abroad, he is looking at the Iran deal and he got rid of it. He put sanctions.
He’s got maximum pressure. And now, the Iranian economy is about defunct. And they want to negotiate about this nuclear weapon. I don’t think they’re going to negotiate it away, but we’ll see.
And then, he’s dealing with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Russian President Vladimir Putin and trying to get a ceasefire.
He’s basically dealt with the Houthis.
On the domestic front, there is no more illegal immigration.
He’s basically stopped it. Now, the task is what to do with the 12 million illegal aliens that came under former President Joe Biden. And what do you do with the 20 million-plus, maybe 30 million that were here already illegally but for a longer period of time?
At the same time, he’s had a blanket mandate that in every Cabinet they will eliminate diversity, equity, inclusion and, by association, things like transsexual, biological males competing in women’s sports.
Women—lowering the physical standards so women could compete and pass these very rigorous endurance physical tests so that they would be in combat units on an equal level. No problem that they can’t. But they have to have the same physical requirements as men.
I could go on, but you see what he is doing.
He’s doing so many radical corrections in a way that a Romney or a McCain or the Bushes, even Ronald Reagan would not have dreamed of that he feels the opposition will say, “Well, what do we do? Should we reply here? Do we put our interest here? Should we do this?”
And so, what is the strategy that the Left is using?
They’re flooding the zone, too. But they’re doing it not with counterproposals. They don’t say, “This is what’s wrong with closing the border and we wanna reopen it. This is what’s wrong with the Houthis policy. This is what’s wrong with the trade deficit. This is what’s wrong”—no specific proposal.
They’re just flooding it with hysteria, the Spartacus talk, late-night comedy trashing him, another person arrested saying that he wants to kill Donald Trump, keying Teslas, firebombing Tesla agencies, outrageous things from Hollywood stars, videos from Congress. All of a sudden—we didn’t even know who Rep. Jasmine Crockett was. She’s filled that void.
But what I’m saying is they want to be so rambunctious, so crazy, so 360 degrees unhinged that they’ll create an image or a malu—where everybody wants to get almost in a fetal position: “Please, please make it all go away. I don’t know what Trump is doing but it’s so disturbing. Everybody’s so angry.” That is their strategy.
Now, what is Trump’s counterstrategy?
His counterstrategy is to actually get people on the other side of the aisle in Congress or in the country at large or in the popular culture and try to at least be friendly to them so then they can say, “I don’t agree with Trump but what he’s doing might be needed.”
So, we have Bill Maher going to Mar-a-Lago and actually saying very nice things about Donald Trump.
On the one hand, we have Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. fighting with a bulwark of the Left at one time, fighting with left-wing people who were calling him all sorts of names and saying that he is illiberal.
We had Gretchen Whitmer, the governor of Michigan. She was in the White House. Can you believe it? She was so embarrassed about a photo-op. She had to almost cover her face.
But you can see what Trump is doing. He’s trying to get people from all sides of the Democratic and liberal progressive movement and not compromise them, but get in the picture, so then the Left will say, “Well, how can we appeal to the public and get them all angry and frenzy and hysterical when some of our major celebrities, our political figures are in Mar-a-Lago?”
Who’s gonna win? We’ll see.
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| Trump blasts Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, says his ‘termination cannot come fast enough!’ – Trump’s anger was sparked by remarks Powell made on Wednesday, when the Fed chair highlighted concerns about the economic impact of the administration’s tariffs… Trump sharply rebuked Powell, stating, “The ECB is expected to cut interest rates for the 7th time, and yet, ‘Too Late’ Jerome Powell of the Fed, who is always TOO LATE AND WRONG, yesterday issued a report which was another, and typical, complete ‘mess!’” Powell has said he will not move on interest rates until he gets more clarity on Trump’s trade policies, which are effecting a wide range of goods…“Oil prices are down, groceries (even eggs!) are down, and the USA is getting RICH ON TARIFFS. Too Late should have lowered Interest Rates, like the ECB, long ago, but he should certainly lower them now.”… https://nypost.com/2025/04/17/business/trump-blasts-federal-reserve-chair-jerome-powell-says-his-termination-cannot-come-fast-enough/ Trump was just warming up! Hours later, at a presser from the Oval Office with Italy PM Meloni, JD Vance, Bessent, and other cabinet members, DJT cut loose on Powell, an unelected bureaucrat. @RapidResponse47: Reporter: “You said the termination of Jerome Powell cannot come fast enough. He says he won’t leave even if you ask him to.” @POTUS: “Oh he’ll leave. If I ask him to, he’ll be out of there. I don’t think he’s doing the job. He’s too late, always too late, a little slow. And I’m not happy with him. I let him know that.” https://t.co/UdG3zhBukX Trump: “We have a Federal Reserve chairman that is playing politics. Interest rates should be down now… The Fed really owes it to the American people to get interest rates down. That’s the only thing he’s good for.” DJT also said the Fed “is playing right into (EU’s) hands… But that’s because of the Federal Reserve and because they’re not very smart people from the president nominating him. From how you look in … Powell isn’t smart, period. @RapidResponse47: @POTUS: “Oil is way ahead of schedule and that’s because of our policies. Oil is down into the $60-$65 range now per barrel… Food is down, groceries are down… The costs are down. We have very little inflation.” https://x.com/RapidResponse47/status/1912934703335604663 When Team Obama-Biden created the biggest US inflation since Jimmy Carter, Powell, Goolsbee, Williams, Collins, or et al did NOT voice concern that the trillions of dollars in spending would unleash inflation. In fact, ‘they’ downplayed the possibility of inflation and ignored the inflation when it surged higher. Powell said Team Obama-Biden’s spending spree would produce “temporary inflation.” Powell was wrong or lying – and he let inflation run hot for years! NY Fed Pres Williams also downplayed Biden’s inflation: “I expect that as price reversals and short-run imbalances from the economy reopening play out, inflation will come down from around 3% this year to close to 2% next year and in 2023.” https://apnews.com/article/inflation-health-coronavirus-pandemic-business-6e7c813472a3eb706e0cdafe305c1477 Trump Has for Months Privately Discussed Firing Fed Chair Powell – WSJ Trump spoke with Kevin Warsh… about… firing Powell… possibly selecting Warsh to be replacement t… Warsh has advised against firing Powell… The conversations with Warsh carried into February… Politico: US Treasury Secretary Bessent has cautioned White House officials on attempts to fire Fed’s Powell (Bessent is the Street and Establishment’s ‘guy.’) Elizabeth Warren: “If Chairman Powell can be fired by the President of the United States, it will crash the markets in the United States.” (So, now we know the opposite is likely.) https://t.co/zGmUqEU1vC Zero Hedge, echoes our view: “Why did The Fed slash rates by 50bps just ahead of the election when financial conditions were already ‘easy’ but refuses to do so now that financial conditions are drastically tighter?” As we keep asserting, it’s more than not cutting rates. PE Powell and Goolsbee and other leftists are treasonously undermining Trump’s tariff negotiations with China, which are a matter of national (and economic) security. On Thursday, NY Fed President Williams joined Powell and Goolsbee in undermining Trump. Williams said there is no need to cut rates for the foreseeable future. “We need to make sure that any one-time changes in price don’t pass through into more persistent, higher inflation.” As we stated several weeks ago, Trump knows Powell and the Fed leftists are out to get him and undermine his agenda. But Trump can blame Powell for the stock market tumble and the recession. Federal Reserve’s ‘approval’ rating lags even the IRS’ July 27, 2009 The Gallup Poll found that just 30% of respondents rated the Fed’s performance either ‘good’ or ‘excellent… https://www.latimes.com/archives/blogs/money-company/story/2009-07-27/federal-reserves-approval-rating-lags-even-the-irs Gallup May 9, 2023: Americans Lack Confidence in Major Economic Leaders (Powell 36% approval) https://news.gallup.com/poll/505478/americans-lack-confidence-major-economic-leaders.aspx Powell’s Public Confidence Nears Historic Lows, Gallup Finds – BBG May 7, 2024 The survey shows 39% of US adults say they have a “great deal” or a “fair amount” of confidence that the Fed chairman would do the right thing for the economy, a slight increase from 36% a year ago when prices were rising more rapidly… (The S&P 500 Index was making new all-time highs at the time.) @j_fishback: If Fed Chair Powell held elected office, he’d be thrown out by voters overnight. Only 4% of Americans have a ‘great deal of confidence’ in Powell (cites Gallup). Why? He’s been late and wrong too many times, and Americans have paid the price. Our Constitution makes clear that the President has the right to fire any executive officer who screws up and appoint someone far more qualified. My take with @Varneyco this morning. https://x.com/j_fishback/status/1912889560477860114 Fishback and Varney condemn the Fed’s jumbo rate cut before the election as being overtly political. Fishback notes that ex-NY Fed President Dudley called for the Fed to work against DJT’s reelection. Despite ample evidence, Dems, Street stooges, and the establishment insult the masses’ intelligence by adamantly averring ‘the Fed is independent and nonpolitical; and its independence is sacrosanct.’ @APompliano: Truflation shows inflation is 1.36% today. Real-time inflation has been crashing since tariffs were announced. Tariffs are deflationary, not inflationary. The Fed should be cutting right now. 24% of Americans are Scrapping Plans to Make a Major Purchase Like a Home or Car Due to Tariffs: Redfin Survey (If tariff angst reduces consumer spending, deflation could appear. Powell and Fed leftists/academics would be wrong, again. And there will be demands for Fed reform!) https://investors.redfin.com/news-events/press-releases/detail/1315/24-of-americans-are-scrapping-plans-to-make-a-major Just like the media, Dems, and others, TDS is driving Powell & Fed leftists into self-destruction! CNBC Poll: Trump Sees +7 Net Approval on Deporting Illegal Immigrants https://t.co/JVPygH2cQv @VigilantFox: While the media claims Trump is turning his back on Europe, Giorgia Meloni just blew that narrative to pieces. “We both share another fight, which is the fight against woke and EDI [DEI] ideology that would like to erase our history… We share lots of things on tackling illegal migration.” “We have been talking about many bilateral topics and things that we can do together, about defense, about the economy, about space, about energy.”… “Italian enterprises will invest, as they’ve been doing for many years… in the next year, I think around $10 billion.” “That shows how interconnected our economies are.” https://x.com/VigilantFox/status/1912947202458337315 Meloni: “I am sure we can make a deal (with EU). And I am here to help with that.” Trump promises a trade deal with Europe “There will be a trade deal, 100 percent,” Trump promised. “Of course there will be a trade deal. They want to make one very much, and we are going to make a trade deal, I fully expect it, but it will be a fair deal.” https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/17/trump-promises-a-trade-deal-with-europe-00296112 CNN’s @alaynatreene: “We’re working on the big 15 economies first,” Treasury Sec Bessent says regarding the status of trade deals. DJT said “we have a mineral deal” (with Ukraine) that will be signed next Thursday. He also claimed that “we are talking to China… Will make aa very good deal with China.” The ECB cut rates on Thursday to 2.25% from 2.5%, its 7th rate cut since June. The ECB cited downside risks to economic growth due to tariff angst. ECB’s Lagarde back Fed chair after Trump criticism – AFP (Dodo birds of a feather…) “I have a lot of respect for my friend and esteemed colleague Jay Powell…” Of course, Lagarde supports PE Powell who, like other Fed Chairs, readily supplies the ECB and other European central banks with funding and currency swaps. Powell admitted on Wednesday that the Fed stands ready to aid other central banks. UnitedHealth shares tank 17% (23.4% at low) as company slashes profit forecast dramatically Cut its full year adjusted earnings outlook to a range of $26 to $26.50 per share, down from $29.50 to $30 a share. The firm also reported adjusted income of $7.20 a share in the first quarter, below analysts’ expectations of $7.29, according to FactSet… https://trib.al/X7ELhAc UnitedHealth’s horrid guidance and resultant 23.4% plunge on Thursday generated a 644-point DJIA tumble near 10:54 ET. Nvidia CEO stresses importance of China market in Beijing visit, Chinese state media reports CEO Jensen Huang said on Thursday that China was a very important market for Nvidia after the U.S. imposed a ban on sales of its H20 artificial intelligence chips to the country. “We hope to continue to cooperate with China,” Huang said in a meeting with Ren Hongbin, head of the China Council for the Promotion of International Trade, according to Chinese state broadcaster CCTV… http://reut.rs/42BHH9M ESMs vacillated between modest gains and moderate losses from the Nikkei opening on Thursday until they broke higher near 20:00 ET. ESMs then persistently rallied until they hit the daily high of 5371.25 at 3:16 ET. ESMs then reversed and sank, with only two moderate rallied, until they hit the daily low of 5285.50 at 10:37 ET. ESMs then rebounded. At midday on Thursday DJT said a trade deal with the EU was possible after meeting with Italian PM Meloni. She echoed DJT’s optimism: “I am sure we will make a deal on tariffs.” ESMs then rallied on EU-US tariff deal hope. ESMs hit 5359.50 at 14:25 ET and slid to 5304.25 at 15:51 ET. A late expiry related manipulation pushed ESMs to 5323.75 at the NYSE close. Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia names Anna Paulson as president Paulson, 60, will replace Patrick Harker on June 30, when Harker steps down after completing a 10-year term. Paulson is currently executive vice president and director of research at the Federal Reserve’s Chicago branch… (She works for Goolsbee! She taught at Northwestern. Another academic!!!) https://mynews13.com/fl/orlando/ap-top-news/2025/04/17/federal-reserve-bank-of-philadelphia-names-anna-paulson-as-president Google holds illegal monopolies in ad tech, US judge finds Alphabet’s Google illegally dominates two markets for online advertising technology, a judge ruled on Thursday, dealing another blow to the tech giant and paving the way for U.S. antitrust prosecutors to seek a breakup of its ad products… https://www.reuters.com/technology/us-judge-finds-google-holds-illegal-online-ad-tech-monopolies-2025-04-17/ A deadly E. coli outbreak hit 15 states (in November), but the FDA chose not to publicize it The outbreak linked to romaine lettuce killed one person and sickened at least 88 more, including a 9-year-old boy who nearly died of kidney failure. (Federal corruption is endemic!) https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/ecoli-bacteria-lettuce-outbreak-rcna200236 Positive aspects of previous session The NFL Draft is only 3 days away! The DJTA rallied 315.41 points; Avis +16.37% on Ackman hiking his Hertz position. Negative aspects of previous session The DJIA tumbled on UNH; Fangs declined moderately. USMs fell as much as 1 1/32. Gold retreated moderately. Ambiguous aspects of previous session What is the next move in the Trump-Powell war? First Hour/Last Hour Action [S&P 500 Index]: 1st Hour from NYSE Open: Down; Last Hour: Down; Pivot Point for S&P 500 Index [above/below indicates daily trend to traders]: 5288.86 Previous session S&P 500 Index High/Low: 5328.31; 5255.58 Former FAA contractor pleads guilty to spying for Iran, sharing private info on US airports, energy industry – Abouzar Rahmati pleaded guilty to conspiring to act and acting as an agent of the Iranian government in the US without prior notification to the attorney general Rahmati previously was an Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) 1st Lt., a branch of the Iranian Armed Forces, from June 2009 to May 2010. The IRGC is a designated terrorist group by the U.S. government… (He was naturalized. Notice how many naturalized US citizens get caught spying for their home countries, particularly Chinese? It sure looks like a well-conceived spy operation!) https://www.foxnews.com/us/former-faa-contractor-pleads-guilty-spying-iran-sharing-private-info-us-airports-energy-industry Rubio says US will ‘move on’ from Russia-Ukraine peace talks if no progress is made soon https://justthenews.com/accountability/russia-and-ukraine-scandals/russia-ukraine-peace-talks-will-end-if-no-progress-made After the NYSE close on Thursday, Netflix commenced Fang reporting season with a bang. Q1 EPS $6.61, $5.68exp.; Rev. $10.54B, $10.5B exp.; Sees 2Q Rev. $11.04B, $10.88B exp; Sees 2Q EPS $7.03, $6.24 exp; Sees 2Q Operating income $3.68B, $3.28B; NFLX +6.0% at high after close.g Fed Balance Sheet: -$303 million; Reserves: -$22.652B @JenniferJJacobs on Friday: Asked if firing Fed’s chair, Jerome Powell, is an option, Trump’s economic adviser Kevin Hassett tells us the president and team will continue to study that matter. Asian bourses on Friday. Nikkei +1.03%, Hang Seng +1.61%, CSI 300 +0.01%, Shanghai Comp -0.11%, Shenzhen Comp +0.03% Reuters: Japan’s Nikkei share average rose 1% on Friday to clock its best week in three months, as investors turned more hopeful that U.S. President Donald Trump would be able to broker trade deals with some of its top trading partners, including Japan… https://www.reuters.com/markets/asia/japans-nikkei-notches-best-week-3-months-trade-deal-hopes-2025-04-18/ On Friday, uber-liberal SF Fed President Mary Daly undercut Powell, Goolsbee, and Collins.‘We have room to cut rates (if inflation behaves); but we need to be gradual.’‘Uncertainty is not yet a weight on the economy; she is not hearing of firms making layoffsThe inflation adjusted neutral rate is close to 1%Long-run inflation expectations are still around 2%. ‘We have more room to run down the size of our balance sheet.’Unknown how far to go before reaching ‘ample’ levelRisks on inflation have increased.Balance sheet runoff now is exerting tightening on the economy, though it does matter to markets.Immigration changes are NOT having an immediate effect on the labor marketThere’s nothing unusual in global flows, given the large renegotiation of global trade relationships.As long as the markets are orderly and consistent with what’s going on in world, it’s expected.The scope, magnitude and timing of tariff policy initially looked large, but now the size is reducing, and time is stretched out.We need gradual reductions in interest rates to ensure we’re not overtightening.Fed independence is important; don’t want the Fed to respond to administration’s daily activities.We could have fewer than two cuts this year if inflation stickier, or more cuts if growth falters.https://www.moomoo.com/news/post/51819414/fed-s-daly-says-we-have-room-to-reduce-rates https://finance.yahoo.com/news/fed-daly-says-rates-hold-165439360.html Daly’s sanguine remarks were a stark deviation from Powell, Goolsbee, and Collins’ recent invectives. Perhaps Daly realizes that Powell and Fed leftists’ war with Trump has now garnered the attention of the masses – and the masses still detest the Fed for bailing out Wall Street in 2008-2009 – and most Americans will support populist themes when in conflict with establishment institutions. Trump revamps “Schedule F,” making it easier to cut Federal workers – Axios https://www.axios.com/2025/04/18/trump-federal-workers-schedule-f-firings Trump trolls Dems in Easter message, slams Biden as ‘highly destructive moron’ Trump also derided the “weak and ineffective” judges who have gotten in his way before turning his ire against Biden, 82, who he blamed for stoking the border crisis — before wishing all of them a happy Easter… https://nypost.com/2025/04/20/us-news/trump-trolls-dems-in-easter-message-slams-biden-as-highly-destructive-moron/ Trump: THE BUSINESSMEN WHO CRITICIZE TARIFFS ARE BAD AT BUSINESS, BUT REALLY BAD AT POLITICS. THEY DON’T UNDERSTAND OR REALIZE THAT I AM THE GREATEST FRIEND THAT AMERICAN CAPITALISM HAS EVER HAD! (This means you, Powell, Goolsbee!) Central Banks Stare into Trade-War Abyss with Rate Cuts Primed (Ex-the Fed) – BBG 19:00 ET Today – The DJIA and Ny Fang+ Index declined on Thursday and Friday despite expiry upward pressure. When this has occurred over the past few years, stocks have rallied in the ensuing session due to relief from pressure to liquidate expiring calls. Instead of the usual Sunday night rally, ESMs tumbled to 5279.00 second after the 16:00 ET opening. They rallied 22.75 to 5301.75 (-11.00) at 20:30 ET; NQMs -20.00 and USMs -15/32. Table talks says foreigners are frightened by the Trump-Powell (Goolsbee, Collins, Williams) tiff. Expected economic data: March LEI -0.4% S&P Index 50-day MA: 5705; 100-day MA: 5851; 150-day MA: 5833; 200-day MA: 5752 DJIA 50-day MA: 42,177; 100-day MA: 42,974; 150-day MA: 42,840; 200-day MA: 42,205 (Green is positive slope; Red is negative slope) S&P 500 Index (5282.70 close) – BBG trading model Trender and MACD for key time frames Monthly: Trender and MACD are negative – a close above 6306.68 triggers a buy signal Weekly: Trender and MACD are negative – a close above 5987.57 triggers a buy signal Daily: Trender is negative; MACD is positive – a close above 5645.69 triggers a buy signal Hourly: Trender and MACD are negative – a close above 5362.08 triggers a buy signal US Supreme Court temporarily halts deportations of Venezuelan migrants under wartime law https://www.reuters.com/world/us/venezuelan-migrants-told-imminent-deportation-under-us-wartime-law-2025-04-18/ The gutless and craven Roberts Supreme Court issued the ruling late on Good Friday, when few people would notice, and many were on vacation or observing Passover and preparing for Easter Sundy. SCOTUS Justice Alito excoriated the majority “literally in the middle of the night” decision to provide “unprecedented and illegally questionable relief without giving the lower courts a chance to rule, without hearing from the opposing party… with dubious factual support for the decision and without explanation for its order… Both the Executive and the Judiciary have an obligation to follow the law…” https://x.com/julie_kelly2/status/1913958129269604844/photo/1 Alito blasts ‘unprecedented’ SCOTUS move to halt Trump’s Venezuelan deportations: ‘Legally questionable’ – Alito said the SCOTUS decision did not allow the lower courts ‘a chance to rule’ https://t.co/xK2ACudvh8 (The US judicial overreach crisis has worsened!) GOP Sen. @BasedMikeLee: SCOTUS messed up. Alito called it out. @BillAckman: A nation in which one administration can allow millions of unvetted illegal migrants into the country but requires that a court vet each deportation decision in an individually adjudicated case will soon lose the values our democratic system was intended to preserve. Team Trump and others note that it is impossible to litigate millions of illegal alien deportation cases. The solution per below poster: Use leftists lawfare tactics on them. @WarlordDilley: By importing twenty million illegals, they also set up an absurd mission for President Trump to pursue, which is deporting every single one of them. This will not result in making America great again. It will simply make America 2020 again. This is 100% by design… How do you counter this tactic? The same way you counter all tactics in 2025… speed… Speed is the great equalizer with information warfare. There are only so many judges. There are only so many Dem leaders, activists, and organizers. Trump must turn the tables… Fire people who can’t be fired. Force them to litigate. Mass deport people who can’t be deported. Force them to litigate. Cancel hundreds of billions in funding that are not lawful to cancel and force them to litigate. If their strategy is to bog you down in court, saturate the environment in such a way that they don’t have enough time and resources to litigate every dramatic action you’ve taken. Close down agencies. Lock the doors. Seize computers. Send them all home. Force them to litigate… @MarinaMedvin: There is interesting precedent from SCOTUS that says illegals should be expelled not imprisoned. The distinction is deportation as a civil process vs. imprisonment as a criminal penalty… “The right of a nation to expel or deport foreigners who have not been naturalized, or taken any steps towards becoming citizens of the country, rests upon the same grounds, and is as absolute and unqualified, as the right to prohibit and prevent their entrance into the country. … The power to exclude aliens, and the power to expel them, rest upon one ground only—upon the inherent and inalienable right of every sovereign and independent nation to determine for itself, and according to its own constitution and laws, what classes of persons shall be permitted to remain within its jurisdiction.” Fong Yue Ting v. United States, 149 U.S. 698, 707-711 (1893)… @charliekirk11: Seeing a lot of panic about last night’s Supreme Court ruling on deportations. Just pause and take a breath. It’s a temporary injunction applying to one specific set of migrants pending a hearing. The full Court has repeatedly upheld the president’s power to preserve the border. 250 Years Ago Alexander Hamilton Told Us How to Handle These Anti-Trump Judges In Federalist No. 78, one of the most influential documents pertaining to the role of the judiciary in the then-proposed Constitution, Hamilton wrote that the courts “have neither FORCE nor WILL, but merely judgment” and cannot effectuate those judgments on its own… The judiciary, from the nature of its functions, will always be the least dangerous to the political rights of the Constitution; because it will be least in a capacity to annoy or injure them,” Hamilton wrote. “The Executive not only dispenses the honors, but holds the sword of the community,” he continued. https://www.westernjournal.com/250-years-ago-alexander-hamilton-told-us-handle-anti-trump-judges/ @DesireeAmerica4: Obama deported more illegals than any president in history, 3 million gone. No Supreme Court drama, no 1 AM rulings, no media meltdown. But the second Trump tries to deport violent cartel thugs using an old law still on the books, the courts go DEFCON 1. So, what changed? @mrddmia: The Supreme Court has already ruled DC Obama Judge Jeb Boasberg does not have the power to entertain cases like these. Yet he is doing it anyway. Jeb Boasberg is truly unhinged. He is endangering our national security. The House must open impeachment proceedings immediately. https://justthenews.com/government/courts-law/convicted-fbi-lawyer-who-boasberg-let-skate-more-deeply-involved-crossfire DC Obama Judge Jeb Boasberg just got slapped down very hard by the DC Circuit, including by even an Obama judge. The Supreme Court already ruled he has no jurisdiction over these MS13 deportation cases. He ignored the Court’s order twice. Once on contempt proceedings. Then on this separate case today. Convicted FBI lawyer spared from prison by Boasberg far more involved in Russia probe than known – The judge who has emerged as a top foe of Trump’s deportation efforts previously let a well-known Trump-Russia collusion hoax proponent off the hook. But newly-declassified Crossfire Hurricane records show the FBI’s Kevin Clinesmith was deeply involved in in the bogus Russiagate saga. Biden administration flagged deported El Salvadoran as illegal alien suspected of ‘human smuggling’ – Kilmar Abrego Garcia was stopped in Tennessee driving with an expired license and also was subject of a domestic abuse protective order requested by his wife, records show. Now she is making television appearances and participating in fundraising efforts, so far netting almost $200,000… https://justthenews.com/government/security/deported-el-salvadoran-man-flagged-during-biden-years-suspicion-human-smuggling @BillMelugin_: DHS has provided @FoxNews a bodycam image & HSI report from when Kilmar Abrego Garcia was pulled over by Tennessee Highway Patrol & was suspected of human trafficking in 2022. Per report, he had 8 people w/ no luggage in the car w/ him, & claimed to be driving them from TX to MD for construction work. Every passenger gave the same home address as Abrego Garcia’s address. The report says Abrego Garcia was evasive during questioning and had an expired license. He was not arrested or charged with any crime in relation to the incident. DHS says the report has yesterday’s date due to redactions made of law enforcement sensitive info for public consumption, but this is an old document. https://x.com/BillMelugin_/status/1913274382119546938 Tennessee Highway Patrol Confirms ‘Biden-Era FBI’ Told Officers to Release Kilmar Abrego Garcia During 2022 Traffic Stop Despite Speeding and License Violations It also remains unclear why the FBI would tell THP to release Abrego Garcia, who was transporting seven passengers in a vehicle he did not own, was operating without a valid license, and was reportedly answering questions with additional questions in a bid to avoid responding to THP questions. The FBI has yet to respond to a comment request from The Star, which sought to confirm the federal agency’s role in securing Abrego Garcia’s release in Tennessee…mizner9 https://tennesseestar.com/justice/tennessee-highway-patrol-confirms-biden-era-fbi-told-officers-to-release-kilmar-abrego-garcia-during-2022-traffic-stop-despite-speeding-and-license-violations-to/tpappert/2025/04/17/ Newsweek’s @josh_hammer: What in the world are Democrats thinking by going all-in for scoundrels like Mahmoud Khalil and Kilmar Abrego Garcia? Dems had a chance to move to the center after getting shellacked in November. They’re blowing it. El Salvador President @nayibbukele: Kilmar Abrego Garcia, miraculously risen from the “death camps” & “torture”, now sipping margaritas with Sen. Van Hollen in the tropical paradise of El Salvador! https://x.com/nayibbukele/status/1913028548001923259 Now that he’s been confirmed healthy, he gets the honor of staying in El Salvador’s custody. @EricLDaugh: Let me break down the trolling for everyone: 1. Bukele + Trump admin now prove Kilmar Garcia is bodily fine. Not mistreated. 2. A sitting Democratic senator is now on camera having margaritas with an illegal alien declared to be a member of MS-13. Trump on Friday: Senator Chris Van Hollen of Maryland looked like a fool yesterday standing in El Salvador begging for attention from the Fake News Media, or anyone. GRANDSTANDER!!! Sen. Van Hollen responds to ‘Margarita gate,’ claims drinks were planted by El Salvadorian officials https://trib.al/bXEKCZk Democrat Chris Van Hollen ridiculed for hilarious reason for why he didn’t drink ‘fake margaritas’ in El Salvador with alleged MS-13 gangster https://t.co/H2MEY7khil @WesternLensman: Democrat Senator, wearing an expression of grave concern while consoling an MS13 foreign national serial domestic abuser; while that same Senator never once considered a meeting with the family of Rachel Morin, his own constituent. Interesting optics, Senator. @bennyjohnson on Friday: Trump just CALLED OUT the Fake News and Democrats for defending an MS-13 terrorist. He held up an image in the Oval Office of the MS-13 tattoo on Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s hand. “I was elected to take bad people out of the US. I must be allowed to do my job.” https://x.com/bennyjohnson/status/1913354191927668850 @C_3C_3: “Maryland Man” had MS-13 on his knuckles. https://t.co/MIiXt8KMJ5 New Mexico Judge Abruptly Resigns After Suspected Tren de Aragua Gangbanger Arrested for Firearm Possession at His Home https://borderhawk.news/new-mexico-judge-abruptly-resigns-after-suspected-tren-de-aragua-gangbanger-arrested-for-firearm-possession-at-his-home/ @charliekirk11: CNN’s Harry Enten delivers a BITTER pill for Democrats… In 2016, only 38% of Americans wanted to deport all illegals. In 2025, 56% of Americans, a clear majority want to (deport) ALL 11 million+ illegals. https://x.com/charliekirk11/status/1912868802607648789 Confidence in Congressional Democrats hits all time low (25%) in new poll (Gallup, GOP 39%) https://www.foxnews.com/politics/confidence-congressional-democrats-hits-all-time-low-new-poll Saner angels in the Democratic Party are horrified that the party is catering to the whacko left. But the looney left is irate that Dem leaders and reps are not more strident and vicious in attacking DJT! Babylon Bee’s @JoelWBerry Judicial corruption and Congressional inaction will soon have even the most moderate Americans calling for a dictator to do what needs to be done. This is ridiculous. @DC_Draino: If the courts prevent Trump from deporting illegals, Democrats will be begging for Trump’s 3rd term compared to what will be rising up after him “A Communist system can be recognized by the fact that it spares the criminals and criminalizes the political opponent.” — Alexander Solzhenitsyn Member of Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz’s administration allegedly caused $20K in damage while vandalizing Teslas: report https://trib.al/DZa3XPx Alleged arsonist targeted Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro over Palestine… https://abcnews.go.com/US/alleged-arsonist-targeted-pennsylvania-gov-josh-shapiro-palestine/story @bonchieredstate: Remember when a dude firebombed the governor’s mansion in Pennsylvania, and then we found out it was in support of “Palestinians,” and the story just disappeared? (Some media said the firebomber was hostile to Democrats to imply that he was a Trump and/or GOP supporter!) @DC_Draino: This PhD student published an essay titled “When Must We Kill Them?” that calls for lethal force against the Trump admin & presumably its supporters. Nicholas Decker is openly calling for domestic terrorism b/c his side lost an election. This is the Left. Violent & unhinged https://t.co/3qnjgPKLWB @GrahamAllen_1: A bunch of (PAID?) old and overweight liberals are spending their Saturday protesting at JD Vance’s home!!! https://x.com/GrahamAllen_1/status/1913647316772303259 (VP Vance & his family were in Rome at the time. It was a staged photo op for the looney left.) @amuse: DOGE: NLRB whistleblower falsely claimed after DOGE received NLRB logins huge amounts of data were sent to Russia. Fact is DOGE didn’t have logins nor did they request them. When Daniel J. Berulis filed his whistleblower claim he had falsely assumed DOGE had received access. The DOJ need to investigate Daniel and his motive for accusing Elon Musk and his team of treason. https://x.com/amuse/status/1913665346281656394 @lukerosiak: This overweight woman with heart disease died while sleeping at her desk at Social Security HQ. CNN reported, no joke, that “medical experts” said that @DOGE might have murdered her. https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/14/politics/federal-workers-mental-health/index.html @ElectionWiz: DEFAMATION TRIAL: Former NYT opinion editor James Bennet tearfully apologized to Sarah Palin during testimony yesterday, admitting he “blew it” with a 2017 editorial falsely linking her PAC to a 2011 Arizona shooting @OliLondonTV: Blue Origin door opening goes viral after the door was opened from the inside before being closed so Jeff Bezos could wrench it open on camera. (How deplorable!) https://x.com/OliLondonTV/status/1912732975034454049 Revulsion at Katy Perry over her ‘ultimate insult’ to NASA astronauts stranded in space for 9 months – Katy Perry is facing fresh criticism for her bizarre behavior after her space flight this week — with critics saying her antics were an insult to NASA’s stranded astronauts. The singer emerged from the Blue Origin capsule and immediately dropped to her knees to kiss the dirt, elated to be back on solid ground after her mere 11-minute-round trip, of which only three minutes were spent in microgravity… On board were Jeff Bezos’ fiancé Lauren Sánchez, Perry, CBS Mornings co-host Gayle King, film producer Kerianne Flynn, activist Amanda Nguyen, and former NASA rocket scientist Aisha Bowe. The New Shepard rocket carried the capsule to the edge of space, 62 miles above Earth’s surface, allowing the crew to experience a few minutes of weightlessness… But the New Shepard spacecraft was designed to be autonomous, meaning no-one on board controlled any aspects of the flight… https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-14619619/Revulsion-Katy-Perry-ultimate-insult-NASA-astronauts-stranded-space-9-months.html On Jan. 31, 1961, a chimpanzee named Ham became the first hominid in space. Ham’s flight lasted 16 minutes, 39 seconds. The usual suspects trumpeted Bezos’ honey pod shot as some great space achievement for women. The chimp had a more stressful and pertinent ‘flight’ 64 years ago. Unfortunately for the ‘girl power’ crowd that egregiously overhyped Bezos’ gift to his honey, Perry, Gayle King, and others on the cannon ball shot insultingly bragged about their joy ride and painted it as ‘one giant leap for womanhood.’ Apologies to Neil Armstrong! Afghanistan Medal of Honor recipient Dakota Meyer reenlists in Marine Corps Reserves after 15 years – he felt he “had more to give.”… Originally from Kentucky, Meyer was awarded the Medal of Honor, the military’s highest honor, by then-President Barack Obama in 2011 for his heroics in Afghanistan when he charged five times in a Humvee into heavy gunfire to rescue comrades under attack by Taliban insurgents… His actions during the six-hour attack and firefight saved the lives of 36 people, both Americans and Afghans. He killed at least eight Taliban insurgents… https://www.cbsnews.com/news/medal-of-honor-recipient-dakota-meyer-reenlists-in-marine-corps-reserves-after-15-years-3/ (Dakota Meyer and his reenlistment got less media coverage than the faux Bezos astronauts.) Wannabe GI Jane sues Navy after her dream of becoming Navy SEAL comes to a crashing end over age (She is 41. Put her in, see how long she lasts!) https://trib.al/5cSf8MH Young people are converting to Catholicism en masse — driven by pandemic, internet & ‘lax’ alternatives (If a real theologian Pope appears…) https://trib.al/7LIq4KS @charliekirk11: One of the most shocking videos I’ve seen. A student at Florida State casually walks by with Starbucks and films another student who is shot fighting for their life. Has the wherewithal to post the video and not bother to offer help. This is pure moral rot. https://x.com/NapoleonBonabot/status/1912926941272744098 @LauraLoomer: Scott Bessent invites pro-impeachment and pro-censorship Trump hater to collaborate with him at the @USTreasury. Trump appointed US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent invited Rabid Trump hater John Hope Bryant to work with him at the US Treasury despite John Hope Bryant’s public praise of former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey @Jack for banning President Trump’s X account on January 8, 2021 after J6. Bessent called @johnhopebryant his “longtime friend” in the X post below on 4/3/25. Here’s the evidence that John Hope Bryant celebrated the deplatforming of President Trump, and called for Trump to be IMPEACHED 2 days after J6. John Hope Bryant also called on Trump to RESIGN after J6, but he has since been brought into the Trump admin by his good friend Scott Bessent. I am going to personally tell President Trump and personally show him these receipts. This is another egregious Trump admin VETTING FAILURE that puts President Trump at risk. Shame on @SecScottBessent. https://x.com/LauraLoomer/status/1913028178261467365 FSU shooting victims named as gunman’s tortured family past emerges https://trib.al/vhsptrT FSU shooter’s biological mom kidnapped him, fled to Norway amid bitter custody battle years before deadly rampage – NY Post (Another person with ‘issues’ commits mass shooting!) https://nypost.com/2025/04/18/us-news/fsu-shooter-phoenix-ikner-biological-mom-anne-mari-eriksen-kidnapped-him-amid-custody-battle/ @nicksortor: In a surprise to absolutely NOBODY, the terrorist just arrested by FBI for firebombing a Tesla dealership in Kansas City is trans. Almost **50%** of those arrested for terrorizing Tesla showrooms have been trans. https://x.com/nicksortor/status/1913322609690767502 @PeterSweden7: Britain has BANNED French philosopher Renaud Camus as it would go against “the public good”. He is known for being against open borders agenda. Chuck Schumer, Palestinian – Review of ‘Antisemitism in America’ by Charles E. Schumer With Judaism no longer of any real use to Schumer in the punishing game of politics in the 21st century, he needed to find a new identity… The identity Schumer needed to further his political goals was one that could harvest the goodwill of exhausted liberals while simultaneously unburdening itself of Western civilization’s pestering norms and portraying political opponents as irredeemable oppressors who couldn’t be reasoned with, only eradicated. In other words, a Palestinian… https://www.commentary.org/articles/liel-leibovitz/chuck-schumer-antisemitism-america/ @Williamjkelly: At Wednesday’s City Hall (Chicago) presser yesterday, Mayor Johnson was more upset about me being “insensitive” and calling Vice Mayor, Ald. Walter Burnett, what he is – a convicted bank robber, than he was about the S&P downgrade of Chicago’s credit due to his reckless $17.1 B budget. He dodged my question on whether he’s learned anything from LA Mayor Karen Bass’ incompetence. He’s sending Burnett ($500K+ salary) on an overseas trip at taxpayer expense – and twice refused my question about where Burnett was going, why and at what cost. Johnson’s election as Mayor was always about grift for him and his wife, Stacy. (A $5,000 “First Lady chair,” really? ) I don’t think he ever cared about Chicago or Chicagoans and….it shows. And, yes, that is Kennedy “F **k the pigs” Bartley ($192K salary) grabbing my mic. Just watch. https://x.com/Williamjkelly/status/1879944629820244340 | |
SWAMP STORIES FOR YOU TONIGHT
he has got to be kidding?
“He Who Has The Gold Makes The Rules” President Trump Proclaims Over Easter Weekend
by Tyler Durden
Monday, Apr 21, 2025 – 11:25 AM
While many are still wondering about whether or not the audit of Fort Knox is happening, it doesn’t seem like President Trump doubts the country’s gold holdings.
With gold surging through $3420/oz. for the first time ever this morning, many are pointing back to one of President Trump’s Truth Social posts from yesterday. Trump wrote on Easter: “THE GOLDEN RULE OF NEGOTIATING AND SUCCESS: HE WHO HAS THE GOLD MAKES THE RULES. THANK YOU!”.
Recall, in early 2025, Donald Trump and Elon Musk publicly questioned whether Fort Knox still holds its gold reserves. Trump announced plans to visit the site, while Musk suggested a live-streamed inspection, saying, “Maybe it’s there, maybe it’s not.”
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent then responded by citing a 2024 audit confirming the presence of 147.3 million ounces of gold, with no major withdrawals in years. He added that senators can request a tour through his office.
Meanwhile, we’ve laid out a number of reasons we think gold is surging in our article out this morning here.
“in a sign that investors are rotating investments away from the US, Deutsche Bank AG said that Chinese clients have reduced some of their Treasuries holdings in favor of European debt. European high-quality bonds, Japanese government bonds and gold are likely to be the potential choices for investors as alternatives to Treasuries, said Lillian Tao, head of China macro and global emerging market sales at the bank,” we wrote earlier this morning.
While there was no specific catalyst for the suddenly collapse in the illiquid early Asian session, which saw many countries on extended Easter holiday, Bloomberg quoted traders that hedge funds are selling the dollar against virtually any currencies after National Economic Council Director Kevin Hassett said Friday that President Donald Trump is still exploring ways to remove Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell, according to traders.
“The president and his team will continue to study that,” National Economic Council Director Kevin Hassett said Friday when asked by a reporter if removing Powell was an option.
Hassett then suggested, accurately, that the Fed under Powell, who was appointed by Trump during his first term, had acted politically to benefit Democrats.
“The policy of this Federal Reserve was to raise rates the minute President Trump was elected last time, to say that the supply-side tax cuts that were going to be inflationary,” Hassett said, adding that Fed officials opted not to go “on TV and at IMF meetings and warn about the terrible inflation from the obvious runaway spending from Joe Biden, and the obvious runaway spending from Joe Biden was textbook inflationary,” Hassett continued. “And then they cut rates right ahead of the election.”
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GREG HUNTER.INTERVIEWING TOM HAVILLAND
White Fibrous Clots from CV19 Vax, Contagious – Tom Haviland
By Greg Hunter On April 19, 2025 In Political Analysis35 Comments
By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com (Saturday Night Post)
For the last three years, a “Worldwide Embalmer Blood Clot Survey” has been uncovering what mortuary workers are finding in the bodies they are preparing for burial. Retired Airforce Major Tom Haviland took this upon himself after news of all the gruesome material that was being reportedly pulled out of the veins and arteries of these bodies. Now, there is a new discovery, and that is these fibrous clots, caused by CV19 vax injections, are showing up to be contagious or infectious. Haviland explains, “I surveyed embalmers all around the world in the United States, Canada, UK, Australia and New Zealand. In my latest survey at the end of 2024, 301 embalmers did respond. Out of 250 of them, or 83%, said they are still seeing the unusual white fibrous clots in the veins and arteries of their corpses. These are people with 20 and 30 years of experience, and they say they have never seen these clots before until the last four years since the rollout of the CV19 vaccines. . . .This is very scary stuff if the blood around these white fibrous clots happens to be infectious or contagious.”
Haviland says the scientists he talks to say the more CV19 shots you get, the more prone you are to these fibrous clots. Haviland says, “The crucial step is are these clots a special set of amyloid protein that is actually prion in nature? It’s actually infectious. It’s a misfolded protein that can make other proteins around it, that are perfectly healthy, misfold as well.”
Haviland says research shows these white fibrous clots can make other people sick. The tests that discovered these fibrous clots can be infectious were run by Dr. Kevin McCarin in Japan. Haviland says, “Here’s the scary part. For the last four years, embalmers have been seeing this in their embalming rooms. They have been pulling these white fibrous clots out that can be contagious. The blood that is coming off the corpse is draining down the embalming table and down into the sewers. Doctors that work in catheter labs or regular operating rooms and vascular surgeons have been pulling these clots out of living people in the last four years. They may have inadvertently infected themselves or the nursing staff with these infectious prions. Also, we know for the last four years people have been donating blood who have had the CV19 vaccines, and they could have infected blood prion, and that blood supply could be tainted. So, this has all kinds of ramifications to it. As soon I found this out, I immediately sent this information to RFK Jr. (HHS Secretary), and I have not gotten any response. So, I hope they are looking at this.”
There is much more in the 43-minute interview.
Join Greg Hunter of USAWatchdog.com as he goes One-on-One with Tom Haviland to do a deep dive into the “Worldwide Embalmer Blood Clot Survey” and the new discovery that the white fibrous clots can be contagious and infectious to everyone for 4.19.25.
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After the Interview:
There is lots for free information on Laura Kasner’s Substack called “Clotastrophe.” This is where Tom Haviland posts his survey work, like this new post called “A Horrifying Breakthrough in the White Fibrous Clot Saga.” There is zero charge to visit this site.
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