Anyone know why this has been halted from trading?

Europe (et al) has been in higher Euro pain since late 2016. Maybe TPTB think the USA has had enough pleasure, and they are taking away the punch bowl.

Or this is just a blip on the screen.

Dollar up, all others down since 8/3. Gold higher than 8/3 too. One of the two is lying.

http://finviz.com/futures_charts.ashx?t=CURRENCIES&p=d1

“The only other side to this insanity? ………the silent moral majority will rise like a phoenix….in simple terms. I am sill foolish enough to dream of this end to a new beginning.”

That sir is the hope, but it won’t happen without a lot more pain and despair. The minds of the youth in this country have been thoroughly destroyed.

Thank-you, Buygold for your clarity and insight. I would add, if this is true , the gates have been  closed and They won the war. We are all witnessing the beginning to their ends.

The only other side to this insanity? ………the silent moral majority will rise like a phoenix….in simple terms. I am sill foolish enough to dream of this end to a new beginning.

good fortune to all…..

North Korea is old news. There’s no longer a threat, never was.

PM’s say so. USD says so. The SM says so.

The SM ain’t going down again in our lifetimes nor will there be another crisis. Janet says so.

Bernie Madoff must be going ape, watching all these Crypto’s get issued…he could have been seriously rich and as free as a bird…if only he had waited.

Dunno how much more ridiculous they have to become before the bubble bursts….no product has to be close.

Welcome to Janets world…aka scumworld.

shit could have been avoided if TRUMAN hadent stopped MC ARTHUR  and fired him because he feared he was going to run for President …

WE were to only Nuclear Power and McArthur wanted to push all the way up to the China Border and OWN a united KOREA ..

That was a   HUGE MISTAKE and we NOW pay for it..I REMEMBER it very WELL  !  i KNEW IT WAS A MISTAKE THEN  ….

It was Trumans politics that created this mess …he was itching to find a reason to fire McArthur because he feared him at the POLLS>

Dr. Stephen Leeb

From the midweek edition of the Morning Jolt: History’s Brutal Verdict on the Last U.S. Agreement with North Korea Are the current tensions with North Korea something new, a harbinger of a new era of nuclear threats and negotiations that feel akin to blackmail? Or just the latest act in a three-decade cycle of almost regularly-scheduled provocations and demands that no longer surprise the United States and its allies?

Let’s go back to June 1994: the New York Rangers won the Stanley Cup, The Lion King opened up in theaters, O.J. Simpson was on the run in a slow white Bronco, and the world slowly recognized that North Korea was seriously pursuing nuclear weapons.

A few months earlier, North Korea had declared, during “peace” talks, “We are ready to respond with an eye for an eye and a war for a war. If war breaks out, we will turn Seoul into a sea of fire.”

The public didn’t know it at the time, but the United States was quite close to a major escalation that week, one that many in the Pentagon expected would lead to a Second Korean War: It was a tense scene in the White House on June 15, 1994. Perry and Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Gen. John Shalikashvili were briefing President Clinton and other top officials on three options to substantially reinforce the 37,000 U.S. troops stationed on the Korean peninsula since the end of the Korean War.

The Pentagon was advocating a “middle option” — moving 10,000 more troops, along with F-117s, long-range bombers and an additional carrier battle group to Korea or nearby. “We were within a day of making major additions to our troop deployments to Korea, and we were about to undertake an evacuation of American civilians from Korea,” Perry recalled.

The real fear was that North Korea would read the buildup and evacuations as certain signs of an impending attack, and launch a preemptive invasion of South Korea. U.S. analysts believed the North Koreans took one main lesson from the 1991 Persian Gulf War: Don’t give the United States time to mass its forces.

Perry told Clinton all the options were unpalatable, but that not to pick one of them would be disastrous. “My recollection is that before the president got to choose — was asked to choose — the door of the room opened and we were told that there was a telephone call from former president Carter in Pyongyang and that he wished to speak to me,” Gallucci remembered.

Jimmy Carter had been meeting as a private citizen with North Korea’s aging leader Kim Il Sung, and was calling to report a breakthrough. The White House session broke up and relieved officials watched television as Carter informed CNN by telephone of the latest development.

In other words, a conflict with non-nuclear North Korea was averted by Jimmy Carter freelancing.

By October, Bill Clinton announced the U.S. and North Korea had a deal: I am pleased that the United States and North Korea yesterday reached agreement on the text of a framework document on North Korea’s nuclear program.

This agreement will help to achieve a longstanding and vital American objective: an end to the threat of nuclear proliferation on the Korean Peninsula. This agreement is good for the United States, good for our allies, and good for the safety of the entire world. It reduces the danger of the threat of nuclear spreading in the region.

As with the Iran deal many years later, the deal with North Korea was not a formal treaty and thus never ratified by Congress.

Of course, the North Koreans cheated; the U.S. provided oil, two light water reactors, and a new electric grid, altogether worth roughly $5 billion, in exchange for promises.

U.S. intelligence agencies found evidence that North Korea was up to something; spy satellites detected massive underground excavations and construction.

A.Q. Khan, father of Pakistan’s nuclear program, traveled to North Korea several times.

A telling anecdote, reported in 2002: One Western diplomat who visited North Korea in May 1998, just as world attention focused on Pakistan, which had responded to India’s underground nuclear tests by setting off six of its own, recalled witnessing an odd celebration.

“I was in the Foreign Ministry,” the official recalled last week. “About 10 minutes into our meeting, the North Korean diplomat we were seeing broke into a big smile and pointed with pride to these tests. They were all elated. Here was a model of a poor state getting away with developing a nuclear weapon.”

The Clinton administration did not let the intelligence get in the way of a happy narrative of improving relations with North Korea.

By 2000, Secretary of State Madeline Albright was traveling to Pyongyang to meet Kim Jong Il and declaring the administration no longer labeled them a “rogue state.”

Secretary of State Madeleine K. Albright disclosed the change in the official lexicon today when she was asked about “the rogue state” of North Korea and its “rogue leader,” Kim Jong Il. “First of all, we are now calling these states ‘states of concern,’”

Dr. Albright told a radio interviewer on the same day the administration moved to ease trade restrictions against North Korea, a former battlefield foe that is continuing to develop weapons that may one day be capable of striking the United States.

In a long history of naïve foreign policy decisions and deals, the Clinton administration’s approach to North Korea ranks as one of the worst.

By 2002, the Bush administration confronted North Korea with evidence that they had an ongoing program to develop nuclear weapons. “We need nuclear weapons,” Kang Sok Joo, the North Korean senior foreign policy official, said, arguing that the program was a result of the Bush administration’s hostility.

[Assistant Secretary of State James] Kelly responded that the program began at least four years ago, when Mr. Bush was governor of Texas.

The Americans left after one North Korean official declared that dialogue on the subject was worthless and said, “We will meet sword with sword.”

Reading about the 1994 North Korean deal today feels like watching The Usual Suspects the second time. You know who the villain is, and who is not to be trusted, and you shake your head every time you see someone naively trust the villain.

Senator Dianne Feinstein responded to the news that North Korea has successfully produced a miniaturized nuclear warhead that can fit inside its intercontinental ballistic missiles by declaring, “our policy of isolating North Korea has not worked. The United States must quickly engage North Korea in a high-level dialogue without any preconditions.”

What does she want to do in that high-level dialogue? North Korea has already demonstrated that they’re willing to lie and cheat. How likely is it that they’ll just give up their nukes and ICBM capabilities at the negotiating table?

by JIM GERAGHTY August 9, 2017 9:19 AM @JIMGERAGHTY
Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/450306/historys-brutal-verdict-last-us-agreement-north-korea

was not internal ..it was missile engines developed in the UKRAINE  with Russian Technology and Democrats looking for Regime change in RUSSIA that has caused the Technology to NOW fall into

the Hands of N.Korea .Clintons & Biden were involved  in giving the Technology to a Regime they supported in the UKRAINE …thats where the ENGINE technology was developed with Russian technology ,but after the Democrats Fucked up the Government in Ukraine and took it out of Russian security the Technology was traded to N.KOREA  for money ..

N.Korea was no where close to that good a technology when all of a sudden it was …sure with Democrats interference in Ukraine politics and Clinton Foundation gained money ..

“Ukraine is a failed state, brought on by deliberate US-CIA coup that destroyed the previous government in order to have an EU takeover, and rothschild central banking.
Now, the unintended consequence is what is revealed with N Korea using ukrainian missiles. The question now is what Kim Jong Un will do in response to this revelation, i.e., attack or go silent. The neocons can absolutely take credit for this latest nuclear crisis, where they cause the crisis, then reap the financial rewards that result from greater defense spending.

This strongly resembles or mimics the classic bankster scam where large amounts of debt are created, requiring ever increasing interest payment, which in turn requires increasing creation of “money” (debt) to pay off the initially created debt, and so on ad infinitum. Nothing new here, except the commensurate required numbers of greater fools increasing exponentially along with the debt!”

of S Korea and that will leave China as Head of Korea & Japan crippling the manufacturing supply chain of the US ….

Not once have I done the same thing – never, just like you. What the hell is wrong with guys like us???

They handed us gold, silver and the shares today on a silver platter, and tomorrow – as G & S are getting crushed in the AH – WTF is wrong with us?

Easy G-Damn money. Do we really think that effing gold and silver and the shares might wake up?? AND TAKE OFF TO THE UPSIDE???

That’s idiocy.

Boston going to have a free speech rally in on Aug 19 TH. Left groups already organizing to Attack them. They are not affiliated to any race group but a Hillary ” yeah still butting her nose in” spokes person already starting fake news about them they said.
http://www.masslive.com/news/boston/index.ssf/2017/08/boston_free_speech_rally_organ.html

TA that matters when it comes to Gold is when it is about to break out. Then it is time to get short or hedge yourself. Have I done that? Never. How many times in the past several years have we had a true breakout in the metals?

Composed largely of aging radicals. A supporter of both Communism and Islamic jihad Brennan shouldn’t be anywhere near our government.

Out of hatred for McGovernite liberals, a Republican president in the 1970s broke the law. Now those aging radicals break the law out of hatred for a Republican president.

Nested within intelligence agencies, they have fed a series of criminal leaks to a press corps that functions like an anti-Trump dirty tricks operation.

Donald Trump has publicly speculated that former CIA director John Brennan is one of the criminal leakers. In January, he tweeted out, “Was this the leaker of Fake News?” Trump has now charged the Justice Department with investigating “low-life leakers” in the government.

Former CIA analyst Tony Shaffer also suspects Brennan as one of the leakers. He said on Fox Business Network that the leaks which forced Michael Flynn out can be laid “squarely at the feet of” Brennan, among other embittered Obama aides.

What we know is that intelligence agencies taped Flynn’s call with the Russian ambassador, and we know that the contents of the call were leaked to the Washington Post’s David Ignatius, who is a de facto stenographer for political liberals at the CIA. We also know that Brennan has made no secret of his opposition to Trump and Flynn. By opposing Brennan’s overtures to the Muslim Brotherhood and his refusal to grapple with the spread of Islamic terrorism, Flynn became enemy number one in the eyes of Obama holdovers at the CIA.

All of this gives the Justice Department ample reason to focus on Brennan. He had the means and motive to commit a crime.

“When I hear [former CIA head] John Brennan with the venom that seems to be in his voice after Donald Trump was elected president, it’s not hard to imagine that in the intelligence community, Donald Trump has his enemies and those enemies are not as restrained as they ought to be,” said Congressman Steve King on MSNBC.

Indeed, John Brennan brought with him to the CIA a coterie of political radicals and left-wing academics and gave them plum positions from which to leak to the press. So dedicated was Brennan to open political activism that he would walk the halls of the CIA in an LGBTQ “rainbow lanyard,” reports Bill Gertz of the Washington Times.

According to Gertz, Brennan turned his left-wing hires into “operatives” by fiddling with standards at the Directorate of Operations. These political hacks disguised as apolitical operatives had no more business receiving high-security clearances than Brennan himself did.

Recall the astounding admission Brennan once made at a “diversity” conference in 2016: that he thought he had “screwed” up his chances to enter the CIA after undergoing a polygraph test which smoked out his support for the American Communist Party during the Cold War. This sounds like a parody, but it isn’t. As he recounted:

More before it dissapeares.

Leaky John Brennan

China just sold NK material for nukes.

https://www.cnbc.com/2017/08/14/investment-firm-vaneck-calls-bitcoin-a-fad-then-files-for-bitcoin-etf.html

Comment: Like em or Hate em, those damn ETF’s are here to stay. Today, DSLV and GASX saved my trading account from the disaster in Gold & Silver Stocks. Getting tough to make a buck these days. 🙂

China hands Trump a win on North Korea crisis

https://www.cnbc.com/2017/08/14/in-north-korea-crisis-china-hands-trump-a-win-commentary.html

Comment: Agree 100% with Richard640. Nothing matters anymore except the Algo’s. Reality, at least in the arena of politics, media, and the markets no longer exists. Cant wait for the ETF’s to start up on Bitcoin. Maybe I can make a few bucks. Grrrr!

It ain’t just the Algo’s, it’s the likes of the Swiss CB printing $ 85 billion worth of SFr’s and then sticking into the US SM ….those old Swiss Bankers are spinning at Warp speed in their graves.

stock up 95 % today ..it does more in 1 day than Silver does in 2 years    WTF !