there and below to frustrate a real sell off……What price will those shorts end up paying…..

Ps that election in Holland where a Globalist/WEF stooge may have won, means Holland will do zilch to solve it’s debt and gimmiegrant problem……

Yes the interventions in all the markets are staggering … there is no way this turns out well in the end … I sincerely hope the public grows a pair at some point and gets rid of the bums.

In the PMs so called market … gold sees open interest spoofing every day now … 12,000+ in preliminary numbers down to zippity-doo-dah (155) in the final tally … yet again.

Gold Futures Volume & Open Interest – CME Group

Gold looks like a shoe in to finish above the large round number at $4,000, but silver won’t make $50 by the looks of things.

I think they have one more down draft in November if the broads swoon but what do I know.

I’m a perma-bull normally – whatever that means.

Cheers

Oil Spikes On Reports US Military Attacks On Venezuela Imminent, Just ‘Hours’ Or ‘Days’ Away

“It sounds like it will be a full regime change operation, with a ‘friendly’ pro-US opposition leader likely to be installed into power – such as the latest Nobel Peace Prize winner María Corina Machado, who just in a non-peaceful manner warned Maduro that “his time is up”, after repeatedly calling on Trump for some kind of intervention in her country.”

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/us-military-attacks-venezuela-imminent-just-hours-or-days-away

On account of the “Climate Crisis.” LOL 🙂

Mark
@Mark_IKN
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53m
After chewing the $FRES.l and $PRB.to deal over with a couple of ppl:

• $AEM will not like the idea of Mexico moving on “its territory”
• Deal terms/break fees leave the door open for a counterbid
• We know the size of the AEM war chest

Ball’s your side of the court, Agnico

Mark
@Mark_IKN
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https://x.com/Mark_IKN/status/1984237076485931353

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/fresnillo-acquire-probe-gold-c-070000090.html

39% Premium, not so bad.

Nice to see the HUI/Gold chart getting frisky. Soon to tell the tale!

https://x.com/i/status/1984025018406441110

What would be one hell of a close and make for very nervous shorts ,would be Gold above $ 4050 and Ag above $ 50. to end the month……

but the way it keeps bouncing here, I would suggest the shorts , if they weren’t just machines, are very nervous.

100% right. We were sailing along about an hour or so ago, when all of a sudden they came in with some carpet bombing with the sole purpose of driving prices down below those round numbers at $4K and $49. I suspect this is just one of many we will see today.

At the same time, the QQQ’s are roaring back because they cannot finish the week down after the Fed has done a rate cut. The funny thing is that the rate cuts have done nothing to rates. The 10 yr. is up 10 bips to 4.1% since they did their cut. If I’m not mistaken, rates have been cut 1.5% since the attempted Biden save at the end of last year, yet bond have not rallied.

The Fed, just like the dollar, is becoming irrelevant.

Daily manipulations are the only thing they have left.

and sub $49 Silver or lower……which means that a very good chunk of all this selling is not what you call natural …this is not long liquidation, it is tape painting….Which also says, someone is short and needs prices down, to get out.

The constant weakness in the shares also says there are shorts there….which if long AU may well have treated the recent share rally as just another bear mkt rally to short.

The funnel webs are aggressive spiders. They will attack you if disturbed rather than running for cover. The webs are woven in holes, hence a funnel shaped web, to alert them to prey. So they also like to live under timber houses (which is where I met one) where there are plenty of cracks and crevices suitable for a web, without the effort of digging a burrow.

A dream come true
https://www.railpictures.net/photo/889447/

Posted today. He’s been tracking the Fed monetizing debt since Bernake. Interesting points.

Speaking of which. Apparently one of your web spiders can save lives.

The hero of this story is the Darling Downs funnel-web spider, from Australia—one of the world’s deadliest arachnids.

Scientists at the University of Queensland and Monash University found that a compound in its venom called Hi1a works by blocking tiny calcium channels in cells known as ASIC1a (acid-sensing ion channels).

When your heart or brain is suddenly starved of oxygen—like during cardiac arrest or stroke—these channels open and flood the cells with calcium. The overload triggers inflammation and cell death within minutes.

Hi1a acts like a microscopic “web” that shuts those gates, protecting heart tissue from the fatal calcium surge.

In rat and pig models, a single dose preserved oxygen-starved heart muscle and even restored electrical activity when blood flow returned—essentially giving damaged cells a second chance at life.

Researchers now call it one of the most promising heart-attack and stroke treatments ever found in nature, and they’re already preparing for human trials.

This is an exciting development, and we’ll be following it closely. But let’s be honest here – spider venom isn’t coming soon to a supplement bottle near you.

The intent here is to develop a drug – and probably a very expensive one.

There are currently several venom-derived drugs on the market today, some of them selling for thousands of dollars a dose.

But here’s the good news – we know the venom works by protecting your heart’s “calcium gates” and oxidative defenses. And there are two natural remedies that work in a similar way:

Magnesium: This essential mineral acts as a natural calcium-channel blocker, helping your heart muscle relax and recover after stress. Studies show that maintaining healthy magnesium levels can reduce the risk of arrhythmia and support blood-vessel flexibility. Aim for about 320–420 mg per day from diet or supplements.

Omega-3 fatty acids: Found in fish oil and flaxseed, omega-3s calm oxidative stress and inflammation—the same processes that Hi1a targets downstream. A daily dose of 1,000 mg EPA/DHA has been shown to help protect cardiac tissue and circulation.

These nutrients don’t resurrect dead cells, but they help prevent the damage in the first place—keeping your heart’s electrical system stable and your circulation strong.

So as researchers harness this strange venom’s power to save hearts (and make a buck), remember—nature’s own defenses are already at work.

To keeping your ticker from giving you a fright,

Rachel Mace
Managing Editorial Director, e-Alert
with contributions from the research team

P.S. The heart crisis doctors aren’t talking about.

I’m impressed with your knowledge of computers. Now I know the difference but I suppose it would be similar to talking Latin terminology to a lay person and as far as computers that what I am.  Actually wrote in Latin so long when I finally got around to computers I realized I was forgetting how to write in English. I remember hearing a English teacher saying medical people’s writing drives her crazy. Seems like a better word would be something like ineffectual or meaningless. I think I understood that part just not what it was referring to like a familiar name. Still not lol Just all a big library to moi.

I didn’t mean it to come across that way. The internet dross refers to the data. Specialised data in the SLMs, the dross, the unrefined data, in the LLMs. Taking Goldie’s comments into consideration, consider a reference library, with carefully set out sections. A series of SLMs. Now mix up all the sections, add in all the literature, journalism, twitter-facebook-instagram-tiktok opinions, advertising, emotions, religions, history, climate – everything, in a random fashion, and you have the LLMs, which require huge computing power to search all the data, eliminating dross to find the gem you are looking for. Which currently they don’t, and probably will never be able to. So serious users will use, and pay for, SLMs. Leaving everyone else sorting through the dross in the LLMs.

Peter St Onge, Ph.D.
@profstonge
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7h
Europe keeps shooting itself in the foot.

France plans a wealth tax that would effectively tax 40%of gains.

On top of the 57% of GDP they already tax.

https://x.com/i/status/1983858925540676089

Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD) Returns: Why Trump’s Nuclear Weapons Testing Directive To The Secretary of the Department of War Shifts Global Risk Perception Towards More Safety Hedges

This is not just another geopolitical headline—this is a fundamental shift in global risk perception

The world changed yesterday. In a move that shatters 32 years of nuclear testing moratorium, President Trump has directed the Pentagon to “immediately” resume full-scale nuclear weapons testing for the first time since 1992.

This is not just another geopolitical headline; this is a fundamental shift in global risk perception that historically drives massive capital flows into the only asset that has preserved wealth through every major conflict in human history: gold.

The implications of this directive extend far beyond military strategy. When the world’s largest nuclear power abandons three decades of restraint and prepares to detonate nuclear devices for the first time since the Cold War ended, it signals that geopolitical risk has reached levels that require the ultimate insurance policy.

That insurance policy is not found in fiat currencies, government bonds, or stock markets; it is found in the 5,000-year-old store of value that has survived every empire, every war, and every monetary crisis in recorded history.

The End of the Post-Cold War Era

Trump’s nuclear testing directive represents the definitive end of the post-Cold War era and the beginning of a new age of great power competition where mutually assured destruction once again becomes the ultimate arbiter of international relations.

The United States conducted ~1,032 nuclear tests between 1945 and 1992, mostly in Nevada and the Pacific, before Congress imposed a testing moratorium amid growing international pressure for arms control.

The 1996 Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT) banned all explosive nuclear tests, creating a framework that the U.S. signed but never ratified, yet adhered to voluntarily for over three decades.

This voluntary restraint represented the triumph of diplomacy over military posturing, the belief that nuclear weapons could be maintained through computer simulations and non-explosive experiments rather than live detonations.

That era is now over. The directive to resume “immediate” preparation for nuclear testing suggests that tests could begin within months, likely starting with underground detonations of nuclear devices to verify designs, fix aging components, or develop new low-yield tactical weapons for hypersonic missiles.

The Pentagon will need to reactivate infrastructure that has been mothballed but maintained, representing a massive mobilization of resources toward preparation for nuclear conflict.

The psychological impact of this shift cannot be overstated. For an entire generation of investors, the threat of nuclear war has been theoretical rather than practical.

The resumption of nuclear testing makes that threat tangible and immediate, fundamentally altering risk perception in ways that will drive capital flows for years to come.

Metals and Miners

I didn’t bother listening to Powell expected interest rate cut. He laid it out pretty good what will happen next.  There gonna be printing again more inflation again and trying to use housing again they already screws up to save jobs. We’ll see what happens. New home building in places with land to compete with existing and at lower interest.  Inflation on the way. They never learn.

might be back in play.

Doing well against the dollar.

Shares getting traction again.

What’s not to like?

Hope you’re still spending some of that money.💰👍

Mali revokes over 90 mining exploration permits for non compliance

https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/mali-revokes-over-90-mining-exploration-permits-2025-10-29/

Simon Dixon
@SimonDixonTwitt
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Oct 29
Central banks are selling US debt.

Stablecoins are buying US debt.

What happens to the stablecoin yield from US debt at Tether?

It buys Bitcoin.

It also buys the White House ballroom—because stablecoin issuers have become the exit plan for US debt.

Stablecoins are the new tool in the debt-based Ponzi.

https://x.com/SimonDixonTwitt/status/1983490593964597725

Paolo Ardoino 🤖
@paoloardoino
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Oct 29
With 135 billion of U.S Treasuries, Tether is now the 17th largest holder of U.S debt, passing also South Korea.
Soon Brazil!

https://x.com/paoloardoino/status/1983455972636111011