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Brightline at Orlando
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I have a friend like that… phone pix of everything he will never look at again.  Clouds!  Cloud formations that look to him like something this or that. He had an iPhone with max memory when he got it.  Recently it clogged up on him and was unable to update the OS.  So I told him to get ruthless and start deleting pix and especially videos that were worthless.  Took him a week.  Still didn’t work.  ‘Deleting’ just puts stuff in a ‘trash’ file that still takes up memory room.  We had to empty the trash file to get his phone to update the OS.  About half his memory was recovered.  But now he’s back to his old ways.  Photos of nonsense stuff he will never look at again,  “but it had to be saved”…. for something.

Yeah we haven’t been punched in the head yet ………………….. plenty of time still!

I realised it first when people started using phones with cameras, nearly 30 years ago. All of a sudden you could take and store a thousand or two photos on your phone, of all things, at zero cost. This meant that quality deteriorated; you don’t spend time getting the light correct, or the pose, you fire away and get one reasonable shot out of five – but don’t bother deleting the other four. Within a couple of years people have tens of thousands of photos that they will never look at, and can’t find the ones that they want. By now they will have hundreds of thousands. The same has happened with medical papers which are so easy to publish online that there are now over 80,000 papers saying how good statins are and 500 warning the opposite. Finding  the 500 would be difficult enough without them being suppressed.

Sometimes I think there’s a concerted effort to overwhelm us with info, whether true or not true, to keep us in a state of confusion. This Iran thing is a perfect example, it’s on, it’s off, Hormuz is open/closed, etc. I guess so we’re so exhausted we don’t know which end is up, all the while they are herding us into digital prison, or whatever they have planned.

Ipso – looks like that Axios statement was good enough to pump the SM up as futures are firmly positive. No such luck with pm’s yet.

Intelschizo
@Schizointel
Updated list of international emergency response to assist Venezuela by country

🇦🇷 Argentina 26 personnel / 4 dogs
🇧🇷 Brazil 44 personnel / 6 dogs
🇨🇦 Canada 7 personnel / 2 dogs
🇨🇱 Chile 45 personnel / 0 dogs
🇨🇴 Colombia 64 personnel / 4 dogs
🇨🇿 Czech Republic 70 personnel / 8 dogs
🇩🇴 Dominican Republic 32 personnel / 2 dogs
🇪🇨 Ecuador 47 personnel / 2 dogs
🇸🇻 El Salvador 300 personnel / 4 dogs
🇫🇷 France 65 personnel / 4 dogs
🇩🇪 Germany 48 personnel / 7 dogs
🇮🇳 India 41 personnel / ? dogs
🇮🇱 Israel 25 personnel / 0 dogs
🇮🇹 Italy 34 personnel / 3 dogs
🇯🇴 Jordan 100 personnel / 8 dogs
🇱🇹 Lithuania 23 personnel / 2 dogs
🇲🇽 Mexico 261 personnel / 18 dogs
🇳🇱 Netherlands 64 personnel / 4 dogs
🇵🇦 Panama 61 personnel / 4 dogs
🇵🇪 Peru 44 personnel / 1 dog
🇶🇦 Qatar 90 personnel / 6 dogs
🇷🇸 Serbia 10 personnel / 1 dog
🇪🇸 Spain 97 personnel / 4 dogs
🇨🇭 Switzerland 80 personnel / 8 dogs
🇸🇾 Syria 15 personnel / 0 dogs
🇹🇷 Turkey 67 personnel / 2 dogs
🇬🇧 United Kingdom 68 personnel / 6 dogs
🇺🇸 United States 312 personnel / 18 dogs

Total: 2,140 personnel / 128 dogs

Same goes for AI. Chatting to someone yesterday who was using it for a particular purpose about which I happen to know quite a bit, and it was clear it was mixing American law with Australian law to come up with unnecessary and onerous requirements for him. I’ve seen this three times now with advice from lawyers, the lazy sods send out AI gobbledook which they expect you to sign off on. Sometimes it’s not even English! And then they expect you to pay for the corrections which aren’t always grammatical, but errors in fact …. they should be paying me for correcting their advice.

What is really pissing me off now is that there is no such thing as a simple google (duck-duck-go, ecosia etc) search because of the vast amount of data out there. Stuff that I know to be true is impossible to find amongst the tens of thousands, millions of databytes with the same keywords. Which is why during covid I printed reams of articles which I suspected would either disappear or be swamped out of search reach.

The Hormuz Letter
@HormuzLetter
BREAKING: Axios claims the US and Iran have agreed to stop attacking each other and meet this week in Doha, Qatar.

Of course, this comes just 1 hour before the US stock market futures open.

I agree. Always thought Sinclair was sincere though, just underestimated their ability to manipulate via the computers. Everything in this country changed after 9/11.

Yeah no matter what they say you have to do your own DD. At first it uses to be Sinclair.

Things can change too and its the responsibility of the stock holders to be watching not expect someone to tell them what to do.

The guy in the green shirt was hilarious.

So many crap videos, the AI personalities are fairly easy to detect but it’s still just dishonest. Although sign I guess the same could be said for the guys that put their actual faces on video with wild predictions that sound so convincing.

We are in a world where discernment is more important than ever.

I kinda agree with deer79’s take that the market is over estimating the chance of rate hikes. Then again, if oil heads back over $100 who knows?

All the info coming out about this Iran thing is really tough to disseminate. It’s hard for me to believe it’s not going to really escalate.

Whatever that little bounce in pm’s was appears to be over. Still don’t understand gold being down during geopolitical strife.

So now he’s disguised as a old man. I wonder if he’ll try cross dressing next.

They can be educational but nothing we don’t already know. It appears someone not only wants views and money. He may be pro PMs or not but it’s deceiving implying that he’s so petty going to go on YouTube and insinuating use his position for monetary gain. The only one petty is the one doing it. In 2025 PMs were moving up nicely on their own until the talking heads came out and the speculators came in and a stampede started. That about the only thing the videos are good for me sides entertainment is a warning a stampede is coming. We can’t complain too much but if it gets too high too fast it causes a crash.

So the nice slow move up going unnoticed suddenly turns into a buying frenzy beyond cause that then has to be halted. Then the spectators run to the shorting frenzy.

I think this warning will reflect more in the future not all at once in the present unless things happen than a sudden fast crash in the dollar.

Yep, from your link, it sure looks like that is the case.

I had no idea that that there was a series of those videos. What a waste of time.  IMO any impersonation without acknowledgement should suffer legal consequences.

What a shame – Warsh and Bessett are known to be pro PM and it has been my dream that Trump would use the 250^th Anniversary to announce a significant change to our monetary system.

Looks like we are back to same old, same old thing.  Ugh.

@ 10 mins in…..he says it looks like the US are going to take out the IRGC and their mates from the ME.

I’ve felt for some time now, that the constant mantra ( that Gold and Silver have been going down because of the threat of higher interest rates) are BS!

With midterms right around the corner, and the ticking time bomb of our National debt, manipulations are perpetual, and the manipulations know no end……

Even a piece from ZH:

A lot has changed in the past 24 hours. After Thursday’s CNBC interview, it seemed obvious (to me) that I needed to write about how there is a real path to a Fed Rate Cut in September. Not only has the market priced in a 75% chance of a hike in September, and 1.25 hikes by the December meeting, most have also taken any chance of a cut off the table. I think that is missing the path that I believe Warsh is trying to create. We argued last weekend, The Fed and Rates, that Warsh had curtailed the tail risk on the long end of the curve. We switched from bearish to neutral on the long end of the curve (10s went from 4.46% to 4.37% this week). The more we think about it, the more we believe that he has started us on a path, that despite his hawkish rhetoric, sets up for a cut in September to be followed by another cut in October,

Here we go again. How many times are people going to be led by the nose of manipulation in PM. If the signs of a temporary reversal starting gate and have to see from there here comes the talking heads ready to exploit it.

The video is AI and they have them on quite a few people now but doesn’t mean they were made by the real person. I don’t think in his position he could start making videos of promoting PMs or even the fiat since his position working for the Fed needs to be neutral based on data. It’s not him.

They have them on Warren Buffett and now even M Armstrong.

Ai videos pretending to be him suddenly came out apparently 9 days ago. It’s not the first.  PUMP AND DUMP SCHEMES. PLUS EASY U TUBE MONEY.

Take a look.

https://youtube.com/@warshmindset?si=zTT2wy8EZAPHTul5

Hi Alex,

Thanks for posting that Kevin Warsh video – I just finished watching it.

I didn’t really find anything that was new to me in it.  BUT I wondered if this can possibly be the SAME Kevin Warsh that just days ago became the new HEAD of the FED !!

If it is – holy crap – something IS UP – in my lifetime the Fed has NEVER talked like this.

I did a quick search –  who is kevin warsh – Search – it looks like it is the same guy.

Maybe it is an old video?

Here is another thought.  After a couple minutes listening I advanced to 2x speed.

At 2x speed I noticed something – the speaker’s style was familiar to me – the recently popular  “Asian Guy” and other financial Ai’s like him had exactly the same style.

They came out of the blue and seemed very ‘plugged in’.

IS it possible Warsh was one of those guys!!!???

If it was – hold on to your hats – this is going to be a July to remember.

The Hormuz Letter
@HormuzLetter
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BREAKING: Iranian state media says it has now “no choice but to obtain the atomic bomb” to remove “the military option for the occupation and partitioning of Iran” from the table, arguing Iran must “absolutely reach nuclear deterrence” before current negotiations can be conducted “from a correct position,” per Fars.

Iran adds the acquisition is not only driven by negotiation leverage but also by Trump’s two recent nuclear threats against Iran, including his April warning that “a whole civilization will die tonight” and his May threat of “one big glow coming out of Iran.”

This is also among the most direct nuclear weapons advocacy published on Iranian state media to date.

She said he would re-value gold to $20k by July 2026. I don’t see it happening next month, but maybe in the future. Maddog has been following a big trade in the futures/options market out in December @ $15-$20k.

Judy Shelton’s Treasury Trust Bonds: Gold as a Dollar Discipline Mechanism

BY VBL

I don’t know why they don’t just get a regular push blade mower and a double string weed eater if they want to avoid gas mowers.