Same company????

Financing a new smelting facility in Clarksville, TN……

https://www.zerohedge.com/precious-metals/us-dept-war-secures-silver-smelter-deal-process-latam-metals

JPM have their fingers in the pie as well…….

Some back room shenanigans going on?????

Benny Johnson

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The federal government is surging resources in Minneapolis to lawfully crack down on billions of dollars in fraud and to deport dangerous criminal aliens.

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is defending the criminals by refusing service to federal law enforcement and the Trump Administration.

DHS just sent us an exclusive proof that Hilton Hotels has BARRED and REJECTED federal law enforcement officers in Minnesota.

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End Wokeness
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NYC Mayor Mamdani’s Tenant Director, Cea Weaver:

“We’ll transition from treating property as an individual good to a collective good. Whites especially will be impacted.”

https://x.com/EndWokeness/status/2008031475057439076

buygold,

up four bucks, what’s not to like?

(yeah, but it could have been five or six!)

patience.  kharma will take care of the nogoodniks – in time.

If you look at today’s silver chart, at 11:55 am a high-volume dump took place for 6 minutes until 12:01 pm.

They did another smaller dump from 12:38 to 12:46 pm

This is “get me out at any cost selling” intended to both crush momentum and incite a stampede toward the exits. Nobody sells like that, and we see it daily.

What ticks me off about it is that it takes the shares down with it, but the shares don’t recover with it. It knocked off 30-60% of the gains in a lot of the shares. Now silver is slowly recovering, but the shares will never go back to earlier highs.

Don’t get me wrong, it’s a strong day, but not as strong as it should be.

China-Bound ‘Dark’ Crude Tankers Make It Out Of Venezuelan Waters

https://www.zerohedge.com/energy/china-bound-dark-crude-tankers-make-it-out-venezuelan-waters

Snippet

“Also, on Monday there are reports of US-bound oil as well, with a Chevron-chartered vessel carrying Venezuela crude currently en route to the US Gulf coast, shipping data shows.”

up a buck and back down.  round trip in half an hour…   let the volatility be unrestrained!!!

Right, I bought some silver maples for the first time just before the new yr hours before and I always have it delivered three days from date from that dealer. Not a lot of them but still haven’t even got A shipping date on them yet.

…Comex futures open interest (OI) is falling back into the buy zone … deliveries are uuge … the stocks are a screaming buy … and the bulls gotta wear shades.

Silver Futures Volume & Open Interest – CME Group

I see nothing wrong with this picture … chuckle.

And as for the decentralization process now gripping the world … it will continue out of necessity … lest we forget it is Western international banking interests that install communism around the world and then harvest the devastation it brings. You can’t blame mature nationals who have been able to escape total capture from attempting to defend themselves from what the ‘masterminds’ view as a zero-sum game. Commies don’t want growth … they want the opposite … so they can plunder and loot the weak and unwary.

Hence, we have decentralization.

Cheers all

Is saying about the same thing as Dave Hunter that post bust the equity markets won’t just bounce back. Dave says commodities and industrials will be leading. Ed mentioned I think it was Oracle pre bust 2000 was 86 a share. It just got back up to 86 this year. That those who bought at the top it took 25 yrs to break even.  He thinks the same will happen to stocks like Nvida and another tech I can’t remember but also stated they’ve asked for financial help so the AG guy was right on that but has a different narrative.

Posted Jan 3

… are getting stupid oversold against the metals.

This means there is a very long way to go in this move.

Nobody knows what needs to happen in order to break the spell … but a break in the tech cult would definitely help.

Patience is a virtue in this game.

Just ask Warren Buffett

He doesn’t mention politics but Trump is setting up industry and last thing we need is these dumbo’s getting back in office during this critical time and joblessness everywhere.

No problem.

Re China…..China has a problem with the US…the US is it’s biggest mkt, by far, it can’t afford to ruin it, without wrecking it’s own economy and thus pissing off it’s already pissed off people.

How do you get around that……

https://www.kitco.com/news/article/2025-12-30/silver-may-break-125oz-2026-shanghai-shortages-could-cause-force-majeure

Thank you for the information.

Good price 14 USD is 20K Now how much they’d charge to buy and sell I don’t know or how active their stocks are but likely they have some volume, might ask broker too if how you can check it.

I guess you’d have to call your broker and asked to talk to one not the ones answering the phone and also find out the exchange rate because 20k in dollars is a bit pricy.

China, that’s assuming no other resources could be discovered.  Meanwhile they stripped their land and oceans of any living things that flys crawls swims or slithers even pets all fair game and ate them.  Then there’s oil. I see a good excuse coming to get our land they’ve been buying to feed their people while buying land next to military..

Yoikes!

Korean Zinc….. how does one buy!shares??

On a different note, anyone invested in Uranium stocks??

It had to happen eventually. This is going to be something to behold if they’re finally cutting loose.

Yes solid multi useful and growing in demand. If any place could show the stark difference of freedom and progress  vs dictatorship and communism  to a economy it’s South and North Korea.

IT’S ON … U.S. Takes Venezuela By Force & China Now Prepares It’s Inevitable Counterstrike. The World Will Never Be the Same!

In the brutal, silent language of geopolitics, the United States has just made its move. The capture of Venezuela was not a checkmate, but it was a move of shocking aggression; a queen sacrifice to seize control of a critical quadrant of the board.

By toppling the Maduro regime and declaring the entire Western Hemisphere off-limits to its rivals, America has violently upended the global chessboard. The message to Beijing was not written in a diplomatic cable; it was delivered by the barrel of a gun. The era of strategic patience is over. The kinetic war for resources has begun.

For decades, the West has operated under a dangerous delusion: that China, despite its mercantilist policies and strategic acquisitions, would ultimately play by the established rules of the global order.

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That assumption has been proven catastrophically wrong. China has spent the last twenty years executing a masterful, long-term strategy to achieve a chokehold on the world’s most vital resources.

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Through its Belt and Road Initiative, it has woven a web of debt and dependency across Africa, Asia, and Latin America, securing the mines, the ports, and the political loyalties needed to fuel its rise as a global hegemon.

They have cornered the market on nearly every critical mineral, from the rare earths that guide our missiles to the cobalt that powers our electric vehicles. They have achieved near-total dominance over the processing and refining of these materials, giving them the power to turn off the spigot at will.

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We all saw the warning shots: the tariffs, the export controls on gallium and germanium, and most recently, the de facto trapping of all silver that enters the mainland behind a new Red Wall of Chinese silver exports beginning January 1. These were the actions of a power that believed it had already won.

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They were wrong. The United States, backed into a corner and facing the existential threat of being cut off from the raw materials needed to win the A.I. war, has finally responded.

The Monroe Doctrine 2.0 is a declaration of war; a resource war. The U.S. has decided it will not lay down and accept a future of subservience to a communist superpower. It will fight. It will secure its own supply chain, by force if necessary.

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Venezuela was the first domino. The whispers from the Pentagon and the State Department suggest Colombia, Cuba, and even Greenland could be next.

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Now, the world holds its breath. The United States has made its move. A stunned and humiliated China has been evicted from America’s backyard.

But to believe that the story ends here is to be dangerously naive. The Dragon is not a creature that accepts humiliation. It does not retreat when challenged. The question is not if China will respond, but how, where, and when. It’s coming!

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One thing is certain: China will NOT do nothing. It’s game on in this dangerous war of escalation. And their countermove will shake the foundations of the global economy. The world is not the same place we thought it was and we need to be prepared.

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Let’s Dig Into The Following:

1. For the CCP, and for Xi Jinping personally, the projection of strength and unwavering resolve is paramount. The Venezuela operation was not just a strategic setback; it was a profound and public loss of face. Why this public humiliation cannot be left unanswered and it won’t be!
2. While Washington has finally woken up to its own critical mineral deficiencies, it is a fatal mistake to underestimate the sheer, ravenous hunger of the Chinese dragon. The CCP’s grip on power is predicated on a promise of ever-increasing prosperity and national strength, a promise that is physically impossible to keep without a secure, ever-expanding supply of raw materials. Why the U.S. move in Venezuela is an existential threat to Beijing!
3. The five likely counter moves by China are not mutually exclusive; they are a symphony of chaos waiting to be conducted. China’s response will not be a single, telegraphed punch, but a multi-front assault designed to disorient, overwhelm, and cripple the United States from every possible angle; militarily, financially, and economically. Why this is the terrifying reality of the new world order: a total, unrestricted conflict for the resources that will determine the fate of the 21st century!
4. And why the coming counter move by China and the escalation of the resource war against the U.S is the ultimate bullish signal for hard assets. In a world of escalating conflict, currency debasement, and supply chain collapse, the only true safe haven is found in the ground. Why the mining companies that extract the raw materials of the 21st century are no longer just cyclical industrial plays; they are the arms dealers in a new world war, a war that every nation must fight to survive!

Metals and Miners