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@ou_va_ma_France @crash2it @zerohedge Oh wow. Would you have the source of that admission please. Excellent boulot en passant, bravo.

@crash2it @zerohedge Everything is legal. The minister admitted it publicly.

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He’s dead on.

@Rainmaker1973 Where's the fruit picker?

A DIY fruit picker [📹 diy.pro8]

@PPC4Liberty It's not like they didn't publish the plan: un.org/development/de…

@gothburz Mind-blowing. Hope you're not suicidal..

I have three monitors on my desk. The left one shows the order book. The middle one shows Truth Social. The right one shows the investigation queue. On April 21st, the left screen moved first. I am a Senior Surveillance Analyst at a commodities exchange. I have held this position for nineteen years. My job is to monitor trading activity for suspicious patterns and generate compliance reports. I am employee of the quarter. I have a mug. At 19:54 GMT on April 21st, someone placed 4,260 sell orders on Brent crude futures. They did this during post-settlement. The window after the market closes when daily volume is typically in the dozens. Sometimes single digits. Sometimes I watch the screen and nothing happens for forty minutes and I think about whether my daughter is happy. On April 21st, someone placed $430 million in directional bets in 120 seconds during that window. One hundred and twenty seconds. I timed it on my watch because the system clock rounds to the nearest minute and I have found, in nineteen years, that precision matters to no one but me. At 20:10 GMT, the President posted on Truth Social that he was extending the Iran ceasefire. Brent dropped from $100.91 to $96.83. I flagged the trade. I flag a lot of trades. I want to tell you what happens to my flags. My flags go into a system called TRACE. Trade Review and Compliance Evaluation. I did not name it. The system generates a report. The report goes to a committee. The committee has a name I am not allowed to share but I can tell you it meets quarterly and the conference room has a credenza with bottled water that is sparkling because someone once put still water in the room and a managing director sent an email about it that was longer than most of my surveillance reports. The committee reviews my flags. The committee has reviewed all of my flags. Here is the complete record of actions taken on my flags in 2026: Reviewed. That's it. "Reviewed" is a status. In compliance, a status is the absence of an action that has been given a name so it looks like one. Let me show you my flags. March 9th. Someone bet millions on oil falling at 18:29 GMT. Forty-seven minutes later, a CBS reporter posted that the President said the Iran war was "very complete, pretty much." Oil dropped 25%. Forty-seven minutes. I flagged it. March 23rd. Someone sold 5,100 lots of Brent and WTI crude futures between 10:49 and 10:50 GMT. Fourteen minutes later, the President posted on Truth Social about a "COMPLETE AND TOTAL RESOLUTION" to hostilities. Oil dropped 11%. Over 13,000 contracts traded in sixty seconds after the post. Fourteen minutes. I flagged it. April 7th. Someone established a $950 million short position in oil futures at 19:45 GMT. Three hours later, the President declared a two-week ceasefire. Nine hundred and fifty million dollars. I flagged it. April 17th. Someone placed $760 million in bearish bets twenty minutes before Iran's foreign minister confirmed the Strait of Hormuz would reopen. Seven hundred and sixty million. I flagged it. April 21st. The $430 million. Fifteen minutes. I flagged it. That is $2.1 billion in directional oil bets in April alone. Every one of them landed on the correct side of a presidential announcement. Every one of them was placed in a window so narrow you could measure it in bathroom breaks. I flagged every single one. The CFTC chair told a Congressional committee that his organization has "zero tolerance" for fraud and insider trading. I wrote that quote on a Post-it note and stuck it to my right monitor. The one that shows the investigation queue. The investigation queue has not moved since March. Zero tolerance. Zero staff. Zero budget. Zero prosecutions under the STOCK Act since it was signed in 2012. Fourteen years. The law has existed for fourteen years and has been enforced zero times. In compliance, we call that a compliance rate of one hundred percent. No cases filed means no cases lost. You cannot fail an audit you never conduct. We call that excellence. Last month the White House sent an internal email to staff. I was not on the distribution list but I have read reporting on it and I need you to sit with what I am about to say. The email instructed White House staff not to use insider information to place bets on prediction markets. The White House had to send a memo telling its own employees not to insider-trade. I want you to read that sentence again. Not because the instruction was unclear. Because the instruction was necessary. Because someone in the building looked at the same pattern I have been flagging for months on my three monitors and decided the appropriate response was an email. The President's son sits on the advisory board of Kalshi. He is an investor in Polymarket. Both are prediction markets. Both saw accounts created days before U.S. military action. One account. I cannot stop thinking about this account. It was called "Burdensome-Mix." It was created in December. On January 2nd, it placed $32,500 on Venezuela's president being removed from power. On January 3rd, Maduro was seized by U.S. special forces. Burdensome-Mix collected $436,000. Then it changed its username. Then it disappeared. One account is a coincidence. But there were six. Six accounts were created on Polymarket in February. All bet on U.S. strikes on Iran by the 28th. When the President confirmed the strikes, the six accounts collected $1.2 million between them. Five of the six never placed another bet. The sixth went on to correctly predict the ceasefire date and made another $163,000. My surveillance system logged all of this. My system logs everything. My system does not have opinions and neither do I. I generate reports. The reports go to committees. The committees meet quarterly. Between meetings, the windows get shorter and the bets get larger. March 9th: 47 minutes. March 23rd: 14 minutes. April 17th: 20 minutes. April 21st: 15 minutes. The window is compressing. In March, you had time to make coffee between the trade and the announcement. By April, you had time to send a text. By summer, at this rate, the trade and the announcement will be the same event. The spokesman said any implication that administration officials are engaged in insider trading is "baseless and irresponsible reporting." Then the White House sent the email again. I have been in compliance for nineteen years. I have seen insider trading run out of strip mall offices by men who could not spell "derivative." I have seen pump-and-dump schemes coordinated over WhatsApp by people who used their real names. I have seen a man try to manipulate soybean futures from a Panera Bread. I have never seen $2.1 billion in perfectly timed trades across five presidential announcements in a single month go uninvestigated. But I have also never seen a compliance system work this beautifully. Every trade flagged. Every report filed. Every committee briefed. Every quarterly meeting attended. Bottled water: sparkling. Minutes: distributed. Zero prosecutions. As long as the flags go up and the cases don't, my performance review says I am meeting expectations. I am meeting expectations. The system is meeting expectations. The $2.1 billion is meeting expectations. The fourteen-year-old law with zero prosecutions is meeting expectations. The left screen moves. The middle screen moves. The right screen stays perfectly, immaculately still. In my field, we call this price discovery.

@Silver__Santa I find investing in miners easy actually. I just buy and wait. Trading miners should be a nightmare tho..

Investing in Miners is hard. Will the suffering ever end? 😂

@duediligenceguy WTWWT?

WTWWT?

@itsmubashi On August 15, 1971, President Richard Nixon announced the "temporary" suspension of the U.S. dollar's convertibility into gold

Daily reminder :

@Silver__Santa Ou plutôt "Tous les chemins mènent au rhum".. Si on considère les politiques et les banques centrales comme des poivreaux assoiffés de cash

@Manawajaws Exactement.

My Sunday thoughts. The United States finds itself in a deeply precarious financial position, and there is really only one viable way out — though you won't hear it from any official source. The national debt is compounding at an alarming rate. Upcoming debt rollovers, ongoing military spending, and Treasury bond sales will do nothing to resolve the underlying problem. What the US desperately needs is inflation. Sustained inflation is the only realistic mechanism to erode the real value of the debt — a consistent 10% inflation rate over four years would effectively cut that burden in half. Since the public would never accept such a reality, CPI and PPI figures are being — and will continue to be — massaged to obscure what is truly happening to prices. The interest burden compounds the problem further. As debt gets rolled over, it won't be refinanced at the 1% rates of the past, but at current levels of 3–4%, tripling or quadrupling an already crushing interest bill. This makes aggressive rate cuts not just desirable, but urgent. Lower rates would reduce debt servicing costs while simultaneously feeding further inflation. This is the playbook. And it points to one clear outcome: stagflation — the same toxic mix of stagnant growth and rising prices that defined the 1970s. That was the decade when gold and silver each multiplied roughly 25 times in value over ten years. Today, gold has already moved 2–3x and silver 3–4x from their bases. But if the parallel holds, we could be looking at gold reaching $30,000–$40,000 and silver hitting $500–$600. Would such prices signal the end of the world? Not at all. They would simply reflect the reality of what paper money is quietly becoming worth.

@elonmusk This is a joke right?... Right?

Universal HIGH INCOME via checks issued by the Federal government is the best way to deal with unemployment caused by AI. AI/robotics will produce goods & services far in excess of the increase in the money supply, so there will not be inflation.

@HealthRanger Futures should be illegal

I’m watching the numbers flicker on the screen -- Brent crude at $92, WTI hovering near $97 -- and I feel a profound sense of dread. This isn’t a market; it’s a meticulously crafted fiction. We are being lied to on a scale so vast it defies comprehension. The current paper price for oil is a government-constructed lie, a narrative woven by desperate authorities to maintain a false sense of stability while the physical foundations of our world crack beneath us. This manipulation isn’t just an economic curiosity; it’s a trap. While futures traders cheer a modest pullback, the real cost of a barrel -- the tangible liquid that powers tractors, heats homes, and transports food -- has already rocketed into another dimension. This divergence between paper and physical represents the single greatest threat to global order I’ve witnessed in decades. It’s a dangerous fiction masquerading as reality, and its inevitable collapse will redefine everything we know about energy, money, and power. The lie is simple and audacious: that the price quoted on financial exchanges reflects the true value and availability of oil. This is the foundational deceit of our time. Governments and central banks, drowning in debt and desperate to avoid social unrest, have turned market mechanisms into tools of perception management. The goal isn’t price discovery; it’s price suppression. This creates a perilous false sense of security. Headlines tout a "cooling" oil market, while in the physical world, refiners and industrial users are paying premiums of 50% or more. As noted in an analysis of the current conflict, the price of physical Brent crude is "already a hair’s breadth from $150" while the futures price lags far behind. This isn’t a market glitch; it’s a policy. It’s the same playbook used for decades in precious metals, where paper derivatives are multiplied to infinity to suppress the price of tangible gold and silver. The system is designed to make you believe the digital IOU is as good as the real thing -- until the day it isn’t. Read the full article here: naturalnews.com/2026-04-15-com…

@zerohedge France

Which broke company will add an .AI to its name and soar 1000%

@ZubyMusic Been doing this for years.. People usually blink a dozen times.. 😂 Some find it rude tho..

When I meet new people and they ask me, "So, what do you do?" I like to respond with a random list of daily activities that have nothing to do with my career or how I earn money. Try it. It's fun.

BREAKING: The US Military has officially begun its "blockade" of the Strait of Hormuz. Details include: 1. The US says the blockade will be "enforced impartially against vessels of all nations entering or departing Iranian ​ports and coastal areas" 2. US forces will not impede freedom of navigation for vessels transiting ​the Strait ​of ⁠Hormuz to and from non-Iranian ports 3. Prior to this blockade, Iranian ports were largely operational with Iran itself exporting over 2 million barrels of oil per day 4. A successful blockade of Iranian ports would cut off the majority of the already restricted oil exports from the region US gas prices are now expected to rise above $4.25/gallon.

@mikosevelin @dullpamphlet @themarketsniper You're welcome in Mauritius anytime, there's even biltong.. 😉

@dullpamphlet @themarketsniper

"They’re Quietly Registering German Men for War – While Stagflation Destroys the Economy (Reset Loading)" Its pre-ordained and planned with intent, so some false flag will emerge to 'justify it'. LEAVE EUROPE and the WEST, save your sons and families from a planned population reducing body count.

@BullionStar Mix of both 👍

Some prefer coins. Some prefer bars. Some choose both. Different ways to hold the same thing - physical gold. Holding wealth in a tangible, durable form. Which do you prefer?

@Acyn My butcher is asking for rupees, that's also an attack on the dollar? Also, think before banning your enemies from SWIFT..

Graham: They’re charging ships to go through the strait and they’re taking the Yuan and not the Dollar. That’s an attack on the Dollar. That needs to end.

@AngloAmerican74 @Microinteracti1 @anders_aslund Just an accounting trick. The gold in the US was valued at purchasing price on French books, like 35$/oz.. I have no idea why they didn't update their books for decades..

@Microinteracti1 @anders_aslund I don’t follow your accounting. If France sold bullion in the US and simultaneously repurchased in Europe, presumably at a nearly identical price, how does that generate an EUR 8.1 bn profit? It’s a switch in terms of location and grade, not a sale.

France Has Moved All Its Gold Out of the United States The Banque de France has completed a full withdrawal of its gold reserves from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. Between July 2025 and January 2026, 129 tonnes of French gold stored in New York were sold and replaced with equivalent bullion purchased in Europe. All of France’s 2,437 tonnes of gold now sit in Paris. Every last bar. The timing is hard to ignore. With Trump tearing up the postwar rulebook and transatlantic trust at historic lows, France has quietly made sure its financial bedrock is no longer stored on American soil. The operation generated a 13 billion euro windfall on the back of record-high gold prices, turning a 7.7 billion euro loss in 2024 into an 8.1 billion euro profit in 2025. Macron essentially got paid to exit. And France is not alone. Germany still holds 1,236 tonnes of gold at the Federal Reserve, roughly 37 percent of its total reserves. The pressure to bring it home is building fast. Michael Jäger, head of the Association of German Taxpayers, has been blunt: Trump is unpredictable, does everything to generate revenue, and Germany’s gold is no longer safe in the Fed’s vaults. That is the mainstream conversation in Berlin. France has already acted. Germany is watching and calculating. The age of trusting Washington with Europe’s gold may be quietly coming to an end. As absolutely everything else. Gandalv / @Microinteracti1

@Lukasaurus_Rex @clashreport They said they bought the same amount at the same moment

@Manawajaws @clashreport Sell high buy low

France’s central bank sold 129 tonnes of French gold stored in New York, bought equivalent gold in Europe that meets current standards, and recorded a €12.8bn gain due to higher gold prices. All French gold reserves are now held in Paris.