Debt Rattle April 1 2025
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West Bank: Israeli settlers accused of stealing sheep: Stealing sheep is one of the methods Israeli settlers have used to deprive Palestinians in the occupied West Bank of their livelihoods, according to human rights groups. DW followed some activists in the Jordan Valley as they collected evidence. https://www.dw.com/en/west-bank-israeli-settlers-accused-of-stealing-sheep/video-72101632
Syrian interim president appoints new transitional government, promises ‘new state’
A Christian woman, a Druze, a Kurd, and an Alawite were appointed to posts in the new government in line with western calls for ‘inclusivity’
Several of his top officials have retained their posts, including Foreign Minister Asaad al-Shaibani and Defense Minister Murhaf Abu Qasra. Anas Hassan Khattab, who served as intelligence director after the fall of the former government of Bashar al-Assad, was appointed as Minister of Interior.
All three were members of Sharaa’s extremist Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) organization, the former branch of Al-Qaeda in Syria (when it was known as the Nusra Front), which has been officially dissolved, but retains the bulk of its fighting formation as part of the country’s new army and security apparatus.
https://thecradle.co/articles/syrian-interim-president-appoints-new-transitional-government-promises-new-state Iran is against nuclear weapons already, but likes missiles. Trump Warns Iran Of Unprecedented Bombing Campaign If Nuke Deal Not Reached
He told NBC News in a phone interview, “If they don’t make a deal, there will be bombing. It will be bombing the likes of which they have never seen before.” This is the most explicit and direct threat yet, after similar rhetoric from the White House last week. Three weeks ago President Trump sent a letter to Iran’s Supreme Leader, urging fresh negotiations toward a new nuclear deal.
In that letter, which the Iranians only much belatedly acknowledged, Trump had issued a two-month deadline for Iran to sign a new deal, warning that if not then Tehran could face military action...
..Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian has responded to these new Trump threats, saying Sunday that any future diplomatic discussion depends on Washington’s behavior.
“While Iran’s response rules out the possibility of direct talks between the two sides, it states that the path for indirect negotiations remains open,” he said. “As we have stated before, Iran has never closed the channels of indirect communication. In its response, Iran reaffirmed that it has never shied away from engaging in negotiations, but rather, it has just been the United States’ repeated violations of agreements and commitments that have created problems on this path,” Pezeshkian added.
That’s when the Iranian leader emphasized, “It’s the behavior of the Americans that will determine whether the negotiations can move forward.” Iran has distrusted the Americans ever since Trump pulled out of the 2015 JCPOA nuclear deal in April 2018. Currently Iran is only offering ‘indirect’ talks on the nuclear issue.
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/trump-again-warns-iran-unprecedented-bombing-campaign-if-nuclear-deal-not-reachedRehearsing Iran Scenario: US Uses B-2s to Attack Houthis https://en.topcor.ru/58242-otrabotka-iranskogo-scenarija-ssha-zadejstvovali-b-2-dlja-udarov-po-husitam.html
US airstrikes kill 2, injure 7 in fresh raids on northern Yemen, say Houthis https://www.aa.com.tr/en/middle-east/us-airstrikes-kill-2-injure-7-in-fresh-raids-on-northern-yemen-say-houthis/3524804
Yemen’s air defenses down 16th US MQ-9 drone https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/yemen-s-air-defenses-down-16th-us-mq-9-drone
Iran will retaliate if attacked, the country’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has warned in response to US President Donald Trump’s recent threat to bomb the country. https://www.rt.com/news/615050-tehran-response-trump-threat/
Iran will have ‘no choice’ but to get nukes if attacked, says Khamenei adviser https://www.france24.com/en/asia-pacific/20250401-iran-will-have-no-choice-but-to-get-nukes-if-attacked-khamenei-adviser-usa-trump-nuclear-weapons-deal-bombing-threats
Russia Seeks To Balance Ties With US, China: Official
Russian Deputy Prime Minister Alexey Overchuk made the remarks during an address on March 27 at the Boao Forum in China’s Hainan Province.
“As to the relationship between Russia, China, and the United States, we should not develop a relationship with one other country at the expense of another and vice versa,” Overchuk said, according to a translation of the comments first reported by Bloomberg. https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/russia-seeks-balance-ties-us-china-official Kiev looking to further delay elections – Ukrainian official
The country needs to amend legislation governing voting procedures and timelines, Ukrainian CEC Chair Oleg Didenko has claimed https://swentr.site/russia/615016-kiev-delay-presidential-election/Europe’s Remilitarization Myth: Why building on the success of rearmament is a bad idea
Europe is re-militarizing as part of the ReArm Europe Plan (now renamed to Readiness 2030). The “ambitious defence package, providing financial levers to EU Member States to drive an investment surge in defence capabilities” enables the spending of over €800 billion, structured around increased public expenditure, capital markets and European Investment Bank lending. That is, financed entirely from debt… Political views about perceived or real threats aside there is a strong case to be made that this initiative (if fully implemented) will pull the continent further deeper into the vortex of its accelerating economical and geopolitical decline.
https://thehonestsorcerer.substack.com/p/europes-remilitarization-mythThe practice of “statecraft”: Denmark Squandered Defenses Arming Ukraine, With Little Left To Defend Greenland
But now Denmark has found itself embroiled in the unusual Greenland controversy, which escalated when President Trump said he has refused to take “military force off the table” in discussions on a potential US acquisition of Greenland. https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/denmark-squandered-defenses-arming-ukraine-little-left-defend-greenland“We’ll get Greenland. Yeah, 100%,” Trump said, according to the news outlet. https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-says-u-greenland-military-005340629.html
Greenland’s new prime minister blasts Trump, saying “We don’t belong to you” https://endtimeheadlines.org/2025/03/greenlands-new-prime-minister-blasts-trump-saying-we-dont-belong-to-you/#google_vignette
Le Pen beats all other presidential candidates with ease in final poll before expulsion court hearing
Marine Le Pen is the clear frontrunner for France’s 2027 presidential election, but a court ruling due Monday could bar her from running https://rmx.news/article/le-pen-beats-all-other-presidential-candidates-with-ease-in-final-poll-before-expulsion-court-hearing/In Latest Blow To European Democracy, Judge Rules Marine Le Pen Ineligible To Run For President In 2027
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/latest-blow-european-democracy-judge-rules-marine-le-pen-ineligible-run-president-2027 Le Pen sentence a ‘declaration of war by Brussels’ – Italian deputy PM, The verdict is a “bad film we are also seeing in Romania” Matteo Salvini declared
“Le Pen has been a prominent critic of NATO’s policies in Eastern Europe and has opposed Ukraine’s accession to the military bloc. She has also advocated against the EU’s anti-Russia policies.” https://swentr.site/news/615042-italy-salvini-reaction-lepen-/ They changed the financial rules 20 years later and found her guilty. France’s Le Pen sentenced to four years in jail
A Paris court has sentenced French right-wing politician Marine Le Pen to a four-year jail term, half of which is without parole, in a case involving the embezzlement of EU funds for her National Rally (RN) party. Le Pen has also been barred from running for president in 2027.
The verdict on Monday is the culmination of an extended case, in which RN and several of its senior figures were accused of diverting money meant for the offices of European Parliament members towards the national party structure. Le Pen and eight MEPs were found guilty of running the scheme between 2004 and 2016. https://swentr.site/news/615010-france-le-pen-sentenced-jail/ Le Pen conviction ‘a very big deal’ – Trump
The US president has said the prosecution of the French opposition leader reminds him of his own legal battles under the former administration https://swentr.site/news/615066-trump-comments-le-pen/Will Poland cancel elections if the ‘wrong’ candidate wins? What happened in Romania may provide a hint
British Council Institutes Harsher Criminal Sentencing, But Only For White Men https://www.zerohedge.com/political/british-council-institutes-harsher-criminal-sentencing-only-white-men
Parents ARRESTED For Complaining About Their Kid’s School In WhatsApp Group https://modernity.news/2025/03/30/parents-arrested-for-complaining-about-their-kids-school-in-whatsapp-group/
This is the age where strong gender identity is normally formed, swordfights and princess dresses. British Toddler Expelled From Nursery For Being ‘Transphobic’ Department for Education data in the UK has revealed that a toddler under the age of four was kicked out of a nursery after being accused of being “transphobic.” The Telegraph reports that the child was removed during the 2022-23 academic year for “abuse against sexual orientation and gender identity.” https://www.zerohedge.com/political/british-toddler-expelled-nursery-being-transphobic
Steve Kirsch, Mother of 1 yr old girl who died <12 hrs after 6 vaccine shots has a message: “These vaccine shots are dangerous”
Perfectly healthy 1-year old girl dies <12 hrs after 6 vaccine shots. Parents were never warned that vaccines can kill their child. The mother has a message for all mothers all over the world. https://kirschsubstack.com/p/mother-of-1-yr-old-girl-who-died RFK Jr. Overhauls HHS, Launches Administration for a Healthy America
Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. today announced the creation of a new Administration for a Healthy America as part of a massive overhaul of HHS. Meanwhile, HHS will reportedly gain oversight of school meals and special education, President Donald Trump said last week. https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/rfk-jr-overhauls-hhs-launches-administration-healthy-america/Another limited hangout to exclusively blame China for COVID? ‘Entirely Man-made’: Former U.K. Prime Minister Now Says COVID Leaked From Lab
In his new memoir, former U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson says COVID-19 resulted from scientists “splicing bits of virus together like the witches in Macbeth,” YouTube commentator John Campbell, Ph.D, reported. During the pandemic, Johnson said the virus came from a wet market in Wuhan, China. https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/boris-johnson-covid-origins-john-campbell/mRNA “vaccine” products cause the immune system to change from making fighting-antibodies to tolerating-antibodies. Post-vaccination IgG4 and IgG2 class switch associates with increased risk of SARS-CoV-2 infections https://www.journalofinfection.com/article/S0163-4453%2825%2900067-2/fulltext
Immune suppression: “Monkeypox” is a side effect of mRNA “vaccines”—according to the WHO! So maybe the best way to “fight” that “virus” is to STOP “vaccinating” NOW, eh?
Under “potential side effects” for the Pfizer BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine, the WHO lists “monkeypox,” “smallpox,” and “cow pox” among hundreds of other disorders. They are listed under “infections and infestations” that emerge as “side effects” of the Pfizer mRNA vaccine. https://markcrispinmiller.substack.com/p/monkeypox-is-side-effect-of-mrna-vaccines-according-to-who “The W.H.O., with Bill Gates’ support and participation…administered a million ‘vaccines’ to Kenyan women…that were designed to sterilize them…against their knowledge…and against their will…” -HHS RFK Jr. https://choiceclips.whatfinger.com/2025/03/31/bill-gates-is-a-menace-to-society-the-w-h-o-with-bill-gates-support-and-participationadministered-a-million-vaccines-to-kenyan-womenthat-were-de/
Alex Berenson, URGENT: mRNA Covid jabs change genetic structures in ways linked to cancer and autoimmune disorders
Scientists call the changes caused by the Pfizer and Moderna shots “epigenetic” – they occur around DNA’s core and activate genes in ways that can promote tumor growth. https://alexberenson.substack.com/p/urgent-mrna-covid-jabs-change-geneticVaccine Stocks Tank, Moderna Craters After FDA Biologics Head Abruptly Steps Down
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/vaccine-stocks-tank-after-fda-biologics-head-abruptly-steps-down-era-rfk-jrIt is a mystery where some of the CO2 produced by humans is absorbed from the atmosphere. Oxygen and Carbon in the Atmosphere: the Critical Balance of Life
Gorshkov and Makarieva were right with the idea of the “biotic regulation” of the biosphere. https://livingearth.substack.com/p/oxygen-and-carbon-in-the-atmosphereRe-rise or Resurrection of the Technocrats, oops they really meant selection of those afflicted by Schizoid and Schizotypal Personality Disorder(s), either one or both.
You gotta admit Technocrat sounds a helluva lot more sexier from the same guys that thought pocket pen protectors, pocket calculators and slide rules were the epitome of hot seduction.
I digress.1930s tech bros wanted to merge the US, Canada and Greenland
- The rise of AI and big data has reignited discussions about the role (and reach) of technocracy in modern society. In countries including Singapore and China governance is dominated by departments headed by those with technological backgrounds, who gain an elite status.
Beware the snake oil salesmen pushing silver. They tell you that silver should outperform gold in a bull market. But gold has outperformed silver over the last 10 years (160% vs 106%). They also tell you that gold miners should outperform gold in a bull market — but miners have gone nowhere (maybe because so many of them are hedged?)
Forget the gold:silver ratio. That only made sense when both were regarded as monetary metals. Now gold is the only monetary metal. Silver has been mostly demonetized. Central banks hold gold on their balance sheets, but not silver. Since the end of bimetalism the ratio has gotten larger and larger. Now that silver is decoming more and more demonetized, it should continue to get larger and larger.
As far as the earth crust ratio — this does not matter if people strongly prefer gold over silver (as they should). You should also consider cost of production. These days silver usually isn’t mined for its own sake. Rather, it is a byproduct of mining for other metals. Silver is the waste product that nobody really wants, but does not want to throw away either because it is still worth something.
Finally, if you think that the silver market is manipulated, why would you ever buy it? You are betting against JP Morgan, who you know is backstopped by the FED, which is in turn backstopped by a printing press? They can continue the manipulation forever.
Gold has gradually demonetized silver over the last 70 years, and on a relative basis Bitcoin will gradually demonetize gold over the next 70 years.
Boogaloo said
Silver is the waste product that nobody really wants, but does not want to throw away either because it is still worth something.
I am brazing this afternoon with 45% silver rods and 56% silver rods. There is plenty of industrial demand for silver, your info is lacking.
Silver is the most lovely conductor of electricity, as well.
And sometimes that is very important.
I silver brazed my lugged-steel bike frame when I made it in 2010, a father & son & framebuilder project.
Alas, it got a crack in the seat tube above the crankset, where I had drilled a water-bottle-boss hole, and the crack propogated all the way around the tube, because it was a fixie, and one cranks hard to climb hills.
It is no more, because a welder in my wife’s family was going to repair it at work, and the boss cleared-out everybody’s junk without asking.The sheer audacity and logical dissonance of including the term” Voluntary Displacement Plan” in the same press conference that promises to continue dropping 2000 Lb bombs on the volunteers, breaks my brain. That’s Brave New World level stuff. As is the incontestable fact that they are able and enthusiastically willing to loudly proclaim such rabidly slathering insanity in public without even being asked. Wowser.
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