Quote:ABOUT THAT GOLD MOVEMENT: CAN YOU SAY “FRAUDULENT ...

February 5, 2025 / Joseph P. Farrell

Something is going on with gold in recent weeks and days, and you may not have noticed with all the focus on the mid-air collision at Reagan National Airport, and to my rank amateur's mind, not enough dots are being connected to interpret it. The bottom line is, there is a massive move of gold into the United States. The question is, why? Here are three stories, and each has its own answer (our thanks to S.D., B,.H, and V.T.,  for these articles):

Bank of England struggles to meet gold demand as $82B stockpile shifts to New York

JPMorgan Plans $4 Billion US Gold Delivery Amid Tariff Fears

ZH — "It has nothing to do with Trump tariffs"

Notice that one story is offset by another: the gold transference is due to Trump's tariff plans...but wait, no it isn't.  It's the third article that, for our purposes in today's blog and high octane-off-the-end-of-the-twig-Wile E. Coyote-nosedive-into-the-canyon speculation, that I think is on to something, but again, I don't think is casting a wide enough net nor considering all the dots to connect. In that third article, "ZH-'It has nothing to do with Trump tariffs'", that offers the following trenchant observation and conclusion on the curious movements of so much gold:

Quote:Gold and silver are being pulled into New York for reasons beyond tariffs. A new pipeline is now draining metal from the LBMA, just as another had already been pulling gold and silver toward China from the LBMA for years.

Recently we labelled this phenomenon as repatriation.
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Yesterday, ZeroHedge published a premium post on the same issue. While they avoided the word “repatriation,” they openly questioned why gold is moving to COMEX, concluding that tariffs alone don’t explain it. Their report highlighted contradictions from officials managing the narrative.

So, in a nutshell, the amounts of gold indicate that the USA is quietly and deliberately repatriating gold. If you've been following the repatriation-of-gold story over the past decade or so, you'll recall that the whole thing began when Germany repatriated some of its gold reserves from Great Britain, France, and the USA to Germany. At the time, most figures had it that Germany had the second largest amount of reserves in the world after the USA. After the "repatriation" was "concluded", a number of stories began to appear in the alternative media - many of them authored by German Lars Schall who was following the story very closely - that neither the amount repatriated with what the Bundesbank had called back, and what was called back was of questionable assay quality.  Germany was joined very quickly by other countries demanding their gold reserves be repatriated, among them Austria and the Netherlands. Then, to make matters very much worse, Venezuela joined the "repatriation gold rush", demanding its reserves at the Bank of England be physically returned to Venezuela.

The Bank of England's response was... well... classic. It effectively said that the BOE did not like the current Venezuelan regime (no doubt because it was cozying up to Russia at the time), so its gold was not going to be returned. Or to translate it into Banksterese: "We don't like you; you can't have your gold; we need it more than you; have a nice day, and go away."  As all of these stories were going on in those years, other stories began to circulate, also involving gold: multi-billion-dollar loans in China had been collateralized with gold, only it turned out that the "gold" was simply gold-clad tungsten bars. Well, that was China, and of course, "everyone knows" that the Chinese cannot be trusted, and what does one expect from a country where corruption and fraud reign (just look at their construction standards). But then there was a similar story from - of all places - Canada, involving similarly-clad tungsten fraud, only this time it emanated from the Royal Canadian Mint!

Oops.

So my first point in raising these old stories is that we may be, and in my opinion are, looking at a new facet and component of that story, one that suggests that, increasingly, various people are realizing that there is such massive fraud in the system, fraud involving gold, and its potential fraudulent rehypothecation, that the only way to check if there is massive rehypothecation is, quite literally, to take possession of physical gold, and then to compare notes with other countries and groups possessing it. Note, not possessing the paper titles of ownership and other certifications, but the bullion bars and specie itself.  Think of it as the "bullion and specie" side of "the Great Reset."

So why is that going on? This is where it possibly gets even more intriguing.  For some time I've also been following and blogging  - and where necessary, trying to raise warnings as well - about the recent moves of so many American states to establish bullion depositories, gold and silver reserves for the individual state, and to establish state-backed currencies. In many cases, these states are talking solely about electronic means of transfer, and are not talking about what I regard as the absolute essential for such systems to work: a physical medium of exchange (and not just electronic blips), and real convertibility of those blips, or physical media of exchange, into the bullion or specie equivalent, along with the ability to conduct personal transaction in said specie or media of exchange. While following this development and issuing these warnings over the past few years, one warning which I have issued at the beginning of this movement was the most important caution:

that caution was, that in a world where a certain amount of bullion was secretly recovered by the United States after World War Two, and then used as a secret reserve to finance all manner of covert operations and black projects research, that the potential existed to rehypothecate that secret reserve fraudulently, over and over again, creating massive liquidity, "backed" by a fractional reserve (so to speak) of bullion. That system of expanding secret financial instruments, "backed" by a fractional and potentially endlessly rehypothecated reserve, had eventually to be supplemented by other commodities lest the financial instruments secretly circulating were propped up on too narrow a reserve basis, and thus, "drugs" became the other "gold" in the system. (For my detailed exposition of this system, see my books Covert Wars and Breakaway Civilizations, and Covert Wars and Clash of Civilizations).

What the movements of these states are uncovering - whether deliberately or inadvertently is here not necessary to the argument, though I suspect in some cases (like Texas) it's deliberate - is the fact that one cannot have any sort of bullion-or-commodities backed currency system without having an accurate estimation of the actual physical amount of that commodity is in existence, and who possesses it and in what amounts.

And the only way to do that, is to take physical possession of it, assay it, and measure it, and then publish the data.  If one is off by an order of magnitude, let us say, in the amounts, and is in turn creating liquidity and financial instruments on the basis of a vastly over-estimated amount, then the system can be sustained for a while, but the moment it comes into question, and repatriation begins, then the hidden system is in trouble, and must create a new kind of two-way mirror behind which to cloak its activities.  This is why merely electronic currencies of transfer being contemplated in so many American states will not work.  "Gold-'backed' crypto-currencies", anyone?

See you on the flip side...

After golf today my Caddie and I went to eat at a decent restaurant. The restaurant had one of their many T.V.s tuned to "Euro news" on one of it's channels. IMO that source is as bad as CNN was before they lost all their viewership.

If Trumps hat blew off and it landed in the water an he walked across the water and picked up his hat while never getting wet, the headline would be, " Trump can't swim !"

Any way to twist something good into something a liberal socialist can and will hate they serve up a big dish of half truths to service and inflame their useful idiots.

I play golf with people from all over the world and I have wondered where they come up with some of their total B.S. and now I know !! I never argue as that doesn't work nearly as well as viewing or sending a link to what actually transpired without all the hate America crap.

I should look and see if they are owned or backed by the Chinese CCP... But it really does not matter to me as I am usually pretty good at seeing through the lies and innuendo...... like CNN I would never elect to watch anything they have to say or believe anything they put on to sway the masses.

This guy gives a good breakdown of DeepSeek, Silicon Valley's panic, and what all the hyper hysteria is about. You may find him a little biased in his reporting style but he makes several interesting points.

Chinese AI company DeepSeek shocked the West with a groundbreaking open-source artificial intelligence model that beats huge Silicon Valley Big Tech monopolies. The US government is already trying to ban it, like TikTok, using "national security" as an excuse. Ben Norton explains.



0:00 China's Sputnik moment
1:05 DeepSeek beats US Big Tech
2:20 Open source R1 model
3:18 US tech stocks crash
5:27 US stock market bubble
6:55 Magnificent 7
8:26 Billionaire oligarchs
10:48 USA bans Chinese competitors
13:34 Data privacy and spying?
15:35 Cyber attacks
16:33 US tech war on China
19:36 China "can't innovate"
22:02 China's rapid tech progress
24:49 Tech race in new cold war


Here's a little more down to Earth 10 minute overview, Deepseek R1 Explained by a Retired Microsoft Engineer:

Made back when the good guys won... worth a watch IMO

Synopsis: A vengeful barbarian warrior sets off to get his revenge on the evil warlord who attacked his village and murdered his father when he was a boy.

"Police: ‘Trans Vegan Cult’ Linked To Multiple Murders Across The U.S." from One America News

Quote:Friday, January 31, 2025
The murder of a U.S. Border Patrol agent has unveiled a possible link between a “transgender vegan cult” and a string of murders across the U.S.
Buckle up—this one’s a doozy.
On January 20th, Inauguration Day, U.S. Border Patrol agent David Maland, 44, and other agents pulled over 21-year-old Teresa “Milo” Youngblut and German citizen Felix “Ophelia” Bauckholt in northern Vermont, near the Canadian border.
Youngblut quickly opened fire on the agents, and they all engaged in a back-and-forth shootout.
Maland and Bauckholt were killed in the incident, and Youngblut was injured in the crossfire.

Quote:Both Youngblut and Bauckholt have ties to Jack LaSota, AKA Ziz, a California man who espouses a violent philosophy based on veganism, techno-rationality, artificial intelligence, and transgenderism, according to court filings and media reports. LaSota’s small group of followers, known in the San Francisco area as Zizians, are connected to the murder of an elderly rancher and the murders of a Pennsylvania couple, parents of another Zizian.

Quote:Law enforcement officials are investigating six deaths linked to associates of LaSota, the flagbearer of a small group of well-educated computer whizzes and devout vegans — referred to by some critics as the “Zizians” — who splintered away from the Berkeley circles of an intellectual movement and subculture called rationalism that seeks to understand human cognition and is concerned that artificial intelligence could destroy humanity.

Quote:Person Who Wanted to Kill GOP Leaders Inspired by CEO Murder
Friday, 31 January 2025 08:56 PM EST

A Massachusetts man who identifies as a woman told police that he went to the U.S. Capitol to kill members of President Donald Trump's cabinet . . .

English, 24, of South Deerfield, Massachusetts, told police that he felt like he was “on a mission” and “had been thinking about for this for a while because of Luigi Mangione,” prosecutors said. Mangione pleaded not guilty in December to state murder and terror charges in a Manhattan court.

When this movie first came out I enjoyed the movie greatly. It does have moments of pure joy and eternal laughter.

Quote:Sean Connery stars—and breaks free of Bond forever (well, Never Say Never…) as desert brigand chieftain Mulai Ahmed er Raisuli who kidnaps an American widow, Eden Pedecaris (Candice Bergen) in a bid to embarrass the Sultan of Morocco. In doing so, he arouses the ire and interest of an internationally ambitious Commander in Chief, Theodore Roosevelt (Brian Keith). John Milius both scripts and directs, bending true-life fact to serve his storytelling craft and shapes history into a spirited screen legend. Jerry Goldsmith’s lauded and lofty score adds to the film’s wonder.

Oki's Weird Stories: Did the FBI Plant a Bomb in an Environmentalist's Car? - An Unsolved Mystery




In 1990, Judi Bari, an activist with the radical environmentalist group Earth First!, was the victim of a car bombing. As she was being operated on in the hospital, the FBI arrested her for transporting the bomb that exploded beneath her car seat. Later, Judi blamed the FBI for planting the bomb in her car. Who was right?

This video is a concise retelling of the Judi Bari case. It goes over all of the details and theories about the bombing of Judi Bari.

00:00 Intro
0:30 Who Bombed Judi Bari?
6:31 The Arrest
7:37 Earth First!
12:30 Why the FBI Pinned the Blame on Judi and Darryl
19:11 The Media Reported What the Authorities Said
19:47 AD BREAK 
21:02 Judi and Darryl Were Released from Custody
21:51 The Lord’s Avenger Letter
25:15 Irv Sutley
26:28 The Argus Letter
28:13 Threats & Acts of Intimidation
31:37 Felllerbuncher Fires
32:43 Timeline: When Was the Bomb Planted?
34:45 The FBI Bomb School & Irv Sutley
36:48 The Case Against Mike Sweeney
46:14 Final Notes on the Three Letters
49:13 Aftermath