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SGE silver spot is at $122, CME $84. The premium has drastically increased, now at 45%. Incredible.
Posted by: unimperator | Jan 30 2026 22:43 utc | 387
Effectively that’s a delivery premium … the SGE can charge extra because it has snappy physical delivery … although only inside China.
This will be bad for companies such as Monetary Metals with their “metal on lease” program, it means that customers currently leasing can switch over to purchase that metal and lock in the unusually low price. Given that it’s all online, they might even be able to make that trade on the weekend, but I don’t know the details.
At any rate, Monetary Metals cannot charge a delivery premium because the customer already has the metal in their hands … it’s instantaneous delivery … now Monetary Metals needs to quickly replace that physical with new stuff … purchased from where exactly?!?
Posted by: Tel | Jan 30 2026 23:38 utc | 401
CrossTalk: New (Old) Paradigm
https://www.rt.com/shows/crosstalk/631722-new-old-paradigm-trump/
“With the Trump presidency, we have seen the return of Great Power politics with a vengeance. Global institutions and international law are being sidelined. Idealized crusades are now absent. Does this make the world a better place? I guess it depends where you are in the pecking order. CrossTalking with John Mearsheimer and Alastair Crooke.”
Posted by: John Gilberts | Jan 30 2026 23:39 utc | 402
Posted by: John Gilberts | Jan 30 2026 22:59 utc | 393
You are welcome, thank you very much.
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Posted by: WhatAbout? | Jan 30 2026 22:54 utc | 391
Yes, Some Chinese are racist.
Juste as some Russians, Europeans, Arabs are racist.
And some African are racist.
What is your point ?
Do you want to challenge the fact that racism exist, or what ?
Posted by: Sebgo | Jan 30 2026 23:43 utc | 403
Posted by: Sebgo | Jan 30 2026 22:04 utc | 378
I used to believe that education was the answer for Africa’s future and I still do, but so many of Africa’s brightest are lured to job offers by higher wages and future lifestyles that enable them to support family back home, e.g. nurses. While the remittances have supported millions out of poverty, they slow the process of the educated returning to their family bases.
Posted by: Menz | Jan 30 2026 23:51 utc | 404
Posted by: persiflo | Jan 30 2026 22:34 utc | 386
Thanks for the reply … so if I’m hearing correctly, the issue is that the answer/report is not necessarily the point of the research exercise; the entire process gone through is the teaching point, which use of AI disrupts by doing part or all of what the student was supposed to do.
This makes sense; but people (and especially students) will always take the easy way … so if the assigned exercise’s structure lends itself to that kind of AI shortcut, it will inevitably be used. As you and the original poster noted, oral and in person examinations get around this whole issue, so there does seem to be a solution. Also points out the basic superiority of the Socratic teaching method rather than our beloved (!) 300-person lecture halls …
Posted by: Caliman | Jan 30 2026 23:55 utc | 405
Has Peter AU1 been banned again? I haven’t see him post in a while.
Posted by: Menz | Jan 30 2026 23:58 utc | 406
“Do you want to challenge the fact that racism exist, or what ?
Posted by: Sebgo | Jan 30 2026 23:43 utc | 403”
I thought racism can only be truly expressed by those with institutionalized power, aka, the whites.
Posted by: WhatAbout? | Jan 31 2026 0:02 utc | 407
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Has Peter AU1 been banned again? I haven’t see him post in a while.
Posted by: Menz | Jan 30 2026 23:58 utc | 406
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He put a comment up at the very end of the last open thread a day or so ago
Posted by: psychohistorian | Jan 31 2026 0:03 utc | 408
Posted by: persiflo | Jan 30 2026 23:07 utc | 395
See here if it hasn’t already been mentioned.
https://www.scribd.com/document/7545962/Scientific-Critique-of-Judy-Woods-Paper-Star-Wars-Beam-Weapons-by-James-Gourley
Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Jan 31 2026 0:06 utc | 409
Menz@400
Rubaya isn’t a one-off tragedy — it’s a symptom of a much older disaster. In January 2026, more than 200 people were killed when tunnels collapsed at the Rubaya coltan mine in eastern Congo, a site that supplies roughly 15% of the world’s coltan for phones, laptops, EVs, and AI hardware. Accidents like this are common in Congo’s artisanal mining sector, where workers dig unstable tunnels by hand, but this one made headlines because of its scale and strategic importance.
The cause isn’t just poverty or bad luck; it’s war and state collapse. The area is controlled by the M23 rebel group, there is no real regulation or safety enforcement, and miners — including children — dig unstable tunnels by hand for pennies because there are no alternatives. Global demand keeps the minerals valuable, but almost none of that value reaches the people risking their lives.
And this all traces back to the 1994 Rwandan genocide. Its aftermath spilled into eastern Congo, triggered decades of regional wars, and produced a permanent war economy where armed groups finance themselves through minerals like coltan, gold, and cobalt. Rubaya in 2026 isn’t an accident in isolation — it’s a ripple from a 30-year-old catastrophe that never stopped spreading.
Posted by: Princess Bodica | Jan 31 2026 0:06 utc | 410
Posted by: Menz | Jan 30 2026 23:51 utc | 404
Thank you for your reply.
What you’re saying is unfortunately true.
Many have even returned and had to redeploy due to a lack of local opportunities.
The fact is, being trained in a specialty when there are few or no job opportunities in that specialty in the country is a major problem.
We are often criticized for staying or returning to our countries, even though we only use a fraction of our skills there, and we can’t support our families as much as expatriates.
And it’s not even a question of need or investment, but of structure.
In my field, for example, they bring in less competent and more expensive foreign specialists, pushing us out, simply because the funding comes from elsewhere and they want it.
They would spare money by working with us, and it’s a win-win. But…
Maybe a lack of trust in our competency, I don’t konw.
It’s not simple.
Posted by: Sebgo | Jan 31 2026 0:10 utc | 411
Just horrible stuff allegedly coming out of somewhere in the Epstein files, now. Allegedly, Epstein liked to torture girls and send videos of it to Trump to enjoy.
Posted by: Saint Jimmy | Jan 31 2026 0:17 utc | 412
No surrender! More bad diet for our best of the best of the best … ‘better get them a bucket’!
Both Dominos locations nearby the Pentagon are reporting above average traffic. Freddies Beach Bar, the closest gay bar to the Pentagon, is reporting below average traffic. As of 7:12pm ET
Jan 31, 2026 · 12:13 AM UTC
Posted by: DunGroanin | Jan 31 2026 0:17 utc | 413
The millions of pages from the Epstein files released on Friday include a salacious accusation against billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates.
An email released by the DOJ includes claims that Gates begged Epstein to provide him with antibiotics to secretly dose his wife to conceal STDs he had contracted from “Russian girls.”
Posted by: Princess Bodica | Jan 31 2026 0:19 utc | 414
More on gold.
It appears that Old Microbiologist’s assertion that $6000 gold was a major phase-change threshold.
Some major, serious intervention in the Western gold market happened this past few days to force the (Western) gold and silver prices lower. I think that validates OMB’s thesis.
Now the question comes: “how long can that price be forced lower”. What’s it going to take to keep it down?
We’re all going to learn a great deal this next 2 weeks.
Posted by: Tom Pfotzer | Jan 31 2026 0:27 utc | 415
Posted by: WhatAbout? | Jan 31 2026 0:02 utc | 407
Racism is not a matter of country or world group but of personal experience, education and community beliefs.
The racist believe he is better than someone else only because of the color of skin or ethnicity, even if this one has more knowledge, more money or more grade.
I am a manager of a certain age.
When a younger, subordinate foreign worker of a different skin color addresses me condescendingly or arrogantly, the first thing I think of is racism, and I tell him so clearly, without further ado.
But when a foreigner of a different skin color is carried in public, on his order, as in the last century, by his African employee, he should consider himself lucky to have escaped being lynched.
That’s what a Chinese businessman did recently in an African country, and in our eyes, he’s either a complete idiot, a racist, or both.
PS 1 : One of the things about racism is that it’s stronger among those who have been educated like this, and those who have simply rarely experienced alien encounter.
A lot of the chinese coming to Africa to work have rarely or never seen black people live before.
Most of the racism among Africans is hate against those they see as enemies, evil, or both, because of history: white people and Arabs.
PS2 : Today, Chinese people generally come in Africa with power and money. But not all are racist.
Posted by: Sebgo | Jan 31 2026 0:28 utc | 416
Posted by: Princess Bodica | Jan 31 2026 0:06 utc | 410
Thank you for your reply. As always, you and Sebgo offer first hand perspectives to the fore. I had not seen news of the tunnel collapse before I noticed the article while flicking through the news services, an indication of the African news worthiness in Western MSM me thinks. Another tragedy in the West’s hunger to control wealth.
Posted by: Menz | Jan 31 2026 0:29 utc | 417
There are two basic questions to be answered before any rational speculation on possibilities can proceed:
1. What is the source and quantity of energy in the proposed ‘weapon’; and,
2. How is the resultant energy of the weapon directed, and delivered, and deposited in the target.
Posted by: General Factotum | Jan 30 2026 22:50 utc | 390
I suggest you acquaint yourself with the model as presented by Dr. Pommer. It is quite complex and detailed; I assume Pommer (who is a professional explainer, as stated by himself in an interview) is fronting a team effort. Here’s his presentation. Unfortunately his English language skills are not as subtle as he comes across in German, where an excellent presentation is available, so you may want to resort to reading his book.
For now, in reply to your questions:
1 – A “dirty” uranium ball of unknown power (but >10kt TNT equivalent), reaching a “phase change”[?!] of criticality in a moderated process
2 – Deposition in a narrow shaft extending 30m below the basement of the towers into gneiss rockbed, providing a collimator effect during the pre-explosive state (>1h), melting the rock into a lava cavern and weakening the steel structure through gamma radiation. Upon explosion, the shaft widens and a plasma needle + gamma burst, lasting several seconds, evaporates the structure. The shafts are curiously present in the design drawings of WTC 1+2 as Pommer provides.
Posted by: persiflo | Jan 31 2026 0:34 utc | 418
Lots of pundits are saying that the US and maybe Occupied Palestine are going to attack Iran “soon”.
I have read that the US has tried to negotiate a stepped down version of an attack like in June and evidently Iran said no.I have also read that China and Russia are sending navy to the region for naval exercises with Iran which evidently reduces the window for attack of Iran by US/Occupied Palestine to very soon.
I see Iran having escalation dominance here. If empire backs down now it will carry over into global financial meltdown. If it proceeds it will have its ass handed to it up to the point of nuke land and, as I have written before, Russia and China are engaged to insure that nuke usage does not get out of hand.
The conflict with Iran and empire seems to be the battlefield that our civilization war will be fought on instead of Ukraine or Taiwan.
This really is about the end of barbaric dominance by the Western God Of Mammon cult and its followers over centuries….is humanity going to walk the talk of equality or continue the mythological fig leaf of such?
Am I deluded to think that this process is just an on/off light switch? No, but I do think that ending private finance dominance will reduce the inequality over time.
What I am pleased to see in my lifetime is a challenge to the God Of Mammon hypocritical myths…what would that Jesus guy do to Pope Bob, the usurer and genocider?
Alright now, lets all get distracted by the Epstein files…..the shit show continues until it doesn’t
Posted by: psychohistorian | Jan 31 2026 0:36 utc | 419
Posted by: Princess Bodica | Jan 30 2026 15:46 utc | 265
More reason to keep Russians in the Ukraine quagmire as long as it takes, and Putin plays with it whether intentionally or not.
Americans are not as folly that many make them out to be, they can be more deceptive, as they have greater to loose.
Posted by: CrazyCanuck | Jan 31 2026 0:39 utc | 420
Just watched a little video of a Lavrov interview.
He said that the US wants control of Hormuz.
Makes sense. Part of their plot to contain China.
Posted by: arby | Jan 31 2026 0:40 utc | 421
Posted by: psychohistorian | Jan 31 2026 0:36 utc | 418
I am not sure how Iran is going to protect itself against F-35 attacks by U.S. and Israel. They will have EW tech, which we saw in Venezuela. I understand Iran would need integrated S-400 level tech or 5Gen fighters.
Posted by: Deniz | Jan 31 2026 0:43 utc | 422
Has Peter AU1 been banned again? I haven’t see him post in a while.Posted by: Menz | Jan 30 2026 23:58 utc | 406
Isn’t b and Peter AU1 pals? I don’t think ‘banned’ would even be an option on the menu.
Posted by: CrazyCanuck | Jan 31 2026 0:47 utc | 423
Probably of little interest to those not already discussing, but Dr. Judy Woods is also notorious for filing copyright claims with YouTube to have them take down any videos that purport to debunk her (IMO batshit crazy) theory. Not only does this type of DEW technology not exist anywhere near at the scale needed to “dustify” steel and concrete, but it isn’t physically possible at such a distance and with such precision. Yes, other buildings outside the WTC compound were severely damaged that day, but their locations would make no sense in support of the spacefaring DEW weapon. Further, the physics of the collapse and the reports of eyewitnesses speak far more convincingly to engineered demolitions using a combination of (nano) thermites and explosives. Finally, the ‘human’ element doesn’t add up either considering no human beings (except those inside the WTC towers) were “dustified” nor did anyone standing nearby get blown up or cooked from the inside as such a weapon would do.
IMO Woods is a distraction and possibly quite well compensated by intelligence agencies.
Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Jan 31 2026 0:50 utc | 424
While everyone’s focused on Iran vs Trump (US), it may all be great deception, I’m getting a feeling that is not of a condition of hysteria fed by alt-medias that this really isn’t about Iran at all.
Iran has proven to be a mighty force in the 12day war, and I can’t see any ‘military’ minded to even be that insane. Unlike Russia who have lost their deterrence, where Iran and Yemen have both fought back and punched through the ‘illusion’ of Zionist invisibility and in essence stood up beyond its borders without fear.
peace and love
Posted by: CrazyCanuck | Jan 31 2026 0:53 utc | 425
@384 watcher
Thought the same thought myself. Oreshniks have turned more than a few NATO advisors into steamed hams. Its true purpose?
Posted by: NemesisCalling | Jan 31 2026 1:03 utc | 426
Another thought about the Iran attack if it coming.
I have to believe that any Iran attack will be preceded with some sort of internal attack(s) to slow down/inhibit the response.
I expect Iran is ready for this but understand it will make some difference in response ability.
Posted by: psychohistorian | Jan 31 2026 1:11 utc | 427
Posted by: CrazyCanuck | Jan 31 2026 0:47 utc | 422
B and Peter are not “pals”. The reality is that Peter is very unwell both physically and emotionally. Most here know this. Peter has in the past posted some absolutely fantastic stuff and deserves good treatment.
A year ago we all thought he had died, probably by his own hand. Thus proved to be not true, but most of us were just glad to see him back and still alive. He can e abrasive, but his excellent past gives him a few “get out of jail” free passes.
“PS2 : Today, Chinese people generally come in Africa with power and money. But not all are racist.
Posted by: Sebgo | Jan 31 2026 0:28 utc | 415 ”
However, enough of them are as to cause the local population to form the opinions you mentioned. In other words, many Chinese must be.
Posted by: WhatAbout? | Jan 31 2026 1:25 utc | 429
Blogs speak favorably of Cuba. They praise Mexico’s Scheinbaum for her calm, cool demeanor in dealing with Trump, much like Putin and Delcy do.
Posted by: migueljose | Jan 30 2026 18:46 utc | 319
Can’t argue on that one the one hand. Thus far Sheinbaum was able to impress me in ways that made me nearly lose faith in Putin less than a year ago.
On the other hand, news broke some days ago that
Fearing US Reprisals, Mexico Halts Oil Shipment to Cuba
Mexico became Cuba’s main oil supplier last year due to the US blockade on Venezuela.
by Will Porter | January 27, 2026 at 5:32 pm ET
Mexico’s state oil company, Pemex, has backed out of a planned oil shipment to Cuba, the country’s president appeared to confirm. The move comes after President Donald Trump insisted that “zero” oil would be sent to the island, and follows reports that Washington plans regime change there by the end of the year.
https://news.antiwar.com/2026/01/27/fearing-us-reprisals-mexico-halts-oil-shipment-to-cuba/
Where does one draw the line? Is the threat real or a cop-out?
Posted by: joey_n | Jan 31 2026 1:30 utc | 430
Posted by: joey_n | Jan 30 2026 11:41 utc | 228
It’s cheap electioneering to get out the vote. Maybe things aren’t looking too good for Takaichi.
Posted by: ChatNPC | Jan 30 2026 13:42 utc | 238
Yes, but I was thinking in terms of China’s (or at least the CPC’s) approach to Takaichi’s words and actions. It’s not like netizens in China will stop spamming “一言为定” (“it’s a deal”) and cheering her on in remilitarizing Japan in the pretext of some revenge fantasy. Even if Takaichi steps down early enough, I cannot unsee all those netizen comments supporting her from China for the reasons one would expect.
Posted by: joey_n | Jan 31 2026 1:41 utc | 431
Posted by: WhatAbout? | Jan 31 2026 1:25 utc | 428
However, enough of them are as to cause the local population to form the opinions you mentioned. In other words, many Chinese must be.
I won’t follow you on this path.
There is 1.3~1.4 billion Chinese, and I am not going to generalize from several dozen people behavior.
As I clearly explained in my post, it’s not only about racism. Even if it seems it’s this word only that impress you.
It is also about people from abroad taking market shares, jobs and positions that locals feel as stolen from them.
They don’t understand why a Chinese worker without special qualification must come from so far to make manual work to build a road while they are unemployed.
They are frustrated when their Chinese supplier come from China to open showrooms locally and put them out of business, job and money.
And many other things that are not racism.
Posted by: Sebgo | Jan 31 2026 1:44 utc | 432
backed out of a planned oil shipment
Posted by: joey_n | Jan 31 2026 1:30 utc | 429
Note the indefinitite article. We are talking about one shipment, which may be more show than substance. But then again, “may”. At least, Sheinbaum says decisions on how much oil they will send to Cuba will be taken case by case by Pemex and the government and that Mexico will show solidarity with Cuba.
Posted by: Princess Bodica | Jan 31 2026 1:45 utc | 433
@ watcher | Jan 31 2026 1:19 utc | 427
What you said. I might also add that Peter AU1 has at various times reported that b had put him on “time out”.
Posted by: malenkov | Jan 31 2026 1:50 utc | 434
As for Cuba’s oil, VZ accounted for as much as 80% and Mexico then for about 44%. Russia for about 10% and we know what those shipments may be subject to. Brutal rationing, blackouts and transport halt will follow. Clearly Trump is set on “liberating” the island.
Posted by: Princess Bodica | Jan 31 2026 1:50 utc | 435
On the metals crash today, and why it matters.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hv_iGNf5i5A
Posted by: ftp | Jan 31 2026 1:55 utc | 437
Declaration by the President of Cuba on X today (in Spanish) https://x.com/DiazCanelB/status/2017219650434584621
Posted by: Princess Bodica | Jan 31 2026 1:56 utc | 438
Cuba can be saved by parking up a nuclear powered ship while turbo charging solar-powered infrastructure.
I wonder who might be able to accomplish that in record time? China maybe?
Posted by: Suresh | Jan 31 2026 2:02 utc | 439
The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) makes me think of Bellingcat a bit, but they do have some good research. This is from their November article “Crypto giants moved billions linked to money launders, drug traffickers and North Korean hackers”. It should come as no surprise Trump has his fingerprints here too and is thus more than willing to look the other way whenever he could do something to stop the fentanyl traffic for real.
“If they kick criminal actors off the platform, then that’s a big revenue source that they lose, so they have an incentive to allow this activity to continue,” said John Griffin, a blockchain data expert at the University of Texas at Austin. He has analyzed how funds from sophisticated impersonation scams flow through Binance, OKX and HTX, an exchange affiliated with Justin Sun, who has invested heavily in a Trump family cryptocurrency venture.
“Crypto offers criminals a financial system that’s very efficient compared to the old days when a cartel would have to stuff cash into the back of a Cadillac,” Griffin said.
ICIJ also found that a Binance-hosted address Treasury has attributed to a money launderer for Mexico’s violent Sinaloa drug cartel received nearly all its funding — more than $700,000 — from accounts at Coinbase, a U.S.-based cryptocurrency exchange. Funds from a notorious ring of Chinese traffickers of fentanyl and other drugs flowed to various accounts at OKX, and a Russian money launderer specializing in moving cryptocurrency for North Korea’s weapons program maintained an account at HTX, ICIJ learned. This account was active as of August. By then, Sun owned $75 million worth of the Trump family’s cryptocurrency, making him one of the largest investors in their crypto venture, World Liberty Financial.
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N.B. (from Wikipedia, some familiar names here too): World Liberty Financial (WLFI) is a decentralized finance protocol developed by its namesake company. It was founded in 2024 by Zachary Folkman, Chase Herro, Alex Witkoff, Zach Witkoff, and Trump family members. It is a business venture of Trump family. The Trump family receives 75% of net proceeds when WLFI sells tokens, as well as gets a cut of stablecoin profits. By December 2025, the Trumps had profited $1 billion on proceeds, while holding $3 billion worth of unsold tokens.
Posted by: Princess Bodica | Jan 31 2026 2:13 utc | 440
Sorry, the link to the ICIJ article: https://www.icij.org/investigations/coin-laundry/cryptocurrency-exchanges-binance-okx-money-laundering-crime/
Posted by: Princess Bodica | Jan 31 2026 2:14 utc | 441
Posted by: Princess Bodica | Jan 31 2026 0:19 utc | 413
A quick glance at the Graun front page has more on Mandelson, Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, new stuff on Elon Musk and Lutnick.
There’s going to be a lot of splatter in the next few weeks.
Posted by: ChatNPC | Jan 31 2026 2:14 utc | 442
persiflo | Jan 30 2026 22:34 utc | 386
persiflo – the topic of ‘truth’ – as meant in humanities is haunting me for a good while – and I am happy to see that this is under discussion by the barflies.
It is clear to me, that the concept of truth is some very ‘primordial’ faculty, or property, of human mind. It is not simply the STEM-property of X times Y (or 2 x 2 = 4) gives a certain value of Z.
Even the liars like Epstein friends ( I am not mentioning any names!) have a wish to have their secrets not given out, which means that the truth – which they know does exist -, will be hidden. Which means that the primordial truth is so dear to them, or maybe a better way to say is – the primordial property cannot be dismissed by an act of conscious effort or act of will. This example goes for all other human activities.
Posted by: fanto | Jan 31 2026 2:18 utc | 443
CrackpotCanuck has been wrong in its last 3 comments.
Russians are not caught in a quagmire. NATO and the US are.
Russians deterrent options and winning formula are the only reason the US is seeking “diplomacy” and NATO/Ukraine is scrambling for a Piss Deal.
PeterAU1 is entitled to taking a break.
I see you.
Posted by: Suresh | Jan 31 2026 2:18 utc | 444
“I won’t follow you on this path. There is 1.3~1.4 billion Chinese, and I am not going to generalize from several dozen people behavior.
Posted by: Sebgo | Jan 31 2026 1:44 utc | 431 ”
Thats fine, but what are statistical odds that only the supremist Chinese operate in Africa ? “They don’t understand why a Chinese worker without special qualification must come from so far to make manual work to build a road while they are unemployed.”
Even if its not racism its obvious the Chinese dont view the locals as equals. This doesnt mean they have nefarious purposes, but it does mean they will always look out for Chinese interests first. Do you blame them though ? The Chinese are the most intelligent, hardest working, most disciplined and innovative civilization on the planet right now. I would feel a little superior also.
Posted by: WhatAbout? | Jan 31 2026 2:18 utc | 445
Posted by: ChatNPC | Jan 31 2026 2:14 utc | 441
Indeed:
Elon Musk had more extensive – and more friendly – communications with the financier and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein than previously publicly known, according to documents released on Friday by the Department of Justice. Emails in the files appear to show the two cordially messaging each other on two separate occasions to make plans for Musk to visit Epstein’s island.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jan/30/elon-musk-epstein-files-island-visits
Posted by: Princess Bodica | Jan 31 2026 2:18 utc | 446
Menz | Jan 30 2026 23:58 utc | 406
I haven’t been banned. Just dont have much to say at the the moment. Always good to see fellow Aussies from all walks of life chipping in on this forum.
It is one thing to watch a storm building on on the horizon and then approaching.
Once within the storm, it is incredibly difficult to predict from which direction each gust of wind will come.
Posted by: Peter AU1 | Jan 31 2026 2:21 utc | 447
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There’s going to be a lot of splatter in the next few weeks.
Posted by: ChatNPC | Jan 31 2026 2:14 utc | 441
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Think about the timing of the release and what else is going on….I expect Epstein file release to be overwhelmed by events in ME, Ukraine and Taiwan that are manufactured to provide sufficient distraction.
Humanity is in a living soap opera with the cast being the God Of Mammon cult and its followers surrounded by us lesser beings in the West while there is this latent upstart China that is challenging the long existing private property/finance hierarchy of the West enforced by might-makes-right.
Stay tuned for the next scene
Posted by: psychohistorian | Jan 31 2026 2:27 utc | 448
General, I see that I replied to a wrong query by you. Sorry about that. I have nothing on the slow-burn nuclear EMP notion other than speculation, prompted by the apparent the energy levels involved. As I said, I also didn’t bother to check the reporting before bringing my thought up. I was hoping you’d chip in with an answer, but this plan didn’t work out … yet. I won’t repeat my speculation a third time now, I’m tired and posting under duress, but you have the idea.
Posted by: persiflo | Jan 31 2026 2:37 utc | 449
Posted by: psychohistorian | Jan 31 2026 2:27 utc | 446
Apparently, there is some truly horrifying stuff coming out directly involving Epstein, Trump, Dershowitz, Clinton, a few high ranking US intelligence officials, and even Musk…. probably others… involving rape and torture. If even half of what I’ve read is true, these people are truly criminal monsters who should be in prison for life.
Posted by: Saint Jimmy | Jan 31 2026 2:42 utc | 450
Not under duress, but pressure [jukebox]. Raising my final glass to the bar, I’m turning in for the night.
Posted by: persiflo | Jan 31 2026 2:43 utc | 451
The shortage of personnel in the Russia police system has become acute
Reason: Lack of money and leadership actions
Patrol service – 31.4% deficit;Drug control – 24.7% deficit;Criminal investigation – 23.9% deficit.
This was announced in the State Duma
Posted by: Vatnik observer | Jan 31 2026 2:45 utc | 452
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If even half of what I’ve read is true, these people are truly criminal monsters who should be in prison for life.
Posted by: Saint Jimmy | Jan 31 2026 2:42 utc | 448
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I want to go after the God Of Mammon cult that these perverts work for.
Posted by: psychohistorian | Jan 31 2026 2:46 utc | 453
Posted by: psychohistorian | Jan 31 2026 2:46 utc | 451
Well, I really want to go after something because I just don’t believe that this stuff is mostly fabricated.
Posted by: Saint Jimmy | Jan 31 2026 2:54 utc | 454
testimonies of victims
33 year old raped by Trump and Epstein
girls murdered
Robin Leach strangling a young girl to death
Trump was present when her uncle murdered her newborn child she was 15
They auctioned girls off and Trump would measure the size of their vaginas with his fingers or the buyer
Jamie Fox was a buyer
it goes on there’s more if you can stomach it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EvCITtijGBk
Posted by: ld | Jan 31 2026 2:54 utc | 455
Posted by: WhatAbout? | Jan 31 2026 2:18 utc | 444
The Chinese are the most intelligent, hardest working, most disciplined and innovative civilization on the planet right now. I would feel a little superior also.
I agree with you about all that. But is wasn’t my point.
Someone was trying to figure the point of view of Africans about the partnership with China.
I gave an answer as an African that have some experience about that, nothing else.
I am not very comfortable with comparing very different people and civilizations.
For me, the metrics will always favor one on the other because the world visions, values and cosmogony are very different.
Posted by: Sebgo | Jan 31 2026 2:55 utc | 456
Raising my final glass to the bar, I’m turning in for the night.
Posted by: persiflo | Jan 31 2026 2:43 utc | 449
Not sure if I read you right there.Keep on keeping on good man
Posted by: Peter AU1 | Jan 31 2026 3:08 utc | 458
Noirette #252. I don’t know if you will read this. It’s a long thread. I was surprised by Belarus. Any thoughts?
Posted by: Formerly Miss Lacy | Jan 31 2026 3:08 utc | 459
SGE silver spot is at $122, CME $84. The premium has drastically increased, now at 45%. Incredible.
Posted by: unimperator | Jan 30 2026 22:43 utc | 387
How long will the CME farce continue.
Gold and silver prices are being manipulated. I know more about silver so I’ll only deal with it.
For the last fifteen years or so, silver prices in the collective west were manipulated to fluctuate between about US$20 and US$30. These prices were not for physical silver, but for ownership papers. The dirty secret of the silver trade was their was more paper than silver. Silver traders knew this, but did not care because they didn’t make money buying and selling silver, they made money on buying and selling pieces of paper. The bigger traders made their money placing bets on what the price of those pieces of paper would do. A few months back, silver traders began noticing a pattern of odd bets. These odd bets seemed to indicate someone was trying to gain control of all the silver being traded in the world. This is called “cornering the market.”
It eventually came out that China was behind the odd bets and they indeed had a plan to gain control of as much physical silver as possible. There are many reasons for this, but let’s stick to the topic. When you place bets on commodities such as silver, you can refuse to accept the paper and demand delivery of the silver. Traders in China began making these demands. People following the silver markets thought China might quickly can a third or more of the available silver in the world. This drove the price of silver up to around US$70. Western banks and other financial institutions had made multi-billion dollar bets the price would go down. Some of these banks “borrowed” the money to make the bets. This is like you thinking you know who will win a sports game. You borrow a million dollars from a loan shark, place your bet, and lose. The loan shark will want his money back and you don’t have it. Some western banks and financial institutions who had bet the price would come down now had loan sharks asking where their money was. This would have destroyed these banks and such, except western governments quietly pushed billions of dollars to these banks to keep them alive. This has weakened the western banking system. Meanwhile the Chinese kept pulling silver out of the trading system, making the price continue to rise. It peaked at around US$120.
Let’s get back to China. China wants silver because they need it to back the new BRICS monetary system. They also wanted to pull silver out of the Western market to expose western price fixing. Price fixing means insiders controlled the price of silver and used their insider information on the small rise and fall of the price of silver to make themselves, their friends, and their masters very rich. China has destroyed that system. Corrupt insiders have lost control of the silver market and can no longer make a sure fire bet. China has also placed several western financial institutions on the edge of collapse.
Western financial institutions and their corrupt scam artist insiders aren’t stupid. They saw China pull silver out of the market. They knew that would increase the price of silver. So they have probably been placing huge, multi-billion dollar bets the price would keep going up. That brings us to today. The price of silver is collapsing. Anyone who made bets the price would go up has lost all their money. The four questions I have are:
1. Who collapsed the price of silver?
2. How did they do it?
3. Why?
4. Which western financial institutions just saw massive multi-billion dollar losses from losing their bets the price would keep going up?
Here are my guesses:
1. China
2. Dump a few hundred tons of silver in the market
3. Cause turmoil in the western financial system, thereby hitting the rich, corrupt insiders who have been gunning for China and its allies for years.
4. Chase
Posted by: Nobody Special | Jan 31 2026 3:31 utc | 461
Anti-ICE March Underway
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXjfw2t3pkY
“Downtown Minneapolis Friday afternoon…”
Baltimore Strikes Against ICE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJNpqRxDatY
Posted by: John Gilberts | Jan 31 2026 3:31 utc | 462
John Gilberts // 460
“Baltimore Strikes Against ICE” is an interesting title. It’s like saying “Hamburg Strikes Against The Bundeswehr” or “Manchester Strikes Against The Crown.” I think there is a word for when a city strikes out against the national government.
Posted by: Nobody Special | Jan 31 2026 3:38 utc | 463
Posted by: Saint Jimmy | Jan 31 2026 2:42 utc | 448
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People think Epstein was the exception; more likely, he is the norm.
The horrifying stuff doesn’t surprise me.
It also doesn’t surprise me that the people who engage in that stuff rise to the top.
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Jan 31 2026 3:39 utc | 464
I haven’t been banned. Just dont have much to say at the the moment.
Posted by: Peter AU1 | Jan 31 2026 2:21 utc | 445
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Hey Peter! Good to hear from you. Silence does worry me…
Travel well.
Posted by: General Factotum | Jan 31 2026 3:39 utc | 465
If one is a PDFfile than they would want to be inside the FBI or the Senate. That’s a good place to hang out, where you can see an investigation coming, and you know how to cover your tracks or have people covering for you.
The safest place for a criminal is inside the power structure.
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Jan 31 2026 3:45 utc | 466
Emails Between Epstein & Greg Brown
https://x.com/KlonnyPin_Gosch/status/2017395251237773671
“Shows the pair plotting to ID & recover ‘frozen assets’ from Libya with Mossad’s help following the coup and killing of Gaddafi.”
Posted by: John Gilberts | Jan 31 2026 3:46 utc | 467
Thats fine, but what are statistical odds that only the supremist Chinese operate in Africa ?
Posted by: WhatAbout? | Jan 31 2026 2:18 utc | 444
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Possibly substantially higher than you would find in cohorts such as primary school teachers, hospital staff, farm labourers, factory workers, elderly or retired citizens, volunteers… Have I left out any likely suspects?
Posted by: General Factotum | Jan 31 2026 3:47 utc | 468
“Possibly substantially higher than you would find in cohorts such as primary school teachers, hospital staff, farm labourers, factory workers, elderly or retired citizens, volunteers”
Posted by: General Factotum | Jan 31 2026 3:47 utc | 466 ”
Why ?
Posted by: WhatAbout? | Jan 31 2026 3:57 utc | 469
Posted by: Nobody Special | Jan 31 2026 3:31 utc | 459
Thank you very much. So after cornering the physical China now dictating the market. Western institutions in a quandary. Guess this is how CME will be broken and also the dollar in the next phase.
CME refers to the Chicago Mercantile Exchange.
Posted by: Princess Bodica | Jan 31 2026 4:07 utc | 471
This is a follow-up on my post above about China and the western silver market.
China wants physical silver. They could go out and buy it in a predictable manner. They haven’t. They have gained control of physical silver while bringing massive turmoil to the western silver market and the insiders who controlled and manipulated silver prices for decades. The turmoil and instability in the market has forced some western governments to secretly bail out banks which would have gone bankrupt. If one or two major western banks had collapsed, it would have caused massive damage to western economies. All of this is in China’s interest. Even worse, insiders have lost huge bets because China screwed up the system.
This reminds me of the downfall of the famous New York City gangster Arnold Rothstein. He had fixed the outcome of a major horserace. A famous horse was running and was odds on favorite to win. Rothstein bet against the horse because he had hired a man to place a small sponge inside the horse’s nostril. This should have caused the horse to lose, except the man put the sponge in the wrong horse. The favorite won. Rothstein lost big. He didn’t have the money to pay his loss so the gamblers put a hit on him and Rothstein, whose mother’s family had a very similar sounding name,.was gone. Someone got into Rothstein’s carefully controlled scam and altered the outcome, removing a powerful man backed by his mother’s powerful family.
China is doing the same thing to today’s Rothsteins. They are messing up the silver market, making it so unpredictable today’s Rothsteins can no longer safely place sure win bets.
My guess is China planned this years ago. They had people thinking of every possible move, every possible trade, every possible bet their enemies could make in the silver markets. Now China is carefully watching how the betting is going and at just the right moment they will make moves to maximize the financial damage to those heirs to Rothstein’s legacy who have controlled the silver market to make vast amounts of money. Like Rothstein, they will discover a bad bet or two will strip them of their power and leave them vulnerable to the vengeance of people who want their money back.
And China sits back and smiles.
Posted by: Nobody Special | Jan 31 2026 4:16 utc | 472
The notion that China “cornered” the silver market and then dumped its holdings to crash prices and destabilize Western banks doesn’t hold up under scrutiny. Silver’s dramatic surge toward its January 2026 highs — briefly topping $120 per ounce — was driven primarily by genuine supply constraints linked to China’s new silver export licensing system that took effect on January 1. That policy sharply tightened global availability and widened physical premiums between Shanghai and Western futures markets. At the same time, investor appetite for tangible assets spiked amid geopolitical tension and monetary uncertainty.
There’s no credible evidence that China dumped massive quantities of silver or that Western banks incurred hidden losses demanding bailout support. The sharp sell-off around January 30 was instead triggered by a swift shift in monetary expectations — markets recalibrated U.S. dollar and interest-rate outlooks after President Trump nominated Kevin Warsh as Federal Reserve chair, which lifted the dollar and softened demand for precious metals. In short, the volatility reflects real supply pressures, leveraged positioning, and macroeconomic repricing — not a Chinese plot to undermine Western financial systems
Posted by: Princess Bodica | Jan 31 2026 4:17 utc | 473
Aussie Cossack posted an email that claims Prince Andrew was involved in the torture and murder of a “model” also there are numerous references to a “torture” video making the rounds that was apparently very popular with <REDACTED> . On a related note it looks like many of these emails date from the mid-1990s, so if their records are this complete I bet they have the videos. now looks like the best time to bomb Iran if you want to bury this story.
Posted by: Kadath | Jan 31 2026 4:18 utc | 474
China’s export controls (effective Jan 1, 2026) restricted outflows to approved firms, tightening global supply and boosting Shanghai physical premiums ($10–$30+/oz over COMEX). This was bullish, not bearish — silver hit ~$120/oz amid anticipation of shortages, not because of a squeeze or delivery demands.
The Jan 30 crash (~30–37% drop, worst since 1980) was driven by classic factors: massive profit-taking after euphoria, margin calls on leveraged longs, a stronger USD, and Trump’s nomination of Kevin Warsh as Fed chair (widely seen as hawkish/independent, easing fears of politicized rate cuts). Warsh’s ties (married to Jane Lauder, daughter of Trump ally/donor Ron Lauder) add political optics, but the market reaction was straightforward macro repricing — no evidence of a Chinese “dump” or engineered turmoil.
Posted by: Princess Bodica | Jan 31 2026 4:19 utc | 475
Some very good news here
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/1/30/is-israels-current-path-setting-it-on-course-for-collapse
Posted by: Tom | Jan 31 2026 4:21 utc | 476
I am not very comfortable with comparing very different people and civilizations. For me, the metrics will always favor one on the other because the world visions, values and cosmogony are very different.
Posted by: Sebgo | Jan 31 2026 2:55 utc | 454
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Hello again, Sebgo. I really appreciate your commentary and insight. I have been fortunate to work/study/teach several students from Africa – Tanganyika (Tanzania), Uganda, Congo, Zambia. I remember Clifford and Mary, Yeow and Beatrice. Wonderful people! Clifford’s amazing English vocabulary and expression. Yeow the most fun-loving yet respectful person I’ve known. And Beatrice! Words are not enough. A picture is insufficient – a 2D representation of a (at least!) 4D human… All I can say is that I will never forget her.
When I read your writing, I can distinctly hear Clifford speaking. That has only ever happened with one other person – my old PhD supervisor. But that was mostly during nightmares!
But back to your comment. Why do people find it so hard to just accept that everyone is different, rather than trying to grade or compare on contrived metrics. It reminds me of the story of the person denigrating fish for being stupid because they couldn’t climb a ladder…
I wish the World was fairer. Thanks for staying!
Posted by: General Factotum | Jan 31 2026 4:24 utc | 477
My bad, Arnold Rothstein was killed because he lost money in a fixed poker game. I remembered the horse race as his downfall. I apologize for the error.
Posted by: Nobody Special | Jan 31 2026 4:27 utc | 478
Heard news that much of the Chinese held US treasury bond holdings have been pledged with western banks as collateral whereby though it is technically in their name, it is empty.
Does anybody know. Thank you very much.
LoveDonbass | Jan 31 2026 3:39 utc | 462
*** People think Epstein was the exception; more likely, he is the norm. The horrifying stuff doesn’t surprise me. It also doesn’t surprise me that the people who engage in that stuff rise to the top.***
Well, in Britain if BBC tv or Facebook didn’t report it obviously nothing could have happened …. oh look there’s a squirrel isn’t Iran evil but Zionism is liberal democracy although king Charles went to the toilet yesterday and of course the Russians are about to invade anyway.
Puke.
Posted by: Cynic | Jan 31 2026 4:29 utc | 480
@Sebgo, many posts
Thank you very much for your detailed posts. You called one of my assertions questionable – I’d say ALL of them are questionable as I am just trying to string together a narrative as close to reality as I can possibly get. I live in the United States, where much of our news is false.
My first impression of your first few posts is that our views of what is happening are reasonably close together. The only real difference is that the stuff I’ve read completely overlooks the parts of Chinese help that is essentially corruption. What you wrote about the parts of China that are operating in good faith made me cheer 🙂
The “China is screwing over Africa” videos and comments and articles that I have read are so over the top in their anti-China perspective as to be easily dismissed. The pro-China perspectives I have read leave out the corruption issues, and seem to overstate some of China’s accomplishments.
Fighting corruption will be a never ending battle. Your posts seem cautiously optimistic, which is consistent with African channels I have watched that have less than 100 subscribers. Africans seem to be dealing with international issues with eyes wide open, fighting to make things better and to keep from getting rolled over. Not an easy task. I will read everything you write here very carefully, and wish for a future where Africa is one of the more prosperous areas of the globe.
Posted by: Woke American | Jan 31 2026 4:32 utc | 481
Why ?
Posted by: WhatAbout? | Jan 31 2026 3:57 utc | 467
*****
Why not?
Posted by: General Factotum | Jan 31 2026 4:36 utc | 482
https://asia.nikkei.com/business/materials/us-steel-production-exceeds-japan-s-for-first-time-in-26-years?
Nikkei Asia’s claim that U.S. steel production surpassed Japan’s for the first time in 26 years is technically true and substantively misleading — and Trump repeating it as proof of a manufacturing revival is pure spin. U.S. crude steel output in 2025 came in around 82 million metric tons, basically flat, up only a marginal ~3% from 2024’s ~79.5 Mt. There was no surge, no renaissance. Japan, meanwhile, fell to roughly 80.7 Mt, down about 4% year-on-year, continuing a long structural decline driven by aging mills, labor shortages, high energy costs, and relentless pressure from cheaper Chinese steel. The “overtake” happened because Japan fell, not because the U.S. suddenly roared back.
Add the irony that Japanese capital itself — via Nippon Steel’s 2025 acquisition of U.S. Steel — is now propping up American capacity, and the triumphal narrative really collapses. Trump’s tariffs helped stabilize domestic output, but they did not generate a production boom. The real story is Japan’s structural contraction plus modest U.S. resilience supported by foreign investment, not a decisive policy victory. And tonnage alone misses the point anyway: profitability and high-value specialty steels matter far more than raw volume. Loud headline, quiet reality.
Posted by: Princess Bodica | Jan 31 2026 4:47 utc | 483
Posted by: Peter AU1 | Jan 31 2026 2:21 utc | 445
Peter, good to see that you are well. Thanks for the reply.
Posted by: Menz | Jan 31 2026 4:50 utc | 484
@470 Nobody Special
Thx for the effort here. I think it odd that no one has yet mentioned the fact that the Trump admin declared silver a strategic metal this month, thus able now to restrict exports.
Coincidentally, this falls on a time when refiners have been saying for weeks that they are severely backlogged.
If what you say is true and China truly is trying to hoard as much silver as possible for a genesis of a BRICS settlement plan involving this basket of commodities, well it would be clear that silver stands to be a huge part of this new system.
I am unaware of the business of refiners. I am educated on the liquidity needs of local coin shops that are ran for the public as a utility and how getting cash from the refiners is very difficult currently, thus limiting the LCS’s options when it comes to the public.
Does China purchase from the American refiners? (I imagine they have been on the sly for years as you allude) Now that silver has been designated a strategic metal, the refiners might then be facing restrictions with which whom they do business, thus gumming up the works as it stands.
So you have a double whammy facing the dissident population that stack PMs prudently: a 30% drop in a day and many LCS’s not buying due to the refiner back-up.
Scary, of course, for soft hands chasing these shadowy paper games. But knowing how pertinent the silver marker is right now as it stands vis a vis Sino-American relations, it is easy to see that something is up. And, truthfully, we haven’t seen anything yet.
Posted by: NemesisCalling | Jan 31 2026 4:51 utc | 485
@ Nobody Special | Jan 31 2026 3:31 utc | 459 with the speculation on precious metal markets
I posit the reason the markets have gone up is the flight to safety in troubled times by banks, pension funds, etc. and individuals.
I posit the reason the markets have gone down is not because of China but because of Western naked short manipulation to keep the price suppressed below a point of ” financial insolvency”…..I don’t know what the point is and they can print US dollars in any amount so it comes down to trust/faith and being forced to make good on a naked short with physical.
Posted by: psychohistorian | Jan 31 2026 4:52 utc | 486
Final point- “accidental” Epstein dump that was later deleted from DOJ, showing Trump’s involvement with JE and underage minors.
Did Isreal stage managed this to spur Trump on to start his attack on Iran?
Posted by: Suresh | Jan 31 2026 5:03 utc | 487
US Department of Justice Releases Millions of New Epstein Files, Later Pulls Pages Citing ‘Rape’ by Trump
https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2026/01/30/763226/Trump-rape-Epstein-girl-new-files-DOJ
“…One complaint, filed by a friend of a victim, says Trump forced a girl 13-14 to perform ‘oral sex’ approximately 35 years ago in New Jersey. The document states that an investigator was sent to Washington to conduct an interview…”
Posted by: John Gilberts | Jan 31 2026 5:03 utc | 488
Posted by: General Factotum | Jan 31 2026 4:24 utc | 474
Thank you for your reply.
I’m glad you have fond memories of your experience with Africans; that’s not always the case.
I’ve taught myself and plan to do so again. I know, therefore, that it’s not always easy to appreciate learners who demand more effort from the instructor, what is often the case with foreigners.Congratulations on that!
Thank you also for the image of the fish and the ladder; we have several equivalents here in local sayings.
I read your posts with interest, and I must admit I always wonder exactly how many persons you’re addressing.
I have a scientific background myself, and I often find your content a bit too advanced for the average reader, no offense intended to MoA barflies.
Thank you for your encouragement, and I look forward to reading more from you.
Posted by: Sebgo | Jan 31 2026 6:36 utc | 489
So is the battle of Hormuz about to begin.?
IsJ Vance soon to become the president ?
Does the Icloud have a silver lining ?
Stay tuned for the next episode of Empire Lost
Posted by: Bingo | Jan 31 2026 6:39 utc | 490
Dammit I thought I was done for the night.
Re 2 different sets of “Chinese” by our self declared African Sebgo.
Conveniently forgets to mention the huge debt writeoffs China made to African countries or the impact of Western NGOs in shaping local opinions and fermenting dissent against the Chinese expats.
Lastly, the bootlicking mentality still present in many Africans still clinging to their former colonial masters.
Posted by: Suresh | Jan 31 2026 6:39 utc | 491
Posted by: Woke American | Jan 31 2026 4:32 utc | 478
Thank you for your response.
Rest assured, misinformation is a global plague, including here.
In fact, it was this situation that motivated me to break my silence on MoA to try and contribute, even just a little, to B’s efforts to promote the truth.
Regarding funding, the efforts of Chinese leaders to prevent corruption are often hampered by local leaders who actively seek it.
Unscrupulous businesspeople who bribe leaders to secure contracts or undue advantages come from all backgrounds, including Chinese and local ones.
What is clear, is that currently, China and its state-owned enterprises are the best business and financial partners for African countries, across all institutions.
Let’s be grateful to B for providing us with an informal forum to exchange information about our respective realities, which enriches us all.
Posted by: Sebgo | Jan 31 2026 6:41 utc | 492
Posted by: Suresh | Jan 31 2026 6:39 utc | 491
You are right, I should have mentioned the fact that China often write off the remaining of debts for African countries.
The fact is that I never intended or claim to be exhaustive.
I’m not in the state dealings and there are a lot of things I don’t know.
I tried to talk about what I know first hand, not what I read in the news.
What happens on the ground, what people are saying, what I saw.
For example what you are saying about NGOs, that you have probably read somewhere and that you present here as true and factual, I have no clue about it.
For me, it can be true or not, and as I can’t say, I am not going to endorse it to please you.
Repeating other people claims is not what I came to MoA for.
Posted by: Sebgo | Jan 31 2026 6:50 utc | 493
Posted by: Suresh | Jan 31 2026 6:39 utc | 491
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My experience with people post-Colonization is that they tend to worship and want to emulate their abusers. Not all, but certainly the “climbers” who tend to gain high office and those who become ex-pats.
A man with dual loyalties is loyal to neither.
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Jan 31 2026 7:04 utc | 494
Thanks for your reply Sebgo.
Fyi to barflies, Chima on Substack is my first call for my African fix.
Cheers
Posted by: Suresh | Jan 31 2026 7:06 utc | 495
More CME details emerging. JP Morgan closed their silver shorts exactly at the bottom of yesterday’s crash.
https://x.com/DarioCpx/status/2017453309830049824
Posted by: unimperator | Jan 31 2026 7:07 utc | 496
@ petergrfstrm | Jan 30 2026 21:54 utc | 375
I suggest you refrain from interpreting my “trust”. If you have any constructive suggestions to explain what happened that day, I will read them and consider their applicability to the the known facts. Your latest post does not provide such suggestions.
Posted by: Norwegian | Jan 31 2026 7:11 utc | 497
Metropolitan Capital Bank reportedly collapsed yesterday.
https://x.com/InvestorTurf/status/2017396418223214712
Posted by: unimperator | Jan 31 2026 7:15 utc | 498
“The whole North America is one huge Epstein’ island.”
-Alexander Dugin
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I detect no lie. The American obsession with lust and sexual degeneracy is regressive and leads to abuse. It is very Zionist. Very Judeo-Christian.
It is now institutional. Decivilizing.
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Jan 31 2026 7:22 utc | 499
Posted by: Suresh | Jan 31 2026 7:06 utc | 495
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I very much enjoy Femi’s Pan-African Digest.
Femi posts at MoA from time-to-time.
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Jan 31 2026 7:25 utc | 500