Britain used to be good at propaganda. Really good at it. Alongside the Navy, it was the one thing Britain’s foes always respected: not brute force, but the quiet art of trickery, the information gambit, the elegant misdirection woven so deeply into the machinery of state that you barely noticed the strings until they were already pulling you off course. That was the genius of it. Subtle. Institutional. Almost artistic. Which is why half the world’s sharpest PR minds still cluster in London—trained here, highly compensated here, operating in that grey zone where influence feels like consensus. So it’s genuinely painful to watch this latest episode. The official story around these Ukrainian arsonists and the attack on the PM’s property isn’t just clumsy; it’s an outright embarrassment. A gross, unvarnished shambles of deflection, selective omission, and conspiratorial stitching held together by the thinnest sheen of authority still available from the usual compromised assets—Hope not Hate and their like. It has all the hallmarks of a once-great machine that’s simply given up. You can almost hear the weary sigh from the back rooms: “Sorry, this particular turd just can’t be polished. We’re out.” The result is exactly what you’d expect: obvious lies, ill-connected narratives, and that sad, desperate attempt to project gravitas over something that smells rotten from a mile away. Britain once fooled empires. Now it can’t even fool its own people without blushing. What a fall.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ And then there’s the BBC’s own contribution to this farce — a lengthy “investigation” that breathlessly insists the whole thing is a sophisticated Russian state operation, complete with shadowy Telegram handlers and grand sabotage campaigns. Yet it ends, almost as an afterthought, with the Metropolitan Police’s counter-terrorism chief stating plainly: “we’ve got no evidence to suggest that this was a state-backed threat.” One can almost picture the poor producer staring at the screen, realising the carefully constructed house of cards has no foundation, and deciding to shove that inconvenient quote right at the end anyway. It’s the journalistic equivalent of polishing the turd for six paragraphs and then admitting in the final line that, actually, it’s still just a turd. The mismatch is glaring, the credibility shredded. Britain’s once-feared propaganda apparatus has devolved into self-owning spectacle.

RT @ClareDalyIRL: The jaws of a carefully set trap are closing on @kajakallas. Fitting somehow if it's this, the first good thing she's a…

No Monero folks should be looking to dunk on Zcash because of Zooko's post. He did the right thing and was honest about exploitation being undetectable. We (Monero) have had our own inflation bugs that have thankfully also been resolved, it's a natural downside to building out privacy as the default in these systems. The important things are: 1. Fixing them quickly 2. Working with stakeholders quickly 3. Being honest and transparent about them so the ecosystem as a whole can learn and improve

thanks man

Mossad send their regards

I do feel for the Russians. There is a deep sadness. Russia is part of Europe. Their history and literature is embedded in the cannon of Western art. Putin is sad. Medvedev is becoming psychotic. Dugin is going crazy. And they speak for the Russians I meet in Moscow. They are sad that Europe wants to reject them. They don't want to escalate. Because they are European. But the incomentant British Foreign Office. And EU commision are pushing them to do so. I love Paris. I love Rome. I love Moscow. I was born in the most beautiful European city of all. Edinburgh. In Scotland. It breaks my heart to see whats happening to Europe now. Two world wars. And they still don't get it. Great power wars in Europe. Only brings ruin to us all.

Kevin Warsh the newly appointed Federal Reserve Chair has quietly brought on a key adviser who authored the Project 2025 chapter on the Federal Reserve. That adviser is Paul Winfree. Here is an excerpt from the 900 page "Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise 2025” published by The Heritage Foundation. Chapter 24, written by Winfree, lays out the case for radical monetary reform. Got Gold?

Let's decode what actually happened here. Axios reported that Trump exploded at Netanyahu. Called him "fucking crazy." Said "you'd be in prison if it weren't for me." Said "everybody hates you now." The journalist is Barak Ravid again, we talked about it. Israeli. Based in Washington. Covers the Netanyahu-US relationship for Axios, and every latest deals to calm the markets. This is the same journalist who wrote the exact same type of story about Biden. There is literally a book chapter about this pattern. It is called "Fuming Biden." The same reporter. The same format. The same function. Different president. Now watch the response. Mark Levin, a close ally of both Trump and Netanyahu, did not deny the story. He demanded an FBI investigation into who leaked it. When your defense is "this should never have leaked" instead of "this never happened," you have confirmed the call happened. But here is the part that matters. Why would Levin, a friend to BOTH men, confirm the most explosive account of their relationship ever published? Because it serves both. Trump gets to look tough. Not Netanyahu's puppet. Willing to put Israel in its place. His base loves it. Netanyahu gets cover. He "paused" the Beirut strike, but not because Iran threatened him. Because his "friend" asked him to. His base loves it too. And look at what actually changed on the ground. Nothing. Israel cancelled the Beirut strike. But the ground invasion of Lebanon continues. The IDF is still miles deep. A soldier died today from a Hezbollah drone. Netanyahu's office said: "position unchanged." The performance was perfect. Trump gets the headline. Netanyahu gets the cover. The deal gets another 48 hours of "progress." Markets get a reason to breathe. And the war continues exactly as planned. This is the same playbook. Every time public opinion turns against the war, a story appears showing the US president is "furious" with Israel. It creates the illusion of restraint while changing nothing. Biden was "furious" for 14 months. The war never stopped. Trump is "furious" now. The ground invasion is expanding. The visible game is: Trump controls Netanyahu. The real game is: both men are performing for their audiences while the machine moves forward. Nothing has been signed. Nothing has stopped. The war is not winding down. It is being managed. Neither one controls the other. They walk arm in arm. Know that.

Thomas Massie: "Just in case I lose, they gave me the number to call to concede but the area code is Tel Aviv.” 😂

Dude, you're Austrian, a landlocked neutral country that doesn't even have a single ship.

Onder impuls van de blinde Atlantistjes en gesubsidieerde lobby-opportunistjes a la mevr Haas en co de welvaartsstaat afbouwen en extra schulden maken tvv duur wapentuig uit een vorig tijdperk om ons te verdedigen tegen denkbeeldige vijanden.

Hello Bob to complete your analysis $gold $silver

Onze Minister of War en zijn huisideoloog voorspelden het aanbreken van een periode van economische voorspoed en spotgoedkope energie na het vermoorden van de Iraanse Ayatollah. Ondertussen op onze kosten aan het rondreizen in de US die pipo's...

Goed gedaan @FranckenTheo.

Die Michelle Haas tjongejonge. Geen enkel zinnig argument voor onze snel stijgende defensie-uitgaven. Behalve ons bewapenen tegen Rusland en omdat de Navo het wil. De vluchtige leegheid van de media-expert.

La bataille du "Pont" en 2019.

Weet je wat nou zo raar is? Eind november 2025 zei Francken dat de drones 'visueel en op radar zijn waargenomen'. Hij zei toen ook dat er beelden waren. Nou, waar zijn die beelden en radargegevens dan?

Als een volksvertegenwoordiger tweet in het Engels en het bijna uitsluitend over Israël heeft, welk volk vertegenwoordigt hij dan eigenlijk?

🔥🔥LBMA liquid free float vault stock is a shallow pool again and we are on the cusp of the next phase of the physical silver market squeeze.🔥🔥 Public data indicated that the LBMA's silver free float vault stock at the end of March was up to a healthy ~7K metric tons (~228M ozt). This was about 195t less than I had forecast. Because my forecast is derived from import/export factors applied to COMEX withdrawals, the forecast overshoot tells us UK exports (LBMA draining) is running higher than "normal". I'll explain. In January, the UK (LBMA) exported almost as much silver as it imported. The net silver import for the UK in January was only ~2% of the total import for the month (ie. 98% of the import was matched by an export). This was far outside the three month average covering October through December where the net silver import was ~80% (ie. ~20% of the import was matched by an export). In January, UK export data also indicated that silver was exported to Hong Kong (China) for the first time in at least a year. Because my forecast for LBMA free float is calculated using factors on imports/exports applied to COMEX withdrawals, I noted that my forecast would be on the high side if UK exports were higher like they were in January than if they were closer to the 3 month average from October through December. Because my forecast did end up on the high side, I think there is a very good chance that UK exports have remained high (and likely because the LBMA has been delivering silver to China and India). This is significant because it indicates that the drain rate on LBMA silver increased significantly in January and appears to have continued through today. We'll have confirmation in the coming weeks and months when we finally get UK export data for February and March (export data is released months after the fact). As imports and exports are essentially netting out, the gains for LBMA free float vault stock can only be attributed to one source - cannabalizing LBMA vaulted ETF stock. To this end, SLV has been the main source for LBMA liquidity as it gave up 625 of the 800 total metric tons (78%) that were shed by London based ETFs in March. For about a week now, I have been commenting that SLV appears to have reached the bottom of it's vault stock draining. Since March 19, when SLV's London vault stock dips below 402M ozt, it rebounds up again. For context, the last time SLV's London vault stock was around 400M ozt was late November when the spot price for silver was around $56/ozt. The ratio of SLV's London vault stock to the spot price is absurdly low right now. I expect SLV will begin adding London vault stock again soon and that is going to put pressure on the LBMA liquid free float vault stock. With all that said, Thursday provided some strong clues that the LBMA's current liquid free float vault stock is now a shallow pool (I guess exports to China/India have been strong). On Thursday, JPM executed their monthly "3M ozt NYC drain, LBMA gain" swap (see reply below for details). SLV added 3.4M ozt to their London vault stock. That same day, the silver 1mo lease rate rose sharply. The 1mo lease rate is an indirect measure of liquid free float tightness in the LBMA silver market. It would seem that SLV adding silver to it's London vault is already indicating that the LBMA supply of silver is tight. As SLV continues to add vault stock (as the silver price rises), it's going to continue pressuring LBMA vault stock (and 1mo lease rates). When you consider this situation, the impetus for the opening of the COMEX faucet this week becomes clear. COMEX daily withdrawals since Apr 10 have averaged ~2M ozt. For context, COMEX withdrawals (and therefore exports to London) had been on a decline with a record *weekly* low on Apr 3 (400K ozt) and not much better the week ending Apr 10 (1M ozt). I say record low - I'm talking about for 2026 where *daily* withdrawals have averaged 1.5M ozt (March), 2.5M ozt (February) and 2.3M ozt (January). LBMA liquid free float stress pressures the COMEX to provide support. The COMEX is responding so far and the run rate for COMEX (ie. the estimated time that COMEX vault stock will last considering a given withdrawal rate) using the average withdrawal rate of the last 5 working days is shrinking fast. At the current 5 day withdrawal average, the COMEX has less than 4 months of run rate left. If the 5 day withdrawal average rises to the February daily average, the run rate shrinks to just 2.5 months. For context, on Thursday, April COMEX withdrawals exceeded Apr26 contract delivery requests. The only other time this has happened in the last two years was this past February. As little silver has moved out of the COMEX Registered vaults lately, this looks like the bullion banks sending silver to London to support the LBMA. Silversqueeze! P.S. This really should have been a premium post in a subscription service.