Former Gorsuch Law Clerk Torches Legal Argument Behind FBI’s Mar-a-Lago Ransacking

The fallout from the Department of Justice’s raid on Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home continues as the search warrant was unsealed. The former president had the option to challenge it but chose not to, leading to why the DOJ decided it was necessary to conduct this nine-hour treasure hunt. The document was an avalanche of nonsense about obstruction of justice, a retread allegation from former attempts to indict Trump, and violations of the Espionage Act that Spencer wrote about today. Last night, we learned that one of the documents FBI agents were reportedly rummaging for related to classified nuclear secrets. The Justice Department’s crusade against this former president has overreach layered upon overreach, and this raid topped it off. The National Archives received 15 or so boxes in January containing items like cocktail napkins and dinner menus, which might have been the impetus for this more extensive operation on Monday.

Yes, a cocktail napkin might have played a part in this fiasco.

So, classified documents were reportedly removed, which means the liberal media, Democrats, and their favorite pal, Liz Cheney, will be doing cartwheels soon. Yet, this isn’t the win the Left thinks it is for a few reasons. Trump had declassified the items already in his home, and the president is the ultimate authority on such materials and is not subject to the classification statutes and regulations (via NBC News):

Remember when Barack Obama told then-Russian President Dmitry Medvedev that he would have more flexibility to negotiate with Moscow after the 2012 election? That’s a classified conversation but not an Espionage Act violation because Obama was the president. He added that the federal government over-classifies everything. A lot of the hysteria is nothing new. It’s just that Trump won, and therefore, history began in 2017, according to most liberals in America. And sorry to burst another bubble, but Donald Trump can never be charged with mishandling classified information. I’m sure Liz Cheney and what’s left of her crew are upset about that too.

The core reasons for this raid are on shakier legal grounds than the Roe opinion, but it will set off another round of liberal gymnastics that will attempt to manufacture some fake charge for which Trump can be indicted and hopefully barred from running again, even if they’re ramblings from fantasyland.

So, with all that noise muffled by facts and legal precedent, who’s ready for Trump 2024?

Don’t.

Too late, I’m already up near 40% on some.

I like certain strategic metals a lot. Especially metals integral to defence industries. And metals that the US does NOT want seen originating from Russia, China or Chinese related sources. Certain REE falls into that bucket. Which provides very profitable options.

I don’t consider lithium , there’s plenty around somewhere.

BHP has the worst timing of any miner so I’ll pass on them for now. RIO will be my choice when the time is right. I don’t like the outlook for i/o prices just now and that’s over 50% of RIO’s profits. Later this year early next looks much better- for a really big run on RIO, years.

IF the USD has topped then PM miners will do well IMO.

The biggest by far deposit of REE is Olympic Dam

I know OD well having worked there. It’s a fkg mess and extremely expensive operation . Operationally and smelting wise. Copper prices will need to move significantly higher for BHP to make it really profitable. BHP sinks hundreds of millions into the place.

Lachlan Murdoch is not “wet” as an ocean.

Calli – Yes he is. He’s a RINO. RINOs are wet, like oceans and Photios Libs.

What bites you in investing is what you don’t know about and most people don’t know about this datum.

In a high(er) IR world , what matters as much as the resource or the ore body is the cost of the capital needed to project manage, extract, process and sell it. Time also is a big cost hurdle. The threshold to extract minerals has risen and is rising fast. I think BHP shareholders want to see a decent ROI on OD copper ops before embarking on another of BHP’s whimsical tangents.

If you are a writer, you know that 90%+ of all writers are leftards, 9% are closet leftards and the other 1% is a statistical error.

Out of the seven military historians I know who are still publishing, not one is interested in going to “writers’ festivals”. They are basically a platform for political ranting.

Never once do you see something on the program akin to “Does Hemingway’s style affect his readability for less literate readers?”

The same goes for lithium. Do not invest in lithium miners. If you do you will be captive to Chinese metals policy, because processing of the lithium available in Australia is energy intensive and produces a humungous amount of acidic or alkaline waste.

Lithium minerals are pretty commonplace in the wild.

I’m presently working on a project that has turned up pegmatite-bound Lithium as an accessory mineral.

The apparently commercial grade has the geologists wetting themselves in excitement; but a quick look at the processing implications – especially the energy input – tells us this is an expensive rabbit hole.

If you feel you must invest in Li, look for someone controlling Lithium brines.

Colour me surprised!

Victoria Police is struggling to find new recruits as Australia’s labour shortage extends to law enforcement.

In March this year the force had 16,311 employed officers, 114 police recruits, 1441 PSOs, and 21 PSOs in training.

Herald-Sun

Too late, I’m already up near 40% on some.

Makka – Yeah well you can do that at a casino too.
Speculation. Playing that game can be very lucrative, but it’s like tulips.
Can bite you on the arse very very badly if you get the timing wrong.

Just imagine if BHP announced they were putting a plant in to extract REE at Oly Dam.
What would happen to prices?

The other thing of course is both REE and lithium are climate plays. Which is a lie.
I’m a realist in such things, I don’t have any issue with such investments, but the problem with such things is they can turn on a roll of the dice. We’re seeing reality mug the Europeans. Reality will eventually mug the REE and lithium industries because the fundamentals aren’t real. But like tulips or Poseidon Nickel you can make a lot of money if you pick the wave correctly.

And if you don’t, there’s always the 10th floor window.

(Btw I’m up 27% on the ASX placement in a week or so. Why rob banks when you can invest in them instead?)

Then President #Trump issued this memorandum 1/19/2021 on declassification FBI Crossfire Hurricane records.

intrsting

“We acknowledge our recruit applications are lower than we would like.”

What is really concerning is the caliber of candidate that forces them to accept and begs the question of what motivated those candidates to join.

Catherine Herridge @CBS_Herridge · 2m
Fmr. Defense Secretary @MarkTEsper explains to @CBS_Herridge
that there is no ambiguity in protecting records following news that the warrant for fmr. President Trump’s Florida home would be unsealed via #Primetime @CBSNews stream
https://twitter.com/CBS_Herridge/status/1558263445945999360

The other thing of course is both REE and lithium are climate plays. Which is a lie.

Bruce,

I’ve already stated lithium is not on my radar nor are “climate plays” so don’t know why you bang on about it. REE is a big world , not only climate related, and I’m very happy with my choices now and well into the future.

BHP’s time will come again, just not now. Presently it’s a dog looking for a home. Unless i/o price shows real resilience the ST outlook isn’t pretty. As for timing, all stocks are in a casino.

Cohenite – Yes Tucker is on hols. But he’s still there only because if Fox got rid of him it’d be corporate suicide. Likewise Hannity. Lachlan even acknowledged this in his Trump-rant (which I linked). It must irritate them immensely that their viewers are so hairy, unwashed and unenlightened.

Haha, Monty has turned up. On a Saturday! We should ask him if George pays overtime at time-and-a-half or double.

In Here Comes the Cavalry news:

Mongolian foreign workers arrive in Australia as country grapples with record-high job vacancies

Two Mongolian nationals have arrived in Brisbane on a working holiday in an Australian first, as industry bodies call for increased government support to incentivise international workers to fill dire labour shortfalls.

Khishigdelger Khurelbaatar, 23, is a trained journalist with a degree from the Mongolian State University of Arts and Culture in Ulaanbaatar, who left behind her husband and child to work in Australia.

Turbat Lkhamsuren, 25, has a degree in humanities and has previously worked as a chef.

The pair started their time in Australia kayaking down the Brisbane River and abseiling down the Kangaroo Point Cliffs before they head to a Sunshine Coast farm and hone necessary skills including horse riding, tractor driving, and cattle mustering.

If I get this correctly, Australia has a dire shortage of horse riding, tractor driving, cattle mustering journalists and chefs.

Pretty dire.

Victoria Police is struggling to find new recruits as Australia’s labour shortage extends to law enforcement

A couple of opinion-based points before outdoorsy stuff time:

1. What VicJack Inc were doing during the covid era was not law enforcement. It was political policy enforcement of mandates decreed by unelected bureaucrats with no personal stake in the result, other than an increased profile and consequent salary (they hoped);

2. People are quite reasonably turning their noses up at an organisation that targeted normal people for doing normal things such as normally interacting with other people, locking them up for making non-threatening social media posts, issuing $5000+ fines for being too far away from home and ripping phones away from nannas on park benches;

3. They are led by a cavalcade of careerist fuckwits whose governmental arse-licking and outright lying to Royal Commissions and the public at large when they’re not treating the normies as criminals was and is at stratospheric levels; and

4. Normal punters have no desire to be part of a woke public service beast, beholden to the government advisers of the day rather than the paper allegiance they swear to the Queen, her heirs and successors, and whose decisions are enforceable on everyone while they are accountable to no-one.

REE is a big world , not only climate related

Makka, I might know something about the subject.
Yes it is climate related. Do you want details?
Nd, Sm and La especially*. Nd is the big one.

(Once had a meeting at a certain site which I think you know well. A bunch from Canada were making a presentation on their process for expansion of that site. They outlined the flowsheet, which was two stage countercurrent pressure leaching. I pointed out that polonium would leach in the first stage and be precipitated in the second one. Thereby going round and round in a circle building up to entertainingly interesting levels. They went away and we didn’t hear from them again. 😀 )

(* La is really only important as a replacement for more expensive nickel in Prius NiMH batteries. Otherwise it doesn’t have many uses. I admire Toyota for their R&D excellence in working out that they could do this. La is usually about the same price as copper, whereas nickel is much more expensive.)

Makka, I might know something about the subject.

You always do Bruce. Give it a rest.

I dunno why but I bought the print edition of ‘The Australian’ this morning, $5.00 I should’ve just thrown it in the rubbish bin. Lead story is how the gov is going to get more and higher quality teachers, usual pay rise drivel and this – they are going to punish universities with high drop out rates for those doing teaching degrees. It never seems to occur to the gov or anyone else that perhaps those very universities are the ones producing high quality teachers and the ones with low drop out rates are pushing out people unsuited and and not smart enough for the job.

Don’t know why you need a degree for most teaching, the old Teachers Training Colleges seemed to produce plenty of good teachers.

The rest of the paper was mainly soft left crap. I will never waste money on it again.

Makka – The textbook is available on line. My copy is hc.

The primary need is neodymium for wind turbine magnets. Samarium magnets are similar, and can be used instead, so those two elements are related. As I said lanthanum is used in Prius batteries. After that I recall that cerium is used in steel metallurgy, praseodymium has a fair market (I can’t remember what for though) and erbium is used in plasma displays. That’s from memory. Been a while since I did this stuff.

Fascism Causing the Dysfunction of United States – Noam Chomsky & Richard Wolff

Cassie of Sydney says:
August 13, 2022 at 10:24 am

What needs to be done?

You already know the answer, Cassie.

Just like changing the direction of a heavy, say 200,000 tonne ship with momentum, the work required to do it depends on the force applied, which is also a function of time.

So, it all depends on how much time one is prepared to wait for a return to general common sense.

There’s no magic pudding to the laws of physics or politics.
But you can be sure that feeding a troll on this blog, even for eternity, won’t do it.

Victoria Police is struggling to find new recruits as Australia’s labour shortage extends to law enforcement….

A real compliment to Victorians not wanting to join the Gestapo. Looks like Vikpol have dredged up all available scum.

Oop, new thread!

You lot are the pure ones.

First of all LOL, that’s my phrase. Second: ROFL, if you think Cats are the pure ones then you’re seriously deluded.

I come here to bring some much-needed reality to what would otherwise be a fantasy land of make-believe. I laugh at the cognitive dissonance caused by reminding dumbarse cult members that they have faith in a stupid con.

How should Cats react to me? Maybe by learning something. I realise most of you stopped learning at about year 9, whether you stayed at school or not, but I believe it’s possible for people to change.

Or keep on believing in what the plutocrats want you to. Stay ignorant and angry. Go to your grave thinking you are the victim, living in the lucky country where the sun shines, the wattle blossoms and there is plenty for everyone.

Schwab and WEF now zeroing in on effective censorship technology, in order the ensure “correct think” gets through to mass media and nasty “bad think” (aka counter PC or individualistic thought ) does not.
h/t ZH

But the globalist body, run by comic book Bond villain Klaus Schwab, has a solution.

They want to merge the ‘best’ aspects of human censorship and AI machine learning algorithms to ensure that people’s feelings don’t get hurt and counter-regime opinions are blacklisted.

“By uniquely combining the power of innovative technology, off-platform intelligence collection and the prowess of subject-matter experts who understand how threat actors operate, scaled detection of online abuse can reach near-perfect precision,” states the article.

After engaging in a whole host of mumbo jumbo, the article concludes by proposing “a new framework: rather than relying on AI to detect at scale and humans to review edge cases, an intelligence-based approach is crucial.”

“By bringing human-curated, multi-language, off-platform intelligence into learning sets, AI will then be able to detect nuanced, novel abuses at scale, before they reach mainstream platforms. Supplementing this smarter automated detection with human expertise to review edge cases and identify false positives and negatives and then feeding those findings back into training sets will allow us to create AI with human intelligence baked in,” the article rambles.

Special FBI Agent at Mar-a-Lago Raid Appears in January 6 Court Doc

A Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) special agent who signed one of the property receipts during the Mar-a-Lago raid appears in a January 6 court filing.

The inventory list of what was seized—or the receipt part of the document—is three pages long and constitutes two separate receipts, one that is two pages long and another that is one page long. Both receipts were signed by Trump’s attorney Christina Bobb and dated on Monday Aug. 8, 2022, at 6:19 p.m.

The longer receipt was signed by FBI Special Agent Jeremy Linton

Linton apparently authored an affidavit supporting the criminal complaint and arrest warrant for Tommy Frederick Allan, of Rocklin, California, regarding his alleged involvement in the January 6 riot.

Citing a video Linton said was recovered from an unspecified individual’s Facebook page, the special agent wrote that he saw Allan display a document signed by Trump. Linton said that the video allegedly shows Allen stating that he took it from then-Senate Majority leader Mitch McConnell’s desk.

Theft of Government Property; Entering and Remaining in a Restricted Building or Grounds; Disorderly and Disruptive Conduct in a Restricted Building or Grounds; Entering and Remaining on the Floor of Congress; Disorderly Conduct in a Capitol Building; Parading, Demonstrating, or Picketing in a Capitol Building.

He has pleaded not guilty on all counts, and there have been no new entries on the Justice Department’s “Capitol Breach Cases” page regarding him since July 28, 2021.

Fling Duk:

burning it all down? mound of skulls, salt the earth…. that sort of thing

My opinion, for what it’s worth, is to let the parasite continue feeding until it kills the host, then start again. There doesn’t appear to be any will to actually deal with the problem.
Not that it will do much good because the Cycle of bare feet/Boots/bare feet will continue over the next five generations.
Seems to be the pattern and there isn’t a Crazy Eddie to break the cycles.

I come here to bring some much-needed reality

Like the judge who signed the Mar a Lago warrant being a Trump appointee?

The Secrets of Mar-a-Lago

Prosecution under the Espionage Act would be a prosecutorial reach.

By The WSJ Editorial Board

Well, that didn’t settle anything. We’re referring to Friday’s release of the warrant and property list that caused Attorney General Merrick Garland to send FBI agents to search Donald Trump’s Florida home. This seems to have been a dispute over classified documents after all, but did that really require an unprecedented and politically polarizing search of a former President’s residence?

The documents show that Federal Bureau of Investigation agents carried away 20 boxes of items and memorabilia. They included 11 sets of classified documents, some of which were marked top secret or higher in classification and required special storage and the highest security clearances.

That’s the political reality no matter how many times Mr. Garland chants “no one is above the law.” That cliche is obviously true, or should be. But the search of the home of a former President and perhaps future presidential candidate is an inherently political act. It requires overwhelming evidence to persuade the country, not merely 12 jurors. It requires judgment and discretion about what is in the best interests of the nation.

Mr. Garland’s FBI search warrant has put a badly divided country on a perilous political course. He will need much more evidence than what is in the warrant, and a much more serious violation of law, to justify a prosecution.

reply to Calli at 9.38am
Have a look at capeweed. A possibility.

Taibbi & Kirn have a laugh about the insanity of the US.
Looks like it will be a weekly thing.
Not sure if it’s paywalled.

https://taibbi.substack.com/p/episode-1-america-this-week-with?utm_source=podcast-email&utm_medium=email#details

Beyond insanity.

Beyond net-zero: We should, if we can, cool the planet back to pre-industrial levels (Phys.org, 12 Aug)

I had a suspicion about these authors, so I looked up the original article. And yes…

Andrew King
Senior Lecturer in Climate Science, The University of Melbourne

Celia McMichael
Senior Lecturer in Geography, The University of Melbourne

Harry McClelland
Lecturer in Geomicrobiology, The University of Melbourne

Jacqueline Peel
Director, Melbourne Climate Futures, The University of Melbourne

Kale Sniderman
Senior Research Fellow, The University of Melbourne

Kathryn Bowen
Professor – Environment, Climate and Global Health at Melbourne Climate Futures and Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, University of Melbourne, The University of Melbourne

Tilo Ziehn
Principal Research Scientist, CSIRO

Zebedee Nicholls
Research Fellow at The International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) and Melbourne Climate Futures, The University of Melbourne

Uni of Melbourne seems an excellent place to start lowering CO2 emissions from. I recommend zero. Not net zero, zero. Someone must show the way! I’ll buy a thousand tonnes of salt for the earth after the place is demolished.

feelthebern says:
August 13, 2022 at 12:42 pm
Taibbi & Kirn have a laugh about the insanity of the US.
Looks like it will be a weekly thing.
Not sure if it’s paywalled.
https://taibbi.substack.com/p/episode-1-america-this-week-with?utm_source=podcast-email&utm_medium=email#details

Liked

The hosts recap a signature week in America’s descent to madness, as a bizarre official silence after the FBI’s dramatic Raid on Trump left the country feeling like a pilotless, plummeting aircraft

China in Focus – NTD
00:59 5 Chinese State Companies to Delist from #NYSE
02:06 States: Blackrock Puts Climate Above Pensions
03:54 Home of ‘Made in China’ Products Under Lockdown
05:04 Tibet Capital Orders Static Management in Risk Areas
06:00 Torrential Rain, Flash #Floods Strike North China
06:50 Millions Unemployed in China’s Hard-Hit #JobMarket
09:45 Indonesian, U.S. Forces Hold Joint Military Drills

Like the judge who signed the Mar a Lago warrant being a Trump appointee?

I LOL’d hard.

The sociopath stare explained

From the Comments

Turdbull reminds me of Peter Strzok’s face when he appeared before Congress

https://twitter.com/thelastrefuge2/status/1029066075852480514

Who?

Top men.

I don’t know if it’s fake or not but whatsapp group #225 was sharing a story of an Australian fraudster is now working for the Ukrainian govt.
She had some link to The Block.
Anyone heard this one?

The sociopath stare explained

I’ve never really bought into this concept. The only thing distinguishing it from a menacing stare anyone could affect is knowledge of who the person pulling it is (or what they’ve done).

Cassie of Sydney says:
August 13, 2022 at 12:33 pm

And ignoring him has never worked.

When was it ever tried?
I had the pleasure of accidentally finding Sinc’s blog in 2012.
As I recall, Montz, the late Hammy and the VietVet were notable for the undeserved attention they gleefully received to every demented post of theirs.
Maybe there was ignoring happening before 2012, it certainly hasn’t happened since.

https://richardsonpost.com/jacinta-price/28102/jacinta-nampijinpa-price-we-have-our-own-voices-youre-just-not-listening-to-them/

What’s the point of an Indigenous Voice to Parliament when Parliament won’t even listen to the Indigenous voices it has?

Man up. Listen to our voices. Get to work.

Yours for REAL solutions,
Jacinta Nampijinpa Price
Senator for the Northern Territory

Wodger:

Last I checked she was 22 points behind her challenger.
Would be a miraculous come back.

Easily within reach with Democrat support in the process.

Tom:

I think Gabbard is a future US president, even though she now has a target on her back among the Democratic Party’s feral left.

She’s a plant, Tom.
Don’t get sucked in because you think she’ll convert to Republican.
She’ll be another Pence – support the Right, until it comes time to stab them in the back.

As I recall, Montz, the late Hammy and the VietVet were notable for the undeserved attention they gleefully received to every demented post of theirs.

Taste like chicken.
And they regenerate.
D&D Monster Manual, p97.
Mine’s 3rd edition from 1978.

Monty will be pleased – Unhinged: Liberals Imply Trump Should be Executed and Suggest Ivana Be Dug Up

The reaction of the left to the raid on President Donald Trump’s home is a window into how truly around the bend they have gone, with their obsession and hatred of Trump.

Then we saw how 51 former members of the intelligence community inserted themselves into the 2020 election with a letter that claimed the Hunter Biden laptop was likely Russian disinformation. Former Director of the CIA Michael Hayden was part of that group.

If you thought that was bad enough, Hayden is now agreeing with MSNBC contributor, presidential historian, and rabid Trump hater Michael Beschloss that execution — what happened to the Rosenbergs — sounds “about right” after reports that the documents sought in the Trump raid might include those about nuclear weapons.

Dear @FBI, I know u don’t need advice from a soap star, but having been in 10 or 10k implausible storylines in my 37 yrs, may I recommend digging up Ivana. Cleary it didn’t take 10 pall bearers to carry a liposuctioned 73 yr old who methinks was in her weight in classified docs.

How can these people think like this? This is what the leftist media has done to these people — they believe the crazy talking points about Trump and all the lies that have been pushed. This is next-level lunacy.

Bruce of Newcastle:

She’ll never be President. No centrist can be elected these days and she’s centre-left anyway. And that’s even assuming there’ll be elections, which increasingly isn’t looking likely.

I’m glad someone here is thinking straight – she ticks all the boxes for being a Republican middle grounder. Of course she ticks all the boxes – that’s why she was chosen for this slot!
And yes, I know she’s a Democrat. This is the sort of shit they are expert at. Planting moles and entryism.
No election, even if it’s for dog catcher, in the US will be above suspicion.

How to clean house at the FBI and Justice Department

The Mar-a-Lago raid has finished off public trust in federal law enforcement

The two most striking features of the FBI’s unprecedented raid on Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home are its bold intrusiveness and the public’s mistrust of the Bureau’s honesty and integrity. The Department of Justice could have used low-profile subpoenas to force Trump to turn over any documents, including the most sensitive ones. It didn’t. Instead, it sent carloads of federal agents to search the former president’s house. That raid was also unusual in a second sense. Although mishandling federal documents is a felony, it happens with some frequency, alas, and is almost never subject to full-scale raids.

The blowback and public mistrust are nothing new. The past few years have been hurricane season for the FBI. The Bureau and, to a lesser extent, the Department of Justice have destroyed their reputations and undermined the public trust essential for law enforcement in a democracy.

Critics of the Mar-a-Lago raid argue it is only the latest example of FBI/DoJ malfeasance:

If the Republicans retake the White House in 2024, they will try to clean house at the FBI, and inevitably face Democrats’ accusations that they are politicizing the agency. Cleaning the Augean Stables will be nearly impossible. The president can appoint a few top officials, but big bureaucracies like the FBI and DoJ have enormous powers of self-protection — and the capacity to strike back. Just look what they’ve already gotten away with.

Two places to start fixing things

any suggestions about what to do?

Gold.
Not pool allocated gold either.
Physical gold that you can hold in your hand.
If the Chinese threaten to stop buying our coal and iron ore, the $A will become the South Pacific Peso. Even if they have to buy the same goods on the open market, the emotional shock will wreck the dollar.

What is a classified document, anyway?

The classification system for national security documents has been often misused

Lastly, documents are often over classified for ego purposes, the sender feeling more important if his pet project is labeled Secret as opposed to FOUO or simply left unclassified.

All this needs to be kept in mind when evaluating the FBI raid at Mar-a-Lago. The FBI, its reputation already in tatters post-Russiagate, might also have kept it in mind before deciding to stage another likely losing full-on assault against Donald Trump.

Old Ozzie:

Trump had declassified the items already in his home, and the president is the ultimate authority on such materials and is not subject to the classification statutes and regulations (via NBC News):

A curious thought – Can Biden reclassify those documents?
If so, then they may have a case.

Winston – Speaking of Gold

The Massive Lies of Ukraine’s Gold

After the illegal 2014 US government led coup that overthrew democratically elected Ukraine President Victor Yanukovych and replaced him with a US hand-picked puppet, Yatsenyuk, to turn Ukraine from a pro-Russia to an anti-Russia state, the head of Ukraine’s National Bank, Valeria Hontareva, stated in an interview with Ukraine’s Kharkiv TV, “Official statistics of the National Bank show that the amount of gold in the vaults drastically fell, and it is unclear where it went. At the beginning of this month, the volume of gold was about $1 billion, or 8 percent of the total gold reserves…in the vaults of the central bank there is almost no gold left. There is a small amount of gold bullion left, but it’s just 1% of reserves.” And this event marked the real beginning of the NATO Russia war being waged in Ukraine, as even confirmed by US Undersecretary of State Victoria Nuland’s admission that the US government has spent billions of dollars in Ukraine to change the “hearts and minds” of Ukrainians.

Let’s return to the NBU’s announcement that it had sold $12,400,000,000 of gold, all in this year. At a price of $1,850 per ounce, $12.4B of gold amounts to 208 tonnes of gold. From where did Ukraine get 208 tonnes of gold? Did the Feds sell stolen gold from Iraq and Libya to help Ukraine in the NATO Russia war? Since 2014, when the NBU announce they only had 3.3 tonnes of gold left in their vaults, they have announced only minimal gold purchases since then in an amount that would only bring their gold reserves into the very low double digit tonnage amount if Hontareva’s official statements in 2014 were accurate and truthful. Furthermore, if we look at the “official” gold data, as reported by the WGC and IMF below, the 2014 theft of almost all of its gold reserve as reported by Hontareva is not indicated in the below reported numbers and its most recent official gold reserve amount was listed as 27.06 tonnes as of Q2 of this year. So how could Ukraine sell more than 200 tonnes of gold if it only had 27 tonnes?

The fact that none of official reports about Ukraine’s gold reserves reconcile with one another should immediately alert you to the fact that you should never make any decisions about investing in gold to secure your financial future based upon media-reported “official” gold data, as this data is a complete joke. It further should alert you to dismiss the conclusions of all those that use this ‘official” data as well. Does the Bank of Canada really have no gold reserves as officially reported at the current time? Does the US really own 8,133 tonnes of gold as officially reported? Personally, I have no faith in any of these numbers.

I keep wondering: where is our Rubicon?

ffs it was when they stole the November 2020 election- all the evil that followed was inevitable.

<strong>FBI, R.I.P.?

The FBI is dissolving before our eyes into a rogue security service akin to those in Eastern Europe during the Cold War.

A massive phalanx of FBI agents swooped into the Trump residence while he was not home, to confiscate his personal property, safe, and records. All of this was over an archival dispute of presidential papers common to many former presidents. Agents swarmed the entire house, including the wardrobe closet of the former first lady.

Note we are less than 90 days out from a midterm election, and this was not just a raid, but a political act.

The FBI interferes with and warps national elections. It hires complete frauds as informants who are far worse than its targets. It humiliates or exempts government and elected officials based on their politics. It violates the civil liberties of individual American citizens.

The FBI’s highest officials now routinely mislead Congress. They have erased or altered court and subpoenaed evidence. They illegally leak confidential material to the media. And they have lied under oath to federal investigators.

The agency has become dangerous to Americans and an existential threat to their democracy and rule of law. The FBI should be dispersing its investigatory responsibilities to other government investigative agencies that have not yet lost the public’s trust.

There’s a classic complex cold air low pressure system spinning away in the South East.
Cloud and showers coming from the all points of the compass depending on your location.
Over the Wimmera is a distinct little low doing it’s own thing and not moving much. 50mm in some locations where the cloud arm wraps.
I’m sitting in the car waiting for the women to finish shopping. The weather radar is keeping me amused.

CharlieP says:
August 13, 2022 at 12:38 pm
reply to Calli at 9.38am
Have a look at capeweed. A possibility.

Small pale yellow flowers and fluffy seed. I’d put some money on Fleabane. It’s a mongrel of a thing.

No, not fleabane. Erigeron…its nicer cousin was Edna Walling’s favourite.

This thing has a similarity to groundsel as well. It really is defying identification. I’m going to have to dig out my old plant keys and see if they help. Buried deep after moving, I thought I’d never have to disinter them ever again! 😀

It’s a safe bet that this Government has no idea whether, or how a Voice would bring any actual benefit to the indig communities.

The voice is a solution in search of a problem.

The voice is a solution in search of a problem.

• Marcia Langton’s version is 270-odd pages of deep complex bureaucracy – applying an unelected voice to all three levels of government;

• Albanese’s version is ‘trust Government and we’ll let you know’;

• The Faustus version is the Voice is a problem in search of a problem.

If you buy into the idea that the left always accuses you of what they are up to then making the Trump raid about securing nuclear documents should make you very nervous. Obviously, the Bidens would never do it right.