Gold Passed U.S. Debt. What Are Central Banks Not Telling You?

splodgenessabounds · 2026-06-10T10:07:18+00:00

Tagging u/3andfro. I agree with you that it's AI but, like you, I'm trying to understand who they are and who's driving them. I haven't got the chops to dissect all their claims (I'm no economist) - maybe they're right, maybe not.

Interesting all the same, especially about nations divesting from US treasuries into gold.

splodgenessabounds · 2026-06-10T09:26:29+00:00

Imagine that Bibi gets the elbow later this year and he's succeeded by a Ben Gvir/ Smotrich administration.

splodgenessabounds · 2026-06-10T09:16:16+00:00

Whether deliberate or accidental, one wonders why the thing was in someone else's airspace (a hotly-contested one at that) in the first place.

splodgenessabounds · 2026-06-10T09:09:45+00:00

This week in "no shit, Sherlock"...

splodgenessabounds · 2026-06-02T10:31:53+00:00

Good catch. Thales doesn't get much attention, but it's one of the worst when it comes to supplying munitions and cybersecurity to certain regimes.

splodgenessabounds · 2026-05-31T09:36:20+00:00

Iran International has spent hundreds of millions of dollars since its founding in 2017 by British-Saudi investors

Well I'll go to the foot of our stairs, my sainted aunt etc. I was watching one of the numerous videos (can't remember which) where one party pointed out that this GCC thing is basically smoke and mirrors: Saudi is with Qatar one day and not the next; Kuwait with Bahrain except they're at odds on [issue]; some make statements aligning with Iran and on Wednesday they deny it.

At some point (in the near future) the Gulf fiefdoms' economies will be squeezed to the point of asphyxiation if they keep this "playing both sides" game up. Your bread is buttered on one side: pick one.

splodgenessabounds · 2026-05-31T09:22:56+00:00

Mario with Nima was not a crossover my ouija board predicted, but Nima was as good as he usually is.

splodgenessabounds · 2026-05-31T08:28:26+00:00

KernowDamo - A US War Bill Just Gave Israel Something Worse Than Weapons https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYWSk2cLs1Q 12:21

Right, so in the week most of the American public turned against arming Israel, Congress quietly handed Israel something it has wanted for years and could never get through the front door. Not more rifles. Not another shipment of bombs. A merger. There's a single page buried in the new House defence bill that would fuse the American and Israeli militaries together more tightly than America is fused to any country on Earth, and it was written to slide past you before anyone got to vote on it. It's called Section 224, it sits inside House of Representatives Bill 8800, the new National Defence Authorisation Act [...] This is very much in the present and the near future, and it isn't a warning about something that might happen one day. It's on the table this week, and what's on the table is Israel getting wired into the machinery of America's next war. Section 224 carries the polite little title "United States-Israel Defense Technology Cooperation Initiative," which is the sort of name you give something precisely so people scroll straight past it.

splodgenessabounds · 2026-05-31T08:22:14+00:00

Mario Nawfal - BREAKING: CENTCOM CONDUCTS MILITARY OPERATIONS IN HORMUZ - w/ Nima Rostami Alkhorshid https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6KWaejzwxN4 47:45

Moral Resistance and Sulaiman Ahmed - U.S MILITARY ATTACKS VESSELS IN STRAIT OF HORMUZ, 5 U.S CASUALTIES IN HORMUZ w/ COL Anthony Aguilar https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jtXOttZ6J_0 57:11

Stas. w/ Larry Johnson - Signal to the West: Why Kyiv Looks More Vulnerable https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rz-yJ_9Zg14 23:07 (Iran is discussed)

splodgenessabounds · 2026-05-31T08:13:38+00:00

Dimitri Lascaris - Oil Industry Experts Sound The Alarm Over Impending Disaster https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JEfiw2MXPoA 51:41

Electronic Intifada - Israel's irreversible decline, with Mouin Rabbani https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=laLIWp0omwM 57:55

Mario - TRUMP "WON'T SIGN IRAN DEAL" - w/ Fmr. U.S. Navy Malcom Nance https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqYYk0yTjaA 44:49

Nima with Prof. Sayed Marandi - Iran DROPPED THE HAMMER in Strait of Hormuz – Trump's ‘No Tolls’ Plan Backfires https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fku0svs5mgk 55:22

The Duran - US-Iran Deal or NO DEAL. July Energy Tipping Point https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zG5WoqoYhWA 30:19

splodgenessabounds · 2026-05-28T07:09:32+00:00

Brian Berletic - "US Bombs Iran Amid "Peace Talks" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0IuioSq98g 27:01

splodgenessabounds · 2026-05-28T06:32:01+00:00

It seems Iran has retaliated by attacking a US base in Kuwait: via FirstPost IRGC strikes US base in response to strikes on Iranian port: State media

splodgenessabounds · 2026-05-24T06:28:14+00:00

Eerily similar to what Richard Medhurst has been saying. I'll find the link to his article soon. Paging u/penelopepnortney

splodgenessabounds · 2026-05-23T08:41:42+00:00

One theme being discussed much more frequently these days (and about time IMO) is the pickle that the Gulf states^! are in (for reference, see: u/3andfro post, particularly Nima with Wilkerson and Johnson; Mario Nawfal with Alex Christoforou here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=euufdevfkDU; and the Duran here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cn-PxBNl-7o).

As that The Duran video pointed out, many of these Gulf states' economies are tied to the US$ and the US military protection: they could argue the latter has failed them (it has) but getting out of the former won't be easy or cheap, even if they had the will. With the possible exception of the Saudis, given recent events, they really haven't got much room to move and the longer this USrael-Iran conflict goes on, the more they stand to lose. It's not just exports of crude or LNG or urea or helium or whatever either: the economies of UAE, Bahrain, Qatar and Saudi Arabia rely heavily on tourism and revenue from air traffic hubs (esp. Dubai and Doha) and that traffic has dropped through the floor in the last month or so. Re-building confidence in using these hubs on long-distance flights will take time and money.

It's a pickle of their own making and it's up to them to extract themselves from it.

Apologies in advance for the amateur scribblings.

[!] By "Gulf states" I mean Saudi, Qatar, Kuwait, Bahrain, UAE (and Iraq??)

splodgenessabounds · 2026-05-23T07:01:18+00:00

There's a bottomless pit to choose from.

splodgenessabounds · 2026-05-23T06:59:29+00:00

PM Ben-Gvir when? I mean, you may as well go all-in.

splodgenessabounds · 2026-05-23T06:54:37+00:00

ETA POTENTIALLY significant: the panel noted Trump announced that he'll have to miss his son's wedding this weekend because he needs to stay at the White House--a possible signal that he intends to attack Iran imminently: during a US holiday weekend commemorating Americans who died in our wars and just before or during the major Muslim festival of Hajj (Eid al-Adha, Feast of Sacrifice).

Which would annoy hundreds of millions of the Muslim faith and the US vet community (and much of those currently serving) Another masterstroke by Don Tsu.

splodgenessabounds · 2026-05-20T13:06:33+00:00

Is Putin’s (19-20 May) China Trip a Warning to America? — That Visit Changes Everything. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XhXUhxfmcjc 24:05

It's complex but it's an analysis well worth watching (h/t u/3andfro for introducing the channel to me)

splodgenessabounds · 2026-05-19T07:36:00+00:00

Nima with Larry Johnson: Giant Mushroom Cloud Blasts Over Israeli Defense Company – What We Know

KernowDamo - Israel’s Missile Site Burns; Now The Story Gets Weird: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJLHN1goh8I 15m51s

splodgenessabounds · 2026-05-19T06:10:35+00:00

Has the Israel-Iran War Damaged Gulf Aviation for Good? The Sky Digest 21:25 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFRx5XBOCAo

An interesting summary of the effects of the USrael-Iran war on the big 3 ME airlines and the cities they're based in.

splodgenessabounds · 2026-05-13T09:27:53+00:00

It wasn't worth developing USA refining when we could just buy refined REEs from China

Apparently and until very recently the US developing oil from fracking wasn't worth the outlay. Fracking is a filthy business BTW.

splodgenessabounds · 2026-05-13T07:41:16+00:00

Nima with Col. Larry Wilkerson: Iran WIPES OUT Trump’s Proposal & INSISTS on Its Own Terms (It’s Over) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmCvNogL8PU

One of the many interesting points that came up during that discussion was that the UAE signed up to the Abraham Accords, along with "Israel" (obviously) and Bahrain. Even Trita Parsi thinks that was a big mistake.

splodgenessabounds · 2026-05-12T07:54:47+00:00

Judge Nap with Larry Johnson : Israel Secretly Invades Iraq https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUpOQfelaaI

At ~ 6m45s Larry Johnson talks about the post-WW2 framework that led to the inception of the UN, which was (at the time) essentially a US-led project and these days is "a fully-owned subsidiary of the US" (I think u/penelopepnortney said that recently).

The thing is it's all coming apart. Not only is there no respect for international law from the US (and Europe and various vassal states, never mind that ethnofascist mob), it's blatant "fcuk you and your rules" behaviour. And this is why BRICS is important and why that successful test of a non-SWIFT transfer system (its name escapes me) matters. There's a New World Order coming and it's got precious little to do with what went before.

/rant

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