“As uncertainty deepens amid the U.S. government’s first shutdown in almost seven years, the gold frenzy continues to climb to new heights.”

In recent weeks, the Trump administration has deployed—or threatened to deploy—National Guard troops in at least five American cities, including Chicago, Portland, Los Angeles, and New Orleans. Many of Trump’s supporters have cheered this, claiming that it is the responsibility of the president to send federal troops wherever he determines they are needed. 

Scott Bessent pledged on September 22 to do “whatever it takes” to prop up the Trump administration’s most important ally in Latin America 

Ilana Mercer describes how, with the genocide of Gazans almost complete, the media has started reporting on it as a way of absolving the media of its complicity.

From Almost Daily Grant’s,

The Trump administration’s asset price-minded, E-Z money push has already ushered in a major adjustment in a certain yellow metal, with the price of gold logging more than 30 daily record highs so far this year on its way to a 40% gain. That heady move has roused the heretofore-sleepy mining complex to the tune of a 110% year-to-date rip for the NYSE Arca Gold Miners Index. 

The issue of central banking has been the source of significant controversy in the United States, from its founding in 1776 to today’s clashes over monetary power.

Last week, former FBI director James Comey was charged with making false statements to Congress. The specific comment in question occurred in September 2020, when Comey testified to a Senate committee that he had not authorized a leak of classified information to the media. The Department of Justice claims that it was untrue. A second count alleges that Comey was “obstructing” and/or “impeding” the Senate panel with his lie.

During the Cold War, pro-assassination forces gained ground, but the illegal killing was hidden because it was inconsistent with the shining-city-on-the-hill propaganda.

In my first column after the events of Jan. 6th, 2021, I criticized those who called the protest a “coup,” pointing out that, “Some of the same politicians and bureaucrats denouncing the ridiculous farce at the Capitol as if it were the equivalent of 9/11 have been involved for decades in planning and executing real coups overseas. In their real coups, many thousands of civilians have died.”