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Emile · « **Reply #60 on:** **Yesterday** at 05:48:10 PM »

Right or wrong, U.S. involvement in the region is nothing all that new. For a short summary: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banana_Wars

josefamenendez · « **Reply #61 on:** **Yesterday** at 05:51:09 PM »

Quote from: Pax Vobis on Yesterday at 05:28:57 PM

Have you ever read 1984? Communists ban all sorts of things, including dating, marriage, soda, tv, etc. They aren’t banning these things for goodness sake, but for control.

Are you for real?
Tell that to the babies that are actually alive today; and the others that will be killed now with the regime change.
Do you care that your children are alive due to a political position, or that they are alive, period?
And as I've said before, zionism= communism and the errors of (((Bolshevik))) Russia are being spread by the United States of Israel before anyone else.
Get your head out of 1989. We are the communists. They might be also but they are not killing babies and celebrating sodomites- we are

josefamenendez · « **Reply #62 on:** **Yesterday** at 05:53:34 PM »

Have I ever read 1984?
hahahahaha-good one

josefamenendez · « **Reply #63 on:** **Yesterday** at 05:59:54 PM »

Yes- the US has been instigating trouble in the Amazon trying to co-opt resources for decades and burning and killing the indigenous populations especially in Northern Brazil.. I'm quite aware. The Rockafellers and the UN started the menacing there
But now we are proxies doing it for Israel and trying to prop-up the failed petrodollar that is a goner anyway.

If we are going to (sinfully) regime change and empire build, at least we should do it for ourselves and not for Netanyahu and the satanic jews.
We are just slaves doing the heavy lifting for them.

Matthew · « **Reply #64 on:** **Yesterday** at 07:10:44 PM »

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America bombs Venezuela
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So the US just bombed Venezuela and allegedly captured Maduro. Trump announced it early Saturday morning on Truth Social like he was sharing his breakfast order. “Large scale strike”, he called it. Helicopters over Caracas. Explosions at Fuerte Tiuna. Power out across half the capital.

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And you know what? No1’s talking about what happened five hours earlier.
Chinese officials - Xi Jinping’s special envoy Qiu Xiaoqi, to be specific - sat down with Maduro on Friday. January 2nd. Discussed their “unbreakable brotherhood”. Reviewed over 600 existing agreements between Beijing and Caracas. The usual diplomatic theater about resisting Western imperialism and building a multipolar world order.
Then, just hours later, American bombs started falling. (videos I found at the end of this article)
I’m not saying there’s a connection. But I’m absolutely saying the timing makes you think.
Because here’s what else happened on January 1st - two days before those strikes. China’s new silver export restrictions went into effect. Not recommendations. Not guidelines. Hard restrictions requiring government licenses for any company wanting to ship silver out of the country. And we’re not talking about some minor player here. China controls somewhere between 60-70% of the global silver supply. They’re not just a big fish.

The word on the street - and yes, this is rumor territory, so take it with appropriate skepticism - is that Shanghai Port Authority refused to ship a 50 million ounce silver cargo to COMEX-approved delivery warehouses. That’s not a typo. Fifty. Million. Ounces. The kind of shipment COMEX desperately needs right now because their registered inventories are down 70%.
Let me paint you a picture of how bad things are for COMEX. Physical silver in Shanghai is trading at ~$80 per ounce. In some Asian markets, it’s hitting $130. Meanwhile, COMEX futures are quoting around $71. This market is broken beyond repair. The paper price and the physical price have completely divorced, and the physical market is keeping the house.

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COMEX tried to bail themselves out by hiking margins twice in one week - 50% total increase in capital required to hold a silver position. Classic move when you’re trying to force retail traders out and give the big banks breathing room to cover their shorts. But that’s the thing about physical shortages - you can manipulate the paper price all you want, but eventually someone’s going to knock on the (vault) door and ask for their metal.
And China just told them their vault is closed.

Now back to Venezuela. You know what Venezuela has? The world’s largest proven oil reserves. 303 billion barrels. More than Saudi Arabia. More than the US. Five times more than the US, actually. Sure, it’s mostly heavy crude that’s expensive to process, but when you’re sitting on that much black gold, the technical details are just... details.
Venezuela also sends 80% of its oil exports to China. About 700,000 barrels per day at discounted prices. China needs that oil. Venezuela needs China’s money. It’s a beautiful relationship built on mutual dependence and a shared love of giving Washington the middle finger.
So let me connect some dots here, and yes, I’m being very clear that this is speculative. The link is weak. But the timing is absolutely delicious.
China implements silver export controls on January 1st. These aren’t gentle suggestions - they’re ring-fencing 65% of global refined silver supply for domestic use. Industrial users in the West are already panicking because silver isn’t some luxury item you can do without. It’s like in everything that makes the modern world tick. There’s simply no viable substitute. You either get silver or it all stops.
On January 2nd, Xi Jinping’s personal envoy flies to Caracas and sits down with Maduro. They talk about deepening ties. Consolidating the multipolar world order. Standing firm against US aggression. The whole nine yards.
Five hours later, American bombs are falling on Venezuelan military bases.
Hours after that, Trump announces Maduro has been captured and flown out of the country.
Is China protecting Venezuelan oil assets because they need them? Maybe. Did Maduro’s government see the writing on the wall and try to negotiate some kind of managed exit? The reports suggest he’d been talking to Washington for weeks. Is this a resource grab for the largest oil reserves on the planet? Without question.
But silver?
Look, I’m not going to sit here and tell you this was all about 50 million ounces of refused silver shipments. That would be ridiculous. The US has wanted regime change in Venezuela for decades. The oil alone is worth the operation. Chavez predicted this exact scenario years ago:

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“The president of the US talks as if he owns the world. What type of democracy do you impose with marines, invasions and bombs?”

But here’s what I will say: COMEX is in deep trouble. Like, potentially-terminal trouble. They can’t fulfill physical delivery requests. Western vaults are bleeding metal. Shanghai is in backwardation - meaning spot prices are higher than futures prices, which is the market’s way of screaming “WE NEED METAL NOW”. The paper-to-physical ratio on the CRiMEX is running at ~350:1. That’s about 350 ounces of paper promises for every single physical ounce.
And China just cut off the supply tap.
You want to negotiate with Beijing when you’re in that position? You need leverage. Real leverage. Not tariff threats or trade war posturing. Something concrete.
Like, say, control over the world’s largest oil reserves. Which just happen to be about Chinese energy security. Which just happen to be in a country whose leader you just removed and replaced with someone more... pliable.
I’m not saying this is definitely what happened. I’m saying it’s one hell of a coincidence that deserves scrutiny. China refuses to ship desperately-needed silver to COMEX. Chinese envoy meets with Maduro. US bombs Venezuela hours later. All of this happening within a 72-hour window right as China’s export restrictions go live.
The official narrative will be about drugs. Trump’s been threatening strikes on alleged trafficking operations for months. The Cartel de los Soles. Drug boats in the Caribbean. All that. And sure, that’s part of it. But since when has the War on Drugs ever been the whole story?
What happens next is the interesting part. Does a new Venezuelan government suddenly become eager to negotiate oil deals that are less favorable to Beijing? Do those Chinese energy contracts get renegotiated? Does PDVSA - Venezuela’s state oil company - suddenly find itself with new management more amenable to Western interests?
And on the silver front - does this give Washington any leverage at all in negotiations with Beijing? “We have your oil partner. Maybe we can talk about those export licenses?”
Again, I’m being very clear: this is speculation. The connection between the silver situation and the Venezuela strikes is not proven. But the timing is extraordinarily suspicious.
Too many coincidences.

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Russia condemned the strikes immediately. Iran called it a violation of international law. The usual suspects lined up to denounce American military action in Latin America. But China? China’s response will be interesting. They just lost their envoy’s meeting with Maduro to a US bombing run. Their oil supply from Venezuela is now in serious jeopardy. Their geopolitical ally in the Western hemisphere might be gone.
What does Beijing do when they’re holding all the silver and just lost a major oil partner?
I don’t know. But I know what Washington would like them to do: open those export licenses. Let the silver flow. Keep COMEX from imploding. Maintain the fiction that paper prices mean something.
Whether this strike was about drugs, oil, geopolitics, silver, or all of the above, we’ll probably never know the full truth. What we do know is this: the largest oil reserves in the world just changed hands in a military operation that happened hours after a Chinese diplomatic visit and days after China locked down global silver exports while COMEX is on life support.
Connect the dots however you want. Call me a conspiracy theorist if it makes you feel better. But when this many pieces line up this perfectly, you’re either looking at an extraordinary series of coincidences or something much more calculated.
I know which one I’m betting on.

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alaric · « **Reply #65 on:** **Yesterday** at 07:25:38 PM »

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A non-vote is just that, a non-vote. No vote, for any candidate. Stop coping
It's sad to see Trump voters trying to accuse those who abstained from voting for a pro-child murder, pro-genocide, pro-sodomy, Jew slave as being blameworthy of anything at all

Anything to quiet a guilty conscience

You voted for tranny/homo/blm/open borders/gun grabbing/pinko-commie party when you stayed home, chew on that.

My conscience is clear.

Everlast22 · « **Reply #66 on:** **Yesterday** at 07:35:42 PM »

Quote from: alaric on Yesterday at 07:25:38 PM

You voted for tranny/homo/blm/open borders/gun grabbing/pinko-commie party when you stayed home, chew on that.

My conscience is clear.

Trump supports all that you mentioned above. chew on that, boomer.
Your conscience is muddled with modernist Americanism.

josefamenendez · « **Reply #67 on:** **Yesterday** at 07:41:26 PM »

Quote from: alaric on Yesterday at 07:25:38 PM

You voted for tranny/homo/blm/open borders/gun grabbing/pinko-commie party when you stayed home, chew on that.

My conscience is clear.

Trump is for homo, tranny ,abortion pill, deported less people than obama, pro-IVF, pro wars for Israel, pro Noahide laws and Chabad, pro Jew oligarchs, pro sodomite marriage,pro-anti-semitic speech censorship etc.
The only real difference is that Trump lulls "MAGA" into zombie complacency,
where the other evil party might get your feathers ruffled enough for you to see the sin and save your soul.

The buck has to stop somewhere and no matter what the consequences, the trajectory of evil has to be halted.
A Catholic cannot assent to this level of evil with their vote

alaric · « **Reply #68 on:** **Yesterday** at 07:49:39 PM »

Quote from: Everlast22 on Yesterday at 07:35:42 PM

Trump supports all that you mentioned above. chew on that, boomer.
Your conscience is muddled with modernist Americanism.

All? I call bs, prove it.

And I'm no boomer zoomer.

Don't preach to me about conscience , where the hell do you live? Some safe, secure , bible thumpin, red state? We're in a fight for our very lives against these psychotic, commie dems.

I despise these demo fαɢs and i will vote trump 6 days a week and twice on sunday to destroy them, yes with a clear conscience.

Pax Vobis · « **Reply #69 on:** **Yesterday** at 08:25:54 PM »

Quote from: josefamenendez on Yesterday at 05:51:09 PM

Are you for real?
Tell that to the babies that are actually alive today; and the others that will be killed now with the regime change.
Do you care that your children are alive due to a political position, or that they are alive, period?
And as I've said before, zionism= communism and the errors of (((Bolshevik))) Russia are being spread by the United States of Israel before anyone else.
Get your head out of 1989. We are the communists. They might be also but they are not killing babies and celebrating sodomites- we are

Your argument makes no sense. Government A bans a handful of bad things....but also bans 5,000 good things and you focus ONLY on the few bad things. Talk about cherry-picking.

Correlation doesn't equal causation. Even the devil can tempt people to pray too much and focus on sin too much...which is NOT a good thing.

Pax Vobis · « **Reply #70 on:** **Yesterday** at 08:32:16 PM »

Quote from: Matthew on Yesterday at 07:10:44 PM

The word on the street - and yes, this is rumor territory, so take it with appropriate skepticism - is that Shanghai Port Authority refused to ship a 50 million ounce silver cargo to COMEX-approved delivery warehouses. That’s not a typo. Fifty. Million. Ounces. The kind of shipment COMEX desperately needs right now because their registered inventories are down 70%.
Let me paint you a picture of how bad things are for COMEX. Physical silver in Shanghai is trading at ~$80 per ounce. In some Asian markets, it’s hitting $130. Meanwhile, COMEX futures are quoting around $71. This market is broken beyond repair. The paper price and the physical price have completely divorced, and the physical market is keeping the house.

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Just like I said, this article lines up with what i've read elsewhere. This is about a proxy war between us and china/russia. China has no oil. The more oil the US controls, the weaker China is.

josefamenendez · « **Reply #71 on:** **Yesterday** at 08:36:26 PM »

Quote from: Pax Vobis on Yesterday at 08:25:54 PM

Your argument makes no sense. Government A bans a handful of bad things....but also bans 5,000 good things and you focus ONLY on the few bad things. Talk about cherry-picking. Correlation doesn't equal causation. Even the devil can tempt people to pray too much and focus on sin too much...which is NOT a good thing.

Murdering children “just cherry picking here”
wow- just wow.

Pax Vobis · « **Reply #72 on:** **Yesterday** at 08:49:31 PM »

Quote from: josefamenendez on Yesterday at 08:36:26 PM

Murdering children “just cherry picking here”
wow- just wow.

If I was a god-less, anti-catholic dictator i'd ban abortion too, but not for moral reasons. You know why? Because it would put fear into society. It would be 1 of many items i'd use to control the culture. It would be a show of power. It would have NOTHING to do with morality.

You can applaud the outcome all you want, but you're missing the bigger picture. I'll bet abortion is outlawed in N Korea too. Is that a great country to live in?

Matthew · « **Reply #73 on:** **Yesterday** at 10:07:42 PM »

Mark 79 · « **Reply #74 on:** **Yesterday** at 10:08:52 PM »

Quote from: Pax Vobis on Yesterday at 08:32:16 PM

Just like I said, this article lines up with what i've read elsewhere. This is about a proxy war between us and china/russia. China has no oil. The more oil the US controls, the weaker China is.

True… and… China holds other cards.

[th]Resource Category[/th] [th]China's Approximate Global Share[/th] [th]Notes[/th]
Oil (proven reserves)	1.5%	Based on 2021 data; reserves are about 26-28 billion barrels out of a global total of around 1.7 trillion barrels.
Arable land (agriculture proxy)	8%	China has about 109 million hectares out of a global total of 1.38 billion hectares; it supports 19% of the world's population with this share.
Freshwater resources	6%	Total renewable freshwater is around 2.8 trillion cubic meters; unevenly distributed, with per capita availability at about 25% of the global average.
Rare earth elements (reserves)	34%	About 44 million metric tons out of a global total of 130 million metric tons; China also dominates production.
Lithium (reserves)	16.5%	Recent discoveries have boosted this from around 6%; includes salt lake and hard rock deposits, now ranking China second globally.
Cobalt (reserves)	<1%	Domestic reserves are minimal (part of "others" in global distributions); China relies heavily on imports and controls much overseas production, but this is not domestic holdings.

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