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Nov 29
🧵 THREAD: What happens to #Silver if physical delivery stops?

(Just brainstorming.)
1️⃣ The first thing that breaks is the illusion.

COMEX and London can halt, freeze, “adjust,” or call it technical…
but none of that delivers a single ounce.

Paper is not metal.
2️⃣ Then something bigger happens — the physical market starts writing its own price.

Whether spot is $56, $70, or $120, it doesn’t matter.

When delivery fails, spot becomes a number on a screen.

The real price emerges in the physical world.
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Nov 29
@ralakbar @michaeldweiss 1).
„Ukrainian President Volodymyr @ZelenskyyUa said on Sat. that a delegation headed by security council secretary Rustem Umerov was on its way to the U.S. to continue talks on an agreement to end Russiaʼs war in Ukraine.
@ralakbar @michaeldweiss @ZelenskyyUa 2).
Umerov has been put in charge of the Ukrainian delegation after the previous lead negotiator, Zelenskiy's powerful chief of staff Andriy Yermak, resigned on Friday, hours after anti-corruption detectives searched his apartment.”

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@ralakbar @michaeldweiss @ZelenskyyUa 3).
@Reuters reuters.com/business/aeros…
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Nov 29
Do you know the difference between a "special operation" a "sensitive operation" a "clandestine operation" and a "deniable operation"

Pinstripedline thread on 1970s SAS, MI6 and GCHQ operations and how the Govt tried to conceal their existence from official records... Image
In 1973 Cabinet Secretary Sir Burke Trend was alarmed to see reports of deniable operations involving the SAS in Oman in wider public documents. He sent a formal admonishment to the head of the FCO and to the MOD over concerns about poor information security. Image
Sir Dennis, the FCO PUS wrote back agreeing, noting that "deniable operations should never, as a matter of principle, be referred to in documents..."

He felt two rules applied to these operations - no formal records in the archives, and no automatic distribution across Depts. Image
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Nov 29
@EscanorReloaded,

Stop engaging @Meowllian. Thx.

Sincerely,

The Good Guys
For your reference. Somehow, she’s already blocked my latest alt account too. I wonder if it has something to do with this.👇
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Nov 29
This is good for Ukraine and moves us to Europe.

Yesterday, Yermak resigned. He and Zelenskyy were extremely close — they had lived and worked together from day one of the war inside the Kyiv compound.

"Talk about Zelenskyy, and you’re talking about Yermak" - Rybachuk for FT
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FT used my yesterday's comment that “I strongly support it. It would be the right decision, exactly what you do to get out of a crisis.”

Analyst Fesenko says that this is a “mini revolution” in Kyiv’s power structure & breaks a system where Yermak acted like an unelected VP.

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Without Yermak, Zelenskyy’s influence may shrink at first. But former US ambassador William Taylor argues this move can strengthen Zelenskyy at home and abroad if he splits domestic and international roles. 3/
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Nov 29
An actual truthful email circulating inside the FDA. Read and weep. Image
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"It is horrifying to consider that the US vaccine regulation, including our actions, may have harmed more children than we saved."
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Nov 29
As I said in my Halifax speech a few days before this damning WSJ report, this has always been personal business for Trump, not national interest. It’s how Putin turned Russia into a mafia state and it’s been Trump’s goal from day one of his new unleashed admin.
And also as happened with Putin, politicians and pundits spend too much time looking for complicated motivations from ideology or psychology or blackmail. It’s money. It’s always money. They’re crooks. With immense power, but still crooks. Don’t overcomplicate things.
Most importantly, don’t let guessing at the why interfere with responding to what is happening. The US has allied with Russia against Ukraine and Europe. It will also stand with or stand aside for China, Saudis, and other authoritarian states against the free world.
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Nov 29
Ah, I see you’re TREASONOUSLY working with an HOSTILE FOREIGN HEAD OF STATE against WHITE AMERICANS in the UNITED STATES. And now you’re freaking TF out bc you realize you’ve been found out and that we’re both authorized and OBLIGATED to kill you as an enemy foreign and domestic. Image
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*HUGE shoutout to @PennyDread88 for exposing a TREASONOUS IMMIGRATION ATTORNEY working in the U.S. on behalf of BIBI NETANYAHU, ISRAEL, WORLD JEWRY & LIKUD, to carry out the KALERGI-style GENOCIDE of FOUNDING STOCK (WHITE EUROPEAN) AMERICANS!

Your day is coming, @AnnaGorisch.🫡
@PennyDread88 @AnnaGorisch We’ll go ahead and save these for posterity, before you inevitably delete your TwitterX account.
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Nov 29
Did you know that the Oompa-Loompas In Roald Dahl's 1964 Charlie and the Chocolate were originally Black pygmies from "deepest, darkest part of the African jungle where no white man had been before" but was Revised in 1973 after the NAACP complained?

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Dahl described Oompa-Loompas as a tribe of 3,000 "amiable Black pygmies" starving on green caterpillars in Africa. Wonka lured them with cocoa beans, smuggled them in crates, and housed them in his factory. The text framed them as enslaved.
Joseph Schindelman’s 1964 illustrations showed Oompa-Loompas as African pygmies in grass skirts, reinforcing racist imagery. Wonka treated them as property, even experimenting on them. This mirrored pro-slavery "positive good" narratives. Image
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Nov 29
Didja notice that the guy in the Ukraine Corruption probe is also the same guy who was with Zelensky when Sean Penn winked at us and then gifted Zelensky an Oscar (for best performance)!? 🤣

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This Sean Penn "wink" was perfectly double-entendred....cuz Zelensky had an IMDB Profile for....playing the Ukrainian President !

very "meta" (as the kids say)...
corruption in Ukraine!? 😱 No Sh*T SHERLOCK!

this stuff has been publicly documented for a LONG TIME.

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Nov 29
What a Cohencidence™️ your first account ‘following’ is ANNA BROSS, SVP of Comms for The Atlantic, formerly of NPR (Signal Fdn; Katherine Maher; Carissa Witte - ISRAEL).

I wonder if you and ANNA BROSS know ORY RINAT and JEFFREY GOLDBERG, or if you’ve heard of SIGNALGATE™️.😒🖕🔯 Image
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ORY RINAT, HEAD OF DIGITAL STRATEGY at THE ATLANTIC, ran the DJT1 WH ACCOUNT & (at LEAST SOME of) the DJT2 WH/ST DEPT ACCOUNTS.

Meanwhile, BIBI NETANYAHU’S PERSONAL (IDF) STENOGRAPHER, JEFFREY GOLDBERG, is CHIEF EDITOR for THE ATLANTIC & was behind SIGNALGATE™️.

Huh. Weird.😒🖕
Btw, I LOVED your write-up in THE NEW YORKER, @SkinnerPm. What a title, no less.

‘The Spy Who Came Home’

My favorite part was how you described it in your bio — “Made my way from ‘odd stuff overseas’ to local cop in my hometown. Going to law school…”

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Nov 29
@LisaDemuthMN I’m sure you noticed what term is conspicuously absent from the first NY Times article on this topic.

nytimes.com/2022/03/08/us/…
@LisaDemuthMN By the way, based on anyone’s lived experience, the true number of persons of Somali heritage in Minnesota is at least triple any government / legacy media figure.

80k has been bounced around for years, but not updated by children - 2+ per family, right?

mncompass.org/topics/demogra…
@LisaDemuthMN @threadreaderapp please unroll
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