John Johnston: Debunking the Tank Bottom Narrative and Oil Prices Going Forward
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDoJoWduf9I
1 hour
If investing in the oil industry — you probably want to watch this interview……..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDoJoWduf9I
1 hour
If investing in the oil industry — you probably want to watch this interview……..
Zohran Mamdani just froze rents on over a million apartments in New York City. Investor Sergey Brin just responded by walking out the door!
The world’s third-richest man dumped his entire stake in a NYC rent-stabilized apartment fund for six cents on the dollar. Not a typo. Six cents.
https://x.com/X22Report/status/2072437932984566239
U.S. President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that his acting spy chief has wide permission to declassify records, including any tied to the 2020 election, even though his close ally is only at the intelligence ?helm for a short time.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/trump-says-acting-spy-chief-151141497.html
On Wednesday, Palantir CEO Alex Karp delivered a blistering critique of frontier AI labs, accusing them of having an “effing insane” business model that leaves enterprises paying escalating token costs for limited value while risking their proprietary data and intellectual property. He said that top AI labs such as Anthropic and OpenAI were misleading corporate partners – “overselling” the risks of AI while at the same time offering their most powerful models to companies and governments worldwide.
De Gaulle’s fundamental error was not military. It was cultural.
He won the war. He rebuilt the state. He restored France’s sovereignty. And while he held visible power, he let the other side seize real power. He entrusted the schools, the universities, the transmission of ideas to those who wanted precisely to destroy what he was defending. He believed that France’s fate was decided at the Élysée. It was decided in the classrooms.
Seventy years later, we look at the result without filters. Magistrates think as one bloc. Professors think as one bloc. Journalists think as one bloc. Intellectuals think as one bloc. An entire country molded in the same cast, so homogeneous that it ended up confusing its mold with neutrality.
And that mold produced its monsters. The 1960s and 1970s gave birth in France to the century’s worst intellectual dead ends. A brilliant generation put all its talent at the service of a single idea: that nothing holds, that everything is constructed, that all authority is suspect, and that all truth is merely a power relation in disguise. Deconstruction did not open minds. It taught an entire elite to dissolve rather than build.
Then it went global. America imported this French Theory, ran it through its campuses, mutated it into something harder and more religious. Wokism was not born in a vacuum. It was born from our philosophers, reread by militants, industrialized by institutions. We sent the virus; they sent us back the pandemic.
But the wind is turning. Everywhere, the camp of freedom is rising again. People are fed up with being managed, corrected, reeducated by institutions that despise them. They want to build again. They want to transmit again. They want to believe in something instead of dissolving everything.
The task of the next ten years is clear. Reopen institutions to plurality instead of handing them over to a single camp. Reform those who form. Give schools back the right to transmit instead of deconstructing. Deconstruct deconstruction, not by banning it, but by beating it on its own turf—the realm of ideas—where it is actually very weak as soon as one dares to contradict it.
A reset, yes. But not the one from Davos. Not a top-down, technocratic reset that wants to own and monitor you. A bottom-up reset. The return of the real, of the builder, of transmission, of trust. The end of seventy years in which only one half of the country had the right to think out loud.
De Gaulle ceded culture thinking he was holding onto France. We won’t make that mistake again. This time, we take back culture first.
https://x.com/brivael/status/2072222040547836307
(pedro doesn’t buy the theory we imported this from France; but I appreciate the argument’s tone …one key dissent: “all authority is suspect, and that all truth [as reported, not as is] is merely a power relation in disguise” …. actually does seem quite on the mark to me!)
Something up ?
WHO COULD HAVE PREDICTED THIS ?
https://goldtadise.com/?p=698846
SCOTT JENNINGS TRUTH NUKES CNN: “The data is clear and our eyes and ears don’t lie: Democrats, sadly, HATE America — Republicans love it. Trump is right to lean into his patriotism for America 250!” ??
“We have a patriotism gap in this country. Republicans love this country. They’re patriotic about this country and Democrats aren’t. They just aren’t!”
“They’re not proud to be Americans and therefore they’re not interested in celebrating America’s 250th birthday and it only gets all about Donald Trump.”
“This has been a steady downward trend for the last 25 years and it’s sad. But we’ve got two parties in this country. One loves it and one appears to be hating it more and more by the year and I think that is a sad thing.”
“We live in the greatest country in the world. The president proclaims that message all the time and that’s something that ought to unify all Americans, but Democrats just can’t seem to get behind it!”
Q: Scott, isn’t the president proclaiming his face all the time?
JENNINGS: “I would encourage you to listen to some of the interviews that have been given by the Democrat candidates who have recently won primaries and I would encourage you to read the polling that’s come out just this week.”
“In the last few days from the Gallup Organization about the patriotism gap that exists. I’m sorry to tell you, Republicans love this country and they always love it no matter who’s in charge. And look, yes, Donald Trump has put his picture on things.”
“I hate to break the news. He’s a president United States and he’s going to be part of things going on with our government!”
“And our government should be doing things to celebrate the country’s 250th birthday and he’s the president and he’s going to be part of it.”
https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/2061648819369250987
This is a really important signal by China to Europe.
Watch as civilians, first responders, and others pull wads and suitcases full of American hundred-dollar bills from the collapsed buildings. Cash is turning up in huge amounts across the rubble.
https://x.com/anttsinc/status/2072322771057615059
40 seconds
It is clearer every day that most people posing as journalists are essentially Democrat campaign workers instead of reliable sources of the news or the truth…
The following is a small sample of what crooks have gotten away with, which is only the tip of the iceberg.
The postal service says in a notice on its website that it’s not accepting parcels destined for a dozen countries until further notice. They include Austria, Belgium, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Portugal and Spain.
President Trump announces a gas station retailer is PLUMMETING fuel prices on July 3rd in the Philadelphia area to celebrate America
PATRIOTS!
“Gas Prices will soon be back to the Record Low Prices Americans enjoyed at the pump before our very successful “excursion” in Iran. Happy Birthday America!”
“Just as I promised, Oil Prices are plummeting FAST, and Gas Prices at the pump are dropping too, but not as fast as they should be. As we approach America’s 250th Birthday, I am pleased to announce that a VERY smart Retailer, located throughout the Northeast, is stepping up, and wishing the People of Philadelphia a “Happy Birthday!” On July 3rd, the Freedom Fuel Network will be lowering gas prices at 25 “FREEDOM FUEL” Stations across the Greater Philadelphia Area. This Retailer is taking the lead, and others should follow. They are doing this because they love the U.S.A. We are proud to celebrate America’s 250th Birthday in the Great Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, the Birthplace of our very special, one-of-a-kind Declaration of Independence, and where I won BIG in the Presidential Election!”
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/01/us/politics/russia-ukraine-troop-casualties.html?
Likewise, the Washington Post reported a study that Covid 19 injections have recently been found to benefit the heart ……. https://goldtadise.com/?p=701411
Communist China is a prosperous nation now thanks to USA consumers having all there needs made there. And after the Fed Res Act we ended up with a depression and we have social security.
https://x.com/PrometheanActn/status/2072384134526222532
14 minutes
called $OUSD.
https://x.com/WatcherGuru/status/2071969683842969799
XRP remains at the heart of Ripple’s ecosystem.
Trump elevates Gold on the very day Jupiter enters Leo. Take the hint.
Comex December expiration $20,000 strike gold call option open interest surpassing 30,000 contracts?
When you realize “why” Trump hung the Gold Eagle plaque on the White House and why it was made of gold instead of “cast iron, wood or bronze,” you will catch the SIGNAL that I have been talking about for years.
What does the Gold Eagle plaque represent? It’s called the “Freedom Flyer.”
“The “freedom flyer” is a metal eagle plaque, typically made of cast iron, wood, or bronze, that represents financial freedom from debt.”
“Historically, homeowners hung these plaques above their front doors, garages, or on porches to publicly celebrate that they had paid off their mortgage in full.”
“Originating in the post-World War II era, the tradition was fueled by the G.I. Bill, which helped veterans purchase homes and sparked a culture of patriotism and financial independence.”
“While the custom declined in the 1970s, it remains a recognized symbol of a debt-free home” Why did the custom decline in the 1970’s? We went off the Gold Standard. I have been saying for years now, that the ENTIRE national debt is FRAUD.
Trump is going to get rid of income taxes and prevent the American people from paying the debt. Several things are happening at once, but they are all leading down the same path. A return to the Gold Standard is coming.
And here’s some stories flying under the radar that are pointing to massive transformation coming.
1) “The talk of a U.S. 50-year bond, redeemable in gold…to be announced on July 4…is still floating around out there — and not only refuses to go away, the commentary on it is increasing.” Do you remember who first brought up the “50 year bond redeemable in gold? It was Trump’s nominee to the Fed in his first term, Judy Shelton.
https://youtu.be/yhbD3Zkkxx0?si=MIqAypD0VepRWAFn
Is Trump going to announce a Gold backed Treasury on Independence Day? Is that why Trump placed the Gold Freedom Flyer Eagle on the White House this week?
2) “Then there’s the eye-popping price tag for the limited U.S. mintage of the ‘Freedom Ringing – Liberty Bell Gold Coins and Silver Medals’. The 1-ounce gold is $19,600 — and the half-ounce is $10,050. And dare I mentioned the price of the 1-ounce and half-ounce silver Liberty Bells…$1,500 and $750 respectively.” Is the price of Gold and Silver about to massively spike higher?
3) “But the big kahuna continues to be the $10,000 to $20,000 December call options in gold…which first came to my attention in early March.” “To quote@IntlStacker
: Something very unusual is happening in CME Gold Options: $10,000 Call ? 11,757 Open Interest! $15,000 Call ? 27,348 Open Interest *$20,000 Call ? 30,021 Open Interest Total open interest in all of these has risen substantially since I reported on them last about a month ago. As @MBAeconmics added to the above thread: Today let us celebrate the #Comex December expiration $20,000 strike gold call option open interest surpassing 30,000 contracts. You are living through history ladies and gentlemen!” There is a growing number of bets on COMEX that the price of Gold is getting ready to massively spike higher.
4) “And quietly over in China, was this news item from the South China Morning Post headlined “Major Chinese banks suspend individual trading on Shanghai Gold Exchange amid volatility.” “It appears that the word is out to China’s large banks. China Construction Bank is closing its customer trading facilities for gold and silver on the Shanghai Gold Exchange from July 24th and ICBC made a similar announcement for the same date: “it would close agency personal auction trading through mobile banking, online banking. After the closure the closing selling and delivery operations of customers holding positions will be restricted”. Coupled with Chinese banks reducing transaction fees to 0.2% on their customers’ gold accumulation accounts, these moves are clearly aimed at reducing speculation and encouraging accumulation.
The common date of 24th July suggests an event is in the wings.”
https://silverseek.com/article/big-8-shorts-get-stuffed-again
So many GOLD stories are converging
h/t dive
President Trump has just PULLED UP in the FREEDOM 250 TRAIN in North Dakota, set to tour the Teddy Roosevelt Presidential Library
Epic!
What an incredible sight
Trump is going maximum American mode
US Trade Ambassador Jamieson Greer tells me in an interview that the US is deciding not to renew the USMCA trade agreement, instead entering rolling talks with Canada and Mexico for up to ten years