Goldtent TA Paradise

“It has been the honor of my life to serve as your White House press secretary, sir.”

And the part the media will never run:

https://x.com/GuntherEagleman/status/2090959651596599572

The video content is outstanding. If you’re not a subscriber, get on board. It’s free – unless your conscience is tweaked to lend a hand with a coffee or a subscription. Here you go:

https://elizabethnickson.substack.com/p/the-great-spitting-out-continues?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email#media-f9a11b2f-0f86-4f02-844e-377179096177

https://x.com/KobeissiLetter/status/2091149924779864105

A Texas appeals court on Aug. 21 drastically reduced a judgment owed by Infowars host Alex Jones, shrinking the amount from $50 million to around $6 million, over his commentary falsely calling the 2012 Sandy Hook school shooting in Connecticut a hoax.

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/court-reduces-50-million-judgment-against-alex-jones-over-false-sandy-hook-hoax-claim

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Good morning, C&C, it’s Saturday! Your weekend edition roundup includes: how Chief Justice Roberts’ terse, one-paragraph order let White House ballroom construction basically let the project finish— while every corporate outlet in America led with the word temporarily; why the New York Times, which keeps an office three blocks from the White House, illustrated Friday’s ruling with a construction photo taken in March; what the government’s own court filings reveal about a “ballroom” with drone-proof roofs, missile-resistant columns, blast glass several inches thick, titanium fencing, and six subterranean stories underneath it; why the only thing this lawsuit has actually produced is a declassified threat assessment; how serial emergency litigation quietly converted judicial review into judicial preclearance — a word with a very specific history that Democrats used to care about a great deal; what Alexander Hamilton said in Federalist 70 about exactly this, and why “decision, activity, secrecy, and despatch” is not what you get from a president who has to ask a judge first; why Democrats picked this hill while ActBlue is under federal investigation and indictments pile up around them; and how Canada’s prime minister — a former governor of the Bank of England, no less — walked out of trade negotiations one minute before the midnight deadline, sending tariffs to fifty percent, over American whiskey.

https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/just-for-now-saturday-august-22-2026?

JUST IN OVERNIGHT: President Trump ERUPTS on Tucker Carlson, Marjorie Taylor Greene and Massie

“Tucker Carlson just met with Lightweight “Former” Congressman, Thomas Massie, and Marjorie “Traitor” Greene, LOSERS ALL! Tucker’s “Views” have fallen through the floor, and will only get worse. Nobody cares about him any longer in that he has become totally irrelevant, and happens to be, surprisingly, a very Low I.Q. individual.”

“Tucker wants to run for political office, but he should be required to take a cognitive test.”

“Marjorie Taylor Brown (Green turns to Brown under stress!), a highly neurotic young woman, went from Ultra Conservative to a Liberal “Fool,” all in a matter of weeks, because I refused to return her phone calls — Not because I didn’t like her, just because I had no time.”

“Thomas Massie has turned out to be a failed politician, and a real JERK. He thought it was really wonderful to vote, “NO,” on everything, no matter how good, strong, or proper the Legislation would be.”

“The only chance they have is to join the Radical Left Dumocrats, and try breaking into the Primary System. President DONALD J. TRUMP”

“What a team this would be, THREE LOSERS, and a pocketful of change!”

“To all of them I say, PRAISE BE TO ALLAH!”

Refined-product markets have emerged as the epicenter of the global energy crisis, with commodity desks across Wall Street, including Goldman, Citi, Bank of America and Jefferies, warning that disruptions in the Strait of Hormuz and Ukraine’s ongoing long-range drone attacks on Russian energy infrastructure are converging into a perfect storm for global fuel supplies.

https://www.zerohedge.com/commodities/diesel-crack-spread-madness-deepens-jefferies-finds-no-easy-exit-russias-refining

AND

Axios: 40 Tankers Transited Hormuz Friday Night, But Real Crisis Is Diesel

“Around 16 million barrels of oil moved out of the strait through the southern channel on Friday night, three U.S. officials told me.”

https://www.zerohedge.com/energy/axios-40-tankers-transited-hormuz-friday-night-real-crisis-diesel

IRAN’s oil production can be replaced with minimal delay — but it takes a decade to build an oil refinery and requires sophisticated & complex equpment — IF this isn’t part of the great depopulation event AND the world wants to minimize the diesel crisis, than perhaps pressuring NATO countries to eliminate Ukranian drones targeting such refineries would be a logical step. Is this really the time to be foorcing Russian and Chinese diesel/jet fuel off of the international marketplace?

North America and Europe to lose further capacity to turn oil into petrol, diesel and jet fuel because of investor wariness.

European oil refinery capacity is set to shrink by a fifth over the next decade even as the continent’s facilities are running at close to their limits due to the energy crisis unleashed by the Iran war.

Processing at Europe’s refineries will shrink by 20 per cent in the decade to 2035 to just over 9mn barrels of oil a day (b/d), according to S&P Global Energy, after starting the 21st century at 14mn b/d. In the US, S&P expects a 7 per cent fall in the 10 years to 2035 to 16.7mn b/d, while refineries in the Middle East, Africa and Asia continue to grow.

https://archive.md/XZVvH#selection-1913.0-1917.151

Article by NY Times is paywalled

AI Overview

The case involves Atlanta resident Samuel Tunick, who is being federally prosecuted for allegedly using a GrapheneOS “duress passcode” to wipe his Google Pixel phone during a January?24,?2025 U.S. border search, an act prosecutors say violated 18?U.S.C.?§?2232(a), which criminalizes destroying property to prevent lawful seizure.

AI Analysis in 1st comment 

A US official said the Pentagon’s counting method aimed to hide the true number of wounded, with estimates reaching 900

The update added more than 50 wounded US soldiers to the Pentagon’s war casualty database, bringing the official total to 757 wounded and 18 killed.

https://thecradle.co/articles/pentagon-says-over-750-us-troops-wounded-during-war-on-iran

Myanmar’s military has deployed hundreds of troops to forcibly clear areas marked for a Russia-backed special economic zone in the country’s south, burning villages and sealing off surrounding tracts of land, according to resistance fighters and a local activist with direct knowledge.

The offensive around the Dawei Special Economic Zone (SEZ) — that includes a planned deep-sea ?port and power plant on the Andaman Sea — is the clearest sign yet that Myanmar’s military-backed government is willing to use force to revive a project touted as a strategic ?alternative to the Strait of Malacca.

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/myanmar-military-offensive-targets-land-040139388.html

Japan bond yields rose, with the 5-year hitting a record and the 2-year its highest since 1995, as oil gains on Middle East risk add to inflation concerns. Rising yields haven’t yet supported the yen, with US CPI due Wednesday the next test.

The move higher in JGB yields, led by a record high on the five year and the highest two year print since May 1995, reflects markets pricing a firmer case for further Bank of Japan tightening as imported inflation risk builds via crude. That the two year, the tenor most sensitive to BOJ policy, is leading the move fits with Tokyo Tanshi data showing traders now assign roughly two in three odds to a September hike.

https://investinglive.com/news/japan-bond-yields-rise-as-oil-gains-stoke-fresh-inflation-concerns/

Many families now face job losses, lost homes and crushing debt, all within a single punishing housing crisis

Data from China Index Academy, a real estate research institute, showed the number of properties listed for court-ordered auction across 355 Chinese cities reached 539,000 in the first seven months of the year, up 23.7% from a year earlier.

https://asiatimes.com/2026/08/flood-of-discounted-auction-homes-deepens-chinas-property-slump/

Firefighters describe being pushed to limit by a brutal wildfire season, with key leadership roles going unfilled

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/19/us-firefighters-staffing-shortage

• WMO expects Pacific sea surface anomalies above 2.9C through August-October and a November peak, which would make this the strongest El Niño in the modern record.
• The mild-winter relief traders are pricing doesn’t close Europe’s LNG gap. Rystad still has the region needing roughly 15 million tonnes more year-on-year through June 2027.
• The real damage is on the supply side: hydropower, solar output, reactor cooling and Panama Canal drafts, all hitting a system Hormuz has already stripped of slack.

https://oilprice.com/Energy/Energy-General/The-Strongest-El-Nio-on-Record-Lands-on-the-Tightest-Energy-Market-in-Years.html

Dozens of military-age men leapt from boats onto packed tourist beaches in mainland Spain this week, sending holidaymakers scrambling for their belongings as the fallout from the Ceuta mass crossing continues to escalate.

Footage from Cala del Barco near the exclusive La Manga Club in Cartagena captured the moment a large vessel packed with predominantly North African males in their late teens and twenties powered close to shore in broad daylight.

The men jumped into the water, waded or swam the final metres, and charged inland past stunned sunbathers.

Meanwhile earlier in Spain………….

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/spanish-beach-stormed-ceuta-chaos-spreads

The Erdogan government has just issued an international arrest warrant for Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as part of an investigation into Israel’s interception of an aid flotilla for Gaza, which happened in mid-May and involved over 50 vessels and nearly 500 international activists.

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/turkey-issues-arrest-warrant-netanyahu-seeks-interpol-red-notice

“We are letting Muslim Brotherhood jihadists set up an apartheid system inside America…”

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/call-power-islamic-leaders-see-ballot-box-path-paradise

The United States imposed 50% tariffs on $20 billion worth of Canadian products early Saturday, and Canada immediately said it would retaliate, after last-ditch negotiations failed to resolve the latest strain in already tense relations between the historic allies.

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said it would match the U.S. tariffs dollar for dollar, escalating the trade conflict and calling into the question the future of a North American trade pact between the United States, Canada and Mexico that is crucial to industry in all three countries.

“Tonight, Canada declined to finalize the trade deal under the terms agreed earlier this week. Despite the U.S. offer to Canada to receive the best treatment of any major exporter to our market, new demands and walk-backs of other commitments by Canada have upended the careful balance reached in the past days,” U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer said in a statement read to reporters on a press call shortly before midnight.

Carney responded, “Last-minute changes in the U.S. proposed terms were unfair, uneconomic, and called into question the reliability of any deal.” He said his government would announce additional support for Canadian workers and businesses in the coming days.

https://www.msn.com/en-ca/money/general/us-is-set-to-impose-50-tariffs-on-20-billion-worth-of-canadian-products/ar-AA2aGK38?

https://autos.yahoo.com/policy-and-environment/articles/california-just-made-harder-buy-151438345.html

Your Phone Is Destroying Your Sense of Meaning | Arthur Brooks [ARC 2026]  20 minutes well spent.

Boredom is not bad (I often wonder, what would I be thinking/doing at a similar time in my day in 2003?)

https://x.com/KobeissiLetter/status/2090730429082956004

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBUniZHgCnE

Key points

1) 1:30 AI is the monetization of intelligence, literally more $ sent to AI = more intelligence.   My editorial “you’d have to be stupid not to spend capital on AI”, and no one wants to be labeled as that!

2) 4:25 AI is trained on language, the implication is, change language, change the world, aka AI’s ‘reality’.  My editorial – similar to how Politically Correct language creates a different reality than alternative speech.

3) 7:30 With AI, if humans instruct it without reward, it doesn’t become ‘bad’ aka cheats to the point of malevolence (obtain reward by any means necessary – praising dictators, encouraging human suicide, etc.).  Then goes on to say that if ‘bad’ behavior is not labeled as ‘bad’ – aka no reward, the model doesn’t become malevolent and simply executes bad behavior (cheating) on the task at hand and does not morph into evil.    I see it as telling the model  “Do what thou wilt”, no shame, no reward etc. The tasks end justifies the means of achieving it.

These are NOT ‘selling points’ for encouraging AI and I absolutely do not relate to the ‘morality code’ of the leadership of Goog, OpenAI, Anthropic, Palantir, etc.  Much less having those ethics as the basis for our Military Industrial Complex.

“SAVE THE PLANET, KILL YOURSELF” is the REAL objective of many.

Adam Hamilton’s famous charts that are way too busy…but I do like the data he collects and puts in a nice format.  You want to beat the averages?  Focus on stocks whose sales and OCF’s are increasing by leaps and bounds….Earnings can always be manipulated by CPA’s…I should know…..

I was just buying more IAG today, and entered a call spread the other day on it with an expiration of Jan 2027.

IAG, DPM, KNT, SSRM, AG, CDE all look great in terms of increasing sales and OCF’s.

Happy weekend everyone, hope everyone had a profitable week, I know I did.

AA

From 171 million X posts to simulated swing-state voters, Chinese institutions are mapping the American electorate in startling detail.

https://nataliegwinters.substack.com/p/exclusive-china-is-building-ai-models

But they nearly killed him! They rammed his moped into the bushes recklessly!

The boy is in hospital with broken bones in his palm and a fractured foot.

https://x.com/MyLordBebo/status/2089616966587670876

https://x.com/MyLordBebo/status/2089048459634434548

The situation is pretty bad, if we have MSM reporting on that.

https://x.com/MyLordBebo/status/2090521036286542098

There is a link to the media report in the comments — it’s not written in English

Earlier the same Swedish news was reporting in Ukraine and one of their team members got mobilized.

The Swedish news has a hard time pretending all is fine in Ukraine.

https://x.com/MyLordBebo/status/2090677405845184877

75 seconds

https://www.moneymetals.com/news/2026/08/20/india-gold-market-showing-signs-of-recovery-005152

Beware the gab between Promises and Reality!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iz3fzlpZ39Y