Speaker Mike Johnson insists the US was only engaged in an “operation” and then Iran started the war…

https://x.com/Glenn_Diesen/status/2029310574840938674

30 seconds

 

EEwwww …. that’s a tough sell …. especially when your boss just demanded “Unconditional Surrender” as the ONLY option available to Iran ….   https://goldtadise.com/?p=691557

IRAN

PRESIDENT TRUMP ON IRAN: “Their army is gone. Their navy is gone. Their communications are gone. Their leaders are gone. Two sets of their leaders are gone. They’re down to their third set. Their Air Force is wiped out entirely. Think of it.”

“They have 32 ships. All 32 are at the bottom of the ocean!”

“And other than that, they’re doing very well!”

https://x.com/EricLDaugh/status/2030057114622730690

Will the Iran War Set Off a Recession?

PETER ST ONGE

https://www.profstonge.com/p/will-the-iran-war-set-off-a-recession?

Everybody Got Screwed:’ Prediction Market Kalshi Refuses to Pay Winnings on Trades Related to Khamenei’s Death Iranians mourn Ayatollah Khamanei

https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2026/03/06/everybody-got-screwed-prediction-market-kalshi-refuses-to-pay-winnings-on-trades-related-to-khameneis-death/?

Been pounding the table on this one…and it’s up again….

LG.V

Included in the list I provided earlier….you can tell when a stock is a leader.  On a modest day in the PM space, gold up modestly, and most gold and silver stocks just meandering around, it has a good day.  And the volume is up on a nice price increase as well.  Compared to GDX, this thing is killing it.  This sucker is relentless and is a near term producer, in the next year I believe.  Buy it on the dips….don’t forget.

Trump’s spiritual advisor and personal pastor, evangelist Paula White … who prayed with him yesterday in the white house says: “Saying no to Trump is saying NO to god”

She also declared the White House to be holy ground.

https://x.com/MyLordBebo/status/2029860273855811795

 

I predict — we’ll be seeing these videos over and over again during the midterms!

Background from comments — https://x.com/PrzemekShura/status/2029928895714127916

U.S. will not accept refugees from the Iran conflict!

Hegseth says there are enough countries in the region, that could take them.

https://x.com/MyLordBebo/status/2030010499098710344

15 seconds

US bombers land in UK for ‘the big one’: B1s that can carry 34 tonnes of bombs land at RAF base

US Air Force bombers capable of hitting enemies with up to 34 tonnes of explosives have touched down in the UK, suggesting that Donald Trump’s mega-attack on Iran that he dubbed the ‘big one’ is imminent.

A US B-1 aircraft was pictured arriving at RAF Fairford in Gloucestershire on Friday evening, where it is expected to be joined by more stealth bombers, including B-2s and B-52s. Earlier today, internet plane spotters noticed a fleet of B-1 aircraft travelling from the Dyess Air Force Base in Texas to RAF Fairford.

https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/world/us-bombers-land-in-uk-for-the-big-one-b1s-that-can-carry-34-tonnes-of-bombs-land-at-raf-base/ar-AA1XFAi2?

 

So some of these are precision bombers and the others carpet bombers — so is the objective to turn Tehran into Gaza? Video earlier this morning showed entire apartment buildings being imploded … will post if I can remember where I saw it…

Saudi Arabia Has Intensified Direct Line to Iran to Defuse War

Saudi Arabia has stepped up direct engagement with Iran to try and contain a war in the Middle East that is causing havoc and stressing global markets, according to several European officials.

In recent days, Saudi officials have deployed their diplomatic backchannel to Iran with greater urgency to de-escalate tensions and prevent the conflict from worsening, the officials said, asking not to be named discussing private and sensitive conversations. Several European and Middle Eastern nations are backing these efforts, according to these officials.

https://archive.is/3yHwI#selection-1477.0-1485.360

 

I have no idea why the rest of this article is blank………

You can buy me a beer another day…

1) Andean Silver. Restarting their Cerro Bayo mine (Chile) in Q1 2028. Fully permitted with a 1650 tpd mill that was producing 5M oz in 2022. They have 110M oz at 400 gpt AGEQ. Plus, the exploration potential is astonishing. They have 150 drill pads ready to install.

I liked the management team, which has a strong Aussie Team. They have strong insiders, but it might not be enough to fight off the sharks. This might be the most undervalued silver development story.

2) Cassiar Gold. They have pivoted to development, and are no longer an exploration company. They think their Taurus project (British Columbia) has 4M+ oz (currently 2.5M at a .35 cutoff). That is potentially 200K/yr production, although construction is at least 5 years away.

Their second project in the South has a high-grade 100K oz deposit at 20 gpt, with a permitted 300 tpd mill. It was already refurbished, and only needs another $5M to be ready. At 15 gpt, that is 45K/yr, which is around $100M/yr FCF. Its current FD mkt cap is $70M. If they can triple the size of this deposit, they can fund development in the North.

They have strong insiders, but the sharks will circle. This one is very cheap.

3) Rua Gold. Their first mine has 500K oz and is likely to reach 1M oz. They plan to mine 60K oz. Then they have several more similar past producing mines on their large Reefton property in New Zealand. All they have to do is drill down (the Oldtimers could only mine so deep). The first mine alone is worth 3x to 5x their current mkt cap. The key here is how easy it is to permit in New Zealand (currently only 18 months).

Strong insiders. I think they can fight off the sharks. Strong Aussie Team.

Potential 20+ Bagger at $6500 gold / $150 silver

 

Andean Silver (Production in Q1 2028).

Blue Lagoon Resources (New producer in Canada. Excellent production growth potential).

Cassiar Gold (Pivoting to development. Long-term development project).

Denarius Metals (Growing production in Colombia).

Lahontan Gold (Production likely in 2027).

Rua Gold (Production in H1 2028).

Silver One Resources (PFS due in 2026. Planning to build the mine).

Silver Tiger Metals (Production in 2027).

Spanish Mountain Gold (Construction planned for 2028. Planning to build the mine).

Potential 10+ Bagger at $6500 gold / $150 silver

 

1911 Gold (Production in 2027).

Avino Gold & Silver (Organic growth to 8M oz AGEQ).

McFarlane Lake Mining (5M oz in Ontario, growing to 7M to 10m. Mkt $60m).

Norsemont Mining (PEA due in 2026. Planning to build the mine).

Santacruz Silver (Adding 200 tpd at Soracaya in Q4 2026, then ramping up in 2028).

Scottie Resources (Production in 2028).

Silverco Mining (Production in 2026).

Silver Storm Mining (Production in 2026)

Talisker Resources (Production growth to 100K in 2028, and 200K by 2032).

Vista Gold (Construction-ready expected in 2027).

If you are bullish silver miners, I just added this play.

Buy SIL Call July 105’s, Sell SIL Call July 150’s

Max Gain 205%, break even 115.45, 13% above current price of 102.47

Debit spread: 10.30 to 10.60 ish.

Just put in $60 k order, profit potential $120 k.

Chart looking constructive, nice candle off the 50 day today.  Will exit on a 15% loss, 9 k.  Reward to risk 13 to 1.  By risking less than .2 % of my portfolio (risk), I can boost my portfolio by 4.5% potentially.

 

It Was All A Mirage: 2.5 Million Native-Born US Workers Were Just Revised Away

https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/it-was-all-mirage-25-million-native-born-us-workers-were-just-revised-away

“Most Dangerous Geopolitical Blitz Since Bretton Woods”: Trump Says Cuba’s Communist Regime Is Next To Fall

“We’ve got plenty of time, but Cuba’s ready,” President Trump told CNN in an interview on Friday morning. The president told CNN reporter Dana Bash that Havana will “fall pretty soon” and that he will “place Marco over there.”

Making sense of the world seemingly in a fiery mess is Graham Cooke, founder of Brava (brava.xyz), an automated stablecoin yield platform, who wrote on X, “Trump is running the most dangerous geopolitical blitz since Bretton Woods. And the endgame isn’t a trade war.”

Cooke continued, “There’s a theory circulating that Trump is running a far more ambitious play — one designed to collapse BRICS, force China’s hand, and lock in dollar dominance for decades.”

All of this comes before Trump heads to China later this month, holding multiple new leverage cards in one absolutely insane chess game to play in the midterm election cycle.

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/most-dangerous-geopolitical-blitz-bretton-woods-trump-says-cubas-communist-regime-next

Tehran Warns EU “Legitimate Target” If Joins War After Trump Says “No Deal” With Iran Except Under “Unconditional Surrender”

Ft. Bragg (Ft Liberty) cancels exercises, 82nd Airborne Division troops on standby???????.

Summary:

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/tehran-rocked-heaviest-bombardment-yet-iranian-missiles-israel-slow-pezeshkian-says

Exiled Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi says he has accepted role as Iran’s transitional leader.

https://x.com/BRICSinfo/status/2029969965692948662

4 1/2 minutes

 

Wonder who wrote his speech?

Video shows ship traffic moving through the Strait of Hormuz over the past 24 hours.

Excellent visual representation of the scores of ships anchored on either side of the peninsula that are unwilling to proceed due to the threat of being sunk.

It’s the two red blobs — on one either side. The one ship that did survive the trip is supposedly part of the Chinese Shadow Oil Tanker Fleet. There was another one yesterday – also Chinese. Other than these two it appears no captain is willing to risk ship & crew.

https://x.com/BRICSinfo/status/2029947405240598813

Oil

+16 % today. I posted the oil:gold charts a few days back again  and did not hear a peep from the tent, gold fever can be a bitch most of the time. Vancouver gas at the pump today. Truckers charge more, food go up, all to save some country from some Uranium that they don’t have. Those pesky Iraqis and their weapons of mass destruction went well from what I remember. How long before Lebanon a pile of bricks?

This is simply too funny not to post it –> To the children that thought it would be funny to hide bricks behind a Trump sign, I have already contacted the police.

What exactly was the goal here? A prank? A TikTok? You stacked bricks behind a yard sign where no one could see them and I ended up driving straight into it with my BRAND NEW Tesla Cybertruck.

Do you understand how expensive that front end is? This isn’t a Hot Wheels car from Walmart.

It’s not “just bricks.” It’s body damage. It’s repair bills. It’s time in a shop. It’s insurance headaches. All because someone thought it would be HILARIOUS to booby trap a political sign.

Play stupid games, win stupid prizes. Someone is going to pay for the damage, and it’s not going to be me. Absolutely ridiculous.

Pictures at this link………….

https://x.com/JB_Slear/status/2029965880738906343

“Bruh, You Were Calling For War With Iran A Month Ago”

In a stunning display of hypocrisy, neocon warmonger Bill Kristol is now trashing the Trump administration’s strikes on Iran—dubbed “Epic Fury”—despite agitating for military action against the regime for the past 25 years.

Kristol has spent years pushing to thwart Iran’s nuclear ambitions, and was even still doing so in January, only to pivot into full sabotage mode now that Trump has pulled the trigger.

Whether you’re for or against this military action, or waiting to see how it all pans out, we can all agree that Kristol is the most odious TDS-infected worm of a man.

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/bruh-you-were-calling-war-iran-month-ago

BlackRock’s $26 Billion Private Credit Fund Limits Withdrawals – March 6, 2026

The firm’s $26 billion HPS Corporate Lending Fund, one of the industry’s largest non-traded business development companies, said shareholders requested 9.3% of their shares, but management decided to cap the repurchase at 5%, the company said in a statement on Friday. The total amount of shares would have been around $1.2 billion, according to Bloomberg calculations. The firm said the step is in line with its existing management of liquidity for the fund and a “foundational” feature of the fund.

https://archive.is/NHZjj#selection-1519.0-1527.130

 

Not giving 4.3% of your clients their money back is not a good look. Reminds me of the new bank “bail in ptogram” whereby your account is confiscated because they need the cash elsewhere to prop up the institution. The “spins” will be different but in both cases the depositor doesn’t get access to his own money. (rules conveniently changed over past decade so that legally it’s the banks money not the account holders – am sure everyone already knows this).

Qatar’s energy minister has warned that war in the Middle East could ‘bring down the economies of the world

Predicting that all Gulf energy exporters would shut down production within weeks and drive oil to $150 a barrel.

FINANCIAL TIMES – PAYWALLED — https://www.ft.com/content/be122b17-e667-478d-be19-89d605e978ea

FROM COMMENTS

  • Qatar’s energy minister just dropped a nuke: full Gulf shutdown in weeks if this war drags on ? oil to $150+, global economies crashing. Force majeure across the board, Strait of Hormuz choked. This isn’t hype, it’s from the source. (Even if fighting stops tomorrow, Qatar says months to normalize LNG after that Iranian drone hit.)
  • Qatar’s Energy Minister. FT Exclusive.
    Not just “$150 oil.”
    “Bring down the economies of the world.”
    The specific warning:
    ALL Gulf energy exporters shut down.
    Within weeks.
    If conflict continues.
    Not Hormuz alone.
    Not Qatar LNG alone.
    Every Gulf producer. Simultaneously.
    Saudi
  • The Ras Laffan disruption is probably the most critical variable here, not only because of Qatar’s LNG share (~20% of global trade), but because the market has very limited short-term replacement capacity.
  • “Who gave you the authority to drag our region into a war with Iran? Who gave you permission to turn our region into a battlefield?” https://x.com/MarioNawfal/status/2029618927110918235

Mullin DESTROYS Democrat Hypocrisy on Iran: “Obama dropped 26,000 bombs in 2016!”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=80H3NaXiuRo

5 1/2 minutes

 

Section on Canada at the very end …….

The Rockets Red Glare

“If you are feeling dumb today, just remember, there are real people who believe Iran is winning.”

j h kunstler

https://www.kunstler.com/p/the-rockets-red-glare?

Jobs Shock: US Lost 92K Payrolls In February, Far Below Lowest Estimate, As Unemployment Rate Rises

In our nonfarm payrolls preview, we quoted JPMorgan’s Market Intel desk which said that “for this print, the stronger the better”, which by implication means that a poor number would be bad. By that logic, the payrolls report couldn’t be any worse…

https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/jobs-shock-us-lost-92k-payrolls-february-unemployment-rate-rises

Oil Explodes To 29-Month Highs After Trump Says “No Deal” With Iran Except Under “Unconditional Surrender”

Importantly, President Trump Friday morning has made clear in a Truth Social post that there will be “no deal” except under “unconditional surrender”. He also asserted that after this, Iran can “select a great, acceptable leader” with his help and approval. “There will be no deal with Iran except UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER! After that, and the selection of a GREAT & ACCEPTABLE Leader(s), we, and many of our wonderful and very brave allies and partners,” he stated. And following this CNN cited both Trump and Hegseth to say they rate the war at “12 or 15 out of 10.” The president also sees gasoline prices going down “very quickly” – per CNN.

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/tehran-rocked-heaviest-bombardment-yet-iranian-missiles-israel-slow-pezeshkian-says

Oil

popped 13% so far, most oil stocks quiet all week, pain at the pump, food should go up more with the trucking.  People cheer as they go broke….for how long tho

CONTRARY TO REPORTS EARLIER ..THE NEW IRANIAN “LEADER” HAS NOT BEEN CHOSEN

AN IRANIAN MP SAYS A NEW SUPREME LEADER COULD BE ANNOUNCED WITHIN THE NEXT TWO DAYS. || MOHSEN ZANGANEH SAID THE FINAL SHORTLIST REPORTEDLY INCLUDES TWO CANDIDATES, BOTH OF WHOM ARE CURRENTLY RELUCTANT TO ACCEPT THE POSITION – IRANIAN CHANNELS

https://x.com/FirstSquawk/status/2029867979891220620

Breaking: This morning 50 Israeli planes dropped 100 bombs on an underground bunker in the leadership compound of Tehran, reportedly eliminating all the top remaining leadership of the regime

https://x.com/DrEliDavid/status/2029903220206706924

GROC IS THIS TRUE ?

Yes, verified. IDF reports ~50 fighter jets dropped ~100 bombs on an underground bunker beneath Iran’s leadership compound in Tehran this morning, targeting a fortified command site linked to the regime. Multiple outlets (Times of Israel, Guardian, Calcalist, Times of India) confirm the strike. The videos match the released footage of the operation. Details on exact casualties still emerging.

BABYLON BEE IS THIS TRUE ?

https://x.com/FirstSquawk/status/2029867979891220620

COCKY CONFIDANT BASTARD

Anthropic and the politics of AI

https://x.com/onechancefreedm/status/2029912997020287266 EGM

BREAKING: Iran has just been decimated overnight

by the U.S. and Israel, MASSIVE setbacks are being reported to Iran’s missile and air defense capabilities

Within one week, the regime is almost UNRECOGNIZABLE!

https://x.com/EkpuduS/status/2029912985431396761

Grok is this true ?

@grok
·
22m
The claim is largely accurate based on multiple reports.

US & Israel have been striking Iran since Feb 28 in “Operation Epic Fury,” with heavy overnight attacks on Tehran & missile sites as of March 5-6 (day 7). IDF says hundreds of launchers hit, 300+ rendered inoperable, near air superiority achieved. Khamenei killed early on; regime leadership decimated, now under interim council. Iran retaliating but weakened.

Trump calls it “decimated.” Not “unrecognizable” yet, but major setbacks confirmed (CNN, Al Jazeera, IDF).

Fog ……IT’S SENSIBLE TO HAVE MIXED FEELINGS ABOUT THE U.S. LAUNCHING INTO KINETIC WARFARE BUT IT’S HARD TO REMAIN SENSIBLE AMID ALL OF THE PSYOPS

IMPORTANT PIECE HERE……from Forbidden news Substack

Read the Text first….then decide if you want to watch to the 1/2 hour video ( Luongo )

If this is true it explains EVERYTHING

https://forbiddennews.substack.com/p/fog?

Major Important Confirm The Bottom Likely In

In an unusual move, the CME is CUTTING Gold & Silver margins, effective AFTER today’s close.  They went to the well too many times, to bail out the shorts and now, not only has much of the physical gold & silver left the Comex, but open interest in both metals has been plunging.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            Participants are abandoning that venue and so the CME is forced to reverse their policy of continuous margin hikes.  Six straight hikes with the last one just this past Tuesday, largely contributing to that day’s crash and leading to the called for bottom.  The six increases flushed out as many leveraged longs as possible and now this reversal to a CUT is to protect the remaining shorts by making it easier for them to finance those short positions.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           Therefore, it doesn’t necessarily mean the metals will immediately resume the previous advance, it just likely confirms the downside pressure has

Yes, the CME Group announced a decrease in initial margins for COMEX 5000 Silver Futures from 18% to 14%, with the changes expected to take effect for the close of trading on March 5, 2026. This follows a period of multiple margin hikes for precious metals in February 2026 due to extreme volatility.