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Pat Flood (@rebarcock) passed away 9/21/25. Pat played a huge role in encouraging the devolopmemt of this site and donated the very first dollar to get it started. Check the thread at the top of the board for the obituary and please feel free to pay your respects there. I am going to get all the content from that thread over to his family so they can see how many people really cared for Pat outside of what they ever knew. Pat loved to tell stories and always wanted everyone else to tell stories. I think a great way we can honor Pat is to tell a story in his thread (also pinned at the top of the board).
Master Thread Dance Your Cares Away/Fraggle/Law Abiding Citizens
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Mayor of New York City . . . but, yeah.
Another conspiracy theory proved true about LAC coming to late
Harry S. Truman gutted the White House in 1948.
Teddy Roosevelt built the West Wing.
FDR built a swimming pool when he added the East Wing.
Obama added a basketball court.
Nixon built a bowling alley.
Last year it is reported the government rented several large tents for large gatherings costing over a $1 million. All of the items were paid by tax dollars
Trump is adding a ballroom paid for by private donations.
Teddy Roosevelt built the West Wing.
FDR built a swimming pool when he added the East Wing.
Obama added a basketball court.
Nixon built a bowling alley.
Last year it is reported the government rented several large tents for large gatherings costing over a $1 million. All of the items were paid by tax dollars
Trump is adding a ballroom paid for by private donations.
Goldhedge
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Goldhedge
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This morning, FBI Milwaukee executed a major violent gang takedown called "Operation Chalkline" utilizing 14 SWAT teams in Milwaukee and Racine.
FBI Milwaukee special agents and task force officers (TFO) arrested 22 subjects on federal charges and executed 24 federal search warrants alongside local, state, and federal partners.
Among the items seized in the investigation:
More than 4 Kilograms of Cocaine 260 Grams of Fentanyl 1.5 Pounds of Methamphetamines 6 pounds of marijuana 23 Firearms 3 vehiclesThe investigation was led by a Mount Pleasant Police Department TFO as part of the FBI Milwaukee Area Safe Streets Task Force which included TFOs from the Caledonia Police Department, Mount Pleasant Police Department, Racine County Sheriff’s Office, and Racine Police Department.
Additional local, state, and federal law enforcement partners assisted in the operation which included the Cudahy Police Department, Milwaukee County Sheriff’s Office, Milwaukee Police Department, Oak Creek Police Department, West Allis Police Department, Wisconsin Department of Justice – Division of Criminal Investigation, Wisconsin State Patrol, ATF, DEA, FBI, HSI, and the U.S. Marshals Service.
FBI Milwaukee continues to prioritize crushing violent crime together with our law enforcement partners to ensure public safety and security in Milwaukee, Racine, and throughout the state of Wisconsin.
Goldhedge
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The EU will collapse
Economist and forecaster Martin Armstrong (ArmstrongEconomics) joins Natural Resource Stocks to break down capital flows, the EU’s structural flaws, banking risk, and why his war and euro models are flashing a panic cycle next year. We dig into sanctions blowback, BRICS, gold as geopolitical insurance, and his provocative peace-and-industry proposal around rare earths.
Key Topics:• AI froth vs. “flight-to-safety” bid into the Dow during geopolitical risk.• Why the EU’s failure to consolidate debt dooms its bond market plumbing.
• How member-level debt holdings create contagion across EU banks.
• Germany’s energy shock, EV mandates, and shrinking industrial base.
• Migration shocks + recession = rising civil unrest.
• Gold moves on geopolitics more than CPI; central bank buying logic.
• Sanctions, SWIFT removal, and why that catalyzed BRICS realignment.
• 2026 “panic” risk in war and the euro.
• A rare-earths JV peace gambit: US capital + Russian know-how.
Chapters
00:00 Intro: “watching the world go insane”
00:58 Markets: AI bubble vs. safety flows into Dow
06:24 Will the EU collapse? Debt consolidation failure & banking risk
09:33 Germany’s policy spiral: energy, EVs, and jobs
12:03 Migration in downturns → unrest dynamics
20:57 US banks, gold’s geopolitics, and capital flows
24:37 SWIFT, sanctions, and the BRICS response
26:42 NATO talk, EU choices: war distraction vs. reckoning
27:53 Pensions, negative rates, and policy traps
33:45 Models: global conflict risk next year
38:12 Year-end into 2026: “panic” cycles in war and euro
41:20 Ukraine–NATO–EU political pressure anecdotes
42:58 Capital controls creeping across EU states
44:07 A peace plan brief for Washington (rare earths focus)
54:50 Where to read the proposal (ArmstrongEconomics)
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Martin Armstrong: EU On the Brink, War Risk Next Year
Recorded on October 22, 2025.Economist and forecaster Martin Armstrong (ArmstrongEconomics) joins Natural Resource Stocks to break down capital flows, the EU’s structural flaws, banking risk, and why his war and euro models are flashing a panic cycle next year. We dig into sanctions blowback, BRICS, gold as geopolitical insurance, and his provocative peace-and-industry proposal around rare earths.
Key Topics:• AI froth vs. “flight-to-safety” bid into the Dow during geopolitical risk.• Why the EU’s failure to consolidate debt dooms its bond market plumbing.
• How member-level debt holdings create contagion across EU banks.
• Germany’s energy shock, EV mandates, and shrinking industrial base.
• Migration shocks + recession = rising civil unrest.
• Gold moves on geopolitics more than CPI; central bank buying logic.
• Sanctions, SWIFT removal, and why that catalyzed BRICS realignment.
• 2026 “panic” risk in war and the euro.
• A rare-earths JV peace gambit: US capital + Russian know-how.
Chapters
00:00 Intro: “watching the world go insane”
00:58 Markets: AI bubble vs. safety flows into Dow
06:24 Will the EU collapse? Debt consolidation failure & banking risk
09:33 Germany’s policy spiral: energy, EVs, and jobs
12:03 Migration in downturns → unrest dynamics
20:57 US banks, gold’s geopolitics, and capital flows
24:37 SWIFT, sanctions, and the BRICS response
26:42 NATO talk, EU choices: war distraction vs. reckoning
27:53 Pensions, negative rates, and policy traps
33:45 Models: global conflict risk next year
38:12 Year-end into 2026: “panic” cycles in war and euro
41:20 Ukraine–NATO–EU political pressure anecdotes
42:58 Capital controls creeping across EU states
44:07 A peace plan brief for Washington (rare earths focus)
54:50 Where to read the proposal (ArmstrongEconomics)
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