NEW: National Guard has officially been deployed to New Orleans, Louisiana. Seen on Bourbon Street in French Quarter.

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CME raise margins on a major commodity by 30% overnight...

for the second time in a single week.

Look at the document attached (Notice #25-399).

Effective tomorrow, December 31st:

– Silver: Maintenance Margin hiked from $25,000 to $32,500 (+30%)
– Platinum: Hiked +25%
– Palladium: Hiked +22%

When the Exchange hikes margins this aggressively, they aren't "managing risk."

THEY ARE FORCING LIQUIDATION.

By jacking up the capital requirements by $7,500 per contract overnight, they are forcing the "Longs" to sell their positions just to stay solvent.

This is designed to kill upward momentum. It is a manufactured sell-off.

With Physical Silver trading at $95.05 in Dubai (real price) vs the suppressed Paper Price on COMEX, the banks are facing a margin call that would bankrupt them instantly.

The Exchange is stepping in to save the "House." They are making it impossibly expensive for you to hold Long contracts, effectively bailing out the naked shorts.

Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake Just Played On Russia's Doomsday Shortwave Radio Station

X users are reporting that a mysterious Russian shortwave radio signal, nicknamed "The Buzzer" and informally known as the "doomsday radio station," that has been continuously broadcasting since the late 1970s, has just transmitted the classical piece Swan Lake by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky.

UVB-76 is transmitted on 4625 kHz and is occasionally interrupted by Russian voice messages, often containing names, numbers, or coded phrases. These voice messages are rare, irregular, and often nonsensical, making the transmission of Swan Lake highly abnormal.

Western military analysts associate UVB-76 with Russia's military communications and strategic command infrastructure. It reportedly remains operational as a fail-safe in the event that satellites, fiber, or cellular networks are disrupted.

The broadcasting of Swan Lake, a four-act ballet composed by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky and premiered in 1877 in Moscow, on UVB-76 could be interpreted as a mistake or operator error, a test transmission, accidental audio bleed from equipment at the transmitter site, or even signal hijacking.

Earlier, Russia showcased the deployment of its nuclear-capable hypersonic Oreshnik missile system in its close ally, Belarus.

Fun fact, Swan Lake was repeatedly broadcast across Soviet state television during the August Coup in August 1991.

European outlet NEXTA asked, "So how should we interpret the latest transmission? A soundtrack for the flight of the Oreshnik?"

https://www.zerohedge.com/military/swan-lake-just-played-russias-doomsday-shortwave-radio-station

Freemasons are seeking an emergency injunction from the High Court to block a new Metropolitan Police policy that would require them to disclose their membership in the organization.

They have filed legal papers in London, arguing the policy amounts to “religious discrimination” against Freemasons.

Police officials say anyone who is, or has been, part of a hierarchical organization that requires members to support and protect one another must declare it.

I was reminded of this…

Massive FDA recall list of OTC items, supplements otc meds etc due to possible contamination with rat feces and urine.

Because Israel wants to build a military base there to counter Iran 🤡

https://x.com/rt_com/status/2005331221635899576?s=46&t=PbD1KD2K2hvlXAmFc3osDg

We are removing the National Guard from Chicago, Los Angeles, and Portland, despite the fact that CRIME has been greatly reduced by having these great Patriots in those cities, and ONLY by that fact. Portland, Los Angeles, and Chicago were GONE if it weren’t for the Federal Government stepping in. We will come back, perhaps in a much different and stronger form, when crime begins to soar again - Only a question of time! It is hard to believe that these Democrat Mayors and Governors, all of whom are greatly incompetent, would want us to leave, especially considering the great progress that has been made???

~ President DJT

WASHINGTON STATE — Independent journalists are visiting addresses listed as Somali-run daycares that received hundreds of thousands of dollars in taxpayer funding, only to find private homes valued around $500,000 with zero evidence of daycares.