SILVER is one of the most leveraged commodities there is and right now there is a mad rush for physical SILVER instead of paper. This massive demand is happening worldwide. They are gobbling up all the supply available because they understand this is the end of the fiat currency experiment that started August 15 of 1971. Fiats are collapsing. This is the Hunt brothers on steroids because you have the entire world buying physical.
The Hunt brothers got into trouble because they were buying paper contracts, and COMEX changed the rules. COMEX can change any rules they want. It won’t matter because the rest of the world is buying cash and carry. They will not accept paper contracts. They want real physical metal.
Here is where it gets both interesting and dangerous. What happens if the short sellers cannot deliver the silver promised? People say if they can’t deliver, and I am going to tell you at some point they will not be able to deliver, when that moment happens, it’s game over for the entire financial system. Silver, and I believe it will be silver that fails to deliver, silver is the blasting cap to the gold nuclear bomb. When silver fails to deliver, then immediately there will be a pile into COMEX gold, and they will not be able to deliver the gold.
Once that happens, you have failures of contracts that are proven fraudulent. They are zeroed out and cannot perform. Then it spreads to cattle, pork bellies, grains and you name it. This is not to mention the financials of stocks and bonds. Once you prove fraud in silver, that’s going to spread to all the derivatives, and we will have a derivative meltdown.
The world wants gold and silver because those are the only two monies that cannot default.”
What you are seeing in the gold and silver markets now is far from a top. This is just getting started. Behind the scenes is a gigantic leveraged derivatives market that is blowing up. It will bring down the entire system, so that we can move back to a system of honest money, that is decentralized and the people have the power.
That derivatives time bomb is exploding and the short sellers, who have suppressed and manipulated the SILVER price for many years, are about to trigger the implosion of the entire crooked derivatives market. That’s a good thing.
These contracts are a zero-sum game. There is a winner and a loser. If the loser loses so big that they go belly up, then the winner becomes a loser because they can’t get paid. That is the problem. When this actually hits and there is a failure to deliver, gold and silver will be wiped off the shelves, and there will be none to be bought. This will be a run for safety, and fear is the greatest emotion there is. Fear is a far greater emotion than greed.
This is going to turn into a reverse bank run into gold and into silver because they cannot default in a world that is defaulting. What you are witnessing is the end of trust. When you have the end of trust, the confidence breaks and credit is forthcoming only when there is trust. Once confidence breaks, the credit markets will begin to seize up. When credit stops, it’s game over. You will see markets, institutions and stores shutter.”
reposted from Missy White Mason
Any followers if Chad Jackson?
I have a song on Spotify called “Black Culture Epiphany.”
Overall, the reception has been fairly positive, but I’ve also received some revealing criticism. A few commenters( conservatives I presume) have argued that what I’m describing isn’t actually black culture, but rather “redneck culture.” They typically cite Thomas Sowell’s Black Rednecks and White Liberals as evidence.
I have a few thoughts on that.
First, when I read Sowell’s book years ago, my immediate reaction was, “Great, here’s another framework that will eventually be used, even by so-called ‘black conservatives,’ to deflect the need for personal and cultural responsibility by outsourcing black pathology to southern whites.”
Unfortunately, that prediction has largely proven correct. Any time discussions about personal responsibility or cultural reform arise in black conservative spaces, that book inevitably comes up; often not as a tool for understanding history, but as a rhetorical shield against accountability.
I think the book is informative and valuable in a narrow, historical sense (in the same way I hope that people would view my work on MLK and the civil rights movement). But it is frequently wielded in ways that are intellectually lazy and practically unhelpful.
Second, I find it peculiar how routinely southern whites are treated as society’s universal scapegoat. Northern elites historically painted them as the face of American racism; modern politicians from both parties go out of their way to distance themselves from anything resembling southern heritage; popular media caricatures them as uneducated, backward, and morally suspect. They exist in a strange cultural position where nearly everyone feels comfortable speaking about them (usually dismissively or contemptuously) yet it is socially unacceptable for them to speak for themselves or push back without ridicule. Meanwhile, the red carpet is rolled out for blacks who either promote the pathological edicts of the culture, or peddle the victim narrative.
Third, even if we grant, purely for the sake of argument, that certain behaviors associated with modern black culture have historical roots in so-called “redneck culture,” what difference does that actually make?
Cultures are defined not just by their origins, but by what they choose to preserve, amplify, and celebrate. Whatever the source, contemporary black popular culture has not merely inherited certain pathologies, it has often doubled down on them. This is a break from the genuine strides that were made by blacks in the early to mid 20th century which I have covered at length.
I’ve seen raunchy country music videos, but I’ve seen far more rap videos that are exponentially more explicit, nihilistic, and degrading. Kid Rock, a self-described redneck, has performed at political rallies largely with pro-America, patriotic material. Meanwhile, artists like GloRilla have performed overtly sexual songs on national political stages.
The BET Awards proudly brands itself as “The Culture’s Biggest Night,” yet routinely showcases material that glorifies promiscuity, substance abuse, violence, and self-destruction. And statistically speaking, predominantly black urban centers experience significantly higher rates of violent crime than low-income white southern towns. The list could go on.
To be clear, this is not an attempt to give anyone of any ethnicity a pass for degeneracy or cultural dysfunction. No group has a monopoly on virtue or vice. Nor is this an argument rooted in racial superiority, nostalgia, or selective outrage. Cultures across the board are struggling in different ways, especially in an era of moral relativism and institutional decay.
My point is simpler and harder to evade; the flourishing of individuals and communities begins with personal responsibility, not with endlessly tracing blame outward or backward.
I wrote “Black Culture Epiphany” to express that I have long rejected identification with the pathological, regressive behaviors that are routinely marketed and defended as “black culture.” And as a Christian, my ultimate identity is not racial, political, or cultural, it is in Christ alone.
That identity governs how I think, how I live, and how I move through the world. And I’m unwilling to subordinate that to any cultural narrative, no matter how loudly it is defended, or by whom.
