They waited until you were asleep to fire their biggest weapon. Last night, the CME Group raised margin requirements on silver futures by 50%—a “Nuclear Option” designed to flush out speculators and crash the price. In 2011, this exact move caused a 30% collapse. But today, Friday, December 12, 2025, the price of silver barely flinched. The “Margin Nuke” has failed.
In this video, we investigate the “Friday Showdown” and expose the desperation of the bullion banks. We break down the mechanics of a margin hike and why the “Smart Money” (Industrial Whales like Tesla and Samsung) used this artificial dip to buy millions of ounces in the “Shadow Order Book.”
We analyze the historical parallel to the May 2011 crash and explain why “Pattern Recognition” is tricking retail traders into selling right before the massive squeeze. We also cover the “Regulatory Endgame”—including potential “Liquidation Only” orders—and why the disconnect between the paper price and the physical reality is about to cause a massive “Gap Up” when Asian markets open on Sunday night.
The banks fired their silver bullet. They missed. Do not fall for the Bear Trap.
I would argue that China is also becoming a military superpower. We covered this in depth in Containing China is Becoming Untenable.
Russia is also re-emerging as a major power. I wouldn’t necessarily qualify them as a superpower, not economically anyway. But when it comes to military might, they punch above their weight.
The rise of China, and to a lesser extent Russia, has ended America’s title as sole superpower. (This fellow is ignoring economics. China and the US are both near economic collapse. The US will only be a superpower until we lose a war against Venezuela or Yemen or the Dollar Dies some time in 2026. Russia can survive. In fact Russia could hasten our demise by giving better missiles to Venezuela.)
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/birthing-pains-multipolar-world
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The announcement came: $700 million allocated toward regenerative agriculture.
Years of pushing, educating, farming, and speaking have forced the mainstream to acknowledge that regenerative agriculture exists and that what many of us have been saying for years is not fringe, not experimental, and not untested. It is rooted in biological reality.
(I would like to build a survival community. Homes built as Faraday cages to shield us from 5G and other electromagnetic waves. Climate battery greenhouses to raise food. Alternative health practices to prevent disease. All in a location off the beaten track. I expect severely, hard times. I have since my childhood known for certain at at some point towards the end of my life at least half the population of the world would die. )
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/regenerative-farming-just-went-mainstream-heres-why-it-matters
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They’re just giving eight-year commercial driver’s licenses to people who are coming through their DMV and sending them out on American roadways.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/dot-finds-half-ny-commercial-drivers-are-illegals-threatens-pull-73-million-federal
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