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Expect Higher Aluminum, Copper and Nickel Prices Due To US Sanctions

In another lame attempt at punishing Russia for trying to neutralize the globalist threat in Ukraine, the United States and Great Britain are limiting the trade of certain key metals from Russia, including aluminum, copper and nickel. From now on, no more of these Russian-origin metals will be imported into either the US or the UK, nor will any more of these Russian-origin metals appear on global exchanges.

Starting on April 13, 2024, the leading commodity exchanges – the London Metal Exchange (LME) and the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) – banned trade in Russian-origin metals, effectively cutting off the Western supply of these metals.

In a statement, US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen stated that the prohibitions "continue to target the revenue Russia can earn" to fund its special military operation in Ukraine. In response to the move, Moscow's ambassador to the US Anatoly Antonov called it an "unjustified and politicized step" that will, in time, backfire on the West, just like the earlier sanctions that ended up fortifying Russia's position of strength rather than damaging it.

Of-course the neo-con bureaucrats in Washington DC are denying prices will rise and everything is just fine, don't worry, don't be aware or be prepared for anything, just go back to watching Fox news or CNN goyim, nothing to see here. We all know, the same propaganda as usual. As with earlier US sanctions against Russia, Moscow is already working towards sidestepping the ban while diversifying its foreign trade, said Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov during a recent visit to China. Lavrov spoke of the "economic gaps" that will result from the "illegal policy of unilateral sanctions" during his visit. He also discussed with Wang Yi, his Chinese counterpart, plans for tackling them within the framework of BRICS and the Shanghai Cooperation Organization.

"Let the US sanction itself into complete isolation and oblivion," one commenter wrote about this truly stupid move by Yellen and her gang.

Americans Struggle As Radical Democrats Destroy And Plunder Their Cities

A new Census Bureau survey highlights the 15 largest US metro areas where residents face the most financial difficulties, almost all of which are under Democratic leadership. This comes as no surprise as issues of elevated inflation, high taxes, soaring violent crime, and a migrant crisis are spiraling out of control across many blue cities.

The survey asked 70,000 respondents between March 5 and April 1 in major metro areas about:

Difficulty paying for usual household expenses, food scarcity and the ability to pay energy bills.

The survey's findings are stark: Riverside, California; Houston, Texas; and Chicago, Illinois, are the top three metro areas with the most financial hardships. All three cities are under Democratic leadership. With the exception of Dallas (#4 on the list) and Miami (#6), the rest of the metro areas are under radical leftist control.

In addition to the Census Bureau, the latest Beige book from the Federal Reserve found that consumer spending "barely increased" amid weakness in discretionary spending. The consumer is a lot weaker than the White House makes everyone believe with needless propaganda pushed on social media and at press conferences.

Consumers are bearing the brunt of failed Bidenomics: reckless federal spending, disastrous green initiatives, and horrible foreign policy have created a toxic environment for consumers. And now inflation is on the rise.

This is what happens when one party rule takes over, and their job becomes how to keep their job. No longer by the people, for the people, and of the people.

This is what is coming to your city if you keep voting for democrats.

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Gold's Catapult Has Been Built, Silver's Is Next

The time has come to cite the many reasons why Gold has risen, and why Gold will continue to launch to much higher levels. The USGovt debt and USTreasury Bond default, in my opinion, deserve the lead factors along with powerful price inflation. These factors are not featured in the press. The Jackass has stated for the last five years, to impatient clients and frustrated colleagues, that the Gold price will not break above the $2000 mark with momentum in a sustained manner until the USGovt debt is widely perceived to be on a crash course toward default. WE ARE THERE, as even the prestigious St Louis Fed has publicly gone on record to call the USGovt debt as unsustainable.

Growing perception of USGovt debt default and USTreasury Bond default. The $34 trillion debt will never be repaid. The borrowing costs are over $1.2 trillion annualized.

Growing perception of monetized USGovt debt and monetized USTBond refunding. A severe shortage of foreign bond investors has become an acute problem.

Growing perception of constant status for higher price inflation. The actual CPI is at least 5% to 6% higher than reported.

Growing trend of grand wealth transfer, from USTreasurys to Gold in banking systems. This phenomenon is an historic factor, seen once per century.

Growing trend by bank depositors to remove funds from banking system, and to invest in the more stable Gold. Individual account holders are very worried.

Progress with BRICS nations in creating non-USD payment systems, which results in heavy volume of USTreasury Bond sales. They are all de-Dollarizing to remove risk.

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2024-04-19/golds-catapult-has-been-built-silvers-next

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Supercharged Spying Provision Buried In Terrifying FISA 702 Reauthorization

On Monday, the House finalized procedural business on a bill to reauthorize the nation's warrantless surveillance powers under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), which Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR) called "one of the most dramatic and terrifying expansions of government surveillance authority in history."

"Buried in the Section 702 reauthorization bill (RISAA) passed by the House on Friday is the biggest expansion of domestic surveillance since the Patriot Act. Senator Wyden calls this power “terrifying,” and he’s right," the thread begins.

I’ll explain how this new power works. Under current law, the government can compel “electronic communications service providers” that have direct access to communications to assist the NSA in conducting Section 702 surveillance. In practice, that means companies like Verizon and Google must turn over the communications of the targets of Section 702 surveillance. (The targets must be foreigners overseas, although the communications can—and do—include communications with Americans.) Through a seemingly innocuous change to the definition of “electronic communications surveillance provider,” an amendment offered by House intel committee (HPSCI) leaders and passed by the House vastly expands the universe of entities that can be compelled to assist the NSA.

If the bill becomes law, any company or individual that provides ANY service whatsoever may be forced to assist in NSA surveillance, as long as they have access to equipment on which communications are transmitted or stored—such as routers, servers, cell towers, etc. It also includes commercial landlords that rent out the office space where tens of millions of Americans go to work every day—offices of journalists, lawyers, nonprofits, financial advisors, health care providers, and more.

The amendment even extends to service providers who come into our homes. House cleaners, plumbers, people performing repairs, and IT services providers have access to laptops and routers inside our homes and could be forced to serve as surrogPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

US Fake 'Economy' Will Continue To Collapse As Lying Propagandists Will Tell You Everything Is Fine

One idea has become abundantly clear over the last four years: You can’t add 41% to the money supply and expect inflation to remain “transitory.” But that’s exactly what the Fed did over two years, after which President Biden picked up the ball in January 2021 and ran with it. The result has come to be known in the online media as “Bidenomics,” and it hasn’t worked out very well for most Americans. In fact, according to a Redfin survey, people are making major financial sacrifices just to live at a basic level. Economics Research Lead Chen Zhao said:

“Housing has become so financially burdensome in America that some families can no longer afford other essentials, including food and medical care, and have been forced to make major sacrifices, work overtime and ask others for money so they can cover their monthly costs.”

Even worse, some Americans have resorted to skipping meals just to afford their overly-inflated mortgage payments: “Nearly one in five homeowners and renters reported skipping meals to afford housing in Biden’s economy, according to a new survey conducted by Redfin. The median asking rental price increased from less than $1,700 when Biden took office in January 2021 to nearly $2,000 as of February, according to Redfin’s data.”

But it’s not just housing prices and mortgage payments that have apparently inflated out of control under the Biden regime. Grocery prices have become a heavy financial burden for many families, with prices overall rising over 40%. Some items cost 50-80% more today than four years ago. Headlines are often misleading. “Food inflation” would mean that food gets bigger. “Food price inflation” is what they’re really talking about. I doubt this article is trying to trick anyone with a New York Times-style inflation con, but words are important! The food did not inflate; food prices went up because the money supply inflated.

Think about this the next time you hear a talking head cheer because “Inflation is only 3.5% now!” But what those same talking hPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

Iran Just Gained Much Needed War Defense Intel On Israel, Jordan, US & UK

At 8:30 AM eastern US Time on Sunday, Israel's War Cabinet will convene a meeting in an Army Bunker, not its regular meeting place at the Prime Minister's Office.

The meeting will discuss an Israeli "response" to yesterday's Iran Response, to the April 1st attack by Israel upon the Iran Embassy Compound in Damascus, Syria.

President Joe Biden has reportedly told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, "The United States will NOT participate in any Israeli attack upon Iran."

According to several sources inside Israel, after being told that, Netanyahu "vetoed" a response plan previously approved by the War Cabinet.

As such, this morning's meeting will likely be very frustrating for the Israelis since they apparently can't get the United States to fight Iran for them.

Yesterday's launch of Drones, Cruise Missiles, and Ballistic missiles by Iran, marked the first time in history that Iran directly attacked Israel. It's never happened before.

This event has changed the Middle East, in many ways, forever.

First, the "awe" of Israeli military power, has been dimmed by Iran. While US, UK, and Israeli planes were able to down ALL drones launched by Iran, and Israel's "David's Sling" and "Arrow" missile defenses were able to down ALL cruise missiles fired by Iran, at least seven (7) Iranian BALLISTIC missiles, got thru and struck Israel.

Were the drones a distraction? Bait?

Looking back, it seems that's exactly what they were. By launching the drones, and announcing they had done so while those drones still needed another 57 minutes to arrive to targets, Iran baited the entire region to see who would do what. They found out, quite clearly.

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Second Big Insurance Carrier Excludes War Related Injuries From Insurance Coverage

Policyholders with The Cincinnati Insurance Companies are receiving notices about coverage changes pertaining to the threat of full-scale war.

Dr. Ben Tapper (@DrBenTapper1) shared an image on X – see below – showing policy changes that "include a war exclusion."

"Your Commercial Inland Marine Coverage will include a Nuclear, Biological, Chemical and Radiological Hazards Exclusion," the notice further reads.

Earlier this year, we warned that insurance companies were altering their policies to exclude coverage for injuries or sickness caused by war, rioting, insurrection: https://www.naturalnews.com/2024-02-06-health-insurance-exclude-coverage-sickness-war-insurrection.html

Though war exclusions are technically nothing new for insurance carriers, they do have ominous implications for what is soon expected.

In the spring of 1937 when German bombs fell on Guernica, Spain, flattening 70 percent of the town's buildings in less than three hours, property insurers were completely unprepared because they were not expecting such a thing to happen.

"They soon realized it wouldn't take many Guernicas to wipe out the balance sheets," CFC says. "They responded by adding exclusions to policies for acts of war – a move reflected in contracts to this day."

"This time the concern is cyber war – specifically, attacks so catastrophic that they cripple a nation’s ability to function," CFC says. "Lloyd's of London have mandated the exclusion of such scenarios from March 31st of this year. Some in the market are resisting the move."

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Drone Video Reveals Massive NYC Migrant Tent City Kept Secret By Democrats & Media

Democrats in New York City and their allies in leftist corporate state-run media are keeping a massive migrant shelter hidden from the public, located at a previously operational airfield in southern Brooklyn. This comes as the metro area has been flooded with upwards of 175,000 illegals in just a few short years.

According to a recent AFP News report, large white tents full of Central and South Americans, Africans, Chinese, and Russians are packed like cattle on one of the runways at Floyd Bennett Field. It's hard to say how many migrants are in the tent city, but some figures put it at nearly 2,000. Corporate State-run media has largely ignored this sprawling tent city of illegals. Only a handful of articles have been published about it over the last three months.

Forget legacy media outlets whose journalists are bought and sold by mega-corporations and heavily influenced by Washisngton's censorship-industrial complex because citizen journalists have revealed new footage of the migrant tent city. Twitter user Henry Facey's drone video of the tent city has been reposted by many on the free speech platform and has since gone viral: https://twitter.com/InfoUncensored

"This Is New Drone Footage Taken From The Floyd Bennet Field Illegal Migrant Camp, Marine Park, Brooklyn, New York City If not for citizen journalists you’d have no idea how massive these illegal immigrants centers are. This is The Great Replacement"

— Wall Street Apes (@WallStreetApes) March 20, 2024

https://twitter.com/WallStreetApes/status/1770565286720405819

A separate investigation by Facey shows another tent city in the metro area.

"WHY IS RANDALL’S ISLAND MIGRANT CENTER BEING HID FROM THE MEDIA?"

METEOR SMASHES INTO OCEAN NEAR MADAGASCAR, 80' WAVES REPORTED! MASS FLOODING TO HIT COASTAL AREAS!

An unexplained "anomaly" is now visible on Ventusky.com ocean monitoring system. A strange "burst" of 80 foot waves has emanated from Antarctica and is showing as moving north. I have never seen anything like this. Did a huge chunk of ice fall into the water causing a massive Tsunami? Did a Meteor Hit the ocean from space? Did some major earthquake take place that no one registered?

If the video below is correct, these 80 foot waves are now smashing into the southwest coast of the Africa Continent, and +20' tall waves will make it into the Atlantic ocean, to the USA and to Europe, within the next few days. The video below lays out the current situation. Beneath the video, this story continues with word I got BEFORE the April 8 eclipse, warning me there was an inbound meteor. I did *NOT* publish the story over credibility concerns. Here. Watch the video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TnmvjOHeJW8

Meteor headed for impact with earth. IMPACT near Madagascar on April 8, an object about the size of Camel Back Mountain in Arizona.

"Mean distance = 29.3018

Eccentricity = .98153

Inclination = 4.35684

Ascending node = 18.5295

Arg of pericentre = 94.1284

Mean anomaly = 305.16514

We call her "Maddy the Elly" (Interpreted by me as "Madagascar" Extinction Level Event") She’s coming and she’s BIG" I was also told: "They’re not going to announce until about 8 hrs before impact if the plan holds. That’s why they are worried about the millions of people in the eclipse viewing zones. Not because of their location but because of the mere fact they are away from their homes and those areas are going to be over stressed. Hence the national guard and prep talk."

The employer pays the player a salary.

(In truth, the employer is giving the wager to the gambler.)

The gambler ostensibly acts as interpreters for the players and manages their funds.But the gambler has real employers. the gambler operates for their real employers.

In short, behind the high annual salaries is a scheme to gamble with other people's money.The banks are in on it.

Make America Great Again!

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FLASH ALERT: Avoid All Travel To The Middle East!

The Foreign Ministry of Russia has issued a stark warning to its citizens: Avoid travel to Middle East.

The Russian Foreign Ministry strongly recommends that Russians refrain from traveling to the Middle East region, especially Israel, Lebanon and the Palestinian territories, unless absolutely necessary" Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova told media outlets.

Russia's warning its citizens to not travel to the Middle East is yet another indication of how unstable and dangerous the situation between Israel and Iran has become.

https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/en/component/content/article/official-warning-do-not-travel-to-israel?catid=17

UPDATE: International and local companies have suddenly cancelled flights to and from Iran tonight. Turkish mediation to prevent escalation was rejected by Tehran.

All active Iranian army units are on alert and all officers have been called to duty. All vacations have now been cancelled.

The Iranian Revolutionary Guard has canceled the leave of its members and stated it has "entered a state of war."

Iran has stopped all air traffic around Tehran from now until 05:00, local time.

https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/en/component/content/article/flash-iran-sudden-halt-to-tehran-air-traffic-until-5-00-am-local-time?catid=17

European Parliament Approves White Genocide, Plans To Flood Europe With Foreigners

The European Parliament has approved the controversial EU "Asylum and Migration Pact", which will see countries forced to accept their fair share of new arrivals into the bloc or pay a fine for every illegal 'migrant' they reject.

Nationalist politicians across Europe expressed their anger at the passing of the pact, which they claim cedes sovereignty to an ever-centralized European Union. “The Migration Pact organizes the tutelage and control of nations, the legal impunity of NGOs complicit with smugglers,” tweeted Marine Le Pen of France’s National Rally. She further vowed to “put an end to the accelerated pursuit of policies to encourage and organize mass immigration,” on June 9 at the EU elections in which her party is expected to win the most French seats.

In the parliamentary debate that preceded the vote, Le Pen’s party leader Jordan Bardella confirmed that those within the Identity and Democracy (ID) parliamentary group would be voting down the legislation. “Countries will be forced to welcome thousands of migrants into their towns and villages or pay dearly to be spared!” Bardella told the chamber, warning that Brussels wants to redistribute new arrivals while nationalist politicians want to “send them back.” After the vote, Bardella took to social media to denounce the “terrible European Migration Pact” that seeks to “impose the distribution of migrants in our municipalities under penalty of financial sanctions.”

Voting was briefly suspended on Wednesday evening due to a protest from inside the chamber from left-wing activists who urged those of their political persuasion to vote down the bill on humanitarian grounds.

“This Pact kills, vote ‘No!'” they chanted from the observation rooms as they threw paper airplanes down into the auditorium. Protesters disrupt the European Parliament chamber during a voting session on the Asylum and Migration Pact, throwing paper airplanes down on lawmakers and demanding the bill be rejected. pic.twitter.com/sL6c2vsLzr

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Hyperinflation Hits Alaska: Shocking New Grocery Prices!

$8 For Canned Food. $10 For Bread. $18 For Ketchup. $26 Potatoes. $27 For Water. $47 For Steak.

Video below from Alaska shows the prices people in Dillingham are being asked to pay for food.

https://htrs-special.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/Grocery+Shopping+in+Dillingham+Alaska+-+You+gotta+see+these+prices.+Coming+to+the+lower+48+soon.mp4

Is THIS what's coming to the lower 48 contiguous United States? Looks like a massive hyper-inflationary Great Depression is near!

Folks, remember, you have been warned this was coming for many years by real economists, historians and many survivors from other collapsed nations! You have been warned over and over again that governmental spending is out-of-control and financially insolvent! When Congress is spending One Trillion Dollars every 100 days to fund the "too big to fail" bloated waste-ridden bureaucracy that is a sign of third world national decay. You have been told to get yourselves and families prepared. I just hope you all have, for your sake.

https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/en/news-page/news-nation/grocery-shopping-alaska-10-loaf-of-bread-11-doritos-27-water

Europe Is Bypassing US Sanctions By Buying Russian LNG, LOL!

Russia’s liquefied natural gas (LNG) exports gained over 4% in the first quarter of this year as it increased output to replace sanctioned pipeline gas exports to Europe, Russia’s Kommersant newspaper reported on Monday.

Citing a 4.3% (8.7 million metric ton) increase in unsanctioned LNG exports in Q1 2024 based on data from Kpler, Kommersant.ru said exports to the European Union were rising, while those to Asia were declining. Russia’s LNG exports to Asia for the first quarter of the year saw a 7% decline, which was made up for by a 4% increase in exports to Europe, which received some 5 million tons of Russian LNG during that time period. The bulk of LNG production in Russia comes from the Yamal LNG project, run by Novatak, and the Sakhalin Energy project, run by Gazprom.

In late March, Moscow moved to sell Shell’s minority stake in the Sakhalin LNG project to state-run Gazprom for $1 billion. Initially, Moscow was planning to give the stake to Novatek in the wake of Shell’s move to abandon the project after Western regimes sanctioned Russia for its invasion of Ukraine. According to Russian newspaper Vedomosti, Novatek has deemed its participation in the Sakhalin project to have high legal risks.

The new data showing the rise in Russian LNG exports to the European Union indicates that Europe has replaced piped Russian gas from its eastern ports with Russian LNG at its western ports as the bloc becomes the biggest buyer of Russian LNG, clocking in half of all Russian LNG export volume this year so far, followed by China, which scooped up 21% as of February data.

Reuters data analysis in February also showed that the EU has replaced Russian piped gas flows with Russian LNG imported primarily to Spain, Belgium and France.

https://oilprice.com/Latest-Energy-News/World-News/More-Russian-LNG-Being-Exported-to-Europe-Than-Asia.html