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APMEX https://www.apmex.com Bitcoin https://www.bitcoin.com/
Prices pulled last evening. Gold $4,317.20. Silver $62.20. Bitcoin $90,323.
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American Stories. (A series)
The White House Salute to America 250 Task Force has partnered with Hillsdale College to provide a history series that tells the remarkable story of American Independence.
It will highlight the stories of the crucial characters and events that resulted in a small rag-tag army defeating the mightiest empire in the world and establishing the greatest republic ever to exist.
This is the story of America. This is our shared heritage and our proud destiny that will continue to lead us to unimaginable achievements in the centuries to come.
https://www.whitehouse.gov/america250
The Story of America: The Declaration of Independence
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Articles.
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Musk…out performing as usual. Cracking up here…
Elon Musk Confirms that SpaceX Is Headed for an IPO that Could Make Him an ‘Instant Trillionaire’
Elon Musk has confirmed reports that SpaceX is planning an IPO in 2026. Musk’s space exploration company could hit the market at a valuation above a trillion dollars, allowing individual investors to buy into his dreams of Mars while also massively increasing his personal fortune.
CNBC reports that tech tycoon Elon Musk has verified reports that his space exploration company is gearing up for an initial public offering (IPO) in 2026. Musk’s confirmation came in response to an article by Eric Berger from Ars Technica, which delved into the reasons behind the timing of the IPO and the role played by the rise of artificial intelligence and space-based data center opportunities.
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Just for fun…
Killing the penny was just the start. Trump is rewriting the rules on America’s coins
The next signs of the nation’s political divide might be jingling in your pocket next year.
- The administration plans to issue a $1 coin with President Donald Trump’s likeness on it next year, despite a century-old precedent of not honoring sitting, or even living former, presidents on coins.
- Instead of quarters honoring the abolition of slavery, granting women the right to vote and the Civil Rights movement, the Treasury will instead issue historical quarters featuring white men from the 18th and 19th centuries who were already well represented on currency and in historical tributes.
The new coins, coming after the administration stopped issuing new pennies earlier this year, underscore Trump’s drive to put his own stamp on the presidency far beyond the confines of the White House – whether it’s by putting his own face and name on US institutions or by pulling back on diversity efforts to reframe the story of America itself.
The US Mint on Thursday released the final coin designs for historical quarters celebrating the country’s 250th birthday next year. Rather than the fight against slavery or giving women the vote, the designs primarily honored a more homogeneous view of US history: George Washington for the Revolutionary War, Thomas Jefferson and the Declaration of Independence, James Madison and the Constitution, Abraham Lincoln and the Gettysburg Address, as well as pilgrims to celebrate the Mayflower Compact.
“The designs on these historic coins depict the story of America’s journey toward a ‘more perfect union,’ and celebrate America’s defining ideals of liberty,” said Kristie McNally, the acting director of the Mint, in a statement.
The US Mint told CNN on Friday that instead of the previously recommended tribute quarters to abolition, suffrage and the Civil Rights movement, the new designs celebrate “American history and the founding of our great nation.”
The Trump dollar
The controversial Trump dollar coin is also part of Treasury’s plan to mark America’s 250th birthday.
The US Mint issued three different proposed coins Thursday with different likenesses of Trump, including one resembling his famous mug shot from 2023. Designs for the back include different versions of the American eagle.
A previously released version of coin would have also featured Trump on the back, raising his fist after an assassination attempt last year. However, US law prohibits images of living people on the backs of coins. The US Mint told CNN there is no such restriction on the front of coins, though it’s been US law since 1866 that living people can’t be on paper currency.
Still, Trump’s coin will only be the second time a US coin features a living president. The first was a half-dollar coin with both George Washington and then-President Calvin Coolidge issued in 1926 to mark the country’s 150th anniversary.
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https://www.cnn.com/2025/12/12/business/trump-changes-coins-policy
^^^ Yes, I’ll buy a roll of Trump dollars, to keep. AND carry more Trump dollars. Frequently use them as conversation starters. Much like wearing a Trump hat, t-shirt… ^^^
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EU – U N E L E C T E D Thugs AND War Mongering L U N A T I C S.
FIRST this one….
EU Elites in Panic Mode: Threaten Belgium with Bankruptcy Over Refusal to Rob Russian Assets – De Wever Stands Firm Against Brussels’ Madcap Scheme!
The crumbling edifice of the European Union (EU) is showing its true colors, and it’s uglier than a Brussels bureaucrat’s expense report.
In a stunning display of tyrannical overreach, the EU’s unelected overlords are now threatening Belgium’s newly minted Prime Minister Bart De Wever with financial Armageddon simply because he refuses to play along with their insane plot to steal $200 billion in frozen Russian assets.
Yes, you read that right: STEAL. Like common thieves in the night, targeting a sovereign central bank’s holdings parked safely in Belgium’s Euroclear system. This isn’t just policy wonkery; it’s a full-throated assault on national sovereignty, international law, and basic common sense.
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NATO Leader Mark Rutte Urges Europe to Prepare For ‘Widespread Suffering’ and WW3 With Russia Within Five Years (VIDEO)
NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte is urging member states to prepare for World War III with Russia and its dictator, Vladimir Putin.
During a speech in Berlin on Thursday, the former Dutch prime minister said that “dark forces of oppression are on the march again” and that Europe is facing a “scale of war our grandparents or great-grandparents endured.”
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American Thinker
The Internet Archive must not be our only resource to access the past
These days, we’re heading for an infotainment implosion. Even though we have all the world’s knowledge at our fingertips, many fail to grasp its meaning and importance, much less read past the headline and, at best, the first paragraph. Meanwhile, we’re letting machines do our thinking for us.
Glenn Beck’s new A.I. project is meant to get ahead of the curve, and it’s laudable in all its goals. But there is also a vital function that cannot be neglected: archiving and storing away the facts and data of our society. At present, these critical functions are performed by entities such as the Internet Archive, doing a yeoman’s job at storing away these irreplaceable records. They’ve come under attack recently and have had some breakdowns that point to a need for a separate system that performs the same function, albeit from a conservative point of view. Thus, this is our case for Glenn Beck and everyone else to support a Freedom Archive.
Multiple systems are better than one or two.
Most preppers can recite the rule of three: “Three is two, two is one, and one is none.” In other words, you need to have a couple of back-ups for every primary system that you rely on — water, food, self-defense, etc. The same holds true in storing information.
In engineering terms, you don’t want to have one failure mode that will lead to disaster.
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U.S. Govt Agency Verifies that Nine Large U.S. Banks Conducted Ideological Debanking Operations
Press Release – […] The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) today released preliminary findings from its supervisory review of debanking activities at the nine largest national banks it supervises: JPMorgan Chase Bank, Bank of America, Citibank, Wells Fargo Bank, U.S. Bank, Capital One, PNC Bank, TD Bank, and BMO Bank.
The OCC conducted its supervisory review in accordance with the President’s Executive Order “Guaranteeing Fair Banking for All Americans” to determine whether these institutions debanked or discriminated against any customers or potential customers on the basis of their political or religious beliefs or lawful business activities.
“The OCC is committed to ending efforts – whether instigated by regulators or banks – that would weaponize finance,” said Comptroller of the Currency Jonathan V. Gould. “Although our work continues, the OCC is today providing visibility into the debanking actions against customers and lawful businesses taken by the nation’s largest banks to ensure public awareness, and to halt these harmful and unfair practices.”
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Federal AND State Medical Boards Are FUBAR.
The endless persecution of a great doctor, Dr Mary Tally Bowden, MD.
I lost. I’m appealing.
Texas Medical Board hearing
^^^ Never Forget What They Have Done To Us. I’ll Never Forgive. ^^^
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With the persecution of Dr Mary Tally Bowden fresh in our mind… This PSA
Always remember…especially, when talking with quacks, nurses, medical techs…
Big Pharma wants you on this.
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Eleven months ago… We’ve come a long way. Yes, with a long way to go.
Joe Kernen: “The affordability issue is from the 22% increase in prices under Biden—full stop.” Former SEC Chair Jay Clayton: “[Trump was] thrown, what I would say, the worst economy for the average American in my adult lifetime.”
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Life IS getting better with Trump.
Louisiana man: “Since Trump’s been in, the gas is going down, everything’s getting better. He‘s deporting all these criminals that come over from other countries. I think it’s great.”
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Tampon Tim has got to be one of the dumbest, most corrupt, retarded assholes ever elected.
Well, elected or more likely installed.
Incompetent scumbag Tim Walz says it’s a “pretty hard reach” to expect the Somali community to not engage in the massive theft of tax dollars, criticizes
@POTUSfor calling them out: “Each community’s got this… Donald Trump brought this to the attention… very dangerous.”
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Europeans in denial. Dumbasses.
EuroTrash.
Watched the Nobel Prize ceremony yesterday — as a Stockholm resident living a 15-minute walk from City Hall. I thought about how Trump’s America has turned against us: they hate us for being 1. Cultured 2. International 3. Relevant. European civilization is beautiful — thank you again, Stockholm!
Publius.
I already ripped this lady earlier today, but I have been reflecting on her post more and wanted to make an additional point. I have traveled extensively in Europe, and while it may be the modern world, Europeans are vastly more hung up on matters of economic and social class, titles of nobility, differences in ethnicity and differences in race than America is. Despite its long history of attempting to be egalitarian, class still matters in Europe. Titles of nobility still matter. Generational wealth from centuries back still matters. Look at the stiffs in the photo. How many of them earned it? Americans of European descent escaped Europe to get away from that ossified class structure and to make their own way with unlimited opportunity, and that vision still separates us from Europe culturally and intellectually. In the movie “Gettysburg,” Jeff Daniels—playing Colonel Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain—delivered an amazing soliloquy, an excerpt of which goes like this: “America should be free ground — all of it. Not divided by a line between slave state and free — all the way, from here to the Pacific Ocean. No man has to bow. No man born to royalty. Here, we judge you by what you do, not by who your father was. Here, you can be something. Here, is the place to build a home. But it’s not the land. There’s always more land. It’s the idea that we all have value — you and me.”
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THAT is the spirit and soul of the United States of America, and is what still separates us from Europe to this very day.
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Europeans need to get a clue…
You’re slaves.
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DumRats suck. IIRC, this asshole, was on the J6 Non select committee of liars.
Good on Kristi, for standing up to this DumRat dickhead.
Scumbag @BennieGThompsonsays the horrific attack on our two great National Guard heroes in D.C. was just an “unfortunate accident.” @Sec_Noem
: “You think that was an unfortunate accident!? It was a terrorist attack. He shot our National Guardsmen in the head.”
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Good to keep this in mind when Pravda News AND DumRats lie about ICE arresting American Citizens.
Remember that every time you hear Democrats attack ICE for arresting US citizens they are arresting citizens who violently obstructed or assaulted federal law enforcement and are facing criminal prosecution.
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.@SecWardelivers remarks at the new Space Command HQ in Alabama: “I also want to pass my congratulations and thanks from President Trump. He wanted me to pass the message on… WELCOME HOME!”
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Amtrak employees having a Merrier Christmas.
Imagine the wasted tax dollars that would have gone to Amtrak executives.
BREAKING: In an incredible Christmas surprise, the Trump administration is sending $900 BONUSES to 18,000 THOUSAND Amtrak workers… …and the money is coming from CUTTING top executives’ perks. “It’s budget neutral. We aren’t spending more federal money or Amtrak money. It’s taking money from the executives and saying, let’s SHARE the bonuses with the mechanics, operators…let’s give some of it back this Christmas season!” Sec. Duffy said Amazing! This is how it’s done!
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Johnny Cash Saturday
I Walk the Line
Man in Black
Jackson
Tennessee Flat Top Box
Night Crew, Your Nickel.
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