RLM

Gold, natures auditor, rewards productivity, savings, honest investment. Limits profligate government and beaurocracy. Ensures true democracy real freedom.

[RLM @RossLMarks]

May 2026 a reality check ...
In the current conflicts there's no room for negotiation because the power behind the Western financial system and evolving debt collapse, banks and government are fighting for their own survival. They know they've already lost the economic war. These wars Ukraine and Iran are cover a scapegoat for financial collapse. Gaining control over the middle east through energy and Russia through resources and energy is the only way to stop China's rise and halt the west's economic demise. The clock is ticking.

[RLM @RossLMarks]

Good discussion...
https://t.co/rgZ972OqhZ

[Whitney Webb @_whitneywebb]

NEW from @_InThisTogether

In Part 2 of his series on the “Praxians”—the Silicon Valley-rooted wing of the global oligarchy—Iain Davis focuses on how they employ State Crimes Against Democracy (SCADs) and show how they benefit from practically every SCAD they manufacture. As we pick apart propaganda narratives, we’ll come to terms with the hybrid war we’re all now fighting, whether we know it or not.

https://t.co/bMYkPrNNLA

[Whitney Webb @_whitneywebb]

NEW from @maxyyjones and @journalist4sale

When it was reported that Wegmans grocery stores were utilizing facial recognition technology (FRT) to collect data on their customers, the company declined to disclose the software-end of its surveillance machine. Their reticence may be related to the FRT industry’s deep ties to the national security state — leaving consumers’ data just a knock away from American intelligence agencies.

Read the rest at Unlimited Hangout: https://t.co/38xR5X3LZO

[How To AI @HowToAI_]

Apple has published a paper with a devastating title: “The Illusion of Thinking”

It argues that AI models, no matter how brilliant they may seem, do not understand what they are doing.

They do not solve problems. They do not reason. They merely generate text word by word, trying to sound coherent.

Apple tested the most advanced reasoning models in the world on controlled puzzle environments. They tore open the internal "thinking" traces.

What they found shatters the narrative that we are getting closer to AGI.

Current models don't scale with complexity. They have a hard mathematical cliff. And they do not degrade gracefully. They collapse.

But here is the most unsettling part.

When a problem gets too complex, the AI doesn't use its remaining compute to try harder.

It just gives up.

Its reasoning effort actually declines. It stops thinking and starts guessing.

Then Apple ran the experiment that closes the casket on the reasoning debate.

They gave the AI the exact, step-by-step algorithm to solve the puzzle. The cheat codes.

All the AI had to do was follow the instructions.

It couldn't do it.

Performance didn't improve at all.

When the complexity gets high enough, these models fail because they cannot actually execute a logical sequence.

They are not reasoning. They are just pattern matching.

When you give them a simple problem, they overthink. When you give them a hard problem, they collapse.

Paper: The Illusion of Thinking, Apple, 2025

[Francis Hunt - The Market Sniper, CMT (MBA) @themarketsniper]

A lot of folk have become South Korea aware, and KOSPI [SKHynix] interested recently.

But have they seen the collapse in the Won as part of the AI crisis?

#NewsBeforeTheNews
#USDKRW
#KOSPI

https://t.co/W1BtieflsF

[Richard Werner @scientificecon]

Digital means subject to control and manipulation.

[Bogachan Ozdemir @Bogachan_1971]

Bartolomeu Diaz's voyage in 1488 is a singularity in history.

It gave access to the poorest nation in Europe, #Portugal, access to Indian Ocean that destroyed a thousand years monopoly of Venice on imports from Asia.

When Mamluks lost to Ottomans in 1517 that sealed #Venice's eastern trade, it was game over.

How did these poor Portugese get the technology of ships and cannons that survived oceans and terrorized Arabs and Indians in 1500s?

Arabs actually thought ship building to Knights Templars who had the biggest navy in Mediterrenean in 13th century. Templars were banned in France in October 1307 and next we see them helping Scotts against England in Battle of Bannockburn in June 1314.... That kept Scotland independent until early 1700s.... and turned Edinburgh a center of knowledge... in another poor European backwaters.

Templers were allowed to settle in Scotland by Robert the Bruce and many famous families like Sinclairs are Templers... they started #Freemasons in Scotland... which eventually creaated USA before it got corrupted by Jesuits in late 1700s... and early 1800s... in Europe... mid 1800s in USA.

Where were Templars in those 7 years between departing France and arriving Bannockburn? Portugal. This is how Portugese learned ship building for oceans and cannons.

Having lost their eastern trade routes to Portugese and monopolies, Venice nobles got in touch with Herny VIII. You know him because of his marriages and stance against Vatican without questioning how Henry dared to have that stance. It was all Venice... who came with capital and created the largest Navy for England after 1530s.... That's the beginnign of the Empire of UK... Venetians took their revenge by acquiring most of the Portugese assets in Indian Ocean next 100 years.

Meanwhile, other Italian families who have better ties with Vatican took over rest of Europe. For example Albert Azzo II of Milano started two dynasties, House of Este and House of Welf... which became House of Hannover of Bavaria and now known as Windsors of UK. Hannovers took over UK in 1714.

if you visit Milan, try to visit Villa d'Este... beuatiful place... belonged to the same dynasty.

Italian families brought not only Navy but also accounting and corporation to UK.

All these happened thanks to Bartomeu's Voyage that destroyed Venice's monopolies....

[RLM @RossLMarks]

Moving towards dangerous beaurocractic technocratic state ...
https://t.co/D8Fqw8bU5X

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

A massive new hyperscale data center project called Stratos is planned for Box Elder County, Utah. If built, it would demand up to 9 gigawatts of electricity, more than twice the total power consumption of the entire state.

But the real shock comes from the waste heat. According to Utah State University physics professor Robert Davies, the facility would generate an additional 7 to 8 gigawatts of heat, creating a total thermal output of roughly 16 gigawatts concentrated in one location.

That energy release, Davies calculated, is comparable to detonating 23 atomic bombs per day in Hansel Valley, a high desert basin near the shrinking Great Salt Lake that naturally traps heat like a bowl. The project’s energy footprint would also be roughly equal to that of 40,000 Walmart Supercenters.

Local temperatures could rise by about 5°F (2.8°C) during the day and a staggering 28°F (15.6°C) at night. Ecologists warn that such dramatic warming would stress an already fragile ecosystem, worsen toxic dust from the drying lakebed, and disrupt plants, wildlife, and water resources.

As the backbone of artificial intelligence, data centers are essential for every AI query, image, and training run. The Stratos project now raises a critical question: Can the massive infrastructure behind AI expand without permanently transforming, and overheating, the communities and landscapes where it’s built?

["‘So much worse than I even thought’: Utah’s ‘hyperscale’ data center could create massive heat island near Great Salt Lake." The Salt Lake Tribune]

[Francis Hunt - The Market Sniper, CMT (MBA) @themarketsniper]

All this just as Warsh NEW FED Chair tells you how Deflationary AI will make the world. Tell me one innovation before where the Central Bankers allowed a decade of deflation to occur, where your money bought you more. Railways, Telegram, phones, TV, Radar, internet, email, smart phones?

[Ronnie Stoeferle @RonStoeferle]

“The most important thing to remember is that inflation is not an act of God, that inflation is not a catastrophe of the elements or a disease that comes like the plague.
Inflation is a policy.”

Ludwig von Mises

[The Global-Macro Strategy Report @WeldonLIVE]

How do you say STAGFLATION in English ??
HAHA ... get my new report on the UK, where the labor market faces the exact same dynamic seen in the US, where the unemployment rate is falling, leading the market to believe the labor market remains solid ... when the ONLY reason the unemployment rate is falling is because of the MASSIVE amount of people dropping out of the Labor Force ... in both countries.

Moreover, in both countries, the "real" rate of change in Average Weekly Wages (Earnings in the US) has CRASHED to one-half of one-percent year-year

And finally, in BOTH countries, Service inflation continues to outperform to the upside ... which has NOTHING to do with the War.

STAGFLATION has taken hold, just like I said it would months ago, the War only exacerbated the "flation" side, and will be enough, with Iran in bed with China and Russia, to weaken Trump by crushing consumer final demand and tipping the mid-term elections !!! If you think Xi and Putin are NOT pulling Iran's puppet strings, you are truly naive.

And as Energy prices continue to rise, so too will Food prices, which are set-up for a significant re-inflation, potentially a devastating one, because of ALL the reasons I've laid out recently in multiple reports since February, with details that include record lows in Western US snow cover (water), a crash in California "Fog" (AKA water), record low Arctic Sea Ice ... AND, particularly, as a result of the 1 in 4 probability offered by NOAA that we will have the WORST El Nino in history, hit us this summer.

Food, Energy, Services ... inflation is HERE TO STAY and the impact on the Consumer will be akin to a double-edged machete slashing at the Consumer's legs ... putting global Central Banks behind the proverbial eight-ball.

Get last week's focus on the US ... get yesterday's focus on the UK, by emailing me > [email protected]

[Whitney Webb @_whitneywebb]

Palantir, a CIA front company, now has its tentacles in the food supply, our healthcare data, our growing autonomous weapons industry, the military, the entire US intelligence community, border patrol, Space Force and so on.

Seemingly, Palantir is soon to become the testrun for Yarvins "sov-corp", a privatized version of govt that replaces the existing govt and is ruled by a CEO dictator. That is, unless we do something about it.

https://t.co/L0GlaYtsp6

[RLM @RossLMarks]

Question everything ... https://t.co/hoRDH4CgIJ

[The Global-Macro Strategy Report @WeldonLIVE]

Indeed, its the Economy ...
... and its STAGFLATION, which will put the Fed in a VERY tough position over the next 12-18 months !!!
https://t.co/7Nnzqcy27Q
#KISS #KeepItSimpleStupid #JUSTtheFACTS

[Francis Hunt - The Market Sniper, CMT (MBA) @themarketsniper]

"Markets are going up", aww gee what unit of account might that be Lance me ol' boy, still basing your wealth management tool of account on that "High Growth" high proliferation dollar huh? All inflation is GDP growth huh? Markets are already correcting in a real unit of account and you can't see it.
IXIC/XAU

Time to issue some more shotgun credit, for that magic US mushroom economic growth. How about a vehicle finance, ford's sales are down, time for banks to issue a HP deal with 60% residual for Rip van Winkle to buy a F-150 truck list $80K, he pays $210K over 7 years paying off just 40% of the car, such productivity man!
See that new money growth, god bless America, more 'Growth' please all new credit issuance is pure growth, remember folks!
C'mon banks issue some more of that 'High Growth' credit, to the debt enslaved serfs at sub-prime rates, nevermind vehicle depreciation and his shortfall on trade value in 7 years time.

He can roll the shortfall up and put it on his next finance deal, along with the new car, think of all that extra economic growth we generate, huh, genius, Europe and Japan could never be this smart?

Only America can grow fast, those other dumb nations don't understand huh Lance? Although China issuing credit fast too, but they are building Hi-tech workerless manufactoring factories, how stupid are they hey Lance? @lanceroberts

https://t.co/9pDr4Q1tIz

[Francis Hunt - The Market Sniper, CMT (MBA) @themarketsniper]

#Brent & USOIL right now, yup selling off.
A run through $68 with further downside may indeed await OBP.
Contrary to all those $250+ callers right now, we see downside and a Grim May 2026 for tech stocks, Banks, we roll from a Hormuz, Oil tale to a financial & economic one where crashamentals & deflation just as all the others catch up with Stagflation. @Theresetsniper

[RLM @RossLMarks]

In a chaotic world ... https://t.co/9IU72uGY0Y

[RLM @RossLMarks]

Relaxation ... https://t.co/A01cARPPjW