Silver Tops $83: "When Prices Move Like This, An Awful Lot Of Bad Things Become Possible…"

The final week of the year begins with silver adding to a stunning month of gains, topping $83 for the first time…

On Friday, we saw a record high price spike for silver that produced a record high price for the white metal. Meanwhile, we saw record high prices for gold on the same day.

This has never happened before, and that shows the currency crisis long predicted is here. Rubino says,

“Currencies are pouring into real money in anticipation of the existing fiat currencies dying. That is a whole different thing and on a much bigger scale because the numbers are grossly inflated after 70 years of a credit super cycle. So, what we have seen so far is really just the beginning.

Gold and silver have had huge runs, but they are doing it when things are more or less still normal. Precious metals are starting to soar in anticipation of something abnormal coming.

Right now, this is a bigger gold than silver story because gold is the money we go back to when national currencies fail. Silver is a more complex story because it is also an industrial metal.

There are new industries that are using more and more silver, and there is just not enough silver to satisfy that demand.”

Rubino contends the silver price spike will bring on a lot of volatility. Rubino points out, “That is pretty much a lock…"

"Silver is probably going to bounce around a lot in the next week or so. . .. All the silver is being sucked away, and when they run out, they say we will just pay you cash for these futures contracts. If that happens, that is basically the end of paper exchanges.

We will just totally stop trusting them.

Why would anybody want a long futures contract on an exchange that just defaults . . .. This is another big thing that might happen in the coming weeks.

When you see prices move like this, an awful lot of bad things become possible. . ..

There are a lot of shorts out there that just went massively underwater on Friday. . .. Somebody big has a lot of losses. . .. It’s like Warren Buffett says, ‘You only know who has been swimming naked when the tide goes out. Well, the tide has gone out for silver, and now we are going to find out who was unwisely short that market in the past week.”

https://www.zerohedge.com/precious-metals/when-prices-move-awful-lot-bad-things-become-possible

🚨 JUST IN: President Trump just dropped a TRUTH NUKE flanked by Zelensky to the Fake News at Mar-a-Lago

"Nobody's disputed it! If the 2020 election weren't RIGGED and STOLEN, you wouldn't have had this war."

"And it DIDN'T happen for 4 years."

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https://twitter.com/i/status/2005399957986222110

Watch: Russian Diplomat Shocked As FSB Nabs Him For Selling Secrets To US

A former Russian diplomat has been sentenced to 12 years in a high-security penal colony after being convicted of passing state secrets to the United States, which allegedly happened during his stint as an assistant to Russia's consulate general in Houston, where he worked between 2014 and 2017.

The Federal Security Service (FSB) announced Friday that 38-year old Arseniy Konovalov has been found guilty of treason. He was detained in March last year on suspicion of providing classified information to American intelligence, and the newly released video of the moment he was detained by the Russian security service while inside a vehicle upon his return to Russia has gone viral. He has a look of utter shock and horror on his face upon realizing what was happening.

The FSB in its statement alleged that “AS Konovalov, an employee of the Russian foreign ministry, during a long-term foreign assignment in the United States, proactively transferred secret information to American intelligence for money.”

The video release further showed Konovalov placed in a holding cage at Moscow's Lefortovo district court by masked officers after being taken from the vehicle.

On top of the sizeable prison sentence, the court also fined Konovalov 100,000 roubles. The security service did not specify the nature of the information which was allegedly handed over to the US side, nor did it make any supposed evidence public.

US officials have also not commented on or confirmed the case, but there has been speculation on Russian Telegram channels that Konovalov was recruited by the CIA at some point.

There are reports that espionage and treason investigations and cases overseen by Russian authorities have jumped significantly since the start of the Ukraine war, which is about to reach completion of its fourth year.

Watch: The diplomat's eyes get big, a shocked and anxious look on his face, at the moment one FSB officer holds up an identifying badge and the others grab him from behind…

Certainly there's been an intelligence-driven 'dirty war' happening with intensity behind the scenes both in Russia and Europe, as each rival side tries to gain an informational edge in the context of the NATO vs. Moscow stand-off.

https://twitter.com/i/status/2004980821875466608

Nancy Pelosi Says Trump ‘Will Pay a Price in History’ For January 6th Protests

KARL: We see what is happening at the Capitol. What is going through your head?

PELOSI: Well, it was clear that the president of the United States had incited an insurrection. And we begged him to send the National Guard.

Typical of him, he never represents the truth. He said, ‘Well, I was going to send them.’ Get out of here. Even Mitch McConnell was on the phone with us, saying, ‘Get them here right away.’ But they never sent them.”

The sorrow of it also springs from the fact that this president is trying to rewrite history, have a different narrative of what happened that day.

What happened that day was horrible. It was an assault on the Capitol, the symbol of democracy to the world.

It was an assault on the Congress, the day we honored our responsibility under the Constitution to certify the Electoral College, who was elected president, as an assault on the Constitution of the United States. It was horrible.

KARL: Has he paid a price for it?

PELOSI: No, he’s president of the United States now. But history will, he’ll pay a price in history.

https://youtu.be/1dlVWH4K9uI

Ukraine "Is Ready For Peace"; Zelensky Thanks Trump After "Great Meeting"

Update (1730ET): Following a call with Russian president Putin and meeting with his Ukrainian counterpart, Volodymyr Zelensky, at his Mar-a-Lago estate, President Trump said early Sunday that he made “a lot of progress” in talks with Ukraine and Russia, and that they were getting "closer" to settling the status of the disputed Donbas territory, but that it remained challenging.

"It's unresolved, but it's getting a lot closer. That's a very tough issue, but one that I think will get resolved," Trump told reporters in response to a question about the Donbas..

Asked if Putin was committed to peace despite the attacks, Trump said:

"He's very serious."

"I can say that I believe Ukraine has made some very strong attacks also, and I don't say that negatively. I think you probably have to," Trump said outside his estate.

Speaking next to Zelensky, who stood a step below him at the entrance in front of waiting cameras, Trump said that an emerging agreement would also be good for Ukraine.

"There will be a security agreement. It'll be a strong agreement," Trump said.

"And the European nations are very much involved in that. They'll be very much involved in protection, et cetera," he said.

Zelenskiy said the peace framework is “90% agreed” and that “US-Ukraine security guarantees” are “100% agreed”, with the military dimension also “100% agreed”.

Trump said he has offered to address Ukraine's parliament to push the latest peace plan forward, saying "I'm not sure that it would be really necessary, but if it would help save 25,000 lives a month, or whatever it may be, I would certainly be willing to do that."

Trump said a deal is “very close,” and that he and Zelensky plan to speak again over the coming weeks, with Trump also saying he could envision a trilateral meeting with Zelensky and Putin.

Zelensky later took to X to "thank @POTUS Donald Trump for a great meeting."

"We had a substantive discussion on all issues, and we much appreciate the progress achieved by American and Ukrainian teams in recent weeks. Special thanks to Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner for their engagement and full commitment, as well as to our team — first of all, to Rustem Umerov and Andrii Hnatov.

We discussed all the aspects of the peace framework and achieved significant results. We also discussed the sequence of further actions. We agreed that security guarantees are key on the path to achieving a lasting peace, and our teams will continue working on all aspects.

We agreed that our teams would meet as early as next week to finalize all discussed matters.

We also agreed with President Trump that he will host Ukrainian and European leaders in Washington, D.C., in January.

Ukraine is ready for peace."

https://twitter.com/i/status/2005411973278679457

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/zelensky-meets-trump-mar-lago-ukrainian-capital-pounded-russia

>>24041096

THIS

Kremlin reveals details of Putin-Trump call

Both presidents have agreed to push for a lasting peace over a temporary ceasefire, according to Yury Ushakov

The two presidents held a “friendly, well-wishing and businesslike” conversation for an hour and 15 minutes, during which they expressed mutual interest in reaching a lasting peaceful settlement in the Ukraine conflict, according to Ushakov. Putin stressed the need to rely on the understandings reached between the presidents at the summit in Anchorage earlier this year, he added.

Both the Russian and US leaders agreed that a temporary ceasefire as proposed by Ukraine and its European backers “would only prolong the conflict and risk a resumption of hostilities,” according to the Kremlin aide.

Putin agreed to a proposal from Trump to continue the settlement process by forming two “working groups” to tackle security and economic issues, Ushakov said.

Earlier on Sunday, Trump wrote in a post on Truth Social that he had a “very productive” conversation with Putin.

The presidents also agreed to talk again after the US leader’s meeting with Zelensky.

On Saturday, Putin said during a meeting with top generals that some “smart people” in the West were offering Kiev “decent” peace terms that included “good framework security guarantees,” an economic recovery scheme, and a roadmap for restoring relations with Russia. However, Kiev is still in “no rush” to settle peacefully despite the favorable terms, he said.

If the Ukrainian authorities eschew a peaceful resolution, Russia will achieve its goals on the battlefield, Putin warned.

https://www.rt.com/news/630111-kremlin-trump-putin-call-details-zelensky-meeting/

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28 December 2025

23:54 GMT

Following the talks, Zelensky wrote on X that US and Ukrainian delegations would meet “as early as next week to finalize all discussed matters”. He added that “we also agreed with President Trump that he will host Ukrainian and European leaders in Washington, DC, in January,” without specifying the date.

23:14 GMT

Commenting on the ongoing talks, Kirill Dmitriev, a Russian presidential envoy, has said that “The whole world appreciates President Trump and his team’s peace efforts”.

23:07 GMT

The phone call involving Trump, Zelensky, and European leaders yielded “good progress,” EU Commission president Ursula von der Leyen has said. “Europe is ready to keep working with Ukraine and our US partners to consolidate this progress. Paramount to this effort is to have ironclad security guarantees from day one”.

23:04 GMT

Asked what will happen if the peace process sputters, Trump replied, “They keep fighting, and they keep dying. No good… We don’t want that to happen. President Putin doesn’t want that to happen either.”

23:01 GMT

Any voting on territorial concessions that would take place abroad “will not be simple,” Zelensky says, arguing that millions of Ukrainians will need a relevant infrastructure to make their voices heard.

22:53 GMT

Russia “will be helping” with the reconstruction of Ukraine, Trump claims, adding that Moscow “wants Ukraine to succeed.” The US president added that he told Zelensky that Putin was “very generous” towards Kiev, including by supplying energy at bargain prices.

22:49 GMT

The EU “is going to take over a big part” of potential security guarantees for Ukraine, Trump says, promising that the US will also step in.

22:40 GMT

A trilateral summit including Putin, Trump, and Zelensky could still happen “at the right time,” the US president says. He added that he believed that the Russian president wants the conflict to end.

“Don’t forget we went through the Russia, Russia hoax together. I’d call him, and he’d call me and say, ‘Can you believe the stuff they are making up?’”

TREASON - giving Aid and comfort to the enemy

https://constitution.congress.gov/browse/essay/artIII-S3-C1-4/ALDE_00013527/

Charlottesville ends license plate cameras over fears data could be used to identify illegal immigrants

“I just think that the concerns are much bigger than us."

The Charlottesville Police Department is ending its use of a license plate reading camera system amid concerns that the data collected could be accessed by the federal government and used to identify illegal immigrants.

During a city council meeting earlier this month, council members voted not to move forward with a yearlong pilot program for the Flock Safety license plate reader system, despite law enforcement officials citing its success in solving crimes.

“I just think that the concerns are much bigger than us,” Charlottesville Police Chief Michael Kochis said, according to CBS 19. “Most of the feedback we got was very positive from folks in the community. That being said, there were some concerns.”

Those concerns centered on the possibility that data gathered through the system could be obtained by federal agencies and used for purposes beyond local law enforcement, including tracking individuals who are in the United States illegally. Kochis did, however, admit that the technology had proven effective during the pilot program.

“It’s helped us solve our homicide in the city. It has helped us recover a missing child. It has helped us recover missing people. It does help us recover stolen cars in time frames that actually have meaning,” he said.

Despite ending the program, Kochis said the department plans to explore alternative license plate reader systems that may address the concerns raised by council members and residents. One option under consideration is a similar system offered by Axon, a company that makes body cams for officers.

“We trust Axon. We have for many years for our body-worn camera footage,” Kochis said. “They also have a similar program, so that would be something we would roll out and speak to council about.”

https://thepostmillennial.com/charlottesville-ends-license-plate-camera-program-over-fears-data-could-be-used-to-identify-illegal-immigrants

>>24041157

We already have enough evidence compiled to take down the system.

We need leaders to move it forward