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COMMENT: The latest that the pipe bomb was planted in a desperate effort to turn January 6th into a civil war to invoke the 14th Amendment to prevent Trump from ever running for office is no different than you cost Soros $2 billion, Safra $1 billion and so on by forecasting Russia would collapse and they retaliated since you refused to invest $10 billion for their regime change in Russia. The recent revelation that the neocons at the CIA assassinated JFK, all have a common thread. It has always been about the conquest of Russia. This makes Watergate look like child’s play, and even that was carried out by ex-CIA operatives. No wonder JFK wanted to shut down the CIA. This is about running the country and eliminating all our freedoms. With your track record in forecasting, unmatched by anyone else, you should be on the front page of the Wall Street Journal. Mainstream media ignores you because they take their orders from this same group. With each revelation, the real enemy is within, not Russia. LM ANSWER: This is a coup against the American people. Everywhere you turn there are people with their fingers in this pot. They would not even allow Bobby Kennedy to run on the Democratic ticket. Kamala never stood in a primary, she was just appointed like Ursula in the EU. Screw Democracy. Everything they do is to keep the reins of power in the Deep State and it is far more sinister than most realize. The Neocons are well entrenched even in the Trump Administration right down to Scott Bessent. Planting this pipe bomb outside the Democratic Headquarters was to make it look like Trump supporters are insurrectionists indeed to use the 14th Amendment against Trump. The only pretend Republicans allowed on the January 6th Committee were the Neocons – Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger, who said we could take Russia in 3 days and started “Republicans for Harris” all to keep WWIII in their control. Thank God Kinzinger was voted out of office in 2023. I had tapes of bankers expressly saying that they were paying bribes within Russia to manipulate markets. In 1993, the Russian government established the company Almazyuvelirexport (AUEX). This entity was given a state monopoly on the export of precious metals (like platinum, palladium, and rhodium) and gemstones (especially diamonds). I was told that they paid bribes to cut off the sale of platinum to drive the price up so they could exploit the auto manufacturers. I was even approached by a lawyer for Ford who was considering filing a lawsuit against the bankers for that manipulation. The AUEX prohibited the right to export platinum, by anyone other than them. The bankers were even involved in a manipulation of rhodium which went from $700 in 1980. By 1995, rhodium had fallen back to roughly $500 per ounce, down from the spectacular 1990 peak above $6,000/oz — a drop of over 90% in five years. The Soviet Union had built up massive stockpiles of PGMs, especially palladium. After the USSR collapsed in 1991, the new Russian government began selling these stockpiles to earn hard currency. This influx of metal kept global prices suppressed. Around 1995-1997, these stockpile sales suddenly slowed down and then largely stopped. The reasons were never fully transparent but were linked to deliberate strategy to support prices. All the tapes I had were seized by the court to protect the banks, then the receiver who made that motion, Alan Cohen, magically became a board member of Goldman Sachs and continued to run my company from the board of Goldman. Then they claimed all the tapes were destroyed in the World Trade Center 911 attack to protect the banks.       It was Scott Bessent when he worked for Soros who was the real architect of shorting the pound in 1992. He is the one that convinced Soros to take that trade. He was also with Soros in 1998/1999 when they were on investing in Russia along with everyone else. That is when I was asked to put in $10 billion to pull off a regime change in Russia and I refused. Bessent did not leave Soros until 2000. I do not know the full extent of his involvement in that trade other than he was there. Scott Bessent has publicly taken a strongly anti-Vladimir Putin / pro-Ukraine stance — and while he stops short of explicitly calling for unlimited war, his statements clearly support Ukraine, declare Russia’s aggression unacceptable, and back aggressive economic measures against Russia. I question his motives and if this is still the same old story of the NY bankers and hedge fund boys trying to take over Russia and all the gold, oil, diamonds, platinum, lumber, rare earths will all go through NY dealing desks. I do not understand how According to Wikipedia, Bessent was a Democrat and donated to them until 2024. He was an economic adviser and fundraiser for Trump’s 2024 campaign. That relationship with Trump helped position him for the nomination. I find this curious. The people doing the movie on me filed for FOIA trying to get all the communications behind who was demanding we be shut down by the banks and hedge funds who were always trying to manipulate the markets and the CFTC claimed they had nothing refusing to turnover anything. It had long been implied that Soros was behind that as well, after losing $2 billion when on the pound trade he made only $1 billion. Yet, the CFTC refused to turn over anything as a Deep State controlled entity typically does.  

COMMENT: The latest that the pipe bomb was planted in a desperate effort to turn January 6th into a civil war to invoke the 14th Amendment to prevent Trump from ever running for office is no different than you cost Soros $2 billion, Safra $1 billion and so on by forecasting Russia would collapse and they retaliated since you refused to invest $10 billion for their regime change in Russia. The recent revelation that the neocons at the CIA assassinated JFK, all have a common thread. It has always been about the conquest of Russia. This makes Watergate look like child’s play, and even that was carried out by ex-CIA operatives. No wonder JFK wanted to shut down the CIA. This is about running the country and eliminating all our freedoms. With your track record in forecasting, unmatched by anyone else, you should be on the front page of the Wall Street Journal. Mainstream media ignores you because they take their orders from this same group. With each revelation, the real enemy is within, not Russia. LM ANSWER: This is a coup against the American people. Everywhere you turn there are people with their fingers in this pot. They would not even allow Bobby Kennedy to run on the Democratic ticket. Kamala never stood in a primary, she was just appointed like Ursula in the EU. Screw Democracy. Everything they do is to keep the reins of power in the Deep State and it is far more sinister than most realize. The Neocons are well entrenched even in the Trump Administration right down to Scott Bessent. Planting this pipe bomb outside the Democratic Headquarters was to make it look like Trump supporters are insurrectionists indeed to use the 14th Amendment against Trump. The only pretend Republicans allowed on the January 6th Committee were the Neocons – Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger, who said we could take Russia in 3 days and started “Republicans for Harris” all to keep WWIII in their control. Thank God Kinzinger was voted out of office in 2023. I had tapes of bankers expressly saying that they were paying bribes within Russia to manipulate markets. In 1993, the Russian government established the company Almazyuvelirexport (AUEX). This entity was given a state monopoly on the export of precious metals (like platinum, palladium, and rhodium) and gemstones (especially diamonds). I was told that they paid bribes to cut off the sale of platinum to drive the price up so they could exploit the auto manufacturers. I was even approached by a lawyer for Ford who was considering filing a lawsuit against the bankers for that manipulation. The AUEX prohibited the right to export platinum, by anyone other than them. The bankers were even involved in a manipulation of rhodium which went from $700 in 1980. By 1995, rhodium had fallen back to roughly $500 per ounce, down from the spectacular 1990 peak above $6,000/oz — a drop of over 90% in five years. The Soviet Union had built up massive stockpiles of PGMs, especially palladium. After the USSR collapsed in 1991, the new Russian government began selling these stockpiles to earn hard currency. This influx of metal kept global prices suppressed. Around 1995-1997, these stockpile sales suddenly slowed down and then largely stopped. The reasons were never fully transparent but were linked to deliberate strategy to support prices. All the tapes I had were seized by the court to protect the banks, then the receiver who made that motion, Alan Cohen, magically became a board member of Goldman Sachs and continued to run my company from the board of Goldman. Then they claimed all the tapes were destroyed in the World Trade Center 911 attack to protect the banks.       It was Scott Bessent when he worked for Soros who was the real architect of shorting the pound in 1992. He is the one that convinced Soros to take that trade. He was also with Soros in 1998/1999 when they were on investing in Russia along with everyone else. That is when I was asked to put in $10 billion to pull off a regime change in Russia and I refused. Bessent did not leave Soros until 2000. I do not know the full extent of his involvement in that trade other than he was there. Scott Bessent has publicly taken a strongly anti-Vladimir Putin / pro-Ukraine stance — and while he stops short of explicitly calling for unlimited war, his statements clearly support Ukraine, declare Russia’s aggression unacceptable, and back aggressive economic measures against Russia. I question his motives and if this is still the same old story of the NY bankers and hedge fund boys trying to take over Russia and all the gold, oil, diamonds, platinum, lumber, rare earths will all go through NY dealing desks. I do not understand how According to Wikipedia, Bessent was a Democrat and donated to them until 2024. He was an economic adviser and fundraiser for Trump’s 2024 campaign. That relationship with Trump helped position him for the nomination. I find this curious. The people doing the movie on me filed for FOIA trying to get all the communications behind who was demanding we be shut down by the banks and hedge funds who were always trying to manipulate the markets and the CFTC claimed they had nothing refusing to turnover anything. It had long been implied that Soros was behind that as well, after losing $2 billion when on the pound trade he made only $1 billion. Yet, the CFTC refused to turn over anything as a Deep State controlled entity typically does.  

The Roots of Tulip Mania So, what is the story with the tulip mania? Well, as some may be aware, the tulip is a national symbol of the Netherlands. The country is affectionately known by some as “the flower shop of the world.” If you’ve ever been to the Netherlands, you’ve probably seen some or visited some of the beautifully cultivated fields of colorful tulips lining the landscape of the Dutch countryside. There are countless tulip museums and tulip festivals are still celebrated annually throughout the country. The Dutch people even took their love of tulips abroad when emigrating from their homeland, starting up tulip festivals in places like New York (which Holland.com points out was originally known as New Amsterdam) and in the town aptly named Holland located in the U.S. state of Michigan. Despite this near obsession with tulips, the flower is not native to the Netherlands. They are actually native to the Pamir and Tan Shan mountain ranges located in Central Asia primarily in modern-day Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, and Afghanistan. They were brought to the Netherlands in the late-16th century from the Ottoman Empire where the flower had been cultivated for decades prior. A botanist by the name of Carolus Clusius who in the 1590s had begun an important botanical garden at the University of Leiden, was one of the first to really pioneer the cultivation of tulips in the Netherlands. He had his own private garden in which he planted numerous bright and beautiful tulips and devoted much of his later life to studying the tulip and the mysterious phenomenon known as tulip breaking. Tulip Breaking and the Allure of the Diseased Bloom Tulip breaking is key to the story of the tulip mania. It was a strange occurrence in which the petal colors of the flower suddenly changed into multicolored patterns. Many years later it turned out that these strange looking tulips were actually the result of a virus that had infected them. Nonetheless, these essentially diseased multicolored tulips did nothing but serve to ramp up the tulip craze further. The mesmerizing diseased tulips became even more valuable than the uninfected ones and Dutch botanists began to compete with each other to cultivate new hybrid and more beautiful varieties of tulips. These became known as “cultivars” and would be traded among a small group of botanists and other flower aficionados. As time passed, the trade grew out from the group and botanists began to receive requests from people they did not know for not only the flowers, but the bulbs and seeds in exchange for money. Tulip brokerages began to open up and what was originally a “gentlemanly pursuit” turned into an all-out war for profits. A Golden Age for Trade — and Speculation Part of what helped this interest in Tulips grow, along with people’s willingness to exchange money for them, was the fact that the Netherlands in the early part of the 1600s had become the richest country in Europe mostly through trade. During this Dutch Golden Age, not only were there aristocrats with money, but middle-class merchants, artisans and tradesmen also found themselves with extra coin burning a hole in their pockets. Basically, this meant more people were able to spend money on luxuries such as cultivars that perhaps in other European countries would not have been commonplace. Besides the fact that people had money up and down the social class structure, the Netherlands and specifically Amsterdam already had robust trading platforms. The Amsterdam Stock Exchange opened in 1602 and the Baltic Grain Trade, an informal futures market itself, had begun decades earlier. The Netherlands was therefore primed for a new trade, which was to become Tulip Mania. The Bubble Inflates Tulips became the talk of the fledgling Dutch Republic.  “Neighbors seemed to talk to neighbors; colleagues with colleagues; shopkeepers, booksellers, bakers, and doctors with their clients gives one the sense of a community gripped, for a time, by this new fascination and enthralled by a sudden vision of its profitability,” wrote Anne Goldgar in Tulipmania: Money, Honor, and Knowledge in the Dutch Golden Age.  By the 1620s, prices were already rising to incredible levels. One story in particular was of an entire townhouse offered in exchange for just 10 bulbs of the very special cultivar, Semper Augustus (shown to the right), that had petals that looked a bit like a candy cane. Although the offer of an entire house for just 10 bulbs was incredible in its own right, the fact that the offer was rejected outlines just how much these flowers were considered to be worth at the time. In the years that followed it became more and more apparent that the tulip bulbs themselves were going for more money than the actual bloomed flowers. Speculators piled into the markets like wildfire, trading the bulbs rather than the flowers, which resulted in what you might call a futures market. By 1633, rather than bother with guilders, the Dutch even began using the bulbs as a currency themselves. There are numerous records of land properties being sold for bulbs. At the time, guilders and florins referred to the same Dutch currency and were used interchangeably throughout the 17th century. As word spread that one could make ridiculous sums of money simply by buying and selling the bulbs, prices skyrocketed even higher. According to the BBC, in 1633 a single bulb of Semper Augustus was worth 5,500 guilders. 4 years later in 1637, the sum had nearly doubled to 10,000 guilders. A bulb worth 10,000 guilders in 1637 would be roughly equivalent to €100,000–€120,000 today. You may be wondering what a guilder is—the guilder was the Dutch currency up until the adoption of the Euro. Having said that, to put the above numbers into perspective, according to Mike Dash who wrote Tulipomania: The Story of the World’s Most Coveted Flower and the Extraordinary Passions It Aroused, “It was enough to feed, clothe and house a whole Dutch family for half a lifetime, or sufficient to purchase one

COMMENT: The latest that the pipe bomb was planted in a desperate effort to turn January 6th into a civil war to invoke the 14th Amendment to prevent Trump from ever running for office is no different than you cost Soros $2 billion, Safra $1 billion and so on by forecasting Russia would collapse and they retaliated since you refused to invest $10 billion for their regime change in Russia. The recent revelation that the neocons at the CIA assassinated JFK, all have a common thread. It has always been about the conquest of Russia. This makes Watergate look like child’s play, and even that was carried out by ex-CIA operatives. No wonder JFK wanted to shut down the CIA. This is about running the country and eliminating all our freedoms. With your track record in forecasting, unmatched by anyone else, you should be on the front page of the Wall Street Journal. Mainstream media ignores you because they take their orders from this same group. With each revelation, the real enemy is within, not Russia. LM ANSWER: This is a coup against the American people. Everywhere you turn there are people with their fingers in this pot. They would not even allow Bobby Kennedy to run on the Democratic ticket. Kamala never stood in a primary, she was just appointed like Ursula in the EU. Screw Democracy. Everything they do is to keep the reins of power in the Deep State and it is far more sinister than most realize. The Neocons are well entrenched even in the Trump Administration right down to Scott Bessent. Planting this pipe bomb outside the Democratic Headquarters was to make it look like Trump supporters are insurrectionists indeed to use the 14th Amendment against Trump. The only pretend Republicans allowed on the January 6th Committee were the Neocons – Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger, who said we could take Russia in 3 days and started “Republicans for Harris” all to keep WWIII in their control. Thank God Kinzinger was voted out of office in 2023. I had tapes of bankers expressly saying that they were paying bribes within Russia to manipulate markets. In 1993, the Russian government established the company Almazyuvelirexport (AUEX). This entity was given a state monopoly on the export of precious metals (like platinum, palladium, and rhodium) and gemstones (especially diamonds). I was told that they paid bribes to cut off the sale of platinum to drive the price up so they could exploit the auto manufacturers. I was even approached by a lawyer for Ford who was considering filing a lawsuit against the bankers for that manipulation. The AUEX prohibited the right to export platinum, by anyone other than them. The bankers were even involved in a manipulation of rhodium which went from $700 in 1980. By 1995, rhodium had fallen back to roughly $500 per ounce, down from the spectacular 1990 peak above $6,000/oz — a drop of over 90% in five years. The Soviet Union had built up massive stockpiles of PGMs, especially palladium. After the USSR collapsed in 1991, the new Russian government began selling these stockpiles to earn hard currency. This influx of metal kept global prices suppressed. Around 1995-1997, these stockpile sales suddenly slowed down and then largely stopped. The reasons were never fully transparent but were linked to deliberate strategy to support prices. All the tapes I had were seized by the court to protect the banks, then the receiver who made that motion, Alan Cohen, magically became a board member of Goldman Sachs and continued to run my company from the board of Goldman. Then they claimed all the tapes were destroyed in the World Trade Center 911 attack to protect the banks.       It was Scott Bessent when he worked for Soros who was the real architect of shorting the pound in 1992. He is the one that convinced Soros to take that trade. He was also with Soros in 1998/1999 when they were on investing in Russia along with everyone else. That is when I was asked to put in $10 billion to pull off a regime change in Russia and I refused. Bessent did not leave Soros until 2000. I do not know the full extent of his involvement in that trade other than he was there. Scott Bessent has publicly taken a strongly anti-Vladimir Putin / pro-Ukraine stance — and while he stops short of explicitly calling for unlimited war, his statements clearly support Ukraine, declare Russia’s aggression unacceptable, and back aggressive economic measures against Russia. I question his motives and if this is still the same old story of the NY bankers and hedge fund boys trying to take over Russia and all the gold, oil, diamonds, platinum, lumber, rare earths will all go through NY dealing desks. I do not understand how According to Wikipedia, Bessent was a Democrat and donated to them until 2024. He was an economic adviser and fundraiser for Trump’s 2024 campaign. That relationship with Trump helped position him for the nomination. I find this curious. The people doing the movie on me filed for FOIA trying to get all the communications behind who was demanding we be shut down by the banks and hedge funds who were always trying to manipulate the markets and the CFTC claimed they had nothing refusing to turnover anything. It had long been implied that Soros was behind that as well, after losing $2 billion when on the pound trade he made only $1 billion. Yet, the CFTC refused to turn over anything as a Deep State controlled entity typically does.  

The Roots of Tulip Mania So, what is the story with the tulip mania? Well, as some may be aware, the tulip is a national symbol of the Netherlands. The country is affectionately known by some as “the flower shop of the world.” If you’ve ever been to the Netherlands, you’ve probably seen some or visited some of the beautifully cultivated fields of colorful tulips lining the landscape of the Dutch countryside. There are countless tulip museums and tulip festivals are still celebrated annually throughout the country. The Dutch people even took their love of tulips abroad when emigrating from their homeland, starting up tulip festivals in places like New York (which Holland.com points out was originally known as New Amsterdam) and in the town aptly named Holland located in the U.S. state of Michigan. Despite this near obsession with tulips, the flower is not native to the Netherlands. They are actually native to the Pamir and Tan Shan mountain ranges located in Central Asia primarily in modern-day Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, and Afghanistan. They were brought to the Netherlands in the late-16th century from the Ottoman Empire where the flower had been cultivated for decades prior. A botanist by the name of Carolus Clusius who in the 1590s had begun an important botanical garden at the University of Leiden, was one of the first to really pioneer the cultivation of tulips in the Netherlands. He had his own private garden in which he planted numerous bright and beautiful tulips and devoted much of his later life to studying the tulip and the mysterious phenomenon known as tulip breaking. Tulip Breaking and the Allure of the Diseased Bloom Tulip breaking is key to the story of the tulip mania. It was a strange occurrence in which the petal colors of the flower suddenly changed into multicolored patterns. Many years later it turned out that these strange looking tulips were actually the result of a virus that had infected them. Nonetheless, these essentially diseased multicolored tulips did nothing but serve to ramp up the tulip craze further. The mesmerizing diseased tulips became even more valuable than the uninfected ones and Dutch botanists began to compete with each other to cultivate new hybrid and more beautiful varieties of tulips. These became known as “cultivars” and would be traded among a small group of botanists and other flower aficionados. As time passed, the trade grew out from the group and botanists began to receive requests from people they did not know for not only the flowers, but the bulbs and seeds in exchange for money. Tulip brokerages began to open up and what was originally a “gentlemanly pursuit” turned into an all-out war for profits. A Golden Age for Trade — and Speculation Part of what helped this interest in Tulips grow, along with people’s willingness to exchange money for them, was the fact that the Netherlands in the early part of the 1600s had become the richest country in Europe mostly through trade. During this Dutch Golden Age, not only were there aristocrats with money, but middle-class merchants, artisans and tradesmen also found themselves with extra coin burning a hole in their pockets. Basically, this meant more people were able to spend money on luxuries such as cultivars that perhaps in other European countries would not have been commonplace. Besides the fact that people had money up and down the social class structure, the Netherlands and specifically Amsterdam already had robust trading platforms. The Amsterdam Stock Exchange opened in 1602 and the Baltic Grain Trade, an informal futures market itself, had begun decades earlier. The Netherlands was therefore primed for a new trade, which was to become Tulip Mania. The Bubble Inflates Tulips became the talk of the fledgling Dutch Republic.  “Neighbors seemed to talk to neighbors; colleagues with colleagues; shopkeepers, booksellers, bakers, and doctors with their clients gives one the sense of a community gripped, for a time, by this new fascination and enthralled by a sudden vision of its profitability,” wrote Anne Goldgar in Tulipmania: Money, Honor, and Knowledge in the Dutch Golden Age.  By the 1620s, prices were already rising to incredible levels. One story in particular was of an entire townhouse offered in exchange for just 10 bulbs of the very special cultivar, Semper Augustus (shown to the right), that had petals that looked a bit like a candy cane. Although the offer of an entire house for just 10 bulbs was incredible in its own right, the fact that the offer was rejected outlines just how much these flowers were considered to be worth at the time. In the years that followed it became more and more apparent that the tulip bulbs themselves were going for more money than the actual bloomed flowers. Speculators piled into the markets like wildfire, trading the bulbs rather than the flowers, which resulted in what you might call a futures market. By 1633, rather than bother with guilders, the Dutch even began using the bulbs as a currency themselves. There are numerous records of land properties being sold for bulbs. At the time, guilders and florins referred to the same Dutch currency and were used interchangeably throughout the 17th century. As word spread that one could make ridiculous sums of money simply by buying and selling the bulbs, prices skyrocketed even higher. According to the BBC, in 1633 a single bulb of Semper Augustus was worth 5,500 guilders. 4 years later in 1637, the sum had nearly doubled to 10,000 guilders. A bulb worth 10,000 guilders in 1637 would be roughly equivalent to €100,000–€120,000 today. You may be wondering what a guilder is—the guilder was the Dutch currency up until the adoption of the Euro. Having said that, to put the above numbers into perspective, according to Mike Dash who wrote Tulipomania: The Story of the World’s Most Coveted Flower and the Extraordinary Passions It Aroused, “It was enough to feed, clothe and house a whole Dutch family for half a lifetime, or sufficient to purchase one

COMMENT: The latest that the pipe bomb was planted in a desperate effort to turn January 6th into a civil war to invoke the 14th Amendment to prevent Trump from ever running for office is no different than you cost Soros $2 billion, Safra $1 billion and so on by forecasting Russia would collapse and they retaliated since you refused to invest $10 billion for their regime change in Russia. The recent revelation that the neocons at the CIA assassinated JFK, all have a common thread. It has always been about the conquest of Russia. This makes Watergate look like child’s play, and even that was carried out by ex-CIA operatives. No wonder JFK wanted to shut down the CIA. This is about running the country and eliminating all our freedoms. With your track record in forecasting, unmatched by anyone else, you should be on the front page of the Wall Street Journal. Mainstream media ignores you because they take their orders from this same group. With each revelation, the real enemy is within, not Russia. LM ANSWER: This is a coup against the American people. Everywhere you turn there are people with their fingers in this pot. They would not even allow Bobby Kennedy to run on the Democratic ticket. Kamala never stood in a primary, she was just appointed like Ursula in the EU. Screw Democracy. Everything they do is to keep the reins of power in the Deep State and it is far more sinister than most realize. The Neocons are well entrenched even in the Trump Administration right down to Scott Bessent. Planting this pipe bomb outside the Democratic Headquarters was to make it look like Trump supporters are insurrectionists indeed to use the 14th Amendment against Trump. The only pretend Republicans allowed on the January 6th Committee were the Neocons – Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger, who said we could take Russia in 3 days and started “Republicans for Harris” all to keep WWIII in their control. Thank God Kinzinger was voted out of office in 2023. I had tapes of bankers expressly saying that they were paying bribes within Russia to manipulate markets. In 1993, the Russian government established the company Almazyuvelirexport (AUEX). This entity was given a state monopoly on the export of precious metals (like platinum, palladium, and rhodium) and gemstones (especially diamonds). I was told that they paid bribes to cut off the sale of platinum to drive the price up so they could exploit the auto manufacturers. I was even approached by a lawyer for Ford who was considering filing a lawsuit against the bankers for that manipulation. The AUEX prohibited the right to export platinum, by anyone other than them. The bankers were even involved in a manipulation of rhodium which went from $700 in 1980. By 1995, rhodium had fallen back to roughly $500 per ounce, down from the spectacular 1990 peak above $6,000/oz — a drop of over 90% in five years. The Soviet Union had built up massive stockpiles of PGMs, especially palladium. After the USSR collapsed in 1991, the new Russian government began selling these stockpiles to earn hard currency. This influx of metal kept global prices suppressed. Around 1995-1997, these stockpile sales suddenly slowed down and then largely stopped. The reasons were never fully transparent but were linked to deliberate strategy to support prices. All the tapes I had were seized by the court to protect the banks, then the receiver who made that motion, Alan Cohen, magically became a board member of Goldman Sachs and continued to run my company from the board of Goldman. Then they claimed all the tapes were destroyed in the World Trade Center 911 attack to protect the banks.       It was Scott Bessent when he worked for Soros was the real architect of shorting the pound in 1992. He is the one that convinced Soros to take that trade. He was also with Soros in 1998/1999 when they were on investing in Russia along with everyone else. That is when I was asked to put in $10 billion to pull off a regime change in Russia and I refused. Bessent did not leave Soros until 2000. I do not know the full extent of his involvement in that trade other than he was there. Scott Bessent has publicly taken a strongly anti-Vladimir Putin / pro-Ukraine stance — and while he stops short of explicitly calling for unlimited war, his statements clearly support Ukraine, declare Russia’s aggression unacceptable, and back aggressive economic measures against Russia. I question his motives and if this is still the same old story of the NY bankers and hedge fund boys trying to take over Russia and all the gold, oil, diamonds, platinum, lumber, rare earths will all go through NY dealing desks. I do not understand how According to Wikipedia, Bessent was a Democrat and donated to them until 2024. He was an economic adviser and fundraiser for Trump’s 2024 campaign. That relationship with Trump helped position him for the nomination. I find this curious. The people doing the movie on me filed for FOIA trying to get all the communications behind who was demanding we be shut down by the banks and hedge funds who were always trying to manipulate the markets and the CFTC claimed they had nothing refusing to turnover anything. It had long been implied that Soros was behind that as well, after losing $2 billion when on the pound trade he made only $1 billion. Yet, the CFTC refused to turn over anything as a Deep State controlled entity typically does.  

The Roots of Tulip Mania So, what is the story with the tulip mania? Well, as some may be aware, the tulip is a national symbol of the Netherlands. The country is affectionately known by some as “the flower shop of the world.” If you’ve ever been to the Netherlands, you’ve probably seen some or visited some of the beautifully cultivated fields of colorful tulips lining the landscape of the Dutch countryside. There are countless tulip museums and tulip festivals are still celebrated annually throughout the country. The Dutch people even took their love of tulips abroad when emigrating from their homeland, starting up tulip festivals in places like New York (which Holland.com points out was originally known as New Amsterdam) and in the town aptly named Holland located in the U.S. state of Michigan. Despite this near obsession with tulips, the flower is not native to the Netherlands. They are actually native to the Pamir and Tan Shan mountain ranges located in Central Asia primarily in modern-day Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, and Afghanistan. They were brought to the Netherlands in the late-16th century from the Ottoman Empire where the flower had been cultivated for decades prior. A botanist by the name of Carolus Clusius who in the 1590s had begun an important botanical garden at the University of Leiden, was one of the first to really pioneer the cultivation of tulips in the Netherlands. He had his own private garden in which he planted numerous bright and beautiful tulips and devoted much of his later life to studying the tulip and the mysterious phenomenon known as tulip breaking. Tulip Breaking and the Allure of the Diseased Bloom Tulip breaking is key to the story of the tulip mania. It was a strange occurrence in which the petal colors of the flower suddenly changed into multicolored patterns. Many years later it turned out that these strange looking tulips were actually the result of a virus that had infected them. Nonetheless, these essentially diseased multicolored tulips did nothing but serve to ramp up the tulip craze further. The mesmerizing diseased tulips became even more valuable than the uninfected ones and Dutch botanists began to compete with each other to cultivate new hybrid and more beautiful varieties of tulips. These became known as “cultivars” and would be traded among a small group of botanists and other flower aficionados. As time passed, the trade grew out from the group and botanists began to receive requests from people they did not know for not only the flowers, but the bulbs and seeds in exchange for money. Tulip brokerages began to open up and what was originally a “gentlemanly pursuit” turned into an all-out war for profits. A Golden Age for Trade — and Speculation Part of what helped this interest in Tulips grow, along with people’s willingness to exchange money for them, was the fact that the Netherlands in the early part of the 1600s had become the richest country in Europe mostly through trade. During this Dutch Golden Age, not only were there aristocrats with money, but middle-class merchants, artisans and tradesmen also found themselves with extra coin burning a hole in their pockets. Basically, this meant more people were able to spend money on luxuries such as cultivars that perhaps in other European countries would not have been commonplace. Besides the fact that people had money up and down the social class structure, the Netherlands and specifically Amsterdam already had robust trading platforms. The Amsterdam Stock Exchange opened in 1602 and the Baltic Grain Trade, an informal futures market itself, had begun decades earlier. The Netherlands was therefore primed for a new trade, which was to become Tulip Mania. The Bubble Inflates Tulips became the talk of the fledgling Dutch Republic.  “Neighbors seemed to talk to neighbors; colleagues with colleagues; shopkeepers, booksellers, bakers, and doctors with their clients gives one the sense of a community gripped, for a time, by this new fascination and enthralled by a sudden vision of its profitability,” wrote Anne Goldgar in Tulipmania: Money, Honor, and Knowledge in the Dutch Golden Age.  By the 1620s, prices were already rising to incredible levels. One story in particular was of an entire townhouse offered in exchange for just 10 bulbs of the very special cultivar, Semper Augustus (shown to the right), that had petals that looked a bit like a candy cane. Although the offer of an entire house for just 10 bulbs was incredible in its own right, the fact that the offer was rejected outlines just how much these flowers were considered to be worth at the time. In the years that followed it became more and more apparent that the tulip bulbs themselves were going for more money than the actual bloomed flowers. Speculators piled into the markets like wildfire, trading the bulbs rather than the flowers, which resulted in what you might call a futures market. By 1633, rather than bother with guilders, the Dutch even began using the bulbs as a currency themselves. There are numerous records of land properties being sold for bulbs. At the time, guilders and florins referred to the same Dutch currency and were used interchangeably throughout the 17th century. As word spread that one could make ridiculous sums of money simply by buying and selling the bulbs, prices skyrocketed even higher. According to the BBC, in 1633 a single bulb of Semper Augustus was worth 5,500 guilders. 4 years later in 1637, the sum had nearly doubled to 10,000 guilders. A bulb worth 10,000 guilders in 1637 would be roughly equivalent to €100,000–€120,000 today. You may be wondering what a guilder is—the guilder was the Dutch currency up until the adoption of the Euro. Having said that, to put the above numbers into perspective, according to Mike Dash who wrote Tulipomania: The Story of the World’s Most Coveted Flower and the Extraordinary Passions It Aroused, “It was enough to feed, clothe and house a whole Dutch family for half a lifetime, or sufficient to purchase one

COMMENT: The latest that the pipe bomb was planted in a desperate effort to turn January 6th into a civil war to invoke the 14th Amendment to prevent Trump from ever running for office is no different than you cost Soros $2 billion, Safra $1 billion and so on by forecasting Russia would collapse and they retaliated since you refused to invest $10 billion for their regime change in Russia. The recent revelation that the neocons at the CIA assassinated JFK, all have a common thread. It has always been about the conquest of Russia. This makes Watergate look like child’s play, and even that was carried out by ex-CIA operatives. No wonder JFK wanted to shut down the CIA. This is about running the country and eliminating all our freedoms. With your track record in forecasting, unmatched by anyone else, you should be on the front page of the Wall Street Journal. Mainstream media ignores you because they take their orders from this same group. With each revelation, the real enemy is within, not Russia. LM ANSWER: This is a coup against the American people. Everywhere you turn there are people with their fingers in this pot. They would not even allow Bobby Kennedy to run on the Democratic ticket. Kamala never stood in a primary, she was just appointed like Ursula in the EU. Screw Democracy. Everything they do is to keep the reins of power in the Deep State and it is far more sinister than most realize. The Neocons are well entrenched even in the Trump Administration right down to Scott Bessent. Planting this pipe bomb outside the Democratic Headquarters was to make it look like Trump supporters are insurrectionists indeed to use the 14th Amendment against Trump. The only pretend Republicans allowed on the January 6th Committee were the Neocons – Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger, who said we could take Russia in 3 days and started “Republicans for Harris” all to keep WWIII in their control. Thank God Kinzinger was voted out of office in 2023. I had tapes of bankers expressly saying that they were paying bribes within Russia to manipulate markets. In 1993, the Russian government established the company Almazyuvelirexport (AUEX). This entity was given a state monopoly on the export of precious metals (like platinum, palladium, and rhodium) and gemstones (especially diamonds). I was told that they paid bribes to cut off the sale of platinum to drive the price up so they could exploit the auto manufacturers. I was even approached by a lawyer for Ford who was considering filing a lawsuit against the bankers for that manipulation. The AUEX prohibited the right to export platinum, by anyone other than them. The Soviet Union had built up massive stockpiles of PGMs, especially palladium. After the USSR collapsed in 1991, the new Russian government began selling these stockpiles to earn hard currency. This influx of metal kept global prices suppressed. Around 1995-1997, these stockpile sales suddenly slowed down and then largely stopped. The reasons were never fully transparent but were linked to deliberate strategy to support prices. All the tapes I had were seized by the court to protect the banks, then the receiver Alan Cohen magically became a board member of Goldman Sachs and continued to run my company from the board of Goldman. Then they claimed all the tapes were destroyed in the World Trade Center 911 attack to protect the banks.       It was Scott Bessent when he worked for Soros was the real architect of shorting the pound in 1992. He is the one that convinced Soros to take that trade. He was also with Soros in 1998/1999 when they were on investing in Russia along with everyone else. That is when I was asked to put in $10 billion to pull off a regime change in Russia and I refused. Bessent did not leave Soros until 2000. I do not know the full extent of his involvement in that trade other than he was there. Scott Bessent has publicly taken a strongly anti-Vladimir Putin / pro-Ukraine stance — and while he stops short of explicitly calling for unlimited war, his statements clearly support Ukraine, declare Russia’s aggression unacceptable, and back aggressive economic measures against Russia. I question his motives and if this is still the same old story of the NY bankers and hedge fund boys trying to take over Russia and all the gold, oil, diamonds, platinum, lumber, rare earths will all go through NY dealing desks. I do not understand how According to Wikipedia, Bessent was a Democrat and donated to them until 2024. He was an economic adviser and fundraiser for Trump’s 2024 campaign. That relationship with Trump helped position him for the nomination. I find this curious. The people doing the movie on me filed for FOIA trying to get all the communications behind who was demanding we be shut down by the banks and hedge funds who were always trying to manipulate the markets and the CFTC claimed they had nothing refusing to turnover anything. It had long been implied that Soros was behind that as well, after losing $2 billion when on the pound trade he made only $1 billion. Yet, the CFTC refused to turn over anything as a Deep State controlled entity typically does.  

The Roots of Tulip Mania So, what is the story with the tulip mania? Well, as some may be aware, the tulip is a national symbol of the Netherlands. The country is affectionately known by some as “the flower shop of the world.” If you’ve ever been to the Netherlands, you’ve probably seen some or visited some of the beautifully cultivated fields of colorful tulips lining the landscape of the Dutch countryside. There are countless tulip museums and tulip festivals are still celebrated annually throughout the country. The Dutch people even took their love of tulips abroad when emigrating from their homeland, starting up tulip festivals in places like New York (which Holland.com points out was originally known as New Amsterdam) and in the town aptly named Holland located in the U.S. state of Michigan. Despite this near obsession with tulips, the flower is not native to the Netherlands. They are actually native to the Pamir and Tan Shan mountain ranges located in Central Asia primarily in modern-day Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, and Afghanistan. They were brought to the Netherlands in the late-16th century from the Ottoman Empire where the flower had been cultivated for decades prior. A botanist by the name of Carolus Clusius who in the 1590s had begun an important botanical garden at the University of Leiden, was one of the first to really pioneer the cultivation of tulips in the Netherlands. He had his own private garden in which he planted numerous bright and beautiful tulips and devoted much of his later life to studying the tulip and the mysterious phenomenon known as tulip breaking. Tulip Breaking and the Allure of the Diseased Bloom Tulip breaking is key to the story of the tulip mania. It was a strange occurrence in which the petal colors of the flower suddenly changed into multicolored patterns. Many years later it turned out that these strange looking tulips were actually the result of a virus that had infected them. Nonetheless, these essentially diseased multicolored tulips did nothing but serve to ramp up the tulip craze further. The mesmerizing diseased tulips became even more valuable than the uninfected ones and Dutch botanists began to compete with each other to cultivate new hybrid and more beautiful varieties of tulips. These became known as “cultivars” and would be traded among a small group of botanists and other flower aficionados. As time passed, the trade grew out from the group and botanists began to receive requests from people they did not know for not only the flowers, but the bulbs and seeds in exchange for money. Tulip brokerages began to open up and what was originally a “gentlemanly pursuit” turned into an all-out war for profits. A Golden Age for Trade — and Speculation Part of what helped this interest in Tulips grow, along with people’s willingness to exchange money for them, was the fact that the Netherlands in the early part of the 1600s had become the richest country in Europe mostly through trade. During this Dutch Golden Age, not only were there aristocrats with money, but middle-class merchants, artisans and tradesmen also found themselves with extra coin burning a hole in their pockets. Basically, this meant more people were able to spend money on luxuries such as cultivars that perhaps in other European countries would not have been commonplace. Besides the fact that people had money up and down the social class structure, the Netherlands and specifically Amsterdam already had robust trading platforms. The Amsterdam Stock Exchange opened in 1602 and the Baltic Grain Trade, an informal futures market itself, had begun decades earlier. The Netherlands was therefore primed for a new trade, which was to become Tulip Mania. The Bubble Inflates Tulips became the talk of the fledgling Dutch Republic.  “Neighbors seemed to talk to neighbors; colleagues with colleagues; shopkeepers, booksellers, bakers, and doctors with their clients gives one the sense of a community gripped, for a time, by this new fascination and enthralled by a sudden vision of its profitability,” wrote Anne Goldgar in Tulipmania: Money, Honor, and Knowledge in the Dutch Golden Age.  By the 1620s, prices were already rising to incredible levels. One story in particular was of an entire townhouse offered in exchange for just 10 bulbs of the very special cultivar, Semper Augustus (shown to the right), that had petals that looked a bit like a candy cane. Although the offer of an entire house for just 10 bulbs was incredible in its own right, the fact that the offer was rejected outlines just how much these flowers were considered to be worth at the time. In the years that followed it became more and more apparent that the tulip bulbs themselves were going for more money than the actual bloomed flowers. Speculators piled into the markets like wildfire, trading the bulbs rather than the flowers, which resulted in what you might call a futures market. By 1633, rather than bother with guilders, the Dutch even began using the bulbs as a currency themselves. There are numerous records of land properties being sold for bulbs. At the time, guilders and florins referred to the same Dutch currency and were used interchangeably throughout the 17th century. As word spread that one could make ridiculous sums of money simply by buying and selling the bulbs, prices skyrocketed even higher. According to the BBC, in 1633 a single bulb of Semper Augustus was worth 5,500 guilders. 4 years later in 1637, the sum had nearly doubled to 10,000 guilders. A bulb worth 10,000 guilders in 1637 would be roughly equivalent to €100,000–€120,000 today. You may be wondering what a guilder is—the guilder was the Dutch currency up until the adoption of the Euro. Having said that, to put the above numbers into perspective, according to Mike Dash who wrote Tulipomania: The Story of the World’s Most Coveted Flower and the Extraordinary Passions It Aroused, “It was enough to feed, clothe and house a whole Dutch family for half a lifetime, or sufficient to purchase one

COMMENT: The latest that the pipe bomb was planted in a desperate effort to turn January 6th into a civil war to invoke the 14th Amendment to prevent Trump from ever running for office is no different than you cost Soros $2 billion, Safra $1 billion and so on by forecasting Russia would collapse and they retaliated since you refused to invest $10 billion for their regime change in Russia. The recent revelation that the neocons at the CIA assassinated JFK, all have a common thread. It has always been about the conquest of Russia. This makes Watergate look like child’s play, and even that was carried out by ex-CIA operatives. No wonder JFK wanted to shut down the CIA. This is about running the country and eliminating all our freedoms. With your track record in forecasting, unmatched by anyone else, you should be on the front page of the Wall Street Journal. Mainstream media ignores you because they take their orders from this same group. With each revelation, the real enemy is within, not Russia. LM ANSWER: This is a coup against the American people. Everywhere you turn there are people with their fingers in this pot. They would not even allow Bobby Kennedy to run on the Democratic ticket. Kamala never stood in a primary, she was just appointed like Ursula in the EU. Screw Democracy. Everything they do is to keep the reins of power in the Deep State and it is far more sinister than most realize. The Neocons are well entrenched even in the Trump Administration right down to Scott Bessent. Planting this pipe bomb outside the Democratic Headquarters was to make it look like Trump supporters are insurrectionists indeed to use the 14th Amendment against Trump. The only pretend Republicans allowed on the January 6th Committee were the Neocons – Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger, who said we could take Russia in 3 days and started “Republicans for Harris” all to keep WWIII in their control. Thank God Kinzinger was voted out of office in 2023. I had tapes of bankers expressly saying that they were paying bribes within Russia to manipulate markets. In 1993, the Russian government established the company Almazyuvelirexport (AUEX). This entity was given a state monopoly on the export of precious metals (like platinum, palladium, and rhodium) and gemstones (especially diamonds). I was told that they paid bribes to cut off the sale of platinum to drive the price up so they could exploit the auto manufacturers. I was even approached by a lawyer for Ford who was considering filing a lawsuit against the bankers for that manipulation. The AUEX prohibited the right to export platinum, by anyone other than them. The Soviet Union had built up massive stockpiles of PGMs, especially palladium. After the USSR collapsed in 1991, the new Russian government began selling these stockpiles to earn hard currency. This influx of metal kept global prices suppressed. Around 1995-1997, these stockpile sales suddenly slowed down and then largely stopped. The reasons were never fully transparent but were linked to deliberate strategy to support prices. All the tapes I had were seized by the court to protect the banks, then the receiver Alan Cohen magically became a board member of Goldman Sachs and continued to run my company from the board of Goldman. Then they claimed all the tapes were destroyed in the World Trade Center 911 attack to protect the banks.       It was Scott Bessent when he worked for Soros was the real architect of shorting the pound in 1992. He is the one that convinced Soros to take that trade. He was also with Soros in 1998/1999 when they were on investing in Russia along with everyone else. That is when I was asked to put in $10 billion to pull off a regime change in Russia and I refused. Bessent did not leave Soros until 2000. I do not know the full extent of his involvement in that trade other than he was there. Scott Bessent has publicly taken a strongly anti-Vladimir Putin / pro-Ukraine stance — and while he stops short of explicitly calling for unlimited war, his statements clearly support Ukraine, declare Russia’s aggression unacceptable, and back aggressive economic measures against Russia. I question his motives and if this is still the same old story of the NY bankers and hedge fund boys trying to take over Russia and all the gold, oil, diamonds, platinum, lumber, rare earths will all go through NY dealing desks. I do not understand how According to Wikipedia, Bessent was a Democrat and donated to them until 2024. He was an economic adviser and fundraiser for Trump’s 2024 campaign. That relationship with Trump helped position him for the nomination. I find this curious. The people doing the movie on me filed for FOIA trying to get all the communications behind who was demanding we be shut down by the banks and hedge funds who were always trying to manipulate the markets and the CFTC claimed they had nothing refusing to turnover anything. It had long been implied that Soros was behind that as well, after losing $2 billion when on the pound trade he made only $1 billion. Yet, the CFTC refused to turn over anything as a Deep State controlled entity typically does.