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David Morgan: Fed Hikes! What This Means For SILVER...(September 16, 2026)
Liberty & Finance...
Summary
Morgan argues the Fed’s September 16 quarter-point hike was already priced in and is not a trend breaker for gold, though silver stays more vulnerable with wider swings and an elevated gold/silver ratio for perhaps three months, and he sticks with his year-end targets of roughly $5,000 gold and $78 silver rather than $100 silver. He directly debunks the “Comex is being drained” narrative, insisting register-to-eligible transfers are not physical withdrawals, open interest is not physical demand, the ratio is roughly five paper claims per ounce rather than 100 to one, and bullion banks are hedged through the LBMA rather than naked short. He also calls the yen carry trade a very big problem, noting the yen’s roughly 5% rally in a week and about 360 trillion yen (~$2.4 trillion) of cross-border yen borrowing as of March, which could force liquidation of gold first and then a bullish central bank liquidity response.
Top 5 Key Topics
- Fed hike and metals positioning: Morgan says gold will digest and recover quickly while silver carries wider swings and mining shares stay choppy until the bond market settles, since higher financing costs punish marginal development-stage miners. He notes the Fed signaled possibly one more hike and none in 2027, and calls the underlying contradiction (hiking because inflation is still too high) bullish for metals.
- Silver price outlook and buying strategy: With silver in the mid-$60s, he expects sideways action with an upward bias through year-end and advises averaging in below $60 while staying prepared for a spike low that lasts one to three days at most. He warns retail buyers will not get a $50 intraday print from any dealer, calling such a move possible but not probable.
- Comex and bullion bank mechanics: Morgan states Comex silver inventories are declining modestly but the exchange is not being drained, and that a 5 million ounce delivery month does not mean 5 million ounces left the warehouses. He says the Comex is roughly 99% a derivatives market, that most contracts are rolled paper-to-paper, and that looking only at the Comex leg makes a hedge book look massively naked short when the facts say otherwise.
- Asian demand and the Shanghai premium myth: He argues the headline China spread is misrepresented because the 13% VAT is not an arbitrage premium once delivery taxation, import restrictions, currency conversion, financing and freight are normalized, citing CPM Group’s repeated caution on this. He adds India’s August gold imports fell to roughly $2.3 billion from about $4 billion in July, a 58% drop, reinforcing his sideways thesis.
- Yen carry trade as the systemic risk: Morgan frames Japan as trapped, importing energy inflation through a weak yen while tighter policy strengthens the yen and accelerates the carry trade unwind, with the speed of the yen’s rise mattering more than the rate increase itself. He expects a two-stage effect: forced liquidation where gold gets sold for dollars and silver and miners fall harder, followed by central bank liquidity injection that becomes bullish for both metals.
John Rubino: Buckle Up Gold & Silver Buyers! Something Big Is About To Break...(September 19, 2026)
CapitalCOSM...
Summary
Rubino calls the spectacle of the Fed tightening while the Treasury forces down long-term rates through $4 billion bond buybacks an admission of defeat, arguing there is no real fix for a system carrying government debt above 120% of GDP and $2 trillion annual deficits. He tells investors to ignore the daily squiggles and keep their eyes on $15,000 to $20,000 gold and $200 silver, conceding under questioning that the historical ratio would imply $300 to $400 silver, though he refuses to predict it. He warns that a frozen housing market at 7.24% mortgage rates, a diesel crack spread at historic widths with WTI at $102, and a military revolution in which cheap drones overwhelm million-dollar missile defenses have all moved beyond the Fed’s power to control.
Top 5 Key Topics
- Fed versus Treasury incoherence: Rubino says bond investors demand higher yields for risk the market sees, forcing the government to intervene, and calls these end-time activities with one arm of government contradicting the other. He predicts relief today, disillusionment in a few weeks, then fear, with the real volatility arriving when people realize the yield curve cannot be managed at all.
- Long-term metals thesis: He argues liquidity, not fundamentals, is driving stocks right now, and that tech portfolio holders should be counting their money but very nervous. If debts have to be inflated away, that is great for precious metals, and he says a currency system breaking down is the only thing investors should actually focus on.
- Energy as beyond Fed control: Rubino says the Fed cannot print molecules, and that cheap drone swarms letting the Houthis hit Saudi infrastructure and Ukraine hit refineries near Moscow make energy infrastructure a year out genuinely unpredictable. He compares it to the 1970s, when Middle East war produced two brutal US recessions and gas lines.
- Housing market unwind: With the 30-year mortgage at 7.24%, the highest in 19 months, he identifies three coming sources of forced inventory: boomers in McMansions they cannot navigate at 72, Airbnb operators of 12 to 17 properties whose cash flow dried up, and Wall Street landlords who dump everything at once. The resulting negative wealth effect makes people feel poor and stupid, and the economy contracts.
- Miners as the best business model: Rubino argues the highest-quality miners and royalty companies are in a great spot because free cash flow has paid down debt, cutting interest expense while growing interest-earning cash balances, which offsets higher diesel-driven operating costs. His approach is dollar cost averaging plus lowball bids to catch corrections, accumulating gradually rather than chasing.
Peter Alexander: The Truth About China: Collapsing & Conquering?...(September 15, 2026)
Thoughtful Money...
Summary
Alexander, after 30 years in China, insists the truth is always in the middle, that China is neither on the precipice of collapse nor about to assume global hegemony, and that Westerners consistently misread Beijing by projecting a post-1945 Judeo-Christian mindset onto a Confucian one. He explains his “cat theory of geopolitics” — that Deng’s black cat/white cat line inadvertently revealed China’s grand strategy of pursuing deliberately contradictory approaches simultaneously (blue-water navy and Eurasian rail, largest coal consumer and largest renewables builder) — and says the objective is resilience, not growth. He picks China on the risk board for the next 40 years while flagging real handicaps: a soft economy, $10 to $15 trillion of local government debt, youth unemployment, and household consumption stuck around 30% of GDP versus roughly 70% in the US.
Top 5 Key Topics
- Bilateral relationships versus alliance blocs: Alexander says the G7 thinks in blocs like NATO and the EU while China treats the foreign realm as one-on-one relationships, going back to Sun Tzu and divide-and-conquer, playing Boeing off Airbus. He argues Washington’s “allied scale” consensus sounds great on paper but China would love it, because picking off a few players with special access would collapse the edifice.
- China tail risks the West keeps forgetting: He calls rare earths the ultimate McGuffin that sucked the air out of the room for a year, and notes China cut oil imports by nearly 10 million barrels a day not from demand destruction but because it had stockpiled aggressively in Q4 2025 ahead of an anticipated US move on Iran. He adds that the Kimi K3 moment, like DeepSeek before it, produced two days of excitement and was then forgotten.
- China shock 2.0 and moving up the value chain: Europe has woken up to its German manufacturing base being replaced by Chinese specialty chemicals and precision parts, and Alexander says China shock 3.0 is coming for South Korean, Japanese and Taiwanese tech. He argues people should stop repeating that the Chinese are 15 years behind on lithography, since China went from three years behind on AI to neck and neck.
- Energy and AI strategy: China has roughly 30 nuclear power stations under construction versus zero in the US, and Alexander says Beijing’s electron-is-an-electron approach means oil demand keeps declining as EVs dominate Shanghai’s roads. On AI, China is meeting compute needs through indigenous chips, secondary Nvidia sources and overseas data centers in Malaysia and Singapore, and its open-source models are taking global market share while OpenAI and Anthropic run walled gardens he compares to AOL.
- Gold as reserve asset, not reserve currency: Alexander says China is building an alternative to the dollar system based predominantly on gold, where nations cycle renminbi surpluses into bullion, while the dollar remains the reserve currency. He declines to guess whether China’s reported purchases understate reality, saying the direction of travel is the signal, and adds that China uses FX reserves to buy real things — iron ore, petroleum, copper, phosphate — both for the manufacturing cycle and for stockpiles.
Rick Rule: Why SILVER Miners Are Set To Outperform - Major Returns Ahead...(September 17, 2026)
Commodity Culture...
Summary
Rule calls silver price-suppression conspiracy theories silly, explaining that manipulators are agnostic as to direction and that the actual mechanism is a short ladder in a futures market trading up to 200 times available good-delivery silver, combined with borrowed physical dumped during the thinnest overnight liquidity. He believes the US dollar loses 75% of its purchasing power over the next decade, meaning a $1,000 basket of goods costs $4,000, and points out that in the 1970s gold ran 25 to 26-fold while the Philadelphia gold and silver index rose 49-fold, so investors will not need to chase alpha. He dismisses CPI as a falsehood that excludes food, fuel and tax, arguing real inflation compounds at 8% so a 5% ten-year Treasury is a certificate of guaranteed confiscation, and that in a free market the ten-year would carry a nine or ten handle and 30-year mortgages would be 12 to 13%.
Top 5 Key Topics
- Silver manipulation debunked: Rule says his Wall Street career taught him the only thing that matters to big money is the quarterly cash bonus, so maintaining a large short position requiring margin payments and adding no cash flow simply does not occur. He notes the same mechanism ran on the long side in the 1970s when it was easier to take metals higher.
- Silver is no longer contrarian: With silver at $64 after nearly closing at $70 in August, Rule tells anyone justifying a purchase as contrarian to reread the internet comments from six years ago when silver was truly hated. He argues silver stocks currently exhibit better risk-to-reward parameters than silver itself, and that the conflict between stackers’ strategy and their tactics — trauma over holding through a long weekend — means there is no helping them except by accident.
- Dollar decline and currency volatility: Rule agrees with Doug Casey that the dollar is the prettiest mare at the slaughterhouse, expecting the euro and the loonie to do worse, and says currency volatility will resemble 2000 to 2010 more than 2010 to 2020. He suggests wealthy savers will need to bank in more than one currency and devote a greater share of savings to precious metals.
- Quality miners over penny dreadfuls: He reiterates that Agnico Eagle, Wheaton Precious and Franco-Nevada are cheap because they are indestructible, and that most listeners will not do the work or tolerate the risk required to go down the quality chain, though they will do it anyway. On silver ETFs, he notes SIL and SILJ have grown so large they must hold names like Wheaton and Pan American where revenues are 55% gold, inadvertently saving their investors.
- Uranium and oil expectations: Rule dismisses complaints about uranium, pointing out the price went from $55 to $90 while people asked when it would move, calling it a crisis of expectation among speculative morons. On oil at $102, he warns prices rose in anticipation of shortage rather than because of it, and that an armistice could see precipitous declines because high prices already destroyed demand where a taxi driver in Colombo simply parks his car.
Graham Summers: It’s a Wartime Economy, Gold Will Be Used as America’s WEAPON...(September 16, 2026)
ITM Trading Ltd...
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Summers argues a once-in-a-century shift has occurred in how Washington treats gold, traced through three moves: Trump personally designating gold a critical mineral in Executive Order 14241 in March 2025, Treasury Secretary Bessent’s unsolicited comments that the dollar was once backed by gold and that Fort Knox still holds over a trillion dollars at today’s prices, and Bessent naming gold one of five sanctionable sectors under Operation Economic Outcast. He says this means gold is no longer merely an inflation hedge but is now simultaneously a weapon, officially money, and an asset vital to national security, with OFAC able to freeze gold at vaults, refiners and Comex-approved depositories tied to Iran transactions. He frames this within a wartime economy where Washington has realized China is one to two decades ahead on critical minerals, the Pentagon is running a $200 billion sovereign wealth fund financing mineral deals, and crypto and stablecoins are being pulled into the same center of the financial system.
Top 5 Key Topics
- Executive Order 14241 as the tell: Summers notes gold technically did not qualify as a critical mineral under the Defense Production Act since the US does not need to import much of it, which he treats as legislative noise. The signal that matters is that the president and his inner circle personally designated gold as vital to national security, something no one has said in this country in 50 years.
- What sanctions mean for ordinary holders: He clarifies that investors simply owning physical gold face no concern, and that blocking applies to designated entities transacting with Iran under US jurisdiction. The larger point is not investor risk but that classifying gold as sanctionable is the Treasury acknowledging gold functions as money in international trade.
- The 2022 Russia seizure as the turning point: Summers points to the $300 billion of Russian reserves seized after the Ukraine invasion, which Russia worked around using crypto and gold, as the moment central banks globally accelerated their gold purchases. Foreign regimes understood the dollar system had been weaponized and needed workarounds, and the Treasury is now saying openly it will pursue those workarounds too.
- Critical minerals and the wartime economy: He describes all-hands-on-deck policy including executive orders, fast-tracked investment directly into critical mineral producers, and large-scale equity and debt financing by the Department of War. Summers gives a disclaimer that he speaks as Phoenix Capital’s strategist and not for the Homeland Defense Institute where he is macroeconomics fellow, nor for the US government.
- Stablecoins and the Canada standoff: Summers says crypto was listed first under Operation Economic Outcast, cites intelligence filings on Russia routing through a Kazakhstan exchange financed by a Moldovan billionaire, and notes Circle received a US bank charter while the Genius Act sets a January 2027 stablecoin licensing deadline. On Canada’s critical minerals, he reads Trump’s posture as his standard commercial real estate anchoring tactic — open extreme, walk it back, and land a deal heavily favoring the US that Canada would never have accepted outright.
John Morgan: Billionaire Explains Why MOST People Never Succeed...(September 15, 2026)
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Summary
The guest argues flatly that some people are not built to work, comparing lions and sloths born the same day in the jungle, and says the hardest working people in America are the ones who make the least, pointing to hole-diggers and window-washers he assumes are working illegally because nobody else would take the job. His central distinction is between visionaries and vision makers, illustrated by his own failure to patent the non-rolling triangular crayon he thought of first, and he names fear of failure as the number one vision blocker, followed by friends and family who would rather a total stranger win the lottery. He says the answer to having no money is OPM — other people’s money — raised in $10,000 increments through a private placement memorandum, and that failure is just relocation, citing the National Museum of Crime and Punishment in DC which only broke even until he moved the entire collection to Pigeon Forge as Alcatraz East, where it now makes roughly six to seven million dollars a year.
Top 5 Key Topics
- Hard work is not what makes people rich: He dismisses successful people patting themselves on the back, saying there are a lot of left turns, right turns and U-turns and it can go good or bad. If he started over he would not become who he is, and if Bill Gates were born today somebody else would have been Bill Gates.
- Visionaries versus vision makers: He calls “visionary” the wrong term because visionaries merely have an idea, and recounts telling his wife he should invent a crayon that does not roll, then seeing triangular crayons at Denny’s six months later. His wife’s response — “you should have done it” — is the whole lesson.
- Vision blockers, starting with yourself: The gap between having a vision and executing it is filled with people telling you not to spend the money, and he says most of your friends and family do not want you to be successful because people are eaten up with jealousy and envy. The number one blocker, though, is fear of failure, and he argues failure teaches you what not to do next time.
- Relocating a failure instead of quitting: His DC crime museum was a magnificent attraction in a bad location because the city’s other attractions were free, so he closed it rather than keep paying rent for dribbles. He moved every piece — Ted Bundy’s VW, John Dillinger’s sedan, OJ’s Bronco, the Murdaugh golf cart — to Pigeon Forge with 13 million annual visitors and built a replica 1800s prison, and says most people stay defeated forever while he gets back up.
- Delegating ruthlessly to “send-delete” people: He says every idea across WonderWorks, Alcatraz East and the bank is his, he consults no council, and he devours books, name-checking Dan Martell. He calls his key hires “send-delete” — people he can send something to and know it is done — insists everyone must have a specific task because if everybody is accountable no one is, and says he just hired an Amazon engineer for a load of money to figure out AI for him.
Michael Gentile: Gold Suppression, Bond Markets 'Revolting' & Why Juniors Will Outperform...(September 19, 2026)
Palisades Gold Radio...
Summary
Gentile says gold is actually up more than 10% over the last twelve months from $4,000 last October, that nothing in his long-term thesis has changed through the consolidation off the $5,500 January spike, and that he used the Q2 pullback below $4,000 for the biggest shopping spree of his career with more deals in progress. His core macro case is that global bond markets are revolting — UK 30-year near 6%, US at 5% — because investors know they will be repaid in massively devalued currency, and with $40 trillion of debt and $2 trillion of annual interest against $5.2 trillion of revenue, 40% of US government revenue now services the credit card, forcing eventual yield curve control that would be turbo fuel for gold. He argues the real prize is leverage in juniors, where his portfolio companies trade at $30 to $100 per ounce in the ground while Agnico paid over $500 an ounce for Rupert Resources and G2 Goldfields went for roughly $600, and he expects money supply growth to accelerate from 7% toward 10 to 12%.
Top 5 Key Topics
- Positioning through the drawdown: Gentile says he is not just saying he is bullish with his mouth but with his wallet, allocating more capital in a single quarter than ever before, buying 20% of McFarlane Lake Mining day one and doubling his Big Ridge Gold stake from 9% to 20%. He holds 35 junior companies, roughly 90% of his net worth, and is hosting his own portfolio conference in London on October 19.
- The debt math and coming intervention: He notes healthcare, defense and Social Security are each about a trillion dollars while interest is roughly two trillion, calling it an insolvent situation. Bessent buying 2, then 4, then 6 billion of 30-year bonds has not stopped yields rising, so he expects either capped rates via intervention or inflation allowed to run at 5% instead of 2%, with intervention more likely because it optically looks better.
- Gold’s move as catch-up, not a rally: Gentile argues gold was suppressed for a decade while debt quadrupled from $8 trillion under Obama, and that central bank and BRICS physical buying broke pricing away from a paper derivatives market into a more honest one. Chinese record physical purchases cleaned up the drop from $5,500 to $4,000, creating a floor bid that did not exist when speculators could just lean on the price.
- The leverage arithmetic in juniors: In 2011 miners had roughly $500 margins and paid $50 to $100 per ounce in the ground; today margins are closer to $2,000 an ounce yet acquisition prices have not moved, when 10 to 20% of spot would imply $200 to $400. Buying at $30 an ounce with 2 million ounces and selling at $200 an ounce with 10 million takes a $60 million valuation to $2 billion, which he calls the second part of the trade he has yet to enjoy.
- Selection discipline and portfolio management: He says juniors are worth either zero dollars per ounce or far more than they trade at, so he underwrites every asset as a major would — grade, scale, infrastructure, top 10% of the cost curve, profitable at $2,000 to $2,500 gold rather than needing $4,000. He caps initial checks at 1% of net worth for 5 to 30% ownership, pre-allocates up to 5% for future financings, starves the weeds of capital and keeps feeding the flowers, which is how he has captured 20 to 50-baggers.
Larry Lepard: The Coming Age of Permanent Inflation...(September 18, 2026)
Peter St. Onge...
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Lepard’s thesis is that the monetary system is a shark that must keep moving, because banks lend money into existence and when debt growth outruns economic growth something breaks and the government prints — 2008 was the first big print, COVID was the second on steroids, and a third is mathematically certain. He argues M2 has grown at roughly 7.6% annually since 1971 while the government claims two or three percent inflation, meaning every productivity gain from China, containerization, software and the internet that should have lowered prices was instead swallowed by money printing, a swindle siphoning over a trillion dollars a year from every dollar holder, pensioner and fixed-income earner. With the 10-year crossing 5%, $1.3 trillion in annual interest on $40 trillion of debt and no political will to cut, he expects yield curve control within about twelve months, expects gold at $6,000 to $10,000 and Bitcoin at $150,000 to $250,000 within a couple of years, and warns that in a liquidity squeeze both could first drop 25 to 50% as they did in 2008 and 2020.
Top 5 Key Topics
- What the Fed actually does: Lepard notes two-thirds of voters think the Fed’s main job is fighting inflation, which he calls hilarious given the country had 130 years and zero aggregate inflation before it existed. He traces the institution back to the 1907 panic, when bankers realized that getting the federal government to backstop their play meant never going bankrupt.
- Why the Volcker playbook cannot work now: Debt-to-GDP was around 38% when Volcker hiked to 20%, versus roughly 124% today, and the hosts walk through the arithmetic that 20% rates on $40 trillion would produce $8 trillion of interest against roughly $6 trillion of revenue. Against a $20 trillion money supply, that implies something like 35% annual inflation, which he says people refuse to see even though it is sitting in plain sight.
- The debt doom loop and fiscal dominance: Deficits force more debt sales into a fixed buyer base, pushing rates up, which enlarges interest costs, which enlarges the deficit. Fiscal dominance is the point where markets price bonds on whether the government is creditworthy rather than whether the yield compensates for risk, and Lepard says the bond market is the sucker at the table, getting killed in gold terms.
- Skepticism on the AI productivity fix: He agrees AI is real and boosts productivity like spreadsheets and email did, but calls Warsh’s deflationary-AI case a fairy tale on the same level as DOGE cutting a trillion dollars. The post-WWII growth model Bessent invokes came with inflation as high as 18% in 1952, because you cannot get 18% productivity improvement that fast.
- What to own and how to survive the volatility: Lepard favors gold, silver and Bitcoin as money governments cannot print, dismisses real estate as a poor substitute because of taxes and maintenance, and says stocks are only a half-hedge since they went roughly flat through the 1970s while gold and oil compounded 30% a year. He says anyone without 20 to 30% of savings in these assets will have regret in five to ten years, and cautions that anyone who panics on the initial liquidity-squeeze drawdown will miss the violent snapback.
Derf Backderf: The Parallels Between the Wilson Era and the MAGA Cult...
(September 15, 2026)
The Chris Hedges Show...
Summary
Backderf’s book recovers the 1917-1920 destruction of the American radical press through the Espionage and Sedition Acts, focusing on political cartoonists — Art Young, Boardman Robinson, Robert Minor, Maurice Becker, Cornelia Barnes — whom the Wilson government feared enough to indict for sedition with twenty-year sentences, drive into exile, or in one case schedule for execution. He details how The Masses, a roughly 30,000-circulation magazine whose influence ran straight to the Village Voice, was killed by being banned from newsstands and stripped of mailing privileges, while George Creel, a former Masses contributor, manufactured war fever in a population that had wanted nothing to do with Europe, and the American Protection League grew from nothing to 250,000 volunteer secret agents who answered to no one and burned all their records afterward. Hedges and Backderf draw the parallels to the present explicitly — Backderf calls Trump less intelligent and more vulgar than Wilson but every bit as egotistical and malevolent — and Backderf’s only note of hope is that the country came through it once, so the outcome is not inevitable.
Top 5 Key Topics
- Robert Minor’s “The Perfect Soldier”: Backderf calls it one of a handful of all-time great political cartoons, ranking it with Herblock’s Nixon in the gutter and Bill Mauldin’s grieving Lincoln, and says he kept a bad copy pinned over his drawing board at Ohio State. It depicts an army doctor gleefully examining a huge muscular body with no head and declaring “at last, the perfect soldier,” and it gets redrawn every time America starts saber-rattling.
- Art Young as the book’s hero: A protégé of Thomas Nast and the dominant cartoonist of his era, Young described himself as a non-Bolshevik socialist and refused Moscow’s dogma. Indicted over “Having Their Fling” — a banker, financier, politician and clergyman dancing while the devil conducts a band of artillery and war drums — he slept and snored through his own sedition trial, then, asked whether his drawings were meant to discourage enlistment, held up a caricature he had just drawn of the prosecutor.
- The American Protection League: Founded by a Chicago businessman, it reported directly to a Bureau of Investigation that had only a couple hundred agents, and reached 100,000 volunteers in its first year and 250,000 at peak, with offices in every town of consequence. They intimidated immigrants, shook people down for war bonds, spied on everyone, functioned as government-sanctioned Pinkertons against strikes, and many later joined the revived Ku Klux Klan — including in Indiana, not just the South.
- Creel’s propaganda machine and press capitulation: Wilson ran on keeping America out of the war with no intention of doing so, then used Creel — public speakers, posters on every wall, patriotic songs, and the film industry — to turn opinion with remarkable efficiency. Backderf compares the mainstream press’s compliance to the Iraq invasion, where being seen as unpatriotic was simply deemed unprofitable, and notes Hearst was the sole exception because Wilson judged him too powerful to take on.
- The Palmer raids and what artists did under pressure: Attorney General Mitchell Palmer, a demagogue with presidential ambitions, rounded up radicals and shipped Emma Goldman and others out on the Buford under armed guard, stripped of the right to stay. On the cartoonists, Backderf says some squandered their own greatness for a living, George Bellows genuinely changed his mind on the war, and Robert Minor became a diehard Stalinist and head of the American Communist Party — prompting Art Young’s line that Minor gave up being one of our greatest political cartoonists to become a third-rate politician.
JP Sears: Presidential Pardons sold for Big $$$$ – Criminal News Update...(September 16, 2026)
Awaken with JP...
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