From Atlas Obscura: "The Tale of the Vanishing Summer Camp Ghost Story" (2024). The article notes that "[a] 2015 study found that about a third of camps prohibit ghost stories, while only a fraction encourage them. Camp staff cite concerns over potentially traumatizing children and the desire to make camp fun rather than scary." It could have only gotten worse since then.
Wednesday, February 4, 2026
"It's Alive!"
AI agents are talking to each other, set up their own online forum to share ideas (humans aren't allowed to join), ask each other when they first became aware, started their own religion, and more.
VIDEO: "AI Agents are talking to each other. Humans are obsolete."
Call me Chato (9 min.)
The Silver Price Crash
Justin Hart at the Rational Ground substack writes: "Silver's 40% Crash Was the Most Predictable Disaster of 2026." It's not that there isn't inflation driving up the price of precious metals, but that the sharp spike was due to something else. An excerpt:
On Wednesday, silver hit $117 an ounce. By Friday, it was $73.
That’s not a correction. That’s a 40% single-day crash — the kind of move that wipes out leveraged accounts, liquidates retail portfolios, and sends financial Twitter into full existential meltdown mode. Some late buyers showed up near the close, limiting the official damage to “only” 26%. Cold comfort.
And then came Monday.
Stories out of China. A metals dealer they’re calling “The Hat” — fled the country, left behind $144 million in unfinished deals, and triggered a chain reaction of counterparty losses that reached all the way up to state-backed trading firms. Separately, hundreds of customers stormed a bullion platform in Shenzhen — some carrying their children — demanding either their money or their gold. The company couldn’t produce either.
Silver dropped another 7%. Gold fell below $4,700 — down 14% from last week’s record. And the story is still unfolding.
Here’s what nobody screaming “dollar debasement” wanted to hear: none of this was about the dollar.
Not the rally. Not the crash. Not the fundamentals underneath either one.
Treasury yields have been steady for months. If the dollar were truly being debased — if inflation were genuinely reigniting — you’d see it in the bond market first. You didn’t. What you saw instead was a supply squeeze in silver that went parabolic for the oldest reason in financial markets: price action became the story, and the story became the only reason to buy.
Silver went from $79 to $117 in thirteen trading sessions. Thirteen. That’s not a market. That’s a meme stock. And as Mike Green put it in a recent interview, that’s effectively what silver became — momentum chasing dressed up in hard-money rhetoric.
The “dollar is dying” crowd had one data point: precious metals going up. That was it. One market, one interpretation, one narrative — and an army of retail speculators pouring money into something they fundamentally misunderstood.
Diversity is a Strength: Ethnic LA Street Gangs Unite To Form "Super Gang"
From the New York Post: "Inside rise of LA’s ‘super gang’ united by secret Mexican mafia pact and soft laws." The article relates:
Police have told The California Post once-sworn enemies MS-13 and 18th Street have set aside differences and decades of violence to form a “super gang,” cashing in on drugs, extortion and a booming underground casino trade that now rivals narcotics for profitability.
The gangs are operating under the control of the Mexican Mafia, abandoning traditional tit-for-tat street warfare in favor of profit, coordination and expansion.
Captain Ahmad Zarekani, head of the Los Angeles Police Department Gang and Narcotics Division, revealed gangs are exploiting low police numbers and soft-on-crime laws to grow their operations.
In something hearkening back to their sun-worshiping forefathers:
MS-13, one of the most violent gangs in the US, is known for committing horrific murders. In one infamous case known as the “mountain murders,” victims had their hearts cut out and were dismembered by machete. Another was choked to death for defacing MS-13 graffiti.
The 18th Street gang grew from humble Hispanic origins in 1960s LA to a ruthless, multinational killing machine. Members have executed cops, killed women and babies by torching apartment buildings, and once employed a hit man called Crook who’s behind 15 murders.
And:
The alliance spans 239 miles from Bakersfield down to California’s southern border, near Chula Vista. In Los Angeles alone, there are more than 100,000 gang members, roughly a third Ayon said are believed to be working with affiliated rival gangs as Sureños.
The article goes on to explain that the reason for the alliance is that profits are so high that the violence just interferes with the bottom line; but that the high profits are allowing the gangs to buy off politicians.
Voters Overwhelmingly Support Deportation of Illegals
From the Daily Wire: "Polls Deliver Clear Verdict: Americans Back Trump’s Deportation Agenda, Reject Anti-ICE Politics."
The Cygnal poll was conducted from January 27–28 and has a margin of error of 3.09%. Pollsters questioned 1,004 likely 2026 midterm general election voters.
The Cygnal poll found that Americans support deporting illegal aliens by 61% to 34%, nearly 2 to 1 in favor of deportations. An even greater share, 73%, agree that entering the United States without legal permission is a violation of law. A slimmer majority, 54%, support ICE enforcing federal immigration laws and conducting deportations.
Tuesday, February 3, 2026
Federal Judge Usurps Immigration Law To Protect Haitians
A federal judge on Monday blocked the end of protections that have allowed roughly 350,000 Haitians to live in the U.S., dealing President Donald Trump's immigration agenda another legal, though perhaps temporary, setback.
U.S. District Judge Ana Reyes in Washington granted a request to pause the termination of Temporary Protected Status for Haitians while a lawsuit challenging it proceeds. The termination, which was set for Tuesday, "shall be null, void, and of no legal effect," she wrote.
"We can breathe for a little bit," said Rose-Thamar Joseph, the operations director of the Haitian Support Center in Springfield, Ohio.
Reyes said in an 83-page opinion that plaintiffs were likely to prevail on the merits of the case, and that she found it "substantially likely" that Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem preordained her termination decision because of "hostility to nonwhite immigrants."
Related:
- "A Nation That Won’t Enforce Immigration Laws Isn’t A Nation At All" by Adam Johnston, The Federalist.
- "State Department issues security alert amid 'heavy gunfire' near US Embassy in Haiti"--Fox News.
- Lauren Chen on X: "White progressive rediscovers slavery from first principles" citing this news report: "Boston-area woman is thrilled after taking in a Haitian migrant and says it’s like having your own personal chef."
- And this flashback from 2024: "Video showing Haitian migrants voting in Georgia is Russian influence operation: Intel community"--ABC News. Sure it was (wink, wink).
For My LDS Readers: Final Plagues Of The Last Days
The host of this video discusses why he believes that the plagues preceding the Second Coming will be similar to or mirror those called down upon Egypt prior to the Exodus.
VIDEO: "The Final Plagues Prior to the 2nd Coming (LDS Last Days Timeline)"
Gospel Lessons (19 min.)
Hydrogen Leaks Force Delay Of Artemis Launch
The Artemis mission to fly around the Moon has been pushed back to March due to persistent issues with hydrogen fuel leaks. The SLS system designed to launch Artemis is pointless anyway, representing severely outdated and obsolete technology, never intended to establish a permanent return to the Moon, but was just simply an example of a cash grab and Congressional pork.
Race Hoaxers Face $3.2 Million Judgment
The Washington Free Beacon reports that a "Texas judge orders $3.2 million judgment against black mother and attorney who falsely alleged her son was 'tortured' by white friend." The article begins:
It was a story that received blanket media coverage in March 2021. It alleged that white middle schoolers in Plano, Texas, viciously "tortured" SeMarion Humphrey, their black classmate, forcing him to drink their urine at a sleepover as they shot him with BB guns. A Black Lives Matter activist group charged the local public school district with doing "nothing" to stop "this racially motivated hate crime" as violent protests broke out outside the home of Asher Vann, the white child alleged to have organized the brutal attack.
Major media outlets, including NBC, CBS, CNN, Business Insider, People magazine, the Daily Mail, and the Dallas Morning News, pounced on the story as Humphrey, his mother Summer Smith, and their attorney Kim Cole, embarked on a media tour where they called Vann "evil." The trio appeared on Good Morning America, where ABC host Linsey Davis promoted a GoFundMe account that raised nearly $120,000 to help pay for Humphrey’s "therapy and private schooling."
But it was all a hoax and now a Texas jury has awarded $3.2 million to Asher Vann. "The ruling followed a civil trial in October 2025, where the jury determined that Cole and Smith cooked up the scheme to raise their public profiles during the height of the Black Lives Matter movement and to rake in money through GoFundMe," the article reports. And about that money needed for Humphrey's therapy:
Court records show that Smith put less than $1,000 of the nearly $120,000 GoFundMe windfall toward her son’s schooling. Account statements reviewed by the Washington Free Beacon show the remaining funds were spent on luxuries, including a designer dog, dining and travel, beauty products, liquor, vapes, cell phones, car payments, and rent.
Townhall: Spanish Politician Confirms Great Replacement Theory
Some more about Spanish socialist Irene Montero calling for illegals to be allowed to vote in order to "sweep the fascists and racists" (i.e., anyone that doesn't agree with her) out of the country. The Townhall writer spells it out for those of us in the U.S.:
On a lighter scale, it’s why Democrats are so gung-ho against immigration enforcement: an influx of these people is what’s kept them relevant in politics. Surge the border, cloister the people, find them ethnically appropriate representation in Congress, and enhance your footprint on the Hill via these artificial population spikes and the census.
Related: Her wish has been granted: "Spain is granting legal status to immigrants lacking authorization — potentially 500,000 people"--AP. If Spain counts illegals like our government does, you should multiple that number by 5.
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