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Briefing #226


new infrastructure mobilizes as elders pause and ponder


Greetings!

We stand on the precipice of transformational developments. They are all there for you to see, and no reminding or mentioning of it is needed. Notwithstanding the turmoil in the Gulf and the lingering war in Ukraine, the world is getting on with getting on. And doing so in a faster, more efficient and leaner way.

And so shall we. Future articles will be as brief as possible, focused more and will have no to minimal graphics as needed. Metrics have shown that you all appreciate such a format so we will accommodate this desire.

Bitcoin (BTC/USD) arrived in May with a comfortable $75-77K range. It may be certainly right to express concern that this is well below the 50-week moving average. A clear countertrend rally from April lows.

It remains fixed and ever-present. Technical realities are going to be as they are until CLARITY becomes reality. New capital will not arrive until that reality is really real.

That said, it does not mean the longer term expectations as previously outlined in earlier reports are kaput. Infrastructure building continues. Stablecoin payment rails continue to be laid deeply in the global financial system at a pace that has never been seen before in any similar past technological upgrade. The 401(k) rule is progressing. Coinbase has its trust charter. Australia has its licensing framework. The next boom cycle, which will be fueled by valid institutional demand, AI commerce, tokenization and, eventually CLARITY is soundly intact and becomes more impressive as every week passes. The progress is stunning.

The legislative clarity is coming. That, along with a macroeconomic landscape allowing lower rates and the follow-through of the halving processes are indeed real, but are not quite at the station yet.

The markets know what is approaching and are eagerly awaiting it. Until then, we will most likely watch the final dance of this current “bust cycle” play out until the real catalysts arrive.

For those if you who are in for the long haul (the smart play), remain patient and accumulate your risk capital and keep it ready for the breach. When the 200 day MA is exceeded on a steady weekly basis, you will want to have your gunpowder ready for the rammer.

The setup for it is most assuredly coming. It’s just not here yet. But the processes are ticking off the necessary boxes and the pressure is mounting, notwithstanding the grinding.

Approach the market as appropriate for your financial circumstances, use cash only, and avoid foolhardy borrowing that exceeds your ability to recover from sudden unexpected market shocks.

This month may be one for the books if CLARITY is finally set loose. This year will naturally be one for the books if all the above plays out, set against the new re-industrialization that the USA is currently pursuing in manufacturing and energy sectors. March US steel output, alone, was up 10.8% month over month, and up 5.7% more in Q1 2026 than in Q1 2025.

Productive capacity, alone, will determine the standard of living of a country. Efficiency in financial processes will certainly contribute to this as markets transact with lower payment costs and wait times.

Further to this is the ongoing cleanup of financial fraud to the tune of hundreds of billions of dollars from Learing Centers to Hospice Centers that contain people who never die.

As we progress into the 21st Century, it’s no surprise that big government has suddenly found religion in the “First Church of Efficient or Die” to be not only necessary but vital. CLARITY + EFFICIENCY = THE WAY OF THE FUTURE. And investment dollars will wager on that game. Big governments are already falling out of favor with people. They will have to slim down and compete with the very technology they are going to lawfully allow to operate.

All of you can own a piece of that action.

What a time to be alive!

It has been reported that as the Elders started to prepare for a new volume entry to the market, the situation in the Persian Gulf has caused concern. The Elders now watch the matter.

No further details have been received as of this report. We will certainly report anything new as permitted.


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“The great majority of men attend to what is necessary only when they feel a need for it—the precise time when it is too late.” — Napoleon Bonaparte

987 responses to “Briefing #226”

  1. Well, this is terrifying…

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    1. I do believe in multiple universes.

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    1. But it isn’t! It hasn’t been deployed widely enough to have the claimed impact. Amazon for all its AI pretensions announced its layoffs long before AI was brought indoors in a useful way. It still hasn’t made more than modest impact at Amazon. So the idea it is replacing engineers is simply not happening in practice. It is the usual Keynesian debt bubble collapse, the low after the money injection high.

      Nor can AI, in reality, replace an engineer. Not one AI has proof of reliability or proof of correctness. Which means a human in the loop.

      On top of that, even the systems that easily multiply my output x 10, simply speeds up 20-30% of the process of deploying product. So in reality, the total process time drops from 100% to 80%.

      And good luck when the support call comes in if you fire the software engineer.

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  3. And Israel is still threatening Turkey… they’ve gone totally crazy.

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  4. Upgraded systems have been delivered to Iran in regards to both offensive and defensive systems.

    This can all stop by just withdrawing, egos be damned.

    Because there’s no simulation that doesn’t end with a nuclear exchange, and then may the Gods and Saints preserve us.

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  5. While we are acknowledging those with talent and courage who have moved silently outside the pages of common history.

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    Cuthbert Is Being Tiresome

    November 1942. Lyon, France. Virginia Hall was 36 years old, working under cover as a stringer for the New York Post. Her wireless radio sat hidden in her apartment. For 15 months she had been the first female SOE agent dropped into Vichy France, running an underground network called Heckler so effective, the Gestapo could not pin down who she was.

    On November 8, the Allies landed in North Africa. Within days, German forces swept south to occupy the rest of France. The Gestapo’s Lyon chief, Klaus Barbie — later tried for war crimes as the Butcher of Lyon — turned his attention to finding the “unknown woman with a limp.” Her contacts told her: hours, not days. She had to leave.

    The only route out was over the Pyrenees on foot. In winter. With a wooden leg she had named Cuthbert, after the hunting accident in Turkey that had taken her own leg below the knee in 1933. Her superiors at SOE did not know “Cuthbert” was a leg. When she radioed from the climb that Cuthbert was being tiresome, but she could cope, London replied, deadly serious: If Cuthbert is troublesome, have him eliminated.

    She crossed a 7,500-foot pass in heavy snow over three days. Fifty miles a day. The leather straps holding the 8-pound prosthesis to her stump cut her open and she bled into her shoe. Spanish authorities, finding her without papers on the other side, threw her into Figueres Prison.

    She spent six weeks in a fascist jail. A released inmate smuggled her letter to the American consul in Barcelona. Once free, she made her way to London, where SOE told her she was too marked to send back. So she signed up with the brand-new American OSS instead, and demanded to return.

    In March 1944, disguised as an elderly milkmaid with grayed hair and her teeth filed down, she landed in Brittany by motor gunboat and walked back into the country that wanted her dead. In the Haute-Loire region she organized weapons drops, derailed trains, severed rail lines, and helped train three battalions of French resistance fighters — about 1,500 men — who cleared the Germans from the department before American troops arrived. She received the Distinguished Service Cross from General William Donovan, the only civilian woman in WWII to be awarded it. She turned down Truman’s offer of a public ceremony at the White House. She joined the CIA as a founding member of its Special Activities Division and worked in clandestine operations until mandatory retirement in 1966.

    Virginia Hall died in 1982 in Rockville, Maryland. Most Americans have never heard of her, but that is changing. Claudia Friddell’s The Mysterious Virginia Hall, published in June 2025, draws on new archival material from Hall’s family. The CIA Museum now houses a 3D tactile recreation of her Distinguished Service Cross and prosthetic leg, built so blind and low-vision officers can read her story by touch. April 2026 marked the 120th anniversary of her birth.

    She never wanted the recognition. The work was the point.

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  6. DEAD PEOPLE, ‘GHOST STUDENTS,’ AND BOTS? Trump Education Sec. McMahon Says Biden-Era Student Aid System Was a Fraud Magnet — Taxpayers Already Saved $1 BILLION

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/05/dead-people-ghost-students-bots-trump-education-sec/

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    1. Figures. I am glad they are finding these fraudulent situations, and may the heads roll.

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  8. https://www.zerohedge.com/political/political-shift-inevitable-afd-leader-weidel-heralds-new-polling-high-party

    The latest Insa Sunday poll has given the anti-immigration Alternative for Germany (AfD) party a new record high for voter support. At 29 percent, up 1 point, the AfD has an even greater lead over the Christian Democrats (CDU/CSU), which fell 1 point to 22 percent.

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    1. Very good news. Well done.

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      Expose these Creeps

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  9. Jolly good idea

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  10. It helps to remember that folks like Steve Kirsch and myself were *engineers* and *math* people first. Unlike medical and clinical folk that don’t understand their own statistics, operate on nonsensical narratives, we are… hard core. In my case I was a scientist from when I watched euglena grow as toddler at Lake Wallenpaupak in a water drop. You’d be surprised about the gyrations that the protozoa do in 3D free space when not constrained by being squashed by a slide cover…

    So yes, we DO make scientific assertions, they are RIGHT (usually), and we DO change our mind based on the evidence — when someone actually has evidence.

    And we know how to use AI as auxiliary brain power…

    https://kirschsubstack.com/p/uk-data-shows-vaccinated-died-more?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=548354&post_id=198343026&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=false&r=16wtv&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

    UK data shows vaccinated died more during COVID waves. Whoops! Grok claims I spread misinformation so I challenged Grok to show me the best data source and method proving that I was wrong. The data and method suggested by Grok showed I was right. Whoops!

    Steve Kirsch

    May 19

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  11. Brooklyn, 1952. Judith Love Cohen, 19, asks her high school counselor about math classes.

    The counselor smiles like she’s talking to a child. “Honey, nice girls go to finishing school. Learn to pour tea.”

    Judith enrolls in Brooklyn College. Engineering.

    Hundreds in the lecture hall. Women: one. Her.

    “Boys laughed when I raised my hand,” she said. “So I raised it higher.”

    She transfers to USC. Finishes bachelor’s + master’s. Never sees another female engineering student.

    Graduates 1957. Class of 800. Women: 8.

    America’s engineers: 0.05% women. She’s one of them.

    Then NASA calls.

    1960s. Apollo needs brains. Gender? Secondary. Competence? Everything.

    Judith joins the team building the Abort-Guidance System for the Lunar Module. The AGS. The “oh crap” button. If the main computer dies, this box flies you home. Or you don’t come home.

    “It had to work,” she said. “Because if you needed it, you were already dying.”

    Orbital mechanics. Electrical chaos. Code that can’t glitch. She lives in equations for months.

    August 1968. Nine months pregnant. Still at her desk.

    Coworkers: “Go home, Judith.”

    Judith: “The math isn’t due. I am.”

    Morning contractions start. She grabs her printouts — pages of trajectories, circuits, logic — and drives to work.

    Contractions get real. Team: “HOSPITAL. NOW.”

    Judith: “Fine.” Takes the printouts.

    Hospital bed. Nurses walk in. She’s between contractions, scribbling on computer sheets. “Ma’am, you’re in labor.”

    “I’m in math,” she says.

    Then it clicks. The final bug in the AGS. Solved.

    Then she pushes. Baby boy: Thomas Jacob. You know him as Jack Black.

    Next day she calls her boss. “I fixed the guidance problem.” Pause. “Oh. And the baby came too.”

    April 13, 1970. 200,000 miles from Earth. BOOM.

    Apollo 13. Oxygen tank explodes. Command Module dying. Three men crawl into the Lunar Module — built for 2 people, 1 day. They need it for 3 people, 4 days.

    Primary computer stutters.

    Backup comes alive.

    Judith’s AGS.

    It holds. Calculates burns. Aligns spacecraft. Verifies they’re not flying into deep space forever. “Without AGS, we don’t come home,” said Jim Lovell later.

    April 17, 1970. Splashdown. Alive.

    The world cheers the astronauts.

    Inside NASA, engineers hug. “The backup worked.”

    Judith’s backup.

    Apollo 13 crew visits TRW to say thanks. Judith shakes their hands. No speech. Back to work.

    She keeps going.

    Hubble Space Telescope systems. TDRS satellites — ran 40 years. Papers. Patents. Mentors girls. Writes kids’ books: You Can Be a Woman Engineer. “Girls need to see it to be it,” she said. “TV gave them lawyers. I’ll give them astronauts.”

    Raised four kids. Danced ballet with the Met Opera while doing engineering school. “My first loves,” her son Neil wrote, “were dancing and equations.”

    July 25, 2016. Age 82. She’s gone.

    Son Jack Black posts 2019: Photo of Mom, 1959, next to a Pioneer spacecraft. “My mom literally helped save Apollo 13. Finished the problem IN LABOR WITH ME. How do you top that?”

    The counselor said “finishing school.”

    Judith chose “finishing equations.”

    Three astronauts owe their lives to that choice.

    “They said I didn’t belong,” Judith said once. “So I built something that belonged in space. And brought them home.”

    She never flew. But she made sure others could.

    From a hospital bed. Between contractions. With a pencil.

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    1. You will often hear in recordings of transmissions from Mission Control the phrase: “Pings Ags and Misfin all agree”.

      They are saying the Primary Navigation Guidance System, the Abort Guidance System and the Manned Space Flight Network were all agreeing to within allowable tolerances that the spacecraft was moving in the right direction and its location was known by all three systems.

      MSFN (using triangulated radio telemetry from Earth) was used as the chief navigational method as it was the most reliable and fastest way to determine the craft location, direction and velocity. The onboard computers were essentially backups, and were mostly depended on in the Lunar Module during the landing phases where local data processing was dependent on radar information processed by the LM to determine speed, and distance to the surface so that proper engine thrust could be maintained. This is something MSFN could not do fast enough from Earth and get the data to the onboard computers during the landing phase to control the engines accurately.

      For the tech of that day, those men (and woman) were damned smart and talented.

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      1. They were indeed driven. An example for the ages.

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        One brilliant insight that undid all sort of complexity was that in orbital or free fall or insertion situation, and where time was available, trajectory modification to an ideal vector could always be done with one burn and with low thrust needs. This was the brain-child of Edgar Mitchell and became the subject of his PhD thesis.

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        Nor should we ever forget John Aaron during the Apollo 12 telemetry failure, remembering how to fix a failure from an obscure test:

        Aaron surmised that this setting would also return the Apollo 12 telemetry to normal. When he made the call to the Flight Director, “Flight, EECOM. Try SCE to Aux“, most of his mission control colleagues had no idea what he was talking about. Both the flight director and the CAPCOM Gerald P. Carr asked him to repeat the recommendation. Aaron repeated himself and Carr responded “What the hell’s that?” Yet he relayed the order to the crew: “Apollo 12, Houston. Try SCE to auxiliary.” Dick Gordon, a ground expert on the CSM as well as the Apollo 12 command module pilot, was familiar with both the location and the function of the SCE switch, and instructed Alan Bean to flip it to aux. Telemetry was immediately restored, allowing the mission to continue. This earned Aaron the lasting respect of his colleagues, who declared that he was a “steely-eyed missile man”. Source: Wikipedia

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        1. To boldy go…

          Giant steps for mankind. Wonder if this next gen will be able to take on the challenges of space exploration.

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  12. 👽

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    1. “Crashed” my ass.

      Shot down.

      It’s a miracle that they haven’t wiped us out for being too stupid and belligerent.

      But glad it seems to be moving forward.

      Be nice if it was accepted with more than a yawn. So much for thoughts of panic.

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  13. Get busy re-shooting scenes, Nolan.

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  14. Rebuild it. Let’s remind the world who we are.

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  15. The volatility is going to get intense. So always remember to buy on dips with cash, no margin or risky attempts to try to out-guess the market direction. Banks are going to fight hard against anything that shrinks their pocketbooks, limits their fees and bloodsucking usury. But in the end they will have to adopt or become completely irrelevant in the process of monetary transfer.

    Whales are going to dump large positions to shake out the gamblers and then buy up the detritus. Be like a Whale and buy along with them.

    More in the next Feature.

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    1. Good points. Right on.

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  16. The Hart-Celler Act. The grift that keeps on grifting.

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  18. The Future is here.

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    1. Nonsense . Bonkers.

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      Meloni needs him on Wog reduction.

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      Crypto bloodletting continues.

      Ether and bitcoin hit hardest as crypto bulls lose $563 million in long liquidations https://share.google/O28MPfyALigHBVMJj

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    1. Whites have no culture.

      Some may recognize parts of this work used for the soundtrack in the movie The Right Stuff to great effect.

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    1. It’s a beautiful world.

      We need to grow up and preserve this, while thriving ourselves.

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  19. RNC Chair Joe Gruters Announces 130 LAWSUITS Filed Across 32 States to Stop Democrat Election Shenanigans — as President Trump Deploys ARMY of Election Lawyers to STOP THE STEAL

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/05/rnc-chair-joe-gruters-announces-130-lawsuits-filed/

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  20. Good for China. And us in the longer run. Corporate nationalism is a good thing. And competition is an even better thing. It’s time to return Texas to the full gamut of chip manufacturing. And NVIDIA needed a good kick in the arse. The chips are too power hungry, and while technically impressive, it’s merely pushing tech to current limits. Time for quantum leaps again. Hell, I want full optical chips. I had many friends that worked at All Optical Networks back in the day and I watched them develop ALL the optical analogues of silicon electronics. It was an absolute thrill when I watched a scaled up demo of a flip-flop and an optical transistor. Plus all the fundamental logic gates. Science fiction made manifest.

    Oh, and I fully expected China to say no but equivocally. It took a very direct form.

    Trump came back from his China trip Friday and told reporters something nobody expected. Beijing isn’t actually buying Nvidia’s chips, and not because the US blocked the sale, this time China itself said no.

    His own Commerce Department had cleared Alibaba, Tencent, ByteDance, JD.com and a few others to buy the H200. The companies placed their orders, then pulled them after Beijing told them not to bother. Trump’s exact words about why: “they want to develop their own”.

    That basically means Beijing wants its money going to Huawei instead of an American company that could get cut off again next time the political wind shifts.

    Jensen Huang, Nvidia’s CEO, said his China market share went from around 95% to essentially zero. That’s the most valuable company in the world losing the entire Chinese market.

    There’s also a strange detail most people glossed over. Under the new export framework, every H200 sold into China comes with a 25% fee that goes straight to the US Treasury. America was about to collect a cut on every single sale, and China said thanks but no.

    To me this is the moment the AI chip war stopped being one-sided. For years Washington was the one deciding who China could buy from. Now Beijing is deciding it doesn’t want to buy at all.

    Frank Herbert wrote science fiction, but the Dune novels were geopolitics and monopoly effects the whole way.

    It helps to remember that in the Dune novels that the Spice Monopoly was broken by the Tleilaxu and then competition further ensued thru the creation of secondary Dune-style planets by worm-vector transplant. By the end of the novels there was a minimum of 4 spice planets: the original Dune, Chapterhouse, the Machine-world Synchrony and the ocean planet Buzzell home to the genetically altered sea-worms that produce ultraspice. And it is strongly implied that out in the vastness of the Scattering some of the scattered Reverend Mothers will succeed in creating spice planets, on a purely statistical basis.

    It should be noted that the Spacing Guild monopoly suffered competition as well, although depending on novel, spice-based Navigators were claimed to be superior to the Ixian space-folding mechanical approach. And the Ixian ships were technically outmatched by space-folders from the out in the Scattering.

    The deeper principle is you can force statics only so long. The current experience with oil will now force not only diversification but a breaking of the dependency infrastructure. Nuclear power with bubbling nitrogen thru electrified water will end the natural gas clamp on fertilizer. Also electroculture coupled with a return to crop rotation will end the absurdity of single-point of one-crop fertilizer dependency. Applying anti-trust to Big Agra is an absolute necessity for food security.

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  21. https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/net-zero-fearmongering-tatters-after-climate-report-implausibility-ruling

    The science writer Roger Pielke Jr. was the first to spot the IPCC’s rejection of RCP8.5, calling it “the most significant development in climate research in decades”

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    1. FROM ABOVE ARTICAL…. ” But the rot goes much deeper than ill-informed public comment, although that alone has been enormously influential in promoting the Net Zero fantasy. Activist-ridden science bodies such as the UK Met Office have brazenly used RCP8.5 to flam up weather predictions which in turn has led to onerous requirements being placed on British industry and finance. Politicians have been convinced by patently ridiculous claims and Net Zero rules and regulations have cascaded through the economy and society.
      All the politicised predictions need to be junked and all the resulting regulations reconsidered with a view to abolition. They are all based on assumptions that many at the time said were ridiculous and have now been officially marked as not wanted on voyage. Those inclined to be uncharitable might suggest it was all a hoax from start to finish.”

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    2. The sad part it was an unnecessary detour.

      If you take the gray-haired aside, the answer of what controls climate is pretty clear, in order: solar output, nutation and precession of the Earth-Moon-Sun system, high-energy particle penetration of the atmosphere modifying cloud nucleation, LIFE, and a distant 4th digit after the decimal effect of “greenhouse gases”.

      Incidentally, greenhouse gases, was originally an explanation for the temperature of Venus…

      Also, relative to Earth it was absurd that a trace gas essential to the full life-cycle of organism on the planet, which was three-fold times higher in the past… during an Ice Age… was blamed for global warming. I think we are at a multi-million year minimum…

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  22. WATCH: Ex-Government Scientist Claims US Has Recovered Four Distinct Alien Species from Crashed UFOs

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/05/watch-ex-government-scientist-claims-us-has-recovered/

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    1. If confirmed, that ends the whole Great Silence debate…

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  23. DHS Secretary Confirms 50% of All Murders in Fairfax County, Virginia, Committed by Illegal Aliens — ‘That’s Just in Fairfax!’

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/05/watch-dhs-secretary-confirms-50-all-murders-fairfax/

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    1. Worldwide !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Control Vermin!

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  24. AG Todd Blanch says the 2020 Election was 100% Rigged against President Trump, and guess where they have ACTIVE investigations ongoing? Arizona and Georgia

    Maricopa & Fulton County.
    RUNBECK. CHINA. BALLOTS.
    It is literally in the Q drops.

    This is ticking time-bomb anons have known about for a long time.

    https://rumble.com/v79zkqm-ag-todd-blanch-the-2020-election-was-rigged-active-investigations.html

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  25. 👽 – Zardoz has spoken

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    1. Yeah, except they nerfed what was given to the masses, have now priced it mostly out of reach for the common professional, and even Enterprise-level folk are going to smart on the price. And that’s just for coding! Forget agent and agentic performance. And we still don’t have performance and reliability guarantees!

      Technically he is correct. Even using a slightly crippled Codex and limited Sonnet I’m slamming my last app together to replace a capability I have lost due to a laptop where the BIOS corrupted from a dead lithium battery. And it is going very well. By the time I’m done using up my final Github Copilot credits I’ll have a fully functionally tailored app to analyze EEGs replacing my defunct $5K software from Persyst. It’s defunct because they tied it to the laptop 10 years ago, due to misguided software theft mitigation.

      A year ago, I couldn’t have done this. But will see if and when they hit a bottleneck. AI seems to be following precisely in the path outlined by Frank Herbert. They are going to use the Machines to enslave all other people. Compare Bicentennial Man (movie or book) sense of life with the sense of life of Dune, which is frankly dismal and contains within it the whole anti-Machines Made in the Image of a Human Mind effort, the Butlerian Jihad.

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  26. I was wondering why John drove such an old car.

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    1. She still thinks its the stick for her to hold while we drive.

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  27. So, got around to watching Zardoz

    The flying head was nice. Can understand the reaction to that Apollo UFO shot. Definite distant resemblance to the flying head.

    Just once… just once I would like a movie that didn’t describe immortality and the lack of disease as “boring”. Or where some humans descend into apathetic nihilism or sexual nihilism or dementia. Or the idiot idea that without a finite lifespan human existence would become meaningless.

    That’s crap. You can’t extrapolate current coffin-corner economic dynamics to a free, open-ended civilization, let alone a Civilization gearing up for Cosmic Expansion.

    They just don’t want Commercial Biologic Immortality available to all, for obvious and not-so obvious reasons. So every damn movie tanks the concept.

    We have plenty of open-ended systems to provide endless stimulation of all kinds.

    I’d forgotten how much soft-porn rolled thru the 1970s.

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    1. Haha! Just as I knew you would describe the movie. It is indeed a real mind job.

      Makes you wonder why Connery took that role but rejected the Gandalf role in LOTR because he couldn’t follow the logic. I think he wanted to see Charlotte Rampling’s tatas and get paid for it.

      Zardoz has spoken.

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      1. Since Red is a film major, I have developed the habit of looking up production notes and genesis of movies, to the extent that the movie buffs have preserved the record.

        Connery really did want a throwaway movie to break the James Bond mold. The movie at the time was a relative dud. But it said something important to all other casting directors and producers. Given a paycheck, even a modest one, Connery was for hire. It wasn’t so much about the paycheck, because he got a bundle off of playing Bond. It was Connery saying he wasn’t too proud to do any movie that he could be sold on as worthwhile.

        Hence Zardoz.

        Apparently the movie came out pretty much as the director wanted. I think the guy was stoned out of his mind with script and direction. Soft porn psychedelics — the whole thing screamed 1970’s. Makes me wonder if the correct way of seeing the movie isn’t watching while slightly stoned…

        Apparently there is a restored version that recovers the colors of the original which were just this side of phantasmagorical. Apparently there was some error in the production of copies in other media. Maybe someday, if I’m motivated I’ll check out the color-corrected version.

        4K UHD/Blu-Ray Restoration (2016/2017): Arrow Video released a restored edition approved by Boorman and cinematographer Geoffrey Unsworth, which corrected the color timing to display the original vibrant pastels that were lost in older home video releases

        One notable: a diamond crystal is the fantasy-tech in Zardoz for recording/transferring consciousness between bodies at the Tabernacle. It turns out, in the original version of the book The First Immortals, a diamond filament based chip that places filaments across the whole brain to preserve consciousness short of disintegration in a supernova, is the mechanism. Makes one wonder where they got the idea.

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  28. A good start.

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  29. $NVDA has a “market cap” (market value) in excess of $5 trillion and at the moment the market has added $200 billion, or one fourth of last year’s entire US defense budget, to that number in approximately two hours.

    To put this in perspective that “value” is greater than any of the gross domestic product (all goods and services) for 2026 save two: China and the US.

    It is also greater than the sum of any two below the 7th nation globally (which is France.)

    If you believe one company has an actual value that large you’ve got rocks in your head equivalent to those who believed that Tulips were worth a near-infinite amount of money (despite simply being a flower) or that all the firms in the Internet space in the 1990s would amount to five times or more the GDP of the world.

    It’s going to blow kids, and blow big-time.

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  30. Laziness and/or ignorance, is endemic thru the land. I’m getting tired of “check everything”, the gotchas, the outright fraud. I guess I should just get used to it… but I can’t.

    When my grandfather built the house, he put metal conduit in for all the electrics. At some point the conduit was grounded when the new service came in, and I have been systematically upgrading the old 1950s two-prong outlets with three prong outlets. In some cases, to protect some equipment better, I run true outlet grounds into the basement and bonded them to the copper of the water system. The primary ground from the service panel is also bonded to the water main as per code, so the copper plumbing of the house works perfectly as an electrical ground.

    I have since discovered that the ignorant electrician that ran the new big gauge wire to the electrics of the kitchen and dining room, put in a second ground. It’s a good ground in that it runs to the 2,000 gallon buried water tank hookup in the basement. The problem is that the second ground is on the opposite end of the house and as the old tank is disconnected physically from the rest of the house — e.g. no continuity — so it is not guaranteed to be at equipotential ground. In theory, it should be. In practice, there is a slight difference — as seen in the occasional flicker of lights and spurious ground loops. Some 60Hz radiative noise too.

    It’s also against the NEC, the electrical code. And God forbid, a lightning strike would cause all sort of potential havoc over a ground loop. (Potential difference between the grounds due to differential distance from the strike.)

    Now, I know *why* the guy did it. He was, being charitable, ignorant of ground loops and NEC directives. Being uncharitable, he was lazy, and didn’t want to run thick gauge the 30 feet thru the rafters to the primary ground. I suspect the latter. He assumed a distance of 30 ft in the physical ground the house sits in doesn’t matter and the buried steel tank has massive surface area. Unfortunately, it does matter. Along with the ground loop, in theory, it can make the house into a big capacitor. And wouldn’t that be interesting in a lightning strike…

    Either way, Amazon will deliver me 40 ft of thick gauge copper, I’ll bond the old tank hookup, and run the thick gauge thru the basement rafters into the main ground at the water main. This will guarantee the same electrical ground *everywhere*. Yeah, I’m being a purist. I could just run it 6 ft to the nearest copper pipe but nothing beats putting it down to the water main.

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  31. https://www.zerohedge.com/political/mayor-sadiq-khan-claims-london-devolving-shthole-just-ai-driven-rage-bait

    London Mayor Sadiq Khan has claimed that the decline of the city is a myth and that it’s all just lies being spread by MAGA supporters, Russia, and China through AI-generated content.

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  33. The crowd was made up largely of ordinary citizens who say they are concerned about mass immigration, public safety, and the loss of Britain’s historic identity and cultural traditions.

    For many in attendance, the rally was about defending national sovereignty, preserving Christian heritage, and demanding that the concerns of native Britons be taken seriously rather than dismissed as extremism.

    The large police presence and predictable “far-right” headlines only reinforced what many supporters already believe: that patriotism and cultural preservation are increasingly treated as threats by the political establishment.

    The scale of the turnout shows that a growing number of Western citizens are no longer willing to stay silent about the future of their countries.

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        2. Laura Aboli on Tommy Robinson…

          “I am not fooled by Tommy Robinson, he is simply using British patriots for his own agenda, which is Israel’s agenda…

          Under the guise of uniting the country he is creating division to fuel anger and make people focus on the ‘Islam threat’ whilst ignoring the ‘Israel threat’ who are actually the engineers of the Islamic threat.

          If you look into who is aiding and abetting the invasion of Islamic immigrants into Europe you will find it’s Jewish NGOs…

          GEORGE SOROS:
          “OUR plan treats the protection
          of refugees as the objective and
          national borders as the obstacle.”

          “Europe has to accept at least
          a million asylum-seekers annually
          for the foreseeable future.”

          “The E.U. ought to borrow money to pay for surge funding
          for refugees.”

          Barbara Lerner Spectre —
          Founder of the European
          Institute for Jewish Studies
          in Sweden:

          “Europe is not going to be the
          monolithic society they once
          were in the last century, JEWS
          are going to be at the center
          of that.”

          “Europe is now going into a
          multicultural mode, and Jews
          will be resented because of
          OUR leading role.”

          They couldn’t say it more clearly…

          If you haven’t already read up on Jewish lobby groups who support mass immigration from the third world into Europe.

          HIAS (Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society) & its European branch are the most prominent Jewish organizations supporting refugee resettlement and integration in Europe.

          Let’s not be manipulated any more…”

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    2. Defund the BBC!!!! Lefties !

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  34. Tim Sparks is restoring classic Pizza Hut locations to their old-school 80s and 90s style, bringing back Pac-Man, red cups, salad bars, family booths, and the iconic red roof.

    Vid: https://m3.gab.com/media_attachments/00/cc/d7/00ccd79cb2a9b2dd741d1813432da06d.mp4

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    1. If it is not broke, don’t fix it. The billion dollar upgrade fixation was a waste of money which did nothing for Pizza Hut. It was like the abortive woke update of Cracker Barrel.

      There’s also a fixation of driving excess return. If you create a stable business where everyone is winning at 11% after taxes GTFO in attempting to drive it to 20%.

      And the pretentious nonsense of sacrificing the long-term for the short-term has got to go.

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  35. 🤬

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  36. I believe Lavrov has outlined the underlying reason for Trump’s recent visit to China. And that is that payment rails are going to be less restricted and more available to nations without the highly centralized point of sanctioning available in the past by Western governments. It was possibly a case of “We are now going to be on a more even playing field so let’s concentrate on making it work since nobody will be able to hold the payment system hostage for political reasons.”

    I personally don’t think the Petrodollar is going to crash insomuch as it’s going to simply be absorbed into the entire world economy over time.

    The West needs the East just as much as the East needs the West.

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  37. White Coat Waste Bombshell: Deadly Pathogen ‘Released, Lost or Stolen’ from Fauci’s Montana Lab — Senators Sheehy, Ernst, Scott & Rep. Gosar Demand Full Investigation | The Gateway Pundit | by Cassandra MacDonald

    A new White Coat Waste Project exposé has triggered immediate outrage on Capitol Hill after revealing that NIH’s Rocky Mountain Laboratories in Hamilton, Montana, suffered yet another major biosafety failure — this time, a deadly pathogen was “released, lost, or stolen” from the high-security facility.

    The revelation marks the second serious lab incident exposed by WCW at RML in just the past few months and has prompted several prominent Republican senators to demand answers and accountability.

    Enough already, shut this crap down.

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    1. If that bothers you, the Cold War remnants in north-eastern Russia of biolabs exist.

      They are all DUMBS of one kind or another.

      The elevator and access shafts have been filled with concrete.

      But deep in the darkness, the vials and petri dishes are still there.

      How long before some well-funded charismatic knucklehead get the go-ahead to drill a new shaft and tunnel horizontally into said labs to get retrieve deadly specimens?

      Just sayin…

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        1. Very.

          And reaching across the past.

          The Giza pyramids are clearly sitting on the top of something buried more than ~680 meters (~2100 ft) down where the access shafts terminate. And it scared the Egyptians so much that they buried the access under ~6 million tons of granite and sandstone. I’m sure they got other use(s) out of the pyramids, but given the deep scan results it is clear (to me, not others) they literally covered something up.

          To avoid the plebs stampeding, there is a lot of nonsense that these are just shafts down to bedrock, that might have provided some kind of water access for hydraulic purposes. Well, the ancients were not afraid of big projects and that may be true. But if so, there should be all sorts of continuity in structure up into the pyramid. As far as we know, there isn’t. This is mighty suspicious. In a sense, the pyramids are what they appear to be — massive cover monuments with DO NOT TOUCH written all over them.

          By the way, this is standard human behavior. “Cover it up” was a literal thing among our ancestors, especially in the not-so-distant bicameral conscious ancestors. (See Julian Jaynes.)

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  38. Ho Lee Fook

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    1. Shes mouthing off.

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  40. Thousands of British patriots join in The Lord’s Prayer to kick off Unite the Kingdom rally in London

    https://humanevents.com/2026/05/16/thousands-of-british-patriots-join-in-the-lords-prayer-to-kick-off-unite-the-kingdom-rally-in-london?utm_campaign=64483

    Take your country back Brits!

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    1. Its building Thick Brits take time.

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      Chinas Debts are alarming. 

      Forget U.S. debt, China’s total borrowing is in ‘a league of its own’—much worse and growing faster | Fortune https://share.google/PbdWNO8dRVDsyFbUw

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      President Trump’s arrival in Beijing was marked by a lack of the “saturation attention” typically afforded to American heads of state by Chinese media. In a notable breach of traditional prestige, the visit was at times secondary in state coverage to the concurrent arrival of the President of Tajikistan. President Xi Jinping did not personally greet Trump at the airport, delegating the welcoming ceremony to a vice president or vice premier.

      During the two-hour meeting, President Xi focused almost exclusively on the issue of Taiwan, describing it as the core of the U.S.-China relationship and a definitive red line for Beijing. While the Global Times editorialized a “bright future” for bilateral ties, the underlying message from the Chinese government remained one of skepticism. Beijing continues to view head-of-state agreements as strategic guidance that is frequently undermined by antagonistic political factions in Washington once the diplomatic mission concludes.

      So why did Xi take Trump to the Temple? Did Xi take Trump to the Temple to let him know that fate was going to be played out as a symbolic gesture? 

      In the Great Hall of the People he did not mince words, Xi said, You are the fading empire. We are the rising one. History says this ends in war. Let’s try not to.

      He said it with a smile. That’s the part that should scare everyone. This is China saying publicly it is ready, confident and not afraid of history. 

      According to Greek history, Sparta went to war with Athens not out of hatred, but out of fear. It has been called the Thucydides Trap. The fear of being replaced. America runs the very danger of being replaced on a global stage within the next 5-7 years. As it is the so called currency of America called the Federal Reserve Dollar is under attack simply because people no longer trust it as Settlement Currency. This lack of trust goes far further than one can imagine. Because as counrties seek alternatives to this they settle in other currencies and this hammer is taken away from hegemony. The concept of strategic might was dealt a major blow in Iran. America has strength to overwhelm many countries but Iran did not fall as expected. And there is no military solution that works in favor. Yes nukes could be used but that would make America the pariah on a world stage losing creditability as a leading nation of vision to be followed. Iran is a dilemma now for America to solve as the path is a narrow one. Compromise on both sides will be required to walk away without more damage. And the world pays with each day normal normal flow is curtailed. 

      Xi’s been quoting this concept for over a decade. This is always been an objective of China as China has been playing the long game of dominance. And while there is no question that China has many problems it is the factory of the world. This is the position America held prior to WWII as the factory that won the war. The 27 million Russians killed provided the blood. 

      Here’s the chess move hiding inside the history lesson:

      Xi framed China as Athens, the rising, dynamic power. America as Sparta, the paranoid incumbent trying to hold on.

      Then asked, live, in front of Trump: “Can we avoid the trap?”

      Is that a demand, or a question? 

      Trump’s team didn’t mention Taiwan in the readout Xi did. Both parties have very different stances on Taiwan. And it is likely that while we can hope for a more equitable result coming in and from America to rebuilt. Building takes much time and focus. The kind that does not serve stock markets or personal current account wealth. Rebuilding America is both time and capital consuming with patience. 

      Again why visit the Temple? Chinese are not like Westerners. Right now China believes that history is on their side to run the world and not on the side of America. Iran and Venezuela has been lessons learnt about ability and depth of weapon supply for both parties. 

      China speaks of vision from their perspective while America came to do business with a country playing to vision over business. 

      Whatever comes good or bad from this actual events will matter more than words. And this will evident within a short time. 

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      Good US Heros. 

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      Today is the 15th of May and the clock ticks away at a trickle of energy coming from the Middle East via the Strait of Hormuz. Over a billion barrels of oil has not been shipped. This means for someone this supply is no longer availed. It takes time to return anything to normal. Energy supply is no different. Sure looks like several European countries will run dry or low on jet fuel. This implies more restricted flights and likely a major hit to tourism. Has anyone calculates the losses that can occur?
      If one combines agricultural needs and the need to move goods, there will choices to be made as needs overwhelm availability. Thus one might want to expect flight cancellations and layoffs across the hospitality industry. Who knows this may even cause a major rethinking of the EU’s energy direction overall; sustainable development may find new meaning as the reality of a lack of energy comes home to roost. Politicians cannot mumble through this reality.
      The bigger picture is what the impact will be to manufacturing as no doubt fuel tariffs and the like work through supply chains embedded into the price of everything. This is how inflation becomes unstoppable because it can become structural in nature. When this happens it takes a long tome to be remedied.
      Even now the spread of mass debt borrowings are even hitting America where the 30 Treasury yield is now at 5.1% today. All debt globally is becoming more expensive. Debt costs ripple through everyday life.
      And while there was measured consensus on Iran with China there is no reason to think that anything has been resolved to allow for energy flows to return to normal. Will hostilities return anew now that Trump has departed China or will there be some negotiated compromise ? It is noted that the IDF has been put on high alert and perhaps this is telltale sign. In ay case, the longer energy flow does not return to normal the longer it will take for economies to stabilize and the deeper the recessionary woes will occur. There is no stopping this as any return to normal is dictated by time that the energy supply chain requires to restore the order. Even in North America we should anticipate shortages of specialty fuels by July. And the impact is already evident in escalating WHEAT prices and a lack of reasonably priced fertilizers. It may take until fall for this to show. However, the prices increases are already in play and will work their way through the system.

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  42. https://www.zerohedge.com/energy/great-rewiring-accelerates-uae-double-crude-export-capacity-bypassing-hormuz-chaos

    Great Global Energy Rewiring Accelerates: UAE To Double Crude Export Capacity Bypassing Hormuz Chaos

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  43. Eric Trump Threatens to Sue Lying Jen Psaki and MSNOW Over Blatant Fake News About China Trip

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/05/eric-trump-threatens-sue-lying-jen-psaki-msnow/

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  44. WAYNE ROOT: Why The SAVE America Act has Become a Scam to Fool President Trump. Stop Fighting for It (for now). It’s a Trojan Horse. Here is the Only Solution for Midterms.

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/05/wayne-root-why-save-america-act-has-become/

    But now its too late. Because the day after it passes, Democrat super lawyer Marc Elias and his evil band of scumbag communist traitor lawyers will file a lawsuit. And it will be tied up in court for 6 months, 9 months, maybe even a year- by the time it winds its way through nonstop appeals to higher courts, and finally, the Supreme Court.

    President Trump must sign a “Presidential National Security Emergency on Elections.”

    And under that “emergency declaration” umbrella issue a new Executive Order mandating Voter ID, proof of citizenship, a ban of mail-in voting, and paper ballots replacing machines.

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  45. Tokenize Elder’s LBMA assayed gold.
    Elder Stable Coin can be converted to any currency if needed, but no need to force convert to USD, Yuan, Euro, etc., to inject into projects.
    Gold stays put.
    Theft of transactions impossible as with Tropos
    Smart contracts utilized to ensure proper use. Restricted. No usury sharking.
    No central bank involvement.
    John sets up OTC/banking for contracts to be settled within the entire ecosystem.

    Just thinking out loud. Not factual. 🤭

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    1. God I thought we were bugged LOl.

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      1. But factor in HK now has its own Gold Exchange and mercurial Brit in Chinese dialog.

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    2. You’re spot on. The last pieces of the puzzle.

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    3. Tony,,, in reference to your about “Tokenize”… It seems it would not be possible until rules kick in… SK rules kick in FEB 2027… if Clarity act does go thru in June or July I am not sure when the new rules will effective… it seems there will be a transition period ?… guess what I am saying is,, starting to look like 2026 timeframe is changing to 2027

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      1. It’s possible. Whenever your inject politics into something that involves money, politicians will drag it out until they can pass laws to ensure they can wet their beaks in it.

        The overall concept was meant to show how getting elder capital into play without it being stolen by Yid banking rats was possible with peer to peer structures. The process by which that would then be accessed outside would depend on the OTC/Bank secured from those same claws, where such stable coins could be safely converted to whatever currency needed.

        So, a crude example: Elders approve the funding of NAWAPA with US blessings. No debt to the US or any nation. Purely funded by Elders. All contractors establish a stablecoin wallet through the OTC Bank. Elder stable coin is transmitted via this platform to pay for project steps, using smart contracts to ensure payment is made to only those it is proper. No middle men gouging, shaking down, skimming.

        Contractors use the same OTC platform to convert to whatever pay is due employees which is paid through same platform. From there, the account holder can move funds as he sees fit. Once the SK step you referred to is complete, that can be to any US platform now enabled to safe keep crypto stablecoin. Yids unable to intercept like Yellen.

        No more risk of sending large funds from some Hong Kong bank to a US bank only to see it disappear. The funds do not touch US banks. They stay in the same ecosystem transmitting back and forth using stablecoins directly to wallets via blockchain. Peer to peer. No SWIFT or FED Reserve system involved.

        Of course the above is crude and I am sure when the time comes much more abler minds and experienced developers will flesh out the matter in ways I can’t do.

        But the ides is, Elders won’t have to suffer what Tropos and other did to get their projects done without claws grasping like Mafiosi. They also wont have to worry about tipping the world over to one side by moving tons of gold.

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  46. BREAKING: Colorado Governor Commutes Sentence of Tina Peters – Will Be Released June 1 — Trump Weighs In | The Gateway Pundit | by Jim Hᴏft

    Tina Peters will receive clemency from Colorado Governor Jared Polis (D), according to CNN.

    Peters will be released on June 1.

    Tina Peters, a Gold Star Mother who is in poor health, was serving nine years in a Colorado state prison after being convicted in connection with efforts to preserve election system data following the controversial 2020 election.

    As The Gateway Pundit has reported for years, this was never about “tampering,” it was a blatant Deep State witch hunt designed to punish anyone who refused to rubber-stamp the stolen election and demanded basic transparency.

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  47. Moron of the week award.

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    1. Obama and Mic helle?

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    2. The Factor kicked in.

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  48. White privilege in action.

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  50. Get ready for incoming plane crashes. Removing DEI hires out of plane manufacture and maintenance improved things for awhile. Unfortunately DEI is back, sub-rosa.

    Do NOT be shocked if planes start to lawn dart again.

    Too many of these videos are cropping up… (No ghosts in the video, but you can understand why the man was losing it…)

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  51. https://www.zerohedge.com/political/britain-now-policing-thought-crime

    If you want a snapshot of how far Britain has drifted from its liberal inheritance, consider the spectacle of a 78 year-old grandfather and retired pastor being warned by police that he must not preach from the Bible within a public area. His offence was not harassment, obstruction or intimidation. It was reciting and commentating on a verse many learned as children: “For God so loved the world…”

    Clive Johnston’s alleged crime was breaching a ‘buffer zone’ around a hospital which houses a sexual health clinic where abortions are performed – despite the fact it was a Sunday afternoon when there were no scheduled abortions, and he made no reference whatsoever to abortion, nor motherhood, nor babies.

    The state maintains he risked “influencing” anyone accessing the clinic in relation to abortion or anyone working there – a crime punishable by fine. He was prosecuted, and this week found guilty for doing so.

    Johnston’s case is the latest example in a pattern that has been building for years: the slow but unmistakable attempt to narrow the space in which Christians, in particular, are permitted to express their beliefs.

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    1. Horror reality.

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      Is no one rel tracking DC debt relity?

      Ray Dalio: the ‘heart attack’ of America’s debt crisis is just the beginning of a ‘great turbulence’ | Fortune https://share.google/pRStt3yArVicAIWJS

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      Amazon launches its first delivery drones in the UK https://share.google/kRm7p4wyyptnizBO1

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      Russia Found 511 Billion Barrels of Oil Beneath Antarctica — Nearly Double Saudi Arabia’s Reserves and It’s All Illegal to Drill – National Security Journal https://share.google/t7bzbqKbVEy3cLfOd

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      Germany’s unsung Heros.

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      What did you expect? The Dumb Mutt has offended the world and daily gives his gibbering, belligerent threats . 

      Only MAGA swallowers still follow his Crap. He’s a Joke in need of the Poke. A Muppet Puppet 

      https://youtu.be/29qeFYRnDHU?si=O7JsbEinbzPncsM-

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      Missiles and drones locked on US targets: ‘Awaiting firing order,’ IRGC commander warns https://share.google/QYzzGLVMQvG04GO9O

      US bases and Palestines Oppresors to go. 

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  52. https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/europes-green-deal-unraveling

    The deeper lesson of the Green Deal is that climate policy cannot succeed when it abandons the principles that made Europe prosperous in the first place: free enterprise, open markets, private innovation, and limited government. Energy transitions cannot be engineered through centralized planning, subsidies, and political mandates. Innovation emerges from competition, experimentation, and market signals—not from governments dictating technological outcomes.

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    1. That’s a hoot. I guess history is now 1 day long and perpetually truncated even at ZeroHedge.

      Europe has been a mess of socialism and outright communism since the end of WW2. Collectivism has run rampant. ‘Democratic socialism’ anyone? In Europe there is and has been for 70 years, a near endless “appeal to the next level of authority” every which way you turn. If you were not a favored group or company good luck getting anything done. Britain and France were positively schizoid on the topic. Italy a basket case that ran on the inertia of a permanent bureaucracy that carried it thru something like 40 governments in 55 years. I once was told, after filing matters in triplicate and attempting to pay a tax on songs to play at a prom, that I needed some crazy “ticket scheme” on top of it all. In my best, quite native Italian, I read the functionary the riot act in 4 letter words and said he could either take the money offered for the tax or I was going to walk out and F the Ministry’s claim to the copyright tax. He took the money.

      The “Green Deal” is just socialism applied to energy. It’s not “energy” that’s objectionable, it’s the form of the energy that’s objectionable. Nuclear was dangerous and the byproducts lethal to the environment. Never mind recycling and all the tech that made it not so. Never mind that without the insane regulatory environment its cost was a mere fraction of coal, oil and gas. Never mind it meant almost energy independence for land-locked countries.

      OMDFG! Then all energy became objectionable because “fossil” fuels created carbon dioxide, anthropogenic global warming(!!!), polluted and had to be taxed aggressively to “correct” for so-called “externalities” which are definitionally false and conceptually non-concepts, not to mention so broad as to justify any regulatory and taxing regime.

      Because… experts know best!!!

      If you haven’t read Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand now is the time. (The setup is 200 pages of a 1,000 so give it patience) Then follow it up with Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal. And then get a copy of Capitalism: A Treatise on Economics by George Reisman.

      Or just look at this photo of North Korea from orbit. Think long and hard about how much parasitic socialism you want on your back.

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      1. Very well said Tino… much much better than I could even attempt… thought this was interesting take on the topic of energy from Laura Aboli…

        Energy, Power and Suppression

        Every civilisation, without exception, is built on energy. Not ideology, nor money, it’s actually ENERGY that marks the difference between thriving or merely surviving.

        Who controls it, who distributes it, who decides its price, and who is allowed access to it, determines everything else that follows.

        We are now moving into a world that will be increasingly digital, automated, AI-driven, and relentlessly energy-hungry. Data centres, computation, constant connectivity, all of it depends on vast, uninterrupted power.

        This is why fusion matters and why plasma matters.

        Aneutronic fusion, in particular, is not the crude, radioactive, heat-heavy nuclear model most people associate with the word “nuclear.” It is about precision and stability rather than explosion or force. It promises less radiation, less dependency and fewer choke points.

        Plasma itself is not “fuel” in the way we’re used to thinking, it’s a state of matter that is electrically active, responsive to fields, capable of being organised and shaped. A medium, rather than a source.

        Anyone who works seriously with plasma understands something else too, even if they rarely say it out loud: the vacuum is not empty.

        Zero-point energy has existed as a concept for decades, but it’s consistently dismissed because energy abundance has always been more threatening to power than scarcity ever was.

        Somehow the Trump Media & Technology Group merger with TAE Technologies, a company working on advanced and unconventional fusion approaches, seems very significant to me. And I can’t help but be reminded that it was Trump’s uncle, John G Trump, that was tasked with examining the seized papers of Nikola Tesla, a man who spoke openly about wireless power, energy drawn from the ether, and a world where electricity would no longer be metered or controlled.

        Tesla died alone and impoverished, his ideas were shelved, and the energy system that followed moved in the opposite direction: centralised, metered, rationed and controlled. But when Trump places his own initials on a publicly traded company now tied to fusion research, I think we should pay attention…

        The future whether we like it or not, is AI, but this requires more energy that we can even begin to imagine. Our current sources of energy are by no means capable of maintaining a digital world running, so perhaps they will finally have no choice but to slowly disclose methods of harnessing limitless energy.

        It seems to me like fusion may be the acceptable bridge to get us there and plasma the missing key that finally opens the door to a whole new energy paradigm. “

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        1. Well, Tri-alpha fusion via General Atomics almost certainly works. It’s just Lyndon Blue is holding out for “the Deal” IMHO. Trump needs to nationalize them and slap them silly. Tri-alpha works by using boron, and we have a planetary millennium-worth of borax in the desert East of California up into Nevada and somewhat in Arizona. (Disclaimer: I’ve met Lyndon, who is a typical DoD alphabet beltway bandit CEO. I also worked on the General Atomics campus at a lesser known company just to pay bills. For those that saw the movie Real Genius, Val Kilmer’s corporate interview is on the GA campus… Nice place to do R&D.)

          Beyond that, we know Prof Horvath before dying managed to get muon-catalyzed fusion to work. It was supposed to be commercialized by Star Scientific, in a British-Australian-US co-operation of some kind. Certainly those 3 nations have the related patents under sequester. I watched Star Scientific unravel for unspecified reasons in a mess where nobody gave a straight answer. At first I thought fraud, but it seems it was something else entirely… I think it was killed deliberately by the PTB who offered the sacrificial lambs at the company a consolation prize in water purification via one of Horvath’s lesser ideas.

          More generally, the future of the human race will only come about thru decentralization and suppression of the vampire, werewolves and mummies. Moving money out of centralized hands, and the rest of essentials, from energy to water to food, so that we can no longer be held hostage is imperative.

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  53. https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/depopulation-wont-save-us-or-planet

     Some activists, including figures associated with the Extinction Rebellion and the Stop Having Kids Movements Movement in the United Kingdom and the United States have expressed anti-natalist views, arguing that choosing not to have children is a meaningful response to climate change. The reasoning is lucid and, at first glance, convincing: fewer people should mean less consumption, lower emissions, and more space for the natural world to recover.
    Yet this argument becomes less compelling when examined more carefully. Depopulation, on its own, is neither a sufficient nor a reliable solution to environmental problems. Once questions of timing, infrastructure, and land use are considered, the connection between population decline and environmental improvement appears far more uncertain.

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    1. It is unmitigated horse manure. They just don’t want a decentralized humanity because — God Forbid! — people make their own choices, decisions and wants, because Power and Control go hand in hand and for sociopaths — and they are all sociopaths — Power and Control are never enough. Hence the careening forward to make a Control Grid that will meter out a minimum of water, food, electricity etc down to controlling when you can leave your house. Because you see, governments are ends in themselves, and the people, well, they are just a farmed resource…

      I digress…

      Generally, it is Malthusian crap. Which was then pushed out via the Usual Suspects via the Club of Rome.

      Get any of the works of Julian Simon. Man, makes the environment of Man better.

      The problem is government doesn’t enforce property rights and generally shifts burdens across populations. The reason waterways were polluted is nobody enforced the proposition that water taken should be returned pristine because of a poor understanding both of property rights and misapplication of the mechanisms in the Tragedy of the Commons.

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  54. https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/05/trump-drop-10-billion-lawsuit-against-irs-leak/

    President Donald Trump is expected to drop his $10 billion lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service in exchange for the creation of a $1.7 billion fund to compensate allies who claim they were wrongfully targeted by the Biden administration, sources familiar with the matter told ABC News.

    The commission overseeing the compensation fund would have the total authority to hand out approximately $1.7 billion in taxpayer funds to settle claims brought by anyone who alleges they were harmed by the Biden administration’s “weaponization” of the legal system, including the nearly 1,600 individuals charged in connection with the Jan. 6 Capitol attack as well as potentially entities associated with President Trump himself.

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  55. Mosely also!

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  56. Anthropic has lost its mind, at least relative to the low end marketplace. There’s a long tradition of training the next generation by giving away (or at least keeping a low entry price) on the new tech. It’s why the Integrated Development Environments usually have a “Community Edition” so that by the time you end up in an development position you are familiar with the tool and can use it effectively. Never mind all the development languages, debuggers, etc , etc etc.

    So based on using enough AI to make reasonable facsimile of a programming language interpreter (MUMPS, Postscript Lvl2 and Postscript Lvl3) which is reasonable to do at $10… would be insane to do at $518, which is a 51-fold price increase. Understand that to make any of the 3 industrial strength would take another $500 dollars. Loosely, a couple hundred thousands tokens…

    Now, while $1000 to do any 1 of 3 would be a great price as *company* against a revenue model, it puts all casual experimentation out of reach. And it’s clear that Enterprises will be paying possibly 100x to 500x.

    This is too much.

    I don’t see how red-to-black dynamics can happen.

    Even professional software shops, even if they can code 10x speed, by the time all the rest of what a product needs comes together, the best a company can do is maybe drive the whole release cycle 30% to 40% faster, at best.

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  58. In other news:::

    BREAKING: Canada Is Now Debating the KILLING OF BABIES Under MAiD

    “Most Canadians are not yet aware of the extent of the horror.”

    May 15

    Canada’s euthanasia regime has crossed into territory that would have been unthinkable just a few years ago.

    Doctors are openly discussing assisted death for babies. Children could soon qualify for MAiD without parental approval.

    Meanwhile, struggling Canadians are being driven toward euthanasia because they cannot access housing, support, or proper care.

    When a society begins offering death to its most vulnerable instead of protection and treatment, it becomes harder and harder to ignore the historical resemblance to past euthanasia programs targeting the “undesirable.”

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    1. Oh shoot me now!

      Elliot Page, formerly Ellen, all 110 pounds of her — it — at 5 ft 2 inches… is going to play Achilles…

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      1. They are so out of touch with reality if they think this is going to work. It is already hard to get people to watch movies these days as there are other options to see via streaming service.

        If they continue doing completing this project with all the bad reviews, there are all crazy!

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  60. Way to go baby!

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    1. Warren had a bad day. The Clarity Act passed out of the Senate Banking committee markup today 15-9 in record speed. Even her Democrat cohorts wasn’t buying her batshit crazy Karen temper tantrums, trying to protect her bankster campaign donors.

      Next steps are 1) reconcile the bill with the Senate Ag version, shouldn’t take long 2) Go to the full Senate floor circus clown act, if and when passed there 3) Go back to the House to reconcile the bill with the House version 4) Trump signs into law.

      This bill has a lot of support, even with the dipshit Democrats, but still hard telling how long passage and full implementation will take. The main question we have is how these steps will effect crypto prices. Could be the biggest catalyst of price appreciation we have ever seen, or just a big buy the rumor, sell the news event? Doesn’t matter, buy the dips and take planned profits.

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  61. Underwater Bomb Found at Dam That Supplies All of the Drinking Water for Mobile, Alabama

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/05/underwater-bomb-found-dam-that-supplies-all-drinking/

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    1. Scary stuff. I hope they can figure out who did this and prosecute.

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      1. Explosives are pre-placed all across the United States.

        Two possibilities — Iran gave us one location just to drive the point home.

        The other possibility is we have begun a major securing of key infrastructure points, and we found one, and we publicized it to goose all the recalcitrants along.

        My bet is on the first…

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  63. Imagine this dramatizing psychotic as president.

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    1. A delusional lunatic.

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