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Enjoy Gen X cartoons my fellow frogs
https://archive.org/search?query=creator%3A%22Hanna-Barbera+Productions%2C+Inc.%22
Took the kid to see Weapons.
It is very interesting. Usually don’t see these types but the time was 2:17 in the morning. Lots of things like the old witch is the MSM… lots of today’s nonsense packed in this movie. The end is interesting. Me and the kid were laughing through the movie
how am I just now finding out that Peter Thiel is married to a man and calls himself a christian
Thats between Peter and God. Like Jesus taught us, we are not the ones to judge other people. All I care about is whether Peter is pushing LGBT on others or expecting the society to do anything special to validate his gayness. As far as I can tell he has not done so.
it shows a low-level, fundamental flaw in his operating system... yet he's operating a system scanning all our systems...
Welcome to the Great Apostasy!
Given the wide range of ages and locations here, I do wonder if everyone knows that a long greenfont generally indicates sarcasm / joking.
I don't see the green, just regular old italics. Community Styling disabled
Ahhhh that’d do it I guess.
Bill Gates is on Japanese TV right now, quoting the Gospel of Luke to justify his depravity. Then they talked about how USAID was helping the world until big, bad Trump and Musk shut it down. Pure bullshit. Meanwhile, he's developing ticks to bite people to make them allergic to beef because... cow farts. I say we catapult him into the sun.
Catapulting him into the sun is way too good for him, let's work on something better. I'm thinking.
Report: Bitcoin, Derivatives, and the Samson Option
The global derivatives market is the modern Samson Option — not nukes, but financial collapse on command.
A few dozen insiders in New York, London, Basel, and Frankfurt (bank executives, clearinghouse directors, central bank overseers) control the chokepoints.
A margin refusal, collateral pullback, or clearinghouse freeze can trigger a cascade through rehypothecation chains. One failure ripples everywhere.
Bitcoin was designed as the off-ramp: money outside central banks and clearinghouses.
It was pulled back into the system through:
2017 CME Bitcoin Futures — price discovery shifted to derivatives desks.
2024 Spot ETFs — BlackRock, Fidelity, Ark wrapped BTC into Wall Street products.
Custodians — Coinbase, Fidelity hold ETF coins, exposing them to lending and rehypothecation.
Result: Bitcoin’s price is tied to Wall Street infrastructure, even though the protocol itself still runs free.
Market Bitcoin (captured layer): Futures, ETFs, custodians. Vulnerable to price suppression or crashes. A click in the derivatives system can crush value.
Network Bitcoin (protocol layer): Still decentralized. Self-custody and peer-to-peer use are beyond Wall Street’s control.
They can destroy confidence by smashing price, but they cannot kill the chain itself.
The plan was: trigger collapse via derivatives, then herd survivors into CBDCs (centralized, programmable money).
Trump blocked CBDCs in the U.S., cutting off the clean transition.
They can still nuke markets — including Bitcoin’s price — but they lack the replacement cage.
Actions taken:
Banned CBDCs.
Created a Strategic Bitcoin Reserve.
Hosted a Digital Asset Summit.
Protected crypto firms from debanking.
Dismantled hostile enforcement units.
Not yet done:
Breaking CME futures/ETF dominance.
Enforcing proof-of-reserves.
Outlawing rehypothecation.
Building independent settlement rails.
Likely timing: visible moves now, deeper structural changes held until the system weakens, so opponents can’t counter early.
Official mission: space superiority.
Practical mission: safeguard the infrastructure that underpins global finance.
GPS time — clock for settlement.
Satellites + comms — carry clearinghouse data.
Continuity channels — fallback if markets collapse.
Space Force can protect the backbone, but it cannot untangle Bitcoin from Wall Street’s derivative hooks.
To make Bitcoin a true off-ramp again:
End CME/ETF dominance; move to spot-only price indexes.
Enforce proof-of-reserves; ban rehypothecation.
Push self-custody as default.
Build independent rails outside CME, LCH, and SWIFT.
System-wide decoupling: extremely difficult under current power.
Individual/sovereign decoupling: possible, but it’s a fight against the core of the financial system.
Bottom Line
The modern Samson Option is financial: a derivatives detonation by 30–50 insiders. Bitcoin was supposed to be the escape, but it was tied into derivatives markets. That lets them crush its value, even though the network survives.
Trump blocked CBDCs, denying them their replacement system. He’s building parallel rails and timing deeper moves. Space Force defends the backbone, but the real fix is cutting Bitcoin free from Wall Street’s control — a fight that’s possible, but it’s war.
Great, great post!
Here’s what Trump can and likely will do to block a derivatives-triggered collapse from wiping out Bitcoin and the economy:
He already banned them. That strips out the “replacement cage” the system builders wanted to funnel everyone into after a derivatives detonation.
By rerouting government revenue through tariffs and parallel structures, he drains dependence on the Fed/IRS. That weakens the system’s leverage to weaponize a financial reset.
Treasury, military, and Space Force backbones give him comms, payment channels, and reserves outside the BIS/IMF/Clearinghouse system.
That means if CME/LCH try to cascade, he can stand up alternative rails immediately.
He already declared seized Bitcoin as part of a national reserve. That positions BTC as collateral the state itself can stand behind — a hedge against deliberate market collapse.
He hasn’t killed CME futures, ETFs, or custodians yet. Those are Wall Street’s hooks.
The timing is deliberate: he’ll wait until the system’s weak or already under stress, then cut their ability to rehypothecate or dominate price discovery.
Done too early, they adapt. Done during crisis, they’re cornered.
In short: Trump’s path isn’t to smash the derivatives system head-on. It’s to make its detonation toothless: no CBDC landing zone, parallel rails ready, Bitcoin under state reserve, and timing the choke-points so the enemy can’t adjust.
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This is a great example of how people create their own enslavement.
If people always kept their BTCs in self custody wallets and not leave them on Custodian sites like Binance etc AND people refuse to buy ETFs but rather invest in BTC directly, Wall street would never have gotten the control.
This is why I keep saying - they are not enslaving us, we are enslaving ourselves. The enslavement is not physical, it starts with the mind.
This is why the only way to free from enslavement is via Awakening.
Things that make me go hmmm on an early Saturday morning...
Double yolked egg in the carton of store bought eggs. (Thankful prayers lifted for Brooke Rollins.)
Edger/Trimmer line versus scissors. (Thankful prayers lifted for both--one for speed (but where does it go?)and one for the everlasting-ness.)
"Need to know.". (Know God. Know Peace. Know Justice. Know Mercy. God is All-knowing.)
We have had a couple times recently when majority of the eggs in the carton were double yolks. In the beginning it was joyful, but after a few we became suspicious.
Any suggestion on an ai with no content limitations? Chatgpt has way too many censors. And if an image has even half a boob in it the ai blocks analysis completely
If you install Flex AI locally it can pretty much create any kind of image, even a bit racy ones.
Historicism vs Futurism interpretations of Biblical prophecy
I want to take one major prophecy in Daniel 9:26“And after the sixty-two weeks Messiah shall be cut off, but not for Himself;
We understand this was fulfilled Jesus death on the cross & His resurrection :26 And the people of the prince who is to come
Shall destroy the city and the sanctuary. The end of it shall be with a flood, And till the end of the war desolations are determined. This was fulfilled in 70 AD
Now want to look at the final verse which I think you'll see is future & not already fulfilled.
27 Then he shall confirm a covenant with many for one week;
Some confuse this with Jesus' Blood Covenant for our sins, but that took place in 30 AD This Treaty is with the antichrist & Israel & others in the future. This Treaty will result in the building of the 3rd Temple & restarting sacrifices. As of now the Sanhedrin has prepared Priests including the High Priest. All the instruments have been made except the Ark of the Covenant.
:27 But in the middle of the week, He shall bring an end to sacrifice and offering.
But after 3 1/2 yrs the antichrist will the stop the sacrifices & demand worship as god. This will cause the Abomination of Desolation.
:27 And on the wing of abominations shall be one who makes desolate,
This will consummate with the destruction of the antichrist at Jesus' coming.
:27 Even until the consummation, which is determined, Is poured out on the desolate.”
Now ask yourself; Has the 7 year Treaty been made?
Has the 3rd Temple been built & sacrifices resumed?
Has the antichrist entered this Temple & proclaimed he is god?
Has the antichrist been defeated & cast into the Lake of Fire?
Has satan been imprisoned in the Abyss for a thousand years?
These events & many others have not been fulfilled. I hope this will clear up some confusion on this topic.
Psalm 19:14
Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in your sight, O Lord, my rock and my redeemer.
I really wonder how well I’ve followed through on that these days…. Hopefully at least ok-ish…
By and because of God's grace... I keep trying.
Anybody hear anything about Rod Rosenstein lately? He was right there in the thick of it with all the other bad players, and I hear about them but never about him.
If you go look at some of Joe Lange's recent stuff, he goes into Rod Rosenstein. I think Joe derived that he had flipped as part of the evidence to get Comey and Clapper, but not sure. If he gave evidence he'd likely be removed from the news cycle. It'll be in his substack posts about Comey.
Ditto, I was going to say he flipped. Now is our asset, plea deal...
Thanks! Good info.