If you can discover the archetype of the dragon in your own life, and then summon the courage from the sacred heart to slay this dragon… you shall be blessed.
Most political content on the Internet now is designed to divide people by race, sex, religion, orientation, and nationality in addition to ideology, and because algorithmic targeting is so effective, it’s hard to see anything but a conscious unity movement preventing disaster.
Learning to get out of your own way is a life long process. The pity one feels for oneself when observing the despicable parts is keeping you impotent. Instead of wallowing, seek the Love with all your heart and you shall transcend.
No one said it will be easy.
It’s easy to become disillusioned by all the negative news we see on a daily basis, but we are living through a historic transition right now with amazing opportunities.
The ubiquitous rush to build data centers and integrate AI into all aspects of our lives; a once-in-a generation energy crises is unfolding as I speak; a complete overhaul of the financial infrastructure that forms the foundation of global payment rails bringing it fully in to the digital age.
Be fearful and get left behind or learn to be inspired and the opportunities will present themselves.
I oppose any laws requiring cars to have technology that shuts them down if the driver is drunk. The reason I oppose them is that I utterly reject the moral logic on which they are based.
The moral logic for these laws is that they will kill some innocent people, but they will save more people than they kill. Sure, there will be the person who was drugged by someone trying to harm them and whose car doesn't let them flee, and there will be the person who is trying to rush an injured person to the hospital whose demeanor will cause their car not to work. But there will be lots more people who tried to drive drunk who will be stopped. And innocent people they would have crashed into will be saved.
But we don't get to actually kill innocent people to save other people. Suppose there was a doctor would save a dozen of innocent people every year because he's the best doctor there is, but in exchange he demands the right to kill one innocent person every year who would otherwise have lived. We would be moral monsters if we hired such a doctor. We don't get to play god like that.
This law will actively kill some innocent people every year. We shouldn't pass laws that actively kill innocent people, even to save a greater number of other innocent people.
“Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You are like whitewashed tombs, which look beautiful on the outside but on the inside are full of the bones of the dead and everything unclean.”
Matthew 23:27-28
Thank you for speaking out! 🙏
I have three monitors on my desk. The left one shows the order book. The middle one shows Truth Social. The right one shows the investigation queue.
On April 21st, the left screen moved first.
I am a Senior Surveillance Analyst at a commodities exchange. I have held this position for nineteen years. My job is to monitor trading activity for suspicious patterns and generate compliance reports. I am employee of the quarter. I have a mug.
At 19:54 GMT on April 21st, someone placed 4,260 sell orders on Brent crude futures. They did this during post-settlement. The window after the market closes when daily volume is typically in the dozens. Sometimes single digits. Sometimes I watch the screen and nothing happens for forty minutes and I think about whether my daughter is happy.
On April 21st, someone placed $430 million in directional bets in 120 seconds during that window. One hundred and twenty seconds. I timed it on my watch because the system clock rounds to the nearest minute and I have found, in nineteen years, that precision matters to no one but me.
At 20:10 GMT, the President posted on Truth Social that he was extending the Iran ceasefire.
Brent dropped from $100.91 to $96.83.
I flagged the trade. I flag a lot of trades. I want to tell you what happens to my flags.
My flags go into a system called TRACE. Trade Review and Compliance Evaluation. I did not name it. The system generates a report. The report goes to a committee. The committee has a name I am not allowed to share but I can tell you it meets quarterly and the conference room has a credenza with bottled water that is sparkling because someone once put still water in the room and a managing director sent an email about it that was longer than most of my surveillance reports.
The committee reviews my flags. The committee has reviewed all of my flags. Here is the complete record of actions taken on my flags in 2026:
Reviewed.
That's it. "Reviewed" is a status. In compliance, a status is the absence of an action that has been given a name so it looks like one.
Let me show you my flags.
March 9th. Someone bet millions on oil falling at 18:29 GMT. Forty-seven minutes later, a CBS reporter posted that the President said the Iran war was "very complete, pretty much." Oil dropped 25%. Forty-seven minutes. I flagged it.
March 23rd. Someone sold 5,100 lots of Brent and WTI crude futures between 10:49 and 10:50 GMT. Fourteen minutes later, the President posted on Truth Social about a "COMPLETE AND TOTAL RESOLUTION" to hostilities. Oil dropped 11%. Over 13,000 contracts traded in sixty seconds after the post. Fourteen minutes. I flagged it.
April 7th. Someone established a $950 million short position in oil futures at 19:45 GMT. Three hours later, the President declared a two-week ceasefire. Nine hundred and fifty million dollars. I flagged it.
April 17th. Someone placed $760 million in bearish bets twenty minutes before Iran's foreign minister confirmed the Strait of Hormuz would reopen. Seven hundred and sixty million. I flagged it.
April 21st. The $430 million. Fifteen minutes. I flagged it.
That is $2.1 billion in directional oil bets in April alone. Every one of them landed on the correct side of a presidential announcement. Every one of them was placed in a window so narrow you could measure it in bathroom breaks. I flagged every single one.
The CFTC chair told a Congressional committee that his organization has "zero tolerance" for fraud and insider trading. I wrote that quote on a Post-it note and stuck it to my right monitor. The one that shows the investigation queue. The investigation queue has not moved since March.
Zero tolerance. Zero staff. Zero budget. Zero prosecutions under the STOCK Act since it was signed in 2012.
Fourteen years. The law has existed for fourteen years and has been enforced zero times. In compliance, we call that a compliance rate of one hundred percent. No cases filed means no cases lost. You cannot fail an audit you never conduct. We call that excellence.
Last month the White House sent an internal email to staff. I was not on the distribution list but I have read reporting on it and I need you to sit with what I am about to say. The email instructed White House staff not to use insider information to place bets on prediction markets.
The White House had to send a memo telling its own employees not to insider-trade.
I want you to read that sentence again. Not because the instruction was unclear. Because the instruction was necessary. Because someone in the building looked at the same pattern I have been flagging for months on my three monitors and decided the appropriate response was an email.
The President's son sits on the advisory board of Kalshi. He is an investor in Polymarket. Both are prediction markets. Both saw accounts created days before U.S. military action.
One account. I cannot stop thinking about this account. It was called "Burdensome-Mix." It was created in December. On January 2nd, it placed $32,500 on Venezuela's president being removed from power. On January 3rd, Maduro was seized by U.S. special forces. Burdensome-Mix collected $436,000. Then it changed its username. Then it disappeared.
One account is a coincidence. But there were six.
Six accounts were created on Polymarket in February. All bet on U.S. strikes on Iran by the 28th. When the President confirmed the strikes, the six accounts collected $1.2 million between them. Five of the six never placed another bet. The sixth went on to correctly predict the ceasefire date and made another $163,000.
My surveillance system logged all of this. My system logs everything. My system does not have opinions and neither do I. I generate reports. The reports go to committees. The committees meet quarterly. Between meetings, the windows get shorter and the bets get larger.
March 9th: 47 minutes. March 23rd: 14 minutes. April 17th: 20 minutes. April 21st: 15 minutes.
The window is compressing. In March, you had time to make coffee between the trade and the announcement. By April, you had time to send a text. By summer, at this rate, the trade and the announcement will be the same event.
The spokesman said any implication that administration officials are engaged in insider trading is "baseless and irresponsible reporting."
Then the White House sent the email again.
I have been in compliance for nineteen years. I have seen insider trading run out of strip mall offices by men who could not spell "derivative." I have seen pump-and-dump schemes coordinated over WhatsApp by people who used their real names. I have seen a man try to manipulate soybean futures from a Panera Bread.
I have never seen $2.1 billion in perfectly timed trades across five presidential announcements in a single month go uninvestigated.
But I have also never seen a compliance system work this beautifully. Every trade flagged. Every report filed. Every committee briefed. Every quarterly meeting attended. Bottled water: sparkling. Minutes: distributed.
Zero prosecutions.
As long as the flags go up and the cases don't, my performance review says I am meeting expectations.
I am meeting expectations. The system is meeting expectations. The $2.1 billion is meeting expectations. The fourteen-year-old law with zero prosecutions is meeting expectations.
The left screen moves. The middle screen moves. The right screen stays perfectly, immaculately still.
In my field, we call this price discovery.
There’s a tragedy so colossal that most people cannot even begin to comprehend it, lest their entire world view be destroyed. God have mercy on their souls.
@chrismartenson@RealCandaceO “For our struggle is not against flesh and blood,but against the rulers, against the authorities,against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms.” Ephesians 6:12
Candace Owens, Charlie Kirk and the Pursuit of Truth
By John and Irina Mappin | IF Magazine - International Edition.
Charlie Kirk built Turning Point USA on transparency, free speech, and a relentless pursuit of truth.
We are witness to that.
If Candace Owens had been assassinated, Charlie would have torn apart every lie and devoted every working day and night to uncovering the full truth.
He would not have trusted the authorities to deliver justice. He would have demanded it from the rooftops.
If Charlie had remained here, not the other way around, Charlie would have left no stone unturned until the full truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth was known.
Charlie would not have trusted the authorities to get to the truth and to ensure justice.
Charlie would not have waited for the funeral or memorial to happen. He would have gotten to work immediately.
He would have worked night and day to uncover exactly what had happened to his great friend.
Consider this: Charlie did not sleep for several days and several nights just to ensure that JD Vance became the vice-presidential nominee.
And although that job was supremely important for the country and its future, it was still ultimately simply helping to secure a job promotion.
Candace is working to get to the truth of who killed Charlie Kirk and why they did it.
Charlie’s execution is an assassination with potentially far-reaching political consequences for America and the world.
What we have seen so far beggars belief.
A crime scene apparently completely destroyed in days and plenty of evidence that simply does not seem to add up.
This investigation and the truthful answer as to who was really responsible for deciding that Charlie would be executed in front of the world will affect America’s future, its collective soul and conscience forever.
The truth, when known, and we believe it will be known, will have far-reaching international consequences.
The very idea that someone could be convicted and could receive the death penalty when there remains even the slightest shadow of doubt or a shred of uncertainty that they may not be guilty of that crime, and that Christian souls would tolerate that possibility, is anathema to all the teachings of Christ.
If there were circumstances where a suspect or someone standing trial for murder did not have a clean opportunity to receive the very best and fairest legal representation to present their case and defence to the world, it would have been abhorrent to Charlie Kirk.
It would go against every constitutional principle he lived, fought, and died for.
Erika is in mourning. May God bless her and her family.
Please give her and her family time to grieve.
Any civilised culture, Christian or otherwise, allows a grieving widow 40 days of mourning to make peace with the Lord and to respect the departed.
Those people who truly love her would gladly grant her all the space she needs. We certainly do.
But we are growing rather sick and ashamed of seeing people criticise Candace for doing her level best to get to the bottom of, and to the truth of, what happened to Charlie that day.
You don’t have to agree with Candace on every subject that she addresses on her shows to acknowledge that much of what she is presenting on the subject of Charlie’s death is extremely concerning to America and to the world, completely valid, and very relevant to the investigation.
She has an army of truth seekers worldwide who are helping her in her search and research.
This is a truly new and modern phenomenon that has never happened before.
This is not 1963, and boomers need to get used to it.
No one would question how bright Candace is, or that she may indeed be able to help her country get to the truth.
She is highly motivated to do so.
In our view, the official investigation should be immediately ordered by the appropriate legal authority to proactively share everything they know with Candace and her selected team.
That is, if truth and real understanding of who decided to assassinate Charlie and why is their sincere objective.
That would go some way towards restoring public trust in the system.
It is our view that her actions are not just the actions that any real friend would take for their friend.
They are the actions of the highest order of patriotism.
Candace’s actions are service to the whole country and to the world.
Beyond that, they are truly providential, divinely inspired and metaphysical.
There is a relationship between truth and all living things.
There is a relationship between truth and God.
Right now, Turning Point USA is at a vital moment.
If we continue to witness the mistreatment and suppression of a young woman and a mother of four young children, who is doing everything she can to help get to the truth about who decided that her friend and fellow Freedom Fighter Charlie had to die, they will lose the country and the world.
And America will have lost one of it's greatest living patriots only to see those factors against which he fought, and died for, win.
Candace’s extremely valid point, that her's has so far been one of the ONLY public voices from Charlie’s closest friends questioning the absurdity of some of the communications regarding what happened and demanding clarity, is well made, and frankly that point alone is shocking the world.
I have been receiving calls from senior Republicans and from Turning Point donors who agree with her, all last week and, they started up again this week.
They agree with Candace but, seeing the attacks she is experiencing, they are terrified to voice their views publicly or to agree with her.
Is that really where we are in 2025?
We noticed that in one of her episodes last week Candace felt that she needed to state that she is not suicidal, whatever the word suicidal has come to mean.
Few people following the matter believe the official version.
A low minority believe that the current suspect is guilty.
That statistic alone is an awful commentary on the state of the official investigation.
The world wants the truth.
The world, Charlie, and those who truly loved him and knew his purposes certainly deserve justice.
But justice needs not just to be done; it needs to be seen to be done, justly.
It must be truthful, fair, and clean.
“Trust me bro, I’ve seen the evidence. I was there, so you don’t have to see it,” is just not going to cut it.
If there are videos, show them.
If there is evidence, show it.
This is not 1963 and the world is not going to accept anything less.
This is not about who is right or wrong or whose theory is correct.
Candace’s investigation is about actually getting to the truth whatever that truth is.
If the current theory for the shooter is truth - OK. If that is a lie, then we need to know.
Every episode of Candace’s show since Charlie died, from her heartfelt emotional tribute to her exceptional journalism, has been incredible.
And anyone who cares for the truth and who wants to know who killed Charlie, for real, should watch every episode in sequence.
The fact is that what we are being told as his friends, or simply as people who had never heard of Charlie Kirk before his assassination, simply does not make sense to the vast majority.
It feels like gaslighting. It feels like we are being lied to. It is not hard to tell the truth to the public or to present the clear facts that illustrate the truth clearly.
Many extremely ethical people helped to build Turning Point and all associated groups, Turning Point Action and Turning Point Faith.
Many of these people, are existing and potential future donors.
We know many of them.
Ethical people will not stand for lies or injustice, either privately or publicly.
The existing and future donors who were friends of Charlie’s and those he loved deserve no less.
But please spare us the absurd and evil suppression of suggesting that Candace should not be doing exactly what she is doing.
She is doing no more and no less than what her friend Charlie would do for her.
Her actions are far more reasonable and experienceable than an assassin’s bullet to the throat.
Consider for a moment, the evil of possibly allowing the conviction of a potentially innocent party with the death penalty.
I can only begin to imagine the wrath of God and how upset Charlie will be if an innocent man were to be executed for his assassination, and what ill fortune would befall a Christian country and individuals that would allow this.
In this sense, Christianity and a leading Christian democracy are now on trial.
There is a special place in eternity reserved for those who would allow such an injustice.
We still, supposedly, live in a world with the right to a fair trial and the constitutional and legal right of presumption of innocence.
If Turning Point and those Charlie left in charge fail to stay true to the principles and purposes on which Charlie founded it, and with which he and Candace originally breathed life into it during its formative years, then Turning Point will end up like MySpace.
It will become just one more ineffective, rather dull, has-been activity.
I believe that God has other plans for Charlie and for his legacy.
A cover-up of the truth, is not, in my view, part of God’s plan.
Nor is it the Christian thing to do, whatever denomination of Christianity you may subscribe to.
I believe that people of goodwill from all over the world will ensure that.
Keep going, Candace.
Charlie is walking with you every step of the way.
He loves you deeply and you are right about your friendship with him.
Never at any time, through all the challenges that the political arena and life brought, did he ever withdraw his friendship from you Candace.
You were, and are, an eternal cornerstone in his life and in his Legacy.
What a great friend you are being to him.
We are witness to that.
All our love,
John and Irina
A lot of people forget that Lucifer is brilliant. In their amnesia, these same people become the biggest admirers of this brilliance, undermining their ability for discernment.
Reality will humble you one way or another.
You can choose the hard way or the easy way.
The hard way: make it all about you and your power.
The easy way: give yourself over to the eternal.