Mark A. Shull

Retired city firefighter. At my age I have seen a lot, but I know there is so much more to learn. Love my fam, friends and pups. I support # bitcoin, and 🇺🇸

[ThePatrioticBlonde™🇺🇸 @ImBreckWorsham]

The Republicans had everything in 2025 and 2026.

Everything.

The House.

The Senate.

The Presidency.

They did absolutely NOTHING with it to benefit the American people.

If that doesn't prove to you the existence of the uniparty, nothing ever will.

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

🚨🇺🇸🇮🇱 Tulsi Gabbard allegedly received the Israel critical threat report 18 days ago, and resigned three days later.

Lt. Col. Anthony Aguilar says the report was deliberately slow-rolled until Section 224 passed the House, giving Israel unprecedented access to U.S. intelligence and defense technology.

The U.S. just labeled Israel its most aggressive spy threat and handed them the keys to the vault the same week.

"You just robbed the bank. Want to be the bank manager?"

[TFTC @TFTC21]

A 1973 Wikileaks cable shows primary dealers explicitly planned to use gold futures volatility to "diminish initial demand for physical holding and negate long-term hoarding by US citizens."

@chrismartenson reads it in black and white.

[Simon Dixon @SimonDixonTwitt]

Exactly what the financial-industrial complex is doing with Bitcoin right now.

They want to custody your Bitcoin while encouraging you to lever up and borrow against it, so they can margin-call you when they scoop it up on the cheap.

They want BlackRock, Strategy, Coinbase, or a Cantor-connected Bitcoin treasury company to hold your Bitcoin.

They want your Bitcoin wrapped in Michael Saylor, Brandon Lutnick, Adam Back, David Bailey, Jack Mallers, Steve Witkoff, Eric Trump, or Donald Trump Jr. instead of held in your own self-custody.

Understand the difference between owning Bitcoin and owning a financial product built around Bitcoin.

One moves you closer to sovereignty.

The other moves Bitcoin closer to the financial-industrial complex.

Your choice.

[Stew Peters @realstewpeters]

LINDSEY GRAHAM: “I go back to S.C. and I’m asking them to send their sons and daughters over to the Middle East. To all the isolationists: I’m not with you, I’m with Israel. God bless Israel. We should move all of our stuff to Israel.”

He actually said this on live television.

[Ann Vandersteel™️ Renner for Governor of Florida @annvandersteel]

IF WE DO NOTHING...

We are watching the transfer of American military sovereignty into the hands of a foreign power.

This is the attempted merger of U.S. military research, weapons development, cyber capacity, artificial intelligence, autonomous systems, missile defense, data architecture, procurement pipelines, and defense industrial planning with a foreign state.

Section 224 of the FY2027 NDAA is called the United States-Israel Defense Technology Cooperation Initiative. That title sounds harmless. The substance is not harmless.

It directs the Pentagon to formalize and accelerate U.S./Israel defense technology cooperation across research, development, testing, evaluation, integration, and industrial cooperation. Reports on the provision describe joint work in missile defense, AI, autonomous systems, cybersecurity, directed energy, biotechnology, quantum, counter-drone systems, and defense supply-chain integration.

This is the foreign capture of America’s military command, technology, and defense infrastructure.

Now look at the timing.

Netanyahu’s own letter thanks Congressman Marlin Stutzman for supporting a plan to move U.S./Israel defense cooperation “from aid to partnership.” The letter praises a new Memorandum of Understanding designed to draw down U.S. financial military assistance and replace it with a new framework of “joint defense cooperation, codevelopment, coproduction and mutual investment.”

That is the entire game.

They know the American people are done writing blank checks. So they are moving the relationship out of the aid column and into the machinery of the Pentagon itself.

This raises a sovereignty question every senator must answer on the record:

Who controls the technology?
Who controls the data?
Who controls procurement?
Who controls deployment?
Who owns the resulting weapons systems?
Who benefits financially?
Who answers to the American people?

The United States is already tied into the British intelligence architecture through the Five Eyes system. Israel’s modern statehood also sits inside a British imperial history. The 1917 Balfour Declaration was issued by British Foreign Secretary Arthur Balfour in support of a “national home for the Jewish people” in Palestine. The British Mandate ended on May 14, 1948, the same day Israel declared statehood. That history matters.

America must not be quietly folded into an Anglo/Israeli military intelligence framework under cover of the NDAA.

Section 224 must be stripped.

No senator should vote for an NDAA that embeds Israeli defense technology, Israeli military interests, or Israeli intelligence priorities into the American war machine.
Call your senators now.

Tell them:
Vote NO on the NDAA unless Section 224 is removed.

America’s military belongs to the American people:
Not Netanyahu, not Israel, not Britain, not the intelligence services, and not the defense contractors.

HOLD THE LINE AMERICA

Scrap Section 224.

[Dave Collum @DavidBCollum]

This is the most sober and sobering analysis of AI investing that I have seen. The cannibalizing the passive flows in idices has been buzzing in my head for weeks now...

https://t.co/DNHnWSUUsr

[Mark A. Shull @MAShull3]

@HunterBiden FWIW, both families deserve to be tried and convicted for treason. Sorry, not sorry.

[Mark A. Shull @MAShull3]

@Dyuku_Togo @Mark4XX Great poignant summary. Explains a lot of what I have been feeling but couldn’t quite understand why it remains so well hidden here in the US

[Golgo 13 @Dyuku_Togo]

@Mark4XX He was on Daniel Davis' podcast a few days ago. He said if the strait is still closed by end of June, his target will then go to +$200. https://t.co/YuFyw15ukv

[Steve Hanke @steve_hanke]

Commodity market guru Jeff Currie on the coming, inevitable oil price spike:

“Demand is up here; supply is down here. We’re filling that gap with inventory. When you eventually run out of inventory, demand has to come down to supply… You can’t print molecules.”

[sarah @sahouraxo]

BREAKING

Israel is now threatening to bomb the Christian Quarter in the city of Tyre, South Lebanon.

There are no military targets.

This is one of the oldest continuously inhabited Christian areas in southern Lebanon — over 2,000 years old.

Not a peep from Western governments

[Save Lucy @SaveLucyTheDog]

"I will wear a muzzle. I will wear a harness. I will wear two leashes at all times. I'm not dangerous, but I will do all the things that a dangerous dog would be expected to do, without complaint. Just let me come home."

If Lucy could talk, that's what she'd say.

#SaveLucy

[Bull Theory @BullTheoryio]

🚨Michael Burry just said Elon Musk and Nvidia's deal is built on fake numbers.

Burry published a detailed breakdown calling the entire structure "Fugazi", his word for fake.

He is alleging that billions of dollars in Nvidia chips are being hidden off balance sheets, and that American retirees are unknowingly funding the whole thing.

Nvidia, the world's largest AI chip company sold $5.4 billion worth of its most advanced GPUs, the GB200, to a company called Valor.

Valor is not a real operating business. It is a special purpose vehicle, a shell company created specifically to hold these chips and nothing else. Nvidia also invested $1.9 billion of its own money directly into Valor on top of the sale.

Those 100,000+ chips are now physically inside xAI's data center. xAI is Elon Musk's artificial intelligence company, the one that builds Grok. xAI is using every single one of those chips right now to run its AI models.

But here is what Burry is flagging.

Neither Nvidia nor xAI owns those chips on paper. Valor, the shell company holds legal title. That means $5.4 billion in GPU assets do not show up on Nvidia's balance sheet as inventory.

They do not show up on xAI's balance sheet as assets. They are legally invisible to both companies.

Nvidia gets to book the $5.4 billion as a completed sale and record it as revenue. xAI gets full use of the chips without owning them. And the risk disappears into a shell company in the middle.

Now here is where American retirees enter the picture.

Valor needed $3.5 billion in debt to fund this structure. Apollo provided it. Apollo is one of the largest asset managers on earth with $1.03 trillion under management and $834 billion specifically in private credit.

Apollo raised the $3.5 billion, packaged it into debt securities, and sold those securities to Athene.

Athene is Apollo's own insurance company. It sells fixed and indexed annuities, retirement savings products, to ordinary Americans.

When a retiree buys an Athene annuity, they believe their money is sitting in safe, stable investments. That money is now inside a structure funding Elon Musk's AI data center.

The numbers inside Athene are most alarming.

Athene holds $74.2 billion in reserves. It has moved $217 billion in assets into a captive insurer based in Bermuda, meaning those assets sit outside normal US insurance regulation and oversight.

Of the entire portfolio, 34.7%, equal to $103 billion, is classified as Level 3 assets.

Level 3 is an accounting classification that means there is no observable market price for these assets. No outside party can independently verify what they are actually worth.

The leverage sitting on top of those unpriced assets is 16 times.

Burry's says:
Every step of this structure is technically legal and publicly disclosed. But the entire thing was deliberately engineered across 8 to 12 steps to move credit risk off balance sheets and away from any market pricing.

- Nvidia books the revenue.
- Apollo collects the fees.
- xAI gets the computing power.
- And retirees sitting at the bottom of a 16x leveraged Bermuda insurance structure, holding $103 billion in assets with no market price carry the risk without knowing it exists.