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Knowing is better than believing.

[Interesting AF @interesting_aIl]

Commodore announces a "digital detox" flip phone that blocks all web browsers and social media platforms

It is priced at $499 and projected to release late 2026

[Macro Liquidity by Sunil Reddy @Macrobysunil]

The U.S. Treasury buying back its old debt while the Fed is buying Treasury bills is not normal market plumbing anymore , it is indirect debt monetization before they officially call it QE.

This is not happening because America suddenly has excess cash.

It is happening because the Treasury market is becoming too large, too illiquid, and too difficult to fund through long-duration debt.

So the strategy is simple:

Buy back old Treasuries.
Issue more short-term bills.
Let the Fed absorb bills to keep liquidity smooth.
They will call this “market functioning.”
But in reality, this is debt being recycled inside the system.

Treasury is reducing pressure from the long end.
The Fed is supporting the short end.
Together, it becomes a soft version of monetization without officially calling it QE.

And this is extremely bullish for Gold.

Because once governments are forced to manage debt through liquidity operations instead of real demand, the market starts questioning the quality of fiat debt itself.

Gold does not need a speech from the Fed.

It only needs proof that the debt system cannot stand on its own.

And this buyback + bill issuance + Fed bill buying structure is exactly that proof.

[THE BLACK SHEEP @TheBlackSheep84]

The FBI wants to spend 36 million dollars to track every car in America.
The cameras already exist. They just need a login.
No warrant. Near real time. The entire country in six regions.
In March, FBI Director Kash Patel admitted under oath the agency is buying data on Americans.
This isn’t building a surveillance state. It’s buying the keys to one.

[𝗘𝗟🐕⚒️👁️⃤ @MasterNumber]

Black Mirror is a documentary shown to minimise karmic debt.

My gut feeling is that it goes even deeper, if you’re jabbed

[Matt Whitlock @MattWhitlock]

A US hospital has taken a billion dollars from taxpayers to help poor patients.

But INSTEAD of helping poor patients, they paid executives millions, built an art museum, built an NBA practice facility, and a buiding in Abu Dhabi.

Meet Cleveland Clinic.

[🇺🇸 Edward T. Winslow @EdwardTWinz]

NOBODY IS TELLING YOU HOW FUCKED THE FARMERS ARE IN AMERICA RIGHT NOW.

The Agriculture Secretary just confirmed it publicly.

1 in 4 American farmers has NO fertilizer secured for spring planting.

No fertilizer. No crops. No food.

Farm bankruptcies are up 46% in 2025.

160,000 farms closed since 2017.

Less than half of all farmers will even turn a profit this year.

They're not struggling. They're being wiped out.

And the media is busy covering everything else.

The real story behind this hasn't been told yet.. follow me because i'm about to tell it 🚨

[Pistachio 🇮🇷 🇵🇸 @HarleyShah]

"China will lose the US market-"

"We don't care. China has been here for 5000 years and most of the time, there was no United States"
😭😭😭

[Fiona Rose Diamond @CoviLeaks]

💥EXPLOSIVE: The Bill Gates Case: The Narrative on Trial. Amsterdam Court Of Appeal. The Netherlands. March 2026💥

If you want to truly understand what is unfolding in the case against Bill Gates, Albert Bourla (CEO of Pfizer) and Mark Rutte (former Dutch PM) along with 15 other defendants - watch this!

In that courtroom, lawyer Peter Stassen didn't just speak; he delivered a calculated, scorched-earth dismantling of the defendants. What he put on the record is absolute fire. You have to watch it for yourself.

This case is real. It is happening. Please take the time to watch the full update, and share it. While the mainstream media remains predictably silent, we are the ones breaking the blackout. We are the ones ensuring the world knows exactly what was hidden.

History isn't just being written; it's being corrected. Never give up on the truth. This is our moment. Watch. Share. Be the witness history requires.

[Melchizedek @xMelchizedekx]

@disclosureorg To fake an alien invasion, you gotta get rid of the people who know how it all works.

[Ricardo @Ric_RTP]

Google just acquired an Israeli Trojan horse to STEAL clients from AWS and Microsoft.

$32 billion. All cash. For a cybersecurity startup called Wiz.

It’s the largest acquisition in Google’s history.

But nobody’s talking about what they ACTUALLY bought...

Here’s why this is way bigger than you think:

Wiz protects over half the Fortune 100.

Their clients run on AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, and Oracle. The platform scans every workload, every vulnerability, every misconfiguration across ALL of those clouds.

Meaning Wiz has a god-level view of how the world's biggest companies use their competitors' infrastructure.

And Google just bought that view for $32 billion.

Now think about what Google Cloud's biggest problem has been for YEARS...

They're stuck in third place. 13% market share. AWS has 30%. Azure has 20%. Google has been hemorrhaging money trying to close that gap and nothing has worked.

Wiz changes that equation overnight.

Because Wiz doesn't just protect cloud environments. It MAPS them.

It knows which companies are running what workloads, where their vulnerabilities are, and where they're overpaying.

Google now has a real-time blueprint of its competitors' biggest customers.

And it gets crazier:

The 4 founders of Wiz previously built Adallom, a cloud security startup that Microsoft acquired for $320 million in 2015. After that acquisition, those same founders ran Microsoft's entire Azure Cloud Security Group.

They literally built the security infrastructure that Azure runs on today.

Then they left. Started Wiz. Built a product that works across every cloud. Got 45% of the Fortune 100 as customers. Most of those customers are on AWS and Azure.

And now they just handed ALL of that to Google.

Google promised Wiz will remain "multi-cloud" and continue working with AWS, Azure, and Oracle. That's the public story.

But here's the game theory every enterprise CTO is thinking about right now:

If you're running sensitive workloads on AWS or Azure and your security layer is now owned by your competitor, how comfortable are you?

Google doesn't need to do anything shady. The PERCEPTION alone is enough to start shifting enterprise decisions. And that's worth way more than $32 billion.

But there's another layer...

Wiz went from $0 to $100 million in revenue in 18 months. Fastest software company in history to hit that mark.

By 2025, they were at $750 million. The founders said no to Google's first offer of $23 billion in 2024 because they wanted to IPO.

9 months later, they said yes to $32 billion.

What changed? The IPO market collapsed.

Tech IPOs dried up. Valuations got slashed. Wiz's leadership looked at the math and realized $32 billion in guaranteed cash beats an uncertain public offering in a hostile market.

Google paid a 39% premium over the rejected offer. A multiple of 45-65x revenue. For a company founded 5 years ago by 4 guys who met in Israeli military intelligence.

This is the BIGGEST tech acquisition of an Israeli-founded company ever. Bigger than Intel buying Mobileye for $15.3 billion. Bigger than anything in Israeli tech history.

And Google is betting it will be worth every penny.

Because the cloud war isn't about compute anymore. It's about TRUST. And the company that controls the security layer controls where enterprises put their most sensitive data.

Google just bought the keys to every major cloud customer on the planet.

The question is whether AWS and Microsoft let them keep using those keys.

What do you think?

[Chris Arnade 🐢🐱🚌 @Chris_arnade]

We don't have public restrooms because they'd be trashed in days.

We don't build bus stops because they'd become homeless shelters.

We don't have dense walkable cities because nobody wants to be accosted by strangers.

This is because we have chosen to accept public disorder, and as the rest of the world shows, it doesn't have to be that way

https://t.co/rErVE9two4

[Ian Carroll @IanCarrollShow]

This is the control grid- it’s already there and it’s solidifying right now. This is where we’re going if Americans don’t wake up en masse right now

[Brett Pike @ClassicLearner]

Public schools are designed to indoctrinate children into:

-CRT (Critical Race Theory)
-Gender ideology
-Climate ideology
-Feminism, &
-Atheism

They will tell your kid what to think, Without teaching them how to think for themselves.

[Logan Weaver @LogWeaver]

BlackRock just told $580 million worth of investors: "You can't have your money back."

$12.5 trillion in assets under management.

And they just locked their own clients out.

Here's what actually happened, and why it proves something I've been saying for years:

BlackRock runs a $26 billion private credit fund called HLEND.

It's marketed to wealthy individuals as a way to access higher returns through private loans.

The pitch sounds great.

Higher yields. Stable cash flows. Diversification away from public markets.

So in Q1 2026, investors believed in that pitch and asked for their money back.

$1.2 billion in withdrawal requests came flooding in.

That's 9.3% of the fund's total value.

BlackRock's response?

They paid out $620 million.

Capped it at 5%.

And told the rest: sorry, you'll have to wait.

They called it a "structural safeguard."

Translation: the fund is designed so that YOU can't leave when YOU want to.

BlackRock stock dropped 8.3% on the news.

KKR, Apollo, Ares, Carlyle all fell 5-6% in sympathy.

The entire $1.8 trillion private credit industry is now under scrutiny.

But here's what's being missed in all the coverage:

This was always the design.

When you hand your money to a fund manager, the fund's terms dictate when you get it back.

Not you.

The fund.

And when stress hits, war in the Middle East, a shocking jobs report, oil at $90 a barrel, you don't get to decide to exit.

They do.

Think about that.

A client of HLEND did everything right.

They handed their money to the world's most prestigious asset manager.

They trusted the pitch.

They waited.

And when they finally said "I'd like my money back," half of it was denied.

"Come back later."

This is the structural problem nobody warns you about.

Private credit funds are built for the fund's timeline.

Not yours.

The moment volatility hits, the exact moment you might need liquidity, reposition, or just sleep at night knowing your money is yours, the gates come down.

Blackstone hit record 7.9% withdrawal requests this same week.

They had to inject $400 million of their own capital just to partially cover them.

Blue Owl issued IOUs.

This isn't one bad actor.

This is how the plumbing works.

And most investors find out too late.

The $1.8 trillion private credit industry has been sold as a stable, yield-generating alternative to bonds.

Stable companies. Senior secured loans. Monthly dividends.

What the brochure doesn't say is that 19% of HLEND's portfolio sits in software companies, right as AI rewrites those business models from the ground up.

And when loans go bad, you're in line behind the fund's priorities.

Not ahead of them.

The real lesson from this week isn't that BlackRock is evil.

It's that liquidity is only valuable when you can actually access it.

And the best investment strategy in the world means nothing if someone else controls the exit.

That's the problem we built Surmount to solve.

Automated strategies that execute on your terms.

Fully liquid. No gates. No quarterly caps.

[Aaron Day @AaronRDay]

This is literally The Great Taking. It is how you will own nothing. People cheering this are clueless.

[Mark Quann @markjquann]

Reading the comments here is fascinating.

Many people are defending the exact system that trained them HOW TO THINK

Public schools largely teach:

Don’t question authority.
Do what you’re told.
Go get a job.
Work for a corporation.
Save money
Get good credit
Pay taxes.
Fund a retirement account so maybe you can retire someday.

That mindset keeps most Americans working their entire lives. And statistic show that Most will be forced to work until they die.

And unless that is interrupted, their children will do the same.

I’d like to change that.

It’s much easier teaching kids, especially homeschool students, because public schools would never allow what I teach.

Fortunately, the brain can change.

Neuroplasticity declines as we age, but anyone can still rewire their thinking.

Anyone can become financially free.

First they just have to unlearn the limited thinking they were taught.

[Joshua | Building Trains 🚆 @JoshuaKDominic]

We found a way to expand passenger rail across America without laying a single track.

Dreamstar Lines uses underutilized freight capacity to run passenger trains across thousands of miles of existing rail infrastructure

We’ve secured a memorandum of understanding with Union Pacific to operate on the LA -> SF corridor one of the highest-demand rail routes in the country, with plans for this route to launch service on the eve of the 2028 Olympics.

This is just the beginning. We plan to expand these partnerships across the most important corridors in America. In just a decade, Americans will have a well deserved alternative to flying or driving in the medium distance. Once and for all we will Make Trains Great Again.

[zerohedge @zerohedge]

Top of Bloomberg this morning, and three days later

[Defiant Ghost @TheDefiantGhost]

John McAfee on how secure are our smartphones:

"There is no security whatsoever."

"While you are watching your phone, your phone is watching you."

"The operating system is designed specifically to watch you, listen to you, find out where you are in order to help you."

"It needs to know who your friends are. It needs to listen to you sometimes."

"It is the world's greatest spy device."