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[Catherine Austin Fitts @austin_fit76995]

G. Edward Griffin just flagged it: the people running the centralized system are cornered.
When the control structure gets into trouble, history shows they don’t fix it. They launch a crisis to scare people into giving up more freedom for “security.”

Watch the capital flows, not the headlines. The setup for the next scare will likely be one of these: cyber attacks that take down infrastructure, another “public health” emergency, war or terrorism, a financial system seizure, energy/oil shortages, droughts, food supply disruptions.

This isn’t about predicting the exact event. It’s about understanding the playbook.

Solution: Get off their grid where you can. Local food, local cash, real assets, trusted community, and control of your own data. Freedom is built locally while they try to centralize globally.
Don’t submit to fear. Follow the money.

[Catherine Austin Fitts @austin_fit76995]

Follow the Money
Listen closely. This is how the illusion is maintained.
When the Fed pays banks 5%+ interest on reserves, but earns less on the bonds it holds, it books a loss. They call it a “deferred asset.”

Translation: The Fed is now borrowing expensive money to hold cheap debt. That makes the government’s balance sheet look healthier than the cash flows actually are.

I call this financial sleight of hand. It’s not about “losing money.” It’s about shifting risk and hiding the true cost of debt.

This is The Great Taking in slow motion: centralize control of capital, rewrite the accounting, and keep the public focused on GDP while the collateral gets pledged behind the scenes.
It’s not just the U.S. Every central bank playing this game is doing the same thing. The question: if their books are opaque, whose books are transparent? Yours. Start with real assets.

[Coach, JV @Coachjv_]

Kicking your kids out at 18 is a psyop.
They are not magically adults because the system picked an age. Your job as a parent is not to feed them to the machine unprepared. Your job is to teach them how the machine works.

Teach them faith. Discipline. Money. Investing. Responsibility. How to build. How to protect themselves. Families should stick together until there is stable ground for the next generation to step onto. A strong family builds a foundation, then sends warriors into the world. Not wounded kids trying to figure out life alone.

[Connor Boyack 📚 @cboyack]

"For your safety" is the leash.
"For your own good" is the collar.
"For the greater good" is the cage.

[Harry Fisher @harryfisherEMTP]

Venting:

If you’re like me you can see that the world is losing its collective mind. You might ask yourself why the insanity, the attacks on reality, the erosion of our values, the medical mandates? It all seems so coordinated.
Well, It’s not an accident. This is an actual engineered collapse of the human spirit.
The powers that be are inverting reality. They try to force us to accept that men can be women, that destroying life is "care," and that the State is the ultimate authority. By forcing us to lie to ourselves, they break our internal compass. Once you can’t trust your own eyes, you have to trust the machine. That’s destruction of our God given discernment.
They want to remove the Divine. When you take God out of the equation, you remove the only true authority that stands above the State. Once the State becomes "God," they don't just write the laws or make the rules, they define what is "sane," what is "healthy," and what is "true."
Then they weaponize their manifested opposition. This is the 5D chess move. By pushing the culture to such a breaking point that the few left with a functioning compass are driven into a corner of pure, reactionary fear and rage. Then they capture that. They offer "leaders" and "movements" who promise to fight back, but ultimately it lead us right back into the machine’s arms, supporting the same "security" laws, the same "biosecurity" protocols, and the same digital infrastructure that is actually building our cage.
While we’re fighting over or becoming numb during the culture war, they’re openly rolling out the final upgrades to the system. Data centers, bio digital convergence, centralization of all intelligence, mRNA protocols that rewrite our biology, and transhumanist agendas that aim to integrate us into their grid.
They aren't just trying to win a simple rigged election. They are successfully re-engineering what it means to be human so that we become the perfect, compliant drones for their beast system.
I wish this was just a "bad dream." It’s not… It’s a calculated capture of the human race. A true invasion.

Powers and principalities, dark forces, they have been at it forever. Welcome to reality.

“Their idols are silver and gold, The work of men’s hands. They have mouths, but they do not speak; Eyes they have, but they do not see; They have ears, but they do not hear; Noses they have, but they do not smell; They have hands, but they do not handle; Feet they have, but they do not walk; Nor do they mutter through their throat. Those who make them are like them; So is everyone who trusts in them.”

Psalms 115:4-8

God bless

[karma @karma44921039]

The woman who knows how the world really works, Catherine Austin Fitts, has reached the bottom of the rabbit hole.

[Catherine Austin Fitts @austin_fit76995]

That black smoke is the visible cost of running the system. For years they told you that your diesel generator, your car, your electricity use was destroying the planet. They built a whole control grid around that story - carbon credits, ESG scores, social credit tied to energy use. For you. Not for them.

Now watch what happens when the money center needs power. Data centers pulling city-scale electricity, 24/7 diesel backup, and suddenly… no problem. No climate lectures. No fines. No shutdowns.

Why? Because the rules only apply to the people outside the system.

That’s the setup for The Great Taking.

The financial system is being centralized into a control structure. The assets you think you own - securities, bank deposits, even your property through liens and custody chains - are being moved into a system where access is contingent on compliance.

And compliance is determined by the people who control the pipes: energy, data, finance, digital ID.

When they need the power, they turn it on. When you need it, it’s “unsustainable.”
When they need the liquidity, the collateral gets rehypothecated. When you need it, the account is frozen for “review.”

The smoke you see is a signal. It tells you who’s actually inside the perimeter and who’s outside. The Great Taking is about moving everyone else outside, while making it look legal, technical, and inevitable.

So the question isn’t really about the smoke. The question is: where are your assets sitting, and who can turn off the switch?

[TFTC @TFTC21]

Martti Malmi, one of Bitcoin's earliest developers, just released a new version of Nostr VPN, an open-source mesh VPN that replaces the entire trust model of traditional VPN services.

Traditional VPNs route all your traffic through a central server operated by a company you have to trust. They see your data. They require your email. They can log your activity. They can be subpoenaed, hacked, or shut down. Even modern mesh VPNs like Tailscale, which improved on this by sending data peer-to-peer, still require you to authenticate through a centralized coordination server using third-party accounts like Google or Microsoft.

Nostr VPN eliminates the central server entirely. Your identity is a Nostr keypair, a self-generated cryptographic key pair with no registration, no email, no third-party account. The underlying transport layer is FIPS (Free Internetworking Peering System), a self-organizing encrypted mesh network where nodes authenticate each other, route traffic for each other, and establish connections without any central authority or global topology knowledge. Each node's Nostr public key (npub) serves as its network address.

The architecture uses two layers of encryption: hop-by-hop encryption between peers and independent end-to-end encryption between mesh endpoints with periodic rekeying for forward secrecy. When direct connections fail due to NAT issues, the system falls back to Nostr-based multihop routing through other FIPS nodes rather than relying on company-operated relay servers. Peer discovery and NAT traversal happen through public Nostr relays using encrypted gift-wrapped messages.

The new release adds native desktop apps for macOS, Linux, and Windows, an Android app, Nostr-based multihop routing for when NAT holepunching fails, and improved network management. It supports UDP, TCP, Ethernet, Tor, and Bluetooth transports simultaneously on a single mesh.

This is what happens when you apply Bitcoin's design philosophy, permissionless, self-sovereign, no trusted third parties, to networking infrastructure. Built by one of the people who helped Satoshi build Bitcoin in 2009.

[Trans(Alex Cargill #PPC Candidate Kings-Hants) @TransSplendor]

Another day in the matrix.

America first vs moloch's gimps.

[ZenKen @ZenKen99]

@AAStack 🔥🔥

[ZenKen @ZenKen99]

@AmericaPapaBear That wasn't a sucker punch, but a warranted outcome regardless.

[Destiny Rezendes @dezzie_rezzie]

😲This is absolutely wild! Marco Rubio just put X & all US users under a new PSYOPS initiative. You've GOT to hear this!

[Peter McCormack 🏴‍☠️🇬🇧🇮🇪 @PeterMcCormack]

"Human capital is getting demonetised."

Michael @saylor on the future economy:

- A billion robots are coming for the jobs
- Working hard no longer makes you rich
- You have 10 years to adapt
- Most people won't

New episode out now 👇

[ZenKen @ZenKen99]

@pamzy911 And yet people still say it’s dead when the metrics give a whole other statement.

[ZenKen @ZenKen99]

@HempMillionaire Yes same here. The nuance is real and discounting it by assuming everyone is the same slows down the understanding of how much it can help. It is a medicine and should be used as such.

[Bitcoin Well @bitcoinwell]

Scott Bessent just told the world that financial infrastructure is a weapon and then 4-star admiral just told Congress what beats it.

Admiral Paparo, head of US Indo-Pacific Command, called Bitcoin "a peer-to-peer, zero trust transfer of value" that supports "all instruments of national power." He said this in a Senate hearing. On the record. Right as the Treasury was openly bragging about engineering currency collapse in Iran as a military strategy.

Operation Economic Fury works because the legacy system runs on trust. Trust that your reserves are safe. Trust that your payment rails stay open. Trust that the correspondent bank holding your nation's wealth doesn't get a strongly worded letter from Washington tomorrow morning. The dollar is a weapon precisely because everyone agreed to depend on it.

Zero trust money breaks that weapon entirely.

Here's where the game theory gets uncomfortable.

Iran already figured this out. Cut off from SWIFT, they built alternatives. They mined Bitcoin at scale. They collected tolls on 20% of the world's oil supply in Bitcoin, settled on-chain before any Western authority could touch it. Your sanctioned adversary is already operating on the network your admiral just called a tool of national power.

The CCP's monetary think tank reached the same conclusion. After Trump announced the Strategic Bitcoin Reserve, they published research on Bitcoin as a strategic asset. The same government that built a surveillance state on financial control is studying the one monetary network that surveillance can't reach.

When your enemies are adopting Bitcoin and your own generals are calling it a power projection tool, you don't get to opt out. You can't sanction your way around it. You can't bomb the network into submission. The only move left is to accumulate faster than your adversary.

Bessent is showing you what the old system can do to you. Paparo is telling you what replaces it. Iran is proving it works in live conditions. And the CCP is taking notes.

Bitcoin doesn't care who's winning the geopolitical argument. It just keeps producing blocks.

The admiral knows it. Iran knows it. The CCP knows it. The senator in that hearing room admitted he couldn't even follow the conversation.

That gap is where everything is decided.

[ZenKen @ZenKen99]

@attackdogX It hit so different this year.

[ZenKen @ZenKen99]

@Zenm001 ❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥

[Shipwreck @shipwreckshow]

Damn.

The kids get it. 🔥

[ZenKen @ZenKen99]

@AAStack Incentive drives everything.