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A highlight from ANTI BITCOIN BOB MENENDEZ CHARGED! SEC GARY GENSLER DOESN'T LIKE THE LAW (CRYPTO NEWS)
"Welcome back to the Thinking Crypto Podcast, your home for cryptocurrency news and interviews. If you are new here, please hit that subscribe button as well as the thumbs up button and leave a comment below. If you're listening on a podcast platform such as Spotify, Apple or Google, please leave a five star rating and review. It supports the podcast and it doesn't cost you anything. Well, folks, we got very interesting news, which I'm sure many of you may have heard in the mainstream media, and that is Senator Bob Menendez has been charged with bribery and a whole bunch of other crimes. And you may say, well, Tony, why are you talking about this? Right. Well, folks, Senator Bob Menendez, who is a Democrat, he introduced a bill back in 2022, which would help to stop Bitcoin adoption in El Salvador. And he was citing that the adoption would open the door for money laundering and corruption. Wow. Talk about hypocrisy, folks, right? This guy all along for a very long time, his track record, he's been accused of doing a lot of shady stuff and now he's being charged here. The folks at Bitcoin Archive said the senator who said Bitcoin can open the doors of corruption in El Salvador was just indicted for corruption by federal prosecutors who seized one hundred thousand dollars in gold bars and four hundred and eighty thousand dollars in hidden cash from his home. So politicians those who are often very loud and screaming against crypto are the ones who have a lot to lose and a lot to hide, who are probably doing shady stuff. For example, Elizabeth Warren, Brad Sherman, Gary Gensler, right? I'm sure they've got some really nasty stuff in their closet. And some folks have shown that Elizabeth Warren has a net worth of seventy three million dollars. And of course, her salary is just like two hundred and eighty thousand a year. That's a great amount of wealth she's accumulated from just a senator's salary, right, folks? But we know the game, right? This is why we got to keep fighting and we got to expose these corrupt bureaucrats and politicians like Elizabeth Warren and Brad Sherman. We know they are puppets on the string doing a lot of the bidding of the tradfi incumbents and people who would love to kill crypto and not just even kill crypto, but just stop or kill the startups and allow their banking buddies and Wall Street buddies to come in and take over. So I'm glad these folks are getting exposed. And President Nayib Bukele, who, of course, he's the president of El Salvador, he tweeted about this news. He said, this is the guy that called for an investigation against us. He ended up being charged, period. So I'm glad he's doing a victory lap there. Now we got some interesting news about a library in the SEC. So we had reported just about a week and a half ago or two weeks ago that library was going to file an appeal. And this is based on the Ripple lawsuit outcome. Right. It makes sense. We have new case law with XRP, so it makes sense for them to appeal. And the First Circuit Court of Appeals in Boston has directed library to file its brief by November 1st, 2023. Now of course, this is no guarantee they're going to win. But the point is, we want to put the pressure on the SEC and Gary Gensler. We want to expose them for their lies, hypocrisy and much more. So I'm glad library is doing this. Attorney Jeremy Hogan highlighted a video here with Gary Gensler being interviewed. And it just shows his hypocrisy that he doesn't care about the law. He just cares about his own power and his next job. And it's no wonder Judge Sarah Netburn said the SEC has no faithful allegiance to the law. So he says the crypto space is full of hucksters and noncompliance. Well, the reporter asked them, would anything a court says change your mind? Great question. Gensler said, well, no, not really. And of course, he looked very shaky. He's losing confidence. And Attorney Jeremy Hogan said, you can't make this stuff up. So clearly, this man has no respect for the law. He's just making things up as he goes. It's about his show, his power, his ego. And we can't have that, folks. This guy's supported by our tax dollar. He should be kicked to the streets. And I'm telling you, I hope that Coinbase mops the floor with his buffoon and the SEC so that he has so much pressure on him. He's forced to resign. I'm hoping that happens. Now, Stuart Aldarati highlighted that same video. And here's what he had to say. What's most concerning to me and should be to you in the full video clip, this is the shocking admission of an unelected bureaucrat that he won't respect the decisions of the courts. So I'm thankful for the judicial branch and the balances we have in the government that a corrupt scumbag regulator like Gary Gensler, as much as he can go around saying all kinds of nonsense and nasty stuff, he has to respect the courts in a sense of what they put out there. Right. The SEC has to abide by that. Now, he may not personally agree, and he can, you know, like in this interview, say, oh, no, I don't agree with anything. But at the end of the day, if he takes a loss, he takes a loss. Right. So we got to keep fighting. I'm hoping the industry keeps fighting back as well. Now, quick word from our sponsor, and that is Uphold, which is a great crypto exchange that I've been using since twenty eighteen. I've interviewed their CEO and many representatives so I can vouch for this platform. They have ten plus million users, two hundred and fifty plus crypto currencies, and they're available in one hundred and fifty countries. You can also trade precious metals and thirty seven fiat currencies so you can switch between these different currencies and crypto and precious metals at a click of a button. So it's a unique platform and they've been around for a long time. Once again, I can vouch for this platform. So if you'd like to learn more, please visit the link in the description. All right. Let's move ahead. Caitlin Long was at Mainnet and she was tweeting out some of the statements coming out of Mainnet. I was at Mainnet yesterday and I met her. I tweeted out a photo of us together. I was supposed to go on Wednesday as well, but I wasn't feeling too hot. So stayed home that day. But, you know, there was a lot of folks there. And Brian Armstrong, CEO, was there. He said the Biden administration has been terrible for crypto. Well, that's to say the least, right? That's an understatement. They've been horrendous, in my opinion. Caitlin also highlighted that 61 percent of pro -crypto voters actually this is she's highlighting what Chris Lee Hain had to say, that 61 percent of pro -crypto voters in 2020 voted for Biden. Democrats are at risk of losing them in 2024 due to anti -crypto policy. Absolutely right. And these Democrats are shooting themselves in the foot. Patrick Hanson of Circle highlighted the following, that the euro stablecoin, obviously Circle issues USDC, but they also have the euro stablecoin and it's now EURC instead of EUROC. So just an update there. So the euro coin is now EURC. So just heads up on that, folks. And I want to highlight something I tweeted out today, and I think it's important. And, you know, all emotions aside, all feelings aside, I was highlighting that I'm very bullish on Ethereum for the 2024 -2025 bull market. Now this is, once again, all emotions and feelings about Bill Hinman and Joe Lubin aside, I still want those guys to be held accountable. But as for the token and the code, it's getting adoption. And I highlight that PayPal is building their stablecoin in Ethereum, right, PYUSD, Citibank's token is built on Ethereum. JP Morgan is working on a deposit token, which is built on Onyx, which is a permissioned version of the Ethereum blockchain. Coinbase is obviously launching base, which is their layer two for Ethereum, or they have launched it, I should say. And there's a rise in institutional ETH staking. So I'm very bullish on ETH and this type of news, these facts now, not my feelings, not my opinions, but these facts of adoption from very big companies and brands has me very bullish on Ethereum. I obviously hold ETH in my portfolio. I stake it and I continue to buy the dip, not financial advice. You should do your own research. And obviously I'm not just bullish on ETH alone, but just there's been a lot of adoption. And I want to highlight that because it's about facts, not feelings now. And I'm bullish on Bitcoin, XRP, Chainlink and many other tokens. Let's talk about Core Scientific, which is a Bitcoin mining company. So Core Scientific sealed $77 million Bitmain deal for 27 ,000 Bitcoin mining rigs. The deal was first finalized in August with Anchorage as another party agreeing to an equity stake in the bankrupt crypto miner. So one of the key things is that BlackRock also gave them a bit of money. Guys, this was back in 2022. So it's kind of like to the Victor goes to spoils where Bitmain was in trouble and then a whole bunch of folks started coming in to grab up as much as they can. So the deal between the two mining companies will see Bitmain supply 27 ,000 Bitcoin mining rigs for $23 million in cash, along with $53 .9 million worth of common stock of the bankrupt firm. Apart from the mining hardware purchase deal, Bitmain and Core Scientific have signed a new hosting agreement to assist Bitmain's mining operations. The deal was finalized in August when a court filing highlighted Bitmain's plan to sell mining hardware in exchange for cash and equity. As part of Core Scientific's restructuring plan, apart from Bitmain, the restructuring plan also included Anchorage. And you guys may have seen my interview recently with the president of Anchorage and the co -founder of Anchorage, Diego Monica. If you haven't seen that, be sure to check it out. It says here, restructuring plan also included Anchorage, BlockFi and mass mutual asset finance. Apart from Anchorage, all other three firms chose a mix of cash and equity options to settle their claims. The expansion investment plan by Bitmain will come into force by the fourth quarter of 2023, pending approval from a judge. Once approved, the hardware will potentially add 4 .1 exahashes to Core Scientific's hash rate. The two crypto mining companies all have also agreed to work together to upgrade Bitmain's last generation miners hosted at Core Scientific's data centers to further increase the firm's productivity. So, folks, Core Scientific, I will be potentially interviewing the new CEO and I'll let you guys know when that's coming up. But I want to definitely get into the details here and what BlackRock is doing with them in addition to Bitmain. So I'll definitely be asking those questions once I get the interview locked in. But, you know, a lot of companies are preparing for the Bitcoin mining next year. And many of you may have seen my interview uploaded earlier today with Fred Thiel, who's the CEO of Marathon Digital Holdings, and Marathon is working with a sovereign wealth fund. So, folks, there's going to be a lot of capital coming to the market. You're going to see a rise in demand for Bitcoin as the spot ETFs get approved, especially around, you know, BlackRock spot ETF and Fidelity and so forth. So I'm very bullish, you know, like I've been saying, we are in quantitative tightening, fighting inflation, rates are high, but this will end right as it has historically boom and bust cycles. The Fed will eventually start its QE again. They're going to start printing money, global liquidity will go back up and we'll be back in a bull market. We just have to be patient, dollar cost average where possible. And, you know, don't look at the price every day because you'll drive yourself crazy. And, you know, it's very volatile. Sometimes it's moving sideways. It's very boring. And I know that's tough. But just, you know, take your positions, obviously do your research, take your positions and just be patient and then, you know, watch what these players are doing. Right. Not so much the price, but watch what the players like this are doing, who's investing, who's building, who's raising capital and much more. So that's what I'm looking at. And that's why I build this podcast to share the news, because, you know, this is not going to make mainstream news. This is not going to be on CNBC, Fox or CNN or whatever it is. Right. And a lot of people are not paying attention. But I'm glad I'm here early. If you are here early, pat yourself on the back because there's going to be billions of people coming in buying Bitcoin and other crypto at a premium and they're going to go to BlackRock and whoever else. Right. But you and I are on the side of smart money. We are on the side of BlackRock. We are on the side of Fidelity. Right. Accumulating the lows. And then when the bull markets come back, then, you know, the herds, the herd who watch Jim Cramer and listen to Jim Cramer will go by. And that's when I'll be taking profits. And I'm sure many of you as well. So once you understand the market cycles, both for stocks, even real estate and obviously crypto, you know, you can make money, folks. And that's what I had to learn. I had to unlearn the mainstream media finance and listening to Jim Cramer and all these things. Right. And study the charts and understand the market cycles and know when to buy and when to sell, because all those things, you have to be a contrarian. Right. You've got to go against your emotions. You've got to go against the herd mentality. And that's hard if, you know, all your life you've been trained to go with the herd. Right. From television and media and all these things, you have to unlearn that. And once you get it, boy, it's pretty sweet. Right. To be able to make a nice return, make nice money. And obviously you've got to diversify. I diversify into different tokens, into stocks. I've often tweeted and sometimes shared, you know, my positions. Recently, I told you guys I bought PayPal because Jim Cramer said to sell PayPal. So I bought PayPal. Right. I know it's not going to be some quick flip. It may I see I may see some nice returns by next year and that's OK. I a am patient investor looking to build wealth for me and my family. So anyway, guys, that's my approach. Let me know what you think. I would love to hear what you guys think about this news. Leave your thoughts and comments below. Hit the thumbs up button. Hit the five star rating on the podcast platforms. Don't forget to check out the merchandise store. Link will be in the description. Thank you for your support. Thank you for listening. And I'll talk to you all later. Thank you.
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"Davies facing Carlos Rodón. Yankees need to go four and three over the last seven to assure themselves of a winning season. Mets were walked off in Philadelphia five four and ten innings. Alex Baum's line drive the winner inch the Phillies closer to their second straight playoff appearance. JT Relmuto clubbed run a three home run for Philadelphia as well. Zach Wheeler Jose Quintana Saturday night at 405. College football Friday night action NC State edge Virginia in the ACC 24 21. On Saturday all eyes on South Bend sixth ranked Ohio State visits number nine Notre Dame in a battle of unbeatens. Week three in the NFL Giants after Thursday's loss in San Francisco. They have days ten to regroup before hosting Seattle next Monday night. Saquon Barkley still expected to miss the next two games at least with a high ankle sprain. Jets put up the Patriots Sunday afternoon. New England's 0 for -2 the first time since 2001 before Tom Brady arrived in Foxboro. MLS Saturday Red Bulls host DC United NYFC heads to Toronto and hockey fans rejoice preseason gets underway Sunday with the Rangers and Bruins with your Bloomberg Sports Update. I'm Rob Buschka. This is a Bloomberg Money Minute. A lot of people leave their sales resistance behind when they log on to social media. About 4 in 10 social media users have made an impulse purchase over the past year of something they saw on social media. Ted Usman is a senior industry analyst at Bankrate. He says people tend to overspend. The average talent is pretty staggering. It's $754 per impulse buyer and it can lead to buyers is remorse. Unfortunately, more than half of these impulse purchasers say they regretted at least one of the things that they bought. Usman says a self -imposed waiting period of 24 hours or more can help consumers to avoid buying something they'll feel bad about later and he says it's important that people be able to pay for their purchases without running up their credit card balances. I don't want to tell people they can't have any fun but just be realistic and honest with yourself. Maybe build this in as a budget category if it's something that's coming up a Jeff lot. Bellinger Bloomberg Radio Bloomberg Radio on demand and in your podcast feed On the latest edition of the tape podcast a conversation with Kevin Tynan at Bloomberg Intelligence. By expanding on Ford probably activates competitors the to get in there and be a little bit more aggressive with their negotiating in terms of what they're willing to give but but you know it's it's over not yet you know there's still probably a ways to go and and you know things like this might mean the easiest issues or the easiest issues the low -hanging fruit is handled but it's probably going to be in the details before anything is really agreed to across the board. Hey Kevin it is yours like you probably then I'm sure you've done the analysis when does this strike start to hurt them financially the big three? Um it's weeks not you know not days obviously and keep in mind too there's there was buildup of inventory ahead so there are units on the ground and you could think of it of a little bit of a working capital shift from one quarter to the next unless it gets you you know very long the last one was 40 days in 2019 against General Motors and that's significant right so and historically even though inventory is above where it was a year ago it's still very low historically I think I calculated it out to September was probably about 43 days of inventory for the industry as a whole and 55 to 65 days is considered manageable so it's below what's considered you know a healthy level hear the full conversation on the latest edition of the tape podcast subscribe on Apple Spotify and anywhere else you get your podcasts plus listen anytime on the bloomberg business app and bloomberg .com the wheel With ForgeFX's virtual training program Zoe Hoker can practice welding anytime where through the Tulsa welding school as a result he's able to up level his skills and advance his career as a learn more at meta .com slash metaverse impact when you get your news from Bloomberg you don't just get the story you get the story behind the story how your Evie's remain not be as green as it seems why a decrease in global birth rates could send countries scrambling to increase immigration you get context and context changes how you
The Breakdown
A highlight from Could Oil and a Gov't Shutdown Screw Up Powell's Plans?
"Welcome back to The Breakdown with me, NLW. It's a daily podcast on macro, Bitcoin, and the big picture power shifts remaking our world. What's going on, guys? It is Friday, September 22nd, and today we are talking oil, macro, everything that could throw the economy off. But before we get to that, if you are enjoying The Breakdown, please go subscribe to it, give it a rating, give it a review, or if you want to dive deeper into the conversation, come join us on the Breakers Discord. You can find a link at the show notes or go to bit .ly slash breakdown pod. All right, friends, well, we are sort of continuing the macro story today that we picked up around Powell and the FOMC this week. And one of the questions that Powell was asked was about risks that threatened to knock the economy off course. Two that he mentioned that we're going to spend a little time on today include oil prices and a potential government shutdown. Let's start with oil first. The price of crude oil has steadily increased over the past four months. From a low of around $70 in June, oil reached almost $90 a barrel for the US -based WTI benchmark contract and $95 per barrel and $95 per barrel for international Brent crude earlier this week. The price increase for crude has driven US gas prices back above $3 .80 per gallon, the highest level since last October. Overall, gas prices have ramped up by 20 % since the beginning of the year, according to AAA. Now, there are a number of factors all contributing to steadily increasing oil prices since the June lows. The first is OPEC+. The economic group of oil producing nations led by Saudi Arabia and Russia have recently curbed output. Production cuts, which were agreed to late last year, have been gradually implemented over the past six months. In July, Saudi Arabia voluntarily cut an additional 1 million barrels per day from its production quota, about 10 % of its previous output. Existing production cuts across OPEC have already been extended into next year and analysts expect Saudi Arabia to extend their voluntary cuts until March. On Thursday, Russia further constrained supply by banning the export of diesel and petrol. Russia is one of the world's largest suppliers of diesel alongside their status as producing around 12 % of the global supply of crude oil. The International Energy Agency said last year that Russian refineries produce, quote, roughly double the diesel needed to satisfy domestic demand and typically export half their annual production. Analyst opinions focused on the simplest explanation for the ban, retaliation for sanctions. Henning Gloestien of the Eurasia Group said, Russia wants to inflict pain on Europe and the U .S. and it looks like they're now repeating the playbook from gas and the oil market ahead of the winter months. They're showing that they're not finished using their power over energy markets. The Kremlin said the ban was temporary and aimed at addressing rising energy prices in domestic markets. However, they gave no timeline on when the ban might be lifted. U .S. and European policymakers have largely banned the importation of Russian refined fuel since February, which has required Russian supply to be routed through third party regions including Turkey, North Africa and Latin America. Now, OPEC cuts over the past year were predicated on a weakening demand profile heading into this year. At the time they were announced, recessions were expected across Europe and the U .S. China was an open question with the potential of reopening pushed back in the midst of additional pandemic waves. But since then, the European economy is sputtering along, albeit with dismal manufacturing data out of Germany. The sanctioning of Russian supply has caused European demand to be displaced to other regions with refining capacity, largely India and the Middle East. In the U .S., recession has been continuously pushed off into the future and oil demand is now back at all time highs with no signs of slowing. Although the Chinese economy has hit some turbulence recently, oil demand remains robust. Analysts expect China's oil demand to remain high as Beijing secures strategically important resources. What's more, analysts expect China's oil demand to remain high as Beijing secures strategically important resources in part to mitigate geopolitical risks as well as to shore up its manufacturing and transportation industries. So with oil prices spiking, many are wondering whether the White House will once again intervene in markets using the Strategic Petroleum Reserve. Between November 2021 and September of last year, the White House authorized a number of SPR releases. The final policy saw one million barrels per day provided into the market over six months. A small amount of oil was restocked earlier this year, but the SPR still sits at a little over half its pre -pandemic level. Earlier this week, a headline circulated proclaiming that quote, Biden says depleting SPR is on the table. This was later found to be a hoax with no legitimate source, but it demonstrates how difficult high oil prices could be for the U .S. economy heading into election season. To wit, many saw the SPR release as a political decision rather than an economic decision heading into the 2022 midterms. In the private sector, U .S. oil inventories have recently hit 40 -year lows of 46 -day supply, well below the longer -term average of 65 days. And while August's inflation reports already showed a small uptick due to oil -related prices, the effect is expected to be more profound across this month. Dario Perkins, an economist at T .S. Lombard said, That said, it is important to keep these recent inflationary developments in context. We are not yet in danger of undoing 12 months of solid disinflationary progress, not even close. Others suggested that high oil prices would have a greater impact on growth rather than inflation. Maya Bhandari, head of multi -asset at BNP Paribas Asset Management said, It really impacts the growth side of the Goldilocks equation rather than the inflation side of things over the long term. Theory is that sustained high oil prices begin to eat into disposable income for households alongside higher costs of production for manufacturing and logistics. These combine to reduce growth and potentially tip the economy into recession. Overall, this situation in the oil markets has, to some, many parallels to the liquid natural gas spike in the winter of 2022. Prices in some markets rose more than tenfold, European energy companies scrambled to secure supply at any cost, and multiple firms went bankrupt due to the volatility in markets. This week, Bloomberg reported that the trading arm of French supplier Total Energies has played a major role in bidding up the price of U .S.-based oil. Their source claimed that the firm is paying a premium for physical U .S. barrels, pushing the spread against futures to levels not seen since last November. With all of that said, there are some signs that the oil market is beginning to cool off. On Thursday, Brent crude futures fell to $92 per barrel, which represented the third straight day of price declines, which is the longest streak in almost a month. Warren Patterson, head of Commodity Strategy at ING, said the Fed's hawkish messaging has quote, put some pressure on risk assets, including oil. The dollar index has risen by 0 .8 % since Chair Powell left the podium, a large enough move to weigh on asset markets. Patterson said he still expects Brent crude to move above the $100 mark in the near term, but that he doesn't anticipate the move will be sustainable. So that is the view on oil overall. The thing that I am definitely going to be watching more than anything else is the political dimension of this. We are now entering the period where everything, even more than usual, is going to be completely wrapped up in what it means for the election season. If prices at the pump keep trending up, it seems very likely that the Biden administration will be willing to do what it takes, including SPR releases, to get those prices down. But that's just something we're going to have to keep an eye on. Now what about that other factor that Powell mentioned? Well yes, indeed, my friends, the US government is once again hurtling towards a shutdown after efforts to pass a short term spending bill were scuttled on the House floor on Thursday. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy attempted to marshal Republicans to vote through a package to keep the government funded past the end of September. Closed door negotiations continued late into Wednesday night, but were apparently unconvincing. The bill currently being considered is the $886 billion Defense Appropriations Act. The bill was stifled in the House after five GOP representatives refused to allow debate to begin by voting against a preliminary procedural rule. Democrats also voted against the measure and appeared to taunt Republicans apparently reveling in seeing the GOP's slim majority descend into chaos. Among the Republican dissenters was Marjorie Taylor Greene, who opposed the inclusion of $300 million in funding to the Ukrainian war effort. On Thursday, Politico reported that Pentagon sources have said Ukrainian operations have been exempted from any shutdown, making that part of the dispute rather moot. McCarthy sent House members home on Thursday night to return to Washington on Tuesday. He told reporters after the failed vote, quote, two people flipped, so I got to figure out how to fix that. That wasn't the impression they had given us. Now, this was McCarthy's third attempt at bringing the bill to the House floor. The current proposal on the table is a 31 -day stopgap funding mechanism to forestall a shutdown to begin next weekend. McCarthy remarked on the change in tone in Congress among that extreme element of the Republican Party, stating that, quote, this is a whole new concept of individuals that just want to burn the whole place down. Now, even if a 31 -day stopgap is passed in the House, it seems unlikely to make its way through the Democrat -controlled Senate. The bill includes a 30 percent temporary cut to domestic agencies and immigration law changes, neither of which are likely to get the seal of approval from Dems. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said instead of decreasing the chance of a shutdown, Speaker McCarthy is actually increasing it by wasting time on extremist proposals that cannot become law in the Senate. House Democrat leader Hakeem Jeffries remarked that the situation was playing out as a, quote, Republican civil war. Now, if it comes to pass, this would be the 11th government shutdown since 1980. The logic is that hard -line positions that don't enjoy support in the Congress can be put directly to the American people by shutting down the government and drawing attention to the impasse. Republican Ralph Norman said last week that, quote, we're going to have a shutdown. We believe in what we're doing. The jury will be the country. Still, the record on government shutdowns doesn't really support that strategy. Not one of the 10 previous shutdowns resulted in the dissenting group extracting concessions. Typically, the American people quickly turn on the party they view as blocking access to government services over a petty squabble. Alex Conant, a Republican strategist, said, This is such a dumb fight because there's no principle that we're standing on here. It's just bad tactics. While the dispute is nominally over excessive government spending, with Republican dissenters pushing for funding to be reduced back to 2022 levels, the underlying problem is, of course, the level of discord within the Republican Party. McCarthy was voted in as House Speaker after a record 15 attempts. The process took four days and frequently descended into a farce. This was only the second time in the post -Civil War era that a House Speaker had failed to be elected on the first attempt. Conant noted the terrible optics of a government shutdown of the Republicans' own making heading into election season, stating that, quote, Biden didn't win because of his political skills and soaring oratory. He won because Republicans blew themselves up with Trump. I'm afraid we're seeing history repeat itself, with the GOP once again helping Biden by shooting themselves in the foot. Of course, never one to shy away from controversy, Trump fanned the flames on Wednesday, posting that, quote, Republicans in Congress can and must defund all aspects of Crooked Joe Biden's weaponized government that refuses to close the border and treats half the country as enemies of the state. He added that, quote, This is also the last chance to defund these political prosecutions against me and other patriots. They failed on the debt limit they must not fail now. Use the power of the person to defend the country. Now, zooming out and trying to get away from the politics of the situation, which obviously is not the focus of this show. The reason that this was brought up at last week's FOMC press conference is that a government shutdown would halt the publication of government data. This would include employment, inflation and growth statistics, which are currently playing a key role in guiding Fed policy. Now, given how much the Fed has said over and over again, their policy is going to be driven by data, presumably not having access to that data would be a fairly big deal. Yet in spite of that, Powell tried to put on a brave face, saying, If there is a government shutdown and it lasts through the next meeting, then it's possible we wouldn't be getting some of the data that we would ordinarily get and we would just have to deal with that. Now, by way of some history, the longest ever government shutdown lasted 35 days. The dispute was around funding for the border wall and quickly turned public sentiment against the Trump administration. Republicans controlled both the House and the Senate, but the administration failed to convince their own party to fund the wall. At the time, Democrat Senator Jon Tester called it the most stupid shutdown I have ever seen in my life. However, if this week's display is anything to go by, that 2019 shutdown could soon have some competition for that title. Now, what does this all have to do with the crypto sphere? Well, I think in many ways these are just exemplary of the state of politics in general. And given that, perhaps it's not surprising that former Senator Pat Toomey is not optimistic about the chances of crypto legislation being passed during this Congress. Just prior to retiring from Congress at the beginning of the year, Toomey introduced his own crypto bill, which focused on stablecoin regulations. Now, the House currently has two major crypto bills eligible to be brought for a vote. One would establish a stablecoin framework while the other introduces more broad crypto regulations. While speaking at a Georgetown Law Seminar on Thursday, however, Toomey said, I don't see a path forward in the Senate regardless of how the vote goes in the House. He added that of the two, he sees the stablecoin legislation as having the best shot. The sticking point will likely be Senate Banking Committee Chairman Sherrod Brown. While Brown has been outspoken about the risks of crypto and the need to bring the industry to heel, he has so far remained extremely quiet on exactly what form of legislation would meet his approval. And of course, any crypto legislation would need the support of Democratic senators to pass a vote to become law. Still, during an interview on Thursday, Coinbase Chief Policy Officer Faryar Shirzad said that she thinks that Brown's lack of commitment to a legislative position might actually be a good thing. Shirzad said, Now, last week, Brown wrote a letter to head regulators at multiple agencies urging them to use their existing powers to crack down on non -compliant crypto firms. This of course seems to be the clear intention, at least at the SEC. On Tuesday, the head of that agency's crypto assets and cyber unit, David Hirsch, warned that more enforcement actions would be coming against crypto intermediaries, including DeFi protocols. Still, Toomey, who serves now as an advisor to Coinbase, views stablecoin legislation as the solvable problem. At the moment, Democrats are pushing for the Fed to serve a central role in regulating issuers rather than granting oversight power to state regulators. This preference is believed to be driven by the White House. Toomey said, He thinks that senior Democrats will get on board once the White House is satisfied with the stablecoin proposal. Although that proposal might have to wait until after the election, as Toomey said in the next Congress, I think it's quite possible to get something done.
The Big Take
Fresh update on "third" discussed on The Big Take
"Yankees pounded Arizona 7 to 1 at the stadium to open a three game weekend set. It's the final home stand of the year. Not very often New Yorkers are impressed. Aaron But Judge still playing hard got a curtain call after going yard three times on Friday. It's the second time he's done that this season. In fact within a month he's the first Yankee to ever accomplish that feat. Judge went four for four. Drove in six of the seven for New York. Luke Weaver earned the win. Five and a third innings of shutout ball striking out three and Johnny Brito got his first save of the year going the final three and a third allowing a run. He's the tenth different Yankee to close out a win this season. It's day baseball in the Bronx on Saturday. These two kick off the day in Major League Baseball 105. It'll be Zach
Mark Levin
Not Since Reagan Have We Seen an 8% Proposed Cut & Border Security
"Because all it takes is three to run to the other side. And then somebody comes up with a proposal like Byron Donald's and other conservatives that say, look, I negotiated with our squishes, my language. Look I what got. Eight percent cut will still support the military, VA benefits will still support that, and major efforts to secure the border. Look what I got! No, no, no, no, and these guys are joking. They're just a joke. We're going to hold the speaker if we don't get what we want. Why don't you just run for speaker? See how many votes you get? This isn't about McCarthy. It's not about the speaker. It's about how five individuals are exploiting McCarthy for their own purposes. I want you to listen to this guy, Ken Buck. This guy, Ken Buck, is being interviewed on CNN. He's already confessed that he's been negotiating with them and talking to them about getting a job from CNN. CNN. About getting a job from CNN. So he's doing these interviews. He's showing up on CNN. In CNN. He's performing for CNN in hopes that they'll hire him. That's what he's hoping. And so what's the best way to do that? To come off as reasonable, you know. I don't think there should be an impeachment in Korea Joe Biden. This guy. On the other hand, he's one of the five on the
Thom Hartmann Program
Fresh "Third" from Thom Hartmann Program
"WCPT from TuneIn. This is the A lot going on in the world on this Thursday. Today, America gets a new Civilian In climate core, Trump orders the government to shut down. I'll go into the details of that and how that is going to affect you and me and everybody else. In the second hour of our program, Phil Littner is going to drop by with an update on what's going on in Ukraine. Presidents, social media platforms, you've got to have an invitation to get into them. And I would love to get into them. If you are on one of those, would you invite me? The email that I use for social media is tom at tomaharpman .com. So you can just plug it in there. Anyhow, a lot to talk about today. Can we stop China, Russia, Murdoch, Saudi Arabia and the Putin GOP, the Putin Republicans. You know, from now on, I'm just going to start calling them the Putin Republicans, because that's really what they are. Stop the Putin Republicans from tearing down our democracy. Also, cut down watch. Kevin McCarthy hands the gavel to Matt Gaetz, as Hakeem Jeffries tells the Republican Party, we're not paying the ransom note. We'll get to that in a moment. Also, holy moly, Clarence Thomas secretly participated in Koch Network donor events. In the second hour of our program, what Maslow overlooked, the need to feel alive, and what about all those little boxes we live in? This is about a new website, by the way, that Louise and I launched this week. It's called hunterinafarmersworld com, and it's about ADHD if you are or you know somebody who is a hunter in a world. farmer's You might want to check it out. We've got two articles up. I'll be putting a couple articles of a week up there. It's free. I think you'll find it fascinating. The two that are there are, well, I'll be talking about one of them shortly. So that's hunterinafarmersworld .com. Or maybe it's hunterinafarmersworld .com. Holy cow. Let me just double check. Yeah, it's hunter, excuse me, in a farmer's world. I'm going to have to get hunters in a farmer's world as well and point to it. Okay. Anyhow, Trump is going to use auto workers as props for his counter programming against the Republican debate and Democrats are having none of it. We'll talk about that in the second hour. And in the hour, third the Republican Party's opponents in an arms race to out extreme and out cruel each other. And also in the third hour, geeky science from cage free chicks to puppy mills. The Republican Party is trying to roll back Animal protections. Not only is it cruel, but it would spread disease. I'll tell you about that in the third hour of the program. Trump. But to start, can we stop China, Russia, Murdoch, Saudi Arabia and the Putin GOP from tearing down our democracy. I frankly have no easy solutions to this other than getting everybody, you know, a informed and be registered to vote, see out to vote on Election Day, both this November and a year from this November. China, Russia and a handful full of right wing Republican billionaires are trying to tear down our democracy. This is, you know, the MAGA GOP. I think we should start calling them Putin Republicans, because that's really what they want to just posted this morning on Twitter that seven senators and about a dozen members of the House, I guess, have now come out against funding Ukraine. They want Putin to win the war. They are there with Cornel West and Code Pink and all these other folks who are, you know, saying, oh, just hand Ukraine over to Putin. He's a good guy, you know, rape as an instrument of war. That's acceptable to us. It's crazy. Anyhow, most of the last 7000 year history of modern civilization, Autocracy has been the principal political system, kings and kingdoms and emperors and and popes whatnot, autocrats. And it's only the last couple of hundred years that we've had democracy. We were the first major experiment with it, you know, in the last 3000 years. And And at the time of the Civil War, the whole world, there was a handful of these democracies around the world, but Basically, the whole world just held its breath going, holy cow, this is not going to be good. And at that time, there were only five or in the entire world when the Civil War happened. But after the Civil War, going going up to the 21st century, we saw a steady explosion of democracy all around the world. Now, in the last last 20 years, we've seen a lot of backsliding as the right wing oligarchs in country after country after country have have risen up and taken over the country's Russia, Hungary, Egypt, Turkey, Brazil, the the Philippines, Peru, etc. Brazil has rejected back to Bolsonaro, they're back to democracy, but you get the point. And they've all embraced strongman governments and rule by the rich. Now, for much of the 20th century we were the major advocates for democracy. Now, we were no, please don't get me wrong, we were not perfect in this in this regard at all, I mean, we we overthrew democratically elected governments in Iran, Iraq, they Honduras, Guatemala, El Salvador, you know, we we did not we not necessarily good actors, but we were promoting democracy generally as much as anybody else was. And then, you know, came along Putin's boy Trump, who took over Radio Free Europe and turned it into a right wing government run Fox for a version of Fox so called news. And we're slowly recovering from that damage that was done by Putin's boy Trump. And now what we're finding is that China and Russia are aggressively acting, you know, participating in this upcoming election through mostly through social Media, the Russian bot control farms have a large voice on Twitter, X and Facebook and China now, according to The New York Times, is funding code pink and or at least the people involved involved with it. And as wildfires were savaging Maui to Chinese proxies on social media began spreading stories that the fires were the result of us of a U .S. weather weapon. media. And here in the in the US, The New York Times documented how China is funding these progressive, formerly progressive Press groups. And now you got Cornell West out there, the Green Party saying, oh, yeah, just turn turn Ukraine over to For the Putin. Chris Murphy, as I said, he's a two dozen Republicans, including seven senators pledged to oppose additional Ukraine funding. And now Saudi
ACG - The Best Gaming Podcast
A highlight from The Best Gaming Podcast #411 Phantom liberty review breakdown, Embracer multi dev lay-offs, and more
"And what's up everybody? This is Karrick with ACG and I'm here with Abzi, Johnny Silver and myself doing the best gaming podcast 411 number 411. Thank you everybody for joining you get a chance to check out the YouTube membership. We've got a new special on there for YouTube members. You can join it. You can become a part of the discord also scientifically proven people who become members of the YouTube more sex for sure, especially if you're a virgin when you get the membership and then you have sex 100 % more sex than you've ever had before. So you definitely want to be a YouTube member. We're going to talk about cyberpunk Phantom Liberty. We're going to talk about all of the Embracer cuts. There's been a ton of the Embracer cuts, which is really sad. We're going to talk about payday 3. We're going to talk about some review scores how that's all coming about going to talk about some new games that released that I want to ask these guys if they've played and I haven't told them not because I was trying to keep it secret, but just because I had forgotten to tell them prior talk about the DLC for Resident Evil 4 Ada Wong. What was that called? Do you guys remember starting? Starting over? Starting again? Starting? Isn't it something like that? Nope. Let's let's name it ourselves. Ada Wong bad voice actress does separate ways. Alright, terrible voice actress and then we'll talk about. Yeah, we'll talk about a bunch of other stuff. Welcome to silver who hasn't been here for a while. I'm starting to pay these guys again, not be not. That's not why he came back, but that's because because I didn't tell him that yet, but we finally got everything sort of situated here and I want to say how much I appreciate the support and stuff like that because it helps the channel stay on YouTube, which is a little bit difficult right now, but we're getting it figured out what have we been playing. Let's go with silver first because it's been a while. You said you've been doing some Payday 3? Yeah, a little bit today. Like actually managed to get some functionality from the servers. I've otherwise been down for a lot of people and get a couple of games in. Gameplay wise, it's solid. I think it's a significant improvement on Payday 2 in terms of just the gameplay, particularly the stealth. The stealth feels a lot less janky. It feels a lot more fun to engage with. It's a lot more predictable in terms of how you interact with it, where when it goes wrong, you have a pretty good decent idea of what went wrong and how you got detected. Where with Payday 2, it could be really, really janky. But I found it to be more predictable this time around. Gunplay is also a huge improvement. It feels really, really satisfying, really, really fun to shoot the guns. The animations for reloading and stuff feel pretty good. So that's also a significant bump in terms of the game's quality. So yeah, it's more fun to play. But unfortunately, the game suffers a lot under the decision to take it to online only, which is something that a lot of people feared back when they announced it a couple of months ago. Because it does require server functionality and the server functionality hasn't really been there. It has to be said that Payday 3 has jumped to the top of the Steam charts. So they've seen a lot of success and that does often introduce issues in an online game when there's issues with it in the data and early access leading up to the release. And so they weren't able to address it for launch either. Servers are crashing. And it's really frustrating for players who are going through a heist stealthily, like nearly an hour of prep work and stuff and you're at the getaway. And then the game drops you and you get nothing for That's it. happened a bunch to a lot of people. It also happened to me today. At one point. There's also some really weird decisions in terms of the multiplayer where there's no voice chat functionality inside the game, which is bizarre in a game so heavily reliant on proper coordination between teammates. There's no text, you can't use text chat in you can't even like if you click ready when you're like readying up for the lobby, you can't unclick ready. So you can't read. So you bet you best be ready. You better be ready if you click that button. Yeah. And yeah, it's just weird. And when the missions end, your team gets disbanded. So if you actually end up with a bunch of competent randoms, you lose complete touch with each other and you can't like talk to them over voice chat or anything to like get a sense of contact information or anything. So the social aspect of the game has been severely limited. The matchmaking itself is really poor. There's no like the crime net functionality of pay day two is basically gone. You basically just go to a mission, you select a difficulty and whether you want it to be public or private or or friends only or whatever or invite only. And those are basically the only filter options you get. And then the game tries to find you tries to match you up and fails frequently at the moment. But that those are all the only options you get. And that I find that severely limited and basic. And I would have liked there to be like more filter options like do you want to play stealth? Do you want to play loud? Those were filter options that were eventually integrated into payday two. And like their absence feels particularly odd here, especially, especially when you also coupled it with the absence of all the other stuff, like the absence of voice chat and stuff like that. It sort of compounds the issue. So it's, it's a very mixed bag. But yeah, gameplay, gameplay wise, really fun to play. Yeah, regardless. Big improvement from from payday two, I think. All right, Johnny, what have you been playing? There we go. So interestingly, I've been spending most of my time playing games on lines of P this week, which as you guys know, that's kind of a 180 from where I was at, we talked about the demo, I wasn't really happy with what was in there, right? I wasn't the game is better than maybe they improved it since I played it. But there's something about it that just fits perfectly into what I wanted. You know, it's a more linear, streamlined souls game, where I can kind of just focus on the leveling, creating builds, crafting weapons. Yeah. And just getting good at the game, right? Or like understanding the the attacks and stuff. So it kind of removes a lot of the getting lost and exploring, which is admittedly, a great part of souls games. But it's not something that I wanted right now, after being in BG three and starfield and all. Yeah, yeah, it's it's good to like not have to worry about that kind of stuff. Sometimes. Exactly. I just know, I won't be getting lost. Right. And I can kind of always trudge on at a pretty good pace. And I frankly, like the combat quite a bit, surprisingly, again, because I'm not a fan of perfect parry. And the game does basically rely on that. Yeah, but they've managed to make it really satisfying. It's kind of like a dopamine hit, you know, when you do get the perfect parry, because you can break enemy weapons, you can stagger them by doing that. So just kind of it feels powerful. It's not just like a gimmick, like an Oh, you got outplay. Yeah, right. It's like, actually, whoa, okay, this is powerful. Right. And you can physically see the effect to because the enemy weapon glows when you perfect parry. And this means you're breaking it right. You're in the process of breaking it. Yeah, by by parry. So that's a huge ability to impact their weapons. That's because that's pretty rare. I mean, I don't I don't know if I remember. And to visually see the weapon broken to let you know, it will be a sword and then the tip is broken, right? And they do way less damage. It's just cool, man. Yeah. Yeah. What about you, Abzi? What are you playing? This week, I played more starfield. And then I some played Liza P, I could like four or five bosses. And then I tried the 2 .0 update for cyberpunk. Oh, so you've been jumping or well, probably started the week, I assume with starfield and then starfield. And then when Liza P came out, I checked it out for a bit. I checked it out for a while. I think I put in like seven or eight hours in that game. Should I talk about it? Or are we going to talk about it later? We'll talk which one Liza P starfield or Liza P. You can talk about right now because just continue Johnny's part. What do you like? What are you getting from it or not? I think it's a fine game. I think it's a fun game. I think, however, it's it's it's less of a soul. It's it's it's souls like to the point where it's like a souls born Sekiro clone. You know what I mean? Yeah. So I think I think it tries to pretty much get a bunch of elements from those three main IPs, even Elden Ring with like the ways some bosses and some enemies kind of fucking go like this for like an hour and then like start hitting whatever. So it gets like the parry from Sekiro and like the left mechanical arm thing from Sekiro has like the bloodborne thing of regenerating health and like aggression. But with this one, you have to block so that you're able to do that. And and it has also you can argue that the the setting is more like bloodborne than anything else. And it has like the kind of tries to hit the atmosphere of the souls games. But I feel like they missed the mark a little bit because the characters do talk slow and like this, you know, I mean, like a souls game. But I don't think the VA is quite up to snuff there. Like it always pulled me out. It kind of felt like they're a little bit too tryhardy on that area of talking. But I think it's I think the fun factor is there. I think the fun factor is definitely there. Now, I think it's a it's the sum of its parts. What is it? What's the saying? It's greater than the sum greater than some of its parts, because when you hone in on like one thing, like one mechanic, like let's say like the parrying, I think it's tight parrying. I think it's a it's about as tight as Sekiro. But I feel like the enemies or the enemy animations aren't kind of built around that you can definitely get good at parrying. But I feel like with Sekiro, the reason why it really worked very well is because there was like a nice kind of rhythmic dance to it, especially with the sound effects and stuff like you could like close your eyes and parry a boss. So it had that thing where the whole game was, was kind of designed around that one thing, which was the parrying mechanic, I think it tries to do a lot of things. And it doesn't hit its mark, like really well with one thing, but all of them put together, it's pretty fun, because you have a lot of options. Like for example, for blocking, you can block and suffer some health damage and and kill that, like hit the enemy so that you get gain your health back. But at the same time, you can also perfect parries. So you have like, and then you can dodge as well. I don't think like the dodge itself is like really good and really tight. I don't think the because I think the hitboxes are kind of fucked in this game, to be honest. And I don't think the parry is like the game isn't designed around it, as I said before, so it's not like really right there. But them together offers like a better kind of experience because you still have that risk versus reward factor. I think it's fun overall, I just have like some issues with it, where there's like better alternatives that focus more on those aspects. Yeah. Gotcha. Super, super chat from wannabe dev. Perfect way to start the weekend. Glad to see silverback. Look at that. He's glad to see silverback. Thank you. Like it. Silverback. Glad to see silverbacks.
WTOP 24 Hour News
Fresh update on "third" discussed on WTOP 24 Hour News
"Timmons says he isn't going to ride Soul Beach is kind of the go -to. Regardless of how people are riding out the storm, UNCW student Carolyn Ramsey says safety is the most important thing. Stay out of the ocean. The currents are really bad. A powerful Senate Democrat from New Jersey faces criminal charges for a second time. first His case ended in mistrial, but now... The charges against Senator Robert Menendez allege he used his foreign influence to aid the government of Egypt. And that he tried to thwart the prosecution of a friend in exchange for cash and gold bars. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer says Menendez will step down from his chairmanship temporarily until the is matter resolved. Lindy Kenyon, CBS News, the White House. And also there, the president makes a symbolic move to curtail gun violence, creating a White House office to work on that to be headed by ex -prosecutor, President now Vice Kamala Harris. Anyone who doesn't think that these kinds of engagements have a permanent effect on young children, in many cases older their entire lives, if they never had a bullet touched them, misunderstands. The United Auto Workers strike against Detroit's big three expands against two of them. the But not third. They're making progress with Ford, says UAW President Sean Fain. They've agreed to cost of living increases, also to pay workers who are on layoff. All that represents serious movement on tiers, on cost of living, on pay, and on job security. But to be clear, we're not done at Ford. Ford says it's working diligently to complete a deal. Jeff Gilbert, CBS News, Detroit. The UAW is now striking at dozens of GM and Chrysler Stellanus parts plants. Federal safety investigators have been at the site of that charter bus crash on a New York interstate. It was carrying high school kids to a band camp when it overturned, crashing 50 feet down on embankment, killing the band director, and a retired volunteer. More from CBS's Errol Barnett. Now investigators hope to learn more once they interview the bus driver. That hasn't happened yet. It's unclear if any of the students were even able to west seat us. The FBI's opened a civil rights investigation into claims in recent lawsuits that Baton Rouge police assaulted and strip searched drug suspects they detained in an obscure warehouse known as the Rave Cave. This is CBS News. You need to hire fast and hire hire right. You need Indeed. Their all -in -one hiring platform helps you attract, interview, and hire candidates efficiently. Visit indeed .com slash credit. Ever have that nagging feeling that you might be leaving money when on the you're table filing your business taxes? Like your longtime bookkeeper or CPA might have missed a credit or deduction your business is eligible for. Do you know a student athlete who deserves recognition? Nominate your favorite high school athlete for their chance to be WTOP's next player of the week. Each week from now through November 30th, WTOP will choose one local athlete in the DMV to be featured on -air and online for contributions their to their community and to their team. Visit wtop .com search player to nominate today. WTOP's player of the week program is sponsored by Main Street Bank. Bank where you breathe. mstreetbank .com. WTOP at 403. It's Saturday morning. It's the week that everybody finally
The Charlie Kirk Show
Inside the Funding Fight With Kane of Citizen Free Press
"Us now is Citizen Kane from citizenfreepress .com. Mr. Kane, thank you for taking the time. I think all eyes are on this funding fight. You guys at CFP Nation have been covering this. What are you hearing, Kane, front lines, grassroots, as far as what are the expectations and demands going into the 930 funding fight? Well, expectations probably match up with the emails and responses you just got that you just mentioned, which is everyone is incredibly cynical. I put up a story in the stack yesterday that some members of the Freedom Caucus are looking for an 8 % reduction in federal spending. And as one of my commenters pointed out, when you have a $2 .2 trillion annual deficit and your budget is $7 trillion, 8 % of $7 trillion is $560 billion. So even doing something as dramatic as an 8 % cut in spending would still leave the deficit at $1 .6 trillion. So getting a little deeper, I'm sure you saw the headlines. I put up three headlines. I think it was on Wednesday. I originally was drawn into politics because of national debt decades ago when it was crossing $1 trillion, $2 trillion. So that's always been an issue that I paid very close attention to. And as the debt balloon passed $15 trillion, the total national debt balloon passed $15 trillion, then $20 trillion, then $25 trillion. We weren't getting hit that hard, as you know, because interest rates were so low and they were financing the debt on short term, essentially three months to one year bills. So they were able to finance it at 1%, 2%, 3 % for about 10 or 12 years. And I kept telling people, if you own gold, if you own silver, just wait, because we will revert to the mean. We will get back to 5 % interest rates. And a 5 % interest rate, and this was the point of my post earlier in the week, a 5 % interest rate on a $33 trillion national debt is $1 .65 trillion every single year just for your interest payment. That knocks nothing off the debt. All that does is keep you, essentially keep you even with paying your interest. And so to wind it back to your question, CFP Nation is cynical. They don't believe it. They don't believe that the cuts that are out there are even big enough. And so that's where we
WTOP 24 Hour News
Fresh "Third" from WTOP 24 Hour News
"Avenue three right lands are blocked and this is causing a minor delay also on the Beltway Adder on the approach to Allentown Road had a broken down vehicle on the roadway that's been moved over to the far right shoulder also reports Accident on southbound at Maryland 295 to BW Parkway at 198 be prepared for possible Lane closures in Virginia had the crash south of 66 that's been cleared also on the crash on the outer around 123 that accident cleared off the right shoulder was work a zone work southbound 270 in the local lanes at West Montgomery Avenue over on the far right side that has been at all cleared lands all are now open but there are a couple of long -term work zones still around including on Wisconsin Avenue the right lane is closed southbound between Woodmont Avenue and Stanford Street and the right lane blocked on New Hampshire Avenue northbound between Rodney Road and Chalmers Road southbound Virginia 28 Sully Road in Fortville Centerville and Virginia there's the work zone set up on the far left shoulder on the approach to 66 eastbound southbound Columbia Pike right lane closed in the long -term work zone between Washington Boulevard and Southgate Road have the heart of service Montgomery County police are hiring permanent shifts for day work week high salaries and we end a $20 ,000 hiring bonus apply at JoinMCP .com I'm Ken Berger, WTOP traffic. Coming right up this early 3 a .m. hours Saturday morning after traffic and weather near Muddy News how singing is working to make for better readers in Prince George's County in Hyattsville I'm John Plus, a new program to help firefighters head off
Bloomberg Radio New York - Recording Feed
Monitor Show 19:00 09-22-2023 19:00
"When professional soccer player Marcus Rashford injured his shoulder, he turned to Resil's virtual reality training program to help him maintain his skills and return to the field with confidence. Learn more at meta .com slash metaverse impact. And this is Bloomberg. Stay with us now. Top stories and global business headlines are coming up right now. Broadcasting 24 hours a day at Bloomberg .com and the Bloomberg Business Act. This is Bloomberg Radio. President Biden is joining the United Auto Workers picket line. Biden tweeted that he was going to Michigan Tuesday to stand in solidarity with the workers as the fight for a fair share of the value they helped create. This comes after UAW President Sean Fain announced earlier this week he would send more workers to the picket lines if substantial progress wasn't made with the big three automakers on a new contract. Governor Phil Murphy is calling on New Jersey U .S. Senator Bob Menendez to resign. Menendez was indicted on federal bribery charges that allege he accepted cash, gold bars and gifts in exchange for using his influence to help three businessmen and the Egyptian government. The White House is calling on Congress to do its job and pass legislation to fund the government and avoid a shutdown. House Republicans failed multiple times this week to do their basic duty, keep the government running. Instead, they were pushed to the extremes with increasingly severe cuts to programs Americans rely on. Press Secretary Corrine Jean -Pierre called on House Republicans to abide by the bipartisan funding agreement negotiated by Speaker McCarthy and President Biden. Texas Governor Greg Abbott is deploying more buses to the border towns of Eagle Pass and El Paso.
Mark Levin
Mark Levin Reacts to Bribery Charges on Sen. Bob Menendez
"Offices, you're going to hear from one of them. I'm not prepared to hang the guy and his wife based on what the prosecution says. That doesn't mean they're innocent. They can be guilty as hell. It just means I have a totally used to. Because all you're hearing and all that's produced, for the most part, is the legitimate case. Look at these texts we have. Look at these emails. Look at these conversations. Look at all that they've acquired. Maybe so. Maybe they're guilty as hell. I want to make that abundantly clear. But I don't know anything else than what the government has told us and what the media has regretted. I don't know another thing. Nobody does, do they, Mr. Perdition? Let's start. Let's take a listen. Cut one. This is the U .S. Attorney, Damian Williams. Go. Today I'm announcing that my office has obtained a three -count indictment of Senator Robert Menendez, his wife Nadine Menendez, and three New Jersey businessmen, while Elhana, Jose Uribe, and Fred Davies for bribery offenses. The investigation that led to these charges has been run out of the Southern District of New York. The indictment alleges that between 2018 and 2022, Senator Menendez obviously has obtained a three -count indictment. And so I'm surmising that the U .S. Attorney's Office in New Jersey handed it over to the Southern District of New
Crypto Banter
A highlight from Make 1 ETH In JUST 1 Hour! How I Did It!
"So we're dealing with the red day the hangover from last night's FOMC meeting It's like a delayed reaction to what Jerome Powell said last night We're gonna have to talk about what Jerome Powell said because at the time when he was speaking Nothing happened to markets But afterwards what we realized is exactly this we realized that what Jerome Powell did last night was he may have actually broken the market What is it that he said that actually scared people and why is it that right now if we look at Bitcoin? Here we are. We are at twenty six thousand five hundred and forty. You remember before FOMC last night. We were at twenty seven thousand four hundred We thought we were gonna get a pump We also touched the top of the Bollinger Bands and now we're gonna come down if we start coming down again to the bottom of the Bollinger Bands we could go back down to Twenty five thousand one hundred and fifty five. So what did he do? What did Powell say? 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There's a link below It's a top link Click on that link Go to the channel Subscribe to the channel You're gonna miss out Because yesterday The FOMC that we did We actually watched it here On Crypto Banter Plus So this is where a lot more content Is gonna happen On Crypto Banter Plus So be there Join us This is where a lot of stuff Is actually gonna happen And the most exciting thing about last night Was actually just watching the subscriber count It was the only thing that was going up and down Anyway be there as it may Today unfortunately Things aren't so good We are dealing with a delayed reaction A hangover There we go See you guys are subscribing We are dealing with a hangover We're dealing with a delayed reaction From what Powell did Or what Powell said last night And we need to understand Why the market reacted The way that it reacted And that's what we're gonna be doing today We're also gonna be talking about Russell Brand And how Russell Brand is actually getting cancelled And the lengths that governments are going to To cancel him Why are they trying to cancel him And why is that a reason Why you and I need to buy Bitcoin immediately So listen If you're not already a subscriber to this channel Subscribe to this channel If you're not a subscriber to Banta Plus Go and subscribe to Banta Plus I see you guys subscribing to Banta Plus Thank you, thank you, thank you Let's get this show on the road We've got a lot to talk about today As we stand today We're still positive For the month of September Remember I said we're gonna be positive For the month of September We are still 3 % up Even though It's not looking good out there It's not looking good 26 ,570 Bubbles Are absolutely, absolutely red If Benjamin Cowen is right He says Get this Let's change the scene here Let's make it look more elegant How cool is that So in 2019 After the first 20 days of September Bitcoin was up 6 % But by the end of the month Bitcoin was down almost 14 % From its monthly open In 2023 After 20 days Bitcoin is up 5 % Wake me up When September You know what I mean Wake me up in September And so Question is Are we gonna follow this pattern Or are we gonna follow the pattern That I said Where we continue to go up I do have one little bit of good news For you guys Before we start talking about the FOMC The one little bit of good news That I have for you Is that the Mt.
Mike Gallagher Podcast
Senator Bob Menendez Indicted on Bribery
"Democrat New Jersey Senator Bob Menendez is being charged with bribery offenses in a federal indictment out of the Southern District of New York. There will be the unsealing of an indictment later today charging Menendez, the U .S. Senator from New Jersey, and his wife, Nadine, with bribery offenses in connection with their corrupt relationship with three New Jersey businessmen. Now this guy is a powerful, powerful member of the U .S. Senate. Menendez has been around for a long time. NBC News 4 in New York reported earlier in the week that the FBI and the IRS were attempting to determine if Menendez and his wife had taken up to $400 ,000 worth of gold bars from a guy named Fred Dabes, who's a New Jersey developer and a former bank chairman, in a swap for Menendez reaching out to the Justice Department to aid the admitted felon accused of banking crimes. So breaking news, Senator Bob Menendez from New Jersey being charged with federal indictments on bribery.
Evangelism on SermonAudio
A highlight from Matthew: The Temptation Of Jesus Christ
"In chapter 4 of Matthew, our Savior was led out into the wilderness where He was tempted for 40 days by the devil. But what did the devil think He was going to accomplish? Did He really think He could convince Jesus to sin? And why did Jesus undergo this temptation in the first place? Those questions will be the focus of today's study. Does the Devil Think that He Can Win? Does the devil think he can win? In today's text we are considering this temptation of Jesus which occurred when Jesus goes out in the wilderness at the very outset of His ministry and the devil comes and tempts Him at least these three times over a course of some 40 days. And given the lengthy amount of time that went by and given the amount of intervals in which the devil went at Him, you have to wonder, did the devil think that one of those approaches or all of them might succeed? Did the devil think that he could be victorious? Did the devil think that he could win? It probably depends on how you define winning. If the question is, does the devil think he can win? It probably depends on how you define winning. You see, we tend to define winning, especially when it's mono e mono or one force against another force. We tend to define it in, I guess, I don't know, wrestling terms. Two men enter and one man leaves sort of thing. Whoever is the last man standing is the one who wins. When we think of this sort of conflict with these sort of stakes, we think that he who is standing at the end of it is victorious. Now, under that definition, if you think long term, we think that only God will be victorious at the end of days. We see the devil cast into the pit of fire and we say there's only going to be one standing, only one standing, that will be God Himself because He's bigger and stronger and more powerful and transcendent and all these things. Well, here's the thing. I don't think the devil defines winning the way we might. I don't think the devil believes that he can out muscle God. I really don't. I don't think that's something he believes is an option. He's going to out muscle God. However, however, he may have thought this. He may have thought that although he might not be able to out muscle God, he may have thought that he could at least become equal to God. Maybe he thought that he could at least share the stage with God. In fact, I can prove it. Isaiah chapter 14, we read this, how you are fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, how you're falling from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning, how you are cut down to the ground, you who weakened the nations. For you have said in your heart, I will ascend to heaven. I will exalt my throne above the stars of God. I will sit on the mountain of the congregation on the farthest sides of the earth. I will ascend above the heights of the clouds. I will be like the most high. I don't think the devil thinks that he can make God subordinate to him, but I do think that in his perverted sinful mind, he thinks that he and God can be equals. In fact, he's always had a complex with that. And Isaiah 14, he says, I can ascend. I can be like the most high. He overtly says that. And God says, no, and that's why you're being judged the pride that you think you could do that. But what was the temptation to Eve? He comes up to Eve and he offers the same idea. Eve from the tree, what will happen? You'll be like God, knowing good and evil. I think the devil has a complex about this, the idea of being like God. Now, how could that equality occur? Is it possible? Well, we know, no, it's not. But theoretically, how could that sort of equality occur? Can the devil ever rank up, you know, perk up, rise up to God's level? Can he ever do that? Can the devil ever graduate and become the level that God's at in terms of power and authority and might? Well, probably not. However, maybe the objective of the devil isn't necessarily that he's going to rank up to God's level. Maybe, maybe the objective is to bring God down to his. And that's how the equality would be attained. When a child rebels against a parent, the objective isn't necessarily that I'm going to overthrow my parents. They know that's not an option. But if a child can make the parent frustrated, if a child can make the parent break ranks from their previous attitudes, if a child can make a parent sin, then what happens? Well, then we're both wrong. Sometimes children in sin are just looking to get their parents to that point of anger and heat and temper where they do something wrong. And what is the net effect of that? It brings the parent down to their level, right? We're both wrong. There's an equality that could perhaps be attained if you can take the parent down to your level as a child. Well, what do you think's going on here in the wilderness? The devil's tempting Jesus to do what? To sin. And what would be the outcome of that? Well, suddenly, suddenly then, the differences between the devil and Jesus are just a matter of degree and not of nature. It's very possible. I can't say this dogmatically because I don't know what dogmatically, but it's very possible that that's the objective. To somehow even the playing field to be like God, if I can't rise up to His level, maybe I can break Him. Whatever the case, the objective here clearly is that the devil wants Jesus here to do that which He shouldn't do, to give in the temptation of the human flesh. And as we're going to see in the text, Jesus won't fall for it. All right, let's expand on this now. Let's look at verses one and two and then just work our way through this short passage. Verses one and two. Then Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil. This is not an accident. This is intentional. God sends him there. The Spirit leads him there. And when He had fasted for 40 days and 40 nights, which is a significant number, afterward He was hungry because He was a man of flesh and blood, just as He was fully God, He was also fully man. All right. As we said a few moments ago, this passage occurs at the outset of Christ's ministry, really at the start. It's right after He was baptized and before He recruits His disciples, which will occur later on in this same chapter. Now, verse one suggests that the Spirit, remember, had come down as a dove at Christ's baptism and lighted upon Him. The same Spirit drives Him out after the baptism. After God has said, this is my Son in whom I am well pleased, He's driven out into the wilderness in order that He would be tempted, in order that He would be tested, in order that His obedience would be put to the test in the most difficult of landscapes. Now, again, at face value, you can stand back and go, well, why? I mean, I get it happened, I read it happened, but why? Why did God the Father, why did the Spirit hand deliver the Son into just the most rugged landscape on earth, which if you've ever been there or looked out upon it, it's like the moon. It's hard to describe. When you look out at this, it looks like the least desirable place you could possibly ever spend a day, let alone 40, 40 days here. So why would He go out into that environment in order to encounter the world's toughest spiritual adversary? You're sending someone in the worst circumstance, the worst environment, in order to encounter the worst adversary they'll ever face. Why? Well, let me answer that question as best I can in the shortest amount of time I can answer it. R .C. Sproul, the Presbyterian theologian, he explained it in this way, and I'm partial to this, but he says, all right, here's the first Adam, way, way, way back in the garden, was tempted by the devil, right? The devil basically asked him some variations of the same thing, or asked Eve some variation of the same things that we're seeing here, put God's word to the test, and without any hesitation, Adam and Eve, our first parents, yielded to temptation and did that which was wrong. So the first Adam messed up, and the result of the first Adam messing up is that you and I are messed up. We might not like it, but that's the way it is. We are fallen as a result of being the progeny of our parents' first sin, our federal heads first sin all these years back. So Adam messed up. Well, in Romans 5, we see that, all right, if Adam is messed up, then what do we need? Well, we need a better Adam to come along. If Adam messed up, we need a better Adam to come along and do that which is right and live up to God's standard and to pass the tests and temptations that he might face. Well, Sproul makes the case, and I agree, that the whole objective here going out in the desert is that the second Adam would do what the first Adam failed to do, be tempted and yet stand. But here's the difference. If you think about Adam and Eve, think about the garden. Was the garden a nice place? What do you think? I would think so. Based on everything we read there, it sounds pretty grand. So Adam and Eve are just in this lush garden. There's fruit on all sorts of trees. I mean, there was one tree not to eat from. Everything else was cool though, right? So there's animals and plants and flora and fauna and just good times. It's the garden of Eden. It can't be that bad. Contrast that to the wilderness here. And what you see is that one difference between the test of the first Adam and the second Adam is the environment.
Tech Path Crypto
A highlight from 1263. Gensler Rejects Courts | Hints At Revoking Bitcoin Futures
"Today, we have the SEC going directly against the U .S. court system, and I think it's going to be a good one for you guys. We'll break this down for you. There's a lot happening with Garrett Gensler, how they are strategizing against potentially some of the rulings already by the U .S. courts. You don't want to miss it. My name is Paul Baron. Welcome back into Tech Path. All right, let's get into it today. Before we start, I want to thank our sponsor, and that is Tangem. If you guys are looking at a secure way to do your own self -custody, one of the things you can do is get into these card wallets. Now, a card wallet is like a physical wallet. It in itself works in tandem with your software on the phone, and it does a great job in terms of your overall security and protecting your digital assets. If you like self -custody, this is one of the tools you can use. Just go over, go to tangem .com, click Get Tangem. You've got a couple of options here. They've got a brand new wallet coming out that will give you optional seed phrase capability, all of that happening in October. So jump in, use our discount code. It's going to give you some additional discounts. Make sure and get the three -pack, too, because it's a better deal. So use the discount code, click the link down below, and start your journey on self -custody. Let's get into the first thing. I want to go to the clip that explains Gensler's strategy here about the current status of our courts and their decisions so far and what he might do with that. Listen in. When you take collectively recent court decisions we have seen, how have they made you, Gary Gensler, think differently about regulating this space? I'll tell you. I think the same thing. It's about ensuring for compliance and protecting the investing public. And this is a field, it kind of reminds me a bit of the 1920s, where a lot of people were getting hurt. The securities laws apply to crypto security tokens, and there's nothing incompatible with those tokens, with the securities laws, and we've just seen so many people hurt and lost their money, and there's so many hucksters and fraudsters in this field. All right, so most of this has been, as you guys know, if you've followed our channel for very long, you understand where the problems had lied. Most of it is because of the lack of clarity, the lack of real legislative direction, and I think that's been the case. Gensler's position has pretty much been unchanged. He truly believes that all tokens are essentially securities and that they are the savior against protecting individuals' rights and hopefully their finances. The only problem is that we see just as much fraud and problems within the traditional finance markets as we do in any other markets that are speculative. So I think this is still Gensler's missed shot of really understanding what the future of innovation really means for crypto and blockchain. Let's go to another clip here. This is where maybe could the courts convince him because the rulings have been coming out pretty sequential here in and against, in favor of the blockchain industry and against the SEC. Listen to what he had to say. And so nothing any court would say would change your mind on that? I wish something a court could say which would actually bring the compliance sooner. Having said that, there are a lot of folks in this field that are trying to say, well, those don't apply to us. And I suspect you've interviewed one or two of them, too. You'd be right about that. First thing I want to say here is Gensler's selection of words. His pauses are getting further and further apart. Why is that? I mean, he seems to be so intrepid in the past. And now all of a sudden he's taken this role of just a very, very strategic way of answering questions. And I think it's an interesting concept, especially because of the fact that he's had what handed to him over the past few months in terms of court rulings by judges who are essentially following the law. And this is where I think it starts to rub with a lot of people about Gensler's kind of frivolous attempt at, hey, I don't really care what the courts have to say. They just need to give us the ability to litigate and execute our plan over the SEC or over these financial markets, including the crypto markets in general. Stuart Alderadi kind of jumped in on this on Twitter. Stuart Alderadi obviously coming in from the Ripple case, fresh off a fairly good win. But what's most concerning to me, let me zoom in on that, and should be to you in the full video clip, is shocking admission of an unelected bureaucrat that he won't respect the decisions of the court. This is the problem that the overreach of the SEC continues to dive into. But more important, I think it's more importantly around Gensler himself. Because there's enough dissent in the SEC, especially in most of these rulings here recently, that it does pose a very interesting position right now. Here's John Deaton coming in with it. Just watch the reaction of the question posed. Any court includes the Supreme Court, the Supreme Court of Law of the Land. These people are so inherently arrogant that they think they are above the law. Let me introduce you, everyone, to the real -life example of a megalomaniac right there. And I would agree. I think this interview alone started to really showcase how Gensler thinks about these things. And he's strategically lining up. I'm wondering if there is something big that Gensler - because remember, if you watched one of our other clips when we did the government shutdown video, part of that was in a clip here and there was a lot of nervousness around these government shutdowns. I don't know. Is there something brewing down there with the SEC? I want to go to this next clip because this is where Gensler is going directly against a decision that's already been made around ETFs, listening to what he had to say. I'm not going to ask you to comment specifically on what's next in the Grayscale case, but in part of that ruling it was about the distinction between futures and spot and it not being clear that really fundamentally they were differently in terms of the fraud and manipulation you often talk about. My question to you is, is there a world given those concerns you have about fraud and manipulation that the SEC could actually revoke approval of a Bitcoin futures ETF? We take into consideration any time a court rules and we consider it and think it through and deal with filings that are in front of us. And we have a number of open filings in the Bitcoin exchange traded product space. For spot products, sure, but could you rule out revoking the futures product? Again, I'm just not going to speak to the filings and you are absolutely right. There are a number of Bitcoin futures exchange traded funds and they've been live since about two years. All right. So there was some body language in there in that interview. Part of this was the smirk that Gensler has on his face when that question was asked. This concerns me because it does and has the ability to impact the markets in pretty much a catastrophic way. Traditional traders would see this as a very bad move by the SEC because this could put a lot of futures ETFs at risk. And I think for just him to even entertain that, as opposed to an unequivocal no, we would not do that, we've already put markets in motion, is very telling about the strategy and his grab of power that the SEC has continued to go after. So it's a very interesting situation right now brewing within the SEC. There is something up, there is something up with Gensler and his strategy in terms of these market conditions. I want to go to another clip here on Custodia Bank because this kind of starts to play into this because there are some other scenarios playing out with Custodia Bank and the Fed. I'll explain this in a couple of clips so you guys can catch up. You probably are not completely aware of it. Let me go to this first clip that kind of gives you an overview on Custodia.
Tech Path Crypto
A highlight from 1264. Government Shutdown Approaches | Crypto Markets in DANGER!
"All right, so today we're going to dive into the government shutdown. Take a look at how this may affect markets, especially the crypto markets, and of course break down a few charts for you guys at the end. You make sure and stick around for all this good stuff. My name is Paul Bearer. Welcome back in The Tech Path. All right. Before we get started today, I want to thank our sponsor, and that is iTrust Capital, for looking at long term holding. Make sure and jump over to iTrust Capital. You can do everything from Bitcoin, Ethereum, a handful of all coins, but you can also get into gold and silver. All of that is available into your own IRA account, self -directed. All you have to do is click our link down below. It's going to give you a $100 funding reward, and you can go on your journey of setting up your IRA. And it's almost that time of year. We're starting to get into tax planning and all those kind of things. Always consult your CPAs and or your tax advisors for the best advice out there. But check it out. All right. Let's get into a few things. I want to get into the government shutdown first. I've got a couple of clips we'll play for you. We'll get into some charts a little bit later for you as well. I want to go to this first clip, though. This gives you kind of a rundown of what's happening. Here's a refresher. First off, Congress needs to pass 12 appropriation bills annually to give government agencies a budget for the coming fiscal year. If some of those bills pass but others don't, by the deadline, the government enters a partial shutdown. If all 12 appropriations bills aren't passed, the country goes into a full shutdown. Congress has only a handful of working days left to keep the government funded. Speaker Kevin McCarthy says he's willing to keep the House in session on Friday and Saturday if a deal hasn't been reached to avert a government shutdown. However, both of the sides, the House and the Senate, will be off the following Monday in observance of Yom Kippur, continue to jam House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, who's been trying and failing to pass bills to keep the government open with Republican votes only. Do you believe the government is going to shut down? Yes. And it's Kevin McCarthy's fault. Kevin broke this deal. And I intend to hold him to that deal or to hold daily votes on a motion to make. Some members warn an October 1st federal shutdown is increasingly likely, which could rattle the stock market and Americans for a one case. The seven hundred fifty thousand member American Federation of Government Employees has warned members to save up whatever money they can. This isn't happening in a vacuum. It happens when we have a spreading strike of UAW workers and we have a lot of people who are being asked to start paying student loans. So we could be hitting the economy with three things. Three things put together could begin to have a punch. I mean, are we already at more than 50 percent odds of a shutdown? Well, I think so. I think it's more likely than not. It's possible if there is a government shutdown and it lasts through the next meeting, then it's possible we wouldn't we wouldn't be getting some of the data that we would ordinarily get. And we you know, we would just have to deal with that. And I don't know, it's hard for me to say in advance how that would affect that meeting. It would depend on all kinds of factors that I don't know about now. But it's certainly a reality that that's a possibility.
Bloomberg Radio New York - Recording Feed
Monitor Show 16:00 09-22-2023 16:00
"With Bloomberg, you get the story behind the story, the story behind the global birth rate, behind your EV battery's environmental impact, behind sand, yeah, sand, you get context, and context changes everything. Go to Bloomberg .com to get context. If you're looking at the S &P 500 in particular on a quarterly basis, it's on pace for its first quarterly loss actually in a year, so next week will be the final week in the third quarter. Yeah, we should point out, of course, for the S &P 500, a down week to be sure, in fact, setting up here for what looks like it's going to be the worst week that we've seen in quite some time, erasing all of the gains for the month of September, erasing all of the gains that it had in the month of August, and erasing all of the gains that it had in the month of July. So this is a market that effectively has gone nowhere since that phenomenal run through the first six months, and now here on this Friday afternoon, here on September 22nd, the S &P 500 posting its worst weekly decline since March 10th, a two -tenths of a percent decline on the day, about a three percent decline on the week, the Dow Jones Industrial average down three -tenths of a percent here on the day, while the NASDAQ composite is going to finish fractionally lower by about a tenth of a percent, and the Russell 2000, that was your relative laggard here on the day, down three -tenths of a percent, setting up for what looks like it's going to be the fifth straight week of declines. Yeah, a little perspective in terms of where we are in 2023, you've still got a NASDAQ 100 that's up 34 percent, an S &P that's up about 12 percent, it is really the small -cap universe that continues to lag, Katie. It's just up, what, about, I don't know, eight -tenths of a percent here on the year. And if you take a look under the hood of some of these indexes, and you take a look in particular at the industry groups, there's a lot of red, there's not a lot of green for this Friday. You can see up at the top, you do have some of the chip makers, the semis, getting a little bit of love up by one percent or so. Then some of those tech hardware names also managing to stay green.
Dennis Prager Podcasts
A highlight from What Matters
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a16z
A highlight from The Engineering Challenge of Rapidly Reusable Rockets
"200 years ago, we were sailing around on wooden tall ships. That's how we got across oceans. And in those days, transportation was slow, expensive, and unreliable. And in many ways, those are exactly the three words that describe space transportation. You know, you'd never throw away a 737 after every single flight, right? That's pretty obvious. And so the same thing is true with rocketry. There's no reason you would want to throw away the vehicle if you didn't have to. Start asking yourself questions. What are the important problems that need to be solved? And how can I go and do this in a way that's a sustainable business? We're in like the 1930s and 40s for space. We have a lot of different ideas that are being tested. And in my opinion, mastering the first stage reuse and the second stage reuse are the two ingredients that are going to lead to mega consolidation and then also a healthy and thriving economy. Hi, everyone, and welcome back to the A16Z podcast. This is part two of our mini series on the booming satellite economy. In part one, we spoke with Astronis co -founder John Gedmark about the opportunity to build smaller satellites in geostationary orbit and who's actually buying that satellite capability. But ultimately, in order to build this computation shell around Earth full of thousands of satellites, rocket usability is an important unlock. So today we're joined by Andy Lapsa, co -founder of Stokespace, who after spending over a decade at Blue Origin is now on a mission to build fully and rapidly reusable rockets with the hopes of reusing both stages and also allowing daily reusability. Like Astronis, Stoke is growing quickly and also has customers in both the commercial and government sectors. And if you need any convincing of just how hard this engineering challenge is, well, the original launches of the Falcon 1 failed due to things as small as a corroded nut. And between launches, it might take as much as a year to get something back in the sky. So what are we looking at now in terms of testing cycles, given that we're on Falcon 9 and also new companies like Stoke are trying to get in on the action? So listen in as Andy gives us a glimpse into this truly outworldly engineering challenge of not just getting to space, but also doing so reliably over and over and over again. Alright, prepare for liftoff. As a reminder, the content here is for informational purposes only, should not be taken as legal, business, tax, or investment advice, or be used to evaluate any investment or security, and is not directed at any investors or potential investors, in any A16Z fund. Please note that A16Z and its affiliates may also maintain investments in the companies discussed in this podcast. For more details, including a link to our investments, please see a16z .com slash disclosures.
The Café Bitcoin Podcast
A highlight from Swan Private Macro Friday with Steven Lubka, Sam Callahan, John Haar, and Terrence Yang - September 22nd, 2023
"Hello, and welcome to the Cafe Bitcoin Podcast brought to you by Swan Bitcoin, the best way to buy and learn about Bitcoin. I'm your host, Alex Danson, and we're excited to announce that we're bringing the Cafe Bitcoin Conversations Twitter Spaces to you on this show, the Cafe Bitcoin Podcast, Monday through Friday every week. Join us as we speak to guests like Michael Saylor, Len Alden, Corey Clifston, Greg Foss, Tomer Strohle, and many others in the Bitcoin space. Also, be sure to hit that subscribe button. Make sure you get notifications when we launch a new episode. You can join us live on Twitter Spaces Monday through Friday, starting at 7 a .m. Pacific and 10 a .m. Eastern every morning to become part of the conversation yourself. Thanks again. We look forward to bringing you the best Bitcoin content daily here on the Cafe Bitcoin Podcast. This is like a rabbit hole, but, you know, posture is a very interesting topic because there's lots of studies out there that show that actually fixing posture doesn't do absolutely anything to preventing pain. So you could say posture is a shitcoin. The best way to fix your posture, I think, is just sell your chair. So, Sam, I've been doing a muscle activation technique, which is basically a realignment of your nervous system, I guess, so you have a bunch of different muscles that help your joints to mobilize your joints, and oftentimes we get micro injuries and some of these slow twitch deep muscles stop working and then your body compensates, of course, by utilizing other muscles around that muscle group or within that muscle group to compensate, and sometimes those muscles start refiring again and sometimes they don't. And so I've been doing this thing called muscle activation technique, and my posture has actually improved because this technician has gone through and ensured that all of these muscles that are around these joints for mobility and range of motion are activated. And I feel I actually it's almost like magic. It's just really weird thing because you don't really you can't really tell what's going on because you don't really feel a lot of these muscles individually. But after doing this for about 10 sessions now, I feel better physically than I have in a long time. My posture is better. It feels like my body is working in much better than it has in the past. And it's really been it's really and he and he actually and people have noticed my posture getting better. And it's just a really it's it's probably the best health care money because he doesn't take insurance or anything. It's probably the best health care money I have spent in the last 20 years. Wow, that's quite an endorsement. Well, that's great. Happy it's up for you. Muscle activation techniques. What's up, Terrence, Dom, good morning. Yeah, I've been working on my posture, too. I look back at like old bull market charts, Bitcoin, and then in my posture, I like puff up and my everything kind of comes much better. I just have to go on internal team videos, watch my great colleagues, Steven Lubka and put them. Sometimes they look the same to me because they have the exact same posture and they're the same height. But yes, that's always a good reminder to improve my posture. That is true, as you learn about Bitcoin and you stop watching every single five minute candle staring at the chart and just stop worrying and go outside and start learning about other things, start learning about the network, reading books, the posture improves. So there's a little benefit there. Dom, yeah, I saw you make an announcement about the proof of workforce. Congratulations. Pretty cool. You want to tell us a little bit about it? Yeah, thanks, Sam. I got a little background noise because I'm on the big red. But yeah, really awesome to get that thing up and going. We put it, we tweeted out our board, which is, in my opinion, an unbelievable board of directors, including, I see in the audience, the one, the only Joe Carlasari. So I got mad BJ Dictor sound effects. I got my BJ Dictor sound effects loaded up right now. So, yeah, no, just doing great stuff, doing some great work, really excited for it and excited to talk more about it at Pacific and connect with anyone who's looking to bring Bitcoin to workers and unions and other membership based organizations. So really cool stuff. And yeah, man, super pumped. Yeah, I think it's a super cool nonprofit just working for, to educate people about Bitcoin, these unions, these pensions. Congrats on getting that off the ground. I think it's a really important effort for the next bull market to kind of start protecting workers and their future retirement. So with Bitcoin. Yeah, it's a tough group to crack sometimes. And it really helps, you know, was thinking about like, what's the best model and the nonprofit model being able to come in with no product? No, like, hey, sign up here. Like, hey, here's the cards on the table. We want to help you figure out how this works with your organization, whether that's just education, whether it's adding Bitcoin to the balance sheet, you know, enabling lightning payments for your members, you know, whatever that is, we just want to provide the tools and then let them kind of find their way on their own. Yeah, probably use the Nakamoto portfolio. That's a great tool right there. It's going to help a lot. Check it out. Nakamoto portfolio dot com. Play around with those tools. Extremely powerful. Yeah, that's a great tool for sure. Kind of pivoting a little bit, but like. Did you guys see that video of the guy getting his engagement ring back on like a reality TV show and then saying, you know, oh, that's a Bitcoin. That was hilarious. I could play it for you if you want. Yeah, why don't you play it? Vanderpump rules, right? You're still wearing your engagement ring, huh? Yeah. Yeah. I'm I'm going to give it back to him. Do you want to know? I mean. Don't give it back. No, I'm not going to keep it right here. Thank you. That's a Bitcoin. I love that so much. It's like every Bitcoiner thinks that you start like pricing in everything in Bitcoin. It really does become your unit of count in your head. Once you give the girl the ring, don't take it back. Yeah, you're going to want to make sure you're. You're positive on that one. Another reason not to put data on the base layer, right, like marriage certificates. I kind of think the days of expensive engagement rings and expensive weddings are going to end fairly soon with housing affordability at all time lows and so forth or in all time lows for at least for decades. You mean because diamonds are a shit coin and they dump them in the in the ocean off of the coast of South Africa? Yeah, basically, I think it's already the demand is already down, but it needs to kind of die a permanent death. I think the greatest marketing campaign ever. Yeah, diamonds are a rabbit hole. Like I'm going down that rabbit hole, the De Beers company and how they control a monopoly on the entire supply. And it was a huge marketing campaign. And there's no scarcity there. Girls aren't going to want to hear that, but only it's only for certain only for certain sizing and color. But yeah, then there's like these lab diamonds, right, that you can't even tell the difference now that are better. Yeah, I'm not going to get one of those, but they're shit coins. There's no scarcity to them. And they're wow. Really, Sam? It's progressed that far. You're already thinking about a ring. Congratulations. You heard it here first on Cafe People. I wouldn't go that far, Peter, right? But if I was, there's no way I'm going to get her a lab diamond. I saw this video of somebody like in the front row of an NBA game. And I guess there's like a gun that you could check rings to see if they're lab grown or they're regular. And they were going down looking at the big rocks of these celebrities. And this guy, his wife's ring, and then it shines red that it's a lab diamond. And she just gets so pissed off and throws it at him and runs out of the game. Whoops. Rug pull. Rug pull. Or that gun was inaccurate. Because again, you're like trusting the third party source. That's the whole point of bringing it back to Bitcoin. But that's the whole point of Bitcoin is you can self verify that you got real Bitcoin from whoever sent you Bitcoin because you're running your own node. Whereas with whether it's gold or diamond, like the Chinese got swindled for billions of dollars. I think of fake gold bars that were actually tung sun and just gold plated. I like how quickly you think on your feet, Terence, but I don't think she's going to buy it. Yeah. Terence is like, oh, did you think about the gun? It was the gun, bitch. It was the gun. Oh, my God. Hey, guys. So a friend of mine, actually, this is timely. A friend of mine just bought a lab grown diamond and he paid 1500 euros for it. It was 3 .07 carats. And a traditional diamond would have cost about 50 grand. So it's completely destroyed the price of diamonds, man. That's insane. Yeah. Over three carats. And it's chemically, he showed me the certificate is chemically identical. It's still got slight flaws in it, but they literally just they're basically just printing diamonds now. Right. So they've become dollars. I thought it was funny. That's hilarious. The stock to flow is going down for diamonds. Anyway, his wife, she's delighted. She's got a $50 ,000 diamond around her neck. Does she? Got to get one of those guns around here. So check out, check them all. Yeah, I'm intrigued about that gun because what he was saying to me was that he said chemically, they're identical. So I'm not sure what the gun's doing to identify it being a... They find the flaw, right? Because natural diamonds have flaws. So if it's natural, there's going to be a flaw. It's inevitable. You can't see it, but you can see it under like a magnifying glass or whatever. Well, I saw the certificate of this lab grown diamond and it had flaws in it as well. Oh, wow. Yeah, they artificially create the... Yeah, Chris, did you verify that there was a flaw? That's a valid point. I mean, I did trust. I didn't verify. So I stand called out. Yeah, a lot of Bitcoiners are pretty hesitant to separate with their sats. But I think a white is a good investment. That's when you know you got a keeper. Like I was going to buy you a diamond ring, babe, but instead I stacked into cold storage for us. For us. Sam, you might have something there. A ring that's a self -custody hard wallet. You might be something there, dude. I'm actually seeing... I remember in 2017, I saw rings and watches with like little tiny QR codes in them. I don't know if it's a good idea to have a lot of your Bitcoin on a ring or I saw another person with one in a necklace. So there are like things like that. It's not great security. It reminds me of how like in India and stuff, they wear their gold. You know, they keep it around their neck and wrists just because it's the safest place to be. I mean, I guess if it's just a receiving address, you know, I mean, somebody could hold me down and track it down and figure out and whatever. But I mean, you know, that could be your diamond ring. You know, instead of the diamond up there at the crown, throw a QR code up there. Just be like, babe, you're going to be stacking. We're going to stack for the rest of our lives together now. We're going on a stacking journey together. How do you carry across the border more than $10 ,000 in value without having to report it? You wear it. Or Bitcoin. I have friends who move tens of millions of dollars or millions of dollars of their net worth, like 90, I don't know, 98 % plus of their total net worth to leave China, leave South Africa, come to the U .S. and never go back. And at the time, at least, they were too dumb to stop them or even question them. We just left, one -way ticket. Yeah, the fact that Bitcoin is digital and that anybody can escape like an authoritarian regime or war with some of their wealth, you know, that's when you think about like the ESG narrative and even like KPMG report talked about the S and how that characteristic of Bitcoin really helped people in really tough situations and think about how else they would do that and kind of realize that like Bitcoin is a solution there to a problem. And BlackRock and State Street are closing up ESG funds as we speak, which is, I think, a positive development. Yeah, I kind of reject that entire framing. I think it's led to a lot of misallocation of capital and kind of influencing boardrooms about how they invest their capital kind of impeding free markets. Yeah, ESG is a control scheme. I mean, we've seen that, but what are you talking about about BlackRock shutting down ESG funds? I don't know about that. Yeah, BlackRock and State Street have just been closing ESG funds in 2023, kind of shutting them up. And that's a reversal of the trend over the last couple of years. And BlackRock, Larry Fink, I mean, in the early 2010s kind of spearheaded a lot of these efforts, really gung ho about ESG. The last couple of years, they've seen a ton of pushback. And now we're kind of seeing them close up ESG funds. And I feel like we're seeing a shift in sentiment around the entire movement because I think people are realizing that like, A, some of these goals are completely untenable. And then secondly, you're hurting the poorest countries amongst us, like the developing nations, by preventing them from accessing cheap energy sources. And you're really making us weaker and less resilient by shutting down oil, gas, and fossil fuels. And so you're seeing a ton of pushback on it. And so BlackRock and State Street are starting to shut down ESG funds. It's just kind of like a flag post in my mind of this ESG narrative that was so, so strong the last decade. I don't know if anyone else has opinions there, but... Yeah, the only thing I have to say is I feel like Larry Fink kind of jumped on the bandwagon somewhat later after the ESG narrative got a lot of traction. Then he kind of added fuel to the fire, which is a huge name and was very outspoken. My point is he's added fuel to the fire. He didn't start the fire, but he kind of... So he's a politician ultimately, right? Like he's very political, even though he knows finance. To a manage massive fund that manages, I don't know, $9 .6 trillion or whatever, you have to be political and you have to read the tea leaf, so to speak. And yeah, react to the times. I think the exception would be somebody like Vanguard that might do a lot less in terms of ESG or jumping on the latest trendy whatever, because they're so focused on index funds and they're member -owned. This was not an ad for Vanguard, but... I just remember Larry Fink writing... And I just remember it made a lot of waves and kind of definitely added fuel to the fire, like I said, Terrence. So they shut down two dozen ESG funds this year, just to give some stats there. Yeah, I wish I could say like, you know, oh, maybe they really are being orange -filled and whatever, whatever. But it's probably like you said before, I mean, like ESG stuff, it's untenable over time and you get to a point, it probably just isn't profitable. I don't know than any of this, any of what I'm talking about, but just I'm just going off a gut, like the ESG stuff is unprofitable because the economics don't work. We've talked about that. You can look at the windmills and the solar panels as perfect examples of that. But I mean, just the overall thing, there's a good book, I've talked about it before, called The Prize. And it talks about the control of energy on the planet and how there are groups that seek to control other groups through the narrative of controlling what type of energy you're using, what is acceptable energy use, all of this stuff. But in the end, if you're going to try to make like, you know, bets and gambles off of this stuff, like you're going to have to pull your rug early because it's not, at some point, the economics don't work. Well, not to mention too, you know, it's the trend of like having an ESG report for a company. I want to see some of these companies that are like, you know, Nike's ESG report, which I don't know the details, you know, but you know, there's some low wage labor being done. And then, you know, you got this shiny ESG report that's like, you know, sustainability, we've done this and ethically, we've done this. And also, you know, behind the curtain, we've got this going on too. Yeah, I mean, it trickles all the way down, even now, like in web design, web development, like if you want your website to rank well on Google and whatever, then, you know, you have to build your site, you have to have that in your mind while you're building your site. You have to make sure that it's going to be well received by Googlebot and, you know, all these other stuff. And one of the things that they've been pushing is how ESG friendly is your website? Like your, the processes that it runs and, you know, are you doing it correctly and coding it correct? There's more than one way to code. And, you know, it's like, man, okay, I understand the idea, like, make your website work more efficiently. Like, of course, duh, like, that's what we're doing. But Google of all people to tell me about energy use of a web platform? Come on. Yeah, Chrome is pretty bad. Yeah, go ahead. I was orange peeling and no, I was I was just like at insurance, kind of talking to them about Bitcoin. And it was a bunch of claims professionals and lawyers. They were very like, you know, obviously, these are like super risk adverse cohort of investors. And so we were there just like talking Bitcoin as like the weird Bitcoiners at this conference. But I found out that 90 % of them take into account ESG when they're thinking about investments today. And that's in the most recent Goldman survey. So 90 % of insurers consider ESG when making capital allocations today. And at the same time, their number one worry in that survey was inflation. And so it's one of those things where I don't want to give credence to the framework. But it's so ingrained in some of these like traditional capital allocators minds that maybe just by playing into it and saying like, well, here's how Bitcoin is actually, you know, quote unquote, ESG and just kind of like Trojan horse in it through their their silly framework is the strategy that I took. And it kind of kind of went well. I kind of like said, like, although I reject this entire framing, here's why Bitcoin actually kind of achieves your goals. That's kind of the tactic that I took.
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A highlight from Cybersecurity attack on MGM may have begun with a ten-minute phone call: How it happened, Special Mutare Podcast
"This is Doug Greenan, I'm the publisher of Telecom Resiller, and I'm very pleased to have with us once again Chuck French of Mutari. Chuck, thank you for joining me today. Doug, a pleasure. Thank you. Well, we're, you know, we have talked in the past about cyber security, and of course on this podcast series, we've been doing a lot of work on that all year long, but this time I think it's a little bit less abstract. We're doing this literally while, even as we're recording this, MGM hospitality company is being basically hacked. You can't make a reservation on their line. There's still many operational problems that they're having. So we have the spectacle of one of the world's richest and most well -prepared companies, you know, having basically an episode about which we've talked about many times in this program. So Chuck, we're going to be sort of diving into that to find out, you know, what that's all about. And if anything can be done by, you know, the rest of us who are maybe in companies that have fewer resources, less visibility and so on. But what is Mutari? Well, Mutari is a 30 -year -old, not just more than 30 years old, but we're an independent software vendor, been focused in business communication software for all those years. We're based in Chicago, 400 enterprise customers. We enjoy a pretty good reputation for building great software and supporting it in the way that our customers enjoy, very little turnover of our employees, our customers, our partners. And as an organization, we're buying the company right now through an employee stock ownership. And I tell people this every time I meet them, because I think it's important. We're aligned and we're the most aligned company you've ever spoken to, Doug. And we're aligned around buying the company, but with a specific purpose. We need to do it around solving a problem. And then for the last couple of years, we are focused on being the leader in voice threat defense, which is why this conversation is so timely. You know, before we get off the topic of your company's core identity, I understand Mutari is actually a Latin word. Yes, it means to change in Latin. So think mutant, mutate. I always have to remind myself of that to make sure I'm saying Mutari. Pretend you're an Italian person saying Mutari, right? It's Latin for to change. And at first, I didn't know what to make of the name because everybody has a hard time with it. But I really do think it's more apt today than ever because this world, by the day, changes faster and faster and faster. And we know how to respond to that. We're agile a company that still acts like a perpetual startup. Well, let's talk about today because as we were just discussing before we started our podcast, and I'm sure a lot of our watchers, listeners are paying close attention to this. I am really just dazzled as much as we've talked and talked with you and many other people about the cybersecurity threat. I think very few of us imagined that what you guys have been telling us in terms of, gee, guys, you know, this could be really bigger than anyone could imagine. Well, here we are. It's seven days. It's still unfolding. I welcome anybody to go to our website and look in the resources column for all the content we put out there around this specific topic. Long -form articles about all of this, statistics, everything you'll ever want to know about the voice. And I'll bring it back to voice, Doug, because you didn't mention it yet. But, you know, the MGM ransomware attack, the cybersecurity attack that's happened has really brought MGM to its knees. You mentioned people can't make reservations. People can't get into the rooms right now, right? You can't, machines are not working. You know, from some estimates, MGM right now, because their systems are all offline, is losing somewhere between $3 million and $7 million a day and $1 million in pure cash. So those would be revenue and a million in cash every day because of this. And why this is so interesting to our firm is because the catalyst for all of this was a voice call. It was a telephone call from someone into the IT area, the customer service area of the IT department at MGM that allowed the bad actors to get the credentials necessary to put their software in, to allow them to take control of all of MGM, a voice call. So how about that? Well, you know what, it's very interesting because for those of you who are movie fans and like the Ocean's Eleven series, not the original with Frank Sinatra, but the more recent one from 20 years ago, there was, for those of you who are telecom fans, there was a PBX hack in that. That was part of what they did. And that was still in the era when the PBX was mostly a non -integrated system, a separate system running alongside the rest of IT. And of course, in the last 20 years, that's been departed. And now, you know, that call presumably occurred on the same set of servers, I think, that a lot of this is happening. Yeah. So, you know, so let's dive into this. So this is exactly what happened. This apparently started with a phone call. And then you were telling me that once they got in, they were able to do sort of some sort of horizontal thing. Tell me more about that, what that means. Yeah. And so I'll provide a little context around that. These are not people who, you know, stumbled upon this and, oh, I was able to get the credentials and so forth. These are large, large, sophisticated organizations, virtual organizations that are all over the world. And when I say sophisticated, and I know I've mentioned this in the past, these are, they have HR departments. They have areas where they can adjudicate conflicts. They have health plans in these organizations and they have specialization. So oftentimes what happens, and if you were to go on the dark web, you know, you can actually purchase some of these things. You can purchase the software to be able to enact these things. But there's just like in a hospital, right? You might have people whose job is the anesthesiologist, then you have the physicians and you have the nurse. They have that regarding ransomware attacks. So are there things called initial access brokers, people whose sole job is to be able to get access to a system. And that might be where their job ends. They sell that, they sell that and they put that in the marketplace. Another group picks it up, say, we're going to be the group now harvests us. That means they take the credentials and they go laterally and they infiltrate systems throughout an organization. They don't do anything. They lay late for a little while. I want to make sure that if you're backing up the copies, they're in the backups, all of their software is there. They lay in there. And then ultimately there comes a day when they say we're going to attack. And that's when someone, and I'm sure you've seen these before the screen pops up, you know, someone, some administrator that, you know, we have your data. You know, here's the information. Send some, you know, so much Bitcoin to so and so. Well, the encrypt your files and destroy them and still proof of life, if you will, to that end, and then you can continue on your way. So, yes, to answer your question, they received through three socially and through social engineering, a customer service person. It's this organization and they this group they call swirly spiders. I forget. I forget the name of these. Yeah. Yeah. They they. Yeah, that's right. That's right. They went ahead and then got access and told MGM that they had their systems in and ultimately MGM ignored them. And guess what happened to MGM when they didn't take this group seriously, everything that we're talking about today.
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A highlight from MARKETS DAILY: Crypto Update | Ethereum Activity Lags Despite Network Upgrades, Altcoin Volatility Surprises
"This episode of Markets Daily is sponsored by Kraken. It's Friday, September 22nd, 2023, and this is Markets Daily from CoinDesk. My name is Noelle Acheson, CoinDesk collaborator and author of the Cryptos Macro Now newsletter on Substack. On today's show, we're talking about Ethereum activity, altcoin volatility, and more. So you don't miss an episode, be sure to follow the podcast on your platform of choice. Just a reminder, CoinDesk is a news source and does not provide investment advice. Now, a markets roundup. Markets this morning seemed to be recovering after a rough few days. Bitcoin has been fairly range -bound for the past 24 hours and at 10 am Eastern Time this morning was up 0 .6 percent, trading at $26 ,607 according to CoinDesk indices. Ether has been doing better so far today, up almost 1 .1 percent over the past 24 hours, trading at $1 ,595. On the week, Bitcoin is up 0 .4 percent, while Ether is down 1 .8 percent. In traditional markets, yesterday was the S &P 500's worst day since the aftermath of the S &P 500's steepest drop in over 100 days. This morning, however, stocks are recovering, with the S &P 500 up over two -tenths from yesterday's close, NASDAQ up almost half a percent, and the Dow Jones up one -tenth of a percent. In Europe, the FTSE is also recovering after yesterday's late trading slump and earlier today was up two -tenths of a percent. This comes in spite of economic releases this morning showing contracting activity from the service sector and a steeper -than -expected year -on -year slump in UK retail sales. Eurozone data out this morning showed a deeper -than -expected contraction in manufacturing activity with new orders declining the most in nearly three years. The German DAX index dropped sharply on the open today but has since largely recovered. The Euro Stoxx 600 index is down almost two -tenths of a percent. In Asia, Japan's Nikkei index fell just over half a percent as the country's year -on -year core inflation came in slightly higher than expected. This is fueling speculation that the Bank of Japan could end its negative rate policy early next year. However, economic growth is a concern. Data out today showed that business activity in Japan slowed to a seven -month low in September. In China, the Shanghai Composite closed up over one -and -a -half percent yesterday. Recent data suggests the growth slump has bottomed out. This is fueling optimism that recent stimulus measures will speed up economic growth. Hong Kong markets also had a good day with the Hang Seng up over half a percent. In commodities, the Brent crude benchmark continued its pullback trading at $93 .27 per barrel, down almost eight -tenths of a percent over the past 24 hours. Concerns about global economic activity are outweighing concerns about tightening oil supply. Yesterday, the Russian government announced gasoline and diesel export restrictions in order to stabilize fuel prices in the domestic market. Gold lost some ground yesterday as investors reacted to the prospect of a stronger US dollar, reaching a weekly low before climbing again. Earlier today, it was trading down almost eight -tenths of a percent at $1 ,927 per ounce. Stay tuned. After the break, we'll take a look at Ethereum activity and is the crypto market's largest meme coin becoming stable? Meet the all -new Kraken Pro, the powerful, customizable, beautiful way to trade crypto. It's Kraken's most powerful trading platform ever, packed with trading features like advanced order management and analytics tools, all in a redesigned, modular trading interface. So head to pro .kraken .com and trade like a pro. Not investment advice. Some crypto products and markets are unregulated. The unpredictable nature of the crypto assets market can lead to loss of funds and profits, maybe subject to capital gains tax. Welcome back. In this section, we're going to look at what's going on with Dogecoin volatility. But first, despite network upgrades, Ethereum's activity is not picking up. In a recent report, JP Morgan analysts noted that Ethereum's Shanghai upgrade, implemented in April to enable the withdrawal of staked tokens, has not delivered much of a boost to network activity. Ethereum's daily transaction count has fallen 12 % since the upgrade, according to the analysts, and the number of daily active addresses has dropped nearly 20%. To be fair, the purpose of the Shanghai upgrade was not to boost Ethereum transactions. It was to encourage staking by making it more flexible. Ethereum's security depends on the spread of its staking network. It has succeeded in that. Since the upgrade, the number of validators has increased by almost 50%. Also, the circulation of Ether has always been heavily influenced by DeFi activity, which is still grappling with regulatory uncertainty, recent exploits and last year's market shocks. But network activity is an important part of liquidity, which is significant for investors. And Bitcoin's activity has been recovering. The average number of daily transactions on the Bitcoin blockchain has more than doubled over the past few months, while the number of active addresses is more than 10 % higher on a seven -day moving average basis. Looking further out, Ethereum has some more upgrades in the pipeline, which will be focused on increasing throughput and therefore also, in theory, network activity. Given the community's success so far in implementing ambitious changes to improve the blockchain's functionality, Ethereum's declining activity now should not necessarily be taken as a sign that the network is less interesting. And finally, just in case you needed more evidence that these markets are, well, strange, this morning Omkar Ghoboli reported that Dogecoin, the largest meme token by market value and typically one of the riskier crypto investments, now has a lower 30 -day historical volatility than Bitcoin. Normally, a decline in volatility signals deep market liquidity and maturity. With Dogecoin, neither is the case at the moment. So, as with Bitcoin, below volatility is yet another sign that investors are staying away. That's it for today's show. I hope you all have a great weekend. You can reach us at podcasts at coindesk .com. Do also please send us questions you'd like us to address on the Spotify Q &A. Follow us and, if you like the show, please leave us a five -star rating on whatever platform you're listening to us on. Markets Daily is produced and edited by Michelle Musso with executive production by Jared Schwartz. I'm Noah Latcheson for Coindesk. We're back tomorrow with more market news and insights.
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"Know? I mean, you're just total just and what's crazy is like imprisoned in Germany, you know when you get out. In the foreign psychiatry, it's called paragraph a 63. And this paragraph 63 says you get augment your when you do therapy. So I know people that landed in there and they only did assault and battery. Just because they don't do therapy in there, they don't let them out so ten, 15, 20 years go by until they realize I got a little therapy. So a salt and batter here in Germany is like usually just get probation. So, but once a sample is mentally mentally ill, they send you in there and it's fucked up. It's really fucked up. Actually, to me, a mental ward here in Germany, for instance, the forensic psychiatry, I would. Say it's pretty much equivalent to a modern concentration camp. Yes, it's shiny and new and polished to the outside, but inside it's rotten. Oh yeah, and there's this information I'm telling you guys, you know, so really nobody knows about it. You know, so that's why I'm staying alone because I'm pretty much in like a target, you know, for them because I'm like, you know, what they do is just wrong.
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"I could believe that because if you drive with the bus with all the tickets to often, you get in jail and if you are in good for jail, you can get in the psychiatric check this out. They really fucked me. So anyways,
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"Worse than illegal drugs. You know, it's a crazy because that's really crazy because illegal drugs sometimes help to improve your mood. I don't want to promote illegal drugs because it's a bad thing to take legal or illegal drugs. But if you take drugs, those all or are people sold or everything was or what they see. I spent like 14, 13 years altogether about 5 and a half locked up in there and I had a three year journey because they call it the paragraph 63 where they can keep you lifelong if you don't do it there. Yes. And the thing is, and the thing is that in those psychic psychiatrists, the people, they say in Germany, all you don't have to take medicine, it's not a legal requirement, but if you don't take medicine, you will never get out of there. Because you know, the farmer industry, once I have the most powerful yes, they want to keep mafia, I would say because it's worse than a mafia. They make these pharmaceutical drugs. Intentionally, when you get off of, you withdraw. And then you get a psychosis. Actually, it's just withdrawal. Because I know people that took, I mean, they made a move to zombies. I have a body that's exciting. For instance, he took for like ten medicine, pharmaceuticals. He was a regular zombie he was overweight, he didn't want to do that. He was scared all the time. He was just the best and then anyways, it took this, okay, we're going to try, but after ten years, I think what you're all right, we're going to try to lower the dosage for a year. So anyway, you got to lower. It's just like heroin or methadone. Yes. Well, you got to lower real slow. You become healthy. You can't just stop it. Because they intentionally make them so that you are addicted to them. Exactly. And I think the farmer industry in the way that neuroleptic or everything like that works is they give you something that you are quiet and don't kill yourself because that would be media outrage or somebody would get hurt too or they just want you to shut up and that's because I do what they do what they want in reality they would still put you in concentration camps if the Second World War didn't happen in Germany they would put you in concentration camps, but they learned if you put them in concentration camps, it would be an outrage in the free world and the USA will attack us so they made a plan to make a psychiatrist forensic forensic psychiatric make you addicted and make you a zombie so you don't do anything. I want in my lifetime I thought I was 16 fucking years old and my psychiatrist got me Haldol. Oh shit. And I took like two pills of it. I needed to take two pills at the evening I don't know the exact doses of a but I took them. I went to bed and looked out of my window and there was a monster with glowing red eyes attacking me. I made and switched the light on and it was it's what's done and I switched the light back off and then I got my worst I close as I ran to the toilet I vomited I streamed for help ice cream mom mom helped me help me and my mother said I don't allow this guy to give him that anymore and after the first day I never took it again but I can't imagine how it would be if you take it one week or so I would be that. I took they made me take it 43 weeks later. Three weeks. Yes, I was a zombie. What the fuck? How did you survive that? I went to hell. I went to depths of hell. And you know what? I told him when I got when the first time I took was in New York came back I said what the fuck is I have a friend that works at the darkside issue that's a newspaper. A newspaper outlet. Like a local UK. And then my brother came to visit me. Oh, does your brother really know people from doctor or newspaper? That's another story, but anyways, so anyways, I spent 5 and a half years, totally zombies out. Gamed 70 pounds. What the fuck 70 pounds in one and a half years? Medicine they gave me. And I was a zombie, I was with myself from some friends came and they were shocked they wanted to cry after visiting me after a year. Oh my God, what happened to you? What did they do to you? So they want to break your mentally, they want to break you and just keep you silent. Yes, yes. And so many people kill themselves. Or when they get out, they kill themselves. Because life is worth anymore. It's not worth living. You don't have the same mental fact of living the way you were when you were free of pharmaceutical. Yes. Okay, I'm not saying if the pharmaceuticals work for you. There you go. But I know if you read the papers that are in the mirror, how many fixed this you will be you will go nuts. You are like, what? This is what they give. Can lead to sudden death. They give you that? Yeah. Another thing is I read the. In Germany, call it bipolar title. It's a letter with the medical papers in the papers and the medicine books and are those for my antidepressant antidepressants and their is written common side effect is when you take an antidepressant that you are manic and want to kill yourself even more is what happened to me. You want to kill yourself even more. It's just trillions of oral dollars worldwide making business alpha we people poor people who are mentally unstable people unstable people, you know. But it was hell but I went to it was held in most people don't know this society doesn't notice that people out there who are not because they keep ability in low key. I'm telling you how it was in there, you know, so it was pure old. I mean prison was a playground for this. I loved it. It was just a GI guess of OG G, puppet tutorial or GG. That was me and then all of a sudden I became a fucking mentally unstable psychopath who had a zombie game 70 pounds. Yes, yes, yes, ma'am. You know, and I see that I just see people get home, you know, they come in normal and they get old, like, just destroyed. White boys. It's like their soul got wiped out of their bodies. Because it's just pure torture, you know, what they go through. And when you're in Florence, it's like 5 years to take this shit afterwards, but so the averages when you go in there is 4.6 years, and then you have 4.6 years, that's the average. And it can go along. A thing that would interest me is people who are traveling with the bus without the ticket and Germany. That means that this is a crime, a felony, is a felony, and other crimes like parking differently are autumn simply cut this like parking ticket and you can pay it and you got fees and everything. I would be interested to know if there is a person here in Germany sitting in a forensic psychiatry because of spots fun and
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"So anyways, I spent 5 and a half years, totally zombies out. Gamed 70 pounds. What the fuck 70 pounds in one and a half years? Medicine they gave me. And I was a zombie, I was with myself from some friends came and they were shocked they wanted to cry after visiting me after a year. Oh my God, what happened to you? What did they do to you? So they want to break your mentally, they want to break you and just keep you silent.
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"Those medicines stop serotonin and somehow somebody is pharmaceutical drugs are worse than illegal drugs. You know, it's a crazy because that's really crazy because illegal drugs sometimes help to improve your mood. I don't want to promote illegal drugs because it's a bad thing to take legal or illegal drugs. But if you take drugs, those all or are people sold or everything was or what they see. I spent like 14, 13 years altogether about 5 and a half locked up in there and I had a three year journey because they call it the paragraph 63 where they can keep you lifelong if you don't do it there. Yes. And the thing is, and the thing is that in those psychic psychiatrists, the people, they say in Germany, all you don't have to take medicine, it's not a legal requirement, but if you don't take medicine, you will never get out of there. Because you know, the farmer industry, once I have the most powerful yes, they want to keep mafia, I would say because it's worse than a mafia. They make these pharmaceutical drugs. Intentionally, when you get off of, you withdraw. And then you get a psychosis. Actually, it's just withdrawal. Because I know people that took, I mean, they made a move to zombies. I have a body that's exciting. For instance, he took for like ten medicine, pharmaceuticals. He was a regular zombie he was overweight, he didn't want to do that. He was scared all the time. He was just the best and then anyways, it took this, okay, we're going to try, but after ten years, I think what you're all right, we're going to try to lower the dosage for a year. So anyway, you got to lower. It's just like heroin or methadone. Yes. Well, you got to lower real slow. You become healthy. You can't just stop it. Because they intentionally make them so that you are addicted to them. Exactly. And I think the farmer industry in the way that neuroleptic or everything like that works is they give you something that you are quiet and don't kill yourself because that would be media outrage or somebody would get hurt too or they just want you to shut up and that's because I do what they do what they want in reality they would still put you in concentration camps if the Second World War didn't happen in Germany they would put you in concentration camps, but they learned if you put them in concentration camps, it would be an outrage in the free world and the USA will attack us so they made a plan to make a psychiatrist forensic forensic psychiatric make you addicted and make you a zombie so you don't do anything. I want in my lifetime I thought I was 16 fucking years old and my psychiatrist got me Haldol. Oh shit. And I took like two pills of it. I needed to take two pills at the evening I don't know the exact doses of a but I took them. I went to bed and looked out of my window and there was a monster with glowing red eyes attacking me. I made and switched the light on and it was it's what's done and I switched the light back off and then I got my worst I close as I ran to the toilet I vomited I streamed for help ice cream mom mom helped me help me and my mother said I don't allow this guy to give him that anymore and after the first day I never took it again but I can't imagine how it would be if you take it one week or so I would be that. I took they made me take it 43 weeks later. Three weeks. Yes, I was a zombie. What the fuck? How did you survive that? I went to hell. I went to depths of hell. And you know what? I told him when I got when the first time I took was in New York came back I said what the fuck is I have a friend that works at the darkside issue that's a newspaper. A newspaper outlet. Like a local UK. And then my brother came to visit me. Oh, does your brother really know people from doctor or newspaper? That's another story, but anyways, so anyways, I spent 5 and a half years, totally zombies out. Gamed 70 pounds. What the fuck 70 pounds in one and a half years? Medicine they gave me. And I was a zombie, I was with myself from some friends came and they were shocked they wanted to cry after visiting me after a year. Oh my God, what happened to you? What did they do to you? So they want to break your mentally, they want to break you and just keep you silent. Yes, yes. And so many people kill themselves. Or when they get out, they kill themselves. Because life is worth anymore. It's not worth living. You don't have the same mental fact of living the way you were when you were free of pharmaceutical. Yes. Okay, I'm not saying if the pharmaceuticals work for you. There you go. But I know if you read the papers that are in the mirror, how many fixed this you will be you will go nuts. You are like, what? This is what they give. Can lead to sudden death. They give you that? Yeah. Another thing is I read the. In Germany, call it bipolar title. It's a letter with the medical papers in the papers and the medicine books and are those for my antidepressant antidepressants and their is written common side effect is when you take an antidepressant that you are manic and want to kill yourself even more is what happened to me. You want to kill yourself even more. It's just trillions of oral dollars worldwide making business alpha we people poor people who are mentally unstable people unstable people, you know. But it was hell but I went to it was held in most people don't know this society doesn't notice that people out there who are not because they keep ability in low key. I'm telling you how it was in there, you know, so it was pure old. I mean prison was a playground for this. I loved it. It was just a GI guess of OG G, puppet tutorial or GG.
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"60 kilos. That's about a hundred. And then you get fat and then you get lazy and then you get like a zombie. Somehow you got the prep get depressed because those medicines stop serotonin and somehow somebody is pharmaceutical drugs are worse than illegal drugs. You know, it's a crazy because that's really crazy because illegal drugs sometimes help to improve your mood. I don't want to promote illegal drugs because it's a bad thing to take legal or illegal drugs. But if you take drugs, those all or are people sold or everything was or what they see. I spent like 14, 13 years altogether about 5 and a half locked up in there and I had a three year journey because they call it the paragraph 63 where they can keep you lifelong if you don't do it there. Yes. And the thing is, and the thing is that in those psychic psychiatrists, the people, they say in Germany, all you don't have to take medicine, it's not a legal requirement, but if you don't take medicine, you will never get out of there. Because you know, the farmer industry, once I have the most powerful yes, they want to keep mafia, I would say because it's worse than a mafia. They make these pharmaceutical drugs. Intentionally, when you get off of, you withdraw. And then you get a psychosis. Actually, it's just withdrawal. Because I know people that took, I mean, they made a move to zombies. I have a body that's exciting. For instance, he took for like ten medicine, pharmaceuticals. He was a regular zombie he was overweight, he didn't want to do that. He was scared all the time. He was just the best and then anyways, it took this, okay, we're going to try, but after ten years, I think what you're all right, we're going to try to lower the dosage for a year. So anyway, you got to lower. It's just like heroin or methadone. Yes. Well, you got to lower real slow. You become healthy. You can't just stop it. Because they intentionally make them so that you are addicted to them. Exactly. And I think the farmer industry in the way that neuroleptic or everything like that works is they give you something that you are quiet and don't kill yourself because that would be media outrage or somebody would get hurt too or they just want you to shut up and that's because I do what they do what they want in reality they would still put you in concentration camps if the Second World War didn't happen in Germany they would put you in concentration camps, but they learned if you put them in concentration camps, it would be an outrage in the free world and the USA will attack us so they made a plan to make a psychiatrist forensic forensic psychiatric make you addicted and make you a zombie so you don't do anything. I want in my lifetime I thought I was 16 fucking years old and my psychiatrist got me Haldol. Oh shit. And I took like two pills of it. I needed to take two pills at the evening I don't know the exact doses of a but I took them. I went to bed and looked out of my window and there was a monster with glowing red eyes attacking me. I made and switched the light on and it was it's what's done and I switched the light back off and then I got my worst I close as I ran to the toilet I vomited I streamed for help ice cream mom mom helped me help me and my mother said I don't allow this guy to give him that anymore and after the first day I never took it again but I can't imagine how it would be if you take it one week or so I would be that. I took they made me take it 43 weeks later. Three weeks. Yes, I was a zombie. What the fuck? How did you survive that? I went to hell. I went to depths of hell. And you know what? I told him when I got when the first time I took was in New York came back I said what the fuck is I have a friend that works at the darkside issue that's a newspaper. A newspaper outlet. Like a local UK. And then my brother came to visit me. Oh, does your brother really know people from doctor or newspaper? That's another story, but anyways,
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"Young. I said, what the hell is this? He's like, oh, it's better. It's better. Yeah, well, he says, I said, with him. He says, oh, that's a possibility. And I'm like, yeah, it's awkward. I was naive back then. And you know, oh man, look up.
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"That every human being and every animal has a fucking conscious mind and every human being and every animal that has a conscious mind, things for themselves and has their own life and other people treat them like shit, but if they were in their situation, they want help. But yes, you know, it's just a trip out there, man. Once you have the third eye open, man, it's you have superpowers. You can do things that you never, ever thought you can do. You can flow. You can be a poet at you can do sports better. You see everything differently. You learn better learn better. You know where to look. You have no worries. You have love for yourself, love for others. I went through so much pain. I went through so much help. I've been to prison. I've been to the forensic psychiatry. I've been, I hit rock bottom. I had nothing left. When you hit rock bottom, you see who your true friends are. When you're on top of everybody wants to be a part of you. You know, so it's just like crazy. But you know, it's just a game for them. They want their money and they use an abuse you and you're blind because especially this is another fact. So my intuition found out something. When you have a white heart, a white heart is a pure heart that has a lot of empathy. It's very sensible and has love for everything. But too much of it so the white absorbs all this dirt from people that use an abusive. Yeah, and most of the white hearts later in life, if they survive by not doing suicide, they're not open. So anyways, there is the black heart too. The black heart is when ice cold, your narcissist, you don't care. So three selfie social perfect, naturalistic egomaniacs, you don't care about others, you have to only care about yourself. It's a black card. So what I found out because I had a white heart all my life. So you just get used, abuse, and heartbroken, and you become depressed because your heart's always broken because you take all those dirt. I found out now you have to hit the gold medal to red art. Like yin and Yang, the red heart is healthy. It's healthy. It is good. You don't let anyone in. You don't let everyone in exactly. Just for your mistakes. Thank you. And that's all you need. You built a wall in front of you. Yeah. To only let in those people in your heart that deserve it. And the other people can fuck themselves with because energy and anything you do attracts the energy you have with another person that has the same energy level like you. So you meet spiritually people everywhere you go when you have the third eye open, they have the third eye open. The morally they're ethic. They rely on. They don't lie. They keep it in the middle, you know? And they don't want to hurt exactly exactly. They try to help you everywhere they are, but they realize when somebody gets used or use, and they can tell right away from somebody's face, Mimi or gesture, when they're lying, or are good enough. Or have to energy or the aura where they feel them. And in order that's a wonderful gift, the third eye gives us when it's open, and you know, it's amazing, you know? They changed my life and. I wish I wish more people would enter away. Yeah, yes. And you know, to me, it's all the same. This awakening is the Holy Spirit. Everything. We all are one big conscious love. That's how Bob Marley said it back in then. But the universe is one. Yes. Because universe started in one point and everything was that point. So in theory, we all came from that point that means we all are everybody and everybody is everything. That means we are the universe at the universe is us. Our consciousness explores the and if you can explore a universe, you are the and you need to help other people to open their third eye but you can't tell everyone about it. Exactly. Because they're going to think you're crazy and stick you in a psychiatry. Yes, yes. And then give you medicine. I mean, it's a trip. In the Bible it says, we all are part of God. But when you say I'm gone, I'm going to say you crazy, put you in the nut house. And pump you up with medicine. Anyways, depression. Everybody, the most of the society live in a 3D world. So if you have depression, you go under the 3D world to one and negative. So it depends how bad the pressure is. Yeah, yeah. So but I think depression is kind of a luxury problem. I think depression is kind of when you don't have your third eye open and are materialistic and you are a bad person or you're a good person that your method realistic and society shaped you like that. Society wants you to be depressed because then you don't do anything about bad things or you do use do your things but you don't revolve or something like that. And I think depression is kind of a luxury problem because in under poor countries, when you have nothing to eat and nothing to wear and something like that and there are diseases you think thank God I'm alive and in the western world we have everything we need. But people want more and more and more. One thing is left behind. We have everything we need like money or something like that. But we don't have enough love. Exactly. Where's the love like back 20 years ago when black eyed peas saying that was my favorite song and chill today? Where's the love? Or what do people know about love? True love, you know what I'm saying? People don't know anything about the world. Love is the most powerful, nicest feeling there is when you can give it to somebody that deserves it. I'm not talking about sakes. People. Misunderstand and love. Sex is a pleasure, but love is a groundbreaking rule that requires you to understand what the person thinks and love them for the way they traditionally unconditionally. But it's difficult in our world to our society and our society to fall in love with someone who really loves you back. Most people today are just seeing it as an opportunity to take your money, take your advantages, advantages. I have a thing that I wanted to tell in my first ever relationship. The girl came to my school, said, well, okay. I love you and something like that. We met and I was instantly fell in love with her. And she somehow agrees that we are together. And I protected her from everything she was bullied, now she isn't bullied anymore. She was hurt from other people she was raped one time and that's true. I know from independent sources. And I took care of her and help her out of the situation. And as soon as she got out of that situation and got other friends, she left me behind for another guy. And that's the way it is. You know? But you can't be sad about that because when you said about that, you think, oh, she was so perfect. No, she wasn't perfect. She was. She was the opposite. And you should fuck. The say to those people fuck off and live your life and find a better one because if you hold on to something too long, break your heart. Destroy you. And yes. And then I realized my third eye was going to open because I went through a dark dark way. Yeah. And after that, when my third eye was open, I saw everything for that what it was. And I at first I was happy, but after that, I can't stand the world because the world is bad bad place because there's only one person. Yes, yes. Because only 1% have their third eye open. And then I felt in the deep deep depression and I told the psyche psychiatrist that I have the third eye open and that I see things for what they are and what I look like. And she diagnosed me with paranoid schizophrenia. I mean, they told me I'm bipolar, man. You know what, bipolar actually is. Okay, these psychiatrists are back 30, 40, 50 years ago. When somebody had a depression, they still want to work in fucking they got out of it. So anyways, now you nowadays, you got these shrinks, you know, they call psychiatrists. Anyways, you're everybody goes through a crisis in their lives. So what do they do? They tell you to go to a psychiatrist or a psychologist. So the psychologists will talk to you and then say, oh, we have this problem that problem. I give you that pill. Yeah, I'll give you the wonder pill. So anyways, you get addicted. Oh, you get addicted in your zombie. It takes like ten years for them to really get the right amount or that's
Open Third Eye Germany
"third" Discussed on Open Third Eye Germany
"We can't control that we love somebody that makes us well numbered. And everybody thinks just for their own. Exactly, there's just selfish, you know? It's a trip. I mean, your social system in Germany is very good, but the mentality of most people here living, especially I'm not racist or anything but the German mentality. Yes, yes. Most of them. There's a very ice cold. Yes, yes. He has a German can confirm that because in elementary school, when I went to elementary school, there was a group of parents. They are friends with each other, and my parents came due to the town. And nobody talked to my parents, and the parents forbid that children to play with me because I am not the part of the Friends group I got, I was the outsider, the outside area. Yes, everybody made fun of me. And I went home from school and I waited until I came home and then I cried before my mother, and nobody can help me because these German guys thought they were cool and I don't belong to the group and they make clubs and everything and I wasn't a part of it and it's what's so frustrating. Frustrating. And when I get to high school, when I got to high school, in high school, the tables had turned and I was the guy with lots of Friends because I was charismatic. I learned that because they kicked me out of that room. And then in the other school, a guy from these parents grew, came to my school too, and he was
Open Third Eye Germany
"third" Discussed on Open Third Eye Germany
"Your life, indeed, the deep, deep in the hell, hold. Crawl out if you survive it if you don't do suicide. Fly up high and realize how society and mother nature work in the universe's universe is as one. And when my third eye opened, I felt nothing but love, empathy, intuition, I could see our peace and peace and I don't talk my subconscious talks for me. And my conscience is my subconscious. So anyways, most people only think and say and feel through their consciousness. But the subconscious always records everything you go through, some people forget what they go through, but the subconscious always remembers. And the thing is, the most people think that their ego is a good thing, but ego is sort of a bad thing because when you are one with your subconscious, you can reunite your soul with your body and then you have the full control about everything in your mind. And if you have the control about your mind, you can control everything in the world, you get everything you want, but you need to find the small path between being with the third with the open third eye and being like in a manic state. Yeah, well, when the third eye is open when you're an adult and you have that awakening, you become a kid again. God, one of God's kids. And but you have the mind of mechanism of adult, but you're a kid, you're happy again, you're free, you're free of negative thoughts, you prescient, and sicknesses, and you become young again, your whole body transforms, there's a transformation of everything your new person again, it's like you're reborn and it's just great and I just talk through flow. I don't think I it just comes out of me. Exactly. And then you realize that mother nature isn't made for our society. We are like parasites for them. For mother nature, we are parasites, but if everyone will have their third eye open on the world, there wouldn't be war that wouldn't be climate change. Everything would go its way and everything would be fine. But some people don't have the third eye open and are materialistic, and that's bad. Yeah, you know, you know what blinds people, they're controlled and manipulated through a whisk. Materialism, sexism, capitalism, that controls them where they can even open up their third eye and it's very sad because there's only 1% of us. And you know, it's kind of crazy because there's like people are want to be rich. They want to be famous. They look too much social media, but they don't want to do anything for it. Exactly. And they watch too much movies, Hollywood, and the rap message of the wrong message of the modern music. Like I fuck your mother, I fuck your sister. You're so poor and so good. Drugs are good. I'm so I'm so rich. You're so poor, fuck you, you are a broken bitch. So something that they give the wrong message to young generation. Instead of saying it's good to help other people, it's good to be that business. And that we love and have love, but kids don't listen to them. Kids want to make do things that are forbidden. And when they do things that are forbidden and think they are criminals or think their masterminds in reality, they are dumb as fuck and everything around them revolves in the same manner and they become what they want to be, but in a bad way. But if they had the third eye open, they wouldn't fall for them. Exactly. Because it's kind of crazy, you know? Everything's as bad. It's good to society, and everything that's good is bad, and so the majority of people. And you know, it's kind of crazy because everybody wants to be rich, famous, star. But you know what? Only want percent of the world is super rich. 19% live normal and the rest. 80 percent is super poor of the world, so the majority of people. Yeah, you know? So it's a trip. That's why people get sick. They're mentally drained. Unstable. Yes, yes yes. And some people think people only think they're a good people or they are great or they are cool if they have money or cars. Women, women, but the real truth behind those things is that people should realize that the personality matters. Exactly. Because if you only look about material things, you can have three lambos, but you can still be a cock juggler. So as you can still be an asshole, you can still be a bad person and kill other people or something like that. Nobody knows who you are except of you and other people who have the third eye open. And this is the thing other people should realize there should open their third eye to uncover the matrix and see what's really what really matters. Exactly. You know what I mean? It's just people are so blind. They're blind to greed, materialism, and capitalism. And they don't want to help nobody. There is no more love. And what does a kid want only? Wants to be loved, taking care of, you know, for miss parents. Feeling overwhelmed with love. Everything and the parents freedom like king and treat them like he's on top of the world. And that's a thing. I realized when my third I went open, I realized the world is yours, even if you didn't notice, we are all the kids of God, and Jesus Christ died for us. Amen. Amen. And we have Jesus and God's love inside of us, but we not very often take it out and
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"third" Discussed on The Syndicated Pipe Club
"Of nightmares. Poland watching avatar. When i was a kid. I'm sure fluffy the actual fluffy would have given me nightmares for sure. It's up there with With the from last week or the puppy monkey baby from mountain deer word whatever. It was a super bowl commercial..