The Dark Knight (2008) ”Everything Burns” Scene (The Joker burns piles of money)
Feek
Interesting. Cash burns a hole in our pockets. I would suspect that those who were doing well in the end time Babylon economy that is described in the Bible are those who own the income generating assets.
The biggest Babylonian beneficiaries are those who were pumping the oil out of the ground and selling it for high prices. They were the stockholders and captains of industry. The shares of these companies are highly sensitive to all of the deficit spending and “generous” social largesse.
The beneficiaries were also the real estate investors and landlords who paid hardly any income or capital gains taxes. They were the ones with large amounts of passive income that was only lightly taxed.
Anyone who was taking their cash and sticking it in a money market fund was losing money. They were slow burning it. I’m still trying to figure out what Warren Buffett has done with all that cash. Evidently, he’s been sticking it in short-term treasuries and from what I can see, the headline CPI rate is somewhat higher than the yield he’s earning on his short-term treasuries.
That huge Apple stake he sold off below 200 or his immense BAC sale stake, trying to somehow make a message, seems to be poorly timed.
In a world of immense and quickly growing deficit spending, the only way I see to stay ahead in this Babylonian economy is to own the assets. Own those income generating assets.
Cash is slowly burning. It’s a slow burn of about 7.5% per year. That’s the current rate of nominal GDP growth. The rate of return on a particular project should be at least discounted at the nominal GDP growth rate.
The old days of discounting at the 10-year treasury yield is a thing of the past. The FED clearly suppresses the entire yield curve and trying to discount some sort of capital intensive project at prevailing yields is a recipe for disaster. Our discount rates must be higher, which just goes to show how quickly cash burns.
So, while most people will look at this movie scene and be horrified at all that money burning and the lost opportunities to piss it all away on frivolities, the few of us will say that it is representative of reality and note the symbolism.
I was sent this link by a reader, which links to a nature.com article regarding the wonderful properties of ivermectin and its antiviral and anti-cancer properties and potential. Of course, it was dated 2017.
https://www.nature.com/articles/ja201711
That was a good read! Wouldn’t it be interesting if the “flu” is just your body reacting to a parasitic issue and our bodies go into a purge. High temps, no appetite, rest, etc are the symptoms of our bodies recovering. Just a thought! Similar to stomach flu when your body also purges.
Not only did Berkshire Hathaway part with over $8 billion to buy a company, but it was a home builder. I doubt Buffett was in on it, but signed off on it…
Berkshire Hathaway to acquire homebuilder Taylor Morrison in massive $8.5B deal
Reuters
Berkshire Hathaway has agreed to acquire Taylor Morrison Home Corp. in an all-cash deal valued at about $8.5 billion, the companies jointly said on Sunday, marking an expansion of the conglomerate’s housing business.
Under the agreement terms, Berkshire will acquire the homebuilder for $72.50 per common share in cash, valuing Taylor Morrison’s equity at around $6.8 billion. The offer represents a premium of about 24% to the company’s closing stock price of $58.50 on Friday.
The deal underscores Berkshire’s long-standing interest in housing, historically centered around Clayton Homes, which it acquired in 2003.
Berkshire Chief Executive Greg Abel said the acquisition would help broaden Berkshire’s footprint into site-built homes, with potential to combine operations over time.
“We are excited to welcome Taylor Morrison into Berkshire’s portfolio,” he said in a statement, adding the company could help expand access to homeownership.
Taylor Morrison Chief Executive Sheryl Palmer said the deal would provide the homebuilder with financial backing and a long-term investment horizon aligned with the multi-year nature of housing development.
“Berkshire Hathaway’s long-term orientation is uniquely well-suited to the multi-year investment cycle of homebuilding, and this combination will allow us to scale the Taylor Morrison platform in ways that would not be possible as a standalone company,” she said.
Taylor Morrison was founded in 2013 as a public company, with its principal business being residential homebuilding and the development of lifestyle communities, with operations in 12 U.S. states. It has a market capitalization of $5.47 billion, according to LSEG data.
Following the acquisition, Taylor Morrison will continue to operate under its existing management team, including Palmer, and will become a privately held company.
The companies expect the deal to close in the second half of this year. Goldman Sachs and Moelis served as financial advisors to Taylor Morrison on the transaction.
MSTR is turning out to be a Ponzi scheme. Selling its seed corn to pay its preferred shareholders.
BTC getting destroyed as the biggest commercial holder sounds like a backtracker.
Your old stock pick BTM went bankrupt. However it was a good call when you posted it on here. Not sure what they are going to do with all those atm machines. I see the btc atms listed on google maps in my area, but I don’t know anyone that uses one. I guess the companies that operate them have to pay a fee to put the machine in a store and pay for the electricity charge, not sure how it works. I don’t see that concept making any money unless a Bank operates it.
I forgot about that outfit. Sad to see it go.
I’m looking forward to Schwab doing cryptos. I am withdrawing my BTC from coinbase and putting them in my Schwab banking. Coinbase is so expensive.
ATMs are a thing of the past. It’s all end times Babylon now. All track and trace, all the time.
Berkshire Hathaway also paid $10 billion to Google in a private placement for its AI buildout. That’s about $17 billion in paid out cash.
It sounds like Berkshire’s new management is going to be relative gunslingers. My only reservation is that Berkshire is paying a lot of money to Google for what it gets.
Matthew 24:22 And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect’s sake those days shall be shortened.”
I once thought this was an obvious reference to nuclear war. What if the real meaning refers to the technocrats merging flesh with machine as the book of Daniel says?
Here is a quote from Sam Altman, Altman, the chief executive of OpenAI, took to the Internet a few years ago to propose that homo sapiens would be the first species “to design our own descendants”. In his best case scenario, the “merge” between humans and artificial intelligence occurs at some point over the next 50 years. The alternative, where we remain simply human and the machines follow their own path, is more ominous. “If two different species both want the same thing and only one can have it – in this case, to be the dominant species on the planet and beyond – they are going to have conflict,” he wrote.
The Magnifica Humanitas specifically addresses AI and transhumanism, It may seem like the Pope is late to the AI party and is now standing in front of the barn with his arms spread out trying to hold the horses back but the Vatican was always in the lead. This program came from the cage of unclean birds.
Here is another tidbit that I think most of us already observed last week:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/video/2026/may/27/pope-leo-gets-a-close-look-at-first-fully-electric-ferrari-video
It’s white with a horse emblem. He is in white. The model is a Luce. Revelation 6:2.
Master Blaster runs Bartertown.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJ-UZ4DvYBg
That is the Revelation 12 explanation. The new moon would be critical for determining the Feast of Trumpets. The moon is in close proximity to the sun, exactly as it would be when the crescent moon is spotted. The Feast of Trumpets is the day of birth!
Sonic booms up the Eastern seaboard. The Massachusetts boom was verified by a 3′-5′ wide meteor. At least, that was from a local Boston station.
We are very close. The tribulation.
Right! Also whatever people think is going on in the Persian Gulf, the flow is all but stopped. Lubricants, fertilizer, oil, etc.is still greatly reduced! As this continues, by design naturally, big trouble is coming! I mentioned food rationing before, and I’d rather prepare as best I can than hope for the best!
I’ve also come across Jesus’ ministry was closer to 62 weeks as opposed to 3 1/2 years.
Were did you see that Kevin? Was the timeline determined via Scriptures?
This pretty much explains it for me: https://luke21.com.au/downloads/christ-was-cut-off-after-62-weeks/
but I remember reading it others places as well, I just don’t remember where.
Cash will be trash:
1) As long as the government does deficit spending to give handouts to the masses who are asses.
2) As long as the fed holds down interest rates below inflation rate to fund the government
spending.
3) As long as the asses spend into debt.
4) As long as there are pretend wars like in Iran and Ukraine.
By the way, this will go on forever until a drastic outside intervention takes place. The outside intervention may not take place, so act accordingly. DO NOT expect the cavalry to come. In the end this world will be ruled by a small elite who live in opulence while everybody else will have the mark and live in abject poverty but they will not know it. Be prepared to die in such a world when our time is up. There is no cavalry except ourselves against a much more powerful enemy. We can only pray for such a force majeure. Such prayer may likely not be answered.
Winston Smith in 1984 gave up, gave in, and just drank cheap vodka to get by. There is no other way for him as he fought alone. Can’t fight when nobody will join you and everybody turns on you.
Trump is a Judas Goat. The Democrats will sweep everything in November 2026 and force Trump and his administration out of office. It is really hard on those who don’t drink and don’t smoke because they see it all and it hurts.
The recent remake of The Running Man has everyone using “New Dollars”… more predictive programming.
The Satanic Symbolism Of The 2024 Paris Olympics Ceremony Explained
https://rumble.com/v58wuj9-the-satanic-symbolism-of-the-2024-paris-olympics-ceremony-explained.html?e9s=src_v1_s%2Csrc_v1_s_o&sci=79126b41-ddf2-4619-924a-a6fac0f61bb7
This is…in your face symbolism…crazy
Something to consider. If Herod died in 1 bc and ordered all males 2 years and under in Bethlehem killed; this order coming near the end of his life, that takes you back to 3 bc. Herods death was an excruciating one by the way. Also consider the ministry of the Messiah was about 3 1/2 years. So, if His birth was in 3 bc and you simply account for His ministry starting at 30 years old and lasting 3 1/2 years, it brings you to the year 2030! The 2030 year is also well known by the enemy.
Also remember the reign of the beast is 3 1/2 years, so take that away from 2030 and we are very close to the time. The birth pangs are now under way!
Something else to consider. Herod asked the Magi as to the time of the appearance of “his star.”. If the Magi arrived at the time of birth, why would Herod have the males killed 2 years and under? One year would have been plenty.
The answer is that the Magi weren’t there at the birth. They arrived later. They found a young child in house. The shepherds found a babe in a manger. The Nativity Scene looks nice but not historically accurate.
Yes. That sounds correct.
True! Most of the traditional story is fabrication. For another example, most think there were three wisemen because of the gifts. This was more likely a caravan of many people.
The Symbolism of The Denver Airport
https://rumble.com/v2wnwi8-the-symbolism-of-the-denver-airport.html?e9s=src_v1_s%2Csrc_v1_s_o&sci=90ed8ee8-fefd-4914-9543-aafb52632861
Though the 2025 Jubilee of Hope has come to an end, the Vatican has already announced that the Church will celebrate an extraordinary jubilee in 2033, marking 2,000 years since Christ’s death, resurrection, and ascension into heaven. The jubilee of 2033 will be the Holy Year of Redemption.
Pope Benedict XVI concluded that Jesus was born several years earlier than the traditional year of A.D. 1. In his book, Jesus of Nazareth: The Infancy Narratives, he argued that the Christian calendar made a calculation error, and placed the actual year of Christ’s birth between 7 B.C. and 2 B.C.
Pope Benedict’s analysis conforms with many others from within the church as well as from outside it.
The formulators of the Gregorian calendar erred when they chose Year One. Pope John XXIII stated that the end of the world would come in 33 AD, assuming that this was the 2000th anniversary of Jesus’s resurrection. Pope John was well known from within the church for having the gift of prophecy. However, Pope John assumed that the Gregorian calendar was correct. The Catholic Church makes this erroneous assumption as well.
If the supposed Church fathers of the Catholic Church can’t even get the framing of the Gregorian calendar correct, what does this say about everything else coming from the church, including its initial construction of the modern-day Bible as well as the Jew-translated texts it used?
correct. the timeline is 2030 – 2033. something big is going to happen
Jesus was born September 11, 3 BCE at about 6:19 pm. This is why 9/11 is such a big date for them.
That sounds about right.
Agreed! Revelation 12 confirms it!
Kevin,
Did you learn the time of birth from the book “Jesus Christ Our Promised Seed?”
I’m not familiar with that book.
This is the AI explanation:
“Advocates of this theory—most notably outlined by researcher Ernest Martin—used astronomical software to determine that on the evening of September 11, 3 BCE (which corresponded to Tishri 1 on the Hebrew calendar, or Rosh Hashanah), a distinct configuration occurred in the sky:
Clothed in the Sun: The sun appeared directly in the center of the Virgo constellation, essentially “clothing” it.
Moon at Her Feet: The crescent moon was positioned directly beneath Virgo’s feet.
Crown of Stars: The planets Jupiter, Mercury, and Venus grouped with the stars of the Leo constellation just above Virgo, theoretically forming a “crown” of 12 stars.”
I don’t agree with Ernest Martin on a lot if things but I think he got this right.
The book was published by the Way International. Earnest Martin is mentioned in footnotes as helpful in the research.
The book also makes a compelling argument that Jupiter was “his star.” In those days, planets were also called stars.
The Magi as ancient astronomers would have able to connect the dots regarding planetary movements and the celestial announcing of the King.
Also interesting, the word planet is ancient Greek for wanderer; thus wandering star for Jupiter, for example. The Creation account of Genesis refers to the lights and luminaries being created. Interesting Earth was already present at the time and is never referred to as wandering in the Bible!