Taylor is wearing a white dress!

Taylor Swift on the #GRAMMYs
2/4/2024

🚨Note she has on a clock choker! Looks like 3:15… 🚨

I'm sorry
But the old Taylor can't come to the phone right now
Why? Oh, 'cause she's dead (oh)
Ooh, look what you made me do
Look what you made me do
Look what you just made me do
Look what you just made me...
Ooh, look what you made me do
Look what you made me do
Look what you just made me do
Look what you just made me do


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Taylor Swift necklace!

Clock may be on midnight!

She just won her 13th Grammy for song “Midnight”


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Taylor says is perfect time!

Midnight! 🚨🚨🚨

Boom time!

Taylor Swift just won her 1️⃣4️⃣🔤🔤 Grammy! 👀


I had Q drop 14 ready!

Let’s go!


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The flooding also connects to the Hoover Dam & the London Bridge…

Story of the London Bridge In Arizona ~

One of the more grisly periods of the bridge's history was at the southern gateway between 1305 and 1660. There it was customary to display the severed heads of traitors, impaled on pikes and dipped in tar to preserve them against the elements.
The head of ➡️William Wallace, a Scottish knight and landowner who led the Wars for Scottish Independence, was the first to appear on the gate. Other famous heads on pikes included those of Jack Cade in 1450, Sir Thomas More and Bishop John Fisher in 1535, and Thomas Cromwell in 1540. A German visitor to London in 1598 counted over 30 heads on the bridge. The practice was finally stopped in 1660, following the Restoration of King Charles II.
By the end of the 18th century, the old London Bridge needed to be replaced. It had fallen into severe disrepair and was blocking river traffic. Designed in 1799 by Scottish engineer John Rennie, who died before his design was approved, the "New" London Bridge was dedicated on August 1, 1831.
By 1924, the east side of the bridge was some three to four inches (9-12 cm) lower than the west side.
In 1967, the City of London was looking for someone to buy the defunct and dismantled bridge. Oddly enough, McCulloch had a hunch that this iconic piece of British history would drive growth in Lake Havasu City.
McCulloch placed the winning bid of $2.4 million on April 18, 1968 (over $17 million in today's dollars). McCulloch arrived at this figure by doubling the estimated cost of dismantling the structure ($1.2 million), bringing the price to $2.4 million. He then added on $60,000, a thousand dollars for each year of his age.
The purchase included ornate lampposts made from the melted-down cannons captured by the British from Napoleon's army, after the Battle of Waterloo in 1815. Overlooking the Bridgewater Channel, these lampposts line the London Bridge today.

https://www.golakehavasu.com/london-bridge

➡️ DBS Bank announces major restructuring creating the entity called: Global Financial Markets (GFM)

Effective March 1st 2024

They are merging their brokerage arm, the Digital Asset Exchange (DDEX) and Treasury division into a single group. #DBS #SBI #HSBC #Metaco #Ripple #XRP

All connected to #Ripple, DBS Bank, one of the largest Singapore banks is part of Project Guardian on the Tokenization of Assets. DBS will exchange and custody.

This group includes SBI, HSBC (now with Metaco) and the BIS (Interoperability Task Force).

https://www.theedgesingapore.com/news/banking-finance/dbs-merge-various-businesses-forming-global-financial-markets-group

https://x.com/chadsteingraber/status/1754524309324804351?s=46

Easter is March 31, 2024🚨
Ash Wednesday is February 14, 2024 🚨

The 40-day Lent season is about to begin for Roman Catholics. This period precedes Easter, which commemorates the resurrection of Jesus. Observant Catholics are required to seek penance, focus on charity and fast. The season begins on Ash Wednesday.
Ash Wednesday in 2024 is Feb. 14 ... which also is Valentine's Day. So what will that mean for observant Roman Catholics? Well, those who want to celebrate the heart holiday with a romantic steak dinner might want to make reservations for the weekend before. Obligations for Ash Wednesday include fasting and abstinence from meat.
It's not the only day during the Lent season when meat is off the menu; it's also forbidden on Good Friday, which is March 29, 2024, and all Fridays during the Lent season.

https://www.desertsun.com/story/life/faith/2024/02/03/when-is-ash-wednesday-lent-easter-sunday-passover-2024-dates-to-know/72465679007/

Moon phases with %’s.

February 2024

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➡️Right now, 90% of the blockchain company’s business is based outside the U.S., Ripple senior director and head of product marketing, W. Oliver Segovia, said on LinkedIn last week.
“After being relatively quiet for the past 3 years in the US for Ripple Payments, we’re geared up to announce new product updates powered by our money transmitter licenses (MTLs) that cover the majority of US states,” Segovia wrote.
To launch this effort, Ripple is hosting an event Wednesday (Feb. 7) at its new headquarters in San Francisco featuring representatives from payments firms such as Adyen, Marqeta and Plaid to discuss the company’s “blockchain and payments outlook.”
Segovia’s announcement comes weeks after Ripple announced it had updated its crypto-enabled cross-border payments solution. 
The newly enhanced Ripple Payments, formerly known as RippleNet, lets businesses leverage the blockchain easily for quicker, cheaper and more efficient cross-border payments. ⬅️

https://www.pymnts.com/blockchain/2024/ripple-prepares-to-expand-payments-business-in-us

Boom 💥

In God We Trust!

Brings up 2 February 5th deltas!

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https://x.com/scavino45/status/1224922494412427265?s=46

The King has cancer…

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May 19, 2020 12:22:56 PM EDT

Q !!Hs1Jq13jV6
How about a nice game of chess.
https://thechessworld.com/articles/middle-game/chess-strategy-what-do-you-need-to-know-about-strategy-and-tactics/
Objective [end]: CHECKMATE king
Do you attack the king at the beginning of the game?
Do you attack and remove pawns first?
Do you attack and remove bishops, rooks, knights next?
Do you attack and remove queen mid-to-end?
Is the game being played public or private?
Do emotions affect critical thinking?
Add: important king control pieces [elim rogue elements]?
Add: how do you set the stage [board] re: public opinion [optics]?
“At this time.”
Q
3y, 8m, 2w, 3d, 2h, 53m ago
8kun qresearch


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🚨WHY #CHINA MARGIN LENDING NIGHTMARE IS A BIG WARNING ⚠️ TO #US AND #EUROPE #STOCKS🚨

As you know, I am currently in mainland #China, so please forgive me if I am going to be extra careful about anything I write until next week 🙏🏻

Yesterday, #China #stocks suddenly started to free fall in what could have turned into a 1987 style crash if it wasn't for circuit breakers and the big support coming from the Chinese "national team". #Stocks indexes only started to bounce back after trading in about 25% of all listed companies in #China was suspended for the day. What could have triggered such panic selling?

Last week, I warned about a potential big dump coming for #China #stocks due to the unlock of many controlling shareholders' shares post-IPO (see below) and it looks like that is what triggered Monday's mayhem in Chinese #stocks. In a practice very common in investment banking, many brokers lent money to company founders against their pre-IPO shares as collateral in order to secure the IPO mandate. However, what no one could have expected during the "everything is #bullish" years was that by the time the shares became tradable, all the collateral was underwater.

Imagine brokers rushing to sell altogether as fast as possible to cover their margin lending losses in a market that is completely illiquid and you have the perfect recipe for a #stocks disaster. Considering that the selling happened in many #stocks that just IPOed, the crash was more acute because of the already low market cap and razor-thin liquidity. That triggered a chain reaction of margin lending unwinding across the board that only stopped once the circuit breakers were hit one after the other, forcing the selling to stop.

As you can see from chart 1 here, not only are there still 1.55 trillion $CNY of margin loans outstanding, but traders (in particular the "Dumb & Dumbers" hedge funds) levered up big time to #BTFD from mid-September till December 2023 while #stocks kept grinding lower.

All in all, what you are seeing right now happening between #China and #HongKong is a massive liquidation of #stocks collateral (that looks like far from ending).

Now, do you think #China is an isolated case in the world? Of course not! Even if brokers' margin lending eased in western countries since the 2022 peak (see chart 2) and now at about ~400bn $USD in US, in reality, the "indirect" leverage kept growing, fuelling the #stocks bubble. I know I sound like a broken record here (x.com/dariocpx/statu…), but clearly, no one out there can still connect the consumer debt dot with $NVDA and other popular retail #stocks out there that keep running against logic and gravity.

As I said in the noscript, what's happening in #China is a big warning to people out there still gambling wildly with borrowed money in both the #US and #Europe. Never forget that bubbles bursting make gains disappear, but debts do remain and, like many of our parents learned the hard way during the Dot-com bust, it can be very hard to recover after that.

https://x.com/dariocpx/status/1754687325479518585?s=46