On Monday, February 26, 2024 at 11:55 AM EST, Kim pulled $980 trillion from a hidden Silent Circle black server network and unwound $9.8 quadrillion in bonds due the next morning, ending a planned global market crash, foiling a Rothschild counterfeit-currency operation out of India, and closing the door on any future partnership with the ancient order that had positioned itself as humanity's ally.

1. The Scorpion Stings the Frog

A scorpion asks a frog to carry it across a river. The frog agrees. Halfway across, the scorpion stings, and both drown. This weekend Kim watched it happen in real time, and she was the frog.

Kim has used the fable before, but never to describe an alliance she actually thought might hold. The deep state agenda she heard discussed on the morning of Saturday, February 24, 2024, was not a contingency plan or a wishlist. It was a working program with deadlines, contracts, and a kill date, and the Silent Circle (an ancient order that styles itself as a manager of planetary systems) was at the center of it.

A dark river at dusk with a frog mid-stream carrying a scorpion on its back, the scorpion's tail arched toward the frog
The scorpion-and-frog fable: an alliance betrayed before either party reaches the other shore.

For context: the Silent Circle is the older of the two orders. The Anti-Silent Circle (commonly called the Black Nobility) is the Italy-based counterpart, heavily tied to the Catholic Church, the Jesuits, Opus Dei, every mafia, and the criminal downlines those connections imply (millions of people). Both have operated as planetary management structures for centuries.

In the week leading up to February 26, the Silent Circle absorbed the Anti-Silent Circle’s leadership and downlines, eliminating the heads of those families in the process. Kim had hoped the consolidation would impose order. The Saturday meeting showed the opposite.

Silent Circle and Anti-Silent Circle: The Silent Circle is an ancient order managing planetary systems. The Anti-Silent Circle is the Black Nobility, based in Italy and tied to the Catholic Church, Jesuits, Opus Dei, and every mafia.

This week the Silent Circle eliminated the Anti-Silent Circle’s family heads and absorbed their downlines. The expected result was consolidation. What Kim heard on Saturday was identical agenda items still on the table.

Saturday’s Meeting

On Saturday morning Kim listened in on two meetings running in parallel. One was a smaller session among operatives discussing how to position themselves as free agents. The other was the larger Silent Circle and Anti-Silent Circle joint meeting, where the new combined leadership was briefing the operatives on the agenda going forward.

The agenda had five items. A fake assassination of Donald Trump. A crash of the US dollar. The distribution of Disease X (a pandemic-class biological agent). The continuation of the wars in Israel and Russia. And the divvying up of contracts to operatives who delivered. None of those items had been retired. None had been softened.

Death and destruction and total crashing of the world.

The Sunday after the meeting (February 25) went quiet. Operatives were not happy with the outcome of the briefing, and the silence that followed was the sound of a roomful of people deciding whether they wanted to remain in this particular line of work.

The Head’s Motivation

The Head of the Silent Circle is, in Kim’s words, “kind of a relation” to her, and his mother (who knows Kim personally) had been advising him against the course he was on. Kim overheard a conversation between the Head and his mother in which he insisted the hostile takeover of the Anti-Silent Circle was meant to give the Silent Circle equal leverage at the negotiating table, not to escalate.

What Kim observed in the Saturday meeting did not match that framing. The agenda was not a leverage play. It was a path of destruction presented as the path forward. The non-aggression understanding Kim has maintained with the Head’s mother remained intact through the weekend, but the larger alliance question was already settled.

A working assumption had carried through the week: that the Silent Circle, even with its history, might come down on the side of humanity once the Anti-Silent Circle was out of the picture. The Saturday meeting answered that question. The frog now had until Monday morning to react.

If the scorpion stung halfway across the river, when exactly did “halfway” begin? The answer points back to a December afternoon in 2017, when Kim cut every line of communication to the Silent Circle’s liaison and walked away.

2. Past Dealings: How Kim Cut Off the Silent Circle in 2017

For three years Kim had no problems with the Silent Circle. The arrangement worked. Then in mid-2016 a $165 billion contract was placed against her, and the working relationship began turning into something else.

2013 to 2016: A Working Relationship

Between 2013 and 2016 Kim and the Silent Circle had a functional, even cordial arrangement. The contacts were professional. No problems surfaced that required a hard reset. The Silent Circle’s daily handler kept regular contact with Kim, the Head’s mother was on speaking terms, and there was nothing that suggested the alliance was being staged for a betrayal.

That changed around the middle of 2016. A $165 billion contract was taken out against Kim, conditional on her transferring funds into a new bank that was being set up at the Bush Ranch in Paraguay. The bank itself was secondary.

The data centers attached to the ranch were the real story. They were not quantum hardware, as Kim had initially been led to believe. They were connected to a level 9 Omega portal: a deep-system access point that would have routed her transfers and her credentials into the very infrastructure she was working to shut down.

Bush Ranch and the level 9 Omega portal: The Paraguay data centers were not quantum systems. They were connected to a level 9 Omega portal, which provides access to dark-side architecture at a depth most operatives never see.

A fund transfer into a bank routed through that portal would have moved Kim’s credentials and account structure directly into the system she was working to dismantle. The contract was the bait. The portal was the trap.

The Liaison and December 15, 2017

The Silent Circle had installed a daily handler and liaison to maintain contact with Kim. The role was unremarkable on paper: someone who relayed requests, scheduled calls, conveyed positions back and forth. Around 2017 that person began to panic. Kim was not moving in the direction the liaison had been promising her superiors she would move. The liaison had made commitments that depended on Kim’s cooperation, and Kim was no longer cooperating.

On December 15, 2017, Kim cut off all communications with the liaison. Every channel went dark in a single afternoon. Kim has since acknowledged that at the time she thought she was cutting off one individual, the one who had taken out the contract against her. She did not initially realize she had just parted ways with the entire Silent Circle. The non-aggression understanding with the Head’s mother stayed in place; everything else stopped.

That cut-off held for almost seven years. The next time the Silent Circle moved against humanity at the scale of the February 2024 plan, Kim’s name was no longer attached to any of it. But the financial infrastructure they used to set the plan in motion turned out to be far older, far larger, and far closer to the global banking system than anyone outside this report has yet acknowledged.

The seven-year silence ended where it began: with a 250-year-old trust in Armenia and a $980 trillion network most of the world did not know existed.

3. The Universal Trust and the $9.8 Quadrillion Bond Scheme

A trust that had operated for roughly 250 to 275 years stopped meaning anything in a single morning. Most of the institutions wired into it never learned its name.

The Universal Trust

The Universal Trust was based in Armenia and roughly 250 to 275 years old. It was jointly managed by the Silent Circle and the Anti-Silent Circle. Its function was money laundering at planetary scale, and it was connected to every Tier 1 and Tier 2 bank in the world. That much was already known to Kim.

What the Trust did with the connection was the part that mattered. Campaign funds for politicians were routed through it. Once the funds were in a politician’s account, the source was disclosed back to that politician as organized crime money: Colombian mafia, Sicilians, the usual list. The politician was now compromised. Every subsequent vote, every appointment, every committee assignment was leverage. The Trust was the original lender and the blackmail file in the same envelope.

The state of New York, Kim notes, is predominantly run by the Anti-Silent Circle. Its police force and its politicians have both accepted funds from the Universal Trust. The mechanism that delivered Albany its working money is the same mechanism that decides which prosecutions go forward and which quietly disappear.

A grid of dark server towers connected by faint glowing lines, with numerical streams flowing between them in a vast underground hall
The $980 trillion black box network: a bank-within-a-bank structure connected through member banks but invisible on any normal ledger.

The Black Box Network

Kim’s working assumption coming into this week was that the Universal Trust was effectively gone. Her cut-off in 2017 had removed her direct exposure, and subsequent operations had collapsed most of the visible structures attached to it. After hearing the Saturday meeting she investigated the Trust’s remaining footprint again, and what she found was a bank-within-a-bank.

The structure does not register as accounts on file. It cannot be searched by any standard regulatory or auditing process, because the accounts do not exist in the ledger systems anyone has access to. It can only be reached through the member banks, which is to say: through the same Tier 1 and Tier 2 institutions the Trust had been wired into for two and a half centuries.

The total inside the network came to approximately $980 trillion. Kim estimates that roughly $15 to $30 trillion of that figure was real money, the kind that maps to extracted resources, commodity flows, and legitimate banking activity over many decades. The remainder was inflated or fabricated: balances created against nothing, carried on books that no auditor would ever see.

Five functions of the Universal Trust:

(1) money laundering at planetary scale, (2) connection to every Tier 1 and Tier 2 bank, (3) campaign-fund routing for politicians worldwide, (4) blackmail leverage by disclosing organized-crime origins back to recipients, (5) operating funds for New York state government, police, and politicians.

$9.8 Quadrillion in Bonds

Against that $980 trillion base, the Silent Circle had issued approximately $9.8 quadrillion in bonds. The bonds were delivered to Treasury Departments, sitting governments, and heads of state around the world. The pitch, made silently through the right intermediaries, was straightforward: cooperate, or these bonds get ripped out, and the global banking system goes with them.

The intent was a hostile takeover of every government and military that held one. The Anti-Silent Circle had set the scheme in motion before being absorbed. The Silent Circle had inherited the position and intended to let the scheme proceed to detonation, then arrive at the negotiating table holding the entire black server network as collateral. As Kim summarizes the moment: “What does this prove? They don’t care about humanity either.”

The bonds were due on February 27, 2024. That date is not arbitrary. If the collateral expired without being triggered, the entire structure would have to be reissued, and reissuance under post-2017 conditions would not have been possible. The Silent Circle had built itself a single-day window.

The Q Clock reports circulating about 100 countries on high alert, financial crashes pegged to early March 2024, and a possible 3 AM trigger time were in part true: those briefings had gone out from the Silent Circle and the Anti-Silent Circle to the countries they expected to fall in line. The rumored US government shutdown and the March 1-2 financial crash were the same plan, viewed from outside the room.

Kim had until noon on the 26th.

4. Five Minutes Before Noon: The Pull and Mayer’s Counterattack

Five minutes before noon Eastern Standard Time on Monday, February 26, 2024, Kim pulled it.

The Pull

At 11:55 AM EST, Kim moved against the entire structure at once. The $980 trillion in the black server network disappeared. The $9.8 quadrillion in bonds began evaporating from the markets they had been seeded into. The banks holding the underlying positions entered a brief crisis state as the asset base under their feet stopped existing.

The collapse took 15 to 20 minutes. By a little after noon Eastern, the bond positions were gone, the threats attached to them no longer carried any weight, and the Silent Circle’s negotiation-by-collateral was a closed file. The intent of both groups had been to crash global markets and then buy assets back for pennies on the dollar, leveraging their $14 to $15 trillion in real money into an enormous post-crash position. That play required the collateral to exist. By 12:15 PM it did not.

A clock face reading just before twelve, with numerical streams of currency dissolving outward from the dial into darkness
Five minutes before noon EST: the $980 trillion base vanished, and the $9.8 quadrillion in bonds began unwinding within 15 to 20 minutes.

Mayer’s Counterattack

When the bond scheme failed on Monday morning, Mayer Rothschild moved. Mayer is 3rd in command of the Rothschild family. He had stepped up several weeks earlier, after Jacob Rothschild’s death, into a role he had not previously held alone.

The play he chose was a Heidelberg Press: a large-scale industrial currency printer of the type that, before a unified worldwide financial system existed, used to be distributed across regions where different Dragon family factions were locally printing US dollars for commodity trading. The list of countries where those presses operated included the Philippines, China, Vietnam, Russia, Iran, and the UK.

The press Mayer activated had originated in Iran. He moved it to India and started printing at speed. The output was twofold: counterfeit US dollars and counterfeit Iraqi dinar, both described as “super notes” (high-quality counterfeit bills, designed to pass close inspection). The intent was a market flood, dumped into circulation rapidly enough to crash both currencies and create a separate vector for the same buy-back-for-pennies endgame.

What the planning overlooked was that real serial numbers already exist for those denominations. Counterfeit notes with random or duplicate serials would be detected at the first banking touchpoint. The scheme needed legitimate-looking serial numbers, and getting those meant getting into KIMS (Key Integrated Monetary System), the planetary financial management system Kim operates.

Mayer's plan and the NSA backdoor attempt: Mayer Rothschild moved a Heidelberg Press from Iran to India and began printing counterfeit US dollars and Iraqi dinar at high volume. The output needed legitimate serial numbers to pass at the first banking touchpoint.

The NSA attempted to hack KIMS through a backdoor allegedly routed via Airbus in Paris, intending to insert valid serials for the counterfeit run. The hack failed.

NSA’s Backdoor Attempt

The NSA attempted the hack. The vector was a backdoor allegedly running through Airbus in Paris, exploiting infrastructure that had been compromised in advance for exactly this kind of operation. The target was the serial-number registry inside KIMS. If the NSA could insert serial numbers, the counterfeit run could be processed through retail and wholesale banking before anyone caught up.

The hack did not succeed. KIMS rejected the attempt. The counterfeit currency operation, deprived of valid serial numbers, lost its viability before the printed notes left India in any quantity.

The fact that the NSA was willing to make the attempt at all is itself part of the report. Kim has deliberately disclosed in public news broadcasts that the NSA holds direct connections to both Source and Anti-Source, knowing the remaining Rothschild leadership would read the disclosure and try to recruit accordingly. Her framing of that choice, in her own words: “I give them just enough rope to hang themselves.” The Monday morning attempt was the rope arriving where she had set it.

She has also said, plainly, that she is the most heavily attacked human in both the alt media and the mainstream media. The attack pattern over the past several years has not been incidental. It has been the same actors, working the same playbook, on a tightening cycle. The Monday pull, and the failed Heidelberg counterattack that followed it, were inflicted on a system that had spent years assuming Kim would be removed before any of this became possible.

Mayer’s Heidelberg Press is not a 2024 invention. It is a 1970s instrument, dusted off and pointed at the same problem the same families failed to solve fifty years ago.

5. Cold War History: Ruble, Lenin, and the Khazarian Mafia

From the outside, the twentieth century looked like two opposing systems clapping at each other across an iron curtain. From the inside, the right hand and the left hand were attached to the same body, and both knew it.

Historical Parallel: The 1970s

The Heidelberg play has been run before. In the 1970s the USSR and Iran together attempted to flood global markets with US dollar super notes, intending to crash the dollar and frame the operation as retaliation for what they publicly described as a US-led crash of the ruble. The dollar did not crash. The downstream effects, however, did reshape a continent.

The 1970s currency-flooding scheme failed at its stated goal, but it generated the conditions for a coup in Iran. The Shah (the Iranian Royal Family) fell. Khomeini was installed in his place. The Rothschild Green Dragon family entered Iran in the political space the change of regime opened up, and Iran has taken direction from that family ever since.

A faded historical timeline showing a 1917 train, a 1970s printing press, and a 1991 ruble note arranged in sequence across a cold neutral palette
The Cold War's currency war: 1917 Switzerland, 1970s Iran, 1991 ruble collapse, all wired through the same family lines.

China’s Lee Family, the Golden Dragon, also exercises influence over Iran’s current leadership. The 1970s flooding scheme failed at the level of dollar collapse, succeeded at the level of regional realignment, and seeded the very Heidelberg press that Mayer Rothschild moved to India on Monday morning.

Fifty years of inheritance arrived in a single counterfeit run.

Marduk and the Ruble

The other half of the 1970s story is the ruble. Multiple operatives have claimed credit for the ruble’s collapse over the years. Leo Wanta has claimed he did it on Ronald Reagan’s behalf. Juan O’Savin has claimed he single-handedly crashed the ruble. Both claims are wrong.

According to Kim, the ruble’s collapse was the work of Marduk, a controlling entity of the previous planetary management system. The collapse was carried out by prior agreement as part of a plan to divide the Soviet states. That division was negotiated, scheduled, and executed by entities operating above either the US or Soviet command structures. The full division never fully materialized, but the ruble fell on cue.

Marduk's ruble crash and the USSR-US dualism: The Cold War's framing of US-democracy against Soviet-communism was, in Kim's phrase, both the right-hand and left-hand clapping to achieve an end result. Both sides served the same controlling interest.

After the Soviet collapse, the Rothschild family and the Order of the Dragon moved into Russia’s oil sector. The decades-long diamond embargo (run through De Beers, which is a Rothschild front) ended around the same time. Foreign ownership was permitted in industries that had been state-controlled.

The post-Soviet windfall was substantial. Russian oil opened to a particular set of buyers. The diamond embargo closed, releasing decades of inventory at managed prices. Foreign ownership of previously state-controlled industries became standard procedure. The country had been opened, and the right families walked in. The structure that managed that opening was, in turn, financed and directed by a network whose origins predate the Cold War by a full generation.

Lenin and the Khazarian Mafia

The hand that built Soviet communism in the first place ran on the same network. Lenin spent his exile in Switzerland, and during that exile he received his political direction from Rothschild operatives operating out of Geneva and Zurich. The instructions covered both the timing of the return to Russia and the program he would carry. Communism was installed in Russia on behalf of a group Kim names directly: the Khazarian Mafia, who she describes as fake Jews and Bolsheviks.

The same arrangement carried through the Stalin period, the post-war division of Europe, the Cold War years, and the eventual managed collapse of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s. From the moment the sealed train left Switzerland in 1917 to the moment the Russian oil sector opened to Rothschild capital in the 1990s, the country had been on a single program with multiple presentations.

That clarifies something about the present. The Silent Circle, the Anti-Silent Circle, the Rothschild Green Dragon in Iran, the Lee Family Golden Dragon in China, the Khazarian Mafia in the historical USSR, and now Mayer Rothschild printing dinar in India are not separate stories.

They are the same network applying the same tools at different addresses. The reason the Saturday meeting was able to gather every component into a single room is that the network has always been a single network.

The family at the top of that chain has just lost its head, and the consequences are showing up everywhere from the printing rooms in India to the white horse outside Buckingham Palace.

6. Rothschild, the Royals, and the Skin-Suit Switcharoo

Let's follow what happened to the family at the top of this chain, and to the royal house that has spent a thousand years operating in their shadow.

Jacob Rothschild’s Death

Jacob Rothschild died by suicide several weeks before this report. Kim states the cause was the family’s failures, which she frames as “the first time in the history of the advent of this family they are losing everything.” The death was publicly attributed to natural causes, and a woman was named as the new family head. Mayer Rothschild, the 3rd in command who activated the Heidelberg press, stepped up into the role he now holds.

Jacob was likely not alone in that skin suit. Kim states he was chipped, and that he may have performed what older Rothschild family members refer to as “the switcharoo”: a consciousness transfer that moves an identity from one body into another, leaving the appearance of death behind while the actual occupant continues elsewhere. A pyramid installation at Balmoral Castle is connected to the same procedure, and the existence of that installation is part of what makes the maneuver available to the older members at all.

A misted Scottish castle at dusk with a single white horse standing in the foreground and a faint pyramidal shape glowing on the grounds beyond

A pyramid installation at Balmoral Castle is tied to the older Rothschild members’ switcharoo procedure: a consciousness transfer that leaves the appearance of death in one body while the occupant continues in another.

The white horse on the palace lawn is a less exotic signal, but more readable. The Royal Guard’s pure white horse is only ridden when the King or Queen is present at Buckingham Palace.

King Charles and Kate Middleton

King Charles III is on life support. Kim’s reading of the situation is that factions inside the family want Prince William to take the throne, on the calculation that William’s mixed heritage (half Merovingian through Charles, half Melchizedek through Princess Diana) will serve their interests more reliably than the current arrangement. The life-support state is the gap they are managing.

Kate Middleton is in bad shape. Her illness, in Kim’s framing, is not a naturally occurring disease process. The Rothschilds view Kate as too much of an influence on William. They do not want that influence to continue, and the trajectory of her health since the diagnosis is consistent with that view rather than with normal disease progression. William is aware of what is happening to his wife. He is not in a position where he can say a word. Kim’s observation is that both William and Kate should have left the Royal Family at the time Prince Harry and Meghan Markle did.

The Royal Family question is, structurally, the same question as the Silent Circle question. A long-running structure was supposed to manage humanity. It has decided that humanity is in the way, and is moving against the family members who might disagree. The Rothschild interest in Kate’s removal and the Silent Circle’s interest in the global crash are the same logic applied at different scales.

The White Horse

The Royal Guard’s pure white horse is only ridden when the King or Queen is present at Buckingham Palace. The flag flying or not flying above the palace tells the public whether the monarch is in residence on any given day. In the week before Jacob Rothschild’s death was announced, the flag was down (indicating the King was absent) and the white horse was ridden anyway. The two signals contradicted each other.

Kim raises the possibility, without confirming it, that a Rothschild family member declared himself successor and “Crown and King of England” inside an internal power struggle that the public was not meant to witness. The white horse going out the gate without the King in residence would be, on that reading, the leak.

What the white horse signals: The Royal Guard's pure white horse is ridden only when the King or Queen is present. The flag above Buckingham Palace flies when the monarch is in residence, and is lowered when the monarch is away.

In the week before Jacob Rothschild’s death was announced, the flag was down and the horse was out. The contradiction read, on Kim’s interpretation, as an internal Rothschild succession claim leaking through royal protocol.

When Sunny (the broadcast host) asked whether Charles’s death would actually be announced when it happens, Kim’s response covered the broader pattern: “Who knows, they will do it when it’s convenient for them. For that matter, we’ve had a dead president on ice in the White House for 3 years just so the operatives can make some money, and another past president running again who has been dead for 2 years.”

Common sense is not all that common.

The instruments of state, in other words, do not require living occupants to keep generating the appearance of legitimate command. A dead president on ice for three years is operationally indistinguishable, from outside the room, from a living one. A switcharoo’d Jacob is indistinguishable, from outside the family, from a Jacob still in his original skin suit. The legitimacy is the prop; the cash flow is the point. With the cash flow now gone, the props have to do more work, and they are visibly straining.

So if the structures will not partner with humanity, and humanity will no longer partner with them, what walks forward?

7. No More Partnering: Humanity Goes It Alone

Who actually wants what comes next? The Silent Circle does not. The Anti-Silent Circle does not. The Rothschild inner council does not. That leaves humanity, working with the system that just pulled the bonds.

By Monday evening the Silent Circle had already moved through its first reflex. It contacted local operatives in Kim’s working area and demanded that Kim return their funds. The phrasing was forceful, the situation around it was, in Kim’s word, rough. There will be no further partnership with the Silent Circle. The Saturday agenda was the answer to that question, and the Monday pull was the closing argument.

A road stretching toward a horizon at dawn, lined by faint silhouettes of people walking forward without escort, the sky shifting from indigo to early light
Humanity must go it alone: the path forward without the ancient orders that styled themselves as managers.

When Sunny asked why operatives don’t simply come over to Kim’s side now that she holds the leverage, the answer turned on a single sentence. Common sense is not all that common. You cannot expect people who have been living their life one way to change.

Trump-aligned operatives were promised the 13th seat of the New World Order long before this weekend, and most of them are still moving toward that seat, even after the Saturday meeting made clear what occupying that seat would actually cost them. The seat will not arrive. They are walking toward an empty chair, and the chair is going to stay empty.

The Rothschild inner council is roughly five people on a rotating roster. Mayer is currently one of the longest lasting parties on it, and even his tenure is, in Kim’s framing, probably not for long. The Heidelberg play failed. The NSA hack failed. The bond scheme failed. The structure that put Mayer in the chair is the same structure that just lost $9.8 quadrillion in collateral, and replacement chairs in that family are not deep.

The financial sector is getting weaker. Kim notes the practical implication: any money transfers from here forward have to account for the safety of recipients, because the structures that used to insulate large flows are no longer providing that insulation.

When Sunny asked whether governments will fall faster now that the bonds and the funds have been pulled, the answer was careful. The families will do everything they can to kick the can. Government as a source of control will be defended as long as it can be defended. A crash on the coming weekend is not expected.

What is plausible is something different: operatives in the financial sector being paid directly through Kim’s system, and effectively taking over financial operations from inside the buildings they already work in. That is not a forecast. It is the shape the hypothetical takes if the operatives ever decide to move.

Same week, multiple fronts. $9.8 quadrillion in bonds was pulled. The Heidelberg counterattack failed. The NSA backdoor failed. Jacob Rothschild died. The Royal Family is visibly breaking under the strain of the same network’s losses. A planetary management structure that has operated, in one form or another, for a millennium is, in a single week, retreating across every front it tried to advance on. The Saturday meeting was a confession. The Monday pull was an answer. The week between is the period during which that answer was delivered.

What replaces the structure is what humanity decides to put there. Kim’s system, which now holds the leverage that the Silent Circle and the Rothschild network used to hold, is one piece of the answer. The 13th seat of the New World Order is not.

The Saturday agenda items (a fake Trump assassination, a dollar crash, Disease X, the wars in Israel and Russia, a contracts payout to operatives who deliver) are now operating without the financial backing that was supposed to underwrite them. Several of them will be tried anyway. None of them will succeed at the scale that the Saturday meeting assumed.

Kim’s closing line carries the register that the rest of the report should be read in: “I didn’t expect this zippy twist this weekend, you have to take it in, think fast and play the hand.” The weekend was unexpected. The next several weeks will continue to be. Humanity goes it alone now, not because the alone path was the preferred option, but because the partnership path was the scorpion’s path, and that was settled on Saturday morning.

That has been the GIA report for February 26, 2024.