Nothing New Under The Sun 2016

THE BIG PICTURE

The Real Point of the “Patriot Front” Psy-Op – “Over the Fourth of July weekend, Washington DC found itself beset by the “Patriot Front”, about 400 guys in matching outfits, with white balaclavas covering their faces and waving flags about. The (relatively small) gathering walked about a bit, did some marching, waved some flags…and scared the press to death! Regardless, they are not real. Even if they’re not literally all FBI agents – which we can’t actually rule out – they are a psy-op to some extent or another. Just look at them. And you can just look at them, do you know why? Because they’re all over the press and social media. This picture in particular has “gone viral”:This kind of coverage, this kind of engineered viral content, is the hallmark of the psy-op, and it shows what Patriot Front (and groups like them) are really for: Creating the illusory threat of potential fascism on the fringes to distract from very real fascism already in the very centre of power. ” – Kit Knightly

Today In Dystopia – “The longer we wait for revolution, the more weapons they’ll have in place to stop us” – Caitlin Johnstone

Get the Flock out of Here – “Nosy Big Brother’s incessant need-to-know is getting out of control. Remember when the answer to every privacy concern was, “If you haven’t done anything wrong, you have nothing to hide?” That was cute. Today, it’s increasingly, “If you haven’t done anything wrong, make sure you have text receipts, Ring camera footage, and several hours of bodycam backup explicitly showing you not doing it.” Apparently Innocence™ is now a Premium upgrade requiring at least 20 terabytes of cloud storage. Today, “Flock cameras” are popping up on telephone poles across the country like pimples on prom night. Flock Safety is a private tech company that contracts with police departments, homeowners associations, businesses, and entire cities to install AI-powered security cameras. The result is a searchable catalog investigators can use to trace exactly where a particular vehicle has been. That database is accessible to any officer in a participating department, typically with no warrant requirement and no meaningful audit trail” – Jenna McCarthy

Separating Weather from Hysteria: The ‘Double Heat Dome’ Story – “My forecast calls for sensible precautions and a healthy dose of skepticism toward overheated rhetoric.” – Leslie Eastman

WHO Predicts ‘Another Pandemic Within the Coming Decade’ While Installing PABS System for Exporting ‘Dangerous Pathogens’ All Over the World – “Raising biosafety and international security concerns.” – Jon Fleetwood

Get Out of Canada Before It’s Too Late with Mikkel Thorup (VIDEO) – “Canada has a 54% top marginal tax rate, a managed decline, and a government that will euthanize you. Mikkel Thorup has spent 27 years building the exit plan. He’s the founder of Expat Money and author of Expat Secrets: How to Pay Zero Taxes, Live Overseas, and Make Giant Piles of Money. He’s been living internationally for nearly three decades — and he’s helped thousands of families legally escape broken systems.” – The Sovereign Sphere

The Curious Case of The Man Who Wanted to Make Death An Option, Now Facing a Mystery ‘Autoimmune Disease’ – “He wanted to live forever, and used every method in the book to do so – from DMT to vaccines. Who is to say what really caused his downward spiral? I doubt it was the broccoli. Bryan Johnson wanted to make death an option. That was the whole pitch — the millions poured into his own body, the pills and the plasma and the perfect sleep, the “Don’t Die” summits, the son’s blood, the relentless measurement of everything measurable. So when he announced on June 30 that he has autoimmune gastritis — that, in his own words, “my stomach is eating itself” — the story practically wrote itself.” – Sayer Ji  -GUESS SPENDING $2 MILLION A YEAR ON ALL HIS PROTOCOLS DIDN’T HELP AS MUCH AS HE THOUGHT IT WOULD!!!!

The AI Takeover: It’s Not Coming Soon, It’s Already Here – “Let me show you just how bad it already is… This really is quite terrifying, and it’s only going to ramp up…” – Agent131711  – AGENT131711 GOES DIVING ONCE AGAIN!!!!

They’re Pretending to Expose MK Ultra… Don’t Fall for It (VIDEO) – “Congress is getting all over this. It sounds like transparency. Sounds like the moment we finally get some answers, right? Just like we got all those answers on the Epstein files, just like we got all those answers on the JFK files. Sure. But let’s be honest, we’ve seen this movie once before. And the key records, of course, were likely destroyed decades ago. The officials who authorized it are all gone. The agencies responsible are still guarding the vault. They don’t want you to know whatever’s left inside of it. And Washington’s favorite trick is to hold a hearing, create the appearance of outrage, ask a few theatrical questions, have a few little, you know, nuggets of, “Oh my gosh, did you hear that?” that people share all over X” – Redacted

The Truth About the Great Wall of China – “When a Document About Secret Societies Reveals Lost History. Imagine, dear reader, that for hundreds of years a country was common knowledge; drawn on charts, described in diaries, and printed in reference books, then, almost overnight in historical terms, it stopped being mentioned, boundaries were redrawn, and names were changed: The reality is, curious mind, you need not imagine this, because it is Tartaria.” – Jordan Nuttall  – JORDAN HAS WRITTEN EXTENSIVELY ABOUT TARTARIA. CHECK OUT SOME OF HIS ARTICLES ON SUBSTACK!!

NEWS

If you thought pre-war Iran was a threat, you haven’t seen anything yet – “This is an important read: Leading military scholar has studied the body language of crowds turning out at Ayatollah’s funeral and doesn’t like what he sees. Trump acts surprised by funeral turnout.” – Leo Hohmann

Journalism is craps – “Kalshi and Polymarket are turning everything from elections to celebrity weddings into tradable events — and major media outlets are effectively normalizing it. According to a new joint investigation by news sites Popular Information and Public Notice, both CNBC and CNN have been heavily promoting Kalshi, but only disclosing Kalshi as their business partner infrequently and inconsistently.” – Collapse Life

Mitch McConnell’s Chinese Wife Met With CCP VP Three Days After Husband Found Unconscious – “Continuing in the grand tradition of their handlers wheeling decrepit zombies clinging bitterly to power around Congress to have them perform show-votes in an effort to buy time while the party figures out how to manipulate the process in order to ensure it benefits from the fallout — i.e., installing another dependable puppet for special interests into the vacant seat — longtime Swamp creature Mitch McConnell appears to be a vegetable after being found, reportedly, unconscious in his home due to a heart attack in June and having not appeared in public since.” – Ben Bartee

Exit Mitch McConnell, Enter Abdul El-Sayed – “McConnell’s wife leaves country; Democrats leave old school politics. From Zohran Mamdani to Melat Kiros, the old guard extinction event is here. These new Democrats are unapologetic about their views. You might not agree with the new Democrats, but you don’t need a decoder ring to decipher their positions.” – Ken Klippenstein

Meet The New Democratic Party: Socialists Say The Quiet Part Out Loud, Want To “Destroy America From Within” – Tyler Durden

Maine: Graham Platner implodes – “Do the morals that Democrats promote show up in their candidate quality? Last month, Senate Democrats held a sitdown with Maine senatorial candidate, Graham Platner, with the party’s poohbahs asking, in a come-to-Jesus moment, for him to tell them if there were any more skeletons in his closet likely to leap out and maul his endorsers. He assured them there were not. Well, there were.” – Monica Showalter

‘My son is good, kind, and likable’ – Father of African migrant accused of stabbing Italian man 20 times speaks out – “Now, we know more about this violent immigrant’s criminal past. In November 2023, Saidilly stabbed and robbed a 25-year-old outside a pub in Leeds, where he had lived for about ten years before returning to Italy. He had also served prison time in the United Kingdom for that attack. Allowed to return to Italy despite his violent criminal record, the Gambian national wasted no time in nearly killing another victim. ” – Remix News

Explosions rock Syria’s capital as French President Macron visits – “Explosions rocked Syria’s capital on Tuesday and injured at least 18 people as France’s president met with his counterpart in a landmark visit to the country rebuilding from years of civil war, Syria’s Interior Ministry said. It was the second attack in Damascus in a week and a setback for President Ahmad al-Sharaa as he welcomed the first major Western leader to visit since the ouster of longtime dictator Bashar Assad by insurgent groups in late 2024. ” – Omar Albam, Ghaith Al Sayed and Kareem Chehayeb

Total power grid failure leaves Cuba in darkness amid growing crisis and protests – “Cuba’s power grid has collapsed multiple times since 2024, after decades of failure to maintain and modernize the Soviet-era power stations. The old power plants lack the reserve capacity to absorb glitches and breakdowns, which regularly cascade into the collapse of the entire grid or significant portions of it. As recently as March the whole island went dark twice. A de facto oil blockade imposed by the Trump administration to push the communist government to negotiate and make reforms has aggravated the situation. Cuba’s leader, Miguel Díaz-Canel, has said the government has not been able to import fuel since January, except for one shipment from Russia.” – Nora Gámez Torres

French Bond Yields Rise After Le Pen Cleared To Run In 2027 Presidential Election – Tyler Durden

Ukrainian Authorities Panic as Patriots Run Out Amidst Russian Ballistic Frenzy – “Russia has again struck Kiev with a large ballistic missile-focused attack. Even the Ukrainians had to admit not a single one was shot down because Patriot missile stocks have run dry:” – Simplicius

ECONOMIC NEWS

Bubble Troubles: They’re Rising Bigly Now! – “The Fed’s own projections for second-quarter real GDP growth just took a suicide leap off a huge, bubble-busting cliff: If you’ve been reading The Daily Doom, you’ve seen the fertilizer emergency coming from a long way off. You know why it is a true emergency because it forebodes a food crisis, and you know why it is happening. So, it’s no surprise and should have been dealt with months ago. The president now says a food crisis is coming if we don’t take emergency action right away. This is the King of Chaos scrambling now to undo the damage his policies are creating without admitting directly that he is the cause, which is something we’ll never see;” – David Haggith

Trump’s Tariffs Did Not Bring Back Manufacturing Jobs. What Will? – “On average, tariffs are a jobs killer. They protect one industry while costing others.” – Mish

Gold Collateral Revolt: How China, Singapore and Hong Kong Are Quietly Building a Post‑Dollar Gold System – “Before the West Wakes Up” – The Silver Academy

The End Is Near: Gold Price Outlook – “Gold and Silver Price Forecast for 2026 That said, I’m not expecting a V-shaped recovery in gold and silver prices. The chart damage has been significant as prices remain in a technically-bearish configuration and below all of the key moving averages. Simply moving sideways from here can run out the clock of the bearish indicators and begin to shift sentiment, and that’s what I’m expecting for a while. In the short term, watch the 20-day moving average for clues. If/when gold and silver move back above this initial trend indicator, you can begin to grow in confidence that the lows of the year are behind us.” – Craig Hemke

Rosland Capital Bankruptcy Is a Reminder That HOW You Buy Gold Matters – “Since Money Metals was founded in 2010, we’ve warned investors that how you buy precious metals can be just as important as what you buy. Last week’s bankruptcy filing by Rosland Capital – one of the industry’s most heavily advertised names, familiar through its Fox News commercials featuring William Devane – is another powerful reminder of why.” – Stefan Gleason

Why Increases in Money Supply Can’t Create Economic Growth – Frank Shostak

SURVIVAL, PREPAREDNESS AND SELF-SUFFICIENCY

The Food Crisis Has Already Started—Are You Ready? – “There’s a crisis possibly looming on the horizon—a food crisis. The downside of this developing crisis is just that it’s developing. Developing means it’s already begun. The indicators are all there. It’s started, and if things continue as they are, we may find ourselves in a serious food situation—with higher prices, holes on the shelves, and potential civil unrest.” – Brian Duff

11 Hollywood Prepping Myths that Actually Work – “Movies butcher survival far more often than they get it right. Every now and then, though, a screenwriter borrows a trick straight out of a field manual and it holds up under scrutiny. I spent a long time scoffing at these scenes before I started checking them against military survival guides and emergency medicine. More than a few earned my respect.” – Jack

Pack Like You’re Bugging Out – “How preparing for Preppers Meet exposes weak points in your gear, organization, and emergency plans. Packing for Preppers Meet requires you to locate your equipment, inspect it, move it, fit it into a vehicle, set it up away from home, and live from it for several days. That process exposes problems that are easy to ignore when supplies remain stacked on shelves. You may discover that the flashlight you planned to bring has corroded batteries. The fuel canister beside the camp stove may be empty. The tent stakes may be in a different container than the tent. The power bank may be fully charged, but the cable needed for your phone is nowhere to be found. These are minor inconveniences at a planned gathering. During an evacuation, they become serious failures.” – denob

What to Grow in a Greenhouse – A Complete Homesteader’s Guide to Year-Round Production – Self-Sufficient Projects Staff

Prepping With a Criminal Record: How Felony Status Restricts Firearms, Ammo, and Even Certain Chemicals – “Prepping with a criminal record changes almost every calculation a homesteader makes, and most guides on self-reliance never mention it. The prepping community talks constantly about rifles, bulk ammunition, fertilizer for the garden, and stockpiles of fuel, but almost nobody addresses what happens when the person doing the stockpiling has a felony conviction in their past. That silence leaves a lot of people confused, and in some cases exposed to federal charges they never saw coming.” – Bob Rodgers

VERSES FOR THE DAY

IMAGE FOR THE DAY

THE BIG PICTURE

Communism and Patriotism – The Two Newest Blame Scripts Pushed By The White House – “The purpose of the White House using these two words as descriptives is to create a ‘unity’ of thought wherein Trump is Central Command. The Supreme Leader. Unfortunately, the terms have been pickled and are now simply driving division and anger. Why demonize an entire generation as stupid and lazy? Why alienate a triage of people who don’t label themselves under a singular banner?The intensity of the attacks by Trump’s PR team of ‘on the payroll Influencers’ vilifies a large number of Americans – who vote. Meaning The Watchers may be creating a challenge to the Maga future to further destabilize with another Bidenesque candidate – Kamala. Each successive president is provided a script of what they must accomplish during their term(s). The baton is then handed to the next runner. With 2030 marking the End Date.” – Helena Glass

THE CRIME OF THE CENTURY: Over 70% of the ENTIRE Global Population Was Injected With a CARCINOGENIC Biological Agent – “COVID-19 “vaccines” represent one of the LARGEST cancer-promoting exposures in HUMAN HISTORY.” – Nicolas Hulscher, MPH via Lioness of Judah

LEGO, a Company for Kids, Ends ‘Pride’ Month by Using Toys to Recreate LGBT Fantasy on Instagram – “LEGO goes all out for lgbtq pride This is a toy brand for children!! They just posted this video promoting gay marriage and marching in Pride parades. THIS is what they’re pushing on kids. Absolutely disgusting!” – V. Saxena

The War on Agriculture Never Ends – ” Agriculture has become another battlefield where governments, multinational corporations, and unelected organizations all believe they have the right to dictate what people eat, what farmers grow, and ultimately who controls the food supply. History has always shown that whoever controls food controls society. That lesson has never changed.” – Martin Armstrong

American Independence Requires the Modern Musket – “The AR-15 is the modern musket. It’s the tool that will keep us free, and it will stay that way until something better comes along. We are free. We will continue to be free just as long as we maintain not just the right to keep and bear arms, but the right to keep and bear arms with a military application, even if it makes certain shrieking violents nervous.” – Tom Knighton

The Do-Nothing Congress Strikes Again – And the Clock Is Ticking – “There are 120 days until the general election, and lawmakers plan to skip most of them.” – James Fite

NEWS

John Roberts’ Ruling Must Be Nullified – “The Courts Do Not Get To Decide What Is And Is Not Constitutional” – Peter Nayland Kust

FBI Infiltrated Patriot Front Exaggerates Threat of White Supremacism – “On Independence Day, around four hundred masked “white nationalists” from the Patriot Front marched in DC. “Dressed in khakis, white face coverings, sunglasses, and caps bearing the logo of white supremacist group Patriot Front, the members were seen gathering near Union Station and marching through Capitol Hill,” The theatrical march by the Patriot Front and its over-the-top coverage by corporate media creates the perception that there is an alarming increase in antisemitism endangering Jewish Americans. The Patriot Front, with its calculated imitation of the Braunhemden, or Brownshirts, marching in unison to a drum beat at Union Station, furthers the effort to demonize Americans engaged in free speech, particularly in regard to criticism of Israel and Zionism.” – Kurt Nimmo  – ALL DESIGNED TO MAKE IT LOOK WORSE THAN WHAT IT IS!!!!

Trump shares photo of new $100 bill with subtle feature added for the first time in American history – “The commander-in-chief posted on Truth Social Friday that the new bill would feature his signature, marking the first time a sitting US president’s signature would appear on currency. ” – Anna Wright

Is America Truly Becoming a “Zionocracy?” – “New legislation could kill the freedom to criticize the Jewish state” – Philip Giraldi

Is Britain Still A Democracy When the Government Attacks Its Ethnic Citizens? – Paul Craig Roberts

Cancel Culture has taken over European politics – “Do we really want to outlaw the views of a third of the electorate? Just this week, the European Union has criminalized the sharing of RT content. This draconian measure applies regardless of whether the shared content is true or false, and it completely ignores the intent of the user. Even if a citizen shares a link simply to cite it as an example of propaganda, they are still committing a criminal offense. The state is no longer just controlling the narrative through positive reinforcement of its own views, but through the active criminalization of alternative information.” – Ashes of Pompeii

The Reflecting Pool and the Politics of Algae – “Some nations govern through policy, others through spectacle, but some eventually become trapped in their own mythology.” – Phil Butler

Le Pen and Deputy Bardella Show Solidarity Ahead of Ruling on Eligibility for Presidential Race – “Currently the populist party holds a commanding lead in the polls, with either Bardella or Le Pen at the top of the ticket. Perhaps given that his name carries less political baggage — with a Le Pen running in every presidential election since 1988 — Bardella appears to be in a stronger position in the polls than his mentor.” – Kurt Zindulka

Is the MoU cat dead, alive or in a coma? – Pepe Escobar

Let’s Leave the Strait of Hormuz Alone – “President Trump was reportedly “shocked” to see many thousands of Iranians in the street mourning at the funeral of the country’s late leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, over the weekend. Khamenei was assassinated by the United States at the beginning of the February US surprise attack on Iran. The US attack on Iran was sold to Trump by Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu and US neocons as an easy “cake walk” that would lead the Iranian government to fall and be replaced with a US-friendly regime. “I thought they hated him,” Trump said of the murdered religious leader of Iran.” – Ron Paul

The Next Stage of U.S.-Iran Relations – “The U.S.-Iran War may be dwindling its final phase, though the durability of any ceasefire remains uncertain. So who won? As the kids say, it’s complicated. Much of the discussion of the war’s meaning, even as it drags on, focuses on how it has already damaged Donald Trump politically. Lost in that pile-on is a more important question: what did the war produce?” – Peter Van Buren

Young Castro wants Trump to deal: his exclusive first US interview – ““I’ve never been interested in politics. It’s never been a calling of mine,” Rodríguez Castro said during an exclusive series of interviews with USA TODAY over the course of two days in June in Havana. “But if at some point the revolution needs me to step up, I will do it.” Rodríguez Castro is unknown to many outside Cuba. He holds no formal government office and rarely appears in Cuba’s state media. He had never before spoken to a U.S. media outlet. He is a back-channel operator who has undeniable status, authority and clout – much of it derived from his last name. Now the younger Castro is the one in a position to negotiate for the future of his country.” – Romina Ruiz-Goiriena Kim Hjelmgaard Rick Jervis Francesca Chambers Nick Penzenstadler

Russia’s “Systematic Strikes” Are Reshaping The Ukrainian Conflict’s Strategic Dynamics – Andrew Korybko

ECONOMIC NEWS

Lions… You WILL Want To See This. (READ NOW). – “The empire is not repairing the middle class. It is asking the middle class to cheer the casino. Its incredible. While people are dealing with groceries, insurance, rent, mortgages, debt, job insecurity, and shrinking purchasing power, the ruling theater says.. Look at the market. Look at the bells.” – Gregory Mannarino

The Coming Return of Commodity-Backed Money – Chris MacIntosh

The Era of Cheap U.S. Natural Gas May Be Coming to an End – Tsvetana Paraskova

One of the market’s most reliable long-term indicators is flashing red – “Optimists say AI justifies the lofty valuations, but a key tool suggests otherwise. The overvaluation of US stocks has now surpassed the level that brought the stock market crashing down in 1929. At a rating more than double that of their British and European counterparts, and the highest since the peak of the dotcom bubble, US equities are in for a hairy decade. That is the finding of a major investment bank,” – Russ Mould

SILVER’S HIDDEN CRISIS (VIDEO) – “The flow of silver may be changing in ways few investors have noticed” – Alasdair Macleod  – GOOD ONE FROM ALASDAIR!!!

The Case for $6000 Gold Remains – “The World Gold Council’s outlook for the second half of 2026 points to real momentum. Here’s why the demand that drove gold’s record is still in place.” – Nomi Prins

SURVIVAL, PREPAREDNESS AND SELF-SUFFICIENCY

The Most Important Thing You Can Do To Save Your Homestead – “Every strong family, thriving homestead, and lasting community is built the same way. Not by putting “me” first, but by passing wisdom from one generation to the next.” – Bill Heid

Traditional Floor And Surface Cleaning Without Chemicals – “A clean home is easier to defend than a filthy one. That may sound plain, but it matters. Dirt brings pests. Grease brings smell. Rot spreads. Sickness moves faster where waste, spoiled food, standing water, and grime are allowed to settle. In a long emergency, hygiene is not a luxury. It is one of the quiet lines between order and trouble. Most modern families depend on store cleaners for that job.” – Alec Deacon

Pasture Management: Fencing (VIDEO) – ” Hank Will guides you through the basics of pasture improvement with managed rotational grazing.” – Hank Will

Antibiotics You Should Have Before a Crisis Comes Home – “Subscribers ask about gold, uranium, and warrant coverage. Few ask who owns the factory that makes their amoxicillin.” – John Hunt, MD

14 Weird Items That Belong in Your Survival Kit – Alan Urban

VERSE FOR THE DAY

IMAGE FOR THE DAY

THE BIG PICTURE

Can America Be A “Christian Nation”? – “As a rule I prefer not to bring politics into my weekly Proverbs. I prefer to approach faith in a spirit of unity; politics all too often breeds a spirit of division. Nevertheless there are moments when politics and faith intersect, when what is happening out in the world brings what is happening within one’s faith into sharper focus. This weekend, being Independence Day weekend when America celebrates the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, is one such moment.” – Peter Nayland Kust

Air conditioning is the EU’s freedom test – “Once the acceptable level of discomfort becomes a public policy question, it isn’t going to stop there” – Rachel Marsden

Quantum Sensors Being Installed/Beast System (VIDEO) – “Quantum enhanced or hybrid systems could process vast sensor or AI data in ways that enable predictive control, simulation of societies or godlike optimization aligning with interpretations of an allseeing controlling AI entity or the image of the beast that interacts and enforces hyperprecise potentially ubiquitous systems integrated with AI data centers in existing networks like flock cameras create a nearperfect monitoring grid. No easy hiding.” – Ashley Hays

THEY DON’T WANT YOU TO SEE THIS… (VIDEO) – Jason A – ON MK ULTRA!!!!

Whatever Happened to Local Newspapers? – “The loss of local media has bigger impacts than most people realize.” – Kelli Ballard

Faking “Water Bankruptcy” Part 1: Data Centres – “The chosen label for this new fear-as-control exercise is “water bankruptcy” . It’s a name originating in a UN report published earlier this year. The decades old grumbling rumours of a “water crisis” just weren’t scary enough you see, so just as global warming became “climate change”, and then “global heating”, and now “global boiling” – so this “crisis” is rebooted as something irresistibly alarming. The language alone is the first indicator of what we really have here. The broad stroke of the “water bankruptcy” narrative is: 1. The planet is running out of clean, safe drinking water” – Kit Knightly

NEWS

Trump’s Fourth of July Red Scare – “Exploits national holiday to denigrate Democrats as communists. “If the notorious anti-communist Senator Joseph McCarthy were alive, he would likely approve of Trump’s rhetoric. You can be loyal to Karl Marx, or you can be loyal to America. You can be a Communist, or you can be a Patriot. You cannot be both.” Did Trump say his government will “exile” communists, the “worst people,” or simply outlaw a political philosophy he disagrees with? ” – Kurt Nimmo

Time to Decide – ” My pride in being an American lies truly with the sentiment and statements of the Declaration. The principles stated therein are worthy of complete devotion, even dedicating one’s life to defending them as I have. That is the cause of my concern. One can celebrate all they want, shoot fireworks into the sky and wear the flag as a shirt, picnic on the Washington Mall, but if that sort of surface patriotism isn’t backed up by the will to oppose all enemies from whatever quarter, with the exertion of force, the United States will be steamrolled by more fervent devotees to other systems.” – T.L. Davis

A Tale of Two Countries – “On the 250th anniversary of the Declaration, America’s story is cast as either triumphant inheritance or unfinished grievance, with no neutral ground in between.” – Roger Kimball

A Tale Of Two Governors – “California Gov. Gavin Newsom can’t help himself when it comes to bragging about the performance of the state while he’s been in charge. Often it means saying things that are wildly untrue. Compare California to Florida. Democrat Newsom and Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis are both finishing up their second terms in office, and both are term-limited out next year. So we can test the results of their different approaches to governance. One conservative, the other leftist. One focused on growth, the other on appeasing left-wing constituencies. One has kept taxes and regulations in check, the other has been raising both with abandon. And the result of this eight-year test? Well, see for yourself in the charts below, which track what has happened since both men took office in 2019.” – I & I Editorial Board

Where Are the Obamas and the Clintons on the Monsters Taking Over Their Party? – Derek Hunter

Iran Stands Firm on Hormuz as US Desperately Dangles Carrots to No Avail – “Amidst the funeral for Supreme Leader of Iran Ali Khamenei, the Saga of Hormuz has continued taking some interesting turns. Iran has refused to make any concessions to the US because it knows the treacherous Trump administration has no principles whatsoever when it comes to honoring deals.” – Simplicius

Bibi tries once again to convince Trump Iran has nukes – “Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me. Is Bibi about to cheat Trump for a second time? Trump’s flirtation with U.S. world domination through his short war with Iran has given him more problems than he could have ever imagined. And it’s about to get worse. ” – Martin Jay

Food Retailers Troubled By This Chart – “Consumer staples and food retail equity analyst Scott Marks at Jefferies told clients Saturday that one of the most concerning charts for food retailers is the sharp decline in average benefits per SNAP participant under the Trump administration, as the USDA intensifies efforts to root out fraud, waste, and abuse.” – Tyler Durden

Nancy Pelosi’s Husband Paul Pelosi Charged in Hit-and-Run Car Crash in Napa County – “The crash happened on Friday afternoon on Yountville Cross Road. No DUI is suspected. Pelosi admitted to hitting something, but said he did not now what he had hit, so he kept driving,” the sheriff’s office said. ” – Cristina Lail  – SURE, HADN’T BEEN DRINKING BUT DIDN’T KNOW WHAT HE HIT. I BELIEVE THAT ONE!!!!!

Russia Still Ranks Among Top EU Gas Suppliers Despite Pipeline Upset – Sputnik News

Reports of Russia’s imminent defeat are greatly exaggerated – “Ukraine’s drone strikes have caused serious damage, but Putin is not about to raise the white flag. ‘ -Mary Dejevsky

Zelensky says Ukraine urgently needs Patriot missiles after Kyiv hit with deadliest attack this year – Remix News

ECONOMIC NEWS

Have the BRICS Countries Built an Alternative to the World Bank and the IMF? – “The five founding members of the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) account for around 40% of the world’s population, nearly a third of global GDP in purchasing power parity (PPP) and around 20% of global exports. The valid rejection of harmful policies pushed by traditional imperialist powers (North America, Western Europe, and Japan), along with announcements from the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa), has generated a lot of interest and hopes for significant changes, especially regarding the New Development Bank (NDB) and the BRICS Monetary Fund (CRA). What is the situation? ” – Eric Toussaint

How Iran Destroyed Its Credibility as a Supplier – “Iran’s swelling floating oil stockpile is the evidence of a deeper problem. The country has become an unreliable, opaque, and politically fragile supplier whose barrels are increasingly treated as distressed cargoes rather than a dependable energy supply.” – Daniel Lacalle

Six-Month Treasury Yield Rises to 4%: Bond Market Tells the Fed to Get on with the Rate Hikes – “Even banks are raising the yields on their brokered CDs to 4% and over. The coming rate hikes are getting real for investors.” – Wolf Richter

Wage Growth As A Leading Inflation Indicator – “After three decades of watching inflation cycles turn, I can tell you the variable that actually leads CPI peaks is wage growth. And wage growth peaked fifty months ago.” – Lance Roberts

Case-Shiller National Home Price Index Hovers Near All-Time Highs – “Home prices remain in the stratosphere, transactions in the gutter.” – Mish

Why the Wall Street Journal Will Never Be Bullish on Gold or Silver – “The Paper Was Built to Sell Paper The WSJ exists to serve the capital markets ecosystem — brokerages, asset managers, investment banks, and the exchanges that list stocks and bonds. Its advertising base and its access-journalism relationships run through Wall Street, not through the bullion dealers of Perth or Zurich” – Kerry Lutz

SURVIVAL, PREPAREDNESS AND SELF-SUFFICIENCY

DIY Budget Outdoor Kitchen Build – concrete countertops – built in weber grill (VIDEO) – “If you’ve uh been to the channel you  know I like to try and do things on the cheap so this project I will be keeping it under $500. I looked at some of the  kits online and they were  crazy price you’re talking $5,000 – $110,000. So see if we can do this a lot cheaper. I will be using some salvaged materials but if you’re interested I’ll  have a list of total cost breakdown at  the end anyway let’s get  it” – Beau Builds

How to Make Beef Jerky in an Air Fryer – Alan Urban

Sleep Is a Security Resource – “Exhaustion turns capable people into unreliable decision-makers. A preparedness group that cannot protect sleep cannot protect much else.” – denob

Scavenging After SHTF. (VIDEO) – Modern Refugee.

How to Sharpen a Lawn Mower Blade (Step-by-Step Guide) – Self-Sufficient Projects Staff  – PRETTY BASIC, BUT IF YOU’VE NEVER DONE IT, HERE’S ONE METHOD!!!!

VERSES FOR THE DAY

IMAGE FOR THE DAY

LYRIC FOR THE WEEK

Well, now Billy Voltaire was a piano player up from Miami way
He used to play in the bars, he could sound like the stars
Ladies would pay and pay
One night he did wind up playin’ in Havana town
Nobody knew, least Billy Voltaire that these were his final sounds

He met up with Meritta, a dancer in from the Coast
Half woman, half child, she drove him half wild
He loved that lady the most
One night he did find her in the arms of Shrimper Dan
So he pulled a knife, took poor Danny’s life
And then he turned his own cold hand

And it’s just a Cuban crime of passion
Messy and old fashioned
Yeah, that’s what the papers did say
It’s just a Cuban crime of passion
Añejo and knives a slashin’
Yeah but that’s what the people like to read about
Up in America, up in America

Well now they never found Meritta, some people say she got ill
Billy Voltaire had no one to claim him, he was buried on pauper’s hill
And no one talks about ’em no more, it happened just a week ago
But people get by and people get high
In the tropics they come and they go

And it’s just a Cuban crime of passion
Messy and old fashioned
Yeah, that’s what the papers did say
It’s just a Cuban crime of passion
Añejo and knives a slashin’
But that’s what the people like to read about
Up in America, up in America

( Cuban Crime Of Passion by Jimmy Buffett, Tom Corcoran )

THE BIG PICTURE

The American story: a republic if you can keep it – “Our success and thriving are not guaranteed. They depend upon us and if we take them for granted or vilify and deny their stern realities, we will, like so many once flourishing empires before us, fall. But if we understand them and recommit to them, we will rise and the best American century will be yet to come. This is the choice.” – El Gato Malo

The Oldest Scam on Earth Is Still Running for Office – “Why mankind was never supposed to need a government in the first place. The first law in human history was not a tax code. It was not a zoning ordinance. It did not require a permit, a notary, or a 90-minute wait at a government office staffed by one employee and eleven empty chairs. The first law was one sentence long and it was about fruit. Don’t eat from that tree. That’s it. That was the entire legal system of the human race. Eve ate the fruit anyway. Adam went along with it, And humanity got evicted from paradise over a snack.The law stayed simple, stayed personal, and stayed between you and God. That arrangement was the design. Everything since has been a corruption of it. So God lets things run their course for a while, and mankind immediately demonstrates its single most reliable talent, which is lining up behind powerful and charismatic beings and doing whatever they say. We have a word for those beings now. Demagogues.” – 🐺The Wise Wolf

“That Government is Best Which Governs Least” – “Not “better” government, but less government is the only way forward for the U.S. Republic” – John Leake.

Marco Rubio Says The Government Will Use Facial Recognition To Authenticate Your Photos For Your Passport, ‘Our Security System Will Verify The Facial ID’ – The WinePress

Is Disclosure the Luciferian Endgame? Is it Dark MAGA, Eternal Life and “Destroying the Cathedral”? – “Spielberg, Messengers of Deception and End Times Madness” – Elizabeth Nickson

Trump is lying about the Reflecting Pool (VIDEO) – “There is a baseline hum of Trump pageantry that most of us have learned to tune out like a screensaver, where everything is the greatest and the most beautiful and it adds up to nothing. Then there is the louder register, the wounded pride and the poster boards and the grievance staged like an opera, and that one I read as an alarm, because he only reaches it when a project has something underneath it he would rather you never picture. The last time he performed at that volume it was about the East Wing, and this summer he aimed the identical performance at a reflecting pool. ” – Audrey Henson / The Drey Dossier  – ANOTHER GOOD ONE FROM AUDREY!!!

Technocracy’s Digital ID Is Being Smuggled In On The Backs Of Children – “Enter, the KIDS Act…” – Patrick Wood  – SEE KIT KNIGHTLY’S ARTICLE  06/30/26 AS WELL!!!!!

To Jon Rappoport’s Readers – “For many years Jon Rappoport has been part of your day through his daily articles. Today, for the first time, you are hearing from Jon’s Executive Producer, Tom Kudla. I am writing because Jon’s health has reached a point where he is no longer able to maintain the publishing schedule that has been such a familiar part of his life and yours. Jon is alive. However, he has reached a stage where continuing his regular work is no longer possible. I know many of you will receive this news with sadness.” – Tom Kudla  – HAVE LISTENED AND FOLLOWED JON FOR AS LONG AS MY SITE HAS BEEN IN EXISTANCE. WISH HIM THE BEST!!!!!

NEWS

It’s the Fourth of July! Why Am I Sad? – “When I was a boy, one of my favorite holidays was Independence Day. I was an enthusiastic student of the War for Independence. Over the years, alas, my enthusiasm became dampened so that now, if I am exposed to any mainstream media celebrations of Independence Day, I do not feel the joy I once did. Instead I feel more like Charlie Brown at the beginning of A Charlie Brown Christmas. Now, much older and perhaps wiser, when I hear the popular media gushing about our freedoms, the Declaration of Independence, the Liberty Bell, Celebrate America concerts, and all the rest on the Fourth of July, instead of being happy, I feel a tinge of sadness. The Leviathan state’s control goes beyond dollars, however. In fact, our rulers seem to want to control as much of our lives as possible.  Did you know that the federal government regulates the production of battery chargers, ceiling fans, central air conditioners, clothes dryers, clothes washers, clothing itself, computer and battery backup systems, dehumidifiers, dishwashers, furnaces and boilers, kitchen ranges and ovens, lawn mowers, microwave ovens, swimming pool heaters, refrigerators and freezers, window air conditioners, televisions, cable and satellite TV boxes, water heaters, commercial ice makers, industrial clothes washers, compressors, electric motors, fans and blowers, refrigerated beverage vending machines, refrigeration equipment, walk-in coolers and freezers, ceiling fan light kits, lamps, fluorescent lamp ballasts, illuminated exit signs, light bulbs, flash lights, faucets, showerheads, and flush toilets? And this is not even an exhaustive list. Exhausting yes, but exhaustive, no. The USDA regulates the marketing of cotton, milk and dairy products, fruits and vegetables, and livestock, poultry, and feed. Government bureaucrats even have detailed instructions mandating the cornbread-to-meat ratio required in a commercial corn dog! The state will not even let us produce and sell corn dogs on our own! ” – Shawn Ritenour  – LAND OF THE FREE, HOWEVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Can The Declaration Of Independence Survive The Founding Fathers’ Hypocrisy? – “Consider The Alternative. For 250 years, the Declaration of Independence has been this country’s highest aspiration, and our fondest hope. Despite the flaws and failings of this nation’s Founding Fathers, the aspiration that is the Declaration of Independence warrants celebration, not just on the Fourth of July, but on every day throughout the year.” – Peter Nayland Kust

Sparklers and Sorrow – “The United States 250th anniversary should be the party of the century. There should be Main Street parades stretching from Maine to California, fireworks lighting up the night sky with unrestrained joy, and a collective, roaring cheer for the greatest experiment in human liberty ever devised. But let’s be real. If you tune out the fabricated hype and look around your own community, does it feel like a celebration? Or does it feel a little more like a wake?” – MN Gordon

The American Dream is still worth fighting for (VIDEO) – “America has failed many people in many ways. But surrendering the dream of a self-directed life would be the ultimate defeat. The idea that ordinary people could build a life, speak freely, worship freely, own property, raise families, form communities, and govern themselves is still a radical thought in many parts of the world. But we must acknowledge: the American Dream is on shaky ground. Despite this, even if it’s not what it once was, it’s absolutely worth defending.” – Collapse Life

HAPPY 250TH BIRTHDAY, AMERICA! – “Essential quotes about essential freedoms on our Semiquincentennial” – Yuri Bezmenov

Trump Quietly Declares National Emergency To Secure ‘Adequate Supply Of Phosphate Fertilizer’ As Farmers Struggle With Shortages And High Prices – “I, Donald J. Trump  do hereby declare an emergency to exist with respect to the threats to the availability of sufficient supplies of fertilizers to meet expected agricultural demand.“ – The WinePress  – AN EMERGENCY THAT HE CREATED!!!!

New York City Appropriates $7 Million for ‘Trans Equity,’ Drag Queen Story Hours – “The approval of the nearly $7 million earmark comes on the heels of Mamdani encouraging New Yorkers to set their thermostats to 78 degrees to conserve energy,” – Bryan Hyde  – GOT TO HAVE PRIORITIES, YOU KNOW!!!

Christine Lagarde leaves door open to early ECB exit, as she mulls French politics – Mike Sheen

Reports Of Impending Russian Provocations Against Poland Are Fake News From The Deep State – Andrew Korybko

ECONOMIC NEWS

The Economy Grew 2.1%. What Did It Cost? – “The U.S. economy grew at a revised 2.1% rate in the first quarter. But consumer spending nearly stalled, inflation remained elevated and federal deficits kept doing heavy lifting. The headline looks reassuring. The foundation does not.” – Peter Reagan

Record beef imports are flooding the U.S. — so why is your Fourth of July BBQ so expensive? – “Beef prices are sizzling and Washington’s recipe for high costs — import more meat — only grills your wallet” – Andrew Rechenberg

Power Prices Triple on PJM as Heat Wave and Data Centers Collide – Michael Kern

Sky-High Earnings Expectations Courting Disaster? (VIDEO) with Lance Roberts – “They’re pretty much expecting perfection at this point. They’ve been rising so far, so fast, that there’s a real risk now that reality won’t be able to meet them. And if that happens, once the Wall Street analysts realize it, they’re going to have to adjust their forecasts downwards — which will pull stock prices down with them.” – Adam Taggart | Thoughtful Money®

Gold to $8,500 After a Brutal Pullback? (VIDEO) – Craig Hemke and Chris Vermeulen

The Alarming Trend of Health Care Job Creation and Why It’s Bad – “Health Care & Social Assistance Accounts for a Majority of US Job Creation for Three Straight Years.” -Mish

QT instead of Rate Hikes to Put a Floor under Plunging Yen: Bank of Japan Sheds 15.6% of its Massive Assets – “Late to the QT game, it’s even selling its equity holdings outright. Nothing on its balance sheet is sacred.” – Wolf Richter

The Quiet Opportunity Most Investors Are Missing (VIDEO) – David Morgan

SURVIVAL, PREPAREDNESS AND SELF-SUFFICIENCY

Why America’s 250th Birthday Is the Perfect Time to Remember What Really Sustains A Free People – “America’s 250th birthday is a good moment to say something that won’t fit on a bumper sticker. The Constitution will not save us. It never has. Now before anyone accuses me of disrespecting the Founders, hear me out. ” – Bill Heid

Camp Like the Grid Doesn’t Exist – “A comfortable weekend outdoors begins with your own food, power and routine—not campground services.” – denob

Medicinal Trees You Walk Past Every Day – Self-Sufficient Projects Staff

How to Set Up and Run Your Atmospheric Water Generator – “Atmospheric water generators have been showing up in prepper communities for years. Some are DIY builds, some are commercial units – but they all get described the same way: the device that pulls drinking water straight out of the air. If you’ve tried building one yourself, you already know this is real technology, the same thing military units have been running in the field for decades.” – Jack

The Only Guide to Walkie-Talkie Lingo You’ll Ever Need Communications – “Walkie-talkies are the most basic and useful personal radios. Whether you are out rambling in the woods with your buddies or roaming around the warehouse or factory getting the job done, nothing facilitates easy communication like these handy, pocketable radios do.” – Tom Marlowe

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THE BIG PICTURE

Declaring America’s Independence From the Tyranny of Militarism and War – “Beware the Termites of War. Today, America has a new “king.” It’s the national security state, with all its threat inflation, its wars, and its appetite for more, always more. Combine that with President Trump and self-styled Secretary of War Pete Hegseth and their reckless pursuit of war irrespective of the Constitution and of international law, let alone Christian concepts of morality, and you have a form of tyranny that Americans must declare their independence from.” – Bill Astore

Long-warned about global depopulation scheme now lurching into overdrive – “It was interesting to me that the Guidestones, with their incriminating globalist agenda for a vastly smaller global population spelled out in unmistakable terms, were destroyed just as people were waking up to the mass psyop known as Covid 19. Depopulation is the key to understanding everything going on in the world today at the geopolitical level. This trend is facilitated not only by endless wars but through engineered famine.’ – Leo Hohmann

Time to Stop Seducing Fido – “Are We Witnessing the Quiet Centralization of Power? There is an old Canadian expression that most people know, but few dare print in polite company: “Quit f**king the dog.” or “Sh*t or get off the pot”. To keep this article family friendly, I shifted it to Stop Seducing Fido. Yesterday It Became Reality While many Albertans were enjoying the Canada Day long weekend, a major change quietly came into effect. As of July 2, 2026, Alberta driver’s licences and identification cards now include a person’s Personal Health Number (PHN) and a Canadian citizenship marker. The government describes the change as modernizing services and improving convenience. Perhaps.” – Connie Shields

Watch: SHOCKING Footage Of Two Tier Policing – “Police attack white guy, ignore mob of black people who were punching him. In the latest sickening example of two-tier policing under Keir Starmer’s government, a female officer in Birmingham charged straight into a street attack, shielded the three black aggressors, and then turned her aggression on their white British victim — an inebriated teenager who had just been randomly assaulted.” – Steve Watson

Roundup Ruling Puts Consumers at the Mercy of the EPA – ANH-USA

NEWS

This July 4th Declare Your Independence From The Failed Uniparty System: A NEW POLITICAL PARTY IS BEING CREATED – 2nd Smartest Guy in the World

All About The Donald’s Great Big $1.4 Billion Crypto Rug Pull – “The MSM can’t stop ragging about the Donald’s $2.4 billion haul during 2025 from his daytime job as a grifter and financial speculator. But far be it from these virtue-preening talking heads to get the irony. To wit, financial journalists are never hesitant to genuflect to the dogma of an “independent central bank”—especially when the Donald is hectoring the Eccles Building with his perennial demand for rate cuts. Yet it was exactly the so-called “independent” Fed which enabled Trump & Sons to scam big time the very gambling casino—once known as Wall Street—-which it fostered by relentless money-printing, interest rate repression and price-keeping operations in the stock markets.” – David Stockman

Only 9 Days of Sour Crude Left in the US SPR? – Larry C Johnson

Trump Jokes About Having A ‘Threesome’ With His Sons – “This, of course, is not the first time Trump has publicly made incestuous jokes about his children.” – The WinePress

Putin Rejected Ukraine’s Two Interconnected Ceasefire Requests With Good Reason – Andrew Korybko

Explaining the Numbers in Gaza – “I believe well over a million Gazans have already perished due to US and Israeli bombs and forced starvation, and that fewer than 100,000 have emigrated. Those Gazans remaining upright – on the 30% of the Strip left to them – are being starved, bombed, burned, and harassed every day as a matter of Israeli policy. Because the US government and state media supports genocide in Gaza, accurate data is hard to find” – Karen Kwiatkowski

Trump’s Plan to Send Troops to Disarm Hezbollah – “The trilateral framework agreement will not end the resistance of the Lebanese Shia.” -Kurt Nimmo

Billionaire Governor Pritzker Embraces Socialist Candidates As The Future Of The Democrat Party – “It’s a common and almost inevitable component of communist history that the leaders of proletariat movements always end up becoming some of the wealthiest people in those movements. The idea of “equity” is a fantasy; every society no matter how “progressive” has an elitist class with more money and more power than the common citizen. On CNN’s “The Source”, Pritzker defended progressive/Democratic Socialist candidates as the “recipe for winning” for the Democrat Party going into the future.” -Tyler Durden

Burning Down the House – “Who are all these Democratic Socialists of America, anyway? A bad moon is rising on our nation’s 250th birthday. The country is in a rancid mood. You begin to see what happens when political ideas are carried to their last limits. Question is: does all this add up to a winning party platform?” – James Howard Kunstler

Is Mitch McConnell Dead? – “The big terrarium in the sky beckons. His status and whereabouts have become as big of a state secret as anything in the CIA’s vaults. Two weeks ago, on the morning of June 14, he was found unconscious at his D.C. home and rushed to the hospital, after an EMS call reporting a cardiac arrest at his address and that he’d been given CPR. Previously, all McConnell’s office had said was that he was in the hospital and “receiving excellent care.” In other words, the senior senator responsible for representing a state of over four million people went MIA and you’re not allowed to know why, or well, anything. And it’s not the only case this month or even this week of secrecy surrounding the whereabouts of those in Congress.” – Ken Klippenstein

Supreme Court Guts the Deep State – “The Supreme Court just gutted one of the load bearing walls of the deep state, voting 6 to 3 to let Trump fire thousands of independent bureaucrats who effectively run the country with minimal oversight from the people voters actually elect to run the country. Could we see the day when voters actually get to decide what happens to them.” – Peter St Onge

Macron’s final gift: A law for death – “As the French parliament votes in favor of the legalization of euthanasia, the president’s decade in power solidifies its gloomy symbolism” – Matthieu Buge

SITREP 7/2/26: Another Massive Strike on Kiev, as Konstantinovka on the Brink – Simplicius

The Right-Wing Zionist Wave Sweeping Latin America – “A decade of left-wing governance has collapsed as right-wing leaders pledge allegiance to Washington and Tel Aviv through the Isaac Accords framework.” – Jose Nino

New Bipartisan Bill Seeks To Outlaw Criticism of Israel and Jewish Power – “Last year’s defeat of the Antisemitism Awareness Act (AAA) by a coalition of progressive Democrats and patriotic Republicans caught the Jewish community off guard. Rather than give up, Jewish groups reeling from the defeat have decided to launch a renewed offensive, this time attacking opposition to their Zionist agenda at its root: freedom of speech, especially on social media. In May and June, a bipartisan coalition of 15 House Republicans and 14 Democrats formally sponsored the Jewish American Security Act (JASA), a piece of legislation that if passed would constitute one of the most sweeping attacks on the First Amendment in American history. The bill enjoys practically universal backing from Jewish non-profits and Zionist activist groups.” – Joseph Jordan

ECONOMIC NEWS

The $10,000 Mazda We’re Not Allowed to Have – “If you could could buy a brand-new Mazda crossover for $10,000 would you? That’s probably why you can’t. The $10k (in Japan) Mazda Flair isn’t too good to be true. It’s too good to be allowed. It would give Americans the kind of relief from high prices Trump promised but never delivered.” – Eric Peters

June Jobs Reports: Labor Stumbles? – “Overall Strong Jobs Data Cannot Conceal Continuing Weaknesses” – Peter Nayland Kust

Job seekers giving up: Labor force participation rate falls to lowest in 50 years, outside of Covid era – Jeff Cox

THE DEEPER DIVE: Plunging Deeper into Plunging Oil Prices – “I want to start off by talking once again about an economist who hallucinates more than AI. Her logic board seems to have fried because every point she makes counters her own argument. I came across an article on Oilprice.com that claimed the oil supply crunch from the Iran war could take crude prices down to $40/bbl! It’s been two decades since we saw prices that low, and we have certainly never seen such low prices due to an oil shortage.” – David Haggith

The squeeze is on – “Trading conditions on Comex suggest that gold and silver bears are about to be squeezed — potentially viciously. If so, then prices measured in fiat currencies have bottomed.” – Alasdair Macleod

Silver Is Talking Loudly. Was Martin Armstrong Right… Yet Again? – Kerry Lutz

Uninformed Financial Press Express Concern For Gold’s Demise – Market Volatility Is Normal In A Run – “All fiat currencies are in decay vs gold and silver as currency debasement, speculation and misallocation of assets have burrowed deeply into the real economy. The long-term decay of government fiat currency is not over by any means. As currency decays, there is a natural volatility to the price of real and valuable assets, especially monetary metals, as the process evolves.” – David Jensen

SURVIVAL, PREPAREDNESS AND SELF-SUFFICIENCY

The “Food Security Garden” Has Come Roaring Back – “For a while, it looked like the backyard food garden was becoming a hobby. Something you did on a sunny Saturday. Something that produced a few tomatoes, a handful of cucumbers, and maybe enough zucchini to overwhelm the neighbors. But something is changing.” – Bill Heid – CAN’T STRESS GARDENING ENOUGH!!!!

Can an Indoor Garden Keep You Alive? – “After a nuclear attack, indoor crops could protect part of your food supply from fallout—but they cannot replace stored calories, clean water or dependable power.” – denob

How to Survive a Summer Power Outage – Daisy Luther

Top 10 Vehicles For Your EMP Survival – “I am not a mechanic or car salesman by trade, but I do have a solid background in technology and understanding of EMP as well what most people would term as vast experience as a self-reliant consumer. Considering this, I will take a poke at answering some questions about EMP and how it would affect automobiles,” – Cache Valley Prepper  – GOOD ARTICLE AND SOME INTERESTING CHOICES!!!!

11 Things to “Panic Buy” Before They Disappear – “There’s a difference between panic buying and smart buying. Panic buying is what happens in the first 48 hours of a crisis – empty shelves, fistfights over toilet paper, people loading carts with things they’ll never use. Smart buying is what you do right now, before the news cycle triggers the herd. The items on this list aren’t random. They’re things that have historically vanished from store shelves fast, that are difficult or impossible to substitute once they’re gone, and that have real, practical value whether you’re riding out a short disruption or something that lasts months. ” – Jack

VERSE FOR THE DAY

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Trump EPA Approves Two More Toxic Cancer-Linked Forever Chemical Pesticides, Diflufenican And Epyrifenacil, Never Used Before In US – “Meanwhile, on the same day, the EPA lauded a new “strategy” to remove PFAS and “forever chemicals” from agriculture; a misdirection headline to trick MAHA into thinking they care about your health..” – The WinePress

The right to ask questions about geoengineering – “Experts destroyed trust during COVID by ridiculing dissent. Now they risk doing it again with geoengineering.” – Collapse Life

What is Barbary? Exposing Another Country They Wiped From the Map – “Today we are told Barbary was never a country, never a defined entity, only a loose term for a stretch of coast. Yet here, in a trusted reference work written three centuries ago, intended to record facts for the public record, it is presented without qualification as a large country; with fixed boundaries, internal divisions, and established governance.” – Jordan Nuttall

The Government Lied about MK-Ultra. Then They Burned the Receipts. – “Congress is finally reopening the chapter the CIA hoped history would forget” – Jenna McCarthy

NEWS

Is God’s Patience About to Run Out on the United States? – Brian Shilhavy

July 4, 2026 – “Does it really matter if the instrument curtailing liberty is a monarch or a popularly elected legislature? Many of us who monitor federal excess are fearful of out-of-control democracy, which is what we have in America today, yet there remain in our federal structure a few safeguards against runaway federal tyranny, such as the equal state representation in the Senate, the Electoral College, the state control of federal elections, the remnants of state sovereignty, and life-tenured federal judges and justices. Of course, the Senate as originally crafted did not consist of popularly elected senators. Rather, they were appointed by state legislatures to represent the sovereign states as states, not the people in them.” – Judge Andrew P. Napolitano

End Of Empire: Supreme Court Upholds Birthright Citizenship, Establishing Continued Invasion Of Illegal Aliens – ““In my judgment, the court has made a mistake that will seriously affect the country’s future,” Justice Samuel Alito wrote in his dissent.” – The WinePress

AMERIKA THE BOUNTIFUL: Politicians, Profiteers and Price Gougers – “President Trump increasingly runs a communist country as he now regularly socializes major corporations as a condition for granting them the privilege of expanding or making deals. That’s something that has not been a part of America until Trump, except in the case of major corporate bailouts, and it shouldn’t even have happened then.” – David Haggith

The American System Rejects Europe’s Economic Suicide – “National self-sufficiency beats globalism’s mass dependency.” – J.B. Shurk

“Set Your AC To 78F”: NYC Socialist Pleads With Residents As Fragile Grid Faces Blackout Risk – “New Yorkers are now getting a real-world lesson in what Mamdani’s recent “warmth of collectivism” .” – Tyler Durden

Roberts’ Ruling A Triumph Of Politics Over The Law _ “Roberts’ Ruling Is Contrary To The Constitution. What makes Roberts’ legal confabulations in Trump v Barbara especially perplexing is that the Supreme Court upheld President Trump’s proclamation declaring the transnational gang Tren de Aragua a foreign terrorist group that had “invaded” the United States. At the very least, the Supreme Court has already upheld the notion that “illegal aliens” can be declared “alien enemies”. Remember, even under English common law antecedents, enemy aliens do not endow their offspring with birthright citizenship.” – Peter Nayland Kust

Brass-necked Britain… London backs Ukraine’s membership of the EU – “Ordinary EU citizens should tell Britain to shove its absurd arrogance. So, how’s that for British arrogance? Britain quit the European Union 10 years ago, but the London government is backing Ukraine’s accession to the bloc.” – Finian Cunningham

Germany indicts Ukrainian over Nord Stream sabotage, alleges Kyiv-backed plot – “Prosecutors say the operation was devised “on behalf of state authorities” to cut off Russian gas revenues.” – Milena Wälde

Poland Could Quickly Denazify Ukraine Without Firing A Single Shot But Tusk Refuses To Do So – “All that he has to do is threaten to stop having Poland serve as the transit state for 90% of Ukraine’s military-technical imports from NATO, which would either be sufficient for Ukraine to comply before they’re cut off or it would likely do so shortly thereafter, but he lacks the political will.” – Andrew Korybko

ECONOMIC NEWS

Lions… ONLY 57,000 U.S. JOBS IN JUNE… (THE GREAT DIVERGENCE JUST GOT LOUDER). With Major Downward Revisions – .Gregory Mannarino

June ADP – Continued Trend in Labor – “The employment picture continues to soften despite every attempt to paint the economy as resilient. ADP reported that private employers added only 98,000 jobs in June, below expectations of roughly 118,000 and down from May’s 122,000. Nearly all of the hiring came from the service sector, particularly education and health services, while leisure and hospitality barely managed to add jobs despite the FIFA World Cup taking place across North America. Manufacturing remained weak, and natural resources and mining continued to shed workers.” – Martin Armstrong

Warsh tells Wall Street to stop looking to the Fed for clues on interest rates — and start watching the economic data – “New Federal Reserve chief repudiates ‘forward guidance’ and repeats vow to deliver 2% inflation” – Jeffry Bartash

The Economic Reasons Why Oil Consumers Need to be “Gouged” – “In making threats against oil companies for “price gouging,” President Trump shows he knows no more about prices than he does about the real effects of tariffs.” – Vincent Cook – PRETTY MUCH WHAT I SAID A FEW DAYS AGO!!!!

Is the metals correction over? RAM suggests so – “Precious metals prices have declined substantially in recent months. But speculators now appear to be largely out of the market. That’s a strong indication that the correction is probably over.” – John Butler

Central Bank Gold Buying Ramped Up Again in May – Mike Maharrey

China Just Shut Down Gold Trading (VIDEO) – Andrei Jikh  -INTERESTING VIDEO!!!!

SURVIVAL, PREPAREDNESS AND SELF-SUFFICIENCY

Why Compost May Be The Most Valuable Crop You’ll Ever Grow – “Just a few inches below the surface, billions of living creatures are hard at work. Bacteria, fungi, protozoa, nematodes, earthworms, and countless other organisms are feeding, reproducing, hunting, and building. Together, they form an underground workforce that determines whether your soil grows richer each year or slowly wears out and quits. Most gardeners focus on what they can see above ground. Experienced homesteaders eventually learn that the real secret to abundant harvests lives below the surface.” – Bill Heid

What July Says About Your Homestead – Olivia Brooks

Converted Washing Machine Cider Press – “Here’s how to build a washing machine cider press, including step-by-step building instructions, photographs, and a cutaway diagram of the converted Maytag washing machine. MOTHER’s readers have learned how to convert a washing machine into a cement mixer, a potter’s wheel, and an outdoor shower. Well, here’s another idea for recycling this appliance: a homemade cider press.” – Dean Bull

Gardening in July (Garden Tasks by Month) – Melissa K. Norris

Homestead Hygiene – Low Water Ways to Stay Clean and Avoid Infection – “Virtually every culture practices routines of hygiene to prevent illness. Homesteaders and survivalists must implement procedures for washing hands, showering or bathing, laundering clothing and washing dishes with minimal water in order to prevent illness off grid.” – Cache Valley Prepper

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The Unfinished Revolution: When Rights Become Privileges – “What exactly are Americans celebrating this Fourth of July? Two hundred and fifty years after the Declaration of Independence proclaimed that all people possess inalienable rights, we now live under a government that increasingly behaves as though rights belong to the government to distribute, restrict and revoke as it sees fit. Freedom has become conditional. Equal justice under law has become selective. Constitutional rights have become political bargaining chips. Government now claims the authority to decide which religious beliefs deserve accommodation and which may be excluded—a clear violation of the First Amendment’s warning against both establishing a religion and favoring or disfavoring one religion over another.” – John & Nisha Whitehead

HAPPY CANADA …I MEAN DECLARATION OF NORTH AMERICA DAY. – “Are Canada The US and Mexico already one country?” – LawyerLisa

This Independence Day Remember Ruby Ridge and the Randy Weaver Family – “Unchecked Power Breeds Tyranny. Abolish the IRS, FBI and ATF.” – The Tactical Hermit

Military Weather Modification as a Pretext to Extreme Power and Control – “The acts of climate, environmental, and weather manipulation for governmental, military applications, including war at home and abroad, which have been admitted to for many decades, have been fully acknowledged and disclosed, but is still considered irrelevant by government, media, and the military. This could only happen in a society that is obedient, compliant, and respectful of extreme false authority platforms. The bogus ‘idea’ of ‘man-made’ global warming has always been the crutch used to support the lies about stratospheric aerosol injection as being necessary to block sunlight; a most absurd claim. While there may be warming, it is not due to driving a car or taking a trip, or to natural carbon dioxide emissions. The manipulation of weather has caused unnatural emissions, which cause increases in temperatures, not decreases.” – Gary D. Barnett

Corporate Land Grab: Trump Signs Executive Order Advancing Regenerative Agriculture To Support Biofuel And Ethanol Production Under The Guise Of Cleaner Food – The WinePress

Futile, Deadly & Guaranteed to Fail: HHS and Pharma updates. – “MAHA-HHS gears up for Operation Warp Democide 2.0, RFK Jr’s meaningless EUA cancellations, Pharma is optimistic about more cancer-causing drugs and government handouts…” – Sasha Latypova

Largest US Power Grid On Verge Of Cracking Due To Historic Heat Dome – “A mega heat dome is set to descend on the eastern half of the U.S., prompting the Energy Department to issue two emergency orders to reduce the risk of rolling blackouts in the Mid-Atlantic area as PJM Interconnection braces for record power demand.” – Tyler Durden

Trump’s Regenerative Agriculture EO Decoded MAHA Optics on the Technocratic Takeover of Food – “So, Trump signed the “Regenerative Agriculture” order–score one for MAHA! Thanks to RFK Jr bringing on Joel Salatin as a special advisor, we’re finally turning this ship around, moving away from industrial mass monoculture, and ditching the toxic Big Ag chemicals…right? … as usual, there’s more to the story. This is a classic bait-and-switch. A perversion of language right up there with bills named like the “Patriot Act.” Let’s take a deeper look.” – UNSHADOWED (formerly known as Ice Age Farmer).

What’s Your Top 3 Downtime Activities? – “Consider these 3 questions.” – Kate Dreston

Lime Juice Could Save 100’s of Thousands of Lives Each Year – Sayer Ji

NEWS

It’s Time To Stop Pretending That Migrants Are Entitled To Equal Citizenship – “Yet another civil conflict is brewing this week as the Supreme Court tackles a number of foreign citizenship debates, including Temporary Protection Status (TPS) and Birthright Citizenship. The court has ruled that hundreds of thousands of Haitian and Syrian migrants residing in the US under TPS are no longer safe from mass deportations (a win). But, they have also ruled in favor of migrant anchor babies (a big loss).” – Brandon Smith

AMERICAN FAIR: The Country May Not Be Great Yet, but the Grift Is Grand! – “The numbers are in from the Trump financial sideshows now, and they’re a whole lot bigger than the numbers for his national fair, which don’t stand so grand.” – David Haggith

Supreme Court Wades into the Gun Rights War – Again – “Glock bans and the coming day of reckoning for assault weapons. The Supreme Court, which has avoided one specific aspect of the gun rights war, has signaled it will indeed confront challenges to so-called assault weapons bans when justices return to the bench in October.” – Graham J Noble

War On Iran: – Trump Requested Briefing For War Renewal – “The White House is eager to return to outright war on Iran. All reasonable military options the U.S. got are still no better than they were when the U.S. filed for a ceasefire. Iran’s deterrence, which comes in two forms, is still sufficient. Its ballistic missiles and drones are able to hit any target in the Middle East. Its ability to blockade the Strait of Hormuz make any campaign against Iran a very risky endeavor. The consequences of a new blockade could easily ruin the global economy.” – Moon of Alabama

There will not be a US invasion of Iran – “Talk of Desert Storm v2 is either uninformed, delusional or clickbait. The 1991 Desert Storm campaign was considered a masterclass in logistics and staging. What generally goes unspoken is that it was UNCONTESTED staging.” – Ashes of Pompeii

Trump Briefed On All-Out War Plans, Still Eyes Diplomacy, As Iran Reminds US: ‘Muzzle Your Pets In Tel Aviv’ – Tylere Durden

Dinosaur Democrats Meet Asteroid – “Populist challengers win big in primary elections. Last night, 29-year-old democratic socialist Melat Kiros defeated 68-year-old congresswoman Diana DeGette in Colorado, a Denver seat DeGette occupied for 30 years. Last night was the first time I’d ever heard of Kiros. When I jokingly asked who she was on X/Twitter, DeGette promptly blocked me.” – Ken Klippenstein

20 black-on-white homicides found in June, 2026 — 22 total, including updates – “Zero white-on-black” – Kenn Gividen  – AS USUAL, NEVER REPORTED IN THE MSM. THANKS TO KENN FOR BRINGING THIS TO LIGHT. THERE’S SOMETHING NOT QUITE RIGHT HERE AS THIS CONTINUES TO HAPPEN  MONTH AFTER MONTH!!!!!!!!!!!

You Simply Will Not Believe This… – “Just when you think it couldn’t get any worse, it gets 100 times worse 809 VIEWS A convicted predator who helped destroy the lives of vulnerable girls as young as 13 is days away from freedom in Britain, while Pakistan refuses to take him and archaic rules shield him from removal.” – Steve Watson

Russia Closes Border Crossings With Several NATO States After Finland Lifts Nuclear Ban – Tyler Durden

ECONOMIC NEWS

STOCKS RIP HIGHER AS PEOPLE CAN’T FIND JOBS, AND SMALL BUSINESSES CLOSE/GO BANKRUPT. (VIDEO) – Gregory Mannarino  – FULL VIDEO FOR EVERYONE FROM GREG, AND NOT JUST FOR MEMBERS. THANKS, GREG!!!!!

Almost all of the Nasdaq-100’s gains in the first half of 2026 came from just 10 stocks – Emily Bary

May JOLTS Report: Much Ado About Not Much? – “Strong Job Openings Number Obscures Anemic Hiring Outlook” – Peter Nayland Kust

Martin Armstrong WARNS: July–August Escalation, Gold’s June Low & Why Capital Is Fleeing to America (VIDEO) – “Martin Armstrong of ArmstrongEconomics.com returns to Financial Survival Network — and the picture he paints is brutal: every brushfire war on the planet right now is rooted in one thing, a global sovereign debt crisis. When governments go broke, they don’t apologize. They find a distraction… and a new way to fleece you.” – Kerry Lutz’s Financial Survival Network  – ALSO WATCH MARTIN’S INTERVIEW WITH GREG HUNTER LINKED ON 06/28/26!!!!

The Great Divide – “Krugman boards the Trump Tariff Train, World Cup mania, the transatlantic divergence and more… That Krugman would board the Trump Tariff Train should tell you everything you need to know about the underlying policy. Put simply, protectionism does not work. If it did, Argentina’s economy would have spent the past 75 years as the envy of the world, not a cautionary tale. And yet, here we are…” – Joel Bowman

Silver Accumulation Time as the Correction Comes to an End… – “Today, we take a fresh look at silver because, after its latest drop, it is getting very close to our target zone, where it becomes a strong buy. It should be emphasized here that we do not have a fixed and rigid downside target, but rather a buy zone where the further it drops into that zone, the more of a buy it becomes. ” – Clive Maund

SILVER’S HIDDEN CRISIS (VIDEO) – “The flow of silver may be changing in ways few investors have noticed.” – Alasdair Macleod

SURVIVAL, PREPAREDNESS AND SELF-SUFFICIENCY

The Truth About Soil Health (And Why It Changes Everything) (VIDEO) – “What if the secret to healthier plants, bigger harvests, fewer pests, and less work in the garden isn’t another fertilizer or amendment? What if it’s your soil? In this episode of Everyday Homesteading, we’re kicking off a brand-new Soil School series by exploring the foundation of every productive garden: healthy soil. ” – Homesteading Family

9 Fruits You Can Grow from Cuttings – Olivia Brooks

Raised Bed Remediation (VIDEO) – “Don’t let your soil become depleted! Even raised beds need new nutrients, sometimes. ” – Leah Webb

The Forgotten Duty Of The Off-Grid Community – “Why Rediscovering Truth Needs A Few Stubborn Protectors Walk through an old country cemetery and you’ll notice something strange. The names on the really old stones have faded. The people who once worked those area fields are long gone. Yet somehow their fingerprints are still all over the landscape. The road into town may follow a wagon path they first cleared. The church on the hill may stand on a foundation they helped lay. An orchard may still produce fruit from trees planted by hands that turned to dust generations ago. Their lives continue to speak through things they built, protected, and passed on. The influence remains.” – Bill Heid

How to stay cool without A/C 20 practical ideas – Sarah Connor

VERSES FOR THE DAY

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Confessions of a Career Thought Criminal – “Steadily lowering my social credit score. I sometimes have people ask me, “So what are you doing to help?” Sure, I’m full of radical takes and contrarian views, but how does that change anything? I would counter with the fact I am doing something. Really all any average person can do at this point. I call out the corruption, and the tyranny, and I don’t pull any punches. I name names. More recently, I have stepped up my attacks on Zionism, and the ZOG that rules America 2.0. That’s not going to win you any popularity contests.” – Donald Jeffries  – GOOD ONE FROM DONALD!!!

Here Comes the KIDS Act: USA joins the “age verification” club – “Yesterday, the US House of Representatives quietly passed a bundle of “digital protections” collectively labelled the Kids Internet ​and Digital Safety Act (KIDS Act). You might not have heard, because the US news was focused on other things,” – Kit Knightly

Beware of the isms In a world of deception and distraction, misplaced priorities could come back to bite us” – Leo Hohmann

Symbolic Crimes Reflect Subverted Times – “Incidents at the DC Reflecting Pool, NYC Knicks Parade, Maskachusetts lake, Montreal, Yookay, WNBA, and LA represent the absolute state of the West” – Yuri Bezmenov

“We Sacrificed The Middle Class” – “Canada’s Top Food Economist Sounds The Alarm. You’ve felt it at the checkout. That quiet moment of disbelief when the total appears on the screen. You didn’t buy anything extravagant. No steak. No fancy cheese. You bought the basics and somehow you’re staring down $300, $400, $500. A third of Canadians are now going into debt just to buy groceries. People are dipping into savings. Putting food on a credit card. And the government’s response?” – Karla Treadway

This Independence Day Remember Waco Unchecked Power Breeds Tyranny” – The Tactical Hermit

If I Were The Devil – “How I Would Steal a Province Without Firing a Single Shot” – Connie Shields

NEWS

Freedom 250 – America’s Birthday Is Falling Flat – “America’s 250th Birthday is less than joyous among the taxpayers paying for this. Too many non sequiturs tarnishing celebrations. Palestine doesn’t exist any longer. Lebanon has been taken. Our neighbors are no longer our friends. Epstein Files remain redacted and hidden. Israel controls Washington. Israel is now bombing Syria. Why are we out of weapons but Israel is not? Word has been released that Trump is sidelining his fake friendship with Putin and secretly gave Zelenskky a thumbs up. Hope is slip-sliding. And Trump et al have no qualms about making billions for themselves on the backs of Americans. Deal after Deal reflects some family member is critically involved yet the FBI is arresting people who dared to touch the Reflecting Pool water ” – Helena Glass

Trump Demands Gas Station Retailers Lower the Price Immediately to $2.50 – “”Gasoline Retailers must get their Prices down, IMMEDIATELY! They’re too high considering that Oil is now at $68 a Barrel, and heading south. The Retailers must quickly react to this statement, and do what they know is right — DROP YOUR PRICE FOR OUR GREAT AMERICAN PEOPLE! There will be no gauging, which is totally illegal.” – Trump. However, there is no law anywhere against gauging. Imagine the howls if Biden wrote gauging instead of gouging and demanded the price of gasoline be $2.50. As I type, the AAA listed national average gasoline price is $3.86 per gallon. If station owners dropped the price to $2.50 they would lose a mere $1.36 per gallon. But that’s OK because Trump demands it.” – Mish  – THE FUCKING IDIOT OBVIOUSLY DOES NOT UNDERSTAND HOW THE OIL AND GAS MARKETS WORK, NOR CAN HE SPELL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

US-Iran Have Delegations In Qatar, But No Direct Talks; Hormuz Energy Transit Rebounds – Oil Down Near Prewar Levels – “The Witkoff-Kushner delegation is now confirmed to be in Doha, and yet in its latest official statement Iran’s foreign ministry has made clear the Iranian side has no plans to meet US officials “at any level in the next few days.”” – Tyler Durden

MOU: The Meltdown of Understanding – “After the tit-for-tat missile barrages that took place with several exchanges over the weekend, the first repercussion came as no surprise: Iran completely cancelled talks in Switzerland. However, if you look at Iran’s eventual rebuttal, you can see it is a carefully worded statement, in which Iran said there are “no technical talks” scheduled anywhere; but it did not say there are no talks whatsoever” – David Haggith

Lions Alert! THE MARKET BOUGHT “TALKS” WERE HAPPENING… BUT IS THIS JUST MORE LIES AND MARKET MANIPULATION? (Because THAT Is EXACTLY What This Looks Like…) – “Markets trade narratives, especially from a “world leader.” And a headline saying “Iran requested talks” can do exactly what the system wants it to do… calm oil, lift stocks, and create the illusion that diplomacy is finally working. But appearance and illusions are not evidence.” – Gregory Mannarino

They’re Still Pushing The Ethnic Cleansing Of Gaza – “They keep trying different angles and rebranding it under different names, but the end goal has remained the same since October 2023: the removal of all Palestinians from the Gaza Strip.” – Caitlin Johnstone

Republican Socialism: 2027 National Defense Authorization Act Contains Provision To Create Slush Fund For Treasury To Take More Stake In Companies – The WinePress

Supreme Court: States Can Ban Trans Athletes From Girls’ Sports – Tyler Durden – AS IT SHOULD BE. SHOULD HAVE BEEN NO DOUBT ABOUT THIS ONE!!!!!

ECONOMIC NEWS

Should We Hold Off On Stacking For A While? – “At least till dealer margins go back to normal” – John Rubino  – ALSO WATCH DAVID MORGAN’S VIDEO LINKED ON SUNDAY!!!

Inflation & Nominal Economic Growth to the Rescue: The US Government’s Ugly Fiscal Mess – Wolf Richter

Imagine Your Tax Dollars Bailing Out Bitcoin – “Sick and inconceivable idea right? Sadly, not as inconceivable as we think” – Quoth the Raven.

GOLD REVALUATION SIGNALS INTENSIFY: Hidden Central Bank Buying, $20K Pricing Clues, and Policy Shifts Converge – The Silver Academy

The Silver Turn CNBC Can’t See Coming – “Traders are staring at the next five days. The silver market is being shaped by the next five years. CNBC spends its time interviewing traders trying to guess where silver will close on Friday. That’s entertaining television, but it’s a terrible way to understand a market whose biggest drivers are structural rather than speculative” – Kerry Lutz

The World’s Gold Is Quietly Leaving London and New York – James Hickman (Simon Black)

SURVIVAL, PREPAREDNESS AND SELF-SUFFICIENCY

Setting Up a No-Excuse Everyday Carry That Actually Gets Carried – “Tolerance for how much gear can be comfortably carried varies, not only from one individual to the next, but by activity. You might feel it necessary to carry more survival gear on a wilderness trek than to collect the mail. Personally, I like to be prepared, and I try to practice what I preach, so I probably carry more EDC gear than most folks,” – Cache Valley Prepper  – GOOD ARTICLE!!!!!

Cleaning the Chimney: A Complete DIY Guide for Homeowners – Self-Sufficient Projects Staff

DIY Indiana Jones Real-Life Survival Belt – “Start With the Belt Itself Everything else depends on this, so don’t cut corners here. A good survival belt needs to be thick, full-grain leather – not bonded leather or not “genuine leather”. Real leather, cut from cowhide, the way belts were made before manufacturers figured out how to press scraps together and call it the same thing. A good leather belt is also wide enough – at least 1.5 inches – to support the weight of what you’ll hang off it without digging into your hips by hour three.” – Jack

12 Skill-Building, FUN Summer Vacation Activities for Preppers – Daisy Luther

Keeping Small Engines Alive When Supply Chains Don’t – “The generators, saws, pumps, tillers, and tractors you already own are only useful if they still run when parts, fuel, and repair shops become scarce.” – denob

VERSE FOR THE DAY

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Time out for Americans to Celebrate Not their Independence but Their Captivity – “This is the week Americans celebrate their independence, a false celebration as Americans are no longer independent, In America today representative government no longer represents the people. Instead it represents the monied special interests that finance political campaigns. Essentially, no one in government represents the American people or any worthy cause. The American government represents money. So America’s Independence Day has been transformed. It is now celebration of Rule by Money.” – Paul Craig Roberts

Is this really how they want to play this? – “I’ve always thought the idea of reparations was more than a little dumb. It’s not that I think slavery was a good thing or that we shouldn’t have tried to make it right at the time. My issue is very simple: None of the people calling for it were ever slaves, and the people they want to pay for it never kept slaves. In other words, the time passed, and I’ll be damned if I support being taxed to right a wrong for people who never experienced it.The slaves who were victims of the trans-Atlantic slave trade weren’t rounded up by white people. They were prisoners of war sold by African nations like the Ashanti Empire, the Aro Confederacy, the Kingdom of Oyo, the Kingdom of Kongo, and others. In other words, if African nations want reparations for slavery, they need to look as much inward as outward.” – Tom Knighton – GOOD ARTICLE 0N REPARATIONS FROM TOM!!!!

The Gaping Loophole in U.S. Federal Law Regarding Weather Modification Reporting – “Under the federal weather modification reporting guidelines, the Federal government and/or contractors working for the Federal government are EXEMPT FROM REPORTING REQUIREMENTS!” – James Roguski – SO IT APPEARS THAT GOVERNMENT AGENCIES LIKE DARPA CAN GEOENGINEER ALL THEY WANT!!!!

YOU OWN NOTHING: Americans Are Being ROBBED By Their Government – “Paying for your own demise while being surveilled by Flock cameras…” – 2nd Smartest Guy in the World

The Supreme Court Is Building Its Own Massive Police Force – “The push for a rapid security buildout stems from the substantial threats to the justices at a moment of growing political violence in the U.S. and the sense that the system has just not been up to the task of keeping them safe. That’s a belief that appears to be shared by at least some of the justices themselves.” – Josh Gerstein = THE POLICE STATE CONTINUES TO GROW!!!!

250 Years of Taxation in America (VIDEO) – “From 1868 to 1913, 90 percent of federal tax revenue came from alcohol and tobacco taxes. In 1909, President Taft recommended that Congress propose a constitutional amendment to give the government power to tax incomes without apportioning the burden. In 1913, the Federal Reserve Bank was established. Along with it came the ratification of the Sixteenth Amendment, which gave what many court cases show to be undue power to the Internal Revenue Service.” – Greg Reese

The Antibiotic That Was in Your Kitchen All Along – “New science confirms an ancient remedy outperforms a first-line pharmaceutical — without the side effects or the superbug problem” – Sayer Ji

HAND-HELD MICROWAVE WEAPONS – “For years, governments have doubted the stories of those suffering from AHI, commonly called Havana Syndrome. Now reports of a newly acquired weapon from the black market will finally vindicate them.” – Frances Leader

NEWS

Russia hearing the European clamour for war, announces it is ready – “Russia has now made the strategic decision in response to prepare for war in Europe.” – Alastair Crooke  -THE EU KEEPS PUSHING RUSSIA.  iSRAEL AND THE U.S. KEEPS PUSHING IRAN. THE U.S. KEEPS PUSHING CHINA. PERHAPS THESE WARMONGERS NEED TO UNDERSTAND WHAT THEY ARE DOING, BEFORE IT’S TOO LATE. COUNTRIES ONLY TAKE SO MUCH SHIT FOR SO LONG. MEANWHILE THEY KEEP US DISTRACTED BY ALGAE IN THE REFLECTING POOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Toxic Masculinity – ““Toxic” masculinity is in the news, and no wonder. From Donald Trump threatening to obliterate civilizations to Pete Hegseth boasting about punching people when they’re down, there’s plenty of toxic behavior to go around. Certainly, under Trump, there’s been a revival of unapologetic “toughness.” But this isn’t about being tough or masculine: it’s more about being a dick. A jerk. A dipshit, if you will.” – Bill Astore  – WELL SAID!!!!

Iran war live: Trump announces Qatar meeting; Tehran says nothing planned – Abby Rogers, Mariamne Everett and Nils Adler

Are There Really Iran-US Peace Talks? – “Or Is It Buying Time for Another War?:” – Philip Giraldi

It’s All They’ve Got Now – “You can see how this summer, and the nauseating slide down to the midterm elections, are shaping up. The party of “Our Democracy” is desperate to an extreme now, all disfigured by a communist leprosy eating away at its public face (and a cancer of fraud metastasizing through its innards). It has become such an obvious monster, raging with its hair lit-up, that anyone with half a functioning brain is shying away, stealing off into the gloaming. The party has nothing left but chaos and, in the weeks ahead, anything that might be disrupted probably will be.” – James Howard Kunstler

AOC on the Warpath: Democrat Incumbents and Big Businesses Beware – “Socialists hope to radically change America – and they just might get the chance.” – James Fite

“Wants To Be More Political Than His Daddy”: Alex Soros Plows $103 Million Into Unhinged Democrats Ahead Of Midterms – Tyler Durden

Government Fraud Isn’t the Exception. It’s the Business Model. – Kerry Lutz

On the Treasonous Israeli Overthrow of the US Government – “The Rush to Cement the Military and Intelligence Apparatus of Israel into the National Security States of the USA. The madness of our times is well illustrated by the ongoing military showdown pitting Iran against the Zionist partnership of the USA and Israel. This partnership is running into widespread popular opposition. This opposition from decent people everywhere, is rapidly rapidly turning against the extravagant backing by the US government of the Zionist project to advance Greater Israel.” – Anthony James Hall

Gavin Newsom’s Healthcare Tax: Just the Latest Hit to CA Families – “But it’s not enough that California has been driving away the wealthy. Now they are working on driving away the middle class, too. The latest, in the state budget, is a series of new taxes on Medicaid, ObamaCare, and private employer health plans. This is stupid on steroids.” – Ward Clark

Lawsuit Filed for Records on Jan. 6 Provocateur Ray Epps – “The current FBI Director’s own public statements confirm the significance of this public interest… Miller filed his lawsuit after the FBI denied him those records on privacy grounds. Miller urged a judge to force the FBI to produce the documents on Epps. The Justice Department apparently reopened the Epps case after Rep. Thomas Massie, Revolver News and other conservatives began to question whether he was being protected by government.” – Ken Silva

Is the US turning Africa into a quarantine zone? – “When news emerged that Kenya had authorized a 50-bed, American-funded Ebola isolation centre at Laikipia Air Base in Nanyuki, the controversy immediately eclipsed medical logistics. The premise was stark: Quarantine US citizens exposed to the virus offshore to prevent them from entering US territory. The backlash was fiercely swift. This raised a fundamental question: Why should African nations absorb the risks of managing global pathogens with minimal control over the response? The dispute highlights growing tensions in global health cooperation. While Western partnerships are often framed as mutually beneficial, critics argue they are profoundly imbalanced. Funding and technology may flow from wealthier nations, but the operational risk, implementation burden, and political fallout are borne almost entirely by host countries.” – Mustafa Fetouri

ECONOMIC NEWS

Jawboning Only Works—Short Term – “When Scott Bessent, Treasury Secretary, says the US economy is outperforming other economies, he fails to reveal the cause—deficit spending. With the US annual deficit running at 5.9% of GDP and a US growth rate of 1.6%, Trump/Bessent are forced to lie through their teeth, jawboning a great US economy/dollar—against worthless gold and silver. Trump inadvertently tells the truth: no nation has ever been in the place where we are now, at our 250 year anniversary. He could not be more correct, but the truth is the reverse of his message. We’ve never been in a more precarious economic place.” – Erik@neverhadaboss.com

The Inflation Trade Isn’t Dead… It’s Just Taking a Breather – “Gold is currently experiencing a “systemic reset.” The precious metal experienced a kind of mania from mid-2025 to early 2026, more than doubling in price from $2,600 per ounce to over $5,600 per ounce. It’s critical to note that was not just a “weak $USD” story either; gold exploded higher when priced in every major currency: the U.S. dollar, the Euro, the Yen and the Franc. Nothing goes straight up or straight down in the markets. And after a run like that, gold was due for a correction. And that is precisely what has happened: since February/ March 2026, gold has corrected. And again, this price action has taken place when priced in every major currency: the $USD, Euro, the Yen, and the Franc. By the look of things, this period of weakness should be ending soon.” – Graham Summers, MBA

Persian Gulf Crude And Commodity Ship Movements Are Not Building – David Jensen

COMEX Gold Options Speculation – “There is an increasing amount of chatter regarding a surge in open interest for deeply out-of-the-money options on COMEX gold. Whether or not there’s anything substantial behind these speculative trades remains to be seen.” – Craig Hemke

When Will the Bleeding Stop in the Precious Metals Market? – Money Metals News Service

SURVIVAL, PREPAREDNESS AND SELF-SUFFICIENCY

Are We Already in World War 3? – ‘Maybe Not — But We’re Getting Too Close for Comfort. What I am saying is this: If you cannot look at what is happening right now and admit the world is unstable, then you are choosing not to see it. And if you do see it, then the answer is not panic. The answer is preparation. Not fantasy preparation. Not tacticool nonsense. Not buying a bunch of junk you do not know how to use. Not watching fear videos all day until you are too paralyzed to do anything useful. I mean boring, practical, working-class preparedness.” – M.D. Creekmore

Amish vs Mormon – Two Self-Sufficient Lifestyles – “Both have built cultures around independence from outside systems, with deep traditions of food production, preservation, community cooperation, and practical skills that most of the modern world has completely forgotten. Both have survived economic downturns, social upheaval, and disruption that devastated less-prepared neighbors. But their approaches could hardly be more different.” – Self-Sufficient Projects Staff – IT WOULD BE WISE TO LEARN FROM BOTH!!!

AI And Bitcoin Are Devouring The Grid… Will Your Lights Stay On? – “While folks argue about crypto, something much larger has quietly moved in behind it. Artificial intelligence. Data centers powering AI systems pulled about 415 terawatt-hours from global grids in 2024. You don’t need a government report to tell you what happens when demand outpaces supply. You’ve seen it with water. With fuel. With food. Now it’s happening with electricity. The grid wasn’t built for this kind of load. Not even close.” – Bill Heid

Manual Energy – “Most people think of energy preparedness in terms of adding more power. More solar panels. Bigger batteries. Larger generators. Extra fuel cans. Portable power stations. Inverters. Extension cords. Charge controllers. Backup chargers. There is nothing wrong with any of that. The smarter question is not always, “How do I generate more electricity?” Sometimes the better question is, “Why does this job need electricity at all?” That is where manual energy comes in.” – denob

If The Roads Closed Overnight: How Each Culture Would Respond To Sudden Isolation – “Most Americans live with the quiet assumption that the roads will stay open. Food moves by road. Medicine moves by road. Fuel moves by road. Mail, parts, tools, livestock feed, relatives, workers, and emergency help all depend on roads staying passable and safe. We may complain about traffic, potholes, and fuel prices, but most of us still expect movement to be available when we need it. That assumption can break faster than people think.” – Alec Deacon

VERSE FOR THE DAY

.2 Timothy 2:16    But shun profane and vain babblings: for they will increase unto more ungodliness.

IMAGES FOR THE DAY

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The Title Does Not Make The Man – “If we are all brethren, it follows equally that no one can possess any authority over anyone else. Jesus has authority; men do not. I am further troubled when I see such people claim Biblical support for their entitlement. We are called to follow God’s Law. We are called to hear God’s Word. We are called to be filled with God’s Grace. We are called to remember always that the title does not make the man. The man makes the title.” – Peter Nayland Kust

Is God’s Patience About to Run Out on the United States? – Brian Shilhavy

What is the name of the ai war program in Israel that targets individuals for death. The Gospel. – LawyerLisa  -HOW SICK CAN YOU BE!!!!

Google Introduces New reCAPTCHA Requiring You Provide 21 Points Of Your Hand To Your Camera To Prove You Are Not A Bot – “The internet is becoming totally unusable. These big-tech nerds are pulling out every trick in the book to get people to fork over their biometrics. Training for the inevitable final solution.” – The WinePress

The Advancing Beast System Demands Our Compliance — It’s Time to Refuse – “Were you made for such a time as this? The hour demands it. Our response will shape what follows.” – JD Rucker

The Demoralized Doublespeak Dictionary – “From Abundance to Zohrantifada – a glossary of socialist terms that sound good but result in suffering” – Yuri Bezmenov – GOOD ONE FROM YURI!!

BlackRock’s $10 Trillion Heist: How Larry Fink Is Strip‑Mining Workers’ Pensions to Build the AI Control Grid? – “16 hard FACTS expose the scheme: workers’ retirement siphoned into AI data centers, digital IDs, CBDCs, and a techno‑fascist surveillance regime that treats human beings as fuel, not beneficiaries.” – The Silver Academy

The EU’s Green War on Farmers Never Ends – Tilak Doshi

HHS Awards Moderna $314 Million for Adult and Pediatric COVID-19 Vaccines: SAM.gov – “Despite demand collapsing to just 17% among adults and 9% among children, per CDC data ” – Jon Fleetwood   -WAY TO GO BOBBY AND MAHA!!!!

NEWS

It’s Official: The US is now “USrael” – “USrael, as dedicated Corbetteers know by now, is the Frankenstein’s monster that has been haunting the geopolitical stage for decades. And, as you also know by now, that monster consists of an Israeli head atop an American body. In other words, it involves Israeli influence over the largest military power in the history of the world. USrael explains the War of Terror and the decades of pointless slaughter in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria and the other targets on the neocons’ hit list. USrael explains why every single US senator and congressman is required to pledge fealty to Israel—and it explains why the lone one who didn’t take that pledge just got primaried after an unprecedented campaign to boot him from office. And USrael explains why Donald “Make American Great Again” Trump just waged a baffling and disastrous war on Iran at the behest of his dear friend, Benjamin Netanyahu.” – The Corbett Report – GOOD READ FROM JAMES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Megyn Kelly’s Racist Diatribe Against Haitian Immigrants – “MAGA know-nothing ignorant of US effort to destabilize Caribbean island nation. Kelly is ignorant of the century-long role the United States played in destabilizing Haiti. The US used the Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine to justify unilateral interventions and a prolonged military occupation of Haiti between 1915 and 1934. The National City Bank of New York, now Citibank, convinced Wilson to invade and take control of the country’s political and financial interests.” – Kurt Nimmo

At least 39 shot, 6 fatally, in shootings across Chicago this weekend, police say – “A pair of drive-by shooters injured at least 13 people on the city’s South Side on Friday night, police said.” – ABC7 Chicago Digital Team  – BLACKS SHOOTING BLACKS. JUST A NORMAL WEEKEND IN GANGLAND CHICAGO. BUT THEY’LL JUST WANT TO TAKE AWAY GUNS FROM NORMAL PEOPLE!!!!!

Let New York Suffer – “I used to love New York City. You could go there and walk around, unmolested, and enjoy the sights and sounds the city had to offer. Now, the aroma of urine and weed permeates the streets like a poorly ventilated cigar bar on its busiest night. There is no real punishment for crimes short of murder. Whatever the case, passive or active, the people of New York voted for all of this or tolerated its support. The sane people are gone, having fled the march of communism for greener pastures. So, with that in mind, and the fact that people have not only received ample warning of the destructive nature of radical leftist policies, let the city have what it so desperately wants: let New York suffer.” – Derek Hunter

Who Funds No Kings Rallies? – “The coordinated efforts to obstruct a president.” – Kelli Ballard

The End Of The Islamic Republic: The Peace Deal’s Slow Inevitable Collapse – “Does Anybody Really Want Peace?” – Peter Nayland Kust

Iran ceasefire in tatters as Tehran strikes at EIGHT US targets and promises to make life ‘hell’ for Americans… after Trump threatened to annihilate country if war broke out again – Stephen M. Lepore

Araghchi Visits Soleimani Assassination Site, Issues Fresh Warning Over US Moves In Hormuz – “Unmistakable symbolism… The timing behind his visit to Baghdad is interesting, right at the moment a widening corruption sweep conducted by elements of the Iraqi government, which has unleashed mass protests and unrest outside Baghdad’s Green Zone. The symbolism of defiance and readiness to fight was on display too, given Araghchi’s corresponding visit to the site of former IRGC Quds Force commander Qasem Soleimani’s assassination outside Baghdad Airport.” – Tyler Durden

The Rebranding of Terrorism by Israeli Terrorists – “Al Shabaab is labeled a terrorist group in Somalia with affiliations to al Qaeda. Formed originally as a youth militia, it rose to prominence after the invasion of Somalia by Ethiopia and their colonization of the country. The Mossad wants control over Somaliland so they can build a strategic base there in order to target – Yemen. Somalia’s coastline stretches across the Gulf of Aden and the entrance to the Bab al-Mandeb Strait which hosts a vital shipping corridor to the Red Sea. The Houthis are their target given they are a designated terrorist organization by Israel and the US. Like Al Shabaab, the Houthis rose in the early 1990’s as a deterrence against colonization and Anti-Zionism.” – Helena Glass

Inside country legend Alan Jackson’s triumphant finale concert – Maria Sherman

ECONOMIC NEWS

Banking On Magic – “Monthly Budgets Under Assault American consumers are being squeezed. Between high grocery prices, rising utility bills, and hefty prices at the pump, little float remains in monthly budgets. An unexpected medical bill or car repair is all it takes to blow the household budget. We’re all living through stressful macroeconomic crossroads here in mid-2026. For a while, it appeared the post-pandemic inflationary dragon had been slain. We were promised inflation would soon return to the Federal Reserve’s 2 percent target. But that was before the U.S.-Israel attacked Iran and a new energy shock was triggered.” – MN Gordon

THE DEEPER DIVE: Iran War Flares Back Up – “Inflation burns brighter and brighter, yet economists get dimmer and dimmer. Risks to the economy run sky high if the US does return to war, but a lot of damage is already going to have to play through even if the strait clears up by Monday.” – David Haggith

Sovereign Debt Crisis May Start in Middle East (VIDEO) with Martin Armstrong – Greg Hunter

The World’s Biggest Energy Bet Is No Longer on Fossil Fuels – “Clean energy investment has decisively overtaken fossil fuels, with the IEA forecasting $2.16 trillion flowing into clean energy in 2025 versus just over $1 trillion for oil, gas, and coal. The biggest story is where capital is flowing, with investors pouring money into solar, batteries, transmission, and electrification while oil investment continues to decline.” – Leon Stille

The Myth of Price Controls – “The Cuban dictator Miguel Díaz-Canel’s recent admission that Cuba’s generalized price caps failed to contain inflation, generated shortages, encouraged illegal markets, and reduced tax revenues is another confirmation of a much older economic lesson: price controls do not solve inflationary pressures, and they intensify the distortions they are meant to prevent. The Cuban case is especially revealing because the criticism comes not from ideological opponents but from the regime that imposed the controls and later conceded their failure.” – Daniel Lacalle

The Truth About Silver Shortages, Dealer Hype, And COMEX Fear (VIDEO) – “There is a lot of confusion in the silver market right now. Some say the U.S. Mint has stopped producing Silver Eagles because demand is overwhelming supply. Others claim COMEX is being drained, the exchanges are on the verge of failure, and physical silver is leveraged hundreds of times over. But is that really what the data shows?” – David Morgan

SURVIVAL, PREPAREDNESS AND SELF-SUFFICIENCY

How to Make a Portable Sink – Josh Lau

America Turning 250… But Older Folks Barely Recognize The Country Anymore – “For believers who know the roots of this nation — and can still recognize the outlines of the civilization our ancestors built — America’s 250th birthday feels less like a birthday party and more like walking through the remains of an old family homestead. The barn still stands. The foundation is still visible. But something precious has been stripped away board by board over generations.” – Bill Heid

After Decades Outdoors…This Is My Biggest Tick Warning❗️ (VIDEO) – “The Incredible Story of Healing From Alpha Gal and Lyme Disease” – Jason Salyer – GOOD FOLLOW UP TO JASON’S TICK VIDEO FROM THE OTHER DAY!!

BuddyBar Door Jammer Review: Does This Door Security Bar Work? – Ken Jorgustin

The Tactical Tampon Myth – “Preparedness circles have a bad habit of keeping certain myths alive long after they should have been buried. One of the worst is the idea that tampons belong in a trauma kit because they can be used as an emergency plug for a bullet wound. It sounds clever. It sounds compact. It sounds like the kind of improvised trick people repeat around campfires, gun counters, and online forums. Unfortunately, it is also bad advice.” – denob

VERSE FOR THE DAY

Proverbs 21:29     A wicked man hardeneth his face: but as for the upright, he directeth his way.

IMAGE FOR THE DAY

LYRIC FOR THE WEEK

The sun is hot and that old clock is movin’ slow,
And so am I.
Work day passes like molasses in wintertime,
But it’s July.
I’m gettin’ paid by the hour, and older by the minute.
My boss just pushed me over the limit.
I’d like to call him somethin’,
I think I’ll just call it a day.

Pour me somethin’ tall and strong,
Make it a “Hurricane” before I go insane.
It’s only half-past twelve but I don’t care.
It’s five o’clock somewhere.

Oh, this lunch break is gonna take all afternoon,
And half the night.
Tomorrow mornin’, I know there’ll be hell to pay,
Hey, but that’s all right.
I ain’t had a day off now in over a year.
My Jamaican vacation’s gonna start right here.
If the phone’s for me,
You can tell ’em I just sailed away.

And pour me somethin’ tall and strong,
Make it a “Hurricane” before I go insane.
It’s only half-past twelve but I don’t care.
It’s five o’clock somewhere.

I could pay off my tab,
put myself in a cab,
And be back to work before two.
At a moment like this I can’t help but wonder,
What would Jimmy Buffett do?

Funny you should ask, Alan. I’d say,

Pour me somethin’ tall and strong,
Make it a “Hurricane” before I go insane.
It’s only half-past twelve but I don’t care.

Pour me somethin’ tall and strong,
Make it a “Hurricane” before I go insane.
It’s only half-past twelve but I don’t care.

He don’t care.
I don’t care.

It’s five o’clock somewhere.

What time zone am I on? What country am I in?
It doesn’t matter, it’s five o’clock somewhere.
It’s always on five in Margaritaville, come to think of it.
Yeah, I heard that.
You been there, haven’t you?
Yes sir.
I seen your boat there.
I’ve been to Margaritaville a few times.
All right, that’s good.
Stumbled all the way back.
OK. Just wanna make sure you can keep it between the navigational beacons.
Between the buoys, I got it.
All right. Well, it’s five o’clock. Let’s go somewhere.
I’m ready, crank it up.
Let’s get out of here.
I’m gone.

( It’s Five O’ Clock Somewhere by Don Rollins and Jim Brown )