Nothing New Under The Sun 2016

Well my name’s John Lee Pettimore
Same as my daddy and his daddy before
You hardly ever saw Grandaddy down here
He only came to town about twice a year
He’d buy a hundred pounds of yeast and some copper line
Everybody knew that he made moonshine
Now the revenue man wanted Grandaddy bad
He headed up the holler with everything he had
It’s before my time but I’ve been told
He never came back from Copperhead Road
Now Daddy ran the whiskey in a big block Dodge
Bought it at an auction at the Mason’s Lodge
Johnson County Sheriff painted on the side
Just shot a coat of primer then he looked inside
Well him and my uncle tore that engine down
I still remember that rumblin’ sound
Well the sheriff came around in the middle of the night
Heard mama cryin’, knew something wasn’t right
He was headed down to Knoxville with the weekly load
You could smell the whiskey burnin’ down Copperhead Road

I volunteered for the Army on my birthday
They draft the white trash first,’round here anyway
I done two tours of duty in Vietnam
And I came home with a brand new plan
I take the seed from Colombia and Mexico
I plant it up the holler down Copperhead Road
Well the D.E.A.’s got a chopper in the air
I wake up screaming like I’m back over there
I learned a thing or two from ol’ Charlie don’t you know
You better stay away from Copperhead Road

Copperhead Road
Copperhead Road
Copperhead Road

( Copperhead Road by Steve Earle )

25 Saturday Jul 2026

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THE BIG PICTURE

World Noahide System (VIDEO) – “This in my opinion will be the bridge to the antichrist religion.I wanted to address why Christians need to understand what this is. Now these seven laws resemble the ten commandments and that is why a lot of Christians don’t understand the issue here. They don’t understand well the these are all good things, right? Prohibiting idolatry, prohibiting blasphemy, prohibiting sexual immorality. These are all good things and they look like the ten commandments. So what’s the big deal? The big deal is you will not find this specific set of laws that were given to Adam. They say the first six apparently were given to Adam and then the seventh was given to Noah. It was added on for Noah. Nowhere in the scriptures, nowhere in the living word of God will you find them.The seven Noahide laws are derived from the Talmud.” – Ashley Hays – YOU MAY NOT BE FAMILIAR WITH ALL OF THIS, BUT YOU BETTER BE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Are We In Time? Is the Left Gearing Up for the Biggest Genocide in their Bloody History? – “Are the migrants their army? Are the banks slow walking us into it? In Canada and the U.K., both leaders have now “allowed” more resource extraction to go forward. Now this is what Mark Carney’s Brookfield (and every other hedge fund) are invested in. If Climate Change is universally acknowledge to be the absolute pile of crap it is, they will lose billions. So taxpayers’ money will go straight there, and there has been no evidence that anything these organizations have engineered that did anything but take land. And bank it. In Brookfield.” – Elizabeth Nickson – THIS ONE IS A MUST READ, PEOPLE!!!!

I spent 7 days evading America’s 82 MILLION surveillance cameras (VIDEO) – Chris the Producer

I No Longer Trust Anyone – “Sad, but true. Since the Covid fiasco, I’ve seen the true nature of people—or at least the nature they were willing to show once the fear got turned up and the herd started moving. Most of them are still firmly under the sheep banner, content to graze wherever they’re told. A small handful stand under the “critical thinker” banner. Those are the ones I still trust. The sheepies? I don’t trust them anymore. Did I ever, really? I thought I did, back when I was younger and still believed most people were basically decent when the chips were down. Turns out that was optimistic.” – Todd Hayen, PhD, RP

Greenland’s Ice Sheet Was Supposed To Be Rapidly Melting Away. It Hasn’t Been – Kenneth Richard

Tick-Borne Fear Porn Everywhere – “The only thing we have to fear is the propaganda itself. On Sunday July 11, 2026, the New York Times ran an editorial entitled “We’re Living in a Tick Nightmare. It’s Time to Go to War,” in which a freelance climate-focused writer described unstoppable “tick armies” that are “hard to see, hard to kill, hard to find” and that “appear to already have us surrounded.” The ticks are “a bloodthirsty enemy” that resembles “a miniature version of the alien in the ‘Predator’ movies.”” – Debbie Lerman

What is the Universal religion and legal code in the US. Is it Sharia law? Is it in Alaska Alabama Hawaii. Seek out the Lord. – LawyerLisa

Coast to Coast AM: Just Poor Journalism? – “How even “alternative” media often sidelines the most uncomfortable 9/11 evidence.” – 9/11 Revisionist

Mussolini Goes SCORCHED EARTH on FREEMASONS – “Gee, I wonder why there is a complete and total history blackout about this?” – Agent131711

Common Pesticides Damaged DNA in Human Gut Cells — Even at Very Low Doses, New Study Finds – Sustainable Pulse

NEWS

FOURTH TURNING GLOBAL WAR – “Everything about this war on Iran is based on lies, mistruths, and propaganda, as the true motive is to further Netanyahu’s Greater Israel project of taking Gaza, Lebanon, and Syria, while defanging Iran and Turkey. Netanyahu convinced Trump it would be a cakewalk, or more likely, threatened Trump with revelations from the Epstein files. The assassination of Charlie Kirk for beginning to reveal the truth about Israeli control of the U.S. government and genocide in Gaza was also a warning shot across Trump’s bow. ” – Jim Quinn

Watch What He Does, Not What He Says: Why Trump Will Never Tell You the Real Story – “I want to be precise about this, because people always get it wrong. Trump doesn’t lie. Not in the way most people use that word. He speaks in untruths — that’s a big difference that matters when you’re trying to trade or invest off what he says. A lie is when somebody sets out to deceive you. An untruth is a negotiating move that happens to be dressed up as a sentence. If you grade him on accuracy you’ll constantly be wrong and come to despise him, which you might do anyway. Grade him on incentive-alignment and suddenly the guy makes total sense, even when he doesn’t.” – Kerry Lutz

‘Shameful’: Pentagon accused of cover-up over US military casualties in Iran war – “The defence department has not held a press briefing for two-and-a-half months. Officials have faced accusations that they are engaged in a cover-up designed to hide the true cost of Donald Trump’s war of choice in Iran, fearing a public backlash before November’s midterm elections.” – David Smith

The Israeli Tool of FIRE Across Europe And The Americas – “Massive wildfires have erupted across Spain – roughly a week or two after Netanyahu threatened terrorism across Spain for daring to defame the most moral army in the world – IDF. Netanyahu warned Spain that it would “pay an immediate price” for waging a diplomatic war against Israel. 95% of all fires are caused by human activity – not simple heat and wind. Half of all wildfires are intentional. The wildfires in Patagonia Argentina and Chile were observed to have been caused by Jewish ‘tourists’. However, media pundits will typically forget these factoids and blame climate change. Israel swore vengeance. Israel ALWAYS gets its vengeance. Why any Middle East country would continue to support Israel or the United States at this juncture is truly odd. Why the Saudi’s would need US permission is the first and most glaring anomaly. But a King Trumps a Prince. And that would seem to be our president’s view of himself on the global stage.” – Helena Glass

Lavrov Is Right: It’s “Embarrassing” To Fantasize That Russia Is Arming Iran Against The US – Andrew Korybko

Biden, Trump, and Trauma Bonding – “The Biden administration abused us, then Trump offered us hope for a better future, thereby reconstituting our bond with the federal government. Now the cycle of abuse is repeating.” – John Leake

McConnell faces growing questions about absence nearly six weeks after fall – “Scant details have not quieted rumors and online speculation about the former Senate Republican leader’s condition. Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear (D) said last week that he had heard nothing from McConnell since he was hospitalized, despite sending a letter seeking an update on his condition. He urged McConnell to call into a news station for a few minutes or put out a short video to reassure his constituents.” – Theodoric Meyer – SCANT IS AN UNDERSTATEMENT BY WAPO. WE HAVE LITERALLY HEARD NOTHING!!!

Cool Your Jets, Secy Bessent—The Chicoms Are Mainly Conventional Competitors, Not IP Thieves – “Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent recently took to X to declare what amounts to economic war on China: He has also warned that “this administration supports open-source models, but what we do not support is IP theft,” and that the United States “ha[s] the ability to sanction them because of this theft.” Actually, reverse engineering is not theft, Scottie! And neither is the bulk of what Chinese firms actually do in the global marketplace. The Chicoms are mainly conventional competitors in commerce—hard-driving, cost-obsessed, scale-seeking manufacturers and incremental improvers who play the same imitation-adaptation-commodification game every rising commercial power has played since the Industrial Revolution.” – David Stockman

ECONOMIC NEWS

There aren’t many economic buffers left (VIDEO) with David Haggith – “The parking lots are full, the Halloween skeletons are for sale in July, and the debt keeps rising. It’s the appearance of normality that’s the most misleading economic signal of all.” – Collapse Life

The Judder Moment In Oil, AI And The Presidency… – “The next few months are going to get interesting as markets react to the ongoing mess that is the Gulf, rising oil prices, wobbling stocks, rising bond yields, broken supply chains, and the reassessment of the AI “revolution”. Meanwhile, the US political cycle goes into the Mid-Terms. I predict the coming three months will become increasingly “interesting” in the Chinese sense of the word. There was a clear judder moment yesterday felt around global markets as the scale of the Iran War reversal became clear.” – Bill Blain

New Single-Family Home Prices Drop Further amid Declining Sales and once again Growing Inventory Glut – Wolf Richter

Your Home Equity Isn’t as Liquid as It Looks – “For many American families, the largest financial asset they own isn’t sitting in a retirement account. It has a roof, a water heater, a property-tax bill (and at least one closet nobody wants to clean out). It is the family home. For good reason! Homeownership has helped millions of Americans build wealth over time. A paid-off home can provide stability in retirement. Home equity can become a source of financial flexibility when expenses rise or life changes. But there is a catch we do not discuss often enough: Home equity is not cash. It is wealth locked inside the walls.” – Peter Reagan

Pay raises keep shrinking. Here’s how much smaller they’ll be next year. – “One solution is getting a different job — but that’s not so simple” – Andrew Keshner

Cracks Starting To Show In The Market? (VIDEO) with Lance Roberts – “The S&P has gone nowhere for two months now, and a momentum sell signal has just triggered. It has also recently broken out of it’s trading wedge…to the downside. Are these signs that should worry investors a larger correction may lie ahead? Or are there good reasons to expect a return to new all-time highs soon?” – Adam Taggart | Thoughtful Money®

5 Crucial Charts: Tariffs, Gold Inflows and Volatility – “Check out what these five charts are signaling about the markets this month.” – Nomi Prins

SURVIVAL, PREPAREDNESS AND SELF-SUFFICIENCY

Why An Old Farmer Can Almost Always Outthink A Room Full Of “Experts” – Bill Heid

Indoor Composting: How to Compost Without a Yard (3 Methods) – “Every day a household throws away things the garden would love: coffee grounds, banana peels, the soft end of a bag of spinach, eggshells. If you have a yard, those go on a pile out back. If you live in an apartment, a condo, or anywhere without a patch of ground, it can feel like composting is simply not for you. It is. Indoor composting turns the same kitchen scraps into rich, dark compost on a countertop, under a sink, or in a closet, with no yard and, done right, no smell. Extension services have taught it for decades, and the setups have only gotten simpler.” – In Homestead

Water Wisdom: Springs, Wells, And Rivers Through Native, Pioneer, And Amish Eyes – “A man can stretch food. He can sleep cold. He can work through pain. But when water turns bad, runs low, or disappears, the clock starts ticking fast.” – Alec Deacon

Succession Planting: Carrots and Lettuce – Ira Wallace

11 Blacklisted Items You Should Remove from Your Stockpile – “You can become a criminal without ever committing a crime. All it takes is the wrong box in your truck when you cross the wrong state line, because the American legal map is a patchwork where an ordinary piece of gear in one state is a misdemeanor in the next and a felony two states over.” – Jack

VERSE FOR THE DAY

Psalm 146:3 Put not your trust in princes, nor in the son of man, in whom there is no help.

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24 Friday Jul 2026

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THE BIG PICTURE

Walmart Just Got Caught.. These Videos Show Something Massive Happening (VIDEO) – “Walmart just got caught doing something massive with their prices. Not just walmart, but Aldi and Sams Club too. In this video I also look at what Walmart is going with their Vizo TVs and what a lawyer and previous coworker had to say about it.” – Sling and Stone – SOME SAY THE HAMS THAT THE GUY IS WEIGHING IN THE VIDEO COME INTO WALMARTS PRE-TAGGED, I’M A LITTLE SCEPTICAL ON THAT ONE!!!

Nikola Tesla Built the Modern World and Died Broke – “He invented the power grid, radio, and the electric motor. He died destitute in a New York hotel room.” – 🐺The Wise Wolf and Lily-Rose Dawson

The U.S. and Zionist Israeli Marriage of Evil – “Yes, the House of ‘Representatives’ have signed and passed through the House the National Defense Authorization Act for 2026. (NDAA) This mislabeled behemoth (3,100 pages) called a ‘defense act,’ a $1.15 trillion dollar monstrosity, is the work of evil, warmongering, profiteering, murdering psychopaths; those politicians and their controlling banking and corporate masters, who hold total power over this governing force. This is an atrocity beyond the scope of the lowly masses, who seem to have given up any and every chance to abolish this state of rule called the U.S. government.” – Gary D. Barnett

The War is Not Meant to Be Won – “Reflections on America’s “Forever Wars”. This morning I compiled a list of the known US military interventions abroad. I write known because many acts of US government agency violence are covert and never published.” – John Leake – AMAZING LIST OF WARS THAT THE U.S. WAS EITHER INVOLVED IN DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY AND IT JUST COVERS THE PAST 80 YEARS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Tech Firm Rebrands Sex Robot as Hot Teacher, Lands Contract With New York School District – “Last decade, RealBotix established itself as a leading pioneer in the sex robot industry, manufacturing love “companions” for lonely men with disposable incomes. Anyway, in a marketing rebrand, the company plugged up Harmony’s love-holes with calking or whatever so as to render her no longer “anatomically correct,” renamed her Aria, put her in a power-pantsuit, and reinvented her as a girlboss jack-of-all-trades working professional, no longer “intended for sexual purposes.” Now, Harmony the robot love slave, who gave up whoring and got renamed Aria, has once again forged a new path. She’s now a paraprofessional called Sally with a contract to teach public school kids on an Indian reservation in New York.” – Ben Bartee

Heatwave anxiety can make you feel ‘incredibly helpless’ – here’s how to manage it – Ashitha Nagesh and Georgina Rannard – HEATWAVE ANXIETY, OH MY. MAYBE BIG PHARMA HAS A PILL FOR IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Why AI slop is bad and people who post AI slop should feel bad – “Substack has partnered with Pangram to enable readers to scan posts, notes and comments for machine-generated text. No AI detector is flawless, but Pangram is pretty much the gold standard. Their algorithms detect AI-generated text more than 95% of the time, with a false positive rate approaching zero. I was very happy to read about this feature, and I think more social media platforms should do something like this before their content descends into a morass of platitudinous computer-generated nonsense.” – eugyppius

DARPA’s ‘ECHO’ Project: A Computer System That Declares You’ve Been ‘Exposed’ to a Biological or Chemical Threat—With No Physical Evidence – “Raising questions about how such determinations could be independently verified or challenged” – .Jon Fleetwood

NEWS

Where’s the Turtle? – “The war has diverted attention away from the disappearance of the Dirty Old Turtle, Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky. Just as it has diverted attention away from what is colloquially styled the Epstein Files, the contents of which are probably why we’re at war (at the behest of Israel, which was probably running the honeypot operation using Epstein as its willing front man). The case of the Dirty Old Turtle is remarkable in its own right because it is unprecedented – at least in the modern era. As for example the identities of the people who have to know whether the Dirty Old Turtle is alive. Or alive but brain dead. They are his staffers. They may also be criminals. It being a crime to conceal a death. It being fraud to be complicit in the telling of consequential lies pertaining to the public’s business. Imagine you disappeared and had not been in to the office for a month and your co-workers (who knew you were dead or brain dead) told the boss you merely recovering from a “minor” fall and a bout of pneumonia but were fine, fine fine and not to worry.” – Eric Peters

More War Creates More Peace…(VIDEO) – AwakenWithJP – ANOTHER GOOD ONE FROM JP!!!

WAR ON TWO FRONTS Explodes Oil Prices, Causes Stock-Market Priesthood to Declare they Were Shortsighted – David Haggith

Trump Losing Patience, In ‘Revenge Mode’ After 13th Consecutive Night Of US Strikes On Iran – “The latest little peace overture by Washington widely reported Thursday night was apparently a big nothingburger, as on Friday the Iraqi prime minister’s office has denied a New York Times report claiming that Iran rejected a US ceasefire proposal delivered to Tehran by Iraqi Prime Minister Ali al-Zaidi.” – Tyler Durden

Trump getting taste of his own medicine from an emboldened Iran, which now has Russia feeding it weapons and intelligence – “Take the 4-year-old U.S. proxy-war being waged against Russia and reverse it; now you see why Iran is turning into Trump’s nightmare” -. Leo Hohmann

Iran warns it will strike UK air base – “USAF heavy bombers are stationed at RAF Fairford base.” – Kurt Nimmo

Haiti Descends Deeper Into Chaos as Gang Terror Displaces Millions and Children Are Recruited Into Violence – “armed gangs now control approximately 85 percent of the Port-au-Prince metropolitan area and continue expanding into other regions, including Artibonite and Centre . The criminal organizations have taken over major highways, neighborhoods, ports, fuel terminals, and key transportation corridors , severely restricting the movement of people, humanitarian aid, and commercial goods.” – María Herrera Mellado

Bankrupt and fraudulent: EU sanctions Russia while silent on U.S., Israeli genocide – “People of Europe and around the world can see what the EU has become: an elitist warmongering project that is sacrificing its own citizens.” – Strategic Culture Foundation

Ukraine Bafflingly Battles Warehouse Chain as Russia Pulls Plug on Port Odessa – “After weaving another impressive made-for-TV spectacle by hitting Russian retail chain Wildberries with his patented kerosene drones, Zelensky was stupefied to discover that Russia was able to strike back thrice as hard. In fact, relevant Ukrainian ministers are now in a panic over the total shutdown of Odessa ports. Minister of Agrarian Policy Taras Vysotsky announced that Odessa has been completely shut down with no ships any longer able to enter its ports:” – Simplicius

ECONOMIC NEWS

“It’s Too Hard To Ignore $100 Oil”: Financial Markets Start To Shake As The Reality Of The Global Energy Crisis Weighs Heavily On Investors – “Everyone is starting to figure out that there isn’t going to be enough oil. ” – Michael Snyder

Energy Shock, Tariff Shock: The Inflation Hammer Drops – “The energy shock is already ripping through the cost of everything, from fuel to freight to food. Now Washington is slapping 10% to 12.5% tariffs on imports from 60 trading partners” – The Silver Academy

Cook The Books: Fed Chair Kevin Warsh Is Tweaking The PCE Inflation Gauge To Make The Data Look Better – “Warsh announced new task forces he’s launching to take a fresh look at various aspects of how the Fed operates. One of them is on inflation, including how it’s measured.” – The WinePress

Bond Market Just Flipped to “Rate Hike in July” as 2-Month Treasury Yield Spiked by 13 Basis Points – Wolf Richter

Adapting to Higher Yields – “Jamie Dimon, CEO of JPMorgan Chase, recently said he wouldn’t buy long-term U.S. Treasuries. His rationale is simple, he “doesn’t understand the upside.” Here at the Economic Prism, we don’t understand the upside either. But, unlike Dimon, we’re not running the largest primary dealer of U.S. Treasuries on Earth. Primary dealers, remember, are the elite financial institutions obligated to participate in U.S. Treasury auctions. Their purpose is to help grease the wheels of Uncle Sam’s multi-trillion-dollar borrowing machine. Yet Dimon, the chief architect of that machine’s biggest partner, just publicly bashed the product.” – MN Gordon

Gold and silver in wartime – “Some analysts tell us that gold goes down in war. This is rubbish. Otherwise, why would countries in the past have suspended their gold standards at wartime? There are some specious arguments being advanced for the lacklustre performance of gold and silver in recent weeks, and the argument above is just one of them. This week, gold and silver showed signs of turning a corner after their major declines since end-January. This morning they are tickling a little better, but investors need to focus on the big picture.” – Alasdair Macleod

The Fed’s Perpetual Money Machine: Why Free Markets Are Broken (VIDEO) with Michael Pento – ” I run a model called the inflation deflation economic cycle model and it’s very easy to I think it’s relatively easy to model the economy if you’re just looking at the macroeconomic conditions looking at the Federal Reserve. But when you have to model a president’s mood swings, it’s it’s very difficult. I got to be honest with you. just one day the war is going to be over in a couple of days they Iran is begging for a deal the next day they’re going to be wiped off the planet and this has happened over and over and over again so I just wish I supported the man I I voted for him twice I just wish he would just make his decision and and go with it because it’s very difficult to model the second derivative of inflation when oil goes from 65 to 120 back to 67 and then back all because of a a few you know Twitter posts about what we’re doing with the war. ” – Kerry Lutz’s Financial Survival Network

US New Home Sales Rise For First Time In 3 Months As Prices Near 5-Year Lows – “..but have basically gone nowhere in four years… New Home Sales were expected to rebound from April and May’s ugly declines… and they did, but only very modestly.” – Tyler Durden

SURVIVAL, PREPAREDNESS AND SELF-SUFFICIENCY

New Information Reveals America’s Power Grid Is Running on Empty… And That’s Why Off-Grid Living Makes More Sense Every Day – “Homesteaders have always understood something the modern world keeps forgetting: independence rarely arrives all at once. It begins with one garden bed, one rain barrel, one woodpile, one shelf of canned food, or one backup battery. Each small step reduces the number of things that must go right somewhere else for your family to remain safe. That same thinking belongs in our energy plans.” – Bill Heid

Add a Hand Pump to an Electric Well – “Learn how to install a backup hand pump on an existing well and avoid power-outage droughts.” – Larry Pina

Power from the Wreckage – “Building small, repairable energy systems from the electrical remains of a dead civilization. Eventually, the last commercially manufactured backup-power system will fail. That does not necessarily mark the end of electricity. Modern civilization has scattered electrical equipment almost everywhere. Vehicles contain alternators, motors, heavy cable, fuse blocks, relays, switches and sockets. Buildings contain kilometres of copper wire. Computer backup systems contain batteries, chargers and inverters. Damaged solar installations may still have functional panels. Appliances contain motors, fans, switches, bearings and capacitors.” – denob

The Two Supplies That Keep A Family Standing When Everything Else Fails – “When trouble reaches a household, the first questions are usually simple. What will we drink? What will we eat?” – Alec Deacon

Common Chicken Illnesses: Symptoms, Prevention, And Treatment – “Even in the best-managed flocks, chickens can become sick or injured from time to time. While good nutrition, clean housing, and proper management go a long way toward preventing many health problems, it’s important to know how to recognize common illnesses and respond quickly when they do occur.” – Homesteaders of America

VERSE FOR THE DAY

Proverbs 18:4 The words of a man’s mouth are as deep waters, and the wellspring of wisdom as a flowing brook.

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23 Thursday Jul 2026

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THE BIG PICTURE

How Much is it Going to Cost Us? – “How much could Trump’s stupid, evil – and apparently never-ending – war with Iran ( for Israel) cost us? it could soon be costing Americans $7 per gallon – due to the price of crude oil reaching (possibly surpassing) $200 per barrel. Does Trump give any thought to the consequences of gasoline at $7 per gallon? Probably not, because gasoline could go up to $20 per gallon and he wouldn’t feel it. Seven dollar gas would end America as we have known it. It would “break the back” of the world economy” – Eric Peters

The Odyssey And The Tiresome Woke War Against White Culture – “We’ve all heard the argument for most of our lives: “White culture doesn’t exist.” It’s perhaps the most common racial refrain because it’s the most socially acceptable to repeat. If someone said “Black culture doesn’t exist because black people all herald from different tribes…” that person would be browbeaten as a bigot by the woke mob. When it comes to white culture, such claims are applauded. The question is, why is it okay to diminish or denigrate white culture while worshiping every other culture? Furthermore, if white culture doesn’t exist, why are woke minority groups constantly trying to hijack white history and accomplishments?” – Brandon Smith

Weather Warfare & Geoterrorist Attacks Launched Across The Planet – “If 2026 has shown the world community of nations one thing, it’s that The Powers That Be no longer care that their weather warfare and other types of geo-terrorism are being routinely used in plain sight. The most transparent act of geo-terrorism in the USA is the now annual arsonist-started wildfires and firestorms, which are purposefully spread throughout Eastern Canada and produce so much smoke and ash and haze that health alerts are now frequently issued across the affected states. See the following email sent to SOTN by a regular reader: “I’m 70 years old and I grew up and lived much of my life near the US-Canadian border. Prior to 2023 or thereabouts I never remember experiencing these out-of-control fires in Canada that now trigger health alerts in the USA—NEVER! Now, they’re happening every year without interruption—very odd indeed.”’ – A Weather Warfare Watcher / State of the Nation Exclusive

It Went Sour (VIDEO) – “You know they’ll bury this.” – Paul Joseph Watson – ANOTHER IMMIGRANT MURDER!!!

The New Energy Map: Power, Technology, and the Architecture of the Twenty-First Century – “Energy is no longer simply a commodity — it has become the operating system of global power, where oil, electricity, semiconductors, and artificial intelligence are woven into a single architecture redefining the balance of power in the 21st century.” – Phil Butler

Trump Admin Announces Over $5 Billion In New Funding For The ‘Genesis Mission,’ A Government-Wide Scheme To Build More AI Infrastructure And Establish Tokenized Economy – The WinePress

The Traitorous Eight Tech CEOs – “Naming and shaming the 8 most subversive Silicon Valley CEOs who have sold out American workers for H-1Bs and outsourcing” – Yuri Bezmenov

United Nations Claims All Must Fight “Climate Change” – “The UN just declared that every nation has a legal duty to obey its climate agenda—or face the consequences. Reports about the death of climate alarmism have been greatly exaggerated. In fact, obeying United Nations climate decrees is now officially “international law.” At least that is what two key UN entities and more than 140 national governments would like humanity to believe.” – Alex Newman

NEWS

Governments Have No Authority Over Our God-Given Rights – “Fake ‘democracies’ cannot be allowed to take what God gives us.” – J.B. Shurk |

Getting Away with Murder: Under Trump, the Buck Stops Nowhere – “Having burned through billions of dollars and depleted critical munitions stockpiles, the Pentagon is running out of money. Our money. Once again, the government is looking to the American people for a taxpayer-funded bailout—this time to the tune of $67 billion. Nor is the $67 billion emergency infusion the end of it. Trump’s fiscal year 2027 budget calls for an unprecedented $1.5 trillion in national-defense spending—a staggering increase that would pour still more money into a military apparatus that cannot account honestly for the costs of its current war, maintain its existing priorities, or keep from returning to taxpayers for another bailout. That is becoming a familiar pattern under Donald Trump. He makes the decisions—others absorb the consequences. He launches the war—the troops make the sacrifices, and taxpayers inherit the bill.” – John & Nisha Whitehead

The “Greatest Threat” to America? – “Hegseth wants your money. In his eternal quest to remind everyone there’s a dumber official than Sebastian Gorka (somehow), the Secretary of War testified under oath that the greatest threat to America is not giving the Pentagon more money. “Not funding this department at $1.5 trillion, I believe, is the greatest threat that our nation faces,” he told the Senate. The one-and-a-half trillion dollar figure refers to the record budget sought by the military.” – Ken Klippenstein

The End Of The Islamic Republic: Oilpocalypse Maybe? – “If War Continues, Persian Gulf Oil Does Not Flow” – Peter Nayland Kust

War is Peace! – “That’s the new motto of the Trump administration as it lights Iran on fire by hitting nuclear sites and contemplates starting a new war in Africa because you just can’t have too much peace! President Trump threatened to open up an entirely new war n the West African nation of Mali to rid it of al Qaeda. That should be fun as we know how these al Qaeda ambitions go. If approved, [the plan] would add an eighth nation to the list of countries where President Donald Trump has ordered strikes since the start of his second term – a chapter of his presidency that he initially said would be dedicated to ending global strife and redirecting U.S. resources to Americans.” – David Haggith

Trump Throws Abraham Accords Monkey Wrench Into Saudi Nuclear Deal At 11th Hour – “The already signed deal “totally subject to” normalization with Israel…” – Tyler Durden

Israel Firebombed a Family Home Where Children Were Sleeping in Latest Killing Spree – “As the world focuses on the renewed U.S. war with Iran, Israel has killed nearly 60 Palestinians over the past week and moved to occupy close to 70 percent of Gaza.” – Abdel Qader Sabbah

Oil hits $100 a barrel after Iran-backed Houthis ‘strike two tankers’ in Red Sea – “Attacks by proxy militia threaten to open new front in Iran war near alternative shipping route to Strait of Hormuz” – Emily Blumenthal and Chris Price

Old Fools, New Fools – “The Democratic Socialists of America dust off the old playbook… To be sure, the new stupid ideas sound suspiciously like the old stupid ideas… but now they are nuclear-armed and college-miseducated, too! Take the latest trend toward so-called “democratic socialism” in the United States of America… This is the idea, as far as we can tell, that seeks to launder the astonishing conceit of collectivist wisdom through the echoing braincases of the unwashed mobjority… so not only are voters saddled with a system that has never worked in all of human history, but they get to thank their neighbors for having forcibly imposed it upon them, too!” – Joel Bowman

America’s Museum: Now With More Fetish Gear Than Ever – “A House hearing finds the Smithsonian has room for BDSM, DEI, and LGBTQ displays—but not George Washington” – Jenna McCarthy

ECONOMIC NEWS

Oil Surges Six Percent. Brent Above $100, WTI at $92. Thank Trump – “Trump’s tit-for-tat war with Iran escalates. You pay the price.” – Mish”

If “Inflation” Rises, Sell Gold. Say what? – “Unpredictable leaders of warring countries create volatility and generalized fear. Bombs are falling near and on the Strait of Hormuz. Oil jumped 16% in five trading sessions. And yet gold, the asset people want to have when the world is on fire—the asset that people squirrel away in their pockets as they flee the invading hordes—has fallen in dollar terms. 2.6% over that same week. And it broke below $4,000 an ounce for a moment. Selling gold is now being called “risk off.” Really? Is this akin to when data show the economy is doing poorly, the stock market rises? Pretty much. We live in a topsy-turvy world.” – John Hunt, MD

Gold & Silver Are Breaking Out – “Gold, silver, and mining stocks broke out above a triangle pattern many feared would break lower. This is encouraging, but more hurdles need to be cleared for additional confirmation.” – Jesse Colombo

Crop Prices Hit 3-Year High As Heat & War Stoke Supply Fears; Options Whale Places $20M Corn Bet – ” Bloomberg reported that an option trade made a $20 million bet that corn futures will surge to their highest since 2023, as reduced US planting, record exports, and heat-damaged crops tighten the supply outlook” – Tyler Durden – JUST DROVE THROUGH THE ILLINOIS COUNTRY SIDE THIS MORNING, THE CORN AND BEAN CROPS DIDN’T LOOK BAD TO ME!!!

Forget Stocks, Buy Pokémon – Peter Schiff

Private Equity Landlords Are Dumping Their Houses – “The first housing bubble domino?” – John Rubino

China Ends Retail Paper Gold Tomorrow – “China wants gold to function less like a tradable derivative and more like money” – The Silver Academy

SURVIVAL, PREPAREDNESS AND SELF-SUFFICIENCY

The Survival and Preparedness Wisdom We’ve Forgotten! Great Depression Lessons (VIDEO) – “The Great Depression Taught My Granny and Her Family True Preparedness” – Jason Salyer – GOOD ONE FROM JASON!!!

The One-Dollar Bottle Every Homesteader Should Keep In The Garden Shed – “Why One Humble Household Staple May Solve More Garden Problems Than a Shelf Full of Expensive Garden Products” – Bill Heid

The House Next Door Just Became a Threat – “When a neighbouring property changes hands, your entire security picture changes with it. During normal times, the house next door is simply part of the neighbourhood. You recognize the vehicles, know when the occupants leave for work and barely notice the lights coming on at night. After a prolonged collapse, that familiarity can disappear quickly. A neighbour may evacuate without warning. A vacant home may be occupied by displaced families, transient scavengers or people searching for supplies. Unknown vehicles may begin arriving after dark. Curtains may move inside a house that was supposed to be empty. None of this automatically means the new occupants are hostile. It does mean that every assumption you previously made about that property must be reconsidered.” – denob

Here’s What a Prepper Learned Surviving a Flood of Biblical Proportions – Fabian Ommar

Best Hand Saw for Cutting Logs and Firewood – “The best hand saw for cutting logs depends mainly on the size of the wood. For large logs and serious firewood cutting, a one-person or two-person crosscut saw is usually the best choice. For smaller logs or occasional use, a 24-inch timber saw or bow saw is easier to handle. Below are the best options for cutting logs, tree trunks, and firewood by hand, along with the strengths and limitations of each type.” – Ken Jorgustin

VERSE FOR THE DAY

Matthew 13:40 As therefore the tares are gathered and burned in the fire; so shall it be in the end of this world.

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22 Wednesday Jul 2026

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THE BIG PICTURE

The Ideology Behind the American Revolution – Wanjiru Njoya

the illusion of freedom is illusioning. – alana violet⋆✧˖*

Trump CDC Director Nominee Touts ‘Safe and Effective’ mRNA Tech, Vows to ‘Never Betray the Science’ – “Last week’s CDC Director confirmation hearing was an unmitigated dumpster fire from start to finish. Firstly, as these spectacles always go — despite 75% of Americans suffering from a chronic health condition, per CDC’s own data, almost none of which have anything to do with infectious disease — at least 90% of the questions from the Congress members pertained to vaccines.” – Ben Bartee

4 Ways to Tell if You Are “All In” for Christ – “You are either all in or all out.” – Kate Dreston

The late great American Empire: Why it’s dying and what’s likely to follow in its place? – “The United Nations recently declared a state of “global water bankruptcy.” This will be the pretext for “emergency measures” that will have very tangible effects on your day-to-day life” – .Leo Hohmann

TX DPS Buys Four Tahoes Equipped with Israeli FalcoNet – “Texas DPS paid $3.9 million for Cognyte FalcoNet gear inside four SUVs that can silently intercept 5G signals from every nearby phone” – The Tactical Hermit

Is Our Healthcare System Built for Prevention or Lifetime Treatment? – “America does not have a shortage of medical spending. We have a shortage of health. In 2024, the United States spent approximately $5.3 trillion on healthcare, about $15,474 for every person in the country. Yet chronic illness continues to rise, millions of Americans struggle to access consistent primary care, and families are increasingly questioning whether our healthcare system is truly designed to keep people healthy.” – Tracy Slepcevic

Cheating the System: How AI Data Centers Bypass Water and Air Pollution Laws and Permits – Brenda Baletti, Ph.D.

Epstein-linked modeling scout found dead outside Paris – “Daniel Siad was under investigation by French police specializing in combating human trafficking. The former scout was not the first of Epstein’s former associates to die before they got to testify in court. Jeffrey Epstein’s alleged ‘suicide note’ unsealed (PHOTO) Read more Jeffrey Epstein’s alleged ‘suicide note’ unsealed (PHOTO) Jean-Luc Brunel, the founder of a modeling agency established with financial backing from Epstein, was arrested in 2020 on allegations including rape and child sex trafficking. He died in prison in 2022 while awaiting trial. French authorities ruled his death a suicide.” – RT – JUST A COINCIDENCE, DON’T YOU KNOW!!!!

Creating the Imperative Narrative: The Newspaper Archive Search [History Heist PART 2] – “In the last part of this series, I shared with you the story of how history was literally stolen so that it could be altered or destroyed. That research inspired me to perform a newspaper archive search to see if there were any publications regarding lost, stolen, or destroyed historical records, and I couldn’t believe what I found…” – Agent131711 – AGENT131711 CONTINUES HIS DIVE!!!!

The Woman Who Came Back: What One Dose of Psilocybin Revealed About the Self We Thought Alzheimer’s Had Erased – “After ten years of Alzheimer’s and five years of near-silence, an 80-year-old woman took a single high dose of psilocybin mushrooms—and, roughly nineteen hours later, began to speak about her life for hours. She was not cured. But she was, unmistakably, still there. The question that leaves us with may be the most important one in all of neuroscience.” – Sayer Ji

NEWS

Iran Has President Trump on a Hopeless Walk through the Quagmire of Unending War – “Crude prices are set to rise a lot more—Goldman Sachs says $120/bbl—and Trump has no clear path out of the problems he’s walked into.” – David Haggith

Trump Is NOT A Reluctant War President – “One of the dumbest popular narratives you see today is the idea that Zionists persuaded a reluctant Trump to start a war with Iran after he was re-elected, like they were chasing him around going “Would you like to bomb Iran?” like the guy from Green Eggs and Ham while he yelled “Not in a…” – Caitlin Johnstone

Trump Says Salafi Head Choppers in Syria will Disarm Hezbollah – “Ahmed al-Sharaa’s jihadi terrorists no match for Hezbollah.” – Kurt Nimmo

Reflections From the Heart of the Empire: Dances with Absurdity – “The Iranians once again said they were ready to welcome an American ground invasion. Sorry, Iran, but where would we invade you from? The sea’s out, since we can’t even keep the Strait of Hormuz open if y’all want it closed—that’s been amply demonstrated. In spades. What’s that leave? Iraq, Turkey, Russia, Azerbaijan, Afghanistan, and Pakistan. There’s this assumption by so many that the US is even capable of starting a ground invasion of Iran. ” – Ohio Barbarian – THE BARBAIAN’S WEEKLY REFLECTION. GOOD READ ONCE AGAIN!!

Reviving the Old Cold War Racket Against Cuba – “The State Department just issued a report that is straight out of the old Cold War playbook. It states that Cuba’s communist regime is behind the democratic socialist movements and radical leftist groups here in America. In other words, the Reds are coming to get us … again! Everyone needs to start looking under his bed for a Red … again! And Cuba, which is located only 90 miles away from American shores, is clearly the spearhead of the international communist conspiracy that is determined to take over America … again! The Cold War racket was the best thing that ever happened to the Pentagon, the CIA, and the NSA, the three principal components of the U.S. national-security state. By striking deep fear of the Reds within the American people after World War II,” – Jacob G. Hornberger

U.S.-Saudi nuclear deal risks Middle East arms race – “President Donald Trump has approved an agreement with Saudi Arabia that could provide the kingdom with uranium enrichment capability without the safeguards necessary to stop materials being used in nuclear weapons programs. The 123 Agreement as it is known includes non-proliferation requirements in line with the UN International Atomic Energy Agency, but excludes the “Gold Standard”, which blocks uranium enrichment” – Phil Bainbridge – ONLY THE COUNTRIES WE WANT CAN HAVE THE BOMB OR CAPABILITIES, BUT WE WILL GO TO WAR AGAINST ANYONE ELSE. MAKES SENSE, RIGHT!!!!!!

Trump’s Saudi Deal Is a Terrible Idea – “Trump’s agreement undermines our government’s commitment to nonproliferation, and it rewards one of the worst governments in the world with advanced nuclear technology.” – Daniel Larison

Chilling New Clues Challenge Suicide Claim In Los Alamos Lab Worker’s Death – “Fresh evidence recovered from the remote New Mexico forest where Los Alamos National Laboratory administrative assistant Melissa Casias was found has blown major holes in the suicide narrative.” – Steve Watson

The Money Printers Fueling Socialism’s Rise – “Here’s a graph the Keynesians, statists, and Wall Street gamblers—yes, we repeat ourselves—would prefer not to explain. At the same time, it also explains why socialism at this late date in history—and after all its abysmal failures the world over—is having some kind of dubious second coming in America. During the last three decades the national savings rate (red line) has essentially collapsed, having fallen from 6.3% of GDP in 1997 to 0.5% of GDP in 2025. Between the same two dates, however, the net worth of US households (blue line) has soared from 4.6X personal income to 6.5X personal income. In economist jargon, the question would recur as follows: How in the world over a three-decade period did the stock of wealth soar when the flows of savings virtually evaporated?” – David Stockman

Why is anyone taking these people seriously? – “Socialism in the United States is nothing new. For as long as it’s existed, there have been people in this country who wanted it. Like I said, nothing new. But throughout most of my lifetime, socialists got shunted to the side in serious politics because their ideas were absolutely retarded. It was, to put it as generously as I can, communism lite. All of the same economics, but with slightly better packaging. Democratic socialism, as personified by people like Bernie Sanders, takes the packaging of a turd and adds sprinkles to it.” – Tom Knighton

Socialist Mamdani Concedes NYC Can’t Arrest Netanyahu, Breaking Another Campaign Promise – “Mamdani said his administration reviewed every available legal option but maintained that Netanyahu is “not welcome” in NYC. President Trump said Monday that Netanyahu would not be arrested anywhere in the U.S., while Israel’s U.N. ambassador accused the socialist, pro-Islamist Mamdani of promoting Hamas propaganda. During last year’s campaign, Mamdani promised fellow socialists and Islamists that he would order city police to arrest Netanyahu under the ICC warrant. That pledge now adds to a growing list of unfulfilled promises, including lower rents, free buses, and other proposed handouts.” – Tyler Durden

Democrats Brace for the Return of Kamala Harris – “Maybe the third time’s the charm?” – Tim Donner

India Keeps Buying Russian Oil at Near-Record Pace Despite Expired Waiver – Tsvetana Paraskova

ECONOMIC NEWS

“Prepare Yourself For The Ending” (VIDEO) with Bill Holter – “If you know what the ending is, you prepare yourself for the ending. If you understand why you own the metal, the purpose of having capital outside of the system, you should be able to relax a little bit. And if you have funds that are still in the banking system or still in the system, now is a perfect opportunity to get those funds out of the system into metal into your hands with no counterparty risk and no default risk. Derivatives are the gorilla in the room” – Liberty and Finance Liberty and Finance

Global oil prices hold gains after topping $95 a barrel for the first time in 6 weeks as hopes dim for de-escalation of Iran war – “The international benchmark Brent crude on Wednesday morning climbed 5% to surpass $95 a barrel for the first time in six weeks” – Isabel Wang and Nora Redmond

Inflation Fell – Here’s Why Your Bills Didn’t – “Most families do not need a government report to tell them the cost of living remains too high. They see it at the grocery store. They see it at the gas pump. They see it in insurance premiums, utility bills and medical costs. So when inflation moves, people pay attention.” – Peter Reagan

Six Months Is Plenty Of Time To “Hide A Body” – “The proposed 6 month reporting period is a unconscionable idea.” – Quoth the Raven

🎥 Rick Rule: “We Are at a Lifetime Opportunity for Real Assets”(VIDEO) – “As central banks attempt to navigate structural debt and inflation, the fundamental disconnect between paper markets and physical commodities continues to grow. But inside the resource sector, a distinct shift is taking place. What we’re seeing is that smart capital is positioning for long-term real wealth creation over short-term speculative noise.” – Nomi Prins

US Home Builder Sentiment Contracts for 15th Month – Martin Armstrong

SURVIVAL, PREPAREDNESS AND SELF-SUFFICIENCY

Are Too Many Chores Making You Fat? – “Why Scientists Are Now Saying Going To Bed Earlier May Do More For Your Waistline Than Finishing One More Job Around The Homestead ” – Bill Heid

The 101 Essential Items That Helped Rebuild America After the Great Depression – Olivia Brooks

The Fatwood Myth: Why Most “Fire Starter” Trees People Identify Aren’t Actually Rich in Resin – “Anyone who has spent time around campfires or bushcraft forums has heard the promise: find a pine stump, shave off a few slivers, and you have an instant fire starter that lights even in the rain. That promise sits at the heart of what I call the fatwood myth, the widespread belief that almost any old pine stump, dead branch, or weathered knot is packed with the same resin saturated wood that made longleaf pine famous across the American South.” – Bob Rodgers

When Automated Infrastructure Fails: The First 48 Hours – Alec Deacon

LDS Preparedness Manual: What It Is, Who Compiled It, and Is It Still Relevant? -“The LDS Preparedness Manual is a free, unofficial 500-page preparedness compilation put together in 2012 by Christopher M. Parrett, not an official publication of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Its food storage and mindset guidance still holds up well, but coverage of technology, energy, and pandemic planning reflects a pre-2020 world.” – Lisa Bedford

VERSE FOR THE DAY

Deuteronomy 23:21 When thou shalt vow a vow unto the Lord thy God, thou shalt not slack to pay it: for the Lord thy God will surely require it of thee; and it would be sin in thee.

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21 Tuesday Jul 2026

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THE BIG PICTURE

Remote Water Shutoffs: How They’ll Kill Victory Gardens )VIDEO) – “Your garden has been deemed “non-essential.” They can automatically shut off your water after just 50 liters (13 gallons) per day … or any arbitrary amount they decide.” – UNSHADOWED (formerly known as Ice Age Farmer).

Faking “Water Bankruptcy” Part 2: Climate Change – “Later this year, the UN will be hosting a major summit on the world’s water supply. The Global Water Conference 2026 is being assembled to tackle what the UN is calling “water bankruptcy”, and pursue Sustainable Development Goal 6 in pursuit of Agenda 2030. The narrative being sold is that the world wide water supply is under threat in some new and critical way, and drastic – potentially global – action is required. Another ‘crisis’ in other words. Another Hegelian Dialectic. And we know what those mean.” – Kit Knightly – PART 1 WAS LINKED ON 07/05/26

Palantir’s Dark Intelligence-Industrial Complex Origins – “It is no wonder then that Peter Thiel named his data analytics spy company Palantir Technologies after the Palantíri, but just like the actual founders of fellow spy corporations Facebook, Google, Amazon, Tesla, et al., these are merely corporate fronts for the Intelligence-Industrial Complex. What began as a DARPA program, designed to erode the very safeguards of our Constitution, didn’t disappear when it left government oversight. Instead, it was quietly spun out, rebranded as a private firm, and continued pursuing the same agenda under corporate cover.” – 2nd Smartest Guy in the World

Bayer Consolidates Glyphosate Business Into New Subsidiary Entity “Ruveon,” Seeks To Strengthen Ties With US Government – “”Ruveon’s launch is a sign of our ongoing commitment to excellence in the glyphosate market,” said an executive.” – The WinePress

The History Heist: How The Truth WAS STOLEN – The Most Shocking Story You’ve Never Heard – “Some of the most important untold history that you will ever read… It’s critical that we don’t just learn what they did, but we learn how they did it. And once you learn how they pulled this off, your mind will be blown…” – Agent131711

62.9% of youth agree: “Humanity is doomed” – “Americans aged 18-25 are anxious, powerless, and afraid. The forests are burning, Europe just experienced another apocalyptic heat wave, and narcissistic egomaniacs drool over lobbing nuclear weapons at Iran. Still, people shock me every day with their decision to bring human life into this hell hole.” – Sarah Connor

World Economic Forum Says There Are ‘Solid, Rational’ Reasons For Children To Be Microchipped In Their Brains – The WinePress

Exclusive: Government Spy Hubs Are Surveilling Anti-Flock Camera Activists – “The Counter Terrorism Apparatus Comes For Anti-Surveillance Activist” – Dan Boguslaw

Critical data. Flock surveillance and the State of Israel. This is not flocking good. – “Apparently FLOCK does have an important connection to a country in the middle east. Better flocking think.” – LawyerLisa -IMAGINE THAT!!!!

NEWS

Where’s Israel? – “It is interesting that the country that goaded the United States – well, goaded Trump – into starting the war is no longer an active participant in the war. Let’s you and him fight, as the saying goes. While Israel watches. Quietly. One hears almost nothing about Israel all of a sudden. “Bibi” isn’t to be seen. Previously, it was hard not to see him. It’s almost as if this war doesn’t involve Israel when, of course, it is all about Israel. There would be no war were it not for Israel. The premise seems to be that had the United States not attacked Iran – had only Israel attacked Iran – somehow that would have resulted in harm to America. Well, that’s exactly what happened. Americans have been killed and something on the order of $100 billion has been lost – so far. Now America has assumed total responsibility for this stupid, evil war that was started by and for Israel. More finely, Americans have been saddled with total responsibility for this stupid, evil war that was started by and for Israel.” – Eric Peters – WELL SAID BY ERIC!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

U.S. war with Iran just climbed another rung up the escalation ladder – “This was the worst possible news for those trying to scratch out a living in our teetering economy, but it’s great for the oil companies and war profiteers.. According to multiple media outlets, Yemen’s Iran-aligned Houthis declared today, July 20, an immediate naval blockade on Saudi Arabia. This brings the U.S./Israel-Iran war officially to the southern entrance of the Red Sea, shutting down an export route through the Bab el-Mandeb Strait used by the Saudis to bypass disruptions in the Strait of Hormuz. Oil that was being rerouted from the Strait of Hormuz into the Red Sea and up through the Suez Canal in Egypt will now be cut off if Yemen is able to make good on its stated mission. This will wreck the Egyptian economy, possibly drawing that country into the war against Iran.” – Leo Hohmann

Mamdani Claims He Will Arrest Netanyahu – “New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani has decided to enter the realm of international diplomacy by threatening to arrest Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu should he attend the United Nations General Assembly this September. Speaking to the New York Times, Mamdani called Netanyahu “a war criminal” and declared, “Netanyahu belongs in The Hague.” ” – Martin Armstrong

Islam and America Are Incompatible – “Here is a declaration of Islamic supremacy Americans can no longer ignore.” – J.B. Shurk

They Are Coming to Take Us Away – “The White House discovers more “commies” and terrorists. In Donald Trump’s America it is always possible to wake up in the morning and peruse online the overnight headlines to discover something new and exciting. Over the past week it has been a medley of going to war (again) with Iran coupled with a complicated performance on other issues as President Trump apparently takes aim at his enemies in the US and elsewhere. America’s Secretary of War Pete Hegseth is fully on board with a surge in worldwide mayhem. He is looking forward to an increase in US initiated violence, ordering that male soldiers, airmen, sailors and marines be tested for their testosterone levels. ” – Philip Giraldi

Invasion of the Cuban Commies – “Marco says radical Democrats are out to destroy Western Civilization. – Kurt Nimmo

After “Political Terrorism” Summit, U.S. Names 43 Americans + Groups – “Rubio report on Cuban subversion names Zohran Mamdani, Amy Goodman, Hasan Piker + orgs like DSA and Amazon Labor Union . But what exactly are they guilty of? What the report shows isn’t that any of these people are knowingly taking directions from a foreign power — only that they disagree with the U.S. government on Cuba policy (or at most, agree with Cuba). Their views can be wrong — aggressively, offensively wrong even — but it’s their goddamn right as Americans to hold them.” – Ken Klippenstein

Election 2028: Rubio is Kamikaze Genghis Kahn to JD Vance’s Peter Sellers in ‘Being There’ – “JD Vance and Rubio think they are running for president in 2028. As such, everything they do and say is prompted for that event. However, both of them are role playing on a stage set. They are not Being Themselves and don’t understand that this will be a broad bust failure.” – Helena Glass

Burnham is the New UK PM: Where’s the Mandate? – “In all the excitement, the government forgot to ask the people.” – Mark Angelides

UK migrant racket: One village has had enough – “Piddington wants out of Britain, reflecting rising fury as tiny communities are told to absorb migrants with no consent or security” – Robert Bridge

Mugshots of minorities booked as “White” to keep national stats low for crimes committed by race (VIDEO) – BP News – AMAZING!!!!!

Nicaragua says no to Monroe – “As Daniel Ortega abandons the pretense of electoral choice, China gives his regime new confidence to defy Washington and the moribund Monroe Doctrine.” – Collapse Life

Burkina Faso and Israel: The Sahel and the realignment of regional balances in West Africa – “Ibrahim Traoré’s Burkina Faso, navigating pragmatically between Tehran and Tel Aviv, between Moscow and Beijing, and now attempting to open a channel with Israel just as it severs ties with Paris, is not making an ideological choice, but rather executing a balancing maneuver typical of a state that, having broken with its historical ally, must necessarily expand its network of partners to avoid finding itself in a state of strategic isolation. ” – Lorenzo Maria Pacini – TRAORE’ APPEARS TO BE NO DUMMY!!!

Trump Reaches For A 1930 Tariff Law To Hit Canada With 50% Duties – But Not On These Items – “This is not a blanket levy on everything crossing the northern border, and what got left out is as revealing as what got hit. Oil – of which Canada is the largest foreign supplier to American refineries – is exempt. So is potash, the fertilizer input U.S. farmers depend on and cannot readily source elsewhere. What remains is still enormous. The covered list runs from milk and cream to alcohol, hockey equipment, food products, construction materials, clothing, furniture, technology, and car parts,” – Tyler Durden

ECONOMIC NEWS

Trump’s 18-Month Deadline To Cut Electricity Prices in Half Has Arrived. Rates Are Up 18%. – ‘Yet another broken campaign promise.” – Jeff Luse

An oil lifeline is under threat, and markets have yet to price in the growing crisis – “Oil futures surge as Houthi threat to Saudi port endangers crucial Red Sea workaround” – Claudia Assis and Myra P. Saefong

Flickers of Hope in a Black Sea of Carnage – “The oil market delivered its full delusional powers today while not delivering much oil. Ponder the realty-based path Forget smoking the petroleum-based hopium. Ponder reality. If you want to see what is likely to happen with oil prices, consider how the rising price in oil was buffered during the first part of this war and what has happened to those buffers since then:” – David Haggith

Goldman Warns Brent Could Top $120 If Gulf Chokepoint Crisis Deepens – “Brent crude futures are trading in the low $90s as the Gulf area escalation enters a tenth consecutive day. Iran attacked a tanker in the Strait of Hormuz, while two tankers carrying Saudi crude reversed course in the southern Red Sea after warnings from Iran-backed Houthi forces placed another critical maritime chokepoint under threat.” – Tyler Durden

Oh Dear, Condo Prices Fell by 15% to 33% in 30 Bigger Cities Already. Some Dropped Back to 2006 Levels – “In another 39 bigger cities, condo prices fell by 8% to 14%. A massive hangover after a historic Condo Bubble.” – Wolf Richter

Central Bank Gold Demand Continues – “Despite some selling that materialized in March after the start of the U.S. war with Iran, global central bank gold demand continued at a torrid pace in the first half of 2026, and this desire for physical metal underpins and supports the derivative-based gold price.” – Craig Hemke

SURVIVAL, PREPAREDNESS AND SELF-SUFFICIENCY

Surviving and Thriving when Difficult Times Come – “Crisis-proof income” – John Hunt, MD

How to Plant Strawberries + Tips for Success – “Nothing says summer to me quite like fresh, ripe strawberries.” – Melissa K. Norris

Follow The Freight: What Shipping Delays And Rail Problems Mean For Your Pantry – “Most people notice shortages when the shelf is already empty. A prepper should notice them earlier. Food does not appear at the grocery store by magic. It moves through a long chain of ports, rail yards, truck routes, warehouses, fuel stops, distribution centers, and store back rooms. When that chain runs well, nobody thinks about it. When it starts to fail, the first signs often show up far from the grocery aisle. A port backs up. A rail line slows down. Diesel prices jump. At first, these things sound like business news. A few weeks later, they can become higher prices, delayed deliveries, missing brands, and thin shelves. That is why preppers should learn to follow the freight.” – Alec Deacon

How Long Do Chicken Eggs Take to Hatch? A Complete Incubation Guide – Self-Sufficient Projects Staff

Why Didn’t My Canning Jars Seal? – “There are few things more discouraging than pulling a beautiful batch of home-canned food out of the canner, waiting for that satisfying ping… and then realizing one or more jars never sealed. If you’ve ever found yourself asking, “Why didn’t my canning jars seal?”, you’re certainly not alone. Even after more than two decades of canning and preserving thousands of jars of food for my family, I still experience an occasional seal failure. The good news is that most seal failures can be traced back to just a handful of common causes.” – Carolyn Thomas

VERSE FOR THE DAY

Psalms 37:32 The wicked watcheth the righteous, and seeketh to slay him.

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Can you read globaldy–gook. The New Safe and Effective is Speech described as Political Violence. The whole of administration response in the US and Canada are the same. Oh wait, it’s the world. – “WORLD ON MUTE. The left and right are baited into focusing on each other while ignoring the globalist takeover that is mimicked in each country. Same laws different incentivizing thesis, and antithesis.” – LawyerLisa

Who Watches the Watchers? – “Trust is important. Verification is essential.” – Brian C. Joondeph

Welcome to Hellth: the cult that worships the gods of sickness. – “Exhibit 1, Bryan Johnson, the “Hellthiest man”: Yup, the pasty drug-addicted fembot “biohacker” who spends $2 million/year on 30 doctors, transfuses his son’s blood, being Epstein’s close friend (thousands of mentions in the files), and chasing [a highly unoriginal] idea fixe about living forever … has given himself a serious “autoimmune” disease. According to Bryan Johnson, his stomach is eating itself… If I were his stomach, I would have considered a stomach-cide, too. Imagine the horror of facing an eternity of militant plant-based diet, starvation and chemical assault! More importantly, imagine the pit of fear and hubris that fills the hole where Bryan’s God-given mind used to be… Please note that I believe Bryan Johnson is a fake – he is an actor, playing a reality show with placed commercials in it.” – Sasha Latypova

CDC Just Awarded Pfizer $1.2 Billion for COVID-19 Shots – Amber Baker – MORE MAHAHAHAHA 😂 😂 😂 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

“Executive Order:” The Word Everyone Uses and Nobody Explains – “Every few weeks, cable news lights up with the same scene: a president sits at a desk, signs a piece of paper, holds it up for the cameras, and suddenly the banner reads “PRESIDENT ORDERS…” as if a king has just spoken. People watch that and usually think one of two things: either, “He can just do that?” or, “That’s not how laws work. This is a dictatorship.” Nobody explains what an executive order actually is. So let’s fix that. No spin. No side-picking. Just the mechanics. It’s Not a Law. It’s a Memo to the Staff. An executive order cannot create a crime, repeal a statute, raise taxes, or rewrite the Constitution. What it can do is tell the millions of people who work inside the executive branch — agencies, regulators, the military, federal contractors, and federal employees — how to do their jobs.” – Kerry Lutz

Wildfire Smoke: Is Hazardous Air the New Normal? – “Dangerous wildfire smoke from Canada is smothering the Midwest.” – Elizabeth Lawrence

Living With and Among GMO – “Some good, some bad, just like most everything. The corn field bordering our vineyard did something odd this year. We were deep in drought—the kind that cracks the clay—10 weeks of no rain—and the corn came up anyway. That’s modern agronomy working as designed. The farmer drilled his corn in the midst of drought at a density that would have caused a 1990s farmer to shake his head. A crop that shrugs off three dry months and still fills out the ear is something special. It is GMO.” – John Hunt, MD – GOOD ARTICLE, BUT DOESN’T GET RID OF ALL MY DOUBTS ON GMOs!!!!

Feds Struggled to Claw Back Covid Fraud while Schemers Put Down Payments on Yachts, Lamborghinis – “COVID-19 programs to help families and businesses stay afloat inadvertently diverted hundreds of billions to scammers who spent thousands on wish-list items like luxury cars and plastic surgery. The actual amount of pandemic-related fraud, however, is unknown not only to us but also to the federal government. What’s more, the amount that the federal government has recouped makes up a scant 0.47% of the government’s fraud guestimate.” – OpenTheBooks

NEWS

Does Trump’s Lack of Credibility Impact the Deep State? – “Trump seems to think his personal credibility shares the qualities he assumes of his Patriot PAC-3 interceptors, Tomahawks, US manufactured drones, and US soldiers and Marines: unlimited and invincible. He seems to be wasting all of these assets in a way that makes a citizen wonder what Trump’s clown-like role really is, vis a vis the deep state. Whether his problem is a lack of information, his inability to logically process the information he is exposed to, or a personality or age-related defect related to his narcissism may be debated. Most people recognize that US presidents selected or elected since 1963 are truly captured elements of the deep state, a neocolonial entity that requires war and resource confiscation abroad – and at home – to sustain itself.” – Karen Kwiatkowski

US Troop Casualties Pile Up as Iran Goes to Town on US Bases – “The conflict has erupted anew, and Iran has now struck back in a major way, killing and wounding US troops:” – Simplicius

War On Iran: – Hit On U.S. In Saudi Arabia And Jordan – Yemen Declares SA Blockade – “The war on Iran continues to escalate. Last night the U.S. again bombed various cities in Iran hitting military as well as civilian targets. Iran responded by hitting U.S. installation in various Gulf countries. Remarkable was an attack on the Prince Sultan Air Base in Saudi Arabia:” – Moon of Alabama

Andy Burnham takes the reins as U.K.’s 7th prime minister in a decade – “If you’re struggling to keep up with who is running the United Kingdom, you’re not alone. Keir Starmer, who led his Labour Party to a landslide election victory just two years ago, left the prime minister’s office at 10 Downing Street on Monday to be replaced by Labour’s new leader, Andy Burnham. After being asked by King Charles III to form a new government on Monday — a constitutional formality that sealed his rise to power — Burnham became Britain’s 7th prime minister in a decade. ” – Imtiaz Tyab

Andy Burnham’s Cringe Britannia – “The vibes may have changed, but naff all else has. So ends the most boring coup in British political history. Andy Burnham is our new prime minister, Keir Starmer’s leaving van is on its way to north London, and we’re all left wondering whether this latest round of musical chairs will make the blindest bit of difference.” – Tom Slater

Keir Starmer: the man with no legacy – “Starmer embodied the tyrannical nothingness of the 21st-century state.” – Brendan O’Neill

Was 10/7 A False Flag? – Questions For Corbett(VIDEO) – The Corbett Report

Olive Garden Requires ID For Pasta – “The funniest argument for election security just got served with bottomless breadsticks. “Olive Garden requires ID to use their never ending pasta pass but most Democrat-run states don’t require your ID to vote,” conservative activist and influencer Robby Starbuck posted on X. “So in America, our pasta deals are literally more secure than our elections.”” – Jenna McCarthy

Reporter Nails Mamdani When He Has Trouble Defining What ‘Working Class’ Means – “We hear it from the socialists all the time: “We’re working for the working class.” This is a whole lot of nonsense; everything they do hurts the working class (not to mention so many others as well). But do they even know what the working class is? If you listen to what New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, the well-off son of well-off parents, said to a reporter, you might wonder if they do, as he struggled to define it.” – Nick Arama

“I’m Not Living In Communist America”: Bill Maher Blasts Marxist DSA Democrats, Says He May Vote For JD Vance – “Don’t tell me I’m not seeing what I am seeing.” – Tyler Durden

NBA Boss Calls Caitlin Clark A “Political Football” Over Racism Controversy – “There would be no racial controversy if the black ladies would stop attacking the white lady while the refs do nothing… The WNBA has been the butt of jokes for decades. One would think that any player that doubles (in some cases triples) the viewership of league games by her mere presence would be widely celebrated by all the people involved including the commission, but sadly, this has not been the case with Caitlin Clark. Clark’s expertise and superior ability on the court has brought new life to a floundering sport; the problem is, she’s relatively new to the league and, she’s white.” – Tyler Durden

ECONOMIC NEWS

US Gas Prices Cross Politically Sensitive $4 Level Closely Watched By Trump – “”Taco Tuesday” inbound? ” – Tyler Durden

Student loan defaults hit record highs in wake of COVID-tied payments pause expiration – “Defaults on student loans have surged across the United States, reaching record levels as borrowers struggle to keep up with payments. The numbers have spiked since payments came due again following a lengthy pause intended to provide relief during the COVID-19 pandemic. Today, around 9.5 million people – 1 in 5 federal student loan borrowers – are in default, meaning they are more than nine months behind on their payments.” – AP

Import prices post surprise gain as costs of goods from China hit highest since 2008 – “The cost of goods brought into the U.S. posted an unexpected increase in June as the price of goods from China rose by their largest monthly level in more than 18 years, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Friday.” – Jeff Cox

Buyers Trading In Vehicles With Negative Equity Face Record Monthly Payments: Edmunds – “Nearly 30% of U.S. auto trade-ins had negative equity in the second quarter.” – Rob Sabo

The Fed Has Quietly Given Up on 2% – “The Fed is going to raise its inflation target. It might be difficult to believe, but for most of its history, the Fed didn’t have a formal inflation target. The target rate of 2% that everyone quotes was first suggested by Janet Yellen behind closed doors when Alan Greenspan was Fed Chair in 1996. The Fed appears to have adopted that target at the time but didn’t publicly state it until 2012. I bring all of this up because throughout the inflationary storm of 2021-2023, the Fed proclaimed that its policies would bring inflation back to this target of 2%.” – Graham Summers, MBA

Oh My Fucking God, They’re Doing It Again – “Wall Street is again using insurance guarantees to turn difficult-to-rate credit exposure into highly rated securities. Assholes who wear Vineyard Vines all summer on Wall Street have once again put those Wharton PhD’s to good use by again “discovering” that assets so toxic and illiquid they make drinking cement taste like Fiji water apparently become safe when you rearrange them, rename them, and place an insurance company between the losses and the people buying them. Sound familiar?” – Quoth the Raven

Gold-Silver Ratio Widening Again Indicating Bullish Setup for Silver – Mike Maharrey

SURVIVAL, PREPAREDNESS AND SELF-SUFFICIENCY

Job Loss Is the Most Likely SHTF Event You’ll Ever Face, Most Americans Can’t Survive Three Weeks of It – OFFGRID Survival

Sheltering in the Ruins – “After the collapse, shelter may appear to be everywhere. Empty houses line silent streets. Schools, stores, offices and warehouses still stand. Their roofs promise protection from rain and snow, while their walls offer relief from wind, cold and exposure. From a distance, almost any building can look better than another night outdoors. That appearance can kill.” – denob

The First 72 Hours Of An Illness Outbreak In A Small Community – “IThe first three days of an illness outbreak can decide how much trouble a small community faces. n those first 72 hours, confusion is dangerous. The goal is simple. Slow the spread, care for the sick, protect the weak, keep people calm, and avoid making bad decisions because everyone is scared.” – Dr. John Herzog

9 Things to Do Before the 2027 Economic Collapse – Jacl

Why Vacuum-Sealed Pasta Bags Lose Their Seal and How to Stop Punctures – “Vacuum-sealed pasta bags usually lose their seal because hard pasta ends and corners make tiny holes in the plastic. The bag may look perfect at first, then loosen hours or days later. The best fixes are to cushion sharp ends, stop the vacuum before the bag becomes rock-hard, or use thicker bags. For some pasta shapes, vacuum-sealed Mason jars work even better.” – Ken Jorgustin

VERSE FOR THE DAY

1 John 1:7 But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin.

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19 Sunday Jul 2026

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We Are Called To Forgiveness – “One teaching of Jesus which is reiterated throughout the Gospel accounts of His ministry here on Earth is that we are to forgive one another for our many mistakes. We are going to screw up. We are going to hurt people. We are going to sin. If you are living anywhere other than a deserted island, your own life experience is frank testimony to this. People have sinned against you, and you have sinned against other people. We have all sinned against God.” – Peter Nayland Kust

The Bible is About Aliens (VIDEO) – “The Bible is about the creation of humanity by a nonhuman force, as Italian biblical translator, author and researcher Mauro Biglino reveals through decades of research. Are the Elohim our real creators? Are they extraterrestrial or even interdimensional? Do they have an evil agenda for mankind?” – Makia Freeman

Fears Grow That Rapidly Spreading Meat-Allergy Tick Is Genetically Engineered Bioweapon – Frank Bergman

Healing Back Pain and Ending The Spinal Surgery Pipeline – “Some spinal surgeries are necessary or offer tangible benefits. Fusions, the most lucrative ones, have repeatedly failed to outperform non-surgical care in randomized trials while carrying a host of common and serious complications, yet have become increasingly favored ” – A Midwestern Doctor – HAVING RECENTLY HAD A SPINAL FUSION, I FOUND THIS TO BE EXTREMELY INTERESTING!!!!!!!!!!!

Antidepressants: Permanently Curing Depression by Killing People – “A truly garbage class of drugs based on a truly idiotic theory” – Anthony Colpo

The Stunning Collapse of the Climate Scam, Documented – “First there was the COP Flop. Then the US withdrew from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Then Judith Curry retired her blog, opining that “It’s time to declare victory against climate stupidity and move on.” Then The Guardian published an article lamenting that less than 5% of UK media outlets have used the recent European heat wave as an excuse to promote Net Zero propaganda. And now even The New York Times is waving the white flag on the climate Armageddon story…well, kind of.” – James Corbett / The Corbett Report

Munich’s first ever water restrictions ever (by its first-ever Green mayor)… €50,000 fine if kids caught cooling themslves under a garden hose! – “Real or feigned emergency?” – P Gosselin

NEWS

Immunity Without Limits – ” Donald Trump’s mind is a bad dream, yet some continue to support him, making excuses for his restarting the war with Iran, when he had no intention to keep to the MoU that he signed onto. When asked, how, after months of a war that failed, he now expects the same tactics to bring victory, he puts out that 47 days of war is preferable to a terrorist nation with nukes. That’s the case, but Israel is the terrorist nation with nuclear weapons and, were Trump obliged to answer questions honestly, in an open forum, he could be easily exposed by 7th grade debaters. Trump is totally ignorant concerning Iran. Although he’s likely been informed that Iran was not developing a nuclear weapon, he could care less. What Trump requires is control of the oil—and the Straight of Hormuz.” – Erik@neverhadaboss.com

War Is Too Easy – “‘We’ll End the War by Escalating It?” – Bill Astore

How the Strait of Hormuz is testing the Iran–Oman alliance – “Iran and Oman have been allies for decades, with ties predating the Islamic Republic. That continuity is now under strain, as the US-Israeli war on Iran and Washington’s pressure on Muscat begin to test the terms of the relationship in the narrow waters of the Strait of Hormuz.” – Fereshteh Sadeghi

Why did Iran target the e at Al Tanf, Syria? – “Iran expands operationUS Occupation bass in the region to derail the Trump plans for a land invasion of Iran.” – Vanessa Beeley

MAGA Hypocrite Claims China is Providing Targeting Data to Iran – “The United States has provided targeting data to Israel, Ukraine, and Saudi Arabia” – Kurt Nimmo.

Half a Nation of Traitors – “Democrats hate this country. They hate you if you don’t also hate this country. And they will do anything to avoid you continuing to live free in this country, up to and including murdering you, because that’s who they are. If Russia or China offered to help them seize power, they’d take the deal no matter what they asked for in return. After 250 years, one of our political parties has become infested with traitors the way an old dead tree becomes infested with termites.” – Derek Hunter

News Media Have a Little Fun Mocking More of AOC’s Strangely Changing Accent – “Ocasio-Cortez also went to Tennessee to support the far-left state representative Justin Pearson in his run for the House for the 9th district seat. While she was there, she put on an embarrassing accent. As I noted, she’s from the suburbs of New York City; she’s not from the South or whatever the heck this accent is. She’s pulling a “Kamala Harris/Hillary Clinton move,” with an accent that seems to change depending on whom she’s talking. It didn’t go over well for them, and I don’t think that it’s going to go over well for her. Whether people agree with whatever she might say from a policy perspective, what people never really like is politicians being fake or inauthentic. ” – Nick Arama

Combustible Invasive Gabbard – “Honolulu PD says Tulsi’s bro arrested for allegedly trying to lure children to Waikiki hotel room” – Sage Hana

“The worst I’ve ever seen”: Canadian wildfire smoke leaves millions in US under air quality warnings (VIDEO) – “Smoke from hundreds of Canadian wildfires blanketed major U.S. cities, including Washington, D.C., New York and Detroit, prompting air quality alerts across more than a dozen states. Canadian officials reported 859 active wildfires, with 113 considered out of control and more than 2.38 million hectares burned so far this season. Poor air quality prompted health warnings and disrupted daily life across several U.S. states.” – Global News

Mission Creep: Lake Chad Basin As America’s Next Forever War? – ” As Washington celebrates tactical wins against Islamic State affiliates in Nigeria, Americans should demand policymakers pause. What began as advisory support, intelligence sharing, and targeted strikes now risks expanding across the Lake Chad Basin. American involvement in the region dates back years through training programs, intelligence sharing, and logistical support for the Multinational Joint Task Force (MNJTF). But American involvement has gradually expanded.” – Joseph Solis-Mullen

Russia Pounds Kiev With the Largest Missile Attack of the War (VIDEOS) – “While the Ukraine war is the bloodiest war fought in Europe since WW2, the capital Kiev has still lived a comparatively normal life. The calls from the most extreme Russian segments to ‘turn Kiev into a parking lot’, ‘raze it to the ground’ etc. have been solemnly ignored by Vladimir Putin and his military commanders. With last night’s massive Russian airstrikes on the Ukrainian capital, the ‘quality of life’ there may have started to take a change for the worse – but there’s a catch.” – Paul Serran

NATO Essentially Committed Itself To A Forever War With Russia During The Ankara Summit – Andrew Korybko

Germany To Join French Nuclear Exercise, Deepening ‘Counter-Russia’ Deterrence – “In the latest development related to what some analysts have called the ‘new Cold War’ and nuclear saber-rattling between Russia and the West, Germany and France are planning a major nuclear exercise later this year.” – Tyler Durden

ECONOMIC NEWS

Hello America, the Price of Gasoline Tops $4.00 Tomorrow – “If you think this is a small price to pay, then thank Trump.” – Mish

Next Big Downdraft For Home Prices To Start Soon (VIDEO) with Melody Wright – “Housing analyst Melody Wright expects home prices to start notably softening later this year. Why? Because a wave of distressed sellers looks very likely to hit the housing market by then. So far, sellers have largely tried to resist lowering prices. Rage delisting has become a tren” – Adam Taggart | Thoughtful Money®

Another Fed Rate Hike Would Be a Serious Mistake – “Hiking rates while maintaining elevated liquidity harms families and small businesses and perpetuates the very factors that drive inflation, including rising money supply and government spending. Keeping rates above the neutral level has cost the U.S. economy nearly one million jobs, as small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) find it increasingly difficult to access credit and face prohibitively high borrowing costs.” – Daniel Lacalle

Your Holiday Jackass – (PODCAST) – “It has been a long-held tradition to check in with Jim Willie over Independence Day weekend. Why? A 3-day weekend always allows for some down time but this particular holiday falls right at the midpoint of the year. As such, we check with Jim to recap what has happened while, at the same time, discuss and forecast what might be coming in the second half of the year.” – Craig Hemke – HAVEN’T LINKED MUCH BY JIM IN A WHILE. ALWAYS ENJOY LISTENING TO JIM AND CRAIG WHEN THEY GET TOGETHER!!!

30-Year Treasury Yield still 5.06%, 30-Year TIPS Yield Highest since 2010 Reintroduction, Yield Curve Prepped for Rate Hike – “Unabated fears of inflation and worries about the onslaught of new debt keep pushing up long-term yields.” – Wolf Richter

Why Central Banks Love a Gold Sell-Off – “On July 7, Bloomberg published an article with the headline: “Gold’s Bull Market Has Ended and Now All Eyes Are on Bears,” explaining how many retail investors have headed for the exits. That same day, the People’s Bank of China, the country’s central bank, reported its largest monthly gold purchase since 2023. Central banks are relatively price insensitive. They buy gold as a long term hedge to preserve value, not to trade back for more paper. But they aren’t stupid either, and this shows they are buying the dip. The reason is simple: nothing has changed about why they buy.” – James Hickman (Simon Black)

Maybe Central Banks Are Gold-Price Sensitive After All – “Which is a very good thing. For a while now, analysts (including this one) have been predicting that central banks will keep buying gold regardless of its price, thereby smoothing out the normal ups and downs in that market. But recent action implies that central banks do care about what they’re paying for gold — which, at this point in the cycle, is a good thing.” – John Rubino

SURVIVAL, PREPAREDNESS AND SELF-SUFFICIENCY

SHTF Plan: Are You Ready to Survive Your Own SHTF Moment? – “When it comes to preparedness information, far too many so-called survival experts spend their time obsessing over events that have roughly a one-in-a-billion chance of actually touching your life. It’s not that massive, nation-level catastrophes never happen. They do. But the big events rarely arrive with a special news bulletin the way disaster movies like to pretend. Just look at Hurricane Katrina. Just look at Venezuela’s economic collapse. Neither one showed up overnight. Both unfolded over weeks, months, even years — gradual at first, then all at once. The people who got wrecked were the ones who were waiting for a dramatic announcement before they started taking things seriously.” – Off The Grid

How to Butcher a Pig at Home (Step-by-Step) – Self-Sufficient Projects Staff – FOR MORE ON BUTCHERING SEE ANDREA HUEHNERHOFF’S ARTICLE LINKED ON 10/23/24

You Think You’re Prepared. You Have 3 Days, Maybe Less. (VIDEO) – “Most people think their water storage means they’re prepared, but when you actually do the math against a real household, the number is often shockingly small. In this video I walk through exactly how long your stored water really lasts a family of four, a single person, and a household with pets, and why “I have water” isn’t the same as being ready. This is part one of a deeper look at building real preparedness systems instead of just buying supplies.” – Rogue Preparedness

Life Aboard Your Own Caboose: How to Buy a Train Car – “An old railway car can make a practical yet exotic guesthouse, vacation home, workshop, or roadside business site.” – Adolf Hungry Wolf

25+ Emergency Items FEMA Wants You To Get – Alan Urban

VERSE FOR THE DAY

Ephesians 4:4 There is one body, and one Spirit, even as ye are called in one hope of your calling;

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LYRIC FOR THE WEEK (USED BEFORE )

Well, I went home with the waitress
The way I always do
How was I to know
She was with the Russians, too

I was gambling in Havana
I took a little risk
Send lawyers, guns and money
Dad, get me out of this

I’m the innocent bystander
Somehow I got stuck
Between the rock and the hard place
And I’m down on my luck
And I’m down on my luck
And I’m down on my luck

Now I’m hiding in Honduras
I’m a desperate man
Send lawyers, guns and money
The shit has hit the fan

( Lawyers, Guns And Money by Warren Zevon )

WARREN FINALLY GETS INTO THE ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME (2025). GREAT RENDITION BY THE KILLERS WITH ORIGINAL GUITARIST FOR WARREN, WADDY WACHTEL

AND ALSO INTRO BY DAVID LETTERMAN

18 Saturday Jul 2026

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The Eclipse of the Soul – “Humanity is unravelling. In the span of just a few generations—scarcely a century—we have witnessed a precipitous decline in the quality of our shared life. The symptoms are everywhere: drugs flooding communities, garbage choking landscapes, ethics treated as quaint relics, families dissolving, and relationships reduced to transactions. Many sense the rot but struggle to name its root. The cause, at bottom, is simple yet profound: we have ceased to value what is real.” – Todd Hayen, PhD, RP

Jesus & the Mysteries of Light Exploring the Teachings From the Son of God. We speak of it as though it has always been exactly as we hold it today, whole, unchanging, and complete, yet the evidence tells a very different story. Generation after generation has reached in, removed what did not suit them, smoothed what troubled them, and shaped the words until they fitted the beliefs of those in power. As though the truth itself could be made to fit inside a box of another’s making. Gospels are gone entirely. Epistles have been cast aside. Visions and revelations, once cherished and read aloud by whole communities, were condemned and forgotten And so I wonder, with a quiet and earnest heart; who, exactly, took it upon themselves to decide that the greater majority of souls should receive only a curated portion, rather than the whole?” – Jordan Nuttall

Justin Trudeau Helps Katy Perry Promote New Song About Burning Churches Down – “With more than 120 religious institutions attacked and over 96 percent of the arson cases still unresolved, the imagery has struck a nerve among Canadians still waiting for answers.” – Frank Bergman

Another Summer Of Massive Canadian Wildfires – “Here we go again, another summer of wildfires up in Canada. “Climate change” is the cause, of course, says the mainstream media and government” – The WinePress.

Three recent eclipses drew a warning across America (VIDEO) – “Abraham Ojeda of Overcome Babylon connects three eclipses, two major fault zones, and a biblical pattern that may still be unfolding across America. Ojeda connects the 2017, 2023, and 2024 eclipses to an ancient biblical symbol, earlier periods of upheaval, and two of the most dangerous fault zones in North America. He also links the eclipse paths to Iran, the shifting balance between East and West, and the increasingly fragile systems on which modern life depends.” – Collapse Life – VERY INTERESTING, WATCH WHEN YOU HAVE TIME.!!!!!!!

TYRANNY ALERT!! Water. The next Control grid. Oregon man charged with THEFT For collecting rain water and given fines and 30 days in jail – “The crime. Rain barrels.” – LawyerLisa

Building the Global Digital Ecosystem just another United Nations Global Policy – “What we are witnessing in rural Alberta is a localized skirmish in a much larger, coordinated international campaign. From the United Nations’ Global Digital Compact to the World Economic Forum’s smart-grid initiatives, the building blocks are being laid in identical fashion across the Western world. Step one is the deployment of localized broadband networks to establish permanent physical access pipelines across private land.” – Connie Shields

NEWS

Rigor Tortoise? – “They tell us the Dirty Old Turtle – Senator Mitch McConnell – is not only alive but in good enough condition to pose for a picture with his wife. He looks alert enough and well enough in the picture, so how come we haven’t seen or even heard any more of him? Why does he not speak? Why are there no videos of him up and about? How come he’s not back at work? Isn’t that what he’s being paid (by taxpayers) to do? How many of us could disappear for a month and still be getting paid by our employers? Oh, yes. Of course. Our employers have the power to fire us because we work for them and if we do not work, then off we go. Common sense suggests McConnell is at the very least incapacitated, if not actually plastron up. If you’re old enough to remember the old Soviet Union, you probably remember when the various doddering old men who led it would just disappear and we’d be told they just had a cold and were just fine, really. After awhile, when the official lies could no longer be maintained, it was admitted that Comrade Brezhnev or Comrade Andropov or Comrade Chernenko had died. An interesting thing to recall is that Comrade Brezhnev was just 79 years old when he died. Almost youthful relative to the Dirty Old Turtle, who is 84” – Eric Peters

Senator Lindsey Graham’s Funeral Details Announced: What to Know – “The late U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham will be memorialized in Washington D.C. on Tuesday, July 28, his office announced Friday. Graham’s South Carolina funeral services will take place in Pickens County and Columbia the following day. “The funeral arrangements have been complicated by the fact that so many global leaders would like to attend,” Scott said. “And so the process of figuring out when the National Cathedral would be made available at the exact same time that the global leadership would want to come, and all the other national leaders who will be there, that has made it a little more difficult to get it done this week.”” – Gabe Whisnant and Hannah Parry – IN OTHER WORDS THEY HAD TO GET THE BODY BACK FROM UKRAINE. HOW MUCH YOU WANT TO BET IT WILL BE A CLOSED CASKET!!!

Trump’s Truth Social to sell early access to ‘market-moving’ posts – “Critics say the move creates a new way for US President Donald Trump to cash-in on his office” – RT – ANYWAY TO MAKE A BUCK!!!!!!!!!!!

Canadians push back against intrusive gov’t census asking for personal information – “The Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms asked the federal court to ‘rule that portions of the long-form census,’ including questions about religious beliefs, ‘are unjustified violations of our Charter rights and freedoms.'” – Anthony Murdoch

Iran Threatens ‘Full-Scale Offensive … No Political Border Will Be Safe’ if U.S. Airstrikes Don’t Stop – “The two sides traded strikes which targeted bridges and other infrastructure, with Iran striking water and desalination plants in Kuwait, CNN reported.” – Kathianne Boniello

Speculations Over Ground Campaign into Iran Again Heat Up as US Moves to “Isolate” Coastal Zone – “Trump continues plying his neocon ‘forever war’ against Iran, with no plan or end in sight. Now the latest reports indicate his intention to escalate the strikes onto Iranian civil infrastructure like power plants and beyond in the coming weeks. The more troubling reports claim that Trump continues to plan for some kind of ground assault.” – Simplicius

They’re Preparing for a Ground War at the Strait of Hormuz – “Washington will call it a “limited operation” right up until the body bags start coming home.” – M.D. Creekmore

Von der Leyen paints target signs on Europe with Ukraine drone pact – “This is not sleepwalking into war. The European elites’ eyes are wide open and crazed.” – Strategic Culture Foundation

Trump’s New Fed Chair Pocketed $100 Million on His Way Into Office and Thinks It’s None of Your Business – “Who Wrote the Check, Kevin? That’s it. That’s the story. A hundred million dollars. Days before the oath. And when Senator Elizabeth Warren asked him, on camera, in a Senate hearing, WHO WROTE THE CHECK, Kevin Warsh looked at her and made lawyer noises until her time ran out.” – 🐺The Wise Wolf

ECONOMIC NEWS

THE DEEPER DIVE: Tiny Bits of Truth and Huge Gulps of Lies – “What is the real state of our union? The president front loaded more lies into his speech than I thought any politician could tell in a single speech, but I want to start with one statement that was true temporarily because it is critical for you to understand it is a deceptive fact of the moment which the headline evidence would appear to support as true. It is a will-o’-the-wisp that will quickly vanish. That was Trump’s claim that inflation is falling faster than anytime since the end of Covid.’ – David Haggith

How Demographics are Driving America’s Long-Term Fiscal Illness – “Lately, two seemingly unrelated outbreaks have been competing for the spotlight. There’s a microscopic parasite making its way through America’s salad bowls. A healthy lunch has suddenly turned into poison. At the same time, there’s a massive, systemic failure quietly brewing in Washington. One that’s growing so rapidly it makes a stomach bug look like a walk in the park. While one threatens to disrupt your digestive tract for a week, the other quietly promises to derail the economic security of several generations.” – MN Gordon

Forget gasoline: Why the price surge in this under-the-radar fuel is the real threat to the U.S. economy Claudia Assis

Government Spending has Increased 89% since 2016 to $7.2T – “Interest Expense has moved up, making up 16.5% of all spending in Q2. This is now the second largest line item behind only Social Security. This is how debt spirals work. When interest becomes a massive burden on the budget, it does not bode well.” – Peter Schiff

Market Correction Risk Rising As Midterm Madness Approaches (VIDEO) with Lance Roberts – ” While there a no immediate signs of danger, portfolio manager Lance Roberts warns that if the softening semiconductor sector keeps falling from here, trouble will likely start. He thinks it more likely than not that stocks will experience a ~10% correction as the mid-terms and all their drama and uncertainty approach.” – Adam Taggart | Thoughtful Money®

How Dependent Is the US Economy on Amazon and Nonstore Retail Sales? – “To answer the question we need to look closely at real (inflation-adjusted) sales.” – Mish

More Than 227,000 US Property Foreclosure Filings in First Half of 2026 – “Filings are up by almost 30 percent from two years ago.” – Naveen Athrappully

TWO MAJOR DISASTERS TO HIT THE GOLD PRICE (VIDEO) – “As purchasing power declines and financial asset valuations reach historic extremes, gold is once again becoming the benchmark.” – Egon von Greyerz

SURVIVAL, PREPAREDNESS AND SELF-SUFFICIENCY

DIY Food-Generator in a Box – “What if you could grow a whole season of food out of one big pot just by watering maybe twice a week? What if you never had to feed your plants and weeds wouldn’t be a problem anymore? Sounds too good? If you don’t believe it’s possible, I get it. Most of the time, container gardening doesn’t work as expected and the harvest is not even worth mentioning. But hear me out, this Food-Generator is in a league of its own.” – Olivia Brooks

My Alice Gear Loadout. (VIDEO) – Modern Refugee.

11 Bug Out Locations You Haven’t Considered – Amanda Whittington

Small Game Processing – “Small game often gets treated like a backup plan in preparedness circles. People talk about rabbits, squirrels, grouse, ducks, and other small animals as though they are simply “there” when food runs short. But any experienced hunter, trapper, or homesteader knows better. Small game is only useful if you can handle it properly after it is harvested. That is where many preparedness plans fall apart.” – denob

12 Things You’re Storing in Your Garage That Could Kill You in a Crisis – Jack

VERSE FOR THE DAY

Deuteronomy 11:19 And ye shall teach them your children, speaking of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.

IMAGE FOR THE DAY

17 Friday Jul 2026

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Cyclospora Is Trending!!! – “The curious timing of parasite headlines…never let a good outbreak go to waste 😂 Surely you have heard plenty about the cyclosporiasis parasite? Apparently it’s causing explosive diarrhea across the country. I’m receiving regular notifications about what it is, where it’s coming from, and what you can do to protect yourself. 🤫pssssst…. it comes from FECAL MATTER on fresh produce. Which is gross, however not rocket science, folks. Constant updates seem entirely unnecessary. So apparently this uber contagious parasite that comes from fecal matter is hard to study because it can’t be continuously cultured (grown) in a Petri dish 😂. Which means they are going to have a really hard time making a helpful “vaccine” for an issue that should be addressed through basic hygiene. Oh look it’s mRNA technology for parasites! 👇” – Conspiracy Sarah

Every Last Drop – “Tokenizing, Mapping, and Metering Water — From UN “Bankruptcy” Declaration to Total Control” – UNSHADOWED (formerly known as Ice Age Farmer).

Six Bills, One Surveillance State (VIDEO) – “John Carpay on Canada’s Creeping Authoritarianism” – Karla Treadway

Canada on Fire part 3 MOST IMPORTANT SHARE. YOUR COUNTRY IS PROBABLY DOING IT TOO!!! Mass applications of GLYSOPHATE primes forests for Fire. Not a conspiracy theory receipts. – “Since 2021 this group has been tracking mass applications of GLYSOPHATE SPRAYED ON ONTARIO FORESTS. This primes us for a big global warming oh no story. Get in your carbon pen. #kelipotrights. GLYSOPHATE IS USED AS A DRYING AGENT for wheat.” – LawyerLisa

Toxic Wildfire Smoke Begins To Disrupt Local Economic Activity As GOP Senator Readies Canada Sanctions Bill – “Questions Swirl Whether Ecoterrorism May Have Accelerated Wildfires. Economic Activity Impacted in Some States, Toxic Smoke Plume Over Great Lakes, Ohio Valley, Mid-Atlantic, Northeast” – Tyler Durden

Climate Engineered Drought, Heat Dome & Wildfires (VIDEO) with Dane Wigington – Greg Hunter

What The US Senate Showed America About COVID-19 Vaccine Toxicity – “COVID-19 vaccine injures are so common many of the legislators who pushed them have also been severely injured—but still won’t admit it. This culture of silence around these injuries must end.” – A Midwestern Doctor

Deflocking America is just the beginning of the long road back to freedom – “Flock Safety is not the only private tech company positioning itself to profit off of the emerging AI data center-powered surveillance state.” – Leo Hohmann

You Know Flock… But Have You Heard of NEMA? (VIDEO) – “People are becoming more aware of surveillance infrastructure every day. While most have heard of Flock, many aren’t aware of NEMA: the infrastructure going up in the tens of millions all over the world on street lights.” – Maria Zeee

UK Collapse & The Financialist Kill Chain (VIDEO) with E.M. Burlingame – “How the UK is in the final stage of a long financial collapse involving mass immigration and loss of national identity The real history behind Britain’s problems going back to 1688 and the Bank of England Why the City of London and a hidden financial system have controlled Britain for centuries King Charles III’s possible plan to expose corruption before stepping aside for King William The key difference between “restoration” and “revolution” and why restoration is the better path” – The Contrarian Capitalist

Trump EPA Approves Yet Another Pesticide, Trifludimoxazin, Which Already Has FDA Studies Linking It To Cancer – ““This is the PFAS presidency brought to you by Donald Trump and EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin,” said Nathan Donley at the Center for Biological Diversity.” – The WinePress

NEWS

Election Integrity: Is Representative Democracy A Foolish Fantasy? – “The US Constitution is perhaps the most significant historical and governmental document in a millennia. It’s a document and an ideal that gave birth to an epoch. However, our constitutional republic was created based on conditions that, frankly, no longer exist. The American population was 95% Christian. The implementation of “patriarchy” was widespread and embraced as the most solid foundation for society. Meritocracy was absolute. Cultural identity was rooted in western civilization without any deviation or distraction. Marxism did not exist. Atheism was rare. Degeneracy was shunned or punished. Shame was an effective social tool. Psychopathy was easy to identify and remove from within the smaller population…. In 2026, many Americans still treat the notion of representative democracy as sacrosanct and untouchable, even though they don’t really know why. They just think it’s about freedom, but, they are basing their devout reverence on a system that used to work because it heavily restricted who was allowed to participate.” – Brandon Smith

Trump Moves to Derail 2026 Midterm Election- ” President declares China, Russia, Iran, Cuba, North Korea, and non-state troublemakers are interfering in elections. President Trump went on primetime television and told the nation China finagled the 2020 election” – Kurt Nimmo

Acceleration – “Strange to relate, in last night’s speech to the nation on election chicanery, President Trump managed to both overwhelm and underwhelm public expectation. He touched on voting machine shenanigans, registration skullduggery, cyber-fuckery, labor union toolery, ballot fraud, and especially China meddling. Internal CIA / FBI docs at the time said that China’s policy around the 2020 US election was to “leverage all domestic and foreign elements” opposed to the President to prevent his re-election. The Intel bunch never sent that memo to the White House. They were too busy pushing fake Russia meddling, fake impeachment, and a fake Covid-19 pandemic. Then they declared that the 2020 was “the most secure election in history.”” – James Howard Kunstler

President Trump Reminds Us What We Already Know – “Our Voting Systems ARE Corrupt And Broken” – Peter Nayland Kust

Trump’s Desperation Speech Falls Flat, Mostly Recycled Old China Claims – “What a flop nothingburger. No mention of Georgia, just tired old claims.” – Mish

China dismisses Trump’s election meddling claim – “The US president has accused Beijing of stealing 220 million US voter files” -RT

THE LIAR-in-CHIEF – “The news today has more headlines about Trump’s corruption and his lies than about the Trump-Israel-Iran War that is getting hotter everyday. Trump keeps repeating the same tired and utterly failed lie that Iran badly wants to make a deal. He’s said it again a few times since the latest schmeasefire fell all apart. Here, in the news today, is how badly Iran wants to make a deal: Iran Parliament Votes to HALT ALL Negotiations with USA. So much for that baloney, and, yet, 39% of America still believes in Trump.” – David Haggith

LIONS ALERT! Trump Has Ordered CIVILIAN Strikes On Iran… And They Have Begun. (Now WE THE AMERICAN PEOPLE Have Hit Iranian Civilian Infrastructure). – Gregory Mannarino

California farm company identified as possible cyclosporiasis outbreak – “CNN and others are also reporting the ongoing investigation into Taylor Farms as a source of the cyclosporiasis outbreak. Taylor Farms, founded and headquartered in Salinas, California, describes itself as the “leading global producer of salads and healthy fresh foods.” In addition to the Golden State, the company has production facilities across the U.S., along with Mexico, Canada and Europe.” – Brett Stover, Jeremy Tanner

10 Proven Brands That Get Their Lettuce From Taylor Farms – “Taylor Farms supplies shredded iceberg lettuce to Taco Bell restaurants, which is part of Yum! Brands. This lettuce was linked to a recent cyclosporiasis outbreak in the US, causing thousands of confirmed cases and hospitalizations. Taylor Farms distributes its produce through third parties to chain restaurants including McDonald’s and Chipotle Mexican Grill. The company is a major supplier to many large foodservice restaurants in the United States. Nearly every major supermarket chain in the United States stocks Taylor Farms products. Walk into a Whole Foods, Kroger, Walmart, Safeway, or regional chain, and the salad kits, pre-cut vegetables, and fresh greens in the produce section often originate from Taylor Farms facilities. ” – Sarah Anderson

Congress Moves Toward Making Daylight Saving Time Permanent – “This die-hard morning girl (and history) have concerns.” – Jenna McCarthy

Congress Just Moved to Take the Epstein Files Away From the Justice Department – “On the morning of July 15, Todd Blanche — the Acting Attorney General of the United States, serving since President Trump’s ouster of Pam Bondi in April and formally nominated in June — sat before the Senate Judiciary Committee for his confirmation hearing. He told the committee that “mistakes were made” in the release of the Jeffrey Epstein files, but that the disclosure was an exercise in unprecedented transparency. The same day, Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) introduced the Epstein Files Transparency Act II — H.R. 9694, per the sponsors’ announcement. The timing is not a coincidence. It is a message: the man testifying for the permanent job is the named defendant-in-waiting of the bill introduced that morning. The coverage will tell you, accurately, that the bill lets state attorneys general and Epstein’s victims sue the Attorney General for withholding files. Massie states the Department “continues to unlawfully withhold over 3 million Epstein files”; ” – Sayer Ji

House Votes to Block Financial Institutions Using Credit Cards to Track Gun Sales – “As it stands, there are already too many ways to figure out who has guns and who doesn’t. For all the guys worried about posting pictures of their guns online for fear the ATF will know who has what, I hate to break it to ya, they probably already have a way of knowing.” – Tom Knighton

When Israeli Handlers Put In The order for Assassination… – “October 2026 Brazil will be holding their Presidential election. The two candidates are Lula and Flavio Bolsonaro, the son of Jair. To punish Brazilians, Trump has levied a 25% Tariff effective the 23rd. In Trump’s view, the people of Brazil will vote for Bolsonaro because of the tariffs he is imposing linking them to Lula. It is called ‘Election Interference By a Foreign Government’ and it is HIGHLY ILLEGAL. But then the entire Trump apparatus violates international law and American Law, with pride. Bessent literally gushes as he quips about ‘stealing Venezuela’s gold.” – Helena Glass

Political Crisis in Kiev as Shrinking Zelensky Ousts Popular Defense Minister – “By all appearances, the winds of revolution are stirring through Ukraine. Large crowds have gathered in protest of President Zelensky for his decision to remove the popular Defense Minister Mykhailo Fedorov.” – Simplicius

ECONOMIC NEWS

Cushing Crude Inventories Near ‘Tank Bottom’ Operating Levels, EIA Says – “Crude oil inventories at the Cushing, Oklahoma, storage hub have fallen below 20 million barrels in recent weeks, prompting the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) to explain how “tank bottoms” can affect storage operations and market pricing. According to EIA, storage tanks require a minimum volume of crude oil to remain operational. Known as tank bottoms, this inventory allows pumps and related infrastructure to function properly. Once inventories approach these minimum operating levels, not all stored crude is readily accessible, even though tanks are not technically empty.” – Pipeline & Gas Journal – LOOKS LIKE THE 💩 IS HITTING THE FAN!!!!!!

US Strategic Petroleum Reserve Crude Oil Releases Decline Even As Diesel Shortages Intensify – “Diesel Shortages Are Not The Road To Prosperity. As the US average price of diesel surges above $5 /gallon amid an intensifying shortage of diesel, the financial press is starting to notice.” – David Jensen

Gulf war and gold – “In the fog of war, truth is the casualty. Gold and silver prices will reflect uncertainty over outcomes. All that traders know for now is that bond yields might rise further. Well-informed analysts who follow geopolitical developments have concluded that America and Israel have lost the war against Iran, and Hormuz will remain closed. But investors are driven by sentiment, which is basically their reading of past market trends relative to current prices. Never has the gulf between the two assessments been greater. We discuss this divergence, the reasons behind it, and the probable outcome for markets, and in particular for gold and silver.” – Alasdair Macleod

Gold and Silver Are Entering a Historic Supercycle (VIDEO) with Nomi Prins – “Prins explained why today’s financial system shares striking similarities with previous speculative eras while highlighting why investors should continue focusing on physical assets rather than paper promises.” – Craig Hemke

Fixing the Social Security Ponzi – “Trump wants to convert Social Security from a Congressional slush fund into real assets you own, like an IRA or 401k. The difference could mean $60 trillion dollars for the American people — more than the national debt. This matters because social security is going bankrupt, with trustees saying we’ve got just 6 years until benefits are cut up to 25%.” – Peter St Onge

U.S. Housing: It’s a Bust – John Rubino

Americans Splurge Online and at Vehicle Dealers, instead of Buying Homes? YOLO? Retail Sales without Gas Stations Jump for 5th Month – “Sales at gas stations were pushed by massive price movements of gasoline; we look at retailer categories separately to sort it out.” – Wolf Richter

SURVIVAL, PREPAREDNESS AND SELF-SUFFICIENCY

Every Life Is Surrounded by Four Fields… But Most People Never Walk Them With Intention – “Why Off-the-Grid Thinking Begins Long Before You Plant The First Seed These “Four Fields” Determine The Direction of Every Homesteader’s Life” – Bill Heid

Practical Ideas for the Dawning Energy Crisis and the Economic Sunset – David Haggith – A LITTLE PREPPING ADVICE FROM DAVID WHO USUALLY IS ONE OF MY ECONOMIC AND NEWS LINKS!!!!

Autonomous Maintenance: How to Choose a Blade Profile That’s Easy to Sharpen on a Rock in the Forest – “There is one thing that separates a useful knife from a paperweight in the backcountry: whether you can bring it back to a working edge with a flat stone and your hands. Not every blade lets you do that. The geometry of the grind is what makes the difference. The knife that stays sharp in the field is not always the one with the best steel or the most expensive finish. It is the one whose geometry you can actually work with your hands, a stone, and no bench vise. Choose accordingly.” – Bob Rodgers

Common Sense Home Security: Fix the Weak Points Before Buying More Technology – Ken Jorgustin

Generosity From The Stockpile: Giving Without Gutting Your Reserves – “A prepared family will eventually face a hard question. What happens when someone else needs what you stored? It may be a neighbor whose power is out. A church family that lost income. An elderly widow short on food. A young couple with children and no real pantry. A relative who ignored every warning and now stands at your door asking for help. A Christian prepper should not be cold.” – Darren Kelburn

VERSE FOR THE DAY

2 Corinthians 9:6 But this I say, He which soweth sparingly shall reap also sparingly; and he which soweth bountifully shall reap also bountifully.

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