THE BIG PICTURE

The Arrogant Smugness of Progress – “Today I read a little article about children in grades 1 and 2 who were asked by their teacher to mark on a chart every time they consulted their cell phones, whether for email, Instagram, TikTok, WhatsApp or any other evil distractor found on a Smart Phone. They would put a hashmark on a big chart in the front of the room. The chart was completely filled with marks—so many marks they were falling off the edge of the paper. Why do second graders even have a cell phone? Why do kids this age even know what social media is? Well, it’s progress, right? What can you do? There is a lot you can do,” – Todd Hayen, PhD, RP  – EXCELLENT READ, ONE OF TODD’S BEST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

US Naval Institute 2021: Synthetic Bioweapons Are Coming – Emerging and Disruptive Technology Essay Contest–First Prize Sponsored by MITRE – Gene-editing advances pose a serious threat. – “This article is an excellent reminder that synthetic biology and self assembly nanotechnology that can deliver any pathogenic sequence to make people ill – can and is used in warfare settings. Please note references to spider silk – as well as genetically targeted weapons and synthetic biologic weapons that can induce behavior abnormalities. In light of our current situation, this is a very informative article, please read carefully.” – Ana Maria Mihalcea, MD, PhD

Scorpions, Cancer, and Viruses – “Isolating the Variables that the Cancer Moonshot must pretend to study…you know…to cure cancer. Very rarely would I lead off with The Guardian, but here we are.” – Sage Hana

Nothing to Declare… – “Who is defending the criminal racket of “Pandemic Preparedness”? How was it possible to drive so much fear and compliance with monstrous lies into millions of people? Pandemic fear porn has been abundant in all mainstream media, entertainment, peer reviewed literature, and government propaganda sources like the CDC for decades. They recycle the same idiotic stories over and over again. If I had a dollar for every time I hear that the melting ice and Siberian permafrost will release ancient plagues! All this investment had to generate the return. Yet, after trying for decades to produce flying Ebola by poisoning Africans in remote jungle villages, the cult of pandemics have produced zilch of pandemics. What to do… what to do… Well, if the mountain doesn’t come to Mohammed, Mohammed goes to the mountain.” – Sasha Latypova

Virus X is Not What Anyone is Expecting – Karen Kingston

NEWS 

Crib Notes for the Trial of the Century – “What fascinates us about sex, I suppose, is that most everyone wants it and seeks it ….  Enter Stormy Daniels, that notorious pair of cumulus clouds attached to a person, who made a career in the sex industry and later on, at the age when sex workers generally face retirement, had a fresh start as a political gadfly buzzing around the mystifying hair-do of President Donald Trump. But once Mr. Trump jumped into the 2016 presidential primaries and began to terrify the establishment by winning one contest after another, Stormy finagled a $130,000 hush-money payment through Trump attorney Michael Cohen to keep her big yap shut about their doings. By then, Stormy had launched a “publicity tour” and got herself booked on Jimmy Kimmel’s late-night talk show to discuss the allegations. Fast-forward to the 2020 election. “Joe Biden” manages to charm swing-state voters from his basement hide-out, moves into the puppet-theater known as the White House, and unleashes the dogs of lawfare on former president Trump so as to knock him off the political game-board for once and for all. “- James Howard Kunstler

Taxes & Conservatism – “This is why so-called conservatism is headed to the dustbin of history. It was never really a conservative political movement, but more of a money laundering scheme masquerading as a political movement. For the last half century, the white middle-class has been the kid getting bullied at school for his lunch money. Progressives, representing the financial elites, threatened to shove the suburban peasant into a locker. So-called conservatives kept upping the lunch money they had to pay to avoid the wedgie. Now those suburban peasants are too old for school, so those financial elites are looking to prey on their children and grandchildren to keep the plates spinning.” – The Z Man

Bob Marley’s ‘Redemption Song’ and the Persecution of Julian Assange – Jon Miltimore

America Is No Longer a Merit-based Society – “Blue cities and blue school boards see merit as a tool of white supremacy and have erased it. The latest example is the closing of schools for the gifted in the woke city of Seattle, Washington. You guessed it: there were too many white and Asian students.In America merit has been overthrown by “equity,” which has been redefined to mean privilege for people of color and the gender-confused. The elimination of merit-based learning is the way that liberals admit that there are racial differences in motivation and intelligence. ” – Paul Craig Roberts

Gaming The 2024 Campaign – “Will Biden’s feebleness still earn him sympathy? Or will it devolve to the point that the public concludes that Joe Biden would not be able to keep any job in America—except the U.S. Presidency?” – Victor Davis Hanson

A Duma Member Described Iran’s Retaliation Against Israel As A “Beautiful Theatrical Production” – “He speculated that there was “A simple ‘agreement’, because high-ranking political figures should not ignore some actions of unfriendly countries, therefore, they have to respond.” Belik then added that “there are no photos or video evidence on the Internet” to back up claims of Iran having supposedly inflicted serious damage on Israel’s military bases. He then concluded that “Everything we see now…is a planned scenario of ‘revenge’.”” – Andrew Korybko

Stop Pretending Biden Is Some Passive Witness To Israel’s Warmongering – “The more I think about it the more obnoxious I find the Biden administration’s “Gee whiz, I sure hope Israel doesn’t drag us into a giant war in the middle east” posturing and the imperial media’s facilitation of it.” – Caitlin Johnstone

Iran Breaches Anglo-Zionist Defenses in Historic Attack: A Breakdown – “Iran made history yesterday by launching “Operation True Promise”. In our usual style here, let’s cut through all the noise currently clogging up social networks and incisively demonstrate the facts as thoroughly as possible, while also pointing out how this was a game-changing and historic event which has brought Iran onto the world stage in a big way.” – Simplicius

The Apoceclipse: We Survived! … or did we? – “After starting the week with a spell of night in the middle of the day, a wild war in the Middle East finished the week by lighting up the nighttime sky!” – David Haggith

What are the financial markets telling us about Israel and Ukraine? – “As regards Israel, it is fulfilling its mission of making the Middle East a nightmare for its indigenous peoples. And though space precludes me from going on about how that might turn out, BlackRock, Vanguard and the Bidens, Pelosis, Obamas and Clintons in hock to them are betting that, as with Syria, Iraq and Libya, they can profit by turning that land of milk and honey into a wasteland as they build their New Jerusalem on the skulls of Palestinian babies. Perhaps all that will be so. But, if you are thinking of gambling your savings on that outcome, an array of Russian, Iranian and even Chinese drones should serve as a reminder that the stock market, like the wars it feeds off, can be a very expensive place to gamble and, as with the ordinary Ukrainians and Palestinians, you might lose your short and much else besides. Caveat emptor!” – Declan Hayes

Lockstep U.S. Support Fuels Conflict – “Biden’s “ironclad” commitment encourages the worst in a very bad client government” – .Daniel Larison

Rep. Clay Higgins Reveals FBI Role As J6 Provocateurs – “Higgins said it’s unfathomable to believe that everyday Americans in Washington, D.C., would know how to navigate the building without help. “There’s no way they can come in some random door that gets opened and then get their way directly to Statuary [Hall] or the House chamber or the Senate chamber. It’s just not possible,” Higgins explained. “The FBI assets that were dressed as Trump supporters that were inside the Capitol were there, I believe, and evidence indicates that they were there to specifically wave in the Trump supporters that had gathered outside the Capitol.”” – Neenah Payne

Mexican cartel violence is now spilling into San Diego -report – “Plenty of people think Joe Biden’s open borders is mainly about millions of illegals rolling into the U.S., while the billions rolling into Mexico’s notorious crime cartels as a result is Mexico’s problem, not ours. But that’s not quite what’s going on. Mexico’s cartels have grown so big and so powerful from migrant and drug smuggling that they not only threaten Mexico, they are now taking their internecine warfare on the road into the U.S., which now faces a Tijuana-like future. If you recall the sight of all those Tijuana cars burning as that city shut down ” – Monica Showalter

Are the Two Big Parties Holding America Hostage? – “Have you ever wondered why so few candidates for president are listed on the ballot come election day? There are a couple of reasons for this, and the three candidates not running as a Democrat or Republican are finding out the hard way just how demanding the process can be. This year Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Cornel West, and Jill Stein are all scrambling to gain ballot access – and they’re not getting very far, very fast. Here’s why.” – Leesa K. Donner

The Secret History of Hamas – “Of course, when you try to drill down on specifics with these people, you will quickly come to the limits of their knowledge. Ask them about Hamas, for instance, and you’re likely to hear that Hamas…. As is often the case, there are elements of truth to these regurgitated media soundbites. But the errors and omissions in this pat, Zionist-friendly, mainstream narrative are enough to make those who mindlessly believe it and repeat it not just wrong, but dangerously wrong.” – James Corbett

ECONOMIC NEWS

WOW! After The “BIG SHOW.” What Is About To Happen Next IS GOING TO MAKE HISTORY! (VIDEO) – Gregory Mannarino

Over 1,300 Layoffs Hit Logistics Companies Across US – Noi Mahoney

Daytime Solar Power Glut in California, Rooftop Sales Plunge 90 Percent – “Demand for rooftop solar systems dries up in California after subsidies drop. 100 contractors go out of business. Fancy that.” – Mish

The Fed Has Lost the Inflation Battle – Peter Schiff

Bill Holter unleashed on the global melt down. Part 1 (VIDEO) – Texas Silver  – ANOTHER GOOD LISTEN FROM BILL!!!!!!!!!!!

Banks’ Exposure to CRE Loans by Bank Size – “When CRE hits investors, fine, they were paid to take those risks. But we’re a little more squeamish when it comes to banks. Commercial Real Estate loans amount to about $5 trillion. Not all CRE sectors are in trouble. At one end of the spectrum: Industrial is still in good shape. At the other end of the spectrum: office is in terrible shape. Somewhere in the middle: There have been some big defaults in multifamily, but the sector is in much better shape than office.” – Wolf Richter

SURVIVAL, PREPAREDNESS AND SELF-SUFFICIENCY

Prioritizing Your Exit Plan – “An increasing number of people are coming to the conclusion that their home countries (particularly the US, EU and Canada) are in decline. More and more, such people are deciding to seek greener pastures elsewhere in the world. Many of them have never “left home” before and are very unsure of how they should prioritize an exit.” – Jeff Thomas

Primitive Weapons You Should Learn How to Make – “Although the Stone Age ended long ago, and we are no longer bound by the materials and practices of the time, the weapons created then can still be useful in emergencies or survival situations.” – Aaron Pattison

The Best Gardening Methods For Preppers – Part I – “”In our world, being ready for anything is the name of the game, and gardening isn’t just about pretty flowers or fresh veggies—it’s about being prepared for whatever life throws your way. For folks who take preparedness seriously, knowing how to grow your own food isn’t just a hobby; it’s a key part of making sure you can take care of yourself and your loved ones, no matter what. – Rhonda Owen

Plant These Now For An Early Summer Harvest – Sunny M

Keeping Kids Safe When They’re Home Alone – Daisy Luther

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