THE BIG PICTURE

Wave Goodbye to Another Set of Freedoms With the New Digital ID – “In the 1980s, Australians fought hard against a similar national ID program, what has changed since then?” – Graham Young

Environmentalists’ silence on humanity and environmental atrocities – “While wind and solar do not emit carbon dioxide, there are substantial environmental degradation and humanity atrocities occurring in China, Africa, Turkey, Argentina, Bolivia, and Chile. The materials for EV batteries and to produce electricity from wind turbines and solar panels require large-scale mining of critical minerals and metals, many of which are mined and refined in countries like China and the Democratic Republic of Congo,… All told, just one Tesla EV battery requires the processing of more than 500,000 pounds of materials somewhere on the planet.” – Ronald Stein P.E.

Lawmakers hope to use this emerging climate science to charge oil companies for disasters – “Oil and coal companies would pay into climate funds based on their emissions” – Alex Brown – THESE CLOWNS ARE PROPOSING A SUPERFUND TO FINE COMPANIES FOR AFFECTING THE CLIMATE. UH, DON’T WE ALREADY HAVE AN EPA SUPERFUND FOR ECOLOGICAL DISASTERS. JUST ANOTHER FORM OF TAXATION AND ACTUALLY DOUBLE TAXATION. ALSO, I CAN SEE SOME THINGS AFFECTING POLLUTION, BUT LET’S SEE THEM PROVE THIS ONE AFFECTING THE CLIMATE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Lighting Your Fireplace will Be a $500 Fine for CO2 Police – “In South Gloucestershire, England, the City Council has approved the introduction of financial penalties in the district’s smoke control area.” – Martin Armstrong

How doctors have beefed up language for… – “TREATMENT” – Jon Rappoport

WHO, Media Drum Up Fear of Bird Flu Spreading to Humans – “The WHO’s Chief Scientist Jeremy Farrar warned bird flu has an “extremely high” mortality rate for humans and could mutate to pass between humans, despite no record of human-to-human transmission of H5N1.” – Brenda Baletti, Ph.D. – THEY JUST WON’T LET THIS ONE GO AWAY. GUESS IT HAS TO WORK UNTIL SOMETHING BETTER COMES ALONG!!!!!

Was the Intellectual Dark Web Assembled to Sell Vaccines and Destroy American Culture? – Mathew Crawford

NEWS

Global memewar – “The time to stand against censorship, suppression, and surveillance is now. Here is the premier of Australia, which has become such a hotbed of censorship efforts of late, opining that it is the “responsibility” of social media platforms to suppress “misinformation.”” – El Gato Malo

Divide and Conquer: The Government’s Propaganda of Fear and Fake News – “Take the media circus that is the Donald Trump hush money trial, which panders to the public’s voracious appetite for titillating, soap opera drama, keeping the citizenry distracted, diverted and divided. This is the magic of the reality TV programming that passes for politics today. Everything becomes entertainment fodder. As long as we are distracted, entertained, occasionally outraged, always polarized but largely uninvolved and content to remain in the viewer’s seat, we’ll never manage to present a unified front against tyranny (or government corruption and ineptitude) in any form.” – John & Nisha Whitehead

The FBI and CIA Are Enemies of the American People – “Since at least the early 1960s, many have understood that the post-war intelligence agencies have posed an especially dangerous threat to the people of the United States. For example, exactly one month after Kennedy’s assassination—surely, just a coincidence!—former president Harry Truman expressed alarm about the CIA’s meddling in domestic affairs. ” – Ryan McMaken

Justice (sic) Department Conspired with Biden, FBI, National Archives, and NY Times to Concoct a “Documents Case” against Trump – Paul Craig Roberts

Worst States to be a Gun Owner (2024 Updated) – “Does your state support your 2nd Amendment rights or make it exceedingly difficult to keep and bear arms? We’ve ranked the worst states to be a gun owner ” – Ammo.com

RFK Jr. Reveals What the NIH Isn’t Telling You About Mass Shootings Y- “ou won’t see the media covering this. Kennedy suggested that “something happened” around the time of the infamous Columbine High School mass shooting in 1999. That something, he suspects, is the use of SSRI antidepressants.” – The Vigilant Fox  – THEY HAVE ALWAYS IGNORED THIS FACT AS IT DOESN’T FIT THE NARRATIVE FOR GUN CONTROL AND ALSO STEPS ON BIG PHARMA’S TOES!!!

“Rat Urine” Disease Spreading In New York City – ” This news comes just one year after the rulers anointed a czar for its “war on rats.” It doesn’t seem to be going well, like every war the U.S. has backed lately.” – Mac Slavo

Who needs butter when you got guns? World arms spending reaches $2.5 trillion – “Who needs butter when you got guns? World arms spending reaches $2.5 trillion Between wars and increased tensions, every region saw increases” – Jim Lobe

Anti-Semitic Laws Fueling Protests Against WAR – ” When did a democratic country require criminal prosecution for anyone found to have spoken against the government? WHY are Jews/Zionists afforded such discriminatory preferential treatment? The Department of State claims that antisemitism comes under the classification of Human Rights: But the Jews are asking for ‘special rights’ inherent only for them. Holocaust denial can be insulting – but when did an ‘insult’ become a crime?. Some states have declared even the trivialization of the Holocaust is also a criminal offense. Yesterday, Antony Blinken gave the world his version of human rights amidst the Gaza genocide: “Countries that respect human rights are more likely to be peaceful, prosperous, stable. The entire briefing is nauseating. Not only does Blinken ignore the Capitol Offenders tortured and jailed in America, he states that Gaza is guilty by default because of Hamas. Ukrainian Nazi’s are simply misrepresented boys. “And the United States will continue to raise ‘deep concerns’ over…” – Sudan, Syria, China, Russia, Afghanistan, etc…” – Helena Glass

Reckless Clients and Double Standards – “Secretary Blinken made a claim yesterday that absolutely no one will believe: “We apply the same standard to everyone,” Blinken said. “And that doesn’t change whether the country in question is an adversary, a competitor, a friend or an ally.” Everyone can see that Blinken isn’t telling the truth. It’s a bit odd that top U.S. officials try to preserve the fiction that the U.S. holds allies and clients to the same standard that it uses for others. No one takes the story seriously, and it just prompts critics to call out the pointless lying.” – Daniel Larison

Iran Vs Israel: What Happens Next Now That Shots Have Been Fired? – “I have little doubt that Israel will commit to extensive aerial strikes on Iran this year or very early in 2025, and we’ll see very quickly if Russian air defense technology sold to the Iranians is effective or ineffective. Iran’s drone program may be useful in helping to even the playing field against Israeli fighter jets, but then again, the technology gap could be extensive. The Israeli public position will be that their strikes are focused on taking down any existing Iranian nuclear labs. There is no solid evidence that Iran has made much headway in developing nukes … The Strait of Hormuz would be at the top of the list of primary targets for Iran. It is the narrowest point of access to the Persian Gulf and oversees the passage of around 25%-30% of the world’s total oil exports. Blocking it is relatively easy” – Brandon Smith – GOOD READ FROM BRANDON AS USUAL!!

DHS monitoring over 600,000 illegal immigrants with criminal records: report – “Turn them over to ICE, enforce the law, and remove them. It’s just that simple.” – Jarryd Jaeger

Nothing is shocking with an attitude like this – “We’re starting to see more and more cases of vicious attacks by students on other students in our schools.  This isn’t a fight. If you do something like this to someone on the streets, you get arrested and locked up. Depending on how bad things turned out—and the victim apparently needed stitches and was put on a concussion protocol, so it was bad enough—this become felony assault. But the principal just thinks of it as a fight. ” – Tom Knighton

The US Threatens to Sanction Companies That Don’t Give a Damn – “The Biden administration claims Chinese companies help Russia rebuild its war machine. Our sanction proposal counter is laughable. China’s counterthreat isn’t.” – Mish

Reflections from the Heart of the Empire: A Bonfire of Stupidities & Kleptocrats – “The Russian Ministry of Defense estimates the Ukrainians have lost nearly 500,000 soldiers since the war began. I guess the US Empire figures that’s just a good start, and a great deal. Half a million Ukies dead, hundreds of billions in profits, cha-ching! How about those congresscritters standing up in our nation’s capitol to celebrate funding a neo-Nazi kleptocracy in a foreign country instead of their fellow Americans?” – Ohio Barbarian

Sending US Military Advisers to Ukraine Is a Slippery Slope – “Haven’t we seen this movie before?” – Dave Patterson

Ukraine: US Doubles Down, Russia is Cool – “Senate approval is expected as soon as Tuesday. President Biden has promised, “I will immediately sign this law to send a signal to the whole world: we support our friends and will not allow Iran or Russia to succeed,” On the other hand, the Russian foreign ministry reaction has been rather polemical — as if Moscow was anticipating the development. What seems to perturb Moscow most in the US aid bill is the thinking favouring the confiscation of frozen Russian assets to fund Ukraine, which, the Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov singled out “because this is essentially the destruction of all the foundations of the economic system.” – M. K. Bhadrakumar

ECONOMIC NEWS

Is a Volcker-like series of rate hikes in the cards? – Richard Mills

Crossing the U.S. Dollar Rubicon – “Of course you’ll recall the Russian invasion of Ukraine in late February of 2022. This was the most important geopolitical event of that year, and the ramifications continue to metastasize in 2024. However, the most important financial event of 2022 occurred in early March of that year when the United States and the European Union combined forces to: Freeze Russia’s non-domestic foreign currency reserves. Expel Russia from the SWIFT international payment system. The ramifications of these moves continue to metastasize today too. Why?” – Craig Hemke

CRISIS ZONE: ON THE EDGE OF A TOTAL DEBT MARKET MELTDOWN… IMPORTANT UPDATES. (VIDEO) – Gregory Mannarino

Prices of New Houses v. Existing Houses: Why New-House Sales Held Up as Existing-House Sales Plunged – “Here’s why: New house prices -18% from peak, back to Nov 2021, further sweetened by mortgage-rate buydowns.” – Wolf Richter

Wall Street Due for Correction (VIDEO) – Peter Schiff

Oil markets put a question mark on the soft landing expectations – “Oil prices have sold off meaningfully from their recent highs. Brent and WTI crude oil lost $4.51/bbl and $4.89/bbl, respectively, from $91.17/bbl and $86.91/bbl (see Exhibit 1) at the time of writing. It wasn’t just oil flat prices that came under pressure. Time-spreads in both Brent and WTI are also sharply off their highs.” – Goldmoney Staff

SURVIVAL, PREPAREDNESS AND SELF-SUFFICIENCY

Grey Man Secrets You Should Learn Before SHTF – “In scenarios where resources become scarce and the social order has broken down, drawing unwanted attention to yourself, your assets, and your operations could potentially make you the target of violence or even get you killed. Blending in and ensuring that you remain unnoticed or moving through crowds while creating the perception that you are unremarkable could save your life.” – Charl M

Moss Growing on the North Side of Trees? Busting the Myth – “There are all kinds of cherished survival myths out there. I grew up hearing them, and the guys that taught them to me probably grew up hearing them. Suck the poison out of a snake bite. You can eat anything that animals eat. Drinking from white water is safer. The sad thing is none of these are true, or good ideas!” – Tom Marlowe

How Much Instant Dry Yeast To Go With One’s Wheat Storage – “You have purchased and set aside an amount of wheat (wheat berries) for preparedness. But do you have enough of the other ingredients (such as instant dry yeast) to coincide with the amount of wheat that you have stored?” – Ken Jorgustin

Illnesses Risks After SHTF Events – “In the realm of health, it’s easy to take for granted the protection modern medicine affords us against sickness. However, for individuals like myself and many others who embrace preparedness, the specter of illness amplifying in the wake of a widespread natural calamity or a SHTF scenario looms large. With a young child and family members grappling with diverse health challenges, this concern hits close to home.” – Bob Rodgers

This Is Why You Should Attract These Birds In Your Garden – Elizabeth Grant

VERSES FOR THE DAY

1 Peter 1:18-19   Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers;  But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot:

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