THE BIG PICTURE
What Really Matters? – “That is perhaps a question that is as personal as it is deceptively simple. What matters to me may not matter to anyone else. What I deem as trivial is perhaps greatly prized by someone else. Who can say what is important and what is trivial? Is it merely a question of personal perspective? As God has an interest in what we do, as what we do matters to God, it necessarily follows that it matters if we are doing what is right or if we are doing what is wrong. It necessarily follows that it matters if we are answering or ignoring God’s calling for us.” – Peter Nayland Kust
Safetyism – “It is astounding the degree to which Safetyism has permeated the culture of this country. The idea that everything is dangerous. Which is a different thing than understanding most things – including taking a shower – carry with them a degree of risk. The latter not being much to worry about when due care is exercised. Safetyism is this idea that everything is dangerous and thus everyone must be “kept safe” – which is to say, prevented from doing whatever those obsessed about the danger of everything say isn’t safe. Such people used to be in the minority. They appear to have acquired operating control over the majority. Which is why everyone – so it seems – appears to be afraid of doing anything. We saw Safetyism etiolate during the mass panic event of 2020-2024, which continues to linger as evidenced by the people you can see practically everywhere you go who are still wearing “masks.”” – Eric Peters
“Roses Are Red, Violets Are Blue, & Polar Vortex Is Coming For You” – “Bitterly cold Arctic air will pour into the central U.S. next week, bringing record-breaking low temps, dangerous wind chills (30-50 below zero), and possible heavy snow from the Plains to the Northeast, So why have global warming alarmists remained silent about these cold blasts? ” – Tyler Durden
Geoengineering Watch Global Alert News, February 15, 2025,(VIDEO) – “Weekend snow, ice storm to snarl travel from Midwest to Northeast”” – Dane Wigington
Can Someone Let Trump Know We Don’t Need a Commission to MAHA – “In 2022, an estimated 30 million children (40.7 percent) had at least one health condition, such as allergies, asthma, or an autoimmune disease. Autism spectrum disorder now affects 1 in 36 children in the United States — a staggering increase from rates of 1 to 4 out of 10,000 children identified with the condition during the 1980s. Eighteen percent of late adolescents and young adults have fatty liver disease, close to 30 percent of adolescents are prediabetic, and more than 40 percent of adolescents are overweight or obese. What in the world could be causing this???? Let’s see what’s really behind this mystery health crisis of chronic disease… OMG!!!! Mystery solved!” – Conspiracy Sarah – GOOD ONE FROM SARAH!!!!
Canada Begins Euthanizing Veterans to Cut Back on Costly Treatments – “The Canadian government is now pressuring military veterans into “assisted suicide” in order to relieve the burden on the nation’s socialized taxpayer-funded healthcare system.” – Frank Bergman
Pro-Vaccine Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Cuts Deal to Keep Establishment View on Vaccines in order to Become the new Secretary of Health and Human Services – “Among those concessions was to keep the CDC child immunization schedule in tact, keep the FDA drug and vaccine approval process in tact, and agree to NOT replace anything on the CDC website that claims vaccines do not cause autism.” – Brian Shilhavy
After delay, CDC releases data signaling bird flu spread undetected in cows and people – “In the new study, researchers analyzed blood samples collected from 150 veterinarians who worked with cattle around the country and found that three of them had antibodies to the H5N1 virus, indicating recent infections. None recalled having any influenza-like symptoms or conjunctivitis.” – Will Stone – TRYING TO RAMP THINGS UP AGAIN. MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING IF NONE OF THEM RECALLED EVEN HAVING SYMPTONS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
World Becomes Brighter as Trump Reverses Biden’s Incandescent Light Bulb Ban – “And user-friendly toilets, dishwashers, and showers are coming back soon, too! Personally, I am planning to load up on the incandescent bulbs as soon as they become available.” – Leslie Eastman
FDA Clears Investigational New Drug Application for Inhaled COVID Biologic – “Biotech company Ocugen, Inc. has announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has cleared their Investigational New Drug (IND) application for a novel inhaled vaccine against SARS-CoV-2.” – Natasha Hobley
N EWS
What Happens Post Collapse—Is Our Future – “Trump euphoria, like snow slush in a warming trend, could be gone by morning. For anyone who remembers, Trump had similar economic policies in his 1st term. Bill Holter has been warning consistently that the reset is happening and the collapse is in progress. But, what happens post collapse is what will become our legacy. For that we need Plato, and his description in the Republic of what happens when the democracy fails (as it did in Athens). That’s when a charismatic tyrant appears, as a friend of democracy, often taken up by the citizens in great enthusiasm as the savior. For that we need Plato, and his description in the Republic of what happens when the democracy fails (as it did in Athens). That’s when a charismatic tyrant appears, as a friend of democracy, often taken up by the citizens in great enthusiasm as the savior.” – neverhadaboss.com
How To Make Millions from Trump Derangement Substack AND Win the Pulitzer Prize – “Comrades: Welcome to the first annual Substack Correspondents’ Dinner! Tonight, we honor the most stunning and brave Substack writers. They have made millions regurgitating TDS from their orifices into countless hearts and minds. Congratulations to Heather Cox Richardson for becoming the #1 writer on Substack! Letters from an American has amassed 2 million readers. If you want to know what Elizabeth Warren, HR managers, and your local AWFL cat ladies are angry about, inject Rants from a Karen straight into your veins. Heather is a historian the same way Biden is sharp as a tack” – Yuri Bezmenov
Color Me Confused By The Left’s Unhinged Reaction To Trump – “The chasm between leftist fears and assertions and the actual facts and law suggest a serious disconnect from reality.” – Ted Noel
The Mafia State – “First we got a mafia economy. Then we got a mafia state. We must rid ourselves of the ruling criminal class or become its victims. Kiss the ring. Grovel before the Godfather. Give him tribute, a cut of the spoils. If he and his family get rich you get rich. Enter his inner circle, his “made” men and women, and you do not have to follow rules or obey the law. You can disembowel the machinery of government. You can turn us and the natural world into commodities to exploit until exhaustion or collapse. You can commit crimes with impunity. You can make a mockery of democratic norms and social responsibility. Perfidy is very profitable at first. In the long term it is collective suicide. America is a full blown kleptocracy.” – Chris Hedges
Mythologies About Musk – “Musk’s role in DOGE is misunderstood: he’s an appointed auditor with legal authority to find waste, not cut programs, and foreign aid isn’t ending, though USAID’s inefficiencies may be restructured.” – Victor Davis Hanson
Government Waste Causes Inflation – “This cannot be said enough: Government overspending (waste, fraud and abuse) causes inflation. If Trump, or anyone else, wants to reduce inflation it can’t just come from unleashing domestic oil and gas production. The problem is congress. DOGE can show the wasteful spending and Trump can cut jobs, but it takes congress to implement the spending changes.” – T.L. Davis
From the Back Forty: DOGE Captures the Attention of Heartlanders – “Who’s next on the DOGE chopping block?” – Sarah Cowgill
Deport Them All. The Immigration Consensus Collapses Across the West – “A Grotesque Criminal Conspiracy Against Western Civilization. According to refugee tribunal members, every single refugee lies. 95% are economic migrants and not coming to work, they are coming to feed. And they do. The clever ones make as much as $80,000 a year from the public purse. If temporary residents were their own provinces, they’d be the 5th largest.” – Elizabeth Nickson
There’s Been A Mysterious Surge In Romanian Illegal Immigrants Crossing From Canada Into Maine – Tyler Durden
The Hammer Drops at Justice – “New leadership and new rules are too much for sanctimonious DOJ employees, who resign rather than follow orders to depoliticize the department.” -Julie Kelly
Will the EU Ever Learn to Make More Friends? – “As the EU shivers over what America’s new president will or will not do, policymakers in Brussels consider continuing catastrophic economic warfare on Russia.” – Phil Butler
In Syria, the barbarians aren’t at the gate, they’re in power with Western support (VIDEO) with Declan Hayes – “Atrocities are being committed every day in Syria by the new rulers, according to Irish writer and peace activist Declan Hayes. However, the Western corporate-run media are ignoring or censoring the horrific reality because the Western governments backed the regime-change operation. He says that Syria – a cradle of civilization – is now being ruled by barbarians with the tacit support of Western governments and media. The population is living under a reign of terror because the new rulers are terrorists affiliated with Islamic State who espouse an extremist version of Islam that does not tolerate other religions or versions of Islam.” – Finian Cunningham
ECONOMIC N EWS
Now Everyone Can See It: The Economy Is Terrible – “For years, I’ve waited for some honesty about economic data. The official numbers have not made sense. The labor numbers were all over the map with growing disparities between data-collecting methods. The output numbers did not fit with on-the-ground realities. The price numbers from government did not reflect sources from private industry. Putting it all together, we have been surrounded for years by an unannounced inflationary recession with awful jobs numbers. Saying this has marked me as a crank, sadly, but the last five years has convinced me and multitudes of others that official claims and numbers simply cannot be trusted. ” – Jeffrey A. Tucker
Trump tariffs and insults spark national Canadian furor – Richard Mills
The European Welfare State Is Collapsing – “Politicians in Europe are using the JD Vance and Trump external enemy excuse to disguise the existential problem of a system that is crumbling. The statist nightmare built around what politicians call “welfare state” has proven to be a subterfuge to multiply bureaucracy and create a dependent subclass. The welfare state was never sustainable but was created as an affordable luxury that rich economies could finance with strong economic growth and a solid productive sector. However, European governments overlooked the necessity of fostering economic growth and productivity to finance the welfare state. ” – Daniel Lacalle
Poor Retail Sales Reduced GDP Estimate for 2025 Q1 by 0.75 PP – Mish
Here Come the HELOCs: Mortgages, Housing-Debt-to-Income-Ratio, Serious Delinquencies & Foreclosures in Q4 2024 – “HELOC (home equity line of credit ) balances surged, mortgage balances barely budged: More households, more income, more housing debt.” – Wolf Richter
How To Cash In On Golden Lottery Tickets – “Gold continues its push towards $3,000 per ounce. Has it risen too far, too fast? One year ago, an ounce of gold could be bought for about $2,000 per ounce. Since then, the price of an ounce of gold has increased about 46 percent. But is gold really 46 percent more valuable than it was just one year ago?” – MN Gordon
Gold, Debt, and the Coming Financial Storm (VIDEO) with Greg Weldon – Mike Maharrey of Money Metals
Why Official Inflation Reports Are Dead Wrong – “Recent official inflation reports are disheartening. What’s worse, they simply don’t reflect the reality faced by everyday American families. Today we take a deep dive into how inflation itself, the official headline CPI, is measured. What if we’ve been measuring the wrong things?” – Peter Reagan
SURVIVAL, PREPAREDNESS AND SELF-SUFFICIENCY
What You Have Will Be All There Is – When SHTF For Real… – “If and when the system collapses to the extent of what some may call long-term SHTF, not only will society unravel into social chaos, but from the standpoint of supply and re-supply, it is likely that “what you have will be all there is,” at least for a while. Maybe a long time. For those making a serious commitment to long-term and self-sustaining prepping and preparedness, it is a good concept to consider “what you have will be all there is.” It will help you become better prepared.” – Ken Jorgustin
How to Plan Your Best Garden & Harvest for a Year’s Worth of Food – · Melissa K. Norris – FOR HOW MUCH TO PLANT, SEE MELISSA’S ARTICLE LINKED ON 02/28/23 AND IT’S ALSO LINKED IN THIS ARTICLE AS WELL!!!
Prep Chat 2/15/25. That Always Ready For The Storm Mentality. (VIDEO) – Modern Refugee – GOOD ONE FROM MODERN REFUGEE!!!!!!!!!
Potting Up Seedlings: What, Why, When & How – “If you started plants from seed, chances are you will need to pot up the baby seedlings before they get transplanted into the garden. Maybe even twice! Your individual potting up needs and timing will vary.”- Deanna Talerico
The Benefits of Gardening for Mental Health – Steph Coelho
VERSE FOR THE DAY
1 John 3:11
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LYRIC FOR THE WEEK
I was born by a river
( The River by Dan Fogelberg )
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