THE BIG PICTURE

Is “De-Dollerization” On The Table? BRICS Summit Approaches As Trade War Simmers – “For many years now I have been talking about the growing global economic divide between East and West. This volatile opposition between the BRICS nations and the US is not a product of the Trump era. It has been decades in the making with a myriad of complex working parts and numerous US trading partners have been preparing for the fallout as far back as 2008. At the same time behind the scenes there have been malicious influences at play: Special interests within the Davos community have been working diligently to undermine the US economy and the dollar. But what is the ultimate aim of this agenda?” – Brandon Smith

Desperate housewife of South Dakota, Kristi Noem wants you to use Real ID. Say no. Here is how. – Sasha Latypova – INCLUDES A GOOD SATIRE OF KRISTI’S REAL ID AD ON X!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Cobwebs and Chemtrails: Prophecy, Policy, and the Battle for Our Skies – Sayer Ji

Trump-Vance billionaire backer Peter Thiel sells ‘Smart AI warfighting’ system to NATO while talking up U.S. trade war with China – “Stock in Thiel’s company, Palantir, soars Monday on news of major new deal inked with NATO Allied Command Operations. Thiel is an agent of the global deep state and the Western military-industrial complex. He not only co-founded PayPal, which was intended to replace paper money with digital and conditioned Americans to accept digital transactions, he also was one of the earliest investors in Facebook.” – Leo Hohmann – HAVE LINKED ON THIEL AND PALANTIR BOTH IN THE PAST. PUT EITHER ONE IN THE SITE’S SEARCH BAR FOR MORE ARTICLES!!!!

RFK Jr Moves to Block Food Stamps from Buying Sugary Soft Drinks – “Kennedy is making waves due to his stance on eliminating junk food from the American diet. Specifically, he’s been targetting the ability to purchase these food and drinks on welfare schemes such as the food stamp program.” – Nick R. Hamilton

3 Decades Wiped from Life Expectancy of Covid-Vaxxed – Frank Bergman

NEWS

Systemic Considerations – “Whatever else you think is happening in our world, contraction is the reality-based order-of-the-day, and everything else is downstream of that. The world has to get by with less. Nothing is going to fix this for everybody, though any number of schemes for redistributing what’s left will preoccupy the political mojo. Right now, it’s tariffs, which are an attempt to restore industry ceded to the formerly left-behind people elsewhere in the world — taking back what we used to do. Many of us are aware that the hour for this is late. We’ve already lived through our decades of pumping cheap oil out of American ground, extracting the ores, fashioning the metal into I-beams and rails, raising the skyscrapers, laying the asphalt ribbons of highway, and strewing the landscape with split-level houses and strip-malls. Let’s not try a re-run of that. What have we got to work with?” – James Howard Kunstler

Arrests Are Imminent! – “Maybe you saw or heard the news that Attorney General Pam Bondi says “Huge Arrest Coming Within the Next 24 Hours.” That was more than 24 hours ago – and the promised “arrest” has not happened. More to the point, the promised arrests have not happened. The arrests of criminals such as the pedophiles on Epstein’s list, for instance. Nor the “COVID” criminals – including Dr. Fauci and the head of Pfizer, Anthony Bourla. They are free to make book deals and give speeches (Fauci) and to continue manufacturing dangerous drugs (Bourla). Gretchen Whitmer and Kathy Hochul and JB Pritzker are still the governors of their respective states, despite having turned their states into police states.” – Eric Peters  – ALL A PART OF THE DOG AND PONY SHOW. FUNNY HOW NOTHING REALLY CHANGES NO MATTER WHO IS THE SO-CALLED “EL PRESIDENTE”!!!

Wild Boars – “The European Zionists who created the modern state of Israel may have been cursed from the beginning, not because they were Jews, but because they were urbanites. In other words, they were not then, and are not now, farmers or ranchers, to use the American term. Americans throughout the midwest and south know what feral pigs can do. Whole service industries have grown up to control wild pig populations, and repairing and protecting farms, ranges and suburbs from their rapacious environmental damage. Americans embrace their natural rights to protect themselves, their children and their property, and to bear arms. Palestinians, on the other hand, live under Israeli laws that do not rest on a written Constitution, but reflect only the shifting needs of Zionism. It is “illegal” for them to bear arms, or otherwise protect their property from settlers, or from the feral pigs those settlers send their way.” – Karen Kwiatkowski

Critiquing President Trump & Musk Has Become SHREWISH – “Why are various Libertarian and conservative news sites becoming so pronounced with anti-Trump rhetoric? Trump has been in office 83 days. And the sour-mouth shrews are everywhere. ” – Helena Glass

A Revocation of Consent – “As Trump approaches the 90 day mark of his second term, there are reasons for encouragement, but there’s also a sense that none of this has gone according to plan. Without criticizing the man, I understand the role of the presidency, especially a controversial presidency. Everything he does has to be defended in court. That’s not something with which Democrat presidents are encumbered. Look at the level of outright criminality taking place in every agency from the FBI itself to the Department of Agriculture and everything in between.” – T.L. Davis

The DOGE Is All Wrong – “You can’t do a wrong thing the right way. What we need is an effective government that does the right thing. The DOGE associated with Elon Musk can’t seem to recognize that you can’t do a wrong thing the right way. If you’re doing a wrong thing, you must stop doing it. Period. Genocidal nuclear missiles are wrong. Stop building them. Genocide in Gaza is wrong. Stop supplying Israel with weapons. Waging war for peace is wrong. Stop doing it. You don’t do it by rewarding it with more money. But that’s exactly what President Trump, Elon Musk, and Congress are doing. They all seek a trillion dollar war budget. They all want the Pentagon to grow and then grow some more.” – Bill Astore

Bomb, Bomb, Bomb Mexico? – “According to press accounts, the Trump administration, which some right-wing libertarians have humorously described as being “antiwar,” is now contemplating dropping bombs on Mexico. Yes, real bombs that kill people and destroy things, just like the bombs that U.S. national-security state officials used to kill people in Iraq, which, like Mexico, never attacked or invaded the United States. More specifically, such a bombing campaign would target drug cartels in Mexico. Make no mistake about it. When one nation-state drops bombs on another nation-state, that is an act of war.” – Jacob G. Hornberger

China’s Century of Humiliation (VIDEO) – “The key to understanding Chinese foreign policy today. From the 1840s through the 1940s, China endured what Chinese people today call “the century of shame and humiliation,” when Western powers, and later Japan, took full advantage of historical happenstance to exploit China as much as they could.” – Ohio Barbarian

Incoming German government from hell enthusiastically promises to artificially inflate energy prices, regrets that the social welfare state must absorb ever more of our income – eugyppius

Three Arguments For & Against Russia Extending Its “Energy Ceasefire” With Ukraine – Andrew Korybko

ECONOMIC NEWS

GET OUT OF THE DOLLAR… I REPEAT! GET OUT OF THE DOLLAR NOW. (Critical Updates). (VIDEO) – Gregory Mannarino

Is It Too Late? – “One of the questions rarely asked regarding the ongoing American crisis is whether we have passed the point where reform is possible. Few want to consider that possibility for obvious reasons. If reform through the regular political process is no longer possible, then only unpleasant alternatives remain. One of those alternatives is some form of collapse. Typically, the reason for dumping treasuries is a liquidity issue, either in the system as a whole or in a segment of it. In this case, the consensus is that hedge funds were raising cash due to the market decline. That could be true, but it is also possible the basis trade was unraveling. This is when hedge funds bet on tiny changes in treasury yields—a major way they generate profits within the system. When Trump’s tariffs caused this system to go haywire, triggering a panicked demand for cash, he had no choice but to back off. It was not that the bond market revolted due to a philosophical disagreement with the policy. Rather, this massive system is a house of cards that cannot tolerate even minor disruptions. Trump’s tariff regime should not have caused chaos, but the fact that it did suggests even small changes are no longer viable.” – The Z Man – GOOD EXPLANATION FOR THOSE NOT FAMILIAR WITH HOW THINGS REALLY WORK IN THE MARKETS!!!

Yield Spreads Suggest The Risk Isn’t Over Yet – Lance Roberts

Trade, Tariffs, Currencies, Colonialism, the Gold Watch and Everything – “The present-day tariff-trade-war conflicts boil down to Neocolonial strategies to gain control of markets for exports and resource extraction on terms that are only favorable to the Neocolonial power. Let’s start by dispensing with the conveniently pliable fantasy of “free trade.”” – Charles Hugh Smith

As Global Tariffs Escalate, The Elites Are Buying Gold & Silver (VIDEO ) with Andrew Sleigh – Sprott Money

SURVIVAL, PREPAREDNESS AND SELF-SUFFICIENCY

Diseases That Will Affect Everyone After a SHTF Event – “When the SHTF event hits, the chaos won’t just be about looting, violence, or food shortages—it’ll be about the silent killers creeping in through contaminated water, infected wounds, and the very air you breathe. Most preppers focus on stockpiling weapons and canned goods, but the real threat after a SHTF event will be the diseases that modern medicine once kept at bay.” – Bob Rodgers

Cheap Items That Could Save Your Life During an EMP – “Hand tools will be a true lifesaver in a post-EMP world. Hammers, multitools, hatchets, handsaws, screwdrivers, pliers, and adjustable wrenches will be called on every day to handle the jobs you’ll need to do.” – Eric Beuning

Stonemasonry: Building a Stone Wall – John Vivian

Prep Chat 4/13/25 Prepping Groups & Keeping The Household Together. (VIDEO) – Modern Refugee.

Aran Dharmeratnam of Tri Tier Training Discusses the Importance of Blending in – Mark Jacobs

VERSE FOR THE DAY

John 12:31    Now is the judgment of this world: now shall the prince of this world be cast out.

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