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A Revisit to the Now ‘Forgotten’ Story About the Fake Charlie Kirk ‘Assassination:’ A Connected Psyop on Steroids – “To begin, let me say that while this might be a bit of speculation on my part, the fact remains that this story has been almost purged from media coverage in an inordinate short amount of time. Should Kirk have really been assassinated, (killed off) the coverage (lack thereof) would not have virtually disappeared, but would have escalated dramatically. It is my assertion that it has been relegated to the dustbin of history, at least as considered by mainstream media and political mouthpieces, due to the obvious coverup of the insane, nonsensical, and blatant lies concerning this Hollywood production and staged setup.” – Gary D. Barnett  -A MUST READ FROM GARY, HE LAYS OUT EXCELLENT POINTS!!!!!!!!!!!

Dark Tidings – “Surely you’ve noticed in recent years just how gruesome the Halloween townscape has become with our competitive yard displays of giant skeletons, shrieking ghouls, corpses seeming to emerge from the crabgrass, and miscellaneous body parts strewn about the property. The symbolism seems pretty overt: America yearns to become a death cult. The world has seen this before and it generally doesn’t end well. Something in their equivalent of the zeitgeist drove the Aztecs to sharply ramp-up the scale of their human sacrifices in the years just before Hernán Cortés came to their capital city, Something — more precisely, some cabal of somebodies — is attempting to systematically demolish the social scaffold of our country now. It can’t just be the Soros network of NGOs. The battle has been going on for at least ten years, since Mr. Trump invaded the body politic — rather like when Cortés entered Mexico and set off a chain of events that ended the cruel and despotic culture embedded there. We’re acting out something along those lines now.” – James Howard Kunstler

This Halloween in the New Normal – “Everything for everyone everywhere is getting more expensive, and yet it’s always for different reasons. Brexit or Putin or Covid. For chocolate, it’s Climate Change. Trump too, but mostly climate change. It’s one of those fascinating meta-phenomena, that Halloween has spawned urban legends to scare the parents of eager children. There’s the razor blades in the bobbing apples and cyanide in the Pixy Stix! Scary stories of demonic neighbours bent on seasonal sadism. Tales that persist despite there being no record of them ever happening. Not one single time.” – Off Guardian

Which States Are the Most Haunted? – “You might be surprised by the ones that made the list.” – Kelli Ballard

The Babylonian Roots of Halloween: Why I HATE this Time of Year – “What Your Kids Are Really Celebrating. Archaeoastronomer Anthony Aveni studies ancient rituals. His research gets funded by National Geographic and the National Science Foundation. He’s not fringe. And he says Halloween marked something specific in Babylonian times: the day the dead came back to life. The Babylonians believed the veil thinned enough for spirits to cross over. This wasn’t harvest celebration. This was the Babylonian new year. A cosmic reset. It required appeasement.” – The Wise Wolf

The WHO Is Still At It – “”Negotiations” for the PABS Annex to the “Pandemic Agreement” resume November 3-7, 2025. The initial draft text is available below.” – James Roguski

Bicarbonate, Iodine & THC Oil: A Powerful Natural Skin Cancer Solution (VIDEO) – Dr. Sircus

NEWS

Trump prepares ‘imminent’ military strike on Venezuela, while readying rapid military ‘reaction force’ for deployment to U.S. cities – “More foreign escapades incoming from the ‘Peace President’… could we be under soft martial law by year’s end?” – Leo Hohmann

Trump Authorizes National Guard “Quick Reaction Forces” Trained In Crowd Control And Civil Unrest, Says He Is Prepared To Send ‘More Than The National Guard’ Into US Cities – “”I’d be allowed to do whatever I want. I could send the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines — I could send anybody I wanted.” Last week, a memo was leaked that indicated that President Donald Trump was authorizing the creation of a new division of the National Guard trained in crowd control and subduing civil unrest. The goal was to have these new teams ready by April 2026. When asked about the rumors, War Secretary Pete Hegseth did not deny or affirm the memo.” – The WinePress   – CAN’T EMPHASIZE THIS STORY ENOUGH, READ ALL THREE VIEWS!!!!!!!!!

DONALD TRUMPWELCOME TO GILEAD: Trump Orders Creation Of Dystopian ‘Quick Reaction Force’ For Permanent National Guard Deployment In All 50 States – “They are creating a state within the state that will call all the shots when the current system of government we have now is collapsed. They are preparing for a civil war that doesn’t exist – yet.” – Geoffrey Grider

How the Federal Government Acquired the Power of Assassination – “Americans oftentimes forget that the Constitution called the federal government into existence and, equally important, limited its powers to those enumerated in the Constitution itself. In fact, the only reason our American ancestors accepted the Constitution was because they were assured that its powers would be few, limited, and extremely restricted. Thus, the Constitution did not call into existence a government with inherent powers, like the traditional “police powers” that characterized governments throughout history.” – Jacob G. Hornberger

Venezuela’s main problem – “Venezuela’s main problem is that it is fabulously rich not only in oil and gas but in a wide range of other precious commodities and the United States has always wanted to control not only those resources but all similar riches throughout the Americas at least since the time of the 1823 Monroe Doctrine.” – Declan Hayes

Trump Reacts To Headlines Of ‘Imminent’ Land Attack: ‘No Strikes On Venezuela – ” It took a few mere hours for President Trump to react to headlines from early this morning declaring, “US strikes on Venezuela possibly days away.” The Miami Herald cited sources who said it could just be even just “hours” away. Of course, if these land strikes against military and cartel locations are indeed imminent, the Pentagon would want to maintain the element of surprise. So Trump has either just now authentically rejected that it’s going to happen at all, or else is seeking to run cover in order to keep that military element of surprise and edge.” – Tyler Durden

UK’s Prince Andrew stripped of titles and evicted from royal residence – “King Charles has acted amid the continued fallout from his brother’s ties with Jeffrey Epstein” – RT

SNAP’s Hidden Reality: 83 Million Citizens and Illegal Aliens Are Dependent on Food Aid Each Year – “Don’t bother asking an LLM like OpenAI or even Grok if illegal aliens receive SNAP benefits. They will insist that they don’t because federal law prohibits them from receiving SNAP. That is like saying people do not speed because the speed limit prohibits them from speeding. So let’s get into the facts that AI won’t tell you” – Amuse on X

It Has Begun – Some Crazed Lunatics Are Already Storming Into Grocery Stores And Taking Whatever They Want – Michael Snyder   – IF IT WASN’T EBT IT WOULD BE SOMETHING ELSE.  JUST ANOTHER REASON TO LOOT FOR THE USUAL SUSPECTS. WONDER IF THE WILL BE TAKING TVS AND NIKES ALONG WITH THEIR GROCERIES!!!!!!!!!!!

Violent Threats Hit A Fevered Pitch Over Food Stamp Benefits As Stores Board Up In Preparation For Looting And Food Riots – Susan Duclos

New York Declares Emergency Over Looming Pause In Food Stamps – “The decision means that $65 million in state funds will be allocated for emergency food assistance to provide for 40 million meals statewide, her office said in a statement. Around 3 million people in the state receive SNAP benefits, known as food stamps.” – Jack Phillips

One white-on-black homicide reported in October, 2025 – “32 black-on-white homicides reported … and counting” – Kenn Gividen  – ONCE AGAIN, KENN IS THE ONLY ONE WHO POINTS THIS HUGE DISCREPANCY OUT ON A MONTHLY BASIS. WHY DOESN’ THE MSM DO THIS. SIMPLE. THEY DON’T WANT YOU TO KNOW!!!!!

Is It a Genocide in Gaza? – “You Know It When You See It” – Bill Astore

Donald Trump the School Bully – “Let’s “test” our “nukes” maybe on Iran” – Philip Giraldi

Trump-Xi Face Off for All the Marbles in South Korea – “Firstly, let us mention how quintessentially awkward and weak Trump looked in front of Xi: Trump is so used to upstaging his servile and fawning ‘Western’ counterparts with a grab bag of showman’s gags and gimmicks that he looks positively out of his depth before a true statesman of Xi’s caliber. The overly glib demeanor and nervous antics fell completely flat before a stone-faced Xi, who did not seem even remotely impressed by Trump’s boisterous ‘Western charm’.” – Simplicius

A Nuclear Delivery Vehicle Is Not A Nuclear War Head – Moon of Alabama

NATO’s Three-Pronged Response To The Latest Russian Scare Raises The Risk Of A Larger War – “This could be averted if Poland, which commands NATO’s third-largest army and whose new president recently didn’t rule out talking to Putin if his country’s security depended on it, doesn’t allow itself to be manipulated into partaking in any related provocations or backing up those responsible for them.” – Andrew Korybko

The Rise and Fall of Wikipedia – “As politics became ever more contentious, Wikipedia in general went the way of mainstream media with a consistently mainline center-left bias on any topic that impacted on political outlook.” – Jeffrey A. Tucker

ECONOMIC NEWS

Is This When the AI Bubble Pops? – “And the avalanche of stock values begins?” – David Haggith

Amazon to Replace 600,000 with AI and Robots – “Amazon is planning to replace 600,000 jobs with robots as they automate 75% of operations. With the first slab of 30,000 corporate cuts announced this week.” – Peter St Onge

Tariffs are expected to start showing up more in consumer prices as holiday shopping season starts – Jeff Cox

Game on!- “Despite recent weakness in gold and silver, the early indications are that the current consolidation phase is unlikely to last long before prices resume their uptrend. It may be too early to conclude that after the shakeout of the last two weeks we have seen the bottom in gold and silver prices. But current physical liquidity constraints and the reasons for buying gold and silver have not gone away, suggesting that prices are being set up for another run higher.” – Alasdair Macleod

Investor Alert: the Trump Administration is Going Revalue Gold in 2026. – “This is not conspiracy theory; the actual legislation is already in Congress as part of the Bitcoin Act. Specifically, Section 9 of the Act explicitly outlines that the Treasury is going to revalue the Fed’s gold holdings (currently valued at $11 billion at a price of $42.22 per ounce) to market rates ~$4,000 per ounce. Why would the government want to do this? Because it sets the stage for a “financial system reset” that will involve gold in some way.” – Graham Summers, MBA

Gold Demand Surged to Record Level in Third Quarter – Mike Maharrey

Why Crypto is Digital Gold & What People Need to Know (VIDEO) – “Jonathan Rose joins us to explain the reasons why crypto is the new digital gold, and how people can still take advantage of it while there is time. ” -Maria Zeee

SURVIVAL, PREPAREDNESS AND SELF-SUFFICIENCY

The Coming SNAP Storm: Why You Should Stay Stocked Up – “Why November 1 Could Shatter America’s Food Chain Something big is rolling toward us—like a dust storm building over the plains—and most folks don’t even see it yet. It’s not a stock market dip or another whisper of inflation you can shrug off with a coupon. This one’s deeper. It’s an economic gut punch that can empty shelves, drain checking accounts, and turn family dinners into prayer meetings.” – Bill Heid

Flour Shelf Life: How to Store It for 10+ Years Without Bugs or Spoilage – Bob Rodgers

A Top-10 Prepping List, Multi-Tool Not Included – Part 3 – “5. TOILET, 6. COOK STOVE, ” – St. Funogas – THE FIRST 2 PARTS HAVE BEEN LINKED THE PAST COUPLE OF DAYS. GOOD SERIES!!!

15 DIY Solar Panel Tutorials That Will Save You More Than a Few Bucks – “If you are considering getting a solar system, you’ve probably found it comes with a hefty price tag. But what if I told you that you could create solar panels for less money?” – Jennifer Poindexter

How To Better Insulate Your House – “Consider insulating your home to save money on heating and cooling costs. DIY can provide great insulation savings. Learn today how to better insulate your house yourself.” – Dan Chiras

VERSE FOR THE DAY

Proverbs 28:15  As a roaring lion, and a ranging bear; so is a wicked ruler over the poor people.

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This Article Might Just Blow Your Mind – “Proof we are, once again, ‘In the Days of Noah’… – “Somewhere in a lab you’ll never hear about, they’re growing bodies with genes spliced from 47 different species. They wanted women. They got women. And what came next makes Jurassic Park look like a petting zoo. The standard telling: fallen angels, human women, giant offspring called Nephilim. Sunday school material for the brave. But that’s just the surface. Genesis 6 describes systematic genetic manipulation that corrupted every living thing on the planet. The flood wasn’t punishment for wickedness in some abstract moral sense. It was a biological emergency. Nearly everything breathing had the wrong DNA. Genesis 6:12 drops this bomb: “All flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.” Not some flesh. All flesh. With the exception of Noah and his sons,” – Lily-Rose Dawson

Bill Gates cancels the climate apocalypse – “World Economic Forum fanboy Bill Gates broke the hearts of “climate change” communists all over the world by releasing a seventeen-page memorandum in which he concludes that “global warming” isn’t quite the threat to humanity that he and his fellow climate cultists have long alleged. He calls for a “strategic pivot” away from endless fear-mongering over the weather. That’s pretty strange, given that “Big Government” Gates has long mocked reasonable people who refuse to jump on the global cooling…er, global warming…er, climate change…I mean, extreme weather bandwagon. ” – J.B. Shurk  – I THINK ONE SHOULD ASK, WHAT IS BILLY BOY REALLY UP TO HERE!!!!

9/11, The Merger of Hollywood and the News – “Virtual People and Planes; Real Life Deceptions.For a long time now people have been holding their breath aware that the conditions are ripe for the Grand Mother of All False Flags. The event that happened a quarter century ago in Manhattan, at the Pentagon, and in a vacant field in Shankeville Pennsylvania continues to bedevil us. The continuing relevance of contested narratives about what really happened on September 11, 2001—-9/11—-is exemplified in Tucker Carlson’s decision to do a 5-part documentary on the subject. Tucker’s current handling of the 9/11 story, emphasizing CIA assets Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda as the culprits, is a classic, text book example of CIA limited hangout stuff.” – Anthony James Hall

BOOM: Putin envoy reveals Kremlin SHADOW WAR against Big Pharma mRNA “vaccines”! – “This is the CHECKMATE we have been WAITING FOR” – Edward Slavsquat / Riley Waggaman

Study Praises Canadian Euthanasia’s ‘Real Impact’ on Organ Harvesting – “The study revealed that organs taken from people killed under the country’s “Medical Assistance in Dying” (MAiD) program are now being used in liver transplants, with results comparable to regular donations. The findings, published in the Journal of Hepatology, are being hailed by liberal medical officials as a “success.” However, the study is being widely condemned by critics as a chilling step toward normalizing organ harvesting from the euthanized.’ – Frank Bergman

Dr. Steven Hatfill FIRED from HHS The people who tried to end the pandemic cartel are being eliminated from within. – “Dr. Hatfill, a senior advisor to Secretary Kennedy on pandemic preparedness, has been terminated. He was the driving force behind ending over $500 million in funding for mRNA development through BARDA. He also pushed for real therapeutic options like hydroxychloroquine and spoke openly about removing dangerous vaccine tech from federal programs. So why was he fired?” – Edward Dowd via Lioness of Judah

Are You Ready For The US Omniverse Under The Control Of AI Digital 6G Twins? NVIDIA Quantum AI Computing Partners With US Government For Full On Technocratic Industrial Revolution – Ana Maria Mihalcea, MD, PhD

NEWS

A Subtle Warning for America in a Tumultuous Time – “This could be nowhere. This could be anywhere. The old men in the portraits had warned them. Beware tyrants. Beware kings. The muskets and the blood and the documents signed in candlelight had meant something once. A promise written in expensive ink. Government of the people. By the people. For the people. But that was mythology now. Bedtime stories. First came the decades of fracture. Nobody could say exactly when the splitting began. The two great parties had always fought. That was the design. Tension and release. Push and pull. Democracy is argument made civil. Except the arguments stopped being civil. The people noticed. Some of them, anyway. They formed tribes. Red against blue. Us against them. Neighbor against neighbor. The anger felt good. It felt like purpose. Nobody stopped to ask who was writing the script. Nobody looked up to see the strings.” – The Wise Wolf

Rethinking the way you think about money distribution – “Lots of people have lots to say about who has money, Who doesn’t, Who should have it, And who shouldn’t. tTe old joke about Americans and Irish is coming unpicked: “the American looks at the manor on the hill and says ‘One day, that could be me!’ The Irishman looks at the manor on the hill and says ‘One day I’m gonna get that bastard!’” Increasingly, the young today see wealth as ill-gotten. The joke is funny to their grandparents, but not to them. They want to get that bastard too.” – El Gato Malo

Jailed in America for Free Speech – “​The sheriff’s connection between Trump’s one-liner 18 months prior and Bushart’s posting it as a threat to kill students is, of course, absurd, and reeks of an intolerably overzealous law enforcement professional looking for crime in the wrong places. Prior to Bushart’s arrest, the sheriff who charged him conducted no investigation about threats to the local high school, nor did he warn any school officials. Moreover, he didn’t bother to interrogate Bushart or his wife or make any meaningful effort to ascertain if Bushart had the intention, will or present apparent ability to shoot up the local high school. The threat to the high school exists only in the sheriff’s mind.” – Judge Andrew P. Napolitano

In the Hands of Fools and Tyrants – “I’m struggling to find something to write about when it seems like we might engage in nuclear war for the stupidest and most inane reasons. If we do, it will be to retain the prestige of the European elite, the old Western European powers, who have been adept at getting the US into wars since the turn of the previous century.” -T.L. Davis

Glock Pistols And The Matthew Henry Study Bible – “I can hear the outbursts: What in the world do Glock pistols and a study Bible have to do with each other? Stay with me. Both the Glock pistol and Matthew Henry Study Bible were at the very top of their respective fields. They had no peers. The Matthew Henry Study Bibles are gone. And the real Glocks are slated for extinction on December 1. Folks, when you find something of value, something really good, something that you trust and rely on, you need to buy as much of it as you can, because the forces of darkness intend to take everything good away from us. Even the shampoo I’ve depended on for over 40 years has been discontinued. And the socks I’ve happily worn for decades are gone. My gloves? Gone! My favorite shirt? Gone! My wife can’t find dishwashing liquid that stays sudsy for more than thirty minutes. We’re paying twice as much for products that are half as good. Oh! My favorite boots? They’re gone! I’m getting depressed! I’m so glad I bought my Glocks when I did. Now I feel better.” – Chuck Baldwin

Argentina’s Milei Victory Lap For $40 Billion Taxpayer Funds – “So why is Trump really bailing out Argentina? Because its debt holders include Blackrock, Pimco, and Fidelity as well as the Paris Group, Sandglass Capital (founder is Ukrainian, co-founder is Jewish), Kenneth Dart, and Alliance Bernstein. The Paris Group is actually a subsidiary of Sankari Investment Group, a UAE company formed by Dr. Abdulkater Sankari. And of course, Bernstein Alliance is a Zionist global asset firm. In other words, American Taxpayers are bailing out the Zionist hedge funds holding multiple Trillions of Wealth. Because Milei has destroyed Catholic Argentina and sold the country to Zionists.” – Helena Glass

How To Spot a DODO – Demographically Obsolete Democrat Oaf – “The Zohrantifada has conquered the DNC and its moderate wing is facing extinction – here are its saddest surviving specimens. For half a century, DODOs ruled America. They had no natural predators. The real dodos succumbed to invasive species brought by sailors to Mauritius. In contrast, DODOs engineered their own extinction by opening the border for decades. DODOs rigged the 2016, 2020, and 2024 DNC primaries for their establishment candidates to cling to power. Since then, they have cratered to record low approval ratings.” – Yuri Bezmenov  – GOOD ONE FROM YURI!!!!!!!!

Obama Floats ‘New Forms of [State-Controlled] Journalism’ – “Notorious nemesis of civil liberties one and all, Barack Obama, is apparently — and unsurprisingly — on the same page as our current Attorney General Pam Bondi, at least in the narrow sense that he also endorses a heavy state hand in the “regulation” of information.” – Ben Bartee

Russia completes successful test launch of long-anticipated nuclear-powered underwater Poseidon torpedo drone – “Mystery weapon has been talked about since 2018 but Putin chooses to bring it out of the shadows now that his country is under seige both economically and militarily.” – Leo Hohmann

Russia’s Burevestnik Missile Test Was Actually A De-Escalation Measure – “Its real purpose is to get the US to reconsider its impending escalations against Russia by reminding it of the strategic costs that this could entail.” – Andrew Korybko

The Myth of the ’20 minute timer’ on the RNC Pipe Bomb – “The only consistency in Karlin Younger’s account of finding the RNC pipe bomb is her insistence that a timer on the device was set at a 20-minute mark. Turns out, no such timer existed.” – Julie Kelly and Haley McLean

Newsom’s Prostitution Law Creates Disturbing New Sex Market in LA – “California Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom’s pimp shield law, pushed by Democratic legislator Rep. Scott Weiner, has helped foster a disturbing new sex market on Figueroa Street in Los Angeles, featuring prostitutes as young as 12 and 13 years old. For far too long, the “kiddie stroll,” as it’s known, has gone unreported because major media outlets refused to cover it, allowing it to flourish under the watch of Democratic politicians. But now it’s time to shine a light in the darkness and expose the truth about what’s happening to these poor young girls and why nothing has been done to bring the harrowing evil to an end.” – Michael Cantrell

Death pangs of Zelensky’s SS – “When the guns fall silent, Zelensky’s rank and file Nazis will have little to show for their sacrifices.” – Declan Hayes

ECONOMIC NEWS

Prevaricating Powell Makes the Blunder of the Century – “And it wasn’t his interest cut, though that is not going to help matters, but his Mr. Magoo blindness to the massive coming crash.” – David Haggith

When Jay Powell Speaks, Markets Tank – “Despite Giving Wall Street Its Expected Rate Cut, Powell Once Again Spooked Investors” – Peter Nayland Kust

Controlled Demolition: Federal Reserve Cuts Interest Rates Another 25 Points As Inflation Continues To Rise, Powell Says They Will Resume Quantitative Easing – “If Jerome Powell is saying the Fed is ending QT when inflation is already rising and job losses continue to mount, then get ready for massive money printing like there is no tomorrow” – The WinePress

Fed & Furious: Breaking The Economy, One Rate Cut at a Time – “From rate cuts to balance sheet maneuvers, Fed & Furious has perfected the art of creating chaos—one “helpful” policy at a time.” – The Macro Butler

That Wasn’t So Bad! Or Was it? – “Mainstream Put Positive Spin on Bad CPI Data as Gold and Silver Correct” – Mike Maharrey

Yes, Everything Crashed–Just Not For You – “A dedicated cadre of readers is devoted to reminding me that I’ve been wrong since 2009, as stocks, housing and GDP have all soared. None are in the bottom 50% of Americans who have already experienced the crash. But since the top 10% dominate the media, both legacy and social media, and they’ve done splendidly in the Everything Bubble that’s been inflating for the past 16 years, then they don’t see the crash the 50% have experienced, for the top 10% live in a completely different world” – Charles Hugh Smith

8 More Economic Report Delays this Week, Including GDP Today – “The government shutdown is talking a toll on economic reports. Third-quarter GDP delayed today.” – Mish  – DOES IT REALLY MATTER, MOST OF THEM GET REVISED ANYWAY!!!

SURVIVAL, PREPAREDNESS AND SELF-SUFFICIENCY

When Money Stops Being Yours: Inside The Cashless Control Grid – “Running Into The Cashless Society… Even When You’re Living In The Woods Cash used to be king. These days, it’s becoming more like a ghost—fading from our wallets, vanishing from small-town stores, and quietly slipping out of daily life. Most people don’t notice. They’re too busy tapping phones and swiping cards to see what’s really happening. But here’s the hard truth: we’re not just drifting toward a cashless future—we’re sprinting into it blindfolded. And for anyone who values independence, privacy, and real-world preparedness, that’s a serious red flag waving in the wind. Because this isn’t just about convenience. It’s about control—plain and simple. Most importantly, build your local barter network. ” – Bill Heid  – GOOD ONE FROM BILL!!!

A Top-10 Prepping List, Multi-Tool Not Included – Part 2 – “3. WOODSTOVE, 3B. CORDLESS CHAINSAW, 4. GUNS AND AMMO, TACTICAL AND FIREARMS TRAINING” – St. Funogas

Why Water Purification Tablets Will Matter More Than Ammo When SHTF – “When the grid dies, clean water stops being a tap away. Boiling takes fuel, filters clog, and bottled water disappears from shelves in hours. That is why every serious prepper carries water purification tablets, the backup to your backup plan. ” – Ask A Prepper Staff

Greenhouse Checklist: Before You Build (VIDEO)  – “Don’t waste your money; figure out your needs before you buy your greenhouse kit or supplies.” – Leah Webb

Survival Cooking: 18 Off-Grid Cooking Methods without Electricity – “Do you like the idea of living totally off-grid? Some people are thrilled with the idea, while some simply are not. However, whether your goal is to live daily off of the grid or not, there are times when going off-grid is not an option. For instance, when a bad storm rolls through your residential area and the power is out for days at a time. I think we’ve all been there. Those are the moments when we need to have back up plans. So how do you cook during those times?” – Jennifer Poindexter

VERSE FOR THE DAY

Genesis 47:17   And they brought their cattle unto Joseph: and Joseph gave them bread in exchange for horses, and for the flocks, and for the cattle of the herds, and for the asses: and he fed them with bread for all their cattle for that year.

IMAGE FOR THE DAY 

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The Coming Population Crash (VIDEO) -“This video was inspired by insights from Greg Mannarino, whose analysis on the “human bubble” concept helped shape the foundation for this story. What if I told you the most dangerous bubble in history isn’t real estate, isn’t tech stocks, and isn’t even the national debt. It’s us. Humanity itself. Our very existence has become the bubble no one dares talk about. But like every bubble, it must eventually pop. In a world where currency is backed by nothing, the illusion of prosperity is propped up by debt, manipulation, and engineered dependence. Most people can’t even fathom it. Central banks have one product, currency backed by nothing. to sell that product. They’ve created a perpetual market, not just through governments or corporations, but through you, me, and billions of consumers worldwide.” – Contrarian Conspiracy Chronicles

RENTIER CRONY CAPITALISM: BlackRock Dismantling the American Dream with Weaponized Real Estate Heist – “The American Dream of “owning” a home is rapidly becoming a nightmare. The Founding Fathers wanted We the People to have ALLODIAL PROPERTY TITLE whereby no taxes nor debts of any kind could ever be levied on a person’s home. A movement is now arising in America that will go after the cities that steal money for communist schools, and other local tax scams; in fact, all property taxation in America represents the abolition of private property rights, which is slavery. The following is an incredibly important interview with real estate developer Mitch Vexler, who is suing his local school board, appraisers, et al. for extorting him for property taxes in a grossly unconstitutional manner:” – 2nd Smartest Guy in the World

USDA, Energy Department Engineer New Bird Flu Franken-Virus in Georgia Lab: Journal ‘Avian Diseases’ – “Birds injected with hybrid pathogen became contagious.” – Jon Fleetwood

Dead Sea Dynamite: How Ancient Scrolls Expose Christianity’s Biggest Cover-Up – “Could the Archangel Metatron Be Christ’s True Identity? What if everything your pastor told you about Jesus was technically true but fundamentally incomplete? What if the Son of God walking around first-century Judea wasn’t God’s first rodeo in human form? Here’s the theory that’ll get you uninvited from Bible study:” – The Wise Wolf

Will Andrew Wakefield’s New Study, With 79 Pages Of Hard Evidence On Autism Cause “Collapse” The Vaccine Empire? – “It’s Due To Drop In A Matter Of Hours” – Celia Farbe

The USDA Wants Americans To Register Their Gardens In A National Database, Including Your Windowsill Or Balcony – “As the world teeters on the verge of nuclear war and economic collapse, remember that in times of war and economic downturns, food is more valuable than gold.” – The WinePress  -LINKED ABOUT THIS 3 YEARS AGO ON 10/05/22 IN AN ARTICLE BY MATT AGORIST!!!

minION – “The pocketsized USB powered Nanopore sequencer. Sometime ago I found out about a pocket sized PCR thermocycler that ran on two AA batteries called Lucira that was made by Pfizer. I thought it was so hilarious the juxtaposition of trying to convince people that the PCR was some highly sophisticated Laboratory technique that only the Priests in White Coats could conduct behind closed doors with their PhDs, whilst simultaneously rolling out a handheld one that runs on a couple of Duracells.” – Jamie Andrews  – LONG AND A LITTLE TECHNICAL, BUT INTERESTING!!!

NEWS

Antifa Out, Mamdani Ascendant – “Over the weekend, you might have noticed, the Portland, OR, police cleared out the Antifa encampments down around the city’s ICE facility, carted away their lavish riot supplies, and warned them not to congregate on the street there. For now, anyway. Hmmmm. . . . Why do you suppose that happened? Antifa has been rioting freely around federal buildings in Portland since the Summer of Floyd, 2020.  So far, nobody in the news media has bothered to ask the Portland Police honchos about this sudden change of heart, nor did the honchos venture to say. Did word come from higher up to finally put a stop to Antifa’s psychotic monkeyshines? After all, the Antifa actions at this particular address were not just peaceable assemblies petitioning the government for redress of their grievances, as the Constitution has it.  These moves by such bumptious pols also have the look of skirmishes preceding something that smells like Civil War, which is to say, insurrection. As a kind of sadistic object lesson, the Democratic Party is running a Jihadi communist for mayor of the nation’s premier city, New York.” – James Howard Kunstler

Democrat Party Lies Protect Modern Slavery – “Americans are so tired of being called “racists.” This has been the Democrat party’s go-to rhetorical weapon for half a century. Rather than debating policies on their merits, Democrat politicians just accuse their opponents of being Klan members and call it a day. This is particularly galling since it is the Democrat party in the United States that fought a civil war to defend slavery and then established a Jim Crow system of enforced racial segregation that endured for another century. Yet the Democrat party never has the courage to take a look at its own sordid history. If it did, it would “cancel” itself.” – J.B. Shurk

How to fix the budget cycle. Quick Monday missive – “As it’s obvious at this point that the rival donkey and elephant gangs have zero concern about the fact that there is a country attached to their endlesly rancourous partisan squabble, Fiscal responsibility, or pretty much any other form of financial probity. They fight and war then go get rich together while the rest of us get short shrift. It has become the Wile E Coyote and Sam Sheepdog Kabuki disaster.” – El Gato Malo

Category 5 Hurricane Melissa Continues To Strengthen Ahead Of Historic, Catastrophic Flood Siege In Jamaica – “Melissa will be one of the most devastating hurricanes on record in Jamaica, with widespread flooding, landslides and destructive winds. Flooding rain is also a grave concern in Hispaniola and Cuba. Here’s the latest forecast.” – Jonathan Erdman ans Jennifer Gray

Charlie Kirk, Epstein, and the Zionist Cabal – “America 2.0’s Gunboat Dishonesty. The Charlie Kirk assassination, or whatever it was, is not going quietly into Dylan Thomas’s good night. Candace Owens alone is seeing to that. Candace has released what certainly look to be authentic texts from Charlie Kirk, written on September 8, two days before he was shot. In one, Charlie declares, “Jewish donors play into all the stereotypes. I cannot and will not be bullied like this. Leaving me no choice but to leave the pro Israel cause.” Now that kind of sentiment simply won’t do. Not in a land like ours, completely subservient to Zionism. So they simply rewrote the history. They do this all the time.” – Donald Jeffries

November 1st Deadline: When 42 Million Americans Suddenly Have Their Food Stamp Benefits Shut Off, What Do You Think Is Going To Happen? – Michael Snyder

The Vanishing Ideal of Public Service – “Of Sharks and Chum. Remember when politicians had some notion of public service? That ideal now feels positively antediluvian. What I’d really like to see is a genuine commitment to public service—especially from the most powerful figures in our government. That should begin with a reaffirmation of their oath to the U.S. Constitution as the supreme law of the land, and with a renewed dedication to transparency. Citizens have a right to privacy; the government, by contrast, should not.” – Bill Astore

Trump’s Got the Country by the Ballroom – “Elite outrage builds to historic new highs. Unless you’ve been enjoying a news fast or hiding in a classified document storage closet, you’ve undoubtedly heard that Donald Trump just took a wrecking ball to the White House. The East Wing’s coming down, a $300 million ballroom is going up, and democrats are acting like he’s installing a gilded Chick-fil-A on the National Mall.” – Jenna McCarthy

From ‘Lucky Neighbor’ to Unreliable Witness – “Recently released FBI records show numerous inconsistencies by Karlin Younger, the law enforcement-tied individual who allegedly ‘found’ a pipe bomb near the Republican National Committee on January 6. While Russiagate undoubtedly inflicted tremendous damage on the first Trump presidency, it is clear that the purpose of Jan. 6 was to put Trump in prison and use the label “insurrection” as a way to prohibit him from ever again occupying public office. The scheme almost succeeded, which is why it remains imperative to expose the full truth about every detail of that day’s events.” – Julie Kelly and Haley McLean

California and Chicago Move Toward Taxation Armageddon – “Various blue states are facing towering budget deficits as federal pandemic payments end and expenditures rise. The result is a widening gap between the two parties on tax policies as Democratic leaders seek to avoid massive budget cuts in favor of tax increases. Two of the most economically moronic measures can be found in California and Illinois where leaders could be pushing high-tax residents out of their respective states.” – Jonathan Turley

Government Promised Healthcare for All. It Gave Us Waiting Lines – “The question is simple: will we continue feeding the healthcare bureaucracy — or will we empower patients?” – Vance Ginn

Rand Paul Donald Trump Rand Paul to Trump: Don’t ‘abandon’ MAGA over Maduro regime change – “The Kentucky senator isn’t the only Republican questioning how the strikes on narco boats and saber rattling against Venezuela is ‘America First'” – Jack Hunter

The Rubio Doctrine: Neocons Are Back! – “According to several recent news reports, the two major Trump foreign policy shifts last week are the handiwork of Marco Rubio, the President’s Secretary of State and (acting) National Security Advisor. As with all neocon plans, they will be big on promises and small on delivery.” – Ron Paul

On Ukraine and Venezuela, Trump needs to dump the sycophants – “On Ukraine and Venezuela, Trump needs to dump the sycophants There’s a lot of smoke being blown about big ‘deals’ and huge ‘wins.’ True military professionals would tell him the hard truths.” – Col (Ret.) Douglas Macgregor

ANTIFA wins the Irish Presidential election – “f anyone wants to know what it is like to be robbed blind, they should look at the gangsters who were at the heart of Connolly’s “independent” campaign.’ – Declan Hayes

Milei’s Mandate Marches On In Decisive Midterms Win For His Party Tyler Durden

Leaked: How British Intel Infiltrates Lebanon- “In a markedly revealing September 22nd interview with The National, US special envoy to Syria Tom Barrack made a number of stunning admissions about the state of play in Lebanon. Despite Western governments for months demanding Beirut disarm Hezbollah, he acknowledged the Resistance group had “zero” incentive to voluntarily do so, as “Israel is attacking everybody” across West Asia” – Kit Klarenberg

The US Is Weaponizing Energy Geopolitics In A Bid To Break Apart BRICS – “It might succeed in terms of optics, but this won’t make any substantive difference in reality.’ – Andrew Korybko

ECONOMIC NEWS

Mendacity, Pretext—Or Just Plain Lies? – “Consider the plight of the average American citizen who’s economic future becomes more dire, month by month. What they keep hearing from the government is that the economy is good—the best time to be an American. But is it true—or is it just plain lies? It’s lies. Think on all those tariffs applied at the border by the government. They could be of some value were they used by a government to reduce debt in support of dollar purchasing power. But, under control of the Trump Administration, a hi-flying, spender, the tariffs do little or nothing for the American consumer. Those of us who protect ourselves with gold/silver, just got whacked, with no apparent change of economic circumstances. 75% of Americans think the economy is heading in the wrong direction and its the wrong time to buy a home. Home sellers outnumber buyers by 500,000, but the sellers have yet to adapt to concerns of the buyers.” – Erik @ neverhadaboss.com

Muddled CPI Data Vindicates No One – “The Economy Isn’t Booming or Busting — It’s Just Stuck” – Peter Nayland Kust

Business “Very Slow, No Uptick In Sight”: Dallas Fed Respondents Turn Even More Apocalyptic-er – “As we detailed in late September, President Trump’s plans to bring down oil prices was hammering sentiment in the Dallas Fed region (among manufacturers) with apocalyptic comments from respondents… “I may have to close the company. Orders have stopped coming in, and we do not know why. ” And while today we see October’s raw headline sentiment (General Business Activity) number improve very marginally (from -8.7 to -5.0 – still negative), under the hood it was not pretty with production flat, capacity utilization down notable, new orders still shrinking, shipments down, and hours worked and capex tumbling.” – Tyler Durden

U.S. Pump Prices Could Soon Spike After Fresh Sanctions On Russian Oil – Alex Kimani

“Silver is the Canary in the Coal Mine” (VIDEO) with Stefan Gleason of Money Metals – “In the discussion above, you’ll discover: What his outlook on silver is showing – and what the market price and investment path could look like moving forward Why he believes gold is increasingly of interest not just for central banks but for Wall Street What investors often don’t understand about gold in the modern era” – Nomi Prins  – STEFAN GIVES A GREAT EXPLANATION ON HOW THE SILVER MARKET WORKS AND HENCE HOW THE PRICE CAN GET MANIPULATED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Wall Street Giant JPMorgan to Let Institutions Borrow Against Bitcoin and Ethereum Holdings – “JPMorgan Chase to let institutions borrow against Bitcoin and Ethereum holdings by end of 2025 as $4T asset manager joins Morgan Stanley, BlackRock expanding crypto integration.” – Anas Hassan

SURVIVAL, PREPAREDNESS AND SELF-SUFFICIENCY

The Deep State Doesn’t Want You to Know This – “Your phone tracks every movement, your car reports your route, your fridge monitors your power usage, and your thermostat knows when you’re home. Every click, swipe, and purchase writes another line in the digital diary of your life. And you do not own the diary. They don’t need to kick in your door to control you; they just need to decide what gets switched off. That’s why governments around the world are obsessed with digital identity systems. They call it “security.” What they really mean is “permission”. If you’re a “good citizen” as defined by them you get to play in their world. If you’re not…well that’s just too bad.” – Ask A Prepper Staff

101 Old Wives Tales from The 1800s – “Has anyone ever dismissed a home remedy you used with the comment, “Oh, that’s just an old wives’ tale”? The phrase “old wives’ tale” is often used to describe an old cure or piece of wisdom that has been passed down through the generations.” – Heidi Hawthorn

20 Foods You Can Preserve in Pantyhose – “Did you know that you can easily preserve a large assortment of foods in a pair of pantyhose? There are several benefits to doing so, and it’s a great way to extend the life of your garden’s harvest without having to invest in a ton of fancy equipment. Although you shouldn’t sneak a pair fresh out of the laundry basket, using a clean or new pair of light-colored pantyhose should do the trick quite nicely. Here are 20 foods you can preserve in pantyhose – and tips on how to do it safely.” – Rebekah  – GOOD IDEA ACTUALLY!!!!!!!

The Homesteader’s Secret to Staying Flexible… Pain-Free… And Strong When The Cold Weather Moves In – Bill Heid

Loaves, Fishes, Tree Bark, Seeds, and Knowledge – Part 7- ” Improving Our Soil. Composting. Where to Grow Our Emergency Crops… and more” – The Chemical Engineer

VERSE FOR THE DAY

2 Timothy 4:7   I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith:

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THE BIG PICTURE

If Faith Is Not Hard, It Is Not Faith – “If the path goes uphill, I must walk up that hill. If the path is long, I must do a lot of walking. If I don’t walk the path, I cannot go anywhere. We often speak about faith in terms of a journey. In my case, it has been quite a journey, with multiple detours and unexpected turns.” – Peter Nayland Kust  – ANOTHER GOOD ONE FROM PETER!!!

What Your Bible Reading Habits Actually Reveal – “How you read Scripture exposes what you believe about God”” – Thad M. Brown

The Nephilim: Those Who from Heaven Came to Earth – “The Real Invasion Is Silent, Patient, and Already Complete. They’re fallen angels. They’re the offspring of angels who abandoned their stations and bred with humans. The Bible calls them Nephilim. The Book of Enoch describes them in detail. Giants. Corrupting humanity. Teaching forbidden knowledge. Operating outside God’s design. They’ve been here for millennia, not decades. Long before Sumer. Long before Egypt. Long before any civilization we can excavate and date with carbon.” – The Wise Wolf

Illuminati: THE FINAL CHAPTER – Top Secret History – Agent131711  – FINAL CHAPTER ON THE ILLIMINATI BY AGENT131711. ALL HAVE BEEN LINKED EXCEPT THE PAYWALL ONES. URGE YOU TO READ THEM ALL!!!

Blood and Soil – “Forget what they told you about money. Wealth is land. The dirt. The water. The things that grow. Everything else is a lie, a piece of paper, a number on a screen that can vanish. A people needs land to live. And the land needs a people to defend it. This is the old, hard truth. It’s the only truth that’s ever mattered. From the beginning, it was like this. Men fought for a good piece of ground. They held it. They worked it. They passed it on. This is civilization. Not the banks. Not the stock markets. It’s a family, a tribe, a people standing on their own soil and saying this is ours. It’s a wall against the parasites and the weak, and the greedy who would take it. This is the real work. The only work. To be a guardian.” – E.M. Burlingame

From Trump to TESCREAL, Eugenics Is Everywhere – “Most people think eugenics largely vanished after the Nazis’ atrocities. But that’s not true: eugenics is alive and well, and probably more influential today than ever.” – Émile P. Torres

Canada’s “Final Solution”: Disabled Canadians Being Pressured Into Assisted Suicide During Routine Doctor Visits – “It has been revealed that many disabled Canadians are being pressured into ending their lives with euthanasia during routine medical appointments” – Niamh Harris

Geoengineering Watch Global Alert News, October 25, 2025 (VIDEO) – “First half of 2025 most expensive for weather disasters” – Dane Wigington

Israeli-U.S. Geoengineering Company ‘Stardust’ to Begin Blocking the Sun with Airborne Chemicals ‘As Soon as April’ – “Company will not disclose what the aerosol is made of, raising informed consent worries.” – Jon Fleetwood

NEWS

Technototalitarianism, Part Three – “The GENIUS (Guiding and Establishing National Innovation for U.S. Stablecoins) Act, signed into law by President Trump on July 18, 2025, is misnamed. It should have been named the EVIL GENIUS Act, as in one of those evil geniuses in James Bond films. The U.S. may never have CBDCs, but the evil GENIUS Act sets up one of those public-private partnerships so beloved by Trump and his technototalitarian cronies, which has the same civil-liberties-destroying potential. Stablecoins are a digital currency emitted by private parties, tied in value to a specific currency (or, theoretically, an asset or index). In the case of so-called payment stablecoins, which the GENIUS Act primarily addresses, the stablecoins are tied to the price of the U.S. dollar (USD). ” – Robert Gore  – ANOTHER GOOD READ FROM ROBERT. BE SURE TO READ THE FIRST TWO THAT HAVE BEEN PREVIOUSLY LINKED!!!!!!!!!!!

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s Colombian “Narcoterrorist” Hypocrisy. – “President Gustavo Petro Dismissed as A Lunatic. Rubio mad the remark after Petro denounced the US for murdering fishermen erroneously described as “narcoterrorists” on an unlikely run in the Caribbean to deliver illegal drugs to the United States.The Trump administration insists Petro has failed to adequately combat drug trafficking. On October 19, on his social “Truth ,” Trump took the accusation a step further. He said Petro “is an illegal drug leader strongly encouraging the massive production of drugs, in big and small fields, all over Colombia.” The problem for the US with Gustavo Petro is not drugs. It is the fact he is a leftist with an ambitious agenda. ” – Kurt Nimmo

Trump the “peace President” declares a CIA “drug” war on Venezuela/Colombia – Critical Perspectives (VIDEO) – Vanessa Beeley and Fiorella Isabel

Four Wolves and a Lamb – “An election day asado in Argentina… It’s Election Day here in the Paris of the South, when world-weary citizens hold their noses, plug their ears with wax and cast their vote for the lesser of available evils. The midterms will decide the composition of the nation’s congress… and determine the path forward for Javier Milei’s incumbent libertarian government. As we’ve been discussing all week, politics is less a contest of solemn principals as it is a parade of fictions, slogans and pre-broken promises.” – Joel Bowman

MSNBC Claims Trump Wants To Use Military As Private Army To Kill Americans – “Completely insane claim..MSNBC platformed a deranged staff writer for the Atlantic who claimed that President Trump is going to use the military to kill anyone he pleases, including Americans..” – Steve Watson

Gavin Newsom Now ‘Looking at’ 2028 Presidential Run – Ward Clark

Chicago Mayor Melts Down Over Term ‘Illegal Alien’: ‘Racist, Nasty Language’ – “Chicago’s Democrat Mayor Brandon Johnson exploded at a reporter Saturday after being asked about the city’s reporting on illegal aliens, the ordinary legal term for people in the country unlawfully. Johnson proceeded to call the phrase “nasty” and “racist.” When a reporter asked about a promised submission to the White House detailing Chicago’s spending related to people in the country unlawfully, Johnson barked: “We don’t have illegal aliens.” – David Lindfield

From the Back Forty: From Demolition Derby to Statesmanship – “A Lot of GOP folks in the Heartland are rethinking their feelings about Sen. John Fetterman” .- Sarah Cowgill

Pedophile Palace in Honor of Epstein – Trump’s New Ballroom Larger than The White House and Funded by Zionist Billionaires – “I am naming this new addition to the White House “Pedophile Palace” which is a true symbol of American Culture here in 2025, and it is in honor of Jeffrey Epstein and the Epstein financial system that runs the United States today. It is also in keeping with the sexual scandals that have constantly been happening in the White House throughout its history, from the affairs between John F. Kennedy and Marilyn Monroe to the sexcapades of Bill Clinton with Monica Lewinsky to the homosexual prostitution rings that rocked the White House under Reagan and Bush to the Richard Nixon and Billy Graham child sex trafficking rings that led to Watergate.” – Brian Shilhavy

Armstrong Called In to Prevent WWIII (VIDEO) with Martin Armstrong – “President Trump called on Marting Armstrong to come up with a peace plan. Armstrong says, “I was surprised that I was called in for a briefing on Russia. They know where I stand. They know I have back channels into Russia. . .. They wanted me to come up with a peace proposal that they thought Putin would accept. I said do you really want me to do this? I said alright, fine. It took me four days to write an almost 200-page report. I went through absolutely everything.”” – Greg Hunter

In Germany we have the highest electricity prices in Europe and we just blew up our largest-capacity nuclear plant on live television. – eugyppius

Melissa ‘Could Be The Strongest Direct Landfall’ In Jamaica Since Records Have Been Kept, Says The NHC – “Jamaica is bracing for potentially its strongest storm to ever impact the island, as the slow-moving, major hurricane continues to close in. The National Hurricane Center warned on Saturday, “Melissa is still expected to make landfall in Jamaica as an upper-end Category 4 hurricane, which could be the strongest direct landfall for the island since tropical cyclone record keeping has been made in the Atlantic Basin.”” – Jennifer Gray – NOT NECCESARILY TRUE, HURRICANE GIBERT (1988) BY SOME SOURCES SAY IT WAS 3 WHEN IT HIT JAMAICA BUT OTHERS SAY IT WAS A CATEGORY 4.  SEE SOURCE BELOW. BELIEVE ME, I KNOW. I WAS THERE WHEN IT HIT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hurricane Gilbert 1988 – “Hurricane Gilbert made its first landfall near Kinston, Jamaica around 1 PM EDT September 12th as a category four hurricane with maximum sustained winds of 130 mph (115 knots) and a minimum central pressure of 960 millibars (28.35 inches). Hurricane Gilbert’s eye traversed the entire island of Jamaica, only weakening back to 125 mph (110 knots) by the time it emerged from its western coast by the late afternoon hours. Following its passage over Jamaica, Hurricane Gilbert began the second and more remarkable period of rapid intensification across the Western Caribbean ” – National weather Service

Fact: 20,385 Palestinian Children, Including Infants And Toddlers, Have Been Killed As Of Oct 13, 2025; Israel’s Far Right Say There Is Still Too Much Hesitation: “We Must Shoot At Children Too.” – “Children Account For Approximately 30% Of All Palestinian Fatalities In This Period.” Ben Gvir: “We Must Shoot At Children too.” Not Reacting=Fighting Anti-Semitism On Social Media.” – Celia Farber

Inside The Trump Administration’s “Master Plan” For Gaza Regime Change – “While the whole world holds its breath over the survival of the Gaza ceasefire agreement, which is being repeatedly violated by Israel on a daily basis, the US government is now slowly revealing what its so-called “peace deal” is actually all about. Far from any real cessation of hostilities, US President Donald Trump has given the green-light for a multi-layered regime change plot in the Gaza Strip.” – Robert Inlakesh

Europe’s Suicide Pact: Debt, War Economy, And The Climate Cult – Thomas Kolbe

ECONOMIC NEWS

Are Trump’s Hurt Feelings Over Tariffs Now a National Emergency? – “Trump calls it “fake news”. The Reagan Foundation is throwing a hissy fit too. But there is nothing out of context about the ad at all if you play both videos. Trump’s ignorance and pettiness did not stop there. Trump Ups Tariffs on Canada by 10 Percent The Wall Street Journal reported Trump Says He Will Raise Tariffs on Canada by 10% Over Ontario Ad “Because of their serious misrepresentation of the facts, and hostile act, I am increasing the Tariff on Canada by 10% over and above what they are paying now,” Trump posted on his Truth Social platform on Saturday.’ – Mish – WATCH THE SHORT VIDEOS, TRUMP IS INDEED THROWING A HISSY FIT !!!!

THE DEEPER DIVE: Inflation Has Become a Hidden Menace – “The government numbers have buried the truth six feet below the light of day.” – David Haggith

Dollar Debasement as Permanent Policy – “The Treasury used the debt infusions to send out round after round of stimmy checks, among other things. This drove consumer price inflation to 40-year highs. Any hope consumer prices would ever return to their pre-2020 level is gone. Over the last three years the Fed has brought its balance sheet down to about $6.6 trillion. Now it’s throwing in the towel before the job is even halfway done.” – MN Gordon

The Debt Crisis Has No Escape – “The world’s richest nations are out of fiscal options. Even The Economist now admits debt can’t be repaid and growth won’t fix it. When governments inevitably inflate away currencies, where does that leave their citizens?” – Peter Reagan

‘Biggest Bubble in History’ (VIDEO) – “Only GOLD Survives Coming Carnage:” – Alasdair Macleod

All Bubbles End – So You’d Better Have Some Liquidity (VIDEO) with David Rosenberg – Adam Taggart | Thoughtful Money®

SURVIVAL, PREPAREDNESS AND SELF-SUFFICIENCY

Food-Based Magnesium Just Works Better – “Here’s the simple truth—magnesium was never meant to come from a lab. It’s a mineral that lives in soil, plants, and real food. In nature, it’s surrounded by a team of other nutrients—zinc, manganese, iron, amino acids, and even plant compounds—that all work together to help your body absorb and use it properly. Those nutrients are called cofactors, and they’re what make food-based minerals far more effective than the synthetic versions you’ll find in pills. Here’s where pumpkin seeds really shine. They’re not just loaded with magnesium—they come with all the supporting players magnesium needs to perform.’ – Bill Heid – HAVE LINKED A FEW ARTICLES ABOUT THE IMPORTANCE OF MAGNESIUM, JUST SEARCH IN THE SITE’S SEARCH BAR, BUT THIS IS THE FIRST ONE ABOUT GETTING IT NATURALLY. START SAVING YOUR PUMPKIN SEEDS AND NOW IS THE PERFECT TIME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Meat Animals You Can Raise with Little to No Land – denob

Loaves, Fishes, Tree Bark, Seeds, and Knowledge – Part 6 – “Seeds From Stores. Use Plant Cuttings as a Rapid Plant Multiplier. When To Grow and Emergency Greenhouses. Building Impromptu Greenhouses and more…” – The Chemical Engineer

14 Pieces of Advice You Need on Your Journey to Self-Sufficiency – Jennifer Poindexter

How Long Does It Take to Die From Sepsis? – “Sepsis isn’t a virus or a disease — it’s your immune system going rogue. When bacteria or infection enters the bloodstream, the body’s defense system goes into overdrive, flooding you with inflammatory chemicals. The result? Your blood vessels leak. Your organs shut down. And your body — once your greatest protector — starts killing you from the inside out. Doctors call it “the cascade.” But survivors call it hell.” – Ask A Prepper Staff

VERSES FOR THE DAY

2 Timothy 3:16-17    All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:  That the man of God may be perfect, thoroughly furnished unto all good works.

IMAGE FOR THE DAY AND BONUS VIDEO

THE BIG PICTURE

The Rise of the Thielverse & of the Surveillance State (VIDEO) with Whitney Webb – “Whitney Webb traces the Thielverse’s rise and the construction of the bipartisan modern surveillance state that Trump and his benefactors are deploying against dissidents and immigrants today. ” – The Chris Hedges Report  – EXCELLENT INTERVIEW WITH WHITNEY. AN ABSOLUTE MUST WATCH. TWO OF THE BEST JOURNALISTS RIGHT HERE IN ONE VIDEO!!!

The Dead Sea Scrolls Revealed a Secret the Church Tried to Burn: They’re Still Here – “What If 30% of People Around You Aren’t ‘Exactly’ Human?” – The Wise Wolf

Skull and Bones, Corrupting the Encyclopedia & Illuminati Lodges Open in America [Part 9] – Agent131711  – PART 9 OF A VERY DEEP DIVE FROM AGENT131711. ALL HAVE BEEN LINKED EXCEPT THE PAT WALL ONES!!!!

Over 100 ‘BSL-4’ Bioweapons Labs Now Operate Worldwide, with More Under Construction: ‘Journal of Public Health’ – “Thousands of BSL-3 labs worldwide now handle pathogens like bird flu, SARS-CoV-2, and tuberculosis—with almost “no oversight,” biosecurity experts confirm.”” – Jon Fleetwood

German police raid the home of renowned media critic and WELT columnist Norbert Bolz for an ironic tweet, in latest case of insane speech repression to hit the Federal Republic – “Thousands of ordinary Germans have suffered similar intimidation, but today’s raid is the first we know of to target a mainstream media figure.” – eugyppius

Blood Thinners & Anti-Obesity Shots Dominate Medicare Drug Spending – “From diabetes injectables to blockbuster blood thinners, a handful of drugs account for a sizable share of Medicare’s pharmacy bill. Eliquis (generic name: Apixaban) alone racked up $18.3 billion in Medicare spending in 2023, nearly double the next drug, Ozempic. Their rise reflects both an aging population and expanding preventative treatment for stroke and atrial fibrillation. With almost four million beneficiaries, Eliquis is prescribed to roughly one in 10 Part D enrollees.” – Tyler Durden  – BIG PHARMA = BIG BUCKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The Great Replacement is underway, and it’s not the one you’re thinking about – “The cat is out of the bag at Amazon, but how many other big employers have similar plans? What happens when millions of people get replaced by robots and AI? Why is no one talking about this?” – Leo Hohmann

Pivotal Research On Creatine Finds Foundational Applications Way Beyond The Gym – Including Brain, Bone, And Healthy Aging – Tyler Durden

NEWS

Stochastic Hitler – The politics of “Little Brother”.  Your little brother pokes, prods, provokes, and pesters and when you hit him back, he erupts in wailing to mom and plays to the audience that is not there. This is the praxis of the modern Marxist activist. They ram ICE vehicles and make the response about the officers “attacking innocent Americans.” They flood the schools with gender activists seeking to impose absurdist ideologies on unsuspecting children then scream “Fascism! Trust the experts! Free speech!” When parents object or want some say in the matter. they flood the country with low-trust immigrants getting buckets full of free stuff and then claim you are racist or Islamophobic for not wanting to pay for it or to have your voting rights adulterated by counting them in the census or giving them outright suffrage because “voter ID is racist.” They accuse you of hating and disrespecting their institutions as they parade bare-breasted trans-women on the white house lawn at easter.” – El Gato Malo

Trump’s God Complex, Slavish Pandering To Israel And War Against Thomas Massie And Rand Paul – “Donald Trump is more than a bad president; he is a very bad man (to use Trump’s lingo). America has had several presidents with loose morals, but we’ve never had one (well, except for perhaps Abraham Lincoln and Lyndon Johnson) who had NO morals. It’s really difficult to realize, much less articulate, just how much toxic damage Trump has wrought in the hearts and minds of the people on the political and religious right. Of course, they themselves are unable to recognize it, but devotion and loyalty to Trump have cost them their moral conscience, their mental capacity to reason and, yes, the forfeiture of their humanity. ” – Chuck Baldwin

The “All” Americans – “Why the disinformation war will start a real one. If the only thing that separates one charge of authoritarianism, tyranny and oppression from another is a political party, you have a nation on the verge of civil war. When political lines are so clearly defined, threats so clearly made, there can be only one outcome. Everything the left charges Trump with doing has been done by Biden in total silence, at least from the left. So, it isn’t so much that those actions by a president are bad. What makes it good, or bad, is whether a Democrat or Republican did it.” – T.L. Davis

25 States Plan to Cut Off Food Stamps in November. Is this Legal? – “The short answer is no.” – Mish

The Sordid History of U.S. “Aid” to Colombia – “President Trump is rattling his saber against Colombian President Gustavo Petro to punish him for accusing the U.S. government of murdering Venezuelan fishermen. Trump has boasted of the killings by the U.S. military but claims all the targets were drug smugglers. Trump has threatened to suspend all U.S. government handouts for the Colombian government. Trump warned that Petro that he “better close up” cocaine production “or the United States will close them up for him, and it won’t be done nicely.” Tapping his own psychiatric expertise, Trump proclaimed that Colombia has “the worst president they’ve ever had – a lunatic with serious mental problems.” Is anyone in the Trump White House aware of the long history of U.S. failure in that part of the world?” – James Bovard

The President’s Murder Spree Expands to the Pacific – “The administration is dressing up these crimes as a “conflict,” but there is no one fighting on the other side. Trump has had five more civilians murdered on his orders, this time on boats in the Pacific:” – Daniel Larison

Yes, President Trump and Everyone Hunted by the DOJ Should be Compensated – “President Trump and everyone around him who were merciless tormented by the government for years are entitled to damages–not just to recoup financial losses but to ensure this doesn’t happen again.” – Julie Kelly  – NOT A TRUMP FAN, BUT JULIE IS RIGHT HE SHOULD BE COMPENSATED JUST AS YOU OR I SHOULD BE COMPENSATED IF THIS HAPPENED TO US!!

Where’s the Beef? – “Trump’s “big steak” in Argentina’s elections.. It’s election season down here at the end of the world, and inquiring minds want to know… what will happen over the weekend, when voters genuflect at the civic altar once again, hoping to turn public lead to private gold? Will the long-suffering Argentines stick with their libertarian Chainsaw in Chief, Javier Milei… or stick him in the back? And what might become of Trump’s “Beautiful Big Bet” on the country, including the US Treasury’s $20 billion backstop for the nation’s beleaguered peso? (More below…) First up, with three-quarters of a century of “Pampas Peronism” behind them, and the rampant corruption and grinding poverty to prove it, one might think the decision facing Argentine voters would be a cinch. Only, one would be wrong.” – Joel Bowman

Democrats Are About to Lose Their Minds Over What John Fetterman Said on Fox News – “Hannity sat back and enjoyed every second as Fetterman torched Democrats on the inconvenient truths they don’t want to hear.” – The Vigilant Fox

Karine Jean-Pierre Writes History’s Most Incoherent Memoir – “Joe Biden’s famously obtuse former chief spokesperson has a lot to say about last year’s election season, but none of it makes any sense. Wow, is this book bizarre!” – Matt Taibbi

This just went too far – “No one who worked at the Biden White House is untainted. They all knew that POTATUS was mentally incompetent, at least at some point during their tenure, and they all said nothing. They’re complicit in a major cover-up with constitutional implications. So Jen Psaki being treated like she’s still relevant is more than a little annoying. However, leftists love people who worked at Democratic White Houses, so I’m not overly surprised.” – Tom Knighton

Mamdani’s Radical Islam Problem – “Zohran Mamdani’s radical ties, antisemitic record, and allegiance to Tehran’s ideology make his NYC mayoral bid less about leadership—and more about loyalty.” – Cynthia Farahat

North Carolina CPS Threatening to Take Child Cancer Survivor From Parents Because He is Too Healthy (VIDEO) – Dr. Joseph Sansone

EU Declares War On Its Own Members – “Yesterday, two near-simultaneous acts of sabotage saw explosions ripping through oil refineries in both Hungary and Romania. In Hungary it was the MOL in Százhalombatta, which reportedly receives Russian oil, while in Romania the Petrotel-Lukoil, a subsidiary of the Russian parent company. As one commentator writes, these attacks came literally hours after the European Council had just approved to ban Russian gas starting in 2026:” – Simplicius

Five Reasons Why Trump Is Once Again Escalating Against Russia – Andrew Korybko

ECONOMIC NEWS

The Zombie Horde Emerges – “I’d say “hoard” since we’re talking banks that usually have a vaults (or computers) full of cash, but that is just the problem: they don’t.” – David Haggith

68 Percent Of Americans Consider The Condition Of The Economy To Be “Poor” As Millions Of U.S. Consumers Reach Their Breaking Points – Michael Snyder

Silver Shortages Promise All-Time Highs (VIDEO) with Bill Armour – “Silver is soaring to all-time highs, gaining more than 50% since last year and outpacing even gold. As inflation continues to climb, the dollar weakens, rumors of wars increase, Digital ID’s are enforced and nations push digital currency, precious metals are rising. But that’s not all that’s happening. Silver shortages are on their way, and Bill Armour explains why now could be the perfect time to strike.” – Maria Zeee

US Treasury Debt Hits $38 Trillion after Spiking by $1 Trillion in 2.5 Months and by $1.8 Trillion since the Debt Ceiling – Wolf Richter

ZIRP or ZAP? Will the Fed’s ‘Zero-Interest Rate Policy’ Return, and Will It Work? – “Only the wealthy will benefit from ZIRP, and the benefits of “the wealth effect” and “trickle down” have not just diminished–they’re now negative. Welcome to the era of ZAP.” – Charles Hugh Smith

Repo Market’s Warning Light is Flickering – “Rising repo rates, a shrinking reserve pool, and heavier use of the Fed’s backstop all indicate banks’ “ample reserves” are thinning amid a slow liquidity squeeze.” – Peter C. Earle

SURVIVAL, PREPAREDNESS AND SELF-SUFFICIENCY

20 Harsh Survival Lessons From the Great Depression (VIDEO) – “What can the Great Depression teach us about survival today? In this video, we uncover 20 harsh survival lessons from the 1930s that are more relevant than ever. From food shortages to frugal living, from mending clothes to avoiding debt, these powerful lessons helped families endure one of the hardest decades in history. Whether you’re interested in history, preparedness, simple living, or financial resilience, this video will show you how to apply Depression-era wisdom to modern life. Learn how to waste nothing, stretch every meal, grow your own food, and find strength in community.” – Financial History Uncovered

10 Ingenious Uses for Flour Around Your Home – “Usually when we think of flour we think of bread, biscuits, pie crusts and cookies. But flour has some surprising characteristics that lend it to other uses. On the one hand, it’s a mild abrasive. On the other hand, it acts as a lubricating powder. When added to water and other liquids it presents binding properties that are both unique and significant.” – Steve Nubie

Don’t Throw Away Your DEAD Car Batteries! Do This Instead! – “Let me tell you something I learned the hard way: a dead car battery isn’t useless. Most people toss them, but that’s like throwing money in the trash. Over the years, I’ve found a dozen ways to bring life back to those old batteries or at least squeeze a few more uses out of them.” – Matt Wright

Growing Wheat: Varieties, Planting Guide, Care, Problems, and Harvest – Ame Vanorio

Loaves, Fishes, Tree Bark, Seeds, and Knowledge – Part 3 – The Chemical Engineer  – PART 3 0F A SERIES RECOMMENDED BY JAMES WESLEY RAWLES!!!!

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2 Thessalonians 2:17  Comfort your hearts, and stablish you in every good word and work.

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THE BIG PICTURE

4 Valuable Lessons From Their Last Days of Life – “Learning wisdom from those who are in the best place to give advice.” – Kate Dreston  – GOOD ONE FROM KATE!!!!!!!!!!!!

Canada: Homeowners Don’t Own Their Homes, Banks Track Carbon Scores (VIDEO) – “Banks in the UK have begun tracking “carbon scores” in lockstep with the rollout of Digital ID, propaganda pushing civil conscription for WW3 has begun, and BC Supreme Court rules that homeowners don’t actually own their homes.” – Maria Zeee

They’re Coming for Your Wood-Burning Stove. Again. – “The weather is getting colder, and that means getting back to anti-wood-burning propaganda. Did you know a wood burner can kill you? They pollute more than cars and cause cancer, “similar to cigarette smoke,” and so on. This isn’t new – for want of a better word – “information”. We covered this last Christmas. Then over the summer, it was folded in with a barrage of “indoor air quality” fear-mongering, only to re-emerge now that the days are getting shorter again. Sort of like reverse-hibernation.” – Kit Knightly  – SEE LINK FROM LAST YEAR BY OFF GUARDIAN ON 12/26/24!!!

USDA Declares Bird Flu a Permanent Emergency, Ensures Funding Continuity Even During Government Shutdown – “Avian influenza officially elevated above nearly every other disease in the country’s federal continuity plan—after USDA rolled out $1 billion bird flu plan earlier this year.” – Jon Fleetwood

Complete Flu Nonsense from Doctors Please Don’t Take That Worthless Flu Shot – “It is that time of the year to sell flu shots, but do not be taken in by the mainstream press, which would have you also get another COVID shot. The vaccine terrorists never stop selling their needles.” – Dr. Sircus

‘Peace President’ Trump, along with the technocrats and defense contractors, all rush to support reelection of arguably the most pro-war Senator in U.S. history – “Lindsey Graham may be one of the most hated politicians in South Carolina and the nation, but he keeps winning because he serves Washington’s true masters.” – Leo Hohmann

Putin aide GOES ROGUE, warns Moscow’s rollout of digital ID will RUIN Russians’ lives – (“IDEA: Instead of a top-down “mark of the beast” Digital ID for citizens, make an IQ test mandatory for UK & EU bureaucrats. Let people meet the “geniuses” running their lives. @Keir_Starmer what is your score?” – Kirill Dmitriev.)  I don’t think you fully appreciate what Dmitriev has just done here. He has quite literally changed the game forever. Allow me to explain.” – Edward Slavsquat / Riley Waggaman

EXPOSED: Yale University Leads PSYOP to Guilt People Into Taking Covid “Vaccine” Months Before They Even Had One – “Yale received $1B in gov’t funds and works closely with the intelligence state…” – Lioness of Judah

NEWS

Who Would Jesus Bomb? The Gospel According to the Military-Industrial Complex – “For a man supposedly intent on winning a Nobel Peace Prize, Donald Trump spends an extraordinary amount of time waging war, threatening to wage war, and fantasizing about waging war. Notwithstanding his dubious claims about having ended “seven un-endable wars,” Trump has continued to squander the American people’s resources and moral standing by feeding the military-industrial complex’s insatiable appetite for war—preemptively bombing nuclear facilities in Iran, blowing up fishing boats in the Caribbean, and flexing military muscle at every opportunity. Even the Trump administration’s version of “peace through strength” is filtered through a prism of violence, intimidation and strongman tactics.” – John & Nisha Whitehead

President Trump Seems Itching for Multiple Wars in the Western Hemisphere – “Donald Trump seems to be following through in his second term as president on the threat of a United States war on Venezuela he made in his first term. The justification the Trump administration presents for all this is that it is part of the US government’s drug war, an endeavor that has meted out death, destruction, and rights abuses decade after decade as drug use in America continues along. Trump seems not to be content to go to war against just Venezuela whose President Nicolás Maduro he has proclaimed is a drug kingpin. Trump on Sunday pegged the president of neighboring Western Hemisphere nation Colombia with the same accusation used against Maduro.” – Adam Dick

Trump Predicts a Fantastic Deal with China, Anyone Believe That? – “Instead of under promising and overdelivering, Trump usually does the opposite.” – Mish

The Shutdown Show – “The government “shutdown” is a show, of course – because the government hasn’t actually shut down. All that’s happened, mainly, is a show of some recipients of government checks not receiving them. The money that finances these checks continues to be collected (via taxes) or created ex nihilo – via the “Fed,” that entity that the banking cartel created to run the government. People who work outside the government – who earn rather than take their living – cannot tell that the government has “shut down” because they are still having to pay the taxes that the government redistributes to those who take rather than earn their living; they are still having to comply with the laws and regulations imposed by the government. If the government had truly shut down, they would be free to do business – and to keep the earnings (all of them) generated by their labor.” – Eric Peters

When Will The Shutdown End? – “Does Either Side Know When To Flinch? Don’t Bet On It.” – Peter Nayland Kust

State with Toughest Gun Control Laws Headed to Supreme Court for Spanking? – “It is no surprise Hawaii, with some of the nation’s most restrictive gun laws, now finds itself before the Supreme Court, seeking to defend its position against a challenge that could reshape many states’ approach to firearms. Hawaii has forced on its citizens one of the lowest rates of gun ownership via some of the most restrictive gun laws in the country. Let’s see if the latest challenge brings the Aloha state just a bit closer to the broader gun freedoms most Americans enjoy as a right.” – Peter Van Buren

EBT Serfs Threaten Violent Mass-Shoplifting Spree if Food Stamps Cut – “The EBT serfs of the underclass may be in for a rough ride come November, when mommy government is slated to wean them off the teat of state. Of course, the Democrats currently holding the funding hostage could easily just re-open the government, but they won’t because if they can get all of their plantation slaves riled up with the welfare cuts, ready to commit violence in furtherance of the current state of anarcho-tyranny, they view this not as a problem to be solved but as a political opportunity.” – Ben Bartee

Reflections from the Heart of the Empire: Proofs of Insanity – “Donald Trump said “we’re” going to “eradicate” Hamas unless they are “very good” and “behave” as the genocidal maniacs who have him by the balls continued to murder and starve Arabs who never harmed me on my dime, in spite of his declaration just days before that the “war is over.” Trump accused self-identified socialist Colombian President Gustavo Petro of being an “illegal drug dealer” and cut off all US aid to Colombia. Some fun facts: Petro’s government has cut coca production in Colombia by 40%, a clear threat to the revenue stream of Guns & Drugs R US Unlimited, aka the CIA.” – Ohio Barbarian – THE BARBARIAN’S TAKE ON WEEKLY EVENTS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

As expected: no peace for Gaza – “A Palestine in Palestinian hands is diametrically opposed to the interests of Israel, the US, and Europe.” – Lorenzo Maria Pacini

From Syria to Gaza: Israel’s proxy playbook returns -“Tel Aviv has handed Gaza’s warfront to death squads and collaborators, using the cover of a ceasefire to wage a proxy campaign against the resistance.” – Robert Inlakesh

Desperation Row – “What a big game Volodymyr Zelensky talked before his latest little while in the Oval Office last Friday. The Ukrainian president (who is no longer legitimately the Ukrainian president) arrived for another summit with President Trump with a shopping list of air defense and weapons systems worth $90 billion. Yes, $90 billion. This compares with $128 billion the United States has already given Ukraine since the Russian intervention began in February 2022,  Zelensky said Ukraine would purchase all the new hardware in what he called “a mega deal.” What nonsense. Kiev is flat broke. How could the regime possibly pay for new weapons and matériel? Would Kiev write Washington a check out of funds Washington has previously sent?  But the hopelessly corrupt Zelensky had more than a 70 percent raise on his mind when he arrived in Washington. The master importunist also wanted an unstated number — let’s just say a lot — of Tomahawk missiles atop this. This is a crook with nerve: You have to give Volodymyr this much. No Tomahawks for Volod, then, at least none now. Trump made this clear before, during and after his time with the Ukrainian mooch.” – Patrick Lawrence

When Tomahawks become boomerangs – “Zelensky’s latest Washington humiliation is about more than yet another Trump mood swing” – Tarik Cyril Amar

Western media lying about planned Putin-Trump summit – key Kremlin aide – “Russian presidential investment envoy Kirill Dmitriev has denied that the planned meeting in Budapest was shelved” -RT

Watch: Columbian President Threatens To “Take Out” Trump – “Snapped his fingers for emphasis. During an interview with Univision, Colombian President Gustavo Petro threatened to “take out” President Trump after he called Petro “an illegal drug leader.” There are heightened tensions between the U.S. and Columbia after Trump took out a narco boat, killing a Columbian national who they claim was just a fisherman, but who had a lengthy criminal record.” – Steve Watson

FDA Confirms Highest-Risk Level For Recall Of 6.7 Million Eggs -Tyler Durden

ECONOMIC NEWS

Bad Money, Bad Data, Gold Got a Cold – “Bad money chased bad money today, while dusty data got more cloudy under government demolition, and even gold got dusted as the old standard, stammered.” – David Haggith

Dismantling the most outrageous lie in American finance – One of the most common lies that the complacent class likes to recite about America’s gargantuan national debt is that “it doesn’t matter because we owe it to ourselves.” This assertion is, quite simply, an outrageous falsehood. Let’s start with the facts:” – James Hickman (Simon Black)

Stocks Extend Momentum Meltdown As Trump Admin Mulls Massive China Export Ban – Tyler Durden

The U.S. jobs market was wobbling before the shutdown. Now what? – “Washington standoff adds to the uncertainty and could further slow hiring ” – Jeffry Bartash

Volatility is normal – “Gold and silver have been marked down sharply over two days. If you have been shaken by the speed and magnitude, then that is the market makers’ objective. Whether market makers and bullion banks are acting in concert to bash the market matters not. The commencement of a market correction would have been spotted by all of them, and they would have withdrawn their bids and even sold some positions to help push prices lower. And as nervousness spreads on falling prices, buyers just stand back. Given the enormous rises in price since mid-August, sudden falls of 5—10% are normal in this context, but it is likely to have shaken out a few panicking sellers allowing the shorts to close some of their positions.” – Alasdair Macleod

How to Know When the Precious Metals Pullback Is Over – “As you’ve likely heard, the inevitable pullback in precious metals continued yesterday, with spot gold dropping 5.29% and spot silver falling 7.03%, marking the sharpest one-day decline in over a decade. That said, I’m not worried.” – Jesse Colombo

Could a Rip-Your-Face-Off Rally in the Dollar Trigger a Global Financial Crisis? – Charles Hugh Smith

Regional Banks Crash on “Cockroach” Loans – “Fears of hidden losses at regional banks sent them skidding last week with potentially hundreds of billions of bad loans. Is your neighborhood bank a hedge fund in disguise. This is a big deal because regional banks hold roughly 1 in 4 deposits in the US — about $5 trillion.” – Peter St Onge

Bank chief says US firm collapses ring ‘alarm bells’ – “The collapse of two US companies could be a sign of wider problems in the financial system and “alarm bells” were ringing, the governor of the Bank of England has said. Andrew Bailey told a House of Lords committee that it was important to take the failure of car parts supplier First Brands and subprime car lender Tricolor “very seriously” – and drew parallels with the 2008 financial crisis. He said it was unclear whether these were one-off issues, or a case of “the canary in the coal mine”. ” Last week, Jamie Dimon, the boss of US banking giant JPMorgan Chase, warned the failure of the two US firms could be a sign of more to come. “My antenna goes up when things like that happen,” he told analysts. “I probably shouldn’t say this, but when you see one cockroach, there are probably more.”- Michael Sheils McNamee

Another ‘Cockroach’: Subprime Auto-Lender PrimaLend Enters Bankruptcy – Tyler Durden

SURVIVAL, PREPAREDNESS AND SELF-SUFFICIENCY

Bug Out Location Checklist Items You’ll Regret Forgetting When Disaster Hits – “When disaster hits, you won’t rise to the level of your plan, you’ll fall to the level of what you forgot. That’s the cold truth no one likes to admit when they start building their bug out location. We spend months fine-tuning the big stuff, the land, the shelter, the guns, the storage, but when the clock’s ticking and the world’s falling apart, it’s the small, overlooked gear that decides whether you make it through the first week.” – Bob Rodgers

Loaves, Fishes, Tree Bark, Seeds, and Knowledge – Part 2 – The Chemical Engineer

Would Pioneer Tactics Still Work If SHTF Today? – “The pioneers crossed a continent with grit, simple tools, and hard limits. We have better gear and faster ways to move, but the land still plays by the same rules. Here is what carries over and what does not.” – Alec Deacon

Your Protein Powder Might Be Poisoning You – “For those living off-grid, homesteading, or simply striving for independence, the lesson is simple: don’t outsource your nutrition to corporations. When you grow, raise, or barter for your food, you know exactly what fuels your body. That’s freedom—nutritional and otherwise. So before you scoop that next serving of powder, ask yourself: do you really know what’s in it?” – Bill Heid

13 Ways to Fortify Your Home Before All Hell Breaks Loose – Alan Urban

VERSE FOR THE DAY

Psalm 106:43     Many times did he deliver them; but they provoked him with their counsel, and were brought low for their iniquity.

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