THE BIG PICTURE

The Way Home – “What I see instead are rabbit trails of little tweaks here and there, but the rich get richer and the poor get poorer and the sick get sicker and the have-nots proliferate because nobody ever told them it’s up to them. Sometimes the best hand up is a swift kick in reality’s seat of the pants. No free lunch. Make your own destiny. I’m glad to help you, but pick up your feet if I’m carrying you. God don’t make no junk, so quit acting like you’re junk. And government, quit incentivizing junk behavior and junk decisions.” – Joel Salatin

3 Spiritual Truths That Come With Each Sunrise – “Encouragement & hope come each morning.” – Kate Dreston

Yuck! The Sour Taste of the Modern Food System – “The Yuka app is a mobile application designed to help consumers quickly assess the health quality of food and cosmetic products by scanning their barcodes. It produces a health score ranging from 0 to 100 and provides a colour-coded rating, which categorises products as excellent, good, mediocre or poor for health. How did we arrive here? Scan your “good” cereal and celebrate your “excellent” yoghurt, but remain oblivious to the monocropped fields, the degraded soils, the plundered farmers, the land seizures, the pesticide residues, the devastated rural communities and the corporate seeds hijacked from farmers. No app, algorithm or tech startup will save us from the consequences of an industrial food system we refuse to confront and whose immense health, environmental and social costs we continue to bear. Genuine food awareness lies beyond the supermarket aisle.” – Colin Todhunter

The Forbidden Fruit: What Eden Really Concealed – “Warning: This article contains graphic theological analysis and disturbing interpretations of sacred text.” – Lily-Rose Dawson  – INTERESTING INTERPRETATION!!!!

Stop Pinkwashing: The Truth Breast Cancer Charities Bury – “A Critical Examination of Industry Influence, Pinkwashing, and the Business of ‘Awareness'” – Sayer Ji  – GOOD ARTICLE. A MUST READ!!!!!!!!!!!!

Trump allies Bill Gates, Larry Ellison, Tony Blair push globalized digital IDs at World Governments Summit – “The beast system is here, even at the door, as the formerly free Western world lines up to comply; Gates warns those who refuse to be biometrically digitized will get ‘left behind'” – Leo Hohmann

MONUMENTAL MAHA FAIL: Pfizer Strikes $70 Billion Deal with U.S. to Expand Its mRNA Empire, Lower Drug Prices – “Landmark agreement’ lets Pfizer expand its disastrous mRNA platform — sweeping a massive trail of death and destruction under the rug.” – 2nd Smartest Guy in the World

New Government Deal for Pfizer Bioweapon Manufacture, Distribution. Bonus Tylenol? – “What’s wrong with this picture? Pfizer invests in “research”, expands Gov’t license to slaughter the lab rats, which would be us, and this is touted as something good?” – Rima E Laibow MD

Trump Shields Pfizer From Tariffs, Hands Felon COVID Jab Manufacturer a Massive Profit Pipeline – “No accountability for deadly drug peddler and felon—only profit.” – Jon Fleetwood

RFK Jr. Warns of “Turnkey Totalitarianism” and Urges Resistance (VIDEO) – IVIM: Independently Verified Information Machine – SAW A VERSION OF THIS LINKED TODAY, SUPPOSEDLY THIS SPEECH WAS MADE IN THE SUMMER OF 2024 WHEN HE WAS STIIL  RUNNING FOR PRESIDENT. HOW QUICKLY THE TUNE CHANGED. FOLLOW WHAT THEY DO, NOT WHAT THEY SAY. EVEN THOUGH THE MESSAGE MAY BE TRUE!!!!!!!!!!!!

77% of U.S. Counties Record ‘Notable Declines’ in Child Vaxx Rates – “American parents, data shows, are fleeing the biomedical plantation at alarming — alarming, that is, for corporate media and the pharmaceutical industry that it dutifully serves.” – Ben Bartee

DARPA Project ‘AtmoSense’ Turns the Atmosphere Into a Global Surveillance Grid – “The sky can be “used as a sensor.”” – Jon Fleetwood

Were Diseases Already Disappearing Before Vaccines? A Closer Look at the Data – Tracy Slepcevic

Wikipedia’s co-creator has revealed the moment he learned the CIA and other intelligence agencies were hijacking public entries for their own benefit. – Brittany Chain

NEWS

America’s Culture War Goes Hot as Trump and Hegseth Convert the Military’s Prime Mission to Enforcing a Police State – “This is where America’s long culture war can rapidly escalate into a full-on bloody civil war. Many in military leadership have, in the past, warned that using the military to police US citizens in their daily life is a lot like using an atom bomb to dig a ditch. The military has enormously powerful tools that it is trained to use in broadly destructive ways, and it doesn’t tend to act with a lot of finesse or nuance because the warrior ethos is to destroy the enemy, not to make sure he behaves. Like Trump, Hegseth also urged his top leaders to quit the service if they were not aligned with his vision. In fact, Trump no doubt said his part to make it clear he stands behind Hegseth on that. Form any verbal opposition, and you may see the end of your shiny career.” – David Haggith

Battlefield America: Trump’s War on the Enemy Within—the American People – ““The era of the Department of Defense is over… From this moment forward, the only mission of the newly restored Department of War is this: warfighting…” — Pete Hegseth, “America is under invasion from within… That’s a war, too. It’s a war from within… We should use some of these dangerous cities as training grounds for our military…” — President Donald Trump. Distractions abound. Don’t be distracted. The American police state under Donald Trump has mastered the art of delivering endless diversions, constant uproar, and wall-to-wall chaos designed to prevent us from focusing on any single issue for long. This is how psyops work: keep the populace reactive, confused, fearful and pliant while power consolidates. According to the Trump administration, “we the people” are now the enemy from within.” – John & Nisha Whitehead

Fat Generals Are the Problem! – “Hegseth’s Absurdity Masks a Far Scarier Issue. Trump and Hegseth see America’s streets as a battleground for the U.S. military against “the enemy within.” The real enemy to democracy, of course, is the very deployment of troops to the streets. American colonists launched a revolution 250 years ago partly because they didn’t want the king’s troops among them as enforcers. Anyone who doesn’t see the fundamental dangers of Trump and Hegseth’s actions to democracy and our Constitutional rights truly has some flab between their ears.” – Bill Astore

The Shutdown Is Upon Us: How Long, What’s Impacted, And What’s Next? – Tyler Durden

The Government Shutdown Is Here – Does Anyone Really Care?- “Perhaps these spending spats are more hype than horror.” – Graham J Noble

🎬 Acting Is Hard (take 🙏) – “Do you believe in miracles. THIS IS ABSURD. What they are asking us to believe is patently insane. I don’t know what actually happened at KirkGate other than it is absolutely not what we are being shown. What is incredible to me, is that we know the media, including Hollywood, has been enmeshed with shadow(ish) governmental organizations for FOREVER.”- Conspiracy Sarah  – ANOTHER GOOD ONE FROM SARAH!!!

The Tony Blair-Trump Netanyahu 20 Point Peace Plan Seen Through NWO Lens: Is Gaza A Pilot Project For New World Order Colonial Erasure, And Corporate Technocracy Rising? – Celia Farber

Conversation with Yakov Rabkin, Israel in Palestine: Jewish Rejection of Zionism (VIDEO) – “Join Professor Jeffrey Sachs and Yakov M. Rabkin, historian and Professor Emeritus at the University of Montreal, for a wide-ranging and fascinating discussion on the history of Zionism, “I was told as in within my family and as I got bar mitzvah and so forth that being Jewish and being Zionist was the same thing. Uh so for me uh your books came as a real eye openener. They are historical accounts. They are theological accounts uh that explain that there’s really a a rather significant difference between Judaism as historically practiced and Zionism as propounded in the 20th and 21st century. – Jeffrey Sachs “” – The Sustainable Development Solutions Network  – INTERESTING VIDEO WHEN YOU HAVE 45 MINUTES TO WATCH!!!

The Unholy Trinity of Our Time Creates the Whirlwinds of Its Own Destruction – “All three of these things—the ongoing genocide financed by the stolen wealth of the American people, the obvious bungled coverup of the Epstein Files, and the fact that Zionist billionaires were outraged at Charlie Kirk in the days and weeks preceding his death for daring to even sniff suspiciously at the hands which heretofore had fed him—have generated powerful whirlwinds of outraged reaction:” – Ohio Barbarian

MIT, George Washington dispute Ian Roberts’ claims about academic credentials, honors – “Two more universities have denied claims from Des Moines Public Schools’ former superintendent about his education and accomplishments, raising more questions about how thoroughly the district vetted his application.’ – Tyler Jett

We’re on the eve of destruction – “If there is no authoritative body to call a halt to NATO’s madness, then the consequences of letting slip the dogs of war are as clear as the biggest, best and brightest rosary of nuclear mushroom clouds Trump can ever imagine.” – Declan Hayes

The Trumpanyahu “Peace” Plan, And Other Notes – “The onus is on the party committing genocide to stop committing genocide. The onus is not on the victims of the genocide to sign agreements in the hope of saving themselves from the genocide. This is obvious to anyone who isn’t a psychopath.” – Caitlin Johnstone

Donald Trump’s Proposed Peace Plan for Gaza is DOA – “I will give you the bottom line up front: The Zionists, not just Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu, totally reject a two-state solution. Accordingly, Donald Trump’s Gaza Peace Plan is kaput right out of the gate… Dead on arrival.” – Larry C. Johnson

Assessing The Veracity Of SVR’s Report About A Polish-Ukrainian False Flag Attack In Poland – “There’s little doubt that Ukraine has an interest in escalating NATO-Russian tensions through these means, including by employing anti-government Russian and Belarusian nationals in this reported plot, but it’s debatable whether Poland is involved in this and the extent to which it might be if so.” – Andrew Korybko

ECONOMIC NEWS

An Anecdote About Inflation – “Are we on the verge of Weimar Germany-esque (or Zimbabwean) hyper-inflation? Judging by what I just paid for a bag of cat food – and judging by the soaring value of gold and silver – the answer may be yes. I buy a bag of the same cat food about once every two weeks, that timespan being about how long it takes for the cats to eat a bag of the food we buy. The bag I bought about two weeks ago cost about $16. Yesterday, I went to the same supermarket to get a new bag because we were running low again and paid about $18 for the same bag. That’s something like a 15 percent increase in the price over a period of two weeks. What will a bag of cat food cost two weeks from now?” – Eric Peters  – GOOD READ FROM ERIC!!!!

Trump-linked World Liberty Financial to launch debit card as early as this year – “World Liberty Financial, a crypto venture backed by the family of U.S. President Donald Trump, plans to launch a debit card as early as this year, CEO Zach Witkoff told a crypto conference on Wednesday. “We are definitely rolling out a debit card that’ll bridge … crypto assets with everyday spending … we’ll be rolling out a pilot program here in the next quarter, ” – Rae Wee and Xinghui Kok – THE GUY HAS GOT HIS FINGER IN EVERYTHING, CRYPTO DEBIT CARDS, TRUMPCOIN, TRUMPRx, WHAT’S NEXT!!!!!!!!!!

Trump’s New Crypto Debit Card. Are You Going To Use It? (SHORT) – “You obviously know that every one of these transactions, President Trump and his family will get piece of it. Every time you swipe uh the Liberty Financial crypto debit card, richer, richer, richer, richer. Yeah, it’s just a bridge and to give a all this and this isn’t going to be the only one. There’s going to be uh obviously identity linked wallets. Uh this is where we’re eventually going here with the new fully tokenized system.” – Gregory Mannarino – WHAT YOU JUST READ IS GREG’S WHOLE 30 SECOND SO-CALLED VIDEO OF OBVIOUS INFORMATION. WOULD’VE BEEN NICE TO HEAR MORE OF HIS TAKE ON THIS. THESE AREN’T VIDEOS, THEY ARE JUST ADS FOR YOU TO SUBSCRIBE MONETARILY TO HIS SUBSTACK. THIS ONE IS KIND OF LIKE CALLING THE KETTLE BLACK, PERHAPS HE JUST WANTS TO GET RICHER, RICHER, RICHER LIKE TRUMP BY ONLY ALLOWING PAYING CUSTOMERS TO WATCH THE REAL VIDEOS. SORRY, GREG. I THINK YOU HAVE FINALLY LOST ME. SAD DAY FOR A ONCE GREAT YOU TUBE CHANEL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Bitcoin Faces Its 1913 Moment – “Is the Core vs. Knots battle a replay of two ideological Federal Reserve Plans that ultimately centralized gold, the original sound money?” – Kane McGukin

ADP Private Jobs Decline by 32,000 in September, Huge Negative Revisions – “ADP revised August from +54,000 to -3,000 making 2 straight months of declines.” – Mish

One benefit of a short government shutdown: No BS economic reports – “Some professional market participants are fretting that the government shutdown will delay the release of economic reports. On the contrary, for a short period that’s something to welcome — especially if they are coming from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. What’s to miss, anyway? Their numbers are usually wrong, resulting in unjustified market swings. The last of our worries about a short-term government shutdown should be delays in one month’s CPI inflation and jobs reports. Hint to the Fed: inflation is steady (examine company operational reports) and jobs (thanks partly to AI) are going down.” – Noel S. Williams

Dot-Com Redux And The Coming Defenestration Of Trump-O-Nomics, Part 2 – David Stockman

Not With A Bang But A Whimper – “The BLS Last Jobs Report Before The Government Shuts Down Shows Labor Markets Getting Worse.” – Peter Nayland Kust

100,000 federal workers set to formally quit U.S. government, in largest mass resignation of government workers in U.S. history – “On Tuesday, approximately 100,000 federal employees are expected to formally step down, marking what experts are calling the largest mass resignation of government workers in American history. This dramatic exodus is not born of protest or scandal but of a calculated overhaul under President Donald Trump’s second administration, aimed at slashing bureaucracy and modernizing a sprawling federal workforce. The resignations stem from the Deferred Resignation Program (DRP), a voluntary initiative launched early in Trump’s term.” – ETH

SURVIVAL, PREPAREDNESS AND SELF-SUFFICIENCY

DON’T DO IT: Don’t Cheap Out on These Preps!!! – ” I know that these are difficult times financially for many Americans and folks the world over. I live on a pretty tight budget myself. However, there are a few things in my preps that I have learned are worth the extra money. Either I was warned by a knowledgable friend, or got lucky, or learned the hard way (aka buy cheap…forced to buy again).” – Rowan O’Malley

Philips HeartStart Home AED Defibrillator: A Lifesaving Guide for Families – Ken Jorgustin – ALTHOUGH I DON’T OWN ONE, IT WOULD DEFINITELY BE SOMETHING TO HAVE, AND KEN USUALLY HAS GOOD RECOMMENDATIONS!!!

The 37 Best Trees to Grow in Your Homestead – “Whether you’ve been living on your property for quite a few years or you just moved there, you might want to consider planting a few trees. After all, trees are some of the best additions you can make to a homestead. They not only provide shade and ornamental value but many can be used for many other purposes. From fruit to nuts, heating to construction, trees are invaluable assets for the homestead. So, which trees will give you the best return on your investment?” – Rebekah Pierce  – ALSO FALL IS A GOOD TIME TO PLANT NEW TREES!!!

19 Items to Scavenge from Abandoned Cars – Alan Urban  – A SIMILAR ARTICLE WAS LINKED ON 01/16/25 BY AARON PATTISON!!

Growing Kabocha Squash – ” During my working life my wife and I spent a lot of time in Asia. One of the commonly used vegetables often sliced thin, breaded, and deep fried on tempura platters is kabocha squash, also called Japanese pumpkin. Kabocha is a winter squash with a creamy texture. It’s used in many Asian cuisines.” – Rookie Gardener

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Job 40:12    Look on every one that is proud, and bring him low; and tread down the wicked in their place.

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