THE BIG PICTURE

Rule by Thieves: The Police State Becomes a Pay-to-Play Shadow Government – “America has been backsliding into kleptocratic territory for years now, but this may finally be it. A kleptocracy is literally “rule by thieves.” It is a form of government in which a network of ruling elites “steal public funds for their own private gain using public institutions.” So now we find ourselves in this present moment where billionaires are running the show. The optics are undeniable: while the country suffers through a government shutdown, with welfare programs shuttered and inflation, healthcare and basic cost-of-living expenses skyrocketing, the elite are living it up.” – John & Nisha Whitehead

Silicon Valley Is Building the Cybernetic Whore of Babylon and No One Seems to Care – “What Happens to Regular People When Billionaires Build False Gods?” – The Wise Wolf and Lily-Rose Dawson

Why Isn’t There a Cure for Alzheimer’s Disease? – “Exposing the Great Amyloid Scam and The Cures They Buried for Billions” – A Midwestern Doctor

Study: vaccination connected to chronic disease in children; non-vaccination connected to absence of chronic disease – “BOOM. What are we really talking about here? TOXINS. The vaccines are toxic.” – Jon Rappoport

Did You Hear About the “Frankenstein Variant”? – “Just in time for Halloween…” – Conspiracy Sarah

Stakeholder Capitalism: Trump’s Tariff War And Rare Earths “Deal” Is Fueling ‘Operation Warp Speed 2.0’ To Usher In The WEF’s 4th Industrial Revolution – “Well, doesn’t that sound just wonderful? Another Operation Warp Speed – because the first one was so “beautiful” and amazing, remember?” – The WinePress

Chem-trails were everywhere in Troy this afternoon! – “This might be the craziest post I’ve ever made, but this was weird and I took the pictures to prove it.” – Bill Rice

Why is DARPA modeling disease outbreaks & intervention strategies while simultaneously looking to predict & manipulate collective human behavior? perspective – Sasha Latypova

The Natural Rival to Tylenol You’ve Never Heard Of – “What a growing body of clinical research reveals about an overlooked botanical with remarkable pain-relieving power” – Sayer Ji

New Internet Challenge Is Not for the Faint of Heart – “Gen Z just discovered boredom. We used to call it Thursday. Just when you thought the TikTok generation had run out of aggressively normal activities to rebrand into trends (think: intermittent fasting, which we used to just call forgetting your lunch or occasionally, being sent to bed without dinner), they’ve come up with a hot new mental-health practice they’ve dubbed “rawdogging boredom.” Here’s how you do it: Turn off your phone. That’s it. That’s the whole thing.” – Jenna McCarthy

 

 

 

NEWS

MAGA Now Means MAMA: Make America a Monarchy Again – “MAGA has turned into a totalitarian monster. To claim to want to make America great again means restoring the fundamental foundational principles upon which America was birthed: the freedom of speech; the freedom to peacefully protest; the right to privacy; the right to be secure in our persons, papers and effects. It also means applying the constitutional principle of federalism to Washington, D.C.; stopping America’s incessant foreign wars (especially for Israel); forcing the Washington establishment (especially the White House) to start abiding by the rule of law; ending the U.S. global military empire; stopping the executive branch from seeking monsters to destroy all over the world; ” – Cuck Baldwin

MAGA Is Now a Dead Parrot – “The Trump coalition has collapsed and is in the dustbin of history. The Make America Great Again movement, which managed the agreeable task of defeating a mandated mannikin of manic mediocrity in order to re-install Emperor Donald the Last in the White House Palace just a year ago, is dead. That’s right. MAGA was murdered as a political movement, and the murderer is its own standard bearer, our Mad Emperor his own self. Donald J. Trump murdered MAGA as surely as if he fired six shots from a .357 magnum revolver at point blank range, hit his target every time, and five of those times that target was MAGA. Let us count the ways.” – Ohio Barbarian

Ports of Entry – “We’re cutoff and surrounded! – “Vulnerabilities!!! The United States’ ports of entry are critical gateways for trade and travel, but their concentration in Democratic-aligned urban and border areas highlights potential asymmetries in extreme situations. While natural oceanic barriers provide external defense, internal divisions can isolate inland populations from global supplies. The United States’ extensive network of ports of entry serves as the backbone of its global connectivity, facilitating trillions in trade, millions of travelers, and critical supply chains. However, in the context of possible internal divisions—such as a civil war, an event fervently hoped to remain in the realm of speculation—these gateways reveal an already existing asymmetry.” – E.M. Burlingame

The paradox and pathology of democratic hope – “Why we keep believing the next election will save us — and what happens when it doesn’t.” – Collapse Life

Does the Democrats’ Chaos Strategy Work? – “Democrats wield chaos as a strategy, overwhelming voters with nonstop turmoil that obscures blame and rallies key groups—leaving Republicans scrambling to counter before the clock runs out.” – Victor Davis Hanson

When Fiction Governs: Chuck Schumer, the Baileys, and the Politics of Make-Believe – “Chuck Schumer has been telling one story for nearly three decades. It begins on Long Island, in Massapequa, with Joe and Eileen Bailey and their three children, a middle class family in a split level house, two jobs, and the usual anxieties about property taxes, tuition, and security. A charitable reader might ask why any of this matters. Politicians use composite characters all the time. The persistence is what astonishes. From the late 2000s through the 2010s and into the 2020s, Schumer kept returning to the Baileys” – Amuse on X

Zohran Mamdani—Bankruptcy Trustee For The Socialist Republic Of Gotham – “Despite all the gumming this morning about New York City’s allegedly shocking election of a self-professed socialist mayor, the real point is that New York City is already tantamount to a Welfare State dystopia. The election of Mamdani, therefore, is more in the nature of a pre-needs bankruptcy filing, which will now surely coming steaming down the tracks at an accelerating pace.” – David Stockman

Trump just said THIS about food stamp money?!? – “The situation is fluid because Trump’s brain is fluid. But this is what he issued on Truth Social on Tuesday: This contradicted what Trump said last Friday, when he asserted he didn’t want Americans to go hungry,” – Jon Rappoport

Supreme Court Examines Trump’s Tariff Turmoil – “And doesn’t sound too favorable toward his arguments” – David Haggith

Max Blumenthal: A Predictable Disaster (VIDEO) – “Max Blumenthal breaks down the looming US invasion of Venezuela as a reckless, corporate-backed disaster. Trump’s regime change plan rests on false narco-terror charges against Maduro. The real stakes? Venezuela’s vast oil and lithium resources. The so-called ‘Cartel of the Suns’ is CIA fabrication. The US aims to repeat colonial-era coups, destabilize the region, trigger mass migration, and enrich Trump’s business cronies.” – The Grayzone  – ANOTHER GOOD ONE FROM MAX!!!

The President’s Bogus Crusade – “The president is not an emperor with a responsibility to protect Christians in other lands” – . Daniel Larison

We Are Our Own Death Star – “Who Needs Darth Vader? Anyhow, here’s my article from 2017, timely as ever as the Trump administration embraces new nukes and a “golden dome,” both representing yet another golden fleecing of American taxpayers.” – Bill Astore

Family Violence Against Seniors In Canada Reaches Record High – “Incidents of family violence against Canadian seniors has hit a record high, according to data from Statistics Canada. Seniors were most often victimized by a child (36 percent) or spouse (28 percent), the report found, while 25 percent were victimized by another family member, with 11 percent identifying the perpetrator as a sibling. A total of 7,622 incidents of senior family violence were reported to police in 2024. StatCan noted there has been a 4 percent increase in family violence against seniors since 2023, which was considered the highest recorded rate at the time.” – Chandra Philip

France’s Plans To Deploy Troops To Ukraine Risk Sparking A Major Crisis – Andrew Korybko

 

 

 

 

ECONOMIC NEWS

Tariffs Don’t Address Compliance – “President Trump has imposed tariffs – a word used to prevent people from regarding them as the taxes they are – on vehicles not made in the United States, so as to make them cost as much as (or more than) vehicles made in the United States. The key point here is that taxes do not make anything cost less. The same as regards compliance – i.e, the cost incurred complying with government regulations. Tariffs (taxes) do not reduce the cost of compliance. What they can do is raise the costs of the goods that escaped the costs of compliance. This is something Trump – or the people who support his imposition of tariffs (taxes) – do not understand.” – Eric Peters

Household Debts, Debt-to-Income Ratio, Delinquencies, Collections, Foreclosures, and Bankruptcies of our (not so) Drunken Sailors in Q3 2025 – “The long-defaulted federal student loans were pulled out of the forbearance closet.” – Wolf Richter

The Terrible Truth About The U.S. Economy Can No Longer Be Denied – Michael Snyder

Job cuts in October hit highest level for the month in 22 years, Challenger says – “Job cuts for October totaled 153,074, a 183% surge from September and 175% higher than the same month a year ago. It was the highest level for any October since 2003 and has been the worst year for layoffs since 2009.” – Jeff Cox

Richmond Fed Survey Shows Small Businesses Impacted More by Tariffs – “Local business conditions are negative for small and mid-sized businesses.” – Mish

Stop Missing The Bigger Picture Re: Tariffs – “In summary, yes, the Supreme Court tariff case matters – but not that much. We are locked into a more aggressive cycle of statecraft and volatility, and likely of more than one kind.” – Michael Every

Surviving The Fed vs Wall Street (Again) – “Here’s what the latest policies from the Federal Reserve really mean on Wall Street – and why they will matter for investors over the near-term.” – Nomi Prins

 

 

 

SURVIVAL, PREPAREDNESS AND SELF-SUFFICIENCY

7 Helpful Farm Utility Vehicles That Will Make Your Life a Breeze – “When considering a farm utility vehicle, you should think about a few things: 1. Your Land 2. Your Budget 3. What You Are Hauling” – Jennifer Poindexter  – GOOD ARTICLE FROM JENNIFER!!!!!!!!

Safe Indoor DIY Heater from a Tin Can – Alan Urban

Best Oil Lamps for Indoor Use (2025): Safe, Bright & Reliable Picks – Ken Jorgustin – THESE ARE JUST KEN’S PICKS BUT HE USALLY PICKS QUALITY PRODUCTS, ALTHOUGH HE MAY BE GETTING A KICK-BACK. ALSO SEE ARTICLE ON OIL LAMPS LINKED YESTERDAY!!!

What Is a Desiccant (and Why You Need It in Every Prepper Kit) – Ask A Prepper Staff

Basic Wilderness Navigation Tip: Find Your Direction Without GPS – “You’re out cutting through the backcountry, checking a trapline, or scouting a bug-out route. You pull your phone, and the screen stays black. No bars, no GPS, just wind and trees that all look the same. Consider this your basic wilderness navigation tip: when tech fails, the land still talks. The sun, the stars, the slope, the wind, they’ve been giving directions long before satellites and apps. Learn to read them and you give yourself a way home.” – Bob Rodgers

 

 

VERSES FOR THE DAY

Matthew 24:26-27   Wherefore if they shall say unto you, Behold, he is in the desert; go not forth: behold, he is in the secret chambers; believe it not.  For as the lightning cometh out of the east, and shineth even unto the west; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.

 

IMAGE FOR THE DAY