THE BIG PICTURE

What The End of The Penny Portends – “Have you heard that they’re no longer going to make new pennies? They stopped making them out of copper years ago. That was when a penny was still worth something. The most recent pennies are made of zinc and essentially worthless. Except insofar as making change. That’s important, if you like cash transactions. Think about that. Without pennies – once the existing supply disappears or even just becomes scarce – it will be harder if not possible to make change and that will mean pushing people to make electronic rather than cash payments. It will become inconvenient to use cash. And then we will be sold on convenience which will take the form of cashless. Nothing the government does – more finely, the entities that control it do – occurs without intentionality. There is a purpose to pulling the penny. It is to pull us into electronic money, the capstone of the tyranny pyramid. Cash is the last thing standing in the way of them controlling everything’ – Eric Peters

COVID Lockdown Model for Digital ID Deployment (VIDEO) – “Looking back it is quite clear, the COVID lockdowns provided an opportunity to beta test digital ID compliance through private company mandates, and helped normalize the use of QR scans and facial pics for entry into private businesses. And it proved to be a success. Now we are seeing the same techniques being used with the roll-out of the Digital ID.” – Greg Reese

The OPTICS of Money & The Cartel Banking System – “The OPTICS of Money: I watched an amazing documentary on the system called ‘banking’. Like the 50 year mortgage Trump is posturing on behalf of the Bankers, debt, money printing, deficits and bonds have always been the planned strategy. This cycle is what enriches the Banking Cartel through no relief, no reduction, no paydown. The purpose is for debt to be on an ever increasing circular as a guarantee of ever increasing profits and an ever decreasing level of living for the peasants.” – Helena Glass

IT’S GONNA GET UGLY—REAL UGLY…AND BY HIGHLY PURPOSEFUL DESIGN – “It does not get more important (and ominous) than a certain metric known as the Yield Curve Inversion where it concerns the accurate prediction of all the major stock market crashes, cataclysmic economic depressions and most severe recessions.” – T. Anthony Michael / State of the Nation

Sen. Rand Paul Demands U.S. Intelligence Records on Fauci, Baric and COVID Origins – “Sen. Rand Paul is asking U.S. Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard to release communications between the U.S. intelligence Community, and virologist Ralph Baric, Ph.D., Dr. Anthony Fauci and other public health officials. Paul said the documents show virologists privately acknowledged a possible lab leak while publicly claiming the virus arose naturally. ” – Michael Nevradakis, Ph.D.

Fungi Funk – “Now, here’s the good news: with the price of groceries continuing to go up it will only take 2 to 3 months before people resort to cannibalism. Okay…. Maybe that wasn’t good news. And the biggest regret we may ever have is that we didn’t regulate artificial intelligence before it existed. That and the fact that we’re producing too many computer engineers who are bored and have to frig around with “everything” and mess up things that were perfectly adequate to begin with forcing all of us to be in a constant state of change we don’t need or want. Yes, they’re intelligent: eccentric science-type people can get mushrooms to play on little miniature pianos now. I kid you not. Go look. ” – Sylvia Shawcross

NEWS

“Our Democracy” (I’m Sure) – “By now, whenever you hear anyone invoke the phrase “saving our democracy,” that should be a signal that they are intent on destroying this republic, and with that, your natural rights to free speech, economic liberty, and public order. For those who can’t quite wrap their minds around this game, a color revolution is the surreptitious overthrow of an elected government by concealed parties. Neocons in the US State Department developed the practice of color revolution on many countries over the years. Mr. Obama added a layer of gnostic Marxists to the personnel mix at State, and these wannabe revolutionaries built a fantastic matrix of NGOs outside State to marshal the useful idiots with jobs and salaries. The NGOs, in turn, were connected to international moneybags, with strange agendas of their own such as the megalomanic climate change crusader Bill Gates and George Soros’s Open Society Foundation,” – James Howard Kunstler

Breaking the Pentagon – “As it actively seeks war in the Pacific, the Caribbean, the Arctic, the North Atlantic, with an energized expansion in the Middle East, the Pentagon brings to mind not American security, but rapid metastasis. The tasks of the Pentagon are threefold: To expand and maintain markets for the dollar; to subsidize risk and eliminate competition for favored US industries; and to serve as a mechanism for government payment transfers to the citizens in all 435 congressional districts.” – Karen Kwiatkowski

America 2.0- No Country for White Men – “Slouching towards extinction. The title of this article may seem puzzling. After all, aren’t we still being misruled by mostly White men? That’s undeniably true, but for the vast majority of White men in this country today, especially those under forty, life is no picnic. We all know that nice guys finish last. Nice White guys finish the lastest of all. Rock bottom. You’d think that with an old fashioned alpha White male, one of a dying breed, as the leader of the no longer free world, all the White guys would have better opportunities. Isn’t Donald Trump the biggest racist the world has ever seen? Isn’t he the only “White Supremacist” in history who never mentions the word “White?” Trump recently reiterated that we need more foreign visa workers, because we don’t have the domestic “talent” we need. He’s talking about Whites, and particularly White males.” – Donald Jeffries

Food Stamps and the Federal War on Self-Reliance – “Why did food stamps become so expensive? Government surveys in the 1960s showed that most of the poor did not need federal aid to have an adequate diet. But it was politically profitable to pretend that low-income Americans were helpless by definition. To further that goal, Washington launched a war on self-reliance. Even though food stamp enrollment quadrupled between 1968 and 1971, Congress mandated an outreach program for states to recruit more recipients. A USDA magazine reported in 1972 that food stamp workers could often overcome people’s pride by saying, “‘This is for your children’. . .the problem is not with welfare recipients but with low-income workers” – James Bovard

Trump Demeans US Office of the Presidency in order to Serve Netanyahu – “Last Wednesday President Trump pressured Israel’s President Isaac Herzog to pardon Netanyahu before his corruption trial is over. The trial has been off and on as Netanyahu’s wars heat up and cool down. Trump’s pressure on Herzog, little doubt at Netanyahu’s request, indicates that Trump and Netanyahu do not expect trial to exonerate Netanyahu.” – Paul Craig Roberts

The Media Focus On Epstein’s Ties To Trump And Ignore His Ties To Israel – “The way the press have been covering Jeffrey Epstein’s ties to Trump while completely ignoring far more significant revelations of Epstein’s ties to Israeli intelligence is such a perfect example of how western media ignore anything that doesn’t fit neatly into the two-party worldview.” – Caitlin Johnstone

20,000 More Emails from Epstein Released by Congress Testify to Trump’s Participation in the Epstein Child Trafficking Blackmail Operations – “After the Democrats on the House Oversight Committee published three emails from the Jeffrey Epstein estate yesterday showing how President Trump was part of Epstein’s child sex trafficking enterprise, Trump and his supporters called “foul” claiming that the Democrats had “cherry picked” just a few emails to try and deceive the public. So the Republicans on the House Oversight Committee proceeded to publish all 20,000 pages of emails from the Epstein estate. Perhaps this was the Democrats’ plan all along?” – Brian Shilhavy

Tucker Exposes Trump Would-Be Assassin Thomas Crooks’ Social Media History, The FBI Coverup, And More Strangeness – Tyler Durden

Judge Orders DHS to Release Hundreds of ICE Detainees in Chicago – “The judge said that 615 detained illegal immigrants were not subject to mandatory detention and did not have final removal orders” – Aldgra Fredly

Ursula von der Leyen Wants More Money – “Von der Leyen once again illustrated Brussels’ unshakable faith that a state-planned green pseudo-economy represents the final exit from the accelerating economic crisis of our age. By 2030, she wants to triple the global share of renewables and double energy efficiency.” – Thomas Kolbe

Heavenly Jerusalem: Turning Ukraine into a New Israel (VIDEO) – “Heavenly Jerusalem (also New Jerusalem, Israel 2.0, New Israel) is a project whose goal is to form a Jewish state within Ukraine on the territories of its 5 southern regions: Odessa, Dnipropetrovsk, Zaporozhye, Kherson and Mykolaiv. Is the Greater Israel project at play behind the Russo-Ukraine War?” – Makia Freeman

U.S. business-as-usual as Trump bombs the poorest country on Earth – “Warmongering Trump is shaping up the American capitalist business-as-usual to be even more criminal and out of control. Hardly reported in the Western media is the blitzkrieg being conducted by the Trump administration on Somalia, the easternmost country on the African continent, and one of the world’s poorest.” – Finian Cunningham

SecWar Pete Hegseth Announces ‘Operation Southern Spear’ As US Carrier Strike Group Enters the Caribbean – “Secretary of War Pete Hegseth announced Thursday the inauguration of Operation Souther Spear. This operation, Hegseth said, “defends our Homeland, removes narco-terrorists from our Hemisphere, and secures our Homeland from the drugs that are killing our people.” ” – streiff  – COME ON PETE, SAY WHAT IT’S REALLY ABOUT: REGIME CHANGE AND OIL!!!!

Justice Department Office Which Justified Torture Now Argues For Killing – “In 2003 the U.S. Justice Department’s Office of Legal Council (OLC) issued a memo which declared the use of torture in ‘authorized military interrogations’ as legal when done under the ‘president’s constitutional authority to direct a war’. The memo was widely condemned. The Obama administration withdrew it but refrained from prosecuting the torturers which had used it as cover. The Trump administration now issued a comparable OLC memo to justify its wanton killing of alleged drug smugglers at sea.” – Moon of Alabama

ECONOMIC NEWS

As Government Data Fails and Epstein Files Fly, Stocks Fall – “They’ve done all they can to hide the economic data and bury the Epstein truth. Sisyphus could not have made a more Trumpian effort.” – David Haggith

Talking sense on housing affordability – “Separating myth from reality and finance from feelings Everyone seems up in arms about housing of late and the ratio of vitriol to sense is getting to Covidian levels. Zoomers and boomers are yelling at one another and both seem to be making up some of their facts. At the risk of trying to inject some facts into the current food fight BDA “the housing discussion” let’s look at some data. The last 4 years have seen a big spike in housing unaffordability. but many of the claims this is being used to support are just plain fantasy.” – El Gato Malo  – GOOD POINTS FROM EL GATO!!!

This Was A Major Red Flag In 2008, And Now It Is Happening Again! – Michael Snyder

Breaking Burry – “Totally perverse unnatural massive market distortions: 1, Michael Burry: 0. One major headline today is that Michael Burry, of The Big Short fame, is shuttering his fund, Scion Capital. In his letter calling it quits, he wrote: “Sometimes, we see bubbles. Sometimes, there is something to do about it. Sometimes, the only winning move is not to play.” I’ve been around markets long enough to believe that short sellers are generally more objectively right than most investors. ” – Quoth the Raven

Supply squeeze continues – “It’s now China’s vaults running short on gold and silver. But European ETF profit-taking is providing some minor supply, giving the London market temporary relief.” – Alasdair Macleod

Silver Just Gained a Historic Advantage – “As gold rebounds past $4,000, the lone bearish forecast quickly collapses under its own logic. Meanwhile, silver gains new strategic importance on Washington’s “critical minerals” list. Here’s why gold and silver are poised to shine even brighter…” – Peter Reagan

Governments are likely to pillage the $80 trillion ‘Great Wealth Transfer’ to fund their national debt, says UBS – “If you’re eyeing the $80 trillion promise of the Great Wealth Transfer and wondering what it may do for your personal finances, you’re not the only one. Governments are asking themselves the same, The eye-watering sums due to change hands via inheritance in the coming decades, will change the financial fortunes of millions of people.” – Eleanor Pringle

SURVIVAL, PREPAREDNESS AND SELF-SUFFICIENCY

The Real Reasons You Should Prepare: 18 Steps to Emergency Preparedness for Christians – “Being prepared means being ready for storms, blackouts, financial shocks, food shortages, and unexpected life events. Preparedness is stability. Why this matters now Preparedness is not paranoia. It is freedom. These steps come from real disaster zones and real survival experience.” – Jason Salyer

6 Thrifty Ways to Wear It Out – “1) Buy better quality 2) Maintain it 3) Mend it 4) Repair it 5) Live with it 6) Use it until it’s unusable.” – Daisy Luther  – GREAT ARTICLE FROM DAISY!!!!!!!

Ash + Meat – “When you first hear it, it doesn’t seem to make sense. People for centuries have successfully preserved meat in wood ashes. It seems to contradict everything we know about how we want our food. It goes way beyond the 5-second rule but can effectively preserve meat for weeks up to months depending on local temperatures and storage.” – Steve Nubie

The #1 Item to Scavenge from Supermarkets When SHTF (It’s Not Food) – “However, there’s one item that savvy preppers know has even higher value than bags of rice and beans. In fact, the number one item scavenged in most disasters is toilet paper. We saw it during the COVID-19 pandemic, when panic-buying left shelves bare for months. In a true SHTF scenario, or widespread natural disaster, humble toilet paper will have currency-like value.” – Eric Beuning

Saving Frost Tolerant Vegetables – Pam Dawling

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Proverbs 14:3    In the mouth of the foolish is a rod of pride: but the lips of the wise shall preserve them.

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