THE BIG PICTURE

( SEEMS TO ME, I’M STARTING TO SEE A LOT MORE DESPERATION IN THE ARTICLES OF MANY PEOPLE THIS PAST YEAR )

The World That Used To Be—Is Gone – “What’s gone is that American spirit from the 50s/60s when free speech was a thing and authority was subject to question. Now, Americans line-up like lemmings, awaiting expert directive. The West Coast is totally controlled by the left. Oregon has ports but no oil refinery. We get our oil from Washington, another, California-like—fossil-fuel hater. Oregonians are among the most optically ignorant. Few here understand that the elites they rely on are as close to being monsters, as is possible. As when neighbors say they’re not against guns. but want them strictly regulated because guns kill people. So does slut, trans-porn in 3rd grade libraries that robs kids of humanity/sexual identity. For me, the elite don’t matter—I’ll play the game as I must, but if they go too far, try to take me from what’s mine, like Putin, I’ll see it as existential— do what needs done.” – Erik @ neverhadaboss.com

Homo Ozempus – ““It’s okay to be big and beautiful!” The people selling this for decades, as tolerance for sloth, excess, and lack of self-control, are turning to injectable “drugs” to no longer be big and beautiful, and would prefer instead to be skinny and blind. In the history of human sincerity, no group has so profoundly and ironically called bullshit on their own claim. As with all politically correct social engineering exploits emerging from the hive of the progressive mind, body positivity was never about beauty or self-acceptance—it was about masquerading inclusivity as both, by lowering standards of body mass index to match the increasing rates of society-wide failure to maintain healthy levels. The jig is up. The pharmaceutical industry, along with nearly every public and private institution charged with “health care,” not only tolerated this arrangement but partnered with the corporate food system that created it, ensuring that the same pipeline could profit first from metabolic damage and then again from its chemical “cures.”” – The Good Citizen

Babylonian Money Magic: How the Ancient Economics of Power Control You – “The world has always been ruled by money – the question is why do we let it happen?” – 🐺The Wise Wolf and Lily-Rose Dawson

Old Stock – “Hold the Line or Die in the Dawn.  It’s coming. This land was carved in blood long before the first English flag bit into the dirt at Newfoundland.  We’re a civilization built on English code—Common Law, the Constitution, the Bill of Rights—all baptized in the blood of many. And they lied to us. Now the fourth war is here. Ethnic. Ideological. Inevitable. We see the truth now. We’re separate tribes. Always have been. Just like the natives before us. To break the thousand-year cycle, the Old Stock packs must do what is necessary.  Forge dark alliances with the other Old Stock lines—English with Spaniard, German with African, all who earned their place in the crucible. Bury the petty grudges. One final caution. We Scandinavians arrived here to North America more than a thousand years ago. Long before all but the tribes we found here killing one another everywhere. Should the Old Stock English Civilizational peoples fail to do what must be done. It’ll be done another way, the preservation and restoration of America, of the English-Speaking Peoples. The Viking Way…” – E.M. Burlingame  – E.M.’S TAKE ON THE FINAL COLLAPSE. WILL IT BE THIS WAY. WHAT DO YOU THINK!!!!

Nature’s Answer to Autism: The Broccoli Compound Challenging Medical Dogma – Sayer Ji

4 years ago the Biden White House issued this demeaning and nasty Xmas message – “Never forget what they tried to do to you.” – Justin Hart

Measure Your Mental Sovereignty – “A self-assessment of independent thinking in a world of coordinated policies and persuasive messaging” – Connie Shields

Pope Leo And The Vatican Turns Protestant, Reneges On Essential Doctrines About Mary, Says She Is Not A ‘Co-Redeemer’ And ‘Co-Mediatrix.’ Leo Prays To A Block Of Ice – “Francis previously challenged this historically held position in the papacy, at one point in 2019 calling the the title “foolishness.” Cardinal Robert Prevost, now better known as Pope Leo XIV, has continued to carry on the direction of the Papacy from his predecessor Pope Francis,” – The WinePress

Flu Vaccines Contain RNA That Trigger Positive PCR Test Results: ‘Journal of Medical Microbiology’ – “Is the “chilling” rise in flu cases nationwide attributable to PCR tests detecting vaccine RNA, not wild virus?” – Jon Fleetwood

NEWS

Seeing Is Believing (Not) – “Has it occurred to you that the video footage of the hallway outside Jeffrey Epstein’s prison cell that shows nobody coming or going around the hour that he “killed himself” could be fake? Do you suppose that the intel agencies don’t have the capacity to fabricate that sort of evidence? At this point, seeing what the capabilities are for AI to compose any kind of picture — or even what years’ old Photoshop programs can do — why would you suppose that anything in the Epstein files now being released might not be subject to fiddling by persons and parties with an interest?” – James Howard Kunstler

Well Vance, Then Start Doing * – “… and stop talking. “My friends, commit to these things, and I promise you victory: I promise you closed borders and safe communities. I promise you good jobs and a dignified life. Only God can promise you salvation and heaven. But together we can fulfill the promise of the greatest nation in the history of the earth,” he said, as he closed his speech. Ok, then let’s do it.” – Karl Denninger

FAFO: The Target Bully Edition – “A viral harassment, an accidental hero, and the internet’s favorite plot twist. In case you missed it: What began as a routine afternoon of folding sweaters at Target in exchange for a (probably) piddling paycheck ended with a standing ovation—which is certainly not how most viral bullying episodes go. Michelea Ponce marched into a Target store in Chico, CA, and filmed herself unleashing a profanity-laced tirade against an elderly employee named Jeanie Beeman. Jeanie’s hideous offense? Wearing a Charlie Kirk “FREEDOM” shirt on the job. Think about this for a moment: This deranged, hateful leftist didn’t just launch an unprovoked assault on a senior. She filmed herself doing it. It’s less a confrontation than a character study: what happens when pure crass meets dignified class.” – Jenna McCarthy

Giving the Nobel Peace Prize to warmongers is a crime that’s gone on too long – “Established to reward the promotion of peace, the award has long been contaminated by politics and bias” – Robert Bridge

Scammer-In-Chief: Trump’s $1776 ‘Warrior Dividends’ For Servicemen Is Funded By Housing Aid, Not Tariffs Like He Claimed – “Donald Judas Trump: “We made a lot more money than anybody thought because of tariffs, and the bill helped us along.”” – The WinePress

Will Victims of the Weaponized Biden DOJ See Restitution? – “A new campaign to empower wronged citizens is underway.” – Leesa K. Donner

US Oil Blockade of Venezuela Pushes Cuba Into Economic Collapse – “Cuba was already in dire straits. Oil is the finishing touch.” – Mish

Economic strangulation of Venezuela – final step before full-scale US aggression? – “The calculus is clear – force Maduro to comply with Trump’s demands (which might not be final and could arbitrarily change along the way) or face economic and governmental collapse under the weight of the total naval blockade.” – Drago Bosnic

Russian general assassinated in Moscow car-bombing attack; Ukrainian-connection suspected – “This is the third Russian general and fourth Russian citizen to die by assassination in recent months. Ukrainian operatives are suspected in all four murders. At what point does Putin respond in kind?” – Leo Hohmann

Israel Loses the Narrative Battle of Midway at Turning Points USA Conference – “Benjamin Netanyahu himself describes the “narrative war” as part of his multifront war to establish Greater Israel, which seems to mean taking as much land for Israeli Jews as possible. He and his billionaire Zionist buddies know they are in trouble on that front. For reasons they cannot allow themselves to understand, huge majorities of Americans under 50 in general are suddenly—to the Zionists, anyway— questioning why the United States should support Israel at all. Mossad knows why—Israeli soldiers themselves flooded TikTok with videos of the Uninhibited Joys of Genocide—but they can’t admit that, which is why Zionist billionaires have seized TikTok, CBS, and their bribing and blackmailing minions lobby tirelessly to censor speech they don’t like in every country they can” – Ohio Barbarian

Tulsi’s Assessment That Putin Doesn’t Want To Conquer All Of Ukraine Is Absolutely Correct – “There are logical military and strategic reasons why he’s not interested in this whatsoever at all.” – Andrew Korybko

ECONOMIC NEWS

Yields Hit Session Highs After Poor, Tailing 2Y Auction Sees Lowest Foreign Demand Since 2023 – “It was a subpar auction with modest demand; overall grade – not great, not terrible.” – Tyler Durden

Silver Just Called the COMEX’s Bluff – “However, what many may have missed this December is that it was the month the paper markets in silver had yet another near-death experience. As usual, this critical turning point in metals, as well as its neon-flashing signal of a globally debt-sick financial and currency system, went largely unnoticed. In financial markets, the daily buzz remained forever focused on the usual suspects, But often, in fact nearly always, the real and more nuanced signals, as well as market warnings, are deliberately omitted from the Zeitgeist. This is not only because such signals are a threat to the so-called “experts” behind these failing and corrupted systems, but because, as such, they are made deliberately too complex for Joe Sixpack to see and hence critique. That is why the COMEX, in 1974, added futures contracts to allow massive levels of leverage in the hands of a small cabal of bullion banks to conduct equally massive shorts on the gold and silver price each and every day since. This keeps the prices forced down. The COMEX, in short, was designed for no other reason than to manipulate gold and silver, for gold and silver, promised by the U.S. Constitution as real money, had been taken away from the people in August of 1971. The cabal responsible for this crime didn’t want this stolen “real money” to outshine the fake paper money that replaced it.” – Matthew Piepenburg  – GOOD READ FROM MATTHEW!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Silver’s Epic Rally Signals Bitcoin’s Imminent Collapse (VIDEO) – Peter SchifF

All Precious Metals Zooming Sharply Higher… What is Happening? – “Gold, silver, platinum, and palladium are buidling upon last week’s gains and rallying again this morning — in a big way. A new breakout in gold would make major headlines and lead to a new surge in retail interest in all precious metals as well as mining stocks. In reality, though, very few Americans own a single ounce of gold or silver bullion — having been failed by their financial advisors who were taught to belittle gold and those who own it. Other parts of the world, particularly Asia, are having all the fun.” – Money Metals News Service

These Jobs Numbers Should Make You Worry About 2026 – “Unemployment is rising – and most job creation is coming from one sector: Healthcare. This trend reveals a deeper imbalance: Fewer workers paying taxes, more people living on benefits and growing inflationary pressure across the economy…” – Peter Reagan

The Return of Quantitative Easing – “December 2025 marks the official end of the largest cycle of quantitative tightening the Federal Reserve has ever undertaken. From a peak of $8.93 trillion in June 2022, the Fed has allowed $2.4 trillion in maturing assets to roll off its balance sheet. But Chair Powell announced on December 10 that the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) has decided it must begin expanding its balance sheet again to maintain “ample reserves”—code for maximizing policy discretion and insulating itself from market forces.” – Paul Mueller

Game Theory Analysis Speaks Of Potential Wildness Dead Ahead In The Silver Market – “Rapidly Escalating Physical Silver Shortage” – David Jensen

SURVIVAL, PREPAREDNESS AND SELF-SUFFICIENCY

What the Bible (and Founding Fathers) Say About Being Self-Reliant – “Self-reliance is a duty. Scripture calls for it. The men who built this republic praised it. Hard work, foresight, and stewardship keep a family fed and free when trouble comes. That is as true on a small homestead as it is in a suburban split-level. The Bible honors people who plan and provide.” – Alec Deacon  – GOOD ONE FROM ALEC!!!

How to Get Started with Zero-Waste Living at Your Own Pace – “It sounds impossible to lead a lifestyle which creates little to no waste. You’ll be interested to know, though it takes serious planning, it is possible. But how do you start this lifestyle? How do you maintain such a lifestyle?” – Jennifer Poindexter

Vision Issues, Part 2: Eye Infections – Joe Alton MD  – PART 1 WAS LINKED LAST FRIDAY!!

The Go-Kot – “Handmade in the USA, the Go-Kot was designed by scoutmasters in 1978 in order to provide better cots for their scouts. The Go-Kot is compact. When packed in its 28 x 8 x 3 inch carrying bag, the Go-Kot takes up less room in a trunk or cargo compartment than the typical camping cot.” – Thomas Cristianson

Medical Problems Don’t Wait for Better Conditions: First Aid Preparedness in a Canadian Winter – denob

VERSES FOR THE DAY

Luke 2:4-5     And Joseph also went up from Galilee, out of the city of Nazareth, into Judaea, unto the city of David, which is called Bethlehem; (because he was of the house and lineage of David:)  To be taxed with Mary his espoused wife, being great with child.

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