THE BIG PICTURE

The West’s Awake 2025: A Jumbled up Year in pictures – Gerry O’Neill  – GOOD ONE FROM GERRY. NICE TO GET SOME GLIMPSES FROM A PERSON AS TO HOW THEY THINK AND FEEL!!!

THE DEATH OF REAL JOURNALISM AND THE RISE OF AI SLOP – “How Scammers, Bots, and Celebrities Are Drowning Independent American Journalists. I hate that I have to write this, but I’m watching everything I’ve built over the past three years get buried alive by an avalanche of garbage and I refuse to go down without saying something about it.” – 🐺The Wise Wolf and Lily-Rose Dawson  – A MUST READ!!!!!

The Playboy Shadow Mansions, the CIA & Drug Trafficking [PART 1] – “It’s time to fire up an old-school flowchart…” – Agent131711  – AND YOU THOUGHT IT WAS ALL ABOUT PARTIES, SEX AND CENTERFOLDS!!!!

Trump Slip? 6G, Bio-Tech, and the Future of Human Control short, one minute (VIDEO) – watchman73

15-MINUTE CITY NIGHTMARE UNLEASHED: Glasgow Joins Worldwide 2026 Open-Air Prison Rollout – “The globalist plan is accelerating at breakneck speed.” – Baxter Dmitry via Lioness of Judah

NEWS

Decline and Fall – “The British Empire, in steep decline on the eve of World War I, is a cautionary tale for a decayed U.S. Empire a century later.” – Chris Hedges

Trump Inciting The Mothership of Global War – “Trump is bombing ISIS in Nigeria. He is saving Christians from slaughter. The region specifically targeted is the northwest. But Christians live primarily in the Southeast, South and Southwest. So who lives in the northwest? The northwest is comprised of 7 political zones which are primarily home to the Hausa and Fulani peoples numbering 71 million. They are dominant – Sunni Islam with mosques dating from the 15th century. So why would Trump bomb this well grounded civilization? “Northwest Nigeria holds significant untapped rare earth mineral potential, primarily in the form of monazite sands rich in key elements like neodymium, lanthanum, and cerium vital for EV’s, defense weapons, smartphones. and turbines.” What there are not? Christians. Never were. What is being bombed? Mosques and civilian populations. Who gave the order? Israel. Who started the rumor of Christian genocide in Nigeria? Netanyahu.” – Helena Glass

Netanyahu pushes for more strikes on Iran, clashing with Trump’s priorities The US president’s base opposes intervention in Iran while pro-Israel donors and hawks push for heightened US involvement.” -Ali Harb

New Attacks Shake Kyiv Just Ahead of Zelensky’s High-Stakes Meeting With Trump – “Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky is supposed to meet with U.S. President Trump on Sunday to hammer out details on a proposed peace deal. But only hours ahead of that meeting, it sure looks like Russia’s President Vladimir Putin is sending a message to Ukraine and, indirectly, to the United States, as Russia has launched yet another attack on the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv.” – Ward Clark

Strategic Reality: The Conflict of Attrition, Ukraine Cannot Win – “There is an unavoidable military reality that Europe continues to deny, even as its own officials whisper it in private briefings and NATO commanders leak the same conclusions to any journalist willing to hear. The conflict is not merely going badly for Ukraine; it is structurally unwinnable.” – Phil Butler

Trump sanctions EU officials over censorship rules row. But there’s more to it – “Europe needs the Ukraine war to continue to cover up a multitude of policy failures and the damaging work of third-rate politicians. Just how aligned are the EU and the Trump administration on their longer-term objectives?” – Martin Jay

How Corporations View (and Own) the U.S. Military – “Corporate Capture Is Not Just Lobbying. Big business works hard to influence the U.S. government. Corporate capture happens when it succeeds. Massive corporations work together to influence the government’s institutions and decision-making so that policy and regulation (or lack thereof) increase corporate profit instead of public well-being. You likely know about think tanks, lobbying, and legal bribery. This corporate capture — mind and body — guarantees that government policy will help to maximize corporate profit. The annual military policy bill known as the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) is crafted in the environment described above. Corporate lobbyists and U.S. Congress pack the NDAA with section after section designed to increase corporate profit.” – Christian  – GOOD READ ON HOW THE MILITARY INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX WORKS!!!

Spook Story: Ex-US amb. to Venezuela monetizes coup-plotting alongside former CIA officials – “While pushing for war on Venezuela in legacy media, former US ambassador Jimmy Story is soliciting clients for consulting firms run by notorious ex-CIA officials” – .The Grayzone

Front Companies? Bombshell Report Exposes Network Of Somali-Linked “Empty” Daycares Across Minnesota – “Shirley and the investigator visited several childcare facilities that had no visible children, toys, or activities during peak hours. Staff could not answer basic questions about rates or licenses. Both were denied entry to the reception areas of these facilities: Quality Learing Center: Licensed for 99 children; received $4 million over two years. Sign misspells “learning” as “learing”; no children visible, doors locked, no playground.” – Tyler Durden

Ilhan Omar’s Husband’s $30M Firm Scrubs Names from Website Amid Scrutiny Over Rep’s Sudden Wealth and Minnesota Welfare Fraud Ties – “This comes as the Minnesota Democrat faces intensifying questions about her family’s explosive wealth surge, from near bankruptcy to millions, amid one of the largest welfare fraud scandals in U.S. history, centered in her own district.” – Cassandra MacDonald

Russia’s hidden assault on Europe – “Most Europeans still think the war stops at Ukraine’s border. It doesn’t. While Russian artillery pounds Kherson and Kharkiv, a parallel, quieter campaign is being fought inside the engine rooms of Europe’s economy. The weapons are not tanks but malware, forged documents, anonymous leaks, shadow tankers and well-timed “grassroots” protests. The targets are the very things Europe needs to free itself from Russian energy and Chinese raw materials: new liquid natural gas terminals, wind-farm control systems, undersea data cables, rare earth element mines, and the companies bold enough or foolish enough to build them. The numbers can no longer be ignored.” – James Durso

ECONOMIC NEWS

The Silver Market Just Nuked The Narrative – “I want to take a walk down memory lane — but before I do, let’s start with Friday, because it was not just “a big day” for silver. It was a statement. It was the kind of violent, undeniable, face-ripping move that doesn’t just show up on a chart, it closes an argument. Silver didn’t merely rally — it ripped higher in a way that perfectly wrapped up a year where the precious-metals markets have done nothing but confirm what some of us have been warning about for a very long time: the global financial system is fundamentally broken, monetary policy is a farce, and the theoretical scaffolding holding modern finance together is rotting at the seams. I’ve been yammering about this for the better part of 7 years now.” – Quoth the Raven

JPMorgan Sees $5,000 Gold Coming Soon – “JPMorgan now sees gold pushing beyond $5,000 and the bull run lasting into 2027. Silver is breaking away all by itself. These aren’t isolated headlines – they’re signals of a world quietly repricing money, risk and sovereignty itself…” – Peter Reagan

CPI Price Inflation Slows as Oil Prices Fall and Rents Flatten – “This will mean falling prices in spite of continued monetary inflation. In other words, as we see price inflation growth flatten, it will be due to larger economic softening, and not to imagine Fed efforts to return to “price stability.” Unfortunately, all this means ordinary people will have no chance of regaining any of the lost purchasing power—especially purchasing power lost due to supercharged price inflation that occurred during 2022 and 2023.” – Ryan McMaken

BRICS launch gold-backed currency – “The BRICS countries are moving away from the US dollar as the currency that settles international transactions, and gold is an integral part of the new settlement mechanism. The Unit On Oct. 31, 2025, researchers launched a pilot to test a gold-anchored settlement “Unit” inside the 10-member BRICS+ bloc of countries, which includes Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa, Egypt, Ethiopia, Indonesia, Iran, and the United Arab Emirates. This was followed by a Unit prototype launched on Dec. 8. The Unit is a “digital trade currency” pilot created for settlement between BRICS economies. The initiative came from IRIAS, the International Research Institute for Advanced Systems. Importantly, the Unit does not replace national currencies. Rather, it aims to act as a neutral settlement tool that reduces reliance on the US dollar in trade between BRICS economies. The BRICS Unit is a gold-anchored digital trade currency designed for cross-border settlement.” – Richard Mills

5 Reasons 2026 Will Be A Wild Ride, Likely Catching Investors By Surprise (VIDEO) with Michael Lebowitz – Adam Taggart | Thoughtful Money®

SURVIVAL, PREPAREDNESS AND SELF-SUFFICIENCY

9 Quick and Easy Tips on Creating a Low Maintenance Homestead – Jennifer Poindexter  – GREAT TIPS HERE FROM JENNIFER!!!

When Butchering a Cow the Best Cuts of Meat to Get – “When getting your beef from a local farmer or raising beef yourself, you need to know when butchering a cow (technically a bovine and usually a steer or heifer) cuts of meat that are essential to make sure you’re getting the most from the animal and the cuts that will serve you and your family best.” – Melissa K. Norris

Preparedness Is a Gift You Carry Through Winter: Resilience, Routine, and Community at Christmas – denob

How to Care for Your Herb Garden Through the Winter – Lindsay Miller

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to TEOTWAWKI – Part 3 – “TRAVEL LIGHT The more belongings you have, the less the chances are that you’ll catch a ride in a timely manner. A single backpack will be more appealing than a bunch of gear. GENDER AND NUMBER OF HITCHHIKERS Most of the hitchhikers you see are men. For the ladies, hitchhiking is far easier” – St. Funogas

VERSE FOR THE DAY

Matthew 2:16     Then Herod, when he saw that he was mocked of the wise men, was exceeding wroth, and sent forth, and slew all the children that were in Bethlehem, and in all the coasts thereof, from two years old and under, according to the time which he had diligently inquired of the wise men.

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