Nothing New Under The Sun 2016

THE BIG PICTURE

Make No Mistake – “The Slave Wars Have Begun. The plantation hasn’t vanished; it’s been reconfigured. The new plantation’s the welfare state itself: a system sustained by the votes of a dependent class, which in turn grants politicians the power to extract from a productive class. This isn’t conspiracy but a logical outcome of deindustrialization, financialization, the erosion of wages and the unchecked rise of the bureaucratic state at the careful manipulations of rent seeking monopolists. The masters are distant—executives, investors, and the political class—while the slaves are divided into two interdependent classes: those who still produce, compelled to yield their surplus, and those made dependent, whose votes secure the continuation of the system.” – E.M. Burlingame

What became of America’s “peace president”? – “It is extraordinary that in less than the first week of the new year Trump has put on notice Venezuela, Colombia, Cuba, Mexico, Iran, and Denmark, while taking no meaningful steps to end Washington’s conflict with Russia in Ukraine. As if this aggressive agenda is not enough, the Trump regime is provoking China with the sale of hundreds of missiles to Taiwan that can be used to attack Chinese cities. Clearly, Donald Trump has emerged as anything but a “peace president.”’ – Paul Craig Roberts

New U.S. Food Guidelines Emphasize Actual Food – “In a shocking development that’s left cereal mascots sweating through their marshmallow suits, the U.S. government has released new dietary guidelines that—brace yourselves—recommend eating actual food. Not food-like substances. Not “fortified” rainbow pellets shaped like horseshoes. Not former-foods stripped of anything resembling nutrition or flavor or reengineered to somehow be we-promise-you-healthier than what the Divine Chef designed. On the new menu: Meat. Dairy. Fats. Fruits. Vegetables. Nuts. Olives. Avocados. The kind of stuff humans accidentally survived on for millennia before being told that breakfast should be sponsored by General Mills.” – Jenna McCarthy

More fool you: 10 modus operandi of the mass manipulators – “We are immersed in a behavioural psychology programme. The global elite is manipulating everything from incidents to information, in the process of building an authoritarian technocracy.” – Niall McCrae

Are You Ready For A New World Order And A New World Currency? The World Government Summit Is Asking – “Will that new system of digital money and digital accounting accommodate the competing needs of the citizens of all these locations, so that every human being has a chance to have a better life?” – The WinePress

“The CDC quietly recommends a second covid booster for vulnerable adults” December 30, 2025 Washington Post, – “Leana Wen byline. You don’t say.” – Sage Hana

Curved or Flat? Fascinating Earth Shape Experiments of the 1800s – “Incredibly simple experiments that anyone can perform, yet nobody did… until Parallax came along…” – Agent131711  – NEVER CONSIDERED MYSELF A FLAT-EARTHER BUT THIS ONE WILL MAKE YOU WONDER!!!

NEWS

Gangster Government – “The American people must face it: The U.S. Constitution is dead. The Bill of Rights is dead. The rule of law is dead. Federalism is dead. The American experiment of self-government is dead. The Monroe Doctrine has been replaced with the Donroe Doctrine—a gross perversion of James Monroe’s magnificent manifesto of peace, independence and national sovereignty. G.W. Bush, Barack Obama, Joe Biden and especially Donald Trump have turned our constitutional republic into a Banana Republic. Trump is not a president; he is a dictator—and a mad dictator at that. In many respects, he is not unlike the emperors of Rome. And our national Congress is almost identical to the Roman senate: utterly meaningless and worthless to the maintenance of law in the face of naked aggression by the chief executive. ” – Chuck Baldwin  – A LOT OF PEOPLE BELIEVE THIS COUNTRY IS NOTHIONG MORE THAN GANSTERS. THIS IS ABOUT THE THIRD ARTICLE THAT I HAVE LINKED ABOUT THIS SUBJECT SINCE THE U.S KIDNAPPED MADURO!!!

The Real Tyrannical Regime – “Pretty sure what’s tyrannical is invading a country, murdering scores of people, and abducting its leader in order to steal control of its resources.” – Caitlin Johnstone

Genocide Was Trump’s Gateway Crime. Why the Surprise Over His Vanquishing of Venezuela? – “Trump is a second-rate gangster and he hates it. He wants to be Bibi.” – Ilana Mercer

Israel Has Lost the Narrative War, So It Plays the Neocon Wet Dream Card – “Why Trump is doing all this dangerous, batshit crazy stuff NOW” – Ohio Barbarian

Dividing the Oils of War – “To the winner go the oils. The new Donroe Doctrine is already taking shape around Venezuela’s vast oil plays. Chevron has just contracted eleven tankers to start transporting oil out of Venezuela, making Big, Big Oil the obvious winner.” – David Haggith

Grand Illusion – “All empires, when they are dying, worship the idol of war. War will save the empire. War will resurrect past glory. War will teach an unruly world to obey. But those who bow down before the idol of war, blinded by hypermasculinity and hubris, are unaware that while idols begin by calling for the sacrifice of others, they end by demanding self-sacrifice. Ekpyrosis, the inevitable conflagration that destroys the world according to the ancient Stoics, is part of the cyclical nature of time. There is no escape” – Chris Hedges

President Trump Colonizing Western Hemisphere – Genghis Kahn – “President Trump has stated that he has appointed Zionist Stephen Miller to run Venezuela. Major oil company executives who have remained mum over the course of Trump’s statements regarding Venezuela’s oil infrastructure are meeting with Trump the end of the week. At issue is the cost to rebuild the bombed infrastructure so that oil can be extracted. Given oil companies don’t seem too keen on Trump’s proposal/mandate, Trump has reversed his previous mandate and now states US Taxpayers will foot the majority of the bill… In the meantime, Trump and Miller have announced that Venezuela cannot sell ANY oil – it’s main source of revenue. Making the people suffer! A classic Zionist tactic. Torture and Suffering. Oddly, despite Trump’s massive deviance from his campaign promises, he feigns ignorance as to why his MAGA base is fleeing! ” – Helena Glass

‘There was no regime change’ Venezuela’s ex-FM Jorge Arreaza on US kidnapping raid (VIDEO) – “An exclusive interview with President Nicolas Maduro’s former Foreign Minister on the shocking January 3 US raid on Caracas, and where Venezuela goes now that its leader is abducted.” – Max Blumenthal

The Caracasian Cut – “Regime decaptitation and the consequences of competence” – John Carter – LONG BUT VERY GOOD READ AND ANALYSIS FROM JOHN!!!!

Trump rachets up tensions with Moscow as U.S. military seizes Russian tanker in international waters and talks more about taking Greenland by force – “Russia responds with demands to safely return its citizens currently being detained by the U.S. military.” – Leo Hohmann

Escalation-Mad Trump’s Coast Guard Seizes “Russian” Ship 5,500 km From US Coasts – “Today’s latest Trump escalation brings us the capture of an alleged-to-be Russian oil tanker by the US Coast Guard, operating approximately 5,500km from the US coasts they’re meant to be “guarding”, somewhere between Iceland and the UK.In truth, no one seems to quite know who the ship actually belongs to. It was named the Bella-1 and was “allowed” to re-flag itself under the Russian flag days ago, before it began sailing—apparently—toward Murmansk, according to some sources.” – Simplicius

Three Takeaways From The US’ Seizure Of A Russian-Flagged Tanker In The Atlantic – “The overarching trend is that the US is militarily reasserting its historical “sphere of influence” over the Americas, and enforcing the maritime component of “Fortress America” is so important for Trump 2.0 that it’s willing to rubbish the “rules-based order” over it and even risk an accidental war with Russia.” – Andrew Korybko

Multiple Angles of ICE Shooting – “All the videos that captured the Minneapolis ICE shooting as political war rages over who was to blame”- Laura Parnaby  – HAVE WATCHED ALL THE VIDEOS. DOESN’T LOOK TO ME LIKE SHE WAS TRYING TO RUN OVER ANYONE ON PURPOSE. THEY TRIED TO OPEN HER CAR DOOR AS SHE WAS TRYING TO LEAVE AND AS SHE TRIED TO DRIVE AWAY THEY SHOT HER SAYING THAT SHE TRIED TO HIT SOMEONE ON PURPOSE. I CALL BULLSHIT ON THIS ONE!!!!

The Trump Administration Says It’s Illegal To Record Videos of ICE. Here’s What the Law Says – “The Trump administration believes you don’t have the right to record Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers in public. This stance is both factually wrong and an attempt to chill free speech by conflating it with violence.” – C.J. Ciaramella

Left-Wing Protest Industrial Complex Activates Across Multiple Cities After ICE-Involved Shooting In Minneapolis – “How did the protesters get those nice, fancy signs so quickly? It didn’t take long. Within hours of an ICE-involved shooting in the Minneapolis area, the Democratic Party’s protest industrial complex moved into action, quickly creating conditions for coordinated demonstrations across multiple cities. The rapid response suggested these nonprofit activist networks were on standby, waiting for a catalytic event, as an army of radicals intensified pressure campaigns against federal agents, blocking streets, harassing officers, and openly doxxing them.” – Tyler Durden

Dan Bongino Comes Out Swinging at ‘Black-Pillers’ Ahead of Attempted Podcast Career Revival – “No doubt, Bongino’s been mulling how to posture when he makes the imminent leap from government insider back to dissident outsider, reaching for an angle to hype. After aggressively pushing the Epstein story for years on his podcast and admonishing his audience to never give it up, specifically in the context of discovering once he became FBI deputy director, Bongino claimed Jeffrey Epstein killed himself, offering as evidence he “saw the file” (“trust me, bro.”) in the larger context of the administration’s obvious cover-up of the files. Anyway, best of luck, Dan. It’s gonna be a slog.” – Ben Bartee

New York’s Death Wish – “History — and a gritty 1970s vigilante flick — offers sobering lessons about what happens when public institutions fail at their most basic task: keeping citizens safe.” – Nikolai G. Wenzel

NYC mayoral aide Cea Weaver who says whites owning houses is racist bursts into TEARS when asked about her mother’s $1.4m Craftsman home – Natasha Anderson

ECONOMIC NEWS 

America Needs Jobs. The Economy Isn’t Delivering Them. – “No End To America’s Jobs Recession” – Peter Nayland Kust

Futures Drop After Latest Trump Headline Vortex, Silver Slides Ahead Of Index Rebalance – “Silver investors brace for an annual rebalancing of commodity indexes that could see futures contracts worth billions of dollars sold in the next few days.” – Tyler Durden

Gold overtakes US bonds as largest foreign reserve asset – “Gold has surpassed US Treasuries as the world’s largest reserve asset globally for the first time in 30 years amid rising prices and aggressive buying by central banks. According to new data from the World Gold Council, the value of gold held by foreign central banks is now approaching the $4 trillion mark, more than their approximate $3.9 trillion holding in US Treasuries. The last time that foreign institutions held more gold than US bonds was 1996.” – mining.com

Trade deficit plunges to 16-year low due to U.S. gold rush and shrinking imports – “Still, the trade deficit is growing, not shrinking” – Jeffry Bartash

The Gold/Silver “Rebalancing” Correction Will Run Its Course – “Just the price of success” – John Rubino

India Blows Up the Silver Market: Street Dealers Now Selling Physical at $137.85 an Ounce – “Nearly DOUBLE COMEX’s Paper Fantasy Price. Amid all the metal wars between the United States and China, export controls, whitelists, and geopolitical theatrics, the loudest signal today is brutally simple: silver is already a three‑digit metal in India. China is reclassifying silver as a strategic resource, locking 60–70 percent of tradable refined supply behind an export‑licensing wall, while only 44 firms are authorized to ship it abroad through 2027.” – The Silver Academy

SURVIVAL, PREPAREDNESS AND SELF-SUFFICIENCY

Power Outage Preparedness: How Long Could Your Home Function Without Electricity? – “Understanding Power Outage Duration and Home Readiness” – Jason Salyer

How Much Land Is Needed To Be Self Sufficient? What Grandma Told Me. (VIDEO) – Modern Refugee

Urban Winter Survival: How People Freeze in Cities – “Most people assume cities are safer in winter. More buildings, more people and more services. All the conveniences you can think of in one place. Heat, power, water, and emergency response. It feels logical, but it’s also wrong. Urban winter survival starts with understanding that cities don’t fail slowly in cold weather. They fail all at once.” – Bob Rodgers

How to Get More Fruits and Vegetables in Your Prepper Stockpile – Daisy Luther

Bear Mace vs Pepper Spray: What Actually Works When Things Go Bad? – “When it comes to personal defense, people love to argue gear. Guns vs knives. Tasers vs batons. And one debate that keeps popping up is bear mace vs pepper spray.” – Ask A Prepper Staff

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Psalm 10:15    Break thou the arm of the wicked and the evil man: seek out his wickedness till thou find none.

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