THE BIG PICTURE

The Mafia Mordida – “In Mexico, there is this thing called the la mordida – which means “little bite.” Which means what you pay to bribe a government worker, such as a cop, to get him to leave you alone. If only we Americanos had that option. Here the bite is not so little. The liability insurance I am forced to buy to “cover” the cost of damages I haven’t caused with my old truck has just-shy of tripled over the past three years. That is quite the bite – and I expect it to get bigger. You should, too. Because, of course, there is not only nothing stopping the insurance mafia from extorting as much as it likes, the government is there to make sure the mafia can extort as much as it likes.” – Eric Peters

No, Keir Starmer isn’t going to “ban twitter” – “The latest social media panic is selling a familiar (and incredibly predictable) agenda” – Kit Knightly

Why Alberta’s Anger Is Justified and Why Freedom Requires Facing the Real Problem to Separate or what? – “This is not just a West-versus-East problem. It is local sovereignty versus transnational governance. And unless we confront that directly, at the provincial and municipal level, no amount of political restructuring will deliver the freedom people are hoping for.” – Connie Shields

MAHA SNAP restrictions – a test for the digital control grid? – “Analysis of State-Level SNAP Restrictions Effective January 1, 2026. I know this is an old beaten horse, but worth repeating. The rich are allowed to eat whatever junk food they want and wash it down with gallons of Diet Coke:However, it’s the poor who must give up the social benefits they were promised by the now bankrupt (insolvent) government, along with giving up their rights – all in the name of “MAHA!” of course. ” – Sasha Latypova

Seeing Truth in the Age of Information Overload – “How the health of your perceptual filters shapes the health of your reality” – A Midwestern Doctor

DARPA Uses AI to Push Viral Pandemic Outbreak Modeling From Weeks to Days – “Speed is being prioritized over scrutiny, with AI-generated models designed to justify interventions before they can be meaningfully challenged.” – Jon Fleetwood

US Out of 66 Orgs. Now Let’s Make it Matter – “It’s a first step, but now the task is to make sure that the other steps get taken or this step has absolutely no real significance other than window dressing.” – Rima E Laibow MD

How Statins Damage and Weaken the Heart – “What the Biomedical Literature Reveals About Cardiac Dysfunction and Cholesterol-Lowering Drugs. Cholesterol Was Never the Enemy Cholesterol’s vilification rests on a fundamental misinterpretation of biology. Cholesterol is not a metabolic toxin; it is a structural, functional, and protective molecule, essential for:” – Sayer Ji

Lemongrass Extract Cuts Human Lymphoma Tumor Growth in Mice by ~95% Without Toxicity – “Peer-reviewed study finds that a common plant selectively induces apoptosis in human cancer cells while sparing normal cells.” – Nicolas Hulscher, MPH

NEWS

Permission Granted: Go Kill Yourself – “Historians of the future, grilling beaver-tail paninis over their campfires, will look back in wonder and nausea at the madness of America — and other regions of Western Civ — in the raging 2020s. The Lefty-left has devised what’s called a “permission structure” for women to take the lead in acting-out the concocted grievances of their show-runners in the Democratic Party who, in times gone by, once had a coherent political program, but are now chiefly concerned with staying out of jail. In 2020, they put their African-American clients in the vanguard, hoping to provoke Mr. Trump into a bloody suppression of the George Floyd riots. Didn’t really work, though the riots were a grand distraction from Marc Elias’s behind-the-scenes nefarious setup to queer the balloting process in that year’s election — a thumping success! All that mischief propelled brain-dead “Joe Biden” into the Oval Office, the perfect stooge to front for Hillary and Obama in their campaign to disorder the US body politic. What is it in American women these days that makes them susceptible to such a demonic permission structure that the Lefty-left uses to make them pawns in this game? ” – James Howard Kunstler

Dystopian Science Fiction vs. the Anti-ICE Karens – “ICE is the perfect boogeyman to coax the anti-ICE Karens, facilitated by both literal and de facto state media, into full-on psychosis, which is what we are seeing unfold.” – Ben Bartee

ICE Murders Innocent Woman in Cold Blood* – “*That’s the internet’s story anyway, details be damned. Could the agent who pulled the trigger (a U.S. army veteran who had previously been dragged and injured by a vehicle in an incident involving a fleeing suspect) have feared for his life? Sure. Could he have shown more restraint or exercised better tactical judgment? Absolutely. Can any of us say unequivocally how we’d respond in that situation? Probably not. Would Good still be alive had she not tried to interfere with federally sanctioned activity that day? Sadly, yes.” – .Jenna McCarthy

Viral Misinformation About Renee Good’s Arrest Record Spread After Her Death in Minneapolis; No Court Records Found – Limitless News  – THIS IS THE KIND OF “BS” THAT DOESN’T NEED TO BE SPREAD WHEN PEOPLE JUST WANT HONEST ANSWERS. ALL THIS DOES IS CREATE MORE DIVISIVENESS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Trump’s Icebox – “When it comes to the national security front, Donald Trump is flat out loosing it. After all, WTF was he thinking with respect to—- ……A $1.5 trillion defense budget? ……Kidnapping the president of a sovereign nation? ……Putting Mexico and Columbia on deck for the next drug fumigation? ……Essentially promising to militarily enable regime change in Iran? …..Enforcing freedom of religion in Nigeria with more than a dozen Tomahawk cruise missiles? …..Taking Greenland….. the hard way? All of this is the work of an unlearned, unread, blow-hard, know-it-all narcissist, who rattles around the White House in the dead of night dreaming up barking idiocy that none of the craven weaklings (e.g. JD Vance), boot-licking sycophants (e.g. Marco Rubio) and mentally-warped, xenophobic fanatics (e.g. Stephen Miller) surrounding the Oval Office are about to resist.” – David Stockman

The Imperial Crosshairs Move To Cuba, And Other Notes – “It’s incredible how rapidly the empire has been shoving through longstanding regional domination agendas in the middle east and Latin America since late 2023. Trumpers were sold the story that their guy would fight the deep state globalists to benefit ordinary Americans. Now he’s advancing every CIA/neocon agenda known to man in the middle east and Latin America with the goal of global domination as life in the US gets worse and worse.” – Caitlin Johnstone

Government and Fraud Go Together Like Peas and Carrots – “Somali refugees – refuging to the US because we’ve been bombing Somalia for decades, where we “kind of” took the “side” of the national government in its civil war against our ISIS and Al Qaeda friends – are now in big trouble for defrauding taxpayers. As I wrote last week, beating up on these once welcomed immigrants of an “ally” for fraud occurs just in time for our new Zionist tilt towards the Republic of Somaliland, which itself is in the dangerous process of becoming a US-Israeli “ally” as we dump Mogadishu. Like all interventions conducted by the US and Israel, the end goal is chaos, division, and collapsed economies. How else can Washington or West Jerusalem gain leverage, expand borders, control resources, kill with impunity, all while putting on an act of caring oh-so-deeply for people who just can’t seem to govern themselves?” – Karen Kwiatkowski

What’s Up With “Somaliland”? (VIDEO) – “Why is Israel the first country to recognize the new nation of Somaliland? Is there a quid pro quo going on behind the scenes? According to Somali intelligence, what 3 conditions did Israel place upon Somaliland in exchange for recognition?” – Makia Freeman

Mamdani’s appointees are as mad as you’d expect – “From anti-white identitarians to pro-Pal kids’ entertainers, the mayor’s aides are the worst of ‘millenial socialism”. – Jenny Holland

Noem: DHS Sending ‘Hundreds More’ Federal Agents to Minneapolis – “The deployments will occur on Sunday and Monday, the secretary said. Noem and DHS have said that attacks on ICE agents have increased by 1,300 percent, with vehicular attacks increasing by 3,200 percent, on a year-over-year basis.” – Jack Phillips

Why Zionists Don’t Get to Do Unto Their Indigenous What We Americans Did Unto Ours – “Sometimes, history is unfair. Praise be.” – Ohio Barbarian

America did not steal land from Mexico – “Facts that annoy the woke left” – Kenn Gividen

Scammer-In-Chief: Trump’s Crypto Firm World Liberty Financial Applies For Bank Charter To Issue USD1 Stablecoins, His Family To Profit Handsomely – “Crime does pay. Trump signed the GENIUS Act in July to provide federal regulations to establish stablecoins as digital dollars, backed by the dollar and U.S. treasuries. A stablecoin is no different than a central bank digital currency (CBDC), but is privatized and held by third-party groups, from crypto custodians to traditional banks, from corporations and asset managers and more, and the Genius Act provides those guardrails.” – The WinePress

The U.S. and Israel Want Zionist Reza Pahlavi, the Son of the Last Shah of Iran, to Take Over Iran – Is War Imminent? – “Last year’s “12-day war” between Iran and the U.S. and Israel failed to accomplish the Zionist goal of a regime change to Reza Pahlavi, the Crown Prince of Iran in exile and son of the late Shah, who is also a Zionist and close friend to Benjamin Netanyahu. Both sides (Iran and U.S./Israel) claimed victory in this war, but the truth is that Israel ran out of bombs and their society was quickly falling apart from the constant bombing in Tel Aviv with Iranian missiles they could not stop. ” – Brian Shilhavy

ECONOMIC NEWS

2025’s Final Jobs Report Shows Little Change – “No Change Means No Jobs, And America Needs Jobs.” – Peter Nayland Kust

Inflation hasn’t gone away. CPI likely to show sticky prices and delay next Fed interest-rate cut. – “Inflation rising closer to 3% than to Fed’s 2% goal” – Jeffry Bartash

Powell’s Confidence On Trial, Gold Rips Higher – “Here we go. The reported DOJ criminal investigation and grand jury subpoenas involving Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell appear to mark a serious and unprecedented test of the principle of Federal Reserve independence.” – Quoth the Raven

Is Trump’s Vendetta Against the Fed About to Kick the $USD Off a Cliff? – “The Trump administration has launched a criminal investigation into Fed Chair Jerome Powell. The specifics of the investigation pertain to whether Powell lied under oath to congress concerning the Fed’s renovations of its Washington DC headquarters. However, it’s been clear that the President has had a personal vendetta towards Powell ever since the former took office at the start of the year. Why? President Trump fully believes (and there is ample evidence he is correct) that the Fed is in fact a political entity.” – Graham Summers, MBA

Gold & Silver BLAST Higher Amid Financial Advisors’ Ongoing Malpractice – “Silver and gold are both blasting higher today, conquering their prior highs achieved in December. The upward momentum across the entire precious metals complex is startling especially to mainstream financial advisors who have so negligently refused to give their clients exposure to this key asset class, thanks to bias and groupthink. That’s financial malpractice, if you ask us.” – Money Metals News Service

The Commodity Shortage Nobody Is Priced For – “Why structural supply constraints are forming across silver, copper, and the materials that underpin the global economy” – Rob Smallbone

Unusual COMEX Trend Could Signal Accelerating Silver Squeeze – “The stage was set for a silver squeeze last April when significant amounts of metal moved from London to New York, driven by tariff worries. The displacement of metal, coupled with surging Indian demand, set off the first squeeze in October. That drove the silver price over $50 for the first time. Metal flowed back to London, but that didn’t solve the underlying problem. While shuffling silver between London, New York, and India took the immediate pressure off the market, it didn’t magically create new silver, and it didn’t take long for silver squeeze 2.0 to develop last month. That pushed the price over $80.” – Mike Maharrey

Markets Don’t Negotiate. They Force Change. – “Why broken market relationships, sound money, and Bitcoin’s emergence as collateral are signaling a shift to a multipolar world” – Kane McGukin

Cutting Interest Rates Isn’t a Cure‑All for the Economy – “Artificially cheap credit prompts firms to invest heavily in capital goods such as factories and machinery. Wages in those sectors rise, and workers feel wealthier. But consumers’ time preferences have not changed; people still want to save only a certain portion of their income. As workers spend their new wages, demand shifts back toward consumer goods. Businesses then discover that there is insufficient real savings to complete all the new projects. The result is a sharp depression in the industries producing capital goods.” – Alan Mosley

SURVIVAL, PREPAREDNESS AND SELF-SUFFICIENCY

Why Today’s Food Refuses to Rot… And Why That Should Worry You – “Why Store-Bought Groceries Don’t Behave Like Food Anymore At first, it feels like a neat party trick. You find a loaf of bread shoved behind the cereal boxes, laugh, and expect a horror show when you peel the plastic back. Instead, the slices slide out like they were baked yesterday—soft, pale, obedient. But then something quieter creeps in, like a cold draft under the door: food isn’t supposed to act like this.” – Bill Heid

What To Plant In January: Vegetable Garden Growing Guide – “While most of the gardens in the United States are still resting, perhaps even insulated under a thick blanket of snow, there are a few southern areas beginning to warm up and will be ready to grow vegetables soon!” – Homesteaders of America

What Happens When China Stops Supplying the United States? – “For decades, the economic relationship between China and the United States has been one of deep interdependence. China has served as the world’s manufacturing hub, while the U.S. has been one of its largest consumers. China is not simply another trading partner. It is the central node of global manufacturing, controlling production or processing in industries that underpin modern life. The assumption that the United States could simply “buy elsewhere” overlooks a basic reality of modern manufacturing: When this happens, there will be a transition period until our country gets back on track. In such a scenario, the most important thing you can do is learn to be self-reliant, no matter your age. You can learn new skills, return to traditional methods or learn the Amish lifestyle, or take advantage of today’s technology to make life easier.” – Kate L. Gilmour

A New Kind Of Holster❗️ Simple, Minimal, Practical and Tactical (VIDEO) – “Find out how to make your own” – Jason Salyer

Late Winter Garden Prep: Critical Garden Work to Do Before Spring Arrives – “Late winter has a weird reputation because it feels like dead time. The ground looks lifeless, the weather still bites, and nothing obvious is growing. Most people glance out the window, shrug, and mentally schedule gardening for “sometime in spring.” That pause is exactly where experienced gardeners quietly pull ahead. This is the stretch where late winter garden prep makes the biggest difference, even though it doesn’t look dramatic.” – Rhonda Owen

VERSE FOR THE DAY

Matthew 13:16    But blessed are your eyes, for they see: and your ears, for they hear.

IMAGE FOR THE DAY (BASED ON A SIMILAR MEME)