THE BIG PICTURE

The U.S. Has Become a Hellhole and Few Seem to Notice or Care – “Given this ‘modern’ world of retro-civilization, a madness of going backward, in order for the rulers to gain unlimited power, and therefore solidify mass control, requires that they foment division, civil unrest, and chaos so that it consumes the population at large. Once this paradigm is evident, the governing forces, at the request and with the willing consent of the weak serfs, will be able to strengthen its dictatorial position by claiming to provide security for the nation-state and its dependent people. All this is predicated on the fact that these same rulers purposely brought about the division and dissention in the first place, that was necessary in order to create the environment of protest, riots, chaos and civil strife. There is no better example of this insane dynamic than in America and the West today.” – Gary D. Barnett

Another One – “A 37-year-old man was shot dead in the street in Minneapolis yesterday by ICE “agents” after one of these “agents” took the man’s holstered pistol, which he was legally carrying. A slowed-down, high-resolution video can be viewed here. It does not look good. In fact, it looks like a summary execution. The video shows a bunch of “agents” scrumming Pretti, who is wrestled to the ground. At this point, the video appears to show one of the “agents” taking Pretti’s legally holstered pistol, which he never pointed at anyone. Moments later, Pretti is shot dead by one of the “agents. ” This ought to appall everyone but especially “conservatives” who are ardent about the right – and it is a right – to carry a pistol. The fact that one is carrying one ought not to be warrant to kill that someone. Especially when that someone hasn’t unholstered his legally carried pistol. Some “conservatives” will defend the “agents” who executed Pretti – claiming he was “resisting.” Watching the video, it looks like he was trying to ward off a beating. Well, what happens in the event you get “pulled over” for a petty traffic violation – or maybe you just happent o be out driving and are forced to stop for no reason at all, as at a “sobriety” checkpoint – and the AGW sees your holstered, legally carried pistol – and maybe shoots you dead, because he thought you might shoot him?” – Eric Peters  – GREAT POINT FROM ERIC THAT MANY OF THE 2ND AMMENDMENT SUPPORTERS FAIL TO BRING UP!!!!!!!!!

Top Republicans Rail Against the Second Amendment Right to Carry Guns – “Was presumption of guilt for carrying a gun, by Republicans, on your bingo card?” – Mish  – WE CAN SEE WHERE THIS IS GOING. IS THE REAL REASON TO DISARM CITIZENS FOR COMPLETE CONTROL!!!!!!!!

Post-Winter Storm, Deep-Freeze Pushes Power-Grids To Brink As Feds Move To Avert Blackouts – Tyler Durden

No End to the Cold, Snow, and Ice – “The most intense polar vortex outbreaks of the modern era are what hundreds of millions in the Northern Hemisphere are living through, with gas and heating prices going through the roof. Americans were walloped this weekend. Meanwhile, as usual, the mainstream media is saying, “A recently released annual climate report for 2025 reveals our planet is enduring an unprecedented hot streak. Last year was the third-warmest on record, and the previous 11 years have ranked among the 11 warmest on record.” I am sure hundreds of millions will disagree.” – Dr.Sircus

Mega Quakes, Mega Drought & Mega Volcanoes (VIDEO0 with Steve Quayle -Greg Hunter

Peter Hortez says being anti-vaccine is antisemitism. CDC says kill the whites to increase vaccine uptake. No s-he is not in prison. Got a plum job – Lawyer Lisa

Canadian woman was euthanized ‘against her will’ after husband was fed-up with caring for her – “”An elderly woman was euthanized within hours of her husband claiming she changed her mind after insisting she wanted to live. Canada’s Medical Assistance in Dying laws allow patients to request a painless death if an assessor agrees their terminal condition meets certain requirements. Patients often wait weeks, but it can happen the same day the application is lodged if judged to be medically urgent by a MAiD provider. But a report by the Ontario MAiD Death Review Committee raised concerns that safeguards were being eroded that led to questionable deaths.” – Nic White

 

 

NEWS

Had Enough? – “Isn’t it obvious by now that the seditious mischief roiling Minneapolis is some kind of a demonstration project for a China-backed overthrow of the whole country? This is not hard. And, apparently, the Democratic Party is either a willing accomplice or a hostage in thrall to its captor …It is well understood that these ICE-Out riots are organized and funded by a network created by one Neville Roy Singham (American, b. 1954), now based in Shanghai. Singham funds the Party for Socialism and Liberation, The Peoples’ Forum, Code Pink, the United Community Fund and a web of other money laundries that supply all the logistics for Lefty-left mobs going back to the George Floyd / BLM operations of 2020. And then you have his perfect foil, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, who visited China at least thirty times in his previous career as a teacher, his travel often funded by the CCP. What was he up to there? I think we’re going to find out. The communication system for the Minneapolis riots is an encrypted Signal Chat network (“MN ICE-Watch”) run by Tim Walz aide and campaign strategist Amanda Noelle Koehler. That’s how they organize rapid-response actions against ICE and broader mobilization for key propaganda opportunities like the recent shootings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti.” – James Howard Kunstler

A Few Well-Placed Lies – “A question being kicked-around is whether of not our destiny is controlled by a hidden hand. And if so, whose hand is it and to what extent does it control us? Europe/Britain are seemingly almost totally controlled and the last fight against liberty is being waged in the US. But the degree of control is not what we might think. The biggest lie is there being a fix for our problems.” – Erik @ neverhadaboss.com

Follow the money, not the media – “The Gatoguide™ to making sense of Minnesota (and what’s to come). Honestly, despite half of Twitter seeming to have some really strong opinion of what “the video obviously shows,” Unlike the Renee Good video,Ii cannot make head or tail of it. There are just no good shots or angles I can see. but, again, this argument is missing the point. Had he been disarmed by the time he was shot? Was he reaching for/drawing his pistol? Was the first shot his (or a malfunction from a SIG notorious for such)? I’m not sure it matters. You come strapped to an action whose purpose is to impede armed officers. You act aggressively, You resist arrest. Sorry, but “well did he draw first?” is kind of out the window and people do often carry second weapons. Sure, carrying a gun is legal, but that does not make doing it while getting aggressive with cops either smart or safe. play Dangerous games, win dangerous prizes.” – El Gato Malo  – GOOD POINTS FROM EL GATO. DID THE MAN DESERVE TO GET KILLED. NOT REALLY, SHOULD HE HAVE BEEN THERE ARMED, NOT REALLY. SHOULD HE EVEN HAVE BEEN THERE AT ALL. AGAIN, NOT REALLY!!!

Play Stupid Games, Win Stupid Prizes – “There are a lot of genuinely stupid people in this country. Our public school system seems geared to churn them out like there was a profit in it for them. You’d think even the dumbest people would, as some point, come to the realization that they’re being exploited,…It takes a special kind of stupid to loudly dare someone to hit you,..Moronic leftists daring officers to hit them makes for great social media street cred in the cosplaying social justice warrior game. It’s hard for people who pay attention to what’s going on to care when someone gets hurt, or worse, when you know these people have taken to the street for what amounts to performance art. These people do not understand how the real world works.” – Derek Hunter

The Barbarian’s Dictionary: American Political Speak in Plain English, January 2026 Edition – “inspired by Ambrose Bierce” – Ohio Barbarian  – GOOD ONE FROM THE BARBARIAN!!!

Of Lies and Surges – “There’s Blood in the Streets. “Surges” are not how you win wars, whether overseas or here at home. In fact, surges in Iraq and Afghanistan were admissions of a sort that the wars were already lost; their main purpose was to show resolve and to provide political cover for dishonest leaders like George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, and Barack Obama. But government officials have an amazing capacity not to learn. Their “solution” is always to show resolve through military and/or police action. Nothing is “won,” nothing is achieved, and the main product is more blood in the streets.” – Bill Astore

A War Has Erupted On The Streets Of America, And It Is Going To End With Martial Law In Major U.S. Cities – Michael Snyder

The Carney government talks a good game, but consistently fails to deliver – “On file after file, what we’re promised is not what we end up getting” – John Robson

Dude, do you even go here anymore? – “Where in the world is Gavin Newsom? Literally.. Gavin Newsom is in Davos running for President of …Europe? The carefully-coiffed contender from the Golden State is attending the World Economic Forum to blast Trump and demand global leaders unify against the Trump agenda. In a statement released just prior to his departure, Newsom described the President’s economic agenda as a betrayal of the nation and said he was heading to Davos to “confront” Trump’s abuses. Was a single person about to lose their home insurance asking him to fly to Europe to “confront” anyone? What about the thousands of people waiting for their attackers and abusers to be brought to justice or (gasp) deported? Or the senior citizens about to lose their homes to a sneak attack on our hallowed Prop 13? Or the parents who are choosing between new shoes for the kids or gas in the tank? Or the business owners sinking under a mountain of red tape and human waste from the homeless encampments? Or the “billionaire class” that is about to pick up and leave? Have any of these people asked Newsom to get on a plane – at their expense – and travel across the globe to preen for the ultra-wealthy while the Palisades still stands barren? The utter gall.” – Kira Davis

How The GOP Appropriators Bushwhacked The DOGE Boys – “Hopefully, Elon Musk and his DOGE boys have learned a lesson the hard way. To wit, their earnest, dogged, sweeping and compelling demonstration early in 2025 that hundreds of billions can be cut from the Federal budget has already been shit-canned. Almost in its entirety. And by the usual suspects—-the GOP appropriators on Capitol Hill—who are the biggest fake fiscal conservatives to ever come down the pike.” – David Stockman

Trump’s Latest Regime Change Target – “What does the Federal Reserve have in common with Venezuela and Greenland? It has been targeted by President Trump for regime change.” – Ron Paul

What may be the Greenland endgame? – “Trump will ‘take’ Greenland. On Monday, when asked whether the U.S. would use force to seize Greenland, President Trump replied, “No comment”. He has previously promised to take the world’s largest island “the nice way [through purchase] or the more difficult way [by force]”. Though the notion seems to have sprung on the world ‘out of the blue’, John Bolton, Trump’s former National Security Adviser, tells that it was Ron Lauder, an 81-year-old New York Jewish billionaire and heir to the Estée Lauder fortune, who first sowed the seed of U.S. ownership of Greenland in the President’s mind in 2018, during his first term in office. Trump unsuccessfully tried to buy Greenland in 2019, during his first term. President Harry Truman also offered to buy it for $100m in gold in 1946 – but was turned down.” – Alastair Crooke

Who Will Feed Gaza? – “Jared Kushner’s vision is so glorious, so perfect in its conception, it is as if a light shines from within it. The world is awestruck at its brilliance, its cohesiveness, its sheer visionary energy. Instead of pelting him with old fruit and shoes, the audience listened politely, and no questions were asked. No one asked why Palestinians are not included in the future of Gaza, except perhaps as surveilled, caged laborers. Depopulation and demolition of the Strip, like Kushner’s unveiling for New Gaza, were planned long before the incident at the Nova Music Festival, conveniently moved south and left unprotected for many hours by order of Tel Aviv. Occurring as it did towards the end of Simhat Torah, for Israel, it was time for a new beginning. No one asked about the urgency of the erasure of Gaza.” – Karen Kwiatkowski

 

 

 

ECONOMIC NEWS

De-dollarization Alert! Danish Pension Fund Dumps U.S. Treasuries – “This is how de-dollarization works. Danish pension operator AkademikerPension said it is selling all of its U.S. Treasurys. AkademikerPension investing chief Anders Schelde said the fund will divest its entire $100 million in U.S. Treasury holdings by the end of the month.” – Mike Maharrey

Warning: the Financial System is Coming Apart at the Seams – “Something VERY bad is unfolding in the financial system right now. Gold just cleared $5,000 per ounce. Silver has broken above $100 per ounce and is now flirting with $110 per ounce. These precious metals were at $2,500 and $40 per ounce this time last year. This kind of price action is exciting for precious metals bulls because it means they’re making a lot of money. But “underneath the surface” this indicates that the financial system is coming apart at the seams. Let me provide some context…” – Graham Summers, MBA

The US Must Return to a Gold Standard – “The purchasing power of the US dollar has been debased by over 99 percent since the foundation of the Federal Reserve. (An ounce of gold cost $20.67 in 1913. According to the Wall Street Journal as of Friday, January 16 its price was $4,588.40. That means that the dollar is worth less than one half of one percent of its 1913 purchasing power [$20.67/$4,588.40=.0045]). Its remaining purchasing power may eventually become zero. There is no discipline in US spending and the Fed has become a willing accomplice to this crime. The current administration is out of control. The only way it can become impossible is to end fiat money—which can be created out of thin air in whatever gigantic quantities are desired—and make the dollar “good as gold.” – Patrick Barron

China is Coming for Our Gold Miners – “With the world hurtling towards a monetary reset, everyone suddenly wants the gold miners. Just this morning: China’s Zijin Gold to buy Canadian miner Allied Gold for about $4 billion” – John Rubino

“A Great Decade for Precious Metals is Ahead” (VIDEO) with Rick Rule – Nomi Prins

$123 Silver in Shanghai. Government Shutdown in 9 Days. Silver Target $550 to $750 by Thanksgiving 2026 Metals Shock, Political Chaos, and a Mania-Phase Silver Spike Straight Ahead. A worldwide battle for control of metals is raging.” – The Silver Academy  – WILL THIS ACTUALLY HAPPEN. WE WILL SEE. EVEN AT TODAY’S PRICES, IF SILVER GOT UP TO THESE PROJECTION YOU WOULD BE MAKING 5X YOUR INVESTMENT. WHAT OTHER WEALTH PRESERVATION CAN EQUAL THAT RIGHT NOW. JUST SAYING, AS I DON’T OFFER ANY INVESTMENT ADVICE!!!

 

 

 

SURVIVAL, PREPAREDNESS AND SELF-SUFFICIENCY

How to survive one week – “7 tips to get through a lockdown, martial law, storms” – Sarah Connor

Civil Conflict (VIDEO) – ” I also want to discuss several potential problems that I foresee happening yet this year in 2026. And I don’t like having these discussions. I’ll be really honest with you. Because a lot of people will take these type of discussions and they’ll turn them into little clickbaity videos and stuff and I’m really not about that. I want to give people good actionable advice. So if problems take place, no matter what the situation is, they have some tools, they have some ideas, and they have some things that can help them out. Practical advice is sort of what my channel is about.” – Modern Refugee  – GOOD ONE FROM MODERN REFUGEE!!!

Off-Grid Power Solutions for Every Budget: From Emergency Backup to Full Independence – “Going off grid isn’t just about saving money or sticking it to the utility company. It’s about control. Control over your light, your food, your water, and your ability to function when the grid becomes unreliable or disappears altogether. Real off grid power solutions are built in layers, not all at once, and they have to match how you actually live. This guide breaks power down by budget so you can build something that works now and still scales later.” – Bob Rodgers

Manuka Honey For Wound Care – “Long before antibiotics and sterile supplies, people learned through experience that honey helped protect injuries and supported healing. Today, science is finally confirming what survivalists and traditional healers already understood. Honey is not just food. When used correctly, it can play a serious role in wound care. Among all types of honey, Manuka stands apart. Its unique antibacterial properties have made it one of the most respected natural options for treating wounds, especially when medical help is delayed or unavailable.” – Ask A Prepper Staff  – HAVE NEVER USED IT FOR THIS PURPOSE, BUT I HAVE GOTTEN IT TO EAT AND IT’S PROBABLY ONE OF THE BEST HONEYS THERE IS, ABEIT IT’S  EXPENSIVE!!

Busting 5 Common Ammo Myths – “For many new shooters, ammunition can be an intimidating topic to understand. The various types and terminology can often make it confusing, resulting in misconceptions to easily develop. This not only leads to incorrect information being shared but can also give ammunition an unfair and dangerous reputation. To set the facts straight, here are five common ammo myths that you should be aware of. ” – Madison Heim

 

 

 

VERSE FOR THE DAY

James 4:10    Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he shall lift you up.

 

 

IMAGE FOR THE DAY ( IN REMEMBRANCE OF MY DAD WHO SPENT 50 YEARS DOING THIS )