THE BIG PICTURE
Judge, Jury, Executioner: When the Government Decides Who Lives or Dies – “What does it say about a government—and a political movement—that claims to value the unborn, but once you are born, that concern evaporates? When life upon birth becomes expendable, subject to force, punishment, neglect, and death so long as it serves “law and order,” “national security,” or political convenience—when you can be shot by the police state, executed by the police state, starved, surveilled, displaced, raided, abused, or discarded by the police state—and this is treated not as a moral failure but as policy and doctrine, then you’re not dealing with a government that is truly pro-life. It is pro-control.” – John & Nisha Whitehead
Finding Peace When Controlling Everything Fails – “Learning how to float through life isn’t all bad” – Kate Dreston.
Afraid of Everything – “As you probably know, it snowed. Cue the apocalyptics. Both before, during and after. The after being the worst because by then you know it wasn’t apocalyptic. But it seems there are lots of people who can’t accept that it wasn’t. Who wanted it to be apocalyptic. They are like the people you see still “masking” up – years after it became obvious that catching a cold wasn’t a death sentence. They seem to want it to be. At least, that’s how it looks. It was the kind of snow that would have caused maybe a two-hour delay (remember those?) back in the day, More finely, I miss the general expectation that you dealt with a little snow instead of panicking like a sheep in need of a shepherd. And yet, so many seem helpless. Seem to want to be helpless. Eager to stay home. A day will come when people will be told they have to stay home – because it might snow. It’s too risky – too unsafe! – for anyone to be out on the roads. Then it will be rain that keeps everyone off the roads. Maybe night-time, too. It’s dark, after all.” – Eric Peters – FEAR LEADS TO CONTROL. THAT’S PART OF THE PLAN!!!!!!!!!!
Nothing new under the climate change sun – Tom Knighton
Geoengineering a Third World Storm – “The trains aren’t running on time. I have lived in the same county since I was three years old. But we never lost power in all those years, from snow or ice. The electricity might go off for a few hours in a thunderstorm, but that was the extent of it. Days, or incomprehensibly weeks without power was something no one even considered. Then, about 15 years ago, a thunderstorm they called a “Derecho” took out power here for a week. I had never heard of a Derecho before, and there hasn’t been one since. I don’t believe there is such a thing as a Derecho. But the public just nodded and lit more candles. And what about the tsunamis? When I first heard about the devastating tsunami in 2004, the word was foreign to me. I thought it had something to do with Pokemon. Apparently, tsunamis had been a thing throughout history. I half suspected they made up the word in 2004.We certainly seem to have had a lot of severe weather (usually breathlessly reported as “historic”) in recent years, which just coincidentally started once the first efforts into geoengineering the weather began. HAARP was a top secret facility in Alaska, devoted to “studying” the weather, but they wouldn’t let Jesse Ventura into the facility when he visited them for his Tru TV Conspiracy Theory show. Lyndon B. Johnson once said, “He who controls the weather, will control the world.” Now, let’s say hypothetically that our corrupt and incompetent leaders have found a way to manipulate the weather. ” – Donald Jeffries
ICE Making List of Anyone Who Films Them – “We have a nice little database and now you’re considered a domestic terrorist.” – Ken Klippenstein
The Complete Reckoning: 150+ Studies on the Devastating Harms of COVID Lockdown Policies – “They told us it was necessary. The evidence says they were wrong—and children paid the price.” – Justin Hart – GREAT COMPILATION OF STUDIES, MANY WITH LINKS, FROM JUSTIN!!!
Email campaigns to public officials considered hate speech. A dangerous precedent for the dissent in Canada – Lawyer Lisa
NEWS
Trump: A beautiful armada is headed towards Iran, I hope they make a deal – Elad Benari -FROM THE ISRAEL NATIONAL NEWS. OF COURSE THEY ARE LOVING IT!!!
War Drums In Gulf: US Armada Arrives As Saudi Arabia, UAE Deny Airspace Access – Tyler Durden
Will he, won’t he ‘TACO’ on Iran? – “Is Trump getting the message that an Iran ‘win’ is not ‘Slam Dunk’? – in which case he might decide on a TACO, accompanied by bone-crushing economic threats to Iran. As so often these days, a decisive attack on Iran – comes down in the final analysis to Trump’s psychology, and his need to dominate the attention of everyone around him. He understands that for however much his maximalist pronouncements look — and are — crazy, they nonetheless do usually default to a ‘strong man image’. Trump’s career has been founded on the predicate that his base loves the ‘strong guy’ and any sign of weakness detracts from the illusion of strength. It is the thing that has generally worked for him. European élites however, find this difficult to digest – perhaps understandably – and slide into paroxysms of outrage.” – Alastair Crooke
Trump Wants To Win – But Iran Is No Easy Target – “Mr. Crazy just issued another of his by now typical threats: It is well know Iran does not want to have nuclear weapons. There is even a religious edict that says so. Iran had negotiated a nuclear deal with the U.S. that made sure that Iran would not have the means to build nuclear weapons. It was Trump who killed that deal during his first administration. We therefore know that anything nuclear is not the real issue that this is about. The issue is Iran’s general anti-colonial position and especially its steady resistance to the Zionist occupation of Palestine. Any attempt to change that long held ideological position of Iran by force is likely to fail.” – Moon of Alabama
Creative Energy Diplomacy Might Avert Another American Attack On Iran – “Redirecting Iran’s oil exports from China to India in exchange for partial US sanctions relief could avert another American attack by satisfying its goal of depriving China of some of the resources that it requires for maintaining its rapid superpower rise without risking a potentially disastrous regional war.” – Andrew Korybko
Reflections from the Heart of the Empire: Avalanches Build, Whirlwinds Form – “The Almighty American Dollar now constitutes only 40% of foreign currency reserves. Behold the power of a Mad Emperor to instill confidence in Empire: Secretary of Commerce, creature of George Soros, and Certified Vampire of the Empire Scott Bessent described sanctions as “economic statecraft, no shots fired.” Such refreshingly honest imperialism. Almost as honest as Kristi the Kourageous Dogslayer and Head DHS Bitch, who accused VA nurse Alex Pretti of “assaulting law enforcement officers” by stepping between them and a woman they had just violently shoved to the ground and pepper-sprayed. Plus, he was legally carrying a gun in a holster and foolishly left it there, so ICE had no choice but to shoot him, but only after they had gang-tackled, pepper-sprayed, and taken the gun away from him so they could do so safely. Remember, kids:. Safety First” – Ohio Barbarian – GOOD RECAP FROM THE BARBARIAN AS USUAL!!!
US Democrats call for Trump to fire Homeland Security chief – “Lawmakers have threatened impeachment against Kristi Noem following two fatal shootings involving federal agents” – RT
Will Democrats help Trump defuse mass protests over ICE killings? – “The mass protests in Minneapolis against Trump’s immigration crackdown have the potential to spark a nationwide revolt.” – Finian Cunningham
SignalGate and the Myth of the Peaceful ICE Protester – “What does it mean to call someone a protester. The term carries moral weight. It suggests expressive conduct, a public statement, and a basic commitment to nonviolence. It implies distance from force, from coercion, and from direct interference with lawful state action. Based on what is now known, it is far more accurate to say that Alex Pretti functioned as an active participant in the ICE Watch insurgency in Minnesota. To see this clearly, it helps to distinguish protest from direct action. Protest expresses opposition. Direct action seeks to obstruct. Protest communicates. Direct action intervenes. Protest attempts to persuade an audience. Direct action attempts to impose costs. ICE Watch was not organized around persuasion. It was organized around disruption. Its purpose was to locate, track, and interfere with immigration enforcement operations in real time.” – Alexander Muse /Amuse on X – AS I POINTED OUT IN AN ARTICLE BY EL GATO ON MONDAY, 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. UNFORTUNATELY THERE IS MUCH TRUTH IN BOTH SIDES OF THIS STORY AND LIKE MS. GOOD’S DEATH, IT ALL COULD HAVE BEEN AVOIDED!!!
The lawlessness of ICE is a betrayal of voters – “Americans want control of the borders and criminals deported, not border agents shooting citizens.” – Fraser Myers
Democrats Turn Minneapolis into Fort Sumter – “Just as it did one hundred and sixty-five years ago, the Democrat Party appears to be making war against the federal government. There are many signs that suggest Minneapolis is home to both a massive money laundering operation and a massive vote fraud scheme. Because the amount of financial fraud is so high, it is difficult to believe that Somali immigrants orchestrated this massive theft on their own. Minnesota and Minneapolis have government agencies whose sole function is to seek, police, and prevent exactly these kinds of taxpayer thefts. The idea that immigrants from across the world could arrive in Minnesota and figure out how to manipulate the existing bureaucracy to orchestrate large-scale fraud is unconvincing.” – J.B. Shurk |
America is losing allies by the droves. – Eric Zuesse
ECONOMIC NEWS
Rage against the dying of the light – “The de-Dollarisation meme rolled on yesterday as the Bloomberg Dollar spot index sank to its lowest reading since February of 2022. The fall became precipitous after Donald Trump was given an opportunity by journalists to talk up the Dollar, but instead replied “no, I think it’s great” when asked whether he was concerned about its recent drop. It would seem that there is no rage against the dying of the strong Dollar from the President. Trump’s Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent had repeatedly assured financial markets last year that the administration still supports the strong Dollar policy. Trump himself has been a little more circumspect over the years, and implied yesterday that a weaker Dollar was good for US trade competitiveness. “Look at the business we are doing. The Dollar’s doing great.”” – Ben Picton
Trump is not worried by a weak dollar. Why the president and investors should be – Sarah Min
Fed Refuses to Cut, Shifts Hawkish in the Statement, with Two Dissenters – ““Everything comes in suggesting that this year starts off on a solid footing for growth”: Powell in the press conference.” – Wolf Richter
Fed Holds. Gold Breaks $5,300. Is the Dollar About to Crack? (VIDEO) – The Contrarian Capitalist
Amazon to Lay Off Another 16,000 Workers, Pinterest 700 Workers – “In AI-related moves, companies are stepping up job cuts.” – Mish
“The Bank Was Saved, and the People Were Ruined.” – “If the reader has not yet been squeezed to the point that his net worth (value of assets, minus debt) is under water, he would be well advised to consider means by which his liquid assets can be removed from the banking system, a system that, if history repeats, may soon take those remaining assets. Does this mean that the reader should run right down to the bank and withdraw his assets? Not necessarily. What it does mean is that it would be best to recognise that a clear pattern has existed for hundreds of years regarding boom-and-bust banking and the reader would be well-advised to ask himself some unpleasant questions. Here are a few:” – Jeff Thomas
12 Signposts That Indicate That A Monumental Economic Meltdown Is Now Upon Us – Michael Snyder
Gold Clears $5,000 as Economic Stress Builds – “Gold rocketed past $5,000, silver just crossed $100 and the headlines are grasping for explanations – from tariffs to politics. When the narratives stop making sense, it’s usually a sign of something deeper. This week, let’s look at the signals…” – Peter Reagan
Increasing Global Silver Shortage Drives Silver Price Surge While Financial Press Cries ‘Bubble!’ – “Bullion Banks Start To Whimper. A shortage of silver in all markets globally is driving silver’s price higher. Voracious metal demand in China and India, but also in the West, underpins silver’s price at these record levels. Overnight, silver’s p.m. price on Shanghai exchanges saw a surge to a record 15% above the London cash silver price.” – David Jensen
The Metal Nobody’s Heard Of (and the Pentagon Is Desperate For) – “While everyone watches gold and silver, there’s a supply crisis happening in plain sight.” – Nomi Prins
SURVIVAL, PREPAREDNESS AND SELF-SUFFICIENCY
1, 2, 3, 4… You’re Ready to Cook in a Power Outage – “You’ll be happy (and relieved) to know that cooking “off-grid”, in your own kitchen is easier than you might think. Step One: The power bank solution. Step Two: The electric tea kettle” – Lisa Bedford
Use Cloches to Add Charm, History, and Functionality to Your Garden – “In the age of electric seed mats, overhead lights, and heated greenhouses, garden cloches have become a thing of the past. Once upon a time though, beautiful bell-shaped glass jars were in use in gardens around the world.” – Tasha Greer
Prepper Checklist for New Parents: What You Really Need – “Becoming a parent doesn’t erase your prepper instincts. It sharpens them, but it also exposes gaps you didn’t know were there. Sleep deprivation changes judgment because a baby changes timelines. Noise discipline, mobility, and even simple errands suddenly carry weight. This isn’t a feel-good checklist, it’s a hard reset for preppers who already know the basics and now have to protect someone who can’t adapt, improvise, or wait.” – Rhonda Owen
Mennonite vs Amish: What’s the Real Difference? – “Most people use “Mennonite” and “Amish” like they mean the same thing. They don’t. Yes, both groups share Anabaptist roots. Yes, both value faith, community, humility, and a simpler way of life. But when you look closer, the differences are real, practical, and surprisingly important, especially if you’re a prepper studying resilient communities. This guide breaks down Mennonite vs Amish in a clear, thorough way, without myths or Hollywood nonsense.” – Ask A Prepper Staff
Are You Emotionally Ready for the Coming Collapse? – Part 2 – “DIFFERING VIEWS OF THE RAPTURE” – Peter Cannon
VERSE FOR THE DAY
John 16:13 Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak: and he will shew you things to come.
IMAGE FOR THE DAY
Nothing New Under The Sun 2016 