THE BIG PICTURE

Interesting development (4 min. VIDEO) – “So, first in 2019, Gates funded a study for the original development of these quantum dot implants. So, it’s a micro needle patch array. So, it’s got a bunch of mini needles. It’s like a band-aid. You put it on your wrist, it dissolves, and it installs the  these quantum dot materials that last for at least 5 years. So, they they developed that in 2019. Now, in 2025, Gates funded another study that shows just how advanced now this technology has become. It is advancing at a very fast pace. Now these micro needle patches can install literal quantum dot QR codes. QR codes that can be read with AI with specialized cameras and decoded to store batch information, lot number, how many doses you receive. There you go. They they put it on the pig. That’s what it looks like. It’s a literal QR code. You will be marked.” – J.C.O.M.E.S. Its all about Jesus!  – LITERALLY THE MARK OF THE BEAST!!!

TROUBLED TIMES (SHORT VIDEO) – Looking Up 4 Him  – GOOD ONE. ALWAYS LIKE HIS OUTLOOK!!!!

A ‘STRANGE NEW HORROR’: U.S. Health Official Sounds Alarm on Canada’s Assisted-Suicide Organ Pipeline – “As Canada’s MAID program becomes increasingly intertwined with organ donation, a senior HHS official warns the ethical guardrails may be failing.” – Lioness of Judah

Kovid Kapoor 😷😷😷😷 – “It just keeps getting better” – Me Stuff  – REMEMBER, THEY ALWAYS TELL YOU AHEAD OF TIME WHAT THEY ARE GOING TO DO IN SOME WAY OR ANOTHER!!!

The Man Who Illegally Got Obama on the Hawaiian Ballot in 2008 – “He went from Democrat party flunky to Senator — December 31, 2024. Obama made a quick trip to Hawaii, under the guise of visiting his sick grandmother, and met with Schatz on October 24, 2008. Schatz had already signed the HI Democrat Party Official Certification of Nomination two months earlier. The problem was that the Director of the Board of Elections wanted proof that Obama was qualified.  Obama could not prove to their satisfaction that he was a natural-born citizen. The director could have stopped Obama from being a candidate, but was obviously pressured by Schatz and other high-powered Democrats. The director wisely stepped aside as, I suspect, the late Loretta Fuddy, the former director of the Board of Health, should have done, and Obama’s name went on the Hawaiian ballot and on the ballots of the other states.”- Susan Daniels  – VERY INTERESTING READ!!!!

Walmart Partners With Google To Agentic AI To Allow The Algorithmic To Help Shop For The Customer – “The transition from traditional web or app search to agent-led commerce represents the next great evolution in retail. We aren’t just watching the shift, we are driving it.” – The WinePress

Portugal Runs H5N1 Bird Flu Outbreak Simulation—Echoing Pre-COVID Pandemic Exercises – “Patients refusing to use personal protective equipment, like masks, defined as “threats.”” – Jon Fleetwood

DDoS attacks are the old new tactic of censorship/retraction – “A DDoS attack is basically digitally swarming a site so that no real traffic can get through to it; that digital flash mob of woke morons blocking the entrance to the nightclub of knowledge so nobody important can get in. With these kind of attacks, there is no stealing of data required, and no viruses actually get on your computer. But nonetheless, they are highly effective as massive digital traffic jams. We’ve now witnessed this happen to the journal Oncotarget, and now it is happening to the Brownstone Institute website. These are focused and targeted attacks on specific sites with the goal of bottlenecking the entryway to information in published articles, to prevent particular information from being accessible to users.” – Jessica Rose

Fasting as medicine for cancer and chronic disease – “Why hunger triggers repair without poison” – Darby Jones

NEWS

The Tragedy Behind the Tragedy – “People have generally taken sides (again) with regard to the shooting to death of that woman in Minneapolis last week – but the thing to understand is we’re all on one side now. It is the side of those who face summary execution by armed government workers if we “resist” in any way. This encompasses attempting to drive away, which is what the woman who was shot to death was trying to do. For failing to obey, in other words. This is the ultimate crime in any authoritarian system, as evidenced by how severely it is punished. A man is ordered to get down on the ground, now – IDF tactics – and beaten, over jaywalking. But his real crime was not obeying. How about a “turn signal violation”? There are many such. Because so much has changed. But when did it change? And why? It is hard to pin it down exactly, but it was sometime in the mid-1990s that the Hut! Hut! Hut! got normalized. We saw it on TeeeVeee – literally. The show COPS became a huge hit, normalizing and even fetishizing the Hut! Hut Hut! Around the same time, Randy Weaver and his 14-year-old son were executed – on their own property – for the crime of wanting to be left alone and “resisting” when they were not left alone. The “religious weirdos” – and so they were, but so what? – at the Branch Davidian compound were subjected to an armored assault with tanks by the feds, who didn’t just Hut! Hut! Hut! but literally immolated the group, including women and children.” – Eric Peters  – ERIC’S AND JONATHAN’S ARTICLE BELOW ARE BOTH INTERESTING READS!!!

The ICE Elephant: Why the Law Requires All the Facts – “Reasonable people can disagree on whether the officer should have discharged his weapon. Flight alone is not grounds for the use of lethal force. However, Good’s actions could also be interpreted as an intentional endangerment of the officer. At a minimum, it was clearly reckless, as another officer was trying to reach into the vehicle and Good refused to yield to the effort to place her into custody.  The Goods forced the confrontation, and Renee Good then escalated the level of danger by speeding toward an officer. This is why the legal standard requires you to take in the entire elephant, not just insular parts. This tragedy shows that people watching the same videotapes can come to diametrically opposed conclusions. The same is true of those who note how the wheels appear to be turning toward or away from the officer. The fact is, Good struck the officer. That does not mean she intended to do so, but that does not matter. From the officer’s perspective, Good was ignoring orders while speeding toward him from just feet away. The public would be wise to ignore conclusions reached blindly by either side.” – Jonathan Turley

There Is Only One Civilization – “The Empire’s playbook is nothing more than an elaborate rendering of a simple divide and conquer strategy wherein anyone refusing to recognize the only civilization finds itself in the crosshairs of US might/threat. Meanwhile, in a hopelessly divided US, we pit the likes of Trump against Biden/ Obama—each incapable of real diplomacy with rising power adversaries. What is the US strategy towards adversaries? My way or the highway, allowing no dissent/separation from US hegemony. Had Harris won the election, the Empire would have had to deal with the same consequence as Trump—” – Erik @ neverhadaboss.com

Gold, Guns and Greenland – “Again, why does Trump want Greenland? Easy… It’s a necessary – some say indispensable – site for U.S. strategic defense. In other words, “Greenland” is at root a geography scenario that involves strategic defense to protect the U.S. from Russian and Chinese missiles. Alaska and Greenland are the only practical locales to place systems that can close the flight corridors to major American cities and the U.S. heartland.” – Byron King

TDS or TIS? How so-called ‘Derangement Syndrome’ has infected both sides in the left-right paradigm – “When loyalty (to a man) replaces accountability bad things happen.” – Leo Hohmann

Democrat Insurrection Gains Steam – “Democrats mourn ‘insurrection’ on January 6, engage in insurrection on January 7. The ability of the Democrat Machine to rewrite its code at a moment’s notice is terrifying. What it supported yesterday, it will denounce tomorrow when politically expedient. Right now we’re seeing a perfect example in the way prominent Democrats are reacting to federal agents enforcing immigration law.” – J.B. Shurk

From Noriega to Maduro: The Long US History of Kidnapping Foreign Leaders – “While it has undoubtedly shocked the world, the Trump administration’s abduction of President Nicolás Maduro fits into a long history of United States kidnapping of foreign leaders. Despite President Trump himself declaring that “kidnapping” was an appropriate term for what happened, corporate media around the world have refrained from using the obvious word for what transpired, preferring to use “capturing” or “seizing.” These terms reframe the incident and cast doubt on its illegality, helping to manufacture public consent for a grave breach of international law. Maduro is not the first Venezuelan official Washington has helped kidnap. In 2002, the Bush administration planned and executed a coup d’état that briefly ousted Maduro’s predecessor, Hugo Chavez, from power.” – Alan MacLeod

Clintons Refuse To Testify About Jeffrey Epstein; Comer To Begin Contempt Proceedings – “President Trump isn’t the only one clamming up over Jeffrey Epstein …The Clintons were scheduled to testify this week – weeks after the Trump DOJ released volumes of ‘Epstein Files’ – which were highly redacted, yet featured Bill prominently. The former US president was scheduled to testify today (Jan. 13), and Hillary scheduled for tomorrow. Hours before the deadline, however, the Clintons made it clear in an 8-page letter that they have no intention of showing up – calling subpoenas issued by Comer “invalid and legally unenforceable,” adding that they’ll fight Comer as long as it takes. ” – Tyler Durden – THE HILLBILLYS FROM ARKANSAS, HILL AND BILL HAVE ALWAYS BEEN ABOVE THE LAW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Clintons in Big Trouble on Epstein Subpoenas – Their Response Is Something Else – ““Every person has to decide when they have seen or had enough and are ready to fight for this country, its principles and its people, no matter the consequences,” the ex-first couple wrote to Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.), according to a letter first reported by the New York Times. “For us, now is that time,” the former first couple added. Even for the Clintons, this is particularly audacious, cannibalizing all the false Democratic narratives to help support their efforts to avoid testifying. They’re not avoiding appearing because they don’t want to testify; they’re avoiding it because they’re such brave, principled people. The gall here is something else. If, in fact, they knew nothing, all they would have to do is show up and answer the questions.’ – Nick Arama

Pete White came home with pizza – “Didn’t make it to the door” – Kenn Gividen – THREE MORE INSTANCES OF SENSELESS KILLINGS. WHY IS IT HAPPENING AND WHY DOESN’T THE MSM REPORT ON THIS. PROBABLY BECAUSE IT DOESN’T FIT THEIR NARRATIVE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Where’s the Left’s Outrage Over This Florida Shooting? – “While the Left is foaming at the mouth over the death of Renee Good in Minneapolis — a death she caused by refusing to obey the orders of ICE agents before hitting one of them with her SUV — they’re always, invariably, silent about the countless deaths of actual innocents at the hands of criminals (both illegal and American). This includes the latest out of Ocala, Florida. 64-year-old Harold Harper was at home, recovering from surgery, and working in his garden. He considered it a form of therapy. That’s when Isaac Toye, a total stranger, approached Harper from behind and shot him in the back of the head, execution style. Yet there are no riots, no mass protests, not one Democratic Party politician lamenting this actual murder of a man who was on his own property, minding his own business.” – Amy Curtis  – KENN MENTIONED THIS ONE AS WELL IN THE ARTICLE ABOVE!!!!!!!!!!

US Cargo Planes Have Flooded the Persian Gulf Since the First of December – “The surge of US military cargo planes over the last 40 days suggests that the US may opt for an air campaign and is deploying air defense systems to all of the bases listed above in preparation for such an attack. All of the information I’ve present above comes from open source intelligence (OSINT). If I can read it so can the Iranians, the Russians and the Chinese. Would you be shocked to learn that the Russians and the Chinese have satellite systems that are collecting intelligence on these bases as well and passing that information to Iran? Iran will know the location of the US air defense systems.” – Larry C. Johnson

Western media whitewashes deadly riots in Iran, relying on US govt-funded regime change NGOs -“Western media has ignored a growing trove of video evidence showing terrorist tactics deployed across Iran by protesters described by Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch as “largely peaceful.” Recent videos published both by Iranian state media and anti-government forces reveal public lynchings of unarmed guards, the torching of mosques, arson attacks on municipal buildings, marketplaces and fire stations, and mobs of armed gunmen opening fire in the heart of Iranian cities. Instead, Western media has focused almost exclusively on violence attributed to the Iranian government.” – Max Blumenthal and Wyatt Reed  – ALWAYS MAKE THE REGIMES YOU WANT TO CHANGE LOOK LIKE THE BAD GUYS!!!

ECONOMIC NEWS

Today’s Numbers: Inflation Continues To Rise. More American’s Are Now Experiencing “Price Shock.” Here Are The Numbers. – “Here is a breakdown of how its hitting the US consumer/the US economy. Using their own numbers.’ – Gregory Mannarino

92 Percent Of Employed Americans Have Cut Back On Spending As The Standard Of Living In The U.S. Crumbles – Michael Snyder

Silver to $106? Gold’s Wild Rally & the 2026 Outlook (VIDEO) with Chris Vermeulen – Craig Hemke / Sprott Money

Is Silver About to Break Our Debt-Based Financial System? – “Silver is becoming a systemic risk. For years, rumors have swirled that the CME and other futures exchanges were permitting too many silver contracts. Specifically, the silver ISN’T there. This helps explain why the precious metal is going parabolic. And what happens to silver and other precious metals prices when investors realize there isn’t enough actual bullion backstopping the trades being made on the major exchanges? Silver at $100 per ounce? $200 per ounce? We have a small window of time to prepare for what’s coming.” – Graham Summers, MBA

London’s Silver Problem Is Distressing Global Silver Availability – “A 62,000 Tonne Silver Problem” – David Jensen

Household Money-Market Funds & Large CDs Hit Records despite Lower Yields. But Sorry, It’s Not “Cash on the Sidelines” – “Households and even institutional investors continued piling into money market funds (MMFs), and their balances ballooned to new records, despite the Fed’s rate cuts since September 2024, and therefore lower yields on MMFs. If one investor buys stocks, other investors have to sell those stocks dollar for dollar. So one investor can take money out of the stock market, but other investors must by definition put the exact same amount into the stock market. When investors in MMFs sell their shares back to the fund, the fund will eventually have to unwind that amount in Treasuries, commercial paper, repos, etc., and other investors have to step into the place of the MMFs with the exact same amounts. That cash is not on the sidelines. It just flows from one investor to another as assets change hands.” – Wolf Richter

German businesses sound alarm over record bankruptcies – “High energy prices, bureaucracy, and taxes are said to be key factors behind the increase in filings” – RT

December CPI Meets Expectations But There Are Better Ways to Gauge Inflation – “Analysts warned that the December CPI report would be “muddy.” It was. But you will find what you really need to know about the current trajectory of inflation in two unrelated charts.” – Mike Maharrey

Higher CME Margins Make Shorting Silver and Gold More Expensive – “When CME raises margins, all traders—including shorts—must post more collateral to hold the same position, which directly increases the capital cost of shorting and can trigger margin calls.” – The Silver Academy

SURVIVAL, PREPAREDNESS AND SELF-SUFFICIENCY

Feed Your Family And Earn An Income On Only FOUR Acres (VIDEO) with Jill Ragan Of Whispering Willow Farm – Homesteaders of America

Shelter & Heat: The System That Fails Quietly — Then Kills Quickly – “In Canada, shelter and heat are not comfort systems. They are life-support systems. Unlike food shortages, which build slowly and visibly, heat failures often unfold quietly. A power interruption disables furnace controls. Natural gas pressure drops during peak demand. Replacement parts are delayed. Fuel deliveries stall. What begins as inconvenience becomes exposure—and once indoor temperatures fall far enough, decisions become rushed, dangerous, and irreversible.” – denob

9 Better Winter Insulators Than Foam – “You’ve probably installed foam insulation because every building supply store pushes it first. I did the same thing on my barn renovation five years ago. The R-value charts convinced me, and the installation went fast. Then problems started showing up. That failure sent me looking for materials that actually work in real winter conditions, not just laboratory tests. For a material that genuinely regulates temperature and manages moisture, you should look at sheep’s wool insulation.,,,” – Michael B

THE FARMER WHO WALKED AWAY FROM BIG AG TO HEAL HIS LAND – Will Harris

Why You Shouldn’t Stockpile Beans and Rice – “For more than a century, beans and rice have been the go-to staples recommended for survivalists and emergency preppers alike. In my hometown in Louisiana, red beans and rice are literally what’s for dinner almost every Monday night. On paper, this makes them seem like a logical choice when planning for an uncertain future. Yet in reality, stockpiling massive amounts of beans and rice might not be the best survival strategy. It could even work against you due to the following issues” – Eric Beuning

VERSE FOR THE DAY

Romans 13:11    And that, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep: for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed.

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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)

THE BIG PICTURE

God’s Greatest Challenge: Love One Another – “Yet Jesus does not merely teach us that we must love God with every part of our being. He adds another commandment that is like it, co-equal in importance: we must love our neighbors as we love ourselves. I have commented before that we cannot love each other or ourselves unless we first love God. We cannot build each other up, encourage each other, guide each other, unless we are committed to that which is right.” – Peter Nayland Kust

Silence On Sin: How Satan Has Entered the Church – “Most people don’t think about the subject of Satanism unless there is a grisly murder and satanic symbols are found at the crime scene. Many who believe in the devil usually think of him as being the darkest of figures. What they don’t realize is that the Bible tells us that he can also manifest himself as an “angel of light.” Satan is incredibly subtle. We are warned that he uses professing men of God (ministers of righteousness) to deceive the Church. The Bible calls him “the god of this world” and says that he blinds the minds of unbelievers. Jesus called him “the prince of this world” and “the father of lies.”” – Ray Comfort

The Nausea of Tribalism – “What do I mean with ‘tribal nausea’? America, once the bastion for open debate, has morphed into a home for tribal nausea where citizens cleave onto unexplored assumptions in support of unquestioned authority. For a questioner, this is a maddening turn of events. My last article where I took Trump to task as a madman, is a case in point. Good ol boys don’t see Trump, nor the political landscape he brings as being worthy of their disdain. Just below conviviality, they are on-board with American exceptionalism—sustaining a rather narrow range of focus that precludes getting at actual factual reality.” – Erik @ neverhadaboss.com

Are we just letting this happen again? – “Fascism’s point of no return. How do ordinary people rationalize the unthinkable? As authoritarianism knocks on the door of American democracy, the history of the Third Reich offers a haunting reflection not of monsters, but of ourselves.” – Sarah Connor  – GOOD INSIGHTS FROM SARAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!

EU Commissar: Free Speech Is a Virus, Censorship the Vaccine – “Ursula von der Leyen, non-popularly-elected president of the European Commission* and ultra-girlboss extraordinaire, recently came out swinging against free speech in a white-knuckle speech in which she likened “malign information” to a “virus” that society must be inoculated against (by the state, obviously) via the “vaccine” of “prebunking,” a euphemism for censorship.” – Ben Bartee

JFK SAID NO ONE SHOULD BE RICH ENOUGH TO BUY THE GOVERNMENT AND THEN HIS HEAD EXPLODED – “The Maximum Wage Proposal That Would Have Saved America From The Billionaire Class. John F. Kennedy understood something about money and power that most Americans have never been taught and will never learn from the billionaire-owned media that controls what you see and hear. He understood that once a man accumulates enough wealth, he stops being a citizen and starts becoming a threat to the republic itself. A man with a hundred million dollars can live like a king. A man with a billion dollars can buy kings. A man with a hundred billion dollars can become one, and there is nothing in our current system to stop him.” – 🐺The Wise Wolf

Google’s AI Image Generator Nano Banana And Gemini Have Made Spotting Fake Images Next To Impossible – “Some have called Nano Banana the “Adobe Photoshop killer.”” – The WinePress

FAKE AND GAY: How Pedophiles Infiltrated Government – a scandalous true story [Part 1] – “Let me tell you a story. Back in the early 1900s, there was this guy named René Guyon. René was a lawyer in France who moved to Siam. . Yes, the guy advising the judicial system of Thailand and even writing legal codes was super into children. In fact, he coined a phrase, “Sex by age eight, or else it’s too late.” Whether Rockefeller got his hands on Rene’s books or not is unknown, but in 1942, in America, Alfred Kinsey was receiving funds from the Rockefeller Foundation. If you don’t recall, Kinsey was a sexual deviant and, to put it frankly, a horrible person. He oversaw a “project” which involved molesting children as young as infants.” – Agent131711  – AGENT131711 LATEST DEEP DIVE INTO PEDOPHILIA!!!

NEWS  

Let’s talk about Renee Good – The facts and the foundations. I’ve been waiting to wade into this one in hopes that some sense would prevail to let the facts finish emerging such that it seemed like one could reach a reasonable conclusion as to what happened and why,  well, At least we mostly got number two. Alas, with regard to number one, it seems that a fair bit of sense has left the building. There’s been a lot of incendiary rhetoric and mis and malinformation running around on this, fake videos, fake stories, and wild vitriol. In such situations, I like to try to boil things down to “What facts can we trust?” and work from there.” – El Gato Malo  – GOOD ANALYSIS FROM EL GATO!!!!!!

The Machinery of Terror The Trump administration is consolidating the familiar machinery of terror of all authoritarian states. We must resist now. If we wait, it will be too late. I have seen the masked goons who terrorize our streets before. I know these goons. I have been a prisoner in their jails and spent hours in their interrogation rooms. I have been beaten by them. I have been deported, and in several cases banned, from their countries. I know what is coming.” – Chris Hedges

Impaired Situational Awareness – “Thoughts on What Happened in Minneapolis” – Bill Astore

What both sides get wrong about the Minneapolis ICE shooting – “This tragic incident has exposed the inhumanity of America’s culture warriors” – Luke Gittos.

In The Soup – The fracture lines have been exposed both internally and externally. Internally, there is the struggle between federal agents and numerous American states, including California, Illinois, Minnesota, New York, etc. Except, that it is not the will of the people to go into conflict with federal agents; it’s the will of the corrupt leaders, many elected through fraud, to go into conflict with federal agents. The truth is a lot of the protesters and agitators are paid by big NGOs and woke billionaires” – T.L. Davis

Mexico, Next? – “Once a Neocon gets rolling, it is hard to stop the rolling. The mission is never accomplished. First Iraq. Then Afghanistan. That latter one took about 20 years – of Americans’ treasure and blood, not counting the cost to the Afghanis. Well, here we again. Again. Trump announced last night that Mexico is next. “We are gonna start now hitting land,” Tiberius Orangicus Maximus told Sean Hannity. “The cartels are running Mexico. It’s very, very sad to watch and see what’s happened to that country, but the cartels are running and they’re killing 300,000 people in our country every single year.” So many fascinating aspects to this. Trump’s claim that 300,000 people are killed by the “cartels” being perhaps the most fascinating given the body count that can be credited to the cartels that operate not just legally but with Trump’s back-slapping approval in this country. How many Americans have been killed – or had their health ruined – by the drugs pushed by Pfizer, Moderna and Johnson & Johnson?” – Eric Peters

The US Empire is Going SUPERNOVA – “President Trump has set off a truly extraordinary string of global-order-destabilizing campaigns that have left the world reeling. From his attacks on Venezuela and promises of “action” against Mexico, Cuba, Nicaragua, and Iran, to his threats against allies in “securing” Greenland, it feels like one of those weeks Lenin had promised long ago: There are decades where nothing happens, and weeks when decades happen.” – Simplicius

Donald Trump ‘orders army chiefs to draw up plan to invade Greenland’: US President emboldened by success of Maduro capture operation – Glen Owen and Dan Hodges

Trump Speaks Out: Could Cuba Be Next to Fall? – “Communist Cuba has, however, for some time depended on Venezuela for energy and currency; the now-jailed, former tinpot dictator Nicolás Maduro’s security detail was mostly Cuban, for all the good that did him. But the times, they are a-changing, and not in Cuba’s favor. On Sunday, President Trump fired one of his characteristic broadsides at Cuba.” – Ward Clark

Trump is weighing options against Iran: Reports – “President Donald Trump is reportedly weighing options for intervention in Iran, according to Sunday reports. The president has been shown potential plans, ranging from possible military strikes to action that doesn’t include the military, according to reports. Tehran threatened on Sunday to retaliate against Israel and U.S. military bases in the event of U.S. strikes on Iran.” – Jennifer Elias

White House Amplifies Shocking Claims Of US Super Soldiers Deployed In Maduro Raid – “This account from a Venezuelan security guard loyal to Nicolás Maduro is absolutely chilling—and it explains a lot about why the tone across Latin America suddenly changed. Security Guard: On the day of the operation, we didn’t hear anything coming. We were on guard, but suddenly all our radar systems shut down without any explanation. The next thing we saw were drones, a lot of drones, flying over our positions. We didn’t know how to react. After those drones appeared, some helicopters arrived, but there were very few. I think barely eight helicopters. From those helicopters, soldiers came down, but a very small number. Maybe twenty men. But those men were technologically very advanced. They didn’t look like anything we’ve fought against before. We were hundreds, but we had no chance. They were shooting with such precision and speed… it seemed like each soldier was firing 300 rounds per minute. We couldn’t do anything.” – Tyler Durden  – IF THIS IS HOW IT HAPPENED, THEN OUR MILITARY HAS WEAPONS AND CAPABILITIES THAT WE DON’T EVEN KNOW ABOUT!!!

The Gathering Storm: Snatch-and-Grab Regime Change is the New New Normal – “So, what the hell does all this really mean? Good question. Let’s answer it, shall we? The raid on Maduro, like the raid on “Osama,” is awash in mystery and dripping with unanswered questions. Of course, this being 2026, the usual fog of war surrounding an event like this is even foggier because of the ever-looming question of AI-enabled deepfakery. Not even those venerable fact checkers at Snopes can say whether or not those weird, janky photographs of Maduro smiling and posing and thumbs-upping with his abductors are real or not.” – James Corbett

How Maduro, Cuba and their allies stole Venezuela’s oil wealth. – “The economic and political debate often ignores that the Maduro dictatorship weaponised the national oil company to use it as a cash machine to enrich the leaders of the socialist regime and finance the demolition of democratic institutions all over Latin America, creating an international group of allies with the main objective of demolishing US, European, and Latin American democracies from the inside. Some commentators remove from the economic debate the deliberate collapse of PDVSA, Venezuela’s institutional destruction, and the use of oil as an international political weapon as well as a tool for the personal enrichment of Maduro and his allies. Maduro’s personal wealth is estimated at $3.8 billion. $700 million in assets has already been seized.” – Daniel Lacalle – SO NOW WE STEAL IT, WILL IT GO BACK TO THE PEOPLE. DOUBTFUL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The Venezuela Technocracy Connection – “The US bombing of Venezuela and capture of Nicolás Maduro cannot be rationally explained as a drug enforcement operation, or even solely about recovering oil. The bigger picture is Technocracy.” – Derrick Broze

Cea Weaver vs. The Entire Field Of Economics – “Printing money is the solution? Why didn’t we think of that? In 2021, Cea Weaver, now the woman chosen by Zohran Mamdani to run New York City’s Office to Protect Tenants, unveiled a housing policy vision so detached from economic reality that the only academic seminar it could have emerged from would have been a slurry rant by a drunk at a bar at Newark International Airport at 3AM.” – Quoth the Raven

Amazon Is Ditching The United States Postal Service – “After nearly three decades of working together, Amazon is ending its delivery relationship with the United States Postal Service, a move that significantly alters how packages are moved across the country, according to MSN. The partnership once played a major role in Amazon’s rapid expansion while generating billions in yearly revenue for USPS. The decision comes as the Postal Service continues to struggle financially, including a reported $9.5 billion loss in its most recent fiscal year.” – Tyler Durden

Somaliland: Longtime Zionist Colonisation Target – ” Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar visited Hargeisa on January 6th, signing a memorandum of understanding on cooperation in multiple areas, including ‘defence’. President Abdirahman Mohamed Abdullahi hailed the visit as a “historic milestone” in Somaliland’s quest for international legitimacy. These developments are of significant concern to Somaliland’s neighbours throughout the Horn of Africa, with which the statelet has extremely strained relations, that have boiled over into all-out conflict on numerous occasions over decades. Fears are understandably widespread an Israeli – if not accompanying US – military presence locally will embolden breakaway authorities to intensify their belligerence, and seize contested territory claimed by both Hargeisa and Somalia. But grave anxieties are also felt throughout West Asia.” – Kit Klarenberg

Eastern Mediterranean Geopolitics Are Becoming More Complex – “Tensions are growing between Turkiye-Pakistan and Israel-Cyprus-Greece. Stability in the Eastern Mediterranean can no longer be taken for granted as a result of three recent developments: 1) the growing Turkish-Israeli rivalry in post-Assad Syria; 2) Israel’s reported plans to establish a rapid response force with Cyprus and Greece; and 3) Turkish ally Pakistan’s new military ties with Eastern Libya’s General Khalifa Haftar. The aforesaid are unfolding amidst Israel’s plans for an underwater EastMed gas pipeline to Greece and Turkiye’s maritime claims that cut right across its route.” – Andrew Korybko

ECONOMIC NEWS

Trump to Set Credit Card Interest Rates, Adopts More Elizabeth Warren Ideology – “On credit card and food price gouging, Trump is carrying out Elizabeth Warren and AOC policy mandates.” -Mish

Physical Silver Will Vanish When This Happens – Bill Holter Warns (VIDEO) – “He explains why silver stacking is crucial, especially with the looming silver shortage. We dive deep into market analysis for both silver and gold price trends, offering insights for all precious metals enthusiasts. ” – Stacking Surfer 🏄 – ANOTHER GOOD ONE WITH BILL. I KNOW I SAY THAT A LOT, BUT IT DEFINITELY IS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Silver Stackers Aim to ‘Screw the Bankers’ – “This narrative that banks are manipulating silver markets to depress the price is a powerful one. One popular version of the theory says that big banks are working with governments to keep a lid on silver prices. The motive is there. Governments have a real incentive to keep precious metals prices low. When gold and silver are flying higher, it makes fiat currencies look bad. And manipulating futures markets, at key moments, could definitely drive down prices (until a short squeeze happens).”- Adam Sharp

Brace For The Mother Of All Short Squeezes: China Is Buying Real Metal While Western Banks Are Trapped In 4.4 Billion Ounces Of Paper Lies – “China’s $48 trillion money flood is stampeding into hard assets while Western banks sit on impossible silver shorts — stack metal now or get wiped out with your fiat. – The Silver Academy

The Silver Melt-Up in Charts – “The gold/silver ratio appears to be in free fall. There is a fractal setup on the chart similar to the 2010/2011 silver rally:” – Hubert Moolman

When Clarity Matters Most (VIDEO) – The Morgan Report  – DAVID ON THE SILVER MARKET!!!

Expect At Least Two Market Corrections In 2026 (VIDEO) with Lance Roberts – “Given current market valuations and the prolonged bull run stocks have had over the past three years, investors should expect at least two corrections of at least 5-10% in 2026 warns portfolio manager Lance Roberts. But it could easily play out much worse than that, he adds.” – Adam Taggart | Thoughtful Money®

SURVIVAL, PREPAREDNESS AND SELF-SUFFICIENCY

How to Prepare for Disaster on a Budget – “I try to consider being prepared as a mindset and part of living a simpler way of life.” – Amanda Whittington

30 Bug-In Mistakes to Never, Ever Make – “In much of the prepping world, bugging out in response to a crisis is given a disproportionate amount of time and effort. In reality, bugging in, or staying put at home or another secure location, is a better bet 90% of the time. Aside from having a home-field advantage and, hopefully, a closet or storeroom stocked full of supplies and gear, bugging in can eliminate tons of variables from your survival calculus. It’s also a heck of a lot easier than bugging out most of the time. All in all, it’s a good plan, but it’s still possible to screw up.” – By Tom Marlowe

Battery Storage In The Wild (VIDEO) – Modern Refugee.  – GOOD BATTERY TIPS IN GENERAL!!!

Aprons: The Essential Homesteading Garment – “When one thinks of tools and work clothes for the homestead, aprons don’t usually come to mind, but they should. A good apron, like a good knife, is an essential homesteading tool. And like a knife, care should be taken to choose the right apron for the right job.” – Ruby Burks

How to Sew a Button (and Why You Should Learn It) -Self-Sufficient Projects Staff

VERSE FOR THE DAY

Amos 9:13    Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that the plowman shall overtake the reaper, and the treader of grapes him that soweth seed; and the mountains shall drop sweet wine, and all the hills shall melt.

IMAGE FOR THE DAY

LYRIC FOR THE WEEK

Crimson flames tied through my ears
Rollin’ high and mighty traps
Pounced with fire on flaming roads
Using ideas as my maps
“We’ll meet on edges, soon,” said I
Proud ‘neath heated brow
Ah, but I was so much older then
I’m younger than that now.

Half-wracked prejudice leaped forth
“Rip down all hate,” I screamed
Lies that life is black and white
Spoke from my skull, I dreamed
Romantic facts of musketeers
Foundationed deep, somehow
Ah, but I was so much older then
I’m younger than that now.

Girls’ faces formed the forward path
From phony jealousy
To memorizing politics
Of ancient history
Flung down by corpse evangelists
Unthought of, though, somehow
Ah, but I was so much older then
I’m younger than that now.

A self-ordained professor’s tongue
Too serious to fool
Spouted out that liberty
Is just equality in school
“Equality,” I spoke their word
As if a wedding vow
Ah, but I was so much older then
I’m younger than that now.

In a soldier’s stance, I aimed my hand
At the mongrel dogs who teach
Fearing not I’d become my enemy
In the instant that I preach
My existence led by confusion boats
Mutiny from stern to bow
Ah, but I was so much older then
I’m younger than that now.

Yes, my guard stood hard when abstract threats
Too noble to neglect
Deceived me into thinking
I had something to protect
Good and bad, I define these terms
Quite clear, no doubt, somehow
Ah, but I was so much older then
I’m younger than that now.

(My Back Pages by Bob Dylan)

Featuring Roger McGuinn, Tom Petty, Neil Young, Bob Dylan, George Harrison, Eric Clapton. G.E Smith, Steve Cropper, Donald “Duck” Dunn, Booker T. Jones Anton Fig and Jim Keltner

SORRY FOR THE LATE POSTING. THOUGHT THIS  WENT THROUGH EARLIER TODAY.

THE BIG PICTURE

Big-Oil Billionaire Makes Big on Trump’s Invasion of Venezuela – “This is Big-Oil intrigue with an imperial golden flourish, Venezuelan style. Paul Singer is one of Trump’s top MAGA megabucks billionaires. Trump admitted he tipped off some billionaires BEFORE he attacked Venezuela, even though he didn’t say anything to congress about the invasion. The biggest beneficiary in the world from oil that is pillaged by way of this takeover is PAUL SINGER because … Less than two months before Trump’s invasion, Singer’s investment firm, Elliott Investment Management, purchased Citgo, the US-based subsidiary of Venezuela’s state-owned oil company, for $5.9 billion—a sale that was forced by a Delaware court after Venezuela defaulted on its bond payments. Singer acquired the three Citgo refineries, 43 oil terminals, and more than 4,000 gas stations at a “major discount” because of Citgo’s distressed status. ” – David Haggith. – AS ARTE JOHNSON ON LAUGH IN USED TO SAY,  “VERY INTERESTING”…..

Quick Take – The world is burning…but are the flames real? – “Is anyone talking about Nuclear war? What happened to Mutually Assured Destruction? When did that stop being a consideration? The only explanation I can think of is that there is an agreement – either tacit or explicit – that these conflicts will be allowed to go so far and no further. And that makes them fake. Unquestionably, irrefutably, fake.” – Kit Knightly

The Gangsters of Manifest Destiny – “American Exceptionalism Gone Wild. Donald Trump has finally done it. Earned the respect of The New York Times and other powerful organs of our state controlled media. CNN unquestioningly parrots the line that “the U.S. runs Venezuela.” So, let’s get this straight- we abducted the leader of another sovereign nation, bombed them, but it wasn’t an act of war. It was justified. Don’t suggest that this is something new. Sure, Trumpenstein’s bombastic theatrical personality makes it seem that way. But this goes back to at least 1953, when the CIA ousted Iran’s prime minister Mohammad Mosaddegh.” – Donald Jeffries

Canadian Government Euthanizes ‘Young & Healthy’ 26-Year-Old for ‘Depression’ -Frank Bergman

How Rockefeller’s Money Decided What Doctors Were Allowed to Learn and How They Treated Patients – Died Suddenly News

UK Plans Digital IDs for Newborns, Musk Says Singularity is Here (VIDEO) – Maia Zeee / Daily Pulse

Eat Real Food: The Most Radical Nutrition Shift in Modern U.S. History (And It’s Finally Here) – “How Flipping the Food Pyramid Signals a Generational Reset in Health, Policy, and Power” – Sayer Ji – GOOD IDEA IN THEORY, BUT IS THERE ANY REAL FOODS OUT THERE? WITH HORMONES AND ANTIBIOTICS IN MOST MEAT AND DAIRY PRODUCTS AND PESTICIDES AND HERBICIDES ON EVERYTHING WE GROW,  AS WELL AS GMO FOODS AND “FRANKENFOODS”;  IT REALLY DOESN’T MATTER WHAT THE FOOD PYRAMD IS. MAKES FOR GOOD PRESS FOR BOBBY HOWEVER!!!!!

Modern Life In Canada Feels Soulless… – Matt Cart  – GOOD VIDEO. THANS TO SYLVIA SHAWCROSS FOR SHARING!!!

A new “life-changing” asthma drug: what does the data REALLY tell us? – “The drug might work (a bit) but it’s a struggle to distinguish it from placebo. With this particular drug, nobody knows what the adverse effects of such a profound inhibition of a central component of human immunity might be, but I certainly wouldn’t like to lay a bet that it will be benign.” – Jonathan Engler

Great Replacement: Boston Dynamics’ Autonomous Robots Have Completely Taken Over A Hyundai Factory, As The Trump Admin Is Using Robots To Prop-Up The Failing Economy – The WinePress

NEWS

A Put Up Or Shut Up Moment – “It feels like we’ve reverse-timed back to the era of The Chimp, which was the last time the Chickenhawk Brigades of the Republican Party got a stiffy for regime-changing in far-away countries they’d personally never “serve” in but were eager for others to “serve” in. What American interests are served? What other interests are served? These are two questions almost never asked, especially at the beginning of the regime-changing, when the chords of Lee Greenwood’s anthem for the Chickenhawks and Flag Humpers is cued up. It is worth remembering that the last time that Lee Greenwood anthem got cranked up and the Chickenhawks and Flag Humpers lined up, The Chimp enjoyed 90 percent approval, according to the polls. It lasted for just as long as it didn’t – and then we got the backlash, in the person of Barry Obama. The we got Trump – and the “emergency” that didn’t end, along with drugs being Warp Speeded and pushed on the entire country by Biden.” – Eric Peters

It Is Time to Clean House – “First and foremost, I hate ‘most’ all politicians, no matter the color, stripe, or party affiliation. In my mind, all politicians are the absolute worst of mankind. I voted only once in my life decades ago, and it made me sick to my stomach. Any human who desires to rule over any other is evil, period.Now, back to Trump, who epitomizes the worst absolute evil of these parasitical political scum. I certainly know that he (Trump) is not in control, but that he is fully controlled by others, especially the criminal and murderous Zionist Jews. With that said, he is a willing puppet of the darkest form of wickedness and vile immorality, so he should never get a pass for anything. In all my years, I have never seen anyone in this position of power who was more blatantly atrocious and disgusting than Trump; and I have seen them all, from Nixon, Johnson, Reagan, Clinton, Bush, Obama, Bush Jr., Biden, and any and all others, but Trump takes the prize so far.” – Gary D. Barnett

The Democrats Last Rodeo – “Chrump, Chrump Chrump. . . . He’s come to occupy the Left’s minds like an infestation of weevils chawing away the ligaments of civilized society. But, of course, the whole wicked, Cluster-B, anomie-driven, insurrectionist extravaganza is a made-for-video production bought and paid for by a tiny coterie of super-wealthy megalomaniacs untouched by consequence — George and Alex Soros (The Open Society Foundations), Shanghai-based American Neville Roy Singham (Codepink and more), Reid Hoffman (funder of Trump prosecutions and more), Lauren Powell Jobs (The Atlantic and the Emerson Collective), Hansjorg Wyss (Berger Action Fund), Bill Gates (of course). . . . Their main client in all this mischief is the Democratic Party, and the Democratic Party’s chief motivation, its raison d’être going on at least ten years now, has been to hide its multifarious crimes, its vast racketeering operations now garishly on display in the state of Minnesota, where the grift just went too far and was done right in America’s face.” – James Howard Kunstler

Tim Walz Calls for an Insurrection – ” I’ve issued a warning order to prepare the Minnesota National Guard,” Walz said in a press event. “We have soldiers in training and prepared to be deployed if necessary. I remind you, a warning order is a heads-up for folks,” Walz said. “Minnesota will not allow our community to be used as a prop in a national political fight.” Walz mistakenly believes those “soldiers in training” are there to protect his own self-interests. State authority cannot override federal authority. The Minnesota National Guard would not openly start a Civil War by listening to Tim Walz over the Commander-in-Chief.” – Martin Armstrong

Minneapolis Crime Tracker Website Shows No Homicides In 2026. That Could Be A Glitch. – “But There Are More Unanswered Questions About The Incident In Minneapolis. I wondered simply how an ICE officer could do something like this, with so little provocation. It seems almost like he is under some kind of MK Ultra spell. Or am I insufficiently understanding of the situation he found himself in? His conduct is very odd. That’s my word: “Odd.” I began to wonder. The footage is decontextualized. It starts just as the very bad events unfold, to the second. Feels like somebody said: “Action!” It has some of the queasy frequencies of a PSY OP, which is not the same as saying “It didn’t happen.”” – Celia Farber

“Everybody want to talk about whether or not the ICE agent should have shot the lady. I’m trying to figure out why she was there in the first place! ” – VIDEO on X  – NOT SURE WHERE YOU STAND ON ALL OF THIS BUT THIS GUY BRINGS UP AN EXCELLENT POINT. A MUST 45 SECOND WATCH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Watch: New Footage Shows Federal Agent’s Perspective In Minneapolis ICE-Involved Shooting – Tyler Durden  – THIS VIDEO SHEDS A WHOLE NEW LIGHT ON WHAT HAPPENED.

Federal Fraud Could End the Income Tax – “A nationwide tax revolt is brewing in response to apparently industrial scale federal fraud — of which Somali daycares are the poster child. Raising questions why We the Suckers are still paying an income tax originally imposed as a temporary levy to finance World War One. Which ended some time ago. And that apparently now mainly funds welfare fraud.” – Peter St Onge

First 9 Days of 2026 – “The first nine days of 2026 have been marked by a series of severe global events, including genocides, invasions, targeted killings, and escalating threats. These events underscore a pattern of violence, state-sponsored aggression, and systemic human rights violations across multiple regions, with drones, AI, and foreign intervention playing key roles in escalating conflicts.” – Frances Leader

Trump’s Vengeance: Dozens of Strikes in Syria as the Epstein Files Threaten – “ISIS, al-Nusra, and al-Qaeda: Made in the USA. As the Epstein files continue to plague Donald Trump, the president has turned to a recycled adversary to divert attention away from his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein? In response to an ambush that left two Iowa National Guard troops and a civilian interpreter dead “in a very dangerous part of Syria” illegally occupied by the United States, Trump promised there would be “very serious retaliation” against the Islamic State.” – Kurt Nimmo

How Trump’s oily dreams may collapse in a Venezuelan dark pit – “So the Big Oil Picture in Venezuela is way more complex than the Trump 2.0 gang suspects. Let’s start with neo-Caligula’s new edicts on the imperial satrapy he says he now owns; not exactly edicts but outright threats directed to interim President Delcy Rodriguez:” – Pepe Escobar

We’re Off Our Rockers – “Hyperviolence and War in America. Consider President Trump’s latest call for a $1.5 trillion Pentagon budget in 2027. The Pentagon has failed eight (!) audits in a row but let’s give the military-industrial-congressional complex (MICC) a gigantic increase in money so we can build a “dream” military. Speaking of lies, Trump has told us not to believe our own eyes when we watch video of the deadly shooting of Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis by ICE agents.” – Bill Astore

Get ready for more chaos, globally and within the U.S., as Trump claims total unchecked power to start new wars abroad while threatening to invoke Insurrection Act at home – “President calls for 50 percent increase in war budget and says there is no check on his power outside of his own mind. There’s a powder keg building in Minnesota that bears watching.” – Leo Hohmann

From Caracas to Tehran: How Trump’s Venezuela Invasion Serves Israel’s Geopolitical Agenda -Robert Inlakesh

Trump is Building a Wartime Command Economy Without Declaring War – “He’s not trying to reform the defense sector. He’s preparing to subsume it. Strip the optics. What he’s doing is establishing direct state control over strategic capital flow using loyalty pressure, populist framing, and fiscal levers. He’s not negotiating with defense executives. He’s declaring them subordinate. This is a test run. He is setting precedent to apply this model across sectors:” – Edward Doud via Lioness of Judah

The Ugly Cold War Racket Against Cuba Rears Its Ugly Head Again – “Cuba is now in the throes of a grave economic crisis, one that threatens the Cuban people with death by starvation and illness. That’s because Cuba has long depended on a generous flow of oil from Venezuela, which the U.S. government is now committed to terminating through orders to Venezuelan officials, in the hope of finally bringing down Cuba’s longtime communist regime. I can just hear it now if the Cuban regime falls: “Our 60-year-long economic embargo against the Cuban people has finally worked! It finally caused enough death and suffering among the Cuban people that the Cuban government fell of its own accord for lack of revenue!” The excitement and thrill among interventionists for all this death and suffering only goes to show how the national-security state form of governmental structure has served to warp and stultify American values and stultify the consciences of the American people.” – Jacob G. Hornberger

So… – “I’m watching videos of Russian strikes in Lviv by an Oreshnik missile and in Kyiv by drones. I have no idea if they are real. In fact, what is real? Thems in control are doing their thing. When all else fails they resort to war. ” – Sylvia Shawcros

Swift Retaliation: Putin Launches Oreshnik Strike on “Largest Gas Storage Site in Europe” in Ukraine’s Lvov Region – Simplicius

Russia’s Second-Ever Use Of The Oreshniks Was A Response To Three Recent Provocations – Andrew Korybko

ECONOMIC NEWS

It’s Not a Housing Problem; It’s a Money Problem! – “I can’t afford to buy a home! I hear this lament often, especially from young folks. Boomers often respond, saying, “Quit buying $6 lattes and ordering Uber Eats, and maybe you could save for a house.” It might just be me, but it seems like that may oversimplify things a tad. I mean, there’s no doubt a lot of young people would benefit from budgeting lessons. However, that doesn’t change the fact that there is a significant home affordability problem here in the U.S.” – Mike Maharrey

Nonfarm Payrolls Rise by 50,000 with 76,000 in Negative Revisions – “2025 closed out with a thud. Here are the details.’ – Mish

Jobs: Every Jobs Report in 2025 has Been Revised Lower – “The jobs revisions have gotten so bad that even Jerome Powell has said something about it. In the report last month, the QCEW showed an even more dire picture. Not only are the reports weak, but the downward revisions show an even weaker economy combined with a report that people can no longer trust.” – Peter Schiff

Consolidating amid uncertainty – “Chinese silver demand is on pause allowing prices to drift from all-time highs. Meanwhile, gold marches on towards a test of its post-Christmas highs. However, the physical silver shortage is what matters and will continue to drive prices. In gold, there is a dawning realisation that there must be something solid behind its bull market, with speculators returning to Comex.” – Alasdair Macleod

Trade Deficit Drops to Least Terrible Level since 2009, upon which Atlanta Fed GDPNow Doubles Q4 GDP Forecast to +5.4% – “The GDPNow algo is to be taken with a teaspoon of salt, but it shows that a big improvement of the trade deficit pushes up GDP growth.” – Wolf Richter

The Current Reality of the Stock Market (VIDEO) with Chris Irons/ Quoth the Raven – Market Insider and California Insider

Suddenly A COMEX Silver Delivery Rush On Limited Vault Inventory – “It appears that we are now seeing accelerating silver delivery demand in New York as well as other global markets as anticipated.” – David Jensen

SURVIVAL, PREPAREDNESS AND SELF-SUFFICIENCY

The Power of Prayer (or Pause) in Daily Prep Life – “In a busy prepper life, it is easy to spend every spare minute stocking shelves, tuning gear, or learning new skills. That work matters. But there is another tool that keeps you steady when trouble hits. A short daily pause, whether through prayer or quiet reflection, can do more for your judgment and courage than another piece of steel in the safe.” – Alec Deacon

Lice (and How to Deal with Them) – “This is one of the many comprehensive and various Preparedness and Survival subjects covered in detail by the Civil Defense Manual ” – Jack Lawson

How to Read a Storm With No Forecast App – “My grandfather could tell you what the weather would do three days out just by stepping onto his porch for five minutes. He’d look at the sky, watch the birds, sniff the air like some kind of human barometer, and make pronouncements that proved eerily accurate. I thought it was some kind of rural witchcraft until I realized he was simply reading signs that most of us have trained ourselves to ignore.” – Bob Rodgers

The Cure for Cabin Fever Might Not Be A Vacation South… It Might Be A Tray of Tomato Seedlings – “By the time January settles in for good, most gardeners in northern climates know the feeling all too well. The holidays are over. The ground is locked up tight. Snowbanks feel permanent. And the garden—once buzzing with bees, warmth, and growth—has gone quiet under a hard crust of frost. Meanwhile, seed catalogs begin showing up in the mailbox like little love letters from the future.” – Bill Heid

Beware of Bullpup: Home Defense with the IWI Tavor X95 Bullpup Carbine – P.E. Fitch

VERSE FOR THE DAY

John 8:45    And because I tell you the truth, ye believe me not.

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THE BIG PICTURE

Big Surprise: Legal Story Changes as Maduro Brought to Court – “What do you know? Today in court the Justice Department officially dropped the fake claim that Maduro was ringleader of the fictitious ‘Cartel of the Suns’, which never existed. The theater is not required anymore, you see, now that he’s captured! Convenient how that works, no?” – Simplicius

What Happened to the ¡Fentanyl! Hysteria? The Casus Belli Bait-and-Switch – “DOJ boss Pam Bondi has publicly released the 25-page indictment for the notorious ¡narcoterrorist! Nicolas Maduro, Butcher of Caracas. (She can’t for the life of her seem to find those Epstein files she had “on her desk” almost a year ago, even though she’s now required by law to release them in full, but she can sure get the Maduro grand jury indictment unsealed in a hurry. Weird how government suddenly develops the capacity to move with ruthless efficiency when it wants something done.) The grand jury indictment, after analyzing it, is found to contain no fewer than 67 references to “cocaine” in the context of Maduro’s trafficking operation — but zero references to “fentanyl.” Which might strike some as curious, given that the nonstop line coming out of the Venezuelan regime change proponents for months has been “¡Maduro the narcoterrorist is poisoning the youth of America with fentanyl!” Of course, the reality is, and has always been, that Venezuela has literally nothing, or almost literally nothing, to do with the illicit fentanyl trade — that’s all China, India, and Mexico.” -Ben Bartee

The Republic Our Founders Built Is Gone. Welcome to the American Empire. – “Our Nation Stopped Being a Republic the Night We Kidnapped a President” – 🐺The Wise Wolf and Lily-Rose Dawson

The Great Currency Reset: How Trump And The Federal Reserve Are Working To Crash The Dollar As A Pretext For Full Tokenization – ““Put simply: they’ll move the debt into the crypto cloud, devalue it — and start from scratch. That’s the reality for those who are so enthusiastic about crypto,” said an adviser to Putin.” – The WinePress

CDC Narrows Vaccine Recommendations in Response to Trump Order – “The changes stem from reviewing practices in other nations, including consulting experts in Denmark, Germany, and Japan.” – Zachary Stieber

Gary Webb Died To Tell America How The CIA Was Trafficking Cocaine And Weapons To Fund The Contras: His Work Is More Relevant Than Ever – “Was He Murdered? He Was Murdered Long Before His Death. Blame The Nation’s Three Leading Newspapers, And—His Editors. John Kiriakou, Former CIA, Sums Up The Gary Webb Story. It’s Time To Name Names” – Celia Farber

The British Are Coming … How Financial Empire, Not Armies, Took Control of Canada. While headlines focused on Venezuela, something far more consequential was unfolding, and most Canadians missed it. In this Monday Brief, Susan Kokinda lays out why President Trump’s actions were not about regime change at all, but about exposing the financial plumbing that enables narcotics trafficking, mass migration, and offshore laundering. More importantly, she explains why Canada was quietly put on notice. This video is essential viewing before reading what follows…” – Connie Shields  – THERE’S ALWAYS A BIGGER PICTURE TO EVERYTHING IF YOU TAKE THE TIME TO LOOK FOR IT!!!!

NEWS

Under Trump’s Madness, Insanity Has Consumed This Country – “This pre-planned coup was never once about drugs, (that is just a cover for ignorant American nationalists) for if stopping the flow of drugs and cartels was the objective, all Trump would have to do is shut down the CIA, as it is the biggest drug runner and drug dealer in the world, and controls and funds drug cartels in several countries. To stop drugs from coming into this country, one would only have to eliminate the CIA, legalize all drugs, and shut down the criminal DEA. No, this was never about drugs, and oil was never the main focus, although it is of great importance to the ruling scum, due to the risk to the worthless fiat petro-dollar and its constant debasement due the massive debt run up by this government and Federal Reserve.” – Gary D. Barnett

The Peace President Lays out his Many Goals for American Conquest – “Venezuela is only the centerpiece of a much bigger scheme. The Peace President acted this weekend like he was so angry over being spurned for the Nobel Peace Prize that he’s determined to show those dirty Norwegian rats that he doesn’t need it or want it. He’ll settle for imperial greatness, instead.” – David Haggith

Barbaria strikes again – “The Raging Twenties started with a murder: Gen. Soleimani, Baghdad, January 3, 2020. Ordered by Trump 1.0. The second part of the Raging Twenties starts with a bombing/kidnapping. Mini-Shock’n Awe on Caracas, Delta Force raid. January 3, 2026. Ordered by Trump 2.0. Raging Donald Trump said he will run Venezuela. This trashy neo-Caligula, self-proclaimed Emperor of Barbaria, in the end may not run anything, starting with his own motormouth.” – Pepe Escobar

Frozen Empire: Greenland Minded Its Own Business for Centuries, Now Trump Wants to Invade It? – “Billionaires want the resources, Trump wants the glory, and Greenland’s sovereignty is just collateral damage.” – 🐺The Wise Wolf  – THE GREAT VIKING CONQUEROR “DIONALD THE ORANGE”!!!!

The World Is A Stage (short VIDEO) – “Not everything happening in Venezuela is what it seams…” – Armor Of Truth Ministry

The Unconquerable Legacy of Simon Bolivar – “American imperialists have no idea of what they have awakened” – Ohio Barbarian  – A LITTLE HISTORY FROM THE BARBARIAN!!!!

Max Blumenthal On Maduro Capture, Vice President, Resources & More…(VIDEO) – Mario Nawfal  – GOOD VIDEO WITH MAX!!!!

The Venezuela story has big holes; how many? – “First, how was the Delta raid so successful? Maduro certainly had giant clues that something bad was coming down.” – Jon Rappoport

Reviewing The Russian UN Representative’s Response To The US’ Capture Of Maduro – “His rhetoric aims to retain Russia’s regional influence and complicate the US’ plans there.” – Andrew Korybko

Why Putin and Xi want Maduro dead – “Nicolás Maduro, Venezuela’s dictator, never finished high school. But don’t confuse the lack of formal education with stupidity. It is, after all, his charisma, stature (6’3” among men who stand 5’9”), and intelligence that allowed him to claim the throne of the oil-rich country. But that which led to his success — his advanced mental capacity — could cost him his life. Why? Maduro’s brain is a treasure trove of data — vital information — that his allies want to remain hidden and dead men tell no tales.” – Kenn Gividen

‘North American Technate’: The real reason for conquering Venezuela, and it’s not going to stop there – “Let’s take a critical look at the reasons given for President Trump’s brazen action in Venezuela, followed by threats of more military action in Colombia, Mexico, Greenland, etc.” – Leo Hohmann

How To Assimilate into America – “Profiling the 3 types of assimilation: traditional, woke, and non-assimilation. Comrades: Assimilation is the vital ingredient of successful immigration. America is a country, not an economic zone. Unity is our strength, not diversity. As our nation turns 250, assimilation is the most important issue. We must define what an American is now in order to prosper for another 250 years. America has always embraced immigrants who embrace America.” – Yuri Bezmenov

The Most Generous Goodbye in Presidential History – “Joe Biden will be living large for the rest of his life—and you’re paying for it. After more than half a century in public office, Biden is poised to collect roughly $417,000 a year in taxpayer-funded pensions—a sum that exceeds the salary of the presidency itself. (I’d gladly pay more for him to not be president than to be president, but still.) Not through a single benefit, but by stacking multiple government retirement systems into one very comfortable payout. It’s legal. It’s contractual. It’s the priciest participation trophy known to man. And it’s being paid for, of course, by you. And guess what? Your generosity doesn’t stop there. The General Services Administration has budgeted another (more than) $1.5 million a year for Biden’s post-presidency support. ” – Jenna McCarthy

Perhaps We Should Actually Be Focusing On Fixing America – “Even though we have literally stolen trillions upon trillions of dollars from future generations, our major cities are rapidly decaying, our infrastructure is crumbling, corruption is rampant, the middle class is shrinking, most of the population is struggling to even afford the basics each month, mass layoffs are happening all over the nation, our streets are teeming with hordes of drug addicts and homeless people, large numbers of Americans are selling images of themselves online just to make ends meet, and millions of others are living in their vehicles. So why don’t we use what limited resources we have to fix our own problems?” – Michael Snyder

ECONOMIC NEWS 

We Can Discern Cycles and Waves, But Not the Outcomes – Charles Hugh Smith

Is Silver At $200 Possible? – “One metals market strategist lays out a potential roadmap. In a recent Thoughtful Money interview, my friend, precious metals dealer and market commentator Andy Schectman laid out a simple answer to the “did silver just peak?” question: he doesn’t think we’re anywhere close.” – Quoth the Raven.  – I LINKED THE VIDEO WITH ANDY ON SUNDAY AS WELL!!!!!!!!!

The AI Revolution Is About to Ignite a MAJOR Bull Market in Hard Assets – Graham Summers, MBA

London’s Silver Lie Detonates: How a $90 Shanghai Cat Clawed Its Way Out of a $78 Paper Sack. – “And this silver cat is never going back in the paper bag—Western price fixers can cry all they want. COMEX and LBMA are now reduced to a fiction layered over a market they no longer control, fronting a “global” silver price that China just walked away from in broad daylight. Washington’s protectionist turn under Trump, sold as a way to “win” economic wars, has instead accelerated the collapse of Western paper pricing power and handed real price discovery to Shanghai.​ Two prices, one metal COMEX Feb ’26 silver sits around $78– $79 dollars an ounce, still marketed as the world’s benchmark price.​ So please, I beg of you, don’t sell to any bullion dealers because dealers will use this phony price (and weaker hands often think they are timing a top when this silver bull market is just beginning) Stay tough and recall the current price of silver is now $90” – The Silver Academy

Five Key Commodities On Our Radar in 2026 – Nomo Prins  – YOU MIGHT NOT BE ABLE TO GET SILVER, BUT DO YOU HAVE COPPER!

UBS: “Copper Is The Commodity Everyone Wants To Own” – “”Copper extended its rally on Tuesday, with prices surging to a record $13,187 per ton, fuelled by a rush to ship the metal to the US amid tariff uncertainty and persistent supply disruptions,” UBS analyst Aditi Samajpati wrote in a brief note to clients earlier.” – Tyler Durden

Loss Of Control Of Gold And Silver Price Fixing Scheme In London Leads To Kinetic Conflict – “Interest Rates Will March And So Are Troops. The cat is out of the bag on London’s monetary metal price fixing debacle and demand for these essential monetary, strategic, and safe haven metals is going to increase along with interest rates.” – David Jensen

SURVIVAL, PREPAREDNESS AND SELF-SUFFICIENCY

What Off-Grid Living Really Looks Like (And Why It’s More Accessible Than You Think) (VIDEO) with Jeff Burkinshaw Of Gridlessness – Homesteaders of America  – GOOD VIDEO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Raising the “Vibrational Energy” Of Your Homestead – “The kind of place that steadies your breathing, clears your head, and makes you feel capable again the moment you step inside. That’s what raising the vibration of a homestead really means—and it’s something you can start building right where you’re sitting. Your Home Is Either Working For You… Or Quietly Wearing You Down” – Bill Heid

How to Wipe Yourself Off the Grid – Pat Henry  – OLD ARTICLE, BUT STILL HAS SOME GOOD IDEAS!!!

How to Make Gallons of Vinegar for Pennies – “The problem is: if you use vinegar all the time, the cost can add up fast. A gallon of quality raw apple cider vinegar can be pricey, and buying multiple gallons over time really starts to sting. Fortunately, there’s a simple way to make a whole lot of vinegar for very little money, using something you normally throw away: apple peels and cores. This method turns fruit scraps into a fermented vinegar in two stages, and it’s exactly what this video teaches.” – Heidi Hawthorn

Winter Food Resilience: How Canadian Preppers Keep Eating When Supply Chains Tighten – denob

VERSE FOR THE DAY

Exodus 23:22      But if thou shalt indeed obey his voice, and do all that I speak; then I will be an enemy unto thine enemies, and an adversary unto thine adversaries.

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THE BIG PICTURE

Stolen Soil and Corporate Welfare: The Global Scam of ‘Feeding the World’ – “Supermarket shelves have never been fuller, yet diets have become poorer. Across the world, food systems praised for their productivity now deliver an abundance of calories alongside widespread micronutrient deficiency, ecological collapse and rural precarity. This is the outcome of an agricultural model that equates food security with yield and mass production with nourishment. Sustained by billions in subsidies, industrial agriculture increasingly resembles a welfare state for agribusiness and retail giants whose profits depend on public money. Corporate-driven industrial agriculture claims to feed the world but too often delivers empty calories while starving populations of nutrients.” – Colin Todhunter

Tokenization: How Tokenizing All Assets Fulfills The World Economic Forum’s Stakeholder Capitalism Model, As BlackRock’s Larry Fink And Other Elites Seek To Create Infinite Wealth – The WinePress

Rosa Koire’s 2012 Warning About a “STERILIZATION Vaccine” Everyone Ignored – “Author Rosa Koire claimed U.S.–China coordination on population control nearly a decade before COVID.” – Sense Receptor via Lioness of Judah

Arctic Blasts Will Become More Frequent – “Multiple areas of the United States have been absolutely hammered by record snowfall and bitter cold this Winter, and Syracuse, NY, is among the hardest hit. It has been a fierce winter in the United States, with much of the country hit by severe frigid temperatures over the past several weeks. However, this is just the beginning of Winter. Storm after storm is being announced, and it seems like it’s not going to stop. Hope you are up for a long, cold, snowy winter. For a few hundred million, if not a billion people, it’s going to be hard to believe in man-made global warming.” – Dr. Sircus

Elites, Abortions, Pride & Spies: The Secret World of PLAYBOY [Hugh Hefner PART 4] – “Murders, mayhem, and MKUltra: Here’s the final chapter…” – Agent131711  – AGENT131711 FINISHES HIS DEEP DIVE INTO PLAYBOY!!!

NEWS

The Peace President Goes to War – “Not content with stealing Venezuela’s assets, Trump is also after Iran’s sovereignty. American money has poured into NGO’s in Iran and used to bribe street protests against the government as was done in Kiev when the elected Ukrainian government was overthrown and an American puppet installed. Trump has announced that the United States will intervene in Iran if violence is used against the hired protesters. Just as Washington arranged for shots to be fired in Kiev, Washington can arrange for shots to be fired in Tehran. This way Trump can overthrow Iran without it looking like he is doing it for Israel.” – Paul Craig Roberts

Why Seize Maduro? Power, Plain and Simple Governments Chase Power The Way People Chase Wealth – “Shoutout to one of my regular readers here on Substack, The Watchman, for putting this question directly: Peter, I guess my first question would be “Why are we expanding American Power?” To be the “Big Kid” on the block? To take other countries’ oil? Just what is the purpose of Gunboat diplomacy? Many pundits both pro- and anti-Trump have proffered explanations (or criticisms) of the Caracas raid, all of them proceeding from a particular geopolitical bias.” – Peter Nayland Kust

The US’ Capture Of Maduro Exposed The Reality Of Great Power Geopolitics – “Trump 2.0 boldly explained how the US intends to restore its “sphere of influence” over the Americas in accordance with the new National Security Strategy, thus representing a Hyper-Realist approach in the sense of explicitly embracing the pursuit of power as a goal instead of denying it like before.” – Andrew Korybko

The madness of Trump’s foreign policy. It’s worse than you think – “Does anyone, even in his own circle of fools, believe the Venezuela stunt is really about drug trafficking? Benjamin Netanyahu’s recent visit to Trump’s lair marks their sixth one-on-one meeting since Trump took office – a telling detail on several levels. The main point is that Bibi is struggling to convince Trump that the U.S. and Israel need to go to war with Iran, a move Trump is resisting. The scenario of dragging America into another “forever war” in the Middle East is not appealing to Trump, whose foreign policy misadventures around the globe are backfiring and boxing him into several corners. Some analysts already point to new conflicts brewing on multiple fronts following his preposterous act of high-seas piracy – seizing oil tankers leaving Venezuela.’ – Martin Jay

Maduro’s story is the latest chapter in Latin America’s struggle against empire – “Through centuries, the region has seen leaders who stood for independence, but also traitors willing to sell out to colonial powers” – Nadezhda Romanenko

Colombia president rages ‘come get me, I’m waiting’ in huge taunt to Trump – “Colombian President Gustavo Petro issued a stark warning to Donald Trump after the capture of Nicolas Maduro sent shockwaves around the world.” – Falyn Stempler

We All See What Washington Is Doing – “After the 2024 Israeli program to booby trap commercial pagers, sell them to Hezbollah, and conduct a set of denotations that killed and maimed over 3,280 people, 60 Minutes interviewed a supposed Mossad agent who explained how the world works. “We write the screenplay, we are the main actors, and the world is our stage.” Many were impressed by the pager attack scenario. Many were also a bit terrified, no doubt a key objective of the Israeli effort. The commemorative desktop versions of “the Israeli pagers” given to Trump and Rubio, in gold and silver, were not to celebrate but to warn. A key Zionist achievement of 2025 was gaining command of TikTok, Paramount and CBS. TikTok, in Netanyahu’s own words, was the jewel in the media crown, as the only consistent source of genocide coverage and voices critical of Zionism.” – Karen Kwiatkowski

Trump Signs ‘Make Iran Great Again’ Hat as Iranians Flood Streets in Protests Against Islamic Regime – “President Donald Trump was photographed holding a signed “Make Iran Great Again” hat as mass demonstrations continued across Iran in response to the regime’s political and economic corruption. Trump was pictured with the hat alongside Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC). The image appears to have been captured on board Air Force One. Graham was also alongside Trump while the president spoke with reporters about the capture of Venezuela’s socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro.” – David Lindfield  – GOOD OLD WARMONGER, LINDSEY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Unconfirmed Reports Say Khamenei Is Fleeing To Moscow, After Vowing Crackdown On Street Protests In Iran That Have Killed At Least 16 In Last 8 Days. Trump Says US “Locked And Loaded” To Intervene – Celia Farber

Mamdani’s New Housing Official Called to ‘Seize Private Property’ from Citizens: ‘Especially White Families’ – Frank Bergman

If affordability really matters, then let’s look at electricity – “Zohran Mamdani and the rest of the socialist brigade that is taking office this year, after 2025’s off-year elections, campaigned on affordability. They argue that people are paying way too much for things, and they can fix it. Well, I happen to think that some things are too expensive, too. However, if affordability is going to be the buzzword for Democrats, then maybe they should stop making electricity so damn expensive in their states. Instead of admitting that expensive electricity is a choice they’re deliberately making — your budget be damned — they lie, claiming wind and solar power are “affordable” and “reliable.”” – Tom Knighton

Walz Drops Out Of Governor’s Race Amid Somali Fraud Scandal – Tyler Durden

ECONOMIC NEWS 

Five Million Are Seriously Delinquent on Student Loans, Wage Garnishments Begin – “Wage garnishments start on January 7.” – Mish

U.S. manufacturing slump shows little sign of ending, ISM shows – “Factory index dips to lowest level of the year” – Greg Robb

The Maths of a Debt Trap – “Stagnating economies, together with high government debt loads, inevitably create funding crises and debt traps. Nowhere is this problem more destructive than for the fiat dollar. But it’s not just the dollar. Economies in the Eurozone and the UK have insufficient growth to support their colossal mountains of government debt.” – Alasdair Macleod

Do Central Banks Determine Interest Rates? – “It is commonly held that the long-term interest rate is an average of current and expected short-term interest rates. The short-term interest rate, it is maintained, is determined by the central bank policy rate, such as the federal funds rate in the US. Hence, it follows that the central bank is the key in the interest rate determination process. But does it make sense that individuals have nothing to do with interest rate determination?” – Frank Shostak

Silver Mania Begins – “Everybody loves the idea of a short squeeze, and that could be what we’re starting to witness. One version of the silver squeeze theory argues that big bullion banks are short massive quantities of silver. That they’ve been working with the government to suppress the price of precious metals, so that fiat currency looks good by comparison. Proponents of this theory would argue that what we’re seeing today is the inevitable unraveling of the scheme. Is that what’s actually happening? Maybe, but we don’t have conclusive proof either way. What we do know is that plenty of people are short silver, and they’re getting squeezed out of their positions.” – Adam Sharp

Many Precious Metals Dealers’ Silver Inventories Have Been Wiped Out – Money Metals News Service

SURVIVAL, PREPAREDNESS AND SELF-SUFFICIENCY

10 Things Preppers Are Sick of Hearing – “As a prepper, even though our numbers are growing, we have a pretty unique view of the world. Because of that view, there are things people outside our sphere say to us over and over when they learn of our survival mindset. And if you are one of those unprepared folks, let me put you on notice. There are some things preppers are sick of hearing.” – Daisy Luther

The Survival Garden You Already Own… But Keep Dumping in the Trash – “Most folks think preparedness starts with buying something—another bucket, another seed kit, another “just in case” purchase that promises peace of mind. Don’t get nervous, I fall into this a bit too. But here’s the uncomfortable truth: if the trucks stopped rolling tomorrow, most pantries would go quiet in a week—not because there isn’t food, but because there isn’t food supply…continuity. And the cruel irony is this: the very system that could keep food coming is being scraped into the trash every night after dinner. That onion root you chopped off. That garlic clove you tossed. That handful of seeds rinsed down the drain.” – Bill Heid

Hypothermia 2026 – “Winter is here, but down in sunny Florida, it’s easy to get complacent about cold-related medical issues. Today, however, the temperature went down to the high 30s, so even we friendly Floridians are not immune. Whether in good times or in survival settings, family medics everywhere should know how to recognize the effects of cold temperatures on the human body, and what to do if they come upon a victim of hypothermia. Hypothermia is a medical emergency that occurs when body temperature drops below 95° Fahrenheit (35° Celsius). It occurs as a result of prolonged exposure to cold and can be life-threatening.’ – Joe Alton MD

4 Winter Gardening Tasks That’ll Save You Hours in Spring Cleanup – Jenna Clark

67 Methods to Get Rid Of Weeds Naturally – “When you focus on natural weed control, the goal is not destruction, but to create conditions where weeds struggle to grow. As balance returns to your garden soil, many weeds lose their “advantage”. They simply cannot exist. The methods to get rid of weeds naturally you’ll find below are drawn from long-standing land practices that have proven effective over generations.” – Olivia Brooks

VERSE FOR THE DAY

1 Corinthians 3:10    According to the grace of God which is given unto me, as a wise masterbuilder, I have laid the foundation, and another buildeth thereon. But let every man take heed how he buildeth thereupon.

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