THE BIG PICTURE

Why America’s Two-Party System Will Never Threaten the True Political Elites – “Whenever a new US president is sworn in, media pundits and court historians gush about the supposed “peaceful transfer of power” that is taking place. This has become a key tenet of the mythology and ideology surrounding democracy—that governing elites willfully abandon their control over the machinery of the state in response to election outcomes. Indeed, this narrative about democracy is absolutely foundational to the perceived legitimacy of democracy. The contention that elections lead to a “peaceful transfer of power” reinforces the idea that the governing elites are determined by elections, and therefore by the “will of the people.” If “we the people” vote for a new group of rulers, then the old leaders will step aside a new group will take over. At least, that’s how the story goes. ” – Ryan McMaken

Epstein Shocker: They Were Selling Babies – “What the Hell Is Going On?” – 🐺The Wise Wolf

Trump demands social-media platforms turn over lists of political dissidents – “The two-party system has all but shredded the First Amendment, which protects the rights of all Americans to speak out against their government without fear of censorship or political retribution. Remember how Donald Trump prattled on about the evils of the Biden administration censoring Americans’ online activity and how he was going to restore free speech? He said he was going to make the internet free again for conservatives to express their views and opinions without fear of being censored or shadow banned like they were under Biden. That now seems like a distant memory.” – Leo Hohmann

The Days of Noah Are Back: What Genesis 6 Really Says (VIDEO) – “Jesus said the end times would look like the days of Noah. Most people quote that verse, but skip what was actually happening in Genesis 6. Genesis describes a supernatural corruption of humanity. Enoch expands on it and connects the spiritual side, including unclean spirits seeking vessels and the increase of deception in the last days. This isn’t politics. It isn’t coincidence. It’s spiritual warfare.” – Emily Witte

The Hijacking of Bitcoin – “Bitcoin was supposed to be simple: digital money you could send to anyone, anywhere, without a bank or government getting in the way. When Satoshi Nakamoto released the idea in 2008, it was described as peer-to-peer electronic cash, like handing someone cash in person, but over the internet. No middleman. No permission needed. Privacy protected. Freedom built in. Today, though, Bitcoin is sold as digital gold, something you buy and hold, not something you spend on coffee. Transactions are slow and expensive on the main network. Most everyday use happens on side systems that add layers of control. The whole story changed from cash for the people to scarce asset for Wall Street. That did not happen by accident. It was hijacked. The funding for this change is linked to Jeffrey Epstein. ” – Aaron R. Day

The FDA greenlit a human trial of an “immortality elixir” containing SV40! – “I wish I were making this up, but I am not that creative.” – Sasha Latypova

The Man Who Invented Climate Change – Maurice Strong – “On his death in 2015 The Telegraph hailed Maurice Strong as the man who invented climate change, “to this day, global climate policy is still shaped by the agenda of Maurice Strong, a Canadian multimillionaire.” But to those who have looked behind the veil of corporate media propaganda, he’s known as the Godfather of climate change – Godfather , as in crime boss. Amongst others, Strong was Secretary General of the first United Nations Conference on the Environment and Population in 1972, President of the Rockefeller Foundation, head of the World Bank, head of the United Nations Environmental Program, a member of the Foundation Board of the World Economic Forum and a committed socialist and globalist. He was also one of Klaus Schwab’s mentors.” – Rhoda Wilson

 

 

NEWS

What if Epstein is About Something Worse? – “Here is a hypothesis that’ll keep you up nights. What if all this Epstein stuff isn’t so much about exposing awfulness but about normalizing it? Yes, we’re shocked by what we’ve been made privvy to so far – but not really. How many of us didn’t already suspect this sort of thing was going on? More finely, how many of us believed the ruling class wasn’t riddled with the most awful kinds of people? These people are, after all, politicians. And what is a politician but a gangster who is presented as legitimate? The gangster is a thug who is feared rather than loved because it is understood he has the power to make you suffer. He can have you beaten up or killed. He can just take your stuff. It is now out-in-the-open what we’re dealing with. More finely, who these people are. That it is characteristic of the class. It isn’t just a few bad apples. The entire barrel is maggoty. What did people think it would be? Did they really think that professional gangsters – people who live by force and fraud – would not be interested in diddling children? Why would they think that? They diddle us as a matter of course.” – Eric Peters  – GOOD ONE FROM ERIC AS USUAL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Blood in the Water – “This bread and circuses routine is looking pretty played out. The bread, of course, is pizza, the Soylent Green of these seeming end-times, underwriting the nation’s romance with morbid obesity (and perhaps with degenerate sex). The circuses — last week’s Grammy Awards, the Winter Olympics tonight, Sunday’s looming Superbowl — give off an odor of utter cultural exhaustion. What will it finally take for Western Civ, and its avatar, the USA, to stop embarrassing itself before God and history, and find better things to do? You have been following the Epstein papers, no doubt. The sordidness grows like a yeast infection in the body politic, and yet to date hardly one prosecutable crime? What gives with that? Last week’s release of the final super-batch of Epstein papers brought on a harvest of reputations, at least. The docs revealed Microsoft zillionaire Bill Gates conniving with the late (possibly) Jeffrey Epstein to turn pandemics and vaccines into a profitable enterprise, with a spate of email discussions years before Covid got sprung on the world.” – James Howard Kunstler

Iran is Trump’s Israeli Influence Test – “Putting America first means no dumb wars in the Middle East.” – Andrew Day

After Epstein, How Can ‘Authorities’ Maintain Legitimacy? – “Why should liars, frauds, pedophiles, and evil perverts rule over us? The devil is the father of lies. We should not be surprised when the same “authorities” who regularly tell us lies end up behaving just as wickedly as the devil, too.” J.B. Shurk

The Criminality Buried In The Epstein Files Is Worse Than Anyone Thought, And The Degeneracy Of Donald Trump Is Worse Than Anyone Thought – “”I never … believed there was one code of morality for a public and another for a private man.” Thomas Jefferson Last weekend, the Justice Department released millions of additional pages (along with thousands of additional photographs) of the Epstein files. The little bit that I have seen so far absolutely staggers the imagination and thoroughly sickens the stomach. And Donald Trump is far from an innocent bystander. He is neck-deep in filth and criminality. No wonder Trump tried so hard to keep the files hidden and is now about to start a war with Iran to keep the American people distracted, hoping they will not pay attention to what is in those files.” – Chuck Baldwin

Trump takes down racist Truth Social post showing Obamas as apes after blowback – “The White House initially defended Trump’s post when asked for comment on Friday morning, “Please stop the fake outrage and report on something today that actually matters to the American public,” Leavitt said. Trump is depicted in that video as a lion. The song “The Lion Sleeps Tonight” by The Tokens plays in the background.” – Kevin Breuninger and Dan Mangan

Trump, Pirate of the Caribbean – ” have now been here a week and I think that I have absorbed enough to attempt a little analysis, as opposed to the simple impressions I gave shortly after arrival. Those impressions remain valid however: this is not a repressive state. I had yet to see a checkpoint, that nobody had at any stage asked me who I am, what I was doing or prevented me from going anywhere, and that the shops, bars and restaurants are all functioning normally. Colleen reported from Minneapolis that there were checkpoints everywhere, that the streets are full of heavily armed men, that people are frequently stopped, questioned, asked to produce documents, and diverted, and that many shops bars and restaurants are closed because the staff are afraid to venture out into the streets. Colleen is heavily involved in detainee support and in getting supplies to people sheltering in their homes. Remind me again, which of us is in a supposed dictatorship?” – Craig Murray

Epstein: did all roads lead to Moscow, or Tel Aviv? (VIDEO) with Max Blumenthal – “Blumenthal ties carrier deployments and regional tension to Israel’s strategy of trapping America in endless Middle East quagmires, while JD Vance parrots neocon lies and British media deflects Epstein’s Israeli fingerprints as “Russian assets.”” – Judge Andrew Napolitano / Judging Freedom

Why is the Deep State Targeting DNI Tulsi Gabbard with Such Ferocity? – “Each day more and more people are starting to realize/notice there are elements of the United States intelligence apparatus that are targeting Director of National Intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard. The need for control is a reaction to fear, and Tulsi Gabbard has the DC Intelligence Community very worried. The DNI can assemble material from any silo. Meaning the DNI can reach into any IC silo and extract anything they want. Under the original authorities given to the DNI, this authority exists. In essence, the DNI *CAN BE* deployed like a super strong cross-silo inspector general’s office. Force the other IC silos to comply with the demands of the DNI. This has never been done. But the DNI has this unique power. The DNI can make the FBI, DOJ, DOJ-NSD, DoD, DoS and CIA provide anything and everything they demand. Instead of the other silos using blocks and threats against the office of the President, use the authority of the DNI to get them without confrontation. Then use the DNI to declassify the documents (if requested by potus), instead of the originating silo.” – Sundance

Billions In Chinese Investment To Flee Panama – Beijing Livid Over Canal Ports Decision – “China is lashing out at Panama after the country’s top court torpedoed a key Chinese-linked operations contract at the Panama Canal, warning that the Central American nation “will inevitably pay a heavy price” if it doesn’t reverse course. Under immense US pressure from the Trump White House, Panama’s Supreme Court last week ruled to void the operating license of Hong Kong–based CK Hutchison for ports on both ends of the canal – Balboa on the Pacific side and Cristóbal on the Atlantic.” – Tyler Durden

Witkoff Kushner Trump As US-Iran talks resume, will Israel play spoiler (again)? – “Trump can get to yes with Tehran if he wants to” – Eldar Mamedov

Iran’s Brand New Ballistic Missiles Are So Incredibly Fast That They Can Reach Israel In About 10 Minutes – “A war with Iran would not be easy. I hope that those that are running our military understand this. On Thursday, the White House once again warned that war is an option if negotiations fail…” – Michael Snyder

How Arms Control Went Out The Window – “Today the last nuclear treaty between the the United States and the Russian Federation expired. It is the first time in 64 years that there will be no limits on each side’s nuclear forces. The New START Treaty had been limiting the number of deployed strategic nuclear weapons and weapon carriers. Other nuclear related treaties like the Anti Ballistic Missile treaty, the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty and the Open Skies Treaty have previously been ended by various U.S. presidents. Russia had offered and asked for prolonging the New START Treaty but the U.S. had, until today, not responded to that request.” – Moon of Alabama

What’s The Likelihood Of A Global Nuclear Arms Race? – “Russia and China are expected to reciprocally respond to the US’ potential development of new nukes and/or new nuke tests after it just let the New START lapse, which could be exploited by European and East Asian countries to develop their own nukes, thus emboldening some Muslim ones to follow suit.” – Andrew Korybko’s

 

 

 

ECONOMIC NEWS

The Everything Bubble is Bursting … Well, Bursting Everything! – “Here is a list of the carnage and the chaos.” – David Haggith

Here We Go Again on Inflation: Used Vehicle Prices Jump in January, Expected to Jump More in Record Tax-Refund Season – Wolf Richter

Bitcoin Plunge Steepens, Down 48 Percent from January 2025. Why? – Mish

Stackers smiling, traders trounced – “The disconnection between physical reality and derivative volatility became obvious in gold and silver pricing this week. No silver? No matter. Futures carry on regardless. This week has seen price instability in gold and particularly silver. This morning in European trade gold was $4875, up $210 from last Friday’s close and silver at $73.80 is down $11.60 having been as high as $92 on Wednesday.” – Alasdair Macleod

The Silver Price Lie Is Crumbling: London Just Proved It – “A 6.1% lease rate, sold‑out mints, and empty bullion shelves—paper silver may have crashed, but physical demand is exploding in plain sight. In just its opening days, nearly 19 million ounces have already been delivered—almost matching all of last February—and a stunning 100% of open interest is standing for delivery. This isn’t a futures market anymore. It’s a physical grab. And March, the big contract month, looms like a storm on the horizon. Let that sink in. Registered silver—the metal actually deliverable—has collapsed from 167 million ounces in October 2025 to around 103 million now, draining at roughly 785,000 ounces per day. At that rate, available supply could fall to 85 million ounces by the March delivery start. The rest of the COMEX “eligible” category remains untouched, because owners refuse to part with their metal at current suppressed prices. When people who own silver won’t sell it to the exchange meant to trade it, it’s not a functioning market. It’s a countdown.” – The Silver Academy

Aborted LiveStream — Silver & Gold Shock: Why the Crash Happened — Bull Market Lives (VIDEO) with John Rubino – Kerry Lutz / Financial Survival Network

Do CME COMEX Rules Have Trapdoors Effectively Allowing High Frequency Traders To Erase Price Movement Guardrails? – “The Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) COMEX markets for gold and silver futures trading maintains a rulebook to ensure that commodity trading in the market is maintained in an orderly fashion so that daily trading price moves don’t run away either higher or lower. It is well known that market runs can be triggered by rapidly offering-down a contract price through points where large stop-losses are positioned automatically triggering further selling bringing the price rapidly lower and potentially cascading down the contract price through chaotic selling. To limit such undesirable market action, the CME COMEX market has what it calls Dynamic Circuit Breakers (DCBs). For silver, DCBs are currently triggered when the price of silver moves up or down more than 10% from a reference price calculated from market data. ” – David Jensen

Did the AI Bubble Just Burst? – “Was the entire AI story just an enormous bubble? The AI story, at least as it pertains to Big Tech hyper-scalers, is imploding in real-time.” – Graham Summers, MBA

 

 

SURVIVAL, PREPAREDNESS AND SELF-SUFFICIENCY

Garden Planning for Food Security – “For most Canadians, gardening is recreational. For preppers, it’s infrastructure. The difference matters. A recreational garden produces food when conditions are good. A food-security garden is designed to produce reliably, even when weather, labour, inputs, or supply chains are working against you. That requires planning well beyond seed catalogs and spring enthusiasm.” – denob

Answering the Most Common Preparedness Questions After Years of Survival and Field Testing – “Preparedness From Beginners to Experts!” – Jason Salyer

How To Choose The Best Food Grade Buckets – “When it comes to long-term food storage, few tools are as important — or as misunderstood — as food grade buckets. Preppers who ignore proper storage containers often learn the hard way that poor packaging can destroy years of stored food in a matter of months. Moisture, oxygen, pests, light exposure, and chemical contamination are the biggest enemies of long-term food security. The right food grade buckets eliminate those threats and allow you to safely store survival foods for decades.” – Ask A Prepper Staff

10 Clever Seed Starting Tips – Tricia Drevets

Why Industrial Agriculture Hates Your Heirloom Soup Beans – ” Modern seed systems reward beans that behave perfectly for combines, packing lines, and global shipping. Flavor doesn’t rank high. Neither does nutrition. Resilience barely makes the list. Heirloom soup beans quietly rebel against that logic.” – Bill Heid

 

 

VERSE FOR THE DAY

John 8:44     Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.

 

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