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THE BIG PICTURE

Insanity, Debt, Unlimited Oil Price Hikes, Famine, and Aggressive War – “My, my, much of the world is shutting down, told to stay home, to work from home, to use less energy, and to restrict travel, all while prices on fuel skyrocket. This is almost similar to another scam called the ‘covid pandemic.’ This is heavily affecting Asia at this time, but the longer this U.S. (Trump) and Israeli (Netanyahu) war idiocy continues, the risk of much higher prices, shutdowns, and economic upheaval will only increase in scope and area. These consequences of aggressive war and regime change always affect the general populations the most, and certainly the ‘unintended’ (not) consequences will become much more in number and severity, likely including famine in many parts of the world.” – Gary D. Barnett

What it is – “What it is is the hubris. Where is the gravity of this “controlled collapse” from our revered leaders?” – Sylvia Shawcross  – SHORT AND TO THE POINT FROM SYLVIA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

On The 6th Anniversary Of The Covid Plandemic, The World Is Being Thrust Into A New Catastrophe And Climate Lockdown With Oil Shocks Caused By War In Iran – “Crisis Economics 101. This latest war is the next leg of the Great Reset launched in 2020, as the world faces supply-chain and energy shocks echoing the plandemic.” – The WinePress

FBI Case Files Link Epstein to Jimmy Savile – “Newly uncovered documents have linked Britain’s most notorious child predator, Jimmy Savile, to Jeffrey Epstein and his convicted accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell. The files connect Savile to several other figures connected to Epstein’s network.” – Frank Bergman

War Abroad Should Not Mean Less Freedom at Home – “History suggests that wartime often reshapes the relationship between citizens and government. The United States remains one of the last English-speaking countries where speech and thought are still broadly protected. That did not happen by accident. Yet when we look honestly at the past century, a pattern becomes difficult to ignore. Nearly every major war America has entered has been followed by some erosion of liberty at home.” – Mollie Engelhart

We Are Beings of Light – “How plant blood hidden inside your mitochondria silently harvests the sun — and what this means for everything you thought you knew about energy, aging, and what it means to be alive.” – Sayer Ji

Heads-up: Food crisis incoming – “Prices will rise, shortages will occur. Dear reader, the coming food crisis requires immediate action: 1. Change your diet: Shift toward plant-based proteins like lentils, beans, and chickpeas. Legumes fix nitrogen and require less synthetic urea. Also, this cheap source of protein (especially dried beans) reduces exposure to price volatility. 2. Start your stockpile now: Buy shelf-stable commodities before retail prices adjust. Focus on rice, oats, pasta, and dried beans. 3. Grow and preserve fresh foods: Start plants indoors this spring (in the northern hemisphere). Research what grows in your area and begin seed starting this weekend. Learn to can fresh food to preserve what you grow or supermarket deals.” – Sarah Connor

Tennessee Bill Would Ban Administration of mRNA Vaccines in Humans and Animals – “An individual, including a healthcare provider, shall not administer to any human or animal in this state a vaccine or other injectable solution that contains an mRNA vaccine or vaccine material.” – Jon Fleetwood

 

 

 

NEWS

The a-spiritual President and his Demonic War. – “A holy war and the unholy leader driving it. “The Bible means a lot to me, but I don’t want to get into specifics.” — Donald Trump, 2015 on Bloomberg Politics’ program, With All Due Respect. US President Trump is the most obviously a-spiritual US president I can recall in my life-time—although, Bill Clinton, perhaps, warrants special mention here too. The Trumpster is rarely given to twenty minute off-cuff the remarks expanding on his spiritual faith and practice. Question: “Have you ever asked God for forgiveness?” Answer: “I am not sure I have. I just go on and try to do a better job from there. I don’t think so. I think if I do something wrong, I think I just try and make it right. I don’t bring God into that picture. I don’t.” Interesting answer. But, let’s finish by asking a question for those of us who think of ourselves as Christians? Can those Shia Muslim Iranian school-girls be in any other place than the most heavenly one and on the right hand side of God? I think not. I believe not. I pray not.” – Gerry O’Neill

‘We voted for walls, not wars’: Did strikes on Iran just break MAGA? – “How the war on Iran shattered the loyalty of Trump’s supporters” – Evgeny Balakin

The Inner Cabinet and the Outer Media – “Anyone who is not sick at heart and raging over the slaughter of over 165 young Iranian girls at a school by the American-Israeli monsters waging war on Iran is depraved and evil. It sickens me to state something so obvious, but I am afraid it is true that many are not distraught by the news. A nod to “how terrible” and on with the war is a common response for those who even know about it, not just because of moral indifference but because of the acceleration of digital news reporting that disappears today before it has become tomorrow. The young girls are forgotten with each passing day in the U.S. and Israel – but not in Iran.” – Edward Curtin

Trump Crosses Iran’s ‘Red Line’ By Heavy Bombing Of Kharg Island, Endangering Energy Assets Across Region – “In what could prove to be a major step up the escalation ladder in the two-week-old US-Israeli war on Iran, President Trump on Friday evening (notably after US market closure) announced that US Central Command had carried out a major bombing raid on Kharg Island, which handles upwards of 90% of Iran’s crude oil exports.” – Tyler Durden

Mission Accomplished: Trump Declares Victory as All Sides Intensify Combat – David Haggith

The Madman School of International Diplomacy Madmen and the road to MAD. Donald Trump offers perhaps the most prominent contemporary example. Once a master of transactional negotiation, his later tenure suggests a leader increasingly isolated from factual reality, driven by personal grievance and an intoxicating sense of power. Here, the distinction between the strategic use of unpredictability and actual instability has become dangerously blurred, creating a foreign policy environment defined by chaos rather than calculated risk, where even his closest associates don’t know where his next whim or affront might take him.” – Ashes of Pompeii

When “Diplomats” Engineer War – “The eerie parallels between July 23, 1914 and February 27, 2026. The talks were between Trump’s special envoy Steve Witkoff and senior advisor Jared Kushner and the Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi. Witkoff and Kushner made the following demands:… In other words, the U.S. envoys asked Iran to surrender ALL of its capacity for projecting military power and deterring missile and aerial attacks on its homeland. It doesn’t matter what you think about the Iranian regime, just as it didn’t matter in 1914 what the Austrian people thought about the Serbian regime. There was simply no way that either regime could accept these demands without placing themselves entirely at the mercy of the Austrians and Americans respectively.” – John Leake

The TV Generals Have Something to Sell You About Iran – “These three kings are working for someone and it’s not us. For all the fears about militarism creeping across America, the generals are already in command —on cable news. The Iran war is the TV generals’ new battlefield. But their real service is to their clients and themselves. Ever since the first Gulf War in 1991, every one of the big networks has hired some retired general or admiral to appear on air as an “expert” to explain the complicated matters of war (and behind the scenes, to smooth matters over with the Pentagon). In reality, it’s all business.” – Ken Klippenstein

Networks Still Using Retired Generals to Sell War – “Serious Conflicts of Interest for America’s War Salesmen and Cheerleaders” – Bill Astore

Macron’s aircraft carrier and warplanes to the Persian Gulf is a dangerous vanity project – “Like a knight in shining armour, French President Emmanuel Macron is vowing to defend Europe’s interests as the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran escalates. Macron is not defending Europe or French honor. His theatrical swashbuckling is going to get more people killed and very possibly make the economic impact on Europe even more disastrous.” – Finian Cunningham

London Buses Must Now Be Equipped With STAB KITS – “Knifings become an everyday horror, but no one dares name the real cause” – Steve Watson

As Grasp on Power and Narrative Slips, West Re-Imagines Old Norms – Simplicius

Wars are never about what we’re told they’re about, and this one is no different – “The war with Iran is not about preserving Israel’s existence. It’s not about destroying Iran’s weapons. It has always been about regime change and a broader strategy to control routes and resources.” – Leo Hohmann

Without The Save Act, We are Living in a Slave State and Our Labor Is Harvested by Crooks. – “Did John Thune get a clench in his noble behind when eye-patch-pretend-pirate-guy lost his primary? Added to Trump’s relentless pressure Thune has, grindingly, consented to refer the Save Act to a vote, possibly next week. Thune is, like most elected Republicans, pretendian MAGA counting the days when he can go back to playing defence and lining his pockets. The fact that voter fraud has deprived the Republicans of a clear unbreakable majority for THREE election cycles is clearly beyond him. He is functionally retarded. Or a shark committing treason.” – Elizabeth Nickson

Mamdani’s Estate Tax Will Suffocate NYC’s Middle Class $750,000 in New York is not generational wealth. It’s a two bedroom house in Queens” – Quoth the Raven .

The Iranian & Russian Ambassadors Debunked False Claims Of India’s “Betrayal” – “Pepe Escobar alleged over the past week that India sequentially betrayed them both.” – Andrew Korybko  – I ADMIT THAT I LINKED PEPE’S 2 PART STORY ABOUT THIS AS HE IS USUALLY PRETTY FACTUAL. ANDREW SETS THE RECORD STRAIGHT!!!

 

 

 

ECONOMIC NEWS

Will The Iran War Oil Price Shock Sink Stocks? (VIDEO) with Lance Roberts – “The military conflict in Iran has sent oil prices to $100/barrel, placing stress on the global economy. And tonight, the US just threatened to destroy the oil infrastructure on Kharg Island, which would essentially cut off Iran’s ability to export. Should oil prices remain elevated — or even worse, move even higher — for any notable time, would this send the financial markets into shock? Portfolio manager Lance Roberts and I discuss the odds,” – Adam Taggart | Thoughtful Money®

Chip makers face a looming shortage of a key ingredient if the Iran conflict drags on – “Qatar accounts for a third of global helium supply but has halted production of the gas, which is essential for semiconductor manufacturing” – William Gavin

Energy Inflation for Americans – “Dropping gasoline prices since mid-2022 papered over big price increases in electricity and natural gas. But that’s over.” – Wolf Richter

The Fed Has a Groupthink Problem. Warsh Can Fix It – “Evidence shows groupthink has produced suboptimal monetary policy. Kevin Warsh’s out-of-sync views could bring much-needed diversity to the Fed.” – Thomas L. Hogan – HOW ABOUT WE JUST GET  RID OF THE FED, THEN WE WON’T HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT A GROUP THINK PROBLEM!!!

The 126-Year Case for Gold: And Why This Rally’s Not Done Yet – “On this day, 126 years ago, President William McKinley, the 25th President of the United States signed the Gold Standard Act into law. The Act fixed the value of one U.S. dollar at 25.8 grains of gold, set the price at $20.67 per troy ounce, and required the Treasury to redeem paper currency in gold on demand. Gold is trading at roughly over $5,000 today. That means we have a lot of history to unpack and a lot of policy decisions to account for within that gap.” – Nomi Prins

$5,000 Gold Is the “New Normal” – Here’s What It Says About the Economy – “Finally, a “new normal” we can get behind The phrase new normal has carried a lot of baggage in recent years. Lockdowns. Supply disruptions. Empty shelves. So when analysts begin describing $5,000 gold as a possible new normal, it’s understandable if people feel uneasy. Yet that idea is increasingly appearing in financial commentary.” – Peter Reagan

 

 

 

SURVIVAL, PREPAREDNESS AND SELF-SUFFICIENCY

The Amish Greenhouse: What These Off-Grid Farmers Know About Year-Round Food Production That Most Preppers Don’t – “If you want to understand what a truly self-sufficient food production system looks like, stop looking at YouTube homestead channels and start paying attention to what Amish farmers have been doing for generations. Specifically, look at their greenhouses. Amish and Old Order Mennonite communities across Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, and the surrounding states have developed a greenhouse tradition that is quietly one of the most practical and replicable models of year-round food production available to anyone serious about reducing their dependence on the commercial food supply. ” – Ask A Prepper Staff

Construction and Design of a Remote, Off-Grid Residence – Part 1 – “The following are my suggestions for considering how to build and design property in a remote area that has no grid-based resources. My priorities are efficiency, low maintenance, and low power usage.” – Mrs. Alaska

Ill Fares the Land… – “The solution is to get local, get self-reliant, get the common unity back in community by building webs of resilience with your neighbors, get control of your school boards, mayors and sheriff’s office, and town councils (the last places we still hold all of the cards), get a garden in your lawn no matter how small, a single tomato plant is better than nothing, get a well (water is your most important resource hands down), get ready, get moving, get doing, and, if so inclined, get God. Don’t build a bigger fence to keep our your neighbor, build a bigger table, and let’s get together and take our country back. Everyone’s looking for a savior instead of looking in the mirror, we are the ones we’ve been waiting for.” – TriTorch

Back To Basics: Old-Fashioned Skills Worth Learning This Year – “In our fast-paced, convenience-driven world, there’s a satisfaction that comes from mastering timeless, hands-on skills. These traditional tasks not only help you become more self-reliant, but they also deepen your connection to nature and family, and can even save money and reduce waste. Here are thirteen old-fashioned skills worth relearning this year, with practical resources to get you started.” – Homesteaders of America

Got Ammo? – “Expect Massive Shortages Soon. You may have seen alerts about “massive ammo shortages” lately. While the headlines are flashy, the reality is a complex mix of global trade and military demand. Here’s what’s actually happening behind the scenes:” – The Tactical Hermit

 

 

VERSE FOR THE DAY 

Proverbs 28:25      He that is of a proud heart stirreth up strife: but he that putteth his trust in the Lord shall be made fat.

 

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