Nothing New Under The Sun 2016

 

 

THE BIG PICTURE

Famine, market crash, economic collapse: Mid-East shock is a live experiment in collapse – “Scenario analyses suggest we’re fairly fucked” – Sarah Connor

Do Humans Love to Kill Each Other? – “Reflections on the limitless resources and ingenuity devoted to killing, and how little is devoted to conflict resolution” – John Leake

Do No Harm (Terms and Conditions May Apply) (VIDEO) – “That promise held for about two thousand four hundred years. Then Larry Ellison put your medical records up for sale and his data centers under NDA. The HYPAAcritical Oath. I’ve been covering Oracle for a while now, tracing threads across media consolidation, federal cloud contracts, classified AI authorizations, and a data architecture that keeps getting bigger every time I turn around. Oracle paid $28.3 billion for the company that built that system. They let it deteriorate, lost clients, watched a veteran die because of a software error, and are now reportedly considering selling the whole thing off. Which raises a question that’s been keeping me up: if they’re willing to walk away from the company, what exactly did they keep? I think the answer is your data. ” – Audrey Henson

3 Essential Things You Need Before You Will Love Studying the Bible – “If you are having a difficult time getting much from your Bible reading, make sure you have these!” – Kate Dreston

CV19 Vax Clot Coverup Now Criminal (VIDEO) with Tom Haviland – ” Haviland surveyed embalmers all around the world in the United States, Canada, UK, Australia and New Zealand. At the end of 2024, 301 embalmers responded. 250 of them, or 83%, said they are still seeing the unusual white fibrous clots in the veins and arteries of their corpses.” – Greg Hunter

A Global Power Struggle For World Dominance – “While the Rothschild controlled EU wants Ukraine and other nations surrounding Russia on the south and southwest, Israel controlled Trump wants South America and Latin America, and China wants Africa, what do the Middle East and Russia – want? Carving up Earth to placate the ever consuming Dehumanized power players could end – Earth. There is fighting between Pakistan and Afghanistan, between Colombia and Ecuador, between Syria and Kurds, Nigeria, Sudan, Somalia and everyone, while the EU allows citizens to be raped and jailed for social media posts, and Canada is now adhering to the same – a dystopian novel no one believed – in real time. Supposed Democracies. And as the smoke clears, the President of Peace vows to slaughter yet another country – because he likes their real estate and thinks a Trump village might look good there…” – Helena Glass

Microsoft Announces Digital Health ID That Works With Its AI Copilot, Connects To Smart Wearable Devices “Copilot Health brings together your health records, wearable data, and health history into one place, then applies intelligence to turn them into a coherent story. Whether or not people use this is another story. Nevertheless, Microsoft’s and Anthropic’s latest deals reflect a broader push for people to accept digital IDs and AI healthcare.” – The WinePress  – MORE CONTROL IN THE LONG RUN!!!

 

 

NEWS

Power Without Principle: The Rise of the Bully Presidency – ““When you’re a star, they let you do it. You can do anything… Grab ‘em by the pussy. You can do anything.”— Donald J. Trump on seizing women, Access Hollywood (2005) It’s been 20 years since Donald Trump bragged that, as a star, he could do anything—even assault women—and get away with it. Two decades later, what once sounded like crude bravado has become a governing philosophy: might makes right, power excuses everything, and accountability is for other people—not this president. Despite the Access Hollywood recording—and everything it revealed about his character—Trump was elected to the White House twice. And ever since, he has governed exactly as he promised: as a man who believes he is unaccountable, entitled, and free to act without limits.” – John & Nisha Whitehead

The Strait of Hormuz – A Very Strange Tug-of-War – “Since the US/Israel began their war – sorry, their “targeted, limited, combat operation” – hard facts have been hard to come by. In a more than usually cloudy combat narrative, we’ve been told that Iran is winning AND losing, depending who you ask. It’s a regime change war, but also it isn’t. Various Iranian officials have been killed, and some came back. Netanyahu was briefly dead, too. There was talk of a tactical nuke. Nowhere is this fog of war thicker than in the Strait of Hormuz, about which it is seemingly impossible to get a *ahem* strait answer.” – Kit Knightly

Swinging Wildly toward Armageddon, the Wrecking Ball Gets Wrecked – “Witnessing the deconstruction of a president as he deconstructs the world around him.” – David Haggith

Rushing Up the Escalation Ladder – “And we all know where this escalation may lead. The recent elimination of three senior Iranian officials – Major General Gholamreza Soleimani, Ali Larijani, and Esmail Khatib – cannot be understood through the lens of conventional Western military logic alone. To view these strikes merely as a degradation of command-and-control capabilities is to miss the profound cultural and theological engine that drives the Islamic Republic. In the Shiite tradition, and specifically within the revolutionary ethos of Iran, death is not always a defeat; often, it is the ultimate validation of faith.” – Ashes of Pompeii

God, Guns, and Christian Zealots in the White House – “Governments that want to send young people to die in distant countries have always faced the same problem: the arithmetic of the transaction is unfavorable. You are asking a twenty-three-year-old to trade his life for a geopolitical objective he cannot see, in a country he cannot find on a map, on behalf of politicians who will not be going themselves. Across history, the most reliable solution to this problem has been God. Tell the soldier he is not serving the state—that cold, bureaucratic, manifestly self-interested entity—but rather serving the Almighty. Make the war a crusade. Make dying for Washington indistinguishable from dying for heaven.” – Thomas Karat

Messianic Christian Zionists Now Directing the US War Machine – “Trump’s Religious MAGA Maniacs Continue to Push Humanity Towards a Realization of Their Own Apocalyptic Fantasies. Who Will Dare Confront, Restrain and Eject the Fanatics from the US Armed Forces?” – Anthony James Hall

Reflections from the Heart of the Empire: Blowbacks Epic and Furious – “Israel has produced at least three obviously fake AI videos to prove that Genocide Ben Netanyahu is still alive. Why don’t they just send him to Florida to pose with his son? The possibility that there is nothing left to send grows with each passing day.” – Ohio Barbarian  – THE BARBARIAN’S WEEKLY RECAP, GOOD AS ALWAYS!!!!

Failing The Iran War, Failing Venezuela’s Economy, Trump Sets His Sites on CUBA – “The Trump rhetoric directed toward Cuba and the Cuban people is evil. Netanyahu’s soul is inhabiting Trump. There seems to be no other explanation. When Trump took control of Venezuela and kidnapped Maduro, he effectively diverted all Venezuelan oil exports to Cuba leaving them to depend on the power retained until the lights literally went out. When the grid died, food spoiled, and what economy Cuba had left after America’s sanctions, spiraled. Rubio’s people. Rubio wants them to suffer and die. Trump wants Rubio to be Cuba’s new King” – Helena Glass

Karen Trump MELTSDOWN For Allies For Not Sending Help For War. Says: “U.S. Never Needed Their Help.” (SO WHY THEN DID HE PLEAD FOR IT ALL WEEKEND?) – Gregory Mannarino  – GREAT POINT BY GREG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Delusional Trump Now Says “WE DO NOT NEED THE HELP OF ANYONE!” – “After begging for help, and saying many nations offered help, guess what.” – Mish

Joe Kent Isn’t the Hero. The Public Is – “Kent’s letter, for all its patriotic rhetoric, seems a lot like an insider coup against a declining president; and an attempt to capture the leadership of an increasingly unhappy MAGA. Kent is, after all, a politician who has run for Congress twice and seems all but certain to do so again. A cynic might even call this a campaign launch. For all of his supposed truth-telling in his resignation letter, Kent is hardly anti-war. ” – Ken Klippenstein

Joe Kent’s Principled Resignation – “And Tulsi Gabbard’s Problematic Response” – Bill Astore

Peso by Peso – “Budget surpluses, fiscal responsibility and other rare sightings. The only country to run a surplus this year. Not Canada… not Mexico or Brazil or Colombia… and certainly not Los Estados Unidos (according to the Congressional Budget Office, the US is projected to run a ~$1.9 trillion deficit for the fiscal year, equivalent to roughly 5.8% of GDP)… …but perennial economic basket case, Argentina. How many economists had that on their bingo card for 2026?” – Joel Bowman

Time to Sweep ‘Political Correctness’ into the Dustbin of History – “Leftists need to learn to take a joke. American leftists chose the Soviet model. They silenced political opponents by making non-leftist beliefs fireable offenses and punishable crimes. They taught an entire generation that masculinity is “toxic,” that the Founding Fathers were “patriarchs,” and that America is “systemically racist.” They leaned into online censorship and viewpoint discrimination. In other words, the biggest supporters of “political correctness” have been the country’s most divisive, sexist, racist, anti-Christian, anti-American, and discriminatory group of people ever to exercise so much political and cultural power in the United States.” – J.B. Shurk

Civil War: Original MAGA vs the Neocons – “For many voters, the best thing about Donald Trump, the presidential candidate, was his entourage. He was surrounded by smart, courageous people who had spent years opposing the Aristocracy on existential issues like regime change wars, vaccine mandates, censorship, and illegal immigration. With them running major departments and dominating cabinet meetings, at least some good things, it seemed, might get done. And some good things have indeed gotten done. But lately, relations between the major players have taken a darker turn. The MAGA (Make America Great Again) movement has descended into a civil war over its central issues, with old allies becoming, in some cases, mortal enemies.” – John Rubino

Brexit Gave Britain Every Tool It Needed. Its Leaders Threw Them Away – .Alexander Muse

Ukrainians Sound Alarm Over Coming Russian Spring Offensive – Simplicius

 

 

 

 

ECONOMIC NEWS

The Iran War Is About to Unleash a Inflation Shock the Fed Can’t Stop – “When most people think about oil and its uses, they think of gasoline and cars. But the reality is that oil prices input to just about everything in the economy. In this contex, higher oil prices can cripple an economy in a step by step fashion. The first sector to get hit is transportation. Higher oil prices means that every shipping truck, every cargo ship, every airline faces sharply higher operating costs. This is why the Dow Transportation Index collapsed over 10% as soon as the conflict with Iran began.” – Graham Summers, MBA

Fed votes to hold rates steady, notes ‘uncertain’ impacts from Iran war – “The Federal Open Market Committee voted 11-1 to keep the benchmark federal funds rate anchored in a range between 3.5%-3.75%. The policymakers are navigating their way through higher-than-expected inflation readings, mixed signs on the labor market and a war.” – Jeff Cox

Hot Producer Price Inflation Adds to Fed’s Complex and Worsening Inflation Problem – “Worst 6-month PPI inflation since August 2022 (+5.3% annualized). After multiple rate cuts by the Fed, inflation heats up everywhere: services, food, energy, other goods.’ – Wolf Richter

Wholesale prices surge again and show inflation flowing through pipeline of the economy – “Producer-price index has risen 3.4% in the past year” – Jeffry Bartash

LIQUIDITY LAVA! Private Credit Meltdown Torches Gold & Silver as Investors Dash for Cash 📉 – “The $2 trillion private credit market—the “shadow bank” darling of Wall Street—is finally hitting the wall, and it’s dragging your “safe haven” metals down into the pit with it. As of March 18, 2026, the industry isn’t just seeing cracks; it’s experiencing a full-blown liquidity rupture that has sent shockwaves from the boardrooms of BlackRock to the gold vaults of London. If you’re wondering why Gold has dipped below the $5,000 mark and Silver is going below $80 despite a global geopolitical powderkeg, here’s the cold, hard truth: Investors aren’t selling metals because they want to; they’re selling because they have to.” – Kerry Lutz

Why Credit Creates Bubbles That Break the Economy – “When credit scales faster than it can be absorbed by productive investments, the resulting credit-asset bubbles break the economy. This is the result of asymmetric scaling: credit (i.e. debt, money borrowed into existence) can be created in virtually limitless billions with a few keystrokes, while productive investments scale only incrementally.” – Charles Hugh Smith

Yuan Buys the Strait: Petrodollar Bleeds Out. Gold & Silver to Surge on America’s Latest Self‑Inflicted Wound – “Every day 20 Million barrels of oil ship through Strait of Hormuz. Now denominated in Chinese Yuan then finding a home in Gold via the Shanghai gold exchange vaults throughout belt & road initiative. The petrodollar didn’t die with a bang in a G7 boardroom. It died quietly at a tollbooth in the Strait of Hormuz.” – The Silver Academy

 

 

SURVIVAL, PREPAREDNESS AND SELF-SUFFICIENCY

What We Learned After Our First Year of Total Self-Sufficiency – Olivia Brooks

The Tree That Quietly Does Everything – “That resilience is part of the reason it’s been treasured across India, Africa, Southeast Asia, and the Caribbean for centuries. When other crops fail, moringa keeps producing. And nearly every part of the tree is useful.” – Bill Heid

The First 30 Days After Grocery Stores Fail – “At first, nothing looks broken. News reports may mention disruptions—fuel shortages, transportation issues, labour disputes—but stores are still open, and shelves are still mostly full. Then the buying starts. It doesn’t take panic to empty a store. It just takes a slightly elevated number of people buying a little more than usual. Within a day or two, the most familiar items begin to disappear: fresh meat, dairy, bread, and bottled water. Baby supplies and pet food follow close behind—categories people don’t think about until they’re gone. To the untrained eye, the store still “has food.” But the shift has already begun.” – denob

12 First Aid Myths That Could Cause More Harm Than Good (VIDEO) – Daisy Luther

Fuel Storage for Survival Retreats – ” Gasoline, diesel fuel, jet fuel, kerosene, Coleman® fuel, and other petroleum products – all can be stored. For long term survival purposes, only one vehicle fuel is worth talking about: Diesel. Why pick diesel fuel? Simply, because it stores so much better than gasoline. It offers better mileage in similar vehicles than gasoline would (so you get more bang for the storage volume)” – Flighter

 

 

VERSES FOR THE DAY 

Luke 14:31-32       Or what king, going to make war against another king, sitteth not down first, and consulteth whether he be able with ten thousand to meet him that cometh against him with twenty thousand?  Or else, while the other is yet a great way off, he sendeth an ambassage, and desireth conditions of peace.

 

 

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