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THE BIG PICTURE

Curiosity Kills the Agenda – “Our only real weapon against this slow-motion burial of the human spirit is to keep that spark alive in ourselves and, wherever possible, fan it in others. Poke, prod, question, wonder—even when it feels futile. Because once curiosity is truly extinct, the game is over. Stay curious. It’s the last truly subversive act we have left.” – Todd Hayen, PhD, RP

Your REALLY Digital Ear Tag – “They’re pushing what they call REAL ID really hard. It is the federally pushed replacement for the state-issued driver’s license you’re required to get if you wish to be able to cash a check or buy cough syrup – and also, of course, to be allowed to operate your motor vehicle on the government’s roads. Our onetime right to use the public roads having gone the way of our right to keep what we earn. The driver’s license is of course an ID already. Just not REAL enough, apparently. They want more identification. Because – apparently – the state-issued ID isn’t “real” enough (for them). Of course, the ID they’ve been requiring us to get for decades to be allowed to buy cough syrup or cash a check (and incidentally to be allowed to drive on the government’s roads) is already pretty real – in the ghetto-English usage. The photo they took of you is probably a face scan that can be (and will) be used by facial recognition systems and there is a bar code (and probably an RFID transmitter locater device of some kind built into it, too. They really want a way to track your movements and activities in other words. What that has to do with driving is difficult to divine.” – Eric Peters

Elon Musk’s Trillion Dollar Payday: What If Tesla Isn’t Really About Cars? – “A speculative look at trillion-dollar incentives, robot soldiers, and the strangest email I ever received. Here’s something that has me scratching my head is disbelief. Tesla just announced an incentive package for Elon Musk worth a trillion dollars. You read that right. A trillion. With a T. The company is valued higher than every major automaker on Earth combined. Ford, GM, Toyota, Volkswagen, Honda. Add them all up and Tesla’s worth more. The math doesn’t work. It never has. So what’s the real product? Here’s a fun fact that doesn’t come up much in Musk hagiographies. His grandfather, Joshua Haldeman, was nearly arrested for high treason in Canada. Haldeman was a Technocrat. Not the modern tech-bro kind. The 1930s movement kind. The kind that really ‘respected’ National Socialism if you know what I mean. They wanted to overthrow the Canadian government and replace it with a system run by engineers and scientists.” – 🐺The Wise Wolf

They Called It “Alternative.” It Was Always the Original. – “From the 1899 Merck Manual to a 1932 pharmacist’s map, the historical record is unambiguous: natural medicine was displaced not because it failed, but because it couldn’t be owned.Let’s begin with a question that should unsettle anyone who has ever been told that natural medicine is “alternative”: alternative to what, exactly? Not to the medicine of 1899. Not to the medicine of 1932. Not, in fact, to any era of medicine prior to the mid-twentieth century, when a legal and commercial infrastructure was deliberately built to ensure that the only substances recognized as “drugs” would be those that could be patented, manufactured at scale, and sold for profit. ” – Sayer JI

FBI’s New Political Pre-Crime Center – “Are you on the list of ‘domestic terrorism’ indicators? President Trump’s budget request to Congress contains the largest counterterrorism spending increase in years — and buried inside it is a new FBI-led center dedicated to “proactively” hunting Americans the government classifies as so-called domestic terrorists.” – Ken Klippenstein

$2.46 Billion ‘Momnibus’ Bill Targets Pregnant Women for Vaccination—Builds $715 Million Real-Time Surveillance System Activated During Pandemics – Jon Fleetwood

The Polio-Biowarfare Connection – “What if the scientists who developed the polio vaccine were also secret bioweapons researchers?” – Debbie Lerman

 

 

 

NEWS

Time For The White (jacket) Men – “If you wanted to indulge in partisan spin you could wax hotly about the Donald’s Easter morning desecration of the office of the presidency. His meld of profanity, blasphemy and bellicose madness all rolled into a single social media post could surely calls forth at least that much: But we don’t think “desecration” is the right word for it. There had been plenty of that before the Donald got there. Say going back to LBJ’s murderous mayhem in Vietnam, to Bill Clinton’s blow jobs in the Oval Office, to Joe Biden’s chronic drooling on the Resolute Desk. But what’s sui generis about this particular desecration is that it involves the POTUS threatening to commit flat-out WAR CRIMES against Iran and mayhem against the global economy based on a screaming Big Lie. Well, actually, a four-part Big Lie that is so utterly refuted by the facts and reality as to stand among the worst excuses for war-making in recorded history.” – David Stockman

Trump Says Tuesday Deadline For Iran To Accept Ceasefire ‘Final, Won’t Change’; Israel Takes Out Experienced IRGC Intel Chief – “A Sunday night Axios report on a US-proposed 45-day ceasefire has by Monday morning been rejected by Iran, which later on Monday issued a 10-point letter via Pakistan. ” – Tyler Durden

Trump Talks War for Easter Week – “By the way, who shot Charlie Kirk? Trump, who is affiliated with no known Christian denomination and may in fact be a convert to Judaism, has a so-called Christian spiritual adviser named Paula White-Cain. Early in the week she “advised” that American Christians should tithe their gross incomes and give the money (10%) to Israel. She stated that that would be compliant with what she claimed to be the right thing to do to avoid “disobeying God.” At a lunch at the White House later in the week she also compared Jesus Christ with Donald J Trump, an equation that shocked many in the actual Christian community.” – Philip Giraldi

Trump’s Easter Ultimatum: Open the (Expletive) Strait or Else – ““Open the Fuckin’ Strait” is his latest shibboleth, his battle cry. Trump and his Zionist controllers are drunk on hubris, hopeium, and stupidity. The only sane response to the situation is for the US to declare victory and exit, stage right.” – Kurt Nimmo

Trump is Driven by Low Self-Worth—Netanyahu is Worse – “Hitler had an innate destructiveness that, over time, led to the demise of his regime and himself. This was seen in his listening to no one but himself and paying no heed to his generals when they advised for strategy retreats. Trump shares that trait with Hitler and every other ego-manic down through history. It is that hubris that brings such destruction to the world, but ends in a return to peace once the insane leader is vanquished. Unfortunately for the world—Trump is not alone. Netanyahu, driven by necessity to avoid prison, does whatever is necessary to retain the Prime Minister-ship. Worse than Trump (maybe at the level of Pete Hegseth), Bibi holds no reverence for age-old rules of engagement. Instead, he conducts false flag operations to have it appear that Iran is a criminal nation when it is him. Unconcerned, he kills ambassadors—the sanctity/preservation of ambassadors pre-dates modern states. Though Trump’s madness doesn’t match Netanyahu, he is a man of limited intelligence, and who he gets his advise from is the low end of the intelligence totem pole. And, I’m betting Netanyahu (through Epstein), has Trump in a rear-naked chokehold.” – Erik @ neverhadaboss.com

It’s Official: US Boots-On-Ground Deep Inside Iran Amidst Another Day of Humiliating Losses – “The morning broke with news of a large-scale US operation to supposedly extract the second downed pilot from Iran, who had ejected from his shot-down F-15E on Thursday. The scale of losses for this operation alone turned out to be massive, as the US lost hundreds of millions worth of planes allegedly getting the pilot back to safety. The operation involved all kinds of Special Forces unit which amounted to “boots on ground” inside Iran for the first time—at least officially.” – Simplicius

US Satellite Firm Blacks Out Iran War Images Per US Government Request – “The blackout of satellite imagery from the region is not a story about one firm’s products or customer service. It is a reminder that foreign intervention tends to produce domestic control, often without the drama of a formal censorship order. The same state that wages war can narrow the evidence available to judge that war. The predictable result is that the public is pushed to take the word of the administration’s spokesmen at face value, without timely means to verify or falsify their claims.” – Alan Mosley

The Killing Fields of Lebanon as ‘Israel’ Lashes out Against Civilians – “Israel preys on civilians as it receives deep wounds from the Lebanese Resistance” – Vanessa Beeley

How US Sanctions Are Fueling Hunger in Cuba – “In Cuba today, food is rotting in the fields while families go hungry. On a recent trip to the eastern part of the island, I spoke with farmers who are watching their livelihoods slip away – not because they lack skill or dedication, but because they lack fuel, parts, and basic inputs. One farmer described fields ready to harvest but no diesel to bring the crops in. Others showed broken machinery they have no way to repair. These are not isolated stories; they reflect a system under siege.” – Medea Benjamin

This is why NPR needs to be defunded – “Once again, a federal judge has ruled that the executive branch can’t be the executive branch and do executive branch things. This time, it’s defunding NPR and PBS. The argument is that the president can’t defund them because he doesn’t like what they say about him. Now, I can get that. I can get behind that. They shouldn’t be defunded because of that. They should be defunded because they suck at their jobs, and the American taxpayers shouldn’t have to pay for not just crappy journalism, but a profound bias that thinks everyone who isn’t them is an uncultured swine. One prime example of this is how NPR handled the Hunter Biden laptop story, or, more accurately, how they refused to handle it at all. Yes, that was 2020, but it’s not like I’m going to ever let that one slide.” – Tom Knighton

 

 

 

ECONOMIC NEWS

Another Day, Another Private Credit Fund Takes A Shit – “While the world remains distracted by the Iran war, yet another private credit fund has frozen redemptions. I’m starting to lose count of how many funds have done this so far this year — and it’s only going to get worse in my opinion.” – Quoth the Raven

US paves way for private assets to be included in 401(k) retirement plans – “he Trump administration on Monday issued a long-awaited proposed rule to open up ​retirement plans to alternative assets, paving the way for private equity and cryptocurrencies to be added to 401(k) accounts. The measure, announced by the U.S. Department ‌of Labor, is intended to ease longstanding barriers to incorporating these less liquid and less transparent assets into American retirement plans.” – Utkarsh Shetti, Suzanne McGee, Arasu Kannagi Basil and Isla Binnie  – EXTREMELY BAD IDEA!! MANY OF THESE FUNDS ARE LIMITING REDEMPTIONS RIGHT NOW AND NOT LETTING THE INVESTORS GET THEIR MONEY OUT. (SEE THE RAVEN’S ARTICLE ABOVE).  JUST ANOTHER WAY FOR THE BANKSTERS TO GET THE COMMON PERSON’S MONEY THAT IS IN THEIR 401Ks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The Actual Price For Crude Oil In Europe Is Far Higher Than Quoted In The Media – “The Shortage Of Oil To Market Is Worse You Think – And Intensifying” – David Jensen

Oil, Inflation and Recession – “It’s not the price of oil per se that triggers recession, it’s the underlying vulnerabilities that have been cloaked with happy story narratives to keep the game going.” – Charles Hugh Smith

March Jobs Report: Great Numbers, But Is It Too Good To Be True? – “March May Not Matter In The Face Of The Gathering Storm” – Peter Nayland Kust

Not Your Grandfather’s Stagflation – “It was pretty obvious even before February 28th that the US economy was grinding to a halt, even as inflation was already working up a head of steam. But then came war. We are going to get a globe-shaking economic conflagration erupting from the void that was the Persian Gulf commodity fountain. That includes between 20% and 50% of all the basic commodities that drive global GDP, including crude oil, LPGs, LNG, ammonia, urea, sulfur, helium, and sundry more. Accordingly, the global share of crucial industrial commodities that now stand in harm’s way. This includes both those directly transiting the Strait of Hormuz and also the share of supply from the wider Middle Eastern region that is also exposed to the current Iranian War” – David Stockman

The War Did Not Break Silver. It Created Another Entry Point. – “Here’s why current geopolitical tensions are creating a new opportunity and strategic entry for silver” – Nomi Prins

 

 

 

SURVIVAL, PREPAREDNESS AND SELF-SUFFICIENCY

Garbage During Emergencies: How Trash Becomes a Public Health Crisis – “Most people preparing for disasters focus on food, water, and shelter. Very few think about what happens to their garbage. That oversight can be dangerous and when normal life gets disrupted, so does every system that keeps waste out of sight and out of mind. Within hours of a major emergency, collection stops. Within days, bags pile up outside homes, dumpsters overflow, and decomposing organic matter starts drawing insects and rodents. Within weeks, the situation can become genuinely life-threatening.”- Bob Rodgers

What Actually Stops a Home Invasion When the Grid Is Down – “Across Canada, reports of violent crime and home invasions have been rising in recent years. What once felt rare—forced entries, targeted break-ins, even daytime invasions—are now appearing more frequently in both urban centres and rural communities. The question is no longer “Could it happen?” It becomes “What would I actually do if it did?” There’s a natural instinct to think in terms of force—locks, weapons, confrontation. But in reality, especially during a grid-down event, most threats don’t begin with violence. They begin with observation. Someone is looking for an opportunity. An easy win. A place where risk is low and effort is minimal. And that single truth changes everything about how you should think about defending your home.” – denob

What Your Neighbors Will Do First When SHTF – “The folks around you, though, most of them are working with three days of food in the house on a good week. When the shelves start going bare and the delivery trucks stop coming, that’s when reality lands for them, and that’s when their eyes start moving in your direction. You Were Never as Invisible as You Thought You probably tried to keep a low profile over the years, and that was the right instinct. But the honest truth is that people notice more than we give them credit for. Your neighbor may have seen you hauling in bulk food buckets or stacking firewood along the back fence. Someone else noticed the raised garden beds, the rain barrels, the extra propane tanks by the shed. ” – Kate L. Gilmour

Where You Keep Your Preps Matters – Daisy Luther

Off-Grid Water Systems: 8 Viable Solutions to Bring Water to Your Homestead – “” – Jennifer Poindexter  -HAPPEN TO LINK THIS ONE ABOUT 9 YEARS AGO. IT NO LONGER COMES UP AT THE OLD LINK AND SINCE IT’S BEEN REPUBLISHED LATELY AT A DIFFERENT LINK, HERE IT IS AGAIN!!

 

 

 

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