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THE BIG PICTURE

When Life is Unfair, 3 Things to Hold Onto – “Christians have hope in the midst of an unfair world.” – Kate Dreston

America Last: War Abroad, Tyranny at Home—and the Theft of a Nation – “Every bomb dropped abroad is a bill sent home. Every war waged in the name of “security” is paid for by Americans who go without—without affordable healthcare, without stable housing, without a government that prioritizes their well-being. As the U.S. pours trillions into endless wars and military expansion, Americans are left paying the price—not just in dollars, but in lost freedoms and eroded constitutional protections. This is not national defense. This is organized theft. While Americans struggle with rising gas prices, soaring grocery bills, and mounting debt—fueled in part by reckless tariffs and preemptive wars—the federal government is spending money it doesn’t have on military expansion, foreign conflicts, and presidential excess. This is not America First. If anything, it is becoming painfully clear that Donald Trump’s “America First” approach to governing puts America last every time.” – John & Nisha Whitehead  – ANOTHER GOOR READ FROM JOHN!!!!!!!

It’s Time. Drey V. Oracle – “The Third Amendment Case Nobody’s Filed Yet. I’ve spent more time in hospital rooms than most people my age. Some of that is growing up around horses, and some of it is just being the kind of person who finds the ground faster than other people seem to. But there are other scars I don’t have to wear every day, and those are the ones that get made in a different kind of room. Those are the rooms where the doctor asks how many drinks you have in a week, and you have to decide, in the half-second before you answer, whether the number you say is going to be the real number or a smaller one. The ones where a nurse asks if you feel safe at home and you do the same calculation. The reason I’m laying all of this out is that a medical record isn’t a spreadsheet and it isn’t a file. It isn’t a row of data points or a de-identified genomic sample or whatever language the industry is using this quarter to make it sound like something you wouldn’t miss. It’s a catalog of small private decisions a person made about how much of herself to hand over in exchange for help, made inside rooms where the person across from her was bound by an old covenant to use what she said only to try to make her better. That covenant is the thing being destroyed right now. Last month, without asking any of us, a man named Larry Ellison moved 150 million of those rooms onto a server next to a weapons program.” – Audrey Henson / The Drey Dossier

Did The NY Times Just Find Satoshi Nakamoto? – “It is one of the most enduring mysteries in modern technology: the true identity of Satoshi Nakamoto. It’s always baffled me that, in this day and age, we still can’t definitively identify Satoshi Nakamoto. I can’t even buy a Twinkie at a 7-11 without leaving a digital trail…scanning a rewards card, driving through multiple EZ-Pass checkpoints that log my movement, and carrying devices that track my location down to the second. In an era defined by data and forensics, it feels almost impossible that someone could create something as significant as Bitcoin and remain completely anonymous” – Quoth the Raven

Our Post-Truth, Post-Trust World – “A system that comes to depend on synthetic signaling for its “information” is doomed to Model Collapse, as its signaling has completely detached from the real world.” – Charles Hugh Smith

The Nazis Were NOT the ‘Good Guys’ – “Because Apparently Someone in My Comments Section Thinks They Were and Now I Have to Write This Article. I want to understand how a person arrives at that conclusion. And the answer, unfortunately, is the same way people arrived at it in 1933. Because the entire Nazi movement was financed by an occult group called the Thule Society that needed a loud-mouthed blowhard they could prop up as the figurehead of their little project. This is called a demagogue.” – 🐺The Wise Wolf

“Pfizer KNEW the covid shot was a POISON from the very beginning” Court Documents reveal (VIDEO) with Sasha Latypova – “we dig into Sasha’s claims about DARPA’s early pandemic planning, the role of the Department of Defense, the February 4, 2020 timeline, and why she believes the public was sold a very different story from what was happening behind the scenes. If her interpretation is correct, this was not just a public health response — it was something much bigger.”- Redacted

Browsergate: LinkedIn Caught Spying On Users’ Browsers, Providing Stolen Data And Digital IDs To American-Israeli Tech Firm – “LinkedIn has not disclosed this practice in its privacy policy. There is no mention of extension scanning in any public-facing document.” – The WinePress

 

 

 

NEWS

From Dire Straits to Done Deal: Triumphant Trump Re-Opens Hormuz- “Threatening to genocide an entire civilization is a new low, even for the lowest of the low. But this is a “man” who has harbored a secret vendetta against Iran for over 40 years, and his rise to power has supplied him the ticket he needed to believe he can finally fulfill his lifelong destiny. Trump is one of those classic big-thinkers who is all vision and no completion, all ambition, no follow-through. Trump’s wide-eyed, slur-mouthed grope from one “cookie jar” to the next, from Greenland, to Venezuela, to Iran—always back-peddling then re-doubling—clearly demonstrates this. It is the style of rulership of a spoiled manchild. The deranged outbursts leading to threats of genocide and annihilation accurately depict this low-impulse short fuse: the inability to properly internalize and process failure and humiliation. Now both sides have announced a major ceasefire deal—or so it seems on the surface:” – Simplicius

Reflections from the Heart of the Empire: Patterns of Farce and Catastrophe – “There has been much ballyhooing over the American operation in Iran which successfully rescued some downed pilots, but what were they doing over central Iran in the first place? Iran thinks they were trying to steal some enriched uranium, using some 170 aircraft, That does sound like something our Mad Emperor would try. So many Israelis are fleeing the country through Egypt that they are calling it a “reverse Exodus.” Somehow, this time I don’t see the Egyptians trying to prevent them from leaving Egypt for a second time. As usual, Africa is being hit harder by the disruption to trade caused by the latest Middle Eastern war more than anyone else. They should have heeded Bob Marley (AFRICA UNITE) instead of Western imperialists. ..and more – Ohio Barbarian  – THE BARBARIAN’S WEEKLY UPDATE. GOOD A USUAL!!

The End Of The Islamic Republic: Apocalypse Later? – “The “Experts” Have Proven They Do Not Know What They Are Talking About The past few days have proven one thing above all else: “Expert” analyses are not worth much, if anything. We know this because, when it came to the war with Iran and Operation Epic Fury, self-anointed “expert” after self-anointed “expert” made their predictions, gave their projections, and what we have as of this writing was not what any of them anticipated.” – Peter Nayland Kust

First Impressions Of The Surprise US-Iranian Ceasefire – “The victor only be confidently determined upon the conclusion of a peace deal based on the fate of Iran’s enriched uranium, nuclear program, missile program, oil exports to China, and the petroyuan.” – Andrew Korybko

Schrödinger’s Ceasefire – “Unfortunately it is nearly impossible to write anything about this ceasefire because most of what one might say about it is disputed and it appears to be crumbling as I type.” – eugyppius

Back from the brink, at least for now? – “U.S. and Iran agree to temporary ceasefire deal. What a roller coaster day this has been. At approximately 7 p.m., one hour before Donald Trump’s 8 p.m. EST deadline for Iran to capitulate to his demands, it looks like Trump may have agreed to the bulk of Iran’s demands. But this is only a ceasefire. Nothing permanent has been agreed to. But if the final deal is anything similar to what Trump has agreed to temporarily, then Iran is going to be much more powerful than it was before this war started.” – Leo Hohmann  –  A TWO WEEK CEASEFIRE TO MAKE THE MARKETS GO UP. NOTHING HAS CHANGED!!!

Ceasefire with Iran – “But will it lead to an end to a disastrous war?’ – Bill Astore

Sour Grapes: Israel Not Happy With Two Week Ceasefire Between US and Iran, Says It Is Abiding “Reluctantly,” But Stresses The Deal “Does Not Include Lebanon.” – Celia Farber

Scenes of devastation after Israel bombs Lebanon 100 times in 10 minutes – Sarah Hooper  – LET THAT SINK IN 100X. ISRAEL CARES FOR NO ONE BUT THEMSELVES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Trump and Iran Reach Historic Ceasefire. It lasted about two hours. – “Within hours of the ceasefire announcement, Iran was already claiming it had been attacked—without naming who did it—while fresh strikes, drones, and sirens were still being reported across the region. Gulf states were intercepting incoming fire. Israel is right this minute bombing Lebanon—an effort to dismantle Hezbollah—with Netanyahu claiming that “Lebanon isn’t part of the two-week ceasefire. ” As of now, the world is pretending the ceasefire means something. Both the U.S. and Iran have “claimed victory.” (Maybe if we let them both believe it, this thing will end?) Oil prices are already dropping. Stocks are soaring, the markets are rebounding, and investors are treating this like stability—even though, technically, nothing has been resolved.” – Jenna McCarthy

Hours After Ceasefire, Iran’s Lavan Oil Refinery Hit as Fragile Truce Wobbles – Arpita Ghosh / Times Now

First Two Ships Pass Through Strait Of Hormuz Since Ceasefire As Iran Demands Payment In Crypto – Tyler Durden

Why Might China Have Pressed Iran To Compromise With The US? – “The sequence that Trump threatened if no deal was reached before the expiry of his deadline would have cut China off from half of the oil that it imported by sea last year and likely set Afro-Eurasia aflame in resource wars for the indefinite future that would have derailed China’s superpower rise.” – Andrew Korybko

 

 

 

ECONOMIC NEWS

The Petroyuan Shift Has Begun – “As Hormuz oil flows increasingly shift toward yuan settlement, Iran may be forcing the dollar-based energy order into crisis before China even makes its final gold-backed move.” – Alasdair Macleod

US Futures, Global Stocks And Bonds Soar On Ceasefire Relief, Oil Plummets – Tyler Durden

The Explosive Bounce Is Here — And What Comes Next Will Surprise You – “The explosive bounce I wrote about is here. Stocks, precious metals, heck the entire financial system except oil, is ripping higher today on announcements of a two-week cease-fire between the US, Iran and Israel. What’s truly incredible is that the markets knew this was coming.” – Graham Summers, MBA

Silver Knows Something About Iran That the Headlines Don’t – “The Iran War Isn’t Over — And Silver Already Knows It. Silver just did something it’s not supposed to do. War breaks out → it drops. Ceasefire hits → it rips higher. If you’re trading headlines, you’re getting played. This isn’t random volatility. This is what happens when a market stops reacting to events and starts reacting to the system underneath them. The old model — fear equals metals up — just broke.” – Kerry Lutz

Price Inflation and the Price of Oil – “Are rising oil prices responsible for inflation? While some economists and many in the media make that connection, the reality is much different. Inflation occurs because of expansion of the money supply.” – Frank Shostak

NYC Mayor Mamdani Has Declared War on Gold – “On the heels of a credit outlook downgrade for New York City, Mayor Zohran Mamdani and the state legislature have just declared war on the financial center’s vibrant gold bullion market. Among revenue-collection ideas proposed by Mamdani’s office is a new tax on investment-grade gold and silver bars—and coins, and rounds as well. Mamdani may be greedily eyeing hundreds of millions of dollars in revenues from taxes on gold and silver, but these estimates fail to account for the financial devastation that the entire industry would face. With this new tax, dealers would close their doors, institutions would leave New York, and the tax base would shrink rather than grow. Conversely, when states remove sales taxes on gold and silver, there are new jobs and revenues created.” – Jp Cortez

 

 

SURVIVAL, PREPAREDNESS AND SELF-SUFFICIENCY

How to Read a Topographic Map – “Your GPS battery is dead. The cell signal is gone. The trail you were following disappeared two miles back. What you have left is a folded paper map and a compass. That is the moment when knowing how to read a topographic map stops being a hobby skill and becomes a survival skill.” – Ask A Prepper Staff  – LINKED A VERY SIMILAR ARTICLE BACK ON 12/26/18 BY BILL WHITE. BETWEEN THE TWO YOU SHOULD HAVE ALL THE INFO YOU NEED!!!

How to Find, Identify, and Harvest Wild Asparagus – “Free food growing along the side of the road sounds too good to be true. But wild asparagus is exactly that — and it’s available every spring across most of the country. You just need to know when to look, what to look for, and how to get there before the plant outgrows its harvest window.” – Lisa Bedford

Dirt Cheap Rifles Smart Homesteaders Are Snatching Up Before the Window Slams Shut – “The 2026 supply glut has finally hit the ground—and if you’ve been waiting for the right time to fill the gaps in your gun safe, this is it. Rifles that were back-ordered six months deep and priced like a used tractor just a couple years ago are now sitting quietly on shelves with tags that almost look like a mistake. And here’s the part most folks miss. This kind of window doesn’t stay open.” – Bill Heid

Mastering the Basics: Essential Outdoor Survival Tips (VIDEO) – “In this quick tips video, we cover essential skills every adventurer, prepper and survivalist should know:” – Jason Salyer

The First Nine Survival Items You Should Buy – Big John  – SOME GOOD IDEAS HERE, BUT THEN AGAIN, EVERYONE HAS THEIR OPINION ON THIS ONE!!!

 

 

VERSE FOR THE DAY

Romans 5:10      For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life.

 

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