THE BIG PICTURE
Our Kids Are Failing In the Millions While We’re Out There Bleeding the Horizon – “And while we bled out there, the real knife went in at home. The enemies of everything beautiful, everything capable, everything good didn’t need tanks. They didn’t need our attention. They had schools. They had phones. They had the quiet, smiling agreement that the future belonged to them if they could hollow out the kids first. They fed boys the lie that their strength was poison. They fed girls the lie that their bodies were prisons. They pumped dopamine and despair through glass rectangles until half the teenagers couldn’t look their own parents in the eye without flinching. Depression rates like artillery barrages. Needles in arms before driver’s licenses. Criminal records before the first real job. Bodies sliced and hormones swallowed because some stranger with credentials said the hardware God issued was a glitch to be corrected.” – E.M. Burlingame
Loss of Depth – “What in God’s name has happened to our youth? Not all of them, not yet—but the affliction is spreading fast. What contagion has taken hold? I could name a dozen, but the one that troubles me most—and the one that flows from all the others—is the loss of depth. By that I mean the quiet abandonment of any real pursuit of meaning, the evaporation of purpose, and the slow death of genuine passion. Am I merely an alarmist? Would most people push back and say I’m exaggerating? Possibly. ” – Todd Hayen, PhD, RP
The Unease You’re Feeling Is Not an Accident – “As society accelerates in an uncomfortable direction, it’s understandable if you’re feeling anxiety. Now is the time to repurpose it into action.” – JD Rucker
The basics of universal basic income – The worst idea in the world right now. Universal basic income is the sort of idea that a semi-smart third grader would come up with right after they finally figured out that we can’t “just print money until everyone is rich” but have never seen a supply and demand curve before.” – El Gato Malo
Is GARLIC TOXIC to DOGS? Reviewing the VERY STRANGE Studies That Proved This “Fact” – “Welcome to another episode of stupid science…” – Agent131711 – GOOD ONE AS USUAL FROM AGENT131711!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The Fatrix: You Aren’t Lazy or Stupid. You’ve Been Chemically Managed Since Birth. – “Pick up a loaf of store-bought bread. Not the eleven-dollar artisan situation with a name like “Gunderson’s Heritage Ancient Grain Boule.” The regular bread. The bread in your house right now. Read the ingredient list, all of it, which will take approximately as long as reading the book of Numbers and is equally enjoyable. You will find azodicarbonamide, which is a dough conditioner also used in the manufacture of yoga mats (the same compound, in the bread AND the mat, this is not a metaphor, this is the label). You will find calcium propionate, which does not exist in nature and which Australian researchers linked to irritability and inattention in children. You will find high-fructose corn syrup in the BREAD. In the bread. A sentence that should not grammatically work. Your grandmother’s bread went bad in three days. It went bad because it was food. Food rots. The bread on your shelf right now will outlast the houseplants. It will outlast the leftovers.” – 🐺The Wise Wolf
Tech elites invest in doomsday bunkers and remote islands as anti-AI anger grows (VIDEO) – “AI tech lords are prepping for a massive public backlash to their agenda.” – Kei Pritsker – SHORT UPDATE, HAVE LINKED ON THIS BEFORE!!
Trump Taps New CDC Director – “Spoiler: There’s zero need to pull out the ice bucket and champagne flutes. After a year of chaos, promises, course corrections, and what looked—at least for a minute—like a genuine attempt to rip the federal health machine down to the studs, the whole MAHA thing is starting to feel like You’re a Sucker, Charlie Brown. The latest letdown: Trump tapping Erica “Mandate Queen” Schwartz to run the CDC.” – Jenna McCarthy -LINKED ABOUT THIS ON SATURDAY AS WELL, HERE’S JENNA’S TAKE!!!
Animal Activists Arrested Attempting to Rescue Tortured Beagles While RFK Jr. Claims Ignorance – Derrick Broze
Police State: Australia Passes Law To Legally Abduct Adults And Children And They Are Not Allowed To Speak Out About Their Kidnapping – “PM Albanese once rebuked the bill as “draconian” in 2003. Now he is lauding an even beefier bill.” – The WinePress
When morality is subjective – “Perhaps the most disturbing aspect of modern leftism is that these folks who will tell you they are very moral because they care about gay people and trans people and women and immigrants and everyone in the world except for the majority population in the United States will also celebrate the murder of Charlie Kirk, lament that the Trump shooter missed him, and think Luigi Mangione is just dreamy in looks and in deeds. In other words, their morality is subjective.” – Tom Knighton
NEWS
America’s Neocolonial Wars – “Bombing and Killing Brown and Black People Globally.. America has a nasty—and uncoincidental—pattern of bombing and intervening in countries largely populated by nonwhite peoples. These are, essentially, exercises in neocolonial power. Recent targets include Venezuela, Yemen, Somalia, Nigeria, Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan, Libya and now Iran. In U.S. political and media discourse, these nations are often framed as breeding grounds of “terrorists” and “militants” or as backward and unstable, words that carry unmistakable racial overtones.” – Bill Astore
The Teenage Bully Boy Who Got The War Toys – “Here he goes again. The phony “cease fire” is expiring Wednesday. So the Donald is back on the keyboard promising to obliterate what remains of Iran if the mullahs (or whoever) don’t raise the white flag of surrender forthwith. Yet in the unhinged outpouring of crude bellicosity below we get the sum and substance of why the War Capital of the World on the Potomac has metastasized into a Trumpian clown show of bombast, misanthropy and farce.” – David Stockman
A DEEPER DIVE INTO THE DONALD: The King’s Megalomania is Nearing its Imperial Zenith … and here is how the mad king got there. His megalomania has finally become so painfully OBVIOUS that, even several of his loudest and most popular (and often obnoxious) supporters are now insisting he be “Twenty-fifthed” before he causes serious damage to the US and the world.” – David Haggith
Trump the God – “Trump’s portrayal of himself as Jesus, or anointed by Jesus, is typical of cult leaders.” – Chris Hedges
President Trump’s Narcissistic Intermittent Explosive Disorder – An IED Bomb – “Who has Trump not debased? A easy answer – Zionists. Twitter influencers are not a predicate to reality, they are paid. The Maga train is generous with Taxpayer funds. Top tier creators of illusions make hundreds of thousands if not millions peddling a solitary man because without this PR, too much Truth would reveal the clown behind the red curtain is just puffing smoke. By contrast, Bibi failed to get on the influencer train until after his reputation and respect had already dived deeply into twalette water. Along came Iran and Legos.” – Helena Glass
Disturbing image shows IDF soldier smashing Jesus statue with axe in Lebanon – “The Israeli Defense Forces conducted an examination of the image and confirmed it is a real photo of an IDF soldier violently smashing an important religious icon to pieces while stationed in southern Lebanon,” – – Allison Bloom – THEY RAPE PRISONERS, SHOOT KIDS, BLOW UP HOSPITALS AND SCHOOLS AND DESTROY STATUES OF JESUS AND YET WE ARE SUPPOSED TO BELIEVE THAT THEY ARE THE GOOD GUYS AND YOU ARE ANTI-SEMETTIC IF YOU POINT THESE THINGS OUT. I SAY ENOUGH OF THIS BULL SHIT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Palantir CEO Calls for Draft to Fight the Empire’s Wars – “National conscription, a form of involuntary servitude, and the wars it portends, is good for business, especially for corporations within the orbit of the Pentagon, the CIA, and the national security state. Palantir fits comfortably within this amalgamation. Project Maven is an AI-driven battlefield intelligence system designed by the corporation. The Defense Department, now known as the War Department, employed Maven in 2024 for “targeting support” in Iraq, Syria, and Yemen. Maven incorporates the AI model Claude, built by Anthropic. Maven, incorporating Anthropic’s Claude, was used to target the Shajareh Tayyebeh primary school in Minab, in southern Iran, killing 180 people, mostly young girls. President Trump praised Palantir Technologies” – Kurt Nimmo
Trump signs order to accelerate access to psychedelic drug treatments – “In December, Trump signed an executive order backing research into marijuana and cannabidiol, also substances classified as illegal.’ – Reuters
DoJ Opens Criminal Probe Into Meatpacking Cartel As Food Stocks Slide – “Shares of Tyson Foods and Smithfield Foods fell in late-morning trading in New York after The Wall Street Journal reported that the Justice Department’s antitrust division has opened a criminal probe into major meatpackers. The report follows President Trump’s push for an investigation into meatpackers as supermarket beef prices remain near record highs. Criminal antitrust cases are typically brought for alleged price-fixing, collusion, or bid-rigging. While the DoJ previously disclosed an investigation into beef companies after Trump called for action, it had not provided details on whether it was criminal.” – Tyler Durden – ESTEIN, NOTHING TO SEE THERE ANYMORE; BUT BEEFPACKERS, LET’S GO AFTER THEM. SEE THE REAL REASONS BELOW FRM AN ARTICLE EARLIER THIS YEAR!!!!
OThe Real Reason Beef Costs More: Fewer Cows, Not Corporate Greed – “Donald Trump and Peter Navarro are blaming meatpackers for hiking beef prices, but Agriculture Department data tell a different story.” – Jack Nicastro
ECONOMIC NEWS
Argentina got this warning before its collapse. America just got it last week. – “In early December 2001, ‘normal’ life very suddenly ceased to exist in Argentina— anything that remotely resembled a functional society came to an abrupt end. And that is by no means an exaggeration. The banking system collapsed. Financial transactions ground to a halt. Desperate people looted supermarkets for food, and then grocery shelves emptied. Energy ran short. Riots broke out in the streets, and police were shooting citizens in the face. The crisis raged so much that the President of Argentina fled the country by helicopter. Even in early 2001, the same year as the crisis, IMF reports flagged Argentina’s soaring debt-to-GDP ratio, citing its “sharp deterioration in the public finances,” and deficits running well above the targets Buenos Aires had agreed to. Well, the United States just received the same warning from the IMF last week. Even the language in the report is eerily similar.” – James Hickman (Simon Black)
U.S. Fiscal Crisis: Gold&Silver Back in Focus – “In just the past week, the debt and deficits of the United States took further blows as spending increases, falling revenues, and geopolitical hostilities tightened the funding vice. Even if you’re primarily a precious metal investor, you’ve likely been distracted by war headlines for the past few weeks. Over that same time, however, other long-term headlines have surfaced that will greatly impact gold and silver over time. You may have missed them, so, for this week’s post, let’s recap.” – Craig Hemke
Peace Won’t Fix This: The Closure of the Strait of Hormuz Has Already Done Its Damage – “My point with the above outline is that this is an EXTREMELY complicated situation to navigate even if the cease-fire holds, peace breaks out, and there are no more disruptions to oil production or shipping in the region. Having said that, the main takeaway is clear: significant damage has been done to global oil supplies. According to HFI Research (a firm that specializes in energy/ oil analysis) even if the Strait of Hormuz is 100% open/ back to normal by April 30th, the total production outage related to the Strait closing will be ~1.12 BILLION barrels of oil.” – Graham Summers, MBA
Prices Are Rising – and the Elite’s “Solutions” Are Getting More Outrageous – “Are the people leading the U.S. economy running out of solutions?” – Peter Reagan
How Trump’s Protectionism on Aluminum Works in Two Pictures – “Production has decreased every year since 2021 and prices have soared.” – Mish
The Economic Destruction of Trump’s War Goes Far Beyond High Gas Prices – “But the emphasis on pain at the pump threatens to badly understate the economic damage of this war. And it helps feed the false impression that, if this new attempt at a ceasefire holds and the war ends somewhat quickly, gas prices will fall back down as fast as they rose, and then all the global economic turmoil the world’s been worrying about will be avoided. It won’t. A lot of economic pain has already been locked in by this war. But to really understand it, it’s necessary to keep a few important economic truths at the front of our minds.” – Connor O’Keeffe
SURVIVAL, PREPAREDNESS AND SELF-SUFFICIENCY
The Perfect Storm: America’s Deepening Drought… Soaring Input Costs… And What It Means For Your Food Supply – “A drought of historic proportions is tightening its grip across the American agricultural heartland, and the timing could not be worse. With fertilizer prices surging by double digits, the nation’s cattle herd at its lowest point in 75 years, and the critical spring planting season now underway, the conditions are aligning for a severe and sustained food price shock. For off-grid families and homesteaders, the message is clear: the time to prepare your soil and expand your garden is right now.” – Bill Heid
13 DIY High Tunnel Ideas to Build in Your Garden – Jennifer Poindexter
Pets During Disasters Statistics: The Brutal Reality Most Owners Ignore – “If you share your home with a dog, cat, or any other companion animal, you already know the bond goes deep. These creatures depend on you for everything: food, shelter, safety, and in the most terrifying moments of your life, survival. Yet when it comes to actual emergency planning, most pet owners are operating with a dangerous level of overconfidence. They assume they will figure it out when the time comes, grab the leash, toss the kibble bag in the car, and drive away. The pets during disasters statistics tell a very different story, and it is a story filled with preventable loss, frantic shelter-hopping, and heartbreaking reunification failures.” – Bob Rodgers
Bleach, Hand Sanitizer, or Natural Cleaning Products? What to Use When – Cat Ellis
Husqvarna 26 Inch Clearing Axe -Thomas Christianson -DON’T USUALLY LINK PROMOTIONAL PRODUCTS, BUT THIS TOOL MIGHT BE PRETTY USEFUL FOR YOUR NEEDS!!!
VERSE FOR THE DAY
Micah 7:4 The best of them is as a brier: the most upright is sharper than a thorn hedge: the day of thy watchmen and thy visitation cometh; now shall be their perplexity.
IMAGE FOR THE DAY
Nothing New Under The Sun 2016 