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THE BIG PICTURE

The Trump Hustle: Distraction, Deception and the Heist of the American Economy – “Call it what it is: a heist. The corruption, cronyism, and self-dealing that now define the American government—under Donald Trump in particular—amount to a slow-motion stick-up carried out in broad daylight. But here’s the trick: it’s a heist hidden behind spectacle. The Trump administration is flooding the stage with noise so “we the people” don’t notice what’s happening behind the curtain. We’re being manipulated into watching the wrong thing. The distractions are part of the plan to rob us blind.” – John & Nisha Whitehead

Suicidal Empathy – “(It’s exactly what it sounds like). I know it’s been the cute new pose of the intellectual to play semiotic games to deconstruct the term “suicidal empathy” and pretend it lacks meaning, but let’s not lose the essence of the the issue in amongst the word games of academia and twitterati: To fail to recognize attacks against yourself and your neighbors as attacks is a profound form of disassociation and demoralization. The system refuses to hold a man who is attacking strangers on the train. even the victim refuses to cooperate. and it keeps getting worse. Seriously, if your pattern recognition is this poor, what on earth are you doing in a justice system? What are you doing as a mental health professional? I’m just dying to hear how this fact pattern resulted in “no bail.”” – El Gato Malo  – GOOD READ FROM EL GATO!!!

BREAKING HANOTAVIRUS NEWS: “One person tested “mildly” positive” and “a person with mild symptoms sent to a hospital in Atlanta” – “Read that again. “One person tested “mildly” positive”. 🤨 “A person with mild symptoms sent to a hospital in Atlanta…” When I wrote about this a mere two days ago, there was no plan for quarantine. That sure changed fast. Here’s the article, published this morning in The New York Times:” – Conspiracy Sarah

When wrong becomes right – “How small acts of justified wrongdoing reveal a much larger collapse in how we think about ethics.” – Collapse Life

The War on Iran and the Weaponization of Everything – “Weaponizing our water, our atmosphere, our food, our climate, our banks, our medical treatment, our insurance, our education, our courts, our unions, our Internet, etc etc. The objective of pushing the USA into doing the dirty work of exterminating Iran, has been the overriding political objective of Benjamin Netanyahu since he entered politics in the 1980s. All the evidence points to the fact that the Epstein class of Israelis really do have something horrific on the US President whose subordinate status has pushed the most ugly side of the special relationship to the forefront.” – Anthony James Hall

Why You Need the Sun: The Truth About Vitamin D (VIDEO0 -“Sunlight is not the enemy.” – Dr. Sircus

 

 

NEWS

Trump Stumped over Oil – “There seems to be a lull in the Iran war as if Trump is not sure what to do. On Saturday, he said that, if Iran did not accept the deal put before it, he would restart Project Freedom Plus, but he didn’t say what the plus was. Well, Iran flatly rejected the deal today, going so far as to call it “TOTALLY unacceptable;” and, yet, no plus has arrived. It does not even appear that Project Freedom is back on.” – David Haggith

“Like Band-Aid On An Arterial Bleed”: Ranchers Warn Trump’s Proposed Beef Tariff Cut Offers Only Temporary Relief – “I think personally that this is a serious threat on US producers and will strain many…” – Tyler Duden

Trump loses Iran, wins insider profits (VIDEO) with Max Blumenthal – “On CGTN, Max says Trump has boxed himself into a war Israel helped shape, while Iran holds the leverage, U.S. bases are damaged, and administration insiders profit as average Americans pay the cost.” – The Grayzone

Trump the Autocrat Declares He Will Suspend Gasoline Tax – “A serious violation of Article I, Section 8 of the Constitution. I doubt Trump has read the Constitution. Article I, Section 8 enumerates the specific legislative powers granted to Congress, including taxing and borrowing money. Article I gives Congress the sole power to pass legislation. It is Trump’s responsibility to “take care that the laws be faithfully executed,” not create them. Few social media posts point this out.” – Kurt Nimmo

Black teens represent the majority of school shooters, report says – “While public perception often links school shootings to high-profile mass casualty events involving assault-style weapons and manifestos, a comprehensive study reveals a different reality for incidents carried out by teenagers. Many such events are tied to interpersonal disputes and broader patterns of community violence, frequently involving handguns rather than high-powered firearms. It seems the legacy media prefers to sensationalize school shootings that are not impulse driven, but require forethought and result in high casualty counts” – Kenn Gividen

“We have liberated Europe from fascism, but they will never forgive us for it.” – “Marshall Zhukov was right, the west has not forgiven Russia. Marshal Georgy Zhukov’s warning remains one of the most piercing observations of the twentieth century. The Soviet Union bore the overwhelming burden of defeating Nazi Germany, yet its contribution has been steadily minimized in Western historical memory. This revisionism is not incidental.” – Ashes of Pompeii

‘A war of necessity’: Germany marches East again – “Eighty-one years after Hitler’s defeat, Berlin’s pacifist era is ending” – Ladislav Zemánek

Von der Leyen’s power grab angers EU officials – Bloomberg – “The European Commission chief is “obsessed” with proving she’s in charge, diplomats and officials have complained” – RT

British Airways Wants Passengers to Stop Filming In-Flight Chaos – “Passengers would like British Airways to direct this level of urgency toward the fistfight in Row 11.” – Jenna McCarthy

FIGHT FOR HIS LIFE PM facing Cabinet showdown TODAY as nearly 80 MPs including Home Secretary demand he quit – “SIR Keir Starmer is fighting for his political life ahead of a showdown cabinet meeting today. At least three top ministers are understood to have joined the growing mutiny which has seen dozens of MPs turn on him after Labour lost nearly 1,500 seats at the local elections last week.” – Martina Bet, Ryan Sabey and Jack Elsom

The pathological vanity of Keir Starmer – “His refusal to step down is an act of contempt for the public.” – Brendan O’Neill

More Complications Arise In the Trump Universe – “Ruling the world is a tricky business” – Philip Giraldi

Noahide Laws: Trump Proclaims National Sabbath For ALL Americans On May 15th, Promises To Keep Fighting Antisemitism – “I call upon Americans to celebrate the heritage and contributions of Jewish Americans and to observe this month with appropriate programs, activities, and ceremonies.” – The WinePress

Why Might Germany Replace The US As Russia’s Perceived Top Adversary?” – Andrew Korybko

 

 

ECONOMIC NEWS

Prepare For Economic Chaos (VIDEO) with Gerald Celente – “Never in my life have I been more concerned about the state of the world. And yeah, this Iran war has made a very bad situation much worse. The Ukraine war keeps ramping up and um look what’s going on. I mean, we saw crude hit, oh, what, $126 a barrel this week. It came down because now they’re talking about negotiations again. But it’s still, as we’re speaking, it’s $108 a barrel for Brent crude. And this is affecting the entire world. It’s bringing down the global economy and it’s hurting the average person. Wall Street has zero to do with Main Street. Nothing at all to do with it.” – Kerry Lutz’s Financial Survival Network

When The Bond Market Breaks, The Fed Will Be Powerless To Stop It (VIDEO) with Bill Fleckenstein – “How much of a threat to the economy is the oil price shock, and shortages of other key commodities, caused by the US-Iran war? What’s likeliest to happen if the war wraps up soon? Or, if it escalates from here?” – Adam Taggart | Thoughtful Money®

Jobs Are Worse Than They Say (VIDEO) – Peter Schiff

Inflation jumps to 3-year high, CPI shows, and that’s not the end of it – “The U.S. inflation rate leaped to a nearly three-year high of 3.8% in April because of higher gas prices — and the pain for consumers isn’t going away anytime soon. The spurt in inflation since the Iran war began 10 weeks ago could force the Federal Reserve to shelve an interest-rate cut this summer, ” – Jeffry Bartash

# General Pershing is Coming to Protect Your Silver – “Why the Most Important Silver Story in the World Isn’t Coming from Wall Street” – Kerry Lutz

Oil Market Will Lose 100 Million Barrels a Week if Hormuz Remains Closed – “Trump says the cease-fire is on life support. So what?” – Mish

Little Green Toilet Paper: The World Is Done Financing America’s Imperial Addiction – “America’s Paper Empire Is Collapsing — And the World Is Walking Away” – The Silver Academy

When US Treasuries Play a Reverse Card – “In the card game Uno, playing a Reverse card reverses the direction of the game. If the play moved to the right, it reverses direction and moves to the left. The consensus view is the US dollar (USD) and US Treasuries are both weakening as global capital flows to other currencies and investments such as cryptocurrencies, commodities, precious metals, reshoring industries and of course AI. It would surprise quite a few players if US Treasuries play a Reverse card and capital flows out of current darlings and into Treasuries. How is this even possible, given that the USD is on a terminal trajectory to zero due to out-of-control federal borrowing / debt? Here’s how the Reverse card scenario plays out.” – Charles Hugh Smith

 

 

SURVIVAL, PREPAREDNESS AND SELF-SUFFICIENCY

The Fertilizer Bomb Is About To Detonate Our Grocery Bills… Here’s The Way Out – “The grocery store is lying to you — not with words, but with prices. Every time you push a cart past the produce section, you’re paying a hidden tax: the cost of fuel to transport those vegetables hundreds of miles, the price of synthetic fertilizer made from petrochemicals, and the invisible toll of pesticide residue that doesn’t wash off. But there’s a way to beat the system… and it starts with a packet of heirloom seeds and a patch of ground. Let’s talk numbers, because numbers don’t lie.” – Bill Heid

How Do Chores Teach Life Skills? The Answer Every Prepper Parent Needs to Hear – “Most parents give kids chores because the house needs to be clean. Prepper parents give kids chores because the world can fall apart, and a child who has never done hard work is a child who is not ready for it.” – Ask A Prepper Staff

Small Farm Dairy Cattle – Part 1 – SaraSue  – I’M SURE THIS WILL BE SEVERAL PARTS. BE SURE TO CHECK THIS SITE WHILE I AM TEMPORARILY OUT OF COMMISSION!!

Pantry Moth Traps – How to Stop an Infestation Before It Destroys Your Food Storage – Self-Sufficient Projects Staff

The One-Off Code System – “Most people think emergency communications means owning a radio. It does not. A radio is only a delivery method. A phone is only a delivery method. A written note is only a delivery method. A runner on foot, a neighbour at the gate, a text message, a vehicle horn, a whistle blast, or a message left at a fallback location are all delivery methods.The real question is much harder: What does the message actually mean? That is where most preparedness plans fall apart. People buy radios, charge them once, put them in a drawer, and assume they now have communications. They do not. They have equipment. Equipment without procedure is just another object waiting to fail. ” – denob

 

 

VERSE FOR THE DAY

Proverbs 31:10      Who can find a virtuous woman? for her price is far above rubies.

 

IMAGE FOR THE DAY (BEFORE THERE WAS TRUMP. THERE WAS JOE)