THE BIG PICTURE

Stupidity, AI, Manufactured Wars, and Absurdity: A Cartoon Clown World – ““The demagogue is one who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots.” ~ H.L. Mencken Concerning Mencken’s quote, the demagogues are Trump and the rest of the government, media, and their handlers, and the population at large are the useful idiots. I am of course speaking in general terms, this does not apply universally, but that still might be too weak a position to take given our current circumstances in this idiocracy called America.” – Gary D. Barnett

Parents Must Now Seek CPS Approval to Homeschool as Liberal State Declares War – “Connecticut unveiled the first major homeschooling restriction in decades, requiring families to get permission from “child welfare” authorities and obey more rules. Other states are watching.” – Alex Newman

“Device-Level” Nudity Detection: UK Gov’t Blackmailing Public into Digital ID – “British Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer announced plans, in a speech earlier today, to introduce “device-level controls” that will prevent children from viewing, sending or taking naked photographs: The only way this is even close to enforceable is if one or more of the following measures are in place: It means “nudity detection” on every app on the device, at all times. There’s literally no other way of doing it.” – Kit Knightly

United Nations Publishes Draconian Report Detailing How It Uses Blockchain ‘To Confirm Where Activities Are Taking Place And What Has Been Reported – “The United Nations has big plans for a new international financial system, one that seeks to track and trace absolutely every asset, commodity, currency, and person on blockchain ledgers. It is one of the most dystopian reports I have covered.” – The WinePress

Three New Vaccine Candidates For Ebola Are Being “Fast-Tracked” – Mac Slavo

The Surveillance State Just Enlisted Millions of Strangers to Spy on You – “Meta’s new privacy policy is basically: good luck. This week, security researchers discovered that Meta has been quietly shipping facial recognition code to millions of smartphones since January—buried inside the Meta AI app that pairs with its Ray-Ban and Oakley smart glasses. The feature, called NameTag, is not currently enabled. Meta would very much like you to find that reassuring. I do not find that reassuring.” – Jenna McCarthy

CDC Quietly Admits Genomic Sequencing Cannot Independently Prove Virus Transmission Chains: ProPublica Report – JonFleetwood

 

 

NEWS

There is No Art of the Deal—Just a Shakedown – “There is no art of the deal, just a shakedown from an insane Donald Trump. His responses during interviews tell the story. He either lies, or has become as forgetful as Reagan, when he says he never assured Americans there would be no more wars. He did that, on stage—many times. He promised to bring an end to the endless warmongering that destroys our nation. ‘I call the shots,’ he says. No you don’t. You stated, many times, you would be the peace/no regime change president—that was your promise. For whatever reasons, Netanyahu calls the shots—you just act as if you do.” – Erik@neverhadaboss.com  – SEE YESTERDAY’S SHORT VIDEO WHERE HE STATED NO WARS MANY TIMES!!!!

Belfast Horror: African Migrant Tries To SAW OFF Victim’s Head In Street Attack – “Police and media call it a mere ‘stabbing’ by a ‘man’. The Police Service of Northern Ireland issued a statement calling it merely a “stabbing incident.” They confirmed one man has been arrested and another taken to hospital with serious injuries. There was no mention of the attacker’s background, immigration status, or the obvious attempt to decapitate the victim.” – Steve Watson

Britain On Edge As Mass Protests Expected After Attempted Beheading Attack By Migrant – “”Sh*t is about to hit the fan in Belfast” …” – Tyler Durden

The Erasure of Whiteness Gathers Speed – “As we saw from the complicity of the British police in the murder of Henry Novak by an immigrant-invader, the decades of propaganda that white people are racists has been successful. The suppression of white people by white governments is not limited to official indifference to their rape and murder. It applies across the board. For example, the British are no longer permitted to have historical figures on their currency, and Americans are being dispossessed of their language by diversity. The Bank of England has decided that historical figures such as Winston Churchill are “elitist and divisive” and is removing Churchill’s image from the 5 pound banknote. The Bank of England’s decision to deep-six Britain’s famous wartime leader is based on nothing more than a study by a market research firm ” – Paul Craig Roberts

Trump Insists US In ‘Final Throes’ Of Iran Deal; Death Toll Soars As Israel Pounds South Lebanon – Tyler Durden

Trump’s Israel-Iran Schmeasefire Blows Apart – David Haggith

Iran Establishes Escalation Dominance with First-Ever Non-Retaliatory Strike on Israel – “Yesterday Iran struck Israel with ballistic missiles after Israel’s bombing of a Beirut neighborhood which had been a red line for Iran. The attack was in some ways unprecedented, as it represented Iran preemptively striking Israel for the first time without Israel having struck Iran first. For the first time on the back foot, it was Israel and the US that were forced to “defensively” retaliate in kind:” – Simplicius

War On Iran: – Iran Will Respond To Ceasefire Breaches Wherever Those Are – “President Trump and his partner in crime Netanyahoo have tried to draw Iran into a ceasefire trap. It was hoped for that a bit by bit escalation, like Israeli bombing in Lebanon, would be left without a response by Iran. Iran however did not fall for that scheme.” – Moon of Alabama

Exclusive: U.S. Secretly Deployed Paratroopers to Israel – “Quick Reaction Force specializes in ‘forced entry’. When the Pentagon announced that the 82nd Airborne was deploying to the Middle East in March, it concealed a key detail: some of the paratroopers were headed to Israel, as revealed in an Army deployment order I obtained. ” – Ken Klippenstein

CSIS ~ China’s Communism Bad – America’s Totalitarianism Good – “As China’s Xi Jinping continues to expand its list of allies, America’s Donald Trump, continues to slash its list. While claiming Israel as America’s greatest ally, today we remember the day Israel attacked the USS Liberty killing 34 US soldiers and wounding 171. While China builds relationships, Israel embraces horror, chaos and death. China bad. Israel good.” – Helena Glass

Israel Caught Spying on US! (VIDEO) – “Do you know the documented history of decades of illegal Israeli government spying on Washington? Do you know who was involved in the nuclear smuggling ring that stole America’s nuclear secrets to build Israel’s illegal and still undeclared nuclear arsenal? Do you know about Unit 8200 and the inescapable web of cyber spying operations that leads from Tel Aviv to Washington right through Epstein Island? Well, you’re about to! Strap in and get ready.” – The Corbett Report

Congress Moves to Institutionalize US-Israeli Relationship – “Israel will benefit enormously and Americans will bear the burden” – Philip Giraldi

 

 

 

ECONOMIC NEWS

10 Reasons Not To Ignore Today’s Market Selloff – “Sharp reversals often reveal underlying stress that has been building beneath the surface long before it becomes obvious in the major indices.” – Quoth the Raven

Household worries over finances hit highest level since July 2022, New York Fed survey shows – Jeff Cox

It Was a Win/Win Deal. So of Course They Rejected It. – “On November 6, 1906, an American entrepreneur named Augustus E. Staley incorporated his cornstarch manufacturing business in Decatur, Illinois.  Staley ran a “Fellowship Club” for his workers. And in the year 1919, some of the members of that club formed an intramural sports team to play what was then a strange and relatively new game called gridiron football. The game was starting to become a lot more popular. By 1920 the Decatur Staleys had already won a state championship and had become a charter member of the brand new league that would become the National Football League. Shortly after the team, now professional, moved to the city of Chicago and renamed itself to da Bears. ( FAST FORWARD TO TODAY ) It’s just a short drive across the border to Indiana. But the business environment is completely different. Indiana runs a budget surplus, sits on $2.5 billion in reserves, and carries a coveted AAA rating. And it only took Indiana’s legislature a couple of months to pass a variety of incentives— worth up to $1 billion. Illinois is squeezing the team. Indiana is rolling out the red carpet. It’s not hard to understand why: billions in private construction, thousands of jobs, and lots of new tourism dollars. Illinois could have had that. But the Left simply does not want to do win/win deals.” – James Hickman (Simon Black)

The Fed Is Easing Into a Fire — And the Bond Market Knows It – “The geopolitical world has entered a maddening news cycle. The basic formula is as follows: Trump proclaims that Iran has been decimated and desperately wants a peace deal. Iran attacks/ threatens an attack on Israel or U.S.-aligned entities. Trump threatens to [insert over the top language] Iran. Allegedly a peace deal is worked on behind the scenes. Trump proclaims the deal is [insert unsatisfactory language]. Return to #1. When or if this process will ever resolve with an actual peace deal is anyone’s guess. However, what’s clear is that the foundation is being laid for an inflationary storm to hit the U.S. sometime in the next three to six months.” – Graham Summers, MBA

Economy Floating on Many Non-Sustainable Games – Catherine Austin Fitts – “CAF has been tracking all energy shutdowns and trade bottlenecks tanking the global economy. this is not a war in the Middle East. This energy war is a global war. It is very much putting some of the players and some of the creditors in a much stronger position. For example: as Russian oil and gas has been shut off by Europe, now the US can sell LNG to them for much higher prices. . .. If you look at the current energy prices, we have been protected . . .. we are running the reserves down to where they were during the Biden Administration. . .. The commercial inventories have been falling. We are approaching, probably by mid-June, a point where you can’t drop them anymore. . .. There is a danger of hitting a wall.” – Greg Hunter – SEE DAVID’S ARTICLE BELOW TO SEE WHAT CATHERINE IS REFERRING TO!!!

Current Market Oil Delivery Pace at Cushing Oklahoma Leaves Weeks To Delivery Disruption – “Also A Message For Leveraged Gold And Silver Markets. At the current average rate of draw from Cushing of 1.6M bbl/week, 2 to 3 more weeks may see the working bottom storage limits hit at which point crude delivery rates will be limited with an implied default on some WTI contracts.” – David Jensen

As Home Sellers Grapple with Reality, Listing Prices Fall by Most in at Least a Decade – “But each market dances to a different drummer, and declines have been far bigger in many markets.” – Wolf Richter

Supply Chain Logistics Costs Surge to a Record High – “Trucking and freightliner costs are surging internationally and in the US.” – Mish  – AND WHO DO YOU THINK PAYS FOR ALL OF THIS!!!!

 

 

 

 

SURVIVAL, PREPAREDNESS AND SELF-SUFFICIENCY

DIY Closet Farming Guide – “It may seem unusual, but a closet is an excellent location for an interior garden. Many people who try to create garden spaces indoors, especially during the winter, often have to sacrifice space appearances and put up with the mess of dirt on the floor and the unsightly glare of grow lights filling the room. A closet keeps all of that out of the way and creates an environment that’s perfect for plants throughout the year. Better yet, you can vary the crops to suit your needs and the time of year. ” – Olivia Brooks

The Defensive Home After the Police Stop Coming – “There is a comforting lie buried in most modern home security advice. Install a camera. Lock the door. Call 911. Wait for help. That works when the power is on, the roads are open, the phones are working, and emergency services are functioning normally. But serious preparedness has never been about normal. It is about the moment when normal systems slow down, become overwhelmed, or stop answering entirely.” – denob

Why You Shouldn’t Use Handheld Radios During SHTF – “A buddy of mine ran an experiment back in 2023 that still bothers me when I think about it.He set up a basic software-defined radio receiver in his truck, the kind you can build for about $35 with parts ordered off the shelf, and drove a 40-mile loop through three counties in rural Tennessee. By the end of that drive, his laptop had logged 847 distinct handheld radio transmissions, mapped roughly 60% of them to within a quarter mile of their origin point, and identified at least twelve operators by voice signature. They were twelve people who probably thought they were being careful. What I find very interesting is that this wasn’t FBI or another 3-letter agency, but one regular guy with hobby-grade equipment in his car.” – Jack

How to Get More Fruits and Vegetables in Your Prepper Stockpile – “Most people who work hard to eat well consume a lot of fresh fruits and vegetables. As well, many people these days generally eat a low-carb diet that is reliant on protein and produce. One of the biggest issues those same people notice in their prepper is getting those same fruits and vegetables from a pantry.” – Daisy Luther

Emergency Evacuation Plan: How to Leave Home Quickly and Safely – Lisa Bedford

 

 

 

VERSE FOR THE DAY

Psalm 74:10    O God, how long shall the adversary reproach? shall the enemy blaspheme thy name for ever?

 

IMAGE FOR THE DAY