THE BIG PICTURE

You Can’t Have Your Cake and Eat It Too – “Recently, I was engaged in a deep conversation with an ultra-liberal type. What struck me most during this conversation was how many of these people (assuming this one person represented many) seem unable to grasp a very basic truth: two contradictory ideas cannot exist in the same reality. They can’t have their cake and eat it too. They have to choose. But they typically do not. It was the same pattern every time we came upon diverse views on a particular topic. She eagerly embraced Statement #1 (having the cake), but adamantly rejected the logical consequences of Statement #2 (eating it). This is a serious problem. With this kind of logic, it’s impossible to reach any real conclusion. Having the cake cancels out eating it—and in the end, you’re left with nothing.” – Todd Hayen, PhD, RP

Lahaina, the Palisades, the Crippled Economies of the West: the Catastrophic Fallout from the Technate and Falsified “Climate Change” Continues. – “If you build on a lie, everything you create is an abomination. Meet modern life.” – Elizabeth Nickson

The Shadow Conspiracy to Make Us Pay 3x for EVERY Item [Part 1] – “You think to yourself, “This can’t possibly be real,” but I assure you it is. Here’s the proof… However, factually, technology is silenced through the Inventions Secrecy Act. The Invention Secrecy Act allows the United States government to classify ideas and patents under “secrecy orders,” which indefinitely block the public from ever learning of them. The way this act was written, anything that could disrupt society can be forever gagged. When someone invents something of greatness that could actually help us, it is slapped with secrecy orders or sabotaged.” – Agent131711

EU Approves Unlabeled Gene-Edited Food – “Big Ag/Big Tech Get Green Light to Hide CRISPR Crops In Plain Sight” – UNSHADOWED (formerly known as Ice Age Farmer).

Mimi – E.M. Burlingame

Get the FLOCK Out! — How and Why You Should Resist the AI-Powered Cameras that are Destroying Our Privacy – “As corporate profiteers rake in billions under the guise of public safety, their vast network of automated license plate readers is quietly transforming the basic right to peaceful travel into an inescapable, taxpayer-funded surveillance dragnet.Every time you pull out of your driveway, you probably still harbor the illusion that you are a free individual going about your business. The reality is far more grim: your vehicle is bleeding data into a massive, unregulated dragnet the moment you pass the neighborhood entrance. ” – Matt Agorist

Iran: The Goal Was Always Economic Reintegration, Not Containment – “If you don’t understand the difference, read on…” – Patrick Wood

Lawsuit Reveals “Cruel” Experiments on Kittens Continue Under Kennedy and Trump – Derrick Broze

 

 

 

NEWS

Strait of Hormuz Closed Again: This ‘War’ Was/Is a Pre-Plotted Scam – “Arguments about who won and who lost this insane fraud called the ‘Iran War,’ which has never once ended, are asinine to say the least. There are many fools in the Trump camp who insist that ‘we’ won, but these are either main-stream idiots, or worse, many so-called ‘alternative’ sources who are obviously controlled opposition. They would of course call me a “disinformation operative,” all based on ad homonym bull shite. First and foremost, they are all liars, as the only winners in any war are those at the top of the power, financial, and political pyramid, while all others, which includes the entire general population, always lose. That is no different this time around in this fake, staged, and fraudulent ‘Iran war.’” – Gary D. Barnett

Iran says Strait of Hormuz is closed over ceasefire violations after continued Israeli strikes in Lebanon – “Iran and the U.S. have both shown frustration with Israel for continuing to strike Lebanon despite the deal signed this week, which committed to end fighting on all fronts.” – Mithil Aggarwal and Dan De Luce

Mona Khalil, Lebanon’s turtle advocate, dies after Israeli attack – “Khalil spent more than two decades protecting the nests of endangered turtle species in southern Lebanon.” – Al Jazeera Staff

Trump Turns on Netanyahu and the Zionists – “Dispatches JD Vance to face the anger and resentment of the Israel First crowd.Trump’s flip-flop on Israel is a desperate attempt to reverse the tide rising against the president as the midterms draw closer. ” – Kurt Nimmo

The Four Jokers of the Apocalypse: Carney, Starmer, Macron, and Merz – “Fear merchants can’t sell Armageddon if nobody listens” – J.B. Shurk |.

Wild Days: US & Iran Sign MOU, Israel Bombs Lebanon, Vance Tells Israel: “You Can’t Just Kill Your Way Out Of Every National Security Problem,” Ben Gvir Says Oh Yes We Can—Vows To Burn Down Lebanon – Celia Farber

Trump Pivots 180′ As Peter Thiel Takes The Reigns of Israel First – “Tables Turned. What just happened? Trump has completed a 180’ pivot overnight and chastising his good friend Bibi for bombing Lebanon – which just resulted in the Strait being shut yet again. Literally, five minutes after Hezbollah and Israel agreed to a cease fire as directed by Trump, Israel broke it. Demonstrating the Zionists complete inability to respect peace and showing the entire Middle East who is the provocateur. Markets want to know which side Trump will choose? Before the Peace Stay was signed, Netanyahu had already gone global about his plan to attack Turkey next.” – Helena Glass

Israel ignores MOU – Max on the Iran “deal” (VIDEO) – “Max Blumenthal joins Mario Nawfal to discuss the fallout from Trump’s MOU with Iran” – The Grayzone  – GOOD LISTEN AS USUAL FROM MAX!!!

WAR AND PIECES: Trump’s Attempt at a New Deal Sputters ahead in Fits and Stops, but it Does Move – “Meanwhile, JD Vance exposes how Israel is vaporizing its friends and is down to just one ally left in the world and implies it could lose that ally, too, if Netanyahu’s government doesn’t shut up.” – David Haggith

Unity for the cameras: Why G7 is the summit of pretenses – Salman Rafi Sheikh

Equal to Genocide – “There is a condition throughout Europe and the US that is absolutely unforgiveable; that stands as large in the historical record of abuses as slavery or genocide and that’s the deliverance of rapists and murderers into an innocent population wholly unprepared for and unable to resist the predatory nature of those unleashed upon them. This is not a national disgrace, it’s a worldwide disgrace,.. I don’t care what their excuse is, what manner of upside down morality they use to justify thrusting barbaric and horrific instincts upon the innocent girls and children of the Western world, it is criminal to do so. Their feigned ignorance of the consequences of their actions are hollow and abominable.” – T.L. Davis  – WELL SAID!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Why Don’t British Men Do Something? ” … except, apparently, in Northern Ireland?” – John Carter  – LONG AS USUAL AND GOOD AS USUAL FROM JOHN CARTER!!!

 

 

ECONOMIC NEWS

Gold & Silver Won’t Save You Alone! What Really Matters (VIDEO) with Andy Schectman – Liberty and Finance

Eternal Bullion… – “Why Gold Outlives Every Empire That Tries to Replace It” – The Macro Butler

7 Lies People With Money Problems Tell Themselves – Daisy Luther

Oil Markets Need More Than a Peace Deal to Recover – “The Iran framework agreement gave an immediate boost to markets, with shares rising and oil prices dipping. But whether this translates into durable economic gains will largely depend on shipping in the Strait of Hormuz. Ben Cahill, a nonresident senior fellow at the Atlantic Council’s Global Energy Center, indicated that this trickle needs to grow if the hope of an economic peace dividend is to be realized. “It’s all about tanker traffic. Agreements on paper don’t matter much unless they really get oil moving again through the Strait of Hormuz, because that’s what everyone will be monitoring — the number of tankers exiting the strait to carry oil, gas, and other products to market,” he told RFE/RL.” – RFE/RL staff

What a $9 Hamburger Taught Me About Inflation – John Del Vecchio

The Economy’s Mixed Signals Are a Warning – Peter Reagan

Gold’s Race Against the Dollar: Who Wins? – “Gold. It began the year with galvanic headlines and endless coverage. Now, midway through that same year, having lost more than 25% from its January high of $5600, many are wondering if peak gold is behind us in the wake of just another broken asset bubble. Such concerns are understandable, even expected – especially during a shakeout.” – Matthew Piepenburg

 

 

SURVIVAL, PREPAREDNESS AND SELF-SUFFICIENCY

The Barter Trap – “The trade that solves one problem can create three more Barter sounds simple when people talk about collapse planning. You have something useful. Someone else has something useful. The two of you make a trade. No banks, no cash, no online payment systems, no supply chain, no problem. That is the fantasy version. The real version is dirtier. Barter exposes what you have, what you need, where you are weak, who you are dealing with, and whether your household can be pressured. A bad trade can leak information. A generous trade can create expectations. A desperate trade can attract repeat visitors. A careless trade can turn a quiet prepper household into a known supply point.” – denob

The Real Reason Modern Life Feels So Empty – Bill Heid

You don’t buy a Plan B. You build it. (VIDEO) – “This week on the Collapse Life podcast, host Zahra Sethna speaks with writer and homesteader Joe Jarvis about the real-world process of creating a more resilient life — not the romantic fantasy version, and not the paranoid bunker version, but the practical, expensive, exhausting, clarifying version. Speaking from his homestead in Tennessee, Jarvis talked about choosing land, finding water, dealing with county rules, staying close enough to supplies, deciding when to stay connected to the grid, and why self-sufficiency is less about doing everything yourself than building useful buffers, skills, relationships, and options.” – Collapse Life

7 Ways to Use Peptides for Survival – “What Are Peptides? A peptide is just a short chain of amino acids, the same building blocks your body uses to make protein. ” – Jack

Stock Your Pantry for Less—Study Reveals Which Store Brands Fetch the Biggest Savings – “Use this the next time you grocery shop.” – Kelly Bryant

 

VERSE FOR THE DAY

Matthew 25:16    Then he that had received the five talents went and traded with the same, and made them other five talents.

 

IMAGE FOR THE DAY