THE BIG PICTURE

Fathers Are The Standard – “In my experience, people want their fathers to be proud of them. Fathers are the standard. Fathers are our first benchmark for what constitutes excellence. Fathers are traditionally the source of discipline in the household, as the Book of Proverbs reminds us. Fathers are presumed to set the example, and to point out the good path to their children.” – Peter Nayland Kust

The Bill of Rights Museum – “Lysander Spooner said it plainly in 1867: the Constitution has no authority over anyone who never consented to it. At the time, people thought he was being provocative. A century and a half later, the evidence is on his side. The document that was supposed to limit government power has become the very thing it was designed to prevent — a rubber stamp for whatever the political class decides to do. The Bill of Rights is still printed. It’s just not particularly enforced. And the gap between what the Constitution says and what Washington actually does has grown so wide that at some point you have to ask Spooner’s question: Was the document ever really in charge? Let’s go through the evidence.” – Sean Ring

Cult-Building, Sex and WWIII: Leak Exposes Peter Thiel’s Secret Society (VJDEO) – “As a dedicated researcher of conspiracy reality, you’re surely familiar with the Bilderberg Group. But have you ever heard of “Dialog,” Peter Thiel’s own private, invitation-only secret society? Do you know how the membership roster of this occult group came to be leaked? Do you know which US Senators, Trump administration officials, Big Tech broligarchs and Hollywood actors can be spotted at its gatherings? And do you know what these conspirators are up to behind closed doors? No? Well, strap in and get ready! You’re about to find out all that and more.” – James Corbett / The Corbett Report

Alberta’s New Driver’s Licence: What Albertans Need to Know Before July 2 – “and as always, it is for your convenience. Many Albertans should now be asking why a health identifier must be displayed on a document that is regularly shared with third parties who have no need to know it.” – Connie Shields

The Targeted Assassination of Studies Showing Vaccines Cause Injury – “Since they can’t win on the merits, they’ve resorted to other tactics” – Aaron Siri

The Xenobiotic Bargain: What Ibuprofen Quietly Takes From the Body — and What the Garden Offers Instead – “A drug sold as harmless turns out to wound the gut, the heart, the kidney, and the very ecology within us. Here is the full ledger — and the plants that heal without a bill coming due.” – Sayer Ji

 

 

 

NEWS

Iran Is Accomplishing All of Its War Goals – “while the US Empire has utterly failed, and Israel is surely doomed. When our Mad Emperor allowed himself to be swayed by Genocide Ben Netanyahu’s siren song of imperial glory, the ancient civilizational state of Iran, summoning commonsense strategies that go all the way back to Cyrus the Great, hunkered down, determined to achieve the following goals in a war which it had tried to avoid, yet prepared for, for decades.” – Ohio Barbarian

Another Week from Hell – “A bid to end a war might be sabotaged by Netanyahu” = Philip Giraldi

Who’s the Weak Link? – “The New York Times Strikes Again. Ilove getting The New York Times daily summary of the news. It makes for great hilarity. Here’s today’s example: Lebanon Emerges as Weak Link in U.S.-Iran Deal to End War. It’s not Lebanon that’s the weak link here—it’s Israel. Israel is the attacker. The aggressor. The country that wants to scupper the MOU between the USA and Iran. Everyone knows this—except the NYT, apparently.” – Bill Astore

China wades into the geopolitics of Iran – “To be sure, Beijing has a profound sense of involvement with regard to the provisions of the MoU ending the war. In particular, the operative part in regard of the regime for the Strait of Hormuz concerns China’s core interests of energy security. Whereas, Moscow is more focused on the respite that the Steve Witkoff – Jared Kushner negotiating team would now have to turn their attention to the Ukraine issue. Moscow is pressing for an early visit by Witkoff and Kushner to the Kremlin to meet President Vladimir Putin, who urged Trump in this regard. ” – M. K. Bhadrakumar

California’s Self-Inflicted Squeeze – “Once again, California delivers a rich example of what happens when central planning outweighs economic reality. Here the specific example involves extreme intervention in oil and gas markets. Policymakers in Sacramento, over many decades, have operated under the assumption that if petroleum production, refining capacity, and fuel consumption were made sufficiently difficult and expensive, the market would rapidly transition to their preferred alternatives.” – MN Gordon

The Left Hates Trump so Much That It’s Trying to Sabotage the Reflecting Pool – “The Lincoln Memorial reflecting pool has become the latest target in the left’s war on anything Donald Trump touches, and the radical left isn’t even trying to hide it anymore. “American workers are pushing around the clock to finish the pool by July 4, but liberals have a vested interest in destroying it for some reason,” Sortor wrote. We all know the reason: Trump Derangement Syndrome. It’s truly a shame how badly these people want to humiliate our country on the world stage, and they’re not even subtle about it anymore.” – Matt Margolis

UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer Expected To Resign On Monday: Report – “It would be a remarkable collapse. Starmer led Labour to a landslide less than two years ago. He now looks unable to command the confidence of his own benches for much longer, with cabinet ministers, union leaders and donors reportedly among those who have been involved in the conversations about his future.” – Tyler Durden

 

 

 

ECONOMIC NEWS

The Myth of Price Controls – “Cuban dictator admits that price controls never work. Mamdani, Elizabeth Warren, Sanders and Ocasio Cortez should listen. This episode matters beyond Cuba because it captures the core mechanism of price control failure. When official prices are fixed below levels that would clear the market, legal suppliers reduce availability, quality deteriorate, and transactions migrate to informal channels where the real market price reappears, often with a premium for risk and scarcity.” – Daniel Lacalle

You Weren’t Crazy 17 Years Ago. You Were Early. – James Hickman (Simon Black)

Inside the push to weaken Washington’s toughest financial watchdog – “The SEC used to intimidate corporate wrongdoers. Now its own commissioners are gutting its leverage. The current SEC commissioners are consciously weakening the agency’s leverage in negotiations with large corporate defendants.” – John C. Coffee, Jr. and Robert Pozen  – LOOKS LIKE THIS COULD BE A WIN, WIN FOR THE BANKSTERS!!!

A Sell-Off In Tech Is The Biggest Near-Term Risk To Markets Right Now (VIDEO0 with Lance Roberts – “The wild card to this going in next week is the market’s kind of looking back at at Kevin Morse and saying, “Wait a second, we don’t have any guidance to work off of. Maybe we need to derisk some.” And again, we also have that end of the quarter rebalancing. So, I thinkover the next two weeks, there’s more risk to the downside than there is risk to the upside. ” – Adam Taggart | Thoughtful Money®

Solar Is the Cheapest Power in History, But States Are Retreating From It – Haley Zaremba

The Same Hidden Force That Just Crushed Oil Is About to Mint Silver – “Every EV that rolls off a line in Shenzhen is a barrel of future gasoline demand that never shows up. That’s the structural undertow dragging oil down — and it doesn’t reverse when the price dips. Now flip the coin. That same EV doesn’t run on air. A battery-electric vehicle carries **25 to 50 grams of silver** — 67 to 79% *more* than the gas car it replaces — buried in its battery management, inverters, and charging electronics. That’s not my number; that’s the Silver Institute and Oxford Economics.” – Kerry Lutz

 

 

 

SURVIVAL, PREPAREDNESS AND SELF-SUFFICIENCY

What The Old Timers Taught Me About Tools. (VIDEO). – Modern Refugee.

Go Camping: Camping is a Great Way to Increase Your Survival Knowledge – “Don’t be caught off guard. Prepare yourself by going camping. When it comes to preparedness, testing, practice, and real-world experience is everything. If you have a closet full of gear, but you’ve never really put that gear to the test, then why bother even having it? A bag full of unused equipment isn’t preparedness. It’s just stuff. It only becomes preparedness once you’ve actually proven, with your own hands, that you can use it. Camping, fishing, and hunting are all great ways to relax and spend time with the family. They’re also great ways to improve your survival and preparedness related skills, and most people sleep on that second part entirely. ” – Off Grid Survival

Essential Camping Skills (VIDEO) – Matt Stephens

Dog Bug Out Bag – The Complete Prepper’s Guide to Building a 72-Hour Kit for Your Dog – Ask A Prepper Staff  – LINKED A SIMILAR ARTICLE BY KEN JORGUSTIN ON 08/02/25

The First Dirty Water You Should Collect After Collapse – “Before you run to the creek, know which questionable water sources are worth saving, which are only good for sanitation, and which should be left alone.” – denob

 

 

VERSE FOR THE DAY

.Hebrews 13:9   Be not carried about with divers and strange doctrines. For it is a good thing that the heart be established with grace; not with meats, which have not profited them that have been occupied therein.

 

IMAGE FOR THE DAY

 

LYRIC FOR THE WEEK

I’ve seen the bright lights of Memphis
And the Commodore Hotel
And underneath a street lamp, I met a southern belle
Oh she took me to the river, where she cast her spell
And in that southern moonlight, she sang this song so well

If you’ll be my Dixie chicken I’ll be your Tennessee lamb
And we can walk together down in Dixieland
Down in Dixieland

We made all the hotspots, my money flowed like wine
Then the low-down southern whiskey, yea, began to fog my mind
And I don’t remember church bells, or the money i put down
On the white picket fence and boardwalk
On the house at the end of town
Oh but boy do i remember the strain of her refrain
And the nights we spent together
And the way she called my name

If you’ll be my Dixie chicken I’ll be your Tennessee lamb
And we can walk together down in Dixieland
Down in Dixieland

Many years since she ran away
Yes that guitar player sure could play
She always liked to sing along
She always handy with a song
But then one night at the lobby of the Commodore Hotel
I chanced to meet a bartender who said he knew her well
And as he handed me a drink he began to hum a song
And all the boys there, at the bar, began to sing along

If you’ll be my Dixie chicken I’ll be your Tennessee lamb
And we can walk together down in Dixieland
Down in Dixieland, Down in Dixieland

 ( Dixie Chicken by Lowell George and Martin Kibbee )