THE BIG PICTURE

Rand Paul threatens to hold Fauci in contempt after he declines to answer questions – “Anthony S. Fauci repeatedly invoked the Fifth Amendment during a Senate hearing Wednesday where Republicans pressed the retired government scientist on whether he was sufficiently truthful in past testimony about the coronavirus pandemic. Sen. Rand Paul (R-Kentucky), a longtime adversary of Fauci, concluded the nearly three-hour hearing by saying the committee is planning a vote next week on whether to hold Fauci in contempt of Congress.” – Dan Diamond and Anna Liss-Roy – THOUGHT HE COULDN’T INVOKE THE FIFTH BECAUSE OF BIDEN’S PARDON. WHAT A JOKE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Fauci can’t even look them in the eyes – “POWERFUL MOMENT with FAUCI in the docket. The good doctor can’t even LOOK at the people he impacted. Sen. Bernie Moreno confronts the megalomaniac with the impact of his TERRIBLE Covid policies.” – Justin Hart

Senator Paul Should Ask Fauci Why Moderna’s 2016 Patented Gene Sequence Turned Up in SARS-CoV-2 – “Moderna CEO Stéphane Bancel, the Wuhan Lab, a critical gene patent, and the U.S. government’s curious lack of interest in what appears to be a smoking gun.” – John Leake  -AS I SAID YESTERDAY IT’S ALL GOING TO BE A SHOW!!!

Why You Shouldn’t Give Up: Your Moment Could Be Right Around the Corner – “40 is a long time, but your 41 is coming.” – Kate Dreston

The Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing – “For 140 years, one organization has quietly supplied nearly every Labour Prime Minister in British history, founded the London School of Economics, written the blueprint for the NHS, and shaped governments across the world, all while using a wolf dressed as a sheep as its actual emblem. This is the true, documented history of the Fabian Society. Founded by nine people above a shop in North London in 1884.” – Karla Treadway

FEMA’s New Mission: Domestic Terrorism -“The disaster response agency forgets the weather, embraces pre-crime” – Ken Klippenstein

WH AI Action Plan – Whoever Has The Most AI Data Centers – WINS! – “Contrary to the narrative that AI is being created to make our lives better or as Musk levies, to make Ai our personal slaves, AI is 99% about War. Weapons. New ways to destroy societies. All while sitting in a lounge chair and picking off people, towns, cities you don’t like. A Game.” – Helena Glass

Trump EPA Says Power For Data Centers Can Sidestep Pollution Laws – “Diesel generators are the main source of data center air pollution after on-site primary power generation, such as the dedicated gas generation.” – The WinePress

It’s now a crime to wipe your phone of personal data if federal agents stop you for questioning and don’t like your politics – “Man stopped for questioning at Atlanta airport four days after Trump took office in 2025 goes on trial later this year in Georgia” – Leo Hohmann

 

 

 

NEWS

Here Comes the President . . . – “The President of the United States, Benjamin Netanyahu, arrives in town this week to “confer” with his viceroy, Donald Trump. That is, to give him his orders. Everyone understands the nature of the relationship, especially those who refuse to acknowledge it. The real president of the United States instructed his viceroy to start this war and now he is back (again) to instruct him to expand it, probably. Iran stubbornly refuses to accept defeat since it has won – so far – by not losing.” – Eric Peters

The neverending cries of crisis – “Rahm Emmanuel was credited as saying, “Never let a good crisis go to waste.” He was probably paraphrasing Machiavelli when he said it… Still, in the history of the United States, various crises have been used as a pretext for any number of actions by presidents and/or Congresses that ultimately resulted in an upending of the constitutional order. The unfortunate truth is that when people get scared, they’re willing to accept anything so long as the voice demanding it sounds like they’re going to make everything better. Government overreach is nothing new, but it makes bolder gains during a crisis. And, when authoritarians realize that, all they need to do is create more crises to react to.” – Tom Knighton   – GOOD READ FROM TOM!!!!

Iran Proxies May Have Taken out 7% of Saudi Oil in a Single Day, so Oil Prices Relax – “Because that makes sense! Oil prices plunged, as any reasonably person would expect in today’s upside-down, Wonderland world of oil. Market manipulation” – David Haggith

Fragile Iran ‘Pause’ Shattered As US Base In Jordan Comes Under Attack, Oil Soars – Tyler Durden

IRAN LAUNCHES ATTACKS ON U.S. FORCES AS TRUMP SAID… “TALKS ARE GOING VERY WELL.” (If Trump Is BREATHING… Its A Lie). – Gregory Mannarino

Trump Rages About Surprise Iran Attack to Fox News: ‘We’re Going to Beat the F*cking Sh*t Out of Them!’ -Alex Griffing

Reflections from the Heart of the Empire: Choke Points – “The Ecuadoran prosecutor charged with investigating complaints of Ecuadoran fishermen of being murdered, kidnapped, and abused by the US armed forces in the eastern Pacific was assassinated on the street along with her sister. Fun facts: Her assigned police escort mysteriously disappeared and the President of Ecuador is a US Empire operative born in Miami.” – Ohio Barbarian – THE BARBARIAN’S INSIGHTS ON WHAT HAS HAPPENED THE PAST WEEK!!!

Socialist Seattle Mayor Gets Schooled on Raising Taxes – “Socialism in the land of the free. What does a Democratic Socialist leader do when her city is facing a $175 million budget deficit? Why, raise taxes, of course. Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson isn’t winning any brownie points with citizens or other politicians. The cost of doing business in the Emerald City has been driving companies away, and Wilson’s wave-goodbye indifference has only heightened the problem. Now, the mayor wants to boost taxes – again… Seattle and New York may be separated by nearly 3,000 miles, but they’re reading from much the same playbook: bigger government, higher taxes, and promises of more “free” benefits. ” – Kelli Ballard

Detroit Gets Drafted: Ford And GM Head Back To The Battlefield – “Defense production sits squarely at the center of that effort, with Washington increasingly looking to private industry to expand military manufacturing. The latest example is the Pentagon’s push to enlist Detroit’s automakers in building the Army’s next generation of tactical vehicles.” – Tyler Durden – CHECK OUT GM’S SITE BELOW!!!! ⬇️

Integrated Vehicles – GM Defense

What’s Behind The Mutual Iranian-Ukrainian De-Escalation? – “The US, Iran, and possibly also Russia appear to have calculated that it’s not in their interests, only in Ukraine’s and Israel’s. Iranian Foreign Minister Seyed Abbas Araghchi’s latest tweet came as a surprise. He wrote that he “Was assured by Ukrainian FM @andrii_sybiha that the attack on an Iranian ship was unintentional and Ukraine seeks no escalation.” – Andrew Korybko

 

 

 

ECONOMIC NEWS

Americans Are Cutting Back on Groceries – Recession Watch – “Politicians can point to a lower inflation report, but they cannot explain why Americans are standing in grocery aisles putting food back on the shelf. CNBC reports that consumers are spending less on groceries, forcing companies like PepsiCo, General Mills, Kraft Heinz, Campbell’s, and Conagra to slash prices and rely on promotions simply to move inventory. Millions have reached the point where every trip to the store has become an exercise in deciding what they can live without. The numbers tell a much darker story than the headlines. Americans now owe roughly $1.25 trillion in credit card debt, the highest level ever recorded. The average credit card balance has climbed above $6,500, while interest rates on many cards remain above 21%.” – Martin Armstrong

Rate Hike Today? – “Today would be the perfect time for Kevin Warsh to do something almost nobody expects: raise interest rates.” – Quoth the Raven

Fed holds rates steady: What it means for credit cards, savings accounts, mortgages and auto loans – Jessica Dickler

China Just Shut Down Retail Silver Trading. The Real Story Is What Came Before It. – “Here’s why you should be following this Chinese government move that didn’t make headlines – and what it means for silver today. Chinese regulators remember what happens when retail traders get caught on the wrong side of leveraged commodity products. That’s why the official explanation for what just happened to silver makes sense. But here’s the thing. This isn’t a temporary suspension. What’s left is physical pricing. And that’s worth understanding, because the Shanghai Gold Exchange doesn’t work like Western exchanges.” – Nomi Prins

The GDPNow Final Estimate for 2026 Q2 GDP Is 1.5 Percent – “The GDPnow estimate is 1.5 percent vs the Econoday consensus of 2.3 percent.” – Mish

Inflation Pain Is Worse Than the CPI Indicates, But You Already Knew That! – “We all intuitively know that prices are rising faster than the Consumer Price Index (CPI) indicates. We feel the pain every time we go to the grocery store or gas station. But just how much is price inflation impacting us here on Main Street? I started pondering this question the other day when I ran across a graph tracking the price of a can of Campbell’s Tomato Soup since 1895. You’ll notice an interesting phenomenon. The cost of a can of soup remained relatively stable until around 1973, when it suddenly started to climb more rapidly. And what happened in the early 1970s? President Richard Nixon severed the dollar’s last connection with the gold standard, making it a purely free-floating fiat currency.” – Mike Maharrey

An Interesting Divergence Is Emerging Between The Fed And Other Central Banks – “Warsh’s predilection for the Fed to “say less” contrasts with the approach of the RBA, who are busily implementing review findings encouraging better communication. Warsh, on the other hand, seems to take the view that the wizard retains more power if he remains behind the curtain. Saying less would neatly resolve the risk central bankers face of painting themselves into a corner when goaded into issuing forward guidance by enthusiastic journalists.” – Benjamin Picton

 

 

SURVIVAL, PREPAREDNESS AND SELF-SUFFICIENCY

These 10 Watering Mistakes Waste 50% of Your Water – Olivia Brooks

The Legal Gray Zone of Rainwater Collection in Drought States – “Homeowners across the American West have been quietly setting rain barrels under their gutters for years, often without realizing that in some counties this small act sits in a strange legal limbo. On one hand, state agencies plead with residents to conserve water, offer rebates for efficient fixtures, and publish glossy brochures about sustainability. On the other hand, some of those same states technically restrict how much rain a person can legally store on private property, a contradiction that leaves plenty of people scratching their heads.” – Bob Rodgers

Best Manual Food Processor for Power Outages – Ken Jorgustin

Surveillance Grid Nobody Approved: How 96,000 AI Cameras Went Up Without Asking – “As of July 17, 2026, the crowdsourced DeFlock map had located 95,923 Flock Safety cameras in the United States. That’s about 83% of every automated license plate reader volunteers have managed to find. Volunteers. That’s who’s counting. There’s no honest national inventory, plenty of departments won’t say where their cameras are, and the ones bolted to shopping centers and apartment complexes are harder to spot than the ones on utility poles.” – OFFGRID Survival

17 Things You Should Always Buy In Bulk – Heidi Hawthorn

 

 

 

VERSE FOR THE DAY

Revelation 9:6   And in those days shall men seek death, and shall not find it; and shall desire to die, and death shall flee from them.

 

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