THE BIG PICTURE

What to Do When Life’s Heaviness Drags You Down – “The Bible has plenty of examples” – . Kate Dreston

How Can We Be Free When We’re Not Free to Own? – “What denes a slave? The question is interesting because while it is reflexively answered, it is not understood. If it were understood, people would recognize that they are in fact slaves. Most people think they aren’t because they are free to work – and to pay taxes. Black slaves in the antebellum South actually had it better in some ways. They didn’t have to pay taxes, for one thing. The more important thing, though, is that they were aware they were enslaved. Put another way, they were not living under the sway of a delusion they were “free.”” – Eric Peters

The Absolute Impossibility to Hide or Collectively Protest as a Solution to Tyranny – “If I was weak, I would ask to be forgiven for my brutal and accusatory candor, but I need not, and desire not, any forgiveness. It is my assumption that telling the truth regardless of any ill will or hurt feelings it may generate, is always literally my only intent. I will never compromise,” – Gary D. Barnett

What Are The Reptilians? – “Uncovering The Hidden Bloodline Said To Rule The Elite. This is the theory of the reptilian race, dear reader, also known as lizard people, draconians, saurians, or reptoids. You might recognise them from science fiction, where they have appeared time and again over the years. Could it be that the inspiration for these stories runs deeper than mere imagination? Might they be echoes of something older, something that was once known?” – Jordan Nuttall

Bonnie Blue is the Most Disgusting Woman on the Planet – “An OnlyFans ‘creator’ is pregnant and intends on having sex with 1,000 men because there are people in this world that will pay to see that apparently. I saw a video of her once, where an interviewer asked what her parents thought of her career. She looked into the camera and said how proud they are of her. Yeah. Bullshit. No father on this earth is proud that his daughter has had sex with over 10,000 men in less than five years. Not one. There is no culture, no country, no religion, no species of human being where a father watches his daughter get gang-banged by a thousand men on camera, while pregnant with his grandchild, and thinks, ‘That’s my girl.’ That is not a thing that happens. That is a thing that happens in a very specific kind of nightmare.” – 🐺The Wise Wolf

Who owns Bobby? Part 2: CIA & Danaher Corp connections. – Sasha Latypova

Rock Legend Ted Nugent On The Unvaccinated – “Yesterday, Nugent wrote the following incredibly insightful post on X: Without the unvaccinated, the world would already be eating bugs, lining up for their 11th booster, and hiding in their basements like obedient lab rats. It’s our resistance, our refusal, and our voice that shook the system and woke up the masses. We stood against the largest psychological operation in human history, designed to break our minds, crush our freedoms, and turn society into a digital prison. And we’re not done.” – 2nd Smartest Guy in the World

META BLOCK Kids face daily limits and nighttime blocks on Instagram & Facebook as Meta agrees $17bn payout in teen addiction trial – “It will impose a two-hour daily cap on its apps and block teens from using Instagram and Facebook between midnight and 6am.” – Leah Renz  – AND WHAT TYPE OF VERIFICATION WILL THEY BE USING.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Fastest-growing Ebola outbreak on record threatens to become worst in history – “The response to Congo’s raging Ebola epidemic has been hampered by a severe lack of funding and pervasive misinformation, according to people on the front lines.” – Rael Ombuor and Rachel Chason

 

 

 

 

NEWS

THEY KNOW WHAT’S COMING, BECAUSE THEY PLANNED IT – “Anyone living in the real world of commuting to a job, buying groceries, paying rent, filling up their gas tank, paying utility bills, paying property taxes, and generally trying to live an honest hard working life with a couple weeks of vacation per year, knows they are being fed a load of bullshit by the Trumps, Bessents and Warshs of the world. They are spinning false narratives, faking the economic statistics, lying to you about how dire our economic situation is, and above all, spending and printing fiat at hypersonic speed in a desperate attempt to give the appearance of normalcy, when in reality we are living through the most abnormal, corrupt, degenerate, dangerous period in history.” – Jim Quinn

Trump Decides to Launch WAR WITH THE WORLD to Defeat Iran and Destroy the Dollar – “Before we get into Trump’s suicide mission to end the Iran war by destroying the US dollar, we should lead off with Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent’s confession about how stupid he is because we have to grasp the ignorance level of those in charge to really believe they are embarking on their dumbest war plan to date. The Jerry Lewis Klutz Award for Mental Gymnastics has to go this week to this statement by Secretary Bessent: On Thursday, hours after announcing that Washington would keep its naval blockade and hit Iran with the too toughest sanctions in history, the Treasury Secretary watched crude climb and told CNBC, “I’m not sure why oil has popped up on this.” He called it a spike he doesn’t understand, and waved it off as noise. Buried in the bafflement is a remarkable assumption: that slapping draconian sanctions on a major oil producer should make oil cheaper. It actually includes a lot more asinine assumptions than the overall thought that Bessent’s new financial war against Iran will make oil cheaper. ” – David Haggith

Canada Retaliates and Trump Threatens to Rename Lake Ontario – “In a childish move that cannot help, Trump makes a threat he cannot even keep.” – Mish

Dolly Parton: America’s last great unifier – “The rhinestone queen wore her celebrity so lightly that everyone thought she was theirs.” – Jenny Holland.

Reflections from the Heart of the Empire: Collapses, Fantasies, and Resistance – “Trump’s war pattern—I will not sully that great Greek word strategy by associating it with him—seems to be bluster, shoot off a few missiles, retreat, and then start all over with the bluster again, all the while breaking his own military’s already overstretched logistics system.” – Ohio Barbarian   – THE BARBARIAN’S WEEKLY UPDATE, GOOD AS USUAL!!!!!!!

More Military Murders on the High Seas – “The U.S. military has just announced that it has carried out two more murders on the high seas near South America. This now brings the military’s high-seas murders to more than 200 people. Mind you, in its announcement, the military did not use the term “murder.” The announcement stated that the military is simply enforcing the U.S. drug war. But make no mistake about it: What the military is doing is engaging in state-sponsored murder, which is ordinarily a felony offense.” – Jacob G. Hornberger

U.S Median Income: $90K. Canadian? $60K. That’s All You Need to Know – “Canadians are so cucked, so beta, so broken, they don’t even notice.” – Elizabeth Nickson  – GOOD ONE FROM ELIZABETH!!!!

Three Secret Service officials placed on leave in explosive misconduct investigation that goes right to the top – “Three Secret Service officials, including the agency’s top spokesman, have been marched out of their offices amid an internal misconduct probe. Communications director Anthony Guglielmi and two others in his department left on Monday, The three have been placed on leave, with their security clearances suspended and their work devices seized, according to CNN. The Secret Service declined to comment on the nature of the investigation, which reportedly involves the CIA and the FBI. It comes amid an ongoing effort by FBI director Kash Patel to hunt down the source of a leak to the media involving Donald Trump’s clandestine plane swap on the tarmac in Ankara, Turkey, after the NATO summit last month.” – Phillip Nieto

Nancy Pelosi Makes Massive Bet On AI’s Energy Boom – Paris Apodaca

Farm Bankruptcies Up 46% in 2025 Well Before Iran War Chaos – “MEET the man who is likely the producer of the beef trimmings Trump is buying from Argentina – Eduardo Elsztain. Hardly ‘dying’ as Trump attempted to play, Eduardo is worth well over $8 billion+ given his appraisal in the Panama Papers Caper some years ago. He runs Argentina and tells Milei what to do, when, and how. He brought Milei to power and can take him down in an hour.s. Elsztain’s father ventured into Argentina real estate at the advice of his rabbi. Today 850,000 hectares of farm and ranchland are managed by his company Cresud.” – Helen Glass

A CIA Director in Moscow – “Why did Ratcliffe come to Moscow? There are any number of theories floating around: The last time a CIA head flew to Moscow at the end of 2021, was to try and avoid the coming war. A CIA Director does not fly to Moscow just to have a friendly chat.” – Ashes of Pompeii

CIA Director’s Mystery Moscow Trip Sparks Wild Speculations – “WSJ theorizes that the visit may have something to do with the US’s intelligence that Russia is preparing for some large-scale new campaign: We can only assume Ukraine’s situation has become more dire than ever, particularly with the coming of winter, which will expose all Ukraine’s worst debilities for the world to see. As such, these are desperate Western attempts to stem Russia’s now-accelerating onslaught.” – Simplicius

Kremlin says CIA head met Russian intelligence officials, but not Putin – “CIA’s Ratcliffe has met with Russian intelligence officials in Moscow, but not President Putin; Kremlin calls talks ‘positive’.” – Reuters

“Access to Oxygen Is Not a Medical Luxury”: With No Spare Parts Allowed In, Gaza’s Hospital Equipment Is Collapsing – “Israel’s restrictions on medical supplies and equipment are still making health care in Gaza all but impossible” – .Abdel Qader Sabbah

 

 

 

ECONOMIC NEWS

Diesel Crisis Update: Farmers Hit Hard; Food Crisis Warnings Rise – “Prices continue to rise, as farmer associations issue warnings around world” – UNSHADOWED (formerly known as Ice Age Farmer).

The Beef Argument That Forgot the Consumer – “A cattle industry cannot rebuild indefinitely on the assumption that consumers will keep paying whatever price scarcity produces. Davis’s alternative is essentially to let the shortage work itself out after ranchers rebuild the herd and those calves mature. That takes years. Meanwhile, what exactly are American families supposed to do? Pay $7 a pound? $8? $10? At what price does beef become a luxury rather than a staple?” – Luis Gonzalez  – GOOD POINTS HERE!!!

When Wall Street Says Sell, Check Who’s Waiting To Buy – “Today let me offer up one of my patented periodic reminders to do your own work.” – Quoth the Raven

U.S. inflation rises again and stays well above the Fed’s target. A rate hike could be in play. – “The central bank could raise borrowing costs soon if prices keep going up steadily” – Jeffry Bartash

The U.S. Has Designated Gold as a Weapon. And Money. – Graham Summers, MBA

The U.S. Just Smashed Through $40 Trillion in Debt – “And the people who used to fund it are heading for the exits. Over the past year, the government has been adding debt at a rate of roughly $8.2 billion every single day. That’s nearly $6 million every minute. You can step into the bathroom, and by the time you walk out, the U.S. will be another $28 million deeper in the hole.” – Lau Vegys

The Real Cost of $40 Trillion in Debt – “Unchecked spending has pushed the federal debt to $40 trillion, weakening the economy and limiting the nation’s options when the next emergency arrives.” – Thomas Savidge

Gold: From DC’s “Enemy” to Its Last Hope? – “After decades of defending the dollar from gold, Washington may soon need gold to defend itself.” – Matthew Piepenburg

Complete Collapse: Scott Bessent Considers Tapping $1 Trillion To Fund New Round Of Bond Buybacks – “He claimed that the Treasury’s action was about “signaling” and to “show that we believe that the yields don’t reflect the underlying fundamentals.” ” – The WinePress

WTI Rises After Big Product Draws, Tiny Crude Build, SPR Nears ‘Tank Bottoms’ – “The Trump admin drained another 3.6mm barrels from the SPR to 289.7 million barrels (1983 lows), approaching the minimum operational level for storage facilities, which ranges between 250 and 300 million barrels.” – Tyler Durden

 

 

 

 

SURVIVAL, PREPAREDNESS AND SELF-SUFFICIENCY

Rising Beef Prices And The Thursday They Turned Out the Lights at Joslin – “Tyson just shut down the biggest beef plant along this stretch of the Mississippi River. The cattle aren’t coming back anytime soon, the jobs may never come back at all, and cheap hamburger isn’t coming back either. I live about 40 minutes north of the Quad Cities plant. So when Tyson Foods sent out those letters on Thursday, August 13, it didn’t feel like business news from some faraway state. It felt like a neighbor’s porch light going dark. This Was a Career Plant, Not a Stepping Stone. That’s the part most national headlines will miss. The Joslin plant has been part of this Mississippi River economy since 1983. That’s 43 years of cattle trucks coming down the highway, lunch pails crossing the parking lot before daylight, and second-shift workers heading home while the rest of the countryside slept. For the workers, a job at the packing plant isn’t just another line on a résumé. It’s the mortgage. It’s the truck payment. It’s the braces on a child’s teeth and the tuition payment at the local school. It’s a family’s whole financial foundation.” – Bill Heid

7 Survival Foods I Always Keep, And How Much Is Too Much – Darren Kelburn

Seven Days in the Dark: How I Watched My Neighbors Turn Into Thieves, My Home Become a Fortress, and the Brutal Truth That People—Not the Power Outage—Are Your Real Survival Crisis When the Lights Go Out for More Than a Week – “You don’t truly realize how much you need electric power until you’re left without it. As a society, we are addicted to electricity in ways that would horrify our great-grandparents and confuse our ancestors.” – Milan Adams

The Rodents Are Moving In – “The first sign may be a torn feed bag.Animal Products & Services It may be a scatter of droppings behind the freezer, a scratching sound inside the wall or the sudden discovery that something has chewed into a packet of carefully saved seed. By then, the rodents are already inside.” – denob

Hurricane Wind Arrival & Prep Deadline Tool – “When a hurricane or tropical storm is approaching, landfall time is not the only clock that matters. Outdoor preparations can become difficult or dangerous once sustained tropical-storm-force winds begin.” – Ken Jorgustin

 

 

 

VERSE FOR THE DAY

Proverbs 16:11     A just weight and balance are the Lord‘s: all the weights of the bag are his work.

 

IMAGE FOR THE DAY