THE BIG PICTURE

Should I stay (home) or should I go (to the polls) – “First and second order thoughts on fiscal policy and elections. The donkeys are worse than the GOP. no doubt. But the GOP still sucks, runs on small government then governs like donkey light. They get both houses and the presidency and spend the whole time caterwauling about how they can’t bills passed on issue with 4 in 5 popular support. This is not some inevitability of the US government. The donkeys manage it. The congressional GOP are just frails. They are not really trying. It’s all pantomime.” – El Gato Malo

Hoaxes “R” Us: Flydubai and the Russian Plague – “Stop them before they hoax again. Sometimes I wish I’d never watched the movie The Truman Show. It really made me question the whole nature of our reality. 9/11. Sandy Hook. The Boston Bombing. So many events of the 21st century leave you shaking your head and searching for crisis actors. The narratives are childishly implausible, and nothing really gets resolved.” – Donald Jeffries

Your Credit Card is Spying: We are Being Tracked Like Deer [Flock Part 8] – “How your credit card is selling you out to the highest bidder. What exactly are they doing with all of this information? The secret world of data harvesting explored.” – Agent131711

White fibrous clots found by embalmers: What’s in them? – “As these clots are a fairly recent phenomenon, it has been difficult to give them a single label and over the years they have been referred to by several names including fibrous white clots, rubbery clots or amyloid structures. Up until now, the composition of the clots has been largely theoretical. But a new study provides some tangible evidence as to what they’re made of.” – Rhoda Wilson

Is Canada the front line of the ‘Great Replacement’ in the Americas? – “In some European cities, whole neighborhoods are off bounds to anyone not from the dominant ethnicity. It looks like Canada wants to follow that model, starting first by swapping hockey with cricket.” – Collapse Life

The Speech That Gets You Banned From America – “Leaked Rubio cable details “far-left” speech that bars people from entering the U.S. Under the pretext that certain forms of speech can lead to violence, or even more vaguely, can pose some kind of threat to America’s economy, Rubio has laid out all of the ways that the federal government can decide which ideas are too dangerous and thus can be the basis for denying a visa.” – Ken Klippenstein

 

 

 

NEWS

Iran’s Obfuscation; Trump’s Deterioration – “For all intents and purposes, Iran defeated the United States and Israel on the battlefield. It has destroyed the U.S. military bases in the Persian Gulf. It defeated Israel’s “Iron Dome” and the U.S. military’s defensive radar and missile systems. It put America’s military weaknesses and vulnerabilities on public display for the entire world to see. The world will never look upon the United States as the great global hegemon again. Trump’s myopia has forever tainted America’s global reputation strategically, militarily and diplomatically. And even though the warmongering neocons in Washington, D.C., will never admit it (until they are forced to, which they soon will be), the unipolar world is gone forever, and the multipolar world is now upon us.” – Chuck Baldwin

Pentagon Prepares ‘Options’ For Trump To Strike Iran Before Midterms; Tanker Attacked Off Qatar – Tyler Durden

Trump Says He Won’t Pursue Obama, Biden And Clinton Because The Presidency Is ‘Sacred.’ Obama Says US Government ‘Much Less Corrupt Than Ever Before’ – “Drain the swamp In today’s reminder, for the umpteenth time, that it’s a big club and you ain’t in it, and all these guys and gals are just buds at the end of the day, Trump once again reiterated at the White House today that he has no plans to prosecute former Presidents Barack Obama and Joe Biden, along with Hillary Clinton, because, in his words, the presidency is “sacred.”” – The WinePress

Who Is Natalie Harp and Why Is the Internet So Obsessed with Her? – “Trump’s longtime assistant is under attack for [*checks notes*] doing her job while being hot.” – Jenna McCarthy

Hurricane Isaias is expected to strengthen as it barrels toward the US Gulf Coast – “Isaias was forecast to intensify rapidly and bring strong winds and a life-threatening storm surge to the Florida Panhandle, southern Alabama and southern Mississippi when it makes landfall on the northern Gulf Coast late Friday or early Saturday. ” – R.J. Rico, Dave Collins and Gerald Herbert

French Riots, Islamic Terrorism, and Civil War – “The enemy is already inside the gates. The propaganda press continue to lie about the fiery riots spreading across France. Both European and American outlets have described the violent insurrections as spontaneous gatherings of students who are upset about dilapidated, overcrowded schools and poor curricula. These descriptions reek of CNN’s attempt to portray Black Lives Matter and Antifa’s 2020 summer of mass arson, looting, and murder in the United States as “fiery but mostly peaceful protests.” What’s going on in France could end up being much worse than the BLM/Antifa terrorism in the U.S.” – J.B. Shurk

It’s The Parents… – “First-graders generally do not walk into reading class with a loaded 9mm, shoot the teacher, and then dare the police to come get them. But in this case, that is exactly what happened. “THIS IS CRAZY. UNREAL. Bodycam footage from the January 6, 2023 shooting at Richneck Elementary School in Virginia has now been unsealed. A 6-year-old black student stole his mother’s loaded 9mm Taurus, brought it to school, and shot his first-grade teacher, Abby Zwerner. Listen to the kid cussing at the police. ‘F*ck you, I shot my teacher!’ ‘F*ck you b*tch.’ ‘I stole it because I needed to shoot my teacher.’ ‘If you want a piece of me, come get it!’ He even tries to punch the woman holding him. Keep in mind, this is after shooting his teacher at point blank range in a crowded elementary school classroom..- Amiri King on X” – Steve Watson

Russia’s Crown Jewel Refinery Ablaze After Drone Strike, Data Center Also Hit In War First -“Omsk Oil refinery, very far from front lines, is Russia’s largest…” – Tyler Durden

Nope! The Trumpian Economy Is Not Remotely Booming And Falling Crime Rates Aren’t The Donald’s Doing, Either – “We too are tired of harping on the Donald’s blithering incoherence when he talks about economic issues. But no matter. He’s now outdone himself by an expectoration of mental phlegm that tops all that has come before. In the case of his recent Time Magazine interview, in fact, no paraphrase can possibly do justice to the dog’s breakfast of mental kibbles & mush that appeared in print. So here it is with no mercy from a kindly editor:” – David Stockman

 

 

 

 

 

ECONOMIC NEWS 

Oil prices hit $105 and stocks trade lower as Trump considers renewed strikes on Iran – “The prospect of an escalation in the seven-month war also sent bond yields higher, driving up the cost of consumer borrowing.” – Steve Kopack

The Big Bond Bust Keeps Expanding – “A growing, shadowy mass is spreading around the world of finance like a fungal infection. France is highlighted in the articles below as being the worst of major economies to be infected, but if you read where France’s bond yields are, you’ll see the US is worse off for the rates it is paying on a vastly larger debt. The US is only presumed to be safer because of its global currency status, but another article today describes how China is chewing its way through that status with increasing velocity.” – David Haggith

Social Security Is Just a Transfer Payment from Workers to Retirees – “Now, it is important to keep in mind that there is no Social Security “trust fund” in any true sense. There is no special savings account somewhere in which is stored the funds “paid in” by workers who are now retired. Rather, the so-called trust fund is a legal fiction and is little more than a line item in the budget which reflects the amount of tax revenue that is allotted to Social Security payments.” – Ryan McMaken

The Everything Bubble Is Bursting Where I Said It Would – Graham Summers, MBA

U.S. Farm Debt Is at a Record. Official Data Might Be Undercounting It – “American farmers are borrowing more money than ever before to operate — but the rise in non-traditional and vendor credit has created some gaps in the federal government’s current ability to measure and track farm debt, U.S. Department of Agriculture officials told Reuters. Financial pressure is mounting across farm country, where growers have already faced years of tight margins due to slumping prices and high input costs.” – P.J. Huffstutter / Reuters

The Fed Does Not Control Your Mortgage – “Mortgage rates are tied far more closely to the bond market, particularly longer-term Treasury yields, and those yields have been rising because investors are demanding more to lend money long term.” – Martin Armstrong

Le Pen Seen As Most Credible Presidential Candidate As French Bonds Suffer Worst Decade Since 1803 – “France’s politicians seem to be getting a dire warning from the bond market: rein in reckless spending or risk a fiscal crisis as borrowing costs skyrocket. UBS strategist Julien Conzano, head of European macro credit strategy in London, sees bond market pressure pushing both the crisis-stricken Macron government and Marine Le Pen’s National Rally toward greater fiscal discipline, reducing the risk of an expansionary 2027 budget. ” – Tyler Durden

 

 

SURVIVAL, PREPAREDNESS AND SELF-SUFFICIENCY

Top 10 Items Every Prepper Should Get Right Away Before SHTF – “When people think about preparing for an SHTF situation, they often imagine generators, survival shelters, large food storage systems, firearms, bug-out bags and remote properties. All of those things can have a place in a serious preparedness plan. However, there are certain basic items that should be obtained before an emergency happens because they could become extremely difficult to find afterward. The biggest mistake a prepper can make is waiting until everyone else realizes there is a problem.” – HamRadioToday  – ANOTHER WELL WRITTEN ARTICLE FROM HRT!!!

Your Survival Pantry Has A Big Fat Problem – “Go downstairs and look at your survival pantry. Maybe you’ve got white rice stacked in buckets, beans tucked into Mylar bags, wheat, oats, pasta, flour, powdered milk, and enough canned vegetables to make your basement look like a grocery store circa 1957. Good. Now let me ask you a slightly strange question: Where’s the fat?” – Bill Heid  – LINKED A SIMILAR ARTICLE BY THE CANADIAN PREPPER’S NETWORK ON 08/16/26!!

How to Actually Test Your Emergency Plan Instead of Just Writing One Down – “In this guide I will walk you through a practical and repeatable way to pressure test every layer of your preparedness, covering communication, power, evacuation, water, food, and alerts, so the weak points show up on a calm Saturday instead of in the middle of a real emergency.” – David Andrew Brown

Just Print Up Some Electrical Transformers – “A Primer on the Electricity Grid in the US. There is no national electricity grid. There are three major interconnections: the Eastern, the Western, and then good ol’ Texas runs its own (ERCOT). Only a few links tie East to West. How much territory can a few vandals (or terrorists) darken? Depends on how smart they are about what to target. Lose a pole transformer and a few houses go dark. Lose a pad-mount unit and a block or a shopping center goes dark. Lose a distribution substation and a town goes dark, and a spare, if one exists, can be trucked in within days. Lose a large transmission-level unit at a node with no alternate path and a county or a city goes dark for as long as it takes to find a spare, which can mean weeks or, if the spares have run out, years. Think about months without the grid. Or even weeks. Those most prepared amongst us might have propane or diesel to run our home generators for a dozen days. Then it’s the Dark Ages.” – John Hunt, MD

U.S. Nuclear Target Map: Do You Live in a Death Zone? (The American Cities at Risk When the Missiles Fly) – John Walter

 

 

VERSE FOR THE DAY

Proverbs 31:9      Open thy mouth, judge righteously, and plead the cause of the poor and needy.

 

IMAGE FOR THE DAY