THE BIG PICTURE

Here’s the Secret to a Great Devotional Time – “It’s not what you’d think.” – Kate Dreston

The Politics of Denial: When Americans Stop Seeing the Warning Signs – “The spectacle of public executions. Deadly military strikes on foreign countries. Innocent civilian lives lost to war. Aggressive ICE raids. Government officials accused of using their powers to intimidate political opponents. Public office increasingly entangled with private financial interests. Government leaders who glorify violence, spew hatred, stir up racial prejudice, provoke civil unrest, and stoke discontent. This is what it looks like when a nation loses its way.” – John & Nisha Whitehead

Deadly, brain-liquifying fungus is on the rise in the US — and scientists don’t know why – “A rare fungus found around the world kills up to 70% of the people it infects by liquifying the brain. Now, the CDC is sounding the alarm that cases of this infection have jumped four-fold in just two years.” – Allie Yang  – LIONS AND TIGERS AND FUNGUS, OH MY! FORGET ABOUT THE PLAGUE, BETTER BRING BACK SANJAY, CUOMO AND FAUCI TO FIGHT THIS ONE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Did We Really Go To the Moon? – “When the Contradictions Outweigh the Claims. They said it couldn’t be done, and then suddenly, it was done. Then, nothing… Not one repeat performance, in half a century of advancing technology.” – Jordan Nuttall

What if we shut down the internet in 6 months? – “AI models may be months away from end-to-end self-replication without requiring access to a datacenter. What. The. Fuck. You know what this means? A runaway rogue AI could soon infect everything connected to the internet and there’s nothing we could do about it. Here’s what you need to know from Anthropic’s post:” -.Sarah Connor

The semantic gymnastics of modern food labels – “From 3D-printed steaks to milk without cows, food technology is changing faster than labeling rules. Here’s how to decipher the claims on your groceries and make informed choices about what you eat.” – Collapse Life

Tenpenny Throwback Thursday – “The sanctimonious Peter Hotez seems to be in HOT water.” – Dr. Sherri Tenpenny

Bill Gates Is Back, He Wants To Take Control Of AI, And He Is Warning That “A Lot Of Negative Surprises” Are Coming In The Next Year – “Not him again. We all remember what happened the last time around, and now Bill Gates is warning of another major crisis that he wants to help fix. Fox News is reporting that Bill Gates is strongly considering using his vast personal fortune to create an “AI safety framework” in order to “help steer the technology in a better direction”…“Restraining AI” is another way of saying that he wants to control AI.” – Michael Snyder

 

 

NEWS

Trump Dons Executioner Hood – “Firing squad execution of Nidal Hasan gives president intimate role. Pete Hegseth may have finally found a publicity stunt that even Donald Trump is uneasy with. Despite the president’s tough talk about the execution by military firing squad of Fort Hood shooter Nidal Hasan, Hegseth’s desire to livestream it is something that even Trump can’t stomach. Since Trump cast doubt on the livestream, reports have claimed he had a change of heart upon realizing Hasan is wheelchair-bound.” – Ken Klippenstein

Are the United States and Israel in Decline-and-Fall Mode? – “The horrors deliverable by Israel that might come next” – pHILIP gIRALDI

The Why Behind the Ilhan Omar Investigations (*Yes, Plural) – “Two birth years. Three husbands. Millions missing. Probably a typo.” – Jenna McCarthy

MS NOW Redefines Fake News With Kash Patel Shocker – “Much to the dismay of just about everybody at the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Kash Patel, the FBI director, flew into Moscow on Oct. 14 for meetings. No one at the bureau appeared to know why their boss had traveled to Moscow or what he was doing there. At least that was what MS NOW reported breathlessly as “breaking news.” The only problem with this cutting-edge investigative journalism is that Patel, at the time, was attending a law enforcement appreciation event at Liberty University in Lynchburg, VA.” – Graham Noble

Will Bill and Hillary Clinton Please Just Go Away? – “Ever notice how some old political operators, no matter how good they may have been in their heyday, prompt no reaction any more other than “Oh, for the luvva Peta, you again?” History is replete with examples of retired or disgraced politicians wearing out their welcomes and then hanging around anyway, and never has that been more true than for two people who are supposedly retired and who are definitely disgraced: Bill and Hillary Clinton.” – Ward Clark

Why is it okay to celebrate Nelson Mandela, but not Stonewall Jackson? – “In the Atlanta airport, you can find art installations dedicated to foreign, anti-white, blood-thirsty communists, but not American giants” – Olivia Murray

PM Insists Ireland ‘Not Overrun in Any Way’ by Migrants, Vows to ‘Accelerate’ Asylum Claims – “Not only is Ireland not suffering under the weight of mass migrant importation, according to effete Prime Minister Micheál Martin, but the processing of asylum claims has been “too slow.” *Spoiler alert: Given his hedging here and his track record as a neoliberal globalist minion, his face-saving lie to Fox News notwithstanding, Martin in no way plans to actually allow the accurate collation of crime data by nationality, as the data would be a horrific indictment of mass migration.” – Ben Bartee

Argentina’s economic demolition: Javier Milei disappears 11 TONS of gold (VIDEO) – “Despite being one of Donald Trump’s biggest political investments in Latin America, or perhaps because of it, Argentine President Javier Milei is presiding over a deepening recession. His country’s industrial base is crumbling, the middle class is shrinking, and factories keep closing. Yet Milei’s grip on power has only tightened with the help of powerful patrons in Washington and Tel Aviv. Now, a new scandal has erupted which raises troubling questions about the fate of the nation’s wealth. On October 8, National Audit Office president Juan Manuel Olmos confirmed that Argentina’s Central Bank lost $1.023 billion in gold reserves through operations that moved physical gold out of the country without the public’s consent.” – The Grayzone

Europe Is Falling: Riots Spread From France And Belgium To Albania – Tyler Durden

Ukraine abandons truce and attacks Russian oil refinery as Zelenskyy says he feels betrayed by Trump – “Despite going along with Trump’s demand for a truce, Zelenskyy complained, Ukraine in recent days was denied the usual Western intelligence on Russian ballistic missile strikes, and limits were placed on its use of U.S.-made Starlink communication terminals. Both are vital for the Ukrainian military. He said his patience had run out, telling the Financial Times in an interview published Thursday that Ukrainian attacks on Russian oil refineries would resume. “We’re done,” Zelenskyy was quoted as saying.” – Susie Blann

Putin Might Accept Trump’s Reported Peace Plan – “It represents a pragmatic balance of interests between all sides.” – Andrew Korybko

Panic in Kiev as AFU’s Starlink “Mysteriously” Throttled One Day After Intelligence Blackout – “A day after Zelensky accused the US of cutting “intelligence support” and not providing early warning against Russia’s ballistic missile strikes on Kiev, pandemonium has ensued in Ukraine. Now the country’s leadership has accused the US of cutting its Starlink support as well.” – Simplicius

 

 

 

ECONOMIC NEWS 

Inflation Rises Again – “While the government has long done its best to under-report inflation in order to look good, inflation is hot enough that even its best efforts right before a tough election can’t hide the inflation.” – David Haggith

September CPI: More Inflation Than Expected – “Is The Oilpocalypse Spreading Through The Economy At Last?” – Peter Nayland Kust

Russian Gold Is Flowing Through Hong Kong – “Hong Kong has taken several steps to elevate its status as a global gold hub this year, including the launch of a gold clearing and settlement system that mirrors the London Bullion Market Association. But to be a gold hub, you need a lot of gold. Hong Kong is getting plenty of the metal from Russia. Hong Kong has become a conduit for Russian gold as sanctions have cut off Russia’s access to Western financial markets. Russia’s recent selling reveals just why central banks hold gold. It serves as a long-term reserve free from counterparty risk. And because its value is recognized globally, it can serve as an emergency fund – even if you’ve been locked out of the global dollar-dominated financial system.” – Mike Maharrey

The Fed vs. the Bond Market – “The economy is bound to eventually reach a point where it can no longer tolerate the interest rates required to keep inflation and debt under control, and some of the loudest warnings are coming from the bond market. The benchmark 10-year Treasury yield recently climbed above 5.3%, reaching levels not seen since 2002. Even more striking, this surge occurred as evidence was building up of a weakening labor market, not because investors suddenly became convinced that the American economy was entering a new era of extraordinary real growth.” – Peter Schiff

Crash Alert: Five Ominous Charts – “South Korea’s Bubble Bursts The tech-heavy KOSPI stock index soared as chip demand exploded — and is now tanking as AI hits a financial wall.” – John Rubino

The Silver Slide: Silver at $55 – “The Market Is Sending Us a Message. Are We Listening? Silver has taken another beating, falling to approximately $55 an ounce, and the usual suspects are already declaring the bull market dead. We’ve heard that before. The more interesting question isn’t why silver is falling, but what this latest collapse tells us about the financial system, the Federal Reserve, and the opportunities that may be developing right in front of us.” – Kerry Lutz

Average long-term US mortgage rate holds at 7.4%, remaining at highest level in nearly 3 years – “Mortgage rates held steady this week, keeping the average long-term U.S. home loan rate at its highest level in nearly three years. The benchmark 30-year fixed-rate mortgage was unchanged from last week at 7.40%, mortgage buyer Freddie Mac said Thursday. One year ago, the average rate was 6.27%.” – Alex Veiga

When A.I. Spending Starts Slowing, Start Worrying About Recession (VIDEO) WITH Wolf Richter – ” Want to know what will trigger the next recession? Just watch A.I. CAPEX spending. As soon as that starts to weaken, trouble will begin.” – Adam Taggart | Thoughtful Money®

The Most Detailed Explanation Ever Written for $93,683 Gold and $10,409 Silver – “The Long-Form Proof: Why Gold Belongs at $93,683 and Silver at $10,409. Leave it to Washington to look at a soul-crushing $41 trillion national debt mountain and think: What this really needs is a clever marketing campaign and some crypto bros. Hand it to the political class for dubbing their latest parlor trick the “GENIUS Act.” It takes real audacity to brand a glorified financial shell game as visionary statesmanship. The plan is simple, or so they would have you believe.” – The Silver Academy

 

 

 

SURVIVAL, PREPAREDNESS AND SELF-SUFFICIENCY

When A Stranger Knocks On Your Door… Don’t Answer Until You’ve Done This One Simple Thing – “The Burglar Who Knocks First Isn’t Being Polite” – Bill Heid

9 Vegetables That Grow Better in Fall Than Summer – Olivia Brooks

Bug Out Bags: The Complete Guide to Building an Emergency Bag for Home, Evacuation, and Survival – “Why Every Prepper Should Consider Having a Bug Out Bag” – HamRadioToday

The 10 Commandments of Lazy Prepping – Jack  – SOME GOOD ONES HERE!!!!!

Nine Days from the Dark: What Sixty Million People Learned About Water, Warmth and Medicine During Spain’s Ten-Hour Blackout – John Walter

 

 

VERSE FOR THE DAY

Proverbs 8:17     I love them that love me; and those that seek me early shall find me.

 

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