THE BIG PICTURE
Politicians Come and Go. The Machinery of Oppression Remains – “A revolution can topple a tyrant without dismantling tyranny. An election can replace a president without curbing the powers of the presidency. A new political majority can inherit the instruments of repression and adapt them to their own purposes. In other words, what good is a political change if the weapons of oppression merely change hands?” – John & Nisha Whitehead
The Media’s Propaganda Machine Is Malfunctioning – “Your brain is the battlefield. Information is no longer confined to a book, catalogued in a quiet library. It is blaring at us from all directions. Different cable news hosts on competing cable news networks repeat the same words and phrases all day long until we find ourselves reaching for those words while having polite conversations in real life. See the problem? Over the last thirty years, the public started to see through this sophisticated network of information warfare and recognize it as the propaganda that it has always been. The expanding web of the Internet allowed people to learn information that had been hidden from them.” – J.B. Shurk
Choose your doom carefully – “The marketplace of doom is out there. We have turned fear into a form of civic participation these days. Have you chosen yet? It is time to sort out the “dangerous and divisive” world stuff again. Our Prime Minister is constantly reminding us of this rather dark observation. Once upon a time, of course, leaders of countries going through hard times were in the business of encouraging and uplifting their populace with optimistic speeches. But them days are long gone.” – Sylvia Shawcross
Why Should I Care If Nobody Else Does? Sharing – “3 good reasons why. This life is not easy, don’t let the apathy around you wear you down.” – Kate Dreston
Cynicism Should Win the Mid-Term Elections – “In an era of clueless voters and profoundly dishonest candidates, cynicism is one of the last best checks on political power run amok. Regardless of the final vote count in Tuesday’s midterm congressional elections, both Republicans and Democrats have earned all the distrust they will reap. Any hope that elections would safeguard the Constitution should have perished after 9/11. Consider the race for a US Senate seat in Michigan.” – James Bovard
Pedophile President: Trump & Epstein Argued Over Who would Take 13-Year-Old’s Virginity, New House Report States – “Anew Democrat-led House Committee on the Judiciary report released this week sheds more light on President Donald Trump’s close relationship with Jeffrey Epstein. The Document, entitled “‘We Have Certain Things in Common, Jeffrey’: The Case Against Donald Trump Emerging in the Epstein Files and DOJ’s Desperate Efforts to Cover it Up,” is based on the accounts of eleven women, five of whom alleged Trump raped or sexually assaulted them in the presence of the disgraced financier. Two of those women were 13-year-old children at the time of the alleged events.” – Alan MacLeod
NEWS
Election musings – “And the path forward. I realize this is not what a lot of people want to hear, but this election outcome was obvious and foregone. and the GOP caused this.The dems did not win, the pachyderms lost. It’s not the media or the RINOs. It’s a lack of honesty and inspiration. The dems get voters to the ballot booth because when elected, they do the stuff they said they would. The republicans wind up with voters who say “why bother?” because they don’t.” – El Gato Malo – GOOD ONE FROM EL GATO!!!
A Blue Wave Cometh – “Democrats Win Big. But it isn’t a moment where, as the saying goes, we can all go back to brunch and let a Democrat-controlled Congress handle things. We have to stay involved, for the mess in Washington is very much a bipartisan one. The “new” House and Senate majority leaders will be Hakeem Jeffries and Chuck Schumer, corporate Democrats who support Zionist Israel and gleefully accept money and marching orders from AIPAC.” – Bill Astore
U.S. Politics: Noise, Then Chaos – “Wow, talk about F-ing around and finding out. America’s neo-cons (bloodthirsty empire builders who want to bomb the world into submission) kicked the anti-war MAGA faction out of the Republican Party, then proceeded to start a disastrous Middle East war — during a mid-term election campaign! Yesterday, they got the most brutal electoral rebuke since the Great Depression. Now we face two years of noise, as newly emboldened Democrats push policies resembling those that have landed Europe on its cultural and financial deathbed, most of which will be blocked by a lame duck president whose only remaining weapon is a veto pen. The result: “sound and fury” gridlock that produces headlines but little actual change. Leading, of course, to an epic financial crisis and currency reset.” – John Rubino – GOOD INSIGHTS FROM JOHN!!!!!!!!!!
How Iran defeated Trump’s Israel First GOP Trump wrote his own epitaph when he declared, “If people ever got tired of me in the US, I’ll move to Israel and become prime minister. Trump launched a failed war on Iran for Israel last February, as his NSC director and Secretary of State Marco Rubio admitted. Now, the war has come home.” – Max Blumenthal
Trump’s Legacy Will Ultimately Be Determined By The Outcome Of The Third Gulf War – “If the conflict drags on or he provokes Iran into obliterating the Gulf’s energy infrastructure in retaliation for being nuked, for example, then the resultant surge in the cost of living that was responsible for the Republicans’ latest bloodbath will sweep MAGA into the dustbin of history in 2028.” – Andrew Korybko
Sea Change: The Significance of the American Midterm Elections – “And why denouncing voters is both pointless and bloody-damned boring. Well, it isn’t the best-case scenario for American Democrats, but it’s close, and it would have been all the way had it not been for the decades of dashed hope delivered to voters by the Democrats themselves. I’m talking to you, Barack Obama, and to you, Bill and Hillary Clinton. There’s no point in talking to Joe Biden. Is he still alive? I neither know nor care. It’s still a sea change election, a lasting realignment that will carry the Dems at least through 2028.” – Ohio Barbarian
“Extinction-Level Event”: Takeaways From The GOP’s Midterm Wipeout – “Democrats flipped seven Republican-held Senate seats and seized the House on Tuesday,” – Tyler Durden
MAGA IS DEAD: Midterm Elections End In Blue Wave Of Communism – “It literally can’t get much worse, and in just two years Americans have completely turned on MAGA:” – 2nd Smartest Guy in the World
A Great Antiwar Victory – “Trump and the Republicans richly deserved this defeat. They paid a steep price for the president’s lawlessness, corruption, and warmongering and the GOP’s pathetic enabling of all of it. The economic shock from the president’s criminal war in Iran and the added costs of his pointless trade wars undoubtedly played a major role in turning people against Republicans across the country.” – Daniel Larison
Europe and America’s Dystopian Nightmare Needs To End NOW – “Having never fully recovered economically after the Pandemic, European governments mismanaged growth in exchange for more war participation particularly in Ukraine and Sudan while losing control of their colonial states in Africa which was based on piracy. This piracy model is exactly what Trump is utilizing. Africa prefers the China model of building vs destroying. Today that Model is on display as China court’s the Middle East. Neither Soros or Rothschild have any impact on China because China’s banks are all state owned – interest rates are low and fixed, corruption and fraud are not tolerated at all and consequences are severe.” – Helena Glass
Four Key Bipartisan-Backed Bills to Cut U.S. Reliance on China – Nomi Prins
Canada Sent $26 Billion to Ukraine. – “Now Even the Left Wants Answers. It is usually the common sense conservatives who call for an audit. That is why this week’s news is worth your attention. One of Canada’s biggest left-wing organizations went to CPAC and asked, on the record, for an audit of the spending on Ukraine, and they are talking some SENSE.” – Karla Treadway
Ukraine’s hidden torture system is the West’s shame too – “A scandal near Kiev has exposed forced conscription, extortion and torture – now watch Western backers look the other way” – Tarik Cyril Amar
ECONOMIC NEWS
The Election Changed Nothing Economically. (VIDEO) – Gregory Mannarino – SHORT AND TO THE POINT!!
Bearish Beyond This ‘Blue Wave’ Market Bounce – “The market is celebrating political gridlock. I’m looking at everything that just got worse. But when the smoke clears over the next couple of days, I continue to expect equities to resume their downward trend. Nothing that happened last night changed the fundamental reasons I’ve been bearish. In fact, I think the election strengthened several of them.” – Quoth the Raven
Is The Bottom Now In For Gold & Silver Prices? (VIDEO) with Andy Schectman – “Gold and silver prices recently fell to new lows for the year. Was this price capitulation by sellers? And if so, is the bottom now in?” – Adam Taggart | Thoughtful Money®
September JOLTS Report: About Those Low Job Numbers – “JOLTS Net Hiring Figure Shows Unexpected Strength” – Peter Nayland Kust
The Oil Market Get’s Trumped Again – “A dozen chimps banging randomly on calculator keypads could come up with more meaningful prices than the oil commodities market.” – David Haggith
Gold Price Could Crash to $3,600, Silver Targets $36: Is the Worst Still Ahead? (VIDEO) with Chris Vermeulen – Craig Hemke
A Better Way to View the Precious Metals Correction – “Why gold and silver’s dramatic declines from their January peaks are misleading, and why the bigger picture reveals a much healthier bull market than the headlines suggest.” – Jesse Colombo
SURVIVAL, PREPAREDNESS AND SELF-SUFFICIENCY
Cheap Places to Get Quality Preps – Daisy Luther – THIS IS A REPOST FROM DAISY FROM 4 YEARS AGO, BUT SINCE TIMES ARE TOUGH I’D THOUGHT I’D GO AHEAD AND REPOST IT. I BELIEVE THAT REPOSTS ARE ALL THAT DAISY POSTS MOSTLY ANYMORE SINCE SHE HAS HAD SOME HEALTH ISSUES!!!
Pressure Canning Meat Gives You Supper When the Power Goes Out – Bill Heid
Your Food Stockpile Is Only as Good as What Keeps the Mice Out – “When resupply becomes unreliable, protecting your food stockpile becomes part of feeding your household. Every bag lost takes time, money and meals with it.” – denob
How to Design a Year-Round Solar Greenhouse – Lindsey Schiller and Ceres Greenhouse Solutions
15 Ways to Fortify Your Home Before All Hell Breaks Loose by Alan Urban – ALSO SEE THE LINK BY TOM MARLOWE ON 10/05/25!!!
VERSE FOR THE DAY
Psalm 42:7 Deep calleth unto deep at the noise of thy waterspouts: all thy waves and thy billows are gone over me.
IMAGE FOR THE DAY
