THE BIG PICTURE

Minnesota crisis is about more than just illegal migration; they are setting us up to fight each other, so they can crack down, expand government power, and further centralize it in the hands of a few – “A chilling show-your-papers society is taking shape right before our eyes, and ICE’s partnership with global data-collection firm Palantir is pushing it to the next level” – Leo Hohmann.

The Migrant Shelling, Ethnic Cleansing of Ireland Continues Unabated – “Aside from the ethnic cleansing itself of a noble people, the most sadistic aspect of the all-out globalist siege of the Emerald Isle — catapulting wave after wave of weaponized migrants onto its shores — is that Ireland did not participate in any of the historical sins that allegedly justify the same punishment for other European nations. It was neither party to the trans-Atlantic slave trade nor a colonizing power; on the contrary, it valiantly resisted 800 years of brutal British occupation, only to suffer its current national humiliation.” – Ben Bartee

Quality Of Life WAY DOWN In Canada In 2026 (VIDEO) – ” I don’t know about you, but every year I’m seeing the quality of life in Canada deteriorate. Canadian life quality in 2026, does it feel any better than 2025 so far? Do you think seniors are able to live off their pensions in Canada? Do you think the cost of groceries are going up? We’re going to react to some videos today pertaining to these subjects. Quality of life in Canada in 2026. Let’s discuss it and let’s dive into today’s video’s content.” – Matt Cart  -THANKS TO SYLVIA SHAWCROSS FOR SHARING!!!

Police Are Being Sent To Americans’ Homes For Social Media Posts Criticizing Israel. ‘We’re Here Because Of The Comments You Made Online About The Jewish Community’ – The WinePress

SELLING THE CURE: 200 Years of Insanity Disguised as Medicine (an alarming deep dive) – “Here’s what “trust the science” has looked like since the 1840s. This will leave you asking yourself if this is something anyone should ever trust…” – Agent131711

Surging “Education” Spending Squeezing Homeowners Out – “So-called “education” is raising property taxes, forcing citizens—especially those on fixed incomes—to sell homes. The indoctrination scheme isn’t just harming youth; it’s destroying private property.” – Alex Newman

Texas Air-Drops Live Virus-Containing Edible Rabies Vaccines Over Cities from Aircraft—’Leaving Persons at Risk for Vaccine Exposure and Vaccine Virus Infection’: CDC – “In the name of “wildlife management,” Texas authorities are blanketing cities with what are said to be live virus-containing packets without full public consent. How many Texans have been informed that they are living inside an ongoing, state- and federally funded environmental release of a live, laboratory-engineered virus documented to replicate, spread between animals, persist in bodily secretions, and infect humans—without informed consent or any meaningful ability to refuse exposure?” – Jon Fleetwood

NEWS

The Democrat Insurrection Moves to Minnesota – “The New Civil War Is Spreading. The Democrat Insurrection has found a new home. Last year it was primarily in California. As 2026 begins, the Democrat Insurrection is in full flower in Minnesota. Any quaint notion that these would be “peaceful” protests ended on January 7, when Renee Good decided to point her vehicle at an ICE agent and stomp on the accelerator. The ICE agent naturally responded by drawing his weapon and firing, killing Ms. Good. When people attack ICE agents, even with snowballs, they are not protesting. They are rioting. When they continue to riot it becomes an uprising, an insurrection. That is where we are now—in an insurrection. It is where we have been since last summer. Minneapolis is merely an extension of what erupted in Los Angeles last year. The insurrection is spreading, steadily becoming a new Civil War in this country. Now, as then, this is the demonstrable handiwork of Democrats. With words and with violence they are seeking to prevent ICE agents from doing their jobs. Now, as then, this is a Democrat-led insurrection.” – Peter Nayland Kust

All Over America, Thousands Of Radicals Are Being Recruited For “Rapid Response Teams” That Are Designed To Swarm ICE – Michael Snyder

Minnesota Doesn’t Set America’s Immigration Policy – “Either the federal government exercises authority over immigration enforcement or the state of Minnesota does. It has been disconcerting to watch Minnesota governor Tim Walz and Minneapolis mayor Jacob Frey go out of their way to defend not only the violent actions of illegal aliens residing in their state but also the criminal behavior of citizens who endanger the lives of law enforcement officers and everyone around them by obstructing necessary arrests. Because Walz, Frey, and the propaganda press describe them as part of the “immigrant community,” middle-aged Minnesota women are willing to risk their lives to keep men who rape and murder women and children from being detained. The whole scene is sad, disturbing, and discouraging.” – J.B. Shurk

Here We Go: DOJ Serves Subpoenas on Offices of MN Officials Including Walz, Frey, Ellison – “That investigation of Minnesota officials over their incitement against ICE is heating up. ” -Nick Arama

Trump Warns he May Have to Attack Greenland Because Norway Did Not Give him a Peace Prize – “There are high risks to not giving a boy emperor what he wants.” – David Haggith

Bessent “The National Emergency Is Avoiding a National Emergency” – “We have yet another idiotic rationalization to take Greenland. This idiocy is courtesy of the Treasury Secretary.” – Mish

Donald Trump Deserves the Nobel Peace Prize* – “(*According to Donald Trump, who also insists he deserves Greenland.) There are moments in politics that feel genuinely historic. Nixon resigning. Reagan telling Gorbachev to tear down this wall. Joe Biden calling Fox News’ Peter Doocy a “stupid son-of-a-bleep” on a hot mic. And now, Donald J. Trump graciously accepting another person’s Nobel Peace Prize like a Best Actor Oscar for a movie he wasn’t even in. This is a man who once suggested Obama only won a Nobel because “they liked him,” which is a pretty bold take from someone taking a victory lap after a lady from Venezuela literally regifted hers. The scary part is, it looks an awful lot as if he’s willing to sacrifice actual world peace to get it.” – Jenna McCarthy

There’s one way the EU could resist Trump’s US. But it won’t – “To escape an abusive relationship, you have to fight crazy with crazy, but the Europeans are too meek and gaslighted for that” – Rachel Marsden

Lawfare – Silencing Political Rivals Abroad – “Right-wing leader Marine Le Pen’s appeals trial could impact the entire EU.” – Elizabeth Lawrence

The Board Of Peace: A Replacement To The UN Or A US-Led Coalition Of The Willing Therein? – “Putin might accept Trump’s invitation to participate in order to avoid offending him and not lose a seat at the table where members provide input on US policy towards settling various conflicts.” – Andrew Korybko

Iraq War Veteran Claims to be a Victim of Child Sex Trafficking by Trump and Epstein – Claims he was Raped by Trump – “Because this has now gone viral, there are some “fact checking” sites picking up the story, but none of the ones I looked at disproved the claims. They just stated there was not enough evidence to corroborate his claims. Well, there never will be, unless the actual files and tapes that exist finally make it to the public, and that may never happen. So now it is time to start listening the victims, and take their stories seriously.” – Brian Shilhavy

Nearly all Epstein files still unreleased a month after Congress deadline – “Over 2 million documents are under DoJ review despite ‘legal obligation’ from Epstein Files Transparency Act” – Victoria Bekiempis

New Mossad recruitment ads exploit Iran’s unrest with help from US comedian – “Mossad is taking advantage of deadly riots that rocked Iran this month to solicit spies through a series of social media ads. In one of history’s strangest collaborations, the Israeli intel agency has purchased the ads through an LLC owned by Atlanta-based standup comic Desi Banks.” – Max Blumenthal

ECONOMIC NEWS

Energy Inflation for Households: Electricity, Natural Gas Piped to the Home, Gasoline, and Other Fuels – “Demand for electricity has surged, and so has the price.” – Wolf Richter

Valuations Don’t Matter When Money Is Fake – “The real regime change happened around the turn of the millennium, when quantitative easing went from emergency response to permanent lifestyle choice. The market we grew up studying does not exist anymore. Drawdowns are no longer allowed to mature into corrections because the Federal Reserve panics at the first whiff of discomfort. Five percent down? Emergency meeting. Ten percent? Liquidity firehose. Investors have been coddled into submission and trained like Pavlovian dogs to expect rescue at the slightest sign of pain.” – Quoth the Raven

Silver Just Blew Through $100 – “So let’s take a beat and acknowledge the fact that silver — if you actually want to buy some — has blown through $100 an ounce. Sure, the paper market spot price remains in the $90s…” – John Rubino

Jon Forrest Little: Why 2026 Is the Perfect Setup for Silver (VIDEO) – “Why the miners are likely to explode much higher!” – The Contrarian Capitalist and The Silver Academy  – VERY GOOD  VIDEO FROM ROBERT AND JON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Silver Now Ranks as the Second-Most Valuable Asset in the World – “Silver was up nearly 148 percent in 2025, and the price has continued to climb in the new year, trading over $90 an ounce. With the rapid gain, silver now ranks as the second-most valuable asset in the world with a market cap of $5.35 trillion. The only asset more valuable than silver is gold, with a market cap of $32.5 trillion.” – Mike Maharrey

Precious Metals Exec: Here’s What’s Fueling Gold and Silver- ” Here’s what one hard asset thought leader is revealing about his latest forecast and what he is seeing on the horizon. As geopolitical and policy-driven volatility continue to emerge, hard assets are shining even brighter for investors and those seeking to preserve and solidify their portfolios. That’s why we’re thrilled to welcome back our friend, Rich Checkan, President of Asset Strategies International, a U.S-based global family-owned precious metal company, for his views on gold and silver in our exclusive discussion below.” – Nomi Prins  – SOME GOOD ANALYSIS HERE IN A 15 MINUTE VIDEO!!!!!!!!!!!

Silver’s Leaping Price Signals Relentless And Increasing Global Demand For Silver Terminating London’s Price Fixing Scheme – “The price of silver in Shanghai continues a relentless march higher today closing at $103.35. However, there is more to this elevated price than meets the eye.” – David Jensen

NYSE develops tokenized securities platform to support 24/7 trading – “According to a press release, the platform will enable features including round-the-clock trading, fractional share purchases, orders sized in dollar amounts, and immediate settlement using tokenized capital. Stablecoin-based funding will also be supported as part of the design, the company said. The system combines the NYSE’s Pillar matching engine with blockchain-based post-trade infrastructure and is designed to support multiple blockchains for settlement and custody.” – James Hunt

SURVIVAL, PREPAREDNESS AND SELF-SUFFICIENCY

The Real Reason Everything Feels Rigged – “At first glance, this is going to sound like three different conversations stitched together—money, medicine, and the off-grid life. Stay with me. Because once you see the thread that ties them together, a lot of everyday frustrations suddenly stop feeling random. Rising prices. Weird health problems. The sense that no matter how hard you work, the system keeps leaning back on you. That’s not bad luck. It’s a pattern. And here’s the part most people miss: the pattern only becomes obvious when you step outside it, even just a little. Grow some food. Haul your own water. Try to live without as many middlemen.” – Bill Heid

Homemade Ground Beef Jerky Recipe (For Dehydrator or Oven) – “Ground beef jerky is easy to make and less expensive than store-bought jerky. You can make it with a dehydrator or dry it in the oven. Use your choice of ground meat – lean beef or venison – whichever you have available. Do you need a jerky gun to make jerky with ground beef? Nope! You can make jerky without a dehydrator or a jerky gun, but the jerky gun is handy and entertaining.” – Laurie Neverman

12 Ways to Switch to Reusable Stuff in a Disposable World – Daisy Luther

Is FEMA’s Secret Rex 84 Being Planned Right Now? – “If you’ve been prepping for a while, you probably heard the name Rex 84 mentioned in old interviews, conversations, or even debated on radio or TV shows. It is one of those topics that never really goes away. Every time the country goes through a rough patch, interest in it flares back up again. Some people dismiss Rex 84 as an outdated Cold War plan, while others see it as proof that the government has quietly prepared for detaining large numbers of Americans during a national emergency.” – Kate L. Gilmour

Wilderness Skills: Winter Navigation & Wayfinding When Electronics Fail – denob

VERSE FOR THE DAY

Ecclesiastes 10:20      Curse not the king, no not in thy thought; and curse not the rich in thy bedchamber: for a bird of the air shall carry the voice, and that which hath wings shall tell the matter.

IMAGE FOR THE DAY 

 

 

THE BIG PICTURE

There Will Be Consequences – “When people submit to God’s Law, man’s laws are superfluous. When people reject God’s Law, man’s laws are irrelevant. Any rational understanding of how man’s laws relate to God’s Law begins with accepting these two principles. No law made by man can establish moral right or moral wrong. No law made by man can make the actions of men right or wrong. Moral right and moral wrong are established by God’s Law and by only God’s Law. Only God’s Law can make the actions of men right or wrong.” – Peter Nayland Kust

Musk-Grok Controversy: Where’s the Line Between Censorship and Safety? – “The Grok scandal should not be viewed one-dimensionally. It’s about more than explicit images and chatbot controversy. This matter demands a much broader debate about how to balance protection with restraint. If Grok becomes the precedent through which governments gain wide-reaching authority over AI outputs, then the line between safety and censorship will blur further. If AI is genuinely dangerous, does handing governments more power over what it can generate make us safer – or simply give institutions that already misuse power a new tool to control speech? ” – George Calder

Why the Hell Should We Care If Democrats Don’t? – “I used to feel bad for people in the cities overrun by Democrats’ BLM/ANTIFA Brownshirts; who wants to see their fellow Americans going through hell? But then you realize that these people voted for this, and did so repeatedly. I can have sympathy for someone complaining of a headache, but it quickly fades if I find out they have a habit of hitting themselves in the head with a frying pan. After that, I stop caring completely. We’re too that point with everything Democrats do. I’ve been to Minneapolis, went there for the convention in 2008 in St. Paul and had a great time. If it now gets destroyed, meh. That’s a horrible attitude to have, I get that, but I can’t bring myself to care about places or people who won’t care for themselves. If you keep electing idiots who oversee the slow-rolling destruction of your world, I’m out.” – Derek Hunter

My advice: if you live in a large blue city, move out – Jon Rappoport

How to Make A Fortune on Regime Change! – “Instead, what if I told you that you could make bank off the bloodshed while stuffing your face with Twinkies in front of your computer? Wanna know how can you get in on this action yourself? MEET POLYMARKET. Wait. You’ve never heard of Polymarket? Then you’re missing out! Billing itself as “the world’s largest prediction market,” Polymarket brags that it allows users to “stay informed and profit from your knowledge by betting on future events across various topics.” Well, this all sounds completely above board and legitimate! What could possibly go wrong? Yes, as it turns out, Peter Thiel’s Founders Fund helped lead a $200 million funding round for Polymarket last June. For those who don’t understand why that’s a problem, boy, do I have some reading.. OK, so there’s the whole Thiel connection to Polymarket. But what else could go wrong? Ah, yes. Polymarket added Donald Trump, Jr. as an adviser last August after his 1789 Capital VC fund made a sizable investment in the company. Are you beginning to understand why this whole Polymarket online event-gambling thing might be a very bad idea?” – James Corbett  – AMAZING CONFLICT OF INTEREST, IF YOU ASK ME. GEE, DAD, WHY DON’T YOU MOVE UP YOUR REGIME CHANGE PLANS SO I CAN MAKE SOME MONEY ON IT!!!!!

How To Deliver a Legendary Speech – “The best speeches in modern history, the importance of voice in oration, and removing the hyphen to preserve MLK’s dream while ending BLM’s nightmare” – Yuri Bezmenov

Looking Back: My COVEXIT Talk Where the VAERS Warnings Were Impossible to Ignore – “We saw the red flags early. If officials had listened, humanity’s biggest iatrogenic tragedy might never have happened.” – Jessica Rose

The Dumbing Down: Brain Scans And New Studies Reveal Excessive Use Of AI Makes You Stupid And Unable To Recall Anything – “It’s deliberate cognitive atrophy. It’s as if the muscle has forgotten how to work” – The WinePress.

Declassified CIA MKULTRA Files Expose ‘Mass Drugging’ With Chemtrails and Vaccines to Control Entire Populations – “The CIA’s infamous Project MKULTRA wasn’t just about isolated experiments on unwitting victims—it was mastering something far more sinister.” – Baxter Dmitry via Lioness of Judah

 

 

 

NEWS

For Trump—Reality Is Pulp Fiction – “Trump took the horror that was Biden’s non-diplomacy (calling adversaries names while participating in untold deaths), and turned it aggressive. Trump’s sanctions/tariffs, which history will ridicule as threats to civilization, become popularized pulp fiction as his brutality gains assets for, acceptance from Americans—lowing prices at the pump. A saga sold to the multitudes who don’t know their ass from a hole in the ground. As in: getting rid of dictator Assad to bring in in Trump’s buddy, al Jolani/ (former be-header in chief/now murderer of Christians/Alawites). That’s a good thing—right? Americans stupidly fail to see, while feeling wealthy in real estate, another pulp fiction—an industry held up by $38T dollars of debt that they the taxpayers owe, and the houses that they peddle at $800K are actual no worth than Americans will be able to pay—which could translate to 10/20% of that. When they gloat about their broker as having doubled their wealth over a decade, they don’t see it as pulp fiction.” – Erik @ neverhadaboss.com  – ANOTHER GOOD READ FROM ERIK!!!!!

Trump heads toward war against 8 European countries. – ” (“On top of everything else, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, France, Germany, The United Kingdom, The Netherlands, and Finland have journeyed to Greenland, for purposes unknown. Starting on February 1st, 2026, all of the above mentioned Countries (Denmark, Norway, Sweden, France, Germany, The United Kingdom, The Netherlands, and Finland), will be charged a 10% Tariff on any and all goods sent to the United States of America.” – Donald Trump)” – Eric Zuesse

Macron vows response to Trump’s ‘intimidation’ – “The US president has threatened eight European NATO members with tariffs for opposing his plan to acquire Greenland” -RT

Trump’s Latest Tariffs Against Several NATO Allies Could Have Far-Reaching Consequences – Andrew Korybko

Why American Big Oil isn’t buying the Venezuela ‘victory’ – “Despite all the effort and fanfare, the kidnapping of Maduro wasn’t quite the regime change expected – and top energy executives know this” – Finian Cunningham

“US Talks with Hardline Venezuelan Minister Cabello Began Months Before Raid” – “Venezuela “intelligence services, police and the armed forces, remains largely intact after the January 3 U.S. raid” In other words, Washington did not change the regime of Venezuela, but incentivized (with a carrot and a stick) a powerful member of the existing establishment to do Washington’s bidding.” – John Leake – SPEAKING OF VENEZUELA, ANY NEWS ON MADURO LATELY? HE’S KIND OF DISAPPEARED FROM THE NEWS. MAYBE THEY NEVER REALLY CAPTURED HIM. ALL WE PRIMARILY HAVE IS SOME AI PHOTOS OF HIM IN HANDCUFFS!!!!!

Fake News: WaPo, WSJ, both using anonymous sources, report contradictory news on the same topic – “Just a little egg all over their faces.” – Monica Showalter

From the Back Forty: Heartlanders Invite Trump to Put Up or Shut Up – “Has America reached the point of the Insurrection Act?” – Sarah Cowgill

Pentagon readies 1,500 soldiers to possibly deploy to Minnesota, officials say – Dan Lamothe and Praveena Somasundaram

Kristi Noem Says People Should Be Prepared to Prove US Citizenship – “Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem advised reporters that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers may ask some Americans for proof of citizenship during enforcement operations. When the rule was emphasized by Trump, there were warnings that if all immigrants were supposed to carry documentation, by default all people in the U.S. would have to carry ID so that they were not wrongly identified as an illegal immigrant.” – Peter Aitken and Dan Gooding  – BUT IT LOOKS LIKE A REAL ID IS NOT PROOF,  HUH, WHAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

DHS agent tells court REAL ID can’t be used to confirm US citizenship – “Admission raises questions about what REAL ID was meant to accomplish after decades of implementation failures and billions in projected costs. Americans are required to obtain REAL ID to clear federal checkpoints, yet DHS now argues that the same credential may not be sufficient to quickly dispel suspicion of unlawful presence in the field.” – Anthony Kimery

Migrant crime wave on British trains: 79% of theft arrests and 40% of violent crime suspects are foreign nationals – “The migrant crime epidemic affecting continental Western Europe has hit Britain” – Thomas Brooke

Minneapolis “Now Crawling With National Guard” Amid Ongoing Protests – “Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz mobilized the National Guard to support the Minnesota State Patrol and other local law enforcement during expected weekend protests in downtown Minneapolis. “We are staged and ready to respond. We are not deployed to city streets at this time,” Minnesota National Guard spokesperson Army Maj. Andrea Tsuchiya told CNN earlier, adding that troops will help provide “traffic support to protect life, preserve property, and support the rights of all Minnesotans to assemble peacefully.”” – Tyler Durden – SO I TAKE THAT TO MEAN THAT THEY ARE THERE TO PROTECT PROTESTORS AND NOT ENFORCE THE LAW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Thousands of Fans Celebrate Life of Legendary Grateful Dead Guitarist Bob Weir in San Francisco – Breitbart News

 

 

 

ECONOMIC NEWS

Gold and Silver Explosion: Something Big Is Happening – “Precious metals prices are trying to tell us something. The problem is, that message is mostly being ignored, even by more conservative platforms. Not enough people are talking about what’s happening with precious metals and what it means for the economy as a whole. Here’s what I think… First, the rush to physical assets suggests that banking institutions, governments and the wealthiest 1% of investors are scrambling to hedge in preparation for a true crisis. Second, there are the domestic problems caused by protests against immigration enforcement. The deportation issue is merely a convenient excuse for wider conflict between the left and the right. ) If ICE agents went home tomorrow and stopped their arrests, the left would find something else to riot about.) In the meantime, civil instability helps fuel the rise in metals. Third, there are the tensions with Russia and China, who are not happy with the capture of communist dictator Nicolás Maduro. Fourth, let’s not forget the protests in Iran and the potential for regime change there.” – Brandon Smith

Markets May Exaggerate the Risks of Venezuela and Greenland – “Most of the recent reports about the potential opportunity in Greenland and Venezuela focus on the large capital expenditure required, technical challenges, and legal security risks. However, markets may exaggerate the risks and underestimate the potential. It is interesting to read that the United States should not invest in Venezuela and Greenland because they are high-risk, low-potential areas, but the same analysts find no problem in China and Russia developing those resources.” – Daniel Lacalle

Silver Goes Vertical: Do You Have An Exit Plan? (VIDEO) – “silver goes vertical, the real risk is not missing the move. It is failing to manage it. Knowing when to scale out, how to protect gains, and how to avoid the traps of euphoria and panic requires a plan established in advance. The question is not whether silver can move sharply higher. The question is whether you are ready when it does.” – The Morgan Report

US Government Sold $654 Billion of Treasuries this Week, 10-Year Yield Spikes to 4.24%, Highest since Sep 2, despite 3 Rate Cuts – “The new supply: $138 billion of new 10-year Treasury notes replaced $66 billion of matured 10-year Treasury notes.” – Wolf Richter

Global Silver Shortage Drives Silver To Close At Highest Weekly Price In History – David Jensen

 

 

 

SURVIVAL, PREPAREDNESS AND SELF-SUFFICIENCY

What Ammo Types Do You Really Need for When the SHTF – Bryan Scepaniak

Caltrops: Making Homemade Tire Spikes – “(Editor’s Introductory Warning: The devices described in this article can cause great bodily injury. We live in a highly litigious society. Employing caltrops in any situation other than a “Without Rule of Law” societal collapse would invite a lawsuit that could potentially cost hundreds of thousands of dollars or perhaps even more than a million dollars in assessed damages, attorney fees, and court costs.)Making tire spikes has to be one of the most popular prepper & survival “how-to” skills out there and you are going to learn how to make tire spikes like the pros. This design that we are going to go over is by far the most effective and durable available.” – Joe. R.

Money Saving Series: Storing Your Power Equipment. (VIDEO) – Modern Refugee  – GOOD VIDEO AS USUAL FROM THE MODERN REFUGEE!!!

Best DIY Flock Block Recipe: How to Make a Chicken Treat Block – Deanna Talerico

18 Situations Your Everyday Carry Kit Could Save Your Life Uncategorized – “If you’ve just started prepping or researching prepping, you might be hearing an awful lot about everyday carry or an EDC kit. Everyday carry items are designed to help you survive not just life’s everyday emergencies but a potentially life-threatening situation as well. ” – Megan Stewart

 

 

VERSE FOR THE DAY

Psalm 40:1     I waited patiently for the Lord; and he inclined unto me, and heard my cry

 

 

IMAGE FOR THE DAY 

 

LYRIC FOR THE WEEK

Some folks trust to reason
Others trust to might
I don’t trust to nothing
But I know it come out right

Say it once again now
Oh, I hope you understand
When it’s done and over
Lord, a man is just a man

Playing
Playing in the band
Daybreak
Daybreak on the land

Some folks look for answers
Others look for fights
Some folks up in treetops
Just look to see the sights

I can tell your future
Look what’s in your hand
But I can’t stop for nothing
I’m just playing in the band

Playing
Playing in the band
Daybreak
Daybreak on the land

Standing on a tower
World at my command
You just keep a turning
While I’m playing in the band

If a man among you
Got no sin upon his hand
Let him cast a stone at me
For playing in the band

Playing
Playing in the band
Daybreak
Daybreak on the land
Playing
Playing in the band
Daybreak daybreak on the land

( Playing In The Band by Robert Hunter, Bob Weir and  Mickey Hart  )

THE BIG PICTURE

The history of Blood Pressure numbers (VIDEO) – Adam J. Story, DC  – OLDER BUT VERY INTERESTING VIDEO. YOU THINK MAYBE BIG PHARMA IS BEHIND THIS!!!!

Where Are the Climate-Related Disasters? – “After 25 years of claimed record heat, extreme weather refuses to cooperate” – Dr. Matthew Wielick

Canada Is Not “Safe” We’re Walking Into the Mouth of the Dragon – “Wake up, Canada. This isn’t speculation. It isn’t conspiracy. It’s on camera. During a formal bilateral meeting in Beijing, aired by CPAC … Mark Carney said the quiet part out loud: “… the progress that we have made in the partnership sets us up well for the new world order.” Those words were spoken deliberately, in a scripted diplomatic setting, before Chinese leadership, with translators present, flags behind him, and a permanent public record. This was not a slip. This was framing.” – Connie Shields

Cash Is Criminal: New Trump Admin Law Triggers An IRS Report For Withdrawing $200 From A Bank From Select Communities To Combat Fraud And Illegal Immigrants. – “The Trump administration quietly enacted a new law on select portions of the United States that could drastically affect cash usage, under the guise of clamping down on fraud and illicit activity.” – The WinePress

GoFundMe Is Now America’s Moral Tip Jar – “New retirement plan: mouth off, get fired, rake in cash. There was a time when GoFundMe existed to help the truly unfortunate: victims of medical catastrophes, freak accidents, natural disasters…Those days are now filed under “cultural artifacts” somewhere between Blockbuster Video and MySpace. The crowdfunded piggy bank has officially morphed into a virtue-signaling moral tip jar, where any sufficiently theatrical act of public defiance—especially if it is aimed in the vague direction of Donald Trump—can be instantly converted into cash, clout, and digital sainthood.” – Jenna McCarthy

Painkillers prescribed to 4.5 million Britons slapped with addiction warning by health chiefs after drugs safety review – “Addiction warnings are being strengthened on some of the UK’s most widely prescribed pain, anxiety and sleep medicines. The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) ordered the move after a safety review flagged risks linked to gabapentinoid painkillers, benzodiazepine tranquillisers and Z-drugs used for sleep. Gabapentinoids include drugs such as gabapentin and pregabalin, primarily prescribed for nerve pain and epilepsy but also used for conditions including anxiety. ” – Emma Gritt

Florida Initiative Finds Arsenic, Mercury, Lead & Cadmium In 16/24 Infant Formulas. Humans Are Being Loaded With Toxic Metals Since Birth – Why Is Heavy Metal Detoxification Not Standard Of Care? – Ana Maria Mihalcea, MD, PhD

STUDY: Vitamin C + Grape Seed Extract Outperforms Chemotherapy for Tumor Reduction in Mice – Nicolas Hulscher, MPH  – FILE THAT ONE ONE UNDER THINGS THEY DON’T WANT YOU TO KNOW SINCE THEY CAN’T MAKE A FORTUNE OFF OF IT!!!

NEWS

An Assault on the Republic – “When the president takes an oath to preserve, protect and defend the Constitution, he agrees to follow the law, whether he agrees with it or not. ​When the president takes the oath, he promises to execute the office “faithfully.” James Madison feared a cross-your-fingers-behind-your-back moment if the word faithfully were not in the oath. ​Now back to Trump. By claiming that “on the world stage” — language used by the reporter who questioned Trump, not by Trump himself — only his mind and morality can restrain him, he has revealed by his own choice of words what his presidential behavior has already manifested. He obviously rejects the obligation to execute his job faithfully. His loyalty is to himself, not to the words or the values underlying the Constitution.” – Judge Andrew P. Napolitano

When Trump Bombs Iran – “The obviously imminent (because obviously planned) attack on Iran by the United States (on behalf of Israel) could occur any moment. Perhaps before I finish typing this article. Probably it will happen within a day or two of the publication of this article. Everything is proceeding according to the plan probably cooked up at Mara Lago a couple weeks ago, when Benny “Netanyahu,” the president of the United States, met with his viceroy, who was instructed, per usual, to put Israel First. It was announced – clumsily, because it’s so tediously obvious – that the United States would attack Iran on behalf of Israel if “protestors” in Iran were harmed by the Iranian government. This comes from the viceroy who never protests the killing of thousands of children and old people in Israel – who just happened to be in the way of Israeli rifles.” – Eric Peters

Will Trump next try to kidnap Iran’s Ayatollah Khamenei? – “The Western media are assisting the descent into barbarism through their well-honed lies and pandering to the imperialist thuggery of Trump’s regime.” – Finian Cunningham

America 2.0: Under Foreign Occupation – “One nation under ZOG. Americans labor under the belief that they are a free people. We get to elect our leaders, after all, and are protected by the Bill of Rights. We’re not like those poor saps in shithole countries like Venezuela.” – Donald Jeffries

Act Now? – “Don’t be too surprised if sometime later this day, Friday, the president invokes the Insurrection Act to tranquilize the city of Minneapolis, since aerial spraying of Olanzapine is probably out of the question. Where, oh where, are the mythologized “nice,” and “above-average” people of Minnesota, once praised in song and sketch on those long-ago Saturday nights of The Prairie Home Companion? They have been replaced by a mutant army of psychotic Transtifa wendigos on the payroll of Arabella Advisors (now operating as Sunflower Services), or the Tides Foundation, or some other Soros-connected money-laundry.” – James Howard Kunstler

Minnesota Is Rejecting Federal Sovereignty, The Insurrection Act Exists for This Moment – “The Insurrection Act is an old statute with a modern purpose. It is a legal bridge between two truths that sit uneasily together. One truth is that the US is a union of states with real sovereignty in matters of policing and public order. The other truth is that the US is one nation with one set of federal laws, one Constitution, and one federal government charged with executing its laws everywhere. When those truths collide, a republic needs a rule for who must yield, and under what conditions. The Insurrection Act supplies that rule.” – Alexander Muse / Amuse on X – HOWEVER THERE IS A FINE LINE HERE WHERE THE USE OF THIS CREATES A POLICE STATE!!!!

The Art of Demolishing Conventional Wisdom – “Imake no bones about my support for President Trump. I find him a breath of truth-infused fresh air in an age of pretending that has long been dedicated to constructing, spreading, and anointing the “narrative.” If your personal politics overlap to some degree with President Trump’s worldview, the previous paragraph is filled with self-evident truths. What is remarkable is that every one of the above statements represents a contentious policy disagreement in the United States and across the West today. Ever since President Trump came on the political scene and refused to pander to the Establishment’s brand of “political correctness” or pay homage to the political Left’s secular-yet-sacred shibboleths, Americans have aggressively separated into warring tribes.” – J.B. Shurk  – SOME SUPPORT HIM SOME DON’T. I TRY TO SHOW BOTH SIDES AND LET YOU MAKE YOUR OWN JUDGEMENTS. FOR EXAMPLE READ CHUCK BALDWIN’S TAKE YESTERDAY!!!!

Trump floats new tariffs in push to acquire Greenland – Kevin Breuninger

Venezuela, Cuba, Iran, and the Domino Theory – “The once-discredited hypothesis might be proving true – again.” – Tim Donner 

Tovia Singer 💜 Loves Darby and Scofield 💜 And Here’s Why – “Why dispensationalism serves his argument better than truth ever could. my iPad was on the counter, and I glanced at it just long enough to see a new video by Tovia Singer. I hesitated, then pressed play anyway. I wish I didn’t… What he said needs to be answered – for the sake of truth and for the sake of exposing such unbearable lies and contradictions he so confidently spews out. First, he goes straight for the Church Fathers and keeps calling them “virulent antisemites,”What he never tells his audience is that rabbinic and Talmudic literature is full of hatred toward Christ, His mother, Christians, and Gentiles in general. Not polite disagreement or mild criticism. Open contempt and mockery. Dehumanization. That reality is carefully avoided by Tovia every time this subject comes up. There is no popular word for hatred toward Gentiles. No “anti-Gentilism” category. No watchdog groups tracking it. No headlines about it. Why? So the imbalance stays hidden, and only one side of the “hostility “is ever allowed into the conversation.” – Jana S Bennun

Clickbait Diplomacy – “Sometimes it isn’t what is being said that’s important, but the volume of the message that tells the truth. From out of almost nowhere, the X message from liberals is that somehow the actions of ICE are totalitarian and dystopian, but when the FBI came after grandmothers praying in front of the capitol on January 6th, that wasn’t. ” – T.L. Davis

Mayhem in Minneapolis (VIDEO0 – ” What exactly are they fighting for?” – Julie Kelly

SITREP 1/15/26: “Winter Break” Over? Russian Campaign Stirs Back to Life – “Today, a battlefield update since we haven’t done one in a while.” – Simplicius

ECONOMIC NEWS

“The Dollar Is Fine,” Says Everyone Watching It Burn – “As predicted, the world is moving away from the U.S. dollar and treasuries. The world was quietly and stubbornly walking away from the US dollar and US Treasuries the last half decade, that walk is becoming a march, and “quietly” is turning to “loudly”.” – Quoth the Raven

Food Inflation Gets Hot, but Not Every Item: A Look at Beef, Chicken, Coffee, Eggs, Dairy, Fruit & Vegetables, “Other Foods” – “The CPI for “Food at home” – food that people buy at stores, markets, or online and consume off premise – jumped by 0.72% month-to-month (+9.0% annualized), the biggest jump since August 2022, after a slight decline in the prior month, according to the CPI data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. This increase pushed the year-over-year increase to 2.4%.” – Wolf Richter

Debt Data Continues to Signal Deep Consumer Stress – “Consumer borrowing cratered further in November, likely reflecting growing consumer stress, as price inflation persists and credit cards become maxed out. That’s bad news for a U.S. economy that depends on consumers buying stuff. Persistent price inflation forced Americans to blow through their savings and then turn to credit cards to make ends meet.” – Mike Maharrey

America is now Growing Faster than China – Peter St Onge

Why Silver is One of the Most In-Demand Metals on the Planet – “Silver has been on a tear lately, soaring to all-time highs and gaining more than 150% since last year, outpacing even gold. It has quietly become one of the most in-demand metals on the planet. Bill Armour joins us to discuss why people still have time to take advantage of the surge.” – Maria Zeee / Daily Pulse

Silver Price Tripled In A Year: What Happens If It Keeps Going? – “Can the same structures that have kept silver subdued for decades still function if the demand for the physical metal continues to accelerate? ” – G. Calder

Shanghai Silver Price Still Over $100 /oz. As SLV ETF Is Raided For Physical Silver Bars – “The Shanghai silver price maintains an increasing premium over Western silver prices at $101.06 /oz. on a very tight physical global silver market. India continues with a 17% silver price premium to London. The Asian silver vacuum is on. Today is an options expiry day for stocks on US exchanges and many silver mining stocks have seen very large increases over the past month with large banks having issued (shorted) these options into the market. I would expect to see heavy selling of silver in the paper metal market today in an attempt to minimize losses as many of the call options, that increase in value with rising prices of underlying equity prices, are deeply ‘in the money’ after torrid January gains.” – David Jensen

Silver Slams Implode 90% Faster: COMEX Smash-Downs That Once Lasted Days Now Die in Hours – The Silver Academy

SURVIVAL, PREPAREDNESS AND SELF-SUFFICIENCY

Start a 1-Acre Homestead: Layout Planning – “You don’t need a lot of acreage to have a self-sufficient homestead.” – John Seymour

The Survival Skill Most Preppers Skip: Preparedness That Keeps You Alive – “I’ve spent over 30 years in the outdoors and 15 years deep in preparedness. I’ve worked as a Division I strength coach and a Human Performance Specialist for Naval Special Warfare. I’ve tested myself in conditions that would break most people. I can tell you this with absolute certainty: the most critical survival tools aren’t in your pack. They’re in your head, your body, and your faith.” – Jason Salyer

Thrifty Herbal Medicine in Your Kitchen – Colette

Turning Heavy Snowfall into a Water Advantage – “A major snowfall doesn’t just create hazards—it delivers one of the largest short-term water windfalls of the year. While most households see buried driveways and frozen pipes, prepared households see hundreds of litres of raw water already on site. Used correctly, snowfall becomes an asset.” – denob

Preparedness Lessons From Communist Mongolia – Part 1 – “We lived in Mongolia in the early 1990s, for a few years after the collapse of the Soviet Union, during a time when the system had officially ended but its habits had not yet loosened their grip on daily life. I was in my early thirties, married, with two young daughters, trying to build a life far from anything familiar. We were not passing through, and we were not insulated expatriates. We were attempting to function inside the local economy, under local conditions, with consequences that were immediate and personal. At the time, I did not think of what we were doing as preparedness. I had no language for it.” – G.K.

VERSE FOR THE DAY

Leviticus 26:5     And your threshing shall reach unto the vintage, and the vintage shall reach unto the sowing time: and ye shall eat your bread to the full, and dwell in your land safely.

IMAGE FOR THE DAY 

 

 

THE BIG PICTURE

Reclaiming Freedom – “Restoring Civilization As Master, Economics as Servant. True liberation requires a fundamental reorganization of society around our civilization, restoring economics to its proper, subordinate role. This entails a great dual project: a reduction of the state to its just bounds, and a restoration of civic duty to its vital place.” – E.M. Burlingame

Where Are the Tiny Cars? – “A couple months ago, we were informed that Trump had decided to “approve” the building (manufacturing) of so-called “tiny cars” – which are actually non-compliant cars – in the United States. Trump said such vehicles can be built in America now, because he said so. So far, none are available – and not one major car company has said they plan to offer them for sale in America anytime soon. Or ever. This is probably on account of the fact that while they can be built here (there was never any law forbidding that) they cannot be legally sold here, because they are non-compliant – and Trump has not (with a wage of his magic executive order wand) disappeared the regulations that have to be complied with before any new vehicle may legally be sold in the United States. Trump is a willful ignoramus when it comes to details. He seems to think he can breezily say – make it so, like Captain Picard from Star Trek – and it will be so. But it ain’t so. Maybe he just hopes we’ll forget all about it. Like the Epstein stuff. Like those $5,000 rebate checks Americans were supposed to be getting courtesy of Elon Musk and DOGE. Whatever happened to DOGE?” – Eric Peters

WATCH: This Is Just Absolutely INSANE – “How is this even real? In an incredible Senate hearing meant to address the dangers of abortion pills sold online without proper oversight, a Democratic witness turned the spotlight on herself by refusing to acknowledge that only women can get pregnant. Dr. Nisha Verma, an OB-GYN tapped by Democrats, evaded direct questions from Republicans, prioritizing “identities” over scientific fact.” – Steve Watson – IF YOU JUST WANT TO WATCH THE VIDEO OR USE THE LINK IT’S BELOW. A MUST WATCH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Can Men Get Pregnant (VIDEO on X ) – Modernity News  – AS STEVE SAYS ABOVE, HOW IS THIS EVEN REAL. WOKENESS GONE CRAZY!!!!

Fear, Loathing & Bias How ancient and essential survival mechanisms can distort our perceptions of reality. – “None of Renee Nicole Good’s behavior was justifiable, and she should have been arrested later for reckless endangerment of a federal law officer (federal statute 18 U.S.C. § 111, with prison time of up to 20 years or more). However, as reckless as she was, the punishment for reckless endangerment is not the death penalty. Given that she was trying to drive away, it is hard to understand why the ICE agents didn’t immediately move clear of the car. Regarding the officer who fired the shot: in the time it took for him to draw, aim, and fire, he could have jumped completely clear. The ICE agents involved in this incident may be well-trained and prepared for the tough and demanding business of detaining illegal immigrants. However, their actions in handling a hysterical woman suggest they were not properly trained for dealing with protestors.” – John Leake

Binary Thinking and its Blind Spots (VIDEO) – “System 1 handles the decision processing with its automatic emotional response, and it never gets any further analysis. System 1 goes back to our most basic survival instincts, and it is good for processing binary choices such as fight/flight, edible/toxic, alive/dead, but it is not suitable for processing complex issues. This is what System 2 is for. And it is well known in today’s study of psychology that when the human mind is presented with only two options, the work automatically goes to System 1, and critical thinking is avoided. The purpose for having these two cognitive systems, is efficiency. ” – Greg Reese  – ANOTHER INTERESTING VIDEO FROM GREG!!!

Former United Nations Employee Warns of the Dangers of the UN Digital ID Program – “Ray says the way the UN is handling its rollout of digital IDs for employees is an indication of how the organization is approaching digital ID projects around the world. “The UN’s approach to their internal staff digital ID reflects the same attitudes seen in national-level digital ID roll-outs—inadequate concern for legal liability, disregard for individual informed consent, and overconfidence in the strength of the technology’s privacy and security implications,” Ray told The Last American Vagabond ” – Derrick Broze

Study Finds Coffee May “Cancel Out” the Mortality Risks of Sitting for Long Hours Each Day – “Among adults sitting more than 6 hours a day, coffee drinkers had ~23% lower all-cause death risk than non-coffee drinkers.” – Nicolas Hulscher, MPH

New Study Verifies How Cholesterol Lowering Statin Drugs Injure Muscles – A Drug 40 Million Americans Take – Ana Maria Mihalcea, MD, PhD

Tenpenny Throwback Thursday – “Pfizer probably made your cheese. Did you know that? many countries have banned FPC because they consider it to be a genetically modified organism (GMO) which it indeed is. Long ago, the FDA approved the GMO rennet as Generally Recognized as Safe (GRAS), a regulatory designation that allows substances to enter the food supply without full pre-market approval. By the way, the FDA made their decision based on a 90-day study of rats eating the FPC. Wonderful. The bottom line is that real cheese is about as natural as it can get: milk, salt, enzymes, and calf rennet. It would be good to keep it that way. Look at your labels, and if possible buy from a local farmer.” – Dr. Sherri Tenpenny

 

 

 

NEWS

GOP Is Repeating 2022 Democrat Playbook – “For two years, the Democrat Party obfuscated and lied to the American people about the demented mental state of President Joe Biden. After Biden’s mental incapacitation could no longer be concealed by his debate performance with Donald Trump, it was too late. The Donkeys were left with a pathetically inferior candidate (Kamala Harris) and no time to construct a credible campaign. Had Democrats been honest with themselves and the American people and removed Biden from office in 2022, the elections in 2024 might have had a very different outcome. In 2026, Republicans are facing a parallel situation. President Donald Trump, dubbed neo-Caligula by many podcasters, is crashing and burning any hope of a GOP victory this November. For that matter, his helter-skelter political/military compass points to a crash landing for the entire United States—perhaps the entire world. Every day that Trump remains in the Oval Office is a day closer to nuclear Armageddon. The man is certifiably insane. And everyone around Trump knows it. But as with the Democrats in 2022, no one is willing to admit it, much less do anything about it.” – Chuck Baldwin

Making Armageddon Great Again – “A Mushroom Cloud, A Smoking Gun” – Bill Astore

Trump Won’t Be Solely Responsible – “He might not be responsible in the least, but most people are already convinced he’s deeply involved. They view him as a mere puppet of the agenda—and even if that’s true, and the agenda wins its war against humanity, it won’t be his doing alone. Yet the masses will almost certainly hold him fully accountable.” – Todd Hayen, PhD, RP

We’re Always Told That Everyone In The Empire-Targeted Nation Hates Their Government – “The regime change supporter’s favorite trick is to pretend the people in the targeted country are an ideological monolith. All Iranians hate their government, all Venezuelans wanted freedom from Maduro, etc. They do this constantly. Thing is, it requires them to dehumanize the very population they’re claiming to care about. ” – Caitlin Johnstone

War fever is building for another Middle East regime-change operation but what are the potential outcomes for Iran, the region and the world? – “Trump says ‘help is on the way’ but will he go in with boots on the ground, or try to accomplish the mission strictly with bombing raids? Either option is fraught with risks for America and Israel.” – Leo Hohmann

ICE IS DEPORTING PURPLE HEART VETERANS AND KRISTI NOEM LIED ABOUT IT UNDER OATH – “You do not accidentally fail to notice that the guy you are putting on a plane fought in Iraq or Afghanistan or Panama or Korea. The military keeps records. Dog tags have service numbers. These men have DD-214s. Someone looked at that paperwork and decided to deport them anyway. Someone made a choice. And when Kristi Noem sat in front of Congress and said with a straight face that she had not deported a single veteran, she was not confused. She was protecting a deliberate policy.” – 🐺The Wise Wolf

From the Fog of Imminent War to the Fog of AI Fake News – “It’s getting really hard to tell the fake from the real, and two major AI founders say 2026 is the year AI goes full rogue.” – David Haggith

“What Will They Do?! Nuke the US?”: Russia Mocks Emasculated Europe As Trump Eyes Greenland – “The Gallic cock has crowed that, if the sovereignty of Denmark is affected, the consequences would be unprecedented. Ooh, what they will do?! Kidnap POTUS? Nuke the US? Course not. They’ll just shit their pants and give up Greenland. And that’d would be a great European precedent. – Dmitry Medvedev” – Tyler Durden

The Flotillas to Gaza Are the World’s Conscience – Chris Hedges

Fantasy “Loan” for Ukraine Gets Adjusted Again as EU Faces Priorities Reality Check – “The latest information suggests that the much-vaunted €90B “loan” that was the highlight and ‘triumph’ of von der Leyen’s rotten caucus last month—and which itself was actually a miserable downgrade from the now-memory-holed far-larger requested amount—has become another abject lesson in theatrical deception. Major outlets now report that the so called “loan” will only provide Ukraine ~€30B, while the remaining €60B goes directly to European “arms manufacturers”.” – Simplicius

The real price of the Venezuela coup: Iran’s regional support against Israel/U.S. – “Does Trump have the slightest idea of what a war with Iran actually means in practical terms? Does he understand that removing Maduro has galvanised support for Iran when that war starts? With the huge movement of US military aircraft first arriving in US bases in the UK before moving onto the Middle East, the rioting in Iran and Trump’s euphoria over Venezuela, it would be a fair assumption to make that the US, along with Israel, is planning an Iranian attack aimed at toppling the regime.” – Martin Jay

Iran – Trump Chickened Out – “Yesterday U.S. President Donald Trump was ready and willing to bomb Iran. The most important target would have been the Supreme Leader, Ajatollah Khamenei. But Iran was ready and Khamenei safe. The U.S. military, in contrast, was not ready to defend against the inevitable retaliation that would have come out of Iran. There are only three destroyers with air-defenses in the area that could offer protection against a ballistic missile onslaught. A few minutes after the first strikes their arsenals would have been empty.” – Moon of Alabama

Senate Passes Bill Allowing Victims To Sue Over Deepfake Porn Videos – “The Senate unanimously passed a bill on Jan. 13 allowing victims to sue producers and distributors of deepfake porn videos. The Disrupt Explicit Forged Images and Non-Consensual Edits Act, or DEFIANCE Act, now goes to the House, where its fate is uncertain. It was introduced by Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) and was in response to X allowing nonconsensual illicit deepfakes.” – Jackson Richman

 

 

 

ECONOMIC NEWS

Winter Is Still Coming – “Winter Is Simply Taking Longer To Arrive. How much did consumer price inflation change in the December Consumer Price Index Summary from our favorite data provider, the Bureau of Labor Statistics? In broad strokes, not much. Year on year inflation barely changed in December. Month on month was not so wonderful, as the inflation rate did move up at both the headline and core levels, but even that was far from the highest monthly inflation rate in 2025.” – Peter Nayland Kust

Bad-Joke Housing CPIs, Absurd Health Insurance CPI Still Marr Today’s CPI Report, Repress Year-over-Year CPI Inflation – “My frustration is boiling over. This is very serious. A lot depends on halfway accurate CPI inflation readings.” – Wolf Richter

The Latest Psyop With Trump Attacking Jerome Powell Is Causing Many Americans To Defend The Federal Reserve And Cheer For Their Own Enslavement – “Trump in 2011: “The Fed’s reckless policies of low interest and flooding the market with dollars needs to be stopped or we will face record inflation.” My how have times changed! Yet, how ironic that in his first administration and now again in 2025 and 2026 all we hear from him about is how booming the stock market is as a measure of strength for the economy, which he tees off on the golf course! When it’s up, it’s because of him; when it does badly, it’s someone else’s fault:” – The WinePress

The End Of The Age Of American Capital? – “Markets are deluged in noise as the President remakes the world. We’re learning to roll with it – but the trick will be to spot the opportunities and gaps that will open. President Trump’s recent demands that US banks and lenders follow his orders is one such opportunity – and may crash a critical component of the US economy’s success.” – Bill Blain

Impact of New Chinese Silver Export Regulations Overstated – ” When Chinese officials rolled out the rules, which went into effect Jan. 1, many analysts said it would lock hundreds of small and mid-sized exporters out of the system. However, these analysts failed to realize that the Chinese government was already regulating and licensing silver exports. These small and mid-sized exporters were already locked out of the system. The new rules were essentially tweaks in an existing framework.” – Mike Maharrey

How Currency Stress Is Pushing Gold, Silver to New Highs – “Gold’s move toward $4,600 isn’t about jobs data or geopolitics – it’s about currency stress. Silver’s tightening supply tells the same story, while Venezuela’s gold dispute shows why central banks demand physical metal stored close to home…” – By Peter Reagan

Buy Gold, Dump Treasuries – “On Monday’s episode of the Peter Schiff Show, Peter reacts to a dramatic day in the markets where gold and especially silver steal the headlines, then connects those moves to political and monetary developments that he says make the dollar vulnerable. He ties a sudden surge in precious metals to a new scandal around Fed Chair Jerome Powell, the Fed’s warped spending incentives, and a troubling political proposal to cap credit-card interest. He opens with the market action, where silver is the clear standout today: He’s surprised the mainstream financial media treats that as a footnote rather than the news of the day:” – Peter Schiff

Peter Schiff is Right. Buying Silver Miners now is like Taking Candy from a Baby – “Silver and gold just hit record highs while quality miners sold off, handing investors a rare chance to grab explosive cash‑flow leverage to a structural silver and monetary reset.” – The Silver Academy

 

 

 

SURVIVAL, PREPAREDNESS AND SELF-SUFFICIENCY

Solar Fire-Starting — Fast, Free, Forever Fires with Fresnel (VIDEO) – ” A large Fresnel lens can be a great fire-starter in your go bag or get home bag.” – Desert Prep

What Silver Is Quietly Telling Anyone Who’s Paying Attention – “Most people think markets speak in headlines and charts. They don’t. They speak in marketplace behavior. And right now, silver isn’t acting like a sleepy industrial metal or a forgotten hedge—it’s acting like something is wrong underneath the floorboards. When an asset that’s spent decades being ignored suddenly starts behaving like a fire alarm, it’s not trying to make you rich. It’s trying to tell you something. Out on the land, capital doesn’t look like a brokerage account. It looks like a well that still pumps. A solar array that hums when the lines go dark. A pantry you can’t eat through in a month. And yes—a few heavy bars tucked away where only you know. As silver triples off old levels and premiums creep higher, the message is familiar to anyone who lived through feed, fertilizer, or diesel shortages: the window is closing. Off-grid investors think in layers.” – Bill Heid

How To Reduce Food Waste On The Homestead – Homesteaders of America

6 Fruit Trees You Can Grow Indoors, According to Horticulturists – “Want homegrown fruit without a garden? Start with these container-friendly fruit trees.” -Ashley Zlatopolsky

 

 

 

VERSES FOR THE DAY

John 8:31-32    Then said Jesus to those Jews which believed on him, If ye continue in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed; And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.

 

 

IMAGE FOR THE DAY 

                    You know what that means don’t you.  Capeesh ?

THE BIG PICTURE

Interesting development (4 min. VIDEO) – “So, first in 2019, Gates funded a study for the original development of these quantum dot implants. So, it’s a micro needle patch array. So, it’s got a bunch of mini needles. It’s like a band-aid. You put it on your wrist, it dissolves, and it installs the  these quantum dot materials that last for at least 5 years. So, they they developed that in 2019. Now, in 2025, Gates funded another study that shows just how advanced now this technology has become. It is advancing at a very fast pace. Now these micro needle patches can install literal quantum dot QR codes. QR codes that can be read with AI with specialized cameras and decoded to store batch information, lot number, how many doses you receive. There you go. They they put it on the pig. That’s what it looks like. It’s a literal QR code. You will be marked.” – J.C.O.M.E.S. Its all about Jesus!  – LITERALLY THE MARK OF THE BEAST!!!

TROUBLED TIMES (SHORT VIDEO) – Looking Up 4 Him  – GOOD ONE. ALWAYS LIKE HIS OUTLOOK!!!!

A ‘STRANGE NEW HORROR’: U.S. Health Official Sounds Alarm on Canada’s Assisted-Suicide Organ Pipeline – “As Canada’s MAID program becomes increasingly intertwined with organ donation, a senior HHS official warns the ethical guardrails may be failing.” – Lioness of Judah

Kovid Kapoor 😷😷😷😷 – “It just keeps getting better” – Me Stuff  – REMEMBER, THEY ALWAYS TELL YOU AHEAD OF TIME WHAT THEY ARE GOING TO DO IN SOME WAY OR ANOTHER!!!

The Man Who Illegally Got Obama on the Hawaiian Ballot in 2008 – “He went from Democrat party flunky to Senator — December 31, 2024. Obama made a quick trip to Hawaii, under the guise of visiting his sick grandmother, and met with Schatz on October 24, 2008. Schatz had already signed the HI Democrat Party Official Certification of Nomination two months earlier. The problem was that the Director of the Board of Elections wanted proof that Obama was qualified.  Obama could not prove to their satisfaction that he was a natural-born citizen. The director could have stopped Obama from being a candidate, but was obviously pressured by Schatz and other high-powered Democrats. The director wisely stepped aside as, I suspect, the late Loretta Fuddy, the former director of the Board of Health, should have done, and Obama’s name went on the Hawaiian ballot and on the ballots of the other states.”- Susan Daniels  – VERY INTERESTING READ!!!!

Walmart Partners With Google To Agentic AI To Allow The Algorithmic To Help Shop For The Customer – “The transition from traditional web or app search to agent-led commerce represents the next great evolution in retail. We aren’t just watching the shift, we are driving it.” – The WinePress

Portugal Runs H5N1 Bird Flu Outbreak Simulation—Echoing Pre-COVID Pandemic Exercises – “Patients refusing to use personal protective equipment, like masks, defined as “threats.”” – Jon Fleetwood

DDoS attacks are the old new tactic of censorship/retraction – “A DDoS attack is basically digitally swarming a site so that no real traffic can get through to it; that digital flash mob of woke morons blocking the entrance to the nightclub of knowledge so nobody important can get in. With these kind of attacks, there is no stealing of data required, and no viruses actually get on your computer. But nonetheless, they are highly effective as massive digital traffic jams. We’ve now witnessed this happen to the journal Oncotarget, and now it is happening to the Brownstone Institute website. These are focused and targeted attacks on specific sites with the goal of bottlenecking the entryway to information in published articles, to prevent particular information from being accessible to users.” – Jessica Rose

Fasting as medicine for cancer and chronic disease – “Why hunger triggers repair without poison” – Darby Jones

NEWS

The Tragedy Behind the Tragedy – “People have generally taken sides (again) with regard to the shooting to death of that woman in Minneapolis last week – but the thing to understand is we’re all on one side now. It is the side of those who face summary execution by armed government workers if we “resist” in any way. This encompasses attempting to drive away, which is what the woman who was shot to death was trying to do. For failing to obey, in other words. This is the ultimate crime in any authoritarian system, as evidenced by how severely it is punished. A man is ordered to get down on the ground, now – IDF tactics – and beaten, over jaywalking. But his real crime was not obeying. How about a “turn signal violation”? There are many such. Because so much has changed. But when did it change? And why? It is hard to pin it down exactly, but it was sometime in the mid-1990s that the Hut! Hut! Hut! got normalized. We saw it on TeeeVeee – literally. The show COPS became a huge hit, normalizing and even fetishizing the Hut! Hut Hut! Around the same time, Randy Weaver and his 14-year-old son were executed – on their own property – for the crime of wanting to be left alone and “resisting” when they were not left alone. The “religious weirdos” – and so they were, but so what? – at the Branch Davidian compound were subjected to an armored assault with tanks by the feds, who didn’t just Hut! Hut! Hut! but literally immolated the group, including women and children.” – Eric Peters  – ERIC’S AND JONATHAN’S ARTICLE BELOW ARE BOTH INTERESTING READS!!!

The ICE Elephant: Why the Law Requires All the Facts – “Reasonable people can disagree on whether the officer should have discharged his weapon. Flight alone is not grounds for the use of lethal force. However, Good’s actions could also be interpreted as an intentional endangerment of the officer. At a minimum, it was clearly reckless, as another officer was trying to reach into the vehicle and Good refused to yield to the effort to place her into custody.  The Goods forced the confrontation, and Renee Good then escalated the level of danger by speeding toward an officer. This is why the legal standard requires you to take in the entire elephant, not just insular parts. This tragedy shows that people watching the same videotapes can come to diametrically opposed conclusions. The same is true of those who note how the wheels appear to be turning toward or away from the officer. The fact is, Good struck the officer. That does not mean she intended to do so, but that does not matter. From the officer’s perspective, Good was ignoring orders while speeding toward him from just feet away. The public would be wise to ignore conclusions reached blindly by either side.” – Jonathan Turley

There Is Only One Civilization – “The Empire’s playbook is nothing more than an elaborate rendering of a simple divide and conquer strategy wherein anyone refusing to recognize the only civilization finds itself in the crosshairs of US might/threat. Meanwhile, in a hopelessly divided US, we pit the likes of Trump against Biden/ Obama—each incapable of real diplomacy with rising power adversaries. What is the US strategy towards adversaries? My way or the highway, allowing no dissent/separation from US hegemony. Had Harris won the election, the Empire would have had to deal with the same consequence as Trump—” – Erik @ neverhadaboss.com

Gold, Guns and Greenland – “Again, why does Trump want Greenland? Easy… It’s a necessary – some say indispensable – site for U.S. strategic defense. In other words, “Greenland” is at root a geography scenario that involves strategic defense to protect the U.S. from Russian and Chinese missiles. Alaska and Greenland are the only practical locales to place systems that can close the flight corridors to major American cities and the U.S. heartland.” – Byron King

TDS or TIS? How so-called ‘Derangement Syndrome’ has infected both sides in the left-right paradigm – “When loyalty (to a man) replaces accountability bad things happen.” – Leo Hohmann

Democrat Insurrection Gains Steam – “Democrats mourn ‘insurrection’ on January 6, engage in insurrection on January 7. The ability of the Democrat Machine to rewrite its code at a moment’s notice is terrifying. What it supported yesterday, it will denounce tomorrow when politically expedient. Right now we’re seeing a perfect example in the way prominent Democrats are reacting to federal agents enforcing immigration law.” – J.B. Shurk

From Noriega to Maduro: The Long US History of Kidnapping Foreign Leaders – “While it has undoubtedly shocked the world, the Trump administration’s abduction of President Nicolás Maduro fits into a long history of United States kidnapping of foreign leaders. Despite President Trump himself declaring that “kidnapping” was an appropriate term for what happened, corporate media around the world have refrained from using the obvious word for what transpired, preferring to use “capturing” or “seizing.” These terms reframe the incident and cast doubt on its illegality, helping to manufacture public consent for a grave breach of international law. Maduro is not the first Venezuelan official Washington has helped kidnap. In 2002, the Bush administration planned and executed a coup d’état that briefly ousted Maduro’s predecessor, Hugo Chavez, from power.” – Alan MacLeod

Clintons Refuse To Testify About Jeffrey Epstein; Comer To Begin Contempt Proceedings – “President Trump isn’t the only one clamming up over Jeffrey Epstein …The Clintons were scheduled to testify this week – weeks after the Trump DOJ released volumes of ‘Epstein Files’ – which were highly redacted, yet featured Bill prominently. The former US president was scheduled to testify today (Jan. 13), and Hillary scheduled for tomorrow. Hours before the deadline, however, the Clintons made it clear in an 8-page letter that they have no intention of showing up – calling subpoenas issued by Comer “invalid and legally unenforceable,” adding that they’ll fight Comer as long as it takes. ” – Tyler Durden – THE HILLBILLYS FROM ARKANSAS, HILL AND BILL HAVE ALWAYS BEEN ABOVE THE LAW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Clintons in Big Trouble on Epstein Subpoenas – Their Response Is Something Else – ““Every person has to decide when they have seen or had enough and are ready to fight for this country, its principles and its people, no matter the consequences,” the ex-first couple wrote to Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.), according to a letter first reported by the New York Times. “For us, now is that time,” the former first couple added. Even for the Clintons, this is particularly audacious, cannibalizing all the false Democratic narratives to help support their efforts to avoid testifying. They’re not avoiding appearing because they don’t want to testify; they’re avoiding it because they’re such brave, principled people. The gall here is something else. If, in fact, they knew nothing, all they would have to do is show up and answer the questions.’ – Nick Arama

Pete White came home with pizza – “Didn’t make it to the door” – Kenn Gividen – THREE MORE INSTANCES OF SENSELESS KILLINGS. WHY IS IT HAPPENING AND WHY DOESN’T THE MSM REPORT ON THIS. PROBABLY BECAUSE IT DOESN’T FIT THEIR NARRATIVE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Where’s the Left’s Outrage Over This Florida Shooting? – “While the Left is foaming at the mouth over the death of Renee Good in Minneapolis — a death she caused by refusing to obey the orders of ICE agents before hitting one of them with her SUV — they’re always, invariably, silent about the countless deaths of actual innocents at the hands of criminals (both illegal and American). This includes the latest out of Ocala, Florida. 64-year-old Harold Harper was at home, recovering from surgery, and working in his garden. He considered it a form of therapy. That’s when Isaac Toye, a total stranger, approached Harper from behind and shot him in the back of the head, execution style. Yet there are no riots, no mass protests, not one Democratic Party politician lamenting this actual murder of a man who was on his own property, minding his own business.” – Amy Curtis  – KENN MENTIONED THIS ONE AS WELL IN THE ARTICLE ABOVE!!!!!!!!!!

US Cargo Planes Have Flooded the Persian Gulf Since the First of December – “The surge of US military cargo planes over the last 40 days suggests that the US may opt for an air campaign and is deploying air defense systems to all of the bases listed above in preparation for such an attack. All of the information I’ve present above comes from open source intelligence (OSINT). If I can read it so can the Iranians, the Russians and the Chinese. Would you be shocked to learn that the Russians and the Chinese have satellite systems that are collecting intelligence on these bases as well and passing that information to Iran? Iran will know the location of the US air defense systems.” – Larry C. Johnson

Western media whitewashes deadly riots in Iran, relying on US govt-funded regime change NGOs -“Western media has ignored a growing trove of video evidence showing terrorist tactics deployed across Iran by protesters described by Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch as “largely peaceful.” Recent videos published both by Iranian state media and anti-government forces reveal public lynchings of unarmed guards, the torching of mosques, arson attacks on municipal buildings, marketplaces and fire stations, and mobs of armed gunmen opening fire in the heart of Iranian cities. Instead, Western media has focused almost exclusively on violence attributed to the Iranian government.” – Max Blumenthal and Wyatt Reed  – ALWAYS MAKE THE REGIMES YOU WANT TO CHANGE LOOK LIKE THE BAD GUYS!!!

ECONOMIC NEWS

Today’s Numbers: Inflation Continues To Rise. More American’s Are Now Experiencing “Price Shock.” Here Are The Numbers. – “Here is a breakdown of how its hitting the US consumer/the US economy. Using their own numbers.’ – Gregory Mannarino

92 Percent Of Employed Americans Have Cut Back On Spending As The Standard Of Living In The U.S. Crumbles – Michael Snyder

Silver to $106? Gold’s Wild Rally & the 2026 Outlook (VIDEO) with Chris Vermeulen – Craig Hemke / Sprott Money

Is Silver About to Break Our Debt-Based Financial System? – “Silver is becoming a systemic risk. For years, rumors have swirled that the CME and other futures exchanges were permitting too many silver contracts. Specifically, the silver ISN’T there. This helps explain why the precious metal is going parabolic. And what happens to silver and other precious metals prices when investors realize there isn’t enough actual bullion backstopping the trades being made on the major exchanges? Silver at $100 per ounce? $200 per ounce? We have a small window of time to prepare for what’s coming.” – Graham Summers, MBA

London’s Silver Problem Is Distressing Global Silver Availability – “A 62,000 Tonne Silver Problem” – David Jensen

Household Money-Market Funds & Large CDs Hit Records despite Lower Yields. But Sorry, It’s Not “Cash on the Sidelines” – “Households and even institutional investors continued piling into money market funds (MMFs), and their balances ballooned to new records, despite the Fed’s rate cuts since September 2024, and therefore lower yields on MMFs. If one investor buys stocks, other investors have to sell those stocks dollar for dollar. So one investor can take money out of the stock market, but other investors must by definition put the exact same amount into the stock market. When investors in MMFs sell their shares back to the fund, the fund will eventually have to unwind that amount in Treasuries, commercial paper, repos, etc., and other investors have to step into the place of the MMFs with the exact same amounts. That cash is not on the sidelines. It just flows from one investor to another as assets change hands.” – Wolf Richter

German businesses sound alarm over record bankruptcies – “High energy prices, bureaucracy, and taxes are said to be key factors behind the increase in filings” – RT

December CPI Meets Expectations But There Are Better Ways to Gauge Inflation – “Analysts warned that the December CPI report would be “muddy.” It was. But you will find what you really need to know about the current trajectory of inflation in two unrelated charts.” – Mike Maharrey

Higher CME Margins Make Shorting Silver and Gold More Expensive – “When CME raises margins, all traders—including shorts—must post more collateral to hold the same position, which directly increases the capital cost of shorting and can trigger margin calls.” – The Silver Academy

SURVIVAL, PREPAREDNESS AND SELF-SUFFICIENCY

Feed Your Family And Earn An Income On Only FOUR Acres (VIDEO) with Jill Ragan Of Whispering Willow Farm – Homesteaders of America

Shelter & Heat: The System That Fails Quietly — Then Kills Quickly – “In Canada, shelter and heat are not comfort systems. They are life-support systems. Unlike food shortages, which build slowly and visibly, heat failures often unfold quietly. A power interruption disables furnace controls. Natural gas pressure drops during peak demand. Replacement parts are delayed. Fuel deliveries stall. What begins as inconvenience becomes exposure—and once indoor temperatures fall far enough, decisions become rushed, dangerous, and irreversible.” – denob

9 Better Winter Insulators Than Foam – “You’ve probably installed foam insulation because every building supply store pushes it first. I did the same thing on my barn renovation five years ago. The R-value charts convinced me, and the installation went fast. Then problems started showing up. That failure sent me looking for materials that actually work in real winter conditions, not just laboratory tests. For a material that genuinely regulates temperature and manages moisture, you should look at sheep’s wool insulation.,,,” – Michael B

THE FARMER WHO WALKED AWAY FROM BIG AG TO HEAL HIS LAND – Will Harris

Why You Shouldn’t Stockpile Beans and Rice – “For more than a century, beans and rice have been the go-to staples recommended for survivalists and emergency preppers alike. In my hometown in Louisiana, red beans and rice are literally what’s for dinner almost every Monday night. On paper, this makes them seem like a logical choice when planning for an uncertain future. Yet in reality, stockpiling massive amounts of beans and rice might not be the best survival strategy. It could even work against you due to the following issues” – Eric Beuning

VERSE FOR THE DAY

Romans 13:11    And that, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep: for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed.

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THE BIG PICTURE

The Mafia Mordida – “In Mexico, there is this thing called the la mordida – which means “little bite.” Which means what you pay to bribe a government worker, such as a cop, to get him to leave you alone. If only we Americanos had that option. Here the bite is not so little. The liability insurance I am forced to buy to “cover” the cost of damages I haven’t caused with my old truck has just-shy of tripled over the past three years. That is quite the bite – and I expect it to get bigger. You should, too. Because, of course, there is not only nothing stopping the insurance mafia from extorting as much as it likes, the government is there to make sure the mafia can extort as much as it likes.” – Eric Peters

No, Keir Starmer isn’t going to “ban twitter” – “The latest social media panic is selling a familiar (and incredibly predictable) agenda” – Kit Knightly

Why Alberta’s Anger Is Justified and Why Freedom Requires Facing the Real Problem to Separate or what? – “This is not just a West-versus-East problem. It is local sovereignty versus transnational governance. And unless we confront that directly, at the provincial and municipal level, no amount of political restructuring will deliver the freedom people are hoping for.” – Connie Shields

MAHA SNAP restrictions – a test for the digital control grid? – “Analysis of State-Level SNAP Restrictions Effective January 1, 2026. I know this is an old beaten horse, but worth repeating. The rich are allowed to eat whatever junk food they want and wash it down with gallons of Diet Coke:However, it’s the poor who must give up the social benefits they were promised by the now bankrupt (insolvent) government, along with giving up their rights – all in the name of “MAHA!” of course. ” – Sasha Latypova

Seeing Truth in the Age of Information Overload – “How the health of your perceptual filters shapes the health of your reality” – A Midwestern Doctor

DARPA Uses AI to Push Viral Pandemic Outbreak Modeling From Weeks to Days – “Speed is being prioritized over scrutiny, with AI-generated models designed to justify interventions before they can be meaningfully challenged.” – Jon Fleetwood

US Out of 66 Orgs. Now Let’s Make it Matter – “It’s a first step, but now the task is to make sure that the other steps get taken or this step has absolutely no real significance other than window dressing.” – Rima E Laibow MD

How Statins Damage and Weaken the Heart – “What the Biomedical Literature Reveals About Cardiac Dysfunction and Cholesterol-Lowering Drugs. Cholesterol Was Never the Enemy Cholesterol’s vilification rests on a fundamental misinterpretation of biology. Cholesterol is not a metabolic toxin; it is a structural, functional, and protective molecule, essential for:” – Sayer Ji

Lemongrass Extract Cuts Human Lymphoma Tumor Growth in Mice by ~95% Without Toxicity – “Peer-reviewed study finds that a common plant selectively induces apoptosis in human cancer cells while sparing normal cells.” – Nicolas Hulscher, MPH

NEWS

Permission Granted: Go Kill Yourself – “Historians of the future, grilling beaver-tail paninis over their campfires, will look back in wonder and nausea at the madness of America — and other regions of Western Civ — in the raging 2020s. The Lefty-left has devised what’s called a “permission structure” for women to take the lead in acting-out the concocted grievances of their show-runners in the Democratic Party who, in times gone by, once had a coherent political program, but are now chiefly concerned with staying out of jail. In 2020, they put their African-American clients in the vanguard, hoping to provoke Mr. Trump into a bloody suppression of the George Floyd riots. Didn’t really work, though the riots were a grand distraction from Marc Elias’s behind-the-scenes nefarious setup to queer the balloting process in that year’s election — a thumping success! All that mischief propelled brain-dead “Joe Biden” into the Oval Office, the perfect stooge to front for Hillary and Obama in their campaign to disorder the US body politic. What is it in American women these days that makes them susceptible to such a demonic permission structure that the Lefty-left uses to make them pawns in this game? ” – James Howard Kunstler

Dystopian Science Fiction vs. the Anti-ICE Karens – “ICE is the perfect boogeyman to coax the anti-ICE Karens, facilitated by both literal and de facto state media, into full-on psychosis, which is what we are seeing unfold.” – Ben Bartee

ICE Murders Innocent Woman in Cold Blood* – “*That’s the internet’s story anyway, details be damned. Could the agent who pulled the trigger (a U.S. army veteran who had previously been dragged and injured by a vehicle in an incident involving a fleeing suspect) have feared for his life? Sure. Could he have shown more restraint or exercised better tactical judgment? Absolutely. Can any of us say unequivocally how we’d respond in that situation? Probably not. Would Good still be alive had she not tried to interfere with federally sanctioned activity that day? Sadly, yes.” – .Jenna McCarthy

Viral Misinformation About Renee Good’s Arrest Record Spread After Her Death in Minneapolis; No Court Records Found – Limitless News  – THIS IS THE KIND OF “BS” THAT DOESN’T NEED TO BE SPREAD WHEN PEOPLE JUST WANT HONEST ANSWERS. ALL THIS DOES IS CREATE MORE DIVISIVENESS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Trump’s Icebox – “When it comes to the national security front, Donald Trump is flat out loosing it. After all, WTF was he thinking with respect to—- ……A $1.5 trillion defense budget? ……Kidnapping the president of a sovereign nation? ……Putting Mexico and Columbia on deck for the next drug fumigation? ……Essentially promising to militarily enable regime change in Iran? …..Enforcing freedom of religion in Nigeria with more than a dozen Tomahawk cruise missiles? …..Taking Greenland….. the hard way? All of this is the work of an unlearned, unread, blow-hard, know-it-all narcissist, who rattles around the White House in the dead of night dreaming up barking idiocy that none of the craven weaklings (e.g. JD Vance), boot-licking sycophants (e.g. Marco Rubio) and mentally-warped, xenophobic fanatics (e.g. Stephen Miller) surrounding the Oval Office are about to resist.” – David Stockman

The Imperial Crosshairs Move To Cuba, And Other Notes – “It’s incredible how rapidly the empire has been shoving through longstanding regional domination agendas in the middle east and Latin America since late 2023. Trumpers were sold the story that their guy would fight the deep state globalists to benefit ordinary Americans. Now he’s advancing every CIA/neocon agenda known to man in the middle east and Latin America with the goal of global domination as life in the US gets worse and worse.” – Caitlin Johnstone

Government and Fraud Go Together Like Peas and Carrots – “Somali refugees – refuging to the US because we’ve been bombing Somalia for decades, where we “kind of” took the “side” of the national government in its civil war against our ISIS and Al Qaeda friends – are now in big trouble for defrauding taxpayers. As I wrote last week, beating up on these once welcomed immigrants of an “ally” for fraud occurs just in time for our new Zionist tilt towards the Republic of Somaliland, which itself is in the dangerous process of becoming a US-Israeli “ally” as we dump Mogadishu. Like all interventions conducted by the US and Israel, the end goal is chaos, division, and collapsed economies. How else can Washington or West Jerusalem gain leverage, expand borders, control resources, kill with impunity, all while putting on an act of caring oh-so-deeply for people who just can’t seem to govern themselves?” – Karen Kwiatkowski

What’s Up With “Somaliland”? (VIDEO) – “Why is Israel the first country to recognize the new nation of Somaliland? Is there a quid pro quo going on behind the scenes? According to Somali intelligence, what 3 conditions did Israel place upon Somaliland in exchange for recognition?” – Makia Freeman

Mamdani’s appointees are as mad as you’d expect – “From anti-white identitarians to pro-Pal kids’ entertainers, the mayor’s aides are the worst of ‘millenial socialism”. – Jenny Holland

Noem: DHS Sending ‘Hundreds More’ Federal Agents to Minneapolis – “The deployments will occur on Sunday and Monday, the secretary said. Noem and DHS have said that attacks on ICE agents have increased by 1,300 percent, with vehicular attacks increasing by 3,200 percent, on a year-over-year basis.” – Jack Phillips

Why Zionists Don’t Get to Do Unto Their Indigenous What We Americans Did Unto Ours – “Sometimes, history is unfair. Praise be.” – Ohio Barbarian

America did not steal land from Mexico – “Facts that annoy the woke left” – Kenn Gividen

Scammer-In-Chief: Trump’s Crypto Firm World Liberty Financial Applies For Bank Charter To Issue USD1 Stablecoins, His Family To Profit Handsomely – “Crime does pay. Trump signed the GENIUS Act in July to provide federal regulations to establish stablecoins as digital dollars, backed by the dollar and U.S. treasuries. A stablecoin is no different than a central bank digital currency (CBDC), but is privatized and held by third-party groups, from crypto custodians to traditional banks, from corporations and asset managers and more, and the Genius Act provides those guardrails.” – The WinePress

The U.S. and Israel Want Zionist Reza Pahlavi, the Son of the Last Shah of Iran, to Take Over Iran – Is War Imminent? – “Last year’s “12-day war” between Iran and the U.S. and Israel failed to accomplish the Zionist goal of a regime change to Reza Pahlavi, the Crown Prince of Iran in exile and son of the late Shah, who is also a Zionist and close friend to Benjamin Netanyahu. Both sides (Iran and U.S./Israel) claimed victory in this war, but the truth is that Israel ran out of bombs and their society was quickly falling apart from the constant bombing in Tel Aviv with Iranian missiles they could not stop. ” – Brian Shilhavy

ECONOMIC NEWS

2025’s Final Jobs Report Shows Little Change – “No Change Means No Jobs, And America Needs Jobs.” – Peter Nayland Kust

Inflation hasn’t gone away. CPI likely to show sticky prices and delay next Fed interest-rate cut. – “Inflation rising closer to 3% than to Fed’s 2% goal” – Jeffry Bartash

Powell’s Confidence On Trial, Gold Rips Higher – “Here we go. The reported DOJ criminal investigation and grand jury subpoenas involving Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell appear to mark a serious and unprecedented test of the principle of Federal Reserve independence.” – Quoth the Raven

Is Trump’s Vendetta Against the Fed About to Kick the $USD Off a Cliff? – “The Trump administration has launched a criminal investigation into Fed Chair Jerome Powell. The specifics of the investigation pertain to whether Powell lied under oath to congress concerning the Fed’s renovations of its Washington DC headquarters. However, it’s been clear that the President has had a personal vendetta towards Powell ever since the former took office at the start of the year. Why? President Trump fully believes (and there is ample evidence he is correct) that the Fed is in fact a political entity.” – Graham Summers, MBA

Gold & Silver BLAST Higher Amid Financial Advisors’ Ongoing Malpractice – “Silver and gold are both blasting higher today, conquering their prior highs achieved in December. The upward momentum across the entire precious metals complex is startling especially to mainstream financial advisors who have so negligently refused to give their clients exposure to this key asset class, thanks to bias and groupthink. That’s financial malpractice, if you ask us.” – Money Metals News Service

The Commodity Shortage Nobody Is Priced For – “Why structural supply constraints are forming across silver, copper, and the materials that underpin the global economy” – Rob Smallbone

Unusual COMEX Trend Could Signal Accelerating Silver Squeeze – “The stage was set for a silver squeeze last April when significant amounts of metal moved from London to New York, driven by tariff worries. The displacement of metal, coupled with surging Indian demand, set off the first squeeze in October. That drove the silver price over $50 for the first time. Metal flowed back to London, but that didn’t solve the underlying problem. While shuffling silver between London, New York, and India took the immediate pressure off the market, it didn’t magically create new silver, and it didn’t take long for silver squeeze 2.0 to develop last month. That pushed the price over $80.” – Mike Maharrey

Markets Don’t Negotiate. They Force Change. – “Why broken market relationships, sound money, and Bitcoin’s emergence as collateral are signaling a shift to a multipolar world” – Kane McGukin

Cutting Interest Rates Isn’t a Cure‑All for the Economy – “Artificially cheap credit prompts firms to invest heavily in capital goods such as factories and machinery. Wages in those sectors rise, and workers feel wealthier. But consumers’ time preferences have not changed; people still want to save only a certain portion of their income. As workers spend their new wages, demand shifts back toward consumer goods. Businesses then discover that there is insufficient real savings to complete all the new projects. The result is a sharp depression in the industries producing capital goods.” – Alan Mosley

SURVIVAL, PREPAREDNESS AND SELF-SUFFICIENCY

Why Today’s Food Refuses to Rot… And Why That Should Worry You – “Why Store-Bought Groceries Don’t Behave Like Food Anymore At first, it feels like a neat party trick. You find a loaf of bread shoved behind the cereal boxes, laugh, and expect a horror show when you peel the plastic back. Instead, the slices slide out like they were baked yesterday—soft, pale, obedient. But then something quieter creeps in, like a cold draft under the door: food isn’t supposed to act like this.” – Bill Heid

What To Plant In January: Vegetable Garden Growing Guide – “While most of the gardens in the United States are still resting, perhaps even insulated under a thick blanket of snow, there are a few southern areas beginning to warm up and will be ready to grow vegetables soon!” – Homesteaders of America

What Happens When China Stops Supplying the United States? – “For decades, the economic relationship between China and the United States has been one of deep interdependence. China has served as the world’s manufacturing hub, while the U.S. has been one of its largest consumers. China is not simply another trading partner. It is the central node of global manufacturing, controlling production or processing in industries that underpin modern life. The assumption that the United States could simply “buy elsewhere” overlooks a basic reality of modern manufacturing: When this happens, there will be a transition period until our country gets back on track. In such a scenario, the most important thing you can do is learn to be self-reliant, no matter your age. You can learn new skills, return to traditional methods or learn the Amish lifestyle, or take advantage of today’s technology to make life easier.” – Kate L. Gilmour

A New Kind Of Holster❗️ Simple, Minimal, Practical and Tactical (VIDEO) – “Find out how to make your own” – Jason Salyer

Late Winter Garden Prep: Critical Garden Work to Do Before Spring Arrives – “Late winter has a weird reputation because it feels like dead time. The ground looks lifeless, the weather still bites, and nothing obvious is growing. Most people glance out the window, shrug, and mentally schedule gardening for “sometime in spring.” That pause is exactly where experienced gardeners quietly pull ahead. This is the stretch where late winter garden prep makes the biggest difference, even though it doesn’t look dramatic.” – Rhonda Owen

VERSE FOR THE DAY

Matthew 13:16    But blessed are your eyes, for they see: and your ears, for they hear.

IMAGE FOR THE DAY (BASED ON A SIMILAR MEME)

THE BIG PICTURE

God’s Greatest Challenge: Love One Another – “Yet Jesus does not merely teach us that we must love God with every part of our being. He adds another commandment that is like it, co-equal in importance: we must love our neighbors as we love ourselves. I have commented before that we cannot love each other or ourselves unless we first love God. We cannot build each other up, encourage each other, guide each other, unless we are committed to that which is right.” – Peter Nayland Kust

Silence On Sin: How Satan Has Entered the Church – “Most people don’t think about the subject of Satanism unless there is a grisly murder and satanic symbols are found at the crime scene. Many who believe in the devil usually think of him as being the darkest of figures. What they don’t realize is that the Bible tells us that he can also manifest himself as an “angel of light.” Satan is incredibly subtle. We are warned that he uses professing men of God (ministers of righteousness) to deceive the Church. The Bible calls him “the god of this world” and says that he blinds the minds of unbelievers. Jesus called him “the prince of this world” and “the father of lies.”” – Ray Comfort

The Nausea of Tribalism – “What do I mean with ‘tribal nausea’? America, once the bastion for open debate, has morphed into a home for tribal nausea where citizens cleave onto unexplored assumptions in support of unquestioned authority. For a questioner, this is a maddening turn of events. My last article where I took Trump to task as a madman, is a case in point. Good ol boys don’t see Trump, nor the political landscape he brings as being worthy of their disdain. Just below conviviality, they are on-board with American exceptionalism—sustaining a rather narrow range of focus that precludes getting at actual factual reality.” – Erik @ neverhadaboss.com

Are we just letting this happen again? – “Fascism’s point of no return. How do ordinary people rationalize the unthinkable? As authoritarianism knocks on the door of American democracy, the history of the Third Reich offers a haunting reflection not of monsters, but of ourselves.” – Sarah Connor  – GOOD INSIGHTS FROM SARAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!

EU Commissar: Free Speech Is a Virus, Censorship the Vaccine – “Ursula von der Leyen, non-popularly-elected president of the European Commission* and ultra-girlboss extraordinaire, recently came out swinging against free speech in a white-knuckle speech in which she likened “malign information” to a “virus” that society must be inoculated against (by the state, obviously) via the “vaccine” of “prebunking,” a euphemism for censorship.” – Ben Bartee

JFK SAID NO ONE SHOULD BE RICH ENOUGH TO BUY THE GOVERNMENT AND THEN HIS HEAD EXPLODED – “The Maximum Wage Proposal That Would Have Saved America From The Billionaire Class. John F. Kennedy understood something about money and power that most Americans have never been taught and will never learn from the billionaire-owned media that controls what you see and hear. He understood that once a man accumulates enough wealth, he stops being a citizen and starts becoming a threat to the republic itself. A man with a hundred million dollars can live like a king. A man with a billion dollars can buy kings. A man with a hundred billion dollars can become one, and there is nothing in our current system to stop him.” – 🐺The Wise Wolf

Google’s AI Image Generator Nano Banana And Gemini Have Made Spotting Fake Images Next To Impossible – “Some have called Nano Banana the “Adobe Photoshop killer.”” – The WinePress

FAKE AND GAY: How Pedophiles Infiltrated Government – a scandalous true story [Part 1] – “Let me tell you a story. Back in the early 1900s, there was this guy named René Guyon. René was a lawyer in France who moved to Siam. . Yes, the guy advising the judicial system of Thailand and even writing legal codes was super into children. In fact, he coined a phrase, “Sex by age eight, or else it’s too late.” Whether Rockefeller got his hands on Rene’s books or not is unknown, but in 1942, in America, Alfred Kinsey was receiving funds from the Rockefeller Foundation. If you don’t recall, Kinsey was a sexual deviant and, to put it frankly, a horrible person. He oversaw a “project” which involved molesting children as young as infants.” – Agent131711  – AGENT131711 LATEST DEEP DIVE INTO PEDOPHILIA!!!

NEWS  

Let’s talk about Renee Good – The facts and the foundations. I’ve been waiting to wade into this one in hopes that some sense would prevail to let the facts finish emerging such that it seemed like one could reach a reasonable conclusion as to what happened and why,  well, At least we mostly got number two. Alas, with regard to number one, it seems that a fair bit of sense has left the building. There’s been a lot of incendiary rhetoric and mis and malinformation running around on this, fake videos, fake stories, and wild vitriol. In such situations, I like to try to boil things down to “What facts can we trust?” and work from there.” – El Gato Malo  – GOOD ANALYSIS FROM EL GATO!!!!!!

The Machinery of Terror The Trump administration is consolidating the familiar machinery of terror of all authoritarian states. We must resist now. If we wait, it will be too late. I have seen the masked goons who terrorize our streets before. I know these goons. I have been a prisoner in their jails and spent hours in their interrogation rooms. I have been beaten by them. I have been deported, and in several cases banned, from their countries. I know what is coming.” – Chris Hedges

Impaired Situational Awareness – “Thoughts on What Happened in Minneapolis” – Bill Astore

What both sides get wrong about the Minneapolis ICE shooting – “This tragic incident has exposed the inhumanity of America’s culture warriors” – Luke Gittos.

In The Soup – The fracture lines have been exposed both internally and externally. Internally, there is the struggle between federal agents and numerous American states, including California, Illinois, Minnesota, New York, etc. Except, that it is not the will of the people to go into conflict with federal agents; it’s the will of the corrupt leaders, many elected through fraud, to go into conflict with federal agents. The truth is a lot of the protesters and agitators are paid by big NGOs and woke billionaires” – T.L. Davis

Mexico, Next? – “Once a Neocon gets rolling, it is hard to stop the rolling. The mission is never accomplished. First Iraq. Then Afghanistan. That latter one took about 20 years – of Americans’ treasure and blood, not counting the cost to the Afghanis. Well, here we again. Again. Trump announced last night that Mexico is next. “We are gonna start now hitting land,” Tiberius Orangicus Maximus told Sean Hannity. “The cartels are running Mexico. It’s very, very sad to watch and see what’s happened to that country, but the cartels are running and they’re killing 300,000 people in our country every single year.” So many fascinating aspects to this. Trump’s claim that 300,000 people are killed by the “cartels” being perhaps the most fascinating given the body count that can be credited to the cartels that operate not just legally but with Trump’s back-slapping approval in this country. How many Americans have been killed – or had their health ruined – by the drugs pushed by Pfizer, Moderna and Johnson & Johnson?” – Eric Peters

The US Empire is Going SUPERNOVA – “President Trump has set off a truly extraordinary string of global-order-destabilizing campaigns that have left the world reeling. From his attacks on Venezuela and promises of “action” against Mexico, Cuba, Nicaragua, and Iran, to his threats against allies in “securing” Greenland, it feels like one of those weeks Lenin had promised long ago: There are decades where nothing happens, and weeks when decades happen.” – Simplicius

Donald Trump ‘orders army chiefs to draw up plan to invade Greenland’: US President emboldened by success of Maduro capture operation – Glen Owen and Dan Hodges

Trump Speaks Out: Could Cuba Be Next to Fall? – “Communist Cuba has, however, for some time depended on Venezuela for energy and currency; the now-jailed, former tinpot dictator Nicolás Maduro’s security detail was mostly Cuban, for all the good that did him. But the times, they are a-changing, and not in Cuba’s favor. On Sunday, President Trump fired one of his characteristic broadsides at Cuba.” – Ward Clark

Trump is weighing options against Iran: Reports – “President Donald Trump is reportedly weighing options for intervention in Iran, according to Sunday reports. The president has been shown potential plans, ranging from possible military strikes to action that doesn’t include the military, according to reports. Tehran threatened on Sunday to retaliate against Israel and U.S. military bases in the event of U.S. strikes on Iran.” – Jennifer Elias

White House Amplifies Shocking Claims Of US Super Soldiers Deployed In Maduro Raid – “This account from a Venezuelan security guard loyal to Nicolás Maduro is absolutely chilling—and it explains a lot about why the tone across Latin America suddenly changed. Security Guard: On the day of the operation, we didn’t hear anything coming. We were on guard, but suddenly all our radar systems shut down without any explanation. The next thing we saw were drones, a lot of drones, flying over our positions. We didn’t know how to react. After those drones appeared, some helicopters arrived, but there were very few. I think barely eight helicopters. From those helicopters, soldiers came down, but a very small number. Maybe twenty men. But those men were technologically very advanced. They didn’t look like anything we’ve fought against before. We were hundreds, but we had no chance. They were shooting with such precision and speed… it seemed like each soldier was firing 300 rounds per minute. We couldn’t do anything.” – Tyler Durden  – IF THIS IS HOW IT HAPPENED, THEN OUR MILITARY HAS WEAPONS AND CAPABILITIES THAT WE DON’T EVEN KNOW ABOUT!!!

The Gathering Storm: Snatch-and-Grab Regime Change is the New New Normal – “So, what the hell does all this really mean? Good question. Let’s answer it, shall we? The raid on Maduro, like the raid on “Osama,” is awash in mystery and dripping with unanswered questions. Of course, this being 2026, the usual fog of war surrounding an event like this is even foggier because of the ever-looming question of AI-enabled deepfakery. Not even those venerable fact checkers at Snopes can say whether or not those weird, janky photographs of Maduro smiling and posing and thumbs-upping with his abductors are real or not.” – James Corbett

How Maduro, Cuba and their allies stole Venezuela’s oil wealth. – “The economic and political debate often ignores that the Maduro dictatorship weaponised the national oil company to use it as a cash machine to enrich the leaders of the socialist regime and finance the demolition of democratic institutions all over Latin America, creating an international group of allies with the main objective of demolishing US, European, and Latin American democracies from the inside. Some commentators remove from the economic debate the deliberate collapse of PDVSA, Venezuela’s institutional destruction, and the use of oil as an international political weapon as well as a tool for the personal enrichment of Maduro and his allies. Maduro’s personal wealth is estimated at $3.8 billion. $700 million in assets has already been seized.” – Daniel Lacalle – SO NOW WE STEAL IT, WILL IT GO BACK TO THE PEOPLE. DOUBTFUL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The Venezuela Technocracy Connection – “The US bombing of Venezuela and capture of Nicolás Maduro cannot be rationally explained as a drug enforcement operation, or even solely about recovering oil. The bigger picture is Technocracy.” – Derrick Broze

Cea Weaver vs. The Entire Field Of Economics – “Printing money is the solution? Why didn’t we think of that? In 2021, Cea Weaver, now the woman chosen by Zohran Mamdani to run New York City’s Office to Protect Tenants, unveiled a housing policy vision so detached from economic reality that the only academic seminar it could have emerged from would have been a slurry rant by a drunk at a bar at Newark International Airport at 3AM.” – Quoth the Raven

Amazon Is Ditching The United States Postal Service – “After nearly three decades of working together, Amazon is ending its delivery relationship with the United States Postal Service, a move that significantly alters how packages are moved across the country, according to MSN. The partnership once played a major role in Amazon’s rapid expansion while generating billions in yearly revenue for USPS. The decision comes as the Postal Service continues to struggle financially, including a reported $9.5 billion loss in its most recent fiscal year.” – Tyler Durden

Somaliland: Longtime Zionist Colonisation Target – ” Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar visited Hargeisa on January 6th, signing a memorandum of understanding on cooperation in multiple areas, including ‘defence’. President Abdirahman Mohamed Abdullahi hailed the visit as a “historic milestone” in Somaliland’s quest for international legitimacy. These developments are of significant concern to Somaliland’s neighbours throughout the Horn of Africa, with which the statelet has extremely strained relations, that have boiled over into all-out conflict on numerous occasions over decades. Fears are understandably widespread an Israeli – if not accompanying US – military presence locally will embolden breakaway authorities to intensify their belligerence, and seize contested territory claimed by both Hargeisa and Somalia. But grave anxieties are also felt throughout West Asia.” – Kit Klarenberg

Eastern Mediterranean Geopolitics Are Becoming More Complex – “Tensions are growing between Turkiye-Pakistan and Israel-Cyprus-Greece. Stability in the Eastern Mediterranean can no longer be taken for granted as a result of three recent developments: 1) the growing Turkish-Israeli rivalry in post-Assad Syria; 2) Israel’s reported plans to establish a rapid response force with Cyprus and Greece; and 3) Turkish ally Pakistan’s new military ties with Eastern Libya’s General Khalifa Haftar. The aforesaid are unfolding amidst Israel’s plans for an underwater EastMed gas pipeline to Greece and Turkiye’s maritime claims that cut right across its route.” – Andrew Korybko

ECONOMIC NEWS

Trump to Set Credit Card Interest Rates, Adopts More Elizabeth Warren Ideology – “On credit card and food price gouging, Trump is carrying out Elizabeth Warren and AOC policy mandates.” -Mish

Physical Silver Will Vanish When This Happens – Bill Holter Warns (VIDEO) – “He explains why silver stacking is crucial, especially with the looming silver shortage. We dive deep into market analysis for both silver and gold price trends, offering insights for all precious metals enthusiasts. ” – Stacking Surfer 🏄 – ANOTHER GOOD ONE WITH BILL. I KNOW I SAY THAT A LOT, BUT IT DEFINITELY IS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Silver Stackers Aim to ‘Screw the Bankers’ – “This narrative that banks are manipulating silver markets to depress the price is a powerful one. One popular version of the theory says that big banks are working with governments to keep a lid on silver prices. The motive is there. Governments have a real incentive to keep precious metals prices low. When gold and silver are flying higher, it makes fiat currencies look bad. And manipulating futures markets, at key moments, could definitely drive down prices (until a short squeeze happens).”- Adam Sharp

Brace For The Mother Of All Short Squeezes: China Is Buying Real Metal While Western Banks Are Trapped In 4.4 Billion Ounces Of Paper Lies – “China’s $48 trillion money flood is stampeding into hard assets while Western banks sit on impossible silver shorts — stack metal now or get wiped out with your fiat. – The Silver Academy

The Silver Melt-Up in Charts – “The gold/silver ratio appears to be in free fall. There is a fractal setup on the chart similar to the 2010/2011 silver rally:” – Hubert Moolman

When Clarity Matters Most (VIDEO) – The Morgan Report  – DAVID ON THE SILVER MARKET!!!

Expect At Least Two Market Corrections In 2026 (VIDEO) with Lance Roberts – “Given current market valuations and the prolonged bull run stocks have had over the past three years, investors should expect at least two corrections of at least 5-10% in 2026 warns portfolio manager Lance Roberts. But it could easily play out much worse than that, he adds.” – Adam Taggart | Thoughtful Money®

SURVIVAL, PREPAREDNESS AND SELF-SUFFICIENCY

How to Prepare for Disaster on a Budget – “I try to consider being prepared as a mindset and part of living a simpler way of life.” – Amanda Whittington

30 Bug-In Mistakes to Never, Ever Make – “In much of the prepping world, bugging out in response to a crisis is given a disproportionate amount of time and effort. In reality, bugging in, or staying put at home or another secure location, is a better bet 90% of the time. Aside from having a home-field advantage and, hopefully, a closet or storeroom stocked full of supplies and gear, bugging in can eliminate tons of variables from your survival calculus. It’s also a heck of a lot easier than bugging out most of the time. All in all, it’s a good plan, but it’s still possible to screw up.” – By Tom Marlowe

Battery Storage In The Wild (VIDEO) – Modern Refugee.  – GOOD BATTERY TIPS IN GENERAL!!!

Aprons: The Essential Homesteading Garment – “When one thinks of tools and work clothes for the homestead, aprons don’t usually come to mind, but they should. A good apron, like a good knife, is an essential homesteading tool. And like a knife, care should be taken to choose the right apron for the right job.” – Ruby Burks

How to Sew a Button (and Why You Should Learn It) -Self-Sufficient Projects Staff

VERSE FOR THE DAY

Amos 9:13    Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that the plowman shall overtake the reaper, and the treader of grapes him that soweth seed; and the mountains shall drop sweet wine, and all the hills shall melt.

IMAGE FOR THE DAY

LYRIC FOR THE WEEK

Crimson flames tied through my ears
Rollin’ high and mighty traps
Pounced with fire on flaming roads
Using ideas as my maps
“We’ll meet on edges, soon,” said I
Proud ‘neath heated brow
Ah, but I was so much older then
I’m younger than that now.

Half-wracked prejudice leaped forth
“Rip down all hate,” I screamed
Lies that life is black and white
Spoke from my skull, I dreamed
Romantic facts of musketeers
Foundationed deep, somehow
Ah, but I was so much older then
I’m younger than that now.

Girls’ faces formed the forward path
From phony jealousy
To memorizing politics
Of ancient history
Flung down by corpse evangelists
Unthought of, though, somehow
Ah, but I was so much older then
I’m younger than that now.

A self-ordained professor’s tongue
Too serious to fool
Spouted out that liberty
Is just equality in school
“Equality,” I spoke their word
As if a wedding vow
Ah, but I was so much older then
I’m younger than that now.

In a soldier’s stance, I aimed my hand
At the mongrel dogs who teach
Fearing not I’d become my enemy
In the instant that I preach
My existence led by confusion boats
Mutiny from stern to bow
Ah, but I was so much older then
I’m younger than that now.

Yes, my guard stood hard when abstract threats
Too noble to neglect
Deceived me into thinking
I had something to protect
Good and bad, I define these terms
Quite clear, no doubt, somehow
Ah, but I was so much older then
I’m younger than that now.

(My Back Pages by Bob Dylan)

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