THE BIG PICTURE

The “Real World Asset” Digital Plan Takeover Will Concentrate Power Over Everything on Earth in the Hands of the Few – “This threat, which is very real, is the linchpin in the globalist plot to digitize every single asset on earth, leading to the collapse and/or purposeful destruction of this economic and monetary system that is now so riddled with astronomical debt, that nothing can save it. This ruling system’s nefarious efforts to claim ownership of everything on earth is the direct result of all that has been plotted and designed by this government and its masters to date. This totalitarian and technocratic plot of total control is already well underway, but many, including most of the so-called alternative media, are quick to attempt to dispel any notion that would lend credibility to the fact that this attempt to monetize every asset and property on earth is going forward at what seems to be breakneck speed.” – Gary D. Barnett

Feds Probe Possible Military Link Between Suspects In Bourbon Street Massacre & Trump Hotel Cybertruck Blast – “Welcome to the second day of 2025.” – Tyler Durden

PSYOP-TERRORISM ACTIVATED: Multiple False Flag Events Ahead Of Trump Inauguration – 2nd Smartest Guy in the World – YEP, NEW PSYOPS AND FALSE FLAGS. NOTICE HOW THE DRONES HAVE SUDDENLY TAPERED OFF AND ALMOST DISAPPEARED. AMAZING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Seriously, What’s Going on With These Terrorist Attacks? – “Conspiracy theorists are asking questions about the terrorist attacks on New Year’s Day. There are connections between the two alleged terrorists with both stationed at the same military base. They used the same app to rent the vehicles used in their attacks. But there are distinct differences as well, especially as it pertains to early indications of motives. Matt Livelsberger, suspect in Las Vegas, appears to have been aligned with Ukraine while Shamsud Din Jabbar. suspect in New Orleans, was aligned with ISIS and said online he was wanting to send a message to “non-believers” of Allah.” – JD Rucker

20 Days Before Trump’s Inauguration, Chaos Erupts: Morale Plummets, Fog Rolls In. – Celia Farber

Bill Gates Funds Genetically Engineered Tomatoes with Insecticides Inside Them That Attack Reproduction—And Yes, You’d Eat Them – “What are “transgenetic” plants? Embedding pest control directly into crops represents a seismic shift in agriculture. While proponents argue this reduces chemical pesticide use, the risks of disrupting reproduction in target species, harming non-target organisms, and exposing humans to novel proteins remain significant and largely unaddressed.” – Jon Fleetwood

Doctors now treat test results rather than patients. – “The result of the “covid” years – and / or a launch of Season 2.” – Jonathan Engler

NEWS

An Early Warning – “The new year has started with a bang, literally and figuratively, as terrorism was the big story on the first day of the year. Assimilation means to become like that which you joined. As John Derbyshire observed almost a decade ago, there is an opposite, absimilation, which means to become less similar to that which you have joined. In the case of second and third generation immigrants, this is a common enough thing that it has become the focus of the overall immigration debate. While most absimilated migrants do not go on murderous rampages, many refuse to assimilate on principle. This is one of the problems with immigration that the Romans understood, but our current oligarchs do not understand.” – The Z Man

In the Year 2025, if Man is Still Alive, What Things May This Way Come? – “According to Gallop, fears of the future are running high, yet many MAGA Americans see this as year of hope at last.” – David Haggith

Trump Admin: Fight Between Freedom & Deep State Control (VIDEO) with Catherine Austin Fitts – “After you get the people in place, it’s going to have to be battled out one policy at a time. . . . So, this is trench warfare, and it’s not going to be decided by the election. It’s going to be decided by the staffing and the policy debate that happens day after day.” – Greg Hunter

The Sabotage of Trump and America Continues They are still at it – Bert Powers / (John Barleycorn)

House Report Discloses New Information on Unsolved J6 Pipe Bomber – “House Republicans reveal stonewalling, major security lapses, and misrepresentations by top law enforcement officials related to the still at-large J6 pipe bomber.” – Julie Kelly

Biden is giving the 2nd highest civilian award to the leaders of the Jan. 6 congressional committee – “President Joe Biden is bestowing the second highest civilian medal on Liz Cheney and Bennie Thompson, leaders of the congressional investigation into the Capitol riot who Donald Trump has said should be jailed for their roles in the inquiry.” – Colleen Long  – AND NEXT WIL BE THE PARDON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Sanctuary Cities Face a Tough 2025 – “Fines and even prison sentences could be enforced.” – Kelli Ballard

List of transgender medical procedures covered by United Healthcare – “In case you thought transgenderism was just a social movement, read the list again.” – Jon Rappoport

LGBTQ™ Propaganda Roundup: The Prison R*pe Chronicles, Pt. II – “Rosa Parks of trannies for prison gender Equity™ No more back of the bus for him! “The first transgender woman to be removed from women’s housing in a Washington state prison filed a lawsuit on Tuesday, alleging that the state Department of Corrections’ decision to forcibly place her in a men’s prison violated the state constitution’s prohibition on cruel punishment. Amber Kim, who was transferred back to a men’s prison in June, has chosen to live in solitary confinement, which the United Nations recognizes as a form of torture, rather than live in general population at Monroe Correctional Facility… Kim was previously the subject of a HuffPost story about her 15-year fight for gender-affirming health care and housing in prison. In March, Amber was caught having consensual sex with her cisgender roommate in their cell.” Kim was found guilty in 2008 of two counts of aggravated first-degree murder in the stabbing of his father, Richard Kim, and the bludgeoning and strangulation of his mother, Terri Kim, the Spokesman-Review reported. Kim killed his parents at their Mount Spokane home on December 5, 2006, as they returned from work. Now, let’s do a thought experiment: we strip Byran Kim of his LGBTQ+++™ identity, and we what have left is a double-murderer male rapist. Do you think, if he weren’t a tranny, HuffPost would ever write up any kind of screed like this demanding “human rights” or whatever on his behalf?” – Ben Bartee  – PART 1 OF THE LGBTQ PROPAGANDA ROUNDUP WAS LINKED ON 06/02/24!!!!

2025 – Ukraine On The Verge Of Defeat – “In 2023 the situation in Ukraine had developed into what looked like a stalemate. But 2024 proved that bigger things had been in the making. In 2024, after taking Avdivka, the Russian forces began to deliberate and steadily move forward. The downward spiral the Ukrainian army is currently in is likely to continue. During the last six month the main frontline in south-east Ukraine has changed significantly.” – Moon of Alabama

The Political Consequences Of Ukraine’s Decision To Cut Off Russian Gas To Europe – “Russia and the EU will manage the latest phase of their US-instigated divorce without much difficulty, but the US might offer to bring them back together by authorizing its vassals’ import of Russian pipeline gas in exchange for some concessions from the Kremlin in the energy sector and Ukraine.” – Andrew Korybko

ECONOMIC NEWS

2025 STOCK MARKET CRASH? FAMED INVESTOR JIM ROGERS ISSUES A WARNING. Important Updates. (VIDEO) – Gregory Mannarino

Game of Thrones and Our Out-of-Control Government Spending – “Game of Thrones might be a fictional story, but it holds a very real lesson: The United States government is currently $32 trillion in debt, and over the next decade the government (i.e. taxpayers) are expected to pay $10.5 trillion just to cover the interest on the debt, which will soon reach $50 trillion. That figure would even make King Robert fall off his horse. Game of Thrones might be a fictional story, but it holds a very real lesson: Winter will come eventually. It always does.” – Jon Miltimore

Retail Closures in US Hit Pandemic Levels – Martin Armstrong

Expect the Unexpected in 2025 – “Persistent levels of elevated consumer price inflation suggest interest rates should remain higher. This is in agreement with recent movements in 10-Year Treasury yields. It is also driving the Fed to recalibrate its rate cutting plans. But what if FOMC members and Treasury investors are missing something? What if they’re missing the cause and effect of the economic headwinds blowing through Europe? What if burgeoning recessions in Germany and France will serve to pull Treasury rates down in 2025?” – MN Gordon

UK, Germany, Italy, France, Japan — Likeliest for Economic Crash This Year – “The key economic variable distinguishing between nations is the average electricity prices for industrial users (manufacturers, regardless of size), because industrial users — the most crucial determinants of a nation’s future economic success — are huge users of energy, especially of electricity (regardless whether from oil, gas, coal, nuclear, solar, or otherwise). Low cost of electricity tends strongly toward a good economic future; high cost of electricity tends strongly toward a bad economic future.” – Eric Zuesse

Global Stocks over the Long Term: the S&P 500, the Big Standout vs the Markets of Japan, China, Hong Kong, India, UK, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, and Canada – Wolf Richter

Beyond China: Which Countries Hold the Key to Future Rare Earth Supplies? – Haley Zaremba

SURVIVAL, PREPAREDNESS AND SELF-SUFFICIENCY

How to Stay Off Your Neighbor’s Radar – “When it comes to preparing for the eventual breakdown of society, we all know how important it is to ensure we are staying off the radar of our neighbors. The last thing we want is for them to know what we have and where we keep it. In a world where resources will undoubtedly be scarce, desperation will run high, turning once peaceful neighbors into enemies.’ – Matt

Falling Correctly Isn’t Just Luck. It’s a Skill. – Rowan O’Malley

Post-TEOTWAWKI Refrigeration – “My Amish neighbor, who recently moved into the neighborhood, was telling me that he was going to build an ice house from a kit. I told him to let me know when he was going to assemble it and I would give him a hand. This ice house project did not take long to complete. The cost is steep but if you have your basic preps covered and are looking to expand your preparedness infrastructure an ice house may be a good project for you.” – 3AD Scout

My EDC. (VIDEO) – Modern Refugee.  – SOME GREAT SUGGESTIONS!!!

10 Easy Ways to Save $100 This Month – “With a few strategic changes and smarter spending habits, you can save $100 (or more!) this month without feeling deprived. Whether you’re looking to pad your emergency fund, pay off debt, or reach a specific financial goal, these tips can help.” – Bernie Carr

VERSE FOR THE DAY

Proverbs 3:25    Be not afraid of sudden fear, neither of the desolation of the wicked, when it cometh.

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THE BIG PICTURE

The Orange Worry – “Joe Biden assumed the office – legally if not necessarily legitimately. Almost immediately, the message is projected that anyone who wants to come across the border can and should come across the border. From wherever. It doesn’t matter. No problemo! Just come. Millions apparently have. This predictably created a politically potent issue for the now-former president to rally his supporters around. Trump’s successful re-election effort was largely propelled by angst and anger about not just the deliberate importation of those millions but also the preferential status enjoyed by those millions. Well, he won. With a clear mandate this time (electoral and popular vote) to do something about the “out of control” border and the millions of random people from God-knows-where and God-only-knows where they are now. What will he do about it? How will he do it? There is only one realistic way they can be identified and located. It is by identifying and locating us. How else to separate out American citizens who are in this country legally and foreigners who are here illegally?” – Eric Peters – WAS THIS THE PLAN TO GET A NATIONAL ID ALL ALONG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

EXPOSED! Deep Space, Satellite Phones, 5G Internet & Other Crazy Conspiracies: THE ILLUSION OF EVERYTHING – “As shocking as it may sound, and it will indeed sound shocking the first several times you hear it, there is literally zero evidence of a satellite in outer space. There’s no evidence of anything in outer space; it is all CGI, green screens and art. They say the best place to hide a secret is right out in the open – isn’t it amazing that although they repeatedly tell us all of these images are just art, we still choose to believe otherwise:” – Agent131711 – ANOTHER DIVE BY AGENT 131711 AND IT’S A GOOD ONE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

PREP Act Empowers Gov’t to ‘Administer’ Drugs, Biological Products, Devices to Citizens in Secret – “HHS Secretary “is not required to disclose any matter” that is “to be kept secret in the interests of national defense or foreign policy.”” – Jon Fleetwood

It Impugns The Conscience – “More than 1,000 Gazan children had one or both legs amputated.” -The Underdog – I THINK IT’S PRETTY SAFE TO SAY THIS IS AN ATROCITY. AND IF YOU CAN’T SEE IT, WELL, WHAT CAN I SAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Tricks of the Trade – “Hurricanes are the poster child of climate politics. A pseudoscientific cottage industry has sprung up that associates just about every notable hurricane with climate change. Today, I take a look at recent efforts to attribute hurricanes to greenhouse gas emissions. Let’s take a closer look at what lies behind these press releases. Like the hurricane spinning the wrong way in Al Gore’s movie poster, the attribution tricks sit out in plain sight, visible to anyone willing to have a look.” – Roger Pielke Jr.

 

 

NEWS

Are You’re Not Paying Attention—Or Beyond Hope? – “If you think I will refrain from criticizing Trump and his Neocons—you’re sadly mistaken. We find ourselves in the plot of Star Wars, where the Empire is the Empire and we are in the Millennium Falcon, mostly made of spare parts. On the screen, we win, but in real life, as the song says: it ain’t necessarily so. And it might not change with Trump. I had some good things to say about Trump. He uses bluster to shake up the room, and then goes after what he really wants. That works—sometimes. Trump can’t admit to being taken-in by SARS/flu/Fauci/Birx, or targeting Soleimani was a dumb-ass move. Taking responsibility for destroying Syria is just too much, but some things Trump does, I appreciate” – neverhadaboss.com

The Future’s Uncertain and the End Is Always Near – “Are you not entertained by the never-ending bullshit, propaganda, false flags, threats, and revelations produced by those running the show and regurgitated by their captured media mouthpiece whores? The absolute tsunami of misinformation and political theatrics spewing over the airwaves is surely designed to distract the public from something more sinister, diabolical, and self-serving to the Deep State renegades who still wield the real power in this world. Nothing is as it seems. If ever there was a time to keep your hands upon the wheel and eyes upon the road, it is now. They have turned up the volume of misinformation and fear mongering to eleven.” – Jim Quinn

Year in review: A tectonic shift has only just begun – “As we’re approaching the final hours of 2024, it is a good time to take a step back and remember what this year taught us. History might not repeat itself, but it does rhyme, as the saying goes, and the past is always the best teacher to prepare us for the future. For many of our fellow humans, 2024 was yet another turbulent year, filled with terrible strife, war, death, pain and indescribable suffering. The two ongoing war fronts and the images that reach us all directly and live through our phones, have proven that war is indeed the health of the State. There is no other explanation as to why these conflicts are still raging and why the human death toll is still climbing to this day. Over the last year, humanity has once again been defeated by special interests, politicians, lobbyists and all kinds of other misanthropes. ” – Claudio Grass

10 Dead, 30 Injured After ‘Terrorist’ Plows Truck Into Crowd On Bourbon Street – “NOLA reports the suspected terrorist is 42-year-old Shamsud Din Jabbar. ( US Citizen from Texas ) The source said Jabbar was carrying an ISIS flag in the truck, and authorities have said he was dressed in military gear.” – Tyler Durden – SUPPOSEDLY HE WAS IN THE U.S. ARMY. WAS IT REAL OR A FALSE FLAG. CARRYING AN ISIS FLAG AND DRESSED IN MILITARY GEAR IS ALMOST TOO OBVIOUS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

A Lost Joe Biden Gives Absolutely Worthless Statement on New Orleans Terrorist Attack (VIDEO) – Cristina Laila

Pennsylvania Amish build a dozen homes for hurricane victims in just two days, outpacing Newsom’s promise from almost two years ago – “In March of 2023 Gavin Newsom promised to deliver 1200 tiny homes at a cost of 625,000 taxpayer dollars apiece. To date, not a single tiny home has been delivered. By comparison, the Amish just built 12 tiny homes in less than 48 hours at a cost of $25,000 apiece.” – Olivia Murray

What FEMA Has Done in North Carolina Is a Total Disgrace – “This story is a microcosm of the ineptitude exhibited by the Biden administration. As for FEMA, well, their record has been spotty in the past, but it’s compounded when you have Mr. Magoo helming the ship” – Matt Vespa

An immodest proposal for inner cities now that a new President is about to be sworn in – “Free food for the poor. Grown by the poor people themselves. In every inner city in America. They call these urban farms. There’s only one catch. Who believes they own inner cities? Who wants to keep those residents down? Who already inhabits those neighborhoods? GANGS.  Don’t believe for a minute they want growth and prosperity and new hope for the people who live there. Success would mean the sale of DRUGS would go begging. Therefore, the gangs have to be dealt with. What label would you put on armed groups selling killer drugs and, as self-protection, destroying the efforts of poor people to feed themselves—in hundreds of US cities? There’s an easy and accurate answer: TERRORISTS. That’s the name that would be applied. Officially. With no compromise.” – Jon Rappoport

Sheffield Is A Shithole (VIDEO) – “It’s changed since I grew up there. The dystopian experiment being inflicted on UK cities is manifestly undeniable.” – Paul Joseph Watson

Biden’s Regrets, and Ours – “Joe Biden regrets dropping out of the race, and wishes he had four more years. But as Lew Rockwell reminds us, it isn’t more or less of Biden’s dereliction of duty, defective morality, or diminished mental state that’s the problem. The problem is the Executive Branch itself. It is an imperial ruler with its imperial class presiding over its ever-expanding empire.” – Karen Kwiatkowski

To succeed, Trump needs to remember who put him there – “He must focus on delivering for workers – not on Mar-a-Lago palace intrigue. People voted for change and will be greatly disappointed if he cannot deliver. To succeed, Trump will need to draw on the strengths he exhibited during the campaign, continue to be a more self-controlled and focussed version of himself, and ignore the crankier elements of his entourage. His first term was marked by self-generated chaos and administration infighting. As before, his political opponents will now be targeting him. But perhaps his bigger challenge will be to stop being his own worst enemy. ” – Sean Collins

Donald Trump: Man of peace or man of war? 2025 will provide answers – “Trump was elected on a platform of closing the border and bringing sanity back to US foreign policy but the early signs indicate Americans who voted for a man of peace could end up with a man of war.” – Leo Hohmann

“The Year of Chaos” Underperforms – “I think, if any year is chaotic, it will be the one ahead where Trump plans to blow the government apart, Left and Right, to the fullest extent he can. To be clear, I’m for many of his goals and blowing some parts up (not literally, of course. You have to make that clear these days or the censors will shut you down); but you can’t dismantle the Deep State and not cause a lot of chaos because the Deep State fights back. I am, however, also not all that convinced that Team Trump is looking fully up to the job, but it is better suited than the last team he assembled. That was the biggest mess of a conglomerated swamp creature I ever saw, so there was never any way he was going to drain the swamp back then. It drained him. This time he’s assembled a mix of swamp busters and seasoned swamp creatures, led by billionaires everywhere you look, so I’m certain it will, above all else, be a good year for billionaires. But when is it not?” – David Haggith

Trump Should Terminate The Bilateral Security Agreement Between The US & Ukraine – “He should do this on his first day in office if he’s serious about implementing his foreign policy agenda.” – Andrew Korybko

 

 

 

ECONOMIC NEWS

Recession Watch: Broke Consumers, Tanking Houses – “Government will be the last man standing” – John Rubino

The Real Inflation Number – “What’s happening with inflation? Allegedly, it’s back down in the 3.5% range, give or take; and to do it right one must give and take quite a bit. That is, again, the government number jockeys shamelessly cook the books, as we see from reviewing a site like ShadowStats.com. If the government used the same methodology today as it used back in, say, 1980, we’d see a much higher rate of inflation. Instead of the advertised 3.5%, it might be more like 12%.” – Byron King

Get As Much Silver As Possible – Here’s Why (VIDEO) with Jon Forrest Little – Liberty and Finance

Carlos Slim Invested $1B In American Oil & Gas Companies In 2024 – “Carlos Slim, Latin America’s richest man, boosted his stakes in American energy companies in the current year as the world’s leading tycoons continue betting on fossil fuels.” – Alex Kimani

I Hereby Resolve… Gold and Silver in 2025 – “As we launch into 2025, perhaps you should resolve to get some gold and silver! If you had made that resolution last year, you’d probably be pretty pleased with yourself – assuming you followed through and kept your self-pronounced commitment. If you bought gold on January 1, 2024, you paid around $2,074 per ounce. At today’s price, you gained about 26 percent over the year. And if you bought silver at $23.99, you earned a 21.3 percent return.  Not too shabby. In fact, gold and silver will likely rank among the best-performing assets of 2024.” – Mike Maharrey

 

 

 

SURVIVAL, PREPAREDNESS AND SELF-SUFFICIENCY

Is the US on the Brink of Collapse – “It’s a question that many of us are afraid to ask but can’t ignore any longer. When we think of collapse, many of us picture empty grocery store shelves, long gas lines, or electricity blackouts. The reality is, we’re already seeing signs of resource shortages that point toward a much larger crisis. Water, for instance, is becoming a scarce resource in many parts of the country. In these uncertain times, being prepared for whatever comes next isn’t just a good idea; it’s essential. ” – Matt

5 Ways to Re-Purpose Your Produce Bags – “The next time you are at the store, pay close attention to how many products come in mesh bags: Potatoes, onions, garlic, apples, oranges, popsicles and many more. They come in a variety of sizes ranging from extra small to extra large. Here are a few ways to reuse them and simplify your life at the same time.” – Tess Pennington

How to do a soil analysis before starting a garden – “To grow a garden, whether indoors or outdoors, you essentially need three things besides seeds or seedlings: soil, water, and sunlight. While water and sunlight are easy to source, good-quality soil is often a challenge for many gardeners. Soil is more than just dirt—it must have specific qualities for your plants to grow and thrive. Whether you’re an experienced gardener looking to deepen your knowledge of your garden soil or a newcomer curious about a freshly prepared plot, there are several ways to test your soil.” – Bob Rodgers – LINKED A SIMILAR ARTICLE BY RHONDA OWEN ON 6/10/24. BETWEEN THE INFORMATION IN BOTH ARTICLES YOU SHOULD HAVE MOST OF EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW. WILL COME IN HANDY IN THE SPRING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

How To Transport Water From Source To Home In An Emergency – Ken Jorgustin

Collards: Our Winter Staple – “One of the aspects of living where we do I find most appealing is the long gardening season. It is possible to keep produce of one type or another growing in the garden year-round, (though this is not the same as saying we have harvestable vegetables for the full year). Kale is the most resilient thus far since a single fall planting can carry into the following June if there is not an early heat spell. Cabbage and broccoli are each suitable for both late winter and late summer plantings and typically yield well while requiring minimal effort.” – A.F.

 

 

 

VERSE FOR THE DAY

Proverbs 4:10    Hear, O my son, and receive my sayings; and the years of thy life shall be many.

 

IMAGE FOR THE DAY

THE BIG PICTURE

FOGVID-24? People Claim Fog Making Them Sick – “Social media users claim fog that rolled in around Christmastime causing sore throats and flu-like symptoms. After numerous commenters reported feeling similar negative health effects, the man later returned with an update confirming “Fogvid24” was indeed real, and that it’s not centralized to one location but appears to be global.” –  Adan Salazar – WITH CONSTANT SPRAYING WITH GEOENGINEERING, ANYTHING IS POSSIBLE!!!!!

Bird Flu Propaganda: Terror Rising Pt. V – “CNN Chinese bioterrorist demands Biden unleash bird flu mRNA vaxxes NOW She also wants mass, nationwide PCR testing. Scarf lady recites exact same bird flu narrative on CNN. The talking point all of these people are running with at the same time — which is how you can know this is a centralized marketing effort — is that the ultimate jump that bird flu will make to enable human-to-human transmission will come via “virus reassortment.”” – Ben Bartee

December 31, 2019: The Global Human Rights Heist Formally Begins – “Five years ago today the World Health Organization (WHO) decided emergency notices from the Wuhan Municipal Health Committee (WHC) about “unexplained pneumonia” were important enough to issue an alert.” – Jessica Hockett

A Timeline of Deception, Fraud and Coverup – “They knew. They lied. People died. They still know. They are still lying. People are still dying.” – James Roguski

Polar vortex heading for US sending temperatures plunging and making January the coldest for a decade – Sabrina Penty  – HOPE THE SUN SHINES AND THE WIND BLOWS SO THAT THOSE SOLAR PANELS AND TURBINES THAT THEY INSIST WE USE KEEP EVERYONE WARM DURING THIS “FRIGID GLOBAL WARMING”!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

A Simple Plan for the Alternative Community – “The insidious cabal owes much of its success to the far-seeing and cunning nature of their long-range planning. They are in it for the long game. This is a trait of con artists and sociopaths. The con man is always a con man, he does not step outside of his character for his or her entire life. Sociopaths are known to spend hours in front of the mirror, practising their craft, learning how to act normally, in order to swindle gullible victims. Bill Gates is a perfect example: The monopoly capitalist who ran Microsoft, gave himself a makeover, started wearing grandpa sweaters and talking like Kermit the Frog. This rebranding strategy goes back to the Rockefeller family in the 1800’s, Getting involved in the local political scene is key to overthrowing the agenda of the insidious cabal. It is much easier to infiltrate City Hall than the WEF. ” – 009

The DNA HOAX – “Part 3: Forensics, Gene editing and Ancestry.. If you really want to believe that any of these downstream practices of anything to do with genetics from Forensics to CRISPR to Ancestry, that they work in the way that they claim, to the ridiculous levels of accuracy, FIRST you are going to have to show me the thing they claim they are measuring.” – Jamie Andrews

NEWS

The Deep State’s Triumph: 2024 and the Erosion of Liberty – “2024 saw a continued rise in government overreach and abuse of power. The militarization of police forces continued unabated, with local departments increasingly resembling extensions of the military. Schools, meant to be places of learning and growth, became more prison-like with the implementation of “safety” measures that criminalize minor infractions and create an environment of fear. The right to private property was further eroded, with the government increasingly empowered to seize assets under various pretexts. The plight of the homeless worsened, with cities criminalizing homelessness and implementing policies designed to make their lives even more difficult. Military veterans, once hailed as heroes, were increasingly treated with suspicion and subjected to surveillance.” – John & Nisha Whitehead

A Question for the County – “If you’re what’s commonly referred to as a “homeowner” – which is dishonest language because no one in this country actually owns their home because everyone in this country is obliged to pay de facto rent to the government for as long as you possess what isn’t in fact your home for exactly this reason – you may have asked yourself why there’s no end to this rent-paying they like to style “property taxes.” There is no end to it because the idea is that no one ever actually becomes a homeowner in this country. How can you be the owner of that when someone else – via the government – has a claim enforceable by law to a portion of that which you have worked for? A slave is often described as a human being who is owned by someone else. Buy what else is a human being whose “income” – and home – are effectively owned by the government? The answer is – a human being who does not realize he is enslaved.” – Eric Peters

The NUMBERS GAME: America In Catch-up Mode – “Used to be that numbers were safe, they represented undeniable Fact. Not so in our fancy footwork world of manipulation and outright fraud. Employment STATS: The Heritage Foundation points out that some 4 to 8 million Americans who worked before CoVid never came back to the table. Given the CDC and Stanford colluded to lie about Vax Deaths, no accurate account was made. Morticians claimed a 33% increase is burials.  Education: When the Biden Regime destroyed our education system, teens no longer filled the gaps for the restaurants and retail stores. They were way too busy looting stores setting fires, and attacking innocent people for no reason. As a result, retail and restaurants needed to fill the gap or get shut down. Then the Biden Regime raised minimum wages further looting the smaller businesses of their ability to survive. Bankruptcy. Unemployed. PANDEMIC: The Pandemic destroyed millions of businesses. It caused massive deaths of the elderly, The Vax has disabled or caused harm to nearly a third of military troops. ” – Helena Glass

The Empire Burns The Middle East While US Homelessness Surges – “The US empire is up to its elbows in the middle east working frenetically to manipulate what happens there, while in the United States itself homelessness has taken another record-shattering leap forward.” – Caitlin Johnstone

US ‘Culture of Mediocrity’ = Need More Foreigners? Breaking Down the H-1B Debate (VIDEO) – “Recent comments on X by U.S. Department of Government Efficiency Co-Chair Vivek Ramaswamy about America’s unmotivated youth and a U.S. “culture of mediocrity” have a lot of truth to them, explained journalist and educator Alex Newman on NTD News. But the answer to this existential threat is not importing foreigners on visas to take tech jobs. Rather, Americans must stop allowing their children to be indoctrinated and dumbed down in government schools that were designed to do just that,” – Alex Newman

Tormentor of J6ers Resigns Ahead of Trump Inauguration – “Matthew Graves, appointed by Joe Biden in 2021 to lead the most powerful U.S. Attorney’s office in the nation, steps down but not before leaving behind a legacy of human wreckage.” – Julie Kelly

Puerto Rico Plunges Into Nationwide Blackout, Internet Connectivity Disrupted – “Josue Colon, director of the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority, told local media WKAQ Radio that the blackout was considered a “major event.” The net is also down. This is not the case for those with backup power generation and Starlink.Luma Energy did not provide the cause of the widespread blackout or when power would be restored. ” – Tyler Durden

NATO and Kiev regime’s message to Europe: Happy New Year, Suckers! – “As Europeans ring in the New Year, they can look forward to the misery of crippling energy costs and their economies tanking further – all thanks to the NeoNazi regime in Ukraine that elitist Euro leaders deem to be a priority cause for ceaseless hand-outs. So much for the traditional greeting of “peaceful and prosperous.” NATO’s Ukrainian puppet leader Vladimir Zelensky – the sweaty T-shirt guy who gets a privileged seat at every EU summit – is cutting off the last supply route to Europe of Russian gas on New Year’s Eve.” – Finian Cunningham

The scramble for Syria: Regional powers jostle for influence – “Assad’s fall has left regional powers – Turkiye, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE – racing to redefine their roles in Syria, competing to win favor with the interim government, reviving old rivalries, and reckoning with the unintended consequences of their own past interventions that led to Syria’s destruction. ” – Mawadda Iskandar

George Marshall Opposed the Creation of Israel, But Truman Caved In to Zionist $$$ – “American patriot General George C. Marshall strongly opposed the partitioning of Palestine because he knew that the creation of a Zionist state at the heart of the Arab world would severely undermine US regional interests while fueling endless conflicts across the Middle East. ” – Mike Whitney

ECONOMIC NEWS

Important Updates: TRUMP’S “GREAT DEPRESSION WARNING” IS A PROMISE. ARE YOU READY FOR IT? (VIDEO) – Gregory Mannarino

US Credit Card Defaults Soar To Crisis Highs As Inflation Storm Crushes Working-Poor – Tyler Durden

Problems with current shipping routes Part II – Richard Mills – PART 1 WAS PREVIOUSLY LINKED ON 12/23/24!!

Preparing for a 2025 reset? (VIDEO) – “Panel discussion with Bill Holter, Andy Schectman, and Alasdair Macleod hosted by Liberty & Finance recorded yesterday” – Alasdair Macleod – EXCELLENT PANEL, WATCH THIS ONE!!!!

Sugar Juice & Fraud Propped Up Failing Biden Economy (VIDEO) with Ed Dowd – “We had 10% deficit to GDP during the Great Financial Crisis (2008 – 2009) when we actually had a crisis. We had 8% deficit to GDP during this election year. You have to ask yourself, what was the crisis? The crisis was to get the Biden Administration (and Kamala) re-elected. So, they went on binge spending. They borrowed from the future to try to ensure they won. They did it two ways: They hired massive amounts of government personnel to float the economy, and they also did illegal immigration. We are thinking it was 10 million to 15 million illegal immigrants that came in the last four years. The majority of the illegal immigrants came in the last two years. That stimulated the economy and raised the velocity of money as those people were given money. ” – Greg Hunter

Home Prices Rise Again, Up 50 Percent Since 2020, Double the Increase of Rent – “Would be buyers can definitely curse the Fed over this housing debacle.” – Mish

Experts Are Predicting Continued Growth for Gold in 2025 – “Gold is predicted to reach $3,000 in 2025 amid changing consumer trends. These are the factors that could hurt or help gold prices the most next year…” – Peter Reagan

SURVIVAL, PREPAREDNESS AND SELF-SUFFICIENCY

Homestead vs. Farm – “Dreaming of living off the land but unsure whether to go for a homestead or a farm? While both offer a chance to reconnect with nature, they differ in terms of goals, scale, and lifestyle. Knowing the difference between a homestead vs. farm helps you figure out which one fits your lifestyle better. So, how do you decide which path is right for you? ” – Sunny M

8 Signs Looters Are Casing Your Property – “Looters and petty thieves are a concern today. So, it’s a sure bet, they’ll be a serious problem anytime a crisis strikes. Being able to quickly identify when potential looters are casing your property gives you the best chance of deterring them and preventing unwanted theft.” – Eric Beuning

Preparing For The Next Pandemic Before Others Begin To Panic – Ken Jorgustin

How to Clean a Leather Belt (and virtually all other leather products) – “For those with an outdoor or wilderness survival mindset, knowing how to clean a leather belt, knife sheath, leather boots, or any other outdoor leather product is an important skill. Cleaning is just one of 5 important, yet simple steps in leather care to ensure all your gear performs and lasts. ” – Kevin Luebke

Herbalism for Beginners: How to Get Started – Rebekah Pierce

VERSE FOR THE DAY

Deuteronomy 28:43   The stranger that is within thee shall get up above thee very high; and thou shalt come down very low.

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THE BIG PICTURE

What New York’s burning woman tells us about our times – “To film a woman’s barbarous death is a gross betrayal of our common humanity.” – Brendan O’Neill  – EXCELLENT READ!!!!

Normalization and the Resulting Death of “All that Is” – “The very thing that keeps humans surviving in an ever-changing world will be the very thing that ultimately destroys them. Normalization. It is a positive attribute if we follow certain rules and avoid believing there is unsaid benevolence and positivity to everything thrown our way. In other words, refusing to believe that evil is lurking around nearly every corner with the serpent-like intention to deceive us, and thus destroy us. Another rule we must re-learn is to think critically and be ready and willing to recognize the devil behind certain presentations rather than eat every apple offered up to us with gusto and abandon. Do I believe in Satan? Sure, why not? I didn’t used to, but now the existence of Beelzebub himself seems to make everything going on make more sense.” – Todd Hayen, PhD, RP

Trump’s Legacy: COVID-19 Vaccines Still #1 Vaccine Killer in 2024 – Instead of Sitting in Prison for Mass Murder, Americans Want Encore Performance in 2025 – Brian Shilhavy – JUST BECAUSE BOBBY KENNEDY JR IS IN WITH TRUMP DOESN’T MEAN SQUAT. HE HAS STATED THAT HE’S NOT AGAINST VACCINES IF SOMEONE WANTS IT, AND TRUMP STILL TAKES CREDIT FOR WARP SPEED. BIDEN ISN’T JUST THE ONLY ONE GUILTY HERE!!!!

Come offit – “Fixing incentives in vaccine development. Given the content here, one might easily presume this new set of bird flu commentary from longstanding crisis shill Leana Wen would take the cake for “worst takes of the weekend.” Note what she’s pushing here: It’s just one last smash and grab for cash before the Brandon admin ends. Anyone who falls for this one will truly fall for anything.” – El Gato Malo

RFK Jr. Exposes Bill Gates & His Murderous Philanthropicapitalism Ahead Of The PSYOP-BIRD-FLU Rollout – “The usual technocrat talking heads have once again been reactivated to make the Mockingbird MSM rounds in an effort to normalize the followup scamdemic which increasingly looks to be PSYOP-BIRD-FLU. Deep State BigPharma shill and CCP asset Lena Wen has of late been very busy indeed, demanding that the “Biden” regime authorize the deadly and utterly useless H5N1 “bird flu vaccines” for “vulnerable” Americans before Donald Trump takes office:” – 2nd Smartest Guy in the World

The Glaring Hypocrisy and Embedded Deceptions of the Global Food Giants – “Bryce Martinez (18) from Pennsylvania is mounting a legal challenge against major food companies, alleging that their ultra-processed foods (UPFs) led to his development of Type 2 diabetes and fatty liver disease at the age of 16. The 11 firms listed in the lawsuit are Kraft Heinz, Mondelez, Coca-Cola, Post Holdings, PepsiCo, General Mills, Nestle’s (US), WK Kellogg, Mars, Kellanova and Conagra. UPFs have undergone multiple processing steps and often contain additives, preservatives and artificial ingredients. These UPFs have become staples in many households.” – Colin Todhunter

Next EV Battle Pits Truckers And Red States Against California-Led ‘Cartel’ – “California state regulators and some truck manufacturers have faced mounting pushback from truck drivers and red states related to its massive push toward statewide electric vehicle (EV) adoption. Now, some truck drivers and red states are attempting to thwart the rules that they allege would slow the supply chain and force the “transition to more expensive and less efficient electric trucks,” according to one trucking group. By acting in lockstep as an industry, this arrangement ensures that the costs will not be borne by the manufacturers, but will be passed downstream to their customers and then to the rest of the country.” – Ireland Owens

BlackRock Joins $6 Billion Funding for Musk’s xAI, Sparking Concern Over Globalist Influence in AI’s Future – “World Economic Forum partner gains strategic leverage over Elon Musk’s AI venture.” – Jon Fleetwood

 

 

 

NEWS

No, The Truth Is Not Just Another Story – “It must be obvious that the incoming government under Mr. Trump has one primary duty overall: sorting out truth from lies so the nation can reestablish a baseline reality to function upon. America is so punch-drunk from official lying that many intelligent people who ought to know better now proclaim that reality is unknowable, … This awful condition has led to the point where you know for sure that “Joe Biden” cannot possibly discharge his duties as chief executive, and yet nobody cares enough to investigate who is running things behind the front he puts up. ” – James Howard Kunstler

Celebrating The Death Of Woke And The Resurrection Of Common Sense – “Years ago when the woke takeover of government and popular media was hitting a crescendo, I often struggled to put the horrifying development into the proper words. That is to say, woke isn’t just about DEI or blaming the “patriarchy” – These things are tools that leftists use, but the goal of the movement has always been the destruction of the western world. Woke represented the perverse inversion of every aspect of western society and human morality – To explain such evil requires a concise analysis.” – Brandon Smith

Mother Just Gave The Best Rant You’ll Hear Today Against Woke Culture in Classrooms at H.S Board (VIDEO) – BlackConservative24 – ALTHOUGH THIS IS A YEAR OLD, I HAD NEVER SEEN IT BEFORE. VERY GOOD 3 MINUTE VIDEO!!!!!!

Who the Hell is Running the Country? – ” They knew. They all knew. And they lied. In name, Joe Biden is America’s 46th president. His “signature” is on official documents. He is photographed periodically, whether in the Oval Office, wandering in foreign lands, or inappropriately sniffing or nibbling young children. But he is the president in name only. Is Joe Biden even real? Read more: https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2024/12/who_the_hell_is_running_the_country.html#ixzz8vvNfdG67 Follow us: @AmericanThinker on Twitter | AmericanThinker on Facebook” – Brian C. Joondeph

The H1-B Visa Is Systemic Wage Theft – “Calling BS On Elon Musk And Vivek Ramaswamy. Suffice it to say, Elon is wrong. Vivek is wrong. And the data shows that they are wrong. The H1-B Visa program is as bad as many have already said it is. The H1-B Visa program—and every other immigration program designed to import workers into this country—amounts to the systemic theft of wages from workers who are already here in the US. The H1-B Visa program is contributing to the declining employment-population ratio in this country. As regards the ongoing jobs recession in this country, the H1-B Visa program is an integral part of the problem. The data proves it.” – Peter Nayland Kust

What Is A Constitutional Sheriff And Why Do YOU Need One? – “The difference between a Constitutional sheriff and a non-Constitutional sheriff is easy to discern. A Constitutional sheriff will not obey any laws, rules, regulations or edicts that are in violation of either the US Constitution, including the Bill of Rights, or the state’s constitution. A sheriff that does not respect his residents’ constitutional rights will obey all statutes, rules, regulations and edicts signed by politicians & bureaucrats. He/she will not do any research to determine if his/her actions are constitutional, instead will merely take marching orders from his/her government overlords.” – Diane L. Gruber

Biden Furious at Merrick Garland Because He Didn’t Work Harder to Lock Up Trump Before the Election -Trent Walker

Cheney’s Pending Immunity Whiplash – “The “no one is above the law” crowd prepares to fight investigations into their own starting with Liz Cheney. Will they invoke the same sort of immunity claims they stripped of their targets?” – Julie Kelly

Israel’s collateral killing of civilians is finally in the spotlight – “The New York Times’ recent “bombshell” presents facts that have been known for a long time – and does its best to sanitize them” – Robert Inlakesh

Lavrov Says Russia’s ‘Not Satisfied’ With Proposals From Trump Team To End Ukraine War – “Recent media reports have said Trump’s team proposed the idea of Ukraine pledging not to join NATO for at least 20 years as part of a potential peace deal. Another report said Trump wants European troops to deploy to Ukraine to monitor a future ceasefire.” – Dave DeCamp

 

 

 

ECONOMIC NEWS

Santa Is a No-Show for those Stocks Hung by the Chimney with Care – “In fact, he’s off taking a polar-bear plunge this morning. This morning, the market took the plunge. Morning news revealed that Santa Claus is a drunken mess in terms of his usual (75% chance of a) glorious and easy rally right after Christmas and heading into the New Year. The stock market re-opened with a big 500-point plunge for the Dow, which quickly became 600 points and is growing deeper as I write this morning’s editorial.” – David Haggith

Yellen Says US Will Hit Debt Ceiling Mid-January, Forcing Treasury to Employ ‘Extraordinary Measures’ – “Extraordinary measures, often described as accounting maneuvers, allow the Treasury to free up cash and delay default.” – Tom Ozimek – YOU THINK MAYBE SHE HAD SOMETHING TO DO WITH THIS!!!!

Should You Wait for Full Social Security Benefits or Take it Early? – mNish

NatGas Futures Spike Ahead Of Forecasted “Historic Cold” – “Now we’re starting to think about historic cold.” – Tyler Durden

Harsh Market Correction – Yearly Wrap Up with Eric Sprott (VIDEO) – Sprott Money

Worst Homelessness Crisis Ever! Those On The Low End Of The Economic Spectrum Are Being Absolutely Pulverized By This Economy – Michael Snyder

Buyers’ Strike Continues: Pending Home Sales Remain Deep in the Frozen Zone though up a Tad from Rock Bottom – “Prices are still way too high, but… “Buyers are in a better position to negotiate as the market shifts away from a seller’s market”: NAR.” – Wolf Richter

 

 

 

SURVIVAL, PREPAREDNESS AND SELF-SUFFICIENCY

How to Have a Vegetable Garden When You Don’t Have a Yard – Daisy Luther

REVIEW: The ExoTac Titan Light – “Do you want a go-to lighter that lasts (and works well) for years? ” – 1stMarineJarHead

The U.S. Government Is Secretly Using These Devices to Track Us – “I’m going to alert you to what many are considering to be one of the worst doomsday scenarios for free American patriots. One that apparently not many are prepping for, or even seem to care about.” – Dave Jefferson

This Water Source Will Disappear in a Crisis – Fergus Mason

How to Turn Fat and Ashes Into Soap – “The fundamental recipe for soap is a combination of lye and fat. The fat can be an animal fat or vegetable-based oil, but those are the two primary ingredients. When the proper amount of fat and lye is heated it causes the molecules in the fat to bond with the lye molecules, and when allowed to cool it hardens. That hardened combination is what we commonly think of as soap.” – Steve Nubie

 

 

VERSES FOR THE DAY

Psalm 58:1-3   Do ye indeed speak righteousness, O congregation? do ye judge uprightly, O ye sons of men?  Yea, in heart ye work wickedness; ye weigh the violence of your hands in the earth.  The wicked are estranged from the womb: they go astray as soon as they be born, speaking lies.

 

 

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THE BIG PICTURE

On Whose Authority? – “I have a problem with “authority figures”. I do not like other people telling me what I can and cannot do. I particularly do not like other people telling me what is better or best for me. I am the “authority” on me. I know what I like. I have a pretty good idea of what I need. Anyone else is just guessing. At the same time, I am no authority of any kind on anyone else. Do I know everything? Not at all. I am knowledgeable and I am smart—but I am smart enough also to know that I am not God. Only God knows everything, and only God can know everything. God is the one entity who most assuredly knows more about me than I do.” – Peter Nayland Kust

MAHA Superstar Calley Means Outed as Sleazy Pharma PR Conman? – “You don’t need to be an expert on body language to see the typical patterns of a liar: the uncomfortable shifting, the stuttering, the constant deflections, the nervous laughter, the canned talking points. Also, just purely aesthetically, with his slicked-back hair and suit-and-tie ensemble, Calley emits extreme Gavin Newsom/Jared Kusher/American Psycho vibes. On the substance, the most troubling portion of the interview below came when he wouldn’t answer the direct question about whether the COVID shots should be pulled — despite the reams of evidence speaking to their ill and often fatal side effects, the fact that they don’t prevent transmission or infection, and the proven-in-spades reality that the pharmaceutical firms rigged the clinical trials offered as the pretext for the whole sham in the first place.” – Ben Bartee

Recent Temperature Falls Likely to Put a Dampener on ‘Hottest Year Evah’ Stories -Chris Morrison

Geoengineering Watch Global Alert News, December 28, 2024 (VIDEO) – “. Extreme weather and temperature whiplash scenarios are worsening by the day which is crushing crop production and causing overall environmental chaos around the world. Empty food shelves are not just a problem in some far away countries, it’s coming soon to a market near you.” – Dane Wigington

The Gardasil HPV Vaccine Controversy – “Weighing the Risks vs. the Benefits. In developed countries with established screening programs, cervical cancer is relatively rare and highly treatable when detected early. Professionals question whether the benefits of widespread vaccination outweigh the risks, particularly when cervical cancer can often be prevented through regular Pap smears and other non-invasive measures. So again… why would our children need this “highly dangerous” injection?!” – Tracy Slepcevic

MUSIC or FREQUENCY WEAPON? A Military Operation, Mass Psychosis & Hidden History (Part 2) – “Insane stuff we never knew…” – Agent131711 – INTERESTING READ, PART 1 WAS LINKED FRIDAY!!!

Global COVID ‘Vaccine’ Damage Estimates by Ewdard Dowd – “Killed: 7.5 – 15 million people, Disabled: 29 – 60 million people, Injured: 500 – 900 million people….Arrests made: ZERO” – Lioness of Judah Ministry

Cooking Oils Used By Millions Linked To Cancer In Second Study In A Week – “Imagine if something as common as the oil in your kitchen could be silently contributing to cancer. For millions around the world, this unsettling possibility has moved from speculation to science.” – The Mind Unleashed

Bill Gates-Tied Vaccine Delivered Through Bite of Mosquito That Carries Bioengineered Malaria-Causing Parasite That Infects Human Blood Cells: ‘New England Journal of Medicine’ – “Bill Gates funds Dutch medical center that engineers mosquito-vaccines.” – Jon Fleetwood

NEWS

Lest We Forget – “Human beings are hopeful creatures, out to make the best out of whatever comes our way. Maybe we need hope to survive, but 2025 will be a time to focus on reality. The left, having lost an election they took for granted—are now bloodthirsty fiends. Catch a little of what Obama has to say—there is no longer even a hint of slow-talking dignity. Instead, he is better identified with Antifa aggression. And, with unconcern for the rule of law, the globalist left are willing to do whatever it takes to continue their control over us. But, if we assume Trump’s victory is going to save us, best we think again. No one is going to protect you—that’s up to you. Trump is a big government player, suffering from Elvis syndrome (the King knows best)—bragging to tariff at will, while viewing Canada’s sovereignty as something to acquire, the Panama Canal as something rightfully belonging to MAGA. Greenland—an American island just off our coast. Would our founders line up with MAGA? No, they would end HS, CIA, pull troops from 80 nations, de-weaponize the dollar/Swift. They would de-weaponize sanctions/ tariffs—knowing that excessive tariffs are a cause for global enmity, while, at the same time, they undermine dollar reserve-currency status—while dooming the dollar’s future. ” – neverhadaboss.com – GOOD ONE FROM ERIK ONCE AGAIN!!!

Cry Me A River – “The entire left is terrified that the right, under Trump, might do to them what they have been doing to the right for 30 years. I’ve never heard such projection and fear of the future. Everything they worry about, we have suffered. So, to be rather blunt, cry me a river.” – T.L. Davis

There is no pardoning the Biden administration – “This is going to be controversial to many, but I am going to tell it like I see it, so damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead. The Biden administration, set up as it was by the Obama administration, has been a clear and present danger to the United States of America. In almost every way imaginable. To me, it spells T-R-E-A-S-O-N. Were this an age of reason, what other conclusion could be reached?” – Eric Utter  – THIS ONE PRETTY MUCH SUMS UP EVERYTHING, ALTHOUGH I WOULDN’T AGREE WITH ERIC’S TALKING POINT ON ISRAEL!!

Joe Biden’s Legacy Will Be That of a Criminally Incompetent Buffoon and Nothing Can Change That Verdict – streiff

Joe Biden heads out on a low note, more despised than ever – “Now that our long, national nightmare of Joe Biden’s presidency is ending, here’s a gander at his December public approval rating from RealClearPolitics: That’s close to the lowest approval ratings of his entire presidency, He spent half his presidency on vacation, and has decided to get even more vacation in before he goes, which is par for his course. Maybe that’s sinking in with the public. It probably couldn’t help that much of his economic data, as he brags about his record, has been revised downward yet again in the latest jobs numbers, revealing the extent to which Biden lied to the public about his “great” economy.” – Monica Showalter

Reflections from the Heart of the Empire: Blundering into 2025 and some South African monkey business. – Ohio Barbarian  – WEEKLY REFLECTIONS FROM THE BARBARIAN. ALWAYS INSIGHTFUL!!!!

From the Back Forty: Flyover Folks Can Relate to Vivek Ramaswamy – “Heartlanders love hard work. And it would appear Vivek Ramaswamy is now the poster boy for getting the country back on track from mediocrity to meritocracy. In a social media post, Ramaswamy called out the shiftless and lazy.” – Sarah Cowgill

CHINA COVID BRUTALITY: How To Shut Down the 5D Chess Club – “The 5D Chess Club, led by commentators like Pepe Escobar, Scott Ritter, Alexander Dugin and Matt Ehret, are possibly just as difficult to wake up from their multipolar sleep walking, as the woke lefties, who lined up obediently, took the toxic waste injections, and then posted congratulatory photos of themselves online with little bandaids on their arms. The 5D Chess Club do similar virtue signalling, praising Putin and Jinping, and extolling the wonders of the BRICS and the Belt and Road Initiative. Despite the glaring evidence that Russia and China fully participated in the lockdowns and mandates, and the subsequent vaccine rollout, the 5D Chess Club give them a free pass—because Russia and China are allegedly playing a high-stakes game of geopolitical chess with the globalists.” – 009  – GOOD POINT!!!

German fascism crisis escalates as Elon Musk publishes a devastating 600-word editorial explaining why he supports Alternative für Deutschland – eugyppius

Germany either will further decline, or else will ally with Russia. – Eric Zuesse

Midway Through Ceasefire, Israeli Army Moves Deeper Into Southern Lebanon – “Thursday marks the 30-day mark in the 60-day ceasefire between Lebanon and Israel. While plainly obvious that IDF military operations never really ceased, Israel is now openly talking about staying in Lebanon past the 60-day pullout deadline. Even more concerning, Israel has pushed the offensive deeper into southern Lebanon,” – Jason Ditz

ECONOMIC NEWS

Government Spending Will Cause The Next Financial Crisis – “Crises are never caused by building excessive exposure to high-risk assets. Crises can only happen when investors, government bodies, and households accumulate risk in assets where most believe there is little to no risk. The 2008 crisis did not occur due to subprime mortgages. Those were the tips of the iceberg. Moreover, Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae, state-owned entities, guaranteed the subprime mortgage packages, which prompted numerous investors and banks to invest in them.” – Daniel Lacalle

MARKETS A LOOK AHEAD… 2025: (WE HAVE A SERIOUS PROBLEM). ARE YOU READY FOR IT? (VIDEO) – Gregory Mannarino

Media Lies About Bidenomics Exposed Brutally By Reality: Thousands Of Retail Closures, Continued Rising Prices, Drug Shortages, Food Confiscation Now Underway, And Unemployment Benefit Claims Are At Highest Levels In Three Years – Susan Duclos

Team Trump Accelerates Social Security Insolvency, Where’s DOGE? – “Neither political party is serious about spending restraint, and the latest evidence is the Social Security Fairness Act that the Senate whopped into law late last week. This is a giveaway to public unions that whistles past the program’s looming insolvency.” – Mish

America’s Problem with Consumerism Is the Government’s Fault – “Beyond Christmas, there’s no question that purchasing and acquiring stuff is a central part of American life. Many consider their social status to be reflected by how much they can and do spend on luxurious goods and experiences. And, each year, billions of dollars of marketing goes into convincing us that we are one purchase away from permanent bliss. There’s no question that modern America is a very “consumerist” society. But before condemning that as a “moral failure” of the American people, it’s important to understand that this is the sought-after result of our government’s policies.” – Connor O’Keeffe

We Desperately Need Sound Money, Not Tariffs – “President-elect Donald Trump is a well known champion of tariffs as a means to revive the country’s economy—not reducing them, but jacking them up. Calling tariffs “the most beautiful word in the dictionary,” he’s proposed even larger tariffs than the ones he had in his first term—“60 percent or more on China, and up to 20 percent on most goods from other countries.” Further, “Tariff Man” has threatened American manufacturers such as John Deere with crushing tariffs if they move their manufacturing plants outside the US. It looks like his rule is: build it here or else.” – George Ford Smith

SURVIVAL, PREPAREDNESS AND SELF-SUFFICIENCY

The Complete Shutdown of Our Entire Electrical Grid (From ATM’s and banking systems to key infrastructure like power, water and gas utilities, you would immediately see failures across the board.) – Dave Jefferson

12 Ingenious Ways To Get Your Hands on Free Seeds To Start Your Own Garden – Ame Vanorio

How to Make Gunpowder the Old Fashioned Way – “Reloading spent shells and casings would become a necessity after a collapse, and gunpowder would be particularly difficult to procure. In the modern world, producing gunpowder is child’s play, but when society breaks down it will be an arduous, dirty, and time-consuming task. And it won’t be high quality gunpowder either. You’ll most likely be stuck making black powder, which isn’t as good as what ammunition manufacturers use now but it will be effective nonetheless. Here’s how it’s made:” – Joshua Krause

Route Selection, Ambushes & VCP’s – “Selecting good routes is extremely important part of your security planning especially in hostile areas or in times of civil unrest. In theory the best routes should allow the vehicles to travel at the maximum legal speed limit with as little congestion and as few stops as possible but in reality this can be a difficult thing to achieve.” – Orlando Wilson

33 Survival Items to Take with You to a Deserted Island – “It sounds quaint, even a little romantic, but believe it or not, getting stranded on a deserted island has been a fairly common occurrence for unlucky people throughout the ages. Whether it’s a shipwreck or plane crash and survivors washing up on islands in parts unknown, or merchant and exploratory vessels going terribly off course and getting stranded; it has and will continue to happen!” – Tom Marlowe

VERSE FOR THE DAY

Proverbs 6:9   How long wilt thou sleep, O sluggard? when wilt thou arise out of thy sleep?

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LYRIC FOR THE WEEK

Ah! Ah!
We come from the land of the ice and snow
From the midnight sun where the hot springs flow

The hammer of the gods
Will drive our ships to new lands
To fight the horde, sing and cry
Valhalla, I am coming

On we sweep with threshing oar
Our only goal will be the western shore

Ah! Ah!
We come from the land of the ice and snow
From the midnight sun where the hot springs flow

How soft your fields so green
Can whisper tales of gore
Of how we calmed the tides of war
We are your overlords

On we sweep with threshing oar
Our only goal will be the western shore

So now you’d better stop
And rebuild all your ruins
For peace and trust can win the day
Despite of all your losing

( Immigrant Song by Robert Plant and Jimmy Page )

 

 

THE BIG PICTURE

No Room for Growth – “Even if I am absolutely certain of something, I am still open to discussion with an opposing view. If nothing else, this is how I strengthen my argument. I want to know exactly what the contrary position is so I can see if there are any weaknesses in my own hypothesis. There is always room for growth. This just seems like common sense to me, and I am continually flabbergasted why everyone does not feel the same way. Well, a lot of people do. They are the shrews. I have not met a shrew yet that has a completely closed mind Well, I have met shrews who are a bit more close-minded about a few things, but never everything. I have met many sheeple-types who are completely closed up—to the point of hilarity. Why is that? Well, they would say that they are so certain about their position that anything opposing it is just nonsensical insanity. ” – Todd Hayen, PhD, RP

Brave New Trumpenstein – “Building the new Technocracy. I haven’t written much lately about Donald Trump. The man I christened Trumpenstein. He continues to effortlessly shuffle back and forth between populist rhetoric and RINO reality. He has undeniably given his MAGA faithful more red meat this time around. RFK, Jr. was the most revolutionary presidential appointee of my lifetime. I am very dubious that RFK, Jr. will be approved as HHS secretary, or any other position in government. But Trump vowed to use his power of “Recess Appointments” to get RFK, Jr., Tulsi, and Matt Gaetz through a Congress that was never going to approve them. So what happened to all that “Recess Appointments” talk? Gaetz summarily withdrew, after the contrived scandal which grew out of an extortion attempt on his wealthy father was revived by Congress and our state controlled media. His replacement, Pam Bondi, won’t be draining any swamp. The only sure thing about the Trump/Trumpenstein II administration is that it will be utterly devoted to the interests of Israel. He may not MAGA or MAHA, but the Giant Orange Man will definitely MIGA.” – Donald Jeffries – GOOD ARTICLE BY DONALD. SAME OLD SAME OLD, IT APPEARS!!!!!!

“I’m Not Going to Take Away Anybody’s Vaccines.” ~ RFK Jr, November 2024 – Conspiracy Sarah

Autopsy Data Proves Covid ‘Vaccines’ Killed Millions – “The study was conducted by a group of renowned doctors, scientists, and researchers, including: Peter A. McCullough Nicolas Hulscher Paul E. Alexander Richard Amerling Heather Gessling Roger Hodkinson William Makis Harvey A. Risch Mark Trozzi The results of their peer-reviewed study were published in the journal Science, Public Health Policy and the Law. The autopsy data reveals that Covid mRNA “vaccines” have caused a huge surge in deaths.” – Frank Bergman

Bird Flu Virus Mutations Discovered In First Severe Human Case In US, CDC Says – Katabella Roberts

Biden Administration and ‘Mr. Monsanto’ Continue to Bully Mexico into Accepting GMO Corn – Derrick Broze

 

 

 

NEWS

Memo to Trump, Tom Homan, and the whole Trump crew: YOU DON’T UNDERSTAND IMMIGRATION POLICY; what the hell is wrong with you? – “You people are clueless. The Prime Directive is: WHEN ANY PERSON COMMITS A FELONY IN THE US, HE’S CHARGED, TRIED, AND IF CONVICTED, HE’S SENT TO PRISON IN THE US. HE’S NOT DEPORTED. After he’s served his sentence, if he’s an illegal alien, then he can be deported. Not one of you has mentioned this. You’re all talking about how you’ll break through the resistance of Sanctuary mayors and governors, grab illegal aliens who have committed serious crimes in the US, and deport them. As I’ve written several times, this is a GIFT to a criminal. He tortures and rapes someone in the US, and all he gets is a trip back to his home country. He’s the envy of every home-grown American psychopath who is committing heinous crimes.” – Jon Rappoport

Immigration, immigrants, and the american way of life – “Some thoughts on the sudden immigration conflagration. In the fine Bad Cattitude tradition of “making everyone angry by weighing in on multiple sides of issues of current calamity” here come a whole set of takes on immigration, economy, and culture. Some of it is likely to make many people mad. but let’s remember: not liking a fact does not make it false and not agreeing with everyhting that some one says does not invalidate the points they make.” – El Gato Malo

“Officer Safety” – “The other day, a psychopath lit an apparently homeless woman on fire as she was sleeping inside a New York City subway car. As horrific as that was to see, it was almost as appalling to see no one trying to help the woman as she burned to death while bystanders watched. Some of these bystanders were cops. Aren’t cops supposed to “serve and protect“? Well, not when it puts officer safety at risk. We hear a lot about that – and the related bleat that being an armed government worker (which is an etymologically honest description) is such a dangerous profession that armed government workers live in fear that they “might not come home” at the end of their shift. This bleat is both poltroonerous and wrong insofar as the facts. Being an armed government worker isn’t even among the Top Ten Most Dangerous occupations, according to the government’s own data.” – Eric Peters

Congress can prevent Trump from taking office? – “Sometimes you have to stand back and admire the sheer insanity of the left. Whereas normal people have moved on from the events from four years ago, they flog away, asserting that saying the same lie over and over speaks it into reality. This is all set upon the ridiculous idea that since the left has repeatedly accused President Trump of being an “insurrectionist,” he is ineligible to be president. Apparently, there is a codicil somewhere, known only to leftists, that if they repeat some word or phrase, they speak it into existence. Supposedly, that makes the evidence “overwhelming.” ” – D. Parker

2024 Our Lying Eyes: New Photo Shows Biden with Hunter ‘s Business Associates Despite Past Denials – ““Lies.” That response was a mantra for President Joe Biden, who denied ever meeting or knowing about his son’s foreign dealings. Despite the pronounced lack of interest by most media outlets in the alleged multimillion dollar influence-peddling scheme, the House and conservative groups have doggedly pursued the matter and found overwhelming evidence that the President has repeatedly lied about his interactions with foreign clients. Now, a new photo further contradicts the President, who recently pardoned his son for any crimes committed over a ten-year period.” – Jonathan Turley

Never Bored of the Rings – “Lord of the Rings We watched this series this week from home. Every time is a different experience as you catch little things you missed in earlier views. This time is was so real and full of references that were all too real. Look at what America has been thru for the last 8 years.” – Bert Powers / (John Barleycorn)

This Is America: Chipotle™ DEI Brawls Are Lit! – “Anyway, it’s been eight years almost to the day since I stepped foot on American soil, and things appear to be as they were when I left in the Motherland, if not worse. Exhibit A: a mammoth young scholar storms her way into a Chipotle uninvited and starts putting together her own slop bowl because the original order she placed via Uber Eats didn’t have the double meat she wanted or whatever.” – Ben Bartee – ALWAYS SEEMS TO BE A PARTICULAR PERSUASION IN THESE KIND OF INCIDENTS . ANY ONE EVER DONE A STUDY ON THIS? I WONDER? MUST BE TABOO!!!

Luigi Mangione: American Hero or Cold Blooded Murderer? – “Murder is wrong… But?” – Jim McCraigh

Israel Is Killing Civilians In Gaza On Purpose, And It’s Not Even Debatable – “Just so we’re all clear, it is a fully established fact that the IDF is directly, deliberately killing civilians in Gaza. Israeli soldiers are telling the press that they’ve been knowingly killing civilians and then falsely categorizing them as terrorists afterward. Countless doctors have testified to routinely encountering dead and wounded children who’ve been shot in the head by Israeli snipers.” – Caitlin Johnstone

The Syrian Fiasco… A Case of The “Empire First” Folly In Spades – David Stockman

Who Are Our Enemies? Ask God, Not Israel – “Certainly, there are ‘bad humans’, but Satan wants us to designate entire nations as evil instead of the Few. The notion that a nation is evil; China, Iran, Russia, North Korea, is based on the word of the snake. To inspire death. To gleefully honor hate. To redirect Truth. TO deceive. Fauci and Gates are American. Based on the ‘enemy’ logic, the genocide and torture they have both enacted against humans and animals is so much greater than any singular nation – should they be representative of all Americans thus disposing America as the premier Enemy of the World?” – Helena Glass

Israel’s Long History as a Rogue Terrorist Nation: Part 2 – “The Lavon Affair aka “Operation Susannah” aka “relax, we’re Zionists, we’re allowed to terrorize civilians!”” – Anthony Colpo

Post-Assad Syria: Alawites to the grave, Christians to Beirut – “Young Alawite men are being hunted down and beheaded and Christians are being forced to convert at bayonet point. Welcome to liberated Syria. ” – Declan Hayes

 

 

 

ECONOMIC NEWS

10-Year Treasury Yield Rose 100 Basis Points since September as the Fed Cut 100 Basis Points. Why the Historic Divergence? – “Treasury Yield Curve Steepens. Bond Market a Wee Bit Nervous?” – Wolf Richter

(THE DEBT MARKET AND STOCK MARKET ARE ON A COLLISION COURSE). IMPORTANT UPDATES (VIDEO) – Gregory Mannarino

Yes, High Prices Are Here to Stay – “Sorry, Jake, we’re never going back to pre-crisis times” – Andrew Moran

US homelessness up 18% as affordable housing remains out of reach for many people – “Among the most concerning trends was a nearly 40% rise in family homelessness — one of the areas that was most affected by the arrival of migrants in big cities.” – Michael Casey – SO YOU LEAVE YOUR HOME TO COME TO A DIFFERENT COUNTRY AND NOW YOU ARE CONSIDERED HOMELESS IN THAT COUNTRY. DUH. I’M SURE WE WILL GIVE THEM ALL FREE STUFF SO THEY CAN HAVE IT JUST AS GOOD, IF NOT BETTER AS THE PEOPLE WHO HAVE LIVED AND WORKED HERE THEIR WHOLE LIFE, STILL DOESN’T ERASE THE FACT THAT HOUSING IS GETTING UNAFFORDABLE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

An Update on the Fed’s Snail Pace QT Balance Sheet Reduction – “Every month since April of 2022 the Fed has been slowly unwinding QE that it should not have done in the first place.” – Mish

The Fed Will Drive Gold Higher in 2025, and Here’s Why – “The Fed’s recent rate cut was called “hawkish,” which is simply wrong. Hawkishness means tightening the money supply and raising interest rates. So what’s going on? Here’s how the Fed’s latest moves will send gold higher… “- Peter Reagan

21 Quotes About Central Banking That Show Why The Federal Reserve Must Be Shut Down – Michael Snyder

 

 

SURVIVAL, PREPAREDNESS AND SELF-SUFFICIENCY

Learning Communication Gear. (VIDEO) – Modern Refugee.

20 Safest Countries That Will Survive Nuclear War (New Update) – “Fortunately, there are still some places on Earth that would be relatively safe in the event of a nuclear war. These countries have either developed extensive anti-nuclear capabilities or are geographically isolated enough that they would be unlikely targets for a nuclear strike.” – Dave Jefferson – IF YOU ARE THINKING ABOUT RELOCATING, YOU MIGHT CONSIDER A FEW OF THESE!!!

Ways to Prepare for the New Year 2025 – Bernie Carr

9 Steps to Winterize Your Power Tools – “When you’re putting equipment away for the season, it’s important to winterize your power tools properly. This way, they’ll stay safe and secure during the cold months and will be ready to leap into action once you need them next spring.” – Catherine Winter

22 Creative Uses for Crisco – Tricia Drevets

 

 

VERSE FOR THE DAY

Matthew 11:28    Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.

 

IMAGE FOR THE DAY

 

 

THE BIG PICTURE

LIFE AFTER CHURCH: Why Christianity Needs a Second Reformation – “Most Christians are unable or unwilling to see the glaring differences between Jesus’ message and Paul’s. This reveals a deplorable lack of discernment on the part of so-called truth seekers. Jesus’ universal message of brotherly love was transformed into a Western-sponsored institution within 300 years. The institutional church hunkered down, consolidated power and gradually conquered European civilization through political intrigue, land and wealth acquisition, education control and a mass propaganda campaign that affected every facet of medieval life—up until that fateful day when Martin Luther nailed his litany of complaints on the door of the Wittenberg church in 1517.” – 009  – INTERESTING READ!!!!

The FREQUENCY of Disease (Part 1) – “Something I stumbled across…” – Agent131711 – AS YOU MAY KNOW FROM SOME OF HIS ARTICLES, AGENT131711 IS PRETTY MUCH AGAINST SUPPLEMENTED VITAMINS. THIS ARTICLE MAY BE A STRETCH, BUT IT’S DEFINITELY WORTH REAING!!!!

NIH Funds Research Into Self-Disseminating Vaccines That Spread Like a Virus from Host to Host – $3.4 million in U.S. taxpayer money to self-spreading vaccine projects.” – Jon Fleetwood

Bill Gates goes full totalitarian: Insists AI could censor ‘threats’ from ‘vaccine hesitancy’ – “Billionaire conflates doubting shots with ‘inciting violence'” – Bob Unruh

The Untold Story of Polio – “Renaming and Vaccine-Induced Disorders to Hide Their Mistakes, Polio is often cited as one of the great success stories of modern vaccination. Public health officials frequently tout the campaign to eradicate the disease as a triumph of science. However, the historical reality of polio eradication is far more complex and troubling than the simplified narrative suggests. While the disease may have been renamed or reclassified under various conditions, and vaccines themselves have been implicated in causing polio-like disorders, these critical details remain absent from the mainstream discourse.” – Tracy Slepcevic

Secret Pfizer Report Reveals 40% Spike in Heart Conditions Among Covid-Vaxxed – Frank Bergman

UN General Assembly Adopts Controversial Cybercrime Treaty Amid Criticism Over Censorship and Surveillance Risks – “Global cybercrime treaty faces scrutiny over human rights safeguards and potential misuse of cross-border powers.” – Didi Rankovic

Published Paper on Unvaccinated Health Outcomes vs. Vaxxed – “The 1st peer-reviewed nationwide study showing vaxxed vs. unvaxxed long-term health outcomes. This is the TRUTH. Do read & PLEASE share.” – Joy Lucette Garner

New York to Charge Fossil Fuel Companies for Greenhouse Gas Emissions – “New York becomes the second state to enact a ‘polluter-pay’ Climate Change SuperFund Act. New Jersey, California, and Maryland could be next.” – John Haughey

“Doesn’t Fit MSM Narrative”: Latest Arctic Ice Data Shows 26% Larger Than 2012 – “Heller referenced a 2007 BBC News article titled “Arctic summers ice-free ‘by 2013’,” which warned readers of the supposed threat that “latest modeling studies indicate northern polar waters could be ice-free in summers within just 5-6 years.” The BBC article’s baseless claim was designed to instill climate fears across the public to ram through a radical de-growth climate agenda across the Western world. ” – Tyler Durden

 

 

 

NEWS

Forecast 2025 — Taking Out the Trash – “I would guess that you’re feeling as if anything might happen now. It’s hard to rule out even the possibility that we could all be vaporized before moving onto the next mundane chore of the day. The world order is dangerously in flux. America’s Woke-Jacobin “Joe Biden” regime was defeated in the 2024 election, but they were apparently just a front for the sinister entity we call the “blob” or the Deep State, which in recent years has consistently and garishly acted against our country’s interests. So, the blob abides, and it probably weaves schemes in the deep background of daily life even as a new government awaits. Paradoxically, Mr. Trump has to initially manage the US government as if it deserves a sense of reassuring continuity, which, in many respects it does not deserve. So many institutions and relationships between them have been perverted and damaged. The Department of Justice and the FBI are filled with lawyers and agents who abused their power egregiously and went to war against the American people. But what about the Defense Department and the CIA? Both are involved in domestic money-laundering activities at the giant scale, and in rackets abroad — such as the many grifts around Ukraine, in which giant financial entities like BlackRock are partnered-in. (You know, for instance, don’t you, that BlackRock was poised to acquire control of Ukraine’s natural resource base, until Mr. Putin’s resolve ended that fantasy.)” – James Howard Kunstler

In America It’s Another Week to be Proud of! – “Is Biden poised to ban 2025 by executive order? The good thing was the signing by Biden of a bill, perhaps with a little bit of help from his friends to make sure he spelled his name correctly, to make the Bald Eagle the official bird of the United States of America. The Eagle has been around the American Republic virtually since its foundation, appearing on the Great Seal and on various documents and even on currency, but it has never been officially dubbed the national bird. All honor of place is due to the great bald eagle, but one might recall that Benjamin Franklin once suggested that the best choice for the national bird would be the wild turkey. And Biden still has time for mischief, including possibly ennobling turkeys or even the issuance of a pardon to himself for ignoring the United States Constitution for four years.” – Philip Giraldi

Will Russia Collapse in 2025? – “Is Putin’s Government Trying to Be a 19th century liberal government in the brutal evil world of the 21st century? None of Putin’s declarations have had any effect on Washington’s determination to further breakup Russia, a constraint on American hegemony.Washington finds it extraordinary that it took Putin eight years after Washington’s coup in Kiev, which placed a Washington Puppet in charge of Ukraine, to come to grips with the fact that he had a problem, deceived as he was by his useless Minsk Agreement.” – Paul Craig Roberts

Deconstructing Elon – “Fish swim in schools – and so do some people. If the “school” suddenly veers off in this direction or that direction, the fish go in that direction. All of a sudden, the “fish” – on the Right – are going in Elon Musk’s direction. The same fish who used to swim in the opposite direction. They changed direction because . . . well . . . that’s hard to divine. It may be on account of Musk backing Trump, which caused the fish who swim to the Left to stop swimming in Musk’s direction. And the fish on the Right to swim back in his direction for exactly that reason. Having used the government to enrich himself he now says he wants to make the government more “efficient.” Kind of like the “mending” – rather than ending – of Obamacare. He also says we ought to be worried about AI and creepy robots – while pouring resources into developing both. A technocrat who pretend to be a humanist. How about what is now styled “X”. Musk bought it and promised it would henceforth be a Free Speech venue. It is nothing of the kind. It is a for-profit operation that requires those who wish their speech – i.e., their posts – to be seen to pay in order for them to be seen. Monthly. Ongoing. It is “only” $8, say some apologists. But that is beside the point.” – Eric Peters

Let’s Have a Discussion About How Little Gun Control Works with This Prime Example – Tom Knighton

The Wall Street Journal’s Shameful J6 Propagandizing – “From promoting the lie about Brian Sicknick’s death to swooning over the J6 Select Committee while ignoring new findings about the events of Jan 6, the WSJ is soiling its once-solid reputation.” – Julie Kelly

Gov. Pritzker was and remains part of the coverup of Biden’s mental decline – “Among comments Pritzker made: “I’ve been with the President of the United States many times,” Pritzker said in February. “He is on the ball. The man knows more than most of us have forgotten.” “Of course,” answered Pritzker when asked in July if Biden was “physically and mentally capable” of serving a second term.”” – Mark Glennon

15 Facts About The Growth Of Crime In The United States That Will Blow Your Mind – Michael Snyder

Ukraine’s Reckless Drone Attacks Are Responsible For The Azerbaijan Airlines Tragedy – “Pandora’s Box of speculation was already opened by the US and Ukraine so there’s no need for Russia to restrain itself from injecting its own speculation, albeit that which is much more reasonable, into the global discourse.” – Andrew Korybko

Medley Report: Bilderberg News, Turkey Sets Court in Syria, Ukraine Grid Strikes – Simplicius

 

 

 

ECONOMIC NEWS

Thousands of Store Closures on Tap for 2025 – Mike Maharrey

Some Say Housing Bubble about to Implode, but this Time is Different – “Yes, I boldly claimed the last housing crisis would hit half a year before it did, and I just as strongly claim a big crash of EVERYTHING is coming, but I am also saying housing is not going to lead. In terms of just the US housing bubble, the implosion lacks one absolutely key ingredient that the former bubble had—a massive number of adjustable-rate mortgages (ARMs) that inevitably had to reset to higher rates once people could not refinance because homes were dropping in price.” – David Haggith

From the Archives: Until Something Breaks… It’s just taking longer than usual. The 10-year Treasury yield briefly touched 4.6% yesterday. That translates into 7% mortgages and higher rates on a whole range of other loans. Meanwhile, the major stock market indexes have risen dramatically in the past couple of months. This seems incongruous, but historically it’s both normal and ominous. Here’s a post from mid-2023 putting today’s action in context:” – John Rubino  – GOOD READ FROM JOHN WHICH WAS ORIGINALLY LINKED ON 6/29/23!!!

Huge December Delivery Requires Comex to Restock Inventories – Schiff Gold

Still Bearish Gold & Silver – “Silver: Analyzing Current Trends While we are getting a bounce now, I’m still looking lower thereafter towards $26-$28. It should come as no surprise that Gold looks remarkably like Silver. ” – David Brady

Cocoa bean beats Bitcoin – “Bloomberg has named chocolate’s main ingredient the best-performing commodity of 2024. The crypto coin was arguably the most watched asset this year, as it smashed the long-awaited $100,000 threshold in early December. Prices for chocolate’s main ingredient have almost tripled since the start of 2024 as faltering production in West Africa — the world’s biggest growing region — led to massive supply shortages,” – RT

Will AI Cause Mass Deflation? – “Still, setting aside the job dynamics, one thing we can be sure of is AI will radically reduce prices — deflation. This is because across the board AI replaces things that were more expensive — especially when you consider AI combined with robots.” – Peter St Onge

 

 

SURVIVAL, PREPAREDNESS AND SELF-SUFFICIENCY

Mark Zuckerberg Denies Hawaii ‘Doomsday Bunker’ Existence, Calls It A “Little Shelter – “In late 2023, Wired revealed that Zuckerberg’s bunker was around 4,500 square feet, equipped with a “blast-resistant door” and enough food for the tech bro and friends to survive an apocalypse. So, what does Zuckerberg know about future world events coming down the pipe?” – Tyler Durden

Should I Eat That? – “Knowing which plants and animals to eat in each season and how to prepare them is ideal, but when survivors lack training or find themselves in an unfamiliar region, they must resort to edibility tests and rules of thumb.” – Cache Valley Prepper

How to Store Meat Outdoors in Winter – Eric Beuning

Soil Chemistry Basics – ” A friend introduced me to the Albrecht system of soil testing, but I just read the information and set it aside, which is what 99% of other gardeners would do as well. In 2004 I did my first soil test which was at a friend’s place of business, but it was more to satisfy my curiosity than anything else. Then in 2009 I did my first basic soil test (a Morgan soil test) for my own garden and started to apply the knowledge gained by it. Finally, in 2011 I did an Albrecht-type soil test (actually a fairly close “copycat”, based on the Mehlich III extraction which is usually listed as “M3”) and discovered that the two tests were very different and did not agree with each other. I came up with a way of comparing the two soil tests to be able to use them as diagnostic tools to solve fertility issues (disease and insect problems usually) and increase the yield significantly. ” – D.N.G.

King of the Road: Deter Road Ragers with Improvised Vehicle Weapons – “An old firearms instructor buddy of mine named James Yeager (yes, of Tactical Response) used to tell me that “A two-ton truck beats a 9mm any day.” And he was right. Getting intentionally plowed down head-on by a Ford F150 would just suck.” – Waysun Johnny Tsai

 

 

 

VERSES FOR THE DAY

Matthew 2:14-15   When he arose, he took the young child and his mother by night, and departed into Egypt:  And was there until the death of Herod: that it might be fulfilled which was spoken of the Lord by the prophet, saying, Out of Egypt have I called my son.

 

IMAGE FOR THE DAY

THE BIG PICTURE

Mysterious 2025 Deagel Population COLLAPSE Forecast (prepare for war) ((VIDEO) with Bill Holter – CapitalCosm – BILL IS  ALWAYS A GOOD LISTEN AND A STRAIGHT SHOOTER: A MUST WATCH ON THE ECONOMY, THE BIG PICTURE, NEWS AND PREPARING – ALL FOUR CATEGORIES. IF NOTHING ELSE WATCH THIS ABOUT 35 MINUTES LONG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The Christmas Truce of World War I – John V. Denson – GOOD HISTORICAL READ!!!!

The Birth of Jesus Changed Humanity – “Jesus was not born in a palace or among the wealthy and powerful. Instead, His arrival was marked by simplicity, peace, and a deep connection to the heart of humanity.” – Karen Kingston

My Christmas Wish List – Bert Powers / (John Barleycorn)  – CAN’T THINK OF TOO MUCH TO ADD TO THIS LIST. GOOD ONE FROM BERT!!!

This Christmas in the New Normal – Off Guardian  – MORE INSANITY BEING FOISTED ON US!!!!!!

Unfortunately, The Trump Cabinet Will Likely Expand the Surveillance State – “The surveillance state is an outcropping of the Fourth Branch of Government, which is, essentially, the unelected intelligence community in control of our government. The surveillance state comes from the creation of the Dept of Homeland Security (DHS) which is an entirely inward-looking agency. Prior to the Patriot Act, the surveillance sweep searching for terror threats focused outward, looking outside the U.S borders. The Patriot Act took the surveillance sweep a full 360 degrees and looked inside the Homeland for terror threats. Hence, DHS was created.” – Sundance

President Trump To Withdraw The United States From The “Corrupt Globalist Scam” Known As The World Health Organization – “President Trump’s transition team has made plans to immediately extricate the United States from the World Health Organization (WHO), which is nothing more than the eugenics arm of the United Nations.” – 2nd Smartest Guy in the World

Did Governments follow a recipe for effective torture against their populations during “covid”? – “It sure looks like they were trying to break the will of their citizens.” – Jonathan Engler

How to Research Chemicals in Food & Vitamins: Beginners Guide + Zinc Supplement Investigation – “Let me show you exactly how you can trust but verify. Easy entry-level stuff that anyone with access to the internet can do…” – Agent131711

Doctor Reveals in 1 Minute How Much Aluminum, Mercury, and Chemicals Children Ingest Through Vaccines – “When Dr. Sherri Tenpenny worked in the emergency room, she believed vaccines contained only weakened viruses and saline. That assumption shattered in September 2000 when she read the package insert of a vaccine for the first time.” – RAIR Foundation

Hijacking Christmas & the Church for ‘Climate’ – “Political bosses, green energy promoters, and even the Pope weaponized Christmas to shove progressivism and climatism on the earth.” – Alex Newman

NEWS

Corporate America – “Just in time for Christmas, the “tech bros”, who jumped on the Trump bandwagon last summer, launched a campaign on Twitter in favor of infinite Indian migration, for all the long ago debunked economic reasons. It was not just David Sacks trying to subvert the meaning of American First. Elon Musk took time away from not celebrating Christmas to push the idea of unlimited immigration from India as well. Like all the tech bros, nation wreckers and open society types, his claim rests on the obvious lie that India is full of future Einsteins that America must recruit in order to win. What we win by turning your neighborhood into a New Delhi slum is never explained, because it is a lie. Oligarchs like Musk do not see America as their home, but as a company they just acquired. The triumphalism of the tech bros is that they now think with Trump in the White House, they can do what Musk did with Twitter, to the whole country and reorganize it for their purposes. They are the board that took the company called America private and now plan to reorganize it.” – The Z Man

Trust the Government! – “Well, Maybe Not. One of my favorite bumper stickers has this message: If you think you can trust the government, ask an Indian (Native American). It’s a good reminder. Lately, the mainstream media has warned us against conspiracy theorists. Against distrusting government and media narratives. And yet recently (and finally!) the Wall Street Journal came clean in an article that probed President Biden’s declining stamina and mental health. ” – Bill Astore

The King James Test for American Democracy – “On December 1, President Joe Biden announced that he was pardoning his son Hunter for all the crimes he committed from January 1, 2014 through December 1, 2024. President Biden absolved all of his son’s felonies because of his “serious addictions” and because Hunter was purportedly mistreated by Biden’s own appointees at the Justice Department. But going back 40 years to his time as chairman of Senate Judiciary Committee chairman, Joe Biden favored vociferously and mercilessly prosecuting hapless individuals for the same offenses for which he absolved his son. Biden’s pardon of his son epitomizes how presidents and their families are now above the law. It also illustrates how the “King James Test for American Democracy” could become the death of the Constitution.” – James Bovard

What If Solutions That Worked in the Past No Longer Fix What’s Broken? – Charles Hugh Smith

Former DARPA Drone Operator Claims Mysterious Drones Over U.S. May Be a ‘Distraction’ for Future Military Attack – “Mike Glover, a former drone operator for both defense research lab DARPA and the US military, has warned that the recent wave of mysterious drone sightings over the U.S. could be part of a larger, more sinister agenda. “In my career, I flew drones, a lot of drones. Almost every drone in the inventory, I was qualified to fly. I taught people how to fly the drones, and I worked a couple of special programs with DARPA on flying drones for Task Force… If a foreign adversary was doing a covert up to surveil, they’re not going to have flashing and illuminating lights,” The broader concern voiced by Glover and others is the potential that these drone sightings are being used as a media diversion.” – Jim Hᴏft

Millions of Companies Must Register w/ Massive U.S. Database by Jan. 1 Due to Last-Minute Court Ruling – “Enforcement of the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA) has been reinstated along with its impending January 1, 2025 filing deadline…” – Ken Silva

Michigan won’t be Michigan for much longer – “Data from the U.S. Census Bureau for 2024 found while Michigan had a gain in population over the past year, it was driven by international migration. The Great Replacement in real time—and what does a great replacement mean in reality? Well, it means the physical landscape changes: homestyle diners give way to another Mexican food truck run by illegals, and mom and pop groceries give way to halal markets. It means a demographic change, and white Americans become a minority in their own home (whites are already a global minority by a shocking degree). It means laws change, it means history is lost, and it means no more Michigan as we know it. It means Michigan will become all that the foreigners fled.” – Olivia Murray

Putin’s Remarks About Jews, Ukraine, And The Russian Orthodox Church Aren’t Anti-Semitic – Andrew Korybko

The Waste Of Putin’s War – “How Much Blood And Treasure Can Russia Afford To Pay? No matter how one views the geopolitical situation in Eastern Europe, regardless of whether one views the conflict as the product of a militaristic posturing by Putin or reckless and largely corrupt NATO expansion efforts designed to “surround” Russia, the practical consequences of war emerge not from the motives or reasons, but from the choice to go to war. Even as we concede the obvious, that NATO is, first and foremost, an “anti-Russia” military alliance, we must also concede that the decision to invade Ukraine was solely Vladimir Putin’s.” – Peter Nayland Kust

Another Expert Report Finds Israel Is Committing Genocide. the West Yawns – “Three separate reports published this month by leading international human rights and medical groups have detailed the same horrifying story: that Israel is well advanced in its genocide of the Palestinian population in Gaza. Or, to be more accurate, they have confirmed what was already patently clear: that, for the past 14 months, Israel has been slaughtering tens of thousands of Palestinians with indiscriminate munitions, while at the same time gradually starving the survivors to death and denying them access to medical care.” – Jonathan Cook

Israel’s Long History as a Rogue Terrorist Nation: Part 1 – “The long history of Zionist terrorism the mainstream doesn’t want to talk about. Hideously evil Zionists like Menachem Begin, David Ben-Gurion and wanted war criminal Benjamin Netanyahu are NOT above criticism simply because they are Jewish. If you disagree, and think these folks are beyond reproach simply because they’re Jews, then congratulations – you are a BIGOT. Like militant feminists, you are the very thing you disingenuously claim to despise. No-one wants to be called a racist or xenophobe, and the ‘antisemitism’ sham cynically exploits this fear. The ‘antisemitism’ ruse is a smokescreen, an intimidation campaign designed to suppress criticism of Zionists and prevent discussion of their well-documented treachery and terrorism. Do not fall for it.” – Anthony Colpo

ECONOMIC NEWS

It’s Not Just that Monthly Payment – “It is freeing – literally – to not have to come up with the average (with good credit!) $734 monthly new car payment (as of 2024). But it’s not just that. They – the lenders and those who rely on your willingness to buy this much debt – don’t want you to think about what else comes along for that ride, in addition to that monthly payment. The insurance payment, for instance. How much does that cost? How about roughly $2,500 per year – on average? That’s – roughly – another $200 per month you’ll be paying, rounding out to just shy of $1,000 per month. That used to be roughly enough to just about cover a mortgage on a modest single family home. It is still enough to cover about half the cost of a monthly mortgage payment on a modest single family home.” – Eric Peters – A MUST READ FROM ERIC. IS IT ANY WONDER NO ONE CAN AFFORD ANY THING ANY MORE!!!!!!!!!!

With Costs Soaring, How Is the US Going to Fund Health Care? – “Let’s discuss some sobering projections on the cost of Medicare and Medicaid.” – Mish

Housing Bust: Builders Are Slashing Prices – “Is housing finally rolling over?” – John Rubino

Futures Slide As Bond Yields Jump To 6 Month High – Tyler Durden

Who Bought and Holds the Recklessly Ballooning US National Debt, even as the Fed is Unloading its Treasury Securities? – “A hot question for an iffy situation. So here are the holders as of Q3.” – Wolf Richter

The Fed is Cutting. Why Are Mortgage Rates Going Up? – “Although it’s continuing to cut, the Fed’s actions primarily influence short-term interest rates, such as the federal funds rate. This is the rate at which banks lend to one another overnight. These short-term rates affect a wide range of borrowing costs including those on credit cards, car loans, and adjustable-rate mortgages. However, most mortgage rates, particularly those for fixed-rate loans, are more closely tied to long-term bond yields such as the yield on 10-year U.S. Treasury bonds. And right now, 10-year Treasury yields are soaring.” – Schiff Gold

SURVIVAL, PREPAREDNESS AND SELF-SUFFICIENCY

Three Layers of Food Preservation for Winter Survival – “As someone who lives in USDA climate zone 4, where temperatures dip down to -30F, I take winter seriously. Each fall, when winter looms, yes, I am thinking about the usual homestead tasks of preparing firewood and making sure the woodstove is ready for burning. However, I am also getting ready to survive the winter without grocery stores. Now, so far, the grocery stores have continued to operate, but you never know.” – Rowan O’Malley

Why I Still Have Dairy Cows – SaraSue

The Collapsing All Over The World And Signs Of The End Times – Dave Jefferson

S.C.A.R.E Bag vs Bug-Out Bag – “When it comes to getting ready for a grid-down disaster scenario, being prepared with a survival kit isn’t just a good idea. It’s essential. But not all emergency situations are the same, and neither are the kits that go with them.” – Nicholas Oetken

How To Protect Your Food Storage From Insects – Michael B

VERSES FOR THE DAY

Matthew 2:1-2 and 11-13 

 Now when Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judaea in the days of Herod the king, behold, there came wise men from the east to Jerusalem,  Saying, Where is he that is born King of the Jews? for we have seen his star in the east, and are come to worship him. And when they were come into the house, they saw the young child with Mary his mother, and fell down, and worshipped him: and when they had opened their treasures, they presented unto him gifts; gold, and frankincense and myrrh.  And being warned of God in a dream that they should not return to Herod, they departed into their own country another way.  And when they were departed, behold, the angel of the Lord appeareth to Joseph in a dream, saying, Arise, and take the young child and his mother, and flee into Egypt, and be thou there until I bring thee word: for Herod will seek the young child to destroy him.

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THERE IS NO POST TODAY. HOPE EVERYONE HAS A VERY MERRY CHRISTMAS AND SPENDS TIME WITH THEIR FAMILY AND LOVED ONES; BECAUSE THAT IS WHAT LIFE IS REALLY ABOUT.  THE NEWS FOR TODAY IS THAT WE CELEBRATE THAT CHRIST OUR SAVIOR WAS BORN. MAY EVERYONE HAVE PEACE AND JOY ON THIS CHRISTMAS DAY AND FORGET ABOUT THE MEANINGLESS FAKE NEWS THAT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH WHAT LIFE IS ALL ABOUT. GOD BLESS YOU ALL!

VERSE FOR THE DAY

Isaiah 9:6    For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.

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