THE BIG PICTURE

Experts Warned For Years That A War With Iran Would Happen This Way – “Time has a new article out in which unnamed sources assert that the Pentagon was caught totally off-guard by Iran’s aggressive retaliation against the US-Israeli onslaught which began last month,..It’s so wild how we keep seeing reports that Iran’s retaliation caught the US off guard. For all the years I’ve been paying attention to this issue I’ve been reading experts and analysts saying if the US attacks Iran, Iran can close the Strait of Hormuz and strike US bases and the energy infrastructure of US allies in the region. ” – Caitlin Johnstone

The White House Prayer Council – A Satanic Ritual in Blasphemy – “Trump’s grip of Christianity was put on full display for all the world to see as he stumbled through a script he apparently did not ‘pre-read’. While his influencers praised the fact that he mentioned Jesus by name is so cringeworthy as to border blasphemy in lauding a script that was decidedly false teachings. Franklin Graham’s choice to read from the Book of Esther brought the house down to its knees in groans and whispers of Zionist infiltration due to its spurious authenticity.” – Helena Glass

The She Wolf’s Husband – “By now, you have heard about – and probably seen – the interesting story regarding the husband of Ilse, She Wolf of the SS. That is, Kristi Noem, the now ex-head of the SS (ICE). Ordinarily, who cares whether her husband likes to wear women’s clothes and preen on TikTok? Private kinks are not the public’s business, so long as it’s consenting adults. But Noem’s business was very public. She is a person who wielded – still wields – government authority and thus the goings-on are very much the public’s business and not just on account of the salaciousness. These revelations about Noem’s husband could have been compromising. I mean, before they were revealed. The threat, that is to say, of their being revealed by whomever had the the kompromat. Was Ilse – is Ilse – under duress?” – Eric Peters

The Red Line – “Why do the news anchor ladies of CNN, Erin Burnett, Kate Bolduan, always look so depressed on the air? They never smile. Their faces always register something between grave concern and hysteria. Is it the network’s cratered ratings? The pending hostile takeover by Paramount / Skydance (led by conservative David Ellison)? Too much botox, zombifying the small facial muscles? Or is it self-loathing from being compelled to slant everything they report on in the direction of a lie? There does seem to be some hidden hand in Narrative Central issuing prescribed story-lines to the networks, and that hand seems to be tinged with malice for anything and anyone seeking to rescue our country from chaos, penury, psychosis, and jihad. ” – James Howard Kunstler

Russia Introduces Its First mRNA-Based Cancer Vaccine. What Could Go Wrong? – The WinePress

Won’t Government Save Us From The Smartphone Zombies?! – New World Next Week (VIDEO) – “This week on New World Next Week: the WHO wants to cattle tag the tax cattle with digital wallet; AI maps the trillion-gene universe; and Big Tech addiction rulings pave the way for age verification laws.” – The Corbett Report

Maryland Bill Lets Pharmacists Order Vaccines for You—Logging Your Name in State Tracking System Without Any Patient-Request Requirement – “HB 1135 anticipates future “public health emergency,” names influenza and COVID-19.” – Jon Fleetwood

and so it goes in the great white north (VIDEO) – (Everything Just Got More Expensive in April… Canadians Are Fed Up  – “Mark Carney doesn’t believe in April Fool’s Day. For him, every day is a day to fool Canadians. 0:088 secondsSo, April Fools is actually cancelled in Canada because the entire country is a fucking joke. But a lot of people from Canada were saying it’s impossible. Don’t be surprised if your grocery bills start going up because of the rising fuel costs impacting the supply chain.” – Canadian Rant ) – shared by Sylvia Shawcross

9/11 Jersey Girl Reads: “A Half-Truth Is Still a Whole Lie” (VIDEO) – “The open letter penned 23 March read out by Patricia Casazza. Please note, this reading is very emotional, as words on a screen CANNOT convey the hurt behind what was penned. Too many people call themselves “truth seekers”, but are in actual fact, NOT interested in finding truth for themselves and will rather blindly follow those in the 9/11 “truth” movement, who play the spin game, instead of looking for 9/11 accountability. Jersey Girl and 9/11 widow breaks her silence in a raw open letter to the US Government and the entire truth movement: drop the egos, stop the half-truths, confront ALL evidence!” – 9/11 Revisionist

27 black-on-white homicide reports found in March – Kenn Gividen   -ONE PERSON LIKE A DRUG ADDICT/CRIMINAL GETS MURDERED SUPPOSEDLY AND HE BECOMES A MARTYR AND THERE ARE RIOTS. WHITE PEOPLE GET MURDERED ON A MONTHLY BASIS AND YOU DON’T HEAR JACK-SH*T FROM THE MSM ABOUT IT. DO YOU EVER WONDER WHY THAT IS. PERHAPS IT DOESN’T FIT THEIR SO-CALLED RACIST NARRATIVE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

NEWS

Trump Blithered and Blustered, and the War Got Worse – “What a difference one little speech makes!” – David Haggith

POTUS Goes Full Stone Age Retard – “It’s pretty clear what the TV screen caption should have read as the Donald expectorated a veritable shower of bully boy phlegm and sputum at the White House cameras last night: Attention JD Vance—activate the 25th Amendment now, POTUS has gone full retard into veritable delusionary madness. That’s right. There was hardly a sentence in the speech that accords with reality in any way shape or form. Not even remotely.” – David Stockman

Trump, fresh off being anointed America’s new messianic savior, purges military of dissident generals, promises to ‘destroy what’s left of Iran’ – “Two U.S. military aircraft, an F-15 fighter jet and an A10 Warthog, downed in the last 24 hours in the Persian Gulf. Everything we are hearing points to an imminent ground invasion of Iran being ordered by Donald J. Trump. This could change, of course, but as of 3 p.m. on Good Friday, it’s not looking good.” – Leo Hohmann

Sanctity Lost: Even Neocon Pantheon Declares US a ‘Rogue Superpower’ The era of American exceptionalism in the eyes of its most fanatic imperialists has drawn to an end. – Simplicius

War On Iran: – Not ‘Getting’ Iran – War Delusions – Losing The Status Of Superpowe – “Trump’s speech on Wednesday night did not offer anything new. But taken together with his threats to bomb Iran back to stone age, points to the further escalation of the war. Trump and some around him still do not ‘get’ Iran. They never in their own life held any principle they would not deviate from if money was to be made. Iran, in contrast, does have principles that are not up for sale. It is beyond Trump’s comprehension that such exit:” – Moon of Alabama

BATTLE OF THE DECADE Floating hospitals, hovercrafts & drone lasers: Trump’s force ready to land in Iran…& what regime has in store for them- “The Sun told how plans had been drawn up for Trump’s 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit to storm vital island fortresses to unlock the Strait of Hormuz. But now the Pentagon has given its clearest sign yet of invasion intentions after ordering prefabricated bunkers for island occupations, sources say. Trump has had his crosshairs firmly set on Iran‘s main oil terminal on Kharg Island – where 95 per cent of its oil is shipped.” – Katie Davis and Martin Arostegui

Hegseth Has Gutted the Entire Joint Chiefs and Replaced Them With People Whose Primary Skill Is Clapping – “The Man Who Hit a Drummer With an Axe on Live Television Is Now Swinging at Four-Star Generals During a War, and Nobody in Washington Will Tell You Why.” – 🐺The Wise Wolf

Senior Iranian Official Involved In Reaching Out To Vance Severely Wounded In Airstrike – “A top Iranian official who was involved in diplomatic outreach and indirect talks or messaging with the United States and Pakistani mediators was reportedly critically wounded in a US-Israeli strike. Kamal Kharazi, an 81-year-old senior adviser to Tehran and former foreign minister, lost his wife in the Wednesday strike on his home, state media has said. Some analysts and pundits have accused Israel in particular of trying to sabotage any US-Iran talks, as the Netanyahu government wants to see complete regime collapse in the Islamic Republic.” – Tyler Durden  -THAT MAKES A LOT OF SENSE, TRY TO KILL SOMEONE WHO WANTS TO NEGOTIATE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hit List: Iran Threatens US and Israeli Corporations IRGC said companies have supported US and Israeli military operations in Iran. Eighteen corporations operating in Israel and the GCC nations were warned on March 31 they “will come under attack as they have assisted US-Israeli terror operations inside Iran.” The companies are considered “espionage entities,” according to the Iranian military.” – Kurt Nimmo

Zarif’s Peace Proposal Isn’t Half-Bad – “It’s surprisingly pragmatic and could serve as a face-saving off-ramp for Trump 2.0.” – Andrew Korybko  -THE WAY IT’S GOING, I DON’T THINK TRUMP IS LOOKING FOR THE OFF RAMP!!!!

Time for Europe to Defend Itself – “Americans shouldn’t fight for a suicidal continent.” – J.B. Shurk

His Majesty’s head-chopper: Syria’s MI6-backed president bows to King Charles – “Ahmed al-Sharaa’s Downing Street visit offered him a reunion with the British intel operatives who groomed the former Al Qaeda warlord to become president of Syria.” – Kit Klarenberg

ECONOMIC NEWS

Trump Seeks Record $1.5 Trillion for Military, Paid for by Huge Cuts Elsewhere – “To pay for his F-upped war, Trump wants cuts in the EPA, Education, Disaster Funding, TSA, Health. Budget lies also needed.” – Mish

Treasury: Federal Government is Bankrupt – “It’s official: the federal government is bankrupt. You probably knew this. But Treasury admitting it is comforting. Or perhaps terrifying. Last week the Department of Treasury released it consolidated financial statements for fiscal 2025, reporting that the federal government has just over $6 trillion in assets — land, buildings, student loans. But, according to Treasury, it has nearly $48 trillion of debt. That comes to negative $42 trillion. Which is roughly half a million dollars for a family of 4.” – Peter St Onge

Can the Market Economy Be Trusted? – “Contrary to mainstream economics, neither the central bank’s expansionary monetary policy nor the government’s expansionary fiscal policies can cause an increase in savings or production. On the contrary, the expansionary policies weaken the process of savings formation thereby weakening the prospects for economic growth.” – Frank Shostak

This is the Weirdest US Labor Market I’ve Ever Seen – “Weak demand for labor and job destruction at federal & state governments should push up unemployment. But the supply of labor has plunged.” – Wolf Richter

Is the US Dollar Collapse Imminent? (VIDEO) – “Is the “Petro-Yuan” really about to replace the “Petro-Dollar”? 📉 The Macro Butler breaks down the complex reality of global reserve currencies and why China might not want the crown just yet. “The curse of being the manager of the global reserve currency…” – The Macro Butler

Financial storms ahead – “Financial instability is about to get much worse making the short-term outlook for gold and silver uncertain, but long-term being reaffirmed. It is a buying opportunity for the brave. Until this morning, gold and silver were enjoying a reasonable rally while the broader markets appeared to be under the impression that in the war against Iran America’s proposals to end it would get some traction. But markets appeared to be ignoring Iran’s denials that any talks were taking place. ” – Alasdair Macleod

SURVIVAL, PREPAREDNESS AND SELF-SUFFICIENCY

Quiet Strength: How Ordinary People Become Leaders In Hard Times – “There is a particular kind of person who reveals themselves during a crisis. They are not usually the loudest voice in the room, not the one with the most impressive title or the most polished way of speaking. They tend to be the neighbor who was already outside assessing the situation before anyone else had finished panicking, or the coworker who quietly started making a list of what needed to happen while everyone else was still processing the shock. These people do not announce their leadership. They simply begin doing what needs to be done, and others naturally fall in behind them without fully understanding why.” – Bob Rodgers

The Underground Garden Battery: How Wood… Charcoal… And Metal Turns Your Soil Into A Self-Sustaining Engine – Bill Heid

Solar Panels for Off-Grid Living: How to Build a System That Actually Works – “Going off-grid with solar is one of the most significant investments a self-reliant homesteader can make. Done right, it eliminates your utility bill permanently, keeps your property powered when the grid fails, and gives you the kind of energy independence that no amount of prepping supplies can replace. Done wrong, it drains your budget on undersized equipment, leaves you in the dark when you need power most, and sends you back to the hardware store for parts you should have bought the first time.” – Ask A Prepper Staff

5 Tools For Clearing Overgrown Land – “Clearing overgrown land can be a daunting task. Choose the right tool for the job and it can be a breeze! Here are 5 of my favorites that make clearing overgrown land satisfying and fun!” – Grace Campbell

NEVER Throw Away These Items! (Do This Instead) – “If you’re anything like me, you’ve got a corner of the garage or barn where random stuff just piles up. Old jars, bent screws, a cracked garden hose, that washing machine drum you swore you’d do something with. Most people look at that pile and see junk. On a homestead, though, that pile is a goldmine. Every jar, pallet, and stray bolt is a project waiting to happen, something that saves you a trip to the store and keeps perfectly good materials out of the landfill. ” – Olivia Brooks

VERSES FOR THE DAY

Matthew 27:23-25     And the governor said, Why, what evil hath he done? But they cried out the more, saying, Let him be crucified.  When Pilate saw that he could prevail nothing, but that rather a tumult was made, he took water, and washed his hands before the multitude, saying, I am innocent of the blood of this just person: see ye to it.  Then answered all the people, and said, His blood be on us, and on our children.

John 19:28-30    After this, Jesus knowing that all things were now accomplished, that the scripture might be fulfilled, saith, I thirst. Now there was set a vessel full of vinegar: and they filled a spunge with vinegar, and put it upon hyssop, and put it to his mouth. When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, he said, It is finished: and he bowed his head, and gave up the ghost.

IMAGES FOR THE DAY

THE BIG PICTURE

The Technate of America: The 1940 Nazi Blueprint Behind Trump’s Iran War That Makes My Brain Want to Explode – “Jiang asks the question nobody on cable news has the attention span to ask: if the Middle East oil is gone, where does the replacement come from? Canada. Venezuela. The United States. And who just took Venezuela. And who is threatening Canada. And who tried to buy Greenland. And who had his Secretary of War unveil something called “Greater North America” that claims every nation north of the equator as an American security perimeter. Jiang calls this “the Technate” and says it like he invented the concept over lunch. He didn’t. It has a name. It has a history. It has a map. And here is where things go from “interesting YouTube lecture” to “I need to sit down and possibly throw up.” So why isn’t anyone stopping this? Because 70 million Americans think the front man was sent by Jesus. I voted for Donald Trump twice. He was solid the first time. Probably would’ve been fine the second time. But this isn’t the same man. This is an old man nearing the end who can see what Musk and Thiel are building and is making sure the Trump family has a seat at the new table. The Christianity is the costume.” – 🐺The Wise Wolf  – HAVE LINKED ABOUT TECHNATE OF AMERICA BEFORE, SEE POSTS ON  09/04/25 AND 01/21/26

Trump Admin Asks Supreme Court To Shield Bayer From Glyphosate Lawsuits. Kentucky Becomes Latest State To Prohibit Lawsuits Against Pesticide Producers – “The USDA last week deregulated genetically-modified (GMO) corn for insect resistance created by Bayer, further proof that the admin. is totally aligned with big-ag and big-pharma.” – The WinePress

Pfizer Halts COVID Shot Trial Because They Can’t Find Enough Test Subjects Willing to Take Another Booster Shot – “Those seeking their 6th booster are now either dead, disabled or have finally woken up to reality.” – Nicolas Hulscher, MPH

Academic Study: Why Won’t German Women Mate With Migrants? – “The ongoing Western social engineers’ jihad to deracinate the white race by herding European women into the warm embrace of Third World migrants has not, so far, gone as swimmingly as the architects of globo-homo race communism had hoped. Indeed, the majority of the migrant-native sexual relations in Europe appear to be the non-consensual type. Enter the crack social scientists of EU-funded academia to figure out what went wrong so as to expedite the mongrelization. Of all the war-torn “refugees” fleeing oppression, they all just happen to be horny men who arrive on European soil with no women of their own to fornicate with. What are the odds the demographic migrant cookie crumbles like that — serendipity for the social engineers who aim to force blonde women into the arms of brown carpetbaggers! Anyway, potential obvious reasons German women won’t take up sexual Congress with Syrian migrants, which one doesn’t need an academic study funded by Brussels to determine:” – Ben Bartee

Big Tech Reverting to Old Ways? – “Meta clamps down on a documentary criticizing Meta. Is old-school digital censorship returning?” – Matt Taibbi

Apple Forces Users To Register Digital ID To Use The Internet In UK, Australia And Some US States. UK Government Will Investigate Complaints Of Climate-Change Denial – “Apple has crossed the Rubicon with this software update which is more like ransomware, holding customers hostage to ID demands that are invasive, exclusionary and unnecessary.” – The WinePress

West Virginia Bill Forces Vaccine History Into Every Sudden Death Under 30: HB4951 – “State builds pipeline linking vaccines to sudden death data—federal CDC registry to receive every case.” – Jon Fleetwood

NEWS

Marco Rubio, Tell Us Again Who The Lunatics Are That Have An Apocalyptic Vision Of The Future – “The lies about Iran emanating from the Trump administration are not only multitudinous; they are malicious and fallacious. It has been confirmed by U.S. intelligence agencies, including by Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard under oath before Congress in March 2025 that Iran did NOT possess a nuclear weapon and was NOT pursuing a nuclear weapon. This has been the consistent testimony of our intelligence agencies for at least the last 20 years. Yet, during those same 20 years, Benjamin Netanyahu and Senator Lindsey Graham have been constantly fomenting that Iran is two weeks away from possessing a nuclear weapon. It was all a lie. And the same people who accused Iran of building a nuclear weapon also accused Iran of being the “Number One sponsor of terrorism.” This is likewise a bald-faced lie. Our own State Department identifies Sunni Islam subgroups such as al-Qaeda, ISIS, ISIL, al-Nusra, etc., as leading the list of terrorist organizations. Yet, these are the groups that Donald Trump helped to put in power in Syria, and he continues to fund, arm and train these terrorist organizations.” – Chuck Baldwin

War May Be about to Widen Hyugely – “Has Israel’s nightmare begun? Are we marching relentlessly toward Armageddon?. Now that the Houthis have joined the war and Iran has stated they are tasked with closing the Red Sea, this war could easily become a global catastrophe. We all know how easily this tiny group of dessert rats managed to shut down the Red Sea for all shipping traffic last year. Imagine that both sides of the Arabian peninsula now become shut down to shipping. Now you’re talking a loss of maybe 40% of oil supply being cut off and an enormous amount of other commercial shipping through the Suez Canal.” – David Haggith

Stone Age Bombing – “I watched President Trump’s speech to the nation last night on the Iran War. The lies and boasts flew thick. According to Trump, America is winning and winning big. Under Joe Biden, America was “crippled” and “dead,” but Trump has reanimated the dead and healed it. (An obvious aside: Trump has a serious Christ complex.) From dead and crippled, America is now the meanest, toughest, hombre in the valley. We take what we want and if you resist we’ll bomb you back to the Stone Age.” – Bill Astore

Trump Rides Crazy Train Straight to Hell – “The president threatens to bomb a nation of 93 million people “back to the Stone Age, where they belong.” After listening to President Trump ignominious, incoherent, and depraved address about the Iran War, I racked my brain to think of other leaders in history who combined mendacity, stupidity, and arrogance in such equal measures. I couldn’t think of any other foreign policy utterance in history that matched the lowness of Trump’s..” – John Leake

Iran and Arabia: A Study in Contrasts – “Shared history: divided geograhies, religions and politics. The geopolitical tension between the Arab world and Iran goes far beyond a contemporary dispute over resources or borders; it is rooted in millennia of distinct historical trajectories, a religious schism dating back over 1,400 years, and a stark contrast in how statehood itself was forged.” – Ashes of Pompeii

“Make A Deal Before It’s Too Late”: Trump Threatens Tehran (Again) As Iran/Oman Draft Protocol To Re-Open Hormuz – “World’s most important oil price hits record high as Trump threatens Iran:” – Tyler Durden

Pam Bondi ousted as attorney general, source says – “She will be replaced for now by Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, who will serve as acting attorney general, Trump said. The president wrote on Truth Social that Bondi would be “transitioning to a much needed and important new job in the private sector,” praising her for her work in his administration and offering no specific reason for why she would be leaving.” – Kristen Holmes, Kaitlan Collins and Hannah Rabinowitz – ANOTHER ONE BITES THE DUST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Pam Bondi’s Two Gigantic Failures Overshadowed Her Middle Management Skills or Fox News Appearances – “There is a particular irony in Pam Bondi’s departure from the Justice Department that the political class seems determined not to discuss. She was confirmed as Attorney General last February with the explicit mandate to restore discipline, accountability, and purpose to a department that had spent four years operating as the enforcement arm of progressive political ambition. By every measure of institutional loyalty, she delivered. The first reason she’s gone is a bit complicated. She couldn’t get any high-profile indictments or arrests to stick. None of them. The second, bigger reason she’s gone is not complicated at all, and it has nothing to do with the usual Washington parlor game of “palace intrigue.” Bondi was removed because she committed what is, in this administration, the cardinal sin: she managed a high-profile political liability with all the grace of a man trying to defuse a bomb with oven mitts. The Epstein files debacle — a slow-motion disaster of mismanagement, contradictory statements, and stagecraft that backfired spectacularly ” – JD Rucker

Trump polled advisers about replacing Tulsi Gabbard as intelligence chief – “Exclusive: Pressure intensifies for Gabbard after president’s displeasure with Iran war testimony” – Hugo Lowel

Gulf States Considering Network Of New Pipelines To Bypass Strait Of Hormuz – Tyler Durden

The US Is Making A Play For Belarus’ Most Strategic Export – “Average consumers across the world have probably never purchased anything from Belarus, but among the agricultural industry, its potash – a high-quality fertilizer – is globally renowned. Not only is it very effective, but it’s also plentiful, with Belarus accounting for 15.9% of total production. This makes it the world’s third-largest producer. The West imposed sanctions on Belarus’ most strategic export after summer 2020’s failed Color Revolution, but the US just removed its sanctions in late March.” – Andrew Korybko

It’s Past Time To Privatize The Post Office – “The USPS in its current form needs to be put out of its misery. The USPS now is the predictable outcome of trying to run a massive logistics operation through a government bureaucracy that moves slowly, resists change, and answers more to politics than to performance. Even Amazon, a company that started as an online bookstore (what could be less efficient to ship than godd*mn books — bricks?), has figured out how to build a better delivery network. Meanwhile, visits to post offices have fallen off a cliff, but the system has barely shrunk its footprint. Labor costs remain enormous, productivity lags, and the workforce is structured in ways that prioritize stability over efficiency. The contrast with private carriers like FedEx and UPS could not be clearer.They have built systems that deliver packages faster, track them more precisely, and adapt to changing demand almost in real time. ” – Quoth the Raven

ECONOMIC NEWS

The Market Law Of One Price—How The Donald Bombed Energy Consumers, Too – “The Donald plunged into one hell of a hornets nest when he took the bait from Bibi Netanyahu and launched an all out “kinetic” war on Iran (as distinguished from the brutal economic war Washington has been waging for decades). But now that the gasoline pump price has breached $4/gallon and is heading higher, he’s desperately looking for an off-ramp.” – David Stockman

MAGA FAIL: Real Inflation Is Out Of Control – “Inflation is caused by money printing, and the privately owned central planning politburo known as The Federal Reserve Bank has been conjuring unimaginable amounts of fiat out of thin air so profligately that they are now accelerating the destruction of the value of the dollar at an unprecedented rate.” – 2nd Smartest Guy in the World

ADP Reports Second Consecutive Month Of Solid Job Growth – “The Report Is Good, But Is It Good Enough? While the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ job reports in February blew way past “ugly” and landed square in “fugly” territory, ADP produced job numbers that were far more optimistic.” – Peter Nayland Kust

Private Credit Problems Ending the Party (VIDEO) with Ed Dowd – Greg Hunter

Silver: The Panic Cycle Continues… Just When You Thought It Was Safe to Stack Again – “It almost is.. Silver just pulled the classic trapdoor move. Just when it looked like the dip was buyable and the weak hands were flushed, the market yanked the rug again. This is exactly what a full-blown panic cycle looks like—violent, irrational, and designed to break conviction. If you’re feeling uncomfortable, good… that’s the point.” -Kerry Lutz

Is The Bottom In For Gold? Silver? Bitcoin? (VIDEO) with Lawrence Lepard – Adam Taggart | Thoughtful Money®

Interview with Turkiye’s Diplomacy 02.04.2026 – “The Macro Butler sat down with Umar Tasleem on Türkiye’s A News to deliver what can only be described as 10 minutes of uncomfortable arithmetic. Thirty-two days into a war won comprehensively on Day 1, the real economic damage is now impossible to ignore: oil shortages, supply chain chaos, and a Truth Social account that is the world’s most destabilizing financial instrument.” – The Macro Butler

Homes for Sale in California Rose to the 2nd Highest for March in at Least a Decade as Demand Withered: The Biggest Markets -“In the San Jose metro (Silicon Valley), active listings hit at least a 10-year record for March. But Orange County lags behind.” – Wolf Richter

SURVIVAL, PREPAREDNESS AND SELF-SUFFICIENCY

The Forgotten Shade Crop “Big Timber” Tried to Bury… And Why It Belongs in Your Backyard Right Now – “There’s a berry bush thriving in backyards across Europe that most Americans have never tasted, never planted, and in many cases, never even heard of. That’s not by accident — it was pushed out of sight. Now here’s where it gets interesting. Every gardening book you’ve ever read drills the same rule into your head: fruit needs full sun. Six to eight hours minimum. More is better. It’s repeated so often it feels like a law of nature — as predictable as frost in November. But then along comes a plant that quietly breaks that rule.” – Bill Heid

Top 10 “Normal” Grocery Items That Quietly Become Survival Assets – denob

The Common Mulch Mistake That Causes Root Rot – “Here’s why volcano mulching damages your trees and plants and what to do instead.” – Ashley Zlatopolsky

Sleep Deprivation Survival: 72 Hours Without Sleep Effects in a Crisis and How to Stay Functional – “Sleep Deprivation Survival is not some macho badge of honor, and it is not a niche concern for extreme situations either. In a real crisis, whether you are dealing with a storm outage, a rushed evacuation, a sick family member, civil unrest, or just the grinding stress of staying alert when everything feels unstable, sleep can disappear faster than most people expect. That is when bad decisions start creeping in quietly. You miss details, you overreact and you forget simple steps.” – Bob Rodgers

Gardening in April (Garden Tasks by Month) – Melissa K. Norris

VERSES FOR THE DAY

Matthew 26:15    And said unto them, What will ye give me, and I will deliver him unto you? And they covenanted with him for thirty pieces of silver.

Luke 22:47-48        And while he yet spake, behold a multitude, and he that was called Judas, one of the twelve, went before them, and drew near unto Jesus to kiss him.  But Jesus said unto him, Judas, betrayest thou the Son of man with a kiss?

IMAGES FOR THE DAY

THE BIG PICTURE

The Staged ‘War’ Between the U.S., Israel, and Iran Is a Trap – “What began by looking like a simple and horrible ‘war’ of brutal aggression against Iran by the U.S on orders from Zionist Israel, has now shown its real colors. It has become impossible to view this as any real ‘war,’ and it has become obvious that this strategy, all these false flags; are at best a coordinated effort by those globalist oligarchs striving to digitize, starve, and control the world through technocratic means. This is all being played out with a particular script meant to achieve multiple agendas, nefarious all, and to in essence, figuratively capture and cage all of the masses, taking control by psychological, digital, and physical measures to eliminate much of society while taming and altering the rest. All of this is contingent on eliminating the individual.” – Gary D. Barnett

Death Throes of the American Empire – “Iran Might Take it All Down. The American empire approaches a tipping point. The 2026 US-Iran war threatens the dollar’s dominance and the established global order. Every empire comes to an end, often to the sound of applause. Sometimes a new order is formed to pick up the pieces. Sometimes the transition is marked by global chaos, nationalism, and isolationism.” – Sarah Connor

President Trump’s Ballroom Is Cover for the Biggest AI Data Center in the World – “FDR did it. GWB did it. Now DJT is doing it and this is the most consequential White House move in decades. Follow the Money Into the Ground: the donor list deserves scrutiny not because it represents corruption, but because it reveals the project’s actual architecture. Among the 37 confirmed donors are Amazon, Microsoft, Google, Apple, Meta — the full constellation of American cloud computing. Also present: Booz Allen Hamilton, which generates 98 percent of its revenue from U.S. government contracts and specializes in intelligence and data analytics. And most telling: Palantir Technologies and Lockheed Martin. ” – JD Rucker

Canadian Parliament Passes Hate Crime Law That Could Fine And Jail Residents For Quoting The Bible And Promoting Antisemitism – “Free speech and freedom of religion are now under grave threat and scrutiny after the Canadian Parliament passed a bill allowing for the criminalization of religious beliefs, specifically when quoting passages from The Bible. On March 26th, the Canadian House passed Bill C-9, Combating Hate Act” – The WinePress

New Bill Opens Door for Killer AI Weapons—Pentagon Can Override Ban and Deploy Autonomous Lethal Systems – “Waiver clause grants a single Pentagon official the power to authorize AI-driven lethal force under “national security” conditions, with Congress only notified after the factJon” – Jon Fleetwood

The Cult of American Exceptionalism – “American exceptionalism is often mistaken for a political policy, but it is actually a form of religion, a semi-secular cult. It demands faith rather than evidence. While frequently associated with the political right, its core tenets permeate the entire American psyche, including some on the left who claim to oppose the status quo. Above all, stands the absolute conviction of most Americans, but especially the ruling class, that America is divinely graced, on this earth to lead humanity towards prosperity and light. Chosen by God!” – Ashes of Pompeii

NEWS

The Sound of an Empty Chamber – “In the final scene of 1950’s Saturday-afternoon Westerns, the bad-guy pulled the trigger and the only sound from his revolver was the click on an empty chamber. He ran out of bullets—only to meet his fate. That what’s happening in wars perpetuated by the US/Israel. Each has an outcome determined by number of troops—and more importantly, ammunition. For example, in Ukraine, Russia fires 8X more artillery than Ukraine (NATO)—hence 8X more Ukrainians die. There’s a difference. In Ukraine, the Russian strategy is well thought-out. In Iran, the US/Israel has no strategy. If they have a strategy, it’s to create chaos—a strategy devoid of military intelligence, having to rely on decapitation strikes and carpet-bombing. And because Iran is proving to be resilient, US bombing targets are increasingly—war crimes on civilians.” – Erik @ neverhadaboss.com

Trump Signals Final Sadistic Punishment as Consolation For Lost War “If you must end it emptily, end it loudly.” – Simplicius

‘Burn It Down’: Destruction Of Persian Gulf Energy & Fertilizer Production Capacity – “What Is The Primary Goal Of The Attack On Iran? With the daily flip-flopping that we see, the marketing of the war effort has become a farce. Apparently. However, as mentioned previously, the vast scale of the Iranian military’s missile and drone programs were well known before the attack began as was Iran’s resulting attacks on countries supporting the US/Israeli effort. Nobody was shocked. It is thus no surprise that today oil and LNG production and shipping facilities are on fire throughout the Gulf and that production, refining, and shipping capacity will likely be impaired for years to come if things go well.” – David Jensen

Trump lashes out at UK and France, telling allies ‘the U.S.A. won’t be there to help you anymore – Holly Ellyatt and Kevin Breuninger

Gangster Trump The Rhetoric of Obliteration – “Nice country you have there, Iran. It’d be a shame if you lost it. That’s the gist of Donald Trump’s recent threats to Iran on “Truth Social.” It’s hard to exaggerate how demented this post is. So, the Iran War is a war of “retribution”? The U.S. is butchering and killing because allegedly the Iranians have “butchered and killed”? And the Don is going to “obliterate” Iran’s power grid and possibly desalinization plants as well, possibly killing millions of innocents over time, because Iran has quite predictably exerted control over the Strait of Hormuz?” – Bill Astore

Hijacking Religion: How the Pentagon Turned the Sermon on the Mount into a War Manual. – “The language of modern government is the language of empire. It is the language of domination, retaliation, conquest and control—of enemies to be crushed, nations to be subdued, and dissenters to be silenced. Under the Trump Administration, the language of empire has also been imbued with a religious fervor that recasts Jesus Christ—not as a peacemaker—but as a mascot for power, conquest and control. War has been dressed up in patriotism. Wrapped in Scripture. Called “righteous.” Marketed as “peace through strength.” But this is not a holy war. It is a political war dressed up as holy.” – John & Nisha Whitehead

Trump Still Trumped – “Reality speaks louder than the president who keeps tying his own words in knots. First, on the main subject, the president continued today to boast about how well negotiations are going, Iran continues to say everything he says about negotiations is a lie.” – David Haggith

Is Israel behind “Iran-backed terror cell” targeting Europe? (VIDEO) – Wyatt Reed / The Grayzone

In widening NATO spat, Rubio calls for the alliance to be “reexamined” while Trump tells U.K. and other allies that “the U.S.A. won’t be there to help you anymore. – “We’re in the middle of another NATO spat. The Americans are accusing the Europeans of disloyalty and ungratefulness, while the Europeans are quietly (or, in the case of Spain, not-so-quietly) criticising the Iran war and preparing for the looming energy crisis. Spain was the first NATO ally to deny the United States access to the jointly operated Rota and Morón air bases for Operation Epic Fury.” – eugyppius

Trump Goes Commando – “Iran “raid” replaces ground war and you’re supposed to clap. Most Americans are bracing for a massive ground invasion of Iran, one that military sources tell me will not happen. That’s because there’s another plan entirely. What’s in store is a “raid,” all of these sources agree. Of course, it all depends on what Donald Trump orders, and sources say they don’t know what that might be on any given day. So they offer the White House different alternatives,” – Ken Klippenstein

Renowned trends forecaster Gerald Celente predicts Trump won’t order ground invasion of Iran unless… – “He suggests that only one thing could force Trump’s hand to do the unthinkable and launch full-fledged ground invasion” – Leo Hohmann

Warning From The Heartland: Historic Drought And Unexpected Fertilizer Shortages Could Mean Massive Crop Losses – Michael Snyder

US Treasury Launches ‘Office Of The Whistleblower,’ Encourages Americans Report Fraud And Snitch On Churches, Bessent To Offer Cash Rewards “President Trump has been clear that Americans have a right to know that their tax dollars are not being diverted to fund acts of global terror or to fund luxury cars for fraudsters.” – The WinePress   – WHICH CONGRESSMAN DO WE START WITH FIRST!!!!

The Kiev grifter regime taps the Gulf war racket – “When Ukraine’s puppet president shows up anywhere, one should immediately suspect a scam in the making. Corruption follows this con artist and his crony regime like a bad smell. His schtick of turning up at summits begging for more Western taxpayer billions has grown tiresome and, frankly, a bit implausible given the embezzlement scandals that the Kiev regime is mired in. But, fear not, the grifter machine that passes for an unelected presidency in Ukraine has found an exciting new diversification for export markets. The trouble is that this capitalist business model has quite a few holes in it, if one cares to look. Five weeks of war in the Middle East have created a profitable business opportunity.” – Finian Cunningham

Ukraine’s Strikes Against Russian Oil Refineries Risk Worsening The Global Energy Crisis – “The further reduction of Russian oil exports could lead to a price spike that destabilizes the global economy and ultimately weakens the US’ one as well, but it’s unclear whether Trump will punish Zelensky for this or if he cynically wants him to facilitate that scenario as part of a global reset.” – Andrew Korybko

ECONOMIC NEWS

Gasoline Prices Top $4 First Time Since Aug 2022, Diesel $0.36 from Record – “The small price to pay keeps rising.” – Mish

Jerome Powell tells Congress: “Good luck with that debt problem…” – “Yesterday, Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell admitted that the math no longer works. “Our debt is growing substantially faster than our economy. And in the long run, that’s kind of the definition of unsustainable.” He’s right.” -James Hickman (Simon Black)

Comex Report: Ignore the Paper Price and Watch the Physical Metal – “The CME Comex is the Exchange where futures are traded for gold, silver, and other commodities. The CME also allows futures buyers to turn their contracts into physical metal through delivery. The data below looks at contract delivery where the ownership of physical metal changes hands within CME vaults. It also shows data that details the movement of metal in and out of CME vaults. It is very possible that if there is a run on the dollar, and a flight into gold, this is the data that will show early warning signs.” – Peter Schiff

Farm Action’s Letter to Congress, Lambasting the Concentration of Fertilizer Makers and its Impact on Prices – “Waves of mergers and acquisitions across food and agriculture have funneled power into the hands of a few dominant corporations. Their unchecked integration has hollowed out competition, giving them outsized control over how Americans farm, work, and eat,” – Wolf Richter

The “Good News” Is Always the Same: the Stock Market Is Up–Until It Isn’t – Charles Hugh Smith

THE US IS INSOLVENT THE DEBT CAN NEVER BE REPAID – After a strong rise over the past few years, a correction has naturally raised doubts. But focusing on short-term movements risks missing the broader reality. Because precious metals are not driven by sentiment or market timing. They are driven by the underlying condition of the financial system itself. And that condition is best understood through one simple lens: debt. Over the past decades, US debt has not grown linearly, but exponentially—” – Egon von Greyerz

SURVIVAL, PREPAREDNESS AND SELF-SUFFICIENCY

How Prepper OPSEC Mistakes Turn You Into a Target – “Most preppers spend years quietly building their supplies, skills, and plans. They invest real money in food storage, water filtration, communications gear, and defensive tools. Then, in a single unguarded conversation with the wrong person, or through one too many posts on a public social media account, all of that careful work gets exposed. Operational security, commonly called OPSEC, is what stands between your preparations and the people who would take them from you when things go sideways.” – David Andrew Brown

Growing Potatoes in Laundry Baskets -Alan Urban  – HAVE SEEN GROWING THEM IN BAGS BEFORE BUT I DON’T THINK I’VE EVER SEEN THIS WAY TO GROW POTATOES!!!

The Old Lightbulb That Still Pulls Its Weight: Why That Warm Glow Matters More Than You Think – Bill Heid

3 Ways to Prep Your Fridge and Freezer for a Summer Power Outage – Tim MacWelch

Amish Chicken Coops: The Self-Sufficient Prepper’s Ultimate Guide – “When the grid goes down, the supply chain breaks, or inflation makes grocery store eggs a luxury, the people eating well are the ones who built their food production into their property. Amish chicken coops are not a trend. They are not a lifestyle aesthetic imported from a farmhouse magazine. They are a centuries-old engineering solution to a real and permanent problem: how do you keep chickens alive, productive, and secure without electricity, synthetic materials, or factory infrastructure?” – Ask A Prepper Staff

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Disconnect from the Bullsh*t (VIDEO) – Pat Mac  – GOOD ONE. SHORT AND TO THE POINT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Reclaiming Sanity in an Insane World – “Stop looking for truth in the noise” – Sarah Connor  – GOOD READ FROM SARAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Civilization Is Under Massive Strain, and Every Week The War Goes on, Its Going to Get Worse” – “Things are getting very real very fast. For several reasons, it is fair to say that WWIII has already started, meaning the entire world is being affected, though it’s not just a fighting war. It is an energy war, we have a full-out vaccine war, a money and debt war, and a fertilizer problem, which is looking every day more and more like a food crisis we do not even want to think about.” – Dr.Sircus

Spain’s New “Hate and Polarisation Footprint” Has a Strong Whiff of Totalitarianism – “One of the hallmarks of totalitarian regimes is the conversion of political rulers into unquestionable authorities on truth and falsehood and virtue and vice. Instead of concerning themselves with external actions that palpably disrupt public order or attack basic rights like property and bodily integrity, totalitarian rulers use all the means at their disposal to school citizens on the right and wrong sorts of attitudes, beliefs and speech to adopt in their everyday life. In short, government becomes the policeman not only of public order, but of social and personal morality.” – David Thunder

Chaos, Walkouts, and 95% Failure Rates: The Case Against the TSA Is Now Undeniable – “Why the Democrat Funding Freeze Should Be the TSA’s Last Act. It is the third shutdown in less than six months that has forced the officers who screen airport passengers and luggage to keep working without pay. Each episode has compounded the damage. Each episode has revealed more starkly the fragility baked into this model. And each episode has made the same question more unavoidable: why are we doing this at all? Federalizing screeners was a non-sequitur solution to a wholly different problem. That foundational error has now had twenty-five years to metastasize.” – Alexander Muse

The First Heatwave of the Year… and the Same Old Narrative – “How long term temperature records challenge the climate narrative” – Dr. Matthew Wielicki

Insane in the membrane – getting ahead of the meningitis fear curve – “Don’t just get in line like you did last time, please. So lots of cases of meningitis in temporal proximity to vaccination and many were linked to other vaccines as well. Considering there are absolutely no studies done on counter-indications with regard to pumping young people full of so many vaccines, this doesn’t come as a surprise to me. The current meningococcal (meningitis) vaccines on the market in the U.S. as of March 22, 2026 are Menveo, MenQuadfi, Bexsero, Trumenba, Penbraya, Penmenvy. The ones most associated with AEs in VAERS is Bexsero and Trumenba.” – Jessica Rose

Epstein COVER-UP Deepens; FBI Officers Raise Alarm – “Bags of SHREDDED DOCUMENTS destroyed at NY jail days after his death” – Steve Watson

NEWS

Workers and Consumers Are the Last of Their Concerns – “Surprise, the Oligarchs Come First, Second, and Last. President Trump’s senior economic adviser said the quiet part out loud: the U.S. economy is fundamentally healthy for the richest, the owners, the oligarchs. The Iran War shouldn’t threaten them; indeed, it may enrich them. But the war will hurt consumers and workers—and that is the last and least of the Trump administration’s concerns. There you have it. Corporations are our new citizens. And you? If you’re lucky, you get to make a choice: consumer, warrior or prisoner. Which will it be?” – Bill Astore

This is complete strategic incoherence. – “We are being led to the abyss by a madman who is pulling ideas out of his ass hour by hour and posting them on social media. Generals and Admirals need to start resigning. I say this as someone who voted for Trump 3X, went to rallies, and drove 11 hours to attend J-6 in person.” – Matt Bracken on X

Trump calls off strikes on Iranian energy – “The US president has ordered the Department of War to postpone attacks on such facilities after “productive” talks with Tehran” -RT

Iran’s state news agency rejects Trump’s claim of ‘constructive conversations’ – “‘There is no direct contact with Trump, not even through intermediaries’ — Fars News citing a source ‘Trump backed off after hearing that our targets would be all power plants in West Asia'” – RT on X

Trump’s bombardment of fake news so far is working quite well. But where is it heading? – “Despite all the hype from U.S. media, it is important to stress that Trump has not yet acted. The real worry here is how naïve and frankly stupid Americans are, as one option that Trump has, other than using nuclear weapons in Iran, is creating a false flag attack on U.S. home soil. Not only would that allow him to announce a ’state of war’ which would justify cancelling the midterms, but it would also force EU countries and Japan to ramp up their ’free hugs’ policy to a whole new level. Free hugs are not free, by the way.” – Martin Jay

Trump’s Desperate Search for an “Exit Strategy” – “How does one create an exit strategy from a trap of one’s own making, which has resulted from miscalculation, hubris and blunders, while bringing the world closer to nuclear war, and still put a positive spin on what is recognized by most as a humiliating defeat for oneself? This is the task now facing President Donald Trump, as his decision to ally with the sociopathic war criminal Benjamin Netanyahu to start a war against Iran has backfired. ” – Harley Schlanger

Final Escalatory Act Awaits as Iran and Israel Trade ‘Warning Shots’ on Each Other’s Nuke Plants – “For those who thought the war could not “heat up” even more after Israel’s provocation against Iran’s largest gas field, it has apparently entered its final decisive act. After the failure of the main operational phase, wherein the US-Israeli hydra was rebuffed from inflicting any kind of decisive military defeat on Iran, we have come to the logical conclusion, where now threats of existential devastation against critical civilian infrastructure have reached the last escalatory rung.” – Simplicius

Trump: Open Hormuz Strait or Face Bombed Power Plants – “Trump was asked if he had ordered the bombing of desalination plants. He responded by saying Iranians “are among the most evil people ever on earth, they cut babies’ heads off, they chop women in half, what they did, take a look at October 7th… I know nothing about a desalination plant other than to say if they’re complaining about a desalination plant, we complain about the fact that they shouldn’t be chopping babies’ heads off, okay?” There is no evidence Iran had anything to do with the October 7. There is absolutely zero evidence they chopped off the heads of babies. Trump’s off-the-cuff remark is yet another preposterous and evidence-free allegation, but then that’s Trump. Increasingly, he makes statements that are obviously false and often nonsensical. He knows a large number of MAGA cultists will believe what he says, no matter how grotesque and implausible. Iran will launch its now largely unstoppable ballistic missiles at Israel’s civilian infrastructure, and it will do the same in Bahrain, Qatar, the UAE, and Kuwait. The entire region will go dark and thirsty if Trump follows through on his threat. Or maybe he will change his mind. I don’t think so. He is surrounded by a Zionist cabal, most importantly his son-in-law, Jared Kushner, and the Israeli Prime Minister and internationally wanted war criminal Benjamin Netanyahu has visited Trump at least four times as of late. He does not possess the ability to break free of pernicious influence.” – Kurt Nimmo

Israel’s Media Propaganda Decimated By TRUTH – “The first persons/media to claim Iran killed 40,000 Iranians were in the US and UK: Netanyahu (speaking thru a medium from Hell) has stated that Iran is targeting European cities and the al Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem. There is absolutely no logic to the assertion other than the fact that Israel is the king of false flag operations to blame their enemy, aka, October 7th Negev.” – Helena Glass

ECONOMIC NEWS

Collapse Has Started – GET OUT Of System NOW (VIDEO) with Bill Holter – “The ink is dry all over the western world to fleece investors everywhere. And it doesn’t matter whether you have 10,000, 10 million, or a billion. It doesn’t matter if your institution goes down, you’re toast. Get out of the system. Because when this happens, you’re not going to have access to your cash. You’re not going to have access to your stocks, your insurance portfolio. You’re not going to have access to anything. I mean, even if you did have access, you’d be down 60, 70, 80, 90%. If if you were able to sell,” – Liberty and Finance

The TACO Trade Is Back — But the Real Story Is 5.2% Inflation Expectations – “President Trump just unveiled another massive TACO. Stocks immediately ignited higher. As I write this, the S&P 500 is up 2.4%, the NASDAQ is up 2.6% and the Russell 2000 is up 3.8%. Stocks had been in VERY serious trouble late last week, so this announcement from the President is a welcome relief! It was also extremely expected. From a technical analysis perspective, the S&P 500 had broken below the all-important 200-day simple moving average. This is THE long-term bull market trendline for stocks. So the odds greatly favored an intervention by the President. ” – Graham Summers, MBA  – WAS DELAYING THE BOMBING OF IRAN’S INFRASTRUCTURE JUST A PLOY TO GET THE MARKET BACK UP!!!

China Is Gobbling Up Physical Silver – “While the paper-driven silver price swings all over the place, the Chinese have been gobbling up physical silver. China imported 790 tonnes of silver through the first two months of 2026, with 470 tonnes flowing into the country in February alone. This is happening in a silver market that is already short on metal.” – Mike Maharrey

The Bond Market Has Second Thoughts on Trump’s Alleged Progress with Iran – Mish

The Silver Test Nobody Likes (But Everyone Needs) – “The strong dollar? Temporary. The capital rotation? Temporary. The doubt? Also temporary. The structure hasn’t changed. The macro hasn’t changed. The outcome hasn’t changed. The story has already been written. Patience isn’t passive. It’s positioning.” – Kerry Lutz

Tweet from X worth reading – “This tweet on my X-feed caught my attention, so I thought it would reassure Substack subscribers who are naturally worried about their gold and silver positions. Dieter’s message is simple and urgent: this engineered dip is the final gift before the real bull market resumes and pricing power permanently shifts east. Buy the physical metal now while the manipulators still control the paper price.” – Alasdair Macleod

Silver Will Shine Again Soon – “In short, I’m not selling any of my silver.” – Adam Sharp

SURVIVAL, PREPAREDNESS AND SELF-SUFFICIENCY

The Leaf Pile Lie: Why Your “Dead” Compost Never Breaks Down – Bill Heid

Hiding Food (Animals Do It). (VIDEO) – Modern Refugee.

How Much Ammo Should You Stockpile for Emergency Preparedness? – “Most people who think about stockpiling ammunition are already approaching the problem backwards. They focus on numbers first, like how many rounds of 9mm, how many boxes of 5.56 or maybe a few hundred shells for a shotgun. It sounds reasonable on paper, but it ignores the one factor that actually determines how much ammunition you need: what you expect to use it for. In a real emergency, ammunition is not just about defense. It becomes a tool with multiple roles. It protects you, feeds you, trains you, and in some situations, it even becomes a form of currency.” – Bob Rodgers  -GOOD ADVICE FROM BOB!!!!!!!!!!!!!

How to Sharpen a Knife Without a Sharpener (7 Survival Methods) – Ask A Prepper Staff

Beyond Organic: Biological Systems Gardening for Food Security – Part 5 – “WHERE DO I START IF I’M NEW?” – Hobbit Farmer  – THIS ENDS THE SERIES OF ARTICLES, ALL HAVE BEEN LINKED THE PAST 4 DAYS!!

VERSE FOR THE DAY

Revelation 18:9   And the kings of the earth, who have committed fornication and lived deliciously with her, shall bewail her, and lament for her, when they shall see the smoke of her burning,

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Stop Resisting! – “It’s a very strange thing to hear someone whine about being punched in the face after they walked up to someone and cold-cocked them without warning. That is what the state of Israel and its apologists are doing right now. Tel Aviv is in ruins! Civilians have been killed by the Iranians! Well, what did Israel and its apologists expect? Apparently, the expectation is that the Iranians just accept Israel murdering 170 schoolgirls as well as the rest of the murder and mayhem that came along with the joint Israeli-American sneak attack on Iran. This is what’s meant by chutzpah – a word that encompasses audacity and insolence and hypocrisy. We have arrived at what might be described as the ne plus ultra moment of cognitive dissonance. At least in some quarters. The people who decided to start this war and felt no compunction about the murder and mayhem they decided to rain down upon Iran now complain about the same being rained down upon them.” – Eric Peters  – GOOD ONE FROM ERIC AND ERIK BELOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Both Ends Against the Middle – “There is not question that the left is sick—that Trump became president for a 2nd time because Harris is the dumbest person ever nominated to run from either political party. But, under the Trump reign, it’s becoming obvious that the right are conducting a full-blown effort to match the left—as brain dead. If it isn’t obvious to you by now, MAGA (casting itself as American), is an unAmerican, unconstitutional faction in support of Israeli Zionism.” – Erik @ neverhadaboss.com

DON’S DIGITAL DOMINOES! – “BEYOND THE BOARD: TRUMP’S ‘SPEED RUN’ SECURES THE HEMISPHERE WHILE THE WORLD IS STILL LOADING… The talking heads on cable news are still flipping through 20th-century textbooks, trying to apply Kissinger-era logic to a TrumpGPT reality. They call it “chaos” because they can’t see the HUD (Heads-Up Display). In the high-stakes game of global Risk, the United States has stopped playing by the “turn-based” rules of the UN and started playing a real-time strategy (RTS) game where the APM (Actions Per Minute) are off the charts” – Kerry Lutz  -IS THERE MORE TO TRUMP’S STRATEGY THAN MEETS THE EYE. INTERESTING THEORY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

History Rewritten – Politicians Are The Weapons of Mass Destruction – “How was the Middle East created? In 1916, British diplomat Mark Sykes and French diplomat François Georges-Picot divided the region per a pinky swear promise that the Arabs would assist in overthrowing the Ottoman Empire. Instead of upholding their promise, they turned the middle east into two colonies: France got Syria and Lebanon while Britain got Iraq, Jordan, and Palestine. When Edmond Rothschild began extending settlements in Palestine for his Bolshevik compatriots, The House of Rothschild formed terrorist cells to fight the Arabs and the British leading to the Balfour Agreement. To this day, the majority of Arab countries view Picot and Sykes as terrorists after they assassinated Arab intellectuals in 1916. The aftermath of WWI was a mess of colonialism, chaos, and Lies.” – Helena Glass

New Zealand rejects WHO pandemic reform – “Push back on globalist bureaucrats, national sovereignty cited” – Rebekah Barnett

NEWS

Is a Revolution Percolating in the US Military? – “As Marco Rubio blurted early on, it is a war for Israel, with US military commitment not requested, but demanded by Netanyahu. As Joe Kent, Trump’s top Counter Terrorism Advisor, stated in his recent resignation letter, the war on Iran is based on an Israeli lie, “the same tactic the Israelis used to draw us into the disastrous Iraq war that cost our nation the lives of thousands of our best men and women.” What Joe Kent believes, and what he does, is important. A combat hardened veteran and MAGA team player, he represents the thinking of many former and current military members, and their civilian counterparts, who have been around long enough to understand that civilian control of the military does not mean the President can do “anything he wants.”” – Karen Kwiatkowski

Things Go Haywire as Israeli Escalation Throws Iran Conflict into Dangerous New Phase – “Things really hit the fan earlier today after Iran’s largest natural gas field, the South Pars, was struck by Israel. This field reportedly accounts for 75% of Iran’s natural gas production and 80-85% of its electric grid.” – Simplicius

The Last Gloaming – “This week, Trump entered what appears suddenly to be the twilight of his popularity, as the lights suddenly came on everywhere for nearly everyone.” – David Haggith

A toddler’s guide to international affairs – “Foreign policy in the age of Trump. For his entire life, Donald Trump has inhabited an ecosystem constructed entirely of mirrors that only reflect approval. He has always been surrounded by courtiers who nod before he finishes a sentence, validating his notion that each impulse is equivalent to a command. When you live in a golden elevator where everyone presses the button for you, you begin to believe gravity is optional.” – Ashes of Pompeii

Russia Sends Oil and Gas Tankers to Crisis-Hit Cuba, Defying U.S. Blockade – FT – “Russia has dispatched two tankers carrying oil and gas to Cuba as the island grapples with a deepening energy crisis exacerbated by a U.S. oil blockade, the Financial Times reported Wednesday. The ships would be providing the Caribbean island nation with its first energy shipments in three months. Fuel shortages have pushed Cuba into one of its most severe economic crises in decades, with widespread blackouts and disruptions to basic services.” – The Moscow Times

How Did the Military Industrial Complex Convert Tulsi Gabbard? – “It wasn’t so long ago that Tulsi Gabbard articulated the principled stance of a classical liberal along the lines of George Washington, James Madison, and John Adams, all of whom exhorted the American people to avoid foreign entanglements and to regard the perennial calls for war with skepticism. What happened to her?” -John Leake

Not One Dime for Aggression – “All funding requests for the war must be rejected. The Pentagon is requesting $200 billion in war funding for the ongoing illegal assault on Iran:” – Daniel Larison

[CLOSER LOOK] (VIDEO) with Lt. COL. Bill Astore : Running Low: America’s War Readiness Questioned – Judge Andrew Napolitano / Judging Freedom

IMEC: Trump’s War With Iran Is About Global Trade. Period. – “Don’t fall for any other narrative,,, – Patrick Wood

How Israel Convinced Trump to Wage War Against Iran (VIDEO) with Max Blumenthal) – “Max Blumenthal reports that a psychological warfare campaign orchestrated by Zionist interests targeted Trump to drive him into war with Iran.” – The Chris Hedges Report

The Iran Conflict: Oil Markets, Shale Incentives, and the Acceleration of Multipolar Realignment – “Huge Surprise — Iran Does Not Fold Iran’s domestic response has been one of controlled continuity rather than collapse. From a structural perspective, the conflict accelerates several longer-term realignments in the global energy and security landscape.” – Phil Butler

Trump 2.0 Must Urgently Declare Its Position Towards Nukes In Estonia – “The potential transfer of tactical nukes to the UK’s control for use with their planned Estonian-based F-35As would unprecedentedly worsen the already dangerous NATO-Russian security dilemma.” – Andrew Korybko

ECONOMIC NEWS

Powell Says No Stagflation — But He’s Wrong – “U.S. Is Facing A Real Stagflation Threat” – Peter Nayland Kust

The Bank of England Just Admitted There is a Liquidity Crisis – “What the Bank of England is now proposing are changes to ensure banks can actually use their liquidity during a crisis. For years, regulators claimed the system was safe because banks were holding what they defined as high-quality liquid assets. Now they are effectively admitting those assets may not function when they are needed most.” – Martin Armstrong

Bond Market Gets Edgy as US Treasury Debt Hits $39 Trillion, Spiking by $2 Trillion in 7.5 Months and Not Slowing Down – “But debt doesn’t exist in a vacuum: The Debt-to-GDP and Deficit-to-GDP ratios provide (ugly) context.” – Wolf Richter

Analyst Clive Maund Warns of Stock Market Crash – “Given what’s going on in the world, it’s truly remarkable that the US stock markets have held up as well as they have, but it’s not easy slaying a multi-year bull. Now, however, as we look at the 1-year chart for the S&P 500 index shown further down the page, we see that it has been eroding support near its rising 200-day moving average in the recent past to the point that this support is now believed to be on the point of failure.” – Clive Maund

Gloomy Gold? Silver Selling? Cautious Copper (VIDEO) – “Private credit stresses now affecting consumer credit. Fed holds.” – The Contrarian Capitalist

China & India Are About to Drain COMEX Dry: The Era of Fake Paper Pricing Could Be Over by April – “China and India are hoovering up real metal while Wall Street shuffles paper. If this pace holds, the COMEX pricing scam could implode and reset global silver by April.” – The Silver Academy

China Buys Gold For 16th Straight Month, Wall Street Sells As Retail Loads The Bullion Boat – Tyler Durden

SURVIVAL, PREPAREDNESS AND SELF-SUFFICIENCY

The Window Of Abundance Is Closing. (VIDEO) – Modern Refugee  – GOOD ONE FROM THE REFUGEE!!!

The Fertilizer Squeeze: What War, Shipping Chokepoints, and Export Bans Could Do to Your Garden in 2026 – Bill Heid

Beyond Organic: Biological Systems Gardening for Food Security – Part 1 – “Gardening/farming is the original means of production, and it is probably the most accessible means of production in terms of entry requirements. All you need is some dirt and some seeds and now you are a gardener. However, as you all know there is a lot more involved in being a successful gardener than just that. In this article, I’m going to share the gardening principles I’ve learned over the past 11 years that have led to my gardening success.” – Hobbit Farmer

Build a DIY Wind Generator for Home with a Car Alternator By Robert D. Copeland

The Hidden Dangers Behind Vacuum-Sealing Meat – ” what many people do not realize is that vacuum sealing changes the environment around the meat in ways that can introduce different risks instead of eliminating them. ” – Jack

VERSE FOR THE DAY 

Mark 8:18    Having eyes, see ye not? and having ears, hear ye not? and do ye not remember?

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THE BIG PICTURE

Everything Is a Psyop: Therefore Everything Is a Fraud – “As this performance of terror continues, it becomes more and more obvious that the entirety of these recent events is one big staged fraud. This fakery involves not only the U.S., Israel, and Iran, but also England, Europe, and likely Russia, China and much of the world’s ruling classes. This does not mean that people are not being killed, but governments kill people at will whenever it suits there chosen agendas, all without any conscience that could alter the outcome sought. Hence the term, human fodder. These thoughts harken back to the most important adage that is that everything happening in government is premeditated, planned long in advance, and therefore, all aspects of what is perceived by the masses, whether partial reality or not, is a psyop, and everything is a fraud. This truth could not be any more obvious than it is today.” – Gary D. Barnett

“All of Our Great TSA Agents” – ““Thank you,” says the president, to “all of our great TSA agents” – those blue suited government workers who serve essentially the same function as guards in a prison, which is of course what airports have become. 1/7 With some differences, of course. Prisons house criminals whereas airports are full of ordinary citizens just trying to travel by air somewhere. If an actual terrorist wanted to get on an airplane, he could do so easily – by buying or just renting a private airplane, where TSA Security Kabuki is not performed. We are supposed to be believe that actual terrorist organizations lack the money to rent airplanes – or even buy them, if they needed to. Of course, we are also expected to believe that steel-framed buildings with multiple/redundant support columns can collapse straight down at near-freefall speed as a result of office fires after not having been struck by a jet airliner.” – Eric Peters

War, Oil And Debt: Which Threats To The US Economy Are Legit? – “Iran has the potential to become a “linchpin” disaster, but the conditions are not right for one yet. For now, I continue to believe that the most significant danger to the global economy and the US economy is still the European oligarchy and their push for war with Russia over Ukraine. Any move by the Europeans to deploy troops to the region could result in a large scale war that would dwarf the events in Iran and completely derail already fragile economic structures. If you’re worried about global Armageddon, look to Ukraine, not Iran. The largest secondary hazard is domestic.” – Brandon Smith

Iran War & Fuel Rationing – are “Energy Lockdowns” on the way? – “The war in Iran is having the impact that most people with any sense knew it would have: The price of oil is going up, and the supply of oil is going down. Of course, whether or not the latter of these is actually true we will never know, and it’s beside the point. Oil companies will natural take the slightest excuse to price gouge and contrive scarcity for the basest of profit motives. It also serves a political motive as well, since we know the global political machinery is – against free travel against fossil fuels and against people being able to afford basically anything.’ – Kit Knightly

WHY IS PETER THIEL IN ROME? – “Peter Thiel is in Rome to host a secretive, invitation-only conference focused on the concept of the Antichrist, blending theology, technology, and political ideology. Thiel, a co-founder of PayPal and Palantir, frames technology and data-driven power as the modern Katéchon, or “braking force” that delays the Antichrist’s rise. Thiel also identifies technological regulation and “woke” global governance as modern forms of the Antichrist, warning that these forces erode individual freedom and delay human advancement. In contrast, he sees technology companies—like his own Palantir—as a restraining force that delays the Antichrist’s rise by preserving progress and data-driven power.” – Frances Leader

Guess What Ireland’s President Said About St. Patrick’s Day… “New leader turns national holiday into a globalist lecture. Irish President Catherine Connolly marked her first St. Patrick’s Day in office with a message that reframed Ireland’s patron saint as a symbol for open borders and ‘global citizenship’, urging the Irish to embrace migrants amid ongoing surges in arrivals that have sparked nationwide tensions.” – Steve Watson

The Female George Soros? – “MacKenzie Scott splashes out billions. She has given away $26 billion, almost all of it to relentlessly lefty causes. She has more than $30 billion left, and she’s determined to give that away, too. No one in the history of the world has ever given away so much money as quickly as MacKenzie Scott, Jeff Bezos’s ex-wife. In total giving, she has already breezed by George Soros, and he has only $7-1/2 billion left.” – Jared Taylor

DMSO, AI, and The Great Transformation of Information – “Unfortunately, DMSO has languished in an unusual spot. It was widely used throughout the pharmaceutical industry, a component in many drugs and was the active agent in a few FDA approved therapies but simultaneously, despite decades of protest (including by Congress) and being widely used around the world, the FDA essentially banned DMSO from medicine in America, and few even know about it (demonstrating that medical policies is often the result of politics rather than science). Because of this, I felt it was worth publicizing the mountain of forgotten literature showing DMSO worked, and once I did so, many people reported profound improvements and disbelief that something like DMSO existed,” – A Midwestern Doctor

The Age of Printed War: Central Bankers and the Machinery of Permanent Conflict – “Wars don’t just cost money; they are the business model of broken money. Follow the trail from owl coins to oil chokepoints, and the ending writes itself.” – Jon Forrest Little

NEWS

Is There A Way Out For Stupid? – “How do we end this US excursion into the arcade? This is the question the Pentagon and the White House should be working night and day to answer. Heads should be rolling in the White House and Pentagon. American sailors and airmen should be sent home now, starting with the long overdue return of the USS Gerald Ford. In this Epstein-inspired orgy of gleeful mass decapitations, unneeded boutique wars, and presidential kidnappings, our men and women in uniform are being treated as slaves and concubines to the emperor, not as America’s sons, daughters and protectors. Beyond this, the White House leviathan needs to get truth-based, immediately. We will not live down the ongoing insanity of the words coming out of the pie holes of Pete Hegseth, Marco Rubio, Scott Bessent, and Chris Wright.” – Karen Kwiatkowski

What’s Really Driving the Iran War (VIDEO) – “The Iran War, into which we are now 15 days, may well be called WW3 in hindsight. It is not a war fought for the usual reasons, such as theft of resources. This is war driven by religious madness, by eschatological lunacy, where those pushing end times beliefs and messianic prophecy are driving the actions of both the US and Israel.” – Makia Freeman

Netanyahu’s Potential Assassination Leaves White House in Panic Mode – “TRUMP PUSHING ALLIES ON STRAIT OF HORMUZ: Except the US has no more allies. The US has a few countries which want America’s money – but allies? No. Argentina is just another Debt to Taxpayers. The EU is backing off. The Middle East is backing off. The only ones pushing bigger and greater war are Netanyahu and Trump. Rumors of Netanyahu’s death are gaining traction as Israel released two obvious AI fakes. Which leaves Trump in left field fighting a war that Iran will use to economically destroy America undermining Trump’s legacy. A Lone Hyena.” – Helena Glass

Time to Pull the Plug On Trump and Netanyahu – “No US interest is served in allowing political domination by Israel” – Philip Giraldi

Trump Attacks Iran’s Oil Terminal on Kharg Island. “U.S. Troops to West Asia”? Suicide Mission – “President Trump and his War Department confront a quandary. The effort to topple the government of Iran and destroy its ability to protect itself has stalled. It is common knowledge airstrikes alone are unable to accomplish the goal of unseating a government. The only option for Trump is to send ground troops. As part of an effort to flip the narrative and change the perception of the war, Trump rebuked the corporate media. On March 14, he demanded they stop reporting on damage and losses inflicted on the US by Iran. Not long after Trump posted his diatribe, FCC Chairman Brendan Carr went on X and said that broadcasters “are running hoaxes and news distortions” and they have a chance to “correct course before their license renewals come up.” According to Carr, reporting facts about the US-Israeli war against Iran is not “in the public interest.” Apparently the First Amendment and the truth are also not in the public interest. The damage Trump mentions has little to do with the floundering effort to overthrow the government of Iran and balkanize the country and everything to do with leveling with the American people about an undeclared war that does not have clear objectives and a conceivable exit ramp.” – Kurt Nimmo

Frustrated by Failure, an Unhinged Trump Begins to Tilt as Hormuz Standoff Heats Up – “The ‘Special Combat Operation’ continues accumulating unbridled triumphs with Trump’s announcement that he had visited upon Iran’s Kharg island a most biblical of retributions. The very next day, it was reported by multiple MSM outlets that Iran was shipping oil from the island as normal.” – Simplicius

Trump says US may strike Iran’s Kharg Island oil export hub ‘just for fun’ – “In comments to NBC News, US president also deflates hope of deal with Tehran, saying ‘terms aren’t good enough’” – Guardian staff  – YEP, WAR IS JUST ALL FUN AND GAMES FOR THE TRUMPSTER!!!!!!

Decoding Trump’s Demand For China To Join His Proposed Hormuz Naval Coalition – “Trump wants to throw Xi into a dilemma before his upcoming trip, which he threatened to delay if China doesn’t join the US’ coalition, but it’s still possible that Xi flips the tables on Trump somehow.” – Andrew Korybko

War Prayer in the White House – “Mark Twain, Anyone? I wasn’t aware that evangelical leaders came to the White House to pray over Trump. I’ve been in oval churches, built in that shape so that there are no corners where the devil can hide. But what if the devil is hiding in plain sight? These so-called christian evangelicals are a scary bunch. I recently wrote to a friend that being a Christian is fairly simple: love God, love thy neighbor, and remember that Christ is the Prince of Peace, the healer of the sick, the benefactor of the downtrodden. What we have instead is a heretical brand of “christianity” with a Warrior-Christ where we’re supposed to despise our neighbor if he’s not a Zionist and/or an evangelical who loves Trump.” – Bill Astore

Betrayal: Trump Loosens Visa Restrictions To Import More Foreign Workers To Address Farm Labor Shortages – “Lowering wages for H-2A workers will not lead to more American workers in agriculture or increased pay for native workers,” – The WinePress

Heading toward heartbreak- “Later this year, we’ll have the midterm elections. Historically, the president’s party loses seats in both chambers, and there’s not really any real indication that this year will be any different. It might be, but we’re just not seeing a whole lot to really suggest it. And that’s bad, because we had a golden opportunity to reform America. We had a majority in the House and Senate, a majority at the Supreme Court, and President Trump in the White House.And we had a chance to make it happen, to reform what America actually is. We didn’t. But when that pendulum swings back the other way, expect the cancel culture to return in full force. The system that we all rely on will likely try to turn on us once again. The IRS, the ATF, the FBI, and anyone else who can poke into your life just might, all because you stood up for what you believed.” – Tom Knighton  – ALL BECAUSE TRUMP WENT FULL BLOWN MIGA INSTAED OF MAGA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

ECONOMIC NEWS

THE DEEPER DIVE: We are Stumbling on the Truth around us Because we Cannot See it – “Thanks to endless government deceptions and now the fog of war, the best we can do to find the truth is stub our toes on it and hope not to trip over it. This past week, we got to see something a little closer to the truth, as even the Trump administration had to cut their original claim of 1.4% growth IN HALF. They came back and reported was really only 0.7% after all.” – David Haggith

US Secretary of Energy Says High Gasoline Prices Might Last Weeks – “Given that diesel and fertilizer prices are soaring, I have a question. So, when is the next farm bailout?” – Mish

Iran’s Currency War Gamble: US Dollars in the Crosshairs and What it Means – “As we have seen with the recent escalations in Iran and throughout the Middle East, the structural backdrop of the global energy market is now shifting. Iran is taking direct aim at cargo ships, and specifically oil tankers, passing through the Strait of Hormuz. Yet, the situation is set to potentially change beyond conflict and military escalations. Now, reports are detailing that Tehran might be considering a move that would directly challenge the dollar’s supremacy by allowing oil to pass through the Strait, provided that the oil cargo is traded in Chinese yuan.To understand why this matters, we have to look at the “Petrodollar.” The petrodollar isn’t just a buzzword. It’s a 50-year-old arrangement where major oil-producing nations price their exports in U.S. dollars. ” – Nomi Prins

PCE Price Index Shows Little Change. That’s A Problem – “Is The US Economy Flirting With Stagnation?” – Peter Nayland Kust

U.S. Government Debt Black Hole Got Bigger in February – “I could almost put this story on a monthly repeat. The federal government ran another big budget deficit in February, as the national debt nudges close to $39 trillion.” – Mike Maharrey

LBMA’s silver house of cards collapses: London DEFAULTS on physical delivery – “The LME suspension is a default. LME paper market has run out of readily deliverable 1,000‑oz bars. The LME’s refusal to specify which metals are affected or how broad the suspension is makes one conclusion inescapable: given the law of logic and David Jensen’s earlier work on London’s silver shortage, this blackout almost certainly covers silver—and strongly implies the market has already defaulted on meaningful physical delivery. This is exactly why India, just two weeks ago, moved to cut LBMA and LME out of its precious‑metal valuation:” – Niko Moretti

SURVIVAL, PREPAREDNESS AND SELF-SUFFICIENCY

Emergency Shelter Risks: Why Shelters Are Often the Worst Option – “When disasters strike in the United States, the official message is simple: go to a public shelter. Schools, churches, and community centers quickly become temporary housing for evacuees. For many people, that sounds like the safest option available. But the truth is that shelters come with serious downsides that rarely get discussed openly. ” – Bob Rodgers

2026 Natural Disaster Map. Is Your Area on the List? – Kate L. Gilmour

Construction and Design of a Remote, Off-Grid Residence – Part 3 – “STORAGE – A big challenge when living in small homes is storage space.” – Mrs. Alaska  – PARTS 1 AND 2 WERE LINKED THE PAST TWO DAYS, THIS CONCLUDES THE SERIES!!!

The $1 Solar Water Heater Hiding In Your Backyard – “It isn’t smart. It doesn’t connect to Wi-Fi. And it doesn’t need a single watt of grid power. It’s just a black garden hose and the same sunlight the Romans used to fill their bathhouses with steaming water two thousand years ago. In other words, the simplest solar technology imaginable may already be sitting in your backyard. And once you see it, you can’t really un-see it.” – Bill Heid

Communication Blackout – What Happens When the Outside World Goes Silent – “Don’t risk your life unnecessarily. Use technology but don’t become dependent on it. Create a small hard copy of important contact information, including addresses and keep it in your wallet. Make a family radio communications plan and practice it regularly.” – Cache Valley Prepper

VERSE FOR THE DAY 

Psalm 58:3    The wicked are estranged from the womb: they go astray as soon as they be born, speaking lies.

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