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8 PRACTICAL USES FOR HEDGE APPLES – Katie Femia – ALTHOUGH THERE IS NO SCIENTIFIC PROOF, I HAVE USED THEM FOR YEARS IN MY BASEMENT FOR SPIDER CONTROL AND I SWEAR IT WORKS. ALSO SUPPOSE TO BE GOOD FOR MICE CONTROL!!!!

From Unprepared to Prepped – A Beginner’s Guide – Part 2- Mr. Wobbet – PART 1 WAS LINKED YESTERDAY, THIS FINISHES IT!!!

Keeping The Homestead Warm As Electrical Rates Rise – “As October’s chill seeps into the bones of another winter, those of us living off the grid—or clinging to rural ways—start thinking hard about the warmth in our homes. This year, the talk around kitchen tables and feed stores sounds the same everywhere: electricity costs are about to surge faster than just about anything else.” – Bill Heid

VERSE FOR THE DAY

Jeremiah 50:28 The voice of them that flee and escape out of the land of Babylon, to declare in Zion the vengeance of the Lord our God, the vengeance of his temple.

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01 Saturday Nov 2025

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THE BIG PICTURE

The Millennial Reign: What a Christian Government Would Actually Look Like – “Chances are you won’t like it. Most self-identified Christians would despise living under the government Jesus described. They’d call it radical. Dangerous. Unrealistic. The question isn’t whether America is a Christian nation. The question is whether most Christians would recognize Christ’s teachings if they showed up in a policy platform. Based on voting patterns and polling data, the answer is no. So let’s run the experiment. What would government look like during the millennial reign, when Christ actually rules?” – The Wise Wolf

The Untold Story of CHRISTMAS 🎅 Meet the Holiday Makers 🎄 [Part 1] – “After reading this series, you might decide not to put up the tree this year. Welcome to The Untold Story of Christmas. I stopped celebrating Christmas a few years ago, but not for any reasons associated with this article. In fact, I didn’t know any of this until a week ago. Long story short, I became burned out on it. How did I go from hanging lights on my gutter to a Christmas-free home? I cannot pinpoint a reason, but if I had to guess, it was when stores began putting Christmas stuff out the day after Halloween and “pre-Christmas sales” were in full effect by Thanksgiving.” – Agent131711

They Want You Relying On Artificial Intelligence So That You Will Lose Your Natural Intelligence – “Generative AI is just high-tech brainwashing. It’s the next level of propaganda indoctrination. It is there to turn our brains into useless sludge which cannot function without technological crutches controlled by the imperial plutocrats.” – Caitlin Johnstone

City-States Without Limits – Part 1 – “A powerful group of Silicon Valley oligarchs are using the Trump administration to push for the construction of privatized city-states in the US. Their interests are aligned with a global network of oligarchs who want to move away from the global governance of nation-states to the global governance of an international network of city-states. The intention is for the city-states to form a “patchwork” of realms overseen by a regional balance of power global governance system: the Multipolar World Order.” – Iain Davis

Wyoming Anti-Geoengineering Bill Doomed to Fail—Just Like Tennessee, Florida, and Louisiana Bills Already Have – “Are lawmakers intentionally sabotaging the will of the people?” – Jon Fleetwood

Rand Paul’s Letter to Gabbard Re-Opens the COVID Intel Files – “How new documents link U.S. intelligence, Ralph Baric, and gain-of-function research — echoing Tulsi Gabbard’s own warnings about the Deep State.” – Sayer Ji

Blanket Informed Consent for Biologics Could Be Deadly – “What You Need to Know and Need to Do. There’s a linguistic shift happening inside the walls of hospitals, surgical centers, and outpatient clinics — one that most people won’t notice until it’s too late. The word “vaccine” is vanishing from medical consent forms. In its place is a far broader, far murkier term being used: biologics. Let’s clarify some definitions: You can view the full list of biologics on the FDA’s website. Vaccines are listed among the “approved biologics.” If you blindly sign a consent to receive a biologic, you’ve opened the door to a sweeping range of interventions that go far beyond what most would knowingly authorize.” – Dr. Sherri Tenpenny

HHS Builds $37.5M Bird Flu Pandemic Hospital Network—75 Facilities to Serve as Federal ‘Special Pathogen’ Centers – “Internal NETEC document confirms H5N1 avian influenza preparedness at the core mission of new taxpayer funded hospital network.” – Jon Fleetwood

Why Bill Gates’ Pivot Away from Climate Change Is So Dangerous (and Incoherent) – “I’m hugely disappointed in Gates’ article. It doesn’t have a coherent message; mischaracterizes the “doomsday view of climate change”; fails to acknowledge that climate change mitigation and foreign aid are inextricably bound up together; and provides ammunition for the climate-denying right to further undermine efforts to ensure that our precious planet remains livable for future (and current!) generations.’ – Émile P. Torres

Covid injections pose risk of pilots having in-flight seizures even years after having taken a shot – Rhoda Wilson

Duloxetine (Cymbalta): Increases Liver Toxicity, Suicidal Behavior, and Possibly Cancer Risk. – “From the makers of Prozac, another way to wreck your body and possibly end your life.” – Anthony Colpo

NEWS

Trump finally weighs in on food crisis; too little and too late? – “I guess someone reminded Trump that November is Thanksgiving. And mentioned “the bad optics” of families trying to put together two cans of beans and a bottle of Pepsi for Thanksgiving dinner.” – Jon Rappoport

Oh SNAP: Judges Order Trump Admin To Use Emergency Funds For Food Assistance – “Which, of course, completely takes pressure off Congress to find a speedy resolution to the ongoing shutdown.” – Tyler Durden

Judge McConnell’s SNAP Order: A Short-Sighted Violation of Separation of Powers – “The problem is not only practical but constitutional. It provides, at best, a few weeks of reprieve for beneficiaries, and at worst, it compels the executive branch to commit an illegal act, spending funds that Congress has not appropriated. The issue is not whether hungry families deserve assistance. It is whether a federal judge can compel the President of the United States to violate the Constitution’s Appropriations Clause and the Antideficiency Act. The answer, based on statute, precedent, and the very architecture of the Constitution, is no.” – Amuse on X

Government Cheese – “Remember that one? The government assistance program that issued Food Stamps that could be used to obtain basic staples – such as cheese (as well as bread and milk) to people who’d fallen upon hard times and otherwise might not eat? The idea being particularly to make sure children and older people who couldn’t provide for themselves would not starve. Maybe it is just a memory. Somewhere along the line, Food Stamps became SNAP – Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program – and instead of Food Stamps, people (including abled-bodied men) were issued a credit card (or at least, one that looked like it was that) and it could be used to buy soda, potato chips – even sushi.. Instead of not starving, people got obese. And entitled rather than grateful.” – Eric Peters

SNAP: It’s Cost, It’s Fraud, It’s Corruption Unmasked – “SNAP. While everyone is screaming from the Faulty Tower about no more SNAP money as of November 1, no one seems concerned that 42 million Americans are on food assistance. As in the economy is so good that people can’t afford food in America… Imagine if the Federal Government said no more social security payments as of November 1… While still paying Congress to do absolutely nothing. SNAP, like every other government subsidy is at risk for fraud. With 12.5% of the US population receiving benefits, and the requirement that those recipients must be employed, it is reflective of the disparity of wealth in our country. A disparity that isn’t about middle class vs the elite, but that poverty rate extends to individuals who have a college degree. But even that isn’t the whole story. Despite SNAP having the requirement of working, only 38% of recipients meet that quota.” – Helena Glass

Congressional Feeding Trough Remains Open and Well-Stocked Despite Government Shutdown – “The decrepit fiends of The Swamp are out in full force putting on a big show of solidarity with all of their subjects constituents left out in the rain when the gears of state grind to a halt. What they rarely, if ever, mention is that their paychecks arrive regardless of whether the government gets shut down or not, or for how long. But the essential issue is that the Congress members playing the cards don’t actually have any chips in the game; it’s all House money, as it were. The suffering of their constituents is just another point of “leverage” in the political games they play (with other people’s money).” – Ben Bartee

The Days of Democracy Are Over – Paul Craig Roberts

Are Democrats Trying To Start A Civil War? – “I think of this dynamic a lot these days. I see a large contingent of American society (perhaps 25% of the population) which has been radicalized or brainwashed beyond all reason or repair. These people (leftists) operate deep within a protective bubble of propaganda and zealotry; they function within a hive mind that does not deviate from the demands of their gatekeepers. They cannot be reasoned with, nor can they be satiated. They lust for power and the suffering of anyone who opposes them. One can see an immediate difference between the sides. Conservatives are so independent we in-fight constantly. We might agree on basic values (even in this we sometimes argue), but in terms of policy and action we rarely shake hands. For the political left, any disagreement with the majority leads to immediate ostracism.” – Brandon Smith

Who, again, are the real authoritarians? – “Democrat politicians incessantly call for “civility” and “reaching across the aisle.” They endlessly blather on about “saving our democracy,” even though we don’t live in a democracy, but a Constitutional representative republic. And, of course, they constantly bellow and bloviate about their political opponents being fascists, Hitler-lovers, authoritarians. That is all complete bunk. B.S. But, in today’s Democrat party, it is not enough to be violent and vulgar, or even to wish death upon your political opponents (perhaps by your own hand) and their offspring. Perish the thought. No, you must actively root for terrorists over American citizens.” – Eric Utter

Here’s ANOTHER Reason Democrats Are Doomed – “As we’ve previously highlighted, Democrats have lost culture. With that comes another massive problem for them. The kind of people they attract. Conservative pundit Mollie Hemingway provided Democrats with a simple home truth Wednesday, that once again explains why they’re doomed. Hemingway noted that “the base of the Democrat party really has become angry women.” “And women who are angry tend to be very mean to other women who are smarter or prettier or more successful or braver than they are, and that’s what we’re seeing here,” she added.” – Steve Watson

‘Britain is being deliberately DEMOLISHED’: Neil Oliver fumes migrant crisis is by DESIGN (video) – GBNews

How Socialism Violates All 10 Commandments – “Socialism’s main engine is envy…” – Jim McCraigh

Time To Curb the Violence – “In today’s social-media fueled world, every heinous act of violence spawns a great majority of people of condemn it and a smaller counter-reaction of people who cheer it and call for more. Maybe this was always the case, but those who supported such violence could not as easily band together as they can today. Social media allows the violence lovers to find like-minded individuals, legitimizing their response, further encouraging future violence. Gov. JB Pritzker of Illinois and others are villainizing the ICE agents in dire language that is an open invitation to violence.” -Mark Penn andAndrew Stein

Devastation in Jamaica and Cuba: Videos Emerge Showing the Unfathomable Power of Hurricane Melissa – Bob Hoge

Five Takeaways From Ukraine’s Encirclement – Andrew Korybko

ECONOMIC NEWS

57 Percent Of Americans Expect The Economy To Get Even Worse Than It Is Right Now – Michael Snyder

Family Arguments Over Inflation? It’s a New Trend – “As rising costs squeeze younger generations, a disturbing trend is spreading: “inheritance impatience.” Adult children are pressuring parents (and grandparents) for early access to their estates – draining retirements before they begin…” – By Peter Reagan

Q&A: Obamacare Big Price Hikes Coming. What’s the Shutdown Really About? – “Neither Republicans nor Democrats are telling the truth.” – Mish

These Are The States Where Most Americans Need Housing Assistance – “Housing costs keep climbing faster than wages in many parts of the U.S., putting extra pressure on low-income renters.” – Tyler Durden

More Bullish on Gold and Silver Than Ever (VIDEO) with Lobo Tiggre – “Tiggre cautioned investors not to get caught up in parabolic price moves without locking in profits, emphasizing that taking profits doesn’t mean exiting the market, but being rational in the face of volatility. Rather than a dangerous reversal, Tiggre sees the current gold price consolidation around $4,000 as an extremely bullish indicator. “If 4,000 is the new 3,000,” he explained, “that implies like 5 to 6K being the next leg up.” – Craig Hemke

Stock Valuations Are The Most Deviated They’ve Ever Been In History (VIDEO) with Lance Roberts – ” Stock valuations are the most deviated they’ve ever been from long-term trendlines in history. Above even 1929. But Wall Street doesn’t care. The bull rally marches on, and looks poised to continue through the end of the year. But how long can this record deviation sustain? And what will the repercussions be if it doesn’t?” – Adam Taggart | Thoughtful Money®

SURVIVAL, PREPAREDNESS AND SELF-SUFFICIENCY

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

Beginning to be that time (VIDEO) – “Here’s What People Did To Survive The Great Depression! – Vintage Lifestyle USA” – Sylvia Shawcross – SPECIAL THANKS TO SYLVIA FOR SHARING!!!

Pressure Canning Meat: A Simple Tutorial to Get You Started – ” Pressure canning meat feels intimidating, and you don’t want to do it wrong. No one wants to make their family sick, and images of slimy canned meat from the store might dance in your mind when you think about it. My fear might have stemmed from the cans of Spam that my parents tried to convince me to eat as a child. I might be irrational, but I’m not entirely sure that’s real meat. After a few tries, I learned that pressure canning meat at home wasn’t so bad, and it’s a skill that all homesteaders need to have. To be honest, it’s not any harder than canning vegetables, and the end product is delightful.” – Bethany Hayes

A Top-10 Prepping List, Multi-Tool Not Included – Part 4 – “7. ELECTRICITY. 8. SURVIVALBLOG ARCHIVE STICK” – St. Funogas

How to Talk to Creditors When You Can’t Pay Your Bills – “As our economy continues to decline, many people are struggling with financial difficulties. Others see money trouble on the horizon. Many businesses are closing and filing for bankruptcy. Others are laying off employees en masse. All this means is that if you aren’t having money problems now, it’s very possible you could be soon. And communication is key when dealing with the people to whom you owe money.” – Daisy Luther

VERSE FOR THE DAY

Job 22:7 Thou hast not given water to the weary to drink, and thou hast withholden bread from the hungry.

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29 Wednesday Oct 2025

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THE BIG PICTURE

It’s Not About “Immigrants” – “This business – cheered by many supporters of President Trump – of snatching “immigrants” off the street and shoving them into government vans, ostensibly to be deported, is not about deporting these “immigrants.” Turn off the spigot of “free” stuff and the freeloaders who are the problem would either selfdeport or get jobs and play by the same rules that citizens are expected to – at which point there’s no more problem. Most American citizens do not care whether a guy who hails from Mexico is in the crew putting shingles on the roof of their house; they are pissed that they’re paying taxes to support “benefits” for people who are not paying taxes, So – what is this business (snatching “immigrants” off the street and throwing them into the back of a van) really all about? It is about normalizing this business of snatching people off the street and throwing them into government vans. Note the missing word. This is not about “immigrants.” That is the window dressing. Just as the Patriot Act and Homeland Security are not about those things, either.” – Eric Peters

The Vampire State: Feeding on Our Fear, Freedom and Finances – “Monsters don’t always come wrapped in the trappings of horror or myth. Most often, monsters in the real world look like ordinary people. They walk among us. They smile for the cameras. They promise protection and prosperity even as they feed on fear and obedience. All is not as it seems. We are living in two worlds. There’s the world we’re shown—the bright, propaganda-driven illusion manufactured by the government and its corporate sponsors—and the world we actually inhabit, where economic inequality widens, real agendas are buried beneath layers of Orwellian doublespeak, and “freedom” is rationed out in controlled, legalistic doses by militarized police and federal agents.” – John & Nisha Whitehead

Hurricane Melissa: Smart City Planning and Agenda 2030 -(2 min. VIDEO) – Tara Shalane (@plzstayawake) -SPECIAL THANKS TO WATCHMAN73 FOR SHARING!!!

Canada’s Killing Fields: 15 Million Openly Marked For Death Over The Next 20 Years To Balance Budget; Canadians Who Are Poor and Lonely Or Have A Disability ROUTINELY Offered Euthanasia By Doctors! – “Elderly, Disabled, Poor, Lonely, Indigenous, “Mentally Ill,” all Targeted. Sound Familiar? 15,343 Canadians Were Euthanized in 2023 And Numbers Are Climbing Steeply” – Celia Farber

7 Promises God Made to You These are life-changing once you grasp them.” – Kate Dreston

High school student surrounded by police and handcuffed after AI mistakes his bag of Doritos for a gun – “Does AI have a particular dislike of triangular chips?” – Rob Thubron

TRUTHFUL DECEPTION: How to Lie Legally (The Art of Number F*ckery) Once you see it, you can never unsee it…” – Agent131711

The Hunger Line — Food Bank Crisis In Canada (VIDEO) – “In one of the richest countries on Earth, millions of Canadians are standing in food bank lines just to survive. This is The Hunger Line — the heartbreaking reality of a nation where the cost of living has spiraled out of control.” – Canadian Rant

100% Diabetes Prevention Achieved Naturally – The Landmark Study Pharmaceutical Companies Don’t Want You to Know About – “How a turmeric extract achieved what blockbuster drugs couldn’t, and why natural medicine holds the key to ending the type 2 diabetes epidemic.” – Sayer Ji

NEWS

“Madman Across the Water” – “Cutting the wheat from the chaff, Donald Trump, must have grown up without the virtue of ethics—as did most, if not all, of his cabinet. As a result, Madman Trump has no qualms conducting piracy/murder on uncharged foreign nationals—across the water. Today, in fishing camps along the coast of Venezuela, women and children mourn the loss of fathers murdered by Trump—fishermen, blown apart in outboard motor boats, that would require many refuels to get drugs into proximity to the United States. Trump has a $50M bounty on the capture of Maduro (taxpayer dollars), who Trump claims stole the election (Trump is messing in an election?) ” – Erik @ neverhadaboss.com

It PAYS to be President – “It paid quite a lot actually. It also paid to be the son of a president as we learned in the Biden days. The side note by Eric Trump that the Trump family crypto business will soon be “embody the future of finance in America” is also interesting because it raises a prospect I’ve already been advancing, which is that perhaps the future digital currency of America—as Trump crashes the dollar’s global trade status by crashing global trade—will be issued by World Liberty Financial or will even be $Trump. The Trump brothers’ efforts have been a whopping success In the first half of this year, the Trump Organization’s income soared 17-fold to $864 million from $51 million a year earlier, according to Reuters…. What a great setup that would to become the Don of money laundering. The team approach exhibited so successfully here by those skilled in these kinds of sales makes Hunter & Pa look like mere pikers, as the Trump family’s gains from selling access to the president approach a billion dollars (and that’s all profit)” – David Haggith

Pre-Engineered Civil War: 42 Million Americans Will Lose Food Stamps – “Perhaps the most critical component of the ongoing government shutdown that the radical communist Democrat party have been planning for is civil war, and to that end food stamps will be paused on November 1st.” – 2nd Smartest Guy in the World

Order Out Of Chaos: 42 Million Americans To No Longer Receive SNAP Benefits Starting November, As Fear Of Civil Unrest Looms As US Economy Collapses – “USDA Secretary Brooke Rollins has been on a media tour blaming Democrats for everything. The majority of SNAP benefits go to children, including vets and the elderly.” – The WinePress

There IS a way to pay for food stamps in November – “41 million Americans don’t all have to go hungry at once, starting in 3 days. And no food riots all over America.” – Jon Rappoport

How Food Industry Lobbyists Keep the Food-Stamp Gravy Train Going – “Needless to say, lobbyists and activists who favor the food stamp program have been working furiously to make sure that the program is not interrupted.While the media narrative has focused on low-income recipients, it often ignores the role of corporate and industry lobbyists who work to increase food stamp spending and to ensure the program remains permanent. Farmers, “Big Ag,” grocery retailers, beverage companies, and other industry players are very active in lobbying members of Congress to ensure that food-stamp dollars keep flowing. ” – Ryan McMaken

At LEAST 1.5 Million Non-citizens Receive Food Stamps and many more receive housing, medical and other handouts. (VIDEO) – “Generational welfare isn’t just a talking point — it’s real. There are families where Grandma was on food stamps, Mom’s on food stamps, and now the kids are growing up expecting the same. They know the system, they know the paperwork, and they teach it to the next generation. For too many, government dependence has replaced hard work. Now before anyone loses their mind — yes, I’ve been there.” – M.D. Creekmore

Reflections from the Heart of the Empire: Imperial Disasters and Voter Revolts Ahead – “Richard Wolff is saying that Russia has sent nuclear warheads to Iran. I am unable to confirm this, but if true it means that Putin no longer trusts the American government to prevent Israel from using a nuclear weapon, and is back in Southwest Asia, BAY-bee! If so, way to go Uncle Vlad!. Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro said that he has over 5000 Russian anti-air missiles armed and ready to launch, and he ain’t lying, y’all. Military.com explains what the recent influx of Russian aid means: For American commanders, that means every operation and incident now happens under the threat of Venezuelan retaliation — a situation the current force is not ready to handle.” – Ohio Barbarian – THE BARBARIAN’S WEEKLY UPDATE ON THE U.S’s STUPIDITY OF WAR MONGERING!!!

Democrats Must Be Punished for Their Lawfare – “Because no one has been punished, Democrats continue to threaten conservatives. The Democrat party is the undisputed champion of lawfare — the corrupt practice of using the legal system to persecute perceived political enemies and deprive non-Democrats of their constitutional rights. Donald Trump had a clean criminal record for the first seventy years of his life. After he became the Republican standard-bearer, ” – J.B. Shurk

Mamdani’s Wishful Thinking on Tax Revenues – “New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani has pledged a battery of new social spending if he wins the city’s November election: $10 billion for housing, $1 billion for a new community safety department, at least half a billion to subsidize buses, billions more for free childcare, and untold sums for government grocery stores—a historically loss-making venture.” – Ryan Bourne and Nathan Miller

Trump hyped this Venezuelan gang to wage war (VIDEO0 – “Kei Pritsker explains how Trump turned Tren De Aragua, a previously obscure Venezuelan gang that had already been crushed by Maduro’s security forces, into a national boogeyman, then used it to justify his naval siege of Venezuela.” – The Grayzone

The Regime Changers Work for the President – “Yes, blame Rubio for his part in this unfolding disaster, but it is Trump’s policy and he deserves most of the blame for it. It is true that Rubio has been the driving force behind Trump’s aggressive Venezuela policy in the second term just as he was in the first. When Rubio was nominated to be Secretary of State, I warned that he would have a baleful influence on U.S. foreign policy, especially when it came to Latin America. On anything related to Venezuela and Cuba, Rubio has always been an ideological fanatic. Rubio’s role in the administration practically guaranteed that Trump’s policies in the region would be hardline and interventionist.” – Daniel Larison

More and More War(with VIDEO) – “What Happened to Diplomacy and the Rule of Law?” – Bill Astore

New Report Claims Biden Autopen Actions Invalid – “The former commander-in-chief receives an “unpresidented” rebuke.” – Graham J Noble

Barack Obama Proposes a Scary Idea for Social Media – “It’s hard not to see where this road leads. In a recent conversation with journalist Heather Cox Richardson, whose Substack he personally endorsed, Obama said the quiet part out loud: “We’re going to have to start experimenting with new forms of journalism” with “government regulatory constraints.” Cyber expert and former Trump official Mike Benz reacted to Obama’s remarks, saying: “F*ck this guy. His whole apparatus is set up to end the First Amendment. He’s coordinating with foreign governments to end free speech in America. And he spied and lied and did every dirty trick in the book along the way.”” – The Vigilant Fox

Putin’s Offer To Extend The New START Is A Goodwill Gesture To Trump – “Goodwill gestures are meant to make the recipient trust whoever does them with the expectation that they’ll then be reciprocated for improving their relations.” – Andrew Korybko

Russian Infantry Operating Inside Pokrovsk – Strategic Ukrainian City’s Fall Imminent – Tyler Durden

ECONOMIC NEWS

Fed cuts rates again, but Powell raises doubts about easing at next meeting – Jeff Cox

Stagflation Is Back—And the Fed Is Asleep at the Wheel – “‘ – James Hickman (Simon Black)

The Social Security COLA for 2025 is 2.8 Percent. Not Enough? Too Much? – “Will 2.8 Percent Cover Cost of Living? Of course not, if calculated properly. Most older Americans own their own home and the CPI on which the COLA is based does not include property taxes or homeowners’ insurance. The latter is soaring everywhere.” – Mish

Home Sales Have Not Improved at All Despite the Lowest Mortgage Rates in a Year – “Pending home sales and applications for mortgages to purchase a home are near historic lows, and lower mortgage rates have not stimulated demand.” – Wolf Richter

As The Government Shutdown Drags On, Here Are 9 Signs That The U.S. Economy Is Shutting Down All Around Us – “People are on edge. Thousands of stores have been closing all over the nation, the cost of just about everything keeps going up, and shocking mass layoffs are being conducted from coast to coast. The following are 9 signs that the U.S. economy is shutting down all around us…” – Michael Snyder

Gold’s Breakout Is Just Getting Started (VIDEO) – Peter Schiff

The Return of the ‘Barbarous Relic’: Gold Becomes the World’s No. 2 Reserve Asset – “Gold has quietly overtaken the euro to become the second-largest component of global foreign exchange reserves.” – Nick Giambruno

SURVIVAL, PREPAREDNESS AND SELF-SUFFICIENCY

How to Rejuvenate and Restore a Neglected Garden to Its Former Glory – “Weeds. Dead plants. Debris. Rocks. It’s easy to find yourself overwhelmed when you find yourself staring at a garden filled with all kinds of things that are…well, not that useful.” – Rebekah Pierce

Best Ways To Preserve Your Fall Harvest – Steve Nubie

You’ll Wish You Had This After the Dollar Dies – “If you’ve ever read about what happened in Venezuela, Zimbabwe, or even Weimar Germany, you know how fast things can unravel. First, prices double. Then, triple. People rush to buy anything tangible (food, tools, livestock) because they realize money tomorrow is worth less than money today.” – Ask A Prepper Staff

10 Hobo Hacks from The Great Depression – “There are signs all around us: more debt, rising prices, and a booming tech industry propped up by an unsustainable AI bubble. When that bubble bursts, the economic fallout could rival the Great Depression. Millions may find themselves jobless, homeless, or suddenly forced to survive with little more than what they can carry. It’s in times like these that we can look to the past for answers. During the original Great Depression, resourceful “hobos” traveled the country on foot and by rail, developing ingenious ways to survive with next to nothing.” – Alan Urban

A Top-10 Prepping List, Multi-Tool Not Included – Part 1 – “1. Water and a practical long-term way to obtain it 2. Food” – St. Funogas

VERSE FOR THE DAY

Psalm 62:10 Trust not in oppression, and become not vain in robbery: if riches increase, set not your heart upon them.

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28 Tuesday Oct 2025

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israel, palestine, politics

THE BIG PICTURE

Hurricane Melissa Has Made Landfall Near New Hope, Jamaica As A Category 5 Storm. Catastrophic Flooding, Winds Continue – ” It will then target eastern Cuba and the southeast Bahamas. Here’s the very latest. Hurricane Melissa has made landfall near New Hope, Jamaica, as a Category 5 with winds of 185 mph and a pressure of 892 mb, a historic process that will lead to months and years of recovery from catastrophic amounts of wind and rainfall. This landfall will go down in the record books as one of the strongest anywhere in the Atlantic Basin.” – Jonathan Erdman, Jennifer Gray and Jonathan Belles

Hurricane Melissa: A Call to Action for Jamaica – “As the storm clouds gather, I write to you with a heavy heart but steadfast hope. The monstrous Hurricane Melissa — now confirmed as a Category 5 hurricane — is bearing down on the beautiful island of Jamaica. This is no ordinary storm. Authorities are declaring it one of the most powerful hurricanes in the island’s history. And this storm is not just about nature’s wrath—it is a call to action for all of us. Many of you may know my husband, Steve Slepcevic, Founder & CEO of Strategic Response Partners (SRP). He has spent more than three decades responding to hurricanes, wildfires, earthquakes, and disaster-scale infrastructure failures around the world. Right now, Steve is in Jamaica,” – Tracy Slepcevic

Your Phone Is Watching You Right Now — Here’s How to Prove It – ” A whistleblower’s discovery reveals the hidden surveillance system embedded in every smartphone, and why you need to scan your area today. What followed was a weeks-long investigation into what may be the most comprehensive surveillance system ever deployed against civilian populations. The whistleblower, let’s call him “Brutus,” lives in Central America and stumbled onto this discovery while trying to debunk conspiracy theories about COVID vaccines. Instead of debunking misinformation, he uncovered something far more disturbing: a real surveillance network hiding in plain sight.” – Joshua Biddle – LONG BUT AMAZING READ!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Over a million people discuss suicide with ChatGPT every week – OpenAI – “An estimated 0.15% of the chatbot’s 800 million weekly users show suicidal planning indicators, according to the company” – RT

Trump admin implements most invasive digital face-scanning system to date at all U.S. points of entry, effective December 26 – “Designed to scan/track foreign visitors at airports and other ports of entry, the system has an admitted 3% error rate that will capture the faces of millions US citizens without them ever knowing it.” – Leo Hohmann

Privacy Is History: SMART Big Brother Is Watching You – Your Vacuum, Refrigerator, TV, Phone And Everything Else SMART Is Spying On You – Can Be Weaponized With A Single Line of Code – Ana Maria Mihalcea, MD, PhD

I Almost Lost My Son -“Well child visits and routine poison injections…” – Conspiracy Sarah

Disinformation “Doctor” John Campbell Who Promoted Covid Vaccine Claims He Contracted Covid Again In 2025, Warns Of ‘Next Pandemic’ That Will ‘Inevitably’ Come – “”So to say we’re not out of the woods is an understatement. We could have a dystopian future to look forward to, but let’s hope not.” – Is this John Campbell or is this John Fauci? I can’t tell.” – The WinePress

Senator Malcolm Roberts Exposes Canada’s Terrifying Land Grab – “A court ruling handed private homes and farms to new “owners” — and it’s the blueprint for ending property rights everywhere. THE LAND GRAB BEGINS — CANADA IS THE TEST SITE” – Jim Ferguson

Kirkgate #49: Video Footage of Charlie Kirk’s BFF Mikey McCoy calmly strolling away after the alleged shooting ( with VIDEO) – “The long and the short of it is that after Charlie Kirk is allegedly shot, BFF Turning Point pal Mikey McCoy, son of Pastor Rob McCoy who was on the advisory board of Children’s Health Defense California, appears to casually stroll away. “Let’s be REAL clear: Mikey McCoy walked away & was on the phone before Charlie Kirk’s body even hit the ground—before blood started pouring out, before security reached Charlie, and before most of the crowd had even reacted, yet! What’s more, he was still on the phone walking away as they loaded Charlie into the SUV. – Sam Parker” ” – Sage Hana – SOMETHING IS ROTTEN IN DENMARK HERE!!!!!!!!!!!

NEWS

Food stamps running out on November 1; hunger, starvation, food riots? – “WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON?” – Jon Rappoport

What Do You Tell God When You Let His Children Starve? – “A Food Stamp Kid’s Reckoning. They voted for him twice. Believed the promises. Trusted that a businessman would understand what it means to work hard and still come up short. Now Sarah and Mike sit at their kitchen table in Pennsylvania, staring at an empty pantry and two hungry kids. Their three-year-old doesn’t understand why there’s no milk. Their six-year-old has stopped asking for snacks. The SNAP benefits that kept them afloat? Gone. Not because they did anything wrong. Not because they’re lazy. Because a billionaire playing government shutdown chicken decided their children make good bargaining chips. They thought they were voting for someone who’d fight for families like theirs. They were wrong. I know what Sarah and Mike’s kids are going through because I lived it thirty years ago. I grew up in a trailer. My parents were once dirt poor. ” – The Wise Wolf

Shutdown Poker: The Republicans Are Playing A Weak Hand Smarter Than The Democrats – “Winning Does Not Require A High Hand, Merely A Higher Hand” – Peter Nayland Kust

President Trump Needs to Turn Attention to Our Problems – “In light of the $38 trillion US national debt, why is Washington financing Israel’s wars and the war against Russia in Ukraine? The weaponization of the US dollar with sanctions and asset freezes and confiscations has resulted in a decline in the percentage of international transactions accounted for by US dollars. Similarly, the dollar’s use as foreign central bank reserves is declining. If the dollar loses its role as reserve currency, the interest rate needed to finance the massive US national debt would rise precipitously and absorb the entire revenues of the government. American power depends far more importantly on the dollar’s role as reserve currency than it does on the War Department budget or winning wars for Israel and Ukraine.” – Paul Craig Roberts

The President’s Murder Spree Claims 14 More Victims – “The military is using the tactics of authoritarian regimes and applying them on the open seas and perhaps soon to the territory of other countries.” – Daniel Larison

The Small Boat Attacks Are Illegal – “The perpetrators are potentially subject to international war crimes laws” – George D. O’Neill Jr..

Trump’s Big China Deal Looks More Like an Uneasy Truce – “Both sides will announce a win. But no key issues will be resolved.” – Mish

Socialism Inevitably Ends in Totalitarian Tyranny – “If you’v been watching the Zohran Mamdani circus closely, this article is worth a skim—if only to remind you what “collective ownership” really means when you stop repeating it like a feel-good mantra.” – Quoth the Raven

Mamdani meltdown (VIDEO) – “Max Blumenthal and Aaron Mate discuss the GOP and pro-Israel meltdown over Zohran Mamdani’s seemingly imminent victory in the NYC mayoral election, and cover the looming US military assault on Venezuela, the Trump-Israel “master plan” for Gaza and more.” – The Grayzone

Coming Soon: The People’s Republic of Manhattan – “(Seriously, New York. You okay?) …these days, the Big Apple’s “gritty charm” feels more like “a cry for help.” The rent is criminal, actual crime is off the charts, and the MTA routinely smells like a litterbox someone forgot to scoop (for six years). So when a guy like Zohran Mamdani—rabid socialist, rent-control crusader, and self-described enemy of capitalism—starts crushing in the polls to become New York City’s next mayor, it makes an odd sort of sense. It’s not like the rest of the mayoral field is inspiring confidence. Until yesterday—when Cuomo made a “dramatic leap” in one poll (and we all know how polls can go)—they were all trailing Mamdani by a margin big enough to park a Lincoln Navigator in.” – Jenna McCarthy

Netanyahu orders ‘immediate and powerful strikes’ on Gaza – “Hamas says it has halted the transfer of bodies of deceased hostages, citing ceasefire violations by Israel” -RT

As Gaza Ceasefire Surpasses Two Weeks, Israel Ramps Up Strikes In Lebanon – Tyler Durden – STRIKE GAZA, STRIKE LEBANON. THEY JUST CAN’T GET ENOUGH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The US Plans To Wage An Intensified Proxy War Of Attrition Against Russia – “Each part of what’s arguably Trump’s new three-phase strategy against Russia has its drawbacks.” – Andrew Korybko

SITREP 10/27/25: Pokrovsk Reaches Its Final Arc as Russian Bulldozer Plows Ahead – Simplicius

ECONOMIC NEWS

The Tiger’s Den (VIDEO) – “Very Special Guest Gregory Mannarino” – Angry Tiger’s Den – GOOD INTERVIEW WITH GREG ON THE ECONOMY AND THE BIGGER PICTURE ABOUT 45 MINUTES LONG. NICE TO SEE HIM DO SOMETHING BESIDES HIS 30 – 45 SECONDS SHORTS ON YOUTUBE WHICH ARE BASICALLY WORTHLESS. YOU MIGHT WANT TO SKIP THE INTRO AND GO TO THE MINUTE AND HALF MARK!

Tariffs, Inch by Inch – “Some tariffs creep through one bite at a time.” – David Haggith

Food Lines Are Already Growing Longer All Over America – “It is already happening. There has been a lot of talk that there will be a surge in demand at America’s overwhelmed food banks once funding for the food stamp program ends in early November, but the truth is that we are already witnessing a surge in demand. So what is going to happen if the current government shutdown persists for an extended period of time?” – Michael Snyder

Warning: The Single Best Indicator of Future Inflation is Ripping Higher! – “The single best predictor of future inflation is SCREAMING that another inflationary storm is coming. The Fed focuses on two inflation measures: the Consumer Price Index (CPI) and Personal Consumption Expenditures (PCE). There are two MAJOR problems with this: Both measures of inflation have numerous gimmicks designed to UNDER-state the true rate of inflation. Both measures are ALSO terrible predictors of future inflation. What’s astonishing is that the Fed is aware of both of these facts. And in fact, the single best predictor of future inflation was food inflation.” – Graham Summers, MBA – GREAT POINT BY GRAHAM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Even as Revenues Grow, Amazon to Lay off 14,000. Why? AI & Corporate Efficiency. Walmart and Others Toot Similar Horn -Wolf Richter

Why Exactly Is the Federal Reserve Cutting Rates? – “The Federal Reserve kicked off its October meeting today (Tuesday, Oct. 28). The central bank is expected to cut interest rates another quarter percent and could announce a timetable to end balance sheet reduction. But why? A lot of the people clamoring for looser monetary policy claim the economy is booming. That isn’t generally a signal for rate cuts. So, why ease when price inflation remains well above the Fed’s purported 2 percent target and is rising? In a sane world, the central bank would be holding rates higher to strangle inflation once and for all. It might even be hiking rates.” – Mike Maharrey

Why China’s Yuan Peg Matters – “How Beijing Uses the Dollar to Rewrite the Rules of Global Power. The critical points of the peg: Acts as a buffer from speculative currency attacks Allows China a backdoor means to control global liquidity.” – Kane McGukin

The rocky road to ruin – “We face the end of the fiat currency era, which involves credit and currency destruction. No one should think that it’s a slam dunk for gold and silver traders — but it is for stackers” – Alasdair Macleod

SURVIVAL, PREPAREDNESS AND SELF-SUFFICIENCY

Gray Man Clothing: How to Blend In Anywhere Without Looking Tactical – “Ask any seasoned prepper what “gray man” means, and you’ll get a dozen different answers, most of them half right. It’s not about becoming invisible or wearing some mythical blend-in outfit. It’s about something subtler and far more effective: learning how not to trigger attention.” – David Andrew Brown

Food Prices Are Still Climbing: Are You Two Harvests Behind? – Alec Deacon

How to Survive Extreme Weather with Only What Grows in Your Backyard – “Weather extremes vary, from bad heat waves to winter freezes. A sudden frost can turn many plants to toast. But there are some steps you can take to protect and preserve what you plant when the weather gets tough. That can be especially important if you’re dependent on what you grow as one of your primary sources of food.” – Steve Nubie

25 Bizarre Frontier Security Hacks That Could Save Your Life – “When you live off-grid, every shadow could be a threat, and every creak outside your cabin could mean trouble. Back in the frontier days, settlers didn’t have motion sensors, cameras, or smart locks. But they had grit, creativity, and a deep understanding of how to make the land work in their favor.” – Matt Wright

Loaves, Fishes, Tree Bark, Seeds, and Knowledge – Part 8 (This concludes the article. ) – “How Much Food Can We Afford To Share With Others? Some Thoughts On Leadership During An Emergency. Wealth Is Knowledge, Invest It In Others And Grow Wealth” – The Chemical Engineer

VERSES FOR THE DAY

1 Peter 1:24-25 For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away: But the word of the Lord endureth for ever. And this is the word which by the gospel is preached unto you.

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