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Luke 14:31-32 Or what king, going to make war against another king, sitteth not down first, and consulteth whether he be able with ten thousand to meet him that cometh against him with twenty thousand? Or else, while the other is yet a great way off, he sendeth an ambassage, and desireth conditions of peace.

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17 Tuesday Mar 2026

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Hooray for Hannity and Levin! – “It is only natural that Trump is back-slapping Mark Levin and Sean Hannity. Glenn Beck is no doubt feeling left out. Levn and Hannity – and Beck – are of course regime apologists. In between trying to “tell you about” Rough Greens and such. They represent Conservatism, Inc. The well-oiled grift that long-ago co-opted what was the grassroots conservative movement of Taft and Buchanan, which was nationalist and populist; i.e., it was America (not Israel) first. That had to be stopped, of course. Nationalism and populism are dangerous things from the point-of-view of international bankers and international corporations – so they bought puppets to control the nationalistpopulist movement. Trump is their man. There has been no other man so adept at telling the sore-beset conservative rank-and-file just exactly what they need to hear. He plays them like a Stradivarius. Levin and Hannity – and Beck – providing the orchestral accompaniment, to the strains of Lee Greenwood. It pays very well. These guys are multi-millionaires because they are sponsored by billionaires,” – Eric Peters

Masters Who Rule Presidents – The Power Pyramid – “THEORY: All presidents are appointed by the Masters who Rule. Elections are a farce to dimwit The People into a belief that Power is within their control. Political parties are simply a tool to maintain the fear quotient of the opposing party. Money doesn’t exist. Ownership doesn’t exist. The Georgia Guidestones warned us – as of 2022 they were destroyed by unknown assailants who have never been identified despite surveillance camera footage. Everything about humanity is rooted in ‘death’. The Masters decide who will be their next victim and the presidents/prime ministers – obey” – Helena Glass

A Booster Dose of COVID White Pills – “Reflecting on the silver linings of COVID six years after the “pandemic” changed our lives and the world forever. COVID was a bitter black pill that turned into a white pill. Six years ago, COVID was declared a pandemic that required unprecedented emergency powers to stop. The fearmongering propaganda was unrelenting: 15 days to slow the spread! Flatten the curve! Stay at home, save lives! Mask up! Get boosted! Follow the science! Trust the experts! Meanwhile, leftists rampaged during the summer of love with no repercussions. A senile president was installed after campaigning from his basement. On his way out he pardoned Dr. Fauci, who had engineered all of the destruction. During the depths of the “winter of death and disease”, we could be forgiven for blackpilling.” – Yuri Bezmenov – GOOD READ FROM YURI AS USUAL!!

You Can’t Have A Free Country When The Government Makes Choices For You – “Americans have an incredible array of choices for food and consumer goods, but government monopolies in education, health care, and energy are ruining our lives.” – Jim DeMint

Oil price hysteria – “So, let us start with the bare facts.[1] The graph above shows monthly averages for the Brent spot price of crude oil back to 1988 in current prices. This price exceeded $100 for 6 months in 2008, 42 months from 2011 to 2014, and 6 months in 2022. Over the last 20 years the monthly average Brent spot price has exceeded $100 for 23% of all months. This is hardly a rare occurrence, though it is not routine.” – Gordon Hughes – WHEN YOU ACTUALLY LOOK AT THE FACTS $100 OIL IS NOT THAT UNUSUAL!!!

You’ll be drinking Granny and Grandpa soon – “Scotland has legalised “green cremations” and the Law Commission is considering it for England and Wales. The problem with liquifying human remains is that we don’t know how much of Granny and Grandpa is ending up in our drinking water – they are forcing us to become cannibals.” – Rhoda Wilson

Warriors’ Casino: The People Making A Killing Gambling On War – “Insider trading on the end of the world?” – Ryan Lovelace

MAHA Fail: Judge Temporarily Blocks RFK And HHS From Changing Childhood Vaccination Schedule, Challenges RFK’s CDC Vaccine Board – ““This is a great victory not only for vaccines and public health in the United States, but for science,” said Richard Hughes, a lawyer for the plaintiffs, on a call with reporters.” – The WinePress

WHO Convenes Global Session to Dictate How the Coming Influenza Pandemic Will Be Run – “Foreign pandemic governance cartel is “[p]reparing for and responding to an influenza pandemic.” – Jon Fleetwood

NEWS

Trump Trumps Himself as MAGA Melts Down in Near Mania over its Betrayal – “What a card!. As a result of all of Trump’s lying and deflecting and delaying and especially his total betrayals of major campaign promises, today’s headlines section of The Daily Doom reverberates with the clamor of MAGA tearing itself apart. Trump is turning out to be everything I’ve said you could expect him to be as he now throws his past supporters into the meat grinder, because the second you criticize him, you’re gone.” – David Haggith

Either Iran or Israel Has to go – “The Zionist agenda of Greater Israel is not consistent with the Existence of Muslim Iran (or Turkey and Saudi Arabia). Unless the Zionist agenda is renounced, Iran has no choice but to fight to its own death or to Israel’s death. The fact that Iran has never seized the initiative, has never used its strategic advantage, but has sat on its butt waiting, indeed inviting, an attack, suggests that Iran does not comprehend the Zionist Agenda.” – Paul Craig Roberts

Cuba, Iran and Little St James – “Cuba as distraction from the Persian distraction from Epstein. In the high-stakes but low brow theater of American foreign policy, failure demands a distraction. With the Trump administration’s Iran strategy in tatters after seventeen days, the search for a quick win intensifies. And in the DC corridors of power, it is likely one name is coming up: Cuba. In typical Trumpian fashion an urgent distraction is needed to distract from the now misfiring distraction from Epstein. The Caribbean worked once before (but does anyone still remember Venezuela and Maduro), so why not again?” – Ashes of Pompeii

Deprivation and depopulation: inside Cuba under US siege (VIDEO) – “On the ground with Cubans suffering through the humanitarian crisis imposed by Washington. Danny Shaw, a scholar of Latin American and Caribbean studies and longtime supporter of the Cuban revolution, documents harrowing conditions across Cuba. Traveling from Holguin to Banes to Santiago this February, Shaw finds a population increasingly deprived of nutrition, with dwindling transportation options as gas runs low, schools are shuttered, and surging inflation makes life unaffordable. The US embargo has hollowed out once-thriving areas, pushing young people to migrate.” – The Grayzone – GOOD HALF HOUR VIDEO FROM THE GRAYZONE!!!!

Trump says he can do ‘anything I want’ with Cuba – “”I do believe I’ll be … having the honor of taking Cuba. That’s a big honor. Taking Cuba in some form,” Trump told reporters as ⁠the island faces an unprecedented economic crisis, exacerbated by an oil blockade the U.S. imposed after capturing former Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro.” – Daniel Trotta

Is having no war plan Trump’s ‘plan’? – “The Iranians have a vote on when the war ends. And they say that they are just getting started. The U.S.-Israeli stand-off air-strike model of waging war is being challenged by a quite different strategic asymmetric war – one first planned by Iran more than 20 years ago. This is important to understand when trying to judge where the war balance sheet truly lies. It is like comparing oranges with lemons; they are essentially different in character.” – Alastair Crooke

Donald Trump flips out in unhinged rant after allies refuse to send ships to Iran – “Trump has been begging for other countries – including the UK – to send ships to help in the Middle East. Today he has revealed they all said no” – Mikey Smith

China Eyes Taiwan as U.S. Far East Missile Defense Relocated to Mid-East – “I predicted long before the Iran war kicked off in March that 2026 would be the year the CCP pulls the trigger on its long-awaited incursion across the Taiwan Strait to reclaim what it views as its wayward island redoubt. Among other reasons for my crystal-ball prophecy, Xi Jinping himself essentially declared the conquest as a Chinese New Year’s Resolution of sorts, describing the forced “reunification” of Taiwan with China as “unstoppable.”” – Ben Bartee

U.S. counterterrorism director Joe Kent resigns over war: ‘Iran posed no imminent threat’ – ““Iran posed no imminent threat to our nation, and it is clear that we started this war due to pressure from Israel and its powerful American lobby,” Kent wrote in his letter.” – Kevin Breuninger – YEP, EXACTLY WHY TRUMP DID IT AND ALSO TO GET EPSTEIN OFF OF EVERYONE’S MIND!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Why the resignation of Joe Kent is a big deal – “Expect a smear campaign to commence against decorated combat veteran who says Trump makes decisions within ‘echo chamber’ whose loyalties are to Israel first, and America second.” – Leo Hohmann

Gavin Newsom’s Former Chief of Staff Received Thousands in Taxpayer Cash While Under Fraud Investigation – David Lindfield

Shocking video shows Donald Trump discussing his Iran war plans in 1987 – “The video captured an interview with late journalist and television personality Barbara Walters in December 1987, where Trump appeared to predict the current crisis in the Middle East and laid out his war plans if he were president.’You’re going to have a war, and it’s going to start in the Middle East,’ Trump predicted to Walters during the interview.” – Chris Melore

Now they’re trying to make St Patrick woke – “The Irish president wants to make Patrick into the patron saint of globalism. Not on my watch.” – Brendan O’Neill – LINKED ABOUT THIS YESTERDAY IN AN ARTICLE BY STEVE WATSON AS WELL!!!

NATO Is In A Dilemma Over Whether To Join Trump’s Proposed Hormuz Naval Coalition – “Trump intimated that he might cut off arms sales to them for transfer to Ukraine if they reject his demand, thus likely handing Russia the victory that they’ve sought to avert for four years already, but they also don’t want to risk military losses to Iran either that could doom their politicians’ careers.” – Andrew Korybko

ECONOMIC NEWS

January JOLTS—Largely Good News Report Shows Broader Job Growth. Corporate media naturally retained its fixation on job openings, as if the pretense that there is a job waiting to be filled is economically the same as actually filling the job. It isn’t, of course, but that reality has never kept corporate media from dismissing hiring while hyping mostly fake job openings.” – Peter Nayland Kust

US Pending Home Sales Barely Bounce Off Record Lows Despite Tumbling Rates In Feb – “After reaching a record low last month – with the decline blamed on weather – pending home sales bounced modestly in February (up 1.8% MoM vs -0.6% MoM exp and -10.% MoM prior). Year-over-year home sales continue to decline (down 0.6% YoY)..” – Tyler Durden

Housing Remains in the Gutter, But Mortgage Rates Are Creeping Back Up – “After falling to 6.0 percent, the MND average 30-year rate shot up to 6.41 percent yesterday. It’s now 6.36 percent. Don’t expect housing to contribute anything to GDP in the first quarter of 2026.” – Mish

Ever wonder where $7 TRILLION goes? So does the government. – “It’s not that the OMB is lazy or incompetent; it’s that there are simply too many federal programs… and the complex web of spending makes it virtually impossible to tally up all the various offices, agencies, sub-departments, committees, special advisory boards, emergency programs, etc. that exist in the federal government. Congress makes things much worse when they appropriate annual funding for some program— sort of ‘fire and forget’. So decades go by since a program was originally created…yet it continues to receive money each year even though nobody knows what it’s for. Bottom line, the government now spends $7 trillion each year. And they can’t figure out where it goes.” – James Hickman (Simon Black)

Wealth Taxes Raise Less Revenue Than You Think – “Historically, wealth taxes have raised little revenue and routinely underperformed official projections. The same dynamic appears likely to repeat itself in the United States. A recent analysis by five Stanford economists at the Hoover Institution examines the proposed California wealth tax and finds that its projected $100 billion in revenues relies on unrealistic assumptions.” – Adam N. Michel

Silver’s Sharp Pullback Raises Bigger Questions About the Global Economy (VIDEO) – David Morgan

Investing in Gold vs. Silver: Which Is a Better Investment? – “Today, gold and silver investments are still popular choices for anyone who wants to diversify their wealth. In this guide, we’ll explore the main differences between these precious metals and how they might fit into your savings strategy.” – Peter Reagan

SURVIVAL, PREPAREDNESS AND SELF-SUFFICIENCY

Turn Your Fences Into Food! – “Vines have a quiet talent most gardeners overlook: they turn empty air into food. Along a fence, up a trellis, across a shed wall, or over a pergola, these climbing plants transform vertical space into a living pantry. On a homestead where every square foot matters, vines are one of the smartest ways to multiply your harvest without expanding your garden beds.” – Bill Heid

55 Survival Supplies You Can Never Have Too Much Of – Alan Urban How to Prevent Pigs from Escaping and How to Catch Them – “It turns out that getting stubborn pigs to return to their paddock isn’t quite as easy as it might sound! Pigs are not only intelligent, but they’re set in their ways. And once they’ve escaped, it can be super difficult to get them home. ” – Rebekah Pierce

7 DIY Projects Using Cinder Blocks – Olivia Brooks

Why You Need an EDC Strategy – “The key to a solid EDC kit for you is to match the items to the environment you expect to find yourself in and the circumstances that are most likely to come up for you. That means every day, not just in a bug out situation. You might not need a compass, for example, if you live and work in the city. And is a cellphone charger really on your list if you spend most of your time outdoors? This is where having a good Everyday Carry Strategy comes in.” – Dan F. Sullivan

VERSE FOR THE DAY

Luke 4:8 And Jesus answered and said unto him, Get thee behind me, Satan: for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve.

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16 Monday Mar 2026

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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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Insanity, Debt, Unlimited Oil Price Hikes, Famine, and Aggressive War – “My, my, much of the world is shutting down, told to stay home, to work from home, to use less energy, and to restrict travel, all while prices on fuel skyrocket. This is almost similar to another scam called the ‘covid pandemic.’ This is heavily affecting Asia at this time, but the longer this U.S. (Trump) and Israeli (Netanyahu) war idiocy continues, the risk of much higher prices, shutdowns, and economic upheaval will only increase in scope and area. These consequences of aggressive war and regime change always affect the general populations the most, and certainly the ‘unintended’ (not) consequences will become much more in number and severity, likely including famine in many parts of the world.” – Gary D. Barnett

What it is – “What it is is the hubris. Where is the gravity of this “controlled collapse” from our revered leaders?” – Sylvia Shawcross – SHORT AND TO THE POINT FROM SYLVIA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

On The 6th Anniversary Of The Covid Plandemic, The World Is Being Thrust Into A New Catastrophe And Climate Lockdown With Oil Shocks Caused By War In Iran – “Crisis Economics 101. This latest war is the next leg of the Great Reset launched in 2020, as the world faces supply-chain and energy shocks echoing the plandemic.” – The WinePress

FBI Case Files Link Epstein to Jimmy Savile – “Newly uncovered documents have linked Britain’s most notorious child predator, Jimmy Savile, to Jeffrey Epstein and his convicted accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell. The files connect Savile to several other figures connected to Epstein’s network.” – Frank Bergman

War Abroad Should Not Mean Less Freedom at Home – “History suggests that wartime often reshapes the relationship between citizens and government. The United States remains one of the last English-speaking countries where speech and thought are still broadly protected. That did not happen by accident. Yet when we look honestly at the past century, a pattern becomes difficult to ignore. Nearly every major war America has entered has been followed by some erosion of liberty at home.” – Mollie Engelhart

We Are Beings of Light – “How plant blood hidden inside your mitochondria silently harvests the sun — and what this means for everything you thought you knew about energy, aging, and what it means to be alive.” – Sayer Ji

Heads-up: Food crisis incoming – “Prices will rise, shortages will occur. Dear reader, the coming food crisis requires immediate action: 1. Change your diet: Shift toward plant-based proteins like lentils, beans, and chickpeas. Legumes fix nitrogen and require less synthetic urea. Also, this cheap source of protein (especially dried beans) reduces exposure to price volatility. 2. Start your stockpile now: Buy shelf-stable commodities before retail prices adjust. Focus on rice, oats, pasta, and dried beans. 3. Grow and preserve fresh foods: Start plants indoors this spring (in the northern hemisphere). Research what grows in your area and begin seed starting this weekend. Learn to can fresh food to preserve what you grow or supermarket deals.” – Sarah Connor

Tennessee Bill Would Ban Administration of mRNA Vaccines in Humans and Animals – “An individual, including a healthcare provider, shall not administer to any human or animal in this state a vaccine or other injectable solution that contains an mRNA vaccine or vaccine material.” – Jon Fleetwood

NEWS

The a-spiritual President and his Demonic War. – “A holy war and the unholy leader driving it. “The Bible means a lot to me, but I don’t want to get into specifics.” — Donald Trump, 2015 on Bloomberg Politics’ program, With All Due Respect. US President Trump is the most obviously a-spiritual US president I can recall in my life-time—although, Bill Clinton, perhaps, warrants special mention here too. The Trumpster is rarely given to twenty minute off-cuff the remarks expanding on his spiritual faith and practice. Question: “Have you ever asked God for forgiveness?” Answer: “I am not sure I have. I just go on and try to do a better job from there. I don’t think so. I think if I do something wrong, I think I just try and make it right. I don’t bring God into that picture. I don’t.” Interesting answer. But, let’s finish by asking a question for those of us who think of ourselves as Christians? Can those Shia Muslim Iranian school-girls be in any other place than the most heavenly one and on the right hand side of God? I think not. I believe not. I pray not.” – Gerry O’Neill

‘We voted for walls, not wars’: Did strikes on Iran just break MAGA? – “How the war on Iran shattered the loyalty of Trump’s supporters” – Evgeny Balakin

The Inner Cabinet and the Outer Media – “Anyone who is not sick at heart and raging over the slaughter of over 165 young Iranian girls at a school by the American-Israeli monsters waging war on Iran is depraved and evil. It sickens me to state something so obvious, but I am afraid it is true that many are not distraught by the news. A nod to “how terrible” and on with the war is a common response for those who even know about it, not just because of moral indifference but because of the acceleration of digital news reporting that disappears today before it has become tomorrow. The young girls are forgotten with each passing day in the U.S. and Israel – but not in Iran.” – Edward Curtin

Trump Crosses Iran’s ‘Red Line’ By Heavy Bombing Of Kharg Island, Endangering Energy Assets Across Region – “In what could prove to be a major step up the escalation ladder in the two-week-old US-Israeli war on Iran, President Trump on Friday evening (notably after US market closure) announced that US Central Command had carried out a major bombing raid on Kharg Island, which handles upwards of 90% of Iran’s crude oil exports.” – Tyler Durden

Mission Accomplished: Trump Declares Victory as All Sides Intensify Combat – David Haggith

The Madman School of International Diplomacy Madmen and the road to MAD. Donald Trump offers perhaps the most prominent contemporary example. Once a master of transactional negotiation, his later tenure suggests a leader increasingly isolated from factual reality, driven by personal grievance and an intoxicating sense of power. Here, the distinction between the strategic use of unpredictability and actual instability has become dangerously blurred, creating a foreign policy environment defined by chaos rather than calculated risk, where even his closest associates don’t know where his next whim or affront might take him.” – Ashes of Pompeii

When “Diplomats” Engineer War – “The eerie parallels between July 23, 1914 and February 27, 2026. The talks were between Trump’s special envoy Steve Witkoff and senior advisor Jared Kushner and the Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi. Witkoff and Kushner made the following demands:… In other words, the U.S. envoys asked Iran to surrender ALL of its capacity for projecting military power and deterring missile and aerial attacks on its homeland. It doesn’t matter what you think about the Iranian regime, just as it didn’t matter in 1914 what the Austrian people thought about the Serbian regime. There was simply no way that either regime could accept these demands without placing themselves entirely at the mercy of the Austrians and Americans respectively.” – John Leake

The TV Generals Have Something to Sell You About Iran – “These three kings are working for someone and it’s not us. For all the fears about militarism creeping across America, the generals are already in command —on cable news. The Iran war is the TV generals’ new battlefield. But their real service is to their clients and themselves. Ever since the first Gulf War in 1991, every one of the big networks has hired some retired general or admiral to appear on air as an “expert” to explain the complicated matters of war (and behind the scenes, to smooth matters over with the Pentagon). In reality, it’s all business.” – Ken Klippenstein

Networks Still Using Retired Generals to Sell War – “Serious Conflicts of Interest for America’s War Salesmen and Cheerleaders” – Bill Astore

Macron’s aircraft carrier and warplanes to the Persian Gulf is a dangerous vanity project – “Like a knight in shining armour, French President Emmanuel Macron is vowing to defend Europe’s interests as the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran escalates. Macron is not defending Europe or French honor. His theatrical swashbuckling is going to get more people killed and very possibly make the economic impact on Europe even more disastrous.” – Finian Cunningham

London Buses Must Now Be Equipped With STAB KITS – “Knifings become an everyday horror, but no one dares name the real cause” – Steve Watson

As Grasp on Power and Narrative Slips, West Re-Imagines Old Norms – Simplicius

Wars are never about what we’re told they’re about, and this one is no different – “The war with Iran is not about preserving Israel’s existence. It’s not about destroying Iran’s weapons. It has always been about regime change and a broader strategy to control routes and resources.” – Leo Hohmann

Without The Save Act, We are Living in a Slave State and Our Labor Is Harvested by Crooks. – “Did John Thune get a clench in his noble behind when eye-patch-pretend-pirate-guy lost his primary? Added to Trump’s relentless pressure Thune has, grindingly, consented to refer the Save Act to a vote, possibly next week. Thune is, like most elected Republicans, pretendian MAGA counting the days when he can go back to playing defence and lining his pockets. The fact that voter fraud has deprived the Republicans of a clear unbreakable majority for THREE election cycles is clearly beyond him. He is functionally retarded. Or a shark committing treason.” – Elizabeth Nickson

Mamdani’s Estate Tax Will Suffocate NYC’s Middle Class $750,000 in New York is not generational wealth. It’s a two bedroom house in Queens” – Quoth the Raven .

The Iranian & Russian Ambassadors Debunked False Claims Of India’s “Betrayal” – “Pepe Escobar alleged over the past week that India sequentially betrayed them both.” – Andrew Korybko – I ADMIT THAT I LINKED PEPE’S 2 PART STORY ABOUT THIS AS HE IS USUALLY PRETTY FACTUAL. ANDREW SETS THE RECORD STRAIGHT!!!

ECONOMIC NEWS

Will The Iran War Oil Price Shock Sink Stocks? (VIDEO) with Lance Roberts – “The military conflict in Iran has sent oil prices to $100/barrel, placing stress on the global economy. And tonight, the US just threatened to destroy the oil infrastructure on Kharg Island, which would essentially cut off Iran’s ability to export. Should oil prices remain elevated — or even worse, move even higher — for any notable time, would this send the financial markets into shock? Portfolio manager Lance Roberts and I discuss the odds,” – Adam Taggart | Thoughtful Money®

Chip makers face a looming shortage of a key ingredient if the Iran conflict drags on – “Qatar accounts for a third of global helium supply but has halted production of the gas, which is essential for semiconductor manufacturing” – William Gavin

Energy Inflation for Americans – “Dropping gasoline prices since mid-2022 papered over big price increases in electricity and natural gas. But that’s over.” – Wolf Richter

The Fed Has a Groupthink Problem. Warsh Can Fix It – “Evidence shows groupthink has produced suboptimal monetary policy. Kevin Warsh’s out-of-sync views could bring much-needed diversity to the Fed.” – Thomas L. Hogan – HOW ABOUT WE JUST GET RID OF THE FED, THEN WE WON’T HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT A GROUP THINK PROBLEM!!!

The 126-Year Case for Gold: And Why This Rally’s Not Done Yet – “On this day, 126 years ago, President William McKinley, the 25th President of the United States signed the Gold Standard Act into law. The Act fixed the value of one U.S. dollar at 25.8 grains of gold, set the price at $20.67 per troy ounce, and required the Treasury to redeem paper currency in gold on demand. Gold is trading at roughly over $5,000 today. That means we have a lot of history to unpack and a lot of policy decisions to account for within that gap.” – Nomi Prins

$5,000 Gold Is the “New Normal” – Here’s What It Says About the Economy – “Finally, a “new normal” we can get behind The phrase new normal has carried a lot of baggage in recent years. Lockdowns. Supply disruptions. Empty shelves. So when analysts begin describing $5,000 gold as a possible new normal, it’s understandable if people feel uneasy. Yet that idea is increasingly appearing in financial commentary.” – Peter Reagan

SURVIVAL, PREPAREDNESS AND SELF-SUFFICIENCY

The Amish Greenhouse: What These Off-Grid Farmers Know About Year-Round Food Production That Most Preppers Don’t – “If you want to understand what a truly self-sufficient food production system looks like, stop looking at YouTube homestead channels and start paying attention to what Amish farmers have been doing for generations. Specifically, look at their greenhouses. Amish and Old Order Mennonite communities across Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, and the surrounding states have developed a greenhouse tradition that is quietly one of the most practical and replicable models of year-round food production available to anyone serious about reducing their dependence on the commercial food supply. ” – Ask A Prepper Staff

Construction and Design of a Remote, Off-Grid Residence – Part 1 – “The following are my suggestions for considering how to build and design property in a remote area that has no grid-based resources. My priorities are efficiency, low maintenance, and low power usage.” – Mrs. Alaska

Ill Fares the Land… – “The solution is to get local, get self-reliant, get the common unity back in community by building webs of resilience with your neighbors, get control of your school boards, mayors and sheriff’s office, and town councils (the last places we still hold all of the cards), get a garden in your lawn no matter how small, a single tomato plant is better than nothing, get a well (water is your most important resource hands down), get ready, get moving, get doing, and, if so inclined, get God. Don’t build a bigger fence to keep our your neighbor, build a bigger table, and let’s get together and take our country back. Everyone’s looking for a savior instead of looking in the mirror, we are the ones we’ve been waiting for.” – TriTorch

Back To Basics: Old-Fashioned Skills Worth Learning This Year – “In our fast-paced, convenience-driven world, there’s a satisfaction that comes from mastering timeless, hands-on skills. These traditional tasks not only help you become more self-reliant, but they also deepen your connection to nature and family, and can even save money and reduce waste. Here are thirteen old-fashioned skills worth relearning this year, with practical resources to get you started.” – Homesteaders of America

Got Ammo? – “Expect Massive Shortages Soon. You may have seen alerts about “massive ammo shortages” lately. While the headlines are flashy, the reality is a complex mix of global trade and military demand. Here’s what’s actually happening behind the scenes:” – The Tactical Hermit

VERSE FOR THE DAY

Proverbs 28:25 He that is of a proud heart stirreth up strife: but he that putteth his trust in the Lord shall be made fat.

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Trump is helping the Zionists to destroy Islam – “There are four great religions in the world. They are by numbers of believers, Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, and Buddhism. Christianity, the largest world religion, has more or less been destroyed. The original purpose of Christianity was to save one’s soul. The liberals turned Christianity into an agent of social reform. But Zionists turned evangelical Christians into Christian Zionists who seem to confuse Israel with God. The Israel Lobby used, and perhaps manipulated, the Catholic priest pedophile saga to destroy the influence of the Pope and the Catholic Church. Christians are routinely murdered by Israel and nothing whatsoever is done about it. Murdering a Christian has become no different from running over an animal in the road. Trump, being essentially Netanyahu’s puppet, doesn’t realize that he is letting Zionists use America to destroy the Islamic religion.” – Paul Craig Roberts

The Sound of Trumpets – “The US at war (again) as the mainstream media disgraces itself (again)… Do you hear the trumpets sounding, dear reader, bright and bold and brassy? From South America to the Middle East, Caracas to Tehran, a weary world awakens to the shocking might of an empire in full military stride, wondering where its “epic fury” might be directed next. Besides the aforementioned campaigns, Trump II has sent forth a chorus of bombs and drones to strike at scoundrels in Somalia, Iraq, Yemen, Syria and Nigeria. Inquiring minds may wish to ask: Is this what “America First” looks like?” – Joel Bowman

How Washington keeps breaking the Middle East – “The killing of Iran’s leadership has intensified tensions across the Middle East, reviving debate over decades of US intervention – from coups and regime change to wars that reshaped the region” – RT – A LITTLE HISTORY LESSON, VERY GOOD READ. TELLS YOU WHAT THE REAL INTENTIONS ARE. ALSO WATCH GREG’S VIDEO BELOW!!!

Blowback of Piracy (VIDEO) – “In 1901, a 60-year lease of 500,000 square miles in Persia was bought by a British millionaire. With the support of the British government, this area, known for having oil seeps since antiquity, was surveyed for oil deposits by British explorers. On May 26, 1908, British explorers struck oil in Masjid-i-Suleiman. In 1909, the Anglo-Persian Oil Company was founded. In 1911, Winston Churchill converted the Royal Navy from coal to oil, and in 1914, the British government bought 51% of the Anglo-Persian Oil Company. Persia was now strategically vital to the British Empire.” – Greg Reese -THE ANGLO -PERSIAN OIL COMPANY LATER BECAME BRITISH PETROLEUM OR BP WHICH LATER MERGED WITH AMOCO AND IS THE 9TH LARGEST OIL COMPANY BY MARKET CAPITALISATION. FUNNY HOW OIL SEEMS TO BE INVOLVED IN ALL THESE CONFLICTS!!!!

10 Insights: US-Iran War The fuse has been lit – Sarah Connor – GOOD ONE FROM SARAH!!!!!!

An Encore for American Heroes from The State of the Union -“Trump recognized America’s best citizens to remind us what we are fighting for – let’s highlight their full stories. The real stars of the State of the Union were the Americans highlighted in the president’s gallery. Whoever curated the invitations deserves a medal. Each honoree represented the best of us and the deadly consequences of the left. They reminded us of the sacrifices and heroism that make America great. Today, I will go into detail with their full stories so that MSM can’t memory hole them.The real stars of the State of the Union were the Americans highlighted in the president’s gallery. Whoever curated the invitations deserves a medal. Each honoree represented the best of us and the deadly consequences of the left. They reminded us of the sacrifices and heroism that make America great. Today, I will go into detail with their full stories so that MSM can’t memory hole them. ” – Yuri Bezmenov – WHAT YURI STATES IS PROBABLY TRUE CONCERNING HEROES, HOWEVER WITHOUT ENDLESS WARS WE WOULDN’T NEED THESE TYPES OF HEROES!!!

The Real Life Truman Show: Why You Can’t Believe Anything You See on Screen Anymore – “How Silicon Valley’s Secret Arsenal of Deception Tools Is Rewriting Reality Without You Even Knowing It” – 🐺The Wise Wolf

Arizona Senate Advances Bill Requiring Vaccine History Review in Sudden Infant Death Investigations – “Mandates 90-day review of vaccines and pharmaceutical countermeasures and requires reporting to a CDC-aligned national registry.” – Jon Fleetwood

Operation Northwoods & Stuff You’ve Never Heard About the JFK Assassination – “And let’s learn what USAID *actually* is…” – Agent131711

The Gaza Technate: For The First Time In History, Technocracy Is In Plain View! – “Last week, I was shocked to find that Trump’s “meme coin” had morphed into a $13 billion empire after starting with $0 in September 2024. It’s called World Liberty Financial (WLF), and the crypto token is called USD1. In the interim, the Trump boys have scored a major deal with Pakistan. This is a huge story, perhaps the biggest of the 21st century. Start by reading this first story (then proceed to the rest of the stories) to get to the end, and my conclusion that Gaza will be the first end-to-end Technate on earth.” – Patrick Wood

Technocracy: US Authorizes Larry Ellison’s Oracle To Run Generative AI On Federal And Our Personal Medical Data, Combined With Musk’s Grok AI – “xAI and Oracle are helping to shape the future of generative AI’s role in running classified government workloads.” – The WinePress

NEWS

Peace President Lights the World on Fire – “And maybe himself with it.” – David Haggith

Trumpy Puts Washington’s War Machine Out On Loaner To Bibi! – “The sheer barking hypocrisy of the Donald’s, yes, unprovoked and senseless attack on Iran over the weekend is surely one for the record books. After years of noisy campaigning against the Forever Wars and 12 months back in the Oval Office spent in hot pursuit of a Nobel Peace Prize, the Donald has not only started an utterly unnecessary new and very hot war, but did it essentially by gratuitously putting America’s vast War Machine out on a “loaner” to Bibi Netanyahu.” – David Stockman

Trump’s War with Iran is Unconstitutional, Stupid, Insane, and not in U.S. National Interests – “For the second time in a couple months Trump launched a sneak attack on Iran while engaged in negotiations. The attack included the deliberate assassination of the Ayatollah. For 300 million Muslims, the equivalent of the Pope for Catholics, or the head of the Eastern Orthodox Church. The attack damaged the credibility of the United States and may have many unforeseen geopolitical after effects as traditional norms of the rules of war were shattered. Trump has squandered America’s moral authority, if there was any left, and has unilaterally started what may be a major war with potentially dire consequences.” – Dr. Joseph Sansone

CHAOS UNLEASHED: On day 3 of U.S.-Israel war against Iran, more questions than answers about where this is heading – “Entire Middle East now enraged and in flames, as Trump warns U.S. death toll is expected to rise. Could Iran become the flip side of Ukraine — a Russian proxy against US?” – Leo Hohmann

Trump gets away with all of this by pretending we’re not really at war—a falsehood with which Congress is happy to play along. Asked if the U.S. is at war with Iran, Sen. Lindsey Graham told Meet the Press: “I don’t know if this is technically a war.” Absurd as that sounds,” – Ken Klippenstein

Just relax and take it, the EU tells Iran – “Instead of invoking international law and condemning US-Israeli aggression, Western Europe’s top brass is gleefully victim-blaming Iran. That’s quaint. Europeans pretending that Trump and Netanyahu bombing Iran isn’t about doing the bidding of Trump’s personal and political Israeli benefactors. No, instead they say that it’s all about the Iranian nuclear program that Trump said he had bombed into oblivion not even a year ago, and destabilizing activities around the world, and law enforcement crackdowns at home. The war they wanted: Netanyahu and Trump light the fuse in Iran Read more The war they wanted: Netanyahu and Trump light the fuse in Iran So what does the EU do? Support the American regime that’s arguably more synonymous with all those things combined than any other country right now.” – Rachel Marsden

State Department urges Americans to immediately leave Israel, other Middle East countries – “The US State Department urges Americans to immediately leave 13 Middle Eastern countries, including Israel, due to rising safety risks amid continued US and Israeli strikes against Iran.” – Israel National News

Lions Led by Donkeys – Who’s Really Leading Our Forces? (VIDEO) with LtCOL. Bill Astore – Judge Andrew Napolitano / Judging Freedom

U.S. Suffers Worst Day of Air Losses in Decades as Iran Conflict Spirals – “The Iran conflict is escalating, with the Trump administration desperate to keep a straight face on things as American casualties and losses begin mounting. Today’s major shock came when not one, not two, but an unprecedented three American F-15E fighter jets were mysteriously shot down over Kuwait. Note the official US military report admits that Iranian aircraft had been engaging them at a time when “air superiority” was allegedly long established: But not everyone is convinced these were “friendly fire” incidents.” – Simplicius

How much damage has Iran done to US bases in the Middle East? – “American military targets in six countries, including Bahrain and Qatar, have come under Iranian missile and drone fire” – RT

March 1, 2026 California Strikes Out: Major League Pitcher Turns Down Padres $40 Million Offer Due to State Taxes – “This week, “there is no joy in Mudville” – the mighty Padres have struck out.” – Jonathan Turley

Bernie Sanders Goes Nuclear On Billionaires With Craziest Tax Proposal Yet – “Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT.) is rolling out yet another exercise in class-warfare fantasy legislation on Monday, this time a proposal to extract a staggering $4.4 trillion from the nation’s roughly 1,000 billionaires through an annual 5 percent annual wealth tax,” – Tyler Durden

Iran’s Strikes On The UAE Exposed The Limits Of BRICS Unity – “Iran and the UAE have polar opposite security interests vis-à-vis the US, while India took the UAE’s side over Iran’s arguably due to its nearly 100x greater trade with the Emirates than with the Islamic Republic, all of which proves that BRICS was never a security bloc despite years of false claims to the contrary.” – Andrew Korybko

Zelensky Is Wrong: Russia Didn’t Start World War III In 2022; It Was The US In 1991! – “He defines World War III as a country “want[ing] to impose on the world a different way of life and change the lives people have chosen for themselves”, which doesn’t describe what Russia did in 2022, but what the US has been doing from 1991 till Trump’s return to office last year.” – Andrew Korybko

ECONOMIC NEWS

War in Iran and the Great Reset – “The War in Iran is already pushing The Great Reset agenda forward, as every major narrative seems to do. Iran is threatening to close the Strait of Hormuz, or already has, or can’t because their navy was destroyed, or is closing it for everyone but China. It’s all rather unclear. What IS clear is that vast amounts of shipping carrying millions of barrels of oil and gas passes through that stretch of water every day, and its closure – or even threatened closure – has serious implications for the price of energy, fertilizer, food…well, everything really.” – Kit Knightly

Three Red Flags You Can’t Ignore: Why This Bull Market May Be Over – “The markets are a sea of red this morning as the world begins to realize that: The situation in Iran will likely not be over quickly. Private credit markets are imploding, suggesting the credit cycle has turned. A top, if not THE top is in for this bull market.” – Graham Summers, MBA

European Natural Gas Surges 35%, Gold and Oil Rise While Silver Falls – “A full breakdown of European gas markets, gold, silver, crude oil, and global equities at the start of March 2027” – The Contrarian Capitalist

Eyes on the Prize: Gold & Silver Shake Off “Bubble” Fears – “When January ended, concerns regarding gold and silver flooded the internet. “A bubble had popped” and the “speculative blowoff” had burst with a crash of prices on January 30. What would February bring? In these columns, we expressed optimism regarding the long-term trend, and now that February is in the books, we’re glad we did. Yes, optimism. Those daily candles from January 30 were indeed ugly, but they were just that—daily candles. Stepping back, there was reason to believe that the sell-off was just a one-off.” – Craig Hemke

Basel III Tightens the Screws on Big Bank Bullion Trading – “For years, analysts of the precious metals market have argued that large financial institutions were able to dominate gold and especially silver pricing through highly leveraged trading on commodities exchanges. Essentially, creating enormous synthetic gold exposure with little-to-no physical metal behind it. Whether you call it hedging, financial engineering, or (in some documented cases) outright manipulation one thing is undeniable: The structure of the commodities markets has long favored institutions that have access to cheap, short-term funding and massive balance sheets to draw from. Basel III changes that equation.” – Phillip Patrick

Don’t Let Paper Games Shake You Out Of The Biggest Silver Run Of Your Lifetime – “They Want You Out Before Lift‑Off: Hold Tight, The Silver Launch Phase Is Coming” – The Silver Academy

SURVIVAL, PREPAREDNESS AND SELF-SUFFICIENCY

Off-Grid DIY Hydropower – “How I diverted a small stream to bring hydroelectric power to a remote cabin. Any home sitting near falling water is, in theory, a candidate for powering with hydroelectricity. Outbuildings and hunting cabins can get by on only a few kilowatts of electricity, suitable for “nano-hydro” systems, but a house or large cabin will probably need a “micro-hydro” system, referred to as those producing between 100 and 2,000 watts of electricity. Even a small diversion from a stream can send enough water through a pipe, or “penstock” in hydro terms, to power a battery.” – Chiggers Stokes

Gravity vs Pump vs Powered Water Filtration – “In Canada, boil-water advisories, ice storms, wildfire evacuations, and aging infrastructure are not theoretical risks. They happen yearly. Stored water buys you time. Filtration gives you sustainability.” – denob

Water Storage: How to Find Water When the Urban Systems Fail – “This guide breaks down what to do before, during, and after an urban water failure, plus the safest, most realistic ways to get water when the system goes down.” – Morgan

Digital Cage: How Trump’s Policies Are Accelerating Technocratic Control and What It Means for Your Freedom – ” Reclaiming your freedom isn’t about fear; it’s about taking control back where you can. It’s about building a life with more options, less dependence, and greater self-reliance—whether that means going deeper off-grid in the U.S., relocating abroad for better economics and lighter oversight, or simply reducing how much the system knows and touches your daily existence.” – Off Grid Survival

The Farmer’s Secret to Pain-Proof Joints: Why Some Old-Timers Stay Strong Into Their 70s – Bill Heid

VERSE FOR THE DAY

Isaiah 55:8 For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the Lord.

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OPERATION EL MENCHO—Cui bono? – ““You know it’s a false flag hoax and super psyop whenever the drama reaches the level that Mexico has seen over the past couple of days. And a super duper psyop it is, first and foremost, to distract everyone from (i) Mossad’s ever-exploding Epsteingate scandal, (ii) Bibi’s imperialistic war on Iran using the US military, (iii) Israel’s stealthy and slo-mo takeover of the West Bank, (iv) AIPAC’s complete control and manipulation of the U.S. Congress, (v) Ambassador Mike Huckabee’s epic blunder green-lighting the Greater Israel project across the Mideast, (vi) the Zionist blueprint for world domination via the coming Great Reset-imposed CBDC, Who can deny that the exact timing of this “El Mencho” operazione maggiore was meticulously selected for even many more reasons than the preceding slam dunk of an “Cui bono” indictment? First of all, everyone throughout the Global Intelligence Community knows that decapitating a major drug cartel never works; ” – State of the nation

War Games Targeting Christians as Terrorists Reveals a Lot More Than Just Institutional Bias – “New Zealand’s Defence Force (NZDF) has admitted targeting fictional Christian Nationalists to train for war. NZDF utilised the fictional scenario four times in 2025. Key to its backstory is “a predominantly Christian group, who wants to build a state broadly modelled on Christian values.” Governments targeting Christians in fictional wargames reveal a lot more than just institutional bias. These types of revelations are “Ruby Ridge” level warnings.” – Rod Lampard

Trump considers ordering banks to collect citizenship data – FT – “A potential executive order would reportedly aim to curb undocumented migration in the US” – RT – WETHER YOU ARE AN IMMIGRANT OR NOT, THIS IS AN INVASION OF PRIVACY AND ANOTHER FORM OF CONTROL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Russia Introduces Bill To Make Tokenized Digital Assets ‘Commonplace’ In Daily Life -“Russia continues its path forward into the new financial system, and recently more Russian officials have signaled that a tokenized economy will become the ‘new normal’ of everyday life.” – The WinePress

MAHA, America’s Farmers and the Glyphosate Dilemma – “Glyphosate is the foundational chemical for the current food system, which is a fact that no one can escape from. It is with this fact in mind that we need to approach glyphosate carefully, so as to quickly reduce its use while not creating sudden problems for America’s farmers. The U.S. pesticide industry that has directly caused much of the current chronic disease crisis, has been subsidized indirectly through federal farm policies for decades that encourage intensive, chemical-dependent industrial agriculture.” – Sustainable Pulse

The Mafia, Israel & JFK vs. Fidel Castro [Pizzagate Part 11] – “The casinos, the drug empire and the CIA’s “disposal problem””… Agent131711 – AGENT131711 CONTINUES DOWN THE PIZZAGATE/EPSTEIN /AND MORE RABBIT HOLE!!!!

Your Gut Microbiome Could Affect Colon Cancer – What You Can Do – ““Supporting the gut microbiome can help reduce colorectal cancer risk and may even enhance prevention and treatment,” Sachin Aryal, gut microbiome researcher at the University of Toledo, told The Epoch Times. “We’re learning that the bacteria in the gut matter more than we used to think,” Dr. Cedrek McFadden, colorectal surgeon and medical advisor to the Colorectal Cancer Alliance, told The Epoch Times. Gut bacteria are not just sitting there as bystanders. They interact directly with the lining of the colon, the immune system, and inflammatory processes over time. When the microbial balance is off—a condition called dysbiosis—some bacteria can create a low-level inflammatory state or produce substances that irritate the colon lining. Over many years, that kind of environment can contribute to cancer, McFadden said.” – Zena le Roux

NEWS

Fool’s Gold: The Art of the Steal and the Privatization of the Presidency – “In his State of the Union address, President Trump declared that America is entering a “Golden Age.” Golden for whom? For a president who lives lavishly in a taxpayer-funded mansion, jets around to weekend golf getaways at taxpayer expense, and dismisses concerns about “affordability” as fake news, life might indeed be gilded. For the rest of the country, it is fool’s gold. Nearly six-in-ten Americans say the country is worse off now than it was a year ago. Groceries cost more. Utilities cost more. Housing costs more. For millions of families, this is not a golden age. It is a painful lesson in imperial economics: the billionaire class lives large while “we the people” are told to live small.” – John & Nisha Whitehead

The Sound Of A Collapsing Empire – “Shockingly, or predictably, or even shockingly predictably, we discover there is a terrible toilet problem on the USS Gerald R. Ford. This carrier is the newest and most expensive warship ever built, at $13 Billion 2017 dollars, $17 Billion in today’s fiat. Among its many innovations, a vacuum-sewage system was adopted from the cruise ship industry, with pipes too narrow to accomplish their military mission. The USS Gerald Ford recently finished a strenuous, if imaginary, narcoterror operation in the Caribbean, and at this moment, is in the Mediterranean Sea attempting to join the massive US sea and air forces buildup vis a via Iran. Israel wants to decapitate Iran, and Washington want to please Israel despite the political and strategic risk to Trump’s legacy, and desire to avoid a third, fourth and fifth impeachment in 2027. American blood and resources will be Iranian targets if Trump or Netanyahu start shooting off more than just their gum flappers. The long lines to the head on the USS Gerald Ford on its way to a stupid war no one wants or needs will engender thousands of conversations, story-telling, venting, and reflections on imperial wantonness and political stupidity. Let’s hope this is the worst that happens to them.” – Karen Kwiatkowski – SOUNDS LIKE SOMETHING IS GOING DOWN THE SHITTER (THE EMPIRE), JUST NOT WHAT IS SUPPOSED TO 💩. YOU REALIZE THERE ARE NO URINALS ON THIS SHIP. SO MUCH FOR BEING GENDER NEUTRAL!!!!

Are the Democrats The Real Racists? – Martin Armstrong

How Israel Manipulates the US into Fighting Its Endless Wars (VIDEO) with Paul Craig Roberts – Dialogue Works -GOOD VIDEO WHEN YOU HAVE SOME TIME TO WATCH IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!

If You Think The US Wants To Bring Democracy To Iran, Watch What They’re Currently Doing To Iraq – “This is what US-imposed “democracy” looks like in practice: giving a nation the freedom to do what Washington tells them to do and elect the leaders that Washington allows them to elect.” – Caitlin Johnstone

War with Iran is Likely More Imminent than you Think – “Several big clues present a shorter timeline than the official deadline for the long-feared, all-out war that many, including Iran, have said would be the start of WWIII in the Middle East.” – David Haggith

America 2.0: Running on Fumes – “Can’t somebody make something work? It’s pretty clear that all commerce now revolves around poorly made products, assembled by exploited foreign workers, which unconscionable companies sell with “warranties” that they often fail to honor on a technicality. Or they design the products to break down just after their warranty expires. Yes, that sounds paranoid, perhaps delusional. I’ve been driven to the breaking point, pun intended, by having to rely on so many things that don’t work.” – Donald Jeffries

Watch: TDS Riddled De Niro Sobs In TEARS Over Trump – “Robert De Niro, the actor whose unhinged rants against President Trump have become a staple of leftist media, took his Trump Derangement Syndrome to new heights by bursting into tears during an MSNBC appearance. De Niro sobbed while discussing Trump’s alleged “division,” prompting host Nicolle Wallace to tear up as well in a display of peak propaganda.” – Steve Watson – AND WE ARE SUPPOSED TO BE CONCERNED ABOUT WHAT THESE OLD ACTORS AND SINGERS LIKE SPRINGSTEEN AND BONO THINK. THEY ARE NO DIFFERENT THEN ANYONE ELSE, THEY ARE JUST ENTERTAINERS, THEIR OPINIONS REALLY MEAN NOTHING AND ARE NO BETTER THAN YOURS’ OR MINE. I’VE LOST A LOT OR RESPECT FOR SOME OF THESE PEOPLE. I LIKE THEIR MUSIC, AND THEIR ACTING. MORE THAN THAT, I COULD CARE LESS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

As Russia’s SMO Heads Into Its Fifth Year, the Struggle Lives On – “Today marks the fourth anniversary of the beginning of the ‘Special Military Operation’, launched on February 24th, 2022. On this occasion, I wanted to write a few words and address a couple controversial topics surrounding this ongoing war, now heading into its fifth year. One of the most widespread narratives surrounding the war on both sides has been that it is an extremely wasteful “brother war” where Slavic people are senselessly slaughtering each other for the applauding Europeans. It’s an indubitable fact that huge amounts of Slavic men are perishing on both sides all for the purpose of bleeding Russia dry for the sake of people that in actuality hate both sides, including the Ukrainians, whom they merely pretend to “like” so as to use them as a battering ram against Russia. But there are two things that can be said about this:” – Simplicius

Why Might Ukraine & Its Western Patrons Try To Blow Up Russia’s Black Sea Pipelines? – “The purpose is to derail the peace talks by provoking Russia into either preemptively escalating against Ukraine as a deterrent or authorizing an overmatched retaliatory escalation right after that could in any case be spun by the Europeans to manipulate Trump against Putin.” – Andrew Korybko

ECONOMIC NEWS

Debt Expands At Its Fastest Pace In History. (And We Haven’t Seen Anything Yet). – Gregory Mannarino

One in Five California Home Sales Canceled Due to Unaffordable Insurance – “Ponder a $44,000 insurance bill. This does not count as inflation in the CPI.” – Mish

CME Halts Metals Trading — Again — Two Days Before First Notice Day – “On Wednesday, February 25, 2026 — precisely 48 hours before March First Notice Day — CME Group halted all metals and natural gas futures and options trading on its Globex platform. CME’s Global Command Center first acknowledged the issue at 12:11 CT, and by 12:15 CT the exchange confirmed a full halt. Natural gas was quietly restarted by 12:50 CT, but metals — the category where the real pressure exists — remained dark with no timeline for resumption. All day orders and good-till-date (GTD) orders placed for Wednesday were canceled. Only good-till-canceled (GTC) orders with prior confirmations survived the purge. CME’s official explanation: “technical issues.” No further detail. No elaboration. Just a status page that reads “Investigating”. Anyone paying attention to the silver market knows the timing here is not random.” – Niko Moretti

The Silver Cliff of 2026: The Hard Data – “We are no longer approaching the “Silver Cliff.” We are currently in freefall. Here is the cold, hard math that the banks don’t want on your feed. The Vault Bleed: New York is Running Out of Metal 🏦🔥 The COMEX is currently operating on “fumes.”” – Kerry Lutz

Gold Revaluation Is Coming – Andy Schectman Explains The Endgame (VIDEO) – “Andy Schectman CEO of Miles Franklin Precious Metals explains why gold revaluation by governments is increasingly likely rather than speculative. He argues that treasury backed stablecoins and legislation such as the GENIUS Act create a powerful incentive for higher gold prices as interest flows are redirected into hard assets. Schectman notes that gold already sits on central bank balance sheets in revaluation accounts making an official reset structurally simple if confidence in fiat erodes further.” – Liberty and Finance

SURVIVAL, PREPAREDNESS AND SELF-SUFFICIENCY

ALASKA’S HARSH TRUTH: WHY HOMESTEADING HERE BREAKS MOST PEOPLE – “With its unforgiving climate and vast, untamed wilderness, Alaska truly is the last frontier. For those bold enough to homestead here, it’s far more than just a hobby; it’s a demanding way of life that requires a level of grit, fortitude, and resilience few can imagine. The year revolves around the brief but intense summer, when every essential task, from planting crops to gathering firewood, must be done with winter in mind.” – Anna Sakawsky

Cold-Climate Composting Systems That Work Year-Round in Canada – “In a true preparedness mindset, compost is not a gardening hobby. It is soil production, waste management, nutrient recycling, and food security rolled into one system. If you can maintain active composting through winter, you gain three major advantages: When temperatures drop below freezing, microbial activity slows dramatically. If the pile is small or poorly insulated, it freezes solid. Once frozen, decomposition essentially pauses. The goal in winter isn’t necessarily to keep a steaming 60°C “hot pile” going constantly. It’s to retain core heat, protect microbial life, and keep the system active enough to prevent full freeze-through.” – denob

Why “Normalcy Bias” Gets People Killed – “There is a peculiar and deadly glitch in the human brain. When danger arrives — real, imminent, life-threatening danger — a significant portion of people simply freeze. They look around, note that no one else seems to be panicking, and convince themselves that everything is probably fine. This is not cowardice. It is not stupidity. It is a well-documented psychological phenomenon called normalcy bias, and it has contributed to some of the deadliest disasters in recorded history.” – Ask A Prepper Staff

20 Bug Out Bag Items With More Than One Use – “One way to make evacuation a little easier is to make sure that every item you do carry in your backpack has more than one use. This will greatly reduce the number of items you need to carry and can make room for other things.” – Megan Stewart

8 Things to Plant in a Cold Frame in Late Winter/Early Spring – “From radishes to pansies, there’s plenty to plant at this time of year.” – Casey Clark

VERSE FOR THE DAY

Proverbs 13:20 He that walketh with wise men shall be wise: but a companion of fools shall be destroyed.

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THE BIG PICTURE

Hate from a Distance – “I know what hate is. I’ve felt it. I doubt there’s a human alive who hasn’t had firsthand experience with the emotion. But for me, hate has to come with pretty good, in-your-face, grounds. What about you? Is it a good thing to refrain from hate? I think so. I don’t mean to bring up Trump so often, but you have to admit, he is the giant elephant in the room and always a great subject for comment. He is a perfect example of what this article is about—hate. I don’t have to tell you he is the number one object of hate in the world today. Sure, there are others, but Trump gets the gold medal.” – Todd Hayen, PhD, RP

When AI Defines Truth, Divisions Grow – “Thinking outside the box has never been more important.” – J.B. Shurk

3 Million Pages of Child Sex Trafficking, So, What Is the FBI Doing? – “The FBI director is partying and swilling beer.” – Mish

Trump’s WWIII: Hospital Flotilla Heading for Iran – “WHY is President Trump sending a military hospital flotilla to Greenland? Why is he saying it is to help the sick people of Greenland? Are there no hospitals or doctors in Greenland? Quite simply, Trump is anticipating American soldier casualties when we initiate war with Iran and is afraid of the backlash this admission would have on The People. Iran. The means of distracting from the demise of America. Now that Huckabee has given the Middle East due notice that Israel is planning on taking over more territory than believed, the boundary lines shift. Saudi Arabia is awakening from its slumber. Qatar sees the duplicity. And the remaining pro=Trumpers trying to shift blame to the UK Black Nobles is falling flat. And HHS antisemitism gulags look more like concentration camps. Iran hosts upwards of half a million Christians. ” – Helena Glass – HELENA CONNECTS A FEW DOTS HERE AND IT ISN’T PRETTY!!!!!

Nutritional Deficiencies and Toxicity: The Silent Collapse Beneath Every Modern Disease – “Americans are undoubtedly the champions of disease, for they have the worst diets, the most vaccines, the most dangerous and numerous tests like CAT and PET scans, and take the most medications of any people on Earth, and the statistics sustain this view. Instead of supporting health, Americans, and of course, many others around the world, support the pharmaceutical paradigm that tears down health.” – Dr. Sircus

France declares war on meat – “The state is lecturing its citizens about the supposed danger of their diets, again” – Rachel Marsden

Yet Another Study Shows the ‘Virus’ Transmission Paradigm is Nonsense – “A recently-published study went to great lengths to make healthy people “catch” the flu. They didn’t.” – Anthony Colpo

The Origins of Freemasonry – “Exploring a Forgotten Voice on Secret Societies” – Jordan Nuttall

AUSTRALIAN MAINSTREAM MEDIA MYSTIFIED & BAFFLED: “More Young Australians Are Being Diagnosed With Cancers Once Thought To Affect Mostly Older People” – “Another day, another Mockingbird MSM outlet is activated to feign bewilderment and grave concerns over the burgeoning VAIDS-induced turbo cancer epidemic. This time the antipodal quislings have been activated to wonder out loud what could ever be driving these unprecedented cases in demographics that have historically never experienced such cancer rates; that is, until they were injected by an out of control tyrannical Down Under government with PSYOP-19 Modified mRNA slow kill bioweapon “vaccines,” but we digress:” – 2nd Smartest Guy in the World

NEWS

About Those Checks…- “It became the practice of Roman caesars – after the actual one’s murder in the Forum and the reign of his immediate successor, Augustus – to buy the affection of the people (as well as the legions) by showering them with sesterces, coins in Roman times. It became necessary in short order – after Augustus – for the new caesar to do this, else he might end up – and often did end up – being put to death by his own praetorians. Trump promised sesterces – twice thus far. Initially, we plebes were supposed to be getting a $5,000 check as our common refund, to be paid-for by all the money saved by Elon Musk and the Department of Government Efficiency. Does anyone in our amnesiac era recall? Trump’s promises of sesterces – to the tune of $5,000 for each of us plebes – was of a piece. It was greeted with wild enthusiasm because so many of us plebes could very much use $5,000 – Well, we’re very close to the vaguely hinted at point at which the imperator said the sesterces would be paid out. Is there anyone who still believe they will be? ” – Eric Peters – I HAVE TALKED ABOUT THIS BEFORE. ERIC SAYS IT WAS REDUCED TO $2000, BUT I TOOK THE $2000 REFUND TO BE FOR TARIFFS IN ADDITION TO THE $5000 DOGE SAVINGS REFUND. SO ACTUALLY HE WAS PROMISING TWO DIFERENT REFUNDS NOT A REDUCED REFUND. WHICH WE WON’T SEE EITHER OF THEM!!!

A Campaign of Bad Faith and Ill Will – “Lunacy proceeds from crime. In case you wonder why half the country has gone crazy, seek no further than Susan Rice’s stark warning to the other half of the country that is not crazy. Ms. Rice was Barack Obama’s National Security Advisor and then “Joe Biden’s” Domestic Policy Advisor. She did a podcast last week with Preet Bharaha. Her message to Trump supporters: We’re coming after you when we’re back in power. “Revenge is a dish best served cold.” It was an important signal and it got a lot of people’s attention. It telegraphed the fear running through the Lefty-left that their crimes against the country are being tallied, carefully catalogued, and presented to a grand jury in Florida. The crimes are bundled as a multifaceted conspiracy to overthrow the US government. Pretty serious. Sedition and Treason. Susan Rice knows what she (and others) did. Secondly, and surely less-known to the American public, was Ms. Rice’s role as Domestic Policy Advisor under “Joe Biden.” Her actual job from 2021 to 2023 was to serve as a conduit for Barack Obama to run “Joe Biden’s” White House, along with Jake Sullivan and Tony Blinken. During those years, the public rarely (if ever) saw Susan Rice. She avoided the news media and did not make public statements or appearances at White House events. The news media were happy to ignore her. They knew exactly what she was up to.” – James Howard Kunstler

Upon a platform of lies – “The very model of modern majoritarian mendacity. “If you can’t dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bullshit” is a time honored tradition among charlatans and politicians, but this commonplace political Pokémon sometimes evolves into a far more pernicious final form: New York city is becoming acutely hilarious in this regard. This has got to be some kind of all time record for going from “piles of socialist promises for free stuff” to “we need you in the work gangs because our infrastructure is borked.” Yes, the culpepper is satire, but the rest of this is all too real. It seems this gang cannot even keep its manifold mendacities straight and the irony of “you needed no ID to vote yourself into this but you need extreme amounts of ID to shovel yourself out” (In the New York collective work gangs, mo less) is thick enough to block a snowplow.” – El Gato Malo

AOC’s Ignorance Is No Laughing Matter – “Ocasio-Cortez’s Munich performance was laughable—but her nostalgia for workerist politics ignores a century of Marxist failure, revisionism, and the authoritarian wreckage that followed.” – Stephen Soukup

‘This clip will haunt him forever’: Watch Gavin Newsom bond with blacks by telling them ‘they’re all probably stupid & probably can’t read’ – Bob Unruh – A LITTLE RACIST, DON’T YOU THINK, GAVIN!!!!!

Half of global US air force masses in Middle East as Iran attack looms – “Iran has said it are prepared for war as the US masses unprecedented forces in the region to levels not seen since the Iraq War” – Charlie Jones

Greater Israel’s War Calendar and the Epstein Class Cartel Running Trump (VIDEO) with Max Blumenthal – “Max Blumenthal joins George Galloway on MOATS to lay out how Netanyahu’s rented American president has been handed a war calendar written in Tel Aviv, with a fake 10‑day “diplomacy” window timed to Purim and Ramadan and backed by the biggest U.S. naval build‑up since Iraq.” – MOATS

The Discombobulated West – “We have already entered a new historical phase: no holds barred; no periphrasis; not even an attempt to justify anything. Iran mirrors the ultimate showdown: either US-Zionist imperialism prevails, or it’s multipolarity.” – Pepe Escobar

Cartel violence sweeps Mexico following death of drug lord (VIDEOS) – “Street battles have erupted after the military killed a powerful kingpin known as El Mencho” – RT

Senator warns Mexican narco-terrorists are ‘hunting down Americans’ in war zone Puerto Vallarta as thousands try to escape on flights: – Rachel Bowman and Stephen M. Lepore

Florida toddler dies after man allegedly binds, beats 3-year-old: Shocking child abuse case sparks outrage – “A Florida man has been arrested following the death of his girlfriend’s 3-year-old daughter, who succumbed to injuries after being allegedly bound and struck. According to the sheriff’s office, when deputies arrived, they were informed that 32-year-old Jeroen Jarrel Coombs had harmed Paisley and was trying to leave the scene. Coombs reportedly admitted to binding Paisley’s hands with a robe tie and her legs with painter’s tape to stop her from reaching into her diaper. He claimed that he dropped Paisley while she was still tied up, causing her to gasp for air. The sheriff’s office said that he later stated he struck her multiple times before realizing he “took it too far.” – Audrey Liza M. Nolasco

How Might Russia Respond To The US’ Planned Long-Range Missile Deployment To Germany? – “The redeployment of its hypersonic Oreshniks to Kaliningrad, Belarus, and/or Crimea is the most likely response so long as the US continues to informally comply with the New START, but any significant violations thereof could prompt Russia to redeploy (even just tactical) nukes to those places.” – Andrew Korybko

The Strategic Dilemma At the Heart of Iran’s Struggle – “Contradictory bouts of news and rumor continue to pour in surrounding Trump’s ‘imminent’ attack on Iran. The buildup is said to be the largest since the Iraq war, with various figures like ex-CIA operative John Kiriakou giving their renditions of ‘insider intel’ that Trump has already sealed the fated decision and is ready to roll heavy within the next 48 hours. Iranian officials, on the other hand, appear to signal that talks will continue into next weekend, and there are varied reports about deals gaining traction.” – Simplicius

ECONOMIC NEWS

Dow tumbles 800 points on growing fears about AI disruption, tariff drag: – Sean Conlon and Sarah Min

Inflation Rises But Signs of Stagflation Emerge – “Economy Sends Warning Signals To Start The New Year” – Peter Nayland Kust

Trump Just Broke Every Deal with 15 Percent Tariffs, Other Countries Can Too – “Bessent expects countries to honor their deals. Why should they?” – Mish

Gold & Silver About To Rally Higher Again? (VIDEO) with Andy Schectman – “Is the correction in gold & silver prices over? Are prices about to rally higher again, or is there more room left to fall farther? Precious metals expert Andy Schectman provides his latest outlook for the precious metals and takes live audience Q&A.” – Adam Taggart | Thoughtful Money®

Money Is Funny That Way: The Case for USD Supremacy – “The consensus holds that the US dollar is doomed, irrevocably sliding to zero. The US will continue issuing new dollars to maintain the pretense of stability until this money-printing triggers hyper-inflation, which will wipe out the USD’s remaining shreds of value. This consensus is largely based on the history of the Weimar Republic and other examples of money-printing (the only expedient solution) leading to the destruction of the currency. This could be the path the USD takes. But money is funny that way. It is a social construct and so the range of possibilities is wider than we might imagine.” – Charles Hugh Smith

Gold Just Issued a Warning the Fed Can’t Ignore (VIDEO0 – Peter Schiff

$20 Billion a Week — What Could Go Wrong? (VIDEO) with Michael Pento – ” I just want to say this. There isn’t going to be any end to the inexraable rise of the Fed’s balance sheet because America’s debt problem hasn’t been solved. It’s getting much worse.$2 trillion deficits in peace time. Deficits usually go up by 200 to 300%. So we’re looking at 4 to6 trillion in the next recession. And who the heck’s going to buy it? You think China and Japan are gonna step up and buy our debt now? Is Russia gonna buy our debt? No. It’s all on us. ” – Kerry Lutz’s Financial Survival Network

SURVIVAL, PREPAREDNESS AND SELF-SUFFICIENCY

Pieces of Gear That’ll Save Your Life – “Arm yourself with survival gear whenever you venture deep into the woods – not just to make your life easier but because it could possibly save your life.” – Wild Bill

Breakthroughs: Starlink + Next-Gen Batteries = Viable Homesteads – “A growing number of people, fed up with dysfunctional cities and craving a simpler/safer life, are fantasizing about homesteading. But only a tiny fraction of that group has actually made the move. Why? Because that level of self-sufficiency is vastly harder than it looks. Or…at least it was vastly harder. Two breakthroughs might revolutionize the homesteading concept:” – John Rubino

5 Simple Methods to Store Radishes (and 5 Recipes You Should Try) – Jennifer Poindexter

How to Bug In During Riots Without Drawing Attention – “Knowing how to bug in during riots without drawing attention is not about hiding in fear. It is about controlled presence and it is about looking normal while being prepared. The house that appears calm, occupied, and unremarkable is rarely the target. The one that looks abandoned, barricaded, or confrontational often is.” – David Andrew Brown

Chemical Free Toilet Paper: Why It Matters and the Best Options for Your Stockpile – “This article covers what chemicals are actually in conventional toilet paper, why they’re a concern, what to look for in a cleaner alternative, and how chemical free toilet paper fits into a serious preparedness stockpile.” – Ask A Prepper Staff

VERSE FOR THE DAY

Matthew 18:6 But whoso shall offend one of these little ones which believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea.

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Sic Transit Gloria Mundi – Could This Really Be The End of “Royal” “Families? Of Our Disgusting “Elites”? – “The ridiculous bloated “Prince” Andrew was arrested on Thursday not for his sexual transgressions but for giving information on U.K. trade deals to Epstein – so Epstein could sell insider information, exhaustively detailed here.. It was how Andrew paid tribute for the ‘gift’ of teens and bailing out his equally grotesque ex-wife, the money grubbing “please marry me, Jeffrey,” Sarah Ferguson. Deflection is pretty much the case regarding everyone fired due to Epstein association so far. Though the former Prime Minister of Norway, Thorbjorn Jagland was charged with “gross corruption”, instead of raping children. Thomas Pritsker, cousin of the wretched Governor of Illinois, head of Hyatt Hotels, resigned. Tax evasion on grand scale? Sex with toddlers? Unknown so far. Sultan Ahamed Bin Sulyem – chief of Dubai DP World is gone – he was the monster that “loved that torture video”.” – Elizabeth Nickson – QUITE THE LIST, WITH I’M SURE MORE TO COME!!!

Andrew arrested to save King Charles from abdication? – “For Andrew, it seems there is no depth profound enough for his brother King Charles to push the knife in.” – Martin Jay

Jeffrey Epstein: Black Budget Biosecurity, Biowarfare, and the Compromise of American Public Health – “The disgraced Jeffrey Epstein’s ties to American Biosecurity, Science, and Medicine begins to seep out for public view” – A. W. Finnegan

Is Carney hiding ties with former prince Andrew and Ghislaine Maxwell? – “A widely circulated image shows Carney at a British music festival standing alongside Ghislaine Maxwell” – Sheila Gunn Reid

Operation Trust: The 100-Year-Old Soviet Psyop Repackaged As Qanon And The MAGA Movement – “The Great Reset and the Great Awakening are one and the same: any path you pick may look different, but it ends at the same destination. It is new lies for old. We have heard for years the many promises and slogans echoed by Trump, both his former and current administration officials, and the political pundits that supported (and still voraciously support) him, to sell the public the message of prosperity and victory. “Make America Great Again.” “Drain the swamp.” “Golden Age.” “America First.” “End the Deep State.” “4-D Chess.” “Removing Abuse, Fraud, and Waste.” “Great Awakening.” “Restore the Republic.” “The Storm.” “Red Pill.” “Defeat the Globalists.” “Fall Cabal.” “Hopium” “Winning.” “Where We Go One, We Go All” . “White Hats” “Trust the Plan.” That last phrase is the most important one. TRUST.” – The WinePress – GOOD READ FROM THE WINEPRESS!!!!

mRNA Injections, Cancer, and Prometheus – “Have the high priests of molecular biology unleashed the “Emperor of All Maladies” on the world’s young people?” – John Leake

The Secrets of the Jesuits – “the Society of Jesus Founded in the sixteenth century as a Roman Catholic order, they have come to occupy a complex and frequently contested position within historical writing. To some they represented scholarship, missionary zeal, and intellectual rigour. To others they appeared as a secretive body navigating courts, politics, and spiritual authority with remarkable skill.” – Jordan Nuttall – LONG READ. MAY BE A LITTLE DRY TO SOME, BUT INTERESTING NONE THE LESS!!!

AI REJECTS KENNEDY’S CLAIM THAT WE MUST HAVE GMO CROPS AND HERBICIDES OR FARMERS WILL GO OUT OF BUSINESS! – Jon Rappoport -NOT A BIG FAN OF AI, BUT THIS DOES A GOOD JOB OF SPELLING OUT THE TRUTH!!!!

What You Need to Know About the Burgeoning Binary Dialectic, Digital ID Enslavement Grid – “You cannot comply your way out of tyranny, so do not comply to getting a Digital ID under _any_ circumstance.” – Tritorch

Epstein’s Link to Transhumanism: How Far Have They Come? (VIDEO with Ana Maria Mihalcea, MD, PhD – “The recently released files reveal that Epstein was a key person advancing the Transhumanist agenda, but this didn’t end with Epstein. In fact, that very agenda is accelerating rapidly.” – Maria Zeee

A Single 3g Dose of Beetroot Extract Boosts Memory Recall by 20.69% in Just 90 Minutes – Nicolas Hulscher, MPH

NEWS

DHS Now Demanding Names and Phone Numbers of Social Media Users Critical of ICE – “While they hide behind masks and removed name badges, federal agents are now bypassing judges to hunt down anyone who dares to document their tactics online. In a move that should send a chill down the spine of every American who still believes in the First and Fourth Amendments, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has officially weaponized the administrative subpoena to unmask and intimidate its online critics.” – Matt Agorist

Cats with stats: safety in the east – “A comparison of crime rates” – El Gato Malo -INTERESTING COMPARISON OF EUROPEAN COUNTRIES’ CRIME RATES AND WHERE THE IMMIGRANTS COME FROM!!!

Trump Hikes Global Tariffs To 15%, Blasts “Ridiculous, Anti-American” SCOTUS Ruling – “Hell hath no fury like a Donald scorned…” – Tyler Durden

Trump Secretary Silent as Sons Poised to Make Bank From End of Tariffs – “The Supreme Court decision striking down Donald Trump’s many tariffs may prove to be a windfall for the family of Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, a key architect of Trump’s signature economic policy. In July, Wired reported that Cantor Fitzgerald, which Lutnick chaired until he was appointed to Trump’s Cabinet, was allowing its traders to purchase the rights to hundreds of millions of dollars of refunds in the event the tariffs were struck down in court. The firm now happens to be headed by Lutnick’s sons Kyle and Brandon.” – Hafiz Rashid – IMAGINE THAT. FUNNY THOUGH, HOW THE MSM NEVER COMPLAINED ABOUT PELOSI’S HUSBAND MAKING MONEY WITH INSIDE KNOWLEDGE. OF COURSE THAT WAS JUST RUMORS!!!!

Alien files incoming: Trump orders government release of UFO records – “President Donald Trump said on Thursday he would direct federal agencies to begin releasing government files related to aliens and unidentified flying objects, pointing to what he described as strong public interest in the issue.” – Nandita Bose and Trevor Hunnicutt – LINKED ABOUT THIS YESTERDAY AS WELL!!!

Records reveal Texas man killed last March was shot by immigration agent – “Texas Rep. Gina Hinojosa (D-Austin), who’s currently in the running for governor, says she has filed a Public Information Act and a legislative oversight inquiry for the release of body camera and dashcam footage related to the fatal shooting. She included the following statement in a Friday evening release: “A young man was shot and killed by an ICE agent in Texas and it took investigative reporters and a FOIA request to find out about it a year later. This is unacceptable. An American died at the hands of a federal agent and no one knew. This complete lack of accountability is a threat to all Americans and all Texans.” said Hinojosa. “This is now the third American citizen to be shot and killed by ICE in the streets. How many more people have been shot and killed that we don’t know about?” – Mack Shaw

Iran, Bunker Busters And Empire First – “When it comes to the dangerous misgovernance of our tottering American Republic, there is no more deadly combination imaginable than– The sweeping unchecked powers of the imperial presidency. A $1 trillion per year war machine which is organized mainly for conduct of wars of invasion and occupation and the propagation of Empire and which stands at the unilateral beck and call of the POTUS. An Oval Office occupied by a blustering Caesarean bully sporting an undersized brain enveloped in a gargantuan ego.” – David Stockman

Democrats Aren’t Resisting Trump’s Iran War Because They Secretly Support It – “Democratic Party leaders are doing nothing to oppose Trump’s war plans for Iran because they support those plans. They just don’t want to be the ones pulling the trigger.” – Caitlin Johnstone

More Teaching About Israel As Victim – “Mandatory holocaust and antisemitism courses become required in public schools” – Philip Giraldi

The Suicidal Folly of a War with Iran – “The Laurel and Hardy negotiating team of Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, coupled with Trump’s appalling ignorance of world affairs and megalomania, seem set to push the U.S. into yet another debacle in the Middle East, one the Congress has not approved, and the public does not want. The demands imposed on Iran by the Trump White House are no more acceptable to the regime in Tehran than those imposed on Hamas in Gaza under Trump’s sham peace plan.” – Chris Hedges

Killing of Quentin Deranque: Political firewall against the left forming in France after numerous far-left extremists are indicted for murder – “The far left has killed,” said Jordan Bardella, the leader of the National Rally, in response to the role of LFI members in the beating death of Deranque” – REMIX NEWS STAFF

ECONOMIC NEWS

Grinding the American Middle Class to Dust – “The housing market, for much of the 20th century, was the bedrock of the American Dream. Home ownership, and the financial stability it represents, was a sure path to middle-class prosperity. That dream turned to a nightmare for many American families during the epic real estate bubble and subsequent bust in 2008-09. Now the crumbling façade of American real estate and the associated economic squeeze has become too great to ignore. We’ve reached the point where discretionary income, the money left over after you’ve paid for basic needs, has effectively vanished for much of the population. When 67 percent of Americans are living paycheck to paycheck, saving for a down payment is impossible.” – MN Gordon

Trump’s 15% Section 122 Tariff Retry Headed for a Supreme Court Loss Too – “There are huge flaws in the Section 122 tariff idea.” -Mish

Paper Privilege – “The Trump cheerleaders on Fox news this morning were positively in Rapture. The latest growth and employment numbers suggest that “this could be a very good year,” said Larry Kudlow. “Growth,” they all agreed, will surprise everyone. Today, let’s keep our eye on the golden ball. The South China Morning Post reports: China wants its banks to hold fewer US Treasuries. This is the problem that the new man at the Fed, Warsh, will face. Even with improving monthly deficits, he’ll have about $10 trillion in debt to finance or roll over in the next twelve months. And he’ll have fewer people who want it to roll over on them.” – Bill Bonner

If ‘Cash Is King’, Berkshire Hathaway Leads The World – “Which Companies Hold the Most Cash? Berkshire Hathaway leads the rankings with an impressive $382 billion. Why Buffett Holds So Much Cash Among the top 50 companies, the Financials sector collectively holds the largest cash reserves at $1.2 trillion—partially driven by strict capital rules requiring banks to maintain large liquid buffers. Berkshire Hathaway is different: its cash position is strategic, not regulatory. After 12 straight quarters as a net seller of stocks, Buffett and the team have parked much of the company’s liquidity in short-term U.S. Treasury bills, implying that equity valuations look expensive.” – Tyler Durden

Paper Won Last Battle, but Physical Silver will Win (VIDEO) – David Morgan

Odds Of New Highs For Stocks Increasing (VIDEO) with Lance Roberts – “While stocks have been stuck in a trading range for months, it has given their Daily Moving Averages time to catch up and for oversold levels to burn off. Technically, this should provide current prices with stronger support to move higher from — especially if capital starts rotating back into the battered software and AI sectors.” – Adam Taggart | Thoughtful Money®

SURVIVAL, PREPAREDNESS AND SELF-SUFFICIENCY

Freeze Dried Cheese: The Complete Guide to Storing Cheese for 25+ Years – “cheese is one of the most valuable foods you can store long-term, and freeze drying is the only method that makes it last decades without refrigeration. Properly freeze dried cheese lasts 25+ years, retains nearly all its nutritional value, weighs almost nothing, and rehydrates instantly. It’s the perfect protein and fat source for your pantry, bug-out supplies, or off-grid lifestyle.” – Self-Sufficient Projects Staff

CD3WD Spotlight: The Hand Pump – Installation, Maintenance and Repair Manual – “One of the most practical titles inside the CD3WD archive is a technical manual simply titled: The Hand Pump – Installation, Maintenance and Repair Manual It is not flashy. It is not “prepper branded.” It is a field-level engineering guide written for environments where electric pumps are unreliable, fuel is scarce, and parts must be fabricated locally.” – denob

17 Depression Era Bartering Skills We Will Use Again Soon – Ask a Prepper – HAVE LINKED SIMILAR ARTICLES IN THE PAST!!

Perennial Shade Garden Plants for Low-Light Spaces – “Choose from an array of beautiful plants to fill out your garden space.” – Karin Eller

Mobile Device Battery Management – Part 3 – “BATTERY DRAIN, TEMPERATURE IMPACT and BATTERY MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS” – J.M

VERSES FOR THE DAY

Song of Solomon 2:11-13 For, lo, the winter is past, the rain is over and gone; The flowers appear on the earth; the time of the singing of birds is come, and the voice of the turtle is heard in our land; The fig tree putteth forth her green figs, and the vines with the tender grape give a good smell. Arise, my love, my fair one, and come away.

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