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Canadian Prepper, 9/1/26
"Alert! SHTF In Iran! NATO: 'Air Space Closed In Russia';
China Prepares Military Draft"
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Gerald Celente, "Trump Ramps Up Iran War, Market Crash Coming"
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Gerald Celente, 9/1/26
"Trump Ramps Up Iran War, Market Crash Coming"
""In this episode of Trends in the News, Gerald Celente breaks down the rapidly escalating tensions between the United States, Israel, and Iran, warning that the push toward a broader Middle East conflict could have devastating consequences for global markets and economic stability. Celente examines how rising geopolitical risks are fueling volatility across financial markets as investors react to growing uncertainty."
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"The Dysfunctional System Is Crashing, Global Panic, This Is Getting Serious"
Jeremiah Babe, 9/1/26
"The Dysfunctional System Is Crashing,
Global Panic, This Is Getting Serious"
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Musical Interlude: 2002, "Courting the Moon"
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2002, "Courting the Moon"
"A Mayan legend says that the hummingbird is actually the sun
in disguise, and he is trying to court a beautiful woman, who is the moon."
"A Look to the Heavens"
“The constellation of Orion holds much more than three stars in a row. A deep exposure shows everything from dark nebula to star clusters, all embedded in an extended patch of gaseous wisps in the greater Orion Molecular Cloud Complex. The brightest three stars on the far left are indeed the famous three stars that make up the belt of Orion. Just below Alnitak, the lowest of the three belt stars, is the Flame Nebula, glowing with excited hydrogen gas and immersed in filaments of dark brown dust.
Below the frame center and just to the right of Alnitak lies the Horsehead Nebula, a dark indentation of dense dust that has perhaps the most recognized nebular shapes on the sky. On the upper right lies M42, the Orion Nebula, an energetic caldron of tumultuous gas, visible to the unaided eye, that is giving birth to a new open cluster of stars. Immediately to the left of M42 is a prominent bluish reflection nebula sometimes called the Running Man that houses many bright blue stars. The above image, a digitally stitched composite taken over several nights, covers an area with objects that are roughly 1,500 light years away and spans about 75 light years.”
- http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap120212.html
Chet Raymo, “Try To Remember…”
“Try To Remember…”
by Chet Raymo
“In a sleepless hour of the night, I was trying to remember the last name of a person I have known well for more than forty years. When my spouse stirred in her sleep, I asked her. She couldn't remember either. One again I started mentally through the alphabet. "I think it starts with B," I said. Ten minutes later she rolled over and said, "The next letter is R." Bingo! The name popped into my head. Or I should say, "popped out of my head." Because it was in there somewhere, recorded in a tangle of neurons as materially as if it were written on a piece of paper.
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Graphic: Salvador Dali, "The Persistence of Memory"
"The Light Beyond The Familiar"
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"The Light Beyond The Familiar"
"There are moments in life when something inside us quietly whispers: "There must be more than this." This film was made for that feeling, a cinematic story about fear, routine, courage, and the invisible boundaries we build around our lives. This film was never really about the moon. It was about all the things we stop ourselves from chasing because they feel unfamiliar. About the routines that slowly become invisible cages. About the voices that tell us to stay where it is safe, even when our hearts quietly dream of something more. The boy saw a light no one else believed in. Not because he was stronger. Not because he was smarter. But because he was willing to wonder. Sometimes the greatest risk is not failing. Sometimes the greatest risk is spending an entire life standing on the shore, never discovering what was waiting just beyond the horizon. This story is for anyone who has ever felt a pull toward something unknown. A dream. A new beginning. A different path. Because beyond fear, beyond habit, beyond everything familiar... there may be a life brighter than anything we imagined. And sometimes all it takes to find it... is the courage to take the first step."
Native Elder, "Why Men Stopped Being Men"; "Why Women Stopped Being Women"
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Native Elder,
"Why Men Stopped Being Men"
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Native Elder,
"Why Women Stopped Being Women"
"Good Things Come to Those Who Wait"
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"Good Things Come to Those Who Wait"
“Good Things Come to Those Who Wait” is a patient, soulful blues about trusting the timing of life. The singer reflects on years of rushing, chasing, and wanting everything right away, only to discover that some of the best things arrive after you've learned to slow down and let life unfold. Driven by warm blues guitar and the gentle, soulful cry of the harmonica , the song carries an easygoing groove filled with patience, hope, and hard-earned wisdom. The voice is weathered but peaceful, like a man who no longer feels the need to chase every opportunity that passes by. Some things can't be rushed… They just need time to find you."
"Is It Any Wonder..."
"Thomas Edison said in all seriousness: "There is no expedient to which a man will not resort to avoid the labor of thinking" - if we bother with facts at all, we hunt like bird dogs after the facts that bolster up what we already think - and ignore all the others! We want only the facts that justify our acts - the facts that fit in conveniently with our wishful thinking and justify our preconceived prejudices. As Andre Maurois put it: "Everything that is in agreement with our personal desires seems true. Everything that is not puts us into a rage." Is it any wonder, then, that we find it so hard to get at the answers to our problems? Wouldn't we have the same trouble trying to solve a second-grade arithmetic problem, if we went ahead on the assumption that two plus two equals five? Yet there are a lot of people in this world who make life a hell for themselves and others by insisting that two plus two equals five- or maybe five hundred!"
- Dale Carnegie
Free Download: George Orwell, “Animal Farm"
"Animal Farm"
by George Orwell
Biographical note: "George Orwell, 1903-1950, was the pen name used by British author and journalist Eric Arthur Blair. During most of his professional life time Orwell was best known for his journalism, both in the British press and in books such as "Homage to Catalonia," describing his activities during the Spanish Civil War, and "Down and Out in Paris and London," describing a period of poverty in these cities. Orwell is best remembered today for two of his novels, "Animal Farm" and "Nineteen Eighty-Four."
Description: Power corrupts, but absolute power corrupts absolutely- and this is vividly and eloquently proved in Orwell's short novel. "Animal Farm" is a simple fable of great symbolic value, and as Orwell himself explained: "it is the history of a revolution that went wrong." The novel can be seen as the historical analysis of the causes of the failure of communism, or as a mere fairy-tale; in any case it tells a good story that aims to prove that human nature and diversity prevent people from being equal and happy, or at least equally happy.
"Animal Farm" tells the simple and tragic story of what happens when the oppressed farm animals rebel, drive out Mr. Jones, the farmer, and attempt to rule the farm themselves, on an equal basis. What the animals seem to have aimed at was a utopian sort of communism, where each would work according to his capacity, respecting the needs of others. The venture failed, and "Animal Farm" ended up being a dictatorship of pigs, who were the brightest, and most idle of the animals.
Orwell's mastery lies in his presentation of the horrors of totalitarian regimes, and his analysis of communism put to practice, through satire and simple story-telling. The structure of the novel is skillfully organized, and the careful reader may, for example, detect the causes of the unworkability of communism even from the first chapter. This is deduced from Orwell's description of the various animals as they enter the barn and take their seats to listen to the revolutionary preaching of Old Major, father of communism in Animal Farm. Each animal has different features and attitude; the pigs, for example, "settled down in the straw immediately in front of the platform", which is a hint on their future role, whereas Clover, the affectionate horse" made a sort of wall" with her foreleg to protect some ducklings.
So, it appears that the revolution was doomed from the beginning, even though it began in idealistic optimism as expressed by the motto "no animal must ever tyrannize over his own kind. Weak or strong, clever or simple, we are all brothers." "When the animals drive out Mr. Jones, they create their "Seven Commandments" which ensure equality and prosperity for all the animals. The pigs, however, being the natural leaders, managed to reverse the commandments, and through terror and propaganda establish the rule of an elite of pigs, under the leadership of Napoleon, the most revered and sinister pig.
"Animal Farm" successfully presents how the mechanism of propaganda and brainwashing works in totalitarian regimes, by showing how the pigs could make the other animals believe practically anything. Responsible for the propaganda was Squealer, a pig that "could turn black into white." Squealer managed to change the rule from "all animals are equal" to "all animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others." He managed to convince the other animals that it was for their sake that the pigs ate most of the apples and drank most of the milk, that leadership was "heavy responsibility" and therefore the animals should be thankful to Napoleon, that what they saw may have been something they "dreamed", and when everything else failed he would use the threat of "Jones returning" to silence the animals. In this simple but effective way, Orwell presents the tragedy and confusion of thought control to the extent that one seems better off simply believing that "Napoleon is always right".
Orwell's criticism of the role of the Church is also very effective. In Animal Farm, the Church is represented by Moses, a tame raven, who talks of "Sugarcandy Mountain", a happy country in the sky "where we poor animals shall rest forever from our labors". It is interesting to observe that when Old Major was first preaching revolutionary communism, Moses was sleeping in the barn, which satirizes the Church being caught asleep by communism. It is also important to note that the pig-dictators allowed and indirectly encouraged Moses; it seems that it suited the pigs to have the animals dreaming of a better life after death so that they wouldn't attempt to have a better life while still alive...
In "Animal Farm," Orwell describes how power turned the pigs from simple "comrades" to ruthless dictators who managed to walk on two legs, and carry whips. The story may be seen as an analysis of the Soviet regime, or as a warning against political power games of an absolute nature and totalitarianism in general. For this reason, the story ends with a hair-raising warning to all humankind: "The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again: but already it was impossible to say which was which."
Description: Power corrupts, but absolute power corrupts absolutely- and this is vividly and eloquently proved in Orwell's short novel. "Animal Farm" is a simple fable of great symbolic value, and as Orwell himself explained: "it is the history of a revolution that went wrong." The novel can be seen as the historical analysis of the causes of the failure of communism, or as a mere fairy-tale; in any case it tells a good story that aims to prove that human nature and diversity prevent people from being equal and happy, or at least equally happy.
"Animal Farm" tells the simple and tragic story of what happens when the oppressed farm animals rebel, drive out Mr. Jones, the farmer, and attempt to rule the farm themselves, on an equal basis. What the animals seem to have aimed at was a utopian sort of communism, where each would work according to his capacity, respecting the needs of others. The venture failed, and "Animal Farm" ended up being a dictatorship of pigs, who were the brightest, and most idle of the animals.
Orwell's mastery lies in his presentation of the horrors of totalitarian regimes, and his analysis of communism put to practice, through satire and simple story-telling. The structure of the novel is skillfully organized, and the careful reader may, for example, detect the causes of the unworkability of communism even from the first chapter. This is deduced from Orwell's description of the various animals as they enter the barn and take their seats to listen to the revolutionary preaching of Old Major, father of communism in Animal Farm. Each animal has different features and attitude; the pigs, for example, "settled down in the straw immediately in front of the platform", which is a hint on their future role, whereas Clover, the affectionate horse" made a sort of wall" with her foreleg to protect some ducklings.
So, it appears that the revolution was doomed from the beginning, even though it began in idealistic optimism as expressed by the motto "no animal must ever tyrannize over his own kind. Weak or strong, clever or simple, we are all brothers." "When the animals drive out Mr. Jones, they create their "Seven Commandments" which ensure equality and prosperity for all the animals. The pigs, however, being the natural leaders, managed to reverse the commandments, and through terror and propaganda establish the rule of an elite of pigs, under the leadership of Napoleon, the most revered and sinister pig.
"Animal Farm" successfully presents how the mechanism of propaganda and brainwashing works in totalitarian regimes, by showing how the pigs could make the other animals believe practically anything. Responsible for the propaganda was Squealer, a pig that "could turn black into white." Squealer managed to change the rule from "all animals are equal" to "all animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others." He managed to convince the other animals that it was for their sake that the pigs ate most of the apples and drank most of the milk, that leadership was "heavy responsibility" and therefore the animals should be thankful to Napoleon, that what they saw may have been something they "dreamed", and when everything else failed he would use the threat of "Jones returning" to silence the animals. In this simple but effective way, Orwell presents the tragedy and confusion of thought control to the extent that one seems better off simply believing that "Napoleon is always right".
Orwell's criticism of the role of the Church is also very effective. In Animal Farm, the Church is represented by Moses, a tame raven, who talks of "Sugarcandy Mountain", a happy country in the sky "where we poor animals shall rest forever from our labors". It is interesting to observe that when Old Major was first preaching revolutionary communism, Moses was sleeping in the barn, which satirizes the Church being caught asleep by communism. It is also important to note that the pig-dictators allowed and indirectly encouraged Moses; it seems that it suited the pigs to have the animals dreaming of a better life after death so that they wouldn't attempt to have a better life while still alive...
In "Animal Farm," Orwell describes how power turned the pigs from simple "comrades" to ruthless dictators who managed to walk on two legs, and carry whips. The story may be seen as an analysis of the Soviet regime, or as a warning against political power games of an absolute nature and totalitarianism in general. For this reason, the story ends with a hair-raising warning to all humankind: "The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again: but already it was impossible to say which was which."
Free download George Orwell’s “Animal Farm" here:
"When Society Collapses, the Forgotten Foods of the Pioneers Could Become the Difference Between Survival and Starvation"
Could Become the Difference Between Survival and Starvation"
by John Walter
Excerpt: "Jamestown settlers called it the Starving Time. Of five hundred colonists huddled behind the palisade when November winds struck, sixty remained alive when the thaw finally permitted the river’s navigation again. The accounts survive in fragments - records kept by men too weak to lift their own quills, entries describing the consumption of shoe leather, of rats, of the dead themselves. One entry notes simply: “Today buried the carpenter. Tonight we ate.”
Your ancestors understood something you have forgotten. Civilization floats on a thermodynamic bubble of such fragility that a single failed harvest, a single broken supply chain, a single season of early frost or late blight or locust swarm, could reduce human beings to the biological substrate they desperately pretend to have transcended. The Mayflower pilgrims lost half their number before the first spring. The Donner Party resorted to anthropophagy not after years of deprivation, but after a single miscalculated week in the Sierra Nevada. The Irish potato famine killed one million and scattered another million across the Atlantic in coffin ships, not because food didn’t exist in Ireland, but because the colonial economic system exported grain while the monoculture crop of the poor rotted in the fields.
These are not ancient anomalies. They are structural features of human existence prior to the fossil fuel age. The calorie surplus you enjoy - three thousand daily calories available for every man, woman, and child in the developed world, nearly double the biological requirement - represents a seventy-year aberration. The graph of human nutrition across ten thousand years shows a flat line hovering near subsistence, punctuated by spikes of famine that killed in percentages, not absolute numbers.
You believe yourself immune. You believe the supermarket’s fluorescent abundance constitutes a permanent condition. Most urban centers maintain inventory equivalent to three to five days of normal consumption. When logistics networks falter - when diesel shortages intersect with driver shortages, when financial instruments that move grain faster than locusts devour it freeze in panicked markets - the transition from abundance to absence occurs with startling velocity. Historical precedents suggest panic buying empties shelves within forty-eight hours of perceived crisis.
Pioneers knew this rhythm intimately. Those weather-beaten souls who hacked clearings from Appalachian forests and traversed the Oregon Trail with wagons heavy not with possessions but with the means of survival understood that food is labor crystallized into sustenance through preservation chemistry, surplus hoarding, and the rejection of gustatory pleasure in favor of caloric density. Their pantries were arsenals. Their root cellars, catacombs of survival. They ate to see spring."
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Douglas Macgregor, "Start Preparing Now"
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Douglas Macgregor, "Start Preparing Now"
"In this new interview, retired Colonel Douglas Macgregor warns that forcing the Strait of Hormuz could expose American capital ships to precision missiles, drones, torpedoes, and other weapons designed to disable rather than simply sink them. He argues that the United States is closer to a World War I style attritional conflict than the decisive naval wars of World War II, while questioning whether the Navy can sustain its current posture. The interview also examines the human and economic costs of the Iran-Iraq War, with Macgregor arguing that Iran suffered between 500,000 and 700,000 or more casualties and therefore views the current conflict as existential. He says the Persian Gulf cannot simply be replaced, noting its importance for oil, helium, sulfur, nitrogen, and fertilizer inputs, while the Strait of Hormuz normally carries roughly one-fifth of global seaborne oil and liquefied natural gas.
Macgregor predicts that Egypt could join the emerging Turkey, Pakistan, and Saudi Arabia alignment within six months or slightly longer, while Russia, Iran, and China form another strategic bloc. He argues that American power projection is becoming increasingly difficult in an environment where large formations can be detected by persistent ISR and attacked by massed precision weapons, concluding that the United States should shift toward hemispheric defense rather than attempting to maintain global military dominance."
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"Judge Napolitano, Judging Freedom, 9/1/26"
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"The Dangerous Reality of U.S.- Israel Relations"
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"Iran War Warning:
Is the Government Pushing Too Far"
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"Trump's Iran Claim: Fact or Fiction?"
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"How It Really is"
"Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were
a member of Congress. But I repeat myself."
"All Congresses and Parliaments have a kindly feeling for idiots,and
a compassion for them, on account of personal experience and heredity."
"...the smallest minds and the selfishest souls
and the cowardliest hearts that God makes."
"The lightning there is peculiar; it is so convincing, that when it strikes a
thing it doesn't leave enough of that thing behind for you to tell whether-
well, you'd think it was something valuable, and a Congressman had been there."
"It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly
native American criminal class except Congress."
"Fleas can be taught nearly anything that a Congressman can."
- Mark Twain
"The lightning there is peculiar; it is so convincing, that when it strikes a
thing it doesn't leave enough of that thing behind for you to tell whether-
well, you'd think it was something valuable, and a Congressman had been there."
"It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly
native American criminal class except Congress."
"Fleas can be taught nearly anything that a Congressman can."
- Mark Twain
Too bad the jokes on us...
"This Just Happened At Home Depot... And Americans Are Done"
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Epic Economist, 9/1/26
"This Just Happened At Home Depot...
And Americans Are Done"
The shelf price and the register price no longer have to agree. That is the whole story, and everything else in this video follows from it. What that looks like in practice: a dishwasher delivered on the scheduled day by a crew that did not bring the parts to install it - and then the wrong dishwasher entirely. A set of chairs reordered five times and arriving the wrong colour every time, with a manager explaining that the replacements cannot even be ordered until the wrong ones are back in the store. A $589 ladder. A $260 delivery that arrived shorter than the man who bought it. Plywood sold for roofing that warped in twenty minutes of drizzle. An extended protection plan that turned out to be a phone number nobody answers. A refrigerator that stopped working three months in and has now been broken for eight, with hundreds of dollars of groceries thawing in it. A Bosch laser level that rang up thirty dollars over the price on the store's own website - and a refusal to match it. A price that climbed by four hundred dollars while a price match was being processed. And a kitchen floor that cost $3,250 to repair after the installers flooded it. The person in the apron cannot fix it, and usually wants to. The policy that decided your afternoon was written by somebody who will never stand in that aisle.
So none of it is you being difficult at the till - it is a store that stopped absorbing its own mistakes and started handing them to the customer. One habit, and it costs nothing: photograph the tag before you walk to the register. Just the tag, on your phone, while you are standing there. In most states the posted price is the price they are obliged to honour, and a photograph settles in ten seconds what otherwise takes forty minutes and a manager. For anything delivered or installed, photograph it before the crew leaves the driveway. Beyond that you can vote with your feet. The independent yards are usually not as cheap and frequently not as convenient - and they will still fix it, because the name on the sign is theirs."
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"Food Shortage Cover-Up Exposed - What Stores Don't Want You To See"
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Snyder Reports, 9/1/26
"Food Shortage Cover-Up Exposed -
What Stores Don't Want You To See"
"Stores are hiding empty shelves - and most shoppers don't even notice. Major retailers and farmers are warning that shortages are coming, but stores are packing empty shelves with items from the back room to avoid panic buying. In this video, I break down what's really happening inside Walmart and Costco, why empty shelves trigger panic buying, and what tariffs, fertilizer costs, and store restructuring mean for your grocery bill. You'll see real Walmart vegetable bins stripped empty, the insider comment from a store employee instructed to hide the empty look, the Costco bright-store phenomenon, and why JP Morgan is warning of an affordable food crisis hitting in the first half of 2027."
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Dan, I Allegedly, "You Need A Financial Reset"
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Dan, I Allegedly, 9/1/26
"You Need A Financial Reset"
"September is the perfect time for a reset - and sometimes the biggest reset you need is financial. In this video, Dan shares practical ways to improve your life this month, from drinking more water, getting better sleep and walking every day to spending less time on your phone, learning a new skill, reading, getting outside, letting go of the past and becoming the best version of yourself. If you're dealing with stress, debt, money problems or simply feel like you're stuck, September can be the month you start making different choices. We also talk about getting your finances under control, building an emergency fund, creating a side hustle and finding ways to make more money with the skills you already have. And if you're in a position to help someone else, please consider supporting Joseph Dreamhouse, a 501(c)(3) charity that provides meals to people who are struggling, including veterans and families facing difficult financial circumstances. The donation link will be below. Sometimes a personal reset also means remembering that other people need a helping hand. Please like, subscribe and join iAllegedly for more business news, financial information and real-world advice."
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"The Stage Is Set, The Fuse Is Lit, And 3 Global Conflicts Are On The Brink Of Detonation"
by Michael Snyder
"We are facing one of the most dangerous chapters in human history. For years, I have been warning about 3 global conflicts which would collectively make up World War III. Unfortunately, the stage has now been set for a polycrisis of epic proportions. The war with Iran threatens to greatly escalate, the continuous bombardment of Kyiv has NATO on high alert, and China has decided to literally surround Taiwan with large numbers of ships. Tensions are running sky high, and events in Europe, the Middle East and Asia could all spiral out of control at any moment.
Last night, fighting in the Middle East erupted once again. The U.S. conducted airstrikes on Iranian military targets on Larak Island, and in response the Iranians fired off at least 8 ballistic missiles… On Sunday, the United States struck Iran’s Larak Island after the U.S. observed military personnel preparing to deploy rockets loaded with sea mines into the Strait of Hormuz. Iranian state media said the attack killed and wounded several Iranian soldiers and civilians, and the country vowed to answer. In response, Iran fired at least eight ballistic missiles toward U.S. forces in Jordan, according to Jordan’s armed forces. Trump told Fox News that U.S. forces intercepted all missiles but one, as it wasn’t going to hit anything.
It appears that the Iranian response really angered President Trump. On Truth Social, he posted a message in which is declared Iran to be “DEAD” and “a Failed Nation”…
Later on Monday, we learned that Trump had told Trey Yingst of Fox News that the U.S. will “hit them hard” in response to the Iranian ballistic missile attack… US President Donald Trump said the United States would respond to an Iranian missile attack on US forces overnight, according to Fox News correspondent Trey Yingst. “We’re going to hit them hard,” Trump told Fox News. “There will be a response.” That would seem to indicate that a large wave of airstrikes is coming tonight. We shall wait and see what happens.
On the other side, the Iranians are warning that their response to any new U.S. airstrikes will be “dozens of times greater”… Iran fired back with bold rhetoric Monday, vowing to respond to every U.S. attack with force “dozens of times greater,” according to a senior Iranian source who spoke with Reuters. The source pointed to Iran’s retaliation following U.S. strikes on launchers on Larak Island, claiming it demonstrated that “no target in the region is beyond Tehran’s reach.” Tehran also warned that conditions in the Strait of Hormuz would worsen for vessels that violate what it called Iranian rules, raising new concern for shipping through the vital energy chokepoint.
As long as Iran doesn’t hit Israel, the situation can probably be contained. But if Iran launches ballistic missiles at the Israelis, things will escalate very quickly. In any event, it appears that there is no end in sight for this conflict.
In fact, Fox News is reporting that the deployment of troops from the 82nd airborne division has been extended to a full year… The deployment of the 82nd airborne in the Middle East has been extended to a full year, two U.S. Army officials tell Fox News. About 2,000 soldiers from the 82nd airborne first deployed to the region in March. The extended deployment was announced Sunday by division Commander Maj. Gen. Brandon R. Tegtmeier. The extension is due to “operational requirements,” according to a letter to military families obtained by Fox.
At the same time, the war in Europe is poised to escalate to a new level that we haven’t seen before. Just hours ago, the Russians ominously warned that they are preparing for “massive strikes against facilities in Ukraine’s energy sector”…Russia’s defense ministry says it is gearing up for large-scale attacks on Ukraine’s energy infrastructure in a tit-for-tat response to strikes by Kyiv. “Russian forces have begun preparations for massive strikes against facilities in Ukraine’s energy sector in response to the ongoing attacks by the Kyiv regime on civilian infrastructure and on Russia’s oil and energy complex,” it said on Telegram on Sunday. Last winter, Moscow repeatedly hit Ukrainian power plants, devastating the country’s energy sector and plunging millions of people into cold and darkness in sub-zero temperatures.
The Russians have totally lost patience with Ukraine. They are sick and tired of being hit by long-range drones and long-range missiles night after night. Last night, the Ukrainians did it again. So the Russians have decided to continuously bombard Kyiv until it stops. The following is an account from someone that actually lives in Kyiv… "The Russians are using tactics of continuous bombardment to paralyze life in Kyiv. The metro stops, traffic across the bridges is blocked, and administrative buildings and shopping complexes close.
I walk through the streets while drones are being shot down directly overhead. When I look up at the sky, I see only a threat. Yet it is impossible to put your daily affairs, and your very life, on hold. Paralysis is a forerunner of death. And we have chosen to live. I know that many people abroad have grown accustomed to Russia’s constant strikes against the people of Ukraine. Yet the ability to “not think about it” is a privilege that reflects your position within the structure of reality."
Can you imagine trying to live your life normally in the midst of constant air raid alerts and constant explosions in the distance? According to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, the number of munitions used by the Russians over the past week is absolutely staggering… “In total, this week alone, the Russians have launched nearly 2,000 strike drones, more than 1,600 aerial bombs, and 31 missiles of various types,” Zelenskyy added.
There is no way that the Russians will ever back down. As I explained late last week, Russian President Vladimir Putin feels compelled to escalate matters. He is absolutely determined to be victorious, because he is reportedly concerned that he could be hanged if he does not win this war… According to The Economist, discontent is even greater among Russia’s elites, with one insider claiming they are increasingly frustrated by the length of the conflict. Mr Putin reportedly believes he could be at risk if he ends the war without achieving at least his minimum goal of capturing the entire Donbas region. ‘They will hang me,’ he reportedly said at one point during the war, according to an insider cited by The Economist.
While the U.S. is tied up in the Middle East and NATO is focused on the conflict in Ukraine, this could be a perfect time for China to make a move on Taiwan. And the Chinese are starting to put on the squeeze a little bit. Last month, the number of Chinese ships detected around Taiwan surged to an all-time record high… China deployed a record number of coast guard, scientific research and other ships near Taiwan’s waters last month, the Coast Guard Administration (CGA) said, as Beijing dials up pressure on Taipei.
The coast guard warned of an increasingly severe situation, as analysts say the increased activity is part of China’s bid to map the region for submarine warfare. The number of Chinese ships detected around Taiwan proper soared to a record 244 last month - an average of nearly eight every day, official data showed. Approximately 60 percent of those ships belong to the Chinese coast guard. That means that they are armed.
In addition, the Chinese warships that are constantly hovering near Taiwan are not even included in the figure given above…About 60 percent were coast guard ships, with research vessels and other government boats making up the rest. The figures do not include Chinese warships, which China’s military deploys around Taiwan on a near-daily basis. When China ultimately decides to take Taiwan, a naval blockade will probably be the first step. And once a naval blockade of Taiwan is established, we will be at a state of war with China.
Of course we may not be able to do much to intervene because a lot of our naval assets have been deployed to the Middle East and we have run through large portions of our munitions stockpiles. So we are in a very tenuous position at the moment, and our relations with China just continue to deteriorate. For so long, I have been writing about Russia, China and the Middle East. Now all three theaters threaten to erupt all at once. If you wanted to live at one of the most “interesting” periods in all of human history, you have certainly gotten your wish."
Bill Bonner, "It’s the Debt, Stupid"
"It’s the Debt, Stupid"
by Bill Bonner
‘Governments defending prices against fundamentals always lose.
The only variable is how much they spend before conceding.’
- Stanley Druckenmiller
Poitou, France - “The real problem,” we began gravely, “is that they no longer work, financially.” It was at a dinner party on Saturday. Our companion, a slender and attractive journalist from Paris, had explained to us the predicament facing French voters: “The next election promises to be a horrible mess. It’s either extreme right or extreme left. Either way, a lot of French people are packing their bags.” We gave her our hypothesis...
That in Europe as in America, governments are running out of money. In the Old World they favored spending on social programs. In the New World, the military got the thick envelopes. Both promised voters more than they could afford; they spent too much and delivered too little. And now, with lower birth rates, higher interest payments, and much more debt, enlightened, post-war governments are beginning to look more and more like monumental Ponzi schemes.
They were the most successful Ponzis in history. In the half-a-century following the end of the war, the money gushed in from their booming economies and growing populations. Early on, citizens got more out of government than they put in. But now, there are fewer baby-strollers on the streets and tax revenues come, not in a flood, but in a trickle.
Western governments used to be able to fill budget gaps by borrowing money. But now, the debt is gargantuan...interest payments are surpassing national ‘defense’ costs...and interest rates are going up. In other terms, the feds inflated almost everything - especially their own budgets. In effect, they created a massive, unreal ‘bubble.’ And now, markets are letting the air out.
As we saw yesterday, most of this deflation is invisible. People see rising prices...rising markets...and even rising pay checks. But beneath the increasing numbers, real values ebb away. The New York Times: "As inflation eats up wage gains, workers fall behind." The plain people don’t have to understand it. They feel it. Real economics may not be taught in America’s universities, but it is learned fast in the supermarket. And the voters want solutions. But the ‘moderates’ have no solutions; they caused the problem...and now, they are the problem. So, voters turn their heads...to the fringe.
“Here in France, the choice may be between Mélenchon and Le Pen,” our source continued.
Politico Europe: Far-left firebrand Mélenchon gaining ground in French presidential race, poll shows. Survey shows battle of political extremes becoming increasingly likely. Mélenchon, the socialist, has a unique proposal for dealing with France’s debt. Just take the bonds, he says, and ‘throw them in the fire.’ This actually may be the most honest solution. They will never be paid; might as well admit it. And on the ‘right,’ Marine Le Pen is no fiscal conservative either. She pledges to reduce the retirement age to 62; that is, she proposes to right the ship of state by drilling another hole in the hull.
The situation is little different in America. The mainstream candidates offer ‘more of the same.’ But ‘more of the same’ is not attractive when your boat is sinking. And right now, Americans’ feet are getting wet. They cannot control events abroad...nor control their own spending at home. So, they turn to the ‘democratic socialists’ - who promise more giveaways. Or, they look to the Trumpified Republicans...who promise to lace up their steel-toed boots and kick butts from Greenland to Ouagadougou. Neither party even hints at addressing the real problem.
That problem is very easy to understand. The National Review explained it: "It’s the debt, stupid. A heavily indebted debtor is not well-advised to be seen to play games with his creditors, and that was what Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent was widely perceived to have done a couple weeks ago. Having inflated the whole economy with false interest rates, bailouts, ‘put’ options and fake money, policymakers face the familiar choice. Continue to inflate...or let markets give the bubble a dignified burial, now."
But rather than even acknowledge the problem, poor Bessent got up to the usual tricks. They didn’t work. Bessent’s nonsense merely confirmed the very thing he meant to deny - that the US is headed into a debt crisis. Gold rose. The dollar fell. And Bitcoin surged. Inflate or die? Inflation it will be. Prepare for a wild ride with financial legerdemain, chaos, phony numbers, fake money, undeserved poverty, unmerited wealth...finally ending in deflation and death. Hang on!"
Adventures With Danno, "My Shocking Trip To Dollar Tree"
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Adventures With Danno, 9/1/26
"My Shocking Trip To Dollar Tree"
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Monday, August 31, 2026
"Alert! Highly Unusual Nuclear Radars Get Cope Cages In Kaliningrad"
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Canadian Prepper, 8/31/26
"Alert! Highly Unusual Nuclear Radars
Get Cope Cages In Kaliningrad"
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"The House That Waited at the End of the Road"
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Martin Art and Martin AI Art,
"The House That Waited at the End of the Road"
"Some roads stay with us long after we stop traveling them. "The House That Waited at the End of the Road" is a surreal AI film about memory, home, aging, and the quiet feeling that somewhere from our past may still remember who we were. At the end of an old road stands a small house that seems to have been waiting for years. The windows are quiet. The rooms hold traces of another time. And among the faded colors, one small orange flower still grows. This film was created for those who understand that getting older can make ordinary places feel extraordinary. A road, an empty chair, a familiar doorway, or a forgotten garden can suddenly carry an entire lifetime. There is no mystery you need to solve here. Just follow the road, listen to the music, and spend a few quiet minutes in a dreamlike town where memories never completely disappear.
About the Film: A Very Unusual Town is an original surreal AI film series combining cinematic storytelling, dreamlike imagery, stop-motion-inspired visuals, and original music. This chapter explores nostalgia, returning home, forgotten places, aging, memory, and the strange comfort of feeling remembered."
"You Gotta Pay Your Dues in Life"
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"You Gotta Pay Your Dues in Life"
“You Gotta Pay Your Dues in Life” is a gritty, wisdom-filled blues about earning your way through life the hard way. The singer reflects on long hours, mistakes, disappointments, and sacrifices, knowing that nothing worthwhile comes without a price and that every lesson leaves a mark. Driven by raw blues guitar and the deep, knowing cry of the harmonica, the song carries a steady groove filled with resilience and hard-earned truth. The voice is weathered and confident, sounding like a man who has walked enough miles to understand that struggle is often the price of becoming stronger. Everybody wants the reward… But nobody gets to skip the dues."
Musical Interlude: Melanie, "Lay Down (Candles in the Rain)"
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Melanie, "Lay Down (Candles in the Rain)"
Once upon a time...
"A Look to the Heavens"
"Why does this galaxy have such a long tail? In this stunning vista, based on image data from the Hubble Legacy Archive, distant galaxies form a dramatic backdrop for disrupted spiral galaxy Arp 188, the Tadpole Galaxy. The cosmic tadpole is a mere 420 million light-years distant toward the northern constellation of the Dragon (Draco). Its eye-catching tail is about 280 thousand light-years long and features massive, bright blue star clusters.
One story goes that a more compact intruder galaxy crossed in front of Arp 188 - from right to left in this view - and was slung around behind the Tadpole by their gravitational attraction. During the close encounter, tidal forces drew out the spiral galaxy's stars, gas, and dust forming the spectacular tail. The intruder galaxy itself, estimated to lie about 300 thousand light-years behind the Tadpole, can be seen through foreground spiral arms at the upper right. Following its terrestrial namesake, the Tadpole Galaxy will likely lose its tail as it grows older, the tail's star clusters forming smaller satellites of the large spiral galaxy."
Chet Raymo, “The Sadist Next Door”
“The Sadist Next Door”
by Chet Raymo
“The TLS (“Times Literary Supplement”) had an absorbing review of American Historian Joel Harrington's book on the manuscript diary of a 16th-century German executioner, Franz Schmidt of Nuremberg. Remarkably, Schmidt kept a full record of the criminals he executed, the crimes they perpetrated, and the gruesome ways they met their fate. It is a tale that would chill most 21st-century readers.
"What Foolish Forgetfulness..."
“You live as if you were destined to live forever, no thought of your frailty ever enters your head, of how much time has already gone by you take no heed. You squander time as if you drew from a full and abundant supply, so all the while that day which you bestow on some person or thing is perhaps your last. You have all the fears of mortals and all the desires of immortals… What foolish forgetfulness of mortality to defer wise resolutions to the fiftieth or sixtieth year, and to intend to begin life at a point to which few have attained.”
- Denis Diderot
"Danger: Life Is Now A Big Casino, Prepare For Severe Scenarios"
Jeremiah Babe, 8/31/26
"Danger: Life Is Now A Big Casino,
Prepare For Severe Scenarios"
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"Flock May Be The Least Of Our Worries As America Devolves Into Full-on Surveillance State"
"Flock May Be The Least Of Our Worries As
America Devolves Into Full-on Surveillance State"
by Leo Hohmann
"The summer of 2026 may go down in history as the time in which millions of Americans woke up and realized they no longer live in a free country. The question is, are they being fed a limited view of reality, in a way that amounts to too little too late? The old free America has been gone for at least a few decades, but most Americans are just now waking up to that fact. And even now, they aren’t being told the gravity of the problem or the depth to which America has already sunk into the technocratic quicksand that leads to tyranny.
In the summer of 2026, the internet suddenly came alive with stories about the dystopian “Flocking” of America, and the blowback from Americans who still care about and value living in a free society has been intense. Some have taken matters into their own hands and are cutting down Flock cameras. More than 100 cities and towns have canceled or refused to renew their contracts with Flock.
As conservative writer Terry Newton aptly stated in an August 30 article for The Discern Report: “It is not a cop on a corner who happens to notice a stolen Buick. It is a private contractor building a searchable map of every car that rolls past a pole. Connor O’Keeffe put it cleanly. The government would never get away with dropping a GPS tracker in every glove box. So it rented the next best thing and called it public safety.”
Forgive me for being so black pilled, but I find this sudden awareness to be suspicious. Flock has been dutifully serving the government’s surveillance needs for nearly 10 years with their AI-powered spy cameras saturating every major highway and increasingly even on minor roadways, in public parks and store parking lots, and they’ve been doing it in an atmosphere of a near total news blackout. Then, once the calendar flipped to 2026, it’s like someone flipped a switch and we have wall-to-wall coverage of the ubiquitous surveillance grid, but only as it relates to one company, the Atlanta-based Flock Group, and its government partners.
Flock cameras are spying on us every minute of every day in real time, with 120,000 AI-powered cameras in more than 6,000 cities and towns watching our every move. They record where you go, how frequently you go there, how long you stay, and other key data points, all of which adds up to establishing the travel patterns of every single American who drives a car. That’s not something that dovetails very nicely with the way American political figures like to speak about this country, always in terms of us being that paragon of liberty and freedom, that shining city on a hill that’s supposed to be the envy of every other country. It’s all fake. We are not much different than China. And people are waking up to it.
Trump, who is easily the biggest mouth in U.S. political history championing how great and free America is, now has the lowest approval ratings of any modern president at 33 percent. He’s a fake and people know it. The 33 percent are basically low-information elderly boomers who get their information from Fox News. Most of them made their money in the 1960s, 70s and 80s, and aren’t affected much by high fuel prices. Most are not affected at all by the lack of job opportunities or the AI/robotics revolution that is rapidly replacing humans with machines in the workplace.
What’s more, we have had endless stories breaking this summer of law enforcement officers “misusing” the data from Flock technology. This is a big reveal in the propaganda war, because the very term, misusing, implies that there is a correct way to use this Orwellian surveillance network.
I broke the story last week along with Jon Padfield that Flock itself has been lying to us about the purpose of its technology. It’s not designed to “keep us safe,” as they say, but rather to create an integrated nationwide “dynamic surveillance network.” The company is very up front about this in its August 2022 filing with the U.S. Patent Office. See last week’s article here.
But I’m also skeptical for another reason about the timing of the sudden media offensive exposing Flock. Not only are they mischaracterizing the technology as basically benign and even helpful in “keeping us safe,” with only a rare instance of a cop “misusing” it, but they are also ignoring the fact that Flock is not the only player in this field. Motorola, Axon and Leonardo are just as important and these three companies are getting no media coverage at all. All we hear about is Flock, Flock, Flock.
What is Leonardo? Of these three other companies, Leonardo may be the most dangerous, says Padfield. “They capture the unique identifiers of every electronic device on you (watch, phone, Bluetooth headphones, tablet, Fitbit, laptop, etc.) and every electronic device in you (pacemaker, glucose monitor, hearing aids, insulin pump),” he said. “They tie your electronic devices to your license plate so they know who those devices belong to. Then if they see my Apple Watch and my AirPods in YOUR vehicle, they make a note of it that we know each other because you are giving me a ride in your car. The more frequently they see our devices near each other, the stronger the relationship.”
That kind of information in the hands of a rogue government, or any government, should concern every American. But it doesn’t stop there. “They also collect data from your tire pressure sensors in your vehicle’s tires, so even if they later took down the camera, they could still recognize your car from the electronic signature of your tires as you drive by,” Padfield said.
Padfield is an electrical engineer who worked for General Motors and former staffer of the Indiana Department of Transportation. He knows what he’s talking about. “Here in Indiana, I can get a new license plate at any time for just $9.50. However, most people only get new tires once every three to five years. Once your tire pressure sensors are tied to your license plate, they are tied to your actual identity. Getting a new plate doesn’t break that connection.”
Axon also has a concerning track record. While dozens of police departments are ditching Flock, hundreds are latching onto Axon. What is Axon? Formerly known for its Taser weapons, Axon is now rapidly expanding its product line, including AI-powered surveillance tools. Axon initially introduced its automated license plate recognition (ALPR) technology through its in-vehicle Axon Fleet 3 cameras. In 2025, it expanded into fixed-camera ALPR with new products, including a “smart streetlight” that attaches to existing light poles and power sources. Both have AI-powered trackable data capability.
Like Flock, Axon is also weaseling its way into America’s E-911 system. In 2026, Axon finalized the acquisition of Israeli defense tech firm Carbyne for $625 million. According to Axon’s website, it was made to build a unified 911 and emergency response platform. The company claims the new technology can provide intelligence from the initial 911 call through field response, investigation in Axon Evidence, and ultimately the justice system.
Carbyne was funded by billionaire pedophile and Israeli Mossad asset Jeffrey Epstein. Seven years after he pleaded guilty to two prostitution charges in Florida, Epstein secretly invested $1 million into the Israeli security startup, according to the Miami Herald.
Carbyne also did deals with many law-enforcement agencies in Florida by providing an app that allows 911 callers to share videos with 911 dispatchers. For instance, Miami-Dade County spent roughly $2 million on a three-year contract with the Israeli firm in 2021. A link between Epstein, Carbyne and Florida doesn’t look like a mere coincidence. Axon should have been aware.
Axon’s top institutional shareholders include all three of Wall Street’s largest asset-management firms – BlackRock, Vanguard and State Street. Together with other institutional shareholders they own 82% of the company – meaning they have immense influence on the company’s strategy, including the acquisition of Carbyne and broader surveillance plans across the U.S. under the security pretext. BlackRock’s CEO is Larry Fink, who is co-chairman of the globalist World Economic Forum and a good friend of President Trump.
Trusted confidants of President Trump invested between $1 million and $5 million in Axon in February 2026. CNBC exposed the deal in June and linked it to ICE’s $220 million Taser device contract which followed Trump’s investment. However, Trump’s interest in the firm could also suggest his knowledge of its broader surveillance plans.
Meanwhile, in a follow-up to my August 13 article about the federal government eyeing electric-shock gloves, that deal has now been consummated between the maker of the shock gloves and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. Homeland Security’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has awarded a $16.7 million no-bid contract to purchase electric-shock gloves that will be used to force compliance with orders barked by masked ICE agents, who often are caught on video brutalizing not only illegal aliens but American citizens.
Never forget that wars, surveillance and government brutality go hand in hand. When a country becomes more warlike, as America definitely has in the post-World War II era, it becomes less trusting of its citizenry and less tolerant of dissent. Hence, the need for more and more surveillance. The U.S. government’s evolution into a full-time war state happens to coincide with the historic advancement in surveillance technology, powered mainly by the advent of artificial intelligence and the ability to store ever-growing amounts of data. They need the data centers to store previously unheard of amounts of data on each individual person living in America.
Dear readers, do not believe that America needs thousands of data centers for any other reason being falsely repeated by politicians who have track records of telling endless lies. The leader of the pack of political wolves pushing AI data centers is none other than Donald J. Trump. In his latest diatribe, Trump says those who reject these data surveillance centers will “end up being backwards and poor.”
BOTTOM LINE: Do not trust or believe anything that comes out of the mouth of a politician or tech bro, whether on the right or left, no matter who he/she is or how much his/her previous statements may have resonated with your personal political views. If you put your trust in them, you will be deceived, and ultimately ensnared in Satan’s beast system. Only Jesus can save this country, or any country, in the face of such an onslaught of evil emanating from wolves dressed up in sheep’s clothing."
"The Gas Price Drop We Have Been Waiting For?"
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Snyder Reports, 8/31/26
"The Gas Price Drop We Have Been Waiting For?"
"The EPA just approved early winter blend gas sales two weeks ahead of schedule - and gas prices are expected to drop 10 to 30 cents per gallon starting this week. But there's a flip side nobody's talking about: lower MPG, older engines at risk, and a Strait of Hormuz crisis that could wipe out the savings overnight. In this video, I break down why winter blend fuel is cheaper, whether it actually increases supply (spoiler: not really), and what $4+ gas prices mean for your wallet over the next 5 to 7 days. I also cover the Iran strikes on U.S. bases, Kharg Island's role in global fuel, and the Venezuela oil deal that sounds better on paper than it is at the pump."
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"Banks Are Freezing Accounts and Americans Cannot Get Their Own Money Out"
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Epic Economist, 8/31/26
"Banks Are Freezing Accounts and Americans
Cannot Get Their Own Money Out"
"The money is in the account. The screen shows it. And the person behind the counter cannot give it to you. These are first-person accounts of what that actually looks like: a paycheck frozen during a fraud investigation nobody would explain, a $175 hold placed on a debit card for $72 of gas, an account closed by two different major banks with a letter that said only "suspicious activity", a closed account that kept charging overdraft and compound interest until it became a $1,000 collection, and an overdraft that landed the same week rent was due. The mechanism underneath all of it is float. A hold is not a charge - it is your money made unavailable while the bank keeps the use of it. A charge posts two days after you closed the account. Fees compound on a balance that was already zero. A $35 fee on a $4 coffee is not a mistake and it is not a lesson in discipline. It is a product, priced deliberately, and billions of dollars a year come out of it - mostly from the people with the least room to absorb it. Three things worth doing. Turn off overdraft "protection" on debit: a declined card costs nothing, an approved one costs $35. Keep a second account somewhere not linked to the first, so a freeze on one does not take everything you have. And get the hold policy in writing before you need it, because the person on the phone during the emergency will not be the one who set it. The branch is never the villain in this. The young woman at that counter cannot authorise a thing, and she knows it. The decision sits upstairs, in a policy written by somebody who has never been thirty-five dollars short of anything."
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