Full screen recommended.
Douglas Macgregor, 7/24/26
"Truth Out? Hundreds of U.S.
Soldiers in Critical Condition"
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So, we rise from the rubble...
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Friday, July 24, 2026
"This Is What's Coming to America... And People Are Starting to Worry"
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The Unfolded States, 7/24/26
"This Is What's Coming to America...
And People Are Starting to Worry"
"AI data centers in America are moving closer to ordinary homes, farms, and small communities. Some warnings are supported by public records, while others are built on viral claims and speculation. This investigation separates the documented risks from the stories that cannot be proven. This investigation begins with SPAN XFRA, a distributed computing system that could place NVIDIA-powered equipment beside homes and small businesses. We separate the verified program from the viral claim that homeowners will receive twenty-two thousand dollars a year, then examine the contract questions involving electricity, noise, insurance, maintenance, and equipment liability.
The video also follows the expansion from residential AI computing to large projects in West Texas, Idaho, and Utah. Using public research on data center energy consumption, data center water usage, grid infrastructure costs, and the proposed Stratos data center, we explain how local communities may gain investment while assuming risks that are difficult to reverse. We also examine construction jobs, permanent employment, tax incentives, groundwater pressure, and the secrecy that allows unsupported theories to spread. The central question is simple: will developers disclose their commitments and pay the full cost of the infrastructure they require?"
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Dan, I Allegedly, "105 Million Americans Aren't Working"
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Dan, I Allegedly, 7/24/26
"105 Million Americans Aren't Working"
"The latest labor force numbers are staggering. More than 105.8 million Americans are now classified as not being in the labor force, meaning they are neither working nor actively looking for a job. In this video I break down what that number really means, why businesses continue reporting worker shortages, how early retirements, government programs, and changing attitudes toward work are reshaping the economy, and why this affects inflation, taxes, housing, and every working American."
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Adventures With Danno, "Shopping the Great Values at Walmart"
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Adventures With Danno, 7/24/26
"Shopping the Great Values at Walmart"
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Travelling With Russell, 7/24/26
"Russia's Newest Low-Cost Supermarket (Opening Day)"
"What does Russia's newest supermarket look like inside? What does a low-cost supermarket in Russia look like inside? Join me at B1 - Perviy Vybor, a hard discount supermarket on opening day in provincial Russia, 40km from Moscow."
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"Just Shy Of $40 TRILLION And It's Increasing So Rapidly That..."
"Just Shy Of $40 TRILLION
And It's Increasing So Rapidly That..."
by State Of The Nation
"And do you know why? Because of all the massive covert payments to the Zionist state of Israel since the very founding of that apartheid nation. Even greater are the regular but highly classified and immense outlays made by the Department of Defense, Central Intelligence Agency and other organizations within the U.S. Intelligence Community to countries around the globe that needed to be bought in some way, shape or form for the direct benefit of Israel.
Key Point: Really, where do you think the utterly bankrupt nation of Israel is getting the HUGE amounts of money for this type of desperate gaslighting of the entire human race?!
Operation Conquer Venezuela: For example, do you have any idea how much it took for the Trump administration to pay off the Venezuelan government, their military, their Oil and Gas Industry execs, etc. to successfully execute a coup as well as kidnap their president and his wife before taking over the entire country? Think about it. Such a national takeover can only take place with a LOT of U$ petrodollars greasing the whole juggernaut that rolled over Venezuela in a day and a night.
And, by the way, much of the stolen oil went right to Israel because it was Netanyahu who blackmailed Trump to conquer that nation so quickly they didn’t even know what happened. And they still don’t know until they read an exposé like this one.
Now multiply this enormous multi-decade scam of the American taxpayer hundreds of times and you get the picture. Bearing in mind, of course, that every single military adventure and soft coup since the Federal Reserve Act of 1913 has been undertaken to advance Zionism worldwide; and to establish, maintain and stealthily enlarge the modern state of Israel (also known as the Greater Israel project). As folows:
Bottom Line: Guess who was the 3rd Under Secretary of Defense (Comptroller)/CFO and Pentagon’s financial point-person in 2001 when the $2.3 TRILLION went missing - ordained rabbi Dov S. Zakheim.
WATCH! “Pentagon cannot account for $2.3 TRILLION” — Emphatically stated on September 10, 2001 by Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld [the very day before the false flag 9/11 terrorist attacks were carried out one of them blowing apart the Pentagon task force investigating the massive DoD financial scandal.]"
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Bill Bonner, "Breaking Down The 'R' Word"
"Breaking Down The 'R' Word"
by Bill Bonner
Poitou, France - "Here it comes - yes - the “r” word. That crackerjack, all-purpose, instant thought-terminator: Racist!
Our meditations on race have precious little to do with our meditations on interest rates or the fevers of the stock market. But they have been penned up in the barn so long, snorting and pawing, that we judged it safer to let them out before they kicked down the door. And, like wokism and antisemitism, ‘racism’ plays an important role in dividing ‘The People,’ and uniting the central planners and busybodies against them.
Let the subject of immigration be raised, and the word “racist” comes trotting along at its heel, as faithful as a spaniel. Here is the freshest specimen, from CBS: "A disgruntled tenant executed three people over a Twin Cities parking dispute, the charges say. A 30-year-old St. Paul man stands accused of shooting three dead inside a leasing office over a quarrel about a parking garage."
And the man charged? One Tsegaab Binnesu. The name tips you off. But the press did not want to say. Nobody cares whether he chews meat or greens, whether his eyes are blue or brown, whether he kneels in a Protestant pew or a Catholic one. The pith of the story is that he is a thirty-year-old immigrant out of Egypt - and that, once more, a lawless newcomer has gunned down peaceable citizens.
Is it “racism” to say as much? The charge is hotly, indignantly denied. But it all hangs upon the definition of the word - and it is precisely there that we slip into a bottomless bog from which no man emerges with clean boots.
The thought fell upon us Sunday, after an unlovely encounter of our own with immigrants. African, Middle Eastern, or some blend - they were the very folk of whom the English used to say that “the wogs begin at Calais,” a “wog” being any homo sapiens who does not ‘look like us.’ Menaced by them on the road, our first thought was the ancient, reflexive one: they have no business here.
And yet they have more business here than we do. We are a mere visitor, an American who has lived in France, off and on for many years. Our tormentors, by contrast, enjoy the blessing of some post-colonial treaty or family tie that grants them the right to live in France, to draw upon her housing and unemployment subsidies, to make use of her free universities and hospitals...and to cast ballots in her elections.
Still - some people “fit in” better than others, and our three antagonists plainly had no wish to fit in at all. They announced, rather, their intention to “terrorize the bourgeoisie,” into which tribe they had placed us. Most of us are at ease among those whose attitudes and behaviors are familiar and predictable. White people gravitate to white neighborhoods. Jews to Jewish ones. Alcoholics feel at home in bars. The Chinese keep to Chinatown. Are the whole lot of them racists?
But we all have our prejudices - pets and peeves, bugaboos and darlings. A fellow might announce, with perfect candor, “I don’t care for Koreans.” Or “I don’t like kinky hair.” Or “Give me a redhead.” Does that enroll him among the racists?
If so, then racists we all are, every mother’s son, for it is flatly impossible for a normal human animal to go through life without preferences. It is discrimination – choosing the restaurant with the best chef and the builder who does the job on time, for example – that is the piston power of progress. And the man who surveys the whole of humanity with one blank, undiscriminating stare - as though we were so many interchangeable peas - is no model citizen, but a curiosity fit for a jar. Even upon bended knee, “I love you because your kisses are just as sweet as everyone else’s” is unlikely to carry the day as a proposal of marriage.
No - we are all different, and the man who denies it is either a professor or a fool. And even small differences can work large effects. Between the Mount Vernon Club in Baltimore and West Baltimore on the far side of Howard Street lies a distance of scarcely four blocks - but you would not care to cross it, and certainly not after dark. If the mere noticing of such differences makes racists of us all, then we may as well pitch the word into the ash-can, for you cannot indict a man for being precisely what every man is.
But what if we do not merely notice - what if we act upon what we feel? What if we decline to cross Howard Street? What if we steer clear of places stocked with the “wrong” sort of people? And yet - who among us does not hunt for the neighborhood where he feels at home? And where is that? Why, among people like himself!
In our own long and undistinguished career, we labored beside teams from England, India, China, and points beyond. We bore none of them the least ill will. But with some we got along better than others. All spoke English…but it was often difficult to get a point across. Were we racists for preferring to work with those we best understood?
And recall “redlining.” The notion was that lenders drew rings round the districts they cared not to serve - because, presumably, the borrowers therein did not pay them back. Redlining acquired its evil odor when it came out that those districts were peopled largely by “minorities.” ‘Racism!’ shrieked the earnest press, sniffing out a sinister motive.
Yet it strains belief that a profit-hungry institution would turn away a sound customer for the color of his hide or the street of his residence. Redlining was, in all likelihood, nothing more than a crude device for trimming the ledger of bad mortgages not for keeping groups of people without a roof over their heads. But the “racist” charge stuck and red-lining was outlawed.
But if neither noticing differences…nor acting on them…suffice to make a man a racist - what does? Have we been flogged so hard as “racist” that the calumny has lost its sting? On Monday we will take a look at real racism. Not redlining. Not the harmless preferences of ordinary people. But something a good deal nastier. Stay tuned."
"'Erdogan's Ottoman Gambit: Turkey Prepares for a New Regional Order"
"'Erdogan's Ottoman Gambit:
Turkey Prepares for a New Regional Order"
by Chris MacIntosh
"Turkey is simultaneously dumping US Treasuries, deepening Russia’s energy embrace, rolling out a tax regime to poach capital fleeing the Gulf… and squaring off against an Israeli political class that now speaks openly of Turkey as an enemy. It’s strategic.
Turkey sold nearly all of its US Treasury holdings in March - cutting them from $16 billion to just $1.8 billion in a single month. The official narrative frames this as emergency reserve management amid a weakening lira and inflation running above 32%. But the mechanics of financial stress don’t explain the direction of travel. Nations don’t systematically dump the debt of their allies.
President Erdogan has been explicit. In a recent address he cast Turkey as "one of the shining stars of the new era," invoking the restoration of Ottoman-era influence across the region. Turkey vehemently opposes Israel’s operations in Gaza, and in Ankara’s strategic calculus, Washington and Tel Aviv are increasingly viewed as a single entity. The Treasury sell-off is as much a political signal as a liquidity operation. The Turkish government has smelt blood in the streets and wants to capitalize on the situation.
The energy relationship with Russia tells the same story. Rosatom’s Akkuyu nuclear plant - a build-own-operate project in which Russia retains ownership for decades - just received a further $9 billion in Russian financing, with $4–5 billion deploying in 2026 alone. Turkey has loudly advertised its renewable credentials and a 2053 net-zero target, but Akkuyu sits outside that narrative entirely. When it comes online it will supply roughly 10% of Turkey’s electricity and lock in a structural strategic dependency on Moscow that no solar panel cancels out. Turkey talks diversification; it acts with ruthless pragmatism.
The Iran conflict has handed Erdogan an unexpected opportunity on the capital side. The disruption to Gulf Cooperation Council financial hubs - Dubai chief among them - has put mobile, internationally structured wealth back in play. Investors who relocated to the UAE for zero-tax treatment are now reassessing. Into that gap, Turkey’s parliament recently passed Erdogan’s flagship fiscal incentive package - nine permanent structural reforms that together represent one of the most aggressive capital attraction plays of the decade:
0% income tax on foreign earnings for 20 years.
1% inheritance tax on all wealth.
Full citizenship from $400,000.
2% one-off tax to repatriate overseas assets, no questions asked.
9% corporate tax - permanent.
0% tax on trading through Turkey.
Business registration in one day via AI-assisted process.
Machinery and equipment imports: duty-free, 0% VAT.
Mortgage overhaul: 10% down payment, terms up to 25 years.
The last item deserves particular attention. The mortgage reform isn’t just a financing tweak - it unlocks millions of first-time Turkish buyers who were previously priced out of the market.
That domestic demand surge lands at precisely the moment foreign capital begins flowing in under the new tax regime. Turkey’s residential real estate market was already undersupplied. The combination of newly bankable local buyers and inbound international capital chasing a low-tax domicile points to a meaningful price cycle ahead - at minimum in Istanbul and the coastal cities where foreign demand concentrates.
The architect of Istanbul’s financial hub ambitions goes back to at least 2009, when former Deputy PM Nazim Ekren was championing Atasehir as the anchor of Eurasia’s financial capital. Aran Hawker, who provided trading infrastructure to Istanbul’s exchanges in 2011, expects wealth repositioned not only from the GCC but from North America, Europe, and the UK - from people "not happy with political situations in those respective countries." Istanbul Finance Centre transit trade income is now fully exempt from corporate tax through 2047.
The Greater Israel Shadow: Beneath the fiscal and energy calculations runs a darker strategic undercurrent - one that Ankara is acutely aware of and Western analysts largely ignore. The expansion of Israeli strategic ambition across the region, accelerated by the Gaza operation and the broader Zionist maximalist project, now has Turkey explicitly in its crosshairs.
The Bosphorus - the narrow strait connecting the Black Sea to the Mediterranean, through which a significant share of global energy and grain trade passes - is not simply a Turkish asset. It is one of the most strategically significant chokepoints on earth. Control of it, or the ability to influence who controls it, is a prize that serious regional powers do not ignore.
Israeli political figures have begun to speak with unusual candour about Turkey as a threat rather than a competitor. Israeli Minister of Culture and Sports Miki Zohar stated plainly: "We must begin to treat Turkey as an enemy state." Former Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett went further, framing Turkey in the same breath as Iran: "A new Turkish threat is emerging. We must act in different ways, but simultaneously against the threat from Tehran and against the hostility from Ankara."
These are not fringe voices. When a sitting minister and a former head of government use the language of simultaneous threat management for both Iran and Turkey, they are signalling a strategic posture - one that has obvious implications for NATO cohesion, for the future of the Bosphorus as a neutral passage, and for the stability of the broader region.
Erdogan reads this clearly. The deepening of Russian energy ties, the rejection of US debt, the cultivation of Ottoman-sphere influence - these are not reactions to Gaza alone. They are pre-positioning against a regional order that Turkey now judges to be hostile to its existence as a sovereign power.
The Greater Israel project, in its maximalist form, envisions territorial and political influence stretching from the Nile to the Euphrates. Turkey sits at the northern edge of that strategic horizon. Control or destabilization of the Bosphorus would fundamentally alter the balance of naval power in the Eastern Mediterranean and the Black Sea - a prize of the highest order for any power seeking regional hegemony. Whether or not one assigns full credibility to the maximalist reading, the signals from Israeli political leadership are sufficient for Ankara to treat the threat as real and plan accordingly.
A NATO member that sells US debt, builds Russian nuclear plants, courts capital fleeing Western disorder, and now faces explicit identification as an enemy state by Israeli leadership is not drifting. Rather, it’s repositioning on every front simultaneously.
The picture that emerges is coherent and accelerating…Turkey controls the Bosphorus. It borders the Middle East, maintains NATO’s second-largest military, and imports the energy that geopolitical conflict makes more expensive - hence the inflation, the rate pressure, and the reserve burn. But Erdogan’s response is not to seek Western reassurance. It is to deepen the Russian energy anchor, signal alignment with the Global South’s reading of the Gaza conflict, position Istanbul as the beneficiary of Gulf instability and Western political dysfunction, and quietly fortify against a regional order that now names Turkey an adversary. The Treasury dump is one data point in a larger sequence. The Ottoman ambition is the frame. And the clock is moving faster than most people realize."
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"Traitors! Congress Votes To Merge Our Military With Israel’s!"
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Kim Iversen, 7/23/36
"Traitors! Congress Votes To
Merge Our Military With Israel’s!"
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“A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear.”
- Marcus Tullius Cicero
The traditional penalty for treason must be applied massively...
Thursday, July 23, 2026
"I Just Spent $200 At The Grocery Store And Got Nothing. The Entire Bubble Will Come Crashing Down"
Jeremiah Babe, 7/23/26
"I Just Spent $200 At The Grocery Store And Got Nothing.
The Entire Bubble Will Come Crashing Down"
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"Alert! Oil Hits $100! Russia/USA Talks Collapse! Two Straits Closed! Houthis Stock 6 Months Food!"
Canadian Prepper, 7/23/26
"Alert! Oil Hits $100! Russia/USA Talks Collapse!
Two Straits Closed! Houthis Stock 6 Months Food!"
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"Trump Getting Taste Of His Own Medicine From An Emboldened Iran, Which Now Has Russia Feeding It Weapons And Intelligence"
CIA station in Riyadh was hit by Shahed suicide drone.
"Trump Getting Taste Of His Own Medicine From An Emboldened Iran,
Which Now Has Russia Feeding It Weapons And Intelligence"
by Leo Hohmann
"The Trump administration is getting a hard lesson on the essence of that old adage: Paybacks can be a b----! After more than four years of the U.S. funding and supplying Ukraine and using that country as a battering ram to weaken Russia, the regime in Washington has allowed itself to be weakened by Russia in the same way.
While Ukraine is serving the role of America’s proxy against Russia, Iran has emerged as Russia’s proxy against America. There is now evidence that Russia, and likely China too, are funneling weapons and intelligence to the Iranians.
Russia in particular has found the perfect opportunity to get back at Trump for double-crossing him on the Ukraine war. Trump bragged that he would end the Russia-Ukraine war with a simple phone call within “24 hours” of taking office. And he could have made good on that campaign promise simply by telling Vladamir Zelensky that the gig was up, the funds were ending, and he needs to sign on the dotted line to make peace with Putin.
Instead, Trump did a complete 180 and has continued funding Ukraine the same as Biden did, and has actually allowed the Ukrainians to routinely strike deep inside of Russian territory with U.S.-manufactured missiles, something Biden never did. They’ve knocked out key energy infrastructure, weapons depots and manufacturing facilities in Russia, a favor Putin is said to be mulling whether to return by firing missiles at NATO countries supplying drones to Ukraine. Trump even presided over a Ukrainian assassination attempt on Putin’s helicopter back in May.
Now, Trump is getting a taste of his own medicine in Iran. And it might not be long before that taste becomes a full-course meal, which he won’t be able to spit out. In a July 23 article, Defense Security Asia reports as follows: U.S. intelligence agencies have opened an urgent multi-agency investigation into whether Russia supplied Iran with targeting intelligence and combat-tested drone upgrades used in a wave of precision strikes against Central Intelligence Agency facilities across the Gulf region in March 2026.
The probe centers on two confirmed CIA sites struck during the conflict, namely the CIA station embedded inside the U.S. Embassy compound in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, and a separate clandestine facility located in eastern Iraq, according to four U.S. intelligence officials.
Analysts examining the strikes have grown increasingly suspicious of Russian involvement because the attacks demonstrated a level of navigational precision that appears to exceed the known technical baseline of Iran’s indigenous Shahed-series loitering munitions. The article goes on to state the quiet part out loud, that U.S. embassies double as CIA intelligence-gathering operations throughout the Middle East. These diplomatic missions could become targets and knocked out, one by one, with Russian intelligence and targeting data.
One internal memo circulated within a Western intelligence agency reportedly concluded that Moscow “has likely played a role in targeting regional CIA facilities,” a judgment that, if confirmed, would mark a dangerous escalation in the Russia-Iran military-technical partnership. Two Western officials briefed on the intelligence assessments believe the Riyadh strike specifically involved a tandem pair of Russian-enhanced Shahed drones, with the first breaching the embassy’s exterior wall and the second flying through the opening to detonate inside the compound.
It’s interesting that when Russia gets caught aiding Iran it’s a “dangerous escalation,” But Washington can openly aid Ukraine’s war against Russia all day long without being seen as the aggressor in that war, the one who is fueling its continued blood letting.
When the U.S. first attacked Iran, I warned that this would likely become a long, drawn-out war and my intuition has turned out to be accurate. I have no military experience and don’t come from a military family, but I have studied history and have a good sense of just how ego-centric the U.S foreign policy has become over the last 75 years. Our foreign policy establishment believes we can hit other countries with impunity and never expect to get hit back. When countries do hit us back, we call them terrorists. Sovereignty is never respected by Washington’s warmongers.
The only countries whose sovereignty has traditionally been respected are those with nuclear arsenals, but in their arrogance even that reality is not keeping them from making war on countries like Russia, which has enough nuclear weaponry to blow up the world many times over. So if we don’t respect Russia’s sovereignty, we certainly won’t respect Iran’s.
But now we have evidence that Russia is supplying Iran with key components in what has become an existential struggle for Iran’s survival in the war with America. Iran was in many ways the perfect country for America’s enemies to use against us, delivering a long overdue humbling of the out-of-control global hegemon. We have become overly prideful in our sense of invincibility, and it’s only that overwhelming pride that could cause our leaders to attack a country like Iran and think we could win easily in a few days or weeks. Russia and China alike must have celebrated the day Donald Trump launched this ill-conceived war back on February 28.
Because the financial markets are just now starting to figure out what seemed obvious to some of us from the start - that this is guaranteed to turn into a long war that permanently disrupts the flow of energy and fertilizers to critical areas of need; crude oil has now surged to over $100 a barrel.
Gasoline prices are about to skyrocket to heights perhaps never before seen in the United States, Canada and Europe. Then will come worldwide famine and depopulation. This will all make America the most hated country in the world as other countries realize that none of this economic misery would have been foisted upon them if Trump hadn’t attacked Iran and triggered the disastrous chain of events now starting to play out.
Few Americans seem aware, or even concerned that this war has the potential to be different from all the other wars the U.S. has involved itself in since World War II. If this war continues to go south, and I believe it will, it could be the trigger for a collapse of the petro dollar, and with it the entire U.S. economic system. How are Americans going to get by when gasoline is $8 to $10 a gallon and food prices quadruple in price?
Trump is already losing support for his war of choice on Iran, and we’ve hardly seen any of the disastrous economic effects that are coming but have been forestalled by market manipulations and Trump’s drawing down of the U.S. Strategic Petroleum Rerserves.
The share of self-identified MAGA Republicans who say the war has been “worth” the financial cost has fallen from about 50 percent in May to 37 percent now, with one in five saying the war should end, according to the latest poll.
Trump has allowed this war to drift into a dangerous phase of tit-for-tat escalations. This is dangerous because at some point the conventional weapons will run dry, as we run out of munitions to feed them. Iran and Russia have proven they have the industrial capacity to outproduce us on weaponry and munitions. Our military-industrial complex is not built for speed. It’s built for profit. So, we will run out of munitions before Russia, China and Iran do.
What happens then? Will Trump walk away in humiliation? I don’t think so. It’s not in Trump’s DNA to admit defeat even when he’s hit in the face with it. His instinct is to hit back harder. That’s exactly the personality type who would resort to the unthinkable.
God help us at that point. Because the U.S. is the only country to have ever used nuclear weapons against another nation. If we do it again, all bets are off, because unlike in 1945, we live in a nuclear world. Russia, China and Pakistan all have nukes. If the U.S. were to nuke Iran, I don’t believe these other nuclear countries would allow the U.S. to get away with it a second time.
Iran’s goal is to kick the U.S. out of the Middle East, and so far it’s making great progress. My sources say 16 of the 20 U.S. bases in the Gulf region have been either totally destroyed or suffered substantial damage. And if this war continues there are plenty of other bases that Russia could decide to take out.
As our munitions continue to sink to dangerously low levels in a protracted Iran war, Putin could feel emboldened to strike U.S. bases on the periphery of his country’s borders? Maybe at some point China realizes that the U.S. going after Russia and Iran is just a prelude to us going after them. If that’s the case, we’re cooked. There are about 800 U.S. bases on foreign soil that could be targeted, and China hasn’t even started dipping into its vast stockpiles of conventional missiles and drones. Once the U.S. is out of conventional stockpiles, what comes next? You can see where this is leading. Unfortunately, nobody in the Trump White House has thought this through."
Musical Interlude: 2002, "Cycle of Time"; "Challenge From Heaven"
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2002, "Cycle of Time"
Full screen recommended.
2002, "Challenge From Heaven"
"A Look to the Heavens"
"How do clusters of galaxies form and evolve? To help find out, astronomers continue to study the second closest cluster of galaxies to Earth: the Fornax cluster, named for the southern constellation toward which most of its galaxies can be found. Although almost 20 times more distant than our neighboring Andromeda galaxy, Fornax is only about 10 percent further that the better known and more populated Virgo cluster of galaxies.
Fornax has a well-defined central region that contains many galaxies, but is still evolving. It has other galaxy groupings that appear distinct and have yet to merge. Seen here, almost every yellowish splotch on the image is an elliptical galaxy in the Fornax cluster. The picturesque barred spiral galaxy NGC 1365 visible on the lower right is also a prominent Fornax cluster member. "
"Home Above the Fog"
Full screen recommended.
"Home Above the Fog"
"Today, I’d love to invite you to a place where the clouds never seem to leave. High above an endless sea of fog sits a tiny village where warm lanterns glow through the mist, old stone cottages rest quietly beneath the stars, and every sunrise feels like the beginning of a beautiful memory. This is *The Village That Woke Above the Fog*. In this quiet corner of *A Very Unusual Town*, life moves slowly. An elderly shepherd gently leads his woolly sheep across cloud-covered hills. A mysterious black cat wanders through peaceful cobblestone streets as if it knows every hidden doorway. Behind glowing cottage windows, tea is brewing, bread is cooling, and neighbors still greet one another with quiet smiles.
This surreal AI film was created as a gentle storybook journey for anyone who loves cozy villages, peaceful countryside scenes, cinematic AI art, relaxing music, and the quiet beauty of growing older. Every scene is designed to feel like a handcrafted stop-motion dream brought to life in 4K - inspired by timeless European villages, foggy mountain mornings, warm lantern light, old cottages, and the simple comfort of a slower life. I made this film for those who still find beauty in small moments: a soft light in the window, a familiar path through town, a quiet animal companion, and the peaceful feeling of a place that seems to remember you. This is not a story you need to solve. It is a village you are invited to enter, breathe with, and return to whenever you need a little calm. It was created for viewers who enjoy cozy fantasy worlds, slow living, beautiful AI visuals, emotional instrumental music, and peaceful films made to comfort the heart."
"Live Your Life and Forget Your Age"
Full screen recommended.
Delta King's Blues,
"Live Your Life and Forget Your Age"
"Don’t count the candles… count the sunsets, the laughter, and the miles you’ve lived. “Live Your Life and Forget Your Age” is an uplifting, feel-good Delta King’s Blues tune about embracing every season of life, finding joy in the little things, and refusing to let a number define your spirit. A warm, easy-flowing acoustic guitar carries the melody like an old friend inviting you to sit on the porch and enjoy the evening breeze. The harmonica sings with gentle optimism, weaving hopeful notes through memories, smiles, and second chances. The groove rolls slow and comforting, built for folks who know the best years aren’t always the youngest - they’re the ones fully lived. This is blues for living in the moment. For those who’ve learned that happiness has nothing to do with age and everything to do with how you spend your days. Your age is just a number… your stories are what make you timeless."
The Poet: James Baldwin, "Amen"
"Amen"
"No, I don't feel death coming.
I feel death going:
having thrown up his hands,
for the moment.
I feel like I know him
better than I did.
Those arms held me,
for a while,
and, when we meet again,
there will be that secret knowledge
between us. "
- James Baldwin
"The Projects That Could Ignite The Next War" (Excerpt)
"The Projects That Could Ignite The Next War: The Military,
Industrial and Strategic Programs Reshaping the World in 2026"
by Madge Waggy
Excerpt: "The most dangerous geopolitical developments of 2026 are not necessarily the weapons that have already been fired, but the systems being constructed in anticipation of the next crisis. Across Europe, the Indo-Pacific and the Middle East, governments are committing extraordinary resources to military production, strategic infrastructure, weapons procurement and long-term defense planning, creating a global security environment in which preparation for war has itself become one of the defining features of international politics. The official justification is almost always deterrence: stronger armies are supposed to prevent aggression, larger stockpiles are supposed to make adversaries think twice and new military infrastructure is supposed to close the gaps that might otherwise invite attack.
Yet deterrence has an inherent paradox. Every military capability built by one state is examined by another as a potential threat, and every response can then be used to justify another round of preparation. What emerges is not necessarily an organized march toward a single global conflict, but something more unstable: a collection of increasingly sophisticated military projects operating simultaneously across several regions, each designed to prevent war while potentially making the consequences of miscalculation far more severe.
The scale of this transformation is no longer a matter of speculation. According to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, global military expenditure reached approximately $2.887 trillion in 2025, marking the eleventh consecutive year of growth. European military spending increased by 14% to approximately $864 billion, while military expenditure in Asia and Oceania rose by 8.1% to around $681 billion. The United States remained the world's largest military spender at approximately $954 billion, followed by China at $336 billion and Russia at $190 billion. Together, those three countries accounted for roughly 51% of global military expenditure. SIPRI also reported that European NATO members increased spending sharply, while China's military expenditure continued a decades-long upward trajectory and Taiwan increased its own military spending by approximately 14% in 2025. These figures do not prove that a world war is approaching, but they reveal an international system in which the largest military powers are simultaneously expanding or restructuring their strategic capabilities.
This assessment is an analytical classification based on escalation potential, proximity of military forces, strategic importance and likelihood of involvement by major powers. It is not an official probability forecast. Data on military expenditure: SIPRI. Current developments in Taiwan Strait and the Middle East: Reuters and AP.
The most important feature of this table is not any individual number, but the simultaneous concentration of military pressure across several theaters. Europe is rebuilding defense capacity at a pace unseen in decades, China is continuing its military modernization while applying pressure around Taiwan, Russia remains heavily committed to wartime spending, and the United States is attempting to maintain strategic commitments across Europe, the Middle East and the Indo-Pacific. This creates a geopolitical environment in which a crisis in one region could consume resources, attention and military capacity that are simultaneously required elsewhere. The risk is therefore not simply that one country decides to start a global war; it is that several regional crises could interact with one another at precisely the moment when governments have fewer diplomatic and military resources available to contain them."
Full, highly recommended article is here:
"World War E: Why the Energy Crisis Is an Engineered Collapse — and What It Means for Civilization"
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"World War E: Why the Energy Crisis Is an Engineered
Collapse - and What It Means for Civilization"
by Mike Adams
"We Are Already Living Through World War E: The term “World War E” was coined by Matt Bracken to describe the global war over energy that connects Ukraine, the Middle East, and beyond (he mentioned the term in our recent interview). I believe this captures the true nature of today’s conflict. We are not witnessing random violence; we are watching a coordinated assault on the world’s energy chokepoints. The Houthi blockade of Saudi exports, the systematic targeting of oil infrastructure, and the Iranian response close the Strait of Hormuz are not accidents - they are deliberate moves in an engineered energy war.
Consider what happened in July 2026. Iran ordered the Houthis to stand ready to close the Red Sea oil route if the United States struck Iranian power infrastructure. The Houthis then declared a maritime embargo against Saudi Arabia, effectively shutting the Bab el-Mandeb Strait to Saudi vessels. As I warned in my article “The Paper Tiger Exposed,” the U.S. military’s power is a shattered mirage, and these moves expose our inability to protect global energy flows.
Energy Scarcity and Famine Are Two Sides of the Same Coin: Here’s why this matters: the engineered famine that war correspondent Michael Yon has described is inseparable from the energy war. Without affordable fuel, fertilizer production collapses, and food systems fail. In my interview with Michael Yon, he detailed how the destruction of desalination plants in the Gulf would be a death sentence for millions. That is exactly what the globalist planners appear to want.
I have run the numbers. As I wrote in “Trump’s War on Iran Is a War on Global Food Security,” closing the Strait of Hormuz for many more months will starve millions. The math is brutal: 20% of the world’s oil passes through that chokepoint, about 10% of total global fertilizer production comes out of the Persian Gulf. Dmitry Orlov’s “The Five Stages of Collapse” describes how financial collapse leads to commercial collapse, then political collapse, then social collapse, and finally cultural collapse. We are watching stages one and two unfold simultaneously. The propaganda machine will blame climate change or bad luck, but the truth is that this scarcity is engineered to accelerate the final collapse through depopulation and economic chaos.
The Propaganda Machine Keeps Westerners Blind to the Coming Crash: Most people still believe the official narrative of American strength, but the reality is that U.S. bases are being pushed out of the Persian Gulf, and our military cannot protect its allies. Traffic through the Strait of Hormuz has plummeted to only 10 to 30 commercial vessels per day (on a GOOD day!), a tiny fraction of normal. Yet the mainstream media yawns. The brainwashing is so thorough that even as the tsunami approaches, few will recognize the event until the shelves are empty and the cities burn.
I have documented the U.S. military’s shattered mirage of power in my article “The Paper Tiger Exposed”. Our aircraft carriers are vulnerable, our missile defenses are porous, and our strategic reserves are being drained. The Strategic Petroleum Reserve has fallen to a 43-year low as the Trump administration draws down nearly 96 million barrels since mid-March. Jim Rickards, in “Sold Out,” explains how the financial system is a house of cards, with hidden derivatives and liquidity traps waiting to snap. The loss of abundant, affordable energy could readily accelerate that trap being sprung.
Preparing for the Civilizational Reset: I argue that the only rational response is to reject the propaganda, leave the vulnerable cities, and build local food production and community resilience. The Houthi blockade of the Red Sea is not a distant problem; it is a knife aimed at the heart of the global energy system, and it will hit America hard. As Dmitry Orlov notes, the collapse stages are predictable, but you can prepare by decentralizing your life.
In my interviews with Steve Quayle, he has emphasized that procrastination will leave you reacting instead of acting. Start now: plant a garden, learn to sprout seeds for emergency nutrition, and secure your water supply. The speakers at the recent preparedness conferences have warned that the elevator of collapse will not stop at a comfortable floor - we may fall all the way to a 19th-century existence, or worse. But those who prepare can survive and even thrive. The choice is yours.
Wake Up or Perish: In conclusion, the global energy crisis is a wake-up call that demands action now - not hope that elites will relent, but real preparation for a world that is about to change radically. The Seneca Effect, described by Ugo Bardi in his book, shows that systems do not decline gradually; they collapse suddenly after a long period of growth (asymmetrical collapse). We are at the precipice of that collapse right now.
To survive, we must touch grass, learn practical skills, and reject the lies that have led us to the edge of this abyss. The U.S. oil reserve is nearly empty, the grid is failing, and the propaganda machine is still churning. But you can break free. Build community, grow food, and stack gold and silver. The future belongs to those who wake up now."
Dan, I Allegedly, "The Biggest Taxpayer Ripoff Ever?"
Full screen recommended.
Dan, I Allegedly, 7/23/26
"The Biggest Taxpayer Ripoff Ever?"
"California's High-Speed Rail was originally sold as a transformational project that would connect Los Angeles and San Francisco, but after years of delays, soaring costs, and changing timelines, the estimated price has climbed to an astonishing $231 billion. In this video, I break down where the money has gone, what taxpayers have received so far, and why so many people believe this has become one of the most expensive public works projects in American history. We also compare what $231 billion could have funded instead—from housing and education to infrastructure and childcare - and ask whether taxpayers are getting the value they were promised. This isn't just a California story. It's a conversation about government spending, accountability, public debt, inflation, taxes, infrastructure, and how waste impacts every working family. If you care about personal finance, the economy, government spending, real estate, rising costs, or protecting your financial future, this is a discussion you won't want to miss. Let me know in the comments what you would have done with $231 billion if it had been invested differently."
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Trains, you say?
Incredible the things a sane, civilized society can achieve,
which we of course know nothing at all about in this
totally out of control psychopathic U.S. lunatic asylum...
Full screen recommended.
Travelling With Russell, 12/16/25
"I Travelled on Russia's Brand-New Metro Train"
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Travelling with Russell, 10/5/25
"I Went On Russia's Brand-New Train: Ivolga 4.0"
"What is it really like to travel on Russia's newest train? The Ivolga 4.0 has just launched a limited edition model named "The Black Mamba" Released and put into service in 2025, the Ivolga 4.0 is the latest electric train to join the Russian Railways fleet."
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"How It Really Is"
"At the beginning of June, 2025 our national debt was sitting at $31,467 trillion. Today, it has risen to $39.613 trillion.That means that we have added $8 TRILLION dollars to the national debt in just one year. It is the largest single debt in the entire history of our planet, and it will never be paid off." - https://coyoteprimeblog2.blogspot.com/
View it if you dare...
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Jethro Tull, "Locomotive Breath"
"I Can See It All Very Clearly..."
"A strange game. The only winning move is not to play."
"War Games", 1984
Jim Quinn, "Fourth Turning Global War"
"Fourth Turning Global War"
by Jim Quinn
Excerpt: “These are the times that try men’s souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands by it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.” – Thomas Paine – "The American Crisis"
“At worst, should at least one desperate country resort to WMDs, the outcome of a great-power war could prove to be even more devastating than that of a civil war. The toll could be almost unimaginable – with multiple cities destroyed, many millions killed, and many tens of millions displaced – all perhaps triggered by some ill-fated combination of the wrong leader making the wrong choice at the wrong time.” – Neil Howe – "The Fourth Turning Is Here"
My previous two articles about this "Fourth Turning: Prophets, Nomads and a Fourth Turning Accelerating Towards a Bloody Climax" in April 2025 and "War Phase of This Fourth Turning Has Arrived" in July 2025 were progressively more pessimistic about the course of coming events, and things have proceeded along a precarious path towards our own rendezvous with destiny/tragedy. We are closing in on the 18th anniversary of the start of this Crisis epoch in September. The previous Great Depression/WWII Fourth Turning came to its climactic bloody conclusion after seventeen years, but this period of upheaval and disorder looks like it will extend into the early 2030s, just as Strauss & Howe predicted.
After rereading the prior two articles, I was shocked at how drastically the world has transformed in the space of one year and how the chief facilitator for driving events – Donald Trump – has hugely reversed his stated positions from the outset of his presidency. During the first 18 months of his 2nd term in office, Trump has done the exact opposite of what he promised and gone to war with the people most responsible for getting him elected: Elon Musk, Tucker Carlson, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Thomas Massie, among others. The question is whether this was always his plan, or has he been coerced/bribed by Israel using Epstein file revelations.
At first, I was cautiously optimistic Trump had learned some hard lessons from his first term personnel debacles and the Deep State conspiracy to derail his presidency, along with the provable stealing of the 2020 election through mail-in ballot fraud, rigged voting machines, and judicial interference, resulting in the insertion of a dementia ridden basement dummy as a Potemkin president.
Trump staffed his new administration with what appeared to be loyalists, committed to revealing the truth about the Russiagate conspiracy, the 2020 stolen election, the Epstein files, FBI/CIA coup participants, the Soros/Biden/Clinton/Obama purposeful initiation and funding of the 3rd world invasion of our country to steal elections and initiate economic collapse, USAID as the funder of NGOs committed to destroying our society, the J6 Committee malfeasance, and the massive government fraud in all welfare programs at the Federal and State levels.
With Musk’s DOGE revelations and promises of $2 trillion in savings, the early months of Trump’s presidency seemed promising. He fulfilled his guarantee to shut the border and stopped the hordes of low IQ 3rd world dirtbags from invading our country and overwhelming our social welfare system. With much fanfare (and TV commercials), Kristi Noem began deporting thousands of illegals on a daily basis. Pam Bondi and Kash Patel declared they had all the Epstein files and would be releasing them in their criminal entirety.
But right-wing influencers were given binders with no new Epstein revelations in a February White House PR event. Something started to smell fishy. Trump acted like a Middle East peacemaker, with rhetoric about ending the Gaza genocide and turning it into resort for his wealthy cronies. He held multiple talks with Putin and Zelensky. It looked like ending the Ukraine war and delivering peace on earth might be his legacy.
By June, Trump’s presidency began to unravel, and he started reneging on his promises, having a major falling out with Musk over his Big Beautiful Bloated Bill, and began his infatuation with his Boss Bibi, who told him what to do and when to do it. Trump’s bombast about reducing the national debt and balancing the budget was put to the test with his first budget bill.
In my previous article I had stated it would require tremendous courage on the part of Trump and his congressional majority to institute the billions in DOGE cuts, as it is only government waste, Fed debt creation, and consumers spending money they don’t have on shit they don’t need at 20% interest provided by the Wall Street cabal, that keeps this U.S. Titanic of debt economy afloat. Cutting government spending would guarantee a recession. As expected, cowardly politicians, bought off by special interests, and driven by re-election desires, had no interest in cutting a dime of government spending."
Full article is here:
Bill Bonner, "Late to the Ponzi Party"
by Bill Bonner
‘What they’re doing with immigration is a disaster.’
- Donald Trump on the Old World
"What’s wrong with Europe? The Conversation: "In recent local elections in the United Kingdom and Australia, right-wing populism has appeared to be on the march. The most successful transformation of far-right populism in a large European country has been Giorgia Meloni’s Brothers of Italy. It won the most votes in the 2022 election and leads a right-wing coalition government. The success of the ‘right wing’ can be largely attributed to the failure of the ‘left wing.’ In preview, we believe both wings flap in dreadful harmony...both headed for the same municipal dump.
People look to government to give them something they couldn’t get on their own. The feds can enforce reasonable rules at home and provide a reasonable level of protection from foreigners. But despite claims to the contrary, they can’t make people wealthier. That was where the Europeans seem to have gone wrong. Military protection seemed unnecessary. It was either provided by the US...or not worth having. That left European politicians managing what was, in effect, a vast, compulsory insurance pool. People pay into the system. The government takes a cut and then returns the rest, according to its view of who should get what. Public housing, medical care, college educations - all are given, ‘free,’ to the people who pay for them.
One way to deliver what appears to be a good return to voters is to borrow it from them. Investors regard government bonds as assets, not liabilities. And taxpayers do not see government borrowing as what it really is – a delayed form of taxation. Thus can the feds afford to offer ‘benefits’ beyond what taxpayers believe they pay for.
That is why, led by the US, they switched to a fake money system in 1971; it permits them to borrow and ‘print’ more money. When the European Union was set up, member states agreed to a limit on deficits — a maximum of 3% of GDP. But the Euro area has exceeded the limit for many years. And the US too. America’s deficit is approaching 6% of GDP.
It is a swindle, pretending to be social contract. People don’t necessarily understand what is going on, but they feel it. And they don’t like it...so they look for alternatives, and for someone to blame. The ‘hard right’ and the ‘looney left’ both offer targets.
The two choices are similar, in the US as in Europe. Neither are honest. Neither are effective. Both transfer more and more power and money to the political authorities. Voters choose their poison. It’s Mamdani or Trump. Welfare or war. Or, both!
One of the most combustible elements of this ‘conversation’ is immigration. It condenses the fumes of material failure into a heady brew of distilled resentment. The ‘left,’ generally, wants more newcomers. They believe the new arrivals will vote for their giveaways and help keep their Ponzi health and pension programs in business. The ‘right’ wants to get rid of immigrants, believing that they steal our jobs, drain our tax revenues, and degrade our quality of life.
We thought the ‘right’ may be onto something on Sunday when three ‘immigrants’ approached as we made our way through Evreux. One folded his hand into a pistol and pretended to shoot us. It was not a serious threat, but it was unsettling. ‘Who are these people,’ we wondered; ‘What are they doing here?’
Pete Hegseth spoke to the questions when he attended this year’s 82nd anniversary of D-Day in Normandy. The iPINIONS: On Saturday, at the ceremony marking the 82nd anniversary of D-Day, Hegseth warned that European beaches are being “stormed by different dangerous ideologies.” He conjured images of men arriving by boat on the shores of Spain, Italy, Greece, and Bulgaria, then challenged Europeans to do something about that “invasion.”
Recent events have too – where immigrants have committed crimes, often on video – have gotten native mobs, in Belfast and Dublin, riled up to the point of attacking anyone who looked like he didn’t belong there. And many people think there is something at stake that goes far beyond crime or money. They believe their culture...or ‘western civilization’ itself...teeters on the edge.
This is, of course, familiar ground to US audiences. Team Trump referred to immigrants as ‘rapists and murderers.’ Politicians and influencers paint an ancient, but still lurid, picture...the dark beast, blood dripping from his teeth, the poor white maiden swooning in his arms as he intends to ravish her. They are the ‘worst of the worst,’ says Trump. Statistically, there is little proof of it. But statistics don’t stop a mob when its blood is up. More to come...including, yes, the ‘r’ word. Stay tuned."
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