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Native American Elder,
"When Someone Disrespects You,
Ask These 3 Questions To Silence Them"
So, we rise from the rubble...
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Wednesday, October 7, 2026
Delta King's Blues, "Life Beat the Pretty Outta Me"
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Delta King's Blues, "Life Beat the Pretty Outta Me"
"Life didn’t leave me flawless… it left me real. “Life Beat the Pretty Outta Me” is a gritty, soul-stirring Delta King’s Blues tune about hard roads, broken dreams, and the quiet strength that comes from surviving what should’ve broken you. A weathered, slow-burning acoustic guitar carries the melody like worn boots walking through another long sunset. The harmonica cries deep and weary, echoing every scar, every heartbreak, and every lesson earned the hard way. The groove stays slow and heavy, built for folks whose faces tell stories that words never could. This is blues for the beautifully worn. For those who traded youthful shine for wisdom, resilience, and a soul that can’t be bought. Life may have taken the pretty… but it left me with character, grit, and a story worth telling. The strongest souls are rarely the unscarred ones."
"A Primer For The Propagandized: Fear Is The Mind-Killer"
"A Primer For The Propagandized:
Fear Is The Mind-Killer"
by Margaret Anna Alice
“Totalitarianism, if not fought against, could triumph anywhere.”
- George Orwell
"The noose is dangling gently around our necks. Every day, they cinch it tighter. By the time we realize it’s strangling us, it will be too late. Those who – gradually and gleefully – sacrifice their freedoms, their autonomy, their individuality, their livelihoods, and their relationships on the altar of the “common good” have forgotten this is the pattern followed by every totalitarian regime in history.
Everyone wonders how ordinary Germans could have been manipulated to participate or stand dumbstruck while their government was transformed into a genocidal juggernaut. This is how. Read Sebastian Haffner’s "Defying Hitler" memoir to see how this can happen anywhere - including here.
Everyone wonders how Russians could have permitted and even zealously reported fellow citizens for imprisonment and execution under "Article 58", the penal code invented to incarcerate anyone who dared express the slightest whisper of noncompliance under Stalin’s homicidal state. This is how. Read Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s meticulously documented "The Gulag Archipelago" to witness this progression of authoritarian lunacy.
Everyone wonders how Hutus could have suddenly started axing their Tutsi neighbors to death after being inundated with waves of anti-Tutsi propaganda from "Radio Télévision Libre des Mille Collines." Read Philip Gourevitch’s "We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families: Stories from Rwanda."
The list goes on. And on. And on. From Machiavelli’s "The Prince" to Étienne de la Boetie’s "The Politics of Obedience: The Discourse of Voluntary Servitude" to Edward Herman’s and Noam Chomsky’s "Manufacturing Consent" (and accompanying documentary) to BBC’s "The Century of the Self," mechanisms of mass control have been chronicled for millennia.
George Orwell wrote, "As far as the mass of the people go, the extraordinary swings of opinion which occur nowadays, the emotions which can be turned on and off like a tap, are the result of newspaper and radio hypnosis.”
Can you imagine what master propagandist Edward Bernays would have done with access to today’s mainstream media conglomerate combined with the global surveillance infrastructure of Big Tech? And you really think that’s not happening now - with another century of psychological, neurological, and technological research under their belts?
The present ability to curate reality and coerce obedience is unprecedented, far beyond what Orwell envisioned in "1984", Bradbury in "Fahrenheit 451", Huxley in "Brave New World," and Burgess in "A Clockwork Orange."
A textbook example of "Problem Reaction Solution", the tsunami of worldwide Covid hysteria was the latest and potentially most threatening example of mass control in history. The recipe is simple. Take a naturally occurring phenomenon, say a seasonal virus, and exaggerate its threat far beyond every imagining - despite exhaustive evidence to the contrary. Suppress, silence, ostracize, and demonize every individual who dares present facts that expose the false mono-narrative.
Whip up a witches’ brew of anger, envy, and, most importantly, fear, escalating emotions to a boil so as to short-circuit our faculties of reason and logic.
Isolate us from one another, supplant real-world interactions with virtual feuds, label nonconformists as a threat to the group, and pump the public with a disinformation campaign designed to confuse and atomize. In essence, foster a cultlike mentality that shuts down thought to guarantee assent.
Cultivate and wield our cognitive biases - especially ingroup bias, conformity bias, and authority bias - against us in a comprehensive divide-and-conquer policy that keeps us too busy squabbling amongst each other to recognize and unite against those corralling us into a Matrix-like collective delusion that enables the powerful to extract our resources for their own gain.
This ideological mass psychosis is religion - not science. If this were about science, the Media–Pharmaceutical–Big-Tech complex would not be memory-holing every dissenting voice, vilifying every thought criminal, and censoring every legitimate inquiry in quest of the truth.
Mark Twain said, “It’s easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled.” He also said: “In religion and politics people’s beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination, from authorities who have not themselves examined the questions at issue but have taken them at second-hand from other non-examiners, whose opinions about them were not worth a brass farthing.”
The next time you’re watching the news, reading a social media post, listening to a friend repeat a scripted talking point, pay attention. Learn to identify the earmarks of propaganda, the clickbait used to trigger your emotions, the mechanisms employed to engineer your cognitive biases.
Don’t let your pride prevent you from seeing - and admitting - the Emperor is naked. We are losing our last sliver of opportunity to resist authoritarianism. This is not a partisan issue. Those who wish to control us have made it such because disunited lemmings are easier to steer than independent, critical thinkers.
This is a human issue. This is about crushing the middle class - the backbone of a democratic republic - and transferring trillions from the middle and lower classes to the ruling plutocracy. This is about demolishing the foundations of a free society and building it back - not better, but better-controlled.
I will close by recommending a series of illuminating videos on menticide (“the systematic effort to undermine and destroy a person’s values and beliefs … to induce radically different ideas”) throughout history by "Academy of Ideas." This analysis of mass psychosis is nonpartisan and of value to every thinking human being.
"Dare to question. Dare to disbelieve.
Dare to defy ideology in favor of science while you still can."
"The Universe"
“There are no accidents. If it's appeared on your life radar, this is why: to teach you that dreams come true; to reveal that you have the power to fix what's broken and heal what hurts; to catapult you beyond seeing with just your physical senses; and to lift the veils that have kept you from seeing that you're already the person you dreamed you'd become. There are no accidents. And believe me, that was one heck of a dream.”
“Tallyho,”
The Universe
“Thoughts become things... choose the good ones!”
"On The Shortness of Life"
"On The Shortness of Life"
Seneca’s Advice for Dealing with Death
"'De Brevitate Vitae' (English: "On the Shortness of Life") is a moral essay written by Seneca the Younger, a Roman Stoic philosopher, sometime around the year 49 AD, to his father-in-law Paulinus. The philosopher brings up many Stoic principles on the nature of time, namely that people waste much of it in meaningless pursuits. According to the essay, nature gives people enough time to do what is really important and the individual must allot it properly. In general, time is best used by living in the present moment in pursuit of the intentional, purposeful life."
Freely download “On The Shortness of Life”, by Seneca, here:
"14 Medical Supplies You Only Need to Survive Hard Times (All Under $5 at Walmart)"
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Epic Economist, 10/7/26
"14 Medical Supplies You Only Need to
Survive Hard Times (All Under $5 at Walmart)"
"What would you use on a cut if the roads were closed and the ambulance was far away? This video reveals 14 first-aid items from Walmart's Equate shelf, from pointed tweezers and paper tape to saline wound wash and gauze pads. Paper tape grips weakly on purpose, so it comes off thin skin gently. An instant cold pack needs no freezer or outlet. Petroleum jelly, one dollar, keeps a minor cut moist so it heals faster. Saline wound wash is clean rinse water you never have to boil. The key isn't having more supplies. It's knowing where each one stops working, and that a deep wound, a bite or bleeding that won't stop needs a doctor. With most items under $5, this list helps you build a practical kit that holds a wound safely until help arrives."
First aid is just one system. My manual has 200 for hard times:
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"The Next Global Financial Crisis Is Erupting Right Now As Bond Yields Skyrocket All Over The World – Will France Be The First To Collapse?"
by Michael Snyder
"We all knew that this would be coming eventually. For years, governments around the world have been engaging in the greatest debt binge in human history. Now they are absolutely drowning in debt and investors are no longer willing to lend them gigantic mountains of money at ultra-low interest rates. Bond yields are skyrocketing, and that means that bond prices are crashing. That is really bad news for U.S. banks, because they are holding approximately $4.81 trillion in combined Treasury and agency securities. Banks in Japan and Europe are also holding gobs and gobs of bonds. The nightmarish state of bank balance sheets is going to become a major story in the coming days, and many financial institutions will fail. Meanwhile, consumers will be facing much higher rates for mortgages and other forms of borrowing. This will likely slow down economic activity substantially during the months ahead.
On Wednesday, the yield on 10 year U.S. Treasuries and the yield on 30 year U.S. Treasuries both hit the highest level that we have seen in 24 years… The benchmark 10-year Treasury was up more than 3 basis points at 5.307%. It had earlier hit its highest level since 2002. The 30-year Treasury bond rose more than 4 basis points to 5.684% and had also reached a 24-year high earlier.
The last time we witnessed anything like this was during the aftermath of the collapse of the Dotcom bubble. The good news is that after spiking dramatically earlier in the day U.S. bond yields are being forced back down. I am entirely convinced that this is due to government intervention. Our officials have been buying Treasury bonds with billions of dollars that they have created out of thin air in a desperate attempt to keep bond yields under control.
In Europe, individual nations do not have that option. That is one of the reasons why I am concerned that France could be teetering on the brink of financial ruin. Of course it isn’t just France that is facing a desperate situation. As Bull Theory has aptly pointed out, we are literally watching a global bond market implosion in real time…
Decades ago, France was one of the most financially stable countries in Europe.
But now we are being told that there is a very real risk of “a full-blown public debt crisis in the EU’s second-largest economy”…France’s borrowing costs are surging as investors around the world wake up to the risk of a full-blown public debt crisis in the EU’s second-largest economy. Stress in financial markets has now started to spread beyond its borders, raising fears that political dysfunction in France could cause a broader, regional problem.
Memories of the sovereign debt crisis that threatened the single currency’s survival 15 years ago are starting to stir. But is it really going to get that bad again? The French thought that they could just keep borrowing and borrowing and that there would never be any consequences. They were wrong.
During an interview with CNBC on Wednesday, the head of the International Monetary Fund delivered a very blunt message to the French government: “get your house in order”. She explained that the current crisis in France is “the consequence of borrowing shock after shock after shock” and that the French are on a “staircase that does not lead to heaven”…
Political instability in France has put pressure on the country’s government bonds, known as OATs. Investors now demand a higher yield than they do for bonds issued by the Italian government, with French 10-year bond yields rising by more than 100 basis points since the start of the year.
“What we see in France is a complication of, on one side, the consequence of borrowing shock after shock after shock, climbing on this staircase that does not lead to heaven, and on the other side, a political dynamic scene in France that creates more difficulties for the finance ministry to put a clear path for tightening,” IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva told CNBC’s Lisa Kim on the sidelines of an event in Singapore.
She is right. France is a financial mess, and that threatens the financial stability of the entire European Union. Meanwhile, the French government has admitted that the level of of street violence has reached the highest level ever recorded… The French Ministry of the Interior states that street violence has reached record levels fuelled in part by the violent student uprisings seen in multicultural hubs across the country in recent weeks. Following another day of mass mobilization of students in concert with far-left political parties and radical trade unions apparently intent on sparking more chaos, the Ministry of the Interior released statistics showing an unprecedented level of violence in public spaces. According to government data, public violence incidents outside the home hit a record high of 20,000 per month in September, or nearly 700 per day, Le Figaro reported.
There is no end in sight. Initially, we were told that “students” were protesting because they wanted smaller classrooms and better textbooks. We can all see that is simply not true at this point. Criminals dressed in black are rioting, looting and committing acts of violence in major cities all over the country…
French revolutionaries have been burning down schools and setting public buses and fire trucks ablaze. They have looted shops and stalked and preyed on women walking alone. They have attacked strangers with fireworks, mortars, and hydrochloric acid. They have beaten numerous teachers, doused some in gasoline, and set a few on fire. They have injured hundreds of law enforcement officers and firefighters, as well as students who want nothing to do with the mayhem. One witness to the destruction described the scene as “total anarchy” and “total war.”
Yes, a lot of teenagers are involved in the mayhem. But in many cases the “protesters” are men in their twenties, thirties and forties. These grown men have been proudly waving Palestinian, Algerian and Moroccan flags as they call for violence in the name of their god… Paris and other cities are now awash with foreign flags as throngs of unassimilated youths scream their hatred for France itself. “In the name of Allah, we can kill them all,” barked one masked thug, to the mob’s demented glee.
We are witnessing something extraordinary: an intifada in the heart of Europe. It is easy to mock the French for what is happening, because it is the result of decades of bad immigration policies. Of course the exact same thing could easily happen in the United States.
Recent polling has shown that 43 percent of U.S. voters under the age of 25 now have a positive view of Sharia law… The polling, from Our Republic and Rasmussen, showed “a quarter of 18-35 voters polled would support a community implementing Sharia law as the legal code for the entire town, city, or state if the majority of residents living there desired its adoption.” The polling said, “Overall, 21% of likely voters said they have a mostly or somewhat positive opinion of Sharia, compared with 57% who have a negative opinion. Positive views were much higher among younger Americans, including 43% of voters ages 18–24 and 39% of those ages 25–29.” The polling cited a “generational divide” over Sharia, as seniors had a much higher level of opposition.
Reading that should chill you to the core. We are on the same path that France has been on. But only a very small segment of the U.S. population seems alarmed by this. I think that France is cooked. So is Spain, and so is Germany. The EU is headed for financial collapse. Of course the same thing could be said for Japan and the United States too. It will take some time for the global bond crisis to fully play out, but without a doubt an enormous amount of pain is in our future."
Jim Quinn, "Only One Box Left"
"Only One Box Left"
by Jim Quinn
“And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is natural manure.” Thomas Jefferson – 1787
“If freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.” - George Washington
Excerpt: "When I started writing in 2008, I was still naïve enough to believe we could bring about positive changes in this country through the ballot box. I had an awakening in 2004 when I realized the neo-cons working their puppet Bush had lied us into the Iraq War. What I didn’t realize was they were working on behalf of Israel and the Zionist controlled Deep State to launch a multi-decade never ending war to achieve their agenda of enriching themselves, enslaving us in debt, and using whatever means necessary to implement totalitarian measures, ensuring their wealth, power and control increased over time. In 2008 I still believed if I could convince enough people to support Ron Paul’s candidacy for president, we could enact actual change in the course of our country’s future.
I was warning about the coming Federal Reserve/Wall Street created financial collapse while writing Op-eds about Ron Paul and sending them to every newspaper in the Philadelphia area. After starting my blog in 2009, because sites like Seeking Alpha and Financial Sense began censoring my articles, I continued to believe we could get Ron Paul elected in 2012 to reverse the tragic course Bush and Obama had steered the nation towards. I continued to write articles revealing the lies, recklessness and corruption of our government, politicians, and bankers, while promoting Ron Paul’s candidacy, attending his speeches, donating to his campaign, and working the primary polls for him. His popularity was gaining steam, so the Republican establishment changed primary rules and convention rules to neuter his campaign. Major polls predicted he would beat Obama. in the general election. Instead, the Deep State selected milquetoast Romney to purposely lose to Obama.
I realized, the uni-party would never let a true maverick, liberty minded, sound money, Constitutionalist outsider ever gain traction and win a free and fair election. I concluded that no change would ever happen at the ballot box. When the ballot box is no longer an option to ensure your liberty, what other options do we have? An early 19th century model called the Four Boxes of Liberty provides the only valid options for citizens to exercise their Constitutional liberties as enshrined by our Founding Fathers in the Bill of Rights. The citizens of this country have rights, while our elected representatives have duties to uphold those rights. The Four Boxes of Liberty are as follows:
The Soapbox: Represents freedom of speech and public discourse. It is the first and non-violent way to influence politics, protest injustice, and share ideas.
The Ballot Box: Represents the right to vote. It allows citizens to peacefully elect leaders and shape laws through a democratic government.
The Jury Box: Represents participation in the justice system. Serving on a jury lets citizens hold the government accountable and ensure fair trials, or practice jury nullification against unjust laws.
The Cartridge Box: Represents the right to keep and bear arms. It serves as the final, ultimate defense against tyranny or severe oppression when all peaceful legal options fail.
Let’s assess the current state of these sequential methods for defending our freedoms from tyrants. The soapbox, which is supposed to be guaranteed by the First Amendment, has been whittled away over the course of 250 years, with a rapid acceleration since the outset of this century. The freedom of speech and ability of citizens to dissent and express their dissatisfaction with their government, politicians, and foreign countries exercising undue influence upon our lives has been reduced significantly since the execution of the covid plandemic."
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“It’s A Fourth Turning”
“It’s A Fourth Turning”
“Reflect on what happens when a terrible winter blizzard strikes. You hear the weather warning but probably fail to act on it. The sky darkens. Then the storm hits with full fury, and the air is a howling whiteness. One by one, your links to the machine age break down. Electricity flickers out, cutting off the TV. Batteries fade, cutting off the radio. Phones go dead. Roads become impossible, and cars get stuck. Food supplies dwindle. Day to day vestiges of modern civilization – bank machines, mutual funds, mass retailers, computers, satellites, airplanes, governments – all recede into irrelevance. Picture yourself and your loved ones in the midst of a howling blizzard that lasts several years. Think about what you would need, who could help you, and why your fate might matter to anybody other than yourself. That is how to plan for a saecular winter. Don’t think you can escape the Fourth Turning. History warns that a Crisis will reshape the basic social and economic environment that you now take for granted.”
– “The Fourth Turning”, Strauss & Howe
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"A crisis arises in response to sudden threats that previously would have been ignored or deferred, but which are now perceived as dire. Great worldly perils boil off the clutter and complexity of life, leaving behind one simple imperative: The society must prevail. This requires a solid public consensus, aggressive institutions, and personal sacrifice. People support new efforts to wield public authority, whose perceived successes soon justify more of the same. Government governs, community obstacles are removed, and laws and customs that resisted change for decades are swiftly shunted aside. A grim preoccupation with civic peril causes spiritual curiosity to decline. Public order tightens, private risk-taking abates, and crime and substance abuse decline. Families strengthen, gender distinctions widen, and child-rearing reaches a smothering degree of protection and structure. The young focus their energy on worldly achievements, leaving values in the hands of the old. Wars are fought with fury and for maximum result." – “The Fourth Turning”, Strauss & Howe
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"Turnings last about 20 years and always arrive in the same order. Four of them make up the cycle of history, which is about the length of a long human life. The first turning is a High, a period of confident expansion as a new order becomes established after the old has been dismantled. Next comes an Awakening , a time of rebellion against the now-established order, when spiritual exploration becomes the norm. Then comes an Unraveling , an increasingly troubled era of strong individualism that surmounts increasingly fragmented institutions. Last comes the Fourth Turning, an era of upheaval, a Crisis in which society redefines its very nature and purpose. - "The Fourth Turning”, Strauss & Howe
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"The Day is Coming..."
"The ‘spirit of America’ comes once a saeculum, only through what the ancients called ekpyrosis, nature’s fiery moment of death and discontinuity. History’s periodic eras of Crisis combust the old social order and give birth to a new. A Fourth Turning is a solstice era of maximum darkness, in which the supply of social order is still falling - but the demand for order is now rising. It is the saeculum’s hibernal, its time of trial. Nature exacts its fatal payment and pitilessly sorts out the survivors and the doomed. Pleasures recede, tempests hurt, pretense is exposed, and toughness rewarded - all in a season.
Strauss & Howe, "The Fourth Turning"
"Snyder Reports, 10/7/26"
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Snyder Reports, 10/7/26
"Why Trump's New Fuel Order Won't Save You Money"'
"Trump signed an executive order on diesel prices and gas prices - but it won't make fuel cheaper yet. Here's why using red diesel in your truck could still cost you a $1,000 fine, why the tax is only deferred to 2027, and what it means for food, shipping, and winter heating bills. In this video I break down what the trump executive order actually does, the 5-day Treasury review, why the fuel industry is warning truck stops not to sell red diesel, record-low global oil stockpiles, soaring heating oil prices with winter bills up 21%, the diesel export ban debate, and why 16 trucking companies just filed for bankruptcy. What you get: the truth about the 24.4 cents per gallon claim, state penalties, refinery problems, and what to prepare for through December.
Snyder Reports covers the news that actually affects your wallet and your day-to-day life - Social Security and Medicare changes, congressional action, stock and economic moves, stimulus updates, retirement planning, real estate, and emergency preparedness. If you want to know what's coming before it hits your bank account, subscribe and turn on notifications - we publish daily."
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Snyder Reports, 10/7/26
"No One Can Afford A Home -
Mortgage Applications Collapse to 1980s Lows"
"30-year mortgage rates just hit 7.49% - the highest in nearly 3 years. Mortgage applications are collapsing to levels we haven't seen since the 1980s. In this update I break down what today's rate spike means for homebuyers, homeowners, and anyone waiting for affordability to return in 2027. Purchase applications are down 15% year-over-year, refinance mortgage volume is down 56% year-over-year, and Fannie Mae now forecasts rates stuck around 6.7% through 2027."
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Adventures With Danno, "Price Increases Everywhere... This Is Getting Crazy"
Adventures With Danno, 10/7/26
"Price Increases Everywhere... This Is Getting Crazy"
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Dan, i Allegedly, "McDonald’s Is Headed To Lawsuit City"
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Dan, i Allegedly, 10/7/26
"McDonald’s Is Headed To Lawsuit City"
"McDonald’s has now been hit with a proposed nationwide class-action lawsuit over its AI-powered pricing system, and this is the story I warned you about in my first McDonald’s AI pricing video. The lawsuit alleges that McDonald’s used a centralized pricing system, machine-learning technology and nonpublic franchise data to coordinate menu prices across thousands of restaurants. The case raises major questions about McDonald’s AI pricing, franchise pricing, antitrust law, algorithmic price fixing, customer data and the cost of your Big Mac, Quarter Pounder and other menu items."
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"Carl Sagan's Final Warning: He Wrote This Knowing He Was Dying"
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"Carl Sagan's Final Warning:
He Wrote This Knowing He Was Dying"
"In 1995, dying of bone marrow disease, Carl Sagan made a choice. He didn't write a memoir. He wrote a manual. A manual on how to think, for people who would never meet him. The book is called "The Demon-Haunted World." It came out months before his death. And what he described in those pages is, with a precision that's genuinely unsettling, the world you're living in right now: a civilization where almost nobody understands the things that determine their lives, where certainty matters more than truth, and where the most important phrase in the English language - "I don't know" - has nearly disappeared from public conversation. In this video I'll tell you what Sagan saw before anyone else, why the second half of the book is a gift almost nobody has opened, and the one question that, if you ask it of yourself for a single day, will change you."
Freely download "The Demon-Haunted World:
Science as a Candle in the Dark", by Carl Sagan, here:
John Wilder, "Collapse, You’re Soaking In It"
"Collapse, You’re Soaking In It"
by John Wilder
“Out of these windows we will view the collapse of financial history.
One step closer to economic equilibrium.”
– "Fight Club"
"I’m old, so an explanation is probably due for the post title, since the last time this commercial aired, it was only 11 years after Kurt Cobain’s midlife crisis. Which he had when he was 13. Anyway... there was a thing called doing dishes, and those dishes were commonly done by women rather than machines, and women often went to places called beauty salons to have their nails done. Why?
So that their hands looked better for their husbands so when they presented him with a martini at the end of a hard day wearing a tie and a suit, well, they might get some attention after they fed him. Anyway, these women watched commercials, one commercial for Palmolive® showed a woman, Madge, soaking her customer’s hands in DISHWASHING DETERGENT to make them softer. She told the woman, who was now terrified of having dry claws that would make her man desert her, that she should relax because, unlike the others, this detergent could cure cancer. “You’re soaking in it!” was the memorable line from Madge.
Again, Palmolive© stopped doing showing this commercial in 1992, which is when women decided that dry claws and dishes were so 1966, and instead they didn’t need no man, since they could either divorce rape him, take money from Uncle Sugar, or keep him from seeing his kids.
Hey, what about all three? I kid. Why stop at three? Now they want all the jobs, too. But it’s actually also a bullet point in the destruction of the family. The first is to remove all dependency on a husband. The primary drive for a woman is to accumulate resources and many throughout history don’t care who their husband frolics with, as long as her resources aren’t in jeopardy.
Why did women fight so hard for the welfare state? Why did women fight so hard for alimony? Why did women fight so hard for free childcare to be away from their children? Why is the program named “Women, Infants and Children” a benefit program?
Because, silly, they’ve kept a constant lobby on this forever, and politicians don’t want to make women angry. I mean, doesn’t looking at your enraged, yelling wife and saying, “Calm down” work for you guys as well as it does for me? We’ve reached the point in 2026, where don’t need a man, nor a baby, so they can go on forever sipping mimosas on the beach until they die alone and childless while being cared for by a Nigerian nursing home employee that will eventually suffocate them in the night. You’ve come a long way, ladies!
Let’s switch gears: What about France? I’m sorry. Forgot my audience: وات أباوت فرانس؟ But, what about Canada? Oops. व्हाट अबाउट कैनेडा? There, that’s better. In England, you need to know both, I guess, plus be fine with the police confining you to quarters so that the illegal aliens enriching immigrants can come ashore into government-paid housing and benefits that even British citizens can’t get.
I know, I know, we’re being enriched by immigration, that same enrichment that was somehow going to make the United States a better place than the superpower it was, the one that could put men on the Moon with a historical low(!) of only 5.4% immigrants, legal and illegal. To be fair, the 5.4% included a bunch of Germans, of which Wernher von Braun was probably the most important one.
Thankfully now we’re limping along with at least 15% foreigners (legal and illegal) and perhaps as many as 30% by some estimates on our shores. They are driving up home prices, competing for jobs against the native population, and, generally, proving that assimilation isn’t really a thing they’re interested in and that they’d rather restrict the rights of actual American than stop shooting each other.
I’ve been watching the collapse of France accelerate. There appears to be nothing to stop it. A family in Le Mans beaten while their home is looted? It’ll be fine. Murders, setting firemen in fire? Why not? It’s in the job title, right? Top it off with the A.I. industry. Oracle® has data center debt that’s now trading at (thank you Ed Zitron!) $0.85 per dollar. Yes. They sold dollars to people who now are willing to trade them for $0.85. It looks like the model to make money on this sort of accounting is to do it in volume, I guess. If I trade enough dollars for $0.85 and do it long enough, I’ll be rich, right?
The economy in the United States appears to be stuck between Scylla and Charybdis, with the A.I. bubble being Scylla, the economic melt-up from the Iran-Russia war being Charybdis, and Heather Locklear as a special guest star.
We’re at a point where things are starting to look like they’re at a breaking point. People, normal people, not like you and me, are looking at the current state of feminism and absolute state of feminists doing anything possible to avoid responsibility for the outcomes of their decisions. I mean, why should women be called sluts just because someone noticed them sleeping with a fraternity and the Fifth Fleet on the same weekend?
Normal people are also looking at France and saying, “Hey, maybe importing millions of third-world men who hate us might not be a good idea.” They’re also asking the question that I asked decades ago: Since the French don’t have guns, but would this be the thing to keep them in their hands if they did? Something tells me that their current invaders are far worse than the 7th Panzer Division in 1940. At least Rommel didn’t burn Paris. And at least some of the French fought back against the Germans.
Normies are also waking up to the idea that maybe, just maybe, that a business that depends on users that mostly don’t pay anything for it might not ever be profitable. Huh. I wonder where they’re getting the nearly $1 trillion they’ve committed to spend on data processing alone in the next three years. Nah. It’ll be fine. Worry about the collapse of society? Why? You’re soaking in it."
Bill Bonner, "Springtime For Flimflam"
St George slays the dragon.
"Springtime For Flimflam"
by Bill Bonner
"I used to have this girlfriend known as Elsie,
With whom I shared four sordid rooms in Chelsea.
She wasn’t what you’d call a blushing flower,
As a matter of fact, she rented by the hour.
The day she died the neighbors came to snicker:
“Well, that’s what comes from too much pills and liquor”
But when I saw her laid out like a queen
She was the happiest corpse I’d ever seen."
- "Cabaret"
Ardmore, Ireland - "Willkommen, bienvenue, welcome...to Weimar, America. For two weeks, we’ve been wrestling - like St. George armed with his lance - with the great inflation/deflation dragon. We’re pretty sure we have it pinned now...or else it has us pinned! In a nutshell, the more you inflate...the cheaper things get in real terms. Recall that at the peak of Germany’s hyperinflation delirium of 1923 an American tourist could buy 4.2 trillion marks with just one gold-backed dollar. Everything was available to him at a deep discount. Literary Hub:
"Newspapers published shocking depictions of their [foreigners’] luxurious lives—“glitzy parties, feasts, masquerades, balls, dance parties,” at which the lady guests ostentatiously displayed their cheaply purchased pearls and furs. Humiliated, journalists wrote about how the foreigners gorged themselves at copiously laden tables, got drunk on the most expensive champagne and then availed themselves of the newly unemployed shorthand typists, now known as “currency girls.”
The US will try to ‘inflate away’ its outsized debt, just like Germany did. Inflation is always the scalawag politician’s first choice. It’s a tax increase he doesn’t need to vote for. But tidy, controlled, post-WWII-inflation won’t work. Because the feds add to the debt faster than moderate inflation can erase it. At this year’s 3.4% inflation, the real value of federal debt went down by $1.36 trillion. But...Reason reports:
"Fiscal year 2026 ended last week, and while official figures aren’t out yet, it looks like the federal government spent $2 trillion more than it took in. The federal government hasn’t balanced its books in 25 years, a $2 trillion deficit adds to already staggering national debt and looming disaster."
Inflation at two to three times the Fed’s target is now expected. Despite Kevin Warsh’s stated intentions, they will let it ‘run hot’ to burn up some of the nation’s trash pile of unpaid bills. But investors are not fools. Or, at least they are not fools all the time. Yahoo! Finance: "Perhaps the biggest story in the markets over the past month has been the meteoric run-up in US Treasury yields, putting increasing pressure on the US economy. But the challenge is not just in the US - the global bond complex remains deep in a sell-off as governments stare down surging energy prices, booming deficits, a shifting US tariff regime, and economic growth running hot despite a number of headwinds."
And here’s the Wall Street Journal looking at how this trend is playing out in France: "A dangerous financial spiral. The global surge in interest rates has exposed the country, once considered an oasis of relative stability in Europe’s financial markets, as one of the continent’s weakest links. France now pays more to borrow than former crisis hot spots like Greece and Italy. Its government is running a budget deficit surpassed only by the United States among its peers. “France has been this free rider in Europe for years, if not decades. It has gotten away with fiscal murder,” said Kevin Thozet, a portfolio adviser at the French asset manager Carmignac. “It worked as long as people were not noticing. Now people have started to notice.”
Like April in Paris, there is the ‘good’ season for inflation...a springtime for the feds’ flimflam, when the green shoots of inflation help lower the real value of debt. Later, there’s the bitter winter season...when the economy turns brown and shrivels up, as inflation raises the cost of borrowing faster than it shrinks what is owed. It is at this stage that the only kind of inflation that will still ‘work’ is the kind Americans don’t expect, have never seen, and have no antibodies to protect themselves against - hyperinflation.
That is the big picture. At best it is a fair guess, a medium confidence hunch, about what will happen over the next ten years. If correct, hyperinflation will be accompanied by the usual disastrous foreign and domestic policies, designed to distract the public from the financial wreck at home and keep the dollars headed to the enforcers. Expect bread and circuses, with the circuses louder and the bread pricier than ever before. You can expect a crash in the stock market, too, taking the Dow down to our ‘buy’ signal, at five ounces to the 30 Dow stocks. Stocks – along with pills, booze, and ‘currency girls’ -- will be a bargain...thoroughly deflated by inflation, even if their nominal prices are out of this world.
So, willkommen!? Berlin in 1923. Violence, chaos, riots, crime and decadence. The world had never before seen so much funny money…while so many people were left poor and hungry. But that was just the beginning of the misery hyperinflation caused. Goebbels’ right-wing activists declared war on the left-wing activists – the Roter Frontkampferbund. You know who won."
Tuesday, October 6, 2026
"Alert! US Govt.: 'Leave Russia Now"; WHO Warns Of 2nd Case Of Plague? WW3 Madness!"
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Canadian Prepper, 10/6/26
"Alert! US Govt.: 'Leave Russia Now";
WHO Warns Of 2nd Case Of Plague? WW3 Madness!"
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"Families Lost Their Food Stamps, Now They're Out Of Food Before Payday"
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Epic Economist, 10/6/26
"Families Lost Their Food Stamps,
Now They're Out Of Food Before Payday"
"Families are running out of food before payday, and the fridge is empty days before the next check comes in. In this video, parents show what that looks like from the inside: a $1,100 monthly EBT balance that dropped to zero with four kids, $1,000 in food stamps stolen off a card, two hours in a food bank line for five cans and a small bag of rice, a single-income family of four left with $0 after bills until the next paycheck, a mom of six who eats once a day so the kids can eat, and a laid-off 48-year-old heading to a food pantry for the first time. We look at why the money runs out before the month does, what happens when SNAP benefits get cut or skimmed, and how to keep a household fed cheaply until payday."
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"Snyder Reports, 10/6/26"
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Snyder Reports, 10/6/26
"Trump Just Changed The Rules On Diesel Fuel -
Here’s What Happens Next"
"Trump just signed an executive order on diesel prices - and it could cut costs by 24.4 cents per gallon. But it won't lower gas prices, and it won't work instantly. In this video I break down what the red-dyed diesel order actually does, who saves money (truckers, farmers, off-road drivers), why the IRS penalty waiver through the end of 2026 matters, and why experts warn about potential shortages. With national diesel at $6.31 and regular gas at $4.36 as of October 6, 2026, even a 64-cent combined federal + state saving still leaves us far above last year's $3.67. You'll learn the difference between normal diesel and red-dye diesel, how the 24.4 cent federal tax deferral works, what happens next year when the tax comes due, and why Goldman says refinery limits could keep diesel high through 2027."
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Snyder Reports, 10/6/26
"The Financial Breaking Point Is Here:
Why You Can’t Pay Your Bills"
"In this video we break down what people are actually doing to survive: the $30,000 credit card balance one person rolled into a personal loan, the house refinanced at 7.5% to kill 24% card debt, and the viral advice telling people to stop paying their bills entirely the moment bankruptcy crosses their mind. Then we look at what the numbers say — over 13 million utility disconnections in 2025, one in six Americans behind on their bills, and a property tax increase counties postponed for years and are now collecting all at once. Most people never connect the last piece: the reason your mortgage felt manageable when you bought the house and doesn't today. That's at 7:13."
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Snyder Reports, 10/6/26
"Americans Are Running Out Of Things To Cut Back On"
"Americans have cut everything - and now they're cutting food, medicine and insurance just to survive. New data shows grocery spending down 2% as cost of living crisis forces families to buy less. In this video I break down why inflation 2026 is hitting necessities, from $3.99 soup and $105 dinners to SNAP benefit changes, rising property taxes, and why Chipotle is now cheaper than cooking at home. Plus real stories - including a friend who sold his 2022 Ford Explorer to buy a 2012 van just to afford groceries - and what people are cutting to stay afloat, from health insurance to car insurance to heat."
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"Politicians Are Arrogant Low-Life Pieces of Sh*t Who Steal Your Money and Tell You What to Do!"
Very strong language alert!
Gerald Celente, 10/6/26
"Politicians Are Arrogant Low-Life Pieces of Sh*t
Who Steal Your Money and Tell You What to Do!"
"From politicians stealing your money while driving nations deeper into debt and decline, to the escalating dangers of the Iran War, Gerald Celente exposes the trends the mainstream media misses. He also analyzes today's stock market action, what rising oil prices signal for the global economy, and where investors should be looking as geopolitical tensions intensify. As governments spend, borrow, and wage war with no end in sight, the costs are being passed on to the people through inflation, taxes, and economic uncertainty. Tune in as Gerald cuts through the hype, connects the dots between politics, markets, and global conflict, and reveals what these fast-moving trends mean for your future. "
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Adventures With Danno, "I Don't Even Know How To Begin"
Adventures With Danno, 10/6/26
"I Don't Even Know How To Begin"
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Jeremiah Babe, "The Endgame has Started, You've Been Warned; Japan About To Nuke The Global Economy"
Jeremiah Babe, 10/6/26
"The Endgame has Started, You've Been Warned;
Japan About To Nuke The Global Economy"
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Musical Interlude: 2002, "Greater Than The Sum"
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2002, "Greater Than The Sum"
"A Look to the Heavens"
“Stars are sometimes born in the midst of chaos. About 3 million years ago in the nearby galaxy M33, a large cloud of gas spawned dense internal knots which gravitationally collapsed to form stars. NGC 604 was so large, however, it could form enough stars to make a globular cluster.
Many young stars from this cloud are visible in the above image from the Hubble Space Telescope, along with what is left of the initial gas cloud. Some stars were so massive they have already evolved and exploded in a supernova. The brightest stars that are left emit light so energetic that they create one of the largest clouds of ionized hydrogen gas known, comparable to the Tarantula Nebula in our Milky Way's close neighbor, the Large Magellanic Cloud.”
- http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap121211.html
Chet Raymo, “Mortal Soul: The Great Silence”
“Mortal Soul: The Great Silence”
by Chet Raymo
“If there is one word that should not be uttered, it is the name of – no, I will not say it. Any name diminishes. In the face of whatever it is that is most mysterious, most holy, we are properly silent. It is appropriate, I think, to praise the creation, to make a joyful noise of thanksgiving for the sensate world. But praising the Creator is another thing altogether. When we make a big racket on His behalf we are more than likely addressing an idol in our own image. What was it that Pico Iyer said? “Silence is the tribute that we pay to holiness; we slip off words when we enter a sacred place, just as we slip off shoes.” The God of the mystics whispers sweet nothings, as lovers do.
In a diary entry for “M.”, near the end of his too-short life, Thomas Merton wrote: “I cannot have enough of the hours of silence when nothing happens. When the clouds go by. When the trees say nothing. When the birds sing. I am completely addicted to the realization that just being there is enough.” The natural world was for Merton the primary revelation. He listened. He felt a presence in his heart, an awareness of the ineffable Mystery that permeates creation. It was this that drew him to the mystical tradition of Christianity, especially to the Celtic tradition of creation spirituality. It was this that attracted him to Zen.
There come now and then, perhaps more frequently in late life than previously, those moments of being (as Virginia Woolf called them) when creation grabs us by the shoulders and gives us such a shake that it rattles our teeth, when love for the world simply knocks us flat. At those moments everything we have learned about the world – the invaluable and reliable knowledge of science- seems a pale intimation of what is. In Virginia Woolf’s novel “The Waves”, the elderly Bernard says: “How tired I am of stories, how tired I am of phrases that come down beautifully with all their feet on the ground! Also, how I distrust neat designs of life that are drawn upon half sheets of notepaper. I begin to long for some little language such as lovers use, broken words, inarticulate words, like the shuffling of feet on the pavement.”
In moments of soul-stirring epiphany, it is reassuring to feel beneath our feet a floor of reliable knowledge, the safe and sure edifice of empirical learning so painstakingly constructed by the likes of Aristarchus, Galileo, Darwin and Schrodinger. But at the same time we are humbled by our ignorance, and more ready than ever to say “I don’t know,” to enter at last the great silence. Erwin Chargaff, who contributed mightily to our understanding of DNA, wrote: “It is the sense of mystery that, in my opinion, drives the true scientist; the same blind force, blindly seeing, deafly hearing, unconsciously remembering, that drives the larva into the butterfly. If the scientist has not experienced, at least a few times in his life, this cold shudder down his spine, this confrontation with an immense invisible face whose breath moves him to tears, he is not a scientist.”
The whole thrust of the mystical tradition, the whole thrust of science, is toward the great silence- an awareness of our ignorance and a willingness to say “I don’t know.” A lifetime of learning brings one at last to the face of mystery. We live in a universe of more than 2 trillion galaxies. Perhaps the number of galaxies is infinite. And the universe is silent. Achingly, terrifyingly silent. Or, rather, the universe speaks a little language such as lovers use, broken words, inarticulate words, like the shuffling of feet on the pavement.”
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