Bill Bonner, "Politics Takes Center Stage"

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"Core consumer price inflation is still running hot, at around 3.7%, according to the latest figures from the Bureau of Labor Stastics. Despite national gas prices falling around 16 cents on average in the last week, the only component of CPI that isn’t rising above the Fed’s 2% target is ‘used cars.’ Lower oil prices this month may show up in next month’s figures. Stocks opened lower."

 "Politics Takes Center Stage"

by Bill Bonner

Paris, France - "We’ve come over to see for ourselves. Each day, the media reports on riots, arson and looting in the French capitol. After so much ‘incendiary’ coverage, we half-expected to find the city in ruins…a smoking cinder, like Gaza with an Eiffel Tower. But when we drove into the center of the city last night, we saw nothing unusual. And this morning…all is calm, under rainy skies. This is the best season to visit Paris. The tourist crush is passed. The summer heat is no more. The restaurants have empty tables. And a cozy mist collects on the window panes.

The real problem for France is money. ‘Le spread,’ they call it. It’s the difference between the interest rates France has to pay to borrow money...compared to what the Germans pay. To make a long story short, the French are in much the same situation as Americans. They owe too much money; and carrying debt is getting more and more expensive. More on that tomorrow...

Back in the USA, politics has taken center stage. There too, the problem is largely a matter of money. Politics is a win-lose racket. In today’s American democracy, if you can win an election, you will have immense power. The US economy is about $32 trillion in GDP. About half of it is either directly or indirectly under political control. In a nutshell, the political winners take the money and (within limits) do what they want with it. Most often, the voters are only dimly aware of what happens to it...and they only voice a serious concern when the most outrageous programs are shoved under their noses.  Pew Research: "Iran Conflict Remains Deeply Unpopular as Many Americans Expect It To Go On for Months"

Another deeply unpopular government program is using inflation to pay for excess government spending. Charlie Bilello: "According to election exit polls, nearly 9 in 10 voters said the cost of living was a crucial or major factor in their vote, while roughly two-thirds blamed President Trump for high prices. And nearly 80% said inflation had caused financial hardship for their families over the past year."

The Fed set a 2% target. Low enough so most people wouldn’t notice. But target, schmarget. The Fed first missed its target in the 2nd quarter of 2021. It has missed it in every quarter since then, so that prices are now 14% above where they would be at the 2% target rate...and nearly a third above where they ought to be with no inflation at all. Sugar is 39% higher. Rice is 68% more expensive. And diesel fuel is famously also 68% more.

Why would the feds allow it? Inflation was obviously going to cause trouble...not just for the common people, but for their leaders too. And just look at medical insurance. We grew up in a family of four children...with very little money. When we got sick, we went to the doctor and paid in cash. We had no insurance. But somehow, we lived to tell about it.

Now, insurance is considered a necessary expense. In 1999, the average family paid less than $6,000 a year for it. Now, it is more than $28,000. How can they afford it...when the median household income is only $87,000? The employer may pay a large chunk of it, but one way or another it must be reckoned as a cost of labor...which would otherwise go to the employee. Harvard: "Health care is becoming increasingly unaffordable. In the last year, the costs of public health insurance rose at nearly double the rate of inflation, and private health insurance at roughly triple the rate. Next year, employer-sponsored health insurance premiums are expected to jump by more than 8%. The upshot? More people are feeling the financial squeeze - even to the point of foregoing medical appointments and treatments."

Is it any wonder people are disgusted with their leaders – in France as well as the US? So why do they do it? Why would an administration in danger of losing control of Congress allow the two things that voters most don’t want - inflation and war? The war could have been stopped in a minute. “Now they’ll never have a nuclear weapon,” Trump could have congratulated himself.

As for the price increases, he could have ended the tariffs too…and actually cut deficits to take some of the pressure off of consumer prices and interest rates. Republicans’ political future – the thing they cherish most in life…more than their first born – was at stake. Why didn’t they take action to protect it?

The same questions might be posed to France’s elected officials. Why would they allow services to deteriorate...opportunities to evaporate...and inflation to proliferate? Didn’t they know that ‘le peuple’ might soon want to burn the country to the ground? It wouldn’t be the first time. More tomorrow…"

- https://www.bonnerprivateresearch.com/

"The best way to destroy the capitalist system is to debauch the currency.

 By a continuing process of inflation, governments can confiscate, secretly and

unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens." 

- John Maynard Keynes

Adventures With Danno, "Stocking Up At Dollar Tree!"

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Adventures With Danno, 11/10/26

"Stocking Up At Dollar Tree!"

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'Alert: Highly Unusual Dispersal of Military Assets; Top IRGC Denies Any Peace Talks"

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Canadian Prepper, 11/9/26

'Alert: Highly Unusual Dispersal of Military Assets; 

Top IRGC Denies Any Peace Talks"

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Musical Interlude: Leonard Cohen, "Hallelujah"

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Leonard Cohen, "Hallelujah"

"I did my best, it wasn't much,

I couldn't feel, so I tried to touch.

I've told the truth, I didn't come to fool you.

And even though it all went wrong

I'll stand before the Lord of song

With nothing on my tongue but Hallelujah..."

"A Look to the Heavens"

“Large galaxies grow by eating small ones. Even our own galaxy practices galactic cannibalism, absorbing small galaxies that get too close and are captured by the Milky Way's gravity. In fact, the practice is common in the universe and illustrated by this striking pair of interacting galaxies from the banks of the southern constellation Eridanus, The River.

Located over 50 million light years away, the large, distorted spiral NGC 1532 is seen locked in a gravitational struggle with dwarf galaxy NGC 1531 (right of center), a struggle the smaller galaxy will eventually lose. Seen edge-on, spiral NGC 1532 spans about 100,000 light-years. Nicely detailed in this sharp image, the NGC 1532/1531 pair is thought to be similar to the well-studied system of face-on spiral and small companion known as M51.”

- http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html

"A Wise Man Once Said..."

“A wise man once said you can have anything in life if you will sacrifice everything else for it. What he meant is nothing comes without a price. So before you go into battle, you better decide how much you’re willing to lose. Too often, going after what feels good means letting go of what you know is right, and letting someone in means abandoning the walls you’ve spent a lifetime building. Of course, the toughest sacrifices are the ones we don’t see coming, when we don’t have time to come up with a strategy to pick a side or to measure the potential loss. When that happens, when the battle chooses us and not the other way around, that’s when the sacrifice can turn out to be more than we can bear.

So, how do you beat the odds when it’s one against a billion? You’re just outnumbered. You stand strong, keep pushing yourself against all rational limits, and never give up. But the truth of the matter is despite how hard you try and fight to stay in control, when it’s all said and done, sometimes you’re just outnumbered.”

- "Meredith", "Gray's Anatomy"

Native Elder, "How to Age Like a Warrior Instead of a Victim"

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Native Elder,

"How to Age Like a Warrior Instead of a Victim"

Delta Blues Brother, "Waiting for a Rain That Never Comes"

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Delta Blues Brother,

"Waiting for a Rain That Never Comes"

"Some people spend half their lives waiting for things that never arrive. A better year. A changed heart. A little peace. A reason to finally feel whole. “Waiting for a Rain That Never Comes” is a slow-burning Southern Delta blues meditation about dry hopes, empty skies, and the quiet exhaustion of waiting too long for life to begin. The resonator guitar drifts like heat over cracked dirt roads. The harmonica cries like an old storm that lost its way years ago. The rhythm moves slow, patient, tired… like a man still staring at the horizon long after everyone else went inside. This isn’t a song about giving up. It’s about learning the difference between faith… and standing still. Some things never arrive."

The Daily "Near You?"

Englewood, Ohio, USA. Thanks for stopping by!

The Poet: Maya Angelou, "A Brave And Startling Truth"

"A Brave And Startling Truth"

by Maya Angelou

"We, this people, on a small and lonely planet

Traveling through casual space,

Past aloof stars, across the way of indifferent suns,

To a destination where all signs tell us

It is possible and imperative that we discover

A brave and startling truth.

And when we come to it,

To the day of peacemaking,

When we release our fingers

From fists of hostility

And allow the pure air to cool our palms.

When we come to it,

When the curtain falls on the minstrel show of hate,

And faces sooted with scorn are scrubbed clean.

When battlefields and coliseum

No longer rake our unique and particular sons and daughters

Up with the bruised and bloody grass,

To lie in identical plots in foreign soil.

When the rapacious storming of the churches,

The screaming racket in the temples have ceased.

When the pennants are waving gaily,

When the banners of the world tremble

Stoutly in the good, clean breeze.

When we come to it,

When we let the rifles fall from our shoulders,

And children dress their dolls in flags of truce.

When land mines of death have been removed,

And the aged can walk into evenings of peace.

When religious ritual is not perfumed

By the incense of burning flesh,

And childhood dreams are not kicked awake

By nightmares of abuse.

When we come to it,

Then we will confess that not the Pyramids

With their stones set in mysterious perfection

Nor the Gardens of Babylon

Hanging as eternal beauty

In our collective memory,

Not the Grand Canyon

Kindled into delicious color

By Western sunsets.

Nor the Danube, flowing its blue soul into Europe

Not the sacred peak of Mount Fuji

Stretching to the Rising Sun.

Neither Father Amazon nor Mother Mississippi who, without favor,

Nurture all creatures in the depths and on the shores

These are not the only wonders of the world.

When we come to it,

We, this people, on this minuscule and kithless globe,

Who reach daily for the bomb, the blade and the dagger

Yet who petition in the dark for tokens of peace.

We, this people on this mote of matter,

In whose mouths abide cankerous words

Which challenge our very existence,

Yet out of those same mouths

Come songs of such exquisite sweetness

That the heart falters in its labor,

And the body is quieted into awe.

We, this people, on this small and drifting planet,

Whose hands can strike with such abandon

That in a twinkling, life is sapped from the living.

Yet those same hands can touch with such healing, irresistible tenderness

That the haughty neck is happy to bow,

And the proud back is glad to bend.

Out of such chaos, of such contradiction

We learn that we are neither devils nor divines.

When we come to it,

We, this people, on this wayward, floating body,

Created on this earth, of this earth,

Have the power to fashion for this earth

A climate where every man and every woman

Can live freely without sanctimonious piety,

Without crippling fear.

When we come to it,

We must confess that we are the possible,

We are the miraculous, the true wonder of this world.

That is when, and only when,

We come to it."

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"It May Be Then..."

"Passion doesn't count the cost. Pascal said that the heart has its reasons that reason takes no account of. If he meant what I think, he meant that when passion seizes the heart it invents reasons that seem not only plausible but conclusive to prove that the world is well lost for love. It convinces you that honor is well sacrificed and that shame is a cheap price to pay. Passion is destructive. It destroyed Antony and Cleopatra, Tristan and Isolde, Parnell and Kitty O'Shea. And if it doesn't destroy it dies. It may be then that one is faced with the desolation of knowing that one has wasted the years of one's life, that one's brought disgrace upon oneself, endured the frightful pang of jealousy, swallowed every bitter mortification, that one's expended all one's tenderness, poured out all the riches of one's soul on a poor drab, a fool, a peg on which one hung one's dreams, who wasn't worth a stick of chewing gum."

- W. Somerset Maugham

"Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; 

it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable." 

- Sydney J. Harris 

"The Fatal Error Of Sheep"

"The Fatal Error Of Sheep"

by Todd Hayen

"I will start this article with an apology to those readers who lack a sense of humor similar to mine, as well as to those lovely big hearted folks who don’t like labeling of any sort (sheep and/or shrew).

Regarding the term “sheep” - I have tried (and am certain I have failed occasionally) to refrain from calling an individual person as “sheep.” It is rather a term I have applied to a group of people with a similar “mindset.” If you feel you fit that mindset, you may, if you wish, call yourself a “sheep.” If you find it offensive, and do not feel you “fit,” then that is fine by me. Do not include yourself in the sheep group.

As for shrews. Well, that’s where the sense of humor comes in. I needed a term other than “those of us on the other side of the divide who believe in freedom and do not believe in the agenda or the power hungry globalists trying to take over the world”…whew…”shrew” is an easier way to get the same point across once the term is defined. Why shrew? That’s a long story. But it is a term as good as any, and is complimentary to “sheep” as it starts with the same first two letters, and it too is an animal. Turns out shrews can be ferocious, even though very small. So that fits too. So there you have it. Read this article with these things in mind, as it is full of reference to sheep and shrew.

The fatal error of sheep is not realizing that the people they call “conspiracy theorists” and “science deniers” are not some small fringe group of weirdos and hillbillies as they might imagine. The fact is we are large in number and include many brilliant minds and formidable members in our individual fields of expertise. This is no ragtag band of ne’er do wells.

Although I have no question we are on the RIGHT side of things, I will say that to the people who have to deal with us - that fact is of no real consequence (being right seems to have to affect on them). It seems the sheep love to ignore us, and act as if we don’t exist, regardless of the fact we are right. They can’t be bothered with us; we are only a nuisance to them. That attitude is going to one day bite them really hard in the you know where.

Many sheep have asked me, “How can you be sure you are right and we are wrong?” I have often asked myself the same question. There are many answers, my favorite is simply to say, “we are right because we are right” - which of course is rather flippant. This, however, seems to be a more prudent answer: Shrews are curious and look hard for answers.

Even if the prevailing consensus seems correct, we always seem to want more. We want to actually understand why things are like they are. Maybe we don’t do this with everything we encounter; we certainly do it when facing big sweeping pronouncements and when the powers that be tell us we all have to “do” this or that, like take a vaccine no one has really studied for a virus that no one really knows that much about. We typically go “huh?”

We then dive into it. We go down every rabbit hole we can find. Many of those holes lead to dead ends, but we discover those dead ends for ourselves. We don’t let anyone bar us from access and say, “you don’t want to go down there.” We say, “huh? Why not?” Once we start to feel that our usual sources for information, generally what they call “Main Stream Media,” is not giving us the whole story, we quickly move into some uncharted territory and start digging there. Yes, again, more dead ends but we become accustomed to “dead ends” being par for the course of truly uninhibited discovery.

We create conclusions, assumptions, speculations built on all the information we have gathered, and begin to come up with something we can make a tenable statement of truth about. But it takes a ton of work. And is usually never final, never ironclad. We don’t seem to like things that “appear” ironclad.

Sheep do not do this. I have not yet met one that does. They often THINK they do, and throw back to me lines they have heard on NPR, or the WP or NYT, or of course the big “authorities” such as the retired Tsar of Science Fauci, POTUS, heads of major hospitals or pharmaceutical companies, et al. They don’t seem to realize their insistence on these sources being accurate is akin to looking to Goebbels to verify the accuracy of a Hitler speech, or referring to Der Stürmer for the truth about Jews. You need, today, to go to a variety of sources before you will come upon an accurate portrayal of social or scientific reality. Sheep refuse to accept this.

What is odd about this is that we have never been in a culture where the mainstream news is 100% reliable. Sources have always been biased, and to really get a true picture of something, we have always needed to access several sources.

The problem is that as Americans (or Canadians for that matter) it has been drilled into us that freedom, truth, mom and apple pie are the hallmarks of our American culture. Although most of us have been brought up to believe that, it really never has been the truth. Maybe for a millisecond it was back in 1776, but I doubt it. (The tenets here are true, but being told that these are the hallmarks and intentions of the American or Canadian government is not the truth.)

That doesn’t necessarily mean that this culture has been 100% deprived of any integrity for 200 years (well, right now you might be able to say that) it means we have always been independently responsible for seeing through this wall of subterfuge. Unfortunately I think they finally managed to chop off the chicken’s head. Most people out there seem to have lost the capacity to use their brains.

It didn’t used to take all that much to reveal the boll weevils hiding in the cotton. We had competing newspapers that reveled in revealing untruths in a competitor’s pages. This tended to work well with all but the biggest players (Rockefellers, Carnegies, Morgans, etc.), now it doesn’t work at all because all the big news sources are bought. This is pretty obvious, but most sheep-types seem to think an owner of a news source has no power over what they print. Duh.

Many imagine some cigar smoking workaholic editor holding onto his anchor of truth uttering with disgust, “they’re not going to stop ME from printing THAT.” I don’t think that ever really existed. I think if anything kept older news sources more honest than today, it was stumbling onto “truth” as a marketable commodity. This no longer seems to be the case.

So what does this have to do with a sheep fatal error? Well, just that, truth is no longer a marketable commodity with major news sources, so we must all look to sources where it still is. Sheep don’t realize that shrews have truth on their side. And they align with truth. They also do not believe we have integrity, or that there are quite a few of us, and that we are very SMART, resourceful, and persistent. Eventually that is going to get them, and in a very hard way.

Truth is like rain water on a roof. It will find its way through if there is a way through. Where that analogy fails is when a roof becomes watertight. Culture and human society can never become “truthtight.” Don’t ask me why, it is just a given. Eventually truth finds its way in, no matter what. It may take a while, but truth will get through. It will prevail.

Shrews may not all know all the truth at any given moment, but they look for it, no matter where it might be hiding, and they find it. When they find it, and show other people where it is, they are widening the hole for more of it to come through, just like the leak in the roof, or the hole in the dam. Eventually the dam will break and the roof will cave in."

- https://www.zerohedge.com/

"How It Really Is"

 

“The government is good at one thing. It knows how to break 

your legs, and then hand you a crutch and say, ‘See, if

 it weren’t for the government, you wouldn’t be able to walk.”

- Harry Browne

"Snyder Reports, 11/9/26"

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Snyder Reports, 11/9/26

"Nobody Is Prepared For This Global Food Crisis"

"Global food security is now at high risk. From a supermarket cyber attack in France to Black Sea shipping attacks, here's why experts say food prices could surge and what you need to stockpile now. In this video I break down why France is blaming Iran for an unprecedented cyber attack on supermarket fridges and freezers, why new Black Sea drone attacks targeting 9 vessels threaten grain exports to Africa and the Middle East, and why Oxford Economics forecasts food prices up nearly 12% in 2026 plus another 4.8% in 2027. I also cover why more Americans are using Klarna and Afterpay to buy groceries, and why experts say to have at least 2 weeks worth of food on hand. Stay prepared with daily news on congressional action, economics, and emergency preparedness."

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Snyder Reports, 11/9/26

"Democrats Threaten Government 

Shutdown Over Iran War - Prepare Now!"

'Another government shutdown could happen on December 11, 2026 - and this time Democrats may use it to force an end to the Iran war. In this video we break down what Congress returns to today in its lame-duck session, why the December 11 funding deadline and January 3rd swearing-in of the new Congress matter, what Secretary of State Marco Rubio just said about stalled Iran talks, and what a short shutdown from December 11 to early January would mean for federal pay, benefits, gas and diesel prices, and Strait of Hormuz oil flow. You'll learn why Democrats say they will absolutely not fund the war, why Republicans want to push funding to September 30th, 2027, and why a short-term stopgap to late January is now on the table. If prices fall when the war ends, we cover what has to happen first."

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"Is This Atmospheric River The Beginning Of An “ARkStorm”? Back To Back Atmospheric Rivers Are Expected To Hit California “On A Nearly Weekly Basis” By January"

by Michael Snyder

"An atmospheric river is about to absolutely hammer the Pacific Northwest. There will be flooding in some areas and up to 20 feet of snow in the mountains of British Columbia. Once the atmospheric river is pushed further south, it is expected to dump a month’s worth of rain on Sacramento in just 48 hours. The wild weather that I have just described will be inconvenient, but it won’t be catastrophic. However, if an extended series of atmospheric rivers creates “ARkStorm” conditions in California during the winter months, that truly would be catastrophic. An “ARkStorm” is much more likely to develop during El Niño years, and it is being projected that the Super El Niño of 2026-2027 will be the most powerful El Niño ever recorded. Any atmospheric rivers that approach California will be turbocharged by this insanely powerful Super El Niño, and as a result a colossal amount of rainfall could fall on the state in the months ahead.

As I discussed in a previous article, atmospheric rivers are most likely to hit California between the months of September and March. Peak activity tends to be concentrated in the winter months of December, January and February. As you will see below, meteorologists are warning that back-to-back atmospheric rivers could hammer the state on a nearly weekly basis by January. If such a scenario actually materializes, California could be facing an “ARkStorm”.

Most people do not realize this, but California has actually experienced an “ARkStorm” on many occasions over the past 1,800 years. The most recent occasion was the Great Flood of 1861-1862…

The 1861–1862 Benchmark: Geologic records and historical data document the Great Flood of 1861–1862, when 45 days of relentless atmospheric rivers created a 300-mile-long inland sea across the Central Valley, submerging Sacramento, Stockton, and Fresno.

A Trillion-Dollar Disaster Model: A catastrophic scenario developed by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), NOAA, and FEMA estimates that a modern ARkStorm could inundate up to 25% of all buildings in California.

The Insurance Gap: With the state’s real estate value exceeding $10 trillion and only approximately 12% of California property owners carrying active flood insurance policies, economic damage models warn that uninsured structural losses could top $1 trillion.

A Developing Super El Niño: With climate forecasters estimating an 83% probability that the 2026–2027 El Niño will rank among the strongest in recorded history, atmospheric scientists warn that the threshold for severe, multi-week flooding events has risen significantly heading into the core winter months.

It will take a long series of atmospheric rivers to create “ARkStorm” conditions. So we will watch to see if that is what actually starts happening. Of course a very alarming pattern is already starting to develop… A series of storms carrying long plumes of moisture, known as atmospheric rivers, will bring heavy rain, strong winds and mountain snow to British Columbia and the Pacific Northwest. Flooding and strong winds will disrupt travel, while heavy snow will increase avalanche concerns in the mountains.

Rain and mountain snow will fall in rounds, with breaks between storms. During the heaviest downpours, rainfall rates could reach 1-2 inches per hour in some locations. Rain this intense can overwhelm drainage systems, especially where fallen leaves clog storm drains.

It looks like there will be large amounts of rain and snow in the Pacific Northwest for a few days, and then Northern California will get hit “later in the week”…Rather than a single storm system, a succession of Pacific disturbances will bring periods of rain, initially focusing on the Pacific Northwest before gradually shifting south toward California later in the week. The pattern is already making its presence felt across the Northwest. Overnight Saturday into Sunday, nearly 100,000 customers lost power across Washington as powerful wind gusts swept through the region. Winds in the lower elevations were near 50 to 60 mph, while higher elevations saw even stronger gusts. Near Mount Rainier, a gust of 95 mph was recorded.

Thanks to the Super El Niño, the storms that are about to pummel the Pacific Northwest will be very strong. By the time Saturday rolls around, some portions of British Columbia and western Washington state are expected to get over a foot of rain… Through Saturday, Nov. 14, more than a foot of rain could pour down in parts of coastal British Columbia and western Washington, particularly on west- and south-facing slopes at lower and middle elevations. “Runoff will increase from each storm as the ground becomes saturated,” AccuWeather Senior Storm Warning Meteorologist Tim Richards said. “As runoff increases and becomes more widespread, the likelihood of flooding in small streams and rivers will rise.”

There are some areas in western Washington state that are quite prone to flooding. If you live in one of those areas, you should be aware that there is a very strong chance that you are about to get flooded again.

In the mountains of British Columbia, the amount of snow that falls could be up to 20 feet deep…Through Nov. 14, total snowfall accumulation could reach 10-20 feet in parts of British Columbia’s Coast Mountains. Farther south, snow in Washington’s Cascade and Olympic mountains will generally be confined to the highest elevations.

I have never lived anywhere that got that much snow. How do people manage that? Once we get to Friday, the atmospheric river will have been pushed further south and will start soaking Northern California. It is expected that the amount of rain that Sacramento gets from this system will be equivalent to what it normally receives during the entire month of November…

Precipitation Timing: The system is expected to deliver one to two days of heavy, concentrated rainfall across Northern and Central California before pushing inland.

Monthly Rainfall in 48 Hours: Projections indicate cities like Sacramento could receive nearly two inches of rain during the storm window - matching the city’s entire historical average for the month of November in a single event.

Heavy Sierra Snowfall: At higher elevations, the system is expected to dump several feet of snow across the Sierra Nevada, providing an early boost for Lake Tahoe ski resorts preparing for November openings.

Winter Cadence: Meteorologists note this mid-November system is only an opening salvo. Because El Niño is projected to intensify over the next two months, California could experience back-to-back atmospheric rivers on a nearly weekly basis by January. Sacramento was one of the areas that was underwater for months as a result of the Great Flood of 1861-1862.

Of course one storm is not anything to get too excited about. What alarms me most about the article that I quoted above is the fact that meteorologists are warning that California “could experience back-to-back atmospheric rivers on a nearly weekly basis by January”. That is precisely the type of weather pattern that could potentially create “ARkStorm” conditions.

Already, long-range models are indicating that there will be large amounts of precipitation for California as we move through the rest of this month…Long-range models are hinting at some of these Pacific waves continuing to drive into California and for the Four Corners next week. Heavy rain, snow, and strong winds could be a possibility as we move into the middle of November. Whatever happens this month would just be the warm up act. December, January and February are the prime months for an ARkStorm.

According to the USGS, the geologic record shows that there have been “6 megastorms more severe than 1861-1862 in California in the last 1800 years” 

What that is telling us is that there have been many “ARkStorms” in California in the past, and we should expect more in the future. Thanks to the Super El Niño of 2026-2027, conditions are ideal for one to occur during the upcoming winter months. If an ARkStorm does materialize, it will likely be the costliest natural disaster in modern American history."

- https://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/

Dan, I Allegedly, "This Is Getting Ridiculous"

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Dan, I Allegedly, 11/9/26

"This Is Getting Ridiculous"

"California is considering a mileage tax that could charge drivers for every mile they travel. And this isn't just a California story. States across the country are studying road-usage charges, raising questions about what drivers could pay, how mileage would be tracked, and what happens to personal privacy. We're looking at California's budget problems, existing gasoline taxes, government spending, the California Lottery, and the growing debate over mileage-based fees. Who collects the money? Who monitors your miles? What will the bureaucracy cost? And will these charges replace existing taxes or become another expense? This is personal finance, business news, government accountability and national news that could affect drivers across America. Your vote has consequences. Make sure you understand the issues."

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Jim Kunstler, "The Curse It Is Cast"

Senator-elect Abdul El-Sayed at His Victory Celebration

"The Curse It Is Cast"

by Jim Kunstler

“History and even corruption itself have

 a way of normalizing the unbearable.” 

- Naomi Wolf on Substack

"That 60-Minutes interview with the President Sunday night was a doozy: he allowed Ross Douthat (former New York Times columnist) to over-speak him so audaciously you had to wonder why Mr. Trump even bothered to show up. He barely levered a word in edgewise and looked rather glum in the process. Actually, you were watching an act of political ju-jitsu: the president pretending to take it like a whipped dog, so that his antagonists would think he was offering himself up for slaughter. They’d better think again (but watch, they won’t).

Also on Sunday, Roger Stone wrote that Stephen Miller, the new chief of staff, was just promoted to “wartime consigliere.” You are a little off, Roger. It’s more like wartime field marshal. The president has gone to war against the treasonous Democratic Party, the Party of Victims. Now they know. And now you know. The positions on both sides have hardened-up. I’m dreaming of...a strange Christmas.

Pardon me for going out on a limb here. The Party of Victims has flat-out said it wants to see the president drawn, quartered, beheaded, pissed-on, and stuffed into an unmarked hole in the ground. Plus, anyone who ever worked for him or voted for him to be hurled into prison. There’s your casus belli. The curse it is cast.

The Party of Victims has also announced its intentions to shred the Constitution via legal legerdemain for the purpose of making the USA a one-party state and, as such, subservient to governing entities outside the USA. Those entities reside mainly in and around the European Union, including the EU itself, the financial elites that it serves, and an international NGO galaxy of aggrieved “activists.” These are commonly identified as the “Globalists.” Note that this cabal is already under extreme stress on its home territory as the nations of Europe explode in violence. IOW, these Globalists are already losing and turning ever more desperate.

Discount any prattle coming out of the Party of Victims and their ancillaries in the news media about “our democracy.” The phrase is a ruse, aimed at malware they have already installed in your brain, straight out of Rachel Maddow’s pretty mouth. “Our democracy” is a phantom concept to disguise a political apparatus that only works for the Party of Victims. Also note: the Party of Victims wants to make victims of everybody outside their party. “Our democracy” actually means: we get to push you around and do our bidding...or else go off and die.

So, the Party of Victims has “won” the midterm election super-bigly. They crushed it. They are supreme. Everybody and his uncle voted for them overwhelmingly, in record numbers so stupefying they seem...a little supernatural. Yes, like they got an assist from somewhere, from someone - and probably not from the better angels of our nature, if you know what I mean. Somehow an extra 20-million ballots were cast this midterm over the previous midterm in 2022. But they were strangely distributed.

In the Texas gubernatorial, for instance, almost two million new voters showed up this year above the total voters in 2022 - 9.9 million over 8.1 million. Nationwide, Republican votes were nearly the same in 2026 as 2022, but those 20-million new votes went strictly to the Party of Victims. Gol-lee! Where did they come from? I think we’re going to find out. Of course, to find out, you have to first inquire. Why would you inquire if the election was one hunnert percent above-board, fair-and-square? How dare you! That would be election denialisim, spurious, illegitimate...tyrannical...verboten!

That is the Party of Victims’ well-advertised “red line,” right there, the thing that triggers their thing, which is activist activism going active in the streets, protest marches, shrieking nose-rings, froggie costumes, raging inflamed transsexuals, POCs unchained, Boomer grandmas in a lather, all of them maybe busting up some storefronts, setting a few fires, mostly peaceful, you understand, except where they’re not. Chicago is suddenly like Paris was in October. And the Party of Victims double-dares you to do something about it!

The president will do something about it, probably something that entails federalizing the national guard, or failing that, sending in regular army troops. It will probably require him to declare the Insurrection Act (10 U.S.C. §§ 251–255), which overrides the Posse Comitatus Act. No approval from Congress is required.

Anyway, the U.S. has operated under multiple overlapping national emergencies for decades (the oldest still-active one dates to the 1979 Iran hostage crisis). The 2018 Election Interference Emergency order (EO 13848) is one of them. It was renewed by the president in August 2026. Which is to say, the country is already under an emergency, this one pegged to foreign interference in our elections. It mandates an “assessment” of foreign interference by the Director of National Intelligence, and further action by the DOJ. It may not be enough. Effective executive action might require the declaration of a National Security Emergency in the event that substantial evidence of election fraud is discovered.

The “Our Democracy” NGOs scheming in the background of the midterm election want the Party of Victims to go medieval on the president. This is where their plan kicks in to nullify the president and turn over his executive powers to a panel of governors (Newsom, Pritzker, Hochul, etc.), who will then supposedly preside over a “restructuring” of the basic charter of the USA. Their chatter about this was recorded and distributed across the internet the past month, along with their written memos to the same effect. It’s all out there. In short, this actually is an insurrection, and Mr. Trump will oblige himself to stop it, just as Abraham Lincoln had to oblige himself to put down the southern secession. And for the same reason, to save the Union.

You might have noticed that there is also a lot of background chatter on the web about “stocking up” on food and supplies...about possible interruptions of the internet, perhaps days or even weeks... about threats to the electric grid. Of course, it’s alarming. It implies rather extreme and severe circumstances. But do you really know what might happen? This is serious. Pay attention. Maintain situational awareness. This could be a very strange Christmas indeed."

- https://www.kunstler.com/

Bill Bonner, "The Road to Ruin"

"The Road to Ruin"

by Bill Bonner

Ardmore, Ireland - "Poor Pete Hegseth. He picked the wrong week to stop drinking. And what a week! People who didn’t stand a chance in mainstream politics were suddenly elected to the US Senate. A few years ago, or even a few months ago, a guy like Abdul El-Sayed would have been a pariah. Asked who was worse - Israel or Hamas - he refused to give the only answer approved by America’s most powerful lobby. But now, apparently, a lot of voters aren’t sure either.

It is almost a week since Donald Trump was thrashed in the midterm elections. And Democrats are giddy with delight. They hope to see heads roll. They’ve got their list. And they’re counting on Republicans to do much of the chopping. But who was going to be blamed? Who was going to be tossed off the boat in the hopes of making it more sea-worthy? MS Now: "The man could not be more incompetent: Rep. Ansari calls for Pete Hegseth’s impeachment."

Officials tell MS NOW the President’s allies “smell blood in the water” after Tuesday’s blue tsunami. But wait, NBC News: "President Trump says he has ‘every intention’ to keep Secretary Hegseth. President Trump said he intends to keep Secretary Pete Hegseth in his job, as GOP Rep. Thomas Massie prepares to reintroduce an impeachment resolution against Hegseth. ABC News’ Karen Travers reports."

As in the Soviet Union, no rumour is confirmed until it has been officially denied. What POTUS intends to do with Hegseth, we don’t know. He is probably the least able man in the cabinet, where the competition is stiff. As such, he may be useful to the president. Like a body double, Hegseth may draw fire that otherwise would aim for him.

But whether he goes or stays, his tenure as laughingstock head of America’s military probably won’t be like Sherman’s march through Georgia. Custer’s march through Montana is probably the more likely model. In addition to the usual battles, somewhere in the low hills of the incoming Congress an angry woman, with a feather in her hair and war paint on her face, lies in wait. Yes, it’s Vice Admiral Nancy Lacore, the very woman Hegseth fired. Lacore, with her 35 years of experience in the military, will no doubt take her place among the inquisitors Mr. Hegseth will face.

She might pose Pistol Pete questions that the rest of us have been too polite to ask. By what authority did he summarily execute alleged drug dealers - with no trial, no judge, no jury, no evidence and no defence permitted? How is that different from what the law books call, ‘mass premeditated murder’? “Do you think just losing your job is a satisfactory punishment,” Admiral (ret.) Lacore might ask, “Wouldn’t something more ...well...‘lethal’ be in order?”

On Friday morning, another candidate for the guillotine was Stephen Miller. The New Republic: "Leaks from within the Trump administration are targeting the White House adviser and deputy chief of staff for policy, with unnamed sources attacking Miller. According to The Wall Street Journal, First Lady Melania Trump at one point complained to President Trump that people she knew were getting deported, leading the president to tell his aides that Miller’s aggressive deportation plans were going too far."

Another report in The New York Times noted that White House chief of staff Susie Wiles, herself potentially on the chopping block after Republicans’ election fiasco, was not a fan of Miller’s heavy-handed immigration approach, and had tried for months to get Trump to take a different route.

But, as it turned out, the blade came down on the neck of one of the least obnoxious people in the whole White House cast, the aforementioned Susie Wiles. Daily Mail: "A key former staffer and ally of Robert F Kennedy Jr accused outgoing Chief of Staff Susie Wiles of taking money from corporations and foreign interests to sabotage RFK’s Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) agenda. Trump announced Friday that ‘ice queen’ Wiles would leave the powerful position on Monday for a position in Trump’s political operation, to be replaced by Stephen Miller."

As of this morning, God is in His Heaven. And the King is on his throne. Hegseth is still at his Department of War. And Miller heads the White House staff. And traffic on the road to ruin is still moving along nicely. But there’s always tomorrow."

- https://www.bonnerprivateresearch.com/

Adventures With Danno, "This Is An Unusual Situation, Strange Times Ahead"

Adventures With Danno, 11/9/26

"This Is An Unusual Situation, Strange Times Ahead"

Comments here:

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"Economic Market Snapshot 11/9/26"

"Economic Market Snapshot 11/9/26"

Down the rabbit hole of psychopathic greed and insanity...

Only the consequences are real - to you!

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"It's a Big Club, and you ain't in it. 

You and I are not in the Big Club."

- George Carlin

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Market Data Center, Live Updates:

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Financial Stress Index

"The OFR Financial Stress Index (OFR FSI) is a daily market-based snapshot of stress in global financial markets. It is constructed from 33 financial market variables, such as yield spreads, valuation measures, and interest rates. The OFR FSI is positive when stress levels are above average, and negative when stress levels are below average. The OFR FSI incorporates five categories of indicators: credit, equity valuation, funding, safe assets and volatility. The FSI shows stress contributions by three regions: United States, other advanced economies, and emerging markets."

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- https://www.dailyjobcuts.com/

Job cuts and much more.

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- https://www.zerohedge.com/

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- https://www.investmentwatchblog.com/

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- https://wallstreetonparade.com/

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- https://www.whatreallyhappened.com/

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- https://jessescrossroadscafe.blogspot.com/

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Commentary, highly recommended:

- https://www.theburningplatform.com/

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"The more I see of the monied classes,

the better I understand the guillotine."

- George Bernard Shaw

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Oh yeah... beyond words. Any I know anyway...

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And now... The End Game...

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