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Canadian Prepper, 11/4/26
"Alert! Trump Knows Big Event is Coming!
Iran War Starts In 2 Weeks. Russian Oil Burns, Nukes Armed!"
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So, we rise from the rubble...
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Wednesday, November 4, 2026
Crystal Heaven, "Where Magic Grows"
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Crystal Heaven, "Where Magic Grows"
"Step into a world where magic blooms beneath towering mushrooms and every hidden path leads to wonder. Journey through an enchanting forest filled with giant glowing mushrooms, charming fairy cottages, sparkling waterfalls, golden lanterns, magical butterflies, and mysterious blue forests. As soft ambient music guides you deeper into this dreamlike world, discover peaceful rivers, glowing flowers, secret pathways, and cozy fantasy villages hidden beneath enormous mushroom canopies. This immersive fantasy journey is perfect for relaxing, studying, sleeping, reading, meditation, gaming, or simply escaping into a magical world. Relax, breathe deeply, and let the enchanted forest carry you somewhere beyond imagination. Welcome to the forest... where magic grows."
Native American Elder, "What the Old Ones Knew About Death and What Waits After"
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Native American Elder,
"What the Old Ones Knew About
Death and What Waits After"
Delta Blues Brother, "Some Nights Tell the Truth"
Delta Blues Brother,
"Some Nights Tell the Truth"
"The day hides a lot. The night doesn’t. “Some Nights Tell the Truth” is a Delta blues reflection on silence, memory, and the moments when everything slows down enough for you to finally hear what’s been there all along. Not every truth comes loud. Some of them… wait.
Jeremiah Babe, "Game Over! The Blue Wave Conquers America, Prepare For 2027 Nightmare"
Jeremiah Babe, 11/4/26
"Game Over! The Blue Wave Conquers America,
Prepare For 2027 Nightmare"
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11 Facts About The Midterm Election Results That Show That America Is In Far More Trouble Than Most People Realize"
by Michael Snyder
"What in the world just happened? Words like “tsunami” and “wipeout” are being used by the pundits, but I don’t think that they are strong enough. It is clear that much of the population was frustrated with the Republican Party. But instead of seeking out another alternative, voters overwhelmingly chose to hand the keys to the political party that made a giant mess of things when they were in charge earlier this decade. The four years of the Biden administration were absolutely horrific, and the Republicans were given control of the White House, the Senate and the House of Representatives as a result. Now control of the Senate and the House of Representatives has been stripped away from the Republicans and given back to the Democrats. Will that actually solve any of the historic problems that we are facing? Of course not. In fact, our problems are about to get a whole lot worse.
It has been a long time since we have seen anything like we witnessed last night. It was expected that the Democrats were going to do well, but these midterm elections were a total blowout…Control of the U.S. Senate was handed to the Democratic Party Tuesday night, as the party flipped key seats in Texas, Kansas, North Carolina and South Carolina, allowing the party to secure control of both chambers of Congress in one of the most closely watched midterm elections in years.
Democrats secured victories in key races, including in the key battleground state of Georgia, where Jon Ossoff won reelection over President Donald Trump’s pick, Republican Mike Collins, and in Texas, where state representative James Talarico flipped the seat blue, beating current state Attorney General Ken Paxton.
In South Carolina, Republican Darline Graham was defeated by Democrat Annie Andrews, becoming the first woman to be officially elected to statewide office in the state and adding to the list of seven seats flipped by the party.
At the beginning of this calendar year, all of the experts would have told you that there was no way that this could happen. But it did. Many on the right are suggesting that this is just one election and that Republicans will bounce back in two years. Maybe. But to me it appears that America has been steadily drifting to the left. So what is the outlook for the future of our nation as most of the population embraces leftist ideology? The following are 11 facts about the midterm election results that show that America is in far more trouble than most people realize…
#1 As older voters that tend to be more conservative pass away, they will be replaced by younger voters that tend to be more liberal. One nationwide exit poll found that approximately 70 percent of voters under the age of 30 voted for Democrats in these midterm elections…The AP Voter Poll shows about 7 in 10 voters under 30 nationally say they supported the Democratic candidate in their local U.S. House race, while about 3 in 10 say they voted for the Republican.
#2 On Tuesday, Virginia became the latest state to legalize abortion all the way up to birth… Virginians overwhelmingly voted on Tuesday to enshrine the right to kill unborn babies through abortion into their state constitution. Virginia voters approved “Question 1” - which creates a right to abortions up until the moment of birth in the state - 61.4 percent to 38.6 percent with 86 percent of votes counted, the Associated Press (AP) projected.
While the measure allows for restrictions on abortions in the third trimester, the restrictions must have exceptions for a patient’s health or if the baby is likely not going to survive — wording which opponents say creates a loophole to allow abortion on demand in the state at the discretion of pro-abortion doctors.
#3 Prior to the midterms, there were two socialists serving in the U.S. House of Representatives. Now there are seven…Socialists more than doubled their numbers in the House after a series of expected midterm election wins in Democratic strongholds. Far-left candidates backed by the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) were projected to win at least five House races, expanding the number of avowed socialist lawmakers in the lower chamber from two to seven.
The DSA winners joining “Squad” socialists Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) and Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) in the House include: Melat Kiros of Colorado; Chris Rabb of Pennsylvania; Claire Valdez and Darializa Avila Chevalier, both of New York; and Donovan McKinney of Michigan.
#4 What were the voters in Michigan thinking? For at least the next six years, a radical Islamist named Abdul El-Sayed will be a U.S. Senator…Abdul El-Sayed will be a United States Senator, the first Muslim man elected to the world’s most exclusive club. An overwhelming blue wave was enough to propel the socialist-linked El-Sayed to victory despite several bumpy final weeks for the radical candidate - which included poor debate performances in which an energized and aggressive Republican Mike Rogers put the testy Democrat on his back foot. The final weekend before Election Day, his primary rival, Rep. Haley Stevens, switched her endorsement to Rogers over antisemitic rhetoric and other comments and positions she deemed dangerous.
#5 When Abdul El-Sayed got up to deliver his acceptance speech, it took him less than a minute to start speaking in Arabic…Abdul El-Sayed proudly introduces himself as Abdulrahman Mohamed El-Sayed, America’s first Muslim senator, and then starts speaking in Arabic. Americans better brace themselves. The communist and Islamic takeover has officially begun.
#6 The number of Muslims serving in the U.S. House of Representatives has now risen to six…
Ilhan Omar (Minnesota)
Rashida Tlaib (Michigan)
André Carson (Indiana)
Lateefah Simon (California)
Adam Hamawy (New Jersey)
Darializa Avila Chevalier (New York)
#7 South Carolina was supposed to be a solidly red state. On Tuesday, South Carolina sent a Democrat to the U.S. Senate for the first time in more than 20 years…One of the highest-profile losers in the midterms was Darline Graham, who failed to claim the Senate seat her brother Lindsey held for 23 years. Her loss means that South Carolina has a Democrat in the Senate for the first time in 21 years, since Ernest ‘Fritz’ Hollings retired in 2005. It is a remarkable result in a state that Trump won by 17.9 points in 2024. And it is all the more astonishing given that Trump himself hand-picked Graham for the job, anointing her as the rightful heir to her brother’s seat.
#8 Usually there is no hope that a Democrat will win a Senate race in Kansas. But on Tuesday, a far left Methodist pastor became the first Democrat to win a Senate seat in Kansas since 1932…Adam Hamilton, a 62-year-old pastor and farmer, became on Tuesday the first Democrat elected to represent Kansas in the Senate in almost a century. George McGill won re-election in 1932, but after he left Washington in 1939 Kansas has been determinedly red. And when Hamilton launched his campaign, it was seen as a long shot: the last time it was even close was 1974, when Republican Bob Dole squeaked across the line.
#9 Many were hoping that after these midterms both parties would choose to work together for the good of the nation. But instead, Chuck Schumer is pledging to “launch investigations” and entangle President Trump “in legislative razor wire”… Schumer said now, “Americans are calling for accountability, not accommodation.”“They want us to check on Trump’s chaos at home and abroad,” he said. The minority leader pledged that, “Whenever Trump defies the will of the American people or the law, we will launch investigations, take him to court, and entangle him in legislative razor wire.”
#10 Democrats won statewide races in Texas by large margins on Tuesday. If Democrats are able to produce these sorts of numbers in Texas in 2028, there is zero chance that they will lose the race for the White House…The Lone Star State was emblematic of how the night went for Republicans, with Democrat James Talarico defeating Republican Ken Paxton by a whopping 12 percentage points for the party’s first Senate race victory since Lloyd Bentsen in 1988. Republican Gov. Greg Abbott, seeking a fourth term in office, was also swamped by the blue wave, losing to Democratic state lawmaker Gina Hinojosa by seven points.
#11 After surveying the carnage, Ron DeSantis is warning that it appears that the Republicans might not have a shot of retaking control of the U.S. Senate until 2032… “Dems will get 55 Senate seats and 250+ House seats. Looking at the Senate map and considering such a massive House margin, it is very unlikely Republicans will recapture the Congress in 2028. Might not have a shot at Senate control until 2032.”
Anyone that thinks that Democrats are going to magically fix things is just being delusional. If they were going to magically fix things, why didn’t that happen while Joe Biden was in the White House for four years? And just look at how virtually all of our largest cities have degenerated under the leadership of Democrats. Nearly every major system and every major institution in this country is broken. Our society is literally in the process of collapsing all around us, and American voters are counting on the Democratic Party to come up with some sort of a miracle. Good luck with all that."
"If You Lie to Voters About Not Starting a New War, the Voters Make You Pay"
"If You Lie to Voters About Not Starting
a New War, the Voters Make You Pay"
by Larry C. Johnson
"American voters have a long memory for one particular kind of broken promise. Tell them you will keep their sons out of a foreign war, then march them into one, and they will eventually send you a bill. In 1920 the Democrats paid it. On Tuesday, the Republicans did.
On election night 2024, Donald Trump told a cheering crowd, “I’m not going to start a war, I’m going to stop wars.” Fifteen months later came Operation Epic Fury. Eight months after that, CBS News projects that Democrats will take both the House and the Senate. JD Vance, never one to bury the lede, summed it up on X: “The reason we lost is the war.” Woodrow Wilson would have understood. He ran in 1916 on a slogan that a century of history teachers have never let anyone forget.
He kept us out of war, briefly: “He kept us out of war” carried Wilson to a narrow second term in November 1916. The voters took it as a pledge. It lasted about a month into his second term. On April 2, 1917, Wilson went before Congress and asked for a declaration of war against Germany. Congress obliged four days later. What followed was not what the brochure promised. The draft came. So did the Espionage Act of 1917 and the Sedition Act of 1918, which made criticizing the war a good way to land in prison. More than 100,000 Americans died in uniform. At home, prices soared.
The voters started sending invoices early. In October 1918, Wilson publicly asked them to return a Democratic Congress as a vote of confidence. They returned a Republican one instead, in both chambers. Then came the hangover: the Senate’s rejection of Wilson’s League of Nations, his stroke in the fall of 1919, a wave of strikes, the Red Scare and a sharp postwar slump.
In 1920 the Democrats nominated James Cox, with a young Franklin Roosevelt as his running mate. The Republicans nominated Warren Harding, a man of no particular distinction who promised a “return to normalcy.” Harding took about 60 percent of the popular vote and 404 electoral votes to Cox’s 127. It was the most lopsided popular-vote margin of its era. Voters were not endorsing Harding so much as firing Wilson’s war.
No more wars, he said: Trump did not have a slogan as tidy as Wilson’s. He had something better: a promise repeated so often that it became the soundtrack of the 2024 campaign. At the Republican convention he boasted, “I don’t have wars.” At a Pennsylvania rally that August he said, “we will have no more wars.” On election night it was “I’m not going to start a war, I’m going to stop wars.” At his inauguration he said success would be measured partly by the wars America never gets into.
Then, on February 28, 2026, the United States and Israel went to war with Iran. Hormuz closed. Brent crude was still around $110 this week, about 50 percent above where it sat before the war. Every voter who filled a tank this year got a reminder.
By June, Trump had found a new position on his old promise. “I didn’t guarantee no war,” he told NBC. CNN’s fact-checkers helpfully listed the times he had done precisely that. Voters were not persuaded either. In a Fox News poll in September, more than 60 percent called the war the wrong decision and 71 percent said the administration lacked a clear strategy for ending it. Trump’s approval going into Election Day averaged about 38 percent.
Tuesday was the bill. CBS projects Democrats will hold somewhere between 251 and 268 House seats and at least 54 in the Senate. James Talarico beat Ken Paxton in Texas. Sherrod Brown is back in Ohio. Troy Jackson took Susan Collins’s seat in Maine. Vance blamed the war. Trump, asked about it, said it was “largely true” that the war cost Republicans seats. Then he blamed the gas prices instead, as though they had arrived from another planet. As for the war itself, Trump’s explanation was “You have no choice.”
Not 1894, but not nothing: Before the Democrats start carving Tuesday into marble, some perspective. This was not the worst beating a ruling party has ever taken. It was not even close. In 1894, after the Panic of 1893, Grover Cleveland’s Democrats lost about 125 House seats. In 1932, with the country sinking into the Depression, Herbert Hoover’s Republicans lost roughly 100 House seats and 13 Senate seats. Ulysses Grant’s Republicans lost 96 House seats in 1874, after the Panic of 1873. Benjamin Harrison’s lost 93 in 1890.
This year Republicans look set to lose something over 40 House seats. On the all-time list, that lands somewhere in the high teens, next to Trump’s own 2018 loss and Lyndon Johnson’s Vietnam-era beating in 1966. The Senate tells the same story. A loss of eight or nine seats hurts, but it falls well short of 1932 and 1958, when the ruling party lost a dozen or more. It was a rout, not an extinction event.
Look at what sits at the top of those lists. The real catastrophes were economic. Panics and depressions did what no single policy blunder ever has. Voters will forgive a great deal, but not an empty wallet.
That is what makes 2026 worth studying. Trump did not need a depression to lose Congress. He needed one broken promise, and the war made that promise expensive. The war shut Hormuz. Hormuz pushed up oil. Oil pushed up gasoline, and gasoline put the war into every family’s monthly budget. Wilson’s Democrats learned the same lesson in 1918, when they lost both chambers, including seven Senate seats, with the war still on. Tuesday’s result is smaller than the great economic wipeouts. It is still the clearest demonstration in a generation of what happens when a president promises peace, delivers war, and hands the voters the bill.
Where the parallel bends
History rhymes, but it does not plagiarize, so here are the differences. A promise, not an oath. Neither man swore to stay out of war. The oath of office binds a president to the Constitution. What both broke was a campaign promise, which voters treated as a contract anyway.
Wilson’s slogan was written for him. “He kept us out of war” was a Democratic campaign line, and Wilson himself was careful never to promise that the peace would last. Trump made the promise personally, in the first person, over and over.
Who started it. Germany’s return to unrestricted submarine warfare and the Zimmermann telegram pushed Wilson into war in 1917. No U-boats were sinking American ships off New Jersey in February 2026. Trump chose this war. War was not the only issue. In 1920 voters were also punishing inflation, strikes and a slumping economy. In 2026, Gallup found voters rated the economy and health care slightly ahead of the war. The catch is that the war is what drove up prices, as Trump himself conceded.
Normalcy, anyone? The lesson of 1918 and 1920 is that voters do not need a long memory, only an accurate one. Wilson’s Democrats lost Congress in the middle of the war and the White House when it was over. They then spent twelve years in the wilderness. Republicans are now where Wilson’s party stood in November 1918. They have lost Congress, the war is still on, and the president insists he had no choice.
There are two years until 2028. Trump could take the 1918 result as the warning it is, end the war and let the oil start moving again. Or he could listen to the people urging him to finish the job with another round of strikes on Iran. If he picks the second option, I suspect some Republican in 2028 will discover the political value of the word “normalcy.” Somebody has to run on it. Harding did, and he was not even trying very hard."
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Musical Interlude: Deuter, "Sound of Invisible Waters"
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Deuter, "Sound of Invisible Waters"
"A Look to the Heavens"
“Magnificent island universe NGC 2403 stands within the boundaries of the long-necked constellation Camelopardalis. Some 10 million light-years distant and about 50,000 light-years across, the spiral galaxy also seems to have more than its fair share of giant star forming HII regions, marked by the telltale reddish glow of atomic hydrogen gas. The giant HII regions are energized by clusters of hot, massive stars that explode as bright supernovae at the end of their short and furious lives.
A member of the M81 group of galaxies, NGC 2403 closely resembles another galaxy with an abundance of star forming regions that lies within our own local galaxy group, M33 the Triangulum Galaxy. Spiky in appearance, bright stars in this colorful galaxy portrait of NGC 2403 lie in the foreground, within our own Milky Way.”
- http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap150327.html
Chet Raymo, “At Home In An Infinite Universe”
“At Home In An Infinite Universe”
by Chet Raymo
“They are questions that bedeviled thinkers for thousands of years: Is the universe infinite or finite, eternal or of a finite age? It is certainly hard to imagine a universe that extends without limit in every direction, or a universe without a beginning or end. It is equally difficult to imagine a finite universe; what is beyond the edge? Or a beginning or end in time; how can something come from nothing? How can what is cease to be?
The problems are so intractable philosophically that their resolution has generally been left to the theologians, which from a philosophical (or scientific) perspective offers no solution at all. Giordano Bruno was burned at the stake for proposing a philosophical resolution (an infinite universe) that offended theology.
An escape from befuddlement is provided by Einstein's theory of general relativity, which - for example - can describe a finite universe without a boundary, as the "two-dimensional" surface of a sphere is finite and without an edge. Unfortunately, multi-dimensional curved space-time is so counterintuitive that it is difficult to get one's head around it without mastery of the mathematics. Given a choice between the ancient myths of your local preacher and the obtuse mathematics of the physics professor, it's not hard to guess what most folks will opt for.
Meanwhile, I'm reading a meditation on infinity by physics professor Anthony Aguirre, in a collection of essays called "Future Science." He discusses contemporary cosmological theories based on general relativity, and in particular the rehabilitation of the idea of an infinite and eternal universe, or, more precisely, that our universe might be just one of an infinity of infinite universes. He writes in conclusion: “What seems clear, however, is that infinity can no longer be safely ignored; beautifully constructed, empirically supported, self-consistent theories have brought infinity from idle curiosity to central player in contemporary cosmology. And if correct, the worldview these theories represent constitutes a perspective shift unlike any other: in comparison to the universe, we would be not just small but strictly zero. Well, I can't imagine many folks racing to embrace that conclusion. Oh, but wait. Aguirre adds one final sentence: "Yet here we are, contemplating - if not quite understanding - it all.”
- http://blog.sciencemusings.com/
"Pre-Historic Mega Structures of Japan & Unexcavated Giant Tombs"
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Universe Inside You,
"Pre-Historic Mega Structures of Japan &
Unexcavated Giant Tombs"
"The most remarkable pre-historic megastructures on the globe. Megastructures that defy any explanation and suggest the use of advanced technology. From massive granite blocks and quarries carved with extraordinary accuracy to immense stone walls, Japan’s landscape tells a story of an advanced prehistoric society. This documentary delves deep into the heart of Japan’s forgotten megaliths. You can see many more kofun (and other Japanese archaeological sites) on the @japankofun Kofun channel, all kofun which are publicly accessible, including many which have open burial chambers - / @japankofun.
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The Curious Mind,
"Baalbek: Megalithic Structure No Human Could Ever Build"
"A single stone block in Lebanon weighs 1,500 tons - that's heavier than 10 blue whales stacked on top of each other. Our most powerful cranes today can barely lift 20% of that weight. Yet somehow, ancient people not only moved these monsters but placed them with surgical precision 23 feet in the air. After decades of investigation, we finally know who did this and how - and the answer will completely change how you think about ancient civilizations."
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Free Download: Olaf Stapledon, "Sirius: A Fantasy of Love and Discord"
"But what a universe, anyhow! No use blaming human-beings for what they were. Everything was made so that it had to torture something else. Sirius himself was no exception, of course. Made that way! Nothing was responsible for being by nature predatory on other things, dog on rabbit and Argentine beef, man on nearly everything, bugs and microbes on man, and of course man himself on man. (Nothing but man was really cruel, vindictive, except perhaps the loathly cat). Everything desperately struggling to keep its nose above water for a few breaths before its strength inevitably failed and down it went, pressed under by something else. And beyond, those brainless, handless idiotic stars, lazing away so importantly for nothing.
Here and there some speck of a planet dominated by some half-awake intelligence like humanity. And here and there on such planets, one or two poor little spirits waking up and wondering what in the hell everything was for, what it was all about, what they could make of themselves; and glimpsing in a muddled way what their potentiality was, and feebly trying to express it, but always failing, always missing fire, and very often feeling themselves breaking up as he himself was doing. Just now and then they might feel the real thing, in some creative work, or in sweet community with another little spirit, or with others. Just now and then they seemed somehow to create or to be gathered up into something lovelier than their individual selves, something which demanded their selves sacrifice and yet have their selves new life. But how precariously, torturingly; and only just for a flicker of time! Their whole life-time would only be a flicker in the whole of titanic time. Even when all the worlds have frozen or exploded, and all the suns gone dead and cold therewill still be time. Oh God, what for?"
- Olaf Stapledon, "Sirius: A Fantasy of Love and Discord"
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“More to Come…”
“More to Come…”
By Jeff Thomas
“Years ago, when visiting the US, I’d often watch late night television. Just prior to each interval, in order to ensure that viewers would sit through the adverts, the show would run a panel that said, “More to Come.” This, of course, was effective, as the viewer would be anticipating that the best part of the program would come in a later segment and would be more likely to continue watching.
Today, we’re looking at the reverse of that situation. The program we’re watching is The Decline and Fall of the American Empire and those who recognize the decline are viewing with ever-increasing trepidation, the developments that are unfolding there. Even those of us who are not American and don’t live there are glued to our screens, as we’re aware that we're viewing the early stages of a collapse that promises to be the greatest social, political and economic event that we’re likely to see in our lifetimes.
Following World War Two, the US was in a boom beyond anything the world had ever seen. The Americans came to the war late, after having built up their manufacturing capacity for war dramatically, at the expense of the Allied powers in Europe. And they did this, essentially for free. It was paid for with the gold from the vaults of the European allies. After the war, Europe was trashed and it would take decades for them to get on their feet again. Meanwhile, the US had been going flat out in production, had first-rate modern factories and, most important, held the majority of the world’s gold.
The 1944 Bretton Woods Agreement ensured that the US dollar would become the world’s default currency and, later, become the petrodollar, ensuring American hegemony over much of the rest of the world. There can be no doubt that, in the first decades after the war, the US had an amazing run and was, arguably, one of the best places to live in the world.
But, unfortunately, as so often happens, American political and industry leaders became full of themselves and couldn’t resist going out on limb to gain even more for themselves. In so doing, they turned the US from the world’s foremost creditor nation into the world’s foremost debtor nation. Worse, when they reached this unprecedented point, they opted to just keep going.
Worse still, it would appear that today’s leaders are aware that the mother of all bubbles that they’ve created is going to pop sometime in the near future, as they’re preparing themselves for the mother of all pushbacks from the populace when the crashes come.
The FBI, CIA, NSA, and a host of other authorities have either been created or expanded, allowing the creation of the world’s foremost police state. And, beginning in 2001 with the Patriot Act, have created a host of laws to assign authority to any of those bodies to exert ever-increasing control over the population. Capital controls, migration controls, higher taxes, confiscation of deposits in banks and quite a bit more have been passed in legislation, including the ability to declare the US in its entirely to be a “battle zone,” through which habeas corpus and the court system can be suspended nationally.
Yipes. (Or, blimey, depending on where you’re from.) At this point, any American who’s paying attention could be forgiven if he’s genuinely frightened at where his government is going with all this.
And so, we come back to the title of this essay – “More to Come.” A regular flow of proposed laws is now coming down the pipeline that would have been considered the stuff of a bad movie a few decades ago, but is now only too real and threatening to the freedoms of the average citizen. Instead of “more to come” meaning that the best is still on the way, the opposite would appear to be the case, and the worst is here, now.
But, how can this be, we ask ourselves. Surely those in power – the politicians, the industrialists, the central bankers, etc., must have seen this coming and, if that’s so, surely they’d have done something to stop it. Well, historically, that’s never been the case. Those in the greatest positions of power have never suddenly reversed an empire when it was about to self-destruct. What they tend to do instead is to guard against becoming casualties of the disaster they’ve created. So, is that what’s happening this time around? In a word, yes.
The Bernie Madoffs of the world go to jail. However, those who commit the same fraudulent acts from within the system never go to jail. For example, if the heads of a bank commit massive fraud, the bank pays an enormous fine. The fine is then paid by the stockholders. And should the fine be large enough to crash the bank, the bankers can appeal to the government to bail them out, as they’re “too big to fail.” Thus, the taxpayers pick up the bill.
At this point, what we’re witnessing is an era in which laws are regularly being passed to ensure that the creators of the bubble will get a “Get Out of Jail Free” card and others will sustain the losses.
This is the very essence of what happens in an endgame run. Just as a hitman who places a bomb in a building makes his exit before the bomb can go off, the creators of bubbles safeguard themselves before the economic bomb can go off. They have no intention of being around to live with the resultant devastation that they’ve put into play.
Pete Townshend wrote prophetically, “Won’t Get Fooled Again,” in 1971, in which he hopes that the latest gang of leaders will be better than the last. In the final line of the song, he grimly announces, “Meet the new boss – same as the old boss.”
And, in fact, this is the usual outcome. Perhaps the reason why empires collapse much in the same way, time and again, and their citizens consistently fail to see it coming, is that empires general last a long time before collapsing. The Venetian Republic lasted 200 years. The Spanish Empire lasted just over 120 years. Holland lasted 130 years, Russia – 200, the UK, just under 120. And it’s been much the same for the others. In every case, they last longer than a single lifetime, so it’s rare that any individual sees more than one empire collapse in his own lifetime and doesn’t understand that empires don’t end with a whimper. They end with a crescendo, not unlike the Who’s “Won’t Get Fooled Again.”
We are witnessing the collapse of the world’s foremost empire. This is not mere conjecture. The US has all the symptoms that we’re now coming close to the final stages. And, if history plays out yet again, as it has repeatedly, we can expect that, in the lead-up to the collapse, the controls by governments will become increasingly draconian. As we consider, “more to come,” we should be braced for the likelihood that the worst controls are yet to be revealed.”
"Seneca: Every 24 Hours Is a Separate Life"
"Seneca:
Every 24 Hours Is a Separate Life"
by Thomas Oppong
"Every morning is a reset. I start over. I begin again and think of the hours in the day as a separate life. I apply Stoic philosopher Seneca’s wisdom. He said, “Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life.” It has changed my response to life. It helps me reset after a bad day. If I wasted time on what makes no difference to my life, I try not to carry that weight into today. I start with a clean space. To be more present.
If you spend too much time dragging the past into the present or worrying about a future you can’t control, Seneca’s rule for life might help. Treating each day as its own life changes everything. When you wake up, you’re not just starting another day. You’re stepping into a brand new life. Yes, you still have things to do from yesterday. And tomorrow’s pressures may still take over your mind. But you have the next twenty-four hours of life. What will you do with it?
When I see today as the life I’m living, I pay attention. I don’t rush through it just to get to the weekend. I stress less. I take things in. I plan less obsessively. I still have goals, but I focus on what I can do today. Not the whole picture. Just the next step. I also forgive myself faster. I don’t want to…That’s the difference.
Each day deserves your full attention. Your full effort. Your full self. Every morning is a new life. I don’t owe anything to yesterday. I don’t want to fear tomorrow. I just have now. And I’m going to live it like it matters. That’s all we can do in real time. Live. “Every 24 hours is a separate life.” Live like it’s true.
If you feel stuck, remember to get back to the here and now. Most people are rapped in routines, regrets, or roles they’ve outgrown. Treat today as its own life, and you will reset your headspace. You will start fresh. And fresh starts just need action. Do what you must today. Learn that skill. Message someone. Move your body. Take that walk. Forgive yourself. Or someone. Don’t carry the bitterness from yesterday into this day. Stop the past behind you and stop living the future you can’t control. Show up for this single, beautiful and unrepeatable day as best as you can.
Seneca’s wisdom makes me more grateful. More patient. Kinder to myself. And others. If this is the only life I get today, I don’t want to live on autopilot or sleepwalk through it. Today won’t be perfect. But you can live with intention. On your terms. Tomorrow, when you wake up, think of as a new life. What kind of life do you want it to be? Focus on that. Then go live it. One day. One life. Over and over again.
Today is its own life. It’s short but full of possibility. A lifetime of responsibilities can be overwhelming. But you can handle a single day. You don’t need to change everything at once. Just today. Just this 24-hour life. You can do your best work. Be fully conscious for the people you love. Small wins stack up. If today were your last, how would you spend it? You’d call the person you love. You’d drop the pointless argument. You’d do what makes you come alive. Why then do we postpone joy, effort, or change? “Putting things off is the biggest waste of life: it snatches away each day as it comes, and denies us the present by promising the future. The greatest obstacle to living is expectancy, which hangs upon tomorrow and loses today,” notes Seneca.
For one day, act as if it’s your only life. Listen better because that conversation might not happen again. Do your best work because it may be your only shot at personal progress. Everything may not go as you want. But you can still do what you must. “Every morning we are born again. What we do today is what matters most,” says Buddha.
Had a bad day yesterday? Good. It’s over. Today is a new life. Start with a clean slate. Refuse to let the past paralyse you. I like what Ralph Waldo Emerson said, “Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.”
Every morning, you get a reset. Use it. As Marcus Aurelius wrote, “Stop wasting time arguing what a good man should be. Be one.” One day at a time. A year from now, those small daily lives will have built something extraordinary. Picture yourself at 80, looking back. Will you wish you’d lived more? The answer is always yes. But we still do less of what makes us come alive. You don’t have to fix everything. What can you do with this one life, these 24 hours? Focus on that.
The one thought I reflect on every night is this: Did I live this 24-hour life well? Not yesterday’s life. Not tomorrow’s. This one. If I didn’t, I can start again tomorrow. “Every 24 hours is a separate life” is my way of life. A mindset I use to stop spending so much time in my head. To actually live now. Begin at once to live."
"Lift Up Your Eyes"
"Lift Up Your Eyes"
by Paul Rosenberg
"When was the last time you tasted the sublime? When did you last feel wonder? Can you remember feeling awed by something? These are things we need, if we are to thrive. They are fuel for the higher human abilities. If we lack them, as is currently endemic throughout the West, our higher abilities will lag. For lack of better terms we can call these feelings “upward movements of the heart,” and we are diminished when there is a lack of them. Without them we fail to develop our higher capacities and insights. We slide more and more toward becoming, in one critic’s words, “mere trousered apes.”
I am certainly not the first person to notice this. Here, for example, is something Albert Einstein wrote on the subject: "The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed."
Here’s a comment from Mozart: "Neither a lofty degree of intelligence, nor imagination, nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius."
And here’s a poem from Richard Feynman:
"Out of the cradle
onto the dry land
here it is
standing:
atoms with consciousness;
matter with curiosity.
Stands at the sea
wonders at wondering: I
a universe of atoms
an atom in the universe."
We need these things.
Currents to the Contrary: Sadly, the modern West has become a mad scramble to distract as many sets of eyes as possible, and to keep them – to own them – for as long as possible. And so long as professional distractors own your imagination, you won't experience much in the way of awe.
Think of Google and Facebook; these outfits bring in billions of dollars per month, based almost entirely on how much human attention they can capture. Likewise the many news networks; they get paid according to how many people watch their images for how many minutes. These people are serious about owning your brain cycles; they employ armies of employees to count, gather, plan, and improve their ownership of your eyes. Please understand the content they deliver serves only to grasp your attention.
Certainly websites like Freeman’s Perspective also want your attention but not for its own sake. I want your attention because I think we have something worthwhile to communicate, not to own your brain. Facebook and Google want to own you… the inner you.
Likewise the lords of academia; they want your mind to bear their impress... permanently. Consider, for example, the many academics who espouse cold, rationalist, materialistic philosophies: that we are no more than preprogrammed machines, that words can never really communicate anything, that humanity is ignorant and dangerous. Have you noticed that they reek of “smarter than thou”? Then if you have the opportunity, examine their lives for beautiful acts, for loving passions, for kindness and deep benevolence. If your experience is anything like mine, you’ll notice a striking lack of those things.
The Contrasts: Among the greatest of all contrasts to the upward movements of the heart are those pertaining to dominance, status, and rulership. They are natural antagonists.
Think of drinking in the wonders of the universe, the beauty of nature, the glorious love between a good parent and their child… and then contrast those things with the blight of the dominator “protecting” you at the point of a sword… of the politician cultivating your fears like a gardener cultivates a garden… of the lover of status who feels pleasure when seeing you beneath her. Dominance, status, and rulership are the drives of the people who abuse us. And they are primary causes for our elevated experiences being diminished.
Moving Past the Blockage: We need to get away from these people and beyond these foul concepts. And once we do, life will expand. Here to make that point is a final quote, this one from Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel: "The loss of awe is the avoidance of insight. A return to reverence is the first prerequisite for a revival of wisdom…"
The things that contribute to our higher nature have been driven away from the Western world, and often systematically. Humans who are denuded of the higher things are far less trouble to rule, and they are far easier to manipulate… to own without their noticing. But don’t let yourself by driven away from the higher and better things:
Lay under the stars and wonder.
Look into the face of a child and experience his or her awe of the world.
Sit in the wilderness and imagine benevolence and beauty and goodness unchained.
Lie in bed and imagine yourself with a conscious sense of righteousness.
Imagine yourself with no embedded fear.
Ruminate over good things you could do in the future, over beautiful things you’d do in the right circumstances.
Politics poisons this, dominators wish to subdue it, sociopaths cannot experience it. Get as much of it as you can. Go out of your way to cultivate it.”
"The GOP Deserved to Lose - and I Say That as a Former Trump Voter"
"The GOP Deserved to Lose -
and I Say That as a Former Trump Voter"
by Mike Adams
"Why the GOP Deserved to Lose: The midterm elections are now decided, and the Republican Party was handed a devastating defeat. I've watched this train wreck coming for years, and I'm here to tell you plainly: they deserve every ounce of the shellacking they received. The corporate media will spin the post-election narrative to blame conservative voters for staying home, for being purists, for refusing to hold their noses and pull the lever for the lesser of two evils. But that narrative is a lie. The fault lies with the party itself.
I am not neutral, and I won't pretend to be. I voted for Donald Trump twice, and I have watched the Republican Party betray every principle it claimed to stand for. I've also been clear that the Democrats are corrupt - deeply, institutionally corrupt - but that does not obligate me to reward Republican betrayal with my vote. This isn't team sports. It's not about red versus blue. It's about putting America first, and the GOP failed that test spectacularly.
We are living through a political moment of profound clarity. The return of Donald Trump to the White House has not been a restoration but a revelation. It has ripped away the final pretenses, exposing the MAGA movement for what it truly is: a cult of obedience, not a coalition of principle. I say that as someone who initially believed in the movement -- not the man, but the principles. In 2016 and 2020, I cast my ballot for peace, clean food, national sovereignty, and a movement that promised to dismantle a corrupt, globalist establishment. What we got instead was something else entirely.
The Traitor Problem: Putting Israel Before America: I refuse to vote for "traders" - politicians who put Israel ahead of the United States. That's the word I use deliberately: traders. They trade American interests for foreign favors. They trade our soldiers' lives for another country's wars. They trade our sovereignty for the approval of a foreign lobby. Governor Greg Abbott, Senator Ted Cruz, and candidates like Mike Rogers embody this sellout mentality. They wave the flag while serving a different master. That's why Rogers and Abbott both lost, and if Cruz had been on the ballot, he would have lost, too.
The Republican Party mocks transgender insanity - and rightly so - while letting Texas self-identify as Israel. I will not support that. The GOP likes to talk about borders, but it's remarkably silent about the border between American interests and Israeli interests. The pro-Israel lobbying group AIPAC has worked tirelessly to portray an apartheid regime that is committing genocide as a warm and friendly country, and for a long time, US voters didn't question it. Now, finally, US voters have started to wise up.
This is not complicated. I believe that America's foreign policy should serve America - not Benjamin Netanyahu, not AIPAC, not the Greater Israel project. When politicians put a foreign country's interests ahead of our own, they are not conservatives. They are traders. And I will not vote for them.
From Two-Time Trump Voter to Corruption Whistleblower: I voted for Trump twice. I want that on the record. But I am no loyalist and no fanboy - not to Trump, not to Musk, not to anyone. My support was never about the man; it was about the principles. I believed in peace, in clean food, in national sovereignty, and in taking on a corrupt, globalist establishment. But his administration became something else entirely: a money-grubbing crime cartel. The crypto rug pull, the tariff insider trading, the foreign billions flowing to his family - these are not the actions of a movement committed to putting America first.
Hunter Biden's Burisma payoffs look small by comparison. I've written before about how the Hunter Biden scandal was suppressed by Big Tech and the corporate media, with Twitter and Facebook blocking access to a New York Post story about his emails. I called it what it was. But the corruption on the Republican side now dwarfs it. I support investigations, prosecutions, and restitution - not just for Democrats, but for Republicans too. The rule of law should be blind to party affiliation.
Trump has demonstrated an unprecedented lawlessness that exposes the MAGA cult and, impossibly, makes the Biden era look almost stately by comparison. I say that without affection for Biden. I say it as a patriot who is watching his country's institutions being dismantled for personal profit. When I fight for election integrity, I'm not fighting for a man; I'm fighting for the future of every American. That's why I can't look away now.
Political Suicide for a Generation: Trump has ruined the GOP's reputation for a generation, and the party may never recover. I have been warning about this trajectory for years. The only real question is not who wins in 2028 - it's how long the American empire has left. Trump has sabotaged the military, the currency, trade policy, the rule of law, and public trust. He is a chaos agent for America, and the evidence is everywhere.
I've written about how federal health agencies cannot be reformed from the inside -- not by RFK Jr., not by anyone working within the system. The same logic applies to the GOP. You cannot reform a party that has become a vehicle for one man's ego and profit. The entire Western world is being led off a cliff by individuals who wield power without regard for its consequences. These people have weaponized systems - including the dollar, SWIFT, and cultural exports - to further their agenda, and they appear to be beyond accountability.
This is not about policy differences. It's about decay. The Republican Party promised fiscal responsibility while racking up a $3.3 trillion debt bill and stalling economic reforms that sparked fears of an imminent crisis. That's not incompetence; it's betrayal. And betrayal has consequences. The party deserved to lose, and it deserved to lose badly.
Third Parties Won't Save Us - Collapse Is the Only Reform: I am skeptical of third-party runs by Tucker Carlson, Joe Kent, or Marjorie Taylor Greene. I admire Tucker for exposing how endless war is an engine of corruption and control. I respect MTG for walking away from a two-party betrayal. But a third party cannot control the agencies, the Congress, or the judiciary. It cannot reform what is fundamentally broken. Running a third-party candidate is like putting a band-aid on a bullet wound.
Unelected bureaucracies like the FDA are unconstitutional and cannot be reformed from the inside. I've argued this repeatedly: the FDA, CDC, and HHS can never be reformed because they are designed to protect corporate profits, not human health. The same is true of the broader administrative state. You cannot vote your way out of a system that was never designed to be accountable to voters. Collapse is the only reform.
Colonel Douglas McGregor is right: financial collapse is coming, worse than 2008 or the dot-com crash. This will be a mercy killing for the empire. I've warned repeatedly that the dollar is on the brink of collapse and that the only honest money is gold and silver . I believe that physical precious metals are the only reliable hedge against the coming devaluation. When the financial reset hits, those holding real assets will survive; those holding digital promises will be wiped out. This collapse will be chaotic and painful, but it will also be a necessary correction.
Conclusion: A Mercy Killing for the Empire: Trump is an accelerationist of collapse, doing America a twisted favor by speeding the demise of the corrupt empire. From the ashes may come something else entirely - perhaps a technocracy of AI, automation, surveillance, and internet voting. I do not expect anyone in power to push for a revival of liberty. I expect a transformation, and not necessarily a benign one.
If voting could change anything, they would have outlawed it long ago. Voting is not a pathway to real change; it is a pressure-release valve that keeps the masses docile while the system continues its decay. Prepare for dark, interesting times. The collapse is coming. The only question is what rises from the rubble - and whether anything worth saving survives. For those who want to prepare, I recommend studying real history and economics, buying physical gold and silver, and building local resilience. The system will not save you. You have to save yourself."
"Depression 2.0 Has Begun - The Impeachment Festival is Here!"
Dan, I Allegedly, 11/4/26
"Depression 2.0 Has Begun -
The Impeachment Festival is Here!"
"The election results have changed the political landscape, and the next two years could bring a political and economic storm unlike anything we've seen. The impeachment battles are beginning, political investigations and subpoenas are coming, and the promises of free food, free housing, and free services are about to collide with the reality of paying the bills. Meanwhile, businesses are struggling, restaurants are filing for bankruptcy, major retailers are facing financial pressure, and consumers are running out of money. From Outback Steakhouse and Target to Family Dollar, Walgreens, CVS, and other major companies, the warning signs are everywhere. Is Depression 2.0 beginning? It's time to get out of debt, build an emergency fund, protect your job, secure your money, and prepare your family for what's ahead."
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"Snyder Reports, 11/4/26"
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Snyder Reports, 11/4/26
"Democrats Just Took Congress:
What It Means For Your Money Now"
"Election 2026 Is Over - Democrats just took control of the House and Senate after shocking flips in Texas, Kansas, Iowa, Ohio, Maine, North Carolina and South Carolina. What does it mean for your money? In this video I break down what changes now: the debt limit fight, tariffs and prices, Medicaid cuts and Obamacare subsidies, impeachment votes, government shutdown risk, Social Security in 2032, and why nothing big may pass for 2 years. If you are on a fixed income, preparing for higher prices, or worried about your benefits, this is what to watch before January. What was the most surprising part of this midterm election? Let me know down in the comments below."
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"Why the New Paradigm Was Inevitable"
"Why the New Paradigm Was Inevitable"
by Jeff Thomas
"Just as people go through a lifespan that consists of different stages, so empires tend to follow a pattern of stages. They tend to start off slowly, making progress as a result of industriousness, understanding that progress is dependent upon hard work and an entrepreneurial spirit. This is important to understand, as it’s the one essential in the growth of a nation. No nation becomes an empire through complacency or a lack of productivity. Welfare states do not become empires, although most empires end up as welfare states. So, if that’s the case, what is the progression? And more importantly, what does this mean, considering the dramatic changes that are now unfolding in much of the world?
Prosperity: As stated, prosperity is created through a strong work ethic and an entrepreneurial spirit throughout a significant portion of the population. This is what brings about wealth creation – a condition in which people invest their time and money in a business enterprise that reaps profit. The profit is then re-invested to expand upon that success.
In the early stages of prosperity, those who create the wealth are revered, as the goods and services they create benefit all, even those who may be less ambitious or less imaginative and may never become business leaders themselves. But inevitably, there will be those who seek to prosper to the exclusion of others. This trend was seen around 1900 in the US – a time when the country’s wealthiest entrepreneurs figured out that, if they banded together, they could buy both political parties. That would mean that, regardless of which party held power, the government could be counted on to pass laws that would protect their monopolies and make success increasingly more difficult for the competition.
Wealth Disparity: Of course, the objective of this would be that there would be a small number of individuals and corporations at the very top, who would be in a position to split up the pie amongst themselves and throw the crumbs to those beneath them. Over time, this would lead to those at the very top becoming inordinately wealthy, well beyond what would be normal for their level of investment. And very few new individuals and corporations would be able to break into this cabal. Only those who could add to the size of the pie would be allowed in.
Resentment: Not surprisingly, this, over time, would lead to resentment amongst those who were left out of the loop. When this became generational, with minimal change, the "greedy rich" would become the most hated segment of the population. Those who come to understand that they will never be able to advance to the top layer would come to regard themselves as "disenfranchised." This in turn results, eventually, in the awareness that the "little man" represents the majority of voters, which is then capitalized upon by opportunistic political candidates.
Increasingly, there are cries by political hopefuls for the one percent to be taxed. With every election these promises are renewed. And each time out, greater demands are made by the politicians. Of course, the one percent are already running the show on both sides of the aisle and can make sure that they are taxed very little, if at all. But someone must be made to cough up, so politicians go after the middle class, taxing them increasingly until, after decades of increases, they are squeezed to the limit. As Vladimir Lenin said, "The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation."
At this point the wealth disparity is at a peak and the resentment turns to anger. Those, who for decades have been promised a "fair share," realize that they have instead been sold out. And here’s where it gets interesting. Traditionally, once the population became resentful enough that the system was in jeopardy, those few who comprised the ruling elite were likely to essentially say, "Let them eat cake." This, ultimately, would lead to their downfall. But today, we have the illusion of democracy, which allows for a different paradigm.
Collectivism: From the time of the French Revolution onward, we have had the construct of collectivism to work with. Rather than defy the little man, defeat him by being seen to agree with him. Create political figures who call out for a re-engineering of society: "An equal outcome for all. Take the wealth from the wealthy who stole it and give it back to the little man." Such platitudes sell well when resentment has hit its peak.
But the secret benefit for the ruling elite is that the new breed of politician works for the one percent, just as politicians always have. And collectivism benefits the one percent even more than any free-market system could. Under it, the little man is not raised up, as promised. Instead, the middle class is beaten down to the same level as the little man, creating uniform poverty. As Winston Churchill stated, "The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries."
Therefore, it should come as no surprise to us that, when an empire such as the US begins to unravel, the ruling elite who actually own the country are ready and eager to create a transition that will appear to benefit the little man but will, instead, enslave him to a greater degree than he ever could have imagined.
So, it should come as no surprise to us that in recent months, the US has witnessed a carefully orchestrated drama in which the poster boy for the greedy rich – the US president – goes down in flames. And the heroes of the play appear centre stage, providing a litany of collectivist promises that will bring cheers from the populace. And so the trap is sprung. A totalitarian future disguised as a panacea.
As P.T. Barnum said, "There’s a sucker born every minute," and there is no greater sucker than a voter who actually believes that there’s a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. His vain hope is that, even though every collectivist government in history has failed to deliver on its promises and has, instead, resulted in uniform misery, this time it will be different, and the new government will deliver on the now-hackneyed empty promises. The new paradigm was as inevitable as it will be long-lived and ultimately destructive."
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