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Jeremiah Babe, 8/2/25
"Bank Account Empty, Cash Withdrawal Denied;
The Biggest Industry In America Is Collapsing"
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So, we rise from the rubble...
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Saturday, August 2, 2025
"Alert! Russia Threatens To Destroy Entire US Nuclear Fleet"
Prepper News, 8/2/25
"Alert! Russia Threatens To Destroy Entire US Nuclear Fleet"
"Russian Duma claims they're tracking US nuclear submarines."
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Musical Interlude: Yanni, “To the One Who Knows”
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Yanni, “To the One Who Knows”
"A Look to the Heavens"
“The beautiful Trifid Nebula, also known as Messier 20, is easy to find with a small telescope in the nebula rich constellation Sagittarius. About 5,000 light-years away, the colorful study in cosmic contrasts shares this well-composed, nearly 1 degree wide field with open star cluster Messier 21 (top right).
Trisected by dust lanes the Trifid itself is about 40 light-years across and a mere 300,000 years old. That makes it one of the youngest star forming regions in our sky, with newborn and embryonic stars embedded in its natal dust and gas clouds. Estimates of the distance to open star cluster M21 are similar to M20's, but though they share this gorgeous telescopic skyscape there is no apparent connection between the two. In fact, M21's stars are much older, about 8 million years old.”
"Lady In Red Coffee Hour"
"Lady In Red Coffee Hour"
Rarely, very rarely, do you stumble upon something so exquisitely well done, so astonishingly beautiful you can't believe what you're seeing. This is one of those times. Be kind to yourself, take a break from it all, view the many short works and savor this exquisitely beautiful website. Sound on for the music. Incredibly wonderful...
The Poet: David Whyte, “‘Sometimes"
“‘Sometimes’: Poet and Philosopher David Whyte’s
Stunning Meditation on Walking into the Questions of Our Becoming”
by Maria Popova
“The role of the artist, James Baldwin believed, is “to make you realize the doom and glory of knowing who you are and what you are.” This, too, is the role of the forest, it occurs to me as I walk the ferned, mossed woods daily to lose my self and find myself between the trees; to “live the questions,” in Rilke’s lovely phrase – to let the rustling of the leaves beckon forth the stirrings and murmurings on the edge of the psyche, which we so often brush away in order to go on being the smaller version of ourselves we have grown accustomed to being out of the unfaced fear that the grandeur of life, the grandeur of our own untrammeled nature, might require of us more than we are ready to give.
Those disquieting, transformative stirrings are what the poet and philosopher David Whyte explores with surefooted subtlety in his poem “Sometimes,” found in his altogether life-enlarging collection “Everything Is Waiting for You” and read here by the poet himself as part of a wonderful short course of poem-driven practices for neuroscientist and philosopher Sam Harris’s “Waking Up” meditation toolkit (which I can’t recommend enough and which operates under an inspired, honorable model of granting free subscriptions to those who need this invaluable mental health aid but don’t have the means).
“Sometimes”
“Sometimes
if you move carefully
through the forest,
breathing
like the ones
in the old stories,
who could cross
a shimmering bed of leaves
without a sound,
you come to a place
whose only task
is to trouble you
with tiny
but frightening requests,
conceived out of nowhere
but in this place
beginning to lead everywhere.
Requests to stop what
you are doing right now,
and
to stop what you
are becoming
while you do it,
questions
that can make
or unmake
a life,
questions
that have patiently
waited for you,
questions
that have no right
to go away.”
- David Whyte
"The Truth About The Employment Numbers: 806,383 Job Cuts Through 7 Months Of 2025 – Up 75 Percent From Last Year!"
"The Truth About The Employment Numbers:
806,383 Job Cuts Through 7 Months Of 2025 –
Up 75 Percent From Last Year!"
by Michael Snyder
"Have the official employment numbers finally achieved peak fakeness? We just got another perfect example of why so many of us have completely lost faith in the fake figures that government bureaucrats have been feeding us. For months we were told that employment was booming, but now we are being told that just the opposite is happening. So what is the truth? If you want the truth, you need to look at the numbers coming in from private sources, because the government numbers are a load of bunk.
How in the world do 258,000 jobs suddenly disappear into thin air? The BLS just revised the employment numbers for May and June by a combined total of 258,000 jobs, and this completely shocked a lot of the experts…"Nonfarm payrolls added 73,000 in July, far lower than the 100,000 expected by analysts. The unemployment rate also ticked up to 4.2 percent. The report also sharply revised down the figures for May and June by a combined 258,000 jobs from the previously released figures. Following the revision June’s total was left at just 14,000 and May’s at 19,000 - effectively flat. Analysts say July’s figure is also likely to be revised lower, possibly into negative territory."
The U.S. needs to add approximately 150,000 jobs a month just to keep up with population growth. Even if these numbers were accurate, they would still be horrible.
But they aren’t accurate. I have always felt that the Household survey is at least somewhat more accurate, and it showed a loss of 260,000 jobs last month…The number was even uglier in the Household survey, which showed a drop of 260K workers in July, the 3rd biggest monthly drop of 2025.
So which is it? Did the U.S. gain 73,000 jobs last month or did we lose 260,000 jobs? I can understand why President Trump is so frustrated. The numbers are all over the place. Shortly after the employment report was released, Trump announced the firing of the commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics…"Hours after disappointing jobs data reflected cracks in the U.S. economy, President Trump said Friday that he planned to fire the commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, Erika McEntarfer, and implied on social media that she had manipulated the monthly data for political reasons."
Wow. We have never seen a president do that before. On Truth Social, Trump explained his reasoning for firing her…"I was just informed that our Country’s “Jobs Numbers” are being produced by a Biden Appointee, Dr. Erika McEntarfer, the Commissioner of Labor Statistics, who faked the Jobs Numbers before the Election to try and boost Kamala’s chances of Victory. This is the same Bureau of Labor Statistics that overstated the Jobs Growth in March 2024 by approximately 818,000 and, then again, right before the 2024 Presidential Election, in August and September, by 112,000. These were Records - No one can be that wrong? We need accurate Jobs Numbers. I have directed my Team to fire this Biden Political Appointee, IMMEDIATELY. She will be replaced with someone much more competent and qualified. Important numbers like this must be fair and accurate, they can’t be manipulated for political purposes. McEntarfer said there were only 73,000 Jobs added (a shock!) but, more importantly, that a major mistake was made by them, 258,000 Jobs downward, in the prior two months. Similar things happened in the first part of the year, always to the negative. The Economy is BOOMING under “TRUMP” despite a Fed that also plays games, this time with Interest Rates, where they lowered them twice, and substantially, just before the Presidential Election, I assume in the hopes of getting “Kamala” elected – How did that work out? Jerome “Too Late” Powell should also be put “out to pasture.” Thank you for your attention to this matter!"
Personally, I believe that the numbers that we get from private sources give us a much truer picture of what is really going on in the economy. According to Challenger, Gray & Christmas, U.S. employers announced 62,075 job cuts in July. That figure is 140 percent higher than it was in July 2024…"U.S.-based employers announced 62,075 job cuts in July, up 29% from June’s 47,999. It is up 140% from 25,885 announced in the same month last year, according to a report released Thursday from global outplacement and business and executive coaching firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas. July’s job cuts are well above average for this month since the pandemic. From 2021 to 2024, job cut announcements in July averaged 23,584. Considering the past decade (2015-2025), last month’s announced cuts are still above the average of 60,398."
As I have been warning for months, we really are seeing widespread layoffs all over the nation. Overall, U.S. employers have announced 806,383 job cuts during the first seven months of 2025. That is a 75 percent increase over the first seven months of last year…"So far this year, companies have announced 806,383 job cuts, the highest YTD since 2020 when 1,847,696 were announced. It is up 75% from the 460,530 job cuts announced through the first seven months of last year and is up 6% from the 2024 full year total of 761,358."
Challenger, Gray & Christmas doesn’t have a political agenda to push. They are just reporting the facts. The tech industry has been getting hit particularly hard by layoffs, and many of those layoffs are “directly tied to the advent of AI”…"Of those layoffs, the technology industry wielded the sharpest axe — private companies in the sector have announced more than 89,000 job cut, up 36% from a year ago. Since 2023, more than 27,000 job cuts have been directly tied to the advent of AI, according to the firm. “The industry is being reshaped by the advancement of artificial intelligence and ongoing uncertainty surrounding work visas, which have contributed to workforce reductions,” Challenger, Gray & Christmas said."
Other numbers also confirm that the economy is rapidly moving in the wrong direction. For example, factory activity in the United States just contracted “at the fastest pace in nine months”…"US factory activity contracted in July at the fastest pace in nine months, dragged down by a faster decline in employment as orders continued to shrink. The Institute for Supply Management’s manufacturing index decreased 1 point last month to 48, according to data released Friday. The gauge has been below 50, which indicates contraction, for five straight months.
A measure of factory employment slid to the lowest level in more than five years, suggesting producers are stepping up efforts to control costs amid higher tariffs and softer demand. Government figures this week showed sluggish consumer spending and business investment in the first half of the year."
We really do have a growing crisis on our hands. Unfortunately, what we have experienced so far is just the beginning. I fully expect economic conditions to deteriorate significantly by the end of 2025. So hold on tight and don’t let go, because things are about to get a lot crazier."
"Warning: 85 Million Layoffs By The End Of 2025"
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Snyder Reports, 8/2/25
"Warning: 85 Million Layoffs By The End Of 2025"
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Phoenix, Arizona, USA. Thanks for stopping by!
And thank you from Casa Grande ;-)
Free Download: "The Bhagavad-Gita"
“Now, I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.”
- Vishnu, the Bhagavad-Gita
"Bhagavad-gita is knowledge of five basic truths and the relationship of each truth to the other: These five truths are Krishna, or God, the individual soul, the material world, action in this world, and time. The Gita lucidly explains the nature of consciousness, the self, and the universe. It is the essence of India's spiritual wisdom, the answers to questions posed by philosophers for centuries. In translating the Gita, A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada has remained loyal to the intended meaning of Krishna's words, and thus he has unlocked all the secrets of the ancient knowledge of the Gita and placed them before us as an exciting opportunity for self-improvement and spiritual fulfillment. The Gita is a conversation between Krishna and His dear friend Arjuna. At the last moment before entering a battle between brothers and friends, the great warrior Arjuna begins to wonder: Why should he fight? What is the meaning of his life? Where is he going after death? In response, Krishna brings His friend from perplexity to spiritual enlightenment, and each one of us is invited to walk the same path."
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'Remember..."
"Every time you wake up ask yourself what good
things am I going to do today? Remember that when the
sun goes down at sunset it will take a part of your life with it."
- Native American Saying
"Richard Dawkins on the Luckiness of Death"
"Richard Dawkins on the Luckiness of Death"
by Maria Popova
"We are born into the certitude of our eventual death. Every once in a while, something - perhaps an encounter with a robin’s egg, perhaps a poem - staggers us with the awful, awe-filled wonder of aliveness, the sheer luck of it against the overwhelming cosmic odds of nonexistence. But alloyed with the awe is always the half-conscious grief that one day the light of consciousness will be extinguished. It is a heavy gift to hold, this doomed delirium of aliveness. It is also a buoyant gladness, if we are limber enough to stretch into the cosmic perspective that does not come naturally to us small, Earth-bound bipeds corticed with tender self-importance.
Consider this. For each of us, one thing is true: Had any one variable been ever so subtly different - had your parents mated on a different day or at a different altitude, had the early universe cooled a fraction of a second faster after the Big Bang, you would not exist as the particular constellation of atoms configuring the particular consciousness that makes you you. Because chance plays such dice with the universe, and because the die dictates that the vast majority of energy and matter never had the luck of cohering into this doomed delirium of aliveness, it is, in some profound and practical sense, a staggering privilege to die - one that betokens the privilege of having lived. To lament death, then, is to lament our luck, for any negation of the possibility of death is a negation of the improbable miracle of life, a wish for there to be nothing to do the dying - nothing to have partaken of the beautiful, bittersweet temporality of aliveness.
It is easier to bend the intuitive mind into this correct but counterintuitive perspective while walking in a cemetery at the height of summer. Doing this very thing while thinking these very thoughts, I was reminded of a passage from one of the most lucid and lens-clearing books written this side of Darwin - "Unweaving the Rainbow: Science, Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder" (public library) by the visionary and often controversial (which is the social fate of every visionary) British evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins.
A civilization after Marcus Aurelius celebrated mortality as the key to living fully, half a millennium after Montaigne observed that “to lament that we shall not be alive a hundred years hence, is the same folly as to be sorry we were not alive a hundred years ago,” and a scientific epoch after Darwin contemplated the meaning of mortality in the wake of his beloved daughter’s death, Dawkins writes:
"We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones. Most people are never going to die because they are never going to be born. The potential people who could have been here in my place but who will in fact never see the light of day outnumber the sand grains of Arabia. Certainly those unborn ghosts include greater poets than Keats, scientists greater than Newton. We know this because the set of possible people allowed by our DNA so massively exceeds the set of actual people. In the teeth of these stupefying odds it is you and I, in our ordinariness, that are here. We privileged few, who won the lottery of birth against all odds, how dare we whine at our inevitable return to that prior state from which the vast majority have never stirred?"
Complement with astronomer and poet Rebecca Elson’s exquisite “Antidotes to Fear of Death,” Nick Cave on grief as a portal to aliveness, and Christopher Hitchens on how to live with our mortality, then revisit the science of how alive you really are, examined through the curious lens of trees and Alan Turing."
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"All Of The Available Data..."
"All of the available data show that the typical American citizen has about
as much interest in the life of the mind as does your average armadillo. "
- Morris Berman
Apologies to armadillos for the comparison...
"You Are About to Lose Your Job - Here's the Real Truth"
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Dan, I Allegedly AM 8/2/25
"You Are About to Lose Your Job -
Here's the Real Truth"
"The latest job numbers are in, and the truth might shock you! In today’s video, I’m breaking down the real story behind these shocking figures and what they mean for the economy, businesses, and YOU. From unexpected job revisions to the challenges facing industries like trucking and health insurance, things aren’t looking as rosy as some might want us to believe. We’re also diving into the latest on crypto mortgages, Denver’s controversial homeless hotel, and even wild recycling fraud schemes. Buckle up—there’s a lot to discuss!"
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"Assuming the Worst"
"Assuming the Worst"
by Todd Hayen
"I used to think that people were pretty smart. Meaning if I were walking down the street, or through a crowded mall, I could be pretty certain that most people I ran into were at a certain level of intelligence.
What do they say? That the average IQ is 100? And when you start getting really low in IQ, the number of people who have that lower IQ gets smaller and fewer in number. It is like the classic bell curve. The middle of the bell curve is the number of people with an IQ of 100; outliers on either side get lower or higher. That’s what I used to think.
For whatever reason, it felt safer knowing that most people you “saw” were not utter morons. Even if you had interactions with people in stores, or per chance bumping into someone and exchanging words, it was not like you were on some distant planet trying to have a conversation with a humanoid alien (or lizardman) who had zero experience communicating with a real human.
Don’t get me wrong. I use the phrase “utter moron” not out of disrespect for humans with low IQs. There was a time that psychologists actually used the terms “moron, imbecile, and idiot” officially to denote IQ levels. (Those with an IQ of 0 to 25, were called idiots, 26 to 50 were called imbeciles and 51 to 70 were called morons.) Of course, today these terms are considered offensive, so no longer used (except by insensitive dickwhacks like me). So, I don’t mean it offensively (well, maybe in the context of this article it is meant offensively).
Something I didn’t realize back then as well, is that what I was observing had little to do with IQ or intelligence. It was more about “common sense.” Sure, there are times where the degree of “common sense” is directly related to IQ or intelligence, but feeling safer around people with higher IQs really has never been a logical assumption. It was the “common sense factor”…CSF, rather than IQ, that made me feel more comfortable—an assumption, which back then was a plausible assumption, that most people had at least an average CSF. So, life went on this way. Living among other humans, more or less the same as me. Ha.
I have no way to know, however, if my assumption was accurate, but I think it was more accurate then than it is today. In fact, now there is no assumption that all of the people I run across in a casual way—in the mall, on the street, in a crowded theatre, etc.—have an average CSF. Actually, it is rather obvious they do not. And even if it is not visually or behaviourally obvious, I can be relatively certain most people I run across are below average on the CSF scale.
This conclusion I’ve come to I’ve based on the results of a concentrated effort I’ve made over the years (since 2019) to assess people and their actions and lack of understanding regarding Covid, vaccines, politics, world events, the New World Order efforts, etc. I am very sad to say my assessment has not come out very well.
Sure, I have no way to know if suddenly the human race has been affected by some space ray they all have been exposed to (ala the meteor shower in the Sci-Fi thriller of the ‘60s The Day of the Triffids) or if EMF, or 5G, or fluoride, or poisonous water, or vaccines, or drugs in general, or food, or whatever, has poisoned the minds of so many people. Or if this is a recent phenomenon, like DNA manipulation or spike protein affectation of the brain (however, if something that recent is the culprit, it would not explain why people took the Covid jab in the first place).
If people have indeed been affected for decades, then I was under a false illusion back when I was younger, assuming these crowds of people I routinely came into contact with were “safe”—more than likely they never were. However, TV, films, and whatnot always gave the impression (or at least most of them did) that average every day people were all relatively the same—they all had the same fears, the same desires, the same fallacies, and most importantly, the same level of common sense.
Just for yucks, let’s assume this reality—that most people are below an acceptable CSF—is rather recent. This assumption makes grappling with all this a little easier. It is then easier to realize the agenda’s hand in it all. Although the agenda has been working its black magic for decades, if not centuries (if not since Mr. Snake coerced Eve to eat his apple), let’s assume for a magic moment that most of this meddling is recent, meaning within the last 150 years, starting its major campaigns of manipulation during the first World War, and continuing in earnest throughout the 20th Century and now into the 21st. (As I write this, I realize it goes back, for certain, earlier than this, but bear with me).
So maybe, just maybe, the agenda’s influence on the average every day person has upped in magnitude during the last 30 years or so (that wasn’t that long ago), and it is an exponential “up”—meaning it has doubled in the last 10 years. So, the masses in my childhood were more “normal” than the masses now. Then there is more reason to “assume the worst” while walking down the street on a nice sunny day, and running into people who do not appear to be a problem, but could be completely inept if a problem came up.
So what? Well, if this is true, it means we have to be more on our toes than we think we need to be. We have to always have a plan if things go wrong, because more than likely the person next to you on the street or in the mall will not be able to help you. Is this a bad thing? Not necessarily.
The agenda has been trying for years to convince us that we are not in danger as long as they are there to assist us. No one needs to carry a gun, or have a weapon handy, because the criminals who are possibly around the corner will be quelled by the government’s efforts (police or whatnot).
There is no need to take responsibility for the safety of oneself or family because the government has that covered.
There is no need to take care of your own health, because the government-run healthcare system knows how to take care of us with more pills, more chemicals in the water and the air, etc.
You are safe, because the agenda makes you safe through its control over you and the environment.
In reality, you are not safe. Not at all. You need to be aware, be responsible, and think."
Adventures With Danno, "Grocery Shopping At Target, Different Food Options & Prices!"
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Adventures With Danno, AM 8/2/25
"Grocery Shopping At Target,
Different Food Options & Prices!"
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Travelling With Russell, 8/2/25
"Russian Typical Supermarket Tour (Not in Moscow)"
"What does a Russian typical supermarket look like inside? On this tour, we look inside a brand new supermarket opened only days ago. The store is part of the largest chain of supermarkets in Russia, with more than 20,000 locations."
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"Col. Douglas MacGregor: 'They Are All Dead, 1.8 Million Ukrainian Troops Killed'"
Redacted, 8/2/25
"Col. Douglas MacGregor:
'They Are All Dead, 1.8 Million Ukrainian Troops Killed'"
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“They have to find out where is the money going to. I believe President Zelensky said last week that he doesn’t know where half of the money is that we gave him. Well, we gave them, I believe, $350 billion, but let’s say it’s something less than that. But it’s a lot, and we have to equalize with Europe because Europe has given a very much smaller percentage than that. I think Europe has given $100bn and we’ve given, let’s say, $300-plus, and it’s more important for them than it is for us. We have an ocean in between and they don’t. But where is all the money that’s been given? Where is it going? And I’ve never seen an accounting of it. We give hundreds of billions of dollars.” - US President Donald Trump
$350 billion...while America is going straight to Hell, fast...
Friday, August 1, 2025
"A Look to the Heavens"
“Far beyond the local group of galaxies lies NGC 3621, some 22 million light-years away. Found in the multi-headed southern constellation Hydra, the winding spiral arms of this gorgeous island universe are loaded with luminous young star clusters and dark dust lanes. Still, for earthbound astronomers NGC 3621 is not just another pretty face-on spiral galaxy. Some of its brighter stars have been used as standard candles to establish important estimates of extragalactic distances and the scale of the Universe.
This beautiful image of NGC 3621 traces the loose spiral arms far from the galaxy's brighter central regions that span some 100,000 light-years. Spiky foreground stars in our own Milky Way Galaxy and even more distant background galaxies are scattered across the colorful skyscape.”
- http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap090919.html
"Well, It Is Our Fate..."
"Well, it is our fate to live in a time of crisis. To live in a time when all forms and values are being challenged. In other and more easy times, it was not, perhaps, necessary for the individual to confront himself with a clear question: What is it that you really believe? What is it that you really cherish? What is it for which you might, actually, in a showdown, be willing to die? I say, with all the reticence which such large, pathetic words evoke, that one cannot exist today as a person, one cannot exist in full consciousness, without having to have a showdown with ones self, without having to define what it is that one lives by, without being clear in ones mind what matters and what does not matter."
- Dorothy Thompson
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“When the pain of leaving behind what we know outweighs the pain of embracing it, or when the power we face is overwhelming and neither flight nor fight will save us, there may be salvation in sitting still. And if salvation is impossible, then at least before perishing we may gain a clearer vision of where we are. By sitting still I do not mean the paralysis of dread, like that of a rabbit frozen beneath the dive of a hawk. I mean something like reverence, a respectful waiting, a deep attentiveness to forces much greater than our own.”
- Scott Russell Sanders
Folks, I fear our time for such reverence has come.
And so, we bravely face it. God help us, God help us all...
"They Can Shut Down The Entire Financial System By Pushing A Button"
Jeremiah Babe, 8/1/25
"They Can Shut Down The Entire
Financial System By Pushing A Button"
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"Alert! Trump Sends 200 Nuclear Warheads To Russian Coast!"
Prepper News, 8/1/25
"Alert! Trump Sends 200 Nuclear
Warheads To Russian Coast!"
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"The Genesis & The Whistleblower"
"The Genesis & The Whistleblower"
by Paul Rosenberg
"Again declassified documents have been released (one set from Senator Grassley and another, again, from Ms. Gabbard, the Director of National Intelligence) detailing the course of a slow coup at the highest levels of the US government, including the intelligence infrastructure. In this set (released July 30, 2025), we see the genesis of the whole “Russia Hacking The Election” scam, as well as a detailed statement from a senior intelligence official who objected to the things being done. Again I’ll be brief and give you the most important snips:
How It Started: The Russia hoax began with Hillary Clinton, as a distraction from revelations about her illegal and bizarre email server. More or less anyone else would have gone to jail for what she did (sending classified materials over an unsecured and trivial to hack private server), and it was threatening to hurt her presidential campaign quite badly.
This release displays the actions she and her staff took, as well as those of the Soros group, with whom she was directly and very closely connected. Please download the original and see this for yourself. Here are the essential passages:
Barack Obama sanctioned the use of all administrative levers to remove possibly negative effects from FBI investigation of cases related to the Clinton Foundation and the email correspondence in the State Department.
The FBI does not possess any kind of direct evidence on Clinton, because of their timely deletion from the email servers.
Julie [Hillary Clinton’s Campaign Advisor] says it will be a long-term affair to demonize Putin and Trump. Now it is good for a post-convention bounce. Later the FBI will put more oil into the fire.
HRC [Hillary Rodham Clinton] approved Julie’s idea about Trump and Russian hackers hampering U.S. elections. That should distract people from her own missing emails.
Due to the lack of direct evidence, it was decided to disseminate the necessary information through the FBI-affiliated “attic-based” technical structures that are involved in cyber security, in particular the Crowdstrike and ThreatConnect Companies, from where the information would then be disseminated through leading US publications.
POTUS and VPOTUS [Barack Obama and Joe Biden] have acknowledged the fact that IC [Intelligence Community] would speed up searching for evidence that is regrettably still unavailable… in the absence of direct evidence, Crowdstrike and ThreatConnect will supply the media.
The Whistleblower: Please download the original and see it for yourself. Here again are snips, which I’ll again allow to stand without comment:
From 2015 to 2020 I served as a Deputy National Intelligence Officer at the National Intelligence Council… I led the production of the Intelligence Community Assessment (ICA) on Cyber threats to the 2016 Presidential Election.
The DNI [James Clapper] stated that then-President of The United States (POTUS) Obama had urgently requested a comprehensive analysis on election security. I was pressured to alter my views on the 2017 ICA’s Key Judgments, with the expressed intent that my concurrence was sought to enable to sway the views of the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA).
Statements to me in early January 2017, regarding the 2017 ICA were: There is reporting you are not allowed to see. If you saw it, you would agree. Isn’t it possible that Putin has something on Trump, to blackmail and coerce him? You need to TRUST ME on this… [He or she] further reiterated that I abandon my tradecraft standards… and stated that I would need to demonstrate my ability to “outgrow” [those standards] in order for [them] to recommend my promotion to a Senior Executive Service [SES] position. (now visibly frustrated) I need you to say you agree with these judgments, so the DIA will go along with them!
I was aware that I was defying the NIO’s direction to me (to misrepresent my views to DIA) based on a conscious decision to adhere to IC standards, tradecraft and ethics. I… also judged that the 2017 ICA’s treatment of overt media activities was omitting important context. In response, [REDACTED] actively pressured me to change my judgments, and stated clearly and directly to me that sought my concurrence as a means to persuade the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) so that DIA would provide their concurrence.
National Intelligence Council leadership dismissed my concerns regarding potential deliberate deception of Intelligence Officers by a NIO and of possible attempts to bias analysis. I judged that other violations of IC analytic integrity almost certainly occurred, that violations of the law might have occurred, or that there might have been attempts to undermine tradecraft or to bias NIO analysis.
Implications: As I noted in our previous post, the implications of these releases may be so large that many Americans will look for one excuse after another to close their eyes to them. And so we must prevent willful blindness by spreading this evidence as widely and repeatedly as possible. Thanks."
"Anyone Who Isn't Confused..."
"Anyone who isn't confused really doesn't understand the situation."
- Edward R. Murrow
“Before the Leaves Fall From the Trees”
“Before the Leaves Fall From the Trees”
by Simon Black
"The morning of June 28, 1914 began like any other normal day. It was a Sunday, so a lot of people went to church. Others prepared large meals for family gatherings, played with their children, or thumbed through the Sunday papers.
At that point, tensions had been high in Europe for several years; the continent was bitterly divided by a series of complex diplomatic and military alliances, and small wars had recently broken out. Italy and the Ottoman Empire went to war in 1912 in a limited, 13-month conflict. And the First Balkan War was waged in early 1913. Overall, though, the continent clung to a delicate peace. And hardly anyone expected that most of the next three decades would be filled with chaos, poverty, and destruction. And then it happened.
That Sunday afternoon, the heir to the Austro-Hungarian Empire was assassinated during an official visit to Sarajevo. And the world changed forever. Five weeks later the entire continent was at war with itself. But even still, most of the ‘experts’ thought it would be a simple, speedy conflict. Germany’s emperor, Kaiser Wilhelm II, famously told his troops who were being shipped off to the front line in August 1914, “You will be home before the leaves fall from the trees...” It took four years and an estimated 68 million casualties to bring the war to a close. But that was only the prelude.
Following (and even during) World War I, a series of bloody revolutionary movements took hold in Europe, including in Russia, Greece, Spain, Turkey, and Ireland. Then came the Spanish flu, which claimed the lives of tens of millions of people. Later, Germany sunk into one of the worst episodes of hyperinflation in human history.
Communism began rapidly spreading across the world almost as quickly as the Spanish flu, often through violent fanatics who engaged in murder and arson in order to intimidate their opponents; this became known as the ‘Red Scare’ in the United States.
Of course there were some good years during the 1920s when people generally felt prosperous and happy; but it all came crashing down at the end of the decade when a severe economic depression strangled the entire world. It lasted for more than ten years, during which time the world was once again brought to an even more destructive war that didn’t end until atomic weapons obliterated the civilian populations of two Japanese cities.
Again – go back to June 1914. Who would have thought that the next 30+ years would play out so destructively? Even for the people who did predict that Europe would go to war in 1914, most leaders thought it would be over quickly. And almost no one expected it would spawn decades of chaos.
Today we’re obviously living in different times and under different circumstances. But we may be standing at a similar precipice as in 1914, staring at enormous trends that could shape our lives for years to come. Covid only scratched the surface.
We now know without a doubt, for example, how governments will respond the next time they feel there’s a threat to public health. They’ll say, “We’re listening to the scientists.” Really? The same scientists who told people they couldn’t go to work, school, or church, but it was perfectly fine for peaceful protesters to pack together like sardines without wearing masks because they’re apparently protected from the virus by their own righteousness? The same scientists who wanted to lock everyone down to prevent Covid, but were happy to accept skyrocketing rates of cancer, depression, suicide, heart disease, and domestic abuse as a result of those very lockdowns and so-called "vaccines'?
The public health consequences from this pandemic and "vaccine" will reverberate for years to come. And that doesn’t even begin to take the economic consequences into consideration. Western governments have taken on trillions of dollars in new debt this year and central banks have printed trillions more. Even with all that stimulus, however, there are still hundreds of millions of people worldwide who lost their jobs, and countless businesses that have closed.
Future generations who haven’t even been born yet will spend their entire working lives paying interest on the debts that are being accumulated today. The long-term consequences of all this are incalculable.
And then there are the social trends – the rise of neo-Marxism that’s sweeping the world so fast. It’s the Red Scare of the 21st century. They despise talented, successful people. They believe it’s greedy for you to keep a healthy portion of what you earn, but it’s not greedy for them to take it from you and spend it on themselves.
Many of the people in this movement, of course, are violent fanatics who routinely engage in arson, assault, and vandalism. Same for the social justice warriors who are just as quick to violence and intimidation; plus they’ve already commandeered the decision-making of some of the largest, most powerful companies in the world. You can’t even watch a football game or a TV commercial anymore without some commentary on oppression and victimization. And any intellectual dissent is met with intimidation or censorship.
In fact the largest consumer technology companies in the world have become our censors. We’re not allowed to share scientific information that doesn’t conform to the Chinese-controlled World Health Organization’s guidance. And news articles that don’t match their ideology are blocked.
Let’s not kid ourselves – these trends are not going away any time soon. It’s great to be optimistic, hope for the best, and enjoy the good years as they come. But it makes sense to at least be prepared for the possibility that we could be at the very beginning of a period of enormous instability that may last a very long time."
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"The Guns of August"
"In this landmark, Pulitzer Prize–winning account, renowned historian Barbara W. Tuchman re-creates the first month of World War I: thirty days in the summer of 1914 that determined the course of the conflict, the century, and ultimately our present world. Beginning with the funeral of Edward VII, Tuchman traces each step that led to the inevitable clash. And inevitable it was, with all sides plotting their war for a generation. Dizzyingly comprehensive and spectacularly portrayed with her famous talent for evoking the characters of the war’s key players."
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“It is history that teaches us to hope. It is well that war is
so terrible, otherwise we should grow too fond of it.”
- Robert E. Lee
But we've learned nothing from history, nothing at all,
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"How It Really Is"
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Bill Bonner, "Crackpot Economics"
The inside of a Moscow super market in 1968.
"Crackpot Economics"
by Bill Bonner
Eugenie les Bains, France - "The Trump Team has just embarked on the Second Major Crackpot Financial Experiment of our lifetime. Bloomberg: "Trump Boosts Tariffs Across World, Reshaping Global Commerce." We’re down in the South of France, not far from the Spanish border. We’ve come for a wedding...the daughter of one of Elizabeth’s old classmates is getting married. Details to follow...Meanwhile, we’re watching another long-term disaster as it hatches.
The first was the one we’ve been tracking for many years - the 1971 switch from real money, tied to gold...to fake money, with nothing to connect it to the real world of goods and services. So far, this new dollar - not supported by anything other than the untrustworthy full faith and credit of the US government - has lost 86% of its value.
This had two pernicious results. It jacked up the nominal cost of American labor and US exports - making them less attractive to foreign markets. And it made dollar credits so readily available (with lower interest rates) that Americans could buy what they wanted from abroad rather than making it themselves. The effect was to strip the US of its manufacturing base...keep the working class from getting a real raise for half a century...and saddle the country with $103 trillion in debt.
Mr. Trump failed to understand what Crackpot Experiment Number One was all about. He blamed its consequences on ‘unfair trade deals.’ This led him to Crackpot Experiment Number Two.
Both experiments test the same hypothesis - one that everyone who’s been paying attention knows to be untrue - that politicians and bureaucrats can do a better job of controlling financial forces than free markets. The Soviet Union - to whose long-suffering people we are all deeply indebted - ran that experiment over a 70-year period. Such a disaster was it, that the leadership not only abandoned central planning but gave up on their whole Soviet government. Back in the US, the lesson seems to have been missed.
Crackpot Experiment Number One gave the feds greater control of our money, with the inevitable undesirable results. Crackpot Experiment Number Two has the feds taking over trade. The New York Times: "Over the last six months, the US has left behind the global trade order that persisted for decades in favor of something drastically different and largely untested."
But US government-managed trade was tested in the 1930s. Misters Smoot and Hawley put on tariffs that were lower than those of Mr. Trump. In a matter of weeks, two out of three cross-border orders had been canceled. The world economy sank into depression and took more than ten years to climb out.
Nevertheless, Mr. Trump decided to re-run the experiment. He announced his Liberation Day in April and said he was liberating the economy from...free trade. Henceforth, US trade would be centrally planned with Mr. Trump himself setting the tariffs. And instead of paying tariffs of 2% to 5%, importers will pay 15%...and more. Poor l
And copper, an essential metal for the modern economy, will be hit with a 50% tariff. This includes pipes, wires, rods, and sheets and other ‘semi-finished’ copper products. Copper cathodes, the raw material for copper used in cars, construction, electronics, and renewables, are apparently exempt from the tariffs.
A shame. The prosperity of the modern world was largely a product of copper, container ships and increased trade. Trade barriers had been coming down since WWII. And it was the absence of internal trade barriers - between California and New York, for example - that created the world’s largest free-trade zone and made the US such an economic powerhouse in the first place.
But here we are. The tariffs are supposed to kick in today. But wait. Lobbyists are on the job. Within hours of Trump’s Wednesday announcement, the message had changed. Bloomberg: "Trump blinked, announcing for the first time that his 50% tariff [on Brazil] didn’t mean 50% on everything...Brazilian goods will face an effective tariff rate of about 30%, Fernando Goncalves, the [Itau] bank’s head of economic research, said in an interview."
Then, he blinked again. The Daily Beast: "President Donald Trump announced he was delaying new tariffs on Mexico... The president announced his decision to delay tariffs set to go into effect on Friday for 90 days in a post on Truth Social after speaking on the phone with Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum."
And then, POTUS went kooky, threatening to use trade deals to force a change in Canada’s foreign policy, The Daily Beast continues: "The president posted on Wednesday that it would be “very hard” for the U.S. to make a deal with Canada after the country backed Palestinian statehood."
As for copper, almost all electrical connections - which are embedded in just about everything — depend on copper. Jacking up the price of copper by 50% is no small matter. So valuable is copper to a modern economy that it is sometimes called ‘the metal with a Ph.D. in economics.’ When prices go up...it signals an economy that is running hot. When they go down, watch out...a recession is coming. Bloomberg: "The US copper market suffered its largest intra-day fall on record after President Donald Trump shocked traders by exempting the most widely imported form of copper from his planned tariffs."
But what kind of a signal is this? Now that the feds are controlling the price, does it mean anything? Or, has the metal suddenly become retarded? We don’t know. But central planning won’t work any better with trade than it did with money. Both experiments - like a meth lab run by mental defectives - will blow up."
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