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Friday, November 7, 2025
Adventures With Danno, "Items at Aldi Everyone Should Be Buying Right Now!"
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Adventures With Danno, 11/7/25
"Items at Aldi Everyone
Should Be Buying Right Now!"
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Obscure Vintage Records, "Where Them Food Stamps?"
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Strong language alert!
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Clarence Wright, "She Ain’t Got No Groceries"
"Meet Clarence Wright. Virgo. Smooth as velvet. From the small town of Bammel, Texas. Clarence is the kind of brother who will iron his slacks before church, but still burn a grilled cheese because he forgot to buy the cheese. He’s cool as a fan, sharp dresser, and talks slick like your uncle who always has a story about “back in ’72.”
“She Ain’t Got No Groceries” comes from Clarence’s debut album "Stupid Sh*t" - a masterpiece dedicated to all the ridiculous, head-shaking moments we go through in life. Clarence loves women, loves soul music, but hates walking into a house with an empty fridge. This track is a 1970s soul parody with that buttery retro groove - horns, wah guitars, velvet-couch vibes - but the lyrics? Pure comedy. Think Richard Pryor meets Eddie Murphy with a splash of Paul Mooney realness. If you ever walked into someone’s house and opened the fridge to find ONE stick of butter and a bottle of mayo - Clarence wrote this for you."
"Trapped & Broke - Why Millions Say Debt Ruined Their Dreams"
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Dan, I Allegedly, 11/7/25
"Trapped & Broke -
Why Millions Say Debt Ruined Their Dreams"
"Discover the shocking truth about the biggest regret people have in life - it's not what you think! In this video, I break down a fascinating survey revealing how debt and financial struggles impact happiness, retirement plans, and day-to-day life for so many people. We talk about credit card debt, medical bills, car loans, and how inflation and income challenges are crushing joy for millions. Join me as I explore the alarming stats and give practical advice to help you avoid these pitfalls."
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Snyder Reports, 11/7/25
"US Economy Could Go From Bad To Worse Very Soon"
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Michael Bordenaro, 11/7/25
"Theres No Way Out of This Mess"
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EconoSilicon, 11/7/25
"15 Big Fast Food Chains
That Are Falling Apart In 2025"
"America’s favorite fast-food chains are crumbling before our eyes. In this shocking exposé, we uncover 15 Big Fast Food Chains That Are Falling Apart in 2025 - from once-iconic giants losing billions in revenue to beloved names shutting hundreds of locations across the country. As consumers tighten their wallets, rising labor costs, food inflation, and changing eating habits are tearing through the industry like never before.
From McDonald’s struggling with customer fatigue, to Subway’s franchise collapse, and Burger King’s deep financial troubles, this video dives deep into the data behind the downfall. You’ll learn which companies are closing stores, facing lawsuits, or fighting bankruptcy - and why some of the biggest names in American dining may not survive the next recession. We’ll also break down how delivery apps, inflation, and shifting consumer behavior are reshaping the restaurant landscape. The fast-food empire that once symbolized convenience and prosperity is now fighting to stay alive in a market where loyalty is fading and competition is fierce. Watch till the end to see which brand’s collapse will shock you the most."
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Michael Bordenaro, 11/7/25
"High Food Prices Are Crashing Restaurant Sales"
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Bill Bonner, "No Safety, No Surprise"
"No Safety, No Surprise"
by Bill Bonner
Baltimore, Maryland - “And so it begins...” said Donald Trump. What begins? It is the end that begins. The US empire has been in decline for a quarter of a century. Almost everything Mr. Trump has done appears intended to hasten the descent. That is as it should be. He’s fulfilling his historic role.
He’s made friendly countries wary of us...encouraged them to find dollar substitutes...and given them cause to ‘gun up’ to protect themselves. He’s stifled global trade with capricious tariff announcements...invaded US cities with ‘warfighters’ and masked ICE enforcers...set the nation on course for $185 trillion of debt...killed civilians (without trial) who were allegedly running drugs...and enriched his own family by billions of dollars, while most Americans have made little or no financial progress.
What seawall of strength and rectitude stands against this frothy tsunami of bad policy choices? None at all. No serious contender proposes to lower spending and eliminate deficits. None wishes to bring home the troops to defend the Homeland...they prefer making war on hapless countries like Nigeria, Yemen or Venezuela. Neither party dares make substantive cuts to Social Security or Medicare..
Take a careful look through the binoculars. Because here is where ‘the end’ comes into focus. Instead of bracing against the storm, and putting in place the breakwater reforms that might actually avoid the financial flood ahead, the voters turn to Zohran Mamdani. Mamdani is ready to open up the dikes: “There is no problem too big for government to solve. And no matter too small for government to care about...” What is he talking about? The last big problem the US government solved was WWII. Since then, from the war in Vietnam to the war on drugs, it’s been one failure after another.
But Democrats all over the country are getting the message. Want to win an election? Trying to claim the center doesn’t work. What works is bold activism...and more old-fashioned ‘something for nothing.’ It works for Republicans too. It used to be that you could count on the GOP to counter the Democrats’ natural drive for more spending. But Trump has snuffed out ‘conservatism’ in the House and the Senate. Like embers in a dying fire, only Tom Massie and (maybe…sometimes) Marjorie Taylor Greene (MTG) still flicker and glow.
MTG: "The government has failed all of us and it purely disgusts me. It really does. And I represent a district that is rural, manufacturing district, blue-collar, and people have been crushed by decades of failure in Washington, D.C. Both parties now accept deficits. Both approve of more debt...and of diddling interest rates to make it easier to borrow. Both now offer the voters ‘something for nothing.’ They merely aim to get it from different places. Mamdani proposes to tax rich Americans. Trump claims he can tax foreigners (with tariffs)."
Both promises are frauds. In New York, the top 10% of earners already pay 75% of the city’s budget, more per person than any other major city in America. Squeeze them harder? Every one of them knows how to get on to I-95...turn left and drive all the way down to Florida.
As for taxing foreigners, the idea was silly from the get-go. Any real businessman tries to sell as much product as he can, reducing his margin to an allowable minimum. If his costs are increased, he has no choice; either he raises his sales prices or gives up the market. Whichever way the next election goes - to the rascal Republicans or the scalawag Democrats - the empire is going down.
Says Ray Dalio: "The US is “at the end of its long-term debt cycle, near the end of its empire cycle, deeply divided and entering a period of internal and external conflict.” No safety. No surprise."
Jim Kunstler, "Side of Jihad With That Pastrami on Rye?"
Brothers in Arms: Alex Soros (L), Zohran (R)
"Side of Jihad With That Pastrami on Rye?"
by Jim Kunstler
"Socialism is a wonderful idea.
It's only as a reality that it has been disastrous."
- Thomas Sowell
"Does Zohran’s radiant smile put you in mind of a labradoodle puppy? The guy was just that soft and fluffy during the mayoral election campaign, beaming remorselessly for the cameras, summoning a cushy nirvana of give-aways that would deliver an “affordable” life to the moiling masses of under-employed latte-clutchers doomed by their unpayable college loans and the gender-study diplomas they innocently bought with all that money. Under Zohran, New York City will soon be one colossal student lounge, and even the baristas serving the lattes will get nice one-bedroom river-view apartments, ride to work on free buses, and buy their take-out chili-crisp fried tofu for cheap at the city-run food store.
Look (above): there is Zohran with his billionaire friend and patron Alex Soros. Alex does not seem to realize that Zohran wants to eat him for lunch. Fluffy as they might be, labradoodles are actually carnivores. And Zohran has declared that billionaires should not exist. He says the billionaires of New York are going to pay for those lattes, free buses, river-view apartments, and all the rest of the package. Is he planning to hold them hostage? Staple their John Lobb bespoke alligator leather loafers to the parqueted floor of the penthouse at 15 Central Park West while he loots their accounts?
No! They are going to make like Snake Pliskin and escape from New York with all their assets and chattels. Florida, Nashville, Boise! It’s a big country and, let’s face it, your laptop is your office. Then what? Maybe it will be like the old glory days of Soviet Russia in New York. The people will pretend to work and Zohran will pretend to pay them and everybody will be all happy and equal. That city-run food store will become the city-run free food store, just like the hippies dreamed about in 1967, the summer of love! Jews and Jihadis will march together, arm-in-arm, into a gleaming future...!
Then there was the victory speech. Not so labradoodle smiley. More like Fidel Castro (if anyone remembers that guy) in harangue mode. But know this: Zohran is a talented demagogue. He got game! He can bring it! He exudes charm like the Knicks’ Jalen Brunsen sweats at the three-point line! He can put it over, whip up a crowd, paint dazzling word-panoramas of a democratic-socialist promised land in the offing. He will have a glorious Christmas season awaiting the swearing-in at one minute past midnight, New Years Day.
Waitaminnit! Zohran probably doesn’t do Christmas, and certainly not Hanukkah. But it’s conceivable that he will huddle at Zabar’s with his constituents, the altekakers of the Upper West Side who (perhaps foolishly) voted for him, and together figure out how to arrest Benjamin Netanyahu the next time he comes to the UN - a campaign promise! And he can prepare to ride out of the gate on Jan 1 at warp speed to freeze a million rents, change-out social workers for cops, set up the free child-care, and perform all the other miracles promised.
I hate to break the spell, but here’s what you are really going to get in New York City with Mayor Zohran Mamdani: far and away the most corrupt administration ever in the history of the place, making the Boss Tweed era look like a model of efficiency and rectitude. I will tell you why: Zohran has zero managerial experience. In the decade, roughly, since he graduated from Bowdoin College up in faraway piney Maine, Zohran has worked as a campaign volunteer, a rapper (“Kanda Chap Chap” under the name Young Cardamom), a voter field-operator, a music supervisor for his Mom’s documentary film, and, since 2021, a New York State Assemblyman for District 36 in the Borough of Queens who rarely shows up in the chamber to vote for anything.
The New York City government comprises over a hundred agencies with a budget of $112.4-billion. The opportunities for grift are fantastic beyond comprehension. Now, appoint and hire thousands of Gen Z DEI types to run all those services, young folk who worked for Zohran’s campaign and were promised jobs in the new admin. What will you get? Cosmic level incompetence at best, and more likely wholesale looting of the public till. Now layer-on the omnipresent mob action in the New York City unions and the mafia-associated contractors who do business with the city. Doesn’t look great. And how much will be creamed off for the Zakaat, the obligatory Islamic tithe turned over to the poor, the needy, the homeless, the debtors and the practice of jihad?
So, good luck Big Apple as you await the luscious caramel coating of Woke-socialism to be laid on you. Zohran’s elevation capped an election week of Democratic Party triumph that left the faithful too hungover to even perform the much ballyhooed “Trump Must Go Now” exorcism promised for the day after the vote. Alex Soros & Friends bought plane tickets for a few “furry” Transtifas to fly in from Portland, OR, their training ground, but the event was a bust. Mr. Trump was not squeezed out of the known universe like a watermelon seed, as hoped. The Golden Golem of Greatness lurches on, coping with the Democrat’s never-ending seditious jihad against our country, featuring such new stars as New Jersey’s Mikie Sherrill and Virginia’s next governor, Abigail Spanberger, shown below wearing the winsome regalia of Covid-19 she modeled on the floor of the US House of representatives back in pandemic-time. You go, girl!"
Thursday, November 6, 2025
Jeremiah Babe, "Prepping For Big Trouble, We Are Now In A Critical Situation"
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Jeremiah Babe, 11/6/25
"Prepping For Big Trouble,
We Are Now In A Critical Situation"
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Snyder Reports, 11/6/25
"American Households Collapse -
What Happens Next Is Terrifying"
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Musical Interlude: "This Lost Scottish Melody Will Break Your Heart and Heal Your Soul"
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Highland Spirit,
"This Lost Scottish Melody
Will Break Your Heart and Heal Your Soul"
"Step into the mist of the Highlands, where every note of the bagpipes carries an ancient memory. Here the music is more than sound - it is a legend reborn, a call of the ancestors that awakens forgotten dreams. Let the Celtic spirit guide you through misty mountains, sacred stone circles, and timeless battles of clans. Each melody is a magical journey between the realms of myth and soul. Close your eyes, and the pipes will call you home."
"A Look to the Heavens"
“Massive stars, abrasive winds, mountains of dust, and energetic light sculpt one of the largest and most picturesque regions of star formation in the Local Group of Galaxies. Known as N11, the region is visible on the upper right of many images of its home galaxy, the Milky Way neighbor known as the Large Magellanic Clouds (LMC).
The above image was taken for scientific purposes by the Hubble Space Telescope and reprocessed for artistry by an amateur to win the Hubble’s Hidden Treasures competition. Although the section imaged above is known as NGC 1763, the entire N11 emission nebula is second in LMC size only to 30 Doradus. Studying the stars in N11 has shown that it actually houses three successive generations of star formation. Compact globules of dark dust housing emerging young stars are also visible around the image.”
"From Stardust to Sapiens: A Stunning Serenade to Our Cosmic Origins and Our Ongoing Self-Creation"
"From Stardust to Sapiens: A Stunning Serenade to
Our Cosmic Origins and Our Ongoing Self-Creation"
By Maria Popova
"We were never promised any of it - this world of cottonwoods and clouds - when the Big Bang set the possible in motion. And yet here we are, atoms with consciousness, each of us a living improbability forged of chaos and dead stars. Children of chance, we have made ourselves into what we are - creatures who can see a universe of beauty in the feather of a bird and can turn a blind eye to each other’s suffering, creatures capable of the Benedictus and the bomb. Creatures who hope.
A generation after Maya Angelou held up a cosmic mirror to humanity with “A Brave and Startling Truth,” Pattiann Rogers - who writes with uncommon virtuosity about the intersection of the cosmic and the human, and whose poems have therefore been a frequent presence in "The Universe in Verse" - offers a poignant cosmogony of our self-creation in the stunning final poem of her book "Flickering" (public library).
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"Homo Sapiens: Creating Themselves"
by Pattiann Rogers, Read by Maria Popova
I.
"Formed in the black-light center of a star-circling
galaxy; formed in whirlpool images of froth
and flume and fulcrum; in the center image of herring
circling like pieces of silver swirling fast, a shoaling
circle of deception; in the whirlpool perfume of sex
in the deepest curve of a lily’s soft corolla. Created
within the images of the creator’s creation.
Born with the same grimacing wrench of a tree-covered
cliff split wide suddenly by lightning and opened
to thundering clouds of hail and rain.
Cured in the summer sun as if in a potter’s oven,
polished like a stone rolled by a river, emboldened
by the image of the expanse beyond earth’s horizon,
inside and outside a circumference in the image
of freedom.
Given the image of starlight clusters steadily silent
above a hillside-silence of fallen snow… let there be sleep.
II.
Inheriting from the earth’s scrambling minions,
images of thorn and bur, fang and claw, stealth,
deceit, poison, camouflage, blade, and blood…
let there be suffering, let there be survival.
Shaped by the image of the onset and unstoppable
devouring eclipse of the sun, the tempestuous, ecliptic
eating of the moon, the volcanic explosions of burning
rocks and fiery hail of ashes to death… let there be
terror and tears. Let there be pity.
Created in the image of fear inside a crawfish
skittering backward through a freshwater stream
with all eight appendages in perfect coordination,
both pincers held high, backing into safety beneath
a fallen leaf refuge… let there be home.
III.
Made in the image of the moon, where else
would the name of ivory rock craters shine
except in our eyes… let there be language.
Displayed in the image of the rotting seed
on the same stem with the swelling blossom…
let there be hope.
Homo sapiens creating themselves after the manner
and image of the creator’s ongoing creation — slowly,
eventual, alert and imagined, composing, dissembling,
until the right chord sounds from one brave strum
of the right strings reverberating, fading away
like evening… let there be pathos, let there be
compassion, forbearance, forgiveness. Let there be
weightless beauty.
Of earth and sky, Homo sapiens creating themselves,
following the mode and model of the creator’s creation,
particle by particle, quest by quest, witness by witness,
even though the unknown far away and the unknown
nearby be seen and not seen… let there be goodwill
and accounting, let there be praise resounding."
Complement with astronomer-poet Rebecca Elson’s ode to dark matter and the mystery of being, “Let There Always Be Light,” non-speaking autistic poet Hannah Emerson’s astonishing “Center of the Universe,” and Jane Hirshfield’s “To Be a Person,” then revisit Pattiann Rogers’s harmonic of the human and cosmic perspectives, read by David Byrne and illustrated by Maira Kalman."
"Hand In Hand..."
"Apathy and evil. The two work hand in hand. They are the same, really... Evil wills it. Apathy allows it. Evil hates the innocent and the defenseless most of all. Apathy doesn't care as long as it's not personally inconvenienced."
- Jake Thoene, "Shaiton's Fire"
Yeah, God forbid anyone gets inconvenienced...
"The Couldn't have Known..."
“They couldn’t have known that even this was a lie – that we never really choose, not entirely. We are always being pushed and squeezed down one road or another. We have no choice but to step forward, and then step forward again, and then step forward again; suddenly we find ourselves on a road we haven’t chosen at all. But maybe happiness isn’t in the choosing. Maybe it’s in the fiction, in the pretending: that wherever we have ended up is where we intended to be all along.”
- Lauren Oliver
"Not Knowing..."
“Not knowing you can’t do something
is sometimes all it takes to do it.”
- Ally Carter
Gerald Celente, "Mamdani Win Equals Civil And Gen Z Revolution Against Establishment"
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Gerald Celente, 11/6/25
"Mamdani Win Equals Civil And Gen Z
Revolution Against Establishment"
"The Trends Journal is a weekly magazine analyzing global current events forming future trends. Our mission is to present Facts and Truth over fear and propaganda to help subscribers prepare for What’s Next in these increasingly turbulent times."
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Jim Quinn, "Let Them Eat Cheetos"
"Let Them Eat Cheetos"
by Jim Quinn
“The top 10% of US households now hold 87% of all US stocks owned by households, with the top 1% alone owning 50%. By comparison, the remaining 90% hold just 13%, while the bottom 50% hold only 1%. The wealth gap has never been bigger.” – Kobeissi Letter
The chart below paints a disturbing picture for those not in the top 10%. And the accusations regarding who is responsible are predictable, endless, and mostly wrong. The “tax the rich” crowd are loud and ignorant of facts, but that doesn’t stop them from bloviating and screaming shrilly on the left wing media channels. The top 10% aren’t the problem. They constitute the entrepreneurial class, who open new businesses and hire employees. Most of the top 1% are also hard working creators of wealth. It’s the .01% globalist billionaire class who are mainly to blame for the economic shitstorm brewing on the horizon.
Young people now overwhelmingly see socialism as preferable to capitalism because they have been indoctrinated by left wing professors and the legacy left media mouthpieces, promoting the Mandamis, AOCs, Bernies and Pocahontases of the world. It doesn’t matter their socialist/commie agenda has a 100% proven record of being erroneous and economically disastrous anywhere on earth it has been implemented, with millions of dead bodies as proof. The truth is we have not experienced true free market capitalism since the unholy conception of the Federal Reserve and initiation of the Federal income tax in 1913. That was surely a bad year for humanity.
When the wealth data is presented in a fair and accurate way, it truly paints a picture of woe for the bottom 50%. Of course, those in the top 10%, who own all of the stocks and businesses, along with most of the real estate, feel little or no pity for the bottom 50%. They think they are lazy, ignorant and stupid. In many cases, that is an accurate assessment, but there are millions of hard working people in the bottom 50% who are there because the .01% like it that way. George Carlin’s famous rant captures the reality of their situation:
“They want more for themselves and less for everybody else, but I’ll tell you what they don’t want: They don’t want a population of citizens capable of critical thinking. They don’t want well informed, well educated people capable of critical thinking. They’re not interested in that. That doesn’t help them. That’s against their interests. That’s right. They don’t want people who are smart enough to sit around a kitchen table to figure out how badly they’re getting fucked by a system that threw them overboard 30 fucking years ago. They don’t want that.
You know what they want? They want obedient workers. Obedient workers. People who are just smart enough to run the machines and do the paperwork, and just dumb enough to passively accept all these increasingly shittier jobs with the lower pay, the longer hours, the reduced benefits, the end of overtime and the vanishing pension that disappears the minute you go to collect it, and now they’re coming for your Social Security money.”
Carlin’s disturbingly accurate description of America from two decades ago is truer now than it was then. “They” have accumulated trillions more, while the rest of us have seen our standard of living relentlessly decline due to the Federal Reserve manufactured inflation – designed to accelerate stock market gains and leave the masses destitute. The USD has lost 97% of its purchasing power since the Creature from Jekyll Island slithered from the swamps of DC in 1913. Your 2% to 3% annual raise is consumed by the 5% to 10% increase in things you need to live (food, energy, medical care, education) every year. That is why the Bottom 50% has an average net worth of $54,300.
The real question is who are “THEY”? It is certainly not the top 10%, or even the top 1%. Whether you refer to them as the ruling elite, oligarchy, globalist cabal, or satanic psychopaths, they constitute only a fraction of the 1%. There are approximately 3,000 billionaires in the world, with about a third of them in the U.S. That means they make up about .0003% of the U.S. population and an even smaller percentage of the 8.2 billion global population. Many of these billionaires are just the children or spouses of men who accumulated that wealth. That leaves a few hundred men meeting the criteria of psychopaths in suits, with totalitarian tendencies, ensconced with a heaping helping of greed, thirst for power, and desire to rule the world.
Let’s be honest, these psychopathic pedophile billionaires and their cadre of well compensated legions of apparatchiks placed within the government, media, universities, finance industry, “think” tanks and fake “charitable” foundations, believe the bottom 50% are nothing more than mouth breathing parasites. They are the ignorant lower class Proles in Orwell’s 1984 and the semi-literate Deltas in Huxley’s Brave New World. They have always been despised by the ruling class throughout history. The current crop of oligarchs truly believe they can replace the “worthless eaters” with robots and AI. Their de-population agenda of killing off the weak, poisoning the healthy, and imprisoning the remainder in a CBDC techno-gulag of their making, is in progress.
Most upper middle class people are trapped in the normalcy bias of ever growing stock market gains boosting their 401k wealth and thinking a doubling of their home’s value over the last five years makes sense. The level of cognitive dissonance among the masses is at all-time highs, as they can see our unsustainable Ponzi financial system is built on a mountain of unpayable debt, but they continue to go further into debt, assuming the overlords running this shitshow will just bail everyone out again when it collapses for the final time.
Maybe they are right, but I think the psychopaths in suits are getting ready to “pull” a Building 7 on our asses. When I bring up the Great Taking scheme to normies, I get nothing but blank stares because it is inconceivable to them that invisible forces who control the levers of our financial system would conduct a “bail in” operation to save the world from the very financial implosion they have engineered. The normies argue the rich would be hurt the worst because they have the most to lose. What they don’t realize is the overlords know what is going to happen and will position themselves and their devoted minions to benefit from the financial collapse.
The likes of Gates, Soros, Theil, Altman, Musk, Buffet, and many other shadowy billionaires believe the planet would be far more efficient, productive, and profitable for them if it was occupied by a few billion less eaters. They believe their technological advancements and authoritarian mandates would create a world where they wield unquestioned power and control over our lives. They tested their plan using the Covid Plandemic and it convinced them the ignorant masses could be corralled and coerced in any direction they choose.
They used lies, propaganda, and misinformation to convince billions to shutdown the world, huddle in fear within their hovels, shun friends and relatives, inject themselves with an untested dangerous gene therapy that didn’t stop or diminish the virus, fear the annual flu, bow down to the totalitarian measures inflicted upon them by politicians and bureaucrats, and be happy with the pittance doled out to them by their government overlords. They “convinced” 5.6 billion people to get injected with their de-population serum, without a hint of outrage or push back.
Meanwhile, the net worth of the billionaire club grew from $8 trillion in 2019 to over $16 trillion today. Shockingly, the majority of that growth was in the technology and finance realms. Has your net worth doubled since the pandemic? Top 10 US billionaires’ collective wealth grew by $700 billion in the past year alone. These people rule the world, make the laws, siphon the profits through their control of the Federal Reserve, Washington DC, Wall Street, Big Pharma, Silicon Valley, and the Military Industrial Complex, while senior citizens have to decide between paying for their medicines or putting food on the table, and young people see no chance of ever owning a home.
Most cynical old codgers, like myself, have trouble visualizing enough people banding together and leading a revolution to overthrow the existing social order. And as long as the bread and circuses are sustained through their money printing debt to eternity scheme, revolution will be postponed. But, the arrogance and hubris of the billionaire psychopaths knows no bounds. Their wealth harvesting operation will reach a limit, unforeseen circumstances (natural disaster, war, massive fraud uncovered) will trigger a financial collapse. The bottom 50% are already destitute. When college educated upper middle class debt slaves lose 80% of their faux wealth in the blink of an eye, the opportunity for real revolution will present itself. Someone will need to stand up.
The ruling class will seek to implement their Digital ID/Digital Currency malicious plot as the solution to the financial collapse they created. This is where it should get interesting. Will the masses again fall for their fear propaganda, totalitarian dictates, lies about the true nature and causes of their purposely engineered crisis, or will someone stand up for truth, honesty, and allowing future generations to not grow up as slaves within a billionaire controlled techno-gulag? This conflict will likely arise within the next five or so years.
The causes of revolution are always the same: 1) A privileged elite class reap all the wealth while pissing on the lower classes; 2) The lower and middle classes are taxed to the point of poverty; 3) The government increases debt to an unsustainable, unpayable level; 4) wasteful military adventures drain the Tresury; 5) rampant government corruption; 6) societal discontent & chaos; 7) economic/financial crisis. All the dominoes are lined up, just waiting for the trigger flick which will start the cascade of consequences. Fourth Turnings never fizzle out. They build to a crescendo of violent upheaval with clear winners and losers.
We need to keep in mind there are only 3,000 billionaires on this planet and only a few hundred fall into the category of psychopaths in suits. Yes, they live in gated palaces with ample security forces, but the common folk of this country own over 300 million firearms. If or when they feel they have nothing left to lose, the protected privileged classes should start to worry. Their gates will not protect them from the consequences of their actions. We may decide to Make Guillotines Great Again.
“Those who make peaceful revolution
impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.”
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Hat tip to Jim Quinn and
The Burning Platform for this material.
"How It Horrifyingly Really Is"
"At the beginning of June, our national debt was sitting at $31,467 trillion. Today, it has risen to $37.85 trillion.That means that we have added six trillion dollars to the national debt in just five months. It is the largest single debt in the entire history of our planet, and it will never be paid off."
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Jethro Tull, "Locomotive Breath"
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A Homestead Journey, 11/6/25
"No One Wants to Admit How Bad It’s Getting in America"
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"Black, White, and the Comfortable Lie"
"Black, White, and the Comfortable Lie"
by Todd Hayen
"I was talking to a very close friend the other day who happens to be a die-hard Trump hater (I know what you are thinking, don’t ask). We unfortunately drifted into a “discussion” about the January 6 fiasco (and also don’t ask me why I bother). Time and time again, I run into this sort of thing—where the position on the left believes they are 100% right about any particular controversial topic.
No matter how much contradicting (to their position) information I provide, they dismiss it all as garbage. “It is obvious what it is, and that’s that.” As with most things these days, I find this odd. Nothing is 100% a particular way, with zero valid argument in the other direction. Nothing except very simple things. I am, of course, describing the infamous “false binary” or “false dichotomy” or “false dilemma.”
This is nothing new, of course. The idea of the false binary has been kicking around human thought since the days when philosophers in togas were debating the nature of reality. It’s a logical fallacy that’s as old as logic itself, with roots stretching back to ancient Greece.
Aristotle, that granddaddy of Western philosophy, touched on similar ideas in his works on rhetoric and ethics, warning against oversimplifying complex arguments into rigid either-or choices that ignore the messy nuances of life. He didn’t call it a “false dichotomy” per se - that term came later - but he was essentially calling out the same intellectual laziness in his critiques of sophistry, where debaters would trap opponents in contrived binaries to win points rather than seek truth.
Fast-forward a few centuries, and the concept gets more formalized during the Enlightenment, when thinkers like John Locke and David Hume started dissecting human reasoning and its pitfalls. But it really crystallized in the 19th and 20th centuries with the rise of formal logic and fallacy studies. Logicians like John Stuart Mill in his System of Logic (1843) highlighted how people often frame debates as black-or-white to manipulate outcomes, excluding middle grounds or alternative possibilities.
By the mid-20th century, it was a staple in critical thinking texts - consider Irving Copi’s "Introduction to Logic" in the 1950s, which cataloged it as a classic informal fallacy. In essence, a false dichotomy presents a situation as if there are only two mutually exclusive options, when in reality, there’s a spectrum, or third (or fourth, or fifth) paths lurking in the shadows. It’s like saying, “You’re either with us or against us,” as if loyalty is a switch that can’t be dimmed or rewired. This trick forces people into polarized corners, shutting down dialogue and making compromise seem like betrayal.
In our modern madhouse, it’s weaponized everywhere - from politics, where elections are pitched as apocalyptic battles between good and evil, to the Covid era’s “vax or die” mantra that erased any talk of natural immunity or alternative treatments. It’s a mind trap that preys on our tribal instincts, making us feel secure in our righteousness while blinding us to the gray areas where real understanding lives. And that’s the shrew’s (contrarian thinkers) edge: spotting these illusions before they hook us.
Kit Knightly, the sharp-witted editor at Off-Guardian, wields the term “false binary” (or its sly cousin “fake binary”) like a scalpel in the operating theatre of narrative dissection - precise, incisive, and always aimed at the festering heart of controlled opposition.
Primarily on OffG, where he’s been a cornerstone voice since the site’s early days, Knightly deploys it to unmask how power structures peddle rigged choices. Such as the endless left/right, red/blue, or vaxx/anti-vaxx traps that corral dissent into neat little pens, ensuring the real exit stays bolted shut. His star turn? Co-hosting the September 2024 livestream “Debunking the False Binary” with the freshly minted Independent Media Alliance (IMA) - flanked by heavyweights like Iain Davis, Derrick Broze, and James Corbett. There, they eviscerate the “fake binary” as a core narrative control technique, spotlighting how “alternative” media gets infiltrated with hopium-laced divides: Trump saviors vs. Harris horrors, pro-Ukraine “freedom fighters” vs. pro-Russia isolationists, or techno-utopias vs. Luddite panic—all engineered to seed division while the technocratic overlords chuckle from the shadows.
Elsewhere, Knightly echoes this in IMA’s launch manifesto, framing the false binary as public enemy #1 in alt-media warfare: countering “false two-party paradigms,” imperial war cheerleading, and digital ID “solutions” pitched as the lone fix for every ill. Knightly doesn’t just name the fallacy; he maps its deployment in real-time psyops, from Covid compliance cults to election theatre, urging us to torch the scripts and dance in the nuance.
Why do people cling to false dichotomies like life rafts in a storm? Sure, the agenda-pushers love them - black-and-white framing is the perfect divide-and-conquer tool, herding sheep into opposing pens while the shepherds count the wool. But let’s not pretend that’s the whole story. The real rot runs deeper, straight into the human psyche, where comfort trumps complexity every time.
Most folks aren’t wired for the cognitive marathon that critical thinking demands. Nuance is exhausting; it requires holding contradictory ideas in your head without your brain blue-screening. Polarity? That’s a cozy blanket. Pick a side, slap on a label, and suddenly the world makes sense - no pesky gray areas to trip over. It’s the mental equivalent of fast food: quick, satisfying, and ultimately bad for you. Cognitive dissonance is painful; false binaries are painkillers.
Carl Jung, that old Swiss sage of the psyche, nailed it when he spoke of the “tension of the opposites” - the electric space where thesis clashes with antithesis, birthing the living synthesis that is real life. This isn’t some tidy resolution; it’s a perpetual tightrope walk, demanding we hold the unbearable “unknowning” in our trembling hands, staring into the abyss between black and white without flinching. Most sheep-types (and I have to say, many shrew-types as well these days) bolt for the cliffs of certainty, terrified of the vertigo that comes with admitting “maybe I’m wrong, maybe it’s both, maybe it’s neither.” The ego screams for solid ground - pick a side, plant a flag, silence the dissonance - so they collapse the tension into a false binary, snuffing out the very spark that could illuminate truth. Most critical thinkers (at least the ones I mingle with) thrive in the friction, muscles aching from the pull, because that’s where the gods hide, whispering secrets to those brave enough to listen without answers.
Then there’s the tribal pull. Humans are pack animals, and nothing bonds a group faster than a common enemy. “Us vs. Them” isn’t just a narrative trick - it’s evolutionary. Back in the savanna days, you didn’t survive by pondering the moral ambiguity of the rival tribe; you picked your side and swung the club. Today, that instinct gets hijacked by algorithms and talking heads, but the wiring’s the same. Admitting your team might be wrong feels like betrayal, so people double down, even when the facts are screaming otherwise.
And yes, critical thinking’s been on life support for decades. Schools teach compliance, not curiosity. Media rewards outrage, not analysis. Social platforms amplify the loudest, simplest takes. We’ve raised generations that confuse certainty with strength and doubt with weakness. When you’ve never been taught to question, polarity isn’t just easier - it’s the only path you can see. And this, needless to say, is largely, if not entirely, the work of the agenda, whose sole intention is to control the masses.
That said, the agenda exploits what’s mostly already there: a collective laziness of mind, a fear of ambiguity, and a desperate need to belong. The shepherds don’t create the sheep; they just build better fences. Those of us who use our critical thinking see the gates and seek ways out of the herd. Most don’t even look."
Todd Hayen PhD is a registered psychotherapist practicing in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He holds a PhD in depth psychotherapy and an MA in Consciousness Studies. He specializes in Jungian, archetypal, psychology. Todd also writes for his own substack, which you can read here.
Adventures With Danno, "Items at Kroger You Should Be Buying Right Now"
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Adventures With Danno, 11/6/25
"Items at Kroger You Should Be Buying Right Now"
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"Government Shutdown + Market Bubble + Empty Wallets = Disaster - It All Adds Up!"
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Dan, I Allegedly, 11/6/25
"Government Shutdown + Market Bubble +
Empty Wallets = Disaster - It All Adds Up!"
"The American economy is being hit from every direction… at the exact same time. A record government shutdown, a stock market bubble ready to explode, and consumers completely tapped out - this is the triple threat that could trigger a full-scale collapse. Economic chaos is here, and it's hitting hard! In this video, I’m breaking down the latest news on layoffs, recalls, stock market turmoil, and rising household debt. From IBM’s restructuring and Toyota’s massive recalls to Michael Burry’s $1.1 billion bet against AI stocks, the signs are everywhere. Plus, hear about how major brands like Taco Bell are buying back franchises and what this means for the economy. Whether it’s the FAA cutting flights, student loan defaults skyrocketing, or the New York Fed's debt report, the financial landscape is changing fast."
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Snyder Reports, 11/6/25
"Layoffs Just Hit a Historic Level -
And It’s About to Get Even Worse"
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Michael Bordenaro, 11/6/25
"How Unemployed People
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Bill Bonner, "Something for Nothing, Again"
"Something for Nothing, Again"
by Bill Bonner
‘The future is in our hands.’
- Zohran Mamdani
US politics seem to have descended into a kind of ricocheting disgust. Fed up with one foolishness...voters try another, bouncing off lunacy only to run right into absurdity. And unless Mr. Trump burns down the Reichstag and suspends elections, American voters are likely to turn against him in the next election. Like Trump, Mamdani is an activist. A big spender. New York already spends more per person than any other big city in America; Mamdani aims to spend more. His selling proposition: he is not Donald J. Trump.
The Washington Post: "This election was about Trump. He endorsed major Republican candidates and tied all of these elections to his efforts to lower the cost of living: “If affordability is your issue, VOTE REPUBLICAN!” he posted on social media. But prices are up, Trump is broadly unpopular, and Democratic candidates welcomed making their elections about Trump. Network exit polls showed that most voters in Virginia and New Jersey voters disapproved of Trump.
We barely thought it was possible. Could anyone be elected with worse policies than those of Donald Trump? But New Yorkers have done it. Forbes tells us what Mamdani is fixing to do:
• Rent stabilization freeze.
• City-Owned Grocery Stores.
• Arresting Benjamin Netanyahu.
• Free buses and childcare.
• Regulating delivery apps.
• Creating a “Mom-and-Pop czar” [to promote small businesses].
Mamdani’s campaign platform says his agenda will be paid for by tax increases, including adding a flat 2% tax increase on the 1% of New Yorkers earning more than $1 million per year. He also proposed hiking the corporate tax rate from 9% to 11.5% to match New Jersey’s rate- which his campaign says will bring in an additional $5 billion annually for the city.
What is interesting about these proposals (save arresting Netanyahu) is that everyone knows, or should know, they won’t work. One of our sons lived in New York for a while. (Brooklyn seems to call to young people like the Lorelei to drunken boatmen.) We drove up in our pick-up to take him some furniture. We were appalled by how shabby and expensive the apartment was. The carpet on the stairs was squishy and looked as though it dated from the 1960s. There were holes in the floor. And the bathroom must have been a relic of the early days of indoor plumbing. “Rent control,” a neighbor explained. “It didn’t make sense to make improvements. You couldn’t raise the rent.”
Every ‘something for nothing’ government program is actually a transfer program. The feds produce no wealth. They merely take it from some people and give it to another. The struggle for political power is merely a contest to see who gets what. And when the public gets weary of being ripped off by one group...it turns to the other.
Mr. Trump is proud of the stock market, for example; it has hit many ‘All Time Highs’ during his time in office. But unless real wealth is being added, the stock market is just another way to transfer wealth. Most people have no serious stock ownership. In the words of Wall Street, they are ‘short’ the market. So, when the Fed gooses up stock prices with lower interest rates, the average person is (relatively) poorer, not richer.
Tariffs, too, transfer money, they don’t create it. Americans will get something for nothing, says Trump; foreigners will pay. But the cash goes from the working class (consumers) to the ruling class (the feds and their donors, cronies, and clients).
Rent control transfers wealth from apartment owners to apartment renters (there are a lot of them in New York). Even though New York faces a housing shortage there are said to be some 20,000 to 60,000 ‘rent-stabilized’ units that are vacant because landlords can’t afford to repair them.
So what we have in the Mamdani triumph is a switch from one group of failed policies...to another group of failed policies. Both of them, on the right and on the left, are based on the same failed idea - that ‘something for nothing’ is a durable, successful policy choice. And now they race ahead to see which will go broke first – NYC or USA.
More to come...but the gist of it is that Trump is probably right. After the public gets fed up with his failures, they will not turn away from his ‘something for nothing’ policies; they will still want them, but in a different wrapper. Tune in tomorrow..."
Wednesday, November 5, 2025
Musical Interlude: Michael Jackson, "Earth Song"
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Michael Jackson, "Earth Song"
"Alert! Putin Holds Emergency Meeting, Prepares Nuclear Test Site"
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"Alert! Putin Holds Emergency Meeting,
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"I Can't Convince Myself..."
“I can’t convince myself that it does much good to try to challenge the everyday political delusions and dementias of Americans at large. Their contained and confined mentalities by far prefer the petty and parochial prisons of the kind of sense they have been trained and rewarded for making out of their lives (and are punished for deviating from them). What it costs them ultimately to be such slaves and infants and ideological zombies is a thought too monstrous and rending and spiky for them even to want to glance at.”
- Kenneth Smith
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Why bother? For some of us, if you CAN you MUST...
"A calling, not a duty" is a perspective that distinguishes work driven by passion and purpose from work done out of obligation. A calling is seen as a deep sense of purpose that energizes and fulfills a person, often involving a sense of mission and a dedication to a cause or a greater good, while duty is a more transactional concept, performed because it is required. This can be understood in a religious context where a calling is a purpose from God, or a secular one where it is a deeply personal and passionate pursuit."
"The Terrible Truth About The U.S. Economy Can No Longer Be Denied"
"The Terrible Truth About The U.S.
Economy Can No Longer Be Denied"
By Michael Snyder
"For a long time, a lot of people wanted to deny what was happening to us. But now we have reached a point when you can no longer do that and retain your credibility. Job openings have been plummeting, and layoffs have been spiking. Manufacturing activity is way down, and delinquency rates are way up. In fact, the credit card delinquency rate just hit the highest level that we have seen since 2011. Just about everything has gotten significantly more expensive, and America’s food banks are being overwhelmed by vast numbers of hungry people. Nobody can deny any of these things, and now U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent is publicly admitting that “there are sectors of the economy that are in recession”…
"Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Stephen Miran, President Trump’s appointee to the Fed’s Board of Governors who is on a temporary leave from his job leading the White House’s Council of Economic Advisers, this week struck a downbeat tone about the health of the world’s largest economy. Mr. Bessent went so far as to say some sectors were already contracting. He did not specify which sectors, but high mortgage rates have put housing and adjacent industries such as construction under pressure.
“I think that there are sectors of the economy that are in recession,” Mr. Bessent said on CNN on Sunday. He described the economy as being in a “period of transition” because of a pullback in government spending to reduce the deficit. He called on the Fed to support the economy by cutting interest rates."
Bessent’s job is to put a positive spin on America’s economic performance. But now we have reached a stage where even he cannot deny the truth. Just look at what is happening to the shipping industry. When the economy is booming, the amount of stuff that is being physically moved around goes up. But when the economy falls on hard times, the amount of stuff that is being physically moved around goes down…
"As someone who’s spent decades immersed in the freight and logistics industry, I’ve learned that freight data often tells the story of the broader economy long before traditional indicators catch up. Right now, that data is painting a stark picture: The U.S. economy is entrenched in a goods recession. While consumer spending on services might be holding steady, the movement of physical goods - the lifeblood of manufacturing, retail, and industrial sectors - has ground to a halt. This isn’t speculation; it’s evident in the high-frequency data we track at FreightWaves through our SONAR platform."
Nobody can pretend that this isn’t happening. I realize that some of you may not want to hear this, but long-haul trucking volumes are down 30 percent on a year over year basis…"The long-haul trucking segment (800+ miles), however, has fallen off a cliff. Year-over-year volumes are down a shocking 30%, a sign that the broader economy is in trouble. Long-haul trucking is more exposed to the energy, manufacturing, auto, and housing segments." That isn’t a small shift. That is a monumental collapse. When Freight Waves stated that long-haul trucking “has fallen off a cliff”, they were not exaggerating.
Manufacturing activity is down too. In fact, it just declined for the eighth month in a row…"US manufacturing turned down in October on the PMI index, dropping from 49.1 in September to 48.7 in October, marking the eighth consecutive month of contraction. Price pressure may have eased (58 from 61.9), but production (48.2 from 51), inventory (45.8 from 47.7), and deliveries (54.2 from 52.6) have all declined."
Employment in the sector continued to decline (46 from 45.3), and 67% of panelist noted that companies are working on managing their current workforce rather than hiring. Again, lower rates are unlikely to address this structural problem or encourage companies to expand during a contracting business environment. Eight consecutive months of decline should be a warning as manufacturing declines often precede recessions, or in this case, ongoing stagflation.
Since less stuff is being produced, it should be no surprise that cardboard box shipments have fallen to “their lowest levels since the third quarter of 2015”…"Nearly every physical good in the modern economy is transported or stored in a corrugated cardboard box. That’s why box shipments act as a reliable real-time economic barometer, especially very useful now, as the government shutdown enters day 33 and key agencies like the BLS have halted official economic data releases, leaving private high-frequency data sets to fill the void.
The latest box shipment data from Bloomberg, citing a report by the Fibre Box Association, shows some of the weakest volumes in years, reflecting waning consumer sentiment and potentially signaling a subdued holiday shopping season. These shipments were at their lowest levels since the third quarter of 2015."
This is the real economy. Factories make things and those things are put in cardboard boxes and shipped around the country in trucks. At every point along our supply chains, activity is slowing down. So let’s stop pretending.
All over the United States, major employers have been slashing their workforces…"When Starbucks Corp. fired 900 corporate employees in September, economists hardly batted an eye. After all, the coffee chain had already done a February culling as part of new management’s drive to get the Frappuccino maker back on track. In October, Target Corp. eliminated 1,800 roles to help the beleaguered retailer move faster. For each corporate cutback, there’s been a clear explanation: Amazon.com (14,000 corporate jobs) blamed artificial intelligence; Paramount (1,000 workers) just completed a merger; Molson Coors (400 jobs) can’t get carb-conscious consumers to drink enough beer."
Separately, each announcement can be read as a one-off. Yet taken together, some economists worry that the recent spate of cuts is starting to look a little less like individual belt-tightening and more like a warning sign. Layoffs were up in 2024, and now they are up again in 2025. Because most Americans are just barely scraping by from month to month, many of those that are losing their jobs are at risk of losing everything.
In this very difficult economic environment, it should be no surprise that vehicle repossessions are expected to hit a level that we haven’t seen since the Great Recession…"Car repossessions are booming as Americans increasingly struggle to pay. The number of seized cars hit a 14-year high of 2.7 million in 2024, according to data from the Recovery Database Network (RDN), which processes around 90pc of all requests from lenders for repossessions. Kevin Armstrong, editor of CU Repossession, an industry publication, expects the total will hit three million this year based on current trends, only just shy of the 3.2 million peak seen in 2009."
Things are bad, and 57 percent of Americans expect economic conditions to get even worse next year. Unfortunately, I think that most Americans are still way too optimistic about what is ahead. There is no “quick fix” that is going to turn things around, because our system is fundamentally broken. We consume far more than we produce, a very large percentage of the population has become dependent on the government, and no nation in the entire history of the planet has accumulated as much debt as we have. We are in far more trouble than most people realize, and the road ahead is not going to be pleasant."
"We're so freakin' doomed!" - The Mogambo Guru
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