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Wednesday, July 16, 2025

Dan, I Allegedly, "Insiders Tell All - Leaked Secrets from Inside Big Business"

Full screen recommended.
Dan, I Allegedly, AM 7/6/25
"Insiders Tell All - 
Leaked Secrets from Inside Big Business"
"What They Don’t Want You to Know – Real Workers Expose the Truth: Mortgage brokers are disappearing, and in this video, I’m diving into why this is happening and what it means for the housing market and beyond. With insider information you won’t find in the news, I’ll uncover shocking revelations about Discover’s mortgage department shutdown, the challenges facing mortgage loan officers, and how AI is transforming the industry. Plus, I’ll share updates on economic trends, like rising debt, housing issues, and job losses in key sectors. From fake billing scams to postal service struggles, this video is packed with eye-opening insights you need to know."
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Adventures With Danno, "Dollar Tree Items Everyone Should Buy Before Prices Go Up!"

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Adventures With Danno, 7/6/25
"Dollar Tree Items Everyone Should 
Buy Before Prices Go Up!"
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Bill Bonner, "Fuji Bomb"

Mt Fuji looms over the skyline of Tokyo in Japan.
"Fuji Bomb"
by Bill Bonner

‘Sire...worse than a crime, you have committed an error.’
- Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord

Youghal, Ireland - "A crime is whatever the feds say it is. Often not what you think it oughta be. But an error is different. It is a left turn when you should have turned right. It is forgetting your wife’s birthday. It is a budget deficit, when you should have been running a surplus. In the Big, Bad, Budget Abomination for example, there are two huge errors.

The obvious one: they could have increased the deficit...or decreased it. They chose more spending, not less... even more money they don’t have on programs they don’t need. And they are doing it on such a large scale - with $2 trillion deficits - it is sure to blow up the entire US financial system.

We all know you can’t spend more than you make for long. But some people delude themselves with the fantasy that we’ll ‘grow our way’ out of the debt trap. As we’ve seen, in the light of federal policies, such growth is less and less likely. Deportations will lower the supply of labor. Fortune: "The U.S. may see more than 500,000 people emigrate from the country as a result of President Donald Trump’s aggressive deportation campaign, according to a recent report from the American Enterprise Institute….could likely result in a hit to the U.S. labor force that would shrink the country’s gross domestic product, new data shows."

And deficits will gobble up the supply of capital. Seeking Alpha: "As government spending increases, the less productive public sector absorbs more labor and resources, starving the more productive private sector of these critical inputs."

The predominant view is that while the feds’ deficits are clearly a mistake, it will take many years for the harm to show up. So, the consequences, such as they are, will likely fall on our children and grandchildren, not on ourselves. And since none of us knows the future...why worry about something that may or may not actually happen sometime in the distant tomorrow?

Yes, of course, the iceberg is dead ahead. But maybe AI will figure out how to avoid it. And yet, the danger grows closer. CBS News: "Inflation rose in June...for the second month in a row." Whether this marks the beginning of large price increases or not, we don’t know. But it might be a good idea to keep an eye on the lifeboats, just in case.

Other Debt Crisis Deniers look to Japan for comfort. Except for the fact that their economy is shrinking (along with their population) a Fuji of debt - the biggest pile in the world - hasn’t seemed to bother them. But wait. Even there, the error is becoming more apparent. The Mainichi: "Yield on 10-yr Japan gov't bond hits 1.595%, highest since Oct. 2008…at the time of the global financial crisis caused by the collapse of U.S. securities firm Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc."

The Japanese can do math. At 250% of GDP, even a small increase in interest rates has a devastating effect on government finances. The government must borrow to cover the interest payments, which widens the deficit...increases the debt...and raises the interest cost - whereupon the error flashes like a funeral parlor with a neon welcome light.

Back in the US, the Republicans’ spendfest goes on and the errors multiply. Not only are they spending too much, they are claiming to spend too little. After all, if huge deficits don’t really matter, why try to save money on medical care for those who need it? The Hill: "GOP lawmakers are warning that slashing spending on Medicaid and food assistance will cost the party seats in the midterms - threatening their razor-thin House majority - by kicking millions of Americans off safety-net programs." The poor lawmakers had to decide. Which error, which sin, which mistake to make. Being fair about it, they make them all."

Gregory Mannarino, "Freefall Economic Policy? It's Not What You Think"

Gregory Mannarino, 7/16/25
"Freefall Economic Policy?
 It's Not What You Think"
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"Truth..."

 

John Wilder, "Epstein: How Deep Is The Rabbit Hole?"

"Epstein: How Deep Is The Rabbit Hole?"
by John Wilder

“I’m thinking somebody got away with murder.”
– "Minority Report"

"When I started thinking about how to structure this post, Philip K. Dick (PKD) came to mind. Dick, if you’re unfamiliar with him, was an enigmatic man. Where other science fiction writers liked to speculate about the nature of reality, PKD obsessed about it throughout his life. If you watch movies, you’ve certainly seen some based on his work. "Blade Runner," "Screamers", "The Adjustment Bureau", and "Total Recall" are some of them.

In each of these, nothing is what it seems. The base level of reality is always a lie, and only digging allows the Truth to come out, and often none of the characters are ready for what lives at the bottom of the rabbit hole.

As I turned on the TV to, perhaps, put on some background noise for when I write I looked at the computer-suggested suggestions of things to watch. The first movie suggested? "Minority Report."  Yup, the PKD story about clairvoyants who see future crimes before they happen. I’ll just mark it down as a coincidence, for now, though I certainly didn’t hit “play” and decided to write this post in silence instead.

Epstein is the story of the day, rather his files. One of the glaring things about the story is how it is all played out in the media as “Jeffrey Epstein, disgraced American financier and child sex offender.” Let’s go back a bit to the beginning, and unravel a bit. What, exactly is true about Epstein?

Well, he never got a degree, yet was tapped to teach physics and mathematics for the Dalton School, the kind of school that educates the children of the (primarily, but not entirely) Jewish kids of the rich and powerful of New York. Epstein was fired from the school. There are stories of him attending keggers with the kids he was teaching. You connect the dots.

But in the first (but not last) example of Epstein failing upwards, one of the people he came in contact with was a parent of one of his students – Alan Greenberg, CEO of Bear Stearns. Greenberg hired Epstein, who had a quick rise. But, after fewer than five years at Bear Stearns, Epstein was fired for misconduct. This time, however, it was probably for screwing over, not screwing, a customer.

Fired, living in New York, something happened. Around this time, Epstein began letting some people know that he was actually an intelligence agent. He showed them things like an Austrian passport with a Saudi address. The whole, “doing things to make billions” is entirely missing at this point, and in fact one of the businesses he formed around this time turned out to be one of the largest Ponzi schemes in history.

But Epstein was never implicated in the scheme, so he opened a wealth management firm for people who were billionaires. What, exactly, they were supposed to learn from an ex-high school teacher without a college degree is unclear. And, there seems to be only one billionaire, Leslie Wexner, owner of Victoria’s Secret© of record. Wexner, of note, claims to have been possessed by a dybbuk, or malicious spirit of a dead person clinging to the living because of its unresolved sins. I’m not making this up.

For whatever reason, Epstein was given large amounts of control over Wexner’s cash in 1991. Perhaps the dybbuk made him do it. 1991 is also the same year that billionaire Robert Maxwell (born Jan Ludvik Hyman Binyamin Hoch) died, though to be fair, Maxwell died later in the year after Wexner had given control of hundreds of millions of dollars to Epstein, so it’s hard to say if they’re the same dollars.

Robert Maxwell was presumed to die swimming naked off the Canary Islands in the middle of a financial default. Maxwell’s body was found, and it was all found to be just an accident. You know, an accident that happened just as Maxwell’s financial empire was melting down around him and questions swirled. Maxwell’s funeral was attended by the Israeli prime minister, the Israeli president, and six current and former heads of Israeli intelligence. Completely normal for a guy who was just a newspaper guy and publisher.

Did I mention that Maxwell owned (in addition to his newspapers) Pergamon Press, the premier publisher of scientific breakthroughs from the 1950s onward? No? Or the allegations that Maxwell was Mossad? No? Well, I’m sure those high Israeli intelligence agents were at his funeral because they just had openings in their schedule that day and needed something fun to do.

Or that most of Maxwell’s fortune vanished after his death? I’m sure that whoever identified the naked body that had been found at sea wouldn’t lie to help the troubled executive close the book on an uncomfortable financial situation and a legacy that would likely make him a traitor to his adopted United Kingdom. Or that his daughter, Ghislaine Maxwell, suddenly showed up in Jeffrey Epstein’s life right after her father died and Epstein seemed flush with cash?

Enough contradictions and coincidences exist about Epstein just with the above to question how Epstein was living the life of a billionaire on a Bud Light budget. Airplanes. Houses. An island. Those are the trappings of a someone who has been put into the position to create a honey-pot, to gather incriminating the financial, industrial, entertainment, news, and political elite of a country. But there may be more.

Eric Weinstein got a Ph.D. in math, but the particular math he focused on was more tied to physics, particularly the geometry of space-time. Which explains why he works at an investment firm, I guess.

Of particular note, Weinstein has made the claim that he thinks that physics was derailed in the 1970s to stop more fundamental discoveries from being made – he has described the last four decades of theoretical work as leading nowhere except into mathematical fantasy. Of note, Weinstein himself is not without controversy.

Regardless, Weinstein talks about his single meeting with Jeffery Epstein. It was in 2002 (or so, he said) when another venture capitalist suggested he go to meet Epstein. This is pre-scandal Epstein, but Weinstein describes that all of the people working for him were women, younger than thirty, and quite attractive. During his meeting, Weinstein was taken aback. Apparently, Epstein knew intimate details of Weinstein’s work in mathematics, details that Weinstein says, “He shouldn’t have known.”

Do a search on YouTube® for “Epstein and Weinstein” and you’ll see several interviews, done over the course of years, where Weinstein talks about the meeting. The interviews are consistent with each other, so Weinstein has his story straight. “He was a construct,” Weinstein told his then-wife after meeting Epstein.

It’s an odd phrase. Weinstein describes several oddities of the meeting in addition to the details of his work, but kept describing the conversation as sort-of a verbal Ju-Jitsu. Whenever Weinstein would follow up a comment and begin to go too deeply into a subject, Epstein would deftly change the subject.

Weinstein walked away with several impressions – Epstein wasn’t a genius currency trader (what he purported to be at that time). Per Weinstein, Jeffery Epstein wasn’t remotely a world class trader. Secondly, Epstein was looking for something else from Weinstein. On multiple interviews, Weinstein describes the meeting as one where the hair on his neck stood on end – like a meeting with someone evil, or, perhaps, Evil.

Weinstein also made the observation that while it was entirely feasible that Epstein was running a honey-trap to get incriminating evidence for the control of political, business, and entertainment figures, there was something more with the ‘construct’.

He figured that Epstein was like an intelligence “department store” where just one aspect of what he did was tied to the honey-trap. He pointed to Epstein’s constant work with physicists working on fundamental science. Remember, Robert Maxwell owned Pergamon Press, where all of the scientists would try to publish their groundbreaking work, for decades.

Maxwell had the ability to see breakthroughs before they were public, and to suppress or, perhaps control the way that science has been developing. For decades. Was Epstein an extension of Maxwell’s work? Why else did Epstein stay so involved with advanced math and physics, even holding a conference of 21 top physicists, include three Nobel Prize winners at his house? Why was Jeffrey Epstein so inquisitive about the cutting edge of theoretical physics?

Alexander Acosta, the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Florida said, “I was told Epstein ‘belonged to intelligence’ and to ‘leave it alone’.” Acosta was told it was, “Above his pay grade.”

Oddly, Epstein’s estate seems to contain little money, as if his persona as a billionaire was entirely contrived – a spy’s idea of what a billionaire’s life would be like, but unable to stand up to the scrutiny of a recorded, information heavy world where his financial “genius” could be tracked. Could Epstein be another Eli Cohen, the Egyptian-born Jew who faked being an Arab on behalf of Mossad so Cohen could throw drunken prostitute parties for Syrian officials as a honeytrap, back in the early 1960s? It rhymes. And if Mossad only has one joke, why not keep at it as long as it gets a laugh?

The nation deserves that the information about Jeffrey Epstein be made public. The suicide seems...convenient, just like Robert Maxwell’s death. The odd fumbling of video information, the inept non-disclosure disclosure of already public information by Pam Bondi...it’s not working.

Epstein is too big to blow over, though I honestly don’t think anyone is ready for how deep this rabbit hole goes. It doesn’t matter how many PKD-like twists it takes. The Truth matters, and even if it causes mass global disruption, we need to see it anyway, because if it’s hidden in darkness, it will do nothing but fester. That, however, just might be my own minority opinion."

"Tucker Calls Out Israeli Blackmail - GOP Reels Into Civil War"

Full screen recommended.
Kim Iverson, 7/14/26
"Tucker Calls Out Israeli Blackmail - 
GOP Reels Into Civil War"
"Tucker Carlson just detonated a political firebomb at Turning Point USA - accusing Israel of blackmailing U.S. politicians and suggesting that Americans who serve in the Israeli Defense Forces should lose their citizenship. The reaction? Chaos. Zionist GOP figures are fuming. America First conservatives are cheering. What started as a speech is now revealing a deep and growing divide inside the Republican Party. Who do our leaders really serve - the American people, or a foreign government? We break it all down."
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"The Epstein Factor: Connecting Dead Children In Gaza With Abused Ones In The US"

George Galloway, 7/15/25
"The Epstein Factor: Connecting Dead Children
 In Gaza With Abused Ones In The US"
"Prof. Seyed Marandi: It's been downhill for the Israeli regime for 21 months but the Epstein revelations have made it even worse. While Europeans and Americans haven’t even imposed token sanctions."
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Denzel Washington, "The World Thought Iran Was Finished, Then Came The Unexpected"

Denzel Washington, 7/15/25
"The World Thought Iran Was Finished, 
Then Came The Unexpected"

"In this powerful and eye-opening speech, legendary actor and speaker Denzel Washington shares deep truths about resilience, leadership, and the underestimated power of nations - focusing on Iran's unexpected comeback when the world thought it was finished. This 22-minute motivational journey draws powerful parallels between personal growth and a nation’s revival. Learn how faith, unity, and persistence can defy global expectations and rewrite destiny - both for countries and individuals. If you’ve ever been counted out, underestimated, or pushed to your limit - this is YOUR message. Denzel’s words will ignite your spirit, awaken your strength, and help you understand the real meaning of rising after the fall."
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Tuesday, July 15, 2025

"Alert! You Gotta Be F'n Kidding Me! NATO Just Threatened Kremlin Decapitation In 49 Days"

Prepper News, 7/15/25
"Alert! You Gotta Be F'n Kidding Me! 
NATO Just Threatened Kremlin Decapitation In 49 Days"
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"Major Recall Affecting Walmart & Kroger"

Adventures With Danno, PM 7/15/25
"Major Recall Affecting Walmart & Kroger"
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Jeremiah Babe, "Global Markets On Alert! Nuclear Armageddon Escalates"

Jeremiah Babe, 7/15/25
"Global Markets On Alert! 
Nuclear Armageddon Escalates"
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Musical Interlude: Deuter, "East of the Full Moon"

Deuter, "East of the Full Moon" 

"A Look to the Heavens"

"Cradled in cosmic dust and glowing hydrogen, stellar nurseries in Orion the Hunter lie at the edge of a giant molecular cloud some 1,500 light-years away. Spanning nearly 25 degrees, this breath-taking vista stretches across the well-known constellation from head to toe (top to bottom). The Great Orion Nebula, the closest large star forming region, is right of center. To its left are the Horsehead Nebula, M78, and Orion's belt stars. Red giant Betelgeuse is at the hunter's shoulder, bright blue Rigel at his foot, and the glowing Lambda Orionis (Meissa) nebula at the far left, near Orion's head. 
Of course, the Orion Nebula and bright stars are easy to see with the unaided eye, but dust clouds and emission from the extensive interstellar gas in this nebula-rich complex, are too faint and much harder to record. In this mosaic of broadband telescopic images, additional image data acquired with a narrow hydrogen alpha filter was used to bring out the pervasive tendrils of energized atomic hydrogen gas and the arc of the giant Barnard's Loop.”

"The Looming False Flag That Could Ignite World War 3"

"The Looming False Flag That Could Ignite World War 3"
by Nick Giambruno

"A false flag is an incident designed to deceive people into believing someone else carried it out. It’s like the scene from the movie "Fast Times at Ridgemont High." There’s a character who plays on the high school football team and owns a fancy sports car. Later, his little brother’s friend accidentally wrecks the car. Terrified of how the big brother might react, they devise a clever plan to shift the blame. They make it look like the rival football team vandalized the car, decorating it with the rival team's colors and slogans. The plan works. The big brother is tricked into thinking the rival football team trashed his car instead of the little brother.

This is the essence of a false flag. Governments and intelligence services use this same tactic, often with far more sinister motives. Take the Mukden Incident in 1931, for example. The Japanese fabricated an attack to justify their invasion of Manchuria. In 1939, before invading Poland, Nazi Germany staged an attack to make it look like the Poles were the aggressors.

Then there was the Gulf of Tonkin incident in 1964. North Vietnam was accused of firing torpedoes at a US warship. The torpedoes missed, and there was no damage. But that didn’t matter…Later that evening, President Lyndon Johnson interrupted national television with a fiery speech, rallying the American people against this "attack"on the US military. It became the official pretext for the Vietnam War - one of the biggest disasters in US history. And it all began with the Gulf of Tonkin "attack,"which never actually happened. It was a fabricated excuse to enter the war.

Fast forward to 2014, to the sniper attacks in Kiev, Ukraine. These attacks catalyzed the overthrow of the pro-Russian government. Many believe they were a false flag operation. Then there was the 2017 chemical weapons attack in Syria. Investigative journalist Seymour Hersh claims it was a false flag designed to draw the US directly into the Syrian war.

So why am I telling you about this now? There are two reasons. First, so you understand this devious tactic and are not fooled by it. False flag attacks are often used as pretexts to launch wars. Second, because the current situation in the Middle East is ripe for a false flag incident - one that could provoke a war with Iran and potentially escalate into a global conflict.

USS Liberty Redux? It was the deadliest attack on an American ship since World War 2… It was a clear, sunny day on June 8, 1967 - during the Six-Day War - and the USS Liberty was 13 miles off the northern coast of the Sinai Peninsula in international waters. Israeli aircraft made several low-altitude fly-overs of the ship, which was flying a large US flag from the bridge and was clearly marked “USS Liberty.” There was no mistaking it for anything but a US ship.

Then, at around 2 PM, the Israelis attacked with fighter jets, which dropped bombs and napalm and then strafed the Liberty's deck. The initial attack disabled the ship's communication system, making it impossible to broadcast a distress signal. After the fighter jets left, Israeli torpedo boats launched their torpedoes at the Liberty, with one delivering a direct and devastating hit.

Around the same time, several Israeli helicopters loaded with soldiers in full combat gear hovered over the Liberty. The Israelis then machine-gunned the lifeboats which had been launched to try to save the wounded. The attack was fast and furious. Many believe the intent was to sink the ship and leave no survivors.

That is exactly what would have happened had it not been for the heroic efforts of one sailor, who risked machine gun fire to repair the Liberty’s antenna so they could send a distress signal out. The Israelis intercepted the distress signal and called off the attack. In the end, the attack killed 34 US sailors and wounded a further 174 - about 67% of the entire crew.

Israel claimed it was a case of mistaken identity, and they mistook the USS Liberty for an Egyptian vessel. The US government more or less accepted Israel’s explanation, swept the incident under the rug, and threatened survivors with court martial if they ever spoke about it.

However, as detailed in the authoritative book, The Attack on the Liberty, many sailors who survived the USS Liberty attack find the official explanation implausible and ridiculous. They believe it was a deliberate attack intended to sink the ship and kill the entire crew. Presuming the survivors are correct, nobody knows Israel’s true motivation in attacking the USS Liberty. Some believe it was a failed false flag attack. The idea was to sink the ship, leaving no survivors, and then pin the blame on Egypt to force the US to enter the Six-Day War on Israel's side. The reason I am bringing up the story of the USS Liberty is that an eerily similar situation is unfolding right now.

The Middle East Crisis That Could Trigger World War 3: The Middle East is teetering on the edge of its largest war in decades, and the conditions are ripe for a false flag incident that could drag the US into a war with Iran. But this conflict wouldn’t stop at the Middle East. Russia and China firmly back Iran, raising the stakes dramatically. In short, the Middle East is standing on the precipice of a major war - one that has the potential to escalate into a global conflict. World War 3 is a real possibility.

All it would take to ignite this powder keg is a catalyzing event - just like the events that triggered other major wars throughout history. A false flag attack on a US ship near the Middle East could be the spark that sets everything in motion. Unfortunately, most people have no idea just how close we are to a catastrophe of historic proportions. Even fewer know how to prepare for what’s coming... This looming crisis could be far worse, far longer, and completely unlike anything we’ve experienced since World War 2. The signs are clear. The pattern is repeating. And history shows us exactly how this ends."

"We Know..."

“We know they are lying.
They know they are lying.
They know we know they are lying.
We know they know we know they are lying.
But they are still lying.”
- Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Don Henley, "Dirty Laundry"

"We'll know our disinformation program is complete 
when everything the American public believes is false." 
- William J. Casey, CIA Director

"Life, eh?"

 

"Wars And Rumors Of Wars"

Danny Haiphong, 7/15/25
"Putin Calls Trump's Bluff, This Move Wipes Out Ukraine,
 w/Larry Johnson & Col. Lawrence Wilkerson"
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"$350 BILLION on Ukraine!!!"
- Donald Trump
OMG, WTF?!
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Full screen recommended.
Dialogue Works, 7/15/25
"Mohammad Marandi: How Iran & Yemen Defy All Odds, 
Iran & Russia Getting Closer!"
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The Daily "Near You?"

Harrisonburg, Virginia, USA. Thanks for stopping by!

The Poet: James Broughton, "Quit Your Addiction"

"Quit Your Addiction"

 "Quit your addiction
to sneer and complaint.
Try a little flaunt,
Call for comrades
who bolster your vim
and offer you risk.
Corral the crones,
Goose the nice nellies,
Hunt the bear that hugs
and the raven that quoths.
Stay up all night
to devise a new dawn..."

- James Broughton,
 "Little Sermons of the Big Joy"

"Ways We Numb Ourselves - Emerging from the Grey"

"Ways We Numb Ourselves - Emerging from the Grey"
by Madisyn Taylor

"Numbing yourself prevents you from confronting your issues and keeps you from ever finding resolution or peace. We are born equipped to experience a complex array of diverse emotions. Many of us, however, are uncomfortable confronting our most powerful emotions. We may shy away from delight and despair and deny life's colors by retreating into a world of monotone grey. We may numb ourselves to what we are truly feeling. It's easier to suppress our emotions than to deal with them, so we may momentarily turn to pleasures such as alcohol, food, sugar, shopping and too much television. We may even numb our hearts. While it's normal to temporarily seek distractions as a means of coping with intense emotions, numbing yourself prevents you from confronting your issues and keeps you from ever finding resolution or peace. When you are numb, there is no pain or powerlessness, but there can also be no joy or healing.

The activities that numb you may seem harmless or pleasurable, but using them to numb yourself diminishes the quality of your life. Numbing yourself so that you don't have to feel intense emotions can often satisfy a surface need while blocking your awareness of a deeper need. You may find solace in food or shopping when what you really need is spiritual nourishment. The less you feel, the less alive you feel. Your feelings add vividness to your experiences and serve to connect you to the world around you. It is possible to disavow yourself of numbing behaviors a little at a time and once again taste life's rich flavors. When you sense that you are engaging in a particular behavior simply to deaden your emotions, stop and ask yourself why. Examining the feelings that drive you to numb yourself can help you understand what is triggering your desire to emotionally fade out.

With each numbing activity that you cut out of your life, you'll find yourself being more aware and experiencing a greater emotional acuity. Senses once shrouded by the fog of numbness become sharp and acute. Traumas and pain long hidden will emerge to the forefront of your consciousness and reveal themselves so that you can heal them. You'll discover a deeper you - a self that is comfortable experiencing and working through intense emotions with courage and grace."
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Pet Shop Boys, "Numb"

"Even With Good People..."

"'Cause even with good people, even with people that
you can kinda trust, if the truth is inconvenient,
and if the truth doesn't, like, fit, they don't believe it."
- Marie Adler

"In A Word..."

"In a word, there are many thorns, but the roses are there too.”
- Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

"In These Downbeat Times...

"In these downbeat times, we need as much hope and courage as we do vision and analysis; we must accent the best of each other even as we point out the vicious effects of our racial divide and pernicious consequences of our maldistribution of wealth and power. We simply cannot live in the twenty-first century at each others throats, even as we acknowledge the weighty forces of racism, patriarchy, economic inequality, homophobia, and ecological abuse on our necks. We are at a crucial crossroad in the history of this nation - and we either hang together by combating these forces that divide and degrade us or we hang separately. Do we have the intelligence, humor, imagination, courage, tolerance, love, respect, and will to meet the challenge? Time will tell. None of us alone can save the nation or world. But each of us can make a positive difference if we commit ourselves to do so."
- Cornel West

Bill Bonner, "A Visit to Jersey"

"A Visit to Jersey"
We went to visit a friend, 
and stayed the weekend to visit the island.
by Bill Bonner

Youghal, Ireland - "The sun shone hot. The palm trees swayed. And the beaches glistened. But this was not some tropical island paradise. This was Jersey, a ‘tax haven’ island in the English Channel. It reminded us of Bermuda - with vaguely similar architecture, topography, flora and people. Even the English accents were familiar. We went to visit a friend, and stayed the weekend to visit the island.

The idea of a ‘tax haven’ is slightly antique. Americans are taxed on worldwide income; there is no ‘haven’ from it. Still, as evidenced by the number of blue blazers that got on the plane in London, Jersey’s fund managers and trust administrators do a lively business, perhaps mostly for non-American clients.

Not interested in the Channel Islands? We didn’t think so. But we’ll tell you about them anyway, and we’ll include a real hero in the story. This group of islands, off the north coast of France, are ‘crown dependencies’ of England. They are small; Jersey measures only five miles wide by nine miles long. They are not part of the UK, nor of the Commonwealth, nor of the EU.

The islands first came into the history books during the Roman era. They may or may not have been garrisoned by Roman troops, but they are mentioned by Rome’s historians and Roman era coins have been found. Much later, the same people who conquered England in 1066...along with Southern Italy and Sicily - the Normans - also took over the small islands off the French coast. Then, in the 13th century the English and the Normans parted company. Ever thereafter, the Islands - Jersey, Guernsey and Sark - remained with England, though not under the control of parliament.

A visit to the cemeteries adds a nuance. Jersey may have been “English” since 1204, but the people spoke a dialect of Old Norman French - Jerriais - up until the 19th century. “We really didn’t have much to do with England,” said a jolly woman performing a bit of ‘living history.’ That is, she was dressed in 17th century fashion...and seated at a 17th century table in a 17th century farmhouse. The visitor was invited to see how people actually lived back then.

Not too bad, was the impression we took away. There were sheep in the meadow and cows in the corn. And all around - inside the houses and outside in the yards - chickens wandered about, many of the hens scratching the earth to show their chicks how it was done.

This ‘living farm’ was one of many historical attractions on the island. There is also one of the best preserved ‘passage graves’ in Europe, dating to the Neolithic period. There are churches from every stage of Christendom...a prehistoric cave dwelling...and a museum with a display (not the real thing) of the biggest cache of ancient Celtic coins ever discovered. The coins seem to have been buried to avoid confiscation. The rightful owners must have figured they could hide their treasure in the ground and come back for it later. Why didn't they come back? Most likely they were slaughtered by the invaders. Their money survived; they probably didn’t.

Our 17th century milkmaid continued: “We are much closer to France than to England. Taking a boat to England was treacherous. You had to cross the channel. Much easier to go to France to trade. But then, when the steam engine came along, it was easy for us to get to England and easy for the English to get to us. Even my own grandparents still spoke Jerriais. But I don’t speak it. Almost nobody does. We picked up the English language, drinking tea, and eating scones. We’ve become very English.”

Jersey’s Englishness was tested in WWII. After the British fled the beach at Dunkirk, it was widely assumed that Britain would soon surrender. But it didn’t give in. The bombing of London merely stiffened English resistance.

But there was one part of England that was very much within Hitler’s grasp - the Channel Islands. He sent bombers against Jersey and Guernsey and let loose on the harbors. Neither island was defended...and neither had any intention of putting up a fight. One old man apparently put a pair of underpants on a pole and waved it around as a sign of surrender...and the Germans marched in.

But the Huns didn’t unleash a devil’s picnic of raping, looting and murder. Instead, they were orderly and polite, as illustrated by a handsome aristocrat - Baron Hans Max Freiherr von Aufsess - who acted as a coordinating officer between the German command and the local authorities. It was in some ways a model for a military occupation. The occupiers were civilized. The occupied took their station with grace and dignity. So comfortable were they, one with another, that this turned into a bone of contention after the war. Some observers claimed that the islanders should have put up more of a fight. They “did not fight on the beaches, in the fields or in the streets,” wrote Madeleine Bunting. “They did not commit suicide, and they did not kill any Germans.” Ms. Bunting pined for fighting heroes. She wanted blood. As it turned out, there was plenty of blood...but from neither the occupied nor the occupier. And the real hero didn’t fight at all.

The museums showcase the way the islanders tried to keep up with the news by radio (verboten!) or dared to undermine the German war effort in vain and petty ways. But those who suffered most were neither the Germans nor the islanders. Hitler had decided that the islands could serve as vital keystones in the ‘Atlantic Wall’ which was meant to keep the allies out. Respecting the Geneva Convention taboo on forcing enemy civilians to work, the Germans brought over thousands of Russian prisoners of war, Jews, Eastern Europeans, and Spaniards to dig, hammer, pound, and tote. More than a thousand of them died from overwork under nourishment.

But there is scarcely any mention of these slave laborers in the museums or the public monuments - at least not the ones we saw. Of the thousands of them, only one is even remembered by name, a young Russian pilot named Fyodor Buriy (nicknamed Bill). He had escaped the labor camp and was hidden by an island woman named Louisa Gould. Her own son had enlisted in the British navy and been killed in the war. She was determined to protect ‘another woman’s son’ from a similar fate.

‘Bill’ survived and made his way back to the Soviet Union. But Mrs. Gould was ratted out (probably by a neighbor) and was sent to Ravensbruck concentration camp, where she died. Twenty years after the war, ‘Bill’ published a notice in the Jersey newspaper thanking all those who had helped him escape. His ‘heart was heavy,’ he said, thinking of Mrs. Gould, who ‘was like a mother’ to him."

"How It Really Is"

 

"Madness..."

“When the world goes mad, one must accept madness as sanity; 
since sanity is, in the last analysis, nothing but the
 madness on which the whole world happens to agree.”
- George Bernard Shaw

Dan, I Allegedly, "Stores Closing, Layoffs, Debt & Hunger - The Economic Crisis Unfolding"

Full screen recommended.
Dan, I Allegedly, AM 7/15/25
"Stores Closing, Layoffs, Debt & Hunger - 
The Economic Crisis Unfolding"
"Stores are closing at record levels in 2025, and the numbers are shocking! Nearly 6,000 retail locations have already shuttered their doors this year, with no signs of slowing down. From convenience stores like 7-Eleven and Circle K to big names like Levi's and Kraft Heinz, the retail landscape is undergoing massive changes. What’s driving these closures? Inflation, high interest rates, and shifting consumer behavior are just the beginning. This also impacts food insecurity, real estate, home buying, and even job stability. I break it all down in today’s video and share insights into how this economic shift is affecting everyday Americans."
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"New CV19 Vax Betrayal by RFK Jr."

"New CV19 Vax Betrayal by RFK Jr."
b y Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com

"Karen Kingston is a biotech analyst and former Pfizer employee who was on the cutting-edge warning people from the beginning of the dangers of the dreaded CV19 so-called “vaccine.” Kingston was one of the first to tell people that the CV19 vax was literally a bioweapon, and the mRNA synthetic technology in it still makes it so. She talked about all the deaths and diseases it would cause and is still causing such as blood clotting, heart disease, auto immune disease and turbo cancers, to name a few. The Trump Administration FDA admitted in court it knew the CV19 shots were brought to the market despite fraud in the drug trials, and it did not care. The FDA announced this past week that it approved a new CV19 vax that babies as young as six months old will be injected with. I asked if she was shocked, and Kingston said, “This is not shock. It’s betrayal is what it is because when we look at RFJ Jr. and the six years prior to becoming Secretary of Health and Human Services he was promising to have accountability. He promised to put safety first and safety of the children first. He was going to look at not only the (CV19) mRNA shots but all vaccines and get really good solid data to evaluate the safety and danger profiles. So, it feels like a big betrayal.”

There was a little good news that broke this weekend, and that was the DOJ dropping all charges against Dr. Kirk Moore. He was charged with destroying $28,000 of CV19 vaccines. Congress woman Marjory Taylor Greene pushed the DOJ to drop the charges and said, “Dr. Kirk Moore was targeted by a weaponized government because he refused to inject an experimental vaccine into people who didn’t want it.” Stories like this with a happy CV19 bioweapon vax ending are rare, and millions have been killed by the CV19 vax and many millions more are permanently disabled. This is now a well-established scientific fact backed up by mountains of data and peer reviewed medical studies. Kingston says, “Nobody should be taking any mRNA shots.”

What America is going to be getting are more of these man-made pandemics with so-called Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) vaccines, made up ahead of time, to inject the sick. Kingston contends this is really more of the transhumanism agenda, where they need an excuse to inject humans with more nanoparticle technology. Kingston says, “I think this is not about us being augmented by AI (Artificial Intelligence). Probably the end goal is for us to be an energy source for AI. That would explain this anti-human movement. This is why we are being treated as less than an animal. People are literally being criminally experimented on, disabled, diseased, distressed and some are being murdered. We don’t treat animals that way in America, but that is how humans are being treated. Again, it would appear that we are being treated as an energy source for AI technology in humans. Also, at the end of June, the US Department of Agriculture launched a huge bio-digital surveillance for all of America’s livestock. Congress backed this up. Congress wants more experimental vaccines. This is going to devastate our food supply.”

For anyone who is CV19 vaxed and thinks they would not suffer consequences, think again. Many will suffer from the CV19 injections as it is a confirmed bioweapon. Kingston says, “I quote the recent Yale study that says 700 days after your last CV19 shot, people are still producing spike proteins. This was self-amplifying mRNA. It’s these nanoparticles that get into your body and act as biosynthetic viruses, and you turn into a bioweapons factory. This was all over Pfizer’s documents.” There is much more in the 54-minute interview.
- https://usawatchdog.com/

"Join Greg Hunter on Rumble as he goes One-on-One with renowned biotech analyst Karen Kingston as she continues to uncover pure evil with the latest approval of the deadly and debilitating mRNA CV19 bioweapon vax. Kingston is still pushing HHS Secretary RFK Jr. and President Trump to pull this deadly disaster CV19 vax from the market now."

This has been called "the greatest organized mass-murder in the history
 of the world." And it is. God help you if you've taken this injection...

Gregory Mannarino, "Economic Depression; Dollar Meltdown; US Factory Death"

Gregory Mannarino, 7/15/25
"Economic Depression; Dollar Meltdown; US Factory Death"
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"World War III Has Already Begun"

"World War III Has Already Begun"
In the West’s eyes, Russia must be destroyed.
 That leaves us no choice.
by Dmitry Trenin

"Many now speak of humanity’s drift towards World War III, imagining events similar to those of the 20th century. But war evolves. It will not begin with a June 1941 Barbarossa-style invasion or a Cuban Missile Crisis-style nuclear standoff. In fact, the new world war is already underway – it’s just that not everyone has recognized it yet.

For Russia, the pre-war period ended in 2014. For China, it was 2017. For Iran, 2023. Since then, war – in its modern, diffuse form – has intensified. This is not a new Cold War. Since 2022, the West’s campaign against Russia has grown more decisive. The risk of direct nuclear confrontation with NATO over the Ukraine conflict is rising. Donald Trump’s return to the White House created a temporary window in which such a clash could be avoided, but by mid-2025, hawks in the US and Western Europe had pushed us dangerously close again.

This war involves the world’s leading powers: the United States and its allies on one side, China and Russia on the other. It is global, not because of its scale, but because of the stakes: the future balance of power. The West sees the rise of China and the resurgence of Russia as existential threats. Its counteroffensive, economic and ideological, is meant to put a halt to that shift.

It is a war of survival for the West, not just geopolitically but ideologically. Western globalism – whether economic, political, or cultural – cannot tolerate alternative civilizational models. Post-national elites in the US and Western Europe are committed to preserving their dominance. A diversity of worldviews, civilizational autonomy, and national sovereignty are seen not as options, but as threats.

This explains the severity of the West’s response. When Joe Biden told Brazil’s President Lula that he wanted to “destroy” Russia, he revealed the truth behind euphemisms like “strategic defeat.” Western-backed Israel has shown how total this doctrine is – first in Gaza, then Lebanon, and finally Iran. In early June, a similar strategy was used in attacks on Russian airfields. Reports suggest US and British involvement in both cases. To Western planners, Russia, Iran, China and North Korea are part of a single axis. That belief shapes military planning.

Compromise is no longer part of the game. What we’re seeing are not temporary crises but rolling conflicts. Eastern Europe and the Middle East are the two current flashpoints. A third has long been identified: East Asia, particularly Taiwan. Russia is directly engaged in Ukraine, holds stakes in the Middle East, and may become involved in the Pacific.

The war is no longer about occupation, but destabilization. The new strategy focuses on sowing internal disorder: economic sabotage, social unrest, and psychological attrition. The West’s plan for Russia is not defeat on the battlefield, but gradual internal collapse.

Its tactics are all-encompassing. Drone strikes target infrastructure and nuclear facilities. Political assassinations are no longer off-limits. Journalists, negotiators, scientists, and even their families are being hunted. Residential neighborhoods, schools, and hospitals are not collateral damage – they are targets. This is total war.

This is underpinned by dehumanization. Russians are portrayed not just as enemies but as subhuman. Western societies are manipulated to accept this. Information control, censorship, and historical revisionism are used to justify the war. Those who question the dominant narrative are labelled traitors.

Meanwhile, the West exploits the more open systems of its adversaries. After refusing to interfere in foreign politics for decades, Russia now finds itself on the defensive. But those days must end. As our enemies coordinate their attacks, we must disrupt their unity. The European Union is not a monolith. Hungary, Slovakia, and much of southern Europe are not eager for escalation. These internal fractures must be widened.

Western strength lies in unity among its elites and their ideological control over their populations. But this unity is not invulnerable. The Trump administration presents tactical opportunities. His return has already reduced US involvement in Ukraine. Yet Trumpism should not be romanticized. The American elite remains largely hostile to Russia. There will be no new détente.

What we must ask is: Is Western Europe preparing to defend or attack? Many of its leaders have lost their strategic judgment. But the hostility is real. The goal is no longer containment, but to “solve the Russian question” once and for all. Any illusion that business as usual will return must be discarded. We are in for a long war. It will not end like in 1945, nor settle into Cold War coexistence. The decades ahead will be turbulent. Russia must fight for its rightful place in a new world order.

So, what must we do? First of all, we must strengthen our home front. We need mobilization, but not the rigid models of the Soviet past. We need smart, adaptive mobilization across all sectors – economic, technological, and demographic. Russia’s political leadership is a strategic asset. It must remain steady and visionary.

We must promote internal unity, social justice, and patriotism. Every citizen must feel the stakes. We must align our fiscal, industrial, and technological policy with the realities of a long-term war. Fertility policy and migration control must reverse our demographic decline. Secondly, we must consolidate our external alliances. Belarus is a strong ally in the west. North Korea has shown reliability in the east. But we lack a similar partner in the south. This gap must be addressed.

The war in Ukraine is becoming a war between Western Europe and Russia. British and French missiles already strike Russian targets. NATO intelligence is embedded in Ukrainian operations. EU countries are training Ukrainian forces and planning attacks together. Ukraine is just a tool. Brussels is preparing for a wider war."

"Threatening The Russians With An Ultimatum Will Backfire Severely And Will Set The Stage For Nuclear War"

"Threatening The Russians With An Ultimatum Will 
Backfire Severely And Will Set The Stage For Nuclear War"
by Michael Snyder

"So is this how it all ends? I don’t even know how to describe the emotions that I am feeling right now. There was so much hope a few months ago that there would be peace, but both sides appear completely uninterested in making substantial compromises at this point. Instead, both sides are poised to dramatically escalate the war. If we continue going down this path, it isn’t going to end well. For decades, our leaders have been conducting war game scenarios in which a conflict in Ukraine leads to a nuclear war. Now a conflict in Ukraine could lead to a nuclear war for real. I feel like I am watching a slow-motion train wreck happen without any way to stop it. It really is quite a sickening feeling.

We have a very limited window of opportunity to make peace with the Russians, and we are totally blowing it. In February, I specifically warned that President Trump must not resort to threatening the Russians over the war in Ukraine because it would backfire severely. When I woke up today, I learned that is exactly what Trump has decided to do.

Trump has issued a very ominous ultimatum. If Russia does not end the war in Ukraine within 50 days, the U.S. will impose “very severe tariffs” on all nations that do business with Russia. In addition, Trump has approved a massive new weapons package for Ukraine…"Trump announced July 14 that the United States is sending weapons to NATO, which plans to transfer the equipment to Ukraine, and also threatened steep tariffs aimed at impacting Russia’s ability to finance the war. Trump said that the United States would put secondary tariffs on countries that do business with Russia if a peace deal is not reached within 50 days. “We’re going to be doing very severe tariffs if we don’t have a deal in 50 days,” Trump said.

The deadline that Trump has set falls in September, which I found to be very interesting. If Russia does not end the war in Ukraine by the deadline, and that is very unlikely to happen, Trump says that all countries that do business with Russia will be hit with 100 percent tariffs
 “We’re going to be doing secondary tariffs if we don’t have a deal within 50 days. It’s very simple,” Mr. Trump said in the Oval Office, alongside NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte. “And they’ll be at 100%.” “We are very unhappy, I am, with Russia,” the president explained.

China does a tremendous amount of business with Russia. Are we going to hit the Chinese with 100 percent tariffs? That would not be good for our economy at all. Much more importantly, the enormous new weapons package that Trump is sending to Ukraine will significantly escalate the conflict. It is being reported that the U.S. will sell approximately 10 billion dollars in weapons to European countries, and those European countries will turn around and distribute those weapons to Ukraine.

According to NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte, nations all over Europe are very eager to participate in the “first wave” of this program…"Rutte, who said the decision was built on the “tremendous success” of last month’s NATO summit when nearly every nation in the alliance agreed to increase their defense spending to reach 5% of their nation’s GDP, called the move “logical.”

“This is again European nations standing up,” Rutte added. “I’ve been in contact with many countries, I can tell you at this moment Germany, massively, but also Finland and Denmark and Sweden and Norway, we have the Kingdom of the Netherlands, Canada – they all want to be part of this. “And this is only the first wave. There will be more,” Rutte confirmed. “So what we will do is work through the NATO systems to make sure that we know what Ukrainians need.”

This isn’t going to end the war. It is just going to make it even worse. Apparently this new aid for Ukraine will likely include long-range missiles that will be capable of striking targets deep inside Russian territory…"Now, two sources tell Axios that it’s likely a new weapons package will include long-range missiles capable of attacking deep inside Russia to include Moscow. They noted that a final decision hadn’t been made. “Trump is really pissed at Putin. His announcement tomorrow is going to be very aggressive,” warmongering South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham told Axios."

At the end of 2024, the Biden administration brought us right to the brink of nuclear war by allowing the Ukrainians to fire long-range missiles provided by the United States deep into Russian territory. Now we are going to do it again? Are we mad? Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy certainly sounds like he can’t wait to get his hands on the long-range missiles that are coming…"Ukrainian forces will continue targeting Russian troops and doing everything possible to bring the war onto Russian territory, including preparing new long-range strikes, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said. “Our units will continue to destroy the enemy and do everything possible to bring the war onto Russian territory. We are preparing our new long-range strikes,” Zelenskyy said."

According to a decorated British Army commander named Hamish de Bretton-Gordon, the plan is for Ukraine to receive long-range missiles that “can strike Moscow”… Mr de Bretton-Gordon told The Sun: “These weapons can strike Moscow – over 400 miles from the border. That allows the Ukrainians to strike drone factory production and ammunition sites, and others. “So this will have both psychological as well as physical effects. “People in Moscow will realize that they potentially could be targeted. “And when you also add to it the American bombings on Iranian sites that were supposed to be impregnable, it shows that American missile and drone technology rather superior to the Russian air defense system.”

Let me ask you a question. If another country launched long-range missiles at Washington D.C. and New York City, what would we do? The answer to that question is obvious. If long-range missiles provided by the United States start falling in Moscow, the Russians will respond very forcefully. In fact, Hamish de Bretton-Gordon has openly admitted that the Russians have already been strongly considering the use of nuclear weapons…


In a Telegraph op-ed, the former Colonel and expert on weapons of mass destruction stated: “The fact that Putin and his gangsters have threatened nuclear attack continuously since the wider war in Ukraine began suggests they are thinking about it in detail.” The former Colonel expressed concern over the prolonged conflict in Ukraine, stating: “As three days have become three years plus, they may think they can finish off Ukraine quickly with tactical nukes and we would not react.”

We are playing with fire. Meanwhile, the government of the Philippines is quietly coordinating with Taiwan in anticipation of a coming war with China…"Faced with intensifying Chinese encroachment at sea, the Philippines increasingly sees its national security as intertwined with that of Taiwan and is quietly ramping up both formal and informal engagement with the self-governing island, including on security, according to government officials, defense analysts and diplomats here.

This marks a significant departure from Manila’s conservative approach toward Taiwan and could pave the way for the Philippines, a U.S. treaty ally, to play a bigger role if China makes good on its threats to invade Taiwan. “Any force projection of China within our area is a matter of extreme concern,” Philippine Defense Secretary Gilbert Teodoro said in an interview Thursday.

And we are being told that Israel is preparing for the next time that it will strike Iran…"In a recent meeting with Prime Minister Netanyahu, President Trump, while preferring a diplomatic solution, did not object to Israel’s readiness to launch further strikes. This stance comes as Israeli intelligence believes Iran could still recover a significant amount of near-bomb-grade uranium from the damaged Isfahan site. The situation has created a high-stakes standoff, with Washington leveraging the threat of future attacks to push Tehran toward a deal, while an unconvinced Israel prepares to act alone if necessary.

In my new book entitled “10 Prophetic Events That Are Coming Next”, I specifically warn about war with Russia, war with China, and war in the Middle East. And I have warned about these wars over and over again in my articles. But sometimes I feel like I am banging my head into a brick wall because most people don’t seem to get it. This isn’t a game. Decisions that are being made right now will greatly alter the course of human history, and hundreds of millions of lives are hanging in the balance."