"Israeli Soldier Reveals 'Strange Order' To Cancel Gaza Border Patrols On 7 Oct"

"Israeli Soldier Reveals 'Strange Order'

 To Cancel Gaza Border Patrols On 7 Oct"

The revelation adds to evidence suggesting Israel

 knew of the Hamas attack in advance, yet allowed it to occur.

by News Desk

"An Israeli soldier stated that he and his fellow soldiers stationed at a military outpost near Gaza received orders not to carry out their usual early morning patrol on the border fence on 7 October 2023, Israeli media reported on 17 July. During the time the border patrol would have normally been carried out, members of Hamas's armed wing, the Qassam Brigades, crossed the fence to attack Israeli army bases and settlements (kibbutzim).

Shalom Sheetrit, a soldier in the Golani Brigade, revealed the directive while giving testimony at a meeting of the lobby for reserve personnel in the Israeli Knesset. I managed to grab the translated version. pic.twitter.com/bBjrTHb47h -  News Fist / Habbening TV (@malinformedtv) July 30, 2025

He stated that on the night before the 7 October attack, he and two other soldiers, Yotam Sror and Itamar Ben Yehuda, sat by the battalion radio at the Pega military outpost near Kibbutz Be'eri. “We were playing on the phone [at 5:20 am] and suddenly a strange message comes from my battalion commander,” the soldier explained, “and what he says on the call is something like this: ‘I don't know why, but an order was issued that there are no patrols at the fence until nine in the morning.’” Sheetrit said soldiers from the outpost carried out patrols on the border fence every morning “because you are in an operational battalion and that is part of the matter.” Hamas fighters attacked the Pega outpost and killed 14 Israeli soldiers there during Operation Al-Aqsa Flood.

When asked if this was why many soldiers at the outpost were still sleeping when the Hamas attack began, Sheetrit stated, “I don't know how to answer it that way. In our mortar department, there was an alert at dawn, and we woke up. It's possible that in the patrol departments, they were told not to wake up. I don't know. I don't want to just say that.”

Sheetrit stated that the military units based in the Pega outpost were responsible for protecting Kibbutz Be'eri, which was also attacked by Hamas. “Unfortunately, we were not up to the task. There were dozens against hundreds of terrorists, 25 against 150, and so we couldn't arrive, unfortunately. I'm far from being a military man who can give answers to questions, the situation hurts me just as it hurts everyone,” the soldier explained.

A major battle took place at Be'eri in which over 100 Israelis were killed. After the attack began, the Israeli air force deployed Apache Helicopters, tanks, and drones to bomb the kibbutz and the Gaza border nearby to prevent Hamas from taking captives with them back to Gaza.

As a result, Israeli forces burned to death hundreds of Israeli civilians and Hamas fighters in airstrikes in Be'eri and other kibbutzim near the border, as well as at the Nova Music Festival, per a secretive policy known as the Hannibal Directive. The deaths were all quickly blamed on Hamas. Speaking with Haaretz, Israeli reserve pilot Col. Nof Erez describes Israeli army's response to Oct. 7 as "MASS HANNIBAL." The Hannibal Directive orders the army to kill their own to prevent them being taken captive. pic.twitter.com/5IrERAAtVl - The Cradle (@TheCradleMedia) November 20, 2023

“I tried to ask military personnel why and what happened there. The blood of my friends and the blood of many people in the country was spilled in a huge tragedy, and I tried to understand why it happened and how,” Sheetrit added.

The strange order to cancel routine patrols along the Gaza border adds to evidence that Israeli political and military leaders knew in advance about Hamas's plan to attack on 7 October – and allowed it to happen to justify the conquest and ethnic cleansing of Gaza and the building of Jewish settlements on top of the ruins of the strip's soon-to-be-destroyed cities.

Israeli military and intelligence officials ignored many signals on the night before the attack, and in the previous weeks and months, indicating that Hamas was planning a large attack to take captives to exchange for Palestinian prisoners. Female Israeli soldiers tasked to observe activity on the Gaza border issued multiple warnings to their superiors that an attack was imminent, but they were ignored.

“In hindsight, we could have done a lot of things, we could have listened to the observers, we could have brought up the air force, and these things didn't happen,” Sheetrit concluded. “That's the failure. It's not a failure of the fighters on the ground, but of the higher levels in the army, of people who went down to Eilat even though we informed them a week in advance that there was intelligence information.”

- https://thecradle.co/

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The CJ Werleman Show, 8/7/25

"Israel Hides Massive IDF Casualties and 

Losses in Gaza," Say Former IDF Generals"

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Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Thanks for stopping by!

"I Don't Believe..."

"I don’t believe in ‘original sin.’ I don’t believe in ‘guilt.’ I don’t believe in villains or heroes – only right or wrong ways that individuals have taken, not by choice but by necessity or by certain still-uncomprehended influences in themselves, their circumstances, and their antecedents. This is so simple I’m ashamed to say it, but I’m sure it’s true. In fact, I would bet my life on it! And that’s why I don’t understand why our propaganda machines are always trying to teach us, to persuade us, to hate and fear other people on the same little world that we live in.”

- Tennessee Williams

"The Earth"

"The Earth"

by Sheila Black

"What can I tell her over breakfast when she says

her son suffers from madness, and because there

is no mental health, he has ended up in jail,

and she is relieved, because at least he might

be safe there or he might get to see the doctor.

We are eating egg-white omelets; we are counting

carbs. We are buttoning ourselves in our clean dresses

and high-heeled shoes in order to bring home the bacon,

doing what we need to do and “It is what it is.”

Her granddaughter and daughter are living with her

in the one bedroom. Nights, the daughter lounges by

the pool, looking at her phone, while she teaches the child

to plant seeds in a flower bed she feels bad she does not own.

She tells she cried in the car coming here; she did not know

me then. She thought we would be talking to each other

the whole time about what we are selling, what

the other might buy, but somehow we left that behind

over the toast with the tiny pots of strawberry jam.

Who can explain all this luxury, all this despair?

Or how we all hold our secret shames so close

and gloss our lips with “Cinnamon Fire” as if that were

some legitimate form of protection. Cinnamon Fire!

She just turned fifty. I tell her wait ten years - you

won’t know more, but you will get closer to forgiving,

because it is all happening on a wheel that spin

so fast. Why not stop to look at the pink flowers

you’ve planted with your granddaughter? Why not feel

your bare toes in the good wet earth? We play with the crusts

on our plates. The waitress takes the coffee away. We

are strangers again, each carrying our lonely fear

our children won’t find their way, wishing for them

some inner logic - sacred trust of earth and self, that exists

for each of us so far within, so far under the skin, we

can’t even begin to say what it is made of; it merely is,

poised between love and grief: the blue space we call wonder,

which is merely the dew on the grass, the shadow the sun

makes as it rolls over the vast skin of the Earth."

- https://poets.org/

"What Is The Joy About?"

“There are meaningful warnings which history gives a threatened or perishing society. Such are, for instance, the decadence of art, or a lack of great statesmen. There are open and evident warnings, too. The center of your democracy and of your culture is left without electric power for a few hours only, and all of a sudden crowds of American citizens start looting and creating havoc. The smooth surface film must be very thin, then, the social system quite unstable and unhealthy. But the fight for our planet, physical and spiritual, a fight of cosmic proportions, is not a vague matter of the future; it has already started. The forces of Evil have begun their offensive; you can feel their pressure, and yet your screens and publications are full of prescribed smiles and raised glasses. What is the joy about?”

- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Dan, I Allegedly, "How Thieves Game the System - The Alarming Truth!"

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Dan, I Allegedly, AM 8/7/25

"How Thieves Game the System - The Alarming Truth!"

"Credit frozen scams are wreaking havoc, and today I’m breaking down how thieves are gaming the system to manipulate credit, commit identity theft, and outwit banks. From credit bust-outs to fake identities, I’ll expose the shocking strategies scammers use to make big purchases and leave others holding the bag. Plus, I’ll cover wild stories like dealerships uncovering car VIN fraud, roofers buying thousands in stolen tires, and how AI is changing banking forever. Banks, credit agencies, and even consumers are facing major risks - don’t get caught unaware!"

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"How It Really Is"

 

Greg Hunter, "Man has No Control Over Black Star Black Swan"

"Man Has No Control Over Black Star Black Swan"

by Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com

"Scientist and inventor Weston Warren is back with an update about the so-called Black Star or electromagnetic anomaly that has entered our solar system. It’s slow moving, and it’s an event that only happens about every 4,000 years. Warren says it will get close to earth but will not hit Earth. Still, this Black Star will cause Earth changing damage. The Black Star throws off electromagnetic power that can affect the iron and nickel molten core of the planet. You can see the effects most recently with the big volcanic eruption in Hawaii in July. There was a volcanic eruption in Russia last week that has not happened there in 600 years. This was called an “historic eruption.” In the same area of Russia last week, there was an 8.8 earthquake. It’s the sixth worst ever recorded. People were bracing for tsunamis around the world, but it was not as bad as it could have been - this time. 

Warren says, “A real ‘Black Swan’ event is not from an alphabet agency or orchestrated behind the scenes by the bad guys. We know that can happen and has happened. This particular Black Swan event is not going to be controlled by man, science or technology. This is not a DARPA type event or a HAARP event. This is way beyond man’s ability. We are going to have situations where infrastructure is affected, such as ports, sea lanes and aircraft not being able to travel. What happens when you don’t have just six or seven active volcanos, but when you have 60 active volcanos? You might have 30 or 40 active volcanos under the ocean floor. These are dynamics that modern man has not had to deal with. This will crush any government or the world’s economy. There is no fixing this. This will affect industry, supply chains, food, animal and plant behavior. It will affect human behavior psychologically with the electromagnetic signature that our DNA is tuned to. So, we have multiple vectors where humanity will be under great stress. Human consciousness will be affected, and it’s being affected now. It is going to get worse, unfortunately.”

Warren goes on to say, “What is coming to the Earth is not survivable by having Bitcoin, gold, silver, a bunker, storable food, water filtration or air filtration. No, this is way beyond that. A physical remedy is not going to do it. Weston says, “This is not normal, especially in the next six years. We are going to see things we have never seen before. This is a doozy, and it doesn’t look like many are going to survive.”

Warren says extreme Earth problems will “intensify and wane,” but the time to really watch for severe problems is around Winter/Spring of 2026 and the same time frame in 2028." There is much more in the 69-minute interview.

- https://usawatchdog.com/

Join Greg Hunter on Rumble as he goes One-on-One with Weston Warren, scientist and inventor of the bipolar ionization technology. He will update us on the Black Star, the damage of Biblical proportions it will cause. 

- https://rumble.com/

“'The Year Of The Flood' Gets Even Worse: Monster Storms Cause Catastrophic Flooding in Hong Kong, India, South Korea, Taiwan And China"

“'The Year Of The Flood' Gets Even Worse: Monster Storms Cause 

Catastrophic Flooding in Hong Kong, India, South Korea, Taiwan And China"

by Michael Snyder

"We have never seen a year quite like this. I wrote about “the year of the flood” on July 15th and July 27th, and now I am writing about it again. If I haven’t convinced you by now that something really weird is going on, I don’t know what to tell you. Record-breaking storms and record-breaking floods just keep hitting us again and again all over the world. During this past week, it is Asia that has been really taking a beating. Sometimes when I write articles about what is taking place on the other side of the world, a certain percentage of my readers tune out, but please don’t do that because what I have to share today is very important.

Let me begin with what is happening in Hong Kong. According to the New York Times, torrential rain that has been going on for days is turning roads into rivers and is picking up cars and sweeping them away…Days of relentless rain in Hong Kong set off major floods on Tuesday that swept cars away, inundated a hospital emergency ward and left buses stranded. Roads winding down the city’s steep hills turned into rivers.

Even for Hong Kong, a city accustomed to seasonal typhoons, the record-breaking deluge has pushed it to its limits, straining city services and testing the patience and wits of its residents. Hong Kong has never experienced anything like this before. In fact, Hong Kong just had “its highest daily rainfall in August since records began in 1884”… Parts of Hong Kong were brought to a standstill by flooding caused by heavy rains on Tuesday, after the highest-tier rainstorm warning was issued for the fourth time in eight days. The city logged its highest daily rainfall in August since records began in 1884, at just over 355 millimetres recorded at the Hong Kong weather observatory’s headquarters at 2:00 pm (0600 GMT).

In India, flash flooding just sent a “wall of water, mud and debris” slamming into the Himalayan village of Dharali…A surge of flood water tore through a mountainous village in northern India Tuesday, leaving at least four people dead and dozens missing, officials said. Dramatic video from the Himalayan village of Dharali, Uttarakhand state, shows the wall of water, mud and debris tearing down the mountainside and through the village, destroying the homes and businesses in its path. The flooding occurred around 1:45 p.m. local time, according to District Magistrate Prashant Arya in the city of Uttarkashi.

At least four people were confirmed killed, Arya said. “There are a lot of guest houses, restaurants and hotels there, because of which we immediately requested the army to aid rescue operations,” he said. Apparently dozens of local residents had just gathered at a temple for some sort of a religious festival when the wall of water struck. It is being reported that about 100 people have been reported missing and “scores remained unaccounted for”…

Dozens in the village had been gathered in a temple for a festival as the wave of dark water and debris struck at high velocity.

The Indian defence minister, Sanjay Seth, confirmed that four people had been killed in the disaster but officials feared the number could rise. Approximately 100 people were reported missing on Tuesday and scores remained unaccounted for and feared trapped in the mud, including about eight soldiers who were reported missing from a camp in the area.

In South Korea, 11 inches of rain in a 24 hour period caused “severe flooding across the southern regions of the country”… An extreme rainfall event struck South Korea between August 3 and 4, 2025, triggering severe flooding across the southern regions of the country. Over 280 mm (11 inches) of rainfall was recorded in Muan in just 24 hours, with the hourly rainfall rates reaching over extreme 140 mm (6 inches) on August 4.

But that is nothing compared to what just happened in Taiwan. In one district in southern Taiwan, more than nine feet of rain has fallen since July 28th… Storms dumped more than two metres of rain in parts of Taiwan over the past week, killing five people and triggering floods and landslides in central and southern areas, authorities said Monday. Torrential rain has lashed swathes of the island since July 28, forcing several thousand people to seek shelter, damaging roads, and shuttering offices. Maolin, a mountainous district in southern Taiwan, recorded more than 2.8 metres (nine feet) of rain since July 28, the Central Weather Administration (CWA).

That’s more than Taiwan’s annual rainfall of 2.1 metres last year, according to the agency’s data. I can’t even imagine that much rain. Needless to say, all of that water caused horrific flooding and severe landslides over a very wide area. Of course I don’t want to leave the recent flooding in China out of this article.

Last week, Beijing was getting absolutely pummeled by torrential rain, and at least 30 people died as a result…Days of torrential rain have killed at least 30 people in the northern outskirts of Beijing, state media reported Tuesday, as China grapples with yet another deadly rainy season marked by extreme downpours, devastating floods and landslides. In recent days, intense rainstorms have battered much of northern China – a densely populated part of the country home to massive metropolises as well as agricultural heartlands.

As vast quantities of water rapidly rushed through the Miyun District in northern Beijing, it took vehicles and electricity poles with it…Footage circulating on social media shows brown floodwater sweeping through residential communities, washing away cars, knocking down electricity poles and turning streets into rivers in Miyun. Dozens of roads have been damaged, potentially complicating rescue efforts, and in more than 100 smaller, more rural villages, the downpours have also cut off electricity.

Can anyone point to a time when we have seen so much catastrophic flooding all over the world in a single year? As I keep reminding my readers, we really are living in apocalyptic times. I wish that I could tell you that all of this is temporary and that conditions will soon return to normal. But I can’t. I fully expect “the year of the flood” to continue, and I also expect quite a few other “surprises” in the months ahead as well."

- https://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/

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"Was The Earth Really Hit By 396 Earthquakes Of Magnitude

 5.0 Or Greater In 30 Days, Or Is The True Number Even Higher?"

Bill Bonner, "The Generals and a $30 Trillion Retreat"

"The Generals and a $30 Trillion Retreat"

by Bill Bonner

"Democracy is the worst form of Government 

except for all those other forms that have been tried." 

- Winston Churchill 

Poitou, France - "We must be getting close to the end of one thing...and the beginning of something else. The thing whose end is nigh is the bubble on Wall Street. As a bubble inflates, the lightest, lowest quality stocks float to the top. That is what happened in the bubble of ’99.. The serious companies in the Dow rose 25% that year. But the flakier firms in the Nasdaq went up 85%. The emptier...and goofier...they are, the pricier they become. There is probably a ‘reason’ that explains this phenomenon, but we can’t think of it right now.

In the second quarter of this year, stocks partied like it was 1999. The S&P 500 rose 27%. But it was the worst of them that did best. Many are tech companies, for example, that lose money regularly. Those companies rose 57%, twice as much as the average S&P stock.

There is a whole industry (small) of analysts who look for bad companies so they can ‘short’ their stocks. So, when you see a stock with a lot of ‘short interest’ it generally means that the company is in trouble. But in the second quarter, those stocks rose even more than the unprofitable techs - they went up 68%. And then there were the ‘meme’ stocks - which make no sense at all in traditional stock analysis - up 77%...and a group of stocks labeled ‘Bitcoin sensitive’ - up 112%.

Trying to value Bitcoin by multiplying its E by the prevailing P/E ratio is a lost cause. It has no earnings. But there they are - the ‘bitcoin sensitive’ stocks are in the lead...the fastest-moving, most admired and most purchased stocks in a bubble market.

Overall, US GDP (our national output) rose by only about 0.7% (7/10ths of one percent) in the second quarter. Stocks, however, rose 38 times as fast...far beyond the value of their additional goods and services. This is why the whole stock market is greatly over-valued...and it’s why Americans now hold trillions in ‘ghost wealth.’ Since 1971, US GDP has grown by 24 times. But the S&P has gone from under 100 to over 6,000 - a gain of more than 60 times.

In the simplest math, more than half of the stock market wealth is unsupported by real output. The total market cap of US stocks is around $60 trillion. Look for a $30 trillion loss when the bubble finally deflates.

In the meantime, Churchill, quoted above, may be right. Democracy may be the best we can do. We’ve never tried the ‘others’ so we don’t know. But a new form of government is now taking shape in the US. Caesarist? Authoritarian? Big Man? Let’s take a look.

It exhibits itself in big ways and small ones. Mr. Trump, for example, refers to Pentagon jefes as ‘my generals.’ No US president - not even Lincoln - ever did that before. POTUS is meant to be a temporary office holder. The generals are presumed to be loyal to the US Constitution...and to the USA itself, not to its Big Man.

But this Big Man aims to make sure ‘his’ generals know whom they serve. The New York Times: "Top Generals Nominated for New Positions Must Now Meet With Trump." The move is a departure from past practice and has raised worries that it could lead to the politicization of the military’s top ranks.

POTUS also tells universities which students they should accept...what their internal policies should be...and even what they can allow their students to say. That’s new too. For example, Harvard and MIT were forced to submit to a special definition of ‘anti-semitism’ that restricts criticizing Israel. The Harvard Crimson: "A Harvard education journal’s publisher abruptly canceled a planned special issue on Palestine and education last month, sparking accusations from authors and editors that the journal’s publisher made a “Palestine exception” to academic freedom."

As for the states, they are told how they must invest their money. Responsible Statecraft: "America last: Trump demands states support Israel or risk disaster relief. FEMA money to be contingent on pledge against any boycotts or divestment of Israeli companies."

What’s behind this Israel First policy? Epstein photos? We don’t know, but it is part of a wider pattern of Big Man rule. Trump also wants to cleanse the Republican Party of anyone who thinks for himself. Thomas Massie voted against more aid to Israel. And now...Fox: "Trump blasts Massie as 'the worst Republican Congressman' and says he's seeking a challenger to support. MAGA loyalists asked ‘Why does Massie vote NO to every bill we propose?’ Massie responded cheekily: “I read them.”

- https://www.bonnerprivateresearch.com/

Adventures With Danno, "Shocking Prices at Kroger"

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Adventures With Danno, AM 8/7/25

"Shocking Prices at Kroger"

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Prepper News, "Breaking: Russian Troops Amassing Rapidly; Major Escalation Imminent"

Prepper News, 8/6/25

"Breaking: Russian Troops Amassing Rapidly; 

Major Escalation Imminent"

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"The Redneck Recession Is Hitting The Working Class Hard; The Bills Are Past Due; Home ATM's Soar"

Jeremiah Babe, PM 8/6/25

"The Redneck Recession Is Hitting The Working Class Hard; 

The Bills Are Past Due; Home ATM's Soar"

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Musical Interlude: Little River Band, "Cool Change"

Little River Band, "Cool Change"

"A Look to the Heavens"

“What will become of these galaxies? Spiral galaxies NGC 5426 and NGC 5427 are passing dangerously close to each other, but each is likely to survive this collision. Typically when galaxies collide, a large galaxy eats a much smaller galaxy. In this case, however, the two galaxies are quite similar, each being a sprawling spiral with expansive arms and a compact core. As the galaxies advance over the next tens of millions of years, their component stars are unlikely to collide, although new stars will form in the bunching of gas caused by gravitational tides.

Close inspection of the above image taken by the 8-meter Gemini-South Telescope in Chile shows a bridge of material momentarily connecting the two giants. Known collectively as Arp 271, the interacting pair spans about 130,000 light years and lies about 90 million light-years away toward the constellation of Virgo. Recent predictions hold that our Milky Way Galaxy will undergo a similar collision with the neighboring Andromeda Galaxy in a few billion years."

- http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap130825.html

"There Are Simply No Answers..."

“How is one to live a moral and compassionate existence when one is fully aware of the blood, the horror inherent in life, when one finds darkness not only in one’s culture but within oneself? If there is a stage at which an individual life becomes truly adult, it must be when one grasps the irony in its unfolding and accepts responsibility for a life lived in the midst of such paradox. One must live in the middle of contradiction, because if all contradiction were eliminated at once life would collapse. There are simply no answers to some of the great pressing questions. You continue to live them out, making your life a worthy expression of leaning into the light.”

- Barry Lopez

"The 5 Stages of Economic Collapse”

"The 5 Stages of Economic Collapse”

by Dmitry Orlov

Excerpt: “Elizabeth Kübler-Ross defined the five stages of coming to terms with grief and tragedy as denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance, and applied it quite successfully to various forms of catastrophic personal loss, such as death of a loved one, sudden end to one’s career, and so forth. Several thinkers, notably James Howard Kunstler and, more recently John Michael Greer, have pointed out that the Kübler-Ross model is also quite terrifyingly accurate in reflecting the process by which society as a whole (or at least the informed and thinking parts of it) is reconciling itself to the inevitability of a discontinuous future, with our institutions and life support systems undermined by a combination of resource depletion, catastrophic climate change, and political impotence.

But so far, little has been said specifically about the finer structure of these discontinuities. Instead, there is to be found continuum of subjective judgments, ranging from “a severe and prolonged recession” (the prediction we most often read in the financial press), to Kunstler’s evocative but unscientific-sounding “clusterf**k,” to the ever-popular “Collapse of Western Civilization,” painted with an ever-wider brush-stroke.

For those of us who have already gone through all of the emotional stages of reconciling ourselves to the prospect of social and economic upheaval, it might be helpful to have a more precise terminology that goes beyond such emotionally charged phrases. Defining a taxonomy of collapses might prove to be more than just an intellectual exercise: based on our abilities and circumstances, some of us may be able to specifically plan for a certain stage of collapse as a temporary, or even permanent, stopping point."

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- https://coyoteprimeblog2.blogspot.com/

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“The 12 Rules of Survival”

by Laurence Gonzales

Excerpt: “As a journalist, I’ve been writing about accidents for more than thirty years. In the last 15 or so years, I’ve concentrated on accidents in outdoor recreation, in an effort to understand who lives, who dies, and why. To my surprise, I found an eerie uniformity in the way people survive seemingly impossible circumstances. Decades and sometimes centuries apart, separated by culture, geography, race, language, and tradition, the most successful survivors–those who practice what I call “deep survival”– go through the same patterns of thought and behavior, the same transformation and spiritual discovery, in the course of keeping themselves alive.

Not only that but it doesn’t seem to matter whether they are surviving being lost in the wilderness or battling cancer, whether they’re struggling through divorce or facing a business catastrophe– the strategies remain the same. Survival should be thought of as a journey, a vision quest of the sort that Native Americans have had as a rite of passage for thousands of years. Once you’re past the precipitating event– you’re cast away at sea or told you have cancer– you have been enrolled in one of the oldest schools in history. Here are a few things I’ve learned that can help you pass the final exam."

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- https://coyoteprimeblog2.blogspot.com/

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"The Collapse Of Complex Societies"

"Political disintegration is a persistent feature of world history. The Collapse of Complex Societies, though written by an archaeologist, will therefore strike a chord throughout the social sciences. Any explanation of societal collapse carries lessons not just for the study of ancient societies, but for the members of all such societies in both the present and future. Dr. Tainter describes nearly two dozen cases of collapse and reviews more than 2000 years of explanations. He then develops a new and far-reaching theory that accounts for collapse among diverse kinds of societies, evaluating his model and clarifying the processes of disintegration by detailed studies of the Roman, Mayan and Chacoan collapses."

Joseph Tainter on The Dynamics

 of the Collapse of Human Civilization

-https://risk.princeton.edu/img/

"They Love Their Chains"

 

The Poet: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, "A Psalm of Life"

"Tell me not, in mournful numbers,

Life is but an empty dream!

For the soul is dead that slumbers,

And things are not what they seem.

Life is real! Life is earnest!

And the grave is not its goal;

Dust thou art, to dust returnest,

Was not spoken of the soul.

Not enjoyment, and not sorrow,

Is our destined end or way;

But to act, that each to-morrow

Find us farther than to-day.

Art is long, and Time is fleeting,

And our hearts, though stout and brave,

Still, like muffled drums, are beating

Funeral marches to the grave.

In the world’s broad field of battle,

In the bivouac of Life,

Be not like dumb, driven cattle!

Be a hero in the strife!

Trust no Future, howe’er pleasant!

Let the dead Past bury its dead!

Act,- act in the living Present!

Heart within, and God o’erhead!

Lives of great men all remind us

We can make our lives sublime,

And, departing, leave behind us

Footprints on the sands of time;

Footprints, that perhaps another,

Sailing o’er life’s solemn main,

A forlorn and shipwrecked brother,

Seeing, shall take heart again.

Let us, then, be up and doing,

With a heart for any fate;

Still achieving, still pursuing,

Learn to labor and to wait."

The Daily "Near You?"

Durand, Michigan, USA. Thanks for stopping by!

"Billion Dollar Meltdown Ignites Banking Panic, Major Cities Face Total Collapse!"

Full screen recommended.

Steven Van Metre, 8/6/25

"Billion Dollar Meltdown Ignites Banking Panic,

 Major Cities Face Total Collapse!"

"A shocking billion-dollar crash in commercial real estate has unleashed

 a banking panic, threatening to plunge major cities into economic chaos!"

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"We're so freakin' doomed!" - The Mogambo Guru

"Job Losses In Every Sector Of The Economy Are Accelerating, More Coming, Nothing Is Safe"

Gregory Mannarino, PM 8/6/25

"Job Losses In Every Sector Of The Economy Are 

Accelerating, More Coming, Nothing Is Safe"

- https://traderschoice.net/

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 "It's NOT A Recession That's Coming,

 It's Something Much Worse"

"This was from yesterday…(Economic Indicators Report). The accommodation and food services industry saw the biggest decline in employment last month followed by mining, company management, support services, educational services, construction, public administration, agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting, professional, scientific, technical services, health care and social assistance.

Now... Let’s Break This Down…"US Services Employment Now Officially In Decline. ISM Services Employment Index for July. 46.4% Anything under 50.0 = contraction. 46.4% = significant weakness, not a fluke or seasonal dip."

Biggest Declines In Employment. The Standouts:

• Accommodation & Food Services. This is the canary in the coal mine. Why? These are the first ones to get hit when moving into a recession.

• Mining & Support Services. Tied to energy demand and industrial investment. Weakness here suggests slowing production based activity

• Educational Services. Alarming. Education jobs tend to be recession-resistant. Weakness here = local/state budget pressure, declining enrollment, hiring freezes.

• Construction. An indication that manufacturing overall is slowing. Another clear pre-recession signal.

• Health Care & Social Assistance. When health care jobs fall, it means deep structural weakness, not just consumer tightening.

•Public Administration & Agriculture. Budget-constrained, showing that even the farming industry is tightening it’s belts.

This data confirms the slow-motion unraveling of the real US labor market. Despite manipulated/FAKE government jobs reports that show “low unemployment,” the core engine of service-based employment is failing. It’s not a recession that’s coming, its something much worse."

- https://gregorymannarino.substack.com/

Gerald Celente, "The Power Of Government: The Constitution Has Been Trampled"

Gerald Celente, 8/6/25

"Judge Andrew Napolitano: The Power Of 

Government, The Constitution Has Been Trampled"

"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."

- https://trendsjournal.com/

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"How It Really Is"

The best little whorehouse, well, anywhere...

"The Ignorance of Experts"

Daikin Park baseball stadium, home of the 

Houston Astros, lights it up on a Friday night.

"The Ignorance of Experts"

by Joel Bowman

“Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts.”

~ Richard Feynman, Nobel-winning physicist

Houston, Texas - "It’s 90°F here in Space City today, or about 32°C for our international readers. That’s a little below average for this time of year, but it’s still summer in the Lone Star State: Hot ‘n’ Humid in roughly equal parts. Not that you’d know... so well have our fellow humans learned to survive and thrive among their hostile natural surroundings.

Along the city’s spaghetti beltways, local Texans drive their enormous, climate controlled vehicles from one air conditioned venue to another. From their colossal (by European standards) homes to office towers in the sky... from giant malls to their favorite steakhouses... the world’s largest medical center to the downtown aquarium... from the science museum to the Friday night ballgame...then home again, home again, jiggety-jig.

Indeed, Houstonians have adapted so well to the swampy local climate, even the high-end, 3 million square foot Galleria Mall, destination for wealthy South American tourists looking to drop some “phat stacks” on designer totes and the ugliest fashion money can buy, features a full-sized ice rink, skateable year round.

Downtown, the Daikin Park baseball stadium – with retractable roof and capacity for 41,000 diehard Astros fans – is air conditioned to a mild 73°F (~23°C) throughout the summer, even as temperatures outside soar to well over 100°F. (Though on message boards, some fans “complain” that temps inside the stadium occasionally reach a massively non-alarming 80°F on particularly sizzling summer evenings. Cry babies.)

And every Friday night home game, fans are treated to a massive fireworks display, estimated to cost around $50,000 a pop... happily provided by event sponsors, local energy giant, ConocoPhillips. As Tom Hanks might say, when it comes to handling the climate here in H-Town, “Houston, we do not have a problem.”

Homo Centrism: Ah, but how can this be? Isn’t this hurricane season? Don’t we only have “[fill in bogus number here] years to save the planet”? Is this not, in the most apocalyptic sense, the End of the World? Recall the unambiguous doom-mongering from António Guterres, the panting Secretary-General of the United Nations, who famously declared in 2023: “The era of global warming has ended; the era of global boiling has arrived.” And yet, here we are... at the very height of a Texan summer, enjoying an iced-tea on the porch, and scarcely even parboiled.

Might it be that experts didn’t know all they claimed to know after all... that the climate is a complex phenomena largely beyond our comprehension, full of shifting dynamics, cascading interrelationships and natural feedback loops... and that maybe, just maybe, human beings are not the center of the universe we (ever so humbly) presumed we were?

A new report by the United States Department of Energy (DOE) certainly appears to suggest as much. Titled “A Critical Review of Impacts of Greenhouse Gas Emissions on the U.S. Climate,” the report was authored by a group of highly credentialed scientists, including, to the chagrin of those who seek to politicize everything up to and including the weather, the former Chief Scientific Officer of the Obama Energy Department.

By way of an overview, The Wall Street Journal listed “a few noncontroversial findings from the report – based on peer-reviewed literature from recent years – that might surprise [New York] Times readers.” Herewith..."Global warming has risks, but also benefits, including greater agricultural productivity. We still don’t know the extent to which human activity plays a role in warming, given natural variability, data limitations, uncertain models and fluctuations in solar activity. Models predicting what is to come remain all over the map. U.S. historical data doesn’t support claims of increased frequency or intensity of extreme weather. Climate change is likely to have little effect on economic growth. U.S. climate policies, even drastic ones, will have negligible effect on global temperatures."

Ad Hominem: Naturally, the mainstream media responded by calmly addressing the specific points raised in the report itself, refraining from childish ad hominem attacks and baseless fear-mongering. Just joking. Here, a few “triggered” headlines, from all the usual suspects...

"Donald Trump’s War On Climate Science Has Staggering Implications"

~ The Economist

"Trump Is Making Climate Change Denialism Federal Policy"

~ Foreign Policy

"Energy Dept. Attacks Climate Science in Contentious Report"

~ The New York Times

And our own personal favorite, also from the Old Gray Lady, which appears to suggest that science exists in service of Consensus, rather than Truth...

"Trump Hires Scientists Who Doubt the Consensus on Climate Change"

~ The New York Times

The Age of Doubt: Hmm… Doubt... skepticism... rigorous debate and open, adult dialogue? “Not now,” cries the expert class (which happens to have been wrong about practically everything there was to have been right about in recent years), “not in this, the Age of Certainty.”

And who are these “science deniers” anyway? These lunatic hacks? These fringe-dwelling weirdos? Are they as hostile to “consensus” as was, say, Galileo… or Copernicus... or Darwin? How about John R. Christy, Distinguished Professor of Atmospheric and Earth Sciences at UAH, with a Ph.D. in Atmospheric Sciences from University of Illinois?

Or Judith Curry, Former Chair of the School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at Georgia Tech (now Professor Emerita), who earned her Ph.D. in Geophysical Sciences from the University of Chicago?

Or Steven E. Koonin, Professor of Theoretical Physics at CalTech for 30 years, the Founding director of the Center for Urban Science and Progress at NYU and President Obama’s Under Secretary for Science at the U.S. Department of Energy, with his Ph.D. from that noted bastion of far right science denialism... MIT?

Not that “credentialism” is any substitute for truth, but are these lifetime academics really the best “deniers,” “anti-scientists,” and (what one shrill alarmist on X called) “useful idiots” among us?

Or is it the case that, having stifled open debate for so long, having “flooded the zone” with their own unquestionable, and unquestionably well-funded opinions, “the consensus” (whatever that even means) is doing what it always does when presented with inconvenient findings: besmirching reputations, deflecting to polarizing “Trump bad” talking points, and generally protesting too much?

One only hopes a certain president doesn’t issue an executive order recognizing that 2+2=4... or that gravity is not just a “theory” in the non-scientific sense of the term... or that there really are only two sexes in the human species after all...lest mathematics, physics and biology departments across the nation be thrust into fits of convulsive “denialism,” whereby they spend the next three years in search of 3s and 5s, levitating apples and intersexual, gender-fluid, multi-spirit humans.

Meanwhile, regular male and female human beings continue to enjoy life on planet earth as though it gets better and better every year, mostly because… it does. More on all that in future Notes From the End of the World..."

- https://joelbowman.substack.com/

Dan, I Allegedly, "Banks Punished for Debanking - Is a Recession Coming?"

Full screen recommended.

Dan, I Allegedly, AM 8/6/25

"Banks Punished for Debanking - 

Is a Recession Coming?"

"Are banks and the economy setting us up for a massive shift? In today’s video, I’m breaking down the latest on the looming recession, the punishment banks are facing for unfair practices, and how new laws aim to protect YOU from being debanked for your beliefs or business choices. Plus, we’re diving into wild housing market trends, soaring food prices, and the insane deals homebuilders are offering right now. Are we on the edge of an economic downturn, or is this just a temporary storm? You decide. We’ll also talk about the challenges small businesses are facing, shocking stories of banking discrimination, and why the current administration is cracking down on unfair lending practices. And yes, we touch on some of the wildest news out there, from a Danish zoo's controversial feeding practices to the decline of major U.S. cities. It’s all here."

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Jeremiah Babe, "The Biggest Move Of Our Lives, Preparing To Escape California"

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Jeremiah Babe, AM 8/6/25

"The Biggest Move Of Our Lives, 

Preparing To Escape California"

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Bill Bonner, "The Sound and the Fury"

"The Sound and the Fury"

by Bill Bonner

‘It’s not who you know. It’s what you know.

Until the Big Man takes over.’

- Bill Bonner

Poitou, France - "The latest news, from Associated Press, tells us more about how America’s ‘Caesarist’ government functions. AP: "Goods that comply with the 2020 United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement that Trump negotiated during his first term are excluded from the tariffs. Canada’s central bank says 100% of energy exports and 95% of other exports are compliant with the trade pact, known as USMCA. The Royal Bank estimated that almost 90% of Canadian exports appear to have accessed the U.S. market duty free in April. Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said the commitment of the U.S. to the core of USMCA, reaffirmed again last week, means the U.S. average tariff rate on Canadian goods remains one of its lowest, and over 85% of Canada-U.S. trade continues to be tariff free."

Tariff free? What was all that talk of a 35% tariff tax? Earlier this year, we guessed that the trade war with our neighbors was mostly for show; it would rehearse the spat Donald Trump had with them during his first term. Full of sound and fury, it ended up signifying nothing. Then, when The Donald went back on the warpath, it looked like this trade war would do serious damage to the world economy, after all.

But wait...there was a pause...a delay...a renegotiation...and - it turns out - an exception. The substance of US policies may not change as much as people think. But the style is very different. The big evolution of the US government from ‘neoliberal,’ more-or-less ‘consensual’ democracy to a ‘Big Man’ or ‘Caesarian’ form has been widely noted. It is a shift of power from the legislature to the executive...from the rule of law to the rule of the Big Man, similar to the shift in Rome in 21 BC, when Augustus upstaged the Senate to rule the empire.

The Democrats are, of course, branding the Trump administration as ‘authoritarian.’ They’re not wrong about it. But they don’t mention that it was they who provided much of the substance – unlimited spending, unlimited executive power, and unlimited backing for Israel. As for the style, they wouldn’t mind it at all if the same heavy hand were at the end of Hillary Clinton’s arm. Good or bad, whoever’s fault it is...the Big Man now has his big derriere in the big chair in the big white house on Pennsylvania Avenue.

Prior to Donald Trump, for example, it was presumed that the statisticians were honest number crunchers...and that POTUS wouldn’t presume to argue with them. But now, the same man who thinks he can reduce drug prices by ‘1,500%’ thinks he knows what the employment numbers should be.

Of course, the numbers do not at all mean what most people think they mean. But at least they were supposed to be misleading on a non-partisan basis...giving false signals to both Republicans and Democrats alike. And the numbers this year have generally flattered the Trump team. For May and June, the BLS initially reported 291,000 new jobs. Last week’s revisions wiped out all but 33,000 of them.

Donald Trump didn’t object to the old numbers. They seemed to show that his economy was, as he put it, “BOOMING under TRUMP.” The new numbers are the ones he didn’t like; they showed that his economy is not so great after all. But unlike other presidents from ourmore ‘consensual democracy’ days, who would have accepted the new numbers for what they were - statistical noise - the Big Man wants the BLS to get in harmony with him and sing his praises. Now the distortions will no longer be random mumbo jumbo but a deliberate attempt to bamboozle the public.

"I have directed my Team to fire this Biden Political Appointee, IMMEDIATELY. She will be replaced with someone much more competent and qualified."

The Big Man also claims to know at what interest rates the Fed should make credit available to member banks: "Jerome ‘Too Late’ Powell, a stubborn MORON, must substantially lower interest rates, NOW." Presidents have often tried to get the Fed to loosen up - to help them win an election, for example. But never before has a POTUS publicly described the Fed head as a ‘moron.’ This is something different. It’s Big Man government of a particular sort. But how far will the Big Man go? More tomorrow…"

- https://www.bonnerprivateresearch.com/

"Alert! 72 Hour Deadline, Nuke Sniffers Airborne, Martial Law"

Prepper News, 8/5/25

"Alert! 72 Hour Deadline, Nuke Sniffers Airborne, Martial Law"

"Nuke sniffer planes in air, Belarus prepares for Martial law when 

Russia is attacked, 24 hours to Witkoffs last ditch effort in Moscow."

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"10 Food Items You'll Wish You Stockpiled When Crisis Hits"

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Epic Economist, 8/5/25

"10 Food Items You'll Wish 

You Stockpiled When Crisis Hits"

"Experts are warning about supply chain breakdowns and food shortages hitting 2025. While 345 million people face food insecurity globally, smart families are quietly stockpiling these 10 essential items before crisis strikes. From canned proteins that last decades to honey that never expires, discover which foods could save your family when grocery stores run empty. Don't wait until shortages hit your area - these items are disappearing fast from Walmart and Target shelves. Economic collapse, natural disasters, and supply disruptions are accelerating. Your future self will thank you for watching this before it's too late. Start building your food security today while these items are still available and affordable."

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Musical Interlude: Moody Blues, "Tuesday Afternoon"

Moody Blues, "Tuesday Afternoon"

"A Look to the Heavens"

“Why isn't this ant a big sphere? Planetary nebula Mz3 is being cast off by a star similar to our Sun that is, surely, round. Why then would the gas that is streaming away create an ant-shaped nebula that is distinctly not round?

Clues might include the high 1000-kilometer per second speed of the expelled gas, the light-year long length of the structure, and the magnetism of the star visible above at the nebula's center. One possible answer is that Mz3 is hiding a second, dimmer star that orbits close in to the bright star. A competing hypothesis holds that the central star's own spin and magnetic field are channeling the gas. Since the central star appears to be so similar to our own Sun, astronomers hope that increased understanding of the history of this giant space ant can provide useful insight into the likely future of our own Sun and Earth.”

- http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap150426.html