"Political Violence"

"Political Violence"

by Financial Preparedness

"You can tell a lot about a person by how they react when someone dies."

 ~ Charlie Kirk, Twitter post from 11/27/16

"I'd like to begin this issue by clarifying something for the record: Generally, I don't have ill will towards anyone and hope that no one ever gets hurt. As a libertarian, I believe that everyone has the right to live their life as they see fit (as long as they don't use force or fraud against peaceful people).

Shortly before I heard about Charlie Kirk's assassination, I read the following in A Better Way to Live by Og Mandino: “RULE TEN: Beginning today, treat everyone you meet, friend or foe, loved one or stranger, as if they were going to be dead at midnight. Extend to each person, no matter how trivial the contact, all the care and kindness and understanding and love that you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.”

On August 22, a 23-year old Ukrainian refugee named Iryna Zarutska (who looked like she weighed less than 100 pounds) boarded a train in Charlotte, NC and sat down. Moments later, she was fatally stabbed in the neck by Decarlos Brown, Jr., who has a long criminal record (at least 14 arrests since 2011) and has been diagnosed with schizophrenia. His own mother previously said the court should have never let him be out in the community knowing he had mental health issues and previous arrests. In this video (a MUST WATCH), Jesse Watters reports that “DEI consultants” with no law degree posing as judges in a kangaroo court repeatedly facilitated this societal suicide. Unbelievably, two GoFundMe fundraisers were established for the assailant.

Five other passengers were sitting behind or beside Iryna, and despite her blood dripping all over the floor from the knife, they didn't say or do anything and acted as if nothing was amiss as she quickly collapsed and bled out. Perhaps to them it looked like just another day on public transit. Or maybe they learned a lesson from the Daniel Penny case: If you try to protect innocent people from being attacked by savages, the government might prosecute you.

As I watched the videos of the attack, I noticed how Iryna seemed too shocked to do anything - certainly shocked that she had been stabbed, but (after glancing at her fellow passengers) shocked that they were doing nothing to help her or apprehend her attacker. For a moment her mind seemed to be grappling with cognitive dissonance. “How could this be happening in the United States, a 'safe' country that I fled to to escape violence? Why did this man attack me? What did I do to deserve this?”

On the afternoon of September 10, many Americans must have had that same look of shock and horror on their face when they learned that 31-year old Charlie Kirk (a husband and father of two) had been shot while engaging with several thousand students at a university, something he's done probably hundreds of times before.

He was often one of the only conservative voices on campus, listening to students, taking their questions, asking many thought-provoking questions of his own, and perhaps helping them see controversial issues from a different perspective. Despite not having a college degree, he was extremely knowledgeable and well-reasoned. He was not there to win a debate or belittle anyone but to persuade them using facts, logic and reason, and he was very effective (as this poster on X argues). He was also strikingly kind and gracious.

At the time of his death, he was engaging in one of the most vital and honorable of American practices: free speech, which Norman Rockwell immortalized in this painting from 1943:

As he told Tucker Carlson in an interview, Charlie was obsessed with de-radicalizing the country within the next couple of years. Not only was he instrumental in helping Trump and other conservatives win in 2024, he was able to strongly influence the political views of young adults, who will be voters for a long time to come. As a possible future presidential candidate, he was irreplaceable. And that's why they had to kill him.

Charlie himself warned about “assassination culture” back in April:

I remember how I felt on September 11, 2001. It was a beautiful autumn morning and I had just gotten out of the shower when a friend called to let me know that a plane had hit the World Trade Center. As a libertarian, I was horrified by what I knew the government was going to do (I greatly underestimated what it would ultimately be capable of), and I dreaded the future.

Something changed in the national psyche on September 10, 2025. A line was crossed and our illusions were dispelled. It was one of our last innocent moments as a country. Collectively, we were shocked and saddened that apparently we can't sort out our differences with discussion and debate, and sobered by the implications of that and the weight of the task now ahead of us.

As one poster eloquently described it on X: “I hope I'm wrong. But tonight feels like some sort of invisible line has been crossed that we didn't even know was there. The last time I felt like this was 9/11 when it was clear that the world was about to change forever. Like the rules of the game had been permanently altered and there was simply no going back to the innocent, peaceful past. But to murder a young father simply for doing debates and mobilizing young people to vote for a party that represents half of America? This is something else. I fear his murder will be a tragedy for all of us in ways we will only understand as time unfolds. I hope I'm wrong.” (emphasis added)

Another poster on X summarized the situation perfectly:

As a risk manager and student of complex systems and the collapse of complex societies, I am now also very concerned about a possibility that another poster on X wrote about: “The assassination of #Charlie_Kirk marks a dangerous escalation in the American cultural war, where the battle of ideas is turning into political violence against those who run organizations dedicated to debate and civil dialogue. Very few people understand the gravity of this moment. Incidents like this do not exist in isolation; they risk triggering a chain of events that can further destabilize the country. Whether it's the anti-ICE movement, pro-Palestinian agitators, anarchist networks, or permanent protest groups supported by NGOs like #Indivisible, we are witnessing the rise of something new and deeply alarming. America is entering a new era of civilian terrorism, where the goal is no longer peaceful protest, but intimidation, silencing, and destabilization.” 

As a longtime amateur political scientist, I correctly predicted several major political earthquakes, including the Republican takeover of the House in 1994 and Trump's victories in 2016 and 2024. These two murders have prompted me to make a new prediction. This is not a threat, I'm just trying to explain what's going to happen next.

To the Left: You are screwed big time. You just tangled with the wrong hombres. You sowed the wind and now you're going to reap the whirlwind. It reminds me of the quote attributed to Admiral Yamamoto after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor: “I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve.” If you think the eight months under a Trump administration have been bad, you haven't seen anything yet. His victories in 2016 and 2024 were the most momentous political revolutions of my lifetime, but now, thanks to this cowardly assassin, there will be a new phase that will dwarf what has come before.

If you're a peaceful, law-abiding citizen, you'll have nothing to fear. But if you're not, your world is about to change. As Matt Walsh says towards the end of this video, we're tired - tired of the violence, crime, demonization, censorship, gaslighting, and efforts to make us poor, sick and dead. And all of this insane bullshit that we've had to endure in recent years is about to come to a screeching stop.

How? Governmental actions: Defunding, law enforcement, investigations, prosecutions, executive orders, judicial appointments, regulatory actions, etc. Democrats, who already had the lowest approval rating ever, will now be destroyed in the midterm elections next year. Trump and his supporters are going to plow salt into your fields, and you'll be out of power wandering in the political wilderness for a generation.

Free speech and the free flow of accurate information: Because the Legacy Media completely ignored Iryna's murder for many days if not weeks, the only reason people even heard about it is thanks to free speech-friendly platforms like X, which will now explode in popularity as Americans realize it's the only place they can find out what's going on. The Legacy Media is finished, especially since its gravy train from Big Pharma is coming to an end. Kirk's assassin thought he could silence Charlie's voice with a bullet, but all he did was turn him into a martyr that will produce a thousand more like him.

Charlie, you did great work during your short time here on Earth. You can rest in peace knowing that your death has inspired millions of people to finish the work you started."

- https://financialpreparedness.substack.com/

"James Webb Telescope Just Alerted The World"

Full screen recommended.

Cosmic Atlas, 9/12/25

"James Webb Telescope Just Alerted The World"

"An alleged JWST leak shows 3I/ATLAS with a perfectly symmetric CO₂ halo, internal infrared brightness, and prime-number pulse patterns unlike any known comet. Trajectory modeling points to ecliptic-plane alignment and precise, non-ballistic course corrections that look intentionally guided. Sudden data lockouts, military retaskings, and quiet space-plane movements suggest the object is being treated as a strategic unknown. Decoded signals hint at phased transmissions and a chilling countdown as 3I/ATLAS approaches the Mars–Earth corridor. This video assembles the anomalies, models, and contested “leaks” to ask the central question: beacon, probe, or an intelligence arriving on schedule?"

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They've discovered 4, possibly 6, larger objects coming in on the same exact vector as I3/Atlas, which may be a scout ship for a larger fleet arriving in strength. Their purpose unknown, all conjecture at this point, but data verified. We shall see... - CP

Jeremiah Babe, "America Is Boiling, Is A Civil War Brewing?"

Jeremiah Babe, 9/12/25

"America Is Boiling, Is A Civil War Brewing?"

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Judge Napolitano, "INTEL Roundtable w/Scott Ritter & Ray McGovern

Judge Napolitano - Judging Freedom, 9/12/25

"INTEL Roundtable w/Scott Ritter & Ray McGovern

(Larry out this week)"

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"Empty Tables: The New Normal For Restaurants"

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Michael Bordenaro, 9/12/25

"Empty Tables: The New Normal For Restaurants"

"Many people are done going to restaurants in this economy due to the exorbitant cost of food these days both at the grocery store and at restaurants making it a very bad financial decision for many folks hoping to save a little extra money or those just trying to get by."

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Musical Interlude: The Moody Blues, "This Is The Moment"

Templo de Zeus Olímpico (Temple of Olympian Zeus) - 

Atenas - Grécia (Athens - Greece)

The Moody Blues, "This Is The Moment"

"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

Chet Raymo, “Angling For Happiness”

“Angling For Happiness”

by Chet Raymo

“There is a concept in physics called angle of repose. Set an object, a book say, on a plank. Now slowly tip up one end of the plank until the moment when the book just starts to slide. The angle between the plank and the horizontal is the angle of repose, where the component of the gravitational force down the plank becomes greater than the maximum friction force holding the book at rest. Or, in more evocative terms - as I write I am lying on the couch with the laptop in my lap, in perfect repose. If you started tipping up the couch, at some point I'd go sliding into a heap at the bottom. That's the angle of repose, or perhaps it would be more accurate to call it the angle of the end of repose.

This comes to mind because I just spent fifteen minutes on my knees in the yard watching ants excavate a nest in the ground. One by one they scurry out of the hole carrying a tiny grain of sand, which they dump in a ring around the hole. A circular pile. Now if the ants just dumped their burdens at the mouth of the hole, pretty soon the pile would get so steep that the sand grains would slide back into the hole. Instead, the circular ring gets higher and wider, with a slope that never exceeds the angle at which the grains will slip - the angle of repose. Now here's the thing: the ants almost invariably carry their grain to just beyond the top of the pile. If the grain slips, it will slide away from the hole. These tiny ants, hardly bigger than sand grains themselves, understand a little physics in their mysterious instinctive way.

Wallace Stegner has a novel titled "Angle of Repose." It is indeed an evocative phrase. In a job, in a relationship, in life itself, many of us instinctively seek that maximum degree of individual gratification that will satisfy emotional needs without doing violence to our essential repose, and that of those around us - the art of walking close to the edge, the thrill without the spill. Every day in the news we hear of folks - politicians or celebrities - who tipped the plank too far, whose lives went sliding into self-destruction, who failed to grasp, metaphorically speaking, something that a tiny ant instinctively understands.”

- http://blog.sciencemusings.com/

Freely download "Angle of Repose", by Wallace Stegner, here:

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"A Light in the Darkness"

"A Light in the Darkness"

How ideas can transform the world...

by Joel Bowman

“All changes in the realm of human affairs are brought 

about by ideas. Ideas and only ideas can light the darkness. 

They are the main weapons in man’s struggle for survival and advancement.”

~ Ludwig von Mises, from "Human Action" (1949)

Buenos Aires, Argentina - "When we left you earlier this week, we were ruminating on an important subject: ideas. We’re interested in their origin. Their transmission. Their ultimate value, be it good, bad... or ugly. The subject may appear abstract, even esoteric... but ideas lead to actions, and actions have consequences, sometimes grave ones.

One man has an idea to go to college campuses around America and talk to his political opponents. Another man has the idea to kill him. Now, a young man – a husband and a father – is dead. RIP Charlie Kirk. That the statement “People should not be murdered for expressing different opinions” even needs to be uttered is indeed a sad commentary on the state of affairs in the world today.

Clearly, not all ideas are created equally. And yet, it is man’s ability to generate ideas, to conceptualize the future before he attempts to shape it, that sets him apart from his fellow creatures. As the great Austrian School economist, Ludwig Von Mises, wrote in his 1949 magnum opus, Human Action:

“The genuine history of mankind is the history of ideas. It is ideas that distinguish man from all other beings. Ideas engender social institutions, political changes, technological methods of production, and all that is called economic conditions. And in searching for their origin we inevitably come to a point at which all that can be asserted is that a man had an idea.”

The question, then, is how to promote and embrace the ideas that serve man best... and jettison those that would drag him asunder, that would threaten his wellbeing, and even end his life?

Deep Deregulation: Down here on the Pampas, the battle of ideas rages on. After testing the idea of collectivism for three generations – and suffering the all-too-predictable results – the Argentine people have chosen to give the idea of liberty a go. That is, rather than have the State (mis)manage their lives, intervening in their private affairs, regulating their commercial interests, governing their trade, smothering their economy and inflating away the value of their savings, they’ve decided to abrogate the State’s power... and return it to the people.

As of this week, there have been almost 9,000 deregulations across all levels of government. From Minister of Deregulation Fede Sturzenegger’s office:

The “Ley Bases,” or the so-called “Mega Decree” indicated by the dotted line in the graph above, represented hundreds of regulatory changes and rollbacks, including the abolition of entire registries, the repeal of restrictive rent control laws and massive liberation of the labor markets. Basically, everything Zohran Mamdani would like to see implemented in New York City has been repealed here in Argentina.

The sweeping reforms also extend to the removal of trade barriers (such as import/export taxes, tariffs, licenses and other such meddlesome duties) and deep and ongoing cuts to government staff, including 48,000 public sector jobs axed. (For those keeping score at home, that’s almost 10% of the entire government “work” force... with deeper cuts promised.)

Meanwhile, over on the economic front, the latest data shows inflation down more than 92% since Milei’s administration came to office. August’s read came in at 1.9%, the fourth consecutive month under 2%. That’s down to 33% per year, from a high of almost 300% in April last year, and equates to an annualized rate of 22.7% over the past 4 months.

(Source: INDEC)

Importantly, key sectors came in below the average rate, including Healthcare (1.7%), Food and Drink (1.4%), Homegoods and Maintenance (0.9%) and Recreation and Culture (0.5%). Clothing and Footwear even saw a slight deflation, down 0.3% for the month. Good news for people who eat, drink, play, dress and shelter, in other words... bad news for people who run peso printing presses and think the solution to being in a hole is to keep digging.

Of course, none of this has come about by accident or happenstance. Rather, it is the logical result of specific actions predicated on very specific ideas. It’s “ideas all the way down,” you might say. “Every social order is based on ideologies,” wrote Mises, “not on material forces. Even the mightiest material power is nothing but an instrument for the service of ideas.” It matters a great deal, therefore, which ideas we get right... and which we get wrong.

The idea that individuals ought to be in charge of their own lives, that man (and not someone claiming ownership over him) possesses the right to self-determination, including his right to hold an opinion and express it if he so wishes, is a fundamental concept upon which any free society is founded. At its core, it is the idea that cooperation is preferable to coercion, that freedom trumps force, and that voluntarism prevails over violence. Liberty, in other words. It may be “just” an idea... but it’s one worth living for. Stay tuned for more Notes From the End of the World..."

- https://joelbowman.substack.com/

"Do Not Let Your Fire Go Out..."

“Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark in the

hopeless swamps of the not-quite, the not-yet, and the not-at-all.”

- Ayn Rand, "Atlas Shrugged"

"A Deal With the Devil"

"A Deal With the Devil"

Now the Devil is demanding his due…

by Charles Hugh Smith

"Unbeknownst to most people, America's leadership made a pact with the devil. Rather than face the constraints and injustices of our economic-financial system directly, a reckoning that would require difficult choices and some sacrifice by the ruling financial-political elites, our leaders chose the devil's Pact: Substitute the creation of asset-bubble "wealth" in the hands of the few for widespread prosperity.

The devil's promise: that some thin trickle of the trillions of dollars bestowed on the few would magically trickle down to the many. This was as visibly foolish as the promise of immortality on Planet Earth. But our craven, greedy leadership quickly sealed the deal with the devil and promptly inflated the greatest credit-asset bubble in human history. Rather than trade away one's soul, America's leaders traded away the future security and stability of the nation.

Sacrificing Innocents at the Altar of the Gods: By refusing to deal with the real problems exposed by the collapsing financial scams in 2008-09, our leaders – both the unelected Federal Reserve and the elected "best government money can buy" – chose to bail out the scammers who had greased their palms so generously and sacrificed the prosperity of the many to do so. This is more or less the equivalent of sacrificing innocents at the altar of the gods to ensure the leaders' rule will continue to be successful.

The devil was delighted to serve up the illusion of godlike powers to our corrupt, greedy leaders. The deal looked oh-so win-win: we enrich the top few percent and offload the costs and sacrifices on the powerless many, who were told that they would benefit from the trickle of cash leaking out of the super-wealthy's bulging pockets.

Of course, the Federal Reserve and the rest of the Savior State has saved us from the financial consequences of rampant speculation for decades. As a result, few of those in the casino have the necessary experience of hardship and losses to accurately assess risk. The vast majority have only experienced being saved: the most profitable response to a losing bet is to double-down on the next bet because the house (the Fed) will amply reward every "buy the dip."

The Devil Is Demanding His Due: But as I often point out, risk cannot be extinguished, it can only be transferred. Risk has been offloaded from speculators to the entire financial system itself, and so rather than a few speculators going down in flames, the entire casino will collapse.

Now the devil is demanding his due: the unprecedented credit-fueled bubbles in stocks, bonds and real estate are popping, and America's corrupt leaders can only stammer and spew excuses and empty promises. All this amounts to begging the devil to renegotiate the deal because now the downside is not just visible but inevitable. So sorry, America's leadership – the devil doesn't respond to pleas or threats. Sorry about that; the deal stands as agreed. All your bogus gains and powers will evaporate, and then the destruction really begins.

How does all this end? In ruin, of course. Our craven, self-serving leadership may well bleat, "the devil made us do it!" but that is not true: they fell all over themselves to sell the future stability and security of the nation for the quick-fix riches of bubbles and corruption. And of course, we’re staring at recession. But hey, look on the bright side…

Recessions Aren’t All Bad: Everyone looking at the inevitability of recession with alarm is forgetting the many upsides of recession, especially one that crushes all attempts to reverse it with the usual tricks. Let's not forget the simple joys of lighter traffic, faster commutes and the relative ease of getting a table at your favorite bistro – if it survives the bust.

Graveyard levity aside, there really is no equivalent to the positive force of crushing recessions. Only recessions which defy the usual tricks of monetary easing (create trillions of new dollars) and fiscal stimulus (give away a few of those new trillions) have the power to cleanse a system clogged with dysfunction, waste, fraud, corruption and financial zombies that soak of resources while doing little more than enriching the few at the expense of the many.

The problem with free money is that there's no mechanism to distinguish between waste and productive investment or fraud and productive utilization. All uses of free money are equally beneficial because if this free money is squandered, there's always more to spend tomorrow. In other words, in a system in which free money is the solution to all problems, there's no motivation to limit waste, friction or fraud because there's always enough free money for both waste, friction and fraud and needed spending and investment.

Time for Some Discipline: Recessions driven by inflation and the collapse of speculative bubbles aren't fixable with free money because free money fires up the afterburner of inflation. Once there are limits on how much free money can be created and distributed, squandering what's left means there's not enough left to fund essential services and to invest in the only real-world source of income and wealth. That’s productivity increases – doing more with less capital, labor and resources.

Only crushing recessions introduce the discipline of having to choose between waste, friction and fraud and essential services and investments. Waste, friction and fraud aren't simply gargantuan drains on resources… They corrupt the system by incentivizing friction (unproductive complexity and gatekeeping) and fraud (collusion, fraudulent billing, buying political favors, insider trading, etc.) and giving the recipients of friction and fraud the financial means to protect their fiefdoms with complexity thickets and political protection.

Recession Is the Only Cure: Financial systems that never experience crushing recessions can't tell the difference between a speculative mania driven by corporate buybacks and a bull market driven by improving productivity that lifts both profits and wages. The phony charade of speculative bubbles inflated by the Federal Reserve's spew of free money for financiers fatally distort the entire incentive structure of the financial system, which then balloons up and fatally distorts the entire economy.

Unbeknownst to those trembling in fear of a crushing recession, the crushing recession they fear is the only curative for a fatally distorted system which has lost touch with reality. Yes, there is a difference between speculative bubbles and bull markets. And yes, there is a difference between an economy riddled with the cancers of waste, friction and fraud and one strengthened by incentives and corrective mechanisms that bury unproductive zombie financial entities and reward those who actually increase productivity rather than destroy it. Recession will mean short-term pain but long-term gain."

- dailyreckoning.com

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Stipendium peccati mors est...

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"Doctor Faustus, Final Monologue And Ending" (1967)

"A most fantastic and moving performance by the late, great Richard Burton in this dazzling adaptation of Christopher Marlowe's astonishing work. The way the vision of Helen of Troy cackles and mocks Faust is so cruel and honest as we see the poor, lost soul accept the fate of eternal damnation, wrought entirely by his own hand." - ScarletDusk99

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Freely download "The Tragical History of The Life 

And Death Of Doctor Faustus", by Christopher Marlowe, here:

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The Daily "Near You?

Union, Kentucky, USA. Thanks for stopping by!

"Strange Structures Surrounding 3I/ATLAS Revealed as it Begins Glowing Green"

Full screen recommended.

Stefan Burns, AM 9/12/25

"Strange Structures Surrounding 3I/ATLAS 

Revealed as it Begins Glowing Green"

"New polarization data on 3I/ATLAS has come out revealing intriguing new details about the structure of the huge cloud of dust, gas, and plasma surrounding this third ever observed interstellar object. Should we still classify 3I/ATLAS as a comet in light of this new data and all the other oddities (early anti-sun tail, huge extremely CO2 enriched coma, tremendous velocity, high nickel to iron ratio, rare orbital trajectory) observed with it thus far? Is 3I/ATLAS going to just pass through the Solar System, or perhaps is it here to stay? And now it's glowing GREEN?! Geophysicist Stefan Burns reports..."

Live data on the Earth and Sun at Earth Evolution:

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Tech Map, 9/12/25

"3I/ATLAS is Behaving Strangely as Closes in on Mars:

 Extreme Negative Polarization...Can’t Explain!"

"Once again, the updates about 3I/Atlas refuse to stop surprising us. Drifting silently through the vast, terrifying emptiness of space, this mysterious visitor has been keeping scientists on edge for more than two months. At first, it seemed destined to leave behind nothing but unanswered questions, just like ʻOumuamua. But now, clearer signs are beginning to reveal the true path of its journey.Is this simply another interstellar comet? Or could it be something far more unusual… something hiding in plain sight? Let’s find out, right now.

In early August, a report titled “Extreme Negative Polarisation of New Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS” by Z. Gray et al. (2025) revealed the latest evidence about how 3I Atlas polarizes light compared to other objects - including Solar System comets and even the previous interstellar visitor, 2I Borisov. The results were truly shocking: 3I Atlas exhibited an extremely deep and narrow negative polarization, reaching about –2.77% at a phase angle of 6.41°. On top of that, its polarization inversion angle - the point where the polarization changes sign - was unusually low, only 17.05°.

So, what does this mean? It shows that the way light interacts with the dust and gas around 3I Atlas is completely different from anything seen in Solar System comets, including 2I Borisov. It doesn’t fit into either the “high-P” or “low-P” groups of comets. Instead, Atlas seems to exist outside all known classifications.

This unique combination of a low inversion angle and a maximum negative polarization makes 3I Atlas the first known object in history to display such optical behavior. Many scientists now believe it could represent an entirely new population of interstellar bodies - something humanity has never encountered before.

Normally, when we observe a comet, sunlight reflects off the dust and ice in its coma and tail, becoming polarized - in other words, the light waves vibrate more strongly in one direction. Depending on the viewing angle relative to the Sun, each comet shows a polarization “signature,” like a fingerprint. But with 3I/Atlas, the reflected light breaks all the rules. This suggests its dust and ice may be made of materials completely unfamiliar to science."

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RevVolt, 9/12/25

"NASA Detects Mysterious New Object 

Following 3I/ATLAS – What's Going On?"

"NASA has just detected something highly unusual - a mysterious new object is now trailing behind the interstellar visitor 3I/ATLAS. Astronomers are stunned, and theories are spreading fast. Is it a fragment, a hidden moon, or something far more advanced? This shocking discovery comes as 3I/ATLAS continues its strange journey through our solar system, echoing the unexplained mysteries of ‘Oumuamua. With new data pouring in, experts are racing to figure out what this object really is - and why it seems to be shadowing 3I/ATLAS."

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"Consumers Running Up Massive Credit Card Debt Knowing They Will Never Pay It Back"

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Jeremiah Babe, AM 9/12/25

"Consumers Running Up Massive Credit Card Debt

Knowing They Will Never Pay It Back"

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"When people pile up debts they will find difficult and perhaps even impossible to repay, they are saying several things at once. They are obviously saying that they want more than they can immediately afford. They are saying, less obviously, that their present wants are so important that, to satisfy them, it is worth some future difficulty. But in making that bargain they are implying that when the future difficulty arrives, they'll figure it out. They don't always do that."

- Michael Lewis, "Boomerang"

Dan, I Allegedly, "More Government Spying Coming - Just Say 'No'"

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Dan, I Allegedly, AM 9/12/25

"More Government Spying Coming - 

Just Say 'No'"

"Are power companies spying through your thermostat? In today’s video, I break down the growing concern about energy companies trying to control our smart thermostats - and what it could mean for your home and wallet. From new legislation to stories of outrageous energy bills, it’s clear this is an issue we need to address. Plus, I share some shocking updates about the economy, Tesla’s declining EV market share, and how AI could soon take over podcasts. There’s a lot to unpack!"

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"How It Really Is"

 

"Operation 'Let's Grab the Oil'"

"Operation 'Let's Grab the Oil'"

by Chris MacIntosh

"It’s back on track. I don’t know if you remember it, but last year I hypothesized that the Trump administration would focus their attention on a North/South axis of power… and less on an East/West. Part of this is down to the fact the US Military is stretched globally, and likely no small part comes down to the fact that their ability to project power has for decades been reliant on their naval capabilities. These are now rendered obsolete due to the Russian missiles which can sink them and are unstoppable. All parties know this, though it remains to be seen whether US hubris may ignore it nonetheless.

In any event, focusing on the easy prey - the US own backyard, so to speak. Canada (remember the comments about “Governor Trudeau?”) and the political pressure on Mexico. Then there is the strong allegiance now with Argentina and the pressure being placed on Brazil, the focus on Panama - the canal being all important, of course. All of this is due to a North/South pivot. So included in this is, of course, Venezuela.

The Escalating Political Showdown: Trump vs. Maduro Over Venezuela’s Black Gold: The relationship between the Donald and Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro has devolved into one of the most hilarious and contentious international political feuds of recent years, with both leaders engaging in increasingly hostile rhetoric. Of course, it’s all theatre — a sideshow masking the real prize: the struggle over Venezuela’s vast oil reserves, the largest proven reserves in the world. Why, for example, is Don not blabbing about Costa Rica or Honduras or any other country in the region?

The Bounty That Started It All: Back in March of 2020 the US administration placed a $15 million bounty on Maduro’s head through the DEA’s “Narcotics Rewards Program.” They accused Maduro and other Venezuelan officials of “narco-terrorism” and drug trafficking conspiracy charges. This bounty, along with similar rewards for other Venezuelan officials totaling over $55 million, marked the first time the United States had placed such a substantial price on a sitting head of state.

The US justified this action by claiming that Maduro’s regime had transformed Venezuela into a “criminal enterprise” that facilitated drug trafficking throughout the Western Hemisphere. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo at the time declared that the Venezuelan government had become “one of the most corrupt and destructive forces in the Western Hemisphere.” In reality, the CIA doesn’t like competition, but anyway…

Maduro’s Counterattack: The Epstein Files Gambit: Maduro’s response was swift and inflammatory. Taking to his official social media accounts, he pointed out who Trump pays allegiance to (Mossad) and suggested a release of the Epstein files. It’s all highly entertaining… except if you’re a Venezuelan, of course, wondering if Trump drops a “big beautiful bomb” on your head.

The Prize: Venezuela’s Oil Wealth: Behind this political theatre lies the true source of tension: Venezuela’s staggering oil reserves. According to OPEC data, Venezuela possesses approximately 303.8 billion barrels of proven oil reserves - roughly 18% of the world’s total. This makes Venezuela’s reserves larger than those of Saudi Arabia (267 billion barrels) and represents more oil than the combined reserves of Iraq, Iran, and Kuwait. Despite this wealth, Venezuela’s oil production has plummeted from over 3 million barrels per day in the 1990s to barely 800,000 barrels per day by 2020, largely due to mismanagement, corruption, and international sanctions. The Trump administration’s sanctions effectively cut off Venezuela’s access to US refineries and financial systems, costing the country an estimated $116 billion between 2017 and 2020. So there’s definitely no love lost there.

Social Media War: The conflict has played out extensively on social media platforms, with both leaders using their accounts to escalate tensions. Trump frequently posted on Truth Social about Venezuela, calling Maduro a “dictator” and claiming that “Venezuela’s oil belongs to its people, not to corrupt narco-terrorists.” Meanwhile, Maduro has used his platforms to portray himself as a victim of “Yankee imperialism,” posting: “They want our oil, our gold, our resources. But the Bolivarian Revolution will never surrender to the gringo empire.”

The Broader Implications: This conflict represents more than personal animosity. It reflects broader geopolitical competition over energy resources in Latin America. Venezuela’s economic collapse has created a power vacuum that has drawn in actors from Russia, China, and Iran, all seeking to challenge US influence in the region.

As both leaders continue their war of words, the Venezuelan people remain caught in the middle, suffering from hyperinflation, shortages of basic goods, and a humanitarian crisis that has forced over 7 million Venezuelans to flee. The ultimate resolution of this conflict may determine not only Venezuela’s political future but also the global balance of energy power in the coming decades.

So what this boils down to is that one side is run by a narco-socialist who thinks he’s a demigod. The other side is run by a defense contractor in a presidential mask who is heavily influenced by a foreign nation that cannot be named lest you be called “antiseptic” or something like that.

You’re not watching geopolitics - you’re watching organized crime syndicates argue over who gets to sell oil and they can’t tell you the truth… so you’re sold all sorts of stories. Most hilarious of all is that some overpaid intern in DC just coined the name for the US military action against Venezuela. They’re calling this - and I swear I’m not making it up - “Operation Democratic Stability.” This isn’t war. It’s stagecraft with a budget.

Meanwhile, this just came to light… “China Concord Resources Corp has begun developing two Venezuelan oilfields, planning to invest more than $1 billion in a project to produce 60,000 barrels per day of crude oil by end-2026, an executive directly involved in the project said." The project marks a rare investment by a private Chinese firm in the OPEC country, which has struggled to attract foreign capital due to international sanctions on the administration of President Nicolas Maduro. The investment figure and the production plan are being reported for the first time.

Beijing has been a key ally of Maduro and his predecessor late President Hugo Chavez and is currently buying more than 90% of Venezuela’s total oil exports. Chinese state oil giant CNPC was among the largest investors in Venezuela’s oil sector before U.S. energy sanctions were first imposed on Venezuela in 2019. China was also a big lender to Venezuela.”

By the way, as a mental note, do you think the peasants have noticed the shift? Not long ago we were all being told by some department or another, or some woke “influencer” (looking at you Leo DiCaprio) how the world would end if we didn’t stop using fossil fuels.

And now, all of a sardine, the US is on the verge of invading a sovereign country for their oil to save democracy. Imagine that! Actually, this would be a great test. Ask yourself if the US would be invading a country that was littered with wind turbines or solar panels. Me thinks not. Which proves the case.

One other thing, take a look at the S&P 500 sector allocation. You may have to squint but near the bottom to see energy - a minuscule 3% of the index. The entirety of all the energy companies in the Spooz are less than a quarter of Nvidia. Sheesh!

The showdown over Venezuela’s oil is just one front in a much bigger battle - one that legendary speculator Doug Casey warns could spiral into a “greater depression,” far worse than 1929. In a recent conversation, Doug explained why the US government is bankrupt, why the dollar’s collapse would trigger a worldwide catastrophe, and why stock and bond markets are perched on the edge of a financial abyss."

- https://internationalman.com/

Bill Bonner, "A Pack of Wolves"

"A Pack of Wolves"

by Bill Bonner

Poitou, France - "First...the economy is slowing. Bloomberg: "US Initial Jobless Claims Jump to Highest in Almost Four Years." Layoff activity may be on the rise amid a sharp slowdown in hiring. Initial claims rose by 27,000 to 263,000 in the week ended Sept. 6, the highest since October 2021, according to Labor Department data released Thursday. The median forecast in a Bloomberg survey of economists called for 235,000 applications.

The debt is growing, CNBC: "U.S. government reports $345 billion deficit for August, larger than expected." And prices are rising. Business Insider: "Inflation heated up as expected in August to the highest rate since January."

Stagflation is here. We wait to find out how long it will last and how deep it will go. The worse it gets the greater the pressure for radical change. But in what direction? Communism? Socialism? Capitalism? Fascism?

Yahoo! Finance: "Americans' support for capitalism drops to new low, poll finds. According to the poll, only 54% of people support capitalism, which is down from 60% in 2021. When asked about their attitudes toward socialism, Americans feel more negative (57%) than positive (39%) about it."

Maybe this explains it; the Wall Street Journal reports: "American high-school seniors’ scores on major math and reading tests fell to their lowest levels on record, according to results released Tuesday by the U.S. Education Department. Twelfth-graders’ average math score was the worst since the current test began in 2005, and reading was below any point since that assessment started in 1992. The share of 12th-graders who were proficient slid by 2 percentage points between 2019 and 2024 - to 35% in reading and 22% in math."

Wherever we’re going, for better or worse, Donald Trump leads the way. And it’s not toward capitalism. Our old friend, Steve Chapman in the Chicago Tribune: "Donald Trump pioneers a strange policy: Republican socialism." Socialism used to be the antithesis of Republican principles. But Donald Trump has begun a government invasion of the private sector.

The Hill elaborates: "In June, the Trump administration approved Nippon Steel’s acquisition of U.S. Steel on the condition that it give the White House a “golden share” of the Japanese company. Although it is not an equity stake, Trump declared, “We have a golden share, which I control, or the president controls.”

On Aug. 22, Intel announced an agreement with the administration to take $8.9 billion in the company’s common stock, approximately a 10 percent stake, making the U.S. the largest investor in the tech giant that builds the semiconductor chips that power smartphones, computers and data centers."

This deal is no freebie for the American taxpayer. It is in lieu of Intel repaying the federal grants it received under the bipartisan U.S. Chips and Science Act, which Biden signed into law in 2022. Earlier last month, Trump also made a deal with two of Intel’s rivals, Nvidia and Advanced Micro Devices, requiring them to pay 15 percent of the revenues made from sales to China to the U.S.

It’s one thing to skim the profits. It’s another to own the business. Typically, the feds don’t know, and don’t care, how to manage an enterprise. They are parasites, not producers; wolves, not shepherds. Let them take a lamb now and then, and the flock survives. Put them in charge, on the other hand, and pretty soon you have no lambs at all.

Team Trump also seeks more control over the most important number in American capitalism - interest rates. Trump wants the Fed’s key rate more than 300 basis points lower. And he wants to determine with whom and at what prices Americans do business. Tariffs have been coming down for more than half a century. Now they’re going back up. Liberal? Conservative? Or WTF? More to come...including our latest encounter with a government-owned business..."

- https://www.bonnerprivateresearch.com/

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"Research Note, by Dan Denning"

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"Despite $30 billion in tariff revenue, the US government reported a $345 billion deficit in the month of August. The last month of the government’s fiscal year is September. But it looks like this year’s total deficit will surpass $2 trillion. More on this in my research note to paying subscribers later today."

- https://www.bonnerprivateresearch.com/

John Wilder, "Form The Line!"

"Form The Line!"

by John Wilder

"Spartans were known to be brief with their words, mainly because metal left a longer-lasting mark. When getting ready for battle, it’s likely that the commander had to say only a single word. "Paratattein" (παρατάττειν) is one likely command that Leonidas may have yelled out to prepare his men for battle at Thermopylae. It’s simple in that laconic Spartan way, and it means, roughly, “Form the line.” No bullshit. No pretty-please. No flowery prose. “Form the line!”

Fast forwarding to yesterday... “I just heard that Charlie Kirk was shot at an event in Utah.” The text was from a good friend that I’d known for decades. I checked it out: /pol/ and X® were already on it. It was true.

In our world, it’s not unusual to get real-life events in nearly real-time, if you know where to look. /pol/, which does not shy away from unfiltered reality, had two videos – one from a distance, and then one from the fourth row. The one from the fourth row was clear: Charlie was dead nearly instantly. The world changed with that shot.

Why Charlie Kirk? Most readers here would consider Charlie a moderate voice on the Right. He wasn’t edgy at all – you couldn’t even see the edge from most of his positions. That’s mainly why I didn’t pay him much attention, he was a nice, normal guy with normal opinions. He engaged in polite discourse with people and asked them to engage with ideas in a reasoned debate.

I honestly think he had a shot at the big prize: being the president that came after the Great Tumult of Civil War 2.0 in 20 years or so, perhaps being the one that worked on reconciliation after the coming strife. But this isn’t about me and what I believe. It’s about you. And that feeling you had yesterday?

That’s called passing the point of no return.

The GloboLeft foot soldiers consider you to be a Nazi. You might be a Jew. You might be a Christian. You might be an atheist libertarian. You might be any variety of the spectrum of beliefs of the TradRight. To them, you are a Nazi. And what do they want to do with Nazis? Well, that’s clear.

There are certain subjects that I believe in that I don’t cover here, and that’s for a reason. Never push people out of the tent who are on your side. Never shoot Right. The Right are generally much more able to live with people of differing opinions than the Left. This is mainly due to the people on the Right having a belief system in a higher power, mainly Christianity. Mainly. The beauty of Christianity is that my faith doesn’t depend upon you believing any of what I believe. An atheist believing in something else doesn’t shake my belief, at all.

This is not true of the GloboLeft. They desperately need you to believe in them, not just obey them. Communist regimes set up re-education camps, not compliance camps. They need you to believe what they believe, no matter how often it changes. They want you to hate what they hate, no matter how often it changes. And love? Love is replaced in their world by lust or greed.

So, yes, I skip topics that would divide us. I see in the comments people who agree on 90% of things fighting each other for no particular reason. Let me be clear: you guys are people who the GloboLeft has already put into the same foxhole. If you want to fight, fight them. Enough with the damn purity spirals where we let minor differences divide us. The point for that type of knitting circle bickering is over! If you didn’t notice, the exclamation point on that sentence came spilling out in a gout of blood on September 10, 2025. If they hated Charlie so bad that they had to kill him rather than talk with him, what do you think they’d do with you?

For thousands of years, the main structure for armed warfare was something like the Spartan phalanx, which morphed into the shield wall and Napoleon’s fighting squares and the position Lt. Chard set up at Rorke’s Drift. These formations required discipline and trust in the comrade beside you. You were, after all, fighting for your very survival against an enemy that saw you all the same.

Wake up. That’s where we are, fighting for survival against an enemy that sees us all the same. These people want you to die, preferably in the most degrading way possible. They want your children to curse your memory and your values. Let me emphasize the point: WAKE THE F*CK UP.

Quit fighting each other over trivial crap when the consequences are having your children castrated and brainwashed. You’re all in the same crosshairs with an enemy that won’t stop, and that includes every single moderate like Charlie Kirk, who they also despise. Form the line!"

- https://wilderwealthywise.com/

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"From Bluesky To Reddit, Democrats Celebrate 

Charlie Kirk's Assassination; Trump Slams Radical Left "

"Exorcism Nigh"

"Exorcism Nigh"

“The point I was trying to make is how peaceful the left was,

right before he got shot.” - Hunter Kozak, 

Question-Asker at Charlie Kirk Utah Event, Sept 10

by Jim Kunstler

“It’s been obvious for some time that the Left has 

been hijacked by the modern equivalent of the Manson Family.”

 - Sasha Stone

"It’s been a tough week for our demon-haunted nation. First, video surfaces of the young Ukrainian woman, 23-year-old Iryna Zarutska, slaughtered by a homeless psychopath, one Decarlos Brown, Jr., on the Charlotte, NC, light rail - weeks after the crime happened, because Charlotte police suppressed the CC video and the legacy news media barely reported the story. Suddenly, the country is shocked by what they see: wanton murder witnessed at the scene by a half-dozen other transit riders, who don’t even react to the woman spurting blood as she topples to the floor and bleeds out.

Already stabbed, minutes to live...

“Progressives” hasten to cover for the psycho. He was mentally unwell and did not get the treatment he needed. Uh-huh...Yet anyone with functioning brain knew the score at once. Decarlos Brown, Jr., was “justice involved” (arrested and convicted of crimes) more than a dozen times in recent years, including a five-year stretch for armed robbery. He was on-the-loose because of how the Democratic Party manages public safety, which is not at all. It allows the criminally insane to run free, but especially if they can be sorted into the “marginalized” minority basket to be presented as sob stories (George Floyd).

The Democratic Party has this affinity for the criminally insane because the party as a whole is insane. It peddles insane policies and ideas, such as cashless bail and defunding the police. It can’t tell the truth about anything. For instance, that black people account for 37-percent of violent felonies committed in the USA, according the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting, though they comprise about 13-percent of the population. And that only includes the “solved” cases, for which the “clearance rate” is a low 50- 60-percent of violent crimes — that is, more than half of violent crimes discovered go unsolved.

The Iryna Zarutska slaying set off a fury that ranged from intimations of race-war to declaring the Democratic Party a “domestic terrorist organization.” Of course, this was only days after disgruntled transgenderite Robert Westman - another product of Democratic Party ideology - shot up a catholic school in Minneapolis. Westman declared in his diaries that he’d learned to his disappointment that it is not really possible to change sexes and pretending was not good enough. That was perhaps the sole sane expression among his otherwise violently deranged writings. Westman was but one in a growing line of transgenders shooting up places, but his deed marked the end of the Democratic sex hustle, inflicting LGBTQ ideology on the schools and coercing the public to play along.

And then, Wednesday, a marksman as yet unidentified murdered Charlie Kirk, 31-year-old rising conservative media star, whose main activity was traveling to college campuses to discuss and debate the great public issues of our time with students. Charlie Kirk was an exemplary young man, on a mission to rescue our country from bad ideas and help young adults beset by the depraved Jacobin faculty discern the difference between good ideas and bad ideas. He’d barely got going in life. I won’t belabor the encomiums to Charlie’s excellence that you can read elsewhere all over the web. He was the real deal, a man in full. The Left has its martyr, the degenerate George Floyd, and now the right has its martyr, the righteous Charlie Kirk. Choose your hero.

The murder sickened at least half the nation to a degree we haven’t seen since the Kennedys and MLK were gunned down half a century ago, but the country is much more fragile now than it was then. Nobody knows what comes next, but you can sense it is going to be harsh. All that’s known about the shooter so far is that he might be the scraggly figure captured in a CC camera in a stairway on the Utah campus, that he might have used the Mauser 30.06 rifle found ditched in the woods nearby, that he was a darn good shot, and that the brass cartridges in the rifle’s chamber and magazine were engraved with “transgender and Antifa” slogans. Uh-oh...(I wouldn’t want to be them on that dreadful day.)

The question on everybody’s minds - those not still paralyzed by grief and rage - is what will the political Right do now, especially those currently holding the levers of power, led by President Trump? What we have lived through is an astounding cavalcade of gross insults against our country, against our history, and against common decency. The ten-year-long seditious conspiracy against Mr. Trump was a kind of self-compounding criminal cover-up for even more long-running illegality carried on routinely in the so-called Deep State or DC blob, which has been laying trips on the people of this land for decades.

It’s all coming apart now in one climactic maelstrom of discovery and retribution. Of course, there are the anticipated indictments of many well-known Deep State figures, but the captured agencies and regions of the judiciary remain infested with either ideologues determined to wreck the country (CIA, DOJ, DOD, State) or grifters making fortunes (FSA, CDC, NIH, HUD) or the simply power-crazed who have long forgotten even why they seek to be in charge of anything. And that’s just the government, not higher ed, or medicine, or the news business, or banking and finance, or Big Business, or the lively arts. What the demon-haunted country needs is an exorcism.

Good thing America elected an exorcist in 2024. I don’t know if Mr. Trump ever thought of himself that way, but it’s come to that. I suppose he will start by dismantling altogether the skein of NGOs beyond the already-demolished USAID umbrella - and there are thousands more of them - that keep money flowing into the Democratic Party, a thoroughly corrupt and treasonous faction. Start with George and Alex Soros’s operation, please, Mr T.

The Democratic Party might not survive all that especially since it has turned itself into a mere infernal machine manufacturing hoaxes and hustles against the public interest. That’s all it does, all it stands for. Americans are about to re-learn that the reason we have laws is to state clearly what sort of human behavior is okay and what is not okay. It’s not okay to be a demon and do the Devil’s work - a metaphor, admittedly, but take it as you will."

- https://www.kunstler.com/

"Breaking: NATO Closes Border, Airspace; Major Nuclear Exercise Begins, Troops Deployed; Kirk & WW3"

Full screen recommended.

Prepper News, 9/12/25

"Breaking: NATO Closes Border, Airspace; 

Major Nuclear Exercise Begins, Troops Deployed; Kirk & WW3"

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"James Webb Detects Something Alive Inside 3I/ATLAS - It’s Moving Toward Us"

Full screen recommended.

Cosmic Atlas, 9/11/25

"James Webb Detects Something Alive 

Inside 3I/ATLAS - It’s Moving Toward Us"

"JWST just spotted something “impossible” inside interstellar visitor 3I/ATLAS - a steady glow that looks engineered. Thermal maps show a pulsing, centralized heat signature, followed by a 40% flare like a machine powering on. Hours later, its trajectory subtly shifted - an apparent mid-course correction toward the inner solar system. Signal analysis reveals a repeating narrow-band pattern - and a 72-hour timed reply after a SETI probe. We break down the data, the skeptic checks, and what the next close pass could reveal."

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"We're Heading Into Very, Very Evil Times; America Is Toast; Demonic People Celebrate Death"

Jeremiah Babe, 9/11/25

"We're Heading Into Very, Very Evil Times; 

America Is Toast; Demonic People Celebrate Death"

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"Scott Ritter: We can't recover from what just happened!"

fresh info insight, 9/11/25

"Scott Ritter: 

We can't recover from what just happened!"

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Gerald Celente, "Israel Bombs Six Countries In 72 Hours; Equity Markets Rise As Economies Decline"

Strong language alert!

Gerald Celente, 9/11/25

"Israel Bombs Six Countries In 72 Hours;

 Equity Markets Rise As Economies Decline"

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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Musical Interlude: Liquid Mind, "Balance (Galaxies)"

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Liquid Mind, "Balance (Galaxies)"