"Before the Ice Age, Earth Had Another World"

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The Lost Earth Chronicles,

"Before the Ice Age, Earth Had Another World"

"Before history had names, Earth had a different world. Lower seas exposed vast coastlines now buried beneath the ocean. Stable climates lasted for thousands of years - long enough for people to adapt, organize, and build lives that felt permanent. Then the climate broke. Ice advanced, oceans rose, and entire homelands vanished. What disappeared wasn’t only land…it was memory. In this episode of The Lost Earth Chronicles, we explore the scientifically grounded reality of Ice Age sea-level rise and rapid climate shifts - then follow the unsettling question that remains: if earlier worlds can be erased so completely, what does that mean for ours?"

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Hidden History TV,

"When the Sahara Was an Ocean: 

The Hidden Evidence Beneath the Desert"

"It is the largest hot desert on Earth. An endless landscape of sand, rock, and extreme heat. When people think of the Sahara, they imagine towering dunes, relentless sun, and a land where life should not exist. But the Sahara was not always this way. Covering an area nearly the size of the entire United States, the Sahara hides far more than sand beneath its surface. Beneath these dunes lie geological layers that tell a very different story - one of water, life, and dramatic transformation. Satellite imagery, fossil discoveries, and geological surveys reveal evidence of ancient oceans, inland seas, and vast river systems that once shaped North Africa. Marine fossils found deep within the desert, ancient shorelines etched into rock, and buried sediment layers all point to a time when the Sahara was green, fertile, and alive.

Not long ago in Earth’s history, this region supported lakes, wetlands, and thriving ecosystems. Human populations followed these water sources, adapting to a land that was slowly changing beneath their feet. Then something went wrong. Climate systems shifted. Monsoon patterns weakened. Rainfall disappeared. Over centuries, water retreated, vegetation vanished, and sand began to dominate the landscape. What remained was the desert we recognize today - and countless unanswered questions.

What lies beneath the sands of the Sahara? How many ancient environments and civilizations were erased as the land dried? And how much of this lost history is still waiting to be uncovered? In this documentary, we explore the scientific evidence hidden beneath the Sahara’s sands - using satellite data, geology, and climate research to uncover the desert’s forgotten past."

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The Daily "Near You?"

Johnson City, New York, USA. Thanks for stopping by!

"We Are All..."

“I know something of shame… how can we not all feel it? We are all small-minded people, creeping about the earth grubbing for our own adventure and making the very mistakes for which we want to humiliate our neighbors… I think we wake up every day with high intentions and by dusk we have routinely fallen short. Sometimes I think God created the darkness just so he didn’t have to look at us all the time.”

- Helen Simonson, “Major Pettigrew”

"The Reality Of Life..."

"Despite my firm convictions, I have been always a man who tries to face facts, and to accept the reality of life as new experience and new knowledge unfolds it. I have always kept an open mind, which is necessary to the flexibility that must go hand in hand with every form of intelligent search for truth."

- Malcolm X

"Do You Want..."

"Do you want to live life, or do you want to escape life?"

- Macklemore

“I’m 78… I Wasted 52 Years Believing This Lie”

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If I Knew Then,

“I’m 78… I Wasted 52 Years Believing This Lie” (Part-1)

"I'm 78 years old. I wasted 52 years of my life believing a lie that society taught me. And the worst part? Everyone around me was living the same lie too. My name is Robert Chen, and in this video, I'm going to share the truth that changed everything for me at age 76. A homeless man taught me three simple sentences that destroyed everything I thought I knew about success, money, and happiness."

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If I Knew Then,

“I’m 78… I Wasted 52 Years Believing This Lie” (Part-2)

"I'm Robert Chen. I'm 78 years old. In Part 1, I told you about the 52 years I wasted believing society's lies. Now I'm going to share the truth that set me free and why my homeless teacher Marcus chose poverty over comfort.

This is the most important video I'll ever make.In this video you'll discover the top 5 regrets of dying people from hospice research, the 3 sentences that destroyed 52 years of lies, why Marcus chose to be homeless despite having everything, how I finally started living at age 76, what you can do today to avoid my mistakes, and Marcus's death and his final gift to me.

The top 5 regrets of dying people are: Number 5, I wish I had let myself be happier. Number 4, I wish I had stayed in touch with my friends. Number 3, I wish I had the courage to express my feelings. Number 2, I wish I hadn't worked so hard. And number 1, I wish I'd had the courage to live my life, not the life others expected of me.Notice: Not one person said I wish I worked more or I wish I had more money.

The 3 sentences that changed my life: 

Life is not a dress rehearsal. This is not practice. This is it.

Marcus wasn't homeless because he lost everything. He chose it. He was a successful lawyer with a big house and expensive cars. Then his best friend died at 45. At the funeral, Marcus realized his friend died before ever truly living. So Marcus quit everything, sold everything, and spent his last 15 years completely free. His daughter begged him to live with her. She had money and space. But Marcus always refused. In a letter to his daughter, Marcus wrote:"I know my life looks like failure to most people. But I've never been happier. I've never been more free. I've never been more myself."

Marcus died 2 weeks before I returned to thank him. Heart attack. Quick and painless. Free until the end. At his funeral, his daughter gave me his journal. He had written about me: Robert is finally waking up.

How I finally started living: I sold my big empty house. I bought a ticket to Italy and saw the places Sarah and I dreamed about. I cried in Rome thinking of her, but smiled knowing she'd want me to go. I learned guitar at 76. I wrote long letters to my kids explaining everything. I volunteered reading to children at schools. I made real friends. I felt truly alive for the first time.

What you can do today: Stop living like you have forever. Stop sacrificing your present for a future that might never come. Stop trading your life for money and stuff you don't really want. Stop waiting for permission to be happy. Start living now. Take that trip you keep putting off. Learn that skill you've always wanted. Call that friend you miss. Hug your family longer. Work less and live more.

The Die With Zero principle: Your goal is not to die with the most money. Your goal is to die with the best memories and the fewest regrets.

My morning question: Every morning I ask myself, if I died tonight, would I be happy with how I lived today? Most days now, the answer is yes.

I'm 78 years old. I don't know how much time I have left. But I know this: I will not waste another day. Marcus is gone, but his wisdom lives through me. And now through you. What are you going to do with your time? You're watching this video right now. That means you're alive. You still have time. But time is the one thing you can never get back. So will you live? Or will you keep waiting?"

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"How It Really Is"

 

"What Are We Now?" (Excerpt)

"What Are We Now?"

by Patti Johnson

Excerpt: "When Benjamin Franklin walked out of the Constitutional Convention in 1787 and was asked by Elizabeth Willing Powel, “Well, Doctor, what have we got, a republic or a monarchy?” he replied, “A republic, if you can keep it.”

What are we now? We have strayed far from the original founder’s intent and have morphed into a conglomerate of Republicanism, Fascism, Technocracy, Socialism and Communism. Although a few states may still preserve small remnants of the original republic, even those remnants are now mixed with systems that the Founding Fathers never intended. Our Constitution is being shredded before our very eyes.

• Hammer and sickle (top left, yellow on red): Represents communism, symbolizing the unity of industrial workers (hammer) and peasants (sickle).

• Fasces (center left, golden bundle of rods with axe): Represents fascism, an ancient Roman symbol of authority and strength through unity, adopted by Mussolini’s regime.

• Fist holding a red rose (center right, on orange): Represents socialism, particularly democratic socialism, combining the traditional raised fist of worker solidarity with the rose as a symbol of peace and social justice.

• Monad symbol (bottom left, black geometric design): Represents technocracy, the 1930s movement’s emblem for balanced scientific management of society and resources.

• Bald eagle with shield (bottom right): Represents the United States, the national emblem symbolizing freedom, strength, and American identity.

A republic is a form of government in which political power rests with the public through their representatives, rather than a monarch, and is typically governed according to law or a constitution. The Founding Fathers vision for the United States was more precisely a constitutional federal republic, with power limited by the Constitution, divided between federal and state governments, and exercised through elected representatives. Well, we did not keep it. We are not represented by those elected to represent us. They listen to big business and not the people who vote them into office.

Hybrid of Fascism and Technocracy: The United States exhibits elements of fascism through its growing corporatism, where government policies and funding increasingly favor large corporations over small businesses, as seen during the COVID-19 shutdowns when big retailers remained open while independents were forced to close, eroding competition and consolidating power among elites. At the same time, it incorporates technocratic features by placing technical experts and oligarchs from major industries, such as technology and pharmaceuticals, in key decision-making roles. This overlap creates a hybrid system where big industry serves as the common thread, blending fascist-style state-corporate alliances with technocratic rule by specialists. Though the nation has not yet descended into full fascism marked by total authoritarian control, overt suppression of dissent or a single dictatorial leader, we are well on our way."

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"Perhaps We Should Actually Be Focusing On Fixing America"

"Perhaps We Should Actually Be Focusing On Fixing America"

by Michael Snyder

"After years of heading in the wrong direction, nobody can deny that the United States is facing overwhelming problems. So why don’t we focus on fixing those problems first? The truth is that we can’t do everything because our resources are very limited. U.S. households are more than 18 trillion dollars in debt, and the federal government is more than 38 trillion dollars in debt. Even though we have literally stolen trillions upon trillions of dollars from future generations, our major cities are rapidly decaying, our infrastructure is crumbling, corruption is rampant, the middle class is shrinking, most of the population is struggling to even afford the basics each month, mass layoffs are happening all over the nation, our streets are teeming with hordes of drug addicts and homeless people, large numbers of Americans are selling images of themselves online just to make ends meet, and millions of others are living in their vehicles.

So why don’t we use what limited resources we have to fix our own problems? If you don’t understand the point that I am trying to make, just go take a stroll through downtown Seattle. The new mayor has decided that it will be her policy to allow people to openly do drugs in the streets…"Seattle’s new ultra-woke mayor has triggered chaos by ordering police not to arrest people doing drugs on the streets of the city plagued by crime and homelessness. Democratic socialist Katie Wilson, 43, was sworn in as the city’s 58th mayor on Friday.

The progressive politician who co-founded the Transit Riders Union has already taken steps that concerned residents and law enforcement officials say will destroy Seattle. The president of the Seattle Police Officers Guild, Mike Solan, is warning that this will make the lawlessness in the streets of Seattle even worse… ‘We’ve all seen how our streets can be filled with death, decay, blight and crime when ideology like this infects our city, Solan continued in his statement. ‘Now with this resurrected insane direction, death, destruction and more human suffering will be supercharged.’ Lawmakers and residents have reacted to this news in horror, as the city already has a raging homelessness epidemic that they believe this lax drug policy will only amplify.

Once upon a time, Seattle was one of the most beautiful cities on the entire planet. So what in the world happened? Of course it isn’t just Seattle that has been transformed into a crime-ridden, drug-infested hellhole. All over the nation, chaos reigns in the streets of major American cities. In fact, last night a “hammer-wielding maniac” destroyed a bunch of windows at the Cincinnati home of Vice President J.D. Vance…A hammer-wielding maniac who smashed four windows at JD Vance’s Cincinnati home has been arrested by the Secret Service after an overnight break-in.

William DeFoor, 26, was charged early Monday morning with one count each of obstructing official business, criminal damaging or endangering, criminal trespass and vandalism. Secret Service agents heard a loud noise at the home around midnight and spotted DeFoor running from the home, which is the secondary residence for Vance, his wife Usha and their three young children, who were out of town at the time."

Meanwhile, lawlessness also continues to run rampant in high places all over the country. So what is being done about it? After all this time, how many corrupt members of past administrations have been arrested and put in prison? After all this time, how many corrupt corporate executives have been arrested and put in prison? After all this time, how many of Jeffrey Epstein’s associates that also sexually abused young girls have been arrested and put in prison? How can we tell the rest of the world how they should be doing things when we can’t even get our own house in order?

We have been getting hit by crisis after crisis, and economic conditions are steadily deteriorating. In fact, we just learned that U.S. manufacturing activity has contracted for a 10th consecutive month…"US manufacturing activity contracted for a 10th straight month in December, a survey indicated Monday, pointing to a continued drag in sentiment from tariffs and trade policy uncertainty. The Institute for Supply Management’s (ISM) manufacturing index fell to 47.9 from November’s 48.2 reading, the lowest of 2025 despite modest improvements in employment and some other categories."

Our artificially-inflated stock market continues to hover near record highs, but at the same time the number of large corporations that are going bankrupt just continues to rise…"Between January and November 2025, at least 717 companies filed for Chapter 7 or Chapter 11 bankruptcy, according to data from S&P reviewed by The Washington Post. That marks a 14% jump compared to the same period in 2024, and the most filings seen since 2010, the tail end of the Great Recession."

According to the Daily Mail, we are also seeing a very alarming surge in bankruptcies among small businesses too…"A frightening recession indicator is flashing red - and Americans can see it all over Main Street. Experts told the Daily Mail that a sudden surge in bankruptcies and store closures - hitting mom-and-pop shops, small restaurants, and local retailers - could be an early warning sign that the economy is starting to crack."

One expert that was interviewed by the Daily Mail is warning that this surge in bankruptcies is a clear indication that a recession is coming…‘The little guys are going to start falling first,’ Joe Barsalona, a Delaware-based bankruptcy lawyer at Pashman Stein Walder Hayden, said. ‘A recession is coming. I agree with economists that the increase in small business bankruptcies is a canary in a coal mine.’

Of course many would argue that a recession is already here. In recent months, I have written a lot about the mass layoffs that have been occurring all over the country. Well, now Newsweek is reporting that over 100 companies have filed WARN notices for mass layoffs that will be taking place in January…"More than 100 companies have filed WARN notices indicating plans to lay off workers in January 2026, according to WARNTracker.com. The following companies have filed a notice." I tried to warn my readers that a tsunami of layoffs was coming. Now it is here. The following is the full list of 119 companies that have filed WARN notices for this month…

AARP

AbbVie

Adams County Public Hospital

AeroFarms1526 Cane Creek

Amazon

Amentum

American Signature, Inc.

Apogee Architectural Metals

Archer Daniels Midland Company

Atkore Plastics Southeast

Augusta Sportswear, Inc.

Bechtel National Inc.

Best Dressed Chicken, Inc.

Blue Plate Oysterette LLC

Blue Shield of California

Bond 45 National Harbor Restaurant

Braga Fresh Foods, LLC

Building Materials Manufacturing LLC

BWW Law Group, LLC

Catalent, Maryland, Inc.

Charles River Laboratories

Clari Inc.

CNO Financial Group

Colonial Savings, F.A.

ColWyo Coal Company LP

CommUnify

Consolidated Hospitality Supplies

Corteva

CoStar Group

Couchbase, Inc.

CRST Expedited, Inc.

Dental Benefit Management, Inc.

Dillard’s Inc.

Dometic Corporation

DRT, LLC

DSV Air & Sea Inc.

enDevelopment Logistics, LLC

FedEx

FreshRealm

Fresno Economic Opportunities Commission

Galleher LLC

General Motors

Giesecke + Devrient ePayments America Inc

Gilead Sciences

Grand Lux Café, LLC

Great Floors

H&M Fashion USA, Inc.

HD Supply

Heibar Installations Inc.

Henkel Corporation

HRL Laboratories

Hudson

Huntington National Bank

Illumina

ImmunityBio

Inline Plastics

Institute of International Education

International Paper

Invincible Boat Company

Kloeckner Meals

Lakeshore Learning Materials, LLC

Louis Vuitton USA Inc.

Lumileds

Maritime Applied Physics Corporation

Marshalls of CA, LLC

Mattel

McDonald’s

MDWise

Meteorcomm LLC

Mettler-Toledo Rainin, LLC

Michigan Sugar Company

Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey

Nationstar Mortgage, LLC

NIKE Retail Services, Inc.

Nordstrom Portland Rack

Ojai Valley Inn

Palo Verde Hospital

Panasonic Well LLC

Peraton’s Environmental Integration Services III

Post Consumer Brands, LLC

Presbyterian Home for Central New York, Inc.

Providence Health & Services

Rad Power Bikes, Inc.

RATP Dev and Midtown Group

Raytheon Technologies

Rebel Restaurants, Inc.

Red Run Corporation T/A Food Depot

Regional Medical Center of Central Alabama

Retail Services WIS Corporation

Revity, Inc.

Roads Express, LLC

Saddle Creek Logistics Service

SC Industrial Holdings, LLC

SDH Education West, LLC

SDH Service East, LLC

Shell Recharge Solutions

SLO Brewing Co. LLC

Smokin Bear LLC

Smurfit Westrock

Sodexo

Spirit Airlines, LLC.

Synopsys, Inc.

Takeda Development Center Americas Inc.

Terzo Enterprises Incorporated

The Cheesecake Factory

The French Gourmet, Inc.

The Taubman Company

TJX Companies, Inc.

TransAlta

United Supermarkets

Van Law Food Products, Inc.

Verizon

Virginia Mason Franciscan

Warner Music Group

Wells Fargo

West Fraser, Inc.

White Coffee Corporation

WIS International

WWL Vehicle Services America, Inc.

That is quite a long list, isn’t it? The American people are not stupid. They can see what is happening, and one recent survey found that 52 percent of U.S. adults actually believe that a recession has already started…According to the ARG data, 52% of Americans believe the economy is already in a recession, and 64% say it’s getting worse.

These numbers suggest that many Americans are feeling the squeeze, even if official metrics don’t yet reflect a recession. Only 11% think the economy is improving. Just 22% rate it as excellent, very good, or good, while 73% call it bad, very bad, or terrible, showing a clear gap between public sentiment and political narratives about economic strength. Looking ahead, 60% believe the national economy will be worse a year from now, and just 16% say it will be better.

Yes, things are certainly bad now. But they are not even worth comparing to what is further down the road. So why don’t we use our limited resources to address the historic challenges that we are facing in our own nation? If we love this country, we should try to fix it."

- https://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/

Dan, I Allegedly, "Real Estate Disaster - Zillow Predicts a 2026 Slowdown"

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Dan, I Allegedly, 1/6/26

"Real Estate Disaster - 

Zillow Predicts a 2026 Slowdown"

"Real estate might be heading for a slow year in 2026! Zillow CEO Jeremy Waxman shares insights that point to a slowdown in prices and sales. From high mortgage rates to unrealistic price expectations, the market is facing challenges that could reshape the industry. As always, I’ve got you covered with the latest news and views, including stories about bizarre property sales, celebrity financial woes, and much more. Plus, we’re exploring Las Vegas during CES and checking out cool spots like Hell's Kitchen and Dining Eataly at Park MGM."

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EconoSilicon, 1/6/26

"The Average American is Over $100,000 in Debt Now"

"America’s household debt has silently crossed a breaking point. From credit cards and auto loans to medical bills and student debt, the typical American is now buried under more than $100,000 in total obligations - a number that would have been unthinkable not long ago. Families are juggling record-high interest rates, shrinking savings, and wages that no longer cover the basics. Meanwhile, delinquencies are rising across credit cards, auto loans, and personal loans at the fastest pace in over a decade.

This video breaks down why the debt crisis is accelerating, how inflation eroded buying power, why millions rely on buy-now-pay-later apps for groceries, and why so many households are trapped in a financial system designed to keep them borrowing forever. We’ll explore the numbers behind the collapse: rising insurance costs, medical debt that follows people for years, auto payments now averaging $700–$800 a month, and credit-card interest rates hitting levels not seen in modern history. If you want to understand why America’s financial foundation is cracking, how we reached the $100,000-per-person tipping point, and what it means for the next recession, this is a must-watch."

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Judge Napolitano, "Amb. Chas Freeman: China And Russia View Trump As A Kidnapper"

Judge Napolitano - Judging Freedom, 1/6/26

"Amb. Chas Freeman: 

China And Russia View Trump As A Kidnapper"

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"The Peace President Lays Out His 

Many Goals For American Conquest"

"Pepe Escobar: Venezuela Humiliates Trump After U.S. Attack, Russia & China Blast Oil War"

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Danny Haiphong, 1/6/26

"Pepe Escobar: Venezuela Humiliates Trump 

After U.S. Attack, Russia & China Blast Oil War"

"Drones and heavy gunfire filled the streets of Caracas in the day of Maduro's arraignment hearing, and Trump is furiously threatening a 2nd strike as his Venezuela attack reaches its limits. Pepe Escobar joins the program to break down his latest work that tears apart the empire of chaos's psychological warfare on the regime change operation and what it means for the multipolar world."

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"Barbaria Strikes Again"

Bill Bonner, "Hell Bound Money"

"Hell Bound Money"

by Bill Bonner

"If she doesn't do what's right, she is going to pay a very big price."

- Donal Trump, threatening his puppet.

Baltimore, Maryland - "Those poor Somalis. They pay a ‘big price.’ But for what? They’ve got nothing. No money. No oil. No army. No navy. No national orchestra. And who books a flight on Somali Airlines? And yet, US presidents seem to want to take a whack at them. Trump, living in superlatives, set the previous record for hitting the woebegone Somalis during his first term. He hit (bombed) them 63 times in a single year. But in 2025, he went at them twice as hard - with 127 strikes.

There is surely a ‘reason’ for all this violence. But you could ask 100 million Americans and probably not discover what it is. It only makes sense – and then, only marginally – in a larger context. The attacks on Somalia are just a part of the Decline and Fall of the US Empire: Pointless. Costly. Destructive.

There are two essential pieces to the Empire Reduction program. One: ruin the economy with overspending and debt. Two: create enemies by attacking small, largely defenseless countries on trumped up charges. Anti-war.com: "2025 saw a major increase in US airstrikes due to President Trump loosening the rules of engagement for military commanders and launching new interventions in the Middle East, Africa, and Latin America.

According to a report from the Armed Conflict Location and Event Data (ACLED) released earlier this year, Trump launched nearly as many airstrikes in just his first five months in office as President Biden did during his entire four-year term.

In addition to Somalia, the Trump Team has bombed Nigeria, Yemen, Iraq, Syria, Iran and Venezuela (it is still unclear what the ‘covert’ action was before the end of the year). This last one spilled over into the New Year with a spectacular kidnapping of the president of Venezuela and his wife...which takes the use of violence to a whole new level."

Kidnapping foreign heads of state, who displease the US, is not new. The US has ‘captured’ five of them. But this is the first time that the US announced that henceforth it will take charge of the country itself...including its oil riches. What are they thinking? It’s hard enough to ‘run’ your own country. Try to ‘run’ a country you’ve never visited of 30 million people whose history you don’t know and whose language you don’t speak? We can guess how it will turn out.

But who knows? The guy who ran Venezuela, until he was made to do the perp walk, wasn’t doing such a great job either. In fact, it would be hard to do a worse job. And yet, that is the great likelihood. Abroad, as at home, Mr. Trump shakes things up...and then lets them settle into familiar patterns. In the US, after all the shake, rattle, and roll of DOGE et al, deficits are scheduled to continue to grow...just as they did under Bush, Obama, Biden et al. Debt will keep going up, too...until the whole thing blows up.

Foreign policy is much the same. It is meant not to protect the empire, but to destroy it. Trump beheaded the Venezuelan leadership. But the rest of the elite are still there...and still taking advantage of every opportunity to rip off the public.

The problem is that Trump likes to ‘run’ things too. And the more the politicians try to ‘run’ a country, the less well the country runs. Maduro’s predecessor, Hugo Chavez, ran Venezuela into the ground. And he did so using the tried-and-true combination, now taken up by Mr. Trump, of financial debauchery and political violence. In 2010, he declared an ‘economic war.’ The government depended on oil revenues.the key part of the program was to bring the oil industry under government control.

The results were as might have been expected. Output declined. Revenues fell. But Chavez did not cut government spending; instead, he ran big deficits and ‘printed’ the cash to cover them. By 2017, food was scarce and expensive. The average Venezuelan had lost nearly 20 lbs. By 2021, three quarters of the population were living in extreme poverty, trying to survive in an economy with an inflation rate estimated as high as ten million percent. More and more people fled the country; today, there are said to be seven million Venezuelans outside the country.

In theory at least, Trump could do the Venezuelans a favor by overthrowing the corrupt regime, liberating the country, and letting Venezuelans run the country themselves. But Trump has no plans to liberate anything. The status of Venezuela’s new head of state, for example, was surely worked out in advance. She is supposed to administer Venezuela as if it were Vichy France, always aware that she must answer to the gringos. And if she forgets to play her role, she might as well flee to Somalia.

Wouldn’t it be easier to let the Venezuelans run their own affairs? Wouldn’t it be cheaper to buy oil on the open market? Wouldn’t it be less provocative to mind our own business? Wouldn’t it be more effective to end the War on Drugs? Wouldn’t we be more likely to Make America Great Again by liberating our own country...by balancing the budget...and by concentrating on defending the homeland rather than meddling in other countries’ affairs?

The answer to all those questions is the same: yes, of course. But this ‘mistake’ is not just a ‘mistake.’ This is History at work. In this light, the Trump program is fairly consistent and coherent, including even the cockamamie tariffs. What problem was ever solved by spending money you don’t have on something you don’t need? What challenge was ever met by bombing people - almost randomly - or kidnapping foreign heads of state? What purpose did tariffs ever serve? Only one... The challenge of a government hell bent on its own destruction…Stay tuned."

- https://www.bonnerprivateresearch.com/

"Trump Signals War With Putin - “We Will Strike Russia”

John Mearsheimer, 1/5/26

"Trump Signals War With Putin - 

“We Will Strike Russia”

"For decades, U.S. presidents relied on strategic ambiguity to manage confrontation with Russia. That era may be ending. In this breaking geopolitical analysis, John Mearsheimer examines a moment that signals a fundamental shift in deterrence, as President Trump publicly warns that the United States is prepared to strike Russia if Vladimir Putin crosses newly defined lines. This is not about rhetoric or personality. It’s about credibility, escalation, and how great‑power competition changes when ambiguity collapses.

This video takes a different angle than the headlines. It’s not about outrage or theatrics. It’s about how explicit red lines alter incentives, compress decision‑making timelines, and increase the risk of miscalculation between nuclear‑armed states. This is not a media spectacle. It is a structural recalibration of deterrence with global consequences. When red lines are drawn publicly, there is less room to maneuver - and far less margin for error. The world is now watching how Moscow responds, how Washington follows through, and whether fear produces restraint or confrontation."

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"Alert! AI Apocalypse Is Here! Russia Plans "Endgame" Strike On NATO; Venezuela And Iran Implosion!"

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Prepper News, 1/5/26

"Alert! AI Apocalypse Is Here! Russia Plans "Endgame"

 Strike On NATO; Venezuela And Iran Implosion!"

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"'North American Technate': The Real Reason For Conquering Venezuela, And It's Not Going To Stop There"

"'North American Technate': The Real Reason For

Conquering Venezuela, And It's Not Going To Stop There"

by Leo Hohmann

"The truth will never win any popularity contests because the loudest voices in the room right now are all spouting lies. If you listen to those voices, many of them on Fox News, the January 3 kidnapping of Venezuela’s socialist dictator was a noble effort by a freedom-loving American president who seeks to set the captives free and bless us with cheap oil and endless prosperity. Many alternative media talkers, such as Alex Jones, have also latched onto this narrative. They look at these operations in a vacuum as opposed to in the broad scope of history and the track record of previous regime-change operations. That record is long on blood, violence and pillage and short on freedom and democracy.

Those who depend on these influencers for their “news” tend to be folks who live in the moment and the feel-good emotions sparked by video clips they see being passed around on social media. They see liberated Venezuelans dancing in the streets amid overflowing jubilation. And they drink the Kool Aid. It tastes so good they want to share it with the rest of us.

In their excitement, some will ask you what you think about Venezuela. But as soon as you begin to share a viewpoint that calls into question their preconceived notion of America as the white-knight savior of the world, it becomes clear they really don’t want to hear what you’ve got to say. They simply cannot fathom anyone who doesn’t feel the joy. We point them to that stubborn record called history. Look at Iraq. Look at Syria. What about Libya and Afghanistan? Are they any better off as a result of U.S. interventions in their countries?

Their eyes glaze over. They either rebuke you or give you that blank stare. They change the subject. They refuse to consider for a moment that their exuberant feelings might be premature, if not fully misplaced and based on fantasy rather than fact.

No, Venezuela is not about drugs, it’s not about re-establishing the Monroe Doctrine, it’s certainly not about establishing freedom and democracy in Venezuela or any other country. In fact, it’s not even about oil. Well, it’s partly about oil, but that still doesn’t explain the bigger picture. It’s about reorienting the world order and catapulting it to the next phase that will ultimately conclude with world government.

Those who’ve allowed their minds to get stuck in the quicksand of the left-right paradigm will never understand what I am about to explain. I could explain it five different ways until I’m blue in the face and they would still only see “communism” at work and Trump as their triumphant anti-communist king riding to the rescue of poor Venezuela.

If he takes all of Latin America, Canada and Greenland, they will be fine with that too. They will defend it with every last ounce of their energy. Because they have bought the false premise that Trump is using the power of the United States military to free the masses and unleash capitalism in a happy-ever-after scenario. They choose to be deceived rather than to listen and learn from great thinkers and researchers like the late Dr. Antony Sutton and Patrick Wood, whose most recent book "The Final Betrayal" explains the real story of what’s being done, why and by whom.

The truth is, they need Venezuela and its resources for the North American Technate, which will function as part of their long-awaited New International Economic Order. Trump may think he’s conquering other nations for America and a more prosperous future, which in itself is not a moral justification for invading and taking what is rightfully the resources of another sovereign country, but it is a distraction that appeals to most conservative Americans who, let’s face it, are desperate for some “wins.” Democrats operate the same way. If their chosen leader tells them something is progress, even if it’s an absurdity like boys can be girls, they will run with it!

“Hey,” the Trumpsters and neocons will say, “look at the Venezuelans celebrating in the streets of Caracas.” Yes, they celebrated in Iraq too. Remember those statues of Saddam coming down? Remember the parties? The joy? The utter excitement? Freedom had come to Iraq after decades of dictatorship by Saddam! Ask the people of Iraq today how that worked out for them. Iraq is now dominated by Shiite Muslim militias, and Christians, those few who are left, are fully subjugated.

The Syrians are also getting a taste of what the West’s definition of “freedom” feels like after their dictator, Bashar al-Assad, was overthrown one year ago with the assistance of the CIA, Mossad and MI6. Christians were slaughtered in Iraq after Saddam was overthrown, and Christians are being slaughtered now in Syria. The same happened in Libya after a CIA coup took out that country’s dictator, Muammar Gaddafi.

Now let’s take an honest look inward. If a foreign government had liberated us from Biden in 2022, I bet some of us would have been out celebrating, just as the Democrats would be celebrating now if Trump were overthrown and led out of the White House in chains. So stop with the nonsense about celebrations as proof of liberation. It’s temporary at best. Check back with those Venezuelans in a couple of months or years and ask them how things are going under their new American puppet government.

Canada, Mexico, Columbia, Greenland, and Iceland, all should be worried. Trump may think he’s conquering these lands for the good of America, but he’s really conquering them for the globalists’ North American Technate. According to Dr. Dafydd Townley, a professor at the University of Portsmouth: “A movement that wanted to merge North America into one nation and extend its borders as far as the Panama Canal might sound incredibly familiar. But this group, called the “technocracy movement”, was a group of 1930s nonconformists with big ideas about how to rearrange US society. They proposed a vision that would get rid of waste and make North America highly productive by using technology and science.”

This idea aimed to manage resources more efficiently and eliminate waste through a system based on energy accounting (hence the carbon tax proposed by Elon Musk and other technocrats) instead of monetary exchange.

Dr. Townley continues: “The Technocrats, sometimes also called Technocracy Inc, proposed merging Canada, Greenland, Mexico, the US and parts of central America into a single continental unit. This they called a ‘Technate.’ It was to be governed by technocratic principles, rather than by national borders and traditional political divisions.”

Wood explains that this concept of a North American Technate failed to gain traction in the 1930s because the population and the state of technology was not ready for it. But the idea would resurface after Zbigniew Brzezinski and David Rockefeller formed the Trilateral Commission in 1973 for the sole purpose of establishing a new international economic order that would allow Rockefeller and other oligarchs to “convert their cash wealth into resource wealth.”

That effort continues to this day. The names and faces may have changed but the plan to dominate the world economically by taking control of its resources and using technology to surveil/control the masses is stronger than ever.

Why do you think Nat Rothschild publicly congratulated Trump on his latest exploits in Venezuela? Because that country and its debt will now be transferred back into the globalist system instead of operating from outside the system on its own nationalistic terms.

Lord Mayor Rothschild once said, “Let us control the money of a country and we care not who makes its laws.”

Gutle Schnaper, the wife of Mayer Amschel Rothschild, famously said: “If my sons did not want wars, there would be none.”

The Maduro regime chose to deal with China because the U.S. would not respect its nationalistic interests. Maduro was not a good guy, but that has nothing to do with why the U.S. government removed him from power. He was deposed because he was dealing in oil sales to countries we don’t like and doing deals in non-dollar currencies with entities our government-corporate apparatus doesn’t profit from. They need Venezuela and its vast oil reserves for their Technate. The country of 30 million people also has huge untapped gold mines.

Patrick Wood called it out exactly one year ago, in a January 8, 2025 article titled "Is Trump Pursuing Technocracy’s Dream To Create The Great American Technate?" He wrote: “In one fell swoop, President Trump has just traced out Technocracy’s mystery map of the North American Technate, which stretched from Greenland to just beyond Panama. This far exceeds George W. Bush’s failed attempt to create the North American Union in 2005-2006 to merge the U.S., Mexico, and Canada.”

But they will never come out with the truth of why Venezuela, Canada, Mexico and Greenland all must be conquered. Canada, with a former Bank of England governor and top-tier technocrat, Mark Carney, as its prime minister is already in the bag. So they make up fictional narratives about freedom and democracy in Venezuela and national security for Greenland. This latest operation was accompanied by a sophisticated disinformation campaign about drugs, oil, and the Monroe Doctrine. Some will even invoke Manifest Destiny. This is nothing more than a North American-tailored, slightly modified version of the Divine Right of Kings.

Don’t be fooled by any of it. The idea that Trump will flood the global oil market with Venezuelan crude is perhaps the biggest lie being told right now. George W. Bush said the same thing about Iraqi oil that Trump is saying about Venezuelan oil: It will be used to pay for the rebuilding of the country we just took over and there will be more oil wealth to spread around.

But Venezuela’s oil infrastructure will take years to get up to speed. And even when it is fully restored, the oil will not be for U.S. consumption as much as it will serve as an asset to back up the new North American digital currency. That’s what technocracy is: An asset-based economy. The old fiat currency and dollar-based economy is on the way out. We may see dueling digital currencies for a while, with a Chinese digital Yuan and an EU digital Euro vying for supremacy with the North American digital equivalent, perhaps the Stablecoin. But eventually one will win out and the plan will be to further merge the evolving regional Technates into one global beast system.

While you won’t hear anyone talking about it on Fox News or CNN, the real agenda is hiding in plain sight. That’s why Trump refused to negotiate with Maduro, even though Maduro offered Trump everything he said he wanted, including the oil fields. That was only part of what was required. The bigger picture has to do with a real estate assemblage program for the globalist oligarchs. Writes Wood: “The technocrat dream of the American Technate is coming alive right before our eyes.”

- https://leohohmann.substack.com/

Musical Interlude: 2002, "Chrysalis"

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2002, "Chrysalis"

“Oceans of strings and choirs, flutes and keyboards lift us 

out of the trials and tribulations of our daily lives as though 

we were on a ship with gossamer sails, sailing on the moonlight.” 

– Steve Ryals

"A Look to the Heavens"

"These are galaxies of the Hercules Cluster, an archipelago of island universes a mere 500 million light-years away. Also known as Abell 2151, this cluster is loaded with gas and dust rich, star-forming spiral galaxies but has relatively few elliptical galaxies, which lack gas and dust and the associated newborn stars. The colors in this remarkably deep composite image clearly show the star forming galaxies with a blue tint and galaxies with older stellar populations with a yellowish cast.

The sharp picture spans about 3/4 degree across the cluster center, corresponding to over 6 million light-years at the cluster's estimated distance. Diffraction spikes around brighter foreground stars in our own Milky Way galaxy are produced by the imaging telescope's mirror support vanes. In the cosmic vista many galaxies seem to be colliding or merging while others seem distorted - clear evidence that cluster galaxies commonly interact. In fact, the Hercules Cluster itself may be seen as the result of ongoing mergers of smaller galaxy clusters and is thought to be similar to young galaxy clusters in the much more distant, early Universe."

- http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap140625.html

Travelling with Russell, "I Visited The Main Cathedral of the Russian Armed Forces"

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Travelling with Russell, 

"I Visited The Main Cathedral of the Russian Armed Forces"

"Park Patriot in Moscow, Russia has one of the most famous Churches in all of Russia. The Main Cathedral of the Russian Armed Forces is a spiritual symbol of Russia, glorifying the greatest victory of life over death."

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Oh my God...

"Most People Are Good..."

"Most people are good and occasionally do something they know is bad. Some people are bad and struggle every day to keep it under control. Others are corrupt to the core and don't give a damn, as long as they don't get caught. But evil is a completely different creature. Evil is bad that believes it's good." 

- Karen Marie Moning

"Not Worth a Continental"

"Not Worth a Continental"

by Jeff Thomas

"In late-18th-century America, something of minimal value was often described as being "not worth a continental," which referred to the continental dollar, the American currency at the time of the revolution. The continental was paper money. It had occurred to the colonists that, as their revolution was costing quite a bit to maintain, they could go into "temporary" debt to finance the war. Soon it became clear that the debt could not be repaid. Also, the printing of paper banknotes resulted in inflation. The solution? Print more of them. Further devaluation of the continental motivated the colonists to print more… then more… then still more. The continental became worthless, either for local trade or for repayment of debt.

The new country, the United States, then did something quite unusual. In its new Constitution, it created a clause to assure that this would never happen again. Under Article I, Section 10, the states were not permitted to "coin Money; emit Bills of Credit; [or] make any Thing but gold and silver Coin a Tender in Payment of Debts."

The founding fathers of the US had figured out that the issuance of paper currency was a disaster in the making, and in 1792, passed the Coinage Act, denominating coins to be minted. The act authorized three gold coins: $10.00 eagles, $5.00 half eagles, and $2.50 quarter eagles, in addition to silver coins. Of course, later US political leaders have largely committed the Constitution to the dustbin. Since that time, dozens of countries have followed a similar pattern of war/debt/hyperinflation. Let’s look at a few:

German 100 "billionen" mark banknote, ca. 1923: Reparations for WWI were required in hard currency. The papiermark was printed in mass quantity to buy foreign currency in order to pay reparations. The proliferation of bank notes caused the cost of goods to rise dramatically. This rise was so dramatic that it led to a flight by Germans into hard assets, to avoid holding paper bank notes. (This is the classic tipping point at which inflation morphs into hyperinflation.) Predictably, governmental operation costs also rose. An increase in taxation was of no value, as it would be paid in the devaluating currency.

If the government stopped the inflation, this would cause immediate bankruptcies, unemployment, strikes, etc. But if they continued, they would default on the foreign debt through hyperinflation. They chose the latter, which, although ultimately more destructive, would buy the politicians a bit more time. (Hyperinflation is seen today as having paved the way for Adolf Hitler and the Nazi takeover of Germany.)

Hungarian 100 million billion pengő, ca. 1946: In 1945, Hungary was severely strapped for money, as a result of WWII. The Hungarian National Bank was instructed to issue currency proportional to whatever the budget required. Silver coinage disappeared. Banknotes were issued with no cover of any kind, and hyperinflation took hold. As always, the government was confident that it could control inflation, but once hyperinflation took over, it was entirely beyond control. It is important to note that hyperinflation, once it begins, spreads like wildfire. The Hungarian hyperinflation began at the end of 1945 and peaked the following July.

Yugoslav 500 billion dinar banknote, ca. 1993: More recently, Yugoslavia, economically weakened by regional war, had used up all its hard currency reserves and decided to loot the savings of its citizens. This it did through the printing of money and increasing restrictions on citizens’ savings in government banks. Not surprisingly, inflation rose dramatically. The government reacted by imposing price controls, which eliminated profits, so manufacturers ceased to produce essential goods. By 1993, when prices were doubling every fifteen hours, the country had reached the point that bakers stopped making bread.

Zimbabwe 100 trillion dollar banknote, ca. 2008: Zimbabwe’s civil war emptied the country’s treasury. Beginning in 1998, President Robert Mugabe took land and other assets from white farmers and redistributed them to less-experienced black farmers. Food exports plummeted, prompting Mugabe to print more currency. Revenues to government suffered as a result, with wages failing to keep up. Hospitals and schools developed chronic staffing problems, because nurses and teachers could not afford bus fare to get to work. The capital of Harare was without water, because the authorities had stopped paying the bills to buy and transport the treatment chemicals. By 2008, prices were doubling every 24 hours.

There are many other examples, but the ones listed above provide a fairly good thumbnail sketch. There are many paths by which political leaders may destroy a country’s economy through hyperinflation. But those leaders who follow the standard checklist of the most common components to collapse can generally be assured that the economy will be destroyed. Let’s have a look at that checklist:

• War (Can be one major war, or, as in today’s world, perpetual small wars).

• Depletion of gold reserves.

• Excessive Debt (Create a debt level that is beyond the ability to repay).

• Devaluation of currency (Print massive amounts of currency to diminish debt).

• Loss of control of inflation (Inflation morphs into hyperinflation - a state in which citizens actively try to rid themselves of the currency, as it is devaluating so quickly.)

We are living in a period in which much of the world has committed the first three to four of the above grave errors and is reaching the tipping point at which the fifth kicks in. It’s important to emphasise that hyperinflation is never actually anticipated by governments; it always occurs suddenly, and it happens very fast. In addition, once begun, it never reverses direction. It always plays out until a complete monetary collapse occurs.

From the worthless continental to every modern episode of hyperinflation, history shows that monetary collapse is never caused by chance - it is always the end result of reckless debt and unlimited money creation. What makes the present moment different is the sheer scale: governments are now printing in trillions, openly and without restraint, pushing the global monetary system toward an unavoidable reset."

- https://internationalman.com/

"Unemployment Is About to Surge - And Nobody Is Ready for What Comes Next"

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Michael Bordenaro, 1/5/26

"Unemployment Is About to Surge - 

And Nobody Is Ready for What Comes Next"

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True Rate of Unemployment 24.8%, November 2025

Headline Rate of Unemployment 4.6%, November 2025

- https://www.lisep.org/tru

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Asian Dad Energy, 1/5/26

"Laid Off After 25 Years in Tech: 

The Anxiety, Sacrifice, and Reality No One Talks About"

"After 25 years, a tech leader reflects on a recent layoff, exploring anxieties and sacrifices. This personal vlog details a career journey marked by both professional success and unexpected personal challenges. The video offers a raw and honest account of navigating a life transition."

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Dan, I Allegedly, "3 Million New Cars Sit Unsold"

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Dan, I Allegedly, 1/5/26

"3 Million New Cars Sit Unsold"

"The U.S. car market is in turmoil. Dealers are now sitting on over 3 million unsold new vehicles - the largest inventory surge in years - and it’s finally starting to hit prices hard. With supply outpacing demand, consumers may finally see relief at the dealership - but automakers and dealerships are feeling the squeeze."

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The Daily "Near You?"

Crozet, Virginia, USA. Thanks for stopping by!

"Peak Focus for Complex Tasks, With Beta Isochronic Tones"

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"Peak Focus for Complex Tasks, 

 With Beta Isochronic Tones"

by Jason Lewis - Mind Amend

"This is a high-intensity audio brainwave entrainment session, using isochronic tones. Listen to this when you need a strong burst of intense focus to concentrate and study things like advanced mathematics, scientific formulas, financial analysis or any other complex mental activity. Listen to this track with your eyes open while doing the task/activity you want to focus on. Use this session in the morning, afternoon or early evening, to train your brain for better cognition, focus and thought processing. You can either sit somewhere quiet and comfortable with your eyes closed and give your brain a nice workout, or you can also listen to this while doing an activity that requires a boost in concentration.

Headphones are NOT REQUIRED for this video. Although headphones are not required you may find they produce a more intense effect, because they help to block out distracting external sounds.

Isochronic tones are a fast and effective audio-based way to stimulate your brain. Among many of the benefits, they can help improve focus, relaxation, energy levels, sleep and more, without taking drugs or needing any special equipment. What isochronic tones essentially do is guide your dominant brainwave activity to a different frequency while you are listening to them, allowing you to influence and change your mental state and how you feel."

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"Isochronic Tones –

How They Work, the Benefits and the Research"

This is a brainwave entrainment audio session using isochronic tones combined with music. The isochronic tones are the repetitive beats you can hear on top of the music throughout the track. If you are new to this type of audio brainwave entrainment, find out how isochronic tones work and how they compare to binaural beats here: 

- https://www.mindamend.com

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Deputy Wendell: "It's a mess, ain't it Sheriff?"

Sheriff Ed Tom Bell: "Well, if it ain't, it'll do till the mess gets here."

- "No Country For Old Men"

Listen folks, we're out of time, and the mess is here. Whether you want to know it or not we're literally in the fight of our lives, for our lives right now, and it's going to get much, much worse. Some of you reading this will not survive, and I may not either, so I'll take any edge I can get, and you should too... This works for me. Be aware, stay informed, and stay strong. Prepare yourself, brace for impact...

- CP