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Friday, January 30, 2026

Jim Kunstler, "Now You Will Know"

"Now You Will Know"
by Jim Kunstler

“The ICE derangement syndrome is off the charts because we are amidst a pandemic of progressive leftist mental illness, which is an extremely disproportionately female problem.” 
- JD Haltigan on "X"

"It has come into focus now and you no longer need to be perplexed, mystified, bewildered, or bamboozled by events unspooling in Minneapolis and other hotspots of Woke-Marxist-Jacobin delirium. You are seeing the infernal machine of a sponsored revolution. Its parts are visible. They can be named and clearly understood. I will tell you how this works.

You realize, of course, that there has been an ongoing effort by players outside the USA to destroy Western Civ. This is too obvious to be denied. It is coming from several different places. First, China, because China has sprung from a sink of immiseration to become an industrial behemoth in a mere forty years and sees itself as the next global hegemon. Neville Roy Singham, the wealthy American ex-pat living in Shanghai, exposed all over the Internet this past week, is fronting for the CCP with his web of NGOs that just now underwrite the Lefty-left rage-riots around our country, surely subsidized with extra money from his China handlers.

China sent countless thousands of its soldiers surreptitiously across the border during the “Joe Biden” years along with the UN’s millions-footed riffraff. They have yet to be activated, shall we say, in whatever mischief China has planned. That’s on top of all the college students China has seeded all over the US, and the babies hatched here, given US passports, and withdrawn back to China. It’s simple: they want North America and they have a long game-plan to get it. Resources. Food.

Then there’s the Globalist cabal made up of the WEF megalomaniacs, the buffoonish but sinister EU bureaucracy, and - surprise - the sticky residue of the British Empire’s managerial class, believe it or not. This cabal is George & Alex Soros’s platform for their Open Society and Atlantic Council shenanigans and all the NGOs they spawn. Altogether, the WEF-Globalist’s mojo is fading fast since Mr. Trump went to Davos this month and tossed a few grenades into the audience. Plus, of course, Germany, France, and the UK are going dark, both energy-wise and demographically. Doesn’t help.

Then there is less-well-known São Paulo Forum, founded in 1990 by Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, Brazil’s president today, back then a mere activist, and the late Fidel Castro. This outfit lurked in the deep background until recently when Mr. Trump plucked one of its components off the game-board: Nicolás Maduro in Venezuela. The São Paulo Forum created the permission structure for the Western Hemisphere’s drug and trafficking cartels to thrive in. Both enterprises do immense harm to the USA, first with fentanyl deaths and then with all the second-order effects of illegal immigration - especially of criminals and the insane. It’s all too obvious to belabor.

Who is not in the Destroy Western Civ mix? Another surprise: Russia - apart from the usual boilerplate security apparatus that any major nation must maintain. In case you missed it, Russia is no longer communist. Didn’t work out for them. No, this will probably shock you, but Russia is actually doing what it can to preserve Western Civ, including Christianity, literature, music, philosophy, and domestic civility. They’re in Ukraine because of “Joe Biden.” Here is not the place to adumbrate that topic, so I will leave it for now.

Okay, those are the players outside the USA fomenting revolution among us. The picture, though, is woefully incomplete without America’s Democratic Party, which activates and amplifies the dynamic inside the USA. The Democrats are hostages of the outside forces, but they are not innocent hostages. They are hostage also to their own demonic greed - for power and riches. The Democratic Party has engineered itself into a colossal racketeering operation, a criminal organization, a mafia.

This is now seen garishly in Minnesota, where immigrants - both illegal and strategically placed earlier by Obama & Company - are lately revealed to run a fabulous matrix of fraud around various social services, extracting billions from US taxpayers in the process. This is accomplished with fake companies and NGOs which distribute the loot between the immigrant grifters, the politicians such as Governor Tim Walz, Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey, and finally the Democratic Party apparatus itself, to keep operations going. The mechanism is being studied in the US Department of Justice.

Mass illegal immigration serves two clear purposes for the party. They use it to boost census numbers so they can create more congressional districts and takeover existing ones. Also, the illegals are marshaled to provide votes for the party, one way or another. The millions let in under “Joe Biden” received lavish gifts on entry (courtesy of you) to cement their allegiance to the party. And that’s why the Democratic Party will do just about anything to prevent the deportation of their pet illegal immigrants. Also why the Dems have no interest in election reform.

And it is exactly why they have ignited an hysteria among the Democratic Party rank-and-file and sent them out into the streets to create chaos and become martyrs. Now, curiously, the women of the Democratic Party were pre-disposed for this madness by a half century of feminism which has managed to evolve - as JD Haltigan describes so well - into a florid Cluster-B group personality derangement. (Psychologist Gad Saad calls it “suicidal empathy.”) To put it bluntly, their desperate yearning to agree with each other and their maternal instincts to care for anything deemed needy (a baby, the homeless, any victim of something), these hard-wired states-of-mind have been hijacked to now send them into a rage delirium on the frozen streets of Minneapolis (and elsewhere). All that emotional distress is wrapped in a thin tissue of Marxist bullshit to make it appear political, but it’s all ragged emotion. Sometimes in history populations go crazy. Libs of TikTok@libsoftiktok Minnesota woman has a COMPLETE MELTDOWN while driving, screaming and crying over ICE operations. The ICE derangement syndrome is off the charts.

And so, American women - and not a few mentally feminized men - have become the foot-soldiers of the Democratic Party in its increasingly desperate campaign to keep its criminal rackets going - or, at least, not end up in prison over them - while the party has become the collective “useful idiot” of the Globalist/Marxist forces seeking to destroy Western Civ and hand North America over to China.

It’s reasonable to suppose that President Trump and his people understand how this works and aim to do what they can to disassemble the infernal machine behind it. They are going after the money supply lines, the many NGOs involved, and very probably a whole lot of politicians in on the grift. The winter uproar in Minneapolis that cost the lives of two feckless insurgents exposed the machinery of sedition. The Insurrection Act might have been in the president’s back pocket, but he knew it would be foolish to use it. The Dems might be a little concerned about what comes next. Hint: DNI Tulsi Gabbard showing up yesterday with the FBI at the Fulton County, GA, election storage warehouse to collect 700 boxes of documents and ballots.

One final angle on all this. There’s another player in the mix, and it’s really hard to tell exactly where they stand: that’s the so-called Deep State generally and its main handyman, the CIA, in particular. They have been behind all the “color revolution” action abroad for decades, and perhaps the election fraud in the USA. They appear to have been operating to some degree in Venezuela through all the years of Hugo Chavez and Maduro, with some nefarious involvement in the cartels. And no question they were behind the long-running coup in all its parts to defame, oust, jail, impoverish, defeat, and kill Mr. Trump since 2016. Their pals in the adjacent DC Lawfare industry are trying really hard to subvert and pervert the judicial system. CIA Director John Ratcliffe has some ‘splainin’ to do about what he managed to accomplish this year, cleaning up the agency. Or not."

Thursday, January 29, 2026

"Winter Storm Update - Huge Snow & Major Impacts Likely"

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Max Velocity - Severe Weather Center, 1/30/26
"Winter Storm Update - 
Huge Snow & Major Impacts Likely"
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USA Weather Pulse
"Monster Snowstorm Coming - 
80 City Brutal Blizzard Alert"
"This is absolutely INSANE folks! A MONSTER snowstorm is barreling toward us and 80 major cities across multiple states are now under BRUTAL blizzard alerts as this beast threatens to unleash some of the most extreme winter weather conditions we've seen in years! What makes this MONSTER snowstorm so incredibly dangerous is the combination of MASSIVE snowfall totals potentially exceeding 2-3 FEET in hardest hit areas, BRUTAL wind gusts reaching 60-70mph creating complete whiteout blizzard conditions, and life-threatening cold with wind chills plunging to -30°F to -40°F making any outdoor exposure extremely dangerous. The latest GFS, Euro, and NAM models are all locked in showing this MONSTER intensifying rapidly as it approaches, with the kind of setup that produces the legendary snowstorms people talk about for decades - we're talking about explosive cyclogenesis, perfect moisture convergence, Arctic air masses colliding with Gulf moisture, and a track that puts the bullseye directly over the most populated corridor in America. I'm breaking down all 80 cities under blizzard alerts showing you exactly what this MONSTER snowstorm means for YOUR specific location with detailed snow totals, wind forecasts, timing breakdowns, and emergency preparation guidance!"
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Adventures With Danno, "Do This Before It's Too Late"

Adventures With Danno, 1/29/26
"Do This Before It's Too Late"
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Musical Interlude: Deuter, "Endless Horizon"

Deuter, "Endless Horizon"

"A Look to the Heavens"

“Beautiful island universe M94 lies a mere 15 million light-years distant in the northern constellation of the hunting dogs, Canes Venatici. A popular target for astronomers, the brighter inner part of the face-on spiral galaxy is about 30,000 light-years across.
Traditionally, deep images have been interpreted as showing M94's inner spiral region surrounded by a faint, broad ring of stars. But a new multi-wavelength investigation has revealed previously undetected spiral arms sweeping across the outskirts of the galaxy's disk, an outer disk actively engaged in star formation. At optical wavelengths, M94's outer spiral arms are followed in this remarkable discovery image, processed to enhance the outer disk structure. Background galaxies are visible through the faint outer arms, while the three spiky foreground stars are in our own Milky Way galaxy.”

"Children Of Hope..."

"Children of Hope, to life we fondly cling,
Though woe on woe bitter hour may bring;
the spirit shrinks, and Nature dreads to brave,
The doubt, the gloom, the stillness of the grave.
But what is death? – a wing from earth to fee –
a bridge o’er time into eternity."

- Michelle, in “The Fear of Death Considered”

"In The End..."

"What we think, or what we know, or what we believe is, in the end,
of little consequence. The only consequence is what we do."
- John Ruskin

"Alert! WTF Just Happened? Panic Buying Starts Soon!"

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Prepper News, 1/29/26
"Alert! WTF Just Happened? Panic Buying Starts Soon!"
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"Grocery Prices Have Tripled! Americans Are Going Bankrupt To Afford Food"

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Epic Economist, 1/29/26
"Grocery Prices Have Tripled! 
Americans Are Going Bankrupt To Afford Food"

"Grocery prices have absolutely exploded over the past few years, and I'm seeing families struggle in ways that just break my heart. In today's video, we're looking at some really eye-opening TikToks that show just how bad this situation has gotten for everyday Americans. I came across this video of someone who pulled up their old Walmart order from just two years ago - 45 items that cost $126 back then. When they tried to reorder those exact same items today, the bill came out to over $400. Four times more expensive. For the exact same groceries. That's not inflation, that's something else entirely.

What really gets to me is seeing people have actual anxiety attacks at the grocery store because they don't know if their card is going to go through. One woman talked about needing therapy sessions after every grocery trip because of how stressful it's become. That's just not normal, and it shouldn't be something families have to deal with.

We're also seeing people resort to some pretty desperate measures. Did you know that over 25% of "buy now, pay later" purchases are now for groceries? People are literally financing their food just to make it through the week. And some of these loans have interest rates of 600% or more. That's predatory, and it's going to trap families in debt cycles that could take years to escape.

The most shocking thing I saw was grocery stores putting security tags on meat because theft has gotten so bad. When families can't afford to feed themselves, something is seriously broken in our system.

I want to hear from you guys - what are you seeing in your area? Have you noticed these crazy price increases? Are you having to shop at multiple stores or change what you buy just to make your budget work? Because honestly, I think we're all trying to figure this out together.

Some of you have been asking about tips for dealing with these prices, and while I don't have all the answers, I think sharing our experiences and strategies could really help each other out. Maybe we can start building a community where we look out for one another during these tough times. Let me know in the comments what your grocery bills look like compared to a few years ago. Are you spending twice as much? Three times? Four times? And what are you doing to cope with it all? Thanks for watching, and I hope you're all doing okay out there. These are challenging times, but we'll get through them together."
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"The Behavioral Sink: A Fable For Our Times"

"The Behavioral Sink: A Fable For Our Times"
by Hardscrabble Farmer

"Not long after the last of the last American soldiers returned home at the close of WWII, a little-known ethologist named John B. Calhoun set up a quarter acre pen somewhere on the outskirts of Rockville, Maryland and populated it with several dozen Norwegian rats. His experiment was meant to see just how large the population density would become if they were provided with adequate food, water, shelter and protection from predators so that all of their needs were met. Fellow researchers dubbed his experiment rat utopia and before long he had discovered the answer to his question.

When his research caught the eye of bureaucrats at the National Institute for Mental Health, they approached him with an offer of unlimited funding for another project along the same lines under stricter conditions than the bucolic environs of a pasture just north of Washington, D.C. By 1954 he had devised a complex interior setup for his rats to inhabit that divided the environment into four cells, each configured to provide a continuous supply of food, water and bedding with plenty of space for nests and open areas for social interaction. Into each of these he placed an equal number of both male and female rats and simply watched as they began to at first explore and then to colonize and dominate their surroundings.

There is very little material available about his research today, though at the time he was a media darling. During this period Americans had become concerned with the concept of overpopulation, due in large part to popular media and its constant focus on a “population bomb” that threatened to exhaust the Earth’s resources if something wasn’t done about it. As his research was just beginning to demonstrate the consequences of overpopulation the New York Times book review was pushing dystopian works such as "Stand on Zanzibar" and Paul Ehrlich’s "The Population Bomb."

Years before Mao began his enforced One Child Policy, American cosmopolitans were aggressively selling the concept of ZPG, or zero population growth in the pages of Time. Back in the government lab that housed the ever-growing population of rats, certain unpleasant realities were beginning to manifest themselves in the behavior of the colony. Calhoun was able to observe a recurring pattern, broken into four distinct phases that repeated itself each time he re-stocked his utopian environment; Exploration, Exploitation, Stagnation, and Death.

In the first phase the rodent experiment the numbers were such that the social order was rapidly established, hierarchies arose within days and the dominant males created harems of available females and guarded them against the lower ranking competitors. Feeding areas were designed so that no individual could eat alone but rather had to share communal trays. The choice nests were established at ground level while the lowest ranking members of the colony had to climb towers to their nesting spot.

With plenty of space and endless supplies with a small population resulted in a living space that was, as far as brown rats go, copacetic. During the exploitation phase two discernible differences arose- a rapidly growing population and an increasingly hostile environment. The dominant males controlled access to the quadrants where their harems lived while the lower ranking members turned to an endless cycle of violence towards each other as well as the younger generation of rapidly maturing rivals.

As the population grew to the point where no rat was able to find privacy, the third phase began in earnest. At this stage Calhoun observes that the rats have entered what he calls a behavioral sink, a situation where aberrant and destructive behavior becomes the norm and normal behavior is no longer possible. For example, the females abandoned their young, attacked them, or oddly enough, became sterile. Certain numbers of both male and female became- according to Calhoun- somnambulists.

They slept the majority of their lives emerging only to gorge themselves at the feeders while the rest of the colony slept, slowly becoming enormous and dying far earlier than the other rats. The subordinate males clustered together between the quadrants and controlled the access to food for the younger rats, violently attacking them and each other. They also turned into pansexuals, neither interested in mating but rather engaging in homosexuality and self-gratification in their nests for extended periods of time, often damaging and disfiguring their genitalia and pulling out their fur.

The remainder became probers, a constant source of irritation to the dominant males who used every available means to keep them away to the point of exhaustion and eventual submission to groups of predatory male rats who would kill them and raid their harems, killing the offspring and even the females. At the peak of the population which reached over 2,200 the entire colony entered the terminal phase and once reproduction ceased it was simply a matter of time until the natural cycle of rodent mortality ended the experiment yet again. Over and over for years until NIMH pulled the plug and ended its funding of Calhoun’s Mortality-Inhibiting Environment for Mice. Utopia, at least for rodents, remained elusive.

In the years following the release of his publication entitled "Population Density and Social Pathology" plenty of people jumped on the bandwagon and tried to turn the results into a commentary on modern urban living and overpopulation. Tom Wolfe’s final chapter of The "Pump House Gang" was originally a short essay entitled “Oh Rotten Gotham! Sliding Down Into the Behavioral Sink” followed by a novel, later turned into the children’s movie "The Secret of NIMH," by Robert O’Brien, a very dark and decidedly un-child friendly dystopian cartoon featuring scientists carrying out a rodent genocide. Calhoun continued on with his work, but never returned to the rats again, calling the outcome of his experiment ” a Malthusian dilemma born of a Utopian vision.”

One could reasonably conclude that all of those experiments done on the taxpayer’s dime so many years ago at the National Institute of Health would have made some kind of impression on the people who are paid to look at such outcomes. It could be safely assumed that they understand that by confining any living creatures in large numbers and in tight spaces, regardless of the necessities provided, would lead to certain consequences. Perhaps they have looked at the data and they do understand what occurs when a Utopian society is allowed to flourish and that is the endgame. But then we’re not brown rats."

The Daily "Near You?"

Napier, Hawke's Bay, New Zealand. Thanks for stopping by!

"In The Time Of Your Life..."

“In the time of your life, live - so that in that good time there shall be no ugliness or death for yourself or for any life your life touches. Seek goodness everywhere, and when it is found, bring it out of its hiding place and let it be free and unashamed.

Place in matter and in flesh the least of the values, for these are the things that hold death and must pass away. Discover in all things that which shines and is beyond corruption. Encourage virtue in whatever heart it may have been driven into secrecy and sorrow by the shame and terror of the world. Ignore the obvious, for it is unworthy of the clear eye and the kindly heart.

Be the inferior of no man, or of any men be superior. Remember that every man is a variation of yourself. No man's guilt is not yours, nor is any man's innocence a thing apart. Despise evil and ungodliness, but not men of ungodliness or evil. These, understand. Have no shame in being kindly and gentle but if the time comes in the time of your life to kill, kill and have no regret.

In the time of your life, live - so that in that wondrous time you shall not add to the misery and sorrow of the world, but shall smile to the infinite delight and mystery of it.”
- William Saroyan,
"The Time of Your Life" (1939)

"It Matters..."

The sons - in the dungeon - think they hear Henry approach to kill them.
Richard: "He's here! He'll get no satisfaction out of me!
 He isn't going to see me beg!"
Geoffrey: "Why, you chivalric fool - as if the way one fell down mattered!"
Richard: "When the fall is all there is, it matters.”

- James Goldman, "The Lion In Winter"

"What Not to Do When Your Husband or Wife Passes First"

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Elderly Wisdom Guide, 
"What Not to Do When Your Husband or Wife Passes First"

"Losing a spouse is one of the most painful and life-altering experiences anyone can face, especially after decades of shared memories, routines, and love. In this deeply personal and reflective story, an 83-year-old widower shares heartfelt lessons learned in the years following the loss of his beloved wife. This is more than just advice - it’s wisdom passed down through lived experience.

If your husband or wife has recently passed away, or if you’re preparing for what life might look like someday without your partner, this video will offer guidance, comfort, and clarity. These 5 things you should never do after your spouse passes are based on real emotions, real mistakes, and hard-earned insight from a man who has walked the lonely road of grief and found meaning again. Whether you’ve been married 10 years or 50, losing your life partner can feel like losing a part of yourself. But there is a way to move forward without forgetting them. This story is a soft-spoken, heartfelt reminder that even in the shadow of grief, life still has meaning, and you still have a place in it. This video is where elders share timeless truths, life stories, and emotional insights to help others navigate the second half of life with grace, purpose, and understanding."
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Rudi and Corlea, "Hoor Jy My Stem"
Haunting song by South Africans Rudi Claase and Corlea Botha,
 sung in Afrikaans with subtitles in English.
Losing someone we love, as we all have and will, made me think of this...

The Psyche, "Carl Jung: The Forbidden Law the Awakened Dare Not Break"

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The Psyche, "Carl Jung: 
The Forbidden Law the Awakened Dare Not Break"
"What if awakening wasn’t just insight - but responsibility? What if becoming conscious carried a hidden law that, once broken, slowly dissolves meaning, stability, and inner coherence? In this profound psychological and philosophical exploration inspired by Carl Jung, we uncover the forbidden law that governs awakening - a law that many seekers unknowingly violate. Jung warned that consciousness without integration is not enlightenment, but danger. And those who awaken without honoring this inner law often suffer not because life is cruel, but because the psyche demands balance. This is not a motivational video. It is a confrontation. A psychological initiation into what awakening truly demands. If you are drawn to Carl Jung, shadow work, individuation, and the deeper ethics of consciousness, this video will challenge how you understand growth, spirituality, and responsibility."
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"Time, Life, And The Roller Coaster"

"Life is truly a ride. We're all strapped in and no one can stop it. When the doctor slaps your behind, he's ripping your ticket and away you go. As you make each passage from youth to adulthood to maturity, sometimes you put your arms up and scream, sometimes you just hang on to that bar in front of you. But the ride is the thing. I think the most you can hope for at the end of life is that your hair's messed, you're out of breath, and you didn't throw up."
- Jerry Seinfeld
Remember when you were 10 years old, and summer felt like it lasted forever? Got a little older, not so bad, still plenty of time to do everything you wanted. Someone told me back then that time speeds up the older you get. Being young, and knowing everything as the young do, I of course ridiculed this idea. But guess what - it’s true. Now I view life, and time, as a roller coaster with just one enormous riser. Time is slower to pass at the beginning as you climb towards the top.  At 30 or so you’re at the very top, then you start the fall towards the bottom. Faster and faster you go, as time goes by ever quicker. Weeks and months flash by, and you wonder where it all went, and as you descend ever faster you suddenly realize that somewhere on the tracks below there’s a solid brick wall or some other disaster awaiting your arrival. The only things you don’t know is where on the tracks ahead of you it is, or how soon you'll arrive. So, while you still can, you'd better appreciate even more the things you can enjoy, and the people whom you love and that love you, because the ride isn’t going to last forever... - CP

Of course, sometimes Life feels like this...

"How It Really Is"

Bill Bonner, "Shots Fired"

"Shots Fired"
by Bill Bonner

Rancho Santana, Nicaragua - "Poor Donald Trump. His approval ratings keep falling. Yahoo!: "Trump’s approval rating on his favorite issue just dropped to a record low." And The Hill: "Trump approval among independent voters hits new low: Poll."

And now that his ICE agents shot dead Renee Good, he may have lost another supporter. USA Today: "President Donald Trump said he hopes the father of Renee Nicole Good, the woman who was shot and killed by an immigration officer in Minneapolis, is still a “Trump fan” after his daughter’s death."

Meanwhile...comes word from Baltimore. “It’s freezing cold. And there must be three inches of ice on the car.” We wonder how the weather affects Mr. Trump. It’s probably not just the Big Freeze that breeds discontent, but the fact that POTUS insists that we should thank him for the balmy weather!

Denying the evidence of our eyes and ears has not seemed to work in Minneapolis. Americans had come to expect certain standards of decency...or at least plausible hypocrisy...from their leaders. For example, they believed they could lawfully and peacefully carry firearms without being accused of terrorism (the 2nd Amendment). They thought they could make their opinions heard without being roughed up on the streets (the 1st Amendment). They didn’t think they needed to carry their birth certificates - their ‘papers’ - when they went to ‘Home Deport’ (the 4th amendment). And if they were picked up by the police, they thought they’d get a chance to confront their accuser and dispute the charges against them (the 5th and 14th amendments). It must have come as a shock to millions of voters that the rights they thought had been solemnly granted by the Constitution...and faithfully protected for more than 200 years...could be swept away without warning, debate, or vote.

But Mr. Trump says this is a ‘war’ and the Constitution doesn’t apply. Team Trump quickly branded the Minnesota Martyrs as ‘domestic terrorists.’ But everyone could see they were not what we think of as ‘terrorists.’

The Mirror: "Trump has ‘lost control’...as Minnesota ICE deaths spark MAGA revolt and White House chaos."

The poor old coot. He went all the way to Switzerland to deliver a rambling discourse that must have been almost incomprehensible to those whose native language was not New York-ese. Old. Tired. His ratings must have fallen minute by minute, like those of Joe Biden in his last debate with Trump.

And there’s an old rule in theater. When you bring a cannon onto the stage, sooner or later you’ve gotta fire it. Mr. Trump arrived with his heavy artillery - he was going to invade Greenland! - but then he turned around and took his cannon home with him. It made him look weak.. The poor old fellow. He went to all the trouble of taking out Maduro in Venezuela...and warning Vice President ‘Delcy’ in front of the whole world. The New York Post: "Trump threatens Venezuela’s new leader Delcy Rodriguez with a fate worse than Maduro if she doesn’t work with US." And now, bold as brass, ‘Delcy’ gives him the finger. The Hill: "Venezuela acting president says she’s had ‘enough’ of orders from Washington."

Poor Mr. Trump. His Trump Coin has lost 98% of its value. And even his wife’s hagiographic documentary, Melania, is said to be disappointing. Newsweek: Market researcher Boxoffice has projected it will gross between $1 and $2 million in opening weekend ticket sales. Both figures are well below the $40 million Amazon paid for the title.

Poor Mr. Trump. So eager to prove he is not the hopeless, low-IQ bumbler from Queens that he appears to be...so eager for the adulation of the sophisticated Manhattan crowd...so ready to throw his weight around to prove something. Even if they never admire him, at least they will learn to fear him. Right?

And then, there is the economy. But the anti-dollar, anti-bubble element, gold, is selling for $5,533 this morning. Poor Mr. Trump. More to come..."
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"Alan Shore Closing Argument
 On The Abuses Of Government"
"Epic closing argument from ABC's "Boston Legal" that illustrates the erosion of our Constitutional liberties and abusive government. This can no longer be defined as a Republican versus Democrat issue. Both parties are equally responsible, as are we, the electorate, for we continue to vote the same quality of politicians into office over and over."

"Bomb Cyclone Second Hit: Deadly Blizzard Targets East Coast as Arctic Freeze Spreads South"

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Whiteout Reports, 1/29/26
"Bomb Cyclone Second Hit: Deadly Blizzard
Targets East Coast as Arctic Freeze Spreads South"
"A dangerous second winter storm is rapidly taking shape - and this one may be even more severe than the first. Forecasters are tracking a fast-strengthening Miller Type-A coastal system that is expected to move directly up the East Coast, placing the I-95 corridor from Washington, DC to Boston in the highest risk zone. The storm is forming over the Gulf of Mexico and is forecast to undergo explosive intensification (bombogenesis) as it rides north along the Atlantic. This time, the storm has no escape route. A locked-in Greenland Block combined with an Omega blocking pattern is forcing the system to hug the coastline, dramatically increasing the threat of heavy snow, blizzard conditions, whiteouts, destructive winds, and extended power outages. With deep Arctic air already in place, snowfall rates could spike rapidly due to very high snow-to-liquid ratios."
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SON Street Food, 1/29/26
"Winter Chaos – 
106 Dead and 400,000 Without Power in US"
"Winter Storm Fern has left New York and much of the United States in chaos: at least dozens to over 100 people dead, more than 400,000 homes and businesses without power, and a new nor’easter threatening fresh blizzard conditions along the East Coast. In this breaking news report, we walk through how Fern formed, why New York and other major cities were hit so hard, and what the ongoing power outages and travel chaos mean for millions of Americans. You’ll see how historic snow totals, brutal cold and days-long blackouts combined to turn everyday life upside down, and why experts warn this “historic” winter storm may only be the beginning of a new era of extreme weather. If you lived through this storm in New York or anywhere in the US, your story matters."
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"Shutdown Confirmed: US Government Will Close Tomorrow"

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Snyder Reports, 1/29/26
"Shutdown Confirmed: 
US Government Will Close Tomorrow"
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"What Do You Call This Economy? The Collapse No One Will Admit"

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Dan, I Allegedly, 1/29/26
"What Do You Call This Economy? 
The Collapse No One Will Admit"
"The economy is collapsing, and today, I’m breaking down what’s really happening! From mass layoffs at UPS to skyrocketing real estate cancellations and shady practices in the housing market, we’re diving into the chaos around us. Did you know UPS is letting go of 30,000 workers after losing their Amazon deal? Or that Rocket Mortgage and Redfin are under fire for illegal kickbacks? It’s a wild time, and these are just the tip of the iceberg. Real estate contracts are being canceled at record rates, sellers are outnumbering buyers, and housing prices are stagnant in a market that’s shifting rapidly. On top of that, AI layoffs, skyrocketing energy bills, and a shrinking restaurant industry are just a few signs of how tough things have become. People are working into their 80s just to survive, while others are trying to downsize to tiny homes that still cost a fortune".
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James R. Richards, 1/29/26
"California Loses Control As Walmart
 Shuts Down 250+ Stores Statewide"
"This video examines Walmart's decision to close more than 250 stores across California, affecting 38,000 employees and leaving over 140 communities without nearby grocery access. We analyze the wage legislation, regulatory compliance costs, and financial pressures that led to the closures. The video also explores the impact on workers like Maria Gonzalez and Robert Chen, declining tax revenues, and similar patterns emerging at Target, Kroger, and independent grocers throughout the state. This video is based on publicly available news reports and official statements."
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Adventures With Danno, "Jaw-Dropping Prices at Kroger"

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Adventures With Danno, 1/29/26
"Jaw-Dropping Prices at Kroger"
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Wednesday, January 28, 2026

Douglas Macgregor, "To All Americans - Prepare for Armageddon!"

Douglas Macgregor, 1/28/26
"To All Americans - Prepare for Armageddon!"
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"Heavy Snowstorm Shifts - 80 Cities Detailed Forecast"

USA Weather Pulse, 1/28/26, 4 PM EST
"Heavy Snowstorm Shifts - 
80 Cities Detailed Forecast"
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Adventures With Danno, "Winter Storm Fern: Prepare For The Unexpected"

Adventures With Danno, 1/28/26
"Winter Storm Fern:
 Prepare For The Unexpected"
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"Historic Record Retail Collapse is Underway"

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Michael Bordenaro, 1/28/26
"Historic Record Retail Collapse is Underway"
"2025 marks the year when we saw more store closures in United States than ever before at 8234 stores permanently closed. The only retailers who are doing well right now are the ones who are catering towards customers looking to stretch their dollar the furthest. Companies like Walmart, Dollar General, Goodwill are all thriving in this high inflation environment."
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Snyder Reports, 1/28/26
"2026 Layoff Wave Is Coming - Millions of Jobs at Risk"
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Joel Bowman, "The Truth About Politics"

"The Truth About Politics"
by Joel Bowman

“The final cause of all great revolutions, which lies deeper than 
their effective cause, is not the accretion of intolerable conditions, 
but the loss of cohesion that bolstered the society’s artificial peace of mind.”
~ Robert Musil, "The Man Without Qualities", Volume I (1930)

Buenos Aires, Argentina - "Like rights, disasters and Hollywood faces, truth, too, generally falls into one of two broad categories: natural... and man-made. One is objective... the other subjective. One subject to reason... the other reasonably suspect. One illuminates... while the other obfuscates.Today, we focus on the latter...

Consider the following headlines, fresh off the popular presses, covering the very same event:
From CNN: "Protesters clash with federal agents outside Minneapolis hotel."
From Fox News: "Anti-ICE agitators arrested outside Minnesota hotel as police declare unlawful assembly: ‘No longer peaceful’."
And, just for fun, one from The Guardian: "‘What they’re doing is the worst of humanity’: Sundance festival stars back anti-ICE protest."

What’s the real deal? What’s “fake news”? Whose account are we to believe, if any at all? Is the truth “out there”? Is it discoverable? Will we ever really know, one way or another?

Truth and Beauty: One thing seems certain: in the age of Artificial Intelligence and human stoopidity, fact is becoming increasingly hard to discern from fiction. And to some extent, this has probably always been true. A lot depends on where you look. For some folks, truth is to be found in revelation: “I am the way, the truth, and the life,” as the Nazarene preached unto his followers. Others find it in art, such as Keats revealed in his "Ode to a Grecian Urn":

“Beauty is truth, truth beauty, - that is all
Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.”

While still others follow it through the winding halls of philosophy, from Aristotle’s truth through logic to Locke’s truth through experience, Kant’s truth through interaction of mind and world to Hegel’s truth through dialectical process, and so on and so forth, all down the line...

But of all the myriad ways to get at “what’s real,” only an imbecile looks for “truth in politics”... and only a crackpot finds it. What matters in the shabby world of government bureaus and meddling politicians is not so much truth, per se, but the direction of those who truly believe they’ve discovered it. This group, a familiar mob on history’s stage, includes the deranged and the deluded, the crazed and the credulous and, naturally, the demagogues and ideologues leading all the bleating lambs to slaughter. And this is one reason, as we’ve noted many times before in these pages, that when it comes to being into politics, we’re mostly into being out of them.

It’s not that the subject itself is without its charm, its gauche entertainment value... or that the rogue’s gallery is without its cast of colorful villains... or that there is nothing to learn, even if only by way of cautionary tale... Politics is all that... and less!

A “strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles,” as Ambrose Bierce had it. “The last refuge of the unrefined,” agreed Oscar Wilde. As a lens through which to comprehend truth... to understand objective reality... this cracked glass offers a warped world view, to say the least.

Consider the overt political framing of a few non-trivial events from the recent past... Did Covid-19 originate from a stray bat/pangolin at a Chinese wet market... or from a lab leak at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, the same institute that received sizable gain-of-function research funding from the NIH (through Ecohealth Alliance) under Dr. Fauci’s stewardship?

Did Vladimir Putin blow up his own, multi-billion dollar pipeline, Nord Stream II, as an act of self-sabotage... or did the US government (and its NATO allies) “take out” Russia’s critical infrastructure, like Victoria Nuland and Joe Biden promised to do, as when the former president said, in February 2022, “There will be no Nord Stream 2 — we will bring an end to it,” adding “I promise you we will be able to do it.”

Are we beyond the “climactic tipping point,” fast approaching the “age of boiling,” as prophesied by Al Gore, St. Greta, Tsar Kerry and the army of Just Stop Oil catastrophists... or have climate-related deaths continued to precipitously decline, as they have done now for centuries, thanks in no small part to fossil fuel-based industrialization and the vast technological innovation it has brought forth?
[NB: It is perhaps worth noting that the decline in climate-related deaths, shown above, occurred even as the global population over the last century has grown by almost 4.4 times, or roughly 340%, from ~1.8 billion in 1920 people to ~8 billion today.]

In each of the above cases... and too many more to mention... we, the public, were fed answers in the form of “scientific consensus,” “expert opinion” and “revealed truth.” To so much as question the prevailing narrative was tantamount to proclaiming oneself a Russian asset, to hating the environment or wishing grandma into an early grave.

For reasons that ought to be obvious, few people broach these “long-forgotten,” hot-button subjects nowadays, least of all those who once thundered their certainty through legacy media megaphones, and who have since wandered, mindlessly, toward the next cause du jour, paint-by-numbers protest placard firmly in hand.

As to the ongoing protests in Minneapolis, now spreading to capital cities around the United States, the question is not whether conflicting reports are crafted to bolster political narratives on both sides, but what the deeper trends churning beneath the surface, of which these violent outbreaks are likely symptomatic, portend for the future.

One wonders, are we standing on the precipice of a great revolution? Are we, as Robert Musil wrote in his epic work almost a century ago, witnessing “the loss of cohesion that bolstered society’s artificial peace of mind”? And if so… what comes next? To be continued..."

Musical Interlude: Josh Groban, "Remember When It Rained"

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Josh Groban, "Remember When It Rained"

"A Look to the Heavens"

“These bright rims and flowing shapes suggest to some melting ice cream on a cosmic scale. Looking toward the constellation Cassiopeia, the colorful (zoomable) skyscape features the swept back, comet-shaped clouds IC 59 (left) and IC 63. About 600 light-years distant, the clouds aren't actually melting, but they are slowly dissipating under the influence of ionizing ultraviolet radiation from hot,luminous star gamma Cas. 
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Gamma Cas is physically located only 3 to 4 light-years from the nebulae, just off the upper right edge of the frame. In fact, slightly closer to gamma Cas, IC 63 is dominated by red H-alpha light emitted as the ionized hydrogen atoms recombine with electrons. Farther from the star, IC 59 shows proportionally less H-alpha emission but more of the characteristic blue tint of dust reflected star light. The field of view spans about 1 degree or 10 light-years at the estimated distance of gamma Cas and friends.”

"Character..."

"Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. 
Only through experiences of trial and suffering can the soul be 
strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired and success achieved."
- Helen Keller

"The World Of Existence..."

“The world of existence is like unto an orchard and humanity is like unto the trees. All these trees are planted in the same orchard, reared through the heat of one sun, watered with one rain. We must be the cause of the adornment of this orchard. The world of humanity is like unto a rose garden and the various races, tongues and people are like unto contrasting flowers. The diversity of colors in a rose-garden adds to the charm and beauty of the scene as variety enhances unity. Why should we not look upon the human world with rose-colored vision?”
- Abdul Baha

"How To Deal With Loneliness"

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Young vs. Old, "How To Deal With Loneliness"
This is straight, no-sugarcoating perspective from someone who’s lived long enough to see what truly matters. Don’t spend years learning it the hard way. Take the lesson now, avoid the same mistakes, and make better choices while you still can. If you would like to share your own story for others to learn from you can submit it here: https://forms.gle/tFVSkLtPXvR6F8Wg8
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The Poet: David Whyte, "The Opening of Eyes"

"The Opening of Eyes"

"That day I saw beneath dark clouds
The passing light over the water,
And I heard the voice of the world speak out.
I knew then as I have before,
Life is no passing memory of what has been,
Nor the remaining pages of a great book
Waiting to be read.
It is the opening of eyes long closed.
It is the vision of far off things,
Seen for the silence they hold.
It is the heart after years of secret conversing
Speaking out loud in the clear air.
It is Moses in the desert fallen to his knees
Before the lit bush.
It is the man throwing away his shoes
As if to enter heaven and finding himself astonished,
Opened at last,
Fallen in love
With Solid Ground."

~ David Whyte

The Daily "Near You?"

Ardmore, Oklahoma, USA. Thanks for stopping by!

"Perhaps It's Just As Well..."

“It’s extraordinary how we go through life with eyes half shut, with dull ears, with dormant thoughts. Perhaps it’s just as well; and it may be that it is this very dullness that makes life to the incalculable majority so supportable and so welcome.”
– Joseph Conrad, “Lord Jim”

"15 Great Depression Foods We Will All Be Eating Again Soon"

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"15 Great Depression Foods 
We Will All Be Eating Again Soon"
By Epic Economist

"The reality of millions drastically changed after the 1929 stock market crash. All of a sudden, affluent Americans lost everything, middle-class families became poor, and poor households fell into misery. For over a decade, our citizens struggled to make ends meet and many of them didn’t have enough to eat.

Parents would skip meals to feed their children as they were forced to survive on next to nothing. Bread lines extended for miles, and food insecurity became an epidemic. Fast forward to today, and we have what experts call the biggest stock market bubble in history just ready to burst. Even though we have learned a lot since the 1930s, our leaders continued to make the same mistakes. And now more than ever, it’s looking like history is about to repeat itself. The question is: when everything collapses will you be prepared?

According to a very detailed article published on Ask A Prepper by Katherine Paterson, for us to be truly ready for the challenges that are coming for us, we will all need to get creative with our meals. To understand how Americans survived the dark times of the Great Depression, we need to understand how to make our resources last. Back then, essentials including meat, eggs, and milk were in extremely short supply, and people often had to make a little go a long way, as explained by Paterson.

We are already seeing the same shortages happening today. And it’s just a matter of time before another financial disaster throws our economy into disarray. With a little bit of preparation, you won’t have to panic when staples start disappearing from store shelves if you know how to adapt. You don’t need many different ingredients, and you definitely don’t need expensive foods to cook delicious dishes.

Culinary is something very important for our culture. It was through such hearty meals that people had the drive to keep fighting to get out of such challenging situations. Food connects us and gives us a sense of purpose and identity. That’s why it is so crucial to make preparations for when the essentials we rely upon aren’t available anymore. The warning signs of an impending financial and economic meltdown are everywhere. And once it happens, vulnerable supply chains can be broken in a snap of fingers.

Our leaders may have made the same wrongful decisions that put us where our grandparents and great-grandparents were almost a century ago. But that doesn’t mean we can’t make more conscious choices this time around. So get ready now while we’re still experiencing the calm before the storm, because when it starts to spiral out of control, it may be too late. That’s why in today’s video, we listed some very popular meals that previous generations used to eat during that era because those recipes may soon become handy for all of us as well."

"Insects Are Vanishing From the Earth - Why Some Doctors Are Terrified" (Excerpt)

"Insects Are Vanishing From the Earth - 
Why Some Doctors Are Terrified"
by Dr. Joseph Varon

Excerpt: "Insects are vanishing across the globe, and their disappearance is a clear signal of environmental harm. Yet medicine and public health officials continue to treat the environment as separate from human health. When the smallest, most sensitive forms of life can no longer survive, people should pay attention.

Insects are disappearing across vast regions globally. This is not a modest decline or a simple geographic shift, but a rapid vanishing of beetles, butterflies, moths, flies, mosquitoes, bees, and entire functional groups. This phenomenon is not speculative or anecdotal; it is among the most consistently documented biological trends of the past 50 years and remains insufficiently addressed. For context, the total biomass of lost insects is comparable to the combined weight of all commercial aircraft worldwide, representing a profound ecological and economic loss.

For decades, insects were treated as background noise - annoyances at best, pests at worst. Their abundance was assumed, their resilience taken for granted. We designed agricultural systems, urban environments, chemical interventions, and technological solutions on the unspoken assumption that insects would always be there. They were too numerous to fail. This assumption has proven incorrect.

The Data Are Not Subtle: One of the most widely cited early warnings came from a long-term German entomological study that tracked flying insect biomass across protected areas over nearly three decades. The result shocked even the investigators: a decline of more than 75% in total flying insect biomass between 1989 and 2016.¹ These were not industrial zones or pesticide-saturated fields. They were nature preserves. However, many regions like Africa and large parts of Asia still lack comprehensive, long-term insect monitoring, leaving significant gaps in our understanding of global insect declines.

Subsequent studies confirmed that this was not an anomaly. A global review published in Biological Conservation concluded that approximately 40% of insect species are threatened with extinction, with declines accelerating in recent decades.² Longitudinal data from the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Puerto Rico, North America, and East Asia tell the same story with local variation but consistent direction.³-⁶

The loss is not limited to rare or specialized species. Common insects - the ones that once filled the air - are disappearing fastest. Entomologists now openly discuss “functional extinction,” a state in which species technically still exist but no longer play their ecological roles in meaningful numbers.⁷ The significance of this issue is often underestimated.

Insects Are Not Optional: Insects occupy a central role in terrestrial and freshwater ecosystems. They pollinate plants, recycle nutrients, regulate microbial populations, control pest species, and serve as the primary food source for numerous birds, amphibians, reptiles, and fish. Rather than being peripheral, insects form the structural foundation of these systems. The loss of these foundational species could result in the disappearance of familiar foods such as coffee, chocolate, apples, and almonds, directly impacting daily nutrition.

Approximately three-quarters of global crop species rely at least partially on animal pollination, predominantly by insects. The economic value of insect pollination alone is estimated in the hundreds of billions of dollars annually. But focusing on economics understates the issue. Without insects, food systems collapse not just quantitatively, but qualitatively. Nutrient diversity declines. Resilience vanishes. Dependency on industrial inputs increases. A study published in PLoS One found that the decline in insect pollinators could lead to a reduction in the concentrations of key vitamins such as vitamin A and folate worldwide, amounting to a 40% decrease in nutrient density in certain crops. Ecological systems tend to fail abruptly rather than gradually once critical thresholds are exceeded.

The Windshield Phenomenon Was a Warning We Dismissed: Long before peer-reviewed journals quantified insect loss, ordinary people noticed something odd: windshields stayed clean. Anyone who drove regularly in the 1970s or 1980s remembers scraping insects off headlights and bumpers after short trips. That experience is now rare enough that younger generations often find it hard to believe. The so-called “windshield phenomenon” was not merely a matter of nostalgia; it represented an informal yet consistent observational indicator of declining insect abundance.¹⁰ When millions independently notice the same biological absence, the observation warrants scientific attention. Nevertheless, it was often dismissed as anecdotal, unscientific, or irrelevant.

In medical education, trainees are instructed not to disregard patient-reported symptoms solely due to challenges in quantification. In ecological science, however, similar observational evidence was often disregarded.

Mosquitoes, Misunderstood, and Essential: Few insects are more universally despised than mosquitoes. Their role as vectors of infectious disease makes them easy targets for eradication campaigns, and their decline is often celebrated. But ecosystems do not allow selective deletions without consequences. Mosquito larvae are a primary food source for fish and amphibians. Adult mosquitoes feed birds, bats, reptiles, and other insects. Their disappearance reverberates through food webs in ways that are poorly modeled and rarely discussed.¹¹

The belief that undesirable species can be selectively removed while maintaining ecosystem stability reflects a mechanistic misconception, similar to the outdated medical notion that symptom suppression equates to disease resolution. Natural systems do not benefit from simplification; rather, they are adversely affected by it."
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About the author: Dr. Joseph Varon is a critical care physician, professor and president of the Independent Medical Alliance. He has authored over 980 peer-reviewed publications and serves as editor-in-chief of the Journal of Independent Medicine.
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