“The life you have left is a gift. Cherish it.
Enjoy it now, to the fullest. Do what matters, now.”
~ Leo Babauta
So, we rise from the rubble...
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Monday, June 29, 2026
“You Want Rights? Well, Sunshine… Here’s What You’re Missing”
“You Want Rights? Well, Sunshine…
Here’s What You’re Missing”
So Many Rights, So Little Understanding
by Chris
“Sometimes when I sit down to share my thoughts with you I know I’m going to piss off a bunch of people. Today is one of those days. So if you’re bitterly hostile, suffer from low self esteem, have nihilistic tendencies, and offer to the world a bag full of self contempt and not much else, then you need to read on. You’ll hate me for it but really… this is for you!
You’ve been fighting for all sorts of “rights” and sadly society is actually taking you seriously rather than treating you as they should, which is to say one with a mental illness. Instead, here we find ourselves in an environment where criminals are and will be made out of perfectly decent, honorable, good people.
For example, if you don’t get “affirmative consent” before getting jiggity with a partner, it’s considered rape on some university campuses. And the same goes if your partner has been drinking. By this criteria most every male in the world is a rapist, myself included. When you’re “in the moment”, nobody’s stopping, saying, “Hey, hang on a moment, sweetheart. Please, can you provide me with your affirmative consent to ravage you?” What the hell? And if you and your partner had a glass of wine beforehand, you’re definitely a rapist.
Islamophobia is another. Listen, I could care less about your religious affiliation or lack thereof. If you’re not fearful of an ideological belief which champions ending your life if you’re not going to follow the doctrine, then you’re an idiot, and so it’s only idiots that campaign against common sense rational prudence.
As I mentioned talking about the virtues of discrimination: Do you discriminate when you steer clear of a group of young men with an aggressive swagger walking at night? I sure hope so. This is not prejudice it’s bloody prudence. In a mad bid to prove “acceptance” and “tolerance” the West have gone entirely off the deep end ignoring and condoning comments and actions completely antithetical and incompatible with modern Western Civilization.
While we’re on the topic of insane political correctness we can’t leave out gender equality (a ludicrous term because, by our very nature, women and men are not equal). Our very unequal-ness is what allows us to interact on a mutual and agreeable basis. And yes, the liberation of and freedom of women is easily one of the most positive forces that any country could possibly move forward on. That doesn’t mean we’re equal. I sure as hell can’t give birth, and I’m nowhere near as organized as my wife, and studies have shown that women are unequivocally more organized while men for example are more industrious. It’s how we’re wired. Trying to make us the same is pathologically stupid.
The Washington Post ran an article on how you and I will become criminals by inadvertently calling a spade a spade… a woman and woman… and a man a man. You can be fined for not calling people “ze” or “hir,” if that’s the pronoun they demand that you use. In fact, apparently there are 56 pronouns now to be used including such beauties as “gender-fluid” and “two-spirit”. You can’t make this sh*t up!
Perhaps we should just keep safe and use “oy” for everyone. That ought to sort the problem out. As for myself, I think I’m going with “Milord”.
Look, I could care less if you’re a bloke who lopped your diddle off and now wants to be called Sally, but this shouldn’t govern society, for goodness sake. Freedom of expression is one thing but this incipient, creeping cancer (because that’s what it is) attempts to dictate what are trivialities and it’s dangerous. Very dangerous! It’s an ideology and ideologies are extremely dangerous.
The Flip Side to Rights… are responsibilities. The “right” to free healthcare entails someone to provide that healthcare. That’s a responsibility and it takes effort, capital, skill, intellect, and hard work.
The same is true of all rights, and I want to emphasize this with flushed cheeks, waving hands, and spittle. All rights are someone else’s responsibility. It can’t be any other way. Take away the responsibility and your “rights” are just words because they’re as useless as Mike Tyson in a spelling bee. I mean go into, say, Zimbabwe and legislate universal free healthcare. Well, since there’s nobody responsible that’ll actually make that happen, it’s a waste of time.
And here’s the problem that bleeding-heart liberals fail to understand. The West is educating and grooming generations of useless, bedwetting, irresponsible intellectually vapid children (because, despite their age, that’s what they are). And lacking from this tsunami of the cotton-wool-clad crowd is ANY responsibility. Try foist it on them and they screech “triggered” and retreat to a “safe space”.
So pray tell, what happens when a real crisis hits? When the sovereign debt bubble bursts and the socialist systems that have been built on this funding mechanism (sovereign debt markets) and which are completely expected to simply provide for these “children” rapidly run out of funding?
Try explaining to these “children” that a mere 1% rise in bond yields could trigger a bond crisis the likes of which we’ve never seen before in our lives. And try further explaining what this means to all their “rights…” and you may as well be talking to your dog because intellectual rigor is not something they’ve ever been exposed to. Instead, they’ve spent their lives ensuring they’re shielded from it. The inescapable logic that being “two-spirit” could (and will) be rapidly superseded by the need to fill one’s belly is indeed entirely missed.
What happens next? I’ll tell you what happens next. We’ve the most fertile grounds you could imagine for tyranny because you know what? There ain’t gonna be nobody strong enough to stop it happening. What’s a sane person to do? Probably best to simply position accordingly.”
“Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most
aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty.”
aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty.”
- Plato
"Planet Mind Control"
Full screen recommended.
Jason Christoff, "Planet Mind Control"
"I just was on a zoom call with Jason Christoff, the producer of this documentary. His presentation was outstanding and convincing. I don’t think any of this will be a surprise to TBPers. This method was laid out clearly by Edward Bernays in 1928, but the technology available to the overlords today makes mind control so much easier. Covid was the ultimate use of mind control to make people do as they were told." - Jim Quinn
The Poet: Jane Hirshfield, "The Task"
“The Task”
"It is a simple garment, this slipped-on world.
We wake into it daily - open eyes, braid hair -
a robe unfurled
in rose-silk flowering, then laid bare.
And yes, it is a simple enough task
we've taken on,
though also vast:
from dusk to dawn,
from dawn to dusk, to praise, and not
be blinded by the praising.
To lie like a cat in hot
sun, fur fully blazing,
and dream the mouse;
and to keep too the mouse's patient, waking watch
within the deep rooms of the house,
where the leaf-flocked
sunlight never reaches, but the earth still blooms.”
- Jane Hirshfield
"Perhaps..."
“How should we be able to forget those ancient myths that are at the beginning of all peoples, the myths about dragons that at the last moment turn into princesses; perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave. Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us. So you must not be frightened if a sadness rises up before you larger than any you have ever seen; if a restiveness, like light and cloud shadows, passes over your hands and over all you do. You must think that something is happening with you, that life has not forgotten you, that it holds you in its hand; it will not let you fall.”
- Rainer Maria Rilke
"A Friendship Measured in Sunsets"
Full screen recommended.
John AI Art,
"A Friendship Measured in Sunsets"
Native Elder, "How to Age Like a Warrior Instead of a Victim"
Full screen recommended.
Native Elder,
"How to Age Like a Warrior Instead of a Victim"
"A Good Song Still Fixes a Bad Day"
Full screen recommended.
"A Good Song Still Fixes a Bad Day"
"Some days knock you down… but a good song can still lift you back up. “A Good Song Still Fixes a Bad Day” is a heartfelt Delta King’s Blues tune about the healing power of music - when life gets heavy and the blues become the medicine. A warm, easy-flowing acoustic guitar sets the groove like an old friend pulling up a chair. The harmonica sings soft and soulful, carrying away the weight of a long, tired day. The rhythm stays slow and comforting, built for late nights, quiet rooms, and the moment when the music finally makes things feel alright again. This is blues about the cure inside the sound. For anyone who knows that sometimes one song is all it takes to turn the night around. Life gets rough… but the right song still knows how to mend it."
"How It Really Is"
Oh yeah, beyond words, any I know anyway...
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“When the world goes mad, one must accept madness as sanity;
since sanity is, in the last analysis, nothing but the
madness on which the whole world happens to agree.”
- George Bernard Shaw
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Full screen recommended.
Gary Jules, "Mad World"
"Something Is Deeply Broken In The American Economy... And It's Getting Worse"
Full screen recommended.
Epic Economist, 6/29/26
"Something Is Deeply Broken In
The American Economy... And It's Getting Worse"
"You're working harder than your parents ever did, making more money than you've ever made and somehow you're more broke than you've ever been. If that sounds familiar, you're not imagining it. And you're not alone. This is a compilation of everyday Americans saying out loud what millions are quietly living through. The college degree that was supposed to guarantee a good life, and the worker holding it who still can't afford groceries. The 29-year-old with a full-time job who had to move back in with his parents. The person 16 months into a job search with nothing but automated rejection emails. The renter paying application fee after application fee on apartments that were never going to approve them. It's the small things too, the fast food sandwich that's half the size and double the price, the $650 game console a working adult can barely justify, the coffee shop charging "market price" for a drink, the home repair where every single quote comes back over a thousand dollars.
And it's the big things: an entire middle class disappearing, teen jobs taken by desperate adults, and a tech giant admitting in writing that AI is why thousands of people just lost their careers. None of these people are exaggerating. They're describing the same economy from a dozen different angles, wages that don't move, prices that never stop, and a promise that quietly stopped being true. If you've felt it too, you're not crazy, and you're not alone. Millions are starting to say the same thing."
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"The Collapse of Complex Societies + Food Dump USA"
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Bright Videos News, June 29, 2026
"The Collapse of Complex Societies + Food Dump USA"
"America's Cost of Living Is Getting Completely Out of Control"
Full screen recommended.
The Unfolded States, 6/29/26
"America's Cost of Living Is
Getting Completely Out of Control"
"Why does life in America feel so much harder even when the economy looks strong on paper? In this video, we break down why millions of Americans, including many middle-class households and even six-figure earners, are feeling financially squeezed like never before. Rising housing costs, exploding insurance premiums, expensive healthcare, growing household debt, and shrinking purchasing power are creating a cost of living crisis that is becoming impossible to ignore. This analysis goes beyond headlines and viral anecdotes to explain the deeper mechanisms behind America’s affordability problem. We examine why salaries no longer provide the same financial security, why so many families are living paycheck to paycheck, and why the margin for error has become dangerously small. The bigger issue may not be inflation alone, but the fact that essential expenses now consume more of each paycheck, leaving less room for stability, savings, and long-term planning. If you live in the U.S., what expense has changed your life the most in the last few years: housing, groceries, healthcare, insurance, or debt? Share your experience in the comments."
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Dan, I Allegedly, "They're All Warning Us Now!"
Full screen recommended.
Dan, I Allegedly, 6/29/26
"They're All Warning Us Now!"
"Three of the world's most influential business leaders - Elon Musk, Tim Cook, and Mark Cuban - are sounding alarms about different parts of the economy, but their warnings point toward the same larger problem. From rising AI infrastructure costs and memory chip shortages to inflation, higher consumer prices, and the future of American jobs, these concerns could affect everything from the next iPhone to the cost of doing business and everyday living. In today's video, I break down what these warnings really mean, why technology costs could continue climbing, how AI is changing the workforce, and what it means for your finances, investments, and family budget. We'll also discuss inflation, consumer spending, business risks, and why protecting yourself financially has never been more important. As always, I appreciate your support of i Allegedly. Please share your thoughts in the comments and let me know how these changes are affecting you and your community."
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John Wilder, "Why We Can’t Do War Anymore"
"Why We Can’t Do War Anymore"
by John Wilder
“Get there first with the most men,” is a quote that is attributed to Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest. This was translated by the New York Times® in 1917 as “Git thar fustest with the most mostest” because, well, because of course they did. This reached its zenith during World War II. Defeating Germany and Japan wasn’t so much of a military operation but was rather an economic operation. It was the economy that could produce the mostest fustest.
One example is the aircraft carrier. The United States entered World War II with eight aircraft carriers, of which seven were “fleet carriers” and the other one was a small “escort” carrier. It ended with 28 fleet carriers, 9 light carriers, and over 70 escort carriers, making (best guess) 101 operational carriers on in August, 1945 when Japan surrendered after we dropped two portable stars on their island. This worked. We could afford to build the planes, atomic bombs, and the ships while still having enough money left over to afford to get a couple of nice ribeyes. We didn’t just outproduce the Axis, we outproduced them so thoroughly that by the end of the war we had more aircraft carriers than most countries have paved roads.
World War II and the following Cold War were economic wars. How much capital could the United States and the Soviet Union throw into weapons programs to get there fustest with the mostest? Well, trillions. Ultimately, the sheer cost of Soviet weapons programs combined with their crappy commie economy caused the whole thing to fall over.
The United States had perfected Modern Warfare, which was really just having the economy produce millions of tons of weapons that we hoped never to use, and occasionally smashing a country with a few missiles or invading Iraq and Afghanistan a couple of times. Our technology was amazing. Our previous capital investments allowed us to win any sort of World War II battle we might run into. You know, if Rommel and the Bockauge Korps appears from a parallel universe and decides to invade Ohio. Yay! I knew we could do it!
But things change, and technology changes. The biggest change to the world has been the cheap drone. It’s not cheap when the military does it, since the military procurement process makes things stupidly expensive. On Amazon®, there is a drone available that will carry a 30-kilogram payload. An M107 155mm projectile carries about 7kg of explosive. I have no idea what Comp B costs, but the drone is $15,000 retail, so a nation can buy those in bulk and air drop the equivalent of an M107 shell with ease and with precision for less than $20,000 a trip, and, say, less than $2,000 if you reuse the drone.
An M777 155mm howitzer costs over $4 million. To be fair, the Pentagon could turn that $15,000 drone into a $2million program if allowed to, complete with a 47 page PowerPoint© about diversity, equity, and inclusion plus the requirement that it have a non-gendered toilet. This is our military’s true superpower.
The capital model of build more stuff that gets there quickly that the Soviets Russians relied on when they invaded Ukraine broke down because it’s now changed. A $4million tank can be taken out easily by the cheap drone. In fact, I’d imagine you could get more than 300 of the drones for the price of one tank, and if you re-use them just twice, that’s 600 to 1200 shots perfectly on target, which isn’t warfare, it’s Prime Day© for explosions. Sure, they’ve had to move to fiber-optics because of jamming.
The bigger problem has been the cheap drone plane, which are currently chewing up Russian refineries. Both the Russians and the Ukrainians are using them to attack each other. They’re cost is somewhere between $10,000 to $40,000 per unit, as a guess. These are cheaply made fixed wing planes that carry 100-pound warheads. Who needs a bomber? Who needs a pilot? Now, for $40,000, one of these planes can easily cause $10,000,000 damage to an oil refinery.
Which brings us to the Strait of Hormuz. The initial attacks on the vessels shipping sweet, sweet oil out to the world was done using $200,000-ish anti-ship missiles. That’s expensive, so recently they’ve swapped out and are using Shahed® fixed-wing drones that the Russian fixed-wing drones are based on. Again, cost is probably about $10,000 to $40,000 per unit. The cost of the drones is probably about $750,000 to $5,000,000. Total.
And what did that cost the economies of the world? $1.5-$3 trillion. That’s a 300,000 to 1 return at the low end. The previous models required men to be moved, and the more of them the better, with more guns and banks and planes and bombs equaling victory. Victory was about who had the most capital, and who could bring the most people to the front and build the most bombers and have enough pilots to keep flying them.
In the new models, a base within missile or drone range isn’t an asset, it’s a target. The 11 supercarriers are now . . . targets. They are very large, very expensive targets that need to be kept so far from the actual fighting that they’re mostly useful for looking impressive in press releases and photo ops. At $13 billion a ship with 6,000 personnel on board, we’ve somehow created a weapon so valuable we can’t afford to use it. It’s less of a warship than a very large, very slow hostage with its own zip code.
The final result of the “war is a capital competition” has produced a hostage with a flight deck that needs to stay a continent away from the fight and replaced thousands of men and billions of dollars with a guy, a laptop, and decent wifi.
War in an interconnected world has ceased to look anything like war from 1943. Like in the book "Dune", the idea to war now is to deprive your enemy of something they can’t live without: “He who can destroy a thing, controls it.” The Strait of Hormuz proves this, but it’s not the only inflection point where physical resources or the world’s economy is constrained.
Taiwan, for instance, produces 65% of the world’s computer chips. Taiwan also produces more than 90% of the most advanced chips. China is vulnerable, too. The Strait of Malacca moves 80% of China’s oil. There are others. In a global, interconnected world getting there first with the most men is less important, or a navy that has to hide in a corner like my cat when I turn on the vacuum. Now, the key is having the fundamental ability to control something your enemy literally can’t live without. I’ll translate for the New York Times©: Take thet stauff they gots to hav."
Bill Bonner, "No Limits"
"No Limits"
by Bill Bonner
“Trump fundamentally changed how government works...
A future president should have no hesitation in doing the same.”
- a Liberal activist, quoted in "Perspectives"
Youghal, Ireland - "What is one to think? What to believe? How do these scattered dots join up? So many of them swirl about the person of Donald J. Trump that it is worth a quiet hour’s pondering on who the fellow truly is, what he is truly about, and what manner of wreckage he will leave behind him. Like Perón, like Mao, like every Big Man the centuries have belched up, Trump is not the sort to quit the stage leaving the scenery as he found it.
The Big Man himself has proclaimed that there are “no limits” upon his power, and he has spent a year and a half proving it. And now, "Perspective:" "He may have inadvertently sown the seeds of a new progressive age. The advocacy arms of the Roosevelt Institute, the Center for American Progress and other influential groups on the left are already assembling lists of ways a Democratic president could use the breath-taking executive power Trump has seized."
One thing is near to certain: were the Republicans to stand before the voters this very morning, they would be tossed out. They botched the spending cuts; botched the reciprocal tariffs; botched the assault on Iran. They botched the taming of inflation and lowering prices. They botched the “Golden Era” completely - GDP growth is now slower than under Biden, and the new jobs come slower too. Trump botched a plain and simple meeting with Meloni. He botched the refurbishment of the Reflecting Pool. And gasoline this morning still costs a full dollar more than it did when the year began.
Donald Trump has ever been the bull turned loose in the china shop - which is precisely the beast the voters ordered. “Move fast and break things” was his whole philosophy of statecraft. It kept the opposition forever off balance: no sooner had they puzzled out one outrage than he was on to the next.
But the way to measure of Trump is to look not at what people think he is doing, nor even upon what he fancies he is doing, but upon his Historical Role. History - or let us say the long, blind patterns of it - seems to have fetched him up for a single purpose: to whittle down the power of the American empire. That has been our working hypothesis these two years past, and it has held up remarkably well.
As History’s dupe, however, he has botched nothing whatever. And the one thing he has most emphatically not botched has gone all but unremarked. Every act of his astonishes, amuses, appalls, or enraptures some millions of his fellow men. The press and the whole guild of opinion-mongers fritter away their days guessing about what he will do next, and why, and to what dreadful end. He is the navel of the universe. They are bewitched by him. They scan his hands for the tremors of age, strain at his speech for the slur of senility, parse his small-hours postings for proof of madness. Will he strike Iran afresh? Will he sack Hegseth? How does he enrich himself on his own decrees?
It is all about him - every syllable of it. And the multitude supposes the pageant will reach its end in a few short years, whereupon Washington will slink back to its old normalcy. But thanks to Trump, the politicians of both factions have now tasted the heady, distilled liquor of unbounded power. Institutions that were once, more or less, independent have been harnessed set to do the chief executive’s work - to chastise his foes, to enact his whims without so much as a nod from Congress, or merely to fawn upon him in depraved adulation.
Questions of war and peace are settled in the small hours upon the president’s caprice. Journalists are tongue-lashed. Men are turned out of their jobs. Whole agencies are conjured into being, or abolished, with no permission asked of the legislature. People are killed. Or sprung from prison. Or herded up and shipped off. Negotiations of the great magnitude are handed to green and grinning cronies. One day we have a treaty; the next we are vowing to blow the country to kingdom come. USA Today reports: "Trump again threatens Iran with warning it will ‘no longer exist’."
Tensions in the Middle East continued to escalate on June 28, with Iran targeting U.S. military bases in Kuwait and Bahrain and renewed hostilities in the region entering a fourth straight day. The intensifying attacks further undermined the increasingly tenuous interim U.S.-Iran agreement to end the war.
American presidents have always enjoyed a certain freedom of action. But until Number 47 came along, they were reined in by the people around them, by custom, by principle, or by the Constitution. But Trump has stretched the fabric of executive power to the dimensions of his own appetite - and now Democrats and Republicans alike, each with one covetous eye upon the White House, are itching to see how the garment will look on them. They have not the faintest intention of folding it up and putting it in the closet. No - they will wear the gaudy purple every bit as fondly as Trump did. Likely more.
The Democrats, Dana Milbank reports, have already drawn up their wish-list for this plush new authority: state-run health care funded out of the federal till; government groceries, government banks, government apothecaries; the breaking of monopolies, the seizing of patents, the outright nationalizing of important companies - the AI houses above all; rent control from sea to sea, housing built by the feds, power cuts for the data centers, fresh taxes laid upon the rich, day-care, consumer protection cranked to a roar - and much, much more besides.
“No limits” was the cry of the MAGA faithful. They are apt to relish the no-limits White House rather less when it has passed into the hands of their enemies. But History’s work will go forward, undisturbed."
Jim Kunstler, "It's All They've Got Now"
"It's All They've Got Now"
by Jim Kunstler
"A punishing heat-dome creeps over the eastern half of the country just in time for the gala Fourth of July week. The days are brutal, but anything and everything crawls out of the woodwork when that blazing sun goes down and the moon comes out. Everyone’s on edge, but the edge of what? I will tell you.
First, could there be a richer (or more obvious) target for bloody mischief than this year’s national holiday, the 250th birthday of a nation that millions lucky enough to live here have been trained-up to hate on? Even the sons and daughters (including pretend “daughters”) of millionaires have gone mad-dog on America, the poster-boy being Marxist-jihadi New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, the Left’s new avatar-general.
Since no one is more hated than the, ahem, Celebrator-in-Chief, you might want to steer clear of conspicuous public celebrations this week. Antifa and even worse gangs are out there right now, making plans and laying traps. Maybe not so much in places like Texas, where eight Antifas were just sentenced collectively to 450 years in the slammer for shooting up the Prairieland ICE Detention Center in Alvarado. . . but here in the Empire State and other Blue-ish jurisdictions, all bets are off. Be careful ‘out there’ among the smokin’ ribs, the fireworks shows, and big music venues.
You can see how this summer, and the nauseating slide down to the midterm elections, are shaping up. The party of “Our Democracy” is desperate to an extreme now, all disfigured by a communist leprosy eating away at its public face (and a cancer of fraud metastasizing through its innards). It has become such an obvious monster, raging with its hair lit-up, that anyone with half a functioning brain is shying away, stealing off into the gloaming. The party has nothing left but chaos and, in the weeks ahead, anything that might be disrupted probably will be.
The objective is to create so much havoc and distress throughout the country - especially the big cities - that Mr. Trump will have to invoke the Insurrection Act, and by doing so, the Lefty-left hope to create conditions so adverse that an orderly Election Day cannot happen. The Insurrection Act would be the Left’s cue to declare Mr. Trump the very “king” whose coronation they have busily rehearsed all year, and then, voila, you get a new French-style American Revolution 2.0, complete with guillotine and transgender Jacobins turning the country upside-down.
You might consider the theory that the nation actually needs to suffer a genuine nightmare to wake up from. The Revolution 1.0 we celebrate this week was, after all, a nightmarish struggle rife with hardship and loss. Nine signers of the Declaration of Independence died from war-related tribulations. Five were imprisoned and tortured. Twelve had homes ransacked and burned. And then, of course, the military action itself, including travails such as the winter at Valley Forge, the disastrous New York Campaign, and the never-ending logistics crisis, no food, no clothing, no munitions.
In the present summer of travail we face, you can expect at least some major wake-up calls issued by the bloc in the country that has not gone insane - which happens to include many in Mr. Trump’s executive branch. I’m serenely confident that real evidence of 2020 election fraud will finally emerge, coincidental with indictments. Do you think that the Fulton County, GA, election records were seized last winter for no reason? Say goodbye to that old “baseless” talking point.
There are, of course, a whole lot of other seditious and treasonous Beltway villains nervously awaiting administration of the law. You know their names. It appears that the new supervising US Attorney in the Southern District of Florida, Joseph DiGenova, is reorganizing the so-called “grand conspiracy” case against this large cadre of coupsters into a folio of discrete cases - RussiaGate, Fake Impeachment #1, the Mar-a-Lago raid, etc. - to make them more manageable and move them more speedily forward. Don’t be surprised if one or more of these cases happens to drop before the midterms. (Democratic Party true-blue loyalists could be surprised, even shocked to their socks, since these indictments will refute everything that has become essential to their identities as the good and righteous people of this land.)
Just one more item for now in the wake-up folder, coming a little out of left-field: things are looking eerie in the region of the San Andreas fault that runs through California, and perhaps the Seattle fault as well. The earth’s geology even seems to be manifesting a degree of chaos. It’s been shaky along the Pacific Rim “Ring of Fire” for many months. Significant earthquakes have struck Japan (7.4 offshore Honshu/Miyako area), Indonesia (7.4 near Bitung), the Philippines, Tonga, Vanuatu, Chile, Papua New Guinea. The Venezuela “doublet” (June 24, Mag 7.2) occurred in a separate tectonic zone, but all zones are essentially connected by the movements of magma deep in the earth, solar activity (flares, etc), gravitational tidal forces, and so on.
On June 24, a Mag 5.6 shook Redwood Valley, in Mendocino California, a Mag 5.8 near Pistol River, Oregon, and a Mag 5.1 struck 40 miles west of Petrolia in Humboldt County, CA. The east side of the Pacific rim (America’s West Coast) has been unusually quiet for some years now. Be alert. Things seem to be livening-up. Just sayin’."
"Economic Market Snapshot 6/29/26"
"Economic Market Snapshot 6/29/26"
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Down the rabbit hole of psychopathic greed and insanity...
Only the consequences are real - to you!
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"It's a Big Club, and you ain't in it.
You and I are not in the Big Club."
- George Carlin
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Commentary, highly recommended:
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"The more I see of the monied classes,
the better I understand the guillotine."
- George Bernard Shaw
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Oh yeah... beyond words. Any I know anyway...
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And now... The End Game...
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Sunday, June 28, 2026
Jeremiah Babe, "Life Is Precious; Napa Valley Facing Oblivion"
Jeremiah Babe, 6/28/26
"Life Is Precious; Napa Valley Facing Oblivion"
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"America Is Already Dead Inside"
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Finance Economist, 6/28/26
"America Is Already Dead Inside"
"When was the last time you looked someone in the eye? Not glanced. Looked. If you can’t remember, you are the majority. Psychologists call what is happening to the American population a “meaning crisis” traditional sources of purpose, identity, and belonging have been eroded without replacement. Life expectancy is declining in the richest country on Earth. 264,000 Americans die of despair every year the 5th leading cause of death. 42% of teenagers meet the clinical threshold for depression. 165 million adults report loneliness equivalent to smoking 15 cigarettes a day. The country replaced God, community, and purpose with Amazon Prime, Netflix, and Pornhub. And life expectancy went down while convenience went up. Four industries spent billions engineering a population that cannot feel pleasure at normal intensity because numb people spend more. Your emptiness is their profit. Your numbness is their margin. 40% of managers got a new mental health diagnosis this year. 60% of doctors are burned out. 42% of pastors considered quitting. The rescuers are dead inside too. America didn’t die from the outside. It died at the kitchen table. Where two people used to talk. And now they scroll."
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"We Are Entering The Most Dangerous Chapter Of World War III That We Have Experienced So Far As The Agreement With Iran Collapses"
"We Are Entering The Most Dangerous Chapter Of World War III
That We Have Experienced So Far As The Agreement With Iran Collapses"
by Michael Snyder
"A lot of people out there still don’t realize that we are literally watching World War III play out right in front of our eyes. The war between Russia and Ukraine is already longer than World War I was, and every single ceasefire in the Middle East that has been agreed to since October 7th, 2023 has ultimately collapsed. Just a couple of weeks ago, the world was celebrating because the U.S. had signed a “Memorandum of Understanding” with Iran and we were being told that we were finally going to have permanent peace in the Middle East. So how did that work out? I feel like a broken record when I keep saying that there isn’t going to be peace in the Middle East, but it is the truth.
At the end of last week, the Iranians attacked a commercial vessel that was traveling through the Strait of Hormuz using a route that they did not authorize, and the U.S. responded by bombing several Iranian military targets. This is something that I covered in an article for my core supporters on Friday. Then on Saturday, the same cycle repeated again.
Iran attacked another commercial vessel that was attempting to slip through the Strait of Hormuz along an “unauthorized” route, and in response the U.S. conducted an even larger wave of strikes…U.S. Central Command said its forces had carried out the new strikes after a Panama-flagged tanker was attacked by an Iranian drone on Saturday. “Iran was given a chance to honor the ceasefire agreement but elected not to,” Central Command said in a statement. U.S. strikes were “in direct response to continued Iranian aggression against commercial shipping” and targeted Iranian military surveillance, communications, air defence, drone storage and mine-laying facilities, it said.
Following that wave of strikes, President Trump warned that there “may come a point” when the U.S. must hit Iran so hard that it “will no longer exist”… “United States aircraft just struck Iranian missile and drone storage locations, and coastal radar sites, for violating the Cease Fire Agreement, AGAIN!” Mr. Trump said in a Truth Social post. The president issued an aggressive threat in the post, saying it was possible Iran “may never learn.” “There may come a point when we are no longer able to be reasonable, and will be forced to militarily complete the job that we very successfully started,” the president said. “If that happens, the Islamic Republic of Iran will no longer exist!”
That is very strong language. Needless to say, conventional weapons would not be able to accomplish that goal. In response to the latest wave of U.S. strikes, the IRGC launched missiles and drones at U.S. facilities in Kuwait and Bahrain… Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps said in a statement its navy and air forces had launched missile and drone operations targeting U.S. military sites in Kuwait and Bahrain. The Guards said U.S. strikes had violated the ceasefire and “will result in the complete halt of all diplomatic processes”, state-run Press TV said. The IRGC navy command said American bases in the region “will experience hell in the coming days”. Most of the missiles and drones were intercepted, but significant damage was done to a residential building in Bahrain.
This is not what a ceasefire is supposed to look like. I know that there was so much hope that the negotiations which were initiated once the Memorandum of Understanding was signed would finally resolve the central issues that the U.S. and Iran have been fighting about, but those negotiations have now been put on hold…Talks to end the U.S. war with Iran are on hold after the U.S. struck Iranian military targets in retaliation for Tehran’s latest strikes on shipping vessels in the Strait of Hormuz. A Pakistani source involved in the negotiations to settle the conflict between the U.S. and Iran told MS NOW that while the talks are now on hold, all sides are maintaining representatives in Switzerland to restart discussions when given the go-ahead. The source did not make clear to MS NOW which side decided to pause negotiations.
Sadly, the reality of the matter is that these negotiations were doomed anyway. Iran is never going to make the nuclear concessions that the Trump administration is seeking. And Iran is never going to agree to allow commercial traffic to flow freely through the Strait of Hormuz the way that it did before the war…
The Iranian parliament’s national security committee spokesperson on Sunday said the Strait of Hormuz would not return to its pre-war state and that other countries would have no choice but to comply with Iran’s orders in the waterway. “We firmly support the action of the ever-victorious Guards in a crushing confrontation with the American enemy and in asserting Iranian sovereignty over the Strait of Hormuz,” Ebrahim Rezaei wrote on X. “The Strait of Hormuz will not return to its previous state, and others have no choice but to comply with Iran’s orders in the strait.”
The crisis in the Middle East is not going to have a happy ending. I believe that we will witness some absolutely shocking escalations in the months ahead, and there are some Iranians that are convinced that now is the time to greatly accelerate their nuclear program…
Iran has “no choice” but to develop a nuclear bomb, a media outlet linked to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps said - the latest threat to the peace deal. The article, titled “No choice but to build the atomic bomb,” claims that Iran must negotiate with its enemies from a position of strength, and was published by Iranian state news outlet Fars on Sunday. “To achieve the peace and calm that Iran needs, it must absolutely reach nuclear deterrence to ensure that the rest of the issues can be resolved through negotiation,” thunders the piece, before comparing Iran’s situation with the US to that of China in the 1970s.
Of course the Iranians are also furious about the fighting that has been going on in Lebanon. The latest ceasefire with Hezbollah has already collapsed, and the IDF conducted even more strikes in Lebanon on Sunday…Israel renewed its strikes on Lebanon on Sunday, Lebanese state media reported, two days after an agreement was signed by the two countries, which a Hezbollah lawmaker warned would lead to “internal conflict”. The strikes come a day after one person was killed in an Israeli strike on the south, according to Lebanon’s health ministry, with the Israeli military saying it targeted Hezbollah members near its self-proclaimed “security zone”, which reaches 10 kilometres (6 miles) into Lebanon. Lebanon’s state-run National News Agency reported several strikes on Sunday. There will never be permanent peace between Israel and Hezbollah. Anyone that believes otherwise is just being delusional.
Meanwhile, the war in Ukraine just continues to intensify. In recent days, the Ukrainians have been conducting a series of stunning long-range attacks deep inside Russian territory… Ukraine kept up its heavy drone assault on Russia, setting fire to a major oil refinery in the south and killing at least two people, Russian authorities said Sunday, as President Vladimir Putin acknowledged his country is going through a “difficult period.”
Ukraine has markedly stepped up its long-range attacks on Russian military industries and energy facilities in recent months, aiming to cut Moscow’s revenue for its invasion - now in its fifth year - and make Russians feel the consequences. Russian leaders are running out of patience, and it would not surprise me at all if they decide to use tactical nukes at some point. But for now, they continue to absolutely pummel Ukrainian cities with conventional weapons…
President Volodymyr Zelensky stated on Saturday, June 27, that Russian forces deployed approximately 1,400 attack drones, 1,500 guided aerial bombs, and 19 missiles of various types, including ballistic missiles, against Ukraine over the past week. In a statement published on Telegram, Zelensky noted that 15 Ukrainian regions were subjected to Russian attacks during the seven-day period. He highlighted that the cities of Kherson, Zaporizhzhia, Kharkiv, and Sumy faced near-daily bombardment.
No matter how much the politicians have talked about peace, nothing has been able to stop the war in Ukraine. And no matter how much the politicians have talked about peace, nothing has been able to stop the war in the Middle East. We really are living at a time of “wars and rumors of wars”, and the truth is that this is just the beginning. We are going to witness death and destruction on a scale that most people cannot imagine, and the world is simply not prepared for what is coming next."
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