"162,000 Jobs Added - But This Could Be Bad News For Your Wallet"

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Snyder Reports, 9/4/26

"162,000 Jobs Added - 

But This Could Be Bad News For Your Wallet"

"The US added 162,000 jobs in August - crushing the 53,000 economists expected. But wage growth is stuck at 3.1% while inflation runs hotter. Is the economy actually turning around, or is your paycheck still falling behind? We break down the August jobs blowout, the shocking revisions to June & July, why restaurants & bars added 59,000 jobs, what labor force participation jumping to 61.6% really means, and why this report just gave the Federal Reserve room to raise rates again."

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"Stores Are Lying To You, Don't Fall For Their Tricks!"

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Snyder Reports, 9/4/26

"Stores Are Lying To You, Don't Fall For Their Tricks!"

"That 50% OFF sale might not be a deal at all. Stores are using fake price tags, inflated "original" prices, and bogus rollbacks to make you THINK you're saving money. In this video, I show you real price tag proof from Home Depot, Lowe's, Walmart, and even Nordstrom Rack - including a snowblower marked "50% off" at $749 and a Walmart rollback that didn't roll back at all ($5.88 before and after). You'll see how they cover old prices with new stickers, why clearance doesn't mean the cheapest price, and the "penny item" trick managers don't want you to know about. If you shop at Walmart, Target, Home Depot, or Lowe's, you need to see this before your next trip."

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Dan, I Allegedly, "People Can't Afford Soup Anymore"

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Dan, I Allegedly, 9/4/26

"People Can't Afford Soup Anymore"

"Things are so tight right now. People can't afford soup. People are cutting back on everything - and now even Campbell Soup is feeling the pain. Campbell Soup has been downgraded after disappointing earnings, with sales and key parts of the business struggling. The company says the consumer may not be strong enough to get through another difficult year. If people are cutting back on basic food like soup, what does that tell us about the economy? In this video, we look at Campbell Soup, consumer spending, rising prices, diesel fuel, inflation, higher costs, automobile recalls, Ford, the stock market, interest rates, gold and silver, and the growing financial pressure facing American families. The economy is becoming harder to navigate, and many people are asking the same question: “Am I the only one struggling?” The answer is no. Consumers are cutting back, businesses are warning about weaker demand, and these financial challenges are affecting millions of Americans."

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Adventures With Danno, "Massive 'Instant Savings' At Sam's Club"

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Adventures With Danno, 9/4/26

"Massive 'Instant Savings' At Sam's Club"

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"Alert! WTF Did They Just Build? AGI Has Arrived, 'Astra' Is A Superweapon; WW3"

Canadian Prepper, 9/3/26

"Alert! WTF Did They Just Build?

 AGI Has Arrived, 'Astra' Is A Superweapon; WW3"

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"Even Target Said No To A College Graduate And Americans Are Giving Up"

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Epic Economist, 9/3/26

"Even Target Said No To A College

 Graduate And Americans Are Giving Up"

"Getting the degree used to be the plan. Now people are filming themselves right after the layoff call, after the four hundredth application, after the interview where they were told the role had already been filled. A Google offer that lasted three years. Sixteen months unemployed and a nine-year career gone. A bachelor's degree and a rejection from Target. A new grad nurse who cannot get hired during a nursing shortage. Hundreds of applications for one interview. A 24-year-old CPA laid off from her first real job. Someone laid off twice in fourteen months. An offer letter that never arrived. A candidate told halfway through the interview that the position was already taken. 23,000 jobs lost in July and unemployment at 4.1%. A 39-year-old with three kids and a mortgage deciding to build his way out instead of applying again. And a woman who simply stopped applying, because it does not feel like it leads anywhere. Every clip is a real person, filmed on their own phone, in their own words. Nothing here is staged, and none of it is unusual - that is the part worth sitting with." 

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Jeremiah Babe, "There Is No Exit FromThe Apocalypse"

Jeremiah Babe, 9/3/26

"There Is No Exit FromThe Apocalypse"

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"This Won’t Solve All Your Problems (Just Most of Them)"

"This Won’t Solve All Your Problems (Just Most of Them)"

by Ryan Holiday

"In March 2025, we found two ten-week old puppies dumped on the road near where we live out in the country. One was white with spots. The other was mostly black with some white on her chest and paws. Both were emaciated, covered in flea bites, and scared of the thunderstorm that was just starting.

We took them home and as you can imagine our kids begged for us to keep them. I remembered many years ago reading about “the black dog bias” - that for some reason darker dogs are considered scarier and less likely to be adopted - so we decided to keep that one and found a home, almost immediately for the other.

It was a good thing because my kids had fallen in love with “Oreo.” Like every parent of all time, I was assured that they would take care of her and walk her. And like every kid who has ever made that promise, mine have not exactly followed through. But I’m not mad, because it means I have to take her for two walks a day (on occasion I succeed in bribing or threatening the boys to come too). Of all the ways Oreo has changed our lives, that’s been the best part. She’s “forced” me to do more of something I love to do. Something I know is really good for me, for anyone.

Walking is good exercise, of course. It burns calories. You get vitamin D from the sun. If the research is correct, apparently getting several thousand steps a day comes with all sorts of benefits for your health and longevity. But I don’t care about any of that. I don’t mind those things, but I walk for the philosophical and psychological benefits.

For centuries, thinkers have walked many miles a day because they had to, because they were bored, because they wanted to escape the putrid cities they lived in, because they wanted to get their blood flowing. In the process they discovered an important side-effect: it cleared their minds and helped them make better work. Literally, the name for the students of Aristotle was the Peripatetics - from the Greek peripatein, “to walk about” - because he did most of his teaching on walks.

Nietzsche’s, "Thus Spoke Zarathustra" came to him on a long walk. As he would later say: “It is only ideas gained from walking that have any worth.” The choreographer Twyla Tharp talks about going for “mindless mental wanderings” each day. Ernest Hemingway would walk along the Paris quais whenever his writing stalled. Charles Darwin built several walks into his daily schedule. The poet William Wordsworth walked as many as 180,000 miles in his lifetime - an average of six and a half miles a day since he was five years old!

Even spiritual revelations seem to come on foot. Dorothy Day was a lifelong walker, and it was on her strolls along the beach on Staten Island in the 1920s that she first began to feel a strong sense of God in her life and the first flickerings of the awakening that would put her on a path toward sainthood. It’s probably not a coincidence that Jesus himself was a walker - a traveler—who knew the pleasures and the divineness of putting one foot in front of the other. Indeed, it’s no coincidence that many of the greatest expressions of faith and devotion involve long walks (i.e. pilgrimages) to holy sites around the globe.

The Buddhists speak of “walking meditation,” or kinhin, where movement after long periods of sitting, particularly through beautiful settings, can unlock a different kind of stillness than traditional meditation. In a beautiful letter to his bedridden and depressed sister-in-law, Søren Kierkegaard wrote: “Above all, do not lose your desire to walk. Every day I walk myself into a state of well-being and walk away from every illness; I have walked myself into my best thoughts, and I know of no thought so burdensome that one cannot walk away from it.”

In my life, I’ve been repeatedly gifted with ideas - from the muses, from my own subconscious, I don’t know—on walks. It was on a walk in Bastrop State Park with the kids when I got the idea for "The Stoic Virtue Series." I’ve solved business problems and personal problems on walks. My wife can recognize it in my eyes and knows not to say anything when I return from a walk, rushing into the house and heading to the pile of notecards I have on the counter at all times. He’s probably come up with something…don’t interrupt or he’ll lose it and be a mess after.

I’ll tell you what I’ve almost never thought - except a couple of times in the Texas summer - I have never returned from a walk and regretted it. Walks haven’t solved all my problems, but they rarely make them worse. And even when they haven’t changed anything, they’ve changed my mood - which is usually most of the problem anyway.

Sitting at our computers, we are overwhelmed with information, with emails, with one thing after another. On a walk, the mind, relieved of all those inputs, can wander, drift, reflect, process, imagine, make connections, have ideas, or simply get a little peace and quiet.

Kierkegaard tells the story of a morning when he was driven from his house in a state of despair and frustration - illness, in his words. After an hour and a half, he was finally at peace and nearly back home when he bumped into a friendly gentleman who chattered on about a number of his problems. Isn’t that how it always seems to go? No matter. “There was only one thing left for me to do,” Kierkegaard wrote, “instead of going home, to go walking again.”

And so must we. Walk. Then walk some more. Anyway, I’ve got to go now. Oreo is scratching at the door. I’ll see if the kids want to come, but either way, I’m walking."

- https://ryanholiday.net/

Musical Interlude: 2002, "Deep Still Blue"

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2002, "Deep Still Blue"

"A Look to the Heavens"

“While drifting through the cosmos, a magnificent interstellar dust cloud became sculpted by stellar winds and radiation to assume a recognizable shape. Fittingly named the Horsehead Nebula, it is embedded in the vast and complex Orion Nebula (M42). A potentially rewarding but difficult object to view personally with a small telescope, the below gorgeously detailed image was recently taken in infrared light by the orbiting Hubble Space Telescope.

The dark molecular cloud, roughly 1,500 light years distant, is cataloged as Barnard 33 and is seen above primarily because it is backlit by the nearby massive star Sigma Orionis. The Horsehead Nebula will slowly shift its apparent shape over the next few million years and will eventually be destroyed by the high energy starlight.”

- http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap130422.html

"When Time Stands Still"

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Billy AI Art,

"When Time Stands Still"

Chet Raymo, "The Meaning Of Life"

"The Meaning Of Life"

by Chet Raymo

"There is only one meaning of life, the act of living itself."

– Erich Fromm

"I had heard from a high-school student in the midwest who had read my book 'Skeptics and True Believers,' in which, as you may know, I take to task all forms of faith that lack an empirical basis, including astrology and supernaturalist religion. He writes: "Are we just meaningless beasts roaming a meaningless Earth with the sole purpose of popping out babies so we can raise them to live longer, more meaningless lives?"

A good question, the best question. What we have learned about our place on Earth does indeed suggest that we are beasts, related even in our DNA and molecular chemistry to other animals. And, yes, the driving purpose of all animal life would seem to be "popping out babies." But our uniquely complex human brains allow us to be more than beasts, more than baby-poppers. As far as we know, humans are the most complex thing in the universe, and in our desire to gain reliable knowledge of the universe the universe becomes conscious of itself.

As for myself, I don't need stars or gods to give my life meaning. I work at meaning every day, in the love of family and friends, in caring for my own little pieces of the Earth, in art, in science, and in making myself conscious of the mystery and beauty - and terror - of the cosmos.

"Or is there a possibility that there may be more?" asks my midwestern correspondent. Yes, there is almost certainly more to existence than what we have yet learned. Just think how much more we know than did our pre-scientific ancestors. But that still greater knowledge will have to wait for minds other than my own. My children and grandchildren will know far more than I, and in that growing human storehouse of reliable knowledge I hope they will find some greater measure of meaning.

In the meantime, I attend to the fox that sometimes walks across my windowsill, the morning glory seedlings that reach achingly for the sun, and the moon that hangs like a great milky eye in the sky. Francis Bacon said that what a man would like to be true, he preferentially believes. That's a mistake I try to avoid. I choose instead to believe what my senses tell me to be palpably true."

- http://www.sciencemusings.com/

"Reality..."

“Reality is what we take to be true.

What we take to be true is what we believe.

What we believe is based upon our perceptions.

What we perceive depends upon what we look for.

What we look for depends upon what we think.

What we think depends upon what we perceive.

What we perceive determines what we believe.

What we believe determines what we take to be true.

What we take to be true is our reality.”

- Gary Zukav

"I Can't Wait For the Day When Life Finally Makes Sense"

"I Can't Wait For the Day When Life Finally Makes Sense"

by Rania Naim

"I can't wait for the day when life finally makes sense, when we find the silver lining in every tragedy, when we learn the lesson from each mistake and when we understand why our hearts needed to get broken a few times to let love in.

I can't wait for the day that we understand why we met the right people at the wrong time or the wrong people at the right time and why our lives didn't align to bring us together. I wonder if it's because they're the wrong ones for us or because we still have a lot of growing up to do and we're meant to be with someone who understands who weare becoming not who we were.

I can't wait for the day that we understand the lesson behind every struggle. Why we struggled to be successful, why we struggled to find love, why we struggled to reach our dreams and why we lost people who meant the world to us. I wonder if we needed these lessons to learn how to appreciate life and feel the pain of others or we just needed to learn that there is no living without suffering.

I can't wait for the day that we understand why we had to hate ourselves to love ourselves, why we had to destroy ourselves to build ourselves up again and why we had to start over just before we got to the finish line. I wonder who saved us or who inspired us to save ourselves.

I wonder if we are meant to be reborn a few times so we can learn how to truly live. I want to know what triggered us to change and how we can no longer recognize who we used to be.

I can't wait for the day that we understand why we keep falling for the wrong ones over and over again, why we can't forget those who hurt us and why we sometimes can still forgive them and take them back. I want to understand how our hearts operate, how they function, how they move us to do things we would never do and lead us to places that we know we shouldn't go to. I'm curious to know why we listen to it, why we follow it blindly like it never got us lost before, why we trust it even though it left us broken and why do we always go back to it for questions when it keeps giving us the wrong answers. I wonder if there will come a day when we stop listening to it and if we'll ever be truly alive without it.

They say everything happens for a reason and I truly believe that, but I also want to know what this reason is and why it chose us. Why some reasons keep recurring and why some reasons leave us even more perplexed. I want to understand why we go through certain things, what's the message behind it and what if we never respond to this message, what if we just ignore it and keep living, what will happen then? Will our lives get lost in translation?

I can't wait for the day that life makes sense. Some days I understand why certain things happened and others I'm not so sure, but all I know is that somehow we'll connect the dots and someday we'll complete the puzzle, until then, we have to learn how to live our lives without trying to understand it and we have to learn how to be comfortable with the irony and uncertainty of life; otherwise we'll lose our common sense trying to make sense of the life we are living."

- http://paulocoelhoblog.com/

John Wilder, "Defeat? Never"

"Defeat? Never"

by John Wilder

"Back when I was in high school, I started a quest. It would probably be a trivial quest in today’s world with the Internet, and tens of millions of songs available all from a single search. However, back when I was in high school, the only people using the Internet were computer nerds at colleges or places like Los Alamos sharing nuclear bomb design info and ASCII porn.

There was exactly one rock and roll radio station that reached the lofty heights of Wilder Mountain, and it was a good three-hour drive from where I lived. Heck, the nearest record store was a 45-minute drive. But I heard a song...and loved it. I had no idea who the artist was. All I knew was that it had guitars that sounded like jet fighters coming in for an attack (metaphorically) and a heavy metal singer with pipes to growl low and also hit the high notes.

This was not helpful. My bumbling attempts to hum the song to the record store clerk probably sounded like a toddler attempting to instruct an Albanian goat herder on how to repair a Junkers Jumo-004 on an ME 262. My incoherent rambling eventually convinced the store owner that I could probably be sold a lot of records on my quest to find the goofy song.

She was right. On one particular winter day, I bought two cassettes. Memo to the young: a cassette was an attempt to put a part of the Internet on a skinny magnetic tape and take it with you. Sort of like WIFI but with a really, really low transfer rate that cost over $7 for 42 megabytes. I listened to one of the cassettes on my forty-minute drive to Stately Wilder Manor. I don’t recall what the first cassette was. It was okay. The song I was looking for, however, wasn’t on it.

When I got to Wilder Mountain, I decided to listen to the other cassette. Pa Wilder wasn’t home. It was November, and snow was falling gently across the valley, as I looked toward the volcanic cone that dominated the view above the mountains that surrounded the valley. I put in the cassette. I hit play.

A single guitar hit an E note that crunched and then was followed by 41 seconds of guitar solo that made my brain implode. The first second was enough, the next 40? Pure passion. My father’s stereo, which before that day was primarily concerned with playing Dean Martin and Johnny Cash, must have been surprised.

I know I was. Then? Another driving song, this time about a sentient A.I. encased in an orbiting surveillance satellite. What? I was in heaven. The cassette was Judas Priest, the album? "Screaming for Vengeance". The theme of the music was unabashedly masculine. It was fueled by testosterone and optimism and defiance. It was, in short, everything I loved in life.

What was my ethos at that time? Full speed. Every moment in life. When I played football, I played football. Every ounce of my being was focused on the next play. The cleats digging into the turf, the snap as the center delivered the ball to the quarterback, my sudden sprint, and the exquisite feeling of my shoulder pads digging into that quarterback's belly as I impacted him at full speed. Life was a game to be played at full speed. When a football game was over, win or lose, the idea that I would have left anything of myself or held back an ounce of myself? I never felt that after a single game.

Win or lose. Everything I had. And that was the ethos. My focus was on doing everything that I could humanly do during the game. If we won? Excellent. If we lost? There was no room for regret since I had done every single thing I could for the team. Amazingly, here that was, in music.

This music and most of the music I have loved since then was fueled by one concept – it was fueled by the idea that, in this life, there are winners, and there are losers. But there are no victims. I was responsible for my preparation. I was responsible for my effort. I was responsible for me. If I won? Wonderful. If I lost? Yeah, it stung. But if I gave it my best, and lived up to my own values, I still won.

Again, winning was and is important. But a loss of a single day was nothing. Winning could and would come. And I would live my life, on my terms. Have I been cheated? Yes. Have I been wronged? Yes. Did I stand toe to toe with my boss and tell him that I wouldn’t sell my honor and principles to him for any reason? Yes. And did I pay a price? Duh. Do I regret it? Not for a minute. Not for a second.

There are moments in life, where honor and values will be tested. Heck, that was in this music, too.

"In this world we’re living’ in, 

we have our share of sorrow.

Answer now is don’t give in, 

aim for a new tomorrow."

Also in the music? Questions of deep philosophy. The eternal battle between Good and Evil. Oh, yeah, and hot chicks. Eventually, this changed and fell out of fashion. I think it was Bush. Or maybe raising the drinking age to 21. Or maybe drugging generations with lithium and Adderall®. Or maybe the new “zero tolerance” lifestyle, where fighting for Good and being right still resulted in a suspension. Or maybe all of that.

Music based on honor and testosterone and optimism eventually fell out of favor. I can even give you the date: September 21, 1991, when Nirvana launched "Nevermind":

"With the lights out, it's less dangerous,

Here we are now, entertain us.

I feel stupid and contagious,

Here we are now, entertain us."

That abomination of learned helplessness replaced this from Judas Priest:

"Thousand of cars and a million guitars

Screaming with power in the air.

We've found the place where the decibels race,

This army of rock will be there

To ram it down, ram it down.

Straight through the heart of this town

Ram it down, ram it down,

Razing the place to the ground.

Ram it down..."

One of these makes me feel like slitting my wrists. The other? Fills me with the idea that none of us are alone. We have power. We are...going to win, no matter what the damn odds are. Judas Priest is still touring. Kurt Cobain? Not so much. I guess it proves that one person can handle only so much Courtney Love:

"Fast and furious, we ride the universe

To carve a road for us, that slices every curve in sight.

We accelerate, no time to hesitate

This load will detonate, whoever would contend its right."

I refuse to accept defeat. The idea is against every fiber of being in my body. I realize that I will not win every battle. And I am going to listen to music, and I am going to take in media that tells me the truth, but I shall never, ever, despair no matter how dire the situation. My family? They come from heroes. So does yours. Never, ever, give up. I’m not going to stop until I stop breathing. And I won’t relinquish my honor to any man. And I am responsible for every aspect of my life and my situation.

Oh, I did find the song I was looking for, a year later:

"The hammer of the gods

Will drive our ships to new lands,

To fight the horde, sing and cry

Valhalla, I am coming..."

But that’s another story, though the song remains the same."

- https://wilderwealthywise.com/

"You Must Be..."

"But I don't want to go among mad people," Alice remarked.
"Oh, you can't help that," said the cat.

 "We're all mad here. I'm mad. You're mad."
"How do you know I'm mad?" said Alice.
"You must be," said the cat, "Or you wouldn't have come here."
- Lewis Carroll, 

"Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"

I know, I know lol...

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Jefferson Airplane, "White Rabbit"

The Daily "Near You?"

Brighton, Colorado, USA. Thanks for stopping by!

"Judge Napolitano - Judging Freedom, 9/3/26"

Judge Napolitano - Judging Freedom, 9/3/26

"Pepe Escobar: Trump ‘Mows the Lawn’ 

at Iranian Wedding. Death Toll Rising!"

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Judge Napolitano - Judging Freedom, 9/3/26

"Is Global War Inevitable? 

John Mearsheimer Explains"

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Judge Napolitano - Judging Freedom, 9/3/26

"Larry Johnson:

 Why America Is Choosing The Wrong Wars"

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"The Truth About The 2026 Economy That Nobody Is Talking About"

Snyder Reports, 9/3/26

"The Truth About The 2026 Economy 

That Nobody Is Talking About"

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"The Definition of Insanity'

"The Definition of Insanity'

by Ron Paul

"Albert Einstein is credited with saying, “the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.” Whether he actually said it or not, the definition stands.

This definition also very well describes the Trump Administration’s war with Iran. According to media reports, President Trump was cajoled by Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu that this would be an “easy war,” like Venezuela. Just assassinate the Iranian leadership, he promised, and the regime change would bring in a pro-America regime in Iran. The CIA disagreed with the assessment, but Trump went with Netanyahu and the rest is history.

The “decapitation strikes” did not change leadership in Iran. As was the case in the US after the 9/11 attacks, the people rallied around the flag. The new leadership was less interested in a compromise than their murdered predecessors. So the bombing began. Weeks of bombing. But that didn’t work – it only depleted our already-low weapons supplies.

Then “diplomacy” was substituted for bombs and a Memorandum of Understanding was signed by both sides. The US side immediately broke the agreement by attempting to open a new ship corridor by force and the bombs started flying again. For the past month the bombs stopped only to start up last weekend, with a US strike on an Iranian island. This was followed again by multiple Iranian strikes on US bases in the region.

Bombs then diplomacy, bombs then diplomacy. President Trump has told us dozens of times that us the war is over, and we have won, but no one believes it any longer. He claims that the US completely controls the Strait of Hormuz while the shipping corridors are empty.

The US military has been stretched to the breaking point. US sailors and Marines endured a record-breaking deployment with terrible conditions aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln and other ships at sea. But this past weekend we saw the most telling sign of a military pushing back against orders that make no sense. Army Secretary Dan Driscoll resigned his position, reportedly due to disagreements with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth over the toll the war is taking on military readiness. Driscoll follows several high-ranking US Army officials who have resigned. It seems clear that US Military leadership does not believe in the mission. Maybe President Trump should listen to them instead of his “War” Secretary Pete Hegseth?

Doing the same thing and expecting different results may be the definition of insanity, but another definition might be starting a war halfway across the globe against a country that has neither attacked nor threatened you. Insanity might be starting a war based on the self-serving lies of a foreign leader who just happens to benefit from the fighting. Insanity might be further depleting the US arsenal of missiles and other weapons after years of proxy war against Russia through Ukraine. Insanity might be burdening future generations with a national debt of $40 trillion and climbing.

It is time for some very difficult decisions to be made. This war will not be won with more bombing, and the Iranians no longer trust us as negotiating partners after broken agreements and false claims. The only course of action is to pack up and come home. Let the people of the region solve their own problems."

- https://www.theburningplatform.com/

Prof. Jeffrey Sachs, "It's Getting Worse And Worse"

Prof. Jeffrey Sachs, 9/3/26

"It's Getting Worse And Worse"

"Jeffrey Sachs explains why a global crisis is not inevitable and argues that better policy decisions could prevent another major war or economic collapse. He discusses the U.S. sanctions regime, the weaponization of the dollar, BRICS, China, Russia, Iran, and the growing shift toward non-dollar international settlements. Could the dollar-based financial system be losing its global influence? Watch the full video to hear Jeffrey Sachs’ perspective."

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"How It Really Is"

 

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OPTM, 9/2/26

"Trump Humiliated As 300 Pentagon Officials Revolt; 

Hegseth Lies Fall Apart"

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"Comes The Hour, Comes The Man"

"Comes The Hour, Comes The Man"

by Southern Sage

"I supported Donald Trump for the right reason: The alternatives were unthinkable and unspeakable. Trump did deliver on some things, like the border, the open assault on DEI and “diversity”, something nobody else had the guts to do. He called out the RINO’s. He made being a white Christian patriot a thing again.

I always knew he was a conman and so did almost everybody else, but conmen have done great things, from time to time. After all, he was just a New York “real estate developer” and playboy. As one person once quipped, “Perhaps Donald Trump is probably not the most moral man to occupy the White House…..” No kidding.

But still, knowing as I do that the hard core of the Democrat opposition to Trump and the RINO’s are either witting agents of foreign powers, compromised, bought off, or believing Communists, he was the only game in town. Yes, there are a few honest men out there, like Massie, but they simply do not have the money, organization, or widespread name recognition.

In a book about the defeat of France in WWII, there was the statement that almost any sacrifice is justified to prevent your country from being occupied by a foreign enemy. I believe that. And I see the left in the U.S. to be an alien force that had to be stopped by any means necessary, even by electing Trump.

But I have reached the end of that road. Trump is fading away and the people around him know it. Every day his power will dwindle, a dangerous thing for America. Before the leftist and Deep State operatives celebrate, however, they should know that there will be another leader and the next time they may not survive, politically at least and perhaps physically. The country is obviously heading for some event of cosmic proportions. Nobody knows what will trigger it, but when it comes the America that emerges from the other side will not look anything like the America of 2026, if America survives as one country.

I suspect the debt and the end of the dollar as the world’s reserve currency will be the catalyst, but I do not know. It could also be a major military defeat (a clear Iranian victory, China taking Taiwan, Russia striking NATO countries), internal disorder, or a combination of the three. The growth of the Muslim population and their increasing arrogance may result in a demand for mass expulsions, which will clash with the leftist’s plans for undermining the country. Who knows?

What is certain is we are on a runaway train headed straight towards a washed out bridge. Yes, there is a lot of ruin in a country and it is easy to predict catastrophe but few people in January of 1914 imagines that their whole world was on the brink of utter destruction, but it was. It is interesting that the artists and writers seemed to sense this before anybody else.

I turned away from Trump for several reasons. One, it is now clear he is totally under control of the Israeli’s and their “friends”. The Iran war, no matter how it ends, has been a disaster for America. Things will not go back to “normal.” Forget that.

His failure to throw down the gauntlet to inferior court federal judges is inexcusable and entirely the result of Trump listening to pantywaists and females. The worst of them all is Susie Wiles a bossy old woman with no understanding of the world and corrupt to the core. Trump’s boyish infatuation with (relatively) attractive women like Noem and Bondi is a minor irritant, but it has damaged him. We do not need a hen party running serious affairs; Tulsi Gabbard may have been an exception.

Trump is corrupt. I know this from detailed personal knowledge of the Venezuela caper. The people around him are in a feeding frenzy down there. Don Jr. is one of the worst, but Jared Kushner, an Israeli agent, can’t be touched. This shameless homo (his marriage to Ivanka is a sham, by the way) is shaking down people all over the world and everybody knows it. Our image has been trampled in the mud. We are seen as a thieving, violent, unpredictable bully.

Trump has failed to drain the Swamp. At CIA, a cesspool of Obama acolytes, John Radcliffe has utterly failed to get rid of even a single significant senior officer, almost all of whom are either Deep State or Obama traitors, incompetents (again, many of them women), or yes-men.

The Epstein Files issue is important to ordinary Americans, and many are enraged at the cover-up. Frankly, I don’t care. I always knew our “elites” were shitbags and perverts. Nothing in those files would surprise me. I do not believe Trump is a “pedophile”, despite the claims of women like the dingbat who said he groped her in a department store dressing room. I do believe that Trump has his nuts in a vise thanks to the Israeli’s, who were using Epstein for blackmail. In addition, many of his friends probably are in video’s with young girls and boys.

A titanic battle for America is approaching. Forget Trump. Comes the hour, comes the man, and he will. Be ready."

- https://www.theburningplatform.com/

“All the world’s a stage,

And all the men and women merely players;

They have their exits and their entrances;

And one man in his time plays many parts…”

- William Shakespeare, "As You Like It," Act II Scene VII.

"This Once In A Lifetime Event Has Millions Worried"

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Snyder Reports, 9/3/26

"This Once In A Lifetime Event Has Millions Worried"

"A Super El Niño is brewing and meteorologists warn it could be the strongest ever recorded - topping the catastrophic 1877 event. From a turbocharged Pacific hurricane season to a brutal winter that could bury the South in ice and snow, millions are not prepared for what's coming. In this video, I break down what a Super El Niño means for food prices, water scarcity, power outages, and your family's safety - and exactly how to prepare right now before November. LA County is already clearing ditches and staging water rescues. The South could see single-digit temperatures for weeks, collapsed power lines, and historic flooding. What you'll learn: Why 2026 Super El Niño could break all record;  Which 10 Southern states are at highest risk; How the polar vortex disruption brings ice + flooding; Why the UN & JP Morgan warn of famine for 47 million people. Simple prep steps: pumps, heaters, sandbags and water storage This is not hype - every country reporting on this says the same thing. Better to spend a little now and be prepared than to need it and not have it."

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"Massive 'Labor Day' Sales at Kroger! Amazing Prices & Great Savings!"

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Adventures With Danno, 9/3/26

"Massive 'Labor Day' Sales at Kroger! 

Amazing Prices & Great Savings!"

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"Insiders Are Warning Us - The Economy Is Much Worse Than You Think"

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Dan, I Allegedly, 9/3/26

"Insiders Are Warning Us - 

The Economy Is Much Worse Than You Think"

"Today on iAllegedly, we're going inside the economy with another edition of **Insiders Tell All**. I've been hearing directly from people working in sales, real estate, the grocery and food industry, artificial intelligence, insurance, and contracting - and what they're seeing behind the scenes is deeply concerning. Companies are offering bigger discounts because sales are getting harder, homes are sitting on the market longer, buyers are demanding more, and even basic food products are seeing weaker demand. These are the stories and warnings that rarely make the headlines. We also look at how artificial intelligence is eliminating jobs that many people never expected to disappear, why insurance companies are becoming increasingly difficult to deal with, how consumers are changing their spending habits, and why contractors are seeing customers focus only on essential repairs. This is a real-world look at the economy from people who are actually working inside these industries. If you want to understand what is happening with the economy, consumer spending, real estate, jobs, inflation, insurance, and small business, this episode of *Insiders Tell All* is for you."

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Bill Bonner, "The Operating System of the US Government"

Mugshot of Carlo Ponzi

"The Operating System of the US Government"

by Bill Bonner

“My business was simple. 

It was the old game of robbing Peter to pay Paul.”

- Carlo Ponzi

Poitou, France - "Today we give credit where credit is due: to Carlo Pietro Giovanni Guglielmo Tebaldo Ponzi - master of fraud, titan of the rip-off, and unheralded pioneer of modern state finance. His face should be on the $20 bill, not Andrew Jackson’s.

Ponzi was born in Italy in 1882 and landed in Boston in November 1903 with $2.50 in his pocket. He was deported thirty-one years later, back to Italy, with roughly the same amount of money. In between, he worked out the swindle that bears his name and that now serves as the operating system of the United States government. Few men accomplish as much with so little starting capital.

The trick was so simple, so blindingly obvious, that the wonder is it took so long for Ponzi to think of it - and longer still for his investors to think it through. He promised 50% in forty-five days. Guaranteed. Depositors were, at the time, earning four or five percent on their savings. They took the bait.

How could he offer such returns? Ponzi had spotted an arbitrage. International postal conventions permitted a man to buy a reply coupon in one country and redeem it for stamps in another, at fixed rates that had not kept up with the currencies. So, a coupon bought for the equivalent of a penny in Italy might be exchanged for six cents’ worth of American postage. Buy low in Rome, redeem high in Boston, pocket the difference.

The scheme was unworkable on its face. Yes, you might clear five cents. But Ponzi was taking in money by the sackful - a quarter of a million dollars on a good day, and on one memorable day he paid out better than a million. To cover that with postal coupons you would have had to load a liner stem to stern with the things and float them across the Atlantic. And then what? The coupons could not be turned into cash. They could only be turned into stamps. Even a triumphant arbitrage left you sitting on a mountain of postage stamps. As it turned out, Ponzi never bought any coupons at all. And almost none of his investors asked. So long as the money kept flowing, all was well.

Here we pause to salute Mr. Ponzi’s remarkably cheerful disposition. It must have been plain to him that robbing Peter to pay Paul is not a durable line of work. Peter put in his money, but only in hope of a return that did not exist. Sooner or later, he would want it back. He might have forgiven Ponzi for failing to hit the advertised rate - no good investment lasts forever, and investors are wonderfully understanding about that. What Peter would not forgive was learning that his money was gone entirely. Spent. Handed over to Paul.

You would think this might have troubled the man’s sleep. Would he not close his eyes at night and see a whole army of Peters coming down School Street in Boston - deposit slips waving, a few stout fellows with ropes, others with pistols, and somewhere at the back a cauldron of pitch coming nicely to the boil?

Apparently not. He slept like an infant, and spent his days shopping. He bought properties, took stock in several banks, and arranged a takeover of Hanover Trust - the very institution that had earlier declined his application for a loan. He thought he might earn enough money honestly to pay off his depositors. But no bank in Boston was ever going to make enough money to keep pace with Ponzi’s promises.

Later inquiries suggested that Ponzi was not much good at arithmetic. Perhaps he had never noticed that the numbers did not add up - not remotely. His investors certainly hadn’t. Happy as clams with their paper gains, most of them declined to cash out and rolled the winnings into larger piles instead. A man who put in $1,000 in January of 1920 was looking at five or six thousand by the time the thing came apart in August.

Another pause, for the point that matters. Not only was the underlying plan unfeasible - if it had worked, Ponzi would never have breathed a word of it to anybody. That is the rub with every too-good-to-be-true offer. Were it actually true, you would never hear about it. There is an inverse relation between the size of a promise and the likelihood of its fulfillment, and the mechanism is not mysterious: the more profitable a venture, the less it needs money from strangers, and the less reason its promoters have to go looking for any.

Had Ponzi truly been able to double his money every ninety days, he would have had no use for a staff, a bank, a room full of clerks, or the participation of thousands of Bostonians and all the headaches they bring. Starting alone with $1,000, he would have been a billionaire inside five years, and nobody in Massachusetts would have known his name.

Which is the whole lesson, and it fits on a matchbook: a really good investment is one nobody tells you about. A really bad one is well advertised. And so, we return to poor Carlo. Deported in 1934, he tried other schemes; none worked half so well as the one that bore his name. He died in 1949 in a charity hospital in Rio de Janeiro, penniless.

But from the grave, like cyclamen in November, rose the financial model of every modern European and American government. They take enormous sums from their citizens. In exchange, they offer protection - largely illusory - and insurance-like arrangements for medicine and old age. And because the system runs on popular elections, it systematically advances the candidate who, like Ponzi, promises more than he can deliver. It is not a flaw in the machine. It is what the machine selects for.

The model was perfected by the shift to fake money in 1971, which allowed the elite to take more and more - not merely from the voters at hand, but from generations not yet born, who are wonderfully easy to negotiate with. Even so, the arithmetic waits. And the calendar. Eventually a year arrives in which current income will not cover current expenses plus all the past expenses that were shoved forward into it. You can ‘print’ all you want; the public decides how much it is worth. That is when Peter comes looking for you."

- https://www.bonnerprivateresearch.com/

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"Record 89% Of Americans Say 

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"Closer To Nuclear War: Russia Pledges Support For Iran While It Threatens The UK, Germany And The Entire Ukrainian Power Grid"

by Michael Snyder

"We have never been closer to nuclear war than we are right now. The Russians are absolutely furious that NATO countries have been providing many of the long-range missiles and long-range drones that have been raining down on their major cities night after night. They are publicly threatening the UK and Germany, and I believe that we should be taking those threats very seriously. Meanwhile, the fact that the Russians are openly aiding Iran’s war effort is deeply upsetting the Trump administration. At this stage, the Russians are not even trying to hide it. Both sides just continue to push the envelope, and that has brought us dangerously close to a shooting war with Russia. Of course once a shooting war with Russia starts, a single wrong move could potentially trigger a full-blown nuclear exchange.

Once again last night, long-range Ukrainian drones struck an important energy facility deep inside Russian territory…Vladimir Putin has vowed revenge after Ukraine humiliated the Russian dictator with yet another drone attack on a major oil hub.A barrage of long-range drones on Tuesday left the vast Ust-Luga fuel terminal in flames. The terminal, on the Baltic Sea near St. Petersburg, can process 700,000 barrels of crude oil a day.

The Russians have lost all patience and they have decided that there is no way that they are going to put up with this any longer. Yesterday, Russian President Vladimir Putin openly acknowledged that massive strikes on Ukraine’s power grid are coming…Putin told reporters on Tuesday he had ordered his military to prepare and launch large-scale strikes against Ukrainian energy facilities.“They battered our people, and they will get a response,” Putin warned, in what amounted to a public admission that Ukraine’s attacks are inflicting real damage on his country.

If that doesn’t work, Putin is prepared to escalate matters even more. In addition, Russian officials have been suggesting that there could be military strikes on British military facilities in the UK since the UK has been providing Ukraine with long-range missiles and long-range drones. When asked about the potential for direct strikes in the UK by the press, Putin did not deny that this is on the table… “Are there British military facilities in Ukraine?” the Kremlin leader asked. When a journalist clarified that the question was hypothetical, Putin replied: “If there are, then definitely [they will become targets – ed.].” Asked whether UK defence industry facilities located on British territory could become military targets, Putin replied: “That’s a secret, a military secret.”

There is video footage of this exchange, and it is quite alarming. Because if Russia conducts strikes on British territory, we will be at war with Russia. Tensions are also rising between Russia and Germany. On Tuesday, the German government officially blamed the Russians for an attempted drone attack at the main airport in Leipzig last month… The German government on Tuesday blamed Russia for an attempted attack at Leipzig/Halle Airport last month using a drone laden with explosives, and announced that it would shut down a Russian consulate among other measures.

The drone was found near a Ukrainian plane on Aug. 4 and the device was defused. German officials said at the time that the incident posed a new level of danger. Moscow has been widely accused by Western officials of running a campaign of sabotage and disruption with the aim of undermining support for Ukraine and destabilizing European nations. The Russians are furiously denying that they had anything to do with this. And they are also very angry about the level of military support that Germany has been providing for Ukraine.

Dmitry Medvedev, a former Russian president and current security official, just posted a very ominous message about Germany on Telegram… In it he said: “Berlin has accused Russia of an unproven attack on Leipzig Airport. Given the neo-Nazi, rabidly Russophobic policies of the current German leadership, a fabricated act of sabotage is the weakest form of punishment for their sins. They deserve a direct strike on all German military equipment production facilities for the Bandera clique. And quite possibly on several other locations in Berlin as well.

And about the mad clown’s threats against civil aviation in Russian skies. The head of state has already described them as an attempt by the Bandera regime to engage in state terrorism. They don’t negotiate with terrorists and respond to their actions with retaliation. And every terror has sponsors. At the moment, these are the heads of Western countries, primarily European ones. And they often travel to Kyiv by train…”

There is a very real possibility that Medvedev could follow Putin as the next leader of Russia. Just think about that. He is one of the most prominent politicians in Russia, and he just suggested that European leaders could be vulnerable targets when they “travel to Kyiv by train”. This is how far relations have deteriorated.

Meanwhile, the Russians just continue to develop even deeper ties with the Iranians…In a joint appearance at a regional security meeting, Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian on Tuesday thanked Russian President Vladimir Putin for his support in wartime and urged that their nations work together to oppose U.S. sanctions. The United States and its allies, especially in Europe, have imposed extensive economic penalties on Iran over its nuclear program and more recently its refusal to bow to President Donald Trump’s demands in the Strait of Hormuz; and against Russia for its continuing war in Ukraine.

Needless to say, the Trump administration is not pleased about this at all. The Russians are openly providing assistance to Iran, and Putin is pledging to continue to do so… Putin, in turn, said that his country was trying to help Tehran in its war with the United States. “During this difficult period, we are striving to provide you with the necessary assistance - as we have discussed - and are supplying you with essential goods,” Putin said, according to the Kremlin account.

Humanitarian assistance would be one thing. But this week it was being reported that Russia has been “secretly supporting Iranian missile development since 2023″…Russia has been secretly supporting Iranian missile development since 2023, according to a report in the Financial Times on Tuesday. The goal of the program, codenamed C430L, was to help Iran develop missiles capable of taking out US Navy aircraft carriers in the Middle East. In particular, they aimed to develop a ramjet propulsion system that would allow Iranian missiles to fly at several times the speed of sound. Fast, low-flying missiles would give Western air defences less time to react increasing the impact of such an attack. That is a major bombshell.

Has Russian technical assistance enabled the Iranians to develop their new “Castle Breaker” ballistic missiles?…Iran has fielded a new generation of ballistic missiles that can evade American air defenses and strike with far greater precision – a technological leap that military experts say has damaged the ring of U.S. bases across the Persian Gulf and left them more vulnerable than they’ve been in decades.

The centerpiece of that shift is a highly mobile ballistic missile Iran calls the Kheibar Shekan, or “Castle Breaker,” which has a range of 900 miles and a satellite-guided, maneuverable warhead. Iran’s military has used the missile extensively in strikes on the U.S. naval hub in Bahrain and other American bases during the six-month war with the U.S. and Israel, according to the Iranian government and confirmed in USA TODAY interviews with former U.S. military and intelligence officials and weapons analysts.

The Russians are deeply frustrated with us, and we are deeply frustrated with the Russians. For the good of humanity, we should find a peaceful way out of this mess before nuclear war erupts. But will that actually happen? 

Before I end this article, I wanted to update all of you on something that I discussed yesterday. We are being told that Tropical Storm Marie is expected to develop into a Category 1 hurricane very shortly…Tropical Storm Marie is expected to strengthen into a Category 1 hurricane on Wednesday, with sustained winds of more than 75 mph. It is currently moving along the coast of Mexico and will soon reach the Baja California Peninsula, the thin, 775-mile-long strip of land right below California and the US-Mexico border. If it moves away from land, this storm won’t be a threat.

But according to the Daily Mail, some models now indicate that it has “a strong likelihood of turning directly towards Southern California”…However, new spaghetti models, which track all possible paths of tropical storms and hurricanes, warn that Marie has a strong likelihood of turning directly towards Southern California, potentially making landfall in Los Angeles or San Diego. The National Weather Service (NWS) has already warned beachgoers in Los Angeles that there is a high risk for large waves and dangerous rip currents throughout the Labor Day holiday weekend.

No hurricane has ever made landfall in the entire history of the state of California. If this storm actually does make landfall in Southern California as a hurricane it would be a truly historic occurrence, and it would have monumental implications. So I will be watching Marie very closely. We are living in such perilous times, and it is far later than most people think that it is."

- https://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/