Now, this generation was simply unprepared for the harsh truth about taxation. The study found that 62% of first-time filers did not know how to obtain their W-2 or 1099 forms. The study also found that many believed cypto, where around 55% of Gen Z investors have a stake, was off the radar and were surprised to find out that tax forms were required on those investments.
A lot of these kids reached voting age before they were required to pay taxes as some parents handle everything to the disadvantage of their adult children. Schools simply do not teach students about taxes. You are taxes on your sales, purchases, savings, income, etc. etc. The idea of this liberal Utopia where we all live freely in peace and harmony without consideration for money is a fairytale.
This phenomenon of the liberal dream bursting has been well recorded throughout history.
“Anyone who is not a republican at twenty casts doubt on the generosity of his soul; but he who, after thirty years, perseveres, casts doubt on the soundness of his mind,” Jules Claretie once wrote. In 1927, King Oscar II of Sweden stated, “A man who has not been a socialist before 25 has no heart. If he remains one after 25 he has no head.” We all know Churchill’s famous line that mirrors King Oscar’s sentiments.
The left panders to young voters and preys on their innocence. Millions actually believed Biden had the authority to make their student debt disappear, for example. They believe Republicans are greedy and everyone deserves to be equal. Once they realize that a large portion of their pay goes to foreign war, foreign migrants, people living off the system, corrupt politicians, etc. it becomes more apparent that equality has a different meaning. There is a reason that public schools fail to educate the youth about taxation and economics, but everyone will learn sooner or later.
Posted originally on Mar 25, 2024 By Martin Armstrong
The average America will not live to see 80-years of age. The average life expectancy stands around 76.4 years, according to the CDC, with women living an average of 79.3 years and men expiring sooner at 73.5. Those figures have been steadily declining each year. Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Dr. Robert Califf recently spoke out about the “disturbing” trend and believes it deserves “urgent attention.”
The Society of Actuaries is also raising the alarm, noting that young Americans are dying rapidly. “Mortality was 26 percent higher among insured 35-to-44-year-olds, and 19 percent higher for 25-to-34-year-olds continuing a death spike that peaked in the third quarter of 2021 at a staggering 101 percent and 79 percent above normal, respectively,” the Hill stated in a recent article. The Society of Actuaries stated that COVID-19 is not to blame. Actuaries and insurance companies are pricing in younger life expectancy rates through 2030.
Despite spending $4.5 trillion dollars annually on healthcare, America is suffering from lower life expectancy than comparable nations. This is in large due to a crisis not getting the attention it demands: chronic disease. https://t.co/7OjIulVATP
“The most important remediable causes of death in the U.S. are tobacco use and poorly controlled hypertension. We’re going to lose 460K Americans this year from tobacco-related illness, and we have millions of teenagers getting addicted to nicotine through vaping right now,” Dr. Califf noted on social media. However, tobacco usage has been rapidly declining in the US, and this does not explain why Americans are dying young.
Opioidslike fentanyl, Oxycontin, and heroin have become one of the leading causes of death among American youth. Opioid overdoses deaths spiked from 21,089 in 2010 to 47,600, years after the crisis first emerged. There were 68,630 reported opioid-induced deaths by 2020, and that figure skyrocketed to 80,411 by 2021.
Entire cities are plagued by the opioid epidemic, which I have covered extensively in the past. Drugs like Narcan to counteract overdoses are now sold along with the gum at the front registers of major retailers. The Biden-Harris Administration has distributed safe drug usage equipment to prevent the spread of disease and individual cities have decriminalized drug usage.
Now, the leading cause of death in America remains heart disease, followed by cancer. America has an obesity epidemic that largely contributes to heart disease and cancer, with 41.9% of the population over the recommended BMI as of 2020. The CDC estimates that the US spent $173 billion combating obesity in 2019, and medical costs for obese Americans are $1,861 higher than those at a healthy BMI. African Americans have the highest rate of obesity (49.9%), followed by Hispanics (45.6%), and Caucasians (41.4%). Asian Americans have a very low rate of obesity in comparison at only 16.1%. Aside from genetics, diet plays a major contributing factor. Additionally, Asian Americans are the least likely to fall into poverty, statistically speaking.
I could go on about the ingredients the FDA labels edible. Brominated vegetable oil (BVO), Red dye 3, Yellow 5, Blue 1, azodicarbonamide, potassium bromate, Butylated Hydroxyanisole (BHA), and titanium dioxide are a few examples of food ingredients that are BANNED in Europe but permitted in America. These ingredients are often known carcinogens linked to respiratory issues, genotoxicity, diabetes, and obesity. The FDA has more lenient regulatory standards because of profits.
Americans typically report much higher rates of stress than other nations. Monster Worldwide, Inc. conducted one study that found American workers experience a much higher rate of stress compared to Europeans at 65% vs 50%. The average work week is significantly shorter in Europe than in America, and vacation packages are significantly longer, with vacations often mandatory. America is also the only nation that does not offer maternity or paternity leave. Various studies have also found that cultural influences, separation from family, lack of religion, and other aspects skew higher on stress scores.
There are countless factors contributing to lower life expectancy rates. America lost 158,000 people in the first nine months of 2023, which, as noted by the Hill, is higher than the combined total of every American soldier who died in battle since Vietnam. Perhaps we need to start living instead of surviving. Those in blue areas eat healthier, real foods. They exercise and find ways to reduce stress. They are living vs surviving. The number of deaths will soon outpace the number of births, and this will greatly impact society as a whole if we only address the symptoms and not the causes.
Posted originally on the CTH on March 22, 2024 | Sundance
Kate Middleton announced earlier today that she is undergoing treatment for cancer following “major abdominal surgery.”
(Via Daily Mail) – The Princess of Wales has announced tonight that she has been diagnosed with cancer aged 42 and is undergoing ‘preventative’ chemotherapy.
In a deeply personal, unprecedented and emotional video message, filmed at Windsor on Wednesday, Catherine revealed the news had come as a ‘huge shock’ and that she and William ‘have been doing everything we can to process and manage this privately for the sake of our young family’.
It came days after she was seen smiling with Prince William as they left their favourite farm shop close to their Windsor home, and she said her husband had been ‘a great source of comfort and reassurance’ during her cancer fight. (more)
[…] “Catherine’s cancer was discovered only after she underwent major abdominal surgery at The London Clinic in January. Kensington Palace has said it will not be sharing details of what kind of cancer the princess has, or what stage of cancer it is and has asked people not to speculate.” (more)
Deep prayers for her, Prince William and their young family.
It is understood that the announcement was made tonight not because of unpleasant social media speculation about her health and whereabouts – although that has been upsetting – but because her children, Prince George, 10, Princess Charlotte, eight, and Prince Louis, five, broke up from school today, which gave them the opportunity to take them away privately and protect them from the inevitable public shock.
Posted originally on the CTH January 6, 2024 | Sundance
The story of Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin recovering in the hospital broke Friday afternoon when the Pentagon first released a statement {SEE HERE}. It was a bizarre first notification considering that Secretary Austin had been hospitalized since January 1st, and no official notification came until yesterday. However, the story has grown even more bizarre.
Secretary Austin was in intensive care for four days following complications that stemmed from an elective procedure.
Today, it is discovered that the Pentagon never informed the White House that the Defense Secretary was not in command. The National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan and the National Security Council were unaware of Austin’s incapacity until January 4th. This is very strange. Politico has the update:
WASHINGTON DC – The Pentagon did not tell President Joe Biden and other top officials about Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin’s hospitalization for three days, three U.S. officials said.
National security adviser Jake Sullivan and other senior White House aides didn’t know of Austin’s Jan. 1 hospitalization until the Defense Department sent over word Jan. 4, two other U.S. officials said. Sullivan informed Biden shortly after DOD’s Thursday notification.
The officials said it was highly unlikely that Austin conveyed word to Biden privately before Sullivan’s briefing. “If Jake didn’t know, no way the president knew,” one of them said. “Who would have told him of Austin’s condition if not Jake? And if someone did tell the president, Jake would’ve been his first call.”
All officials and other people who spoke for this story were granted anonymity to discuss a sensitive issue.
The news of Austin’s situation came as a shock to all White House staff as they were unaware the Pentagon boss was dealing with complications following an elective medical procedure, the officials said. National Security Council staffers were surprised it took the Pentagon so long to let them know of Austin’s status. The Pentagon didn’t make the information public until Friday evening, notifying Congress about 15 minutes before releasing a public statement.
“This should not have happened this way,” said one of the U.S. officials. The NSC and Pentagon declined comment. (read more)
Considering the U.S military is actively engaged in two regions of conflict, Red Sea (Israel-Hamas war) and Ukraine (Russia-Ukraine conflict) it seems stunning the Defense Secretary was out of commission and the White House was never aware.
Then again, considering the oft spoken arguments about the Joe Biden administration essentially operating without any command-and-control authority, meaning each institution is operating on their own priority system and Joe Biden is not a participant in government, perhaps this is just another affirmational data point.
Lastly, perhaps this level of detachment reconciles THIS STORY.
Over 900 thousand migrants have crossed the border legally over the last year and over 600 thousand have crossed illegally. It is estimated at about 105 million migrants to have crossed over the border in just a year according to a Biden- appointed secretary. It has been an ongoing issue of seeking shelter across the U.S while also trying to seek medical attention. According to an article in AP News, there is no system in place to keep record of migrants who seek medical attention. They rely on volunteer doctors to see them. When you have a bunch of people in these shelters, some sick and others not- it is easy to have illnesses spread, and they will spread fast. A rough estimate from Cook County of how many migrants have been treated is around 14 thousand. This is costing the clinic about $2.2 million a month. Said best by Garcia, whom works for the Migrants Clinitians Network, “You have what were essentially healthy people put in really remarkable circumstances, where they are not able to survive thoroughly and then they come across (the border) in a really compromised state.”
The way that we should be looking at this is- why open borders and not have specific plans and guidelines set in place for these migrants? I just do not understand how 1.5 million people, both legal and illegal, can come into the U.S when we can’t even get my employees in the country from Europe. Cities like Chicago are dealing with a huge surge of migrants, most of which are sleeping in tents on the streets. Mayor Brandon Johnson has said that he will be flying out to Washington to speak with the Biden Administration, seeking for them to help out more during this crisis. It is a bit crazy to realize that the Biden Administration were the ones to open up these borders yet have not administered much help for the after effects. Our government does a really good job at sticking their noses in other countries before even helping out our own country.
Posted originally on the CTH on October 27, 2023 | Menagerie
I am in serious sourdough bread making mode now, as I usually am in the fall and winter. The urge to get my sourdough starter going usually hits the first brisk morning in September, but it was late coming this year due to our extended Indian summer.
I am looking for good soup recipes, maybe some fall vegetable and grain bowl ideas. Please share recipes and any requests you have!
The border crisis that we have in the United States is part of the cycle of disease that our model has been projecting. In late May, Sarasota County, Florida, health officials confirmed that they had identified a case of locally transmitted malaria. Then a second confirmed case appeared on June 23 rd in Texas, discovered in Cameron County. There are several thousand cases of malaria in the USA each year, but these are contracted overseas – not locally. A mosquito contracts it by biting a person who has malaria and then it bites another person giving them malaria. There have been ABSOLUTELY ZERO domestic malaria cases in over 20 years.
The source of this disease is clearly the migrants that Biden has been letting in in hopes of granting them citizenship so they can vote for him in the 2024 election against working Americans. The other plan is to offer them citizenship by signing up for the military since our volunteer army is understaffed. Those reasons aside, this mass migration comes with zero health requirements but then an employer cannot hire someone who does not have a SS# to pay taxes. Hence, they are here for a free ride.
A simple review of history reveals that such massive waves of disease with drastic death rates have ALWAYS, and without exception, been mostly linked to war where soldiers are sent to fight in foreign lands and bring home with them a new plague and mass migrations.
During the 14th century, rumors of a great plague in China and India killed most of their population. The plague made its way to Europe when the Kipchak forces besieged the Genoese trading post in Crimea – the disputed territory in Ukraine. The Kipchaks began to catapult plague-infested corpses over the walls and into the trading post. The disease spread quickly, and the Genoese abandoned the outpost. They sailed back to Europe, stopping in Sicily in 1347, taking back the Black Death. From there, it quickly engulfed all of Europe.
The Black Death occurred during Edward III’s reign (1327-1377), and contemporary accounts place the devastation between 30% and 50% of the population throughout Europe. Human nature never changes throughout the centuries. Just as we saw during COVID how they pushed Pfizer’s vaccines and refused to acknowledge the side-effects that even killed many, they demonized the unvaccinated. The very same took place during the Black Death.
While it was the “unvaccinated” during COVID, they blamed the Jews during the Black Death. Indeed, the Jewish population of Europe was turned into the spreader of the plague between 1347-1350. The Jews were accused of creating and spreading the plague (Cantor 2001; In the Wake of the Plague. Simon and Schuster, New York, NY.)
In Spain, Germany, and Italy, Jewish families were marked with distinctive clothing, isolated, and killed. Hitler was not the first to require distinctive clothing to identify the Jews. He got the idea from the Black Death. When the plague hit southern France in 1348, the hatred of the Jewish people was unleashed. Four Jewish citizens were dragged from their houses and burned at the stake on the mere accusation that they had poisoned the town’s water supply with plague.
The initial charges of spreading the plague in southern France led to an outbreak of accusations and an explosion of death where more than 2,000 Jews were burned alive in France and Germany (Tuchman 1978; A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century. Ballantine Books, New York, NY.) With COVID, they were using the status of being unvaccinated as an anti-government rebel who would not comply.
Once the Jews became the scapegoats during the Black Death, that distinction remained for centuries. The Spanish King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella (1474-1504) initially tried to protect the Jewish population from the Spanish Inquisition about 100 years later because of their economic importance throughout the country as moneylenders. Nevertheless, there was no return to normal once society had been divided during the Black Death, even 100 years later. Thus, blaming the Jews continued, eventually leading to The Spanish Inquisition in 1478. This is what we need to fear that the division within society between the vaccinated and non-vaccinated will remain a strategy employed by our governments for decades to come. They were restricting travel to required vaccination because the unvaccinated were people who resisted tyranny. The Black Death divided society, as we have seen during COVID. We will see this rise again as we will also see lockdowns to protect the government now firmly in control of the Neocons.
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The document above was issued by Washington, D.C., on September 26, 1918, in response to the Spanish flu. The document states that the virus circulates annually in the US but is “more contagious during an epidemic, and pneumonia is a more frequent complication.”It explicitly states: “do not get hysterical over the epidemic.” That is the opposite of what they did during COVID against all medical norms. The government in 1918 admitted the virus only lasted a short time outside the body and suggested that people avoid those sick or having sick persons directly sneeze or cough on them (seems very fair). Wash your hands, stay home if you are sick, sleep, and eat well. Fresh air helps. “Fight the disease rationally and do not become unduly alarmed.” We were told during the experimental COVID tyranny to lock down, do not go outside, and cash was now lethal. These were all manipulations to prepare us for authoritarian rule and the elimination of paper money.
Throughout history, both migrations and war spread disease. Our cyclical models correlate the two stunningly. The Antonine Plague, sometimes referred to as the Plague of Galen, erupted in 165 AD, at the height of Roman power throughout the Mediterranean world during the reign of Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (161-180AD). The first phase of the outbreak would last until 180AD affecting the entirety of the Roman Empire. The Antonine Plague of 165 to 180AD was the first known pandemic impacting the Roman Empire. It was most likely contracted by soldiers who were returning from campaigns in the Near East and spread throughout the empire.
That was the same correlation we found with the Black Death taken to Crimea by the invading forces from Asia. The Antonine Plague most likely took the life of Roman Emperor Lucius Verus. According to the Roman historian Cassius Dio, the disease broke out again nine years later, in 189 AD. That time he said, it caused up to 2,000 deaths per day in Rome itself. The total death count at the time ranged between 5 and 10 million. About 25% of those who contracted the plague died. This amounted to about 10% of the population being reduced.
The next plague came in 251-266 AD and is known as the Plague of Cyprian, taking its name from St. Cyprian, the bishop of Carthage who witnessed and described the plague. Some historians have suggested that this plague also represents a useful starting point for understanding the beginning of the decline of the Roman Empire in the West and the underpinning of its ultimate fall. Once again, it was brought from Asia by invading armies. Emperor Trajan Decius (249-251AD) and his oldest son Herennius Etruscus (251AD) were killed in battle against the invading Goths. His youngest son, Hostilian (251 AD), died of the plague they brought with them to the Roman Empire.
This coin was issued by Trebonianus Gallus (251-253AD), appealing to Apollo Salutaris, who was believed to have been the god of healing to save the Empire. The Plague of Cyprian infected the Roman Empire from about 249 to 262 AD. It is not known precisely what it was. But from the description, it may have been smallpox, measles, or a viral hemorrhagic fever like Ebola. We know that this plague weakened Rome during the 3rd century, causing a widespread decline in the workforce. That resulted in food shortages and for lack of manpower to produce food for the Roman army. This contributed greatly to the collapse of the 3rd century and the price inflation in food as we are experiencing today.
The next disease cycle was during the reign of Byzantine Emperor Justinian I (527-565AD) and is thus known as the Plague of Justinian (541-542AD). This was the third major plague that struck during the 6th century. Research has been conducted on skeletons that have survived. It has been confirmed that DNA from Yersinia pestis—the same bacterium responsible for the Black Death. This plague also became a pandemic that spread throughout the Mediterranean region, yet it coincided with a Volcanic Winter, reducing the food supply. A mysterious cloud appeared over the Mediterranean basin, according to the historian Procopius of Caesarea (Procopius Caesarensis; c. 500-560 AD), who wrote:
“The sun gave forth its light without brightness, and it seemed exceedingly like the sun in eclipse, for the beams it shed were not clear.”
This was a volcanic cloud that blocked the sun setting in motion climate cooling for more than a decade. Crops failed, and there was widespread famine. This deadly combination of disease and climate change cooling set in motion a death spiral that swept through the Eastern Roman Empire killing 5,000 to 10,000 people per day in Constantinople.
War and migration have been the catalyst for disease. Why? The movement of populations from one region to another has historically spread disease. Even when the Europeans visited America, they brought diseases that killed many Indians. The National Institutes of Health estimated that 95 percent of the indigenous populations in the Americas were killed by infectious diseases during the years following European colonization, amounting to an estimated 20 million people. Likewise, Europeans who had sex with Indian women brought back to Europe Syphilis which did not previously exist in Europe.
Migrants sit in a boat during a rescue operation by the Italian navy off the coast of Sicily on Nov. 28. Italy is looking to revamp the way it handles the hundreds of thousands of migrants who arrive annually.
The massive migrations both in Europe and the United States are also impacting the disease cycle. What is fascinating is that there were exactly 86 years between the Antonine Plague and the Plague of Cyprian. There were about 34 intervals of 8.6 years until the first signs of the major event of the Justinian Plague, but this was also impacted by climate change and the plunge in temperatures.
The US Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA) is already developing a vaccine for monkeypox. Although the disease may seem novel, the first reported outbreak in monkeys occurred in 1958, and the first human infection was reported in the 1970s in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). According to the Centers for Diseases and Prevention (CDC), the virus is transmitted to humans through direct animal-to-human or human-to-human contact. Before they change the transmission guidelines, I will report what they stated on their website:
“Transmission of monkeypox virus occurs when a person comes into contact with the virus from an animal, human, or materials contaminated with the virus. The virus enters the body through broken skin (even if not visible), respiratory tract, or the mucous membranes (eyes, nose, or mouth). Animal-to-human transmission may occur by bite or scratch, bush meat preparation, direct contact with body fluids or lesion material, or indirect contact with lesion material, such as through contaminated bedding. Human-to-human transmission is thought to occur primarily through large respiratory droplets. Respiratory droplets generally cannot travel more than a few feet, so prolonged face-to-face contact is required. Other human-to-human methods of transmission include direct contact with body fluids or lesion material, and indirect contact with lesion material, such as through contaminated clothing or linens.”
The disease can reportedly occur through sexual encounters as well. This is NOT an airborne virus – masks and lockdowns would be useless. Cases of the virus are appearing throughout the world, but again, this virus was never limited to one continent. In 2003, 47 cases of monkeypox were reported in the US after pet prairie dogs became infected after being housed with small animals imported from Ghana.
BARDA plans to release JYNNEOS, a smallpox vaccine, to treat monkeypox cases by 2023. The company has already produced almost 13 million freeze-dried doses of the vaccine that are expected to be manufactured in 2024 and 2025.
President and CEO of Bavarian Nordic Paul Chaplin said, “We are pleased to announce the exercise of the first options under our contract with the US government to deliver a freeze-dried version of the smallpox vaccine with an improved shelf-life, which will be manufactured at our new fill and finish facility. This marks a significant milestone in our long-standing partnership with the US government to ensure availability of life-saving vaccines for the entire population.”
The European Medicines Agency approved the medication to treat monkeypox in 2013, and the FDA quietly approved its usage in 2019. Since this seems to be a rare illness, why are they planning to manufacture millions of doses to save “the entire population?” The media has only just begun reporting cases of the virus, and it would not be surprising if they pushed yet another unnecessary vaccine on the global population for profit and control.
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