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Adventures With Danno, AM 8/20/25
"Massive Changes at Dollar Tree"
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So, we rise from the rubble...
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"Martin Armstrong: The War Cycle Is Peaking — What Comes Next Will Shock the West"
Kerry Lutz's Financial Survival Network, 8/19/25
"Martin Armstrong: The War Cycle Is Peaking -
What Comes Next Will Shock the West"
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"Judge Napolitano: The U.S. Will Go Bankrupt, Collapse & Break Up"
A Must View!
Glenn Diesen, 8/19/25
"Judge Napolitano:
The U.S. Will Go Bankrupt, Collapse & Break Up"
"Judge Napolitano discusses how the deep state, unsustainable debt and foreign wars will cause the collapse and breakup of America. Napolitano is a former New Jersey Superior Court Judge and the Host of Judging Freedom with Judge Napolitano."
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Gerald Celente, "Truth Or Consequences?"
Strong language alert!
Gerald Celente, 8/19/25
"Truth Or Consequences? Trump Said Putin
Must Agree To Ceasefire Deal Or Face Severe Consequences"
"The Trends Journal is a weekly magazine analyzing global current events forming future trends. Our mission is to present Facts and Truth over fear and propaganda to help subscribers prepare for What’s Next in these increasingly turbulent times."
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"Californians Invade Alabama, Cutting Down My Cost Of Living"
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Jeremiah Babe, 8/19/25
"Californians Invade Alabama,
Cutting Down My Cost Of Living"
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"A Deep Look to the Heavens"
"In 2003, the Hubble Space Telescope took the image of a millenium, an image that shows our place in the universe. Anyone who understands what this image represents, is forever changed by it."- YouTube/NASA
"It helps to put things in perspective here on our frenetic little planet with a look at this extraordinarily powerful and moving video of the Hubble Space Telescope mapping of the Universe, whose known size is 78 billion light years across. The video of the images is the equivalent of using a "time machine" to look into the past to witness the early formation of galaxies, perhaps less than one billion years after the universe's birth in the Big Bang.
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The video includes mankind's deepest, most detailed optical view of the universe called the Hubble Deep Field (HDF). One of the stunning images was assembled from 342 separate exposures taken with the Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 (WFPC2) for ten consecutive days. Representing a narrow "keyhole" view stretching to the visible horizon of the universe, the HDF image covers a speck of the sky only about the width of a dime located 75 feet away. Though the field is a very small sample of the heavens, it is considered representative of the typical distribution of galaxies in space because the universe, statistically, looks largely the same in all directions. Gazing into this small field, Hubble uncovered a bewildering assortment of at least 1,500 galaxies at various stages of evolution.
Most of the galaxies are so faint (nearly 30th magnitude or about four-billion times fainter than can be seen by the human eye) they have never before been seen by even the largest telescopes. Some fraction of the galaxies in this menagerie probably date back to nearly the beginning of the universe. "The variety of galaxies we see is amazing. In time these Hubble data could turn out to be the double helix of galaxy formation. We are clearly seeing some of the galaxies as they were more than ten billion years ago, in the process of formation," said Robert Williams, Director of the Space Telescope Science Institute Baltimore, Maryland. "As the images have come up on our screens, we have not been able to keep from wondering if we might somehow be seeing our own origins in all of this."
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"When I heard the learn’d astronomer,
When the proofs, the figures, were ranged
in columns before me,
When I was shown the charts and diagrams,
to add, divide, and measure them,
When I sitting heard the astronomer where
he lectured with much applause in the lecture-room,
How soon unaccountable I became tired and sick,
Till rising and gliding out I wander’d off by myself,
In the mystical moist night-air, and from time to time,
Look’d up in perfect silence at the stars."
- Walt Whitman
The Poet: Grace Schulman, “Blessed Is The Light”
“Blessed Is The Light”
“Blessed is the light that turns to fire, and blessed the flames
that fire makes of what is burns.
Blessed the inexhaustible sun, for it feeds the moon that
shines but does not burn.
Praised be hot vapors in earth's crust, for they force up
mountains that explode as molten rock and cool like
love remembered.
Holy is the sun that strikes sea, for surely as water burns
life and death are one. Holy the sun, maker of change,
for it melts ice into water that bruises mountains, honing
peaks and carving gullies.
Sacred is the mountain that promises permanence but
changes, planed by rockslides, cut by avalanche,
crushed, eroded, leeched for minerals.
Sacred the rock that spins for centuries before it shines,
governed by gravity, burning into sight near earth's
orbit, for it rises falling, surviving night.
Behold the arcs your eyes make when you speak. Behold
the hands, white fire. Branches of pine, holding votive
candles, they command, disturbed by wind, the fire that
sings in me.
Blessed is whatever alters, turns, revolves, just as the gods
move when the mind moves them.
Praised be the body, our bodies, that lie down and open
and rise, falling in flame.”
~ Grace Schulman
"The Russia They Don’t Want You To See! Moscow Streets, Beauty & People"
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Window To Moscow, 8/19/25
"The Russia They Don’t Want You To See!
Moscow Streets, Beauty & People"
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"An Insufficiency Of Data..."
“Experience is a poor guide to man, and is seldom followed. A man really learns little by it, for it is narrowly limited in range. What does a faithful husband know of women, or a faithful wife of men? The generalizations of such persons are always inaccurate. What really teaches man is not experiences, but observation. It is observation that enables him to make use of the vastly greater experience of other men, of men taken in the mass. He learns by noting what happens to them. Confined to what happens to himself, he labors eternally under an insufficiency of data.”
- H.L. Mencken
"Who Wants to Live Forever?"
"Who Wants to Live Forever?"
by Mark Manson
"Each week, I send you three potentially life-changing ideas to help you be a slightly less awful human being. This week, we’re talking about topics that are a matter of life and death. No seriously, we’re talking about life and death this week: 1) the scientific progress in "treating" aging, 2) what a vastly longer lifespan would mean for culture and society, and 3) why do things die in the first place? Let’s get into it.
1. Can aging be reversed? - One of the more quietly controversial and interesting areas of scientific progress today is around the idea that biological aging can be treated as a disease and potentially be reversed. For years, researchers have been pioneering methods to limit cellular deterioration, stave off chronic diseases, and help older individuals stay healthy and independent as life expectancies rise.
A new study found that a cocktail of drugs not only slowed biological aging (measured by markers on the individual’s genome), it reversed it by approximately 2.5 years. To my knowledge, this is the first time an aging reversal has been shown in human subjects. This is a stunning result that even the researchers did not expect. (Note: it was a small study and had no control group, so don’t wet your panties just yet. As always, more studies need to be done.)
As with most bleeding-edge technologies, the idea that we can defeat aging, like most controversial ideas, has inspired reactions from experts that range from utopian to apocalyptic.
I was first exposed to the idea that aging could potentially be conquered by science in Ray Kurzweil’s book "The Singularity is Near." In it, Kurzweil's’ views are beyond utopian. They're like the religious rapture. In the book, Kurzweil makes the argument that not only will we cure death, but it will likely happen in most of our lifetimes.
Kurzweil points out that over human history, not only has life expectancy been increasing, but the rate at which it increases has been increasing as well. So, maybe centuries ago, life expectancy increased at a rate of 0.01 years per year. Then, it increased to 0.1 per year. Then 0.2 per year. Then 0.3 per year. He argues that eventually, life expectancy will hit a tipping point where it increases by at least one year per year, meaning that for every year that goes by, humans are expected to live at least one year longer. Ergo, we all become immortal. The end.
Maybe Kurzweil hasn’t spent much time investing in financial markets, otherwise, he’d be aware of the ubiquitous warning that accompanies every exciting chart: "Warning: Past performance is no guarantee of future results."
Indeed, there seems to be a "low-hanging fruit" effect on human longevity. It turns out that giving most of the world running water, sewage treatment, and, you know, food, vastly increases lifespan. So that "exponential curve" of increasing life expectancy that forever increases into the future is more likely an "S-curve" where life expectancy jumps massively as countries industrialize and modernize and then begin to level off at around 75-80 years old.
But regardless of the murky science and controversial implications, the lure of immortality is too strong for many to ignore. Companies have emerged that offer to cryogenically freeze your body when you die, promising to keep you frozen until the technology to "cure death" emerges in the future.
No, I’m not making this stuff up. Apparently, some notable people such as Larry King and Peter Thiel have signed up for it. But don’t get too excited. Freezing your body indefinitely after death starts at around $200,000 USD. Better start saving today!
2. Who wants to live forever? - In my book, "Everything is F***ed: A Book About Hope", I argued that one of the dangers of consumer culture is that we often equate "giving people what they want" with progress. Given that we so often want things that are terrible for ourselves (not to mention others), I point out that this is a pretty flimsy standard for measuring the social good.
To me, curing aging (and maybe even death) is the ultimate question of, "Okay, we definitely want it… but should we?"
It’s hard to imagine the social and psychological repercussions of a population where the average life expectancy is, say, 250 years old. Would we overpopulate the planet? When would the retirement age be? Would our healthcare systems collapse? Would bridge and bingo become Olympic sports?
I joke, but I do think there are some serious philosophical questions here. Our ability to value things is driven by scarcity. We often care about things in our lives because we have an abiding sense that we will never experience them again. If we live forever, all experience becomes abundant, therefore much of it loses its meaning. Everything becomes more superficial—there’s no sense of legacy, no sense of, "I lived for that."
Or what about family? Will it become standard for everyone to have half a dozen marriages and a dozen kids? Will people have brothers and sisters 70 years younger or older than themselves? Will we appreciate our parents more or less knowing that we’re stuck with them for another two centuries and will end up sharing them with dozens of other people?
The perceived costs of things like traffic accidents, disease, and war would become much larger. Far fewer people would want to risk getting shot or dying in a car accident if they know they’re giving up hundreds of years of life. People would oddly become much more risk-averse. Pandemics would be waaaay scarier. The power of compound interest would become far more valuable, creating much more of a culture around saving and learning rather than spending and doing. Expertise would reach a point where people spend 30 or 40 years getting educated before starting their careers. Forty really would be the new twenty!
3. The evolutionary value of death - You might read all this and throw your hands up in the air and shout, "What are they doing? This isn’t natural!" But you’d be wrong.
Although they are rare, there are "immortal" species on the planet (in this case, "immortal" means that they do not biologically age.) The jellyfish Turritopsis dohrnii doesn’t die. Neither does the bristlecone pine tree. Many species of lobster technically don’t age and could theoretically live forever, the problem is that they outgrow their shells which then decay and fall apart, leaving them vulnerable to predators (talk about tragic).
Lifespans vary widely across the natural world. Some sharks and tortoises live for half a millennia. There are species of apes that only live to be about 15 years old. There are several species of flies that live for 24 hours or less.
It turns out that death is not inevitable. In fact, death exists for a specific evolutionary purpose. Ideally, by mixing and matching genetics, a species becomes more robustly adapted to its environment. The quicker individual creatures die, the faster they must procreate new generations, and the faster the rate of genetic mutation and adaptation within the species.
Therefore, each species has a "sweet spot" for lifespan based on the necessary evolutionary adaptation to its environment. If a species needs to adapt quickly and often, it dies quickly and often. If it needs to adapt slowly (or never), then it dies slowly (or never).
That "sweet spot" for humans seems to be every 2-3 generations, or every 80-100 years. The telomeres on our chromosomes appear to "run out" soon after that, effectively putting a limit on how long we can live naturally. This sweet spot probably exists because it’s short enough to stay ahead of the quickly mutating infectious diseases that threaten us, but long enough to have some grandparents around to help raise kids (for more on this idea, see Matt Ridley’s excellent book, "The Red Queen").
A lot has been said about the scientific potential to alter our own species - genetic engineering, nanotechnology, artificial intelligence, etc. But perhaps nothing would be so fundamental as altering our ability to age and die. Our psychology, our biology, and our societies seem to be largely based on it. Changing it could change everything. The question is, will we be around to see it?"
"We Are Trapped In A Truman Show Directed By Psychopaths" (Excerpt)
"We Are Trapped In A Truman Show
Directed By Psychopaths"
by Jim Quinn
Excerpt: “Whether in actual fact the policy of the boot-on-the-face can go on indefinitely seems doubtful. My own belief is that the ruling oligarchy will find less arduous and wasteful ways of governing and of satisfying its lust for power, and these ways will resemble those which I described in Brave New World. Within the next generation I believe that the world’s rulers will discover that infant conditioning and narco-hypnosis are more efficient, as instruments of government, than clubs and prisons, and that the lust for power can be just as completely satisfied by suggesting people into loving their servitude as by flogging and kicking them into obedience.” - Aldous Huxley, letter to George Orwell about "1984" in 1949
“There will be, in the next generation or so, a pharmacological method of making people love their servitude, and producing dictatorship without tears, so to speak, producing a kind of painless concentration camp for entire societies, so that people will in fact have their liberties taken away from them, but will rather enjoy it, because they will be distracted from any desire to rebel by propaganda or brainwashing, or brainwashing enhanced by pharmacological methods. And this seems to be the final revolution” - Aldous Huxley
When I step back from the day-to-day minutia and trivialities flooding my senses from all directions and media devices, it almost appears as if I’m living in a highly scripted reality TV program where the characters and plots are designed to create passions and reactions to support whatever narrative is being weaved by those directing the show. Huxley really did foresee the future as clearly and concisely as anyone could, decades before his dystopian vision came to fruition.
Orwell’s boot on the face vision is only now being initiated because a few too many critical thinkers have awoken from their pharmaceutically induced stupor and begun to question the plotline of this spectacle masquerading as our reality. The mass formation psychosis infecting the weak-minded masses; relentless mass propaganda designed to mislead, misinform, and brainwash a dumbed down and government indoctrinated populace; and complete control of the story line through media manipulation, regulation, and censorship of the truth; has run its course. As Charles Mackay stated 180 years ago, the masses go mad as a herd, but only regain their senses slowly, and one by one.
My recognition that the world seems to be scripted and directed by Machiavellian managers, working behind a dark shroud, representing an invisible governing authority, molding our minds, suggesting our ideas, dictating our tastes, and creating fear, triggered a recollection of the 1998 Jim Carrey movie – "The Truman Show." The movie, directed by Peter Weir (Gallipoli, Witness, Dead Poet’s Society), had the surreal feel of Forest Gump, while beckoning the horrendous introduction of reality TV (Big Brother, Survivor), which poisons our shallow unserious society to this day. The plot of the movie focuses on individuality versus conformity, consumerism, voyeurism, reality versus manipulation, false narratives, the truth about the American Dream, and the dangers of surveillance in a technologically advanced society."
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"We Don't have A Clue..."
“We don’t have a clue what’s really going down, we just kid ourselves that we’re in control of our lives while a paper’s thickness away things that would drive us mad if we thought about them for too long play with us, and move us around from room to room, and put us away at night when they’re tired, or bored.”
- Neil Gaiman
“O, wonder! How many goodly creatures are there here!
How beauteous mankind is!
O, brave new world, That has such people in't!”
- William Shakespeare, “The Tempest” (V, 1)
“Till at last the child's mind is these suggestions, and the sum of the suggestions is the child's mind. And not the child's mind only. The adult's mind too - all his life long. The mind that judges and desires and decides - made up of these suggestions. But all these suggestions are our suggestions...” - “Brave New World: Suggestions from the State”
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"Kash Patel Exposed One Awful Secret About The FBI’s Corruption Probe Into The Clintons"
"Kash Patel Exposed One Awful Secret About
The FBI’s Corruption Probe Into The Clintons"
by Conservative Underground News
"The deep state always claimed they were just doing their jobs. They insisted politics never influenced their investigations. But Kash Patel just exposed one awful secret about the FBI’s corruption probe into the Clintons.
FBI Director reveals bombshell memo detailing Clinton Foundation obstruction: FBI Director Kash Patel dropped a political bombshell that has Washington, D.C. reeling. Patel released a declassified 2017 memo that chronicles in devastating detail how Barack Obama’s Department of Justice systematically obstructed FBI investigations into Hillary Clinton’s pay-to-play corruption scheme involving the Clinton Foundation during the 2016 election.¹
The memo reveals that federal agents in New York City, Little Rock, Arkansas, and Washington, D.C. all faced unprecedented political interference from their own bosses when they tried to investigate whether Clinton engaged in criminal corruption while serving as Secretary of State. What they found was a coordinated effort from the very top to protect Hillary Clinton at all costs.
The timeline shows that as early as February 2016 – right as the presidential race was heating up – Obama’s Justice Department “indicated they would not be supportive of an FBI investigation” into the Clinton Foundation. That’s bureaucrat-speak for “shut it down or else.” But it gets worse.
Sally Yates demanded agents “shut it down”: The memo reveals that Sally Yates – the same acting attorney general Donald Trump fired at the start of his first presidency – personally demanded that prosecutors “shut it down” when it came to the Clinton Foundation investigation. This wasn’t some routine bureaucratic decision. This was a direct order from Obama’s top deputy to kill an investigation that could have destroyed Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign.
Meanwhile, then-Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe was running interference from inside the Bureau. The timeline shows McCabe ordered in mid-February 2016 that “no overt investigative steps” could be taken in the Clinton Foundation investigation “without his approval” – a command he repeated numerous times over the coming months.⁴ Think about the timing here.
Hillary Clinton was running for President, and Obama’s Justice Department was actively sabotaging investigations into her potential criminal activity. But here’s what really exposes their hypocrisy – at the exact same time they were shutting down the Clinton investigation, they opened “Crossfire Hurricane” against Donald Trump based on minimal evidence and ran with it for years.
FBI agents found evidence of foreign bribery scheme: The most damning revelation is what the FBI agents actually found before Obama’s Justice Department shut them down. According to the memo, FBI investigations in Little Rock and New York “included predication based on source reporting that identified foreign governments that had made, or offered to make, contributions to the Foundation in exchange for favorable or preferential treatment from Clinton.”⁵
Let that sink in. Federal agents had evidence that foreign governments were bribing Hillary Clinton through her family foundation while she was Secretary of State. They had sources reporting on a pay-to-play corruption scheme involving America’s top diplomat. And Obama’s Justice Department killed the investigation anyway.
Special Counsel John Durham later confirmed that the FBI had legitimate grounds for investigating the Clinton Foundation based on “source reporting” about foreign government contributions made in exchange for favorable treatment. Despite that evidence, Obama’s DOJ officials made it clear they “would not be supportive of an FBI investigation” starting February 1, 2016. The message was crystal clear – protect Hillary Clinton at all costs, even if it means ignoring evidence of criminal activity.
The timeline exposes Obama’s deep state protection racket: The declassified timeline reads like a how-to guide for political obstruction of justice. Federal prosecutors in the Southern District of New York and Eastern District of New York announced in August 2016 that they “would not support the investigation” into the Clinton Foundation, and according to the memo, “no explanation was given.” No explanation needed when you’re protecting the Democrat presidential nominee.
Even after Trump won the 2016 election, Obama holdovers continued the cover-up. The timeline shows that Justice Department officials under Trump began raising their “concerns regarding the statute of limitations” around the investigation, with one unnamed official saying they “wanted to close this chapter and move forward.” Translation: let’s sweep this under the rug and pretend it never happened.
But Kash Patel isn’t playing that game. By releasing this memo, he’s exposing the coordinated effort by Obama’s Justice Department to protect Hillary Clinton from criminal prosecution while simultaneously launching bogus investigations against Donald Trump. The contrast couldn’t be more stark – they had actual evidence of Clinton Foundation corruption and killed it, while they had manufactured evidence against Trump and ran with it for years.
This proves the deep state was always real For years, Democrats and their media allies claimed the “deep state” was just a conspiracy theory cooked up by paranoid conservatives. They insisted that career government officials were just doing their jobs without political bias. Well, here’s your irrefutable proof that Obama’s Justice Department went completely off the rails to protect Hillary Clinton. As conservative commentator Larry O’Connor pointed out, the timeline is devastating:
February 2016 – DOJ signals it won’t support investigating the Clinton Foundation.
Mid-February 2016 – McCabe blocks all investigative steps without his approval.
June 2016 – Loretta Lynch secretly meets Bill Clinton on the tarmac.
July 2016 – James Comey announces no prosecution of Clinton.
October 2016 – McCabe leaks details of Clinton probe to damage Trump.
November 2016 – McCabe finally recuses himself days before the election.
At the exact same time, they opened Crossfire Hurricane against Trump within days based on virtually no evidence.
The fix was always in. Obama’s Justice Department wasn’t interested in equal justice under law – they were running a protection racket for Hillary Clinton while simultaneously trying to destroy Donald Trump. And now Attorney General Pam Bondi has authorized a strike force and grand jury to investigate possible criminal conspiracies tied to the 2016 suppression of the Clinton Foundation investigation.
The chickens are finally coming home to roost for Obama’s deep state operatives. After years of Democrats lecturing Americans about “institutional deference” and warning against the “weaponization” of the Justice Department, we now have documented proof that they weaponized the DOJ first – and they did it to rig a presidential election. The Obama administration didn’t just fail the American people – they betrayed the very concept of equal justice under law to protect their chosen successor. Kash Patel’s document release isn’t just exposing the past – it’s setting the stage for the accountability that should have happened years ago."
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You do remember the traditional penalty for treason, don't you?
"Only 17 Percent Of Young Adults In The U.S. In The 25 To 34 Age Bracket Have Attained The 5 Major Milestones Of Adulthood"
"Only 17 Percent Of Young Adults In The U.S. In The
25 To 34 Age Bracket Have Attained The 5 Major Milestones Of Adulthood"
by Michael Snyder
"What I am about to share with you is some of the clearest evidence yet that the middle class in America is being systematically destroyed. Young adults are forming middle class households at an extremely depressed rate, and that is because the American Dream is simply out of reach for most of them in this very harsh economic environment. If you can’t get a good job that pays an adequate wage, you aren’t going to be able to live a middle class lifestyle. Sadly, many older Americans simply do not understand how difficult things have become for our young adults in this day and age.
The Census Bureau has produced a paper entitled “Changes in Milestones of Adulthood” that absolutely blew me away. According to the Census Bureau, the 5 major milestones of adulthood are living away from your parents, completing your education, getting a job, marrying, and living with a child. Since 1975, the success that our young people have had in attaining these milestones has declined dramatically…
According to the working paper, “Changes in Milestones of Adulthood,” almost half of all young adults in 1975 had reached four milestones associated with adulthood: moving out of one’s parents’ home, getting a job, getting married and having a child. Five decades on, that progression has changed dramatically. The share of young adults that have followed the traditional pathway to adulthood has dropped to less than a quarter, according to the paper.
After reading that CBS News article, I had to go find the original paper. I found it on the official Census Bureau website, and it says that in 2023 only 17 percent of young adults had attained the 5 major milestones of adulthood…"In 2005, the most common combination was young adults who had all five milestones (about 26% experienced all five milestones). By 2023, however, the proportion of young adults who experienced all five markers of adulthood declined to about 17%, and young adults who reported only experiencing the three economic milestones of living away from parents, completing education, and participating in the labor force was the modal combination. Finally, the residual category in Figure 2 representing the proportion of young adults who experienced any other combination of milestones declined from 36% to 30%, suggesting that the experiences of young adults have become more homogeneous for contemporary cohorts."
17 percent! Just think about that. If our society was in good shape, most of our young adults would be in a position to achieve all 5 milestones by the age of 25. But our society is not in good shape. According to the Census Bureau paper, the primary reason why young adults are not achieving these milestones is because they are “facing economic barriers”…
"The reason for this, according to the paper, is that more young adults between the ages of 25 and 34 are facing economic barriers compared with previous generations. Changing societal attitudes around family formation are also contributing to the sharp decline in the share of young people reaching what the U.S. Census Bureau considers to be “key milestones.”
If I keep hitting people with more evidence day after day, maybe the skeptics will finally start getting it. Our young adults are not entering the middle class fast enough to replace the older middle class adults that are dying off. As a result, the middle class is steadily shrinking. To be a part of the middle class, you have to be able to get a middle class job. And right now the competition for middle class jobs among our young people is extremely fierce.
If you doubt this, just consider what a 23-year-old college graduate recently admitted to NBC News… “Every guy I know that is without a job right now wants to work, but they just can’t get it,” said Eli McCullick, who has been looking for a job for more than a year after he graduated with a degree in sociology from the University of Colorado Boulder. “It’s demoralizing for guys who really want to get ahead and it’s just not happening.”
McCullick, 23, said he hasn’t even been able to get an hourly job at a restaurant or doing cleaning work at a hotel in the Boulder area, where he’s living at a property his father owns. The only way he has been able to earn money to cover his food and daily expenses has been to do odd jobs for friends and relatives, like shoveling horse manure, mowing lawns and helping an older woman prepare for a yard sale."
There is no way that I would want to be a fresh college graduate looking for a job right now. It is terrible out there. Another recent college graduate told NBC News that nearly all of his friends are unemployed and living with their parents…"Sean Breen, who graduated this spring with a communications degree from California State University, Long Beach, said he and nearly all of his high school friends, both men and women, are back home living with their parents and unemployed. He said even those who went to top-ranked colleges and got seemingly in-demand degrees are unable to find work.
“It is like a high school reunion,” Breen said. “We’re all, we are back in Marin County this summer, all unemployed, all trying to find a barista job, a part-time something, because we haven’t found anything.” After having applied to hundreds of jobs, he said, Breen now plans to go to graduate school in the fall at Trinity College in Ireland, where tuition is significantly lower and, he hopes, jobs will be more plentiful."
This is the reality of what is really going on out there. Those that keep insisting that “everything is fine” just need to stop. The job market is freezing up and layoffs have absolutely skyrocketed compared to last year…"Layoffs have risen 140 percent from a year ago, a new report reveals. Companies have already announced more than 800,000 job cuts this year alone, the highest since the pandemic upended the economy in 2020. US-based employers cut 62,075 jobs in July compared to 25,885 in the same month last year."
Those numbers are staggering. Unfortunately, 62 percent of U.S. consumers believe that unemployment will continue to get even worse during the months ahead…About 62% of consumers believe unemployment will worsen in the year ahead, according to the University of Michigan’s latest monthly survey. That’s bounced around a little in the last few months, but consistently hung around levels not seen since the Great Recession.
Do you remember how difficult it was to get a good job during the Great Recession? Well, now we are entering a similar time. That may help to explain why “job hugging” has become a thing in 2025…"Job hugging is the act of holding onto a job “for dear life,” consultants at Korn Ferry, an organizational consulting firm, wrote last week. The rate at which workers are voluntarily leaving their jobs - known as the quits rate - has hovered around 2% since the start of the year, according to data from the U.S. Labor Department’s Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey. Outside of the initial days of the Covid-19 pandemic, levels haven’t been that consistently low since early 2016.
The quits rate is a barometer of workers’ perceptions of the broader labor market, said Laura Ullrich, director of economic research in North America at the Indeed Hiring Lab. In this case, they may be nervous about getting another job or aren’t enthusiastic about their ability to find one, she said."
If you have a job that you highly value, don’t let go. Hold on to it as tightly as you can, because if you lose it you may not find work again for a long time. A lot of people are shocked by what is happening, but the truth is that nobody should be surprised. There was no way that we were going to be able to defy the laws of economics forever. The inexorable march of time cannot be stopped, and our future is going to look a whole lot different than most people anticipated."
Gregory Mannarino, "Trump/Bessent Strengthen Their Ties To The Federal Reserve, Devilism Hidden In Plain Sight"
Gregory Mannarino, PM 8/19/25
"The FED Becomes The System!
They Just Took It Completely Over; Real Estate Is Collapsing"
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"Trump/Bessent Strengthen Their Ties To The Federal Reserve,
Devilism Hidden In Plain Sight"
by Gregory Mannarino
"CNBC: Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Tuesday he will begin interviewing candidates for Federal Reserve chair as soon as the White House whittles down what has suddenly become a crowded field. Bessent… “In terms of the interview process, we’ve announced 11 very strong candidates. I’m going to be meeting with them probably right after, Labor Day, and to start bringing down the list to present to President Trump,” he said. “It’s an incredible group.”
Ok…The Setup: Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent is openly aligning himself with Trump in the process of selecting the next Fed chair. He’s calling the list of 11 candidates “an incredible group.” (Which is code for loyalists who will push the agenda…) Trump/Bessent want a weaker dollar, lower rates, and endless debt expansion.
The Agenda: Trump has made it crystal clear that he wants a weaker dollar and much more artificial rate suppression. Bessent is the “bridge” between The Treasury and the Federal Reserve. Together, they’re pushing the Fed toward becoming not just a “central bank,” but the official liquidity machine of the government and markets. And with the Fed’s new powers, click HERE, its a set-up for a system of maximum control.
What Are The Implications? Simple… This is about consolidating Treasury + Fed = One Power. Think about it… The Treasury issues debt, the Fed buys it, The Treasury then buys back old debt. It’s a circular debt machine that only works as long as confidence holds. Think of a Snake eating it’s own tail).
Now, by Trump and Bessent locking in a new Fed chair who plays ball, Trump/Bessent ensure that the system runs deeper into a debt-saturation collapse… with lower rates, weaker dollar, higher inflation, and permanent intervention. This in turn will CRUSH whatever is left of the US economy, US small businesses, and the middle-class overall. (Think New-Feudalism).
The Danger: You, I, and yes foreign nations/investors holding US debt see what this really is… a rigged game, a Ponzi on life support. And they will accelerate de-dollarization. This is about binding the debt machine tighter than ever. It tells us one thing loud and clear, that the point of no return is behind us. That the system cannot stand on its own and it must be propped up by coordinated manipulation.
So What’s The Bottom Line? Trump + Bessent aren’t picking a Fed chair… they’re picking the chief operator of Babylon’s life-support machine. Looking for a single word to sum this all up? Devilism."
Dan, I Allegedly, "Get Ready to Pay Forever for Everything"
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"US Household Debt Explodes To Record Highs"
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Jeremiah Babe, "More Tiny Houses Are Selling Out In Texas"
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Is This The New American Dream Of Home Ownership?"
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"What does a brand-new, fully furnished apartment look like in Moscow, Russia? Join me on a tour of a 40-square-meter Russian Apartment. Could you live in an apartment on the 2nd level of this Moscow apartment? What is the apartment like inside?"
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