"112 Million Americans Can't Afford To Get Sick As Healthcare Costs Soar 600%"

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"112 Million Americans Can't Afford To Get 

Sick As Healthcare Costs Soar 600%"

by Epic Economist

"Most Americans are just a single illness away from losing everything. We all know that by now The United States has the most expensive healthcare system in the entire world. The shocking results of a recent survey just revealed that more than 122 million Americans can’t afford to get sick because of the insane costs of medical care in the U.S. In fact, healthcare debt is the No.1 reason why individuals file for bankruptcy in this country, and it is also one of the primary reasons why the U.S. middle class is disappearing so rapidly. All over the nation, families are being financially eviscerated by extremely high health insurance premiums, ridiculously high deductibles, and very large out-of-pocket expenses that were not anticipated – and all of this should serve as a major wake-up call for all of us. If significant changes aren’t made quickly, this out-of-control health care system will destroy the U.S. middle-class all by itself.

Healthcare in America is largely an unmitigated mess, experts say. Today, over 30 million Americans don’t have health insurance, and for people to have access to the medical care, they often have to navigate through a maddeningly tortuous and obscure bureaucracy. Even those who do have insurance can face wildly expensive medical bills that lead them to take on massive amounts of debt or even declare bankruptcy. Healthcare costs are still the number one reason for personal bankruptcy in the U.S.

A new survey published by the nonprofit, nonpartisan organization West Health and Gallup found that 112 million, or 44%, of American adults, are struggling to pay for healthcare, and more than double that number, 93%, feel that the quality of the service doesn’t match the cost. “The bottom line is that Americans are increasingly getting priced out of the system and many of those who can still afford to pay don’t think they’re getting their money’s worth relative to the cost,” researchers wrote.

Healthcare costs have been on a steep rise since the 1980s. Forbes recently published an analysis from U.S. Federal Government actuaries that shows Americans have some of the highest costs in the developed world; exceeding $4.3 trillion in 2021 alone. In the 1970s, health spending totaled $74.1 billion in 1970. By 2000, health expenditures had reached about $1.4 trillion, and in 2020 the amount spent on health tripled to $4.1 trillion.

On a per capita basis, health spending has increased sharply in the last five decades, from $353 per person in 1970 to $12,531 in 2020. In 2022, health insurance for a family of four is $28,000 – easily the cost of a car. Needless to say, that can be financially crippling for most U.S. households. About 46 million U.S. citizens carry medical debt on their credit reports, according to new research published in the Journal of the American Medical Association.

Because of the risk of facing a surprise medical bill, many people prefer not to receive any medical care at all, the West Health and Gallup survey reported. In the second quarter of 2022, 30% of Americans reported deferring medical care in the prior three months due to fear of the cost, a figure that has tripled since March 2021. But their decision can have serious consequences: The same survey found that 21% of adults said they or a household member experienced a health problem after deferring care due to cost.

“The velocity of change in the number of Americans who cannot afford health care is alarming. In a short time, we’ve witnessed healthcare affordability become an issue for most middle-income earners and even the nation’s wealthiest households. This goes to show the problem is growing larger and deeper,” the study highlights. The only way that we are going to have a thriving middle class is if we get healthcare costs under control, but unfortunately, we are stuck with this system for now. The healthcare industry is certainly not going to reform itself, and then by the way things are going in Washington, nothing is likely to get done for the foreseeable future. So our healthcare system is going to continue to deteriorate, and the citizens of the wealthiest country in the world will continue to travel to developing nations when they need important procedures to be done. A clear sign that America is failing us all."

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"You Have No Idea How Bad It's Going To Get; Credit Card Debt Explodes; Beware Of Payday Loans"

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Jeremiah Babe, 11/15/22:

"You Have No Idea How Bad It's Going To Get; 

Credit Card Debt Explodes; Beware Of Payday Loans"

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Musical Interlude: Walter Murphy, "A Fifth of Beethoven"

Walter Murphy, "A Fifth of Beethoven"

"A Look to the Heavens"

"Is this what will become of our Milky Way Galaxy? Perhaps if we collide with the Andromeda Galaxy in a few billion years, it might. Pictured below is NGC 7252, a jumble of stars created by a huge collision between two large galaxies. The collision will take hundreds of millions of years and so is effectively caught frozen in time in the above image. The resulting pandemonium has been dubbed the Atoms-for-Peace galaxy because of its similarity to a cartoon of a large atom. 

The above image was taken by the MPG/ESO 2.2 meter telescope in Chile. NGC 7252 spans about 600,000 light years and lies about 220 million light years away toward the constellation of the Water Bearer (Aquarius). Since the sideways velocity of the Andromeda Galaxy (M31) is presently unknown, no one really knows for sure if the Milky Way will ever collide with M31."

- http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap101116.html

"What We Owe To Ourselves..."

 

“That we can never know,” answered the wolf angrily. “That’s for the future. But what we can know is the importance of what we owe to the present. Here and now, and nowhere else. For nothing else exists, except in our minds. What we owe to ourselves, and to those we’re bound to. And we can at least hope to make a better future, for everything.”

- David Clement Davies

"I Am An Enemy..."

“Our laws make law impossible; our liberties destroy all freedom; our property is organized robbery; our morality an impudent hypocrisy; our wisdom is administered by inexperienced or mal-experienced dupes; our power wielded by cowards and weaklings; and our honor false in all its points. I am an enemy of the existing order for good reasons.”

- George Bernard Shaw

“The Individual vs. The Illusion Of Consensus Reality”

“The Individual vs. The Illusion Of Consensus Reality”

by Jon Rappoport

“This is such a supercharged subject, I could start from a dozen places. But let’s begin here: the individual is unique, because he is he. He is unique because he has his own ideas, because he has his own desires, because he has his own power. That power belongs to no one else. In particular, it doesn’t belong to the State. The State will try, will always try to suggest that it is granting power to the individual, but this is a lie. It’s an illusion broadcast with ill-intent. While everyone else is trying to manufacture connections to the group, under the banner of a false sense of community, the individual is going in the opposite direction.

Philip K Dick: “Insanity - to have to construct a picture of one’s life, by making inquiries of others.”

Consensus reality is the reality of sacrifice. It is coagulating energy, form, content, substance that takes on amorphous shapes studded with slots into which people can fit themselves.

The independent individual thinks what he wants to think. Over time, he keeps graduating into new, more nearly unique levels of what he wants to think. He rises above the group. He rises to his own thoughts.

There is no subject and no substance which is not infiltrated by consensus reality. Wherever you look, you will encounter it. The group is the basis of consensus reality, and the group pact extends everywhere. The group fears a sector where only individual thought can tread. That would be dangerous to the illusion. “Well, we’ve got things well in hand in most places, but over there and over here we’re not in charge. A different kind of reality pervades.” No, that doesn’t work for the group. The exceptions would blow a hole in the rule.

“Stay away from the corner of Lexington Avenue and 34th Street. Something too weird is going on there. We come in and try to inject consensus on that spot and it doesn’t work. Our “sharing” energy bounces off that corner. We may have to call in the troops to surround the place and cordon it off.” Alert! Alert! Consensus reality is breaking down in Sector 328-A! Locate the problem! This is an emergency! Bring in the news team to shore up the illusion! Turn on the hypnosis machines! Group consensus is fraying and fragmenting in Area 768-B! Call the professors and pundits! Discredit the individual! Call him a monster! Do something fast!

Consensus reality is an illusion in the sense that you can see it and I can see it, but we didn’t sign up for it. That’s the catch. Take any area of life, and I mean any, and that’s the case. Wherever there is tight consensus, perception ensues. That’s the whole point. “We, the group, aren’t fooling around. When we sign a pact among ourselves, we intend everybody to see what we decide is there to see.”

So you, the individual, can opt out. That doesn’t necessarily mean the consensus disappears; you can still see it, but you see it without accepting it. You can see the oasis in the desert, which is a mirage, but because you have your own bottle of water, you don’t have to run toward the mirage and fall down on your knees and try to drink from the pool.

Philip K. Dick: “Because today we live in a society in which spurious realities are manufactured by the media, by governments, by big corporations, by religious groups, political groups… increasingly, we are bombarded with pseudo-realities manufactured by very sophisticated electronic mechanisms… And this is an astounding power: that of creating whole universes, universes of the mind. I ought to know. I do the same thing.”

The strong and free individual evolves. He doesn’t stay the same. He doesn’t know everything worth knowing today. He knows enough, but not everything. He continues to emerge with new ideas, new energy, new invention. He becomes larger. He gains more power.

When the illusion of consensus reality attains a level beyond mere slogan, it enters the realm of systems. This is its most convincing format. A system appears to be watertight. Each one of its parts has relations with the whole. This is interesting, because that mirrors what a group is. Each member is a part that connects to the whole. Consensus as a system is like a game of chess that plays the same moves over and over. Game one is the same as game two, three, four… That’s where its illusion of power comes from.

The individual, though, doesn’t proceed according to systems. He isn’t moving from one closed context to another. That’s the group. The individual may retain the same general principles over time, but what he does and thinks strikes out into new territories. Because he creates. There is no individual without creating.

Consensus is the coin of the realm. It is forced from the top, and it is signed up for at the bottom. One hand washes the other. Societies may begin through consensus, but if they have any courage, they shift focus to the job of pulling away coercive restraints on the individual. Regardless, the individual asserts his freedom. It is his to begin with, not the group’s. No one gives it to him.

American society is moving rapidly to an inverse, an upside down structure, in which freedom is looked upon as a privilege grudgingly accorded in the absence of a reason to take it away. The prevalent official attitude is: consensus must be strengthened. It must dominate the landscape.

Through vast experience, the free individual knows that consensus has no theoretical limits. Group-perceptions about the way things are can give birth to the most universally “proven objective truths.” In his explorations, the individual may even find that a demonstrated law of nature is nothing more than a consensus. And, therefore, an illusion.

The group has conception of Normal. Normal is like a message passed around, from hand to hand, and when you look at it closely, for content, it dissolves. There was really nothing there. This is similar to what happens when physicists probe further and further into matter, looking for smaller and smaller particles, and come up with an enormous amount of empty space.

The group consensus is the illusion. Finally, there is mindless hive-action covering a vacuum. This is also what occasionally happens to people who have hidebound political ideologies. The people on the Left move further and further to the Left, and the people on the Right move further and further to the Right. Finally, they are both so distant from government they meet and stare at each other in shock. At that point, they are just individuals.

From my unfinished manuscript, "The Magician Awakes": “You keep saying it doesn’t matter. Sometimes you say it out loud and sometimes it’s just a very strong thought that could cut through a melon. You repeat it over and over—”it doesn’t matter.” You’re sitting there with the most powerful thing in the universe, your imagination, and yet it doesn’t matter. New worlds are waiting for you. But you don’t pull the trigger.

“You go to meetings. What are these meetings? Who’s there? What do you talk about, the end of the world? Your problems? The conversations seem to be endless…”

“But society runs on groups! It must have groups!” And what? The individual must give in and join and belong? That’s the conclusion? I’m afraid not. Consensus reality is a cartoon that is trying to become as real as steel. What deconstructs the steel and exposes the cartoon? There is only one thing that can do that. Nothing and no one else is going to do that. The individual does it."

- www.nomorefakenews.com

"Never Be A Spectator..."

"Beware the irrational, however seductive. Shun the 'transcendent' and all who invite you to subordinate or annihilate yourself. Distrust compassion; prefer dignity for yourself and others. Don't be afraid to be thought arrogant or selfish. Picture all experts as if they were mammals. Never be a spectator of unfairness or stupidity. Seek out argument and disputation for their own sake; the grave will supply plenty of time for silence. Suspect your own motives, and all excuses. Do not live for others any more than you would expect others to live for you."

- Christopher Hitchens

"Take Risk Off The Table"

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Dan, iAllegedly 11/15/22:

"Take Risk Off The Table"

"We are getting more warnings about the economy and even Jeff Bezos is back. We are seeing a crypto collapse because of the FTX Exchange. Will crypto bring other things down as well?"

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The Daily "Near You?"

Madisonville, Kentucky, USA. Thanks or stopping by!

The Poet: Theodore Roethke, “The Geranium”

“The Geranium”

“When I put her out, once, by the garbage pail,

She looked so limp and bedraggled,

So foolish and trusting, like a sick poodle,

Or a wizened aster in late September,

I brought her back in again

For a new routine -

Vitamins, water, and whatever

Sustenance seemed sensible

At the time: she’d lived

So long on gin, bobbie pins, half-smoked cigars, dead beer,

Her shriveled petals falling

On the faded carpet, the stale

Steak grease stuck to her fuzzy leaves.

(Dried-out, she creaked like a tulip.)

The things she endured!

The dumb dames shrieking half the night

Or the two of us, alone, both seedy,

Me breathing booze at her,

She leaning out of her pot toward the window.

Near the end, she seemed almost to hear me -

And that was scary -

So when that snuffling cretin of a maid

Threw her, pot and all, into the trash-can,

I said nothing.

But I sacked the presumptuous hag the next week,

I was that lonely.”

- Theodore Roethke

"I Can't Convince Myself..."

“I can’t convince myself that it does much good to try to challenge the everyday political delusions and dementias of Americans at large. Their contained and confined mentalities by far prefer the petty and parochial prisons of the kind of sense they have been trained and rewarded for making out of their lives (and are punished for deviating from them). What it costs them ultimately to be such slaves and infants and ideological zombies is a thought too monstrous and rending and spiky for them even to want to glance at.”

- Kenneth Smith

“If you want to tell people the truth,

 make them laugh, otherwise they’ll kill you.”

- Oscar Wilde

"Fate. Luck. Chance."

“That is life, isn’t it? Fate. Luck. Chance. A long series of what-if’s that lead from one moment to the next, time never pausing for you to catch your breath, to make sense of the cards that have been handed to you. And all you can do is play your cards and hope for the best, because in the end, it all comes back to those three basics. Fate. Luck. Chance.”

- Kelseyleigh Reber

“Unless, of course, there’s no such thing as chance… in which case, we should either - optimistically - get up and cheer, because if everything is planned in advance, then we all have a meaning and are spared the terror of knowing ourselves to be random, without a why; or else, of course, we might - as pessimists - give up right here and now, understanding the futility of thought-decision-action, since nothing we think makes any difference anyway, things will be as they will. Where, then, is optimism? In fate or in chaos?”

- Salman Rushdie

Gregory Mannarino, "US Dollar Tumbles! 10-Year Yield Falls! Inflation Continues To Rise"

Gregory Mannarino, 11/15/22:

"US Dollar Tumbles! 10-Year Yield Falls! 

Inflation Continues To Rise"

- https://traderschoice.net/

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"Strange Prices At Meijer! Get It Before It's Gone!"

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Adventures with Danno, 11/15/22:

"Strange Prices At Meijer! Get It Before It's Gone!"

"In today's vlog we are at Meijer, and are noticing some strange price increases! We are here to check out skyrocketing prices, and a lot of empty shelves! It's getting rough out here as stores seem to be struggling with getting products!"

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"How It Really Is"

Yeah, and the horse you rode in on, too...

"Fourth Turning Winter Of Death" (Excerpt)

"Fourth Turning Winter Of Death"

by Jim Quinn

Excerpt: “Reflect on what happens when a terrible winter blizzard strikes. You hear the weather warning but probably fail to act on it. The sky darkens. Then the storm hits with full fury, and the air is a howling whiteness. One by one, your links to the machine age break down. Electricity flickers out, cutting off the TV. Batteries fade, cutting off the radio. Phones go dead. Roads become impossible, and cars get stuck. Food supplies dwindle. Day to day vestiges of modern civilization – bank machines, mutual funds, mass retailers, computers, satellites, airplanes, governments – all recede into irrelevance.

Picture yourself and your loved ones in the midst of a howling blizzard that lasts several years. Think about what you would need, who could help you, and why your fate might matter to anybody other than yourself. That is how to plan for a saecular winter. Don’t think you can escape the Fourth Turning. History warns that a Crisis will reshape the basic social and economic environment that you now take for granted.” 

– Strauss & Howe, "The Fourth Turning"

"It was less than a year ago on December 16, 2021 when our dementia patient in chief was instructed by his handlers to lie, obfuscate and demonize critical thinking Americans who refused to become victims of the Big Pharma, Fauci promoted, untested, unsafe, ineffective gene therapy by declaring “we are looking at a winter of severe illness and death for the unvaccinated — for themselves, their families and the hospitals they’ll soon overwhelm”. Biden’s vaccine mandates were overturned in the courts. The unvaccinated did not die from Covid. Very few people died from Covid. Some really old and infirm people on death’s doorstep died with Covid. Some very unhealthy obese people died with Covid. But even 95% of the old and unhealthy survived Covid.

Virtually no one under 70 years old died from Covid. Biden was lying. Fauci was lying. Walensky was lying. Gates was lying. Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla was lying. Their paid-off medical industry was lying. Their highly compensated corporate legacy media talking heads were lying. Captured politicians were lying. The entire Covid scheme was nothing more than weaponizing the annual flu through fear propaganda, a billion-dollar advertising campaign, and enacting totalitarian measures on the world as part of the Great Reset Build Back Better New World Order plot orchestrated by our globalist oligarch overlords.

Every Fourth Turning has its own dynamics, chaotic current, political nuances, general confusion, antagonists, and event driven upheaval. We are currently in the 14th year of this Crisis and Biden’s predicted winter of death for the unvaccinated didn’t happen and death and illness is striking down the vaxxed in far greater numbers than the unvaxxed. The perpetrators of the pandemic exercise to see how far people of the developed world could be pushed, abused, and turned into subservient vassals of the state are now demanding amnesty for themselves and their co-conspirators, as the consequences of their murderous escapades become impossible to cover-up and conceal.

Real data from the real world, not from their skewed manipulated models, is piling up, and despite the media’s tireless efforts to ignore, censor, and misinform, the truth is seeping out through the diligent digging of those who were right from the very outset of this scamdemic.

The complete and utter failure of these so-called vaccines has been evident from the very outset, as infections, hospitalizations, and deaths increased after the vaccines were rolled out as the savior of all mankind. The vaccines performed so atrociously the CDC had to change the definition of vaccine in order to obscure what a failure they proved to be. The narrative police can obfuscate and attempt to revise history, but the lies are all documented and available for anyone to see and hear."

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- https://www.theburningplatform.com/

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"Unthinkable Thoughts"

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"The data suggests that we may currently be witnessing the 

greatest organized mass murder in the history of our world."

Freely download "The Vaccine Death Report" here:

- https://indepthnh.org/

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"Genocide Is Their End Game“

Excerpt: "In a nutshell, they are to cull a large percentage of the human race and to turn the survivors into a completely controlled army of slaves who own nothing and are dictated to and tracked, traced and monitored 24/7 everywhere, even inside their own homes, which of course they will no longer own. It only starts to make sense when you understand that everything that has happened and is happening is due to a meticulously planned and sinister plot being implemented by the narrow clique of gangsters who now control our world.”

Full article here:

- https://billkloss.law.blog/

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You do want to at least know how and why you and everyone 

else who took the "vaccine" bioweapon will die, don't you?

George Galloway, Gonzalo Lira, “After Kherson”

George Galloway, Gonzalo Lira, 11/15/22:

“After Kherson”

"For the optics and the propadanda Kherson is a loss, but militarily speaking it isn’t, says Gonzalo Lira. The Russians need fewer troops to defend the new line on the Dnieper. It allows Russia to redeploy its crack troops from just holding empty ground."

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“One must be a fox to recognize traps and a lion to frighten wolves.”

- Niccolo Machiavelli

Ukraine's walking into the mother of all cauldrons...

Once the ground's frozen in a few weeks this will end very rapidly.

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"Zelensky Visits Kherson, Hailing It As 

'The Beginning Of The End Of The War'"

Little does he want to know, but he will...

Canadian Prepper, "Holy S$!%@, He Just Confirmed WW3, Prepare For Chaos!"

Canadian Prepper, 11/14/22:

"Holy S$!%@, He Just Confirmed WW3, 

Prepare For Chaos!"

"Well, Biden just confirmed that war with China is right around the corner."

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"Empty Shelves, Severe Shortages And Explosive Prices Are Ahead In The Winter Of 2022"

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"Empty Shelves, Severe Shortages And Explosive 

Prices Are Ahead In The Winter Of 2022"

by Epic Economist

"Winter is only a few weeks away and the overall mood of the nation is already becoming increasingly sour. It feels like food supply chain problems never seem to end. Unfortunately, millions of Americans will soon have even more reasons to be stressed about. As we head into the colder months, a historically bad harvest season means that our store shelves will become emptier than they already are, shortages will become more widespread, and prices of many food products are about to explode in many supermarkets all across the country. We must take this crisis seriously, folks. More disruptions continue to emerge in our food systems, and this is going to cause a lot of pain and suffering for our population.

This holiday season is expected to significantly exacerbate the shortages we’re seeing at grocery stores. According to the Wall Street Journal, new disruptions are popping up every week as grocers battle supply chain challenges that some executives said are “as bad as what they saw in spring 2020 when hoarding left holes in stocks of some staples”.

“Industry insiders say new problems are arising weekly, driven by shortages of labor and commodities. Groceries remain scarce as some food companies anticipate product stockouts lasting into 2023. The supply of a wide range of goods is running short and logistical challenges are compounding for many retailers,” the report exposed.

At this point, grocery stores are rushing to ensure supplies and ordering more food like crazy. But there are so many companies trying to do the same at the same time that even the largest U.S. food distributors simply cannot fulfill all of the orders. A recent Bloomberg report reveals that distribution giant Sysco, North America’s largest wholesale food distributor, is turning away customers in some areas where demand is exceeding capacity. The company is “reporting difficulties in fulfilling orders as shortages weigh on the supply chain.”

Sysco CEO Kevin Hourican says people should brace for another round of price increases and that food inflation is about to soar even higher: “The prices for key goods such as chicken, pork and meat are climbing amid tight supplies. And if intermediate and final wholesale prices are rising, just wait until they emerge on the consumer side,” he said.

The problem of widespread food shortages is a result of many failures in the chain of supply, and one of the most recent catalysts to this crisis is the ongoing diesel crisis, which has prices soaring and reserves rapidly drying up.

The executive director of the Soy Transportation Coalition, Mike Steenhoek, says that after visiting a number of farmers, the consensus is that diesel costs are hurting their profit margins, as well as their day-to-day operations, and they also warn that our domestic agricultural production has been particularly hard hit by this crisis over the past year, causing harvests to fall well below expectations.

In fact, the USDA just reported that levels of corn, wheat, and soybeans hit their lowest level in almost a decade. Similarly, a new exposé released by The Guardian uncovered that U.S. farmers experienced some of the toughest farming conditions in decades as a once-in-a-millennium megadrought combined with higher fertilizer and diesel prices, and resulted in losses exceeding $2 billion.

On top of all that, food inflation is predicted to hit between 15% and 20% this winter. Data from the American Farm Bureau Federation shows grocery bills are rising at a much faster pace than what consumers can pay, with 76% of Americans saying their family has changed how they buy food due to the relentless rise in prices.

The era that is ahead of us is going to be devastating for our nation. If you don’t have a plan yet to survive the challenges we’re about to face, you should probably make one now because, as the experts said, more problems “are arising weekly”."

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Musical Interlude: 2002, “Challenge From Heaven”

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2002, “Challenge From Heaven”

"A Very Deep Look to the Heavens"

"The Hubble Deep Field:

The Most Important Image Ever Taken"

"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

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"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.

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."

- http://www.dailygalaxy.com/

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"A Universe of 2 Trillion Galaxies"

"In 2016, a study published in The Astrophysical Journal and led by Christopher Conselice of the University of Nottingham using 3D modeling of images collected over 20 years by the Hubble Space Telescope concluded that there are more than two trillion galaxies in the observable universe."

- https://phys.org/news/

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"In this galaxy, there's a mathematical probability of three billion Earth-type planets. And in all of the universe, 2 trillion galaxies like this. And in all of that... and perhaps more, only one of each of us."

- "Dr. Leonard McCoy"

Gregory Mannarino, "Alert: Three Things Are About To Happen, And It's Already Starting!"

Gregory Mannarino, PM 11/14/22:

"Alert: Three Things Are About To Happen, 

And It's Already Starting!"

- https://traderschoice.net/

Douglas Macgregor, "War in Ukraine: Quiet Before the Storm?"

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Douglas Macgregor, 11/14/22:

"War in Ukraine: Quiet Before the Storm?"

"Seventeen-Year Locusts and Eighty-Year Wokists"

"Seventeen-Year Locusts and Eighty-Year Wokists"

by Jeff Thomas

"The critter in the photo above is an entomologic marvel. The seventeen-year locust (or cicada) appears on the American continent like clockwork every seventeen years. As soon as a locust is born, it burrows in the ground and appears to hibernate for seventeen years. When it emerges, it lives only four to six weeks – just long enough to devastate crops, lay a new batch of eggs, and start the cycle again.

But, whilst underground, they’re not actually hibernating. They are, in fact, active in a wingless nymph form, feeding on sap and tree roots. They’re building their strength for their periodic devastation. The danger that they present to humanity is that, when they emerge, they do so collectively, and their cumulative damage is often epic.

But enough of entomologic lessons. Those who read this publication are more concerned with a destruction created by mankind – the rise of a class of humans that seeks to destroy all that has been achieved in the last several generations.

We call them the Elites, the Globalists, the Deep State, etc. The moniker we give them matters little; it’s their nature that’s of significance. They‘ve been building their power base for generations and are now powerful enough to transform the world. They are a class of parasite that has now managed to take over entire governments. And along the way, they’ve sought to take over the minds of the peoples of the world. "Woke" consciousness has become the mindset of a significant percentage of First Worlders that defies all logic.

"War is peace; Freedom is slavery; Ignorance is strength." So spoke George Orwell in 1948, in his predictive novel, "1984." And so it is with wokeism. Whatever was perceived as truth only a few years ago is being presented as falsehood and is being replaced by a new "truth"- the opposite of the old truth. As Orwell observed, the purpose is to create so much confusion amongst the hoi polloi that they literally no longer know which way is up. They’d fear pointing to the "up" that they once accepted, as they’re unsure whether a swarm of wokeists might descend upon them, regaling them… removing their freedoms as punishment.

But interestingly, this is nothing new. Mankind has experienced similar plagues of sociopathic behaviour for millennia. The last one took place in the late 1930s and early 1940s. It began in Germany, which was hopelessly broke at that time, with no hope of economic recovery, as they had an oppressive hundred-year reparation bill hanging over them – a bill that had been handed to them under the Treaty of Versailles.

Yet, somehow, this economically-devastated country suddenly received a massive infusion of wealth – countless armament factories were built, producing state-of-the-art airplanes, howitzers, tanks, and all other items of military use. Although this has not been noted in the history books, the massive funding necessary for this military buildup came from Wall Street and the City of London – from the globalists of the day, who sought to rule, first Europe, through German might, then Asia, then beyond.

The effort failed. The globalists had spent decades building up their wealth and power and had set in motion their bid for world domination, but they overestimated their own power, and they underestimated the likelihood that the rest of the world’s population would turn on them in a unified way. They were beaten, but not destroyed. They threw a few German generals to the dogs at the Nuremberg show trials, and the world, satisfied that "justice" had been done, moved on. The world then turned its attention to normal productivity.

In essence, the globalists went underground and, for eighty years, built up their strength for the next attempt at world dominance. Those who are students of history shake their heads and ask, "How can it be that this is happening again? How is it possible that the globalists have been allowed to once again assume power? How did we forget the lesson of World War II?

Well, the answer is that we’ve passed through a historic saeculum – a periodically recurring problem that even Plato and Aristotle argued over. Most likely, others did, for countless generations, long before those philosophers were born.

Unfortunately, following a great debacle such as World War II, the population is eager to put aside the painful times, forget the recent past and move on with life. The objective becomes simplistic and admirable: an affordable home, a family, a peaceful community, and a productive job to make those goals possible. Such a generation then tends to raise a fairly spoiled generation of children, who in turn raise a generation of complacent people, who in turn raise a generation of apathetic children. This pattern has played out endlessly for millennia.

In any generation, in any community, it’s the norm for roughly 4% of the population to be born or become sociopathic – obsessive with their own importance and without any emotional concern for the good of their fellow man.

After a great debacle, they tend to go "underground" as it were. They’re quickly recognized as being of the same stuff as the defeated dictators. During the next generation, they remain underground but gain strength and, in political and military spheres, begin to form alliances. Then, In the complacent generation, they begin to rise to prominence. In the apathetic generation, they tend to rise to dominance. In the latter half of the final fourth generation – the one that we have now entered - they begin to impose the dominance they’ve gained on the people they now rule.

Once again, the principles that Mister Orwell outlined above become the policies of the Elite. The apathetic populace slides evermore into a state of confusion, which is then converted to compliance through coercion and then force.

We are now in that final stage: we are now seeing the first evidence of a series of Kristallnachts, as occurred in Germany in November of 1938 – the confiscation of assets by globalist governmental leaders in Canada, Netherlands, etc., the unnecessary warfare in Ukraine, the proliferation of freedom-removing laws. In short, an overwhelming wave of oppression in every sphere of human endeavor.

We see one act of dominance after another whilst the hoi polloi stare like deer in headlights, unable to understand where their once-pleasant world has gone, or at best, to make half-hearted protests against the sudden, increased level of force.

The reason that such a takeover can occur is that it is ubiquitous – a plague of locusts – or in modern-day nomenclature, wokeists – go into action all at once. Were they have done this piecemeal, in one country at a time, they would surely be suppressed, but just as the locusts suddenly leave the ground together, in their billions, sociopaths tend to seek to be all-encompassing in their bid for dominance – to make their bid for power truly global – a relatively small number of people intending to subjugate a far larger one. As Vladimir Lenin observed, "one man with a machine gun can dominate one hundred men without one."

So, is that it? Are we toast? Well, not if history is an indicator. Again, going back as far as Plato and Aristotle, those who had been complacent and even apathetic, realize at some point that their only choices are to fight back or die. Eventually, they choose to fight back.

To stick with the Lenin concept for a moment, a few lose their lives in the attempt to wrest the machine gun from the soldier, but the others succeed through sheer numbers. (In 1940, the Nazis easily defeated an apathetic French army but then failed when going against the sheer tenacity of the French underground.)

We have not yet reached the peak of the oppression in this saeculum. It will get quite a bit worse and will do so quickly. And the reversal will be neither quick nor easy. It’s likely that the reversal will take several years to get into full swing and may not bring about substantive change before the end of the decade.

We’re in for a long and painful period, as in all wars in which humanity itself is the intended victim. The outcome will depend upon how soon an awakening takes place in the hearts and minds of average people and how much they’re prepared to tolerate before they collectively retaliate. From then on, it will be a process of slow attrition until the evil is once more driven underground."

- internationalman.com

"The Chief Obstacle..."

"The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race."

- Don Marquis

"In the mass of mankind, I fear, there is too great a majority of fools and knaves,

who, singly from their number, must to a certain degree be respected,

though they are by no means respectable."

- Philip Stanhope

The Poet: Edward Hirsch, "I Was Never Able To Pray"

"I Was Never Able To Pray"

"Wheel me down to the shore 

where the lighthouse was abandoned 

and the moon tolls in the rafters.

Let me hear the wind paging through the trees,

and see the stars flaring out, one by one, 

like the forgotten faces of the dead.

I was never able to pray, 

but let me inscribe my name 

in the book of waves,

and then stare into the dome 

of a sky that never ends, 

and see my voice sail into the night."

- Edward Hirsch

“Urgent: Stock Up On Food Before It’s Too Late; Economy Imploding; The Ponzi Schemes Are Collapsing”

Jeremiah Babe, 11/14/22:

“Urgent: Stock Up On Food Before It’s Too Late; 

Economy Imploding; The Ponzi Schemes Are Collapsing”

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"The Limits of Our Freedom"

"The Limits of Our Freedom"

by Mark Harrison

"Viktor Frankl, the Austrian psychiatrist and Holocaust survivor, wrote in "Man's Search for Meaning", "Between stimulus and response there is a space, and in that space lies all our freedom."In the most extreme conditions of privation imaginable, Frankl discovered that he was, remarkably, free to choose his response to any situation. I love this quote because it sums up the essence of my philosophy. I believe it is the cornerstone of a happy and effective life. A real, experiential understanding of this radical freedom is life changing, liberating and empowering. To suddenly come upon the realization that we have always been free, not in some abstract sense, but in a real, personal and imminent way, is like being let out of prison.

We are not free to control others: The point is that we are free. And so is everyone else. That means we cannot impinge on the freedom of others. This is not some moral statement. I'm not saying we should not interfere with other people's freedom - it is simply impossible to do so. You cannot make another person do anything. Even putting a gun to someone's head cannot make them do anything. If someone is threatened to the extent that they fear for their life, they are likely to comply with whatever is being demanded of them, but this compliance is not a result of the threat, it is still a choice they make. If you doubt it, think about the people who have been threatened and not complied, think about people who have died for what they believe in rather than comply with an external demand.

The belief that we can control and coerce others, bending them to our will, is the cause of a great deal the misery in the world. This belief, springing from the external control psychology that we have overwhelmingly been conditioned to accept, is the cause of much of our pain. To let go of our belief that we can control others is astonishingly liberating. To accept other people as they are, to make no demands on them, simply to dance our own dance, as Anthony de Mello would have put it, and to accept that we cannot but allow everyone else to do the same, is not only the only choice that makes any sense, but is also the only way we can make any difference in the world.

We have a choice: In every situation, there is a choice. Accept that we cannot control other people or try to force, coerce, manipulate and bully to get our own way. The latter course of action damages relationships and, in the end, leads to pain and dysfunction. Or, we can accept people as they are, accept they are utterly free agents, accept that we cannot force them, and concentrate instead on building relationships with them and on building the inner world which echoes back to us as our experience. When we have good relationships, things work. Perhaps not in the way we might have expected, or even in the way we would have preferred, but things will work. The world is not ours to control, so let it go, and let it work in its own miraculous way. This is the effortlessness to which Lao Tzu alluded when he wrote, "The world is a mysterious instrument, not meant to be handled." Those who act on it never, I notice, succeed. 

We are responsible: We are responsible for ourselves. We make our choices and then we must live with them, not blaming others or circumstances, and not cowardly abdicating responsibility to some external forces. We are not victims! We are in control. By the same token, we are not responsible for other people. Their fear, their anger, their pain, their misery - it's all a choice they make, as freely as we make ours, and they need to shoulder the consequences of these choices, they are not our crosses to bear. Their happiness, their success, their joy - it's all their doing, not ours.

Being proactive: So here lies our freedom, it is inside us every moment and we can recognize it and live our lives according to the truth of this freedom, or we can continue to behave in the way we have been conditioned by society and try to force our way through life, pushing and coercing others into doing our will. One way is peace and happiness, the other way is pain and madness. Being proactive is the first of Steven Covey's "Seven Habits" and is the cornerstone of a truly effective life. I believe that living a proactive life, centered in the self, accepting that we can change nothing but ourselves, and choosing to focus on the good in our life and seeking to attract more it to ourselves is the purpose of our existence." 

- http://www.thechangeblog.com/