“If you don’t use it," he added, “you lose it.” Indeed. By "it," of course, he means your brain. But brain function isn't the only thing being lost.

The rise of digital dementia, digital addiction, and lower IQ scores is a reflection of a much broader problem. The United States isn’t just struggling with demographic decline; it’s also wrestling with the unholy trinity of spiritual, psychological, and intellectual decline. The country is becoming fatter, sicker, older, and dumber. The movie "Idiocracy" wasn’t a parody; it was a prophecy.

As intelligence levels continue to plummet and test scores continue to fall in the likes of math and reading, the United States risks becoming a society of brainless, aimless individuals, a nation consisting of millions of obese zombies. Contrary to popular belief, societal collapse doesn’t occur overnight; it occurs in increments, a death by a thousand cuts. The biggest threat to the United States isn't necessarily external; it's posed by the numerous digital devices in our hands and homes. Technology has consumed both our minds and our souls; are we going to get either of them back?

Since 1997, anti-personnel landmines have been prohibited by the United Nations via a treaty that was signed by more than 150 countries. Unfortunately there are a ton of them still active all over the world.

As Martin Armstrong of Statista reveals, Landmine and Cluster Munition Monitor classifies large swathes of the world as being contaminated to some degree with land mines. The negative effects of their presence can not be understated: "Both landmines and explosive remnants of war pose a serious and ongoing threat to civilians. These weapons can be found on roads, footpaths, farmers’ fields, forests, deserts, along borders, in and surrounding houses and schools, and in other places where people are carrying out their daily activities. They deny access to food, water, and other basic needs, and inhibit freedom of movement. They endanger the initial flight and prevent the repatriation of refugees and internally displaced persons (IDPs), and hamper the delivery of humanitarian aid."

CAPTAIN Shane Murdock says the air industry is ‘poised on the precipice of disaster’. A pilot for more than 40 years and a qualified air accident investigator, he has found official data that back up his claim of impending global catastrophe. He adds: ‘When correlated, the data indicate there is an enormous problem that is having, and will have, a significant impact on aviation safety worldwide. There is enough evidence to be sending out red flags.’

There have been many tragedies this year. Phil Thomas, a young graduate of the Cadiz, Spain, flight training academy, fell ill and died suddenly in April. There were five pilot incapacitations in March including a British Airways pilot who collapsed and died in Cairo, Egypt not long before he was due to fly.

Pilots are super-fit, so why are so many dying suddenly or collapsing? Cpt Murdock concludes they are suffering severe adverse reactions to the Covid-19 vaccinations, which has myocarditis (heart inflammation), brain fog, insomnia, blood clots and anaphylaxis as side effects.

In a major milestone in the government-coerced push away from gas-powered vehicles, the best-selling sedan in America will only be available with gas-electric hybrid powertrains starting with the 2025 model year, Toyota revealed in Malibu on Tuesday night.

The 2025 Toyota Camry will feature a 2.5-liter gas engine paired with an electric drive that will deliver more power than the 2024 hybrids. Toyota is already the leading seller of hybrid vehicles, which, depending on the driving scenario, use only electric power, only gasoline, or both. Hybrids recapture energy from the braking system that helps boost the range.

It could be a very risky move for Toyota, considering that combustion models comprise about 85% of Camry's 2024 sales volume. The Camry is king of the sedan market. However, as Americans increasingly prefer crossovers and SUVs, total sedan sales have plummeted from 7.2 million a year in 2012 to just 2.9 million in 2022, notes the Wall Street Journal.

In January, the CDC was forced to reveal the results of its VAERS safety signal monitoring for COVID-19 vaccines (thanks to a FOIA request by Zachary Stieber of the Epoch Times), which painted an alarming picture. The analysis, spanning Dec. 14 2020 through July 29, 2022, revealed:

There were 770 different types of adverse events that showed safety signals in ages 18+, of which over 500 (or 2/3) had a larger safety signal than myocarditis/pericarditis.

The CDC analysis shows that the number of serious adverse events reported in less than two years for mRNA COVID-19 vaccines is 5.5 times larger than all serious reports for vaccines given to adults in the US since 2009 (~73,000 vs. ~13,000).

Twice as many mRNA COVID-19 vaccine reports were classified as serious compared to all other vaccines given to adults (11% vs. 5.5%). This meets the CDC definition of a safety signal.

In Miami, MMA fighter Javier Baez had to fight for his life after a knife-wielding maniac started attacking him in the parking lot of his apartment complex…

A former MMA fighter used his combat skills to open a can of whoop-ass on a knife-wielding assailant in self-defense… and the dramatic scene was caught on video.

Javier Baez drove back to his Miami apartment complex after a night out on Halloween … and spotted Omar Marrero screaming and brandishing a knife in the parking lot, according to WPLG News.

After Baez parked his car, Marrero reportedly walked over and started hitting his window with the knife.

The Vigilant Fox, on his Substack site (quoting the Substack site of Dr. Makis), reported that eleven children, ages 9 to 19, had cardiac arrests at American schools in the last few months. They were listed as:

14-year-old Knox MacEwen, from Davie, Florida, was a Western High School student. On 4 November he was running in an Army Junior ROTC 5km event when he suffered a cardiac arrest and died in the hospital.

15-year-old Tommy Bergeron of Ridgefield, Connecticut, a high school student, suddenly died on the morning of October 30, 2023. He was on the Ridgefield High School Rugby and Football teams.

14-year-old Kingston Davidson of Memphis Tennessee was in class on 23 October when he “fell ill,” had a cardiac arrest, and died suddenly.

9-year-old Gryffin Cavender of Putnam County West Virginia, a 3rd grader at Scott Teays Elementary School, was in gym class and went into cardiac arrest on 18 October. He recovered after CPR was given by the school staff.

On 14 October, Grayslake Illinois school bus driver Beverly Raddatz was waiting for a high school soccer team to board her bus for a Saturday game. Before boarding, a student-athlete collapsed and went into cardiac arrest. Beverly and 2 students performed CPR on the collapsed student until paramedics arrived and stabilized him.

16-year-old Angel Hernandez, a sophomore at Chisholm Trail High School completed a 5km run at a track event in Tarrant County Texas on 13 October. He collapsed after crossing the finish line and died an hour later.

15-year-old Elijah-Jay Mariano Rivera of Windsor High School in Connecticut lost consciousness at football practice and died suddenly on 10 October. He was not engaged in any football drills or tackling at the time.

15-year-old Keshaun Allen of Savannah, Georgia, suffered a medical emergency during a football game and died suddenly on 2 October.

17-year-old Breanne McKean of Ohio died suddenly during homecoming festivities on 29 September after collapsing at Mapleton High School football field where she was part of the homecoming court.

13-year-old Heather Freligh of Tracy, California, was in class at Art Freiler School when she slumped at her desk and collapsed on the floor with cardiac arrest. Given CPR by the principal, she recovered at the local hospital.

12-year-old Kaden Gunter, a football player at Greeneville Tennessee Middle School collapsed during football practice with a "cardiac emergency" and died suddenly on 22 September.

Other student children died getting ready for school, sleeping, or playing.

15-year-old C’Anna Ramirez, a student at East Providence High School in Rhode Island died suddenly in her sleep prior to the start of classes on the morning of 4 October.

8-year-old Stella Quinn DuPont of DeBary Florida was at SeaWorld on 15 October with family when she collapsed and went into cardiac arrest. She had "spontaneous bleeding near her brain stem" and died on 17 October.

Depending on where you live, measles, polio, and other outbreaks may start popping up around you and in the news, like the measles outbreak in Ohio or the polio outbreak in New York that prompted a state of emergency.

If your child is fully vaccinated, there isn’t cause for concern. But, many children <12 months cannot be fully vaccinated because they aren’t eligible yet.

Bottom line

We are moving backwards, which means we will likely see the resurgence of infectious diseases once considered 19th-century problems. It’s hard to watch this slow bleed because it is preventable.

Love, YLE

I wrote this op-ed because of my love for America, not for any financial gain or advantage. I have been retired for 30 years and spend my time engaged in philanthropic causes, with which I have committed to share 90% of my net worth. I was born here and can give testimony about The American Dream. I lost my job and was broke when I was 48 years old. A dear friend of mine suggested that my misfortune presented a great opportunity to build a small business based upon an idea I had shared with him. Only in America, the land of opportunity, could being without a job and broke be a great opportunity. In 1978, my partners and I built four hardware stores, and this small business grew and is known as The Home Depot. We could only have done this in America because of America’s system of free enterprise and pro-jobs growth government policies. The state of America today, especially record inflation, government over-regulation, and the problems of the last three years, would prevent my partners and I from succeeding as we have.

Fire departments are adapting to electric vehicle (EV) fires, which often originate in lithium-ion batteries. In New Jersey and California, firefighters let Teslas burn out after accidents, as water can be ineffective against battery fires, the Journal wrote.

Some firefighters are exploring techniques like using fog streams to cool fires enough to move the vehicle. New technologies, such as specialized nozzles and fire-suppressing batteries, are being developed to address these challenges.

The National Fire Protection Association recommends additional safety measures, like sprinklers in parking garages, to counteract the increased fire risks from modern vehicles. Meanwhile, car manufacturers and suppliers are working on innovations like early warning sensors and materials to contain battery fires, and research into solid-state batteries is ongoing.

Regardless, firefighting organizations continue to seek effective strategies for dealing with EV fires, with new guidelines expected in the near future.

To get wealthy, you have to understand 2 cycles:

ONE: Feeding the sheep.

TWO: Slaughtering the sheep.

The feeding of the sheep happened from 2008 to 2022. Low interest rates encouraged the sheep to take loans and buy houses. But none of these houses are paid off, so the banks recently started the cycle of slaughtering the sheep. They quickly raised interest rates. Many people can’t pay the mortgage, and opa, the houses are gone. Look at Europe. Inflation is high because of all the cheap money from 2008 to 2022. And interest rates also high, but wages are still low. суки.

The recession is made to slaughter the sheep. Take their wool, take their houses, take their lives. Through easing and contracting the flow of money, the Federal Reserve Banks go from feeding to slaughtering. And as long as the sheep’s follow, they are doomed.

Do not be a sheep. Never think, act, or invest like the masses. Do the opposite, and you will be rich. Buy when the masses are selling. Sell when the masses are buying. The masses are weak, lazy, and worst of all they trust their authorities, their governments, and their banks. Do not trust the authorities.

Honor will come.

I was walking fourth in line that day and one place ahead of West, who was smack in the middle. “You’re in my world today, Sir—you know the drill.” He was the guy everybody wanted in charge of the patrol, so I did as he said.

We set off single file, like a group of schoolchildren walking across the playground, one right after another. It had rained the night before so the ground was thick with mud. It felt like I was walking through peanut butter, every step sucking at the bottoms of my boots. The point man had the metal detector stuck out in front of him, waving it back and forth like a flashlight in the dark. We only walked where the metal detector allowed us, each man planting his foot into the footprint of the man in front of him and that was how it worked: one footprint at a time, hoping the ground wouldn’t give out from underneath.

Mass statistical ignorance is extremely costly. It allows a ruling class to toss around numbers all the time to sound vaguely sciency but without having any real substance behind the claims. This is what enabled the Biden administration to say daily that the job market is great, that economic growth is strong, that Americans are growing wealthier, and now, that crime is down. It’s all completely gibberish and contradicted by every bit of reality that we observe with our own eyes.

The crime problem is a major one because it directly affects two fundamental points of security that are essential to the good life: security of property and security of person. Both are in deep trouble in America today. It only adds insult to literal injury that our own FBI is tossing around extremely misleading data to suggest that it's all in our heads.

If and when things settle down, and America gets its act together again, there needs to be a mass educational campaign to do remedial classes in math and statistics (and probably logic, too). It was the ignorance of the basics that allowed so many people to be bamboozled during the COVID-19 era. When you don’t really understand the math or data, you have no real choice but to trust the interpretation of the featured experts. This is a huge problem.

Two weeks ago, Goldman's prime brokerage was shocked to find that the bank's hedge fund clients had shorted stocks for a record 12 weeks, "the longest streak on our record."

One week later, Goldman discovered that, even more to its amazement, the record shorting spree had extended to a record 13th week.

Among scores of examples from contemporary media stories, a recent and fawning report in The New York Times stands out for its shameless puffery in this regard. Optimistically titled “The Clean Energy Future Is Arriving Faster Than You Think,” the article hoardes attention with more than 3,000 words written by the four reporters crowding its byline. A little more than halfway in, we come upon the inevitable (emphasis added throughout):

“But clean energy became cheap far faster than anyone expected. Since 2009, the cost of solar power has plunged by 83 percent, while the cost of producing wind power has fallen by more than half. The price of lithium-ion battery cells fell 97 percent over the past three decades.

Today, solar and wind power are the least expensive new sources of electricity in many markets, generating 12 percent of global electricity and rising. This year, for the first time, global investors are expected to pour more money into solar power — some $380 billion — than into drilling for oil.”

A new weekly report from the Rutgers University Global Snow Lab reveals snow cover across the Northern Hemisphere is at the upper end of a 57-year maximum.

"Yet another inconvenient truth. When it warms, it snows more, which starts the process of cooling. That has been old-time climate cycle theory for 60 years because it was in a book my dad gave me when I was 8," meteorologist Joe Bastardi wrote on X.

Bastardi quoted another X user's post: "Latest Rutgers snow lab NH snow cover extent, now near the 57yr maximum. Astonishing in a world "Burning up.""

Charlotte Arpadi Baum’s family ran a popular Hungarian restaurant in Berlin. Only sixteen at the time, she writes about this time in her memoir, Hate Vanquished, Lives Remembered (Library of the Holocaust 2022):

“We were allowed to keep our passports, but it was stamped with a “J.” We also received new middle names; women had to add “Sarah” and the men “Israel” after their first name.

“My father was on friendly terms with many people in our area, among them the precinct police, as our restaurant was well known. At dawn on that morning [November 9th] my father received a call from the police chief, warning him not to open the restaurant, which my father was in the habit of doing every day at 6 a.m. The police chief warned him that his life might be endangered. My father, not realizing the extent of the seriousness of his situation, did not listen and proceeded to open the door, not knowing that a mob was waiting outside ready to attack him and to destroy our restaurant. He managed to slam the door shut, escaped through the back entrance, and came home. Fortunately, we lived around the corner, a short walk from the business. The brown shirted SA men, equipped with guns, tore through the streets looking for Jewish men and my father was lucky that he was not killed. We did not dare to stay in our apartment for fear that the SA men might still be looking for him. Elderly neighbors offered to hide my father and my brother in their apartment. These kind, courageous Germans, whose name was Vanderbank, lived a few floors above us. One of our employees, a lovely lady, agreed to hide my mother and me and we spent several days in an attic space. We felt safe with her; her husband was a member of the Nazi party. His uniform hung in the closet -- he was a Nazi in name only.”

Ray Kurzweil’s bestselling 2005 book, The Singularity is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology, quickly became a cult classic among techno-optimists. The essence of Kurzweil’s argument is that exponentially rapid advances in computing power, nanotechnology, artificial intelligence (AI), and biotechnology will converge to a point where human and machine intelligence merge, resulting in a transformative event he popularized as The Singularity. The doubling time of technology has shrunk from centuries to decades to years, and at some point, in most reader’s lifetimes, so Kurzweil posits, that doubling time will be less than a day.

Green energy sounds appealing, but it is terribly limited in what it can do. Green energy cannot operate agricultural machinery. It cannot make new wind turbines or solar panels. Green energy cannot exist without fossil fuels. It is simply an add-on to the current system.

The reason why we hear so much about green energy is because making people believe that a green revolution is possible provides many temporary benefits. For example:

The extra debt needed to subsidize green energy indirectly increases GDP. (GDP calculations ignore whether added debt was used to produce the added goods and services counted as GDP.)

Manufacturers can pretend that their products (such as vehicles) will operate as they do today for years and years.

The educational system is given many more areas to provide courses in.

Citizens are given the hope that the economy will grow endlessly.

Young people are given hope for the future.

Politicians look like they are doing something for voters.

Unfortunately, by the time that the debt comes due to pay for subsidized green energy, it will be apparent that the return on this technology is far too low. The overall system will tend to collapse. Green energy is only a temporary Band-Aid to hide a very disturbing problem. Its impact is tiny and short-lived. And it cannot prevent climate change.

Aadhaar (Hindi for “foundation”) is a 12-digit unique identity (UID) number issued by the government after confirming a person’s biometric and demographic information. Launched in 2012 as part of an initiative to give each Indian resident with a unique identification number, it is the largest digital identity system on the planet, with 1.3 billion UIDs issued by 2021, covering a staggering 92% of India’s population.

It was ostensibly created to provide people without identification a formal government ID as well as crack down on duplicate, fake or stolen IDs used to benefit from government programs and welfare schemes.

And it quickly drew interest and praise from elite quarters around the world, including Silicon Valley.

In a 2019 entry of his “Gates Notes” blog, Bill Gates lauded Aadhaar for making “India’s invisible people visible.” Three years earlier, in a lecture on Technology for Transformation, Gates had said that Aadhaar is something that had never been done before by any government, not even in a rich country. He also claimed it does not pose any privacy risks; try telling that to the 815 million people whose personal data is now up for grabs on the Dark Web!

Together with Nandan Nilekani, one of the co-founders of Indian tech giant Infosys who is widely recognised as Aadhaar’s chief architect, Gates went on to play a key role in exporting Aadhaar to other parts of the so-called Global South, much of it financed by the World Bank. The two tech billionaires also reportedly helped persuade the Modi government to embark on the disastrous path of demonetisation in order to expand cashless payment alternatives. Demonetisation is believed to have caused a 2% drop in India’s GDP growth in 2016/17 alone — the equivalent of $52 billion, according to the Sunday Guardian.

Even today, Aadhaar continues to receive plaudits from Silicon Valley, despite all of its security flaws, privacy concerns and other issues. Worldcoin, the controversial cryptocurrency project set up by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman that uses an eye-scanning “orb” to give users a unique digital identity to verify whether they are human, recently said it seeks to emulate India’s Aadhaar system in its own creation of a global identity and financial network.