Debt Rattle August 24 2024

Suspending my candidacy is a heartrending decision for me. But I am convinced that it is the best hope for ending the Ukraine war and ending the chronic disease epidemic that is eroding our nation’s vitality from the inside and for protecting free speech. I feel a moral obligation to use this opportunity to save millions of American children.

In case some of you don’t realize how dire the condition is of our children’s health and chronic disease in general, I urge you to view Tucker Carlson’s recent interview with Calley Means and his sister, Dr. Casey Means, who was the top graduate of her class at Stanford Medical School. This is an issue that affects us far more directly and urgently than the culture war issues that are tearing the country apart. Therefore, it has the potential to bring us together. So let me share just a little bit about why I believe it is so urgent.

Today, two-thirds of American adults and half of children suffer chronic health issues. Fifty years ago, the number for children was less than one percent.

In America, 74% of adults are now overweight or obese, and close to 50% of children. One hundred and twenty years ago, when someone was obese, they were sent to the circus. In Japan, the childhood obesity rate is 3%.

Half of Americans now have prediabetes or type 2 diabetes. When my uncle was president, juvenile diabetes was effectively nonexistent. The average pediatrician would see a single case in their lifetime. Today, one of every three kids who walk through their office door is diabetic or prediabetic.

There’s been an explosion of neurological diseases that I never saw as a child. ADD, ADHD, speech delay, language delay, Tourette’s, narcolepsy, ASD, and Asperger’s. In the year 2000, the autism rate was one in 1,500. Now, autism rates in kids are one in 36 nationally, and 1 in 22 in California. The screening has not changed. Nor has the definition. The incidence has changed.

About 18% of teens have fatty liver disease, a disease that primarily used to be found only in late-stage alcoholics. Cancer rates are skyrocketing in the young and the old. Young adult cancers are up 79%.

One in four American women is on an antidepressant medication. 40% of teens have a mental health diagnosis. Today, 15% of high schoolers are on Adderall and half a million children are on SSRIs.

So what’s causing all this suffering? I’ll name two culprits. First is ultra-processed foods. About 70% of American children’s diet is ultra-processed — industrially manufactured in a factory. These foods consist primarily of processed sugar, ultra-processed grains, and seed oils. Lab scientists concoct thousands of other ingredients to make these foods more palatable, more addictive. These ingredients didn’t exist 100 years ago, and humans aren’t biologically adapted to eat them. Hundreds of these chemicals are banned in Europe, but ubiquitous in America’s processed foods.

The second culprit is toxic chemicals in our food, medicine, and environment. Pesticides, food additives, pharmaceutical drugs, and toxic waste permeate every cell of our bodies. The assault on a child’s cells and hormones is unrelenting. To name just one problem, many of these chemicals increase estrogen. Because young children are ingesting hormone disruptors, the average girl in America is reaching puberty at age 10 to 13 — six years earlier than girls were in 1900. Our country has the earliest puberty rates on any continent. And no, this isn’t because of “better nutrition.” This is not normal. Breast cancer, an estrogen-driven cancer, now strikes one in eight women.

Considering the grievous human cost of this tragic epidemic of chronic disease, it seems almost crass to mention the damage it does to our economy. But I’ll say, it is crippling our nation’s finances. When my uncle was President, our country spent zero dollars on chronic disease. Today, government healthcare spending is mostly for chronic disease, and it is double the military budget. And chronic disease costs the economy as a whole at least $4 trillion. Probably more when you consider the indirect costs. That’s a 20% drag on everything we could aspire to. And it is the fastest-growing cost.

Poor and minority communities suffer disproportionately. Industry lobbyists make sure that most of the food stamp and school lunch program dollars are funding processed foods. We are systematically mass-poisoning America’s poorest citizens.

The same food industry lobbied to make sure that nearly all agricultural subsidies go to the commodity crops that are the feedstock of the processed food industry. The policies are destroying small farms and our soils.

The good news is that we can change all of this, and change it quickly. America can get healthy again. To do that we need to do three things. First, root out the corruption in our health agencies. Second, change the incentives of the healthcare system. And third, inspire Americans to get healthy again.

Eighty percent of NIH grants go to people who have conflicts of interest. These agencies, the FDA, the USDA, the CDC, all of them are controlled by huge for-profit corporations. 75% of the FDA’s funding doesn’t come from taxpayers. It comes from pharma. And pharma executives and consultants and lobbyists cycle in and out of these agencies.

With President Trump’s backing, I am going to change that. We are going to staff these agencies with honest scientists and doctors free from industry funding. We will make sure that the decisions of consumers, doctors, and patients are informed by unbiased science.

A sick child is the best thing for the pharmaceutical industry. When American children, or adults, get sick with a chronic condition, they are put on medications for their entire life. Imagine what will happen when Medicaid starts paying for Ozempic, which costs $1,500 a month and is being recommended for children as young as six. All for a condition, obesity, that is completely preventable and barely even existed a hundred years ago. Since 74% of Americans are obese, the costs could be as high as $3 trillion a year. With a fraction of that money, we could buy organic food for every American and get rid of diabetes altogether. We will bring healthy food back to school lunches. We will stop subsidizing the worst foods with our agricultural subsidies. We will get the toxic chemicals out of our food. We will reform the entire food system.

And for that, we need new leadership in Washington, because unfortunately, both the Democratic and Republican Parties are in cahoots with the food producers, Big Pharma, and Big Ag, which are among their major donors. Vice President Harris has expressed no interest in addressing this issue. Four more years of Democratic rule will complete the consolidation of corporate and Neocon power. And our children will be the ones who suffer the most.

I got involved with chronic disease 20 years ago, not because I chose to. It was thrust upon me. It was an issue that should have been central to the environmental movement, but it was widely ignored by all the institutions that should have been protecting our kids against toxins. It was an orphaned issue — I had a weakness for orphans.

I watched generations of children get sicker and sicker in front of my eyes. And nobody in power seemed to care or even notice. For 19 years, I prayed every morning that God would put me in a position to end this calamity. The chronic disease crisis was one of the primary reasons for running for President. Along with ending the censorship, and the Ukraine war, it is the reason I have made this heart-wrenching decision to suspend my campaign and to support President Trump. This decision is agonizing for me, because of the difficulties it causes to my wife, my children, my family, and my friends. But I have the certainty that this is what I’m meant to do and that certainly gives me internal peace even in storms. If I’m given the chance to fix the chronic disease crisis and reform our food production, I promise that within two years, we will watch the chronic disease burden lift dramatically. We will make Americans healthy again. Within four years, America will be a healthy country. We will be stronger, more resilient, more optimistic, and happier. I won’t fail. Ultimately the future is in the hands of God, the American voters, and President Trump. If President Trump is elected and honors his word, the vast burden of chronic disease that now demoralizes and bankrupts the country, will disappear.

This is a spiritual journey for me. I reached my decision through deep prayer and hard-nosed logic. I ask myself, what choices must I make to maximize my chances to save America’s children and restore national health? I felt that if I refused this opportunity, I would not be able to look at myself in the mirror, knowing I could have saved the lives of countless children and reversed this country’s chronic disease epidemic.

I’m 70 years old. I have maybe a decade to be effective. I cannot imagine that a President Harris will allow me or anyone else to solve these problems. After eight years of President Harris, any opportunity for me to fix the problem will be out of my reach forever. President Trump has told me he wants this as his legacy. I’m choosing to believe that this time, he will follow through. His son, his biggest donors, and closest friends also support this objective. My joining the Trump campaign will be a difficult sacrifice for my wife and children, but worthwhile if there is even a small chance of success.

Ultimately the only thing that will save our children and our country is if we choose to love them more than we hate each other.

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Satanic Overlord Gates:

Do as I Say, Not as I Do

The Demonrats have solved the housing crisis

Hurrah!

RFK JR

“Democrats have become the party of war, censorship, corruption, big pharma, big tech, big ag, and big money wanting to abandon democracy by canceling the primary to conceal the cognitive decline of the sitting president.
I left the party to run as an independent… The DNC and its media organs engineered a surge of popularity for VP Harris based upon nothing.
No policies, no interviews, no debates. Only smoke and mirrors.”
”A Chicago circus that is based on NOTHING.

Who needs a policy if you hate Donald Trump?

RFK Jr. was shunned by Democrat Party ”

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/watch-live-rfk-jr-addresses-nation

RFK JR
Battle grounds: Medical safety issues, (the Covid-19 operation?),
Peace
“This alone would justify my support for his campaign.”
“But we are aligned with each other on other key issues”
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• Crackdown on Ukraine’s Largest Church Is ‘Full-fledged Satanism’ – Medvedev

I’ve been ranting here at TAE about SATANISTS for ever and a day

Nice to see at least Medvedev finally saying the quiet part out loud to the world

Religion and religious institutional issues are moving SWIFTLY from the Religion Section of the Newspapers, onto the front page, complete with All Caps, Extra Bold Face, and largest font.

Things that have been smoldering on the periphery of civilizational goings-on are breaking out like a convergence of prairie fires that enter the boreal forest and becomes a fire storm generating its own weather.

For example, the Satanic Pope is being challenged (as such!) by an entire wing of the Catholic faithful (a billion people, all told) and that fight ain’t going away until one of the sides loses. For example, the Shroud of Turin has been authenticated as genuine by the most SCIENTIFICALLY rigorous standards currently available, which FACT has tipped an uncountably numerous flock of “agnostic” fence-sitters to the Believer side of the roster, which changes the math DRASTICALLY in favor of those who believe that Jesus was (is) the progeny of the Divine Creator.

This not a small thing.

Events in the material world are going to be DRASTICALLY effected by that shift.

You will be seeing it in the headlines, of course, but more to the point, you will be seeing it in your LIFE.

Spoke with a life long republican yesterday about Isreal. He went on about “from the river to the sea, palestine will be free” as equaling full on genocide

I explained it would mean that everyone has the same citizenship rights

I explained there’s 3 basic options for Israel to achieve this goal:

1. Frog march everyone except Israelis out of whatever border they’ve decided they want and then STOP. But then you won’t have any Palestinians under your control to concern your security state with. Build a continuous wall, do everything you can to keep the status quo and STOP expansion and bombing everyone around you. If you sit tight, MAYBE everyone comes to accept this and you SHOULD stand pat at that point if you got what you wanted. But you’ll have no filthy underclass under your control inside your borders.

2. Withdraw to the 1967 borders. Do #1 from those borders. You’ll be doing the right thing as an added bonus – might keep you a little safer as a result

3. One man one vote. Everybody in Israel AND Palestine has the same citizenship rights, votes in elections covering this entire unified country. Countries don’t attack themselves.

“But Israel is fighting for their lives!”

Well, all the fighting is happening outside their borders. In territory they occupied or have tried to occupy, be it in Syria, Lebanon, or Palestine. They told the Palestinians to move, then bombed the ones trying to comply, then sectioned Gaza up into different surrounded bits so nobody CAN comply and have closed off the border so Palestinians cannot even leave if they wanted to try, which all looks like a very strange sort of fighting for their lives.

“But if we did one man one vote, soon there would be no particularly jewish ethincity nor religion in Israel. There would be no Israel”

If you are saying you support the maintaining the pure existence of religious ethno-states, then this should be openly stated. If maintaining the existence of a religious ethno state is a good thing, say it outright in so many words.

“…”

I see.

“But Isreal won those lands outside the 1967 borders fair and square through conquest and war”

Oh, well yes that IS fine, but then if somebody makes war on you fair and square outside the 1967 borders, don’t come crying to me.

The way THEY see it, they are attacking Israel on territory they are currently invading and occupying, therefore there can be no such thing as Israel defending itself. Point to a spot on the map where Israel is fighting for itself within its actual borders.

“…”

“But they HAVE to eliminate Hamas! They are merely a terrorist organization”

No, they’re the political ruling party of Palestine. They’re the negotiators on the other side of the table. Calling them names won’t lead to negotiation.

Funding and supporting Hamas to supplant the PLO just left them here. They should have just taken up with the actual people across the table at that time – the PLO – rather than just supplanting them AND ENDING UP IN THE SAME PLACE with Hamas and AGAIN pretending they never have to accommodate anything, discuss anything, etc.

Maybe Palestine/Gaza would have become the Belgium or Luxembourg of the Levant Or maybe the Las Vegas or Monte Carlo. Who knows. They won’t let them DO anything like have a port or airport.

“Well, gotta keep it safe”

And how’s that going for them? Quieted things right down, super stable for them due to their correct actions that predictably lead to safety? Eh?

@ Orobouros

We could probably debate the details of feminism….

For me, Ibsen’s A Doll’s House is relevant. A married woman, mother with children, is treated like a doll by her life, and she leaves. I had a part-time Mexican nanny for my kids for a while, many years ago. She was astranged from her first daughter for three decades because she fled a bad marriage.

I did not. I gradually took the reigns of power in my flailing marriage, and used the systems that exist to protect those with less physical power to eject my ex from the home. I kept my house; I kept my children. I couldn’t prevent the state from insisting that the children spend half their time with their emotionally abusive father for seven years until my daughter had carved her anguish onto her body — but I prevented him from increasing it to 100% of the time, mitigated the effects as best as I could, and got her out once she fully found her voice on the issue.

To me, the path that I have followed — one that many women before me and after me follow — is feminism. It is inextricably linked to the indisputable fact that I am physically weaker than men and that I can bring children into the world, that I take on a sacred role to raise them the best way that I can, and that I don’t hesitate to ask for assistance to do it when my own efforts are not adequate to the task.

Feminism is not taking a man’s role, nor pretending to be a man. It isn’t placement on a security detail without having received proper prior training. Those women are hollow and do not know themselves. I can live for myself and be the mother that my children need. It is knowing that my son will be bewildered on his first day of college if he doesn’t know where to go, and setting aside several hours on a Monday morning to ride the train with him to ASU, together sorting out the building acronyms, room numbers, campus map, and walking the path from class to class. (Some may say I should have left my son to figure it out…but his therapist identified him as very, very likely high-functioning autistic many years ago, and I knew from years of observation what he needed in order to be comfortable on his first day of university.). His first day went very well this week. He was confident. He realized many of his peers were half lost, trying to find their way. He knows how to avoid that situation.

Do airplanes “experience” things?
Perhaps “underwent” would be a more accurate term.
I would argue that, in itself, was a transient “loss of control”. Did Boeing “moonlight” Ethiopians?

The new documents also reveal that from communications between Boeing and Ethiopian Airlines, in December 2018, the airline’s 737 MAX experienced an “uncommanded roll”—a situation where the plane rolls unexpectedly, potentially disorienting the pilot and risking loss of control. This incident occurred just weeks after Ethiopian Airlines took delivery of the aircraft, and only a few months before it tragically crashed, killing all onboard.

Folk wouldn’t recognize Evil if it kissed them on the lips or The Devil bit them full on their ass.

The closest any of you will come to Evil is a minor or mediocre:
1. Borderline
2. Narcissistic personality disorder
3. Antisocial personality disorder
or
4. Psychopath

in your path.

The trouble isn’t the individual devil, but the fellow travelers, wingmen and flying monkeys beguiled by their bonafide bullshit.
The latter, (the baffling , bamboozling and spellbinding of the masses), the experts recently rechristened and redefined as Leadership.

Tim Walz
Kevin Amick
Don Arthur
Michelle Howard
Barack Obama
Kamala Harris
Randy Morey
Zelensky
Anthony Fauci
Trump
Beebe CEO Tam

…..near-constant crisis

………ever-present dread

The difference is Republicans are CAPABLE of hearing arguments. It’s pathetic no one has offered these arguments before, but he can hear them and decide. That’s all anyone is asking. Very likely he will move one step, or more than one, in your direction. (As there is no polarization that all Jews must die, because: why??)

That’s the question isn’t it? WHO decides what “Feminism” means? It means nothing because there’s no definition. To me it means a lot of bad things. I REALLLLLLLLY doubt there were all that many Ibsens in all that many Doll Houses because: money and class, and ALWAYS most women were ALWAYS working — no room for Dolls there, all just made up TV PR from Gloria Stein, CIA agent (proven) If we went BACK to how bad it was then (and I don’t favor that), it would be about 5 times better than today. Thanks Feminism. Also it would be about 20x better for men. Thanks feminism.

So who decides? To me, Feminism means, “All women must be men, or they suck and are failures.” — say all women. No pressure! If you don’t chase money, you’re a failure. If you’re not aggressive, you’re a failure. If you don’t kill people, on sight, you’re a failure. If you don’t work in a corporate office, (for the Patriarchy) you’re a failure. And ABSOLUTELY, TOTALLY, WITHOUT QUESTION, if you have children — EVER — you are the world’s biggest failur and disappointment, a pain that can only be increased by SEEING THEM and caring for them instead of shipping them off to Ender’s Military Academy state day care, then state school where they can be abused 24/7 for 20 years. If you’ve made the major mistake of children in your life, the least you can do is torture them daily, if you’re just too weak to kill them. For Feminism.

That’s the message and definition I got! Feminism can do anything at all! Except be mothers. Wives. Be relaxed. Be families. Be community. Be caring. Be cared for. Be sheltered from the daily s–t show out here. Only if they give up EVERY heroic task of women, that women have always done for 50,000 years, only then do you have any value, and are a “woman”, according to modern women.

…Or so I hear. I might be biased.

@JohnDay

Yeah, I’ld say that an unexpected un-commanded barrel roll of a 737 could be a bit disorienting to its human pilots. Those big planes are pretty much full-on AI controlled in every maneuver, with the “pilot” just being a well educated “chooser” of which automated actions should be performed. When the menu of choices decides to make its own choices the pilot is pretty much just another observer, albeit an observer who is educated well enough to really understand how deep in trouble he really is.

To err is human, but to REALLY screw things up you need AI.

I could never be a good pilot of any modern aircraft. I have too many trust issues with machines. My Dad was an excellent pilot (back in the far distant day when the machines were WAY simpler) and even he was friggin’ OCD about the operability of any vehicle (on the ground or above it) that he was riding in.

One tiny noise, glitch or vibration that he couldn’t identify or account for and that vehicle wasn’t going ANYWHERE until he had figured it out and made any necessary repairs or adjustments. He was a great pilot, but man oh man was he an aggravating passenger.

@phoenixvoice

Yours is the practical guide to life and parenting.

And my summation doesn’t do Yours adequate justice….

…..but what happens when the request for assistance and cries for help go unanswered.

You work with what you have and give what you got until you’re tapped out or your children individuate. Yet, they give and get because those children are also learning from every moment, tribulation, trial and their sole, deliberate contribution to victory.

Thanks for your comment today

@phoenixvoice

Thanks for sharing your thoughts about what a feminist is. The Wonderwoman graphic was meant to be facetious and poking a bit of fun.

I agree with many of your points but unfortunately 4th wave feminism is a toxic waste dump.

The reproductive replacement rate of 2.1 is gone, gone, gone and is so embedded in Western culture, like an assisited suicide medication there will be no recovery.

By century’s end there will be no “Western Culture” left.

Like Latin, it will be a dead vestige, a relic, a vague memory not even taught in grade school and abandoned to the Ages.

RIP

The cultures that survive it will have women’s roles as more historically normal than the freak show of 4th Gen ‘feminism’.

Are We Entering the 5th Wave of Feminism, or Has It Already Arrived?