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Friday, August 15, 2025

The Boomer Mirage - (and now what? Especially for Gen Z! - CL)

One Chart. Three Generations. Total Extraction.

I saw this chart making the rounds on Twitter this week, and it stopped me cold. While the specific figures combine data from multiple sources, the trend is undeniable: in 1950, over half of 30-year-olds were married homeowners. By 2025, some analysts project that number as low as 13%.

That's not a societal transformation. It's not an economic fluke. It's the visible outcome of an invisible strategy—one that extracted everything it could from a three-generation arc and left only illusions in its place.

They'll tell you people just choose differently now—that marriage rates fell because of changing values. But people can't choose what they can't afford. When the economic foundation for family formation disappears, cultural changes follow inevitably. That chart doesn't show us changing values or new priorities. It shows systemic breakdown, disguised for decades as freedom.

It maps the slow evaporation of the social contract. For one generation, adulthood was a starting point. For the next, a struggle. For the latest, an abstraction—marketed endlessly but almost never attained. What began as a rite of passage has become a paywalled simulation.

The post–World War II boom was never sustainable. In hindsight, this was obvious. It relied on conditions that were always time-limited: cheap energy from newly tapped oil fields, industrial monopolies before globalization kicked in, dollar hegemony that exported inflation globally, and a demographic pyramid with more workers than retirees. It was a golden window, not a golden age. And when the window closed, the illusion had to be maintained—through leverage, narrative, and ever-increasing sacrifice from the generations that followed.

The math quietly stopped working. Boomers bought homes for two or three times their annual income during an era when interest rates would fall for the next four decades—turning their mortgages into wealth-building machines as rates dropped from 15% to near-zero. Today's buyers face five to six times their income—or more in major cities—while rates can only go up from historic lows. Where Boomers rode a 40-year tailwind of falling borrowing costs that inflated their assets while deflated their debt, current generations face headwinds at every turn. The Federal Reserve data confirms this unprecedented decline, showing rates falling from over 18% in the early 1980s to near 2.6% by 2021.

https://www.zerohedge.com/personal-finance/boomer-mirage 

The institutions that promised stability—education, government, media, finance—mutated into extraction machines. Still speaking the old language, they now served a different purpose: to keep people compliant inside a system that no longer offered a way out.

This wasn't merely economic. It was existential. The foundations of meaning—family, ownership, stability—were quietly downgraded to lifestyle preferences, and then systematically priced out. People without homes are easier to relocate. People without families are easier to isolate. People without rootedness are easier to govern.

The Boomers didn't design the con, but they lived in its payout phase. They received land, pensions, and a functional society. Many still believe they earned it, unable to recognize how thoroughly their reality was engineered from the start. Their children were left trying to replicate a model that no longer existed. Their grandchildren have grown up in the wreckage, wondering why their competence and effort never translate into traction.

This didn't happen by accident. As I've documented in The Technocratic Blueprint, we're witnessing the culmination of a century-long plan—a sophisticated pump and dump scheme where the bill is finally coming due. The architecture for this extraction has deep historical roots, dating back to systematic changes in how America was governed and how citizens were legally classified. What followed was a long, slow harvest of the population—one that disguised control as progress, debt as opportunity, and collapse as evolution. The postwar boom didn't contradict that system—it lubricated it.

Now, the mirage is gone. What was once promised can no longer be afforded. The institutions that upheld the illusion are spent. They extract, but no longer inspire. They preach equity while enforcing dependence. They sell empowerment while removing agency.

But charts don't lie. That one chart—the brutal slope from 52% to 13%—says what no institution will admit: the old system is dead. It wasn't lost. It was liquidated—and we were the product.

What gets built in its place remains an open question. The GENIUS Act's full-reserve model could enable either unprecedented control—or the first real challenge to fractional-reserve banking in a century. But as Catherine Austin Fitts has pointed out, the Act contains no protections against programmable money, potentially creating private CBDCs with even less oversight than government-issued digital currency. As she explains, 'the issuing is not centralized, it's dispersed. But if you look at the control mechanism of a social credit system and we know the federal government is doing remarkable things to pull together all the data they need to do a social credit system controlled by private corporations, tech companies, essentially.' The outcome isn't predetermined—it's being decided right now.

The good news is that once the spell breaks, you stop trying to win the rigged game. You stop competing for scraps and start building something real. Not a nostalgic replica of a world that's gone—but a new structure, grounded in truth, agency, and actual sovereignty. The chart that documents the death of the old dream becomes the blueprint for something better—if we're honest enough to read what it's really telling us.

A Letter to Normies from James

 Dear Normies,

First, I want you to know that we in the Awake community love you very much. Well, most of us do. I do hear some hardcore Awake types saying you had what was coming to you when you took the death jabs just so you could go on holiday. But I disagree. You were sold those ‘safe and effective’ vaccines on a false prospectus at the dog-end of a military grade psyop designed to reduce you to a state of panic, fear, confusion and desperation. Of course it wasn’t your fault. And even if it was, just a teeny tiny bit, I/we still love you because most of our friends and families are Normies, and you’re all made in God’s image.

Also, by the way, we can totally empathise with you. We know exactly why you think the way you do because once upon a time, before our Awakening, we too were Normies.

But, Normies, just because we love you and empathise with you and fully understand where you’re coming from doesn’t mean we’re prepared to take any shit from you on what you imagine to be the true nature of the world.

We don’t care if you’ve got a PhD because we’re not impressed by the credentialism of a broken, corrupt and compromised academic system. We don’t care if you’ve read lots of books because they’re mostly, likely, Normie books published in order to reinforce a particular narrative which we know to be false. We don’t care if you’re a high flier at the top of your professional game because we know how the Beast system works and whom it tends to reward. And we don’t care about your ‘science’ and your ‘history’ because we know that most of it is fake. Your entire paradigm, in fact, is bollocks.

You don’t understand any of this, we appreciate that. But we do understand it. And there’s the irreconcilable difference between us.

Love, James

Full text:
https://delingpole.substack.com/p/why-i-no-longer-talk-to-normies?publication_id=714921&utm_campaign=email-post-title&r=y7h5a&utm_medium=email 

Prosperity Requires Real Money, Not Fiat, CBDC, or Crypto…nor the Federal Reserve Bank! - LewRockwell

 https://www.lewrockwell.com/2025/08/no_author/prosperity-requires-real-money-not-fiat-cbdc-or-cryptonor-the-federal-reserve-bank/ 

The Federal Reserve Bank is privately-owned and Unconstitutional for good reason. It is a scam on the people of the United States. The money it prints is Fiat. Without the Federal Reserve Bank printing money out of thin air, wars for profit would not be possible and we would not have a $37 Trillion deficit. The Bank causes booms and busts which would not occur as often, if at all, with Constitutional money, gold and silver.

Money is the lifeblood of an Economy, and those who control money control the country, regardless of who is elected. The Federal Reserve Bank is privately-owned  and responsible for ups and downs in the Economy. If gold and silver was used rather than fiat dollars, things would be more stable without inflation.

Wednesday, August 13, 2025

Crime is a Race Problem - Vox Popoli - (Accept REALITY......or DIE as a civilization! - CL)

 St. George splits from Baton Rouge and within a year no crime, safe streets, budget surplus, working schools, investment coming in, and peace. This is the future.

As I’ve previously demonstrated from FBI statistics, gun crime is also a race problem, not a gun problem. And the advent of widespread AI means that society’s ability to conceal this through rhetoric, equalitarian posturing, and social pressure is being eliminated.

As nations from Britain to Sweden have discovered, immigration means crime, especially violence and rape.

Civil rights, integration, and anti-racism means crime and a dysfunctional society. Segregation means peace and a functional society.

Everywhere around the world, people will choose the latter. It is inevitable. After all, where do you think all those homogeneous societies came from in the first place?

The STEMACI Theory of National Power – The Occidental Observer

 And  before going on, let me make one thing very clear: I am in no way whatsoever defending the current level and specifics of the feds’ spending; it is beyond wasteful, being outright counterproductive, given that most of it comes from smart productive Whites (the genetic seed corn) of a strong economy, while an inordinate amount goes to a relatively small numbers of dumb Whites (White trash, if you will) and a large number of feral Blacks. As with the Roman Empire discussed earlier, which toward the end had a welfare state almost as bad as our own, we are destroying ourselves by paying the dumbest (and in the case of Blacks, the most violent as well) to breed, which further hurts the birthrates of the intelligent via the higher taxes needed to pay for the welfare state. That said, I am merely trying to demonstrate the economic power of eugenic policies in terms that even a brain-dead bureaucrat can understand.

Full text:
https://www.theoccidentalobserver.net/2025/08/11/the-stemaci-theory-of-national-power/ 

World War VII, by Hans Vogel - The Unz Review - (All wars are banker's wars! - CL)

 In a recent interview, economist Dr. Richard Werner pointed out that the world’s first central bank, the Bank of England (founded in 1694) was founded especially as a weapon to be used in war. Not surprisingly therefore, a few years afterward, the first world war broke out.

Like all wars, the big wars that can be classified as World Wars are ostensibly fought to determine who wins a dispute in the course of a kinetic encounter. In this respect those World Wars can indeed be characterized as the continuation of diplomacy by other means. Another reason world wars are fought seems to be to cull the population. Substantial numbers of peasants and workers are left behind lying dead on the battlefields and the bottom of the seas. Although these numbers are usually roughly specified, these are nevertheless always questionable since we can just never really be sure about historical statistics.

All those poor young men in the prime of their lives being slaughtered instills fear among those left behind and generally makes them meek and weak with respect to government policies. Wars therefore also need to be considered a powerful tool in the hands of elites with which to keep the population subdued......

.....The English victory certainly also meant a victory for the Bank of England, which from the beginning had many Jewish shareholders, many of whom were living in Amsterdam.....

.....However, time would not obey English wishes and London had to find new alliances to maintain its position. The United States was a logical choice, and in 1913 it was clear that a big wave of international violence was being planned, for in that year (like the Bank of England in 1694), the Fed was founded, as Richard Werner recently reminded us.

Russia being perceived as the biggest threat to English interests, still centered on the crucial seaway connecting the British Isles to India, Japan also seemed a logical choice for an ally. Armed to the teeth (especially its navy) by London, Japan in 1904 started a war against Russia. This can be considered the opening stage of the Fifth World War. As so often in a world war, this one also began somewhere in the periphery, at least not anywhere near the central stage of operations. The next stages were also set in the periphery. In 1911 Italy went to war against the Ottoman Empire over control of Cyrenaica in what is now Libya. Although officially a member of the Triple Alliance with Germany and Austria-Hungary, Italy had always maintained strong ties with England. This preferential relationship had earned it its first colony in 1890. In that year the Italian commercial presence on the Red Sea coast, right along the sea route from England to India, was converted into a colonial settlement. This would never haven been possible without English permission and support.......

Full text:
https://www.unz.com/article/world-war-vii/ 

....Then in the summer of 1914, after a long and meticulous preparation by England, the general European war broke out. When Italy joined the fray in 1915, all six European great powers (England, France, Russia, Italy, German and Austria-Hungary) were involved. With Japan and the United States also participating, the war became the biggest history had ever seen. The war finally ended in 1922, when the Greco-Turkish War come to a conclusion. In the mean time there also had been a Russian-Polish War, when the new Soviet regime in Russia attacked Poland in the hopes of starting a revolution in Western Europe.

World War V took about 20 million victims, mostly military personnel. If one were to add to that the deaths caused by the worldwide Spanish flu “pandemic” (claiming anywhere between 17 and 100 million deaths), which ought to be added to that number, the total might reach 120 million.

The London-based initiators of the war had enough reasons to be quite happy and content. England’s main competitors had been effectively trimmed and neutralized, maybe not forever, but at least for some foreseeable future. Three great empires had fallen, two of which had also fallen apart in the process (Austria-Hungary and the Ottoman Empire). The British empire had been consolidated and fortified. The power of the United States, a central part of the English-speaking world, had grown spectacularly. In a first step towards a central world government, the League of Nations was set up......

World War VI

There was still a lot of work to do before the entire world had been brought to speak English and before the next step towards a unified central world government could be taken. Needless to say, the next step would have to be another world war.

Some have said the Second World War of standard historiography is so closely connected to the Great War or First World War, that both could be considered to be episodes of a single war covering almost the entire first half of the 20th century........

War is good for business!

 IF YOU PURCHASED $10,000 of stock evenly divided among America’s top five defense contractors on September 18, 2001 — the day President George W. Bush signed the Authorization for Use of Military Force in response to the 9/11 terrorist attacks — and faithfully reinvested all dividends, it would now be worth $97,295.

This is a far greater return than was available in the overall stock market over the same period. $10,000 invested in an S&P 500 index fund on September 18, 2001, would now be worth $61,613.

That is, defense stocks outperformed the stock market overall by 58 percent during the Afghanistan War.

Moreover, given that the top five biggest defense contractors — Boeing, Raytheon, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, and General Dynamics — are of course part of the S&P 500, the remaining firms had lower returns than the overall S&P returns.

These numbers suggest that it is incorrect to conclude that the Taliban’s immediate takeover of Afghanistan upon the U.S.’s departure means that the Afghanistan War was a failure. On the contrary, from the perspective of some of the most powerful people in the U.S., it may have been an extraordinary success. Notably, the boards of directors of all five defense contractors include retired top-level military officers. …


https://ericzuesse.substack.com/p/how-billionaires-who-sell-to-the?publication_id=2510475&utm_campaign=email-post-title&r=y7h5a&utm_medium=email 

The Deadly Campaign to Shield All Pesticides from Legal Liability Unmasking Bayer and Monsanto's Cruel and Destructive Legacy and How Toxic Sludge is Destroying Our Farmlands

 Story at a Glance:

•For over a century, Monsanto has produced incredibly toxic (but “safe”) products that have injured millions and rendered many areas uninhabitable. However, due to cutthroat legal strategies, they have long been shielded from culpability. Recently, this changed due to RFK Jr. successfully suing them for cancers caused by their flagship product, Roundup (glyphosate).

•In 2018, Bayer (one of the world’s largest pharmaceutical companies) acquired Monsanto. This backfired, as due to the billions in Roundup judgments (likely to far exceed 16 billion), Bayer rapidly lost two-thirds of its value.

•To save the company Bayer (which, like Monsanto, has a long history of unscrupulous conduct) is conducting a variety of measures to end those lawsuits within the Courts, States, Congress, and EPA. Many of these involve creating liability shields which make it impossible to ever sue a pesticide manufacturer for being seriously injured by their product, even if the manufacturer deliberately concealed this known toxicity.

•These actions eerily parallel the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act of 1986, a “well-intended” act which rather than lead to safer vaccines, unleashed the modern era of chronic disease upon America.

•Presently a bill is working its way through Congress containing a covert provision designed to shield Bayer (and many other manufacturers) from these lawsuits.

•Due to how repugnant this position is (along with a related one to ensure toxic sludge can be dumped on our farmland and render it permanently unusable), it can only pass if the public is unaware of it. As such, I believe it is vital to expose exactly what is going on and the dark history behind all of it.

https://www.midwesterndoctor.com/p/the-deadly-campaign-to-shield-all?publication_id=748806&utm_campaign=email-post-title&r=y7h5a&utm_medium=email 

The Mainstream Press’s Fear of the Deep State - LewRockwell

 I am fairly certain that most, if not all, of the mainstream press will decline to review Douglas Horne’s remarkable new documentary entitled “The Three Bethesda Casket Entries: Revisited.”

Why is that? After all, with his new documentary, Horne makes an absolutely airtight case for the deep state’s secret, surreptitious introduction of JFK’s body into the deep state’s military morgue prior to the start of the official JFK autopsy itself and then later lied about it and covered it up. Why would the deep state do that? There is no innocent explanation for it. The earlier secret casket entries had to equate to illegality and cover-up. There is no way around it. That’s the power of Horne’s new documentary.

No one can come up with an innocent explanation for autopsy fraud. It necessarily equates to cover-up. And who is the only entity that the national-security establishment would be covering up for? It had to be itself, especially given that the scheme for the fraudulent autopsy was actually launched immediately after JFK was declared dead. That’s when a team of Secret Service agents, operating on orders, refused to permit the Texas medical examiner from conducting an autopsy on JFK’s body, which state law required, and forcibly removed the body for transportation to the Bethesda National Navy Medical Center.....

Full text:
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2025/08/jacob-hornberger/the-mainstream-presss-fear-of-the-deep-state/ 

.....With his documentary, Horne conclusively establishes that that has always been a lie. In fact, as Horne details, there were actually three casket entries. There can be no innocent explanation for three casket entries into the deep state’s morgue. None, especially when they lie about it.

So, why wouldn’t a documentary like this capture the attention of the mainstream press? Wouldn’t you think that some enterprising reporter or editor would find such a documentary worth reporting or commenting on?

Nope. And I’m convinced that the reason is fear — fear of the deep state — fear of the Pentagon, the CIA, and the NSA, which, as I have long maintained, are actually in charge of running the federal government, especially in foreign affairs......

'Strangers' In The Bible - Who They Are And Who They Are Not - Christians for Truth

 [CFT: We are republishing this article with editorial updates that improve ease of reading, citations, and organization.]

Here we will take a look at another chapter from Charles A. Wiseman’s book, Is Universalism Of God? — this time addressing the actual meaning of “strangers” in the Bible — a term that universalists often cherry pick and exploit to suit their non-scriptural egalitarian agenda, all the while ignoring the original Hebrew words from which it is translated into English — along with its often-nuanced original context.

[CFT: We previously published another chapter from Wiseman’s same book on the problematic nature of the Great Commission as promoted by universalists.]

Wiseman writes:

The Strangers In The Bible

Egalitarians and Universalists use several arguments and doctrines in which they use the term “strangers” to mean “races other than Israel.”

However, there are actually several different Hebrew words that are translated as “stranger.” — listed here by their Strong’s numbers, pronunciations, general definitions, and references:

#1616 geyr — a guest, a foreigner, alien sojourner (Gen. 23:4; Ex. 2:22 & 20:10; Lev. 17:12; Deut. 10:19).

#2114 zuwr (zoor) — to turn aside, a foreigner to the land, profane, from adultery, honor as a visitor or guest, a stranger to the family or household (Deut. 25:5; 1 Kings 3:18; Job 19:15; Prov. 6:1 & 20:16

#5235 noker (no-ker) — something strange, calamity, a strange or unhappy fate, one who has a misfortune (Gen. 17:12, 17:27; Ex. 12:43; Ob. 1:12)

#5236 nekar (nay-kawr) — foreignness, heathendom, alien, strange gods (Deut. 31:16 & 32:12; 2 Sam. 22:45; Neh. 9:2 & 13:30; Psa. 18:44; Isa. 62:8; Ezek. 44:7 & 9; Mal. 2:11)

#5237 nokriy (nok-ree) — strange, foreign, foreigner from a far land, non-relative, different, a non-Israelite people (Deut. 15:3, 17:15, 23:20, 29:22; Judges 19:12; 1 Kings 8:4 & 11:1; Ezra 10:2; Neh. 13:27)

#8453 toshab (to-shawb) — a sojourner, as distinguished from a native citizen, an emigrant (Ex. 12:45; Lev. 22:10, 25:23, 35:47; Psa. 39:12)

As it can be seen, there are several different Hebrew words which have been translated into the one English word “stranger.”

The egalitarians and universalists who use certain verses involving the word “stranger” never, of course, specify which word is being used to prove their doctrine.

They also diligently avoid other verses that use the term “stranger” which clearly show persons who are separate from — or unequal with — God’s people.

The assumption that the term “stranger” must mean someone of another race is in itself rather bizarre since the term never carries that meaning in the English language. When we meet someone we don’t know, we might say, “How’s it going, stranger?” The term simply means someone you do not know.

The identity and status of the “strangers” in the Bible cannot be interpreted by assumption or by a universal application of one definition.

We need to determine which word is being used — and the context in which it is used — in order to determine the person’s identity and relationship to Israel.

Further, we cannot have interpretations which are inconsistent with established biblical doctrines or principles or laws of God.

As we will see, a “stranger” can be one from another family, city, tribe, nation, or race.

The first use of the term stranger in the Bible is in Genesis 15:13, where Abraham was told that his descendants would be strangers in the land of Egypt.

Geyr

The word stranger in this verse is Strong’s #1616 (geyr) — and simply means that the Israelites would be foreigners of the nature of a guest — at least that is what they were in the beginning:

“God said to Abram, “Know for certain that your descendants will be strangers in a land that is not theirs, where they will be enslaved and oppressed four hundred years. This laid the foundation for the law.”

Genesis 15:13

And again in:

“Thou shalt not abhor an Egyptian; because thou wast a stranger in his land.”

–Deuteronomy 23:7

Here the word stranger is again Strong’s #1616 (geyr) — implying a visitor or guest, or someone traveling through the land.

geyr in Israel had certain rights and obligations to abide by the laws in the land:

Exodus 12:19

Exodus 20:10

Leviticus 16:29

Leviticus 17:8-12

Leviticus 18:26

Leviticus 20:2

Deuteronomy 24:19-20

Ezekiel 14:7

In Ezekiel 47:22, where the land is being divided among the tribes of Israel, it is said that:

“The strangers (geyr) that sojourn among you, which shall beget children among you; they shall be unto you as born in the country among the children of Israel; they shall have inheritance with you among the tribes of Israel.”

The geyr (visitor) here is like the Israelites being a geyr in Egypt — where they came among those of their own race and those they married, as with Joseph’s wife (Genesis 41:40), who became members of the house of Israel.

There are well-known examples of pure Adamic individuals who were not Israelites — but by marriage they or their children became members of the Covenant people; such as with Moses marrying a Midianite (Exodus 2:16-22).

It is interesting to note that the geyr stranger is often contrasted with the nokriy (#5237) stranger — as in Deuteronomy 14:21 where both terms are used but treated differently:

“You shall not eat of any thing that dies of itself: thou shalt give it unto the stranger (geyr) that is in thy gates, that he may eat it; or you may sell it to an alien (nokriy): for thou art an holy people unto the LORD thy God.”

Deuteronomy 14:21

Read full text:  https://christiansfortruth.com/strangers-in-the-bible-who-they-are-and-who-they-are-not/ 

Conclusion

There is nothing in regards to the term “stranger” in the Old Testament that shows that other races are placed on an equal footing with Israel — or are brought into the covenant relationship with God.

In fact, there are many passages demonstrating that Israel is to be delivered from non-Israelites:

“To deliver thee from the strange woman, From the stranger who hath made smooth her sayings.”

Proverbs 2:16

“And ye have known that I am YHWH your God, Dwelling in Zion, My holy mountain, And Jerusalem hath been holy, And strangers do not pass over into it again.”

Joel 3:17