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History will look back on us as “the crazy plastic people”.  We produce approximately 400 million tons of plastic each year, and a great deal of that plastic ends up being discarded in various ways.  Over time, the discarded plastic breaks down into smaller and smaller pieces.  Once they get small enough, the little bits of plastic become “microplastics”, and today our planet is being polluted by trillions upon trillions of these “microplastics” and the problem becomes worse every year.  Total global plastic production is rising at an exponential rate, and that means that the crisis that I am going to describe in this article will continue to get exponentially more severe. (Read More...)

We were warned that if we stayed on the path that we were on that we would eventually see mass extinctions all over the globe.  Unfortunately, nothing was done and now it is already happening.  The creatures that inhabit our oceans are dying off.  The insects are dying off.  The birds are dying off.  All around us there is death on a massive scale, but most people don’t understand what is taking place.  We all stay in our own little protected bubbles, and we all keep listening to the corporate media tell us that everything is going to be just fine.  But the truth is that everything is not going to be just fine, because we are literally destroying the Earth and everything in it. (Read More...)

A lot of people out there are downplaying this new monkeypox pandemic, and I believe that is a huge mistake.  If a smallpox outbreak had suddenly erupted, everyone would be totally freaking out.  But the general public doesn’t seem very alarmed about monkeypox even though it is very closely related to smallpox.  According to the official CDC website, monkeypox “is part of the same family of viruses as variola virus, the virus that causes smallpox”.  In the past, monkeypox has not spread easily among humans, but something has changed that has now made that possible.  As I detailed last week, scientists are telling us that approximately 50 key mutations have turned this bug into something new that we haven’t seen before. (Read More...)

Enjoy this summer while you can, because global events will soon escalate to an even more alarming level.  Needless to say, if 2022 ended right now it would be remembered for a lot of really bad things.  Prior to this year, we didn’t have a war in Ukraine, nobody was talking about monkeypox, inflation was a relatively minor concern, food riots weren’t erupting in poor countries, and we weren’t facing the prospect of a very painful recession.  So much has happened in the last six months, but I have a feeling that the next six months are going to be even crazier. (Read More...)

Do you remember what economic conditions were like in 2008 and 2009?  Well, what is ahead of us is likely to be significantly worse.  There will be severe pain for those that get blindsided by this new crisis, but those that choose to get prepared in advance will have the best chance of successfully weathering the coming storm.  This week, we learned that the rate of inflation in the United States surged even higher last month.  And this is happening even though the overall economy is steadily slowing down.  At this point, the vast majority of the population understands that economic conditions are rapidly deteriorating.  In fact, one recent survey discovered that 70 percent of all Americans now believe that an economic downturn is ahead of us… (Read More...)

The global monkeypox outbreak shows no signs of slowing down.  Someone recently pointed out to me that 9,000 cases out of a worldwide population of nearly 8 billion people is not really that big of a deal, and that would be correct.  But my concern is what this outbreak could become.  Despite everything that health officials all over the western world have done so far, the number of cases continues to rise at an exponential rate.  There are now 10,320 cases, and this outbreak has spread to 72 different countries.  If the trajectory of this outbreak does not change, what will the numbers look like by the end of this year? (Read More...)

Should we be surprised that so few young adults want to serve in the U.S. military?  When I was growing up, serving in the U.S. military was considered to be a noble profession.  My own father was in the U.S. Navy throughout all my years in school, and I never once thought that he should leave to get a different job until he finally decided that it was time to retire.  But now Joe Biden and his politically correct minions at the Pentagon have transformed our military into a laughingstock, and that should deeply grieve all of us.  The U.S. military is one of our most important national institutions, but it continues to get weaker and weaker. (Read More...)

Once upon a time, California was the hottest destination in the entire country.  Millions of young people poured into California in search of a new life, and today it has the largest population of any U.S. state by a very wide margin.  But now “the California Dream” has become “the California Cesspool”, and residents are moving to other states on a permanent basis in very large numbers.  In fact, at this point a lot of California residents are even choosing to move to Mexico in order to escape the state.  Decades of really bad decisions have turned the Golden State into an endless nightmare, and there appears to be no hope on the horizon. (Read More...)