From the hijacking of bitcoin to the passing of the GENIUS Act, a deep dive in the Epstein files reveals Epstein’s fingerprints are all over the transformation of the global economy and our digital currency enslavement. Aaron Day joins us today to discuss “The Hijacking of Bitcoin,” his detailed and well-documented breakdown of how and why Epstein hijacked bitcoin.
Look for 15 years I have tried to educate you. THIS IS THE LAST TIME. So pay attention. Your Rockefeller education beliefs are all FALSE.
When dueterium leakage occurs into the matrix it stimulates cataplerosis in the TCA and the M1 Phenotype results. This process leads directly to the CDR too because tunneling speeds are destroyed. Here is where you, Peter D and your Rockefeller education screwed you. You know shit about tunneling speeds.
Quantum mechanics tells us according to the formula for tunneling, even a tiny increase in distance (measured in angstroms) leads to an exponential drop in energy efficiency and a massive spike in ROS = massive non coherent UPEs that are the hallmark of disease generation. this is why I showed you Picard picture on the change in IMJ geometry. When the IMJs change you know tunneling speeds have cratered. Deuterium’s KIE is a massive problem for tunneling speeds. But you and your food guru friends have no idea why.
Quantum tunneling is extremely sensitive to mass. Deuteriumhas double the mass of H+.
In the quantum world, as scale shrinks the effects become logrithmic because of the inverse square law. This means the effect of deuterium is off the chart. The doubling the mass of the particle attempting to “tunnel” across a gap doesn’t just slow it down, it makes the probability of a successful tunnel drop exponentially. This is not subject to your beliefs or your experts beliefs because these UNIVERSAL laws in physics true on Earth or another galaxy.
The Result: Electrons and protons “stutter.” This delay increases the “dwell time” of electrons on the respiratory chain, leading to their premature escape and the creation of Superoxide. This is a ROS. ROS makes UPEs. You have no clue what a UPE even is because you’re a food guru. It is a biophoton.
The ATP synthase, (FoF1), is a physical motor that spins at speeds up to 9,000 RPM. It is designed specifically for the “light” weight of a single proton.
The “Wobble” Effect: When a deuterium atom enters the top of the motor, the extra mass creates a mechanical imbalance, much like a lead weight on a high-speed fan blade.
The Breakdown: This “wobble” creates friction and heat, physically damaging the mitochondrial inner membrane and causing leakage of the proton gradient. This leakage is a primary signal that triggers CDR1, as the cell perceives a loss of “pressure” (voltage) and shifts into defense mode.
Deuterium in the matrix then causes the 25(OH)D Crash. Remember the VDR sits on the IMM as a brake for unfettered ROS/RNS production. Mitochondria rely on metabolic water production at CCO which is deuterium depleted. It is a highly structured, liquid-crystalline state of H2O. This type of water excludes solutes and anything over the size of a H+. This includes isotopes like deuterium which are double the size/mass of H+.
When any stressor hits the system, say like nnEMF light stress, nnEMF shrinks the EZ water layer through CCO dehydration . When this layer collapses, deuterium “leaks” into the matrix and the enzymes and causes the destruction.
As deuterium replaces protium in the water shells surrounding the CYP450 enzymes, the vibrational frequency of the enzyme changes. The enzyme loses its “quantum tune.” To compensate for the loss of mitochondrial efficiency caused by deuterium “pollution,” the body consumes Vitamin D at a massive rate to try and dampen the resulting ROS and stabilize the membrane.
Once deuterium pollutes the matrix:
OXPHOS fails: The motors are broken.
Cataplerosis is unleashed: The cell stops trying to make ATP and starts dumping TCA intermediates (like citrate) to create lipids for new membranes (to replace the damaged ones).
UPEs spike: The “friction” from deuterium in the nanomotors releases incoherent photons (UPEs), signaling to neighboring cells that the environment is toxic.
The unleashing cataplerosis should make you realize why the M1 (Pro-inflammatory) Phenotype is always the result:
Because the TCA cycle breaks at two SPECIFIC places (at Isocitrate Dehydrogenase and Succinate Dehydrogenase).
This causes a massive efflux (cataplerosis) of Citrate and Succinate into the cytosol.
Succinate then acts as a potent inflammatory signal, stabilizing HIF-1α and further shutting down oxidative phosphorylation (OXPHOS).
In this state, the mitochondria stop making “energy and hormones” and start making “defense signals and ROS.” the ROS makes non coherent UPEs and this causes all the diseases of man. You do not know this because you do not read shit about biophotons. Van Wijk and Popp have written careers on it while you wasted your time with your Rockefeller biochemistr retard PhD who knows none of this. This explains why our Vitamin D receptor sits on the IMM because it is a key regulator of this entire process. Melanin sits on the skin in cholesterol rafts capturing UVB light to stop this process. That is why the SUN heals it all and most of your bullshit beliefs are all linked back to Rockefeller solutions in centralized biochemistry and BigHarma. The VDR on our IMM trys to act as a “circuit breaker” for the CDR tied to deuterium effects in the matrix.
The “Sinister” Element of deuterium is an expansion of Mitochondrial Heteroplasmy = disease. See Doug Wallace. LEARN.
ANY increase in heteroplasmy = mitochondrial DNA damage.
nnEMF increases the distance between respiratory proteins on the inner mitochondrial membrane.
This slows down Electron Tunneling Speed (e).
According to the formula for tunneling, even a tiny increase in distance (measured in angstroms) leads to an exponential drop in energy efficiency and a massive spike in ROS = massive non coherent UPEs that are the hallmark of disease generation.
In metabolic terms, cataplerosis is the process of “draining” or siphoning intermediates out of the Tricarboxylic Acid (TCA) cycle.
Here is what that “unleashing” looks like in the body:
Siphoning for Survival (Biosynthesis): Instead of intermediates completing the full cycle to generate ATP, they are exported to create essential building blocks. This happens in cancers.
Citrate is pulled for fatty acid synthesis.
Alpha-ketoglutarate is drained to make amino acids or neurotransmitters.
Oxaloacetate is diverted toward gluconeogenesis to maintain blood sugar. This is why nnEMF raises blood sugar in stress response.
Preventing “Clogging”: Cataplerosis acts as a pressure-relief valve. If intermediates (anions) accumulate too heavily in the mitochondria, it can disrupt cellular function. Unleashing this process clears out the “sink” so the cycle can continue to process incoming fuel.
The Cost of “Unleashing”: Because the TCA cycle is a closed loop, removing these “rungs of the ladder” will eventually break the cycle unless they are replaced by a counter-process called anaplerosis (refilling the cycle).
Environmental Link: In your specific context, light stress from a move and heavy nnEMF is unleashing cataplerosis might be the body’s way of prioritizing oxidative repair or calcium buffering over standard energy production. It’s a “emergency mode” where the body spends its metabolic currency (like Vitamin D and TCA intermediates) to fix immediate damage. It really tells you how bad the place you went to was.
In short: it is your metabolism switching from “maintenance mode” to “construction/repair mode” because your body is sensing a cell danger response. What I am saying to you , is that your body “used what it needed in this moment,” but it left a collateral wake in your system. What are the system collateral effects? I am likely describing a massive decoupling event at the Cytochrome P450 (CYP450) level. why? When Fe in in its +3 state it cannot bind oxygen and P450 cannot make hormones = pregnenlone steal syndrome.
Hormone synthesis from cholesterol relies on the CYP450 (Cytochrome P450) family of enzymes, which are heme-containing proteins.
The Power of Heme: Heme is the “business end” of these enzymes, acting as a specialized scaffold for electron transfer. To function, it requires precise quantum coherence, which is the ability of electrons to “tunnel” and move in a wave-like, coordinated state.
UPE Disruption: Non-native EMFs (nnEMF) act as electromagnetic “noise” that disrupts this coherence. This triggers the production of non-coherent Ultra-weak Photon Emissions (UPEs).
ROS and Heme Damage: The resulting flood of Reactive Oxygen Species (ROS) from the mitochondria (the “danger mode” or CDR1) is highly toxic to “free” or loosely bound heme. When the heme center of a CYP enzyme is damaged or its electron flow is decoupled by ROS, the enzyme can no longer convert cholesterol into pregnenolone (the “mother hormone”), effectively halting the entire steroidogenic pathway at the source.
If the environmental signals (like high milligauss levels from nnEMF) are constantly triggering the CDR, the mitochondria stay stuck in a pro-inflammatory state (M1 phenotype) designed for defense, not repair. the M1 state is caused by non-coherent UPE signaling. This is why high nnEMF environments are deadly when you blow away your P450 system.
True photorepair healing requires moving from CDR1 (defense) to CDR2 (growth) and finally CDR3 (differentiation and restoration). A “toxic” environment, one with high nnEMF, poor light cycles, or chemical stress, acts as a persistent “block” that keeps cells from completing this cycle.
Mitochondrial Mosaics: Over time, staying in the same environment creates a “mosaic” of dysfunctional cells that have failed to complete the healing cycle, leading to chronic illness or reigniting the flame of disease.
This new move by Sarah Rogers is causing The Blob to have its most insane meltdown of the year. Here I cover a potential new initiative by the US State Department’s Public Diplomacy branch to begin funding charities and think tanks in Europe that promote free speech online and digital freedom, and the utterly empty arguments being made in response by the EU, Brussels & Shadow Diplomacy elements of our own NGOplex and CIA.
Mike Benz: Executive Director, Foundation for Freedom Online. Former State Dept Cyber. Author of the unpublishable monstrosity, Weapons Of Mass Deletion.
Crown Agents “Since 1833, Global Britain has been managed by a pseudo private system of Crown Agents today named Crown Agents for Overseas Government and Administration. This vast body exists as a semi-official status and describes itself as “an emanation of the crown” and is extremely active in Central and Eastern Europe with its greatest focus on Ukraine’s economic, energy and health management system. The agency is partnered with the World Bank, UN and Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and acts as a giant holding company with one shareholder called the Crown Agents Foundation based in Southwark London.”
Phase V to Phase VI Transition: The Financialists’ All Or Nothing Civil Wars to Prevent ARC
The Financialists—bloodline heirs to ancient Roman elite scum—are dead-set on shattering the United States via their Praetorian Regime and Devil’s Legions. Why? To crush any US-Russia-China alliance that would gut their global stranglehold and restore a world order free from their parasitic grip.
Core Truths
These Financialists are a ruthless chain of money-lords who’ve weaponized economic sabotage to topple empires, tracing from Venetian merchant bankers who rigged the Crusades to crush rivals, through Amsterdam’s trading nets that engineered Britain’s 1688 Glorious Revolution as a Dutch East India Company takeover. Now, they’re gunning for the US to block a powerhouse trio that could end their reign.
The Praetorian Regime runs double-barreled: ancient private banks, rooted in Roman and Venetian practices, fueling the rot in liberal democracies’ bureaucracies and post-WWII global outfits like the IMF, World Bank, and UN—masks for US-centric financial repression and elite wealth grabs.
It’s straight out of ancient Rome’s Praetorian playbook—elites hiding behind layers of owners and managers, knives to their throats, when rival powers threaten their grip, just as early Roman rivalries forced power to cloak itself.
Tools of the trade: Debt traps via unsustainable loans, stoked divisions through resentment and chaos, resource theft via wars and taxes, legal warfare (lawfare), and straight-up hits and assassinations. Pulled from Rome’s collapse by mercenary sackings, Britain’s overextension post-Revolution, America’s hundreds of trillions of unpayable debts and social obligations, and endless elite killings for profit.
Russia and China fought back hard in the 20th century, nearly wiping them out despite all-out destruction attempts. That ramps up the desperation—smash the US or die trying, resistance escalates the stakes for their survival, as there’s two models now for how to beat these fuckers.
Historical Roots
Financial elites have hammered societies with their seven-step Kill Chain: 1) Spot productive targets like Rome’s provinces or Britain’s colonies; 2) Infiltrate with agents and financial hooks, echoing Praetorian sway in Roman politics or Dutch alliances in Britain; 3) Debt-snare through mercenary dependencies or post-Revolution borrowing; 4) Bleed dry via wars, overthrows, and coups—like Roman assassinations or British colonial exploits through color revolutions; 5) Divide and conquer with ethnic manipulations and plots; 6) Trigger collapse, as in Rome’s sacking or Britain’s imperial drain; 7) Abandon the husk and jump to new hosts, like from Rome to Venice or Britain to Wall Street. In the US, it’s skyrocketing national debt, endless military spending, and cultural wars eroding unity—primed for civil war turning to fragmenting revolution.
Modern Machinery
The Praetorian Regime’s twin pillars lock in control worldwide: The private banking underbelly controls liquidity to ensnare nations, backing bureaucratic bloat in democracies and international bodies set up post-Bretton Woods for elite enrichment. Devil’s Legions—self-funded shadow ops of spies, crooks, terrorists, and power brokers like J. Edgar Hoover, the Dulles Brothers, and Meyer Lansky—enforce it all, with assassination as the ultimate hammer, from targeted killings like General Patton’s as a warning to deter system challengers.
Geopolitical Do-or-Die
A US-Russia-China bloc is their nightmare, like the rivals that sacked Rome—Russia’s leadership rejecting Roman-influenced integration, China’s defiance of predatory finance. Add a cohesive US having finally finished the revolution, and it’s an unmatched coalition dismantling centuries of debt-based empire on terms that bury the elites.
Fragmentation Playbook
Flood with forced migration to spark ethnic hatred and exploitable backlashes. Hollow the economy via perpetual wars that expend productive populations, recollateralize banks, and drain treasure. Ignite cultural rifts via “Mob States” and identity chaos to fuel civil war, revolution, and total breakup. Offshore “Spider’s Web” networks of private armies and hidden wealth enable asset seizures, as in Venezuela’s fraudulent takeovers. Underpinning it: Matrilineal dynasties pushing “unhealthy matriarchy” ideologies, fueling an Eternal War between individual freedom and forced collectivism—twisting understandings in neuroscience, entrepreneurship, and special forces insights on human dynamics.
These Financialists trace back to Rome’s dark alleys, honed in Venice’s counting houses where debt manipulation framed religious wars, Dutch trades that hijacked crowns, British colonial finance that bled empires dry, and now Wall Street’s global scale that’s stolen what remains of the Commons. They slaughter with ledgers, not legions, knives in an elites child’s throat, not armies. The Praetorian Regime echoes Rome’s Guard—bodyguards turned kingmakers through corruption and kills—now invisible, turning sovereign states into debtors under democracy’s guise.
Global adaptability shines: Brussel’s bureaucratic tangles as a testing ground, India’s potential as a new Praetorian hub for elite control.
Bottom line, this Sunday morning: Financialists are all-in on breaking America to dodge a sovereign-led global reset that buries their Roman ghost and favors real powers over predators. WWII’s financial restructurings—shifting empires—and today’s tensions scream the ancient pattern of subversion. Fight back with national resolve: Expose the invisible handlers, neutralize the domains, break the Kill Chain once and for all. Revolution, if needed, must prioritize that—or we fall.
Hold the line like Russia and China did, remembering who we are. We’re neither Romans nor their British constructs. We’re Americans, proud descendants and last keepers of English Civilization. Hold the fucking line! For ARC must stand and hold, or the world devolves into four centuries of consuming conflicts and wars.
…a majority (around 63%) of offshore wealth remains unexposed by mechanisms like the Common Reporting Standard (CRS), meaning significant portions still evade detection.
From Grok on January 20, 2026
The International Organizations Immunities Act (IOIA) is a United States federal law enacted by the 79th Congress and signed into law on December 29, 1945 (Public Law 79-291, codified primarily at 22 U.S.C. §§ 288 et seq.).
Historical Context and Purpose
The Act was passed in the immediate aftermath of World War II, during a period when the United States was actively participating in the creation and support of new public international organizations (most notably the United Nations, which was established in 1945, along with bodies like the Food and Agriculture Organization, International Labor Organization, and others). Its primary purpose was to facilitate the work of these organizations by granting them and their personnel certain privileges, exemptions, and immunities within the United States. This ensured they could operate independently, without interference from U.S. taxes, legal processes, or administrative burdens, similar to the protections traditionally afforded to foreign governments and diplomats at the time. Without such protections, international organizations headquartered or operating in the U.S. (e.g., the UN in New York) could face practical obstacles like taxation, lawsuits, or seizures that might hinder their global missions.
Key Provisions
The Act defines an “international organization” as a public international body in which the United States participates (via treaty, congressional act, or appropriation) and that has been designated by the President through an Executive Order as entitled to the Act’s benefits. Major immunities and privileges granted to designated international organizations include:
Immunity from suit and judicial process — The organization, its property, and assets enjoy the same immunity from lawsuits and legal proceedings as foreign governments (with the ability to expressly waive this immunity).
Inviolability of archives and immunity from search or confiscation of property and assets (unless waived).
Exemptions related to customs duties, internal revenue taxes on imports, registration as foreign agents, and treatment of official communications (matching those given to foreign governments).
Tax exemptions for the organization itself.
For officers, employees, and representatives (and often their families):
Exemptions from U.S. income taxes on salaries paid by the organization.
Immunity from legal process for official acts.
Certain immigration and entry privileges.
These benefits are not full diplomatic immunity in all cases (e.g., they are more limited for U.S. citizens working for such organizations), and they can be conditioned, limited, withheld, or revoked by the President (or in some cases the Secretary of State) if there’s abuse or other justification. Important Developments and Interpretation When enacted in 1945, foreign governments generally enjoyed absolute sovereign immunity in U.S. courts. The IOIA thus initially provided international organizations with similarly broad (near-absolute) protection. However, U.S. law evolved with the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act (FSIA) of 1976, which adopted a restrictive theory of immunity — foreign governments can now be sued in U.S. courts for commercial activities and certain other exceptions. A significant U.S. Supreme Court decision in 2019 (Jam v. International Finance Corporation) clarified that the IOIA’s reference to immunity “as is enjoyed by foreign governments” is dynamic — it incorporates the current (restrictive) standard under the FSIA, rather than the absolute immunity of 1945. This means international organizations can be sued for commercial activities in many cases, unless they qualify for other exemptions. Today, the IOIA continues to apply to dozens of designated organizations (via various Executive Orders), enabling the smooth functioning of entities like the UN, World Bank affiliates, and other multilateral bodies in the United States.
Powers and Principalities is a long-running podcast series co-hosted by Tim Kelly and Joseph Atwill. It forms part of Tim Kelly’s broader podcast, Our Interesting Times, and focuses on in-depth discussions of historical revisionism, deep state influences, psychological operations, media manipulation, and critiques of establishment narratives.
Tim Kelly (full name Timothy Kelly) is an independent podcaster best known as the host of Our Interesting Times, a long-running show focused on alternative perspectives on history, politics, power structures, and critiques of mainstream narratives. Background and Personal Life Tim Kelly keeps a relatively low public profile regarding his personal biography. From interviews and descriptions:
He is a traditional Catholic, married, and father to 7 children.
He describes himself primarily through his work as a researcher and commentator on “interesting” (often hidden or revisionist) aspects of current and historical events.
Podcasting Work
Our Interesting Times (launched around 2015): His flagship podcast, hosted on Podomatic (tkelly6785757.podomatic.com), with nearly 1,000 episodes as of early 2026. It features in-depth interviews with authors, researchers, and thinkers on topics like historical revisionism, deep politics, media manipulation, and cultural engineering.
Frequent guests include E. Michael Jones, James Perloff, Donald Jeffries, and many others discussing subjects such as World War II myths, technocracy, oligarchic influence, and psychological operations.
Powers & Principalities: A recurring series (hundreds of episodes) co-hosted with Joseph Atwill (author of Caesar’s Messiah). These are often guest-free discussions delving into conspiracy-related themes, CIA influence in media/politics, Frankfurt School critiques, and current events through a lens of elite control and psyops.
Joseph Atwill (often called Joe Atwill) is an American independent scholar and author best known for his highly controversial thesis on the origins of Christianity.
Background: Atwill spent part of his youth in Japan, attending St. Mary’s International School, a Jesuit-run military academy where he studied Greek, Latin, and the Bible. He later studied computer science in college and co-founded several software companies before shifting focus to biblical and historical research around 1995.
After college (where he studied computer science), he co-founded software companies in the 1980s, including Ferguson Tool Company (with early IBM programmer David Ferguson) and Amalgamated Software of North America (ASNA). Around 1995, he sold his shares and exited the industry, providing the financial independence to pursue full-time independent research on biblical studies and history.
Why did Trump kidnap Maduro? Oil, minerals, drugs, voting machines, or was it something even darker that the MSM won’t even mention? Was this an assault on the City of London? Tom Luongo lays it all out.
Tom Luongo exposes what’s really going on with TRUMP & MADURO
The statement “You cannot have ethos without telos” captures a profound insight from ancient Greek philosophy, particularly Aristotle’s framework. Telos (τέλος) refers to the end, purpose, goal, or final cause of something—the inherent reason it exists or the ultimate aim it serves. Aristotle argued that everything in nature, human action, and society has a telos: an acorn’s telos is to become an oak tree; a knife’s is to cut effectively; a human life’s is eudaimonia (flourishing through virtuous activity).Ethos (ἦθος), in its original ethical sense (distinct from the modern rhetorical meaning of “credibility”), denotes character, moral habit, or the customary way of being that shapes virtuous behavior. It is the disposition formed by repeated actions aligned with excellence. Aristotle ties them inextricably in the Nicomachean Ethics: True ethos—good moral character—emerges only through actions directed toward the proper telos. Virtues (arete) are habits that enable us to fulfill our human purpose (rational, social flourishing). Without a guiding telos, actions lack direction, and character becomes aimless or malformed. You can’t cultivate genuine ethos (moral integrity) in a vacuum; it requires orientation toward an end worth pursuing. In modern terms:
Institutions (e.g., universities) falter when they lose a clear telos (truth-seeking vs. other agendas), eroding their ethical ethos.
Personal character similarly depends on purposeful living—drift without aim, and habits devolve into vice or emptiness.
The phrase isn’t a direct Aristotle quote but distills his teleological ethics: Character (ethos) is meaningless or impossible without purpose (telos). To build one is to pursue the other.
Silent Generation (or Traditionalists): Born 1928–1945
Shaped by the Great Depression, World War II, and post-war economic growth.
Baby Boomers: Born 1946–1964
Named for the post-WWII “baby boom”; experienced civil rights movements, Vietnam War, and economic prosperity.
Generation X (Gen X): Born 1965–1980
Often called the “latchkey” or “MTV generation”; grew up during the end of the Cold War, rise of personal computers, and shifting family structures.
Millennials (or Generation Y): Born 1981–1996
Came of age around the new millennium; influenced by the internet boom, 9/11, and the Great Recession.
Generation Z (Gen Z or Zoomers): Born 1997–2012
True digital natives; shaped by smartphones, social media, and events like the COVID-19 pandemic. (Note: see Jared Cooney Horvath’s comments below.)
Generation Alpha (Gen Alpha): Born 2013–2024
Children of Millennials; the first generation born entirely in the 21st century, growing up with advanced AI, tablets from infancy, and the pandemic.
Generation Beta (Gen Beta): Born 2025–2039 (starting now in 2025)
The newest cohort, primarily children of younger Millennials and Gen Z; expected to be deeply integrated with AI, automation, and global challenges like climate change.
USA: population distribution
Silent Generation (born 1928–1945, ages 80–97): The smallest adult generation due to historical low births and aging. Approximate living population: ~18–20 million (about 5–6% of the population; many now in the 80+ category).
Baby Boomers (born 1946–1964, ages 61–79): Still a large group, though declining due to mortality. Approximate living population: ~68–70 million (about 20% of the population).
Generation X (born 1965–1980, ages 45–60): A relatively smaller “bridge” generation. Approximate living population: ~65 million (about 19% of the population).
Millennials (born 1981–1996, ages 29–44): The largest adult generation. Approximate living population: ~74 million (about 21–22% of the population).
Generation Z (born 1997–2012, ages 13–28): A sizable and diverse cohort entering adulthood. Approximate living population: ~69–70 million (about 20–21% of the population).
Generation Alpha (born 2013–2024, ages 1–12): Growing rapidly but still young; US birth rates are lower than global averages. Approximate living population: ~39–42 million (about 11–12% of the population).
Generation Beta (born 2025–2039, ages 0): Just beginning. Approximate living population: ~3–4 million (births from January to December 2025; annual US births are around 3.6–3.7 million).
GLOBAL: population distribution
Silent Generation (born 1928–1945, ages 80–97): Combined with pre-Silent cohorts in the 80+ group. Approximate living population: ~165 million (about 2% of global population).
Baby Boomers (born 1946–1964, ages 61–79): Approximate living population: ~1.06 billion (about 12.8% of global population).
Generation X (born 1965–1980, ages 45–60): Approximate living population: ~1.2–1.4 billion (about 15–17% of global population; often grouped with working-age adults).
Millennials (born 1981–1996, ages 29–44): Approximate living population: ~1.7–1.8 billion (about 21–23% of global population).
Generation Z (born 1997–2012, ages 13–28): Approximate living population: ~1.9 billion (about 23% of global population; Gen Z + Millennials ~44%).
Generation Alpha (born 2013–2024, ages 1–12): Approximate living population: ~2.0 billion (about 24.4% of global population; the largest cohort, surpassing all others).
Generation Beta (born 2025–2039, starting in 2025, ages 0): Approximate living population: Very small (less than 1 million as of December 2025; only births from January to December 2025).
Gen Z
“Our kids are LESS cognitively capable than we were at their age.”
Every previous generation outperformed its parents since we began recording in the late 1800s.
So, what happened?
Screens.
Dr. Jared Horvath explained:
“Gen Z is the first generation in modern history to underperform us on basically every cognitive measure we have, from basic attention to memory, to literacy, to numeracy, to executive functioning, to EVEN GENERAL IQ, even though they go to more school than we did.”
“So why? … The answer appears to be the tools we are using within schools to drive that learning (screens).”
“If you look at the data, once countries adopt digital technology widely in schools, performance goes down significantly, to the point where kids who use computers about five hours per day in school for learning purposes will score over two-thirds of a standard deviation LESS than kids who rarely or never touch tech at school. And that’s across 80 countries.”
But screens aren’t just decimating learning and making new generations less intelligent than the ones before them. (Source: https://x.com/thehealthb0t/status/2019717847992443239?s=20)
About Jared Cooney Horvath:Helping teachers, students and educators achieve better outcomes through applied brain science and cognitive psychology. JARED COONEY HORVATH | PhD, MEd Dr. Jared Cooney Horvath is an award-winning cognitive neuroscientist, best-selling author and renowned keynote speaker with an expertise in human learning, memory, and brain stimulation. Dr. Horvath has published 6 books, over 50 research articles, and currently serves as an honorary researcher at the University of Melbourne and St. Vincent’s Hospital in Melbourne. His research has been featured in popular publications including The New York Times, WIRED, BBC, The Economist, PBS’s Nova and ABC’s Catalyst. https://www.lmeglobal.net/media https://www.youtube.com/c/JaredCooney/videos
(Dec 13, 2025 from the ISLANDER) Merz stood before his CDSU party and did two things in the same speech that should have stopped Europe cold.
He declared that “Pax Americana is over.” And he reached for Europe’s darkest memory… Munich, the Sudetenland, Hitler, to argue that Russia “won’t stop,” projecting expansionist intent onto Moscow while erasing the long trail of Western promises broken and red lines ignored.
Together, the lines function as one device: announce the old security arrangement is fading, then slam the door on compromise by turning diplomacy into a moral crime.
Of course it isn’t leadership. It’s a choreographed script, and everyone is expected to follow it.
“Pax Americana is over” is marketed as emancipation, Europe stepping out from under American guardianship, finally standing on its own feet. But the second half of Merz’s message tells you what this really is, not independence being offered to the public, but discipline demanded from it.
Because once Hitler is invoked, the field of legitimate diplomacy shrinks to a pinhole. Negotiation becomes appeasement. Restraint becomes cowardice. Doubt becomes disloyalty. History stops being a teacher and becomes a weapon, the kind you swing at your own citizens.
The Munich analogy is the most reusable instrument in European politics precisely because it abolishes alternatives. It does not illuminate the present, it pre-bans future choices. It declares in advance that off-ramps are immoral and escalation is virtue. This isn’t historical memory, but rather coercion by myth.
If Pax Americana were truly ending in a mature way, Europe’s response would look very different. It would begin with realism instead of hysteria, diplomacy instead of demonology, rebuilding industry, securing energy, restoring social consent, and cooling the temperature of a continent already exhausted by crisis.
Instead, Merz reaches for the most radioactive symbol available, because he does not trust the public to accept the costs of confrontation if those costs are explained honestly as tradeoffs rather than destiny.
That tells you everything.
For decades, Western Europe made a choice. It dissolved sovereignty into bureaucracy and outsourced strategic hard power to Washington. American protection became a political convenience, it allowed a managerial class to sermonize while someone else absorbed escalation risk, strategic liability, and blowback. Pax Americana was not just a shield, it was branded as a restraint on Europe’s own worst historical reflexes.
Now the umbrella is thinning and what’s being revealed underneath is not leadership, but dependency. A political class so long insulated from consequence that the moment protection fades, it reaches not for strategy, but for myth, coercion, and panic.
Merz doesn’t pivot to restraint. He pivots to moral absolutism.
This is where projection enters.
By invoking Hitler and the Sudetenland, Merz is not describing Russia so much as advertising elite panic, panic at the return of responsibility, panic at publics who might choose peace, panic at the dawning reality that American power is no longer an inexhaustible insurance policy.
Panic always produces the same politics: narrow the debate, raise the stakes, demand unity, punish dissent.
Germany is already entrenching long-term military posture on NATO’s eastern flank. At the same time, talk of mandatory service reappears when voluntary enthusiasm fails. These are not metaphors. They are signals. When persuasion runs dry, compulsion is prepared, and wrapped in moral language so it looks like virtue.
This is not fate. This is choice.
Germany is not being dragged into inevitability by history. It is choosing inevitability language because inevitability language disciplines the public. It converts policy into destiny. It turns citizens into assets. And it allows leaders to say “there was no alternative” after they have deliberately scorched every alternative.
That is why the Munich analogy is so dangerous. The real lesson of 1938 was never that compromise is evil. It was that moral panic and great-power games locked societies into trajectories they could no longer escape, while ordinary people paid the bill in blood, debt, and ruin. It was a warning about leaders who frame war as inevitability because they lack the courage, or the permission to negotiate peace.
Yet Merz flips that lesson backward. He turns “never again” into fuel for the very logic it was meant to restrain.
And here lies the central deception: the “end of Pax Americana” is being used not to reduce confrontation, but to internalize its costs. The Atlantic architecture remains. The sanctions machinery remains. The command habits remain. What changes is who pays, who bears the risk, and who is asked to sacrifice, while being told this is sovereignty.
That is not sovereignty. It is a higher subscription fee for a failing order, with penalties for cancellation.
The most revealing part is not what Merz says about Russia. It is what his rhetoric prepares at home, that of permanent emergency logic, narrowed speech, moralized obedience, and the normalization of coercion in the name of security.
This is how war cultures are built, sentence by sentence, until the public wakes up inside a cage and is told it’s a fortress.
Pax Americana may indeed be fading. Empires do not last forever.
But replacing it with historical hysteria, existential myth-making, and inevitability politics is not emancipation. It is Europe sleepwalking back toward its oldest nightmare, armed not with humility, but with borrowed myths and outsourced courage.
Real sovereignty would look like restraint. Real leadership would trust citizens with the truth. Real strength would refuse to turn memory into a weapon.
Merz’s speech was not a warning about the world.
It was a confession about Europe’s ruling class, what it fears, what it no longer knows how to do, and how readily it reaches for history when it has run out of truth.
The signal fire has been lit.
The only question left is whether Europeans recognize it for what it is — not a call to safety, but an invitation back into the machinery of fear, where history is no longer remembered to prevent catastrophe, but rewritten into a weapon.
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City of London boundary marker on approach to London Bridge
Uncommon knowledge: The Bolshevik Revolution of 1917 was aided and funded by the Anglo-American Establishment. This Revolution ushered in the soul-crushing godless Soviet Union. The Soviet Union died in 1991. Since that time over 30,000 churches have been built or restored. The Soviet Union is not Russia. Prior to the Bolshevik Revolution, Russia helped America during the American Revolution and during the US Civil War. Without Russia’s help, America wouldn’t exist today. The Anglo-American establishment are still butt-hurt over this. America’s most potent enemy is the City of London. Remember kids, “All roads lead to the City of London”. – ClearNFO
Russian Churches during the Soviet era vs. Putin:
During the Soviet era (1917–1991), the number of active Russian Orthodox churches plummeted due to widespread anti-religious campaigns, closures, demolitions, and repurposing. Pre-revolution figures indicate around 55,000 churches in 1917, which fell to fewer than 500 by 1940 in the Russian Republic alone, with many thousands destroyed or converted into secular facilities like warehouses or clubs.
Overall, estimates suggest over 47,000 churches were closed or destroyed across the era, reducing the total to about 7,000 functioning ones by 1991.
Some fluctuations occurred, such as partial reopenings during World War II (reaching around 22,000 by 1959) followed by further closures under Khrushchev, but the net impact was a massive suppression.
Since Vladimir Putin’s rise to power in 2000, the Russian Orthodox Church has experienced a significant revival, with state support facilitating construction and restoration. By around 2000, there were approximately 15,000–20,000 active churches or parishes.
From then until recent years, over 25,000 churches have been built or restored, often at a rate of 1,000 per year or more, bringing the total to more than 40,000 by the mid-2020s.
