1. The Age of Pioneers (Outburst)
   
2. The Age of Conquests
   
3. The Age of Commerce
   
4. The Age of Affluence
   
5. The Age of Intellect
   
6. The Age of Decadence
   
7. The Age of Decline & Collapse
   

(07-10-2025, 02:02 PM)Michigan Swamp Buck Wrote: Yeah. Number six for sure heading into seven, and given the average time span of 250 years, we are probably well into the decline and collapse phase of step seven. 

The video blurred steps six and seven together. Also, the narrator had an annoying habit of mispronouncing some words. I could have read as much with the other link, so for me, the video was redundant, but cool for those who prefer that medium.

(07-10-2025, 08:02 PM)Michigan Swamp Buck Wrote: Your posts make the point very clear; no need to simplify it. Just studying the Roman Empire's decline and then decadent collapse at the end shows we are nearing such an end. This may go down slow and steady, or fast. The only silver lining proposed (besides the return of Christ) was the idea that the next cycle will be as good or better than the last boom and bust cycle of civilization. We still have to go through the collapse, and if you survive that, you'll need to adapt to the new system that fills the power vacuum left behind. Will it be Islam or Communism (Russian or Chinese) that takes over next?

It has been a long time coming, to be sure, long before I was born. Just think how long Charles Manson and his "family" would have had to live underground if they had stayed with their plans. They would have been too old or dead by now to emerge and take over from the black race, they felt, would destroy the collapsing system. Going on a murder spree and hoping it would inspire a race war wasn't a great idea, but even a drug-addled nut case from the 60s could see the writing on the wall way back then.

(07-11-2025, 06:36 AM)OmegaLogos Wrote: Explanation: Empires eh?

Personal Disclosure: All good things eventually come to an end!

Epstein and his Elites are just a serious poker tell that something big is about to fold!



**OL RUN's AWAY!**

(07-11-2025, 06:22 AM)Kenzo1 Wrote: About US economy  


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How Health Care Remade the U.S. Economy


Toby Rogers X

(07-11-2025, 01:22 PM)Michigan Swamp Buck Wrote:

(07-11-2025, 06:22 AM)Kenzo1 Wrote: About US economy  


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How Health Care Remade the U.S. Economy


Toby Rogers X

Wow, most of the manufacturing states turned to the health care industry and everything else shrunk down to a mere hand full of states in the last 35 years. That shows we are having serious problems IMO, decline for sure. Collapse is on its way, so it would seem.

(07-11-2025, 01:58 PM)727Sky Wrote: Oligarchs and or the few elites who direct society are always inevitable as true power to the people seems to be a myth.

Quote:According to @Soychicka, when the info about Trump’s 12 year-old rape victim, Maria, began to leak out, the Pizzagate conspiracy was unleashed right after it. It was designed to divert attention away from Trump’s child rapes and onto his opponent, Hillary Clinton. The conspiracy contained some elements of truth of Trump’s rapes, like the pizza shop where Maria was kidnapped from, but it added fake elements and people so that no one would ever believe the truth. The source of infomation comes from a Twitter account, @soychicka: https://twitter.com/i/events/1026279910434734080

If you find this hard to grasp like everyone else, you have been brainwashed to believe the pizzagate conspiracy, or worse yet, you have been influenced to think the whole thing is rubbish, just crazy made up conspiracies. That is precisely why the Trump people made it up. To discredit the original truthful story.

Quote:All the case filings about Trump and the child rapes are here:
https://twitter.com/soychicka/status/926919656568446977
Because this never made it into the news, we need to delve into the facts surrounding Maria, who was allegedly kidnapped by Epstein’s people then later allegedly raped by Trump.
@Soychicka posted on X: “Documentary evidence that Pizzagate + Qanon narratives were developed to shield Trump + Epstein from accusations of child trafficking & serial sexual assault of two 12 + 13yo girls in 1993.”
If you want to know all the details read this and a step by step series of events that first started with @soychicka combing through the missing persons accounts, and finally finding Maria, Trump’s rape victim read this: https://twitter.com/i/events/1026279910434734080
I’m going to highlight below the facts that I found the most interesting from @soychicka’s thread:

Quote:“The first mentions of Pizzagate started 11/4, within 8 hours of my first call to report I had identified an open missing person’s case matching the abduction of Trump’s 12 year old victim known as “Maria” It exploded after I contacted LE (Law Enforcement). Check the numbers. Check the timing.”

source: https://twitter.com/soychicka/status/1022861184536535040
The best article that describes one of the girls who Trump allegedly raped is here but it looks like this page has been taken down recently: -https://www.justice-integrity.org/1445-welcome-to-waterbury-the-city-that-holds-secrets-that-could-bring-down-trump
I was able to find it on wayback machine so check it out now: https://web.archive.org/web/20250714193842/https://www.justice-integrity.org/1445-welcome-to-waterbury-the-city-that-holds-secrets-that-could-bring-down-trump

Quote:The text below was taken directly from that now taken down Justice-Integrity page:
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The site of “Maria’s” kidnapping in 1993, then known as Nash’s Pizza restaurant, since relocated

Quote:“The original tip came to WMR, which can report exclusively that a Waterbury girl, “Maria,” was the 12-year old alleged to have been a child rape victim of Donald Trump and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, shown at right. The crimes allegedly occurred at a midtown Manhattan mansion then owned by Epstein’s friend Les Wexner, a billionaire retailing mogul.
Maria was kidnapped on March 19, 1993, when she was 11-years old from the front of Nash’s Pizza in Waterbury. The girl’s kidnappers were involved in a child trafficking ring that provided abductees to wealthy individuals like Trump and Epstein in Manhattan, according to our information.”
“In 1993, Maria lived with her mother and nine siblings in a Puerto Rican neighborhood in Waterbury, which is nicknamed “The Brass City” for its once-booming brass and clock factories. It is now suffering from urban blight, like many New England cities with abandoned factories.
Maria, whose father died in 1991, was reportedly abducted just moments after her mother entered the pizzeria while asking Maria to wait outside. The precise circumstances are among the secrets that police are withholding, thus limiting news coverage. The mother died in 2015.
One resident of the kidnapped girl’s close-knit neighborhood told us that the circumstances always seemed strange to the family and neighbors, and yet almost no police or other interest has been apparent for many years. Our source also stated that Maria’s mother always felt that her daughter was alive and, at one time, was in New York City. Another source in Waterbury said that it was the belief by many neighborhood residents at the time of Maria’s abduction that she was kidnapped by a ring operating out of New York. “Those who took her [Maria] were not from Waterbury,” said one longtime Puerto Rican resident familiar with the case.
In the interest of responsible journalism, we are withholding Maria’s actual full name. A June 25, 2010 paper, titled “Protecting victims’ identities in press coverage of child victimization,” which was published by the Crimes Against Children Research Center at the University of New Hampshire, spells out the concerns of releasing the identities of child sex victims without prior precautions being taken. The authors of the paper contend, “When the names of child victims and other identifying information appear in the media it can exacerbate trauma, complicate recovery, discourage future disclosures and inhibit cooperation with authorities for the children involved.”
Maria is still listed as a “missing person” by the Waterbury Police Department. The police missing person notification states that Maria was last seen at the corner of Walnut Street and Walnut Avenue at Nash’s Pizza. It adds that the girl “was 11-years-old when she went missing.”
Here is a development that proved startling in Maria’s neighborhood, including to at least one family member: She is alive.
Maria has been avoiding any public limelight since the Trump Organization discovered her actual identity, according to our sources. During the 2016 presidential campaign, there was some interest in the Maria story by major corporate media outlets, but they were intimidated by Trump Organization legal threats.
The incident helps illustrate the institutional cowardice and greed of many of the major news organizations and the danger that unprotected whistleblower/victims face when they share their stories with such journalists. Although the initial reporters and producers are usually very well-intentioned they work for conglomerates whose top executives realize that it’s typically safer not to antagonize the power structure.
Second, the vulnerability of sex abuse victims in their early teens from poor families requires special attention. Nowhere is that more poignant than in the case of the girl “Maria.” Police reports say that she was kidnapped at age 11 from her own neighborhood and, to all outward appearances, then disappeared off the face of the earth. In sum, the track record and power of these two particular defendants requires a deeper look at the allegations, particularly in light of the lessons learned from the #MeToo harassment and assault revelations this past fall regarding other powerful predators.
A Deeper Look
So, we return to the allegations in the “Jane Doe” (aka Katie Johnson) lawsuit despite the practice of pundits, lawyers, trolls, fanatics and thugs, many well-paid or fanatically ideological, using their varied skills to claim that there’s nothing to see or know. You be the judge, based on these lawsuit claims:
On July 23, 2016, “Joan Doe,” a classmate of Johnson during the 1994–1995 school year, signed an affidavit avowing that Johnson had told her during the summer of 1994 about the sexual assaults by Epstein and Trump.
Another witness, “Tiffany Doe,” signed an affidavit in support of Johnson’s suit on June 18, 2016. Tiffany Doe stated that she had been hired in 1990 by Epstein when she was 22 to “provide entertainment” for his various “guests.” She further stated that Epstein hired her in 1991 as a “party planner” to, among other duties, entice “attractive adolescent women” to attend Epstein’s parties. Tiffany Doe stated that she personally witnessed Trump’s sexual assault and rape of Johnson during four encounters.
Johnson also stated in the suit that Trump told her that she “shouldn’t ever say anything if she didn’t want to disappear like Maria, a 12-year-old female that was forced to be involved in the third incident” with Trump. Johnson said she had not seen “Maria” after the third sexual encounter with Trump. Tiffany Doe said that she witnessed Johnson and 12-year old “Maria” perform oral sex on Trump.” -https://www.justice-integrity.org/1445-welcome-to-waterbury-the-city-that-holds-secrets-that-could-bring-down-trump
Source on Wayback Machine: https://web.archive.org/web/20250714193842/https://www.justice-integrity.org/1445-welcome-to-waterbury-the-city-that-holds-secrets-that-could-bring-down-trump

So here we are, as we learn that information about Maria was censored and never appeared in the news because the news companies were afraid of being sued by Trump. That tells you everything you need to know about how our current world operates.
Everyone needs to know this information.

(07-19-2025, 10:06 AM)Michigan Swamp Buck Wrote: I believe that wealthy, powerful people can feel above the rest of us. They were better fed, clothed, and educated than most, plus well-connected with lots of resources, all of which can certainly lead to a superiority complex. So, I can believe that this superior attitude exists and creates amoral behavior. It can also become as extreme as involving the violent exploitation of other people, including children. Movies like "Eyes Wide Shut" and "8MM" with Nicolas Cage brought to life the idea of the wealthy elite doing horrible things to people, so I wouldn't doubt that these types of things are happening.

However, at some point, I have to draw the line at connecting all these dots to create the kind of crazy conspiracies I've been reading about. I took a dive into pizza-gate, and it made me become aware of some things, but I only looked into that because it was censored and denied when it happened. But, QAnon, pizza-gate, Epstein, and Trump? We might as well toss in the Pope and Elvis while we're at it for all the sense this crap is making anymore.

Quote:Dick Durbin is leading the Senate Judiciary Committee in an effort to receive more transparency regarding the Trump administration’s handling of the Epstein files, particularly an order from Attorney General Pam Bondi for FBI agents to “flag” any mention they made of President Trump.
In a letter addressed to Bondi on Friday, Durbin wrote: “According to information my office received, you then pressured the FBI to put approximately 1,000 personnel in its Information Management Division (IMD), including the Record/Information Dissemination Section (RIDS), which handles all requests submitted by the public under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) and Privacy Act, on 24-hour shifts to review approximately 100,000 Epstein-related records in order to produce more documents that could then be released on an arbitrarily short deadline.”
“My office was told that these personnel were instructed to ‘flag’ any records in which President Trump was mentioned,” he added.


There was likely something for those agents to flag, given Trump’s well-documented relationship with the defamed sex trafficker. There’s the 2002 New York magazine quote where Trump referred to Epstein, his friend of “15 years,” as a “terrific guy” who liked women “on the younger side.” And there was the recent Wall Street Journal report that showed Trump writing a strange birthday message to Epstein in 2006, with the closing line “may every day be another wonderful secret.”
But what else was flagged under Bondi’s watch, and what happened to it? Durbin’s report asks just that:

Quote:Why were personnel told to flag records in which President Trump was mentioned?
1. Please list all political appointees and senior DOJ officials involved in the decision to flag records in which President Trump was mentioned.
2. What happened to the records mentioning President Trump once they were flagged?

Trump’s rollout of the Epstein files has been so disorderly that it has Democrats and the most hardcore MAGA loyalists asking the exact same question: What is the truth about Epstein?
The due date for Durbin and the committee’s request is August 1. Trump and Bondi have yet to comment.

(07-19-2025, 02:36 PM)Kenzo1 Wrote: Now ask yourself, why Trump ordered this : 


FBI Told to Flag Mentions of Trump in Epstein Files, Dem Senator Says

Quote:Dick Durbin is leading the Senate Judiciary Committee in an effort to receive more transparency regarding the Trump administration’s handling of the Epstein files, particularly an order from Attorney General Pam Bondi for FBI agents to “flag” any mention they made of President Trump.
In a letter addressed to Bondi on Friday, Durbin wrote: “According to information my office received, you then pressured the FBI to put approximately 1,000 personnel in its Information Management Division (IMD), including the Record/Information Dissemination Section (RIDS), which handles all requests submitted by the public under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) and Privacy Act, on 24-hour shifts to review approximately 100,000 Epstein-related records in order to produce more documents that could then be released on an arbitrarily short deadline.”
“My office was told that these personnel were instructed to ‘flag’ any records in which President Trump was mentioned,” he added.


There was likely something for those agents to flag, given Trump’s well-documented relationship with the defamed sex trafficker. There’s the 2002 New York magazine quote where Trump referred to Epstein, his friend of “15 years,” as a “terrific guy” who liked women “on the younger side.” And there was the recent Wall Street Journal report that showed Trump writing a strange birthday message to Epstein in 2006, with the closing line “may every day be another wonderful secret.”
But what else was flagged under Bondi’s watch, and what happened to it? Durbin’s report asks just that:

Quote:Why were personnel told to flag records in which President Trump was mentioned?
1. Please list all political appointees and senior DOJ officials involved in the decision to flag records in which President Trump was mentioned.
2. What happened to the records mentioning President Trump once they were flagged?

Trump’s rollout of the Epstein files has been so disorderly that it has Democrats and the most hardcore MAGA loyalists asking the exact same question: What is the truth about Epstein?
The due date for Durbin and the committee’s request is August 1. Trump and Bondi have yet to comment.

After the white washing Phase 2 was never released and it was called a "hoax." 

Trump did not waste time to "clean" the Epstein files , then he changed he`s tune and started saying it was all hoax.