Scientists have identified the Western diet as a major contributor to the rise in colon cancer cases. Furthermore, an extensive review of 176 past studies has confirmed a significant correlation between diet and colon cancer.
This comprehensive review is hailed as a significant milestone, providing “tangible data” on the connection between diet, the gut microbiome, and overall health.
Western diet and its role in colon cancer
Scientists have identified the Western diet as a prime culprit in the rise of colon cancer cases. Rich in sugar, saturated fat, and processed foods, this diet poses the highest risk for developing colon cancer.
Simultaneously, the Western diet leads to decreased gut bacteria diversity, particularly promoting the proliferation of Bacteroides species, which are linked to obesity. Notoriously low in fiber, fruits, and vegetables, this diet also causes difficulty in breaking down fiber.
Moreover, the Western diet results in a deficit of bacteria species that produce short-chain fatty acids, which are essential for reducing gut inflammation. Chronic inflammation can lead to devastating mutations in cells, increasing their likelihood of becoming cancerous.
Additionally, ultra-processed foods like pizza, chips, and donuts trigger high inflammation levels, further escalating health risks.
The green Mediterranean diet
By contrast, the green Mediterranean diet, abundant in fruits, vegetables, olive oil, green tea, and protein-rich aquatic plants like Mankai, showed the best health outcomes among all diets studied.
This diet not only provided a wide range of essential nutrients but also encouraged a surge in “health-promoting bacteria,” significantly reducing the presence of bacteria associated with cellular damage and disease.
By fostering a healthier gut microbiome, the green Mediterranean diet emerged as a powerful ally in preventing colon cancer and promoting overall health.
Research suggests that eating a diet with a high omega-3 to omega-6 ratio reduces the risk of cardiovascular disease, inflammation, developmental disorders, and cognitive aging. (1,2)
This article lists the foods with the highest omega-3 to omega-6 ratio, so that you can achieve a better balance in your diet.
Foods with a high omega-3 to omega-6 ratio include crab, fish (tuna, cod, salmon), mussels, rapini, spinach, flax seeds, mangoes, lettuce, and kidney beans.
There is no daily value set for omega-3s, but the adequate intake (AI) per day is set at 1.6 grams for men and 1.1 grams for women. (3) This target is used to calculate the AI of omega-3 for the foods in the list.
High-fiber diets, encouraged for weight loss and addressing chronic constipation, also demonstrated a protective effect against colon cancer, type-2 diabetes, and inflammation.
By altering the gut microbiome, the high fiber intake led to a significant surge in Lactobacillus and Bifidobacterium bacteria – producers of beneficial compounds like short-chain fatty acids.
Plant-based diet: A strong ally
The benefits of a plant-based diet were also spotlighted in the research. This type of diet significantly lowered the risk of colon cancer, as polyphenols found in plants prompted the growth of beneficial bacteria.
Notably, this diet increased the presence of a group of bacteria named Akkermansia, which is known for fighting various bacterial diseases and enhancing overall gut health.
By promoting a healthier gut microbiome, a plant-based diet serves as a powerful ally in the fight against colon cancer and other related health issues.
However, scientists have raised concerns over high-protein diets rich in red meat. Hydrogen sulfide is released from meat breakdown, which causes damaging mutations to nearby cells.
Additionally, the researchers suggest that ketogenic diets need further investigation due to their potential to cause drastic drops in beneficial bacteria populations.
Study lead author Dr. Catherine Stanton, who works for the public-private Irish state organization Teagasc, highlighted the critical role of diet in maintaining gut microbiome balance and its metabolic functions.
“Our review highlights the profound impact of different diets on the gut microbiome,” said Dr. Stanton. “This understanding is crucial for developing dietary recommendations that promote health and prevent disease.”
The urgency for this research comes in the wake of an alarming rise in colon cancer cases among under-50s. An estimated 17,000 younger people are developing this disease annually. The rate among those in their late 20s and early 30s has escalated by around 70 percent.
Simultaneously, other cancers are also surging among younger individuals, including bile duct, breast, and appendix cancers.
While the exact cause remains elusive, obesity rates and processed food consumption are being scrutinized. In parallel, a study cited an additive found in energy drinks like Red Bull as a potential cancer cell growth fuel.
Efforts are underway to comprehend these developments, with a $25 million investigation launched to study the cause of the rise in cancer among young adults. The study’s findings could influence changes in colon cancer screening guidelines, with calls to reduce the current age limit of 45 for screening.
As we gain deeper insights into the diet-cancer nexus, these findings underline the importance of dietary choices. A shift towards health-promoting diets may be a crucial step in combating the rise of colon cancer among younger populations.
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Adopting a more balanced diet rich in whole foods, lean proteins, and healthy fats can significantly improve overall health and reduce the risk of chronic diseases. Have you considered any dietary changes or are you looking for specific advice on how to improve your diet?
The phrase ‘you are what you eat’ was coined almost a century before Alois Alzheimer made his breakthrough in identifying brain disease, but the evidence is now clear that diet as well as age influences the brain.
A growing body of research suggests a correlation between Alzheimer’s disease and an unhealthy gut, and Australian scientists are hoping to take this a step further by exploring how harmful gut bacteria access the brain and lead to dementia.
In younger people this is less likely because the blood-brain barrier is much stronger, but this weakens as people age, allowing harmful substances to damage neurons. When the microbiome in the gut ages, it also loses the ability to fight disease.
By identifying how metabolites released by bad bacteria damage neurons—and hopefully developing new drug therapies to block them—Dr. Javed says it should be possible to slow down or halt the progression of Alzheimer’s.
A second aim of the three-year research project is to investigate how probiotics and nutritional supplements, both of which contain friendly bacteria, can stamp out bad bacteria and stop metabolites escaping from the gut.
This follows on from several international clinical research studies that have demonstrated that probiotics improve digestive and cognitive issues in people with acute and chronic COVID-19.
“Our research indicates that harmful gut bacteria can trigger early onset dementia as well as accelerate dementia in patients already battling the neurodegenerative disease,” Dr. Javed says.
“A poor diet is one of several factors that harms gut bacteria, increasing your chances of developing dementia. Aging, lack of exercise, exposure to pesticides and genetics also play a role, although the latter is responsible for a very small number of cases. In most cases, dementia is preventable.”
Most types of bacteria are harmless—many are even essential for our survival—but bad bacteria create biofilms which cause gastrointestinal infections, chronic diseases, bowel cancer and brain diseases.
There are several dietary changes that may help reduce the risk of Alzheimer’s disease:
Mediterranean Diet: This diet emphasizes fruits, vegetables, whole grains, fish, and healthy fats like olive oil. It’s been linked to a lower risk of cognitive decline.
DASH Diet: Originally designed to combat high blood pressure, the DASH diet (Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension) also promotes brain health. It focuses on vegetables, fruits, whole grains, and lean proteins.
MIND Diet: A combination of the Mediterranean and DASH diets, the MIND diet (Mediterranean-DASH Diet Intervention for Neurodegenerative Delay) specifically targets brain health. It includes leafy greens, berries, nuts, whole grains, fish, and olive oil, while limiting red meat, butter, cheese, pastries, and fried foods.
In addition to these diets, consider the following tips:
Increase Omega-3 Fatty Acids: Found in fish like salmon and mackerel, as well as in flaxseeds and walnuts, omega-3s are beneficial for brain health.
Antioxidant-Rich Foods: Berries, dark chocolate, and green tea are rich in antioxidants, which can help protect brain cells from damage.
Limit Sugar and Processed Foods: High sugar intake and processed foods have been linked to increased inflammation and cognitive decline.
It’s always a good idea to consult with a healthcare professional before making significant changes to your diet. Do you follow any specific dietary patterns currently?
Alzheimer’s disease affects up to 55 million people worldwide and with an aging population, this number is expected to double every 20 years, according to Alzheimer’s Disease International.
Early onset dementia—under the age of 65—is becoming more common in the global population, attributed to preventable factors such as a poor diet and a sedentary lifestyle, smoking, excessive alcohol consumption, social isolation, exposure to pesticides and air pollution.
Dr. Javed’s team is also collaborating with UniSA neuroscientist Associate Professor Larisa Bobrovskaya on a potential link between stress and Alzheimer’s disease, and whether women are more at risk.
Yes, he did. I was watching it that night, when I went to bed he was winning…When I woke up, he wasn’t… How did that happen? They cheated!
Biden said he created a large ‘voter fraud organization’
Bestselling author and award-winning filmmaker, Dinesh D’Souza, exposes widespread coordinated voter fraud in the 2020 election sufficient to change the overall outcome. Drawing on research provided by the election integrity group, True the Vote, “2000 Mules” offers two types of evidence: geotracking and video. The geotracking evidence, based on a database of ten trillion cell phone pings, exposes an elaborate network of professional operatives, called mules, delivering fraudulent votes to mail-in boxes in the five key states where the election was decided. Video evidence obtained from official surveillance cameras corroborates the cellular positioning data. The film concludes by exploring ways to assist in the prevention of election fraud in future democratic elections.
Since the beginning of his campaign, Biden’s foot has been no stranger to his mouth. The self-described “gaffe machine” is under fire again as Republican leaders promote a recent quote as a confession of wide-scale voter fraud.
“We have put together, I think, the most extensive and inclusive voter fraud organization in the history of American politics,” Biden said in a clip posted to Instagram Oct. 24.
“At least he’s telling the truth about something,” an Instagram user captioned the post.
Biden made the statement while on the liberal podcast “Pod Save America.” The Oct. 24 podcast, video recording and transcript show Biden was discussing countering voter suppression rather than encouraging voter fraud.
That’s one of my favorite sayings because it is indeed TRUE!
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Fact check: Biden won the most total votes – and the fewest total counties – of any president-elect
The claim: Joe Biden won the most votes in history, though he won a record low number of counties
More than a month after Election Day, the votes have been counted and the results of the presidential contest are complete. Analysis of those results, though, has only just begun.
A number of conservatives, for example, have started to break down vote totals by county.
Students for Trump took to Instagram on Dec. 6 to post a comparison of county-level wins by President-elect Joe Biden in 2020 and former President Barack Obama in 2008.
Yes he did and everyone really knows it…..
I mean seriously use common sense…. there is no way idiots like Biden and Harris got 81 million (legal votes that is)
“Did Biden win more votes than any president in history? He won a record low of 17% of counties,” the meme reads. “Biden won 477 counties while Obama in 2008 won 873…”
“Something doesn’t seem to add up,” the organization added in the caption
Jan Morgan, a conservative activist, posted a similar meme on Facebook on Dec. 6.
“Trying to figure out how Biden won a record low of only 16.7% of all U.S. counties yet supposedly won the election with the most votes in history,” the post read.
“Must be new math,” she added in the caption.
Students for Trump and Morgan have not responded to requests from USA TODAY for comment.
Joe Biden received over 81 million votes, the most in history
In the presidential election, there were 81,282,903 votes cast for Biden and 74,223,030 votes cast for President Donald Trump, according to a current tally from USA TODAY.
Both Biden and Trump racked up higher vote totals than Obama, who previously held the record – 69,498,516 votes in 2008, per USA TODAY.
On Nov. 10, the Brookings Institution published a report on county-level results. The report showed that Biden won 477 counties, while Trump won 2,497 counties. Results from dozens of counties were not finalized at the time, per Time magazine.
According to that data, Biden won just 16% of counties with finalized results.
On Dec. 8, the think tank updated its report with new data. The updated report showed that Biden won 509 counties, while Trump won 2,547 counties. Results from 28 counties have still not been finalized, per Brookings Institution.
But according to the updated data, Biden won 16.7% of counties with finalized results. That represents a record-low proportion for a winning presidential candidate.
Obama set the previous record in 2012 – with 689 counties, equal to 22%. Before that, he also set a record in 2008 with just 28% of counties, per NBC News.
First of all, the numbers appear to be off. Biden, according to the most recent count from the Associated Press, won 527 counties, not 477. That’s still far fewer than Trump won, but it doesn’t matter.
According to the U.S. Census, more than half of U.S. residents live in just 143 counties (or 4.6% of total counties). Counties vary vastly in size and population, from fewer than 100 people to more than 10 million per county. In fact, Los Angeles County alone has more people than 41 whole states, and more than the 11 least populous states combined, which have a total of 416 counties between them.
So yeah, Biden could have won even fewer counties than the 500+ he carried and still have come out on top in the popular vote. Especially since urban areas tend to vote Democrat in higher numbers than Republican.
As far as the rally visuals go? One word—pandemic. Biden didn’t want crowds because…pandemic. This one’s really not hard.
And regarding the higher vote totals, well, yes. The U.S. has grown by more than 27 million since Obama was elected in 2008 and there was record turnout of voters in this election to boot. In fact, there were so many more voters this year, Biden could have lost the popular vote and still had more votes than Obama got when he won. Because that’s just how numbers work.
And as in every election, a certain percentage of voters only showed up to vote for their presidential candidate of choice, ignoring the down-ballot candidates. Considering the fact that Trump never even reached a 50% approval rating and was one of the least popular presidents in the past 50 years, people turning out just to mark a ballot for Biden isn’t a stretch in any way.
The numbers totally work out. This map breaks them down visually. Each dot represents 250,000 votes, distributed approximately where they came from. Breaking it down this way makes it easy to see where population centers are located in the country and how the areas with large cities tend to swing Democrat.
That map looks a lot different than this one, which makes the U.S. look far redder than it is in reality.
(To be clear, I’m not sure for which election this map was made—there were some of these going around in 2016 as well, so it may have been from that election —but the basic gist in the morphing map below is correct. Land doesn’t vote. People do.)
(You have to push the play button if it’s not changing for you automatically.)
Coloring each county one color or the other as if they were all equal in population paints a false picture. The blue and red dots that the map morphs to presents a more accurate (though of course not completely accurate) portrait of how Americans vote than coloring in the whole thing. Anyone who has driven across Nebraska or Montana or most of Nevada knows that there are vast expanses of land with virtually no people for hours.
Another interesting statistic: The counties that Biden carried account for 70% of the U.S. economy. According to the Wall Street Journal, the 84% of counties that Trump won accounts for just 30% of the U.S. GDP, while the 16% that Biden won make up 70% of it. Even when Trump won the election in 2016, the counties he won only accounted for 36% of the economy.
While we’re here and looking at election math, let’s go ahead and nix another misnomer that’s floating around. Does “Simple Math” show that Biden claimed millions more votes than there were eligible voters who voted in the election?
Umm, no.
This meme looks fancy with the colors and numbers and the dramatic “AWAKE YET?”
But there’s a very basic error here.
That “2020 Election Turnout Rate” of 66.2% doesn’t mean 66.2% of registered legal voters, it means 66.2% of eligible voters. Super appreciate that they gave the source, but if you actually look up that WaPo article, it very clearly says “As a share of the voting-eligible population,” not “registered voters.” All registered voters are eligible voters, but not all eligible voters are registered voters. The eligible voting population is approximately 239.2 million, so the math in this calculation falls apart right where the multiplication starts. If you replace the registered vote total with 239.2 million, you come out with the original 158.4 million votes that were certified.
But the funniest thing about this one is just…really?
Do people really think that our multi-step, multi-check electoral processes wouldn’t immediately catch 13 or 17 million illegitimate votes if they actually existed? Do people really think that this very basic counting epiphany more than a month after the election took place, and after it has been checked and verified, even makes sense?
These numbers are all out there for everyone to calculate for themselves, but if people aren’t calculating with the right variables, then they’re going to come up with shoddy conclusions like these ones. And they’ll accept it because it backs up their belief that the election was fraudulent.
Please, if you see things like this, check the details. Read through the responses, as most misinformation usually get corrected by someone fairly quickly. Look at the information for yourself. Ask questions if it doesn’t seem like it makes sense. Don’t believe a meme just because it supports your belief, and if you see it and know it’s wrong, correct it. Misinformation is rampant and literally tearing at the fabric of our nation. It’s up to all of us to battle it when we see it.
Counties vary by population, so county wins don’t correlate with the popular vote
Ultimately, the fact that Biden and Obama were victorious in a relatively small number of counties is not relevant to their popular vote numbers.
That’s because there is an incredible amount of variance in county population size, per a report by the U.S. Census Bureau.
Some counties have minuscule populations – for example, Hawaii’s Kalawao County has just 88 residents, and Texas’ Loving County has 169 residents.
Other countries have enormous populations – for example, California’s Los Angeles County has 10.1 million residents, and Illinois’ Cook County has 5.2 million residents.
The same 2017 report by the U.S. Census Bureau found that more than half of the U.S. population lives in just 143 counties, or 4.3% of all counties.
Therefore, it’s plausible that Joe Biden set a popular vote record by carrying only 509 counties, or 17% of all counties.
We rate memes that call into question whether Joe Biden won the most ever votes based on the fact that he won a record-low number of counties as MISSING CONTEXT, because without additional context they could be misleading. With over 81 million votes, Biden received the most votes of any presidential candidate in history. It is also true that he won a record-low number of counties – but counties vary by population size, from those with a few hundred people to others with millions of residents, so county wins don’t correlate with the popular vote.
Mail in votes, which were predominately Biden votes, were counted last. Trump voters were told not to vote by mail. It’s not rocket science. You’re not very smart are ya? “When I went to bed he was winning, when I woke up he wasn’t”. So did you know that Trump was winning against Biden and then when I went to bed Trump was losing.
You do understand there is a thing called, “time zones” right?
That’s exactly how it went……I stayed up till 3am and he had a huge lead…..got up at 730 for work and he was way behind!
Biden statistically could not have won the election. We know it, they know it and we all know it!
Because it was Covid times and they expanded mail-in ballots and they counted those last. Donald said Repubs cheated him his first loss against Cruz. Weird how he then convinced his cult he basically never loses. Well that proves it. The election should have been called when you went beddy bye.
Yes he did and everyone really knows it….. I mean seriously use common sense…. there is no way idiots like Biden and Harris got 81 million votes…..(legal votes that is)
Yes, & @DNC@SpeakerPelosi incited the 2020 riots to hide it, & prosecute/persecute the Innocent who wanted to prove it was stolen.
Yes, absolutely but many of our spineless republicans refused to do anything.
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Yes, Donald J. Trump won the 2020 Election.
I watched on live TV when Poll Workers were evacuated and dollies loaded with Ballots brought in by men afterwards. How was California called promptly at 10PM EST for Biden at the exact time that GA was “evacuated” and several other states’ counting was halted? PA has already stated that they will not have the 2024 Results on Election Night but, California did in 2020?
This election they’re better not be no stopping the count at 2 AM.
Or Late-night UPS trucks with 84,000 ballots no more broken water mains no more three democratic ballot watchers for R1. And no more of this BS. This time , don’t stop counting and ensure there are Republican auditors at those sites that were problematic last time.
Secured, mail-in ballots were not allowed to be counted until after all the day-of votes were tabulated. This is in Pennsylvania also. Republicans won’t let mail-in ballots be opened & counted before the polls close, delaying all the counts. They do this on purpose to trick you.
Not true! Florida counts their mail-ins and has the results on Election Day. Florida has a much larger population too! California announced their 2020 Election Results promptly at 10PM Eastern Standard Time which was their Poll Closing Time!
What does California being called have to do with anything?
The press could call California for Kamala today, and you know what, they would be right. The CA SOS will take much longer to count everything, and certify, but the press can make their prediction instantly.
I pray that you are wrong.
California was once a beautiful state that was on Americans vacation plans. The laws that it is passing will result in it belonging to the elites 0r illegal aliens. How long before one takes over the other…. I’m not saying that I want her to carry California because I don’t, however, the state is 46% to 24% Republicans with the rest Independents who mostly lean left. Thereby, Republican doesn’t have a chance
The networks”call” the results based on polling data before and on Election Day. I can call California for Harris right now and I guarantee I’ll be right. Even though PA says they won’t have the results doesn’t mean it won’t be “called” but probably not since it should be close.
Speaker Johnson said illegal immigrants allowed in by President Biden’s border chaos are showing up at government offices to sign up for benefits and services, and when they do they’re being prodded to sign up to vote.
In the days leading up to the Jan. 20, 2021, inauguration of U.S. President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris, a piece of copypasta went viral on social media containing a frequent smear from the right against Democratic political figures. The piece accused Harris of having “Close Ties with Marxists, Communists, Maoists, and Socialists.”
One example of the copypasta began as follows (you can read the full text of the post at the end of this article):
As it floated around Facebook, copy and pasted from profile to profile, the piece and its origins became more convoluted. Different postings attributed it to various authors, some crediting a writer for the conservative blog RedState and others crediting a retired Marine Corps major general.
The post basically draws on “guilt by association,” a logical fallacy that ascribes a perceived negative behavior to a person simply by associating them with others. In this case, the piece lists a number of Kamala Harris’ personal and professional associations and claims those associations have “ties” to communism, with the unstated assumption that Harris herself must be a communist, since all those other people are.
This assumption isn’t true — Harris is a Democrat, an American political party that is left-of-center but overall more conservative than many left-wing parties abroad. She is not viewed by American progressives as being as far to the left as they are, and in fact was disparagingly called a “cop” by some on the left who found her career as a prosecutor disagreeable.
In November 2020, Harris posted a tweet about equality versus equity that some Republicans claimed was “Marxist” in its message. The tweet contained a video in which Harris acknowledged that inequality built into the system causes some people to start out at a disadvantage, and cites the need to level the playing field.
In all, Harris has sometimes been seen as not far left enough by progressives and too far left by those on the right. As a presidential candidate in the Democratic primaries, however, Harris wasn’t viewed as being among the more progressive candidates, U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vermont, and U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Massachusetts.
Despite its origins and text being muddled by repeatedly being copied and pasted around Facebook, it appears the source of the text was Trevor Loudon, a contributor for the Epoch Times. As we reported in the past:
“The Epoch Times was founded by Chinese-American adherents to a spiritual movement and meditation practice known as Falun Gong. That news outlet has in recent years, as reported by BuzzFeed News and NBC News, transformed into a misinformation-laden, pro-Trump mouthpiece.”
The Southern Poverty Law Center, a non-profit organization that tracks extremist ideology, described Loudon as a “far right conspiracy theorist” who is “known for seeing communist infiltrators everywhere and claims the political left are working with so-called Islamists to overthrow the United States.”
This copypasta doubtlessly circulated on social media because of the upcoming inauguration, but Loudon’s piece was originally published on Oct. 14, 2020. It was reposted about two weeks later to the website of the political action committee Combat Veterans for Congress.
The copypasta covers (in the most sensational of terms) various known facts about Harris’ parents. They met while students at University of California, Berkeley, and they were involved in the Afro American Association, a student group whose members founded the Black Panther movement.
It also alleges that Harris’ father Donald Harris, a Stanford economics professor from whom Kamala Harris is estranged, is a Marxist, which appears to be spun up from a 1976 entry in the Stanford Daily student newspaper. It also draws on the fact that Harris dated San Francisco Mayor and California State Assembly Speaker Willie Brown in the 1990s, making the unfounded claim that Brown is “widely regarded as one of the Chinese Communist Party’s best friends in the San Francisco Bay area.”
The copypasta meme also makes winding suppositions about the “Marxist ties” of other people in Harris’ circle, such as a community activist she worked with as San Francisco’s district attorney and her sister Maya, but offers no proof beyond vague statements and assumptions about friends of friends. For example, the copypasta states Maya Harris went to college with someone who was a campus “Marxist-Leninist” affiliated with a group that was “pro-Chinese Communist.”
Since the claim about him has been made by various publications, we sent Donald Harris an email to ask how he would describe his political ideology, but didn’t receive a response in time for publication. We also found no evidence for the assertion that Brown, who is retired, has a relationship of any sort with the Chinese government.
Nevertheless, we note that despite Joseph McCarthy-like rhetoric, Marxism is an economic and political ideology that some farther left on the political spectrum ascribe to. We also note that the political beliefs of people in Vice President-elect Harris’ circle don’t automatically constitute hers.
For reference, the full text of the copypasta read as follows in one example:
Here is a timely editorial that exposes the hidden background of Kamala Harris from the Combat Veterans for Congress Political Action Committee that is posted here with permission of the author. CVFC PAC supports the election of US military combat veterans to the US Senate and House of Representatives. The editorial begins:
Kamala Harris’ father was an avowed Marxist professor in the Economics Department at Stanford University in Palo Alto, CA. Both of Harris’ parents were active in the Berkeley based Afro- American Association; Fidel Castro and Che Guevara were the heroes of the Afro-American Association.
The group’s leader, Donald Warden (aka Khalid al-Mansour), mentored two young Afro-American Association members, Huey Newton and Bobby Seale; they created the Maoist inspired Black Panther Party which gained strong support from Communist China; the Black Panther Party served as the model for creation of the Black Lives Matter Marxist organization Khalid al-Mansour subsequently went on to arrange financing and facilitated for Barack Hussein Obama to be accepted as a student to matriculate at Harvard Law School.
Following her graduation from college, Harris returned to California and subsequently became the mistress of the 60-year-old married Speaker of the California Assembly, Willie Brown, Jr. Brown’s political campaigns were supported and funded by Dr. Carlton Goodlett, the owner of The Sun Reporter and several other pro-Communist newspapers. Brown was elected as Mayor of San Francisco, and strongly endorsed Harris’ Marxist political philosophy; he guided Harris’ political rise in California politics, leading to her election as California’s Attorney General. Willie Brown, Jr. was a well-known long-time Communist sympathizer. Willie Brown, Jr. was initially elected to public office with the substantial help of the Communist Party USA. Today, Willie Brown is widely regarded as one of the Chinese Communist Party’s best friends in the San Francisco Bay Area.
While serving as San Francisco District Attorney, Kamala Harris mentored a young San Francisco Radical Maoist activist, Lateefah Simon, who was a member of the STORM Revolutionary Movement; Simon currently chairs the Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) Board. Simon has always been close friends with the founder of Black Lives Matter Marxist Domestic Terrorists, Alicia Garza, as well as STORM member and avowed Communist, Van Jones. Harris has been openly and aggressively supporting Black Lives Matter Marxists; Kamala Harris is still closely associated with Maoist Lateefah Simon and Marxist Alicia Garza.
Kamala Harris’s sister Maya Harris was a student activist at Stanford University. She was a closely associated with Steve Phillips, one of the leading Marxist-Leninists on campus and a long-time affiliate with the League of Revolutionary Struggle, a pro-Chinese Communist group. Phillips came out of the Left, and in college he studied Marx, Mao, and Lenin, and maintained close associations with fellow Communists. Phillips married into the multi billion dollar Sandler family of the Golden West Savings and Loan fortune. He funded many leftist political campaigns, and the voter registration drives in the Southern and South Western states in order to help his friend, Barack Hussein Obama, defeat Hillary Clinton. Phillips has been a major financial sponsor for Kamala Harris’s political campaigns for various California elective offices.
Harris’ husband, Doug Emhoff works for the law firm DLA Piper, which “boasts nearly 30 years of experience in Communist China with over 140 lawyers dedicated to its ‘Communist China Investment Services’ branch. He was just appointed to Professor at Yale to school future lawyers in the fine points of Communism. When she was elected to the US Senate, Kamala Harris appointed a Pro-Communist Senate Chief of Staff, Karine Jean-Pierre. Jean-Pierre was active with the New York-based Haiti Support Network. The organization worked closely with the pro-Communist China/Communist North Korea Workers World Party and supported Jean-Bertrand Aristide, the far-left Communist former president of Haiti and the radical Lavalas movement.
Fortunately for Harris, but potentially disastrous for the Republic, elected office holders are not subject to the security clearance process. If the FBI did a Background Investigation on Kamala Harris, she never would have passed, because of her 40-year close ties with Marxists, Communists, Maoists, and Communist China. Harris would never have been approved for acceptance to any of the 5 Military Service Academies, been appointed to a US Government Sub-Cabinet position, or would have been approved to fill a sensitive position for a high security defense contractor. Yet, since Joe Biden was elected, Harris could be a heartbeat away from being President.
The US constitutional Republic is being threatened by the People’s Republic of Communist China (PPC) externally, and by of their very active espionage operations within the United States. The People’s Republic of Communist China (PPC), with 1.4 billion people, is governed by the 90 million member Chinese Communist Party (CCP), that has been working with Russia to destroy the US Constitutional Republic for over 70 years.
The CCP operates a massive global intelligence network through its Ministry of State Security. The CCP operates a vast intelligence network in the U.S as well. It is made up, not merely of intelligence operatives working for the Ministry of State Security, but it is also made up of a myriad of business and industry officials, Chinese scholar associations, and 370,000 Chinese students currently attending American universities. It also operates the Confucius Institute indoctrination and intelligence gathering centers in the US on 67 University campuses and in seventeen K-12 Public School Districts. The Confucius Centers are staffed by Communist Chinese intelligence operatives. Refer to this.
Kamala Harris is now involved with the Biden Family Business, and is supporting Joe Biden, who has worked closely with Communist China for 12 years. Joe’s son, Hunter Biden, is the point of contact for developing the off-shore Biden Family Businesses in Ukraine, Russia, Communist China, Iraq, Iran, etc. Hunter was provided with a $5 million non-recourse loan for the Biden Family Business to form a partnership with the PPC; that loan was subsequently forgiven by Communist China for one dollar.
Hunter Biden was given $1.5 billion for the Biden Family Business, to strategically purchase interests in companies in the US Military Industrial Complex, whose technologies would enhance and improve Communist China’s defense industry. Hunter Biden was also instructed to try to take control of US companies involved in sourcing rare earth minerals in the United States. Hunter also received $3.5 Million from the wife of the Mayor of Moscow for some carefully hidden reason.
The Peoples Republic of Communist China has a military of two million men, including the world’s largest Navy. The United States does not have enough ships and munitions to defeat China’s Navy, absent the use of nuclear weapons. There is a famous book, Unrestricted Warfare, written in 1999 by two People’s Liberation Army colonels. It argues that war between the PRC and the U.S. is inevitable, and that when it occurs China must be prepared to use whatever means are necessary to achieve victory Refer to this. If the American voters read the background information (in Trevor Loudon’s article) on Kamala Harris, they would never support her election as Vice President of the United States. Joe Biden is suffering from the early onset of dementia and will continue to decline in cerebral awareness; he will never be able to fill out a four-year term of office. Since Biden was elected, the Socialists, Marxists, and Communist who control Kamala Harris, are planning to enact provisions of the 25th Amendment, in order to remove Joe Biden from office, so Harris can become the first Communist President of the United States.
Since Biden was elected, because Biden would not be up to it, Kamala Harris would lead the effort to appoint very dangerous anti-American Leftist, Communist, Socialists, and Marxists to fill highly sensitive positions in the Washington Deep State Bureaucracy. She would fill all appointive positions in the US Intelligence Agencies, in the Department of Homeland Security, in the Department of Defense, in The Justice Department, the Department of State, the FBI, the CIA, most cabinet positions, the National Security Council, and in the White House Staff.
American voters must be alert their fellow Americans that Kamala Harris is a very serious National Security threat to the very survival of the US Constitutional Republic; she has been a fellow traveler of Marxists, Communists, Maoists, Socialists, Progressives, and Chinese Communists for over 35 years. President Trump had much more background information on Kamala Harris than we presented here, and he was correct, when he accused Kamala Harris of being a Communist subverter.
BUT you’ve known about Billionaire GEORGE SOROS FUNDING the MARXIST Biden Regime… So please don’t tell me no one saw this Commie Bitch coming, and “planted” her in Senile Joe’s place, illegally planted I might add. The Voters elected Joe in the Primary, not Commie-Kam as she didn’t win one primary. If this ditz is the best the Dems have to offer, they need to shut down their party!
KAMALA SAID HER VALUES HAVE NOT CHANGED AND ALL THESE ITEMS SHE HAS BEEN FOR ALL ALONG ARE STILL THE SAME. SO EVIDENTLY BIDENS DEMENTIA MUST HAD BEEN CONTAGIOUS!
She absolutely should be disqualified. Anyone that wants to be a Marxist Rep should get the hell out of the country and go where they have Marxism. Our Constitution won’t stand for it. Our system did not anticipate the current situation, including the degree of corruption of individuals, nor the number of billionaires who are capable of corrupting individuals, nor the circumstances, where corrupting individuals would not be caught and stopped by consequences.
She hasn’t been a “fit’ for America for as long as she’s been VP; she will definitely not be a fit for President. Our enemies will laugh at us harder than they do with Biden. She supports Marxism. People come here to escape the tyranny and lack freedoms she proposes. She will cackle at us louder than enemies will,
Don’t forget her unrealized capital gains tax ( if your home has increased in value, even if you’re not selling, will be taxed on the increase) and also her plan to take your intellectual property i.e. your patents, should she feel the need. She’s horrible. I could go on….. Vote for Restoration of Our Nation in Decline; for the Man for this season of American history. Vote for Donald J. Trump! He will seal the border, deport in order of our needs, Drill, Baby, Drill, Keystone, Anwar, restore the Trump Taco Cuts.Things Kamala Harris supports: -Abolishing ICE -Decriminalizing illegal crossings -Defunding the police -Mandatory gun buybacks (confiscations) -Nationalizing energy -Banning fracking -Banning offshore drilling -Abolishing the filibuster -Supporting the GND -Ending private health insurance -Free healthcare for all including illegals -Mass amnesty for illegals -Ending the death penalty -Abolishing prisons -Ending cash bail -Ending mandatory minimum sentences -Imposing carbon tax -Child gender reassignment surgery and hormone replacement therapy
Things Trump supports: rape victims forced to carry the child to term, women dying from ectopic pregnancies, tracking women’s pregnancies and their periods, taking money from regular folks and handing it to the rich, and elimination of birth control, the VA, and Social Security
What do all these things have in common?
Biden’s Complete and Utter Destruction of America.
Some of the criticisms of President Biden’s foreign policy include the handling of the withdrawal from Afghanistan, which many felt was chaotic and left the region unstable. There have also been concerns about his approach to China and Russia, with some arguing that it has been either too aggressive or not assertive enough.
On the other hand, supporters argue that his administration has worked to rebuild alliances and re-engage with international organizations, which they believe is crucial for global cooperation on issues like climate change and security.
The bill is a major accomplishment for Democrats who have been struggling for months to pass Biden’s ambitious social and climate policies, as well as his vision to raise taxes on the rich. The legislation includes large investments in making health care and prescription drugs more affordable, fighting climate change and taxing wealthy corporations.
Americans can expect to see the continuation of Affordable Care Act premium subsidies that lower the cost of health insurance from now until 2024 (they were due to expire at the end of 2022).
But savings from other provisions in the bill won’t kick in until the future. For example, efforts to lower drug prices, including caps on their costs for seniors, won’t take effect until 2025.
While its name claims it will tame soaring inflation, estimates show that the bill likely won’t do much to pull down the inflation rate. But it remains a significant piece of legislation that accomplishes some initiatives that have been mired in congressional debate for decades.
What’s in the Inflation Reduction Act
The Inflation Reduction Act is a slimmed-down version of the Build Back Better bill, which aimed to make historic investments in the nation’s social safety net. The new bill makes the largest investment in combating climate change in U.S. history, lowers the cost of prescription drugs and raises taxes on corporations.
Here are the big provisions:
Creation of a 15% corporate minimum tax rate: Corporations with at least $1 billion in income will have a new tax rate of 15%. Taxes on individuals and households won’t be increased. Stock buybacks by corporations will face a 1% excise tax.
Prescription drug price reform: One of the most significant provisions of the Inflation Reduction Act will allow Medicare to negotiate the price of certain prescription drugs, bringing down the price beneficiaries will pay for their medications. Medicare recipients will have a $2,000 cap on annual out-of-pocket prescription drug costs, starting in 2025.
IRS tax enforcement: The IRS has been sounding the alarm for years about being underfunded and being unable to deliver on its duties. The bill invests $80 billion in the nation’s tax agency over the next 10 years.
Affordable Care Act (ACA) subsidy extension: Currently, medical insurance premiums under the ACA are subsidized by the federal government to lower premiums. These subsidies, which were scheduled to expire at the end of this year, will be extended through 2025. Approximately 3 million Americans could lose their health insurance if these subsidies weren’t extended, according to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
Energy security and climate change investments: The bill includes numerous investments in climate protection, including tax credits for households to offset energy costs, investments in clean energy production and tax credits aimed at reducing carbon emissions.
The bill passed with all 50 Democratic votes in the Senate on Aug. 7. Democrats were able to secure two key votes, from Senators Joe Manchin (D-W.Va) and Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ), after the pair opposed earlier versions of the bill. Sinema, the last party holdout, expressed support for the bill after the carried-interest loophole provision was dropped.
The bill was passed in the Senate without Republican support under the reconciliation process. The House passed the bill 220-207 on Aug. 12.
Study Shows Bill Will Likely Have No Impact on Inflation
In a statement released after the Senate’s passage of the bill, Biden asserted that the legislation would bring inflation relief to Americans. But one early study shows that in reality, the Inflation Reduction Act likely won’t reduce prices at all.
According to the Penn Wharton Budget Model (PWBM), there’s low confidence the legislation will have any impact on inflation. PWBM is a nonpartisan, research-based organization at the University of Pennsylvania that creates economic analysis of public policy’s fiscal impact.
During an interview with CNN, Manchin said he “respectfully disagrees” with the study.
According to the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), a federal agency that provides budget and economic information to Congress, the bill will barely make a dent on inflation in the near term—and could even nudge it upward.
The CBO estimates it will have a “negligible effect on inflation” in 2022, and in 2023 it will change inflation somewhere between 0.1 percentage point lower and 0.1 percentage point higher than it is currently.
Though the bill may fall short of bringing immediate price relief to consumers, it’s monumental in other ways. According to The Wilderness Society, a nonprofit land conservation organization established in 1935, the Inflation Reduction Act is described as a “breakthrough” on climate policy.
Editors’ note: In the first version of this story, we said that Sen. Kyrsten Sinema was senator for Nevada. She is senator for Arizona. We apologize for the error.
Why are those controlling President Biden using him to advance so much of a destructive agenda that it will likely end America as we know it?
If someone wished to destroy America, could he do anything more catastrophic than what we currently see and hear each day?
What would an existential enemy do that we have not already done to ourselves?
Here are 11 now familiar steps to civilizational destruction:
1. Wipe out a 2,000-mile border.
Allow 10 million foreign nationals to enter unlawfully. Have no audit of any; nullify all federal immigration laws. Let in toxic drugs that kill 100,000 Americans a year. Give free support to those millions who broke the law. Smear any objectors as racists and xenophobes.
2. Run up $35 trillion in national debt.
Keep adding $1 trillion to it each 100 days. Defame anyone wishing to cut wild spending as cruel and inhumane.
3. Appease or subsidize enemies like Iran and China.
Demonize allies like Israel. Allow terrorists to attack Americans without adequate response. See Islam as either similar or superior to Christianity. Make amends to leftist governments for supposedly past toxic American international behavior. Follow the lead of international agencies like the U.N., ICC and WHO to atone for past American neo colonial and imperialist behavior. Recede to second-tier international status, befitting American decline.
4. In a multiracial democracy, redefine identity only as one’s tribal affiliation.
Ensure each identity group rivals the other for victimhood and the state spoils it confers. Reboot all political issues by race and sex oppressors and oppressed. Destroy all meritocratic standards of admission, retention, promotion and commendation.
5. Recalibrate violent crime as understandable, cry-of-the-heart expressions of social justice.
Ensure no bail and same-day release for arrested, repeat violent felons. Empathize with the violent killer and rapist; ignore their victims, especially if they are slain police officers.
6. Emasculate the military by using non-meritocratic standards of race, gender, and sexual orientation to determine promotion and commendation.
Deliberately impugn as racists and insurrectionists the largest demographic in the military who in recent wars died at twice their numbers in the population — so that they leave or never join the military. Encourage retired high officers to slander their commander-in-chief. Cut the defense budget. Stop producing sufficient weapons, but leave billions of dollars’ worth of arms to terrorists.
7. Reinvent the justice system to indict, bankrupt, convict, jail and eliminate political opponents.
Use ballot removal, impeachment, civil suits, and state and federal indictments rather than elections to defeat an opponent. Mob the homes of non-compliant Supreme Court justices, and attack them personally by name.
8. Encourage the fusion of the bureaucratic state with the electronic media to form a powerful force for political audit, surveillance, censorship and coercion.
Marry the FBI to Silicon Valley and hire its contractors to warp the news and hound supposed enemies of the people.
9. Make war on affordable gasoline and natural gas.
Substitute inefficient, unreliable and expensive wind and solar power, even as energy prices nearly bankrupt the middle class.
10. Marry late, but preferably not at all.
Consider males toxic, especially boys. Have no children, or as few as possible. Otherwise, assure children they are entitled, and must be sheltered. Raise them to have grievances against past generations and current norms.
11. Turn world-class universities into indoctrination centers.
Suspend the Bill of Rights on campuses. Train youth to graduate despising their own culture and civilization. Recruit foreign students from hostile nations to subsidize campus commissar bloat. Replace the curriculum with therapeutic propaganda. Ban the SAT/ACT and do not evaluate comparative high school GPAs. Ensure merit does not select the student body. Charge tuition higher than the rate of inflation. Bill the government when students default on their loans.
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Foreign policy may not be most voters’ top issue, but it is top of mind on the presidential campaign trail this week.
A new behind-the-scenes account of Donald Trump’s White House raised serious questions about his prior approach to the job of commander in chief, the latest critique in a long line of warnings from former generals who served under Trump.
Trump, meanwhile, has honed his own criticism of the Biden administration — and of Vice President Kamala Harris in particular — for the chaotic end to the decades long US war in Afghanistan, even though that plan was initially hatched during Trump’s administration.
Across the U.S. hundreds of Americans are independently trying to help Afghans in the years after the United States pulled out in 2021. They have helped many Afghans, but the efforts have taken a toll on their lives as well. The war in Afghanistan officially ended in August 2021 when the last U.S. plane departed the country’s capital city. What remains is a dedicated array of Americans — often working in isolation, or in small grassroots networks — who became committed to helping the Afghan allies the United States left behind. For them, the war didn’t end that day.
The new account of Trump’s time as commander in chief comes from Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster, who served as Trump’s national security adviser. McMaster, unlike other generals who served under Trump, had previously held back from sharing direct criticism of his former boss after leaving the White House.
Appearing on “Anderson Cooper 360,” McMaster argued that Trump bears some responsibility for the Afghanistan withdrawal for his negotiations with the Taliban, including pressure on Afghanistan’s former government to release thousands of Taliban fighters from prison.
“What happened in these series of negotiations and concessions to the Taliban is we threw the Afghans under the bus on the way out,” he said.
Add this account to the well-documented warnings of other generals who described their time inside the Trump White House, including retired Marine Gen. John Kelly, who was Trump’s chief of staff; retired Marine Gen. James Mattis, who served as Trump’s defense secretary; and Gen. Mark Milley, Trump’s chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
And adding onto the pile Monday, more than 200 Republicans who previously worked for former Presidents George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush, former Sen. John McCain or Sen. Mitt Romney signed a letter urging their fellow party members to back Harris for president.
Among those who signed the letter are former George H.W. Bush chief of staff Jean Becker; former McCain chiefs of staff Mark Salter and Christopher Koch; and Olivia Troye, the former homeland security adviser to Vice President Mike Pence. But Trump is pointing to a failure in the Biden administration as he makes his case for another White House term.
Afghanistan haunts Biden and Harris
Politics were not overtly mentioned at Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia on Monday when Trump commemorated the three-year anniversary of the deaths of 13 American service members in Afghanistan, but those deaths are frequently cited on the campaign trail.
Family members of some of the fallen service members appeared onstage at the Republican National Convention in July and condemned Biden.
Speaking on CNN on Monday from Fort Liberty, North Carolina, Paula Knauss Selph, the mother of Army Staff Sgt. Ryan Christian Knauss, who was killed in the attack, had strong words criticizing Biden.
“This administration has tried to sweep it under the rug, and that’s absolutely not going to work for this nation,” she said, adding that Harris holds “the same accountability as President Biden.”
The service members, along with more than 100 Afghans, died in 2021 in a suicide bombing outside the Abbey Gate of Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul at the tail end of two decades of direct American military involvement in Afghanistan.
The Taliban now controls Afghanistan.
Finally withdrawing US service members was Biden’s call, and it occurred on his watch. Republicans, including Trump, have turned the chaotic and deadly withdrawal into a domestic political argument against Biden and, by extension, Harris, who has stepped into Biden’s place to run against Trump in November.
At a stop in Virginia, after his appearance at the cemetery, Trump said the people who died “were killed, in the most embarrassing moment in the history of our country, Afghanistan, because we had an incompetent president with incompetent people leading it, and every one of those people should have been fired.”
Another purge
Speaking later at a National Guard conference in Detroit, Trump repeated his pledge to purge the Pentagon of every senior military official involved with the withdrawal.
Meanwhile, in a statement commemorating the 13 American deaths, Harris said, “I mourn and honor them.” She also praised Biden for making “the courageous and right decision to end America’s longest war.”
The truth is a little more complicated.
Trump actually promised to withdraw US troops from Afghanistan during his presidency. His administration set the final withdrawal in motion by negotiating and signing a deal with the Taliban in 2020 that stipulated the drawdown of US service members in Afghanistan.
After Trump lost the presidential election, he fired his defense secretary at the time, Mark Esper, purged many top officials at the Pentagon and tried to further accelerate US drawdowns, both in Afghanistan and in Europe.
Biden reversed the drawdown of service members in Europe but delayed by only a few months Trump’s plans to withdraw US troops from Afghanistan despite worsening conditions on the ground and rapid gains by the Taliban.
Promising to end wars
While Trump criticizes Harris and Biden for pulling out of Afghanistan, he has also promised to be the president who will end all wars.
At the National Guard conference, Trump said Harris and her running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, want “endless wars.”
He also received the endorsement of Tulsi Gabbard, a former Democrat congresswoman from Hawaii who deployed to Iraq as a member of the Army National Guard and who ran for president as a Democrat in 2020. Gabbard, who is now an independent, picked Trump, she said, because he did not start new wars during his term in office – language that echoes a 2023 endorsement of the former president in The Wall Street Journal by Sen. JD Vance, who argued that Trump’s foreign policy was his top achievement.
Vance is now Trump’s running mate, and the selection signaled a shift by Republicans in general away from helping to promote democracy in other countries.
Republicans on the House Foreign Affairs Committee have launched their own review, which will undoubtedly cast a harsher eye on the Biden administration – although an investigator recently resigned from that effort, alleging Republicans on the committee were not willing to place any blame with the US military, including Milley.
So many people are in so entitled and want freebies or cheap and don’t realize the work they make people do for them
One of the best lessons you can learn in life is to master how to remain calm
Praise the Lord all ye nations, praise Him all ye people, for His merciful kindness is great towards us and the truth of the Lord endureth forever. Psalm 117
“Reject the evidence of your eyes and ears.
It was their final, most essential, command.” -G. Orwell, 1984
Pennsylvania: Vice President Kamala Harris is leading by a narrow margin, with 48% support compared to Donald Trump’s 46%.
Michigan: Harris has a slight edge here as well, polling at 47% to Trump’s 45%.
Wisconsin: This state is showing a very tight race, with both candidates nearly tied at 47% each.
Arizona: Harris is leading with 49% support, while Trump has 44%.
Georgia: Another close contest, with Harris at 48% and Trump at 46%.
These numbers indicate a highly competitive race in these crucial states. Is there a specific state or aspect of the election you’re particularly interested in?
In addition to Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, Arizona, and Georgia, other key swing states to watch in the 2024 election include:
Florida: Known for its large and diverse electorate, Florida is always a critical battleground.
North Carolina: This state has been closely contested in recent elections.
Nevada: With its growing population and changing demographics, Nevada is increasingly important.
Ohio: Traditionally a bellwether state, Ohio remains a significant swing state.
New Hampshire: Though small, its independent voters make it a key state to watch.
These states often play a decisive role in determining the outcome of the presidential election. Is there a particular state or trend you’re curious about?
Over 200 types of mosquitoes live in the continental United States and U.S. territories. About 12 types spread germs that can make people sick.
Nuisance mosquitoes bother people but do not spread germs.
Because you can’t tell if a mosquito is spreading germs when it bites, protect yourself from bites.
Mosquitoes that spread germs
Only some types of mosquitoes can spread germs (viruses and parasites) to people and animals. In the United States, the most common types of mosquitoes that can spread germs include:
Aedes species mosquitoes (Ae. aegypti)
Culex species mosquitoes (Cx. pipiens, Cx. tarsalis, Cx. quinquefasciatus)
Anopheles species mosquitoes (An. freeborni and An. quadrimaculatus)
A person who gets bitten by an infected mosquito and gets sick has a mosquito-borne disease.
West Nile is one of the most common mosquito-borne diseases in the continental United States.
Other mosquito-borne diseases in the United States include:
Dengue, chikungunya, and Zika outbreaks have occurred in U.S. states and territories, including Florida, Hawaii, Texas, Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and American Samoa.
According to the CDC, there have been 289 cases in the U.S. this year; Texas has reported the most at 41 cases. In the United States, mosquito-borne diseases are a significant concern.
There is growing concern about the spread of mosquito-borne viruses, including eastern equine encephalitis and West Nile virus. Officials in New Hampshire say one person has died after becoming infected with the encephalitis virus. NBC News’ Rehema Ellis reports.
Several towns in northeastern Massachusetts, including Douglas, Oxford, Sutton, and Webster, have introduced an optional evening curfew to reduce the risk of dangerous mosquito-borne illnesses. This measure follows the Massachusetts Department of Public Health’s (DPH) announcement of the first confirmed human case of Eastern equine encephalitis (EEE) in Worcester County since 2020.
One person has died, and some communities are restricting activities as eastern equine encephalitis, or EEE, circulates in the northeastern United States. The mosquito-borne disease is rare but serious, with about 30% of people who contract severe EEE dying and others developing neurological issues.
The individual was identified as a woman in her thirties, who had been exposed in an area of Plymouth County that was aerially sprayed with insecticide on Tuesday night. She was infected before spraying in the community had been completed. The department did not say anything about the woman’s current condition, but assured that there have been no changes in the area’s risk level, currently determined to be high.
A horse in the same area was also exposed: the second confirmed case in a Massachusetts horse this year.
“This evidence of the spread of EEE to a person and a horse in Plymouth County before aerial spraying confirms risk in the area,” Public Health Commissioner Dr. Robbie Goldstein said in a release.
“We expect that the aerial spraying will help prevent risk for EEE from continuing to escalate in the area, but it does not eliminate it completely. We are asking people to be consistent about taking steps to prevent mosquito bites.”
The Town of Plymouth recently closed public parks and fields from dusk until dawn, peak biting times for many mosquitoes.
The state’s first human case of the virus was reported on August 16. The individual was identified as a man in his 80s who had been hospitalized after being exposed to the virus in Worcester County. The department declined to provide further details on the case due to patient privacy.
Vermont health officials also reported a virus case in a Chittenden County man in his 40s, who was hospitalized in July and left the hospital a week later. The man was not identified.
In New Hampshire, 41-year-old Hampstead resident Steven Perry died after contracting the virus. He was the state’s first case of Eastern Equine Encephalitis in a decade. His family told Boston 25 News this week that he had no underlying medical conditions and that they did not know where he had contracted the virus.
Steven Scott Perry was identified as New Hampshire’s first death from Eastern Equine Encephalitis virus in a decade. States across the eastern U.S. are currently on high alert for the disease #eee – Explore | Facebook
Although a tally from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention still only shows four cases on its website, this news brings the total number of reported cases to six. Other cases were identified in Wisconsin and New Jersey.
Spread through the bite of infected mosquitoes, approximately 30% of those who are infected die, and survivors are often left with neurological problems. There are currently no vaccines or medicines to treat or prevent the disease, which affects people of all ages.
Concern about Eastern Equine Encephalitis also comes amid concerns over the spread of West Nile virus, which has been confirmed in more than half of U.S. states this year, according to the CDC.
Yesterday, Illinois and Wisconsin reported their first deaths from West Nile virus, including two in the Badger State. A Missouri teenager was left paralyzed and on a ventilator after contracting West Nile, according to a report from NBC News.
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Here’s what to know.
What is EEE?
Eastern equine encephalitis is spread by bites from infected mosquitoes. The disease can cause brain inflammation and may impair a person’s neurological and nerve functions.
A few cases are reported in the United States each year, usually in eastern or Gulf Coast states, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. EEE is most common from late spring through early fall and near bodies of water.
Eastern equine encephalitis got its name because it was first detected in horses.
How are you feeling about this news? Are there any specific concerns you have?
How do you get EEE?
EEE typically circulates between mosquitoes and birds usually found in freshwater hardwood swamps. People who live or work near wetlands, swamps or wooded areas and spend a lot of time outdoors are at a greater risk of contracting EEE, according to the Cleveland Clinic.
The infection most often affects children under 15 and adults over 50. People with weakened immune systems, such as cancer patients, organ transplant recipients and diabetics, may experience severe symptoms. As mosquito season has gotten longer in much of the contiguous United States due to climate change, scientists have expressed concern that the risk of mosquito-borne infections like EEE could grow.
What are the symptoms?
While many people have no symptoms, signs of the less severe form of EEE may include chills, fever, joint pain and muscle pain. This form of disease, known as febrile illness, typically lasts one to two weeks, and most people recover fully.
A severe infection, or neurological disease, could be marked by confusion, diarrhea, drowsiness, headaches, high fever, seizures, loss of appetite and vomiting. Many people who recover from serious infections have long-term physical or mental problems.
Symptoms often appear four to 10 days after the bite from an infected mosquito.
One person, a resident of Hampstead, N.H., whose age and gender have not been made public, has died. In Massachusetts, where health officials said several communities are at elevated risk of EEE, some towns are closing parks after dusk, restricting outdoor activities and rescheduling public events.
There were seven cases of EEE in humans last year — far fewer than in 2019, when 38 cases were recorded.
Is there a cure or vaccine?
No, there are no vaccines against EEE in humans or medicines to treat it.
What should you do if you think you have EEE?
EEE symptoms may resemble those of the flu and there’s no specific test for the virus, so talk to your health-care provider if you were recently bitten by a mosquito and have symptoms, or if you have a weakened immune system.
Rest, fluids and over-the-counter pain medicines may help relieve symptoms, the CDC says, but patients with severe infections may require hospitalization.
How can you avoid getting EEE?
The advice for preventing an eastern equine encephalitis infection is the same as that for other mosquito-borne illnesses, such as the West Nile virus: Avoid getting bitten. Specific suggestions include using mosquito repellent, wearing clothes that cover your skin, such as long-sleeved shirts and long pants, and rescheduling outdoor activities to avoid the hours between dusk and dawn.
While certain essential oils may protect against mosquitoes, there has not been enough research into protection times and safe and effective concentrations for use on skin. Ultrasonic or wearable devices do not usually repel mosquitoes.
Make sure your window screens are in good condition and have a proper seal, and regularly check around your home for standing water, debris or empty containers where mosquitoes could breed.
EEE probably can be transmitted through blood transfusions, so people recently diagnosed with eastern equine encephalitis can help prevent it from spreading further by not donating blood for four months following their illness.
Teddy Amenabar, Lindsey Bever and Anumita Kaur contributed to this report. Recently, Dr. Fauci contracted the West Nile virus, another disease transmitted by mosquitoes. Quite a strange coincidence, right? Personally, I don’t believe in coincidences. Not too long, a video surfaced showing what appears to be mosquitoes being released from a helicopter.
This should be considered a crime against humanity. We are NOT gods and do not know what the long term effects of any of this will be . . . and anyone who says they do know . . . is lying.
Who agreed to this madness. We did not vote for this! So I can just release millions of disease carrying mosquitoes with no repercussions?!!
This is what 5th generation warfare looks like. It’s not the only thing the Governments are dropping on it’s citizens, heavy metals, criminal immigrants, and airborne viruses Somebody needs to be held accountable!!!
You’re all idiots if you think that could even be mosquitos being dropped. Its spray to combat the mosquitos that are carrying the diseases. Trump wants to stop aerial spraying because our environment is unhealthy due to Bill Gates’ mission to “depopulate”. Gates admits spraying COVID vaccines & other chemicals which is contaminating our soil & food supply. He should be arrested.
So if they are attacking you.
What’s stopping you from protecting yourself with force? That is a direct attack on the entire community. It’s lethal and they are doing it on purpose. We have rights in this country and protecting yourself and your community is part of them. What’s easier? To make up a story about there being these dangerous mosquitoes out there to get people to lockdown or to actually genetically produce these mosquitoes to get the same effect?
Bill Gates has passed the point of deserving a court hearing. He has been attempting worldwide genocide, fucking children on pedo Island, and lying about all the things he “knows so much about” for decades. We have to do something about him. He must be stopped. The federal government is releasing these genetically modified mosquitoes for Bill Gates so they can kill the human population of America…
The bite is on: What to know about the viruses mosquitoes are spreading.
Late August and early September are when cases of mosquito-borne viruses, especially West Nile, increase rapidly, the CDC said.
If there is one time of year to break out the bug spray, it’s Labor Day weekend.
“This is the prime time — the last week of August and the first week of September — when West Nile usually peaks nationally,” said Dr. Erin Staples, a mosquito expert and medical epidemiologist at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. “People need to be using their insect repellent right now.”
Mosquito-borne viruses are making their rounds across the country, sometimes with devastating effects. According to the CDC, 289 cases of West Nile virus have been logged so far in 2024. A majority of those patients, 195, developed severe neurological problems like inflammation of the brain or paralysis. At least 18 died.
“This is the time of year when cases of West Nile virus rapidly increase,” Staples said. While it’s too early in the season to compare this year with others, she said, “some areas like Texas and New York City are seeing a lot of activity.”
Another virus spread by mosquitoes, Eastern equine encephalitis, is less widespread but deadlier. This month, a 41-year-old New Hampshire man without any underlying medical problems died of EEE. “It doesn’t matter how old you are,” Staples said. EEE “can, unfortunately, kill.” Ahandful of other cases of EEE have been detected in Massachusetts, New Jersey, Vermont and Wisconsin.
Among people with severe symptoms related to EEE, nearly a third will die. The mortality rate among people with similarly serious West Nile virus disease hovers at about 10%.
What are symptoms and warning signs?
The good news is that the vast majority of people who are infected by West Nile or EEE never know it because they have no symptoms. Symptoms for both of the viruses, which can begin anywhere from three days to two weeks after the mosquito bite, include:
Fever
Headache
Fatigue
Nausea
The viruses become a serious problem if they get into the central nervous system, affecting the brain or spinal cord.
A sure sign that warrants an immediate call to 911 is an unexplained altered mental state or confusion, said Dr. Waleed Javaid, director of Infection Control and Prevention at Mount Sinai Downtown in New York City.
“If a person starts getting confused while they are ill with flu-like symptoms, that should trigger a trip to the hospital or urgent care,” Javaid said.
How are mosquito-borne illnesses diagnosed?
It’s virtually impossible for doctors to diagnose a mosquito-borne illness on symptoms alone.
“West Nile and Eastern equine encephalitis can cause the same presentation,” Staples said. “The clinician looking at them is not going to know” the difference without testing.
Blood tests are most commonly used to make an official diagnosis. If a person has severe neurologic symptoms, doctors may test the patient’s fluid around the brain through a spinal tap.
The reason tests are usually done is not necessarily to help the patient; it’s to inform public health officials about where mosquitoes are spreading potentially deadly viruses.
There is no specific treatment for either EEE or West Nile. People who are sick enough to be hospitalized are given supportive care to deal with severe symptoms.
“All we really can do is keep them hydrated, keep their fevers down and make sure they don’t have respiratory failure,” said epidemiologist Dr. W. Ian Lipkin, director of the Center for Infection and Immunity at the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health in New York City.
This is the time of year most of the bloodsuckers like to feast. While it’s not yet clear if 2024 will be an unusually active year for mosquito-borne viruses, experts say it’s likely cases will increase in the coming years.
Climate change is leading to hotter temperatures and rainier seasons — perfect breeding grounds for mosquitoes.
The future may bring more EEE and West Nile infections, said Dr. William Schaffner, a professor of infectious diseases at the Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, Tennessee.
“With climate change you get abundant mosquitoes,” he said. Moreover, “the increased warmth allows the virus to replicate more quickly in the mosquito which makes it more likely for it to transmit the virus when it bites you.”
How to prevent mosquito bites
The best way to avoid mosquito bites is to use bug sprays with DEET. The CDC also recommends Picaridin (known as KBR 3023 and icaridin outside the U.S.).
Newly identified dementia risk factors are preventable—addressing them could reduce dementia rates 45%
Story by Eric B. Larson, Laura Gitlin
Nearly half of all dementia cases could be delayed or prevented altogether by addressing a sense of loss & active life not moving forward and the grief of losing family members and the other 14 possible risk factors et…cetera.
That is the key finding of a new study that we and our colleagues published in the journal The Lancet. Dementia, a rapidly increasing global challenge, affects an estimated 57 million worldwide, and this number is expected to increase to 153 million by 2050 worldwide.
This third updated report of The Lancet Commission on Dementia offers good news and a strong message: Policymakers, clinicians, individuals and families can be ambitious about prevention and reducing dementia risk; and for those living with dementia and their caregivers, support their quality of life using evidence-based approaches.
The new report confirms 12 previously identified potentially modifiable risk factors from two previous reports, published in 2017 and 2020. It also offers new evidence supporting two additional modifiable risk factors: vision loss and high levels of low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol, often called “bad” cholesterol.
Our study of published evidence found that collectively, addressing 14 modifiable risk factors could potentially reduce the prevalence of dementia by 45% worldwide. Even greater risk reductions could be possible in low- and middle-income countries and for people with low income in higher-income countries, given the higher prevalence of dementia, health disparities and risk factors in these populations.
The report further indicates that reducing these 14 risks can increase the number of healthy years of life and reduce the length of time that poor health affects people with dementia.Additionally, the report cites clinical trials showing that nonpharmacological approaches, such as using activities tailored to interests and abilities, can reduce dementia-related symptoms and improve quality of life.
We are a general internist and an applied sociologist and intervention scientist, and our work focuses on memory and wellness in older adults. Together with 25 other internationally recognized dementia experts under the leadership of psychiatry professor Dr. Gill Livingston, we carefully reviewed the evidence to derive recommendations for prevention, intervention and care.
Why it matters
The rapid growth of aging populations worldwide is a triumph of better public and personal health throughout the entire lifespan. Yet, given the lack of a dementia cure, this report highlights the importance of prevention as well as supporting quality of life for those with a dementia diagnosis. In the new report, our team proposed an ambitious program for preventing dementia that could be implemented at the individual, community and policy levels and across the life span from early life through mid and late life.
The key points include:
In early life, improving general education.
In midlife, addressing hearing loss, high LDL cholesterol, depression, traumatic brain injury, physical inactivity, diabetes, smoking, hypertension, obesity and excessive alcohol.
In later life, reducing social isolation, air pollution and vision loss.
Together, these add up to The Lancet Commission on Dementia’s estimate that 45% of dementia risk can be reduced. And an abundance of new research shows that when risk factors are addressed, such as exposure to air pollution, they are linked with improved cognition and likely reduction of dementia risk.
New evidence supports the notion that in high-income countries, reducing dementia risk can translate to more healthy years, years free of dementia and a shorter duration of ill health for people who develop dementia.
What still isn’t known:
The 45% reduction in dementia risk across the world’s population is based on a calculation that assumes that risk factors are causal and can be eliminated. It shows how dementia prevention is critical and the impact it would have on individuals and families.
The commission emphasized the need for more research to identify additional risk factors, test risk factor changes in clinical trials, provide guidance for public health efforts, and identify and evaluate strategies for implementing and scaling evidence-based programs that support people with dementia and caregivers.The updated report has a worldwide public health and research impact and is being widely disseminated. It serves as a guideline for clinicians and policymakers and outlines new research directions.
This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license.
“New compelling evidence” has landed high low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol and untreated vision loss on a growing list of potentially modifiable risk factors for dementia, according to a Lancet Commission report on dementia prevention, intervention, and care.
“Previously, the evidence for cholesterol was quite mixed, but there’s been a large addition and it’s very clear that in mid-life having high LDL cholesterol is a risk factor and that treating it makes a difference,” lead author Gill Livingston, MD, professor of psychiatry of older people at University College London, told MedCentral.
“Certainly, here in the UK most people never get as far as a cardiologist and will be tested in primary care by the family physician and then treatment initiated,” she said. “So, they’re the ones that are seeing the huge numbers of people that could really make a difference.”
The Lancet Commission previously identified nine risk factors for dementia in its initial report, published in 2017, and added another three to the 2020 report. Those 12 risk factors are less education, hearing loss, hypertension, physical inactivity, diabetes, social isolation, excessive alcohol consumption, air pollution, smoking, obesity, traumatic brain injury, and depression.
The updated report, published online July 31 in TheLancet, says that “nearly half of dementias could theoretically be prevented by eliminating these 14 risk factors” now identified.
“Previously, the evidence for cholesterol was quite mixed, but there’s been a large addition and it’s very clear that in mid-life having high LDL cholesterol is a risk factor and that treating it makes a difference,” lead author Gill Livingston, MD, professor of psychiatry of older people at University College London, told MedCentral.
“Certainly, here in the UK most people never get as far as a cardiologist and will be tested in primary care by the family physician and then treatment initiated,” she said. “So, they’re the ones that are seeing the huge numbers of people that could really make a difference.”
The Lancet Commission previously identified nine risk factors for dementia in its initial report, published in 2017, and added another three to the 2020 report. Those 12 risk factors are less education, hearing loss, hypertension, physical inactivity, diabetes, social isolation, excessive alcohol consumption, air pollution, smoking, obesity, traumatic brain injury, and depression.
The updated report, published online July 31 in TheLancet, says that “nearly half of dementias could theoretically be prevented by eliminating these 14 risk factors” now identified.
High LDL cholesterol in midlife accounts for about 7% of all dementia cases and untreated vision loss for 2%, the authors said. Vision loss wasn’t previously considered by the Commission but new meta-analyses show it is associated with pooled relative risks of dementia of 1.35 to 1.47.
High LDL cholesterol in midlife accounts for about 7% of all dementia cases and untreated vision loss for 2%.
“For those of us who study vision, we weren’t necessarily surprised it ended up as a new risk factor on the list, but it’s important for us that it’s there because it raises awareness,” Allison Sekuler, PhD, the Sandra Rotman Chair in Cognitive Neuroscience and vice president of research at Baycrest Health Sciences in Toronto, Canada, said. “When people find out that something is on this list, they take it a little bit more seriously, especially if it’s something like untreated vision loss that theoretically is so easy to reverse.”
Specific Actions to Reduce Dementia Risk Across the Lifespan
The Commission details specific actions to help reduce dementia risk, including:
providing supportive community environments to reduce social isolation
“My key message is that there’s a lot you can do to prevent dementia,” Dr. Livingston said. “Some people will get it but if you make these modifications in your health and lifestyle, you will probably live a longer healthier life. And have fewer years of unhealthy life.”
The authors call on stakeholders to “be ambitious about prevention” and prioritize equity and the inclusion of high-risk groups in population-based policy.
“All the risk factors tend to cluster around people with less resources and it’s really important therefore to think about equity,” she said.
“There is a health inequity for sure and even within countries there’s not a level playing field,” Dr. Sekuler added. “Some parts of Canada are rural regions that just don’t have access. In Yukon, there isn’t a single neurologist.”
But Are There Causal Links to These Risk Factors?
“If we did simple things well such as screening for some of the factors identified in this report, with adequate resources to perform this, we have the potential to prevent dementia on a national scale,” Masud Husain, DPhil, FRCP, professor of neurology, University of Oxford, UK, told the Science Media Centre.
Klaus Ebmeier, MD, foundation chair of old age psychiatry, University of Oxford, sounded a more skeptical note, pointing out that the authors themselves write that “some associations might be only partial causal.”
“Newer genetically inspired methods (Mendelian randomization) have generally confirmed many of the postulated risk factors as non-causal,” he added. “The non-causal nature of the identified correlations often means that manipulations of such risk factors will not result in a prevention of dementia cases.”
Asked to respond, Dr. Livingston said Mendelian randomization studies often only look at select Mendelian risk factors without taking into account all the evidence.
“I think it’s a brilliant idea but it didn’t come down from Mount Sinai,” she said. “It’s not gospel. You have to look at the other evidence.”
“With many of these things we can’t do perfect studies but when you put together a number of studies it makes it extremely likely and, given the possibility or probability that they would decrease dementia, it’s obviously worthwhile continuing to pursue them,” she added.
What About Patients Who Already Have Dementia?
Although there’s been progress in disease-modifying treatments for Alzheimer’s disease, the authors take a tempered approach to amyloid-beta-targeting antibodies and recommend that full information is shared broadly.
What are some strategies to reduce dementia risk?
Reducing the risk of dementia involves a combination of lifestyle changes and proactive health management. Here are some effective strategies:
Stay Physically Active: Engage in regular exercise, such as walking, swimming, or yoga. Aim for at least 150 minutes of moderate-intensity exercise per week.
Healthy Diet: Follow a balanced diet rich in fruits, vegetables, whole grains, lean proteins, and healthy fats. The Mediterranean diet is often recommended for brain health.
Mental Stimulation: Keep your brain active with activities like reading, puzzles, learning new skills, or playing musical instruments.
Social Engagement: Maintain strong social connections and engage in community activities to reduce the risk of social isolation.
Manage Cardiovascular Health: Control blood pressure, cholesterol, and blood sugar levels through diet, exercise, and medication if necessary.
Avoid Smoking and Limit Alcohol: Quit smoking and limit alcohol consumption to reduce the risk of cognitive decline.
Protect Your Head: Wear helmets when biking or engaging in contact sports to prevent head injuries.
Get Quality Sleep: Aim for 7-9 hours of sleep per night and address any sleep disorders like sleep apnea.
Manage Stress: Practice stress-reducing techniques such as meditation, deep breathing exercises, or mindfulness.
Regular Health Check-ups: Visit your healthcare provider regularly to monitor and manage any health conditions.
Implementing these strategies can help maintain cognitive function and reduce the risk of developing dementia. Is there a particular area you’d like more information on?
“They have some cognitive benefit, quite a lot of cost, quite a lot of side effects and burden, and we don’t know yet about the long-term effects,” Dr. Livingston explained. “We’re early on, and the balance of the two can be seen in the European Medicines (Agency), which last week said no to lecanemab and the FDA said yes.”
The authors also recommend that “cerebrospinal fluid or blood biomarkers should be used clinically only in people with dementia or cognitive impairment to confirm or exclude a diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease.”
They point out that biomarkers have been validated only in populations largely of white individuals, “limiting generalizability and raising health equity concerns.”
Disclosures: Dr. Livingston reports support for the manuscript from the Alzheimer’s Society, the Alzheimer’s Society UK, and UK Research and Innovation. She is supported by the University College London Hospitals’ National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) Biomedical Research Centre, by the North Thames NIHR Applied Research Collaboration, and as an NIHR senior investigator. Co-author disclosures can be found in the paper.
Drs. Sekuler, Husain, and Ebmeier reported no conflicts of interest.
This photo was taken in October 2018, during my last year in California, just a few months before I left to live in Nevada for a year and half before moving to Wyoming in 2020.
Hope for California felt like it was slipping away then…you could see change slowly coming to the state I grew up in. Everything cost so much more than it should and I could not justify staying there anymore. I knew I was leaving for good very soon.
I went to the beach that day with determination—I went Live to Facebook on a mission to find a heart-shaped rock for my cancer survivor followers. It was an inspiring impulse to do this and while others might have seen it as a long shot, I just knew I would find one. I’m like that—I have this deep inner determination coupled with a knowing I can’t ignore anymore, this sense that if I search with enough faith, hope and will to succeed I will find what I’m looking for. And sure enough, I found my heart stone! I have a video of this moment my husband took. I keep that heart-shaped rock on my desk to this day. That moment was deeply significant for me because it embodied the optimism that has been a guiding light my entire life, an intuitive idealistic feeling. It’s the same feeling in my soul I’ve carried with me since childhood, like my dad saw in me as a child when he called me “Pollyanna.”
Over the years, I’ve noticed that same hope and faith in others too, though for some, it seems to have been buried beneath the responsibilities and struggles of life. We often grow up thinking we need to tuck away that childlike essence within us—the innocence that believes in magic, in possibilities, in the certainty that good things can still happen. We convince ourselves that being an adult means toughening up, becoming realistic, shutting down those softer parts of our souls. But I believe that hope never really disappears—it’s still there, like a smoldering ember waiting for someone to fan it into a flame, waiting for a moment when we’re ready to let it breathe again, to let it guide us through the darkness.
Life has a way of surprising us with pain we never expected. We all have our stories—stories of heartbreak, of battles we didn’t ask for, and of the strength we didn’t know we had until we were forced to find it. My story is no different, and yet, it’s one among many.
In 2000, I found myself in a situation I never imagined—forced into the Victims of Crime program after enduring sexual assault and stalking from one of the perpetrators. The trauma was profound, and I had to change my name to protect myself..
I chose the name “Knight” as a reminder that no matter what I was facing, I would not be alone—God would be by my side. It was a name that symbolizes strength and the full armor of God, which I desperately needed as I faced the challenges of living in this new, strange town of Port Orchard, WA.
Looking back now, I see that these experiences weren’t just about surviving—they were about becoming someone who could stand tall, no matter what came my way. The strength I discovered wasn’t something that appeared all at once. It was forged in the fires of each trial, growing quietly, steadily, until it became the foundation I stand on today.
Letting go of everything connected to my old life was one of the hardest things I’ve ever done. I had to leave behind my social security number, my work experience, and everything that tied me to my former identity. It felt like I was erasing who I had been, and that was a painful change for me. I was relocated 1,100 miles away from all my family and friends to keep me safe which added another layer of loneliness and fear. I was starting over without the safety net of the past or the comfort of loved ones nearby. My new name was more than just a fresh start; it was a shield, a reminder that I would face whatever came next with the strength and protection that only God could provide.
Relocating to a small town without friends, where everything felt so damp and cold, was terrifying. I had to create new connections while hiding the pain of my past—a burden I had never known before. I’ve always been someone who wears her heart on her sleeve, but this time, I had to keep it hidden, and that was a different kind of pain. When people asked my name, I felt like an imposter, unable to say “Jennifer,” the name I had been born with. But I kept moving forward, because what choice did I have? My children needed me, and I needed to stay strong.
I remember surviving a Category Five hurricane in Cozumel in 2005, feeling like the world was coming to an end. I had been through a few California earthquakes but this was different. The eye of the storm was as vast as that little island, and as I huddled with others, I wondered if I would ever find my way back to safety. The airport was under water. When the storm finally passed, and I did make it back on a ship, I was more grateful than ever for the simple things at home—dry linens, clean water, and the chance to start over once more. I gained new perspective on life. The everyday comforts I had once taken for granted now felt like precious gifts, reminders of the fragility of life and the resilience it demands. That experience taught me that no matter how fierce the storm, there is always a way through, and on the other side, a chance to rebuild, to find safety and solace in the most basic of blessings.
Less than a year later, life dealt another blow—stage 3 breast cancer. I lost my breasts to a bilateral mastectomy, followed by bilateral knee replacements the next year—knee problems had plagued me since childhood. I endured it all, along with more surgeries that I won’t delve into here, because those details don’t define my story. What matters is that I kept going and I could glance back to see what I had already come through in my life. It’s good to glance back.
I moved back to California in August 2008, hoping for a fresh start. That life change had its own challenges with friends and family resistance to my new name, or even acknowledging what had happened to me because at a minimum it was an awkward topic or there was shame and guilt attached to it within my heart.
In 2010, the unthinkable happened—I was diagnosed with a recurrence of stage 4 breast cancer. UCLA told me on September 9th, 2010, that I had months to live and to get my affairs in order. Those words shattered me, but that same hope, of something greater, flared up again. At that time in my life, I was trapped in a marriage with a physically abusive man who became explosive when he drank too much.
I hid the abuse because I didn’t want to be a burden to anyone, especially my son and daughter, who knew I only had months to live. I found a compassionate doctor in Mexico who believed in me, who gave me the strength to keep fighting. He reminded me that only God knows the outcome, and I had to keep going and do the best I could, no matter how dark the days seemed. Hold on to my faith in God’s plan for my life.
And so, I did. He was a very good doctor and healed me from stage 4 cancer without chemotherapy and I returned home to heal completely in 2011. But the battle wasn’t over. In 2012, after enduring abuse for the last time, I divorced that man and started a new life.
Each of these traumatic events could have stolen my spirit, but they didn’t. They brought me to my knees, yes, but I prayed constantly and with God’s help I found strength within me that could not be extinguished. The trauma I experienced left scars—some visible, some buried deep within—but they didn’t rob me of my soul. They didn’t take away the light, the love, the hope that has always been a part of me since I was an optimistic young girl.
Since surviving stage 4 cancer and going public with my story through interviews, a cancer documentary, and other events, I’ve received many calls and messages from women wanting to know how I made it through without following the conventional path of chemotherapy. But often, what they are also searching for is a connection with someone who really understands the weight of what they’re going through and renewed faith and hope. I understand that feeling so well.
This past year has been especially difficult for almost everyone because of the fear and anxiety that permeates our world today. The uncertainty of an election year, ongoing inflation, the struggle to afford basic necessities, and the ever-present fear of the unknown—these are the burdens we all carry.
Many conversations with these women with cancer have left me feeling unsettled—moments where their overwhelming stress, compounded by the world seemingly crumbling around them, intensifies their fear.
I see courage too, especially in mothers with young ones.
Sometimes, their fear can rise up and manifest as anger—with words that cut deeper than intended. I know this pain well. I understand how it hurts when someone responds with less kindness than we hope for. Fear and anxiety can drive us to act out in ways that don’t reflect the love and strength within us. I’ve been there too—I’ve felt that desperation, that raw edge of fear, and I haven’t always been at my best with others.
What I’ve come to realize is that every survivor carries their own set of triggers, emotional landmines buried deep within from the traumas they’ve endured—whether it’s from the cancer itself or the hardships that came before it. When we reach out for support, we may unknowingly step on one of those landmines, causing a reaction that’s more about past wounds than the present moment.
We are all vulnerable and frail in our own ways, and we show it differently. Some of us may lash out in anger, while others withdraw into silence. These responses are often the fragile walls we build to protect ourselves from the overwhelming emotions that press down on our hearts. They are born from the need to shield the most tender, wounded parts of our souls—the parts we fear exposing to the world.
When we reach out to one another, seeking comfort and understanding, we must do so with the gentlest of hands. We need to remember that beneath the surface, behind the brave faces we present, there is often a deep well of pain that hasn’t yet had the chance to heal—pain that can be easily stirred, easily brought back to the surface. It’s a reminder to tread softly when speaking to other survivors with kindness and compassion.
So many women are carrying similar burdens, wounds that have been reopened by the trauma of cancer. It’s as if the disease is the final straw, the thing that breaks the camel’s back after years of silent suffering. And that’s what I want to help with—not just surviving cancer, but surviving the emotional aftermath, the pain that lies beneath the surface.
I want you to know that it’s okay to feel this way. It’s okay to hurt, to be scared, to not have it all together. We’ve all been there, and in those moments of raw vulnerability, there is strength. There is beauty in the tears, in the honesty of feeling lost, in the courage it takes to reach out, even when it’s hard. There is always hope and you must hold on and look back at what you have gotten through in the years of your life- God is always there through our pain in life. Even in the hardest moments, we can find that connection, that shared strength, and that deep, unshakable sense of hope that keeps us going.
“Reflecting on Fourteen Years of Healing: Understanding, Empathy, and Respect”
I want to share something today. I am approaching this delicately and with deep consideration for each of you. This isn’t just about marking another “breast cancer survival anniversary,” but rather reflecting on the journey of living, healing, and the deeply personal experiences we all face going through breast cancer.
Talking about breast cancer can be incredibly personal. For many women, even writing or saying those words can feel overwhelming. It’s a profoundly intimate experience, different for everyone. I want to acknowledge the sensitivity of this topic and honor the courage it takes to face these delicate conversations together.
“A Heartfelt Story”
Just yesterday, a dear friend of mine, who is healing from stage IV breast cancer, was trying to enjoy a moment of joy and normalcy in her life. Despite her efforts to embrace and savor these moments, she encountered a passive-aggressive comment on social media. The remark was not only insensitive but also deeply hurtful, and witnessing such cruelty was both heartbreaking and deeply upsetting.
No one deserves to be treated poorly, especially when they are simply trying to find some happiness and relief amidst their ongoing struggles. The emotional toll of dealing with cancer is already immense, and facing negative, judgmental comments only adds to this burden.
This experience also moved me profoundly and compelled me to share my thoughts. I have experienced it personally and seen others got through similar and even worse experiences. We have the right to protect our emotional well-being. If you come across negativity that feels hurtful or intrusive, it’s absolutely okay to block those comments or individuals. Your peace of mind and mental health are crucial, and you have every right to safeguard them.
“The Intimate Nature of Breast Cancer”
In 2011, I survived stage IV breast cancer without chemo, which made me quite the controversy. Now, in my fourteenth year of being cancer-free, I understand deeply how delicate and sensitive this diagnosis can be. It touches every part of our lives—physically, emotionally, mentally, and spiritually. Sharing such an intimate part of oneself publicly requires immense courage. Many of us fear judgment or misunderstanding from those who haven’t walked in our shoes. The fear of being seen differently or reduced to our diagnosis is a heavy burden to bear.
I was first diagnosed with breast cancer in July 2006 (18 years ago), and I was single most of the time during and after I healed from breast cancer. There is an understandable fear of what men may think about dating a woman who has had breast cancer twice. Will she be a burden? These concerns are real and deserving of our empathy and awareness.
I am now blessed to be married to a man who loves me as I am, but when I was single, sharing this part of my life felt even more overwhelming. Concerns about dating and approaching the subject can be very sensitive. Once something is shared online, it stays there indefinitely. This can be intimidating and make a deeply personal experience feel exposed.
“The Challenge of Transparency and Privacy”
In 2010, when I had a recurrence at stage IV, I had to raise money for my treatment. It was incredibly difficult to share my personal story publicly. The need for transparency felt like an invasion of my privacy at a time when I was trying to focus on healing. However, without transparency, people find it hard to trust, especially when raising money for alternative cancer treatment like I was doing with “Angels for Shannon” in 2010. It is such a balancing act.
“Honoring Every Woman’s Choice”
I’ve have seen that family or friends can often be unsupportive, adding to the emotional burden. On the other hand, there are those who draw closer, offering consistent support and understanding. This support is crucial and can make all the difference. I feel that the spiritual impact is significant too. Some women find their faith tested to the breaking point, while others draw closer to God, finding strength and solace in their spiritual beliefs. Supporting women through these spiritual challenges is just as important as addressing their physical and emotional needs.
Every woman’s story is precious and deserves to be heard. When women share their stories so vulnerably, it is a gift to others who can glean something from it and feel a sense of commonality. However, we are not entitled to push for more. Privacy is a powerful part of healing, as it allows us to process and recover on our own terms. Respecting a woman’s right to privacy is essential because it acknowledges her autonomy and personal journey… I want every woman to feel supported in whatever choice she makes because intuition and personal choice are so important on this healing journey.
“Reflecting on Fourteen Years of Survival”
Now, in my fourteenth year of being cancer-free, I find myself looking back on the journey with a deeper perspective. The psychological and emotional impacts of cancer are profound and vary greatly from person to person. Each woman’s experience is distinct, shaped by her own circumstances and inner strength.
“Respecting Personal Choices”
Whether you decide to share your story or keep it private, know that your choice is valid and deserves respect. Our experiences and how we navigate them are deeply personal. Trusting your intuition and making choices that feel right for you is essential on this path to healing.
“A Glimpse into the Past”
0n September 9, 2010, during a time when I was facing stage IV breast cancer. UCLA had informed me that there was nothing more they could do, giving me only months to live and advising me to get my affairs in order. Now, in my fourteenth year of being cancer-free, I find myself reflecting more deeply on these experiences. There is so much to consider about how cancer affects us psychologically and emotionally, in ways that are unique to each of us.
My brother gave me the dog tag around my neck in this photo and it holds a special scripture which helped me through cancer: Psalm 34:4, “I sought the LORD, and he answered me; he delivered me from all my fears.”
Shannon Knight discusses what she did after she was diagnosed with stage 4 cancer.
. These are the real threats to democracy. [Claiming] Trump…is a threat to democracy—that’s self-contradictory, they’re claiming democratic outcomes are threats to democracy.” Whereas, the media is a gross failure [and] the courts have been politicized
Democracy is evil and that word should never have gained prominence relative to a description of the USA’s form of governance. No libertarian minded or constitutional minded or natural law minded person would use that word to describe USA’s form of governance if they knew what it meant.
EXACTLY!!! I really like Victor Davis Hansen a lot, and this is a great video… I wish ppl would just wake the eff up. They use these catch phrases, and can’t even explain them!! #DemocratsAreDestroyingAmerica, and a vote for them, is a vote against the American people.
Democratic Republic. It means, in the end, you can’t fight the people. But, you can restrain hysteric passions, and protect the minority.
I accept democratic republic. But I don’t accept when people say we have a democracy or that something is a threat to democracy. Democracy is evil. Lord of the Flies is my current go-to example of democracy.
We live in a constitutional republic where all have individual rights that are protected. We are not a democracy where mobs rule by majority vote. The threat to our Republic is when people who should know better adopt the talking points of the left. We do not have a democracy in the United States. Our founding fathers were well aware of democracies all over the world throughout history, and they gave us a Republic.
They want you to believe we are a democracy to bypass individual rights.
Trump spent four unpaid years as our President… Never once did he threaten any of our freedoms while keeping Putin at bay. We had a strong economy, super low unemployment rates across the board, and never once did he act like a dictator. Cannot say the same for the current folks Our country wouldn’t be in near as much trouble if the media would do their job and tell the truth. They set up there and get paid a lot of money to tell lies. I don’t know how they can do it with a clear conscience and go to sleep at night.
“Failed” or “politicized” are the wrong words. The word you’re looking for is corrupt: Courts & DAs are corrupt Media is corrupt Congress is corrupt The Exec branch is corrupt The Military is corrupt Big business is corrupt Finance and banking is STUNNINGLY corrupt
When you come to realize that the people in charge are not accountable for anything that they do then
Very true, honest words are being spoken here. Very scary and very true. Most of today’s journalists are no long truth seekers, and our courts have been politicalized and resemble the courts of NAZI Germany during WW2.
They do not hear their own hypocrisy.
I have a friend. Successful. Intelligent (mostly). Articulate. BUT total mental block as to any information counter to his preferred progressive bull-S. Actually relied in one conversation on the hate spewed by Liz Cheney as gospel regarding Trump. Completely fatal TDS.
Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS) is a very real disease
“The threat to democracy is when people in power are not accountable.” — Dr. Scott Atlas
Dr. Atlas, I enjoyed your book. The root problem is that our legislators are pressured, bribed or blackmailed to vote contrary to what is sane. However, our Constitution allows safe and secure voting where legislators are 100% guaranteed a safe way to secretly vote their conscience.
ABSTRACT / PREVIEW OF THE EASIEST WAY TO CLEAN UP CONGRESS The US Congress is not composed entirely of millionaires who are saints. Some observers suspect that some legislators are pressured with future job offers, pressured with threats or other incentives, or even blackmailed so that they vote a desired way. “We’ve been betrayed” is a common complaint voters make about their legislators in some districts (or states in the Senate). What if a legislator could truly vote their conscience/intellect in a way with 100% guaranteed secrecy?
There are minimal constraints about legislative voting put on our legislative process in the US Constitution: Article 1, Section 5, Paragraphs 2 and 3. There, it fully accommodates letting legislators vote secretly, as long as a 100% accurate tally of the Yes’s and No’s are done and recorded (but even that is not required if 20% or more of the legislative chamber agree to waive the tally).
This proposal is extremely simple and it will easily make legislative voting bulletproof secure, providing total secrecy and security. It involves, minimally, a ledger (used at the very end of voting), an oath (passing a lie detector test as proof that one has not previously been subjected to a lie detector test to reveal how they vote), a black handkerchief (to conceal their vote markup as well as their fingerprints), a 1 inch square cube on which they mark their vote, a Sharpie pen for doing the marking, a wooden box (with a hole big enough to insert the marked wooden cubes), and padlocks for the box, so it is not opened until voting ends and then only by representatives and auditors of each party.
In this scenario, it is impossible to determine the vote of any legislator, unless the vote is lopsided 100%. Voters will pick their candidates based upon other, but accessible characteristics, discussed below in the article. I cannot think of a simpler way to get legislators to vote their conscience, their intellect, without a future majority-controlled legislature being made of millionaire saints who do not need other people’s money and can’t be blackmailed, bribed, or pressured.
People’s dream for honest legislative voting now depends upon the legislators being rich enough without any vulnerability that could be compromised if threatened, intimidated, or pressured (and that means if they have family that they’re rich enough to have full time security to protect them). It is a pipe dream to expect a majority of legislators to meet this requirement. Too often, citizens suspect that some legislators are being obviously compromised (pressured) to vote contrary to how they campaign.
The proposed approach below lets the individual legislators be free to vote their conscience/intellect with impunity. The main objection to this proposal is that voters typically want to know how their legislator voted. The voting record has been well documented to be a con game and keeping it forces your legislator, to use an analogy, to show up at a gun fight with a water pistol.
He/she is vulnerable to the others and the audience inviting retribution that could be truly placing himself/herself or their family in true danger. There are other metrics, discussed in depth below, that can virtually assure voters that you, as a candidate, is worth their trust and vote.
After all, what the voters want is a functional legislature that improves their lives. The last time a functional Congress and President ended a presidential term with the country in less debt than before the president started was with President Calvin Coolidge.
The interest on the national debt “already costs over $1 trillion a year and will cost $3 trillion annually in less than a decade.”
Judge Christina Ryba invalidated 100K+ signatures for RFK Jr’s New York ballot access.
In 2015, Ryba was fired from her position as a lawyer for a state appeals court the day before she was elected as Supreme Court judge for “ethical missteps.” Presiding Judge Karen Peters “informed Ryba of her termination following a sequence of events that began in March [2015] when Ryba, a Democrat, began her run for state Supreme Court.” Peters tried to distance herself from Ryba’s campaign “from the outset,” but she “found herself mentioned in a Ryba campaign letter” in October. Ryba also “solicited court system employees, including judges at various levels, with two election-related emails sent to their court system accounts,” one of which was about a campaign fundraiser.
New York’s Commission on Judicial Conduct “prohibit a judge or candidate from engaging in inappropriate political activity, which includes ‘publicly endorsing or publicly opposing (other than by running against) another candidate for public office’ or personally soliciting campaign contributions.”
In her October campaign letter that mentioned Peters by name, Ryba “not only made not only what was seen as direct criticism” of her opponent, but also “downplayed the fact that he had been rated ‘qualified’ by the Independent Judicial Election Qualification Commission, a judicial screening panel within Peters’ court.” Ryba could not be assessed by the Commission, since she had a hand in appointing it in her previous position.
She described that in her October campaign letter as “simply the price I pay for having higher standing in the legal community having been placed in such roles by my respected peers.” Peters repeatedly asked Ryba to resign throughout her campaign, but she was eventually fired after declining to resign gracefully. Ryba was then elected as Supreme Court judge with 51% of the vote against 49% for her opponent. From The Times Union
What to know about the ruling that bounced RFK Jr. from the New York ballot.
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s independent presidential campaign suffered a blow this week when a judge in New York invalidated his petition to put his name on the state ballot, a ruling that could potentially create problems for the candidate as he faces challenges elsewhere.
Kennedy’s attorneys filed an appeal Wednesday to a ruling this week from Justice Christina Ryba, who said the residence listed on his nominating petitions was a “sham” address he used to maintain his voter registration and to further his political aspirations. The judge ruled in favor of the challengers, who argued Kennedy’s actual residence was the home in Los Angeles he shares with his wife, the “Curb Your Enthusiasm” actor Cheryl Hines.
New York is just one of more than a half-dozen states where challenges have been made to Kennedy’s petitions from Democrats and their allies. Some of the challenges allege he falsely listed the same New York address that was the subject of litigation in that state, or that there were problems with petition signatures.WATCH: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on why he thinks he has a chance as an independent candidate
In Pennsylvania, challengers contend that papers filed by Kennedy list an incorrect address in New York and that he and his running mate demonstrated “at best, a fundamental disregard” of state law and the process by which signatures are gathered. An attorney for Kennedy said the challenge contained specious allegations. A court will conduct an evidentiary hearing next Tuesday in Harrisburg.
Kennedy’s campaign says it has collected enough signatures for ballot access in all 50 states and that it is officially on the ballot in 17 states. His candidacy has at various times drawn concerns from both Democrats and Republicans who think he could siphon votes from their candidates.
National Democrats in particular have been active in trying to undercut his candidacy, while former President Donald Trump, the Republican nominee, has alternated between criticizing Kennedy as liberal and courting his endorsement or the backing of some of his supporters.
Independent presidential candidate Robert F Kennedy Jr does not meet the legal requirement of a New York resident and therefore cannot be on the state’s election ballot, a judge has ruled. Kennedy’s claim of a New York address as his “place of residence” on nominating petitions was a “false statement”, said Judge Christina Ryba.
As a result, the petitions were considered invalid. Mr Kennedy has rejected the judge’s ruling and vows to appeal. If the ruling is upheld, it would not only bar Mr Kennedy from the New York ballot but could also lead to challenges in other states where he uses that address. Mr Kennedy dismissed the ruling as a partisan attack and noted the judge as a Democrat.
“They aren’t confident they can win at the ballot box, so they are trying to stop voters from having a choice,” he said in a statement.
“We will appeal and we will win.” Mr. Kennedy, 70, had argued in court that he considered New York his home since childhood and intended to return.
He currently lives in California which he moved to in 2014 to be with his wife, Curb Your Enthusiasm actress Cheryl Hines. In court, Mr Kennedy sought to make the case that he had been renting a bedroom from a friend in Katonah, roughly 40 miles (65 km) north of Manhattan.
The friend, Barbara Moss, testified in court that she charges Mr Kennedy $500 (£301) a month. She also said there was no written lease.
Mr Kennedy also offered evidence of his residency by showing that he pays New York state taxes and has a law practice in the state.
However, in her 34-page ruling, Judge Ryba said “the overwhelming credible evidence introduced at trial” suggested that Mr. Kennedy only held a New York address for “political standing”.
“Given the size and appearance of the spare bedroom as shown in the photographs admitted into evidence, the Court finds Kennedy’s testimony that he may return to that bedroom to reside with his wife, family members, multiple pets, and all of his personal belongings to be highly improbable, if not preposterous,” the judge wrote.
Mr Kennedy is the most well-known independent candidate but his popularity appears to have plummeted since Democratic Vice-President Kamala Harris entered the race.
You can Overturn this decision. In New York and also in Massachusetts…For Kennedy to win.. in those 2 states …just get out and write his name in ..it’s that simple… Kennedy’s polling shows “31.3% of American voters would choose Kennedy if they believed he could win, including 42% of voters aged 18-24, 41.7% of Hispanic voters, and 39.7% of Black voters.”
“Democracy is not freedom. Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to eat for lunch. Freedom comes from the recognition of certain rights which may not be taken, not even by a 99% vote.” — Marvin Simkin
A system of government by the whole population or all the eligible members of a state, typically through elected representatives: “capitalism and democracy are ascendant in the third world” Similar: self-governmentautonomyrepubliccommonwealth representative governmentelective governmentconstitutional governmentpopular governmentgovernment by the people
“We need a revolution every 200 years, because all governments become stale and corrupt after 200 years.”?
The source of this quotation is a journal kept by James McHenry (1753-1816) while he was a Maryland delegate to the Constitutional Convention. On the page where McHenry records the events of the last day of the convention, September 18, 1787, he wrote: “A lady asked Dr. Franklin Well Doctor what have we got a republic or a monarchy – A republic replied the Doctor if you can keep it.”
Then McHenry added: “The Lady here alluded to was Mrs. Powel of Philada.” The journal is at the Manuscript Division of the Library of Congress. The United States is both a democracy and a republic. Democracies and republics are both forms of government in which supreme power resides in the citizens.
The word republic refers specifically to a government in which those citizens elect representatives who govern according to the law. The word democracy can refer to this same kind of representational government, or it can refer instead to what is also called a direct democracy, in which the citizens themselves participate in the act of governing directly.
Moreover, this “quote” doesn’t pass the smell test. The language doesn’t sound like it’s from the 18th century to me. That’s hard to explain, but it’s just an instinct. In particular, I don’t think Franklin would have used the words “We need a revolution.” ranklin died in April 1790. The basic idea of a “right of revolution,” which this quote sort of draws on, was common by then. It’s the idea that free people have a right to abolish an unjust government.
The U.S. Declaration of Independence uses this language: “when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government.”
Likewise, in 1787, Jefferson wrote, “what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon & pacify them. What signifies a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots & tyrants.
Bush Senior was the true beginning. He groomed Clinton while using AR as the CIAs hub for trafficking and of course he was GHWBs successor. Junior and Barry were middle relief and HRC was meant to be the closer and DJT step forward to foil the plan.
George H.W. Bush frequently spoke about the concept of a “New World Order” during his presidency, particularly around the time of the Gulf War in the early 1990s. This idea was centered on the vision of a world where international cooperation and collective security would replace the Cold War’s bipolar power structure.
Bill Clinton was governor then. Perhaps that was his rise to power.
DJT is trying to effed that up. Thank God. What is the New World Order?It’s a forfeit of your sovereignty, liberty, freedom of speech, right to bear arms and own private property, it’s an agenda to get people completely dependent upon government
A wealth of info for those who dare to research & not settle for the BS lies the globalists are feeding us. Make no mistake- full intention of NWO/ Agenda21 , global reset. 2 main components to achieve it- vaxx & election fraud. Wake up ppl! TRAITORS
Just like the GuideStones so shall this Evil Government fall. In one day. GOD laughs at their idols, false gods and plans. You’re missing how AI is now being weaponized against the people all around the world to push agendas and control our society through manipulation and desensitizing
People dependent on Government are more easily controlled, in reality, this isn’t the reason we now have 7-8 million reliant on Government illegal immigrants in our country.
Much covered in this video I had uncovered. However, there are many new connections revealed that continue to connect more dots in the events leading to the New World Order. We are devastatingly close.
A legal system returning to the roots of the common law, custom and culture of England. Separation of powers restored in favour of the people, in whom sovereignty lies in perpetuity, not the state. Individual rights respected again in law.
Common law and Constitutional Rights final appeal heard in the USA not Continental Europe. America did not Americanize the English, the English anglicized America, America as a Protégé of England became the master of the common law and the protector of the Christian faith, God’s Law. The English common law.
These people are all parasites feeding off the talent & genius of others applying it to their deceitful purposes. Biden is just the latest example. Welcome to the War (4) Edit History / X
What’s the first thing that comes to mind when you see this?
How you view God will dictate how you view every other thing in this world
Part 1 Send all war hawking, profiteering politicians, bureaucrats, media, pun dents, corporate officers, bankers, lawyers, Jihadists, Zionists, Jesuits, international intelligence apparatus, WEF to Bikini Atoll.
Part 2 Provide 1000 Gallons of highly fluorinated water, 1000 pounds of GMO product in non reusable plastic containers, pump in the fresh air from the Holland Tunnel, surround Island w/ cluster bombs, no walls needed, so no one else can get in for security purposes of course. x.com/robertemme2549…
Part 3 Keeping it humane & entertaining…. Provide a FEMA approved large arena, with a full size UFC octagon cage & a large screen unbreakable satellite TV. Play only one program on endless loop… Humanity living in harmony having excised the virus. How many humans would agree?
Yep… Trust the CDC? Got Vaccines… Trust science… Sorry, I’m neither selling nor buying. Thanks, just the same. Vet sources??? Science, like much else, can be swayed by funding. Ho hum…
They also call them the Illuminati, Freemasons, Luciferians They want your children too. 1. To train them up to be good little communists and Satanists. 2. To entertain Elite pedophiles. 3. To use with their Satan worship. Your child would either be sacrificed or used as a consumable, fertilizer, youth cream or beverage. Say NO to the New World Order that Fauci, the Obama’s and the Biden’s are bringing to our country. They will depopulate and make slaves from those remaining. Real Owners#khzarianzionistsmafia
Gaza is understanding first hand what the New World Order does! It’s a system with Two sets of rules, one for the people and another for the rulers! It’s Time to shut it all down!
Have you visited this area, or are you planning to?
I remember this speech back when it was given. It sent chills down my spine back then. I always wondered if it was a premature slip of the tongue. He let us know the plan 30yrs ahead of time.
: CRYPTO AND THE MAN WHO BEAT THE-CABAL. (youtube.com) All these things are just a move for the microchip implant, soon we will all go cashless, and only use microchip implanted card, to later go cardless and enter in the times of hand and or head implant, this is how humans who get it will be controlled and we will be called rebels.
Speaking of them hiding the Truth, the 10 part Q series you republished is being knocked by Twitter/X as an unsafe website if one wishes to see the complete film with no interruptions.
“If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.” – Sun Tzu
I was wondering if you would add a thread to your list “JFK to 911 Everything is a Rich Man’s Trick”
. I still watch it every year at least once since 2010. These videos were well worth the watch.
Trump ~ Government For The American People (rumble.com) I used to follow Q, but saw signs that it MIGHT be a Deep State head-fake to mollify Patriots & keep them from fighting back (See Soviet “Operation Trust” –> Assuring Patriots White Hats handling situation behind scenes) Q has promised SO MUCH from beginning & NEVER DELIVERED. ARE YOU READY? WHITE HAT BLACK SWAN DEFCON1 READY GOD BLESS YOU SATANISM VS SPIRITUALITY WIN SPIRITUALITY ENJOY THE SHOW DARK TO LIGHT
EVEN THE BIBLE SPEAKS OF THE NEWS!!!! TO WARN US, IF YOU READ Revelation!!!
WHAT U ARE SAYING CAME OUT QUITE A WHILE AGO! SO NOW WHAT………….
WHEN PEOPLE SAY THE DOWNFALL OF AMERICA STARTED WITH OBAMA, IM GONNA PLAY THIS CLIP! BECAUSE IT DIDN’T. IT STARTED A LONG TIME AGO WITH EACH PRESIDENT EXCEPT A FEW,BEING PLACED IN THE OVAL OFFICE TO CARRY OUT THE DEEP STATED INFILTRATION OF AMERICA!
Did George H W Bush refer to the US Constitution as the law of the jungle? WTF is the promise and vision of the United Nations founders? As I’ve always Advocated for that, Like Minded Individuals as Ourselves should have Continued contact… Now is the Time to: Be Calm Be Aware Be Prepared & Now Be Ready-Not for what’s coming but for what’s already here God Be On Our Side
The FBI Director says he’s concerned illegal migrants entering the U.S. at the border could cause another 9/11 terrorist attack. Biden doesn’t care. That’s why I declared an invasion at the border, deployed the National Guard & built a border wall.
FBI Chief Worried Border Crisis Leading to 9/11 Repeat | Newsmax.com World Economic Forum “agenda contributor”, Yuval Noah Harari: Human rights are “just a fictional story”. “It may be a very nice story, it may be a very attractive story—we want to believe it—but it’s just a story. It’s not a reality.” “And the same thing is also true in the political field. States and nations are also—like human rights, and like God, and like heaven—they too are just stories… Very powerful stories. Stories we might want to believe very much, but still they are just stories. You can’t really see the United States, you cannot touch it, you cannot smell it.” Exactly what you’d expect to hear from somebody intent on justifying atrocities against humans, and replacing sovereign nation states with a singular world government. Source: Bananas in heaven | Yuval Noah Harari | TEDxJaffa (youtube.com)https://Follow my backup account:
@wide_awake_news Subscribe to me on Telegram: https://t.me/realwideawakemedia… Subscribe to my newsletter, for daily email updates: https://wide-awake-media.com Some people just can’t see the conflict of interests… On one hand the world is overpopulated, but on the other we want to save everybody’s life with a vaccine.
I think we’ll soon find that covid vaccines were even worse than the “conspiracy theorists” thought, and their depopulation agenda was effective. It’s just one piece of the puzzle, though. Factor in the chemicals in our food, weather modification, prescription drugs, etc… it all makes sense. In hindsight, what they plan they achieve. Retribution is coming!
You may think that there are too many people on the planet, or not. But NO ONE has the authority to choose who’s going to live and who’s going to die but God himself. Pro abortion, pro war, pro chemicals in the air, water and food, harmful contraception, sterilization through transitions, pharma drugs, bio weapons(test runs), other bio weapons (vaccines). Anti-human are open about it, and there is still people that support that side
If these people were sincere, they should set the example by depopulating themselves. Henry Kissinger lived to be 100, and he calls elderly people useless eaters. Hypocrite!
As my son was growing up, I could not help but notice all of the movies that 1. Separated the child from the parents, and 2. People are a cancer on the Earth. Needless to say, I pointed out why I don’t like those movies, we stopped watching them, and now he understands how evil these people are. Ephesians 6:12 Geneva 1599 Bible says it very clearly. For we wrestle not against flesh and [b]blood, but against [c]principalities, against powers, and against the worldly governors, the princes of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness, which are in the high places.
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President John F Kennedy stated in a speech.
”Ask not what your country can do for you,ask what you can do for your country.”
Being that Obama is a Marxist connected to the drug cartel and Muslim brotherhood while Loving the enemies of the United States of America and trying to destroy the United States from within and ruining the US, and bringing us close to world war III.
Total Wokism and pureCorruption and turning We the people against one another!
Creating a major divide!
I think Obama should be remembered for causing ill will and hatefulness in the country, very definitely a racist towards white people!
His lack of understanding toward the Constitution of the United States and Trying to fundamentally change everything in America to his liking. While re-stoking and Reviving the coals of Racism in America. Obama started the decline in America by firing the flames of BLM and Antifa, Obama was an illegitimate president, with a fake birth certificate
Obama should also be tried for treason against our country through aiding our enemies. War crimes and enriching himself fantastically off his presidency, a true scumbag who also allowed Russiagate to move forward even though the CIA informed him in the summer of 2016 that it was all bullshit from the Hillary Clinton campaign.
THREAD: What would a radical lift Kamala Harris Administration look like? While presiding over the U.S. Senate as VP she has cast the most tie-breaking votes (33) in history. These votes are not just politically polarizing but show how damaging a Kamala Harris White House would be.
See for yourself:
On February 5, 2021, Kamala Harris cast two tie breaking votes to pass Bernie Sanders’ budget bill, S. Con. Res. 5. This party-line resolution gave congress the authority to rush through President Biden’s wasteful and inflationary $1.9 trillion spending plan. Since Kamala Harris cast the deciding vote on Bernie Sanders’ budget resolution, the national debt has increased by 22%.
On June 22, 2021, Kamala Harris cast the deciding vote to confirm Kiran Ahuja as director of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM). Before her confirmation, Kiran Ahuja oversaw Philanthropy Northwest where she used dark money to promote Critical Race Theory and DEI throughout corporate America. As head of OPM until her resignation this April, Ahuja allowed work backlogs to pile up as more than half of government bureaucrats “teleworked” 3-5 days a week.
On May 11, 2022, Kamala Harris cast the deciding vote on the confirmation of Alvaro Bedoya to be a Federal Trade Commissioner. Bedoya is an outspoken left-wing activist linked to several Soros-backed dark money organizations which call for the censorship of “misinformation.” Bedoya called ICE “an out-of-control domestic surveillance agency,” shared posts calling individuals in the Trump administration “racist and white supremacist,” and praised AOC as the, “future of progressive politics.”
On December 8th 2021, Kamala Harris cast the deciding vote on the confirmation of Rachel Rollins for U.S. Attorney for the District of Massachusetts. Rollins was opposed by both Republican and Democrat Members of the House and Senate because of her unwillingness to prosecute serious crimes as the Suffolk County (Boston) District Attorney. As a George Soros-backed “progressive prosecutor,” Rollins, as stated policy, refused to prosecute 15 crimes including trespassing, resisting arrest, and disturbing the peace. She instead focused her office’s resources to treat the heroic police officers of Boston as criminals. Within a year of Harris casting the deciding vote, Rachel Rollins was investigated and found guilty by the United States Office of Special Counsel of violating the Hatch Act, by abusing her office and power as a prosecutor to influence political elections. She resigned shortly after the findings were made public and had her law license suspended shortly thereafter.
Human brain can’t comprehend numbers it can’t count to-just seen as “real big”.
It Takes 32 yrs to count to a billion. To count 2021 national debt $1 at a time would take over 908 yrs. Takes 32,000 years to count to 1 trillion-so 1,104,000+ yrs to count national debt 4 yrs later. And when Covid Hot our land the Democrats quickly included Socialist Programs in Covid Stimulus Bills to fire up the start up of the dreadful inflation we now experience in this country. Not to mention The EOs President Briben Quickly signed when he did cheat his way into the Oval Office.
Trump spent 3.1 Trillion up until the Democrat Spend Stimulus Package which cost this country an additional $5 Trillion during Trump’s Administration on Socialist Stimulus Money. And just look at what each and every American “owes” – the individual debt hanging around our necks…
Kamala is much more dangerous than the typical tax and spending Democrat which is bad enough. Potentially more damaging, if elected, will be her ability to act on her Marxist ideology with the power of the pen. Kamala is existential to our democracy. 25% of all US Federal debt going back to 1788 was incurred under 8 years of a Trump and Biden Presidency stemmed by a Socialist Democratic Regime.
Not an opinion. It’s a fact. What’s your next point???
Kamala will solely ruin our country and our lives! Voting for Trump is the only chance we have of saving our country! Get out and spread the word or there won’t be anything left for us to fight for! Communist don’t care about you or me, they are just about controlling our lives!
SHE RUINED CALIFORNIA, RUINED THE BORDER, RUINED MANY PEOPLE’S LIVES..NOW DEMOCRATS WANT TO REWARD HER. The Dems just keep spending OUR money and our children and all their children’s future after them will be paying back the debt that these clowns ran up. Sadly, none of the money s[ent made Americans lives any better. We are worse off now than we were 3+ years ago. Have you had enough of their communist policies! Take charge of our lives. Had enough of her communist policies! Vote RED.
The average yearly inflation rate under President Donald Trump was 1.9%. Inflation remained low during Trump’s presidency.
When the COVID-19 pandemic hit in 2020, bringing a brief but severe recession along with it, the Trump administration declared a state of emergency and passed stimulus measures such as the $2 trillion Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act in an attempt to provide relief to individuals and businesses.29 The economic policies followed by the Trump administration are now known as Trumponomics.
Joe Biden (2021–)
Average YOY Inflation Rate: 5.7%*
The average yearly inflation rate under President Joe Biden so far is 5.7%. Biden signed the American Rescue Plan Act in 2021, a $1.9 trillion stimulus package to help the country recover from COVID-19. In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic recovery and after the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022 caused gas prices to soar, inflation rose to record levels not seen since the 1980s.303132 Inflation peaked at 9.1% year-over-year in June 2022, the highest increase in 40 years.33
The Fed responded by raising interest rates 11 times since March 2022 in an attempt to cool the stubborn inflation. While inflation did come down from its 2022 peak in 2023, it still remains above the Fed’s 2% target.34 Biden’s economic policies are now referred to as Bidenomics.
*The average yearly inflation rate for the Biden administration was calculated for the years 2021 to 2023, since Biden’s term is still ongoing.
Which President Had the Highest Average Inflation Rate?
President Jimmy Carter had the highest average inflation rate so far, with an average year-over-year inflation rate of 9.9% during his term in office from 1977 to 1981.35
How Does the President Affect Inflation?
While the president has historically been the one to blame in times of high inflation and economic downturn in general, it is difficult to gauge how much control the president has over inflation.36 Still, the president plays a significant role in deciding how to respond to high inflation or stimulate the economy during a slowdown.
What Is the Highest Inflation Has Ever Been?
In the United States, inflation is commonly measured by the Consumer Price Index (CPI). Since the CPI was introduced as an economic indicator, the highest rate of year-to-year inflation the U.S. has seen was 17.8% in 1917.
The Covid pandemic changed inflation’s trajectory, however, as supply-chain snarls, government stimulus spending, and pent-up demand combined to send prices sharply higher. Russia’s attack on Ukraine added further price pressures, particularly in the energy sector.
The CPI reached a peak of 9% in June 2022, in the second year of Biden’s term. Inflation has since fallen to 3.1% year over year, based on the latest CPI reading. Credit goes largely to the Federal Reserve, which raised interest rates 11 times in the past two years, to a targeted range of 5.25%-5.50%, to cool price growth.
Still, high costs, particularly for food, have dogged the Biden presidency. Government data show that food costs are up more than 20% from the start of Biden’s term. The major difference between the two periods boils down to inflation, or the upward change in prices for goods and services.
From 2017 to 2019, inflation hovered at about 2% per year – a low enough level where people generally don’t notice changes from day to day. But when COVID-19 shut global supply chains and caused a labor shortage, prices shot up, with inflation hitting a 40-year high of 9.1% in June 2022.
Suddenly, shoppers were reminded of inflation each time they went to the grocery store – an issue that remains a pain point for consumers. Even though inflation has receded, prices aren’t going back to their pre-pandemic levels, and that continues to eat into consumers’ budgets.
While a president’s actions can affect inflation, there are many other factors that must be weighed when evaluating the root causes behind price increases.
The president does influence fiscal policy, and each president’s economic policies—such as tax cuts, military spending, and government aid—certainly do affect the economy. However, many external factors outside a president’s control—such as war, economic downturn, and public health crises—also contribute to inflation.
No president directly controls the inflation rate or the cost of goods and services, but fair or not, the Oval Office’s occupant gets credit when prices fall and blame when they rise.
The yearslong trend of modest inflation was well-established when Donald Trump took office in January 2017, and many of the pandemic-driven building blocks for soaring prices were already in place when President Joe Biden took over in January 2021.
However, when eliminating the context and looking purely at numbers during each president’s four-year term, Trump oversaw a period of relatively low inflation, and Biden’s term so far has largely been defined by rapidly rising prices and the most painful inflation since the early 1980s.
Inflation vs. Wage Growth
Inflation doesn’t hurt as much if incomes grow faster than prices rise, which they did during Trump’s entire presidency. According to a Vox analysis, the inflation rate was always under 3% and sometimes under 2% during all four Trump years before cratering to near zero during the peak pandemic, with wage growth outpacing inflation throughout.
Inflation began surpassing income growth just as Biden took office in 2021 and never stopped until the start of 2023. That held true even though wages rose faster under Biden than during Trump’s time in office. Wage growth has since slowed, but the inflation rate has fallen faster, allowing income gains to keep up with rising prices from early 2023 through today.
According to a May 2 analysis from Yahoo Finance senior columnist Rick Newman, the average gas price was $2.47 per gallon when Trump took office in January 2017. The average for his entire four-year term was $2.57, or $2.67 if you omit the peak-COVID era from his last 10 months in office when nearly nonexistent demand sent prices crashing.
Conversely, the average price per gallon during Biden’s presidency so far is $3.61 — 40% more than even Trump’s higher average. Gas peaked at over $5 for the first time ever in June 2022.
When adjusted for inflation, Trump’s average is $3.18 in 2024 dollars, 21% less than Biden’s inflation-adjusted price of $3.86.
A Dozen Eggs
According to the St. Louis Fed, a dozen large, Grade A eggs cost about $1.60 when Trump took office in January 2017. During his single term, the price breached the $2 mark only twice, and briefly both times — $2.08 in April 2018 and $2.02 two years later in April 2020. Trump’s price hit a low of $1.22 in August 2019.
When Biden took office in January 2021, a dozen eggs cost $1.47. In February 2022, it rose to $2 and has never receded below that mark since. By the start of August 2022, a dozen eggs cost $3, then $4 by December 2022 before peaking at an all-time high of $4.82 in January 2023. The previous record was $2.97 in September 2015.
The cheapest price under President Biden so far was $2.04 in August 2023, but that has since risen to about $3 today.
A Gallon of Milk
According to the St. Louis Fed, a gallon of whole milk cost $3.32 when Trump was inaugurated in January 2017. The price fell steadily to a term-low of $2.84 in July 2018. The price held steady until it breached $3 in June 2019 and climbed to a Trump-era high of $3.54 in December 2020.
The price of milk fell briefly and modestly during Biden’s first three months, then started on an upward trajectory that peaked at $4.22 in November 2022. The average price of a gallon of milk has since fallen, but only to its current cost of about $3.90.
Airfare
The average plane ticket was already relatively affordable during Trump’s pre-pandemic term. Federal Reserve data shows that for most of his first three years, the average price was around $260. It had previously spent much of the 2010s in the low-$300s.
Then, at the end of February 2020, COVID hit, the skies emptied and the average price of an airline ticket fell off a cliff and bottomed out at $186 in May 2020.
By the time Biden took office, the price was back up to $212. After several fits and starts, the travel industry recovered, prices started rising, and the average cost of airfare topped out at $319 in June 2022. It has since fallen to about $270.
With Pennsylvania turned and Florida Swinging Red and Michigan being Blue again.
I read Trump leading the Electoral College with 320 Votes, So Let’s Hope and Pray!!!
America has the lowest life expectancy of all English-speaking countries, new research has found. However, this varies significantly across the nation, with some states seeing much lower life expectancies than others.
“It’s well-known that American life expectancy performs very poorly compared to other high-income countries,” Jessica Ho, associate professor of sociology and demography at Penn State and senior author on the new paper, told Newsweek via email.
“[However,] – compared to this subset of countries with shared characteristics, the U.S. has very low life expectancy, which is quite alarming.” In their study, published in the peer-reviewed journal BMJ Open earlier this month, Ho and colleagues compared life expectancy data from the Human Mortality Database (HMD) and also World Health Organization (WHO) Mortality Database between 1990 and 2018 for the United States, Canada, Ireland, the United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand.
“Looking within the United States, there are long standing disparities between regions, with parts of the West and Northeast performing very well and the South and Appalachia typically lagging behind,” Ho said.
One potential reason for this could be the divergence in urban and rural life expectancies seen across the U.S. since the 1990s.
U.S. women face several health challenges, some of which are more prevalent compared to other high-income countries.
Here are a few key issues:
Heart Disease: The leading cause of death among women in the U.S. is heart disease. Risk factors include high blood pressure, high cholesterol, and smoking.
Cancer: Breast cancer is the most common cancer among American women, followed by lung and colorectal cancers. Regular screenings and early detection are crucial.
Mental Health: Conditions such as depression and anxiety are common. Women are more likely to experience these issues due to a combination of biological, hormonal, and social factors.
Reproductive Health: Issues like endometriosis, polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS), and complications during pregnancy can significantly impact women’s health.
Obesity: A significant number of women in the U.S. are affected by obesity, which can lead to other health problems like diabetes, heart disease, and certain cancers.
Chronic Diseases: Conditions such as diabetes, arthritis, and osteoporosis are prevalent and can affect quality of life.
Access to Healthcare: Despite being a high-income country, many women in the U.S. face barriers to accessing affordable and comprehensive healthcare.
Addressing these challenges involves a combination of preventive care, regular screenings, healthy lifestyle choices, and improved access to healthcare services.
There are several preventive measures that can help reduce the risk of breast cancer:
Implementing these lifestyle changes can significantly contribute to lowering the risk of breast cancer. Are there any genetic factors that increase breast cancer risk?
Yes, there are several genetic factors that can increase the risk of breast cancer:
BRCA1 and BRCA2 Genes: Mutations in these genes significantly increase the risk of breast and ovarian cancers. Women with these mutations have a higher lifetime risk of developing breast cancer.
Family History: Having a close relative (mother, sister, or daughter) with breast cancer can increase your risk, especially if they were diagnosed at a young age.
Other Genetic Mutations: Mutations in other genes, such as TP53, PTEN, and PALB2, can also increase breast cancer risk, though they are less common than BRCA mutations.
Hereditary Cancer Syndromes: Conditions like Li-Fraumeni syndrome, Cowden syndrome, and hereditary diffuse gastric cancer can increase the risk of breast cancer due to associated genetic mutations.
Ethnicity: Certain ethnic groups, such as Ashkenazi Jewish women, have a higher prevalence of BRCA mutations, which increases their risk of breast cancer.
If you have a family history of breast cancer or are concerned about your genetic risk, it might be helpful to speak with a genetic counselor. They can provide personalized risk assessments and discuss potential preventive measures, such as increased surveillance or preventive surgeries.
Getting tested for BRCA mutations involves a few steps:
Consultation with a Healthcare Provider: Start by discussing your family history and concerns with your doctor. They can refer you to a genetic counselor.
Genetic Counseling: A genetic counselor will assess your risk based on your family history and discuss the benefits, risks, and limitations of genetic testing.
“Over the past three decades, large central cities and their suburbs have experienced strong gains in life expectancy, while medium/small cities and particularly non metros have much lower life expectancy levels and experienced small or no gains in life expectancy,” Ho said.
Factors that may contribute to these disparities include differences in health behaviors like smoking, sedentary lifestyle, poor diet, and illicit drug use and alcohol abuse, according to Ho.
Ho added: “The South and the Midwest, which contain a large portion of our rural population, tend to have more lax gun laws and also happen to have higher rates of gun-related fatalities.”
With this in mind, taking the data from 2018, the following five states experienced the lowest life expectancies:
In order to improve these inequalities, and America’s lagging life expectancy more broadly, the U.S. needs to address these avoidable deaths, especially among its younger citizens.
Smoking prevalence is nearly 50% higher in a group of Midwestern and Southern states compared to the rest of the country, according to Truth Initiative’s latest analysis of U.S. states with the highest smoking prevalence.
In these 12 states – a region we call “Tobacco Nation” that spans Alabama, Arkansas, Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, Ohio, Oklahoma, Tennessee, and West Virginia – both adults (19.2% vs. 13%) and young adults (11.2% vs. 7.6%) have 50% higher smoking prevalence and smoke many more cigarettes per capita annually than people living in other states (on average, 53 vs. 29 packs). That means a smoker living in Tobacco Nation could smoke nearly 500 more cigarettes per year than the average smoker in the rest of the U.S.
This group of states is home to about 21% of the US population but 28% of smokers in the country. Overall, smoking prevalence is about 50% higher there than in the rest of the US. About 19% of adults smoke in this group of states, compared with about 13% of adults in other states.
A similar pattern holds among young adults. About 11% of adults under 25 in these states smoke, compared with less than 8% in other states. Teenagers in these states are also more likely to smoke.
Smoking prevalence has been consistently higher than average among these 12 states since Truth Initiative’s first report on the topic five years ago.
According to Truth Initiative, much of the disparity can be attributed to weaker local policy on tobacco prevention and cessation, particularly due to industry influence and lack of political will from decision-makers. For example, federal data shows that the share of adults who smoke fell to a historic low in 2022, but e-cigarettes grew in popularity.
To battle this trend, hundreds of local governments have enacted laws that restrict the sale of flavored tobacco – but only three of them have been within the 12 states with higher smoking prevalence.
The latest report from Truth Initiative, published last week, also shows that people in these 12 states who smoke tend to do so significantly more than smokers in other states.
An average smoker in “Tobacco Nation” goes through about 53 packs in one year, compared with an average of 29 packs in the rest of the US, a difference of about 500 cigarettes per person each year.
This persistently high prevalence of cigarette use – still the country’s leading cause of preventable death and disease – has serious consequences, especially at a time when life expectancy has declined for Americans due to a variety of factors including COVID-19 and opioid overdoses. Tobacco Nation residents live shorter lives and face a higher risk of dying than other Americans, with an average life expectancy of 76 years compared to 79 yearsin the rest of the country. Tobacco Nation’s greater rates of smoking-attributable death and disease compared to the rest of the U.S. likely contribute to this lower life expectancy.
Yet it is possible to create a future where these geographic disparities also do not exist. According to a separate analysis by Truth Initiative® and HealthPartners Institute, more tobacco policy spending paired with higher cigarette taxes that are targeted to areas with the highest smoking prevalence can reduce disparities in tobacco use that have existed for decades, bringing adult smoking in Tobacco Nation down to the national average and resulting in considerable health and economic benefits.
Specifically, the analysis predicts that implementation of key tobacco policy changes could lead to roughly 100,000 fewer cancer cases, 730,000 fewer hospitalizations, and 170,000 fewer deaths attributed to smoking in the first two decades following policy change as well as saving over $24 billion in smoking-attributable medical costs and increasing productivity by over $100 billion.
Researchers and policymakers have created a road map to end unequal smoking prevalence across the country. Why, then, has it been such a challenge to implement these policies? Disparities in tobacco prevention and cessation measures in Tobacco Nation are not the fault of the region’s residents. Residents of Tobacco Nation have historically supported policies at levels equal to their counterparts in states outside Tobacco Nation.
Instead, strong tobacco policies have not gained traction due to a combination of factors, including lack of political will, powerful tobacco industry interference in legislation, and prevention of local jurisdictions from adopting strong tobacco prevention and cessation measures.
These obstacles have become evident in recent years as strong local laws restricting the sale of flavored tobacco products, including menthol cigarettes and youth-appealing flavored e-cigarettes, have continued to gain momentum across the country, but very few have been implemented in Tobacco Nation. For example, only three out of nearly 400 flavored tobacco policies in the U.S. have been enacted in Tobacco Nation.
The research points to a clear need for action: without interventions, adult smoking prevalence in Tobacco Nation states is forecasted to be over 40% higher on average over the next 20 years compared to other U.S. states. Steps taken at the federal level – including the Food and Drug Administration’s proposed rules to remove menthol cigarettes and flavored cigars from the market – will likely have large impacts in Tobacco Nation states, but need time to take effect.
In the meantime, local and state level protections – including prioritizing tobacco program spending in existing budgets, higher tobacco excise taxes on tobacco products, stronger local tobacco policies supporting smoke-free environments, and restrictions on the sale of flavored tobacco products – are needed to address long-existing inequities in smoking rates and health outcomes in our country.
More tobacco policy spending paired with higher cigarette taxes targeted to areas with the highest smoking prevalence can reduce disparities in tobacco use that have existed for decades, bringing adult smoking in Tobacco Nation down to the national average and resulting in considerable health and economic benefits.
AN UPDATE ON TOBACCO NATION TODAY
Tobacco use has significantly declined in the United States, with high school student smoking prevalence dropping from 28% in 2000 to 2% in 2022. Much of this decline is attributed to tobacco policy efforts, including price increases, smoke-free air laws, and youth access restrictions, as well as mass media public education and prevention campaigns.
Reductions in tobacco use have not occurred equally across U.S. populations & there are substantial geographic and sociodemographic disparities in tobacco use and associated health outcomes. New issues with uneven implementation of local flavored tobacco policies threaten to exacerbate the situation further.
Agricultural workers face unique cancer risks due to their exposure to various carcinogens, including pesticides and prolonged sun exposure. Here are some key findings:
When a city dweller moves to an agricultural area, their body indeed needs to acclimate to the new environment. This process involves several adjustments:
Physical Activity: Agricultural work often requires more physical labor compared to urban jobs. This can lead to increased muscle use and overall physical fitness, but it may also cause initial fatigue and soreness.
Exposure to Elements: Being outdoors more frequently means greater exposure to sunlight, varying weather conditions, and possibly allergens like pollen. This can affect skin health, hydration levels, and respiratory systems.
Dietary Changes: Access to fresh, locally grown produce can lead to dietary changes. This might improve nutrition but can also require the digestive system to adjust to new types of food.
Mental Adjustment: The slower pace and different social dynamics of rural life can impact mental health. Some people may find it relaxing, while others might initially feel isolated.
Immune System: Increased exposure to soil, plants, and animals can strengthen the immune system over time, but it might also lead to initial bouts of illness as the body adapts.
No, but I’m curious about the differences in lifestyle.
Tell me more about acclimating to agricultural life.
Sure! Acclimating to agricultural life involves several aspects, both physical and mental. Here are some additional details:
Physical Adjustments
Increased Physical Activity: Agricultural work often involves tasks like planting, harvesting, and tending to animals, which can be physically demanding. Building stamina and strength gradually is important to avoid injury.
Exposure to Nature: Spending more time outdoors means dealing with sun exposure, rain, and varying temperatures. Wearing appropriate clothing, using sunscreen, and staying hydrated are crucial.
Dietary Changes: Access to fresh produce can lead to a healthier diet, but it might also mean adjusting to new foods and cooking methods. This can improve overall nutrition and well-being.
Environmental Factors
Allergens and Pests: Rural areas may have higher levels of pollen, dust, and insects. It’s important to be prepared for potential allergies and to use protective measures like insect repellent.
Water and Soil Quality: Understanding the quality of local water and soil is essential for both personal health and successful farming. Testing and treating water.
Mental and Social Adjustments
Community Integration: Building relationships with neighbors and participating in local events can help ease the transition. Rural communities often have strong social networks that can provide support.
Pace of Life: The slower pace of rural life can be a significant change. Finding new hobbies, enjoying nature, and embracing the tranquility can enhance mental well-being.
Self-Sufficiency: Agricultural life often requires a higher degree of self-sufficiency. Learning skills like gardening, animal care, and basic repairs can be empowering and rewarding.
Health and Safety
Healthcare Access: Some Rural areas might have limited access to healthcare facilities. It’s important to know the location of the nearest clinic or hospital and to have a well-stocked first aid kit.
Safety Precautions: Working with machinery, animals, and chemicals requires knowledge of safety protocols to prevent accidents and injuries.
Emotional Resilience
Adaptability: Also being open to change and willing to learn new skills is key. Agricultural life can be unpredictable, and flexibility is important.
Stress Management: Finding ways to manage stress, whether through hobbies, exercise, or social connections, can help maintain mental health.
Transitioning to agricultural life can be a fulfilling and enriching experience, offering a closer connection to nature and a sense of accomplishment from growing your own food.
Abandon Industrial Plants can be fascinating and eerie places to explore. They often tell stories of a bygone era of manufacturing and industrial might. Here are a few notable examples:
These sites often attract urban explorers and photographers who are drawn to their decaying beauty and historical significance. Have you ever visited any abandoned places?
References
Wilkie, R. Z., & Ho, J. Y. (2024). Life expectancy and geographic variation in mortality: observational comparison study of six high-income Anglophone countries. BMJ Open, 14(9), e079365. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2023-079365
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Counties vary by population, so county wins don’t correlate with the popular vote
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THREAD: What would a radical lift Kamala Harris Administration look like? While presiding over the U.S. Senate as VP she has cast the most tie-breaking votes (33) in history. These votes are not just politically polarizing but show how damaging a Kamala Harris White House would be.
