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The Fourth Turning: Global war


The Burning Platform
Wed, 22 Jul 2026 20:18 UTC
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"THESE are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands by it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph."

- Thomas Paine - The American Crisis

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"At worst, should at least one desperate country resort to WMDs, the outcome of a great-power war could prove to be even more devastating than that of a civil war. The toll could be almost unimaginable - with multiple cities destroyed, many millions killed, and many tens of millions displaced - all perhaps triggered by some ill-fated combination of the wrong leader making the wrong choice at the wrong time."

- Neil Howe - The Fourth Turning Is Here
My previous two articles about this Fourth Turning: Prophets, Nomads and a Fourth Turning Accelerating Towards a Bloody Climax in April 2025 and War Phase of This Fourth Turning Has Arrived in July 2025 were progressively more pessimistic about the course of coming events, and things have proceeded along a precarious path towards our own rendezvous with destiny/tragedy. We are closing in on the 18th anniversary of the start of this Crisis epoch in September. The previous Great Depression/WWII Fourth Turning came to its climactic bloody conclusion after seventeen years, but this period of upheaval and disorder looks like it will extend into the early 2030s, just as Strauss & Howe predicted.
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Oregon sees disturbing spike in gender transition therapy for children

Tyler Durden
ZeroHedge
Mon, 20 Jul 2026 11:00 UTC
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© unknownYou are not who you are.
If you're curious to see what the US would look like under an entrenched progressive regime, deep blue states like Oregon offer special insight. Four years of woke Democrats running the show under the Biden Administration was bad enough - Pride flags draped across the White House and naked transgenders dancing across the lawn was an embarrassing moment for the nation.

However, for people living on the West Coast, the agenda continues unabated.

The children of blue states are still on the menu, and Oregon is surpassing them all with an acceleration of gender-based indoctrination. According to a recent study published in Oxford Academic's Research Connections, children in Oregon are up to three times more likely to be diagnosed with gender dysphoria compared to the national average.

The study maintains that the rate of gender treatments in Oregon remains "rare", but when the numbers are compared to most states across the country a disturbing trend becomes visible. Using insurance data as a baseline, the authors note that between 2016 and 2023, roughly 1 in 240 girls and 1 in 630 boys in Oregon received cross-sex hormones by age 17. These rates are about 3x the national average for girls and 2x for boys (even higher - 4x to 5x - at ages 14 -15).
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Oil Well

Academic says — get used to a few blackouts to keep costs down

Jo Nova
joannenova.com.au
Thu, 23 Jul 2026 18:22 UTC
blackouts to keep costs down
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A little piece of the third world has just arrived in Australia

What bad luck eh? Electricity prices are rising again in the Renewable Superpower known as South Australia. But it's not the fault of renewable energy, it's your fault see, for "demanding the highest standards of reliability." — you unreasonable perfectionist, you.

If the unwashed masses can just let go of that extravagant notion and live with a few blackouts, the experts can make electricity prices slightly lower. (But not actually cheap, just at nosebleed level, not the full ischemic stroke grade power bill, right?)

For the last twenty years they've been beating us over the head with the message that renewables are the cheapest form of energy there is, bar none. But now that has categorically failed, they are not just moving the goal posts, they're trying to change the game.

Make no mistake, this is a big pivot. They are admitting (quietly, and without the honesty to actually say so) that it's more expensive to run a renewables grid.

I must have missed their apology?

But it could be cheaper, they say, if we could just be reasonable serfs and put up with a few blackouts. As the expert Daniel Rossetto says, slightly exasperated, ""Nobody in Australia, with the exception of maybe a few rural communities and so forth, is prepared to tolerate any downtime.""

Indeed, Mr Rossetto, no one wants to plan their day around the electricity schedule, or lose their data, or get stuck with wet hair, unwashed clothes or an uncharged phone in a crisis. We're not keen on screaming kids in a cold bath, or half cooked dinners, or not being able to study the night before an exam. And a dose of salmonella can ruin your whole day. We like our fridges to stay on.
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Stock Down

The conflicts brewing in America's ten socioeconomic classes

Charles Hugh Smith
Of Two Minds
Mon, 20 Jul 2026 21:03 UTC
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What we do know is that things have internal structures with dynamics that operate whether we "like" them or not.

Correspondent Manoj S. recommended an essay from the always-insightful John Michael Greer on the dissolution of unproductive classes behind the smokescreen of AI: A Game of Musical Chairs
"You can sell Americans on anything, no matter how wretchedly unsatisfactory it is, by labeling it as progress. That's what's being done now, with AI being used as a justification for firing useless workers, deleting unnecessary departments, cutting office staff down to scales that actually make sense, and shutting down the classroom-to-cubicle pipeline that once poured new graduates into salary class jobs. We can expect that process to accelerate dramatically in the years ahead."
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Arrow Up

AI abundance, Part 5; meaning beyond work

Ellen Brown
Web of Debt
Fri, 17 Jul 2026 01:00 UTC
Ticktock to obsolescence
© ScheerPost.comBy the Clock: TickTock to obsolescence
Discussions of artificial intelligence typically begin with the question, What happens when the machines take our jobs? For thousands of years, work has been the means by which we fed our families, earned our place in society, and gave structure to our lives. We have come to equate paid employment with identity.

That presumption may soon be obsolete.

When Elon Musk proposed replacing Universal Basic Income with what he calls a Universal High Income — a level of income sufficient for everyone to live comfortably while intelligent machines produce much of the goods and services society requires — critics warned that people would become lazy. They would stop pursuing college degrees, stop starting businesses, stop inventing, stop contributing. Without jobs, it was argued, life itself would lose meaning and purpose.

Interestingly, humanity's oldest written history begins with the premise that the purpose of humans is to work. The earliest known writing was impressed into clay tablets in ancient Sumer more than five thousand years ago. The Sumerian Atrahasis tablets tell of sky-deities called Annunaki, cast in modern "ancient architect" scenarios as extraterrestrial engineers. The heavy labor required to maintain life on earth was delegated to junior gods called Igigi, who finally grew weary of the arduous work, laid down their tools and rebelled.

The remedy was to create a new being to carry their burden. This was done by genetic manipulation to upgrade the highest life form found here, creating the human species. Whether we read that as history, allegory, or mythology, its underlying message is that humanity was conceived as a labor force - and human civilization begins with a control system to manage the laborers.
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Bizarro Earth

Suicidal empathy: Three-quarters of refugee-linked households in Vienna rely on taxpayer handouts


ReMix News
Mon, 20 Jul 2026 18:53 UTC
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© ReMix News
Statistics Austria data shows 47% of 103,000 refugee-linked households nationwide are not self-sufficient, with welfare dependence rising to 75% in Vienna

Three-quarters of households in Vienna connected to migrants from popular asylum-origin countries are unable to support themselves without government benefits, according to figures analyzed by Statistics Austria.

The analysis, cited by Kronen Zeitung, covered approximately 103,000 households across Austria containing at least one recognized refugee, asylum-seeker, or person granted subsidiary protection from Syria, Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran, Somalia, or Chechnya in the Russian Federation.

Vienna recorded by far the highest rate of welfare dependence. About 75 percent of the households examined in the capital relied on minimum-income payments or comparable state support, meaning only one in four was considered economically self-sufficient.

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Light switch

Vagrants wire NYC's growing Intrepid Museum homeless camp with stolen electricity, cops forced to step in

Kevin Sheehan and Jorge Fitz-Gibbon
New York Post
Tue, 14 Jul 2026 18:33 UTC
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© Lone Pine Press for NY PostA homeless man tapped into NYC utility lines for a makeshift shelter at 34th Street between 11th and 12th Avenue on Tuesday July 14, 2026.
Now they got juice.

A shameless vagrant at the putrid homeless encampment that has sprouted up along a wide stretch of Manhattan's West Side tapped into city utility lines for electricity on Tuesday, as the unsightly shantytown continues to flaunt City Hall.

The brazen utility theft at a makeshift red shelter at 34th Street between 11th and 12th Avenue, part of a 12-block-long encampment near the Intrepid Museum, is the latest slap in the face to Big Apple tourists and neighborhood workers and residents.

"Almost one month now - getting a little bigger every time I come back," one Flixbus driver told The Post. "They put the garbage here on the sidewalk so the people have to wait in the street when I come with the bus.

"They're asking the people waiting for the bus for money," the driver said. "It's no good. My boss called and complained and they do nothing."
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Pocket Knife

Trump's taking on 'right to repair': What does it mean?

Jacob Burg
The Epoch Times
Mon, 20 Jul 2026 14:22 UTC
Rivian R2 SUVs move down the assembly line
© Scott Olson/Getty ImagesRivian R2 SUVs move down the assembly line at the manufacturing plant in Normal, Ill., on May 19, 2026. The R2 produces zero direct tailpipe emissions as a fully electric vehicle.
Questions persist over what it means for drivers to have the right to repair their cars and trucks after President Donald Trump's recent memorandum, which aims to open up access to aftermarket vehicle repairs.

The June 29 memorandum impacts a slice of the controversy between auto makers, car owners, and independent workshops over who can technically and legally conduct certain auto maintenance and repair jobs. The memo specifically targets emissions components that are strictly regulated by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under the federal Clean Air Act.

Automotive and legal experts who spoke to The Epoch Times explained what types of repairs the memorandum impacts, what this means for vehicle owners, and some of the potential consequences for the industry as a whole.

"What Trump's trying to do here is figure out, is there an alternative to let people basically work on their cars if it's something relating to emissions?" Joe Luppino-Esposito, federal policy director of the Pacific Legal Foundation, told The Epoch Times.
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"Start Spreadin' the News": New York losing billions as millionaires flee the Big Apple

Jonathan Turley
jonathanturley.org
Fri, 17 Jul 2026 00:00 UTC
Panic Stock Exchange
© Unknown"Spreading the News" Panic at the New York Stock Exchange
Below is my column in the New York Post on the sharp decline in millionaires in New York, costing the state billions as many flee. The exodus has been building for years but may now be accelerating. As Mayor Mamdani holds another press conference promising to end the "violence of evictions," businesses are reading the writing on the wall. Rather than work to make the state more attractive to wealthy residents and businesses, Democrats are seeking to diminish the appeal of two-tax states. They want to tap into a long-barred area of taxation: the wealth rather than just the income of citizens. By passing a national wealth tax, Democrats will reduce the benefit of fleeing high-tax states like California and New York.

Here is the column:

"Start spreadin' the news, I'm leavin' today" — that's how the famous song "New York, New York" captures the Big Apple's draw.

Today, the line is becoming more ironic than iconic: Many people are indeed leaving ... from "New York, New York".

Worse yet, those "vagabond shoes" that "are longing to stray" are on the feet of the wealthiest New Yorkers.

And as they flee, according to a new study, they're taking away billions in badly needed tax revenue.

As Mayor Zohran Mamdani and others pledge massive social programs and free services by taxing the wealthy, the wealthy are just melting away.

The reason is simple: "if you can make it there, you can make it anywhere."
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Warning

Houthis announce blockade on Saudi shipping, threaten drone & missile attacks on kingdom

Tryler Durden
ZeroHedge
Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:25 UTC
Houthi rebels
© Middle East EyeHouthi rebels unite
Yemen's Houthi rebels have announced they are imposing a new maritime embargo against Saudi Arabia in response for a recent attack on Sanaa Airport, and after years of the kingdom leading a blockade of Houthi-controlled Yemeni ports.

A military statement by Houthi spokesman Yahya Saree said the maritime ban on all Saudi shipping will be effective immediately in what he declared as an "equation of 'an eye for an eye.'"

However, details of what this 'embargo' will look like, in terms of where or what chokepoints the Houthis might seek to blockade were not given.

Last week the Saudi-led coalition in Yemen attacked the Houthi-controlled Sanaa International Airport, threatening a fragile truce that has been in place since 2022. Saudi jets had prevented an Iranian passenger plane from landing there, after the US-Saudi recognized Yemeni government warned against any Iranian planes entering the divided country's airspace.

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Saudi-led forces bomb Yemen's Sanaa Airport, reigniting war with the Houthis

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