A "Fourth Turning" is a deadly event an entire nation goes through…around every 80 years....according to Strauss and Howe, who published a 1990s book by that title. Because America has experienced several of these "fourth turnings," the authors predicted MATHEMATICALLY, a quarter century ago, that America would enter another severe, killer catastrophe right about now...falling deeply into a crisis of crime, amorality, darkness, uncertainty and estrangement from a previous moral high ground.
If we look back 80 years, and keep looking back another 80 years, sure enough, America went through five life-and-death crises in 1623, 1703, 1783, 1863, and 1943. And 80 years later here we are again in 2023... without dependable standards for law, justice, order; without definitions for family and gender; without economic stability; without honest coinage, without international friendships, without an orderly military; without Biblical literacy; and every man is doing what is right in his own eyes. And almost every man is getting it wrong and is hurtling headlong along a downward trajectory.
But didn't America make the turn out of all those other crises? Yes. But those turnings were led by humble and repentant leaders who had developed a reverence for God's ways and God's laws. Unless such men appear on the scene today, and are followed in a new and redemptive direction, America will not make the turn. History is not so cyclical that God is obliged to keep to some mathematical calendar, or numerical pattern. He keeps to his covenant promises. If a nation turns, he helps. If a nation does not, the cycle is broken. Not by God, but by the stiff-necked, lawless citizens who refuse to turn around, and the nation descends further and faster into its own willful extinction.
Opinion by Lau Vegys:
America's problems aren't fixable with patriotic sentiment. They're mathematical realities that don't care about your flag-waving.
The national debt recently hit $37 trillion. By 2033—the same year Social Security's trust fund runs dry—we're looking at debt exceeding $50 trillion. Interest payments alone will consume nearly half of all tax revenue.
At that point, the Federal Reserve will have no choice but to print tens of trillions of dollars to bail out the Treasury. The resulting inflation will make the early 1980s look like a picnic.
And of course, as I mentioned in a recent piece, whether it's $37 trillion now or $50 trillion in about eight years, the headline number is just the tip of the iceberg.
Add it all up—Medicare, Social Security, federal pensions, and other off-the-books promises—and the real financial hole the U.S. government faces is closer to $150 trillion. That’s nearly $1 million per taxpayer.
The Guardian reports that 15,000 Afghans were relocated to the UK in a secret scheme, while Breitbart reported that nearly 24,000 Afghans were brought in, with the British government earmarking £7 billion to secretly house and import them.
The UK taxpayer has no choice but to pay up, while government transparency was lacking.
Whether all these Afghans were vetted remains unknown. Given the reputation of the UK along with many Western countries, the vetting process for migrants is nearly nonexistent, and highly questionable in this case in particular.
Also, in the spring of 2023, while Rishi Sunak was prime minister and many UK military families had no heat or hot water, the government continued to host illegal migrants in plush hotels, at the cost to taxpayers of $8.5 million USD a day and rising. And while homelessness was up over 27% in Britain, illegal, mostly Muslim migrants from the Middle East and Africa, were royally served in those plush hotels. Now it comes to light that in...
"The fate of Trump’s presidency will likely be decided this summer; if he doesn’t drain the Deep State the Deep State will drain him—and possibly America, too; Trump can’t skate through this like he did during his first go-round."
-- Robert Barnes, speaking on The Duran about the Epstein debacle