The Edge of History - Jay Weidner
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YIjg9Os9Yws
John Age and Jay Weidner talk about the how humanity is going down a path with unknown consequencesOs9Yws

The financial system is teetering on the edge

https://newstarget.com/2023-03-15-black-swan-strikes-usdc-stablecoin-svb-collapse.html

The financial system is teetering on the edge

https://www.naturalnews.com/2023-03-15-black-swan-strikes-usdc-stablecoin-svb-collapse.html

DEATH OF THE DOLLAR

BRICS is an acronym for Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa. They are countries that want to free themselves from the dollar-based US hegemony.

The dollar may be the ‘world’s reserve currency,’ but chains are made to be broken. The BRICS countries want the trade to be more free and fair. They do not wish to be yoked to a slave currency based on debt.

The money masters behind our debt currency, the US dollar, are able to counterfeit as much of it as they like in order to further their wealth and power. Citizens are required to pay it all back with interest, which ultimately we cannot do without counterfeiting ourselves and if we tried, we’d be tossed in prison. Even worse, banks are allowed to engage in fractional reserve banking, which means they can loan out money many times what they have on deposit. When their loans and ‘investments’ go bad and they’re on the edge of collapse, those in charge start threatening contagion and economic disaster. The Federal Reserve then steps in to bail out the failed banks. Their managers even get bonuses! This happens over and over again. The bankers enjoy privatized profits while their losses are socialized. This is not capitalism! The powerless citizens (seen as suckers by bankers) are forced to pick up the tab by means of inflation and a devalued currency.

The US dollar was once based on commodities—gold, silver, and copper. It was constitutional money and since the birth of the nation, the dollar was more or less stable and held its value all the way up to the Civil War. Then Lincoln decided to print up ‘fiat’ greenback currency to pay for war debt. Even though he tried to keep the printing commensurate with war production, the value of the dollar went down nearly 50 percent. Peacetime prosperity enabled the dollar to bounce back, but when the Federal Reserve was created, it began to quickly lose value. Since 1913, the dollar has lost 98 percent of its purchasing power.

The globalists, who like to call themselves ‘the elite’ have grown fabulously rich and powerful as they stripped US citizens of their hard-earned labor by means of onerous income taxes. Their purchased politicians stripped us of our rights and liberties and sent many generations of young people to die in their wars designed to bring about world government, which they cynically call ‘our democracy.’

It’s no wonder the BRICS nations are rebelling. They want to use their own stable currency—one based on commodities. China has been dumping US Treasuries in favor of gold. Putin has created a gold-based Ruble. The US should rebel too by ending the Federal Reserve, ending fractional reserve banking, and returning to commodity-based currency. The latter seems like a pipe dream at this point. The globalist bankers seem bent on destroying, then controlling the smaller banks through means of raising rates to fight the inflation they created. There can’t be a strong economy with inflation, and inflation cannot be conquered without much higher interest rates. Either inflation dies or the dollar dies. The money masters may have chosen the latter. They want to replace the dollar with CBDC (Central Bank Digital Currency). They greatly desire software money designed to control a global population. The money masters will gain exponentially more power and control because it will come with a Chinese-style system of social credit control. Dissent will be punished instantly and ruthlessly. Castro’s son, Justin Trudeau, already did this in Canada when he ordered the trucker protestors’ bank accounts shut down. China may be buying gold, but the citizens there will not see a particle of that—their subjugation will be rendered complete should China move to a completely digital currency.

It remains to be seen if all the BRICS countries will implement a commodity-based currency for trade while avoiding such a parallel digital currency, but one thing they have in common is a marked distaste for the global dominance being meted out by the US at the behest of globalist tyrants. Mexico floated the idea of joining BRICS, and they were immediately threatened by military action by some in Congress. They talked about going after Mexico’s drug cartels. Still, the US can’t crush all those wishing to free themselves from the debt dollar. Saudi Arabia and Iran are considering joining BRICS. Even Turkey! These countries are not like Libya and will be far more difficult to crush.

The US needs to abandon its global empire, close its borders, end the wars, end the Fed, end the IRS, enact term limits to prevent a corrupt Congress, and return sound money and constitutional rights to We The People.

— Ben Garrison

On Nocturnal Leg Cramps

summarized from Sleep: The Complete Guide to Sleep Disorders and a Better Night’s Sleep by J. Paul Caldwell, MD

In her dream, Agnes...was standing with her back to the living-room fire place, warming herself in the cheerful heat of the blaze the crackled behind her. She could feel the tingle on the back of her legs, as if the fire itself were dancing lightly on her skin.

Suddenly, in the dream, the heat of the fire was no longer pleasant...She could feel a burning pain, beginning in her leg. She tried to pull away, but couldn't. Her leg was paralyzed and the awful pain increased scorching into her dream. She couldn't move, though the burning became worse and worse.

When Agnes awoke from her dream of childhood, the severe pain that she felt in the back of her leg was a nocturnal muscle cramp. A cramp is simply a painful, prolonged, and unwanted contraction of muscle.

Cramping in the legs at night is one of the most common causes of disturbed sleep, especially among older people.

This cause [of disturbed sleep] is common among seniors. As we age, the ligaments in the foot and ankle weaken, the arches fall, and the anatomy of the foot changes, with the result that the dynamics of weight-bearing alter dramatically. This often means that more strain is put on the muscles of the calf ( because they're now pulling at a different angle), and the muscles become more likely to cramp. Proper attention to the dynamics of weight-bearing in the foot, by the use of such things as custom-made supports worn inside your shoes (called "orthotics") will often decrease the irritability of the muscles, and thus decrease, or stop, nighttime cramping.

Wearing proper shoes during the day can decrease the strain on these muscles and prevent night time cramping...[and] running shoes offer by far the best support, cushioning, and alignment. Wearing running shoes all day may very well help you sleep better at night.

[M]ost patients with leg cramps at night have no demonstrable chemical abnormality or underlying disease.

Tips for Sleepers with Leg Cramps

1. The most common cause of leg cramping at night is a physical tendency of the muscles to shorten. Try to stretch the affected area before retiring. The best single exercise to stretch the calf muscles consists of standing about a meter (3 feet) from a wall and then leaning forward to touch the wall with your hands, leaving your heels flat on the floor. You can feel the muscles stretch. Massage and heat also help, as do simple rhythmic exercise routines before bed.

2. Try not to point your toes while lying flat in bed. This sounds silly, but anything that causes you to point your toe predisposes you to have leg cramps. Heavy bedclothes tightly tucked in, sleeping on your stomach, stretching out in bed while turning — all set the stage for severe contraction of the calf muscles. Untuck and lift out the covers at the foot of the bed, or use some kind of cradle at your feet to keep the covers off them, preventing the weight of the covers from pushing your toes down. Turning from side to side means extending the ankle, so do this carefully. If you must sleep on your stomach, allow your toes to hang over the edge of the bed so the ankle is maintained at a right angle.

3. Try putting a pillow at the foot of the bed beneath the sheets. This will essentially shorten your bed and prevent you from stretching your legs out fully. This simple expedient works for many people, especially pregnant women, in whom leg cramps at night are very common and who, because of the risk to their unborn infant, are unable to take preventative medicines.

4. If you do get a cramp, you must stretch the muscle to obtain relief, or reversing the contraction by standing up on the floor and lengthening the muscle, or by leaning forward in the sitting position and grabbing your toes and pulling them toward your knee. Massage also helps.

5. Wear your shoes to bed. It’s not as crazy as it sounds — though it has to be a shoe, not a slipper with an open heel. The heel will stop your ankle from bending and your toes from pointing.

6. Try raising the foot of the bed 22 centimeters (9 inches). This simple maneuver helps many people with night cramps, perhaps making it harder for them to stretch out their legs.

7. Examine your feet, looking for structural imbalances that could cause excessive or improper strain on your calf muscles or the small muscles of your feet. Many people can prevent nocturnal cramping by purchasing shoes with adequate support, or orthotics to correct architectural defects in their feet, and relieve chronic strain on the calf muscles. Invest in a pair of good running shoes, even if you hate jogging or can barely walk.

8. Use a magnet. Many people obtain relief from nocturnal leg cramping by simply placing an ordinary 7 to 15 centimeter (3 to 6 inch) magnet under the sheet. Though no documented study has been done on the efficiency of magnets, many physicians have reported that their patients have found relief using magnets.

9. Many drugs can cause cramping, including nefedipine, lithium, salbutamol, diuretics, cimetidine, and ranitidine. Leg cramps are also sometimes caused by biochemical abnormalities such as low calcium or low sodium. Although these cases are extremely rare, if your leg cramps are not easily corrected, see your doctor.

10. If all else fails, you may want to try medicines to treat your cramping. Quinine sulphate is commonly prescribed for cramping; its chemical properties relax muscles and relieve pain, and also make the muscles less excitable. It works for about fifty percent of those with leg cramps, and most patients have either an excellent response (almost total control of cramping) or none at all, usually within a week, and certainly within two weeks. The usual dose is 300 milligrams at night, 200 milligrams for seniors (like many medicines, quinine may be metabolized and eliminated more slowly in seniors). Pregnant women must not take it, and it does have side effects, including buzzing in the ears, headaches nausea and blurred vision. Quinine often reacts with other medicines such as digitalis preparations, anticoagulants and anticonvulsants, and you must take it every single night, since you don’t know when the cramping will occur. Check with your doctor.

Clonazepam, a diazepam derivative, may be useful for nocturnal leg cramps. The dose is 0.5 milligrams to 1 milligram at night, though it might cause sedation the next day.