The Numbers Don’t Lie:

The Numbers Don’t Lie: Why People Die Every 73rd Day—and Why No One Is Talking About It

Madge Waggy

The figures you are about to read do not originate from obscure conspiracy websites. They are extracted from actuarial reports of major insurance companies, from databases of disease control centers, and from classified government documents that reached our possession over the past eighteen months. Every source has been verified through independent methods. Everything unconfirmable has been removed. What remains is disturbing enough that publishing this material represents the greatest editorial risk undertaken in twenty-three years of journalism.

Articles of this nature began disappearing from major platforms as early as 2023. Journalists who attempted to present this data have been fired, disavowed, or, in extreme cases, arrested on fabricated charges. The window for this type of reporting is closing rapidly. We publish now because in twelve to twenty-four months it will be too late — both for this article, and for you.

Mortality data from 2024 has been released in fragments across actuarial reports and public health databases that no mainstream outlet has assembled into a coherent picture. When the pieces are laid side by side and examined without the filter of official interpretation, the result is unmistakable: working-age populations in developed nations are dying at rates that have no precedent in peacetime history, and the institutions responsible for noticing have systematically refused to investigate.

In the United States, excess mortality among adults aged 18 to 64 remained elevated at 18% above baseline through Q3 2024. This is not COVID-19 mortality, which has declined to negligible levels in this demographic. These are deaths from cardiovascular events, aggressive cancers with no genetic markers, neurological failures, and conditions officially categorized as “unknown cause” that are killing people in their prime at rates that threaten the actuarial foundations of the global insurance industry. The Society of Actuaries confirmed in its January 2025 annual report what industry executives have discussed in closed meetings since 2022: the mortality assumptions that underpin pension funds, life insurance policies, and healthcare financing are no longer valid, and the divergence is accelerating.

The official response has been a masterclass in bureaucratic deflection. The CDC stopped publishing comprehensive excess mortality data in mid-2023, citing unspecified “data quality concerns.” The WHO redirected research funding away from long-term health trend analysis toward “emerging infectious disease preparedness,” a category broad enough to include anything and specific enough to explain nothing. Medical journals have rejected papers attempting to correlate mortality trends with environmental factors, not because the correlations lack evidence, but because acknowledging them would require reopening questions that powerful interests want permanently closed.

Hospital admission data from eleven European countries reveals a temporal signature that has no biological explanation but aligns precisely with technical infrastructure deployment schedules. Every 73 days, admissions for specific neurological symptoms spike in a wave that moves across time zones with mechanical precision. Not geographically clustered like infectious disease. Not randomly distributed like environmental exposure. Temporally synchronized like a scheduled broadcast, following the sun from east to west in a pattern that repeated with clockwork regularity for eighteen months between 2022 and 2024.

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Terry James: Approaching Apocalypse

Approaching Apocalypse

Terry James

The term “apocalypse” as related to the coming Tribulation (Daniel’s seventieth week) means the “unveiling” or “revelation.” Particularly, it is the revelation of Jesus Christ in all of His power and glory and in His judgeship over all of the world’s evil since Lucifer’s rebellion and the Fall of humankind in the Garden of Eden.

I’ve addressed many times the next step in Christ’s coming judgment over this fallen world. 

Jesus Himself used the word in giving what I believe is the most important prophecy for believers of this Church Age (Age of Grace):

“Also as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they builded; But the same day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them all. Even thus shall it be in the day when the Son of man is revealed” (Luke 17:28-30).

According to the Lord’s own words, the Son of man will be revealed the very day that something occurs like it did in the days that Lot lived in the wicked city of Sodom. 

Again, the apocalypse—the unveiling or revealing of Jesus Christ—will take place when something happens just like it did in the days of Lot.

That “something” that brings about the revealing of Jesus in His power as Judge of the world’s evil has everything to do with Lot’s removal from Sodom. Here is what Lot was told in that regard before he and his family were taken from the doomed city:

“Haste thee, escape thither; for I cannot do any thing till thou be come thither” (Genesis 19:22a).

The angel charged with taking Lot and his family to safety because the city was about to be destroyed said they must be removed before the destruction could be carried out. 

Jesus is telling future believers in the Luke 17:28–30 prophecy that there is coming a time when we must be taken out of the wicked place we’re living in before He is revealed as Judge. The Lord said the place out of which we will be removed will be dealt with in judgment, just as Sodom and its left-behind residents.

Christ’s judgment–His revealing in his power as Judge—will begin at that very moment. The Apocalypse —that unveiling of power and authority—will begin the process of God destroying the present evil system of satanically inspired, humanistic government. 

In its place, through seven years of purging by twenty-one specific judgments—seven seals, seven trumpets, and seven bowls—will come the Second Advent of Christ, the King of all kings, and His thousand-year reign on a restored, Eden-like earth—the Millennium.

Each week, I receive emails and phone calls in which I’m told, “I’ve never felt like this before. There’s something that makes me think we might not even reach the November 5 election.”

That sense of impending something-or-the-other indeed seems on the minds of many believers who are paying attention. I must admit, I’ve had those “feelings” in recent days.

Of course, we can’t go too far down the road on “feelings” because such sensations most generally are a mere reflection of human emotion. We’re confronted with all sorts of troubled symptoms of these times. Like old Lot, whom the Bible tells us was “vexed from day to day” with the ungodliness all around him in Sodom, we sometimes can see only a bleak future for ourselves and those we love.

Certainly, there seems a time immediately ahead that is portentous. There are so many symptoms that look exactly like the Lord Jesus described when He answered His disciples’ question: “What shall be the sign of thy coming and of the end of the age?”

To the believer who observes from the pre-Trib view of Bible prophecy, it’s as if the time of the Apocalypse is very near indeed. God’s judgment–Jesus Christ revealed in His divine office of Judge—must be about to, like in the days of Lot prophecy, rain down a fire and brimstone-like cataclysm upon the ungodliness all around us.

We’re approaching Apocalypse, to be sure. Israel’s front-and-center positioning on this end-times geopolitical landscape isn’t happenstance or coincidence. The way the world is dealing with God’s chosen people makes it clear that this age of God’s grace and divine patience is about to end, and that the time of His apocalyptic judgment is poised above a planet ripe for the Almighty’s wrath.

So, in my estimation, it isn’t altogether beyond spiritual reasoning to look with trepidation at the very near future. It is an ominous picture, to be sure. However, it isn’t a picture filled with trepidation for believers. The darkening angst we rightfully have is for those who haven’t come to salvation.

As a matter of fact, for the believer in Christ’s sacrifice as the only Way to God the Father (John 14:6), the immediate future is bright with God’s glorious promise.

“Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, nor has it entered into the heart of man, the things God has prepared for those who love him” (1 Corinthians 2:9). 

We will, at any moment, in the “twinkling of an eye,” look into the eyes of our Lord and Savior. So, while we approach Apocalypse, let’s look at all the fearful signals happening in every direction as being but reminders of Jesus’ promise.

“And when ye shall see all these things begin to come to pass, then look up, and lift up your head, for your redemption draweth nigh” (Luke 21:28).

THE PROJECTS THAT COULD IGNITE THE NEXT WAR

THE PROJECTS THAT COULD IGNITE THE NEXT WAR

Madge Waggy

The most dangerous geopolitical developments of 2026 are not necessarily the weapons that have already been fired, but the systems being constructed in anticipation of the next crisis. Across Europe, the Indo-Pacific and the Middle East, governments are committing extraordinary resources to military production, strategic infrastructure, weapons procurement and long-term defence planning, creating a global security environment in which preparation for war has itself become one of the defining features of international politics. 

EUROPE’S REARMAMENT PROJECT

Europe’s rearmament is perhaps the clearest example of a strategic project that is simultaneously defensive in intention and potentially destabilizing in perception. The transformation began with the recognition that the continent had allowed its conventional military capabilities to decline after the Cold War, but the war in Ukraine fundamentally altered that calculation.

Governments that had spent years treating defence as a secondary budgetary priority are now rebuilding ammunition reserves, expanding weapons production, ordering new aircraft and missile systems, strengthening military logistics and investing in the infrastructure required to move large numbers of troops and equipment across the continent. 

NATO is also explicitly working with industry to expand production capacity, including ammunition stockpiles and other military capabilities.

Defence companies receive long-term contracts, governments become dependent on domestic production capacity and military planners begin designing strategies around weapons that may remain in service for decades. The result is a structural transformation rather than a temporary response to a single crisis. Europe is not simply buying more weapons; it is rebuilding an industrial ecosystem capable of producing them at scale.

From Moscow’s perspective, the same transformation can be interpreted very differently. European governments describe their military expansion as a response to Russian aggression and a means of preventing future conflict. Russia, however, is likely to view the growth of European military capabilities, expanded NATO production and increased strategic infrastructure as evidence that the continent is preparing for a prolonged confrontation. 

THE MIDDLE EAST AND THE STRAIT OF HORMUZ

If Taiwan represents the possibility of a future great-power confrontation, the Middle East demonstrates what happens when escalation is already underway.

The ongoing U.S.-Iran conflict has entered a dangerous phase in which military operations, attacks on infrastructure and disruption of maritime trade are becoming interconnected. 

he Strait of Hormuz is particularly dangerous because it transforms a regional military confrontation into a global economic problem. The waterway is a critical route for energy shipments, meaning that any prolonged disruption affects not only the countries fighting the war but also governments, industries and consumers thousands of kilometres away. Reuters reported on July 22 that the conflict had significantly worsened the outlook for the global oil market in 2026, with analysts projecting a global oil deficit of approximately 1.5 million barrels per day as disruptions continued to affect exports from the Gulf. The same report noted that Brent crude had risen sharply during the renewed escalation.

This is the point at which military escalation begins to acquire a life of its own. Once energy infrastructure, shipping lanes and civilian economic systems become part of a conflict, every military action produces consequences far beyond the battlefield. A strike against a port can affect insurance markets. An attack on a tanker can alter shipping routes. A threat against energy infrastructure can change oil prices before a single barrel is physically removed from the market.

THE MIDDLE EAST AND THE STRAIT OF HORMUZ

The Strait of Hormuz is particularly dangerous because it transforms a regional military confrontation into a global economic problem. The waterway is a critical route for energy shipments, meaning that any prolonged disruption affects not only the countries fighting the war but also governments, industries and consumers thousands of kilometres away. Reuters reported on July 22 that the conflict had significantly worsened the outlook for the global oil market in 2026, with analysts projecting a global oil deficit of approximately 1.5 million barrels per day as disruptions continued to affect exports from the Gulf. The same report noted that Brent crude had risen sharply during the renewed escalation.

This is the point at which military escalation begins to acquire a life of its own. Once energy infrastructure, shipping lanes and civilian economic systems become part of a conflict, every military action produces consequences far beyond the battlefield.

A strike against a port can affect insurance markets. An attack on a tanker can alter shipping routes. A threat against energy infrastructure can change oil prices before a single barrel is physically removed from the market.

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A second red heifer is born in the Golan: “God is pressing us toward building the Temple.”

A second red heifer is born in the Golan: “God is pressing us toward building the Temple.”

Adam Eliyahu Berkowitz

Just a month and a half after the National Red Heifer Institute announced the birth of a red heifer around the reading of Parshat Chukat, the Institute is announcing the birth of a second red heifer, this time in the Golan Heights, on the eve of Tisha B’Av. The same week, two red heifers were inseminated in Ancient Shiloh, part of what the Institute describes as a broader effort to raise a full herd of red heifers and restore the laws of purity to Israel after 2,000 years of exile.

The new heifer was born in the herd of Shai Givon, a farmer with the National Red Heifer Institute, with strict care taken from birth to preserve her unblemished status: no ear tag was placed, since the puncture itself would constitute the kind of blemish that disqualifies a heifer from the ritual. Givon is the same breeder who first identified the previous heifer, discovered in one of the dairy barns where he was working.

Asked how two red heifers could be born so close together, Givon said he sees the timing as more than coincidence. “I feel that we are living in a historic era,” he said. “Since the last heifer was born, I have received inquiries and questions from every part of the Jewish spectrum, in Israel and abroad; Hasidim, Litvaks, secular Jews and religious Jews alike. The Jewish people are more attuned than ever to the Temple and to restoring purity to Israel, and God is opening doors and opportunities that have not existed in 2,000 years.”

“We are on our way to raising a full herd of red heifers,” Givon said. “The team at the Institute expected potential heifers to be born this season, but her birth so close to Tisha B’Av gives the strong sense that God is pressing us to accelerate the path toward building the Temple. The real question is whether we want to.”

Because she was born directly in Givon’s herd, the new heifer carries no ear tag. But her health has opened a halachic question the Sages never had to confront. She was born a twin to a male calf, and cattle are unique among animals in that twin fetuses can share a connected blood supply between their placentas. In the small share of these cases — Givon’s Institute puts the figure at roughly 98 percent — this cross-circulation mixes the hormones needed for reproductive development between the male and female twins, and the male’s testosterone can permanently damage the female’s uterus. The English veterinary term for the resulting female twin is a freemartin: an animal born with an intact uterus that cannot properly develop, leaving her what halachah terms an aylonit — a female incapable of ever conceiving.

“There is a real question as to whether a birth defect that is not external and visible on the cow’s body disqualifies her unblemished status, both for sacrifices generally and for the red heifer specifically,” said Rabbi Azariah Ariel, head of the Beit Midrash at the National Red Heifer Institute. “Since our goal is to establish a national halachic standard, we will not rule on this alone. The Beit Midrash will need to deliberate together and bring its conclusions to the leading halachic authorities of the generation for their endorsement. 

With God’s help, we hope within about a year to publish our conclusions on the central questions in this field, and afterward to publish four comprehensive volumes of Parah Adumah Kehilchatah [The Red Heifer According to Halachah], summarizing a decade of halachic research for the rabbinic community in Israel.”

The Institute is inviting rabbis from across Israel to a gathering on Thursday, August 6, at a farm in the north, to deliberate together on the halachic questions the project keeps raising. Rabbis interested in attending can register through the Institute’s website or by emailing menachem@redheiferinstitute.com.

“Over the past year we’ve felt a tremendous public awakening around the Temple,” Ben Tzvi said, “and to keep up with the demand, we’ve launched a mass fundraising campaign in recent days to expand our educational work on the subject.”

“Perhaps on Tisha B’Av two years from now, we will merit purifying the people of Israel for the first time in 2,000 years, through a historic national event that fulfills the words of the prophet — that the days of mourning the destruction will become days of joy for the building of the Temple,” Ben Tzvi said. “As it is written: ‘Thus said the Lord of Hosts: The fast of the fourth month, the fast of the fifth, the fast of the seventh, and the fast of the tenth shall become occasions for joy and gladness, happy festivals for the house of Judah — but you must love truth and peace’ (Zechariah 8:19).”

US strikes Iran again as Tehran rejects ceasefire proposal and warns of attack on Tel Aviv

US strikes Iran again as Tehran rejects ceasefire proposal and warns of attack on Tel Aviv

The U.S. military launched a broad wave of strikes in Iran overnight Thursday-Friday, marking the 13th consecutive night of attacks, amid preparations for an especially tense weekend after President Donald Trump said Thursday that he was considering a massive attack "bigger than anything before" against the Islamic Republic.

Reports from Iran said explosions were heard in a number of cities in the south and southwest of the country, as well as the activation of air defense systems in the capital Tehran. At the same time, The New York Times reported that Iran rejected a ceasefire proposal in the fighting from Trump himself, which was delivered through Iraqi Prime Minister Ali al-Zaidi.

The report was based on Iranian and Iraqi officials who spoke with the American newspaper on condition of anonymity. Al-Zaidi, who met with Trump at the White House earlier this month, arrived in Iran with a delegation of senior officials and met with the Iranian leadership, including President Masoud Pezeshkian, parliament speaker and chief negotiator Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf and Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi.

The details of the ceasefire proposal were not published, but Iranian officials told the Times that it was the only offer on the table and that Tehran was not interested in a temporary agreement that would leave the issue of control over the Strait of Hormuz unresolved.

Araghchi said al-Zaidi’s visit was “significant given the current circumstances in the region.” He said the Iraqi prime minister shared his “positions and impressions” from his trip to Washington, but added that Tehran and Washington already had enough intermediaries.

“The problem is not the transmission of messages,” he said. “The problem is America’s perception, which is irrational and greedy.”

Over the past two weeks, the escalation in the exchange of fire between the U.S. and Iran has intensified daily. The U.S. military has bombed military bases alongside civilian infrastructure such as railways, airports, bridges and seaports. Iran, for its part, has launched daily attacks using drones and missiles against Gulf states and Jordan, targeting both American bases and civilian infrastructure.

In addition, Iran has fired on tankers passing through the Strait of Hormuz, while the U.S. has enforced a blockade on Iranian ports, preventing vessels from entering or leaving them.

After already threatening to destroy a bridge and power plant — including in Tehran — for every ship attacked, Trump announced in a post on his Truth Social platform overnight that Iranian funds would be used to cover any damage caused to ships that are hit.

“Until further notice any and all damages done to ships, cargo, or anything related thereto, will be paid for by Iranian money that the United States has in its possession, and controls,” he wrote. “These damages may be very substantial but, nevertheless, this is the fair and equitable thing to do.

Two Iranian officials said the regime’s armed forces were monitoring and preparing for the possibility of the war expanding if Trump carries out his threats to strike Tehran and vital infrastructure. If he does so, the officials said, Iran would broaden the conflict at the regional level, including an attack on Tel Aviv, alongside a request that Yemen’s Houthi rebels close the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, another strategic shipping route threatened by Tehran.

In a statement published on X by U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) as the wave of strikes began, it said: “U.S. forces started another night of strikes against Iranian military targets at 6:45 p.m. ET (Eastern Time) today. This is the 13th consecutive night of strikes aimed to hold Iran accountable and diminish threats from the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps to commercial shipping.”

Two hours and 15 minutes later, CENTCOM announced that the wave of strikes had been completed. It said Iranian military headquarters, drone storage facilities, communications networks, coastal surveillance sites and naval capabilities were targeted “further diminish the threat Iran poses to civilian mariners and commercial vessels transiting the Strait of Hormuz.”

The U.S. military added that “the international waterway remains open for transit despite recent attacks from Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. Commercial vessels continue to freely navigate the strait with U.S. military support.”

Earlier Thursday, Western intelligence agencies assessed that Iran could attack Israel first in an attempt to draw it into a confrontation.

Amid preparations for possible escalation over the weekend, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will convene the restricted security cabinet on Friday. Trump said Thursday that he was considering a “massive attack bigger than anything before” against Iran and that he was “close to making a decision. We're fully prepared for it.”

Trump added that Israel “would join in within two minutes if I asked them to,” but stressed: “We don’t need anybody.”

Amid the tensions, Likud lawmaker Moshe Saada said Thursday that “everyone knows we are heading toward an attack on Iran, perhaps even this weekend.”

Several local government heads announced Thursday that municipal shelters would be opened, despite the Home Front Command not issuing updated instructions or ordering shelters to open.

Regardless, the IDF are preparing for a range of scenarios, and the entire system remains on high alert amid the possibility that events could change rapidly.