My two radio segments with Alan Butler on June 25, 2014.
Topics: wind turbines, animals, human effects, economy, my dad
I come on at the 34 minute mark.
http://host1.cyberears.com//26850.mp3
My view of the world through personal experience, 30 years of teaching Economics and Foreign Languages, travel in Europe and North America, research, and living 20 years under communism.
Thursday, June 26, 2014
In a Daze, Where is My Country?
There are days when I watch in a daze the slow motion
transformation of America into the country I left 36 years ago. Change is good
for America, I am told by those who decided in their ignorant collectivist
minds that they know what’s best for the rest of the country, for the rest of
the world.
It is good to invalidate and erase the southern border,
eliminating sovereignty; it is good to allow a flood of illegal immigrants to
overwhelm the country with their financial, economic, educational, and medical needs.
It is good for the soul to be charitable against your will by government fiat.
It is good to have your wealth stolen and given to those who did not earn it.
It is good to ignore veterans’ needs, old people’s needs, and America’s poor.
It is good for America to ignore all the legal immigrants who want to come to
this country the right way.
I ask myself, where is my country? Can I have it back? Why
must we destroy everything in order to satisfy the wishes of the ruling elite,
the oligarchs in power, who are busy re-writing all our laws, inviting in
corruption, lawlessness, and deceit. No matter what the regime says, those in
power become more prosperous and acquire more power.
Why are Americans dissatisfied with their abundant
lifestyle, their top-notch medical care, and generous welfare system, abundance
of food, outstanding opportunity for education, advancement, promotion, and freedom
of mobility?
What do they imagine that resides behind the tall green fence
of egalitarian utopia with social justice for all? Is it a magical door that
absorbs every illiterate wretch from around the globe and turns them into good
global citizens?
Do Americans long for the adobe-style village dwellings made
of mud bricks and without electricity where I spent the first seven years of my
life?
Perhaps they enjoy standing in line for hours to get basic
ingredients of food while fighting for the last loaf of fresh bread or kilo of
flour? What a fine opportunity to get to know your entire neighborhood while
waiting in food lines and engage in some competitive shoving.
Maybe they like when shelves are empty and the pharmacies
never have the drugs they need because they are in short supply and are delivered
first to the regime’s oligarchs. It might scale back the collective drug
dependency.
Maybe they don’t mind the lines to get toilet paper, lines
that wrap around for many blocks. Who needs toilet paper when nature has plenty
of leaves?
Surely they must be envying the equality of low paying
salaries and forced job assignments as far away from home as possible. Nobody
should have to come home but once a week. Dormitories at the place of
employment are just fine. Think about all the gas and electricity saved and the
carbon credits earned.
Maybe they enjoy being spied upon for their own safety by
the elites, and moved into crowded, densely populated, dirty, and noisy
government-run apartments. They can build such a diverse community of
like-minded neighbors who “meditate” together.
Are they envying the fuzzy feeling of equality and of saving
nature for God knows what, while walking miles to the grocery store, work, the
market, or the doctor?
Maybe they are envying the equality of waiting for hours to
see a doctor and being told to come back the next day because the doctor has
filled his government-quota of patients for the day.
Perhaps they are daring and wish to have their teeth extracted
or drilled without anesthetics because it has not been delivered to doctors in
years. Nobody needs toxic substances in their bodies.
Maybe they welcome the communist indoctrination in schools
and the rounding up of parents weekly to be humiliated in front of the entire
parent body because their children are not marching obediently-enough in lock-step
with the “dictatura” of the regime.
Conceivably they must enjoy gawking at the one-sausage
hanging in the window while the elites shop at their own stores and visit their
own hospitals.
Possibly they enjoy staying at home, waiting for the
government check and other unearned “entitlements” to arrive, hopefully on
time, and the coupons for food rationing, delivered by an approved mailman who
is too tired and haggard to care that all mail has been opened and read before
delivery.
Feasibly they may enjoy taking virtual vacations vicariously
through the television broadcasted vacations of the elites. Who needs to leave
the safety of their crowded abode to travel on trains and buses to faraway
places where nobody can afford the gas, the food, and the hotel?
Conceivably they may enjoy staying in the dark on a regular
basis when power is cut off, shivering when heat does not reach their
apartments, and sweltering in summer because air conditioning is not allowed or
too expensive.
Americans may learn to enjoy the freedom of not bathing
because water is rationed. Who needs to smell good or wash clothes when it is
so much easier to go dirty and with matted hair? Shampoo and soap are
overrated, we are told by Europeans, we bathe too much and our skin dries out.
Think how soft and smooth your skin will be from lack of bathing. We would be
saving Mother Nature. We are not sure what we would be saving the planet for,
but we are saving it to thrive back to wilderness. That would make
environmentalists really happy.
Why would Americans protest when a vet who had three strokes
is denied nursing home care? Neither Medicare nor Tricare would pay for his
care because he has no visible wounds and he has plenty of resources saved up
to pay $6,000 a month for nursing care. After all, it’s only fair; he has to
exhaust all his earthly possessions before Medicaid kicks in. Everybody else,
who did not pay their dues to society like our vets had, gets all services
free.
The government needs money to care for these poor illegal
alien “children” who showed up on our southern border from Central America, by
no fault of their own, some with awful tattoos, their parents just let them out
of the house and someone unfairly bussed them and flew them to our border
patrols where they were met with open arms, scabies and all. They need free
housing, free health care, free education, 42,000 pairs of grown men’s
underwear, formula, bottles, babysitters, etc. - it is expensive to alter
practically overnight, relatively speaking, the demographics of our “unfair and
insufficiently diverse” society.
The Democrat Party is seeking this transformational change
with dizzying speed, cheered on the sidelines by Republican brethren. But we
are not transforming fast enough into the “social justice,” “environmental
justice,” and “coexist” Tower of Babel heaven they’ve promised their American
followers and constituents. We must be nudged. A suggestion has been floated
that they should change their name to the Communist Party since they are so
neatly aligned with Marxism.
I can hardly wait for this American majority and the illegal
aliens they support to attain the communist utopia they’ve escaped from but so
richly deserve. The oligarchs, the liberal rich, the political class, and
Hollywood elites can then hang around with the former middle class they’ve impoverished
with their policies and their activism.
Monday, June 23, 2014
Wind Turbines and Negative Effects on Animals
"The wind turbines look like evil hands swatting rhythmically at the beauty of nature."
- Ileana Johnson
I’ve recently reported on the bizarre behavior of animals,
1,600 miscarriages, and fetal deformities at a mink farm in Denmark after the
installation and full operation on September 2013 of four 3-MW VESTAS wind
turbines within a short distance (328 m) from Kaj Bank Olesen’s fur farm. http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/the-accepted-killing-and-maiming-of-animals-in-the-name-of-green-energy
"The wind turbines look like evil hands swatting rhythmically at the beauty of nature."
- Ileana Johnson
Kaj Bank Olesen at mink farm, courtesy of Aoh.Dk |
Mark Duchamp, Chairman of World Council on Nature, released
an update on June 23, 2014 that farmer Olesen now believes that when the wind
blows from the South West where the wind turbines are located, “mother minks
attack their own puppies.” Olesen put
down over twenty mink pups and forty are under observation because of deep
bites.
The online Aoh.Dk referenced how, since the wind turbines “began
to spin last fall, the number of stillbirths and deformed puppies increased
fivefold.” Farmer Kaj Olesen Bank also explained, “The proportion of females
that refused to mate has quadrupled as compared to last year when there were no
wind turbines behind his mink farm.” http://aoh.dk/artikel/vindmller-giver-vanskabte-hvalpe
You could argue that we are not mink and should not worry that
low-frequency vibrations created by wind turbines are harmful to humans. After
all, green energy proponents keep reassuring us that wind and solar energy is
harmless to the planet and to adjacent populations. When animals such as minks,
cattle, sheep, goats, and horses, exposed to wind turbines 24/7, become
aggressive, die en masse, abort their fetuses, some with developmental
malformations, and attack their young, it is time to ask ourselves, what are
wind turbines doing to the human body? The “wind turbine syndrome” is not just
hypochondria as the wind industry and the environmental lobby explained. http://wcfn.org/2014/03/31/windfarms-vertebrates-and-reproduction/
Officials in Taiwan reported that 400 animals died due to
sleep deprivation after the installation of eight wind turbines close to their
grazing area. Farmer Kuo Jing-shan was left with 250 goats from the original
700 he owned before the wind turbines were installed. Taipower admitted no
wrongdoing but “offered to pay for part of the costs of building a new
farmhouse elsewhere.” http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/8060969
In Ontario, Canada, local deer were reported as “agitated
and awake all night,” “birds were flying all day rather than going to roost,”
and “seals suffered miscarriages.” http://wind-watch.org/documents/wind-turbine-placement-must-consider-vibration-effect-on-animals/
In Nova Scotia, David and Debi Van Tassell believed that the
low-frequency hum of the wind turbines installed in the vicinity of their Ocean
Breeze emu farm killed many of their birds after the first turbine went into
operation in 2009. The emus were not sleeping and running in pens day and night,
losing weight. The remaining birds, which cost $3,000 a pair, were sold for
$100 each. http://thechronicleherald.ca/novascotia/1168233-turbines-blamed-for-killing-emu-business
Another study described the case of Lusitanian horses who
suffered deformities not attributed to any disease but seemingly connected to
the installation of wind turbines nearby. “All horses (N=4) born or raised
after 2007 developed asymmetric flexural limb deformities. WT (wind turbines)
began operations in November 2006. No other changes (construction, industries,
etc.) were introduced into the area during this time. http://www.windturbinessyndrome.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/2010-Denmark-Wind-turbines-Lyon-follow-up.pdf
The low-frequency sound and the constant thump-thump have
caused some people to abandon their homes located in the vicinity of wind
farms. Health issues such as sleep disturbance, sleep deprivation, dizziness,
tinnitus, and constant headaches in humans have been ignored by the main stream
media who is eager to promote “clean” solar and wind energy generation.
Eccentric Uncle Leo
Photo: motocyclingintheusa.com |
He lived life to the fullest and never complained that
his destiny was unfair. A ladies’ man and perennial optimist, he never gave up the
quest to find his soul mate. In this pursuit, he married five times to women he
adored. We don’t know what stories his ex-wives would tell if asked. Multiple
marriages seemed to be the norm for boxers. Even the famous Jack Dempsey had
married four times.
Leo was a championship boxer famous in his days in the
Navy. He trained many Golden Glove boxers during his career. As a feisty child
who misbehaved often and needed a lesson or two from his dad, he was knocked
out cold once when he reached for food impolitely at the dinner table and
forgot to duck. His dad made sure that he remembered his manners. He often said,
good thing social services were not around when his strict disciplinarian dad
used spanking, punishment, and rewards to motivate him - his life would have
turned out much differently. He learned early in life that discipline and
respect were the keys to success.
Leo’s dad, Herman, a heavyweight champion boxer himself,
had sparred in his heyday with Jack Dempsey, the Muhammad Ali of his time. Jack
Dempsey, nicknamed the “Manassa Mauler,” was the heavyweight world boxing champion
from 1919-1926. A large photograph still exists of the two fighting while the
crowds are cheering on.
Leo left behind numerous scrap books with newspaper
clippings, black and white pictures, and posters collected during his years in
the Navy, his boxing matches, and many photos of students he trained as amateur
Golden Glove boxers, whom he helped develop athletic skills and character. The
Golden Glove of America Inc. has been around since 1923. A few amateur boxers
trained by Leo have progressed into the Pan Am and Olympic Games.
Touching the faded pages, immersing into someone’s
private life whom I’ve never met, I
imagine the excitement of the match. I often watched games with my dad when I
was a child, particularly those of Cassius Clay, Muhammad Ali’s former persona in
the boxing world.
Leo’s two children and two surviving younger brothers did
not expect many people at the funeral. They were not even sure if the ex-wives
who were still alive would be there. To everyone’s surprise, the small church
in West Virginia was packed with former students who adored Leo and had come a
long way to pay their last respects. News had traveled fast in the boxing world
that he had departed. They never forget a champion or a first class trainer.
After a short service and a eulogy delivered by his brother Eugene, the funeral
procession lined up to accompany Leo’s earthly remains on his last journey to
the cemetery.
But the hearse did not go to the cemetery; it drove and
drove and drove until it reached very thick woods, the road became impassable
by car, and it finally disappeared. Leo was an eccentric through and through.
He did not want to spend eternity six feet below freshly mowed grass in the
bustling city’s memorial gardens. Leo wanted to be buried in his beloved woods
where he hunted frequently. The pallbearers were forced to carry his casket
through the dense woods for quite a long trek, heaving the casket, and taking
frequent breaks. When they finally reached the destination, a fresh grave was
dug by his hunting stand.
The family and the former students were not quite sure if
it was legal to bury someone in the middle of the woods without a proper
permit, but apparently it was because nobody came to disinter him. The preacher
held a quick service by the gravesite and Leo was lowered six feet under his
deer stand.
Sunday, June 22, 2014
Butler on Business, June 18, 2014
My weekly radio segment with Alan Butler on Liberty Express Radio, June 18, 2014. Topic: Illegal Immigration and diseases. I come on at the hour and 42 minute mark.
http://host1.cyberears.com//26743.mp3
http://host1.cyberears.com//26743.mp3
Monday, June 16, 2014
Butler on Business, June 11, 2014
My two radio segments with Alan Butler on Eric Cantor's loss to Dave Brat, the flood of illegal children from Central America and Mexico, and the negative effects of wind turbines on human and animal health with examples from Denmark. I come on at the one hour and 22 minute mark.
http://host1.cyberears.com//26647.mp3
http://host1.cyberears.com//26647.mp3
Dangerous Health Issues Associated with Illegal Immigration
"America is fast becoming a Hispanic Zimbabwe."
A very sweet and polite
lady I do not know, posted a heart-breaking comment to my recent statement that
entitlements are benefits that Social Security recipients and veterans collect
after having earned and paid for them during a life time of work. On the other
hand, welfare such as food stamps, WIC, SNAP, EBT, and earned income tax credit
are not entitlements; they are taxpayer-funded handouts or, as economists call
them, “negative income taxes,” aimed at funding the “war on poverty.” We have
lost this war on poverty in spite of trillions of dollars spent because handouts
disincentivize humans to work. Additionally, unskilled jobs or jobs requiring lesser
training are harder to find because illegal competitors work for less.
She stated that a
Christian nation such as ours should take care of its poor, the sick, and the
elderly. I could not agree with her more. She lamented that her disability
benefits, after a lifetime of work, $1,200 a month, barely covered her
medications and expenses, and she had to go hungry sometimes. She did not
qualify for food stamps.
Basic economics teaches
that every nation, including one as rich as ours, has finite resources that
must be spread to its population, to foreign aid, and to all illegal immigrants
currently residing in our country, including the invading waves of
unaccompanied illegal minor children and not-so-minor and innocent 18 year
olds.
If unearned benefits were
denied to illegal aliens, including non-monetary benefits such as free basic education,
free or subsidized college education, free medical care, free housing, free
phones, then money would be freed to help American citizens who are in dire
need of help.
She failed to understand how
helping foreigners who cross our borders illegally non-stop hurts our citizens.
We must first help the poor in this country. Yes, we are a nation of legal immigrants
and we used to be rich, but the horn of plenty is running dry.
We are generous to a
fault. Americans and Christian churches provide for the poor around the world
who are exploited economically and politically by their own dictatorial
governments. Yet these same people, who manage to escape from unbelievable
hellholes and tell indescribable stories of horror, vote and elect individuals
who keep them dependent on big government. Why would they do that? Because they’ve
been conditioned to believe that their families’ wellbeing depends on big government
handouts.
We also have the
responsibility to care for medically and to educate our own citizens first. We
treat our veterans very poorly and with substandard health care but we offer free
first class care to illegal aliens. Why exactly have our vets risked their
lives to defend our freedoms when we fail to deliver on the promise to care for
them?
We waste billions of
dollars each year translating everything imaginable in the public arena into
many languages, including manuals, textbooks, road signs, voting records, directions,
tests, medical services, driver licenses, ESL education, in order to accommodate
those who refuse or claim that they cannot learn English.
Adding to the financial
burden placed upon American citizens by illegal immigration, the spread of
unchecked communicable diseases remains a very serious threat to our public
health.
Mexico and Central America
harbor TB, malaria, yellow fever, food
and waterborne diseases, dengue fever, filariasis, leishmaniasis,
onchocerciasis, American trypanosomiasis (Chagas’ disease), and myasis (various
forms of intestinal parasites). Mexico’s
six border states have over 27 cases of TB per 100,000 people. Legal immigrants
have to be evaluated for TB and other diseases before they are allowed into the
U.S. Illegal aliens escape such inspection.
CDC Border Infectious Disease Surveillance (BIDS) was established in
1997 with Mexico in order to identify illegals with hepatitis and febrile
exantehm (skin rash which accompanies Rubella).
“Immigrant women may be at risk for disease such as rubella (due to lack of vaccination) or listeriosis (due to food preparation practices)” - read poor
hygiene in food preparation such as not washing dirty hands. In 2003 the CDC stated
that 53 percent of reported TB cases were “persons born outside the United
States and Mexico had the most numbers of TB cases of the top five countries. http://www.emergencyemail.org/newsemergency/templates/templatestandard1.asp?articleid=91&zoneid=1
According to Titles 8 and
42 of the U.S. Code, the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human
Services has the statutory responsibility to prevent the introduction,
transmission, and spread of communicable diseases into the United States.
For legal immigrants, the
Division of Global Migration and Quarantine operates quarantine stations at
ports of entry to prevent the introduction, transmission, and spread of
communicable diseases in the United States.
According to the
Immigration and Nationality Act (INA), the Secretary of Health and Human
Services determines which communicable diseases of public health significance
would make a foreign national inadmissible into the U.S. on health-related
grounds. There are seven such diseases: chancroid,
gonorrhea, granuloma inguinale, lymphogranuloma venereum, syphilis (sexually
transmitted diseases), infectious
leprosy, active tuberculosis, and infectious
syphilis.
Foreign nationals who are
not vaccinated against vaccine-preventable diseases, mumps, measles, rubella,
polio, tetanus, diphtheria, pertussis, influenza type B and hepatitis B, are also inadmissible
into the United States.
Other diseases that would
prevent a foreign national from entering the United States are: cholera, diphtheria, infectious
tuberculosis, plague, smallpox, yellow fever, viral hemorrhagic fevers (Lassa, Marburg, Ebola, Crimean-Congo, South
American, and others not yet isolated or named), SARS (severe acute respiratory syndrome), and “influenza caused by novel or re-emergent influenza viruses that are
causing, or have the potential to cause, a pandemic.” (Ruth Ellen Wasem, “Immigration
Policies and Issues on Health-Related Grounds for Exclusion,” Congressional
Research Service, R40570, April 28, 2014)
Foreign nationals who
petition to become legal permanent residents must be tested by civil surgeons
chosen by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), an agency of the
Department of Homeland Security (DHS). CDC and the Customs and Border
Protection from the DHS operate 20 quarantine stations with doctors on call for
all ports of entry.
If foreign nationals who
enter our country must go through such a strict health inspection before they
are allowed into our country or permitted to become legal permanent residents
(LPRs), why then are we turning a deliberate blind eye to the massive exodus
from Central America into the U.S.? Who is checking the health of these illegal
aliens? What kind of diseases are they bringing in?
The recent manufactured “humanitarian
crisis” on the southern border has brought into Arizona, Texas, and Oklahoma, thousands
of unaccompanied illegal minor children and teenagers, creating chaos and an
inability to deal with the mass of humanity that has no place to go. The fact
that these foreign nationals are used as political pawns and parents sent their
minor children across Mexico is incomprehensible to rational Americans. Many of
these children are sick and too young to understand their precarious and perplexing
predicament.
ABC 15 reports that in McAllen, Texas, border
agents are concerned about contagious infections and viral outbreaks. Reports
include scabies, chicken pox, MRSA
staph infections, and different viruses. Border agents have actually contracted
scabies while coming in contact with these children. A 7-month old baby was
shaking with fever. “It's contagious, we are transporting people to different parts
of the state and different parts of the country,” Rio Grande Valley Union
representative, Chris Cabrera, said. http://www.abc15.com/news/national/immigrants-bringing-diseases-across-border
Whether these children are brought here under an
overt plan of social engineering to accelerate the changing demographics in
America, it remains to be seen. It is evident that they are not here to provide
the cheap labor demanded by farms and companies alike. Worse yet, some of these
“children” are gang members with easily identifiable tattoos.
Federal, state, and local governments will have
to spend a lot of money to shelter, provide homes, raise, and educate these minors
or repatriate them through lengthy and expensive legal battles to reunite them
with parents in their home countries. If the regime’s plan is to bring their
extended families from Central America here, exacerbating the illegal alien
problem, the U.S. welfare rolls will be overwhelmed, and the perennial Democrat
voter pool will alter irreversibly the fabric of our society.
Friday, June 13, 2014
Comprehensive Immigration Reform Is Disguised Amnesty
http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/53947
Tuesday, June 10, 2014
How Long Before the Founding Fathers’ America Disappears?
Courtesy: CFP |
A soft coup has occurred
that had been planned for years, unbeknownst to most Americans who are still
busy thinking that, if they just elect the right candidate this time and energize
the vote in one more election, things will turn around and the rule of law will
be restored. They are not taking into account the millions of illegal aliens
who are registered to vote, the deceased vote, and those who are bussed from
Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador and dropped off in Arizona, including
young children to be housed on military bases at considerable cost per child to
the U.S. taxpayers. These children will be reunited eventually with their
families here, doubling, tripling, and quadrupling any estimates of the illegal
vote. The newly amnestied Dreamers have already cast their votes in the last
presidential election and helped re-elect our President.
The MSM across the board
has morphed into the cheering promoters and excusers of the regime, the de
facto propaganda arm of this fast change to a soft tyranny. Few Americans have
noticed the not-so-subtle rhetorical changes. One recent example is the capitalist
phrase “middle class” has become the communist “working class.”
The rule of law has been
replaced in “this year of action” by executive orders and regulations issued
directly by various bureaucratic “public servants” and agencies directly
answering to no one who have become, in essence rulers by fiat. Most recently, student
debt was called upon to be relieved by “millionaires” who must now expiate
their sins of being entrepreneurial, hard-working investors and job creators by
paying for those who got worthless degrees with which they cannot find employment
in the job-destroying Obama economy.
The government has bailed out
everything from car companies, banks, student loans, and mortgage companies.
The feds have replaced our education system with Bill Gates’ vision of academia
funded by his own millions and the government’s Race to the Top billions – a never
before tested and bizarre curriculum called Common Core. The complicit teachers
and administrators followed the money and the directives like drones guided by
a remote.
Marching more and more
into the nanny state, parents are losing the right to their children (either to
local schools, child protective services, foster care, or hospitals), sugary
drinks and other non-government approved foods are banned, minimum wage is
pushed to $15 an hour, even though it will hurt employment, China is taking
over our food production, manufacturing, and farming. Pharmaceuticals are
already controlled by a few manufacturers and some drugs are harder to find, in
short supply, or no longer produced. Vitamins and over-the-counter drugs are
more strictly controlled, particularly in Europe.
Medical care is becoming a
more expensive service for most Americans thanks to Obamacare that was supposed
to insure 15 percent of uninsured Americans yet in the end, it has uninsured
millions by pushing them out of the market. American families who were
previously insured can no longer afford the high premiums and deductibles
associated with the Obamacare exchanges. Many doctors have retired or have stopped
accepting Medicare and Medicaid altogether due to the hassle, mandatory electronic
record compliance, and low government reimbursement rates. The IRS has become
the insurance enforcer and punisher of insurance non-compliance.
Where we live, where we
build, and how densely populated we are allowed to live, has been taken over by
the Regionalism and Sustainability plans of UN Agenda 21 via draconian,
property rights infringing zoning regulations. Everything we do in life must be
“green and sustainable” thanks to the environmentalist Gaia-centered agenda.
Global warming/climate
change now drive every political decision made at every level of government,
fleecing citizens worldwide of unnecessary billions and trillions in carbon
taxes, much higher utility rates, expensive gasoline prices, and any other type
of fossil fuel-generated energy.
Fossil fuels have become
dirty words in the progressives’ war against coal, a war bankrupting as many
companies as possible that do not or cannot afford to comply with strict EPA
emissions or with expensive and inadequate power generation by renewables.
Smart meters and smart
appliances are now forced on the entire globe, sold under the guise of a
smarter, more efficient grid. It is so smart that it is a sitting duck to any
cyber-attack, solar flare, or a simple physical attack on substations. All
smart appliances and electronic gadgets have become spying devices without a
warrant, providing every detail of our intimate lives to the NSA.
We can now be killed and
imprisoned indefinitely without due process. NASA has turned into a feel-good
agency for the Muslims. Drones are flying around the country spying on innocent
citizens who have done nothing wrong. NSA is recording everything.
Illegals are bussed in to
overwhelm the southern states, our economy, the health care system, and the
educational system, with the intent of changing our national demographics
because the oligarchs have decided that we are not diverse enough, they need
cheap labor, and more low information or no information Democrat voters.
Under the guise of an
impending “humanitarian disaster,” which, according to the press in Honduras,
was created by our own government who promised under-age illegal aliens no
deportation and immediate amnesty, children between the ages of 5-18 are bussed
and flown across Mexico from Central America to be housed temporarily in
Arizona, Oklahoma, and Texas. Reports streaming out of these holding facilities
claim that serious infectious diseases and sexual activity are rampant. These
countries are poor and economically strapped but these children are not Castro’s
Peter Pan children.
One astute caller asked
why these minors are not sent back to be reunited with their families in their
home countries instead of allowing them to create such chaos in our country that
is already reeling from crisis after crisis. He mentioned the “Elian Gonzalez Doctrine.”
Elian survived the defection attempt from
Castro’s Cuba but his mother drowned at sea. After weeks of round the clock media
circus, Attorney General Janet Reno used the force of law and armed men to
snatch this frightened boy from the safety of his aunt’s house and returned him
to his father in Cuba. Elian became an instant propaganda tool for Fidel Castro.
For a long time the goal
of immigration was assimilation into the American culture, learning English, becoming
a contributor to our way of life and enriching the diverse fabric of our society
while retaining the American exceptionalism.
Now liberals have devised
the “path to citizenship,” immigration forgiveness for breaking our laws, a
clever system of bringing the supposedly scared and frightened people, who broke
our laws and live around us in plain sight, “out of the shadows.” They called
them “undocumented workers,” “undocumented Americans,” “paperless immigrants,”
and many other deceptive euphemisms.
Liberals are forcing us to
accept these illegals as equal citizens with the same rights and benefits but
not the same responsibilities we have as American citizens. In the meantime, more than 4 million legal
immigrants are awaiting the resolution of their cases to come to the U.S. I
often wondered why illegal aliens are risking life and limb to come here if the
freedom and the opportunity to succeed are long gone. The answer is simple –
they are so poor, they come for the generous welfare because such programs do
not exist in their countries and we, the taxpayers, are overly generous to a
fault. Can we and should we work to
support all the poor of the world? Do we not become slaves to foreign nationals
when we spend so much of our time on earth earning a living and then giving it
away in taxes and welfare? To make matters worse, these people do not want to
assimilate.
Theodore Roosevelt’s words
ring so true. “In the first place, we
should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an
American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact
equality with everyone else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any
such man because of creed, or birthplace, or origin. But this is predicated
upon the person’s becoming in every facet an American, and nothing but an
American… There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an
American, but something else also, isn’t an American at all. We have room for
but one flag, the American flag… We have room for but one language here, and
that is the English language… And we have room for but one sole loyalty and
that is a loyalty to the American people.”
Our returning vets are
treated as social trash and stripped of the right to get decent medical care.
Illegal aliens receive first class free health treatment in our best hospitals
around the country but vets must use the VA substandard facilities where
waiting lists and waiting list for the waiting lists are condemning many to unnecessary
death when they should receive the best treatment in any hospital in the
country.
Illegal aliens are
flooding the country at an alarming rate and the regime is encouraging it by not
enforcing the law. We no longer have a border per se, we have lost our
sovereignty to the one-world globalists who have no allegiance to the country
they were born in, they are men and women without a country and with a dark heart
ruled by money, power, control, and corruption.
The people of my
generation believed in “the best of times are yet to come” because the values
of the depression era generation were still vibrating in the background of our
country. The values of today are worrisome, perplexing, and frustrating. Our
grandchildren don’t know history, government, and economics. They bury their
heads in the proverbial sand called reality television and social media as the
politicians and their constituents are burying their own children and grandchildren
in insurmountable debt.
Faith and churches have
been taken over by communists and sympathizers of the “religion of peace” which
makes no secret of its plan to install a world caliphate, a theocracy that
would destroy any dissenting non-believer who still does not understand that
Islam is not a religion; it is a political system incompatible with our
Constitution. Liberals are very busy appeasing them, inviting them into our
midst, and making room for any demand in the name of tolerance and the utopian right
to Coexist.
The destructive work of
liberals cannot be complete without the final push for an Article V Convention to
rewrite the outdated and foggy Constitution written by “evil” men of “white
privilege.”
Tyranny is tyranny,
whether it is soft, socialist, communist, fascistic, or theocratic. Just when it
seems that all is lost, the Majority Leader of the House of Representatives,
Eric Cantor, is sent packing by real Virginians who are tired of Cantor’s
doubling down on amnesty, and the Tea Party candidate, David Brat, wins the
primary.
What Do Mink Have in Common with Wind Turbines and Virginia Energy Council?
Danish mink farm Photo courtesy of the World Council for Nature |
According to the executive
order, “Historically, Virginia has ensured reliable and affordable energy,
helping businesses and consumers thrive. The Commonwealth boasts tens of
thousands of energy-related jobs, including mines, gas well crews,
manufacturing workers, engineers, mechanics, computer programmers, accountants,
and managers. Virginians can and should be proud of the energy industry, but a
changing market and energy environment requires decisive action to position the
Commonwealth to be a national leader in innovative
energy generation and utilization.”
Why is the market
changing? Is it a deliberate change, and why do we need innovative energy
generation and utilization? Is it the fulfillment of the administration’s
promise to cause electricity costs to “necessarily skyrocket,” while
bankrupting the coal industry?
According to Michael
Bastasch from the Daily Caller News Foundation, “at least six electric
cooperative utilities across the mid-west and southwest could raise electricity
rates up to 40 percent if the EPA imposes new permitting regulations on
coal-fired power plants.” Deseret Power Electric Cooperative (DPEC), that
serves 45,000 people in rural Utah, Nevada, Wyoming and Colorado, must spend
$200 million to install advanced equipment to satisfy the Clean Air Act Title V
permit. DPEC’s Bonanza Power Plant is located on the Uintah and Ouray Indian Reservations.
The environmentalist WildEarth Guardians are suing EPA to force Bonanza
Utilities to upgrade to a Title V permit. After public comments close on June
16, customers will have to foot the bill through much higher utility charges.
Existing power plants must
cut their carbon dioxide emissions by 30 percent by 2030 as mandated by the EPA
and each state must develop their own reduction plans. Gina McCarthy, EPA administrator,
said, “Although we limit pollutants like mercury, sulfur, and arsenic, there
are no limits on carbon pollution from power plants, our nation’s largest
source. For the sake of our families’ health and our kids’ future, we have a
moral obligation to act on climate.” It sounds so nice to have a totally clean
environment, who would object to that? However, since U.S. does not live in a
bubble, China and other populous third world nations are polluting away.
We could use the Keystone
XL pipeline to bring crude from Canada to refine in the U.S., reducing drastically
the dependency on OPEC cartel oil. But
the White House decided not to approve it, citing environmental issues even
though there are other pipelines carrying crude oil. We would not want crony
capitalists’ railroads to suffer if crude oil is delivered by more effective,
cheaper, and safer pipelines.
The current regime has
been undermining the wealth, prosperity, and the U.S. economy, which has been
successfully based on fossil fuels energy generation, in order to satisfy the
progressive and Democrat agenda of environmentalism, the use of very expensive
and job-killing renewable energy. Millions of birds are chopped up and fried
each year at the altar of wind and solar energy. Dozens of taxpayer-subsidized
solar companies have gone bankrupt without producing much energy.
But the Virginia Energy
Plan boasts about the objective of “accelerating the development and use of
renewable energy resources – Virginia can become a hub of innovative and
alternative energy research and development by focusing on expanding the use of
the Commonwealth’s underutilized renewable assets, such a solar and offshore
wind.”
Liberals love solar and
wind energy as long as the solar panels, which need considerable acreage to
install and plenty of sun year around, are installed on someone else’s property.
But no progressive would agree to have
the ugly, unsightly, and noisy wind mills installed in their own back yards because
they would be destroying their vineyards’ and horse-riding pastures’ “view shed.”
Aside from frying birds that
happen to wonder in the heat flux of the solar panels, or are attracted by the
reflecting panels that look like water, or chopped by the rotating blades of
the turbines, wind mills are damaging to animal and human health.
Paul Driessen, quoting
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and American Bird Conservancy, said that “wind
turbines kill 440,000 bald and golden eagles, hawks, falcons, owls, cranes,
egrets, geese, and other birds every year in the United States, along with
countless insect-eating bats.”
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/dec/22/big-wind-tax-credit-exterminates-endangered-specie/#ixzz344ofkgw7
Golden eagle found alive 27 days after losing wing to wind turbine Photo courtesy: Jim Wiegand |
Accidents have resulted in
human injury and death when turbine blades flew from their mounts and landed on
roads and property. Noise disturbances associated with wind turbines have been
investigated in 1985 by the WAUBRA Foundation for the U.S. Department of Energy
http://waubrafoundation.org.au/resources/kelley-et-al-1985-acoustic-noise-associated-with-mod-1-wind-turbine/
and in 1987 by N.D. Kelley, Solar Energy Research Institute of Colorado in
regards to low-frequency noise emissions by wind turbines into nearby homes.
http://waubrafoundation.org.au/resources/kelley-et-al-1985-acoustic-noise-associated-with-mod-1-wind-turbine/
H. Hubbard, member INCE, discussed in 1982 “Noise Induced House Vibrations and
Human Perception.”http://waubrafoundation.org.au/resources/hubbard-h-1982-noise-induced-house-vibrations-human-perception/
Some cities, after having
spent millions to install wind turbines, turn them off when winds reach higher
speeds because the noise pollution is unbearable, causing insomnia, tinnitus,
and other ailments. Some people had abandoned their nice homes and moved into
trailers. http://www.windturbinesyndrome.com/2014/why-didnt-this-man-believe-wind-turbines-make-people-sick-illinois/
And there are many other little
known secrets of wind power and its operability. http://www.aweo.org/problemwithwind.html
In October 2013, Dr. Sarah
Laurie delivered her speech, “Wind Turbine Noise, Adverse Health Effects &
Professional Ethics” at the Human Rights Conference. The CEO of the Waubra
Foundation discussed “the damage unregulated noise pollution is doing to human
health, with a particular focus on the effects of infrasound and low frequency
noise. Wind turbines are one source, but there are others also doing damage.”
Dr. Laurie pointed out that Dr. Kelly and his co-researchers at the Solar
Energy Research Institute “identified in 1985 that the source of annoyance for
the residents living near a single downwind bladed turbine was ‘impulsive
infrasound and low frequency noise, which resonated within the building
structure.’”
http://waubrafoundation.org.au/resources/laurie-s-wind-turbine-noise-adverse-health-effects-and-professional-ethics/Some minks born prematurely Courtesy: World Council for Nature |
Duchamp reported on June
7, 2014 that 1,600 minks were born prematurely, with deformities, or dead. With
the farmer’s permission, he posted pictures of the fetuses. Four 3-Megawatt
turbines, VESTAS model V112, 140 m in height, were installed 328 m away from
the farm. http://wcfn.org/
Because the only major
change in the farm life of these minks who died or miscarried en masse in
mysterious circumstances in two separate incidents (one of which was described
to a parliamentary committee on wind farms), and disease was ruled out, it was speculated that the installation of
wind turbines was the only culprit. Duchamp said, “low frequency vibrations
emitted by wind turbines can cause serious ill-effects on health, including
altered behavior, deformities, miscarriages, and premature births.
Dead minks who attacked each other Courtesy: World Council for Nature |
In spite of the fact that
wind and solar energy are not reliable, depending on fossil energy during down
times, kill millions of birds, including our national bird (an estimated 2,300 golden
eagles over the past 25 years were killed at Altamont Pass, California), harm
animals and their fetal development, and affect human health in many ways,
Democrats, including those now in charge in Virginia, are going full-steam
ahead with their environmentalist agenda through executive orders and EPA
regulations.
Update
The farmer petitioned the
government to move his mink farm further away from the four wind turbines on
his own land but his permit was denied.Thursday, June 5, 2014
Mom's Hands
Mom's Hand Today |
Mom’s often bruised and
swollen hands carried water from far away in heavy buckets when water was
turned off in summertime. They cooked thousands of nourishing meals when there
was so little money and food was so hard to get. Her hands washed so many
dishes, we could have gone around the globe. In the absence of a car, mom’s
hands carried heavy bags of groceries every day for a couple of miles at least.
She had to walk because that’s how far the market was.
Mom’s hands were often raw
from scrubbing our sheets and clothes in a bathtub filled with caustic detergent.
Communism did not provide much in terms of amenities to make homemaking easy.
We could not afford to buy a washing machine from the west nor could we afford
laundry bills as the elites who ran the oppressive regime we lived under.
My mom’s younger hands
pushed in stifling heat very large and heavy containers filled with dough in
the factory she worked – a sweat-shop experience she would like to forget. Her
hands weighed and shaped tasty fresh loaves of bread for almost twenty years.
Then she came home to cook and feed her family. Her hands never rested much and
nobody massaged her achy fingers and wrists. I don’t recall her ever
complaining or moaning in pain.
She is finally resting her
hands because they no longer help her as much. Mom gets frustrated when they
fail her. But I understand. God wants to give her hands a rest. She’s done
enough for so many people. It is time that other hands take her place to move
small mountains every day.
Mom always told me, take
care of your hands, they are the first thing people see, and they are the
lifeline to your family. I never understood what she meant because I thought
people saw our eyes first. But mom is right, people judge us by what we do, and
our hands are important tools in the labor of life and love.
Wednesday, June 4, 2014
Butler on Business, June 4, 2014
My segment with Alan Butler on Velocity of money. I come on at the one hour and 34 minute mark.
http://host1.cyberears.com//26572.mp3
http://host1.cyberears.com//26572.mp3
Monday, June 2, 2014
Communism Then and Now
“There is no difference between communism and
socialism, except in the way of achieving the same ultimate goal: communism
proposes to enslave men by force, socialism by voting. It’s the same difference
between murder and suicide.” - Ayn Rand
The grocery store from the communist era is still standing. Photo credit: Ileana Johnson 2012 |
Membership and influence are growing because the New York based Communist Party USA’s rhetoric appeals to the lowest denominator, to those who are already on welfare, illegal aliens, and permanent residents coming from third world dictatorships, and union members who are controlled by communist leaders. A constant and highly successful propaganda is waged by the Democrat Party and progressive elites, using the communist slogans of “hope and change,” “forward,” “social justice,” “environmental justice,” “white-privilege,” and “income inequality.”
Communists appear so successful because Americans have a short collective memory, short attention span, and know, thanks to a socialist academia, very little of their own non-revisionist history, and even less world history. College graduates are hard pressed to answer correctly basic questions about history, geography, and government. Yet they know what the latest Hollywood celebrity ate for supper yesterday. The MSM, academia, and Hollywood are the main propaganda arm of mass indoctrination, comprised of “useful idiots,” a term coined and used by Stalin.
Saul Alinsky described in
his book, Rules for Radicals, the
eight levels of control necessary to create a socialist regime. Healthcare, welfare (food, housing,
income), and education must be
controlled by the state. Religion
must be made irrelevant by removing it from government and schools. Guns
must be confiscated in order to create a police state. Create as much poverty as possible. Poor people are
easier to control. Explode national debt
to unsustainable levels by out of control spending fueled by new and
suffocating taxes that create more poverty. Use escalating class warfare rhetoric to fuel the division between “rich” and “poor,”
causing discontent. Malcontent would then drive the welfare poor to rebel
against the “greedy rich” who “do not pay their fair share,” and to demand that
they be taxed more.
How did people get ahead
under the former communist Soviet-ruled Iron Curtain?
They became members of the
communist party and their sympathizers, and displayed their loyalty by copying
and emulating everything Marxists did. They made themselves useful by spying on
other people, on their own relatives, on their own immediate families, reporting
to the thought and economic police on their activities, and through loyal
nepotism.
How did people get ahead
in our former Constitutional Republic? Americans excelled through hard work,
long hours, study, sacrifices, risk-taking through entrepreneurship, and education.
Now they get ahead through crony
capitalism, nepotism, corruption, strict adherence to the Democrat Party
platform, race baiting, claiming faux discrimination, invoking the manufactured
and non-existent “white privilege,” using oppressed minority claims, lawsuits, socialist
and environmentalist brainwashing in public schools, and radicalism wrapped in
extreme feminism and homosexual rights.
Karl Marx wrote about
capitalism as a conflict between the wealthy factory owners (the capitalists)
and the proletariat (workers who had to toil for the capitalist in order to
survive). Marx, a leech himself, wrote that capitalists took advantage of the
proletariat. He attempted to explain that “as long as capitalism existed, the
misery of mankind would grow greater.”
To solve this problem, “workers would rise and start a revolution that
would bring comfort and control over their lives and jobs.” We know this took
place across the former Soviet-led communist countries with disastrous results –
the workers became much poorer, more miserable, more oppressed, living in a
totalitarian regime, while their communist handlers became richer by stealing “communal
property.”
The followers of Marx (a
bum supported financially by rich friends) split into two camps: the socialists
(those willing to reform capitalism) and the communists (those willing to
destroy capitalism). The “soft Marxists,” called in Russia “Mensheviks,”
preached for a slow pace to learning self-governing. The “hard Marxists,” Bolsheviks/communists
led by Vladimir Ilich Lenin, believed men were not disciplined enough to grow,
they had to be forced into revolution. Lenin is considered the first Soviet
dictator, and Joseph Stalin, who came to power after Lenin died, the second
dictator.
After bloody struggles
such as the Civil War in Russia, 1918-1921, the rebuilding and arguing period,
1921-1928, the first five-year plan, 1928-1932, and unprecedented progress in
building a modern industrial empire between 1932-1953, Russia became a country
admired by “people in India, Africa, and China.” (Alfred G. Meyer, What You
Should Know About Communism, p. 23)
Having lived under
socialism/communism, I know from first-hand experience that five-year plans
were a joke. We constantly struggled to find basics because not enough finished
goods and food were produced to satisfy demand. For example, a Soviet factory
that was scheduled to produce 50,000 tractors in 1930, managed to build only
3,000. The factory received the “Order of the Camel” for “breaks in the plan and
wastage.”
The important questions about
communism are:
1.
Was there
equality and democracy under communism?
2.
Did everyone
experience the same and equal quality of life and the “the good things of life?”
3.
Was the struggle
between classes non-existent?
4.
Were classes
abolished forever?
The short answer to all of
the above questions is no. The complex answer is that communist countries were
ruled by the Communist Party Presidium. There was no middle class, only the
proletariat and the ruling communist elite. Everyone worked for equally meager
pay (regardless of skill, training, or education) for the government which was
staffed only with communist party leaders.
The Five-year Plan was
draconian, covered the entire communist nation, and the workers were either not
equipped, did not have enough resources, skill, machinery, were wasteful, or not
sufficiently trained or paid to meet the outlandish demands. If the plan was
not met, the worker’s pay was cut drastically. If waste and fraud were found,
the person in charge who did not necessarily commit the crime, went to jail for
economic failures of duty. If the worker exceeded the Five-year Plan requirements,
large bonuses were given, but the standards were raised, making it impossible
to meet them again. To get materials in the attempt to fulfill the plan, people
resorted to theft, black market deals, swindles, and bribery, making the Five-year
Plan rather “disorderly” and mismanaged.
As a police state, there
were three organizations that ruled any communist country: administrators who
ran the affairs of the country, the Communist Party who gave directives for
national policy and publicity from its centralized position, and the political
police who watched over the communist loyalty and compliance of the citizenry.
If you think such a
practice of loyalty watch and speech compliance is dead, consider the city of
Barcelona, from the state of Catalonia, Spain, who created recently the “Anti-rumor
Agency” and certified 436 “anti-rumor” volunteer agents to catch and punish
those whose beliefs are not in line with the “consensus,” with “groupthink.” “The
agents will patrol the streets, butt into certain conversations, and spread
politically correct information.” http://mas-ediciones.e-noticies.es/barcelones/agentes-antirumores-contra-el-racismo-58588.html
“Groupthink” is the “consensus”
established and highly publicized through MSM by self-appointed moral know-it-alls,
suppressing any evidence that might question the “consensus,” stereotyping, demonizing,
and denigrating anyone with a divergent opinion or view.
Anyone who questions and
disagrees with the global warming/climate change or any other “consensus” is a “denier,”
“flat-Earther,” “creationist,” “xenophobe,” “homophobe,” “bigot,” “racist,” or “fascist.”
Charles Krauthammer reported in his “Thought Police on Patrol” how 110,000
individuals signed a petition to “his newspaper not to carry any more articles
questioning the fact of man-made global warming.” http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/environment/10853279/Sinister-groupthink-powers-the-modern-world.html
Professor Henrick Moeller,
researcher in acoustics, was fired by the University of Aalborg, Denmark, for
holding the opinion that wind farms are harmful to people living nearby and for
arguing that insufficient protective buffer zones were established by
authorities. His research dared to contradict the university that “conducts
million-dollar research for wind turbine manufacturer Vestas.” http://www.metal-supply.dk/article/view/41295/samarbejde_mellem_vestas_og_aalborg_universitet_fordobles#.U4yJ7IzD_IW
In 1953, the Assistant
Director of the Russian Research Center at Harvard University, Alfred G. Meyer,
advised Americans how to fight world communism as an existential threat. The
first threat was the “powerful war machine.” The second threat was “the
possibility that communist propaganda will convert people of the free nations
to the Marxist cause.”
Sixty years later it
appears that the world communist movement is taking roots in the U.S. quite nicely
from within, lured and supported by the constant MSM propaganda machine. (How
We Can Fight Communism, chapter VII, p. 42)
Alfred Meyer posed an
interesting question in 1953 which rings true today in light of developing “thought
police” around the world. “How does the attempt to silence ideas by punishing
people who hold them square with the American traditions of civil liberties?
How can we remain democratic if any set of ideas is declared illegal?” In the
latest developments, patriotic, Christian, pro-American, pro-Constitution ideals,
ideas, and our freedom of speech have been attacked under the rubric of “hate
speech.” Is it really effective to punish and destroy people who hold ideas and
ideals different from yours?
Is it not despicable to
prey on people’s “feelings” of poverty, economic inequality and insecurity
(caused by the administrations’ economic policies) by promoting the utopia of
communism as desirable alternative to the “failed and unjust” capitalism?
People, who are ignorant and
frightened every day by the MSM, buy into communist dogma, slogans, and
rhetoric. Illegals are an easy sell because they don’t know anything else but
tyranny and are enchanted by the generous welfare that, they think, comes from
the ever full government coffers. Minorities who are told every day they have
been slighted by prejudice and injustice buy into the deliberately deceptive
communist rhetoric as well.
Inequality and injustice
cannot be wiped out by destroying one successful economic model and replacing
it with a failed economic model just because some charismatic promoter says it
will succeed this time because the right people are in charge. At the end of
the day, communism is still a form of totalitarianism no matter how you slice
it.
Author's note: This article is part of my upcoming book, Communism 2.0