Tuesday, November 24, 2020

The Fourth Industrial Revolution Under the Great Reset

Like millions of others, you have possibly wondered why healthy people must be quarantined (40 days) for months (9 so far) against the Corona virus, be locked down globally, wearing a mandatory mask at all times against the threat of public shaming by their neighbors and total strangers for being selfish humans, pay fines, even do jail time for the good of the collective, and be told non-stop about the “new normal” and that life will “never” go back again to pre-Covid-19, it will be fundamentally altered, using a master plan designed by globalist elites who want to control the planet at all costs.

What is this master plan called? Before Covid-19 pandemic hit, it was called U.N. Agenda 21, signed in 1992 by 178 countries; when not everybody bought into it fully, it was escalated to U.N. Agenda 2030.  In the U.S. then President Bill Clinton created portals for its implementation in smaller doses at the local level; Democrats incorporated it into the Green New Deal, neither new, nor green, nor a deal for the American people.  Today the master globalist plan is called the Great Reset and the World Economic Forum will tackle it at Davos, Switzerland in 2021.

The World Economic Forum (WEF) is a non-governmental organization (NGO) based in Geneva, Switzerland, and was founded in 1971 by Klaus Schwab who is also its chairman. As its mission states, WEF is “committed to improving the state of the world by engaging business, political, academic, and other leaders of society to shape global, regional, and industry agendas.”

The January 25-29, 2021 Davos Agenda will be “stakeholder capitalism,” proposed by Klaus Schwab and enhanced by “Greta Thunberg effect,” a phrase WEF coined, putting the Swedish high school girl at the forefront of decades-old environmental and social activism. The WEF wants “stakeholder capitalism” around the globe and the Covid-19 pandemic is giving them the opportunity to realize this dream.

According to the WEF website, “shareholder capitalism” embraced by Western corporations, based on maximizing profits, is no longer desirable. “State capitalism,” based on government controlling the economy like in China, is not desirable either.

Klaus Schwab proposed “stakeholder capitalism,” a model in which private corporations become “trustees of societies,” and is, in his view, “a better kind of capitalism, clearly the best response to today’s social and environmental challenges.” The Davos Manifesto: Towards a better kind of capitalism | World Economic Forum (weforum.org)

The last months of lockdowns were not about the medical industrial complex or socialized medicine in the U.S. If that was the case, we would not have bankrupted hospitals and put medical professionals on furlough and many doctors on the path to retirement. And it was not just about a hurried and forced vaccine program. It was a much more nefarious agenda.

In regards to the pandemic “plaguing” the planet for months and forcing populations under government lockdowns which destroyed economies and small to mid-size businesses, and the subsequent rush to a vaccine, Dr. Michael Yeadon, a thirty-year veteran in virology, retired from a pharmaceutical company with “the most senior research position in his field, wrote:

“There is absolutely no need for vaccines to extinguish the pandemic. I’ve never heard such nonsense talked about vaccines. You do not vaccinate people who aren’t at risk from a disease. You also don’t set about planning to vaccinate millions of fit and healthy people with a vaccine that hasn’t been extensively tested on human subjects.” https://lockdownsceptics.org/what-sage-got-wrong/

This movement was about the laser-focused campaign, echoed around the world, to “Build Back Better” addressed among many, by Joe Biden and Boris Johnson, the U.K. prime minister. This campaign is about the destruction of the current economic systems and their replacement with the Great Reset globalist plan designed by billionaire elites.

Suddenly, many world leaders and talking heads are using the same language and descriptive words when talking about the future of their respective countries and the future of the world. In a recent interview Justin Trudeau said:

“This pandemic has provided an opportunity for a Reset. This our chance to accelerate the pre-pandemic efforts to address global challenges, to reimagine economic systems that actually address global challenges like extreme poverty, inequality, and climate change, building back better for the most vulnerable while maintaining our momentum on reaching the 2030 agenda for sustainable development and the SDGs [sustainable development goals]. Canada is here to listen and to help.”

This is the agenda they had before the pandemic but the pandemic has given globalists the opportunity to Build Back Better, in other words, Reset our world. As one liberal once said, “never let an opportunity go to waste.”

If the reset reminds you of Hillary Clinton and her red button she presented as a gift to the Russians to allegedly restart our diplomatic ties during her tenure as Secretary of State, you are not alone.

The reset agenda is being echoed now by leaders of countries around the world, using words, phrases, and plans designed by an international non-governmental organization (NGO) from Switzerland, and by the United Nations’ Agenda 2030 with its 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) which were never ratified by our Senate, pushing us to a “fourth industrial revolution,” fundamentally transforming our economy and affecting every facet of our lives, all dictated by an unelected foreign body.

Sunday, November 22, 2020

A Hard-Cheated Pyrrhic Victory and a Mute Wedding

As I watched millions of well-fed, educated Americans dancing in the streets, cheering, and gloating over their hard-cheated pyrrhic presidential win to install the much-desired socialism, touted in the press and academia, all I could think about was the 100 millions of people who had lived and died under a socialist dictatorship ruled by the Communist Party and other millions who risked their lives to flee such a socialist society. And I was numb that people can be so naïve and easily swayed by clever rhetoric, just like people were enchanted a century ago by the Bolsheviks. I never once met an American who fled to Cuba or North Korea unless they were criminals sought by the law. But I sure met a lot of defectors and refugees from tyrannical regimes who sought shelter in America.

While a student in the 1980s at a southern university, I met dozens of people from Iron Curtain countries, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Soviet Union, East Germany, Romania, Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, who had left everything behind in order to escape to the freedom of the west.

We formed a union of sorts, sharing food from our respective cultures, learning about our new country, loving and respecting America who took us in, and speaking against the oppressive regimes we had fled from with just the clothes on our backs in some cases.

Now it is entirely different. Americans have been convinced that socialism is great, and they must have it at all costs, including a pyrrhic election victory. What is a pyrrhic victory? It is a victory won at such a damaging toll to the victor that it looks more like a defeat because it will destroy any long-term progress.

Pyrrhus of Epirus was a Greek king who opposed the expansion of early Rome, often compared to Alexander the Great in his tactical war efforts. But some of his victories were won at such a great loss to his troops and kingdom that history remembers him as having won battles with such unacceptable losses that the term “pyrrhic victory” was coined in his name.

Which brings me to the presidential election – a pyrrhic victory won at all costs, losing the soul, honor, integrity, and Constitution of a nation in order to achieve the promised socialist utopia of a globalist cabal who stopped at nothing to fundamentally alter its foundations and Constitution through technology, hacking, deceit, mass media indoctrination, unethical activist judges, utterly corrupt politicians, and fraud.

While America’s young generations are dancing in the streets with joy that a man with incipient dementia and a Marxist have won the White House, I see pictures flashing through my mind of people escaping from tyrannical socialist societies through Checkpoint Charlie in Berlin, cutting through barbed wire, dodging bullets, flying low in makeshift aircraft, stealing a train and braking through a barrier, digging tunnels, swimming across the Danube and other treacherous rivers, floating in makeshift boats, a dingy, fighting sharks across 120 miles of ocean from Cuba, stowaways on ships, on plane cargo holds, fitted inside the seats of cars, or too close to the engine compartment, all to flee to the freedom of the west.

I see a young woman holding her breath while the airport checkpoint officer discovers that she has not signed her legal passport. Instead of being turned away, the guard demands a carton of Kent cigarettes to allow her to sign the passport in front of him. And she complies – the $20 carton of cigarettes at the time was a cheap escape from imprisonment within socialist borders.

I see another woman being stripped of her jewelry because the socialist law does not allow anybody to leave the country with any gold and silver except a tiny wedding band.

I see people’s homes, personal belongings, savings, and land being confiscated by socialists and distributed to their Communist Party activists for their personal use. I see people being hauled to jail for non-compliance, protesting their incarceration until the prison door is slammed shut.

I see people standing in line to find food, toilet paper, paper towels, and sanitizing products, just like the recent lines we had to stand in at our local grocery store for months after Covid-19 lockdown. People were irritated and impatient, herded like cattle behind yellow lines, set arbitrarily six feet apart. Shelves were bare for a while but imagine doing this every day to get food?

Imagine the online ordering and curbside pickup going away if there is no adequate production planning, manufacturing, and delivery because the government is run by inefficient socialists in the same vein as Venezuela?

Starry-eyed people who get mad because their latest XBOX supply runs out before they can hit the order key on their computers, will discover a new reality, a reality of shortages of essentials.

A good friend, who read my first book, Echoes of Communism, was skeptical and could not understand how the entire population was so deprived in their daily lives by a small percentage of activists who belonged to and were loyal to the Communist Party who indoctrinated everyone initially into the “wonders” of socialism.

The day his wife called him in a panic that the shelves of their local grocery store in Virginia were bare because of the first Covid-19 lockdown, disruption of production and delivery in March 2020, subsequent hoarding of essentials, and when their refrigerator was nearly empty, he understood. They felt for a few days what we felt every day for 49 years of oppressive socialism. Once installed, the socialist republic rule of the Communist Party did not go away, the suffocating control grew like kudzu, one foot per day.

The Silent Wedding, a movie made in 2008, artistically wove the alleged “real” story of a couple’s wedding from an isolated village in Romania. The ceremony and the reception that followed, held in March 5, 1953 (a Thursday), was allegedly interrupted by a communist activist from the city and a Soviet officer who brought the news that the USSR tyrant Joseph V. Stalin had died and thus seven days of international mourning were decreed in which public celebrations of any kind were prohibited. The celebrants held a mute wedding.

Likely a fictional event, this artistic story brings to mind the fact that Americans are not allowed to celebrate Thanksgiving this year in their homes with more than six people as guests, a breaking of familial tradition disrupted and imposed by state governments around the country.  Neighbors are encouraged to snitch, [and they did already in New York] if such draconian executive orders are violated.

Ten months since the first Covid-19 lockdown, healthy people are still forced to wear masks for the good of the collective, not for their own protection, since masks are not really effective as it is stated on the manufacturer’s packaging.

This is America, of course, shortages of food and necessities cannot happen here, we have an abundant economy, optimists and the naïve repeat ad nauseum. What will happen to this horn of abundance when the socialists just elected will enforce their New Green Deal, and solar energy and wind power will not even begin to supply our country’s huge energy needs? How will cars run? How will truckers deliver food? How will products be manufactured and hauled? Joe Biden’s fairy dust?

When Joe Biden’s rhetorical pixie dust, which blinded many to choose socialism, will lift, they will be left with very little to go on and will be begging the omnipotent government to feed them and house them. Computers, technology, social media, politicians, and the mass media produce nothing of consequence that sustains life, they manufacture hot air, advertising, socialist indoctrination, and are quite good at spending trillions of other people’s money.

 

 

 

Thursday, November 19, 2020

Believing the Big Lie of Socialism and Living It

 We have grave darkness in full daylight. The sunshine does not seem to sanitize the filth.

Labor truck in Cuba
 The date of November 3, 2020 will remain in history as the   year when our Constitutional Republic died, and a government  ruled by technocrat billionaires and a corrupt globalist government was installed. A narrow majority of Americans brainwashed daily by a globalist mainstream media, finally elected to the White House a declared socialist and a radical Marxist.

Their Socialist Democrats have chewed and spat out the proverbial Republican elephant one “teaspoon at a time,” leaving a successful country in shock and the world in dismay.

An exceptional nation like the United States has finally fallen prey to the enemies within. No military external force was able to take it down in its 244 years of existence, but technology fraud and the corrupt media succeeded.

As Paul B. Skousen wrote on p. 45 in The Naked Socialist, “Barack Obama, with support from Nancy Pelosi in the House, Harry Reid in the Senate, and some 69 million American voters established a new order of elitist authority in the United States that will – like all other attempts at socialism – assuredly, predictably, and eventually collapse this nation into failure.”  

The last nail in America’s coffin was driven on November 3, 2020 by Socialist Democrat allies, the Deep State, MSM, and technocrat billionaires.

Had we not strayed from the nation’s founding principles of property rights, individual freedoms, and self-reliance, we would not have lost our country to the enemy within. 

The Supreme Court has re-interpretated our Constitution so many times, with no judicial restraint. The checks and balances are gone. Lawyers and judges, activists from the bench, served their own interests and the interests of those in power, disregarding laws and overruling the President at every turn.

European social welfare and social justice generously distributed by governments in the form of shorter work week, generous holidays and vacations, socialized health care, early retirement, full pensions, cradle-to-grave welfare for its citizens came to a painful reality check.

Socialist governments, supported by heavy taxation from citizens and corporations, paid for generous welfare but did not bother to pay for their financial responsibility in NATO. They disapproved when President Trump asked them to contribute their fair share of GDP to support defense alliances. They hated that and the “orange man” whom they marginalized and derided with every opportunity in the vilest ways. Just like the domestic ones, the European leftists lost any sense of propriety and decorum in their sheer hatred for individuals who hold divergent opinions.

Many Americans now want that kind of European socialist welfare in this country at the expense of government. The economically illiterate do not understand that such government largesse comes with heavy taxation of those who work and of [capitalist] corporations. The heavily taxed appear to be tired of carrying the burden for those who make a living from welfare dependency.

The European cycle of socialist welfare has reached what Paul B. Skousen calls “Ouroboros,” from the Greek “tail” (ouro) and “eating” (boros). “Socialism progresses like a snake eating its tail.”

Skousen, an exceptional teacher, researcher, and journalist, wrote that socialism is “government force to control and change society” and its foundation is “Ruler’s Law supporting seven pillars of control:

1.      All-powerful rulers.

2.      Society divided into castes or classes.

3.      All things in common.

4.      All things regulated.

5.      Compliance is forced.

6.      Control of information.

7.      No unalienable rights.”

Five days before his inauguration, former president Obama spoke about the “fundamental transformation of America.” We were chilled to the bone by those words and many did not understand its ominous meaning; in twelve short years they now understand, and that promise has been accomplished. It remains to be seen how they will adjust to living the Big Lie of socialism.

Our elected representatives and unelected Deep State were willing to sacrifice our country, our sovereignty, for a socialist country voted in with fraud, illegal votes from those crossing our “open borders,” for cheap illegal labor, and for political Socialist Democrat power in perpetuity and at any cost. We are a banana republic holding fake and fraudulent elections while people shrug their shoulders.

The mainstream media adores Cuba, Venezuela, and North Korea, the new “shining cities on the hill” to emulate. Never mind that North Korea is dark at night on Google maps from lack of electricity. Never mind that Cuba oozes poverty and decay while Venezuela has a problem feeding its own people.

Why would millions of free Americans living in the best, wealthiest, most tolerant, and least racist country in the world, the envy of the entire planet, vote for a socialist man with obvious incipient dementia issues and a radical socialist who barely drew any crowds to their “rallies?” Why would such Americans ruin their own pockets and vote for someone who is going to destroy the economy, which despite Covid-19 pandemic lockdowns, has recovered and economic growth is good?

The mass media waged an indoctrination war for four years unlike any other, helped by our own government bureaucrats, academia, schools, Hollywood, social media platforms, and billionaire donors with large pockets, vilifying our President to the point that the uninformed voters not only believed the lies but actually hated Trump with so much vitriol that a new phrase was coined, Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS).

How do you successfully brainwash millions of Americans who cast their votes for socialism as a better alternative for capitalism? How did they believe capitalists who have made their fortunes in the good ole entrepreneurial U.S.A. but are publicly advocating socialism?

The answer is many-fold:

-          isolation (lockdowns, face masks)

-          panic and fear of death (Covid-19)

-          indoctrination from priests and preachers

-          media-monopolized twisted perceptions of reality

-          weakened mental and physical ability to resist the daily lies despite what their eyes and rational minds may see and think

-          futility of resisting the Deep State in charge

-          habit of compliance to governors’ draconian executive orders

-          accepting false story lines woven by the media

-          believing the academia, public school teachers, and administrators

-          lack of historical knowledge of all countries that have disastrously suffered under the boot of socialism

-          believing bureaucrats and politicians who have been enriching themselves at the public trough for decades

-          but above all, believing that socialism will be “free stuff,” no more work, and “social justice” in the form of equal opportunities and equal outcomes by omnipotent government decree that can give everything as well as take it away.

Eric Blair, a socialist, wrote his novel 1984, describing his vision of living under oppressive socialism, an Orwellian society dominated by a repressive government and its Ministry of Truth. The title is curious and most do not really know why he chose the year 1984 – several suggestions were made by English professors. One such suggestion was that perhaps it was Blair’s disillusionment with the Fabian Socialists established in Britain in 1884.

Some Republicans today have expressed their opinion that America is now a Fabian socialist state. But we still have private property of land and mostly private means of production. Under socialism the central government owns the land, the means of production, and its distribution. Fabian socialists wanted to reorganize society by taking land and capital from individuals and giving it to the community to be equitably shared by the people who would pay a rent price for permission to use the earth. This is not unlike what some environmentalists today advocate.

Under the socialist government run by the Communist Party, the central committee ran everything, including the economy, while the community (the proletariat) owned nothing and had no demand for anything lest they went to jail. Their private properties and land were confiscated by the Communist Party when it came to power and given to those loyal to the party.

The irrational American Democrat voters who believe the Big Lie of socialism will hit a painful reality check wall when they will have to LIVE the Big Lie of socialism. It is easy to believe from the useful idiot perspective that socialism will be great because the radicals socialists they’ve followed for twelve years employed the century-old communist tactic, “Accuse the other side of that which you are guilty.” For now, the Democrat Socialists of America and their voters are basking in their hard-cheated win.

 

Saturday, November 7, 2020

A Dishwasher, Hiding Food, and a Bamboo Stick


Dependency on a tyrannical communist state is hard to shake even decades after that state had ceased to exist as a tyranny. People were so used to be told what to do at every step of their lives that they even waited for the government agents to come into small communities to shovel snow off their village streets. Some call it laziness but it is more insidious than that.

A totalitarian government has rules, regulations, laws, and decrees that govern everything their population does. Because there are so many, people are afraid to decide anything without consulting first the Communist Party powers lest they be chastised in front of their co-workers, which was embarrassing enough, fined, or worse, imprisoned.

We had to make do with extraordinarily little because we were allowed few possessions, we had to be all equal in our misery. Owning too much stuff was reactionary.

One “scholarly friend” insisted that what happened to us in eastern Europe is terrible, but it is never going to happen here, this is America, we are Americans and somehow exempted from hardship and terrible times. But here we are, Americans just elected a Marxist duo in the White House because capitalism was evil, and it has run its course of prosperity.  We had to try Venezuela’s socialist system because it “worked” so well for them, social justice, and all.

Another self-proclaimed educated and savvy American claimed that our Constitutional Republic is a Fabian socialist society. If I say that such Americans are naïve, ignorant, uninformed, and some even stupid, Facebook “moderators” will suspend me for three days for “hate speech.”

In our socialist and Marxist “paradise” we did a lot of manual labor which built character. We were such characters that some risked their lives to escape this “paradise” at all costs. I was luckier than most as I had the opportunity to fly in on a comfortable jet.

We washed dishes by hand in a small tub with a little water heated in a pot on the stove and a caustic detergent that ruined our hands. Water was not easy to get in a village, it involved carrying a bucket from far away where wells were located. The government controlled in towns how much water came through the tap.  We had to conserve as they kept careful records of any excessive consumption.

This water conservation by necessity was drilled so much into our heads that, when I came to America, I believed dishwashers were a huge waste of water. Years of living in America had not convinced me that it was a life saver for families with children.

The house I had just bought in the south had a broken Maytag dishwasher.  Before I had a chance to fix it, my mother repurposed it as a hiding place for snacks and sodas. What better use for a “water-wasting” machine than as a kitchen cabinet for food that was to be divided as special treats from time to time?

I finally started using a dishwasher six years ago. Until then our brand-new dishwasher sat idle and empty. One Thanksgiving I had so many dishes to do and no volunteers to help that I decided to try the machine. I sat in awe looking at my clean and sterilized plates and wondered why I waited so long to make my life so much easier and my hands less wrinkled.

Another thing my mother could not shake from our previous life under communism was hiding food for rainy days, no matter how much abundant food supply she saw in grocery stores or in our own pantry.  It was something I disliked greatly – hoarding food for bad times and times were always bad except at Christmas time.

What could possibly be worse than being hungry all the time? Starvation for sure. She placed our food under lock and key and gave us small portions from time to time. This ensured that we had something to eat but it was never enough, I was always hungry.

Mom’s food hoarding for rainy days was not unusual. Our friend Ligia, another survivor of communism, made sure her pantry was stuffed to the rafters with canned food. The only other place where I saw more canned vegetables was in the grocery store.

The first home I bought was built in 1959 and had a lovely state of the art Frigidaire teal stove with a pull drawer for the electric plates and two large ovens with a rotisserie rack. I loved that stove! It was so well built that 31 years later it still worked like a charm and we cooked so many delicious meals on it. To me it represented the well-built American products, and the can-do engineering spirit I had learned to admire. To me, it was a jewel, and my house was a mansion compared to where we lived in my communist tiny apartment.

I had to remove this gem of a stove and reluctantly replaced it with a modern one when we sold the house. It broke my heart because it was part of America’s ingenuity and manufacturing pride that had made United States the best country in the world. It was a tangible luxury for me and my mom, so much better than the deprivation in our previous life under communism.

But the one habit born by the communist scarcity, is a habit I cannot shake even today. It involves a bamboo stick about two feet long. I had warned my husband who jokingly said that he would throw away my bamboo stick one day.

Without a washing machine or dryer, we did our laundry by hand. We used cheap soap and washed our clothes and sheets in a bath tub but, to make sure whites came out cleaner, we boiled them in a large pot on the stove or over a fire pit outside and stirred them with a strong stick to keep them from getting burned on the bottom. The stick had to be made from long-lasting wood.

I cannot remember who cut this bamboo stick for me, but I had it since 1978. I still use it today to push clothes inside the washing machine, to make sure that all laundry items are submerged under water thus being properly washed. Some old habits driven by communist poverty die hard.

Friday, November 6, 2020

Cherry Tree Blooming in November 2020

It is quite bizarre to have a cherry tree bloom in November after the tree appeared to have gone dormant. But that is exactly what happened to Rodica Samata’s cherry tree in Maryland. This is what it looked like today.



And this is what it looked like in October. I am not excessively superstitious, but it seems like a fitting metaphor for our recent presidential election - a forced bloom on a dormant tree.

Photos by Rodica Samata



Thursday, November 5, 2020

Next Move for President Trump

 From monomakhos.com:

"So what should Trump do? After all, he’s still president.

How about trying these on for size?

1. Fire Chris Wray as FBI director. Immediately. Put in Rudy Giuliani. He broke the Five Families in New York, he can take down the Biden and Clinton crime families.

2. Fire Gina Haspell as CIA director. Immediately. Replace her with Ric Grenell. Start releasing documents. Burn all the intel sources that started the Russia Collusion Hoax. Let the chips fall where they may.

3. Take away the security clearances of all the major Deep State players. You did it with John Brennan now go after James Clapper, Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama and even Joe Biden. (As for Biden, see #4 below: he’s a security risk.)

4. Direct AG Barr to go after the Biden laptop scandal hard. Better yet, start releasing the info/photos on them daily. Let the people know that Biden is the Manchurian Candidate and the Chicoms have him by the short and curlies.

5. Hold rallies. Especially close to the capitals of those states which have Democrat governors. Lansing, MI would be ideal; so would Harrisburg, PA and Raleigh, NC. Just a couple a week. Play “Hail to the Chief” for each and every appearance.

6. Start the pardon process. Pardon Paul Manafort and Roger Stone. Amnesty Edward Snowden and Julian Assange. Find others to pardon. Better yet, blanket pardons for everyone who’s worked for you.

7. Get on TV and address the nation. Trump did that last night in a masterful way; now keep on hammering the point that the system is rigged. It is. Don’t try to convince the cucks on FOX that it is. They know it. Even our enemies believe it. So just keep on hammering away at the point.

8. Tell Cocaine Mitch to go all “Hercules Unleashed” on Big Tech. Tell him not to waste our time hauling Zuckerberg, Dorsey, et. al., before some Senate committee meeting. Break them up. Now. (Believe it or not, the Dems in the House will probably go along with it if you tell them that the Tech Titans will cough up major bucks in order to forestall that eventuality.)

9. Tell the Republicans in the Senate that they can also act without impunity when it comes to preserving liberty. I can assure you that if Lindsey Graham has been bitch-slapped by reality then they all have as well. Make sure there’s no daylight between you and them. Remind them that the Globalists spent hundreds of millions of dollars to try and take them out and they’re still standing. Tell them that electorally, they’re bullet-proof. Because they are.

10. Let the Establishment know that you’ve got their number. All of the above are examples of their moral bankruptcy, surely you’ve got other aces up your sleeve.

Don’t. Give. In. It’s ain’t over. Not by a long shot.:

P.S. Still don’t believe me? Take a gander at this graph (it’s what happened to the Chinese Yuan at 7:50pm last night):

https://twitter.com/stillgray/status/1323819772711116803?s=01"

Election "Irregularities" or Fraud?

 Eric Knowles~

We all knew this would happen.
📷 Fairfax Virginia has switched 100,000 votes from Trump to Biden stating a “clerical error”
📷 Wisconsin suddenly discovers over 112k Biden ballots between 3:30 am and 4:30 am
📷 Nevada has decided they won’t have all vote counts in until Thursday
📷 Michigan has gained 138.339 ballots for Biden since they stopped counting last night. A whopping zero for Trump
📷 6 states trump has sizable leads, all six states decided to stop counting ballots on election night (unheard of) and they all have blue strong holds
📷 Jack from Twitter deletes the current sitting presidents tweet on election night. Glaringly obvious election interference
📷 LeeJoe, who was running for district 16 senate seat in Idaho and stated so on his account profile, gets his account deleted from Facebook not once but twice. Another example of a glaringly obvious election interference.
📷 North Carolina has 100% of precincts counted with Trump in the clear lead and it’s not being called.
You don’t think we are watching a live coup happen? They aren’t very good at hiding it, it’s incredibly obvious to a logical person.

Note: This is how the Bolsheviks and Marxists took over Eastern Europe at the turn of the 20th century - by deceit, lies, voter fraud, burning, looting, theft, intimidation, and a lot of money from the U.K. and U.S. bankers.

Wednesday, November 4, 2020

Gold and Silver Coins Stored as Bullion in India During Roman Times


Gold and silver have a tremendous store of value and portability and it can increase value over time; a small amount can purchase anything during any period. Paper currency, on the other hand, can fall victim to corrupt governments, the lack of faith in them, and the disastrous monetary policy governments engage in such as printing money continuously, causing runaway inflation.

Gold and silver prices have fluctuated in the upward direction lately, responding to the economic uncertainty, the out-of-control printing of money to defray the economic losses due to the unnecessary and panicked COVID-19 -19 lockdowns around the world, and the political instability and violence in the U.S. ginned up by the radical left for the last four years.

In 1775 Roman gold and silver coins were found buried in southern India. Since Indians could not spend these monies in their respective economies, it was assumed that the buried cache of coins was derived from trade.  But what would the Indians do with such Roman coins since they could not be spent in their economy? Historians assumed that the only possible explanation would be that the Indian merchants were storing the gold coins as bullion.

Alexander the Great (336-323 B.C.) first connected the Mediterranean world with India. The usual land routes used before were prevented by the Parthian Empire of Persia. The merchants started using the sea to avoid the harsher land crossing and those who would stand in the way of their trade, including highway robbers.

Hippalus, a Greek merchant, is alleged to have discovered in the first century B.C. how to use the southwest monsoon to sail to and from India. For forty days in July and August, merchants who knew how the monsoon winds blew, sailed from Arabian ports to the Malabar ports in India’s southwestern coast. In December and January, having completed their trades, merchants returned via the Red Sea or the Persian Gulf to the Mediterranean Sea. According to historians, trade links were made with Sri Lanka, Burma, Malaya, Vietnam, and perhaps China.  https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/chennai/A-glimpse-of-rare-Roman-coins-at-Museum/articleshow/7315542.cms

The coins, weighing the same amount regardless of which emperor’s head was depicted on the coin, made it convenient for the Indians to collect the coins as bullion. I am not sure if the practice of shaving coin edges for gold dust was in place during those times. Such a practice, of course, would have made coins weigh differently if the scales were sensitive enough to pick up the slight change in weight.

“The scholar Pliny reported that it was the unvarying quality of Roman coins – which were all the same weight and of the same gold and silver content despite the heads of successive emperors imprinted upon them - which impressed the King of Sri Lanka and inclined him favorably toward the honest traders of Rome.” (The Classical World, p. 153)

Even though Indian merchants did not use Roman coins as a direct exchange, they liked the designs on them and made cheap imitations of terracotta coins which were worn around on a leather chain as jewelry.

When export restrictions were imposed and Nero debased silver coins during his reign, the Indian merchants lost faith in the bullion value of Roman coins and refused to accept any more in trade.

As a substitute, Indian merchants accepted high-quality tableware, glass, linen, coral, lamps, worked gems, and wine. Evidence of pottery fragments was found in 1940 at Arikamedu near Pondicherry, a Roman trading station.

As demonstrated by archeological digs, Arikamedu stored Roman pots and dishes, fine wines, and tableware. Jewels were fashioned in Arikamedu’s workshops which also dyed muslin cloth. Arretine ware (made in today’s Arezzo, Italy) was found, including an intact bowl with molded decorations.

Ships were said to arrive from India with wonders such as a “large river turtle, snakes, and a partridge ‘as big as a vulture.’” Pearls and precious stones were brought into Rome.  “Imports flooded into Rome as 120 monsoon-borne ships sailed each year from Roman-controlled Egypt to India, to pick up their precious cargoes.” A mural found in Ostia, Italy, depicts a Roman trading ship from the second to third century A.D. being loaded with goods.

According to historians, the trading agents for this commerce were the Greeks from Alexandria. They dealt in spices, pepper, muslin cloth, perfumes, ivory, gemstones, and pearls.

During the third century AD, when direct trade with India stopped, reflecting the overall commercial decline in the Roman Empire, Arabs and Persians took over the trade.

Monday, November 2, 2020

The Power Went Out One Day Before the Election

Farmers Almanac

Last night the power went out in our D.C. suburb for no apparent reason - there were no wild winds in our area as some had speculated. Luckily, it was full moon and, as our eyes got used to the darkness bathed in moonlight, it became easier to see. The preppers had their generators ready and some homes had anemic lights flickering in the distant obscurity.

The power finally came back a few hours later. I don't know why it went out to begin with because our lines are buried underground; unless they went out elsewhere and they turned our power off to work on the grid.

I find this strange and unsettling so close to the election and because we live in northern Virginia, in a D.C. suburb. Everyone here is on the edge as the crazy BLM, ANTIFA, and Obama's Organizing for America (OFA) storm trooper radicals are descending on D.C. and the city has boarded up in preparation for the mayhem and destruction that is sure to come on this election day. They have promised they would for months now.

When BLM descended on Clifton, a sleepy little town in northern Virginia, they tried to break into cars, created mayhem, and spray-painted personal property and homes.

The final Trump coup has commenced. I hope the radical left loses spectacularly. I've had enough of communism in the first 20 years of my life. I prefer capitalism in the best country in the world where anybody has the opportunity to succeed if they work hard.

Whining about racism, islamophobia, xenophobia, bigotry, and other ginned up phobias is poppycock. This is the most generous and tolerant country in the world. You have listened far too long to the main stream media and to your radical public school teachers and college professors. They lied to you! And you were dumb enough and ignorant enough to believe them.