"Climate Crisis"

The latest push to “net zero” emissions by 2040 comes in the form of a book and a glossy insert advertising the said book in the Washington Post. Think of this “net zero” emissions as your ticket to more global warming taxation, cold winters in your homes, hot summers in your homes, expensive electricity, high fossil fuel prices, and total control of your movements and travel to and from work.

In “Speed and Scale” author John Doerr proposes an “action plan for solving the climate crisis.”

First, most of you did not know that we have a climate crisis, did you? It was first called global warming, then it morphed into a highly lucrative climate change industry, now it is transforming into a climate crisis. Why the morphing of euphemistic names, as we all know that the climate has been changing for millennia, and the globe is not warming, it is cooling? Because the biggest polluters in the world have not bought into their climate agenda and keep polluting away and trillions more can be squeezed from the hapless Americans who do not have much power to prevent their politicians from wasting their tax dollars on solar and wind projects and huge subsidies to venture capitalist companies who engage in scare-mongering that the planet is dying from the gas of plant life, CO2.

The jet-setting elites who fly around the world do not seem to be too concerned about polluting the air and the environment we share with them; they are more interested in their companies’ bottom lines and their bank accounts. They are not shy about telling us to cut back on everything we hold dear. They are justified to jet-set around the world to save planet earth for the minions who are too stupid to understand.

No matter what they call it, global warming, climate change, climate crisis, the “net zero” agenda is going to control every aspect of your lives and it is going to cost a bundle in food prices, energy, electricity, water, heating, air conditioning, taxation, and everything else we do in society.

This “climate crisis” agenda of “net zero” aims to remove you from your fossil fuel vehicles and install you in an expensive electric car that you cannot afford, does not travel far, runs on free fairy dust, electricity from coal and fossil fuels, from windmills and solar panels.

The elitist billionaires want you to ride a train, walk, bike, give up your cars altogether, stop traveling anywhere, stop eating meat, dairy, and eat their fake food.

Author John Doerr is a venture capitalist of the “cleantech movement” who runs Kleiner Perkins; he was a board member at Amazon and Google. He is interested in issues of climate change, public health, and education.

The ten objectives proposed are:

1.      Electricity/transportation

-          reduce transportation emissions from 8 gigatons to 2 gigatons by 2050, a toll order as we have no idea how all this electricity for EV will be produced and where and how millions of cars will be charged in transit on America’s roads

-          Prices and performance of EV (electric vehicles) will be on par with combustion engine cars ($35K in the U.S.)

-          New buses and medium and heavy trucks must be electric with zero-emissions by 2030; this begs the question; how electricity will be produced for such a fleet and how would highly polluting lithium batteries fit in as they cannot be recycled and must be buried

-          Planes must use low-carbon fuel by 2025 and be carbon-neutral by 2040; what   exactly is “carbon neutral?” The climate crisis promoters define it as “making no net release of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, especially through offsetting emissions by planting trees”

-          Ships must be “zero-ready” by 2030; what exactly is “zero-ready?” It depends on who defines and for what purpose

 

2.      Decarbonize the grid

-          Reduce “24 gigatons of global electricity and heating emissions to 3 gigatons by 2050)

-          Solar and wind replacing fossil fuel electricity production

-          Electricity storage

-          No new coal and gas plants after 2021; retire existing coal plants by 2025 and gas ones by 2035 (homes are going to be a lot colder in winter and a lot hotter in summer)

-          Methane emissions to be eliminated from coal, oil, and gas sites by 2025

-          Cut gas and oil for heating and cooking in half by 2040 (cold homes in winter and cold meals)

-          Build a clean economy with a clean consumption GDP by reducing fossil fuels

3.      Fix Food

-          Farm soils must have an increased carbon content of 3%

-          Fertilizers based on nitrogen must be drastically cut (yields will decrease)

-          Promote lower emissions proteins, cutting beef and dairy 50% by 2050

-          Reduce methane and nitrous oxide from rice farming by half by 2050

-          Lower the food waste

4.      Protect nature

-          End logging in primary forests and achieve net-zero deforestation

-          Eliminate deep-sea bottom trawling

-          Expand protected lands to 50% by 2050

5.      Clean up industry

-          Reduce “total carbon intensity” of steel production by 90% by 2040

-          Reduce “total carbon intensity” of cement production by 90% by 2040

-          Reduce emissions from other industries such as plastics, chemicals, paper, aluminum, glass, apparel by 80% by 2050

6.      Remove carbon

-          Nature-based removal

-          Engineered removal

7.      Win politics and policy

-          End subsidies, direct and indirect, to fossil fuel companies and for harmful agricultural practices (subsidize solar and wind companies which otherwise would not be able to compete with fossil fuels; and how are globalists able to determine “harmful agricultural practices” as they have never tilled the soil or stepped on a farm; farmers know how to protect their agricultural land that produces our food and keep it fertile)

-          Charge soaring prices on carbon at a minimum of $55 per ton of greenhouse gases

-          “Prohibit HFCs as refrigerants and ban sole use plastics for all non-medical purposes”

-          Double government R&D and increase it five times in the U.S.

-          Eliminate fossil fuel use in all industries by 2050

-          Prohibit sales of non-electric equipment by 2050 in all industries

-          Transportation must be made carbon-neutral by 2040 at all levels (cars, buses, trucks, freight ships, semi-trucks, and flights)

-          Power – cut electricity emissions 100% by 2040

-          All goods must be labeled with their respective carbon-emission footprints

-         “Control flaring, prohibit venting, and mandate prompt capping of methane leaks”

8.      Turn movements into action

-          Make “climate crisis” top issue with voters

-          All government officials, elected and appointed, must support the “net zero” agenda

-          All Fortune 500 companies must reach net zero by 2040

-          Emission reports must be published yearly by all

-          Companies must achieve net zero in electricity, vehicles, and buildings by 2030

-          Education Equity – the world must achieve universal primary and secondary education by 2040 (would that be global Marxist indoctrination?)

-          Health Equity – “Eliminate the gaps among racial and socio-economic groups in greenhouse gas-related mortality rates by 2040” (Who knew that such mortality rates existed and how do they know exactly that deaths occurred due to greenhouse gases?)

-          Economic Equity – this forced transition will create “65 million new jobs, equitably distributed and outpacing the loss of fossil fuel jobs” (This sounds like the green jobs that were never created under the Obama administration; and amazingly, using Common Core math, they will be equitably distributed.)

9.      Innovate

-          Produce a lot of batteries (Where is the lithium coming from and how will such toxic batteries be disposed of?)

-          Green hydrogen

-          Carbon dioxide removal (How will plants live?)

-          Cost of synthetic fuels ($2.50 for jet fuel and $3.50 for gasoline by 2035)

10.  Invest

-          Philanthropic investment ($30 billion per year)

-          Project financing ($1 trillion per year)

-          Venture capital ($50 billion per year)

-          Government R&D (public sector funding of $40 billion per year)

-          Financial incentives (global government subsidies for clean energy of $600 billion)

An Action Plan for Solving our Climate Crisis Now | Speed & Scale (speedandscale.com)

And if you are not convinced that this “climate crisis” plan is going to be put into action in your lifetime, whether you agree to it or not, take note of the billionaire titans mentioned in Doerr’s book, Mary Barra, Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates, and Al Gore. You will pay for this “climate crisis” plan dearly and be happy about it.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mom’s Nursing Home Today After 20 Months of Lockdowns

Mom's Hand

Medicare/Medicaid finally allowed us today inside my mom’s nursing home. I have not set foot inside since March 14, 2020 when she was abruptly moved from her room into isolation with another lady who was also Covid-19 free. Then she was moved back into another room, not her original one. Her personal belongings and everything that decorated her room and made it more like her own personal space were dropped off wherever the movers could find an empty surface.

I expected to find a spotless room since they have locked them down under Covid-19 pretext for almost two years now.  Instead, I found a filthy room, in bad need of sweeping, mopping, disinfecting, and bathroom cleaning. There was no surface in the room that had been cleaned in quite sometime, much less disinfected for fear of Covid-19 infection.

The air in the room was stale, nobody had opened the window to allow fresh air in since the last time I was here. So many months of visiting through a glass wall, through FaceTime, on the patio six feet apart, or no visitation at all for months on end!

I found out that the housecleaning supervisor had not worked for two weeks. One young woman came into the room, as I was trying to trash two years’ worth of garbage, discarded empty containers littering all over the place, pretending to sweep and mop in the small area left in the middle where there was no trash or no belongings discarded in a hurry long time ago, a year and a half to be exact.

People with dementia keep every wrapper that touches their hands and all disposable containers, newspapers, magazines, calendars, bits of paper, etc.

Pills of dubious origin were scattered on the floor, a sign that the patient, my mom, had spit out some of her pills when the nurses were not watching and nobody came to sweep them away in a long, long time. Some of them were beginning to disintegrate from the air humidity and were turning yellow.

Her clothes and blankets were piled high on plastic boxes and on the dirty dresser and nightstand. The closet was occupied to the top with boxes of diapers. Apparently it had become storage for the nursing floor. None of her clothes were hanging there and looked like the hangers had disappeared long ago.

A trunk by her bed had been smashed into three sections with large cracks showing. The drawers were even worse. The furniture looked like it had been picked up on the side of the road, meant for the garbage dump. Dubious stains that did not come off with Clorox wipes covered most surfaces.

After two hours of hard work, I managed to bring some semblance of normalcy to her room. None of her pictures were on the wall anymore, her bulletin board was stuck in a corner, all her artificial plants were missing, and the live ones had been dead for quite a while. Even the window sill was disgusting and dirty.

There has been no Covid-19 sanitizing in this room ever that I could tell. The new owners, Pro Medica, must not care much about their resident patients and the conditions in which they live.

There were large font bulletins posted everywhere stating that, if the staff is not vaccinated, they must wear both a mask and a shield and must be tested twice a week for Covid-19. I venture to say that it is unnecessary, as the patients are more likely to be killed by the filth surrounding them, both bacterial and viral, because nobody seems to be cleaning or disinfecting much.

I left a message with the administrator; they never answer the phone, they are too busy being Covid-19 compliant every minute of the day. Thank God nobody is sick with Covid-19 but I am not sure about other dangerous infections from the lack of sanitation.

I felt like I traveled back in time and found a filthy socialized medicine hospital in a former Soviet satellite country, that is how bad this nursing home presented itself to visitors. I was the only one for those two hours and I was utterly shocked and disappointed that this exists in America.

Communism Long Ago v. American Communism Today

I was asked recently if the recent Marxist takeover of our country resembles my experience under the rule of the Communist Party Soviet-style regime decades ago. My simple answer is that Marxism is much worse today in so many ways.

Take for instance one’s body. We used to teach our children to run away from strangers who attempted to touch them inappropriately and to let authorities know and their parents about such aggressors, some of whom may have been relatives. But the 9/11 terrorist attack on our country conveniently allowed the government to pass the Patriot Act to protect us from terrorists. Nobody blinks an eye anymore at the invasive searches at airports, touching personal parts, molesting grandmothers, toddlers, babies, and adults alike. If you ask the TSA personnel, some of whom look quite frightening, they save thousands of lives every day.

Under the Communist Party rule, we were never strip-searched to such a degree and in public; a hapless or guilty citizen was strip-searched if he/she was arrested or if someone shop lifted. They were guilty until proven innocent and it seems that the law is changing in that direction now, you are no longer innocent until proven guilty, and citizens are arrested indefinitely without charge just like they did under communism long ago. The corrupt justice system, and it was all corrupt, created fake charges just to get rid of an inconvenient citizen who defied the Communist Party.

Schools under Soviet style communism never taught sex education, mentioned, or shown pornography in school, much less have explicit lessons. But today in America, perverts in the academia and in public schools are obsessed with sex, pornography, and teaching it to students and children as young as kindergarten, often without the parents’ knowledge and permission. Vile books are read in America’s classrooms, so vile that, when parents attempted to read passages from said books in front of the board of education, they were stopped on the grounds that such material was inappropriate in public.

The socialized medical system was bad and lacking everything. Doctors were paid equally and poorly and supplemented their incomes with bribes from equally poor and desperate citizens. People knew that, if they wanted to survive, they had to carry around envelopes with bribe money. Doctors and nurses did not care if their patients lived or died.

The Communist Party members had priority of everything in their special hospitals, clinics, and pharmacies. There were not enough doctors for the rest of the population, and the doctor-patient ratio was astronomical in terms of how many patients a doctor had to care for; drugs and medical equipment were lacking or missing entirely; ambulance service consisted of empty vehicles with nothing else to potentially save a person’s life, and ambulances always arrived hours and even days later in rural areas.

Our medical system today, once the best in the world, has taken on a fascist hue, as doctors and hospitals refuse to treat people who are not Covid-19 vaccinated as mandated by the president’s executive order.

Data is falsified and bribes are accepted from the government to count all deaths as Covid-19 deaths in violation of the Hippocratic Oath. Doctors refuse initial treatment to patients with life-saving drugs because the CDC protocol does not include said drugs – only ventilators and the drug Remdesivir were approved initially.

Shortages of basic goods, drugs, and food occurred all the time as the Communist Party did not know how to centrally-plan and run a successful economy based on supply and demand. The U.S. economy is taking a serious dive under the lack of economic leadership and disastrous policies of the Biden regime.

Inflation stands at 8.6% and that is only the beginning. Shelves are bare, the supply chain is broken, things are missing in stores, variety is gone, businesses are going under at a high rate, gasoline has doubled in price since the beginning of the Biden regime, and stagflation looms large.

Technology changed everything and made this current brand of Marxism quite awful. Without Internet and Zoom meetings, the government would not have been able to lock us down for almost two years now, transform schools into virtual classrooms, transform doctors’ visits into virtual pretend-medical care, jobs were moved into one’s home via Zoom, and large corporations took over the economy, holding their employees hostage to a forced vaccine demand, bankrupting small businesses that were not allowed by the all-mighty federal, state, and local governments to operate, as they were deemed unessential.

Technology spies on all of us; technology and social media at first made us unafraid of data mining and of reporting ourselves to the government through innocent status postings and photographs. But the Internet-controlling techies changed everything.

Technology is allowing IRS to control our banking transactions, our tax returns, and the integrity of the voting system; paper ballots are gone, replaced by computers and programming. Who controls the technology are the ones who count the votes now. At least under the old communist party system, we all knew the outcome of an election every time before we were ever marched to the voting booths. Nobody pretended that the voting was fair. There was only one candidate, the Communist Party approved candidate.

Technology enables the Marxist government in power today, and they are all Marxist regardless of whether they have an R or a D behind their titles, to control who sees the doctors, who can have access to a hospital, who can buy a plane ticket, who can go overseas, on vacation, on a cruise, who can cross the border of another country (with the exception of our southern border which is entirely open per orders of this Democrat administration), who can go to school, who can shop in a store, how, and when, who can get hired by the government, and who can buy or rent a house of apartment. The techies have been allowed to become the judge, jury, and executioner of everything we do in the marketplace with total monopoly power over our lives.

Corporate fascism has reached levels that the communists from long ago could only dream of. The myriad of government agencies and bodies are constantly spying and controlling the lives of their subjects, the American taxpayers. The elected and non-elected governments and bureaucrats have become oppressors, they no longer work for the American people, we work to pay for their bloated and blood-sucking bureaucracy, for their salaries and wealth accumulation.

The STASI, the financial police, the security police under Stalin, Mao, Castro, Ceausescu, and other dictators had to work extremely hard to spy on their citizens and keep them under control.

Today’s American Marxists can cut our access to food, education, medical care, medicine, gasoline, cars, and airplanes, our own savings, and they have us under their thumbs forever without wiretapping our homes or throwing us into dungeons or gulags. Our entire society is becoming one techie-controlled gulag.

The old communists did not have smart phones, Alexa, smart TVs, smart refrigerators, smart meters, and other smart devices that surveil homes constantly and report results to the Mother Ship. The old communists had to hire an army of informers and wire tappers to get a fraction of the information that now resides with our techie controllers in the euphemistically named, the “iCloud,” a network of giant memory servers scattered across the country and the world.

The mainstream media is enormously powerful in this country, and it is all controlled by Democrat Marxists. The old communists had a couple of state-controlled publications like Pravda. Nothing else was allowed to exist in print without the Communist Party’s approval.

Now the same propaganda, with identical talking points from the Democrat Marxist Mother Ship in D.C. is spewed non-stop by the alphabet soup fake media, politicians, ad agencies, sports teams, universities, public schools, Hollywood, and Internet fact-checkers who are paid to distribute lies and to discredit the truth. Four tech companies and their employees, Americans and foreign nationals, have become the arbiters of truth and the champions of the fake media. The few alternative news outlets are censored non-stop by the same four tech companies.

Propagandists under the old communist regime had a much more difficult job to spread disinformation and lies in the absence of electronic communication, satellites, Internet, smart phones, smart TVs, smart appliances, and social media. Everything had to be done by hand and actual files built on millions of citizens who held divergent and politically incorrect opinions.

Some non-communist teachers and a few lone priests, at significant risk to themselves, spread the anti-communist truth. Today, most teachers have been themselves so heavily indoctrinated into this neo-Marxism that they would not believe the truth if they were led to the gulags and shown the conditions in which those people were kept and worked and the punishments they suffered.

The teachers and professors today are immensely powerful as they have the eyes and the ears of American children so many hours every day. They are the effective force of change of the American minds towards communism and against capitalism thanks to Jimmy Carter’s Department of Education bureaucracy established in 1979.

Note: The woodcut above is called "Ship of Fools"

Listen and Learn from Personal Experience and History

I retired from teaching thirteen years ago and I missed the classroom terribly. I never thought that I would become another kind of teacher with a much larger classroom and audience. Unfortunately, my writings attract wise and experienced adult students, world travelers within the kind of demographics who do not need convincing that communism is bad.

As we can clearly see, the audience and the students who really need to listen and learn from our collective history and experiences are never present – the young generations. They are never present at my speeches, lectures, never read my articles, never read my books, and never listen to my radio shows, never watch my TV shows or interviews.

The young people either know it all, want to experience failure on their own skin, or are beyond repair and redemption, having been fully and thoroughly indoctrinated by their teachers, professors, equally ignorant parents, Hollywood, and the dishonest lapdogs in the media.

Does that mean that we must give up as our efforts seem futile? Never! I will personally never surrender to the communist controllers and will fight in the honest media until the end.

German Doctors under Hitler's Regime

"Between 1933 and 1945, the Nazis established a 'biocracy,' which ultimately murdered millions of innocent persons. Contrary to a prevalent myth, doctors were not forced to participate. Doctors and nurses had a peculiarly strong attraction to the Nazi philosophy. Nearly 50% of physicians had joined the Nazi party by 1945, much higher than any other profession, and were seven times more likely to join the SS than other employed German males. Why?

To the Nazis, the Reich (empire) was a living body, and those who did not contribute were a 'disease.' Euthanasia was 'humane' and a 'private matter' between patients and doctors. Moreover, it was 'good science,' and science was god. Legality trumped morality.

If medicine is to survive as a profession of healing, writes Ashley Fernandes (tinyurl.com/56r24t5j), physicians must affirm that the ultimate unit of value of human life is the individual person - not the collective."

- AAPS (American Association of Physicians and Surgeons) News, October 2021

Pertussis (whooping cough)

I remember as a kid climbing the gentler mountains to go to my aunt’s farm from the train station at Valenii de Munte to visit mom’s sister Stella who lived in those mountains' lower valleys in the middle of nowhere.

I was small, my legs were tired, and I had whooping cough - everything tasted bitter that my aunt cooked for us and I was coughing so hard that my lungs and throat were burning - no cough syrup, no cough drops, just aspirin.

Whatever she served us, among them green peas and green juicy peppers, I still have disgust for those foods to this day. It was not her fault, of course, she was a good cook, but everything tasted bitter to me.

There was no medicine of any kind in pharmacies for my whooping cough, mom really tried to find some. The shelves were pretty bare - hoarders or black market profiteers picked up early whatever was delivered every day. Centralized economies run by the Communist Party were not efficient at all. There was never enough supply for the demand of twenty plus million people.

I must’ve been a tough cookie even back then. I survived the hike before I collapsed in her house, far away from any medical help. I don’t know what my mom was thinking! But I lived to tell the story. If only young people would listen to us and learn from our past!

If you wondered why we were not vaccinated, no whooping cough (pertussis) vaccine was available back then in the 1960s communist Romania even though the vaccine had been developed in the 1940s.

The Latest Curfew and Lockdowns

The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them.  – Karl Marx

As of October 22, 2021, the Romanian National Committee for Emergency Situations introduced a new 30 day “restriction” on its citizens via Decision 91: Ministerul Afacerilor Interne (gov.ro)

-          Night curfews between 10 p.m. and 5 a.m. Movement during this time is only allowed to fully vaccinated individuals or those who have recovered from Covid-19 in the past 180 days and present proof of vaccination or recovery

-          People who work during those times

-          Medical assistance that cannot be postponed

-          Scheduled travel by train or plane

-          Providing care to children or elderly (What about people in between those age groups?)

-          All venues, commercial or cultural must be closed 9 p.m. to 5 p.m.

-          Restaurants can only open at 50 percent capacity between 5 p.m. and 9 p.m.

-          Pharmacies, gas stations, and delivery services are permitted to keep their regular schedule

-          Discos, clubs, and casinos must be closed

-          Any private events (weddings, baptisms, parties are prohibited; it does not matter if individuals arranged weddings or baptisms months in advance)

-          Churches can open but must observe Covid-19 safety rules

-          Masks are mandatory in public areas both indoors and outdoors

If people leave their homes during curfew hours, they must show to the patrolling police proof of movement purpose such as work I.D., a certificate from employer, valid train or plane ticket, or a movement declaration.

As of October 22, 2021, citizens must carry a European Union digital Covid-19 certificate or a Romanian-issued “Digital Green Certificate/Green Pass” to access many public venues and to participate in activities such as indoor or outdoor dining at restaurants, shopping malls access, museum entry, exhibitions entry, cultural sites visitations, non-essential stores, swimming pools, gyms, and other venues. The Green Pass is not required in food stores, pharmacies with direct access, or religious services.

This Green Pass is obtained if a person is vaccinated in Romania and by Romanian citizens and their foreign spouses who were vaccinated abroad or in Romania. U.S. citizens cannot obtain a Green Pass in Romania. Romanian authorities will accept a CDC vaccination card as proof upon entry in Romania to avoid quarantine, but venues within the country may not. The Romanian government has not issued an explicit policy on accepting vaccine documentation issued abroad.

Why the renewed quarantine? The daily coronavirus deaths and infections allegedly “overwhelmed the hospital system” and due to limited intensive care beds, patients must be put on a waiting list. An interesting question should be asked if the patients placed on the waiting list are treated in the meantime with life-saving drugs like Ivermectin, HCQ, Zithromax, vitamin D, and zinc?

India announced this week that the state of Uttar-Pradesh, with a population of 240 million, is now almost entirely Covid-free. Nobody mentions that a drug, Iverotaj 12 mg (Ivermectin tablets USP) has been used in conjunction with vaccines and other measures. Uttar Pradesh, India Announces State Is COVID-19 Free Proving the Effectiveness of IVERMECTIN – Wim's Blog (wordpress.com)

 

 

 

The Democrats' Illegal Immigrants Arrived from All Over the World

I was stopped last week by an elegant woman dressed in western clothes, carrying a toddler, panhandling in the parking lot at our local Target. She did not speak English, she said, had no husband, and asked for money.

She looked like the gypsies who surrounded us growing up in Ceausescu’s Romania but did not speak Romanian, they spoke a language called “Romany or Romanes, a word from the Indian Ram or Rama, which means husband.” 

Tribes of rroma adapted to the countries where they “settled” and incorporated local dialects or words into their language but remained mostly nomadic, moving around to places where there was money to be made, begged, stolen, or earned.

The rroma (gypsies) originated in the Punjab region of northern India as a nomadic people who migrated to Europe between the eighth and tenth centuries A.D. They were mistakenly called gypsies because they were believed to have come from Egypt.

The rroma minority exists all over Europe today and is divided among groups called “tribes” or “nations.” In Romania, 3 percent of the population is thought to be rroma. A few of the tribes do not move around, they have distinct villages. Some have opulent villas built with money “earned” abroad. National Geographic dedicated an entire section to these rroma and their opulent villas with their unique architectural style.

In 2017, an article from Reuters wrote that Pennsylvania residents of a small town called California were upset by “Romanian” immigrants who, they said, “have not assimilated to American culture, beheading chickens and defecating in the streets.”

I do not know of any Romanians, and I am one, who engage in such strange behavior, and they have most certainly assimilated into the American culture as doctors, lawyers, teachers, journalists, businesspeople, nurses, mechanics, carpenters, accountants, chemical engineers, professors, and other professionals. The article in question was referring to gypsies (rroma) originating from Romania.

According to the Post-Gazette of this small university town, thirty-five miles south of Pittsburgh, locals accused the immigrants of “throwing around trash, disobeying traffic laws, defecating in public, being disruptive in markets and killing chickens.”

The rroma economic refugees were moved to the area “through a federal program that funded temporary houses for immigrants” during the Obama administration. At that time, the locals alleged that the rroma sent home weekly upwards of $30,000, money stolen from their stores.

How did the forty families of rroma (gypsies), reach the United Stated back then and others now, all the way from Romania or from the streets of the European Union where they usually traveled to since Romania became part of the European Union in 2007, and showed up in Pennsylvania and now in northern Virginia?

According to authorities, the rroma (gypsies) came via Mexico through the open U.S. border in Laredo, Texas. They had obtained either “simple passports or a single traveling paper” which entitled them to stay 180 days in Mexico without a visa requirement. Once they arrived at the U.S. border, they demanded political asylum from the persecution in Romania.

Persecution in Romania is a misrepresentation because rroma (gypsies) were certainly not persecuted after the “fall” of communism in 1989, they are a protected minority with more rights, benefits, and influence than the average Romanian citizen.

They are not poor people; the flight from Bucharest to Mexico City cost at least 1,225 euros and has two stops, taking about thirty-eight plus hours to reach their destination. The bus fare from Mexico City to Laredo, Texas border is not cheap either, about $130 for 696 miles. This entire odyssey is expensive and time consuming. Most Romanian citizens live on a fixed income and cannot afford such fares, they would have had to save for years on an average salary of $400 a month.

Locals among the 7,000 plus residents of California, Pa, protested in 2017 that their quaint and quiet small town had become a nightmare since the rroma arrived. The complaints included the facts that they did not follow any rules, drove without a license, urinated, and defecated in public, were a public nuisance in general, and stole from Walmart.

The men traveled to Baltimore on business during the week to join their rroma tribe. The city of Baltimore had a large network of rroma who worked in construction, comprising the largest rroma community in America, more than 25,000 people.

And now they arrived in northern Virginia and are already panhandling at our local Target.