Winter Weather Skin Burns

Yesterday I was standing in line at the pharmacy, waiting to get my prescription. Nothing is fast anymore in this depressed economy. Even when we pay cash, we still have to wait a long time.

The person in front of me was a young woman, in her twenties, holding a bottle of Gold Bond lotion. She was picking up a prescription as well. A young man with a small boy, about five or six years old, approached her.

The little boy had silent tears streaking down his face and showed his mother his hands which appeared red across, resembling a burn. She asked him gently which one hurt worse and he said, “both.” She gave him a kiss on his forehead and he left with his dad to sit in a row of waiting chairs.

Moved by the little boy’s silent pain, the grandmother in me asked her if he burned himself. I knew that Chef’s Burn would have taken care of that but she said that this happens to him every winter.

I suggested to her to use Aquaphor and to put some light cotton gloves without fingers on his hands at night so he does not wipe off the Aquaphor on his clothes. She agreed that it was a great idea and thanked me.

I felt deeply sorry for the little boy. A flash of my childhood memories crossed my brain, playing in the deep snow and the single digit temperatures when our hands turned beet red from the intense cold, ice, wind, and snow cutting into our delicate, young skin. And our mothers had nothing to give us to soothe the pain except lard. The commies could find lanolin cream and Nivea cream in their private stores but the rest of us were not so lucky.

Did that trouble deter us from sledding, skating, and snowball fights? Of course not. After hours of play outside, the cold froze the superficial epidermal pain and we ignored the eventual misery. Once we went inside and thawed out, we were crying in pain, pain made much worse by water and heat. And the skin would eventually crack from the intense winter weather burns.

The burned skin did not limit just to our hands, the ankles and face were affected too. There was no Aquaphor for our pain. We had to deal with it, and cry ourselves to sleep, slathered in lard.

Such was our childhood under the communist boot - painful but punctuated by temporary happiness and innocent play.

The Silence of the Snow

There is an eerie stillness and silence outside right now - no ambient noise of any kind, no wind, and no animal sounds. The area is expected to get snow in a few hours but, for now, there is nothing but deep silence blanketing the forest. It is rather strange as snow is not yet falling.

Scientifically speaking, falling snow absorbs sounds, decreasing ambient noise over any landscape; the minute and confined air between snowflakes lessens sound vibration. That’s why it is so quiet when it snows. 

And the snow eventually arrives soundlessly, dancing in the air at the mercy of wind gusts. The large flakes begin forming light at first and then heavy white blankets.

The silence of the falling, sticky snow is eventually shattered by limbs creaking, crashing in the woods with a loud thud, a collective sigh of nature burdened by the heavy, pristine white blanket. The trees look like white giants with droopy arms dragging the ground.

It is the first snow of winter 2025 with ten inches accumulation so far, and still falling hard. The hawkish wind is blowing it sometimes sideways, drifting in sudden gusts a few inches that fail to remove any significant amount of snow, already stuck like glue to the ground and on all horizontal surfaces no matter how small.

I am dressed like storybook Nanook of the North, in heavy wool sweater, thankful for the cozy heat from the twenty-first century’s furnace.

I am no longer freezing in flannel pajamas, wool pants, sweater, coat, gloves, and boots inside as I did during the communist regime when steamed heat, hot water, and electric or gas heaters were things only the loyal party members enjoyed on a constant basis in wintertime. That was my white privilege.

The windchill is at 10 degrees Fahrenheit and I am praying that electricity will stay on, as our Marxist politicians in Washington, D.C. have been pushing their green globalist agenda with reliance on erratic “green” energy from wind and solar. Right now, the wind is blowing but there is no sun. Fossil fuels and wood are what people can rely on dependably.

We are cutting down trees at alarming rates to make shipping boxes for an economy that has been forced from brick-and-mortar stores to home delivery due to the flu fearmongering broadcast non-stop on mainstream media, frightening people inside their homes for almost four years now. Hiding and cowering in fear has turned the American population into voluntary prisoners inside their own homes.

The roads in our neighborhood are impassable and nobody has come out yet to shovel their driveways, nor are there any road plows in sight to clear the roads. The schools closed yesterday, and people wondered if it was wise to do so after years of students learning little at home except how to play new online games, but people realize today with a sigh of relief that meteorologists were right this time. The popular saying, even broken clocks are right once a day, fits this weather forecast.

During my childhood, kids would have already been outside, sledding, skating, building snowmen, having snowball fights, however painful with wet snow, and squealing with joy and occasional pain from injury. By the end of the day, when the streetlights came on, and they went home reluctantly, their clothes were wet and frozen stiff on their bodies. The children of this current generation are snug inside, staring at a blue screen all day, getting their exercise surfing the television channels or their electronic devices, still dressed in their pajamas. They are weak and pampered and would be unable to survive the elements outside for any length of time.

The snow keeps falling in large flakes, the wind has died down, the birds are hiding, and the silence is peaceful.

 

 

A Communist “Urbanate”

In light of the devastating fires in Los Angeles, it is important to mention that Los Angeles is one of the 100 or so cities that are part of the C40 Cities Initiative, a program developed by the United Nations to address the manufactured crisis of global warming/climate change and the globalist goals to remake the cities into their vision.  This vision happens to coincide with The Ideal Communist City. A 166-page book, written in 1968 in Milan, describes in detail the architects’ vision of building the perfect communist city. https://www.c40.org/

I had lived in a communist city for 20 years and it is no walk in the park, but Giancarlo de Carlo wrote about a view of a communist city which sounds eerily similar to the 15-minute cities of today proposed by globalist modern planners to transform our cities into self-contained prisons from which one can only escape via public transit. Residents cannot have a private vehicle and there are no public garages. Living space is dictated per person and the city itself is limited to a certain number of residents, all clustered within walking distance of where they work, play, shop, go to school, or entertain.

Supporters of the C40 Cities Initiative are the Open Society Foundations, Uber, FedEx, Google, Bloomberg Philanthropies, the UK Government, and the European Union. World Bank is a designated Partner.

The 15-minute city plan for Los Angeles is called the Livable Communities Initiative (LCI), “a plan to address LA’s housing, traffic and climate crisis by building 3-5 stories of gentle density above small retail along carefully chosen commercial streets that are transformed to be walkable, bikeable, and livable.” It is unclear what “gentle density” means and who makes these decisions, but it is not hard to speculate. It is also interesting to imagine how older people would bike and walk where they need to go. As Democrat communists have repeated, “never let a crisis go to waste,” and the scorched earth crisis in LA is the perfect opportunity to remake the city in the globalist vision promised by Biden to “build back better.” https://www.livablecommunitiesinitiative.com/

The livable communities website describes Mobility as “Creating a walkable, bikeable life where everyone can safely and pleasantly walk, bike, trike, use a golf cart, and access great transit, allows for housing without parking – a key tool in creating abundance of homes that are affordable to workers and moderate to low income households.”

An Urbanate will have all facilities needed for a prison-like community, i.e., schools, hospitals, shopping malls, waste management, recycling, sports centers, and public green areas. It is presented as a resort type where residents will have the highest standard of living possible. https://en-academic.com/dic.nsf/enwiki/2198520

Because cities have been built by poor planning, the technate wants to erase them and build urbanates from a clean slate. Why bother to solve problems in the existing cities? The future of urban consumption in a 1.5°C world

Klaus Schwab of the WEF said at the World Government Summit in Dubai in 2015 that Los Angeles will be “Private Car-Driven-Free by 2030, transforming highways into parks and other public spheres.” Klaus Schwab: Los Angeles to Be "Private Car-Driven-Free" by 2030

The proposed 15-minute cities within the technocrats’ Urbanates appear eerily like the Ideal Communist City written about in 1968. This communist design concept is a world-wide urbanization called the New Unit of Settlement, built upon the “rich heritage left by Soviet architecture and urbanism in the 1920s.” The goal was to create the city of the future, “the material substructure of communist society.”

Having lived under communism for 20 years, I am familiar with the grey concrete apartments clustered around a shopping center that seldom had any food available and when it did, the lines were endless. These high-rise apartments were like prisons with reinforced concrete and 650 square feet of space for a family of three, about the size of an American hotel room.

The Ideal Communist City required “massive territorial-industrial complexes and the regrouping of vast populations at selected geographical points.”

To make an ideal communist city, architects proposed the distribution and re-ordering of the total population, i.e., “sizes of groups to be housed in communist society, limits on size of residential areas, distances between such areas, dynamics and discontinuity of the urbanization process.”

The need of each human being for food, clothing, and shelter was to be determined by planners, and the population’s movements to shape and control social processes. (pp. 15-17) Interior furnishings and exterior architecture and colors had to be determined by planners.

Now I understand why suddenly all the fast-food restaurants across the U.S. have remodeled their happy and colorful exteriors and interior furniture into various shades of grey, black, and beige, without the previously large windows, happy interior furniture, and play areas for children. They must have had a joint conference of Bauhaus utilitarian architecture to discourage humans from lingering inside and socializing.

Communist architects recommended the “intensive use of space in modern [high rise] buildings.” The residential complex will have lower-rise buildings for overnight nurseries and elementary schools, and high-rise structures for residential units for adults.”

The communist planners suggested that children be separated from their parents at some point while they were tended to by scientifically trained educators because “mere experience of life and paternal or maternal sentiments are not enough to equip a person to teach correctly a member of society.” (p. 56)

The children were to be housed in low-rise buildings away from their parents. “It is said that a socialized system of education is inhumane toward parents, for it takes their children away and does not give them a chance to see them and participate in their education.” (p. 56)

The ideal communist city with such residential hubs would not allot more than 225 square feet per person and 50-75 square feet for a small child’s play and sleep. (p. 66)

“The spatial isolation of apartments in high-rise residential blocks allows the concentration of a very large number of people in a relatively small space and the creation of an efficient system of services.” (pp. 69-70)

The three basic apartment prototypes suggested were for single individuals, for couples, and for two couples (a generation of older people and a younger couple with children). (p. 71)

The architects of this ideal communist city call their residential hubs/prisons, new unit of settlement (NUS). Each NUS sector, with a radius of 1.2 miles, was planned for 100,000 residents and many regions with NUS settlements. It sounds like a controlled ghetto. The architects of 1968 called such zones “rationally planned areas.”

They proposed that NUS will relate to other new units of settlement via a system of rapid transportation, unifying the whole urbanized region. The architects proposed the “distribution of the labor force with equal efficiency over the whole region and regulate the immigration of people into an urbanized region in addition to its normal population expansion by settling other persons in new units of settlement (NUS).” The entire population would be distributed across the ghettos called NUS. The “ideal communist city” had a rigidly set population size for each NUS. (p. 114)

The new units of settlement were planned on a pedestrian scale, elimination of danger from vehicular traffic, and green belts, all on 200 acres. Each high-rise was densely populated. Consumer services were provided for 25,000 people at a time. (p. 118-119)

The logic of this kind of change from cities to “smart cities,” “ideal cities,” “15-minute cities,” “urbanates,” or whatever the government decides to call it, is standardization, multiform construction, total population and mobility control, uniformity (Bauhaus ugly), and rewilding of land no longer allowed to human trespassing. The excuse is that we must save the planet from human destruction, an idea heavily promoted by the profitable climate change industry.

“Technically perfect high-rise buildings are seen as the ascetic spirit.” (p. 159) Having lived in such communist high-rise concrete buildings (5-9 stories apartment complexes), I can assure you that our spirit was not just ascetic, it was depressed, oppressed, and devoid of humanity and compassion for fellow residents  who lived in the same state of hunger, lack of freedom, mobility, and government tyranny.

Read the file about SmartLA 2028, published in December 2020. You will find many similarities. https://ita.lacity.gov/sites/g/files/wph1626/files/2021-05/SmartLA2028%20-%20Smart%20City%20Strategy.pdf?trk=public_post_comment-text

The SmartLA 2028 blueprint displays a map of Pacific Palisades, Santa Monica, and Hollywood areas, now seriously fire damaged. What a coincidence!

 

 

 

 

 

Humanity is in the Way of the Climate Change Agenda 2030

Recently, Rep. Thomas Massey sat a clever trap for John Kerry when he got him to admit that CO2 levels prior to humans walking the earth, “800,000 years ago,” were several times higher than they are today and “geological events caused that to happen,” not humans. Kerry, with his liberal arts degree in Political Science, not a real science degree, talked about the scientific consensus of anthropogenic (man-made) global warming caused by CO2, the gas of plant life. https://youtu.be/DRBfM709Yqc

No matter how many such embarrassing moments happen with various figures of the climate change industry pushing anthropogenic global warming, the global economy and our lives are fundamentally altered by government fiat which force green energy measures and excessive taxation of fossil fuels, changing every facet of our lives.

The organization behind it all is the United Nations with its myriad of NGOs funded by U.S. taxpayer dollars, large corporations, billionaires, academia, large corporations, and international conglomerates.

The 1992 U.N. Agenda 21 was adopted in Rio by 178 countries and, within three decades, was written into local and state law in every country around the globe. The latest version of it, Agenda 2030, is nearing completion.

The lynchpin of Agenda 2030 is the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) which sound benign enough in their wording.

SDG number one is “no poverty.”  It is noble to eradicate poverty, but no billionaire or large corporate conglomerates are rushing to disperse their wealth to the poor.

What it really means is that the world’s population will have to rely on the “welfare state” for survival and their governments will devise plans to “severely reduce population” by any means necessary.

SDG number two is “zero hunger.” What it really means is consuming GMOs, bugs, worms, and crickets, and severely reduce meat consumption as cows cause so much flatulence as to raise the CO2.

The FAO and WHO established Codex Alimentarius more than half a century ago (1963), a “food code” with a collection of standards, guidelines, and codes of practice adopted by the Codex Alimentarius Commission (CAC). “It is part of the joint FAO/WHO Food Standards Programme that [allegedly] protects consumer health and promotes fair practices in food trade.” Home | CODEXALIMENTARIUS FAO-WHO

SDG number 3 advocates “good health and well-being.” Nobody can argue with this idea except, what it really means is “forced vaccinations” of humans and of animals.

SDG number 4 promotes “quality education” and we are all certainly applauding the idea. But the quality education they are talking about is “mass indoctrination” in government schools where everyone supports the leftist idea of DEI (diversity, equity, inclusion) where everybody receives equal outcomes whether they have earned them or deserved them, a participatory trophy/diploma.

SDG number five refers to “gender equality.” What it really intends is the destruction of the family unit, promotion of transgender surgeries, hormone blockers, and the installation of many non-existent biological sexes to appease those who suffer from gender dysphoria.

SDG number six advocates “clean water and sanitation,” something that most of us in the west take for granted. What the Agenda 2030 guidelines intend to do is the “rationing of water” for the entire planet.

SDG number seven demands “affordable and clean energy.” What it really wants to do is “smart grid surveillance” of people’s energy consumption and reduction of their ability to tap into endless energy by cutting off their source via smart meters turned off from the Mother Ship during the hottest or coldest days of the year.

SDG number eight promotes “decent work and economic growth.” It is unclear what unelected bureaucrats at the U.N. will decide what constitutes “decent work” and “economic growth.”  What they really mean is TTIP/TPP.

“TTIP will be a cutting-edge agreement aimed at providing greater compatibility and transparency in trade and investment regulation, while maintaining high levels of health, safety, and environmental protection.” The key word here is “environmental protection,” telling farmers and businesses how to do their jobs and what parameters they must follow to do business in the European Union. https://ustr.gov/ttip

“The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) was the centerpiece of U.S. President Barack Obama’s strategic pivot to Asia. Before President Donald Trump withdrew the United States in 2017, the TPP was set to become the world’s largest free trade deal, covering 40 percent of the global economy.” https://www.cfr.org/backgrounder/what-trans-pacific-partnership-tpp

SDG number 9 involves “industry, innovation, and infrastructure.” What it aims to do is to “restrict transport.”

SDG number 10 is promoting “reduced inequalities.” What is actually doing is spearheading “mass global migration” and the invasion of the United States from third world countries which has been occurring under the Biden administration.

SDG number 11 is promoting “sustainable cities and communities.” What is doing is building “15-minute cities, 5-minute communities,” “15-minute neighborhoods,” prison cities/ghettos wherein the residents, their lives, and mobility are easily controlled, curtailed, and taxed, divorcing them from personal cars and moving them into mass-transportation and biking.

SDG number 12 is advocating for “responsible consumption and production.”  The real aim is to have a “centrally planned economy,” using the Soviet model of economic failures where supply and demand never matched, and shortages were overwhelming.

SDG number 13 demands “climate action.” The end goal is to “ration energy” and to make people suffer when humans have nothing to do with the climate, on the contrary, solar flares and volcanic activity are to blame for weather events and climate variability.

SDG number 14 is aiming to control “life below water.” This is an effort to “control wildlife” and everything humans do in association with oceans, rivers, and lakes, such as shipping, sailing, recreation, transportation, mineral exploration, fishing, and hunting,

SDG number 15 wants to control “life on land.” It is all about “control of all resources,” limited and unlimited.

SDG number 16 advocates for “peace, justice, and strong institutions.” What U.N. really wants is “perpetual oppression” under the control of a few.

SDG number 17 seeks “partnerships for the goals.” What it really wants is a “one world communist government” under the aegis of the United Nations.

None of these 17 sustainable development goals (SDGs) are about improving humanity, protecting the planet, or anybody’s welfare. They are about control of life on the planet by the United Nations’ unelected bureaucrats and their billionaire supporters. Humanity is in the way of the completion of the “climate change” Agenda 2030.